First I wish to touch very briefly on what we could properly call the Key to the Life of Victory in the Divine Pattern, the fulfilment toward which you are all looking and toward which you are moving. It would be well for you to remember this Key and meditate upon it, especially if there be times of stress in the pattern of the outworking of your lives. The words will mean no more than your realization permits them to mean in your own consciousness, and they may be expressed like this:
Let the Will of the Father be done
Under the Direction of the Son
Through the Power of the Holy Ghost
In the days to come we will give these words further meditation together, but in them you now have an opportunity for extensive meditation yourselves, and to the degree that you can abide in the attitude indicated by these words, you will be moving forward effectively.
Let the Will of the Father be done
Under the Direction of the Son
Through the Power of the Holy Ghost
Our gracious and loving Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the privilege of gathering in Thy Name in a realization of Thy All-enfolding Love, by which we remain centered while the beautiful Patterns of Truth become the controlling factors in the Expression of Life through body and mind and heart, that with all of our beings and all of our strength, with uttermost devotion, we may love and serve Thee and let Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven; for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever, in the Christ. Aum-en.
As our Master came near to the concluding hours of His ministry on earth He made a very significant statement: “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” Last weekend we had the privilege of a very effective cycle of services, sharing in the outworking of the Spirit of God in our lives, and I wonder how many of you found that after the increased manifestation of the current working through you there was a tendency to feel pressures and perhaps a sense of depression, something of a sense of a load after that, in the early part of the week. I think most of you, if not all, who had any real perception of the increased current, felt something of that pressure that appeared.
Long ago I pointed out whenever there is an increased manifestation of Divine Power because we have moved upward along the Way, there will tend to be pressures, or backwash, from out of the world because of the reality of increased radiation. We cannot move forward, in the sense of letting the Power of God be released into the world, without having some reaction out of the world. When that reaction out of the world comes back to us, when those pressures come back, if there remains in the individual, in the ghost of his being, that subconscious realm of the mind and heart, those things that are of the world, then this backwash, this reactionary pressure from out of the world, will connect up in the individual with that which is not yet what it ought to be and there will be a tendency to have a reaction. There will be a tendency for whatever there is of the ill things remaining to come out.
The Master said, “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” He recognized that, while there had been various cycles of reaction from out of the world during the period of His ministry, the full force of that ministry was coming to its climax and the backwash from out of the world would be appearing. It was near at hand. We remember how, according to the story, He began to meet that reactionary vibration of the world in Gethsemane. If it had not been true, as He had said earlier, that the prince of this world could find nothing in Him, the backwash, the reactionary currents from out of the world, would have destroyed Him in that hour in Gethsemane. The meaningfulness of that hour is something that we might well meditate upon, but before we do we need to recognize certain principles in relationship to ourselves.
As you individually let go to the outworking of the cycle that was released through this past weekend, something was established in you which was moving, and should still be moving, toward a cleansing of that subconscious realm. To whatever degree you actually let go at that time, the reality of that cleansing has begun. When there is the reality of radiation, of the working of the power of the Holy Ghost through you, it tends to dispel, to cleanse out from you, those things that do not belong to you and are not a part of your reality. However, that radiation going on out into the world produces a reaction in the world consciousness and there is a returning cycle. As you remain centered, fully obedient to the One Law according to the two commandments, that backwash cannot upset you, even though the coming of the prince of this world may reveal something in you that belongs to the prince of this world, something that is not of the Divine Origin. If you allow yourselves to be controlled by these ill things that remain in you and get connected up in the world pattern, you spoil the outworking of the cycle and by such function deny God, betray His trust, and put yourself in a position where you have to go through the process all over again. The complete process is not, generally speaking, completed in one operation. Cycles of outworking take place.
Let us meditate upon the things that have to be cleared in the individual before he can come to that point where he may share in true realization the Master's statement: “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” We have in recent services considered the nature of this subconscious realm, not just the surface aspects of the subconscious, with which the conscious mind is more or less familiar, but beneath the surface, the subterranean aspects of mind and heart. This that has been built through human self-activity, environmental influence, things projected into the subconscious by the mass consciousness, etc., may be called the unholy ghost in the individual. We are supposed to reach a point where we let the Holy Ghost abide in us and work through us, and it is only by reason of the Holy Ghost in us that we have the privilege of sharing on earth the expression of God's power. As long as there is anything which divides this sub-ghost aspect of being from the Father, the power of God cannot be made manifest in reality through the individual.
In a recent service I touched upon the two extremes in relationship to that which we speak of as death insofar as the result to the ghost is concerned—the extreme, on the one hand, where the ghost had not come to any attunement with the Father and so dissipated, and the other extreme where there was such an attunement and the ghost ascended to the Father. I did not enlarge on it at that time, but it is obvious that there is a middle section, which perhaps may be said to be the larger of the three. We will briefly touch upon this particular aspect in order to help you to understand something that is essential to our immediate realization.
If the individual has lived a good life, not necessarily a religious life, but if the individual has let something of that nobility and fineness of character which comes from God—and it comes from no other source—find some expression in life, then even though that individual is not particularly aware of the reality of an individual God Being, and even though he may be more or less agnostic—not atheistic but agnostic—if he has allowed that which is of God to find expression through him in nobility of character, honesty, integrity, etc., there is an attunement of the ghost with the Father, but the ghost does not know or understand the relationship. The ghost after it leaves the body does not know any more than it knew in the body. If there is a break between the ghost and the Father, the ghost dissipates sooner or later. It might continue, under some conditions, for many years. If there is a connection because of that nobility, or suppose the individual was religious and spiritual according to the general world pattern and undertook to live a good life but carried it to the extreme, suppose this individual belonged to a church that believed there was not anything to leave the body at death except the air that he was breathing, that there was no soul to leave the body—and there are certain religions that believe that, that all you are is just a body with a mind, and everything goes into the ground—suppose that individual, believing that, had a love for God someplace far away, obscure to the mind but a definiteness of love, goodness, etc., but there was a denial of personal relationship with a Divine Source, no presence of a Divine something within, no recognition of anything that did not die at the time of death, that ghost, upon leaving the body at death, would have the same ideas, because, remember, your conscious mind cannot remember anything. It is the realm where you do your thinking on the basis of logic and reason, but there are only two places from which any thought can come into the conscious mind; one, on the basis of direct current of inspiration from the Lord, or Father, which most human beings don't know anything about, and the other is the subconscious realm. You separate the conscious mind from the subconscious and it can have awareness only of that which it sees at the moment. It cannot remember anything whatsoever, and while it can think in relationship to that which is perceived at the moment, there is nothing for it to fall back upon.
So, broadly speaking, the expression which appears through the individual mind is that which comes up through the subconscious. The subconscious, or the subconscious ghost, or the subconscious aspect of the ghost—for the conscious and subconscious minds are the primary elements of the ghost, which ceases to be a being when it is separated from the Father consciousness—is the realm where there are receptive points to that which is already contained in the subconscious mind. If we project, by study and learning, certain knowledge, certain ideas into the subconscious mind, then there is an orientation point there in the subconscious mind, even though we may say we have forgotten, which gives a connecting link with vibrational factors of the same kind which may be present elsewhere. If that which is in the subconsciousness is good, right knowledge, then it takes up with like vibrational factors in the subconscious minds of others in the mass consciousness and there is a contact point in the individual which gives him a sense of relatedness to these things. If nothing has been projected into the individual's subconsciousness with respect to something, he has absolutely no sense of relatedness to it until something with respect to that subject has been projected into his subconsciousness. The individual sense of relatedness to other things depends upon what is in the subconscious realm of his own heart and mind. If the things that are there are things that ought not to be there—there are plenty of things in the mass consciousness and in the vibrational pattern of others which ought not to be there—that which ought not to be in the individual provides a sense of relatedness with that which ought not to be in the mass consciousness, and under pressure the individual is inclined to react on the basis of these evil spirits of his own ghost aspect of being, and he becomes subject to that. He denies, by his attitude and action, his centering in God. He says all kinds of things that in any rational moment he knows are utterly false. He becomes irrational under the current of these evil spirits in himself which have a relatedness to all kinds of evil spirits, ill attitudes, etc., in the mass consciousness.
When a process of cleansing begins by the working of the power of God, or the Holy Ghost, these things begin to get dislodged. They are like leeches in there, but they begin to get dislodged and they begin to stir up and come to the surface. If the mind is in the habit of becoming subject to that which comes out of the subconscious realm, immediately rational function ceases and the reactionary currents from out of the world appear, the prince of this world cometh and findeth something of himself in the individual, and the individual functions on a basis that is utterly contrary to that which he knows to be the truth.
The guardian angel, the conscious mind, must reach a point where it is not subject to the subconscious aspect, where it stays centered in the Father, so that it is a manifestation of the Son, or the mind that was in Christ Jesus. Then, when something starts boiling and bubbling from the subconscious realm to be cleansed away, the conscious mind is not taken over by the subconscious vibrational pattern. The conscious mind stays centered because it is anchored in the Father. Then, although there is something in the individual which belongs to the prince of this world, the individual does not allow his centering in the Father to be lost and that which is coming out is cast out. If, however, the conscious mind gives way on an emotional reaction of some kind, so that the irrational expression of the subconscious realm takes control, then the prince of this world not only finds something in the individual but reestablishes his control over the individual and anchors his leeches that much more solidly in the individual's sub-ghost, and he has to begin the process of cleansing all over again.
We remember the text in Ecclesiastes 12:6 — “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.” Here we have the elements clearly portrayed in relationship to the whole being of man. The silver cord relates to the seven seals, the endocrine system, as we have already pointed out; but that relates in the direct sense to the subconscious mind. Of course a part of the endocrine system has direct relationship to the conscious mind, but in the primary sense the silver cord is the instrument of connection between the Father and the sub-ghost in the individual. Out of the trunk, or stem, of the manifestation of the silver cord in the individual, innumerable rootlets spread in the expression of life from the subconscious realm, or what we might call the body of form of this subconscious aspect of being in heart and mind. Because the emotional current is working through the silver cord in all respects, where it is actually functioning in any ordinary sense, there is that which establishes vibrational contact points. If the individual has some possession, any article which he loves, is very fond of, he develops a sentimental sense of value, and then we see that some rootlet of the silver cord extends to that object. The individual is connected up with it. It has a part of his life force. A rootlet out of this stem connects up with all of those things to which you respond.
Over and over again I have emphasized to you that, “According to your response, so be it unto you.” A rootlet of the silver cord working through the subconscious realm connects up with anything—an idea, any of the evil spirits of the heart, greed, selfishness, self-centeredness, or any object or any person. When you respond to something below you, you are connecting up the very center of your life force with that thing and becoming subject to it. Response to that which is below you, response to that which is not of God in your own subconscious realm, makes you subject to such things, and the mind is in the habit of giving way and turning expression and function over to the subconscious mind instead of holding steady and being the guardian angel.
This might in some respects be best illustrated by the solar plexus, in the physical sense, and that more or less centers this subconscious realm in your own being, as far as that is concerned. Here in the solar plexus you have nerve ganglia, with the expression of the nervous system running out to many parts of the body. That body mass that we are calling the subconscious is a mass actually, not in the same sense as nerve tissue or ganglia or brain substance, but it still has form. To the degree of response, that sends out a rootlet that connects up with that to which the individual responds. However there are rootlets which appear on another basis, on the basis of controlled command. The uncontrolled expression of the individual life results in that which we see out in the world, where these rootlets are distributed indiscriminately. The individual connects up with all sorts of things, feeds his life force into them, becomes subject to them, degenerates and decays, instead of responding one-pointedly to God through the Father. We will consider this controlled expression at a later time, but remember that there is a controlled expression of the rootlets of the silver cord which can extend out on the basis of command, not because you are responding to something out here but because, by the Will of the Father, under the Direction of the Son, in the Power of the Holy Ghost, a connection is made through which the power may flow to do something. There is an interesting key, but do not try to speculate on it too much. We will get to a consideration of that in due season.
The important thing at the moment is this: Remember how at the time of the fall Adam and Eve went and hid themselves; their first reaction was a sense of shame. The Lord God, who came walking in the Garden in the cool of the day, here reveals the Father consciousness. Adam and Eve reveal the conscious and subconscious aspects of being—Eve the subconscious, Adam the conscious. The Adam consciousness is supposed to be subject to the Father, not to the Eve consciousness, but the Eve consciousness saw that the forbidden fruit was good to make one wise and she did eat, not under the control of the Adam consciousness but self-actively, and she gave to Adam, the conscious mind in any individual, in you, in every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. The Eve consciousness, the subconscious realm that we are talking about, gave to the Adam consciousness and he did eat. And immediately what happened? They were ashamed and they went and hid themselves and took fig leaves to cover their nakedness.
Then the Lord God came walking in the cool of the day, calling to them, and they did not answer at first. Of course there was not a complete break yet in the vibrational pattern, but they went and hid themselves and they were ashamed, and they just talked to the Lord at a distance at first. When the Lord God came walking, instead of acknowledging their error, Eve blamed the serpent, Adam blamed Eve, and they did not face up to the issue honestly. God gave them three separate opportunities to face up to the issue but they refused. If they had responded then, the effect of the fall could have been nullified then. But they didn't. So all these thousands of years of suffering! That story of the fall is a revelation of the fundamental principles about which we have been talking in the past few services.
Notice that the moment there was disobedience, the first reaction on the part of Adam and Eve was a sense of shame, and the sense of shame penetrated deeper and became a more permanent thing from the standpoint of the subconscious than the conscious—of Eve than of Adam. It is in the subconscious realm that there is memory. If the individual does something which he conceives to be wrong—whether it is wrong or not is beside the point; it may not have been wrong at all but he thought it was wrong according to his mental idea and what had been established in his subconscious realm—and does not really clear it out by repentance and response to God, he covers it up, as the subconscious mind is quick to do. That which it does not like it buries a little bit deeper, gets it away as far as it can in the depths of itself. The moment there is a guilt complex in the subconscious realm, regardless of what the conscious mind thinks, the subconscious mind turns its face away from God and will not look up to Him, no matter what you do. The guilt complex in the subconscious mind keeps it from acknowledging the Father, keeps it from receiving anything from the Father. It is convinced in itself that it is guilty and it is filled with a sense of shame; so it is bowed down and refuses—because there is no logic or reason in it, remember—to receive anything from the Father because it does not think it is worthy, because it is ashamed.
You begin to see, then, that as long as there is a guilt complex in the subconscious mind it is utterly impossible for that individual to come into a state of oneness with the Father. The individual cannot of himself clear that guilt complex. He must repent and receive forgiveness in a manner which allows the consciousness of that forgiveness to penetrate into the subconscious mind. Then, when the guilt complex is cleared away, the subconscious realm is no longer ashamed before the Lord but is ready to stand naked and unashamed before the Lord. Then it will look up. The subconscious realm is connected to the Father by means of the silver cord. If the subconscious realm, having a guilt complex and therefore a sense of shame, is separated in consciousness from the Father, there is no way by which anything from the Father can reach it. It shuts itself off. It cannot forgive itself; it cannot remove its own guilt complex. It shuts itself off from the Father. The current from the Father is supposed to reach the level of the conscious mind from two directions: a positive and negative pole working through the conscious mind, one, you may say, direct from the Father and the other indirectly from the Father, through the subconscious mind and back to the conscious mind. That which the Father would impress on the conscious mind, by reason of inspiration, must have a body of form, a starting point within the range of that which the individual knows in his subconscious realm, if this direct current of inspiration is going to have meaning. In other words from above, from the Father, direct to the conscious mind, there is an impulse conveying some idea. Unless there is response in the subconscious realm which allows that which will provide the body for this thought that is being projected, the projected thought never gets into the conscious mind. If the subconscious realm is ashamed before the Lord, it will not let anything come out of itself to rise up.
There must be a starting point. We have to move from the known to the unknown. The starting point of the idea has to be in the subconscious realm. If there is the projection from the Father to the point of the conscious mind and the subconscious responds, some idea that has relationship to that which is being projected is drawn to the surface and comes into the realm of thinking—the pitcher at the fountain, the wheel at the cistern—and something begins to move. You begin to think in the realm of logic and reason. The inspired thought is in itself logical and reasonable. Projected into the realm of logic and reason, the element of control is established, something arises out of the subconscious realm to give body to it, and then it becomes a thought in the mind. Then meditation upon it allows an expansion of vision and understanding, related ideas begin to appear, and a current of Divine Inspiration flows. But as long as the subconscious realm has that guilt complex and is ashamed before the Lord, it will not let any idea arise out of itself in response to that which is projected by the Father; that which is projected by the Father in radiation, or inspiration, does not connect up. It remains meaningless and the individual exists as if he did not have any connection with the Father, controlled by the subconscious realm and its fears and its shames, subconsciously related to the ill vibrations in the world that relate to the ill things in itself. Until the individual allows the guilt complex to be removed—we do not have to figure it all out—and until the sense of shame has vanished, he cannot be a true instrument for the expression of the Will of the Father under the Direction of the Son, by the Power of the Holy Ghost. Until the unholy ghost has been cleansed, so that it becomes, through the working of the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost abiding in you, you cannot be a means by which God's Will is done on earth as it is in heaven.
Here you have a little glimpse of the machinery by which these things work out. The human being tends to resist, just as Adam and Eve did. He tends to resist acknowledging in a forthright manner his wrong. He tends to resist doing anything toward correcting it, making restitution. As long as the individual has the guilt complex and the sense of shame, so that the face of the subconscious realm is turned away from the Father and refuses to listen to the Father or be obedient to the Will of the Father or respond to the Direction of the Son, it is connected up, through the ill factors in itself, with all of the corresponding ill factors in the prince of this world, and the currents from out of the world control. The individual may build what he feels to be a good philosophy of life and may try to live a good life, but in actual fact he is subject to the prince of this world, regardless of his efforts to be good, and he is disconnected.
When the ghost comes to the point of death, subject to the guilt complex and the sense of shame, there is no hope for it, because the ghost cannot learn anything after it leaves the body, except as it is responsive to that which radiates from the Father. In such a case as we have just described there would not be an immediate separation of the ghost from the Father. There would still be something of that silver cord connecting, at least as far as the ghost and the Father are concerned, but it will rapidly shrivel and be broken, and the ghost will be cast loose, ultimately to dissipate. And that ghost is what the human being thinks he is. It is what he is talking about when he says “I”—his mind, his consciousness, to the depths of his being.
On the other hand, if even at the last—and we must not necessarily postpone it to the last minute—the individual genuinely repents and seeks forgiveness and lets the guilt complex be cast out and the sense of shame washed away, the ghost leaves the body, yes, but it is then looking up. It does not know anything about the Father; it is an ignorant thing; and yet it is connected up and it is looking up, and it begins to respond. Gradually the cycle opens and that ghost eventually ascends unto the Father, because the sense of shame has been wiped out. Remember that the ghost that is disconnected from the silver cord cannot learn anything. The moment the silver cord is severed from the ghost it ceases to be a being. It becomes merely a focalization of thought form which sooner or later will pass away. It may act as a parasite here or there, and such things are very often contacted in spiritualistic seances, and whatever they knew during life they can say over and over to the medium. You can contact such thought forms and get out of them what they knew before, but they cannot learn anything. They are not beings or entities but mere focalizations of thought form that sooner or later are going to dissipate and pass away.
In this middle class we see that although the individual does not have a consciousness of the God Being, or even of the fact of the ghost in himself, if at the moment of death he has allowed the sense of cleansing, forgiveness, freedom from shame, to be a reality, then gradually that ghost can be brought into focalization and ascend. That takes care, in very brief outline, of this middle classification. While that may take ten years, twenty-five, whatever more or less, what is the use of that? Oh it is better than nothing, I grant you, but if we are allowing the silver cord from the Father to the subconscious realm to be meaningful during life, so that the subconscious realm has been cleansed and there is no sense of shame controlling there, the subconscious mind is open to the Father, its face is turned toward the Father, and then out of it come those things, rising up to the current of inspiration, that come to focus in the realm of the conscious mind, and the individual begins to know the Will of the Father. He begins to speak the Word of the Father, perhaps stumblingly at first, while the machinery is getting into operation, but it begins to work. Then he begins to find that the power of God is a reality, that the wisdom of God, the understanding of God, the knowledge of the cosmos, can find focus in his being according to the need and the response.
Just as the radiation from the Father to the conscious mind cannot make any impression or accomplish anything in the individual except as there is response out of the subconscious realm, just so does the Word of the Father flowing through my lips, reaching out to you, remain meaningless to a great extent until the reality of response to it appears, until something rises up inside of yourselves. As long as there is resistance, holding back, a lethargic attitude, it is shutting off the release, because this expression manifests according to exactly the same laws and principles of outworking in any individual.
It has been my blessed and holy privilege to help individuals go through these processes of cleansing many times, cycles and cycles moving forward. You have all experienced it to some degree, but there could have been a greater cleansing through this recent cycle of release than there was, because in the subconscious realm to too great a degree the guilt complex, with a consequent sense of shame, is still controlling. The subconscious realm is still turning its face away from the Lord, maybe daring to take a quick glance over its shoulder once in a while but refusing to open itself to the Lord and be at His mercy. It says, “Oh, I'm guilty and I'm afraid the Lord will destroy me; I mustn't look at Him,” and it is a cringing, cowardly thing in your belly!
Only because you have progressed is it possible for me to convey these things or the things that we have considered in the recent services. It is not because I didn't want to give it sooner but because you wouldn't let me give it sooner. I have been waiting for years. You have been gradually allowing a focalization of consciousness to appear which would permit its expression, so that you could begin to see. Now, seeing and understanding something of the principles that are involved in relationship to yourselves, you have the opportunity of taking an honest inventory, of really repenting. What is it the Master said? “Repent, and be baptized”—with Fire and the Holy Ghost; the Fire of God's Love, in the Power of the Holy Ghost. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” But until there is repentance, and the guilt complex removed and the sense of shame banished away, the individual cannot, by any maneuverings whatsoever, by any effort whatsoever, find entrance into that kingdom.
I trust that you have gained a greater vision of this, because that is the thing that happened at the time of the fall of man. You see it portrayed in the story there. It is revealed over and over again in the Book, and I have talked to you about it hundreds of times, in hundreds of different ways, as much as your response would permit. You must be willing to trust the Lord and throw yourself on His mercy, so that you repent enough to take the attitude, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” When the individual throws himself on God's mercy he is actually, if he does it truly, overwhelmed with a sense of guilt, and he says, “Oh, I know the Lord loves me, but my guilt is so great I would not blame Him if He just destroyed me.” It cannot be just the working of a few thoughts in the mind. It must be a genuine, penetrating thing, that reaches into the depths of being.
When there is that genuine repentance, so that the sense of shame can be banished, and the mind centers on the Father and does not respond to anything of the prince of this world in himself, the Power of the Holy Ghost can cleanse out the putrid mess that does not belong there. And when it comes to the surface it will be repulsive. I have seen stark terror in the eyes of those being cleansed, and there is just one thing holding them—love response to God. There was horror at the realization that such things were in themselves, coming to the surface. But if the attitude of the individual is the same as if he had a boil, and he lets the putrid core gush out and does not claim it as his own, does not snatch it and try to push it back into himself, there is a way of freedom for himself. However, if he starts identifying himself with the putrid stuff that starts to gush out of himself, and says, “This is me,” the cleansing is reversed and the mess goes back down inside.
The individual has to reach a point of polarity where he lets that which does not belong in the subconscious realm come out and be cast out without identifying himself with it, even though it may seem for the moment that he is going to be nothing when the job is done. Then he will realize for the first time, in an absolute sense, that without God he is nothing—there are those within the sound of my voice who can testify to the truth of that. He may have intellectually accepted it for a long time but in that moment he comes face to face with the truth of it, that only in God can he be anything. With the sense of shame cleansed away the subconsciousness turns its face, tear-streaked and perhaps trembling, to the Father, throws itself on His mercy and refuses to be subject to anything coming out of itself or anything that has been related to itself out in the world.
There, facing the throne, in the subconscious realm the individual becomes open to the Father. The silver cord begins to have meaning, not just in a physical sense but in a mental sense—with the whole mind; the conscious mind and the subconscious mind—and in the heart. The silver cord begins to have meaning in the whole body, and the Will of the Father, under the Direction of the Son, by the Power of the Holy Ghost, begins to be done on earth as it is in heaven. As long as you hold back anything as a reservation, saying, “Lord, I will let you come thus far but in this I will not yield,” you cannot know what it is to enter the Kingdom of Heaven that is at hand.
These laws and principles are absolute. They are not subject to questioning of the human mind or human opinion or concept. It does not make any difference what anyone thinks or does not think, they are absolute, and we either conform to the laws according to the principles that you have been learning for years in the Third Sacred School or else! We see that out of the goodness that there is in the world the vast majority of those who die, because they repent at the last moment, do reach a point where the ghost, in some phase or portion of it at least, does ascend to the Father. But then it is too late for that fact to have any meaning on earth. It is here on earth while we live that this thing is supposed to work out in our bodies, so that our bodies can be a means of God's action on earth here and now, releasing His power into the world.
The ghost without the body, even though it ascends, has lost its opportunity of service on earth. And it is not in heaven that there is a need for the changing of things; it is here. Except as we allow this to take place while we live on earth, we deny the reason for our living and betray the trust of God. Only as we share the Victory through the Spirit of the Living Christ can our lives have any true meaning on earth. The goodness of the human being does not let God's Will be done on earth. It is only when we allow the cycle to complete, so that the Holy Ghost abiding in us permits the Will of the Father to be done on earth, under the Direction of the Son, through the Power of the Holy Ghost, that the silver cord has meaning in all phases of life and the golden bowl is a reality and the pitcher at the fountain has meaning, and we have something besides stagnant, putrid water in the cistern of the subconscious mind. The wheel at the cistern is the machinery of thinking. If all it can touch is the stagnant, putrid water of the subconscious mind it cannot produce life in the true sense. Only when the pitcher at the fountain, the inspiration of the spirit direct from the Father, direct to the level of the conscious mind, has a relationship to that which comes up out of the subconscious mind, so that there is a meeting point in the conscious mind, can the inspiration be meaningful. Only then can the individual keep clear from a thousand and one irrational concepts and ideas which so many begin to develop when they start along what they conceive to be a spiritual path, because they are not truly responsive to the Father, but they have certain ideas about the Father. They draw out of their own putrid cistern certain ideas, and rationalization sets in, the ego begins to satisfy itself, and a concept develops which actually has no relationship to the truth. Very often these concepts stand in the way of any true fulfilment. Yet the individual will swear, “The Father revealed that to me,” and it is not so. There may be some aspects of truth in it but it is not the revelation of the truth.
Let the Will of the Father be done in your Earth
Under the Direction of the Son
Through the Power of the Holy Ghost
Here and Now
So shall you live
So shall you begin to know what it means to share in the Victory of the Living Christ
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the holy privilege we have of yielding to Thee, that we may be with one accord forgiven of all those things which have been contrary to Thee in this Thy Unit Body on earth, that repenting and yielding and being forgiven, the former things may pass away until they shall not be remembered nor come into mind. “For, behold, I create all things new.”
Turning back to the darkness and the fleshpots of Egypt prevents fulfilment. Once the individual goes through the process of clearing, he must forget as rapidly as possible the ill things of the past. He must not let his mind dwell upon them. He must deliberately let his mind turn attention away from them, else they shall return and his state shall be seven times worse than it was before. Once there is the cleansing, once there is the purification, so that the yielded soul turns its face, naked and unashamed, with a true sense of its nothingness, to the Father, the former things must be allowed to pass away. They must not be remembered nor allowed to come into mind. Otherwise the space essential to the creation of new things is reoccupied by the old.
“Behold, I create all things new. Let the former things pass away.” Only as there is true repentance, which allows the clearing of every guilt complex and every sense of shame, can the subconscious mind of your being be persuaded to turn its face to the Father, that the Will of the Father may be done on earth as it is in heaven. Let the former things pass away. They shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Center on the things of God and remember: Behold, I create all things new.
O Father, I thank Thee that it is so, and I thank Thee for Thy blessing upon those gathered and upon all the responding ones everywhere, that all who turn to Thee in Spirit and in Truth may know the reality of the cleansing power of the Holy Ghost, and that each one may let Thy Will be done on earth, under the Direction of the Son, and by the Power of the Holy Ghost to Thy Glory and to the blessing of all who will receive; for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Aum-en.
Peace be unto you
as you
Let the Will of the Father be done on Earth
Under the Direction of the Son
Through the Power of the Holy Ghost
Peace be unto you
It has been a Holy Joy to share this hour with you. As you abide in the spirit of this hour you can let wonderful things work out in yourselves, but only obedience to the Law, to love God first, can keep your minds so centered that the Victory of the mind that was in Christ Jesus may be established over the subconscious ghost of your own being. Otherwise that which rises up from within your own subconscious realm will take control and you will deny and betray the Father and spoil the pattern. Remain true and centered, that you may live and not die. Let the Victory be real, that it may have meaning here on earth. That victory that allows a bare slipping by at the moment of death is a poor and puny thing. Let us live on earth to the Glory of God and the Blessing of our brother man.
In the stillness of the human mind you begin to recognize and realize the meaning of the words, “The Lord is in his Holy Temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.” “Be still, and know that I AM God.” In quietness of spirit, abiding centered, we can let the cleansing take place so easily and swiftly. It must be real, but the Lord loves to make it as painless as possible. Only those who trust and stay centered can know what it is to be made every whit whole by the healing power of God working in body and mind and heart, to the depths of one's being. In stillness before the Lord we begin to know Him as He is. God bless you.
In our meditation last Thursday evening—Thanksgiving evening—we came to the point where we were ready to begin consideration of some of the factors essential to the fulfillment suggested by our questions. This point of healing, as you recall, had to do with the processes of restoration, the point that was composed by a question was, “Why the positive expression of the Divine has not been allowed to more effectively manifest in the world as a whole”—with particular reference to us here on Sunrise Ranch. Tonight I would like to share with you a meditation on some practical applications of the principles involved. If you will remember our meditations of Thanksgiving Day, as well as those that have gone before, I feel that we can tonight properly make some practical applications in this particular field, so this will be a little different from our usual pattern of service.
As you recall the principle, you recognize that before woman can be healed she must begin to so function that she can help make it possible for man to be healed, and then her healing will follow. And that is true here on Sunrise Ranch, and the particular application here comes first in the sphere of the women’s activities. We have been working for long while to achieve a program where the vibratory pattern in the sphere of the women's activities should be what it ought to be. There has been, in the overall sense, some very definite progress. One of the factors involved in preparation for clearing these things we are considering tonight was established in relationship to Lillian, and her handling of the focalization of the ladies activities, over the last considerable period of time, to some degree; or in one way and another, more recently in an overall sense, in vibratory field for you while I was away, in order to work out as nearly as possible the correct vibratory pattern, which would make it possible to deal with these things. You will recognize that preparation to this end was in progress long before we left for the Northwest, and every service we have shared since our return has had one definite aim—the general expression of that which is of the principles of reality, yes; but, to establish a pattern that would permit us to do something here on Sunrise Ranch—so all of these Services, and particularly the last two, have been designed to prepare the way for that which we are considering this evening.
Now we recognize that there has been progress in the kitchen, for instance. I might mention different ones as having played a part. I think one of the outstanding contributions to an improvement in the vibratory factors in the kitchen in a practical sense has come about through Edna, and her sharing of the work there. But some have entered into this vibratory pattern, more effectively than others. But first recognize that in the kitchen the problems of every individual on the Ranch come to focus, every difficulty in the sense of health for instance, and becomes more or less a clearing center for the whole vibratory field. Practically every difficulty that is encountered on the place that has any individual characteristics begins to have some kind of influence in the kitchen. And in the kitchen we have two primary functions: (1) preparing food; and (2) eating it. You might say there is a third primary function: (3) cleaning up after you have eaten.
But let us consider the dietary factors first. There have been a good many misunderstandings and problems in this field. If we had money enough and facilities enough, and help enough, we could perhaps undertake to provide a dietary regime more or less patterned after the individual tastes of everyone here—if we tripled our food expenditure and had more help, and had larger facilities, we could be more considerate of individual tastes. There has been quite a tendency among some to be a bit on the arbitrary side with respect to dietary tastes, likes and dislikes. Now, for myself the dietary pattern as we have been having it, is not what I would personally prefer, and yet even though I have the remnants of a physical condition which forced me to give a little consideration to dietary factors, generally speaking I find something in the meal to eat, even if it is just milk and toast, without being too concerned about getting something else. And I think generally speaking that has been the idea, or the desire—to find something in the dietary pattern as it is that would make it pleasingly possible to eat with pleasure and enjoyment. I think in the overall sense there has been, by and large, a real appreciation of the food. There is a great deal of care and consideration goes into its planning and preparation; and we have been spending, more, from the standpoint of our income, on food, than we ought to, in one sense. I have allowed it to continue because I appreciate very much the fact that dietary limitations tend to complicate things. And I am not bringing this up because I expect to increase dietary limitations, but because more and more the pattern tends to become complicated.
It is in the field of the ladies work, and yet this includes all of us who eat on Sunrise Ranch. And it appears that there has been developing an increasing tendency to complications, for instance with respect to those who feel that they cannot eat meat. It was with my approval, in fact suggestion, that we get a little more meat into the diet because, for some strange reason, the number of chickens we have are not producing very many eggs, and even though our one hundred hens are only producing sixteen eggs a day, there seem to be quite a few people who would like to have special consideration of having an egg. Well now, if you can go up and talk to the chickens, and persuade them to lay the eggs—but the point is we don’t have them, and I am using this as an illustration. There are some babies on the place, and they take first precedence in the matter. And so we have the problem of what shall we have in our diet.
Now I am quite sure that if we arranged to have the dietary pattern follow my taste, some of you would not be too happy about it—but I haven't undertaken to have the dietary pattern follow my taste. We have undertaken not to follow any one individual’s taste but to come as near as we could, with the funds available, and the facilities and help we have, in providing good wholesome food for everyone—and yet these individual characteristic vibrations tend to emphasize themselves more or less. Now there may be some cases where that is justified. I could very easily emphasize the point in relationship to myself, and I think it could be argued that that would be justified. Then we would have a different dietetic programme. Very different. The point is, we have a limitation from the standpoint of the money that is available to spend for food. We have spent more than we should have from the standpoint of a balanced budget. We have limitation of facilities, and sometimes some people are not very thoughtful about, well, crowding in, in connection with our limited facilities, and we have limited help. From the standpoint of the work generally, I would like to take Edna and Millie out of the kitchen entirely. I can't, because who is there to do the work? Some have tended to object to kitchen work. It seems that there is quite a tendency to try to evade it, or get out of it in some fashion, as if it were not important work. Sometimes there is a slap-dash method in it—jam, rush, which is very bad. All the kitchen work needs to be done on a relaxed vibration.
Now, we need to come to the realization that until the kitchen work is right—the ladies work in connection with the food—we can never accomplish what we are here for. From the standpoint of the ladies there is not anything on Sunrise Ranch, or on the face of the earth, more important than right function in the kitchen. Without right function in the kitchen our whole program will collapse. To whatever degree your function in relationship to the kitchen has helped promote the right pattern in it, you have been rendering a real service to God and to man. To whatever degree you have resisted correct function in the kitchen, to whatever degree you may have complicated it, you are hindering the accomplishment of that for which we are all here.
I don’t know how to put it in words to convey more effectively the fact that the kitchen work is the most important work on the place—bar none—with the possible exception, if you want to make an exception, of my own personal work. But my personal work is impossible without the kitchen—if I have to stop and cook my own food for instance. I can’t carry on without some food—none of us can. The kitchen work is more important than the work of the servers giving attunements There isn’t anythingon Sunrise Ranch, or in relationship to our Program, that is more important than the kitchen work—nothing, absolutely nothing! It stands equal at least with my own work. It is one of the most effective ways by which you can serve, and we work against ourselves with unnecessary difficulty and limitation as long as the Kitchen Program is not what it ought to be.
The responsibility of the kitchen work rests primarily with the ladies. I understand some of the men have been helping to some decree, and that is good; whenever they can I think they should. But we can do all of the other things out here, in field, in shop or in office, including my own office, and have it all come to absolutely nothing, if the Kitchen Program, the Ladies Program in relationship to food, is not allowed to come absolutely clear. There is nothing more important than this, insofar as you are concerned. It is important that servers give attunements, it is important that various things be done, but you ladies who have a part in the kitchen have the priceless privilege of doing the most important thing there is to be done in our field of activity.
There has been evasion, there has been holding back, there has been all kinds of pushing and pulling and reactions in connection with the kitchen, and every attitude of that kind is maintaining the separation between Heaven and Earth, every attitude of that kind is hindering the fulfillment of our Program. Every lady here should count it an honor and a privilege—a Sacred Privilege and a High Honor—to be able to do something constructive in the kitchen. I do not care what we do in other fields, vibrationally or otherwise, our whole Program is on sinking sand comparatively speaking, it is uncertain, until we have the Kitchen Core what it should be—and to whatever degree you have helped it become a solid, stable, blessed thing, you have been serving God; and to whatever degree you have hindered it you have been serving the devil. And we should face it, and recognize it. And with regard to the question that was posed: Why this separation between Heaven and Earth? Why this failure? You know I have wondered if it was finally going to come to the point where I personally would have to go into the kitchen myself, in order to clear this pattern—and if it doesn’t, I will. There is absolutely no excuse for it, and I shouldn't have to. But there is nothing in any kind of writing, in any kind of work around the place, office work, or anything that any of you can do—and I bar none—more important than the kitchen—preparing food, serving it, and washing dishes.
There has been a tendency to have a vibratory pattern in relationship to washing dishes that has been absolutely abominable. To carry that current of hell right into the heart of our Program is a terrible thing, and that is what it is. If I must, I will come up and set an example. I can cook. I have done a great deal of it. I can come up and I can serve the tables if I must. I can wash dishes if I must, but it is not supposed to be my job. I do not hesitate to do it because it is beneath me, not at all, but because I think that is your job. I can do your job. Can you do mine? There has been, apparently, a feeling that it was, well, somehow kind of low to work in the kitchen, something to be objected to. As long as that idea of the devil and satan is maintained in any mind here there is something contrary to the Divine Pattern at work, right at the heart of our Program. It is honorable, and there isn’t anything that is higher or better for any of you.
Why do I say that? Because until the Kitchen Pattern clears we cannot, on Sunrise Ranch, have the real manifestation of the union of Heaven and Earth. I don't care what else we do, or how we do it, it cannot be achieved somewhere else first. The beginning of its manifestation, from the standpoint of our whole Program, must be there—it cannot come anywhere else first. Individuals may perhaps, in a sense, touch it, but until that oneness of Heaven and Earth is established in the Ladies Field in the kitchen, in relationship to the food we eat, it will not appear anywhere else, no matter what any of the rest of us may do. You have the opportunity of establishing it first, the Core of it, the center of it, the current of the Life Line—and I would say, if any lady here is too good to work in the kitchen she is too good to live on Sunrise Ranch, definitely; and if any lady is going to work in the kitchen, it must be in the pattern of the application of the Laws and Principles for which we stand. It cannot be any other way.
The Laws and Principles of Reality—and a recognition, as that function becomes what it ought to be, that it can begin the healing of the gulf between the intellectual idea and the functional application. I have touched on this subject before, but I never succeeded in having my words penetrate. They have been ignored. Various ones have acted as if I had never said a word, as if what I said meant nothing, or as if I did not know what I was talking about. I have never talked to you in any service or any meditation period about any subject more vital, than this: that we let the Kingdom of God come in our kitchen, for if we refuse to do so it will not come anywhere else in any real sense, in any adequate sense. The vibratory pattern of our whole Ministry centers there. You may say, “Well it centers in a higher sense, in a larger sense, in these services we hold here in the Chapel.” All right, we have it here, in what we might call the intellectual sense, and the spiritual sense, and so on. But here it does not reach into the functional field. From here it needs to be carried out and applied. It has to reach home in the doing of the task of whatever is at hand to do. And we need to realize, whatever else may be true, that until you ladies start to make a Home for the KING in the kitchen, we will not have any real Home for Him anywhere else.
How many times have you heard it said, especially in what we might call the old fashioned home, we live in the kitchen—the kitchen, the place where there is a sense of hominess, of life, the place where any home where the Home Spirit reaches its apex. I ask you, is there any place in any home where the Home Spirit can reach a higher point than in the kitchen? No. In the dining room, you say. Oh no, no, no, no—in the kitchen! The center of the home is in the kitchen, any home, including our KING’s Home on Earth. And our functional pattern here cannot clear, until this is taken care of.
Now we have a New Year coming up, the Lord has provided various facilities which an expansion programme is possible, and right from the beginning in that New Year we have a heavy current of activity opening up. This next month is going to be a busy one for me, getting ready for the New Year, and that which it is to bring forth. There are a number of things yet to be brought forth in this twelfth month in the year 1953—a number of things, and we need to be ready for 1954. We have just a little over a month. This is the 28th Day of November, the evening time, and just a little over a month until 1954 will be with us. And you know, I do not feel that I am in any sense arbitrary when I say that I expect this Unit to be ready when the New Year comes—and a measure of that readiness will appear in the kitchen. Anything else you may say, or do, or try, to give evidence of serving or accomplishing something, it will all be measured against the kitchen and what you do there—as far as you ladies are concerned, and to quite a degree as far as you men are concerned, because you have to eat there, and that is where you find the centering of the home vibrational pattern.
We either come there and add to that which provides the very core of our functional application of the Law, or detract from it. Ordinarily we eat at least three times a day, and that is all right. We have to take care of the physical food. But in connection with the physical food, there is the mental food, there is the emotional food, and if the attitude is not right in mind and heart with respect to the physical food, mind and heart starve, and the body is poisoned, because the vibration that is carried into the kitchen, whether in the preparation of food, serving it, eating it, or washing dishes, will determine the vibrational pattern of our whole Program.
What I do here in these services comes to naught, to whatever degree the Kitchen Pattern does not function harmoniously to the Laws of God. I have seen tendencies to throw away what we had accomplished here, because it was not carried over. You gather here and listen to me talk to you, we share these meditations, and I am here at least four times a week—and I thank God that your interest brings you here, and that you find joy in it—but it is only to the degree that we carry it over into the field of application that it has any meaning, and the center of application is in the kitchen, for men and women and children.
Now I am going to illustrate just a little bit, about another field, to show you how important this is. As the cycles have worked out it has so developed that Fred and Elsie would carry the primary responsibility of taking care of my children while Kathy and I must be away in the Ministry. If they were not there to do that I couldn’t go and Minister, nor could Kathy. In the ordinary pattern of things we can't possibly conceive of a more important job on the place, than that job to which they are assigned. It is one of high trust, and it makes possible my going into the field. If that provision were not there in an adequate sense I just could not do it. But, consider again, as they have shown their willingness and ability to take over that responsibility in my home—if the right food isn't provided for my children, their ministry on my behalf, so that I can minister out there becomes nothing. In other words, it ties right back again to the kitchen, and I do not care how diligently Lillian and the others who work with her work in the sense of planning the meals, within the scope of our budget, how carefully they buy, or prepare, or cook, unless the right vibratory factors are established in the kitchen and maintained there, the food is poison. The wrong vibrational pattern in an individual can poison even the best food, and the right vibrational pattern can make wholesome the most simple food. Now it might be that some of you would like to meditate on the possibility of accepting a different vibratory pattern, one that I would choose instead of one that you choose yourselves, because you know you have been choosing the dietary pattern yourselves—it is not something that I chose, not something that Lillian chose, you can't blame her—it is the dietary pattern that you have chosen for the application of the funds we have. If that is to be changed it is up to you. I can't arbitrarily change it.
I have worked to establish changes in our kitchen since we first had a kitchen here in 1945—eight years—and that has not been achieved yet. Well, actually the Kitchen Pattern has been a holdout resistance pattern, the place where I couldn't never trust to hold steady and be what it ought to be. It came nearer being that during Convention periods this year, and the pattern has held to some degree. Some of you have really applied yourselves to make it so, and carried the Spirit of Reality into it. But you know, within the pattern of patience there is a point where patience ceases to be a virtue, and that point is getting very, very close.
You have available to you through Lillian—Lorraine is helping her now, Edna; Millie has done some good work in the kitchen; mommy, and so on. By the way I have it told to me that Betty is one of the best workers and non-complainers on the place; she does her job sweetly and efficiently. I believe Marjorie has done some good work in baking bread, and we could go on. I could name various ones, the good things you have done. It came back to me that Nadine had helped to set a better vibratory pattern in relationship to washing dishes.
The point is, I recognize the things that you have brought and the things you have done. I am not depreciating the service you have rendered, but I am pointing out that we cannot begin to have the Reality of the Pattern here on Sunrise Ranch, the manifestation of supply, the solidity of the Core that will stand against the reactionary pressures that may appear, something that can be depended on and carried through, until we have the right Kitchen Pattern. Yes, I know about the good things, but I have to face the facts as they are. It isn't enough. Why the gulf between?—that Why? that we were considering on Thanksgiving Day. It comes down to this in the functional field, and what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about it? It is here that we either succeed or fail.
I have set the course, the vibratory pattern has been opened for great achievements in the year that is ahead of us, and there are many hungry and thirsty ones waiting for it. It will depend on what you do in the kitchen as to whether it is a success or not. My success or failure in the field depends on what you do in the kitchen right here on Sunrise Ranch, and if you do not do your job correctly, and in the right spirit and attitude, then how can I ask anyone, anywhere to do anything in the right pattern and attitude. You make a mockery of that which I am asking others to do—until we have it in the kitchen right here—because until you have it in the kitchen you are sending out the vibratory message that we are not backing Uranda up—don't pay any attention to what he says—it is all right up here in the intellectual field, but don't try to apply it; don’t let it have any meaning in your lives; go on to hell. No!
Our services are important, but the measure of their importance shows up in the kitchen, individually and collectively. I come here and hold a service for you, and I go down to the kitchen and watch your function there—whether coming in to eat, or to prepare, or wash dishes, or what have you—I watch you, whether you know it or not. And there I see the measure of meaning that you have found in what I have said, not anywhere else, because what you do somewhere else cannot rise above what you do in the kitchen—never! What I do out here cannot rise above what you do in the kitchen, and if that is true of me it certainly is true of you. The value, the meaning of what you do anywhere else, cannot rise above what you do in the kitchen, to make that core of our Home Pattern meaningful. And the point where Heaven-Home begins to really mean something is where? in the kitchen! So whatever it may be, there it is.
Now there are a thousand and one individual problems that have tended to arise. I don't intend to try to solve those problems. I don't intend to give any specific instruction as to how they shall be solved, except that it shall be there, with respect to the whole. Some have been trying to shift part of the load over on to someone else, and it won't work, it will not work. Individually you will have to do your part in the functional field. If the Chapel is Holy to you, so must the kitchen be. If our services in the Chapel are meaningful to you, so must our service in the kitchen be. Whatever else we may do, it comes back to that—for unless someone serves in the kitchen, I can’t serve, nor can anyone else, anywhere. And those of you who are serving in the kitchen have a share with everything that is done in the Lord's service on Earth—everything I do, everything anyone else does, in the Lord's service—in the field or wherever you may turn. It is vital, and you set the level of your own meaning in the kitchen.
As your function in the kitchen is correct, I can consider you in relationship to other things where you may be qualified, if you are not needed in the kitchen, if we can work it out so that you can be released for that field. But those who do not function effectively in the kitchen, when they are needed there, have absolutely no consideration with respect to anything that they may want to do. They do a job there, and they can give meaning to something else; they refuse to do a job there, and they can’t give meaning to something else; they refuse to do a job there and they can't give meaning to anything—they just become an nonentity, a problem. Your function in the kitchen determines as to whether you are a problem or not, as far as I am concerned. And the vibratory factors that are established in relationship to our food—preparing it, serving it, or eating it—are of utmost importance, and anything that spoils the vibration in the kitchen is a sacrilege. As we begin to realize these things, you can begin to understand the meaning of these verses we were considering the other evening.
“And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou has done this, thou are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.” The mind cannot rise out of the dust, no matter how intellectual you think you are, how brilliant you may think you are, or anything else—you can't get your belly out of the dust except as you begin to let the Kingdom of God come into the kitchen. For the aspirations of the mind, or the spirit, the aspirations of the heart, mean utterly nothing unless they come to point in the functional field of the kitchen—utterly nothing.
There has been a tendency to see how little time one could put in in the kitchen, and to me it has been a shame unto us here on Sunrise Ranch. Everything else that you do ought to hinge around what you can do properly in the kitchen. The kitchen should not shift and turn about other activities; other activities are supposed to revolve around the kitchen. And if you try to make your activity revolve around something else, so that you ask the Kitchen Pattern to change and shift and turn about because you want something else to be center, it will never work—never will. It never has, never will.
We come to the point where we realize that the kitchen is the place where Heaven and Earth can first become One. It is the center of all of our activities, including mine, because my work comes to naught unless it has meaningful manifestation in the kitchen. That is why we have come along so slowly, because you ladies were not willing to let my work have more meaning—just to put it bluntly. You wanted to have it some other way. All right, we have had eight years of it. Isn’t that enough? The ninth year, the year of bringing forth is before us, in the sense of our locality here. My point is, then, that the aspirations of the mind, of the spirit, of the heart, turn out to be a mockery, a myth, unless they are given form in the kitchen—the centering of Home—and wrong patterns there will maintain wrong patterns in the world. The women wonder why there are wars, and conflicts, and one thing and another. If half the ladies who function in the kitchen in the United States were to overnight change the pattern away from increasing hell to increasing Heaven, the whole world would feel the effect almost overnight. And whether you like it or not, that is the way it is. Whether you want it that way or not, that is the way it is; and we will either do it God's Way or it won't be done—and that is God's Way.
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” It shall bruise thy head. Why? What is it? And thou shalt bruise his heel. “Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Well now, most women have done their best to take the attitude that he shall not rule over me, and in some instances I can understand the attitude—so it takes development both with the male and the female—but the point is, until this is accepted in the Pattern of Reality, the curse cannot be removed. “Because thou hast harkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life.”
To eat of the ground. Now, that which comes to it's highest fulfillment in the kitchen starts in the ground, in man's works—whether it is in the garden, or field, or with stock, milk cows, or beef cattle, or what have you. That which starts in the ground, in the field of man's work, finally comes to the point of it's highest consummation in the kitchen, where that which has been resurrected thus far becomes a part of the body of man. The ladies in the kitchen are working with the final part of the process, this process that begins with man's work in the field.
And God said unto man, “In sorrow thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life.” Now that does not mean that woman has to increase man's sorrow in the kitchen. Man has difficulties enough getting it out of the ground, and getting it as far as the kitchen. But look—number the activities round about us—what man does depends on his ability to have food, in the first place. Take the food away from the men a day or two or three, and see how much we would be getting done. Go on a fast, though we would not be doing much work during that fast—but all of these tasks out here—you could be building a building, digging a ditch, putting in a pipe line, ploughing the field, planting, whatever. Every phase of our activities has absolutely no meaning except as it relates to the kitchen, and every bit of it comes to point in the kitchen—the food that is grown, everything. If we make a door and hang it here in the Chapel—if we stop having the right pattern of outworking in the kitchen, pretty soon there are no people on Sunrise Ranch, the place begins to fall to pieces, the door swings in the wind, and there is nothing. I do not care what we do, I do not care what lectures I make, what services I may hold, what truths I may portray, it has no meaning except as it is backed up in the kitchen. You are the ones who determine how much my work shall mean in the world—in the kitchen. There is not any higher calling. You have it in your hands—success or failure, what shall it be?
In the cycle of our endeavors, everything comes to point in the kitchen, and if we partake of the food in the right spirit and attitude, food that has been prepared in the right pattern, we begin to have meaning on Earth. If you ladies can work together in the kitchen, and do a job, and have it what it ought to be, then I have this comfort—The Pattern of the One Woman on Earth can come to fulfillment. The One Woman, the Bride—as we have considered the One Woman in times past—all men and women formed into the Body that becomes negative to God.
But until we have the right vibrational pattern in the kitchen with you ladies, working together in the spirit of harmony and understanding, the functional application of the things of Heaven on Earth, I have no more opportunity of accomplishing that for which I came on the Earth than I have expectation of hopping over the moon on one foot. The success of my ministry depends on you—the men yes, what they do is important—but what they do comes finally to your hands for it’s acme of fulfillment in the outer form, the ascending cycle, and what do we do with it? If we spoil it, make it to be of no effect, take the life force out of it, we have nothing actually—to say nothing of our KING. I can have no real Home on Earth, in the sense of fulfillment, until we have it established here on Sunrise Ranch in the kitchen. Once we have it in the kitchen, the rest of our problems will just melt away. The increase in the level of kitchen function in the past few months has made all the difference in the world to what I have been able to do, in the prospects of things yet to come, in the manifestation of provision. If that improvement had not come in the kitchen, I couldn’t have been going east to get a new airplane. I could not have been working out the factors that we have opening up for the New Year. Yes, the improvement in the kitchen has opened the cycle. I cannot go further in the field than you let me go. It is in your hands.
Now as I said before, there are a number of problems to solve, a number of individual adjustments required. I am not going to try to work it out. If it cannot be worked out easily and naturally, after this consideration tonight, following upon our consideration of Thanksgiving Day and all that has gone before, I am going to take the attitude that it cannot be worked out in relationship to you—and you will be invited to leave Sunrise Ranch. Period! I am through with the nonsense. Take it or leave it. I am through with the nonsense. I will be patient and let you have a chance—but no more it. If you don't let it clear, earnestly and sincerely and willingly, following this, I have no choice but to take the attitude that you do not intend to let it clear, that I can't hope for it to clear in and through you—then I will have to bid you farewell, one way or another. I expect the changes to be made individually and collectively, and I don't feel that I am asking anything unreasonable or impossible. If you would do your part toward establishing Heaven on Earth, there you have a real opportunity. It is up to you.
Our Gracious LORD and KING, I thank Thee for these here gathered, and for all who are with us in spirit, that there may be a realization tonight of the glorious opportunity Thou hast granted unto us, that we may discharge our responsibilities under the privilege, to Thy Glory, and to the blessing of the children of men.
I thank Thee Father for the assurance that the vibration of the Heaven-Home shall increase, and become more real in the days to come, that it may nevermore be as it was in the days long ago, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head.”
I thank Thee Father for these who, in deep dedication and Love Response to Thee, are giving themselves, their capacities and their abilities, to the manifestation of the Heaven-Home by which there may be a place prepared for the birth of the things that Thou wouldst give into the Earth. We see that until there is a Heaven-Home, there is no way for the birth of the things that Thou wouldst give into the Earth. “Behold I make all things New” and we see the things of God coming down out of Heaven into the Earth, but they cannot come in any real manifestation except as there is a true Heaven-Home.
I thank Thee Father, that Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, here and everywhere, now and always, forever. Aumen.
