Honesty And Quick Repentance

Honesty  And  Quick  Repentance

Martin Cecil  September 13, 1981

Since man, male and female, chose to deny the Lord and betray the purpose for their being on earth, the door to restoration has been open. When this failure first occurred those concerned were very conscious of what they were doing, although at that point they had no awareness yet of the effects of what they were doing. It may be said that there was originally a state of bliss; that is a way of describing the particular situation at that time. Subsequently, due to the increasing separation so that the consciousness of man no longer accommodated fully the consciousness of God, the condition of suffering was introduced. Bliss is a state of oneness with God; suffering occurs according to the extent of separation. There has been much of this over the ages. If originally there had been quick repentance there could have been quick restoration. This didn't happen and so it has become progressively more difficult for human beings to participate in the restoration. The difficulty is not from the standpoint of the Lord but is consequent upon a fading memory of what had occurred, and why it had occurred, and also an increase of tribulation and suffering. So all around there was more difficulty. However the door to restoration has always been open and the plan by which it might come about has always been in effect.

Within that plan of restoration there are various sub-aspects, one might say. Certainly, even though this has been in effect, advantage has not been taken of the opportunities that were provided. The result of course has been that various particular opportunities were lost; what was happening to allow for the restoration was aborted. This has been done repeatedly over the ages. We are ourselves aware of this occurring in more recent history: at the time of the Israelites, for instance, and later at the time of Jesus.

When abortion has occurred there is no way by which it could be made not to have occurred—at the point of abortion the damage can't be repaired. Always before abortion occurs there are what might be called warnings. If the warnings are taken to heart and something is done, then perhaps there will be no abortion. The point I'm stressing now is that when an abortion actually occurs then that opportunity is finished; it can't be repaired and reinstituted. As I say, there have been repeated such abortions along the way; I mentioned two of them. But always within any aspect of this creative cycle of restoration there are what might be called lesser levels of abortion—the opportunity extended by reason of the Israelites only finally came to an end because there had been countless sub-abortions within that pattern, until eventually the greater one occurred and that was that. This final step took place at the time of Solomon—about 1000 B.C. When such a major failure is finally established it is likely to take quite a little time before a new way can be developed. In the overall sense the cycle of restoration was established at the time of man's first failure. In the universal sense there are creative cycles at work that have nothing to do with the particular failure of man. This failure is within something much vaster, obviously. By reason of this vast creative movement throughout the whole universe the cycle of restoration insofar as man is concerned could easily be put into effect. What would ultimately be the experience remains unknown, but there would be restoration—whatever that might mean at the time that it occurred. In other words, there isn't anything that man could do to defeat God.

In establishing the creative cycles of restoration there were apparently a number of failures. Now, looking back on those failures, we may say, “Well it all worked out as it should. If what went before hadn't all gone before we wouldn't be here now.” However it is also true to say that the things that did occur in the past needn't have occurred that way. They did occur that way and we're here. All right. But we certainly could learn something from what has happened before. If we look at the ministry of Jesus on earth we may recognize, easily enough I'm sure, a few of the lesser abortions that occurred in that ministry before the final one. There was an occasion when it is said that He wept over Jerusalem. He saw the end of a particular creative cycle that might have worked out in a particular way. It was aborted, so it couldn't work out that way. And He said, “Your house is left unto you desolate.” Another occasion was when Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus; here was another point of abortion. Oh yes, Lazarus came forth from the tomb, that was fine, but there was something else of much more importance present then. We have noted that this related to His own subsequent experience of mistrial and crucifixion.

Whenever a creative cycle does abort it is a sad thing. But it is no use indulging in what-might-have-been nostalgia; nothing would be gained by that. The fact has to be accepted. Always, at any point of abortion the greatest effect falls upon the one who provides the point of focus. Usually if a person becomes aware of the fact that he or she played a particular part in bringing about the abortion it is imagined that the experience of that one is the most devastating. Oh but it isn't! The most devastating one always relates to the point of focus. We might see this particularly from the standpoint of what occurred in our Master's experience: He went through what He did; and one might say it would be difficult to top that. The one who provided a special point of failure was called Judas. He wasn't alone in this; he represented something that was certainly present in the whole body of mankind; but he did initiate what occurred in our Master's experience. When he finally saw what he had done he was devastated and took his own life. But in a sense it could be said that he had it easy. It was much more devastating insofar as the Master was concerned. In other words, always it falls on the point of focus. Usually when a person awakens to some sort of failure, and there is remorse, it is mostly self-pity. It isn't a real recognition of what had occurred.

For a creative cycle to be maintained there must be no, what one might call, ultimate failure. Even that devastating experience of Jesus on earth was not an ultimate failure. In fact it proved to be a victory. It opened a door in a more particular way for mankind. This could be so because there was a larger creative cycle at work, one which encompassed what He undertook on earth. What He undertook on earth was aborted, but because there was something larger than that in operation even that situation could be used to advantage. It could be used to advantage to allow an emergence of something new. All that had gone before, of failure, could not be put together again. The parable of Humpty-Dumpty is quite accurate. Once the eggs are scrambled you can't unscramble them.

But always there is the necessity, if one is to participate in what will now emerge, for repentance. Repentance is not just remorse. As I say, a lot of remorse that people experience is merely self-pity. Repentance requires that one honestly acknowledge what the situation was and one's own part in it, assuming responsibility in the matter. There may go with that some genuine remorse, but the remorse is not going to change anything. If something is aborted it's gone, but there is an opportunity for something else to emerge provided that there is repentance, so that forgiveness may be received. But forgiveness relates to participation in what it is that is now emerging. So many people in the depths of their remorse remove themselves entirely from what would now emerge. They're plumbing the depths of self-pity. What would now emerge isn't the same as what could have happened before if there had been no abortion. But there needs to be the acknowledgment of the fact of the abortion if there is to be the emergence of whatever it is comes next.

I suppose these things are obviously clear relative to our own experience in the unfoldment that has taken place in the Emissary ministry over the years. There was a point when a certain cycle was obviously aborted. That was the point when Uranda left this sphere of things. Clearly it couldn't work out on the basis of Uranda anymore, because he wasn't there. That's a clear-cut example and nobody would try to fool themselves—although some did for a little while—that somehow or other he could be inveigled back into the pattern again. No, it's gone—abortion—but it didn't abort everything, because there was some means of allowing the emergence of something new, something which was not a repeat of what could have been or what might have been on the basis of the previous cycle. It's not difficult to look back and see what might have been, but let us not indulge in that sort of nostalgia; it achieves nothing. We could do this with respect to any aborted cycle; even in this ministry there have been many. One of the problems that I have had over the years is to convince people—particularly those who were involved in a particular pattern of abortion—that something had been aborted. There is a great reluctance to honestly acknowledge the fact. “Surely we can repair this somehow.” No! Not once it's gone, you can't repair it. This emphasizes to us the immense care that we need to take so that these situations of abortions do not arise.

We have come in the cycles of time to the conclusion of the forty-ninth year since the inception of this ministry. We have seen this as seven cycles of seven years each. There is a conclusion here which rightly leads into what comes next. We need to be very sure that this conclusion is not an abortion. I do not anticipate that it will be. The door has remained open regardless of sundry failures along the way. There has been a continuing movement and unfoldment. But we need, individually, to see our personal responsibility in these matters; if there is some aborted cycle, why do you think it happened? Because of individual human beings—us. When we're thinking of it in terms of what is present in the Emissary ministry, what responsibility is there, then if there are points of abortion they come because of us in some way; and not just us but, ultimately, “me.” The individual lets these things occur. So obviously it is a matter of assuming individual responsibility, never looking at somebody else, so that each one may say, “This is my responsibility,” not merely our responsibility. “Our” has all too often simply been a cop-out. “Our” doesn't mean anything until “my” means something; then we have a viable “our.”

So we come to this time in the creative cycle when we move into the fiftieth year of this ministry. We may see something here relative to the working of the creative forces. Theoretically at least, you know something about this: water, air, earth, fire. The working of the earth force related particularly to this last seven-year period. But what comes after earth? Fire. The fiftieth year: the beginning of a fire cycle—I wouldn't say necessarily of seven years; it could be the days are shortened; but certainly fire.

As is customary in human consciousness, external events tend to claim precedence in human interest.  Certain events have been indicated as likely to occur in this coming year. One of them is the Emissary International Congress. This has stirred up a certain amount of interest and excitement in people far and wide. Why? Because a large number of Emissaries are going to be able to get together and rub shoulders for a few days?—“It's so good to be together, isn't it?” But is that the point? Is the external event the thing that should loom in a position of precedence? What would be the point of a gathering of all these people, maybe ourselves included? The point might be said to be largely invisible, in a sense an unknown quantity. Something is coming to focus. Something is being brought together vibrationally speaking, by reason of individual human beings. It is this aspect of the matter that carries significance. Anybody can hold a convention or a congress. There are thousands of them in many places every year. Is this just another such occurrence? If it is, or is to be that, we might as well cancel it right now. There is something else here which is rightly of great significance, something very vital, something which relates to creativeness, and something which fortunately is largely beyond the immediate comprehension of human minds. However there can be an awareness, a vibrational awareness, which is not trying to make something out of whatever that awareness is. Let us find out what it is on the basis of the event itself. And the event doesn't stand aloof and alone, to occur for a few days. It is all part of a creative process, being drawn together vibrationally now, and now, and now, because we assume responsibility—the responsibility of honesty.

No one can repent without honesty. Human beings have been repenting, supposedly, for centuries: “Forgive us our sins”—but they don't have the faintest, foggiest notion what the sins are. They have some structured concepts that have been provided to make people imagine that these are the sins. But the sins center in the denial of the Lord to find creative expression in one's own living. That is the sin, isn't it? And where there is that failure, which has been a continuing one over the millennia, then there is at the same time a betrayal of the reason for one's own existence on earth—and so, rather naturally, we cease to exist on earth. This is all taken for granted these days because it has become such a habit.

Now we have the opportunity of participating in the creative cycle which is at work, as yet unaborted. I'm sure if I were to ask the question, you would all say that you are certainly not interested in doing anything to abort this cycle. Well we can say lots of things, which may or may not prove to be the truth of the matter. In any case, here we come to this fiftieth year shortly, the year of fire, a year of proving. Our concern is not rightly with respect to external events merely; these will doubtless put in an appearance one way or another. There is also the external event of my circling of the globe. Lots of people have gone around the world, no big deal. So it's not the external event of itself that carries significance. There is something related to that external event that does carry significance. If the human mind gets busy and tries to analyze these things, and tries to fit them into some structure of concept that it has already developed, no doubt with numbers—sevens and twelves and all this—it will contribute to an abortion. Why not let things be the way they are, without human interference? Why not accept the responsibility of repenting for our prior interference? For there isn't one of us here who hasn't interfered in some way, some in major ways but all in their own individual ways. Repent! That is, acknowledge the fact. Not the fact that “Oh, everybody around me needs to repent,” but that I need to repent, to acknowledge the aborting techniques in which one has indulged.

Over the years of this ministry I have been required to handle countless abortions. It's interesting that in these days abortion has become quite a political element in the consciousness of people. This may represent something but it's not the real question. The real question is the aborting of the creative cycles established by God. If that is taken care of, all the other things will be taken care of; but if that is not taken care of nothing else will be taken care of. We are here to see that we, with our emotional states and intellectual backup of those states, cease aborting the creative cycles that are at hand, so that we may move with steady spiritual step, quick to repent as necessary. I said before that if at the time of the failure there had been quick repentance there would have been quick restoration. Once again, now is the time for quick repentance; and with quick repentance comes quick restoration. This has been described in terms of the first flush of feeling, hasn't it? What is the nature of one's own first flush of feeling in any situation? People excuse themselves for wrong first flushes of feeling, very often with the idea that, “Give me a little time and it'll all work out. One day I'll have a right first flush of feeling.” Which day is that? Next Wednesday? Or today, now, in this moment? If it is ever to happen it must happen in this moment. There is no other moment for it to happen. So there is repentance and acknowledgment of these facts relative to oneself—quick repentance.

Human beings are addicted to their emotions, as we recognize. Some of them they deem to be good, others bad. But emotions are emotions are emotions, and none of them are supposed to have dominion in human lives. The dominion of man is the dominion of God, not of human emotions, good or bad. And so as we move into the fire these things are going to prove themselves out. Everything begins to come to a fine point of focus. Where do we stand? This sort of question could be asked, and some may try to give an answer in words, but that isn't the answer that is required. It is in one's own actual experience, in what happens in oneself; not what happens in somebody else, but what happens in oneself. Oh how reluctant human beings are ever to bring it down to themselves! It's always somebody else who is to blame, somebody else that we can complain about. Well what about “me”? What is the quality of atmosphere in my own experience, in my own feeling realm, in what is moving through my mind in thought? Oh yes, people are sold on good works, very often. “Look at all the things I'm doing. I've been taking care of these responsibilities for years; look at me.” Maybe there is one thing that has been lacking. This was pointed to by the Master in connection with Mary, wasn't it? Martha was busy about many things, very efficient she was no doubt, kept the house, kept it in shape, did the cooking; but she lacked the one essential, the pure heart, the clear emotional realm.

So we have before us a year of fire, and that certainly relates to the emotional realm. The refining fire: what doesn't belong is dissolved. What doesn't belong in the heart is dissolved. If you're hooked on what doesn't belong you're dissolved. That's true of each one. Let's not fool ourselves. Let's not imagine, as it has been put so often, that we're just playing some sort of children's games. It may be said that human beings in the world are in the classification of rather naughty children. They play very dangerous games. But that's not our business. Our business is to reveal a certain level of maturity in the spiritual sense so that we can handle what comes, so that we do not become subject through our emotions to what is happening externally. Lots of things are happening externally, and more to come. But what about our hearts? What about the heaven where we are rightly dwelling? How does it stay heaven? Because someone else injects some heavenly serum into us? No! Because we assume the responsibility of maintaining it ourselves and we accept no excuse for not doing it. Then there begins to be a man or a woman, there begins to be the evidence of the creative process of restoration, of resurrection.

How beautiful to share in this because individually we know—each one says it in personal terms, “I know. This is what I'm here on earth to do and it will be done,” And so I rejoice in this hour that we have shared. I trust that there is great discomfort in the hearts, and in the present experience, of all those who have not as yet allowed the fire of God's love adequately to consume them. Oh, the more discomfort there is, the happier I am! Praise the Lord. Let us move with assurance to let His will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

He Continued With Them Forty Days

He  Continued  With  Them  Forty  Days

Easter  Cycle  of  Pentecost

Uranda  March 28, 1948  Salinas, California

Book of Acts 1:1-16 & 2:1-8  “The former treatise have I made ... of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

“When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

“And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

“Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said … (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) men and brethren …

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance …”

Uranda — The closing hours of Easter Day in this year of our LORD one thousand nine hundred forty eight, and we gather in His Name to consider the Way, the Truth and the Life. We have, in our studies and considerations, been keenly cognizant of the necessity of living life in accordance with the Christ Spirit of Being. As we have considered the Way which is open, whereby we may let ourselves be resurrected from the tomb of this world into the Life of the Kingdom of God on earth, we have proven, individually and collectively, the Power of the Truth to set us free, and, beginning to be free, we begin to know the Reality of Resurrection, and we begin to live the Life. The Resurrection and the Life—today the world has commemorated the Reality of the Master's Victory over death, His coming forth from the tomb, little realizing the deeper significances to be found in these events, little realizing that man is privileged now to be resurrected from the tomb of this world into the Life of the Kingdom here on earth.

We touched on these things in our Morning Service, but I wish now to carry you forward somewhat in the Current to the events that followed. For forty days after His Resurrection, our Master continued on earth. We find the statement in the third verse of the first chapter of the Book of Acts where, speaking of Jesus, it is stated: “To whom also” (i.e., to the Apostles) “He showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days”, and the concluding portion of this verse is especially significant, although so little is recorded of it—“and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Here is a mystery. Our Master, having come forth victoriously from the tomb and the Resurrection, continued to be seen of the Apostles for forty days thereafter, having “showed himself alive” more than once, and speaking—of what did our Master speak?—“of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Yet the record of what He said in that period is contained in a few verses.

Do you suppose that all of the things that He said were recorded? I think not. If they were ever recorded they were deliberately set aside and ignored. The state of mind in the disciples themselves as a whole is revealed just prior to His Ascension, according to the record in the sixth verse of this same chapter: “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” Even those whom we know as the Apostles were obsessed with an idea, which they did not let the Master Himself eradicate from their minds. Back along through the period of Ministry we find that, repeatedly, they assumed that He was going to set up an earthly kingdom. He told them otherwise, repeatedly, and yet the majority of the Apostles, or Disciples, failed completely to grasp His meaning and they were still under that obsession even when the moment of His final Ascension was at hand. Is it surprising then, that so little consideration is given to what He said when He was “speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God”?

How truly were they earth-bound spirits, and yet in the hands of those earth-bound spirits rested the continuity of the Ministry begun by Jesus the Christ. The Master instructed them plainly to tarry in Jerusalem until they had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and He promised that they would be imbued with the Holy Spirit. His Promise was fulfilled, and yet even then, as they began to let themselves find inspiration in the Current of the Holy Spirit, they, as a body, allowed themselves to be swayed by impulsive Peter's rash self-active uses of the Holy Spirit. They failed to acknowledge and follow the directing Head that the Lord had established for them, and impulsive Peter's personality became dominant, determining the course in a current of self-activity. It is not to be wondered at, when men who had walked in the Way with Jesus Christ and shared three and a half years of His Ministry, who had shared the hours of His trial and Crucifixion, and who had been convinced of His Resurrection, and who, at the moment of His Ascension could ask such a question: “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” No. It is no wonder that they would follow such a pattern as they did, for in that question they proved their incapacity to comprehend the things He had been saying to them “pertaining to the kingdom of God”.

Even in this day, nearly two thousand years after, human beings are so materialistically minded, so imbued with the ideas of the self-active world, that any concept of the reality of the Christ Kingdom on earth is looked at askance, even by those who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ. They, like impulsive Peter, prefer to twist it around to suit their own fancies, to cause it to be what they think it ought to be, and so few are willing to listen to the Word of Truth which reveals the Pattern in Reality. Nevertheless, there is that which is of great significance to us in considering what is called the Day of Pentecost, a short time after the Master had Ascended; but first let us go back to Luke's record, here in the Acts, of what the Master said just before His Ascension: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.”

He said that when the Holy Spirit should come upon them they would receive Power. The action of that Power would have to be according to their perception of Truth. If they had learned to live according to His Word, if they had recognized the Reality of His instruction, then they would have been ready to use that Power to the Glory of God and to the Blessing of their brother man, but, immediately upon receiving greater Power they used it with the same shrivelled, warped state of consciousness that had dominated them before. Yes, they received Power, and forthwith they brought upon themselves persecutions and difficulties, and caused many ill and terrible things to come to pass because they were not willing to let the Voice of Truth determine the uses of that Power. Is it any wonder that, in the Third Sacred School, such great emphasis is placed upon the necessity for correct function in true Polarity, before the increase of Power is made manifest? The Master could not do other than He did. The fault rested, not with Him, but with the Disciples, and He could not tarry longer. He had given them all necessary instruction, and He had ordained the Leadership which they should follow, but, coming to the last moment, they could ask such a question as that—“Wilt thou” now, “at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

When men could live and walk with, and listen to, our Great Master through three and a half years of Ministry, and pass through the events of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, and listen to His Words speaking of the things “pertaining to the kingdom” during a period of forty days thereafter, and could come to the final moment and ask such a question and reveal themselves as being such shrivelled, wizened, warped souls of men as that, it is no wonder that the Dark Ages ensued. It is no wonder that there has been two thousand years of misery, sin, suffering, sorrow and death, of wars, turmoils and conflicts, until, in the beginning of a New Age, those threads could be gathered together once more and the Cycles opened in the Currents of Fulfillment.

But there was a Day of Pentecost. The Master kept His Promise nevertheless, and they received Power when the Holy Spirit came upon them—but the very moment they began to receive that Power, instead of holding steady and letting the Spirit bring a true understanding of the Word of Truth, they began to use the Power according to their own concepts, and failed. Nevertheless, the outworking of these events on the basis of the Master's Promise leave open the threads of that Current whereby those who are faithful and true in this day and in this hour, may share in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that they may, when the Holy Spirit is come upon them, receive Power. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you.” That is true for the Faithful Ones in this day, but what would be done with that increased Power? Are your thoughts, your words, your attitudes, your states of polarity, so established in Reality that you would be willing to take the responsibility for a truly increased Current of Power in manifestation through yourself into the world? What would happen? We have had many moments when we have shared a glorious outpouring of the Spirit, but never yet a moment that truly corresponds with that which was established on the Day of Pentecost. Why? Because the Unit is not yet ready. But, for this Unit of Faithful Ones, there is the Promise: “Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you”, and when, for this Unit, the Day of Pentecost shall fully come, there will be the beginning of the manifestation of the Works and the Greater Works.

Let me read from the second chapter of Acts, “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.” Three verses—supposed to describe that event. The rest of it is with respect to what followed after. We look forward to our Day of Pentecost, but I do not mean a twenty-four hour day—a Day, a Cycle, a period of time of Ministry which shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, when the Unit, functioning according to the Voice of Truth shall receive Power and shall Minister in the world. This is that Ordination for the Unit as the One Christ Body, which shall yet be. How long shall it be until that Day? How long until we shall be with one accord in one place, in full alignment in Reality, focalized vibrationally according to the Law, with all restive emotions under control, with the heart fully purified, with the mind fully permeated with the Truth and the consciousness fully dedicated in reverent Love Response to the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, that, when the Unit shall receive Power it may act, not as a self-active body—there are enough such in the world—but rather, as the Body of the Christ on earth, in Oneness with the Father, letting the Father do the Works, letting the Father speak the Words in the Power that is not of this world? My Ministry has had, through the years, as its first Goal in the Absolute sense, that Day when a Unit, well and truly formed, by those who let themselves be drawn from the East, the West, the North and the South, shaped and formed according to the Divine Pattern, with hearts purified, obedient to the Law, might know that Ordination that shall be not just a Day of Pentecost but a Cycle of Ministry and Being, which shall be filled with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that the Unit may receive Power according to the Promise, not Power to be used self-actively according to human concepts, but Power that shall be used in letting the Father do the Works and speak the Words.

This is that toward which we are moving; this is that to which you are dedicated as Members of that Unit on earth. In such function there is no place for the shrivelled souls of men, where the tempests of emotional upheaval continue, or for that filthiness of spirit and mind which must wallow ever in degradation. It is a place for those who are pure in heart; it is a place for those who are letting themselves be established in the fullness of that Nobility of Being, that Reality of Truth, that fullness of Divine Love, whereby our KING may cause again His Spirit to manifest on earth.

He spoke, just after His Resurrection, of “My Father and your Father, my God and your God”. His Word is recorded: “I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.” Individually, as they had been taught, they had an individual Father within, but as a Unit, as a continued manifestation of the Vine on earth, as the One Christ Body, they were to have the same Father, “My Father and your Father”—and according to this Plan He had taught them to pray: “Our Father which art in Heaven”. So, therefore, it is evident that this Unit, this Body, is to be a means by which our KING may manifest Himself in Spirit on earth, but that Unit is not to be a Unit of His Spirit only, but, according to the Commission which He gave, not only on the Cross, but just before He ascended also, and as is clearly revealed in His instruction prior to His Crucifixion—there shall also be the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Love and Truth, which shall allow the Unit, having been Resurrected, to be an expression of the Spirit of Life on earth.

Has the world ever had greater need that these things should be? Would it be wise for us to say within ourselves, “The need of the world is not yet great enough; we will tarry a little; we will delay ourselves until the need of the world is greater and then we shall let these things be”? Nay, let it not be so, but, rather, let the Unit be, in its consciousness and in its mind and in its attitude, as that Unit should have been when they saw that our LORD had truly come forth from the tomb. He continued with them forty days, “speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” You have been taught much longer than forty days concerning “the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God”, and you have had all things that He said brought to your remembrance, that you might have all the advantages, all the privileges of realization and understanding which were granted to those who walked with Him in that day. Forty days after the Resurrection, after that first Easter, He Ascended, and then a few days later they had what is called the Day of Pentecost, and they received Power, after that the Holy Spirit had come upon them.

Year after year, I have looked forward to the Easter Season, trusting that surely the Unit should have reached a point where it might begin to truly realize these things. Is this the Easter Season, the Easter Day, the Day of Resurrection, which shall be followed shortly by a Day of Pentecost for the Unit, or must we wait until 1949 or 1950 that such things might be? Has the Word of Truth been withheld, given only in part? Has the Spirit of Divine Love been so little manifest that the Unit cannot yet comprehend it? Has the Reality of the Resurrection been but a vague dream? Has the Word concerning “the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” been too ambiguous to let a true realization yet manifest? What more is needed? What more is required that the Unit may let its Day of Resurrection truly manifest, and, having come forth from the tomb, may let the Day of Pentecost truly come? Surely, there have been delays enough, and we need delay no longer! “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Let us come together, with one accord in one place, where the purified heart, the serene and tranquil emotional realm, and the consciousness transformed into that Mind that was in Christ Jesus, may let our LORD continue His Work on earth through His Unit Body, that the Branches of the Vine may truly bring forth fruit—much fruit.

O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, I thank Thee for these Blessed Ones and for all who are with us in Spirit, for all who are letting themselves be blended into Thy Body on earth, that this Unit may, being purified and made whole as Thy Body, come truly to that Day of Pentecost when it shall receive the Holy Spirit, and Thy Power shall be made manifest, not to restore the kingdom to Israel, but to bring forth into manifestation on earth the Kingdom of God, that the Christ Kingdom may be a Reality on earth, and that it may grow and fill the whole earth, that every knee may be caused to bow before Thee, and that every lip may be caused to acknowledge Thee, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, for IN the Christ it is so established, and shall be accomplished. Aum-en.

The Spirit of our LORD and KING be with thee always, even as it shall be as thou shalt abide in Him, and let Him abide in thee.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Song of the Universe

A  Rushing  Mighty  Wind

Uranda  May 14, 1952  Class #86

We remember that, at the time of Pentecost, the record states that they were all with One Accord in One Place, about one hundred and twenty people; and they had been devoting themselves to prayer and meditation for a period of ten days, to achieve that unity of the Vibrational Pattern which finally developed. And when they reached a point of being with One Accord in One Place, vibrationally, there came a Sound as of a Rushing Mighty Wind, and it filled the Whole House where they were sitting. There came a Sound as of a Rushing Mighty Wind and filled the Whole House where they were sitting, and there sat on them as if it were cloven tongues of Fire. When we reach that point of attunement with the Cosmic Forces of Being which permits a true Centering in the Spirit of God there is always some experience which more-or-less correlates with that which was experienced at the day of Pentecost.

In the ancient writings of various parts of the world there is recognition of the Aum, and then there is recognition in various ways of what is called the Music of the Spheres—all touching into the same thing. This particular experience of letting the Divine Current flow freely is something that is really indescribable, and any consideration of it moves into the realm of Holy Ground, the most sacred of things. It is a little difficult to say anything much about it without touching into the field of some personal experience or other, and that has its drawbacks. A personal experience is just that—personal—and the details involved will vary from person to person, from time to time, or from group to group, as the case may be. I do not think there is a better way to describe one aspect of it, at least, than the Sound of a Rushing Mighty Wind. But it is not a Sound that you hear with the outer ears—this Sound fills the Body. One has a consciousness of it from within oneself. Perhaps we do not need to go further into that for the moment, except to point out that only to the degree that we, individually and collectively, share attunement in that Mighty Reservoir of Eternal Power can we truly, effectively, serve.

The relationship of all of this to our present problem can be seen in the fact that we are beginning to let an increased Current of Power manifest. But there has not as yet developed a central Solid Pattern or Core of personal understanding, realization, centering, with respect to it. So the whole matter appears on the basis of the fact that we are building something. Something that is not yet manifest is appearing, and when that process is taking place someone has to take the central strain or responsibility of developing a Control Pattern. That is naturally my responsibility, and I am not in the slightest degree objecting to it; but the more rapidly you gain an understanding of what is involved, and your personal relationship to it, the more rapidly will you share in the greater manifestation of God’s Power working through you, and the more quickly will you reach the point where, because of sharing in a Core or Solid Unit Pattern, you will not be under the necessity of facing unnatural, or in the ultimate sense unnecessary, stresses and strains yourself.

Song  of  the  Universe

from  Steps To Mastership  Lesson 3

Uranda  1936

Among the sayings of the Naacal Sages we find these words: “Words of wisdom rejoice the heart of the wise.” Behold, all the secrets of life, both above and below, are revealed within man. Therefore, it hath been said, “Man, know thyself.” To gain an understanding of the Laws of Life, and the means whereby to apply them, behold yourself. In every organ is hidden a spiritual secret. In every part is hidden a Law of God. To the end that we may gain an understanding of these hidden Laws, and attain unto the Mastery which we seek, let us now begin a study of the relationships between the Body of God and the body of man. Who can comprehend the Body of God? Man functioning within the limiting confines of his conscious mind, cannot attain unto such understanding. For man must ascend into the consciousness of the Inner Self before the hidden things may be revealed.

Man was created “in the image and likeness of God.” Through the Law of Correspondence you may gain a glimpse of the Body of God. The body of man is composed of cells, which are in turn composed of atoms. The atoms are composed of electrons which revolve around a central proton, just as our solar system is composed of planets revolving around our central Sun. Thus we see our solar system as an atom in the Body of God. We see our Universe as one cell in the Body of God. We see the UNIVERSE of Universes, in all its vast expanse—endless in scope, Eternal in Being, with perfect harmony made manifest through unalterable Law which extends from the smallest atom to the greatest Universe—all this we see as the Body of God. Just as your spirit is everywhere present in your body, and through it you are aware of that which transpires in every part of your body, just so is the Spirit of God everywhere present in the Universe of universes which is God's Body. All things are in God, and without God there could be nothing.

We will not now seek to comprehend the Glory of the CENTRAL SUN of the Central Universe of the UNIVERSE of Universes. We will not now seek to comprehend the Glory and Greatness of the Supreme Being who dwells in that CENTRAL SUN and guides the destiny of all that is. This Being man can never comprehend. This Being no man could look upon and live. This Supreme Being is the MYSTERY of Mysteries, and HIS NAME may not be spoken by mortal tongue. In the Book of Books it is recorded that He may be known as, I AM THAT I AM. But of God we may study and comprehend a little, for God is all there is, and that part of that which is which presents itself to our senses we may study, and like Moses of old, we may see the “hinder parts” of God. But to do even this we must sanctify ourselves and ascend into the High Mountain of consciousness, which is Sinai. Therefore, let us sanctify ourselves against the Third Day—which is to say, in all three phases of our beings, Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Expression. On the Third Day—that is, when we have sanctified ourselves fully in all three planes, and all three of these phases are perfectly coordinated according to the Divine Plan, and when we have ascended into the High Mountain of consciousness of the Spiritual Plane—the Lord will come down to the mountain in a “thick, black cloud” and He will talk with us, and He will reveal to us the Laws of Life. We can understand these Laws of Life only as we gain an understanding of ourselves, and we can understand ourselves only to the extent that we understand our relationship to God. According to the Law, “Like begets Like.” God could not create that which is different from Himself, therefore, “Man was created in the image and likeness of God.”

Let us now study ourselves in relation to our correspondence with God. When you speak, you use air, and the working of the air through the vocal cords and the mouth produces sound. As we study, remember that air corresponds to the Spirit of God. Air pressure produced in the lungs causes the Vibrancy of Sound as the air leaves the mouth. Even so, within God is the Source of the Force which sends forth the Spirit, and the Spirit produces that Spiritual Sound which is the Song of the Universe, the Cosmic AUM.

The lungs of God you may know as the Reservoir of the Spirit which God breathes. This reservoir of the Spirit is in God. The Spirit flows into God and goes forth again from God, yet remains within God—even as the air flows into your bodies and goes again from you. When you receive the air into your bodies it brings the Blessings of Light. When you send it forth it carries that which your bodies throw off as poisons. With the Spirit, as it flows into God, are the needs of the Universe which are to be supplied. God is Good, Perfect, and Holy. Therefore the Spirit going forth from God carries that which God is sending forth—not poison, but Life, Blessing and Abundance of all good. Therefore, you see that in God and in man the same principle is at work; yet, because God is the Source and man receives, there is a difference. That which man receives carries Life and Blessing. That which God sends forth carries Life and Blessing. That which man sends forth carries the poisons of his nature. That which God receives carries the needs of the Universe. God breathes the Spirit to supply the Spirit with Blessing. Man breathes the air to receive, from the air, Blessing. Both breathe—one Spirit, the other Air.

When man rises in consciousness above the point where he sees himself as separate from God and begins to be unified with God, man, to that degree, begins to breathe the Spirit, and to that degree he becomes more than man. For then, like God, he breathes forth Life and Blessing. Therefore, to gain Mastery, man must begin to breathe the Spirit, and accordingly begin to send forth rather than to receive only. Here you see the secret of why Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than receive.” As long as man receives only, he does not partake of the nature of God, for God gives Life and Blessings. Breathing the air in the proper way helps man to begin to breathe the Spirit. The more man breathes the Spirit, the nearer he comes to the point of Mastery, where his Word is Creative, where his Power is unlimited. For the only limit placed upon man, in the flesh, is but the limit man sets in the amount of the Spirit which he breathes, becoming like unto God. You have been admonished, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” The first requirement in attainment of Perfection is the Breathing of the Spirit.

After you begin to Breathe the Spirit, you can begin to learn about Life. The babe born into the world shows you this, for the first thing that must be accomplished after birth is the start of the breathing process. You are as babes being born into the Spiritual Realms. Would you know the Secrets of Life? You must first begin to Breathe the Spirit. Would you walk, would you run upon the Spiritual Way? You must first begin to Breathe the Spirit, and even as the babe must be slapped upon the back to cause him to breathe, the buffeting of Life slaps you on the back until you begin to Breathe the Spirit. Therefore hear these words. The physical expressions of the Spiritual nostrils are to be found in the brain, one on either side of your head. Through these physical expressions of the Spiritual functions, you can Breathe the Spirit. It is well that as you begin your Silence you breathe air freely, fully, deeply, rhythmically. Then, ceasing to breathe so deeply, forget the air. Concentrate on the two sides of your head near the top, above your ears. Make as if to breathe long, slow breaths through these points. You will feel not only a sensation as if two openings were in your head but also a fullness in the back of your head, for there you will find your Spiritual lungs. Practice this but a short time to begin with. Then increase the time and you will feel the tingling flow of the Spirit through your Whole Body. You are but beginning to Breathe the Spirit.

© Emissaries of Divine Light