Layers Of Wonder Upon Wonder
Uranda May 16, 1954
I thought you would like to share tonight in a little meditation on this article entitled The Milky Way, by Norman and Madelyn Carlisle. Our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, our own home, our own part of the Cosmos, is pictured as a gigantic, flattened disk, so huge that to cross it from one side to another at the speed of light—more than a hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second—would take one hundred thousand years. That is quite a distance. “Inside this great wheel are those swarming hundred billion stars, some tiny ones, a fraction the size of our sun, some giants one-half billion times larger” than our sun. “There are old stars and new ones, red stars, blue stars, hot stars and cold stars, and invisible mystery stars no one has ever seen. Between them is space.” Between all these billions of stars is space.
We have been considering the fact that between the cells of the body there is space—a great deal of space within the body. “Between them is so much space that in it could readily be stored a million times as many stars” as there are, “without much chance of any of them colliding.” We have noted that with respect to all matter there is space between the particles which make up the body of that substance, and we see that here, whether it is the physical body with its cells, or the body of the Universe—this Galaxy, the Milky Way, with all of its hundred billion blazing suns.
“This whole system rotates endlessly around a central spot that is like the hub of a wheel. So huge is the Galaxy that, though the speed of this rotation is more than nine thousand miles a minute”—the speed of the rotation of the galaxy itself is more than nine thousand miles a minute. Now, our earth is revolving around our sun at a speed that requires one year to complete the circuit. But while it is revolving around the sun, and the sun is revolving around something else, this whole is contained in a wheel that is moving at a speed of nine thousand miles a minute. “Though the speed of this rotation is more than nine thousand miles a minute at the distance our sun lies from the hub, it takes more than two hundred million years” for this wheel “to complete a single revolution.” Two hundred million years, moving at nine thousand miles a minute, for this wheel to complete a single revolution. “A single cosmic year in the life of the Milky Way”—two hundred million years—“and, as it turns, this whole stellar merry-go-round is also hurtling through space toward some nameless destination in the cosmos.”
Now do you see some wheels within wheels? Our Earth revolving around the Sun, our Sun in its own movement inside of the Galaxy, the Galaxy itself revolving at nine thousand miles a minute on a pattern that requires two hundred million years for a single revolution. And then this whole thing is moving at tremendous speed, in relationship to other galaxies, around another central spot that forms the center of the galaxies—what I refer to as the Central Sun of Suns.
“For many years, our sun was believed to be very near the center of the Milky Way. Then astronomer Harlow Shapley, using the Mount Wilson telescope to probe the mysteries of the strange globular clusters of stars in the galaxy, made the astonishing discovery that… our sun, far from being at its center is actually located near the edge of the great rotating disk. Yet other secrets of the Milky Way have yielded to a powerful tool that ‘sees’ invisible stars—the radio telescope, a device that collects strange radio waves from space. As its operators checked their first results, they made an historic announcement: the Milky Way is full of radio-wave sources that are totally invisible… many of these invisible stars give off radio waves… if we could see them and others like them, the Milky Way would blaze forth with dazzling splendor. For these stars are incredibly big—thousands of times bigger than the visible stars.” That is interesting.
The largest of the stars in our Galaxy are invisible—thousands of times bigger than visible stars. I thought perhaps this would help you to a deeper realization of what I mean when I talk about the visible and invisible realms. It should. Now it occurred to me to wonder—could it be that the scientists are observing the evidences of the positive and negative aspects which would correlate to the male and female formation in the realm of the galaxies? I suspect something of that sort.
There is not much use of attempting to compel the mind to grasp these concepts of great distance. Distance is, as mankind thinks of it, a very misleading factor in the equation essential to understanding; for distance is a completely relative thing. Man, hampered by his own smallness, not only physically but mentally, feels that he must measure everything on the basis of his concepts of distance as he has established them with respect to the measurement of surface factors on this earth, and yet, distance is a relative thing. If we attempt to conceive of distance on the basis that man uses here we develop a completely distorted picture with respect to the Cosmos; for distance as man sees it is not distance as God sees it.
Let us remember that all of these things are relative; and in actual fact, while I would not deny in any way the vastness of the universe nor detract one iota from its greatness, that vastness is something which is no greater to the Beings who function in relationship to it than the distances on the earth's surface are great to us. If you will bear that in mind, I think it will make it easier for you to comprehend some of the significant factors; for the distances in the Galaxy itself, which is conceived to be one hundred thousand light-years in diameter, are no greater from the standpoint of the Beings who function consciously in relationship to those distances than are the distances to us on the surface of the Earth.
The point is, that while these distances are vast, and the Body of God is great—and all of this is a part of the Body of God—man is supposed to provide the intelligent, sharing, working factor, the directing, controlling factor of the Body of God on earth—men and women are supposed to provide the intelligent, controlling, working factor of the Body of God on Earth. But once we begin to comprehend ourselves as a part of the Body of God, and begin to establish a level of consciousness that recognizes the correlating factors here, we begin to realize that the Body of God is not all head any more than you are all head. You have a great toe, you have feet, you have other parts of the body which do not particularly focalize the Centering of consciousness. The same is true in the Body of God.
We see these levels worked out in relationship to the surface manifestations of the Earth from the standpoint of the kingdoms of the Earth—man, the human kingdom; the animal kingdom; the bird kingdom; the fish kingdom; the insect kingdom; the gas kingdom which includes the air, the envelope of atmosphere in which we live; and the mineral kingdom—all of these different kingdoms providing different factors in the Body of God right here. And we still could explore the realm of the mineral kingdom more extensively from the standpoint of the Earth itself.
And if the Earth itself is conceived to be a visible planet, we can perceive the fact that there is a larger invisible planet which relates to this particular part of the Solar System—for with respect to every visible Sun there is the invisible counterpart; with respect to every planet that is conceived to be visible, there is the invisible counterpart. And this is not to be confused with the idea with respect to the visible aspects in a particular level of form, and consciousness to perceive that form, where I suggested the possibility of the positive and negative aspects of form.
But, in addition to this, we have the vast bodies which are invisible forms insofar as our particular ability to perceive is concerned, at this level of consciousness, with respect to what we conceive to be form; for there certainly is form beyond the range of our ability to perceive form. And yet, by instrumentation, we are scientifically determining that there is form where man did not know there was form in the Universe, and that the invisible forms are larger, or more vast in scope and area, than the visible forms.
That correlates with the basic factors which you have been considering in our whole background of study in the Third Sacred School. I trust that this meditation will have value to you in relationship to the development of your ability to perceive and comprehend the factors which are at work in relationship to ourselves, from the standpoint of what we have consistently called the visible and the invisible realms of Being.
And let us not waste time trying to comprehend concepts of vast distances, for the ability of the mind to comprehend is staggered by such things. It is not the vast distance, nor yet is it the Cosmos itself, upon which we need to meditate—for if we begin to think of the Cosmos, we at once back down, as it were, to the Universe. And even here we must be careful not to be arrogant and presumptuous. We need to be careful of conclusion and to avoid meaningless imaginations. Therefore, while we note the vast splendor, and something of the principles there revealed, we back down to the Solar System. And even here we need to be careful not to be arrogant and presumptuous; for who among the children of men can comprehend all of the mysteries of our Solar System, the sister planets of our Earth, and the Sun around which we revolve? And while we may meditate upon some of the things which we see there, we avoid fantastic conclusions and back down to the Earth upon which we live. And even here, who among us can say that he has comprehended all the mysteries of the Earth itself? And while we may see and know many things, we come back to ourselves as human beings; and who can say that he comprehends all the mysteries of his own body, to say nothing of his mind and his heart? We find that there are layers of mystery, layers of wonder upon wonder. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-heaven-of-this-earth-is-city-in-star.html]
And here, where we have a Centering in consciousness, we can meet the Spirit of the One—yea, and of the Ones—who have a Centering in consciousness with respect to the Solar System; and those who have a Centering in consciousness with respect to the Universe; and through them we know we have contact with those who have a Centering of consciousness in the Cosmos. But rather than seeking, through vain imagination, to comprehend some supposed mystery in these vast fields of Being, let us be content to trust those who provide this Centering of consciousness in these vast fields, and make certain that we ourselves, in our field, provide the correct Centering of consciousness at the places where we are, in relationship to the Whole. So let it be, and so shall we serve to the Glory of God and to the Blessing of the children of men.
In The Garden In The Cool Of The Day
“I love you Lord”
Martin Cecil November 7, 1971
The Lord has called to the children of men all down through the ages, not necessarily in the spoken word, although that has been used; nevertheless this word has been conveyed to the children of men in their own individual and collective experience. It calls to human beings to come back, to relinquish the state of separateness and return to the Lord in oneness. Even though this word has been expressed to all generations in the current of the spirit of a heart of yearning, thus far the children of men have resisted it. It has seemed that they have preferred to continue a little longer in their state of separateness. In effect each generation has been inclined to say, “Give me a little time to enjoy this state. If it becomes too bad I will consider turning to the Lord later.” But invariably later has been found to be too late. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth”—before it's too late.
There is a reason why human beings have been so reluctant to come again to the Lord, even though He does come walking in His Garden in the cool of the day in every generation. Most are inclined to look upon that occasion as having occurred once long ago, but in effect the Lord has come in every generation to walk in His Garden and to speak the words, “Where art thou?” As it was on that first occasion, man has hidden himself from the Lord because he was afraid, knowing himself to be naked, knowing himself to be vulnerable, knowing himself to be alone, separate from God. This state of human experience came because of man's own decision and choice, and it brought in its season devastating results of various sorts. Some of these results were indeed of a catastrophic nature, so immensely destructive that only a few human beings survived on the face of the earth. Obviously we are the children of those few human beings. This heredity is our heredity.
If there is some very devastating and violent experience in the individual life there is a tendency, in self-protection, to bury the memory of that experience, to hide it away from recall. Even though it is hidden and covered up, it is still present. There is much buried in the lower levels of consciousness in man, both from the standpoint of individual experience and from the standpoint of what might be called race experience. There is a record contained in the very consciousness of the earth itself, of the substance of the earth, of all these things that have occurred in the history of the world. They are present therefore in the collective memory, even though deeply buried. The more violent the experiences have been the more carefully they are hidden away from present consciousness. We all partake of this race memory, this mass consciousness, besides those levels which are of a more directly personal nature. There is, however, a common denominator here in the external sense with respect to all human beings on the face of the earth—a memory reaching back to an experience of immense horror.
It is interesting to note that whenever the idea of disruption on a large scale with respect to the earth's surface is suggested a mass hysteria very quickly begins to develop. People tend to react on the basis of superstition, but where does the superstition come from? In such case there is a touching of this deeply buried memory and people begin to feel fearful and desperate. A small point of this enormous fear pushes upward to the level of consciousness and human beings are reminded of they know not what. The spirit of the experience comes slightly again into the awareness without any particular memory of the body of it, but it is enough to stir emotions very rapidly. It may be said, quite irrational emotions, but the fact of the matter is that it isn't entirely irrational, because it is based in actual experience, not of the individuals concerned but of the human race as such. So we have these occasions when the hidden memory is reactivated to a small degree. It comes to the surface and it makes people do very peculiar things, because they are afraid. Fear is the controlling force in human lives everywhere, fear which is fundamentally a faith in the working of the Law.
Dr. Velikovsky has written of these things in his books, speaking of a collective amnesia regarding the violent events that have occurred on earth in relatively quite recent history. These things are not so very far away in actual fact. You will note that the theories that man has developed have all attempted to postulate immense periods of time, not only immense periods of time but a very gradual and peaceful unfoldment of events. Evidences of all kinds have been sought which would support these ideas so as to helpfully cover up the actual memory of something quite different. On this basis we may be caused to feel that our behavior is quite all right and that we need not anticipate anything very troublesome insofar as planetary events are concerned. Here again we see the methods that have been used to cover up this very painful and disturbing memory. The god of science has been invoked to assist in this rationalization.
One of the reasons for the very violent reaction to Dr. Velikovsky's works is again based in the triggering of the memory which nobody wants to look at. Looking at that reaction, we could say there was something quite irrational emanating from supposedly very rational people. Yes, it seemed to be very irrational, and yet in a sense it was rational too, because it was consequent upon this buried memory, something that is actually there, something which is not merely imaginary. So for the sons and the daughters, the subsequent generations, of those who actually experienced these events there is, in all, this fundamental basic fear. According to the psychological approach, if there is something of this nature in the subconscious levels of mind then we need to let it be brought to the surface so that it may be examined and seen for what it is, in order for it to be relinquished. But this doesn't really get the job done, because it is still merely dealing with effects. The fundamental trouble is not so much with the effects as with the original cause of those effects; so we have something doubly buried here. First of all the violent effects have been buried as a memory, but underneath those violent effects is buried still deeper a consciousness of the original failure on the part of man when he betrayed the Lord.
Man, in oneness with God, accepted the trust of the Lord. He held the creative purposes of God in trust for the Lord on earth. He betrayed that trust. Human beings tend to look with horror upon the action of Judas in betraying the Lord on earth nineteen centuries ago. All that Judas did was to reenact what was true, and has been true ever since, of mankind as a whole. This betrayal has been portrayed in various ways in the scriptures of the world, including of course the Bible. You may remember the story of Cain and Abel, for instance. Cain has represented mankind. The Lord was betrayed. This awful sense of guilt is buried below the sense of horror with respect to the physical events which were the result of man's guiltiness. Merely to bring out the events and say, “All we have to do is to look at these events to get rid of our fears,” is nonsense. It can't be done that way, because while the events themselves emphasized the fears, they did not originate the fears. Man betrayed the Lord. In the initial stages he thought he was getting away with it, but then the axe fell and he was brought face to face with an awareness of the enormity of his action.
Man, carrying God's trust, extending dominion on earth, had a responsibility which not only related to this planet as such but to the whole solar system. This is one reason why in the myths that have come down to us there is a relatedness between the names of the planets and the gods who are directly concerned with function on earth. The control, the dominion, of God extending through man on earth in relationship to what was being done on earth included the control and dominion which was operating in the whole solar system. This is why man's betrayal of God had such devastating effects beyond the confines of this planet. When man began to see what was happening, having previously imagined that he was getting away with something, it finally dawned upon him with awful certainty what the results of his action actually were. Now here is the guilt, and here is the consequent fear.
Over the ages there has been a constant endeavor to cover up, to hide it away; it was far too much to be faced. Basically there has been no willingness yet to acknowledge the failure. Oh how man has endeavored all down through the ages, to this very hour, to explain away his own sense of guilt, a very valid sense of guilt. From the psychiatric standpoint, usually the endeavor is to persuade the individual that he doesn't need to feel guilty anymore, but that is self-delusion; if he is guilty he should feel that way. The point is that he may do what is necessary to reverse the prior experience which brought the sense of guilt. He has been ransomed in this sense. It is quite possible to let the state of affairs change. He had been ransomed long before our Master Himself came on earth; the provision had always been there; but it was made so vividly evident through our Master when He was on earth that all have been left without excuse subsequently.
Our Master Himself revealed that, regardless of the fact that He was betrayed and suffered the consequences of that betrayal, the reality, the truth of Being, survived on earth. He revealed in Himself that the provision was and is present with the children of men to let that same experience be known. He opened the door; He cleared the way; He made it absolutely obvious, although human beings since that day have done their level best to hide the obvious, to maintain the self-righteousness which has been developed to cover up the sense of guilt. But now events in the world are moving with such awful certainty that people everywhere are finding it a little difficult to maintain the fiction, and the memory of past events begins to surface. Because of the fear based in guilt people become desperate.
We see all these things occurring, but to the extent that we ourselves have acknowledged the failure, have admitted that we have shared in the betrayal, and have been willing to come again before the Lord without a vestige of excuse, then it is found that the opportunity for salvation is still here. Not only must the fact of the appalling results of man's action be recalled, acknowledged as being just — but beyond that again, the action which produced those results, the real culprit, must be acknowledged. Each one of us can say, in approaching the Lord, “I betrayed You, Lord.” It is because of that betrayal that there is fear. “Perfect love casts out fear.” Only when we can come to the point of saying, “I love You, Lord,” may the fear vanish away, the cause of disaster be dissolved, and the cause of creativeness restored to the experience of man.
Man's despicable arrogance is a surface manifestation, obvious enough in the eyes of God, of his sickening fear. There is only one way of salvation and that is, when the Lord God comes walking in the Garden in the cool of the day, for man to step forth from behind the trees which have hidden him to himself and acknowledge his guilt: “I am responsible”—not just “We are responsible.” That may be true but it means nothing until the individual says, “I am responsible. I betrayed You, Lord. My action crucified You, Lord, on earth. My action is responsible for the ill results of human experience, for the state of the world, for the devastation of Your Garden. I am responsible.” It is more difficult to make that admission genuinely today than it really would have been on that first occasion, but the requirement is no different. The Law hasn't changed one iota. Difficult or not, this is the requirement, obviously so when we honestly look at it. The imputation has ever been that the fault has lain at God's door for creating things the way He did. He has even been described by some benighted souls as being a monster worse than any human being who ever lived, for producing this state of affairs.
Who has what it takes to say, “I am responsible,” and mean it? If it is just words, that means nothing; but to see the responsibility, to accept it, to step out from behind the trees and to answer the Lord, reveals the beginnings of restored manhood or womanhood. How many are so willing? How many would be inclined to say, “Oh no, I couldn't do that! I have got to maintain my own little sphere of separateness. I like this. I want to keep it for a while. I want to have my own way. I want to continue betraying the Lord.” There is no excuse anymore, and the axe falls. The final falling of the axe is the falling of the ultimate curtain on a tragic drama concluded—the tragedy of guilty man.
Where there is something held in the subconscious mind there is a tendency to be impelled by that something to re-experience the event—a fatal fascination. While everybody claims to object to the direction in which the world is going, everybody behaves in a way that ensures that it will continue to go in that direction—evidence of man's stolid progress toward nuclear annihilation. If comets and planets won't cooperate in bringing a cataclysm on the surface of the earth, then man's going to do it for himself. Here is this fatal compulsion. People have become so accustomed to the idea that nuclear war is an impossibility that they overlook the fact that it is actually a certainty as long as they are governed by fear. What was it that Job said? “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” The Law works.
Of course there is an easy solution here: Stop fearing, stop being afraid! But how? “I love you, Lord!” That simple way—I love you, Lord! There is no other way given by God to the children of men. “I have betrayed you, Lord. Forgive me! I love you!” There it is. Too simple, too straightforward, to devious human beings. If it is, how sad! “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ... your house is left unto you desolate,” until there are those who are willing to acknowledge the truth and to say, “I love you, Lord! I love the truth. I love the beauty of your Being. I love the Design of Life which is yours and yours alone. I love to give individual form in expression on earth to what you are. In doing so, I am what you are. I love you, Lord!”
© emissaries of divine light
