The Great Spirit, the Heavenly Father, seeks those who will worship him in spirit and in truth.
In this present creative cycle, in which all are moving, human nature is darkness. It is said that the darkness comprehends not the light. It was said of Pharaoh that he knew not the Lord. If the darkness, human nature, comprehends not the light, neither does it comprehend its own darkness. Human beings think of themselves as being at least somewhat enlightened. Here is the darkness not comprehending the darkness but imagining that it is light. As long as one is trapped in the human-nature condition it is impossible to comprehend the light. I think this has at times been a somewhat frustrating experience to those who were beginning to be identified with the light, that no matter what they did or said, the darkness of human nature in others just didn’t comprehend. That’s the way it is. If one is identified with human nature, that is darkness. And the darkness comprehends not the light.
Emerging out of human nature, because there begins to be an identification with the light, then immediately the darkness can be recognized as darkness. We ourselves, having accepted at least some responsibility to be the light, very easily observe the darkness of the human-nature state, but those who are still involved in that human-nature state do not see the darkness of it. Identified with that, one is the darkness oneself, and the darkness does not comprehend the light. And you can’t make the darkness comprehend the light. You may speak with the greatest of clarity, logic and reason—it all seems so obvious—but for anyone who is identified with the darkness it just passes them by. It’s a remarkable phenomenon, and I’m sure that most of you have experienced it at one time or another. It is futile to try to make the darkness see the light. You can’t do it.
The real concern is that one should allow a shift to come in identity, one’s own to start with, so that the identity is no longer with human nature. At least then there is a beginning point for it to be centered in what we have referred to as cosmic nature. To the extent that one has actually accepted a new identity in one’s living, not in theory but in fact, then to that extent it’s easy to see how dark the darkness is. It is also quite understandable as to why the darkness finds it impossible to comprehend the light. I think some very earnest Emissaries have been hopeful that they would develop such expertise as orators, or in whatever way, that they would compel the darkness to see the light. Such an attempt is very frustrating; and if one is frustrated, one may know one is not being very intelligent.
Letting a shift come in one’s own identity in the experience of one’s living, because one is relinquishing the right to judge, to accuse, to blame, to criticize, so that there is no self-justification anymore for doing these things, then there begins to be the experience of a shift in identity. The space in oneself that has been cluttered up with all this judgment begins to become available for the experience of the true identity. How important then that this matter of self-justification should be relinquished. We know that occasionally the opportunity to be resentful, or envious, or something else, rises up into the range of one’s possible experience, if one accommodates it. It is at that point that the matter of self-justification comes in, because if we feel that we have the right to justify ourselves for being resentful, or envious, or what have you, then immediately we have assumed the human-nature identity. That is what human nature does; that is why human nature exists. This is the eating of the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Human beings think they have that knowledge so they can tell what is good and what is bad.
It is quite apparent, as we have often recognized, that there are virtually no bad people on earth. We have seen that in relationship to ourselves: we are all good people. You find, in any grouping of people anywhere, there will be the view that “we are all good people.” This was something that was brought out again by Bruce Allyn in one of his stories, because all the Soviet people whom he has met think of themselves as good people. Well where is the conflict then, if all the North Americans think of themselves as good people? But of course the conflict arises because of the things that are done by good people. There was indication that there is the same saying by the Soviets in Russian that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” And it is! And all the troubles in the world have been produced by good people. I suppose there are some who think of themselves as bad. I don’t mean in the sense of being sinners but in doing bad things to other people. But what do you think the proportion is of those who think of themselves in that way, and those who think of themselves as being good people? I would say there are at least ninety-nine good people to every bad one. And yet there is immense trouble in the world. Who produced it? Just that little one percent, do you think? No, of course not. It’s the good people following out their good intentions that make sure of tribulation. That is the state of darkness.
If there is arrogance in assuming that one is in position to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with impunity, then that is a very deluded state. Nobody can judge with impunity. “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” These are accurate statements, to which virtually no one pays any attention. Paying attention to these things we become willing to assume a different identity, not the judging identity, not the self-righteous identity, not the identity which is involved with self-justification—and that covers a wide range, you know. Did you ever jump to your defense? I’m sure we all have. That’s self-justification. “I’m innocent,” human beings say, or imagine. Nobody is innocent in the human state. So, relinquishing this attitude of self-justification there may be the possibility of the experience of a new identity, an identity that does not justify itself, that does not judge, that does not indulge in accusation, blame and criticism. That’s a totally new identity for human beings. We may think of it in these negative terms, so to speak—what is not done anymore—because one is aware that doing those things maintains one in the state of human-nature identity; so there is no sense to it. That is one aspect of it. And when that begins to be seen there comes space, which was previously occupied by all this clutter, for the experience of another identity, what is a seemingly new identity. I say “seemingly” because it is an identity that has really been the fact all along but has been obscured by the insistence upon the human-nature identity, the false identity. As mind and heart insist on that, that is what they are filled with, that is what they know. And, by the way, it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh, that the expression of life in the individual sense is. If it proves to be judgmental then you know what the identity is: human nature.
But coming out of that there is the acceptance of a different identity, because there is space for it.
That identity may be characterized by light—a coming out of the darkness, out of the identity of darkness, into the identity of light. When you are in the darkness, identified with human nature, you can’t comprehend the light. But when you begin to come out of the darkness into the light, the light comprehends the light. The light also comprehends the fact of darkness. To the extent that there is an emergence into the light, into the new identity, then the darkness becomes comprehensible. We understand what the darkness is. We call it human nature, and we know the characteristics of human nature are judgmental. It is characterized by the arrogant assumption that one really knows what is good and what is bad; one is identified with a lie. So obviously one cannot know the truth in that state. But we emerge out by accepting this new identity, which in no way is judgmental, in no way is characterized by darkness. What the darkness is becomes comprehensible. This doesn’t mean that it makes any sense.
There are a lot of people who are trying to make sense out of the human-nature state, and very well-educated people are delving into the matter with most serious intent, trying to make sense out of a senseless state. That is rather a waste of time. Yet, generation after generation, many have been wasting their time on this futile effort, trying to make sense out of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light, amongst other things the absence of sense. There is no sense to it. What a waste of time to try to figure it out. There is nothing to figure out. Most people are very anxious to have someone come and figure out their darkness. Did you ever find yourself in that sort of position, you wanted to find a counsellor of some kind to help you figure out your darkness? An immense amount of time is taken up by human beings trying to figure out their darkness. What a senseless undertaking. It is, in effect, an endeavor to make darkness light. How could you make darkness light? It’s darkness. Light is light. Where light is, there is no darkness. But where darkness is, there is no light; so how could one ever figure out what darkness is? It’s nothing. It’s the absence of light. We have said this from time to time, and we know that it is no use struggling with the darkness, trying to figure it out, trying to get it to be light when it isn’t.
We move over to this new identity, the identity of light; and immediately, to the extent that we do this, there is emerging a focus of light. And if there is a concern to make darkness over, then, I suppose you could say, this is the way to do it. You don’t really make it over, you just cause it to vanish; because when the light goes on, where did the darkness go? It didn’t go anywhere, as we well know. It was nothing in the first place; it was merely the absence of light. So the acceptance of the true identity, which is worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth, allows for a focus of light to begin to emerge. And where the light is, the darkness flees away. The light needs to be present in one’s own experience. It may be present in somebody else’s experience, and that’s nice for them, but it only begins to mean something if it is in one’s own experience, so that the nonsensical state of darkness may vanish. That’s a lot easier, amongst other things, than trying to comprehend the darkness, trying to get it straightened out so that it isn’t dark. We have all smiled at the figure of the gentleman in the institution who spends his nights with a bucket trying to bail the darkness out of his room. And he really thinks he succeeds, because the sun comes up in the morning! Yet this is the activity of human nature: trying to bail out the darkness. And what effort! What sweat of the brow! All futile.
But once there begins to be a focus of light on earth, there is immediate participation in the radiant aspect of the creative process. It is the light that is the means by which darkness is dispelled. It doesn’t try to make sense out of darkness; it simply causes it to vanish away. There goes human nature. This comes because there is first the acknowledgment of the darkness and of failure, and then the willingness to accept the light, which is always present and always available, because the human efforts which have maintained the darkness are relinquished. Judgment and self-justification are relinquished. The space is there; the light comes on. If you have experienced any light, so that you have been able to view the darkness for what it is, you see it as being separate from yourself, because human nature is now beginning to be separate from you. The light comprehends the darkness and is consequently able to participate in that radiant process by which the darkness is dissipated.
This is our business: the dissipation of darkness, the dissipation of human nature. This happens only when there is an identity experienced in the light. Whatever comes to us we no longer judge it; we no longer try to manipulate it into something else which we think would be better; we no longer try to grab onto the things that we think are good, or to push away the things that we think are bad. We are quite content to let the creative process work, to let the light shine without judgment. There begins to be a trust then in the working of the creative process, something entirely different to the usual human endeavors. We have all become so accustomed to this manipulative practice, to try to make things better, to make things the way we think they should be, to get other people to behave the way we think they should behave. All this effort is so much waste of time, when the creative process is perfectly capable of handling the whole situation. It does handle the whole situation in the end anyway. It sweeps away all that doesn’t belong.
But man, male and female, has a part to play. That’s us. We have a part to play in the creative process. That part is characterized by light. It is no mistake that a true person, no longer of the human-nature ilk, should be defined as an Emissary of Divine Light. How many Emissaries of Divine Light do you think there are on earth? We have all had the quaint conceit at times that there were several, of course oneself included. But has it been the fact? Now we begin to understand more clearly what the fact is. It is the fact of having a new identity. This new identity relates to what was spoken of as the new heaven and the new earth. It is a different state, an unjudging state, but a state which is light, and therefore can see and understand, comprehend what is going on. We have such comprehension, to some degree anyway, don’t we? We see what is happening in the world in a very different way than those who are in darkness see what is happening. There are human beings everywhere striving for useful accomplishment, human beings everywhere with the best of intentions, all the intentions in conflict with other intentions. And the darkness remains. Nobody knows what is going on.
But finally there begin to be those who are identified, in some measure, with the light, and who therefore see that is going on, see no necessity anymore for judgment, because the light is an aspect of the working of the creative process. it doesn’t need human strength, human effort, or even human ideas. The creative process works. Identified in the light, one is identified in the creative process. All things are accomplished in exactly the way they should be by the creative process.
Man, of course, male and female, is designed to bring that creative process to a specific point of focus, that it may work directly in the creative field for which man is responsible. That is a vast creative field, by the way. Most people think of their creative field as just being around them—their job, their home, whatever. Sometimes they glance at the TV and see that there is something beyond out there. Sometimes they get emotionally involved with that. But there is a vast creative field for which man is responsible. It includes this planet but it includes more than this planet. This planet, after all, is just a part of quite a seemingly large solar system. And there are things going on in the solar system which rightly are included in the creative field made available to the Great Spirit, the Father, through man—something brought to focus, so that there can be a direct creative influence exerted. How that is exerted, exactly, is beyond the comprehension of human nature, because the darkness comprehends not the light. Only the light comprehends the light. And one must be the light to comprehend the light. All very logical.
Comprehending the light, there is an understanding of what it is that is occurring with respect to the darkness of human nature. We see the process; we see what is happening. We do not necessarily see how it is all going to come out. We don’t need to see that. What would be the use? We can see what is happening now in the range of our own fields of responsibility as we comprehend them now in the light. Perhaps the light is not all that strong yet, so that we do not see as far as we otherwise might, but we see enough to comprehend that the light is moving in the creative process to dissipate the darkness of human nature. Who is it who wants to know how it’s all going to come out? Is there anyone here who really wants to know? I think it’s much better not to know. We know what it is now.
If we attend to the now, then we may provide the point of fusion between the Great Spirit and the earth, between Father God and Mother God. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/05/to-honor-father-and-mother.html] This is what man was designed to do: to accommodate that point of fusion between heaven and earth. And in that accommodation is, indeed, the highest ecstasy. That is the place where man belongs, male and female. They are male and female for a purpose, not so that men could have their way and women could have their way; that would be, and is, conflict. No, a fused state, so that the father and mother might once again be together, so that the father might receive mother by reason of man. It’s really very fortunate that man has such an important place to fill; otherwise I’m sure he would have vanished long ago. But there has always been the creative expectation that this process of re-creation might be fulfilled. Human beings already exist. They don’t need to be created again. All they need to do is to come again into the state of man; and the state of man permits Father to receive Mother. In that receiving the fusion takes place in man. This is why I said it would naturally be the highest ecstasy. Human beings have been trying to get that experience amongst themselves but have always failed.
Now there begins to be sufficient light, a sufficiency of a new identity accepted, that understanding may come, that the truth may begin to be known, that the magic of heaven might be revealed in the earth and the earth might rise up in response to heaven. This outpouring of love and uprising of love comes to focus in man, once that has been known. From this point of view now, it seems almost inconceivable that it could ever had been thrown away, yet it obviously was. But now are there those present on earth who are willing to accept the light into their own expression of living, to experience the new heaven and the new earth, the new identity, the new state, because all the characteristics of the old state have been allowed to dissolve? Why would anyone hang on to them, nurture them even? We are familiar with the words “let go.” They describe a nice idea. But what is the fact when the idea becomes fact? We have the opportunity of proving what that is.
I thank God that there are those who offer themselves to the Great Spirit because they are aware that any spirit they have known in human nature is deathly; it no longer means anything. The Great Spirit is supreme, the Father is supreme, to those who accept the light identity. Some have said that the Father was invisible, and that’s true, but He has a symbol. We were noting that this morning: the sun. The sun is an excellent symbol of this. Are you pretty sure that the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning? Whether you see it or not you know it rises. It rises because the earth turns. The sun stays where it belongs. The earth turns. And here is, certainly, an excellent symbol which portrays the steadfastness of the Father.
The radiance shining forth from the sunlight, heat, the whole vibrational range of radiation—is constant. It varies a little up and down, yes. There are pulsations in the creative process. But the immensity of what is radiated from the sun is pretty incomprehensible if seen simply from the standpoint of the earth. I don’t know what percentage of that radiation comes to the earth, but very very little; and yet it’s quite sufficient. It’s quite sufficient to allow this to be a living planet. And it allows man the opportunity of being recreated, to come again into his true position, indeed, as the Son of the Father, the Son of the Father and of the Mother. The Son has a very specific part to play in the creative processes which extend out of the heaven from the Father into the realm of form—as man thinks of form—in a very particular way into this planetary system. There is a vastness here which has been unknown because man has been absent. We do not immediately need to see or understand what that vastness is, or what the responsibility is for dominion in that regard.
We have an excellent environment immediately around us to prove out the creative process. Let’s do it there. If it’s not done there how could it go any further? And the first environment we have is our own physical body with mind and heart. Let the light shine there, so that the darkness of human nature is dispelled in oneself. Then the light can go beyond. But as long as the human nature remains as a veil it prevents the light from emerging and prevents the participation in the creative process in a direct focused sense. What wonder to let the veil dissolve. Why would anyone do anything to keep it? We have been noting how it can be dissolved. Does anything more need to be said about that, or can we leave the subject because it is dissolved? We can’t leave the subject until it is dissolved! I find it rather tedious; I don’t know about you.
Let’s come again to the acceptance of the light identity, the cosmic identity, the identity in heaven, the identity which comes to us by reason of the Father. Even in the human world, as a rule—people change it around a little these days—the father gives his name to the son, although this happens on occasion in the mixed-up state that now prevails. It is a true situation that the father provides the name for the son, his own name. The son comes in the name of the Father. And the son opens the door for the return of the Mother to the Father, not for the return of the Mother to the son for the son’s benefit but the return of the Mother, earth, to the Father, that Great Spirit. And as I say, that fusion and blending occurs in the core experience of man.
We have introduced a consideration of the Principle of Reciprocity, and this morning I would like to assist you into an expanded vision of the significance of this principle in relationship to daily life in all fields, and particularly in relationship to attunements, serving others in any capacity whatsoever. Before we come particularly to point with that phase of our subject, I would like to consider briefly something of the principles which were given particular consideration at the Hundred. I do not believe you have yet had opportunity to hear the tapes. Probably it will not be too long until you do. But the pattern of expanded differentiation in relationship to being and the expression of being.
If we can even dimly conceive the centering of the cosmos as the Central SUN of Suns, the basic point around which all being revolves, and recognize the reality of the Central Reality of God, we can realize that in the sense of vibratory components, which we might more easily imagine in the sense of weight, that Central Point must equal the vibratory components of the whole cosmos; we can begin to realize that whatever there is in the cosmos—including all the universes of which we are aware, constellations, etc—is an expanded differentiation of that which is contained at the Central Point. And insofar as the vibrational components are concerned, the weight factor must balance in relationship to that Central Point of being—which is beyond the immediate comprehension of man—and that which we know, as well as that which we do not know, with respect to the cosmos as a whole. This means then that, beginning at the Central Point, we have in essence all things that are, and it is impossible for even God to create something in the body of the cosmos, or in this solar system or in some other solar system, that is not first established in the vibrational pattern of being at the Center of Being. And the manifestation of the solar system or a planet in the solar system or that which is created upon the planets, as we have ours here, must be an expanded differentiation of that which is already established in this central factor of being, and it is brought into enlarged or magnified manifestation here.
We think of tiny things as being less than we are, and yet we have recognized in our study of the human body that if it were compressed to a point of absolute solid, you could hardly see it, with the naked eye, as a speck on the head of a pin. The physical body through which you express is mostly space. So it is easy for you to begin to realize that you as a human being are in fact an expanded differentiation of being, and the centralized factor out of which you are made manifest in a direct sense we speak of as the Lord within, or the Father within, or the God Being. But that God Being is, as it were, a tiny speck in the Body of God, which in turn is a differentiated, expanded manifestation on a higher level of that which is contained in the Centering of Being at the Central SUN of Suns.
Now this that is the Centering of Being is exceedingly great and exceedingly vast, exceedingly wonderful, but it is the concentration of all real heaviness and of the seed factors of all beings and all things. The differentiation which originates there must expand outward through the universe into the solar system, through the solar system into the planets, and so come into manifestation in relationship to the created things which appear upon the face of the planets. Once we begin to have even a vague vision of this basic pattern of being, we begin to see that men, mankind, men and women, were originally created to make possible an expanded differentiation in manifestation at this level of God; not that man was supposed to be something apart from God, but that man himself should be the magnifying glass, as it were, by which God might be seen in expanded differentiated manifestation on a basis that would be meaningful to this realm of creation.
That which expands out from us, expresses through us, always originates at a point—the point from which the expression of being radiates—and any given expression of being has a specific potential which establishes in the ultimate sense its periphery of manifestation. Within the scope of this periphery we have that which is the manifest form and expression through form of this particularized point of being. This applies to you as a human being as much as it applies to God at any level wherein God is revealed or made manifest, clear back to the centering of the cosmos.
Now your mind may suggest to you that this sounds deep and difficult, but it is not. Do not prejudice yourself against it. It is simple, for if we have a point which has within it in concentrated form that which cannot be seen readily with a particular form of vision, and we cause that given point to expand outward in all directions within the scope of a circle, and this circle is to represent the periphery of influence in relationship to the point of being at the center, everything that is contained within the circle outside of the point is in minute form contained within the point itself. So in order to make the point meaningful at a level other than that which is natural to the point itself, we must have a differentiated expansion of being and form extending outward, so that the point is, in effect, magnified and given a larger pattern of being, form, and expression or right activity.
This enlarged pattern is the realm of your environment, or the sphere of your influence, and you, at the point, are supposed to be the magnifying glass by which the centering of Deity in you is caused to be seen in the realm of your being, the range of your influence. So you, as a human being, must be the expanded differentiation in the enlarged field by which God is seen, known, revealed and allowed to act on a basis of the laws and principles and will, or intelligent determinations, which originate at the point within you. For you, made in the image and likeness of God, are in fact an expanded differentiation of that which centers your being, in the sense of your own God Being.
Your God Being is an extension of another centering, so that your God Being is in actual fact an expanded differentiation, in the sense of being and expression, of that which is contained at the Center around which your God Being revolves. That Centering of Being, as far as we are concerned in this Whole Holy World, is the One who was made manifest as Jesus Christ, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. So we see Him as the Centering of Being which must be allowed expanded differentiation within the scope of His Realm if He is to have meaning in His Realm. He does have this expanded differentiation, with consequent meaning, in what we call Heaven, or the invisible realm. There the extension on the basis of the expanded differentiation has not been spoiled, it has not been made chaotic, it has not been distorted, and consequently is beautiful, the manifestation of true being at a level which cannot be seen with physical perception, visually speaking.
So this, then, that is of the Point of Being with respect to the whole has natural expanded differentiation through the God Being. But there is a centering of being in you that belongs to God Being, which we speak of as your God Being, or your Father within, or your Lord within, whatever term might be most pleasing. And while this point is an expanded differentiation of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and everything that is in this point which is your own God Being is contained in essence in the seed sense in the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, you as a human being, if you are to be true to God and true to your own purpose in life, must be an expanded differentiation of your own God Being, an extension of your own God Being in magnified form and function, so magnified that it may be seen and known and perceived, understood, right here on earth.
Now that is the Chain Pattern extending from the Center of Being in the cosmos to you and through you, and if we do not violate that Chain Pattern, we are in attunement with God. If we do violate that pattern in this sphere between the human form and the God Being, we are not, to that degree at least, in attunement with God, and that which finds differentiated expanded expression through us, through words, deeds, attitudes, through living, is not of God. But if we have not violated this Chain Principle in our relationship with God, we are in attunement with God, the spirit of God is working through us, and the expanded differentiation of the God Being is revealed in the living as it expresses through the human form or human being which you are. This should make it very easy for you to understand—very simple, very wonderful, as you begin to comprehend it. So the principle of the expanded expression of being through man is actually a revelation of Deity in practical function on earth.
This brings us to the point where we may consider with a higher degree of understanding and vision the Principle of Reciprocity, because that which makes you what you are must come through you into manifestation not for you but as an expanded differentiation of God released on earth to others, released on earth for those whose lives you may touch. The expression of your being cannot be added to you from some external source, it cannot be plastered onto you, it cannot be grafted onto you, it cannot be sewed onto you by any surgical method; it cannot be added to you externally by any means or effort whatsoever. It must be your own differentiated expansion of being which is allowed to take form in manifestation through you. That means that dependence upon external sources for the reality of being always defeats the human being, and no matter what he may plaster on himself he only produces a false front, which will crack, crumble and pass away. It cannot do anything else. So there will be, always, others who provide the means by which that which is expressing through you may have more meaning external to you. But if the means by which that which expresses through you may be given meaning is there and you fail to express, by reason of a lack of attunement in a Chain Pattern in Being, then, although the equipment is at hand, there is no expression through you in relationship to it and you do not have meaning, and you have a sense of futility and of failure, insecurity. Then the human mind tries to reach out somewhere, somehow, and get something from somebody which will give a sense of security. People reach out and try to get it from their family, or members of the family, or friends, or someone.
Now I cannot by any means whatsoever add anything to you externally. I can provide something which makes it possible for the expression of your own differentiated aspect of being to have meaning here and now, so that under the influence which I provide, you begin to have a sense of meaningfulness, and the sense of futility and failure begins to pass away. You begin to abide gradually in a sense of security, because you have begun to find that I am not adding something to you outside, I am not trying to plaster anything on you, or sew on an appendage in some fashion. I am setting up the vibratory field which makes it possible for you to begin to establish an awareness of personal meaning as you let the differentiated aspect of your being find expression from within yourself. I can inspire that expression to some degree as you let me, I can encourage it, I can help you to function according to the laws that will let it be so; but I cannot do it for you, I cannot make you have it, I cannot add it to you. It must be something that finds expression through you as a differentiated expanded expression of your own centering of being.
That centering of being in relationship to yourself as a human being has not broken the chain. The chain of differentiated expansion through all the levels of being from the Central SUN of Suns to the surface of this earth is carried out in absolute precision, harmony, beauty, perfection. There is no break of any kind in this chain between your own God Being and the Central SUN of Suns, but your God Being, containing the seed essence of that which is to find expression through you, is himself or herself a differentiated aspect of being extended out from the Centering of Being in the Body of God. So we might say that insofar as this world is concerned you are supposed to be the skin of the Body of God—the Body of God inside, invisible. You are not aware of all the functions of God any more than you are aware of all the functions of your own body, the working of all the glands and all the systems in your body, all the nerve impulses. You are not aware of them and yet it does not keep you from enjoying life and having a full, rich life. Just so, you are not immediately aware of all the functions in the Body of God, even though the evidences of life and life expression appear through you; for if we all function correctly, the Body of God has a skin or a means of manifestation on earth. And if we break this pattern of attunement we in a sense are peeling off the skin from the Body of God. We are refusing to let the Body of God have a means of manifestation, so that it can be seen and known and understood right here on earth.
Now the Principle of Reciprocity. If you remember that no one can add something to you from the outside in actual fact, but someone can set something out here in words, in idea, in form, that will help to give meaning to something that is expressing through you, so that both of you have a greater sphere of expression by reason of it, then you will realize that what is expressing through others cannot have meaning except as you do your part to help give it meaning, give it a form of manifestation, and what is expressing through you depends upon others in order for it to have meaning. Now if you have reversed and thereby violated the Law, you find that you are trying to get something, draw it in, and put it in what you conceive to be an empty place, a vacuum, a place where there is nothing as far as your awareness goes. And if you are trying desperately to fill this vacuum within yourself by trying to get something from someone else, love, affection—oh love and affection have their place—friendship, things, anything, no matter how good it is, how desirable, how right it is, if you are trying to reach out here and get it and put it inside so that you will not be empty, you are violating the Law, violating the pattern of expanded differentiation, preventing the filling of your own being, and so violating the Principle of Reciprocity that you cannot receive that which others would express toward you because you do not have anything to give toward them.
They cannot give it to you and arbitrarily put it into you. I don't care how much anyone may love you, how ready anyone might be to give up his life for you, I don't care how anyone might work to add it to you, until there is an expression from within yourself you cannot share in the blessings of the Principle of Reciprocity, because you will have absolutely no means of receiving into form and meaning in relationship to yourself, within the scope of your own periphery of being, that which someone else would express to you. This is true of God Himself, and this is why so many people feel that God is far away. On the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, God is giving to you all the time—it is available; it is here—but until you begin to recognize the Law, function on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, you do not allow the manifestation from within yourself which will make it possible for you to contact and thereby receive into meaningfulness to yourself that which God would give.
People fail to give something of themselves to God. Oh they may say, “I have given myself to God, I am saved, I am this, I am that,” and it means nothing, because they are not functioning on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity. They have failed to recognize the necessity of the differentiated aspects of personal being in expanded expression which would allow the meaningfulness of the human personality to be made manifest on the basis of the Divine personality, the Divine characteristics. As soon as the human mind is convinced that it cannot add something to itself from external sources, and that no one else can, the human being will stop wasting his time. But everyone who comes to you for assistance will be trying to get something. That is all right to start with. You will be giving something on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity because you are in attunement in the Chain Pattern of Being, there is something expressing through you on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity—but much of it will not be received; it just goes out seemingly into space.
I know that that which I express outward in this sense and make available to you and to others, a lot of it seems to just go off into space like the shining of the sun, because, as I indicated to you before, not ten percent of what I express is received on the basis of the action of the Principle of Reciprocity, which will allow it to have meaning to me and to others right here on earth in this present time. Now I know that that is not lost. If I depended upon human vision in an outer sense, in the human range of comprehension, I would feel that it was lost and that I was futile, because so little of that which I express on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity is received into form. I cannot make it take form by myself. You cannot make anything take form by yourself—it takes two or more. As the Master put it, “Where two or three of you agree on earth as touching these things”—What things? The heavenly things, the laws of being, the principles about which I am talking—“it shall be done of my Father which is in heaven.” It must originate with Him insofar as this realm is concerned, but it will flow through your own God Being. And if you let it, you will find that the pattern extends out through you.
Now if, when you begin to realize that the pattern is extending out through you, you begin to think, “Well now, it is going to take form. Everything is going to be lovely just almost overnight. I feel this expressing out and it is wonderful,” and you start watching for results, and you see someone walk by utterly oblivious to what is here—that someone could allow an expression from within his own being to touch here in this periphery pattern of life; it could touch, there would be a vibrational fusion, and something would take form and it would have meaning to that person and to you and you would both be rewarded by the beauty, the effectiveness of it—but you see this person walk by oblivious to the fact that it is there, and you would like to give it form for this person, but he or she cannot receive it. There is no means, because that person is failing to function correctly on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity. It cannot be done. God Himself cannot do it. You cannot. And yet if such things do not manifest according to the ideas of people out here, who will they blame? Themselves?
Who do you suppose gets blamed around here? Me! Of course I'm the one that gets blamed. Well, I don't mind too much, except that it makes me sad, because human beings are failing to receive what is offered. I know that it is there, but other human beings have to do their part toward giving it form. I cannot force it into form all by myself, and if I tried to I would fail. Only as I keep this Chain Pattern of Attunement properly established, and allow this vibratory differentiation of my own aspect of being to be constant and consistent, can I be always ready to fill any need anywhere in relationship to those whose lives may touch the periphery or come within the scope of my sphere of being. But if someone does come in there in relationship to me, that something is there. I don't have to make it be, I don't have to stop and say, “Well now, I pray Thee, dear God, to make this be so, that this here person can receive it.” No, that would be an insult to God, because it is already there. It does not have to be produced; it is there now, and has been in every instance since any of you have known me—always there. But it manifests only on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity. It cannot appear by any other means, never has and never will. Nothing ever appears from God Himself except on the basis of this principle. You cannot give a true attunement except on the basis of this principle; nothing round about you can take form, the expression of truth through your lips—if you know something of truth.
Only as there is response, and the vibrational pattern of reciprocity is allowed to take form, can you express what you know. I know a great many things that I have not told you yet. I have not run out, exactly. Perhaps this morning's class will help to convince you of that—I hope. But can I tell you until you provide the pattern on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity by which it can be given form, even in words, to say nothing of anything else? You are allowing, on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, something to take place in the feeling realm, in the invisible vibrational realm, in advance of anything I can give you in the form of words which you can hear, and if you are not sharing that to some degree, my words will mean nothing to you. Now some of you will feel these words are very illuminating, and some of you may feel, “Well I just got lost. It doesn't make sense to me. I don't know.” Well, I do not care how hard you try, how you struggle, what you do, you cannot share, on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, the blessings made available through my words if you have not first, on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, helped to establish the vibratory field in the invisible sense by reason of which the words may finally come into form.
It is not a matter of what I know; it is a matter of what kind of a pattern I have to work with, how much others round about me are providing this contact point on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, both invisibly and visibly. Invisibly first, because if you do not share it without consciously knowing how you share it or what you are doing, if you do not help establish that creative field, and the time comes for the words to take form, you may hear with your ears certain sounds but they do not have any meaning in you. You cannot take hold of it, you cannot jam it down in yourself, you cannot struggle with it and get it. It is either there or it is not there. But to the degree that you help me to establish this vibrational field on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity, when the time of the words comes, they have meaning inside of you, you feel it, you know it, the words are understandable. And to you they are a great blessing. And they are a blessing to others, because then you have allowed something to come out of yourself and I have allowed something to come out of myself, and those two currents met, a fusion took place, a form appeared—creative action if you please. That form when it first appears is not the completed thing, because if I speak a word here, I anticipate that it will eventually become an expression of your life and in turn be made manifest in form over there somewhere, and continue on and on; not something that just flows through my lips and drops into nothingness when the sound has ceased. No.
Why do we record the words? Because there will never again, in all eternity, be the particularized combination of vibratory factors which we have here this morning which permit me to express the words you now hear. You are absolutely the only ones that could permit this, as it is, to appear. If we had more people here it would be different; it would not be the same thing. If we had other people here and you were not here, it would be different; because I can only express here, into the realm of form, on the general and specific basis of the way in which you are working with me, and have been working with me, on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity. I cannot make it come out. I cannot just come up here and without regard to these laws and principles start talking and have any value to you or anyone else.
In the ordinary form of lecturing, people sometimes wonder, “Why does he not use any notes.” No, I never use a note. Why? Because that which I express is born in the moment of its expression. But it has been conceived before, it has been taking form in the womb, and those who hear have in one way or another, whether they know it or not, been helping me to nourish that, to let it grow in the invisible realm, and finally it is given birth. You and I are the parents of it—not just me all by myself. You may say I am the Father of it, but you are the Mother of it. Male or female, it does not make any difference; all of you together or individually, you are the Mother of it, I am the Father of it, and we, in the pattern of attunement with Deity, produced it. It is our baby in the creative expression of life. If you reject the baby which you helped to bring forth, well then you are the one that suffers; it does not have any meaning to you and it is your loss. But you are not the Mother all by yourself. All of you together form the Mother. And this is what came forth in this hour of birth into the realm of form on the basis of the expanded differentiation of being according to the law or Principle of Reciprocity.
Everything that manifests anywhere, at any time, in any level of creation, here or anywhere, highest heaven or lower down, shall we say, it manifests this way. This is the Principle of Life itself; it is the secret of creative action, creative living. And only to the degree that you permit yourself to share on the basis of this Principle of Reciprocity, in the expanded differentiation of your being in relationship to mine or someone else's, can you ever have meaning. Only so can you ever begin to find that what seems to you to be an empty place is not, that you have meaning to yourself and to others. Then you have a basis of security, of confidence, of what is called faith. You have a basis of knowing and of growing, because you realize that it is the differentiated expression of your own being; for if it is your God Being it is your own being. Do not separate the two; they are One and the same if you let it be. It is the differentiation and expanded expression of your own being, in the sense of your relationship to Deity, which permits you to live and be a party to the manifestation in form of something which has meaning. You are one of the parents. “Where two of you shall agree on earth as touching these things, it shall be done.” Not maybe, if, perhaps. It shall be done.
Now gradually people around me have been beginning to realize that—not very vividly yet, but a few are beginning to realize it, beginning to know it, and we are moving a little faster. I have known it for over twenty years, but I could not do anything about it beyond the point where someone would help give it form, under the Principle of Reciprocity, in the expression and manifestation of the expanding differentiation of being. There is no other way. And go where you will, do what you will, try as you may, anywhere, this is the Law. It works and nothing else does. All other things lead to chaos, disintegration, decay and failure. It is the way which the Master talked about—the Way, the Truth and the Life by which we may share the victory.
In this we see the foundation of attunement technique. Without this there is no attunement consciously or unconsciously shared—you do not bring about an attunement with that which is higher. You may establish an attunement with something that is unworthy of you and the person whom you think you are serving. But only under the Principle of Reciprocity can you truly serve in the name of God, in the Shekinah of His Presence, in the revelation of His Being. There is no other way under the sun. There never has been and never will be. It is this or nothing, for every man, woman and child upon the face of the earth, or anyone who shall ever be in the days to come. If we know and understand it and live accordingly, we can help others to find the way and share it; for this is the way, the only way. The Master called it the strait and narrow way. There is no other way, except the broad way that leadeth to destruction. And many there be who go in there. But this is the way of life, the way of meaning, the way of living in the Shekinah of His Presence, the way by which we can know health of body and mind and heart, the way by which we can Glorify God in the living of life and share His power in the patterns of Truth and know the wonder of His Love within the scope of His Dominion or His Kingdom; for this is that which establishes the Kingdom. The Kingdom extends and is made manifest on the basis of this Chain Pattern in the differentiated expansion of the aspects of being. This is the basis of the Kingdom and shows the extent of the Kingdom. And you are in the Kingdom if you are attuned to that, and if you are not, you are not. It is at hand, as the Master said, available to each and every one.
What shall we do about it? Try to get it and take it into ourselves to fill the empty places? If we do we will fail. At first human beings must of necessity start that way. They are self-centered and self-active and they do not know any better, so we begin to gently lead them. We give them something in the Pattern, as it is possible to make it manifest through others; someone else is responding, and we share the cup of water with them. We share some of the food from the banquet table, so that that person can be refreshed and renewed and begin to feel better. And finally, that person, continuing to respond, begins to function on the basis of the Principle of Reciprocity and he himself is producing something of this. Then he is truly sharing, not just as a passing wayfarer who drinks a bit now and assuages the thirst, only to go out into the wilderness and perish of thirst a few hours later. He begins to help produce it and to give it form, so that it remains.
To dress it and to keep it—this is the way by which the Garden that God planted eastward in Eden was given form in the beginning, and can be now. This is the way by which heaven and earth shall be one. This is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and it is open to every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. Let us stop wasting time and energy trying to utilize the ideas and concepts of men, and begin to be true to the principles of being, and share in the birth into the realm of form in relationship to all that which God has ordained for you and others. That is our business here on Sunrise Ranch. Sharing that, to whatever degree your response permits, you begin to find the Way. Trying to get it on some other basis—selfishness, functioning in self-centeredness—you throw away your opportunity. You have a sense of loss. You know something should have appeared but it didn't, and you blame someone else. But it is not because someone else failed; it is because you failed. And you blame me perhaps, because you think I did not give you what you think you needed at the critical moment. I did. Did you receive it?
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 be directed by the Father's Perfect Will, and is no longer influenced by the human will of the fallen consciousness. When the Body-World responds in Love to the Lord 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.”
