Glory To God In The Highest — Evening Meditation In The Temple Of Light

Glory  To  God  In  The  Highest

Evening  Meditation  In  The  Temple  Of  Light

David Barnes  and  Anne Blaney

December 21, 2025   Salmon Arm, B.C. Canada

David Barnes — Good evening everyone. Thank you for the fine flow of music you provided Stewart. We thought that we would allow this hour that we have together to be more of a meditative time; and to enter into the flow of meditation we're going to share a piece by Uranda from June 26, 1953, titled “Glory To God In The Highest.” So let's move with that right away.

Uranda — “This morning I would like to direct your attention to one of the outstanding keys to a realization of reality that can be found in Scripture or Holy Writ anywhere, an outstanding key which has from the standpoint of its true purpose and meaning been virtually ignored. As long as we ignore the keys, we cannot use them to unlock the doors and let the things of God come in. It is not a matter of you climbing up; it is not a matter of you opening your prison door and going out of it. It's a matter of opening the door—you have to do that, you have to use the key—but you let the Master in, and when He comes in He begins to prepare a place for you; He begins to make the place over, not just an ordinary remodeling but the former things are caused to pass away. Behold I make all things new. Instead of imagining that you must somehow escape from a prison, you let the prison be rebuilt into a mansion, a mansion of the soul in which the things of heaven are present and made manifest.

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“This particular key was given to man at the time our Master's body was born on earth in the form of a babe. There were many remarkable revelations of the reality of Shekinah at the time of the Master's birth, but the central key is the Angels’ Song. The central key is the Angels’ Song: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Let us look at this expression from the standpoint of reality, with the eye of the heart. Glory to God in the highest. What is the Glory? The Shekinah Cloud of Glory. Glory to God in the Highest. That carries to the Highest Focalization of Deity, going beyond the range of human consciousness or awareness. Glory to God in the Highest. And the expression was made in relationship to those who dwell on earth.

“So, if there was a recognition of Glory to God in the Highest, we see with the eye of the heart how there was a Great Cone, shall we say—or what we have illustrated by the use of the word “tent”—a Great Cone, allowed to settle down over the earth, the base of it enfolding the earth as in a net, and the point of it extending upward to God in the Highest. And what is it that shapes this; what is it that gives it form? Glory—the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. And it was brought to the earth, enfolding man, centered on earth in the babe that was born. And, Glory to God in the Highest, signifies that the Cloud of Glory, made manifest to man through the form of the babe that was to become a Man, extended to God in the Highest—that there was no break, no point of separation, no veil, except the inability of human beings to see the Cloud of Glory, the Shekinah, extended to the earth, enfolding the earth and carrying to God in the Highest. Glory all the Way. The Shekinah Cloud of Glory here, and all the Way to God in the Highest. And then following, when that is a reality, what does follow? “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth”—enfolded in the Shekinah Glory, something begins to manifest—peace on earth. “Peace on earth, good will toward men.”

“Now, the coming of the Master was the supreme gesture from God, the zenith of God's Gift of Love to man—and only in relationship to love can there be peace—and it is clearly indicated it was on earth, and the supreme gesture of good will—good will. What is the natural result when human beings allow themselves to be enfolded in the Shekinah Cloud of Glory that extends all the way to Highest God? First there begins to be a sense of peace—peace on earth, from which peace had been banished for so long, and from which it was again banished—peace on earth, the result of the working of God's Love within the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. And then good will—good will from God in the Highest, through the Shekinah, to all the children of men. Good will—the willingness to let all differences be past, to let all wrongs be as if they had not been. This is not the message of a bloodthirsty god through his avenging angels, to the cringing cowards dwelling on earth. This is the message of a God of Love, who does not require any blood sacrifice. This is the message of Highest God to the children of men through the Shekinah Cloud of Glory made manifest on earth, and centered on earth in the body of a babe. Peace on earth.

“And the Angels sang the song even though there was no room in the inn for Him; they were so busy there, celebrating; they were so busy with such important affairs that there was no room in the inn, no bed available to Mary. They were busy with such busy business! And still, even though that was all that man could provide for the coming of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, there was still the Angels’ Song, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” No judgment, no condemnation, the open invitation to come, to come and let the beauties of the Kingdom of Heaven be revealed in the lives of the children of men. In conjunction with this there were other evidences.

“This Song the Angels sang was heard by the shepherds who tended their flocks—and there we have again the Pattern of the Shepherd. The Pattern of the Shepherd, not concerned about punishing the sheep. What was the parable the Master gave? The ninety and nine that were safe in the fold, and one had wandered away, and the shepherd went out and found it, and carried it back, to bring it healing and restore it to its place in the fold We begin to recognize that the Wise Men who followed the Star came to the place where the Master was born, directed of the Spirit of God. And what was the Star? First we have the pattern with the Shepherds—the Glory, the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. And then come the Wise Men—wisdom, the sense of the fitness of things, a function in relationship to the mind, to the Truth. And what do we see? The Wise Men following the Star. And the Star is what? The Light that Glows. The Cloud of Glory, the Light that Glows, and then the Fire of Love. And within the Fire, One like unto the Son of God. The Shekinah Pattern of Being was established in relationship to the Master's birth, and He used it all the way through His ministry. He talked about it. He revealed it over and over again.

“And when He came to the point of the conclusion of His work on earth, before the pattern of the atrocity had taken form, before the betrayal, He prayed a prayer.  And in this prayer we find a glorious portrayal of Shekinah: “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come.” And He said, “As thou hast given him power over all flesh.” The Shekinah Presence of the One Who Dwells has power over all flesh. And entering into the Cloud of Glory is the Way by which the Father glorifies the Son. He was talking about the Shekinah Pattern of Being here. And then He continued on, “I have glorified thee on the earth.” How? By letting the Shekinah Cloud of Glory have meaning, by letting the Shekinah Power manifest, by letting the Shekinah Light shine. “I have glorified thee, O Father, on earth”—the revelation of the Shekinah on earth.

“And then He said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” That is where the thing finally hinges. What do we believe? Whom do we believe? He said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” He had some other things to face, but they were things that human beings forced upon Him. He had already completed all that God had given Him to do, before the atrocity—Seventeenth Chapter of John, the Fourth Verse. “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” Here we have the description of Shekinah, and it’s working in relationship to heaven and earth. “I have manifested thy Shekinah unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee

“I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me … and they have received, and have known surely that I came out from thee.” And that is all they did know, surely. The pathos in this prayer is something that must surely touch the awakened heart. He couldn’t anywhere through it say, “My disciples have reached a point where they can carry on.” If you read it with understanding you will see that the only thing He could say that they knew surely was that He had come from God. But how it worked, what it was, the reality of Shekinah, all the rest, they did not understand. “… and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.”

“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” How? When the Shekinah Pattern of Reality works through them—the Shekinah Fire, the Light that Glows, the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. Let these things manifest in you. He said it so many times, so many ways. “And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Shekinah those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy Shekinah: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition.” But the son of perdition is the whole devil pattern as it works through man, the whole fallen sphere, the son of perdition in any generation.

“And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word”—I have given them Thy Shekinah—“and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” And the Master in His prayer which concluded His ministry on earth said, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” Thy Shekinah is Truth. “As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world… And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth”—through Shekinah.

“What did He say? “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.” I do not know how He could have made it any plainer, that everything He was saying in His prayer applied to any man or any woman, in any generation, of any color, regardless of background, socially or by creed or anything else. His prayer applies to you just as much as it did to anyone, anywhere, at any time. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory”—and the Shekinah Glory—“which thou gavest me I have given them.”

“Now where are those who have received the Glory? “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” And it applies to us in this hour. When are we going to receive the Shekinah Glory? When we let it appear. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are.” We must accept the fact that we are supposed to have Oneness with the Father on exactly the same basis that He had Oneness with the Father. And how was it? Through the Shekinah. It has been called different names, but human beings have forgotten what it means; they don’t know. “That they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me.”

“I, Shekinah, in them, and Thou, the One Who Dwells, in me, Shekinah, that through Shekinah we may all be one. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me—Shekinah—and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” That the Father loved them—you, in this hour—as, in exactly the same way that He loved our LORD when He was on earth. “As thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.” Where was He when He said these words, “Where I am.” He was the manifestation of Deity on earth. He was the focalization of, the revelation of, Shekinah to the children of men, and He said, “I pray that they shall be with me where I am,” not where I am going to be. No. Where I am—the manifestation of the Power of God on earth.

“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory … for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name”—I have declared unto them Thy Shekinah—“and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” The Shekinah Fire of Love in the manifestation of the Divine Pattern on earth.

“Here we have the words of the Master Himself, in His concluding prayer. If they be the words of Truth, the words of our LORD in fact, let us “soar to high neglect of what's denied or said, this way or that, in Holy Writ”, on the basis of assumption, interpretation, belief, and all the rest. The Master said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”—free to live, and move and have your being in the Shekinah of our God. And so shall you share the Victory and do your part toward finishing the work which you came to do.”

David Barnes — Let's just sit with that in silence for a short period; and then Anne is going to have a few words to say. And when you're done Anne, there may be some meditative comments that would come from others, in radiation, and you could open up for that. So when you're ready, you can carry on.

Anne Blaney — Thanks David for putting together that compilation of that powerful service; it flowed so seamlessly. It's special to be together during the evening hour.  I remember when I lived up at 100 Mile, I used to watch a certain rhythm to Martin's services, where every now and then he would speak in an evening service that I personally called his “All is Well service”. He would bring such a peaceful atmosphere in his beautiful way, and you knew that in truth, “All was Well” and that he was continuing to offer us the key.

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In the images that Uranda used of the cone and the net, which picked up the entire world and brought it in direct union with the highest God, there is no question that he was bringing in the highest articulation of the One Law. When that kind of union is called for and which was lived by Jesus, this is the ultimate work that we have come to do in following through on what was established. And although at the birth of the babe the Cloud was emphasized—and it is in that Cloud where the direct union happens—we recognize that we are here today after those events that transpired, after the babe was born; and after the atrocity as Uranda referenced, but also we are here after the Comforter came; the Comforter who explained what was actually happening when the LORD was here. Consequently, we have explored the Light, the Light that Glows in consciousness, and we've even explored the Design of Angels, and therefore we find ourselves in a very privileged place. I couldn't help but note that Uranda spoke about basically, with the prayer, turning over the Lord's people to His Father: that we not be taken from the world, removed from the world, but that we be protected from evil. Well, I think that that prayer truly applies to us here in these days, when the consequences of the events that I just mentioned, and the intensification that is now in motion which brings the perils of evil, applies more to us than to many others, specifically because we have the conscious awareness that this is coming and the reason it is coming.

And so I would go back to the babe being born and to the requirement of openness to the incarnation of the Lord into the flesh of man. There is a wonderful metaphor that Uranda introduced: as we invite the Lord into our beings we do not need to escape a prison, which many would like to do, but instead invite the Lord in, within the power in the Cloud, to participate in the power of the Cloud, and with the Light of the Shekinah Pattern, and instead of escaping it, to allow the Lord to transform the prison into a mansion. I think this has bearing on our function as never before, at least not in my lifetime as it applies now. Never has there been such need to allow that prison to become a mansion, inside of us, and to hold to the perfection into which humanity was gathered at the birth of the babe, by the bringing forth of the Shekinah Pattern into our flesh as the Master did: to make good on the invitation that He extended to us. And this must be done in a day when many, many people believe as many did in ancient times, that God is a bloodthirsty god who does not want us to be having a good time here.

Those of us who know these things, know that we inhabit a mansion not a prison, are more than ever called on to keep that holy space present on earth—while everything hits the wall. And we do not believe, do not ever go back into that ancient illusion that this is a bloodthirsty god who is overseeing all this. This belief is very subtle. It comes up in a spirit of cursing, that old belief comes into one's very close experience. It is a fundamental lie that we refuse to entertain. We heard this truth tonight.

The message we've just heard is a very comprehensive one. I'm happy to be sharing this with those who have an awareness and understanding of these things and who are willing to take this on in a very personal way—and let that spirit enter. Let that prison become a mansion. Truly, in spite of everything crashing around etc. This transformation of man by Shekinah was set in motion at this event that we are celebrating right now. Let it in.

Susannah Light — Anne, I just want to pause with you and really thank you—and thank you David for this compilation of Uranda's service which I'll speak to in a moment. Anne, you said all this has been set in motion—this Pattern of Glory rising, and Good Will descending over mankind—and I think about that so often. We are not out here as islands unto ourselves, figuring something out. This reality has been set in motion. And beyond that, so many good opportunities and examples and beckonings have been left along the way, from ancient times up to more recent times, as in Uranda's service here, but also in your words, and in yours, David. And I just want to join you in the meditation of this evening considering this central key: Glory to God in the Highest. That is a line in a hymn that was very familiar as I grew up, and there was in my perceptions the sense of praise going up and out to this wonderful God that I really didn't know anything about. And so the way Uranda speaks of this Glory to God as a central key, where the Glory from the angel within us is rising up, rising up through and out of all this old human conditioning, ways and patterns and so forth, is really potent.

I have the image of those old, un-useful things just falling down, falling away and there is a rising up of this Glory from the angel within, coming up, all the way up through the Incarnate One to meet this apex of Highest Focalization of Deity. And then comes the receiving of this Good Will, this Peace that settles in over us, and the opportunity that we have to inhabit the Heart of this Peace. With that I would go to the image of opening the door—with this Key of Rising Glory—for that Holiness to come into our experience which turns our life into the Glowing Mansion that is inhabited by the Lord through our capacities. It is such a beautiful meditation. And I really want to thank you both for bringing something for us to join in, and to enhance our perceptions of what's possible in the ways of excellence, in the ways of moving with the currents of love and peace that are so available and have been so beautifully presented, beckoning us to step into it on yet another level—as never before; as you said Anne, inviting the prison to become the mansion, and I join you in that. I join in communion with all of you in making this real. We don't want it to be an opportunity that passes us by. So, thank you very much.

Steve Ventola — Lately I've been meditating on the Book of James and there's a verse that says: the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceably full of mercy. And what you articulate Anne is that dynamic. The wisdom from above is first felt purely in our heart, and it may stir us to a breaking point, but it's pure; and then there's a sense of peace because we're engaged in that Shekinah Cloud; and then we can extend mercy in the world the way it is right now, because we're in place.

Stewart Berger — Thank you so much David and Anne. Passion cannot be denied—passion for the Lord and for our true calling. We've been so privileged to not only know the quality of spirit through expression, but we have gone through the process of allowing our hearts to be purified. And in my experience, that's a very key thing to allow to occur—the purification of the heart. That facility is enlarged. And how can I do anything other than express the truest quality of spirit, love, truth, life! Once we know that highest quality and from whence it comes, the source of life, a cosmic, invisible, undimensional source, there is no choice. That's who we are. Thank you.

David Barnes — I’ll just say a few words. There must have been an angel singing, or more than one. It is said in the Book of Luke, “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth Peace, and Good Will toward men.” The story reminds me of all the preparation that was made for the incarnation of the LORD. Obviously there were some people on earth who had some intimation that something of moment was to occur. There were shepherds. There were seers, wise men, those who had some sense of the rhythms of Mazzaroth and the cycles in what we call astrology, who knew that there was something imminent. And of course, a few hundred years before, the prophet Daniel had been commissioned to prepare the way for the coming of the Master; so there were those in and around Jerusalem who were expecting someone to appear and something to happen. There were angels preparing the way as best they could within the structures of consciousness that were present.

I am thinking too of how the disciples, and all the women who became close to Jesus, incarnated at the same time. They came to be on earth with Him, and to help open the way. He certainly couldn’t do it all by Himself—except in essence open something up, because of who He is as LORD of the Sacred Seven. But here is this image of the cone or the net. And I am remined of one who has been referred to in mythology as the Fisher King—the Great Fisherman who came to be a “fisher of men.” And in this vibratory net, the great catch was all human beings who would be caught-up through His Ministry on earth, lifted up within His net. All the response that was possible out of the world was wrapped in that vibratory net and drawn up. “If I rise, all men will rise.” And none is lost except the son of perdition, the whole devil pattern that refuses to respond. And of course He wasn’t alone in providing the evidence of the Presence. He had men and women with Him who were supposed to come forth and be the expanded evidence of the Presence. John, James, Peter, the other disciples, and the women who loved Him.

At the very end, He said: I have finished the work, and the net is as full as it will be of response to Me—the essences of response. And in the whole cycle of ascension, response was gradually drawn back up into the true pattern. That was and is happening. And we see that the Disciple John had a big responsibility in that. We know what he did, coming through in the ascending process, as a manifestation of Shekinah, the Light That Glows, and he wrote the Book of Revelation. We could look at various related things that went on during the 2,000 years between then and now; but in our day, along came Uranda, and along came Martin, and they allowed a focalization of this ascension process to take hold, within the great net of response that was ascending. Now they’re gone from the outer world, and this ascension process continues. And the focalizations of the Shekinah Pattern are here now. We are a part of that, playing our part in this Design and this ascension process that was initiated when the Master finished the work that He was given to do.

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So these are a few thoughts about the work of coming to earth to bring this pattern of Good Will, and receive the response, and let it be as though there had been no break. Let all things be forgiven and forgotten, in this “supreme gesture” of Good Will—“the willingness to let all differences be past, to let all wrongs be as if they had not been.” As long as the response is there, then the slate may be wiped clean. And we continue our movement through the ascending cycles that lead to the ultimate purification. So, here are some thoughts about what’s happening now, and what we’re doing together. And I want to give Yujin an opportunity to say something, and Marsha too. I would love you to take this closing time and share with us whatever you may feel about this Pattern of Glory that is evident in our heavenly world now.

Marsha Bogolin — We too have been meditating on this Glory to God in the Highest and when that is done, it naturally brings forth the Peace and the Good Will. And what stands out particularly to me in all that’s been said in this time is our responsibility for the ascending cycle, and in slightly different words than were used by Uranda, it’s the bringing of the Garden, which is hovering very fertile in our heaven. I think probably many of us are touching that, or being touched by it, and in the midst of whatever is disintegrating, which does need to pass away. This is the real event that is coming in. And the “cone” is a beautiful symbol of how that comes because it is through our total surrender—I like that word—to the highest, and then we discover what is hovering there to come through. So thank you for this opportunity.

Yujin Pak — Thank you Marsha, Anne, David and others. I have just a brief thought. The coming of our KING is not history or memory, and is only meaningful because there’s a coming of the expanded KING today. That’s the only way it has meaning. Otherwise, it could be just the history books. As the coming of the expanded KING is real, vital, full of power and glory, then we are here as the expanded KING for Him. But we let Him be represented to the world because we are here. And there is Glory to God in the Highest and peace and good will on earth towards all men, because the expanded KING through us is here. So may that be so—that we are the expanded KING on earth today.

David Barnes — That is a beautiful prayer to complete our time: “May that be so.” Uranda mentioned, in the selection that we listened to, that the pathos in that prayer should be enough to move deeply the awakened heart. These are a few sentences written at the beginning of the Book of John that also awaken this sense of pathos: “He was that true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name.”

I find it to be quite a shocking sensation, when I read these words, and to realize that, He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received him not. And then we read, from the Book of John, that very near the end of His life on earth, He said, “Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.” In these two phrases we have very similar essences to what Uranda outlines of the cone or the net symbolozing the Shekinah Presence at the beginning and at the end of His life on earth. Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the KING. Blessed is He that comes as the manifest evidence of the COLLECTIVE KING. Ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the Name, in the Shekinah Pattern, as a revelation of the Spiritual Body of the KING. So, how perfect your prayerful closing words, Yujin. Thank you. I am grateful that we’ve had an opportunity to share these things just a few days before Christmas. To complete our Evening Meditation, I have a song written by, music played and sung by our spiritual brother Tony Palombo

The Earth Is The Lord's

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,

The world and they that dwell therein

I come in the midst of Heaven to bless the fullness thereof.

I stand in midst of the Earth and welcome the fullness thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the Fullness thereof.

Behold, I come in the sea and put my hand on the tides thereof.

And, lo, I come in the wind and put my hand on the currents thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the rhythms thereof.

Behold I come in the Earth and put my hand on the Seasons thereof.

And, lo, I come in the Sun and put my hand on the Fire thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the Seasons thereof.

I come in the towering mountains, I come in the rolling hills,

I come in the blue-green forests, I come in the sweet daffodil.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the beauty thereof.

I mount the sky on wings of eagles,

I run on hooves through the boundless plains.

I plunge the deep in whales of the ocean

I nourish my own in the fields of grain.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the kingdoms thereof.

Who will stand with me in the midst of the fullness thereof?

And put a hand of care on the boundaries of the fullness thereof?

The Earth is the Lord’s and the boundaries thereof.

Behold, I’ll come to thee and put my fire in the heart thereof

And, lo, I’ll come through thee and give my love to the fullness thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the Power thereof.

Behold, I’ll come to thee and put my thoughts on the wheel thereof.

And, lo, I’ll come through thee and shed my Light on the fullness thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the Wisdom thereof.

And, yes! I’ll come to thee and put my breath in the flesh thereof.

And, yes! I’ll come through thee and share my Life with the fullness thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.

Who will stand with me and welcome the fullness thereof

And who will dwell with me in the heaven of the fullness thereof?

The Earth is the Lord’s and the heaven thereof.

Come and share with me in blessing with the Spirit of Love

The world and they that dwell in the Earth, and the fullness thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the People thereof.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof

The world and they that dwell therein.

The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.

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Source of Life and Names of Deity

Source  of  Life  and  Names  of  Deity

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Uranda   July 20, 1953   Class

Our basic theme in this class period has been, and is, the Magic of Life, the magic of living. We have reached a point where we are beginning to be aware of life—of Life itself. To some degree there was an awareness of the fact of life working through the body in a pattern of existence, an awareness of the results of life—but to become aware of life itself, the pure essence of Life. We have recognized that Life is born, or comes forth, issues forth, like a fountain, when there is the union of Love and Truth. We have considered something of the Shekinah Pattern of Being and recognized that the Fire that Burns is the reality of God’s Love, the Light that Glows is the reality of Truth, and the Cloud of Glory is the expression, the manifestation of Life. Life is the child born of the union of Love and Truth. We cannot become aware of Life itself until we become aware of the source of Life. Broadly speaking, God is the source of Life—that is true. But by what means is God the source of Life?

God is the source of the Shekinah Pattern. The Shekinah Pattern of Being is the only begotten Son of God, and yet we are all sons and daughters of God. We become, in the true sense, sons and daughters of God when we let the Shekinah Pattern of Being control in our lives. When we let God’s Love and Truth come to a point of union in us we begin to have the experience of motherhood, in the sense of being the means by which Life is born into action on earth.

We speak of the invisible planes of Being as the positive aspect of the Whole Holy World, and these three outer planes of Being in which we function as the negative aspect of the Whole Holy World. The positive and the negative are the male and female. And living on earth as focalizations of the Crowning Creation, the crowning manifestation of the negative triune world, we begin to realize what it is to share motherhood, regardless of whether we are male or female—something that God the Father has fathered in us is born through us. But if there is to be a child born in this sense if must first be conceived, it must have its period of gestation in the womb, and it must have the privilege of birth. Man, mankind, is the Mother aspect of God Being in this world. The invisible reality of God, being the reality of many God Beings, is the Father aspect in relationship to this world. We begin to have an awareness of Deity.

Some little time ago I presented for your meditation something with respect to the vibratory factors of the names of Deity. And we recognized that the names as they are popularly used are not the true names, they are substitute names, substituted because in popular usage because they would be spoiled, it would be a sacrilege, it would be blasphemous. Actually, what man does with these substitute names is not too important. They should be held sacred, and I am not suggesting that profanity is permissible, but the popular usage of the popular names of Deity does not spoil the vibratory pattern of Deity or the vibrational factors. We find in the religions of the world various usages of the names of Deity. Whether we think of Allah, on the basis of the Mohammedan belief, or some other name of Deity, we recognize that they all mean the same thing, but they are substitute meanings. We can feel the reality of Love and Truth and power, if we let go of prejudice, if we say “Allah.” We must recognize that in the Christian world, or so-called Christian world, the use of the words “God” and “Jesus” and “Christ” is something that is done promiscuously, without understanding, and consequently without real meaning.

There are multitudes of people who give God a series of orders, make a series of demands which they call prayer, and they finish up “in Jesus name we ask it”, or something of the sort; and they imagine that it’s prayer, which it is not, and they imagine that they are asking in His name as he instructed. “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it.” And they think they are doing it, but they are not. You have begun to realize that such things are not prayer, that the people who give orders to God are sacrilegious. Telling God what to do is blasphemous. There is no necessity of giving orders to God or telling Him what to do. Let’s pause for a moment there to be sure that we have at least an introduction to the truth of the matter.

“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do.” Yes. Does that mean we are to ask God? It doesn’t say so. That has been an assumption, that man was to ask God, because it was suggested that we should ask in His Name. But if we are functioning in His Name we are a part of His Body, which is identified by His Name. Anything else is a forgery. It is possible to be adopted and receive a certain name and then have the right to use it, but until that adoption is a reality the use of the name would be a forgery. I have used the illustration of the young man who had the opportunity of being adopted by a wealthy man somewhere, and he had to go through college first, he had to reveal himself, show himself, and if he fulfilled himself as a man, showed his capacities, then he was going to be adopted as the wealthy man’s son. And he was given spending money, everything that he needed, but he got in a hurry. He decided, “Some day I am going to be able to write a check and have plenty of money. I want more money now. I’ll forge a check; I’ll write as if I had that name already.” He forged a check and landed in jail, and lost the possibility of being a son of the wealthy man. Most so-called prayers are forgeries. But if we have been adopted, have become an actual part of the Body of God, then we can’t say anything without saying it in His Name. If we honor His Name, the family name shall we say, the Name of our Father, then we live accordingly—but what of this asking?

Man has assumed that it meant that man was to ask something of God. But he said, “Whatsoever ye will ask in my name, that will I do.” But must we ask God? No. The asking is God’s asking. Does He ask Himself? No. He asks His creature to do thus and so. He asks the cell, the nerve, the tissue, the organ, whatever it may be. The asking must be from God to the creation; not the creature asking God something, but God asking something of His creation, because God has no necessity of being told what to do. We are not going to gain anything by trying to give orders to God. If we ask in His Name we will have been received into His Body because we have let the Shekinah Pattern of Being fill our bodies, and it will be the Word of God working through us, giving a command, shall we say, not to God but to the thing, to the organ, to the tissue, to anything. And if the patterns have been worked out properly there will be obedience in the substance, a cell, it matters not.

If we ask in His Name, He said, “I will do it.” Who was speaking? At other times He said that the Father would do it. Now the words of the Father were being spoken through the lips of Jesus so that it was the word of the Father that was being spoken, but from what point did He speak? From the point of the Father, or from the point of His position as the Lord of Love, representing the Fire? He represented the Father, yes, but His particular position in revelation in the Cosmic scheme of things was the revelation of the Father as the One who focalized the Spirit of Love. We speak of Him as the Lord of Love. Right. Well then, “I will do it—what is the power, from whence does the power come? The power of Love. The power of the Fire. The Fire that burneth forever and ever. The Fire that purifies. The Fire that human beings have thought to be hell is what? God’s Love. It does bring about torment to those who are fighting His Love, but the Eternal Fire does not bring torment to those who yield to it. And so, the Fire is the creative power.

“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name”—in Shekinah—the power of Shekinah will accomplish because it will be the Word of God in expression through your lips to that which is to be controlled. And if there is something wrong we have learned that there is a lack of adequate control. So, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it.” Belonging to the Body of God, filled with the Shekinah Pattern of Being, the Word of the Father passes through your lips in command and by the power, the creative Fire, it will be done. Just as simple as that—waiting for anyone to stop and think about it, to see it! And yet human beings have been asking God for this, that, and the other thing. A futile business. You cannot order God around. He is not your servant. But we can let the creative Word of God pass through our lips, asking something out here to obey. And if the patterns have been set up correctly that substance will obey—it wants to. The substance of your body wants to obey the Divine command. And so, by the power of the creative Fire it is done, the same power, the same creative force that brought forth all things.

Now, we remember, “In the beginning was the Shekinah, and the Shekinah was with God, and the Shekinah was God,” in manifest action and reality. “The same was in the beginning with God.” Now that sounds rather contradictory or foolish, or repetitious, or something, until you begin to see the reality of Shekinah. And then, “All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not anything made that was made. In Shekinah was life.” Now, we are told where to find life, but human beings have ignored it; they have looked everywhere. They have observed the results of life but they haven’t known life itself. In Shekinah was Life. Why? Because Shekinah is the pattern wherein Love and Truth find union and bring forth Life. And the Life that is to be used in any moment is born in that moment, it is there, if there is the union of Love and Truth. But if you believe many things that are not true then you are asking Love to have union with a lie, and it won’t do it. Neither Love nor Truth will commit adultery. You can’t force them to. Love and Truth will not commit adultery. But human beings who try to make them do so, do commit adultery.

The primary Biblical meanings with respect to adultery are not in the range of what we ordinarily think of in the limited sense of sex. That may be included, but human beings who imagine that they go through life without committing adultery are committing adultery every day—millions of them who think they are good Christians, because they are trying to force Love and Truth to have union with something that it is not supposed to have union with.

Now, let us take a moment to look at the world and its pattern. In the so-called Christian religions there has been a considerable emphasis on God’s Love, there has been very little awareness of Truth—a bunch of ideas, concepts, and beliefs but no recognition of Truth as such. But they have sought to love God. The Love element has been there. Devotion, to the best of their understanding, trying to love God. And they have imagined that that was all that was necessary. But Love must be married to Truth before Love can father anything that can be born on earth. On the other hand, there are those whose minds rebelled against all such things and they went to the other extreme. They said, “We are going to be scientific. We are going to reject religion.” And so they went in a search for truth. And to some degree they found truth, discovered it, and to them it was beautiful. But Truth, by itself, without proper union with Love, brings forth nothing. It’s barren. They say Truth is beautiful. They try to find the whole body of truth in various ways—science. But it is still barren. It does not bring forth Life because there is nothing to father Life in the womb of Truth. So we have religion on the one side trying to function from the standpoint of Love and we have the worldly sciences on the other side trying to function from the standpoint of Truth, and they don’t know how to get together. And neither one will let their deity get married. They are going to imagine that the deity of love—that isn’t going to get married, oh no! There is not going to be any union, “My deity doesn’t have union,” they say. Well, so long as their deity does not have union their deity does not bring forth anything, it is barren, childless. But when we begin to realize that Love and Truth belong together in a state of wedded bliss, true union, they’ll have a child and that child will be Life. And as long as Love and Truth remain in union in you Life will be manifesting through you. Let the separation begin to appear, as it does with the way human beings live—Love and Truth are in union in the babe, in the little child, but our educational processes go to work and pretty soon they start separating Love and Truth. Finally they are divorced in the individual, as far as he is concerned, and Life begins to diminish and the body dies. That is the process of existence. So if we would have the processes of living we must let Love and Truth be married in us, that they may be in union in us, and then Life appears, like a fountain.

Life is from God but how does Life come from God or manifest in any form? Love and Truth must be in union in the form through which Life is to manifest—whether it is a blade of grass, an amoebae, or a man, or a woman. Love and Truth must be in union in that form. The fact that Love and Truth are in union in a form over here is beside the point. Love and Truth must be in union in the form through which Life is to manifest. They we can begin to live. “And in Shekinah was life.” Shekinah means the union of Love and Truth with the manifest child of life—glory, the glory of the child, of bringing forth. And so wherever there is to appear through us as human beings, or as a body of human beings, as mankind, if it is to be the reality of being it must be fathered by God (why do we call Him the Father if He isn’t going to have the function of a father?) and cause something to be conceived in us, that it may gestate in us, and be born through us. The function of the Father and the function of the Mother.

Mankind is supposed to be Mother God made manifest. Now, mankind is not at the present time. The body of mankind has played the whore and has had union with everything it could find, except God—union with all kinds of things but not with God the Father. But if God the Father is to have meaning then God the Mother must have meaning and the whole body of mankind, including every man, woman, and child, is supposed to be a member of God the Mother. Now this pattern is clearly revealed in the Biblical portrayal, and what we find spoken of as, to use the ordinary word, as Jehovah in the Old Testament, was supposed to mean God the Mother, not God the Father. Now that’s a substitute word, we know that, but I use the substitute word until I am sure we have the right pattern for the use of the right word. But Jehovah is supposed to be the manifestation of God the Mother, not God the Father, although God the Father is revealed through God the Mother, and the union between the two is supposed to bring forth something—the manifestation of not just the fact of life but of the forms, the experiences, by reason of which Life may appear. If we just have life as an illusive spirit it has no meaning on earth. There must be a form for the manifestation of Life. And what are these forms? We say your body. Yes. And its capacities. Yes. But the experience is a form through which Life appears. According to what? The control and design of Truth and the fire of Love, for you cannot separate these three. That is the family pattern, and if you try to take the child away from the parents, or if you think you are going to separate the parents, you lose all three. It will not work, it is a family pattern—Love and Truth and Life, and Life is the child, Truth is the Mother, Love is the Father.

But the Shekinah family must manifest through something—your body and its capacities, yes. And when we have a unit body with many members, or what we might call the Christ Body, then the Shekinah family is manifesting through that unit body, and the unit body is a manifestation of God the Mother, which must be then in union with God the Father, the One Who Dwells. But the forms through which the Shekinah family appears are many. Your body as a member of the body of mankind, on an individual basis, the body of a group, friends, all kinds of relationships, but the body of experience, for experience is a form through which something invisible is made visible to the Glory of God, to the manifestation of God’s Life on earth, and to the blessing of the children of men.

“In Shekinah was Life.” It is the only place where you can find Life, for the Shekinah Pattern of Being in one way or another makes possible the Life manifestation in any part of vegetation, the insects, the birds, fish, the animals, wherever life is found. So we begin to really know Life, not just about it, not just the results of its presence. We begin to know that we can know Life and know what it is. And once we begin to know Life we are in position to function in relationship to Life. Once we realize that the body of mankind, properly including every man, woman and child of every color and race regardless of creed and belief, every one is supposed to be a member of the body of mankind, which in turn is supposed to become the body of God the Mother that God the Father may conceive something in God the Mother and that it may gestate in the womb of God the Mother and be born.

Now there is a creative process. How do you think the animals were formed? How do you think anything was formed? They were all made by Shekinah. There was the union of Love and Truth with the consequent birth of Life, but it had to be in relationship to a form of some kind. How was the form provided, the body of man or the body of anything? By reason of the Fatherhood of God and the Motherhood of God. God the Father in the so-called invisible realms, God the Mother in this realm, and there was the conception with respect to that which was to take form and the body of God the Mother provided the means whereby that which was conceived was given form and was brought forth in what we call birth—creation, with respect to vibratory fields and cycles, etc., some of which we have studied.

Once you begin to comprehend this you realize the sacredness of God and the things of God, you realize that you can be a part of God the Mother only as you keep sacred things sacred. We think of the female body as being a beautiful thing. You are supposed to be a part of a female body, man or woman, it makes no difference—the body of Mother God. And a substitute name for the Mother is Jehovah. Now that is not the right pronunciation. Just as the name Jesus is a substitute name, it is not the right pronunciation.

Once we begin to comprehend these things intellectually, if the mind is willing to rest and be still, we can begin to perceive through feeling, the eye of the heart, that which cannot be known any other way, and the ear of the heart, the perceptions of the feeling nature. So the mind begins to have an awareness of idea, of Truth, of design. But the mind does not try to struggle with it, the mind comes under control and is at rest, at peace, relaxed, serene, tranquil. “Be still and know that I am God.” And then we begin to know that the name of our Lord, the Lord of Love, the name that applies not only to the body but to the Shekinah Pattern of Being which He revealed is something of exquisite beauty, of loveliness. And we remember that the letter killeth but the spirit giveth Life.

And what is that spirit? Yielding to it, can we know it? If the mind is tranquil, if there is serenity, if there is peace and trust, true yielding, we can begin to know the name of our KING, and through His name we can begin to know the Spirit of His Presence. For the KING is also a Prince. He is KING to us and a Prince in relationship to the still higher pattern of Being, the Prince of Peace.

And in the stillness, in the quietness of the Holy of Holies, we hear the breathing of the breath of Life. And upon the breath we hear a name  [Uranda chants]  Jesu — Jesu — Jesu.  And there is an answering  [Uranda chants]  Je-ho-vah  —  Je-ho-vah  —  Je-ho-vah. And there is a union, union of God the Father and God the Mother, and something Divine is conceived in the body of God the Mother. And in season the child shall be born and the form shall appear by which Life is made manifest, that all who will may come to know that The Lord He is the God. The Lord He is The God.

Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name to us. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever.  [Uranda chants]  Aum-en   A—U—M   A—U—M   A—U—M   and so are you enfolded in the Cosmic ALL that IS that you may dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High and abide under the Shadow of the Almighty, for the Shadow is the evidence of His Presence and Shekinah is the evidence of the Presence of the One who Dwells. So let it be in you and through you now and forever. Aum-en

© emissaries of divine light

The Life Of Victory

The  Life  Of  Victory 

Uranda   November 15, 1951

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.

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