The Woman, the Body, Archangel Michael

The  Woman, the Body, the Archangel Michael

Emerging Focalizations in the Sanctuary  

Uranda  February 11, 1949

At the home of Rev. William Oshanek. Those present were: Kathy Meeker, Rose Forker, Grace van Duzen, Lillian Call, Mildred and Robert Patton, Richard and Dorothy Thompson, Billie and Vernon Fahey, Roz and Ralph Hooper, Bertha Meyer, Fern Meeker, William and Muriel Oshanek.

The purpose for which we are gathered here tonight is to take another step forward in letting the reality of the One Christ Body be made more truly manifest. In this it is needful that we should begin to develop an awareness of what I have often called the Machinery of Reality. I have called you here tonight because you carry key positions in the formation of the Body whereby we are to let the Spirit of the Living Christ find manifestation on earth. In order that such things may be, there must be control. What do we mean by that word control? It is not that, by some arbitrary or dictatorial method, human beings should be controlled, regardless of their own wills or choices. Control, in the outer worldly sense, does not convey a true meaning of what we mean or wish to convey. Control results from correct polarity in obedience to the Law, and from agreement in the Mind that was in Christ Jesus, as we let the Fire of God’s Love work through the Patterns of Truth, in the accomplishment of His Will on earth.

This to me is a most solemn occasion, and as we let the Spirit of God control, we shall find that all of life's richest joys and blessings are increased and made more beautiful in the Currents of Control. In our present expression of Ministry on earth you represent the Primary Focalizations in the Unit by reason of which Control becomes a reality. The force that is of God is abundantly available, but that force cannot become, in actual manifestation here on earth, the Power of God except as human beings let that force find expression through themselves in controlled activity. In introducing our consideration for the evening, I thought to read four paragraphs from the current mailing,  copies of which are available to you at the main Ranch House [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/02/hold-vibration-and-radiation-steady.html]:

“Our problem as a Unit, as you all recognize from previous Services, is in finding in actualized realization the point of true agreement, physically, mentally and spiritually, through that Mind that was in Christ Jesus. Our activities in the material, or physical, plane provide the greatest opportunity for observing the effectiveness of our movement toward agreement; our activities in the mental plane, our thoughts and our words, play their part in the seen and the unseen realms of our Unit function; and the Spiritual Expression phase of our manifest trinity should be functioning on both the seen and the unseen Planes of Being with much more meaning than it is.

“The Spiritual Expression plane should manifest as a Spirit of Gentle Benediction over all, which is above and beyond those things that tend to produce petty reactions, bickerings and inharmonies. That Spiritual Expression Plane of our trinity of manifestation should be as a halo, as a Glow of Heavenly Light that rests benignly over and around each Member of this Unit, and all that we think and say and do.

“We have talked about the future, knowing unworthiness, or the limitation of the expression of God’s Power through us, knowing that it could not yet be in the state in which we found ourselves; we have talked of the Greater Works in the futuristic sense. Blessed Ones, that must not remain futuristic forever. If it be always tomorrow—and tomorrow never comes—there will come a day, surely, that will not be tomorrow, when we will have to face and answer the query of our KING. God forbid that we should come to that day empty-handed. We are not playing child's games, and we are not experimenting with the whimsical fancies of the human mind. We are here to perform a specific task under the Decree and Commission of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings Himself. The Greatest Calling that could be granted to any human being has come to you, the greatest opportunity, the greatest privilege, the greatest responsibility. Do we live and move and have our being in a consciousness of that great fact? Does that fact of reality that IS permeate our feelings, our thoughts, our attitudes, and consequently our words and our deeds?

“The LORD of Lords Himself came into the earth to intercede for humanity, ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’ He interceded for you, and when the day came that the world crucified Him and the intercessory work had to pass to the hand of another, there was not a break; and intercession has continued—and you are called to be Branches of the One Vine, Members of the One Body, the Manifest Form through which the intercessory work may begin in the Great Judgment. The final judgment and the work of executing the judgments, cannot be carried on, no matter how just the judgments, no matter how inevitable the results, except there be an intercessor who is worthy of the name. How much longer are we going to compel our KING to wait?—for that in essence is what it is. While we bicker in our human minds, and question as to how far we will let go, and excuse ourselves, and stand as accusers one of another—while we do all of these foolish, childish things, we make our KING wait, and wait, and wait some more. He has waited long enough. In this year of our LORD, one thousand nine hundred forty-nine, let us cease forcing our KING to wait, and begin, as One, to wait on Him, to let His Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven, that all the world may come to know that His is the Kingdom and the Glory and the Power forever. Since the Power IS His, the Power cannot manifest through this Unit until this Unit IS His—not becoming His, not hoping to be His, but IS His, because it has let go in True Love Response to Him and has allowed His Spirit to be revealed, so that the Spiritual Expression manifest through this Unit shall be a Heavenly Benediction, carrying the atmosphere of the Divine into the earth—benign, serene, unmoved by the storms in the world, and so that the mental function in thought and word may reveal the One Mind, the Mind that was in Christ Jesus, and so that the acts may be a true revelation of Faith; for ‘Faith without works is dead.’ Let us be ‘Doers of the Word, and not hearers only.’ Let us not be like those individuals who have such a vast difference between what they think they do and what they do do.”

In time past, to varying degrees at various times, I have talked to you somewhat concerning the formation of the Body, the reality of the Unit. I have pointed out for instance that in a personal sense I am not a Member of that Body, and that the Head of the Body in reality is centered in manifest form, and that the formation of the Head and of the Body as a Whole is being built and brought into manifestation around that Central Point. That which, in this sense, is the beginning formation of the Head, I have called the Nucleus, and the beginning formation of the Body as a Whole I have called the Unit.

Long ago the word of Wisdom was expressed: “Man, know thyself.” Only to the degree that you know and understand yourself can you know and understand others. Only to the degree that the Unit understands itself can the Unit understand those to whom it is to Minister, and only to the degree that it understands itself can it understand the expression of the Will of the Father made manifest through it. We remember that, with the individual, the true or correct function of the body is not controlled or dictated by the head. So, also, with the Unit, the Nucleus does not, and is not intended to, control or dictate the function of the Body. The control of the whole Body, which includes the Head, is supposed to rest in the Father. The purpose of the Unit is to let the Spirit of the Living Christ find incarnate expression, that is, to have a means, or a Body, through which to manifest on earth. Only to the degree that there is purity of heart and mind can there be a realization of the actuality of the Spirit. It is at this point that we begin to touch upon the Service that is ordained with respect to the Little Chapel. Our gathering here tonight relates to that Service through the Little Chapel.

Last evening, six of you who are here now, gathered with me in Kathy’s and my room, to set up the initial cycle or to make a starting vibration with respect to the Ministry through the Little Chapel. There was a beginning with respect to realization and the actuality of function in the Creative Work of God on earth. There was the beginning of the realization of a deeper meaning that is to be found in the word Spirit. The Spirit of the Living Christ is One Spirit. It was, and is, the Spirit that found manifestation through Jesus Christ, our LORD when He walked on earth, and it is the Spirit of His Being now as He reigns LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, Supreme Ruler of the Whole Holy World. It is that Spirit which must manifest through this Unit if the Unit is to be an Expression of the reality that IS. It is needful that the Unit should understand itself, that each Focalization should begin to understand that which is in fact focalized.

This Unit could never have meaning if its outer form had been developed merely by making arbitrary appointments, putting such and such a person here, and such and such a person there, and saying, “This is your position or your office”, according to the organizations of the world. The formation of this Unit has evolved by reason of the actuality of that which is focalized through the individuals involved, not because I told them to fill such and such a place, but because, as we have functioned together in the Name of our KING, there has been, perhaps gradually but nevertheless surely, the actual evolving of a specific focalization in each one here.

As we realize this, and recognize that what we consider here is sacred to the Service of the Temple not made with hands, that actually we have gathered as in a Sanctuary, there will begin to be a new attitude, a new feeling, a new recognition. We are not to be here as human beings; we are to be here as aspects or phases of the Spirit of the Living Christ made manifest in and through the forms of human beings. As each one reaches a point of being sufficiently impersonal with respect to the human manifestation, so that each can let the Divine Personality manifest, it will be recognized that our Ministry in the Sanctuary is not the expression of human beings, but that it is the expression of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Living Christ made manifest in its various phases through human beings. The Spirit is One Spirit, and because it is One Spirit, and it permeates all Members of the Unit, the Unit becomes in truth One Body; but that One Spirit is infinite in its scope of expression. If every man, woman and child upon the face of the earth were completely dedicated in purity of heart and mind to the expression of the Spirit, and if all were therein obedient to the Will of God, and if all the creatures of the earth and all things whatsoever were fully under the Dominion of the One Spirit, then it might be said that the various phases of the One Spirit have adequate expression and adequate release in this world. The world is as it is because it has not allowed the expression of the One Spirit to have meaning.

The focalizations of the Unit here gathered cannot possibly allow the complete and full manifestation of the One Spirit in all of its differentiated phases, but this Unit of Focalizations can allow the primary phases of the Spirit to find expression in a manner that allows the beginning of the Creative Work of God to become a reality on earth, that the control of the Spirit may begin to have meaning, and dominion may thereby become a fact. Tonight I am undertaking to assist you, as a Group, into a new level of understanding. In so doing, I place in you a great trust, a trust that you will have an understanding spirit in your attitude toward that which is expressed, and toward the various phases which are considered within the scope of the Unit, a recognition of that which is pure and holy and sacred, of that which allows us to draw near before the Throne of God, of that which allows us to let the living, vibrant expression of the Spirit of the Living Christ find manifestation in our lives. In such function there is an increased current of the Power of God made manifest, and there comes with that increased current the increased necessity to hold true to the polarities of Being; for if the Polarities waver and the current is allowed to dissipate, the pressure resulting from world reaction can become very uncomfortable; and if it were the result of too much reaction it could become dangerous. It is essential that we keep the currents of the Spirit moving through constructive channels in a realization of the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Now I wish to read to you, on this vibration, from the Book of Revelation. There are Seven Personages indicated here which play a part, and we will consider the first five Personages:

The First Personage is the woman, the whole body of what the world recognizes as Christianity, those who have, to the best of their knowledge and ability, in sincerity, undertaken to serve our LORD and KING:

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”

Then, the Second Personage, satan or the devil, or the manifestation of man's greatness according to his own self-active mind, lacking the control which would result from submission to the Will of God:

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven”—this is that cycle of man-made achievement—“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

This is the Third Personage, the Child, the Christ Body, or the expression of the Christ through the Christ Body:

“And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”

Then, the Fourth Personage, the Archangel: “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.”

We have these two manifestations in Heaven, that is, the Spiritual Consciousness of humanity. Heaven here means the Spiritual Consciousness of humanity, the highest and the best that human beings know. We have, on the one hand, the woman, and on the other hand the great red dragon; on the one hand the Spiritual achievements made manifest through those who have sought to follow Jesus Christ, and on the other those who have achieved great things according to world standards in following after the dictates of the human mind. So, both of these Wonders are in Heaven, the Spiritual Consciousness of humanity, that which is the highest and best that is seen and known by humanity. That is what is called Heaven.

The Fourth Personage is the Archangel Michael

“There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser, of our brethren is cast down, which, accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony: and they loved not their lives unto the death.

“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea; for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

“And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

Now, here is the Fifth Personage: the Seed of the Woman. By reason of the fact of Christianity in the world, something comes forth. This fifth personage is that which you are—“The remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ,” that Unit through which the Power of the Christ is made manifest.

Here, in these words in the Twelfth Chapter of Revelation, in brief we have the whole outline of that which has been at work in our coming to this hour, and it emphasizes the necessity of right polarity; for as the devil is cast out of Heaven into the earth, it is said, “Rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

We are engaged in the beginning of that War in Heaven now. That war has been  taking place in the Heaven of your own consciousness. The devil, the self-active expression of being, has been, I trust, thoroughly cast out of your Heaven, so that you may be those Angels serving with Michael, and so that you may be the true manifestation of the Seed of the Woman, through which the Christ expression is again made manifest on earth. This is that to which we are called, and it is only in the fulness of dedication in Love to our LORD and KING that we can truly share in His Victory. It is that we may understand that to which we are called, and that Body through which His Spirit may manifest in accomplishing His Will on earth, that we are gathered here tonight.

This may be the little wheel by which the power is transmitted to the larger wheel, so that the larger wheel may move and transmit the power to the larger, until, wheels within wheels, the Power of God is operating in and through the whole of the Machinery of Reality on earth, and that which is His Will is done because His Dominion is restored and His Will controls in the expression of the New Heaven and the New Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness. I trust that, step by step without undue delay, we can move forward in bringing about a clear realization of the focus that you carry in the Unit. But that focus must be something that is of you, not that I am to appoint you to something, but rather that I wish to help you to understand that something that IS in yourselves, that you may see it and understand it for what it is, that you may function with and in a greater understanding of your fellow Members of the Unit.

We have had delays enough. The great necessity is for us to move forward effectively, doing something. I praise God for the doing that is manifesting through you. I would like to see, as we move forward, a greater cohesiveness of function, a more vibrant manifestation. There has been progress all along the line in this. I sincerely trust that, because you are here tonight, there is no development of any self-righteous spirit or attitude with respect to those who are not here. Let us remember not to judge, but let us utilize that which is at hand, that which is possible within the range of our function, to be doing in the Spirit of the Living Christ, and as we continue, this field of form shall surely become vibrantly alive, and the things needful in manifestation shall appear. Let us let this focus of the Unit here tonight become, through agreement in the Mind that was in Christ Jesus, through right function and right polarity, the controlling force by which all the others shall be helped in whatsoever way may be needful, that all may share the reality of membership in the Unit, and that each one may be a means by which some certain phase or aspect of the One Spirit may manifest effectively on earth, to the Glory of God and to the Blessing of the children of men. The Blessing of God is upon you as you abide in Love Response to Him.

©emissaries of divine light

The Spiritual Point Of Orientation

The  Spiritual  Point  Of  Orientation

Martin Cecil  December 11, 1983 p.m.

Distrust is evident, even rampant, the world around between individual human beings, between groups of people, certainly between nations, coming to a particular climax in the inability to communicate. There is one element which maintains the state where communication in any true sense is virtually impossible, where distrust is inevitable—that missing factor is an accepted point of spiritual orientation. This morning we were aware of the creative triangle putting in an appearance within the range of our own experience. There was a line drawn upon the earth; there was an apex to that base established in the heaven. This had meaning and was indeed a reality because those at each end of the base, the line drawn upon the earth, recognized and accepted the apex point of spiritual orientation. The consequence of that was peace on earth, insofar as those who were present each end of the base line were concerned. Communication was easy and natural, but only because of the apex point of spiritual orientation.

It is clear enough that there is no mutual point of spiritual orientation, therefore agreement is impossible and meaningful communication is impossible insofar as the human state of affairs is concerned. There has been the endeavor to make the world work without an apex point of spiritual orientation. This was what was lost at the point of what has been called the fall. Human beings decided that they could get along, quite well thank you, without any mutual point of spiritual orientation. This has been the case all down through such history as we know, to this very hour, and while there have been attempts to provide some sort of point which would be an apex in which the nations could trust, it has never been achieved, because this point was set up by human beings themselves. The true point of orientation is not set up by human beings. It is already a reality; it is already there. It has been most thoroughly denied in a practical sense, and so there is division, discord and conflict—it’s bound to be that way.

We have experienced a certain amount of division, discord and conflict even within what we speak of as the emissary family. We could say that there has been less of that than is usual in family situations, but it has been there nevertheless, and it has been there just to the extent that there was a failure to acknowledge a mutual point of spiritual orientation. It’s more than mental acknowledgment that is required; those who are associated with the emissary ministry very shortly made some sort of a mental acknowledgment that there was a point of spiritual orientation. Not everybody did this, and some challenged that point from time to time, which was all right. Anybody can challenge, but it doesn’t do any good in the end if there is a true point of spiritual orientation present. One of the things that was done in the human world was to try to set up something of this nature, associated with the human idea of God, through the original Christian church—the attempt was made in other ways in other religions also. But this view required someone, the pope in this instance, to provide a supposedly spiritual point of orientation for everybody. Evidently human beings in general thought they could get away with that by claiming that here was something that provided orientation in God, but factually it did not. It was a human invention. Christianity itself is a human invention.

The One who came and revealed the way, the truth and the life in His own expression did not come in order to set up a religion. He came to provide, initially at least, a manifest point of spiritual orientation for everyone. That had to start where He was, with those who were present next to Him; and this was done. The provision was made insofar as He was concerned but was not adequately acknowledged, beyond some mental acceptance, on the part of other people. If it had been acknowledged in the true sense we wouldn’t have had these two thousand years of tribulation since—but it wasn’t. So we are here now in this situation, which is consequent upon the fact that that initial point of spiritual orientation was denied, and in manifest form eliminated. The net result was that there was no spiritual point of orientation anymore on earth. Evidently the disciples endeavored to pick up the pieces, but they still found themselves incapable of providing a unified point of spiritual orientation. It wasn’t long before they were all at sixes and sevens with each other—the common human habit. So someone along the way later thought up the idea of establishing a church and a religion which would indeed be universal—but it was humanly invented and humanly set up, based in earthly heredity, the heredity that came down from the disciples. It came out of the past, in other words. Some may have claimed that it originated with Jesus—some of it did perhaps—but if something is oriented in the past it’s not real.

Your spiritual orientation is always of the present. There is no valid spiritual orientation which can be gleaned out of the past. It must be in the present—it’s the only time that spirit is present after all. It’s present now. It’s present in this now. It may have been present in that now, but that now is not this now. So it must be in this now. We recognize this and acknowledge the necessity of spiritual orientation now. We ourselves recognize that necessity, and over the years there has been the development of a certain trust in what was made available in this regard. The trust has been sufficient to allow for the experience of friendship which we now have, not only between you and me but between all of us.

Spiritual orientation is the one ingredient that is essential to peace on earth. “Peace on earth, goodwill to men.” But how? Well, “Glory to God in the highest.” We know that. Glory to God in the highest. In other words there is a high point, a spiritual point, which only has meaning when it is in expression within the range of our experience. There always has been a spiritual high point, obviously so, and people have tried to worship that high point somehow by seeing it above, wherever “above” is; but everybody had a different idea about it. It only begins to become real when it is in expression within the range of human experience. It was real by reason of Jesus. That reality has been at work within the range of human consciousness ever since, at work subconsciously—because the conscious ideas that people had about it were for the birds! It’s a good way of describing what has happened with all the mishmash of Christian doctrine, humanly invented. We would say, “Forget it!” Well most people can’t forget it, at least not right away, because it’s built into their very genes. But gradually there needs to be a relinquishment, and we have found this to be occurring in ourselves. It’s not merely a Christian thing either. It relates to all human beings everywhere. Everybody has so much to relinquish, and nobody is going to do it in one fell swoop.

It may be done to the extent that there is factually present a spiritual point of orientation which would always prove itself out as to whether it was trustworthy or not. From the standpoint of what has been occurring in our own program it has taken fifty years for the spiritual point of orientation to be sufficiently accepted as being trustworthy, that there might be orientation ever more fully in it. There are those who think of that in terms of orientation in a person. It isn’t orientation in a person, it’s orientation in the truth—but there must be a person on hand who reveals that truth. If there is no person on hand to reveal that truth, nobody can orient to the truth; the truth remains unknown. This is the way it works. From our standpoint I didn’t set it up that way, you didn’t set it up that way, but that’s the way it works. There needs to be an acknowledgment of the way it works in our own experience.

It doesn’t relate merely to one person. It relates to what it is that is being born on earth through many. What is being born is a spiritual point of orientation to which there may be an increasing evidence of acknowledgment and acceptance. The acknowledgment and acceptance is of the spiritual point of orientation. The spiritual point of orientation is far more than one person. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-voice-sounds-through-my-composite.html] It was one person in the person of Jesus. There had to be a point of initiation, and it was initiated then. But it was rejected then, and there has been an endeavor to pick up the pieces since. It can’t be done, because the orientation must always be in the present moment. Now is the appointed time. This is the present moment for us. It isn't next week; it wasn’t last week. It’s right now! And the spiritual point of orientation is present right now. We have some experience of this, some association with it, some fusion with it. There certainly is no fusion with it unless there is trust. Well no one is expected immediately to provide blind trust. There has to be sufficient divesting of self-centered motivations to reach a point where there may be a beginning recognition of the reality of the truth that is present. Only when there is that awareness beginning to flood the person’s consciousness is there a base for trust. It isn’t trust in a concept, it isn’t belief in some manifest idol; it is an awareness of the spirit of truth. It is our awareness of the spirit of truth that has allowed us to associate ourselves with that spirit and consequently to provide a means for its expression. The spirit of truth is not so niggardly that it can only appear through one person. Human beings were designed to accommodate the spirit of truth—all of them.

As this point of spiritual orientation puts in an appearance and a line is drawn upon the earth—there is agreement on earth. Immediately there is a basis of communication and agreement, which is totally lacking when those concerned are trying to make it work on this horizontal plane with just a base—there isn’t anything there. There must be an apex. In this sense there must be three points. There must be a common point of mutual acceptance. That common point is not some arbitrarily established dictatorship; human beings have tried this out over and over again; it doesn’t work. It is a spiritual point of orientation. For human beings who are merely on the base, it’s an invisible point of orientation; but it only begins to work when that invisible point takes form. Then there’s no excuse for anyone actually, even though most do not realize it to start with. It might be said, “You either orient in the truth or else!” Well that’s the fact of the matter, but we wouldn’t put it quite that blatantly to start with. We have known that is the fact of the matter for ourselves. If we don’t let it happen in us, that’s it insofar as we are concerned; we’re through! Unless it happens in the world, the world is through. But it can only happen when there is this manifest point of spiritual orientation actually present—when that is a fact. We have noted this and we have offered ourselves to provide the facility by which this may be present.

Someone has to do it. Who is going to do it? Only those who begin to awaken to the fact that this is what is necessary. Would you expect the pope to do it, for instance, or the Vatican?—expanding it a little. I am sure you are aware that there are things going on there that are not exactly the evidence of a spiritual point of orientation. One might say the same thing with respect to ourselves. There are things going on in our family which are not a revelation of the fact of a spiritual point of orientation in which everybody can trust—but I suppose you could also say this is the best we have. We can’t write it off because there are things of that nature still present. We have a certain amount of trust in the spirit of truth, do we not?

The spirit of truth calls all things to remembrance and allows for the purifying of the waters of human consciousness, the waters which symbolize the substance of consciousness, both at the level of self-consciousness and below that level. The purification is needed. A centering in the spirit of truth makes that possible. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/11/art-thou-master-of-israel.html] Birth must be of water—not only of water but of the spirit. Well the spirit is the spirit of truth. As this purification occurs, so that there begins to be something stable and factually trustworthy, then it is safe to allow an intensification of fire. The fire is the next step, isn’t it? The fire isn’t safe—it’s destructive—unless there is the stable point of orientation provided by the spirit of truth. If that is not there, then the fire is destructive, and we can envision it quite easily in terms of thermonuclear war—fire is then destructive. Even that possibility does not indicate that everything is not still under control.

The truth works. It’s human beings who get in the way of that working, and either stop getting in the way or find themselves being eliminated. All useless things are ultimately eliminated, and if mankind becomes a completely useless thing then it’s right and proper that it should be eliminated. We do not see this as something separate from our own human experience—we’re part of that too. We need to reach a point where we are quite willing that that should be so. We find ourselves being eliminated somewhere along the way in the human sense anyhow. Why not let it all come with a big bang then, get it over with? One needs to be open to that, so that there is no resistance to it—it may be just what is needed, so don’t resist it. Because you don’t resist it you begin to find, as we have found, that there is something present which cannot be eliminated. We could call that the truth, and if in our own experience that composes our identity, then it may be said that we cannot be eliminated. Human forms come and go, but there is something beyond that, which we have been speaking of as the truth.

We are here to let the truth be present so that it may be apparent in form, providing this point of spiritual orientation for all who will receive it. There are those who are receiving it. We couldn’t have had the line drawn upon the earth if there were not those who were receiving it; and because they are receiving it the evidence of agreement is there, the evidence of peace on earth to this extent. This is the way it works. So we have the responsibility of providing this trustworthy, stable point of orientation consistently, now and in all the nows to come. Doing that, we discover that the design of things reveals itself. Here is the base of the creative triangle. Nobody thought it all out—what all the great significance of it would be—but it has significance if it emerges by reason of this spiritual point of orientation. Without that, there is nothing. This has become quite apparent to us, so that we are very much concerned to allow this point to be a reality. We are not really interested in ending up with nothing. I personally would not like to have to accept the fact that I have lived a life of seventy years or so and ended up with nothing. Are any of you interested in that? Let’s have something, for a change. So we share the truth and the spiritual point of orientation. Without that there is nothing; but with that there is something, and that something becomes apparent—the design becomes increasingly apparent.

There are points along the base all over the place who mutually accept the spiritual point of orientation. It’s an interesting thing that those who compose the points of the base are the ones who also provide the spiritual point of the apex, because the triangle is one thing—it’s not three separate points with lines in between—it is one living manifest organism, and all concerned are in position to provide what is necessary at the three points. We are interested in letting more people provide what is necessary at those three points. We are not anxious to have it all to ourselves; it wouldn’t work anyway. Let it emerge. Let it be born increasingly. It will be, not because human beings rally around and say, “Let’s let it be born,” but because they can’t prevent it. And these things are happening very often in spite of us rather than because of us. I think we are accepting “because of us” a little more—we are not standing in the way quite so much. We are more willing to let it happen, let it come.

Once there is this spiritual point of orientation, let it come! Let’s balance the books. Let’s let it wind itself up as speedily as possible—a very painful business right now everywhere, isn’t it? Let’s get it over with because we provide that spiritual point of orientation. And it is done in our living moment by moment by moment; that is the only place we can do it. It doesn’t matter what our circumstances are, that’s where we do it. The only circumstances we have are the ones that are there; no use dreaming about better ones. What would better ones be anyway? No, what happens happens now, the way things are now; and we are willing, surely, to let it happen now, so we would at last gain some modicum of common sense. Sharing this, the world has opportunity to find orientation. Human beings everywhere, whether consciously or unconsciously, have the opportunity to find that orientation. We may observe that it is happening in various ways and there are those who are moving with it. Sometimes a person who moves with it thinks he has great ideas and he’s doing this and doing that and things are really rolling. That’s not what’s happening in fact; it’s just that person’s interpretation of things. But there is something underneath moving, moving, moving, and human beings are carried along with it. To the extent that they are too heavily laden they sink.

Associating ourselves with that fluid movement, all things work together to perfection because there are those present providing the spiritual point of stable orientation, those who are in fact trustworthy. Whether they are trusted or not is another question of course, but there need to be those who can be trusted so that it is possible for somebody to trust. We can look in the mirror, look in the jadestone a little, and see to what extent we are really trustworthy. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/02/come-out-of-hiding.html] So I am delighted to have the opportunity of sharing what we have, that we may be keenly aware of our spiritual responsibility.

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One Motivation —To Glorify Our King

One  Motivation — To  Glorify  Our  King

Uranda   October 9, 1952

“For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory.” The concluding portion of the Lord's Prayer is such a beautiful expression in acknowledgment of our KING. A loyal subject who goes before an earthly king acknowledges the kingship, and that concluding expression is such an acknowledgment. When those words are spoken with true meaning in the spirit of a loyal subject of the Kingdom it is an acknowledgment of the KING. It is in the spirit of that attitude that I would meditate with you upon a subject which may be called Control Factors. We have given this subject consideration before, but it is such a vast field, covering so many laws and principles, we need to learn more so that we may have a continually expanding vision, a deepening understanding and a higher sense of realization. The extent of the vision in the true sense determines the extent to which one lives. Extensive, expansive living requires true vision, clear vision, that is not limited to the immediate sphere of what may be physically seen. It is this perception with respect to that which is beyond immediate physical seeing about which we would meditate, something which to the uninitiated seems to be intangible.

The realization of the Truth brings one into a position where one may be made free to operate within such limitations as may appear, and free to operate beyond those limitations regardless of what may seem to be so to the limited realm of ordinary human comprehension. Extensive, expansive living requires clear, far seeing and this seeing is something which is not accomplished with the physical eyes. It is accomplished through the heart. Often you have, “I see”—not a matter of having seen something with the physical vision but having comprehended, having developed an inner awareness of something which had not before been known.

This matter of control factors is of vital importance, because only to the extent to which there is control in the realm of form is there a manifestation of the Kingdom, no matter how real the Kingdom may be from the standpoint of the invisible or heavenly realms of being. The reality of that Kingdom made manifest is that to which we are dedicated, and anything essential to the fulfilment of that goal is that which we not only accept but joyously receive. Resistance with respect to the necessities of correct function within the scope of the control pattern is, in fact, opposing the manifestation of the Kingdom. Any person who proves to be consistently dependable with respect to any vibrational factor of the invisible realm, giving it consistent form and meaningfulness on earth, is by that very fact a control factor in relationship to the coming of the Kingdom.

Human beings so often, even after they have made considerable progress along the way of spiritual development, are inclined to feel that the changing of the external circumstance would be the greatest blessing, and there is a tendency to look to some particular problem and become intellectually and emotionally involved in it and to feel that that particular form of manifestation would be the ideal blessing. When the human mind tends to fasten upon the manifestation of a particular blessing as an evidence of God's care, there is a disassociation of the individual himself from the Source and an identification with the problem, so that the human being is inclined to carry the spirit of gettingness instead of the spirit of givingness—and that is contrary to that which is essential to the fulfilment of the Divine Plan and the proper discharge of our responsibilities.

The Kingdom is a reality in the invisible realms. Anyone who questions the fact of the Kingdom in Heaven certainly has no consciousness of the Divine Pattern at all. The question of the reality of the Kingdom arises in relationship to its manifestation in the field of form where it may be seen and touched or examined by the human being. We realize all too keenly that this Kingdom of Heaven has not yet had adequate manifestation in form. This should cause us to be so consistent in correct function that we may, regardless of anyone else, do our part toward the development of the outer form through which that invisible Kingdom may be made visible. As soon as the consciousness of man has a true realization of that that which the Master called His Good News, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” there must be a vital, burning desire to do all that one can toward letting that Kingdom at hand have meaning on earth, not from the standpoint of trying to get into it or to get something from it, but to give it form on earth.

The pattern of motivation in relationship to centering is of peculiar importance as we examine this matter of control factors. What is the reason for the action? What is the motivating force within us? To achieve something for ourselves personally? To get something? Or is it simply to Glorify our KING?

There are two wrong patterns in relationship to function dedicated to the purpose of letting God's Kingdom have meaning on earth. The more prevalent pattern of erroneous function relates to trying to get away from something into that Kingdom as if one had to leave the earth to find it and to know it. But God created the earth and all the things that are therein—the realm of physical form—so that the Kingdom could have form on earth. It is not correct to try to get into the Kingdom in the sense of trying to get away from the things of the earth. The other erroneous pattern which very frequently manifests comes within the scope of that which is deemed to be service. The crusading spirit, the zealous reformers, tend to become side-tracked in this erroneous pattern, assuming a personal perception, as if the human being were called somehow on a basis of giving the things of the Kingdom to others on an arbitrary, fanatical basis. We see various patterns of activity in the world, schools of thought and general trends of consciousness which fall into this classification. It is definitely a pattern of separation from the Divine form. It always ignores the over-all picture and overemphasizes some particularized part which may perhaps have some real meaning, some real value in relationship to the whole, but it ignores or is ignorant of the relationship to the whole. And this specific point, which may have some real value, being over-emphasized is caused to appear either as if it were the whole, or as an attitude which causes the non-responding ones to feel that the individual is a fanatic.

From the standpoint of the Divine Pattern it is very important that we avoid anything that can properly be classified as fanaticism. But there must be zeal; we must have fire. Fanaticism always tends to move into some narrow pattern and does not partake of the wholeness Divinely ordained. Under the pattern of fanaticism there can appear to be some remarkable results, something which very often satisfies the human mind and acts as a narcotic which blinds the individual to the larger view, and the necessity of shaping the pattern with respect to that larger view, even though the immediate results are not so spectacular. This leaves the third pattern of function which is available to human beings who are interested in the fulfilment of God’s Will on earth—the correct pattern.

We have outlined the two erroneous patterns and it is because these erroneous patterns are widely manifest that we must acknowledge that the Kingdom of Heaven is not widely manifest. Erroneous patterns do not allow the manifestation of the Kingdom. They only allow a manifestation, on a temporary basis, of the erroneous pattern in the realm of form. Most human beings are supporting some such erroneous patterns rather than letting their whole energies be centralized in the correct function that allows the Kingdom of Heaven to manifest on earth. There are so many good, sincere, earnest people, deeply devoted to what they conceive to be the Christian life, or a good life, who come within the range of these two erroneous patterns. The limited human vision very often becomes seriously confused with respect to some pattern of function in the scope of the two erroneous patterns, so that lack of vision keeps the individual from seeing the difference between the central pattern and these two erroneous, or tangent patterns.

If as much earnestness, time, effort, expenditure of energy and material substance had gone into the work of bringing forth in form the right pattern, as has gone into the development of the two tangent patterns, the Kingdom of Heaven would have such manifestation on earth in this moment that there would be no power to withstand it or question it. There would be a control pattern extending into all the earth in blessing to all the children of men who would yield to it. In this one thing we have a factor which tends to slow down the development of that which God has ordained: good people, sincere, no question with respect to honesty, devoted to the tangent pattern because that is all they know. But lack of vision causes their efforts to come to naught. And this is the reason why all the millions of earnest Christians, all the millions of dollars spent, all the millions of lives lived in missionary or church or ministerial work have not brought that condition on earth where the Kingdom of God can be in actual control. The development of the tangent patterns does not allow the manifestation of power.

We are interested in the correct pattern, the one which avoids all extremes, takes into consideration all factors and remains centered with respect to purpose. And there is a Way by which the individual can, even though he does not have adequate understanding of the entire situation in any given moment, know whether or not he is properly centered, properly functioning in relationship to the fulfilment of God's Will and the coming of the Kingdom—he can know whether he is truly a control factor. The one who has reached a point of such dedication that he is willing to be a control factor no longer has any concern about getting something personally; not concerned about arbitrarily imposing anything on anyone. He loves to see the Blessings of God made manifest; he loves to see lives changed; but it is not in his getting nor in his giving that he has his pattern of centering or his own focalization of control which allows him to be a control factor. It is this point which has caused what might be called the slowness of development in our own Program because there is not yet adequate vision or understanding with respect to this one thing. It is not in the spirit of getting nor in the spirit of giving that we have our point of centering of purpose or motivation. There is the characteristic expression of the spirit of givingness manifest in and through those who are centered in God, but that is not the proper centering of motivation.

If we becoming citizens of the Kingdom, proving to be loyal, what is our primary concern? It is that the KING should be Glorified. Glory relates to the living of life. The Glory of God, or the Glory of the KING in Heaven, relates to the reality of life in that realm which to the human eye is invisible. The only way we can Glorify God is to let His Glory be made manifest on earth, and the only way we can do that is in living within the range of the Kingdom on earth in relationship to the realm of form. If we let God's Glory manifest in the places where it is not yet evident then we are Glorifying God. We cannot add to His Glory in Heaven but we can let His Glory increase on earth. That Glory cannot manifest except in relationship to the living of life. The living of life for what purpose? To get something? to give something? No. If the centering is with respect to either of these factors the tangent pattern of erroneous function appears. But if our purpose is to Glorify our KING, then we will have the spirit of givingness but we will not be in position to be carried into a tangent pattern by it.

Many sincere, earnest people have sought to give of their lives, energies, abilities, talents, their material substance, everything in various ways, only to find that they had moved out into a tangent pattern, and that giving did not result in that which they had anticipated because they had become subject to an erroneous pattern. The motivation was in the giving and it ends up with the individual trying to be as God, substituting oneself for God, a pattern which inevitably brings about a separation from God. There is not any question about the necessity of sharing God’s Spirit of givingness—but God is the Giver and the giving must be from God through us in relationship to that which is within the scope of control in the realm of form. The human being, in and of himself, cannot control the realm of Spirit, and if man is not properly centered he becomes subject to spirits which are contrary to his true self-interest.

So, the one and only means by which we may avoid becoming subject to these two tangent patterns of erroneous function which are so prevalent among those who sincerely seek to serve God, is to have one central, constant, consistent purpose which is manifesting as a control factor in all that we think and say and do, all the time without any exception. If that purpose is to Glorify the KING of the Kingdom, we are not going off on tangents. We will let the Spirit of the KING manifest, yes. We will share in His giving, share in His creative endeavor, we will do many things according to our talents and capacities, our stewardship, the use of our thoughts, words, deeds, the emotional patterns of our hearts, all of these things—but for what purpose? To Glorify our KING. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/05/meeting-my-king.html]

If we serve to try to save humanity or save human beings, we will, without exception, inevitably get into a tangent pattern. If you are trying to uplift human beings you will fail; I do not care how sincere you may be or what church or organization you belong to, or anything else. Oh, it is vitally essential that we be concerned about serving mankind by serving God. We are interested in seeing lives changed and people drawn to the pattern of reality but if our primary motivation is to serve others, help others, save others, according to any terminology, you will get into the tangent pattern of erroneous function. This is not to say there will be less service, less interest in helping human beings or being a blessing to them. It only means that the pattern of motivation must not, with respect to any moment, be to save anyone or to uplift anyone or to do any of the other things that are commonly thought of in relationship to serving God. The primary point of motivation must be to Glorify the KING. If you are letting your function be centered in the motivation of Glorifying the KING as a loyal subject of the Kingdom [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/01/subjects-of-king-rupert-maskell-and.html] then you will be doing those things which will increase the form and meaningfulness of the Kingdom, and human beings will be blest and uplifted. You will be serving human beings, you will see their lives changed, but it will never be primarily an effort to uplift someone or save someone or change someone.

If you will examine the pattern of my own Ministry in relationship to you, individually and collectively, what do you find? Not the usual approach of a minister who sets out to change you or save you. According to your response, your various capacities, in every moment, you have seen the manifestation of that which had a primary purpose: to Glorify our KING. It was because of that that the pushings and pullings of human personalities could not disturb; that you have seen the manifestation of patience, the manifestation of that which remained free of the difficulties with which you yourselves labored at times, because no matter how many problems were presented to me you found I did not become subject to them, embroiled in them. No matter how long I may have ministered to you, no matter in what ways, my primary motivation was not at any time to save you or to change you or to uplift you. No. The moment any personal pattern of determination became a factor in the equation, what happened? They had no control; no power to reach me, change me. Why? If I had been primarily concerned about getting, on the one hand, there would have been failure. How about the alternate pattern? The individual who becomes involved trying to help people, goes out to save them according to the usual pattern of churchification, has what result? It does not work.

The only way you can live a life untouched by all these various factors—the flow of human emotion, the changing patterns of circumstance—the only way you can live free, untouched in the circumstance, reaching out beyond the limitation of the circumstance, is to have a central pattern of motivation that is never lost in any moment with respect to any necessity—to Glorify the KING. Not to save human beings, but to Glorify the KING. Not to solve problems, but to Glorify the KING. Not to get anything, but to Glorify the KING.

Oh, things will be gotten. There will be those things which come into the pattern of control. Why? Because their coming will help to Glorify the KING. There will be individuals saved from their own limitations. Why? To particularly bless them? No, not at all. To Glorify the KING. So that someone can stand up and say, “Look what I did?” Ah, no. Each step is centered in one motivation—to Glorify the KING. Anything that deviates from that in primary motivation will fail. No matter how sincere, how earnest you are because if you are trying to save human beings you will fail. Who are you? God Almighty? That you as a human being should set out to save human beings? Why are the churches without power? Because they are trying to be as God. I am simply pointing to the fact that in the range of those who think to serve God there are these two primary patterns of erroneous function.

There is only one right central pattern of correct function, and the central motivation with respect to every thought, every attitude, every feeling, every word, every deed, must be to Glorify the KING. Such centering causes all things, large and small, to begin to work together in the realm of form, to Glorify the KING. What can we do to Glorify the KING more than to give the KING a Kingdom in form? His is the Kingdom. His is the Power. Are you going to go out and do it as a human being, change yourself, grow, develop, achieve something or other? Or are you going to change someone else? What are you going to do?

Ah, Blessed Ones, it is not what you do in any such sense that truly carries forward the Service of God on earth. It is what you do to Glorify the KING. All of your talents, all of your abilities, the hours, the days, the months, the years, all of your life—you are a steward over all these things. How are you doing? You are a steward over hours, days; over talents, abilities; you are a steward over your capacities of feeling or heart. How are the feelings of your heart tonight, or how have they been today? Have they been pure, centered in God, each and every feeling in your heart dedicated to the Glorification of your KING? Or have some of those feelings been glorifying some phase of the kingdom of darkness? You are a steward, not just with respect to outer things in the realm of form, possessions of various sorts. These things in form must be brought into the pattern in order to Glorify the KING, to give form to His Kingdom on earth. But can it be achieved by individuals who neglect to maintain correct stewardship with respect to their thoughts, with respect to their words, with respect to their feelings? What is it that is going to permit the manifestation of control in you?

The point is this: What is your motivation? To get something? Oh, for such a good cause, for such a good purpose, to help someone. You are going to try to get something, are you? You are going to influence people and win friends? You are going to get something to Glorify God? You will get into that erroneous pattern as surely as you try it. That is not the way. Oh, you are going to give someone something, give someone a lecture. You are going to prove how great you are in the realm of God’s service on earth, so that you can show people how much you have to give to others? Are you? It is such a good purpose and your intentions are so good. That is what paves the road to hell—good intentions. No.

There is only one way—when you are a faithful steward with respect to your feelings, so that every feeling which is allowed expression in form in your own heart Glorifies the KING, when every word that passes your lips Glorifies the KING, when every attitude you express toward your fellows Glorifies the KING, and every act Glorifies the KING. That must be the center of motivation. Oh, you may make some mistakes and you may be misunderstood sometimes because the human perception may fail to understand why you act thus and so. How often I have been brought under judgment because there was no vision, no understanding of the wholeness of the pattern. There was not the ability to see into the hearts and minds of human beings and to see the reason for the pattern of action. It is so easy to set oneself up as a judge and to prove oneself to be serving the adversary and not the KING—because the KING did not make you a judge over your fellows. And there is no room for the spirit of self-aggrandizement.

Why do you do day by day? Is it to the best of your vision and understanding to Glorify the KING? One cannot long be dedicated to that purpose and suffer any self-delusion with respect to any phase of life. Oh, you may not instantly be able to function perfectly—no one expects you to—but if you have that motivation with respect to all things without exception, if you never slip from that one central pattern of motivation, you very quickly learn. It is all to Glorify the KING. If, within the scope of your vision and understanding, your true motivation, without any self-delusion, without any rationalization, is to Glorify the KING, it will be used. Even though it is short-sighted in some fashion, your vision will expand, you will learn the lessons necessary, and you will learn to be a good steward with respect to all your capacities, all your talents, a good steward with respect to the golden hours, the blessed days, the opportunities at your hand, your capacities of heart and mind, your words and acts.

Are you a good steward? Can you inspire others to right stewardship? Why right stewardship? What is its purpose? To Glorify the KING. How can you inspire others to that right pattern of function unless you are a good steward? For what purpose? To make yourself appear to be wise in the eyes of others? That will not work. Only one thing will—to Glorify the KING. You may make people think that you are very much interested in saving them from something or other—you have had people try it with you probably back along the way, and it is possibly one reason you are here. They were going to save you. Very important they were. The important thing is: Do not make the same mistake in this Service! For if the pattern of your action as a steward over all these things in the realm of form, feelings, attitudes, words, deeds, material substance is to get something, or to have the appearance of giving something, what happens? You fail. You get into a pattern of erroneous function. Why do you act in any moment?

Why am I here before you?  To Glorify the KING

Why have I ever given an attunement? Why have I ever ministered in any way whatsoever? Look back and examine the pattern. Many times you could not understand me or my function because on the one hand it was not possible to classify it in the spirit of gettingness that the world knows so well; and on the other hand it did not classify in the realm of the world's pattern of saving people or the human concepts of service. It just did not fit. So, I have been judged and misunderstood many, many times. But what is the fact? Examine it. My whole purpose is to Glorify the KING. Does it not Glorify the KING to increase the number of citizens in the Kingdom? To save human beings? Oh, no! To have more citizens in the Kingdom? Oh, yes! For what purpose? To Glorify the KING. It makes it so simple. And if one person will not come in, does it bother you? Maybe he will learn his lesson sometime. If not, he is no good anyway. Those who respond and are drawn into the pattern will make good citizens of the Kingdom. For what purpose? To Glorify the KING.

The only way we can Glorify the KING on earth is to have a living manifestation of the Kingdom on earth, with people in it, with the substance conforming to the Laws of the Kingdom, with hearts and minds functioning according to the principles of the Kingdom. If you would let your service increase, if you would truly serve God, remember: Your primary purpose must always be, without any exception at any time or place or in any circumstance, to Glorify the KING. Then you do not have to be worried about human values, human questionings, human possibilities.

You can so easily trust when your only centering motivation is to Glorify the KING. You are not trying to get anything, you are not afraid of anyone taking anything away from you. You are free in the Truth of the Kingdom. There may be pressing circumstances round about, limitations of every sort, but you are still free. Why? Because you can look beyond the realm of limitations and see the action of your Spirit reaching into the hearts and lives of the children of men. To do what? To save them? Oh, no. To Glorify the KING, because those who respond will make good citizens. They will help Glorify the KING. I am not interested in any human being on the face of the earth except as he or she may help me Glorify the KING. Otherwise, human beings mean nothing, except perhaps in a potential sense, if they live long enough to wake up. We are interested, not in saving people as such, but in inspiring human beings to Glorify the KING. Let that be your centering motivation and you will be a control factor in the Kingdom of God on earth.

Do not try to analyze place. Be a control factor with respect to that of which you are capable, within the sphere of your proper influence and control. Be a control factor. How? Not according to the erroneous patterns prevalent in the world but because your primary motivation joins with mine. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/10/passion-for-king-martin-exeter-june-7.html] How can one be so impersonal and yet so personal? How can one enfold human beings in love and consideration and tenderness, no matter how many times they try to hurt or destroy, no matter how many times one may be disappointed? How can one do it? If you are trying to save people it will not work; trying to get something, it will not work. Why? Because we are only interested in one thing, to Glorify the KING. To inspire others to share in that. It is hard, immovable, from the standpoint of those who would fight against it. It cannot be turned aside by those who try to entice us into some path or other, supposedly to help or to save them. No. We refuse tangent patterns, tangent paths. We are interested only in One Path, the Central Way, the straight and narrow Way that leadeth to Life Everlasting. It is in living that we Glorify the KING, unmoved by all the ebb and flow of human emotions, struggling and trying, untouched by all the things that control human beings, and yet in position to extend love and tenderness and care to those who will receive it, understanding to those who will accept it. So it is that we Minister. To what end? To Glorify the KING.

The KING is the centering point of the Kingdom. Anything that does not center in the Kingdom does not belong to the Kingdom. Anything which is supposedly a part of the Kingdom which does not center in the KING is not a part of the Kingdom. Perhaps it should be, but it is not. Anything which does not have its centering, its purpose, in the KING cannot be of the Kingdom, regardless of intention or desire or anything else. The central Law of the Kingdom, the One Law, emphasizes this point, that if we would be a part of the Kingdom we must be centered in the KING. And if we would increase the meaningfulness of the Kingdom we must let our lives be dedicated to the KING. And the way in which our lives may be used to increase the scope of the Kingdom is the business of the KING. If you are a subject of the KING do you tell the KING what you will do or not do? If He is the KING, He is the KING, and there is not any question but to obey the KING. As long as any human will, human self-determination, spoils the pattern of the Kingdom, we are not Glorifying the KING. Trying to glorify ourselves so that we can say to the KING, “Look what I have brought to your Kingdom. You must acknowledge I have truly Glorified you, and look what I have accomplished.” It will not work.

There is only one thing. If we would be a part of the Kingdom, visible or invisible, we must be centered in the KING, and then everything else follows. That which is of the KING finds expression through us to all who will receive. We are not trying to serve. We are serving according to the realm of response, moment by moment, whether it is acknowledged or not, seen or not. No matter. For what purpose? To Glorify the KING, because we are a part of the Kingdom the moment we are truly centered in the KING—and the centering motivation is always to Glorify the KING. You cannot become a part of the Kingdom any other way. Whether it is immediately evident to your own mind or not in what fashion you are a part of the Kingdom is of small concern. If you are centered in the KING and the Glorification of the KING is your true motivation in all things, then you are a good citizen of the Kingdom, you are centered in the KING, you are in the Kingdom, and as you function you find the Kingdom made manifest in the realm of outer form. But you have to be centered in the KING and let that Kingdom have meaning in yourself before its expression through you can give evidence in the outer world that it is so.

There are places all over God's Kingdom for millions of citizens, and it is well that all these places should be filled. But there are places in the KING's Court for those who will let themselves come into that realm of infinite sweetness and beauty where one begins to know the KING, where one begins to know the beauty of the KING’s control, as it extends out to those who are citizens or who are willing to become citizens of the Kingdom. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/10/he-who-would-walk-in-kings-court-from.html] It is well that all these millions of places in God's Kingdom should be filled, but it is so sweet to know something of the KING’s Court, know something of what it is to live before the Throne, the Kingdom of God on earth, the Kingdom that is at hand.

© emissaries of divine light