The Most Important Undertaking The World Has Ever Known
Israel—God's Chosen One
Uranda August 5, 1952
In the history of the past we have the record of man's failures in relationship to God's plan of restoration. The precedent of failure has been reenacted an untold number of times; there is never anything new in the patterns of the unreal. There is never anything unique in the patterns of failure, and these cycles have been repeated with monotonous repetition down through thousands of years. But the precedents of victory are few, and those which we have are generally more or less incomplete. We have the pattern of victory which our Master established, providing the central essence of fulfilment on earth, and in relationship to that victory a few scattered manifestations of victory in part. The precedent with respect to real fulfilment is something which, from the standpoint of a group of people, even a small number, does not exist in history. In all history there is not one single precedent of victory for a group of people. Even under the Master's leadership it did not appear.
And so we have a rare privilege, a rare opportunity. This one thing which we have undertaken has not, in the period of recorded history, ever been accomplished. This achievement is, and will be, something new under the sun insofar as recorded history is concerned. The precedents of failure are repeated over and over again. There were various cycles of beginning, but never, for a group, the precedent of victory. You have been called out of the world, out of the patterns of the world distortion, to share the most important undertaking the world has ever known, an undertaking which our Master came into the world to make possible, an undertaking which has had a great deal of preparation from the standpoint of the Divine outworking, an undertaking which is unmatched, unequalled, in all history.
This should emphasize the vital importance of correct function in day-by-day living. It should emphasize the vital responsibility and the sacred privilege that is granted to you. Some of the patterns which are of vital importance to us were acted out in rich drama on the stage of the world a long time ago. These principles are of great importance to us, but in that dramatic enactment on the stage of the world there came not the conclusion of victory but of failure. There were steps of victory, they started moving toward victory, but they did not carry through.
There have been many beginnings with respect to correct function in the patterns of life, limited perhaps in some ways. The particular pattern of which I speak is that which was revealed on earth through the children of Israel. The word “Israel” means “chosen one of God” or “God's chosen one.” Whenever we read the word “Israel” we should not limit our thought to a specific group of people in the earth's history; we should not think of some particular race or creed, some people who were merely bound together by language or custom or belief. Israel—God's Chosen One. That word, like so many others, has been sadly abused, and today it is used by man in a manner which disregards the meaning of the word. Israel—God's Chosen One. God's Chosen One who came into the world to reveal the Way, the Truth and the Life. To follow Him is to become one of those who may be properly called the children of Israel.
There are many recorded events with respect to the original pattern of the children of Israel as it began under the direction of Melchizedek through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Three—Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jacob became Israel. Man is a three-phase being. Three basic opportunities have been, and are, offered to man. Three opportunities to return to the Divine Pattern were given to man when he first fell. The three has figured in the pattern down through the whole period of recorded history over and over again, because we are functioning in a three-plane world insofar as the outer manifestation is concerned.
We have recognized the Divine Trinity. The opportunity that was brought into the world by Melchizedek through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was the first. The opportunity brought into the world by our LORD and Master, Jesus Christ, was the second. We are now sharing the third—the third and the last opportunity offered to mankind. The first two opportunities have already been lost. The patterns established by those first two opportunities can no longer be worked out. The cycle was broken and the precedent of failure established in each case. This which you share is man's last opportunity. That should emphasize the importance of our right function, the importance of remembering always our privilege and responsibility. Some may say, “But how do you know that it is the last opportunity?” There is evidence on every hand, and there is the sign of the prophet Jonas. But if I must of necessity point to this evidence and tell you the secret of the prophet Jonas in order to bring conviction to your heart and mind, then my words would be of little value in any case, and the time is not yet. The evidence can be seen for those who have eyes to see. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/02/vibrational-ministry-uranda-february-10.html] The evidence can be heard for those who have ears to hear. And that is enough. Let us take a brief look at the pages of history to see the meanings which are contained in relationship to ourselves.
Melchizedek, King of Salem
opened the cycle long ago, and even today the door is open
for those who would enter the Priesthood and become a
Priest or Priestess after the Order of Melchizedek
In the outworking of things—and there are many interesting points leading up to the time of the children of Israel in Egypt—those who were the children of the Chosen One of that day found themselves in bondage, in slavery, in the darkness of Egypt. By the hand of God, in a great deliverance, they were taken out of Egypt, and they crossed the Red Sea. These things, as they appeared in relationship to that group of people, must work out individually in you today. The pattern of fulfilment for the group is different. The basic principles revealed through that group apply to the individual tonight. The Red Sea, which blocks the way of escape from the bondage and darkness of Egypt, represents the limitations of your own physical body, your own body as such, which by itself is incapable of permitting passage to victory. But this same Red Sea, your body, responds to the Divine Word, the Divine Command, the uplifted hand of Moses and Aaron, and it opens in the current of the spirit, allowing movement out of darkness, out of slavery and bondage, out of limitation, into the pattern of God's design for man. When the Red Sea of your own body is first opened, so that you can begin to pass over on dry land out of the realm of bondage, you find that you are in the wilderness. You cannot move—and this is true of every man, woman and child on the face of the earth—you cannot move out of Egypt, the bondage, the slavery, which has held you in darkness in time past, through the opening of the Red Sea, the opening of your own body to the working of the spirit of God and the control of God's will, directly into the Promised Land. It cannot be done. You must first cross the wilderness.
Some, because they do not see the Promised Land when they look across the Red Sea, imagine that it is better to remain in Egypt, in bondage, in slavery. Some imagine that it takes great courage to move out of the patterns of slavery, through the Red Sea and into the wilderness, that there may be movement toward the Promised Land and the Kingdom of God at hand on earth. To my mind it does not take great courage. One might say that the cowards are afraid even to start, lest they be overcome by Pharaoh, the king, which represents the self-activity of your own human mind. But it is not courage in any particular sense that makes it possible to move out of that realm of bondage. It is, rather, a simple recognition of basic truth, a simple recognition that it is utterly stupid to do otherwise; for to remain in bondage and in slavery in the darkness of Egypt has no future but labor by the sweat of the brow for a little time, decay, misery, degradation and death. In other words any individual who is offered the opportunity of movement out of that Egyptian darkness and slavery as it manifests in this day and who refuses the opportunity and the invitation is indeed stupid, for those who leave that Egyptian darkness have nothing to lose. Why should it take courage to leave behind slavery, degradation, where there is nothing to lose, in order to begin movement toward the Promised Land? Courage? Just a little sense is enough, just a little perception, to see how stupid it is to remain in slavery.
Once the Red Sea of your own body is opened to the working of the spirit of God, which correlates with the great wind, you pass over, out of bondage, into the wilderness, on dry land in an easy passage. But when the king of the self-active mind thinks to pursue with his hosts he is always caught amidst the waves and the Red Sea is not opened to him. He destroys himself by his effort. Your Pharaoh, the Pharaoh of your own self-active mind, will seek to pursue you once you begin to move out of bondage and darkness through the open Red Sea of your own body. If you become fearful because Pharaoh pursues, you will be in trouble; but if you remain steady under the leadership of your own spiritual perception in response to Center, Pharaoh and his hosts will be overwhelmed in the Red Sea and he will trouble you no more. Of course those who follow Pharaoh always become confounded—they are always destroyed in the Red Sea. For the self-active ones, for those who insist upon being a member of Pharaoh's host, there is no open passage through the Red Sea, and those who attempt to use the open passage provided for the children of God's Chosen One always find themselves overwhelmed and they cannot pass through.
This is something that works out in the life of each and every responding one, in one way or another. The principles are absolute for you, and having passed through the open Red Sea of your own body, you come into the wilderness of your own heart and mind. But you are not left alone there, for you have also your Moses and your Aaron, your spiritual perception and consciousness in heart and mind which, when they remain centered, guide you through. But the wilderness is of your own realm of consciousness extending into the subconscious mind, the barrenness of heart, the emptiness of spirit, and if you become fearful, facing the wilderness, you perish there in emptiness, even though you may have found the open way through the Red Sea of your own body. You must stay centered and clear the realm of your own awareness in heart and mind, whether it takes five minutes or ten days or ten years, or forty years for that matter.
You cannot, by any means whatsoever, get out of the wilderness into which you enter until you let yourself cross the Jordan—the Jordan, the dividing line, the River of Life, the water of truth—the dividing line between the wilderness of a man's own barrenness into the Promised Land of God's true fulfilment for you. But when you enter that Promised Land you find not a ready-made realm of perfection according to your own standards and specifications and what you may have thought you told God to do and to prepare for you. You find a realm where there are problems, where you have a share in creativeness, where the kings of this world must be overcome and cast out, where the giants in the land are removed, where the walls of Jericho must fall, where the vineyards must be planted, where the fulfilments must be allowed to appear because you have entered into the Garden of God, the Kingdom of Heaven at hand, the Promised Land, and you tend it and keep it as God first ordained. Then, in season, it manifests, and the things which occupied this place where the Garden ought to be in you and round about you are cast out, removed, and that which is there that responds is made new, until the former things are passed away, that they may nevermore come into mind nor be remembered, and the Divine Pattern is allowed to manifest in its fulness, not just through one or two, or even a few, but through all who follow through.
Having entered the Promised Land, those who were called the children of Israel in that day began to compromise with the distortion patterns which they found round about. They failed to carry through, and that which the Promised Land should have made possible to them never truly appeared. Oh I know it carried through until they had the development and fulfilment and recognition in the then known civilized world which appeared at the time of Solomon, but that was not what God designed. All the way through it was a poor substitute, and as soon as it was put under pressure it failed. The kingdom was divided and there was a capital in Jerusalem and a capital in Samaria. They were scattered and taken into captivity, and the priests of Baal took over and the precedent of failure was built. There is very little that worked out in Canaan after the then children of Israel crossed the Jordan into the promised land which was according to the Divine Design. Most of it was greatly modified, even when it was good, and the rest was a complete distortion which never allowed the beauty and the wonder of God's Plan to find a place in the record of man's history. Blessings which God had in store were thrown away. Almost from the time they first set foot upon that land, they began imposing their own human wills upon the pattern which God ordained, and that which worked out for the children of Israel was not the manifestation of the Divine Design. And so it failed.
After a time the Master came and opened the door once more, established the pattern by which man might know the victory. He set the Pattern himself, but again, those who were supposed to follow Him did not let His will be done on earth as it was in heaven. They did not follow His design, and impulsively the disciples dissipated the power that began manifesting on the Day of Pentecost, and the pattern of outworking since that time, with respect to those who call themselves Christians, has not been the fulfilment of God's will or the revelation of the Divine Design. It has not been the outworking which God designed, any more than it was with the children of Israel in Canaan. And so once more we have an opportunity on earth to let God's will be done as it is in heaven—not under some modifications which the human will determines to be desirable or which it seeks to impose on God's Great Plan.
While there have been those who have recognized my patience and gentleness, there have been those who felt that they had reason to rebel because I insist that any pattern designed by any human being which would, if followed, seek to impose the human will upon God's Plan must be rejected. I have been called hard, a dictator, etc., simply because I point to the fact that the human way is no good. It has been tried over and over again down through the centuries and does not work. It is not working in the world today. It will not work. We have the privilege of establishing the precedent in the world, the Precedent of Victory, but it cannot, will not, be done on the basis of human will and fancy, human desire. If it is done—and I am confident it will be—it will be because there are human beings who have sufficient sense to see that there is nothing to lose by leaving behind the world's pattern of darkness and bondage, slavery, and moving through the Red Sea, across the wilderness, and into the Promised Land.
Having entered the Promised Land, crossed the Jordan, the job is not done. The work is only begun. Why? Because the manifestation in form of that which is the Divine Design must follow. It cannot be humanly developed; it cannot be produced by human effort. Human function is essential to it, but it requires that human beings allow the things of God to take form on earth without human beings imposing their own limited visions and distorted concepts upon that Plan. When the things of God come forth they are not supposed to be distorted, ugly things, partial manifestations of blessing. We have had much of that, yes, but it cannot, must not, continue on forever. The thing that is to appear in form must be in harmony with the Divine Design, the Pattern, the Garden of God planted eastward in Eden, and we must let it appear. How can the Garden of God be restored to man?
The Garden of God is vibrational, spiritual, already available; it is at hand. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. The control pattern and the control power are at hand. The vibrational factors of the Divine Design are at hand. But the form of these things must yet be made. That is where man comes into the picture. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and has been down through the centuries, but man must so function under the Law as to allow the form an opportunity of manifestation, through which the vibrational factors of the Kingdom of Heaven at hand may appear. Our responsibility out here is to give form to that which is invisible, that it may have form on earth. Form cannot be arbitrarily produced without regard to the vibrational factors present in the realm of the substance which is to be used. The body of man is filled with vibrational factors imposed upon it by the self-active mind and the impure human heart, and until these vibrational factors which do not belong in the Divine Design are cast out the form cannot be the means by which the Divine Design appears.
Your body is not only the Red Sea; it is likewise the Promised Land. Your body is the wilderness too, and when you cross the wilderness you come to the River Jordan, and when you cross the River Jordan you find that your body is likewise the Promised Land. First your body is the land of Egypt, filled with darkness, slavery, bondage, degradation, that which leads to death. Then, beginning to awaken to the things of God, your body becomes the Red Sea through which the spirit of God begins to work, that you may pass out of the state of Egypt, into the state of the wilderness. Your body is the Red Sea, your body is the wilderness, and your body is the Promised Land. Egypt, the Red Sea, the wilderness—you see, there are only three steps to the Promised Land. Again the three. But your body does not become the manifestation of the Promised Land on the basis of the Divine Design until you let God's will be done, until the kings, the vibrational factors which have so long held control, are cast out. Just as the kings who were present in that day had to be cast out of the Promised Land, so do the kings which have held sway in you for so long have to be cast out. So must these kings, these vibrational factors which have controlled, distorted, prevented the fulfilment of yourselves as human beings, as Divine men and women, be cast out, before the vibrational factors of the Kingdom of Heaven at hand are received into the form of your body.
So here we have the various steps. There is the pattern of Egypt, which we see out in the world and which some of you perhaps can remember if you look back far enough. And there is the pattern of the Red Sea. How many of you have passed through the Red Sea? Then your body is the pattern of the wilderness. Have any of you ever been in the wilderness? I wonder. If so, were you merely wandering about, or did you perchance come to Mount Sinai? Did you come to the River Jordan, and did you cross the River Jordan into the Promised Land? Or did you listen to the ten spies who said, “It cannot be done; there are giants in the land; we cannot do it”? Then, did you wander in the wilderness and decide to perish there, wishing you had remained with the fleshpots in Egypt? Oh, there are those who say that there are giants in the land—and there are; we do not deny it. But of what concern are the giants to us if we are letting our Father's will be done on earth as it is in heaven? When you enter the Promised Land and your body becomes the Promised Land, do you think that, presto, in a minute, it is going to be everything you thought in advance it ought to be? If you do you will find yourself scurrying back across the Jordan into the wilderness to perish there, or you will perish in battle perchance.
The Promised Land. When you enter it, when your body becomes the Promised Land for yourself, it is not yet in manifestation a revelation of Deity, of the Kingdom of Heaven that is at hand. It is merely the substance that is ready to be used, ready to be cleansed of the vibrational factors which have ruled it for so long, ready to have the Canaanites cast out, ready to let the Divine Pattern take form. But some there are who feel that it would not be right to cast out all of the Canaanites, the vibrational factors that have been present in the body for so long. After all, they have had squatter's rights for so long. Where would they go, and by what sword would they be slain? The Sword of Truth. And if you leave some of them alive and say, “I will just incorporate these; I am sure God will not mind. This vibrational pattern is pretty good, this is a nice king; I will let him live and I will let his people mingle with mine.” What then? The children of Israel tried that and they wrote on the pages of history, in the pages of time, a record of failure. What will be for us? The old vibrational factors, which were but a distortion, must be cast out and the whole must yield to the Divine Pattern, the Divine will, Divine control. And so this story of the outworking of the children of Israel of that day has vital meaning for those who would be the children of the Chosen One of this day.
© emissaries of divine light
Be Source Self
Yujin Pak October 17, 2021
Seoul, South Korea
Over the course of the last several services we spoke about beginning a new cycle. Having come through the roughly one hundred days of a very deep purification cycle in our collective here in Korea, we begin a new cycle. The sudden coming of the winter perhaps can be seen as the beginning of a water cycle after the fire cycle in the fall. In order to begin this new water cycle, starting today four times consecutively I will do the service myself over the next four weeks. A long time ago when I was in my twenties I read a sentence when I was in England that left a very deep impression on me. The sentence was this: “The truth is the death of me.” In a simple, very direct and profound way, it stated the center of truth. The truth is the death or dissolution of me, me with a small “m.” “But, but…. If I die or dissolve, then what? That seems a little scary.”
Two weeks ago, I spoke about that place where time has disappeared. That place is ultimately where I as little “me” has disappeared. It’s the place where the Self beyond “self” abides. In that place where “self” has disappeared, in that place stands the Tree of Life, the One I truly Am. Wouldn’t that tree be perhaps not so bad a tree? And not a bad trade! Instead of the small, frightened self, a Self perhaps I have never known before, a Self beyond self, a Self that is one with the Source, that is the Source. Truth is the dissolution of me as I have known myself. In the beginning of this new water cycle I thought, “What is the invitation of this cycle?” To stand in the place where the self I have known has disappeared. That is the invitation. An invitation to the dissolution of myself as I have known it.
In the moment on the cross when Jesus spoke his last words just before he lost consciousness, it is recorded that the veil of the Temple was rent. The veil was rent in two. What is the veil? The veil in the Temple was something like a drape or a curtain that separated. The renting of the veil was the renting of the separation between man and God. Perhaps we can see this was the most significant event in the history of humanity, when the separating veil that was present for so long was rent open. What had separated humanity from God was finally parted open. Yet though the veil was rent, history went on as though it wasn’t rent, as if nothing had changed. The words are recorded that the veil was rent, but the reality and experience of it didn’t continue because there were not those who moved with it into oneness with God. The purpose for renting the veil was for others to follow into oneness with God. But, while mankind worshipped Jesus from afar, they did not follow Him into the experience of oneness with God.
For those with Buddhist backgrounds it is okay to understand this as the dissolution of the wall of karma that Buddha brought. The purpose of what Jesus opened was for that door to be opened yet further, opened so wide that everyone with the ability to feel would feel that, in fact, a door was opened in heaven, and more could follow in his footsteps. The meaning of the renting of the veil is that a door was opened in heaven through the action of Jesus. In the book of Revelation in the Bible there is a passage that speaks of a door that is opened in heaven. I want to read that passage. This record by John shows a number of things occurred in his consciousness, and then this experience:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
“Come up hither” is the invitation that my teacher, Martin Exeter, extended to me: “Come up hither to where I am.” If we hear such an invitation as if from a trumpet, “come up hither,” and in that voice is contained radiance and love and the power of Being itself, then we may feel a compulsion to go up higher. Perhaps there’s a compulsion to rise up to where the invitation is sounding, but at the same time in our two hands there is a huge amount of baggage that we’re hanging on to. We think of what is in our hands as two very, very heavy bags full of all manners of things. There is no chance of moving up one centimeter because of all the baggage.
One of these bags especially in Korean society contains “social image.” Perhaps it doesn’t apply to everyone; perhaps it does somewhat to many. Perhaps those in their twenties do not care so much about social image, but maybe some do. As people age there is a tendency for social image, face and reputation to take more significant hold. Among many people I’ve met who have begun the process of responding to the Truth, one of the barriers some have is the image of being a successful person—a successful, socially attractive person. But this is food for the human ego! For us to enter into the Truth we must release image, our concept about attractiveness, status, and significance. Truth is the death of my image.
Long ago Martin spoke some words which were a guiding star for me from then on. He said, “Hear me, for that is the beginning. If you have heard me, respect me.” His words were an invitation but in some ways a command. Who can command that of anyone? His words to “respect me” were not to respect him personally, but to respect the place of Being that he was representing. To respect Being. “Hear me, respect me,” and then thirdly, “love me.” But then this was not “love me personally,” but to love the Lord, the Source being conveyed through me. To this point for many people it was not too difficult to do. But if you have taken that step, to love me, if you indeed love me, then the next command was: “Be me.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/09/hear-me-me-me-me-martin-exeter.html] Perhaps it was fine to hear, to respect, to love. But to BE what was being represented, that was another step altogether. Those who stepped over that line to “BE me” as he was, were so much fewer in number. Be me.
But if we take these first three steps and do not go on to the fourth to BE the One, the meaning of that is failure. The whole purpose of the first three steps was only to come to the last: Be me. To be me as in Being, what must I, as the human facility, do? To be my True Self—which is what this invitation is—to be Source Self, I must release all of my human thoughts, plans, and self-image.
There are many Christians in this world, and to be a Christian is to love Jesus, to honor him, and to serve him. Yet those who truly accept and follow His first commandment, I have hardly seen. Jesus offered just two commandments. But the second is not so important because if you really follow the first, the second is automatic. The first commandment was: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” With all of your being. To love the Lord thy God with all of your being. Yet for many Christians they are stopped at the third step. Love me with your all. But the true meaning of that is not entered into for most people. The true meaning of that love is that if you truly love me, “Be me.” When we begin to truly understand finally the meaning of love, it begins to become obvious that it is to BE that which we love. But until then, many are left in a clueless state.
Be me, as in Source—isn’t this heresy? No. Love the Lord thy God with your all and thus be one with the Lord. When we come to understand this, the planning of one’s life becomes very simple. I want to describe the method. Have just one thought: “Be me.” There is no need to have any thoughts other than this. The truth is the dissolution of small “s” self. To love the Truth is to BE Self in Source.
Once I heard this invitation from Martin, ultimately I released all other thought, and have lived with this one thought: “Be me.” Having gone to Oxford, receiving this world famous scholarship with this bright path into the future, it meant absolutely nothing. “Be me.” This alone is significant. I have lived all those decades since with these words resounding, held in my heart and Being: “Be me.” This is the meaning of the first commandment. “Being me” in this deepest sense doesn’t mean to imitate Martin or imitate Jesus in some form of outer appearance or mannerism. Martin was British; he was somewhat less colorful in expression. So it doesn’t mean to follow the outer mannerism through which Being is expressed, but the vibration—the Tone of Being within what is being expressed through that inviting form—BE that Tone.
Letting go of one’s thoughts—this is such huge baggage that so many are holding on to. Among the thoughts is, “I can’t.” But it’s exactly to let go of that thought: “I can’t.” In fact, don’t think about yourself. It means to stop thinking so much about yourself. Stop thinking about oneself so much. Put one’s whole attention on this Being that we begin to recognize and vibrate with and feel. Put one’s whole response and Being to that, and let all my other thoughts about myself and my inadequacies go. All those thoughts emerging from the fearful self, leading one to the other and accumulating layer by layer, all of them are false.
“Hear me, respect me, love me, be me.” That’s it! Let everything else go! When we so love this one thing alone and with all our Being, and release all our thoughts and human plans, we come to discover that this one thing, that we have lost everything else for, is in fact the only true me. This is Me!
Have I felt so precious, this little self that I’ve been? That me is not who I am. There’s no treasure there. It’s like we think these two bags we’re holding in our hands are full of gold bars. But when we open the bags we see there are just rocks there. When we’ve come to the place of Being me in the truest meaning, we naturally turn around and become the one extending the invitation, “Come up hither.” Then we become the voice as of a trumpet, “Come up hither.” When we follow that invitation with our whole Being, the end of that following is to be the inviter.
I said we are beginning a new cycle here in Korea. Heretofore, I have invited steps one, two, and three. I invite the fourth step now: Be me. This is not a difficult thing. It takes a process, it’s true, but it’s not a difficult thing. It is to love just one thing. Is it difficult to love just one thing? It is only difficult if you want to love many other things. So it’s a choice. And thus the invitation is: Choose what you will love. The purpose of the Emissaries is to open this door to heaven and extend this invitation. But ultimately it is not the Emissary purpose, it is the purpose of Truth itself. The Truth extends the invitation: “Hear me, respect me, love me, but don’t stop there. BE Me.” In this way with this one-pointed direction we begin a new cycle of invitation.
All my plans, all my thoughts, even if we were to hold on to them a bit, maybe we can do so much more lightly. When we don’t listen to other voices, but to that single voice that says, “Come up hither,” then the path is fast. When we give so much weight to so many doubts, we go neither here nor there. When we hear that one voice, “Come up hither,” and just focus on that and step forward and up, suddenly we find ourselves, we are there. This was the experience of John. Let’s not go slow, roundabout in circles or with a lot of baggage. Let us move lightly, directly, swiftly. Our worlds are waiting for us who have done so.
transcribed by Luanne Somers
The Unfolding Divine Plan
Uranda September 30, 1951
“The outworking of a plan always requires that someone understand the plan.”
We recognize that the Divine Pattern for man's salvation is established upon certain fundamental principles. The fundamental Plan is never changed; the specific application of that Plan has changed several times. When one particular aspect of its application failed, another was inaugurated. We recognize, looking back, that within the scope of our present historical period one such Plan was inaugurated through Abraham by Melchizedek, and the opportunity was given to the children of Israel, and they failed. We recognize that our Master Himself came into the world to institute a new application of the principles and laws by which the Divine Plan might be brought to fruition, and we recognize that while He was here the world response was inadequate to allow Him to establish any effective cycle in the sense of outer manifestation. And so He established it vibrationally, and set the Program up so that His disciples could, if they would, follow out the laws and principles and establish a continuity of that Plan and Program.
The failure of the disciples to grasp as a whole the meaningfulness of the Master's life and teaching led to the failure with respect to the function in the current of divine power at the day of Pentecost. Instead of allowing that power to increase so that with it should be the beginning of a great new cycle, they followed the lead of self-active Peter, and the power rapidly diminished and soon was virtually blotted out. The power from that day could have increased, bringing a glorious fruition at that time and saving nearly two thousand years of misery and suffering in the world; but the instruments upon whom God was depending at that time failed Him, and the power diminished and the Dark Ages followed—and they were dark ages.
Consequent upon this failure, however, the arrangement was instituted whereby a new Program could be opened up, a new application of the laws and principles by which some fundamental Program could be carried out, and we recognize that the Book of Revelation contains within it the portrayal of that pattern of application. The Book of Revelation was written after it was evident that the opportunity at that time had been missed and lost. It was recognized, from a divine standpoint, that a considerable cycle of time would be necessary before the world itself could be brought to focus where the Plan could be put into operation. The thousand years when the mind of man was chained in the bottomless pit of knowledge had to pass, and about the thirteenth century there was an opening up, which has continued down to this present day.
The cycle of expansion and knowledge has been particularly rapid in our own century. In the past fifty years the outworking has been extremely rapid. The days have been shortened. Speed has been so increased in so many ways that what would have taken months and years not so long ago is now accomplished in seconds or hours or days. All this has a bearing. The development of this particular continent—the United States and Canada, particularly—the pattern of that development, all has a bearing. A new land was prepared in which the new beginning of God's Plan might manifest. Particularized forms of government were arranged so that there would be the highest probability of fulfilment. This in which we are engaged is clearly foretold in the Book of Revelation. While they were not particularly aware of the direct meaningfulness in the outworking of God's Plan, all of those who have been helping to build our countries here on this continent have been having a part in that outworking, and all of this is developed for one purpose. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-cosmic-view-of-price-of-progress.html]
The roads have been built, the railroads, the airlines, the radio networks, all of these things that we have all around us, not for the purposes which human beings have imagined but that they might have a part in the fulfilment of the Program to which we are called. Without knowing it, millions of people every day are laboring to the end that this Program may be successful. The work that has been done so far has been largely without a clear consciousness of the whys and wherefores, and substitute reasons have occupied the attention of untold thousands and millions; but the time has come when there must be those who recognize the responsibilities and realize the reality of the outworking Program, so that a consciousness of divine fulfilment begins to appear in the world to provide a focalization through which a still higher molding and controlling force may be exerted on earth. All of this has been done in preparation to make it possible for us to succeed. The meaningfulness of all this depends upon us. Of course there are more of us than are gathered here in this room, but the point of consciousness, the focalization of consciousness and understanding and vision had to begin to appear.
The outworking of a plan always requires that someone understand the plan. If there is a blueprint, someone must understand the blueprint and direct the building. After the disciples failed to carry through on the Pattern which the Master established on earth, a New Blueprint was drawn up and set aside for the day when someone should appear who could read the Blueprint and could help others to understand it, so that there might be intelligent building, intelligent doing in the fulfilment of the Plan. This in which we are engaged is part and parcel of the whole Divine Program and cannot be disassociated from any specific activities which were inaugurated back through the centuries.
Within the scope of history, this is the third time that a Program has been established—the third time—and those of us who understand the Blueprint know that it is the last time. It is unthinkable that in this third undertaking there should be failure. However, we have the precedent of two undertakings before us where there was failure, but out of both something has been salvaged. Something was salvaged out of the first that made possible an effective manifestation of the beginning of the second—at the time of the Master—and certainly much has been salvaged out of that second beginning: without that, this would be impossible.
But this is the third time and the last time, the last opportunity—the one and only thing that stands between man and oblivion. We need to recognize that. At first it may seem like a bold statement. At first it might seem that somehow we are being very egotistical or self-important, or as if we were somehow failing to appreciate what others have done. We recognize what others have done and rejoice; [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/03/rhythm-of-seasons-of-god-from-price-of.html] but all of this that was accomplished by reason of the children of Israel, what was accomplished by reason of our Master's ministry, and what followed, all that has been accomplished during the last two thousand years—all of this has to come to point, come to head, if there is to be real meaning.
We see various activities in the world, a scattered thing revealed out there in various directions, endeavors of various kinds which have a certain degree of meaning. But where do you see it all brought to point? Here we have that which is, in the absolute sense, universal, that which absolutely enfolds all of the other churches, without a single exception, all of the other religions, all of the races, all of the peoples, without any boundaries. It does not make any difference whether it is so-called Protestant or Roman Catholic or Greek Catholic or Mohammedan or Hindu—whatever it is, up and down the line, this includes them all.
It is the One Absolute, Universal Vibration on the face of the earth today. Until we begin to have that vision and understanding of the tremendous scope, the tremendous importance of that in which we are engaged, we cannot possibly function correctly in relationship to it. Here the LORD has provided an absolutely Universal Vibration, in the sense of it being all-enfolding, all-inclusive. It is not exclusive. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/08/from-gods-things-uranda-7-1953-because.html] It does not even exclude the atheists. It does not exclude anyone; it is all-inclusive.
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