Always Remember Who You Are

Always  Remember  Who  You  Are

Uranda   January 10, 1949   Sunrise Ranch

[in Uranda and Kathy's Room, with Kathy, Ann, Lillian and Grace present]

I have been working out the possible patterns of function in the Little Chapel to maintain a controlled vibration. It will have to be flexible with respect to all needs. It is going to entail a series of especially prepared papers. There is not too much difficulty involved with respect to the periods that I am present in person, but I cannot hope to be present all the time, especially in the five to eight o'clock period of radiation. Generally speaking, unless there is some emergency when I am not available, I expect to focalize all the special services that might be held at other hours.

One of the principles that must be remembered in relationship to effective radiation of the Creative Word—after basic principles have been fulfilled in relationship to the Law and Polarity—is a focused vibration as simple in nature as it can be made, focused in a current on a sustained expression. Variations must not detract from the focalization, nor introduce complexities that would detract from the essential simplicity of the focalized point. In one sense it is following out a vibration.

In one way it is bringing the Unit to a point of doing in principle, although at a higher level and for a different purpose, the same thing that I had to do in the very beginning of my ministry. In the early period of my ministry I was—to illustrate it more or less crudely—like a detective turned loose with a thousand and one clues to be followed out, sifted, adjusted into a sensible, comprehensive, realistic pattern. That function involved what I called, following out a vibration. I undertook, in early papers, to give some instruction along that line, and I soon discovered that what I said did not have very much meaning to my hearers or to my readers. I have, since that time, undertaken to clarify and give training in all the basic essentials of the process, and it has been used to some degree but not as extensively as I had hoped would be the case. I had felt, in my earlier ministry, that what I said would surely inspire similar action or function in others. I felt that individual initiative and ingenuity would be brought into play, so that the expanding expression of that which I was focalizing would be like a fire spreading in all directions, firing each one with a zeal and a hunger and a thirst to encompass the fields of understanding necessary to effective function in the range of the principles involved.

One of the greatest difficulties that I had in my early ministry was to develop a combination of patience and understanding that would keep from letting me feel almost overwhelmed with a sense of futility when I found that, no matter what fire of expression was released through my words, it did not ignite a complementary fire in the hearts and minds of my hearers. Of all the things I was confronted with, and under the necessity of understanding, in my early ministry, that was perhaps the most difficult, and I suppose there are remnants of that difficulty that have pursued me down the years of my ministry, because it has tended to make me discount the lethargy of individual human reactions, and I have been inclined to feel that I could inspire the response and ignite a flame that would allow a fulfilment within the scope of what I conceived to be a reasonable period for specific fulfilments. In the earlier part of my ministry I was a little inclined to be perhaps rash in definitely anticipating specific fulfilments within a period that I saw to be easily possible. But when I found that those who refused to be      inspired and refused to let the flame be ignited, waited on the sidelines until my time limits expired and the fulfilment had not come, that they then turned around and blamed me and called me a false prophet, I began to be a little more cautious.

During that early period of my ministry, the most difficult thing for me was overcoming the tendency to feel baffled and depressed and futile in the face of human failures to catch the spirit of the thing that I was seeking to do—and in one sense it has been a cross all the way through my ministry. It is something that still tends to be as a burden many times, but gradually within the scope of the Unit this problem has been solved to what, in comparison with the world response, might be called a high degree. In comparison with what I envision, it is still slow. In the Unit there is a ready enough response, generally speaking, to whatever focalization of Truth I may express, and something of the spirit of it is generally maintained to a reasonable degree, but it still appears to me like smoldering coals. There is Fire there, and the current of the Air of the Spirit keeps those coals burning, but only occasionally a flame flickers up, and I have not been able to cause that Fire to burst out in a leaping, crackling Flame that burns continually. I have the feeling all the time that those smouldering coals would tend to die out if I did not keep blowing them with all the force of my Being. Gradually they are beginning to glow more brightly but it still is not a living, leaping Fire. Until it is that living, leaping Fire, I feel handicapped. I have to keep tending the Fire to keep it from dying down, and there is not that something yet that allows a vivid, vital current to move into the channels opened up in the processes of what I have called following out a vibration.

The purpose of following out a vibration at this level and in this period of our ministry is not so much an exploration to find and to recognize and give form to the Truth as such, because the Unit has been given the benefit of my own exploration in that regard, so there is a wide field where the Truth of the various focalizations is already known, intellectually at least, and to some degree in realization. While that has been absolutely essential, that is, my function as it has been in the presentation of that Truth, it has, at the same time, been something of an impediment, because no matter how I undertook to stimulate the expanding expression of the individuals with whom I have dealt, I could never get any general current of an overleaping Flame that would allow individual aspects of that expanding expression to become meaningful in the realm of the new, or no matter how I held back or gave, up to a certain point, opening the way for others to overleap the boundary, the general tendency has been to be extremely conservative.

A few have followed out vibrations in their individual initiative. Martin is the outstanding example of that [and William has to some degree] but the fact that, generally speaking, it never reached out beyond, tended to keep the individual members of the Unit from actually realizing the Truth as being their own. It was something they looked at from a little distance, so to speak. They accepted little parts of it here and there, and tentatively used it, and toyed with it, etc., but it has been difficult to find any way of causing each to have a definite, individualized realization that the Truth that they envision is actually, vibrantly their own. There has not yet been a sufficient sharing in this following out of vibrations to let the individualized aspects of that Truth begin to glow in the Flame. Consequently, there has been a tendency—on seeing the Truth and accepting it, but as from a distance—to imagine that that Truth was thoroughly understood when it was not.

I have, as we have gone along, used every resource at my command to lead individuals and the groups I have dealt with, back and forth across the central points from every conceivable angle, to give a full opportunity of actually comprehending the central points involved. Generally speaking, there has been a tendency to note some little new aspects of it that were more or less intriguing, but to skim over, as it were, the Central Current of the thing, nonchalantly saying, “Oh, yes, we have heard that before; we know that; but we are searching for something new.” The trouble is, the human minds involved have been inclined to accept little things that, while they were essential to the picture, were not the vital points, as being the new, without an adequate realization of the fundamental theme, or seeing the opportunities that were actually present to see the new and to make it their own.

All of these things have necessitated a long drawn-out process by which we have finally come to the present day. We have made progress, and in various ways we have worked to get the basic fundamentals ingrained into the consciousness of each one, so that there is a heart-acceptance of them. The pressure points, as they have appeared, have shown to what degree there was a heart-acceptance. As long as everything was moving smoothly, and more or less to the individual liking of each one, there was no way of telling for certain how much there was heart-acceptance of that which was intellectually acknowledged as being true. But the pressure points through which we have passed have shown, individually and collectively, as we have moved along the Way, the degree of heart-acceptance. Sometimes it was shown that that heart-acceptance was very, very shallow, and as soon as the real pressure turned on it withered up and was gone, and then the intellectual acceptance immediately became colored with the reactive questionings and doubtings of the mind, which destroyed the individual attunement with reality that had been built up. And so, many have left the fold self-righteously and, as they have thought in many instances, with righteous indignation. Gradually we have developed a reasonably stable Unit with a fair degree of heart-acceptance, and that is what we have to start with as we approach our proposed function with respect to the Little Chapel.

I am keenly aware of the fact that the actual development of focalized vibrations  and radiation must be held consistently or the world currents will produce some very difficult complications. Perhaps the best illustration could come from the standpoint of lightning. A lightning flash burns up the atmosphere in its path and then it is gone, and the air rushing back into the partial vacuum that is created, produces what we call thunder. When there is an actual focalized radiation in the power of the Spirit, it is like the projection of the fire of lightning out into the world. If the current is held all is well, and there is an opportunity for continued expansion; but if it is more like a lightning flash, if it goes out and then, for various reasons, suddenly is cut off—whether the period of radiation be long or short, if it is actually effective and then is cut off—the world vibrational realm comes rushing back into the vacuum, and the vacuum leads straight to the feeling realm of the individuals who participated, and it produces something like thunder, and then the individuals are subject to the terrific pressures of the world reactive vibration; and unless they turn to their basic focalizations and begin to let the reality of radiation appear and gradually push back the force of the world reaction, such individuals suffer physically, mentally and emotionally—consequently we may say spiritually, in the sense of the Spiritual Expression.

I know how it feels because, on innumerable occasions, I have had individuals who were channels for an actual radiation break the vibration, that is, cease to be a specific point of focalization in the Creative Field, get out of line, and then, because I present the Central Point of radiation, that left a vacuum between the world vibration and my own, through which the thunder claps of world reaction rushed back to me, and then, if I have not had focalizations that held, that allowed me to begin to meet that reactive force in radiation effectively, I was in the position of simply having to suffer it out. Once it almost cost me my life, and at other times it was very dangerous. Nine-tenths of all the suffering I have ever had to face in my ministry came from this one point in relationship to this one principle.

Fortunately the reactive world vibrations have thus far been primarily of the vibrational realm. They have never been given opportunity to manifest very much in physical form, comparatively speaking—that is, comparing the era of our development of this Unit to the period following Pentecost, when persecution became rampant. There the failures worked out on a vibration that permitted the development of form with respect to the world reactive vibration, and there was physical persecution which produced the death of many. Fortunately we have had comparatively little of that. Now, as we move into this new sphere of ministry, we have an opportunity to enhance and build up the material form of our expression if all hold true to the line; but if there were to be any general breaking, the reactive expression with respect to the world would tend to manifest more particularly with respect to the material or physical plane, and we would all suffer. Knowing these things, I have put off the actual initiation of any such Program for a long time. I thought confidently that I was going to get such a Program under way in 1936, and I was moving in that direction. It could have been, but it was not. Of those who shared extensively in that period when that function was being instituted, virtually all of them have been moved out of their places in the Service through the reactive pressures which they brought on themselves. As I recall Fern and Tillie attended quite a few of the services at that time in the Chapel. At the moment I cannot think of any others who did attend with regularity. There may have been some who visited once or twice, like Marie Johnson and Jennie Ollson, but I cannot think of any others who really shared in those services who are still in the Service. They are all gone.

I do not want anyone to get hurt; and I know that we cannot get very far without taking this step. I intend to start it as slowly as possible and still get the job done, but the probabilities are that once we get it started I will have to call on you girls to help meet some of the problems that arise—and from the standpoint of the Creative Field you will more or less constitute my last line of defense, or perhaps, putting it another way, the first line of offense. Ann is leaving in person, but as she lives in that point of polarity to which she has become quite accustomed, at home, she will be able to fill her part by just simply being a good Emissary; and as long as she does not become troubled in mind or spirit, or start worrying about how things are going here, or start becoming fearful in any way, she will be safe, and all will be well. We are moving out into a Field where this thing is going to be put to a test. If it is what it ought to be there will not be any individual tests to speak of that would cause any trouble, and the world limitations that beset us will be tested. They will be tested against that Irresistible Force of the Cosmic Power of God, and I would rather not talk about the alternative. It would not be pleasant. Now we have work to do, work that must be performed in absolute humility before the Lord, and yet work that must be done in the Positive Current of His Spirit that requires a balance in polarity. I did not want to begin this phase of Nucleus Function until I was ready to have it expand out into the Unit, and through the Unit into the world, but if the function is going to start in the Unit it must begin in the Nucleus on a vibration that is designed to draw everyone else into it, according to response.

Dare to Walk in the Flame

In the expression of the Prophets of old time, we find a record of various statements, to the effect that the Lord would sift His people as wheat, the chaff would be blown away—or the Master put it as the division between the sheep and the goats—various ways, all the same thing. They are described as earthquakes, shakings in various ways, pressure points. It means that we have to dare. As much as possible, I want each one to go into it with eyes open. We have to dare to Walk in the Flame—Step into the Fire. Once we do there can be no turning back safely. Any turning back then is very, very disastrous—for he who is in the Flame and becomes fearful, and starts to turn back is consumed by the Flame. I do not want any tragedies; and tragedies, if they do occur, always bring a long string of complications that involve all concerned in needless difficulties. And such things delay, and delay is dangerous. I have sought, in every way I know, to impress on the Unit the fact that this is not a child's game. It is something deadly serious.

Now, as to the Nucleus function, it does not vary greatly from that function to which you have already been gently lead. It is not any great divergence from what has already been established, and the points of focalization and radiation must be kept simple and direct. The simplified point of Truth in radiation is like the point of the sword. It is that which drives home. The rest follows. It is that which penetrates and which has the power of penetration. I have used the Principle with all of you or you would not be here. In innumerable instances each one of you has responded in Love and Faith and Hope, without really knowing why, without really understanding what was taking place, without any clear realization of just what was going to happen next. Your movement in such a case was not something calculated, from the standpoint of your own minds. It was not something that you deliberately determined to do on a basis of some idea that you saw it all clearly, and satisfied all the questionings of your minds, etc. The vibrancy of your response in Love and in Faith and in Hope stilled the questioning of the mind. Love cast out fear, Faith cast out unbelief, and Hope gave courage.

There have been times when, after an advance on such a basis, you have looked back more or less amazed, and wondered about it some as to just how it happened, or why—and sometimes there has been a little hint of fearfulness that crept in, a little tendency to questioning. If you did not immediately let the questioning of the mind be stilled through Faith, if you did not immediately let the current of response be strengthened through Love response, you found yourselves in trouble, and, being in trouble, the consciousness of Hope tended to vanish; and consequently there was a tendency to lose courage or become discouraged. It is as simple as that. Each one of you has experienced these phases or steps of movement forward where you were carried without any consciousness of volition on your part, without any clear realization of just what was happening, over obstacles, or up steps, simply by reason of your Love that held the polarity and cast out fear, your Faith that kept the outer mind still, and your Hope that gave you the courage to let it be so. Many times you yourselves have not understood, for a considerable time afterward anyway, and perhaps to some degree do not yet understand, but you know that that is so. Others, seeing something of it, have in various ways judged you because they did not understand.

All horsemen know that if a fire breaks out in a barn, the only way to save the horses is to blindfold them and then lead them out. A horse caught in a fire will refuse to be lead as long as he can see. He will stay and perish in the flames, but as soon as he is blindfolded he will let himself be lead to safety. That provides a crude illustration in a way, and yet in essence that is what has to be done to human beings. They will not let themselves be saved until they are willing to be lead without insisting on maintaining their ability to see every step, or to understand, to answer every question.

Love response must establish polarity and cast out fear. Faith must still the questioning of the mind, so that, as it were, the mind is for the moment blindfolded, simply willing to be lead. Hope, which springs eternal in the human breast by the Grace of God, gives the courage essential to the doing. Generally speaking, when there is courage, in such function the individual involved has absolutely no consciousness, at the moment at least, of the fact of courage. He may look back on it afterward with amazement and feel some little reaction with respect to it perhaps, but it was there at work, generally speaking, without his having the faintest conscious thought of courage as such at the time.

This is just introductory in one sense—but this is the first time I have used the triangles to this degree, and this is just sort of getting things set, so to speak. Here we have an arrangement such as we will probably use many times in the Little Chapel. We are not, technically, facing the right directions, but we have Kathy representing the Apex of the Triangle facing me; Ann on my right, representing the point of the Triangle that Martin carries; Grace on my left, representing my own point of Focalization; Lillian in the center directly before me, representing a focus in the Field of Form. And my own Position in relationship to that Point representing the One Whose Spirit is incarnate in that Form, so that I may, in relationship thereto, be the Voice of His Expression on earth, the Representative of the Father. We have here, then, the basic elements in the Nucleus of both Triangles of manifestation in miniature, so to speak, of that greater form which must ultimately come vibrantly alive and effective. That being the case, we see that the start of the expression of the Creative Word, or the beginning of its manifestation, is properly within the range of this Nucleus. In the individual the Word of the Father is seldom carried with clearness to the consciousness, and so into the expression of the individual, but here we have that which represents the necessity with respect to every individual on earth—the expression of my Word moving through the Body and Mind and Spiritual Expression of the human trinity in the current of the Spirit of the LORD of Lords. This Nucleus has just reached a point where I could begin to point these things out and utilize the simple fundamental principles involved. It has not been much ahead of the Unit, actually, in some respects. In other respects we may say that it has been, from the standpoint of reaching a position of function—we can function effectively, providing these simple fundamentals are remembered. The keynote of the expression of the Father through you into the Unit, and so out into the world, may be put in these words:

Let the Will of the Father be Done

That will naturally be extended, depending upon the circumstance, and you will not necessarily give audible expression to these words, although you may on occasion, depending on the circumstance. It could be: “Let the Will of the Father be done in this specific situation”, or it could be: “Let the Will of the Father be done in you”, if your consciousness of expression is toward some specific person or persons. Or if toward some specific need which is to be filled: “Let the Will of the Father be done in bringing forth that manifestation which shall fill this void with the perfection of Being.” The keynote is:

Let the Will of the Father be Done

Not as a vibration of acquiescence to something on your part, but as an expression of the Spirit through you to the person, or into the situation, with which you are dealing. It does not necessarily have to be formed in words in your own consciousness even, because that keynote will properly be the central matrix of your own feeling attitude toward all persons and things and situations. That is very simple, and if you do not try to extend it or complicate it, you will not get beyond your own depth, that is, if you do not try to extend it on some self-active basis.

When first Kathy began to function in her Point of Focalization and move into it, I told her a good many times: “Remember who you are.” I pointed out to her that in any situation where she might tend to get flustered or feel to be off her base or anything that would disturb the effectiveness of her function or her tranquility, if she would always remember that point it would help her maintain effectively her point of polarity.

Always Remember Who You Are

That involves remembering Who you belong to, which involves remembering what your position is in relationship to the LORD of Lords—and to me. It involves remembering your Divine Calling. But that is my concluding Word to you tonight: always Remember who you are. If you find yourself getting into difficulties, do not rush in blindly, do not try to fight your way through something. Back up a little, step back from the situation, remember your polarity in Love, your Faith, and your Hope—the three things that give meaning to you as individuals. Without those three things, you tend to become meaningless—Love, Faith and Hope.

Meditate for a moment about what I have said tonight about Love, Faith and Hope, and in that meditation, Remember Who You Are. Remember the dignity, the nobility, that is natural to your calling. Remember Who You Are, and you will always remember that you are never alone. Remember Who You Are, and you will always know the Spirit of that Central Point with which you are identified, and you will find that in remembering Who You Are the Current of Being in the LORD of the Sacred Seven and the Lord of the Sacred Three is indivisible, one and the same, and in that Spirit your expression of life will reveal Who You Are—but you cannot reveal in your life expression Who You Are if you yourself forget Who You Are.

I bless you and enfold you in that peace which is of our KING, that peace which passeth all human understanding. In all things, Let the Will of the Father Be Done. That is the focus of the Creative Word for which you are responsible. This is that which is established In the Christ, and has been since before the Foundation of the world. Do you see why it is true, although I have not put it perhaps in so many words before, that if any of you respond primarily to any point of focalization in the Unit you would be reversing your polarities and failing to fill your places? Would any of you like to comment?

Kathy — In your outline, as you have given it tonight, I see much that I do not understand, and yet much that I do; and I think your presentation of the three points of Love, Faith and Hope, and the representatives of those Divine attributes, is deeply wonderful, and in the Focalization, of which you will be the Head, the Focal Point, I feel that the Power of the LORD can be expressed more safely and more effectively than at any time perhaps since the Master left this realm. I feel it is wonderful beyond words.

Ann — Uranda, I feel very humble and grateful to the Lord for this holy presentation that you have given to us tonight, and I will say, as Kathy said, that while I do not understand all the points you have expressed, I feel, and I have the courage that, as I trust and obey the Lord and let His Will be done, I will fill my Place, to His Glory and to the blessing of all mankind. Praise the Lord.

Grace — I feel the absolute absence of any fear, and I am filled with a deeper feeling of thanksgiving than I have ever known, for the privilege of being a part of the focalization of Divine Womanhood which I feel here tonight. I feel that the Unit is truly at the place now where it can begin to ask In His Name, that the Will of the Father may be done through His Instrument in the earth.

Lillian — And as you are that Instrument, Thy Will shall be done on earth.

Uranda — So be it. O LORD of Lords, I thank Thee for the beginnings of that function in realization by reason of which Thy Will is being done, and shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven; for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Aumen.

© emissaries of divine light