Wednesday, October 01, 2014
The Dawn of a New Day
The word Shekinah describes the evidence of the
presence of the One Who Dwells. In seeking to understand the real meaning of
Shekinah we have recognized three aspects with respect to it: the cloud of
glory, the light that glows, and the fire that burns.
If there is to be worship of
the Lord there must be an altar. The altar provides the place of worship, the
means by which contact is made with the Lord, and therefore must relate to the
evidence of the presence of the Lord. The altar obviously is not the evidence
of the presence of the Lord, the physical form of the altar, but there is something
about the altar that is—it provides the means by which the evidence may come to
be known. We see this altar as a living altar, composed of physical substance,
the physical forms of people, but again it isn't the mere fact of the physical
form that is the evidence of the presence. There is something about a physical
form that gives that evidence. The glow of life, should we call it?—the cloud
of glory.
The altar of the Lord is composed of human beings in
form on earth, and it provides the place of worship on earth. The altar of the
Lord is, then, characterized by Shekinah. There is the cloud of glory, which is
the evidence of life shining round about—the evidence of the life of the angel
of the Lord individually speaking, the evidence of the presence of the Lord
collectively speaking. It is to this altar that people may come to worship God.
The altar simply gives evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells. There is
something about the altar that does this. Initially it's the cloud of glory,
the fact of beautiful life, glorious life. We know the presence of life because
of the physical form. The altar must be there to know it. The life, which
characterizes the Lord, cannot be known unless the altar is present, the
physical form is there.
The evidence of the presence of the Lord is made
abundantly clear when there is an altar of the Lord on earth to which people
may come to worship because the cloud of glory is there; it shines round about.
But initially speaking there is no temple, just an altar, just a place of
worship to which people may come if they will; not to worship the altar but,
through the evidence of the presence of the Lord, to worship the Lord.
The altar of the Lord permits the glory of the Lord to
shine round about, and it is this which makes possible the true worship of God
to be restored on earth. It can't occur at all unless there is an altar at
which the Lord may be worshipped. Insofar as mankind is concerned, and in fact
all that is on the surface of this earth, there must rightly be an altar which
makes possible the evidence of the presence of the Lord in a specific sense,
for people to worship.
The Lord is made known by the evidence of His
presence, by the Word made flesh. His nature becomes comprehensible in this
way, so that it may be given worth, value. That is worship. People come in
yielded response to this place where the evidence of the presence of the Lord
is and they are transformed, and the temple begins to take form round about the
altar. The temple is filled with the glory of the Lord. The temple is primarily
mankind, but it becomes a temple only as there is an altar first. Then the
glory of the Lord may fill the temple and shine round about that again in all
the earth, through mankind. But the rebuilding of the altar comes first.
This relates to what has been called the priesthood,
the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was King of Salem,
King of peace—after the order of the King of peace; after the nature, the
character, the quality, of the King of peace. This is the priesthood. The
priesthood gives this evidence on earth and they compose the altar, the means
by which the body of mankind may worship the Lord. People all through the ages
have been seeking the Lord, seeking some way of worshipping Him; but the altar
has been missing and so it has been a vague thing, so vague to some that they
decided there wasn't anything present, there was nothing to worship. It becomes
vividly evident that there is something to worship as the altar is rebuilt and
the glory of the Lord shines round about.
Shekinah!—the evidence of the presence of the One Who
Dwells, revealed by reason of the altar of the Lord, by reason of the
priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. Orderly, true to the true design,
and of the quality and nature of the King of peace. When the altar of the Lord
is rebuilt on earth there is a place of worship on earth, and the children of
men may come. Some will come. Some are more interested in building their own
altars and calling on their own gods. But the word of the Lord is spoken
through Shekinah, "Come unto me!" The altar itself is a vibrant
invitation to come again to the Lord. To the extent that there are those who
accept the order of Melchizedek for themselves the priesthood begins to take
form and the altar of the Lord is rebuilt. The glory of the Lord begins to
shine round about as the light that glows again.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Focalization Of Diety
That Your Joy Might Be Full
from Focalization Of Deity
Uranda April 10, 1954
These things have I spoken unto
you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full
I doubt if there are many here tonight
who would say that they have reached that point where their joy is full. Each
one here has shared something of that joy, but there are still those parts or
places in body and mind and heart where there is that which is not joy, that
which does not give joy. But our Master said: "These things have I spoken
unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be
full."
It is God's desire, God's longing, that
we should know the joy of the Lord. In another place the Master expressed it
with respect to those who revealed themselves as good and faithful servants.
"Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." How can we enter into the joy
of the Lord and let it come into life in the fulness of that which is of the
divine design?
It is in the fruit of our lives that we
find satisfaction, that we begin to know the joy of the Lord. The Master
indicated that it is through the Word, the Word of the Father, the Word of
truth, that we may become clean. To purge is to cleanse, and we are to become
clean through the Word of the Father, the Word of truth. We remember His word,
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"—free
of those things which contaminate, free to enjoy the clean expression of life.
We recognize that from the standpoint of
our healing ministry, if there is some ill condition the great need is that the
body should become clean, and the cleansing must be carried out until the
temple is clean. As the process of cleansing takes place the process of healing
takes place.
"Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved
me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide
in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might be full."
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Implications
Implications
Martin Cecil August 5, 1979
From time to time I receive letters, or
indication from certain ones, that while they had a sense or feeling of
agreement with what I was saying, they didn’t really understand everything I
was talking about. If anything could shock me this would, in most instances.
Now we utilize certain words, and have done over
a long period of time. If I have to go back to square one and start all over
again to acquaint everyone with what we are talking about when a certain word
is used, we would never get anywhere, would we? I think I have a right by now
to assume that there is understanding. I think this matter of a lack of
understanding tends to give indication of a cop-out. The individual has never
bothered to develop implications for himself.
In another letter of response I had, the
statement was made that everything that needed to be said was said in one
service; all the implications were there. That is true—just one service, each service. Everything that needs to
be said is said in that service. If the individual will follow out the
implications, he will have just as much understanding as he assumes I have. If
I give evidence of some understanding it is simply that I have taken the trouble
to follow out implications.
I don’t have a special pipeline out of heaven
somehow which acquaints me with all the information that is needed about
everything; nothing special at all along that line, merely a willingness to
move in the current of the spirit and allow the implications to be made known.
And who has no ability in this regard?
I would suggest that if a person reaches the
point, when things are said, where he is inclined to excuse himself by saying,
“Well I have a feeling of agreement with this but I don’t really understand
it,” maybe he is the one who should go back to square one. Why should it be
supposed that it is necessary for me to make everything clear to everybody? Why
don’t you allow it to be made clear for yourself? That is the only way it will
be made clear. I may give you a feeling of making something clear to you but
you discover later that it wasn’t made clear to you because you didn’t participate
in anything more than the hearing; you didn’t follow out the implications; you
didn’t take the trouble to do so.
I am speaking to you generally. I’m speaking to
a lot of people generally besides those who are here present this evening And
there are those who are here present this evening, and there are those
elsewhere, who have followed out implications and have allowed a clarity to
come, so that when I speak of things, immediately they are right there. They
know what I am talking about. We need to keep moving forward, and if anyone
finds himself with a blank, with no sense of understanding, then that person
had better go back and start from square one again.
If everything that is needed is provided in each service, all the implications being there, then surely on the basis of all the services that have been given all the implications should have by now been absorbed into a second nature, so that when I begin to speak about something there is a flood of the implications into consciousness immediately. That is what is meant by agreement, by being together, by moving in oneness. If you’re sucking your teeth, or whatever you do when you don’t understand, if you are sitting there doing that, then you are utterly worthless.
What floods your consciousness when I begin to touch upon something which you have heard before? These attitudes which arise indicate that the individual thinks that I never said anything about it before, this is the first time; therefore they can't understand. Oh yes you can! Everyone can understand if they have not only heard but done something, and one of the things to do is to follow out the implications. Don’t ever claim for yourself a lack of understanding. That is an indication of the fact that you are embedded in human nature and are determined to stay there, because everything necessary to understanding has been provided. When you have heard the tone and your life reverberates to that tone, you have understanding; it is there.
One of the ways this is sometimes put is this:
“I don’t understand it with my mind.” Well probably that is because you never
learned how to think. That is sometimes presented as though it were a
reasonable excuse; but your mind is for something, you know; it’s not supposed
just to be a blank. When there is movement with spirit there is unfoldment in
an understanding of implications because the individual takes enough trouble,
enough time, to let it happen.
This is what I have been doing over the years:
following out the implications. Perhaps I have done it too much, so that you
felt that all that was necessary was for me to follow out all the implications;
you didn’t have to do anything because I was going to provide it. But what I
can provide is just a drop in the bucket relative to what should be provided by
us all together. I can follow out my line of implications, but how about you
following out yours? Then there begins to be substance to our understanding.
You begin to share in something which carries impact. But if just left to one
or two people to do it, it is very thin.
This relates to what we were talking about this
morning of the need to speak, act, as one having authority, and not as the
scribes. Each one properly carries authority of his own. Never trade upon
someone else's supposed authority; that is a cop-out. Either what you are
saying is true because you are saying it, or you’d better not say it. Don’t use
anybody else to back up what you are saying or what you are doing. Whatever it
is you do, take responsibility for it: “I am doing it because I’m doing it!” If
you shovel it off onto somebody else, that is a sign of pretty weak character,
isn’t it?
If we all took responsibility in this moment for
everything we do, how long do you think it would take the world to be
transformed? There is a tendency to look at the concept that is held of
restoration: “Well it is going to unfold somehow or other, and one day—a little
over the horizon yet—it will be here.” But from our standpoint surely we can
say, “It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. I will
take responsibility for this myself, the water that is my responsibility to
give into my world.”
Some of you may feel that you can trust me to
give the water of life freely into the world. All right, let me do it; but you
do it for your world! When we assume responsibility for our worlds we do not
hesitate to give expression to the spirit of God in our particular
circumstances, our worlds, our environment; but we do it for ourselves. After
all, nobody else can do it in your world. So we each do it, and when we do it
there begins to emerge into expression what has been referred to as the holy
spirit. Here is the outpouring of the holy spirit. Human beings sit around
waiting for the holy spirit to pour out upon them, give them a good soaking.
Well the opportunity for that has been provided, I think, over the years in
this ministry. Something has been poured out in abundance to give everybody a
good soaking. But we are collectively responsible for pouring this out to give
the world a good soaking.
We know the tone. Let us see the
implications. You’ve heard what I’ve had to say this evening. You’ve all heard
it if you were listening and not dozing. This indicates that there is also
something to do. All that is necessary is to acknowledge the reality of the
tone of life and let that tone of life sound in one’s own living; that’s all!
Then one will find that everything falls naturally into place. There may appear
to be contradictions in external form but they only appear to be that way as
long as a person is not moving in the current of the spirit in the expression
of the true tone of life. As soon as he does that everything harmonizes.
So we acknowledge the fact that we understand.
If we can still convince ourselves that we don’t, or if we haven’t had sufficient
opportunity yet to become really acquainted with the tone of life, then let’s
go back to square one and start all over again; because it is all there, it is all there! As was
certainly correctly indicated, even in one presentation the implications are
all there. Let us not admit that we are so lazy that we couldn’t be bothered to
find out what they were, but rather let us be in fact sons and daughters of God
who carry responsibility for the world, and we are quite willing to receive
whatever of the world the Lord would present us with. He presents us with
whatever it is we are in position to handle now. We handle what we handle now—there’s
some more coming! There’s quite a bit more coming. There is an immense backlog
of human garbage.
We are here to let this
be handled as it should, so that the world may be transformed by the spirit of
God, which is the expression of our living; but this requires intelligence and
understanding. We can easily handle what it is that is being brought to us,
what it is that is on our plate. It wouldn’t be on our plate if we couldn’t
handle it. Let us have that assurance. And if we think we need more know-how
somehow, well let’s be diligent in discovering what that know-how is for
ourselves. Let us not expect someone else to hand it to us. No one else can
hand it to us! We can only know it on the basis of our own discovery of it.
Then we know it.
If you think you know something merely because I said it, have another think! You know something when you are capable of saying it and know that it is true for yourself. You don’t need any backup on that, because it is the spirit of God which is finding expression because you are present. So let it be always.
© emissaries of divine light
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