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
