In The Fire — Continuum
Grace Van Duzen September 12, 1999
Initiation—4,000 years ago—a real beginning in history as we know it. There was plenty that
went on before that, but Abraham was a great pioneer, and it was the initiation
of his ministry which opened the door for everything that followed. The word
he received, which was his initiation, was the beginning of a Body.
In his classes, Uranda always
emphasized the fact that Abraham accepted a great promise. He was capable of
recognizing a great commission. This is true with each of us—or should be.
There is a tendency to say, "Oh, not one person, insignificant me."
He didn't say that. And what he initiated was the source of the religions we
know today. No one of them can take the credit. They all came from that:
Jewish, Christian, Muslim. It wasn't the way it was meant to be. It was meant
to stay One Holy Thing—and there must come a time when it all comes together.
This is the time. The word that Abraham heard was: "And I will make thy
seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the
earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." That's a lot of people!—without
number. People may say, "Well, so many people would fit on this earth, and
so many have to disappear," and all the rest. Nobody knows.
But my emphasis here is on the
word seed. Here was a seed planted. A seed is a marvelous thing.
Everything comes from a seed. It may not be one you can hold in your hand, but
it comes from a seed. And everything is contained in that seed. It's a miracle.
If it's a plant, the leaves, the flowers, fruit, all come from it. And the
design is in the seed, the way it grows, everything.
This was true with the seed
which Abraham brought. His seed isn't meant here as his children and
grandchildren, and so on. "Without number" is true. His
great-grandchildren included the twelve sons of Jacob, the children of Israel.
No, this is the seed that would be magnified and fill the whole world. It was
the same message Uranda heard sixty-seven years ago. Why is it the same
message? Why was Abraham's initiation different from all others? Because it
wasn't just for him; it was for the Whole Body. Here was the recognition and
acceptance of the grand commission that a Body needed to be formed. Through
every age and every generation there have been individuals who were attuned to
the Lord, and they contributed mightily to what is possible now—every single
one, every act of love—but this was a recognition that there had to be a Body.
There was a renewal of that
seed 2,000 years after Abraham. Why a renewal? There was failure. But there was
also Victory. There was enough substance to allow something to be there 2,000
years later so that the Greatest One of All could come into the earth. There
was substance through that first endeavor, or it could not have happened. So I emphasize the victories. Yes, there were failures, and a sad failure. It could
have carried all the way through, but something was there for another seed to
be initiated. You might say the same seed, in essence, but on the next level of
the spiral. And this is what we need to keep in mind: that there is movement,
not just from that seed to the next seed, but now in this time.
To me there is a wonder
connected with that second seed when our Master came. The wonder that He could
come into the earth, of course—but the fact that substance was carried over
from the first was shown by the presence of some here on earth who were aware
of His coming and ready to welcome Him. And they were from the two extremes of
the walks of life. This shows something of the substance that was carried
through from the first seed. There were the shepherds of the so-called lowly
station—working class?—and they brought the animals. At the other level there
were what the Bible calls wise men but in other records are called kings. They
brought great wealth with them. It was all there in response to the Lord. There
was nothing wrong with any of it—it was there.
Jesus emphasized the Body, the Vine, which He was and Is. There were countless victories throughout the time
that was initiated by the Master. Failures, oh yes, but something has been
brought to this point 2,000 years later. So we had Jesus 2,000 years after
Abraham, and here we are, 2,000 years after Jesus, the seed on the higher
spiral. But there isn't time for seeds to be sown over and over. This is it, and it is shown in many ways in the Bible. There are parables. There is one
parable of Jesus where he speaks of the last days—last of a certain thing that
needed to disappear; not of the earth, not of its people—not if we have
anything to do with it. Right?
There were victories as well
as failures, not just during the time when Jesus was here but since then in
every generation. And today, with our media, there is great emphasis on the
wrong things—violence. But there is wonderful response in the Body, we could
say the Vibrational Ark—the Vine.
These three seeds are actually one seed—necessary initiations to bring
something again to focus.
I shall read something from The Vibrational Ark, which was spoken 22 years after Uranda's Initiation, but it was given one month, exactly, before his departure from this
realm—delivered on July 4, 1954, and he left on August 4, 1954.
"God planted a garden
eastward in Eden. It does not say He transplanted something already formed from
another place into the earth. We see those who neglect
what God has planted, and with a frenzy try to plant their own seed and cause
it to grow, and the seed from God never has a chance to sprout. The seed is already
here. It is for us to provide the right atmosphere for its growing. It is for
us to dress it, to give it form, to let it grow and come to the point of harvest,
and keep it, not throw it away, not let it be meaningless in the days of our
yesterdays."
That wording strikes me,
"the days of our yesterdays." It is the time of harvest, and a
harvest cannot appear without constant growth. The parable refers to the time
of harvest, when the seeds that had been planted would come to harvest. There
were wonderful seeds planted by the Lord in His fields. Also the devil planted
seeds. And it was said that at the time of harvest the harvest for the Lord
would be garnered into His barn and the rest would be gathered into bundles and
burned in the Fire. A barn may not be a very exotic name. Another name for it
is the Temple of the Living God. And the Fire is present in each one. That's
where the Fire is. Do we look for it to come from the sky somewhere? The Fire
is present and that Fire is Love. Where am I in the Fire? This depends on
whether the gathering is into the Lord's Temple or burned in the Fire.
We have
heard that there is a core where the Blue Flame is Cool, where man is created
to be with God. There is a process of taking
care of the dross, but man was never meant to be in that level. It has to do
with eating of the forbidden tree. From the Center, the Core, there is heat,
and it changes distortions. In the world and in all the Cosmos there has to be
some balancing factor, but man's consciousness was never created to be there,
but to abide with the Lord at the Core.
So, it is a time of revealing
the harvest from the seeds. We are not to get out there and try to decide what
the seeds are. We have no idea, none at all. Let them grow to the time of
harvest. Let the seeds sprout. Let them grow together. The weeds will come up
with the wheat. Then the Fire takes care of it in each one, and all together.
Trying to do something about it would, to quote Martin, always make it worse.
And it doesn't mean that we're sitting around waiting for something to happen.
We are the instruments for God's action.
The Fire is burning. This is
the harvest. It is the time of harvest, and I'm sure that that Fire is felt,
not as heat necessarily but as an urgency—"I'd better get on with my life,
I'd better do something here." There may be a feeling even of not having
enough time to finish it. But this is the pressure. Welcome pressure in the Cool of the Fire, in the center of the Flame. And there are many in the world—we
don't know how many, and we certainly can't figure it out, or need to—many in
the heat of the Flame. It is called hellfire by those who are in it. You know,
there is only One Fire. Where I am in it determines the nature of the Fire, and
that Fire needs to increase to let the job get done.
I'm going to mention Martin's
name in conjunction with Uranda. They were always in complete agreement. I'll
go back to this Word at the end of what I quoted from Uranda on July 4, 1954,
when he said not to throw it away, or let it be meaningless in the days of our
yesterdays. To me, that's the key. It speaks of continuum. It speaks of
something that is not sporadic, that is not allowed to lapse or fall down or
fail again. This is a time for carrying through in the harvest. It must have
meaning in the days of our yesterdays.
This reminds me of the last
line in that beautiful 23rd Psalm: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for
ever." That has always struck me, and years ago I thought, How can
goodness and mercy follow me? Why? God isn't up there, saying goodness and
mercy will follow you, now, all the days of your life. Isn't that nice? If
something is following me, it has to be there. I must have put it there, if
it's going to follow me. There is the continuum. What will follow me is what is
trailing after me, what I did yesterday. That is what will follow me. So, do I
allow it to carry over?
Anyone can respond and begin,
plant the seed, anytime—now. There's no judgment if it took us a while. But the
thing is, do we start again tomorrow? Or can it carry over? That is the only
way it can grow, the only way the seed can come to harvest, the days of our
yesterdays have meaning. And it isn't just hanging on to something, always
being tempted. There comes a point where it isn't there—what was a temptation,
and the spirit does it. Abiding in that place, there is the continuum. And the
result of those words, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the
days of my life," is: "I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever," in the Father's barn, His Temple. Praise the Lord.
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