Christ Spirit — Only Begotten Son Of God
Uranda June 15, 1952
We are reminded of how it was in the days of the beginning, particularly the beginning of this fallen world state, when the LORD God came walking in the cool of the day and found Adam and Eve hiding. In the cool of this day, we find men and women gathered in a little valley, not hiding but turning the face of their love response to the Throne of God, that they may rest beside the River of Life and share in the fruit of the Tree of Life. This morning we were meditating upon the mystery of the Book of Revelation, and I would like to continue with you in that pattern of meditation now.
“And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne…” Remember, there is One sitting upon the Throne, but this is someone in the midst of the Throne itself. “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
We recognize that the spirit of God is One Spirit, but this One Spirit is made up of many phases of spirit, seven focalizations of spirit, or seven primary aspects of the One Spirit of God. The spirit of God is the Christ Spirit. The Christ is the only begotten Son of God, but while the Body of God has many members and it has a centering in One Being, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, who was made manifest on earth through the body of Jesus Christ, God is never to be considered as one Being, except as God is focalized in the LORD of Lords. The only begotten Son of God relates to the spirit that is made manifest because of the true Centering or focalization of all God Beings. The only begotten Son of God is the Christ Spirit. The Christ Spirit was made manifest through the body of Jesus, and so the man Jesus became the Christ, the revelation of the only begotten Son of God. But to think of Jesus the man as the only begotten Son of God is completely erroneous. It does not detract from Him in any way whatsoever to recognize the truth, and only the truth can make us free. So the Christ Spirit is that which issues forth from God, the wholeness of the spirit of God.
The Christ Spirit can also be used as a term to signify the centering of the whole spirit, and it is primarily in this sense that the word “Christ” is used properly in relationship to Jesus. Many people act as if they thought that the words “Jesus” and “Christ” were synonyms. They are not. Christ was not the name of the body of the man Jesus, and to act as if the words “Christ” and “Jesus” were synonyms is to show one's ignorance of the truth. Jesus was the name of a man. That man was perfectly centered in His Father, and allowed the revelation of the Father. That particular God Being who was His Father—"The Father who dwelleth in me”—was, and is, the Central Focalization of Deity, or the Apex Point of all God Beings, and so is the Center of Deity. And that God Being may be spoken of as God, inasmuch as all the members of the Body of God, in the invisible sense, are centered in Him. You cannot speak of Him in that sense in a manner which separates Him from that which He focalizes.
So the only begotten Son of God does not relate to the body of the man Jesus. It relates to the wholeness of the spirit of God which was revealed through the body, mind and heart of the man Jesus. And the Christ aspect of the spirit, signifying the whole spirit but primarily that which focalizes the spirit of God, provided the body of Jesus with the revelation of the only begotten Son of God. The Father dwelling in the body of Jesus, being the Center of all God Beings, was, and is, God, in the sense of that centering; and that which issues forth from the Father, the Centering of Deity, issues forth from all God Beings, and so the wholeness of invisible God, with all the members, releases a spirit which we call the spirit of God, or the Christ Spirit.
Those two terms can be used more or less interchangeably, but when we say the spirit of God we mean the whole spirit, without giving any aspect of that spirit dominance. When we say the Christ Spirit we mean the whole spirit of God, but in that we give dominance to the aspect of the spirit which gives focalization to the spirit itself, and that aspect of the spirit which is so signified is the Spirit of Love. The LORD of Lords, being the Central Focalization of Deity, has the primary responsibility of focalizing the Christ aspect of the spirit. That means the whole spirit, yes, but particularly, in dominant form, the Spirit of Love. “God is love.” The Centering of God Being is the Lord of Love, and so, when we understand the principles involved, we see that God is indeed love—but God is more than love. But the Lord of Love centers all God Beings, and the Spirit of Love centers the whole spirit of God.
So the spirit of God is the whole spirit without any aspect of that spirit being held to be in dominance. The Christ Spirit is the whole spirit of God with the centering aspect of spirit in dominance, and that is the Christ Spirit or the Spirit of the Living Christ. And the spirit of God, or particularly the Christ Spirit, is the only begotten Son of God, because it is the wholeness of that which issues forth from God; but that spirit is not, and cannot be, contained in any one body. It was released in pure essence through the body of Jesus, so the Christ was a title given to Jesus in recognition of the fact that the only begotten Son of God was made manifest through the body of the man Jesus.
If we realize these things it will make it easy for us to comprehend the mysteries of God, as the term is expressed in the 10th chapter of Revelation: “The mystery of God should be finished.” We need to have a clear recognition of the fact that the body of the man Jesus was not the only begotten Son of God, but it was the spirit of God, with the Christ Spirit dominant, which was revealed in essence through the body of Jesus, because the indwelling Father in His case was the Centering of All God Beings, which made a revelation of the only begotten Son of God on earth possible. No other Being could have come into the body of a man on earth and revealed the wholeness in essence, with the proper aspect of spirit dominant, the only begotten Son of God. The God Being made manifest in this body, my personal body, could not come into the world and reveal the essence of the Christ Spirit in the sense that was necessary to make possible a revelation of the only begotten Son of God, because in my case the dominant aspect of spirit is not Love but Truth, the Spirit of Truth. And that would not make possible the revelation of the essence, the Centering Essence, of the only begotten Son of God. So the Lord of Love, the Centering of Deity, was the only God Being who could come into incarnation in the body of a man and release through that body the Centering Essence of the only begotten Son of God.
Human beings have imagined that the body of the man was the only begotten Son of God, which is not at all true. It was the spirit made manifest through Him which was the only begotten Son of God, and that only begotten Son of God is that which you are invited to share here and now, in this day, according to your capacities. No one of you can, under any circumstance, provide a complete Centering Essence of that spirit, but all of you together, properly coordinated and centered, can allow that spirit, which is the only begotten Son of God, an opportunity of manifestation on earth.
That spirit must manifest through our bodies. Spirit without a body has no meaning in the realm of form. Only as spirit is allowed to manifest through the body of a man or a woman can that spirit have meaning in the realm of form. And it is on earth that the spirit of God must of necessity have meaning. So as your body, with its mind and heart, is drawn into the pattern of God's Design according to His Truth, you become a means by which some phase of the spirit of God is made manifest. With this small group here it is utterly impossible to allow anything like the absolute wholeness of the spirit of God in complete manifestation, but we can let enough of that wholeness manifest to allow a great working of the spirit of God on earth.
I would point out again that it will take 144,000 people, properly coordinated and centered according to the Divine Plan, in harmony with the Divine Design or the Truth of Being, in order to allow the whole centering of a body on earth through which the complete essence of the spirit of God, the only begotten Son of God, can manifest. But until we have that 144,000, properly coordinated, we will not have a body on earth which is complete enough to allow a real revelation on earth of the only begotten Son of God.
If these things be realized, it is easy to see that human beings have missed the mark entirely in relationship to the only begotten Son of God, in trying to worship the body of a man. And that man, they think, died—even though He is supposed to have been resurrected from that state of death—but a body of a man that died. That body allowed the manifestation of the only begotten Son of God but was not in itself that manifestation, except in relationship to its oneness with the Father. That means that the whole realm of Christendom is centering at a point where it cannot possibly receive the true current of the spirit of God which would allow the manifestation of the power of God.
Jesus said to His disciples—the words of the Father through the lips of Jesus—"And ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” The Holy Ghost is the manifest working of the aspect of the spirit of God for which you are responsible, which is centered in and working through the pneumaplasmic body of your own being. So the Holy Ghost must not at any time be confused with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost cannot manifest except by the power of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Ghost is an individualized aspect of the Holy Spirit working in and through the form of an individual, particularly centering and working through the pneumaplasmic body of that individual. So as we yield to the Patterns of Truth, let go to the Divine Design, we relinquish that confusion of consciousness which has kept a distorted pattern in the world so long, making human beings helpless and hopeless. We can let the Holy Spirit have true meaning on earth because we allow the Divine Design of Truth an opportunity of manifestation through mind and heart, by reason of which the invisible spirit coming into manifestation through our bodies may accomplish that which is the Father's will on earth.
We were taught to pray, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” It is only as these truths are recognized that it is possible for us to let the Father's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We see that the confusion of consciousness, of the concepts and ideas about truth and about Jesus, has produced a discordant pattern which was off center, through which the spirit had to work if it was working through human beings at all. The spirit worked through those disarranged patterns to some degree, and we have had some little evidence, a tiny evidence, of the working of the spirit of God through human beings; but it has not been the manifestation of power which could change the world pattern.
In relationship to this point there are the seven horns and the seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits. I would like to bring your attention to the fact that there are three things mentioned here: the horns, the eyes, and the spirits themselves. “Seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits.” The eyes and horns symbolize the means by which the spirits manifest. The seven spirits in their pure form, centered in the Spirit of Love, are: first, the Spirit of Love; the spirit of bringing forth, or the Spirit of the Womb; the Spirit of Life; the Spirit of Purification and Sanctification; the Spirit of Blessing, which centers in the Spirit of Truth, because there can be no blessing without the Spirit of Truth, even though you have the Spirit of Love. The Spirit of Love may work through you, but if it is not in conjunction with the Spirit of Truth there will be no blessing. Then there is the Spirit of the Single Eye, and the Spirit of the New Earth. These are the aspects of the spirit of God which we recognize as the seven spirits. It is interesting and helpful to meditate on the significance of these various primary focalizations of spirit, and to note how all the different aspects of spirit that we may know are included in these. For instance, we speak of the spirit of friendliness. That is a sub-aspect which comes into manifestation through one of the aspects of the Seven Spirits. You may meditate on these things and note many wonderful things as you do so.
The horns are mentioned first; secondly, the eyes—"which are the seven spirits which are before the throne of God.” The horns relate to the physical aspect. In other words, as your body becomes a means by which the spirit of God is made manifest your whole body is in this sense a horn, a means by which the spirit manifests in the physical realm. Then, the seven eyes; each spirit has, in other words, a single eye. On the basis of the single eye we recognize the relationship of the spirit to the mind. The working of the spirit through the heart is something that comes as a subdivision under mind and body, because the heart, or the feeling nature, interpenetrates both mind and body. Therefore we need no special division for that. But we have the three planes indicated, the three outer planes of being: the plane of the physical realm, the physical body as far as you are personally concerned; the plane of the mind; and the spiritual expression plane, or the plane of the spirit made manifest on earth. So we see that you, having a body and having a mind—when your mind becomes single; that is, allows the development of the single eye, as the Master put it: “If thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light”—as the single eye signifies the centering of your mind, you have in your body and your mind the means by which the spirit of God can work through you, and you will come under one of these seven classifications insofar as the dominant aspect of spirit is concerned.
In any individual who is allowing the spirit of God to manifest, all aspects are present. For instance, in relationship to myself, you have recognized there is the Spirit of Love. Actually, from the standpoint of the dominant aspect, that love comes from the Lord of Love, but in relationship to My Own Being, in the sense of the Focalization of Deity, there is love. There is in each one all of the aspects of God, but one of those aspects is dominant. The focalization of the Spirit of Truth could not be established in relationship to the God Being which I am, which is revealed through this body and mind, except there were in conjunction with it all of the other aspects. In my case the Spirit of Truth is dominant, and it is impossible to have it any other way. When you fulfil the Law and let all of these things work according to their principles, there will be that which is of the wholeness of the spirit manifesting through you, but it will not be on the basis of the balanced essence of the spirit through any one of you. It cannot be. There was Only One who could manifest in a body on earth and provide that, but you will provide some aspect of the spirit, some pattern through which the spirits may manifest, and the wholeness of the spirit is in you as you let God's Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. One aspect will be dominant, and it takes all of these various designs brought to focus on earth in 144,000 people in order to allow the complete revelation on earth not just of the essence as it was with Jesus but of the wholeness of the only begotten Son of God.
We have, then, the recognition, “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” As you realize that you, responding to God as an individual, can have a part in allowing the Christ Spirit, the Victorious Spirit of the Living Christ, or the spirit of God, an opportunity of manifestation so that you become a part of the visible body of God, you see that it includes your body, the horns; it includes your mind, which comes to focus as the eye; and it takes care of the spiritual aspect of your being, or the third plane insofar as the outer realm of manifestation is concerned.
You begin to have a basis of understanding; not something mysterious, vague and uncertain, but of actual understanding in realization of how it is that you can be a part of the Body of Christ on earth. Everyone has tended to use the word “Christ” as if it were a synonym for the word “Jesus,” and people have wondered how in the world they could be a part of the body of Jesus on earth. That is impossible. You cannot, in the sense of the personal body, be a part of the body of Jesus, but you can be a part of His Body in the sense that He is the Focalization of Deity; you can be a part of the Body of God made visible, and as such you can be a part of the Body of Christ on earth.
Before we go on with this particular phase, you will find that all these parts of the Divine Blueprint, which we call the Book of Revelation, interrelate. It has to be seen as a Whole; but you cannot see the wholeness without examining the parts, because the human mind is incapable of even comprehending the significance of the Blueprint as a Whole to start with. As you yield to the current of the spirit and begin to see the parts in their proper setting, to see what is actually revealed here, you will begin to be in a position to comprehend at least something of the Wholeness.
Since I have mentioned the 144,000 several times I would like to take time now to consider this point. Unless you recognize at least something of the significance of it, the other aspects which we are studying tend to be cloudy in your consciousness. This is in the 14th chapter: “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb.” You notice all the way through that reference is made to the Lamb. Human beings generally have jumped to the conclusion that that meant Jesus, or Jesus Christ, or the LORD of Lords. You will notice the wording, for instance, in this passage which we have just been studying: “In the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain.” In the midst of the Throne, not upon the Throne. The Throne is for the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. The purpose of the Throne is for the Centering of Deity in God, the God Being who manifested through the body of Jesus Christ. So if we are reading the Blueprint correctly—and it is signified in many other places also—it is obvious that the Lamb is not a reference to Jesus Christ. More and more, as you begin to understand this Blueprint, you will recognize that the Lamb does not have reference to Jesus or to the God Being who manifested through the body of Jesus.
For those who do not yet have vision enough to see and understand, there are many strange coincidences which are beyond the possibility of human comprehension, but since you have begun to recognize to some degree the fact that I am the Manifest Focalization of the Spirit of Truth—and you are beginning to realize that you can share the responsibility of letting the Spirit of Truth have meaning on earth, that the Spirit of Truth can work in you and through you wherever you are if you will let it be so—we might point to the reference to the Lamb. LAM-B. From the standpoint of my earthly name my initials are L. A. M. and I have the title of Bishop. There are too many coincidences, if you are going to call them that. Wherever in Revelation you find reference to the Lamb, it refers to Me and My Purpose in coming into the world. The Lamb is the Centering Point of the Throne, the place upon which the KING is set—the Lamb in the midst of the Throne; not upon the Throne but the Centering Point of the Throne itself on earth. And the KING, the LORD of Lords, who was made manifest through the body of Jesus, is the KING who sits upon the Throne. If you recognize that one point it will help you to begin to understand the Book of Revelation. Anyone who does not accept the truth of that point does not have one of the primary keys necessary to unlock the so-called mysteries of the Book of Revelation.
How did it happen that I came into the world and was given a name at birth that had these initials? Was it just coincidence? “A Lamb as it had been slain”—not that it actually was, but there was the appearance, and particularly at that point where Daniel recognized that the LORD Himself would have to come into the earth, and many other points as well, it had looked from an outer world standpoint that I had failed. Over and over again down through the centuries it had looked as if the world had defeated Me, as if the manifestation of that for which I came into the world had failed. I am not just talking about this earthly life span of this body but down through the thousands of years during which I have served my LORD and KING to bring about the manifestation of salvation for the world.
It is essential that you recognize this central key if you are to understand what is contained here, “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion.” Mount Sion is the high point of spiritual consciousness in the world. Of course some people think that meant the Mount of Olives, or something else. There are all kinds of explanations given, but Mount Sion is not talking about some earthly hill somewhere around Jerusalem. It is talking about the high point of spiritual consciousness in the world, the true, pure, spiritual consciousness made manifest on earth.
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven.” Where is heaven? People are turning their ears to the sky, expecting to hear a trumpet come sounding down from the sky. “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters.” To what Voice have you been listening through the period of your time here on Sunrise Ranch? The Voice from Heaven, as the Voice of Many Waters. Water is the symbol of Truth, the Voice of Truth, and you have heard the Voice of Truth as I have come before you day after day. “And I heard a voice from heaven.” From where does My Voice come? If you deny that what I speak is from heaven then you are attempting to say that it comes from my earthly mind and body. And if you say that, you deny the source and flatter this body with its mind beyond its just deserts, because no human being with body and mind could come before you and do that which I do. No, it does not come just from my mind. It could not.
I challenge you to find any human being on the face of the earth who could come before you and give you anything like this. I do not care how long he has studied or anything else, it cannot be done. It is nowhere else to be had. “The voice of many waters” is mentioned over and over again here in Revelation, and wherever it is mentioned, that is My Voice, the Voice of the Spirit of Truth coming out of heaven, because the Voice you hear does not come out of this earth. It comes through these lips but every time I speak to you here it is a Voice from Heaven. And unless you recognize that and accept it you cannot possibly begin to comprehend that which is essential to you if you are to be a true servant of God on earth and let the power of God have meaning here and now.
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song.” You are learning to have a Voice of Harpers. That is where you come into the picture, sharing in the expression of this song, this New Song. That is your part. There has to be a Centering. There has to be a Leader. But there is a place for you in this heavenly symphony of a New Song. “And they sung as it were a new song.” It does not say it was a New Song, but as far as the outer world is concerned it is a New Song.
“And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.” To the degree that you have yielded to the working of My Spirit here, you are being redeemed from the earth, and to the degree that you yield you are beginning to learn a New Song. Some of you know what I am talking about, and to others it sounds like words, and that is the way I intend it. But some of you are beginning to learn that New Song.
“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.” You see, the Lord is very clever. Someday human beings will begin to acknowledge it. This passage means what it says, and yet it does not mean at all what human beings think it means. What does it mean? “These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.” That would suggest to the self-active human mind that it meant that the 144,000 are all men and that they had lived some kind of a strange life on earth. The point is that they are not defiled with women. In this sense, then, the word “women” is used to signify that which is of the outer pattern, the negative aspect of the world manifestation, that which is out here in the world pattern which is not subject to the Divine Pattern; the distortion pattern. In other words their response is not to that which is out here in the world, to the things of the world, to the ideas and hopes and fears of the world. Their response is to the KING. The centering of response is to the KING. “For they are virgins.” This has no reference whatsoever to what the world thinks of as sex. Any human being who thinks to interpret it on the basis of what the world thinks of as sex simply does not know what he is talking about. Any human being, man or woman, who stops his response to the distortion patterns of the world, and who turns to God and becomes centered in Center on earth, thereby becomes a virgin. That is what the Master meant when He was talking about the ten virgins. Five were wise and five were foolish. He brought out the same point there.
“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” They are centered at one point, and that does not mean it is just a great multitude following some individual. This picture has been drawn as if the Lamb had reference to Jesus Christ, which we have seen it does not at all. It does not have reference to Jesus Christ, but the human assumption has supposed it to mean Jesus Christ, and they have supposed that wherever He went in heaven He could not walk in the cool of the evening, He could not have a conference anywhere, or go down to the Tree of Life in the Garden, without 144,000 people trailing on behind Him. Wouldn't that become monotonous? You wouldn't like it, and neither would He—to have 144,000 people right behind you; you could not turn around but what they were right there. That just shows you how foolish the human mind is when it tries to understand this Divine Blueprint. We have to respond to that which is of God. So the human pattern, the human concept, reveals itself as being ridiculous, as it always does in the Light of Truth.
“These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” The Lamb is the manifest form of the Spirit of Truth. And where does he go? Does it mean that I could not take a trip into Loveland without 144,000 people trailing along? Not at all. Because you are here, because others are coming, you are beginning to see the manifestation of the 144,000. Some have come and decided they could not follow me. They were going to follow their own concepts, ideas and beliefs, but most of you are following me to the best of your ability, knowledge and understanding. And anyone who does not follow me will not for very long be anywhere in the pattern. That is a good way to get eliminated. But to the degree that you are following me you are moving into position as one of the 144,000 through whom the body of the only begotten Son of God shall be made manifest on earth, in wholeness—the second coming manifest through that body, the second coming in the sense of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, meeting all of the problems that are.
For the moment we are not concerned about trying to fix up conditions in the world, to change the patterns of world situation. The current of the spirit is reaching out into it and those who respond will be influenced, yes, but that is not our primary task. Our primary task is to develop that body of 144,000 people through whom the Power of God may work to completely change the situation in the world. By means of that 144,000 the Power of God will clear the realm of unreality in the world and establish the Christ Kingdom on earth. You have an opportunity of being among that number.
Many times I have said that if we had 144,000 we could overnight change the situation in the world. But look where you will you cannot find 144,000 who are centered, who know what it is to follow our LORD and KING in letting the spirit of God be revealed on earth, letting the Kingdom come on earth, letting the Father's Will be done on earth. So the 144,000 centered in the Lamb on earth provide the means by which the Spirit of the Living Christ can come into the earth with Power and Great Glory to change the world condition and to establish the Kingdom on earth for our LORD and KING. Concerning these it is said:
“These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.” That means perfection. That means that those who are moving into this pattern must accept the Master's word, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Having recognized something of the means by which the spirit of God is to come into manifestation through form on earth, to accomplish the Will of God on earth, you can begin to see the significance of these words: “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”
The Lamb comes and takes the Book out of the Right Hand of Him who is sitting upon the Throne. Who is on the Throne? The LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, who was made manifest as Jesus Christ. He cannot be both. He is the Center of Deity, but it is the Lamb that takes the Book out of the Right Hand of Him that sitteth upon the Throne. And from there we move to an understanding of what it means to let the Book of Life be opened on earth—the opening of your Book of Life.
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