Do you think God has hunger? Does God have desire? If so, what would it be? It is the desire to enter the world. It is the hunger to be let into the human heart and to know and love human beings all the way through. It is the desire to be allowed to bring peace to the world and to create happiness and joy for human beings. It is the desire to bring healing.
Do you ever feel that hunger on behalf of the Creator? That deep, deep desire for the people around you and the world in which you live? This is another kind of hunger, not just the desire of the human soul. It is the hunger and desire of the Creator. Have you ever felt it? Perhaps as a deep wish for the well-being of the people close to you? Or as a profound desire for something far better for all humankind? That just might be the will of God that you have touched. It might have entered you, and you might have joined with it so you feel it too.
Have you ever been with another person and wanted peace and happiness for them so bad you didn’t know what to do? Or watched the morning news and thought, “Oh my God, I do not want that for this world. I’m hungry for something different.” Sometimes I experience that hunger as a power that wants to move through me into the world.
These are experiences we begin to have as we move over the threshold to an experience of Union and Unified Radiation. A different kind of hunger, will, and desire moves through us.
The lion is a symbol of the Christ Spirit. The lion’s presence, power, and majesty remind us of it. When Unified Radiation moves through us, perhaps we feel God’s hunger as the roar of a lion. The reverberation of the Christ Spirit moves through our being. This is the Cosmic Aum.
Here is how Paramahansa Yogananda described it: “God manifests in creation as the Cosmic Vibration, which expresses itself as Cosmic Sound and Cosmic Light. The Cosmic Sound or Aum is the synthesis of all the sounds of the highly vibrating life forces… The Cosmic Sound is spoken of in the Christian Bible as follows: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ [John 1:1] The Word or Aum came from God; He manifests as the Cosmic Vibration in creation.”
This is the roar of the Christ Spirit. Crossing the threshold, we speak with that roar, the reverberation of creative power resonating at many levels of our being. It is full of the Divine desire for peace for all people, all families, all nations, and for joy to the world. Knowing the hunger for this, we know that nothing less than this will satisfy it. No cigarette, no food, no drink, or anything else other than this. Peace on Earth and Goodwill for All.
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Conscious Awareness Of Atomic Power
David Karchere September 19, 2024
The beloved disciple, John, put it this way in the Book of Revelation: “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.” [Revelation 1:10,12] John turned to face the source of the voice… If you open yourself to the “voice, as of a trumpet,” the vibration of it can enter you.
We live in a world where that tone has been sounding since time began. It’s the tone of Creation that is the power of Creation. Apparently, it has not stopped. We’re here. The world is here. The tremendous and awesome power of Creation is present… That power of the universe has constellated into a voice that speaks that power and the truth of it into the world through people who have awoken to it—people who have turned and heard the voice. They opened to it. They experienced it and then they spoke it.
I want to offer a way of looking at human history. It’s largely the story of human beings being unconsciously activated by this vibrational power of Creation. The power is at work in everybody’s atoms. Nobody’s exempt. Take the person you might consider to be the most evil person in the world. The atomic power is at work. In some cases, it’s driving them crazy. And so you might say they are crazy.
All human civilization has been activated by this power. In fact, there is nothing else by which to be activated. So people are activated by it, sometimes bouncing off the walls, not really knowing what direction to move. This is the great majority of human history, up to this very day. There is a gradual evolution of consciousness and culture as people react to the creative vibration they are feeling. They are in the world of effects being activated by the Creator.
Few there are who hear the vibration as it is constellating relative to human consciousness. So people don’t turn and they don’t let it in. The vibration of Creation contains the source code for a human being and for Planet Earth. It is the vibration of the Divine, the vibration of the Creator. When we let it in, we receive its power at a level that empowers our human soul. Letting it in, we receive the knowledge it contains for us. This is not the level of atomic power that fuels a nuclear reactor or an atomic bomb. It is a configuration of atomic power that renews and enlightens humankind. So, we become a human embodiment of the “voice as of a trumpet.” When we are, we become part of a lineage of awake human beings through the ages. We are no longer predominately living in the world of effects, being activated unconsciously by the vibration of the Creator. We have crossed the threshold to live in the world of Cause—the kingdom of heaven where the Creator is.
We turn, we hear the voice as a trumpet, and then we sound the trumpet. We are that trumpet in the world. And so we become part of a different kind of history, the history of Creation. We join that lineage. The creative vibration we touch into and express has an impact on human consciousness, unlike the unconscious reactions to the creative vibration that has characterized the history of human society for millennia. I am not diminishing the efforts of anybody or the significance of what is happening in our world at large. And still, everything changes when there are conscious people who sound the clear tone of the vibration of the Creator in the middle of it all.
That clear tone contains the truth for humankind. Not just the truth of Emissaries of Divine Light or Sunrise Ranch. Not a Christian truth, a Jewish truth, or an Islamic one. The vibration of the Creator heard and expressed by a human being, contains the truth of us all. This atomic power, configuring at the level of human awareness, is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Creator, at work in human experience. Let us give voice to that Spirit. Let us be that voice as of a trumpet.
We remember that, at the time of Pentecost, the record states that they were all with One Accord in One Place, about one hundred and twenty people; and they had been devoting themselves to prayer and meditation for a period of ten days, to achieve that Unity of the Vibrational Pattern which finally developed. And when they reached a point of Being with One Accord in One Place, vibrationally, there came a Sound as of a Mighty Rushing Wind, and it filled the Whole House where they were sitting. There came a Sound as of a Mighty Rushing Wind and filled the Whole House where they were sitting, and there sat on them as if it were cloven tongues of Fire. When we reach that point of Attunement with the Cosmic Forces of Being which permits a True Centering in the Spirit of God there is always some experience which more-or-less correlates with that which was experienced at the day of Pentecost.
In the ancient writings of various parts of the world there is recognition of theAum, for instance, and then there is recognition in various ways of what is called the Music of the Spheres— all touching into the same thing. This particular experience of letting the Divine Current flow freely is something that is really indescribable, and any consideration of it, of course, moves into the realm of Holy Ground, the most sacred of things. It is a little difficult to say anything much about it without touching into the field of some personal experience or other, and that has its drawbacks. A personal experience is just that — personal — and the details involved will vary from person to person, from time to time, or from group to group, as the case may be. I do not think there is a better way to describe one aspect of it, at least, thanthe Sound of a Rushing Mighty Wind. But it is not a Sound that you hear with the outer ears— this Sound fills the Body. One has a consciousness of it from within Oneself.
Perhaps we do not need to go further into that for the moment, except to point out that only to the degree that we, individually and collectively, share Attunement in that Mighty Reservoir of Eternal Power can we truly, effectively, serve. The relationship of all of this to our present problem can be seen in the fact that we are beginning to let an increased Current of Power manifest.
But there has not as yet developed a Central Solid Pattern or Core of personal understanding, realization, centering, with respect to it. So the whole matter appears on the basis of the fact that we are building something. Something that is not yet manifest is appearing, and when that process is taking place someone has to take the central strain or responsibility of developing a Control Pattern. That is naturally my responsibility, and I am not in the slightest degree objecting to it; but the more rapidly you gain an understanding of what is involved, and your personal relationship to it, the more rapidly will you share in the greater manifestation of God’s Power working through you, and the more quickly will you reach the point where, because of sharing in a Core or Solid Unit Pattern, you will not be under the necessity of facing unnatural, or in the ultimate sense unnecessary, stresses and strains yourself.
Stewart Berger — Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the LORD; blessed is she that cometh in the Name of the LORD; and Blessed are they that cometh in the Name of the LORD. Hosanna in the Highest. I think we are certainly blessed, aren’t we, to be here in each other’s presence. And one woman who is a great blessing to us is Anne Blaney. I’ve long loved her clear articulation of the spiritual process as it finds form now, along with her passion, and her lightness or sense of humour. Hello Anne.
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Anne Blaney — Hello Stu, and hello everyone. It’s great to be together. I’d like to open with a devotion: Thank you LORD, for being a part of the immensity of your love. Thank you for the gift of being able to love you, to love others, and to love this beautiful Planet Garden. Thank you Father and Mother for the gift of knowing, of seeing, of understanding your ways. Thank you for the awareness of your impeccable Design throughout the cosmos and for the privilege of joining you in the conscious caring of your creation. Thank you Father and Mother for the miracle of being alive! Thank you for the awareness that we are participating in an unfolding miracle, with capacities made of this living miracle, that give us direct access to this part of creation so we may share your pleasure. Amen.
As I live my life in these days I find I'm able to articulate my greatest passions, my purpose and I'll do that here in three parts—I live to worship you O LORD; I yearn for focus in doing so, to share in communion with you; I love to do this with other people—that's why I'm here. Of course this easily fits into what we know together: that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and that heaven and earth are one; that mankind was placed eastward in Eden; that we are God Beings in the Garden; that we are conscious of this identity.
For some reason I've been drawn again and again to read and meditate on the writings of Immanuel Velikovsky, and of course this inevitably leads me back to the brilliance of Grace Van Duzen. Reading them and spending time with them is like sharing in the brilliance of the Angelic Mind that I keep returning to and love; I am so thankful for the priceless record that they left.
One story that has attracted me and it insisted on being here this morning, is the story of the tale of King Solomon and the Queen of Egypt, Hatshepsut. I think you'll see why this story has come to us and still lingers.
Historically they were extraordinary figures on the world stage; they had great prominence in their time. We know spiritually that they incarnated to play leadership roles at a time of critical opportunity. Egypt and Israel were in a time of peace for the first time in centuries. Other nations had been drawn to both of these nations, playing a part by offering tributes and participating in trade; there was cooperation happening in that area. These two nations, these focal points were key to that peaceful cooperation.
For the first time Egypt had a female Pharaoh and she was a formidable leader. To give you some context about this woman: She was the Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, which was still a resource of the vast store of knowledge that remained since their colonization by Atlantis. There was still an ancient record of wisdom in Egypt and this woman would have been educated in it. She initially shared her rulership with a man but it was then turned over to her as the sole and first female Pharaoh. But she was ready, she was ready for this. She was interested in lands beyond Egypt. One of her achievements that impressed me is that she built a navy. She had two fleets. Each ship in these fleets carried 50 men; they were quite impressive. She longed to see lands beyond her country. She was also known to be a searcher for Truth.
Solomon at this time had reigned for 11 years in Palestine, or Israel—both names were used. He also was an unusual person. He was a student of the natural world. He amassed zoological and biological collections that his Navy, which he sent out all over the area, sometimes away for over a year, just to collect plants and animals from these far off countries, which he would have displayed and looked after in his palace. He knew about them, he studied them, keen to know about the natural world. The word Kingdom really describes his domain. This was due to his father King David’s military successes, which brought in many countries with the tributes and with the wealth, that was now centered in the nation of Palestine or Israel; Solomon had the benefit of this. So he was poised for something truly unique to happen through this center, in time. Seen spiritually, Grace called Solomon's presence a focal point for the spirit of Truth. She emphasized that it wasn't just an intellectual thing, in his studies for instance of the natural world, but he had a command of his emotions, his physicality, and she pointed out that he indeed was offering spiritual expression as a leader. He loved the LORD. Through him, if things had gone according to Plan, this would have moved the entire pattern, focused by Solomon, into the Second Sacred School, the Mental Plane approach. It was a very significant time and he was in position to bring again, under the Lord's love and command, the Eden that he loved so much. He was poised.
Solomon’s well-known prayer to God was that he would have an understanding heart and the Lord did grant him this, with the proviso that He did so because Solomon had asked for an understanding heart, before he asked for riches. So that was an ominous clue of the coming events.
His main project was to complete King David's wish to build a Temple, primarily to house the Ark of the Covenant with its vessels etc., which had up until then been taken care of in a travelling tent designed to be moved frequently. It was Solomon's wish that he would house the Ark in a place with the finest quality. He wanted it to be a place where the High Priest and the priesthood could represent the Kingdom and the people of the Kingdom before the Altar, and offer supplications on behalf of the people of the nation.
It was a massive structure as we are probably aware. It was constructed with the most precious materials: fine woods, gold, silver, jewels embedded in walls. The two cherubim which were above the Mercy Seat were huge. They were 15 feet tall with a wing span of 34 feet and they were pure gold—very impressive. The front of the Temple had a series of terraces which were planted with myrrh so that a fragrance rose from them. There was a processional path cut up through the terraces that the High Priest and priesthood moved up while singing Psalms at each level. When the vessels and the Ark were brought into the Temple, when the Temple was consecrated, Solomon declared before the congregation of all Israel, spreading his hands towards heaven: “LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or earth beneath.”
Interestingly on this occasion it was written: “And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD”. Grace pointed out that that was the evidence that the Cloud of Shekinah had appeared.
Meanwhile back in Egypt, one day the Queen was off to worship in her Temple of the Sun God, and she received a message. Perhaps humorously, it came through a bird; other accounts said she heard as a voice from within, and it was a profound experience for her. She was instructed to go to The Land of Punt, also called The Land of God, or The Divine Land, which was Palestine or Israel. She took this very, very seriously; she felt this was something moving in her that was very important to her rulership, and to her personally.
So from Thebes where she located, her entourage crossed the land over to an Egyptian port on the Red Sea, boarded one of her ships, one of five of her Red Sea Fleet and crossed over the Red Sea, which was fairly dangerous at that time, it could have storms, then went up into a little Gulf off the Red Sea and disembarked at a port, and then she proceeded on a caravan of camels which were laden with spices, gold, pearls, jewels, silver and fine woods. When she got to Punt, handsome man-servants came out to greet her; she was quite impressed with this welcome. Solomon “received her gladly and it was said that he was studious to please her in all ways, in particular by mentally grasping with ease the ingenious problems she set him.” She proved him with hard questions. After her time with Solomon she said, “It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine own eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.” When she saw Solomon ascend that path through the myrrh-terraces, it was said that there was “no spirit left in her”—it took her breath away. I also found it interesting that as a leader observing another leader in his nation and his Kingdom she commented, “Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants”—this made an impression.
When she returned to Thebes, now by her Mediterranean Fleet, laden with the immense amount of items, and even animals, that Solomon had gifted her, she immediately began construction of her own Temple. She called it the Splendid of Splendors and perhaps we have seen photographs, or maybe the actual Temple, located in the Valley of the Kings. The architecture (of which it is famously said: “nothing Egyptian about it.”) mimicked the myrrh-terraces of Punt with terraces planted with the exotic trees from Solomon. But most interesting, she also instituted in her Temple the role of High Priest with 12 Priests of the Priesthood who presided over the ceremony in front of the Altar and the congregation.
So, impressed with this experience with Solomon and this journey to the Land of Punt, on the Temple walls she had there a depiction of the journey, and you can go and see an account of what happened, including the handsome man-servants—they impressed her. One reason for that impression is that their features were not Egyptian, the evidence of other races living in Punt.
The Temple is an interesting representation of how, in symbol, life comes to focus. In this story, the physical Kingdom of Solomon was represented in the Temple: all the materials were from his Kingdom, the money that had come in to build it were all from the people in his Kingdom. As such, the people were very invested in this Temple; it was part of them. It wasn't just a building to them. Their whole interest and soul was invested in this building; there was a great deal of attention paid to it. This was all part of Solomon's tool to bring his Kingdom into another level of consciousness. Of course the Ark of the Covenant was extremely significant to them; it carried the history of their people and the High Priest and the Levites would bring the substance of all this to point, to a high focus in the service, and this would be offered up in the Temple. Solomon himself said: “But will God indeed dwell on Earth? Behold the heaven and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?” He had an understanding of the LORD.
The Temple was completed in the 11th year of his 40-year reign, but as we know the pattern did not succeed. Solomon lost his polarity that he had in communion with the LORD; he lost his integrity as a true representative of the people in the Temple, because he turned his polarity towards the pagan practices of a number of his wives. In the interest of being a king of a cosmopolitan Kingdom, Solomon had invited many nations along with their cults, with practices that were not of his nature. But he wanted to accommodate things that were different. Of course his wives appealed to him that they would be able to continue their worship of their various gods, and he allowed them to. In fact he actually went to and worshiped at these various shrines of his foreign wives. So the whole Kingdom lost its integrity. It was weakened and uprisings broke out within the country, and without the country, and eventually the great nation of Palestine-Israel had crumbled.
In Egypt there was also an unfortunate outcome. The successor to the Queen was a man who had witnessed this journey over to Punt; he had seen the gifts and heard about the wealth in Palestine and he wanted it; he wanted the wealth and he wanted more; he was an aggressive conqueror. He ended up invading Israel, sacking the Temple and bringing back all the vessels, all the furniture etc., back to Egypt, and not understanding the significance at all. In fact he made an inventory of all the items; he was very proud of what had come back from his raids. The refined consciousness that had compelled Hatshepsut as a leader to seek out Solomon was dissipated.
I feel for the Queen. She came to Solomon with keen interest; she felt she was divinely instructed to do this by her god; she brought intelligence and willingness, brought the feminine to him so that her people could prosper under Solomon's wisdom. In fact the negative aspect of both countries was denied the union that they were seeking: the people, even the Priesthood were denied that communion with what was higher, with what and who represented the LORD. It was an unfortunate turn on the spiritual path that the LORD had very carefully prepared—it was a great loss. The integrity of the Temple was broken, and that magical means of God's control, through communing in that Sacred Space by the LORD's representatives and His Priesthood, was dissipated; it no longer was functioning.
One implication to this story for me, as I mentioned, is that Spirit has gone through a lot of preparation in order to get the right people in correct alignment with the LORD’s Plan, with the right capabilities for the job—they have to have the capabilities as well. Solomon was a huge example of this, and a good example of how it went off the rails. The story of the original Fall is basically just that, a story from long, long ago. But the story of Solomon actually occurred within recorded history, and that's very interesting. We can see the Fall repeated and that provides us with more detailed information.
Solomon's story also reminds me, you and I here, that what we do in our services is important and significant. We know when we “touch the hem of the garment” or see the Light, or feel the Fire, because everything comes to focus, and in that focus, it opens up into communion. Each of us carries the essences of mankind. Our Temple provides an opportunity for essences to come to focus, essences from the “congregation” we represent.
I've been feeling the pressure of spirit, as you can imagine, by stepping into this position, as anyone who has done this knows. One of the other prophetesses of our number said to me that, metaphorically speaking, she was holding up my arms just as Aaron and Hur did for Moses, and that was really sweet—humorous, I'm not Moses. To bring it down to specifics for me, I had a particularly intense week. I had a health catharsis you might say, and it brought me into contact with health practitioners who showed me their incredible intelligence, skills, and their kindness. As I was preparing for this morning I was realizing that I was bringing the substance of those interactions with me into this Temple. They brought gifts to me and I offered who I am to them and that generation remains full and rich in me. But when I thought about it further I realized that I wasn't just bringing last week's experiences. I was bringing last month's experience; I was bringing the experiences of my entire life: the generations of the fine, high, wonderful substance which is part of each of us. This comes into this place with us when we gather. And particularly when you are the point who is providing a focus you are very aware, at least I was, of what I was bringing here: the wealth that I bring of my life but also with the life I share with all of you.
Along with us come the essences of many other lives and living. Lives are placed on the altar, with passion and with thanksgiving for the wealth of life. This is an aspect of what happens in the Temple. But the primary aspect is that we bring the wealth of our personal passion for the immensity of His Spirit. We come in love for the LORD. We deliberately allow our hearts to feel our passion for Him in thanksgiving, as the Source of all that is brought. Then magically a space is opened up in heaven, and there is love flowing into it. Do you feel that? Do you feel that in your own times of sanctification when you do bring something to focus, and paradoxically something opens up into great spaciousness and it's filled. Primarily you feel the love. And often when that love is being experienced you begin to think clearly. Things become revealed. I call this communing with God.
When we bring our lives and our substance to the Temple and place it on the altar, you might say that this is representing the people to God. But how do we represent God to the people?
I was going to entitle this service, “How Things Get Done”, because when our attention is turned away from the world of effects and given to the One whom we love, this creates a space, an actual spiritual space in which the LORD can do what He needs to do. When that happens in our communion and becomes understood at various levels in our consciousness, that can impact, and go out into the world. It might be a vibrational outpouring. Sometimes it's an actual instruction. But the main thing to remember, I think, is that we cannot try to guess what that is going to be. This is not a transactional action we have with God. This is something that is magically occurring in communion. Isn't it interesting that in stories of the Bible that you read of people speaking to God. “And the Lord said…” Well, I think that this actually does happen. It doesn't happen by … well, maybe it happens by hearing a voice, but it often happens that when one is in this sanctified space something comes out, maybe out of your mouth, perhaps in a comment, and it's sometimes startling. Where did that come from? Well it came from that Cloud. It came from that Magical Place, from that magical heavenly space where things are born. New heavens and new earths are born in that Cloud, that we experience individually, but we can also experience collectively. How things get done.
I find this very applicable by the way, in terms of dealing with the world. The way it is, there is a lot happening in the world, as we know, including with Israel and Palestine, and Ukraine and Russia, and the American election. All these things. But I'm finding that if I turn my attention away from what I would call the realm of effects and remove the concern about that, keeping my eye on the happenings, but instead enter into a place of worship, of thankfulness, of gratefulness, that another space opens up, and something new is born. I know that in that particular moment I am impacting all those events. This is intensified when we do this collectively in the Temple function.
Right now there are a number of Temples, you might say, up and running and sometimes I think, “I wonder if there's supposed to be One Temple? Why wouldn't there be? I mean we're all worshiping the One God.” I'm sure this thought has occurred to you too. But here's where I've arrived about that: it's not a transactional thing. It's not a thing that's going to be manipulated. The only way this wonderment can be usefully dealt with is to continue to generate that finer place, that space filled with love, and filled with the intelligence that comes in that seeing—seeing things in your own life in a whole different way. Will you not see larger things in a whole different way too? But all this comes, as a heaven, or form, when it's time. That's been very reassuring to me. In other words, trust Spirit! We've said this so often, but I feel we're understanding more, of what you might call the mechanics of that—communion, the way that actually happens. If we are going to actually commune with God, is that not a most exceptional experience? It is a conversation you might say.
This is what I wanted to bring into this particular Temple here with us. Looking at the story of a Temple that was built a long time ago, and some of the principles involved, the people that were involved, and then bring it right back to us with huge gratefulness for the understanding that we have! Back then, Solomon, although in part of his story we might hold him in esteem, he was still sacrificing oxen and, you know, all sorts of animals. He had so many he couldn't even bring them into the Temple. Obviously that's not what we're about. We have had an opportunity to understand these things, and I am very grateful for what we have generated in the time since we were with one leader—Martin—who was also poised to bring about a wonderful movement of a pattern. We are the pattern, and we are the focal points, and we can have the Temple experience, understanding what we’re doing, and how spiritual things get done spiritually. I would open it up for any thoughts that have arisen in your hearts and in your minds to be shared.
Deborah Starrs — Thank you Anne. Surely our heart's desire is to let the LORD have His way in our living. He has made such a tremendous investment down through the ages, in certain ones, to let something come to point and move into victory. And our remarkable victory in the LORD paid a terrific price; and it's been the generation of His life and His legacy that has come to us in this day. While these are not children's games we play, at all, in the Temple of Light and Love there is a lightness, there is the sense of assurance, and there is the sense of victory. To feel it O so close, with Solomon and Hatshepsut, and to have it just fall apart—Wow. Wow, that that took a lot of building back, to get to this point in time where once again, I sense, we are O so close, O so close. Let us not be deceived; let us not be distracted; let us be about the LORD's business on earth—not what I want. What would He like to see? Terrific consideration. Thank you.
Larry Krantz — Anne, thank you for reminding us about the story of Solomon and the Queen of Egypt. It's a beautiful story; and part of it is feminine response, and the presence of masculine representative of the LORD; and how there is an unseen force that would bring them together, to which they both responded. It's also a story of possibility and failure, as Deborah was mentioning. There have been many times, in different ways, that a plan has been set in motion to bring about the restoration of mankind, and inevitably it's failed, either by those who were to provide the focus for this Plan, or those who came afterward. They became distracted. Different human wants and beliefs entered in and what was present was dissipated. Here we have another opportunity, and it comes back to each of us to sustain what we know, that the truth is inviolate in each of us, and that together the different elements—the masculine, the feminine, the different ways of knowing union within ourselves and together—can once again build the Living Temple with our spiritual expression; to be true to what we know individually, and to not let us fail in the endeavor, for the only reason we are here right now is to move through to victory, to do the job we've come to do, and let nothing cause us to veer from that path and that purpose. So thank you for your presentation today.
Greg Fladager — Anne, I really appreciated the opportunity to listen to you for a while. I love hearing you speak and I love the spirit of it—you raised some interesting questions—but it's the spirit that's in our own hearts that really touches, and it carries through. It doesn't have to be a something heavy necessarily, though there's power to it. But there's a certain ease that comes in a quality of spirit, and I think all touched that. I think that's what the attraction was, and it resonated with something in ourselves—yeah, the truth actually. Anyway, I just appreciate this opportunity today, to listen, and be with you in this way.
Carol Travis — Anne, I appreciated so many points that you brought today; and the beautiful story, and the detail. I had never heard that story in such detail. It's a beautiful story. I think stories like that sometimes are seen as myth, they're so far in the past, as if they were just some sort of fairy tale, or something that didn't apply to real life, to what people are experiencing. I feel that you brought things so vividly to awareness of the real life experiences of those people that were involved, the ones that had such responsibility, and we’re sensing something that was of a true focus and true nature. And one of the things that you said that I really resonate with is that when you turn your attention away from the world of effects and you go into your closet and close the door, and come into that quiet space of communion with the spirit of God, in whatever way comes to your heart, you can think more clearly. Something comes through in thinking that doesn't come when we're all involved in a lot of external activity; and those things are very significant. Sometimes I think we, people, have imagined that the prophets, you know, it doesn't happen anymore that God speaks through people. But I think that's not true. It's just a matter of the magical process that you described, so that that can come into the earth vividly today. And so I thank you for that reminder and that suggestion of what we can do to actually have more of an impact in the world, which is what I believe we have come to do. So thank you so very much.
David Barnes — Anne, through the sharing of the story there was a whirlwind of spirit on the move, activated, drawn into the present moment for us all to share; and I certainly did feel it and share it as you were speaking. There was a period of time in that part of the story, that you didn't tell, before King Solomon, before King David, before King Saul, before the great Prophet Samuel, when the rulership of Israel was in the hands of ones who were called Judges—even the name sounds ominous; one has a sense that there was some heavy judging going on. It is said, “There was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” But Samuel came on the scene, and he heard the Voice of the Lord, and he changed the pattern; and that didn't work out so he heard the Voice again, and he changed the pattern again, and he anointed a new King, David. One can feel, in the story, the gathering of essences and substances—in a way like we're experiencing now. It all had form to it, but it was moving towards a culmination point where it would be given greater form through King Solomon, and through the drawing of the Queen of the South, so that there was a blending, and all the tithes began to be brought into the storehouse for another level of building of this Temple representation, but that didn’t happen. And we are, in a way, participating in the same thing now. Each one is responsible for listening and hearing and bringing forth—bringing the tithes into the storehouse, that the riches might be used by the right ones at the right time, at the right point in the cycle, for a climactic and culminating cycle of building. We're moving in that gathering cycle now. We recognize that now—having the advantage of all these stories from the past, and the leadership from the past, and the substance from the past—and it comes to us in this whirlwind of the movement of the spirit that was allowed to be present, and your voice used to bring it more clearly to consciousness. It is such a wonderful thing to be conscious of what is happening, enough of it, while it is happening—and so it is for us. It's been a precious time. I didn’t know what you were going to speak about this morning, and it surprised me, and it brought me great joy. I love the slipstream that you have followed in here, hewing close to Grace and her spirit, in sharing these things, in the beautiful way that you did, the beautiful woman that you are. Thank you so much. I praise the LORD for you in my life, in all our lives.
Anne Blaney — Any other comments that are bursting, speak up; otherwise I'll just close our time. I really appreciate all the essences, as you were saying David, that showed up today in the Temple. And I take responsibility for bringing it to focus and for offering it upward. I knew that what I wanted to bring today had a lot to do with heart, a lot to do with passion, because that is the link that brings us into that sacred place. There is a particular technology, a design to this, and that's what attracted me to talk about the Temple symbol—and obviously here we are in what we call the Temple of Light so it was apropos. I do know that as we use these times to bring that kind of soul, where we really live, where we really are in our lives, and bring that in, and yes we let go of the stuff that is not that, we do bring in our passion. There is an opportunity in the Temple to commune with the LORD. I find that a fascinating way to look at what we can do together. So it's good to create the space so that the LORD can enter into it, and then there's room for Him to move in it, and do what He needs to do, which will come through us and it will be done by us, because that's why we're here. Now I'll turn it over to Stewart who will bring us home!
Stewart Berger — Thank you so much Anne, for such a wonderful time with you; and it is done by us, with the power of God, the power of Source. I loved your words earlier, speaking about the unfolding miracle that we are privileged to witness and take part of; and the magical means of God's control, and we are part of that; loving the LORD, letting that passion fill our hearts so that we may have communion with the LORD. And it's been wonderful to hear everyone speak your voices, and we speak as one in certain ways; and don't we sing unto the LORD a New Song. So let us move into the rest of our day, the evening and the morning in some locations, holding these things in our hearts, minds and beings, caring for the substance, and knowing that we're part of the ongoing cycles of creation, large and small. And now to close, we have one more piece of music, created and performed by Gary Courtland-Miles, and entitled “Cosmic Cycles”.
This is June 20th, 1953 and the sound you hear in the background, of a motor running, on this recording, is a sound that is very pleasant to our ears; the motor of our water sprinkling system which is tonight throwing water on the hill in the pasture north of the little Prayer Chapel, the highest point in relationship to our problem of irrigation; a hill which not long ago some thought would never see any water except that which fell from the sky. And tonight the sound of that motor testifies to the fact that water from the canal, the irrigation project, is being sprinkled there. And we thank God for that sweet sound; and let all who hear in the days to come share with us the appreciation of the background sound in this recording. Let us have a moment of devotion.
Our gracious LORD and KING, we thank Thee for the holy privilege we have of yielding to the Spirit of Thy Presence, and recognizing that in and through the Shekinah of Thy Presence we have the privilege of letting Thy Kingdom come, and of letting Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven, for Thine is the Shekinah, now and forever, in the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory. Aum-en
Tonight I would share with you a little meditation on an incident in the Master's life, as recorded in the third chapter of the Gospel according to John. This particular chapter or incident is of particular significance and interest to us in the pattern of our series of meditations on Heavenly Magic and the Mystery of Shekinah. We read from the record: “There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler among the people; the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God:” — “Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God” — “for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily verily — which is to say, “Truly, truly” — “I say unto thee, Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
The Master had already stated that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand; and here He makes a statement as to the reason why human beings do not see the Kingdom of God. Generally speaking, human beings imagine that the Master meant that they would be able to see the Kingdom of God after they were dead. But he was talking about a man. Could you say that that which leaves the body at death is a man? Could you now? No. He said, “Truly, truly, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again”. If He's talking about a man, He's talking about someone who is living right here on earth, in this sphere of things.
“Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whether it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, how can these things be? And Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen, and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of Man which is in heaven.”
Now there is an interesting statement which we should pause to consider for a moment. “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven.” Now at that time He Himself had not ascended, so He was not talking about Himself. “No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of Man which is in heaven.” Now He did not say, “Even the son of Man which was in heaven”; nor did He say, “Even the son of Man which will be in heaven after he has ascended”. He said, “Even the son of Man which is in heaven; And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
You'll notice here that those who are evil are not so much concerned about their deeds being known or seen, as they are about their needs being reproved. “For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” Here we have a passage revealing one of the most significant expressions of our Master's wonderful revelation of deity, and the truths of being.
We will first note that the whole significance of and meaning of this text has been distorted and misunderstood, down through the centuries, because of a pattern of human assumption; because human beings did not stop to think; because they did not really consider what is written here. This text here, for instance, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of Man be lifted up.” Now human beings have read that and assumed that it meant that the body of Jesus had to be hung on the cross; that the body of Jesus was to be crucified. They have assumed that the mere fact that Jesus was crucified, that all of those who had anything to do with it functioned as they did, that this text was fulfilled, and that the Master was foretelling that event. Now nothing could be further from the truth of the matter. The Master was not alluding to his crucifixion. He was not talking about any idea that He had to be crucified. Purely human assumption; a jumping to conclusion that has no basis in fact.
Let us consider. The Master had been talking about the process of being born again. He had made the statement that unless one was born again, one could not see the Kingdom of Heaven; and that without being born again of Water and of Spirit — that is, of Truth and of the Spirit of Love — no man could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. What is true of men here is likewise true of women. And then he went on to say, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.” Nicodemus said, “How can these things be?” The Master answered, and said unto him, “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?” Now was that expression the Master gave just sarcasm? Certainly not! He was not just mocking Nicodemus. He said, “Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/art-thou-master-of-israel.html] We must take one of two attitudes: either the Master was being sarcastic and mocking the man who had come to learn something, which is in itself absolutely unthinkable; or a master in Israel should have known these things!
It was not then that Jesus was revealing these things for the first time. The Master took the attitude that a ruler in Israel should have known these things; something that should have already been known, and He would not have required them to know if it had not been possible. In other words. we must recognized that the Master was indicating that the teaching which the children of Israel already had was sufficient to have caused one who was in a position of authority, knowledge, and understanding to have known these things. The Master was expressing surprise, not sarcasm. He was indicating that Nicodemus should have known, and was not mocking him. He was tying up. for those who would hear. the patterns of truth that had long been revealed. and should have been known.
He went immediately ahead to say. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen, and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?” So, instead of attempting to read sarcasm or mockery into those words, let us recognize that He was presenting something that was of vital importance to humanity. And He had been talking about being born again—rebirth, in order to see the Kingdom of God, and enter the Kingdom of God, He had spoken about being born of Water and of the Spirit. And He said, “I have told you earthly things, and if you have not understood, how should you believe if I tell you of heavenly things? In other words, according to His own word, He was not talking about heavenly things, in the sense of something in some far off heaven. He was talking about earthly things, things that were to manifest on earth, things that related to living human beings, men and women here and now.
We begin to recognize that we see that His statement, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of Man which is in heaven,” begins to have very great significance. The Son of Man was capable of ascending up to heaven, had come down from heaven, and was yet in heaven. Is that a mystery? The reality of Heaven on Earth. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” Now the greatest delusion in the world of self-style Christianity springs from the false conclusion, the assumption, that the Master was talking about His own crucifixion — which He was not! Let us see what He was talking about. “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.”
“For God sent not his son.” Now must we read that as meaning Jesus himself? Must we read the term Son of Man as meaning Jesus himself? Human beings have read it that way, but it does not need to be read that way. Notice how the Master put it, “For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.” Now, in all of this He took the attitude that a ruler in Israel should have already known and understood. “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Now human beings again have jumped to conclusions, and they have assumed that the name of the only begotten Son of God was “Jesus” or “Jesus Christ.” Once we begin to read the Master's words in a recognition of what He was truly saying, we are due for some wonderful surprises.
What is the Name of the only begotten Son of God. He that believeth — well let's go back a little — “For God sent not his Shekinah into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Shekinah might be saved. He that believeth on Shekinah is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Shekinah of God.” And not until you begin to realize that the Master, all the way through His presentation, where He spoke of the patterns with respect to the Son of Man, the Son of God, the only begotten Son of God, in every instance He was talking about Shekinah, not about Himself as a man, not about the body of Jesus. He was not talking about lifting up His own body on a cross, that it might be crucified. He was not encouraging the world's worst atrocity, the most horrid and useless atrocity ever committed by human beings on earth, for there was no necessity that the body of Jesus should be put on a cross. It had absolutely nothing to do with the salvation of man.
If human beings think their salvation depended upon the body of Jesus being crucified, then God Himself must be the author of the world's worst atrocity. No. We begin to see that human beings have jumped to conclusions. have utilized their own puny assumptions. and have completely misread, misinterpreted, the whole pattern of teaching which Jesus Christ gave to the world. And He plainly indicated that this teaching was already in existence before He began to teach. It was not something new; it was not something different. It was exactly the same thing that had been given to the children of Israel, and which they had ignored; and they had cramped it into the patterns of Judaism, instead of recognizing the true Hebraic Revelation of Deity, and of the teachings of God — something which had failed to recognize the meaning and significance of Shekinah. “And until we begin to see this particular pattern as the Master Himself presented, it we cannot understand the other things which He taught.
And so we read, “For God sent not His Shekinah into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Shekinah might be saved. He that believeth on Shekinah is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the Shekinah of God.” What is and was the only begotten Son of God? If we imagine that Jesus, the man, who permitted the revelation of our LORD and KING, was the only begotten Son of God, we multiply confusion; for our LORD and KING was and is the centering of Deity. He was God. And He was revealing Shekinah, or the Christos — not the man, not the body, but that which appeared in relationship to Him, which was the Fire, and the Light, and the Glory of Shekinah.
Notice. “And this is the condemnation, that Shekinah Light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than Light.” His own Ministry had just begun. I am reading the record from the third chapter of the Gospel according to John — something that was in the very beginning of His own ministry on earth, and He talked about something in the past tense. “And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved” — past tense — "and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.” He was talking about the outworking in the pattern of the children of Israel hundreds of years before, when by reason of the working of God's Law and Love, in relationship to the Ark of the Covenant for instance, the Shekinah had been made manifest, when the Voice of God had sounded to the children of men through Shekinah, when all things necessary had been provided, and the Light, the Shekinah Light, had come into the world.” He was revealing it again, but He was talking about something which had been in the past.
Read the text, without the assumptions which have misled human beings for so long, and which have shut up their minds until they have no comprehension in any real sense of the vast significance of our LORD's ministry on earth, and what He taught. “And this is the condemnation, that Shekinah Light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil; for everyone that doeth evil hateth the Light.” What light? “For everyone that doeth evil hateth the Shekinah Light, neither cometh to the Shekinah, lest his deeds should be reproved; but he that doeth truth, cometh to the Shekinah, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they …” What? The deeds, “… are wrought in God.”
Now, was the Master teaching that He Himself was the only one who could do these deeds in God? He said, “But he that doeth truth…” Now that can apply to any man, any woman, anywhere, in any generation. “But he that doeth truth cometh to the Shekinah Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that his deeds are wrought in God.” He was not setting a pattern, saying, “I do these works but you cannot do them.” He said, later on, much later in His ministry, “He that believeth on me.” But just a moment before, He had said, “The words that I”, the man whom you see speak unto you, “I speak not of myself, but my Father who dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.” And, “He that believeth on me” — the Father, not the man Jesus. Jesus didn't say it, according to his own testimony. “He that believeth on me,” the Father, manifest through the Shekinah, “the works that I do shall he do also; and Greater Works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father.” He did not say, “Because I'm about to be crucified.” “Because I go unto my Father.” And was crucifixion the only way He could go unto His Father. It wasn't by reason of crucifixion, or entombment that He went unto His Father. It was in spite of these things, not because of them. It was in spite of them. And not until we begin to see these basic facts of being, can we begin to appreciate the Great and Glorious Significance of our Master's Life among men—His ministry, His teaching, His example.
“For he that doeth truth cometh to Shekinah.” Here the Master was revealing the way by which we might find Shekinah—by doing truth. “He that doeth truth cometh to the Shekinah, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they, the deeds, are wrought in God.” Until we begin to see that the truth which makes men free is the way to Shekinah, we cannot begin to know the freedom that is possible through the truth. Why does the truth make men free? Because it makes it possible for them to come to Shekinah, that being centered in Shekinah they may be the means by which the works of God are wrought on earth. And so we begin to realize that the whole pattern of the Master's manifestation on earth, His ministry, His teaching, His example, must be seen in the Light of that which He Himself taught. And over and over again He emphasized the reality of Shekinah.
Notice here, in the first chapter of John, we have already considered the significance of the Word, and seen, that it is , that which indicates Shekinah.” In the beginning was the Shekinah, and the Shekinah was with God, and the Shekinah was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Shekinah; and without him”—that is, without Shekinah—“was not anything made that was made. In Shekinah was Light, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” And the Light, the Shekinah Light, “shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.” Now, in Shekinah was Light. In the beginning, in Shekinah, is Light. Now when the Shekinah Life is working in men, it is the Light of men; but when the Shekinah Life is not in men, there is no Light in them, and they are in darkness.
The record continues: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Shekinah Light, that all men might through Shekinah believe. He”—that is, John—“was not that Light, that Shekinah, but was sent to bear witness of that Light that was the True Light, that was the Shekinah Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Shekinah was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew not Shekinah. Shekinah came unto His own and His own received Him not, but as many as received Shekinah, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.” The only begotten Son of God is what? Shekinah, that gives the power to men that they may become the sons of God; that is, the many aspects of the manifestation of Shekinah. “And as many as received Shekinah, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on Shekinah.”
Wherever you read “in His Name” or “in my Name”, read Shekinah, and you will begin to understand, if you understand Shekinah. “Even to them that believe on Shekinah, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God; and the Word, and the Shekinah, was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory, the Glory of Shekinah, full of Grace and Truth.” Upon this you may well meditate. And once you begin to see this Great Truth, the Master, His Life, His Ministry, all that He taught, will mean more to you than you ever dreamed could be.
You will lose nothing by facing the truth of the matter, leaving behind the illusions, the assumptions, the delusions; you will lose nothing worthwhile. Let us see the Master's Life for what it was. If those who count themselves to be Christians understood the great significance of even the first 14 verses of the Gospel according to John, there would be power made manifest so that, well, in the first place, the development of Soviet Russia could never have been. And now, if these things were understood by a few thousand Christians, so that they let it have meaning in their lives, Russia could be brought to our knees almost overnight, without firing a shot. The troubled conditions in the world could begin to be cleared, and the Kingdom of God would begin to come, and the Will of God would be done on earth as it is in heaven, without forever putting it off to some more convenient time. Why more convenient? Because human beings have not yet reached a point where they will let Shekinah have meaning. Let this have meaning in you, and the power of God shall manifest through you. How is it put here? “The deeds are wrought of God.” That's what the Master said. “But he that doeth truth, cometh through Shekinah, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God,” on earth, in relationship to the affairs of men.
Here is the key to Victory, to an understanding of the Glorious Life, the Mighty Works, the Wondrous Teaching of our LORD and KING when He walked among men. But for nearly 2,000 years human beings have made His words to be in vain, because they have had assumptions, and did not recognize the truth with respect to what the Master said. Acting on assumptions will not let the deeds be wrought in God. Let us know the truth, and do the truth, and come to the Shekinah Light, that we may do the deeds of God on earth, and so truly follow our LORD and KING.
Heavenly Father, I thank Thee, for the Blessed Ones here and everywhere, who are responding to the Shekinah Fire, the Shekinah Light, and the Shekinah Cloud of Glory, that all who will may share in letting Thy Kingdom come, and letting Thy Will be done. For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory of Shekinah, now and forever. Aum-en
