No Power Without Pressure
from The Magic of Life or the Magic of Death
Uranda June 3, 1953 Class
I wonder if any of you have felt any pressures of any sort since yesterday? A few of you indicate that you have. That is to be expected. We have been moving forward in the pattern of the contest. Remember this: We did not ask for this contest. From the standpoint of deity we did not ask man to fall. From the standpoint from which we function we did not ask man to resist the patterns of deity for twenty thousand years. From our standpoint we did not ask man to crucify our LORD and KING. From our standpoint we did not require that there should be any Gethsemane for Him. But there was, and when He drew His last conscious breath upon the cross, lapsed into coma, the command of the battle passed to other hands than His, hands dedicated to His cause. And we are here because of that. Our purpose is to quell the revolution; for there have been those, and there are those, who revolted against the Kingdom of our KING and they have said in their hearts that they could succeed in their revolution and maintain their rebellion. But it is not so. Our KING has been long-suffering and He has been patient, that any and all who would yield and respond might not perish because of the rebellion but rather respond and become citizens of the Kingdom. So we have not sought the battle that looms before us; it has come to us unbidden. And when the pressures come it is time to give thanks unto God and to be thankful that the revolution of the rebellious ones cannot be maintained forever.
The battle is being joined individually and on many fronts—the pattern of the world situation, all of the things that are at work in the world, on both sides. Those who at any level stand for that which they recognize to be right under God are a part of this in which we are engaged. As you have begun to recognize, the adversary is versed in some of the distorted and reversed principles of magic up to a point, but within the realms of the revolt. They do not know and cannot know, they do not use and cannot use, the Divine form of Magic which is granted to our use. So remember this whenever pressures appear, hold center and give thanks to God for the battle that is drawn. And remember what I have emphasized several times: It is not your business to contend with the black magicians or the patterns of black magic in the world; it is for you to remain centered and hold steady under pressure, for if there be no pressure there can be no victory. If there be the manifestation of the power of the unreal in the world, the power in us must mount to a higher point than that power, and there can be no manifestation of power without pressure. These are unnatural and abnormal pressures because of the situation in the world mirage and the realm of illusion. But the things of this realm of illusion must pass away and those who are subject to them must make a choice and choose whom they will serve.
We have been using the Old Testament patterns to provide you with a setting for the true working of the power of God, so that you could more readily feel and know the fact that you are in eternity and that which was true two thousand years ago or four thousand years ago is true today, so that you may function from the standpoint of eternity and not from the standpoint merely of a moment of time in the cycle outworking, not limited to the concepts of a short cycle of existence on this earth. And you may recognize that the longings of your heart which would avoid the pressures that arise are legitimate—for we all long for that day when the Prince of Peace shall rule supreme upon the earth. But do not let them be used by the adversary to make you turn from the fray, or to yield your place of responsibility; for that would only prolong the agony and bring havoc to yourself and to others. We are not here to play children's games. We are here to be men and women, citizens of the Kingdom in the service of our KING. Blessed ones, until we reach a point in dedication where there is one thing that means more to us than anything else, there is going to be a tendency to waver back and forth across that line, and wavering across that line is extremely dangerous. One might waver the wrong way once too often and never come back, and that is tragedy. There must be a dedication to one thing: that this earth, every part and parcel of it, shall be restored to the government of the Kingdom of our KING. Basically I am not concerned about saving human beings. Basically I am concerned about serving my KING and restoring His Kingdom, and if I am going to serve my KING and restore His Kingdom to Him it will be a rather meaningless, empty gesture if there are no citizens in the Kingdom. I want some people in it. So, incidentally, we will save some human beings.
I have had people say to me, “I don't like pressure.” Well that depends. In the Divine pattern of creative function there is pressure, but it always brings joy and pleasure and ecstasy, and a realization of fulfilment and accomplishment. So there are those pressures which are of the Divine pattern. But in this contest in which we are engaged there are pressures which none of us like. I have never felt any pressure from the pattern of the unreal realm that I liked, but liking it or not is beside the point—I thank God for it because it gives me an opportunity to do something. If I couldn't work out a pattern in the realm of Divine Magic so that there would be pressure, and opposition from the realm of the black magicians, I would never get anywhere, I would never accomplish anything; and neither would you. I have no desire to drift for eternity in a senseless sea where nothing matters. So whether we like it or not is beside the point. From the standpoint of what we are going to accomplish we like it; not because we like the feel of the pressures as they are—they are not nice, they have all kinds of nasty things in them and we do not like them as such—but we thank God for them and we like them because this is a part of the way by which we get the job done. So we thank God. As the Master said, “When men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake, rejoice, and be exceeding glad.” Don't say, “Well I don't like this. I don't like the accusations. I don't like the other thing.” Rejoice and be exceeding glad. That is the attitude that the Master told us to take, so let us take it.
Let us note something very, very carefully: Any human being who can be enticed into fighting against the devil becomes subject to the devil. The devil has two primary policies: one, to make you crawl in subservient submission; failing that, to make you fight him. Either way you are doomed and damned. We talk about a contest. As long as the devil can entice you to try to use the devil's methods in the service of God you are really serving the devil. We have to learn to face the truth, for only the truth can make us free. We are the servants of our LORD and KING, and if we are not rebelling against Him we belong to His Kingdom and there is no necessity for us to be rebellious. About what? We are serving the KING. We are citizens of the Kingdom and we do not need to rebel against anything. We are not the ones who are rebelling. It is on the other side of the fence. They are rebelling against our KING. Let them do the rebelling. We do not have to rebel against them merely because they rebel against our KING. Stay centered in our KING and we do not have to rebel against anyone or anything. If you begin to see this point you begin to have the secrets of victory. You begin to see the difference, so that you cannot be enticed into rebelling. Rebelling against what? The only direction in which you can rebel is against God; so if you rebel, you are rebelling against God, even if you think you are rebelling against the devil. You aren't.
So this contest—it is a battle, yes, and there are going to be pressures, yes, but are we going to fight with the devil's methods? If we are we are going to be subject to him. If he dictates our methods, our patterns and our programs, who is our king, I ask you? Let us remember that we have a KING, and our KING has no need whatever of the devil's methods. Believe it or not, He can win the victory without the devil's help, without any of the devil's methods, without any of the devil's wisdom or knowledge or understanding, strange as it may seem. Take an honest look and you begin to see how human beings anticipate God's victory but they are going to have to work and be practical now, and really get the job done in a hurry. “We will have to use some of the devil's methods to win the victory for God.” And you see it permeating practically every field of human endeavor, up and down the line. To take the attitude that you have to fight against the devil is a declaration, “I do not trust God. I do not know anything about the power of God.” For if God is almighty, why should you be concerned about fighting the devil, unless you are subject to the devil? And if you are not subject to the devil you are subject to God; and if you are subject to God, He is almighty and there is no necessity of fighting the devil. It is as simple as that. The way is easy and the burden is light. Once the human consciousness begins to let go to these basic truths of being, we begin to move into a realm where there can be victory after victory for our KING. There it is. What is our choice?
Respond to God the Almighty, stay centered, and the power of God begins to work through you, the almighty power of God. So let it be. Keep centered and remember your responsibility as a citizen of the Kingdom, a servant of the KING.
Let The Will Of The Father Be Done
Under the Direction of the Son
By the Power of the Holy Ghost
Uranda November 15, 1951
As our Master came near to the concluding hours of His ministry on earth He made a very significant statement: “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” Long ago I pointed out whenever there is an increased manifestation of divine power because we have moved upward along the way, there will tend to be pressures, or backwash, from out of the world because of the reality of increased radiation. We cannot move forward, in the sense of letting the power of God be released into the world, without having some reaction out of the world. When that reaction out of the world comes back to us, when those pressures come back, if there remains in the individual, in the ghost of his being, that subconscious realm of the mind and heart, those things that are of the world, then this backwash, this reactionary pressure from out of the world, will connect up in the individual with that which is not yet what it ought to be and there will be a tendency to have a reaction. There will be a tendency for whatever there is of the ill things remaining to come out.
The Master said, “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” He recognized that, while there had been various cycles of reaction from out of the world during the period of His ministry, the full force of that ministry was coming to its climax and the backwash from out of the world would be appearing. It was near at hand. We remember how, according to the story, He began to meet that reactionary vibration of the world in Gethsemane. If it had not been true, as He had said earlier, that the prince of this world could find nothing in Him, the backwash, the reactionary currents from out of the world, would have destroyed Him in that hour in Gethsemane. The meaningfulness of that hour is something that we might well meditate upon, but before we do we need to recognize certain principles in relationship to ourselves. When there is the reality of radiation, of the working of the power of the Holy Ghost through you, it tends to dispel, to cleanse out from you, those things that do not belong to you and are not a part of your reality. However, that radiation going on out into the world produces a reaction in the world consciousness and there is a returning cycle. As you remain centered, fully obedient to the One Law according to the two commandments, that backwash cannot upset you, even though the coming of the prince of this world may reveal something in you that belongs to the prince of this world, something that is not of the Divine origin. If you allow yourselves to be controlled by these ill things that remain in you and get connected up in the world pattern, you spoil the outworking of the cycle and by such function deny God, betray His trust, and put yourself in a position where you have to go through the process all over again. The complete process is not, generally speaking, completed in one operation. Cycles of outworking take place. “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.”
We are supposed to reach a point where we let the Holy Ghost abide in us and work through us, and it is only by reason of the Holy Ghost in us that we have the privilege of sharing on earth the expression of God's power. The guardian angel, the conscious mind, must reach a point where it is not subject to the subconscious aspect, where it stays centered in the Father, so that it is a manifestation of the Son, or the mind that was in Christ Jesus. The conscious mind stays centered because it is anchored in the Father. Although there is something in the individual which belongs to the prince of this world, the individual does not allow his centering in the Father to be lost and that which is coming out is cast out. If, however, the conscious mind gives way on an emotional reaction of some kind, so that the irrational expression of the subconscious realm takes control, then the prince of this world not only finds something in the individual but reestablishes his control over the individual and anchors that much more solidly. When you respond to something below you, you are connecting up the very center of your life force with that thing and becoming subject to it. Response to that which is below you, response to that which is not of God in your own subconscious realm, makes you subject to such things—and the mind is in the habit of giving way and turning expression and function over to the subconscious mind instead of holding steady and being the Guardian Angel. To the degree of response, that sends out a rootlet that connects up with that to which the individual responds.
However there are rootlets which appear on the basis of controlled command. We will consider this controlled expression at a later time, but remember that there is a controlled expression of the rootlets of the silver cord which can extend out on the basis of command, not because you are responding to something out here but because, by the Will of the Father, under the Direction of the Son, in the Power of the Holy Ghost, a connection is made through which the power may flow to do something. There is an interesting key. We will get to a consideration of that in due season.
The subconscious realm is connected to the Father by means of the silver cord. If the subconscious realm, having sense of shame, is separated in consciousness from the Father, there is no way by which anything from the Father can reach it. It shuts itself off. It cannot forgive itself. It shuts itself off from the Father. The current from the Father is supposed to reach the level of the conscious mind from two directions: a positive and negative pole working through the conscious mind—one, direct from the Father; and the other, indirectly from the Father, through the subconscious mind and back to the conscious mind. From above, from the Father, direct to the conscious mind, there is an impulse conveying some idea. Unless there is response in the subconscious realm the projected thought never gets into the conscious mind. If the subconscious realm is ashamed before the Lord, it will not let anything come out of itself to rise up. If there is the projection from the Father to the point of the conscious mind and the subconscious responds, some idea that has relationship to that which is being projected is drawn to the surface and comes into the realm of thinking and something begins to move. You begin to think in the realm of logic and reason. Projected into the realm of logic and reason, the element of control is established, something arises out of the subconscious realm to give body to it, and then it becomes a thought in the mind. Then meditation upon it allows an expansion of vision and understanding, related ideas begin to appear, and a current of divine inspiration flows. But as long as the subconscious realm is ashamed before the Lord, it will not let any idea arise out of itself in response to that which is projected by the Father—that which is projected by the Father in radiation, or inspiration, does not connect up. It remains meaningless and the individual exists as if he did not have any connection with the Father, controlled by the subconscious realm and its fears and its shames, subconsciously related to the ill vibrations in the world that relate to the ill things in itself.
Until the individual allows the guilt complex to be removed, and until the sense of shame has vanished, he cannot be a true instrument for the expression of the Will of the Father under the Direction of the Son, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Until the unholy ghost has been cleansed, so that it becomes through the working of the spirit of God the Holy Ghost abiding in you, you cannot be a means by which God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Here you have a little glimpse of the machinery by which these things work out. If we are allowing the silver cord from the Father to the subconscious realm to be meaningful during life, so that the subconscious realm has been cleansed and there is no sense of shame controlling there, the subconscious mind is open to the Father, its face is turned toward the Father, and then out of it come those things, rising up to the current of inspiration, that come to focus in the realm of the conscious mind, and the individual begins to know the Will of the Father. He begins to speak the Word of the Father. Then he begins to find that the power of God is a reality, that the wisdom of God, the understanding of God, the knowledge of the cosmos, can find focus in his being according to the need and the response.
In the stillness of the human mind you begin to recognize and realize the meaning of the words, “The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Be still, and know that I AM God.” In quietness of spirit, abiding centered, those who trust and stay centered can know what it is to be made every whit whole by the healing power of God working in body and mind and heart, to the depths of one's being. In stillness before the Lord we begin to know Him as He is. God bless you.
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