And Immediately I Was In The Spirit
Uranda July 9, 1953
We have been meditating on the basic theme of Heavenly Magic, the magic of living, and we can feel the pattern of that magic beginning to work in and through you. You have begun to have a true realization of the reality of Shekinah; and as the Shekinah Cloud of Glory is allowed to penetrate into the pneumaplasmic substance of your body, in that sphere you begin to be One—One with that which is of the Inner Reality of Being. Allowing this to take place you are in position to let the Light that Glows begin to have meaning in your mind, not merely an intellectual process as we ordinarily think of it but a process of illumination. And with illumination, with the correct acceptance of the truth by the mind and the illuminating process in the current of resurrection, the Fire that Burns begins to be a constant and continued reality in your heart—it begins to be the manifestation of the Fire that never goes out; it is a constant flame. Those who live and move and have their Being in God have this constant flame upon the Altar in the heart, in the Temple of the body. You are beginning to realize that your body individually is a Temple, and that all of us collectively have a part to play in the formation of the larger Temple—the Temple not made with hands. Your body was not made with hands; likewise the larger Temple of many members is not made with hands.
Yesterday, in our patterns of meditation together, we gave some attention to the secrets of sex as they relate to the Shekinah Pattern of Being [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/01/shekinah-and-sexhere-i-am-lord.html] and our relationship in reality with God. Today, continuing in this cycle that has been opened to you, I would like to draw your attention to the record as taken from the 4th chapter of the Book of Magic, and we will begin with the 1st verse. Perhaps we will go back just a little to get connected up—we gave meditation to the message to Laodicea [Chapter 3, Verse 14]:
“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God [that is, Shekinah]; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
In our meditations here we recognize that we can use patterns of response and patterns of opposition, but lukewarmness is something which we cannot use, it is something which we must ignore or work around. Only where there is response in the sense of yielding or response in the sense of opposition can we utilize the factors present.
“Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire [the Shekinah Fire], that thou mayest be rich.”
And can we hope to find any true riches in being if we ignore this Fire, the gold tried in the fire? Gold is the symbol of what? Love. Love tried in the Fire, “that thou mayest be rich”—the riches of heaven on earth at hand.
“I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed…” And what is the clothing? The Light that Glows, that relates to the reality of illumination and the function of the mind. “… and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear…” What is it that clears away the shame of nakedness? The white raiment, the Light that Glows. “… and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”
Now here in this particular pattern we have the emphasis placed upon seeing—"anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” The clothing, the Light that Glows, and the Cloud of Glory are so closely interrelated here in the pattern of symbolism that we see them really together in their oneness. The outer manifestation of the white raiment is of course the Cloud of Glory, but the Cloud of Glory has meaning and provides the raiment, the white raiment, because of the Light that Glows. And when we have our eyes anointed with eyesalve, that we may see, we begin to see the Cloud of Glory by reason of the Light that Glows.
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten…” Did you ever notice how I love you? “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” With my Father—not only the One Who Dwells but the Shekinah Pattern of Reality.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” Have you ever known the experience of hearing the Voice inviting you, “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter”?
“And immediately I was in the spirit…” There is one of the great significant keys. We noticed it briefly earlier in this Book of Magic, where we find the statement, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet… And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw.” And here we have the Word, the invitation, “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter,” things which must take form, things which are to appear on earth.
“And immediately I was in the spirit.” Now when you begin to hear the Voice that speaks with you, what are you in? Are you simply a human being in the flesh? Or are you just in your mind trying to intellectually comprehend that which the Voice is speaking? Or are you in some place far away, some place of the past or some place somewhere else on the globe? Are we all together individually, with one accord in one place—body, mind, heart and spirit, in alignment, in one place? And where is the centering of you? In the flesh? In the mind? In the heart? Let it be in the spirit, for when you begin to hear the Voice you should immediately be in the spirit.
“… and, behold, a throne was set in heaven…” And where is heaven? In some far-off sky? It is at hand, here, now. “… and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold”—Crowns of God's Love. And they had on their heads the Crowns of God's Love... to be continued in a few days, as The Four Beasts
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