Establishing the Patterns of Perfection
Uranda September 20, 1949
There is something that I have worked for a long time to bring into focus, to make it possible for you as a Unit to see a vitally important truth that has been presented to you in various ways heretofore, but which has not as yet been adequately grasped. If I talk this morning about something that we have considered before, then do not assume you already know it, but let go to a new vision, a new vibrational understanding of our subject. We have considered in time past what it means to be in the Christ, to live and move and have our being in the Christ. We recognize that it means to be in the Christ Kingdom, and it means to let the spirit of the living Christ work through us, establishing the patterns of perfection. We have considered in time past the necessity of letting the Father's will be done, and we have considered those assurances, those promises the Master made, that when we should speak in His name the Father would do the works. We have recognized the necessity of letting the Father do the works: “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works… Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.”
Last night, and then beginning again this morning while it was yet dark, I was working to bring to focus a new vision, a new understanding, a deeper realization, of what these things mean. Because this vitally important point was brought to focus this morning, I called you together that it might expand out through you into the world while the current is still active and fresh, in point.
There has been a great tendency in the past to listen to my presentation of the truth, to my descriptions of that which is of reality, and then for you to try to make those things your own. There was no rebellion against the truth in that cycle or vibrational sphere of which I am speaking, but you listened, accepted according to your idea of what I meant, and then you undertook to make it your own, and you tried to feel in yourselves that which was described or presented as the truth. Such effort brings failure. You cannot make the truth your own. Intellectually you saw and recognized that long ago, but the tendency has been to still try to do it. Some of you have been inclined to judge yourselves or condemn yourselves, or to feel a sense of futility in some fashion because you could not make your minds work according to the pattern that you thought they should, and you could not make yourselves feel what you thought you ought to feel, and you could not make yourselves express what you thought you ought to express. All such effort is contrary to the teaching which has been presented to you, and yet the effort has continued, and as a consequence feelings of futility or inadequacy have been in you. And because such feelings were in you, you could not feel adequately what was there to be felt.
You will remember the Master's words: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Our purpose this morning is to take a new look at the truth, so that, letting go to the truth, you may let the truth make you free. Many vitally essential fulfilments through you, individually and collectively, and in relationship to our material situation, depend upon the effectiveness with which you let go in and to this point this morning.
You have recognized and acknowledged that focalization of Divine expression which I am privileged to make manifest for you, and you have accepted that as being the expression of the Father. So our need this morning is not that you should accept that idea but only that you should learn more effectively how to let that which is of the Father have meaning in you. If you listen to that which is expressed of the Father, accept it in your minds, and then try to make it your own, try to be what you think you ought to be, try to feel what you think you ought to feel, you will fail. As I am privileged to express to you and through you that which is of the Father, and as you, being many members of One Body, receive that which is of the Father and let it flow through you, then that which is of the Father accomplishes that whereunto it is sent; but if you listen to that which is of the Father as if you were apart from the Father, and then according to your idea of what is meant try to feel it and try to make it your own, you will inevitably establish a false pattern through which the true release of power is not made manifest.
You all recognize the absolute necessity of an increased release of power through this Unit. You recognize that there are a multitude of needs in you, and in our situation, which need to be filled. These needs, or empty vessels, can be filled. It is not a question as to whether they can be filled; it is a question of correct function that allows them to be filled. As long as we work under unnecessary handicaps we are not as effective in our Father's business as we ought to be. We recognize that there will be for some time to come certain handicaps under which we must work, because the cycle will have to work out until all needs shall be filled. But we have been in the position of working under unnecessary limitations, unnecessary handicaps, and when this point which I am approaching, or dealing with, this morning is clearly realized we will be in position, working together with one accord in one place, to let these lacks be filled.
That which is of the Father is supposed to flow through you. When by word I give a description of that which is Divine expression, I am not suggesting that you should listen to it with your minds and then try to feel that which is being described; for if you do you will fail. It cannot be done. When I give a description by word of that which is in radiation from the Father, I am describing, giving form for you, that which you will be feeling when your response is correct. The description, the form, by word is not designed to give you knowledge that you can take into your own minds and use in making yourselves see and feel and function. If you were able to perceive clearly that which is vibrationally released from the Father in radiation in the feeling realm the words would not be necessary to give adequate recognition of that which is in radiation.
Feeling perception is the first point of contact and recognition of that which is of the Divine. After feeling comes seeing, etc. That which is expressed from the Father; that which is true because of the attunement between the LORD of Lords and myself, released in the current of radiation, flows forth in a feeling vibration which is received and perceived in the feeling realm in and through you, individually and collectively. If we took the position that you would have to learn to feel correctly and to give form to that which was in radiation without the help of my words, it is obvious that it would take a long time, if it could ever be accomplished; but such is not the requirement. That which is in feeling radiation is given form through the words also, so that by the hearing you can recognize the form of the vibrational factors that are in radiation through the feeling realm.
The purified feeling realm is heaven in you when you let that which is of the Father fill the heart. When that which is of the outer world fills the heart, or the feeling realm, it is not heaven—oftentimes, as you could no doubt testify, it is hell. If the feeling realm is filled with that which is not of God you have hell. If the feeling realm has been purified and is filled with that which is of God you have heaven within you. The currents of radiation from the Father into the feeling realm cleanse and purify your hearts, so that you can perceive that which is of heaven and let heaven fill your hearts.
Now all of this brought to focus simply and clearly is this: When you are letting the Father do the works your minds are not supposed to know in advance that which is expressing from the Father. Your hearts are not supposed to feel in advance that which is being released through the feeling realm by the Father. If you are trying to take that which is expressed by the Father so that you can learn it mentally and cause it to be in yourselves, you will fail. But if there is no self-judgment, if you are not requiring the impossible of yourselves—for God does not—then, without any vain regret, without any false pride, without anything that interferes with the current from the Father or divides between you and the Father, you simply let go in love response, according to the Law, to the Father, so that the feeling current flowing from the Father through you into the world is not blocked by your heart or your self-active mind. Then, as you relax into that current, you do not assume that your mind is supposed to know exactly what it is, but you let your mind likewise relax, so that the form of the radiation, as signified by the words that are spoken, becomes the means by which you have a conscious awareness of that which is flowing from the Father through you into the world. If you stop it in yourselves, trying to think about it and trying to make it your own, you are preventing the radiation through you, and so preventing your own true growth.
The word and the act, the whole expression of life, is supposed to be that which is of the Father simply flowing through you, and you are not supposed to know the reality of such expression until it finds expression through you. Then you know it, and see it shining or radiating, expressing in some fashion out into the world. And so is that which is vibrationally released from the Father given form through you, so that it can have meaning on earth in blessing to others. When you share in the expression of blessings from God you are thereby blest. To the degree that you try to take the blessings from God and make them your own you are not blest. You find that the blessing is gone and the increase does not appear. The only blessing that can truly bless you is that which you allow to come from the Father, flowing through you into the world. Then, because the manifestation of the Divine expression appears through you in outer form, the increase caused by the completion of the cycle in its return must necessarily appear in you, and the form of it abides with you while the spirit of it ascends to the Father. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-returning-cycle-martin-cecil-may-21.html]
The increase in the outer comes as the form of the blessing radiated, to which response is given, so that the form of the response returns to the point where it was made manifest in outer form, which in this case is you as a Unit. Then the form of the increase abides with you, to enlarge the form of manifestation, while the spirit of the form ascends to the Father. When you allow the increased radiation, which then becomes possible, to take place, there is an increase in power which goes into the world accomplishing that to which it is sent, whereupon the response thereto, because it is in the realm of form, takes form, and the form of the response returns to you, increasing the outer things.
The Master said: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” When you try to get the things, they are inadequate to the need. When, because you have sought and found the kingdom of heaven, you function rightly, that is, in righteousness, you let that which is of the Father move out through you unimpeded, in true radiation, in blessing to the world. Because the Father's blessing is allowed to have form in the outer world through you and because of you, the returning cycle engendered by response in the world must come back to you. It is the Law. Coming back to you in form, the form of the response makes possible the adding of the things, which forms abide with you while the spirit of the current returns to the Father, and the increased radiation through you allows increased power in blessing to the world. That which the Master stated is absolute Law; it makes possible the filling of every empty vessel. But it is dependent upon your letting that which is of the Father flow through you into the world, that because of you that which is of the Father has form, and because it has form it has meaning in the outer world.
To the degree, then, that you cease trying to make the truth your own, you cease trying to feel what you think the Father wants you to feel, and you simply let yourselves feel that which is of the Father, then that which is of the Father is given form in you according to your perception in the feeling realm, and according to your recognition of the Word, which likewise gives form to the radiation. Being open in response, you then let the whole radiation in feeling and in Word that is in form flow through you. You do not try to stop it in you; you do not try to make it be anything; you do not try to get hold of it in some fashion; you do not simply listen to it and then try to feel what you think the Father wants you to feel. You let go. You stop trying to make it your own. You simply receive it and feel what you receive, letting the Father cause it to have form according to the perfect patterns of the spirit. Then as that which the Father releases finds manifestation through you because of your response, because of your letting go, it has meaning in the world and the power is released into the world in the field of form so that others can perceive it, whether they have the perception to recognize that it is of the Father or not.
You are the ones who act as the transformers, receiving the current from On High and letting it have form that can be used in the world. It will have a different appearance to you than to others, but being released in this world it will have a form that can be received by the responding ones of the world, whereupon the response returning will bring to you the form of the response, which form abides with you; and as you keep polarized properly the spirit of the form then is centered in the Father and allows increased radiation. This is what it means to let the Father's will be done. This is what it means to let the Father do the works. This is what is necessary to believing; for he who believes lets the Father do the works, which in season shall be the greater works, because there shall then be an increased form properly polarized in the Father which allows an increased release of the Father's power into the world.
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” First you must abide in the Christ. Then you must be letting the words of the Father find expression through you. Then the will that is in you is the Father's will, and it is an all-powerful will—a will that has the power to control and to cause things to be. Then ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done of the Father. You will not be trying to do it. You will let the Father do it because it is the Father's will.
Now we do not wish to have this current dissipated by much talking, words that spring from the supposed wisdom of your own minds—but I would like to ask a question. Do you see more clearly the truth concerning this important point; do you see the distinctions which I have been undertaking to clarify? The human mind that is wise in its own eyes, and sometimes makes a considerable impression on its fellow human beings, does not necessarily allow that which is of the Father to find true expression. Do you see more clearly what the Master meant when He spoke of coming as a little child; of simply letting go to that which is and letting it find expression through you?
There is need that many things should be accomplished here. There is need that many empty vessels should be filled here, so that we may move quickly to be in position to render a larger ministry out into the world. Do you see where you have been trying to feel what you thought the Father wanted you to feel? As long as you do, you cannot feel what you ought to feel, and as long as you receive the Word that is spoken as if you thought it were an expression of that which ought already to be in you, so that you try to think about it and make it your own, you will be asking the impossible of yourself.
When you recognize the words that are spoken as the form of the vibration that you should be feeling, and let both feeling and form flow through you, so that you simply let go to that which is of the Father, then you will feel, and the form will make the feeling have greater meaning and you will know that which is of the Father as it flows through you carrying blessings out into the world. It is the Father's will that every empty vessel shall be filled, if by that filling you are caused to grow into the stature of the Living Christ, and if by that filling blessings are released into the world. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/12/discerning-and-working-with-creative.html] It is not the Father's will that empty vessels should be filled if that filling is going to be short-circuited out of the world and taken selfishly by the individual. The Father's will is that every empty vessel, every need, shall be filled as that filling is allowed to carry blessings to the world. As long as anyone tries to get the blessing, he prevents the manifestation of the blessing in any true or satisfying form, at least as far as he himself is concerned.
Believing in the Living Christ allows the individual to function from within the Kingdom, and being in the Kingdom, in the Christ, the individual is abiding, as the Master put it, “in me.” Then if in addition to that, as the Master put it, “my words abide in you”—that is, the expression of the Father is in you in outer form as well as in spirit, so that you are functioning before God, worshipping in spirit and in truth—then “ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done of my Father in heaven.”
