In Your Temple Of Light

In  Your  Temple  Of  Light

Uranda   March 8, 1937

Beloved Fellow Ministers in the Temple of Light: Joyously I salute you in the Temple of Light which is Heaven on earth, even the Temple of the Lord of the Three Planes Who stands before the LORD of Lords as the High Priest of the whole earth. This Reality of Being is likewise revealed within each one of you: for your Heaven within you is your Temple of Light wherein your Spiritual Consciousness is the Priest of your Temple before your Lord Who is your Father within you.

Since the beginning of Creation, the Cosmic Position in the Whole, Holy World for each God Being has been set according to the Harmonization in the Lines of Force whereby the World was created, and the Master Self, or Lord, of each Body Temple in the earth has an appointed part and place therein; for this is that which is rightly called Heaven. So it is that the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Christ Kingdom, has been set up since the beginning of Creation and is the Foundation of the world.

As the Blessed Ones who are responding to their Lords, are drawn through the Christ Love into a Consciousness of Reality, the Body Temples involved are drawn into polarity in the Father, and then the Body Temple begins to be directed by the Father's Perfect Will, and is no longer influenced by the human will of the fallen consciousness. When the Body-World responds in Love to the Lord the Divinely Inspired Spiritual Consciousness, or Christ Mind, appears in the Body-World of the individual, and from that time onward the Lamb, or Christ Radiance of the Lord thereof, is the Light of that Body-World, and there is no more need for external light upon which human beings in the fallen state have depended.

In this the Blessed One realizes that the Spiritual Consciousness, which is the Christ Mind, symbolized by the New Jerusalem, “Comes down from God out of Heaven.” God, the Father—your Father—is in Heaven within you. The Light of your New Earth must come down from your Lord, and cannot be secured by any striving or struggling process of study, and addition to the carnal mind by human effort. When your Body-World is fully responsive in Love to your Lord, instead of being responsive to, and controlled by, all the things and conditions of the outer world, your New Jerusalem comes forth from your Lord, and your body becomes your New Earth in the Light of your God.

So it is that your Body-World is drawn into oneness in and with the Cosmic Place to which your Master-Self, or Lord, is ordained. Then you are functioning in perfect harmony and co-ordination with all other God Beings. As the God Beings of each Plane are Focalized in the Lord of that Plane, and the Seven Lords of the Seven Planes are the Elohim, with the Focal Lords of the six lower Planes all focalized in full response in and to the LORD of Lords Who is the LORD OUR GOD Who manifested in and as Jesus; it becomes evident that the Three Inner Planes are Positive to the Three Outer Planes, and that these Six Planes are contained within, and infused with, the Seventh Plane which is the One Plane that blends all the other Planes.

The Three Inner Planes are, for this world, the rightful expression of Father God, and the Three Outer Planes are the rightful spheres of Mother-God-Being. All God Beings functioning in the Three Outer Planes, or Worlds, are all contained within Mother God, and are focalized in the Lord of the Sacred Three, Who, as High Priest of the Three Negative Worlds, is fully responsive to, and focalized in, the LORD of Lords, Who is the LORD of the Sacred Seven. So it is that the LORD of the Sacred Seven is the Focal Point of Father God in the Whole, Holy World and the Lord of the Sacred Three, as the Focal Point of Mother God, is centered in Negative Response to the LORD of Lords.

As you respond to your Lord, allowing His Spirit to reveal to you the reality of this Vision of Being, you will see and understand the direct correspondence between your Body-World and the Whole, Holy World, and you will know how it is that man is created “in the image and likeness of God.” Beholding this Vision of Reality and the Glory of Being, you see how easy it is to let your Father’s Will be done in and through you by reason of your full and free Love Response to Him, that you may “let your light so shine.”

Rejoicing with you that it is so

I AM Uranda

© emissaries of divine light

This Generation—Return On Archangelic Investment

This  Generation

Martin Cecil   December 26, 1962

I have emphasized the fact before that the change must come in one generation. It could be, presumably, any generation, as long as human beings exist on earth. If they leave it too long, of course, there will not be any generations left. But it must come in one generation, though human beings have a comfortable idea that somehow or other the next generation may be more successful. That which has to be experienced is what has been defined as a change of polarity. Fallen human beings are polarized with respect to the mass consciousness of humanity; Divine Man is polarized in Divine consciousness. If we take just one person and consider this changeover, we recognize that there must be a transition. Everyone starts off with the wrong polarity. There must be movement through a period of experience to right polarity. It is not something that is done instantly; but unless it is done in that person while he lives, it is not done. Isn't that right? After he is dead there is no more chance for that person.

As we multiply one person by whatever number is required—say 144,000—then it must happen to those 144,000 individuals during the course of their life; otherwise it does not happen. If the attitude is taken, “Well we'll do it just so far; we couldn't possibly go all the way; but our children will then carry on from there,” we delude ourselves, because the children only receive a blessing if the generation who are the parents carry through. Otherwise they are left betwixt and between; they are neither one thing nor the other. They do not have the evidence made manifest of the Divine State and they do not have the experience, to the same degree, of the fallen state. There is perhaps a tendency to consequently take things for granted and to lack appreciation for that which is, to the extent that it is. They have not been through the harsh—I was going to say reality; it should be unreality—of the fallen state, and they have not been offered the experience of the Divine State, if those of the previous generation have not carried through.

It must be done in one generation, because if the generation who were in the process of carrying through do not, then the children, or succeeding generation, have to start all over again. The idea that the hope is in the children is nonsense. The idea that the succeeding generation offers the hope is foolishness. It is the generation that is here now that offers the hope. It is now that is the appointed time. It is the only time we have. If in one generation there are those who do carry through, and there are children associated with that generation, then that is a different matter, because they have the manifest experience of the Divine State at that point, and they know what it is then. But if it has not been made manifest they do not know what it is, and they will find that they have to go down into Egypt again and come clear all over again—if they are going to do it, that is. There has always been a block with respect to the fulfilment of the Divine Plan, and that block has been just one generation—never any more, just one generation. We can take the attitude, “Well we'll do our best. We'll go as far as we can,” but it will not get the job done, and another generation—if one is on hand—will have to start all over again.

You have been through some experience to bring you to this point, to enable you to emerge from the fallen state to the extent that you have. It has been quite a journey, hasn't it, to bring you to this point. You have had many experiences, passed through many things. You have known clearings of various sorts. All that has been put into you, so to speak—this is the Lord's investment in you. We cannot bequeath it to someone else, can we? It is something that happened to us, not to anyone else. We cannot just take it out of ourselves and put it in our children. If they are going to share it they must experience it too. There isn't anything vicarious in this process; we have to know it for ourselves, and therefore we must come all the way through if our lives are to have the meaning which is the Divine Purpose. If we do not come all the way through we fall short. That is what is called sin, by the way—falling short of the mark. If there is a falling short it is so much waste, isn't it? There has been development, and development working out through us—we just didn't make it. Well if we didn't make it we didn't make it, and what might have been on the basis of our restoration was not experienced—gone—and all that went into our lives to make it possible for us to experience the restoration is wasted because we are gone.

This is something that must work out in one generation; otherwise it doesn't. It will not evolve there, because it is not a matter of evolving through human self-activity. Human beings have been doing that, but that never achieves the goal, never gets anywhere except to ultimate annihilation. It is something new. Our Master Himself revealed this when He came. He let it be done in thirty years—one generation insofar as He was concerned. So He revealed that it could be done in one generation. He also, incidentally, revealed that it must be done in one generation, although that has not been so clearly seen. Look at all the generations we have had since, and still it is not done insofar as human beings generally are concerned, because there has not been a recognition of this one fundamental principle.

It is not a matter of evolving in human self-activity so that we become better self-active human beings. That is not the goal at all. The goal is to become Divine Beings, and we cannot become Divine Beings as long as we remain self-active. It is a matter of moving through the transition from the control of the devil to the control of God, and when God controls, when the Divine consciousness is accepted, then the Divine State can begin to appear as a result. As long as the devil controls, then the fallen state must appear as a result. No matter how much progress may be made in self-activity, the fallen state must remain; conflicts will continue until the final conflict, somewhere along the way.

The statement was made by our Master to the effect that except the days should be shortened no flesh should be saved. Now that has generally been translated to mean that there was going to be such an appalling state of destructiveness on earth that unless that were curtailed everybody would destroy everybody else; so this period of awful destructiveness, when human beings were in such tribulation, would have to be shortened so that somebody survived. Well there might be some application in that sense, but we may also see that the days must be shortened in the sense of one generation. Unless the days are shortened in that sense, no flesh shall be saved; unless the change, the transition, the restoration, comes with respect to an adequate body of human beings in one generation—wherever that generation may be—no flesh shall be saved, because there isn't any other way by which flesh may be saved.

It is the acceptance of the Divine control, in actual fact, of a sufficient number of responding ones which allows the Divine control to begin to manifest as a reality on earth—something which human beings have not experienced. They do not know what it would be. They have no idea that such a thing is even possible, for the most part. They certainly have no comprehension of what would happen if Divine action began to appear on earth because there was a form through which it could appear. There simply has not been such a form, except here and there on an individual basis, since man fell; so human beings have no awareness of what it would be, and the results which would be the natural result, the natural consequence of the Divine control working, are therefore considered as being fantastic. From the standpoint of human self-activity such results could never appear in a million years, but from the standpoint of Divine activity they could appear in one generation. But there could be no Divine activity in this sense, no transfer of the Divine control, until there are those who are willing to accept it. Because there have been no adequate instruments of such acceptance, there has been no experience of what the consequences would be.

If we are letting our lives be dedicated to this Divine purpose of the restoration, we must experience it within ourselves first. It is not as though we could say, “Well we have a vision of this—the restoration, the goal. We see how wonderful it would be. God's power is adequate; we believe that; therefore somehow or other, because we have this vision and understanding, it is all going to work out successfully.” It is not. If it works out successfully it has to work out through someone, and if our dedication is genuine, we are saying, “It must work out through us.” And in that actual experience the reality begins to be known: Divine activity, the power of God manifesting on earth to make possible that which naturally appears in consequence. We do not have to concern ourselves with that which is to appear. That takes care of itself. All we have to concern ourselves with is letting the experience be known to us under the dominion of God.

Because man has been functioning in the fallen state there has been no available instrument for the Divine use; the power of God has been entirely excluded in the truly creative sense, but such as has been able to appear has had to appear through the fallen consciousness of human beings. The life force that is moving through people—that is, the power of God—is under the control of the fallen consciousness of human beings, and consequently it has kept everything in a turmoil. The very moment there begins to be something which is under God's control the power of God can begin to move through that in a creative sense—there begins to be a shift, and we are here to share in letting that shift take place actually. But unless we ourselves experience what it means to be under the dominion of God, unless we ourselves begin to discover, and consequently experience, what it means to function on the basis of Divine consciousness, we cannot share in that which needs to be done. Shall that which has been experienced through us and through others over these past years, bringing us all to this point, be allowed to go for nothing?

It is not just a matter of the number of years a person may have been associated with this Ministry in the conscious sense—it is the number of years a person has been on earth moving toward this point of conscious recognition of these things, for all experiences have been used. Each one of you has come through cycles which are distinct and individual to you, and all these things have brought you together here—not only you who are here present tonight but all who are here in our Ministry in actual fact—to this hour. How much investment the Lord has in us, then, investment which can either come to fruition or be written off. The Lord is pretty accustomed to writing it off. It might be a change for Him if it was allowed to come to fruition, if there was an actual willingness to carry through to the point of fulfilment; not personal fulfilment in the sense of something which the individual thinks would be pleasing to himself, but fulfilment in the sense of being absolutely under the dominion of the spirit of God, whatever might occur thereafter. To what extent is that true of you now? How free are we? How much dominion does the truth have in us actually? All of you know that it should be so, all of you feel that you are dedicated to this purpose; but does it go beyond the theory, really? Sometimes a human being will have something in mind that he would like to do, and if that is suggested, “Oh yes! I'll go right into it! Wonderful!” but if it is something else that he had not considered as being too desirable, and it meant that he was not moving into what he wanted to move into, what then? Is it what we ourselves personally want to do that is important? Or is the need in the Ministry of the Lord important? What needs to be done? That is the important thing. Whether we want to do it or not is beside the point, and if we have such wants anymore it is obvious that we are not yet sufficiently under the control of the Divine consciousness.

We are here to fill the needs of the moment. We are not in the Divine state in the external sense—of course not, because there has been no cause for it to be here yet. We have to establish the cause first, and thereafter the Divine Estate will appear and that no doubt will be wonderful. But in the meantime it is not here and we have to function on the basis of the things that are here, filling the needs that are here without question as to whether it is personally pleasing or not. “Is this the thing that is needed in the Lord's ministry, in the fulfilment of the Divine purposes?”—that is the question. And it is in the filling of the needs in the Lord's service, no matter what they are, that we find our joy. That is where the joy is. The joy is not in doing what we like to do, but in doing that which is needful in the fulfilment of the Divine purposes. And when we begin to do that consistently we begin to find the secret of joy.

Our Master said that He would give His joy, didn't He? And what was His joy? To do the will of Him that sent Him; to do what was necessary in the fulfilment of the Divine purposes, even if, as it worked out, it was necessary for Him to go through what He did. It is in that that we find true joy, because we begin to find ourselves under the dominion of God, we begin to find ourselves participating in the instrument for Divine activity, so that the power of God may work creatively on earth to bring forth fruit—Divine fruit. It will not restore the world to the Divine state in a moment. How many years do you think it might take? We will not question that; but the very moment that the power of God begins to work creatively on earth because there is a means for its manifestation, the issue begins to be forced, and consequently the days are shortened.

The answer comes quickly. Human beings are forced to make their choices. In one generation the restoration can become a reality; not in the sense of its final manifestation necessarily, but the restoration nevertheless, because the cause is established. How long it will take for that to work itself out so as to cover the earth is something which need not particularly concern us. Our concern is to let the cause be established, because we know that when it is there the results are sure, in the cycles and the seasons of the Lord. And the cause is established as we ourselves have the experience—in no other way. Only as we ourselves know what it means to be under the dominion of God in the expression of our lives do we share in allowing any creative expression of God's power. Thinking about it, theorizing about it, imagining things, accomplishes nothing; it is only when it is done that the fulfilment comes.

Our Master spoke some words when He was hanging on the cross. He said, “It is finished.” It was done insofar as He was concerned; and the fulfilment came, didn't it, for Him. We need to be able to say, “It is finished.” There is no adequate group of human beings in any generation since the fall of man that has been in position to say that—a lot of things left undone, half done. Well here we are in the world as it is. Can it be said of our generation—there is quite a scope to a generation—shall it be said of our generation that they finished the work which had been given them to do? When that can be said the restoration will be a reality, the cause will have been established, and the results will appear.

Return  On  Archangelic  Investment

David Barnes  and  John Gray   September 16, 2018

David Barnes — Even in the midst of the noisy and troublesome events occurring in the world there are joyful events occurring as well, and this is one of them. It is a particular joy for me to be teamed up with John Gray and to have this opportunity to speak with all of you. We speak together; we’ve learned how to do this over the years. Perhaps, like me, over the last few days you have been able to feel the quiet intensity building as we move toward the balance point in the seasonal cycle. We also move toward the balance point in the cosmic cycles which bring about a rebalancing of the whole earth, sometime in the days to come. We don't know the day or the hour, but we’re ready.

This is the rhythm of the Word in motion. The spirit of the Archangel moving in the vast creative processes—coming to focus right now. In the midst of everything, this morning we have another golden opportunity to say, together: Here I am, Lord, present to speak the Word of truth. By the Word all things are made. The Word is with God and the Word is God. The Archangel is the Word and the angels who compose His Body are His Words made flesh. This is us, and many others. He is the Supreme One, the Master of the Temple of the Archangelic Body.

We know that we are not here for our own personal satisfaction as mere human beings, although we relish being here as human beings, awake or awakening, and expressing all these things. We know that we are His Words in expression, representing the spirit of the Master of the Temple. He is the One who sent each of us into the world to express His spirit, His Word differentiated in unique and fitting ways through each angel incarnate, and to sustain that expression through everything we do each day. This is uppermost in consciousness always. Except the Lord build the Body Temple, they labor in vain that build it.

Last June 18th John Gray spoke these words: “From a high place we may know that a really big wedding is taking place, taking form now.” ‘And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.’ The event of truly cosmic import is the marriage of the Prince of Peace with his body of many members on earth.” The Prince of Peace, the Supreme One, the Archangel and His Body of many members—these names and images are hallowed to us, representing what is most sacred and joyous—filling our consciousness with grace, and with a quiet but burning and passionate enthusiasm, with ease, and a calm assurance that is natural when we live in His presence. And we are always, whether consciously aware of it or not, we are always in His presence. We may increasingly be conscious of that fact.

Recently, in Oregon, Anne and I had a creative conversation with John Gray and a few other friends, including Don Hynes and Jonathan Shanker. Jonathan used the phrase, “the Upper Room,” suggesting to us all that there is something significant here that we might well pay attention to. Here are some words by the Master from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 22. “And He said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in. And ... the goodman of the house ... shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.” These words are related to past events, but they also refer to this Age and this time. We have met the man bearing the pitcher of water, and we have followed him into the House. And the goodman of the House has shown us the furnished Upper Room and instructed us on the preparations necessary.

And so, this is a joyous day, realizing these things. This is the anniversary of the announcement that was made by the man bearing the pitcher of water—this 87th anniversary of the vibrational proclamation that was made on September 16, 1932 announcing the proceedings which would lead to the consummation of this Cosmic Marriage, that John Gray referred to. And today we mark the outer announcement of that inner engagement that was long ago confirmed, leading in the creative process to the full incarnation of the Archangel in His Body on earth. Looking back just a few years ago, who would have thought that we would be among the ones here to acknowledge what is emerging, taking responsibility for our part in it now, as movement toward this Cosmic Marriage proceeds with absolute assurance, as the Archangel comes forth through His Body. Behold, I come quickly—and in a cosmic sense it is quickly—and My coming changes everything, continually. And nothing on earth can stop this Archangelic action. This is a joyous day for those who are aligned with what is happening.

The Archangelic Body is composed of many working parts—just as in the individual human body—and each part has its place and its function. But a consciousness of what is occurring in the life of the Body first dawns in the head. Being conscious we play our part in the head pattern of the Archangelic Body, a specific part analogous to a Vibrational Gateway in the head of the Body. Other angels play other parts in the whole Body—we know this. But we enter the earth and the world through this particular Vibrational Gateway—part of the whole Body—this Upper Room, through this Vibrational Gateway. We know the implications of this through our experience in attunement. Through this Vibrational Gateway, by reason of this Upper Room, we are here to allow a greater outpouring of radiation now, and in the days to come. Within the spirit and the substance of this radiation are the essences of the blueprint for the formation of the Body in this cycle now. In every phase of development there is considerable flexibility—there must be—in the implementation of the blueprint, under the Law. And there are also patterns that are fixed.

Considering this 87th anniversary that opened this new year, ours is a joyous cosmology and this is a joyous day—as we enter this 3rd year of the 13th seven-year cycle since that announcement made on September 16, 1932. This 3rd year is on an earth vibration. This current seven-year cycle, which began in 2016, is characterized by water, the spirit and substance of truth, wherein the design for this specific part of the Archangelic Body, this Vibrational Gateway, is being re-focalized under the hand of the Master—as must occur with every generational change if spiritual continuity is to be sustained by the angels incarnate at the moment of every change. Human beings take so long to wake up, if they ever do; and they die so young, really; and it all needs to be re-focalized frequently as the cycle proceeds. This is such a time of change. So, very close to us we have a water-earth field—within a much vaster cosmic pneumaplasmic field—but emphasizing new and delicate patterns emerging now.

So, this is a joyous day, when we rightly acknowledge and quietly celebrate the Victory Pattern of the Ages—the continuum of victory that is with us. The yoke is easy and the burden is light, when we have no personal ambitions as human beings that we inject into this very clear pattern and precisely orchestrated creative cycle. How vital that we remain in vibrant, openhearted love-union, responsive to the Word of the Master of the Temple of the Archangelic Body. Such open and mature angelic response to Him provides assurance, a calming factor within the whole awakening Body—assurance that we are present and active within this cycle of the Great Marriage. And that we can be absolutely counted upon as His instruments, always available for the radiation of His coming forth.

A large Upper Room furnished: there make ready—prepare the space of accord. Let there be no discords in the atmosphere of this Upper Room: no ill spirits expressed, no harshness of tone, no striving, no off-key vibrations, no judgments one of another, no jockeying, no power struggles, no competitions. All of these elements lead to failure and sorrow. We could have examined a litany of such failures today—we can face such facts too, as necessary. But today we acknowledge and celebrate the Victory Pattern, an unbroken continuum. Let there be a sea of glass clear as crystal in hearts yielded and open to Him, and to one another, that there may be a substantial Upper Room, a sanctuary made ready, a setting sustained for the cycles of outpouring that are essential to the fulfillment which comes at His appointed times.

I am very thankful for all who have held this focus clear over the past many years, bringing us to this point now. And with this, John—over to you, with thanksgiving for the Word that you are, a good friend of us all, and a man after God's own heart.

John Gray — The upper room you spoke of, David, has been established forever. It's been lost to human experience for the most part, but it is nevertheless present. In moments like this we sense the atmosphere of this upper room and the power that moves through it as the Word finds expression. Indeed, this is a joyous time, and there's big stuff happening! We don't try to have it all figured out in our heads, but just accept it in our hearts.

Life is God's gift to every human being. Many, many people would nod in general agreement with that statement, perhaps with little or no examination into what it really means. The fact is, a person is alive only because there is an individual, personal source of that life present. This means the giver of the gift is right here, present, now. Contrary to what some believe, human beings neither make nor own their own lives. The animating life energy is a gift constantly emerging and emanating from the divine being, the angel, incarnate in each human body, mind and heart. Though freely and liberally bestowed, the gift of life is not intended to be used for self-serving purposes. It is a gift, yes, but also an investment.

In the original Latin invest means “to clothe”. A human being is invisible spirit clothed in human flesh. The verb incarnate literally means “to make flesh.” From the human perspective it's true to say that God is invested in you and me and everyone, and all of us together. In everyday usage investment usually refers to something financial, as in the acquisition of property with the expectation that its value will go up over time. A dictionary definition reads “to put money to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.” That's the first definition I found in an online dictionary, but there were several others with it: “To use give or devote (as time, talent etc.) for a purpose or to achieve something;” “To furnish or endow with power and authority;” “To endow with a quality or virtue;” “To infuse or belong to.”

When I read the word investment so defined, I was still for some minutes, letting these meanings flow through my mind and heart. Then I wrote these words: “I, this incarnate angel, am invested in this man called John. I give him light and life, and I devote my loving presence to the purpose of manifesting on earth through him. To this end I endow him with power and authority in my name, infusing him with the qualities of my spirit. He belongs to me and we are one.”

In the human world, investing involves some risk. From the angelic perspective this is so as well. What are the chances that a given human mind and heart will awaken at all to the presence of the incarnating angel? Beyond that, what is the probability that the awakening consciousness will become responsive and yielded enough to orient in and to the Lord within? And further yet, will that heart and mind become so centered in, so receptive to, so filled with spirit, that angelic identity is accepted and known? From the angelic viewpoint, incarnating on earth is a risky investment.

You probably know that the origin of the English word angel is the Greek angelos meaning “messenger, envoy, one that announces.” Those who start to hear the divine message perceive it at first to be coming from a source external, from someone else. But that voice of another gradually finds such resonance in our own hearts that we turn to see the inner voice that is announcing his or her presence, and come face-to-face with the one I Am.

In poetic language from the Old Testament of the Bible, “The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.” We see this applies to the personal “earth”—each physical body with its mind and heart—as well as to planet Earth, our solar system, and all of creation. From the individual angel to the greatest Archangel of Archangels, everything is His.

In the human world of finance, the term return on investment is one way of relating profits to capital invested. Without getting overly technical about it, return on investment is a performance measure used by businesses to identify the efficiency of an investment. The measurement is in terms of money, often expressed as a percentage or rate of return.

God invests in human flesh. What is the return on this angelic investment? It's not money, but a different substance altogether, the coin of another realm. Many of us call it spiritual substance, the substance that connects invisible spirit and visible material form. It is heavenly substance. This extensive range of substance is generated or spiritualized from earthly substance, to the degree that the earthly substance is responsive to spirit in expression. The more that response is attuned to spirit, the more heavenly substance is generated and the more completely the incarnate angel manifests.

The problem here on earth is that this small piece of the Father's business has been performing poorly, indeed failing. Without an acceptable return on investment, human investors tend to pull their money out of an underperforming business and move it into something more promising. Well, the Lord could pull the plug on the humanity venture any time, but hasn’t. What patience and divine grace!

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise [we might substitute investment for promise] but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (II Peter 3:9) To repent is to turn—to turn in the direction of response away from the material world and to the incarnate angel. In the world the way it is, money is the means of manipulating material things, of influencing people, of making things happen. It serves as a substitute for spiritual substance. The world that is thus produced is a substitute also—it's not the real one. Socially, economically, ecologically, politically, you name it, the man-made world is very tenuous and fragile.

And here we are, in it but not of it, and loving it all regardless. Our vestments, the clothing of our beings, change over time—our bodies age, our minds mature, our hearts are cleansed. External activities shift into new phases of life. All the while, the changeless one I Am remains. In this consciousness of identity, we meet and live in the upper room.

© emissaries of divine light

Oneness

Oneness

Uranda   November 16, 1946

There are certain indications that some students in the School have an incomplete understanding about the Teaching of the School with respect to the Lord within, which has tended to hinder easy transition from the cycles of segregated individual expression to the cycle of coordination in the Unit. In order to focalize and clarify vision in this matter for all the Earnest Ones let us examine briefly the Truth of the matter.

Upon entrance into the Third Sacred School, one of the first great revelations of Truth which is essential to individual progress is the fact of the presence of the individual Lord within the body temple, coupled with a recognition of the perfection of the individual God Being. However, the student is immediately advised that the outer mind, or temple consciousness, is supposed to become one with the Mind of the Father within—which is to say that the Mind that was In Christ Jesus should be in each one. Emphasis was and is immediately placed upon the fact that the outer and the inner should be One, and that progress in the School is in fact movement toward that Oneness in the individual. If, in any instance, the student continues to imagine that as he comes closer into the Unit there will be an increasing awareness in the outer consciousness of direction from the Lord within, he will hinder his progress, for he thereby proves that he has failed to grasp the significance of the Teaching as it relates to the essential Oneness of the inner and the outer.

To the degree that there is true awareness of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth there is, automatically, Oneness between the temple consciousness and the Lord within, and the outer consciousness ceases to be concerned about trying to get into Oneness with the Father within—because it is already in Oneness and has no need to get into that state—or to try to receive direction from the Father within as if there were a continuation of the state of separation between the inner and the outer.

The progressive instruction in the Third Sacred School has been designed to establish a consciousness of the fact of the Father within, and then to inspire the expression, in life, of the Divine qualities of nobility of Being which are characteristic of the Father within, so that the inner and the outer should in fact be One—whereupon the continuing instruction, emphasizing the necessity of that Oneness, began to develop a consciousness of the Unit of the One Christ Body, wherein the many members of the Body began to have a true and vivid consciousness of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth.

As an actualized feeling consciousness of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth began to permeate the individual members of the Body, they were treated, individually and collectively, on the basis of the actuality of the Oneness of the inner and outer, even though the perfection of the Father was not in all respects in absolute manifestation. Therefore, if the student, to any degree, continues to think and act from the standpoint of a separation between his outer consciousness and his Father within, imagining that he should try to get direction from his Father within, he hinders his individual movement into the actual unification of the One Body.

It was not and is not intended that any individual should undertake to delude himself into thinking that he is completely One with his Lord, but it was emphasized that since the Father within each one is perfectly coordinated with the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth it was made obvious that any deviation, in principle or function in Reality, from the expression of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth would certainly be out of harmony with the true expression of the Father within, therefore, each student was provided with an absolute free means of checking the course of his forward movement without being concerned about possible distinctions between the inner and outer in his own individual expression of Life.

As the principles and Truths relating to the Unit have been expounded it was made evident that the whole process was designed to establish a consciousness of Oneness—not just between the outer of the individual and his Lord within, but a Oneness of all the members of the Body in a consciousness of Body, or Unit, and Oneness with the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth. Thus it is seen that the individual recognition, in a true, vital feeling sense, of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth indicates in an absolute sense the exact ratio of the individual function in Oneness with his Lord within.

However, the individual concept of this recognition is without weight except as function in that recognition has allowed the Spirit to bring forth the true fruits of the Christ Life in and through the individual members of the One Body. To this end the Way, the Truth and the Life, as actually made manifest in the One Body, has been clearly revealed through instruction and brought into manifestation through training, so that the individual consciousness might easily blend into the Unit consciousness in a realization of the Divine function of the Unit as One Body, through which the Greater Works, of which Jesus Christ spoke, might be effectively made manifest.

Let it be remembered that the primary purpose of this outline is to show that the consistent student in the Third Sacred School should not be any more concerned about his own Lord within himself as if he thought his Father within were separate from himself. Only as the individual lets himself be reborn, so that he worships God in Spirit and in Truth, can he know the actuality of these things, and bring forth the fruit that is properly made manifest through the Branches of the One Vine. Let all of these things be considered from the standpoint of a vivid realization of the actualized operation of the One Law.

Oneness  not  Twoness

   

 

Uranda March 24, 1947  Riverside, California

Is it not the desire of all to give up human individuality, so that the individuality of the Lord may manifest? To re-emphasize one point here: “Emphasis was and is immediately placed upon the fact that the outer and the inner should be One, and that progress in the School is in fact movement toward that Oneness in the individual. If, in any instance, the student continues to imagine that as he comes closer into the Unit there will be an increasing awareness in the outer consciousness of direction from the Lord within, he will hinder his progress.” [November 16, 1946]

Let us consider that for a moment, because if the individual is still concerned about his outer receiving direction from his Lord within, that very attitude brings about a separation between the two, because if they are One, the outer is not concerned about trying to get direction from the inner, because they are then One, and if they are One, then they are in harmony with the Divinely Focalized Plan. It is evident that there are three points of test: First — If the individual thinks there is Oneness and he is still concerned in the outer mind about getting direction from the Lord within, that brings separation because it is an acknowledgment of twoness and not Oneness; and Second — If there is Oneness there will be a recognition of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth; and Third — If there is Oneness there will be a bringing forth of the fruits of the Spirit as members of the One Body or branches of the One Vine. There are points of test clearly outlined here, so I see no reason for any excuse for confusion.

Human beings imagine that they will lose their individuality when they become members of the One Body. That means they want to be scattered entities and not unified entities, but unless there is coordination between the inner and the outer, there cannot be a manifestation of the individuality of the God Being. There is a manifestation of the human personality, and if there is Oneness in the individual, then there is automatically Oneness in the Unit, because the One God is made up of One Unit of God Beings. 

The world of man is supposed to reveal the world of God. The One God is the unification of all God Beings focalized in the LORD of Lords. When Heaven and earth are one, the manifestation through man on earth must be the expression of the Unit, so that the Unit of Divine Men and Women is revealing the Unit of God Being on earth.

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One Voice

One  Voice

Martin  Exeter   June 15, 1986 a.m.

We are with one accord in one place as we share One Spirit, one heart, one mind and one body. The One Tone of Life sounds throughout. We are One. I speak to all of you who hear my voice. There is One Voice, a voice which springs forth from One Spirit through one heart, one mind and one body. Present among this gathering today are many who have heard this voice and share in the articulation of it. This is the only way that the voice may be known. Long ago the Master, when He was on earth, stated that His sheep heard His Voice, but there were many who did not hear His Voice because they were not His sheep. This same voice resounds in the earth today, amplified in living expression as the Word is spoken by One Spirit through one heart, one mind and one body. Those who may be referred to as His sheep hear that voice. Those who are not His sheep do not hear that voice. Let us not imagine that everybody should hear that voice.

Those who are referred to as His sheep are those who have ears to hear, in other words whose living experience brings them into position to hear that Voice. Perhaps initially hearing that voice there may be the expectation of getting something because of it the expectation of being blessed somehow—and this is something that certainly does occur. But if that is all that is experienced there will come a time when the one who thought he or she heard that voice proves that he or she didn't. The only way to know the voice is to participate in the sounding of the Tone of it and in the articulation of the words of it. This is not the fact for anyone immediately.

Human beings have an immense amount of stuff with which they are filled, interfering with the processes of learning—learning to be mature men and women who do not require feeding constantly but are in position to participate in the sounding of that voice, the same voice as had first been heard and, being heard, interpreted. The interpretations are not the voice; they are interpretations. And this is what happens with people to start with: Even though the voice may be there, and there may be the idea that one is hearing the voice, what is heard is garbled, to say the least, by the state of consciousness of the individual concerned. It is only when there is a realization that one doesn’t need to be constantly fed by the sustenance that is supposed to be provided by this voice, that one may participate in the same process that made available the sustenance in the first place. So over a number of years human beings, giving evidence of much sluggishness, learn a little and participate in unison with that One Voice.

There is a differentiation—each individual has his own aspect of that voice to sound—but there is no conflict between the differentiations. This is a unique condition insofar as human experience is concerned, because in all the voices that sound—the raucous voices of antispirit that sound throughout the world, the raucous voices of human nature—there is always conflict, always argument, always self-righteous thought that, as it might be put: “I’m right; everybody else is wrong.” The voice out of the heaven of spirit is a unified voice, even though it is differentiated in marvelously unique ways. But that differentiation never introduces conflict; it simply enhances the resonance of the voice and provides what is needful in the outpouring of a blessing of sufficient magnitude as to encompass the whole field of the responsibility of man. We have shared somewhat in this process, but we were kind of slow on the uptake.

So there is this heaven of spirit. There is also the heaven of antispirit. As there is participation in the sounding of this voice, the heaven of spirit is unveiled step by step. At the same time the heaven of antispirit is unveiled. The heaven of spirit and the heaven of antispirit may be said to be in the same place, and there is an unveiling. The voice speaks and commands obedience. There are those who might say, “Well that’s an imposition.” No, it commands obedience, but there is a choice here. One may accept or one may reject. Presumably most of us have found ourselves compelled to accept in some measure, but also it is discovered that there are those who imagined they were accepting but find out later that they were rejecting. It proves itself out. Those who reject—and at the moment that would include the vast majority of the population of the earth—become aware increasingly of what is being unveiled in the heaven of antispirit, and becoming aware of this most do not appreciate it—there is such a terrible condition. But in the heaven of antispirit there is a vast variety of possibilities to align oneself with pro or con. And with great enthusiasm most people do this. We can observe it happening all around us, but I suspect in that observation is also the awareness, if we are alert to it, of what is happening within ourselves of the same nature. Do you still find yourself aligning yourself with this approach or that approach that is offered in the human world?

The suggestion, or maybe it was a command, appeared in the Book of Revelation: “Come out of her, my people.” Stop doing that. This is the habit of human nature, firmly entrenched over many thousands of years, and everyone, at least to start with finds themselves stuck with it. Because it is the popular way to go, it is assumed that one must align oneself with this or align oneself with that in order to be active in presumably doing something worthwhile, doing something good. Then of course someone else who aligns himself with something else must be doing something bad. So we have all these crisscross alignments based in concepts of good and evil into which human beings have been pouring themselves with enthusiasm for ages. But now something is happening to call a halt to this fatal procedure. Enough is enough—and twenty thousand years, or whatever the length of time is, seems to be quite enough. Come out of her, my people!

There is One Voice. There is One Tone of Life which has been brought to focus and that focus is expanding, and the sound of the voice reverberates with greater impact as day succeeds day. It is the voice of authority. It is the voice of command, commanding obedience: Accept or reject. And so it is. Where there is acceptance there is obedience, there is alignment with this One Voice, there is alignment with this One Tone of Life, and consequently there is alignment with One Spirit. The universal spirit it might be called, or the spirit of the living God, and consequent upon this there is one heart and one mind and one body. This is occurring within the range of our own experience.

We may at times have taken issue with this One Voice, saying in effect: “I don’t agree.” What is not being agreed with, if there is non-agreement, is a mental and emotional interpretation of what it is that is being articulated by the One Voice. On this basis people are in conflict with themselves; they are not agreeing with themselves. They are not agreeing with the interpretation they themselves have made, and not agreeing in this fashion excludes what it is that the One Voice is actually proclaiming. But those who hear that voice, while there may be those moments of disturbance, cannot help but come into alignment with that voice step by step. It is happening. It will happen. By the same token the exact reverse is true also. But this One Voice has always been present for human beings to hear. Some have sensed it and there have been occasions when some have heard it because there was someone present to articulate it. But in these days the articulation of this One Voice becomes inescapable. It may be interpreted this way and that; it may be agreed with or disagreed with on this basis. That doesn’t really mean very much either way because the agreement or disagreement is with the interpretation that the person has made of what was being articulated. The only way to know what the One Voice is is to be aligned with it, to be the means by which the articulation occurs—instead of going off on these half-cocked tangents?

We are here to let this voice sound with ever-increasing volume on earth. This is the Way. This is the Truth. This is the Life. I am this—said individually in daily living and consequently said in the voice of the KING through His Body, His Mind and His Heart, because His Spirit is present and in action. Surely those of us who have heard this voice and have shared in the expression of it know the truth of these things. Those who have not, do not know and cannot know. And so the voice commands obedience: Put away childish things. There is so much yet of human nature, the antispirit, claiming obedience to itself and engendering in human consciousness likes and dislikes, wants and anti-wants.

Do these wants, these personal likes and dislikes, hold sway in any of us? I have heard certain ones at times say, finding themselves in a particular situation: “This isn’t natural to me.” What a person is really saying is: “I don’t like it!” Who cares? What does the creative process say? What does the spirit say unto the churches? Those who have set aside their personal likes and dislikes in order to permit the creative process to work in their own experience and their own field of responsibility exhibit some maturity, but undoubtedly if they stopped to allow entrance into themselves of the antispirit could find that they were doing things that were not natural to them. I know I certainly could have taken this attitude along the way, being required to do all kinds of things, whatever was necessary to be done. From the human-nature standpoint one can always say: “This really isn't my cup of tea.” Who cares whether it is your cup of tea or not? If it is the thing to be done, do it! That’s all. And do it with a good grace, happily. Enjoy doing it. Did you ever consider that one chooses as to whether one enjoys doing something or doesn't enjoy doing something? One chooses the enjoyment, or lack of it, for oneself. One can always enjoy what is being done if one chooses to enjoy it. But if the event is dictating to you as to what your attitude is going to be, then you are subject to antispirit and there will be this that you like and there will be this that you don’t like. Right? That is the way it is.

So we come again into alignment with the One Voice, and our voice is that voice. I do what I am here to do. There are many people who have looked at what occurred in the life of Jesus and said, “Well I don't want any of that.” Of course not; human nature doesn’t like it. But it didn’t deter the One who trod that path at all because He wasn't concerned with His own likes and dislikes. He did something that I am sure no one else could have done. He was the one to do it. But we each have our own thing to do. Do we look at what we have to do in the light of: “Am I going to like this or am I not going to like this? Is this going to bring me into a state where I am going to be crucified? Oh I don’t like that; I won’t go that way.” Here is human nature, here is the antispirit in control, telling people what to do. And on that basis of course most people imagine that they are exercising free will. They are not at all! They are under the thumb of the antispirit which has various allures, sometimes: “Well it would be nice to go this way; I would like that.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/12/from-reproof-antispirit-martin-exeter.html]

Sometimes direction is compelled by pain, pleasure and pain; they are two sides of the same coin. If we can be pushed around by pleasure we certainly will be pushed around by pain, and vice versa. What do we do? That is always the question, and the answer is easy: We sound the voice on earth without equivocation. Nothing personal. What is articulated by the voice has been articulated many, many times, because the truth is true. The voice doesn’t change what it says. It speaks the truth, that’s all. But human consciousness interprets what is said, and according to the state of the human consciousness so will the interpretation be. It only begins to be something of reality, the truth only begins to be known, when one is articulating that One Voice for oneself and one isn’t hanging on the supposed wisdom coming to one’s ears from someplace else. One either learns, or else.

I am most thankful that we have a body with a mind and a heart yielded ever increasingly to spirit and consequently sharing in the creative process and the articulation of the One Voice. For myself I have no interest in anything else. How is it with you? Having no interest in anything else one suddenly enters an experience that is full of expansiveness, of delight of fulfilment, of satisfaction. The fulfilment is doing what one is here to do, not something else. I see people going off in this direction, that direction, trying to satisfy themselves: self-service, that is called. Very often it is given a nice spiritual slant. But there is One Voice, differentiated in marvelous ways when there are those to do it. And all those ways carry the spirit of oneness, of real agreement; not an intellectual idea or an emotional feeling but the fact of spirit emerging through a yielded body, mind and heart into vibrant spiritual expression on earth.

I thank God that this is so, for those who have heard this One Voice and have aligned themselves with that voice in the articulation of the Word of love and truth and life. No one ever speaks merely for himself. If it is the One Voice in expression it is the voice of the KING through His Body, His Mind and His Heart. As individual human beings we have no body or mind or heart that is rightly separate from that. It is good to share the beauty, the stability, the power of the creative process brought to focus in action on earth in these particular days. Changes come thick and fast and will continue to do so, not because of the manipulations of antispirit individually or collectively but because of the creative power of the living God brought to focus in the sounding of His Voice on earth. So we continue as One in our momentary living, both as individuals and as one body, that the earth may be filled with the Glory of God and the sound of His Voice.

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