This is our GPC Servers’ Training Class of June 26th, 1953, carrying forward with the basic theme of Heavenly Magic and considering specifically Shekinah Magic. Gradually the pattern is unfolding so that you can begin to perceive with the eye of your heart the beautiful reality of the Divine Design, and seeing it, you begin to relax into it. You begin to let its control have meaning. You can, on the basis of faith—not seeing clearly—when there is trust, begin to let control have meaning, but the fulness of control in the reality of Truth appears when you have begun to see for yourself the beauty of the Divine Design. Until you do begin to see for yourself, there tends to be a feeling that you are going to lose something, that something, somehow is being taken away from you, or that you are being forced into some type of pattern where you will lose your independence. Independence to be a dying soul is not of much value. When we enter into the glorious liberty of the children of God as living souls, we find that we have the privilege of living in the Kingdom that is at hand, and are no longer enjoying(?) the seeming privilege of being independent in a prison cell from which the only release will be death. And so, you are beginning to see the beauty of the Divine Design, and relaxing into it you begin to let control have meaning. And you’re finding that gradually your questions are either answered or they tend to become unimportant. Have any of you noticed that? The questions are either answered or they tend to become unimportant. In season all things are made clear. But you must learn to see for yourself, and you are learning to see with the eye of the heart, with the Guardian Angel of the mind, the conscious mind, at work in you.
This morning I would like to direct your attention to one of the outstanding keys to a realization of reality that can be found in Scripture or Holy Writ anywhere, an outstanding key which has from the standpoint of its true purpose and meaning been virtually ignored. As long as we ignore the keys, we cannot use them to unlock the doors and let the things of God come in. It is not a matter of you climbing up; it is not a matter of you opening your prison door and going out of it. It's a matter of opening the door—you have to do that, you have to use the key—but you let the Master in, and when He comes in He begins to prepare a place for you; He begins to make the place over, not just an ordinary remodeling but the former things are caused to pass away. Behold I make all things new. Instead of imagining that you must somehow escape from a prison, you let the prison be rebuilt into a mansion, a mansion of the soul in which the things of heaven are present and made manifest.
This particular key was given to man at the time our Master's body was born on earth in the form of a babe. There were many remarkable revelations of the reality of Shekinah at the time of the Master's birth, but the central key is the Angels' Song. The central key is the Angels' Song: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Let us look at this expression from the standpoint of reality, with the eye of the heart. Glory to God in the highest. What is the Glory? The Shekinah Cloud of Glory. Glory to God in the Highest. That carries to the Highest Focalization of Deity, going beyond the range of human consciousness or awareness. Glory to God in the Highest. And the expression was made in relationship to those who dwell on earth.
So, if there was a recognition of Glory to God in the Highest, we see with the eye of the heart how there was a Great Cone, shall we say—or what we have illustrated by the use of the word “tent”—a Great Cone, allowed to settle down over the earth, the base of it enfolding the earth as in a net, and the point of it extending upward to God in the Highest. And what is it that shapes this; what is it that gives it form? Glory—the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. And it was brought to the earth, enfolding man, centered on earth in the babe that was born.
And, Glory to God in the Highest, signifies that the Cloud of Glory, made manifest to man through the form of the babe that was to become a Man, extended to God in the Highest—that there was no break, no point of separation, no veil, except the inability of human beings to see the Cloud of Glory, the Shekinah, extended to the earth, enfolding the earth and carrying to God in the Highest. Glory all the Way. The Shekinah Cloud of Glory here, and all the Way to God in the Highest. And then following, when that is a reality, what does follow? “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth”—enfolded in the Shekinah Glory, something begins to manifest—peace on earth. “Peace on earth, good will toward men.”
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Now, the coming of the Master was the supreme gesture from God, the zenith of God's Gift of Love to man—and only in relationship to love can there be peace—and it is clearly indicated it was on earth, and the supreme gesture of good will—good will. Instead of seeing God as an avenging god, seeing God as a blood-thirsty god, seeing God as one who was always looking for a chance to torture human beings, instead of seeing God as One who had somehow conceived in His own mind the idea that He wouldn’t forgive human beings until His own Son was sent into the world and slain on the cross, we see that at the time of the Master's birth the Divine expression, the Angels' Song, conveyed to man the supreme gesture of love and good will. If there is good will, can we say that in the pattern of that good will there is a desire to get even, to make people pay for their sins, to make people suffer, etc? No. What is the natural result when human beings allow themselves to be enfolded in the Shekinah Cloud of Glory that extends all the way to Highest God?
First there begins to be a sense of peace—peace on earth, from which peace had been banished for so long, and from which it was again banished—peace on earth, the result of the working of God's Love within the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. And then good will—good will from God in the Highest, through the Shekinah, to all the children of men. Good will—the willingness to let all differences be past, to let all wrongs be as if they had not been. This is not the message of a bloodthirsty god through his angels, his avenging angels, to the cringing cowards dwelling on earth. This is the message of a God of Love, who does not require any blood sacrifice. This is the message of Highest God to the children of men through the Shekinah Cloud of Glory made manifest on earth, and centered on earth in the body of a babe. Peace on earth.
And the Angels sang the Song even though there was no room in the inn for Him; they were so busy there, celebrating; they were so busy with such important affairs that there was no room in the inn, no bed available to Mary. They were busy with such busy business! And the Angels sang the Song. Even though they had to move the ox from the stall, and put in a little fresh hay in the manger to make a place for the birth of the babe—the lowliest place. And still, even though that was all that man could provide for the coming of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, there was still the Angels' Song, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” No judgment, no condemnation, the open invitation to come, to come and let the beauties of the Kingdom of Heaven be revealed in the lives of the children of men. In conjunction with this there were other evidences.
This Song the Angels sang was heard by the shepherds who tended their flocks—and there we have again the Pattern of the Shepherd. Suppose a good shepherd is herding his sheep and one of the sheep wanders off a bit, gets over in a dangerous place, and the shepherd brings it back. Suppose one of the little lambs straggles, is straggling behind, does the shepherd come along with that staff and start beating it, and say, “Get up in there where you belong, or I'll beat you to death. I'll have your blood if you don't get in there”? And one of the sheep wanders aside a bit. Does he beat the sheep with the rod, or send his dog to chew it up, to make it bleed? We would take the attitude that such a so-called shepherd ought to be confined somewhere. We would say that that shepherd was a brute.
And yet we take the attitude that that was what God did. He wasn't content unless there was some bleeding. He was going to beat them up, have their blood, and the only way, supposedly, He could set aside this dogmatic attitude—“I'll have your lives for this”—was for Him to send His own Son into the world and say, “Now, I'll torture you. I'll have your life. I'll spill your blood. And then I'll take that as a substitute for the blood of all these other critters.” That is supposed to be the religion of the so-called Christian world. That's what they say, exaggerated a bit maybe, but that's what it is. No, God is not like that. Human beings have attributed to God their own dastardly attitudes and conceive God to be as limited as they themselves are, and they have built their concept of religion on that basis.
So instead of seeing the glorious significance of the Angels' Song, they have continued to weave the patterns of assumption and belief on the basis that prevents God's Love from being received, His Power from manifesting, His Truth from being known. And so human beings have continued to die, not because God cursed them and required that they die. No. How were they cursed in the beginning when man fell? They cursed themselves. Did God curse them? Human beings have consistently assumed that God cursed man, that God cursed woman, that God cursed the serpent. No, He did not. God did not curse anyone. They cursed themselves. They brought the curse upon themselves. And God did not say, “Now for doing this, because you did this, you've got to die.” No. He said, “If you do this you will die.” He didn't require their death. He only recognized that if they violated the laws of Life they would die.
If I say to you, “You go out here on one of these high points on the Rimrock and jump off, it'll kill you.” Now does that mean I'm going to take a club and drive you up there and force you to jump off. Certainly not. I've merely acknowledged that if you do violate the law of gravity, and jump off of that point, there won't be anything but crushed flesh and bone at the bottom of the cliff, and your life will be finished. Just so, God acknowledged, God told them, “If you do this you will die.” He didn't force them to die. He didn't compel them or say, “Now that you've done this, I'm going to make you die.” And it’s this distortion pattern in consciousness which has kept human beings from even beginning to see what the Master was talking about when He said, “I am the resurrection, and the life.” Remember, God did not curse man. God did not require that anyone should die at any time, under any circumstance, and least of all did He require that His Son should die.
Let us remember that the Master said, before the betrayal, before the mockery of the trial, before the agony of the crucifixion, before any of that, He said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” Before any of this pattern of atrocity had appeared, Jesus said, or the reality of our LORD through the lips of Jesus, “I have finished.” He didn't say, “I have almost finished. When I've died on the cross, and the blood has been dripping from my hands and feet and side, then I'll have finished the work.” No. Before the betrayal, He said—and if we deny it we make him a liar, or try to—He said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” And once you begin to see that God did not require the death of any human being anywhere at any time—God did not produce the condition which would cause death—that He did not require the death of our LORD on earth, or His body; once you begin to actually see these things, the truth of the matter, you can begin to have a new attitude toward life and towards God. But as long as you imagine, which is again an assumption, as long as you imagine that you are under sentence of death from God, what can you do? God does not require your death, or anyone else's; your suffering, your misery—it is not required.
Now carry this a step further, a point which we have noted before, but let’s have it clearly established in consciousness, with spiritual vision of the Truth. If God required that our Master's body had to be crucified on the cross, or that He had to die, if that were required of God, as some assume, then those who carried out the conditions or produced the conditions necessary to the crucifixion were serving God; they were preordained by God to do that, if you are going to carry out such a concept, if you are going to say that God required that they should do that so that man could be saved. And when spineless Pilate washed his hands and said, “I don't know. I don't find anything wrong with this man, but if you want to take Him out and crucify Him, all right, I guess it’ll be all right”—spineless Pilate.
But that was after something else. Let us clearly understand what was at work in Judas. Let us understand Judas. Judas was the treasurer. He was inclined to be over-fond of the monetary aspect of the program. And he conceived himself to be rather smart, politically minded, and he had the idea that they were going to set up an earthly kingdom, to restore the kingdom to Israel, and that Jesus was going to sit on an earthly throne, and they were going to drive the Romans out, and they were going to re-establish the pattern in Palestine. But he felt that the Master was not taking adequate advantage of His opportunities, His political opportunities. He felt He was wasting His time and effort, and was not getting the job done. Now he knew something of the Master's power, and ability. He had seen Him disappear from the eyes of men. He had seen Him do all kinds of things. And so the reasoning in his distorted brain, his distorted mind, was this: “I see an opportunity here, to take advantage of something. I’ll force the issue with the Master. He is so powerful that if He gets in a corner He will have to use His power. We’ll precipitate the thing a little. He is letting it drag on too long and He is missing His chance to become king. So I will do a little conniving. I am going to set the stage that will put Him in a position where He will be forced to use His power, and the thing will be opened up and then He will carry through, establish the victory, and we’ll have the kingdom, the kingdom of Israel on earth again.”
And in his distorted mind there wasn’t the slightest concept but what Jesus would do just that. He never dreamed for a moment that the Master wouldn’t resist, He wouldn’t use His power under that circumstance. And so he undertook to set the stage, and that was his reasoning. And when he found that the Master wasn’t going to use His power to establish an earthly kingdom, when he saw all that he had hoped for crumble, and realized that it was too late to do anything about it, he went out and hanged himself. He couldn’t stand it. He couldn’t face it. It wasn’t just regret—he loved the Master in his fashion—but it wasn’t just regret over what he had done, in that sense. He had seen himself as treasurer of a kingdom, collecting taxes, making the wealth roll in, having political power, the power of life and death—if someone did not do just so, he could put the squeeze on. He had seen himself as a political figure of power in an earthly kingdom. That was the reason why he did what he did. And he saw all his dreams fade and he knew that it would never be, and he couldn’t take it, and he went and hanged himself. Now, that is the fact of the case, that is the way Judas felt and reasoned, if you could use the word.
Let's see it as it is, and stop assuming, and begin to recognize that the death of our LORD on the cross was not something required of God. It was an atrocity pure and simple. And he did not actually die. He went into a coma. He went into a coma, but He did not die. Once we begin to see that, we can begin to realize the truth of the matter, that God did not curse man; man cursed himself. God did not require that you or anyone else should die. Human beings produced the conditions which brought on death, and God simply said, “If you violate these laws you will die.” They violated the laws; established themselves in the pattern wherein they would bring on death; and consequently they cursed themselves.
The Angels’ Song to the children of men was, “Glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace, good will toward men.” And where is there in that, the death sentence for God's Son on Earth? It isn't there! It never has been there. Human beings have believed a lie, a falsehood, an assumption, and until we begin to accept that, and realize that the greatest lie, the greatest and most dastardly lie that the devil has ever succeeded in establishing in the minds and hearts of men, was the lie that Jesus died on the cross, and that He had to die to save us. As long as the devil can keep human beings believing that, the Kingdom of God can be kept out of the world. God's control cannot reach into the world, because human beings are believing something of God that is not true. Their pattern of religion and belief and worship, and their supposed way of salvation—all figments of fancy! Assumptions pure and simple, deluded human beings! Now, don't go out and try to tell them that, but you must know that if you are going to serve God, and not be trapped into serving the devil. Remember that there are good people in all these religions and beliefs, and don't try to change their religion, whatever you do. Never proselyte, never condemn the religions. I do not. But I have to point to the truth of the matter if you are going to know the truth and let the truth make you free. And in season there will be those who are willing, of their own volition, to draw near and begin to see the truth as it is. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
The shepherd—the Pattern of the Shepherd—not concerned about punishing the sheep. What was the parable the Master gave? The ninety and nine that were safe in the fold, and one had wandered away, and the shepherd went out and found it, and carried it back, to bring it healing and restore it to its place in the fold. Do you suppose he went through all that just to give the sheep a good beating when it got he got it back in the fold, to beat it with an inch of its life? No. How senseless to attribute such dastardly things to God. No. Those who say that because man fell he either had to die, God couldn't do anything about it; or His Son had to die or we couldn't be saved. That isn't reasoning; that's assumption pure and simple. And we cannot understand life, the Magic of Life, the principles of living, or even how to give an attunement, until we see that.
Seeing it, we begin to recognize that the Wise Men who followed the Star came to the place where the Master was born, directed of the Spirit of God. And what was the Star? First we have the pattern with the Shepherds—the Glory, the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. And then come the Wise Men—wisdom, the sense of the fitness of things, a function in relationship to the mind, to the Truth. And what do we see? The Wise Men following the Star. And the Star is what? The Light that Glows. The Cloud of Glory, the Light that Glows, and then the Fire of Love. And within the Fire, One like unto the Son of God. The Shekinah Pattern of Being was established in relationship to the Master's birth, and He used it all the way through His ministry. He talked about it. He revealed it over and over again.
And when He came to the point of the conclusion of His work on earth, before the pattern of the atrocity had taken form, before the betrayal, He prayed a prayer. And in this prayer we find a glorious portrayal of Shekinah: “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come.” What hour? The hour that He had to be crucified? Because He was crucified, human beings have jumped to the conclusion that He meant, “Now the time has come for me to be crucified.” He didn't say it. It's an assumption, pure and simple. The hour is come for what? “Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.” Now in order for God to glorify His Son, He had to put Him through the mockery of a so-called trial, the misery of a crucifixion, and all of that was necessary to glorifying the Son so that the Son could glorify the Father. Not at all! Only human assumption has connected up those ideas and assumed that, well now, Jesus said, “Now is the time for me to be glorified, for me to glorify Thee, Oh Father.” And what happened following that? He was betrayed. He was crucified. He went through all of the ignominious experiences involved. And what happened? Human beings assumed, “Well now, this is the way God glorified His Son. Because He came forth out of the tomb, that means that He had to die. He had to do this; He had to do that.” Assumptions! Assumptions! No. How is He glorified? Not by the crucifixion on the cross—the cross of your body. You can crucify God and the things of God on the cross of your body too. There has been enough crucifixion. And it wasn’t required. If it was required that Jesus should be crucified on the cross then it's required that you should crucify the things of God on the cross of your body; God intends that you should do evil, so you might as well go out and do a good job of it.
And He said, “As thou hast given him power over all flesh.” As thou hast given Him power over all flesh. Well then, He could have used that power to do what? He had power over all flesh. But who is it that is speaking the Word? The man Jesus? The man Jesus was One in it, not to be separated from it. But remember that it is the Shekinah that has power over all flesh. The Shekinah Presence of the One Who Dwells has power over all flesh. And entering into the Cloud of Glory is the Way by which the Father glorifies the Son. He was talking about the Shekinah Pattern of Being here. And then He continued on, “I have glorified thee on the earth.” How? By letting the Shekinah Cloud of Glory have meaning, by letting the Shekinah Power manifest, by letting the Shekinah Light shine. “I have glorified thee, O Father, on earth”—the revelation of the Shekinah on earth.
And then He said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” Now, is that a true statement or not? That is where the thing finally hinges. What do we believe? Whom do we believe? He said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” He had some other things to face, but they were things that human beings forced upon Him. He had already completed all that God had given Him to do, before the atrocity. Seventeenth Chapter of John, the Fourth Verse, if you want to read it and look at it yourself. “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” Here we have the description of Shekinah, and it’s working in relationship to heaven and earth. “I have manifested thy Shekinah unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.”
But those who thought they were following Him, who called themselves Christians, forgot that, “All things are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.” Specifically, “I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me … and they have received, and have known surely that I came out from thee.” And that is all they did know, surely. The pathos in this prayer is something that must surely touch the awakened heart. He couldn’t anywhere through it say, “My disciples have reached a point where they can carry on.” If you read it with understanding you will see that the only thing He could say that they knew surely was that He had come from God. But how it worked, what it was, the reality of Shekinah, all the rest, they did not understand. “… and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.”
“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” How? When the Shekinah Pattern of Reality works through them, the Shekinah Cloud of Glory, the Light that Glows. He said, “Let your light so shine before men”—the Light that Glows. “Love the Lord thy God”—the Shekinah Fire, the Light that Glows, the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. Let these things manifest in you. He said it so many times, so many ways.
“And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Shekinah those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy Shekinah: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture must be fulfilled.”
Now, human beings again assumed; they jumped to a conclusion that meant Judas. “And none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.” And immediately busy minds jumped to a conclusion, an assumption, that means Judas. It didn't mean Judas any more than it meant any man or woman. What is lost? The son of perdition. Is Judas the son of perdition? He may have been a manifestation of the son of perdition, but the son of perdition is the whole devil pattern as it works through man, the whole fallen sphere—the son of perdition in any generation. Every human being who defies God and refuses to let God's Will be done is a member of the body of the son of perdition. And the son of perdition is lost. If you are not a member of the body of the son of perdition you are not lost, but if you are a member of the body of the son of perdition and insist on staying there, you are lost. The son of perdition is lost; yes, that is true. But to say he meant Judas is an assumption pure and simple.
“And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” Here, at the conclusion of the Master's ministry on earth, He was talking about joy: “That they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” Does that mean that they have to go and be crucified? No. No. That wasn’t the working of God's Will. That was man violating the Will of God. “I have given them thy word”—I have given them Thy Shekinah—“and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world.”
Well, most of those who conceive themselves to be Christians are very much concerned about getting out of the world and into heaven where they will be safe from the devil. And the Master in His prayer which concluded His ministry on earth said, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” Thy Shekinah is Truth. Sanctify them through Thy Yruth; Thy Shekinah is Truth “As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.” Now let’s stop and look. If God sent Jesus into the world to be crucified to save people from their sins, then He sent you into the world on exactly the same basis. You were sent into the world on exactly the same basis that He was sent into the world. “As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.” Was He sent into the world to be crucified? If He was, then you were too; if not, then you are not. You were sent into the world on exactly the same basis, the same laws, the same principles, as the Master was sent into the world.
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth”—through Shekinah. “Neither pray I for these alone.” Now the Master recognized that in all likelihood there would be those who would rise up and say, “Well now, He was just talking about His disciples, the twelve, and Judas was gone; but just these men were going to have power, not us down here. We cannot expect it. We’re just poor, weak human beings. We can’t have the power of God. He was just talking about His twelve disciples having the power.” And there are churches that actually believe that rot. That's all it is.
What does He say? “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.” I do not know how He could have made it any plainer, that everything He was saying in His prayer applied to any man or any woman, in any generation, of any color, regardless of background, socially or by creed or anything else. No limitations. It applies to you. His prayer applies to you just as much as it did to anyone, anywhere, at any time. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory”—and the Shekinah Glory—“which thou gavest me I have given them.”
Now where are those who have received the Glory? Look in the world—either God didn’t give our Master very much Glory, or else those who were supposed to receive it haven’t received it. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” And it applies to us in this hour. When are we going to receive the Shekinah Glory? When we let it appear. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are.” Now human beings have assumed that we had to be One with the Father on some other basis than Jesus was. Now He was One with the Father for this reason and that reason, and the other reason. Now we are not going to be like that; we'll be some other how. We'll be One with the Father; we're going to go through some other channel. Assumptions. If we do not say that Jesus was a liar when He prayed this prayer, we must accept the fact that we are supposed to have Oneness with the Father on exactly the same basis that He had Oneness with the Father. And how was it? Through the Shekinah. It has been called different names, but human beings have forgotten what it means; they don’t know. “That they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me.”
I, Shekinah, in them, and Thou, the One Who Dwells, in me, Shekinah, that through Shekinah we may all be one. Not until you begin to understand the principles of Shekinah can you really understand the Master's use of language here. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me—Shekinah—and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” That the Father loved them—you, in this hour—as, in exactly the same way, that He loved our LORD when He was on earth. “As thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.” Not where I am going to be. They have jumped to the conclusion that that meant He was going to take Him up into the sky somewhere. Where was He when He said these words “Where I am.” He was the manifestation of Deity on earth. He was the focalization of, the revelation of, Shekinah to the children of men, and He said, “I pray that they shall be with me where I am,” not where I am going to be. But assumption again has said, Well, He really meant, “I want them to be where I'm going to be, and I'm going to be up in heaven; so, come on, little chillins, come on up to heaven.” No. Where I am—the manifestation of the Power of God on earth.
“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory…” What Glory? Do they have to go to some far heaven to behold the Shekinah Glory? Certainly not. “… which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name”—I have declared unto them Thy Shekinah—“and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” The Shekinah Fire of Love in the manifestation of the Divine Pattern on earth.
Here we have the words of the Master Himself, in His concluding prayer. If they be the words of Truth, the words of our LORD in fact, then let us give heed to them and stop being concerned with all the assumptions. Let us “soar to high neglect of what's denied or said, this way or that, in Holy Writ”, on the basis of assumption, interpretation, belief, and all the rest. The Master said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”—free to live, and move and have your being in the Shekinah of our God. And so shall you share the Victory and do your part toward finishing the work which you came to do.
