Sanctification By The Truth

Sanctification  By  The  Truth

Martin Cecil   January 10, 1982

I call to your remembrance certain words—through you I call these same words to the awareness of all people. These particular words are recorded in that great prayer of intercession—the words of Jesus, translated into English: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." Sanctification comes by the truth. The truth comes because the Word of God is spoken. Purification comes by love. Truth is symbolized by water, and love by fire. The water of truth sanctifies—the fire of love purifies and transforms.

Sanctification comes first. The Word of God in expression in living comes first. The water of truth may be poured forth upon those who are open and willing to receive it. You yourselves have had varying numbers of years of conditioning in this regard, but sanctification only comes when the expression of the Word comes forth through oneself. One may be inspired, provided with an example, by someone else through whom the Word is spoken, but even if this someone else is Jesus it does not bring sanctification; it does not cause a person to be holy unto the Lord until that person expresses the Word in his or her own living. Then there is sanctification, because the person is consequently holy unto the Lord. That word holy can be spelled two ways. Life becomes sacred, and the individual living is completely unto the Lord. No longer is anything held out for the benefit of the human ego, for the nourishment of the human ego.

There is baptism by water. Some have wondered at times why baptism seemingly has not been particularly stressed in the Emissary ministry. Oh but it has factually, not merely symbolically. Water has certainly been poured out abundantly; that is baptism by water, a conditioning process. But the sanctification comes not because of that sort of baptism, although it may be necessary to bring a person to the point of sanctification. It comes because the individual himself or herself is the Word in expression. Then there is sanctification, and the fire of purification and transformation may come forth.

Love in expression is always characterized by truth. Fire requires water, a seeming contradiction in the human view but the one way from the divine standpoint. And so water in abundance is provided to allow for the conditioning to occur through example and inspiration from someone else, but finally sanctification is essential if the fire is to be known. There is also, of course, baptism by fire in the sense of an enfoldment in love. This, as you know, has always been available, offered freely, but purification does not come merely by that. The truth of love must come forth in the glory of life if purification is to be known—if transformation is to occur. There is an evident sequence here which cannot be ignored successfully if the requirement of transformation is to be experienced—step by step we might say; and yet, of course, one step blends into another. The opportunity is being offered to human beings everywhere to be baptized. This is so if those who have the experience of sanctification pour forth the water, provide what is necessary for the conditioning of human consciousness. To whatever extent, this has been going on and we have some awareness of the effect of it. The effect has come mostly through inspiration at a subconscious level.

If there are those who are sanctified because the Word is finding expression in their own living, then the water is available to be poured forth—in fact it pours forth; you can't withhold it. So a conditioning process occurs in the world around us with human beings everywhere, and we have taken note of some of the evidences of what has been happening. It may be said that some people, at least, are awakening. This has been and is our particular responsibility, making possible the coming of the Comforter, the spirit of truth. As we have noted before, this occurs primarily at a subconscious level. Because something occurs at a subconscious level the conscious minds of human beings begin to be affected, because, as we have noted, it has been customary for people to be compelled by whatever it is that is present at the subconscious level. Having been so compelled, they may explain it consciously — rationalization — but the compulsion was subconscious. So we may utilize this fact from the standpoint of what we are calling now baptism by water. Let the conditioning process be a reality in the mass consciousness because there are those, ourselves included perhaps, who have some water to get the job done.  We well know, however, that this has not been enough in our own experience, and it is not enough for others either. The Word of God revealed and expressed on earth, individually speaking, is what allows the reality of sanctification to occur, to occur in our own experience and to occur in the experience of anyone anywhere.

So there has been, for us certainly, baptism by water, and also baptism by fire. Truth and love have been available for all who open their hearts and minds to the experience. By reason of this baptism some conditioning has occurred for us and consequently for others also, and love has been present to be shared. The conditioning of truth and the presence of love are simply the baptism. Only if that baptism initiates a living experience in the individual, so that the Word of truth is consequently spoken in living, has the baptism by water had any meaning. And so also with fire. We are primarily concerned with the truth, sanctification, so that we ourselves may be sanctified and be in position to offer the conditioning baptism to others. As I have said, this offering to others is for the most part at an unconscious level, unconscious to other people as to what it is that is happening, and yet consciousness is being conditioned.

We ourselves have found ourselves with the truth present, love present, abundant baptism in this regard. It has certainly brought conditioning of consciousness to us. The question is: How much sanctification actually has occurred? Sanctification means to make sacred, to make holy. How much awareness do we have as individuals that the whole of our living, every department of it, is sacred, is holy, so that we would never in our own expression allow defilement or abomination to enter in? Everything is sacred. No matter what we do, it is holy (wholly) unto the Lord, completely unto the Lord. How clear is our consciousness in this regard? Only as there is a clarity could it be said that we have been sanctified, so that we could never allow a thought to continue, or a feeling to continue, or a word to continue, or an action to continue, that was not holy (wholly) unto the Lord.

To what extent has sanctification been received? The answer to that question is that it has been received in exact proportion to the quality of our living, the extent to which our living is a revelation of the Word of God. That is what produces sanctification, and we are aware of that sanctification because all that we feel, think, say and do is recognized as being sacred. If there are dark or shady areas in our daily experience, we know that sanctification has not occurred, at least with respect to those areas. Sanctification reveals itself, because if for a moment some destructive thought or word or action or feeling puts in an appearance, immediately we are aware of it, and the word I suppose is, "Get thee hence, satan. What have I to do with thee? Nothing!" Here we begin to see how individually responsible we are. It has nothing to do with anybody else, does it? Someone else may hear the word we spoke possibly, if we spoke a word, but if we didn't speak a word, just had a feeling or a thought, then probably the other person is not too much aware of that. All these things are our own business. There is really no difference between the feeling and the thought and the word and the action. All of them are our personal responsibility individually speaking, to let them be sacred, holy (wholly) unto the Lord.

Because the baptism of water and the baptism of fire have been present we have all become aware of these things. We have become accustomed to our association with many, many friends; we can hardly go anywhere on the face of the earth without meeting them. Obviously, there is a closeness, regardless of such crosscurrents as may put in an appearance once in a while. There is a closeness, which has not always been appreciated as it should have been. We are surrounded by friends. This is true in a very close sense; but it is also true in the whole—we find friends all over the place. Love—here is an enfoldment, a caring—love. And we are, when the ego isn't too prominent, like-minded. We have a mutual understanding of the nature of truth and how it is that life tells all.

Do we not share a marvelous setting for our lives? Can we really think of anything that is comparable in the same depth anywhere on earth? Yet how often it seems that appreciation of it is lacking. Petty things come up and feelings are affected, thinking moves into wrong channels, wrong actions may appear, and wrong words. We have been provided with something so marvellous—marvellous one might say beyond human belief. If there is so much, and yet as individuals we do not find a stable consistency in our words, deeds, thoughts and feelings, what else in the way of a setting would make this possible, do you think? Of course this setting is there because of what has been contributed by all who are present in it, but why build with the right hand and tear down with the left? This marvellous provision has put in an appearance because of baptism by water and baptism by fire. We have had the easiest possible opportunity to reach a point as individuals where there is an absolute stability and consistency in the expression of the Word. If we are unable to reveal this in this most glorious setting, how would we do it if we found ourselves to be completely alone in the external sense? And yet, doing it when completely alone in that sense is sanctification. If there were no other people on the face of the earth whom we could count as friends, as individuals would we be capable of maintaining that absoluteness? This is what is required. We have been depending so much upon the setting where we are, while all too often complaining about it and thinking it should be adjusted someway. Why? To make it more pleasing to me, to oneself? Whether it's pleasing or not, one still has the responsibility of being right, of standing for oneself without requiring anything from anybody else.

The demand attitude which is rife in the world of human beings everywhere is an evidence of the fact that those concerned are not living within their means; it's proof positive. If anyone ever has a demand attitude, he is demanding something more—therefore the compulsion to demand something more is based in the fact that he doesn't think he has enough of whatever it is in whatever field. And if it is imagined that he doesn't have enough he clearly is not capable of living effectively within his means, the means that are actually there. You may have discovered that if you live within your means in fact whatever is needed for your greater service, your greater expression of living on earth, will be available. If you don't think it's there you are not living within your means. I am not just speaking about money, although that's an aspect of it because that is very prominent in human consciousness, isn't it? Spiritual means also is the primary factor. The money aspect, all the other aspects, will take care of themselves when one lives within one's spiritual means. Too many have great expectations which are way beyond the spiritual reality of their expression. Then they try to fulfil those great expectations and fall on their faces.

So any attitude of demand which you find putting in an appearance within yourself proves to you immediately that if you give any place to that, you are revealing that you are living beyond your means. There is no need to demand anything if you are living within your means; nothing else is required. That's right, isn't it? And if that is the fact in your own experience, immediately you will find that your field of living expands and whatever is necessary for that field of living will be present. But if you try to make it be present you have an uphill struggle, to say the least—it will all end in failure. We have the opportunity of living within our spiritual means, in which case there is no need to demand anything. "I shall not want." That was a precept that was offered a long time ago, wasn't it? But how many have really taken it seriously?—no demand, no attitude of demand, no feeling of demand. The attitude, the feeling of demand, vanishes away immediately one is living within one's means.

We do not demand friendship. We do not demand anything from anyone. We do not demand love, certainly. Love doesn't come on demand anyway. We do not demand appreciation. Appreciation may be something to be naturally expressed by one who speaks the Word but it can become a snare to those who try to live off the appreciation that is so expressed, so that they would die if it wasn't expressed. Perhaps that's taking it to an ultimate extreme but that is what the fact is. If you require to be appreciated to be right, you're wrong. Children require a certain amount of encouragement, and appreciation is properly expressed to children; but somewhere along the way the offer of appreciation begins to come back a bit. The individual growing up must do the right thing because it is the right thing, not because he's going to be paid for it. The payment may be appreciation expressed by somebody else. That should never be a controlling factor. We may smile and say "Thank you," but we remain unchanged inside ourselves.

Over the years I have received a certain amount of appreciation—almost to the point of adulation. All that is like water off a duck's back insofar as I am concerned, because I am me, and nothing anyone can do or say will change that fact. We all need to become aware of that. We are who we are. Someone expressing appreciation is not going to make us more so; someone expressing the opposite is not going to make us any less either. If we can be bolstered by appreciation we can also be torn down by criticism—they go together. We don't need it for ourselves; we make no demands for it; we do not want it. If it's offered we know how to receive it. Certainly it makes for an easy atmosphere if appreciation is there. Maybe then two or three can be gathered together in one place, and there is the truth in the midst of them, individually in expression through each. That truth is not dependent upon anyone else for it to be expressed by oneself.

Are we capable of standing alone? We prove this out by revealing our capacity to stand alone in this beautiful setting. There would then never be a flicker of complaint or criticism or anything else. Oh that we should be so privileged to have all this and to be able to stand alone as well—not to be required to stand alone, being the only one. And yet we must in fact be capable of that. If we are not capable of that we are a pretty weak brother or sister. We can hide behind the love that is present, the baptism by fire that is here; we can wash ourselves a bit, I suppose, in the baptism by water—but we remain impotent, powerless, futile, meaningless, until there is the reality of sanctification: sanctification first, purification and transformation in season. Sanctification comes by the Word: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." It is the only way sanctification can be known, the only way by which we may be holy unto the Lord. Let us acknowledge that way. Let us eschew evil, so that we may stand, each one, as an individual, incorruptible.

We have often said that we are and have been richly blessed. As we begin to emerge into a clear space within ourselves we become increasingly amazed at the magnificence of what has been provided. If we take it for granted and think of it as a little thing we have no vision. You know what happens to those who have no vision. But when we really begin to open our eyes and see, we are dwelling in heaven; it's a fact, and there is nothing anywhere that we could bring ourselves to complain about, to criticize, because everything to us is sacred, everything. And we make very sure that we keep it so from the standpoint of our own momentary living, that no one associated with us may ever be caused to feel, by our own actions, words, thoughts, expression of feeling, whatever, that where we are is not a holy place.

You know the truth which would be contained in the words, "Where I am, it is holy." Is that the truth in your own experience? If it isn't, then who are you? No one, evidently. Where I am, it is always holy; it is always a sacred place into which nothing that defiles or works abomination or makes a lie can possibly enter in. Let it be so, that we may associate ourselves with this prayer of intercession, or this particular portion of it: "Sanctify them through thy truth"—"them" includes everybody—"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth, spoken, revealed, expressed, consistently by me."

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Seven Spirits Before The Throne Of God

Seven  Spirits  Before  The  Throne  of  God

Uranda   March 17, 1952

from  The Divine Design of Man — Instruction Paper Number 43

Man has tried to function in relationship to the living of life without having a spiritual firmament. We remember that air is the symbol of Spirit, and we recognize the absolute necessity of establishing a firmament in the spiritual sense in relationship to ourselves, so that we are beginning, on the face of the earth, to function in the air of the Spirit. We have been considering those principles of Truth which are of primary importance in dividing the waters, so that we see the Truths that are above and the Truths that are below, with the firmament between, for water is the symbol of Truth.

Gradually there has been the development of this process in you, for if it were only intellectually perceived as a concept or idea it would be of little value to you. But gradually that process is actually taking place, so that you are beginning to be oriented to the Truths of life which relate directly to the physical manifestation—the body, mind and heart—and the Truths of life which relate to the vibrational realms of being which are invisible, or the inner plane factors, and which must be brought into play in relationship to the living of life if we are going to share in God’s creative processes on earth. Instead of a confusion of concepts about Truth we are gradually developing a recognition of the reality of Truth that applies in the invisible realm above and the Truth that applies in the physical realm where we live and move and have our being, in a manner which allows us to correlate the visible and the invisible. Recently we reached a point in our consideration where we recognized something of the various aspects of Spirit as they function through the seven planes of being, whether individually or collectively or from the standpoint of the whole world.

Now, it is needful that we should take a little time to meditate upon what happens when the human being becomes self-centered and consequently self-willed. We have recognized that as long as the body is alive there is something of the Spirit of God working in that body, moving through it, but the nature of the Spirit is not generally distinguishable. The nature of the Spirit working through the human being is generally so colored and distorted by human self-centeredness and self-activity that that which is of the pure Spirit of God cannot be seen and recognized, with the possible exception of the mere fact that the physical body is alive, in a sense at least—existing. But we are thinking of life in that vibrant sense which can be experienced only if there is a process of resurrection.

When the pattern of function is centered in center, so that by reason of Divine control the individual is a part or extension of center, the working of the Spirit of God through the individual is going to result in that which we have outlined: the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of the Womb, the Spirit of Life, the Spirit of Purification, the Spirit of Blessing, the Spirit of the Single Eye, and the Spirit of the New Earth. Each one is supposed to be a means by which center is more adequately made manifest, more actively made manifest. As each one stays centered in center each one becomes an extension of center, so that center has a means of expanding manifestation, a means by which the reality of the essence of center may be revealed in active form on earth. When the human being forgets to be God-centered and begins to be self-centered, there is always immediately a break in the pattern of control, so that self-activity begins to take the place of Divine activity. The very moment the individual begins to break from the pattern of control the pattern of activity begins to cause him to eat of the forbidden fruit. He begins to judge according to his own concept, or feeling, or attitude, eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and then the mind becomes stupefied and he imagines there is brilliance where there is only dullness. He imagines there is wisdom where there is only a lack of the sense of the fitness of things. He imagines there is knowledge where there is only ignorance. And he imagines there is beauty where there is only ugliness. He imagines there is righteousness where there is only sordidness.

All self-activity is destructive but when one begins to move into the pattern of the Divine design, when he begins to move toward that point of his own true focalization in being, the currents of life are increased, the patterns of the Spirit are manifesting in him in a manner which allows the Spirit to more effectively flow, and consequently a break from center is more disastrous, more destructive. Under the control of self-centeredness the Spirit of Love turns to the spirit of hate; the Spirit of the Womb turns to the spirit of barrenness, or emptiness; the Spirit of Life turns to the spirit of death; the Spirit of Purification turns to the spirit of defilement. We remember the word that is written: “There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth ... or maketh a lie.” So the Spirit of Life turns to the spirit of death, and the Spirit of Purification turns to the spirit of defilement. The Spirit of Blessing turns to the spirit of cursing. The Spirit of the Single Eye turns to the spirit of double-minded vision. The Spirit of the New Earth turns to the spirit of decay, or the old earth that is passing away.

Of course, we recognize that there are degrees of intensity with respect to which any Spirit may manifest, both the constructive current and the destructive current. We note here, for instance, when the Spirit of Blessing is manifesting by reason of true centering, there is a manifestation of the Truth. What is it that makes possible Blessing in the earth? It is the current of God’s Love flowing through the patterns of Truth, for nothing else can bless. The moment a break comes, so that there is self-centeredness, the Spirit of Blessing begins to turn into the spirit of cursing, and that means that, instead of having a pattern of the Truth through which to express, this current of the Spirit is forced to manifest through a pattern of distortion, a pattern that is fundamentally a lie. When the Spirit of the Single Eye begins to manifest we find everything becoming centered. We remember the expression that is found in the Word: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” We can turn that around: “Where there is true vision, the people live.” True vision depends upon the reality of the Single Eye. Our Master said, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness”—for double-minded vision causes the body to be full of darkness. We remember the passage in James: “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

I wonder if we should pause for a moment to meditate upon that passage in James. By the way, I might mention that back in 1930 when, from the standpoint of the outer consciousness, I was seeking to find something to take hold of, something as a starting point toward a movement out of the darkness and chaos of the world, I found I remembered this text. I had memorized it as a boy but for years had not read the Bible. But at this time, from an outer standpoint there was a recognition compelled that there had to be something more than the world offered. This text provided the starting point for my own consciousness, in the outer sense, in finding the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

“If any of you”—and I decided that included me—“lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.” “And it shall be given him”—that is an absolute, positive statement. And God giveth liberally—not just as one who is stingy, not just giving a little drop here and a little drop there. God giveth liberally, and upbraideth not. He does not condemn or upbraid because we have not found fulfilment up to this present point. But when we find the point of starting, when we have an opportunity to experience release, the story begins to change. “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.” There is a second positive promise. The double-minded man shall not receive anything of the Lord.

We have the positive promise that when we function correctly “it shall be given him.” But there is just as positive a statement: “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.” It is available from the Lord but he will not receive it, because of his double-mindedness. “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” We will not take time to study that at this time. It will bear a great deal of meditation and study. It might be well for each of you individually to study it. That was the starting point from the standpoint of my outer consciousness in movement toward that pattern which God had designed for my manifestation on earth. So the Spirit of the Single Eye turns to the spirit of double-minded vision; and where there is double-minded vision there is movement toward perishing. The Spirit of the New Earth turns into the spirit of decay, which leads to death.

As we look at this honestly, earnestly, sincerely, we can begin to see a definite line of demarcation; and we can, remaining honest and remaining centered in center, have a means by which we can instantly detect the nature of the Spirit which seeks to manifest in and through us. It is written: “Try the spirits whether they are of God.” The current of the Spirit itself is of God but the nature of the Spirit is the thing that is under consideration, because self-centeredness and self-activity on the part of man change the manifest nature of the Spirit. If we begin to feel something of any of these adverse spirits, or if the Spirit begins to manifest in and through us under any of these adverse forms, we have immediately a red light: “Stop! You are going in the wrong direction. You are responding to something which is below you, which is unworthy of you. Stop, and let the Divine pattern take control again.”

In the invisible realm we have, moving upward from the Spirit of Blessing, the Spirit of Purification. That requires movement of the Spirit of Love through the vibrational patterns of the Spirit of Truth, to provide that which is spoken of in Revelation as “the sea of glass,” and it is supposed to be clear as crystal. When there are limitations involved, when there are those things which do not yield to the current of purification, then that Spirit coming into manifestation through the individual begins to be patterned on something that defiles. “There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth or maketh a lie.” We see that these two phases—that which defiles and that which makes a lie—relate to the realm of man’s consciousness, mentally and emotionally, the mind and the heart. And when man, distorting the patterns, spoiling God’s design, allows self-activity to control the pattern of manifestation, he is trying to inject something that defiles into the pattern of God’s Kingdom on earth. Human beings have thought of this primarily as leaving the surface of the earth and going up into some obscure, faraway heaven. Of course if that were the process it would apply, but we recognize that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and it is here on earth that Divine activity is supposed to appear.

When we are letting ourselves respond to center we are undergoing a process of change, so that these aspects of the Spirit may manifest through us correctly, and if they are altered in their expression at any moment we find that in that moment when there is that which would defile, that which maketh a lie, that which distorts the pattern of Truth, immediately the individual finds himself outside the gate of the Garden. He finds himself expelled from the Kingdom, just as surely as we find was the case in the beginning with Adam and Eve. “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth or maketh a lie.” Therefore as long as the human consciousness is subject to distortions which are not in harmony with the patterns of Truth it is utterly impossible for that individual to pass through the gate into the Garden of God on earth, into the Kingdom. No matter how hard or how long he may try, or how much he may bewail his unjust fate, as it may appear to him, he cannot enter in. If he has passed through that gate, and allows distortion to come in relationship to any of these phases of the Spirit, he is immediately ejected. He cannot remain. When he is outside that gate, he knows it. There is turmoil, darkness, sadness, all kinds of things which are not contained within the Garden of God or the Kingdom of God on earth.

So the moment you, or any human being, recognize that there is a distortion in the pattern with respect to any aspects of the Spirit, so that it is beginning to appear on the basis of any one of these contrary spirits, you know that is wrong. The human tendency will be to blame someone else, or some circumstance, or something in the past, or something you fear in the future. But if you are honest you will recognize in that moment that you are wrong. It does not make any difference who else is wrong, how many injustices there are, what anyone else does or thinks; while you are expressing distorted patterns of the Spirit that are in you, you cannot be of any help in correcting the ill condition. The pattern of the Spirit should be right, regardless of what the case is anywhere else.

We have at this point one of the most difficult things, because the human being feels he is justified in having a distortion in the pattern because of what someone else did. If the Lord points to the fact that what someone else did is beside the point the individual is inclined to judge the Lord, and say, “You are being unjust.” But the simple fact is that while these distortions in the pattern of the Spirit are manifest in an individual he is absolutely valueless from the standpoint of any real service. He cannot be used to change others. He cannot render any real service. So he must finally relinquish his human pride, and all the rest of it that stands in his way, and the quicker he does it the better, for the longer he holds the wrong pattern the more rapidly will the elements of the adverse pattern produce ill conditions in himself and in the sphere of his influence. Something which might have taken years to produce, when you were out in the world and not functioning from the standpoint of center, may be produced in a comparatively short time if you lose center and become subject to these things. It will be produced rapidly. I do not say that to instill any fear but to point to the fact, because if there is an increase in the power working through you and you use that wrongly the results are going to appear more rapidly. It is logical that they should. There is no other way by which we can accomplish that to which we are called but to let the power increase and hold center.

The important thing is that we take a good look at the distinctions involved, so that we remember them and so that we do not offer the Lord the excuse, “I forgot,” the first time some pressure pattern appears out in the world, the first time someone does something you think you do not like and you revert to an old pattern and let some aspect of the Spirit be turned into something that is contrary to God and His will and cannot be contained in His Kingdom. While you insist on holding the distortion patterns, you yourself cannot be contained in the Kingdom. If you have entered into the Kingdom you will be cast out, because you will be positive to center and be pushed out. It is an absolute Law that always works. But as you repent, as you turn again to center, as you let go, you remember: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” Remember that double-mindedness is sure to bring decay, darkness, death. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

So we turn deliberately. It is not because, in the human sense, you particularly want to, perhaps. There may be a rebellious streak at work which makes you want to defy God, which makes you want to hold to that wrong course. So your action should not be allowed to appear on the basis of what you want. That is beside the point. It must be on the basis of what you know to be the Truth, regardless of what you feel you want. If you are controlled by what you want and feel, you will end up in the wrong place, in the place of perishing and decay, instead of life. We cannot be controlled by how we happen to feel at the moment. When we see these things, regardless of what we may think we want, there must be that deliberate action based upon our recognition of the Truth, so that we turn to God, respond to center, and let these impurities be cleansed away, so that we begin to allow the manifestation of the pure Spirit of the Living Christ in all of those aspects: the Spirit of Love; the Spirit of the Womb, that is, the Spirit of the Secret Place (“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty”); the Spirit of Life; the Spirit of Purification; the Spirit of Blessing; the Spirit of the Single Eye; the Spirit of the New Earth. All of these aspects of the Spirit are supposed to be focalized in you, individually.

In the outworking of things it may be that some one aspect may become dominant and signify the particular place of service for you, but the important thing is that they all must function through you and manifest according to that which is here portrayed. Until they do manifest through you, you cannot truly serve in the Divine sense. This is that which is required if we are to be men and women in Christ, mature, letting the things of God come down out of Heaven, down out of the invisible realms of being into the earth, in Blessing to all who will receive. That is Service. That is what our Lord did, and He said, “Follow me.” Unless we follow Him we cannot know what it is to be a part of the Body of the Son of God on earth.

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