Yujin Pak — This is the first of a series of three teleconferences as we progress in the next few months before the year 2,000, a millennium series of teleconferences that have been titled 'Spiritual History—Spiritual Destiny'. On this call today I am hosting and opening the hour. David Barnes will speak first, followed by Grace Van Duzen, and me. We have the opportunity on this call to cover 300,000 years of history, but not of any history—300,000 years of history of spiritual leadership, that brings us to this time today. You could say this is an extraordinary vibrational lineage of strength, vision and integrity that any of us who seek to offer true leadership today can chose to be one with. It's a privilege to have Grace with us today, particularly, and David Barnes will have the task of covering the highlights of history from Lemuria to Abraham in twenty minutes.
David Barnes — In the beginning, there was the creation of this solar system and, contained within that ongoing work, the creation of the earth. The initiation of the creation of this planet occurred around 312,000 years ago. The Bible records, in mystical and metaphorical language, the creation of the earth—reference there is to the Garden of Eden, the heaven and the earth. The homeland, the Motherland, the place of origination for mankind, was Lemuria, located in what we now know as the Pacific Ocean; and from this original homeland the patterns of Divine life spread out around the world. This Divine civilization encompassed the globe—Divine Man and Divine Woman walked the earth after this setting for ongoing creation had been established. A story in the Bible, the Book of Job, outlines in refined essence something about the focus of the spirit of seven-dimensional life on this planet. Job was “the greatest of all the men of the East,” a man who “feared God and eschewed evil.” With study and spiritual insight it is understood that Job was the same Being who came on earth as Jesus, the Christ—the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, the LORD of the Sacred Seven. The story of Job provides some scant evidence of the pattern of life on this planet as it was in Lemuria at the time of the fall of man—and the presence of this One who held a point of absolute positive polarity during a time of degeneration and cataclysm which rocked the earth, and changed the whole planetary design within our solar system.
We speak of the time of the fall, from the point of the perfection of the Divine Design as it was manifest, as beginning about 28,000 years ago. Many on earth are now aware of the story of the sinking of the continent of Lemuria, an event which related to cataclysmic interaction with other planets of this solar system—principally Jupiter and Saturn, and later Venus and Mars. Much of the manifest, seven-dimensional life of this Earth was destroyed at that time. A thousand years after the sinking of Lemuria, the continent of Atlantis also sank—and the glorious, once-seamless, Divine civilization and pattern of life was eliminated. Mankind was not completely destroyed during these massive cataclysms. There was a Sacred Thread maintained through the life ways that were still present in the body and consciousness of human beings who did survive in various locations around the world. In the Garden state as it had been originally established, the Order of Melchizedek Priesthood provided sacred government and education for all the manifestations of life prior to the fall. After the fall, from the Divine standpoint, through a remnant of this Priesthood, there was immediate provision made for the restoration of the consciousness of mankind once again to a Oneness between Creator and creation. The polarity between creation and Creator would have to be restored in consciousness and the government of Divine life would have to be rebuilt in every sphere on earth.
A passage in the Bible referring to Lemuria before its destruction speaks of Adam and Eve and their two sons, Cain and Abel, who represent the material and the spiritual aspects of man. The beginning of the fall is depicted as the slaying of Abel by Cain, the slaying of the spiritual aspect of mankind by the material aspect—there are male and female in both the spiritual and the material aspects. However, there was a third son born, one named Seth—“another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew”—another seed provided so that men could once again “call upon the name of the Lord.” This allegorical story is evidence of the seed, the planting, and the provision of the means, by which Divine consciousness might be restored in human beings on earth.
This historical lineage brings us to an awareness of a great one named Enoch, of whom it is said that “he walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” In other words, his human identity was absorbed completely into his Divine reality in the perfect generations of his life—something immaculate is represented here in these few short words. We recognize that from this lineage came Noah, and of him it is said that he was “a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” Noah realized that his work was to provide for the salvation of life on earth during a time of great cataclysm to come. The story of Noah and the story of the great flood are the story of the sinking of the continent of Atlantis. It portrays the survival of a nucleus of a few people on the planet who were guided to make provision for, and secure, the life pattern of the Divine Design within human consciousness. The sinking of Atlantis is the story of human consciousness wrongly polarized, thus creating cataclysmic destabilization of the planet itself, with the effects of that imbalance revealed in the whole solar system.
After the sinking of Lemuria and Atlantis mankind went through a 7,000-year devolution in consciousness, a period known as the time of pre-historic cave man. It was a cycle of massive devolution and degeneration, of darkness and desolation. Most human beings died and many life forms were destroyed—but the original Divine seed remained alive and incarnate in the body of mankind, and in focus through a few who represented the Melchizedek Priesthood. Eventually civilization began to develop again in various locations around the earth, and a focalization for this new emergence began to gather in what we know now as the Middle East. This carries our Story to about 2200 BC. At this time, larger cycles and forces came together and, through the divinely orchestrated patterns of incarnation, a focus of leadership began to emerge once again through human consciousness. In the delicate, precarious, and tenuous conditions of that era, a great one named Abraham was born—a spiritual pioneer of high order. He became aware of his Divine commission, which carried with it a dawning recognition that his lineage was to provide a continuation, and through him that seed would grow and spread over the whole earth, offering an opportunity to once again populate the earth with Divine men and women. A great promise became conscious in the mind and heart of Abraham, and he was drawn to meet the One named Melchizedek, King of Salem, Priest of the Most High God—a Being not restricted to the material dimensions and conditions of this world. Melchizedek provided guidance for Abraham, leading him into greater understanding of his responsibility for the initiation of a new cycle of opportunity, what has been called the First Sacred School. Out of the seed of Abraham and his wife Sarah, their son Isaac was born; and out of Isaac and his wife Rebekah came Jacob. These three men, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—the Patriarchs—became the fathers of a promise for a new generation. Abraham had to meet victoriously many of the distorted ways of fallen man. Cannibalism and many bizarre forms of worship were prevalent in a degenerate world. It was with regard to his son Isaac that Abraham delivered his people out of the ways of human sacrifice which were dominant after the fall. He pioneered the way into much new substance in consciousness for mankind. Isaac carried forward the lineage of this emerging presence and passed on this awareness of responsibility to his son Jacob.
Jacob went through an inner transformation and illumination, and he became aware of the Lord incarnate within his own Body Temple. The experience is described in beautiful language in the Bible: “Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” Trembling before the power and the light of a new understanding that was beginning to dawn, of the magnitude of the Lord incarnate in the Body Temple known as Jacob, and awakening to an awareness of his Angelic self and his great responsibility, his name was changed from Jacob to Israel. This change in name is a recognition that he was to carry a consciousness of God in action through his flesh and his seed, that it would germinate and growand cover the earth. He was a focus point for what would emerge initially through a nucleus of people in this region, but which was destined, eventually, to emerge through all mankind, restored in right polarity and attunement with the Divine.
Jacob, now named Israel, had twelve sons and one of those sons was Joseph. Joseph, a dreamer and a visionary who aroused the indignation of his brothers—he was a young man of compelling presence, bold vision and capacity—was sold into slavery and landed-up in Egypt, the land of darkness, where the greatness of his spiritual intellect and brilliant perception brought him quickly into a position of primary leadership in the house of Pharaoh. Joseph was second to Pharaoh in leadership over the whole of Egypt. During his lifetime there was famine in the land and throughout the Middle East. That famine brought the House of Israel—the eleven brothers and their families, along with their father Jacob, now Israel—down into Egypt to buy food, whereupon, after much intrigue, they were reunited with their brother Joseph. Joseph's two sons and the remaining brothers became the Thirteen Tribes of the House of Israel—Twelve Tribes, with the Thirteenth Tribe representing the Levite Priesthood of the Melchizedek Order. After the death of Joseph and his brothers, and an ensuing 400-year period, a new Pharaoh came to the throne. While the previous Pharaoh had welcomed the presence of the Israelites, the new Pharaoh enslaved the growing population. Within that pattern of enslavement, cosmic cycles on the move brought a new opportunity, opening in the door of the First Sacred School, and the time came for the incarnation and birth of Moses, who was a mighty spiritual leader. The name Moses means, “I drew him out of the water”—and this was a Water Cycle.
Though Moses had been raised by Pharaoh's daughter and in Pharaoh’s household, and being highly educated in the temples of Egypt, he was an Israelite and not an Egyptian. After killing an Egyptian who had been brutally beating an Israelite, Moses fled into the desert to take refuge, became a sheep-herder, and married the daughter of the priest of Midian. For forty years he tended his flocks; and in this desert land, Moses went through an awakening to his own Divine commission. He was an educated man, had a fine intellect, and was an immense spirit, and he went through a great illumination—awakening to the Name and the Presence of God Most High: I AM THAT I AM. Moses understood that he was a manifestation of God in human form: “I AM hath sent me”—Jehovah, God in the flesh. So Moses became conscious that he was incarnate with a Divine Commission to lead the Children of Israel out of bondage and into the Promised Land, into an entirely new state of consciousness and function.
The great work of Moses' life was bringing into manifestation the formation of the Tabernacle, within which was the formation of the Holy of Holies, the Holy Place, the Outer Court, with the encampment of the Twelve Tribes round about—and the Thirteenth Tribe, the Levites, who represented the original Melchizedek Priesthood. Each Priest was drawn out of one of the Twelve Tribes, each Priest serving in season the Holy Place. The Ark of the Covenant was kept within the Tabernacle, in the Holy of Holies. This was a new manifestation of the same Divine Pattern through which the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle, shining round about—a design revealed in gathering together a body of people under the leadership of the Levite Priesthood. The whole reason for this movement was to draw together a unified Body, a nucleus representation of right polarity in relationship to the Divine, so that this could seed the experience for all who let it happen wherever they are on earth—the Garden of Eden restored, heaven and earth made One. Moses brought the Israelites from bondage in Egypt to the gates of freedom in a physical and spiritual Promised Land. These were times of horrific cataclysmic interplay between the Earth and Venus, a comet returned and a planet reborn in our solar system. For 40 years Moses led a rebellious and mutinous people, a mixed multitude. He said of them: “Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I first knew you.” Murmuring against Moses continually, the people defied and rejected much of the opportunity made available. Nonetheless, there were those who remained true to the leadership requirements in the Divine Plan, particularly Aaron, the High Priest, and Joshua, the warrior-servant. When Moses died it is said that: “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.” Moses lived to be 120 years old, and when he died: “His eye was not dim, nor his natural forces abated.” Like Enoch of old, and Elijah who followed; and like the Master to come, Moses did not die but ascended.
After Moses left, a nucleus of the Divine Pattern was carried forward, under the command of Joshua. “And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.” Throughout his life, Joshua had been close with Moses; he went part of the way up the mountain when Moses received the commandments of the Lord, and brought them to the people. After the departure of Moses, he was there to take over and provide leadership within this ongoing pattern of Divine lineage, Divine understanding, and Divine emergence. This is the One Great Story, the story of a continuum of Divine provision that has been on the earth from the beginning, and since the time of the fall in Lemuria through to this present day.
Under Joshua’s leadership, the Thirteen tribes moved into the land across the river Jordan, and the Promised Land became the land of the Israelites. The violent interaction between Venus, Mars and Earth at the time of Moses continued in recurring cycles for several hundred years after Moses died. These cataclysmic interactions changed the shape of the Earth, changed its atmosphere, changed the axis of the planet, and changed its pattern of rotation. These changes in axis, polarity, and form have happened on a number of occasions in the history of the earth since the fall of the consciousness of mankind and the sinking of Lemuria and Atlantis. Joshua provided a strong focus of leadership and authority, and when he died leadership was passed into the hands of the Judges. This was a period of chaos under the government of a corrupt priesthood. Of this time it is written: “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.” Here is an indication that the work of Moses and his close associates—a reminder of the consciousness of God and the drawing together of a unified body of people revealing God in the flesh—was being rapidly dissipated under the administrations of a debased and corrupt leadership and priesthood.
Eventually there arose a great prophet named Samuel: “And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and he did let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even unto Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.” He was respected and he ruled with great strength. At the demand of the people, who went against his own warning and admonition, Samuel anointed a king over Israel, whose name was Saul. Though Saul contributed and worked to help unify the Kingdom of Israel at that time, he failed to obey the Word of the Lord through Samuel the Prophet. After many cycles of failure and rebellion, Samuel removed the mantle of king from Saul, and Samuel anointed one named David to be King of Israel. David had to bide his time before assuming his position, the time that it took to remove Saul from the throne. Saul was eventually killed in battle. David ascended the throne around 1,000 BC. A man after God's own heart, one who sang and danced before the Lord, David served for forty-seven years and united the Kingdom of Israel, bringing it to a place of wealth, power and opportunity, having dealt forthrightly with enemies round about. Upon David's death, his son Solomon ascended the throne of a united Kingdom of Israel. Solomon, known for his understanding heart and his wisdom, built the great Temple in Jerusalem, patterned after the Tabernacle of Moses, and patterned after the Divine Design of the body of Man. A representation of all the wealth and response of the known world came to Solomon at that time—the Queen of Sheba, specifically, brought the negative response of the world, and that was received by Solomon, who represented the positive aspect of God on earth. We see in this an opportunity for the material and the spiritual, the negative and the positive, to be reunited once again. This was the apex of the development of the First Sacred School.
We are told that Solomon “had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines,” and that “his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David, his father.” Solomon went after the "abomination", many idols and images, against which all the Prophets and Priests had warned. “And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD and went not fully after the LORD as did David his father.” Here is evidence that there was a return to the pattern of worship of the many gods of stone and iron and fire. Among the people who served those images there were patterns of human sacrifice, of bestiality, of sexual deviance and corruption of the most vile nature. We don't know the details of how Solomon himself was functioning within all of this, but here is portrayed a representation of failure to keep polarity true in relationship to the Divine Design and the One Law. Now there came the ultimate point of failure for the First Sacred School, and the pattern that had been established through this great provision and this great lineage, over more than a thousand years, fell into disarray and decay. Through warfare, within and without, the Kingdom of Israel was torn apart, and with it the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon, and all that was therein represented. The Thirteen Tribes of the Israelite people were taken captive into Assyria and Babylon, and chaos and darkness reigned across what was once the Promised Land.
Leadership passed through a series of prophets, notably Elijah, Elisha, Amos, Jonah, Ezekiel, Isaiah; and perhaps the greatest one of all, Daniel, who became aware that it would be necessary to initiate a new cycle, that the LORD of Lords Himself had chosen to incarnate in order to refocalize the spirit of the First Sacred School and initiate the the Second Sacred School. Of course there is a Story to be told about other peoples in other lands, who were also moving within these same Cosmic cycles, but the Priesthood Focus was carried through the Hebrew lineage, from the time of Atlantis all the way through to the preparation that was being made, after the failure of the First Sacred School, for the coming of the Master Jesus and the initiation of the Second Sacred School, and the planting of the seed of a new opportunity. Now, Grace Van Duzen will share the next part of the Story—essences of the life of Jesus, LORD of Lords, the Greatest One.
The veil, in my estimation, has become very thin. We are working with
masters on all planes.
They have been on earth all the way through history,
or the Master could not have come.
Grace Van Duzen— Considering everything which led up to what we have called the Second Sacred School, David's emphasis is noteworthy—on those who carried through during very difficult times. There were instances where it looked like the population of the earth had had it! But there were those who had been true to the Lord, and this is a vital aspect of this whole story, because here we are.
I am to share with you something of the New Testament. There was enough substance established in the earth, through the ages, to enable the Greatest One to come and take human form in the world exactly the way it is and maintain his divine identity. There were many, as we've noted, who carried through with substance, but here was a unique example of something that never wavered, that never compromised. And these were difficult circumstances into which he came. I think that many people believe, perhaps subconsciously, that somehow Jesus moved through life with special privileges, that he was recognized as special, and made way for. No. He was born into a people who were persecuted. We can see that in the world today. I would mention that there was a stigma attached to an illegitimate person that is not as intense today. He went through all that maintaining absolutely his divine identity.
At His birth there were a few who knew of His coming. This indicates that something was present on the face of the planet. There has been mention of wise men; they were wise, and they are often called kings. They were wealthy people. These were aware of His coming because of a star, which they followed. There are, I think, many people who perhaps see the star, but it needs to be followed if one is going to find the Christ. And remember that the Christ always is everything said of this angel. That was one end of the social spectrum—wealth, position and nobility. The other end were the shepherds. They were not wealthy; they lived in the fields and kept animals—the other end of the spectrum. But they saw and knew the sign. They didn't call it a star; they called it an angel. In the Bible an angel represents light. I'm not saying it couldn't be a being, but it is light, as was the star. There are different ways, but they must be followed; there must be a steadfast attunement with that to find the source. They came to the same place.
There is an interesting observation with respect to the angel, when the shepherds saw the angel. The minute there is an identification and recognition of the angel, "Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host." Here is a connection with all the power in the cosmos, once we have that identity of the angel. It's all connected. I think there is a subconscious idea that the cosmos is out there somewhere. Well what are we in? This is the cosmos. I am a part of the cosmos. And the angel said it was all related. But it happens; it isn't always put off for next week or next year. At some point suddenly it's done. And why not now? The heavenly host on earth was present, yes, in human form; but the heavenly host in all the realms was present. And the veil, in my estimation, has become very thin. We are working with masters on all planes. They have been on earth all the way through the history, or the Master could not have come. His words are the wonder of the Bible.
The first recorded words in the Bible of Jesus were of the magnificent expression through Him at twelve years old. To me this indicates the true design for God's creation. The idea is that you have to live, what? twenty-one years to reach maturity. It takes different periods of time. It's all right, as long as we get there. But at twelve years Jesus found himself in the temple with the learned men, doctors. That doesn't mean they were all medical doctors. They were doctors of science, of psychology, etc. One can imagine His joy in hearing all of this, the history, everything, and the wisdom came through Him. One can sense that wisdom through Him put the meaning in all of this wonderful learning. And these learned men were astonished and kept Him there for quite a while. So when His parents came for Him, they said, "How could you do this to us?" and that's understandable. And what did Jesus say? "Oh you don't understand." He said, "Wist ye not"—Don't you know?—"that I must be about my Father's business?" Don't you know that you must be? But He went home with them, and it is said He was subject to them, which means He was truly wise and fit Himself into the pattern where He found Himself. The close of that particular chapter is that He grew in grace and stature, and in favor with God and man. That says a lot. It was not just in favor with God. There are some who think if you are in favor with God you've got to be against everybody. He grew in favor with God and man, and it was proven in His ministry, the magnetism of His being which drew everyone to Him, men, women, children. Love was his message.
There is a hiatus here, and people have tried to find out what Jesus did in that time between twelve years and something like thirty. I think that gap is very wise. Some say they know what He did, but they don't, because this is the way it should be. If all His movements were known, every day and everything, wouldn't there be some who would say, "Well if I do all those things I will arrive"? The way doesn't matter as long as it is in that direction and coming to the Lord. So it's left open, wisely.
The next reference is at the time of His ministry. After His baptism He met the devil, it is said. But in that same text where it speaks of the devil, he is also called the tempter. That's a very accurate term. Who has never been tempted by anything? And we have His magnificent answers on each of the three planes. The first of course is the physical, and then the mental. The third, the spiritual expression, was the crux, where He told the devil where he could go. Of course that's where he lives anyway! That temptation was exactly the same as what Judas presented to Jesus, which resulted in Jesus being in Gethsemane—the very same temptation. Whether this early meeting of the tempter was with a person, we don't know, and it doesn't matter, but it was all met by Jesus. Here was something in the mental level which recognized the power of Jesus, absolutely, and was saying, "With your power and your magnificent mind, you can have all the wealth in the world." Well that temptation hasn't disappeared. It hasn't been denied very much either. But this is what Judas was presenting to Jesus. He believed in His power, in the magnificence of His mind, and he said, "All the kingdoms of this world belong to the King. Let's do it, let's get them! You can do it." Oh he believed in His power. If his intention was that Jesus would die he never would have gone out and committed suicide. He'd have rejoiced. That was not the way he wanted it to happen, and he was the treasurer. That was met early in Jesus' life; in fact, the first reference we have after his baptism, the magnificence of this victory which carried through in Gethsemane on the cross. He came to show that the way which man had chosen was completely opposite from that which the Lord intended.
The Angel's Song was "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will toward men." God's will is good will toward men. Elsewhere it is said that the Lord is not willing that any should perish. He isn't decreeing the death of anybody, although this is what man has attributed to Him. And you can hear people saying, "Why is God doing this to us now?" God didn't pollute the atmosphere! He didn't do any of that. So there is a dominant opinion that death is the will of God. There is nothing wrong with death in the fallen state. What would happen without it? It is a blessing! This is the fallen state. It is a complete change of man's ordained state. That decree is life, and Jesus proved that on the cross and in the tomb; it was a womb rather than a tomb. And on the cross He delivered His capacities, which included the subconscious, into the hands of the Lord. He said, "Into Thy hands I command my spirit," but it was His action doing it. He was in control. And then we know the story of the light in the tomb and His coming forth, and the wonder of His whole life from beginning to that last. And there were other characters in the New Testament. I'm not going to include those characters. And there has been additions of verses throughout the Bible, not just in the New Testament, when it was compiled, some attributed to Jesus which are not his. But they are very easy to see; they jump out at you. The words of Jesus are wonderful and tell of his magnificent life.
So where does that bring us? How does that connect with where we are now?—the life of Jesus. To make a connection I go to the fifteenth chapter of John. In the days when I was new in the ministry—those on the mailing list when Uranda was here were told to memorize the fifteenth chapter of John. I couldn't repeat it now, but I could at one time. I mention that because it emphasizes the importance of this piece, and I'm going to read a bit of it now:
"I am the true vine…" Not "I am the vine." There is a big vine on the face of the earth, a huge body. But "I am the true vine" ... "and my Father is the husbandman." That says it, doesn't it? This is where we are; this is His body on earth now. "I am the true vine," and He led the way for this vine. It's a perfect symbol, essentially the tree of life. The tree of life has branches, as does a vine. "I am the true vine... Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." So we rejoice in the purging, don't we?"I am the vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing." This is the life of the whole body of mankind. We're speaking of the focus of that body. Everything has a focus, and the love that comes through Him is what He always emphasized.
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." This has always happened but this is a very special time. It doesn't say that He does anything to judge which branch will be burned and which will survive; simply, "Those that abide in me belong to the body." And there is much that has been burned; it is obvious. He says that what does not belong it will separate itself and be withered, and then burned in the fire. But it is self-destruction; it is not God's will. God's will is to let this mess be cleaned up. It has to be or the earth will not survive."If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is the Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit...This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." As He has loved us. That is without discrimination. It is the shining of the sun, and that which receives the light of the sun decides in itself whether it will be burned in the fire or whether the fire of love will draw it unto itself, it's all the fire of love.
At this point I will go back to one of the great ones in the Old Testament, closer to the New Testament. I'm going to mention Isaiah. He was a mighty prophet. He didn't have a lot to do with the history, as it was being told, but he was a prophet. He was one who recognized that upcoming was a new heaven and a new earth, and he delineated it exactly in those words. But I want to read something he said which applies to this time. He is, what shall we say, quoting God. As we know, there has been that all through the Book, where "God said this." Well, Jehovah was saying this, and that means the body of God expressing through human beings:
"Now will I sing to my well-beloved [the Lord] a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill;" How better could this earth be described than "a very fruitful hill"? It is fruitful. It will bring forth what anyone plants. And here are some of the most poignant words ever uttered:"And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof..." He did everything. He made a winepress therein so that the fruit of the vine could be made into the wine of life—a purpose."...And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." Here is the poignancy:"What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?" An insight into the wonderful heart of God—"What could I have done more?" How could man have been created any other way except with free choice? Not an automaton! An automaton is not the image and likeness of God. So it is for us to exercise that free will and live the words of the Lord: "Thy will, O Lord, be done, not mine."
This is a beautiful passage: "wild grapes came forth." "Wild" describes that which is out from under control, the control of the spirit of God. You can take a beautiful rose bush, and if it goes wild it will bear a lot of little flowers, but not the beautiful creation of a gorgeous rose. The design is not there.
I close on that note. We say the Law works. It does. And we can see the futility of man-made laws. I'm thinking particularly now of one they are trying to pass to do away with hate crimes. Man cannot make a law to do away with hate. But there is a law that works absolutely. It is the law of love, and that governs this vine. We have no business saying that branch doesn't belong and this one does. How wonderful! There is a diversity in the branches, which makes it what it is. Each human being is a branch and completely different. These are meant to abide together under the One Law. That body works, and the law is love, as Jesus taught. The two great commandments are to love the Lord, and then you love everybody. You'd think that was the simplest thing in the world, to love. Sometimes it seems to be the most difficult. This is the commandment. Let the Lord decide, let love decide, but let's not hold back. Love and truth we are.
Yujin Pak — Thank you, Grace, for the magnificent delivery of the spirit of our Lord. We do have the opportunity to return the true grapes to the Lord. Through all the cycles of history that we touched, and coming into this century, the opportunity has been just that alone, to return to the Lord the true grapes. What is strong with me in this moment are the hearts of Uranda and Martin hovering in this room in this very hour as we share this time together, and their work and endeavor to bring back to the Lord the good fruits; and we have the responsibility to continue that work—and how could we not finish it!
I have the privilege to touch briefly on the opportunity that was refocused, of our Master’s work, through Uranda here in this century—we speak of it as the Third Sacred School—an opportunity that has proceeded rapidly in a matter of a few decades, seeing many cycles of tremendous generation, as well as cycles of heartache. As we have touched in this story so far through Grace and David, there has always been one priority on God’s agenda, for 20,000 years on this earth, and that was to establish a Priesthood that would grow sufficiently in stature, strength, and in full spectrum to allow the substance of response in the earth to come to focus sufficiently. There was a Priesthood at the time of the Motherland; and at the time of Atlantis, something that continued on from Lemuria; and a Priesthood that began again with Abraham during that time 4000 years ago, and it developed over hundreds of years; and then a Priesthood again that began to form around the expression of the Master, the Twelve Disciples. Through each of these Priesthoods both victories as well as failures were experienced. Where there were failures, the next cycle of proving out of a Priesthood that comes along, that new Priesthood has to reverse the pattern of failure that had existed before, and establish a victory in that time, and the new emergence has the victory of each of the Priesthoods that has gone before to draw strength and a reservoir of substance from—and we have that available.
In speaking about these Priesthoods, because Priesthoods have gone through various cycles of corruption on earth, the word Priesthood is not always connected to a memory of reality at a subconscious level; so we need to recognize that. There has been the experience of a great deal of corrupt Priesthood on earth; but the opportunity is to establish the True Vine and the Priesthood that provides the Core for that True Vine. Maybe to say briefly, also, that in each of these cycles where there was the calling forth of a true Priesthood on earth, there were other concurrent patterns of emergence in the earth. At the time of the First Sacred School, it was present in the east, in India in what emerged through Krishna, and later became Hinduism as it began to devolve. Again, at the time of the Master there were concurrent cycles surrounding the emergence of the Master on earth, in other parts of the world—a cycle of a few hundred years of extraordinary emergence of leaders throughout the world—just to note that. And in this cycle too, a preeminent focus emerged through Uranda to allow a breakthrough sufficient into Divine memory to bring forth what needed to be brought forth; concurrent cycles with leader-capacity angels incarnating into various cultures and locations on earth preparing the path for One Emergence—it is just One Body!
People have at times thought of the Third Sacred School, or even EDL, was this little organization of some sort. No, the Emissaries of Divine Light are the incarnation and the emergence of each of these Foci of Light. I want to rapidly move through the emergence of the Emissaries of Divine Light in this century, so tighten your seatbelts! This is a history that, for some, we haven’t reviewed lately much, but it is a history of God emerging, Jehovah emerging with vital focus and magnificence of substance and stature.
1932, Uranda had his awakening—four days in which much emerged. 1940, Uranda met Martin; a monumental moment in time and history where two great beings met; Uranda at this point yet emerging, but the process increased rapidly through that meeting. 1945, Sunrise Ranch was bought, and the beginning of a physical location where the holy place could be embodied on earth. 1947, Martin reached a point—it’s not martin it’s the Lord, Being-in-Martin—emerged sufficiently into the consciousness of Martin that they were One, and Martin was ordained by Uranda as second Bishop at that point—a recognition of a vibrational event that had taken place in Martin. 1948, the Hundred Mile House Unit was established. 1960, Bill Bahan appeared on the scene, another great Being come to work with the two that had emerged already. So, moving on quickly, in 1963 Green Pastures was established. 1972, King View community. Now, in rapid succession these were established—you can see how something is established and grows in depth and root and strength over time with not that much visible expansion in form. So, if we find ourselves at any point in the cycle where we want to shout for expansion, and it doesn’t seem to be happening, it’s possible that something of root is taking place so that a future expansion can happen. So Hundred Mile House and Sunrise for a long period were a lone presence; and it took fifteen years before the next community emerged at Green Pastures; and then 1972 King View, 1973 Edenvale, 1973 Oakwood, 1976 Still Meadow, 1977 Glen Ivy, 1979 Hillier Park, 1980 Mickleton House, and so on. You could say a rapid emergence of the branches of the vine. A notable event was the 1981 Human Unity Conference where something of enough generation had taken place internally in the Body for the Word to be spoken externally. 1982 was the Emissary International Congress; 1985 the Rising Tide of Change events. 1986 LaVigne was established. That same year the Pavilion was built. 1988 Martin’s passing. 1990 the establishment of Zeven Rivieren.
Now, through all this history, for the most part we are aware of the wonderful things that emerged and the strength that grew, but they were not without crisis, as Grace has pointed out before. There were a number of critical junctures where it was as though the Ministry could have been finished. Uranda spoke of is being as though he had to begin anew from the ashes several times. You know the story about Uranda working with horses because there wasn't sufficient response to work with. That’s a pretty serious situation, if you think about it. Have we at times felt like we had need to work with horses? I just want to touch on some of the difficult, challenging points that we went through. Uranda's passing in 1954—that was a pretty challenging time. Many that were with Uranda did not stay with Martin. 1963 was a challenging point in this Ministry also. If you read Grace’s book, 'The Vibrational Ark', it’s there—there is a service titled 'Crisis', that might be worth reading at some point. But, to indicate that there were very challenging junctures through that whole time—as we have in recent cycles have found some challenging times! Now coming up to the present time, Martin's death in 1988—that was a little challenge. Michael and Nancy Burghley’s separation in 1993; and then Michael's resignation in 1996—challenging times. The point of mentioning this is that something has stayed. That's the whole point.
There are many wonderful things happening out there, concurrent cycles, other groups, and we could be wowed by them. But without the focus of something continuing, I dare say I would be very concerned about the future of this planet. We have a task now, coming into the present time, of the necessity of rapidly regenerating the substance that can accommodate the Holy Place, and it’s been appearing in our midst. Something has been happening through the steadfast and persevering generation of whole ranges of people, in very different ways. Something has been maintained, and there is a tempo picking up now. And by golly, it couldn't be any sooner. We're coming into a time where much of rising response, as well as disintegration, is looming in the earth; and the presence of an established and continually generating Core of the Holy Place, I'd say, is essential for the future of the planet.
There is a story, going back to the First Sacred School, when Joshua was leading the Children of Israel across the River Jordan; and the Priesthood stood in the middle of the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant while the encampment crossed over; and they stood in the midst of the River Jordan holding back the wall of water. The riverbed was dry, the river was blocked upstream, and the Priesthood was holding the Ark in the middle of the riverbed; you could say, vibrationally holding the water while all of the encampment could cross. I'd say that this is the role of the priesthood in the earth today. The strength of the Holy Place holds back whatever needs to be held back, until enough of the encampment, enough of the men and women of integrity who form the encampment in the earth, can pass over into a new state.
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So, that was a rapid race through this century. There is much more we could touch on—including all the wonderful allies that we have in the earth to work with. But we are trusted with a particular responsibility of regeneration of a caliber and level of substance that very few have an understanding of, and thus the means to generate. So it is great to bring the spiritual legacy and history of the generations of all the true Priesthoods on earth to this point, and vibrationally state in ourselves that we will do our job—we will see mankind through the passage.
