Father and Mother of Life

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Father  and  Mother  of  Life

Uranda   August 16, 1953  Class

In our study and meditation upon the reality of the Shekinah Pattern of Being we’ve been gaining a deeper realization of the fact that insofar as we in the outer sense are concerned, in the physical sense, we have both earthly and heavenly parents. We recognize that the Fire of Love is the Father of Life, and that the Reality of Truth is the Mother of Life. And in our meditations we came to realize that the commandment, Thou shalt honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy days of life may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, applies more to the heavenly parents than to the earthly. Sometimes earthly parents are not worthy of honour, but the heavenly parents always are.

And we have come to recognize that the word Father, as the Master used it, included, generally speaking, the One Who Dwells, but that the word included, specifically, the Shekinah Pattern of Being; and that in the outer sense, in the direct and personal sense, the One Who Dwells or the God Being, is not the Father, for the One Who Dwells is the Father of the Only Begotten Son, which is the Spirit of God issuing forth eternally from God; and that this Son or Spirit, is the Shekinah Pattern of Being—and in that Pattern we find that the Child, which is Life, must be born in the form, from the parents of Love and Truth.

We have come to recognize that Life, as such, is not something that is projected into one from some source above or beyond—we can release the Radiation of the Life Current into another, but the true manifestation of Life in the individual is something which must be born in the form through which it appears—and that the presence of the parents of Life must be in the form, in harmony, or united in union, before this Child, which is Life, can appear. If Life is diminishing, then the human form, the human mind and heart have been functioning on a basis which has tended, insofar as the human being is concerned, to separate the parents, to hinder their union, their coordination, and consequently their Child, Life, begins to disappear. When the parents of Life are separated, insofar as a specific human form is concerned, Life is gone and that which remains is called a corpse.

The Father includes the One Who Dwells, but the Heavenly Father which we can contact and know in a direct personal human sense is God’s Love. And so we have in heaven at hand, within range of comprehension, Father God, which is the Fire of Love, and Mother God, which is the Reality or Water of Truth. From the union of these two comes the Child of Life. And these are heavenly parents, individually speaking. When there is One Body of Many Members, the same Pattern is developed in relationship to all. Once we begin to realize that the Father means more than just the Being, the God Being, but includes the Shekinah Pattern of Being, we can more readily understand many of the statements which the Master made—in the prayer, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” When the Father is spoken of, the Mother is automatically included in the pattern of portrayal utilized in holy writings; so honouring the parents or keeping the name of one’s parents, or one’s Father, sacred is seen as something of vital importance so that we do not violate that which is Divine.

We have recognized the Fire of Love and the Water of Truth, but Truth is symbolized by a different term also—Light—the Light that Glows, and our Master spoke of the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” If then we have Love and Light being made manifest through us, we have the reality of the parents of Life present in our form, and the pattern of relatedness with invisible God, or the One Who Dwells, is clearly established; for in us, in outer form, there is the evidence of the Presence of the One Who Dwells. In the First Chapter of the Gospel according to John we have a vitally significant passage; and here the word Word is used to symbolize or signify the sacred or secret word Shekinah. So instead of reading this text as it is written here, we recognize that which the author indicated by the word Word, and we will use the word Shekinah; and let us see how much more there is for us to understand.

“In the beginning”—there was the creation, of what? The creation of the world and all the things that are therein? Yes, but in the beginning of any creation, the beginning of anything that we would do to the Glory of God and the blessing of the children of men—to the Glory of God, to the increased manifestation of Life from God on earth through form—for we remember that Glory always relates to Life. And these things we would do to the Glory of God and to the blessing of the children of men. If it be then to the Glory of God it is to the increase of the manifestation of Life from God through form, so God’s Glory may be increased on earth; and if God’s Glory is increased on earth we have an increase of Life. According to all indications there is enough Glory in Heaven and enough Life in Heaven, so that it is not in Heaven or in some invisible realm that we need an increase, but it is here on earth that this need is present. So if we glorify God we are not going to trying to get out of the earth into some Heaven; we are going to remember the words of the Master’s prayer, “I pray not that thou shouldn’t take them out of the world (earth) but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” The evil is the failure of man to let God’s provision be made manifest. So if we are to be kept from the evil, we are going to let God’s provision be made manifest, and that will let Life increase on earth, and the forms shall be changed to the patterns of Life instead of being changed to the patterns of death, disintegration and decay.

“In the beginning”—in the beginning of anything that we would do to glorify God and be a blessing to the children of men. In the beginning was, in the beginning is, the Word. In the beginning is Shekinah, and Shekinah is with God, and Shekinah is God. Sometimes these words have seemed to be ambiguous. If we read the text using the word Word, which was the word utilized by the author to signify the secret word Shekinah, we find that there is the appearance of ambiguity. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” This is put in the past tense—but if it was true in the beginning in relationship to the earth, it is likewise true in this moment; so we transpose to the present tense, because God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and that which was true of God, is true of God tonight. And, how can something be God, and be with God? The reality of God is revealed by Shekinah but Shekinah is not all of God—it is the evidence of the Presence of God. So Shekinah was with God, and Shekinah was God, but Shekinah was not all of God—and as that was true then it is true tonight.

In the beginning of that which we do, there is Shekinah, and Shekinah is with God, and Shekinah is God. The same—Shekinah—is in the beginning with God. In the beginning is Shekinah, and Shekinah is with God, and Shekinah is God, is God in action; the same—Shekinah—is in the beginning with God. Having this present pattern of reality, let us note the next verse: All things were made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah was not anything made that was made. In Shekinah was Life, and the Life of Shekinah was the Light of men. If the life goes out of the body, is there any light in the body? No. The presence of Life is necessary to the reality of Light, the reality of comprehension, the function of the mind or heart or body. And so the Light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

Let’s bring it up to date, in this present moment, not only what was but what is. All things—now all means one hundred percent, good things, evil things or bad things. There is no creative power but God’s power. If we use the power of Life, the abilities that we have, the capacities, to produce some evil thing or bad thing, then we have stolen God’s force, God’s Life, God’s capacities, and used them to produce something that is contrary to the will and purpose of God, but still, that life in us is the thing that made it possible for us to produce the ill thing. Therefore every ill thing is produced by the same power that produces good things, right things; but when that power that is from God is used according to a distortion pattern to produce some ill thing it is not according to God’s will, but contrary to God’s will. Therefore, we must recognize that all things, absolutely one hundred percent of all the things that have ever been made, or that are being made, or that ever shall be made; and man says, “I have made these things”—perhaps an automobile, perhaps a mechanical brain, perhaps something else—he made these things. In and of themselves they are neither good nor evil; their uses determine whether they shall cause good or evil to manifest. But how were these things made? Did some man who had no Life make them? No. The Life that was in that man enabled him to make them. The intelligence, the ability, the comprehension, the inspiration, whatever it was all came from God. How? By means of Shekinah.

So it does not make any difference what any human being anywhere makes or does, that which is done is done by the power of Shekinah; but if it is done contrary to God’s will it means that that individual has stolen something that belongs to God, that came from God, and used it for a purpose contrary to God’s will. Nevertheless, all things, without a single solitary exception, anywhere at anytime, all things were made by Shekinah, all things are made by Shekinah, and all things that shall be made will be brought forth by Shekinah—and without Shekinah there is not anything made that is made; there is not anything that will be made but what it will have been made by the use of Shekinah. If we, by human self-will and self-centredness, take the forces of Shekinah and use them contrary to the will of God we cause these forces to diminish in us and finally they are gone from us; but while we misuse them it is still Shekinah, and by Shekinah all things have been made—good things, evil things, indifferent things.

By the working of Shekinah you were conceived. You could not be conceived, you could not develop in your mother’s womb, you could not be born without Shekinah. And it is in this sense that we begin to see that while every individual has a physical father—and the Master’s body had a physical father too; that story has gotten a bit mixed up, as we find if we study into it; nevertheless, in His Life, He was emphasizing not His earthly father but His heavenly Father. And we have a heavenly Father, just as surely, individually, as Jesus had. And just as surely, as the Holy Spirit, which is sometimes called the Holy Ghost, was present and working in relationship to His conception, the Shekinah Pattern of Being or the Holy Spirit was working in relationship to your conception, each and every one of you. So we begin to see that we are conceived of the Holy Spirit. The physical seed of the father is present, but it is not the physical seed of the father that causes conception.

Actually, there has never been a baby born upon the face of the earth, which includes you, but what you were conceived, that baby was conceived, by the Holy Spirit. If the patterns were wrong, perhaps there was something wrong with the babe at birth, or other things went wrong in various ways, but as far as the conception is concerned, there has never been a baby conceived upon the face of the earth at any time but what that baby was conceived of the Holy Spirit, of the Shekinah Pattern of Being. Regardless of the limitations or distortions with respect to the earthly parents, it is not the seed of the male that causes conception. The seed of the male is necessary to conception, but the seed of the male does not cause conception—it never has and it never will—but it is the Holy Spirit that caused the conception, and it’s just as true of you as it was true of the man that was called Jesus. So, all things, without a single exception, have been made by the uses of Shekinah—whether Shekinah was used quite self-actively by man or divinely by God—all things were made by Him—all things are made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah is not anything made that is made.

In the beginning, God said, “Let us”—note the plural—“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” And God did so, and created man, “male and female created he them.” Let us create man in our image, after our likeness, to have dominion upon earth; and after man was created male and female he was instructed to have dominion upon the earth, and to subdue it—subdue the things of the earth, the forms of the earth. Now man has been trying to subdue the earth and the things of the earth according to his own will, according to his own idea and determination. He has not learned to let God’s will work on earth as it works in heaven. However, God’s purpose was clearly stated in the beginning, and God’s purpose remains the same today. It is not something different. And what do we find with respect to God? God was a Creator, and man, male and female, was created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore God made man to share creative work on earth. If we are going to share creative work we must share in the function of Shekinah on earth. The body of man, male and female, was brought forth on earth to the end that there would be an instrument through which Shekinah could act on earth under the will of God, so that God’s dominion could extend into the earth, and man should be the means by which that dominion would be established. And if there is dominion there is the kingdom—a kingdom is a dominion, a place where there is control; and the earth is a place where there has not been control. Human beings have gone this way and that. There is chaos and darkness and misery, physically, mentally, emotionally—a lack of control according to the pattern of the Divine Design.

If we were all with one accord in one place, in full agreement, in harmony with the things of God, which includes the will of God, we would find that all chaos would begin to vanish away, all illnesses would begin to disappear, every ill condition would be overcome or cleared away. Now, if we are to let this be a reality, we must acknowledge for ourselves that God’s purpose for us is that we should so function in relationship to Him that Divine Dominion, the Dominion of the Kingdom of Heaven at hand, can be made manifest on earth—for God’s purposes! Man is the image and likeness of God. The qualities, the characteristics of God, can manifest through man on earth. We have the capacity of mind so that God’s intelligence can work through us. We have the capacity of heart or feeling, emotional nature, so God’s Love can work through us. We have the physical body so that Life can work through us. But the body as such is the means by which Shekinah may act on earth; and if we have life on earth and become self-centered and self-willed, we use Shekinah for a little time wrongly; we use it for purposes not according to God’s will. We destroy ourselves if we do so. Billions of human beings have lived on earth and have tried to use Shekinah—they didn’t know what it was; but their own life, people have said, “My life is my own to do with as I please.” But it wasn’t. And whether they knew it or not, everything that they did was done by using the power of Shekinah; but they used it wrongly and destroyed themselves. If we let God use the Pattern of Shekinah rightly, through us, we will not destroy ourselves, but we will live. Once we begin to see God’s will and to accept it, to know something about it so that we know how to let God’s will be done, we begin to find more and more that all factors of our life become creative, begin to produce a blessing to others. Instead of trying to get something for ourselves we are giving, and we are constantly creative.

Without creative action in life there is no such thing as true happiness, true satisfaction, or accomplishment. We are not trying to get something. We are ready to give something—but what? Every word we speak, every thought we think, every act, whatever it is, we’re giving something into life, either to bless or to curse. And all things, all actions, all functions—you do not have a single function, you cannot do anything, without Shekinah. All things are made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah is not anything made that is made. Life—Love—Light—these are the evidences of the Presence of God. Used to produce blessings they bring forth into form that which belongs in the Kingdom of God that is at hand, or the Garden of Eden, or the Promised Land, whatever we want to call it—the name has meaning by reason of the thing that is named. Your name has meaning by reason of you, by the meaning you give that name by the living of your life, by the things you do, by the things you give into Life—either to create or to destroy, to build or to tear down, to increase health and life or decrease it, to make things wholesome and beautiful or to make them ugly and sordid. Either there is wholesomeness or there is not—wholeness, the dignity of man, nobility.

As we do those things that increase nobility in ourselves and in others, we have an influence which tends to cause others to be inspired to do the right things. Step by step—if we are living noble lives, if we are doing the right thing, if we are creative—step by step that which is true is revealed for what it is, and we increase nobility, we increase the wholesomeness of Life, we are creative, bringing forth blessings to the children of men, to the Glory of God—the Glory of the increased manifestation of God’s Life on earth in form—and that is the coming of the Kingdom. So let us serve God by letting Shekinah be used in us and through us, according to the Will of God. So shall the LORD’s Prayer be answered. Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And I thank God that it is so, and for the privilege of sharing that creative work on earth with you in the Holy Name of our LORD and KING.

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