Father God — Mother God
Uranda August 6, 1953
The heart is the instrument of the Father, the mind is the instrument of the Mother, and the body is the instrument of the Child, and the fulness of that which is revealed through the body and its capacities is the Spirit of the One Who Dwells. That One is the One who you are in reality. We recognize the application of this principle with respect to the whole—the body of responding ones in humanity are supposed to be formed into One Body of God on earth.
Our KING came on earth in the revelation of the Father, the centering of our Father. He revealed the basic essences and purposes of the Father Pattern. The next logical step would be to reveal the Mother Pattern. We must recognize the proper relationship of the Father principle and the Mother principle in God if we are going to have a relatedness to what we should mean when we say God—the One Who Dwells. So the development of the Mother God principle is the important thing in this step. How are you going to have the Child without the Mother? We have to see the Father principle of God and the Mother principle of God in reality, before we can begin to see the Child Principle. Unless the Child principle is manifesting in reality we are not going to have on earth what we ought to have in the creative expression of God on earth through man—man being restored to the point where he can share God's creative work, which is the important thing. But you are not going to have the Child restoration of the pattern work out until you have the Mother restoration of the principle work out.
In essence, the restoration of the Father principle has been taken care of, as far as the Master was concerned, and it is there. There is more we have to do about it, that is true, but we must come to the point of letting the Mother principle have meaning, before the Child principle can truly manifest. The Old Testament concept with respect to Jehovah was a distortion, but it was the reality of the Mother principle. What I am speaking of, using the term Jehovah is Mother God, not Father God. We need to realize that the manifestation of the Body of God must be in relationship to Mother God.
Father God principle will function in relationship to Mother God principle without being evident in form in an outer sense, because in the Inner and the Outer vibrational factors at work in relationship to the world in the creative processes, we have Father God invisible, Mother God visible. But we have not let Mother God have a Body, so Father God could not do anything about it. Until we let Mother God have a body, Father God, in the invisible cycle, cannot have any real meaning on earth to bring forth the Child, the reality of the creative fulfilment. Once we begin to let the Mother God principle have meaning—the Master revealed the reality of the Father God principle—we begin to be in position where heaven and earth can be One: union between Father God and Mother God in the sense of the Whole World Pattern. And then we begin to have the restoration from the standpoint of the Life factor, or the Child factor, in relationship to individual living or the living in the kingdoms of this world—the mineral kingdom, vegetable kingdom, animal kingdom, etc.
Our KING came on earth in the revelation of the Father, the centering of our Father. He revealed the basic essences and purposes of the Father Pattern. The next logical step would be to reveal the Mother Pattern. We must recognize the proper relationship of the Father principle and the Mother principle in God if we are going to have a relatedness to what we should mean when we say God—the One Who Dwells. So the development of the Mother God principle is the important thing in this step. How are you going to have the Child without the Mother? We have to see the Father principle of God and the Mother principle of God in reality, before we can begin to see the Child Principle. Unless the Child principle is manifesting in reality we are not going to have on earth what we ought to have in the creative expression of God on earth through man—man being restored to the point where he can share God's creative work, which is the important thing. But you are not going to have the Child restoration of the pattern work out until you have the Mother restoration of the principle work out.
In essence, the restoration of the Father principle has been taken care of, as far as the Master was concerned, and it is there. There is more we have to do about it, that is true, but we must come to the point of letting the Mother principle have meaning, before the Child principle can truly manifest. The Old Testament concept with respect to Jehovah was a distortion, but it was the reality of the Mother principle. What I am speaking of, using the term Jehovah is Mother God, not Father God. We need to realize that the manifestation of the Body of God must be in relationship to Mother God.
Father God principle will function in relationship to Mother God principle without being evident in form in an outer sense, because in the Inner and the Outer vibrational factors at work in relationship to the world in the creative processes, we have Father God invisible, Mother God visible. But we have not let Mother God have a Body, so Father God could not do anything about it. Until we let Mother God have a body, Father God, in the invisible cycle, cannot have any real meaning on earth to bring forth the Child, the reality of the creative fulfilment. Once we begin to let the Mother God principle have meaning—the Master revealed the reality of the Father God principle—we begin to be in position where heaven and earth can be One: union between Father God and Mother God in the sense of the Whole World Pattern. And then we begin to have the restoration from the standpoint of the Life factor, or the Child factor, in relationship to individual living or the living in the kingdoms of this world—the mineral kingdom, vegetable kingdom, animal kingdom, etc.
Father and Mother Aspects of God
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Uranda April 25, 1954
We come to the evening hour of meditation on this 25th day of April 1954 let us begin tonight with a moment of Devotion. Our loving Heavenly Father, as we have received so abundantly of Thy Love, we would learn to Love Thee more fully, more truly, that we may share with Thee the fulfilment of Thy Divine aspirations for the children of Thy Family here on earth, that we may yield to the working of Thy spirit in thought and word and deed, considering ever the measure of Thy Love which we are privileged to exhibit on earth, watching in all things the extent of heavenly beauty which we may reveal through the expression of Thy Truth on earth, and considering the degree to which in our living we are privileged to reveal Thy Glory to the children of men, that we may let the light so shine before those whose lives we touch that they may sense a dedication to Thee, our Father, and a devotion to Thy Business here on earth, that all who will may become acquainted with our Father's Business. We would in all these things remember ever our Family Name, the Name of our Father, that we may honor the Family Name and bring joy to the heart of our Father in Heaven, that Thy Kingdom may come, Thy control may be exerted in the daily affairs of Thy children, and that the form of our affairs in their manifestation may reveal Thy control, Thy dominion, Thy Kingdom, to the end that it may become known upon earth to all the children of men that our Father's Business is the greatest business in the world, the most far-reaching, the most important, the most beneficial, the most profitable business in all the world; that Thy Business, our Father's Business, may be seen as including all peoples and all circumstances, all conditions; for there is nothing on earth which is not Thy Business, either in the revelation of that which is Thy Will in earth or in the correction of those things which ought not to be. We would now let Thy Hallowed Name center the Family Spirit in this world in the places where we live and serve, in all we think and say and do, until we ourselves shall clearly realize and help others to come to know that Thine is indeed the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Aum-en.
To whatever degree we may realize tonight the reality of God's Love, we know that it is not adequate to the fulfilment of that to which our Father's children are called. The sense of love in the home, as such homes are established by human beings here on earth, generally speaking has a centering in the mother. In a true home it is present in relationship to the father. He gives character, strength and reality to that love, a sense of security, and yet, when we think of love in the home we think of the mother. Soon we shall come to that day that is set apart as Mother's Day. Once again that day is not far-distant.
When we think of God and His love, when we think of our Father, of seeking to love God, to be true children of God, there is subconsciously a sense of something missing, something incomplete, something not fulfilled; for, whether you ever consciously meditated upon the point or not, there is inherent in the longing, in the searching, in the seeking to find fulfilment in relationship to God a feeling that we should somehow come to know Mother God—the Mother aspect of God.
The Father aspect of God has been emphasized over and over again, and that is well; but if in the world we have known the situation that arises in what is called a motherless home, where the father seeks to be father and mother, we may admire, in some instances at least, the spirit, the determination, the desire on the part of the father to make a home, but generally speaking it is not a very successful venture, and unless the father can in such a case find a woman who will be a true mother to his children and make a home, the pattern gives a sense of something incomplete.
There are millions and tens of millions of people upon the face of the earth who seek sincerely and earnestly to serve God the Father, to know His love and to love Him, and in that relationship much has been expressed concerning God's Son. But in the pattern as it has been known in recent centuries there is something that has been conspicuous by its absence: the thought of Mother God or the Mother aspect of God. To some degree, for some in the Christian world, this need has been at least partly met by the concept of the Mother of the Son of God, meaning Mary. But the ideas that have been advanced in this regard, while they have seemed helpful to some, have not, from the standpoint of the basic need in the world, whether consciously or subconsciously recognized, provided for a sense of relatedness to the Mother aspect of Deity. There have in recent times been certain ideas touching on this theme, and some have spoken of Mother God, thinking to fill this need in human hearts, and yet the situation as we find it in the world clearly shows that none of these attempts to find a means of satisfying this longing in the human heart have been adequate. None of them have really solved the problem.
Tonight in meditation let us approach the question that arises from a little different standpoint. First, we have here that which is called the Word of God; the portrayal as it is given does not emphasize the Mother aspect of Deity. The question might arise as to why Father God is emphasized in the portrayal in both the Old and the New Testaments. But this that is absent leaves us with a deep, a poignant longing for that something which would complete the sense of family relationships, the pattern of being which logically should appear. Why?
By reason of that which is expressed, certain things are offered to our consciousness. Could it be that something else is offered to our consciousness by that which is not expressed, in so many words, in the recorded expression of the Word of God? What could be conveyed to us by that which is not expressed? First, it appears to me that if this particular aspect of the Heavenly Family Pattern were sufficiently revealed to modify this longing in our hearts there would of necessity tend, in this fallen state, to develop in man an even greater lethargy, a degree of self-satisfaction unwarranted by the facts. We see the results of the situation as it is in the fact that many millions who think of themselves as being Christians do not think of this world, this earth, as being home.
They say, “We are but pilgrims here.” And they think of going home as meaning going to heaven when they die. They do not think of this world as being home. In fact the idea that this could be home before some great cataclysmic change is virtually foreign to the consciousness of most of those who call themselves Christians. After a thousand years, after everyone is dead, after this and that and the other thing, after God recreates, then yes, but now no. It is postponed to some far-distant future time. The sense of missing the Mother aspect of Being tends to emphasize this idea that our home is not here, and yet our Father indicated that the home for man, mankind, men and women, is on earth.
God created man to be on earth, not to be somewhere else. And God created man, mankind, in His own image, after His likeness, male and female created He them. This would suggest that from God's standpoint the Mother aspect of Deity is not absent but is established; for mankind, created in the image and likeness of God, is clearly established on the basis of male and female, the potential of Father and Mother. And this appears in the image and likeness of God; so there must be, in the Divine Design, not only the Father aspect of Deity but the Mother aspect of Deity. If we see this and accept it as a starting point, we see emphasized this point that not having a consciousness of the Mother aspect of Deity has tended to keep us from becoming more self-satisfied, more lethargic than we have been. It has been something prodding, something unsatisfactory inside. Whether it ever came up to the level of consciousness so that you thought about it or not, there was something, a constant nagging something deep inside, which perhaps you did not identify but which in actual fact has to do with this situation in which we miss so much the Mother aspect of Deity in the Family Pattern under the Fatherhood of God. All human beings miss and long for the Mother aspect of Deity. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/qualities-of-mother-and-bride-anne.html]
Now if we were to attempt to fill this place of Mother on a more or less arbitrary basis, as others have done, the net result would be that while the home might seem to be somewhat improved in some respects, we would still have a sense of stepmother instead of Mother. Can we, the children, fill the place? Or must this place be filled by the Father? How can we begin to become aware of Mother? We have given much thought to the process of becoming aware of Father. How shall we become aware of Mother?
Have you not, perhaps in the evening, in the cool of the day, felt an unspeakable restlessness, something missing, and perhaps you said, “I need to develop a closer relationship with Father God.” And that is true. Part of that may very well be a sense of a need for a closer walk with Father God. Very often there comes a time in the teens when the boy or the girl senses a need for a closer relationship with the earthly father. Many times the distortions in the behavior patterns of teenagers appear because this need is sensed but the teenager does not know how to establish a closer relationship with father, and probably on his side, in many instances at least, the earthly father feels just as inadequate and uncertain as to procedure as the teenager does. The father, the earthly father, many times feels the sense of his children growing away from him, a sense that he has not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father as he would like to have done. And so this that is sensed, and yet in human families so often unfulfilled, is something that correlates in the pattern in our relationship to God the Father. But even so, for the young person, coming home in the evening to the house, to the home, to find that mother is not there—perhaps father is, but mother is not there—there will be a peculiar sense of, what? Do you know what I mean? If mother is not there, somehow it just isn't home. Perhaps a place to eat, some food perhaps, after a fashion at least, maybe a can of beans, but a place to get something to eat. Perhaps after a while a place to sleep. But the sense of home is missing, and this same feeling, in a little different pattern, correlates with a certain phase of the emptiness that human beings feel in their experience here on earth.
What of Mother God? Where has She gone? Where is She?
Why do we know so little about Mother God?
We miss Her so.
We feel a sense of needing Her.
Now after human beings have passed the teen age and have gone out to establish homes of their own, so that they become in turn parents, a little different situation arises. Most like to know that mother or grandmother is at home and all right, but there begins to be a sense of having home, assuming that the marriage is successful, that it is not wholly dependent upon one's own mother.
In my own personal experience I know something of these things, because I was a boy of twelve when my earthly mother left this sphere of things, and finally I learned to have a fulness of life, shall we say, where there was not the consciousness of missing her so much. In my case, there was always the conviction in my heart that I would not have called her back if I could have done so, if it would have been necessary for her to live under the conditions she had known. That always modified my attitude, because I would not have wished her to be alive again under the circumstances in which she had lived. But nevertheless, a so-called home without a mother leaves much to be desired, and when we think of Father God and think of ourselves as being children of God, and think of this earth as home, we have a sense that the situation leaves much to be desired, no matter how good our Father is.
We, His children, especially if we are not yet mature, have a very keen sense of missing Mother. What can we learn out of this? What blessing can appear? Surely it is not a question without an answer. Could it be that this very situation can have beneficial results by driving us (for it seems that most of us must be driven) to a pattern of seeking and searching wherein we may come to understand and know? I suppose all of us have some memories of mother that are particularly sweet, but in the consciousness of some human beings, for instance, if the earthly mother left the pattern of life at the birth of the child, there is no memory of mother; perhaps of another mother, but no memory of the mother that gave birth to the babe that became the man or the woman.
The memory of man, mankind, the body of humanity, goes back six or seven thousand years. You know what we call history is simply mankind's memory of his own experience. Mankind has never died. Cells have come into this body of humanity, cells have gone out of it, as cells change in your own physical body day by day, but man, meaning mankind, has never died. Individual cells in the body of mankind have come and gone, but this body of humanity has never died. It came close to it a few times, according to history, but it did not die.
Now there is a fear that perhaps mankind is coming to his end under a rain of atomic or hydrogen bombs. I don't think so. The body of mankind may be hurt by such things, but the body of mankind is not going to die, at least not that way. But my point for the moment is this: Mankind, the body of humanity, has a memory going back just a few years, just a few years, only six or seven thousand years, and from the standpoint of the body of mankind, that is not long. It may seem to be long to the cell which the human being is in that body, but to the body of mankind, six or seven thousand years is just a little while.
To the child, a person seventy or eighty years old seems to be very old. That person can remember back fifty years ago, and the young person tries to imagine that, shakes his head and thinks, “What would it be like to remember back fifty years? That was just the turn of the century—automobiles just beginning to have meaning,” etc., etc. “Fifty years. I can't imagine what that would be like, it is so long.” But to the person who can remember back fifty years, is that so long? Oh no, not so long. Just a little while. And the same principle carries over in relationship to the body of humanity.
Six or seven thousand years?—just a little while. And yet, what is the situation here? Suppose you had lived six or seven years since becoming a victim of amnesia and you simply could not recall anything back beyond six or seven years—all gone, all wiped out. You can remember back six or seven years but nothing back of that. You cannot remember your childhood home, you cannot remember your mother, you cannot remember your father, though somebody has told you a little bit about your father. You never saw him. You can't remember, but you have learned a little bit about your father. But mother, no one seems to know about mother. It is blank. This is the state of the body of mankind for those six or seven years, back in the period of amnesia. Is there six or seven thousand years back to the beginning of history?
And man, mankind, says to himself, “I have been told a little bit about Father. I don't really know Him, I can't really remember Him, but they say He is like this and they say He is like that. Yes, they say He is still living, but I have never seen Him. I would like to visit Father sometime if I could, but they tell me the only way I can do that is to die, and I don't want to die, so I'll wait awhile. I will just go on what they tell me about Father. But Mother? No one seems to know about Mother. My childhood? I don't know. I can't remember.”
And yet there is this sense of something missing: the need to know about Mother, the Mother aspect of God, whatever that would be. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-spirit-of-truth-is-spirit-of-mother.html] The ideas that have been projected, they really don't satisfy—little trinkets the children have picked up and tried to make meaningful, make-believe. “This reminds me of my mother.” But what of the real drive here? What of the situation as it relates to ourselves? What can we learn about Mother? Why do we know so little about Her? Is Mother God dead? No, that could not be. Is someone ashamed of Mother? No, not at all. Why do we know so little about Mother? Here is what seems to be a mystery, but there is no true or real mystery in it. We can begin to know and understand, and we can begin to find Mother. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/let-her-alone_16.html] But we will have to leave that for another hour of meditation.
