Anne Blaney — Well, I had considered playing that music [“Mystery”, by the Paul Winter Consort] at the very outset of our time when we were all gathered together, and as things worked out, it happened! I hope it helped create a certain atmosphere for us. I'll repeat the chorus:
Oh Mystery you are alive; I feel you all around.
You are the fire in my heart; you are the holy sound,
You are all of life; it is to you that I sing.
Grant that I may feel you, always in everything.
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Recently the theme of “mystery” has been showing up in various communications. For example, in a recent postings on Great Cosmic Story, in a service entitled “To Know”, Martin Cecil referred to the great mystery. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/to-know.html] He was speaking of the book “Hanta Yo”, which describes native spirituality, and in this service Martin twice quoted a poem by the author which begins with the sentence,“I stand at the center”. I'm going to read two verses, changing the order in which they appear:
I am that which they call Great Mystery.
I am that which each one calls Wakantanka before coming here,
before seeing the light.
I am here, and so I know here.
Here I know everything. Here I know myself.
and
I stand at the center
and the light shines all around me
and now I know that my spirit glowing makes this light.
I come into power with the sun for I am the sun.
I am my own light.
And Martin, in his characteristic way of distilling to the core, said again in the evening service, “I stand at the center and the light shines all around me. I am the light.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/to-stand-at-center.html] And it's true. As we stand at the center, we are that radiant presence as of the sun, of the light that we each are, of the light which surrounds us in this level of creation, the light that we see in forms everywhere, as the song “Mystery” says.
Recently on the website the Great Cosmic Story there was a service by Martin, entitled “The True Holograph”, which I want to quote as we collectively gather substance, all of us together now. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-true-holograph.html] He was speaking of a letter that Martin had received from Bill Bahan, Sr, who had just met up with David Bohm in England. So this is Martin quoting the letter from Bill: “Using scientific terms he [David Bohm] has come to some interesting realizations, showing much truth moving in his subconscious. I would quote one of his realizations: ‘The theory, in a nutshell: Our brains mathematically construct “concrete” reality by interpreting frequencies from another dimension, a realm of meaningful, patterned primary reality that transcends time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.’” And then Martin said: “Maybe he needs to see that there is more to it than the brain, but what he says we should understand. We create our own worlds, what he calls “concrete reality,” the environment around us.” And then again Martin, with his ability to distill, said, “I have described this process in a little different terms. This is Martin's phrasing: “There is a vibrational state of primary reality transcending space and time. Obviously something emerges into space and time. It emerges there because of human beings.”
Shirley Malin recently gave a service [templeoflightservices.blogspot.com/2022/04/divine-woman-shirley-malin-april-17.html] and she blessed us with so many descriptions and insights and stories. But there was this one paragraph that stuck out for me, and I knew I wanted to go back to it. So I pulled it out, and I'd like to read it to you, because it fits. Shirley said: “Martin said, there may be all kinds of things that are wrong, unjust, unfair, but all such distorted patterns would very easily evaporate if one didn't support them. I mean, all the things that are going on in the earth now. How do you suppose they have any energy to continue? Where does that force come from? It all comes from the Creator, whether it's for disintegration or integration. It's all from the same source, so what is disrupting it? What's creating the mess? It's the impure heart. It's like a transistor radio seeking to receive the transmission from the Lord, and then there's so much static in it that what comes out is indiscernible; and we have robbed all this beautiful energy that has been provided for us to fill the earth, to replenish the earth, to bless the earth; and we have distorted it because of self-centeredness.”
I'm using these different quotations here so that I can share with you an experience that I've been having for about seven months, in a focused way. I feel this experience is a blessing that we all have been given: it's called attunement. I think attunement has an ability, with regard to what I just read, to bring a transcendent reality into our experience here in space and time, specifically because it works with substance. It intensifies a generation of substance and works with focusing radiation of a transcendent reality, so that the radiation can come through and into our very experience in space and time. This to me is pretty magical, something that we were offered and I'm guessing something we've all experienced many times. We've all shared attunements.
Recently certain things have happened in the world, and in my life, and as often happens, an opportunity arose where I recognized I was available to share attunement with a few specific people who were working with specific issues. I entered into this world of attunement that quite honestly I hadn't fully penetrated before. And I know many of you have! I know many are here today who have deep experience of attunement, and I certainly am not going to try to describe the whole of what attunement is because I don’t know it and each one has their own experience of it. But I will describe what has happened for me. Working with attunement has brought into my awareness that it's all about the radiation. When we talk about the transcendent reality, the light, the dimensions that are in another realm, another way to describe it is that there's radiation entering into this level of creation that is fueling and giving life to everything in this level of creation which. according to our translation, can reveal something of patterned, meaningful transcendent reality. Radiation is something that we could well meditate on for our whole lifetime.
When we share attunement we are specifically working as conduits of radiation. I use the word conduit because I feel the radiation is not ours to possess or own. The radiation is life, it involves a transcendent reality that we may experience at this level of creation. We have an opportunity to experience and even begin to understand what that transcendent reality is: life, light, radiation right, here in the flesh on earth. Attunement is an incredible vehicle for this. When I share attunement, for various reasons it's mostly been long distance attunment. I think it was Joseph Antell who said in Chris Jorgensen's book [Attunement The Creator's Magic] that once you begin to experience long distance attunement you will be forever changed. And that has certainly been my experience. Of course it's wonderful to have a real body lying in front of you in a yielded stance, and that has huge merits!
When you're sharing a long distance attunement, as an angel, with another angel you have less distraction of the immediate physicality. You're encouraged to touch into the invisible realms in a more consequential way. I also find that because you are working at a distance, your own consciousness becomes more activated. After all, there's nobody else there, physically! But you can operate from your point of consciousness. I bring many things to focus in consciousness, so that consciousness is actively participating in the attunement. The radiation is coming through consciousness, in addition to the hands. The awareness came clear pretty quickly, that I was indeed, sharing an attunement. I wasn't necessarily giving an attunement. I was actually sharing attunement with another angel. Together we were coming into an experience of union at the level of being, which was allowing for an intensification of the radiation, for that person's physical body, for my physical body and potentially for our minds. There was an actual sharing going on, and together there was a lighting up that was going out beyond us.
But before I get into that, and various things that I've learned, I have to acknowledge—and I know you will understand this—where the radiation actually originates, where it has its source. What is that transcendent reality, where is it, how does that experience of a transcendent reality happen? Where is it? We have to acknowledge—as Tony Palombo so beautifully highlighted in the last service here in the Temple of Light—the attitude that the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof. The radiation actually has a source which Shirley also mentioned. So I, coming to the experience of sharing attunement, must first be in attunement with the Source, the Creator, in yieldedness, with an absolute humility. This is something that I am participating in by virtue of the Creator. I'm able to intensify and focus my own radiation, but it is because it's in alignment and in union with a far greater source. I am an aspect of that Source. As an angel I am a creator, I am a radiant being. So that's the beginning point.
We all know that an attunement begins with the pineal gland, and works with the first three spiritual points in the physical body. Those points represent, you might say, the heavenly aspect of a being, a heavenly aspect of an angel in human form. I envision those points in the physical body as focus points of receptivity to the spirits of love and truth and life. Can you think of a more ingenious design,-- to have capacities with these points in our very physical being which are highly attuned and ready to connect with the transcendent reality? Looking at the last three seals, I envision three other focus points: representing the spirit of new earth, the spirit of the single eye, and of spiritual expression or spirit of blessing. You might say those are the earth aspects of a being, of an angel in human form. So you have two lots. You have the heaven and you have the earth; and then what happens in the middle? We have what I will generally call the heart realm, coming to focus in the thymus gland. At a certain point, it dawned on me that this was the crossover point. This is what connects the heaven aspect and the earth aspect. When I saw this, I admit it was a real mind blower. I actually realized the importance of the heart realm in the process of bringing the heaven and the earth and aspects of a being together as one.
I discovered that when I come to an attunement, one of the main things for both the person giving the attunement and the person receiving the attunement is the fact that a troubled heart simply does not work. It will literally stop the current from being perceived. It's only as I come in into the attunement experience with a calm appreciation, humble appreciation for what I've been invited into, that the current begins to pick up. The radiation increases. There's something about removing the troubled heart, the restless schemes, all that. When those fall away, the current flows and the radiation actually influences one's heart realm, which is ready to receive this, we’re designed to receive this! A fire you might say, lights up one's being, and one comes into union—union within oneself, union with the person you’re in attunement with, and together in union with the Lord.
So, from that I have learned a certain responsibility, to come to an attunement with a calm heart, with a humble heart. And if that happens before the attunement, then it has to be sustained after the attunement. For me this has become an incredible purification process. I know you all have your own experience with this, and this is preaching to the choir, but I want to emphasize what a learning opportunity this vehicle has afforded. For example, there are occasions when,— during cycles when I am involved in an attunement with another angel, occasions arise when I have to instantly attune to the transcendent state, to the finest dimensions coming in, rather than to any disturbance that might be appearing in my world. “Responsibility” is the word that comes up. When sharing attunement, particularly when something very serious is working out with someone, I have entered into a contract with that person, and I have a responsibility in that contract. If I would not hold and honor that sacred contract in my living all the time, it would be tantamount to literally dropping a person. I couldn't do that anymore. I could not do that, particularly emphasized when it applies to a specific angel. Now what does that say? It means that this is representative of something that's happening all the time with many of those that we are connected with. It really brought a new sense of heightened responsibility, which wasn't a burden! It was a huge gift.
Another aspect that happens when substance is generated, this finer substance, the substance of love, is that I find—and I'm sure you've had this experience—that thoughts and feelings come into awareness that I have never had before. I can tell that these are original thoughts and feelings arriving in the moment, that are aspects of the transcendent reality coming into awareness. I find this an extremely interesting aspect of attunement. Now, you might say, are you really helping this other person heal from the some physical ailment? Well, I have redefined what actually is happening when in attunement. When the radiation is heightened, which is love—love casts out fear. Let love cast out whatever imbalance is present. So the actual ailment, although it has been impacted, you might say, becomes secondary to the presence of the angel who is taking dominion, unified with the physical capacity, and that is what heals.
All these things have been a great blessing to me. In my particular being—maybe you're one of these beings; I think we all are to some extent—I need those times of sanctified space, of holiness, in my day, and it has opened up a new quality in my awareness in the living of the rest of my life. I've also come to realize that attunement takes many forms—we all know this—that when I'm doing anything actually, I am allowing the radiation from the undimensional to come through me as a human being: as a Being, being human.
So I wanted to open up this area and to honor it—and I'm thinking of those attunement servers who are watching me; I can see your faces— to honour this vehicle called attunement and the opportunity it affords. I read something Martin said, after I’d been having this experience I’ve been describing. He said, ‘Attunement is designed to provide what is needful initiate the process by which a consciousness of the oneness of heaven and earth may be known once more.” The transcendent reality, the heaven, becomes part of our earth here in space and time. What a blessing attunement is, which can initiate that experience. Now you may have had that experience that heaven and earth are one through attunment initiated a long time ago. And I'm so grateful for all of those who have. For me, this has been a deep gift that has come to me, and I wanted to share it and open up this subject for consideration.
Now I'd like to turn it over to my friend Deborah Starrs, who has been patiently listening to what I'm saying; and Deborah, I hope that I've offered you some openings that you can continue in unfolding through your beautiful consciousness. I look forward to hearing what you're going to say.
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Deborah Starrs — Thank you very much, Anne, for this opportunity. As you were speaking about attunement it came to my mind that I very much enjoy discovering people who are awakening to the truth of themselves, and they're all over the internet these days. I love to enfold them. They're every bit as enthusiastic about a “God's plan,” and “God wins,” but they also emphasize individual responsibility in letting that come on earth. So I ran across one particular fellow who was speaking about human beings contributing and changing the “biosphere.” As we travel across town or across the world, we're breathing. we're sweating, etc., but he also said that we influence the “pneumasphere.” Well, that is interesting, because it sounds very much like “pneumaplasm.”
Saint Francis came to mind. Our presence in the world impacts physically and vibrationally. We do live in a world of our own creation, and we are responsible for the quality of it. We each have a journey that brought us to here and now, and I have very much enjoyed hearing other people's personal experience of coming to spiritual knowledge, and so I thought I would share a few incidents of my journey which, as things were happening, my life appeared to be kind of unfocussed; no coherent direction at all. But nothing could be further from the truth.
I was five years old on a beautiful summer day and the vacant lot next to my grandmother was planted with roses. I was kind of small for my age at the time, and many of those roses towered over my head. It was like a rose forest, and I was wandering up and down the aisles, singing to myself. It was so beautiful. And then suddenly something came over me of great sadness. It didn't make any sense at all, and I started crying, almost sobbing. Because I couldn't figure it out I was rubbing my head. Well, I finally wandered into the house and my grandmother and mother intercepted me. They wanted to know what was wrong. I didn't know. I only knew that something terrible had happened. So finally they asked, “Did you bump your head?” I said, “Yes, that's what happened!” Then I got hugs and kisses and went on my merry way back outside to swing in the swing set. That was my first experience of such a thing. I knew something and I didn't know how. Around that same age, my father sat me on a stool and he taught me the meaning of, and the spelling of, the word “integrity,” which was to figure very much into my life in later years. He also taught me the word “propaganda,” its meaning, and how to spell it. when I was a teenager.
I give great thanks to my parents, both of whom set me up beautifully to discover and establish a spiritual foundation for my living. Dad was an interesting man. He was a staunch patriot who believed that our rights come from God as the Declaration of Independence states. He was a genius inventor credited with 23 patents. He also had a good sense of humor. If you would ask him any question, however mundane or out of the blue, like “What would you like for dinner?” he would say, “I haven't given it much thought, and furthermore, I'm not going to change my mind.” I really appreciated that sense of humor, and I found it to stand me in good stead.
In my early twenties, consistently a group of three of us, and sometimes more—would get together to consider all things spiritual. And one evening it came up that Jesus died on the cross for your sins. And again, out of the blue I had this overwhelming, vehement response, “No. No, that is not true.” Well, nobody had ever told me that; I had never read it. My friends looked at me like I had two heads. Well, fast forward and these same two friends took me off to the Dallas First Annual Psychic Fair to hear the Reverend Dr. Bill Bahan speak. The next thing I knew I was at Lake Rest, and then at a one month class at 100 Mile House. Sitting in the little Log Chapel, I heard Uranda's voice for the first time, and the tears came. It took me right back to that rose garden, which must have been August 4 th, 1954. He was introducing “Meeting My King” [Uranda August 14, 1953] and I was meeting my King who didn't die on the cross. I'm sure you've had these knowings—perhaps they are preform thoughts. Coming events do cast their shadows, and then in the spiral of living they come round to come true.
I’ll give you one more incidence. I met Tom Starrs on two casual occasions, and only knew him through his writings in “Word of Grace.” When my good friend came home from Green Pastures engaged to Tom, I thought, “No, no! I'm supposed to be with him.” I went home talking to myself. Then I let it go. Well, 20 years or so later a mutual friend put us together at a dinner party, and we're still together. No, I'll give you one more regarding a trip for Integrity where Chris Foster intercepted me on my first landing in Bombay (now Mumbai) India. We were riding into the city past miles of mounds with people seemingly living on them. It was all so familiar to me! When I grabbed his arm, and said, “Chris, Chris, I know this place,” he replied, “Yes, Deborah, I believe you do, but you're hurting my arm.”
So we have these knowings. Some Bible verses came to mind, from Philippians 4:7, “And the peace,”—we could say “knowledge”—of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ.” This is the Christed mind. From Habakkuk 2:14, “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” These knowings are not gut feelings or guardian angels. No, it's the angel coming forth with the knowledge of the Lord.
In recent years I've been watching and praying unceasingly. Human nature is quite predictable; it's ancient in fact. It wants to control everything—from the weather, the climate, the population, people and events, money—to be as God. It seeks to control through fear, manipulation, guilt, coercion, and deception is the big one. It would be quite comical if it wasn't so brutally destructive. Oh, yes, and human nature loves to brag; it's arrogant. A far cry from “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.”
I recall Uranda mentioning that there were 7 billion angels looking after this planet. So am I to believe him? or am I to believe a mind-made computer model, behind which is an agenda, where we are all tended over by machines of loving grace? I think not, and really, what does it matter, if I know. I know the provision of the Lord is such to provide for however many of us are here; and who knows? it may just take that number of us here to get the job done.
I test the spirits constantly. Thomas Jefferson had a great bit of advice: “Fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness, even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.” Here, here! Principled opposition is priceless. I am reminded that the Master turned over the tables of the money changers. That must not have been pretty. He exposed them all, especially those in power. “Whited sepulchres, full of dead men's bones” are still with us. This passage from Luke 8:17 comes to mind. “For nothing secret, that shall not be made manifest, neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.”
We'd say that all things come to light. As things do come to light, we see them only with our eyes and no emotional entanglements. That is not to say that we do not feel deeply. Jesus wept. I've wept. I’m sure you have too. There has been so much suffering in the world that seems so unnecessary, unless people awaken. Who will watch and pray? Martin mentioned in a service that we are moving into an atmosphere in the cosmos where the distortion of human nature can no longer be tolerated. I am interested in participating in that, bringing beauty, compassion, the truth of being, as I move in the biosphere and pneumasphere. I have great compassion for leadership, consistently down through the ages, committed to the restoration of man. We play an intercessory role in our immediate circumstances, individually and together. We find ourselves in great good company with many people we don't really know, who are doing the work, too.
I was a frequent visitor to the Hundred when Martin was there and always said “goodbye” before I left. Prior to one particular departure I was directed to the garden where I found him admiring the blooms. I took his hand in both of mine and told him, “I can't imagine being alive and not knowing you.” He smiled and laid his hand on mine so that he had both hands on one of mine, and said, “We are all richly blessed.” At that moment a cloud of light descended and enveloped us. I know this can happen when there is agreement in heaven on earth.
Functioning to our highest vision, we have experienced increasing vision, and increasingly find ourselves in the right place at the right time, to do the delightful work we've come to do individually and together. I would just close my portion with a poem from Lord Exeter titled, “To Pray Without Ceasing” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/10/keep-your-sticky-fingers-off-creative.html]
Whatever arises, let me dwell in the secret place of the Most High.
Let there be a place of stillness in the midst of turmoil.
Let there be a place of light amidst darkness.
Let there be a place of ease amid disease.
Let there be a place of order in the chaos.
Let there be a place of love and beauty in the midst of fear and ugliness.
Let my presence be a beacon of enfolding radiance in every circumstance.
Be still and know. Thank you.
Anne — Thank you, Deborah. I like your emphasis on the fact that we find ourselves in configurations, in settings, in experiences that we haven't determined, we haven't figured them out with our minds, but when we look around we realize that we're experiencing something of the sacred, and we we derive significance and meaning from those various experiences that we find with one another. I also appreciate the fact that you were talking about true thinking, clear thinking and observing, as you said, with your eyes only; an actual knowing, in a different way than the human mind knows. And I think that the substance as it is generated, as its fuller, as it's still, allows that to happen. So I think we're talking about the same experience.
What I love is the emphasis that you brought, and what I think I was talking about, that this is actual experience. It's not an intellectual knowing, although that can come, often after the fact. But it's actually a knowing and experience. Heaven is at hand. We are, as Martin said, truly blessed. I also appreciate how you mentioned that the human mind makes interpretations of the world, as you relayed in that story about your father, you know, defining for you “integrity” and talking about “propaganda”, about how there will be things seen, maybe by others that may not be so. But there is an opportunity to see it in a whole new way. Here's a paragraph before we open it up for comments. It's in a service by Martin that was entitled “Attunement” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/08/attunement.html]:
“Many human beings have attempted to assume this attitude [the the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof] but generally speaking they immediately build up concepts about God, about the truth, and they establish once again a world based in their concepts and beliefs. So, while with the lips claims are made that there is the recognition, ‘The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein,’ it has had no effect; they remain in the hands of man. But he may think that by becoming spiritual, or at least religious, he can get around the fact that the earth is the Lord's, while continuing in his own determination to keep the world for himself, all without treading on God's toes. So these words at the beginning of this Psalm do not imply that we should begin to develop religious concepts or religious beliefs; it is merely a recognition of a fact, which we do not understand presently but which we may understand if we follow through in the creative cycle by which we are restored into the state where heaven and earth are one in our own experience.”
I think that you could replace spiritual and religious experience by political. There are many belief systems and concepts through which people view the world, and to actually have clear thinking is something that we have a responsibility for and access to. So I just wanted to mention that, too. The earth is the Lord’s, and that includes our own consciousness. Life, the Creative Process is moving through all of us and moving us with that, and that doesn't mean we are powerless victims. But we are in union with what moves because we are that also. I’d like to open up now for comments from any of you who wish to say something in our company today.
Greg Fladager — I think it's just a pleasure to be connected in this way. I was thinking, as I was listening to you two, that who you are came through so loudly; and I really appreciate what you said.
Millicent Holliday — Who you are came through so loudly with me and I feel I have to jump right in now and voice my shear delight at the beauty of what both of you offered. You gave such a clear picture of what it actually means to come to a place of realization, of knowing absolutely, with no shadow of turning that one can only keep moving upward in the spiral, and never ever turn our backs on the truth that we know. That to me is what you both embodied today, just inviting us into the Temple of Light. And I'm so aware of all that Uranda did was inviting us into the Temple, through the Seven Steps to the Temple of Light which is the attunement process; and as we come to realization, purification is a natural thing, and then we are in the inner realms, and heaven and earth are one. I do so appreciate the beauty of what you both provided.
David Barnes — Deborah, Anne, I experienced waves of deep emotion, deep feeling moving through my heart as you spoke and told stories. There were times where I felt the experience of those Biblical stories when one man came in contact with the angel, and was brought to his knees, bowed his head toward the ground, and was speechless before the beauty of the spirit that was present. And the word of the angel says, “Stand up. You are me on earth. You are my beloved Son. Find your voice. Speak my Word. Feel the depth of my great heart in your heart.” I love the stories that you told Deborah because they activate this great current of spirit. And Anne, I lived with you over the last seven months as you've gone through what you shared with us of your story around attunement; and the atmosphere of our whole home is changed. The pneuma-field in which I walk is transformed. Living in that attunement field, conflict is impossible. Step out of it and one is in the midst of the horror. Because you brought a presence of one who knows, there's stillness and humility, deep gratitude, a sense of oneness and love. It makes it easy to say “I love you.” And as Martin said to you Deborah, we are so blessed to be together, knowing what we know of these heavenly things on earth. Thank you both deeply.
Shirley Malin — This seems like a good point for me to follow; thank you for all your comments to this point. I'm marveling at the gentleness of the atmosphere that's you created here, something of this wonderful responsibility of the female, and female in agreement. To me this is something that the earth is longing for, because we have created so much chaos in our attempt to compete with one another, or to outsmart someone. And here we are coming together with a renewed innocence about the truth of love. I love the opening of this purification aspect in the attunement process because that is where this healing current for the body of man is going to originate. We are in this Fourth Sacred School now, and it does require the purification of the heart, so that the true spirit can come through. And as a group I think we're finding this beginning to open up. This is an attunement process for the Archangelic Body. We share in this process, and how beautiful to have these two lovely women, in a sense of innocence, forgiveness, appreciation—we find agreement in this spirit. And all those who have offered something have shared in the intensification of this process together. So I'm most grateful to be in the company of such angels. Thank you for this beautiful opportunity to share in the Temple, at this time.
Davina Misroch — I'm aware of very deep power here, and it's coming from the profound humility that I witnessed, experienced with Anne and Deborah. There's something in that current of humility, and coming up is an immense sense of power which is coming from that transcendent reality into the dimensional place in space and time through these two women, and through us collectively as we participate in it. If we witness it we are changing it or co-creating it. And I have that experience, not just observing it. But actually something is occurring here which defies description. I wish to acknowledge it, so thank you.
Christina Pivarnik — Hmm, it always is magnificent to come and behold Him; to have this sacred time. I love this grouping, because there's no limit to where we can go in spirit together. And Anne, as you spoke of your experience of attunement, I too have experienced that for so many years, and it's new and fresh every day, every moment. And Deborah, I've loved you for so many years, it's beautiful to share your spirit. So how blessed we are that we can come together and open our hearts in joy and worship and singing praise to that Great One, the Eternal One. I love that this is where we are right now, in this upper room that we can share these times together, and it's always available. So Zoom might end here in a little bit, but the connection and the current does not. It just continues to build and to grow and to radiate, and that is that precious substance. So I thank you both for your focus and for everyone’s substance that's contributed to this exquisite hour together.
Marsha Bogolin — It has been exquisite. Actually, it was a rich feast from both of you. Anne, I think I could talk about 25 things that you said; but the two that stand out to me right now is how much opened for you through this beginning to share attunement on a regular basis, long distance, and what that opened of new insights and thinking for you. And also the responsibility of holding that sacred space before, during and after. For me, you amplified the attunement server’s experience. Many times I've focused more on, well, what did the person who received the attunement experience? So I really appreciate that. And Deborah, your stories—both of you spoke from your own experience very genuinely, with great power and clarity—your stories, Deborah, were so intimate. I am so grateful that you shared them with us; and particularly what you shared of your time with Martin. For me that that brought vividly back that depth of intimacy of knowing that I'm sure many of us had of this Being, and our very specific connection with this Being, and what that evokes from us of what is ours to do, of being at the right place at the right time now, as the whole solar system moves into a new vibrational space, where the human distortions can no longer exist. I am so proud of you, my sisters. You make me happy to be a woman. Thank you.
Robert Merriman — Deborah and Anne, I so appreciate the space that you've brought us into here, that you've invited us into, and that you've held. The ease and the naturalness of it is something I'd really like to emphasize; and also the power. Sometimes I've thought of power as something that you strain to release power—I'm going to radiate! And it's so clear in what we're sharing in this moment that it actually comes through another way, through the heart. And I'm also reminded of the command to tarry in the upper room; and I feel we have tarried here today, thanks to what you have brought, and the willingness of all of us on the line to go there with you. This is an exquisite gift; a great treasure indeed! I am with you in this, as I hold this with you in a relaxed way in the days to come.
Deborah — I feel that veil has thinned for many of us, and it's also thickened for others. This idea of tarrying actually came up in this Bible verse, that “the knowledge of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.” Our minds and hearts are kept well and clear if we stay in that sacred space. That’s not to say that we don't act; it’s not to say that we don't feel deeply, but we have “right-use-ness” in the moment where we know what and how to do and say. That would be my concluding thought. Thank you for all your kind comments, what's true of me or you is true of all. There are 7 billion angels incarnate on the planet. How do we know? We know because their eyes blink.
Anne — I'd like to read a devotion by Martin: “In the quietness and serenity of this moment we are aware, O Lord, that the truth is true, and we are aware of our individual responsibility to make known that truth in daily living, that every thought, every word, every action may be the evidence of the radiation of Thy spirit, which is known as our own. Thy spirit remains unknown to us until it is our own. Then the radiation of life, characterized by the truth of love, shines forth into the earth in creative expression, that all things may be made new and revealed as new by the reflection of that light out of the world of our environment. We are deeply thankful, O Lord, in this moment for the joy of letting this true attunement be reestablished, that the oneness of heaven and earth may once again permeate the consciousness of mankind, all to Thy glory, in the Christ. Aum-en.”
Steve Ventola — That is a great way of concluding Anne. In simple words, I would say, Let's let love radiate. Our next Temple of Light Service be on August 21st, when Jae Hyoung Lee and Dukhee Kang, our Korean friends, will be leading us in service. We look forward to that time.
We know that the world as it was first created, the Divine Estate, was one with Heaven—the world that then was and Heaven were One. There was no evil separating the two, and as Divine Man functioned it was in a full consciousness, or as full as might be necessary, of the activities of the Inner Planes; but when man fell and brought about the turmoil that has since existed, a division as far as man was concerned was established—a veil beyond which he could not penetrate. In the Motherland when man first fell, areas were set apart where the fallen ones were placed and a vibrational wall was established so that they could not go through that wall unless they responded to the LORD. It was impossible for them to penetrate that wall. As evil beings multiplied and increased it became necessary for those who remained in the Divine Estate to withdraw from the world because their presence gave fallen man undue privileges and opportunities—and a number of things happened.
The wall that had separated fallen man from Divine Man, here on the surface of the earth, was simply moved to a point where it separated fallen man from the Inner Planes. The so-called veil or point of separation that we now have between this outer world and the Inner Planes is identical in nature and structure to that wall that was used to confine the fallen ones in the first place to any allocated area in the earth's surface. That should open up something to you. These wayward ones could have walked out through that wall into the world of Divine Man at any time if they had been willing, completely, without any reservation, to let go of their evil ways and to harmonize in the ways of God. Since that is true, the same thing applies now. That should give you something to think about. The veil that was rent asunder in the Temple at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus is a symbol of the way the veil will be rent asunder in the world, opening up an interplay between Heaven and earth, the Inner and the outer planes. It will be because that veil is rent asunder that we can, in due season, see Jesus Christ and the Host that is with Him. This wall of limitation that was established around fallen man, and is the wall of limitation as far as God is concerned, is still established around fallen man.
When those who were functioning according to the Divine Estate withdrew, the greatest number of them—a few remained, a few went into what we might call Asia Minor at the present time, and a few remained in Atlantis, but the majority of them withdrew. That meant that the Cosmic Vibrations flowing into the world had to begin to function through the consciousness of fallen man, whereas before they had to function through the consciousness of Divine Man who was polarized in reality. The earth up to that point was polarized according to the way it was created, but when that Cosmic Force began to flow through fallen man, the earth itself was thrown out of polarity. The subterranean supports of Lemuria crumbled, and the Garden of Eden, amidst flames of fire that burst out of the bowels of the earth, vanished below the waters of the Pacific.
The true teaching was retained in Atlantis, and Atlantis was given an opportunity to return to God. This great cataclysm that had overtaken the world should have made men and women turn to God. It did for a little while, but in Atlantis the machine age developed, a machine age that surpasses anything at the present time, and man depended upon the machine rather than upon God. And finally it reached a point where those Divine Men and Women who still remained as teachers in the world had to withdraw, because human beings insisted on walking in the way of evil rather than return to God. So they ascended, and the earth was thrown still further out of polarity, and this further shift in the earth's axis—not in the same direction as before—caused all of this ice that had been formed up here in this north country for a thousand years to begin to shift. It caused various portions of the continents to rise up from underneath the water again, and it caused new mountains to appear, and it caused this great sheet of ice that had been established in the north—the land was lifted and the earth shifted on its axis—to come sliding down upon this continent, and there immediately followed what has been called the Ice Age.
Within 500 years, roughly, the memory of Lemuria and Atlantis was virtually forgotten, though dim legends were passed down from generation to generation. Only a few people survived. Those few began to gradually increase in numbers until finally man reached a point in his progress, some 5000 to 6000 years ago, where he began to record his doings. There was a period of around 5000 years, from the time of the submersion of Atlantis and the catastrophe of this ice sheet, until human beings progressed sufficiently—in Egypt, for instance—to begin to make a written record. From that point on we have recorded history covering about the past 5000 years, but up to that point our ordinary histories have nothing to say.
As man began to replenish the earth, God established a way by which he could again become aware of the things of God. In the Motherland there had been Seven Sacred Schools, but man had gone down to the very bottom and has been slowly coming up again from the days of the cave man. The First Sacred School was established by Melchizedek through Abraham, and then it was continued through Joseph and Moses, and the people were carried finally into the Promised Land. In this experience, through the portrayal of circumstances, the fundamental principles of the world release into reality were made manifest. But Israel, once in the Promised Land, everything going more or less nicely, became content and ceased to expand spiritually. And so, the children of Israel failed. The First Sacred School failed. Jesus came and established the Second Sacred School. This teaching was working from the basic standpoint of the mental approach so that the world could have been transformed and carried into the Ideal State at that time if the world had responded, but it would not. We find that by 300 A.D. the light that He had established was pretty well blotted out and for a thousand years of stagnation the world had to endure the Dark Ages. In the 13th century the expansion began to manifest; knowledge began to increase, and it has been increasing with intensified speed during the last 600 years. And so we come to the present.
Looking forward, we see that the same principle that was working at the time of the submersion of Atlantis and Lemuria must be reversed to bring the New Earth state into manifestation. “And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth: for the first Heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.” What does it mean, there will be no more sea? It is because the continents that have been submerged are to arise. The earth is over three-quarters water now. It will be over three-quarters land. That means that there must be established a dominant focal point of consciousness in the world which will, in due season, take over the control of the mass consciousness so that the Cosmic Vibrations will begin to work through the polarized consciousness of those on the earth, and that will throw the earth back into polarity. As that happens, the continents will arise. The earth will again be in position to be Eden, Paradise restored.
It will take a long time, comparatively speaking, from that time until the evil works of man will be eliminated from the face of the earth. The Bible specifies a period of about a hundred years—one hundred years of reconstruction after the earth has been thrown back into polarity, and after the continents have been brought back, and man is really functioning from the standpoint of the New Earth state. We see, then, that our own harmonization in right polarity, and what we do towards maintaining and establishing more fully that right polarization, is essential for the salvation of the world and for bringing the earth back into true polarity so that the New Earth can manifest. Someone has to do it—has to stand so steady, so constant, through the coming period of turmoil that the right polarity of consciousness will be established. When the evil forces of consciousness have crumbled by their own evil, the Focal Points of Reality will be unveiled and will permit the Cosmic Forces to begin to right this wobbling old earth upon its axis, and then will come the beginning of the New Earth state.
Of what value is all of this to us here and now? It helps us to have a clearer understanding of what God has provided for the salvation of man and what is to take place. But we have definite problems to face. We are confronted with the necessity of living in the now. The First Sacred School and the Second Sacred School left records of activities which are of vital importance in working things out in this Third Sacred School. We could go back and study the various events—but we are going to skip that part of it and come up to the point of the Second Sacred School, from the life of Jesus on, and consider that in relationship to the present, particularly the latter part of His activities on the earth. Just prior to His crucifixion, He was acclaimed by thousands, but as soon as there was a little questioning, somebody whispering and talking, someone not sure that it was wise to be seen with such a man, what happened to the thousands, the ones who had cried, “Hosanna to the King?” Where were they? Very discreetly they departed—discreetly according to their own human concept.
We could stop and consider Christianity, the modern church, as it is now known. I am not finding fault, I am pointing to the facts. But if all those who had classified themselves as Christians had been functioning according to what the Christ Life meant, do you think that the present circumstances would have worked out as they have? No. Christians were given an opportunity, as few people have been given in this modern day, to so live that the world could still have been carried into the New Earth state without complete world crucifixion. We see that—don't we? Millions who have been classifying themselves as Christians; nations who have been classifying themselves as Christian nations—and what has happened? We have millions crying, “Hosanna to the King.” And they think they are going to get something for nothing. But when it comes to the pinch of everyday living, of really standing effectively, they discreetly depart, as in the days of old. They do not think.
If these millions had been functioning in the power of God, this old world could not be in the shape that it is now. So it is in the day-by-day activity that individually and collectively the peoples of the world have been judging themselves. And as it came close to the time of crucifixion in the world, the power of Christians, as such, was not very strong. The crucifixion is in process and the church has been on trial, everybody has been on trial, as Jesus was on trial. As that trial miscarried insofar as justice and mercy were concerned, so came the beginning of the present conflict in the world. There are those who would like to say, “Oh, well, it was just Hitler and Mussolini,” and so on. It does not detract anything from the character of those individuals to recognize that they could never have gotten into power if that which was not like unto themselves was not in the nations. The very fact that such creatures can manifest and go to the top shows the state of the world. It is not just those nations alone but all other nations too, because if greed and selfishness had not been working through all nations, such a thing could not come to pass. We are not dealing just with two or three individuals, we are dealing with the fundamental condition that contaminates humanity. How is this condition to be removed? Through this process of world crucifixion.
What happened after the crucifixion of Jesus? He was taken down from the cross. What is it that the world is being crucified on? On the cross of the self-willed human body and its lust and greed and everything else. Then after the crucifixion, what? The tomb. Do you think that just as soon as this crucifixion is over everything is going to be alright? No. They may have thought, everything is going to be alright, just as soon as we kill the Son of God. We will hang Him on the tree, and everything will be all over. They were not thinking, were they? The world hangs itself indeed. They thrust the sword into the side of Jesus. Then comes the period of the tomb. We are in the period of the crucifixion now, and will be for some little time. I cannot tell you exactly how long. There is nothing established about it. The period of the crucifixion will continue; but then the world is to be placed in the tomb, the world itself, because the blackness of the tomb will be engulfing this world more than ever, and it will be only those who are polarized in the Life, in the understanding of the things of God, in the realization of the Presence of God through the Father within, who will be able to carry through the period of the tomb and emerge victorious as Jesus did.
The period of the tomb won't be over in a week or two—it will not be a short time; depending on how human beings react, it can be shorter or longer, but it will be a period of the tomb, and the things which Jesus prophesied will manifest still more fully then: famines, earthquakes in divers places, etc. The old earth is trembling on its axis, getting ready for the shaking on its foundations which will return it to right polarity. The period of the tomb will carry up to the time of the shift, and that will be the rolling away of the stone from the tomb when that takes place.
Comparatively few of the human beings now living will be able to carry through that period, but no one will be able to carry through unless—I am not saying all evil ones, because there will be some who are working contrary to the Will of God will carry through clear past that point—but insofar as we are concerned we recognize that to carry through successfully we have to be polarized in the Source of Life, we have to be willing to work under limited conditions, we have to have our lives so fully dedicated to service that little else matters. And then we come to a time of a few years of world intense suffering—we are in it already actually. The Fire of God coming down from Heaven is devouring all the people of the world. Either we respond in love to it, or we fight against it and become destroyed.
Can we face these facts and consider these things and not become fearful? Does it make you afraid when we paint this picture as it is unfolding in the world, or can you look at it calmly, serenely, and say, “Let it come.” It is better to have these few years of intensive suffering and have it over with, than to continue for thousands of years, dragging out the misery. People are so prone to say, “Well, if we could just return to normal times.” What normal times? The best time you can mention in the scope of your memory in this present life, or back in recorded history? What shall we say? We have not had any normal times since the time that man fell and we will not have any normal times until we get back to the Divine Estate. Well then, we know that misery, suffering and sorrow are going to continue until they are wiped out, and until the New Earth state emerges victoriously. It is that to which we look.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men.” (Revelation 21:1) Now we can take that statement as applying prophetically just to the period that is described; but if it was true then it must be true now. The Tabernacle of God is with men, and has been all the time. All men have to do is to see it. What is this new Jerusalem? It is the new spiritual consciousness, the understanding of Divine things as seen from the spiritual standpoint. Instead of looking at it from the old standpoint—external effects—we are looking at it from the new standpoint. To the degree that you actually function according to the principles of the Third Sacred School, you are letting the Fire of Heaven come down, letting the New Jerusalem manifest, the new spiritual consciousness. It is taking place just to the degree that it is permitted to, but ultimately it will take place in all the world.
In the past, people have looked at things from the physical and mental standpoint. Now, making an adjustment, we are looking at things from the spiritual standpoint, from the standpoint of spiritual perception, the point of attunement between man and God, to stand in the Holy Place. We see that as we let this New Jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven all the former things are caused to pass away. We are not trying to maintain the former things. We are not struggling for the former things. Yes, for an examination of the things that were before the fall of man we have to look back a long way; and we are working in the present so that we may have a part in that fulfillment.
After Jesus arose there was a period before they recognized Him. Mary Magdalene saw Him, but did not recognize Him. So then, after this period there will be a time of adjustment, but finally the people will be able to see Him as He is. And that is what is called the second coming of Jesus, when the people can see Him as He is, and when the veil is seen to be rent in twain. It is already rent in twain, but does not seem to be. And so, we see how He pictured for us the days that are at hand, and how it will be after the world resurrection into the New Earth state. The stone is thrown away from the tomb, the world is thrown back into polarity, for the former things are passed away. Is this pleasing to you, although all around is darkness? Is that a beautiful picture instead of the darkness that is between this point and that goal? The old world won't let it be any quicker or better. The days are to be shortened for the elect's sake. It will be shortened as much as possible. But the world will have to learn to let go of the unreal, let it crumble. We must not cling to it. We will have to realize it and let it go. Isn't that right? If we cling to it we will be carried out with it. Is that a hard doctrine? It is the Doctrine of Love. You are to serve God, and others likewise. We are asked to respond to the LORD in Love, but we cannot save the individual who will not let himself be uplifted. Each must make his own choice. We cannot make it for others.
1953 — 2053
UrandaApril 23, 1944
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You will remember that I stated that the destruction of evil by evil during the period of the Tomb would unveil the Focal Points of Reality, who should begin to take control of the world activities at a point designated in time as 1953. The purpose of the sounding of the 7thTrumpet is this: “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” That is the fulfilment of the outworking of the Cosmic Plan towards which we look.
During the time of the sounding of the 7thTrumpet the nations will be angered, and that which is pictured as the wrath of God will be made manifest in the world against the nations that have chosen to defy God. During the blowing of the 6thTrumpet, which is now taking place, one-third of the people of the world are destroyed, but those who remain, who have chosen the unreal will not repent; so the destruction of evil and evil-doers is continued through the blowing of the 7thTrumpet, until the Temple of God is opened in heaven from the standpoint of the whole world.
In this we have an outline picture of what we can expect in the years to come. We can see something of what the world has to pass through; we see something of the responsibility that rests upon us; and we can see that the period of opportunity which the Lord provides in the early part of the sounding of the 7thTrumpet, when its vibrations begin to manifest from a world standpoint must be a period of great expansion in the Service of the Lord in the earth.
It is not wise for human beings who are inclined to react to ill things more or less, and who are not yet perfectly polarized in Reality, to be too concerned about the future and what it holds. It should emphasize to every Earnest One the absolute necessity of his doing his part, of his letting the Temple of God be opened in heaven within himself. It is obvious from the outline that the days of the “greater works” which Jesus mentioned are at hand.
When we look out upon the world and its turmoil, it is evident that there are tens of thousands of people who are honestly and sincerely seeking to do the right thing, and to move in the right direction, in all lands and creeds and races. These are they who are responding to the Call of God to “come up hither.” It is because of these hundreds of thousands of Responding Ones who hunger and thirst after righteousness that the need for an increased manifestation of the Light in the earth is so great. The question arises: What are you individually going to do about it? To what degree is each one who has been given an opportunity to consciously know of the Divine Plan going to let himself be dedicated to being a focal point through which the sounding of the 7thTrumpet may manifest.
In concluding this Fireside Talk, I wish to remind you, and all who may read these words, that the outworking of the period of Transition is, according to the Bible, to take 100 years, dating from 1953, before the full outmanifestation of Eden restored will be in evidence. This 100-year period, dating from 1953, is mentioned, and described, in Isaiah 65: 17 to 25 inclusive, and the 20th verse specifically indicates the 100-year period of transformation for the world—or, in other words, it states that after the Focal Point of Reality in the earth has been granted primary control in the world outworking it will take 100 years for the earth to be restored to its Edenic State. Therefore, the full manifestation to the New Earth State can be expected at about 2053A.D.
For your further information in gaining an understanding of this text, remember that the New Jerusalem is the New Spiritual State of Consciousness for the whole world, and that the old Jerusalem now manifest represents the present state of man's consciousness. In the 19th verse, God says: “I create Jerusalem a rejoicing.” This is the same New Jerusalem spoken of in the Book of Revelation.
Concerning a clear understanding of the second part of the 20th verse, which reads: “For the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed,” I would point out that God is here speaking about the New Heaven and the New Earth which He is going to create. The beginning of that creative period in 1953 is symbolized as the birth of a child. That cycle, symbolized by the child, will be completed in 100 years, which shows why it is stated that “the child shall die an hundred years old.” It is further noted that “the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.” This is a statement to the effect that, during this 100-year period, that which sinners have done, or accomplished, or expressed, in the earth, will be eliminated from the earth during this 100-year period.
