Spiritual Intimacy

Naked  and  Unashamed

from   Spiritual Intimacy

Martin Cecil    August 5, 1973

 

And so we come to the cool of the day, and should be reminded that the voice of the Lord walks in the garden in the cool of the day. When we hear that voice we hear the word that is spoken: "Where art thou?" And hearing that beautiful sound, and the spirit of those wonderful words, we cannot help but instantly answer, "Here I am."

This day we have shared the outpouring of the spirit in a service this morning and in other events which have allowed us to draw close as a family, and we come finally to this evening hour when we easily hear the voice of the Lord because we have been hearing it throughout the day. If we love the Lord our attitude is clear with Him and there is no need for fear, no need for shame. But if we cling to the self-centeredness that we have known in the past, then we are likely to turn away from Him and hide ourselves once again in fear and in shame.

Why is there fear and shame in human hearts? Because of the working of the Law—the Law does work; and as we give, so do we receive. There is fear and shame because there is basic dishonesty; we are dishonorable in our attitude toward the Lord. When there is fear and shame there is the endeavor to hide or to escape; but finally we reach a point where we know there is no escape, so that we may come once again to our senses and face what needs to be faced with honesty.

 

We have undertaken to look into the mirror of self-revealment—the jadestone, as it has been called on occasion. We can only do this when we are really honest, so that we are looking to see what is there and not to escape from what is there. Until we are this honest it can be said that there is only potential hope for us. It is not enough to look once, glance once, and then quickly away—although this may be all we can stand to start with—but to come again and again. In the world the way it now is, this is part of the process of becoming spiritually mature—spiritual maturity includes all other levels of maturity in this world. This is the first necessity. So many people think they need to do so many things in so many other levels and ranges of experience before they could possibly come to the point of even considering spiritual maturity, but no other kind of maturity is possible without first spiritual maturity, and this requires that we draw close to the Lord.

 

The human view in this regard has been that all we need to do is repent and He will forgive us and pat us on the head and say, "Come close"; but that isn't the way it works under the Law, because the mere desire to repent is not repentance, and the mere desire to receive forgiveness is not to be forgiven. There is far more to it than that. It has been imagined sometimes that we can bring all our distorted state into the presence of the Lord and He will hose us down, so to speak, so that thereafter we may be pure. There is a need to be washed in the water of truth, four barrels three times, but this is done by the servant, or servants, of the Lord on earth. It is not done by the Lord Himself, principally because He's not on earth—this is something that has to be done on earth. So there must be those on earth who are capable of wielding the bucket, of pouring the water of truth upon the one who becomes repentant.

 

Some people find it quite easy to say, "I'm sorry." Others discover that it's more difficult. But words are not enough. Something always has to be proven out. We have a special opportunity here to prove these things out, an opportunity that is absolutely priceless, because in the same way it doesn't exist anywhere else on the face of the earth. If there are those things which have not cleared here they are going to have to clear somewhere else where it will not be so easy. This is the easiest place on the face of the earth, but it takes repentance, genuine repentance and real response—the open heart.

 

The hardened heart. It is the habit of human beings the world around, in every generation: hardening the heart toward the Lord, keeping it closed off, hiding behind the trees in fear and in shame. No one can hide from the Lord without being afraid and ashamed. No wonder this is general human experience.

 

And so we come in this hour in response to the voice of the Lord, with open hearts I trust, relinquishing fear and shame because there is a willingness to stand naked before the Lord. In using these particular words to describe an experience, we need to share the same spirit to understand them. Understanding and agreement between people is not possible on any basis whatsoever other than in the spirit of the living God. All kinds of techniques have been developed in the world with respect to what is called communication, but finally they are all worthless, because they do not allow communication. They are based in forms of various kinds, techniques of various kinds, and all these forms and techniques are in the end completely worthless, because the true communication is possible only in the spirit of the living God. Then the spirit brings forth its own forms; but the agreement is not established on the basis of the forms but of the spirit which is shared.

 

When there is a sharing of the same spirit, one person may permit a certain form to appear which presents an understanding from a certain position, someone else will do likewise, and the understanding will emerge from various angles, one might say, so the vision may be complete. But then it is all brought forth by the same spirit, and while individuals may have contributed to the complete picture that appears in form, that picture will reveal agreement, harmony, oneness. When human beings try to agree on the basis of forms, arguments ensue and conflict is generated; and no matter how much discussion there may be, or how much definition of words that are used or phrases that are incorporated into the printed agreement, nobody really agrees. Human beings never really communicate until they come again to the spirit of the living God, and then there may be communion with God.

 

The voice of the Lord may be heard in the cool of the day and the answer may be the true one. If it is the true one, of course the Lord doesn't really need to ask the question. Coming again into the presence of the Lord we may stand before Him with no dissembling, no attempt to hide anything. Obviously, if we attempt to hide something there must be a reason for that attempt. Like as not that reason will center in shame; if not in shame then in fear. Usually there is a fear that one is going to lose something—face, if nothing else—or that one's pretty baubles, which one has stolen, will be taken away.

 

This morning I mentioned embezzlement. All human beings, without exception, have undertaken to embezzle life, to steal from the Lord. The Law works, of course, very effectively—enforced accurately and justly. That's its nature. It's the nature of God. And if we have stolen life we land up in jail, in prison, a prison which becomes harsher as time goes on, because probably our embezzlement continues, even behind prison bars. It's not too comfortable there, but it is said that even in prisons of this human world the harshness can be somewhat alleviated if one has a little coin of the realm. So the individual seeks to embezzle a little more. But the working of the Law is absolutely just. Human beings complain about injustice. Nonsense! The Law works justly.

 

Now the Lord is not like human beings are sometimes in relationship to those who have done criminal things—the true Law works, so that if a person begins to restore what has been stolen the harshness of the jail sentence lessens, and when everything has been restored he is out of jail. What a just law! But everything must be restored—no holdouts of a little nest egg on the side. If we are interested in restoring our lives to the Lord, to whom they belonged in the first place, we are enabled to do so, not merely because we don't like it in jail but because we have come to love the One from whom we have stolen and it grieves us at our hearts that we should have done this thing to Him. So there is no question but that we will undertake to restore every jot and tittle, that all may be fulfilled.

 

Everything we have extracted from the Lord must be returned to Him; not reluctantly, not with an attitude of bargaining, but with an attitude of deep thankfulness that we have the privilege of doing it, because without that privilege there would be nothing left but absolute desolation. So here we see how it works in our own experience, and how we may, if we will, participate in the process by which we are released from prison. And why would we be anxious to be released from prison? Again, not because it's uncomfortable there and the food's bad, but because we find ourselves in position to live and to serve with ever-increasing effectiveness, no longer restricted to our jail cells. We come forth because we love the One whom we serve, and our whole life is restored to His service. Not one jot or tittle is retained for our self-centered selves. This is the way. Whether anyone likes it or doesn't like it is beside the point.

 

There are two directions a person may go: either his jail becomes more oppressive, until he ultimately lands up on death row, or he moves out of maximum security to lessening security—he becomes less of a risk to the Lord—until finally he comes out in freedom because he knows the truth of himself in his own life, which is wholly included in the life of God. Restoration! And as there is this restored love for the Lord there is a consequent willingness to find all that has been stolen and give it back to Him, a delight to do it, a thankfulness that it's possible. Even at a late, late date it's still possible, but the sooner the better, and the sooner the easier. Then, as it is restored to Him, we find an increased communion with the Lord, the basis for spiritual communication with our brothers and sisters. And this is the first necessity, the thing that is usually put quite last in human experience, if anyone even thinks of it.

 

The first thing nowadays seems to be physical intimacy, and that is a vile thing. Physical intimacy, when it is right, stems from prior spiritual intimacy, and prior spiritual intimacy is impossible between two human beings until there is first individual intimacy with the Lord. As there are those who do begin to yield in spiritual intimacy with the Lord, then we can begin to consider the truth. And there are those who will stay to consider it. Starting to talk about these things while everybody's bent on physical intimacy, as though that were the primary fulfilment in life, would inevitably abort any creative experience. It only works when there are those who will sit still and listen, because they're not so intent on their own self-satisfaction anymore; they see there is something more to all this than the very low, decadent experience that is all that human beings have known for twenty thousand years. Isn't it wonderful that I'm able to say these words and there's a group of people who will sit there and listen?

Oh dear! We're all going to lose something most precious. Indeed? Too bad! But don't you believe it. What we are in the process of losing in prison is life itself, and we're worthless without it. We can't have much enjoyment even in physical sex if we're dead. So let's grow up and put away the childish nonsense and begin to recognize what it is that comes first, what our first love really is. Until we wake up to that we're not honest; we're still indulging in our criminal activity—and where the Law works the way it does in the cosmos, to jail you go. Nobody ever gets away with anything. Imprisonment is certain, but we begin to see how there may be an emergence out of it, out of the intensifying experience of utter desolation, the abomination of desolation; because human beings have allowed this abomination into the most holy place, and the most holy place relates to the place that is closest to God. The place that is closest to God is the place where man shares the creative capacity. That, in human parlance, has been called sex. That is the most holy place. The vast majority have defiled it. The attitudes of human beings in this area stink, to say the least, to put it most mildly. It is an abomination of desolation, rampant in the world today.

 

Spiritual intimacy comes first, and this is based in intimacy with the Lord, communion with the Lord—the reality of that communion. Let us experience the reality of communication with the Lord. But there can be no communication with Him—He won't commit fornication or adultery with anyone—until that person comes clean. Then it can be a true union. You can't lure the Lord into oneness with you on the basis of your self-centered desires. He stands aloof, and He can't be found.

 

All other communion is based in communion with the Lord. When you know what that is, you may begin to understand the ramifications of communion that extend through you to others. But if you don't start at the point which is the starting point, there is no beginning, and everything that is undertaken is an abomination. It brings creative disaster, if it could be put that way. It creates disaster. There is a way which seems good to a man, but which is in fact the way of death, and this relates very particularly to the realm of sex.

 

There is only one way that it may be right. I'm not talking about outer form. The divine design is not in the least promiscuous. It is just exactly what it is, take it or leave it. But when we take it we find that it couldn't be better, and that is the wonder of it. The way of the Lord is the way of life, the way of all life's fulfilments—unimaginable to the limited and darkened human consciousness. So, communion with the Lord first; and when this begins to be a reality His dominion is at work in you, the Law is working through you, and the true design of being can take form because you are on earth, even as it takes form through others who let it be so likewise, so that there may be spiritual intimacy extended.

 

I have always invited you to a spiritual intimacy with me, male or female. Why not let spiritual intimacy be without interpretation? It is human interpretation of these things that causes all the trouble, isn't it? It spoils the agreement. We do not have to interpret the meaning of spiritual intimacy, so as to try to make something out of it that would be pleasing to oneself. Immediately that is a self-centered interpretation, and immediately the spiritual intimacy is lost, it's gone. Let it alone. Let the spiritual intimacy grow and develop, that it may bring forth its own form in the seasons of the Lord; and the form that is brought forth may not, in its initial manifestation, be recognized by the individuals concerned. Isn't that a delightful thing? But then it becomes obvious to them, not because it is something personally that they require, or even that they particularly desire, but because they see it fits in the fulfilment of the form that is appearing in the divine design, brought forth by the spirit of God because first spiritual intimacy was shared.

 

Men very often have found it difficult to share spiritual intimacy with a woman without interpreting it in some physical terms, and vice versa too. Spiritual intimacy is an intimacy that can be shared between men, and between women, and between men and women, without giving it any physical interpretations at all. Human beings have filthy minds and they see everything through their filthy minds, and they judge, very often, spiritual things, which alone can be discerned spiritually. Spiritual intimacy is essential between men, and I thank God that it is beginning to emerge increasingly, and likewise between women, and likewise between men and women, without all concerned in that field imagining that they immediately have to jump into bed with each other.

 

Let the dominion of God be reestablished, that the right design may emerge without human beings attempting to force it into their own patterns of desire; and if it is allowed to emerge it is found to be the most wonderful and fulfilling thing imaginable, because it is not a matter of human beings choosing each other. As our Master put it, "I have chosen you"—"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you." The divine design is the divine design, not the human design, and the human design is a foul substitute for the divine design. There's no value to it whatsoever, and the quicker it disintegrates the better. But let there be the divine design to take its place, because it is emerging through you and others, based in a willingness to experience spiritual intimacy with the Lord first, and then spiritual intimacy with others; and then let the Lord put it all together. He will, if you let Him.

 

Here is the dominion of God. Here is the experience of those who are willing to stand naked before the Lord, who are no longer lurking with fear and shame behind the trees, who do not even have to answer "Here I am," because the Lord can see there they are!—He doesn't ask the question anymore. Let us share this fulfilment to the glory of God.

     

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Observations

Uranda   June 17, 1945

 

Down through the ages there have been two types of greatness, exemplified on the one hand by individuals who elevated themselves to places of power and authority and wealth on the blood and sweat and tears of those who were compelled to serve their masters's ends; and on the other hand, we have that greatness which is exemplified by those individuals who, without reservation, gave themselves to ideals and purposes which they conceived to be greater than themselves, and in which they inspired faith, confidence and self-sacrifice in the hearts and minds and lives of the millions who struggle to throw off the chains of bondage, that they may rise to the stature of men and women created in the image and likeness of God. In the human sense, all men are created equal, but the worth of the individual life, in relationship to humanity and before God, is determined by the ideal to which the individual gives himself and the degree to which that self-dedication causes him to utilize the fullness of his talents and potentialities in the achievement of that ideal. Regardless of color or race, he who uses his potentialities and his opportunities in the service of a worthy ideal is great, whether he appears to be so or not on the basis of the old world's standard of evaluation.

The hour of a new vision and a deeper realization is here for all who are awake to Reality, What the Master said 2,000 years ago is of little value except in an historical sense. It is what Jesus Christ our Lord says to us today that counts. As long as human beings relegate the Master and His words to a period of the long distant past, their power is ineffectual in this day and age. If those who conceive themselves to be Christians accept as truth the statement He made when He uttered the words: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," then they must, to be consistent, cease saying, "the Master said," and begin to say, "the Master says," for if He is to be more than an historical figure to us. He must be a living Reality in the present.  

The world that has been is dying. Drastic measures and frantic injections of various kinds may keep it from gasping its last breath for a little time, but even if the present crisis of illness is, in a sense, healed, it will still be an old world, nearing the end of its days. Those who cling to the old world, and pin their hopes upon it, will perish with it. Human beings, individually, cannot escape the approach of the Grim Reaper and neither can the old world, which human beings, in lust and selfishness and greed, brought forth and sustained by the life blood of humanity. The old world was born in blood; it lived in blood; and in its own blood it shall die. A New World is being born. Those who cling to the old world and seek to maintain that which is of the old world seek also to destroy the New World in its birth, thinking that by doing so they can keep the old world alive. By the Grace of God such a thing is not possible, but if it were possible, it would not prevent the death of the old world, and there would be nothing to take its place. Humanity would perish. Thrice blessed are they who rejoice in the birth of the New World, and into whose hands shall come the task of tending and caring for the New World in the days of its infancy.

Religion, as it has been known in the old world, is dying, and its death is as certain as is the death of the old world. The religion of the New World will not be derived from the religion of the old world; for the old world is not the father of the New World. The Father of the New World is God, and the brotherhood of humanity is its Mother. The religion of the New World shall be of the Father, and it shall glory in the brotherhood of man.

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The One Law — Sex In The Divine Sense

The  One  Law  —  Sex  In  The  Divine  Sense

from

  Sex  and  Spiritual  Intimacy

Martin Cecil   January 11, 1958

 

There is nothing indiscriminate insofar as the function of the priesthood in the holy place is concerned.

  

In the Book of Revelation there is mention made in relationship, particularly, to the four beasts and the four and twenty elders, that they would be made kings and priests unto God, to rule on the earth. The terms "kings" and "priests" might well provide us with a basis for meditation. A king, as we already know, symbolizes in the Bible the human mind—the king or Pharaoh or Herod, the human mind—usually in the fallen state. But, seeing as God created the mind of man, we recognize that there is a correct place for it, and that the king might not necessarily refer to the fallen human mind. Our Master is referred to as the KING of Kings. We have here something rather interesting. When He came into the world His approach in ministry was from the standpoint of the second plane, the mental plane, the plane of the king. The mind of man, when it was first created by God, was created to be a king on earth, to rule on earth. 

However there is that, of course, which is higher than the king: the priest. The priest refers to the correct function from the standpoint of the spiritual expression plane of being. So we have the mind, symbolized by the king, and the spiritual expression in you, in anyone, as it comes to focus, symbolized by the priest. And there is that which is above the priest: the Lord.  Insofar as you as individuals are concerned, that would refer to your own God Being. And there is, of course, that which is above your God Being. However you do not need to particularly concern yourself with that, because everything that is above your God Being is just the way it should be. The pattern is right; it is all coordinated; it is all integrated; it is all one thing. It is that which is below that requires attention: the level of the priest and the king. 

Now the king must be willing to come under the control of the priest in you, and the priest of course ministers before the Lord. The spiritual expression levels of your being constitute the realm of the priest. Now I suppose we could carry it further, below the level of the king, and perhaps we would use the term "prophet" in relationship to the physical aspect: prophet, king, priest, Lord. A  "prophet"  indicates the form on earth through which the word of God, or the act of God, finds expression, and could relate to the physical levels of being. The Old Testament, particularly, gives a record of many prophets, and we remember that the Old Testament has primary concern with the First Sacred School, that which was from the standpoint of the physical approach. 

When our Master came, His ministry was introduced by John the Baptist, who was considered as being the last of the line of prophets. Our Master indicated at one point that of those who were born of women he was the greatest, but that the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he. Here we begin to see movement from that level to the next: from the physical level to the mental level, the kingdom, the place of the king, the realm of the king. Now that kingdom, insofar as we are concerned now, is at hand by reason of something else: the level of the priest, the spiritual expression plane of being, which is the level of our approach. So insofar as each individual is concerned, then, there are these three aspects. We have spoken of them as body, mind and spiritual expression, and have coordinated these terms with prophet, king and priest. That is true of each one. When we consider the whole body of mankind we recognize that there are those who function from the standpoint of the priesthood, there are those who function from the standpoint of the king level of being and those who function from the standpoint of a prophet level of being. 

That which is needed on earth in order to make possible the development of the pattern according to the divine design is the priesthood, that which provides the connection between God and the king, between God and the means by which human beings function in a practical and meaningful sense here on earth. So we are particularly concerned with the development of the priesthood, because as long as the king of the outer mind tries to function without the priest, or without regard to the priest, as the case may be, we have the state of the fallen world: the mind of man separated from God. The priest provides the connecting link between God and the king, that which permits the establishment of government on earth. 

As we have noted, those who come into the holy place must come in completely, body, mind and heart. We cannot leave any parts outside. So the coordinated function of the three levels of being, as symbolized by prophet, king and priest, is essential to those who share in establishing the true priesthood on earth in the holy place—body, mind and heart; all of you—that there may be true men and true women, both serving in the holy place, together, in oneness, as a part of the body of the priesthood. This indicates the correct relationship between men, between women and between men and women—the right pattern, that which is truly fitting, right and proper in the sight of God. 

There have been many concepts developed, even in the scope of our own ministry, with regard to these things; but there is that which needs to be seen clearly, with understanding, in relationship to things as they actually are. We do not wish to hold theories or to maintain beliefs that do not harmonize with the truth. When we begin to move into a consideration of proper relationships within the pattern of the body of the priesthood in the holy place, we necessarily touch the realm that human beings think of as sex. Actually, of course, all of our considerations in relationship to the holy place and the things of God are concerned with sex as it actually is, not, certainly, simply as human beings think it to be, because their view in the matter tends to limit itself to a certain field in the physical plane of being. 

Now the human viewpoint in regard to that is very much distorted, of course, very limited, so we could not say that sex as human beings understand it is included in our consideration; but that which human beings have misunderstood in relationship to that level of sex is included in our considerations. Actually, as we have before noted, the One Law, of which you have some understanding, is very definitely related to sex in the divine sense, and all function relates to the One Law. When we understand how the One Law operates, finds its proper application with respect to any field of function, all fields of function, then we are capable of correct function, and that is function in sex in the divine sense. Now you can see that that covers a very much greater scope than what human beings usually think about in relationship to sex. But we cannot exclude those levels of sex which human beings have so distorted in their own approach to them, because it is all one thing, and the One Law finds application all the way through in relationship to all levels of being, with respect to all function. 

You can recognize that when you carry on a conversation with a person there is actually function in sex in the divine sense; the positive and the negative are in operation. I don't care if the conversation is between men or between women, or between a man and a woman, there will be that which finds positive expression through one, and if it is to be a true conversation there must be response on the part of the other, and then the pattern may shift around so that the positive is on the other side. We have in relationship to all things this function between the positive and the negative. Now to imagine that physical sex is involved in all these patterns of association is ridiculous! There are those who have attempted to make it relate to everything. It doesn't! Sex relates to everything, yes, but not simply that particular level of function in sex. 

So there is a proper pattern of relationship within the body of the priesthood which is contained within what we call sex, or we can use that word to describe it; but the pattern of oneness which is essential relates to the spiritual expression level of being. Those of you who have attended the Class on Sunrise Ranch may recall Uranda emphasizing the necessity for a server to establish a pattern of spiritual intimacy with the servee. Now that is exactly what it should be, spiritual intimacy. There are those who have not understood how to let it be maintained under proper control at the right level of being, and it has tended at times to move to levels where it should not be. 

If we are to function together in oneness in the body of the priesthood there must be that spiritual intimacy. But let us not imagine because there must be that spiritual intimacy that that somehow opens the way for intimacy to appear at the other levels of being, and particularly from the standpoint of the physical level of being. There is a divine design. It comes down from God out of heaven, and our concern in the matter is to receive it at the spiritual expression level of being, that we may establish a spiritual intimacy that does not cause anyone to imagine that somehow there will follow a pattern of intimacy which extends to the other levels of being. 

There is nothing indiscriminate insofar as the function of the priesthood in the holy place is concerned. There is an absolute control there. Those who serve in the holy place are of course servers, and there is the necessity of developing patterns of spiritual intimacy with those whom we serve, otherwise we cannot serve them in any effective sense. But the absolute control from the standpoint of that which is coming down from God out of heaven must be established and maintained. 

As I pointed out, as we move into the holy place, going on through the cloud of glory, there is an intensification of the light and of the fire. It becomes possible to see more, to understand more, to comprehend more in the light, and there is an intensification in the feeling realm, in the heart. That is what happens as we move on through. Now, I pointed out the dangers of losing centering, because the intensification of wrong feeling can come just as violently, as strongly, as the intensification of right feelings, should the centering be lost. But I want to make very sure that you are going to let things be under control as we move into the Shekinah pattern of being. 

There are many things in relationship to the patterns of sex in the physical sense which are fitting and right from the divine standpoint which might not be considered so from the standpoint of fallen human beings. But I would not wish anyone to jump to the conclusion that they know exactly what those patterns would be and that therefore they are capable of functioning in them, because that is not so. There are many things in the divine design that, because man has distorted them and established them on the wrong basis, are considered to be evil by man. They are not evil at all insofar as the divine design is concerned. But remember that the truth contains both the elements of design and of control. There is an absolute control. There is a right function. It is not an indiscriminate thing. That needs to be recognized most clearly as we move into the cloud of glory, so that you let the control be maintained where it should be, in the recognition that there will be and should be an increase of spiritual intimacy, which of course provides the basis for the pattern in form of the body of the priesthood. I do not want anyone jumping to conclusions! There is the need for control and for right function according to a sense of the fitness of things, on the part of both men and women. 

Our field of consideration is a difficult one to approach because of the tendencies of human beings to misinterpret what is said. Nevertheless it is necessary to say something and begin to develop some understanding with respect to these things. Above all, I am concerned that there should be control as we let the intensification come, for it will move through you, if you share in it, in body and mind and heart. Human beings so easily clothe what they feel with bodies of their own devising. An intensification of feeling in body and mind and heart so often causes the individual to indulge in vain imaginings. He interprets that feeling in relationship to this one or that one, instead of just letting it be what it is and let the Lord give it form in His season. There is a need for patience. 

Patience is one of the outstanding qualities or characteristics required by those who would function in the holy place; patience with yourselves and with each other, patience without judgment. Let each one come into the holy place in his or her own way. You all are coming. No one is excluded. Do not judge each other, but help each other. Be patient with each other. Be understanding with each other. As the natural increase of spiritual intimacy comes, let it be held under firm control, so that you do not start misinterpreting it. Even with the little intensifications we have had in times past there has been enough misinterpretation, and enough problems consequent upon it. 

As members of the priesthood, serving in the holy place, it is natural that we should have spiritual intimacy. We are functioning in the holy place, the spiritual expression plane of being. Let us let it be right at that level, held under firm control, so that you may participate in allowing the body of the priesthood to take its proper form in season. Do not indulge in daydreaming or in vain imaginings! 

I thank God that I have been able to touch on these things with you to this extent at least, that you may remember my words, that everything may be right and accomplished decently and in order, to the glory of God, that we may share together in allowing the body of the priesthood to appear on earth with that effectiveness which will allow the control from God to begin to be extended to the king, the mind of man. That control cannot come for the mind of man until there is established the connecting link, the means, the machinery, in the holy place.

You may begin to see, as you meditate upon these things, that the way by which the purposes of God are achieved on earth is really rather simple, and absolutely certain.  Let us share in giving the Lord the opportunity for the accomplishment of His purposes, as we stand together in close oneness in the holy place.

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