Coming Home

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Coming  Home

Uranda   August 5, 1953  Class

Our basic theme at this time is the Magic of Creation. As we work together there is, step by step, a gathering of the waters unto one place; and what does that mean? The Master talked about it a good deal when He was here on earth, and the word He used is translated as agreement—“To agree on earth as touching these things.” What things? The things of truth, the things of God. Most people seek agreement by trying to get other people to agree with themselves, and, failing to do so completely, they begin to compromise—“You give up this of your idea, I'll give up this of my idea, and see if we cannot get together,” and that is the earthly pattern of agreement. But it does not work in relationship to spiritual things. Trying to agree with each other is of small avail. The human vision in any case is inadequate. Our program is designed to permit the individual know the truth, and then to let truth make us free. If we are agreeing on the basis of human concepts, they will amount to nothing.

You have been given an opportunity to examine what I have presented, day after day, week after week, month after month, to test it to see if it carried the characteristics of the opinions or beliefs of a man, or if it carries the evidences of truth. There are those who are, at first at least, much inclined to assume that it is the mere concept of a man; and as long as that is assumed, there is a tendency to argue about it, to try to contend with it, to question it, and I am used to that. It is all right. It is to be expected at first. And, going out into the field you will find the same thing happening to you, so you remember not to talk too much. But, step by step, for those who are honest, there comes a conviction that we are not dealing with opinions or mere beliefs. On a scientific basis we test each point as we go along and discover the truth, without regard to opinion or belief or prejudice, disregarding superstition. No matter what pet beliefs in the world may have to go, we want to know the truth.

At first our consideration of truth is in a general sense, revealing law and principle, beginning to gain a vision of the pattern of truth as it has worked out over the period of history. But gradually we begin to comprehend these principles in relationship to ourselves individually in our present pattern of life. But there are blind spots in each human being—the individual does not understand himself, nor does he understand others, even though he may think he does. You will find many people in the world who think they understand themselves and who think they understand others, but if they ever reach the point of rebirth, they find that the vision has been faulty, the concepts erroneous; and if there is honesty and integrity that which is erroneous is allowed to go into the limbo of the past. So, step by step, we have to help people see where they as yet do not see—not compelling, except by the very compelling logic of truth, the beauty of it. Human beings are in the habit of fighting with God. They are in the habit of contesting every step, and at first that is to be expected. People have been through so much and have been told so many things that it is natural and right that they should be skeptical. Never find fault with honest skepticism. There is dishonest skepticism that is grounded in superstition, and superstition grounded in ignorance, and ignorance grounded in a determination not to know, afraid to know the truth. With that you can do nothing. But honest skepticism, welcome it. Never try to belittle it.

Be suspicious yourself. Be a little skeptical yourself when response opens up too fast, when it tries to portray itself as something very great and marvelous and really to be depended upon, because that method will not lead to agreement. That individual is slippery. He will seem to be in agreement in one moment and be a thousand miles away in another. There is nothing to take hold of. It is like trying to catch a greased pig. There is honest analysis, honest skepticism. Now, when I say, “You be skeptical of response,” I am not talking about true response. I am talking about the big splash pattern. It does not last. It is there for five minutes and gone. It will not stand the test of time. But we are working toward agreement. “To agree on earth as touching these things.” What things? The things of the kingdom of God, the things of truth. And trying to agree on something not based in truth is a futile business. But because once we begin to see the truth, we know it. It produces an answering chord from within and we begin to agree on earth; and that agreement is the gathering together of the waters, a gathering together of the views, the understanding, until we are of one mind. We have our individual characteristics which are not ignored in this process, but we are of one mind, one unit, one body, one heart, dedicated to God, one spirit of devotion shared by all—the oneness, the gathering together of the waters that the dry land may appear, that the form essential to the manifestation of the spirit of God may begin to be made manifest.

In our meditation we considered together the parentage of Life. We saw how your parents, your heavenly parents, do not die. We saw how your heavenly parents do not pass away or leave you, unless you drive them out of the house of your own body. “To honor thy father and thy mother: that the days of thy life may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” If we are honoring love, if we are honoring truth, we hold them sacred. They are sacred to us, and we will not violate that sacredness. What is it that we hold sacred in life? What is it that we are willing to violate in order to get something considered to be more valuable? We recognize that there are many people who have something that they deem to be sacred up to a point—they make a show of it, at least—but the moment they see an opportunity to gain position or wealth or something of that nature, they are willing to betray what they held sacred. There is no foundation where nothing is held sacred. The thing that gives you stability, the thing that is your starting point, is that which you hold sacred. Now perhaps your understanding of what is sacred and how it should be held sacred may have to undergo some growing, but that which any individual holds sacred is the starting point. And what is integrity? Integrity is the refusal to violate that which is sacred. That is what honesty is.

We have the responsibility of helping people move into the truth, into a realization of God's Love, that they may hold their heavenly parents sacred, that they may not lose their integrity, that they may honor Father and Mother. And the more you think about that in relationship to yourself, your Father and your Mother, think about it and meditate upon it—and when you say, “Father, my Father,” you do not mean the Lord within, really; you do not mean your God Being. You should not anyway. Your Father: God's Love. Do not be in too much of a hurry to learn to understand and see and know the One who dwells. We have to recognize that the One who dwells is there, but do not be in a hurry or you will never find Him or Her—for they are male and female, remember. The God Beings are male and female. Human beings, male and female, were created in the image and likeness of God, of God Beings, male and female. So we know that there are male and female God Beings wherever we go. And some picture heaven as some sort of a sexless place—it would not be heaven. But we begin to realize that Father and Mother, God's Love and God's Truth, your parents, your true parents—the Life that flows through you is born of those parents. Your body is of value only as your life is in it. Your body in the physical sense is born of your earthly parents, but the life in your body, the life that gives you meaning as an individual, the life which you must have every moment of every day is born of your heavenly parents. Think about them, meditate upon them. And what is your sacred point? What is it you hold sacred more than anything else? Your heavenly parents.

In the world there is a saying that every man has his price. Now, that is not always true, thank God! But your price is the point where you will violate sacred things. Sometimes it takes a great deal of wisdom, of patience and understanding to help a person relinquish his old sacred things without giving up all sacred things. Blessed Ones, we are not interested in taking sacred things away from others, really. We are interested in offering them sacred things, which will become so important that the old things, which really are not of any value, will be left behind. The point is, then, that as we grow, the things that we hold sacred at one point are left behind—not the principle, but we are growing out of the realm of toys into the realm of reality, and our integrity is at stake.

What are the sacred things that you have to offer? How sacred are they to you? What is your selling price? How much pressure will the devil have to bring upon you to make you trample on your sacred things? What is your quitting point—your point where sacred things are not worth it any more? Let them go smash! That is the point where you cease to be a man or a woman and become a member of the body of the beast—the quitting point, the point where sacred things are not held sacred. We are not trying to take sacred things away from people, but we are helping them to grow up, to mature; and as soon as they begin to see the beauty and sacredness of that which is being offered there will be no trouble in getting them to leave behind the toy. So we are not taking it away; we are inspiring growth, inspiring progress, new vision. And children love to grow up. It takes leadership. We must help them to find something new, something to hold sacred.

What are we doing? We are going to take the wandering child home. We are going to take them home as fast as they will let us. Take them home to Father and Mother. Who is my Father? Who is my Mother? Who are my brethren? The Master answered that question: “He that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” The will of the Father. What is the will of the Father in this case? The Father, God's Love—and what is the will of God's Love? That there should be Oneness in the Family, that there should be Oneness in relationship to man and God. The will of the Father is togetherness, cohesiveness, centering in that which is of the Divine, so that we can leave behind the swine and the husks and not have to be a swineherd any more, but return to the Father's House, to honor Father and Mother. Every server has this for his life work—to help others find the way Home, to help others to return to the Father's House, and to stop dishonoring Father and Mother. And as we begin to come into agreement on the basis of God's Love and Truth and Life according to its design and purpose, we have a togetherness not depending on mere belief or opinion.

Believing a falsehood does not make it true. You can believe it as long as you will and it will not make it true. Believing a truth to be false does not make it false. Human opinion has no bearing. What is the truth? That is our goal—to find the truth. But it is only as we respond to the Father that we can come to know Mother. If we are separating Father and Mother we will never know either one of them as they really are. Father and Mother must be known together if either is to be known. So if we are to know Mother, it must be in relationship to Father. If we are really going to know Father, it must be in relationship to Mother. There is absolutely no other way.

And who are our parents? God's Love and Truth. The evidence of the presence of the One who dwells. Father, Mother and Child, and the Child is the Life that is in us individually. Your Father is different from my Father. We do not have the same Father. In this sense the Life that is in you is the only begotten Son of your Father—Life—because the Father in you is different from the Father in every other person. If we say, “Our Father,” we are not talking about the God Being within. Your Father and your Mother—you, in the sense of the Life expression, are an only Child. You are the only Child of your parents absolutely. There is a relationship established, of course, from the standpoint of higher focalization, but the reality of God's Love and Truth made manifest as evidence of the Presence of the One who dwells in you is distinct in relationship to all others. It is distinct; it is yours; it is you in reality. You, in the outer manifestation, become One with the Inner Reality to the degree that the Child is a true revelation of the parents, for the parents and the child are the evidence of the Presence of the One who dwells. And when you in body and mind and heart are a true revelation of the Child and of the parents, then you are One with the One who dwells—but you cannot be One with the One who dwells without becoming One with your Father and Mother as a true Child, and this is what it means to be a Child of God.

Now human beings have vague and fanciful concepts—“God created us so we are children of God.” Perhaps in a theoretical sense, but what does it mean to be a Child of God? It means that you in your body and mind and heart—you, the human being—have life by reason of the only begotten Son of your parents—the only begotten Child, the only begotten Daughter. It makes no difference how you put it. You are an only Child of your parents. And you the Child and your Father and Mother provide the evidence of the Presence of the One who dwells, and if that evidence is not made manifest through your body, then there is no indication that the One who dwells is there. And a lot of people say, “Well, I do not believe there is a God Being in human beings. I just do not believe it. Look at them. Look at what critters they are. I cannot believe it.” Well, the God Being is there but He is not evident, and we cannot blame them. They do not see it. They need to begin to see it somewhere and then perhaps they will lose their skepticism; then perhaps they will begin to accept and see, and see that the Child gives evidence of parents, and through the Child come to know the parents—Love and Truth. And you in the human sense—the body, the mind and the heart you are a Child of God actually only to the degree that you are a true Child of your true parents; otherwise you are not a true Child of God.

And we come to agreement. How? If you in your mind and heart come to agreement with the Child, Life, and through Life come into agreement with your true parents, God's Love and Truth, you will automatically be in agreement with your own God Being—and your God Being, your Lord within, is in agreement with every other God Being on a pattern of focalization. Your God Being is never at any time at variance with my God Being. With respect to these God Beings, they are all always in agreement. They are always in accord. There is never, on the basis of the God Beings, the slightest bit of discord, and all accept the same focalization in the patterns where they are. They work in harmony. They are in agreement. If they were not, there would be war in heaven. There was war in heaven on earth at one time. But the mind of man was cast out of heaven. The devil was cast out. Of course, people have imagined that some creature was cast out of some place in the sky down into the earth, but the kingdom of heaven is at hand, it is right here; and the devil is the self-active mind of man. And the self-active mind of man was cast out of heaven at hand, so that the mind of man lost the awareness of the heaven at hand, so that man could not contaminate the heaven that is at hand, could not violate it. But the door to it is open for those who can pass by the Flaming Sword that turns every way—the Sword of Truth and Love. He who comes by way of his heavenly parents—your heavenly parents are the gateway to the kingdom of God that is at hand.

Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Your heavenly parents provide the gateway by which you enter the kingdom of heaven that is at hand, and you can enter by no other way. It is the gate, and there is just one for you. Reject that and try as you may, struggle as you will, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven at hand. So as you come into agreement with the Life that is in you, its purpose, as you come into agreement with your parents, your heavenly parents, Father and Mother, as you come Home to them, you find in them your gateway to the kingdom of heaven that is at hand. And when your mind and heart are in agreement with your parents, your heavenly parents, you are the only Child; when your mind and heart are in agreement with your heavenly parents, then you are in agreement with all others who are in agreement with their heavenly parents. You come to the point of being in agreement with your heavenly parents, and in that moment you will be in agreement with all others who are at Home, truly, with their heavenly parents. That is the process; that is the method; these are the steps by which the waters are gathered together unto one place—one place, One Pattern of Being in the overall sense, and that Pattern of Being provides the setting which lets you shine forth as a gem, something special.

You do not lose your individuality, your value. It is not like a drop of water in an ocean—not at all. This oneness does not reduce your individuality. It allows it to manifest. This provides you the setting essential to the revelation of what you are as an aspect of God, but without that setting you cannot have any true manifestation. And if you try to take the setting away from someone else you cannot have it yourself. You have it when you do your part toward making it possible for others to find their setting. For the setting of the gem is in the Home of the heavenly parents, and these are the many mansions our Lord talked about. “In my Father’s house”—He is the focalization; He is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings—“In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you.” Your Mansion, your Father's House, your Home. Now, we have to persuade people to go home. They are ashamed to go home or they do not want to go home, or they think their parents are dead. They think a thousand and one things. They imagine they are satisfied where they are. Human beings do not willingly go home. Even when they are responding nicely, coming along very well, do not ever imagine that that person is going to willingly go home. Do not let them catch you off balance. No human being willingly goes home.

Some of you look puzzled. You think you are doing it. Fine! Keep right on coming, Blessed Ones, and let us go Home. Let us go right on Home. But there will be those things which the human being will project or cling to which will prevent him from going home, and he says, “Yes, I want to go home but I want to take my bag with me, my bag of treasures.” It is easier for a camel to go through the Needle’s Eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. People are so wise in their own eyes. They carry such burdens. And you are a keeper of the gate to the Needle’s Eye, helping people reach a point where they are willing for the pack to be taken off their backs, and persuade them to reach a point where they might get down on their knees to come through the gate on the way Home, home to the kingdom, home to the Father's House—home to heaven on earth—and you do not have to die to do it. You have to let the self-active part of your nature pass away, but the physical body does not have to die to do it, and you do not have to be every whit whole, according to the human concept. If you have some crippled part of the body, that will not stop you unless you make it. You can come home to the Father's house and there see what happens.

But people want to be made whole: “I'd be ashamed to go home to my Father's house looking like this. I want to have all of my parts. I want to be good and healthy. I want to show my Father that it has not hurt me any to be a prodigal son or daughter.” You are going to kid Him, are you? As long as you think you can delude your Father, you are not going to get home. You cannot, you know. What difference does it make? Why not come just as you are. Why say, “Well, I want to grow up so much first. I want to learn so much. I want to know so much. I want to be so-and-so in my body.” The limitations of your body do not make an iota of difference; what you think you do not know does not make an iota of difference. You can come just as you are, if you are willing to let the Master's Word be fulfilled in you. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” The word of the Father to you—“all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” Heavy laden with what? Heavy laden with all these earthly treasures, all the things that are so nice, the burdens that bear human beings down.

Are you willing to trust your treasures to God? Are you willing to trust yourself to God? Are you willing to come Home to the Father's House? That is the question. And you can come just as you are. You do not have to wait and grow up so much, learn so much, be ready to show your brilliance to the Father. All you have to do is just come. Relinquish your burden. Let go. And come just as you are and the Father will meet you from afar off—while you are yet afar off. The Father, God's Love, reaching out to you now. And your Mother, how is she? Do you know her? Do you know your Mother is beautiful? Your Mother is exquisitely beautiful. The Truth is always beautiful. Remember there is no such thing as an ugly truth. There may be ugly facts that are temporary—temporarily in manifestation; but remember there is absolutely no such thing as an ugly truth; never has been, never will be. Your Mother is exquisitely beautiful. And your Father, what of Him? He is worth knowing, well worth knowing. Why not go Home? Why not come Home to the Father's House? There is a mansion there for you, a Mansion in the kingdom of heaven right here at hand on earth, a place for you.

And it is only so, that you can go through the process of rebirth; only so, can you know the resurrection; only so, can there be the gathering of the waters that the dry land may appear and the forms of life may manifest; only so, can there be agreement on earth as touching these things, that the Father's will may be done on earth and in earth as it is in heaven. And when we take this step and truly share it, we have come to know with respect to the Father—the Father for each one, and in turn our Father, the higher point of focalization. Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Aum-en.

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