This has been a special day. To some extent we could say, in our own experience, “This is the day the Lord hath made.” Here is something that needs to be understood with respect to all days. We sometimes think of days as being special because of celebrations such as Easter or Christmas, or maybe because of someone's birthday, or one of the many holidays that are included in the calendars of this world. It seems as though human beings imagine that a day can only be special on this basis, but all such days are man-made; they are not special because the LORD made them. Is it not an exciting thing to awaken in the morning and know that this—whatever day it may be—is a special day because the LORD makes it? He has a means of making it a special day. If this is really the case, there is no day that isn't a special day. No longer do we have to wait, like most human beings do, for the weekend, anticipating something special and then usually being disappointed.
Every day is a special day when the people of the LORD are present to let it be made so. We do not have to awaken in the morning and wonder is this Monday or Thursday, or whatever, with a view to establishing in consciousness the sort of day it's going to be. Monday in the world is supposed to be rather a poor sort of day. According to this calendar classification tomorrow will be Monday! Too bad, isn't it? But I don't think that is our attitude anymore. Monday will be a perfect day because the LORD makes it so and we are willing to let Him, just as this day. For various reasons, it seems that there has been a greater willingness on the part of all concerned to let it be the day that the LORD hath made. And there's no problem about rejoicing and being glad in it; it's the natural outcome. It is a special day because it is made so by the LORD in the experience of our own living. So may it, and so shall it, surely be in each day.
We also see the day in larger perspective, not simply as a 24-hour period but as part of an ongoing creative cycle. Day follows day in this sense too, and in this sense each is the day that the LORD hath made. We begin to find a certain attunement in the larger cycle. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/in-three-days.html] Human beings attuned with the usual daily round find, as the years go by, the days seem to pass more quickly; there is the sense of time running out. But if we let our consciousness be raised to see the larger cycles we begin to find that we have a relatedness to those cycles. It is said that a thousand years are but as a day in the sight of the LORD. We have no business restricting ourselves solely to the little 24-hour cycles day by day, or even to what we call the yearly cycle. We recognize the days of creation as they relate to the purposes of God unfolding here on this earth, and we see these days covering periods of thousands of years. If we are participating in this creative process then this gives us a better perspective with respect to what we call time in the dimensional world.
We are concerned with these larger cycles. This doesn't mean that we neglect the smaller ones, but we see the smaller ones as being small and we find an attunement moving in our own experience of living with those larger days of creation which we were particularly noting this morning. The first of these days, in this particular cycle, dawned some four thousand years ago. Do you not have a sense of relatedness to that? If it remains just a story which you have heard or read, about someone called Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, then of course there isn't too much sense of relatedness, unless one could somehow trace one's ancestry back that far. I suppose it's probable that very few people are not related to Abraham in this way. This doesn't only include those who call themselves Jews.
No, our sense of relatedness is not based in externals; it is based in the truth of things, in what is really happening. Our consciousness has changed to this extent, so that we are capable of looking with understanding eyes upon what has been transpiring in the world, which we begin to see as our world, a world for which we are responsible. We do not think of it merely in terms of identification in a present physical form. This is the fact of the matter at the moment. We have a physical form; we have a structure in consciousness which enables us to function in the present moment in the dimensional world, but we are certainly not limited to the dimensional world. Our responsibility is here now, so we attend to it. We are deeply concerned with what is emerging in the present moment but we do not allow that to blot out our consciousness of relatedness to something far greater—far greater in the sense of an unfolding creative cycle—because what is done in the present moment has meaning by reason of that greater unfolding cycle.
As wonderful as this day is, it is a very little thing when seen in the perspective of the larger cycle, the larger days of creation. Even the days of creation which we recognize relating to what we have called the First, Second and Third Sacred Schools are quite brief. Those of you who have been to Class know something about larger days than that, some of them running into hundreds of thousands of years; and of course, using this method of calculating so-called time, there are cycles which are far greater even than that, cycles which do not particularly concern us at the moment. Do we begin to have a sense of belonging in this larger pattern of things? That sense of belonging is natural to those who awaken again to the truth of being. We only lose a sense of relatedness when we become subject to the petty circumstance of the daily experience. Then it begins to appear that we are somehow hemmed in and imprisoned, we have very little elbow room, we are being squeezed into a smaller and smaller space until we end up without any motion at all. What a miserable condition, when the truth of what we are has no such limits.
Beginning to know something of the unfoldment of the larger creative cycles and of our present part in that unfoldment, we have become aware of reality to an increasing degree. Often in times past we have used the word “unreal” to describe the human condition—and that is exactly what it is—but to most of those who used that word it didn't carry much conviction. The human condition seemed to be the reality and the larger picture was unreal. Here we have another indication of what is meant by reversed polarity. When the true polarity is reversed the unreal appears to be very real and the real quite unreal. This also relates to the flip in consciousness needful. The flip occurs by reason of the change of polarity back to the normal condition. We have been functioning in an abnormal state, a subnormal state, for so long. In one of the verses I read this morning there is indication of these things in these words: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
“Every one which seeth the Son”—is aware of Shekinah, is aware of the True Tone of Life—“and believeth on Shekinah.” What is it we now believe? Most people now believe in the value of their memories—memories of past events, for instance—as a guide to future function, or occasionally to present function. In the human condition of reversed polarity belief relates to what we call externals. We have a great deal of confidence in the stability of external things in various ways. This is why when there is an earthquake it is such a shattering experience to people, because they were before convinced that the earth was stable—this is one of the very foundational beliefs in human consciousness—so that when it begins to heave around this shatters their belief. Human beings believe in the imaginary state present in their own consciousness; they believe this is the real thing. They can see it, after all, with their own eyes; they can feel it, they can hear it, and smell it, and everything else. They know it's right there and they know exactly what it is, they think; they believe they do anyway. But as for God, as for the LORD, as for Shekinah, all this is pretty ethereal, elusive.
Where is human belief? Presumably we recognize that it's mostly in the wrong things, but merely recognizing the fact that this is so doesn't cause it to change. And human beliefs in this regard are rather deeply embedded. We believe that the world is the way that everybody believes the world is, and we agree with others on this score. Of course there are slight variations, mind you, in our interpretation of the picture, but it is with respect to a darkened state of consciousness that our beliefs are firmly held. Now here Jesus was talking about something else: “Every one which seeth the Son,” becomes aware of the True Tone, “and believeth on him.” In other words, the conviction of stability is in that Tone and not in the surroundings, not in the peripheral structures in our consciousness, not in what we call the world, the things and people in the world.
“That every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.” They will have it. This is the implication here; this is the experience of life. In Shekinah is life. The reality of life can only be known to the extent that Shekinah is known. You and others have experienced something of the True Tone. Could you define it? Yet to the extent that you have had the experience you know it. We say perhaps that it is something sensed, because we can't find words to describe the experience. But it's known. To know something, we don't need to be able to define it. This would probably be heresy in school, wouldn't it? About the only way that a teacher can be sure that his students know is to have them define what they know. In a sense, if we know we do define it, but not in the usual fashion. Our knowing is defined in our living. Our living will reveal the extent of our knowing; however, it will only reveal the extent of our knowing to someone who also knows. The life of Jesus revealed the extent of His knowing but at the time there were very few who saw it. But in spite of ourselves—or what we have thought of ourselves, the image we have imagined was what we were—in spite of that, we have been moved somehow to become aware of the Son, to become aware of the True Tone of Life. We can never properly become conceited with respect to what some people would call spiritual progress, a larger perception of the True Tone, because it came to pass in spite of what we thought we were; it came to pass by reason of Shekinah.
So it would not be surprising that as we awaken to what is happening we discover the reality of eternal life. Shekinah is eternal. In Shekinah is life. Life is eternal. We begin to be associated with this life of Shekinah and our perspective broadens, our sense of proportion changes, and we find ourselves associated with the larger cycles of creation extending over thousands of years. And we don't feel strange about it. It no longer feels unreal to us. It is the real thing. This very moment is included in a particular day of creation, and this day of creation is not separate from other days of creation. It is part of one vast tapestry, the tapestry of life itself, with which increasingly we sense our unity. Life is not separate from us, obviously so or we wouldn't be sitting here. Life is here; in Shekinah is life; Shekinah is here. The Creative Word of Shekinah is spoken. The days of creation unfold; they unfold regardless of the antics of imaginary people. In their unfoldment the imagination, the dream, passes away, and all that is left is the reality.
As we share the unfoldment of this creative cycle in this very moment, we know our relatedness to the whole, and that is everlasting life. Whatever is unreal within the scope of our present consciousness will surely pass away, simply because it is unreal. Whatever is real, in the consciousness of the LORD, will not pass away. The Word of Jesus was: “My Word shall not pass away.” Shekinah shall not pass away. The Shekinah state of consciousness in the dimensional world shall not pass away. As we awaken to that state and yield more fully to it we are included in it, included in the consciousness of the LORD, included in the eternal experience of life. And this we begin to know; it isn't anymore a hopeful imagination. So many good people try to have faith. There is no need to try to have faith. The very attitude of trying to have faith indicates that one doesn't have it. Awaken to the truth. Awaken to a consciousness of the Son. Stay true to that consciousness. Believe on it. Accept it as a basis for your experience and be willing to let the unreal dissolve. Human beings have been so accustomed to the unreal state of affairs that it is a terrifying outlook when it begins to be recognized that the unreal world that was thought to be so real is dissolving. Frantic and desperate attempts are made to try to keep it from dissolving, to try to defeat God. Such attempts could never succeed, but they are made by the fearful and the unbelieving and all the rest of those who classify themselves in the realm of imagination, in the realm that is occupied by phantoms—phantoms which seem to be present by reason of the absence of the reality which actually is present but unperceived by the darkened state of human awareness.
How blind and ignorant human beings are in that state. They amass what they call knowledge about this distorted condition and about all the seeming absences of what is really there. But we see the truth and are willing to allow the unreal to dissolve, the former things to pass away, letting Shekinah make all things new in our own consciousness. Man was created to be responsible for this world. He let it slip through his fingers. The Garden vanished from the earth because it vanished from man's consciousness. Let it be restored to his consciousness and it is restored to the earth, because the earth is simply an extension of his consciousness. How simply all things can be made new, but never as long as human beings cling to the unreal imaginary state to which they attach so much importance. To assist others to awaken to the truth, we find ourselves in this unreal condition with those whom we would assist. Obviously it is impossible to cause people immediately to realize the unreality of the state in which they exist, because they are existing in that state.
But again we remember how the true creation occurs: through the Word, Shekinah, the True Tone—the True Tone in actual reverberating expression in our own daily experience. This is what causes the former things to pass away and all things to be made new. You are not here present, to the extent that you may be present, because you were told that what you thought was real was really unreal or because this state of affairs was thoroughly explained to you. Explanations, after a fashion, may seem to have been necessary, but why? Not to create all things new in you but to help you to relax sufficiently so that you could become aware of the Tone and let it reverberate in you. Do you still believe in your own intelligent ability? Is this one of your beliefs? It's a false belief. Believe in the Son, in the Shekinah, for this alone gets the job done. Explanations and outlines satisfying to the human mind may be offered to some extent to keep the human mind busy while the Tone, the Shekinah, gets the job done; to keep the human mind out of the way, while imagining that it is doing something very important, that it's really beginning to understand the truth now. Nonsense! It doesn't understand anything. But if it can be set on one side the true magician can achieve the true purpose. Even in the human realm of so-called magic the individual needs to be distracted, doesn't he, so that he doesn't really see what's going on. He thinks he sees what's going on and then is amazed at some point that he evidently hadn't. And maybe you have had something of that experience as you have come along the way in association with the true magician. You have been distracted in various ways so that something could happen in you in spite of you, and then you suddenly found that you hadn't been so intelligent as you thought. In fact, from time to time I am sure that you have awakened to the fact that you have been stupid. But no matter; it's all in a good cause!—the cause of Shekinah.
So, together we have to this extent been gathered in one place. “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.” The dry land is appearing. We have some awareness of it, awareness of a new people, a peculiar people, a chosen people; not a people who chose themselves. This is what human beings like to think they are doing. The human ego says, “I make the choice.” Do you really? Too bad if you do! No, Shekinah makes the choice, or at least the only choice that has any meaning, and we find ourselves caught in that choice; but it's not an unpleasant experience, is it? It's a joy unspeakable and full of glory. We become aware of a new people, a New Nation, if you please, the citizens of a New Kingdom—at least new to human beings. The dry land appears. To whatever degree the waters of truth emerging through you and others, the waters under the heaven, under the place of Shekinah, are gathered together unto one place, the dry land appears. And so it is.
Is this not something in which one can easily believe? Do we have to believe in it, really? We know it. We know it to the extent that we have participated in it, to the extent that it is our own experience. It doesn't have to be explained to us; we simply know it and are content in that knowing. To the extent that we do know we realize that we are a part of the whole creative cycle extending over thousands of years. We are associated with this, we belong in this, we have always been a part of it—a new consciousness of the truth in the experience of our living—and we become aware of love, the meaning of that word. Shekinah!—the Cloud of Glory, the Light that Glows, the Fire that Burns. Here is where we belong; here is the reality; here we share the creative cycles which unfold in their days to achieve what is essential in bringing resurrection to the consciousness of man on earth. “And they were all with one accord in one place.” Consequent upon this experience comes what has been designated as the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Human beings have had lots of imagination about that. What is it? You know to this extent what it is. It isn't a wind whistling around the Chapel or cloven tongues of fire sitting on your heads. It is what you know of Shekinah now: a new state of consciousness, a new polarity, where the real is real to you and the unreal is unreal to you.
This is the Day that the LORD hath made. Indeed we rejoice and are glad in it. Each moment is included in the Day which the LORD hath made. And so we continue to move together under the heaven, letting the dry land appear increasingly, to the Glory of God in the cycles of resurrection.
I would like to share some meditation with you upon a passage which we have recently considered together, in Class and in service, several times; but I do not believe that we have exhausted the possibilities of deeper realization, a larger vision, with respect to these vitally important words with which the Gospel according to John is opened.
In our study and meditation upon the reality of the Shekinah Pattern of Being, we’ve been gaining a deeper realization of the fact that insofar as we in the outer sense are concerned, in the human sense, in the physical sense, we have both earthly and heavenly parents. We recognize that the Fire of Love is the Father of Life, and that the Reality of Truth is the Mother of Life. And in our Class meditations we came to realize that the commandment, Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days of life may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, applies more to the heavenly parents than to the earthly. Sometimes earthly parents are not worthy of honour, but the heavenly parents always are.
And we have come to recognize that the word Father, as the Master used it, included, generally speaking, the One Who Dwells, but that the word included, specifically, the Shekinah Pattern of Being; and that in the outer sense, in the direct and personal sense, the One Who Dwells or the God Being, is not the Father, for the One Who Dwells is the Father of the Only Begotten Son, which is the Spirit of God issuing forth eternally from God; and that this Son or Spirit, is the Shekinah Pattern of Being—and in that Pattern we find that the Child, which is Life, must be born in the form, from the parents of Love and Truth.
We have come to recognize that Life, as such, is not something that is projected into one from some source above or beyond—we can release the radiation of the Life Current into another, but the true manifestation of Life in the individual is something which must be born in the form through which it appears—and that the presence of the parents of Life must be in the form, in harmony, or united in union, before this Child, which is Life, can appear. If Life is diminishing, then the human form, the human mind and heart have been functioning on a basis which has tended, insofar as the human being is concerned, to separate the parents, to hinder their union, their coordination, and consequently their Child, Life, begins to disappear. When the parents of Life are separated, insofar as a specific human form is concerned, Life is gone and that which remains is called a corpse.
The Father then, includes the One Who Dwells, but the Heavenly Father which we can contact and know in a direct personal human sense is God’s Love. And so we have in heaven at hand, within range of comprehension, Father God, which is the Fire of Love, and Mother God, which is the Reality or Water of Truth. From the union of these two comes the Child, Life. And these are heavenly parents, individually speaking. When there is One Body of Many Members, the same Pattern is developed in relationship to all.
Once we begin to realize that the Father means more than just the Being, the God Being, but includes the Shekinah Pattern of Being, we can more readily understand many of the statements which the Master made, as in the prayer, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” When the Father is spoken of, the Mother is automatically included in the pattern of portrayal utilized in holy writings; so honouring the parents, or keeping the name of one’s parents, or one’s Father, sacred, is seen as something of vital importance so that we do not violate that which is Divine.
Now we have recognized the Fire of Love and the Water of Truth, but Truth is symbolized by a different term also—Light—the Light that Glows, and our Master spoke of, “The light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” He said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” If then we have Love and Light being made manifest through us, we have the reality of the parents of Life present in our form, and the pattern of relatedness with invisible God, or the One Who Dwells, is clearly established; for in us, in outer form, there is the evidence of the Presence of the One Who Dwells.
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In the First Chapter of the Gospel according to John we have a vitally significant passage; and here the word Word is used to symbolize or signify the sacred or secret word Shekinah. So instead of reading this text as it is written here, we recognize that which the author indicated by the word “Word”, and we will use the word Shekinah; and let us see how much more there is for us to understand.
“In the beginning”—a few moments ago we heard a rendition in song bringing to our attention the reality of creation. In the beginning—in the beginning of what? The creation of the world, the earth, and all the things that are therein? Yes, but in the beginning of any creation, in the beginning of any of the things that we would do to the Glory of God and the blessing of the children of men—to the Glory of God, to the increased manifestation of Life from God on earth through form, for we remember that Glory always relates to Life. And these things we would do, to what end? to the Glory of God and to the blessing of the children of men.
If it be then to the Glory of God it is to the increase of the manifestation of God’s Life, or Life from God on earth through form, so God’s Glory may be increased on earth; and if God’s Glory is increased on earth we have an increase of Life. There is no suggestion anywhere, authentically presented, that I am aware of, that indicates that there is a need for more Glory in Heaven, or more Life in Heaven. According to all the indications there is enough Glory in Heaven, and enough Life in Heaven, so that it is not in Heaven or in some invisible realm that we need an increase, but it is here on earth that this need is present. So if we would glorify God we are not going to trying to get out of the earth into some heaven. We are going to remember the words of the Master’s prayer, “I pray not that thou shouldn’t take them out of the earth but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” And what is “the evil”? In our earlier meditation we recognized what the evil is, for it is the failure of man to let God’s provision be made manifest. So if we are to be kept from the evil, we are going to let God’s provision be made manifest, and that will let Life increase on earth, and the forms shall be changed to the patterns of Life instead of being changed to the patterns of death, disintegration and decay.
Now, in the beginning—in the beginning of anything that we would do to glorify God and be a blessing to the children of men—in the beginning was, in the beginning is, the Word. In the beginning is Shekinah, and Shekinah is with God, and Shekinah is God. Now sometimes these words have seemed to be ambiguous. If we read the text using the word Word, which obviously was the word utilized by the author to signify the secret word Shekinah, we find that there is the appearance of ambiguity. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” This is put in the past tense—but if it was true in the beginning in relationship to the earth, it is likewise true in this moment; so tonight in our meditation we transpose to the present tense, because God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and that which was true of God, is true of God tonight. And, how can something be God, and be with God? We have meditation upon this point before but let us be sure that it is clear.
Let us use the illustration on my hand. My hand is a part of my body. If you see my hand and recognize it you can reasonably assume that my body is nearby. Suppose we had a curtain here and my hand extended out from behind the curtain, you would naturally assume that my body was there, and you would say that my hand is here. My hand is a part of me, therefore it is me, but it is not the all of me. It is the evidence of my presence. And my whole body, it is not the all of me. But you look at me and you think of my name. I look at you and I think of your name. But your body is not the all of you. I look at you when I come before you here and I do not assume that you're just a lump of flesh. I assume, shall we say, that you have intelligence. I cannot see your mind but I have a reasonable assurance that there is a mind present in you. And so when I see your body I see that which is a part of you, but it is not the all of you; and yet I can look at your body and say there you are. But that is not all of you because there is your mind. I cannot see your mind with my physical eye, nor can you see my mind with your physical eye, but there's reasonable evidence that each one of us here has a mind. So also with the heart. You cannot see the heart but you can see evidence of the presence of the heart, or the emotional nature, and so on. Then with respect to the mind, the mind is what you are in part. We can say your mind, we can say your body, or we can simply say you. And so your mind is present with you and yet your mind is not all of you; but the expression of your mind is the expression of you, therefore it is you. So exactly the same way here.
The reality of God is revealed by Shekinah but Shekinah is not all of God—it is the evidence of the Presence of God. So Shekinah was with God, and Shekinah was God, but Shekinah was not all of God—and as that was true then it is true tonight. In the beginning of that which we do, there is Shekinah, and Shekinah is with God, and Shekinah is God. The same—Shekinah—is in the beginning with God.
Now, let’s read it again. In the beginning is Shekinah, and Shekinah is with God, and Shekinah is God, is God in action; the same—Shekinah—is in the beginning with God. Having this present pattern then, of reality, let us note the next verse: “All things were made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah was not anything made that was made. In Shekinah was Life, and the Life of Shekinah was the Light of men.” If the life goes out of the body, is there any light in the body? No. The presence of Life is necessary to the reality of Light, the reality of comprehension, the function of the mind or heart or body. And so, “The Light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.”
Let’s bring it up to date, in this present moment, not only what was but what is. All things. Now all means one hundred percent: good things, evil things or bad things. There is no creative power but God’s power. If we use the power of Life, the abilities that we have, the capacities, to produce some evil thing or bad thing, then we have stolen God’s force, God’s Life, God’s capacities, and used them to produce something that is contrary to the Will and purpose of God, but still, that life in us is the thing that made it possible for us to produce the ill thing. Therefore every ill thing is produced by the same power that produces good things, right things. But when that power that is from God is used wrongly, according to a distortion pattern to produce some ill thing it is not according to God’s Will, but contrary to God’s Will. Therefore, we must recognize that all things, absolutely one hundred percent of all the things that have ever been made, or that are being made, or that ever shall be made, and man says, “I have made these things.” Perhaps an automobile, perhaps a mechanical brain, perhaps something else—he made these things. In and of themselves they are neither good nor evil; their uses determine whether they shall cause good or evil to manifest. But how were these things made? Did some man who had no life make them? No. The life that was in that man enabled him to make them; the intelligence, the ability, the comprehension, the inspiration, whatever it was, all came from God. How? By means of Shekinah.
So it does not make any difference what any human being anywhere makes or does, that which is done is done by the power of Shekinah; but if it is done contrary to God’s Will it means that that individual has stolen something that belongs to God, that came from God, and used it for a purpose contrary to God’s Will. Nevertheless, all things, without a single solitary exception, anywhere at anytime, all things were made by Shekinah, all things are made by Shekinah, and all things that shall be made will be brought forth by Shekinah—and without Shekinah there is not anything made that is made; there is not anything that will be made but what it will have been made by the use of Shekinah. If we, by human self-will and self-centredness, take the forces of Shekinah and use them contrary to the Will of God we cause these forces to diminish in us, and finally they are gone from us. But while we misuse them it is still Shekinah, and by Shekinah all things have been made—good things, evil things, indifferent things.
By Shekinah, by the working of Shekinah, you were conceived. You could not be conceived, you could not develop in your mother’s womb, you could not be born, without Shekinah. And it is in this sense that we begin to see that while every individual has a physical father—and the Master’s body had a physical father too; that story has gotten a bit mixed up, as we can find if we study into it. Nevertheless, in His life, He was emphasizing not His earthly father but His heavenly Father. And we have a heavenly Father, just as surely, individually, as Jesus had. And just as surely, as the Holy Spirit, which is sometimes called the Holy Ghost, was present and working in relationship to His conception, the Shekinah Pattern of Being or the Holy Spirit was working in relationship to your conception, each and every one of you.
So we begin to see that we are conceived of the Holy Spirit. The seed, the physical seed of the father is present, but it is not the physical seed of the father that causes conception. Actually, there has never been a baby born upon the face of the earth, which includes you, but what you were conceived, that baby was conceived, by the Holy Spirit. If the patterns were wrong, perhaps there was something wrong with the babe at birth, or other things went wrong in various ways, but as far as the conception is concerned, there has never been a baby conceived upon the face of the earth at any time but what that baby was conceived of the Holy Spirit, of the Shekinah Pattern of Being. Regardless of the limitations or distortions with respect to the earthly parents, it is not the seed of the male that causes conception. It is necessary to conception; the seed of the male is necessary to conception, but the seed of the male does not cause conception—it never has and it never will. But it is the Holy Spirit that caused the conception, and it’s just as true of you as it was true of Jesus Christ, the man that was called Jesus.
So, allthings, without a single exception, have been made by the uses of Shekinah—whether Shekinah was used self-actively by man or divinely by God—all things were made by Him. Now, since that is true, all things are made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah is not anything made that is made.
In the beginning, God said, “Let us”—note the plural—“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” And God did so, and created man, “male and female created he them.” And for what purpose? “Let us create man in our image, after our likeness, to have dominion upon earth.” And after man was created male and female, he was instructed to have dominion upon the earth, and to subdue it. Subdue what? The things of the earth, the forms of the earth. Now man has been trying to subdue the earth and the things of the earth according to his own will, according to his own idea and determination. He has not learned to let God’s Will work on earth as it works in heaven. However, God’s purpose was clearly stated in the beginning, and God’s purpose remains the same today. It is not something different. And what do we find with respect to God?
God was a Creator, and man, male and female, was created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore it means that God made man to share creative work on earth. If we are going to share creative work we must share in the function of Shekinah on earth. God provides the means by which Shekinah functions in heaven. We do not need to be concerned about that. But the body of man, male and female, was brought forth on earth to the end that there would be an instrument through which Shekinah could act on earth, under the Will of God, so that God’s dominion could extend into the earth, and man should be the means by which that dominion would be established. And if there is dominion there is the Kingdom. A kingdom is a dominion, a place where there is control; and the earth is a place where there has not been control. Human beings have gone this way and that. There is chaos and darkness and misery, physically, mentally, emotionally—a lack of control according to the pattern of the Divine Design.
If we were all with one accord in one place, in full agreement, in harmony with the things of God, which includes the Will of God, we would find that all chaos would begin to vanish away, all illnesses would begin to disappear, every ill condition would be overcome or cleared away. Now, if we are to let this be a reality, we must acknowledge for ourselves that God’s purpose for us is that we should so function in relationship to Him that Divine Dominion, the Dominion of the Kingdom of Heaven at hand, can be made manifest on earth—for what purpose?—for God’s purposes! Man made in the image and likeness of God.
Man is the image and likeness of God. The qualities, the characteristics of God, can manifest through man on earth. We have the capacity of mind so that God’s intelligence can work through us. We have the capacity of heart or feeling, emotional nature, so God’s Love can work through us. We have the physical body so that Life can work through us. But the body as such is the means by which Shekinah may act on earth; and if we have life on earth and become self-centered and self-willed, we use Shekinah for a little time, wrongly; we use it for purposes not according to God’s Will. We destroy ourselves if we do so. Billions of human beings have lived on earth and have tried to use Shekinah—they didn’t know what it was, but their own life. People have said, “My life is my own to do with as I please.” But it wasn’t. And whether they knew it or not, everything that they did was done by using the power of Shekinah. But they used it wrongly and destroyed themselves. If we let God use the Pattern of Shekinah rightly, through us, we will not destroy ourselves, but we will live.
On a certain occasion the Master emphasized the point that under certain conditions you have eternal life. Now actually, we come to realize that there is no life but eternal life. We have eternal life now. We remember that people imagine that they're going to get into eternity when they die, but we know that we are in eternity now. If there is such a thing as eternity it is present where we are. It extends into the past and it extends into the future, and no matter what you do you can't get out of eternity. You are in it now, and that which is in you that is of God is eternal. You can't destroy it but you may remove it from yourself, so that you destroy yourself as a human being.
We are made in the image of likeness of God to be creators. Unless we are creative in life we are not happy. Those who do something constructive that really establishes a service to others, or helps others in some fashion, a creative expression of life, can have a high degree of satisfaction even though they do not know anything about these things. But that high degree of satisfaction tends to get distorted and spoiled because the individual unwittingly or unknowingly gets into patterns of self-activity, and he destroys that which he has built. He may have worked hard, he may have been ever so earnest and sincere, but he brought forth something destructive, as well as something constructive, because ignorantly he used the force of Shekinah to produce things that did not belong. And human beings don't accomplish what they thought they were going to accomplish. Why? Because with the human mind self-actively functioning, man cannot see all of the factors, and he cannot remain completely creative. He has the capacity to be completely creative, but every misuse of these energies, or the Shekinah factors of being, is destructive. Just as surely as right use is constructive or creative, every wrong use is destructive. That is not because God wills something to be destructive, but because man takes the force which is available to him and uses it wrongly, contrary to God's Will.
Once we begin to see God’s Will and to accept it, to know something about it so that we know how to let God’s Will be done, we begin to find that more and more that all factors of our life become creative, begin to produce a blessing to others. Instead of trying to get something for ourselves we are giving, and we are constantly creative. Without creative action in life there is no such thing as true happiness, true satisfaction, or accomplishment. We’re not trying to get something. We are ready to give something—but what? You are giving something, whether you ever think about it or not. He who is just out trying to get something is giving something, but it isn't very pleasant; he is giving something into life. And you are asking others to accept and receive, and share, whatever you give into life—if it's a temper reaction, a thoughtless thing, if it is cruel, whatever it is, you're giving that into life. Every word we speak, every thought we think, every act, whatever it is, we’re giving something into life, either to bless or to curse. And all things, all actions, all functions—you do not have a single function, you cannot do anything, without Shekinah. It is present in every person on the face of the earth, and does not leave the body until the body dies; when it does leave the body the body is dead, but it is there. All things are made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah is not anything made that is made—and Life, can you see it? it is a part of the spirit of God; Love, have you ever felt it? the Light of Truth, have you ever seen it, intellectually with understanding something that dispelled darkness? These are the evidences of the Presence of God. Used to produce blessings, they bring forth into form that which belongs in the Kingdom of God that is at hand, or the Garden of Eden, or the Promised Land, whatever we want to call it, it makes no difference—the name has meaning by reason of the thing that is named.
Your name has meaning by reason of you, by the meaning you give that name by the living of your life, by the things you do, by the things you give into Life—either to create or to destroy, to build or to tear down, to increase health and life or decrease it, to make things wholesome and beautiful or to make them ugly and sordid. Either there is wholesomeness or there is not—wholeness, the dignity of man, nobility. As we do those things that increase nobility in ourselves and in others, we have an influence which tends to cause others to be inspired to do the right things.
Many people have ignorantly judged us as being this or that or the other thing; all kinds of ideas have been expressed by people who didn't know what they were talking about, and who didn't want to find out. But what happens? Step by step—if we are living noble lives, if we are doing the right thing, if we are creative—step by step that which is false is revealed for what it is, and that which is true is revealed for what it is, and we increase nobility, we increase the wholesomeness of Life, we are creative, bringing forth blessings to the children of men, to the Glory of God—the Glory of the increased manifestation of God’s Life on earth in form.
And that is the coming of the Kingdom—the Kingdom, the control in forms on earth where it is needed. It is here that the need is; here that the misery is; here that the false things are that need to be cleared away. When you get to heaven can you improve heaven any? Will you be a special ornament in heaven, or what will you do in heaven? Presumably heaven can get along without you, for a while anyway. Let's do a job on earth to remove the evil, to clear away the ill things, to help create that which is of the Divine Design, and establish that control by which all things are caused to work together to perfection for all who love and serve the LORD.
And the Shekinah Pattern of Being is used, rightly or wrongly, whatever is done. So let us serve God by letting Shekinah be used in us and through us, according to the Will of God. So shall the LORD’s Prayer be answered. Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And I thank God that it is so, and for the privilege of sharing that creative work on earth with you, in the Holy Name of our LORD and KING.
To the degree that you have recognized and learned to live in your own inner reality you are coming into a clear understanding of your appointed place of service within the Temple of the Three, through its sacred function in the Temple of Light.
You are beginning to truly see that the Temple of Light is the fulness of all Seven Planes of being which make up the Whole Holy World, at the head of which stands our beloved Master, the LORD of Lords, who is the Lord of the Sacred Seven.
You also see that the Temple of the Sacred Three is that which is called Mother God, or the three planes of the negative creation, wherein we are functioning in that divinely ordained service whereby man is being drawn into his perfect position in one-pointed polarity between negative reality and positive reality.
You begin to see that each one is at this present moment in that place and situation best suited to a free release of the Father's Christ radiance into the world consciousness, and so it is that each of the blessed ones has a glorious and sacred opportunity of service in this present time and place.
You see, also, that each one fills that divinely ordained place in the Great Plan to the degree that he or she lets go in the directing impulses of the Father’s action, so that the outflowing of the Father’s action is made manifest as the Body Temple action, and thus is the Father’s Will done in earth as it is in heaven.
As we have harmonized in the realization of reality in being, we know that all things needful to our life expressions are already provided, but we have not as yet fully harmonized with the actual use in expression of all this equipment which we see that the Lord has provided. The expression equipment with which the Lord has provided us may be recognized from the standpoint of negative reality as thought, word and act, the trinity of expression through the Body Temple.
As the Body Temple is a trinity, expression through the Body Temple must likewise be of the trinity. We see that this holds true, and that action is of the physical plane, words are of the mental plane, and thought is of the spiritual expression plane. As we begin to recognize all three of these planes of expression as the channels of release which they are, and cease thinking of them as if they were something of themselves, we find our vision expanding and our lives becoming increasingly effective.
We begin to function in accordance with the cosmic principles which were so gloriously exemplified in the functions of the Third SacredSchool in the Third Sacred City of the Motherland.
Three Outer Planes — Mother God Being
Letters To You
Uranda March 1937
As the God Beings of each Plane are focalized in the Lord of that Plane, and the Seven Lords of the Seven Planes are the Elohim, with the Focal Lords of the six lower Planes all focalized in full response in and to the LORD of Lords Who is the LORD OUR GOD Who manifested in and as Jesus; it becomes evident that the Three Inner Planes are Positive to the Three Outer Planes, and that these Six Planes are contained within, and infused with, the Seventh Plane which is the One Plane that blends all the other Planes.
The Three Inner Planes are, for this world, the rightful Expression of Father God, and the Three Outer Planes are the rightful spheres of Mother God. All God Beings functioning in the Three Outer Planes, or Worlds, are all contained within Mother God, and are Focalized in the Lord of the Sacred Three, Who, as High Priest of the Three Negative Worlds, is fully responsive to, and focalized in, the LORD of Lords, Who is the LORD of the Sacred Seven.
So it is that the LORD of the Sacred Seven is the focal point of Father God in the Whole Holy World and the Lord of the Sacred Three, as the focal point of Mother God, is centered in Negative Response to the LORD of Lords.
Through this Perfect Temple Vision of reality you behold the Truth of Creation, and you know that all of the God Beings Who function in the Whole Holy World were drawn together and ordained to their appointed places as the First Great Step in the creative process. It was in this great step in the beginning of the creation of this world that the Christ Kingdom was set up for this world.
The Christ Radiance flows forth from all God Beings eternally, and that Radiance did not begin with the beginning of creation, but the God Beings involved did not come into the specific harmonization which allows the Lines of Force, or Vibration, by which the world was created, until the time when the creative work was to begin. So it is that the Christ Kingdom for the Whole Holy World was set up as the First Step in the Creative Process, and is, therefore, the Foundation of the World.
You also see that Vibrations of the Creative Lines of Force could not be set up until the harmonization of God Beings took place. The Organization of God Beings took place for the specific work of Creation, and this harmonization had to precede the setting up of those Vibrations whereby Creation took place. This Divine Organization, or Cosmic Harmonization of God Beings, is the Christ Kingdom for this World, and that Christ Kingdom was not set up until the time of that harmonization insofar as this world is concerned.
In that this becomes clear to your Vision, and you recognize yourself, in Oneness with your Lord, to be a part of that harmonization of Lords which is the Christ Kingdom, you begin to know that the outer harmonization of the Body Temples in the earth allows the manifestation of the harmonization of the Lords within those Temples. As the Body Temples are drawn together and harmonized in the Fire of the Christ Love, the Lords of those Temples are allowed to render their true service in the earth, and the Christ Kingdom is made manifest.
This shows how it is that the Lines of Force, or Vibration, by which the New World Consciousness is being formed in the womb of the world darkness, can become active in outer manifestation only to the degree of harmonization that is established in and through the Body Temples that are in manifest expression on earth.
So long as there is no true harmonization of the Body Temples in the earth, the Lines of Force cannot be set up in the outer world. It is in this that the Blessed Ones have a glorious privilege; for as each sincere and earnest one responds in Love to his, or her, Lord within, he, or she, is drawn into the appointed Priestly Office in the Temple, and that Temple is then harmonized through its Lord with all other Temples who likewise respond, no matter where on earth they may be, and thereby the out-manifestation of the Christ Kingdom is made possible—and that is the Way whereby the New Heaven and the New Earth become a reality in the Whole Holy World, and all the former things of suffering and sorrow and death are caused to pass away, so that they shall be no more, nor come into mind. Rejoice in the Lord that it is so.
Step Three
Seven Steps To The Temple Of Light
Uranda 1936
Realization
In Realization the Blessed One is fully aware that all things necessary to the outworking of the Perfect Plan are already provided in every detail. All the Wisdom required by the Blessed One now is, and is instantly available from within. So also, all Power now is; all Knowledge now is; all Substance now is; all required things now are; for all things are provided already from the foundation of the world, and there never was a time since the world began when they were not. In Realization is the absolute awareness of the Presence of the Wonderful One within. Realization reveals the Truth that in the Presence all things are. Realization of the Presence proves the Truth that sets men free. Realization is the Way of Perfect Freedom in the Presence, wherein there is no lack nor limitation.
Realization relates to the Spiritual Expression Nature of the outer man. In Realization is recognition of that which is. In Realization there is a perfect letting go, for in this State the Blessed One ceases to want anything whatsoever, and of desire there is none ... the Blessed One does all things for the pure love of responding to the Inner Urge, considering not that which shall be, but abiding always in a Realization of that which is.
Realization knows, and knows that it knows, and thereby does it allow the Blessed One to be uplifted into Absolute Assurance. He who lets go to the Spirit of the Words, "Be still and know that I AM God," is he who finds Realization expanding through himself from the Wonderful One within.
He who looks within himself, without wavering, in one-pointed letting go, depending on no Source but the One within, free of all external attachments, enjoying and giving thanks for all things, letting Love Radiate in every thought, word and deed, directed by the One in true Service, is he who experiences Realization, for this is Illumination, and the fruition thereof is, "I AM THAT I AM."
