“O give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.” The theme of our
service this morning was that of thankfulness. This is certainly not a new
subject but I trust that it was seen in a new way. It is, after all, a very
practical requirement, relating as it does to this matter of being connected
with the fine spiritual substance present throughout the universe, that we may
thereby be connected with the creative working of the spirit of God.
Whenever we do share a
consideration in service which allows for the generation of substance and
consequently the greater release into our experience of the spirit of God, the
power and energy of it, to all who are present—and this would include us who are
here this evening as well as others who are not here—a question is posed. A
question is posed because events will arise in the experience of all concerned
which put the question. This morning the primary subject was that of thankfulness, and therefore the
question that is posed subsequently will no doubt relate to this; [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/03/from-magic-of-thankfulness-martin-cecil.html] events will
say to us, in effect, “In this circumstance now, are you going to remember that
the primary necessity is to be thankful, or are you going to forget that and
simply revert into old behavior?” This has happened, I’m sure, today in one way
or another with virtually all of you. I’ve been aware of this with respect to
certain ones and have observed the sort of answer that was given. If the wrong
answer is given, this in itself poses a question to me.
Over the years I have
repeatedly found that there has been a good deal of failure in the right
answering of questions that arose immediately subsequent to a service; and it
has seemed to me sometimes that I might just as well not have given the service
because it wasn’t received as being important relative to the practical
experience that immediately ensued after the service. If this happens, as it
has happened repeatedly over the years of my experience, then I have found that
very few of those to whom I was speaking placed any particular value or weight
in what I had said, as proved out subsequently by the attitudes that were taken
when events arose so that they denied what had been offered and simply reverted
to the old habit patterns which were accepted previously under similar
circumstances. Then I could say, “What’s the use of my giving services if very
few pay any attention?” They pay attention at the time perhaps, but it is what
happens afterward that is the point.
Perhaps you yourselves
can examine the events of this day in your own experience and see what actually
arose. If there is a good current of the spirit moving in a service this will
project what is required into the consciousness of all concerned in an
individual way so as to provide the opportunity for allowing what had been
experienced in the service, now to be experienced in this situation. Then when
some situation arises that would cause you to start moaning about it or feeling
badly done by or confused, or something else, are you going to indulge yourself
in that, in those sorts of attitudes and reactions? Or are you going to say,
“Aha, here is the opportunity to allow the new experience to be known,” so that
primary weight is placed in what has been provided by the Lord through the
words that were spoken at the service? As I say, all too often that hasn’t
happened. The individual immediately becomes involved in the situation,
whatever it is, and forgets that this was the opportunity—after this morning’s service
in the primary aspect of it, it was the opportunity to be thankful. “Let the
redeemed of the Lord say so,” let this be the thing that is given expression as
being important.
If it isn’t allowed to
happen that way and I observe it not happening, then I might start moaning
about it and saying, “What’s the use?”—being discouraged rather than giving
thanks. In other words, the question is posed to me very often by reason of the
wrong answer given by all too many. Then I have to decide what I am going to
do, whether I am going to say, “What’s the use?” I don’t think you have ever
found me doing that, have you? It seems to me that at least I recovered by next
Sunday! I have never found it a great struggle to do that. It never is if one
is willing to praise the Lord, if one is willing to give thanks. Then
immediately there begins to be the connection made which will allow whatever it
is that has arisen to be handled in the right way. From my standpoint, whatever
the experience may be subsequent to a service, relative to the victories
revealed in the experience of those who are at the service, or the failures,
these must be handled moment by moment, so that coming later to next Sunday
when another service needs to be given I may be on hand to give it. It seems to
me that I have been pretty regularly on hand to give it when needed. So we all
have this question asked of us—it is not as though I was exempt. How are we
going to handle what it is that arises? Are we going to take seriously the
provision that has been made by the Lord, or are we going to ignore the
provision that is made by the Lord and just revert into our old habits?
The more of the current
of the spirit there is moving in a service the more we may anticipate the
question being put to us loud and clear, in one way or another. Would any of
you say that this was true in your experience today? Did you notice anything of
the sort? I’m sure that it occurred. I was aware of one or two areas where it
did occur within the range of my observation. I know that it occurred with
respect to me. But I trust that we begin to see, particularly in relationship
to this theme of this morning’s service, namely thankfulness, how it is one of
the most practical instructions that could be given to anyone. It isn’t just
something that would be nice if we were all thankful—we’d get along so well
together if we were thankful and didn’t complain so much and bellyache so much;
we’d really have a nice time together. Well that’s really not the objective.
We’re not here to have a nice time together. We’re here to get a job done, and
in order to get that job done we need to have the first flush of feeling being that
of thankfulness. No matter what arises, the first flush of feeling is
thankfulness. We are no longer looking around for things to be thankful for.That is a very childish and
elementary approach, because if we do that we’ll find far more not to be
thankful for than to be thankful for.
The fact of the matter
is that when we begin to let our lives be characterized by the real qualities
of the spirit of God there is a sense of thankfulness just because of that; we
don’t need to have blessings showered upon us to be thankful. It is our
expression of blessing in living that brings with it our sense of thankfulness,
which is our awareness of the creative movement of the spirit of God through
this fine substance which we ourselves have generated by reason of the quality
of our living. As that is so, there is a sense of thankfulness that we don’t
need to hook to anything particularly. We may recognize that it would be
natural to be thankful for the creative movement of the spirit of God, because
when that is moving, which it is constantly, it is producing what should be
produced on the basis of that movement, and of the factors that are present in
the field through which it is moving. If there is resistance in that field,
then the movement of the spirit of God will probably generate heat of some
kind; it will be extremely uncomfortable for somebody, maybe for us. Praise the
Lord! Praise the Lord, because here is the evidence of the movement of the
spirit of God; and that is, after all, what we are here to allow to happen in
our own experience. When we allow it to happen in our own experience
thankfully, we are opening doors for other people.
An opportunity is being
offered for the easy movement of the spirit of God in our experience. That easy
movement will be known when we are thankful, and here is the evidence then of
the beauty and the joy that is natural when the spirit of God is being
experienced in expression. There is nothing more wonderful than that
experience. Whatever blocks the spirit of God may run into, of which we become
aware in our own field of experience, in our own worlds—we become aware of
these things because obviously there is a lot of resistance in the world to the
movement of the spirit of God—the spirit of God is going to move anyway,
whether anyone likes it or not. It has been doing this for millennia. It has
been doing it always, as far as that is concerned. But within the experience of
resistant human beings the spirit of God has been moving, and in that movement
it has produced a certain amount of enjoyment for human beings who are not
resisting it at the moment; it has produced a good deal of discomfort and a
great deal of pain for those who were resisting it. This is true of everybody
from time to time presumably. But we are thankful for the movement of the
spirit of God, no matter what it produces, because it is the spirit of God for
which we are responsible in order to permit the re-creation that is to occur.
So regardless of the results that may appear in any particular experience, we
know that those results are there because of the movement of the spirit of God
and we are thankful for that movement; not for the results necessarily, but we
are thankful in a way for those too because here is the evidence of the
movement of the spirit of God. It is what should be happening; even if it is
painful it is what should be happening.
So we accept naturally
the movement that occurs and we have a sense of thankfulness for it. There is
no other reason for our being present on earth except to participate in the
movement of the spirit of God into expression. We are thankful for that
movement, and we are thankful therefore for the results that occur by reason of
that movement, even if it may be a disastrous result from the human standpoint,
even if it may be a painful result. You may say, “Well if that pain is my pain,
how can I be thankful for that? It may be easier with someone else’s suffering
over there.” You are thankful that the spirit of God is moving. Do you think
that is a possible attitude to assume? We’d better assume it because this is
the only way that we can sustain and maintain our connection, establish it to
start with, and sustain and maintain our connection with that fine substance
through which the spirit of God is moving freely. We are associated then with
that free movement and we will find that it keeps moving on further out,
producing whatever result will naturally occur by reason of the attitudes and
the actions, the behavior, of people all around. If disaster comes, praise the
Lord! That’s what should come.
We have noted before
that when we’ve been associated with some difficult experience, later we have
become very much aware that it was a valuable experience for us. Well we’re not
thinking of it so much as being valuable for us in a self-centered way; we’re
thinking of it now as being valuable for the fulfilment of the creative
purposes of God, and that is all that matters to us. If there are those who are
caught in the self-centered trap in the world and find themselves in
difficulties of various sorts, then we are quite willing to lend a hand, to
allow people to emerge out of those difficulties if they are willing. It is not
that we sit back with folded arms and say, “Well it is coming to them; let them
suffer.” No, we have something to offer; there is what is called compassion. But the compassion does not
seek to change the natural working and movement of the spirit of God. We do not
try to get God to change His mind, so to speak. We seek to assist human beings
to change their minds and to change the quality of their emotional experience,
to let those things change so that they may not resist the movement of the
spirit of God. If you don’t resist that movement then it is found that the movement
is a blessing. In fact the resistance may subsequently be discovered as having
been a blessing because it had caused the person to wake up sufficiently to
consider what would be necessary to harmonize with the movement of the spirit
of God. I think all of us have required a kick in the pants once in a while in
that regard. “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.” His way is the
right way, and His mercy endureth forever, fortunately for us.
So this morning we
shared the creative movement of the spirit of God which allowed a deeper
experience of thankfulness, as we were open to it, and of the necessity for
thankfulness; and of how it is, when there is that thankful spirit, we discover
that the creative power of the spirit of God is available to bring forth in a
way that has never been possible on earth as long as human beings have insisted
upon functioning below the veil, in this little box of human concept. We all
have firmly established, firmly accepted, patterns of experience. Some of these
have come down to us out of our hereditary past, some of these we have established
for ourselves; and in the immediate sense we all have tended to contribute to the
maintenance of these restricted states of experience.
For instance, it is quite
impossible to walk on water, you know. Certainly from the standpoint of the
usual human approach it is thought to be impossible as long as the water
remains a liquid; and the story with respect to Jesus walking on the water is
looked upon with a little suspicion, I think, by most; perhaps it may be accepted
if someone has a lot of faith. On the other hand maybe it was true, maybe it
was an actual fact, because He certainly was not restricted in this little box
of human concept which says, and proves by every means at its command, that it
is impossible to walk on water. By the same token they say that a bumblebee
cannot fly, it is aerodynamically impossible; but it goes ahead and flies
anyway. There are various things of this sort that are impossible but they
nevertheless happen.
We, all of us, as we
advance in years as it is said, are supposed to grow older. As a person does
grow older—me, for instance—then attitudes of others toward him change
somewhat. Now I am just using myself as an example; other people grow older
too, you know. But there is a tendency to assume that when a person grows older
thus-and-so should occur, and everybody is inclined to lay this sort of concept
on the person who is growing older. That is one aspect of it. Then the person who
is growing older may accept what other people are trying to lay on him or may
invent a few things for himself. Everybody is supposed to go through this
business of growing older and gradually disintegrating. This has been going on
for millennia on earth; everybody has done it. So this must happen; this is the
view, isn’t it? And we all tend to lay things on each other, not only with
respect to the matter of growing older, but in other ways too. We lay things on
each other. And sometimes when people lay things on us we accept them and say,
“Well that must be so; it is being laid on me, after all.” Other people fight
desperately against it, try to fend it off. Well this is all happening in the
darkened human nature state below the veil where human beings exist in this
little one- or two-dimensional world where nothing really very spectacular can
happen. The things that are deemed to be spectacular in this little box in
which human beings exist are only spectacular in the little box. They wouldn’t
be deemed to be spectacular anywhere else.
Allowing the generation
of the spiritual substance to occur in living, the veil may be dissolved, the
connection may be made with the spiritual substance which permeates the whole
universe and thereby with the spirit of God which is present in the whole
universe. Within this substance then is all that is true of the spirit of God.
I don’t think anyone would say that the creation of the universe was a very
little thing. It required a certain amount of intelligence to do it and
certainly a lot of power to stir the pot, so to speak, and a lot of continuing
power to sustain it: this perpetual motion machine. Human beings have their
concepts with respect to it: It is really running down! If you wait long enough
it will all quit finally. This is looking at it from the standpoint of this
little box. There is no awareness of the unlimited source of power, of variety
of design, present in the spirit of God and therefore in this fine spiritual substance,
the substance of love, which fills the universe. It is all there available for
right use when, humanly speaking, there are those on hand who would let it be
used rightly. It is not available for wrong use, or only very little of it is
available for wrong use.
We have a little power
in the box in which human beings live, and human beings play around with this
in the box. There are those who have sensed something of a greater power somewhere
which somehow could be gotten ahold of, for human purposes. Nowadays, if there
is an energy crisis, “Well let’s get this perpetual motion machine operating
and we’ll generate lots of power, and there won’t be any more crisis.” Then
human beings can go on happily the way they were doing before, which wasn’t
very happily anyway. Well what would be the point of that? This power that is
available is available for right use according to the true creative design; and
when there are those present, humanly speaking, who are properly connected up
with this spiritual substance because their lives have generated the connection
and therefore there is the experience of righteousness, then the power is
available for use according to the creative purposes of God. Human beings themselves
were not really created to die but to be the means by which this creative power
could be released into expression increasingly in the fulfilment of the
purposes of God, of which human beings now know nothing. But there are such
purposes, as witness the universe itself—it is operative. So here we are to
allow this to occur in our own experience. But to let it occur in our own experience
we must meet and handle the events that arise in our worlds, by the power of
the spirit of God. Then we do not have an attitude that whatever is required in
the fulfilment of the purposes of God is impossible.
With God all things are
possible—with human beings certainly not, but with God all things are possible.
Are we with God? Then all things immediately become possible, not in the
fulfilment of human purposes but in allowing what should be unfolding in the
creative purposes of God. These creative purposes immediately relate to what we
have referred to as the restoration of man, the restoration of the means by
which this creative power, this creative energy, may be channeled into the
world for the requirements of the divine design in this field. So what is
necessary to happen does not happen on the basis of the little bits of power
which human beings now manipulate. It is a totally different way of approach.
It is beyond the comprehension of the human mind, fortunately.
From the standpoint of
those who live in this little human box, what rightly must occur would be looked
upon as miraculous. This was exemplified rather beautifully, to the extent that
it could be, by the One called Jesus. There were miracles in a rather
restricted way because He wasn’t allowed very much space. Now there are those
who are beginning to move in a way which will make available more space for the
right use of the creative power of God. While we have been moving toward the
increased generation of the spiritual substance necessary and the consequent
experience of the increased intensity of the spirit of God in expression in our
lives, we have made use—knowing no better anyway—of whatever energies and
powers are available in the world the way it is. We drive around in
automobiles, for instance. The question arises as to why you drive around in an
automobile. We use automobiles now, but what for? I would say that many of the
uses of the automobile are what might still be termed human nature uses. If we
cannot use the available power in this human nature world the way it should be
used—righteously—then certainly we couldn’t be trusted with the larger power
which is necessary to make possible the restoration of man. The restoration of
man is not going to come because we can drive around in automobiles; it is not
going to come because somebody invented television; it is not going to come
because we can travel around in aircraft. It is going to come because the power
which makes it possible, which isn’t the power in this little box but the power
which is present in the substance of the universe, is allowed to work. When
that is used righteously then the restoration can come; then the end can come.
The end can’t come now because we can’t even use the power that is available to
us rightly, let alone a vastly increased power. If we’re honest this is true,
isn’t it?
One of the powers that
we now use relates very particularly to that larger power, and that is the
power of life in expression through our physical bodies and our minds and our
emotional realms. This relates very particularly to the creative power of the
spirit of God—this is the way it emerges. How is this used? I have emphasized
the fact of the question that is being asked of us constantly as to whether we
are willing to let it be used righteously or whether we are going to continue
in our old habits; and a dividing line can be drawn rather specially by reason of
this matter of thankfulness. Give thanks in and for all things. It is a matter
of giving thanks inthings, in whatever arises, but we can also give thanks for things. So
everything, whatever it is, whatever the events are that come, come because of
the movement of the spirit of God. So we are flooded with thankfulness. It
doesn’t matter which way we turn, we are thankful.
We consequently
experience an increasing connection with the creative working of the spirit of
God, and we find that we use whatever is at hand, in the box where we live,
righteously. When we do that, when we can be trusted with that, then maybe the
lid can come off the box. But I doubt if the lid comes off the box all in one
operation—that would blow most of us out, I would think. It is, even then, a
more or less gradual process. But first of all we need to be trusted in the
box, be trusted in the realm of structured human concept, so that we are not
any longer using the power that is available to us to sustain the structures.
And some of those structures I have pointed to, relating to growing old, for
instance. Well everybody grows old! This is the inevitable thing; this always
happens; it has happened in every generation. People grow old and they die—in
the box. Maybe that is why people are put in boxes when they have completed the
cycle. They were in the box all along! Let’s stop laying things on each other
and laying things on ourselves, so that there may be a dissolution of the lid
of the box a little bit.
Another attitude that
is often taken, and it has a certain truth to it, is that no one can allow
these things to happen alone, just for oneself: “Well I am going to be a person
who never grows old”—this may be a dream that some people have—but it does
involve all of us. It isn’t something that if changes are to occur can occur
just for one person. It may be said that it occurred for Jesus, because that
was the only way He could go, the only way He was allowed to go. He wasn’t
allowed to include anyone else with Him. That has been done, but now it has to
be done on a collective basis. So we can say, “Well of course now the way
things are we’re all likely to get older and sicker and disintegrate some more,
and this is going to happen.” But that is an argument, isn’t it, to support the
wrong things, to maintain the box. Let’s not argue to maintain the box. And
while we may, in a rational sense, see that it is a matter that is actually now
a collective thing, let’s not excuse ourselves on the basis of the fact that we
somehow must stay in the box, because it is only as we begin to emerge
individually that we begin to emerge collectively. If we are still waiting for
everybody else to do it, it will never be done. So, as I say, we stop laying
things on ourselves and we stop laying things on other people. We let things
begin to be freed up and we have no foregone conclusions with respect to
anything. We’re going to let it work out the way the spirit of God will work it
out, but we are concerned that we should be sufficiently connected up and
therefore sufficiently resilient to let it work out easily and naturally in the
fulfilment of the creative purposes of God, which requires the restoration to
occur.
In order for the
restoration to occur there is the necessity of the one who comes in the name of
the Lord, the collective one who comes in the name of the Lord. There is the
need for the focus of enlightenment
on earth for this to happen. But that focus of enlightenment doesn’t insist
upon all the human nature limitations—all things are possible with God. Perhaps
we are beginning to see that this is a true statement and that we do not have
to insist that everything must work according to the concepts of the human mind.
Things do work this way in the box, but how would they work if we come out of
it? Well we’d better find that out. The main requirement is to come out of it:
“Come out of her, my people.” Let us let these structures dissolve because we
take seriously what is needful to let them dissolve. One of the most important
things is this matter of thanksgiving.
Be thankful in all
things, for all things, that the connection may be reestablished, the lid of
the box dissolved. The lid of the box is the veil. Then we may find that vast
freedom that is available. It has always been available but not in the box, or
only a very slight fraction is available in the box. “Give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the
Lord say so.” Let not those who think of themselves as in the process of being
redeemed say all the things that support their failure to give thanks: “Oh I didn’t
expect things to work out this way. How can I give thanks therefore?” Give
thanks first and it
will work out the way it should, and don’t try to lay your trip on it, and
don’t imagine that because you see possibilities you know how it is going to
work out. That is something that people are inclined to do, aren’t they? They
see a possibility and, “Ah that’s it! Now I’ve got to make it work out that
way.” And off they go on a tangent. Well it may be that way—on the other hand
it may be over here. Let it prove itself out because we are willing to be
proven out ourselves, that we have accepted what is needful for righteousness.
The primary factor here, as we noted this morning and note again this evening, is
thankfulness.
“O give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good”; for His mercy surely endureth as long as is necessary
and possible for us. But let us be willing to say so. Somebody wrote that they
had found it helpful to give expression in words to the spirit of thankfulness,
not for the benefit of other people—perhaps other people wouldn’t be present at
all; one was just speaking in one’s own secret place—but giving actual
expression to words in this regard. That can be very helpful. It can bring
something to focus in consciousness. So when something crops up and is not
working the way you thought it would work, or the way you wanted it to work,
don’t get carried away with that. You stop, you pause, and deliberately give
thanks to the Lord. That is the first thing to do; that is the way you establish your
first flush of feeling. It is not going to establish itself all on its own; you
have something to do about it. You establish the right feeling deliberately for
a while, and then it comes as second nature, as they say.
No matter what
arises, you see the most important thing to do is to give thanks, not to try to
figure out why this came up or why it isn’t working out some other way,
whatever. That is all entirely secondary. You won’t be able to understand any
of that until you have first given thanks and established the connection
rightly. Then whatever is to work out is fine with you, praise the Lord!
David Barnes — These Temple of Light services are an opportunity to come forth in the creative cycle and share what is currently moving in the heavens of spirit, and allow a full-heart love response to return to heaven.Today we have a very good friend, Tony Palombo, who's given his whole life to music and sound and poetry and lyrics, to spiritual expression and leadership at all levels of life and artistry, sharing in communion, and sharing in particular his love response to the LORD of Lords. Tony, it's such a delight to have you here, and I know that you will present yourself, so I really don't have to say very much—but a fine introduction to you would be to play a song, lyrics and music, that you wrote, with you singing this song of joy and thanksgiving. So here it is:
The Earth Is The Lord’s
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,
The world and they that dwell therein
I come in the midst of Heaven to bless the fullness thereof.
I stand in midst of the Earth and welcome the fullness thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the Fullness thereof.
Behold, I come in the sea and put my hand on the tides thereof.
And, lo, I come in the wind and put my hand on the currents thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the rhythms thereof.
Behold I come in the Earth and put my hand on the Seasons thereof.
And, lo, I come in the Sun and put my hand on the Fire thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the Seasons thereof.
I come in the towering mountains, I come in the rolling hills,
I come in the blue-green forests, I come in the sweet daffodil.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the beauty thereof.
I mount the sky on wings of eagles,
I run on hooves through the boundless plains.
I plunge the deep in whales of the ocean
I nourish my own in the fields of grain.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the kingdoms thereof.
Who will stand with me in the midst of the fullness thereof?
And put a hand of care on the boundaries of the fullness thereof?
The Earth is the Lord’s and the boundaries thereof.
Behold, I’ll come to thee and put my fire in the heart thereof
And, lo, I’ll come through thee and give my love to the fullness thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the Power thereof.
Behold, I’ll come to thee and put my thoughts on the wheel thereof.
And, lo, I’ll come through thee and shed my Light on the fullness thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the Wisdom thereof.
And, yes! I’ll come to thee and put my breath in the flesh thereof.
And, yes! I’ll come through thee and share my Life with the fullness thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.
Who will stand with me and welcome the fullness thereof
And who will dwell with me in the heaven of the fullness thereof?
The Earth is the Lord’s and the heaven thereof.
Come and share with me in blessing with the Spirit of Love
The world and they that dwell in the Earth, and the fullness thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the People thereof.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof
The world and they that dwell therein.
The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.
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Anthony — Thank you David. That song touches me deeply. It was written in a time when I was coming forth in my awareness of my angelic presence in the world, and was quite a moment in my life. I appreciate you playing it this morning. I'd like to preface my offering by saying I'm privileged to be with you, and I appreciate the invitation to focus the consideration of Angelic Presence in Heaven—and it is a privilege to be with so many angelic colleagues. I feel honored and privileged to be amongst you this morning.
When I was attending a music conference back along the way at Sunrise Ranch, at the end of the conference Martin Cecil give a prayer; and I loved the prayer so much that I put it to music. I wrote a hymn, and it was sung once in the Dome Chapel; and also I heard it played on an organ in Baton Rouge when PenDell Pittman came down to do a concert. It's never been sung by a large choir, but the words are very beautiful and I like to offer them as an opening devotion: “In the stillness of our yielded hearts, O Lord, we come before Thee in humility. We tremble in Thy presence, aware of Thy majesty, of Thy power, of Thine Almighty love. Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts. Thy Hosts arise on earth to let Thy tone resound again, to speak Thy Word in all the hearts of men in every land. Behold, I make all things new. Aumen.”
PenDell Pittman — (with overtone chanting) O heart of God, I come to Thee, in Thy fullness of beauty, Thy wisdom and peace, grace, kingdom and power and glory. O heart of God. I come to Thee. O Heart of God, I come to Thee, to Thee.
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Anthony — Very beautiful PenDell; thank you for the beautiful overtone chant. So with that we open the door to consider together our presence in heaven as angels. I've been aware of my own angelic presence very acutely, in the last two years particularly—aware of my body being my servant, or my vehicle, very keenly aware of that. I'm sure you have as well. We are more vividly aware that we dwell in an invisible realm, but we very much observe the visible realm where our bodies move about, or we move them about in care of our world and in service to the One.
I've been particularly focused in the word “creation” for the last several bloggings that I've done. I don't know how many of you read my Blog, Healing Tones [healingtones.org/2022/04/] but I do Blog quite a bit every week; and “creation” has been a topic that I have been very keenly interested in. I've done a lot of reading of various scientific papers, particularly in the realm of quantum physics. So I'm going to offer a perspective and see what you might think of it; and you might have something to say as I open this particular consideration.
There is a phenomenon in the world of quantum physics or the quantum world—I like to think of the quantum world as being the invisible realm of heaven, where preform is present, awaiting to be given form. It takes me back to the Book of Genesis where God created man on the sixth day in Chapter One. And then He created all of creation; and that was, as Uranda put it, in the realm of preform, before it became form. And in the Second Chapter He creates Man from the dust of the ground, and He does so as a means to let what is invisible, the preform in the heaven which he had already created—which we had already created actually with Him, so that what was in the heaven could be given form on earth. And that was the reason, as Uranda presents it in the paper, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-vibrational-sphere-from-man-with.html] for creating Man: to bring forth creation. It very specifically says in the Book of Genesis that these things were in existence before they were in the earth. You get the point here, I think: that there was something created before it was actually given form, and we came on the scene to bring it into form.
Now, in the realm of quantum physics there is a phenomenon, as I started to say earlier, that when a wave of light is observed, in whatever fashion: it could be taken a picture of, or it could be thought of in the mind of the experimenter. It doesn't matter how it is observed or considered. The wave turns into a particle, so that it has become known as a fact that light is both wave and particle. But I think the most interesting part of this experiment is that it becomes a particle only when it is observed—before that it is a wave. It's in a preform, or in a “realm of infinite possibilities”, as Deepak Chopra says. So we have a part to play in materializing the immaterial, a very specific role, and we've been doing it. We've been doing that, not even being aware of the fact we've been doing that. The more you give something your attention, the more it begins to increase and develop. You begin to add particles to it, because you are observing it, and it's only in our own consciousness that we actually have a world at all. Otherwise it's an illusion out there. I mean, “Is it real?” It's only real because it's in our consciousness, but we created it in our consciousness. Now, we know these things. Martin used to speak of “recreation in consciousness” back along the way. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-vibrational-matrix.html] We recreate in our consciousness the image that we might have a of a person or some situation.
We are concerned, I'm sure, with our function in the heaven being to receive what is coming down from God out of His heaven into our consciousness, into the heaven of this particular world. Our responsibility is in this heaven. How do these patterns of the new earth come out of the new heaven into our consciousness? In what form? Well, I think they come in the form of our thoughts, in meditation; they come as a whole, not imperfect, but perfect. It my work with attunements over the years, I've taken note of the fact that while I'm sharing attunement with a physical body—I have been taught to do this and I do it quite naturally—I consider the part that I'm offering an attunement to, the person, or the particular organ, or whatever I may be working with, as already whole and complete, not fixed, not partial, not non-functional. I consider it as totally functional, healthy and whole. That's the image that I am receiving out of the heaven for this person, for this person's physical body. Then what I am offering is attunement to wholeness. “Wilt thou be made whole?” I don't think Jesus said, “Well, what's your problem? Maybe I can fix it.” No. “Would you be made whole?” And when He asked, I don't know what the answer might have been, but apparently it was, “Yes, I would love to be made whole.” So that was His approach, to offer wholeness in His healing work. So I think these images of the new earth come into our consciousness out of the new heaven in this way—a vision of wholeness.
In my song I mentioned “the boundaries”. It was peculiar that that particular word came up when I was writing the song. It just came up: our care of the boundaries. I have seen the boundaries. I have seen the boundary where wave becomes particle. In my seminar attendance this has been brought out in videos, where actually you can see particles jumping out of an invisible realm into a visible realm. It's almost as though there's an exchange between these two realms. Cynthia Bourgeault has something very beautiful to say about these two realms. They interact with one another; they dance together. The invisible and the visible realms dynamically work with each other on the same image. I don't know if you've ever read any of Cynthia Bourgeault's books, but her book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene is just phenomenal; and if you have an opportunity to read it, it’s really beautiful. She has an ability to see into this imaginal realm, and to understand the imaginal realm.
There is an imaginal realm. It's the heart actually, where the images that come down in a preform from the heaven find a place in our hearts, in human hearts, to begin to be received, and then to begin to be paid attention to, so that in doing so these images actually particalize and become more material. It's our function as creators to create form at this level of creation. So as angels, we play this role in this imaginal realm. Not imagination. That's a different thing. It's the imaginal where images appear, waiting to be given form. This interests me a whole lot—it really does. I'm quite fascinated by this whole realm. And I think that the realm of quantum physics gives evidence of the fact that the human mind has come back into heaven. Lucifer. There are many evidences in my reading, where I see brilliant insight into the invisible realm; and I do feel very surely that not only have our minds come into heaven, but I think the mind of man is becoming more connected upward. There are many who are expressing heavenly perspective, as you know. So I'm very encouraged and happy about that.
But I know that my own mind has been privileged to be welcomed back into heaven. That's Lucifer, as you know of course. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/06/lucifer-transparent-mind.html] So that's where I am in my journey, as an incarnate angel right now, and I continue to pursue this realm of creation, not just as an individual but with others. And this is why I'm glad to be with you today, because we provide a larger lens, a collective lens, where we each have a part to contribute. And through this larger lens, this collective lens we can see more together of what is trying to come down into the earth to create a new earth out of the new heaven. So that's the nuts and bolts of my consideration today. I have no more to say at this moment, so if any of you would like to say something you're welcome.
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Steve Ventola — Tony, you allude to the fact that our hearts need to be pure in order to receive the sensing of that wave, and when our hearts are pure, then we can have a true sensing. And what we've been made aware of, of the things of heaven, we were privileged to have that oversight. I like how you paused to allow for a configuration to be received into your consciousness; and I think all of us need to do the same, positioning our hearts upward, in a letting go of what's been causing tainted images; to actually allow for something to be received that is pure from heaven, from our pure hearts. And that takes some work.
Anthony — Thank you. So I want to say something about my experience with music back along the way. Back in the seventies I got the inspiration to write a book about using sound in attunement. I was very excited about the possibility that the “tone” that we always heard Martin talk about, that this tone actually has a musical aspect to it; and our instruments, our so-called “harps”, are musical instruments, and they have various tones going on in them. So I did the research and I wrote the book. At the very same time that I was greatly inspired to do this, one person in Boulder, Colorado—Jonathan Goldman—began to develop his seminars in sacred sound. Now this was at the same time I was thinking about doing something with sound and attunement—in the very year. And I had a vision of what was possible, but here was somebody who was implementing what I was seeing. Alright. Now, anytime I may have a vision, that doesn't mean I have to get busy and do something about it. I'm a part of a larger body; and as Martin said in a recent service that David posted, the body is not all head. My body has a head, but it has parts; there's toes and feet and arms and all that. So there are many aspects to the body of God on earth—mankind—and only a few can fit up in the cranium. Anyway, some of us have the ability to think; I guess you could say right thinking, and then others have the immediate ability to do right action, do things. I couldn’t even afford to do what Jonathan Goldman did, and has been doing all these years. I took a couple of his workshops and I was quite impressed. So my point is that we play a part in a much larger context. Just like when you were sounding those overtones PenDell, the vibration of my voice right now is setting off tones that you can’t even hear. Your voice creates overtones. You don’t have to understand how PenDell does it, to do that. Any sound you make has overtones. It also has undertones, okay. So sound goes in all directions; not just horizontally to the ears of people. The sound goes spherically out, okay. So you have overtones and undertones. Well, there are vibrations set in motion by what we do and say that we don't even see.
Gary Courtland Miles — It's such a delightful thing, Tony; and if we want to check our vibration, if we're not delighted, we're not in the experience. And it’s just a sheer delight to share with you, and to see you, and to hear you, hear your music and your tone. Thank you for being with us today. I love you, man.
David Barnes — Tony, I think what we're experiencing with you this morning is in a very subtle way the acknowledgement of the opening of a portal. I remember two or three months ago, considering with Robert and Steve and Terry and Carol and Anne what might occur in this late June Temple of Light Service. It was felt that there is an opening and an opportunity for something significant to occur. Week after week it was unknown; it was in that yet unimagined realm, that spacious place of stillness and emptiness. And the requirement was to sit serenely, relative to the opportunity we are sharing this morning. Life and heaven were filled with opportunities in other ranges of activity but here was one field where we could feel the urging of the spirit to bring a clear idea into the consciousness of the group responsible for bringing forth this event today. And then suddenly, connecting with what you had been sharing through your website, Healing Tones, [healingtones.org/2022/02/] and what others of us had been sharing, something began to come clearly into mind—Lucifer was able to receive because we'd been sharing in similar ranges to what you were writing about, related to the awareness that love substance fills the universe, this fire of plasma being which is looking for a means of transmission through human consciousness, through heart and mind, through speech, through action. And it became apparent that we should invite you to be with us and initiate some thinking along this these lines, about the fiery plasma nature of the angelic and Archangelic body which fills the earth already and is calling for transformation, so that each and all can move in accord with this high vibration of light becoming literal light in human form, angels incarnate as we live and serve together. So something was opened here, that we're going to find opening more expansively through all of us; but also in the broad world of human attunement with God, which will open it up out there even as it opens up here in the realms spirit for which we are responsible. I feel so grateful for this work in birthing something new, as it was evident to us over the last few months; and now through this portal that has been opened through our sharing together here we prepare the way and Behold—we hold in the womb what it is that will be birthed through us and through others. And we'll come back again in the future and touch it again on the spiral above, and it will be richer and clearer, and it will offer another portal at that point, a portal opening for blessing, as you have shared and blessed us all, and we together with you let the blessing extend naturally beyond us.
Robert Merriman — Tony, I'm so glad you're here, and it's so wonderful to be with you today; it's been a long time. You touched on physics earlier, and I was thinking about the thing that we humans experience as time relative to what you were saying about the imaginal realm. Yesterday I wrote a response to a service that I read and received an answer back which developed into something very creative. But I had this experience when I wrote it. For the first time it was like I didn't write it. I read it. I read that response, and it happened to end up on the word processor in front of me because what came out was something very different than what I started with. And I got a little ways and I said, “Oh, that actually goes like this instead, and it was like I saw what it was as I opened my heart further to it. And I feel like yesterday I was experiencing where you took us to today. So was I with you as you were preparing for the service or was I already here at this point in time? In the Lord all those separations disappear and we're just here and now, it's for forever, and it's wonderful, and you bring this to remembrance so beautifully for me. Thank you.
Deborah Starrs — Tony, a phrase keeps going through my head, that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the mind of man what the Lord has in store for those who love and serve Him. I think we're now beginning to see and hear and have newness emerging into our minds; and we see that also coming forth through the mind of man. Unthinkable things are now thinkable, and the divine technology is at our fingertips. And I think there's a great humility in exercising what we understand of it at this point, so that the unfoldment of the greater works may take place—these things shall you do, He said, and greater. So there is an exhilaration that kind of zings in with that; but I'm also reminded that in sorrow not dejected and in joy not overjoyed, because this is really our birthright, and our responsibility to steward these things in a right and practical way also. So it's terrific to connect with you again in this way, and I look forward to more connection in the future. Thank you.
Pamela Gray — Tony, I would love to offer my voice of thanksgiving this morning, for your spirit and your Word made flesh, made music, made sound and vibration, and it goes forth because it's one voice that we all share together. Robert, you made the comment that it's been a long time, and in a sense it has. There's been a sleepiness that had occurred over the body for a period of time. But when you think of the overall picture, okay there's a body that's awake right now, and the time is now, and it's just the right time to be alive and to be full of the spirit that says, “Yes, the earth is the Lord’s, and it is going to be restored now.” It is going to be returned now to His Body, His great big beautiful Body of such differentiations. As everyone was speaking I was cherishing the differentiated spirit that comes forth to His Body, because we're in place now and wherever we are in the world we're doing the work. And the yoke is easy and the burden is light, because His spirit is divine light.
Robert Kauffman — Tony, I want to say something about what this service hour has meant to me. Years ago I went to a Zoo one afternoon and I happened to be amongst a crowd that watched a little form be born right in front of us; and after it dropped on the ground it stretched, it sniffed its body, his mother licked it, then she walked away. And then it started walking around and this image of newness was absolutely startling and stunning. And it just took it in stride; this is neat, let's go check this out, another animal. There must have been 100 people watching this, absolutely transfixed. That's the feeling I get today. We are all discovering a new to be ourselves. And thank you for bringing that spirit. You opened something up.
Christina Pivarnik — Tony, I love being with you this morning. For me this has been a beautiful hour of prayer. We've had some preconceived ideas of what prayer might be. In religious terms it's always been an asking for something. But we all know differently than that. Prayer is an opportunity for blessing. You made comment of attunement earlier, and I always feel that that is prayer, that prayer of wholeness that you spoke of. And I live my life in a spirit of prayer. In all that I do there is this beautiful prayer going on, of blessing and encompassment and love, of whatever is happening in the moment. And this moment has been just precious. So thank you so much for your focus for it.
Anthony — I have been very aware that the way I see the world, how I translate what I see in the world, is very important because in that moment that I'm observing the world, I'm also creating the world based on how I translate what I see. I'm thinking of the particular gift that Uranda gave us of Attunement. That is an amazing technology of love: to be able to actually bring someone into my consciousness, between my hands, and offer them the opportunity to experience love, to experience healing. So if I look out at the world and I complain about it, or condemn it, or I think it's bad, or even good, I'm actually making a judgment on it, and fixing it where it is, not allowing it to evolve and to be made new. That really impressed itself upon me in the service of Attunement. I don't offer attunement to a tumor. Why would I want to increase the life of a tumor? Why would I want to increase sickness in someone by thinking of them as being sick—seeing them, observing them, and judging them as being sick. What I project in my translation of what I'm seeing: for example, disease is a part of the healing process, and death is the final resolution of disease, if the body is dying of an illness. What I mean is, the way we see things, the way we translate what we see is a moment of re-creation. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir here, but this is the way I've been seeing things. For example, Ukraine, or what's happening right now with the Supreme Court. How do we see these things? Are they good or bad? Well, that’s not for me to say is it? They are what they are, and they'll keep moving if I don't fix them in my consciousness as being a certain way. If I offer them love. Love is a transforming power, right? So anyway, attunement is an amazing technology of love. I'm just so delighted that we have that from Uranda. So it's been a beautiful hour.
Steve Ventola — Tony, it's been great to be with you and the thought of allowing something new to transpire during our June service is happening; and it's happening as long as we release any judgments of forms of how we think things should be. Fire—we feel the fire of the cleansing of our hearts so the new can be received. And as you were speaking I came up with phrase. Uranda talked about, Behold, I create! Behold, as I observe, I create. We can observe from heaven. As we've all been made aware of, we are—if we use the words in a new way—we are the Priesthood here on earth, and the priesthood has a holy place, a Holy of Holies and an outer court. That outer court stands out in terms of the encampment for the whole body of mankind. But we need to acknowledge the place we fill as the Priesthood here in the earth. If it wasn't for us receiving purely from our hearts from heaven the world wouldn't have a connection point. Our connection point is vital, and it is vital to acknowledged that. There's been a sleepiness in the Body because of that connection not being seen and not acknowledged. That's why we've had a division, a schism, as sleepiness, from the time that we've been trained for, way back when. Imagine if we've continued in a focus of spirit on earth providing our place where we would be. I think we'd be further along. But we're picking the pieces back up and we need to acknowledge that. The work is light as we allow it to be received. But I feel there is a burning that happens. I know this is burning inside of me, a fire of letting old things go, and at times it's very uncomfortable. Let's feel the uncomfort of that but at this same time. let's embrace the tree of life—not just trying not to do good or evil, but embrace the tree of life, giving into life of what's needed here and now. Now, as I feel the fire, maybe I would call out who would like to close our time with a devotion. I’d like to open that up for anyone who feels compelled accordingly.
Anthony — Steve, I was wondering if I could offer an Aramaic prayer in the tongue that Jesus spoke, that opens the way forward; the forward movement of our particular grouping, clearing the way, clearing the path of things that would hold us back. That's the purpose of this particular Lord's Prayer. Would that be a fitting thing? I've done it before, but not with this group. It is a sound-based language. The words go out to accomplish what they are meant to, and it is a sound-based language. It is not a meaning-based language. So can I close with that? Would that be fitting?
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Steve Ventola — Wonderful Tony. Great way to close. Thank you everyone. Our next Temple of Light Service will be with Anne Blaney and Deborah Starrs on July 24th. We look forward to that time. And let’s hold this vibration, remembering that as we observe we create, and let’s create heaven here on earth. Now Robert has some music.
