Greetings friends. It’s so good to see all your faces, including a few of you in the wee hours of the morning in Korea. Welcome, wonderful to have this hour together. In this hour I want to continue in the movement of spirit from recent services and gatherings, and also in what is moving here and now between us.
Two weeks ago Stewart Berger spoke in the Temple of Light service and read beautifully the last prayer of the Master to His disciples and His followers. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/heavenly-governmentearthly-government.html] But did the Master speak those words to a rag-tag band of followers 2,000 years ago or did He speak them across all time, directly to us now, and directly to any and all who are awakening here on earth now, conscious of being a part of His Body—or not conscious but nonetheless a part of His Body today?
I want to enter this service time with the premise that the words that the Master spoke—His last prayer—were spoken not to a group of a few individuals long ago, but directly and consciously to all who would come, all that would in time be His Body; would begin being His Body; but step-by-step, not only beginning, but being a full extension, expansion and expression of Him on earth.
If we consider the nature of the moment when He spoke these words recorded in John 17: “I have glorified thee on Earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, and now O Father, glorify thou me with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” If we consider for a moment the import, the magnitude of factors that came to focus as He spoke these words, would we not be able to draw the inference rather quickly in fact, that as He spoke these words, as He completed His work on earth and handed the baton, the mantle of responsibility, to those who would come, that in fact this momentous moment was the culmination of tens of thousands of years of the history of man, and that in fact all of the longing of the Father, all of the longing of the Master came to focus in these words? Is it not clear to us then, if this is possibly true, that these were not mere words—how beautiful, how extraordinary as they were, but they are words of the will, the yearning, the passion of the Father, set as golden lines of reality, more real than any other words, a plan, a design for what would emerge?
Probably some of you have read Uranda’s service posted in the Great Cosmic Story recently, titled, “These Things Transcend All Time”, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/these-things-transcend-all-time.html] and found it deeply moving, stirring. I certainly found it so, and others around me shared the same depth of stirring: “Father, I will that they also be with me where I am.” “Father, I will that they also be with me where I am.” Perhaps more than words, they were a line of force established, for a time when those who would hear, and not only hear but would vibrate in union with those words: “Be with me where I am.” Who will fulfill those words—and when? What rag-tag band of Sons and Daughters of God will come into oneness with the spirit, the power, of that prayer and allow all time to be dissolved, as though He had spoken those words, when? Just yesterday; just yesterday. This is what Uranda spoke of in that service, “These Things Transcend All Time”—beautiful, eloquent, moving words of Uranda. But just beautiful, eloquent and moving? Or TRUE. And more true, than anything else that we might think or feel.
So to the question as to what rag-tag band of Sons and Daughters of God might be bold enough, have enough gall, to consider that these words of the Master were forever—and for them, more real now than when spoken 2,000 years ago. What band? As for what band of ragtag Sons and Daughters of God, I want to read a few words of Martin that speaks to the matter of what a small band can in fact do. This is just a short paragraph from Martin’s service “Victory in the Lord” from November 14, 1971 [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-essential-focalization-of-divine.html]: “There are many illustrations of how small a manifest focalization of divine expression may be, and yet accomplish great things. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't require very much. In fact there's a necessity for something rather small, because as soon as an association of human beings begins to take in large numbers the real value tends to be lost. They only stay in vivid application through a small number of people.” Just a small number is enough. He's saying that it was ever thus.
I want to read another short paragraph, this one from Uranda, November 3, 1946, on “Qualities Of Leadership”: “I perceive now and again an individual who in his progress of growing in the spiritual life comes face to face with a limitation in himself and tends to find therein a seeming cause for self-judgment.” I'll pause there a moment. Have we ever had a few such judgments ourselves, because of some limitation in ourselves? Well let's go on and hear what Uranda has to say about that. He continues: “I do not recall that ever in the whole history of man”—ever in the whole history of man—"God has undertaken to utilize the strongest or wisest, or those with the most knowledge, in furthering His cause on Earth.”
“I do not recall that ever in the whole history of man, God has undertaken to utilize the strongest or wisest, or those with the most knowledge, in furthering His cause on earth. Moses classified himself as being slow of speech.” Any of us slow of speech? Well, Martin was, at least in the early years. “The Master called his disciples from the humble walks of life.”
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So let's consider, for a moment, what the Master spoke of in His prayer, which could be called the “Prayer of Oneness”—the oneness of Himself with the Father; the oneness of His Body with Him, with the Father; the Oneness of all three. Let's consider for a moment that these words were for all time, and in fact the passage of 2,000 some years are as naught. Then what? I want to read another little portion from Martin in 1974, in which he speaks about the victory having occurred yesterday, so to speak. Martin says:
“As we share a perspective view of the outworking of the creative cycles over the last 4,000 years, we discover that time ceases to separate. We might for a moment consider what occurred 1900 years ago when our Master was here. As we have looked at those events and what it was He actually brought, does it seem like it was separated from us by nineteen centuries? One might almost say that it occurred yesterday... If we look at the events that occurred in the external sense, all the failures, the troubles, the difficulties, all these things, then that was a very long time ago. But the truth that was present, the truth which could have permitted a victorious outworking in the First Sacred School [for example], is just as surely present now as it was then. So the intervening time vanishes when we are polarized in the truth. If you're polarized in historical events, then that was way, way back.”
So I suppose the question arises for us also: Are we polarized in the truth or are we polarized in historical events? I suppose for us that question might apply to, for example: Are we polarized in the historical events of the last 2,000 years? of the last 30 years? Where are we polarized? Are we polarized in the truth? And when we are polarized in the truth, what wasn't true carries no weight, no import. What carries weight is the vividness of the real, the vividness of the truth which was, which is as true now as when the Master spoke that prayer of oneness.
I'll read a few more lines from John 17—this prayer, as I say, sent directly across all time, to any who will vibrate with these words and stand in the spirit of them regardless of when that might be: “Father I will that they also be with me where I am... That they all may be one; as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” We feel the depth of the yearning in these words. He knew what was coming in the few days ahead. He knew that all of His ministry, prepared for how many hundreds, thousands of years were coming, had come to a conclusion. I'll read that sentence again: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” The passion, the will of the One who is the KING for this world, brought to the most poignant focus in these words of wish, will, for His Body. It says, “I will that they also be with me where I am.” Be with Him where He is. Is that possible?
If we are really skeptical and doubtful, we could think that those are beautiful words of His heart, but was it a wish—maybe wishful thinking? The Focus of the power of Love for this world doesn't do “wishful thinking.” Isn’t that clear? But rather, He wills and sets in motion the cycles by which it will be fulfilled. Be with Him where He is.
For us here online, some semblance of thought that might arise: but we're now in our 70s and 80s! Yes, I see our gray hair! Be with Him where He is now, with our capacities now. In this time and age, with our various pains and aches of the body, is it possible to be with Him fully where He is? Here is another question: Do you think He would think it was possible? Well, what do you think? Do you think He would think it was possible?
The greatest rag-tag band of all, right here. Do you think He would think it was possible? The answer is clear to me. The Master, our KING, knows it is possible. His body was crucified. What body? His body in all its meaning. Perhaps some of our experience too—crucified? Then in the darkness of the tomb, for how long? Three days? How long was that? How long were the experiences of the darkness for us? However long, He knows it's possible. Why? Because He did it! He did it with and on behalf of his Body. Are our age and our various limitations greater than the limitations that He moved through? Yet He was true to His prayer of oneness and He did it. Thus He knows it is possible for His Body at any time, after any experience of the crucifixion or the tomb that they might have, experiences of failure that they might have—that regardless, and in spite of, and ultimately through all of that, His Body may fulfill His prayer of oneness: “Be with me where I am.”
Where is this, “Where I am,” Where He is, that He is inviting His Body to? Inviting across all time, dissolved of time, to any who might feel the invitation, as though these words were freshly spoken just hours ago. Where is this, “Where I am”? Where He is”? A hint to that is spoken in the line of that prayer of oneness, “Oh Father, glorify Thou me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.”
“The glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” Is He speaking only about Himself in the singular person, or is the implication in these words that the glory which I had with Thee before the world was, is in fact the truth for His Body, for His Body was with Him before the world was. Well, is that right? This raises the very important question: Were we with Him before the world was?—implying then, were we with Him, with the Father, with and in the glory of the Father, before time was? Well, what do you think? Were we with Him before time was, with the glory of the Father already known, and that this is in fact the reality, the only reality, more real than any other reality, and that all the experience in between where this was not known is—what? as naught, immaterial.
I say that we were with Him, with the glory of the Father, with Him before the world was. Dare we not only say it, but know it, not as an idea that Uranda or Martin presented back along the way; not an idea, but the truth and the most real of all realities? Dare we know this? This is what His Prayer of Oneness was willing, inviting us to, to dare to know with Him the oneness with Him and with the Father, to know the glory of the Father. Not, when?—later? Later when? Well later for a few of us might be not so much later. In fact, not after we have returned to our home in the light, in heaven—no not then, but now. His invitation was to know the oneness in the glory of the Father here on earth, and to breathe it, feel it, embody it, live it, and thus be His Living Body of the Sons and Daughters of God, walking, acting on earth; the Sons and Daughters of God shouting for joy.
David Barnes sent me a little passage in connection with this, where he pointed out the glory we knew with the King of Love, and with the Father, was not just in transcendent time, but it was the glory we knew on earth, in full, as the body of Sons and Daughters of God walking the earth before the Fall in the Motherland. Is this true? “Well, I don't quite remember it, but it might be true that once we already walked this earth in the glory and oneness of the Father”—that we already fulfilled the Prayer of Oneness, and were the living, breathing reality of it, Sons and Daughters of God who shouted for joy, and that the intervening years since then, in fact, are as naught. If there are those who are bold enough, who dare enough to let that be so, that the oneness with Him, that the oneness with the Father is now, and our age, our ailments do not matter. It's now.
If we need a little more logic, I offer this about the inexorability of the Alpha—the beginning, the known oneness with the Father—that the Alpha inexorably concludes in Omega, and that the Alpha and the Omega are one; and that the time in between is as naught. I want to speak a moment about the inexorability of the Omega, which would be what?—the fulfillment of the Prayer of Oneness, of the Father, the Son, and the Body. Martin spoke of this inexorability as the ending of the state of self-activity in humanity, which has been a temporal phenomenon while our solar system was moving through this particular part of the universe. A part wherein human beings could exercise self-active will. But that is inexorably and speedily coming to a conclusion, because it is a temporal and unsustainable blip in the history of this planet. The return to Omega, which is the Alpha of Oneness with the Father, and the glory of the Father is itself final and more real than anything else.
So, I want to conclude our time by again reading from John 17, one phrase in particular. As I read, I invite us all to hear this as if we’re each speaking this in the first person. “And now oh Father, glorify Thou me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” As I speak this again, hear “glorify Thou me” as it applies to each one of us. Would not His glory apply to each one of us, if in fact each one knew His glory before the world was? Thus, this is the invitation that the Master was leading us to accept, in the first person, the glory which “I” and “we” had with the Father before the world was. I’ll speak it again as if you were speaking along with me: “O Father, glorify Thou me”, glorify thou me, each of us, with the glory which I had with Thee, “with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” The hour has come for the Son, the expanded Son, to be glorified in the original glory of the oneness with the Father, so that the Body of the Son may glorify Him, “with the glory that I had with Thee,” every one of us, before time and in time—the glory we already knew. This is the truth of us, that in fact we already know oneness with the Father—in the glory we knew and know with Him, in the now, the Eternal Now—all intervening time, gone.
I didn't speak about what happens when we begin to fully dare to know this, and know this in the personal sense, not only in our meditations and prayers but in the world, in the flesh. Given our time, I'll only mention one important point. As the glory of the oneness with our KING, with the Father, truly descends into our body, into our flesh and mind and heart, we might expect that there is a cleansing process that comes with it; the cleansing of all that doesn't vibrate to that reality; all that was polarized in history and in time and in form. As the glory of the Father descends into this planet fully, yes, there's a cleansing, that comes to each of us personally, to us collectively, and in the world at large. What did Martin say about that? “Welcome, welcome cleansing!” There may be plenty of work to do as we recognize patterns of thought and feeling that do not fit with oneness with the Father. And how about when we notice those? How about something called “quick repentance”—not long repentance, we don't need that—quick repentance and quick adjustments; adjustments in our thinking and behavior, and particularly our willing love and forgiveness of one another.
In the last Temple of Light service, David Barnes spoke about his longing for the oneness of the Body, and he made some acknowledgements that he had made errors; [ greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/my-spirit-to-yours-dear-brother-dear.html ] and we accept those words he spoke as representative for every one of us. Have we not made some errors along the way? And would we not extend the spirit of full forgiveness to one another, for the known and present impurities, immaturities that each one of us have? I too have them. Perhaps you too? Could each of us, in truth, offer anything less than the forgiveness and openness to one another that our KING offered? Could we offer less than He did and be in integrity with His spirit? And ultimately be in integrity with our own deepest honorableness? Yes, she could have acted better; he could have acted better; but so could “I” have acted better. In these important days of the fulfillment of our KING's Prayer of Oneness—that must and will be—how about “I” let the Body of our LORD heal, because I forgive; and forgive, and forgive. Would this not be the greatest longing of our KING for His Body, implicit in His prayer for His Body?
Suzanne Core — Yujin, it truly was only yesterday that we heard His Voice as we walked together with Him in the Garden. And it was truly this hour that we heard His Voice again, through yours. What a pleasure and a blessing to be able to add my Voice to yours, to His. Surely we answer the questions you ask, in the affirmative. Surely we know, as we stand and sit here together, in this Zoom Room, in this hour—we know the truth, the truth makes us free, and we stand with God On High. Thank you Yujin, and thank you each one here now, for this precious, precious time.
David Barnes — Yujin, I would speak a word right now, and acknowledge the fulfillment that is present in this hour that we have shared with you. And being a point of fulfillment, it is also a point of initiation for a new movement in those of us who know each other as members of the Body of our KING on earth. And I'm taken back in the Great Story to that time when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, and there came from heaven a Voice saying, “This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” And then, further along in the Story, Jesus took Peter, James and John up the High Mount, and again a Voice from heaven spoke in fulfillment saying, “This is my Beloved Son,” but the final words were, “Hear ye Him.” And the representation of those three disciples is present in this room today—the John, James and Peter aspects of His Body are present here now. And your words are the words of the Son of the Father; and I acknowledge that, and I love that. This developing Body is the Body of the Son, and we can hear His words, the Father's words, saying, “I am well pleased with the way things have moved to this point of fulfillment.” And now something new opens, and I am so thankful for what you brought to fulfillment, and for what you have initiated of a new opening for and with us all, in this Living Body of the Son of God.
Yujin Pak — The Prayer of Oneness, the Prayer of Intercession for the world, is the prayer to restore oneness. And if in fact His will for us to be in oneness with Him is true, then perhaps He would like us to speak this sentence that I read earlier in the first person. Let us reread this one sentence as though it is His deepest desire that we read it this way, in the first person, each one of us.
“O Father, glorify Thou me, with Thine own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee, before the world was.”
Can you feel His pleasure, the pleasure of our KING, that His Body, knowing oneness with Him, can speak, could speak these words in the first person? “O Father, glorify Thou me, us, with the glory which I, we, had with Thee, before the world was.”
I want to conclude with these words by Uranda, from earlier: “I do not recall that ever in the whole history of man, God has undertaken to utilize the strongest or wisest or those with the most knowledge in furthering His cause on earth.” Well, that keeps us safe, doesn't it? Moses classified himself as being slow of speech and the Master called His disciples, His Body, from the humble walks of life. As we walk that humble walk, may we fully remember now, and accept oneness with Him, the oneness that always was, and is: the truth of ourselves with the Father; rejecting all self-doubt, all residue of shame, which really is not ours. It's the shame that humanity has known for these tens of thousands of years. Rejecting that shame, that separation, knowing that these are not our thoughts. Our thoughts are oneness with the Father. Thus, through our knowing the Prayer of Intercession for this world, we offer the invitation to those who can that they may return to their knowing of the One Truth, which is oneness and uprightness in God. Over to you Steve.
Steve Ventola — I think we need a devotion to finish our time. O LORD, as we've been stilled at Thy Door we remember, beyond belief, beyond any self-recriminations from the prince of this world; beyond any ache or pain, and move into a place that we know is true, and we hear these words today, “Glorify Thou Me; that I am in Thee—Thy Prayer of oneness. Our radiance together, the most valuable people on the face of the earth because we open to Thy Call and Thy Knowing. We give all thanks to be together in this way. We acknowledge each of us as part of One Body. As we say, “I am that One,” the Lord speaks in this day. The tone is sounded, the resurrecting power of Thy Nature restores all things new. In the Glory of Thy Name, we love and cherish this time now, and as we continue in each moment, now, as I am One. Aumen.
