Source of Life and Names of Deity
Uranda July 20, 1953 Class
Our basic theme in this class period has been, and is, the Magic of Life, the magic of living. We have reached a point where we are beginning to be aware of life—of Life itself. To some degree there was an awareness of the fact of life working through the body in a pattern of existence, an awareness of the results of life—but to become aware of life itself, the pure essence of Life. We have recognized that Life is born, or comes forth, issues forth, like a fountain, when there is the union of Love and Truth. We have considered something of the Shekinah Pattern of Being and recognized that the Fire that Burns is the reality of God’s Love, the Light that Glows is the reality of Truth, and the Cloud of Glory is the expression, the manifestation of Life. Life is the child born of the union of Love and Truth. We cannot become aware of Life itself until we become aware of the source of Life. Broadly speaking, God is the source of Life—that is true. But by what means is God the source of Life?
God is the source of the Shekinah Pattern. The Shekinah Pattern of Being is the only begotten Son of God, and yet we are all sons and daughters of God. We become, in the true sense, sons and daughters of God when we let the Shekinah Pattern of Being control in our lives. When we let God’s Love and Truth come to a point of union in us we begin to have the experience of motherhood, in the sense of being the means by which Life is born into action on earth.
We speak of the invisible planes of Being as the positive aspect of the Whole Holy World, and these three outer planes of Being in which we function as the negative aspect of the Whole Holy World. The positive and the negative are the male and female. And living on earth as focalizations of the Crowning Creation, the crowning manifestation of the negative triune world, we begin to realize what it is to share motherhood, regardless of whether we are male or female—something that God the Father has fathered in us is born through us. But if there is to be a child born in this sense if must first be conceived, it must have its period of gestation in the womb, and it must have the privilege of birth. Man, mankind, is the Mother aspect of God Being in this world. The invisible reality of God, being the reality of many God Beings, is the Father aspect in relationship to this world. We begin to have an awareness of Deity.
Some little time ago I presented for your meditation something with respect to the vibratory factors of the names of Deity. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-central-secret-of-being-je-ho-vah.html] And we recognized that the names as they are popularly used are not the true names, they are substitute names, substituted because in popular usage because they would be spoiled, it would be a sacrilege, it would be blasphemous. Actually, what man does with these substitute names is not too important. They should be held sacred, and I am not suggesting that profanity is permissible, but the popular usage of the popular names of Deity does not spoil the vibratory pattern of Deity or the vibrational factors. We find in the religions of the world various usages of the names of Deity. Whether we think of Allah, on the basis of the Mohammedan belief, or some other name of Deity, we recognize that they all mean the same thing, but they are substitute meanings. We can feel the reality of Love and Truth and power, if we let go of prejudice, if we say “Allah.” We must recognize that in the Christian world, or so-called Christian world, the use of the words “God” and “Jesus” and “Christ” is something that is done promiscuously, without understanding, and consequently without real meaning.
There are multitudes of people who give God a series of orders, make a series of demands which they call prayer, and they finish up “in Jesus name we ask it”, or something of the sort; and they imagine that it’s prayer, which it is not, and they imagine that they are asking in His name as he instructed. “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it.” And they think they are doing it, but they are not. You have begun to realize that such things are not prayer, that the people who give orders to God are sacrilegious. Telling God what to do is blasphemous. There is no necessity of giving orders to God or telling Him what to do. Let’s pause for a moment there to be sure that we have at least an introduction to the truth of the matter.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do.” Yes. Does that mean we are to ask God? It doesn’t say so. That has been an assumption, that man was to ask God, because it was suggested that we should ask in His Name. But if we are functioning in His Name we are a part of His Body, which is identified by His Name. Anything else is a forgery. It is possible to be adopted and receive a certain name and then have the right to use it, but until that adoption is a reality the use of the name would be a forgery. I have used the illustration of the young man who had the opportunity of being adopted by a wealthy man somewhere, and he had to go through college first, he had to reveal himself, show himself, and if he fulfilled himself as a man, showed his capacities, then he was going to be adopted as the wealthy man’s son. And he was given spending money, everything that he needed, but he got in a hurry. He decided, “Some day I am going to be able to write a check and have plenty of money. I want more money now. I’ll forge a check; I’ll write as if I had that name already.” He forged a check and landed in jail, and lost the possibility of being a son of the wealthy man. Most so-called prayers are forgeries. But if we have been adopted, have become an actual part of the Body of God, then we can’t say anything without saying it in His Name. If we honor His Name, the family name shall we say, the Name of our Father, then we live accordingly—but what of this asking?
Man has assumed that it meant that man was to ask something of God. But he said, “Whatsoever ye will ask in my name, that will I do.” But must we ask God? No. The asking is God’s asking. Does He ask Himself? No. He asks His creature to do thus and so. He asks the cell, the nerve, the tissue, the organ, whatever it may be. The asking must be from God to the creation; not the creature asking God something, but God asking something of His creation, because God has no necessity of being told what to do. We are not going to gain anything by trying to give orders to God. If we ask in His Name we will have been received into His Body because we have let the Shekinah Pattern of Being fill our bodies, and it will be the Word of God working through us, giving a command, shall we say, not to God but to the thing, to the organ, to the tissue, to anything. And if the patterns have been worked out properly there will be obedience in the substance, a cell, it matters not.
If we ask in His Name, He said, “I will do it.” Who was speaking? At other times He said that the Father would do it. Now the words of the Father were being spoken through the lips of Jesus so that it was the word of the Father that was being spoken, but from what point did He speak? From the point of the Father, or from the point of His position as the Lord of Love, representing the Fire? He represented the Father, yes, but His particular position in revelation in the Cosmic scheme of things was the revelation of the Father as the One who focalized the Spirit of Love. We speak of Him as the Lord of Love. Right. Well then, “I will do it—what is the power, from whence does the power come? The power of Love. The power of the Fire. The Fire that burneth forever and ever. The Fire that purifies. The Fire that human beings have thought to be hell is what? God’s Love. It does bring about torment to those who are fighting His Love, but the Eternal Fire does not bring torment to those who yield to it. And so, the Fire is the creative power.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name”—in Shekinah—the power of Shekinah will accomplish because it will be the Word of God in expression through your lips to that which is to be controlled. And if there is something wrong we have learned that there is a lack of adequate control. So, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it.” Belonging to the Body of God, filled with the Shekinah Pattern of Being, the Word of the Father passes through your lips in command and by the power, the creative Fire, it will be done. Just as simple as that—waiting for anyone to stop and think about it, to see it! And yet human beings have been asking God for this, that, and the other thing. A futile business. You cannot order God around. He is not your servant. But we can let the creative Word of God pass through our lips, asking something out here to obey. And if the patterns have been set up correctly that substance will obey—it wants to. The substance of your body wants to obey the Divine command. And so, by the power of the creative Fire it is done, the same power, the same creative force that brought forth all things.
Now, we remember, “In the beginning was the Shekinah, and the Shekinah was with God, and the Shekinah was God,” in manifest action and reality. “The same was in the beginning with God.” Now that sounds rather contradictory or foolish, or repetitious, or something, until you begin to see the reality of Shekinah. And then, “All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not anything made that was made. In Shekinah was life.” Now, we are told where to find life, but human beings have ignored it; they have looked everywhere. They have observed the results of life but they haven’t known life itself. In Shekinah was Life. Why? Because Shekinah is the pattern wherein Love and Truth find union and bring forth Life. And the Life that is to be used in any moment is born in that moment, it is there, if there is the union of Love and Truth. But if you believe many things that are not true then you are asking Love to have union with a lie, and it won’t do it. Neither Love nor Truth will commit adultery. You can’t force them to. Love and Truth will not commit adultery. But human beings who try to make them do so, do commit adultery.
The primary Biblical meanings with respect to adultery are not in the range of what we ordinarily think of in the limited sense of sex. That may be included, but human beings who imagine that they go through life without committing adultery are committing adultery every day—millions of them who think they are good Christians, because they are trying to force Love and Truth to have union with something that it is not supposed to have union with.
Now, let us take a moment to look at the world and its pattern. In the so-called Christian religions there has been a considerable emphasis on God’s Love, there has been very little awareness of Truth—a bunch of ideas, concepts, and beliefs but no recognition of Truth as such. But they have sought to love God. The Love element has been there. Devotion, to the best of their understanding, trying to love God. And they have imagined that that was all that was necessary. But Love must be married to Truth before Love can father anything that can be born on earth. On the other hand, there are those whose minds rebelled against all such things and they went to the other extreme. They said, “We are going to be scientific. We are going to reject religion.” And so they went in a search for truth. And to some degree they found truth, discovered it, and to them it was beautiful. But Truth, by itself, without proper union with Love, brings forth nothing. It’s barren. They say Truth is beautiful. They try to find the whole body of truth in various ways—science. But it is still barren. It does not bring forth Life because there is nothing to father Life in the womb of Truth. So we have religion on the one side trying to function from the standpoint of Love and we have the worldly sciences on the other side trying to function from the standpoint of Truth, and they don’t know how to get together. And neither one will let their deity get married. They are going to imagine that the deity of love—that isn’t going to get married, oh no! There is not going to be any union, “My deity doesn’t have union,” they say. Well, so long as their deity does not have union their deity does not bring forth anything, it is barren, childless. But when we begin to realize that Love and Truth belong together in a state of wedded bliss, true union, they’ll have a child and that child will be Life. And as long as Love and Truth remain in union in you Life will be manifesting through you. Let the separation begin to appear, as it does with the way human beings live—Love and Truth are in union in the babe, in the little child, but our educational processes go to work and pretty soon they start separating Love and Truth. Finally they are divorced in the individual, as far as he is concerned, and Life begins to diminish and the body dies. That is the process of existence. So if we would have the processes of living we must let Love and Truth be married in us, that they may be in union in us, and then Life appears, like a fountain.
Life is from God but how does Life come from God or manifest in any form? Love and Truth must be in union in the form through which Life is to manifest—whether it is a blade of grass, an amoebae, or a man, or a woman. Love and Truth must be in union in that form. The fact that Love and Truth are in union in a form over here is beside the point. Love and Truth must be in union in the form through which Life is to manifest. They we can begin to live. “And in Shekinah was life.” Shekinah means the union of Love and Truth with the manifest child of life—glory, the glory of the child, of bringing forth. And so wherever there is to appear through us as human beings, or as a body of human beings, as mankind, if it is to be the reality of being it must be fathered by God (why do we call Him the Father if He isn’t going to have the function of a father?) and cause something to be conceived in us, that it may gestate in us, and be born through us. The function of the Father and the function of the Mother.
Mankind is supposed to be Mother God made manifest. Now, mankind is not at the present time. The body of mankind has played the whore and has had union with everything it could find, except God—union with all kinds of things but not with God the Father. But if God the Father is to have meaning then God the Mother must have meaning and the whole body of mankind, including every man, woman, and child, is supposed to be a member of God the Mother. Now this pattern is clearly revealed in the Biblical portrayal, and what we find spoken of as, to use the ordinary word, as Jehovah in the Old Testament, was supposed to mean God the Mother, not God the Father. Now that’s a substitute word, we know that, but I use the substitute word until I am sure we have the right pattern for the use of the right word. But Jehovah is supposed to be the manifestation of God the Mother, not God the Father, although God the Father is revealed through God the Mother, and the union between the two is supposed to bring forth something—the manifestation of not just the fact of life but of the forms, the experiences, by reason of which Life may appear. If we just have life as an illusive spirit it has no meaning on earth. There must be a form for the manifestation of Life. And what are these forms? We say your body. Yes. And its capacities. Yes. But the experience is a form through which Life appears. According to what? The control and design of Truth and the fire of Love, for you cannot separate these three. That is the family pattern, and if you try to take the child away from the parents, or if you think you are going to separate the parents, you lose all three. It will not work, it is a family pattern—Love and Truth and Life, and Life is the child, Truth is the Mother, Love is the Father. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/06/from-coming-home-uranda-august-5-1953.html]
But the Shekinah family must manifest through something—your body and its capacities, yes. And when we have a unit body with many members, or what we might call the Christ Body, then the Shekinah family is manifesting through that unit body, and the unit body is a manifestation of God the Mother, which must be then in union with God the Father, the One Who Dwells. But the forms through which the Shekinah family appears are many. Your body as a member of the body of mankind, on an individual basis, the body of a group, friends, all kinds of relationships, but the body of experience, for experience is a form through which something invisible is made visible to the Glory of God, to the manifestation of God’s Life on earth, and to the blessing of the children of men.
“In Shekinah was Life.” It is the only place where you can find Life, for the Shekinah Pattern of Being in one way or another makes possible the Life manifestation in any part of vegetation, the insects, the birds, fish, the animals, wherever life is found. So we begin to really know Life, not just about it, not just the results of its presence. We begin to know that we can know Life and know what it is. And once we begin to know Life we are in position to function in relationship to Life. Once we realize that the body of mankind, properly including every man, woman and child of every color and race regardless of creed and belief, every one is supposed to be a member of the body of mankind, which in turn is supposed to become the body of God the Mother that God the Father may conceive something in God the Mother and that it may gestate in the womb of God the Mother and be born.
Now there is a creative process. How do you think the animals were formed? How do you think anything was formed? They were all made by Shekinah. There was the union of Love and Truth with the consequent birth of Life, but it had to be in relationship to a form of some kind. How was the form provided, the body of man or the body of anything? By reason of the Fatherhood of God and the Motherhood of God. God the Father in the so-called invisible realms, God the Mother in this realm, and there was the conception with respect to that which was to take form and the body of God the Mother provided the means whereby that which was conceived was given form and was brought forth in what we call birth—creation, with respect to vibratory fields and cycles, etc., some of which we have studied.
Once you begin to comprehend this you realize the sacredness of God and the things of God, you realize that you can be a part of God the Mother only as you keep sacred things sacred. We think of the female body as being a beautiful thing. You are supposed to be a part of a female body, man or woman, it makes no difference—the body of Mother God. And a substitute name for the Mother is Jehovah. Now that is not the right pronunciation. Just as the name Jesus is a substitute name, it is not the right pronunciation.
Once we begin to comprehend these things intellectually, if the mind is willing to rest and be still, we can begin to perceive through feeling, the eye of the heart, that which cannot be known any other way, and the ear of the heart, the perceptions of the feeling nature. So the mind begins to have an awareness of idea, of Truth, of design. But the mind does not try to struggle with it, the mind comes under control and is at rest, at peace, relaxed, serene, tranquil. “Be still and know that I am God.” And then we begin to know that the name of our Lord, the Lord of Love, the name that applies not only to the body but to the Shekinah Pattern of Being which He revealed is something of exquisite beauty, of loveliness. And we remember that the letter killeth but the spirit giveth Life. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/06/j-e-o-h-jesu-uranda-8-1953-class-some.html]
And what is that spirit? Yielding to it, can we know it? If the mind is tranquil, if there is serenity, if there is peace and trust, true yielding, we can begin to know the name of our KING, and through His name we can begin to know the Spirit of His Presence. For the KING is also a Prince. He is KING to us and a Prince in relationship to the still higher pattern of Being, the Prince of Peace.
And in the stillness, in the quietness of the Holy of Holies, we hear the breathing of the breath of Life. And upon the breath we hear a name [Uranda chants] Jesu — Jesu — Jesu. And there is an answering [Uranda chants] Je-ho-vah — Je-ho-vah — Je-ho-vah. And there is a union, union of God the Father and God the Mother, and something Divine is conceived in the body of God the Mother. And in season the child shall be born and the form shall appear by which Life is made manifest, that all who will may come to know that The Lord He is the God. The Lord He is The God.
Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name to us. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever. [Uranda chants] Aum-en A—U—M A—U—M A—U—M and so are you enfolded in the Cosmic ALL that IS that you may dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High and abide under the Shadow of the Almighty, for the Shadow is the evidence of His Presence and Shekinah is the evidence of the Presence of the One who Dwells. So let it be in you and through you now and forever. Aum-en
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