The 18 Keys and The Book of Being
Uranda Gabilan Ranch, Salinas, California March 17, 1948
To the Blessed Ones at Sunrise Ranch, Greetings. From The Sign In The Center of The Hall Of Orientation,
as presented in the booklet, The 18 Keys, I quote as follows:
“Thy name, thy age, thy place of birth, thy
race, thy color, and the creeds by which thou hast come along the Way, are of
no consequence here, except that by thy name thou hast identity to those whom
thou shalt come to know within these walls and doors—but thy name is as yet but
a seed which shall come, in season, to have such meaning as thou thyself shall
give it through the expression of thyself in daily living.”
Contemplation upon this quotation should produce
within you a new Realization of the importance of that which you are causing
your name to signify among those with whom you are associated in the Service of
our KING. Such Realization should cause you to pause and consider well that
which you have caused to be established in
the minds of others in relationship to your name; for it is the Living of your
Life that gives meaning to your name, and it is your own expression of Life
that is associated with your name in the minds of others.
From The Book Of Being, I would quote as follows: “The LORD doth inquire of thee: ‘Art thou the accuser
of My Children?’ Thus saith the
LORD: ‘Blessed are they who behold My Nature in My Children.’”
Consider well this quotation from The Book Of Being,
and let it be written in Letters of Fire upon your hearts, that you may let your
whole expression of Being be conditioned thereby.
Whether it be from judging
according to the limitations of human understanding, or whether it is the
result of the expression of your life as it is in fact, is not, for the moment,
under question, and with respect to this point I myself judge not at this time;
nevertheless, though you have been in the School, and in the Service of the
LORD, these many years, there are yet, in relationship to your names,
individually, certain attributes or characteristics that are signified by your
name in the minds of others with whom you are associated, that are not worthy
of you as Members of the One Body, or as Branches of the One Vine, which must,
if they be real, be purged from you that ye may be clean through the word that
is spoken unto you, or which must, if they only seem to be present because of
limitations of human judgment, be removed from the consciousness of those
associated with you by reason of the fact of your own living in the expression
of your daily activity. Therefore, whether these things must be purged from you
individually, because they are a part of you, or whether they must be purged
from the consciousness of others in relationship to their thought of you, the
essential purging can come only through the daily expression of the Reality of
your own Being.
Since you are in a period
wherein you have been Commanded to think upon and speak about the Reality which
you behold in another, you have also in this period an opportunity for
prayerful self-examination with respect to the things to which your attention
is drawn in this letter.
As I look into your
consciousness, individually and collectively, I see certain ill things
connected with your individual identities, as above outlined, some of which I
would mention, that you give particular heed to yourselves individually in this
period of self-examination, that you may let the Spirit purge away that which
is in you that is unreal with respect to yourself, and likewise let the Spirit
purge away that which is unreal in your consciousness with respect to others.
The unreal things which are
signified by your individual identities and yet remain in consciousness, so
that they must therefore be purged away, which I would mention now, are as
follows:
1. The appearance of arrogance.
2. That which seems to be human pride.
3. That which looks like aloofness.
4. That which gives the impression of
back-biting.
5. That which some have thought to be judging.
6. That which appeared to be a non-cooperative
attitude.
7. That which some have thought, rightly or
wrongly, to be a jealousy or envy with respect to position and authority.
8. That which, somehow, impressed certain ones,
regardless of the accuracy of perception, as a desire to be great in the eyes
of others.
With respect to the Hall of Greatness, in The 18 Keys it is written: “The Master Teacher said, ‘Let him who would be
great among you be the servant of all.’ If this instruction displeases thee,
whether thou dost understand or not, this Door will not open unto thee; but if
thy purposes are honest and. thy willingness sincere, the secrets of true Greatness
await thee here.”
That your pure minds may be stirred up to remembrance
of the Living Word, and that you may more vividly behold the Way by which you
may effectively function together in the Current of the Christ Love, which is
the Spirit of Togetherness, I would quote for you the first and the sixth
phases of the Seven-fold Key, as it is written in The 18 Keys:
“1. Truth provides the Meeting Place for
Awakened Minds, wherein the Pattern of Being, as it relates to all persons,
things and ideas, may be brought into the clear Focus of Vision in the Light,
that, through Understanding, all who will may share in the Mutuality of Appreciation.”
“6. Creative Activity, to bring true
satisfaction, must be oriented to the Supreme Center, which is the Essence of
Creative Activity in the Absolute Focalization of Truth and Love, and it must,
in its relatively correct position in relationship to the Whole, be motivated
by the Spirit of the Givingness of the Creator, and not by the gettingness of
the created, that the Joys of Intelligence and Reason may be increased, and not
diminished; for only as Man functions in Intelligence and Reason through the
unifying Force of Love according to the Pattern of Truth, can Man be
consistently and continually Harmonious with and in the One Law by reason of which
Man is privileged to enjoy Dominion.”
Let your meditations upon these two phases of the
Seven-fold Key establish in you a clear recognition of that which is required
of you.
With this letter I am sending to you the record
of the Morning Service of September 14, 1946 [The Work of the Spirit of Truth] that you may consider it well, in
recognition of the necessary purgings by which you may be cleansed and purified
according to the necessities of that Service to which you are called in the
Holy Name of our KING. After you have considered this Summer Session Service together prayerfully and carefully, let it be prepared for release to the
School, that it may go forth in the Current of our Special Focalization
Session.
Blessing you in the Holy Name of the LORD of Lords
and KING of Kings, I await your expression of Responsive Realization concerning
these things, and, continuing ever with you in Spirit, I AM — Uranda.
P.S. In John 13:34, 35 it is written: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love
one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall
all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
from
The Work of the Spirit of Truth
Uranda September 14, 1946 Summer Session
Concerning the work of the Spirit
of Truth, our Master said that he should reprove the world of sin because they
(that is, the people of the world) believe not on Him. Any individual who believes
not on Him is in sin, and if he does believe on Him he brings forth the fruit
of the tree of life and reveals the Father. There is the dividing line. It is
not something that I can alter or change, nor would I if I could. “He that
gathereth not with me scattereth abroad,” said the Master. The Spirit of Truth,
the Comforter, “will reprove the world of sin...because they believe not on
me.” They who believe reveal the Father and bring forth the fruit of the tree
of life on earth. There is the simple, fundamental fact, and we have to face it
whether we like it or not.
As a background of that vital
fact, let us consider something else. I shall not undertake to list the things
which human beings do, and the attitudes they hold, or the nature of function by
which they bring forth the fruit of the tree of death, but some of them are:
human pride, jealousy, fear of that which is of the unreal, which means faith
in the works of the devil; and out of these spring such things as hate.
I was thinking of the first sin.
Lucifer, the bright and morning star, was in heaven with the Lord. Let not the
thought of heaven take you away from the earth; for in the beginning, and as it
shall be in the end, heaven and earth were one. Lucifer was the bright and
morning star, that which gave impulse to the expression of God on earth in a
new cycle of time; for divine man was in heaven, even though he was also on
earth. Remember that. Lucifer, watching, seeing the fulness of love and
devotion given to the Lord of Love, began to be arrogant; he began to be
jealous of the Lord. Was he not created beautiful? Why should he not receive
the same degree of devotion, the same degree of response, and have the same
degree of influence? Why should the Lord of Love receive all the wonder of the
expression of love response? Lucifer began to be jealous. He began to think
that there was no reason why he should not receive at least a portion of that
love response. He began to think that he was just as good as our Lord. Pride
entered in, and Lucifer in heaven—heaven and earth were one—the bright and
morning star, let the serpent begin to turn into the dragon. And what happened?
Michael and his angels threw him
out of heaven. It mattered not who it was, Lucifer or anyone else. Lucifer and
his angels were thrown out of heaven. It was not the LORD of Lords who did it.
The sin was against Him who is our King. The LORD of Lords did not have to do
it. Michael and his angels did it, and they did it promptly, effectively and
with dispatch. Lucifer and his angels were thoroughly thrown out of heaven into
the earth, that if it might be that they should repent on earth, they might, in
season, return to heaven. Do you think that the one who threw Lucifer out of
heaven into the earth could stand as a respecter of persons in the process of
throwing the dragon out of the earth? Just as surely as the cleansing came in
heaven, so must it come on earth. Time has been given, but the dragon
is going to be cast out of the earth also.
I have come into the world as a
voice from heaven, saying: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins.” Those who are on the Lord's side, those who will let
themselves be established in Him, are being called; but those who choose to be
the angels of the dragon on earth will receive no more tender mercy from
Michael and his angels than they did in the first place, when it comes to the
cleansing in the earth. Except the cleansing come individually, and then a
still higher cleansing collectively, the cleansing of the earth will remove the
individual. Lucifer and his angels undertook to fight. It was a sad mistake. If
it had not been for intercession on the part of the Lord of Love Himself,
Michael would not have just cast them out of heaven into the earth, they would
have been annihilated.
The gratitude which has been shown
to the Lord of Love through these thousands of years for His intercession, that
they should be cast into the earth only, that they might repent and return, has
not been such as to make one think that a great deal of mercy needs to be
extended much longer. Nevertheless, in order that man might have every
opportunity, after our Master came on earth and was rejected and crucified of
men, Michael, to keep that act from being in vain if possible, himself took up
the work of intercession; for if it had not been so, that dark day would have
brought the end for the human family. That the act of the Lord of Love might
mean something, that it might not be in vain, Michael himself accepted the
intercessory work for mankind for a season.
We stand at the door. Michael
stands at the gateway of the garden, at the entrance of the kingdom, with a
flaming sword that turns every way. The call has sounded: “Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” For those who believe not on Him
the blow of death is dealt them now, and that which comes will but slay the
slain. The only sin is the sin of not believing on Him, and lip service and
claiming to believe carries utterly no weight with the angel who stands at the
gate. Either there is the return to the Father, and the bringing forth of the
fruits of the tree of life, or there is no entering in. That is belief. And
failure to believe on Him is the only sin as far as Michael is concerned, under
which the world stands condemned; for all other so-called classifications of
sin are merely stems or branches of that one sin, and they mean nothing.
I have not talked to you about
sin, in the ordinary fashion, because human beings only talk about the branches
of sin. I have wanted to do it when I might point you vividly to the one sin:
the sin of not believing on Him. That is the only one about which I am
concerned. To the degree that there is response which lets the individual come
closer and closer into an actual state of belief on Him, his so-called sins in
the world amount to nothing as far as the intercessor for the human race is
concerned. But if they believe not on Him, all the claims of all the
self-righteous ones on the face of the earth amount to nothing. All the works
you have done, no matter how much you have thought you served Him, or how much
you have given supposedly in the name of the Lord, mean utterly nothing unless
they be the fruit of belief on Him; that is, the revelation of the Father and
the bringing forth of the fruits of the tree of life on earth. That is the
necessity. It cannot be done in human strength.
Only in love response to Him whom
the world has rejected can it be done, and that stands as the one requirement.
When human beings stop rejecting Him and stop crucifying Him, they are welcomed
at the gate, but if any shall think to enter in past that flaming sword that
turns every way without having actually believed on Him, they follow after the
figment of a fanciful dream.
“The first shall be last, and the
last shall be first,” applies here to that first sin: "They believe not on
me." And so these things are said in the infinite love of God, according
to the absolute nature of the pattern of truth, in the simplest possible form.
The battle is not done as far as the clearing away is concerned, but the
victory has already been won. It is merely a matter of waiting to see who will
share that victory. The hand of the angel has long been stayed.
As you begin to realize these
things vividly and truly, and as you recognize that this is the most serious
subject possible to the consideration of man under the sun, you have a deeper
realization with respect to your calling as a member of the One Christ Body on
earth. The utter impudence of man in presuming to continue to hold back in the
face of all that is done does not augur well for man. But all of you may have
opportunity in the closing days of this cycle, and to the degree that you
actually realize the responsibility that is yours as a member of the One Christ
Body you will see that, now, this Christ Body is a form in which the Spirit of
Love and the Spirit of Truth are incarnate together at the same time in the one
form, that the polarities may be established and the work of intercession may
continue for a little time; for the angel with the sword, when he begins his
work, will not be interceding for anyone, and except there be intercession, who
should remain? This is that to which you are called, and except you be
cleansed, how should you stand untouched of that sword? If you be not cleansed
until you are touched of the sword, how should you intercede for any? It is so
ordained. No man can alter or change it except for himself, choosing as to
where he shall stand: either upon the rock or the sinking sand.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
