One Bright Day

One  Bright  Day

from  Symbols

Uranda  July 10, 1953  Class

I’m looking forward to the day when you’ll be the real thing — in form and manifestation, a Divine man or a Divine woman, fully revealed, giving complete expression to the essences of Being that should be revealed through you. But if I expected that complete revelation from you now, well I’d be disappointed, wouldn’t I? It isn’t there, so why should I act as if I expected it to be. I expect a little more of it to show up every day. Yes, I do — but I don’t expect the whole thing all at once. There may be times when it blossoms out rapidly and other times when it seems to come slowly — but I have to accept the substitute you if I ever hope to have the real You. Do I not? If I rejected the substitute you, do you think I’d ever know the real You, or have the real You to serve with me in our LORD’s service? No. Let the spirit work through the substitute that now is and see what happens to the form.

If you reject substitutes you reject yourself. If you reject substitutes you reject me. If you reject substitutes you reject everything, and there is nothing left but oblivion. Blessed ones, the right use of the substitutes, letting them be the means for the revelation of the true spirit, the real and genuine spirit, allows the substitutes to change. But we must treat the substitutes with love and care and consideration. If we say, “O, that’s only a substitute, I don’t care what happens to it” — well then you don’t care what happens to the spirit within it, and you’re not worshipping God, you’re not centered in Him. We do care! But still we must remain true to the truth, or the patterns of change in the substitute form will not conform more and more with the true spirit. The true spirit must be filling the form if the form is to change in form, that in season it may be what it ought to be.

This is the secret of healing, growing, illumination, progress — the right use of substitutes. The body of Jesus was a substitute — a substitute for the Body of God on earth, which was supposed to include every man, woman and child on earth — the body of Jesus was a substitute body. The real Body is the body of mankind as a whole, allowing the complete and adequate revelation of the fullness of Deity on earth. Yes, wherever we turn we are dealing with substitutes, going up or down, and unless we function correctly with substitutes they become less and less, further and further from what they ought to be, instead of nearer and nearer, more and more a revelation of the adequate spirit of God. So, what shall it be with you? Let’s rejoice in the symbols, the substitutes.

Your body is a symbol of You. How good a symbol? — well it’s the only symbol of You there is. If you treat it right it can become a better symbol. If you treat it wrongly it’ll be a worse symbol, and the moment it isn’t here, there is no symbol of You. And it is good to have a symbol You on earth until the real You could appear. Wouldn’t that be nice — for You to be made manifest on earth just once! Its been a long time, you know. You have not been made manifest on earth for a long, long time — upwards of twenty thousand years. Wouldn’t it be nice for You to be made manifest on earth once? O, you’ve had some symbols on earth, but they weren’t the adequate revelation of You. And when there is an adequate revelation of enough of You there will be an adequate revelation of God, and heaven and earth shall be One.

Let the spirit of the Living God be a reality in you on earth here and now, and let the full capacity of the symbol be used, and see what happens to the symbol — perhaps You Yourself might come out of heaven into the earth one bright day.

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Speak Lord

Speak  Lord  for  Thy  Servant  Heareth

from  Shekinah and Sex

Uranda   July 8, 1953  Class

We have been studying the basic theme of heavenly magic, or the magic of living, and in that pattern we have been giving consideration to Shekinah. Some little time ago I introduced some of the vibratory factors involved in the names of Deity. Also, in our patterns of meditation, we have been recognizing more and more the basic reality of the union of heaven and earth — symbolized by marriage — the union of heaven and earth. The reality of the positive control of Being is available to man and to mankind, so that as soon as the pattern of mankind has reached a state of being the Bride, the marriage can take place. Individually, we can experience this while we live on earth. Collectively we can experience it, and this collective experience is called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is the reality of worship before God.

We will recall, some time ago in meditation — in the class pattern as well as in the services — I brought to your consciousness the point of finding a deeper pattern of relationship with the Lord, or with God, the Focalization of Deity, as you find the pattern unfolding within yourself. You do not need to be too much concerned about the clear consciousness of how the pattern works out, all of the factors that must unfold as we go along. To the degree that you have reached a point where you feel confident and trusting in your attitude toward me, you feel that it is justified — you can let the outer aspects of focalization rest with me and let it move into the higher vibrational factors without too much concern. However, we have used the picture, for instance, as it was at the time of Eli and Samuel.

Eli was an old man and he had been a faithful priest and prophet, and the time had come when Samuel, as a young boy, was apprenticed, shall we say, to him, to Eli. He was to live in that environment, to help run errands for Eli and serve in any way that he could — for Samuel was on call day and night. And one night Samuel heard his name called. He thought it was Eli calling, so he went to Eli and asked him what he wanted, and Eli said, “I did not call you. Go back to bed, son.” So Samuel went back to bed on his pallet. And again he heard the call and he went to Eli and said, “What is it? For you did call me.” And Eli said, “No, I did not call you”; but he began to realize that something was happening, and he told Samuel if the voice came calling again to say, “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth.” And so the attitude of “Here I am, Lord,” or “Lord, here I am,” finds expression at various times in various ways.

But, in any case, in this instance the call came the third time. “Samuel, Samuel.” And Samuel was young, and the idea that the Lord was calling him rather excited him and he did not recall clearly just what Eli had told him to say, and he said, “Speak, for Thy servant heareth.” He did not include “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth.” That is understandable, of course, but an interesting point. And so the mantle of the prophet passed to Samuel. Eli knew that the time had come and he made a little prayer in response to the Lord. The only thing that was sustaining him was the feeling that he had to remain alive until the Lord had provided the prophet to take his place, and as soon as he realized that Samuel was indeed the appointed and the anointed of the Lord — he was sitting on his bench and it didn't have any back; he lost his balance, fell over backwards and broke his neck, left this sphere of things.

Well, here we have something of the outline of how the basic patterns work: “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth” — the openhearted response, the willingness, the state of being yielded. And then there is, too, the pattern where one uses the expression: “Here am I, Lord,” or “Lord, here I am,” and variations in many ways that the individual may work out on his or her own vibration.

Now the Father, as the term was used by the Master when He was on earth, included the Focalization of Deity, the One Who Dwells, and the Shekinah pattern also. He sometimes used the word “Father,” or at least it is translated that way, meaning “the One Who Dwells.” But when we use the word, we feel and know the reality of the One Who Dwells and the Shekinah pattern by which we ourselves have contact through the pneumaplasmic substance. And as the blending in pattern between the Shekinah cloud and your own pneumaplasm begins to take place you begin to have a sense of the true nearness of God, or of the Father, the One Who Dwells — the reality of contact with God. That blending of the cloud of glory and your own pneumaplasmic substance is sex, it is union, oneness: “The Father and I are one.” “That ye may be one, even as we are” — one with God, the reality of the blending of heaven and earth. It is as we realize the reality of this oneness, union, and accept it, that we can begin to allow the larger fulfilment in our own lives.

Touching this point of sex, or union, oneness — we mean the same thing whatever word we use, don't we? Can we say “oneness” and not mean sex? Can we say “sex” and not mean oneness? Can we say “union” and not mean oneness and sex? It is all the same: oneness of heaven and earth, the oneness of God and man — union. We need to come into a deeper pattern of the realization of union with God, with the Lord, with Deity, with our own focalizations of Deity, and with the primary Focalization of Deity, if we are to know the patterns as they relate to human beings. If we do not know the pattern of relationship with Deity, how can we know and understand the pattern of our relationships one with another? The primary need is that we should find that oneness with God before we are too concerned about finding it in relationship to other human beings. How can this fulfilment be experienced?

We have recognized in our meditation that it must be under the One Law, the absolute Law. We have recognized that the outer man or woman begins to experience the fulfilment in pattern as the outer being accepts that which is of the pattern of the Inner Being. In other words the Focalization of Deity in you has accepted a Focalization of Deity. If you try to find the Focalization of Deity in you without giving heed to the Focalization of Deity above, you will fail. The response to our Lord and King is something which makes it possible for you to begin to share that which is true of your own point of Deity. And once you begin to share that which is of God, the rest works out. It naturally unfolds as you remain centered, faithful and true. What is the right vibrational pattern? That is a big question.

Now in this Divine Design we need to consider something of really drawing near to God. That is the first step. We do not need to be worried or concerned or troubled about the various aspects of the fulfilment. We can trust God for that, if we function correctly. We can learn to so center, so trust, that we can function in the substitute factors that are necessary to us for the time being, and we can help others to do so with understanding, moving constantly toward the reality of the Divine Design. And to achieve this we need to draw near unto God. We need to draw near unto God.

We recall that the word that is usually spoken Jehovah is the name of the body of God made manifest, in other words God in action on earth. To whatever degree God was able to act on earth in and through the children of Israel there was the manifestation of what is commonly called Jehovah. You note that is not the correct pronunciation of the word, but we use the common word when we do not have the right vibrational factors, or when we are building for the right vibrational factors for the real word — and again, that is a substitute pattern. All symbols are substitute patterns. The whole pattern of the Bible is dealing with substitute patterns, which we can use correctly in order to reach the real. And here is another — Jehovah. That is a substitute pronunciation in order to avoid using the right pronunciation until the right time.

The same is true, as we recall, with the word Jesus. Jesus is not the right way to speak the name, but it is a substitute pattern, a very good one, and we use it. Jehovah, then, remember, means not God in the invisible sense but invisible God made manifest through man, in action on earth, whatever that may be. Jehovah is God in manifest action on earth. The manifestation through our Lord when He was on earth was a revelation of Jehovah, in which He invited us to share. We say we want to be members of the Christ Body, or long to be, or are working to be, members of the One Christ Body, members of the body of Jehovah — Jehovah on earth, made manifest. And so any human being anywhere who actually begins to let Deity manifest is in fact letting the reality of Jehovah be made manifest. Jehovah will not come into full manifestation until all the men and women and children living on earth are a part of the body of God in fact — Jehovah manifest, the body of mankind completely centered, completely activated by God. So when we use the expression Jehovah, or the real word, the real name, we are not talking about God in the invisible. We are talking about God in these visible realms, God made manifest through all who serve Him, God brought to focus and given meaning on earth by those who serve Him.

And when we use the name Jesus, what do we mean actually? We mean the centering of the manifest body of Jehovah — the centering of the manifest body of Jehovah. Jesus is not in heaven, in the invisible sense. If Jesus, the name of the body of our Lord, is to have any reality it must be here on earth. He had a body on earth. That body ascended. It is not the same body, it is not in the same form. That body was to continue as the body of many members; so the centering aspect of Jehovah has been called Jesus Christ. But Jesus in this sense is not in heaven, never was, never will be; that is, separated from the earth. But heaven at hand, on earth, yes; heaven on earth, where there is the union of heaven and earth. Then we have Jesus, that is, the centering of mankind, in the manifestation of Jehovah.

So we need to begin to recall and remember clearly the significance of some of these things that we have meditated upon before, and remembering, we will not be trying to make something fit where it doesn't. We will be able to let it be in its proper place. When we begin to work in this vibrational sphere, drawing near unto God we will not be trying to make ourselves be in something that either doesn't exist or where it will not work — but centered in the centering of the body, centered in Jesus, if you want to put it that way — not the name Jesus applied to the body but the true name applied to the centering of the body of Jehovah.

And the angel said, “Thou shalt call his name Emmanuel: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Emmanuel — there is another name upon which we have not given meditation before. “For he shall save his people from their sins.” Emmanuel is what, then? It is the saving force of the central pattern of Being, the force which takes unto itself that which belongs to itself, by which we become members of the One Body, not scattered pieces of a body. Human beings imagine that they can be segregated and be a body. They can't. What we are working for is the opposite of that: all parts in place, living, real, vital, beautiful, glorious. We relax, then, in the realization of that which is signified, or the reality of the substitute name Jesus, the centering; the body of the centering, Jehovah; the working power, Emmanuel, Shekinah.

What is it that blends all of these things together and allows the reality of Deity to work on earth? “And his name shall be Shekinah: for he shall save his people from their sins,” from their wrong actions, wrong patterns of life, to draw them into the Divine Design. As we begin to let these things have meaning in ourselves we can begin to use the Sacred Names, the true names, with understanding and with meaning, with utter reverence; for if God, or the Focalization of Deity, is accepting us into His body, that means we are accepting Him into our body — the wonderful symbolism of the sex organs of the male and the female revealing exactly what must take place in our patterns of relationship with God and how, as God receives us into Himself, we must receive Him into ourselves — union, sex, in the heavenly, divine, sacred sense. And received into that pattern of union, we begin to realize that we must invite it.

But why should we keep on playing hard to get with God? You know, we are not dealing with an ordinary man. We are dealing with God. We can trust Him. We can just open our hearts to Him and say, “Lord, here I am.” Why play hard to get? Why not be honest with Him? In our body here in the outer sense, the body of mankind is supposed to be the bride, and to make herself ready for the bridegroom, ready to receive the positive reality of God into manifestation, into the body. If we are being received by God, then we must receive God into ourselves — union, the reality of union.

Once we begin to see that, and accept the beauty and the wonder of God's Design on that basis, we do not confuse sex and imagine it is just the physical relationships of physical bodies. The physical relationship, the physical body, can have its part and place, but it is more than that. It is God in action in us. Once we begin to truly reach that point, accepting the reality of union with God, we can use those heavenly names, accepting that which God is giving, answering the love call of our God. And for the centering there is the realization that we are responding, yielding, to Jesu, letting go to the centering of Jehovah — Jesu, the centering on earth of Jehovah — until we begin to know the reality of God in action here below, the beauty and the wonder of it.

Did you ever relax in the secret place of the Most High and simply say, “Lord, here I am”? If any of you have ever been what is called “being in love”, did you ever get tired of hearing your love say, “I love you”? The word was always new, always fresh. Do you think the Lord is going to get tired of hearing you say, “Lord, I love you”; “Lord, here I am”; “My Lord, I love you”? How about functioning the way a true Bride would, and yielding to the Lord our King? How about drawing near unto Him and receiving Him into ourselves, that we might begin to know the wonder and the beauty and the glory of the Divine Design on earth, something so sacred, so sweet, so unspeakably glorious, that we cannot paint it in words? We can say something about it, but if we would know it we must yield to it and let it be a reality in us here and now.

So let us do something about it. Our Lord has offered His love for so long. Why put it off? Why play hard to get? Why say, “You will have to do all the work, Lord. If you are ever to get me you are sure going to have to work for me”? Why not make it easy? Why not yield to Him and serve Him? Why not be a part of the body of God on earth?

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Borderland

Borderland  —  Loyalty  To  Our  KING

Uranda   100 Mile House, B.C.   October 16, 1947

Our Great Master came into the world and, facing the limitations, the prevailing levels of consciousness, the ceilings, the bigotry and the self-righteousness, and above all, the unresponsiveness of the world, He carried through to Victory. It remains for us, and for all who are willing to give consideration to the Way, the Truth and the Life, to prove our allegiance to our KING by likewise carrying through to Victory. Under the governments of this world much is accomplished in the name of patriotism, much is made of the point of loyalty — and that is well; but, when we accept the proffered citizenship in the Kingdom of God on earth, so that we begin to fulfill those specifications that He set down by which we might prove that we are in the world but not of it, there is the necessity of our recognizing loyalty to our KING, and our daily lives should prove our patriotism in His Kingdom. All too often individuals who claim to have accepted our KING are inclined to act as if personal considerations were of primary moment when they consider the problems and the choices that come before them. For the cause of country, human beings quite willingly relinquish many personal considerations in time of danger in relationship to enemy action. You may say that, contained within this willingness to so function is the primary factor of man's most fundamental urge — the urge of self-preservation — and we would acknowledge that such is the case. However, the prince of this world is the enemy of our KING and of His Kingdom and, although human beings, generally speaking, seem to be so blind to the fact, the true recognition of the urge of self-preservation should certainly induce loyalty to the Prince of Peace.

We know that efforts to get, in relationship to Eternal Realities, always fail. If the individual tries to be a citizen of the Kingdom in order to satisfy his urge of self-preservation, he will fail. Nevertheless, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him might not perish but have everlasting life”. God gave His only begotten Son in the Focalized Expression or Manifestation of Jesus on earth, and also in His provision that the One Christ Body should continue on earth. As it was essential then that there be a recognition of Jesus the Christ, it is essential now, but it is also essential now that there be a recognition of the One Christ Body on earth. Only by believing in the One Christ Body on earth can any individual truly accept Jesus Christ, and it is only through believing on the only begotten Son of God that any can hope to experience that Fulfillment that they might not perish but have everlasting Life. Therefore, the urge of self-preservation is certainly recognized. Those who think that they can believe on Jesus Christ and not believe on the One Christ Body on earth but delude themselves and fall into the snare of the serpent. But that patriotism to the Christ Kingdom, that loyalty to our KING, is something that must be given with the whole heart, gladly, joyously and not as one who would bargain with God. The Gift of Eternal Life is given; protection against the prince of this world is given and provided by our KING; but loyalty is not something that is purchased.

In man-made war in the world, there are usually professional soldiers, men who sell their services and their allegiance for a consideration. Those who think to be professional soldiers under the Banner of our KING are due for disappointment and disillusionment. He does not accept the services of any such. Those who promise allegiance for the consideration of Eternal Life will not be heard. Patriotism and loyalty are the natural, spontaneous products that spring forth in the heart and life of the individual who loves his country and his king. If we Love our KING, and we Love our Country, then loyalty and patriotism are spontaneously there, having their influence every moment of every day, in relationship to every question, conditioning our attitudes in the face of every problem. Those who claim loyalty in one breath and then insist on viewpoints in relationship to problems that arise or choices that must be made, that the consideration shall be on a purely personal basis, are giving the lie to their own claims. Personal considerations are never primary factors in the face of true loyalty and patriotism. We recognize and appreciate, in this outer world, loyalty to one's government, patriotism to one's country. These are things that carry the Current of Nobility, but the governments of this outer world although they are essential with things as they are, cannot offer the blessings or provide the joys and satisfactions that are to be found in the Kingdom that is ruled by the Prince of Peace. Nevertheless, if any undertakes to give his allegiance, his loyalty and patriotism in return for these blessings and joys and satisfactions, as if he would bargain with God, he will surely fail.

When we cross the line from one country to another in this world, our citizenship has to be recognized in relationship to such border crossings. There are many individuals in the world today — thousands upon thousands of them — who would like to cross the border from the place where they are, to some other country, who, by reason of conditions or restrictions imposed, cannot do so. The aftermath of the recent war brought into focus the problem of displaced persons in Europe, for instance — human beings who would like to cross the boundary line into some other country, some country where, for the moment at least, it seems that they cannot enter. We have, in relationship to our Ministry, the problem of assisting those who would become citizens of the Christ Kingdom to cross the boundaries into the Kingdom. There is a boundary line. Tens of thousands move toward that boundary line — and the world calls them good. Some reach the boundary line and decide to camp there, or to return back to the places from whence they came. A few are willing to accept the conditions of entry into the Kingdom. Yet, all who will come find that the Way is opened before them if they will but let it be so. The problems of development in the Spiritual sense are, essentially, the problems of crossing that boundary line, so that the individual is no more of the world, although he is in it; and, crossing that boundary line, the individual finds that he cannot penetrate to the open freedom of the Heart of the Kingdom until he passes through what we might call a Borderland.

In this Borderland the individual begins to truly comprehend the meaning of the Master's Words, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love, one to another”. In this Borderland the individual learns the customs and the language of the people of the Kingdom. In this Borderland the individual proves his loyalty to our KING, and by his life he reveals as to whether or not he is truly a Patriot of the Kingdom. In this Borderland the individual must establish the facts as to whether or not he believes in the only begotten Son of God on earth, and there is absolutely no way by which any may enter on a basis of deception. Some undertake to deceive, as a conscious act or a consciously determined course of action; others undertake to deceive unconsciously because they have deceived themselves, and because they are trying to carry the methods and customs of the outer world into the Kingdom. It cannot be done. No one, under any circumstance, can pass beyond this Borderland into the Kingdom on earth until he has learned to be true to God, true to his KING, true to his Country, true to himself, true to his brother man. If one loves one's KING and one's Country more than life itself, he is not going to pose personal considerations as being of primary importance in his attitude toward problems in his expression of choices as they arise in daily life.

At the present time we are working in that Borderland. To varying degrees you have ascended the pleasant slopes of the range of hills that is to be found in this Borderland, and from such vantage points as you have attained, you have looked into the Kingdom, so to speak, you have glimpsed some of the Glory, you have felt something of the Peace and known something of the Joy, you have experienced something of the satisfaction and the wonder of Being which are known in the Kingdom. It is impossible for anyone to slip in by disguising himself to make himself appear to be something that he is not. Each must come just as he is, willing to become a citizen of the Christ Kingdom, willing to learn the manners and customs, willing to learn the language, willing to be cleansed and purified and made Whole, willing to let the outer mind be stilled, willing to let the great calm be a Reality in the feeling realm.

He who looks back overmuch to the kingdom of the prince of this world will find himself moving outward from the Borderland and slipping back across the boundary into the realm of the prince of death. He whose eyes are steadfastly set upon that of true citizenship in the Kingdom cannot be turned aside by conditions or circumstances or by what any may think or say or do. Such an one is not looking for excuse to turn back. This gives a key to attitudes that are made manifest with respect to the obstacles that appear in the path. He who is looking for excuses to turn back always finds them, even in the Borderland, but he whose eyes are steadfastly set upon Kingdom will accept no excuses. Obstacles do not suggest that he cannot get through; obstacles simply raise the question, “How can I get through or around over, because get around or through or over I must and will, in the Name of my KING”. Those who turn back under any pretext whatsoever, because of any excuse or because of obstacle or for anything else that may be called a reason, are utterly unworthy of citizenship in the Kingdom, for those who are worthy do not see excuses when they see obstacles; they do not see reasons for turning back when they are faced with problems; they only see an opportunity to prove that they Love their KING and their Country.

Our Ministry is to those who come to the Borderland and to those who are passing through the Borderland. Those who do not, willingly and of themselves, come to the Borderland are beyond our range of Ministry. Those who cross back out of the Borderland into the world are beyond our range of Ministry. Our Ministry begins at the Border. Our Ministry is to those who would cross the Border and who would pass through the Borderland. For the time being, we simply are not concerned, from the standpoint of individuals who are on the other side of the Border. Each will, in season, be given his opportunity if he remains true to the inherent longing within himself to find fulfillment in relationship to the things of God, but, for the present, our Ministry is at the Border and in the Borderland. Those who think to gain some point for themselves or to benefit in some fashion, by placing personal considerations first in relationship to their problems and their choices, are only closing the gates in front of themselves. They gain utterly and absolutely nothing. Such action brings loss always.

Once the individual has stepped across the Border into the Borderland, every thought, every word, every feeling, every deed, reveals something as to where one's allegiance rests. If it is to our KING, to the Christ Kingdom, if it is to the Banner of the Prince of Peace, then it will be revealed through thought and word and feeling and deed — but, if allegiance still rests with the prince of this world, it will likewise be revealed. No matter how hard any may try, he cannot learn the language of the Kingdom while he retains an attitude of allegiance to the banner of the prince of this world. It is essential that the individual should learn the language and the customs of the Kingdom, and these things cannot be learned except as the individual gives full, one-pointed, loyal Response to the KING. When one has his heart set on the Kingdom he never thinks of anything that may arise as a possible excuse for turning back. He sees all such things as opportunities to prove his allegiance to his KING.

O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, we thank Thee that it is so, IN the Christ. Aum-en.

Martin — It certainly emphasizes the fact of the futility of attempting to delude oneself, that everything that is hidden is revealed in due season; and also with respect to the Ministry, you mentioned that the Ministry related to those who expressed a willingness, or indicated a willingness, to cross the Border into the Borderland, and to those who are in the Borderland, moving in the right direction. I was thinking of that with respect to the Expansion Program. That which is offered the world in that Program should, properly, then, be designed or presented as that which is needful to cause the individual to recognize that it is possible to cross the Border, and that there is something on the other side of the Border, that the subsequent Ministry, after there is sufficient Response to draw the person across the Border, may provide that which is necessary to move through the Borderland.

Uranda — Very well put, and very true.

Kathy — I was just thinking that this Service certainly emphasizes the necessity of maturity on all planes of Being, because if some immaturity is maintained and carried forward without releasing it, then some day that immaturity is going to meet its waterloo, and there might be a little purging process, but if that little immaturity could be purged in the Truth of "all things working together to perfection for those who love and serve the Lord", then peace should permeate the consciousness.

Uranda — Very beautiful expression.

I feel and recognize and acknowledge before God our KING the meditations of your hearts as you consider these things, and the solemnity which contains joy as you enter into a deeper realization of the Way, the Truth and the Life. It is in living that we prove these things. It is not by doing deeds that one can enter in, but when entering in one does the deeds that reveal the spirit of his Being, and as we maintain a focalized recognition of our KING and of our Country, the spirit of our living must surely shine forth to encourage all of those who are earnestly moving forward on their pilgrimage to the Promised Land, that the weary ones may be given strength, that the hesitant ones may be given courage, that the doubting ones may have their minds stilled, until they shall be able to hear the Spirit speak. When human beings have noisy minds and hearts they cannot hear the Spirit speak. They may hear with their ears but they understand not; they may see with their eyes but they comprehend not. The turmoils of the feeling realm must be calmed, the waves must be stilled and the clamoring of the mind must be stilled, so that the Word may be heard and so that the Spirit of the Word may be felt, and then there is comprehension and understanding; and then it is seen that the Way is open, then it is recognized that the Truth is present and then it is realized that the Life is a Reality NOW.

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