No human being has reached a point of keeping the Sabbath until he or she has matured into a Divine Man or Woman, so that that individual is no longer concerned with his own labors. “Thou shalt not labor”—in the pattern of his own, your own, cycle of function; your own purpose, self-centeredness. We are allowed six days, or six steps in the creative cycle, to allow us to move from the state of the fallen realm to the state of restoration—six steps. But we cannot have the fifth day, or the completion of the third day even, we cannot have the sixth day of fulfilment, unless we let the first days have their true meaning.
Now the Master said, “My Father and I are one. We are one.” And He said, “Follow me.” He, the outer, was completely at rest in the Inner Being, so that He was not laboring as a man; He was letting God do the works. “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” Now until we reach the point where we have followed Him through these creative cycles to the point where we let the Father do the works, we have not fulfilled our initial mission on earth; we are not ready to begin to truly serve.
Now let us correlate this with the basic, fundamental principles that are revealed in relationship to the day of Pentecost. We see that the Four Forces were at work in their natural sequence, and after ten days, “They were all with one accord in one place. There came a sound as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared as if it were cloven tongues of fire sitting upon each of them.” Now let us see clearly the pattern of manifestation in relationship to what our LORD pointed out would be the manifestation of power. For He said, “And ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you.” Mankind today does not have that power. The churches do not have the power; they just talk about it, but it does not manifest. It began to manifest, but they violated the laws, the cycles, and threw it away. They allowed it to come to the point of the fourth day; but they violated the principles of the first four days and refused to let the fifth, sixth and seventh days manifest; so it was not the fulness of the coming of Pentecost. They only thought it was. So the fifth, sixth and seventh days did not manifest in relationship to the disciples; they did not let it manifest. They threw the power away, and the churches since that time simply have not had it. Now it is time for us to let that power manifest. How shall we do it? By following out the cycles of creation.
Water—“with one accord in one place.” And the moving—“There came a sound as of”—what?—“a rushing mighty wind” (“And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”) “and it filled the whole house”—earth—“where they were sitting. And there appeared as if it were cloven tongues of fire sitting upon each of them.” The four forces at work, clearly portrayed in relationship to the day of Pentecost. And they came in their right sequence: water, air, earth, and fire.But they did not let the cycle continue; they did not even let these fully manifest. They did not go to the fifth day, and then the sixth, and then the seventh, at which point they would have reached a state of oneness with God, which would have allowed them to carry on the work of our LORD on earth.
The work of our LORD has not been carried out on earth since He left. The disciples let it get partway, to the fourth day, and then they spoiled it. They spoiled it, and the work of the LORD has not been done by any of the churches, by any of the people of the churches. They have been playing children's games. The power of God has not been made manifest through any church, it makes no difference. Not one of them on the face of the whole earth is letting the power of God manifest in any real sense—not in the sense that the LORD intended. Why? Because they have not stopped to see the reality of the creative cycles—the Magic of Creation. They have not recognized our relationship to those cycles. They have not even seen how Peter spoiled it. The power disappeared almost at once, and yet they still imagine that Peter was doing a wonderful thing. He spoiled it. He did not do a wonderful thing. He led those who followed him into patterns which violated the laws of God and the creative cycle. And the power was lost, and man still does not have it. He imagined that he had it, but he did not. What he had was not the real manifestation of power, the power of God at work on earth. And it does not come until the reality of the day of rest—that is, when man goes through the cycle of restoration. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/09/seventh-cycle.html]
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This creative cycle, then, is something which must manifest through us. It is not something we can ignore and have the power. If we follow Peter of old, and his impulsive nonsense, and his sacrilegious defiance of God's laws and principles which the Master had clearly revealed to him, we will not have the power. There is only one way that that power can manifest, and that is according to these laws and principles of being. And so we begin to give heed to them; we begin to realize that until we pass through the third day—and we are just in the third day here—and the fourth day, and the fifth day, and the sixth day, and come to the seventh day, we will not have the power. We will not be in the Garden of Eden. We will not be letting the things which God prepared, in the future, come into manifestation through us.
Man has wandered around in the wilderness, he has had all kinds of fantastic concepts, he has followed fanatics, he has been governed by prejudice and fear, and has failed to let the will of God be done on earth as it is in heaven. He has failed to let the Kingdom come. It is not here. They talk about a spiritual kingdom: “It is not supposed to be here; it is just a spiritual kingdom.” No, it is a Kingdom on earth. “Thy kingdom come” into form on earth. So until we realize these things and see what they did at the time of the day of Pentecost, why they failed, why the power was lost, we cannot go through the cycle successfully and let the power reappear.
Now this opportunity is open to any man or woman anywhere—anywhere, at any time, if they will follow through in the cycle. But man has been trying to leap from the state of mere existence to the state of being a son or daughter of God. And since he could not do it while he lived, he did it when he died. It is just foolishness—plain, simple foolishness. We must begin to realize that unless we individually and collectively take these steps we are not going to have the manifestation of power. Unless we see this cycle working in relationship to what the disciples did do, letting it start—they spoiled it, they threw it away, but it did start—we cannot possibly have any real hope for doing better. But we should be able to do better than they did. If we do not, it is just too bad. Someone had better do better sooner or later, and if it is to be someone else, why are we here?
We have reached the point where we can let the waters be gathered together into one place; we can be with one accord in one place. We can yield to the spirit of God, let the firmament appear, to divide the waters from the waters. We can hear the sound as of a rushing mighty wind. We can let the water be in the sea and let the dry land appear, and it can fill the whole house where we are sitting, right here, just as well in this hour as any other. But I know you will probably postpone it a little longer. People always postpone it; they would not let it be today. But it could be now. We could let it reach the surface, we could let the dry land appear, we could let the light of the sun appear, and then we could move on into the fifth day, doing what has never been done since man fell by any group of people anywhere. Others have reached the point of the fourth day, but no group of people since the fall has ever passed through the fourth day—not one in all history, on the face of the whole earth. And of individuals, our LORD, He showed the way through the Seven Days of the Creative Cycle, and we are called upon to follow Him.
People imagine that they are following Him when they say, “I believe that Jesus died on the cross to save me from my sins.” That is sacrilege and blasphemy, and they are not following Him. We do not follow Him unless we go through the seven-day cycle and finally come to rest in the Father, as He prayed: “That they may be one, as we are.” But no one knows that oneness until he reaches the seventh day—the seventh day in the cycle, where you come to rest in God and cease from all your labors, and you do not wake up a few hours later and plunge back into your own labors. Once you leave your labors behind it is forever. It isn’t what day in the week you have for rest, if you do not reach the seventh day—and it has to be the seventh day; the sixth day will not work; the first day will not work—come to the seventh day in the cycle of creation, the seventh step, the point of restoration to oneness, the point where we begin to truly let the Garden of Eden appear again on earth. That is what the Master did, and He said, “Follow me.” The cycle was not completed by the disciples; they spoiled it; they did not let it appear. Man has thrown it away time after time down through the ages, and he is doing it still.
Unless we go on through the days of creation, individually and collectively, we will not come to the day of rest; and unless we come to the day of resting in the Father we will not have the power. The power started to appear so that they could have their fifth day and their sixth day and come to the seventh day, but would they let it come? No. Impulsive Peter, and all the others that followed him, went out and started dissipating it, violating every law of God and throwing away the rich blessings which would have changed the world nineteen centuries ago. It was not until after that—after all of this waste, after they had failed to let God's will be done on earth as it was in heaven—that the Book of Revelation was written. The cycle was opened so that man would have another chance, and we are living in the days of that chance. That is why I am here. That is why you are here. One more chance. If man does not take this one he will destroy himself—not because God so ordained it, but there is no other way of reaching man. All of the religious concepts in the world mean nothing from the standpoint of the coming of the Kingdom or the fulfilment of the will of God: the outworking of the Seven Days of Creation [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com word-of-good-report.html] in man that we might come to the Sabbath. We cannot have a Sabbath just by resting on Saturday, or Sunday; that is not the Sabbath. The Sabbath is that step in the creative cycles where you come to rest in God, where you have finished all of your labors and from thenceforward you let the Father do the works.
So the question is, What will we do about it? What will you do about it? How important is it? Is something else more important than going through this creative cycle and reaching the Seventh Day, the Sabbath, where we come to rest with one accord in one place? I couldn’t begin to describe to you the joy and the glory and the wonder of that privilege of coming to the Sabbath, the real day of rest, the things of God restored on earth, and you restored to the state of Divine Men and Women. But you will never get there unless you take the path that leads through those six days of creation, unless you let the creative magic have meaning in you.
