The Fountain-Like Expression of Life

from

The  Fountain-Like  Expression  of  Life

Uranda   July 27, 1953  Class

In carrying forward the pattern of Heavenly Magic or the magic of living, I would like to find the right way to help you to a realization of practical function in the Shekinah Pattern of Being. You are beginning to sense it, beginning to know it, but there needs to be practice, there needs to be the development of experience. The maturing expression of experience fills life with richness, with meaningfulness.

We have considered the seven patterns of the endocrine system at various times in various ways, but there still tends to be a sense of something more or less obscure or unrelated to oneself; there is a recognition of the fact and yet, in a larger sense it has not become the reality of Truth, in the sense of design and control—that is, it has not become the reality of Truth to you to the fullness that it should.

I do not wish to open up cycles which we cannot properly carry forward sufficiently in the period allotted to us in the few weeks yet remaining for our togetherness in person, but there needs to be a development of the centering of the mind—there tends to be a scattering of the mind. I have mentioned in time past, what I call a noisy mind. In our class periods, any noisy mind tends to make itself known. Did you know that? A noisy mind reveals itself by its noise, by its failure to function effectively in relationship to the pattern at hand. In order to give a deeper sense of actual function in the pattern of control or dominion, in the realization that the currents of control, influence, the release of power, are working through the seven seals, individually and collectively, I would like to lead, if you will follow, to a point a little later in this meditation period, where we can center attention, let the mind come to point. Now if you start trying to think about the point, you will develop a knock or a noisiness in the mind.

The process of thinking is really quite different from what most people imagine it to be. There must be alertness and real observation, a recognition of the proper way to connect up points and correlate—real thinking involves an unfolding process, but you have to let it unfold. Suppose I gave you a key thought and asked you to all write something, an expression of realization on the basis of this key thought, and all of you had the same starting point, the same key. Some of you might find difficulty in finding anything to write; others would tend to write on the basis of an old pattern, more or less just the expression of words. Some of the points brought out might be quite correct, but the fountain-like unfolding of the essence of Truth which might appear in relationship to the key thought would probably not develop too well with any of you. I think that I can safely say that all of you need to learn to think more effectively. And, if this expression of ideas failed to follow out the fountain nature of the unfolding of the thought, it would show up in more or less crystallized patterns of expression—the arbitrary projection of a particular wording, a particular habit pattern of thought, a particular aspect of your own nature.

You could, some of you at least, take that key thought and just arbitrarily build something, put together ideas and thoughts on the basis of—what shall we say?—what you might think I would want you to do, perhaps. But not the natural unfolding, like something coming out of a fountain. Did you ever look at a fountain, perhaps in lights, and consider its significance? We have seen fountains in various place, whether at a World Fair or somewhere, in some gardens or some particular place—the sense of the fountain constantly flowing, the patterns in which the drops fall or the water falls, depending on the nature of the fountain, how fine a spray is involved, and the play of color, perhaps. Sometimes that play of color may have been just from the working of the light through the water—a rainbow effect from the sun. Other times it may have appeared by reason of colored lights or of a white light, securing something of a rainbow effect—various possibilities—but the bubbling of the fountain.

As the fountain bubbles does it arbitrarily determine this drop shall fall here, this drop shall fall there. If the fountain is so busy trying to make each drop hit just where it should, there would be a lot of drops getting by that would fall without direction. Now I am not talking about something that goes out from under control or that leaves the reality of design. In the true expression of thinking there is something of a rhythm, perhaps sometimes a bit of poetry—something that naturally unfolds. Thinking is not a process arbitrarily imposed upon an idea, it is the bubbling expression of the idea itself. Let us note this principle in relationship to the physical body for a moment.

I pointed out to you that the body, as such, has no choice. It does have the power or the ability to feel pain so that it can object to something that hurts or it has the ability to enjoy some certain sensations so that they are welcome, but the body has no choice. Your body—it has to just take whatever you impose upon it, and because human beings start imposing things on their bodies, the body that has no choice, arbitrary patterns develop and instead of the bubbling expression of the fountain of life there begins to be a pattern of crystallized existence, and finally the fountain dies out. The bubbling, unfolding expression of life ceases, because of the arbitrary impositions exerted from external sources upon the body, and then the mind or the heart may accept some of those arbitrary things and impose them from within. But they are first imposed from external sources, perhaps in babyhood or perhaps even in the prenatal period; perhaps from the standpoint of the genes going back generations, but something imposed from without, which taken within is likewise imposed from within on an arbitrary pattern—and the body is subjected to these things. The body, as such, cannot choose. It may object to pain and seek pleasant sensation, but if the mind and heart are not functioning as true guardians, true comforters, there will be a continued arbitrary imposition of that which produces pain. The human being may say, “But I'm seeking pleasure. I like pleasant things. I like pleasant sensations”—but functioning without regard to the true bubbling expression of life, the fountain manifestation of life, imposes this and that upon his body, seeking to have something pleasant, and it prevents the fountain-like manifestation of life.

Now if we see this in relationship to the body, the physical pattern of life, perhaps it will make it easier to see it in relationship to the mind itself; for in all three aspects of the Shekinah Pattern of Being there must be the fountain-like manifestation of life, the fountain expression with respect to the mind in the processes of true thinking and the fountain-like manifestation of Love as the Fire that burns. If any of you have ever tried to impose love, either to make yourself love someone or trying to impose what you deem to be love upon another when it was not accepted, you found that such imposed substitutes for love are very very unsatisfactory. They do not work really. If there is love, it is because there is a fountain flowing from the inside, and the interchange of love works on the basis of radiation and response, a give and take, an interplay; but some people are like cavities, like caverns, like volcanic pits in the ground. There is a big cavern into which you can pour a lot of life or a lot of love or something, and they may like the sensation while you are pouring it, but nothing ever answers, nothing ever responds. The individual may act insulted if you stop pouring in, but there is no response, no cycle, no interplay, no reality of the fountain. In such cases, you cannot really do anything.

In the true interplay of the vibratory forces of being, there is a sharing; in that interplay, no one tries to get but is so busy giving that the individuals own receiving comes as something special, something delightful, something that you did not try to get, but comes to you as a gift of giving, which you receive. And as you build or rebuild the altar unto the Lord, the body or the soul restored, you begin to share the experience of living with others. It includes all three aspects of the Shekinah Pattern of Being, and it is in the interplay and the experience of that interplay of giving and receiving that we begin to have the pattern of experience which gives maturity, background richness. If we are to have this bubbling up from the fountain, we have to contact the fountain.

The Master made the statement with respect to the Water of Truth, that if we receive of that water, we will never thirst. Why? Because one drink is enough to last a lifetime? No. If you just receive a cup of water and say, “Well now, you will never be thirsty again”, that would be foolish. Why never thirst? Not because it is just a cup of water from the outside, but because by reason of function in relationship to that cup of water, the individual is assisted to a position of finding the fountain, and the fountain bubbles up from within, and if it is there and it never runs dry, if it is always flowing, why should you thirst again? You may get thirsty enough to take another drink, but that is not real thirst—you never become really thirsty because the well runs dry, because there is no water, because there is no fountain—and it is this bubbling fountain which permits the manifestation of the true processes of living, whether in the body from the standpoint of life and healing, or whether in the mind from the standpoint of life and thinking, or whether in the heart from the standpoint of life and feeling—there must be the fountain.

To assist you to find this fountain and to share it, is our purpose here; not to impose something from the outside but to offer something from the outside that will help you connect up with something inside, so that you will be sharing; it will be the expression through you. In order to achieve this end, we have to remove the arbitrary patterns that have been imposed for so long from the outside and which have been accepted inside; the substitutes that man has devised to take the place of the fountain. So often parents impose some kind of an arbitrary pattern upon their children. I am not suggesting that there should not be discipline, government, control, but the individual expression of life must come out according to the design of that individual child, and if the parent assumes to force into a pattern of arbitrary life, it becomes something unnatural, something that ought not to be, something imposed, and it shuts off the approach to the fountain. Now we need not look for a scapegoat and start blaming parents or someone else, but if the fountain is not there, we should begin to seek for it.

The Master said, “Seek ye first”—not secondly, not after you have done everything else you think you ought to do—“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of these things shall be added unto you.” What things? Perhaps not the things that you think you are trying to get as of now, but “all of these things” are the things of Heaven, the things of God. Human beings sometimes repeat those words or read them and think, “Well now, the things I'd like to have: a house, an automobile, a bank account, a friend, a change in my husband, wife, parent, someone. I'd like to have all of these things, so if I do this, then these things that I want will be added.” Now that is not what it says. That is not the Divine Design at all. You are not supposed to want in the first place. You can open to a pattern for the filling without wanting in the ordinary sense, but if you want this or that, and think they are going to be added because you say, “Well now, I'll keep an eye on those things, but I'll seek first the Kingdom of God. I'll watch over my shoulder, but I'll seek this so I can get that.” It does not work.

What is the Kingdom of God? It is here. It is the Shekinah Pattern of Being. A kingdom is a place of control, is it not? If there is really a Kingdom in a true sense then there is a king and the king has meaning. He is not just a figurehead. In a true kingdom, the king has some power; the king has some authority; the king exerts some control, and so, the Kingdom of God is anywhere where God's control is felt and known. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God—the place where God's control has true meaning in you and through you. Well now, how shall this Kingdom, this control manifest? In relationship to your body, it must rise up in the pattern of life. In relationship to your mind, it must rise up in the pattern of thinking, the function of the mind, the light that glows. In relationship to your heart, it must rise up in relationship to love, the things you feel and perceive through feeling. So, the Shekinah Pattern of Being which reveals the presence of the One Who Dwells, or God, or God Being, must be the means by which we begin to know the realities that are. If we accept the Shekinah Pattern of Being and begin to seek to come under that control, we are then seeking the Kingdom of God.

Now if we say, “I’d like to have the Power of God so I can do this and achieve that and get the other thing”, we are wrong. But if we say, “I will seek the Kingdom of God, the control aspects of the Kingdom, the Power of God in relationship to my own life; I will seek to let life bubble up in the fountain expression of Being”—with the coming of life there will surely come the control necessary to the uses of life. When life is diminishing we have a sense of something out from under control, and very often the human being becomes desperate and says, “But how am I going to govern my life?” How are you going to govern your life? The government of your life must arise from the source of your life, for if you try to govern your life, you are going to impose something on it that begins to make it diminish. We are not here to govern our lives but to let our lives be governed.

If we have truly found the fountain of life, then the governing factors with respect to the expression of life appear as life appears. The laws are there in advance perhaps, certain principles, certain factors set for the receiving of life, but the actual governing of life must appear with the instant of the manifestation of life. You can not say, “Well now I have all of the controls ready; I’ll go get a chunk of life; I'll bring it over here, get it under control and make it mean something.” You cannot go get a piece of life like you might go get a slice of beef off of a carcass. Life evolves, life unfolds. Life is the child of Love and Truth, and so, as life manifests, in the instant of its manifestation—not before and not afterward—the elements of control with respect to the function of that life appear; they are there then in that instant. If they are thwarted or ignored and not allowed to act, then you have a little current of life which is on a diminishing pattern that is out from under control for the moment, and so the human being tries to impose control or use it.

Do you know what I think of as an illustration in this regard. My little son had, I do not know whether he still has it, but he was very proud of a little squirt gun, a little water pistol, and he would fill up this little water pistol and go squirting it around here and there. The life that comes out of the fountain and is not allowed to manifest in relationship to the control elements that should appear with the manifestation of life goes on out like a little squirt from a squirt gun—little squirts of life out from under control. You aim it this way and it goes maybe a little ways, and you aim it this way and try to reach that, like a child with a squirt gun, a little water pistol—little squirts of life here and there, and after the water squirts out of the pistol you want to control it then, and make it land so, and do so and so, and it is too late; too late, and life gives a sense of being out from under control. We should not be children with water pistols trying to live life.

We should be mature men and women letting life express like a fountain, and with the fountain expression of life, there always appears with life, the elements essential for its own control—if we will let them manifest and be used. If we reject the elements of control, we will have life on our hands without control and it is not so good. You have the little water pistol squirt—no power, no real meaning, no real value. As you stop imposing the arbitrary patterns of control, trying to force life to be thus and so, you will find that there is enough life so that you can afford to let it bubble. You are not going to be afraid if some of it gets away from you. You are not going to say, “I’ll contain it, I’ll use it, I’ll govern it so.” You diminish it and soon you do not have enough.

Take away the arbitrarily imposed controls by which you have thought to govern life in its manifestation and it will be like cleaning out the spring, the fountain, getting all the muck and the mire, and the chunks of rock, and everything else out of it and instead of just being a little trickle of muddy water that you try to do something with, it will begin to flow crystal clear water and if a little of it flows and overflows, all right—the cup of life is supposed to overflow. There is supposed to be enough so that you do not have to be niggardly with the use of life—you can let it flow; and you will begin to find that life always has its elements of control with it when it appears.

I wonder how your body was formed in the womb of your mother, when you could not be there pushing this imposition, imposing that, shaping the other, making it be just so—the forming of a body for the manifestation of a new life and you could not control it, you could not impose your own ideas, and make your nose long or short, and make your ears small or big, or something else. How in the world did your body ever get formed in your mother's womb? You were not there to impose control to make it be this or that. Of course, as soon as the babe is born, then we have to start imposing control, arbitrary methods, at once, instead of letting the control that is inherent with life have an easy natural expression.

I have heard parents say, “Well, I tried so hard with my children. I wanted them to be such good children. I tried so hard to make something out of them and they have disappointed me so. My son or my daughter they have disappointed me so. They haven't turned out so good. I'm ashamed.”—or something. Did you ever hear anyone talk like that? I wonder. They were going to make something out of them. God could not do it so they were going to do the job. It is the same thing all over again. They cannot reach inside the womb and say, “Now this is going to be a boy or a girl. It is going to have black or blonde hair. It is going to have a long nose or short, such and such lips, etc.” They are going to shape it all, are they? They cannot in the womb, and somehow God gets the job done and the body of the babe forms and there is control—there is life, but there is control and it takes such nice form and the baby is born, such a lovely little thing and it is all right there. The control has been working right along with the fountain expression of life, but immediately, God's methods are not any good on earth, after you are born. Immediately we start imposing, jamming, forcing—we are going to control life from birth on. How did your body ever get formed in the womb? Did you ever think about that and wonder? Isn't it a miracle that you were ever born when you were not there to shape your life before your birth? That is a miracle, indeed.

When you begin to realize that the control necessary for the expression of life comes with the Life, they are not separate packages, and you do not have to impose it from the outside—of course if human beings reject the real control, sometimes we have to impose a little from the outside. But what is the pattern of government here on Sunrise Ranch? A lot of rules and regulations? No. I never impose any rule or regulation unless I am forced to, unless human beings refuse to let the true governing force that comes with life manifest in relationship to their own lives. If they will not learn, sooner or later they will come under rule and regulation, and it will not be presented in uncertain terms, but you are given a chance to find out that the governing force appeared with life itself—it appears with life itself, and it takes time to learn to stop imposing that arbitrary control on the body and begin to let the control that God provides appear, because you should develop during childhood and adolescence and into maturity on the same basic control that was at work in the womb.

Oh there is a gradual unfolding of consciousness in the sense of awareness, yes, so that there can be a deeper understanding of letting that control have meaning. But why do people go to school? To get knowledge to store it in their minds so that they can arbitrarily impose control. They are going to study psychology, they are going to study this and that, and then they are going to impose control. They are going to control their own lives and they are going to control the lives of others, and have everything just right—and look at the just right patterns. Aren’t they a bit on the ugly side? Aren’t they a bit smeared, discolored, distorted? Where do you find them? You do not. With all the vaunted knowledge, no you do not. And the people come here, and they expect to learn on the same basis and when they find out it does not work, why they get troubled. They think I ought to teach on the same basis, to give some knowledge so that they can go out and impose it here and impose it there and get results.

I have had people say, “I can’t get hold of anything. What is the matter, is something wrong with me?” I have had people say there must be something wrong with me as a teacher—but you see, I play tricks on them. I do not let them get a hold of it in a way so that they can go according to their own bright ideas and impose it. They have to learn to let it work like the fountain or it does not turn out to be any good. It evaporates in their hands. The minute someone thinks he has gotten hold of something and he is going to go and use it, he gets to where he is going and he opens his hands and they are empty—gone! It does not work. There must be the fountain manifestation of life in relationship to the body, of thinking in relationship to the mind, and of love in relationship to the heart, and all of these things bring the control with them as they are born into the range of your perception—the control elements are present with them.

I have heard people say, “I try so hard to concentrate so I can meditate, but my mind leaps here and my mind leaps there, and I can’t think about any one subject for any length of time. It is all over the place.” Well of course. They have been trying to use the wrong method—man’s method instead of God’s method. God’s method is so easy, so natural, so right. When we begin to realize that the control elements are always present with the design elements—always, if it is coming from God—the control elements are always present with the design elements, and we will not try with our human minds or human wills to try to make something be—we are going to impose something!

Suppose I was going to give an attunement and I was going to use the power of my will to just make those cells fall into line—I’m just going to impose some control here and make you get well. You would not be here, would you, if I had been acting like that? You would have gone somewhere else long long ago—but I do not. When I give you an attunement, I know that the control factors are always present with the design factors in relationship to that which comes from God, whether it is life—I am opening up the fountain of life within you, helping you to learn to let it flow, so that you stop trying to impose some arbitrary government upon it. People say, “I like this and I don't like that”—well, I start helping you to learn that it is not like and dislike that governs. You learn to like something you thought you did not, and you learn to dislike some things you thought you did like so much—not to like it so much anyway.

Gradually we begin to change things—open up so the fountain can get through and so that you are not being arbitrary with the pattern of your life. You are beginning to learn to seek the Kingdom of God, the control of God which appears with all of those things which come from God. God does not give you life and say, “Now you control it.” Human beings have assumed that that is so, but it is not. It is a false concept. He does not give you a mind and say, “Now you control it,” or a heart and say, “Now you control it.” No.

What is it that is written about the tongue? An unruly member. And, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” And the tongue says all kinds of things that it does not have any business saying—lack of control. If there is some ill condition—lack of control; if someone is sick—lack of control with respect to the manifestation of life. So you are going to come along and impose some control are you? No. Open the fountain, stop imposing control and let the fountain of life appear, and the control will come with life and everything begins to smooth out and is so easy. The Master said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light—and it is, it is so easy. Every other pattern of life or approach to existence is hard, but the right way is easy, and it takes a long time to convince people of that. They say, “Yes? Well maybe it is for you. Maybe it will be some day. Maybe it was some time in the past—but not for me. You don’t realize; you just don’t realize how hard life is for me, what burdens I have.”

As we begin to unfold and let the pattern of life appear, we find that the control comes with it, always. That which comes from God, which you can begin to see because of design, has with it the elements of control and you stop functioning from the standpoint of human weakness, human limitations, human inabilities to control. Man cannot even control a cell of his own body. By the controls which he imposes upon his body, he can destroy cells, but he cannot control cells. What is cancer? It is a situation where cells have gone wild; where cells have gone out from under the control that is natural—man cannot control them. He may try to destroy them and stop the development of the cancer, but if he were letting his cells be controlled in the true sense, there would not be any cancer. Cancer, actually, as such, is not a problem. They are spending millions of dollars trying to learn how to cure cancer. Well, I would not want cancer to be cured. We can just as well let it pass away. We do not need it, and if you cured it you would have it forever. People are always talking about curing disease—that is going to make it permanent, I guess. We are not interested in curing disease. We are interested in letting disease die, letting it pass away, letting it come to an end.

The control always comes with the design in relationship to that which comes from God, and if you learn to let that control have meaning, you will find that your mind has a wonderful part to play in the creative processes by which the beauty of life appears, by which the meaning of life is made known on earth, by which the Will of God is done on earth as it is in Heaven. And instead of an emptiness inside, we begin to have a richness in the mind and in the heart—the reality of love, the true working of intelligence and the wonder of life. Now with this little introduction to a vast subject, perhaps you will have something upon which to meditate in the interval. If you let the vibrational pattern hold, I will hope to move forward with this same subject tomorrow.

© Emissaries of Divine Light