Sacred Schools

Sacred  Schools

Uranda  July 11, 1944

It should be easily seen that it would be necessary that the Sacred Schools which had been temporarily withdrawn from manifestation would have to be re-established in the earth in their natural order, and the outworking of man's progress in world events did not permit the beginning of this phase of the fulfilment of the Divine Plan for the fallen world until the time of Abraham, during whose lifetime Melchizedek appeared. It is obvious from all Biblical references to Melchizedek that he was the highest of Divine Beings who functioned in relationship to this world, and it should not be difficult to comprehend that the one who manifested as Melchizedek later manifested as Jesus the Christ. In connection with our distinction between the Supreme Divine Being connected with this world, and other members of the One Body of God, it should be understood that this relates to the fact that there are many other worlds peopled and under the jurisdiction of Divine Beings, and that it would be an assumption of the most egotistical sort to imagine that this is the only world in all of the Cosmos which is peopled, or which relates to the outworking of the Divine Order, through the administration of Divine Beings. Therefore, when we speak of the One God Whom we all recognize, we realize that the Divine Beings connected with the function and manifestation of the other worlds in the Universe and in the Cosmos, are members of the One God Body just as surely as are the Divine Beings who administer the Divine affairs of this world.

A false assumption has been made on the part of some that the Third Sacred School must, in some manner, purport to be higher or more advanced than the First or Second Sacred Schools, merely because it is designated as the Third Sacred School. If the First and Second Sacred Schools had not been established and in manifestation, the Third could not have been brought forth. The work of establishing the First Sacred School was the most difficult of all, because it was a beginning, in outer manifestation, without any historical background in the period immediately preceding, or known to man in general, so that it could have been accomplished in no way other than it was accomplished, namely, through the ministrations of Melchizedek, who was manifest in the earth—without father, without mother, and without end of days. There is no record in any part of Biblical history of a more marvelous and wonderful Divine manifestation in the earth, and it was, simply, a manifestation of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings whom we know in the New Testament period as Jesus the Christ, who came into the world through the operation of Divine laws without the medium of a physical body produced by the process of conception and birth, or limited by the processes of decrepitude and death. Only by means of such a Divine manifestation could the beginning processes of re-manifestation of the Seven Sacred Schools be brought about in the earth under conditions that then existed. Certainly, then, in so far as the world now is, the process by which the First Sacred School was again established in the earth must be recognized as being supreme, and even more beyond the comprehension of the human mind, than was the manifestation and function of Jesus Christ. It must be understood that the First Sacred School established by Melchizedek through the responsive co-operation of Abraham, extended in its dominant influence in the world until the time of the dispersion of the Israelites. In other words, it includes and contains within itself all that took place in revelation and function through Jacob, through Joseph, through Moses, through the Judges, through David and Solomon, through Elijah and Elisha and Daniel, and through all of the faithful Prophets of the Old Testament.

It was necessary that the Sacred Schools be re-established in their chronological order, and they had to be established in accordance with their vibrational order relating to the Seven Planes of Being. These requirements were fulfilled in each instance. Through the First Sacred School established by Melchizedek and carried forward so effectively by Moses and the faithful Ones who followed after him, there was provided a means whereby the mass body of a selected portion of humanity could have returned immediately to the Edenic State if they had remained steadfast and true to God, thereby opening the way whereby the world as a whole could have been restored to the Edenic State en masse. This certainly must be classified as the greatest opportunity accorded to man since the day of the fall until this present time, and was the greatest undertaking from the standpoint of man that could possibly have been inaugurated. When the selected portion of the world body failed to carry through, and the immediate program under the First Sacred School could not be brought to fruition, the vibrational basis of the Second Sacred School had to be resorted to. But this does not mean that the basic vibrational function of the First Sacred School was lost to the world—for it was, and still is, providing a basic foundation for all that has, or will, come after it. When man failed to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the First Sacred School, it became necessary for Jesus Christ to manifest in the world, to bring into manifestation the function and vibrational basis of the Second Sacred School.

The life and ministry of Jesus and that which is recorded in the New Testament period all relates thereto, and provides the immediate foundation for all of the spiritually progressive activities in the world today. While the work of establishing the Second Sacred School was more painful, it was not as difficult a task in one sense of the word as was the work of establishing the First Sacred School; but in both instances the work was so difficult and so gravely important to the world that it could be entrusted to no one but the LORD of Lords Himself. In the opportunity afforded by the life ministry of Jesus Christ through His work in establishing the Second Sacred School, the field was narrowed down from the broad scope that was utilized in the First Sacred School, which had provided the easiest process of response from the standpoint of humanity, to the field of what we classify as the mental. I would here point out that because it is so classified a few persons who are ignorant of the outworking of the Divine Plan have jumped to the false conclusion that we were relegating the work of Jesus Christ to something below the Spiritual vibration classification which is utilized in relation to the Third Sacred School. Such an idea is completely false. The First Sacred School, while utilizing the basic vibrations of physical response, in the primary sense, certainly included in every respect all that is properly classified as the mental and the spiritual. When humanity rejected this easy way, the next more difficult way had to be resorted to—and when I speak of it as being difficult here, I have reference only to humanity's opportunities therein, and not to the difficulties involved in establishing the Second Sacred School. Melchizedek had the most difficult task, but he provided humanity with the easiest possible way of restoration. Jesus Christ had almost as difficult a task and one that was more painful, in establishing the Second Sacred School, and He provided the next easiest way of direct approach from the standpoint of humanity as a whole. That which Jesus Christ established is still in force, and no one who has any understanding of the work of the Third Sacred School has ever supposed, for even a fraction of a second, that the Third Sacred School or those who function therein supersede in any manner whatsoever the work of Jesus Christ, for we recognize Him as LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and have never at any time suggested that the Third Sacred School or any individual in it was equal to, let alone above or beyond, that which was made manifest in and through our Beloved Master, Jesus Christ.

While Jesus Christ was on earth, a means was provided by which the world could have been restored to the Edenic State at that time, so that Jesus Himself would not have been crucified, and so that the intervening 2,000 years of misery, suffering and death could have been avoided by humanity as a whole. When the world rejected that which Jesus Christ offered, and crucified Him, the third alternative Plan had to come into effect, and Jesus Christ Himself established the authorization and provided the direction for the outworking on the basis of the third alternative Plan. But, by reason of the fact that He was crucified by the world, and by reason of the fact of that which He had provided for the world, both in teaching and actual manifestation of vibrational function according to the Divine Order, it was not necessary that He assume personal responsibility in outer manifestation for the establishment of the Third Sacred School. The processes of bringing the Third Sacred School again into manifestation could be, and were, delegated to a subordinate by Jesus Christ Himself. However, by reason of the world's rejection of Jesus Christ, the second alternative Plan ceased to be available to man in the very hour when Jesus was crucified on Calvary, and the third alternative Plan has been in effect since that hour, and it utilizes the approach to the Divine on a vibrational basis of spiritual response as the starting point. Here we have the first three of the Seven Planes as manifest in this world on a vibrational basis represented in the manifestation and function of the First Three of the Sacred Schools.

The Fourth Sacred School will not be brought into manifestation until after the restoration of man to the Edenic State. Man must come through the program provided on the Third Plane Vibration, or not at all. In this connection, it is necessary to point out that every church and all individuals who honestly and sincerely seek to follow Jesus Christ, to do His Will, and who desire to receive that which Jesus Christ offered to the world, are, to the degree that they are correct in their understanding of that which Jesus Christ taught and accomplished, in the Third Sacred School already, and this has been true since the moment when Jesus Christ Himself recognized that the third alternative Plan would have to be utilized—and therefore authorized the Beloved Disciple John as the Head thereof in the earth, while He Himself was on the cross. Jesus did not give that Authorization prior to the time that He was on the cross, because up until that moment humanity had the opportunity of responding on the basis of the second alternative Plan. The moment He was on the cross humanity lost that opportunity, and from that moment onward the third alternative Plan was in effect. So it is that the re-manifestation of the Third Sacred School, which vibrationally dates back to the period of the Edenic State long before the fall of man, has been in actual existence by decree and authority  of Jesus Christ since the hour when He was crucified on Calvary. It is under this Authority, and on a Vibrational Foundation dating into antiquity more than 150,000 years ago, that the Third Sacred School is now operating in the world, that all who will may know the whole truth and be set completely free, according to the promise of Jesus Christ, our Lord, and Master. The history of the world since the time of the crucifixion of Jesus down through the dark ages to the present time, as it relates to the manifestation and function of the Third Sacred School, is a vast subject which has been touched upon to a degree in other writings, and which we must now leave for further elucidation until another time.

Sun  Substance

from  The Four Forces — Behold, I Create #5

Uranda   August 20, 1952

"What you do has a bearing on the fulfilments not only of the people of this world

but of the beings who have a home in other planets in our solar system."

In the beginning of the creative process, according to the record, the first thing that happened was that the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Water is the symbol of truth. The spirit of God's love moved upon, or in, the patterns of the divine design as contained in the truth, according to the control elements that were essential to the fulfilment. We have noted that this process began in space, the deep of space; and we have noted that God does not undertake to create something out of nothing. It is impossible to create something out of nothing, even for God. But the deep of space is filled with what we speak of as the vibrationless, the unformed, that in which there is no vibration, that which is without form. The process of creation, as it was utilized in relationship to this world, and for that matter our entire solar system, was a process by which vibrational impulses were released to set up vibrations in the unformed. The difference in vibrational rate provides the basic, or primary, difference with respect to the nature of substances.

We might properly touch briefly upon the principles involved with respect to the atom, and recognize that exactly the same principles are used. Exactly the same law operates in maintaining the structure of an atom as is used in relationship to the structure of a solar system, which is the nature of some of the stars; and we remember that, strictly speaking, a planet is not a star. We see the morning star, one of the planets, but we call it a star; however, strictly speaking a planet is not a star. The stars are all suns or nebulae.

In the constellation of Orion there is one star, or sun, which is called Betelgeuse, and its size, according to astronomers, is such that if its center were at the point where our Sun's center is, and if that Sun were a hollow sphere, the planets of this solar system, out to and including this earth, could still remain inside of this sphere. The earth would still be the same relative distance from the Sun. Our Sun would still be the same size that it is. It would be at the center of this hollow sphere of the size of the star Betelgeuse and our earth could keep right on revolving around our Sun the full ninety-three million miles from the Sun and not come anywhere near scraping the periphery, or the shell, of the larger sun. When we get into a consideration of astronomical sizes and distances the human mind is at a loss to grasp, with any real understanding, that which is involved. I mentioned this point because it illustrates something important.

That sun which is a part of the constellation of Orion is not just one solid sphere. It was originally a solar system, more or less similar to our solar system, having a sun at the center and having planets revolving around it. In the processes of creation the planets which revolve around any given sun ultimately become suns, with their creative processes extending out from them. If all of the planets of our solar system had become suns, from a distance the whole would look like one great sphere. That is the case with the sun of which we are speaking — it is not just one great sphere; it is made up of many spheres; although from a distance it appears to be one thing.

There is no gain in attempting to describe the nature, or pattern, of life contained in such a focalization of sun substance, but extending out from it there are planets. One of the important things to realize in touching so briefly on this point is that this is not the only place in the cosmos where there is life. All of these suns, with their planets, are a part of a great creation, and they are all peopled. Our own planets are peopled; not with human beings as we are, it is true. When astronomers look at some planet like Mars and speculate as to whether or not there is life there, they are thinking about life requiring the atmospheric conditions which we have, the same type of vegetation, etc. In the case of our planet we have the atmospheric conditions, the vegetation, etc., essential to this particular form of planet, but the conditions existing on other planets are ideal for the forms of life utilized on those planets, and the life that is on the planets of our own solar system, while it is characteristic, is certainly not the limit of life in the cosmos.

Wherever you see a star in the sky, a true star, you see a centering with respect to a particular pattern of creation where there are beings, where there is life, and it extends to a point far beyond that which man has been able to see, even with the strongest of telescopes. We are not alone in the vast cosmos. This is not the only planet where there is intelligence, but wherever your eye may look in the sky on a clear night there is life, a pattern of life, a pattern of divine fulfilment; not something that you need to be concerned about with respect to evil, or the possibility of evil beings, but something which carries the beauty of life at many different levels, under many different conditions. When there is a realization of this fundamental fact one no longer feels so alone when one looks at the sky. God is not limited merely to this earth. God is not limited merely to this solar system. God did not create all those vast suns just to have them out there to give light to our earth. If, as some people imagine, the Sun, the moon and the stars — the heavens — were created on the fourth day, in the sense of actually having been made and put into place on this fourth day, it would mean that all these vast suns would have had to be created in all their different places far more rapidly than the earth itself was.

Here is an interesting point. From a scientific standpoint we know how fast light travels. We know how long it takes for light to get from our Sun to this earth. We know that there are many suns many, many thousands of light-years away, and the distance that light would travel in a year is considerable. That distance is called a light-year. These suns, if they had been created on the fourth day, would not have given light to the earth. In fact they could not even be suns now, many of them. The point is that the very physical facts involved prove that they were already in place. In relationship to this earth's surface there was a clearing of the atmosphere. The earth had been enveloped in a heavy fog, a thick blanket of fog, up to that particular point in the creative cycles, and the atmosphere cleared. In this clearing the Sun, the moon and the stars became visible from the earth's surface but they were not, on that fourth day, or in that fourth cycle, created as such. They were there long before this earth was created.

This barely touches upon the many, many different aspects of creation which might conceivably be studied to some degree. My only purpose in this brief outline is to help to establish a consciousness of relatedness, a consciousness of the fact that we are a part of the great universe, a part of the Milky Way. When you look at the sky and see what is called the Milky Way you realize that we are a part of that, and all that vast array of brilliance in the clear sky at night is a part of the great creation that extends out so far that man does not know where the center is, let alone what is on the other side of center. We are out in the body of the cosmos, maintaining a certain relative position in relationship to the whole. The whole is moving but we do not know, from any human standpoint, from an astronomical or scientific standpoint, where the center is; and man has no idea whatever with respect to what is on the other side of center, because it is in the shape of a sphere; that is, the whole. There is, properly, a sense of relatedness, a sense of being a part of something so vast, and yet of being important to God, being a part of the divine plan and invited to share in the creative activity which is so meaningful in all this vast cosmos. When man forgets his relatedness to the whole, whether on earth or with respect to heaven, or with respect to the universe, he begins to be an extremely insignificant thing. The significance of each one depends upon that relatedness. The value of each one depends upon our relatedness one to another and to God, our relatedness to the great whole.

So this step in creation, as it was made manifest in relationship to this planet, was not the only such step ever undertaken by God and, while it is not in any sense the largest, it is a part of the whole, and that importance to the whole is emphasized by all the things that God has done to restore man to his divine estate. The earth itself is out of polarity, not only out of polarity with respect to its orbit but out of polarity with respect to its axis. It is not the distance from the Sun that it is supposed to be. The variation is comparatively small but it is enough to keep it from being in tune as a planet. There are three hundred and sixty degrees in a circle, and there should be three hundred and sixty days in a year. The earth is wobbling on its axis; it is not in correct position in the solar system. That must of necessity be restored in due season. Before that restoration takes place man must be restored to his divine estate; that is, enough men and women at least to allow the power of God to work in reestablishing the polarity of the earth. Man must come back to polarity under these conditions in order to restore polarity to the earth itself, so that the conditions in which we live may be restored, in the true sense, to the state of paradise, or as it was in the beginning; but it can be sufficiently beautiful, wonderful, to allow all needed fulfilment up to that point.

After the earth is restored to its proper orbit and its proper polarity, the rest of the solar system will be allowed to come into balance. Our state of imbalance here, our lack of polarity here, tends to spoil things for all the other planets in the solar system. It is out of tune. Did you ever attempt to play a piano that was badly out of tune? Well, the vibrational factors and the interplay between the planets, and between the planets and the sun, are not what they ought to be; and from the standpoint of the perfect state which God designed for man it is absolutely essential that in season that restoration shall take place. The whole solar system suffers because man is as he is. There is at the present time, out in the vast space somewhere, one of our sister planets not functioning in its true orbit, out there as a comet. All the comets of which we are aware are a part of this solar system. Our Sun is the center of their orbits just as surely as the Sun is the center for this earth. We cannot become aware of comets which are centered anywhere else. But we have a planet, a sister planet, out there as a comet, which must be recaptured in the solar system, and it will come in its season and be again a part of that solar system, be a part of the process by which the earth is drawn back to its true polarity, its true orbit.

There are many things that are involved, but these things cannot work out properly, we cannot have this fulfilment, this restoration where there can be a perfect pattern of living, until man allows himself to come back into polarity with God. Your response, or lack of it, has a definite bearing on the fulfilment, not just in relationship to this earth but to the whole solar system. What you do has a bearing on the fulfilments not only of the people of this world but of the beings who have a home in other planets in our solar system. There is the reality of relatedness, and there is the reality of the fact that what we do is important in relationship to the whole.

This opens up a vast field. I suggest that you avoid speculations in it, because speculations in the human mind lead to nothingness, but you do need to know these basic points, because the whole is included in God's plan, and God's plan is not limited merely to this earth, not limited merely to you as a human being; but you as a human being have a relationship to the whole.

A  Home  Among  The  Stars

Uranda

From the Shining Citadels

Of Raira’s eternal sphere

Where we had lived and served for countless ages

We journeyed forth

Into the deep of space unlighted

Into the vast void of nothingness

The desert places of the Cosmos

The unused wilderness between the suns

That we might build a place of habitation

A mansion in the boundless heavens

And a home among the stars

© emissaries of divine light