The spirit of truth is the spirit of Mother God, just as the spirit of love is the spirit of Father God. Our own spirit, as sons and daughters of God, is found in the union of these two spirits: love and truth. And the evidence of that union in our own experience is the spirit of life, the revelation on earth of what life is in man, male and female. Obviously human beings for a long time have failed to reveal this. What they have revealed is the spirit of death, and the fulfilment has come, generation after generation. This has become so automatic in human experience that it is considered inevitable. In theory perhaps we are aware that it need not be so inevitable as it looks, but in fact it has remained more or less inevitable.
The spirit of truth is the spirit of Mother God, and this relates particularly to the planet upon which we dwell, the earth. There have recently been a number of those giving form to this Emissary body who have recognized that the earth itself is a living organism. It is indeed the body of Mother God insofar as we are concerned. Mother God comes to focus in the earth, and the planet itself is the living form of the spirit of truth. The sun of the solar system is revealing of the body of Father God. If we consider the creative process as it has related to this planet we may recognize a correlation with a fairy story, of which we may all be aware, namely the one which tells of the sleeping beauty, the sleeping princess who remains in a coma until the prince puts in an appearance and offers the kiss of life. This is merely a story, indicative of the factual happening as it relates to this planet. “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” And then came the kiss of life. The prince, the father-to-be in this particular configuration within the solar system, may be recognized in the form of the solar orb from which comes the kiss of life insofar as the planet earth is concerned. And the earth awakened to life.
In the story of the creation the various forms of life which appeared on the surface of the planet were present before ever man was thought of. The evidence was present of the clothing of the form of Mother God with life. There was the vegetation and there were the creatures of the earth, all of them proclaiming the reality of life. Exactly what that was is unknown to human beings presently, but clearly it was a harmonious condition generated by reason of the kiss of life from the prince, through the form of the solar orb and its radiation, bringing the form of Mother God into the experience of life, awakening. So here we can share in an awareness of the natural blending between the forms of Father God and Mother God, so that Mother God might live and participate with Father God in the creative process which was yet to be. God has, generally speaking, been looked upon as male, at least from the standpoint of Christianity; and while there has been some recognition that there must be the female aspect which, insofar as Catholicism for instance is concerned, is found in the one that is called the mother of God, that isn't the mother of God but, rather, Mother God. Because of this romance within the solar configuration there was the conception and the birth of the Son of God, the son of Father and Mother God, namely man on earth.
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Man's primary responsibility was, as it was put, to dress and to keep the garden, in other words to care and protect the form of Mother God. If we observe what has occurred on earth we can be easily aware that this responsibility has been forgotten and, instead, the son has raped the mother. The spirit of the mother is as it always has been; we see this in terms of the spirit of truth. But the body of the mother has been raped by the son who had the responsibility for keeping and caring for the body of the mother. This was a primary responsibility, not indeed the only responsibility, but if that responsibility was not handled correctly, then the larger responsibility could not be taken care of.
The son contains within himself the nature of the father and the nature of the mother, love and truth, to be naturally revealed in life, in the expression of the spirit of life which is a balance of the nature and the character of Father God and Mother God. The union of love and truth—the spirit of love, the spirit of the father; and the spirit of truth, the spirit of the mother—established the spirit of life for man and for those purposes which should be served by reason of this life. Primarily we recognize that the son is responsible for keeping and caring for the body of the mother. As we have noted, there has been terrible failure in this regard. No wonder there is this deep, devastating sense of shame in humankind.
The One who came on earth in the form of Jesus has been referred to as the Son of God. Here a focus of the union of the spirit of Father God and Mother God was established in the living expression of a man on earth: the Son of God restored. We are aware that it might have been a far greater thing when He came than the human beings who were there present allowed it to be, but it was the fact insofar as this one individual body of flesh was concerned. The union of the spirit of the father and the spirit of the mother allowed the revelation of the spirit of life in form on earth—the spirit of man. He was left alone to do this without any agreement or assistance from others. He did it. Here was the focus point of man restored. His body was just an individual body, one man, insufficient obviously to reveal anything but the essences of man restored. Those essences certainly were established and revealed, and so the foundation, the lines of force for the true body of the Son of God, which is rightly mankind—however many that might involve—could take form. We ourselves have some experience of what this implies. We and others have participated in an emergent collective form based in the union of Father God and Mother God—the spirit of love and the spirit of truth, revealed in the spirit of life finding expression through those who actually compose this body.
I suppose all this could be looked upon as some sort of mystical thing, but it isn't really, is it? It is a very obvious thing, in a sense we might say a very down-to-earth thing. The body of Mother God has been raped. That fact must be accepted. You can't unrape it. Human beings in their sense of shame and guilt, at least some of them, try to unrape it. They talk about cleaning up the air and the water, reestablishing the proper processes of ecology. But you can't unrape what has been raped. Human beings have come up with various schemes by which they hope to make the earth, as they think of it, a better place; but for what purpose?—because it would be more satisfactory to man, or to this travesty of man that exists on earth. Virtually nothing has even entered the consciousness of the vast majority that the purposes of man only maintain the state of rape of the body of Mother God.
We can see this in a larger general sense, but of course it's important that one should see it right close at hand. We do care for our surroundings here, and some may be impressed by the evidences of beauty that have put in an appearance. But I doubt if what has put in an appearance is anything better than what has put in an appearance in many other places on the face of the earth. The only distinction is the motivation for doing it. If we're merely trying to beautify our surroundings so that we may be more self-satisfied, there is no point to it. If it is an evidence of the fact that we're beginning to be aware of our responsibility for caring for the body of our mother, then perhaps there is some blessing released, but not because by anything we may do can we unrape what has been raped. In other words the state of all living forms on the face of the earth has been utterly spoiled.
What is required initially is the restoration of man. Nothing can be done for the body of Mother God except as man is restored to the state of being the Son of God. Then what has happened in man is the creative means by which the body of Mother God may be restored. But human beings in their blindness and darkness certainly would have no idea as to what the body of Mother God would be if it was restored. That restoration certainly would involve all the forms of life on earth, but it would also involve what is presently called the mineral kingdom. This, after all, is also a part of the body of Mother God. No doubt this relates to a change in the shape of the earth, in the forms of continents and seas, for instance. Because of the rape of the body of Mother God this form has been scarred and is in the process of being destroyed. The son of perdition, which is man presently as he is, destroys. We look around and, as has been indicated, there is a continual increase in the deserts on earth, in the destruction of the forests, in the pollution of the air and the water, in the awful and lethal weapons that have been produced by the son of perdition.
But the Son of God takes form again on earth. The body of that Son is male and female. We share the experience of this creative process, but it has nothing to do with the way things have been or even the way things now are. There is a creative process at work which increasingly is brought to focus as the body of the Son of God permitting the Son of God to be present.
This evening we have looked at these things from what might be thought of as a heavenly standpoint, observing what is really happening. We see human beings with their ideas and their opinions and their beliefs, fussing around on the surface of the earth, trying to save the world from disintegration, and others bent on destructiveness. I suppose those who are trying to save the world from disintegration would be looked upon as good and those who are destructive would be looked upon as bad. But what's the difference? They are all participating in the process by which the world disintegrates, whether good or bad.
“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” This is the invitation to the re-creation of the body of the Son of God on earth. The Son of God abides in heaven: “Rejoice, ye heavens!” The son of perdition remains on earth: “Woe unto the inhabiters of the earth!” If we see woe putting in an appearance near and far, that is exactly the way it should be. We are not anxious to stop the woe. Human beings are attempting in their varied ways to do this.
One aspect of genetic engineering relates to a process of working with DNA to eliminate the existence of cells in the human body subject to disease—a very worthy objective, one might say. There are a lot of people who have been trying to do this for a long time with synthetic chemicals of various kinds. Others try to do it with vitamins and minerals; this latter is the “good” way of doing it! But perhaps this genetic engineering might also be looked upon as a good way of doing it. You can create a cell that will not tolerate cancer, for instance. That's good, isn't it? All it is is trying to defeat God, to make it so that man can survive and be healthy without God, without being man. Can you imagine a world populated with these healthy creatures? What destructiveness! It's bad enough now, and they're all falling apart! But if they were all filled with vibrant health, what terrible hell would ensue. We don't look for a way to defeat God, because that is self-destructive anyway. No matter how human beings try, there's always something that gets in the way of their objective; and the hoped-for result is always just a little over the horizon, because in fact it doesn't really exist—just imagination, a mirage.
What does exist is the spirit of Father God and the spirit of Mother God. No matter what has been done to the body of Mother God, the spirit is untouched. That is the spirit of truth, which is part of our makeup of spirit as individuals. It relates more particularly to what is subconscious. The spirit of Father God makes possible restored consciousness, however not without the spirit of Mother God being present. Here is what might be called a rebirth. We begin to see how nonsensical this idea that human beings have about being born again is—just a fancy; it's just a nonsensical mirage. And human beings remain exactly the same as they were before, subject to shame and to fear.
So we come ourselves into the acceptance of the way things really are, that in our own experience the body of the Son of God may grow and mature on earth. We ourselves share that experience. Here is what Christians have tended to call the second coming. The first coming was in the individual form. Now, if it is to be a reality it is through an adequate body of flesh, not just through one individual form; and we have the opportunity of sharing that. But we only share it when it becomes an absolute necessity in our own experience that it should be shared, so that there is nothing that can lure us again into the stance of the raper of the body of Mother God. If you really see that, we can understand how putrid the human state is; there is nothing right about it whatsoever; it is all filthy! Until there is that awareness we are going to imagine: “Well it could be fixed up a little. We still have some pretty good things humanly about us and we had better preserve those.” Nothing can be preserved, for the prince of this world is lost, is in the process of disintegration. Let there be the body of the Son of God present because we are here and the spirit of the Son of God is in expression in our daily living.
Thy body, O Lord, is present on earth to receive Thy command in each moment of living. Thy commands are written by Thy finger of fire upon the tablets of our hearts, that these commands may govern in every aspect of our living, in every moment of our living. These words are spoken here in this holy place, but they are spoken in the Holy Place throughout Thy body now present on earth to make possible the expression of Thy spirit in the recreative processes by which Mother God, the form of Mother God, is restored to Thee.
Beloved Fellow Ministers in the Temple of Light: Joyously I salute you in the Temple of Light which is Heaven on earth, even the Temple of the Lord of the Three Planes Who stands before the LORD of Lords as the High Priest of the whole earth. This Reality of Being is likewise revealed within each one of you: for your Heaven within you is your Temple of Light wherein your Spiritual Consciousness is the Priest of your Temple before your Lord Who is your Father within you.
Since the beginning of Creation the Cosmic Position in the Whole, Holy World for each God Being has been set according to the Harmonization in the Lines of Force whereby the World was created, and the Master-Self, or Lord, of each Body Temple in the earth has an appointed part and place therein; for this is that which is rightly called Heaven. So it is that The Kingdom of Heaven, or the Christ Kingdom, has been set up since the beginning of Creation and is the Foundation of the world. As the Blessed Ones who are Responding to their Lords, are drawn through the Christ Love into a Consciousness of Reality, the Body Temples involved are drawn into Polarity in the Father, and then the Body Temple begins to accomplish, or be directed by, the Father's Perfect Will, and is no longer influenced by the human will of the fallen consciousness which is the carnal mind. The carnal mind is, in the Body-World of the individual, the “Old Jerusalem.” When the Body-World Responds in Love to the Lord the “New Jerusalem comes down from God out of Heaven,” and so it is that the Divinely Inspired Spiritual Consciousness, or Christ Mind, appears in the Body-World of the individual, and from that time onward the Lamb, or Christ Radiance of the Lord thereof, is the Light of that Body-World, and there is no more need for external light upon which human beings in the fallen state have depended.
In this the Blessed One Realizes that the Spiritual Consciousness, which is the Christ Mind, symbolized by the New Jerusalem, “Comes down from God out of Heaven.” God, the Father—your Father—is in Heaven within you. The Light of your New Earth must come down from your Lord, and cannot be secured by any striving or struggling process of study, and addition to the carnal mind by human effort. When your Body-World is fully Responsive in Love to your Lord, instead of being responsive to, and controlled by, all the things and conditions of the outer world, your New Jerusalem comes forth from your Lord, and your body becomes your New Earth in the Light of your God. So it is that your Body-World is drawn into oneness in and with the Cosmic Place to which your Master-Self, or Lord, is ordained. Then you are functioning in perfect harmony and co-ordination with all other God Beings.
As the God Beings of each Plane are Focalized in the Lord of that Plane, and the Seven Lords of the Seven Planes are the Elohim, with the Focal Lords of the six lower Planes all focalized in full response in and to the LORD of Lords Who is the LORD OUR GOD Who manifested in and as Jesus; it becomes evident that the Three Inner Planes are Positive to the Three Outer Planes, and that these Six Planes are contained within, and infused with, the Seventh Plane which is the One Plane that blends all the other Planes.
The Three Inner Planes are, for this world, the rightful Expression of Father God, and the Three Outer Planes are the rightful spheres of Mother-God-Being. All God Beings functioning in the Three Outer Planes, or Worlds, are all contained within Mother God, and are Focalized in the Lord of the Sacred Three, Who, as High Priest of the Three Negative Worlds, is fully responsive to, and focalized in, the LORD of Lords, Who is the LORD of the Sacred Seven. So it is that the LORD of the Sacred Seven is the Focal Point of Father God in the Whole, Holy World and the Lord of the Sacred Three, as the Focal Point of Mother God, is centered in Negative Response to the LORD of Lords.
As you respond to your Lord, allowing His Spirit to reveal to you the reality of this Vision of Being, you will see and understand the direct correspondence between your Body-World and the Whole, Holy World, and you will know how it is that man is created “in the image and likeness of God. Beholding this Vision of Reality and the Glory of Being, you see how easy it is to let your Father’s Will be done in and through you by reason of your full and free Love Response to Him, that you may “let your light so shine …” Rejoicing with you that it is so, I AM Uranda
Archangelic Stature— Angelic Stature
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Martin Cecil August 18, 1978
You know from your own experience that if there is a refusal to accept responsibility you lose your authority. When you accept the responsibility, even though you may feel inadequate in the situation, the authority is still there. The authority goes with the responsibility—reject the responsibility, you reject the authority; accept the responsibility and move in it, and you have the authority. Not because you thought you had it before, perhaps; you may have thought you lacked it because of the sense of inadequacy—but accept the responsibility and you have the authority.You may handle it, consequently, on the basis of the Tone which you have come to know. You really know what that is, so don’t dither around—sound it! Don’t say to yourself, “Well I am not just sure how the Tone should sound in this situation.” That is rejecting the responsibility, so you don’t have the authority or the experience of the Tone. Accept the responsibility and the Tone sounds, and you know the authority.
How big are you? Insofar as our physical forms are concerned, they are not all that big. In this sense, some are larger than others; some smaller; different shapes. But we realize that there is more even to the external manifestation than the physical form. There is the substance of consciousness which fills the form and extends beyond the form. There are the levels of substance in this regard—seven such levels, of which the physical form is one. On this basis I suppose we could say we are seven times bigger than our physical form. There are occasions when a person says, “Well, I just felt ten feet tall.” Well, it may be the fact; maybe twenty. Are you six feet tall? Multiply it by seven. That would take you up into the forties, wouldn't it? Even from the standpoint of our facilities of incarnation, we are not just as small as we thought. But is that the gauge of our real size, do you think? That gives evidence of the fact that we must be bigger than what we create.
We are able to encompass the creation. Let us not downgrade ourselves by assuming a false humility. If there is the inclination to say in any circumstance, "Well I'm only one person, what can I do about it?"—you are at least one forty-foot person! And if a forty-foot person looms on the scene I am sure everybody would take note and there would be a little hesitancy about contending. So let us be assured in this regard, partly because the facilities of incarnation are a lot bigger than we had previously thought, but also because we who incarnate are any size that is needful, and we are capable of encompassing whatever is required of us—namely our worlds. We encompass our worlds. Let us therefor see our worlds from the standpoint of One who encompasses them, and not from the standpoint of some little human form crouching there, who doesn’t see much beyond the end of his nose. The human form is handy; we need it; but we need all the other levels of our incarnation as well, in order that there may be an adequate capacity of incarnation to accommodate us as Angels.
We do not accommodate our worlds merely on the basis of our physical forms. Of course not! How could we? But we are able to encompass our worlds because of all the levels of this machinery of incarnation; and because we ourselves as Angels are capable of using these facilities of incarnation—and they are sufficient to do what needs to be done. Let us not accuse the Lord of making us inadequately. That is what happens when a person says, “Well, I am inadequate.” He is saying, “Lord, you should have made me much more than I am.” The Lord made each of us of sufficient magnitude! Insofar as our facilities of incarnation are concerned we can encompass whatever is needful. That’s the fact of the matter—we should acknowledge it, and not try to shrink down into our little physical forms, oh so humbly!
And yet, of course, it is not a matter of arrogance either. It’s not a matter of brashness. There has been a certain amount of this within the scope of our Emissary experience—a foolish brashness. No, we don’t make a display of what we imagine to be our great magnitude. We let the facts speak for themselves—and they do incidentally! And by the way, we don’t need anyone else to blow us up to size. If I am speaking of these things now, it is not because I am trying to operate a bicycle pump and blow you up to size. I am simply speaking of the way things are. We better align ourselves with the way things are, rather than denying the way things are and insisting upon the way things aren’t. This is what most people do. They feel so insignificant that they have constantly to be inflating themselves to make it seem as though they have some significance and some authority. How quickly the bubble bursts, doesn’t it! Just a little pin-prick will do it.
We have size, magnitude, in the sense of the machinery of incarnation, sufficient to handle the incarnation—and we begin to know these things; we begin to function from the standpoint of this awareness. Most people, when they look at the time when Jesus was arrested and subjected to all the indignities to which He was, most people look at that physical form; that’s all they see. Well, certainly something was happening to the physical form, but was that all that there was to Him? There was something so tremendous standing there, that completely dwarfed the physical form, and what was happening to the physical form in that sense was quite insignificant to the machinery of incarnation, because of this great form that was present there, and known to be there, by the One who was incarnate. Do you suppose it was so very difficult to permit that physical form to experience what was called resurrection? One could almost say it could be done with one hand tied behind one’s back.
We need to have a consciousness of our real capacity, not merely of that little thimble which is seen by human nature consciousness. We don’t need to boost our egos to make it seem as though we are something which we are not, because the truth is right there—and we become aware of it as our expression begins to sound the Tone of Life continuously. Then we find that Tone reverberating in far more than our physical form. It reverberates through this vaster form which is actually present, and which is being fleshed out as there is the generation of substance. There was considerable substance present during the time when you were each speaking here in turn, because each one who came up here brought far more than his physical form. There had been far more substance generated which fills out something much bigger, and we all have asense of substance, we say—of largeness, really. It isn’t just something hollow. We are not looking at a bigger form. We say, “Oh yes, there are seven levels. That form must be considerable.”—but if it has no substance, if it’s just hollow, it doesn’t mean much. But because there is the generation of substance, then this larger form begins to have increasing meaning, and we sense it with each other.
But the One who incarnates is greater than the facility of incarnation. In fact, the facility of incarnation seems to become less—even though it is so great, just simply looking at it from the outer viewpoint. It becomes less as the Angel comes forth through it, because the Angel is so much greater. And we find that individually speaking we all blend together in the larger form, which is vast in the external sense. We think of the numbers of people in the world as being great, and the body of mankind as being vast—compared to what it was 500 years ago—but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the true stature of Man. But that true stature of Man is absent. There is just a space there where it should be. But as we allow, in this Body, the generation of the substance that fills out the true stature of this Body, then the stature of this Body is far greater than the stature of mankind the way it is now—and because of this we are quite capable of handling whatever needs to be done in this rather small sphere of responsibility.
We are no longer so impressed with numbers. This is what impresses people, isn’t it—numbers—numbers of people, very often numbers of dollars. We are impressed by something different. It isn’t numbers, because as far as we are concerned there is just One—and that is sufficient. That’s all that is needed. We see all these numbers of isolated people in the world, composing what is supposed to be the body of mankind, but that is very small potatoes from the angelic standpoint, because there is One who is much greater. We are not overly impressed with respect to the numbers participating in this ministry. One of the questions that we are often asked is, “Well, how many are there in your program?” I suppose we have difficulty in answering because the fact of the matter is there is only One—there is only One, and to most people one would not be very impressive. But when that One is seen for who He is, and when His Body of incarnation is seen for what it is, that is greater and more vast than all the rest of the population of the world put together. Of course, they’re not put together! They are all scattered abroad, and there is very little substance, obviously. The evidence of the substance being present—the True substance—is Oneness. If there isn’t Oneness there is not much substance.
Mention was made of the United Nations this morning. There is not much substance there, is there—because there is no cohesiveness. There is no Oneness. It is all separateness; people jockeying for position, jockeying for position as individuals and also in representation of nations. Is that so great to us? We acknowledge the fact that it’s there. But what we see as being great is the One—the One whom we love above all—not only from the standpoint of what He is, but from the standpoint of His Body of incarnation on earth, because this is fleshing out. Usually when those words are used it is thought of in terms of more people. I am not thinking of it in those terms at the moment—no doubt there will be more people—but more substance, more spiritual substance generated by the people who are present now. This is the important thing. If we have that substance, and there is the Oneness of the Body, then the sound of the Tone can reverberate through that Body and it will have an effect upon those who are open to be affected.
We have a responsibility for the sounding of this Tone collectively speaking, and this is done in many ways—but one of them is in the extension of the sounding of that Tone in a peripheral sense. Not that we moved anywhere—we stand where we are and sound the Tone, but that Tone will sound right out to the periphery of whatever substance we have, and there are those who will be more responsible on the periphery just as there are those who are more responsible at the core. But it’s all One Body anyway. You can’t separate the core from the periphery. If the core could be separated from the periphery then there would be a corpse, wouldn’t there? That’s what happens in the individual experience. We are interested in the true experience, not in the human nature experience.
It could be said, in one sense, that we believe in the resurrection of the Body. The resurrection of the Body—we believe in it because we are it. We are not looking at some body over there. It is right here where we are. This is the Body! This is the blood. This is the living form—not only physical form, with just a few people, but a form composed of substance, far more than flesh substance, and yet it is not separate from the flesh substance. It simply extends through it and beyond it. And in this sense there is a heavenly giant present on earth. We need to have a strong awareness of this so that we never shrink into a state of uselessness. We do not lay claims to anything as individuals, but we honor and respect the Body.
The Body of the Archangel, we have called this Body. We would never, in anything that we do, or say, or think, or feel as individuals detract from that Body. Our concern is that there should be the generation of more and more substance, that it may be filled out at all levels; not merely trying to grab more and more people, as though that was going to make it great. It isn’t that, that makes it great. It is the quality and quantity of substance that makes it great. The stature is vertical more than horizontal. (Even human beings are a little concerned when their stature begins to be more horizontal than vertical.) Let us have a vision of magnitude—the magnitude of what we are in this One Body. It is vast, entirely capable of handling everything that needs to be handled.
The population of the world is incapable of functioning together. Well, we can take advantage of the principle then—divide and conquer—because that which is to be conquered is already divided; we don’t have to divide it. There may be configurations in that body where a certain amount of substance has been developed in various ways to allow that particular configuration to function in a manner that seems to be quite powerful in the human nature world. But how do you think that stacks up against the Body of the Archangel? Obviously, such substance as may be generated beyond the physical substance—it’s mostly physical substance, numbers of people—but such substance as may be generated beyond that only goes to a very limited level, perhaps what we might call the psychological level.
Where does our substance stop? It goes, presumably, to any level, and we are concerned that there should be a sufficiency in this regard at every level. Then it becomes easy to handle these seeming giants in the land, who are pretty dense up here, who have no idea really what they are doing, clumsily maneuvering around, trying to crush opposition by falling on it. That’s about it, isn’t it? Well, we’re nimble on our feet, and if anyone tries to fall on us they may find we’re simply not there. There is great agility in the Body of the Archangel—agility and grace, grace and stature—and capability beyond anything that the human mind ever thought of.
In this sense we see clearly that as the Body is there, as the substance is there, we have it made. Insofar as the Lord is concerned, there is no problem—no problem at all. But let us be convinced in our earthly consciousness in that regard, so that we may share what is present. It has often been said that all the provision essential has already been made. We begin to discover that it is the fact of the matter, not just a nice theory! But of course, all of us as individuals have something to do. Behold I come quickly—and this is so when we let that coming be quick, because we function on the basis of the true vision which accepts the true responsibility, and which thereby lets the coming be quick. If we move quickly, then those who are going to share the movement with us will move quickly too. They don’t have to go through all the rigmarole that may have been necessary—for some of us at least—to get us on the road, so to speak. Those old methods don’t apply any more. I was commenting recently, that there are those servers who are continually offering introductory material. Introduction has been made long ago—long, long ago! There are all kinds of people who come to the services in the Dome Chapel who have never been to a service before. If I reverted every Sunday to introductory material, where would we be! It is introductory material at this level now, and those who have any openness of heart, they’ll move right along with it. They will see what is offered at their own level of experience. Let us all have confidence in this, so that we can move with the Spirit now, with what is current now. Behold I come quickly—like this! That’s the way it works. We don’t have to try to paint everybody with the same brush with which we were painted. We may have been dumb, but why lay that on everybody else? That would be rather a self-centered attitude, wouldn’t it? Anyone who is going to come to the Lord must come through all the rigmarole that we went through. Nonsense! If we’ve done it, that’s enough! We leave all that behind, and come quickly. And as we come quickly, so will others—all on the basis of the sounding of the Tone of Life now, through the Body as it is now.
It is never one individual doing anything. Anything that is done is done by the whole Body, and in fact it is done by the Archangel, who is incarnate, and that isn’t a little thing. That is tremendous, and we need to be assured—because we ourselves accept responsibility in the matter—of the magnitude of that expression. We stay put in the Body of the Archangel and all that is needful to be dealt with will come to us. We handle it intelligently, with dispatch. Behold I come quickly.
So this is the conclusion of these Sessions that we have shared in this particular configuration, but we’re not going anyplace. We stay put. We are all part of the same body, and you each carry that brilliance of Light wherever you may be, and it is this that continues the cycles of resurrection for this Body—transforming the Body, transmuting the Body, so that it may be a whole, adequate instrument for the incarnation of the Archangel and the achievement of the Archangelic purposes.
The endocrine glands provide the outer form of manifestation of the Seven Spirits, the seven aspects of spirit in your own body in relationship to the physical functions of your own Being. We have considered something of the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God. The Focalization of the Seven Spirits through your own body provides the opportunity for a basic control pattern—attunement with the Divine Source and function. As long as the blood sugar level is not correct the endocrine system is not going to be functioning correctly, and the Life Force is not going to be manifesting correctly through you—the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God are not adequately active in the earth of your own body. Until that is taken care of, at least to a degree in relationship to yourself, you cannot inspire others to do likewise.
Until we recognize that the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God are necessary from the standpoint of the individual and from the standpoint of the group, from the standpoint of the whole Christ Body and the whole of humanity, we are not going to make very much progress, no matter how much knowledge or information one may store within oneself. We remember in the story of Moses that when Moses fled from Egypt and went to the land of Midian, through an outworking in events he became acquainted with the seven daughters of the priest of Midian and so, finally, that priest himself, Jethro. Here we have the same pattern of vibrational factors. Whether we consider the Creative Triangle in the Universe, which provides the base for our function, and provided the base for the creation of this world, from Orion to the Pleiades, or whether we consider the story here at the time of Moses—whether we see the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades or the seven sisters, the daughters of Jethro, whether we see the seven days of the week in the pattern of creation or the seven days of the week as we commemorate those factors now, wherever we turn we see evidences of this basic seven, the seven that find focalization in your own body in the endocrine system.
Every body that is to have any meaning in life, and force, must have the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God. That is true of a group as much as it is of an individual; for anyone who does not understand these basic patterns and ignores them, attempting to develop and formulate a true group on earth, will never succeed. It cannot be done. Humanity has for so long mistaken knowledge, or information, for functional realization. The individual who undertakes to achieve some great purpose by gathering information to himself, getting knowledge—he is going to accomplish something—never succeeds, because he does not share effectively and properly in the current of God's giving. It is only as we recognize the principle of the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God, the principle of Focalization of those spirits, the principle of Focalization in the whole pattern of Being, that we can begin to consider these things and develop a conscious awareness of them in a manner which will allow us to intelligently perceive the working of the spirit of God.
Getting the knowledge as such is not the goal or the purpose here, or anywhere. There has to be the establishment of a certain awareness of certain fundamental facts and truths of Being, information, but if it stops there it accomplishes nothing, whether it is information I present to you or someone else. It has to be a means by which your consciousness becomes aware in realization of the working of the spirit of God, so that you can comprehend that spirit, comprehend and correctly interpret the influences of the spirit, because impulses are going to be interpreted on the basis of the individual concepts, and when the individual concepts are not shaped to the truth, the personal response to the impulse of the spirit of God will cause that person to do the wrong thing. Once you see that you will understand why the world is in the state it is and why human beings have failed for so long to have any real outworking of the spiritual life. Until you have an awareness of the truth as such, and a consciousness which can begin to comprehend the significance and the meaning of the spirit of God, you have no way of translating the impulses of the spirit of God into the right pattern of action. So we have training periods and class periods for that purpose.There have been plenty of opportunities in the past; but we are dealing in the present now. As long as there are false beliefs in your consciousness and in your heart, no matter how sincerely held, the spirit of God working through you will cause you to do the wrong thing. And millions of earnest, sincere people are caught in that trap. That is why the Master emphasized the point, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” for until your awareness, your consciousness, is patterned in truth, regardless of anything else, the impulse of the spirit cannot cause you to do the right thing, and until we do do the right thing we are not going to be accomplishing that to which we are called.
And so this point of Jethro's seven daughters has particularized significance in relationship to the endocrine system of your own body, or the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God at any level of outworking, formation or focalization, because the principles apply at every level, with respect to every formation where there is a pattern of self-consciousness. We need to remember that. Until we know that truth, we will try to ignore some aspect or other and say, “Well it doesn't make any difference.” But it does. We cannot violate the basic laws of God without paying the price, no matter who it is.
And then we recognized in our pattern of consideration that Moses was being called by God, and in that process of being called he saw what is called the burning bush—the burning bush that was not consumed. What is this burning bush? It is your own body. The burning bush is your own body. What is it that gives you the possibility of action, energy, expression? The burning of what? The energy substances in your body. Why are we concerned about blood sugar level? So that the burning of the fires in your own body will not consume your body and destroy you. Moses saw the burning bush that was not consumed and he said, “I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.” That is the opportunity that is being given to you today—to turn aside from the ordinary patterns of life and begin to see why the bush is not burnt when we function correctly, when we have so become attuned to the laws of God and the principles of life that the blood sugar level is where it should be. And if that blood sugar level is not right, the bush, the body, your body or any body, is going to be consumed and will begin to show all of the signs of weakness and decrepitude and illness, and what have you, that indicate that the body is burning up and the fires are not functioning correctly in the body.
Human beings have been afraid of the fire of God's Love for so long. In a consideration of what might be called the mystical, or the symbolical portrayals of truth, you come across the idea that the human being must reach a point where he is able to enter the fire and not be burned. We have the outstanding illustration of this in relationship to the experience of those who were working with Daniel—Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—how they were cast, bound, into the burning fiery furnace. Well now, those who enter the fire on the basis of correct response to God are not burned, but those who try to function in relationship to the fire without that correct polarity, they are going to get burned.
That fire of God's Love is here in relationship to every human being, and we see human beings being burned up all around us, burned up in that fire. Human beings are afraid of it because their bodies are being burned up in it. In Revelation it is called “the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever.” And you are in it. It is not something that is going to come someday, somewhere. This lake of fire and brimstone is on earth now and you are in it, whether you know it or not, and that is the thing that is tormenting human beings all over the world. Until we learn how to walk into the flame without fear, and work in the fire, we cannot accomplish that to which we are called. I don't care what the human being tries to achieve by himself and of himself, it will not work. If we are going to achieve our purpose, accomplish our goal, we must reach a point where we turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt; for here you have the revelation of the same truth that comes out later in relationship to Daniel—in other points in the Bible too; we see it in the Book of Revelation, “the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever.” And it is here—that fire is the fire of God's Love, which torments those who fight against it but is cooling and soothing and gloriously beautiful for those who yield to it.
What did the Lord tell Moses? “Do not get too close; your body is not ready yet to walk into the flame. You can look at it a bit, but,” He said, “take off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the ground whereon thou standest is holy ground.” Holy Ground. When you begin to realize that the ground where the fire burns is holy ground—you realize it, you begin to know it, you recognize the sacredness—you take your shoes from off your feet. What does that signify? In preparation for the Lord's Supper the Master washed the feet of the disciples. All the way through the Biblical pattern of portrayal the feet have been utilized as signifying the individual's basic understanding. The Master washed their feet with water, water the symbol of truth, the feet made bare, removing the shoes—the mental concepts, the ideas, the beliefs, the crystallized convictions of the human mind. And the Master washed their feet with water so that their understanding might be cleansed and made pure, that they might indeed partake of the Lord's Supper with a realization of the basic principles of Being.
But it did not start there. Back here at the time of Moses we have a recognition that the Lord said to Moses, “Take off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the ground whereon thou standest is holy ground.” We have holy ground here because the fire is burning here, but some people do not realize it and they do not take their shoes from off their feet. Their pattern of understanding is covered with the fixed crystallizations of their own beliefs. But once you realize that the ground whereon thou standest is holy ground, you have no fear about taking off the shoes—the symbol of human beliefs and patterns—removing them so that you can come in direct contact with the holy ground and realize that, coming to know the truth, your understanding will be clothed with the truth and not with crystallized concepts that have insulated you from the real or true living of life from the standpoint of understanding. You begin to truly understand yourself and those round about you, so that you may serve God and man.
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You begin to see as Moses saw: “I will turn aside and see this great sight.” Why are you here? Because of that one thing. You perceived in the wilderness—you did not understand it perhaps, you did not see it in the full sense—but you began to perceive that there was a Burning Bush in the wilderness and the bush was not burned. And it was because you followed the pattern established by Moses and said, “I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt,” that is why you are here.