Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit
Sermon On The Mount
from Secrets of Being
Uranda April 16, 1953 Class
Our Master opened the Sermon on the Mount with these words: “And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him.” People assume that this Sermon given on the Mount was to the multitude but the text plainly states otherwise, for when He saw the multitude He left them. He went up into the mountain. And when His disciples, His followers, came unto Him, “He opened his mouth, and taught them,” the disciples, “saying”. To the degree that you accept the reality of the fact of being a disciple, a true follower, these words are to you. They were not addressed to a multitude long ago. They were addressed to His disciples, then and now; for they are eternal words, and they are addressed to any disciple, anywhere, at any time, who truly undertakes to follow Him. So, these are the words of our Master to you. “And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is”—not going to be, some day—“theirs is the kingdom of heaven”—not a hereafter but a present thing. As He had said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Some have assumed that this meant that one had to be some sort of weak-kneed creature, some spineless person, who had no spirit. But, obviously, if that which is being conveyed is the Kingdom of Heaven and it is to be presently received, we could not assume that there is no spirit in Heaven. What spirit, then, does He have reference to? It is the spirit of this world.
Actually, when He first spoke the words, that is what He said. Those who recorded the words did not get it all down, but it is obvious, in any case. “Blessed are the poor in the spirit of this world.” And when we hear that word sounding down through the centuries from His lips to our ears we cannot help but recall words He spoke on another occasion, when He said, “The prince of this world cometh and findeth nothing in me,” none of the spirit of this world. What is the spirit of this world? Self-centeredness, fear, human egotism, all of the spirits of envying and striving, the spirits of hate or jealousy—all of the spirits of this world, selfishness in all of its forms. “Blessed are they who are poor in the spirit of this world: for theirs is”—He did not say, “theirs is going to be,” or, “theirs shall someday be”—“for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Here is a basic Secret of Being which, once realized, permits us to have the right attitude with respect to all of those things which we may consider in Meditation as we progress in understanding. Blessed are the poor in the spirit of this world, who do not have the spirit of this world, who are not filled with it—they are empty of it—for they have a capacity to receive the Spirit of the Kingdom of Heaven. Their emptiness with respect to the spirit of this world gives them the capacity to receive the Spirit of the Kingdom of Heaven; and theirs is, now, the Kingdom of Heaven, the Control, the Design, of the Divine Pattern, the control necessary to let the beauty and the wonder of God's provision take form in the vibrational realms of heart and mind, that these things which are vibrationally so established may begin to take form with respect to character, with respect to attitude, the expression of life in every regard. But we must remain so centered that the Kingdom of Heaven that is at hand may begin to have meaning in the realms of form.
And let us remember that, individually, with respect to ourselves and our own lives, each is the center of that realm of form. All that you contact with respect to the realm of form centers in you. As we are members of One Body it centers with respect to all of us, yes, and it centers with respect to God, to whatever degree we are centered in God according to the Divine Pattern—but your contact with the realm of form is through your own body and can appear in no other way. Your physical body is, for you, the center of the realm of form insofar as you have influence over it or contact with it. And we are to let the things of Heaven, the control of Heaven, find expression in the realm of form, so that physical things may conform to the Kingdom of Heaven that is at hand. What a wonderful revelation it is that we hear from the lips of the Master, “Blessed are the poor in the spirit of this world: for theirs is now the Kingdom of Heaven.”
... to be continued ...
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