At-Homeness
At-Homeness
In The Land Of The Enlightened Ones
Uranda March 29, 1948 Salinas, California
I questioned in my own mind as to what would be the most useful tonight. What could we do, or what could I say, that would have the greatest possible meaning in this hour? I felt that it was not so much the expounding of new visions of Truth that is now needful, nor even, for this hour at least, the reviewing of words already spoken, and when I considered the Bible and all of its beautiful passages, it seemed that even the Bible did not provide what was most needful for this hour, at least not in the sense of just reading some verses and talking about them.
As I have considered these things it seems to me that this hour, carrying forward the focalized realizations of the days gone by, needed an expression that would, by the fact of its beauty, give a consciousness of the Pattern of Reality that is superimposed upon all things, and an expression that should carry the currents of Divine Love whereby there might be a vivid awareness of the directionalizing, controlling Supreme Intelligence, by reason of which the power which we have felt and sensed in varying ways shall be caused to accomplish all things essential to the fulfilment of the Cosmic Plan. And I wonder by what means, through what words, this need might be best fulfilled, that the manifest form might reveal the Pattern of things to be. It is not needful that I should undertake to convince you that there is power—you know it—neither is it needful that I should undertake to convince you of the Pattern of Truth, for you carry in your hearts and minds a conviction of the reality thereof; nevertheless, having carried forward to this point on higher ground, a higher level of consciousness and feeling and recognition, there is need for a deeper sense of At-Homeness therein, so that, as you walk in the Borderland of this Promised Land, you shall not be as strangers therein, but, rather, as those who abide in the Land of our KING.
If I were to speak as a Sage in this matter, I would perhaps simply say, “When you have lived in this Land long enough to let your roots penetrate deeply into the soil of the Kingdom, you will feel At Home. Let, therefore, the At-Homeness come through living here.” And the word so spoken would be true. If I were to speak as a Guide, showing newcomers to the Land, that they might begin to gain a sense of At-Homeness, I would perhaps speak thus: “Here, in the Land of Light, in the Land of Love, and in the Land of Life, the innermost recesses of your hearts, being opened, will reveal the fact that this is the Home for which you have longed through these many years, for though you may have thought that you were finding a home, or making a home, or building a home, as you came along the Way you found that, no matter what you built, no matter how you worked, no matter what devotion you gave, the homes that you thought to make did not fulfil the Allness that is necessary, and the spirit of such homes as you have known did not reach to these innermost recesses of your heart, where, in the secret chambers, there has been locked the treasure chest of the awareness of your true and lasting Home. And it is well, for otherwise you would have been self-satisfied, content to linger in the way-stations, and you would never have reached this Land—the Land of the Living, the Land of the Loving, and the Land of the Enlightened. So, therefore, though it may be true, as the Sage has said, that living here will truly bring you a deeper awareness of At-Homeness, nevertheless, the Spirit of At-Homeness is in your hearts even now, as you look upon this Land, and, though it is vast, there is no reason for feeling as if you were back on earth, alone in a desert place; and, though there is so much to see, there is no need to feel a conviction as if back on earth you were at the busiest intersection of the world’s greatest city.
Behold, in the timelessness of this Land there is Eternity in which to view, and the vastness of this Land gives promise that, no matter how great your expression of Life may be, no matter how penetrating your vision may become, no matter how wonderful the accomplishments which may manifest through you, you will never outgrow this Land—the Land of the Living, the Land of the Loving, and the Land of the Enlightened Ones. Seek not, therefore, to find that sense of At-Homeness that you may have known back along the way, as if you had encompassed your homes and fully comprehended them, controlling them, and causing them to be according to some arbitrary plan or purpose. In this Land the sense of At-Homeness springs not from having encompassed the fulness thereof, and having contained it within yourselves, but, rather, in the awareness that the At-Homeness that is in your hearts will find a place to abide, a place to express, a place to share, no matter where you may rightly move within the Borders of this Fair Land. The At-Homeness here is not because you possess the Land, but because you are a part of the Land—in its Spirit, its formation and its manifestation, which, in one sense, is beyond possession because it is limitless, and yet that limitless fulness, that unmeasured bounty, that unconfined beauty, finds true focus, control and coordination in our KING.
Here you do not possess the Land, and neither does the Land possess you. Here you do not try to utilize all the manifestations of the Kingdom for your own purposes, as is so common out in the world. Here you let your expression of Being find relationship to the ALL, that it may be a part of the ALL, and that the ALL may find fulfilment in presentation to our KING. Here you labor not for yourselves, nor do you seek to get, nor do you undertake to establish, in self-centeredness, any confinement of the beauty and the wonder of this Land, for each finds his fulfilment in the sharing of the doing that brings forth that which we may, all in Oneness, present to our KING. Therefore, we are ever giving unto Him, but He receives not as unto Himself, for He serves not Himself, neither does He, as our KING, possess either the Land, or we who dwell in this Land, for it is not to possess us that He is KING, and His Joy is in giving unto us through that service which He renders each and all. The At-Homeness, then, is in the Spirit of this Land, not seeking to establish limitations here or there, not seeking to set boundaries or take possession, nor yet in being possessed, but in the Spirit of this Land, which is a Spirit of Living and of Loving and of the Shining of the Light—and he who lets the Light shine, he who truly Loves and surely Lives is he who truly Gives.
Here the power works, and the power is not because some human being takes hold upon it here or there to make it be thus and so, but because each and all abide in the realization of the working of the Law, knowing that the Law truly works in Heaven and on earth. Therefore, as you gain that sense of At-Homeness here, abiding harmoniously within the Law, there is no special sense of power which you may command for this or that purpose, according to some whim or fancy, but an abiding, whereby you let the power work according to the Law—and, being thus At Home, you Live, that the Land of the Living, the Land of the Loving, and the Land of the Enlightened may manifest through you on earth for all who have eyes to see. And so, in this you rest, and, being truly At Home, you find what it means to Rest in the Lord, to abide in peace and to know the wonder-working power of our God.
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1949 - 1957
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