The Law Works With Terrible Certainty And Exactness
Anniversary Meditation
Uranda
September 13, 1953
Having recognized the reality of
polarity, under the Law, and the need for centering so that we may truly be
with one accord in one place, we need to recognize something of the principles
and processes by reason of which our togetherness, in the state of being with
one accord in one place, may begin to have meaning. The physical presence of a
number of individuals in one place, in one room, does not signify accord; it
does not signify togetherness.
As we serve we are dealing with
pressure, but pressure, as such, does not cause weariness. Pressure, as such,
does not cause difficulties within ourselves. We can deal with pressure without,
in any sense, being upset, or disturbed, or limited. It is not the fact that
there are pressures in the world, or pressures here or there, but the violation
of principle within the scope of the One Body, that causes weariness. Most
human beings tend to have a blind spot wherein they fail to see their personal
responsibility in the range of violation. This reminds us of the Master's
Words:
"Judge not, that ye be not
judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged, and with what
measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again, pressed down, shaken
together, and running over."
"With what measure ye mete,
it shall be measured to you again."
"As ye sow, so also shall ye
reap."
"As ye forgive others their
trespasses against you, so also shall your Heavenly Father forgive your
trespasses. But if ye forgive men not their trespasses against you, neither
will your Heavenly Father forgive your trespasses."
Human beings seem to imagine that
illumination must relate to some grand and awful secret, some great and
mysterious thing, some tremendous outworking. There are great and mysterious
things in the cycles of illumination, and I would not detract from those, but
we need to begin to realize deeply that illumination relates to some simple
things, to some little things.
There are flashes of reaction
which tend to appear, there are ill attitudes or harsh attitudes which tend to
manifest, which are not always recognized as the violation of these basic
principles. Sometimes they seem to be little things, sometimes they seem to be
justified, and sometimes the individual acts as if he didn't even know what it
was that found expression through himself. He goes on and acts as if it never
appeared, and he expects everyone else to act as if it never happened. But
where there is a violation of the pattern, it is injecting destructive behavior
into the body of the whole, and it cannot be cleared away by merely closing
one's eyes to it, by trying to act as if it never happened. Something has to be
done to clear the vibration.
There is one thing that has always
struck me as being rather strange, rather on the amazing side. Individuals who
seem to imagine that they have special license to break the pattern in some
fashion, to do something that disrupts the vibratory cycles, say something that
is harsh or inconsiderate, some sharp-tongued expression, some lack of control,
expect others to just take it. They seem to expect it, because they are that
way. But if I started to move on the basis of dealing with them as they deal
with others, their howl would reach to high heaven. They would be the ones that
would blow up first.
Why does it take so long for
people to learn? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
There has been a stubbornness and contrariness and reactionary expressions,
snappy attitudes, right here. I seek to meet such issues in the services,
generally. I offer a solution in the services without dealing with the
individual on an individual basis, if he will accept it that way. Sometimes
people go right on, exactly as if I had never said a word that applied. They've
got blind spots, perhaps. They can apply it to their neighbor but not to
themselves.
"With what measure ye mete it
shall be measured to you again." The Law works with absolute certainty.
What shall I say? With awful, terrible certainty? It is. With terrible
certainty. With wonderful exactness.
Think you that we are going to
share the experience of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit while these
principles are being violated? No. There will be
an outpouring of some spirit but it will not be the Holy Spirit. "Judge
not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be
judged." Perhaps results will not manifest in the moment. Over and over
again, I have seen people when results start coming back. Oh, they are hurt. It
starts coming back. They have to pay the price, but they do not like it. The
Law works with terrible certainty. With wonderful certainty.
What do you think would happen if,
for one week, for seven days, you actually measured every attitude, every word,
every thought, every deed, and expressed nothing but that which you were
willing to have come back to you, released absolutely nothing in thought or
word or deed, in attitude, but what you were willing to have multiplied an
hundredfold and have that come back to you? For just seven days? Do you suppose
it would make any difference?
It is going to come back; whatever
it is, it will come back. Let us be more careful of what we sow. Let us be more
careful of what it is that we measure out and ask others to receive at our
hands or at our tongues. This is something that any one of you can do in
relationship to yourselves. I am not asking you to try to apply it to your
neighbor, your husband, your wife, your friend, whoever it may be.
These are the little things that
reveal the quality of your service. Maybe you can get by with it for a little
while, but are you ready to pay the price? Only the right can secure the right
results, step by step. Are you ready to face your responsibility in these
things? Until your are, you cannot, will not, share in that greater outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, which we call Illumination. You cannot know what it is to
abide in the Shekinah Cloud of Glory, or know the illuminating wonder of the
Light that Glows, or touch the unspeakable wonder of the Fire that Burns, until
you take this step.
If you think we are not a large
enough group to do it, you are wrong. It could be done with just two or three.
Let us remember that only as we come to Center and abide in true polarity under
the Law, letting the pattern unfold according to the Divine Design, can we be
in position to let the Truth make us free. When we are actually living "Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you," we will be on the Way.
Blessed Ones, I cannot emphasize
strongly enough the vital importance of these things. Think upon them. Meditate
upon them. Watch yourself concerning them.
I have heard people say, "But
I've tried it, and it doesn't work." Oh no they didn't! They did not. They
did not let it work, because it does work. We need not labor under the pattern
of futility, getting nowhere. If we let it work in ourselves, it will begin to
work through us just as surely as the sun rises and sets. It is absolutely
certain.
No Discords
from The Shekinah Fire
Uranda June 14, 1953
The body of the man or the
woman is supposed to be an Ark of the Covenant, a manifestation of the temple
of the living God, a specific place that is supposed to be holy and sacred
within which no ill vibrational pattern may be found.
Wherever there are stress
patterns in the vibrational factor at any level, the evidence of the presence
of the One who dwells is withdrawn and only when the patterns of accord and
true peace are again made evident can there begin to be the restoration of the
manifestation of the evidence of the presence of the One who dwells.
When it begins to appear, we
have evidence that the creative field has been maintained, that there have been
no adverse vibrational factors, no discords, no resentments, no critical attitudes,
no conflicts, no fear, for where these things rule we never see the beautiful
glowing light of the cloud of glory revealing the evidence of the presence of
the One who dwells.
Human reactions, patterns of
attitude such as resentment, and the whirring of the endless rounds of
meaningless thoughts, or so-called thoughts, maintain a condition which
prevents the manifestation of the light that glows, and the cloud that forms,
that in season the cloud may become still more dense, and the glowing light begins
to appear as if it were a fire.
As long as human beings are
more concerned about the expression and manifestation of their own ideas and
concepts and desires, their own pattern of thought and word and action and
feeling, than they are of the manifestation of the evidence of the presence of
the One who dwells, they will have their reward: the privilege of expressing
that which they think they think, which they think they feel, which they think
they believe, which they think they wish to do; but none of these things bring
peace or satisfaction or the glory of living. Only the futility and the
emptiness of the processes of dying.
Remember well that wherever
there are vibrations of conflict, resentment, any ill attitudes whatsoever, you
keep yourself shut out of the cloud of the Shekinah and contain yourself in the
cloud of darkness.
Wherever there are
resentments, frictions, conflicts, within or without, within the individual or
between individuals, you cannot know the beauty and the wonder, the glory and
the peace, of the Shekinah, the manifest evidence of the Presence of the One
Who Dwells, everywhere, always.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Funeral Service
Martin Cecil August 8, 1954 2 p.m.
We are assembled here
on this beautiful Sunday afternoon, the 8th day of August, 1954, in the Chapel
on Sunrise Ranch to undertake a most holy and sacred task, and to give honor
and to pay tribute to Bishop Lloyd Arthur Meeker, Head of the Church of the
Emissaries of Divine Light, and his wife, Kathleen Meeker, also Albert
Ackerley, one of the outstanding leaders in this Ministry, and the two
children, William Van Duzen and Sharon Call.
Always, when we come to the times of parting, there
is a sense of sadness, a sense of loss, Even when we move about on the surface
of the earth and are parted from our loved ones, there is a certain sadness and
sense of loss, But to so many human beings, mere is such a seeming finality
about what is called death. What is the fundamental cause of that feeling of
loss? We may say it is apparent the ones whom we have loved are not with us any
more in person, and consequently we miss them. But in relationship to that
thought, is it not because there is such a seeming gulf—a thick veil, between
that which is called visible here on the surface of the earth in relationship
to physical things, and a realm here or anywhere which is supposedly invisible.
Human beings put so much store by the outer manifestation, by the appearance.
We recall our Master's words when He said: “Judge not by the appearance.” That
was a command, you know, and in relationship to this particular tragedy there
is an appearance which has caused some to judge a little bit and wonder why, to
speculate. It is not that God would not show us why, but that if we are
disturbed, if we are subject to any of the ill spirits which are so prevalent
in the world, and self-pity is one of them, we cannot understand or comprehend
that which God would reveal.
The physical body is very important. We could not
be gathered here together, associated with each other this afternoon, if it was
not that we had physical bodies. The physical body is given meaning, not by
reason of itself, but by reason of that which is revealed through it, and when
the expression of True Being is made manifest through any human body, that
human body, that human being, becomes meaningful in the world. But the
expression of True Being itself is invisible until the evidence appears in form
by reason of the physical body. The expression of True Being which gives
meaning to any human being, is invisible and we are functioning in relationship
to that invisible pattern constantly, every day. Seemingly the
physical form blinds us to the fact that we have this direct contact with that
which is has seemed to be invisible.
The characteristics of Being
that make an individual life worthwhile, are all invisible things until we
begin to see them by reason of some action, some word, that appears through the
physical form. But once that True Expression of Being is absent from the
physical form, the physical form has no more meaning and consequently there is
a need, decently and in order, to return the substance to the realm from whence
it came, and that is part of our task this afternoon, but to my way of
thinking, only a very small part, for that which has real meaning is the
expression of True Being which is no less a reality now than it was before. If
we insist that there must be the individual human form to make the expression
of True Being meaningful to us, then we are likely to be very sad and distraught.
But when we recognize that the reality of True Being in relationship to each
one of these loved ones is just as real now as it has ever been or as it ever
will be, then our cause for sadness is merely a personal thing to us, that we enjoyed
having our loved ones with us in person, but they are still with us insofar as
the expression of True Being is concerned. And perchance there is a certain sadness
insofar as they are concerned, because they do not have the Instrument, the body
by which they could be with us in person. But that should be the extent of our sadness,
because the Reality is not lost. It is just as surely present now as it ever was.
We have known our Bishop for varying periods of time. He has provided us with leadership.
Leadership! Did you ever see leadership? It is invisible. He has been our
friend. Did you ever see friendship? I do not think so. You may have seen the
evidence of it in form, but the invisible quality is invisible. You have seen a
manifestation. All the characteristics that made Uranda so meaningful to us
were, in fact, invisible, although by reason of his physical form we began to
recognize them. Can we not still recognize them even though the form is no
longer with us?
His
beloved wife, Kathy, one whom we have all loved deeply, revealed to me at
least, and I think to all of you, the expression of True Being, of womanhood as
the expression of God created it to be, just as Uranda revealed the True Being
of manhood as God created it to be. And anyone who knew them, actually knew them, loved them. It would be impossible to
have known them without loving them. Love is an invisible thing. And Albert,
the invisible qualities of Being, of manhood, of faithfulness, of dedication—so
many. I do not enumerate these things—I could not list them in any case—but I
do not innumerate them as some sort of platitudinous eulogy. We know from our own
experience, in our own lives, the reality of them. Meaningful things, yet invisible
things. And the little children. Bill and Sharon, they were moving forward in
the Way of Life, not having yet come to the point of expressing the fulness of
the true qualities of their "Being", but there were evidences of it, precious
evidences of it, invisible things that were taking form and becoming meaningful
on earth. Oh, yes, it is quite true that invisible things need to take form in
this realm of things if they are to have real meaning in this realm of things.
And so it is that we have opportunity of providing form for the expression of
True Being, that which is invisible, for that which is yet with us. We do not
only give honor and pay tribute to these our loves ones just by sharing an hour
of Service such as this. The real tribute is that our lives should continue to reveal
that which we saw exemplified in theirs. And so, this particular Service should
be but a starting point, a starting point leading into unlimited fields of the
revelation of the expression of True Being in form on earth.
God is so good to us. He has given us so much, so many
blessings, let us make sure that those blessings are not wasted. Let us make
sure that the lives of these our loved ones, are not in vain. This, to me, is
the true meaning of our Service this afternoon. This carries the current of the
Spirit of God and allows it to begin to take form on earth in the days to come
with ever-increasing beauty and wonder and glory. And so we are not really
parted from our loved ones. They are here. And do you think that in the True
Expression of Being they are any less interested in the purposes for which their
lives were given when they were here, the purposes of God, the fulfilment of
the purposes of God on earth. Let us not let their lives be in vain. Human
beings have been inclined too much to let our Master’s life to have been in
vain. We do not see very much of the fulfilment of His Promises on earth. Let
us not make the same mistake again, that neither His Life nor the life of our
Bishop and his wife, Al and the children, may have been in vain.
Our most gracious and loving Heavenly Father, we
thank Thee for the privilege of sharing together in the invisible things or Thy
Spirit, that these invisible things may begin to take form and become
increasingly meaningful on earth by reason of our lives, for we know that all
things work together to perfection for those who love and serve Thee, and we
would let our lives be dedicated to that purpose more fully than ever before,
so that we may be in position to become what we ought to be, what Thou didst
create us to be, and to fulfil those purposes for which we came into the world,
to Thy Glory and to the blessing of all who will receive. We thank Thee for the
lives of these our loved ones, their precious lives, so precious to us, and let
us keep them precious and sacred so that the same Spirit which was in them may
be in us, and the same dedication that was in them may ever be our dedication,
that Thy Kingdom, O Lord, may come on earth because it is given form, something
invisible given form, something that is at hand which may be given form. And
Thy Will may be done in earth as it is in Heaven, in the invisible realm. For
Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory forever, IN the Christ. Aum-en.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
