Universal Pattern — Universal Priesthood
from Original Sin
Uranda April 6, 1953 Class
You remember that bread and wine,
brought forth by Melchizedek, was also offered by our Lord at what is called
the Last Supper, or the Lord's Supper. Bread and wine—exactly the same symbols
for the same purpose. As the Master in the upper room blessed His disciples
when He gave them bread and wine, so we read that, “And Melchizedek king of Salem
brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And
he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of
heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.”
We recognized that in the process
of becoming in actual fact members of the One Body, letting the power of God
work in us and through us to carry on the Divine Pattern, we must become
Priests and Priestesses after the Order of Melchizedek. We can be hangers-on,
or we can be disciples, or followers (a disciple is a follower), or we can
reach the point of being prophets—that is, letting the Word of the Lord express
through our lips—or we can keep on and become Priests or Priestesses.
I would not want you to feel that
I arbitrarily take the stand that every man, woman and child on the face of the
earth should be a Priest or Priestess in the ultimate outworking. There are all
kinds of spheres of service and responsibility which relate to that Central Focalization,
and for a person who is content just to be a disciple, well, no one is going to
find fault with him if he is a good disciple, or a good prophet or prophetess,
as the case may be. There are many spheres of service. But from the standpoint
of actually establishing the patterns and accomplishing the will of God on
earth, it must be through the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. There
is no other way. That is the way which Jesus Christ revealed on earth, and He
said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” He was reestablishing on earth a
consciousness, an understanding, a recognition, of the Priesthood after the
Order of Melchizedek.
We might point out that it is only
as human beings have responded to the influence released in the pattern of the
Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek that they have accomplished anything
worthwhile in a real beneficial sense to humanity or to the glory of God, at
any time on the face of the earth. This is without respect to church or
denomination or creed or color or anything else. This
in which we are sharing comes over to us from the Motherland, from the days
before the fall of man, and it is the Divine Pattern which has not been
changed. It is still the same. It is still the same Law and Principles of
Being.
What we are speaking of here as
the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek was the governing force on earth
before the fall of man, and had been for around one hundred and thirty thousand
years. And it has been the governing force behind every constructive move,
every really blessed life, on the face of the earth since that day, without
respect to any of the man-made divisions. In other words, when we begin to
recognize the basic truth of the matter, we find that it is the catholic church—catholic
means universal.
Consider the idea of Greek
Catholic, Roman Catholic. Both, by the very fact that they say Greek or Roman,
say it is not catholic. Catholic is universal. To say Roman Catholic is to
establish a division, a limit, to build a fence. In other words you begin to
see that whatever is constructive or right or real, or response to the spirit
of God, in any person on the face of the earth, regardless of nationality or
creed or religion or anything else, is a response to that Pattern in which we
are engaged. We do not use the word catholic,
because of its misuses. But it means universal. And we do not speak of it as a
church particularly, in the ordinary sense, because it is much more than the
human concept of what a church means.
But it is the Priesthood after the
Order of Melchizedek. And in order to see the full significance of this, we go
back and recognize that the Divine Pattern was in operation before the fall.
This pattern was in operation in relationship to the conditions that worked out
after the fall. We remember man's sudden plunge downward into the caveman age,
etc, and his gradual emergence into the dim dawn of history. And it was by this
means that the Focalization of the Pattern was carried over from the period
that was beyond the range of history, or man's knowledge, and re-established
with respect to the dawn of history.
So, from my standpoint, any man or
woman, regardless of who it is, or where, or in what condition, what they call
themselves or anything else—any man or woman on the face of the earth who lets
God's will be done, even to the slightest degree, so that there is a real
service from it, that person is a part of this which you share here. And it is
only to the degree that any person is a part of this, that he or she can amount
to anything—I don't care what the standards according to the world concept. But
this is, and has been for many thousands of years, the Universal Pattern with
respect to the things of God on earth, the progress of man, everything. Every
step of progress that man has made has been worked out under this Pattern,
without a single exception.
We have people talk about their
churches or their denominations going back two or three hundred years or four
hundred years, or back to the time of Jesus, or something of that nature. This
program which you are sharing here goes back to the fall of man, on the basis
of its present purpose—that is, the restoration of man—and it goes back to the
beginning of the creation of the world in actual fact. So as far as this world
is concerned it cannot be any older than that. It is the Divine Pattern in
operation, and has been since the beginning of the creation of the world. Once
we begin to see that, we realize that we have a tremendous responsibility, a
glorious privilege, to consciously share in this process of restoration. But
man has been in the fallen state for so long that he imagines that God's whole
purpose is just to get him back into heaven, and once that is done, everything
is done.
This twenty-thousand-year interval
in which man has fallen has simply meant that some of the other things that God
intended to do have had to wait a bit. Getting man back into the Divine Pattern
is a temporary goal. After man is back in the Divine Pattern, then we can go on
with our Cosmic work, our Divine Pattern of work. Simply saving human beings is
not the end and aim of all things—it is merely incidental; because when man
fell, man interfered with the processes of God's creative work as it was being
carried on in the solar system in relationship to the universe and the cosmos.
Just as you might, conceivably, in some time in the past have been working on
some certain job and you became ill and you were home for ten days, or in the
hospital, we will say; well, after you were out of the hospital, and the
convalescent period was over and you were strong enough, you went back on the
job. And that interval is like this interval. It is a correction of something
that is wrong. It is a process of restoration; it is not the real goal. It is
important, but once we have achieved this process of restoration, then we can
go on with our work, the work that was interfered with when the body of
mankind became ill through eating the forbidden fruit. As a child, did you
ever eat a green apple and get a bellyache? That is what has happened to man.
And once we get him over this illness and the process of restoration worked
out, then we can go back to the work that we were ordained to do.
It seems to me that once the human
being begins to see that, he has a pattern of inspiration that is beyond
anything that is ordinary, because human beings seem to think that this little
interval here, the little life span on earth, is so important—it is—and being
saved is so important that once that is done it is all done, and God is
satisfied, and that is all it is going to be for all eternity. The body of
humanity became ill. It is not well yet. So as soon as the body of humanity is
well and the process of restoration has been worked out, we can go back to work
and do the thing that we really were ordained to do, we were intended to do and
should be doing. But for the time being we are on a temporary job. Peace be unto you.
Every Blessing Made Manifest
Uranda April 9, 1953 Class
We have recognized that all of the Plan, the Program, designed to bring about the salvation of man, or the restoration of the world to the Divine Estate, since the days of the fall has been carried forward by The Priesthood—The Order of Melchizedek. In the Motherland, prior to its final submersion after the fall, the Naacal Sages were the Ministering Priests, the teachers, instructors, who were members of this Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. Every forward movement, every constructive thing, every blessing made manifest on earth since that time, without respect to person or place or creed, has been made manifest by reason of the working of this Priesthood. It was under the care of this Priesthood that preparations were made for our Master's coming, and He came as the Primary Focalization of this Priesthood. He was that Focalization before He came in the realm of men, and He still is.
Regardless of what church, what group, what color, what race, what belief, regardless of what sphere, religious or spiritual, or with respect to establishing governments or working out the Divine Pattern through nations or peoples, with respect to the opening up of the fields of knowledge and the development of understanding with respect to the laws of life, with respect to the inspiration essential to great inventions, all the developments, whether they are considered to be religious or industrial or scientific, all of the progress that man has known down to and including this day, including this hour which we share tonight, it has all, without any exception whatsoever, at any time, through any person or place, been under the influence, guidance, direction, of the Priesthood established after the Order of Melchizedek. (from How To Meditate)
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