World History

World  History

As  Viewed  by  the  Third  Sacred School

Uranda   September 23, 1943   Winnipeg Service

We recognize that it is necessary that we avoid sensationalism. It would be comparatively easy to arouse ourselves and others in some fashion through sensationalism. We know that a degree of emotional response, that is, feeling response, is necessary, but it is so important that we remain balanced, walking in the Central Way, serenely. Sometimes it may seem to you that we deal too much with the practical, prosaic phases of life. Sometimes you may feel that you would like a little more of that which can be classed as sensational. But we have seen so many people get to circling up around in the clouds of human concept; it seems that they have so completely lost their balance that they have no way of getting back down, and we need to keep our feet on solid rock. It is perfectly permissible that we perceive the seeming mysteries of life, the more phenomenal phases of things, if we remain balanced, and if we make our day by day activity prove that we are ready and worthy to look into these mysteries. 

Tonight, if it is pleasing to you, I had thought that we could spend some time very profitably going back and reviewing some of the history of the world—not world history as it is taught in the ordinary school course, but world history as we think of it in the Third Sacred School, and then from a viewpoint of that world history, look ahead. Of course, if we were going to do this subject justice; for instance, if I had a group of individuals—William and I were indulging in a bit of wishful thinking the other day—how nice it would be if we could have individuals who were really responding gathered together in one place, in more or less ideal circumstances for a solid year. No financial strain or environmental situation to pull you away, to take your undue attention, or outside world experience, but just go apart like that for one year, and in such an intensified period of training and instruction, etc., this that we are going to touch upon lightly would probably occupy our time and attention every day for about six months, and then I would not say that we could cover it completely in that time—an hour a day for six months. In one evening we shall have to be content with the high spots. Some of the things that we touch upon tonight we may have touched upon before. Some of them should be new to you. 

We know that the world as it was first created—the Divine Estate—was one with Heaven, i.e., the world that then was and Heaven were one. There was no evil separating the two, and as Divine Man functioned it was in a full Consciousness, or as full as might be necessary at least, of the activities of the Inner Planes; but when man fell and brought about the turmoil that has since existed, a division as far as man was concerned was established—a veil beyond which he could not penetrate.

I have mentioned that in the Motherland when man first fell, areas were set apart where the fallen ones were placed and a vibrational wall was established so that they could not go through that wall unless they responded to the Lord. It was impossible for them to penetrate that wall. As evil beings multiplied and increased it became necessary for those who remained in the Divine Estate to withdraw from the world because their presence gave fallen man undue privileges and opportunities. A number of things happened. The wall that had separated fallen man from Divine Man, here on the surface of the earth; was simply moved to a point where it separated fallen man from the Inner Planes. In other words, the so‑called veil or point of separation that we now have between this outer world and the Inner Planes is identical in nature and structure, and so on, to that wall that was used to confine the fallen ones in the first place to any allocated area in the earth's surface. That should open up something to you. I pointed out that these wayward ones could have walked out through that wall into the world of Divine Man at any time if they had been willing, completely, without any reservation, to let go of their evil ways and to harmonize in the ways of God. Since that is true, the same thing applies now. That should give you something to think about.

I pointed out in our last Service that the veil that was rent asunder in the temple at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus is a symbol of the way the veil will be rent asunder in the world, opening up an interplay between Heaven and earth, the Inner and the outer planes. It will be because that veil is rent asunder that we can, in due season, see Jesus and the Host that is with Him. This wall of limitation that was established around fallen man—and is the wall of limitation as far as God is concerned—is still established around fallen man. When those who were functioning according to the Divine Estate withdrew—the greatest number of them, a few remained, a few went into what we might call Asia Minor at the present time, and a few remained in Atlantis, but the majority of them withdrew—that meant that the Cosmic Vibrations flowing into the world had to begin to function through the consciousness of fallen man, whereas before they had to function through the Consciousness of Divine Man who was polarized in Reality.

The earth up to that point was polarized according to the way it was created, but when that Cosmic Force began to flow through fallen man, the earth itself was thrown out of polarity. The subterranean supports of Lemuria crumbled, and the Garden of Eden, amidst flames of fire that burst out of the bowels of the earth, vanished below the waters of the Pacific. The high points of the Motherland remained as the islands of the South Pacific; Australia, too, was a part of it, just to illustrate, but it went completely under also and Australia did not come back until Atlantis went down a thousand years later. There you have an explanation of the deserts of Australia. It came up again when Atlantis went down. So that portion that had been a part of the Garden of Eden was returned to man, but to a very great extent was exceedingly barren. It was no longer the Garden that it once had been. Of course, various portions of various continents were beneath the waters during that interval, also—the entire area known as the Sahara Desert is a point of illustration; and most of the State of California. What we know as “Death Valley” was all under the waters of the ocean. Various portions farther north and in the south were under water—in Arizona, for instance, New Mexico, and some of Texas. So that this continent was to a very great extent submerged when Lemuria went down, and then it came back up again at the time of the sinking of Atlantis.

There were large portions of the Orient as now known—the famous Gobi Desert—underneath the water for a thousand years. All this is interesting from the standpoint of geology, but it is basic in helping you to understand some of the things that happened, some of the vibrations that work through human beings now. At the same time, whereas there had been slight seasonal changes—it had not all been just one monotonous day following day—there were some changes. The world's climate had been very nearly tropical up until that time. The extreme north country had animals that we would now find in the tropics—if there are any left. They were similar in nature. But when the earth shifted the extremes of seasons began to appear, and in the extreme cold of the north this water that was thrown out from the bowels of the earth, and came to surface of the earth for that period, froze in the extreme north.

The true teaching was retained in Atlantis, and Atlantis was given an opportunity to return to God. This great cataclysm that had overtaken the world should have made men and women turn to God. It did for a little while, but in Atlantis the machine age developed, a machine age that surpassed anything at the present time, and man depended upon the machine rather than upon God. And finally it reached a point where those Divine Men and Women who still remained as teachers in the world had to withdraw, because human beings insisted on walking in the way of evil rather than return to God. So they ascended, and the earth was thrown still further out of polarity, and this further shift in the earth's axis—not necessarily in the same direction as before—caused all of this ice that had been formed up here in this north country for a thousand years to begin to shift. It caused these various portions of the continents to rise up from underneath the water again (Australia, etc.); it caused new mountains to appear, and it caused this great sheet of ice that had been established in the north (the land was lifted and the earth shifted on its axis) to come sliding down upon this continent here, and there immediately followed what has sometimes been called the Ice Age. The ice moved south on the earth and moved pretty well down into the States, as you know from your study of geology.

Now consider the areas that had been under the water. They were naturally without any population. Atlantis went down; geographical changes took place pretty well all over the world and there were great tidal waves. This is what the Bible speaks of as the Great Flood. And you can readily recognize that there were very few people remaining upon the earth, and those who did remain were faced with living in entirely new conditions, new climates, without transportation, or any means of communication. There were just little groups here and there that survived and those that were not particularly hardy and strong and fit soon perished. There was a sheet of ice that had come down through here throwing things up in general. It was cold and miserable and there was not much to live for, you would say, in that day. But there were those who were obedient to the law of self-preservation.

However, within a very few years—500 years roughly—the memory of Lemuria and Atlantis was virtually forgotten, though dim legends were passed down from generation to generation. Those who remained were forced to live like animals, under extremely difficult conditions. There we have in that period of extreme hardship what the archaeologist is inclined to call the days of the cave man, because it was in the caves that those who survived the catastrophe took refuge. There was a scarcity of food, wild animals, and only a few people survived. Those few began to gradually increase in numbers until finally man reached a point in his progress, some 5000 to 6000 years ago, where he began to record his doings. He developed systems of writing. There was then a period of somewhere around 5000 years, from the time of the submersion of Atlantis and the catastrophe of this ice sheet, until human beings progressed sufficiently—in Egypt, for instance—to begin to make a written record. From that point on we have recorded history covering about the past 5000 years, but up to that point our ordinary histories have nothing to say. There is a brief history, then, which goes back roughly over the last 25,000 years.

As man began to replenish the earth, God established a way by which he could again become aware of the things of God. In the Motherland there had been Seven Sacred Schools, but man had gone down to the very bottom and had been slowly coming up again from the days of the cave man. The First Sacred School Melchizedek established through Abraham, and then it was continued trough Joseph and Moses, and the people were carried finally into the Promised Land. And in this experience, through the portrayal of circumstances, fundamental principles of the world release into Reality were made manifest. But Israel, once in the Promised Land, everything going more or less nicely, became content and ceased to expand Spiritually. Human beings do not seem to be able to stand prosperity. When everything is going nicely they turn away from God. They forget God until the days of adversity. And so, the children of Israel failed. The First Sacred School failed.

Jesus came and established the Second Sacred School. This teaching was working from the basic standpoint of the mental approach so that the world could have been transformed and carried into the Ideal State at that time if the world had responded, but it would not. We find that in 300 A. D. the Light that He had established was pretty well blotted out and for a thousand years of stagnation the world had to endure the Dark Ages. In the 13th century the expansion began to manifest. Knowledge began to increase because the prophecy says that in the latter days knowledge should be increased and many should run to and fro. Satan was loosed, knowledge began to increase and it has been increasing with intensified speed during the last 600 years. And so we come to the present.

Looking forward, we see that the same principle that was working at the time of the submersion of Atlantis and Lemuria must be reversed to bring the New Earth State into manifestation. I told you the other evening that I anticipated touching upon this verse: “And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth: for the first Heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.” What does it mean, there will be no more sea? Because the continents that have been submerged are to arise. The earth is over three-quarters water now. It will be over three-quarters land. “...and the islands shall flee away.” How would an island flee away? The continents will arise. Where are the islands? They are the tops of the remaining mountains. But it simply says that the continents shall arise. They will arise where the oceans are.

That means, then, that there must be established a dominant focal point of consciousness in the world

which will, in due season, take over the control of the mass consciousness

so that the Cosmic Vibrations will begin to work through the polarized consciousness of those on the earth,

and that will throw the earth back into polarity.

As that happens, the continents will arise. The earth will again be in position to be Eden, Paradise restored. It will take a long time, comparatively speaking, from that time until the evil works of man will be eliminated from the face of the earth. The Bible specifies a period of about a hundred years—one hundred years of reconstruction after the earth has been thrown back into polarity, and after the continents have been brought back and man is really functioning from the standpoint of the New Earth State. We see, then, that our own harmonization in right polarity, and what we do towards maintaining and establishing more fully that right polarization, is essential for the salvation of the world and for bringing the earth back into true polarity so that the New Earth can manifest. Someone has to do it—has to stand so steady, so constant, through the coming period of turmoil that the right polarity of consciousness will be established. When the evil forces of consciousness have crumbled by their own evil, the focal points of Reality will be unveiled and will permit the Cosmic Forces to begin to right this wobbling old earth upon its axis, and then will come the beginning of the New Earth State.

Of what value is all of this to us here and now? It helps us to have a clearer understanding of what is taking place, what God has provided for the salvation of man, and what is to take place. But we have definite problems to face. We are confronted with the necessity of living in the now. The First Sacred School and the Second Sacred School left records of activities which are of vital importance in working out in this Third Sacred School. We could go back and study the various events, for instance, clear back to the time of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob and Joseph as experienced in Egypt, and in all of those things we find correspondences to the activities of the present. It is of these things we would study fully if we had the six months instead of just tonight. So, we are going to skip that part of it and come up to the point of the Second Sacred School, from the life of Jesus on, and consider that in relationship to the present, particularly the latter part of His activities on the earth. Just prior to His crucifixion, He was acclaimed by thousands, but as soon as there was a little questioning, somebody whispering and talking, someone not sure that it was wise to be seen with such a man, what happened to the thousands, the ones who had cried, “Hosanna to the King?” Where were they? Very discreetly they departed—discreetly according to their own human concept.

We stop and consider Christianity, the modern church, as now known. I am not finding fault, I am pointing to the facts. But if all those who had classified themselves as Christians had been functioning according to what the Christ Life meant, do you think that the present circumstances would have worked out as they have? No. Christians were given an opportunity, as few people have been in this modern day, to so live that the world could still have been carried into the New Earth State without complete crucifixion. We see that, don't we? Millions who have been classifying themselves as Christians; nations who have been classifying themselves as Christian nations, and what has happened? We have thousands or millions crying, “Hosanna to the King.” Everything was lovely and they thought they were going to get something for nothing. But when it came to the pinch of everyday living, of really standing effectively, they discreetly departed, as in the days of old. They did not think.

If these millions had been functioning in the power of God, this old world could not be in the shape that it is now. So it is in the day by day activity that individually, and collectively, the peoples of the world have been judging themselves. And as it came close to the time of crucifixion in the world the power of Christians, as such, was not very strong. The war came, and so the crucifixion is in process and will continue until the end of the present conflict. The church has been on trial, everybody has been on trial, as Jesus was on trial. And you see how in the last few years, as Jesus was on trial back there, so have all the people on the face of the earth been on trial. As that trial miscarried in so far as justice and mercy were concerned, so came the beginning of the present conflict in the world. There are those who would like to say, “Oh, well, it was just Hitler, Mussolini and so on.” It does not detract anything from the character of those individuals to recognize that they could never have gotten into power if that which was not like unto themselves was not in nations. Just some puny individual over here, I do not care how vile he is, how scheming, he cannot work and climb to the top and get into power without degradation in the world. The very manifestation of such creatures does what? It condemns the world itself. The very fact that such creatures can manifest and go to the top shows the state of the world. It is not just those nations alone but all other nations too, because if greed and selfishness had not been working through all nations, such a thing could not come to pass. So, we are not just dealing with two or three individuals, we are dealing with the fundamental condition that contaminates humanity. How is this condition to be removed? Through this process of world crucifixion.

What happened after the crucifixion of Jesus? He was taken down from the cross. What is it the world is being crucified on?—on the cross of the self-willed human body and its lust and greed and everything else. Then after the crucifixion, what? The tomb. Do you think that just as soon as the crucifixion is over everything is going to be alright? No. They may have thought: everything is going to be alright, just as soon as we kill the Son of God. We will hang Him on the tree, and everything will be all over. They were not thinking, were they? The world hangs itself indeed. They thrust the sword into the side of Jesus. Today they thrust bayonets into their own sides.

Then comes the period of the tomb. We are in the period of the crucifixion now, and will be for some little time. There is nothing established about it. The period of the crucifixion will continue until then. But then the world is to be placed in the tomb—the world itself, because the blackness of the tomb will be engulfing this world more than ever, and it will be only those who are polarized in the Life, in the understanding of the things of God, in the realization of the Presence of God through the Father within, who will be able to carry through the period of the tomb and emerge victorious as Jesus did. The period of the tomb won't be over in a week or two. It can be shorter or longer, but it will be a period of the tomb and the things which Jesus prophesied will manifest still more fully then—famines, earthquakes in diverse places.

You have noticed how in the last few years earthquakes have increased. The old earth is trembling on its axis, getting ready for the shaking on its foundations which will return it to right Polarity. The period of the tomb will carry up to the time of the shift, and that will be the rolling away of the stone from the tomb when that takes place. Comparatively few of the human beings now living will be able to carry through that period, but no one will be able to carry through unless—I am not saying all evil ones, because there will be some who are working contrary to the Will of God will carry through clear past that point—but in so far as we are concerned we recognize that to carry through successfully, through this period that is before us, we have to be polarized in the Source of Life, we have to be willing to work under limited conditions, we have to have our lives so fully dedicated to Service that little else matters. Here we come to a time of a few years of intense world suffering. We are in it already. The Fire of God coming down from Heaven is devouring all the people of the world. Either we respond in Love to it, or we fight against it and become destroyed.

Now one of the great questions is: Can we face these facts and consider these things and not become fearful? Does it make you afraid when we paint this picture as it is unfolding in the world, or can you look at it calmly, serenely, and say, “Let it come.” It is better to have these few years of intensive suffering and have it over with, than to continue for thousands of years, dragging out the misery. People are so prone to say, “Well, if we could just return to normal times.” What normal times? The best time you can mention in the scope of your memory in this present life, or back in recorded history? What shall we say—the boom of the twenties—many suffering—everybody stepping up on everybody else's neck. It was called wonderful times. But the world was full of rottenness. There was misery, suffering and death. What was so wonderful about those times? It is just a little worse now. It is a matter of degree, as William is wont to say. How true: We have not had any normal times since the time that man fell and we will not have any normal times until we get back to the Divine Estate. Well then, we are not looking for everything just to be OK as soon as the present conflict is over, and we know that misery, suffering and sorrow are going to continue until they are wiped out and until the New Earth State emerges victoriously. It is that to which we look.

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men.” Rev. 21:1. Now we can take that statement as applying just as prophetically to the period that is described. But, if it is to be true then, it must be true now—perhaps not seen just as fully. The tabernacle of God is with men, has been all the time. All men have to do is to see it.

What is this new Jerusalem? It is the new Spiritual Consciousness, the understanding of Divine things as seen from the Spiritual standpoint. Instead of looking at it from the old standpoint—external effects—we are looking at it from the new standpoint. To the degree that you actually function according to the principles of the Third Sacred School, you are letting the Fire of Heaven come down, letting the New Jerusalem manifest. The New Jerusalem is the new Spiritual Consciousness. It is just taking place to the degree that it is permitted to, but ultimately it will take place in the world. In the past, people have looked at things from the physical and mental standpoint. Now, making an adjustment, we are looking at things from the Spiritual standpoint, from the standpoint of Spiritual perception, of the point of attunement between man and God, to stand in the Holy Place. We see that as we let this New Jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven, what takes place? All the former things are caused to pass away. We are not trying to maintain the former things. We are not struggling for the former things. Yes, for the things that were before the fall of man, we have to go back a long way. We are working in the present so that we may have a part in that fulfillment. “Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, write: for these words are true and faithful.”

Has this review of the world's history helped you? Do you begin to see more fully what the life of Jesus means to us in this period? Can you see how this is the period of the crucifixion? After Jesus arose there was a period before they recognized Him. Mary Magdalene saw Him, but did not recognize Him. So then, after this period there will be a time of adjustment, but finally the people will be able to see Him as He is. And that is what is called the second coming of Jesus, when the people can see Him as He is, and when the veil is seen to be rent in twain. It is already rent in twain, but does not seem to be. And so, we see how He pictured for us the days that are at hand, and how it will be after the world resurrection into the New Earth State. The stone is rolled away from the tomb, the world is thrown back into polarity, for the former things are passed away. Is this pleasing to you, although all around is darkness?

The old world won't let it be any quicker or better. Is that a beautiful picture instead of the darkness that is between this point and that Goal? The days are to be shortened for the elect's sake. It will be shortened as much as possible. But the world will have to learn to let go of the unreal, let it crumble. We must not cling to it. We will have to realize it and let it go. Isn't that right? If we cling to it we will be carried out with it. Is that a hard doctrine? It is the doctrine of Love. You are to serve God and others likewise. We are asked to respond to the Lord in love, but we cannot save the individual who will not let himself be uplifted. Each must make his own choice. We cannot make it for others.

It seems to me that as we have been able to go over this rather rapidly, we should close with something we have heard before. Some things are always new, and to me that holds true for the 91st Psalm. This is a beautiful poem and such a revelation of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In the days to come of the world's passage through the tomb, if the pressure becomes too great, it is very good to turn to that Psalm and remember as you read it or think about it, you will be able, in Spirit, to return to this hour, this moment, and to hear it again as we consider the Way of God together—to hear it again as it has been expressed tonight. There are such depths in it, such lovely promises, such power. This is a benediction to you and to your household. Until I return, will you remember that poem and keep it close to your heart?

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Vibrational Design — Scintillating Strong Beautiful

Vibrational  Design —  Scintillating  Strong  Beautiful

Martin Cecil   May 6, 1981

Assembly — Sunrise Ranch

It seems that there's a factor in human consciousness these days, particularly, that might be summarized by the word instant. There are all kinds of instant foods. People can't take the trouble, or think they haven't the time, to let a cycle work out naturally. And so, catering to this impatient state in human beings, all these instant things put in an appearance. We are surely well aware that there are proper creative cycles. There are times and there are seasons. There are natural pulsations. 

One principal aspect of education was to come into a conscious awareness, in actual experience, of what these are; not merely to nod heads in agreement and say, “Yes we know there are Four Forces in sequence, and the various cycles come and go, the wheels within wheels; we know all these things”—but what are they? And how associated with them are we? There are times and there are seasons, certainly. And there is a need for a recognition of what it is that is not there yet, what it is that is just beginning to put in an appearance, what it is that is in the bud stage, and what it is that is ready to burst forth in flower. Otherwise we get all things mixed up and we're trying to produce the full-blown flower when the shoot hasn't even appeared above the ground. 

Now if we see all this in a practical way we recognize that everything that is transpiring within the range of the responsibility of which we are aware relates to these creative cycles and we need to see things in this way. As has been noted, almost every activity that emerged in the Emissary ministry has been judged adversely in various ways by different people—and certainly judged adversely by those who are looking in from outside, so to speak, completely unaware of what was happening. Even those who were inside were unaware of what was happening, for most of the time. But here a creative cycle had been working.

We've seen them working out over the millennia. And more particularly now, we see them working out over the last two thousand years, and taking various forms in various ways. We've noted how the orthodox pattern of Christianity, for instance, took form the way it did and the gnostic views were shelved to one side, because the Lord is, one might say, very intelligent. He understands what He's doing and how these creative cycles are used to advantage. There are certain limitations in the operation of these cycles until the point of conscious awareness could begin to put in an appearance. It had to work out in a more or less unfocused way in order to move somehow toward the point where this focus could begin to appear. Now it's been doing that, and who can say that any event that occurred was not necessary. It's all part of whatever has worked out. 

The same thing is true from the standpoint of our field of encompassment once we begin to be conscious of the fact that there is a field to encompass. And in that field of encompassment there are many things working out. We are careful not to judge what is happening until we can discern the way in which these things relate to our field of responsibility. We don't jump to conclusions, in other words. We don't immediately throw something out because we don't understand how it relates yet. Let things alone—there is an unfoldment taking place. 

Basically there is this vibrational design present—as revealed somewhat in Kirlian photography for instance—but it doesn't relate merely to the physical structure; it relates to far more than that, which is not being photographed, which few people, apparently, have any awareness of at all. We begin to have some spiritual discernment, so that we are aware that there is a design. The truth is true—it really is; and there it is. It can't be any other way. So everything is there. All that is necessary is for it to be filled out in living form, which means that it isn't a structure. The Lord deals in life and so any structures that put in an appearance, insofar as His view of the matter is concerned, and insofar as the truth is concerned, are imbued with life. It's an organic process. 

So this has been happening consistently down through the ages, that eventually the thing might come to point, there might emerge a conscious focus from within the body of mankind. Mankind, after all, is responsible—made in the image and likeness of God so that God might be on earth. So what is happening emerges from within the body of mankind. We find ourselves associated with this and beginning to come to a level where we have a conscious awareness of what it is that is happening, rather a restricted one at the moment but nevertheless something that is coming into increasing focus to be seen. There's a lot more to be seen but we're content with what we see now. 

Along the way there has obviously, for some time, been a point of focus in this conscious sense present on earth. It's expanding out and including more people now. Because of that point of focus there could be a recognition of various things that were happening, and enfoldment of those things, and encouragement of those things, and a working with those things. This had to be the case with respect to the development of Sunrise Ranch, for instance, or with respect to the development of what happened at the Hundred. All these things, all these areas, have been specific in their development to the extent that there was someone present who had a consciousness of what it was that was happening. Most of the people involved didn't have a consciousness of what it was that was happening. They may have sensed that something was happening; obviously it was. And there were some bright ideas about it, and many concepts were developed which had little relatedness to what was actually happening. But what was actually happening happened, and things emerged on the basis of the action of the spirit of God. And it could be an intelligent unfoldment to the extent that there was someone present who had the required intelligence. Uranda was here and he had the view of what it was that was happening, what was needed to happen at that point, and all along the way there had to be the provision in this regard which, as I say, has now multiplied out, proliferated out, so that there are those present here, there, and all over the place now, who have some conscious awareness of what it is that is happening. 

There needs to be care taken, then, that one doesn't look at some, even one's own, field of encompassment and say, “Well this shouldn't be happening.” How do you know it shouldn't be happening? Maybe it's an absolutely essential part of what should be happening—we take that attitude anyway. And when we begin to have some spiritual perception we begin to sense what it is that is moving, and we can shepherd things a little this way and little that way so as to keep it on the rail, so to speak. Then there needs to be care taken not to look over the fence at something else happening somewhere else and judge that, because we need to have a wholeness of encompassment, and know that if something is working out in our own area it is working out everywhere else as well. So we can have an enfolding attitude toward all that is happening. 

So there are many things that have happened, are happening, and will happen, within the range of our awareness. And remember that most of the things that are in the range of our awareness come to us secondhand, at least secondhand, maybe tenth hand, so that what we think we know about something is not the way it really is probably at all. We're content to let things be the way they are working, without any expectation that our minds are going to be able to determine just exactly what it is that is happening or, certainly, what it is that should happen. Leave it in the hands of the spirit. We are that spirit. 

We have mental capacity, which is a little bit puny in a way, that is capable of handling this little thing and that little thing that happens to come up against us, but it tends to be very incapable when it comes to the larger picture. It doesn't see things the way they are at all. But in spirit there is a knowing of the way things are. There is a certain assurance. And there is, on the basis of this knowing, which isn't a mental knowing. Let us disillusion ourselves from the idea that knowing is some sort of intellectual grasp. It isn't. The intellectual grasp usually prevents knowing. It's only when the grasp relaxes that we begin to know something, because we're always trying to cram things into the picture that really don't belong there at all if the intellect has anything to do with it. The intellect may be a useful tool; in the world the way it is it seldom is. From our standpoint it needs to be, but it needs someone on hand—that is the angel, who knows, and who therefore provides the spirit of patience, for instance, to the mental activity. “Stop trying to figure everything out.” That's what the angel says to the mind, “Relax! It's all right. Let it work the way it's working, actually, and not the way you think it should work.” Patience is just the first step, isn't it? 

So there begins to be something knowing on earth. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Now when that quote is used, it is usually thought of in terms of God, somewhere, making the statement—but from our standpoint it's not that at all. It's the statement that is made by one who knows: “Be still, and know that I AM God. I provide the point of focus for what it is that is happening in the creative cycle, according to my particular field of responsibility. My field of responsibility does not stand alone; it includes the fields of responsibility of all angels on earth.” So that's one aspect of our business: the business of knowing.

We've defined that in other terms: representing God to the people. There is the other aspect too: representing the people to God. And the people are somewhat confused, aren't they? They don't know. They don't understand. Well if we represent the people to God, I suppose we need to realize that, from the standpoint of our representation in that direction, we don't know: we don't understand; we don't see it. But we are bringing together these two aspects. Representing the people keeps us humble; representing God gives us an absolute assurance. When the two are together in experience there is the facility on hand by which the fulfilment of the purposes of God inevitably come. So here we are with these dual roles which blend together in oneness. We are at the crossover point, representing God to the people, the people to God.

Now this design is present in God Whom we represent, the design that essential to the state of man. It's there; we don't need to manufacture it. It's present already. It has been hidden because there has been no one adequately to proclaim it. We're here to proclaim it—not to try to educate people into understanding what it is, but to provide education which allows people to come into position to let it be revealed what it is. There's quite a difference here, you know. It's not filling people up, it's emptying people out more than anything, so that there may be room enough to receive what is all ready present, so that this which is already present may not merely be discerned by some super Kirlian photography but may be filled out with flesh—so that it is revealed and there is no argument. There it is. The flesh is there because there is a larger revelation than is possible merely through the flesh. The flesh includes much more. 

The beautiful essences of being emerge into expression because there is the focus of knowing on earth, the focus of dominion and control which is not imposing anything on anyone but is allowing what has eternally been present to be revealed in living form, principally through the flesh of human beings, at least in the initial sense, because that is the immediate requirement in the purposes of God: that man should be present, that God should be on earth and capable because He has the facility to act on earth and to do what is needful in the creative process, which certainly involves the earth, but far more than the earth. 

Now we have a dawning awareness of these things because we have a sensing of what it is that is already present. What it is that is already present is moving, it's living, scintillating; it is strong and, above all, beautiful. We share in the knowing of this. We find ourselves with the necessities of the small fields of our creative action to let this knowing imbue whatever it is we need to do. And we find, then, that our fields of action combine—altogether it becomes a bigger field of action because of that, and we become aware of more ramifications to it. But it always starts right with the individual where he is. We only begin to be able to encompass the larger ramifications because there is a larger body which is composed of individuals with small parts, so to speak, to play. We find those small parts do expand because they become related to what is happening from the standpoint of the whole body. 

We do the works individually, and we're delighted to do those small works. Oh that there might be those who are aware of the value of small works. Let the works be done that thereby the greater works may be done because they're done by this collective body of individual people who are delighted with their small works—and they're not getting big heads about all the things they're going to do. 

So we share in the focus of knowing. We begin to see this knowing is perhaps not such a tremendous thing as we might have tried to make it in times past. It is what it is, for each one individually and for all together in consequence. Because we are part of one thing we begin to be aware of the knowing of the whole in greater measure. But we do not claim the knowing of the whole as a personal possession. We can't grab hold of it as individuals. We can participate in it and let it be there because our knowing is there—our little knowing. “My yoke is easy; my burden is light.” It truly is so.

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