J e - h o - v a h
Jesu — Emmanuel — Shekinah
Uranda July 8, 1953 Class
Some little time ago I introduced some of the vibratory factors involved in the names of Deity. Also, in our patterns of meditation, we have been recognizing more and more the basic reality of the union of heaven and earth, symbolized by marriage. True marriage is sex. Without sex there cannot be true marriage, the union of heaven and earth. The Master said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The reality of the positive control of Being is available to man and to mankind, so that as soon as the pattern of mankind has reached a state of being the Bride, the marriage can take place. Individually, we can experience this while we live on earth. Collectively we can experience it, and this collective experience is called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is the reality of worship before God. And we come to know, finally, in the outworkings of the Divine Design, that the highest form of worship before God that can be known is that which is proper in the intimate relationships of husband and wife.
In this Divine Design we need to consider something of really drawing near to God. That is the first step. We do not need to be worried or concerned or troubled about the various aspects of the fulfilment. We can trust God for that, if we function correctly. We can learn to so center, so trust, that we can function in the substitute factors that are necessary to us for the time being, and we can help others to do so with understanding, moving constantly toward the reality of the Divine Design. And to achieve this we need to draw near unto God.
We need to draw near unto God. We recall that the word that is usually spoken Jehovah is the name of the Body of God made manifest—God in action on earth. To whatever degree God was able to act on earth in and through the children of Israel there was the manifestation of what is commonly called Jehovah. You note that is not the correct pronunciation of the word, but we use the common word when we do not have the right vibrational factors, or when we are building for the right vibrational factors for the real word—and again, that is a substitute pattern. All symbols are substitute patterns. The whole pattern of the Bible is dealing with substitute patterns, which we can use correctly in order to reach the real. And here is another: Jehovah. That is a substitute pronunciation in order to avoid using the right pronunciation until the right time. The same is true, as we recall, with the word Jesus. Jesus is not the right way to speak the name, but it is a substitute pattern, a very good one, and we use it. Jehovah, remember, means not God in the invisible sense but invisible God made manifest through man, in action on earth, whatever that may be. Jehovah is God in manifest action on earth.
The manifestation through our Lord when He was on earth was a revelation of Jehovah, in which He invited us to share. We say we want to be members of the Christ Body, or long to be, or are working to be, members of the One Christ Body, members of the Body of Jehovah, Jehovah on earth, made manifest. And so any human being anywhere who actually begins to let Deity manifest is in fact letting the reality of Jehovah be made manifest.
Jehovah will not come into full manifestation until all the men and women and children living on earth are a part of the Body of God in fact—Jehovah manifest, the body of mankind completely centered, completely activated by God. So when we use the expression Jehovah, or the real word, the real name, we are not talking about God in the invisible. We are talking about God in these visible realms, God made manifest through all who serve Him, God brought to focus and given meaning on earth by those who serve Him.
And when we use the name Jesus, what do we mean actually? We mean the centering of the manifest body of Jehovah—the centering of the manifest body of Jehovah. Jesus is not in heaven, in the invisible sense. If Jesus, the name of the body of our Lord, is to have any reality it must be here on earth. He had a body on earth. That body ascended. It is not the same body, it is not in the same form. That body was to continue as the body of many members; so the centering aspect of Jehovah has been called Jesus Christ. But Jesus in this sense is not in heaven, never was, never will be—that is, separated from the earth. But heaven at hand, on earth, yes; heaven on earth, where there is the union of heaven and earth. Then we have Jesus—the centering of mankind, in the manifestation of Jehovah.
So we need to begin to recall and remember clearly the significance of some of these things that we have meditated upon before, and remembering, we will not be trying to make something fit where it doesn't. We will be able to let it be in its proper place. And when we begin to work in this vibrational sphere of drawing near unto God we will not be trying to make ourselves be in something that either doesn't exist or where it will not work—centered in the centering of the body, centered in Jesus, if you want to put it that way—not the name Jesus applied to the body but the true name applied to the Centering of the Body of Jehovah.
And the angel said, “Thou shalt call his name Emmanuel: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Emmanuel—there is another name upon which we have not given meditation before. “For he shall save his people from their sins.” Emmanuel is the saving force of the Central Pattern of Being, the force which takes unto itself that which belongs to itself, by which we become members of the One Body, not scattered pieces of a body. Human beings imagine that they can be segregated and be a body. They can't. What we are working for is the opposite of that: all parts in place, living, real, vital, beautiful, glorious.
We relax, then, in the realization of that which is signified, or the reality of the substitute name Jesus, the centering; the body of the centering, Jehovah; the working power, Emmanuel, Shekinah. What is it that blends all of these things together and allows the reality of Deity to work on earth? His Name shall be Shekinah: for he shall save his people from their sins—from their wrong actions, wrong patterns of life, to draw them into the Divine Design. As we begin to let these things have meaning in ourselves we can begin to use the sacred names, the true names, with understanding and with meaning, with utter reverence; for if God, or the focalization of Deity, is accepting us into His Body, that means we are accepting Him into our body, the wonderful symbolism of the sex organs of the male and the female revealing exactly what must take place in our patterns of relationship with God and how, as God receives us into Himself, we must receive Him into ourselves—union, sex, in the heavenly, Divine, sacred sense. And received into that pattern of union, we begin to realize that we must invite it.
Once we begin to truly reach that point, accepting the reality of union with God, we can use those heavenly names, accepting that which God is giving, answering the love call of our God. And for the centering there is the realization that we are responding, yielding, to Jesu, letting go to the centering of Jehovah. Jesu, the centering on earth of Jehovah—until we begin to know the reality of God in action here below, the beauty and the wonder of it.
Did you ever relax in the secret place of the Most High and simply say, “Lord, here I am”? If any of you have ever been what is called “being in love,” did you ever get tired of hearing your love say, “I love you”? The word was always new, always fresh. Do you think the Lord is going to get tired of hearing you say, “Lord, I love you” — "Lord, here I am” — “My Lord, I love you”? How about functioning the way a true bride would, and yielding to the LORD our KING? How about drawing near unto Him and receiving Him into ourselves, that we might begin to know the wonder and the beauty and the glory of the Divine Design on earth, something so sacred, so sweet, so unspeakably glorious, that we cannot paint it in words? We can say something about it, but if we would know it we must yield to it and let it be a reality in us here and now. So let us do something about it. Our Lord has offered His love for so long. Why put it off? Why not make it easy? Why not yield to Him and serve Him? Why not be a part of the Body of God on earth?
© emissaries of divine light
