Pattern of the One Woman on Earth

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Pattern  of  the  One  Woman  on  Earth

Uranda  November 28, 1953

In our meditation last Thursday evening—Thanksgiving evening—we came to the point where we were ready to begin consideration of some of the factors essential to the fulfillment suggested by our questions. This point of healing, as you recall, had to do with the processes of restoration, the point that was composed by a question was, “Why has the positive expression of the Divine not been allowed to more effectively manifest in the world as a whole?”—with particular reference to us here on Sunrise Ranch. Tonight I would like to share with you a meditation on some practical applications of the principles involved. If you will remember our meditations of Thanksgiving Day, as well as those that have gone before, I feel that we can tonight properly make some practical applications in this particular field—so this will be a little different from our usual pattern of service.

As you  recall the principle, you recognize that before woman can be healed she must begin to so function that she can help make it possible for man to be healed, and then her healing will follow. And that is true here on Sunrise Ranch, and the particular application here comes first in the sphere of the women’s activities. We have been working for long while to achieve a program where the vibratory pattern in the sphere of the women' s activities should be what it ought to be. There has been, in the overall sense, some very definite progress. One of the factors involved in preparation for clearing these things we are considering tonight was established in relationship to Lillian, and her handling of the Focalization of the Ladies activities over the last considerable period of time, to some degree, or in one way and another, and more recently in an overall sense, in the vibratory field for you while I was away, in order to work out as nearly as possible the correct vibratory pattern, which would make it possible to deal with these things. You will recognize that preparation to this end was in progress long before we left for the North West, and every service we have shared since our return has had one definite aim—the general expression of that which is of the principles of Reality, yes; but, to establish a pattern that would permit us to do something here on Sunrise Ranch—so all of these Services, and particularly the last two, have been designed to prepare the way for that which we are considering this evening.

Now we recognize that there has been progress in the Kitchen. I might mention different ones as having played a part, but first recognize that in the Kitchen the problems of every individual on the Ranch comes to focus, every difficulty in the sense of health for instance, and becomes more or less a clearing center for the whole vibratory field. Practically every difficulty that is encountered on the place that has any individual characteristics begins to have some kind of influence in the Kitchen. And in the Kitchen we have two primary functions: preparing food and eating it. You might say there is a third primary function: cleaning up after you have eaten.

But let us consider the dietary factors first. There have been a good many misunderstandings and problems in this field. If we had money enough and facilities enough, and help enough, we could perhaps undertake to provide a dietary regime more or less patterned after the individual tastes of everyone here—if we tripled our food expenditure and had more help, and had larger facilities, we could be more considerate of individual tastes. There has been quite a tendency among some to be a bit on the arbitrary side with respect to dietary tastes, likes and dislikes. Now, for myself the dietary pattern as we have been having it is not what I would personally prefer, and yet even though I have the remnants of a physical condition which forced me to give a little consideration to dietary factors, generally speaking I find something in the meal to eat, even if it is just milk and toast, without being too concerned about getting something else. I think generally speaking that has been the desire, to find something in the dietary pattern as it is, that would make it possible to eat with pleasure and enjoyment. I think, in the overall sense, there has been, by and large, a real appreciation of the food. There is a great deal of care and consideration goes into its planning and preparation; and we have been spending more, from the standpoint of our income, on food, than we ought to, in one sense. I have allowed it to continue because I appreciate very much, the fact that dietary limitations tend to complicate things. I am not bringing this up because I expect to increase dietary limitations, but because more and more the pattern tends to become complicated. It is in the field of the ladies work, and yet this includes all of us who eat on Sunrise Ranch; and it appears that there has been developing an increasing tendency to complications, for instance with respect to what we have in our diet.

Now I am quite sure that if we arranged to have the dietary pattern follow my taste, some of you would not be too happy about it—but I haven't undertaken to have the dietary pattern follow my taste. We have undertaken not to follow any one individual’s taste but to come as near as we could, with the funds available, and the facilities and help we have, in providing good wholesome food for everyone—and yet these individual characteristic vibrations tend to emphasize themselves more or less. Now there may be some cases where that is justified. I could very easily emphasize the point in relationship to myself, and I think it could be argued that that would be justified. Then we would have a different dietetic programme. Very different. The point is, we have a limitation from the standpoint of the money that is available to spend for food. We have spent more than we should have from the standpoint of a balanced budget. We have limitation of facilities, and sometimes some people are not very thoughtful about, well, crowding in, in connection with our limited facilities, and we have limited help. From the standpoint of the work generally, I would like to take Edna and Millie out of the kitchen entirely. I can't, because who is there to do the work? Some have tended to object to kitchen work. It seems that there is quite a tendency to try to evade it, or get out of it in some fashion, as if it were not important work. Sometimes there is a slap-dash method in it—jam, rush, which is very bad. All the Kitchen work needs to be done on a relaxed vibration.

Now, we need to come to the realization that until the Kitchen work is right—the ladies work in connection with the food—we can never accomplish what we are here for. From the standpoint of the ladies, there is not anything on Sunrise Ranch, or on the face of the earth, more important than right function in the Kitchen. Without right function in the Kitchen our whole program will collapse. To whatever degree your function in relationship to the Kitchen has helped promote the right pattern in it, you have been rendering a real service to God and to man. To whatever degree you have resisted correct function in the Kitchen, to whatever degree you may have complicated it, you are hindering the accomplishment of that for which we are all here. I don’t know how to put it in words to convey more effectively the fact that the Kitchen work is the most important work on the place—bar none—with the possible exception, if you want to make an exception, of my own personal work. But my personal work is impossible without the Kitchen. The Kitchen work is more important than the work of the Servers, giving Attunements. There isn’t anything on Sunrise Ranch, or in relationship to our Program, that is more important than the Kitchen work—absolutely nothing! It stands equal at least with my own work. It is one of the most effective ways by which you can serve, and we work against ourselves with unnecessary difficulty and limitation as long as the Kitchen Program is not what it ought to be.

The responsibility of the Kitchen work rests primarily with the ladies. Some of the men have been helping to some degree, and that is good; whenever they can I think they should. But we can do all of the other things out here, in field, in shop or in office, including my own office, and have it all come to absolutely nothing, if the Kitchen Program, the Ladies Program in relationship to food, is not allowed to come absolutely clear. There is nothing more important than this, as far as you are concerned. It is important that Servers give Attunements, it is important that various things be done, but you ladies who have a part in the Kitchen have the priceless privilege of doing the most important thing there is to be done in our field of activity.

There has been evasion, there has been holding back, there has been all kinds of pushing and pulling and reactions in connection with the Kitchen, and every attitude of that kind is maintaining the separation between Heaven and Earth, every attitude of that kind is hindering the fulfillment of our Program. Every lady here should count it a Sacred Privilege and a High Honor to be able to do something constructive in the Kitchen. I do not care what we do in other fields, vibrationally or otherwise, our whole Program is on sinking sand comparatively speaking, it is uncertain, until we have the Kitchen core what it should be—and to whatever degree you have helped it become a solid, stable blessed thing, you have been serving God; and to whatever degree you have hindered it you have been serving the Devil. And we should face it, and recognize it—and the question that was posed: Why this separation between Heaven and Earth? Why this failure? I have wondered if it was finally going to come to the point where I personally would have to go into the Kitchen, myself, in order to clear this pattern—and if it doesn’t, I will. There is absolutely no excuse for it, and I shouldn't have to. But there is nothing in any kind of writing, in any kind of work around the place, office work, or anything that any of you can do—and I bar none—more important than the Kitchen—preparing food, serving it end washing dishes.

There has been a tendency to have a vibratory pattern in relationship to washing dishes that has been absolutely abominable. To carry that current of hell right into the heart of our Program is a terrible thing, and that is what it is. If I must, I will come up and set an example. I can cook; I have done a great deal of it. I can come up and I can serve the tables if I must. I can wash dishes if I must, but it is not supposed to be my job. I do not hesitate to do it because it is beneath me, not at all, but because I think that is your job. I can do your job. Can you do mine? There has been, apparently, a feeling that it was, well, somehow kind of low to work in the Kitchen, something to be objected to. As long as that idea of the devil and satan is maintained in any mind here, there is something contrary to the Divine Pattern at work, right at the heart of our Program. It is honorable, and there isn’t anything that is higher or better for any of you.

Why do I say that? Because until the Kitchen Pattern clears we cannot, on Sunrise Ranch, have the real manifestation of the Union of Heaven and Earth. I don't care what else we do, or how we do it, it cannot be achieved somewhere else first. The beginning of its manifestation, from the standpoint of our whole program, must be there—it cannot come anywhere else first. Individuals may perhaps, in a sense, touch it, but until that oneness of Heaven and Earth is established in the ladies field in the Kitchen, in relationship to the food we eat, it will not appear anywhere else, no matter what any of the rest of us may do. You have the opportunity of establishing it first, the core of it, the center of it, the current of the Life Line—and I would say, if any lady here is too good to work in the Kitchen she is too good to live on Sunrise Ranch, definitely; and if any lady is going to work in the Kitchen, it must be in the pattern of the application of the Laws and Principles for which we stand. It cannot be any other way.

The Laws and Principles of Reality—and a recognition, as that function becomes what it ought to be, that it can begin the healing of the gulf between the intellectual idea and the functional application. I have touched on this subject before, but I never succeeded in having my words penetrate. They have been ignored. Various ones have acted as if I had never said a word, as if what I said meant nothing, or as if I did not know what I was talking about. I have never talked to you in any service or any meditation period about any subject more vital than this—that we let the Kingdom of God come in our Kitchen, for if we refuse to do so, it will not come anywhere else in any adequate sense. The vibratory pattern of our whole Ministry centers there. You may say, “Well it centers in a higher sense, in a larger sense, in these Services we hold here in the Chapel.” All right, we have it here, in what we might call the intellectual sense, and the spiritual sense, and so on. But here it does not reach into the functional field. From here it needs to be carried out and applied. It has to reach home in the doing of the task of whatever is at hand to do. And we need to realize, whatever else may be true, that until you ladies start to make a Home for the King in the Kitchen, we will not have any real Home for Him anywhere else.

How many times have you heard it said, especially in what we might call the old fashioned home, that we live in the Kitchen. The Kitchen, the place where there is a sense of hominess, of life, the place in any home where the Home Spirit reaches its apex. I ask you, is there any place in any home where the Home Spirit can reach a higher point than in the Kitchen? No. In the dining room, you say. Oh no, no, no, no—in the Kitchen! The center of the Home is in the Kitchen, any home, including our King’s Home on Earth. And our functional pattern here cannot clear until this is taken care of.

Now we have a New Year coming up, the Lord has provided various facilities by which an expansion programme is possible, and right from the beginning in that New Year we have a heavy current of activity opening up. This next month is going to be a busy one for me, getting ready for the New Year, and that which it is to bring forth. There are a number of things yet to be brought forth in this twelfth month in the year 1953—and we need to be ready for 1954. We have just a little over a month. This is the 28th Day of November, and it is just a little over a month until 1954 will be with us. And you know, I do not feel that I am in any sense arbitrary when I say that I expect this Unit to be ready when the New Year comes—and a measure of that readiness will appear in the Kitchen. Anything else you may say, or do, or try, to give evidence of serving or accomplishing something, it will all be measured against the Kitchen and what you do there—as far as you ladies are concerned, and to quite a degree as far as you men are concerned, because you have to eat there, and that is where you find the centering of the Home vibrational pattern.

We either come there and add to that which provides the very Core of our functional application of the Law, or detract from it. Ordinarily we eat at least three times a day, and that is all right. But in connection with the physical food, there is the mental food, there is the emotional food, and if the attitude is not right in mind and heart with respect to the physical food, mind and heart starve, and the body is poisoned, because the vibration that is carried into the Kitchen, whether in the preparation of food, serving it, eating it, or washing dishes, will determine the vibrational pattern of our whole program. What I do here in these Services comes to naught, to whatever degree the Kitchen pattern does not function harmoniously to the laws of God. I have seen tendencies to throw away what we had accomplished here, because it was not carried over. You gather here and listen to me talk to you, we share these meditations, and I am here at least four times a week—and I thank God that your interest brings you here, and that you find joy in it—but it is only to the degree that we carry it over into the field of application that it has any meaning, and the center of application is in the Kitchen, for men and women, and children.

I am going to illustrate just a little bit, about another field, to show you how important this is. As the Cycles have worked out it has so developed that Fred and Elsie will carry the primary responsibility of taking care of my children while Kathy and I must be away in the Ministry. If they were not there to do that I couldn’t go and Minister, nor could Kathy. In the ordinary pattern of things we can't possibly conceive of a more important job on the place than that job to which they are assigned. It is one of high trust, and it makes possible my going into the Field. If that provision were not there in an adequate sense I just could not do it. But, consider again, as they have shown their willingness and ability to take over that responsibility in my home—if the right food isn't provided for my children, their ministry on my behalf, so that I can Minister out there, becomes nothing.

In other words, it ties right back again to the Kitchen, and I do not care how diligently Lillian, and the others who work with her work in the sense of planning the meals within the scope of our budget, how carefully they buy, or prepare, or cook, unless the right vibratory factors are established in the Kitchen and maintained there, the food is poison. The wrong vibrational pattern in an individual can poison even the best food, and the right vibrational pattern can make wholesome the most simple food. Now it might be that some of you would like to meditate on the possibility of accepting a different dietary pattern, one that I would choose instead of one that you choose yourselves, because you know you have been choosing the dietary pattern yourselves—it is not something that I chose, not something that Lillian chose—you can't blame her—it is the dietary pattern that you have chosen for the application of the funds we have. If that is to be changed it is up to you. I can't arbitrarily change it.

I have worked to establish changes in our Kitchen since we first had a kitchen here in 1945—eight years—and that has not been achieved yet. Actually, the Kitchen pattern has been a holdout resistance pattern, the place I couldn't ever trust to hold steady and be what it ought to be. It came nearer being that during Convention periods this year, and the pattern has held to some degree. Some of you have really applied yourselves to make it so, and carried the Spirit of Reality into it. But you know, within the pattern of Patience there is a point where Patience ceases to be a virtue, and that point is getting very, very close.

I recognize the things that you have done. I am not depreciating the service you have rendered, but I am pointing out that we cannot begin to have the Reality of the Pattern here on Sunrise Ranch, the manifestation of supply, the solidity of the Core that will stand against the reactionary pressures that may appear, something that can be depended on and carried through, until we have the right Kitchen Pattern. Yes, I know about the good things, but I have to face the facts as they are. It isn't enough. Why the gulf between? That Why, that we were considering on Thanksgiving Day—it comes down to this in the functional field, and what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about it? It is here that we either succeed or fail. I have set the course, the vibratory pattern has been opened for great achievements in the year that is ahead of us, and there are many hungry and thirsty ones waiting for it. It will depend on what you do in the Kitchen as to whether it is a success or not. My success or failure in the Field depends on what you do in the Kitchen right here on Sunrise Ranch, and if you do not do your job correctly, and in the right Spirit and attitude, then how can I ask anyone, anywhere to do anything in the right pattern and attitude. You make a mockery of that which I am asking others to do—until we have it in the Kitchen, right here—because until you have it in the Kitchen you are sending out the vibratory message that we are not backing Uranda up—don't pay any attention to what he says; it is all right up here in the intellectual field, but don't try to apply it; don’t let it have any meaning in your lives—go on to hell. No!

Our services are important, but the measure of their importance shows up in the Kitchen, individually and collectively. I come here and hold a Service for you, and I go down to the Kitchen and watch your function there—whether coming in to eat, or to prepare, or wash dishes—I watch you, whether you know it or not. And there I see the measure of meaning that you have found in what I have said, not anywhere else, because what you do somewhere else cannot rise above what you do in the Kitchen—never! What I do out here cannot rise above what you do in the Kitchen, and if that is true of me it certainly is true of you. The value, the meaning of what you do anywhere else, cannot rise above what you do in the Kitchen, to make that Core of our Home Pattern meaningful. And the point where Heaven Home begins to really mean something is where? in the Kitchen! So whatever it may be, there it is.

Now there are a thousand and one individual problems that have tended to arise. I don't intend to try to solve those problems. I don't intend to give any specific instruction as to how they shall be solved, except that it shall be there, with respect to the whole. Some have been trying to shift part of the load over on to someone else, and it will not work. Individually you will have to do your part in the functional field. If the Chapel is Holy to you, so must the Kitchen be. If our Services in the Chapel are meaningful to you, so must our Service in the Kitchen be. Whatever else we may do, it comes back to that—for unless someone serves in the Kitchen, I can’t serve, nor can anyone else, anywhere. And those of you who are serving in the Kitchen have a share with everything that is done in the Lord's Service on Earth—everything I do, everything anyone else does, in the Lord's Service—in the Field or wherever you may turn. It is vital, and you set the level of your own meaning in the Kitchen.

As your function in the Kitchen is correct, I can consider you in relationship to other things where you may be qualified, if you are not needed in the Kitchen, if we can work it out so that you can be released for that Field. But those who do not function effectively in the Kitchen, when they are needed there, have absolutely no consideration with respect to anything that they may want to do. They do a job there and they can give meaning to something else; they refuse to do a job there and they can't give meaning to anything—they just become an nonentity, a problem. Your function in the Kitchen determines as to whether you are a problem or not, as far as I am concerned. And the vibratory factors that are established in relationship to our food—preparing it, serving it, or eating it—are of utmost importance, and anything that spoils the vibration in the Kitchen is a sacrilege.

As we begin to realize these things,

you can begin to understand the meaning of these verses we were considering the other evening.

“And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou has done this, thou are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.” The mind cannot rise out of the dust, no matter how intellectual you think you are, how brilliant you may think you are, or anything else—you can't get your belly out of the dust except as you begin to let the Kingdom of God come into the Kitchen. For the aspirations of the mind, or the spirit, the aspirations of the heart, mean utterly nothing unless they come to point in the functional field of the Kitchen—utterly nothing.

There has been a tendency to see how little time one could put in in the Kitchen, and to me it has been a shame unto us here on Sunrise Ranch. Everything else that you do ought to hinge around what you can do properly in the Kitchen. The Kitchen should not shift and turn about other activities; other activities are supposed to revolve around the Kitchen. And if you try to make your activity revolve around something else, so that you ask the Kitchen Pattern to change and shift and turn about because you want something else to be center, it will never work. It never has, never will.

We come to the point where we realize that the Kitchen is the place where Heaven and Earth can first become One. It is the center of all of our activities, including mine, because my work comes to naught unless it has meaningful manifestation in the Kitchen. That is why we have come along so slowly, because you ladies were not willing to let my work have more meaning—just to put it bluntly. You wanted to have it some other way. All right, we have had eight years of it. Isn’t that enough? The ninth year, the year of bringing forth, is before us, in the sense of our locality here. My point is, then, that the aspirations of the mind, the spirit of the heart, turn out to be a mockery, a myth, unless they are given form in the Kitchen—the Centering of Home—and wrong patterns there will maintain wrong patterns in the world. The women wonder why there are wars, and conflicts, and one thing and another. If half the ladies who function in the kitchen in the United States were to overnight change the pattern away from increasing hell to increasing Heaven, the whole world would feel the effect almost overnight. And whether you like it or not, that is the way it is. Whether you want it that way or not, that is the way it is; and we will either do it God's Way or it won't be done—and that's God's Way.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” It shall bruise thy head. Why? What is it? And thou shalt bruise his heel. “Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Well now, most women have done their best to take the attitude that he shall not rule over me, and in some instances I can understand the attitude—so it takes development both with the male and the female—but the point is, until this is accepted in the Pattern of Reality, the curse cannot be removed. “Because thou hast harkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life.” To eat of the ground. That which comes to it's highest fulfillment in the Kitchen starts in the ground, in man's works—whether it is in the garden, or field, or with stock, milk cows, or beef cattle, or what have you. That which starts in the ground, in the field of man's work, finally comes to the point of it's highest consummation in the Kitchen, where that which has been resurrected thus far becomes a part of the body of man. The ladies in the Kitchen are working with the final part of this process that begins with man's work in the field.

And God said unto man, “In sorrow thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life.” Now that does not mean that woman has to increase man's sorrow in the Kitchen. Man has difficulties enough getting it out of the ground, and getting it as far as the Kitchen. But look—number the activities round about us—what man does depends on his ability to have food, in the first place. Take the food away from the men a day or two or three, and see how much we would be getting done—all of these tasks out here—you could be building a building, digging a ditch, putting in a pipe line, ploughing the field, planting, whatever. Every phase of our activities has absolutely no meaning except as it relates to the Kitchen, and every bit of it comes to point in the Kitchen—the food that is grown, everything. If we make a door and hang it here in the Chapel—if we stop having the right pattern of outworking in the Kitchen, pretty soon there are no people on Sunrise Ranch, the place begins to fall to pieces, the door swings in the wind, and there is nothing. I do not care what we do, I do not care what lectures I make, what Services I may hold, what truths I may portray, it has no meaning except as it is backed up in the Kitchen. You are the ones who determine how much my work shall mean in the world—in the Kitchen. There is not any higher calling. You have it in your hands—success or failure, what shall it be?

In the cycle of our endeavors, everything comes to point in the Kitchen, and if we partake of the food in the right spirit and attitude, food that has been prepared in the right pattern, we begin to have meaning on Earth. If you ladies can work together in the Kitchen, and do a job, and have it be what it ought to be, then I have this comfort—the Pattern of the One Woman on Earth can come to fulfillment. The One Woman, the Bride—as we have considered the One Woman in times past—all men and women formed into the Body that becomes negative to God.

But until we have the right vibrational pattern in the Kitchen with you ladies, working together in the Spirit of Harmony and understanding, the functional application of the things of Heaven on Earth, I have no more opportunity of accomplishing that for which I came on the Earth than I have expectation of hopping over the moon on one foot. The success of my Ministry depends on you—the men yes, what they do is important—but what they do comes finally to your hands for it’s acme of fulfillment in the outer form, in the ascending cycle, and what do we do with it? If we spoil it, make it to be of no effect, take the life force out of it, we have nothing actually—to say nothing of our KING. I can have no real home on Earth, in the sense of fulfillment, until we have it established here on Sunrise Ranch in the Kitchen. Once we have it in the Kitchen, the rest of our problems will just melt away. The increase in the level of Kitchen function in the past few months has made all the difference in the world to what I have been able to do, in the prospects of things yet to come, in the manifestation of provision. If that improvement had not come in the Kitchen, I couldn’t have been going east to get a new airplane. I could not have been working out the factors that we have opening up for the New Year. Yes, the improvement in the Kitchen has opened the Cycle. I cannot go further in the Field than you let me go. It is in your hands.

Now as I said before, there are a number of problems to solve, a number of individual adjustments required. I am not going to try to work it out. If it cannot be worked out easily and naturally, after this consideration tonight, following upon our consideration of Thanksgiving Day and all that has gone before, I am going to take the attitude that it cannot be worked out in relationship to you—and you will be invited to leave Sunrise Ranch. Period! I am through with the nonsense. Take it or leave it. I am through with the nonsense. I will be patient and let you have a chance—but no more it. If you don't let it clear, earnestly and sincerely and willingly, following this, I have no choice but to take the attitude that you do not intend to let it clear, that I can't hope for it to clear in and through you—then I will have to bid you farewell, one way or another. I expect the changes to be made individually and collectively, and I don't feel that I am asking anything unreasonable or impossible. If you would do your part toward establishing Heaven on Earth, there you have a real opportunity. It is up to you.

Our Gracious LORD and KING, I thank Thee for these here gathered, and for all who are with us in Spirit, that there may be a realization tonight of the Glorious opportunity Thou hast granted unto us, that we may discharge our responsibilities, under the privilege, to Thy Glory and to the blessing of the Children of Men. I thank Thee Father for the assurance that the vibration of the Heaven Home shall increase, and become more real in the days to come, that it may nevermore be as it was in the days long ago, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head.” I thank Thee Father for these who, in deep dedication and Love Response to Thee, are giving themselves, their capacities and their abilities, to the manifestation of the Heaven Home by which there may be a place prepared for the Birth of the things that Thou wouldst give into the Earth. We see that until there is a Heaven Home, there is no way for the Birth of the things that Thou wouldst give into the Earth. “Behold I make all things New.” And we see the things of God coming down out of Heaven into the Earth, but they cannot come in any real manifestation except as there is a true Heaven Home. I thank Thee Father, that Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, here and everywhere, now and always—forever. Aum-en.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Every Home A Heaven

Every  Home  A  Heaven

from  Steps to Mastership   Lesson 14

Uranda   1936

In the beginning Positive God joined to Negative God, and the Child of that union was Creation. We see Positive Man (male) joined to Negative Man (female), and the result of that union is the Creation of Child. Man is a Three-Phase Being: namely, Physical, Mental and Spiritual Expression.

Impregnation of Negative Man by Positive Man results in a Physical Child. Impregnation of Positive Man by Negative Man results in a Mental Child. Impregnation of Positive Man by Negative Man simultaneous to impregnation of Negative Man by Positive Man results in the birth of physical matter into the spiritual world, and that is a Spiritual Expression Child. To produce a Spiritual Expression Child, both parents thereof must be both Father and Mother. This is that which is called Art. Art, in any manifestation, is a physical reflection of a Spiritual Expression Child. 

That these truths might be made manifest to those who are worthy did you enter earth life. For this purpose did you come into the world, that you might show forth the secret things of God and prove that the Spiritual Phase of Being may be comprehended by man.

Take heed, therefore, unto these precepts, contemplate upon them, govern each thought, word and action thereby, and show forth to the world the results of an Understanding Heart:

Oh Man

take care that in all things you shelter, protect, uphold and appreciate the Flesh Child

which you fathered in the Woman who is the Mother thereof,

that she may feel that It, her Child, is safe in your care.

Oh Woman

take care that in all things you shelter, protect, uphold and appreciate the Idea Child

which you fathered in the Man who is the Mother thereof,

that he may feel that It, his Child, is safe in your care.

Oh Man-Woman

take care that in all things you shelter, protect, uphold and appreciate the Spiritual Expression Child

which you both fathered in the other as the Mother thereof,

that you both may feel that It, your mutual Child, is safe in the other's care. 

Thus may the Inner Nature of you both express freely in Art, in Music, and in Love.

In these three Laws are the secrets by which every problem upon the face of the earth may be solved.

Obedience thereto shall make of every Home a Heaven,

of every Life a thing of Beauty, and of every day a Joy forever.

Tourmaline and Amethyst

Don Hynes

Going down with autumn,

following the rain

along the bedrock

to deep river roots,

the fault line of ages past

marks the way to inner earth,

dark caverns of crystal

where heartbeat and breathing

slow to rest, to learn

the old magic of winter.

Here darkness teaches

to see where there is no light,

where water rises from stone

and the wisdom of silence

hangs in the cool damp air.

In tourmaline and amethyst,

obsidian and malachite

the ancient world

holds the knowledge

of what has been

and may yet be

for the days when the earth

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Heaven–Home Womb

Heaven–Home  Womb  —  Gestation  Cycles

from  Thanksgiving  Day  Service #2

Uranda   November 26, 1953

To begin our Meditation this evening let us recognize that down through the centuries, and in this present time, there have been and are many men whose attitude, whose processes of thought, whose pattern of belief, whose self-centeredness, is such that they have not had, and do not have, any meaning in relationship to the fulfilment of our Program. In the world it is not difficult to find those who are ready to criticize, judge and reject. So our basic point is this: While there are many people, both men and women, who actually come in this category, they have no meaning, no weight or value in relationship to the immediate steps of our Program. The tendency is to try to bring such people or their ideas, their concepts, their attitudes, into a pattern of relationship to our immediate problem, but this cannot be successfully done and it is not wise to attempt it.

In undertaking to understand first our problem, and then the answer to it, as it was stated this morning, it is necessary to realize that as far as the actual patterns of reality are concerned only certain people have any meaning: those whose pattern of response is such as to bring them into the range of the vibratory field. Insofar as our immediate purpose is concerned, insofar as our function is concerned, broadly speaking the others are as if they were not. Ultimately such patterns will have to be dealt with one way or another, and will be, on the basis of the response that may be engendered in the days to come, or, if no response to reality is engendered, upon the basis of their present directions of response. And in this we see that those who are responding to themselves, their own intellects, their own ideas, their own desires, receive according to their response. But their fate is beside the point of our immediate consideration, and let us not assume that in the vibrational sense they have any weight, meaning or value, for they don't. That is the future problem, which does not at the present time have any bearing and so is not now considered.

In such a consideration as this, dealing with the vibratory patterns essential to the manifestation of Reality on earth, our problem is not with those who do not respond to Reality in a direct sense but with those who do, what we might classify as the world of responding ones, those who are the sincere, earnest men and women, all over the world, who seek to the best of their understanding to serve God. And our attitude is without respect to their church, their color, or their sphere of living.

Now if there is no attempt made in consciousness to project into the pattern those who do not belong there, who actually are not there, we will find that the whole problem is clarified and isn't as difficult as it would seem to the human mind to be. We can't work with that which is not responding to the pattern, and we don't try to. So if you can let go in your own thinking, in your own attitude, to a degree which allows you to recognize that vast numbers of men and women now existing in the world are excluded as far as our immediate pattern of consideration is concerned, it will be easier to accomplish that which is essential.

If, then, we see that there have been many, many men and women back through the centuries who have had a basic sincerity, a basic earnestness, a basic desire to serve God, to let His will be done, or to do it, and we remember that our consideration has regard to them and to those who now live who come in the same category, we'll be able to see that, regardless of the ordinary limitations of consciousness due to particular religious beliefs, there is a basic centering, devotion, in mankind which has sought to do God's will without an understanding of God's will or His true plan or purpose, and without an understanding of the fact that man cannot do God's will but must let God do that which is according to His own will, by His own power in and through man.

Now to establish one or two distinctions with respect to the male and female phases

in this particular field, excluding all others.

Gestation cycles

The female has a remarkable opportunity of understanding something which she has not, generally speaking, understood. In the field of reproduction, the reproduction of the human race, it is recognized that nine months elapse between conception and birth. This gestation period, which is something that has a close relationship to the female concept of the segregated heaven-home, is something which is accepted and generally speaking allowed to manifest normally and naturally in the cycle. However, as soon as any undertaking carries into a field outside of the range of the heaven-home within the confines established by the female, the sense of personal relatedness is generally lost and there is very little true patience in the female attitude with respect to the cycles or the time element necessary for any particular outworking. Either the female tends to disregard those time cycles as being outside her sphere of interest or concern or, if for some reason she is particularly concerned about the results which shall derive by reason of the working of those time cycles, she is inclined to be very impatient.

Now you may say that you have known many women who have been patient over a long period of time, waiting for something to happen or develop or work out in relationship to their husbands' affairs, for instance. I think we need to analyze just a little here, so that we can begin to see some distinctions which have vital meaning in the development of a clear consciousness, not only of the problem but the answer to it. If we actually look into such cases we will find that, almost without exception, the female was so preoccupied with her heaven-home and what was developing there—for instance, the raising of children, etc—that she was only vaguely aware of that which was actually working out in relationship to her husband. She may have been very conscious of the paydays, very conscious of the amount of the check that came in, and she may have taken the attitude that she was doing her part by attempting to keep the home going on the amount provided by that paycheck, whether it was on a salary basis or otherwise; but the seeming appearance of patience, generally speaking, is merely an acceptance of the problem as being that which belongs to her husband.

If she loved him, according to her own likes at least, she was patient, not on the basis of that which was working out but in a sense acquiescent on the basis of what she conceived to be the expression of her natural love, or perhaps to some degree her duty. Her vital awareness was limited to that which was actually contained within the heaven-home or what came into it, and the appearance of patience in the development of the program was either an acquiescence to circumstance, such as might be the case in a more or less fixed salary pattern, in civil service for instance, or some particular sphere such as a workman in a factory, so that she didn't expect to have anything beyond the range of that salary pattern and she undertook to function within that range, or there was an acquiescence, an acceptance of the idea that her husband's ability in his profession or business ventures, or what have you, would soon or later pay off.

Now, if the husband's activity rested in a creative sphere, generally speaking there are two broad classifications—One, where the wife by nature and by reason of her love was more or less content with whatever was made available to her; or Two, the pattern wherein the female began to be critical of the male's ability, to make light of it, to depreciate it, to find fault with it. It is in this field that we have the illustrations where the most vocal factors tend to appear, for the woman, being critical, depreciating her husband's ability and probabilities, tolerating what she conceives to be his limitations over a period of years, imagines herself to have been patient; she pictures herself as having been patiently waiting in the face of all these adversities and difficulties for something to work out.

Touching into such a broad field so briefly, we must trust you to see the connections without carefully examining every step that is involved here. But in all of these cycles, in a general sense touched upon, there is the necessity of movement from an inception to a birth. When there is depreciation of the ability to accomplish something and the female gets into a more or less complaining, sometimes whining, critical attitude of condemnation, she is failing to provide a heaven-home womb wherein that which the husband is undertaking to do may vibrationally develop and take form. Her own impatience prevents the development of the thing which she wants and she blames her husband for not producing that which is supposed to be necessary to make her satisfied in her heaven-home. By this time, of course, it is no longer a heaven-home; it is a hell-home. But the principles are exactly the same, for the home is supposed to provide the vibratory factors where the gestation cycles may work out. It becomes properly the womb out of which the positive expression of form may be born, and this particular development of the cycle in relationship to form cannot be achieved by one or the other in the true sense, any more than male or female can bring forth a child without regard to a mate. This impatience in these spheres carries over into all vibratory spheres.

In the range of reproduction of the human race we see that the processes work out without too much attention from the standpoint of the female; she may eat thus and so and yet she is filled with a sense of the mystery of that which is taking place within her own body. Her particular processes of mind or thought do not change the results very much. She cannot arbitrarily produce a given sex in a child; it is something that starts, carries out almost automatically, as far as her consciousness is concerned, and finally appears. But the processes of thinking, of seeing the vibratory factors at work, of understanding how this form is taking shape within her own body, were not necessary. It happened—it just developed. She may recognize that it is from God or may accept it as something of nature. In anticipation she may prepare certain elements of clothing, but it just worked out within herself. At the time of birth there may be some discomfort; generally speaking it is quickly forgotten, although intellectually it may be remembered and recounted in order to maintain her place and individuality in relationship to other women. The actual suffering involved—if she is functioning in love or had love for her child—was really very quickly forgotten. The intellectual idea of it may be recalled and given expression in words in order to emphasize her own achievements, to develop an aspect of her individuality. But God created the body so that in fact these things are quickly forgotten. The female may not think she has forgotten them but if we were to examine into it we would find that she had.

Now when the fall took place there was a statement with respect to the creative processes yet to be worked out. “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.” Now remember, the serpent here is simply a symbol of the mind, the conscious mind, the intellect. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head.” “It”—the serpent, the intellect, mind. “It shall bruise thy head.”

“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.” Now here we could branch into a whole series of meditations in the field of sex and the sex relationships between the male and the female; the unsatisfactory pattern of sex that generally speaking exists between husbands and wives.

“In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
“Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Obviously we have so much contained in these few verses that we cannot possibly examine all the points tonight, but only the points that relate particularly to our subject. “I will put enmity between thee and the woman.” Now these words as they are expressed here can lead to a certain misunderstanding. If the Lord said, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman,” it might appear to the limited human mind that it was an arbitrary act on God's part, that He wills that, He determines it, He arbitrarily imposed it—which was not the case at all. We remember the statement with respect to Shekinah. “For without Shekinah was not any thing made that was made.” When we establish certain conditions in relationship to particularized forces, certain results appear. The force is from God. The conditions, as long as God controls them, would bring forth one set of results, but the conditions as man changed them without regard to the will of God caused the power of God to bring forth other results. And so it was by the power of God, by the working of the very forces by which man lives, that enmity was placed between the serpent and the woman. And remember, the serpent, that old serpent the devil, is the conscious mind, the intellect. But you say, “Women can think, women can reason, women can have intellectual ability.” Yes, that is true. And yet there is enmity between the serpent and the woman. Any female here, when she comes to understand this, will recognize it in relationship to herself if she is honest, and any man who has been observant will be able to see it. “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.”

Now mind is that which functions in relationship to control in the true sense.

Mind is a directing, controlling intelligence.

“And I will put enmity between [the directing, controlling intelligence] and the woman [the negative aspect of being], and between thy seed [the seed of the serpent] and her seed [the results that work out in the cycles from conception to birth under the controlling intelligence].” Now the female has the pattern of conception to birth of the child through her own body—to illustrate the point of patience between conception and birth, or manifestation. But we have noted that this works out without the directing, controlling intelligence of her own mind. It is something that forms in her womb, and if that which was formed in her womb were subject to her thoughts it would be a distorted thing; it would destroy it actually.

Now in the outer sphere of physical activity in man's realm, that which is done must be brought forth not on the basis of a womb within his own body, where it all takes form automatically without the directing, controlling intelligence. Here in this realm the form for which man is responsible requires the directing, controlling intelligence, an understanding of the factors that are put together to produce something, to achieve a certain end, to accomplish a purpose. We have to acknowledge that the majority of men have relinquished this ability, from the standpoint of intelligence, and are fundamentally under the control of their wives’ mental concepts and attitudes. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are henpecked, in the ordinary sense, but it does mean that they have relinquished that ability which is peculiar to them and have allowed it to become of no effect, and their own level of intelligence is corresponding with the level established in their wives, individually speaking. So, immediately, in that sense, they begin to be nonentities—they are controlled by their wives, whether they realize it or not.

“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife.” Now that does not mean that the wife may not have a feeling, an idea, concept, expressions of various kinds, which the husband may wisely use, but if the control is in the wife the marriage will never be happy, it will never be a success, and the man under that circumstance is bound to bring forth failure, for in that circumstance he has placed himself under the curse. Now if men, hearing this idea, and before they understand what is actually meant by it, begin to be arrogant or arbitrary, they will defeat themselves, because it is just as easy for the man to get out of pattern here as it is for the woman. But the basic fact is that the woman has one sphere in which she was supposed to operate, for which she was created, and the man has another sphere.

Now if men were to take the attitude, “I can produce a baby in my belly just as well as you can,” it would be just as sensible as it is for the woman to say that she can do what the man can do. Woman has produced a certain condition in the vibratory field wherein the mind of man is, generally speaking, on the level with her own, and so the idea that women are just as intelligent and can do just as much as a man, and so on, is more or less popularly accepted. But there is no reflection against the female that she was created to be one thing and the man was created to be another thing—the man who has relinquished his peculiar capacities to the female level is to blame also, “because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife.” Now we who are married certainly need to listen to the voices of our wives, to hear what they have to say, in the sense of that which they have to express, but not to let it control merely because they say it. If it is accepted it must not be merely because they say it but because it is acceptable—or we can, still maintaining the control, maneuver into a position where it fits in the pattern. Now that might need some expansion.

We are dealing with something here that invites expansion in every direction. So keeping to a center is something of a problem. But we begin to see that man has been trying to be something that he was not supposed to be, and woman has been trying to be something that she was not supposed to be. We can bring it to focus in this—man has been subject to the female, and the female has been in control. Now the female was not given the capacity necessary to function effectively in the range of that control. We have heard women say, “Well if we were running the affairs of the world we would not have so many difficulties,” and they sincerely believe that, but it would be a sad day for the world if men ever got to the point of actually relinquishing it to the women.

The women have their place and it is supposed to be the heaven-home aspect of Being, which in itself provides a womb for the development of that which is conceived in the heaven-home womb by the male, to be cared for in the outer sense by the female without interfering with the control factors, just as she is not supposed to interfere with the control factors of the development of the babe in her own womb. Once that is seen, we recognize that out of the heaven-home womb something is supposed to be born into the world in relationship to the male. It is supposed to flow out from the heaven-home into the world in a manifestation of form, to have meaning in the world. Generally speaking the female doesn't know this. No condemnation—she has never been taught. She probably never had the faintest, foggiest notion that she was supposed to provide any such thing, or, if it was dimly recognized, it was without any understanding of the laws involved; because no one has been taught how to live on earth. But she was supposed to provide the heaven-home womb out of which something could be born. The conception in that womb was something which she had to share but which, in its positive aspect, originates with the male. But she has a part to play in letting it develop and take form, and it is supposed to find expression out into the world. The female tendency has been to try to hold everything inside of her heaven-home, even if it is a hell-home—to keep it inside the fence and not to let anything go out until she can't help it. Her children grow up, and if she finally relinquishes them it is because she can't help it—they go away from her, and that is that. But she did not relinquish them until she couldn't help herself—she didn't let them be born out into the world.

Now once the child, the babe, is born out of her womb it is simply born from one womb into another womb. The mother, when asked, will intellectually say, “Yes, I want my child to grow up and be happy and be a success,” etc., but she has as much suffering, sometimes more, letting that child be born out of the heaven-home womb into the world pattern as she had letting it be born out of the physical womb into the heaven-home womb. No one taught her how to function, how to let that birth be what it ought to be, and how it should appear. We are beginning to see here something of the answer, not in any sense a fulness of it, but some principles which we need to examine in further Meditation.

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