For so long have the children of men dwelt in the tents of wickedness that the courts of the Lord are remembered no more. This is the fatal amnesia. Our friend Immanuel Velikovsky pointed to the cataclysms that have occurred on this earth, immense horrors for the children of men. He suggests that because of this there has been a general state of amnesia, because no one wished to recall such horrendous events. That is perhaps an aspect of the amnesia but a very peripheral one. There is a deeper suppression of guilt which relates to the cause of those cataclysmic events. Human beings usually assume that the cause of such things is God; they refer to them as “acts of God.” This is one way of excusing human beings from responsibility. But there is this very deeply established guilt in the subconscious of all human beings, well covered over, so that there is a loss of memory to such an extent that there is a general unwillingness to take any real responsibility for anything. “It's not our fault.” Someone else is to blame—ultimately, whatever the Deity may be, He is to blame. Destructiveness is imputed to God, to the acts of God.
It is a little difficult these days to evade the fact that human beings themselves have been busy producing their troubles, which are moving toward a point of climax. They have dwelt in the tents of wickedness for so long. By the way, wickedness is usually seen as relating to evil. I would suggest that it relates equally to good. It relates to the choices that human beings make, whether they are deemed to be good or bad. It is all wickedness. And the results of wickedness are not far to seek. In one way or another all of us as individuals have experienced such results. I trust that we have reached a level of maturity now, so that we do not blame someone else for our own troubles, even though we can, so accurately still I am sure, pinpoint the source of our troubles. But those sources seen external to ourselves are simply a reflection of what is already internal to ourselves. Honesty requires that we admit this, so that we nevermore assume that there is some external devil somewhere intent upon our downfall, usually easily spotted in somebody else.
There is an amnesia, certainly, related to the effects of a more deeply hidden cause. There can be no restoration of memory as to the truth of man until that cause is unveiled, until we reach a point where we can acknowledge the fact of it as it relates to ourselves individually. Clearly it relates to mankind as a whole, and that is an obvious aspect of the matter; but what is occurring on that larger scale cannot be correctly handled until there is the acknowledgment of our own responsibility as an individual. We have seen this most clearly. The necessity for repentance, then, puts in an appearance. But the repentance is really only the matter of letting the basic cause for the loss of memory be unveiled, so that as individuals we are ready to admit it, regardless of what anybody else does, regardless of anyone else's behavior anywhere on the face of the earth, and I suppose particularly with respect to those who are close to us. These are the ones that get under our skin at times. But they're not really getting under our skin. There is something under there already, of which we become aware because of the behavior of other people. This is very useful if we see it in the right light. We should be very thankful that other people unveil to us what is already under our skin, what is already present within ourselves, so that the cause of the trouble may be acknowledged.
There is only one way by which this remembrance can come, and that is by reason of the spirit of truth. It was said, very truly, the spirit of truth shall call all things to your remembrance. This is the dissipation of amnesia, is it not? We may take a look at some of these cataclysmic events, and that's fine; they certainly were terrible things in human experience. But evidently somebody survived or we wouldn't be here. What is more important is that there should be a vivid awareness of what it was that caused this disruption of the natural cycles as they move in this solar system. This could hardly be called an act of God. It would, rather, be described as a failure of man. It certainly indicates that man has a very vital and central part to play in the creative processes of this universe as they come to focus here in the solar system and in this planet. It implies that we are not so useless as we thought we were.
Out of this deep, hidden guilt spring all the ways of wickedness. We cannot help but dwell in the tents of wickedness when we are born on earth. It is of little consequence as to our racial background, our national background, our religious affiliations, or anything else. These are all outgrowths of this central guilt, an endeavor to assuage the guilt in various ways. We will try, for instance, to worship God in a way that will be pleasing to Him, so that He won't clobber us so much. The fact of the matter is that He never clobbered anyone at any time. All the clobbering has simply been the result of human behavior, consequent upon the suppression of memory. The spirit of truth alone can restore memory. But how does the spirit of truth put in an appearance? Things work in very reasonable ways. All the ingredients that are necessary for the spirit of truth to be present are on hand.
“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” The spirit of truth comes because there is One who comes in the name of the Lord. Then the spirit of truth can be “with you, and shall be in you.” The spirit of truth must first be with you, in form and expression, through One who comes in the name of the Lord. When there is a resonance within oneself related to the spirit of the One who comes in the name of the Lord, then one will be drawn to that spirit—it is a drawing into the experience of a greater resonance of the spirit of truth within oneself. But for that to have focus and to have meaning, there must be One who comes in the name of the Lord. This is the way it works. There must be focus. This is something that human beings have steadfastly rejected. When there is such a focus, and the spirit of truth is present in radiant expression because of that, then it is possible to have one's memory restored. The restoration of memory comes as that same spirit of truth emerges through oneself.
The word of the One who comes in the name of the Lord is “Hear me.” That's the first word. “Hear me. Respect me. Love me. Be me. Share the responsibility of being the One who comes in the name of the Lord, in the expression of the spirit of truth.” There are not five billion expressions of the spirit of truth. The expression of the spirit of truth is One. There are five billion—or might be—differentiations of that spirit, but they would all be that spirit. And it works this way. One comes in the name of the Lord. There is a focus of spirit provided, the spirit of truth, which is capable of dissipating amnesia. All human beings on the face of the earth have forgotten who they are and why they are here. What is the purpose of man on earth? Who can answer that? We have been talking about it now: to participate in the creative process, which works in a very definite and specific way. And one can't second-guess that. It works the way it works.
If we begin to let ourselves be drawn by the spirit of truth, because there is some substance in us that resonates in response to it, then we begin to awaken to an awareness of the spirit of truth in expression through the One who comes in the name of the Lord. This may be succeeded by willingness to hear, to listen, possibly to understand. Then respect is engendered as understanding comes, and this is found to be love. Love puts in an appearance because one was associated with the creative process and willing to let it work without too much interference. We do interfere because we are all inclined to want to have our own way. But when there is love, then we hear the final word which is “Be me.” Accept exactly the same responsibility of being in expression the spirit of truth. When this is so, there is no conflict between those who are the spirit of truth in expression. It all blends together. Individually speaking, what is expressed is not all the same; but it all fits together, and it fills in the details of the reality of man, what man is, what he is here for, why he exists. Life has meaning. The revelation of that meaning is the expression of the spirit of truth—the revelation of the meaning of that focus of life which is present in oneself. One can't become aware of the meaning of that without becoming aware of the meaning of life as it relates to the whole. It's the same life, after all. But to come again to the spirit of truth, to acknowledge the fact of the One who comes in the name of the Lord—“blessed is he.”
Here is the spirit of truth, which is saying, in effect, “Hear me. Respect me. Love me. Be me.” Because I have had a particular responsibility in this regard, which I have assumed for myself, those words may relate seemingly to me, but it is to the spirit of my expression. Hear me. Respect me. Love me. If there is a genuine hearing, these other things follow along naturally. Many of you have found them following along naturally, until the point is reached where you say, “It is me.” When that point is reached, all concerned are in agreement. You could define that as peace. Human beings in the general sense have no idea what peace would be. There never has been peace in the memory of human beings.
Life doesn't appear in spurts. It is really a steady flow. If it is allowed to flow naturally because we don't contend with it, we will find that it is something smooth. There may be some natural pulsations, just as the seasons come and go; but there is a natural flow. So we may participate in this natural flow. But it is the spirit of truth that makes all this possible, because the state of Man is the state of embodying that natural flow without interruption. It provides whatever is necessary for the thinking of the mind, for the feelings of the heart, for the life of the body. There are external things provided, which have been messed up terribly by human behaviour—human behavior which has denied the spirit of truth. It's been intent on going its own way, doing its own thing, arranging things on earth the way it wants them; and then when they are arranged, it objects to them. Let the spirit of truth be present, acknowledged.
I could say, without proving anything: I am come in the name of the Lord to give focus to the spirit of truth. This is not an exclusive thing at all, as so many seem to try to make it when they form their cults and so on. But a cult can only form when the focus point is not the spirit of truth. Mind you, human beings desperately try to make things into cults. They have tried to make what is happening here into a cult. Some people observe from outside and say it is a cult, but they say that principally because it is a cult from inside in the view of some. It only becomes what it really is as one acknowledges the spirit of truth, by saying “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Then, having said that, one hears, one respects, one loves, and one is. Then there is no separation.
The spirit of truth, focused and in expression, is not exclusive, but it isabsolute. It can't be contended with without fatal results—there has been this persistent contending with the spirit of truth. This vicious circle in which human beings have been moving cannot be transcended without the action of the spirit of truth, which brings to remembrance the reality of Man. Accepting the reality of Man is repentance. Let the spirit of truth be your expression in living, and that is all that is necessary. It will restore memory. Many of you can say now, with a certain clarity of awareness, why it is you are present on earth. One is present on earth to give expression to the spirit of truth, and if you do it you know why you are on earth. If you refuse to do it you don't know. All this is very simple, really. Human beings are inclined to make things so complicated.
Let behavior be restored to the behavior of one who dwells in the Courts of the King. One cannot discover the forms of such behavior and then try to conform to those forms and consequently experience the spirit of truth. It doesn't work that way. It is the expression of that spirit in living which creates its own forms of behavior, and those forms of behavior mesh between all who are letting the spirit of truth create those forms. There are those who have been associated with the Emissary ministry who have tried to make behavior forms and then insisted that everybody should conform to those behavior forms. What a waste of time! There are people doing that all over the world as it is, in various ways. The pervasive influence on earth says to human beings, “You conform to these cultural forms; to these religious forms; you conform to these scientific forms; to all these human inventions, and you'll be all right.” It hasn't proved out that way, because it's a lie. Yet most people imagine that they are being good if they are conforming to the particular pattern which has been foisted on them. It's deadly—based in this loss of memory.
The spirit of truth says, “Remember”, and you will, if you accept the spirit of truth, if you accept me and allow me to be you—allow the spirit of truth to be your expression. It will be individual and unique in that sense, but it produces the quality of behavior in thought and word, feeling, action, which permits a person to be in the Courts of the King. If one has the capability of dwelling in the Courts of the King and one allows that capability to characterize one's living, immediately one is in the Courts of the King, no longer dwelling in the tents of wickedness. Repentance has occurred and the person hardly noticed it! Sometimes a person needs to notice it, so that there may be a willingness to let the change occur, and sometimes it takes quite a shaking to do that. We subject ourselves to these things, we build our own troubles. Finally they may overwhelm us, and that's that; or they may cause us to wake up and say, “That's enough of this nonsense!”
The provision has been made. The spirit of truth is present. The expression of it is clear, focused, consistent. Why not be aligned with that? Why not hear what it is? Why not respect this above all? Why not then be willing to know the reality of love? And, in that, one is back where one might have been if all this interim had not occurred, the interim of human rebellion—the determination on the part of human beings to have their own way. That is the fall—and anyone who says, “Well the fall never took place,” didn't examine very closely what's happening in human experience on earth. The evidence of it is everywhere, and particularly in one's own experience. What a mess! We have the opportunity to emerge out of that, and have been assuming the responsibility of doing this, sharing that responsibility, sharing the expression of the spirit of truth. And behold, we begin to mesh, in spite of all our judgments and everything else.
We find ourselves being put together in a new design—or a design that is new to us at least—I suppose you could say the state of society in the Kingdom of the King, in the Courts of the King. And we express the spirit of truth consistently or out we go. It's a matter of being what one really is—the truth of oneself—and in that is the restoration of Man on earth. And when Man is on earth the creative process is brought to focus and all things work together to perfection. That is what is happening now because there is an emergence, to this extent, of Man on earth, of the spirit of truth in focused expression. What the spirit of truth says, in effect—it doesn't quite put it this way—is “Shape up or ship out.” That is the way it is. It is all being brought to issue. We share the responsibility, letting it be brought to issue in ourselves so that it may be brought to issue with respect to everybody on the face of the earth. And this is happening.
As all of you are probably conscious of, the world is increasingly, step-by-step, entering cycles of greater pressure. Also, as individuals some of you, plus many more, are feeling intensified pressure. Likely, you also know that the coronavirus situation is escalating rapidly around the world, breaking records in many places, daily. An example of this is in France: a one-month complete lockdown was announced to begin today. Consequently, yesterday there were countless cars trying to leave Paris, creating 700 kilometers of gridlock. The United States also broke some records. Yesterday it recorded the highest number of new Covid cases for one day: 100,000. Korea recorded 100 cases.
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Most of you may be aware, also, that Tuesday is Election Day in the United States, and there is tremendous pressure building because of it. This Presidential election in the United States is probably an election with the greatest tension in U.S. history. A poll in the United States indicated that just under fifty per cent of people were feeling “very angry” or “enraged,” for different reasons. The extent of depression and symptoms of mental illness and sleeplessness has grown tremendously as well. In the midst of all this, the United States also broke a different record: the highest annual sale of guns in its history, particularly the highest was for handguns. Regardless of which way this election goes, the United States will experience a tremendous turmoil.
At the individual level among the people who are close to us, I am aware of quite a number of people who are experiencing a situation of maximum pressure. At the same time various individuals are experiencing a breakthrough to clarity and maturity. So, I want to touch on what is needed from us, as well as many more, to guide what is a time of the greatest pressure towards a time of breakthrough and growth. Such circumstances of greatest pressure can bring breakthrough and growth on the one hand, but without the right ingredients it can sometimes just bring breakdown and destructiveness.
Breakdowns and destructiveness can also lead, in the long run, to rebirth and breakthrough, so we do need to have that in mind, too. In the Kakao social media room for the Art of Living School, there were several writings that came up in this past week that were about new breakthroughs—through our time travel process for several people, and also the experience of accepting the circumstance of greatest pressure as an opportunity for victory.
So, what is the central ingredient that allows maximum pressure to lead to breakthrough rather than mere breakdown? In circumstances of mounting pressure, the presence of an awake, conscious center and an orientation point of maturity will have a decisive effect on which way things will tend to go. A great deal hangs on the presence and availability of representatives of true maturity and a true point of orientation.
The point of orientation of true maturity is also a representation of Highest Love present in form through human beings. As maturity is present and as the representation of Highest Love is present, there is a balanced perspective, wisdom and an enfolding presence as people go through substantial transformation.
So, who are such individuals, such representatives of Highest Love and maturity? We could say that they are angels transparently expressing through human form. And then the question arises, how did such individuals of highest maturity and representation of Highest Love become that way? Such individuals have become that way―true representatives of Highest Love―through having given themselves wholly and with all to Highest Love.
I want to go into a little bit of what it means to give one’s all to something. When we think of those who have given their all, sometimes mothers come to mind. Also, giving one’s all to something sometimes correlates with sacrifice in people’s consciousness. We may think that in giving one’s all, in sacrificing oneself, one becomes empty and poor. Sometimes mothers who give their all to their children experience, at some point, that they feel rather empty, and that their children don’t always, or deeply, appreciate them.
When we give our all—not necessarily to people, including family and children, etc—but to Highest Love, it’s quite different. When we give our all to Highest Love, we are filled with that love. That is why it’s different. It is not a sacrifice but a fulfillment. When we give our all to Highest Love, we are filled with that love, and in the process of being filled with that love we, step-by-step, become that love. And we experience, gradually, that we in fact are that love. But until we give our all for Highest Love, we don’t get to know that we in fact were already that love in the first place. We discover it when we have done it.
Giving one’s all is also, in fact, giving over or away something not so precious. In fact, it’s actually giving away, or giving over, one’s self-centered, small self, and when we are truly honest about it, it’s actually giving over or away the pain of our small self. Such a great loss! Through giving away one’s self-centered self, we discover and enter into one’s whole, holy Self.
The giving of one’s all in the true direction, instead of sacrifice, is fulfillment and achievement. It’s the achievement of one’s True Self. It’s arriving at the angel that we are. Through releasing one’s self, we become Highest Love, and Highest Love, we discover, is who we are. It flows through our human capacities unimpeded because there is no longer present the small me wanting this or that.
What humanity needs most in this experience of greatest pressure—pressure that continues to mount—are precisely such individuals who are no longer caught up in self. By having surrendered the little self these individuals are present, aware of the larger rhythm of things—including the human rhythm and the heavenly rhythm of things—and particularly can represent the direction of that heavenly rhythm in the midst of all the pressures that mount.
This is the presence of God in action on earth through human form, specifically as God’ angels acting transparently through human form. Without such individuals there is no true direction or wisdom in the midst of mounting pressure. The presence of such individuals will play a decisive role in whether world pressures lead to rebirth or to painful destruction that is prolonged.
Some time ago in giving thought to angels and warriors, I wrote something that I want to share with you. The heart and mind of the True Warrior at its deepest is its aligning in the Light―we could say, in the Lord. Also, thinking about angels or Beings of Light, they share the same heart as a True Warrior: aligning in the Light, in the Lord.These words represent, perhaps, the vow of the Warrior Angel. This writing is not fully finished, but I wanted to share something of the essence of it.
The vow made to our Lord, I bring to flower with my all.
Glory-filled is the path restoring the Light. Death too, I fear not.
Serving the Lord in the way of victory, I give this one body, one heart,
for beloved humanity I give.
If this heart of today were to stop, again I shall rise and be victorious.
This oath to our Lord, with one heart and mind I fulfill.
For the return of the Light, I give all that I am.
For my Lord and beloved humanity, I give all.
This is the vow of all the angels working, loving, being, expressing on earth—those who, through their love of humanity, have given their all, and through that have become Love itself. Because these individuals are present throughout different places in humanity, there is a point of orientation and a vibrational, immovable core in the heart of humanity.
Until each of us gives our all for Highest Love in this way and are consummated in that love, we have only been preparing, preparing to become ourselves, preparing to be our full, mature selves.
Recently Jae Hyoung Lee spoke in a service that a grace period of preparation time is over. In this time of highest and increasing pressure, those who can come to the release of self and into fullest Self, to maturity, are being summoned. It’s time, even if in our personal lives there is yet this pain, that suffering, this immaturity, or that barrier, we give our all—not because we don’t have such limitations, but in spite of them, and we give them over.
For the return of the Light, for my Lord and beloved humanity, I give my all.
This giving of all, and thus maturity, is not something special. This is what man and woman were always meant to be: Beings who in giving all to Love become Love itself, Light itself. Such is True Humanity.
Throughout history, because such individuals of surrendered maturity were present, humanity has been able to come to this point of opportunity of transformation today. Giving one’s all for Highest Love, instead of being a sacrifice, is the fullest achievement of who we are. It is becoming the Love that we are, becoming the Lord in expression through human form that we are.
If some of us have held back something in giving all to Highest Love, why don’t we complete that process, fully giving our all? Half-giving is in truth, a painful state. Neither beast nor angel. Let us give and become the Love that we are which, in this time of the highest pressure on earth, is the decisive force for the transformation of humanity.
This day commemorates a great venture entered one hundred and seventy-seven years ago by those those who dared to dream of a land of the free and the brave. Our nation has paused to remember something of its birthright, to remember somewhat the labor pains of the birth of a nation, to remember the ideals, the hopes. I thought it might be well for us to give a moment's thought to our birthright as human beings, the birthright that is available to every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, that we may remember the goal of attainment, that we may remember something of the labor pains by which, in the struggles of the world, the beginnings of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth have been brought forth.
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We remember our Master and His Ministry among men, and that which He experienced at the hands of human beings. We have recognized many times that His greatest service to us was the revelation of Deity, and that revelation is possible only by reason of oneness with the Father. We have come to the point where our attention is centered in the processes of integration. How can we let this reality of integration manifest in us and through us? We recognize that if we fail to reach the goal of attainment of the oneness of Heaven and earth in ourselves, individually, we cannot be of any real service in helping to attain that goal for the whole body of humanity.
At various times we have given thought to God's Love and recognized that Love was, and is, the integrating force by which all things which are a true part of the Divine formation are held in pattern, a force by which the patterns of relationship are established, near or far. We remember the One Law, the two Great Commandments, and we see here, without question, the basic Law of Integration: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. This is the first and great Commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” This is indeed the Law of Integration, and it is under this Law that we have stability—in the solar system and in the atom. It is a violation of this Law, in the unstable fringe of atomic substance, which produces the violence of the atomic bomb. We recognize that we must be practical. We are living on earth, facing certain problems, and difficulties, and necessities. How can we let this Law of Integration be effective in and through us in relationship to these practical necessities of living, and how can we let the Magic of Living be a reality in and through ourselves?
I would like to draw your attention to the record, certain words our Master spoke which have a very definite and direct bearing on the answer to these questions. “And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples.” Before proceeding further, let us pause to recognize the significance of the twelve disciples. We commonly hear of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, and Jacob, who became Israel, had twelve sons. One of those sons, Joseph, had two sons, and there was a tribe of the Children of Israel named for each of the two sons, but there was no tribe of Joseph. There were thirteen tribes of the Children of Israel, commonly spoken of as the twelve tribes—and we recognize that the Priesthood, or the Levites, were to carry on the traditional pattern of the patriarchswere supposed to carry on the traditional pattern of the patriarchs, the centering or the fatherhood of the twelve tribes, to inherit the responsibility of Jacob, or Israel, and his twelve sons. Then we have the Master and His twelve disciples, the thirteen altogether in all three cases. The thirteenth, in each case, represented the invisible realm of Being. The twelve, in each case, represented the patterns of formation in life and being on earth.
When we reach the point of a consideration of the Book of Revelation we come to the outline of the four-and-twenty elders, and we recognize that four-and-twenty is twice twelve—recognizing the positive and negative aspects of formation in the twelve. The four-and-twenty of Revelation carries out exactly the same pattern as, for instance, with the twelve tribes, for in the tribes there were the men and the women of the tribe, the four-and-twenty again emphasizing the twelve. Carrying out the pattern, we have the twelve months of the year. We have the day of twelve hours and the night of twelve hours, the four-and-twenty, or the positive and negative aspects of the twelve. So, whether it be with the day or the year, it is still the twelve. All of these things have certainly not been made evident by chance, by coincidence. There must be significance. We could spend a great deal of time on this one subject, but I would like to draw your attention to other things. So, let it suffice to remind you that the twelve tribes of the Children of Israel were supposed to provide symbolical representation of the twelve vibratory focalizations or patterns of humanity.
Humanity as a whole, counting all men, women and children, is the creation of God—Adam and Eve. Humanity today, in its wholeness—all-inclusive, needing to be made whole—is the Adam and the Eve of this this moment. Each female is a part of Eve, and each male is a part of Adam. And the body of Adam and Eve, in their patterns of relatedness, or oneness, has continued since the dawn of the history of man. Adam and Eve is, today. I say is in order to emphasize the reality of integration—Adam and Eve in the sense of the body of humanity. It is not a wholesome, whole and beautiful body, as God first created it. There are limitations and miseries, sufferings and sorrows. The stature of Adam and the stature of Eve have greatly decreased, and I am not thinking of it so much in the physical sense as in the sense of the moral and character aspects of being. There is not the noble fulness of beauty and capacity, quality and character, that first characterized the only begotten Son of God.
Mankind, one body of humanity, in the beginning, insofar as this earth is concerned—not being concerned for the moment with the planets or solar systems—was the Only Begotten Son of God. The whole body of humanity is now, as far as this earth is concerned, the only begotten Son of God. And no man or woman on the face of the earth who lives and breathes can be excluded from that body. Even though we may say, “That human being is dead to reality,” still that human being is a part of the body as it now exists, with its limitations, its sufferings, its sorrows. And this body needs to be healed. The body has been dying, but it has not reached a point of being dead. Individual human beings have died but the body of Adam has never died, as yet—the body of Eve has never died, as yet.
Whether it be the twelve tribes or the twelve disciples, they were supposed to be symbolical focalizations, representation of the twelve aspects of the positive and negative body of man, the twelve phases of being in mankind—the twelve tribes. But if we see that this point with respect to the twelve tribes is real we must accept every man, woman and child, of every race and color and creed, as having membership in the twelve tribes; for the twelve tribes of the children of Israel were supposed to provide the beginning points by which the whole body of humanity could be integrated into a controlled body, the whole body of Adam including Eve—the Son of God. But the twelve tribes of the children of Israel conceived themselves to be the thing, rather than the symbol of the thing. Rather than representation, they developed a pattern of exclusion, deeming themselves to be set apart from the rest of humanity.
The twelve tribes, then, the twelve disciples, the twelve focalizations, however, whenever, they may appear, provide an understanding of the completed cycle in relationship to the Central Son, or the higher Son, for the Son of God is the only begotten Son of God on the level of manifestation only. Every level of being has its own manifestation of the only begotten Son of God, and as the planets of our solar system represent one level we have another level on earth, as such. And the higher point in relationship to the Son we even call the Sun, the Sun which centers the solar system. The Sun is the symbol of the Son, the highest point of truly viewing the only begotten Son of God, at the point of the third level up from our physical realm of Being. The planet earth and the forms upon it provide the first level—man, the crowning creation, to be the Son of God; the planets of the solar system provide another level, the second; and then, the Sun itself. Each level has its Son, but every Son is related to every other Son, for every Son above finds expression on the level of the Son below, and is, in each case, the revelation of that which is above. So, though we may say there is an only begotten Son on every level, all levels constitute the One Son, for no level by itself has any true meaning, and each level is a particularized revelation of the next highest level by which the Son of God is revealed.
Once we carry the pattern back to the Central SUN of Suns, and to the GOD of all Gods, we see that the cosmos, centered in the Central Point of Deity, is the Son of God. Whether we think of the cosmos as the Son of God, or any of the levels in between that Central Point of Being and this earth, or whether we give thought to the body of humanity, mankind, as the Son of God, we have the privilege of knowing, in all the different aspects of revelation, the reality of the One. By this means you can begin to see, at least in faint outline to glimpse, the processes of integration, from the realm where we dwell to the very center of the Cosmos; for it is integrated, it is one thing, and all its levels are revelations of the one thing. And humanity, mankind, is supposed to be a specialized revelation of the one thing, whether we think of that as the cosmos or simply as some point in the intervening levels of Cosmic Being.
You gain a deeper insight, then, into the basic truth that mankind was made in the image and likeness of God, and, being so made, was the only begotten Son of God. Our Master coming, revealing the essence of that which mankind was supposed to reveal, was called the only begotten Son of God. And if we had allowed ourselves to be integrated with Him at that time there would have been the full manifestation, the full revelation, of the Only Begotten Son of God, a cycle of revelation initiated by our Master while He walked among men on earth.
Here we have the words that came from the lips of the One who so served us on earth: “And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples”—His contact points with the twelve segments of mankind, “He gave them power”; for to the degree that they—the twelve, or those who should partake of the reality of that represented by the twelve—answered the call, “He gave them power.” That representation, then, of that which was supposed to be, holds true for us now. Human beings have seen the twelve disciples as segregated from themselves. And there are those religious teachers, or leaders, or churches, that declare that the power was given to the twelve disciples only, and that they must be seen as separate and apart from the rest of us. They have failed to grasp the fact that instead of being segregated they were supposed to be the integrating points of focalization by which we might have direct contact with the Central Essence of Being, and that through them we might have an integrated body of mankind, containing the twelve segments of humanity.
“And when He had called unto Him.” When He called His twelve disciples He called you, in this generation, for you are one of the twelve—the twelve disciples representing the twelve segments of mankind. The body of Adam has continued till this day, and you are a part of one of the twelve segments; you are a part of one of the twelve disciples now, in this hour, just as much as any man in any hour when the Master Himself walked on earth. “And when He called unto Him His twelve disciples,” He called you, for the twelve negative aspects of the twelve segments are included, automatically, on the basis of Biblical symbolism, when we speak of the twelve positive aspects of the twelve segments.
He called you. In that moment He was not talking just to twelve men back there. He was talking to you, in this hour. He was talking to any human being who belonged to any of the twelve segments of the body of mankind. And there has never been a baby born on earth who did not belong in the twelve segments of mankind, even though the point of focalization in some carried out in relationship to the thirteenth, or the point of Essence of Centering, for remember that Levi was one of the original twelve, and the thirteenth was achieved by splitting one of the twelve. So, even though Levi was the thirteenth, Levi was one of the twelve. There has never been a baby born on earth, of any color, in any land, in any situation, not one, but what he or she was born with a birthright, as a member of one of the twelve segments of the body of humanity. You are one of the twelve. Whether you think of yourself as related to a tribe or a disciple makes not one whit of difference, for they both reveal exactly the same thing. And you, male or female, are one of the twelve now, whether you know it or not; whether you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage or not. Who, among the children of men, is willing to arise and claim the birthright? For every man, woman and child has that birthright, every baby that was ever born on the face of the earth, white or black, brown or yellow, it makes no difference. Regardless of the time or the circumstance, regardless of man's classification of parenthood, race or creed, regardless of anything, everything, every child that has ever been born on the face of the earth has been born with a birthright, an heritage, as a member of one of the twelve segments of the body of mankind.
So, He spoke to you, and I but re-echo His words. “And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples.” Do you begin to see that this He has not yet achieved? That when still waits for the future. Those words do not apply to twelve men back there, as some may assume. The twelve apostles, the twelve disciples, the twelve tribes, the twelve elders—it makes no difference what we call them—are all the same thing, and they include you if you will let it be so. But the word is: “And when He had called.” He has been calling, but the twelve segments of humanity, either in total number or in representative form, have not been truly called in the sense of response. He has called, but they have not let themselves be called. They were too busy with something else, too many important things, to be concerned about the birthright. They were too hungry. So, like Esau, they have been selling their birthright for a mess of pottage.
“And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples, He gave them power.” Now, whether it be in total form or in true representation, whether it be with twelve individuals, as such, or four-and-twenty, or a hundred and forty-four thousand—which is twelve times twelve thousand, is it not? the same principle carried out—wherever there comes together a true focalization of the twelve, there they receive power. But those who represent the whole cannot expect to have the power that should manifest through the whole. There were twelve men who were called to be the twelve disciples But we recall that Judas betrayed, Peter denied, and certain ones followed afar off, so those who were called the twelve apostles were not. They undertook to classify Paul as an apostle, for instance. He was an apostle of his degree of understanding of the things of God, but in any true sense he cannot be classified as one of the twelve apostles, although he was a member of the twelve segments of humanity.
Can you find any point in recorded history when there were twelve—apostles, tribes, elders, disciples—twelve who were faithful and true? Where, in history, have there been twelve who were faithful and true? Not of the tribes of Israel, not of the sons of Jacob, not of the twelve disciples, not with respect to twelve apostles. The pattern has been projected over and over again, but not once in all the range of recorded history can you find an example of the true focalization of the twelve segments of humanity in a true and absolute sense.
If, at this point in the pattern of the Master's Ministry, the twelve had actually received what He gave they would have been twelve faithful and true representatives of the whole body of humanity. The Master would have had twelve contact points, or handles, by which to take hold of the body of mankind, by which He could have controlled that body, by which He could have caused the power to manifest. But would they let themselves be integrated as true representatives? You will find, if you study the pattern, that they had their bickerings, their differences, their directions of interest, their little feuds—those twelve men whom the Master called, who were supposed to be something, but, insofar as the twelve were concerned, never became what they were supposed to be. But suppose they had, and they had proved to be worthy of the trust—twelve good men, faithful and true. Suppose they had received what the Master gave, what a different story there would have been written upon the pages of the past nineteen centuries, for, “He gave them power.” But did they receive it? Oh, to some slight extent. But even with respect to the working of the power and to the people who might be blest by it, there was, forthwith, bickering; there was, forthwith, a loss of the power.
After they had received something of the power and had thrown it away, the Master said, “Tarry in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and when the day of the Holy Spirit is fully come, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you, ye shall receive power.” He had already given power to start with. They had started to receive it and then had lost it. And He said, “After certain things are true of you, you will receive power.” Again, the hundred and twenty who waited for the day of Pentecost—one, two, twelve, multiplied by ten, the same pattern all over again. The hundred and twenty began to receive the power which He had already given, and again they went out and used it wrongly, again they lost it, again they had their differences as to how it should be used, and for whose blessing, and in what manner. So, once more it was gone. But the Central Essence of Being had already given it.
“And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples.” He has issued the call. We can respond here. And if there be twelve representatives of the segments of mankind—and they can be representatives without respect to color, or race, or creed—if there be twelve representatives, faithful and true, in this moment, here, or in any moment anywhere, twelve representatives who have truly come unto Him, centered in Him, accepting the basic Law of Integration, they will receive power because they will receive the Holy Spirit. Any twelve, anywhere, who are true representatives of the twelve segments of humanity—let them be either as twelve single individuals or any multiple of twelve that you may have, from twelve men to four-and-twenty, or on up to a hundred and twenty, or a hundred and forty-four thousand, it makes no difference—let twelve come together as true representatives of the twelve segments of humanity, and, being centered under the Law, they will receive the outpouring of the spirit and they will receive the power which the Master gave. The power He gave has never been truly received. Not by the disciples. He had given it before but it was not truly received by the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. They received only a little of it, and they lost it. The twelve children of Jacob received a little of it, but they lost it. All of the patterns of twelve that have ever been worked out with any meaning on the face of the earth began to receive something of it. But show me a pattern where they did not lose it, and throw it away, where they did not violate the reality of their birthright!
Integration under the Law
It has taken twenty thousand years for it to finally come to this point where I might appear on earth and speak to a little handful of people in a little valley in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, at the center of the United States of America, the center of a continent, if you please. And have we yet established twelve true representatives, twelve true patterns of representation for the twelve segments of humanity? Twelve who have represented humanity, yes, but have we found twelve who have represented humanity and God? To represent God to humanity, and humanity to God—that is the duty of the twelve. That was the calling of the twelve sons of Jacob, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve disciples—to represent the twelve segments of humanity to God, and to represent God to the twelve segments of humanity. Let those twelve be found, as twelve single individuals or any multiple of twelve, in true representation, and they shall, in that moment—when they shall come together with one accord in one place—receive the Holy Spirit and power shall be given unto them.
They shall receive power, for the power has already been given. The power was given when man was first created, and God breathed the breath of life into man's nostrils and man became a living soul. In that moment the power was given and, as far as God is concerned, it has never beer taken back. It was given then. It has been re-given or revealed as having been given, over and over again down to this present day. And still human beings are too busy to give heed to their birthright, too deeply enslaved to be concerned about their independence, to be involved with their busy business to be about our Father's business in the Kingdom of Heaven that is at hand
“And when He had called unto Him.” Where will He succeed in having achieved that? He started to do it in many ways, at different times, but it still has not been done. When? Can we make that when be now? “And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease”—diseases of the body and the mind and the heart. Power—over all the things that limit the body of Adam and the body of Eve, the things that still crucify the body of the Son of God.
If the body of Jesus, centralizing the body of the Son of God, had truly died upon the cross, then the body of the Son of God, which includes all mankind, would have been destined to die. But as the Master's body was in the tomb for a little time, and came forth from the coma into life, so do we see that, even though man failed to receive the power that was given, failed to use it aright, failed to let the twelve segments be truly focalized, there was a period of coma for the world that is called the Dark Ages, and for some centuries—which are as moments, or hours, in cosmic time—the process of resurrection has been at work in the body of the Son of God, for that body did not die. Through these centuries the resurrecting process has been going on, and you are called to have the privilege of beginning to see the reality of that resurrection, the reality of that life of the body of the Son of God which mankind is.
The question still remains: Even though our Lord and King has given the power, when shall it be received? That is the question which remains unanswered still; for, searching among human beings in the body of the Son of God, we have not yet found those who would let the question be answered. But God has faith that in the body of the Son of God there will be found those who will let the question be answered, the power be received, the plan fulfilled, that the Son may be restored to the House of the Father, and be a prodigal son no more. The Father awaits the privilege of welcoming the Son. Who shall come, and when? Who shall be the ones through whom the plan shall be fulfilled? Who shall they be? When shall they appear? Blessed shall they be, whoever they are, whenever and wherever they shall appear, to the Glory of God, and to the Blessing of the children of men, that they may reveal the reality of the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, forever. Aum-en.
