We gather for a special period of Meditation on what is commonly spoken of as Good Friday. Just why it should be called good when it commemorates the crucifixion is a question that some have never been able to understand. But this affords us a wonderful opportunity, because the so-called Christian world has attention centered today upon the events which took place nineteen centuries ago, in relationship to the life of our LORD and KING.When we recognize that He was and is our LORD and KING we can readily recognize special significance in that which He presented on earth. We can recognize that when He spoke, He was in actual fact outlining for the children of men, the Policies of His Kingdom—the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand, as it now is. And, when man rebelled against that Kingdom to the extent of undertaking to destroy the KING of that Kingdom, certain vibratory factors were established. Man revealed himself in his self-activity as being the enemy of the KING and of the Kingdom of God. With the last strength which remained in His body, and the last breath before the pain and the suffering was obliterated by unconsciousness, He said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” This was the KING’s statement with respect to His enemies—not merely those who stood by, or who were present at the moment, or who lived on earth at that time, but with respect to all of those through all of the centuries who rebelled against the Kingdom of God on earth—all of those who in times past, or in this present time, have rebelled against the reality of the Kingdom of God on earth.
Even though there be limitations, even though there is vast room for progress spiritually, morally, with respect to character, and understanding and living, in our own land, and in those lands or people’s or nations which stand with us in the present world situation, there is a manifestation of light and the understanding of freedom, and a recognition of the dignity of man which stands as a bulwark against those aggressors who would enslave mankind. At the present time, there are certain out-workings which rekindle hope that the Korean conflict can soon come to an end; and that American and our allied men in uniform may soon be free of the necessity of facing death in such a conflict—in other words, today there are enemies of that degree of freedom we have come to know, that degree of understanding which has been made prevalent in what we speak of as the free nations of the world. And, our attitude should conform to the pattern of attitude which our Master made manifest on earth with respect to the unenlightened ones who failed to take advantage of the glorious opportunity which His Presence on earth made manifest.
There are enemies within and without, individually and collectively, enemies which would crucify the degree to which spiritual things have been made manifest. And this morning, I would that we should take advantage of this hour as an opportunity to release the Spirit of the Living Christ into the world on a basis which allows the power of God to reach and deal with those enemies of spiritual progress, by which men may come to know the Way, the Truth and the Life. We have over three million men in the uniform of our country, serving to maintain a protective barrier against those enemies who understand no language but the language of physical force. Because the world today is an armed camp, facing all of these conflicts by reason of enmity, by reason of man’s efforts to crucify the things of God on earth, I have come before you in the Chaplain’s uniform of the Civil Air Patrol, to the end that we may in this hour pray for peace, not merely cessation of armed conflict, but for the working of the Spirit of God by reason of which man may begin to know peace within himself, have within himself that basis of security which allows him to feel no need for conflict. Conflicts spring from the sense of insecurity, and the sense of insecurity springs from the sense of weakness and of guilt, and these are founded in the sense of shame which man seeks to cover up by his self-active arrogance and pride.
In the face of this picture as it stands in the world today, we have the picture of the KING of Heaven and Earth, with His body mutilated, bruised and bleeding, upon the cross. The dignity, the majesty, the kingliness of His bearing and attitude are readily recognized, and the unspeakable love of His Being to the children of men is revealed in that Word, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And these words remind us of the prayer which He taught men to pray: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, to all the children of men. Thy Kingdom come, in and through each one, and to all the world, that Thy Kingdom of Peace may receive all those troubled human beings who honestly and sincerely seek peace; and that Thy Will may be done on earth as it is in heaven; that heaven and earth may be one; that the unnatural distortions that for so long have distinguished the earth from heaven may be banished away; and that the seeds of conflict in the hearts of men may be brought to naught because they yield to Thy Spirit; and let the sense of insecurity be banished away in the face of the heavenly security of Thy Eternal Kingdom; and that each may come to realize the significance of the prayer: Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever. In the Christ. Aum-en.
For nineteen centuries man has hesitated and held back and failed to take full advantage of the opportunity accorded to mankind by our Master’s Presence on earth. But in spite of all of the stupidity, all of the reactions, all of the false concepts, all of the selfishness and self-centredness, a certain power has been constantly and consistently flowing through the lives of the children of men, and the reason for this evidence of victory in the face of all the odds which have appeared on earth can be found in the Spirit and attitude of our KING when He faced the indignities which human beings heaped upon him: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” As soon as we can see the vital significance of these words, and the attitude conveyed in them, we can begin to see the secret of His Power which has extended into the lives of the children of men in spite of all of the things which have sought to crucify the manifestation of that power.
The first man who dared to undertake the work of translating the Bible into the English language [William Tyndale] did so in violation of the laws of England and in the face of the efforts of the King of England and his officers to stop it. He fled from England for his life and managed to get the first translation of the New Testament translated and printed, working in secret and constantly fleeing for his life. Finally he smuggled some English Bibles into England, and again had to flee for his life. Those Bibles were gathered up and burned in one of the great churches of England, and his work was denounced as the work of the devil. On the continent, he lived for a number of years, working to complete the translation of the Bible, fleeing from one city to another, and finally was captured. He was returned to England, tried for his treasonable work in translating the Bible into English—and he was condemned to death, bound to the stake, strangled and burned for daring to translate the Bible into the English language. That was about 1536. His last words, after he was bound at the stake and the executioner was about to strangle him and start the fire, were, when he was asked if he had anything to say, “I pray to the LORD that the eyes of the King of England may be opened.” There was no word of resentment, no word of condemnation—a remarkable pattern in which he followed the Spirit of our LORD on the cross. The spirit of forgiveness, insofar as the treatment which had been accorded to him was concerned, but a prayer that the eyes of the King of England would be opened.
William Tyndale 1494 - 1536
Two years later, just two years later, it became lawful in England, not only to translate the Bible, not only to print it (for anyone who undertook to print it was subject to death, up to that time) but to read the Bible in English in places of public worship. The power of that Spirit made manifest in the life of a man who was so dedicated, and faced all of these difficulties, and came to the moment of execution, with such a prayer upon his lips—and within two years that prayer was answered, in 1538, and those who had been his enemies, who had sought his life for so long, who had made his life a miserable thing for over fifteen years, while he sought to translate the Bible and get it printed, to find a printer who would risk his life to do the job, were won over and were no longer enemies to that which he had sought to achieve. To my mind, this is one of the most remarkable illustrations in all history, of the results of a true dedication to a noble purpose, and to the Spirit of our LORD and KING, and to a man who, having been so persecuted for so long, and finally brought to an unjust trial and condemned to death, could manifest the same Spirit which our KING expressed, and pray that the eyes of the King of England should be opened.
Is it not possible that we should express a spirit of forgiveness toward the enemies who seek to crucify the things of God on earth, and pray that their eyes may be opened? On a certain occasion, the KING of Heaven and Earth was outlining the policies of His Kingdom, His Kingdom that was to extend into the earth, and we have been called to share the work of extending that Kingdom; and we are indebted to this man who defied the laws of England, and the King of England and his Majesty’s officers of the law, to undertake to translate the Bible into English. It was seventy-five years later, after the Bible became legally acceptable in English, that this version that I hold here, the King James version, was begun—the work of translation and printing—and we have the privilege of freely owning a Bible and studying it. There are parts of the world where it is not so easily done. But here we have a statement of policy with respect to the Kingdom. (Matthew 5:43-48)
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
We have touched upon the basic Secrets of Being—the basic principles by which life may be made meaningful on earth—and this is one of those basic Secrets of Being which the Master presented and exemplified. It is a statement of the policy of the Kingdom of God on earth, and of the citizens of that Kingdom. On this day in which man remembers the atrocities which man dealt out to the KING of Heaven and Earth, can we do more than to allow this policy to have a deeper significance in our own lives, a deeper meaning, a deeper power of control? You may say, “But I have accepted this policy of the Kingdom.” You may say that you seek to live by it, and I do not question but what you do, to a considerable degree. But in the lives of those who have so functioned that there was no resentment, even for a moment, when the pattern of expression in life was governed in the absolute sense by this policy, have been those who have made their mark in the world: to nullify and bring to nought man’s effort to crucify God and the things of God. Once we begin to see that it was on the basis of actually living according to this policy of the Kingdom that it was made possible for the Master’s Spirit to continue to exert an influence down through the centuries to our present day; once we begin to see that this is a policy of strength and of courage, of assurance and of power; once we begin to see that man is still in self-activity seeking to crucify the things of God, and we have a part to play in nullifying those efforts, in bringing them to nought, we can begin to be instruments through which that Spirit, which extends through the centuries to this hour, may find more effective manifestation on earth.
Blessed Ones. In that day, there were those who had a short time before cried, “Hosanna to the King.” But when Pilate asked the question, “What would ye have me do?” they cried, “Crucify him.” No voices were raised in protest. No voices were raised to stand with Him. That tendency still remains in humanity. They cried, “Release unto us Barabbas.” A man who was a robber and a murderer—they were willing for him to go free, willing for the symbol of man’s self-activity to remain free. But the symbol of freedom in the Kingdom of God was to be crucified. How do we stand, when heavenly things are being crucified? What is our attitude? To remain still, and out of sight, and let the processes of crucifixion carry on unopposed? Such a cowardly attitude is based in fear—if there was not fear and resentment, there would be willingness to stand on a clear pattern of principle, a clear pattern of individual and collective attitude; not in the sense of condemning, but in the sense of being a means by which the processes of crucifixion may be opposed.
The Spirit made manifest through our Master has opposed that process of crucifixion down through the centuries, and it has gotten through to man because He said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do; to love your enemies; bless them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you—to what end: that you may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven, right here on earth. If we would learn the lessons of the cross, if we would begin to be meaningful in that Ministry to which we are called, this is the key: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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The peace of our LORD Jesus Christ be in you and find expression through you now and always, that in life on earth you may reveal yourself to be a citizen of the Kingdom of our KING, carrying the Spirit and the Power and the Authority of our KING into the expression of life here on earth. So be it in His Holy Name, now and always.
After Martin's first in-person meeting with Uranda in Vancouver, B.C.
from Embassy News — Issue Number Four
Uranda May 4, 1940
Uranda— Beloved of the Lord, in this fourth issue of the Embassy News my Beloved Wanu and I Greet you in the Fire of the Christ Love from Helena, Montana, where we begin our series of Services tomorrow on May 5th…I would also mention that the next mailing is to be a release of the second edition of the book Seven Steps To The Temple Of Light to the whole School. Some of you already have copies of this booklet in the first edition, but we are sending you a copy of the second edition also, because many of you have well nigh worn out the first edition, and we wish you to enjoy the beauty and excellence of the new edition, together with the Word of Light and Love and Life carried to you within its pages…
In Vancouver we held the Seven Services on schedule with an excellent Response which permitted approximately one hundred and fifty people to have direct contact with this Service for the first time. From among the number of those who were given the opportunity to take part in the Third Sacred School, only sixteen have enrolled at latest reports, but we are assured that from among the sixteen there will come those whose Active Harmonization will prove them to be worthy Emissaries of our Great King… I would now share with you the expressions of a Beloved Brother [Martin Cecil] who attended the Services in Vancouver, who had been in the School for some little time prior to our visit there. I am sure that you will agree that even if the results of our journey thus far were limited to the Blessing he has Realized it would be infinitely worthwhile. When it is realized that the Blessings experienced by this Brother are evidences of the Blessings received by hundreds of others, you will Realize more vividly than ever before the joyous Privilege and Responsibility of taking part with us in this glorious phase of Service that is manifesting by reason of our journey through the Harvest Field.
This Brother, whom you may know as Anomon 405X [Martin Cecil], has expressed so beautifully and so splendidly not only for himself but for many others, that I would quote for you in full his letter of April 18th, together with the expression of Response which he mentions therein, as follows:
After Seven Services held in Vancouver, B.C. on April 13, 14 & 15, 1940
Beloved Brother Uranda, it seems almost sacrilegious to address you with the term Brother, unless I may be privileged to do it in a Realization of my Oneness with my own Lord. It seems an impossible task to me to express in words what it is that the visit of yourself and Wanu to this City has meant to me and I know not only to me but to all here who have Responded even in the very smallest degree to your Radiance.
You have given me a picture of True Greatness, a picture that has been hovering in my consciousness but had never until now become fully crystalized to the outer vision, and it is moreover a picture that is Joyously familiar now that it is more fully perceived. And it is a picture that could not be complete without our Beloved Priestess of the Seventh Rais, Wanu.
I recognize that this expression of words means little without a corresponding Release in my Life, and that it is only by my Life that I may prove my Words. Nevertheless the Spirit of the Word is within the word, filling it to overflowing, when I say that I Love you now that I have seen you face to face in a manner that would perhaps have been impossible for me in any other way. And when I speak of you, it is to you and Wanu as One that I refer, for I cannot conceive of you any more as separate.
I shall enclose in this letter an Expression of my Response to your visit here and your Services as a Gift unto the LORD, that the Expansion of Consciousness that has taken place in me may be Released in fulness to the world in Blessing to my Brother Man & to the Glory of the LORD.
Beholding you and Wanu enfolded in the Christ Love as I have seen and known you, and Blessing you in the Holy Name of the LORD of Lords in that great Work to which he has called you in the earth, I am — Anomon 405X. [Martin Cecil]
An Expression of Response to Uranda’s Visit to,
and Seven Sacred Services in, the City of Vancouver
As I begin to let go in the Spirit of this Expression I am carried back to that period of time immediately prior to Uranda’s arrival in this City, a period in which I was somewhat distraught, somewhat uncertain and fearful, a period wherein, to a degree, I had lost contact with my own Lord.
Uranda arrived. I was extremely nervous, as he well knew, and concerned as to what manner of man he should be. So many people have said that at first they were disappointed in him. I don’t think that that was my first reaction. It seemed to be more like relief that in his unassuming charm he revealed Reality in a manner which appealed to me as Reality and fulfilled my expectations of Reality to the greatest possible degree. And so it was that after that first meeting all doubts and fears vanished away, for in perceiving his Reality and responding to his Radiance, however incompletely, I perceived once more and accepted my own Reality. In this I received a new Vision of what he means when he says that one cannot Respond to him without Responding to his own Lord. Though I may not fully understand why, yet I now know that it is so.
His Seven Sacred Services were indeed a Revelation, or an unveiling, for the Expansion of Vision which he made possible to me fills me with awe at the vastness of its scope. The many Realizations concerning the subject matter of the Teachings of the Third Sacred School, which were drawn forth so surely from within me, must be made evident in my Response as I continue on the Central Way. But the Realization which came home to me most forcibly, was the perception of the Radiation made possible to the whole world by the degree of Response of the Blessed Ones attending the Services. For according to their Response was Uranda enabled to Radiate effectively and with great Power through the Responding Ones to all people upon the face of the earth. And so it is that these Services as they are held throughout this Continent are indeed channels through which the Christ Radiance of Light, Love and Life will go forth with great Power to accomplish all whereunto it is sent, that these days may indeed be shortened for the Elect’s sake.
Finally we came to the Seventh Service, wherein all the Blessed Ones were privileged to receive the unleavened Bread and the unfermented Wine at the hand of Uranda. This indeed was a Holy Climax to a period of Glorious Release. And with the clear Realization of what this Holy Communion symbolizes to each of us and with Joy unspeakable at our Holy Privilege, we went our several Ways in Peace.
Let us remember however that this is but a Step along the Way, and however beautiful that Step may be, however fraught with deep and glorious meaning, yet must we be careful not to delude ourselves into thinking we have arrived, or to rest on this Joyous Experience as an end in itself, for therein may it become a stumbling block. Nay, rather let it be a stepping stone to a glorious Beginning without End.
And so I draw this Expression to a close in a Prayer of thanksgiving to our Great Master that in His great Love He has sent One into the world, like unto the Son of Man, that all Responding Ones everywhere might be drawn into the Central Way, for He is not willing that any should perish but that all might have Eternal Life. And I give thanks to Him for the Holy privilege of meeting this One face to face and hearing His Words of Love and Truth and above all for the opportunity of Responding thereto, that in due season as I waver not, I may begin to fill my Place in the Cosmic Plan, to which end came I into the world, in Oneness with my own Lord and to the Glory of the LORD of Lords, now and forever more, Aum-en. — 405X.” [Martin Cecil]
Uranda — As you let go in the Spirit of Radiant Realization Released through our Blessed Brother’s words, I know you share with us the Joy that has been released into the world through his expression… as this Brother’s Radiant Expression in Realization Symbolizes and Focalizes the Response of many in the Harvest Field.
Seven Years Later
Focalization of the Spirit of Life
A Morning Star
Uranda February 23, 1947 Riverside, California
Uranda— The Lord spoke to us out of the Cycles of the Spirit, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
This morning, in the early dawn, I looked Eastward. The darkness was giving way before the coming of the light, and already a veil of light, like a garment, fringed the mountain, over which the sun would soon arise. The brilliant morning star, high in the Eastern heavens, hung like a jewel in the blue of the sky, signalled a message of calm assurance, and in its flashing brilliance I beheld a beacon of the heavens, sending earthward a message that the Sons of God still reign supreme, and shall once again shout for Joy when the earth shall have been cleansed from all sin, suffering, sorrow and death.
In this place, set apart, to which we have been brought by the Spirit of the Living God, I meditate this morning upon the workings of the great Creative Triangles, of which I have told you before, and in my meditations I consider the words by which I may convey to you that which I would long to convey if you were gathered here with me in person, sharing the California sunshine, resting under the green trees, listening to the sound of the breeze, and watching it sway the branches to and fro. In the Spirit, time, space and distance are transcended, and so it is that In the Spirit of the Word of Truth I am with you where you are, as surely as if you were sitting here within the sound of my voice.
We have moved to establish the focalizations of the Creative Triangles in the earth as a Reality, that the Creative Cycles may effectively transcend the limitations of physical circumstance, and begin to shape and mould that form which the Will of God ordains on earth, that all who will may see and know and understand the Power and Reality of the Living God. I would consider with you the words of realization expressed by one whom you already know in Spirit—one whom I wish shortly to introduce to you in a new light [Martin Cecil].
A letter from Martin Cecil at 100 Mile House, written to Uranda who was in California — Our Great Master, when He was living on earth, made the statement: "I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life." In Him all that was necessary to the Salvation of the human race was, and is focalized. The Way, is the Way of the Christ Love, and we recognize that He in His Place is the LORD of Love. Naturally, when He was living out here on earth He was the supreme focalization of the Divine on earth, and therefore, under those circumstances, and by reason of that for which He was in the world, He focalized the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Life within Himself. That which was possible of accomplishment then, was possible only under His personal direction. After His Ascension into the Inner Planes, He remained, of course, the focalization of the Spirit of Love, as the LORD of Love, and resumed His responsibilities as the Supreme Being at the apex of the Seventh Plane, but the responsibilities of the Spirit of Truth were returned to, and placed in the hands of, the Lord of the Sacred Three. We have then remaining the Spirit of Life, which relates primarily to the Christ Body made manifest on earth. It is the Expression of the Christ Life in and through the One Body, that establishes and brings forth the One Body. Therefore, as through response to the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth, the Christ Body begins to come into manifestation, the focalization of that Spirit of Life automatically begins to become aware of the currents of Life focalized in himself and flowing through the One Body. Does that make for separation? In the idea of the serpent it is a splendid opportunity for division. I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. There is no separation for they are One.February 16, 1947
Uranda— The focalization of the Spirit of Life, coming into manifest expression through and at the Head of that Form established according to the Pattern of the Spirit of Truth, moving under the Power of the Spirit of Love, provides the means for the intensified function of the Creative Triangle on earth, by which Resurrection from darkness into the Light may cause the Restoration to become a Reality.
I take this means of announcing to you that under the blessing of the KING of Kings, the ordination of the second Bishop of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light shall soon be an accomplished reality. Seven years ago an important step in the outworking of the Plan of God on earth was fulfilled, when the Lord opened the Way by which Martin Cecil harmonized with us in this Ministry. The initial fruitage of that seven years of faithful function now begins to appear, carrying blessings to you and to all who Respond, and shall Respond, to the Way, the Truth and the Life. The focalization of the Spirit of Life, made manifest in the person of Martin Cecil, soon to be ordained a Bishop of the Church, makes possible the next great step in the fulfillment of the Cosmic Plan, in the Cycles of the Creative Triangles, by reason of which the Service of the Lord on earth shall be caused to increase, according to those things that are written in the Book of books, concerning which more understanding will be given to you in due season; for that Rock cut out without hands shall grow, and fill the whole earth.
In the first processes of Creation, the Morning Stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for Joy. So let it also be now in the Restoration—where the Spirit of Life, working through the Pattern of Truth by the Power of the Spirit of Love, shall surely accomplish that whereunto he is sent, to the Glory of God and the blessing of all the children of men, IN the Christ. Blessing you in the Holy Name of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and continuing with you in Spirit that you may worship God in Truth, I AM Uranda
I would carry forward the pattern of meditation which finds its centering in the words the Master taught men to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” One of the greatest patterns of misunderstanding in relationship to the meaning of our Master’s life on earth, centers in this particular subject of meditation. It is sad that so much that our Master did, so much that He taught, so much of the work that He accomplished on earth, should have been caused to be so meaningless for so long. And one of the great reasons for this rests in the wide-spread misunderstanding with respect to the meaning of intercession. The process of forgiving debts, trespasses, or sin, however one may classify it, is actually the work of intercession.
The popular idea, having some variation in concept, but the picture as it is painted, with various modifications, has Jesus constantly interceding an our behalf to keep the Father mollified, calmed down, sufficiently patient, so that He will not suddenly do some terrible thing to humanity. This basic concept actually shows a complete disregard for the nature of the Father and it shows a failure to understand the real nature of the Master’s life. His work and His teaching, God is love. God the Father is not trying to find some reason for wreaking vengeance upon human beings. God the Father is just as interested in saving human beings as our Lord Jesus Christ is interested in saving human beings from the disasters which they bring upon themselves.
I have used the expression God the Father to signify the higher focalization of deity to which the LORD of Lords responds. We remember the much quoted text, John 3: 16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” As many millions of people there are who know that text by heart, as many millions of times as it has been spoken, quoted, and repeated in various ways, the basic reality of its significance has been overlooked. For it was God the Father who sent our Lord and King into the earth, for a specific purpose. Generally speaking, human beings do not recognize getting ill, sick, and finally dying, as a part of perishing. By some strange quirk of human perverseness, lack of logic, the idea is advanced that God did not mean that people should be saved from getting sick, that they should be saved from their illnesses and thereby healed, or that they should be saved from physical death. The application is extended to a hereafter, but why should it not mean this present time? Theoretically at least, we recognize that it applies to us here, now, tonight.
If we take this text at its face value, we do not have to imagine that God the Father who so loved the world that He sent our Lord and King into the world, must be constantly mollified to keep that same God from destroying humanity, that our Lord returned to heaven or the inner planes of Being, must somehow be constantly interceding for each one of you. Once we see how illogical this concept is, it is easy to relinquish it and look at the facts and see the truth as it is. We remember that as the superficial pattern of response that has been engendered in the world was drawing away from our Lord while He was on earth. He recognized that with the breakdown of that response, it was inevitable that the pattern of world reaction should come in upon Him and that He would have to meet man's concerted effort brought to point by which man hoped to destroy God.
Man in the beginning set himself up to be as God, and since that time has devoted himself to destroying the manifestation of God on earth, preventing it wherever possible by reason of self-activity and patterns of self-determination which have become fixed in all the social orders that have ever been developed, in all the cultural programs that man has ever devised, fundamentally designed to prevent the manifestation of God on earth. But where these cultural programs and social orders have not succeeded in keeping divine action completely out of the earth, man has consistently, down through the centuries to and including our present day, sought to destroy any manifestation of God that should appear. And even among the Christians—not limiting it to some other religious pattern or background of belief—there has been a constant crucifixion of the Christ spirit as it has sought to manifest through human beings. The impulses of the spirit of God have been constantly and consistently rejected, and wherever any human being began to truly respond to the spirit of God, that person has, without exception, been subject to various patterns of persecution or resistance—anything, even lethargy, refusal to respond, just simply ignoring that which God would give; all of these phases of action designed to make any divine manifestation on earth to be of no effect.
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We have seen this pattern working out at various times in various ways in relationship to our own ministry. It is not something that is relegated to the dim and distant past. At the time the Master was on earth, there were thousands who were willing to follow Him to be fed by the loaves and the fishes, there were thousands who were willing to be entertained by His charming voice, they were willing to be enthralled by the spirit of His Presence and His being, as long as it seemed completely safe and as long as it seemed that they could get something from Him. And when the idea began to develop that perhaps He would set up a Kingdom and remove the rulers of that time from their earthly thrones, there were those who were willing to follow for a little way. But as soon as there was a little pressure, all of this interest in what our Master had done and said, was shown to be largely superficial. And those who had a short time before shouted, “Hosanna to our King,” quickly melted away into the shadows and very carefully hid themselves to avoid any possible detection. Those who had eaten of the loaves and the fishes, found it expedient to be far away. Those who had been healed by His hands, had business somewhere else.
It came down finally, to His disciples. One of those disciples thinking to force the Master into a pattern of action, decided on some clever strategy, as he thought. He felt that the Master was not adequately utilizing His power, His opportunities. He felt that with a little political maneuvering, the cause of the earthly kingdom which he anticipated, would be advanced. And he became impatient with the Master. He felt that the Lord was not moving forward rapidly enough and He was not using sufficient wisdom in that maneuvering which would be necessary to the accomplishment of the end desired. The disciples, by and large, had failed to recognize the true nature and the true purpose of the Master’s life and ministry and teaching, even though they had walked with Him in the way for around three years. And so Judas proceeded to develop an idea which he thought would be very wise. To understand this pattern, you must realize that Judas did not intend, in fact had no inkling of an idea, that the Master would be crucified as a result of his action. If we imagine that he deliberately betrayed the Master on the basis of having Him crucified, the whole thing at once becomes pointless. We must realize that Judas, being the treasurer of the group, had the money that was available at the time, he carried the bag, he handled the money for Jesus and the disciples, and he did not imagine that he was sending his Lord to the cross when he started this bit of political maneuvering. He had it in his head, in firm conviction, that if the matter was put to a test, if an issue was forced, that Jesus would use His great power. He would be forced to use His great power to remove the mighty from their seats and the setting up of the earthly kingdom would be thereby hastened. And unless we recognize this scheming in the heart and mind of Judas, we cannot understand the nature of the man or the true nature of the events which took place at that time.
So Judas decided to do a little maneuvering on his own to force our Lord into using His power to overcome the rulers of that day. When Judas began to realize that our Master would not use His power in defense of Himself, that He would not use His power to keep these same rulers from torturing Him, spitting upon Him, and finally crucifying Him, Judas was terribly unhappy, sad, despondent, and there was a terrible self-reproach. If Judas had deliberately betrayed the Lord to be crucified, he would not have returned the money and gone out and hanged himself. That pattern of action is completely inexplicable unless we see the facts which are not generally known or recognized or considered. But actually, Judas was maneuvering to force the Lord to use the power which He had, to overthrow the governments of that time. He expected to compel Jesus Christ to defend Himself, and when he found that the Master would not do it, he saw the whole plan crumbling, he realized what he had done and remorse overcame him, and he hanged himself. A little later, after the betrayal, Peter denied Him, most followed afar off. But the most significant part of the outworking came before the actual betrayal, came before the mockery of the trial began. This was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
The Master took His eleven disciples, for one was busy about his own self-determination, so he was busy about his own business and he was not there. And the Master took His eleven disciples and went into the Garden that is called Gethsemane, and He established eight of those disciples in one group, the base of a pyramid, of a creative triangle. He took three of those disciples a little further on, a line nearer the top of the creative triangle, then He Himself went a little further and established a point as the apex of that creative triangle. Even then, with the thousands of His would-be followers scattered and turned away, there was still an opportunity for those eleven disciples to help hold the vibrational pattern. Eight forming the base of the creative triangle, three a little nearer the apex, and the Master Himself at the apex of the triangle. We can see the three points established in such a pattern from the Biblical record. But most of the disciples promptly went to sleep. Instead of watching with Him, holding the vibrational pattern, staying centered in Him, they went to sleep. Just as surely as Judas failed Him, those who went to sleep failed Him.
It is not only those who deliberately fight against God in a pattern of self-determination that tend to defeat the manifestation of God on earth, but those who are so asleep, so lethargic, that they do not respond, no aliveness can be stirred into them, no sense of responsibility. They are ready to go to sleep and let God do it. Here in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Master began a most remarkable pattern of intercession. His followers had turned away. One of His disciples was out betraying Him, and ten of the disciples were asleep. Do not imagine that all went to sleep. Someone was there to write the record, someone was there who knew what happened. If they had all been asleep do you think the Master would have appeared to one of those disciples or to someone else and said, “Well now, while all you were asleep, this happened to me, that happened to me, I was sweating, as it were, blood etc., while I was going through this agony up here. I must tell you all about it because you were all asleep and you did not see it." Can you see the Master doing any such thing? No. The very fact that there is a record proves that they were not all asleep, but most of them were asleep, failing our Lord on earth. In the face of this, it would have been so easy for our Lord to find reasons to be discouraged. He had helped so many people, He had ministered such long hours, He had done so many things. He had spoken so many words, and here He was, alone and neglected. He had so many reasons to be discouraged. One of His disciples was out to betray Him, and there, a little ways away, He could hear the snores of disciples who were supposed to be serving with Him. They were asleep. Yes, He had plenty of reason to be discouraged. If He had been functioning on the basis of the ordinary human pattern. He would have said, “It is not worth it. Let them all go to … wherever they were headed for!”
The pattern of reaction out of the world was rushing in upon Him because those who were supposed to hold the pattern with Him were afar away or asleep. He was left defenseless. There was no one of those who were asleep or of those who were far away who had any real realization of what they were doing. And so, that hour passed. In the agony of facing the vibratory patterns of the world, the mental and emotional pressures of human reactions, human rejections, human failures, in the face of that monstrous ingratitude, there was no judging, there was no condemnation, there was no resentment, there was the same spirit and attitude which found expression from His lips later upon the cross, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” This attitude of forgiveness, this attitude of refusing to respond to all that man had done, all the rejection, allowed Him to remain perfectly centered in God the Father.
Now for those of you who may not have heard me speak along this line before, I must interject a parenthetical statement which will be clarified later on. There are those who believe that Jesus on the cross said, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” He did not make any such statement. The words, as nearly as they were understood, are given in the Bible. How many times do we find that to be the case? We find it here because those who heard were not sure of the translation, they were not sure of what He had said. The words contained in the record, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” was translated by hearers who understood some Hebrew, because it seemed to them, the only thing that it could suggest to them, was the opening line of one of the Psalms where the Psalm expresses the idea, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” But we must remember that the language then used was the Aramaic. It was the common language of the people, and Hebrew as such, was not generally used among the people at that time. And the Master spoke some words in the Mother tongue, the tongue that was used in the Garden of Eden before the beginning of the Tower of Babel, and because those who stood near, generally speaking, did not hear plainly what He said, they did not understand what He said, they jumped to the unfounded conclusion that He said, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Such a thought did not cross His mind, such an attitude never entered His heart. The expression that came from His lips was a recognition that darkness was covering His face and that His work on earth was done. Not once in the whole pattern did He veer from the attitude of, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” And it was because of this that He remained perfectly centered in God and was a channel through which the power of God was made manifest. If, as He was losing consciousness, He had said, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” His body would not have come forth from that tomb, there would have been no resurrection. It would have been a failure on His part. And to this day there are millions who count themselves to be His followers who believe that He said something which if He had said it, it would have meant that He had failed. But He did not fail. If He had given way to resentment, or if He had felt that He was somehow separated from God, lost His attunement with God, He would not have been a channel for the manifestation of the power of God. So, in the attitude of forgiveness He was interceding for man. During this cycle, beginning in the Upper Room, continuing through the Garden of Gethsemane, and on through the mockery of the trial and to the cross, the Master was interceding. But what is intercession?
Intercession is not trying to stop God from passing some judgment upon a human being. Human beings have acted as if Jesus had to work to keep God the Father, who sent Him into the world (the God who is love), that Jesus had to intercede with God to keep God from bringing judgment upon human beings—which is not the case at all. Intercession is that polarity in God which stays centered in God, which keeps ill actions from producing their results in the human being who commits the wrong action; not interceding in the sense of withstanding God's judgment, but in the sense of holding so centered that wrong reactions on the part of others are not allowed to produce, in any immediate sense at least, the results which they otherwise would produce. If you meet any situation in the attitude, truly, of “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” you are sharing in intercession. Jesus Christ in heaven cannot intercede on earth.
If there is any intercession at work today, it must be here on earth. There is not, and cannot be, a pattern of intercession in heaven, because the ill conditions which are coming upon human beings are the result of their own action, the result of the things they themselves have done, the things for which they themselves are responsible. And intercession is not with respect to some future thing. Intercession is with respect to the vibratory patterns at work in this moment in connection with wrong actions on the part of others—any other, whoever, wherever it may be. An intercession makes null and of no effect, it nullifies, the power of evil in the moment when the evil is active, not after it is all done. When the power of evil has acted and the deed is done, there is no intercession, because then it is finished, it cannot be stopped. It is while the cycle is in process that intercession counts. And intercession is not in heaven, in the sense of something separate from the world. Intercession is here.
The spirit of our Lord and King in the Inner Planes can have meaning on earth in relationship to intercession at this time, in this moment or in any other, only to the degree that human beings on earth yield themselves in body and mind and heart to His spirit, letting themselves be members of His Body, branches of the One Vine, so that His spirit can act on earth through human beings now, to produce intercessory function, to produce a pattern of vibratory current, an attitude, a centering, which can nullify wrong actions. Because intercession is just that: nullifying the results of wrong or evil action. But if there is to be a nullification, if there is to be any true intercession, that nullification must take place during the cycle of the evil action. After the cycle is completed in any given case, there is nothing to stop—it is done. Out of that something else may spring, another cycle, another vibratory pattern, and that new vibratory pattern may be dealt with by intercession, by nullifying it. But in any case, with respect to any cycle, the process of nullification must work during the cycle itself, not after it is completed, because then there is nothing you can do. And if the spirit of intercession in our Lord and King, which was so gloriously manifest on earth when He was here, is to have any meaning in these days, it must be because human beings have so yielded themselves to Him, in body and mind and heart, that His spirit can work through them as members of His Body, by reason of which that nullifying power of intercession may work on earth here and now. That which is in heaven cannot have meaning on earth except as it comes to earth through human beings.
And this is just as true of intercession as it is of anything else which must come down from God out of heaven into the world. Looking forward to some results in some hereafter, looking forward to some intercessory work after one is dead, is of no avail. It is not needed then. It is on earth here, now, that it is needed. That God Being did not sin no matter what the human being may have done. The focalization of deity in any human being did not ever sin. You may say, “But what of Stalin?” The focalization of deity in Stalin did not ever at any time sin. The impulse of the spirit through that focalization of deity was without a single exception, to counteract the evil action. The God Being in any human being has never at any time sinned. And that God Being whether in yourself or some loved one or some friend or someone far away, that God Being is eternal and has eternal identity. That focalization of deity did not in any case sin no matter how sinful the human being may have been. According to the Master's word, there is only one sin. There may be various patterns of evil action resulting from this one sin. But we must remember that in actual fact, there is only one sin according to the word of Jesus Christ our Lord and King, and He said that “When the Spirit of Truth should come, he would reprove the world of sin—the one sin—of sin because they believe not on me.”
The God Being, the focalization of deity in you or in anyone else, has always, without a moment's break, recognized the focalization in the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. Not once did any God Being in any human being at any time, break from that pattern. The focalization of deity in you believes in Jesus Christ, our Lord and King. The focalization of deity in every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, without a single exception, is perfectly centered in believing in the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and that is without exception, that has been true regardless of race or color or creed. It is true regardless of what the human being believes or does not believe. The focalization of deity in every human being who has over lived on the face of the earth has been centered in that God Being who was made manifest on earth through the body of Jesus, and that God Being has been all the way through, without a single exception, the focalization of deity for all the God Beings who have had anything to do with this world, whether the inner planes of it or the outer planes of it.
Remember that the work to which you are called is intercessory work. You have absolutely no business seeking to have a part in God’s ministry on earth unless your primary desire and determination is to share in the intercessory work on earth which finds its centering in our Lord and King. What are you doing when you give an attunement? You are beginning the work of intercession, to nullify the cycle of wrong function in body or mind or heart, to restore health which cannot be until that intercession has been allowed to have meaning right here on earth. The power of God to forgive sin and to intercede must manifest in you and through you if there is to be the manifestation of healing under your hands. For unless you, as a member of the body of God on earth are allowing the intercessory spirit of God to work through you, and unless you are letting God’s forgiveness work through you, what you attempt to do in giving an attunement will mean utterly and absolutely nothing. And here is the key point of the difference, for just holding your hands in some fashion or other, will not make of you a server. If you are going to serve it must be as a member of the Christ Body or the Body of God on earth, through which the intercessory work of God, God the Father, is allowed to manifest on earth now, because God the Father sent our Lord and King into the world to begin the manifest focalization of this intercessory work, and it was made manifest in every healing that resulted from the Master’s ministry. Every time He spoke a word that calmed the turmoils in a human heart, every time that a human being responded to Him enough to let the power of God have meaning, that was intercessory work and it was a process of forgiving sin. So only as we are members of His body, yielded to that same spirit, dedicated to that same purpose, can we now be of any value. Only as you learn to let the true spirit of intercession work through you in body and mind and heart, can you truly serve.
And so, blessed ones, we see how human beings have failed to recognize the Master’s attitude for what it was, when He said, “Turn the other cheek.” He was not talking about something weak. He was talking about something so strong, something so noble, something so full of character, that it would not yield to resentment under any provocation. And so, the power of God should manifest, interceding, nullifying the results of evil things that have been done, forgiving sin, changing the future for those who come to you. According to your response to my ministry, you are having your future changed. No one should come to Sunrise Ranch unless he or she expects the future to be changed, changed from the old pattern of the old cycles that are working, so that cycles that are at work may be nullified and brought to nought and so that new cycles may be established according to God's love in harmony with the truth and in the expression of life. And this is healing. We must see it in relationship to every phase and department of life, not just the physical body, but in the whole expression of being.
And so, blessed ones, as you learn to hold center, learn to have a true, positive, dynamic response to God, so that when something goes wrong you do not give way to it in resentment nor do you say inside of yourself, “Now outside I am going to remain calm. I am not going to say a word. No one is going to know what I really feel inside. I am going to hide it. I am going to see if what Uranda says will really work. I am going to see. I am just not going to say a word of resentment. I am going to keep myself under control so that I can see if this really works.” Blessed ones, it cannot be an outer submissive thing that says, “I am not going to give evidence of what I feel inside.” It must be something that changes what you feel inside so that there is no hint of resentment or judging or condemnation, for God has not made you to be a judge over your fellows, nor has He made you an executioner.
Your business is to nullify the evil things that are. Your business is to intercede. Your business is to forgive sin. And, blessed ones, only as you do this as members of God's Body on earth, do you have a part in our Lord's Kingdom on earth. There is no other way. And only so can you know the joy of truly serving, the joy of seeing the future of human lives changed. Every time there is a healing in any department of life, physically, mentally, emotionally, it is changing the future, for if an ill condition is going to continue you know what the results will be. But you intercede, you establish a new control pattern according to response, you forgive sin in the name of our Lord and King and the future is changed, the ill thing loses its power, the results of ill action are nullified and the current of God's creative power is made manifest, causing all things lovely, beautiful and glorious to appear, that you may truly know and realize to the depth of your being what it means to acknowledge our Lord and King and His hallowed name with the words, “Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, forever.” So let it be.
