Nothing That Defileth

Nothing  That  Defileth

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Uranda   July 15, 1954  Class

We come to the hour of our evening meditation, on July 15, 1954, in the Chapel on Sunrise Ranch. Tonight I should like to share with you a moment of meditation in line with our Class considerations of recent days, for we have been drawing nearer to a focalization of responsive realization which would make possible a sharing in God's creative activity on a larger scale. We remember that the Master mentioned that if we believed on Him, we would do the works which He did, and even greater works. We have not reached the point where we need to be concerned about the greater works yet, because we have not passed the first classification so far. But we have a goal, and a deep abiding desire to serve our KING and bring to fulfilment on earth that which He envisioned so long ago. And what were the works which He did? They were creative works—they were the expression of the Divine on earth. We have seen that goal, to some degree, for a long time or we would not be here, but I wonder if we could tonight see it in a different light, with a deeper, clearer vision.

The words which we use sometimes have a familiar sound, which suggests that we know their meaning, and we hear them and translate them into already established concepts and ideas—and that which could have been conveyed is not. In order to move effectively in this field we need to remember the sense of dedication which we have shared in times past. We need to remember so many things—not trying to dig them up and specifically think about them, but letting them be our Path. If the truth which you know, the truth which you have learned, is that which comes into vibratory play in your life in a moment such as this, your past is not made up of all the experiences you have had—the disappointments, the limitations, the ill things that you have experienced in some way—for when we come into pattern, if we let it be so, the past that has meaning is that which we have learned of Truth, and seen of Beauty, and realized in the companionship of Divine Life along the Way of Life. And to whatever degree we let that be the background of this moment, we find ourselves in the midst of a Garden. There is something of Beauty in the future. Just what, we may not fully comprehend. There is something of the Wonder of Being in this present moment which we now share. And there is the realization of the background of Reality.

There are two texts which I wish to bring to your thoughts in connection with this phase of meditation. First, the former things shall pass away. They shall not be remembered nor come into mind. The former things shall pass away. Now what are the former things? The things that existed for a little time in their distorted, disordered fashion; the things that did not belong; the things that were not of the Divine Design; that may not be in this present moment even. The former things shall pass away. They shall not be remembered nor come into mind.

What do we remember of the former days, the things that come under this classification of the “former things”? What of the things of Reality? Are they “former things”? No. For if the things which we experienced in the past were of Reality, the particular form of manifestation and experience may be past, but that is present in the now. It is something that is eternal. It is something that does not pass away. The things of God are not former things. They may have been made manifest in former days, but we have a contact with them now, because they relate to God, to Reality. The former things shall pass away. They shall not be remembered nor come into mind. Here we recognize that there is a definite pattern, wherein we may utilize deliberate processes of selectivity. We can determine on a deliberate basis the things which we accept of the former days, which shall be established in consciousness as having immediate relationship to us. The former things shall pass away. So many people remember all the ill things, as we have noted before. They remember the sufferings and miseries and sorrows, and they go over them time after time. They remember the former things and maintain their meaning arbitrarily, deliberately, instead of letting the former things pass away—to the end that they may not be remembered nor come into mind.

We have another text which I would bring to focus in this hour. It is this: remembering the setting—considering the pattern of the New Jerusalem, the new Spiritual Consciousness which comes down from God out of Heaven into the earth—and concerning this level of consciousness, this state of being, it is written “And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth or maketh a lie.” Now a lie is a form of manifestation, a form that is built without having within it the substance or quality of Truth. It may appear to be something for the moment, but it is hollow. The statement has to do with “making a lie.” Human beings may lie with their lips, but that is not the only way, because actions can lie, attitudes can lie. We can make all kinds of forms around us which are lies. Can we have true expressions of our beings which do not contain within them the substance of Truth? In actual fact, any idea which we may have, any pattern of action which we may have, which may be given form, if it is not a revelation of things that God has designed, is a lie. Human beings work to build these forms. They struggle and they try.

In this morning's Class we recognized that there is a womb. The service, From Womb Unto Womb, that I gave on February 25, 1954 [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/02/from-womb-unto-womb-urandas-47th.html] deals with the process of movement from one womb to another—from womb unto womb. We do have this movement from womb unto womb, birth or rebirth. We recognize that the ovum of your being, your heaven, your place of being, is at hand; and it is up to you to fertilize or to activate that ovum of your heaven. It is something which you and you alone can do, in your relationship with God. But if you try to do it without your relationship with God the Father, the ovum of heaven in the womb of Mother God will not be fertilized, and the form of your heaven will never go through the processes of gestation, and be born into the realm of form.

Human beings, realizing dimly or subconsciously, that they have not been able to fertilize the ovum of heaven, which relates to themselves on earth, have steadily gone about trying to produce something like what they think that heaven would be. They develop ideas about what they want to become, what they want to get, what they would deem to be desirable and pleasing, in the sense of environment. So they substitute some sort of workshop for the ovum in the womb of Mother God—and then they go to work to build with the work of their hands what they conceive to be necessary in their lives. They are going to shape it. They are going to make it. They are going to mold it one way or another. Ambition! Oh, such good ambition! Such great desires!

But there is reference made in the Book to a Temple not made with hands, that can grow and become real only as you allow the ovum of your heaven to be the point of conception, wherein you begin to have a part in the building of something not made with hands—the forming of heaven. “There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth or maketh a lie.” Human beings are so inclined to have their minds centered on what they think defiles or makes a lie, and they are so identified with these distortion factors of being, whether in themselves or in another, that they think that means that they cannot get in. “There shall in no wise enter into it, anything that defileth or maketh a lie.” And they say, “That means that I cannot get in; I am not pure enough; I need to grow some more; I need to do this and that, and then some day I will be able to get into this wonderful state, whatever it may be.”

Let me tell you something. I will let you in on a little secret. I do not care how many years you may spend, how much effort you may put forth making yourself acceptable unto God, you cannot experience the true purification, the true cleansing, until you enter in. For it is in the process of entering in that whatsoever defileth or maketh a lie is left out.

Human beings look at this statement and they say, “Oh, what a barrier!” or, “I do not know whether I will ever make it, for there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth or maketh a lie.” They think it shuts them out until some hereafter, but it does not. It is one of the most wonderful statements in the Bible, one of the most marvelous declarations with respect to opportunity in our lives, right here and now. For if you stop saying, “I cannot enter in”—and remember “There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth or maketh a lie—and you enter in, you so respond and function that you can enter in, then whatever there is in you that defileth or tends to make a lie will be squeezed out of you—if you enter in—and you will not have to try to push it out, shove it out, kick it out of yourself, dig it out of yourself, fight against it or any other such thing. For the statement is absolute, “There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth or maketh a lie.”

What about yourself? I doubt if you are completely satisfied with yourself as you are, or you would not be here tonight. But there begins to be a realization that the centering of your consciousness, the centering of your being, is not excluded from whatever it is we are to enter into, the ovum of heaven that is at hand, so that it can begin to take form, gestate and grow, and finally be born into the realm of form. If you wait until you are satisfied with yourself, so that you can present yourself before the Throne of God, when do you think you will get there? “Just as I am, I trust—not waiting to change myself; not waiting until I know all the things that I think I ought to know; not waiting until all the questions I can think of have been answered; not waiting until this or that or the other thing—not waiting at all. Just as I am, I trust.” The Lord does not ask you to wait. If you come before the Gate of the Palace and ask for admittance to come in before the Throne of God, will the messenger there say, “Well, now here, you have this shortcoming and that lack, and the other thing. You go back out into the world now.” And you change, you grow, you do this, you do that and the other thing, you fulfil these specifications; and when you come back, having accomplished all of this, he will let you in. No. God never says that to any man, woman or child. Just as I am, I come—for until you stop trying to improve yourself so that you will be, as you think, worthy, you will never get there. It is your own idea of trying to improve yourself that keeps you out—not the necessity of staying out, but the human idea of what you think you have to be.

Now, there is the statement, “And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth or maketh a lie.” That gives us hope; that gives us a basis of realizing that it is easy to let this process work out. For if we say, “I come Dear Lord, just as I am,” and we know that whatever there may be remaining that defileth or maketh a lie cannot get in, and we say, “I am going in”—then the I am of yourself is not identified with what cannot get in, but with what is already in, or can go in—and you walk through the door, you accept the invitation. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/if-world-can-help-it-no-leader-shall.html] Today is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. It is repeated in so many ways, over and over and over again—now—not waiting until some future time to come in. And what happens? The very fact that you go in, and you are not identified with what cannot go in—you start in, and whatever cannot go in is squeezed out or falls off, or is somehow gone. Perhaps you do not even know how it went or where; but as you come in, it is just simply pushed away, because it was not you—it never was you, it does not belong to you, it did not identify you, it did not characterize you—for you, in the true sense, you belong to God. But not the things that are hanging on to you that are not of God's Design—they will be cleansed away, purified, taken out of you. Of course you must be willing to let them go; for if, the moment you feel them being dislodged, you turn around and say, “Who is trying to pick my pockets? Here, I cannot let go of that.” Where is your response? To God, so that you will be drawn on in, or to the thing that is started to be squeezed out of you. Why not let it go? It is not you. If you think you must grab on to it, and you become disturbed because it is being squeezed out, what happens? You withdraw your response to that which would draw you in, and turn it to the thing that is being squeezed out of you.

Now in this process there is going to be some pressure. I never suggested any of you would get through it without some pressure. Of course there will be some pressure. What will you do under that pressure? To what will you respond? What will be your centering? If it is where it belongs, and you feel something being squeezed out of you, something being taken out of you—you are losing it, it is going—are you going to turn around and say, “Wait a minute, I had better examine that. I know Lord, I can trust you, but I would still like to know what you are taking out of me?” Just refuse, that is all; just refuse—a little cleansing of things that ought to have been left behind long ago, that do not belong to you. If you will trust the Lord, and keep your attention centered where it belongs, you will be drawn into the ovum of your heaven at hand, and there the cycle of gestation will begin. But it will not take form in a moment. And if, the minute you get into your little ovum in your heaven, you say, “Well I thought, well, this is not heaven. You know, I had heaven all pictured. I know what heaven is like. This certainly is not heaven. Somebody is fooling me.” And you wiggle back out again, because you do not find heaven just the way you think you ought to find it—already made, already finished, everything done. Your heaven will not take form until you share the forming of it, here or anywhere! You will never reach a ready-made heaven in this life, or after what we call death. You will never reach a ready-made heaven, where it is all finished and you do not have to do anything.

So the ovum of the heaven that is at hand will not immediately contain everything that you think your heaven should contain. It must go through the processes of gestation, growth, development, and finally birth into form. And even when the babe is born, it is not the full grown man or woman. It must still grow. For the moment the babe is born out of the womb of its mother, it is born into the womb of the home; and it gestates and grows for a while in the womb of the home, and then it is born out of that womb into the womb of the community—school and all the other cycles of training, beginning about six years of age—and out of that womb into another; and out of that womb into another. Be sure you have the idea, now. That which is born out of any womb must be born into another womb, where the next step in development takes place. You were not born from your mother’s womb, six feet tall and fully formed in proportion, but just a babe. And you had to grow in the womb, the home, school, community, and so on. Finally you reached physical maturity. But that leaves you with other maturities to be attained—and if not taken care of correctly, in the right womb, you will never become a full grown or mature man or woman.

Now, in the womb of your heaven—in the womb of Mother God there is your heaven which must be fertilized by your presence in it, not outside of it—in it. And when you have entered into the ovum of your heaven that is at hand, in that moment your heaven begins. And if you look around, and sorta smugly say “This surely is not heaven. I thought I was going to enter in. I thought it was going to be this way or that way, and the other way. This cannot be that wonderful something.” And the individual starts rejecting it and looking for some other place to go to. No. Having entered in, you abide, and you let it grow; and you let it take form; you let it be born—and in its birth it is the expression of your being. For just as there is a God Being that is the Center of your Identity in Truth—in relationship to your physical body, you are the God Being in the body of your heaven that surrounds you, for it is the expression of your being. You, God Being and human being in Oneness, become the Father of the body of your heaven. And it is the realm of the expression of your being, in relationship to your sharing in the creative processes by which something may become.

Now it is very simple, is it not? Your body, as a human being, is the place wherein your God Being has focalization, or dwells. But the place that is to surround you is to be your body of being which we call heaven; and you, in oneness with your God Being, are the father within that body—that body which we call heaven, the realm of the true expression of your being. For wherever God is, there heaven is, whether heaven has as yet taken full form or not. We are not looking for an already formed heaven, all complete, where we can settle back and say, “This is it. I will not have to do another thing. I have arrived in heaven.” Such a state would soon prove to be hell. How long would you like to have an opportunity to not do anything? Is there anyone here who would like to volunteer to not do anything for a week? Any of you here? You just do not want to do anything? If anyone wants to volunteer, I will put you to the test—we will even feed you. Well, if you can stick it out for a week without going crazy—you could not, you know, not do anything. You have got to do something if you are conscious. People say, “Well, I have not been doing anything.” Actually, they have you know. They were not speaking the truth. It may relatively have been accurate, but in actual fact, it was not the truth. If we did not have to do anything, if we did not have to think, if we did not have to work out any problem, if we did not have to face any challenge, if we did not have any responsibility, if everything was all done for you already, how soon would it be hell?

Any heaven into which we enter is one in which we must share the responsibility of giving it form, here or anywhere. So, there shall in no wise enter into it, anything that defileth or maketh a lie. There is your great opportunity. For all you have to do is go ahead and enter into it, and anything that defileth or maketh a lie will be squeezed out of you on the way in. It is just that simple and easy. You will not have to do it yourself. You will leave it behind. You leave behind a certain amount of refuse each day. Normally, it does not cause you any pain as it goes. That refuse that we should leave behind at any point along the way should be looked upon just the same way. Let it go, and you feel so much cleaner, so much lighter, so much more alive and vital and meaningful.

There shall in no wise enter into the ovum of your heaven that is at hand, anything that defileth or maketh a lie. But that ovum of your heaven at hand cannot be fertilized until you enter into it. And no one else on the face of the earth can fertilize it. No one else on the face of the earth can enter into it—you and you alone. So we might say, in relationship to it, that you are the sperm from Father God designated to fertilize that ovum in the body of Mother God. You and you alone can do it, and if you do not, it will not be done. No one else can do it for you. No one, here or anywhere—only you.

The former things shall pass away. They shall not be remembered nor come into mind. And when we begin to move into heaven at hand, we will not imagine that it should be this way or that way or some other way; but having entered into it, we share with God the work of giving it form, letting it gestate and develop and grow, until it shall appear. And when it appears, that is, when it is born, do you think that the job will be done then? I do not. Because the minute your heaven is born out from one womb, it will be born into another, and you will have something else to do, another cycle to go through. And just as the body grows in the womb of the mother through cellular division, cell after cell, cell after cell, each cell works out, in the same principle—there will be another cycle, another womb—from womb unto womb, even in heaven—never a point where you cease creating, never a point where you reach the absolute limit of that which can be done in relationship to your point in creation. No point of stagnation, no point of crystallization, no point where it is finished and done—for that which is finished and done must be buried. It does not belong to heaven.

And if you are identified with that which is of God, the centering of Being, and not with the things that must be done and must be acted upon, you will find it is very easy. And you will begin to realize that God does not require of you that which you have been trying to require of yourself. You have been setting something for yourself which God did not establish. You think you have to be something, do something, accomplish something, in such and such a way. God does not require of you all of the impossible things that you have been trying to require of yourself. You have made the way hard—not God. He has prepared an easy way. And those who think that the true spiritual life is a hard life do not know what they are talking about.

I have had people, here on Sunrise Ranch—in fact some back along the line who are within the sound of my voice now—who have come right out and flatly contradicted me to my face, and said they did not believe it. They think it is hard—and they are going to think it is hard, so hard! All right, it will be, as long as you think it is that way. It is not hard.

Do not contradict me with your lips,

or in your heart, or in your mind.

Listen to the Truth.

God does not require of you that which you have been attempting to require of yourself, which made it seem hard. God did not make it difficult. It is easy. And all of the things that you think beset you, that you will have to work out, the things that keep you from entering in or being what you ought to be—“I have this problem; I have that problem”—we do not have to have all the problems solved, and know all there is to be known or have all your questions answered, or any one of all these other things. It is so easy. It is so easy. It really is, if you will let it be. And then cycles begin to work. The law works. The automatic processes develop, and the whole thing unfolds. And you do not expect heaven to be a finished product when you arrive. As long as you expect heaven to be a finished product when you arrive, you will imagine that you must be a finished product in order to enter into heaven. But you cannot become a finished product except in heaven—and you will be a finished product only when you are born out of one womb, and you will land immediately in another—and you will not be a finished product.

Take it easy. Let it work, and stop trying to dictate to God how it shall be in you. Human beings have their reservations. “It is going to be like this. I require this, and that and the other thing. If it is not this way, I do not want it.” I have heard people say, “Well, if when I get to heaven, I do not find my dear dead mother there, just like I knew her, I do not want to go to heaven. If she is not there, I will go to hell.” And this wonderfully considerate son or daughter wants mother to be there, her little wizened self sitting in the arm chair rocking with a shawl over her shoulders, with all of her limitations. No. She will not be there like that anyway—human beings always establishing what they expect to find in heaven. And if they cannot see that they are going to get what they think they want there, they will go to hell—and they do. Concepts of all sorts barring the way.

And it is so easy—and it is now. You do not have to keep growing for another week or another six months or a year or two or three years. Of course you can postpone it for a while, and maybe get in a little later, if you think you are going to gain anything by staying out. But when you are out, you are not in, and what is not in is hell, because you are not where you ought to be. You can try to make it nice and comfortable and pleasing to yourself, and yet it will not be. You cannot produce a substitute for heaven that will satisfy you. Perhaps you ought to remember that. Try as you may, you cannot produce a substitute for heaven that will satisfy yourself. It cannot be done. So, we might as well enter in. We may as well do it now. If you just can’t—cannot be expected to do it tonight—tomorrow of course! And tomorrow you can say, “Tomorrow.” Each day, tomorrow. And how the tomorrows pass! When will it be?

God is ready. He has everything ready for you. He invites you to come, just as you are. And I suggest you meditate on that, and stop requiring of yourself what you think God is going to require of you before you enter in. For what is entering in, but movement into the ovum of your heaven at hand, where you can begin to share in the development of what is to be. But if you think to carry in the genes that would bring about congenital deformities in heaven, you are wrong. You cannot do it. You say, “Well, then, I am not ready yet, because I am sure I would not fertilize that egg just right.” Just go on in, and what does not belong will be left outside. It will not get in. There can in no wise enter in anything that defileth or maketh a lie. So let it be, now and forever.

 

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