Events Subsequent to the Fall of Man

Events  Subsequent  to  the  Fall  of  Man

Ancient  Worship  of  Mars  and  Venus

Submersion  of  Lemuria  and  Atlantis

Uranda   March 27, 1953  Class

We have been going through the process of becoming oriented in relationship to some the obscurities of the past, the basic patterns which were involved in relationship to the fall of man, and we carried the pattern forward so that you could see that the period covered by Old Testament history was under a Water — Fire — Fire pattern.

You will recall that in days gone by there was a period when Mars, the planet, was worshipped as a god. And there was another period when the planet Venus was worshipped as a god. If you go out and look up at the sky at a time when either Venus or Mars are visible in the sky, do you see anything that should be so outstandingly different from the other planets, that the ancients would particularly pick out such planets as objects of worship? The simple answer is, you do not. There is not enough difference in relationship to the appearance in the sky, not enough obvious relationship to warrant any such adoration or concern or fear as was once shown toward these planets. We have, right on the face of it, obvious evidence that these planets were not always functioning in the orbits where they now are. We have obvious evidence that they were in some other position than they are in relationship to our own planet. Now we will not attempt to go into that extensively. We have some text material on this point, in relationship to what has been gathered on a very scientific basis as evidence, and in a general sense the outline as it is given is very good. Some of the conclusions drawn from the scientific evidence we cannot agree with, but the scientific evidence itself stands and is worthy of a good deal of consideration.

Perhaps we will have time to go into it somewhat later on, but going back for the moment to some of the things that worked out in relationship to the processes of the fall. Up to the time when the fall took place there was no disturbance in the patterns of polarity, the cycles were working normally, but it was through Man, the Focalization of Creation, that these currents were working in relationship to creation. When man was in right polarity the planet itself and the various levels of creation were held in polarity in relationship to the cosmic scheme of things. But when the fall had taken place, from the divine standpoint there were certain problems which were posed.

Those who did not fall, those who maintained the right pattern, were keeping the earth in right polarity and maintaining conditions where it made it seem that those who were functioning wrongly were not reaping any ill results of their wrong action, because the right pattern was maintained for them and all around them. And consequently they took the attitude, “See, we are doing as we please and the ill results which were suggested simply have not appeared.” Therefore they felt justified and were utterly unrepentant. Everything within that scope of the pattern was done to give them ample opportunity to return to the Divine Design, and it was not at all necessary that all these thousands of years of suffering and misery and sorrow and death should have followed.

To say that man turned away and that God could not do anything about it, that man then had to go through all this long cycle, and Jesus Christ had to come into the world, and all the rest of it, just because man originally fell, is utterly wrong. There was plenty of opportunity at that tine for those who had turned into the wrong path to repent. But the violent results did not immediately appear, not in the sense that would carry conviction. One of the points that we notice with respect to the outworking, as it is given in the blueprint which we call the Book of Revelation, is that there should come a point when there would be a basic recognition that “just and righteous altogether are Thy judgments, O Lord.” And as long as there was a pattern where it would appear that God's judgments were not just and righteous, the thing had to be proven out. In other words, merely because God could foresee such-and-such a result, merely because from the divine standpoint there was a definite recognition of what would take place, and that it would be justified to take such-and-such an action, those who were not functioning in relationship to that level of consciousness and who simply could not see that there was any justification in taking the attitude toward them that was taken, they felt self-righteous and took the attitude that God was not being fair, that His judgments were not right. I have had that same attitude displayed toward me many a time. Then what was to be done? The thing had to prove itself out.

It was not God's purpose or intention that death should appear on the earth, and all the miseries that produce death. There are those who believe that God created man and intended that man should fall; He did not intend that man should remain in some kind of a perfect state — that God was not fair to man; man at that time was just like a little child; he did not know right from evil and he made this mistake and then he did this, he did that, and so on. And God either condemned everybody just because one who was comparable to a child made a mistake, which would be unjust, or else God intended that man should fall. So man's rationalizations, attempting to work out an idea that would not make it appear that God was too unjust, have brought about a conclusion that God simply intended man to fall and that death is a part of the Divine Plan, a part of the school, or a part of an opportunity to grow or something.

So the concept that death is absolutely essential to life is widely held and the inevitability of death, etc., is greatly emphasized. As the pattern now stands certain substances of the body or certain parts of the body, or some body is going to die, as we say — but death is not at all what it seems to be to human beings, and that which is in the divine scope of things is not death. We have recognized that the Divine Design was birth and ascension, not birth and death. Once we begin to actually realize that, we can see that God did not intend that man should fall. All of this misery and suffering and sorrow has not been a part of the Divine Plan. It has all been contrary to God’s will, contrary to God’s plan, and when I say contrary to God's will, again we come up against one of the popular religious concepts, because there are millions of people who believe that everything that happens is God's will. God is all powerful, therefore nothing can happen without God's will, and if something happens to you, it is God's will. If there is a tragedy, a death, a suffering, a sickness, an illness, or anything else, it is God's will. And they take the attitude that it would be somehow blasphemous to suggest that anything on the face of the earth happened without it being God's will.

Carried out to its logical conclusion, you have to admit that everybody that lies, everybody that murders, everybody that steals, everybody that does anything evil, is doing God's will. You cannot be logical in that kind of a pattern without carrying it right on and recognizing that it includes everything. Very well, if everyone who does something wrong is doing God's will, then God is not properly going to punish the person that does His will, is He? He should reward. It gets back to the same point I made with respect to Judas, because if it were God's will that Jesus Christ should die on the cross in order to save people from their sins, then we must admit that Judas of all men, outside of the Master Himself, rendered the greatest service to each and every one. We cannot agree to that. No, it was not God's will. Judas was not predestined to do that. He was not acting on Divine Impulse. So we begin to realize, wherever we turn, there is evidence of the fact that it was not God's intention that all of this misery and suffering and sorrow should come into the world. We have had over twenty thousand years of a pattern on earth that was not necessary, that God did not intend, and that is not in any sense a fulfilment of His plan; and until we get out of it, we are not in position to continue on in the outworking of His plan.

So the immediate goal is to get man out of the situation. That is merely an incidental plan to the situation. Man has come to act as if he believed that God's whole purpose and plan was to save man, and after that was done, there is nothing else. But God's plan did not include the fall of man. That was not the purpose or intent, and until we get back into that pattern that God did design, we will not be functioning according to our true purpose. So this work of bringing about the restoration is simply an interim plan and purpose in order to reinstate man in a position where he can function according to the Divine Plan. Once we begin to see that, we can begin to take the right attitude toward the basic facts of life as they relate to man's present situation.

Well then, we see, going back again to that original point, that those who had fallen were not producing the condition which their acts would naturally produce. Why? Because there were other people in the world who were not functioning in that manner, who were maintaining the polarity as far as the earth itself was concerned, who were maintaining a condition that let evil people — people that were rebellious and following their own fancies — have all the blessings, practically speaking, in an outer sense, of right function. Well, after a reasonable period of time given to those people to repent and return, God had to make a change. Now God is not a destroyer. He is a creator. So it would have looked unjust — the surface appearance, the evidence, would not have been present to have simply annihilated those people, to have said, “Well now here, we will just annihilate you and the rest of the folks will be all right, so we will go right on.” But that is not God’s way. And the evidence was not manifest.

The judgment would have been in the appearance of an assumption, because the outworking of the cycle was not manifest. God could foresee what the outworking would be, but to judge on that basis without the cycle actually having worked out would have made it appear that God was perhaps unjust. So the only thing to do, after a reasonable period of time, was to have all of those who were functioning correctly — except a few, very few, who were to remain as leaders and teachers to give an opportunity to man — to have everybody else ascend — a mass ascension of millions of people away from the earth's surface, leaving only a few to be leaders and teachers to whatever degree those who remained would listen, after they began to see the actual evidence of their wrong doing, the results in manifestation. There had been, to make it a little more exact, group ascensions quite a while before the final one, which allowed some evidence to appear, but it was not enough to convince the self-active minds of men. They took the attitude, “Well, you folks go on. We do not care. We do not need you. Look, we are getting along all right. This threat that you are all going to ascend and leave us, what difference does that make to us? Go on. We would like to have the earth all to ourselves.” They took that basic attitude. So the day came when there was a mass ascension of those who remained, and the earth was left to them with the few exceptions I have mentioned.

And so, what happened? Those who remained were out of polarity. The cosmic currents working in relationship to the earth had been moving through Man, Divine Man, in polarity. That body of control was removed and the control factors were consequently gone. So the cosmic currents which function in relationship to the earth, the solar system, and so on, had to be without any means of manifestation, or work through man who was out of polarity. Immediately then, the earth itself was thrown out of polarity. The polarity of the earth depends upon the polarity of man as a human family. Not just one or two human beings, no, but the whole human family. The polarity of the earth itself depends upon the polarity of Man — meaning mankind. So immediately the earth itself was thrown out of polarity. It was wrenched suddenly off of its axis, the subterranean supports under the earth crumbled, fountains of waters gushed out, flames of fire appeared in violent volcanic eruptions, and over a period of about seven thousand years after this real process of submersion began the Motherland or Lemuria was in the process of submersion — terrific earthquakes and all kinds of things. The earth was reeling to and fro on its axis much more than it is today, and it was thrown out of its orbit in relationship to the Sun.

Now, when we have a solar system, a sun with various planets around it, and one planet is suddenly thrown out of its orbit and out of its polarity, are all the other planets going to be unmoved by it? No, because they have an inter-relationship. Their particularized positions depend not just upon the individual planet’s relationship to the Sun. Our particularized position in the planetary system depends not just on the Sun and our planet as such, but upon the influences, gravitational and otherwise, of the other planets of the solar system. Do you see that? It could not be any other way, because no group of bodies in what would be called space, functioning in relationship to each other, can have no influence upon each other. They do have an influence, according to their mass and density and make-up, etc. There are variations of gravitational influence, just to name one thing, and there are many other vibrational factors involved. So when the earth was thrown out of its polarity and out of its orbit, it likewise threw other planets out of their orbits, and the pattern worked out so that the … well, there was a gravitational mess, shall we say. There were certain of the planets which, due to these factors … and they worked out in relationship to some comets. I am going to have to bring in the pattern of comets here, to make this clear.

The comets of which we are aware, the comets which come within the range of our vision so that we can see them and know about them and chart them and so on, are a part of our solar system. I do not know whether you knew that or not, but you can study into it if you wish, from the standpoint of astronomy. They have the Sun as their point of orientation — our Sun. And these comets which are a part of our solar system are likewise a part of the basic material factors of our relationship with the rest of the universe. A rather limited but suggestive illustration would be the fact that there are red blood corpuscles. Suppose you figure the heart as the center of the physical organism and we have various organs at certain distances from the heart, and certain members of the body, like hands and feet, which revolve in a sense around the heart, or function in relationship to it; but there is likewise something that goes to the heart and out to the extremities and back again, the circulation of blood, or the red blood corpuscles, etc.

Now, of course the application of the principle is different in relationship to you as a human being, but just exactly as that is true in you as a human being, the relationship of this planetary system with the rest of the universe had to be established on a basis that was not just purely spiritual, shall we say. There had to be physical factors. And the comets, of which there are many, are a part of this pattern. Now when things were thrown out of polarity and the comets were functioning as they did — they had a part in maintaining particularized balance and rhythm in the movement of the planets themselves —  there were certain planets which were thrown into a comet pattern. I might mention that there is one of the planets which belongs in the solar system as a planet which is still to this day functioning as a comet.

Now, we talk about physical changes in the solar system, physical changes in relationship to the earth. These things do not come about all just because of what we might call spiritual means — the idea of changing the pattern in relationship to the earth. How is it that the earth itself is going to be caused to move in the future yet on a basis which makes it seem that the heavens are rolled together as a scroll? Suppose you are standing here on the earth's surface and looking up at the sky and suddenly, because of variations in gravitational pattern, the earth is thrown suddenly on its axis and rolled over the other way. You are used to it rolling one way. How about having it roll the other way on its axis, or north to south, we will say? If you are looking up at the sky under that circumstance, aside from a lot of other things that will be happening, it would appear that the sky was rolling together as a scroll. And if the earth is thrown into a serious wobble on its axis, as has been the case in the past and as will be the case in the future, we have some very interesting results.

Now the earth will ultimately, in the outworking of the Divine Pattern, one way or another be restored to its normal balance in the axis pattern. This excessive wobble that we have today will be eliminated, and we will be restored to our proper distance from the Sun. We are not out very much from that distance or human beings could not live. You see, if the variations were too much the conditions necessary for the life of man would be gone. So this is one of the factors which makes it impossible for man, under the present time, to live more than a hundred years or so, generally speaking. Because the earth itself is out of key, the vibrational factors of the solar system have to be changed — and just you and I, or a few human beings, this group for instance, even if we begin to function on a reasonably good basis, just that alone is not going to produce the conditions necessary to the perfect fulfilment of the plan. We have to carry on under these conditions until we become powerful enough in relationship to centering, in relationship to control patterns, to allow the vibratory factors to move through us as a means of establishing right polarity for the earth.

But it will be more than that, just as it was more than that at the time of the fall. For at the time this works out, our sister planet which is at the present time functioning as a comet — and because of that we have been able to maintain conditions in the solar system which would let man live even as long as he does now — is going to be restored to her position as a planet, and the vibratory balance will have to be worked out again. When that planet which is now acting as a comet comes back into the solar system, we need to be ready for it. We will not try to restore the earth to its right polarity until the right vibrational conditions have been reached in the sense of the creative processes. Even if we were ready today, and it would take at least one hundred and forty-four thousand people who were perfectly centered and coordinated as a control pattern to even begin to think about it, but suppose we were ready today, which we are not, we would still have to wait until the cycles of time worked out, the right vibratory patterns were developed, and the time had come in these patterns of movement for our sister planet to return to the solar system. But when that time comes, we had better be ready.

Now we do not have too much time. In other words, you cannot say, “Well, if that is the case, it does not make any difference what we do.” It does! And we had better be getting ready or we will have trouble. But that means that a whole new vibrational pattern will be re-established in the solar system and so in the earth, a vibrational pattern which would make it possible for man to actually do what he was created to do, equipped to do. We cannot expect now, under this vibrational pattern, to live for say five thousand years. That was what man was created to do — any length of time necessary, as I have pointed out before. But until we reestablish the right conditions, we are not going to do that. So we had better do our part toward re-establishing the right conditions. That is part of our job now.

And from the standpoint of what the Master did, we talk about the salvation of man. What is the salvation of man? It is the outworking of this whole Plan, so that the solar system and our planet can be restored to the Divine Estate, and until they are man is certainly not going to have the opportunity to live according to the full pattern of that Divine Estate. We can reach a certain degree of development and accomplishment under conditions as they are, far more than has been. There is no block ahead of you; do not worry about it. But that is as much a part of the salvation of man as anything that anyone can do. That is what was part of the program when our Master came into the world. The idea that it was all worked out when He died on the cross, as people put it, is so utterly infantile when one begins to see the truth of the matter. We see that the salvation of man requires the restoration of the earth itself to its proper point and pattern of function in the cosmic scheme of things. So just as the earth was thrown out of polarity, so will the earth be brought back into polarity, and the comets will have a part to play, other planets will have a part to play.

And there was a period during Old Testament history even when certain of the planets, Mars and Venus in the different cycles, were actually so close to the earth that they had the appearance of being much larger than our moon — and there was fire, the gravitational pulls involved between the two, electrical discharges manifesting between the two, and it is no wonder that the people then looked up in the sky and saw this great fiery monster as it appeared to them, and worshipped it. It was not in its present place in the solar system. Now if you have never heard anything like that before, it may sound a little fantastic to begin with, but we can look into it, we can examine it, because what I am talking about is a scientific fact — and there is a physical factor in relationship to all of these things.

For instance, you go back and consider some of the things that are spoken of in the Old Testament, and people will say, “Well, that is just a physical impossibility, the earth standing still, or this happening or that happening.” What was it that produced the peculiar conditions during the time when the Children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness? What was the manna from heaven? All right. The manna from heaven was something that was peculiar to that particular time and period when there had been a near collision between our earth and another planet, and there was a period of about forty years when they did not see the sun — the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. Is this just something fantastic that someone dreamed up, or is it something supernatural? No, there are sound, scientific, physical facts in relationship to every one of these incidents, and they are not just something imaginary or something achieved by some peculiar mystic means. When we begin to realize that there is a basic, scientific, physical fact back of every one of these outworkings, we will begin to see that we are not trying to do something that cannot be done; because whatever we do here, we are working on the basis of those scientific facts — not to try to achieve the impossible — out to set up vibratory conditions which will make it possible for us to utilize certain physical facts which are yet in the future. And if we are not ready when they come, it will be just too bad. So we intend to be ready. And all of these things are basic, and once you begin to see them — I think maybe I will have to take a little time, from the nature of the vibratory pattern here this morning, I think maybe I am going to have to take a little time to really study some of these things with you, just enough at least to let you see what I am talking about. But all of these things were working out during the period of the time of the Children of Israel; that is, certain of these things were, and some of them back beyond that.

But now I want to bring into focus one other point for you, to see what happened, because as I indicated the other day with respect to the graph of life, man went through a process of devolution or descending before he began to come back up to the level where he now is. He did not come out of oblivion, developing out of an amoeba or something. Man as a Divine Being was. Man fell. The graph of life went down very rapidly after the submersion of Atlantis, the continent that was on the earth's surface where the Atlantic Ocean now is. I might mention that the story of driving man out of the Garden of Eden, as it is touched on so briefly in the Bible, is the story of the submersion of Lemuria. And about a thousand years later there was the submersion of Atlantis, and that story is the same as the story of the flood in the Bible —  the same story as the submersion of Atlantis. Driving man, as it is pictured here, out of the Garden of Eden — the submersion of Lemuria or the Motherland. And about a thousand years later, Atlantis went down.

We have recognized that at that time, or during those periods, there were vast portions of this continent under water. Plenty of geological evidence of it. You can find something that belonged at the bottom of the sea on top of our highest mountains. How did it happen? Well, I can tell you how it happened. Because until you begin to see how this old earth has been pushed and pulled and jammed and shoved around, you cannot understand it. And it did not take millions of years as some have thought, because those who developed those fantastic concepts — that is what they are actually — did not have any idea of what the physical factors back of all of this were, and so we will take a little look at it.

When the submersion of Atlantis took place — during that thousand years there was quite a development. Atlantis became the centering of world government after it was lost from Lemuria, and civilization began to pick up again — a thousand years. How long have we been on this continent? When was it that Columbus sailed the ocean blue? 1492. About five hundred years, would you say? And all of this, all of our great cities, all of the things we have done, our railroads, everything — in five hundred years we have accomplished all of this. Now, of course they were in much better position to accomplish things in the days of Atlantis, and they had a thousand years. Stop and look at it that way and you will begin to see something. Because in five hundred years, look what we have done in this day and age. Handicapped as we were, using ox-carts and all the rest of it, and look what we have done in this period of time. They had a thousand years in Atlantis. So when I say there was a considerable period of development, you should begin to understand that there was something really far superior to anything that we have today, even under that regime. But it was not what it should have been; and various factors worked out, and Atlantis went down.

Then there were so many changes in the earth's surface at that time, so many changes in climate, in atmospheric conditions. There were just a few people comparatively speaking, scattered, isolated. The sudden changes produced what we have called the Ice Age, because that water froze suddenly. We have plenty of scientific proof of that, have we not? — that that water became frozen very suddenly. How did it happen? Because of the fact that the earth was reeling to-and-fro like a drunken man, the wobble was terrific, the climatic conditions changed, and what was a comparatively lovely climate became extremely severe, much more severe than we have at the present time, in fact. And these people were isolated.

Suppose you — it is not a very nice thing to imagine — but suppose there were enough atomic bombs fell right here on the earth, on our country, to absolutely wipe out our cities, wreck our communication systems, and have just two or three people here, maybe three or four over there, hiding in the mountains, living in caves, no resources as we think of them today, no cars, no airplanes, nothing; just civilization wiped out and a few scattered, actually maybe over the whole earth, maybe a few thousand people. Of course, it is pictured here in the story of the flood, just as Noah and his family. Well, allegorically that is true, but there were several thousand people in different parts of the earth who were saved.

Noah is the story given allegorically with respect to one family, but there were other families who were saved. The point is that these people did not know whether anyone else lived on the face of the earth or not. They had no means of communication. The second and third generation — and generations would become very short there, would they not? — you would have to be using clubs to kill some animals to get some food. The earth itself was covered with a density of clouds and dust and so on until you could not see the Sun. You could not tell what the directions were. For a long time they did not know what was north or south, they could not see the stars, they could not see the Sun or the moon, and it was cold, bitter cold. They were living in caves, trying to find some wild animals, get their skins to clothe themselves and so on. Oh, there was a cave-man age sure enough, but it came on so suddenly.

And how rapidly under those conditions, when every resource had to be given to the preservation of physical life, how rapidly would the consciousness of things gone by disappear. A grandparent talking to his grandson, trying to tell him something of what was before, he would have nothing to go by; the child could not see it, it would sound like, “Grandpa is a little nutty, you know. He is a little cracked. He talks about such things as that. Why, we all know that such a thing could not be.” Grandpa saw it and grandson did not, and how quickly it is all turned legend and myth. Do you see what I mean? And in a few years, fifty years even, suppose our civilization was wiped out and there were only three or four hundred people left, scattered all over, they did not know that anyone else was left; perhaps they were the only survivors, each one thinking that, how long would it take? And, if going through the woods, Grandpa and grandson stumbled on something peculiar, grandson does not know what it is. “What is that Grandfather?” “That is what we used to call a railroad track. Here is a little part that did not get covered up, some old rusty rails shining through the weeds and the undergrowth. I will try to tell you what a railroad was like. Now let us see, how can I tell you what a railroad was like?” — a railroad engine, no way of telling; a railroad train, no way of telling. “Pieces of metal there,” and Grandpa gets dreamy and he tries to tell grandson about it, and grandson shakes his head. “Grandpa is sure just about gone.” Can you see the picture?

Well, that is what happened then after the submersion of Atlantis, and the earth was plunged into that particular state and man forgot all about everything except trying to survive in a few very widely scattered points, and he was living in caves. How quickly does he revert to primarily an animal pattern under those circumstances. He has no means but his own wit and strength and a club to kill wild animals to get something to eat, and skins to clothe himself. And so when I say in five hundred years — remember we accomplished all this building up in five hundred years — does it sound so fantastic then when I say five hundred years from the time of the submersion of Atlantis there were just a few scattered tribes, a few cave-men here, a few nomads there, and civilization as it had been known was gone; those tribes were in most cases enemies to each other; they did not trust each other, and so on. And there you see the picture of the low point to which man went down.

And gradually he began to come up out of that, and finally in the early dawn of history we see Egypt appearing on the horizon. We begin to see the Near East. We begin to see something of that development working out in the Oriental pattern, and going back we can see something with respect to what was the fact down here in Central America, what we call Mexico now, and on down into South America, the Aztecs, etc. — and all that you can do is go back five or six thousand B. C. in history.

So man was emerging for several thousand years to get up to the point where he reached a state of civilization that allowed him to begin to make a record of his doings. Is that not what we call civilization? — man reaching a point where he starts making a record of what he does, so you have history. He begins to have an organized society. And that was the dawn of history as we know it. But I have given you just a tiny glimpse of the history that went before it so that you can begin to see something of the influences, and we have not been on a long journey up from the state of an amoeba. We have the background of Divine Man, the fall of man, this plunge into the cave-man stage and the Ice Age, and so on.

Why did the great layers of ice come plowing down across the earth’s surface as they did? If I take you up I can show you territory right out here on our plains where you can see the edge of where a great glacier came plowing along, pushing earth in front of it, and then it got that far and melted. The edge of it is right out here. I have flown over it many, many times. Oh yes, glacial action and all the rest of it, things that geology has not been able to comprehend except to know that there had to be an Ice Age — and because they did not know about this sudden shifting on the earth's axis and all of these other things, they imagine it had to creep down there and take millions of years. “Glaciers travel so fast, do they not? Why it would take so many million years for that glacier to reach from the North Pole to right out there.” Presto-change-o, you have the millions of years of evolution. But that is not the case at all.

You begin to see how and why these things happened. And you begin to understand the sound, scientific facts back of them. And remember that only as we are scientific and fundamental in relationship to these things, can we cause spiritual understanding to have any real value in living.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

According to the Original Pattern

According  to  the  Original  Pattern

from  Functional Reality

Uranda   July 23, 1953  Class

Today in our Class work we introduced the subject of nullifying wrong vibrational factors, in the first Class; and in the second we carried it into the pattern of intercessory function. Now, it is of vital importance to all of us that we have a clear realization of the opportunity that is afforded to us individually and collectively in relationship to this particular phase of function. Nullifying wrong vibrational factors which tend to appear and intercessory function. And I thought tonight we might well give some definite consideration to this pattern of meditation as it relates to the Magic of Living.

We have recognized that we are not supposed to be subject to the various conditions round about us, whether we classify them as good, bad or indifferent. We recognize that we cannot be instruments of control in any real sense until we have come under the control of the Kingdom of Heaven that is at hand. We have recognized that Truth is the abstract design and potential of control in relationship to the Kingdom, which is the form of Truth made manifest. The Kingdom of Heaven at hand, made manifest on earth, is in reality the Truth given form and function on earth in the realm of physical substance. Thy Kingdom come — the manifest form of Truth, in design and control, allowed to come into expression, into action, into being on earth. And as we have realized that Heaven and Earth are One, and we only need to come into awareness of the basic truth that it is so, we see that the invisible vibrational factors that give form to Truth in Heaven provide the Spirit, or essence of Being, by which the Truth may be given form on Earth as the Kingdom. So, whenever we say the Kingdom we mean Truth made manifest in form, in relationship to both design and control.

If your hand is functioning in the right control and if the design of your hand has not been impaired by distortions of some kind, so that you can move your hand correctly, it can function correctly, then your hand is a part of the Kingdom made manifest — that is, of course, providing the control is in harmony with Truth — if the hand is used for the purposes of the King. Then your hand, in such a case, is a part of the actual physical manifestation of the Kingdom, in fact. If that is true of your hand it is true of your whole body, it is true of your mind, it is true of your emotional nature. Whatever there is in physical form that is correct in design, that is not subject to distortion, and that functions on the basis of the control of Truth, is a part of the manifest expression or revelation of the Kingdom of God on Earth. So, we recognize that Truth, invisible Truth, must be given visible form, and our bodies are the starting point for the manifestation of that form.

Now, whatever human beings may do that is contrary to the Divine Design that tends to produce a distortion is wrong, and needs to be nullified. Whenever we begin to let the patterns of distortion have effect in our lives we are producing, by the use of our bodies and our facilities, our minds and hearts, we are producing by reason of our opportunities that which makes the world an ugly place, unlovely, unsatisfactory, that increases suffering, turmoil, discord. But these same capacities of body and mind and heart can be used to bring forth the manifestation of that which is beautiful, lovely, wonderful, that carries blessing to all who will receive. The way in which our capacities are used, in actual fact, determines our value in relationship to reality. If our capacities are being used to produce discord, unloveliness, ugly things, then we depreciate ourselves — we make ourselves to be of less value.

We might say that the value of human beings should be established, and from the standpoint of God is established, on the basis of the gold standard — gold being the symbol of God’s Love. Our valuation as human beings should be based on the gold standard. But human beings tend to devaluate their medium of exchange, which we call money. We can have a silver standard instead of a gold standard, and under the various standards there can be depreciation of value, fluctuations in value. The gold standard of God’s Love should be the basis of value for every human being, but human being tend to depreciate themselves because they do not let themselves be used to produce that which increases value on earth. 

We might note from an economic standpoint that one of the problems that we have in relationship to fluctuations in valuation is that the medium of exchange is utilized for that which does not increase values on earth. The uses of money that depreciate values — buying food that is not food, drink that is not drink, just to illustrate. It can manifest in many ways, but money spent for so-called food that is not real food, money spent for so-called drink that is not a beneficial, constructive influence, lowers the value of the money — it removes the pattern of foundation; it upsets the economic balance. If we spend money for entertainment that is not entertainment in a constructive sense, it doesn’t increase the value of life, the joy of life, then that tends to upset the balance and bring about a process of devaluation. So, we can see this principle at work in relationship to everyday things but let us see it work in relationship to ourselves as human beings.

Your value — your value from the standpoint of the King and the Kingdom — depends on what you bring forth, what manifests because you live. If you are producing ill things you depreciate, devaluate, yourself and make yourself to be of little consequence. As long as there is a potential of changing the tide we may say there’s a potential value, but it is not real, it is not yet realized, it’s paper money, it’s paper-wealth, something to be realized in the future, which may not manifest. It might turn out to be a loss because the potential value does not necessarily appear. That gets into the realm of life’s gambles. We trust that every human being will become of worth, of value, of meaning, but we know that many will not. But to start with, we are concerned about the right pattern of function through ourselves because we cannot influence others in the right way unless we are functioning correctly ourselves. And, what is our value? The mere fact that you are a human being does not cause you to have real value — potential value, paper wealth, yes, but does it become real or does it become a loss?

The real value is all that we can actually work with now. The potential is not enough. The future is not enough. That which is coming out of the future is important, but what is the present real value? What is it we can use that is coming out of the future in this instant, that is manifesting now? What has already taken form — it’s too late to change it. The critical point of change is at the beginning point of manifestation. It is coming out of the future, out of the vibratory realms, and beginning to take form. In this sense we may say that we have an illustration from the standpoint of thought and the words and acts which result from thought. In true thought you have a contact with the future. If thought is centered in the past then it is not functioning as true thought and does not permit constructive changes. It will bring about destructive changes but not creative, constructive changes. But true thought relates to that which is coming into form out of the future, and the changes that are possible are in the instant of birth from the future to the present. You cannot make a change in the far distant future, other than changing your pattern of polarity — that will have an influence on the far-distant future. But in actual fact the manifestation of change is something that is right here, at hand, all the time, whether you realize it or not.

If you are trying to work with what is already in form as it is passing into the past — if you are working on a lag basis — you will never succeed in building that which is of a higher Pattern of Being, in yourself or in your environment. If we work on a lag basis, just as it is going into the past, we may be disruptive but we cannot be constructive. That which is going into the past is already set; it’s too late for that — too late! We have to learn to let that which is going into the past go — let it go! We may say that we are living in the narrow margin of this moment, but if we are not functioning on a lag basis, but on the basis of that which is coming out of the future, being born into the present, we can there change the pattern of manifestation. How? By trying to make the Truth work in relationship to ourselves? No, the Truth is working! Everything of God is working. Changes are taking place. Everything is changing. You do not have to institute change; you do not have to get God to do something; you do not have to ask God to do anything.

God is doing. As soon as we conform to God’s doing, and share it, we begin to be creative. Truth is in action. All of the elements are present — they are at hand, right at the point where the future begins to be the present, the point of birth. And if the substance that is attuned at that point is being caused to conform to the Divine Design we have a healing pattern. But if the point of manifestation for the future is being ignored, and we are working on a lag basis with that which is passing into the past we have a degeneration pattern at work. That which coming into the future is not under dominion, it isn’t under control, it isn’t being caused to conform with the design of Truth and, here in the past, trying to work with it, trying to change it — it’s too late! And it’s in a pattern of degeneration.

The point where we are working in relationship to the present determines our effectiveness. Man was made, or created, brought forth, to be a means by which dominion, control, might be exerted on earth in relationship to physical substance. God has a means of providing control in the invisible realms — that is, in the realms that are invisible to us. Those realms have form that are meaningful in those levels of Being, but without man God has no means of establishing dominion in this realm. Man has refused to be the means of control, and then has blamed God because there was no control, because things happened as if by chance, because ill things resulted, evil is made manifest, suffering, misery, sorrow — all the things that lead to death. And they blame God; but God is not to blame. He provides all things necessary all the time, whether we use those things or not. They are at hand, within our reach, at the point where the future is becoming visible to us every moment of every day. And what do we do with that?

If we live on a lag basis we are trying to do the impossible. It won’t work. If we are trying to live in the middle of it — that is where we should be, in the middle of it, yes — but if we are trying to live there we find that we die there. Now can we grasp this point? If your consciousness has been attuned to the Truth, what we have been considering together in classes and services, here you have something of vital importance. If you try to live in the middle of the pattern of life, in this instant even, what will you be doing? You’ll be watching that which is going over the edge into the past. You are supposed to be in the middle of this present instant — yes, actually you are — but are you watching that which is coming in, out of the future, out of the east, or are you watching what is going over the edge, like a falls, into the past. Are you looking down into the falls or into the fountain that comes out of the east? There is something fascinating about a falls, about water going over the edge and flowing down. It’s very fascinating. I’ve watched it over Niagara, over many different falls. It’s fascinating.

But what do we say about man? Man fell, or man is living in the fallen state. His centering of attention in relationship to the moment in which he is living tends to be drawn into this weird fascination for what is going over the edge into the past, and then it is too late to do anything about it. He is dying. He’s lost his contact with living, and though he is in this present moment his centering is in what is falling. It’s going over the edge into the past, and then it’s too late. But like a fountain out of the east, out of the future, there is constantly coming, for every man, woman and child, something that is of God. If we do not give it form we never see it. It’s there but it never has form and we do not see it. Then the human mind tries to deny that it was there. But it was there. It is there all the time, and it’s flowing past us all the time, that which is of God. We do not have to start it working; we do not have to cause it to come from God — it is coming from God; it is in action now.

So, if we try to live in the center without regard to what is being born — if we ignore that, we don’t see it and understand it, and function on the basis of dominion with respect to it, and try to live in the present instant — we will be dying there instead of living there, because in spite of ourselves we will be watching what is going over the edge into the past. It has that weird fascination. And it was man letting his pattern of function and polarity move away from the fountain of the east to the falls of the west that caused what we call the fall. Now, the vibratory factors are coming out of the east. We cannot give them form unless we are working at the right point. If you wait until they get up even with you, where you are in the middle of this instant, it’s too late. You can’t give them form no matter how hard you try, and you’ll see them go into the past if you see them at all. It’s at the point where they come into this present moment, the point of birth, the point where they have the proper relationship with substance that we can begin to let dominion be a reality. If we would live in actual fact we must be facing the east and letting control have meaning with respect to those instant-by-instant changes.

To emphasize this point: change is taking place! We used a few illustrations today, that will bear repeating, because they need to penetrate deeply into consciousness. There is the old saying that there are only two things certain, death and taxes. Now, why do human beings say these two things are certain? Because of the certainty of change. Change is absolutely certain. Things are going to change! How — for the better or for the worse? Things are going to change. Change is certain! That’s a starting point. We are not necessarily, we do not have to be, creatures of fate, so to speak, creatures of chance, hoping that the changes will be better for us, but not being certain. But changes are taking place.

We noted that every fourteen months the vital tissues of your body are changed. Now you are not particularly aware of it in consciousness, but the stomach you had two months ago is gone, absolutely gone — it’s passed away, for you have a new stomach about every sixty days, a new heart every month. The heart you had a month ago is gone, it’s passed away, it isn’t there anymore — you have a new heart, in a normal pattern of life. And so on, until all of the organs of the body and all of the vital tissues, with the possible exception of the brain substance itself, even extending into the spine — that has all changed! That body which you had two years ago has passed away. It’s gone! And you have a new body. If this new body took form on the basis of the distortions that were in your body then it’s not any more healthy than it was. If it has been taking form on a basis of distortion it’s probably a little worse than it was two years ago. If the substance has been taking form on the basis of the Design in Truth then you are better than you were two years ago. You have better health, better vigour, better strength. But that substance is changing regardless of what’s in control. If suffering, ill conditions are in control then the new substance comes in and takes form on that same old basis and it goes down and down, until it’s clear under. But, if the control element of Truth has been allowed to have meaning in your body, the changes have been taking place, not on the basis of the old pattern but of the new. And your body has been getting stronger; your body has been changing for the better.

Now, you do not have to make your body substance change. As long as you live it will be changing. Perhaps the changes have slowed down, but it is changing. You do not have to start it changing. It is changing! What has already become set for the moment, you can’t change that for the moment, until the changes come out of the east, out of the future. And then, at that point, how does this substance take form? What is shaping it? What’s controlling it? What has dominion? That which is of the ill vibration? You have the conviction that you have this ill condition, this trouble, this difficulty, and so you make all the changes conform to the difficulty. And we have sickness, degeneration, and finally death. But if these changes that were taking place in you, in your vital tissues, were all controlled by the Truth, according to the Design in Truth, it is easy to see that your body could life for a thousand years as easily as it can live fifty years. There is no necessity of man having a life span of threescore-years-and-ten, or thereabouts. If by reason of strength he makes it to fourscore years it’s generally considered to be remarkable. Why? Because man just lets the machine run down — no true control. He lets it be subject to every ill thing that comes along — no dominion, no control. He doesn’t know how to nullify the things that should not manifest, and he does not know how to establish the patterns with respect to the Truth that is at hand and working, so that that will control in relationship to himself.

The changes are taking place. It’s not a question of whether changes will take place — they are taking place! It is a question of what is going to control in relationship to these changes. Will that control be according to the Divine Design of Truth or will it be according to the distortions that manifest on earth in human beings? If we do not know how to stop producing distortions, we are going to be on the degenerating side, we are going over the edge, gradually wearing down, slowing down, ready to drop off and be gone. But if we are living at the right point, centered in the right control, according to the right design, that isn’t true. We can let the past go into the past without a bit of concern, because we are attuned with that which is coming out of the future from God and we are letting it have form; and the dominion, the control, of God is established in relationship to that which is taking form.

Now the human being wants to see it manifest all at once. It doesn’t work that way. It takes about fourteen months for the vital tissues of your body to be changed. It takes seven years for the skeleton itself to be completely changed — your teeth, the bones in your head and your feet, all through your body. The body you had seven years ago is gone; it’s passed away. You have another body now. The cells that were in your bones seven or eight years ago simply are not in your body any more. Its been changed, at a normal speed, in a normal cycle. So, the change does take place. Does the change take place and reproduce the same old thing? You’ve inherited an ill condition; you have an ill condition, so you make your body inherit that ill condition over and over again — the same old thing, going down, a little bit worse every time.

If you cut a length of board exactly and use that for the measurement of the next, but use the one just cut to measure the next one, and so on; the last one you cut you use to measure your next cut, and you keep on cutting boards. In an hour-or-so, how far will your board be off from what it should be in length? Quite a bit. It will vary on the basis of the one who is operating the saw. But it will not be exact; it will be off, the pattern getting a little bit worse every time because the old pattern was used. Not the first pattern, not the one that was measured with exactness, according to the Truth — that pattern, we left it behind a long time ago. And the pattern, a little bit off but we still use it, and the next one’s off a little more, a little more, a little more, until the body is so far out of pattern that it can’t function any more. And then we say that’s death. The body dies. It stops functioning.

What pattern are you using? The one that was manifest just before, or a new pattern, regardless of the pattern that now is, no matter what’s wrong with it or what’s right with it? You may say, “Well the board I cut half an hour ago was pretty close. I’ve been working hard and it should be alright.” Keep the Original Pattern — and if every board you cut is according to the Original Pattern, and you’re careful, the hundredth board will be just as good as the first one. We can have every board you cut illustrate a year, if you want to. You can cut a thousand from that original pattern and if it’s rightly done that thousandth board will be right. Well how about using the Original Pattern? The changes are taking place in you! Are those changes going to be shaped according to the last pattern you had? And it will be getting a little worse and a little more out, until it stops functioning. The changes take the body substance back into the earth so that it won’t be so far out of balance.

We see then, that trying to be exact with the old pattern, moving it along so to speak, will not work, no matter how hard you try. It isn’t enough. You may be able to make the changes of degeneration go more slowly but they’ll still be there, with the coming of the changes. The only way is to use the Original Pattern that came from the hand of God — the Pattern established in Truth. Once we begin to let the changes that take place in the body be measured, shaped, controlled according to the Original Pattern we’ll be all right.

You may say, “But my Original Pattern was for the body of a baby, and I’m a grown man. That won’t work.” The size is beside the point. The Original Pattern included your size as a mature man or woman. Usually human beings are far from the Original Pattern before they become mature, so they imagine that the Original Pattern was just for the babe. But that is not true. The Original Pattern had in it everything necessary for you as a man or a woman, fully mature, a complete design, and all the elements necessary for perfect function in Truth — control, dominion. You may say, “But I was born with this limitation; I was born with this trouble. I had this happen to me when I was a child, thus and so.” Those limitations, if you think you were born with one — maybe you were; maybe you just imagined it; but suppose you were — that does not change the fact that the Original Pattern for you was perfect. If the pattern didn’t take form perfectly in the womb, that does not deny the fact that your Original Pattern is perfect; and if you are willing to accept the Original Pattern, that with which you were born, if it be a limitation, can be changed. The mere fact that you were born with it is beside the point. The mere fact that it happened to you when you were a child is beside the point, if you are willing to accept the Original Pattern.

But most people, if they are born with some limitation, have an awareness of limitation as soon as they begin to be aware of themselves, and that’s their pattern. It becomes fixed, and they let that control all the days of their lives, getting a little worse each time the body changes — every fourteen months, and sometimes it doesn’t take that long. But all the time, the person says, “But I am getting older, and I am getting worse; I am not as good as I used to be.” Old man, old woman, old this, old that — old patterns getting worse — dying! Well, if that’s the way you want it, okay. But that is not the way God provided it.

Death as we think of it is a completely unnatural thing. Death as we see it in relationship to the body of humanity is a perfectly natural thing. Now does that sound contradictory? It’s perfectly natural that substance should come into your body and go out of your body, that your body should pass away every fourteen months. If God arranged so that you could die every fourteen months — isn’t that enough? Your body passes away every fourteen months. That’s the death that’s natural — perfectly natural. The substance coming into the body and out of the body, but the whole body doesn’t have to die all at once, unless you make it so.

Now, I am not suggesting that we can develop a pattern of control so that we can just arbitrarily say, well our bodies won’t die. I can’t say that my body won’t die, in the ordinary sense of the thing. But we can begin to look at the facts and begin to establish control patterns, because we can live if we will begin to function on the basis of the Original Design — and what you were born with is beside the point. It is not what you are born with, it is what we live with. Do we live with the Original Pattern? Do we live with it and keep it close in our hearts, or do we have the distress pattern, the ailments, the difficulties? Is that the thing we feel most, see most, cling to most — degeneration, a little worse every time?

There is a change. We can nullify the wrong vibrational factors in our own bodies and in the bodies of others. Sometimes, if we are going to work on the basis of intercession we have to accept something into our own bodies, and then nullify it there, in ourselves, rather than out here. If I hadn’t functioned on an intercessory basis for you as you have begun to move along the way, and met things in my own body, accepted your limitations into my own body and then met them there, we wouldn’t have gotten this far. The time will come when I won’t have to do that. It’s becoming less and less, and I am very thankful. If I had insisted however, that every limitation had to be met in your own body it wouldn’t have been met. You didn’t know how to do it and you didn’t know how to let me do it in your body. So, in order to give you a chance to move out of the world pattern — there wasn’t any Christ Body to work with — I had to depend on my body. So I took into my body, many times, over and over again, your ailments, your difficulties, things that needed to be nullified in you. You wouldn’t let me nullify them in your body so I had to accept it into my body and nullify them in my own body. That’s intercession.

Now, once we have a true Christ Body we won’t have to accept these things into our bodies as individuals, but into our Body as a Unit, and nullify them there, for others — and extending on out into the world, to open a door for them. But the door is not open for any human being, I don’t care who it is, without intercession. I have worked on an intercessory basis for every one of you or you wouldn’t be here — every one of you — and I have nullified things in my own body for you or you wouldn’t have the state of health you have. You wouldn’t have had some of the healing you’ve had, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I’ve done it over and over again, saved your lives, so that the ill thing could be nullified in your body. You wouldn’t let me nullify it there directly. It can be done that way, but you had to learn how to respond. You had to grow first. You had to get through the door.

I am not objecting to that, not in the slightest. I knew when I started my ministry that I’d have to do it. Our Master did it, and if you’re going to truly minister you have to know something of the principles. But in the larger sense, we are working it out so that you don’t have to nullify it in your body for someone else. That’s my business, not yours. I have not undertaken to train you for that. And if you think you are nullifying something in your body for someone else, you are probably deluding yourself. If you think that you’ve taken someone else’s ill condition so that you can nullify it you’re probably deluding yourself, because that is not your place. You are not supposed to do it. I’ve never asked you to do it, and if you are trying to do it you are interfering.

But our Unit Body is supposed to function on that basis, but if it does function on that basis it does not affect your body as a person, your individual body. So, those things are supposed to be nullified externally to you. I have had to take them into myself for your sakes, and for the sakes of others who are not here tonight in person. But you are not supposed to do it that way. That’s my job, and its getting to a point where I don’t have to do it any more — and I am very thankful, because some of you are really learning how to work with me. And before long we won’t, any of us, have to do it. And you don’t have to do it now, even though I may.

Now, it is supposed to be nullified external to yourself. You are not supposed to take it into yourself to nullify it. It’s supposed to be nullified outside of yourself — unless it is your own. Unless it’s your own. But, that which is wrong can be nullified, if you will let it be. I don’t care what it is. You can say, “Oh, but can it happen with cancer; can it happen with this, that, and the other thing?” Yes! It can happen with any ill thing if you are willing to let it be. But these changes are taking place. Whether you like it or not, think about it or not, the changes are taking place in your body all the time. Up or down — which? The changes are taking place in your life, all the time, up or down.

How are you going to nullify the influence of the old pattern? You start using the Original one. You say, “Well, I don’t know the Original one. I never saw it. I can’t comprehend it.” No, I know. So, there is a way by which it begins to work without any more understanding than you have tonight. Any of you, young or old, it doesn’t make any difference. It is there for you if you will let it be. The Pattern is Truth. The Pattern is the Divine Design, and the control centered there. And there is a point of centering provided for you, if you will use it. If you try to do it on your own, that means that you personally must become aware of the Divine Design, the Original Pattern for yourself. You must learn how to function in relationship to it regardless of all the pushings and the pullings of circumstance, regardless of what happens.

Well, now, if you think you can do it, and you want to spend your time trying it, all right. Millions have tried it before you and failed — and you don’t need to. It is not necessary for you to do it. There is a point of centering provided for you, where the Pattern is, if you will accept it — already established. And you can begin to let that design that you are so familiar with, with respect to yourself, pass away.

It will take place gradually. We wouldn’t want it to happen all at once. You wouldn’t know yourself. It would shock your mind so completely that you’d lose your balance. It would destroy you. It’s not supposed to happen all at once. You may say, “Well I thought these things would happen in a moment. In the twinkling of an eye, and we shall be changed, it says.” Yes, some of the final changes will work out very speedily, but you have to let the basic changes work out first, so that you are centered in consciousness, otherwise your consciousness couldn’t take it.

And there is another thing. You are being changed in the twinkling of an eye, now. Every change comes in the twinkling of an eye. How big is the change? Do you want it with respect to your whole body all at once, in the twinkling of an eye? If you do, it will probably nullify you. And we’re not out to nullify you. We are out to help you come into the Pattern of what you are supposed to be. So, every change comes in a twinkling of an eye, in a moment, in the instant. I don’t care how little it is or how big it is. Every change, actually — you may not see it for a while, but its been taking form.

You may see a young person, and then see that young person again, boy or girl, a month later and you say, “My how you’ve grown.” You see the change that took place in a month because you weren’t watching it every day. The parent may be aware of it, but it tends to come to a point where he takes it for granted. After a while he wakes up, and my, you see your own child and suddenly you are aware of the fact of how tall he or she is, how big, how this, how that. You become aware of the fact that changes have been taking place. But that change that you observed didn’t take place all at once. You became aware of it in a moment but it was taking place all the time.

And every little change, every little cell coming in, every little cell going out — in the twinkling of an eye. Instantaneous things are going on in you all the time. Little changes — quick little changes, so tiny you don’t see them, but they are going on, changing all the time. Changing to what? The degenerated pattern or the Original Pattern. If you will let the factors of the degenerate pattern be nullified and respond to the basic principles of the Original Pattern you will find that you begin to be aware of them. But you will reach a crisis point in your body, in your mind, in your heart. And what do you do under a crisis point? Revert to the old pattern? Do the same old thing in the same old way, the minute the pressure of the crisis pattern appears? If you do, it goes down, and down, and down and gets worse, and worse, and worse.

When the crisis comes, what do you do? Stay true to the Divine Design. Stay true to the Truth, and trust regardless. There may be a physical hurt, there may be a mental hurt, there may be an emotional hurt — if you react to the hurt the old pattern is in control. If you hold true to the New Pattern, when the crisis comes everything will speedily change to the New Pattern and you are on the way to restoration. Crisis patterns do not ordinarily last longer than three days. Three days — three days in the tomb — three days for a crisis pattern. But generally speaking human beings won’t even hold steady for three minutes under a pressure. Something wrong — and they react, they don’t like this; they become subject to the wrong thing and immediately the old pattern is in control and the changes take place according to the old pattern. The dominion of Truth was not permitted to manifest.

Physical suffering, a physical crisis, a mental crisis, an emotional crisis — everyone of you will have crises on every level. What will you do? Revert to the old pattern? All right, you are going down, going down and out. Hold true to the True Pattern, true to the Truth, and the old pattern will be nullified. And the changes that take place in the crisis period when the changes are moving rapidly — and there you have the privilege of resurrection. Three days, when the pressure comes. Can you be trusted to hold steady for three days, no matter what the suffering? No reaction, no subjection to the old pattern.

These things come gradually, a little at a time according to your capacity, at first — at first it is generally measured according to your capacity, to give you a chance to get polarized and stay put. But if you break every time there’s pressure you will never go through the resurrection, you will never know the restoration to the Original Pattern, the Original Design. That’s what resurrection is — movement from the old pattern, the degenerate pattern, the distorted pattern to the Original Design for you — God’s Original Design, regardless of what you were born with, regardless of what’s happened to you anywhere along the line.

Now the purpose of attunements, the purpose of our whole Ministry, is to help you through those cycles of change — physically, mentally, emotionally — until you respond to the Original Pattern, and conform to it. But it won’t work unless you learn to be true to the Truth. As long as you are dishonest, true to the ill thing — it is always dishonest to be true to the ill thing. If you are true to the ill thing you are being dishonest with God and the Original Pattern. Do that and you go down, maybe slowly, but it will keep on going down. It will never change the tide. We might hold it a little while, we may keep it from going down so fast, but down it will go — regardless of attunements, regardless of anything I do or anyone else does — down it will go. That’s a fact. It can come up just as easily — in fact with a great deal more pleasure, satisfaction and joy, moving constantly into the Original Pattern of the Divine Design. Up or down? Resurrection or degeneration? Restoration or decay? That’s the choice.

Intercession, nullification, yes — because along the way you will do things and say things inadvertently, unwittingly, ignorantly, that are being true to the wrong pattern, and only as those are nullified, and you let it be done can you learn to let it be true to the Truth. But if you say, “I am this way; I have this limitation; I have this characteristic; I have this feeling; I have this attitude; I have this problem” — you have identified yourself with it and you are going to stay with it if it kills you. And it will. Make your choice.

You can let all of these old things go over the falls. You don’t have to go over the falls unless you identify yourself with what is going over the falls, into the past. You identify yourself with what is going over the falls and you will go with it, sooner or later, no matter how you cling to life, no matter how you try to do it. Something is going over the falls, and the body you have is going to pass away. But you don’t have to go with it. You’ve had a new body within the past two years. If you are fifty years old you’ve had seven complete bodies, including the skeleton. And this is the seventh — six have passed away, six bodies gone. You can let your body pass away without your passing away. You allowed those bodies to go without being too much concerned about it.

Let yourself be centered in the Original Pattern. Come under dominion, under control, and the dominion will begin to manifest through you so that you can have meaning, value to the King — not depreciating yourself — letting your value increase to the Glory of our King and the blessing of our fellows. Which shall it be?

Our gracious Lord. Our holy King. We would accept the Original Design, the Original Pattern of Being in relationship to ourselves, and let all things that do not conform therewith pass away, for we know that the Original Design is the true Life Line, and we would accept that Life Line, and let ourselves be drawn back from the brink into the Pattern of Living, that the resurrection may be a reality in us, that our value may increase, our worth to Thee and to our fellow man; that the riches of the Kingdom may manifest on Earth, that the beauty of the Kingdom, and the power of the Kingdom, and the glory of the Kingdom may be revealed in and through and for all who will let it be so — for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. In the Christ. Aumen.

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