How  Would  You  Have  Recognized  Him?

Uranda   April 2, 1952

We remember, in the Master’s prayer, as recorded in the seventeenth chapter of John, that He plainly signified a recognition that he had been with the Father from the foundation of the world. In other words, the Christ Spirit was in expression from the Father, through the body that was called Jesus. Man used his mind to spoil the pattern of things Divine on earth; that is to crucify the lamb. And remember that the crucifixion of the lamb began in the moment of the fall, and continues to this day.

Every man, woman and child upon the face of the earth who has ever functioned contrary to the Spirit, the direction, the will, of God, has shared in slaying the lamb, has shared in the crucifixion. The crucifixion, in the absolute sense, was not limited in the realm of action to those who took part in nailing the body of our Lord to the cross. That was merely a focalization of this action that had been going on for thousands of years, and which has continued until this day. We must begin to realize that anyone who is self-active at any time, under any circumstance, is sharing in the crucifixion of the lamb, slaying the lamb. The lamb is the Christ Spirit, which is of the Father.

The prophecies of the Old Testament portrayed the fact that the Kingdom of God could be restored on earth without Jesus Christ going to the cross. There was the recognition from the Divine standpoint that because man was so self-active it was possible he would reject even the LORD of Lords Himself. There was a very difficult problem involved here. How many human beings would have the perception to recognize Him for what He came on earth to do? The human mind, looking back today, is inclined to say, “I am sure I would have recognized Him.” You would have? How would you have recognized Him? How would you have known Him? Looking back, you have certain ideas as to what you think He was like, but if you were attempting to recognize Him on the basis of what most people think He was like, you would not have recognized Him.

Speaking from an inner standpoint, how about my own manifestation at the present time? How about recognizing that? How did you recognize it? What is there to cause you to do so? Some people have difficulty in seeing it, and in line with that I would like to emphasize: If you wish to serve effectively with me, if you wish to let the Christ Spirit have real meaning on earth, do not go out there anywhere and try to tell people who I am, or who you think I am, or anything about it. If you try to convince somebody that Uranda is thus and so, a manifestation on earth of this or that, whether you are right or wrong you will be doing harm. If the time comes for anyone to clear that point in his consciousness, that is my responsibility.

I am in the earth without many people knowing anything about me, and the less the people generally know about me, the better. Actually, I never touch the subject unless I am forced to by various ideas that are engendered. Such things are supposed to be perceived by the Spirit. Such things are between myself and that individual. If you wish to truly serve, do not talk about it, even though you may know. Just to illustrate the importance of this point that I am making, I am going to read to you from words which the Master spoke with respect to my service on earth: “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive.”

As long as any human being is primarily focalized in the world pattern and the world spirit he cannot receive that focalization of Spirit which I offer in the world, that Spirit which is available to every man, woman, and child; for as the Master came, providing a focalization of the Spirit of Love, and each one of you can share in that Spirit of Love, my responsibility is to provide a focalization of the Spirit of Truth, but every man, woman and child on the face of the earth can share in that Spirit, and is supposed to share in it and let it manifest.

“Whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” (John—Chapter 14)  He made that a present-tense statement. Looking at it, we see that it had to be one of the disciples of whom He was speaking, and we know that to be true. Since this is true, how futile it is for you to try to ignore these basic statements which the Master spoke. “Because it seeth him not”; that is, the world consciousness cannot see it. Do not try to get the world consciousness to see him. It is futile. “It seeth him not, neither knoweth him.” You cannot get the world consciousness to know him. It is futile to try. “But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” That is, “As you yield to that Spirit of Truth which is focalized in one who is with you, that Spirit shall be in you; so that as My Spirit of Love is in you, so shall His Spirit of Truth be in you.” It is not for you, as human beings, to try to tell somebody these things.

I want to give you an opportunity to see it as it is, because, just as surely as the world becomes convinced that I carry a particularized focalization of the Spirit of God on earth, the world will do its level best to crucify this body. The less the world knows about that which is within, the more completely the world thinks I am just another man on earth—maybe a little bit cracked—the better. I am not interested in the world knowing me as I am. I am interested in conveying the Truth to those who respond, so that they can begin to know that which they are in relationship to our Lord and King. Let the Spirit of Truth work through you. But if you think the Spirit of Truth can be on earth and work through the children of men without having a central focalization, you are wrong.

Just as Jesus Christ provided a central focalization for the Spirit of Love, so did He provide that there should be a central focalization of the Spirit of Truth. Remember, your job in serving is to let the Spirit of Truth work through you, as well as the Spirit of Love, while you point constantly and consistently to the Lord of Love, our Lord Jesus Christ. Why is my service of value to you? Why is the Truth of value to you? Because it makes it possible for you to begin to know and understand our Lord, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and that is all that is important. The Truth is essential to that understanding. The Truth makes possible that understanding. The Spirit of Truth must be in you and work through you, but there must be a point on earth where that Spirit of Truth is centered, and that centering is provided in the Comforter, that all who will may receive it.

From the standpoint of the inner reality serving through this body form, I have carried that particular focalization in relationship to our Lord and King since long before the beginning of the creation of this world. It is not something that is new, or particularly worked out. But, to illustrate the point now, how are you going to recognize me? You say, “By the Truth you express.” Yes, that is the point exactly; but if you tend to be a little rebellious, skeptical, etc., etc.—which you have been and still may be somewhat—the point is this: If you are skeptical, if you are inclined to judge, and say, “If he were that, he would be this way, that way, and the other,” with what words would you have me come? In what body? How would you have me appear? How would you change the form? How would you change the pattern? If you feel you are in position to judge and question this fundamental point of Truth, just exactly what changes would you work out? How would you have me be different? Do you see what I mean? You cannot tell. In what body shall I come? By what means, in what channel, and in what place on earth shall you find me?

Remember, then, that human beings had the same problem when our Lord was on earth, exactly the same problem. Remember that, when you go out there as a focalization of the Spirit of the Living Christ, there are going to be plenty of people who say, “He has some funny ideas; maybe he has some Truth, maybe not. You feel some love, but I don’t know.” There will be plenty of people to doubt you, to criticize you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, but if you let it bother you, you will be wrong, and if you do anything foolish which will deliberately engender that vibration of thinking, you will be wrong. You must be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. You must do your best to avoid the appearance of evil. But if you are controlled by what people are going to think, you will not be controlled by God. You should avoid putting a stumbling block in the path of your brother or sister, but you will not become subject to such things because you are controlled by the Spirit of God if you are a true Server, and not by what people think. Such things are beside the point.

Our Master was up against that same problem, and all self-active human beings have shared in the crucifixion and are still sharing. It was at point there, yes—but what was the life? From the day of the beginning of the fall of man, until this day, what is the life that has been shed? It has been the life from the Spirit of the Living Christ, which manifested on earth, only to be slain by man’s self-activity.

If man, in the days of the Old Testament, slew an ox and made a sacrifice it symbolized the fact that he was supposed to yield his self-active mind to God and let it be received in the fire of God’s Love, so that his mind would no longer be slaying the lamb, no longer spilling the blood, the life stream of God on earth, in a meaningless, senseless, fashion. The blood of Christ is the life stream of Christ which has been shed “from the foundation of the world”—not the foundation of the earth. Do not get that mixed up. This does not mean the beginning of the creation of the earth, but the foundation of this self-active world. It was the fall of man. The fall of man began the process of developing this self-active world in which we find ourselves on earth. “The blood of the Lamb,” which was “slain from the foundation of the world.” So, man began to slay the lamb, and to shed the blood of the lamb, the minute he fell. He continued to do it through all that time, and what was it? Shedding the blood of the lamb, spilling it on earth, making it of no avail, so that it was not a means of the resurrection and the life but a means of destroying man.

We must realize that, in these things, until we know the Truth we cannot be set free. As long as we allow ourselves to be held in bondage by human concepts and ideas that have been developed by limited man down through the centuries, we cannot even understand the significance of the cross, what it means to come to the foot of the cross, yielded, and letting the life stream, the blood of the Christ, wash us clean. Is that not interesting? That blood is to make us white as snow. Obviously, if it were the physical blood it would not make us white as snow; it would make us red. The way it is worded, over and over again; take a look at it: “white as snow”—the Spirit of the Living Christ which shall make you white as snow, the blood, the life stream of the only begotten Son of God, which is present here with you, the Spirit of the Living Christ which is available to every man, woman and child. And he who yields to that Spirit becomes a member of the body of the only begotten Son of God on earth.

That is the story the Bible tells, and until we begin to see it and to know it we will follow in the same old futile paths which so many earnest Christians have trod before us. It is not for us to condemn them. We rejoice in what was done, which makes it possible for us to share this hour, but let us not cause that to be in vain. If we cannot do better than they, there is no excuse for our being. Unless we can understand more fully than those who have gone before us, there is no excuse for our sharing the privileges and opportunities which their living made possible.

Let us be sure that our Lord Jesus Christ did not live and suffer on earth in vain, that you, each one, may come to the foot of the cross and receive the blood of the lamb in the true sense that truly makes you white as snow. You begin to see that man’s concept about the blood is that which keeps man from having the power of God made manifest in and through himself here on earth. Let us let the works be done. Let us let the light so shine that men may see our good works, the results that appear out here, and glorify our Father which is in Heaven. Our Father in Heaven is the Lord who manifested through the body of Jesus; our Lord and King, our Father, who was manifest on earth.

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