Where Are You? Where Have You Been?

Where  Are  You?

Where  Have  You  Been?

Martin Exeter  February 17, 1985

“And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/02/come-out-of-hiding.html] This is a very familiar passage from the book of Genesis, which has a continuing and meaningful application in human experience today, in this moment. The question is asked, “Where art thou?”, of each of us. On that occasion it is indicated that the ones who were so questioned were hiding behind the trees in the Garden. Human beings everywhere on the face of the earth have been hiding behind the veil of their own desires for self-produced satisfaction, physical, mental and emotional. “Where art thou?” There is another passage which may also be of interest: “Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”

Where are you, and where have you been? The veil of the desire for self-satisfaction characterizes human nature and therefore human beings everywhere, so that if any attention is paid to God, for instance, He tends to be looked upon as the great self-satisfier; and demands are made upon this character for the required self-satisfaction. This has been a general attitude toward deity on the part of human beings who have been concerned with deity: deliver the goods of self-satisfaction—even the deity of government: “Provide us with what we want.” There is general demand in this regard, and I have noticed that this attitude creeps into the most sacred of considerations, when the demand is being made upon God through prayer or however, “Give us what we think we want.” That is an abomination which has reversed the real character of life itself. We know very well that we are not here to make demands.

So this is the attitude that has been taken, which has removed people from where they should be. We can understand, then, the question, “Where art thou, and where have you been?”  All may say, “We’ve been following out our own desires for self-satisfaction,” even when it comes to a consideration of spiritual things. At times I think EDL is supposed to be the great satisfier. But such attitudes are a complete reversal of what would be natural in the real experience of living, because the question is being put to human beings, ourselves included presumably, “Provide an answer; reveal what the truth is.” If one is simply making demands upon God, the government, EDL, somebody or other, for answers, for the fulfilment of one’s desires, then one is attuned with death rather than life. If one has a reverse attitude from that which is required by life, then that aligns one with death. It is strange how reluctant even those who begin to understand, like us, are to allow a reversal to take place in their attitude. One would think that if life is being offered, rather than death, there would be quick response; but it doesn’t usually seem to be so.

Our concern has been to allow this reversal of attitude to take place, so that we may not only prove something out for ourselves but open a door for everybody else. Looking around in the world, we do not see many people assuming this attitude of alignment with life. This reversed state of expecting someone to deliver what we want has been found in the Holy Place—that is the abomination. I’ve read some material from time to time which gives very high-sounding ideas to those who might read it, but somewhere in the body of the information there will be the idea put forward that by this means we can all get what we want: the abomination in the midst of the Holy Place. Do we, any of us, still have the expectation that God or some heavenly character is going to deliver to us what we have thought we wanted? Let us let this abomination be cleared out of the Holy Place, that we may be together in agreement that we are certainly not present on earth to get what we want. We are not here to be self-satisfied. We are here to answer a few questions, questions that have been put to mankind for many thousands of years, which apparently they have not yet gotten around to answering because they themselves were so busy making demands that they didn’t notice the questions.

What are you doing in this insane state on earth? All right, speak up! Am I here to give the answer, or are you here to give the answer? Perhaps the answer would be, “We have no business in this insane state; we are here to deliver something which reveals a little sanity. We are here to give the answer.” I don’t know how else the answer is going to appear on earth.

There are those who have more faith than I do that somehow or other the thunderous voice of God is going to speak out of the heavens and tell us what the answer is. Well what about our answer? What are we going to say? What is it that we are going to deliver? Obviously human beings everywhere, ourselves included, have been out of position, incapable and incompetent to give the answer. People are inclined to pride themselves on their expertise in various fields, but this is one field which has been neglected. Our concern is to reactivate this field so that we may find ourselves on hand, not only imagining that we know something about the answer but actually giving it. I think too many have felt self-satisfied to imagine that one knows something about the answer, that because one knows something about the answer one can tell somebody else about it. Then they will know something about the answer—but nobody gives the answer.

There is only one person who can give the answer, and that is oneself. Nobody else can give it for one. The answer must come out of one’s own living, one’s own life; otherwise it isn’t an answer insofar as one is concerned oneself. One may hear the answer being given by somebody else, if somebody else is giving it—I haven’t noticed too many—and that may be fine for somebody else; but it doesn’t do very much for oneself if one’s attitude is still the reverse one which is expecting to be self-satisfied in this fashion by getting an answer. If there is an answer which would be revealing of life rather than the processes of dying, to know it one must give it oneself. After all, it is oneself who is either living or dying. What do I do?

Where art thou? Where have you been? The answer must be given by the individual him- or herself; otherwise it’s not known. There is only one person who can give an answer, and that is the individual who would refer to himself as “me”: “I can give the answer.” If I stand up here now, speaking, I’m not giving any answer to you. I suppose I could say it’s entirely self-centered. I’m giving the answer for myself! In giving the answer for myself I seek to encourage all of you to do likewise, not necessarily by standing up here behind the lectern and speaking. I’m really talking about living. For the moment this is part of my living, but a very small part, after all. The same would be true of any of us. We have plenty of hours, plenty of moments day by day to give the answer. Seeing that this is so we should have plenty of practice; we should really know how to do it if we took advantage of those moments. But if we’re stuck in the usual human nature self-satisfying grind we don’t get much satisfaction out of doing it, because fulfilment, being filled full of life, couldn’t happen that way. It’s excluding life.

So we may hear the question and decide to give the answer. It’s really quite simple but seems very complex or very difficult to understand, very mysterious, to those who are intent on the continuing experience of self-satisfaction. One can look into one’s own heart a little bit on that score. We look around and we see that there is what we call a rising tide of change, something happening in the experience of human beings everywhere. Here is a life-process at work. If we are to be aligned with life we must be aligned with that process, which requires some change—we’ve seen it as being quite drastic if there is to be an alignment with life; because virtually everything that human beings do, every aspect of their behavior, aligns them—us—with death, not life. There is an unwillingness to let changes come. There have been many thousands of years during which people, generation after generation, had the opportunity to let change come so that there might be alignment with life.

Life seems to have done pretty well on the surface of this planet. We have much evidence of life. It’s getting along fine; it reveals itself in a multitude of different ways. I don’t think there is any less life now than there was last year, or a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago. The life’s fine; the forms change. We may speak about life treeing, or humaning, or whatever; it appears in a variety of forms. Life has no difficulty in appearing in these forms, even though the forms of human beings have resisted life by trying to get what they want rather than allowing life to reveal itself in whatever life’s way would be. Even though that has happened, there is still life around—it didn’t get rid of life. It got rid of a lot of forms over the centuries, but life is still on hand. Wouldn’t it be more intelligent, slightly more sensible and sane, to align oneself with the processes of life rather than with the processes of death?

The birds and the flowers reveal this rather beautifully. They toil not, neither do they spin. They don’t have to struggle. How would that be for human beings, I wonder. Obviously if we have all the habits that we now have it wouldn’t work very well. We’ve got to stop imagining what it is we want and give life a chance to bring forth something which would be infinitely greater and more beautiful than the birds and the flowers. But that darned attitude stands in the way: “I want to get what I want.” You shouldn’t be wanting anything. If you don’t want anything then you won’t try to get what you want, because there wouldn’t be anything to get. But we may align ourselves with the processes of life. Life isn’t static, it’s constantly moving; there is a constant process—and how profitable, how delightful, to be aligned with that process! Where have we been? Obviously in the wrong place. The invitation is to be a means by which the answer which life would give “humaning” can be given. It’s a matter of alignment with life, and is something which is very positive. It’s something with which one may move. One’s whole experience is filled with the movement of life, with that process. What happens inside? It’s not manipulating outer forms that is going to do any good. If there is an alignment with life, then what is natural to life will be the experience, and I don’t think life is at all niggardly.

Where art thou? We may stand where we belong; we speak of it as heaven, for the sake of a word, something other than what is implied by the use of the word “earth,” where human beings are thoroughly embedded in the human nature state. “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?” We can see people all around involved in human nature, not paying much attention to anything else. We have an opportunity to offer something ourselves which is not characteristic of human nature, the only thing that would be of value. This might even be quite shocking to other people: “Are you crazy?” Crazy people always think sane people are crazy. And in the world the way it is, who is which? But we have the opportunity of providing some sanity because we’ve set aside the things that we think we want in favor of discovering what the processes of life are, and aligning ourselves with those. It requires quite a different expression in living. There is virtually nothing the same, because it is completely reversed. And while we do it delicately, so as not to make it seem too crazy to other people, nevertheless unless we do it there is no door open for anyone else to do it, and the only answer is refused by human beings on earth.

If the answer is refused, life runs out. It runs out individually—we know that all too well—but it can also run out collectively speaking. And it must, sometime along the way, as long as the answer is not given. The answer is life. Obviously human beings are not aligned with that; they’re dying all over the place. We’re doing it ourselves, we know all about it! Yet how stubborn the human nature attitude is. Accept life and give the answer in one’s own living here and now, taking responsibility oneself—never mind what anybody else does; never mind what I do. What do you do, what answer do you give? I have to say that for myself: what answer do I give? That’s my responsibility, but your responsibility is to give the answer yourself, wherever you are, whoever you are, in whatever circumstance.

Give the answer of life! As we do, there is life revealed, humaning. If life is revealed humaning that’s a great comfort to life revealed animaling, vegetabling, mineraling, because we have a particular responsibility in this—all these kingdoms are present in ourselves. And if we let it be right, it’s going to be right everyplace else. If we never let it be right in us, it’s wrong everywhere. People sometimes think of nature as being perfect. It gets along because life is there coming through, but it’s all messed up because life has not been humaning as it should be. It’s been blocked, turned aside, so that human beings can try to get what they want and kill themselves in the process. We all have experience in that regard. Let’s quit it, and share the responsibility of letting life determine our experience so that we stop trying to make life conform to what we think we want. It won’t do it. How futile.

So I am thankful for the opportunity we have had this morning to place ourselves on the line, if we will—the lifeline—that life may be increased because we live on earth, not because that is something that we think we want but because that is what we are here to allow to happen, and because it opens the way of life for people everywhere to take advantage of the rising tide that is certainly on the move in these days. Aligned with that, we can play our part in the fulfilment that is available to human beings everywhere. We hear the invitation, and we begin to find that it is very demanding. One might say, eventually it comes to the point of give the answer or else! And that has been the experience of every human being who has ever been born into this world. It doesn’t become so plain until one has passed through a certain number of years on earth. It becomes more and more plain: Give the answer or else! Most people have preferred “or else.

© emissaries of divine light

Leadership Now—Harvest And Birth

Leadership  Now — Harvest  And  Birth

Marsha Bogolin  and  Yujin Pak

September 15, 2021  Seoul, South Korea

Temple  of  Light  Service

David Barnes — Well it certainly is wonderful to be together again, on this Wednesday evening, September the 15th, 2021. I personally feel that this has been a long time coming, and I think there are others who feel that way as well, for particular reasons that relate to the joy of being able to invite Yujin and Marsha to speak into this Service assembly. For many years, I have held this in my heart as a possibility, in some arrangement, some gathering of angels, that they would be able to join us and share what is in their heart, moving in the spirit, from where they live in Korea. And also, recognizing that it has been a long time coming, my opportunity here to acknowledge with you this movement that was initiated by the LORD of Lords when He was on earth—feeling deeply what it has taken to bring the cycle to this hour.

When He was incarnate as the man Jesus, in a new age of opportunity, at the age of thirty-three, He opened the Third Sacred School—first the First Sacred School, then the Second and then the Third—and then He moved on in the remaining period of His life to open all the seven seals, the Sacred Schools of the body of mankind. As we move together in that opening spirit we discover what all this really means in this day. It was shortly after these events that He ascended, returned to the Positive Triune World, and left the leadership operations of the Third Sacred School to the beloved disciple John, who carried forward that responsibility—which resulted in writing the book of Revelation. What was opened in his consciousness carries implications in this age and this very time in which we live. When John the beloved died, the whole process moved into the subconscious currents of spirit moving through the body of mankind, extending over these many hundreds of years. Then the resurrection process emerged again consciously through the man we know as Uranda, in an awareness of his Commission to carry on the development of the Third Sacred School, and the development of the substance through people that would allow the birth of the Body of the Son of God on earth. That occurred, first through his awakening in 1932, and then through the birthing of the Body in 1946, fourteen years later. Seven years later Uranda died in the plane crash. Martin took over the primary leadership and carried through in a magnificent way, bringing forth the expansive nature of the spiritual Body, a focus of spirit within the whole body of mankind. Most of us experienced this directly with Martin. When he died, he left the responsibilities to the Body to prove out that we understand the Commission left to us—and we are still in the process of proving out, in this 33rd year since he left. We know that something magnificent, of cosmic proportions, has been put in our hands, to carry forward and prove out in leadership that we know what these Archangels we talking about when they initiated this cycle.

There was a lovely Tone of Life service held last Sunday. I wrote a few words afterwards that seem pertinent now, so here they are: “It cannot be underestimated, the value of the sanctuary space and the atmosphere of the Holy Place made evident during the service last Sunday, through the spiritual expression of each one who spoke, in the words and in the silence. There are a number of vehicles of expression being made available now, useful for significant ranges of generation and the release of the One Spirit, to the Glory of God and the blessing of the collective. Evidences of integration are much more visible right now in the heaven we share. This is cause for joy—joy to the LORD, and joy to everyone who is playing a part in allowing a leadership body to develop and function, formed by men and women who have a clear sense of their divine commission, living in various places around the world—a rather small but vital formation—numberless really, but One—by which the whole body of mankind may be turned in the right direction and kept on course. I feel very thankful for this precious substance and for the focus of spirit provided in an ongoing way, through all these formations.” Further to this, I would note that sacred space is not empty. Sometimes it is thought of as a huge, oceanic space, undifferentiated. But the holy place is full of substance that is yielded and willing to receive the currents of spirit moving out of the highest heaven—and out of the heart of the earth, the spirit and substance of New Earth rising, the substance of the Motherland. The spirit of love moving through the sacred substance of the holy place, through angels in expression, contains essences of truth that compels responsive substance to conform to the transcendent design in spirit. So we meet in this sacred space, and recognize that our responsibilities for this work are immense.

We come together to engage in this joy and this work. Recently Robert Kauffman, Steve Ventola and I were planning for this service, considering the quality of the invitation we would like to extend to Yujin & Marsha. It went along these lines: We notice how sources of chaos in the world have developed expertise, and refined techniques which are used to conjur up fear and anger, create chaos and impose paralysis, in order to control masses of people. We, as spiritual leaders, need to be just as expert, with developed capacity to awaken love for the truth, and establish an atmosphere of peace—sacred space—through which an intensity of current can move from above down, under control, through we who gather, and extend that into world consciousness, releasing the transformative current and activating substance. And then be prepared to handle what returns. Marsha and Yujin, we invite you to speak openly about any themes that you feel need to be addressed in radiation. Everyone in this Temple service is at ease moving with you at any level of intensity that you feel is required, using any terminology you wish to use, welcoming everything. We trust the LORD and we trust you. These individual Temples are open to receive and let spirit move through clearly and cleanly, stirring all open hearts everywhere. We are open to share in a different kind and a different quality of leadership than is generally recognized and embraced in the world. We have been open to this for many years through what we have known with Martin, with Uranda, and through what we understand of the Master. This is the kind of leadership that we share with you—and I would welcome you now Marsha.

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Marsha Bogolin — Thank you very much, David, for your warm and open invitation and also for touching the wonderful legacy that has brought us to this point. As you said, we need to develop our capacity to awaken love for the truth in this world cycle. The Temple of Light gathering is usually 2 a.m. for us so I haven’t joined directly, but have listened to each of the recordings. I have such deep respect for what is building in this, and am really grateful to David, Anne and others who initiated this sacred assembly. I’ve been really heartened by the fine atmosphere and focus of consciousness I’ve felt building, and I sense the significance of what will yet evolve. Especially as this world cycle is intensifying, these times together are a wonderful opportunity to “let reality manifest in the world chaos,” as in the beautiful radiation Arno, Mia and Laura released last month.

David touched the theme of leadership as well as the anniversary that we are celebrating in this cycle. In the last anniversary when Uranda was alive, he emphasized the need for leadership. I want to read a short part of what he said on September 16, 1953: “The development of leaders is in actual fact the greatest need of the Lord’s service. It’s not money, not material things, not greater world recognition, but leaders.” I think that’s still true and it brings us the question: What is the leadership needed now? Many of us are getting a little older. Given our age and the increasing speed of world crises, what leadership is needed from us now? I want to suggest that in spite of our age we actually may be in better position and better prepared to do this work than we could 30 years ago. For one, the pressures of the earlier phases of life are no longer distractions for most of us, so we can give ourselves fully, as David said earlier, to fulfilling our Divine Commission. Also perhaps our wine has ripened enough that what has been suggested, actually for decades, we can really DO now.

We have a wonderful precedent in Martin. While he was alive, perhaps like me you had a consummate visceral experience that Martin was living in heaven. You probably also experienced, as I did, how quickly the heaven of EDL dissipated after he passed. Perhaps you also realized how much of the clear heaven of true identity, understanding and purpose Martin personally held for the whole EDL body. Maybe that caused you to consider, as it did me, how much creative influence just one person living in heaven extends into the world. I think that gives a hint of the leadership that is needed now. How did Martin consistently live in heaven, in the pressures and challenges that he experienced? He consistently maintained true polarity and also a rich reservoir of pneumaplasm. These two are very much interrelated. But today I’m drawn to focus on pneumaplasm, and particularly the unique factors in generating and sustaining pneumaplasm now in this intensifying world cycle.

It's clear to me that the leadership needed now is the regeneration of the highest level of pneumaplasm. We could call that capstone pneumaplasm, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-martin-exeter-may-6-1984-those-who.html] referring to the capstone of the pyramid of mankind’s consciousness, and that represents the most awake level. But if any of you are uncomfortable with the symbol of a pyramid, we can also look at mankind’s consciousness as a sphere, and the most awake level of that would be the inmost core of that sphere. I like to think of it as the inmost ranges of our heart, because that’s what allows us to connect with the full ranges of Heaven, which opens our experience of identity in God, divine vision and purpose.

In 2006 in a service in the Dome, I said this: “Direction and design are in the pneumaplasm.” Now I would use different words: The highest level of pneumaplasm provides the medium through which we may perceive accurately true direction and design. Was there ever a time when the ability to perceive true direction and design was more needed than now? Uranda and Martin laid a pathway for us to handle this cycle, that perhaps only now we are in position to understand. Perhaps we understood only vaguely before. They left us tremendous treasures. The pneumaplasm we generate now opens our hearts to more deeply receive the vital keys they left for us. So, among other things, for me immersing myself in the Word is truly treasure hunting, treasures that guide us in offering spiritual leadership for this culminating cycle.

So that’s one aspect of what I mean by capstone pneumaplasm. It’s not just awake enough to know I’m divine, but awake enough to precisely know what the Lord needs from his leaders now—particularly me, each one of us. There are treasures that are already in the Third Sacred School that I think we have yet to discover, but also there is guidance that will yet come through the pneumaplasm we generate in the days ahead. I want to read something from one of these treasures that I think gives wonderful keys for the leadership needed now. It’s called “Transformation and Transmutation,” and in it Martin is speaking about the means for transforming the world. He refers to pneumaplasm as substance and also life plasma:

“If the world is to be transformed, then the substance must be present for it to happen. Otherwise, what is occurring in the world leads toward greater and greater disintegration.” [That’s much more obvious these days than it was in 1979 when he spoke these words.] “This transformation comes not by physical effort or intellectual effort but by the spirit of the Lord. It comes by the Word. So we have seen our responsibility relative to the Word. Our participation in the expression of that Word in our living is absolutely dependent upon this life plasma [pneumaplasm]: the extent of its generation, the extent of our connection in the personal sense, and the extent to which this substance of connection overflows to fill our world so that our worlds may be immersed in this substance. Then there is the means for transformation.

“When this substance is present sufficiently to enfold our worlds, there is a compulsion present in our worlds which will have its effect. The effect is of two kinds.” [Martin described these as “response” and “opposition,” and he continued.] “There are those who say ‘Yes’ [response] and there are those who say ‘No’ [opposition]. But there are some in between who may be spoken of as neither hot nor cold. This is the vast majority, or it has been in the world. As long as there are those in human form capable of hesitating between two opinions, this large body of nothing remains. But there is something else here that comes into the picture. There are those who, having said ‘Yes’ [That’s us!] are beginning to participate in the increasing generation of the required substance, not only the generation of it but the intensification of it. The temperature is raised. The fire becomes more fiery.”

[Martin describes that the cycle intensifies, and then] “Those who are in the middle, in the lukewarm state, find that they cannot stay lukewarm, because things are being hotted up; and you find that the ‘Yes’ end begins to expand and the ‘No’ end begins to expand, taking in more of the middle, until finally they meet in the middle and there is no more room there for anyone. Everything is spewed out. The lukewarm state is spewed out altogether.” [I think we can see that things are certainly heating up in our world these days and there’s much less room for sitting on the fence. He continues.]

“Let the substance be intensified in our experience. When it is intensified there is more generation of that substance, and there is more to spill over into our worlds, until our worlds are completely immersed in this creative substance. Then the temperature of the substance is raised in our worlds increasingly. The transformation continues until all that can be transformed is transformed; I suppose in the larger sense we would say when everybody has either said ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ Here is the separation of the sheep from the goats. Here a line is being drawn on earth, and when the line is clear-cut then the transmutation can occur. As it was put: ‘The Lord … is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,’ that all should make a choice. And there is a point somewhere where everybody has made a choice, everybody who is present on earth at that time. And because there are those who say ‘Yes’ here, there and everywhere on the face of the earth—this is not restricted in any way to race, color or anything else—because there are those who say ‘Yes,’ then the good news is preached in all the world. At that point the end comes; in other words the transmutation comes.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-flaming-sword-and-capstone-martin.html]

I think the topic of transmutation is something we can save for another time because there is still much to do in intensifying substance so that “all that can be transformed is transformed.” This excerpt emphasizes well the importance of pneumaplasm and also that our generation and intensification of pneumaplasm amplifies the compulsion for transformation. It’s part of what is heating things up and compelling people to choose. And they choose through the moments of their living, through the circumstances they face, just as we do. Do they/we say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to transformation? Do they/we choose Heaven’s design or the mind-made world? Do they/we choose the truth of love or fear? That is the essential choice everyone must make.

I want to speak a little about generating capstone pneumaplasm as individuals, especially in this intensifying world cycle. Certainly the world is moving into a time of more crises, and some of those will impact us directly. Some already have. The Lord needs leaders who can bring Heaven’s direction and control into these crises. One way to do that is to sustain the experience of well-being amidst crises. That is something Martin mastered. He had many crises to handle and he learned how to stay in heaven regardless of anything. So how can we sustain the experience of well-being amidst crises? Recently three ways have proven helpful to me that I want to share, and generating capstone pneumaplasm helps with all three of them.

The first is deep surrender and letting go in absolute trust of the Lord. With the increasing speed of world crises, greater challenges may come to us and those greater challenges bring us choices where we prove what we really trust. Challenges may bring fear of losing what is really precious to us, or distrust when we can’t see any way through, etc. So I’ve found there’s a continual renewing and expanding of trust required.

The second way is a very deliberate practice of expressing only the truth of love and following Heaven’s impulse. There’s so much that stirs us to follow impulses of the mind and not Heaven. The pressures that are intensifying in our world and in our lives, I find, require another level of deliberate choice and practice, so I may ensure that I am accurately perceiving Heaven’s impulse and really expressing the truth of love. And if I’m not, be honest with myself and others and make corrections as quickly as possible. These days, especially, archetypal patterns may focus through the circumstances that come to us: patterns of injustice, betrayal, maybe even crucifixion. So when circumstances bring us waves of these or life-threatening fear or devastating loss, we have an opportunity to set a precedent of victory by expressing the truth of love and reverse patterns of failure that have plagued mankind for thousands of years.

I want to give examples of generating pneumaplasm through circumstances we face. A common challenge probably many in America and Canada find these days: Suddenly we’re faced with an outburst of anger from someone. If we stay centered—no bitterness, no reaction—and we express the truth of love, maybe we generate 50 kilobytes of pneumaplasm through that. But if we have a victory meeting a wave of devastating loss or betrayal, maybe we generate 50 gigabytes of pneumaplasm. And that’s not just for our own pneumaplasm but it’s a large pneumaplasmic gift into the consciousness of mankind.

The third way to sustain well-being amidst crises is to tune in to the ascending cycle, what Heaven is bringing to be born through the crisis versus what is descending, falling apart. There is so much distortion surfacing to purify these days that sometimes it takes deliberate spiritual muscle to focus on the ascending cycle, especially because much of what we see is what’s descending. That’s what shows up in form at the material level; what’s falling apart dominates the scene. Massive wildfires, violent protests, great personal loss, and on and on. But whenever there is a descending cycle, at the same time there is also the ascending cycle. Rare is the person who realizes that.

So we need to deliberately tune in to the ascending cycle. And when we do, insights come, insights that bring higher perspective and peace. When these insights come wafting in from Heaven, we feel the Lord’s presence, the presence of many angels that are enfolding us and the cycle that we are stewarding; and we begin to see with divine vision because our consciousness is ascending. Higher perspective brings us greater wisdom, so that our actions are in attunement with the ascending cycle, even when we are handling what is descending. What is really happening through this is that WE are ascending, and that carries more causative weight than all that’s swirling in the descending cycle. That is the significant event from Heaven’s viewpoint. And it is a significant transformative influence for the world because it’s providing an updraft and an essential link for the restoration of Man to our true state. We are tuned in to the ascending cycle. We are bringing the ascending cycle. We are part of the ascending cycle, because we are ascending.

Before I close, I want to touch on a very important part of generating capstone pneumaplasm that we can only do collectively. Even if there are just a few people, we can provide a template for others. One way to describe this is a scene from a novel by Doris Lessing called Shikasta. Doris Lessing studied with a Sufi master so her writing often imparts deep spiritual understanding. In the novel Shikasta there’s a scene where giants—those in true stature—gather in a generating chamber to establish their cosmic lock with a star that is their centering point. Once that contact is made, they transmit cosmic influences that nourish and guide their whole planet. So when we gather in our different groupings, Temple of Light, Tone of Life, etc., I think of this. We are giants gathering in our generating chamber to make the cosmic lock that guides and nourishes all the other levels of consciousness. Spiritual government! It’s not telling others what to do. But it’s providing a capstone of vision, of pneumaplasm and perspective that invites the whole pyramid of human consciousness to come together in Heaven’s design.

The leadership needed now is the regeneration of capstone pneumaplasm, collectively and individually. Those who generate capstone pneumaplasm provide the essential link for the world to transform and for Heaven to guide us into the ascending cycle. I’ll invite Yujin to speak now.

Yujin Pak — Greetings, friends. Very good to be with you. Thank you, Marsha. In the world it’s a time of increasing crisis. We have felt the evidence of this in our own areas and we see it all around. We have this sense of the tempo of crisis increasing. In the midst of that acceleration, we are aware of the responsibility we have been bequeathed by some of the greatest spiritual leaders that have walked on this planet, and the gift of understanding and vision we were given to prepare us, particularly for such times as we are in now, and increasingly entering. Is it not clear to us that it is these times particularly that we were trained for? I suppose some of us may think, “Well, it’s rather late; look at our white hair.” But does age matter? Isn’t it substance, vision and centering, and the reality of who we are, that matters?

So, what are the times that we are in? What is this acceleration that is taking place? I suppose there may have been concern in us at times, that the massive generation that took place while we were with Martin has been scattered as much as it has. What is possible now, with those of us who are conscious, to carry on in these accelerating times? I say there is plenty that we have been trained for. Martin spoke about a time that would come that is exactly like right now. He spoke of the time that he was in, as well as the time that was coming, as a time of explosion—explosion of the container of self-centeredness. He addressed this 49 years ago in a 1972 service entitled Look Up. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/10/look-up-martin-cecil-february-20-1972.html] It came out as a booklet and at the time probably some of us thought, “Oh, this is a booklet for people newly touching in.” I reread it recently and no, it wasn’t for people newly touching in. It was for all of humanity and for us particularly entrusted with providing leadership responsibility right now. He spoke particularly of the explosion or the shattering of the container of self-centeredness that is in motion—but in slow motion. I want to read a little portion of it. This is Martin:

“We haven’t, of course, come to the point where the shattering in the worldwide sense is complete. In one sense it has only just begun. If, however, we consider the outworking of things in cosmic terms, so that a thousand years is as one day, then what would one hundred years be? Almost an instantaneous experience, wouldn’t it? An explosion is looked upon as being instantaneous, but it isn’t. It follows out the cycle; it takes time, in other words. The outworking of things in this explosion occurs in the twinkling of an eye insofar as the cosmic clock is concerned. We see it happening, and while it takes years from our standpoint the time involved is really nothing. It is an explosion. Of course, there is an ultimate point where the shattering occurs very rapidly, even in our eyes. Let us be found centered where we belong by then!”

An ultimate point where the shattering occurs very rapidly, even in our eyes. I believe such are the times that we are in. An ultimate point of more rapid shattering, perhaps we could speak of it as an ultimate harvest time, a time when what has been sown through all the ages is reaped, a time of balancing the books, where the accounts are finally closed. A harvest time which on the other hand is a birth time. Because the accounts are finally closed, a new cycle is able to be born.

I want to read a portion of a poem I wrote 39 years ago. It is titled Celestial Wind. I was a 27-year-old youngster then but had a clear sense of what would be coming. The portion that I am going to read is the latter part of the poem. “Celestial Wind” is speaking about a wind that is blowing in the land, a wind of spirit.

        Tender is the green re-membering wind.

         Yet, as the wind is tender it is also just,

         and exacting.

         Like a tide turning in a celestial sea

         irresistible is the karmic wind.

         What has been sown in all ages is now reaped;

         mathematically and swiftly it is now reaped.

         Sweet may seem the wind to they who have sown sweet,

         and bitter may seem the wind to they who have sown bitter seeds.

         Yet, it is not for us to ask sweet or bitter as wind may bring.

         For created We the laws of the wind,

         and by these laws shall we live ....

         Just is the flaming harvest wind.

         Yet, as the wind is just

         so is Man greater than the wind and the justice he now reaps.

         Unmoved countenance transmutes fate into Destiny

         as Divine intelligence abides commanding all seasons' loyalty.

         Come, let the winds of all four seasons unimpeded blow

         in the windmills of the True Mind.

         In this noon hour of destiny

         as the ancient clock strikes twelve in the hour,

         all is remembered, all is seen.

         Alas at last an ancient mission we complete

         — patient veterans of countless seasons.

         From the consummation of ancient Work and Honor

         is born anew True Man's Purpose for this eternity ....

         Darkness burnt,

         blows again the celestial wind ....

         cool and sweet ....

         Once upon a planet shone archangelic light

         as True Man to Noble Purpose rose

         and rode the four winds again.

“… as the ancient clock strikes twelve in the hour, all is remembered, all is seen.” The ancient clock striking twelve in the hour is describing a point where all that is sown is reaped and the books are settled and closed. This is speaking of a point toward which we are accelerating right now, a point at which in fact all the cycles that have been building for millennia come to point, and what has been sown is reaped, but reaped increasingly in maximum velocity. I think we’re not at the point of the maximum velocity yet, but I think we are increasingly entering such a time. I want to speak about our function and leadership in such times of harvest, which is also of birth.

I think we are entering times increasingly that are going to be more tumultuous than we have yet seen. If we look at these past two years, they have been plenty tumultuous. And we think, “Well, it would be nice to get Covid over with and the wildfires a little calmed down. Maybe we could go back to a little more normal times.” But maybe some other parts of us, while wishing this, also know it may not be so, and that this acceleration and intensification may continue. I want to speak about events that happen when pressure builds to a maximum and then builds to a greater maximum yet, and so on.

I think as we approach the shattering point that Martin was speaking about, the intensity will continue to build even more than has been present. There will be a surfacing of all the things in the subconscious of mankind that have been there that have not been cleansed. All of it surfacing in order to be cleansed. Could a new heaven and a new earth come without all of the old being cleansed? Could it? Obviously not. What did we think that all the cleansing of what is in the subconscious of mankind would look like or feel like? Certainly not a walk in the park! So, increasing surfacing of anger, fear, shame, grief, all the hidden pains that have been present in the subconscious of mankind coming to surface, to be detoxified ultimately.

At the bottom of the ocean of human memory is the memory of the loss of Home, of our Home, of the Motherland, and all the events that took place that were of such grief and shattering and fear. These memories and energies, I believe, will surface too, and are in the process of surfacing. But more importantly what is surfacing is what is underneath the memories of loss, which is the memory of Home—and not only the memory of Home, but the reality of Home and the return of Home. And that’s what we are really looking at. While we may be looking at cleansing and harvesting of all sowing, we are really looking at the return of Home and of Light.

We may also see increasing outbursts and expressions of insanity all around. I said this last week to folks here in Korea: Don’t be surprised. If we see increasing elements of insanity through people close—people far away but also close—don’t be surprised. Marsha spoke of this being a time of choosing, choosing under increasing pressure and at times choosing under maximum pressure. Who will we be? What will we love? What will we be centered in? In Spirit? In God? In the Truth of Love? Or in fear, in shame, in our attachment to what we might lose at the level of form? What will we choose? God or self? Self equals fear. Which will we choose?

In ordinary times, it may seem like more subtle issues of choice. But under maximum pressure, when everything, all, seems to be at stake, what will we choose? Shall we choose God or shall we choose what we fear we might lose if we chose God? We are being called to let all go—fears, preferences, attachments, habits—and come increasingly into the present moment of complete alertness, to choose what we have always known to be the one true thing: the Spirit of God. No matter what we might lose in that choosing. This is the meaning of the Day of Judgment. Not God judging us. Each human being will be called to make the judgment, as in choosing what they truly love and what they will move with—God or self.

I want to speak a little bit more about leadership and spiritual expression under maximum pressure. Marsha and I here in Korea had a frontline experience in this in the past couple of months, a cycle that could be describable as vibrational crucifixion, attack of a maximum order. But it was very clear to us that it was just a presaging of the cycle, not just for us but for the whole of humanity. Spiritual expression under maximum pressure.

Marsha spoke of deep surrender and trust, even in the face of losing what is most precious. Yes, deep surrender. She spoke also of expressing only the truth of love, even in the face of devastating loss or betrayal. Yes, choosing only the truth of love, no matter what is brought to us, no matter how unjust it may seem to us. Express only the truth of love under maximum pressure. She spoke also of tuning in to the ascending cycle. Yes, even when everything seems to be going to hell, tune in to the ascending cycle. Because everything is not going to hell, in fact. It is going to heaven! It just seems that way because, on the way there, it looks like hell! Tune in to what is behind the appearance of hell, which is the birth of the new, and thus bring capstone leadership.

In times of highest pressure—which for some of us may not yet seem so close, but if so I share this as a hint for a possible future time—in times of increasing pressure, we will be called to be completely flexible and alert. Completely flexible and alert, like we were rafting on class four whitewater in a river. I taught whitewater kayaking and rafting for many years. While living at Sunrise Ranch I took many people on whitewater, on Poudre River nearby. Class one whitewater is when you go down the river, you enjoy the beauty and it’s just wonderful, a leisurely ride down. Then in class two you enjoy the ride down but there are little thrills here and there; it’s very enjoyable because of the added thrills. Class three whitewater is a little different. It’s mostly exciting—not a leisurely float down anymore. But then, when you come to class four whitewater—which on Poudre River I never took people down but I did myself—in class four whitewater it’s a little more than exciting. It’s very exciting! And you have to be completely alert and completely flexible, moment by moment. When class four whitewater begins to reach class five, every second of alertness and flexibility counts. You have to abandon all previous concepts, all habits, all judgments, all attachments, and be fully in the moment, making that one split second decision, to make that move to the left, move to the right. As you do that, if you’re really alert and able to do that, it’s very exciting! And you come through to the other side to the calm waters. I say that we will increasingly enter class three, class four, whitewater, vibrationally speaking. And when it reaches a maximum pressure point, class four plus, it’s like navigating an explosion in slow motion. To navigate that explosion in slow motion we need to be truly surrendered in the moment to the movement of Spirit.

I don’t know if some of you remember Star Wars. At the end of the movie Luke Skywalker is taking his little flying ship into the Death Star—a massive planet-destroying, orbiting weapon system. At some point he realizes he needs to switch off his mechanical navigation. The mechanical navigation, you could say, is the mental level of navigation. He switches it off and he goes on vibrational, or spiritual, navigation, because it is the only way that will get him to the target. That’s what I’m speaking about. Switching off the human levels of mental/emotional navigation. Turning on divine navigation in the moment: full surrender, full alertness, maximum flexibility, and making each move right. Luke Skywalker did that, and he hit the target. And that brought not the end but the beginning of a new world.

The story of Abraham in the Old Testament was also a story of full, complete surrender. Releasing even what was the most precious thing to him—Isaac, the son of his old age—who was not only his joy but the future of humanity. And he knew that. It wasn’t just something personal he had at stake. He had at stake what he saw also as the future of humanity and he was willing to surrender even that, full surrender. Because he did that he became a true channel for the Lord, because he was willing to surrender what was the most precious thing in his heart and mind. He went on divine navigation, like Luke Skywalker did.

One final thing. Marsha spoke about giants in the generating chamber coming into the place of attunement together, and together making a cosmic lock with the star which was the vibrational source for their planet. They made that cosmic lock. In this time of harvest and new birth under maximum pressure, the most important thing will be that cosmic lock, not only as individuals but us together. This is the leadership, the capstone leadership, that Marsha was speaking of: Those who are most conscious on earth being able together to make that cosmic lock and thus tune into the moment-by-moment navigation that comes through that lock. That brings both the guidance and the pulsations of energies to be released into this planet together, which will guide others too, who in their own way will tune in as the pressures increase. They’ll tune in through their prayers, asking, “Is there someone in the midst of all that’s going on who knows a way through?”

If we are present together, able to provide this cosmic lock to Source, through that lock will come both the guidance as well as the energies needed for those who tune in. There’s another word for that energy and that is the Word. The Word needed in this time of harvest and birth, accurate exactly in the pulsations of this time. As humanity collectively goes down class four whitewater, may we assist in the provision of guidance for them because we are tuned in and locked in place together. A lot of people will not make it and that’s perfectly okay. But so that there may be a few, some that make it and provide the beginning of the new, may we truly establish this cosmic lock with the LORD of Lords together.

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PenDell Pittman — Yujin, this 85 minutes has been rich with fine substance, and you show it with the realm of peace—you mention the sustaining of the experience of well being, surrender and trust. You two have been an excellent duo of examples of this peaceful abiding amidst violent surrounds, amidst chaos, and amidst of uncertainty, and your visage of that sounded in your words tonight. I read recently in the Great Cosmic Story, Martin speaking of reality—witness of reality is clear, and clarity is what you have and it brings peace. Well what is fine substance; what does it look like; what does it feel like? And I spent this 85 minutes feeling what you are talking about; feeling the truth of it, feeling the heart with the mouth speaketh: Yes—it is abiding in peace. I asked Martin one time, “What should I say in music?” He said, “Well, make it succinct, and make it personal, and make it choral; you are a soloist but make it choral.” I’ll give you an example: “Peace be unto you, that the peace of God may be known on earth.” I turned around and in two hours I had a choral group together, and we sang: “Peace, peace be unto you. Peace, peace be unto you; that the peace of God may be known on earth, that the peace God be known on earth.” That is what our 24/7 living can bring, amidst it all. And you talk about challenges—you had them; we all have them, in our certain ways. But where is the peace? Peace be unto us. Peace be unto you mankind, that the peace of God may be known on earth; heaven may be known on earth. Praise be raised. Thank you two.

Pamela Gray — Thank you, PenDell, and thank you, Yujin and Marsha. Thank you for your individual spirits and thank you for being right where you are. All of us are in our individual places and we are right where we belong. And the treasure—we have been given the ultimate of golden treasure, and absorbing that as we have, we wouldn’t be here in this moment and listening to these words together, and understanding these words if we didn’t hold that treasure inviolate. And where that treasure is, there is our heart. This is what leadership is today, to provide that untroubled heart, untroubled by the unreal, untroubled by the chaos, by any of it. And the steadiness of the Lord is in this place individually and in our collective. The Lord has made an investment, a great investment in each one of us. We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t know and accept that commission to His glory. Thank you both.

Joyce Krantz — I want to voice my deep appreciation and agreement for a very beautiful hour. I like this image of going down the rapids in the river, and we won’t know what it’s like to go to Number 5 until we’re there, but one could be assured that if we handle the moments that we have now, we’ll be ready. And what I was feeling more than anything is this “cosmic lock” that you were talking about. For me, my radar or maybe my fine-tuning of that is very, very deep. My mind may identify it in a certain way, even outer identification. I Am. I Am That I Am. But the real truth and the knowing of that goes much, much deeper and it relates very much to what our connection, our lock, is with the One Who is responsible for this heavenly world that we are a part of. And His expression is Love—He so loved the world that he initiated these cycles—the One who came in the form of Jesus led the way. And I come back to this, that’s my lock. Even in the external, if zingers are coming my way, oftentimes it’s almost like Tai Chi moves, like “whoop—hey, let that one move!” But locked in with that glorious expression of Love, which includes everything. It is one Spirit that connects us with the whole, and it connects us with each human being on the planet, so that when we’re there in heart and mind, it includes everything, and it brings this tremendous sense of: “Yes, we want this to be over.” May this that has been going on for a very long time, with the usurper taking over this world, resolve itself. Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes to bring the Glory. And it is the Promise. It is actually fantastic. It’s wonderful. It’s exciting. It’s beautiful. It’s the greatest expression of who every single human being on the planet is capable of being, and let that manifest itself. Let the beautiful world of our hearts’ knowing actually begin to appear as the rest of it recedes because it has no importance. It’s not real anymore, and we stand as you were saying. Martin had that experience of being present. The Master did. He would walk through crowds that were ready to crucify him. He would walk right through that. His healing was because people came into this atmosphere of another state. And we know that state. All of us who are on this line know this state. I just rejoice with you because collectively we’re all connected up now. We are connected to the glorious Star, the One Star that we are focused in. And who knows what’s possible. Anything is possible, and there is a great sense of anticipation, a wonderful anticipation. Something wonderful is about to happen. And that’s the promise, and I know that deeply, and I rejoice in that with you. And I rejoice that each one of us knows the circumstances that we’re dealing with. We know the waters are going to start churning here, but we’re capable of handling that.

Barbara Dell’Anno — I spent some time with Alice Penwell and she mentioned this meeting, and I got chills down my arms because I love you all. We to spend this time, and we understand what’s being shared; and the bonus is seeing your beautiful faces Yujin and Marsha, and hearing your voices. We are meeting at the capstone; and I learned something tonight. I learned “Yes, I can handle it.” I kinda knew that. What does the cleansing of the subconscious look like? Well, it has to be clean; it has to be pristine; no pearls before swine. Pristine. How are we going to get there? Yes, it’s going to be even more insane than it is now. But the thought that we have each other, no matter where we are on the planet, we are so connected. I actually have a different perspective now on what’s happening, and see the calm waters at the end. So what a blessing! What a gift! The Lord has given us room. Thank you my friends. I love you.

Anne Blaney — I just wanted to thank you so much for being here and sharing the gold of your experience. I feel that we kind of rolled up our sleeves with you. In the whole we can look at everything; and I think that the years that we have spent on the planet by now, all of us, we have seen some things! We have seen parents die; we have seen a pandemic; we have learned something about the unsustainability of what is unreal—it is not sustainable. There is something too, about learning these things in a passionate way; its not just mental observation. Many of these experiences have brought an intensification in our feeling realm, in our heart, and all this kind of pressure is very useful in terms of birthing. So we have something very unique at this stage in our lives, and I appreciate the fact that you brought some of the unsustainable factors that are in motion, and we can’t just put blinders on—they are in motion! The fact that we have learned in vitro, in small ways, in the things that we have gone through—they build upon each other. Thankfully we are given smaller experiences in which to learn about the greater ones that are coming. I think that this has been a really important time together. I have loved the beauty too—Yujin, with your poem; PenDell with your singing—isn’t it true that something beautiful carries exactly what the truth is. We are blessed to have been experiencing in our lives over the years, beauty, truth, which will sustain, I know. And I love the strength that came through, and that strength has to be what holds the ship steady, and we will do this together. We will see this through. We will contribute to what is working in a very magical way. There is something magical happening here. Where does inspiration come from? It’s in the ether. We put it there with our generation of finer substance. It’s available. It’s magical. That’s what we do in what we call the Temple, in our own heaven, and that is connected and providing a wonderful presence and availability to heaven for many. So, thank you!

Steve Ventola — Yujin, our passion is with the process. We thank you both. We appreciate our togetherness—and Marsha, what you were saying about cosmic lock, we are locking in the cosmic factors, of the responsibility we have, not just for this earth but beyond. Let’s close with a devotion.

O LORD and KING, we give thanks for this time that we have had in acknowledging Thy Ways, Thy navigation, Thy guidance, as the substance of our hearts is in place to receive Thy Word. As we do, we feel assured—we feel assured in the ascending cycles that are happening in the midst of the descending cycles. And here, we can proclaim, “All is well. Love’s Word rings forth, the truth is true, all is well, unconquerable life prevails.” As we hold this dear in our hearts, we know our commissions, and we let Thy Will be done, all for Thy Glory, all together, in Thy Name. Aumen.

Yujin Pak  yujinpak@gmail.com

Marsha Bogolin  mbogolin@gmail.com

transcribed by Suzanne Core and Luanne Somers

music by Gary Courtland Miles — soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles

thank you Robert Kauffman

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