The Rent in the Veil

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The  Rent  in  the  Veil

Martin Cecil   June 5, 1983  am

The house of prayer has been conspicuous by its absence on earth, which indeed is a den of thieves, because the consciousness of human beings is of that nature. Virtually everything is taken by human beings, as though they possessed it. We are concerned with the house of prayer, the house of communion, communion with the King and, by reason of our own experience of His spirit in living, communion with each other. Here would be the fulfilment of the first and second great commandments. According to the clarity, the openness, of our own state of consciousness it may be available to receive what should be present in it. Clearly there is a great distinction between a den of thieves and a house of prayer. This relates to very practical matters. Is our consciousness, are our hearts and minds, a setting for true communion? All the human nature rubbish would have to be dissolved to make space available for what should be present.

What really should be present has been absent from human experience for a long time. How shall it be welcomed? First of all, we recognize that our own attitude must be clear of all judgment, certainly of all condemnation. Of course, one has to judge in order to condemn. Presumably what is condemned is what is thought of as being evil or bad. There is no difficulty, on the basis of the usual human state of consciousness, to discover all kinds of available material for condemnation. That is the quality, or the nature, of the den of thieves—the ridiculous assumption by human beings that they really know the way things ought to be, and if something doesn’t fit the way they imagine things ought to be, then it naturally should be condemned. So judgment, we have noted very clearly, is what pollutes the atmosphere of consciousness, judgment which spawns condemnation.

It is said that way back when, a garden was planted eastward in Eden and the man was placed in it to dress it and to keep it. This garden has some relatedness to the house of prayer. It indicates a state of heavenly consciousness. We are aware that Eden simply refers to the earth. The garden is planted eastward in Eden—our tomorrows come out of the east. We might see this with other than a horizontal viewpoint. The horizontal viewpoint sees the future ahead; the present now, if that is discernible to anyone; and the past disappeared over the horizon. Here is the horizontal viewpoint. But the true viewpoint recognizes something of a vertical nature. It was described as coming down from God out of heaven, in the moment. Of course if you have something vertical and something horizontal, you have a cross—and there is a point of crossover, and that point of crossover is in the present moment. We have an awareness that there is available, if there is a consciousness to receive it, what is coming down from God out of heaven in this present moment. In one sense this has nothing to do with the future, and in another sense of course it does, because what is coming down from God out of heaven, of the garden planted eastward in Eden, determines what shall occur—whether what occurs will be aligned and in harmony with the creative process, out of heaven into the earth, or whether that will be ignored.

There is what might be called, from the human standpoint, an alternative. It isn’t an alternative from any other standpoint. It is the fact. It is the way things are. This relates to the symbolic portrayal of a garden planted eastward in Eden. This is the place where man evidently belongs. It has presently vanished from human consciousness. Man was thrown out of the garden of Eden. True. And try as he may, he cannot get back in. We might make note of the fact that the garden of Eden is still present, but incomprehensible to human beings, because the human approach to what they think of as life—a very poor sort of existence actually—is to be governed by the reports that the senses bring in.

So, thought and emotion are governed, controlled, by the senses. We call them physical senses. They are perceptive of something beyond the physical as well, but whether it is at that level or the physical level, this is, we well know, what governs human behavior—human behavior which is, again, conditioned by what is present in the individual from the standpoint of heredity and past experience. What occurred in childhood is one of the things that has a considerable influence evidently, and has been accepted as though it was inevitable that one must behave as though one were a five-year-old child. This is usually the case, emotionally speaking, with virtually everyone. According to the intake from the senses, so the reaction comes, and the behavior puts in an appearance. 

We repeatedly examine many things. We approach what we examine from different angles, because every time there is some sort of an examination of this sort, if the mental processes are dominant, some sort of view begins to take form in consciousness, some pattern of concept begins to be established. There is no need for patterns of concept, but we are so accustomed to this process that we inevitably do establish patterns of concept. We are aware of this, for instance, from the standpoint of our association with the Emissary teaching, as it has been called. If you have a teaching, then there tends to be the idea that what is required is to develop some sort of concept in which you may believe. And there are all kinds of them, masses of them on earth, to suit every kind of human nature. But that is all it suits—human nature—because none of it is the truth. 

We may recognize the necessity of approaching what it is that is being considered from different angles, so that we continuously find our concepts being upset and we cannot pin it down. Well that is just wonderful, if you cannot pin it down. The trouble is there are some people who have, in their own consciousness, pinned it down, and this causes them to deceive themselves that they now know when they don’t. It is not the formation of patterns of concept that is required, as we well know in theory, but the experience of something that is brought forth in living, coming down from God out of heaven to be given expression and form on earth, because we are here to do it. But we have to be in place to let it happen. We have to be at what is symbolized by this crossover point of the present moment, the present moment that we see as a nonexistent interval between the future and the past. Well let’s also see it as an existent interval between heaven and earth, where we need to be—not filled up with all these patterns of concept so that nothing can get through us except it conforms with these concepts, but clear, open, for the experience of what occurs in the garden planted eastward in Eden.

Man, according to the story, pushed himself out of the garden. It was made to look as though the Lord was casting him out, but it was his own doing. There were Cherubims, with the flaming sword, to prevent him from getting back in. We have some information, and we have become increasingly aware of the truth of it, that at one point—quite some time ago now—there was a rent which appeared in the veil of separation. Human beings, by reason of this veil, had been outside of the garden and couldn’t get back in. But here was space beginning to appear, so that it would become possible to re-experience the true state of man. There is something more than belief required—the acknowledgment of the truth in one’s own experience and living. The truth is the truth that one’s living springs out of heaven, springs from another level of experience which heretofore has been blotted out for human beings because of the intervening veil—the veil which they themselves established.

The whole human race has been outside of the garden, trying to establish some sort of a control and a design in their earthly experience. But the true control and the design which springs out of heaven can only be known through a balanced state in mankind. A balanced state is indicative that mankind is one, not fragmented. Obviously, as long as that balanced state is not there, all attempts to establish some sort of a satisfactory design and control on earth must fail, because one person, or one group of people, thinks it should be this, another group thinks it should be that way, and they have all these beliefs which keep people in conflict within themselves and with each other. We have seen this. We have experienced the conflict. We know all about it. And conceivably it may still put in an appearance now and again. We want to have things the way we want them. We are, humanly speaking, absolutely dumb, ignorant, stupid. We couldn’t possibly do anything right, because we are out of the garden. So all this struggle goes on, and everybody is in conflict with everybody else, because initially they are in conflict within themselves.

There is a garden planted eastward in Eden, and while this garden may in a specific sense relate to this earth—the field of the responsibility of man—it might be seen as relating to everything. The garden, in that sense then, would be a far larger place than the little place where human beings exist. Just the reverse is usually considered. Of course now we look out into the universe, but that is out there. It doesn’t have that much influence on human affairs, at least not from the standpoint of human beings who try to produce the state of proper control and design on earth. So there is a very small place, really, where human beings are. The state of their consciousness is very restricted. In that state they believe this and they believe that; there are crosscurrents of every kind: confusion, chaos; unresolvable, no answer. It is just wonderful that there is no answer. Everybody is all concerned because they cannot find the answer. The answer doesn’t exist in the state experienced outside the garden. There is no answer. What futility to try to find it then.

The answer comes when there is a facility to convey it out of heaven into the earth, and that facility is not available except as there is participation in the rent in the veil. The rent was consequent upon what one person did long ago. Because there was just one person, there was just one rent, from top to bottom. But nobody really knew it was there. There is something valuable about this larger rent, simply because it is larger, and it is made larger because there is not just one person but more who are participating in exactly the same thing that was true of the one person. To the extent that there are those who are willing to do this, genuinely—not a pretense, not thumping one’s ego chest and saying, “I am important, I am divine, I came down from heaven.” Did you indeed? Well prove it, reveal the truth in living—as there are those who do that, of course the rent in the veil becomes more apparent and there is something seen.

We have a symbol there. We have what is called an altar. It is indicative of the fact that there is a design, there is control—another word for control is government, isn’t it? There is control available on earth once the rent becomes large enough for what is available in heaven to come through into the earth. Well, one catches sight of it to start with; that is about as far as it goes. The real symbol is living human beings, and they can permit the space to be made available in consciousness for what naturally flows forth out of heaven into the earth. That flowing forth flows forth according to the design and the control that is established in heaven, and when it comes forth, if there is a clear consciousness through which to come, it will be revealed on earth.

The one called Jesus provided a clear consciousness, so that the truth was revealed on earth, coming down from God out of heaven into the earth. “Follow me,” He said. “The works that I do shall ye do also.” The same thing—just to make the expanded space in the veil available. And it is made available because there are more people; not merely because there are more individual human beings, although that is essential—we are all individuals—but because, as there is that space in consciousness, as there is what is the control and the design in heaven coming into the earth, it produces a formation, it produces a living organism, what has been spoken of in religious circles as the body of God. Well that is man, rightly. He certainly hasn’t been the body of God, has he? Rather, the body of what?—the prince of this world or the son of perdition, or whatever. It has been the body of human nature, the wrong side of the veil, trying desperately to establish a control and a design that would work on earth.

Well there isn’t anything that works on earth except what is coming down from God out of heaven. That is the only thing that works. Human inventions don’t work. Oh, they seem so magnificent for a while, until they reveal themselves as being somewhat Satanic. Fussing about them won’t change anything. How about looking in the mirror? “I am responsible. Not all those wicked people over there are responsible; I am responsible!” Until we have people who are men and women enough to take that attitude, there isn’t anything on earth. It is always judgment, blame, condemnation—somebody else’s fault. Ultimately the attitude is, “God is at fault. He shouldn’t have made things this way so that we could get into this mess.” There is only one way out of that, and that is to stop judging, for one thing, and to become most thankful for the way things are—exactly the way they are. One recognizes that all things are working exactly the way they should on the basis of the way human beings behave. Well, we can give thanks for it. The Law works—isn’t it wonderful! If the Law works one way, producing tribulation, it will work the other way to produce the beauty and the order of heaven on earth, when there are those who are willing to let it and do not imagine that their own views, their own judgments, their own condemnations, are far more important than letting the truth prevail.

All these things must dissolve in human consciousness if the truth is to be known. And then the rent in the veil becomes more visible. Something visible begins to put in an appearance on earth, revealing the altar of the Lord—the living, vibrant altar of the Lord—a balanced body composed of individual people, but one body, through which one expression of spirit is differentiated. And that one expression of spirit establishes the order and the design of heaven, what is natural by reason of the garden planted eastward in Eden and coming into the earth because there is space in the consciousness of some for it to come. Simple! Everything that human beings do is so complicated, isn’t it? It is really appalling how complicated everything is becoming. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are, really, provided there is someone present in the circumstance who allows the garden to be present in the circumstance. Then things begin to sort themselves out, not because anyone had any bright ideas, or knew what the end result was going to be, but because there was a willingness to convey that quality and character of living into the world which, when so conveyed, allows true vision, allows a person to see the way things really are. It is simple and, above all, very enjoyable; heavenly, one might say.

Because human beings have existed in this little cell of their own making, suffering the sentence that was consequent upon their own behavior, there was a gap left in the true design, obviously. If man was created to be a part of the true design, and he steps out, well there is a hole where he should be. Of course the result is that the field for which man was responsible has been left to its own devices, and because it was left to its own devices it has evolved certain mechanisms that were a substitute control and design for what was before. I am speaking about what has happened in nature. People fuss about the ecology these days and try to fix it up according to someone’s ideas of how it should be. Well that is ridiculous, because nobody knows. In this state outside the garden, nobody knows. It is still the endeavor of human beings to, well, I suppose one could call it, defeat God—the endeavor to establish something that will really work, leaving the truth out of the picture. Well that is rather stupid, I think, that human beings should have persisted in this attitude. And they have invented all kinds of things to support the endeavor. The mind has rationalized, and we have great scientific advances, and all the rest, to support the human view of things that we can somehow establish order and the true design. Ah, evidently it wasn’t done right in the first place, according to this concept! But it was, and human beings have messed it up, and having done so, they are now trying to set it to rights. Well they have been trying to do that for a long time and only made it worse. So we come again to the necessity of what is available out of heaven, that there may be a balance restored.

Now, in nature there has been some sort of a balance, which keeps being upset. Why? Well because of what human beings do. We have a condition where it looks to human beings as though nature is very cruel—for instance, predators. Well predators are necessary; otherwise the other animals would multiply unduly. So, with the predators present there is a certain balance that has been kept. Now this is not the way things would be if man were in place, because man is responsible for maintaining the balance out of heaven. But he stepped out of position and the animals, the birds, the flora and fauna, as it is said, had to fend for themselves because man wasn’t on hand to do anything about it, and we have what is called a wild state. It is gradually disappearing, of course, under the heel of human action. But the wild state—that is not natural either; that is not the way it should be. That is the way man has insisted that it be, by stepping out of place, so that the control and the design for nature wasn’t present because of man. So nature was left bereft, and something has happened in nature which has evolved a state of affairs to maintain such balance as was possible. But the trouble, of course, is all consequent upon human function. There is a widespread recognition that this is true. That is why the ecologists are so active. But you can never restore the balance by studying ecology, because things aren’t the way they should be anyhow.

There is only one thing to happen, and that is to let man get back into place. Then the order and the design and the control of heaven can once again emerge into the earth. We ourselves have a responsibility in this regard, and we find, to the extent that we experience the character and the quality of heavenly being in our living moment by moment, that things begin to happen in the environment which bring a certain sense of beauty and order and control that is right. But it has to come into the earth first through oneself. It can’t get out there into the garden without having first come forth through the person.So here is the first order of business, and we are concerned with this, to let our experience in this regard increase. And to do that we go back and forth—we are not only doing it for ourselves but we are opening doors more widely for others as well—we go back and forth in considering these matters and, I trust, from time to time shattering some firmly held Emissary concepts, that they may dissolve. Then there may be a living experience, something which is constantly on the move. You can’t set it in concrete, as we noticed before, and have it survive.

All living things are indeed changing things, but we are here to see that the changes occur according to the design and the control that is set in heaven. That requires people to let it happen, people who themselves have assumed the responsibility and who discover that they are part of a forming body in which the one spirit finds expression. Then all things are thereby caused to work together to perfection.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Qualities of the Mother and the Bride

Qualities  of  the  Mother  and  the  Bride

Anne Blaney   January 7, 2001   Sunrise Ranch

I’d like to explore the archetypes of the Mother and the Bride. As a context for that, first I would note that there is no Mother without a Father; and second, a woman must go through a certain progression before she becomes a mother; a woman is not instantly a mother. So let’s consider the images of the bridegroom and the bride. The archetype the bridegroom represents the One that we know of as the LORD of Lords. It could be said that that One came to greet His bride here on the earth. The bride is all mankind: male and female, we are that bride.

In the words of the song just sung, the image of a woman first kissed was beautifully described—of her tremendous wonder at the deeper significance of that experience. Men, too, can identify with this experience: we each know when we have been touched by a love that has transformed us, so that we will never be the same again. The description is of surrender, the rapture that steps past the mind as we are swept up into a blessing of love from the bride or bridegroom.

At first the bride is young. She’s caught by the power of the experience, entranced and taken up by it; but as we know, the bride's experience continues to unfold, and moves through a maturing process which allows her to fully embody her role as bride. Using this image as an analogy of our own awakening as the bride, we are all involved in that progression from knowing we will never be the same as a result of that first awakening, and discovering what that truly means.

Recently we’ve been speaking about the capacities that we’ve taken up here for our time on earth. Often in our experience we find ourselves challenged by our capacities; we bang around, we agonize over them, we analyze them, we medicate them, we do all sorts of things to meet this ongoing challenge of living in the clothing we have inherited. This morning I’d like to shift from the usual perspective and look at our capacities in another way. Here’s something that describes it, from Isaiah 61:10-11.

“I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

“For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.”

As this passage describes, we have been given beautiful raiment to wear while on earth. We have personally received the raiment of our capacities, the beautiful clothing of mind, body and heart. We are aware—and this is a particularly painful awareness at times—that the clothing is imperfect in the world that we have right now. Nevertheless the invitation is to receive the clothing exactly as it is and recognize the great gift. This is a gift from the ages of human life on earth; we receive our capacities as they are. They are, despite their outer imperfections, the gift given to us by God. In that gift of raiment are the seeds of righteousness, and of great potential, often dormant, but present nevertheless. These seeds will come forth in the right conditions—in the condition of the warmth of love.

Someone said to me that our capacities begin as slaves, then they move on to becoming our servants, and then they become our friends. They move through a progression of coming into union with the One who is here. There is no distinction when there is union. We are moving towards the union of the outer and the inner, the bride and the bridegroom right within ourselves, so that we can express through these incredible friends of body, mind and heart.

I'd like to mention a friend of mine, Edith Brownlee, who lives in 100 Mile House and who just recently suffered a stroke. She is in hospital at 100 Mile House. I am thinking about Edith in connection with the topic of capacities because, if any of you know Edith, she has a very frail body. She's a slip of a thing, and she's in her eighties. She has had a body that has been compromised by a heart condition most of her life. And yet this woman, the greatness who this woman is, has inhabited her frail body, and Edith has lived a life of power and courage greater than many of brawn have. I want to salute Edith this morning and send her a wave of strength of our spirit to join with her spirit, and use her acceptance of her circumstance and the victory of her spirit to illustrate how an outwardly frail capacity might be filled with glory, that temple can be filled to overflowing with the one who dwells in that temple, and true magic can happen as that power moves through those capacities. [Edith Brownlee passed away January 17, 2001]

The Lord also clothed another mother, our Earth, with the raiment of glory. It is very obvious that this Earth is clothed in a magnificent raiment that is the evidence of great love, the love that has been showered on this planet and on the inhabitants of it. No one described it better for me than Uranda. He understood the immensity of the love of the Father for men and women, and the blessings that have been granted to mankind. He compared mankind to the young woman or bride being lovingly wooed by the bridegroom. I think the use of images of this kind is helpful. They catch the mind by surprise, and remove the imagery from a mental into a relational mode. It more closely describes the actual experience of the relationship into which we are invited, one that engages the fullness and magnificent potential of the heart, the delight of the mind, and the joyful ecstasy which is the birthright of the body. All the capacities are invited to enjoy the blessing that we have been given.

In a service called The Great Lover (March 22, 1952—some of you may know it), Uranda describes the wooing that God has lavished on us, absolutely heaped up for us:

“If we would know God's Love we must yield to His wooing, and if we say He has not wooed us tenderly, persistently and everlastingly, then we surely lie and the Truth is not in us; for constantly that wooing Love has been sent forth to all of us and to every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, regardless of race or color or creed. The great Lover is wooing you [this morning]. He has been through the years that have gone.

“And can you say that your response is such as to satisfy His Love? Have you so yielded to His Love that He knows He is in you, that you are one who abides in His Love and lets His Love abide in you? The LORD of Love said: 'Abide in me, and I in you.' Until we abide in His Love and let His Love abide in us, we cannot know oneness with Him, and until there is that oneness we are not ready to do our part toward letting His Kingdom come on earth.

“The Great Lover. No matter how many times He has been rebuffed, no matter how many times His Love has been scorned, no matter how many times human beings have, in self-pride, turned their backs on Him, He loves us still, and that Love so overflowing must finally one day overwhelm us and take us to itself. Finally, if we are to be His in the true and final sense, that Love must draw us into oneness with Himself, that we may abide and go no more out, that we may be so centered in Him that the Light of His Love shall shine through our eyes, the Spirit of His Love shall appear in our lives, in all of our attitudes and all that we do.”

We could hear the song that was sung this morning as a reply to Uranda’s description. In the song, we have a picture of a woman overwhelmed with the immensity of the love that is bestowed on her. The greatness of that love defies her rationality: “How can I be receiving such a love?” she asks. We all received our first kiss when we met the one who represented that One for us. Thankfully the essence of that first encounter is re-experienced many times as our understanding of the invitation it offered expands. As we move through the process of maturation from the young bride into becoming the Mother, much refinement has to happen in our capacities. And there will be times of turmoil, treacherous times even, experienced as we move through the process of allowing these capacities to come into union with us—the one I am. And sometimes in the dark times we experience again that first time we felt touched by the Lord, what it meant, and it brings us back.

As with the first kiss, it's not something we can will; it's not something we can manipulate into happening. There is again a yielding, a surrendering, the experience of being caught up that is, when it's really down to the wire, what gets us through. Another way to describe this is that, in our forgetfulness, we get ourselves into situations where we are in such pain that finally our heart cracks open. One falls on one's knees, figuratively or even actually, and says, “Lord, I feel your love. I know your love, and I will let go of anything that is coming in the way of that love and that union with You.”

In this next passage Uranda speaks about the wall we have constructed between the Lord and us: “And so we let that barrier down, we let the wall cease to separate us from the great Lover, the wall which the human being self-actively thinks must be up there if the individual is to be meaningful. The human being thinks the human personality is in jeopardy, but if we will let that wall crumble, let the door open, the Divine Personality will begin to appear. We need not be concerned about what will pass away when we yield to the great Lover, for we are better off without that which then passes away. Whatever falls away, whatever disappears with the coming of the great Lover, let it go. We do not need it.”

I know this love; I have been loved in the way that was true. In the experience of this love there is a knowing that allows the seeing and shedding of the clothing that is preventing union with the bridegroom, with the Beloved. And the bride is not naive: when she becomes the mother, the bride knows who she is. The bride grows into her true power and knows that with which she will blend. She will not blend with a false bridegroom. That can apply to us too. We know the One that is the true bridegroom.

When we speak of the bride of the bridegroom in this large sense, we understand that the bride is a collective, made up of many. Each of us has our own human personality, which we may think is who we are. But who we truly are can only be known as we know together that we are the bride of the bridegroom. As the divine personality comes through all of us and we let the human personality fall aside as a cloak that’s shed, we can inhabit the temple that we each are, with the capacities that we each have to offer. It is then that our uniqueness has a place. We fill out the richness of the bride. We are all different aspects of the one bride. When we each express the divine personality, we are not all the same. We each have specific divine gifts to bring, and we all need to allow each other to bring that gift into the expression of the one bride.

So this morning I wanted to describe how a woman might describe the love that she has with the Beloved, to explore a different language to get another view. It is possible because of the fact that we, men and women together, are the bride—we are loved by that One, and we are all part of the great love affair that is in motion. As I inferred, this is something that we can describe and discuss in a multitude of ways. But I wanted to bring in the essential part that the heart plays in its desire to know and experience the great love of the Great Lover. That love is much bigger than us, greater than us, and it comes through the heart. We are swept into that love, and we are bountifully blessed by it.

I would like to emphasize something. When the Father has available to Him the richness of the Mother through us all, through the mature bride, then He can pick up material from our rich lives and create forms, life-forms, “children,” from those forms, that are brand new—things that we've never seen before. The mind can't guess what that child is going to look like, or even what sex it is. So there is a divine lovemaking that we are part of and there is an element of surprise to see what it is that is going to come our way.

So thank you for all of us being together this morning, and enjoy the raiment wherever you are. Enjoy the loveliness of the earth today, and remember—remember Him.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

A Cosmic Call

A  Cosmic  Call

Talks  Beside  The  Sun-Dial

Volume Two  Chapter Seven

Uranda  January 20, 1937

The Spirit of the Lord is moving upon the darkness of earth’s troubled state, and my troubled state has responded to the Spirit of the Lord and is no more, for I heard the Voice of the Lord, my God, Speak the Word, “Let there be Light.” When I heard the Voice of my God I was filled with awe, and I knew not which way to turn, and then it was that I felt the soothing touch of the Spirit upon my brow, and my heart was filled with gladness. As the Spirit of my Lord came fully upon me, I was uplifted in the Light, and my lips sang songs of praise, for my Temple was filled with the Fire of Love whereby a New Earth was created in me, and I knew that the Lord, my God, was with me. As I walked with my God, I was so filled with His Presence that it was He who spoke through me, and it was His action that was manifest through me, until I was no more, for I had responded unto my Lord and I was no more, for my God took me, and I AM that HE IS. Behold, my Lord and I are One, and our Oneness is made manifest because He first Loved me until I found Him, and then it was that I Loved Him even as He Loved me, and I let go in my Love for my Lord.

As I walk in the Way of Love the Presence of my Lord fills me, and His Word flows through my lips, for these lips are His lips, and I rejoice in the Word that is spoken, for all the Blessed Ones may thereby know the Way and walk therein. And this Word that I write unto you is the Word which the Lord has spoken in me, for I AM in Him and He is in me, and my Lord and I are One.

Behold, the Spirit of the Lord is moving upon the darkness of the earth's troubled state, and all the Earnest Ones hear a Sound as the Sound of many Waters, and they harken to that Sound until the Sound fills them, and they begin to know the Spirit of their Lords. Harken, all ye peoples of the earth, and consider the Word of the Lord which I bring unto you, for this is the Word of the Lord, my God, which is spoken unto you. As Temples of God Being you have turned away from worshipping the Lord, and you have followed after false gods whose prophets have promised you great things, until now you are in troubles such as you have never known before. Because of your own acts you have been drawn and quartered by the prophets of the false gods, and you are being sacrificed in vain, for the gods to whom you are giving your lives cannot hear your call, and neither do they answer you in the day of your darkness. The host of the gods of possessions have the peoples of all the earth bowing at their shrines, and yet these gods know not that it is so, for the false prophets have appeared among men and have done great wonders, so that mankind turned away and forgot the Lord, their God. So it is that you have followed after the false prophets, and have made unto yourselves false gods, and you have called one to another and have said, “Behold the god that I have made unto myself! Have I not demonstrated the greatness of my god? Come, let us make a still greater god, that we may take to ourselves the riches of the earth, and we shall be as gods.”

Hear the Word of the Lord, for I AM speaking with you, that you may turn unto me and find me while there is yet life remaining in you, for all those who turn not to me and find life become as the dust of the ground from whence they came. Behold, I AM present with you, and I shall fill you with all that I AM if you will but respond to me in my Love for you. It is not needful that you should be greater than you now are, for I will manifest in you as you are, and I shall cause your capacity of Being to be filled to overflowing, and then shall you know that for which you are in the earth. Harken to my Word, all you Earnest Ones who pray and call upon me, for I AM not to be found through the speaking of many words, for I AM found through Love, even as I have Loved you. Behold, you call unto me, and then you turn away and do not that which you say. All those who are blind worshippers of the false gods, and who follow after the false prophets, are of a greater earnestness in attention to their gods than are those who claim to come unto me. Let all who call unto me in Truth turn now from the wisdom of this world, for the wisdom of men is as foolishness unto Me. The Wisdom of the Ages which is in me will I give unto you, even as I give myself unto you, to the degree that you give yourself unto me. Trust in me and you shall know Me as I AM, for I have already given myself unto you if you will but receive me as I AM. So long as you keep yourself shaped according to the concepts of your own idea, you are not of my image and likeness wherein the fulness of all that I AM may be made manifest. Therefore, I say unto you, turn now, and let me fill you with that I AM, and when you are filled you will be no more, for you will have become that which I AM, and my Being in you shall be known to all those about you because they shall behold my acts and hear my words, and they shall know that I AM.

In my Love I enfold you, O Blessed One, for as you have become alive to me you are now dead to the things of the world. So it is that the things of the world have no power over you, and you are filled with the joy and fulness of Being. You now find that greater gladness which comes to all those who enter into my Service and express as I AM. In that you have given yourself and all that you had in fulness unto me, I have given unto you the fulness of all that I AM, and I have filled you as I AM, so that you are now my image and likeness. In that man has followed after false prophets, and worshipped the false gods that he has made, man has become, in expression, the image and likeness of that which he worshipped. Therefore do I rejoice greatly in you, O Blessed One, for you have received my Love wherewith I have Loved you, and you have in that Love Loved me, and thereby have you become my Image and Likeness in which I AM that all people may know me as I AM. Rejoice with exceeding great gladness that you are now the Perfection of my Image and Likeness wherein I AM, according to your Response.

My Word now Sounds through you to the world, and my Call Vibrates through all the earth, “Let there be Light,” and, behold, there is Light, and the Light that is in every man shines out, so that all those who respond to the Light are uplifted to an abiding place in the Light, and all those who respond not to the Light that shines forth from within them, find that their false gods are cast down, and all the false prophets are blinded by the Light because they have loved the darkness and have not known the Light. So it is that all the Blessed Ones of all the earth are now filled with the Light, and as that Light moves through them a New Earth is established, so that all the former things of suffering and sorrow and death are passed away and are no more, no, nor ever shall be again. Therefore, the hosts of Heaven and the hosts of those who have responded to the Light in the Earth, let their Voices sing forth songs of praise and thanksgiving to the great and glorious LORD of Lords. Come, Blessed One, and let the Light that is in you Shine forth, and let the fulness of your Being, and of all the substance over which I have made you steward, be given unto me, that you may receive me unto yourself, even as I now receive you unto myself, that you may evermore be all that I AM. Behold, the earth and all the abundance thereof is mine, and as you give unto me the riches of your stewardship, so will I give unto you the abundance of my riches which are eternal, and you shall know the Joy of Being that I AM.

Beloved, these are the Words of my Lord which He has spoken in me, even as I AM in Him. Blessed are you when you shall know in yourself the Truth thereof, and prove in the world the glory thereof, that the Perfection of the Image and Likeness of the Lord may be revealed in you both now and forevermore. Rejoice and let it be so, Beloved of the Lord. AM-EN and AM-EN.

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