Oneness
Uranda November 16, 1946
There are certain indications that some students in the School have an incomplete understanding about the Teaching of the School with respect to the Lord within, which has tended to hinder easy transition from the cycles of segregated individual expression to the cycle of coordination in the Unit. In order to focalize and clarify vision in this matter for all the Earnest Ones let us examine briefly the Truth of the matter.
Upon entrance into the Third Sacred School, one of the first great revelations of Truth which is essential to individual progress is the fact of the presence of the individual Lord within the body temple, coupled with a recognition of the perfection of the individual God Being. However, the student is immediately advised that the outer mind, or temple consciousness, is supposed to become one with the Mind of the Father within—which is to say that the Mind that was In Christ Jesus should be in each one. Emphasis was and is immediately placed upon the fact that the outer and the inner should be One, and that progress in the School is in fact movement toward that Oneness in the individual. If, in any instance, the student continues to imagine that as he comes closer into the Unit there will be an increasing awareness in the outer consciousness of direction from the Lord within, he will hinder his progress, for he thereby proves that he has failed to grasp the significance of the Teaching as it relates to the essential Oneness of the inner and the outer.
To the degree that there is true awareness of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth there is, automatically, Oneness between the temple consciousness and the Lord within, and the outer consciousness ceases to be concerned about trying to get into Oneness with the Father within—because it is already in Oneness and has no need to get into that state—or to try to receive direction from the Father within as if there were a continuation of the state of separation between the inner and the outer.
The progressive instruction in the Third Sacred School has been designed to establish a consciousness of the fact of the Father within, and then to inspire the expression, in life, of the Divine qualities of nobility of Being which are characteristic of the Father within, so that the inner and the outer should in fact be One—whereupon the continuing instruction, emphasizing the necessity of that Oneness, began to develop a consciousness of the Unit of the One Christ Body, wherein the many members of the Body began to have a true and vivid consciousness of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth.
As an actualized feeling consciousness of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth began to permeate the individual members of the Body, they were treated, individually and collectively, on the basis of the actuality of the Oneness of the inner and outer, even though the perfection of the Father was not in all respects in absolute manifestation. Therefore, if the student, to any degree, continues to think and act from the standpoint of a separation between his outer consciousness and his Father within, imagining that he should try to get direction from his Father within, he hinders his individual movement into the actual unification of the One Body.
It was not and is not intended that any individual should undertake to delude himself into thinking that he is completely One with his Lord, but it was emphasized that since the Father within each one is perfectly coordinated with the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth it was made obvious that any deviation, in principle or function in Reality, from the expression of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth would certainly be out of harmony with the true expression of the Father within, therefore, each student was provided with an absolute free means of checking the course of his forward movement without being concerned about possible distinctions between the inner and outer in his own individual expression of Life.
As the principles and Truths relating to the Unit have been expounded it was made evident that the whole process was designed to establish a consciousness of Oneness—not just between the outer of the individual and his Lord within, but a Oneness of all the members of the Body in a consciousness of Body, or Unit, and Oneness with the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth. Thus it is seen that the individual recognition, in a true, vital feeling sense, of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth indicates in an absolute sense the exact ratio of the individual function in Oneness with his Lord within.
However, the individual concept of this recognition is without weight except as function in that recognition has allowed the Spirit to bring forth the true fruits of the Christ Life in and through the individual members of the One Body. To this end the Way, the Truth and the Life, as actually made manifest in the One Body, has been clearly revealed through instruction and brought into manifestation through training, so that the individual consciousness might easily blend into the Unit consciousness in a realization of the Divine function of the Unit as One Body, through which the Greater Works, of which Jesus Christ spoke, might be effectively made manifest.
Let it be remembered that the primary purpose of this outline is to show that the consistent student in the Third Sacred School should not be any more concerned about his own Lord within himself as if he thought his Father within were separate from himself. Only as the individual lets himself be reborn, so that he worships God in Spirit and in Truth, can he know the actuality of these things, and bring forth the fruit that is properly made manifest through the Branches of the One Vine. Let all of these things be considered from the standpoint of a vivid realization of the actualized operation of the One Law.
Oneness not Twoness
Uranda March 24, 1947 Riverside, California
Is it not the desire of all to give up human individuality, so that the individuality of the Lord may manifest? To re-emphasize one point here: “Emphasis was and is immediately placed upon the fact that the outer and the inner should be One, and that progress in the School is in fact movement toward that Oneness in the individual. If, in any instance, the student continues to imagine that as he comes closer into the Unit there will be an increasing awareness in the outer consciousness of direction from the Lord within, he will hinder his progress.” [November 16, 1946]
Let us consider that for a moment, because if the individual is still concerned about his outer receiving direction from his Lord within, that very attitude brings about a separation between the two, because if they are One, the outer is not concerned about trying to get direction from the inner, because they are then One, and if they are One, then they are in harmony with the Divinely Focalized Plan. It is evident that there are three points of test: First — If the individual thinks there is Oneness and he is still concerned in the outer mind about getting direction from the Lord within, that brings separation because it is an acknowledgment of twoness and not Oneness; and Second — If there is Oneness there will be a recognition of the Lord of Love and the Lord of Truth; and Third — If there is Oneness there will be a bringing forth of the fruits of the Spirit as members of the One Body or branches of the One Vine. There are points of test clearly outlined here, so I see no reason for any excuse for confusion.
Human beings imagine that they will lose their individuality when they become members of the One Body. That means they want to be scattered entities and not unified entities, but unless there is coordination between the inner and the outer, there cannot be a manifestation of the individuality of the God Being. There is a manifestation of the human personality, and if there is Oneness in the individual, then there is automatically Oneness in the Unit, because the One God is made up of One Unit of God Beings.
The world of man is supposed to reveal the world of God. The One God is the unification of all God Beings focalized in the LORD of Lords. When Heaven and earth are one, the manifestation through man on earth must be the expression of the Unit, so that the Unit of Divine Men and Women is revealing the Unit of God Being on earth.
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