We have been considering something of the principles in relationship to Mother God. We have been in the habit, in time past, of speaking of Mother Earth. Realizing how much of the blessings of life come from the earth, how essential, we also realize that nothing could come from the earth except by reason of the sun. So actually, if we are justified in saying Mother Earth, we will be justified in saying Father Sun in relationship to the physical sun of our Solar system, would we not? Mother Earth and Father Sun, because the earth could not bring forth anything except for the sun. And the basic energy pattern which we utilize in life, physically as human beings, and in relationship to food and heat, everything, all derives from the sun. So if we are going to talk about Mother Earth we should just as freely talk about Father Sun—andwe must not let ourselves get confused on that basis in relationship to Mother God. But these two aspects of creation give us an out-manifestation of the basic principles in relationship to invisible Being.
The Father aspect of God is symbolized by the sun and in that connection we note that while there were religions in time past that degenerated to a mere worship of the sun as an orb, that most of the reference to so-called sun worshippers of the past, is misleading. To call them sun worshippers is a misnomer. We recognize that they recognize, that the sun was a symbol of God, and while they acknowledge the symbol of God, they did not conceive the sun as such, to be God. Our modern students of ancient beliefs and peoples have not adequately recognized that distinction. But we need to bring it into the pattern a bit in our own understanding in order to better comprehend the significance of the pulsation of cycles—the pulsation, the rhythm in nature. We think of spring and fall, winter and summer, as aspects of the pulsation that works through the earth. And now that we are in the springtime, we feel the bursting forth of the life forces in the earth because the earth has been warmed and given new energy by the sun.
Beginning to feel and to know harmony in the rhythms of Being is vitally essential. If we are going to understand the science of real being we must recognize the relationships between visible and invisible Being, and we must recognize the part that is played by these rhythmic, pulsing cycles. Such pulsations originate in what we call the invisible realm, because they are invisible merely to our physical perception. But to what degree do we as human beings, allow the pulsations from Deity to extend out into the earth? In the days to come, when you are giving an attunement, you will probably notice some very interesting factors in relationship to rhythm, pulsation, and cycles. What are you doing when you give an attunement? We say we are undertaking to help the individual come into attunement with God, and that is true. What am I doing as I Serve you here? I am working to help you come into attunement with God, the Father aspect of God and the Mother aspect of God.
We remember the commandment, “Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother that thy days might be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” And instead of thinking of a geographical location like Palestine or United States or Colorado, or some other place, the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee is the land of your own body—your physical body. That thy days, thy life, may be long in the physical body. "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother that thy life may be long in the physical body which the Lord thy God giveth thee." And if we are going to honor Father and Mother God, how can we do it better than to begin to receive into manifestation the atmosphere, the meaning of Father and Mother God.
And so, bringing you into attunement with God means what? Bringing you into attunement with the cycles, the natural, Divinely ordained cycles—the pulsations of Being. And what do we mean when we say Divinely ordained? All too often the human mind limits the concept of something Divinely ordained to something arbitrarily established by some Being somewhere, that is called God. But these things are not arbitrarily established. They are established as the only means by which the given result could appear at this level of creation. No other way. It could not be any other way. The Laws of God are not arbitrary Laws. They are the Laws of Being, not to be resisted as if we were compelled like slaves to conform to unreasonable demands, but the very laws of our Being which should be eagerly recognized and accepted in relationship to ourselves because we know that any deviation from correct function under those Laws in the pulsation of Being, is going to bring difficulty of some sort. And so, my work here is to help you to come into attunement with, in harmony with, the pulsations of Being—of real Being. Physically? Yes—mentally and emotionally, spiritually. As the mind begins to be aware, consciously aware of the pulsations of Being in relationship to the level of intelligence, you find it easier to think, easier to see things to which before you were blind. And in the feeling realm, as we become aware of pulsations so that we can harmonize with them, we feel a richness in life, a fullness, a beauty which before was unknown.
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These pulsations—we see them in relationship to the sun and the earth, the seasons which God ordained. These seasons as they now manifest are a distortion of what God ordained for He did not ordain the severe wintertime, He did not ordain the severe heat of the summertime. There were changes of climate in the earth as God established it, yes—some places warmer than others, some places cooler than others. In the higher elevations there were variations from the lower regions, and it was cooler in the northern parts than in the equator, but we did not have the extreme wobble in the axis of the earth. The equator as we speak of it, was nearer a constant centering.
If we have something that changes the physical earth as such, so that it goes through this complete wobble, shall we say, every year, once a year, a complete wobble—and in this wobble, what happens to the atmosphere? The forces that control the wobble are not centered in the earth's envelope of atmosphere. It is centered in the physical earth itself. So the atmosphere has to follow the earth, and as it follows we have various patterns of turbulence in the atmosphere, not altogether established on the basis of heat and cold, although that is the primary force that we are aware of. But the thing that we are considering is that as the earth wobbles, there are constantly changing patterns of depth in the atmosphere in relationship to the earth. The deepest part of the atmosphere is over the equator. The thinnest part of the atmosphere is over the poles. This is the result of centrifugal force, etc., as well as gravitational pulls.
But now if we had just a little wobble instead of such a big one, just enough to keep the changing seasons in a rhythmic pattern, enough to get away from sameness, monotony, the basic pattern of the earth's atmosphere, being thick at the center over the equator and thinning toward the poles, would allow a pattern of heat distribution over the earth that would be quite different from what we have now. That is what we had in the days of the Motherland. The heat distribution through the atmosphere, because the penetration where the atmosphere is thick would be slower, and where the atmosphere is thin it would be more rapid. And the radiation pattern would be different. Instead of having one pole at a time in darkness for so many months, where the cold collects and becomes severe, to be released in currents out over the earth, the poles would be virtually in daylight all the time instead of in darkness six months of the year. That would mean that we would not have the severe development of cold at the poles to disrupt the pattern of the earth's atmosphere. Consequently, the whole situation would be different.
I point this out briefly, only to emphasize the fact that the seasons as we now know them are not the seasons as the Lord ordained them. They are exaggerated. But we still have the illustration of the pulsations, the natural ebb and the flow, and with everything there must be a pattern of pulsation if there is to be a pattern of life. When we contact an individual, a person, we recognize that no matter how healthy that person may be in body and mind and heart, the seasons, the pulsations there, are at least a little off key. There is no such thing as a person living on the face of the earth today, where the pulsation patterns are perfect, no matter how good that person is—no matter how well Centered. Now you say, if that is true, why should we be Centered? Because in the first place the nearer we are to the perfect pulsation pattern, the better health, joy and happiness we will have.
But the Lord needs someone to work through to give the earth itself an attunement. It is not merely a matter of giving an attunement to human beings in a scattered or personal sense. It is a matter of developing a pattern which will permit the physical earth as a planet, to be given an attunement, so that we can establish a control pattern that will begin to modify the difficulties we have in relationship to the elements. People talk about God controlling the elements. Well actually, the elements are not controlled in the sense God would control them if we would let Him. They are functioning on a more-or-less haphazard basis under the conditions which are prevalent, and if we say, “Well now, if we have the proper power or proper prayer or something, we could cause it to rain or stop raining, or the wind to blow or stop blowing, or something of that nature”—as if the localized condition were the thing to be brought under control, we are functioning on a basis of ignorance. It does not work that way. The control pattern in relationship to the elements goes back to the fact of the earth's wobble. We can have a certain degree of modified influence or control in spite of that wobble, in its extreme expression, but if we were going to have dominion over the elements, we would first have to establish dominion over the earth so that in the pattern of attunement it could be brought out of its extreme wobble.
Also, we have 365 days, roughly speaking, in a year. That is not what God ordained. We are just a little bit further away from the sun than we are supposed to be. We are supposed to have a year of 360 days. We are five and a fraction days out, five and a fourth, approximately. Now if we had a day for a degree in the circle, so that being just a little bit closer to the sun, moving at exactly the same speed around the sun, we would complete this cycle or circle in 360 days—we would have a basic pulsation correct, as God ordained it. Now if the earth had been thrown out of pattern another five days shall we say, so that we had a 370 day year instead of what we do have, man would have been destroyed from the face of the earth. In other words, there is a comparatively narrow range there. If we got too much closer to the sun we would break the vibratory rhythms upon which man was created. This basic pulsation of the rhythm of our movement around the physical sun is of first or primary importance in movement toward the absolutely ideal state.
Now, our job is to produce as nearly the ideal state as we can under these vibratory patterns, the cycle of the earth around the sun and so-on, which for the moment, we cannot change. But if we will produce the best possible conditions under the vibratory factors as they exist in the solar system, we will reach a point where we can begin to cooperate with God in restoring the body of the earth itself to its proper rhythms, the proper cycle around the sun—360 days, just a little bit nearer the sun, and the proper degree of wobble involved. Now there are many interesting things which we might consider in that regard.
There is a comet—and all the comets that we become aware of, remember, are a part of our solar system. Those comets which come in the range of our perception are just as much a part of our solar system as the planets are, and that is something that most people do not adequately realize. Some of those comets are supposed to be comets. Others, or one in particular, is not supposed to be a comet. It is supposed to be a planet. That is another one of the factors that has broken the vibratory rhythm in our solar system. We will not take time this morning to examine into how, what was once a planet became a comet, and how that that is now a comet must become a planet in the solar system itself before we can have the absolutely ideal conditions upon the face of the earth. But briefly recognizing that, we can see how the lack of this planet in our solar system, functioning as a comet, is disturbing the vibratory factors of the planet and the solar system as a whole.
The fact that we are off key five and a quarter days, disturbs the vibratory factors in the solar system as a whole. Not just this earth. We are inclined to think of our personal salvation as human beings, or perhaps, with a larger vision, the salvation of humanity upon the earth—but we forget that what may be called the plan of salvation involves a correcting of ill conditions which extend throughout our solar system, because these breaks in the pattern influence not only the earth but every other planet in the solar system, and it breaks up or disturbs the vibratory rhythms and pulsations which come to us from the sun. So until we have the earth back where it belongs, until we have the wobble pattern corrected in the earth itself, until we have this planet back into its orbit so that it is functioning as a planet instead of a comet, we are not going to have the absolutely ideal conditions on earth.
Now you say, "This job is getting bigger all the time. I did not know we were concerned about such a big task. It looks impossible." Well, it is not at all impossible to start with, and if we blind ourselves to these basic factors in the solar system we will be trying to do something here which cannot be done, and that is futile, is it not? Effort which cannot possibly have fulfilment is a waste, so we need to at least briefly recognize these factors so that we get away from trying to do the impossible, recognizing that the pattern here is not ideal. Let us not imagine it just relates to the earth here, that it is confined here. It is not, because this distortion pattern on earth involves the distortion pattern on Venus and Jupiter and Mars and Uranus and Mercury and all the rest of the planets of our solar system. We need to see that, to know it, not because we are going to quit and say it is an impossible task, but because we need to understand the factors with which we are dealing. We know good and well that conditions are not what they ought to be with any of us. We know that the conditions in the earth itself are not what they ought to be, but, if we can make life music we will be helping toward fulfilment. We need to do what we can do with conditions as they are. And as we reach a point of true attunement with God, regardless of the limitations, regardless of the things that are not right, we can begin to reach a point where we can be the instruments through which God can work to give an attunement to the planets and the solar system.
You know, I am so very thankful that this comet out there, that should be a planet is still a comet, because if all the planets of our solar system were in position and one of them at least, was not a comet, our position would be hopeless—do you know that? We on earth, would be doomed to staying in an out-of-tune position forever. There must be a physical means of dealing with physical things. That comet out there is one of the great factors in relationship to the process of restoration to which we are dedicated. In season, and I am not going to attempt to tell you just how soon, but regardless of this, regardless of that, the day is coming when that comet that is now far off in space, is going to return, at a cycle, at a point, in the movement of the stars and the planets, and it will establish a physical pattern if we are functioning correctly, if we have reached a point of working with God, so that a control factor is established.
The return of that comet into our solar system will produce gravitational pulls, rearrangements, some cataclysmic changes, if you please. Oh, there will be some tidal waves and there will be this and there will be that, and many people will be thinking of it as catastrophe, but we will be thinking of it as a step toward salvation. Why? Because we know that if we can, under those conditions, hold the right vibratory polarity so that God has a means of working on earth in relationship to this change, the earth will be pulled back to its 360 day year, the wobble will be rectified so that it will be back the way it should be, and the planet will settle in to its orbit.
Do you think that cannot happen? It did happen. You know, back at the time of the Children of Israel when it was said—at the time of Joshua, you know, they said, "The sun stood still.” At that time, another planet, which was up to that time a comet, was restored. Do you realize that two of our planets, both Venus and Mars, they were planets in our solar system? In the cataclysmic changes that took place in the past twenty thousand years, both of those planets became comets and they have both within the past twenty thousand years, past three or four thousand years in fact, they have both been restored to their positions as planets. There is another one to come and if it were not so, we would be really in trouble.
But, stop and consider for a moment if you need a little bit of connecting substance here, stop and consider how certain of the ancients, as they are called, worshipped the planet Mars, and certain ones worshipped Venus. There were two different periods involved. You look out at the sky and you pick out Mars or Venus and can you by the wildest stretch of imagination, imagine any human being upon the face of the earth now, being so impressed with either of those planets that he would make them a god and worship them? You cannot, can you? To imagine them as gods? Certainly not. Well they were not in that position which they now occupy, in those days, and as they came in and there was wild changes in the solar system. They were comets which came close to the earth, disturbed the earth's pattern of pulsation, and while they were there, fiery monsters in the sky, the superstitious ones worshipped them as gods. Venus was one and Mars another. And they were not in the position where they are now, in the time in history when those planets were being worshipped as gods. And if we stop to think about it, we see how absolutely logical the idea is. We could go on and see that it is actually so. But just to help you connect up a little bit.
So we realize that two of the planets of our solar system have been restored already from positions as comets to positions back as planets as God originally intended them to be. There is another one out there, a planet that is still a comet, that will be coming in one bright day and it is not too far away, and when it comes in close we are going to have some cataclysmic changes on earth, and there will be a lot of fear, and a lot of superstition, a lot of nonsense, but if we have a control pattern which understands what is taking place, we can work with God at that critical time—and the physical pulls of the planet, which is being slowed down and drawn into its course as a planet, will help re-establish the pattern with respect to the earth and we will have a new attunement, we will be back in tune with the cosmos in the solar system. But that is a ways away and we had better be prepared for that day when it comes. It is one of the great things of the future, and we are not ready. If that comet came today we would be helpless to be of very much use in establishing the right control pattern in the solar system. But it is to be done, now.
If we see it in relationship to the solar system, perhaps it will be easier to understand it in relationship to ourselves—and as a matter of fact, you cannot understand such things as cancer, for instance, cells going wild in the body, unless you understand this. You can search from now until doomsday for answers and you will not get them clearly. In certain cells there is a tendency—instead of the nucleus dividing into two parts, it will divide into three, triplets instead of twins. Just one of the aspects of the problem of cellular division as it relates to such problems as cancer. Well we are not going to have, in an overall sense, a perfect control pattern in connection with the one cell organisms of the body, or the amoeba, until we have a perfect pattern established in our solar system. It is not there now.
We acknowledge that, but we do not quit because of it. We do what we can so that the restoration pattern can be with respect to the whole and not just humanly, personally, seeking for some Heaven somewhere where presumably we are going to be at peace and everything is going to be lovely because God made it that way for us. We are here to share with God in creative work and if it is going to be lovely, God will do his part. But if it is going to be lovely for us, we are going to do our part, or it will not be lovely. And that is what makes the difference between Heaven and hell. If we do our part, step-by-step it will become lovelier, more beautiful and more wonderful and the living of life more thrilling.
But these rhythms are there, the pulsations are there, and for the time being they are a bit off key. Not so far that humanity has perished, but far enough so that we cannot have on earth today the same condition that prevailed before the fall of man, and I think as you go along in your studies you will understand more effectively how it was that this break came in the pattern at the time of the fall of man—what happened and why. But, we are considering the patterns, the pulsations, the seasons, the cycles as they relate to us in this present day—our responsibility in this field.
If we understand this background of the pattern and realize that the music of the spheres, as it relates to our solar system, is not perfect music, it is not perfectly in tune, perfectly on key, then we will understand why there are certain irritating factors which everyone tends to feel at various times in various ways, which are here, and we cannot change them yet. They are there. Of course, they are there. We all feel them. Some react more than others, but we all feel them. But we work around them, we do in spite of them, and we can go a long, long way toward the perfect pattern of expression as human beings without coming to the limit of what can be done in the present vibratory pattern of the solar system. If anyone starts saying, "Well now, I cannot be expected to do the right thing because the earth itself is out of key in the solar system." If you start offering it as an excuse, I will not accept it, because we can do a great deal that has never yet been done. We have a wide-open field before us, much to be accomplished, before we reach the limits of what can be done in the present situation. And if we function correctly, if we will reach the limits of what can be done under this situation, we will be ready for that comet's return.
That comet came fairly close into the earth's orbit and made some definite changes close enough to shift things around a bit, at the time of the Master's birth. The comet did not come because the Master was born. The Master was born because the comet was coming. In other words, from the standpoint of God, the time of His coming was established in relationship to the movement of the comets and the planets so that the vibratory factors would be right, so that the age cycles would be right as we have touched upon them before. And they were caused to coordinate. The things that God does are caused to coordinate if we let His Will be done. And that comet has gone back out beyond the range of human view, but it came close enough to change things around a bit at that time. Now, we are here in another cycle, given an opportunity to do something so that what has been done already may not be in vain, so that what is yet to be done may be accomplished—and it is a great task, a marvelous task, a noble task, but it is not an impossible task as it might seem to the human vision.
Now to get back to my starting point, when you are giving an attunement. What are you doing? You are helping the individual come into attunement with the true pulsations that are working through his own body or mind or heart. That person being disturbed, depressed or troubled, physically, mentally or emotionally, is not in tune with the pulsations of being which are flowing through—they are not being connected or contacted, they are not connected up invisible and visible. So, you are helping to establish a field, a creative field if you please, which begins to help the physical body and its parts, nerves and glands and tissues, organs, to come into the pattern of rhythm with the Source of life, simply a pattern of harmonizing with the rhythms in the body—and the body by itself cannot attain its own rhythms. Over a period of time a person may do something in that direction by right diet and by outdoor living and by proper rest, and so-on. All of these things are all right and helpful, but they have a definite ceiling.
Only through attunement or attunement with the vibratory factors which provide the rhythm of Being in the body and mind and heart, can we begin to let the things of the Spirit manifest effectively. The individual who is out of attunement in his mind and heart, considers something that is, what shall we say, in the current of inspiration, the current of true movement of the Spirit, and he says, "No matter how hard I try I cannot do that. I do not believe I ever can.” Well, of course, you cannot do it that way. The principle is to come into attunement with those natural rhythms and pulsations of Being, real Being, by which the inner may manifest through the outer. And that is the task before you in your future Ministry.
Let me illustrate just a little bit. I have on occasion, given attunements to people of what shall we say, extremely distorted patterns. Now what happens as you give an attunement. You may find that the vibrational pattern is all jagged, but under the attunement pattern you find that from the head down through the spinal column you begin to feel, as it clears, a pulsation, a moving up and a moving down, and in conjunction with that, if you are alert to the vibratory patterns, you will also find one working across. But the true basic pattern of yourself as an individual shows up as a cross in the vibratory patterns of your own being. If we have the true pulsations here, up and down and across, we have the basic foundation for clearing the breakages in the other patterns that are inherent in the body. But if you cannot re-establish that basic pattern of the cross in the body, whatever radiation you give a particular part, it may help for the moment, but it is positive in its nature, it is not corrective. You can ease some pain, you can do this, you can do that, but bless your hearts, it is absolutely impossible to establish an attunement or radiation current that is of any real or lasting corrective value in the different parts of the body unless you have the cross pattern in your body.
And you will learn to feel whether you have yet detected it or not, learn to feel those pulsations, and you know as soon as the pattern begins to get away from its jagged uncertain movement so that it is not in rhythm, a faulty heartbeat so-to-speak, in the vibrational sense—and a person's heart can be perfectly good from what you might classify as a medical standpoint, and still have that break. I do not mean the physical heart. And the pattern begins to have an even pulsing flow, it begins to settle down and you may feel some whirlpool effect in various parts of the body. You feel these jagged, uncertain, un-rhythmic pulsations. How desperately human beings want to live. How many there are in the world that would gladly exchange their physical condition of today for the physical condition in the life sense of anyone here in the room. You have equipment, everyone of you has equipment necessary to doing the job. For you, it is not too late, for any of you. But if you go along far enough, that point is reached. Now, it was too late, that whirlpool was there, there was no intelligence to understand, nothing I could do. So I did not try to do something that I could not do. I let it alone. Let it work out. The final cause of death in that case was classified as cancer. Cancer, yes, it was. Why? Cells had gone wild, there was no control pattern in her body, no real control pattern.
But here we have in the normal pattern, the rhythmic ebb and flow up and down the spine and in the cross bar of your Being. And that is the true significance of the cross, the rhythmic patterns of the pulsations of life through the body. We could consider other types of problems but it is not my purpose at the moment, to start you in trying to feel out the patterns—that will come later—but rather to help establish in your consciousness an understanding of the basic factors which are involved all the way from the solar system to you, and on down to the cells—the natural rhythms, the pulsations, the heartbeats in creation, and as we learn to harmonize with the heartbeat of the Creator so-to-speak, we begin to be creative.
Now just a little point here, but such a big one. If we begin to realize Father God and Mother God, it is not difficult to recognize that between the two, or the two aspects of Deity, there is a constant, rhythmic pulse of Love and Truth and Life. It is there, constantly, always, everywhere. And as you begin to harmonize with that pulsing rhythm, begin to feel it, begin to know it, you begin to find what it is to be in the arms of Father God and the arms of Mother God—for Love and Truth are those arms, and the result that appears from that embrace is Life. You begin to feel and know the rhythm of Being, not just of springtime in the Rockies, but of Father God and Mother God. Life—the Resurrection and the Life.
When we think of attunement it is usually in terms of what may be needful in the physical sense to the human body. We recognize that properly this consideration extends to the mind and to the heart, but the physical body is prominent in consciousness usually: aches and pains, troubles of various sorts. The manifest aspect of the human being is, as we know, triune in nature: body, mind, and capacity for spiritual expression. This is the earth aspect of dimensional being. There is also a triune heaven aspect, presently obscured by what is vibrationally between the two. We have spoken of this as the veil and seen it as relating to the heart, the feeling or emotional realm. The word attunement, as we have used it, is concerned with establishing attunement between earth and heaven in human experience. When there is such attunement there occurs what is called radiation. Radiation is present in the heaven aspect of being, but in human experience this is largely unknown because of the veil which divides the earth from heaven in human consciousness. What divides also connects. However, the fact of connection only becomes apparent when the veil is adequately dissolved, when the impurities of heart are cleared. Then the fact that heaven and earth are one becomes apparent. It is the fact now but, insofar as human experience is concerned, not recognized and not experienced. Attunement is designed to provide what is needful to initiate the process by which a consciousness of the oneness of heaven and earth may be known once more.
Because presently this is not known, human experience includes a considerable amount of hell: hell simply being the absence of the heavenly experience—not something particularly of itself, although it emphasizes itself as being something of itself in human experience. However, if what is absent becomes present, then that type of experience vanishes, and one could not say that it moved somewhere else; it just simply is not there anymore. If you have an empty glass and fill the glass with water, water is present in the glass and the emptiness is gone. We cannot know heaven as long as it is absent from our consciousness. We only know it when it is present. It can only be present when what separates heaven and earth in our experience no longer separates but connects. The process of attunement is designed to reestablish this connection. We may see the reestablishing of this connection primarily with respect to the physical body, but it is not a matter that applies only to the physical body. There is a connection insofar as the mind is concerned and insofar as spiritual experience is concerned. All this is made possible by the clearing of the heart, the dissolving of the veil. So here we have some sort of a definition, apparent to us in this moment, with respect to what has been called attunement.
Obviously, if radiation is the natural state in the heaven and the veil is cleared, the radiation extends into the earth. And if we see heaven and earth as relating to the individual, then the radiation extends through his physical body and his mind in spiritual expression beyond himself into the world of his environment. If there is such radiation it includes, amongst other things, radiant thinking and radiant feeling as opposed to reflective thinking and reflective feeling. On the basis of this radiation, which is only a word until it is experienced, there is creative action.
Radiation becomes known as being present by reason of reflection. The radiation of light and heat from the sun is apparent to us because it is reflected—reflected by the earth, so that in what we call the daytime there is light, even though there may be a cloud cover and the sun is invisible in a direct sense. But the reflection is still present. When that radiation is shut off by cloud cover then the direct warmth of the sun is not experienced. When warmth is not experienced we say it is cold. Cold is the absence of heat, although cold, when it is seemingly present, seems to be very much a thing. If you have ever slept in a room in below-zero weather where there was no insulation on the ceiling, it seems as though cold radiates. It is comparable to a frigid weight, almost tangible. And yet if heat is applied the cold vanishes. The cold was not anything in fact. We recognize the radiation of heat, sometimes just warmth, sometimes fiery, from the sun; but we recognize it only because it is reflected from something. It fills the space where it was before absent.
Now this radiation which is present the other side of the veil, insofar as human beings are concerned, has been largely absent from human experience by reason of the veil. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/03/thou-hast-made-hedge-about-him-from.html] Something has filtered through; we're still alive. We are concerned to allow the heart to be purified, that the connection between heaven and earth may be clear and the consequent oneness of heaven and earth—so that heaven is present in the earth—may be known. There are various ways by which this may be achieved, but all these ways are based upon this one thing: radiation out of heaven into the earth. In talking about this it remains merely a theory until it is actually experienced. All of you have some experience; all human beings everywhere have some experience as long as life remains; but the clouds are sometimes pretty thick and dark. It is said that clouds have a silver lining, and this is true because the radiation is the other side, but underneath the thunderstorm is dark.
In order to establish the conditions by which the working of this radiation may begin to have greater effect in human experience certain steps are required, steps which relate to human attitudes. Most people think of steps in this sense as relating to techniques of some kind, maybe physical techniques, mental techniques or spiritual techniques. But I am not talking about techniques, merely attitudes.
There is a Psalm in the Old Testament of the Bible which describes something of the required attitudes in a rather graphic and complete way. It actually describes the sequence of attitudes, changed attitudes, which allow what is needful to occur. It is a very familiar Psalm—the 24th—and we might take time to look at it in order to understand what is being said and in order to understand how this applies very specifically to ourselves. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-earth-is-lords.html]
“The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” This is not the usual view of human beings. The individual is inclined to say, with respect to what he thinks of as him- or herself, “The earth is mine, all of it, and the world is my oyster.” At least this used to be the idea; it's not quite so acceptable these days, because so many people interfere with our opening of the oyster. The human attitude assumes, individually speaking: “This is my body. This is my life.” As long as that attitude is held the veil remains thick and quite opaque. The individual spends the days of his years struggling and dying in a state of futility. There may be the experience of hope or expectation, but as the years go by it usually fades and it is considered inevitable that one must end up dead. To soften the blow, which is inexorably in the offing, various theories and beliefs have been developed, but none of them have been capable of dissolving the veil. They just provide comfort for those who exist under the veil; the human condition changes not at all.
So here is the first requirement, which has been recognized by many people over the ages even though the recognition has not had too much effect: “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Now this does not require the development of some concept about what the word Lord refers to; it merely requires that there be a recognition that there is a transcendent reality. This goes with the recognition that if there is a transcendent reality there must be a veil obscuring it, because we don't really know what it is. But there is the requirement of turning toward what may be seen as the source of radiation, a transcendent but unknown reality. Because of the existence of this reality everything else of which we are aware is present. All the things of which we are aware on the basis of our reflective vision—the world around us and everything that we presume to be in it—exist because of this transcendent reality. This is a required recognition. If we do not accept such a premise there is no basis for the unfoldment of any further logical experience. There cannot be a logical experience unless there is a true premise. Human beings use what they call logic but virtually all their premises are false, so the results of their logic are nonsense. It all seems very real, very true; it all makes human beings imagine themselves to be very intelligent and very wise; but it's all nonsense, because the true premise was rejected, or at best not really seen, certainly not understood.
But these verses at the beginning of the Psalm indicate an initial attitude essential to the creative unfoldment by which the oneness of heaven and earth becomes the experience. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Everything we are in the external sense, everything that is present insofar as our consciousness is concerned, is not properly capable of being possessed by what we think ourselves to be. If we try to possess it we place ourselves in the position of the thief; and the world certainly is a den of thieves, not what it was created to be insofar as human experience is concerned. What it was created to be was described at one point as a House of Prayer, but it has become a den of thieves, regardless of the claims to honesty that many people make. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein”—everything collectively, and everything that we are individually. This is the fact. If we deny it we experience the results of that denial, and the results ultimately are the experience of nothing, obviously so—the absence of the truth, the total absence of the truth. Presently we know a partial absence of the truth, but finally a total absence of the truth, and when we come to that point we know nothing. If we know nothing we are nothing.
So let us acknowledge in our attitude that the earth is the Lord's. This physical form does not belong to the human ego, none of it, none of the systems of it. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world of our consciousness, and all that is present in it. It is not for the human ego to manipulate or try to produce what he thinks he wants; it doesn't belong to him. It is customary, and has been for millennia, for human beings to dispute the truth. They say, in effect, “This does belong to me. My consciousness is my own; my life is my own. Get out of my way!” But it doesn't work. There is no victory; there is no success. The inevitable result occurs. We spend the days of our years as dying souls.
“The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” It is interesting that the earth of the human body is mostly liquid It is the fact of this liquid that makes life possible. If you become too dehydrated you've had it—at least your body has. It is possible to dehydrate a human body and mummify it. It may last quite a while in that state, but it's not very valuable, is it?—except in a museum where people can go and gawk at it. Are not living bodies more valuable? Then they need to be filled with the required moisture, the vital fluids of the body; not only the blood; there are many kinds of fluid in the body. In old age people tend to dry up, don't they?—no more fluid to provide the medium for the experience and expression of life.
But we recognize that water is the symbol of truth, and what appears in the manifest sense of the earth and the world is there because of the design and the control of truth. It can only exist as long as it participates in that design and control. When the control has been finally rejected and the design has been lost, there is nothing; there is nothing in human experience. We recognize that what is called physical substance remains, but it remains because it is transferred to another level of manifestation, where the design is still present. The design, for instance, is still present with respect to this planet as such, and the substance of this planet. Trouble only occurs when the substance is lifted into human form. Then it begins to be taken out of the design; and nothing can exist out of the design, so when it is completely out of the design the form ceases to exist, even though the substance remains. The substance continues at another level of the design; it is impossible to get physical substance entirely out of the design.
So the earth and the world are founded and established upon the truth. The earth continues, and there is always a world of sorts; but in the individual sense the earth finally vanishes and the world of individual consciousness is gone, because there was a denial that the earth and the world were the Lord's. So here is the first attitude necessary: In the individual sense all that we are is consequent upon and belongs to whatever is indicated by this word Lord—a transcendent reality. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-true-holograph.html]
Many human beings have attempted to assume this attitude, but generally speaking they immediately build up concepts about God, about the truth, and they establish once again a world based in their concepts and beliefs. So, while with the lips claims are made that there is the recognition, “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein,” it has had no effect; they remain in the hands of man. But he may think that by becoming spiritual, or at least religious, he can get around the fact that the earth is the Lord's, while continuing in his own determination to keep the world for himself, all without treading on God's toes. So these words at the beginning of this Psalm do not imply that we should begin to develop religious concepts or religious beliefs; it is merely a recognition of a fact, which we do not understand presently but which we may understand if we follow through in the creative cycle by which we are restored into the state where heaven and earth are one in our own experience. But we are being moved toward that, not by our own efforts, not by our own brilliant intelligence, which, after all, is engaged, or has been engaged, almost entirely with nonsense. Okay, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?”
Here direction is being given in the way that must unfold in our own experience. There is to be a change known which may be described in terms of ascension, moving up, moving up into a state of new awareness. This isn't a matter of scrambling up, trying to get up, exerting some effort which will pull us up. The simple question is asked, “Who shall have this experience?”
There is indication of the nature of the experience in the words here written: “the hill of the Lord.” In the physical sense, when you go to the hilltop you have a new view, don't you? You gain a new perspective. You begin to see things in relationship to each other, which was impossible when you were down in the valley. When you are down in the valley things are pressing on you all around. You can't see how they fit together. So here is indication of the need to rise up to a point of consciousness where there may be a new perspective, a new awareness, a new outlook. If there is to be something new in this regard we have to relinquish the old. If we tried to clamber up the hill to stand at the top but decided that we liked the valley view better, so we were going to shut our eyes and just remember what was in the valley, we wouldn't be much benefited by having got to the top of the hill. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/spirit-carries-us-up.html]
We can't take the old view along with us; so this implies a willingness to relinquish something, relinquish our traditions and our beliefs, our concepts, whatever they may be [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-martincecil-april-15-1979-igreet.html] and there are a vast variety in the world. It's all these things that produce conflict, isn't it? People say to each other, in effect, “You come over and share my view, my outlook, my beliefs, and we'll be in agreement; but if you stay over there we'll be in a battle.” And that's what happens. So everybody is intent on upholding their beliefs, their traditions—magnificent!—their cultures. So good, aren't they? Wonderful! But deadly, absolutely fatal, because the earth is the Lord's; not for man's concepts of his own culture but for the true expression of life, whatever that may be, something that human beings don't know, because usually they don't care. They want their own way; they want to do their own thing; they want to have their own pleasure; they want to pursue happiness. There is no indication that anybody would ever catch up with it, but it's fun pursuing it.
“Or who shall stand in his holy place?” First of all, who shall have a true perspective with respect to the world of his environment from the hilltop? And then, who shall be aware of the holiness of his true being? Who shall be aware of this transcendent reality? Who shall see God? to put it another way. “Blessed are the pure in heart.”
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands and a pure heart”
“He that hath clean hands …” He that is washed, sanctified, in the water of truth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/01/sanctification-martin-cecil-january-10.html] He who has sufficient of the right sort of fluids flowing in his body. This does not suggest edema! He that is baptized in the water of truth. He who begins to experience the truth in his own living, not seeing it merely in theory. “… and a pure heart …” by which God is known, not in theory, not in belief, but in the radiation of what He is, His true nature, His true character, taking form in human experience. That's the only way God is known. As long as we have a substitute character God can never be known. There may be belief in some kind of a figurehead but God is not known. “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” The soul relates to the earth, the dust of the ground. Where is our sense of identity? If it is what we are in the physical, external sense we are in fact taking the name of the Lord in vain. This is vanity. We speak of ourselves as “I” but who is that “I”?
“I am sick and miserable and unhappy. I am rich and increased with goods. I am this; I am that”—all relating to what is here in the external, material sense. That is taking the name of the Lord in vain. If we function on the basis of such an identity we die; we have the experience of a dying soul, because we are lifting it up to vanity. “Oh look at me. Look at my handsome image. Look at what a wonderful fellow (or girl) I am!” Self-centeredness! Everywhere the soul is lifted up unto vanity! As long as this is being done there is no way by which the truth may be experienced; all we know all our days is something false.
“Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” The expression of one who insists upon human identity is, of all things, deceitful. It is said that the devil was a liar from the beginning. Now who do you think the devil is? All men in this human condition are liars. They can't help it; they can't express the truth; the veil blocks it. The impure heart maintains a lack of true attunement. The attunement of heaven and earth is a dream, if it is anything, insofar as the consciousness of human beings is concerned. Lifting up the soul to vanity and swearing deceitfully is the acceptable state in the human world today, as it was yesterday. Those who are in that state and insist upon staying in that state cannot ascend into the hill of the Lord, nor stand in His holy place. They cannot see anything clearly, with perspective vision; they cannot be aware of the sacredness of life—not the sacredness of human life as human beings know it, but the sacredness of life as it really is, the life which is the evidence of the Presence of the Lord, the evidence of the Presence of the transcendent reality. This is what it is, and is revealed for what it is by those who have clean hands and a pure heart, who no longer lift up their souls unto vanity nor swear deceitfully. And let us not imagine that it is only the riffraff that do this—the best people do it!
“He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” The Blessing of the Lord shall be extended because such an one lives on earth [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/05/cosmic-song-of-universe-steps-to.html] and righteousness shall be the experience, right living, the right experience, the truth known. Then it becomes vividly apparent, not any longer in theory, that “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
In the quietness and serenity of this moment we are aware, O Lord, that the truth is true, and we are aware of our individual responsibility to make known that truth in daily living, that every thought, every word, every action may be the evidence of the radiation of Thy spirit, which is known as our own. Thy spirit remains unknown to us until it is our own. Then the radiation of life, characterized by the truth of love, shines forth into the earth in creative expression, that all things may be made new and revealed as new by the reflection of that light out of the world of our environment. We are deeply thankful, O Lord, in this moment for the joy of letting this true attunement be reestablished, that the oneness of heaven and earth may once again permeate the consciousness of mankind, all to Thy glory, in the Christ. Aum-en.
This is an evening when the sons and daughters of God have come to present themselves before the Lord. Perchance Lucifer comes also among them. What has been present in human minds and hearts has maintained a state of darkness. Lucifer, the light-bearer, was absent. The absence of Lucifer is called satan. If there is to be light there must be the union of the positive aspect of spirit and the negative aspect of spirit. I think there has been an idea that it is simply the positive that radiates. There could be no radiation, no light, without both aspects of the spirit being present.
There is a well-known formula of which every Emissary is aware—radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. How do you think that the original radiation occurred? We presume that this radiation comes from God. Human beings are supposed to respond to it. But God would not contradict His own laws or the nature of His own being. The positive and negative therefore must be in God if this original radiation proceeded from God. We have taken note of this truth by reason of the fact that man was created male and female in the image of God. So male and female, positive and negative, are present in God. It is because of this that there may be radiation. Radiation has its effect, calling forth response. It called forth response from us and we were attracted toward the source of the radiation, wherever that might prove to be.
Something giving evidence of the source finally came within the range of our awareness—it wasn’t simply an invisible radiation. There has been the invisible radiation present constantly, for all people in all ages, but nothing very much has occurred merely because of that, until that invisible radiation became visible at the level where human beings might most easily respond to it. We have taken note of various occasions when this has occurred in a particular sense down through the ages and there was a certain amount of response, something moved. But thus far it never came to fruition. We have become aware of the way it works.
I would suggest that most of those who are associated with what we call the Emissary ministry actually know more than they think they know. Mind you, there have been those who thought they knew more than they actually did. But there has occurred a conditioning process over the years, making available spiritual substance which has been present with those associated with our ministry and of which they were not fully aware. I am not speaking of concepts about the principles of reality, but of an actual sensing and awareness of what we have called the Tone, so that if one were to act in a way that was off-key one would quite quickly become aware of it. The stubbornness of human nature sometimes entered into the picture, and even though the individual is aware of it he still persists for a while in the off-key state. This is very unnecessary. It causes a lot of trouble and tribulation, for the one concerned and for others associated as well. And it is in this sense that I say that most know more than they really think they know.
I emphasize this point because many things are brought to us as individuals. The inclination from the human standpoint is to judge what is brought to us, to say, “This is good, I like it. That is bad, I don’t.” Well it has nothing to do with likes and dislikes, to start with, or judgments of good and evil. Whatever is brought to us is brought to us. Here is something that we know, really: that we accept whatever it is. If we don’t accept what it is we will find ourselves living in a world of fantasy, trying to live in a state that doesn’t exist. Whatever comes to us comes to us for a reason. Mentally speaking we may not always know what that reason is; in fact very seldom do we. It is wise therefore not to try to figure it out, because that merely embeds us more firmly in our mental state.
We are here as spiritual beings to take care of our creative responsibility in the collective sense, and in the individual sense too. So whatever comes to us comes to us, and it doesn’t require any judgment as to whether it is good or evil or as to whether we like it or not. It may factually be that we prefer one thing to another, but that’s beside the point and should have no influence upon the way that we handle what comes to us. If that comes into the picture and starts to exert an influence upon us, then we will not be able to take care of what needs to be taken care of in the current of the spirit. Preferences remain firmly in the background until we come to a situation where we could rightly go either way. Then we might consult our preferences, but only when we have reached that point, not before.
So we approach what comes to us from the standpoint of Lucifer, from the standpoint of the light which is already shining in us illuminating the way. The inclination is quite often for a person to say, “Well I have no light; I don’t see clearly.” What is it that allows the light to shine? We understand the principle involved. There is the positive aspect of spirit present now in this very moment, and in every moment. It is always there. We no longer assume that this is the source of radiation. It is merely the positive aspect of spirit present with us, awaiting the negative aspect of spirit in order that there might be light, in order that there might be radiation.
Now clearly, following out the formula, there is response, attraction, coming to the point of union. Here is the door opening, through which the negative aspect of spirit rises up to meet the positive aspect of spirit at the level of the conscious mind, so that there may be illumination. Illumination is of two basic kinds: One, it lights up whatever is present so that we can see clearly to take care of the spiritual responsibility, whatever it may be; and the other is radiation. Radiation is now possible because there was union between the positive aspect of spirit, sitting there waiting for the negative to rise up, and the negative which has risen up because there was response, attraction, and union. In that union, unified radiation occurs. There is no other kind of radiation. It never proceeds merely from one point. There always must be the fulfilment of the Law.
The block has related primarily to the subconcious mind and heart,
through which the negative aspect of spirit must rise up
to come to the point of union with the positive aspect of spirit that is waiting there for it.
The experience through which all of you have been passing over the years relates to this matter of the rising up of the negative aspect of spirit through your own subconscious minds and hearts. While you were busy thinking you were learning a lot of things consciously and getting some really fine Emissary views about this and that established—you were distracted consciously in that way—the negative aspect of spirit was at work, unbeknownst for the most part, clearing a way for its emergence through your own subconscious mind and heart so that it might, if not in fulness yet, reach the level where a certain measure of union could occur with the positive aspect of spirit that had been sitting there waiting for it.
Of course the conscious mind has had a part to play. It has to be willing to allow what is necessary to occur in the subconscious mind and heart. It has to be willing to stay steady long enough for what needs to happen to do so in the subconscious mind and heart—perhaps to endure discomfort, a certain amount of tribulation. However, to the extent that the negative aspect of spirit has been filtering through, a little light began to glow and you consciously could become aware of why it was necessary to hold steady, to stay as unreactive as possible, while this process was proceeding. You couldn’t do anything to hurry it up but you could do quite a bit, and probably have done quite a bit, to slow it down, by becoming enamored consciously with other things than the creative process that was in operation. The conscious mind forgets about that at times, doesn’t it? And it becomes overly interested in this and in that and forgets altogether why the person is present. But gradually we have been learning to remain centered without great expectations of anything. Whatever was to occur could only do so as the subconscious mind and heart were sufficiently purified for the spirit to emerge in increasing expression at the conscious level—emerging out of the subconscious levels to the conscious level where the union with the positive aspect of spirit could then occur. To the extent that that has occurred in you, you have a new awareness.
This is another approach to what we were considering this morning. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/08/electrical-substance-and-world-i-create.html] It is not divorced from this, because it is only as there is illumination that there can begin to be a correct translation of the electrical charges and fields of which mention was made this morning; not only a correct translation of these but a clarification where there has been some mix-up in that vibrational field. We have called it a vibrational field all along; this is what was being referred to. And there is a layer of mix-up; there is the layer of what has been called the veil. It was a veil because it prevented the rising up of the negative of spirit from reaching the positive of spirit at the level of the conscious mind. So the conscious mind remained in darkness. What did reach the conscious mind for the most part was not a holy spirit but an unholy spirit, out of all the mixed-up state in that realm, with the result that what one was consciously aware of was a realm of mix-up, a realm of shadows, a realm in fact incomprehensible. With the exercise of the brilliant human intellect there have been valiant efforts made to make all this comprehensible, but you can’t make comprehensible what is fundamentally incomprehensible—which is what has been attempted and has involved a great deal of effort. A multitude of theories have evolved out of all this, endeavoring to make sense out of what was fundamentally nonsense.
So we set that aside in order that there may be a willingness to let the heart be purified, to stay steady, and perhaps ignorant if you please, for a while. Some people became a little concerned about this when they began to see what was happening, that they really didn’t know anything. They didn’t want to admit it. Well what was known in this way was perhaps useful in the nonsensical world, but now we come to the point where we have had a certain willingness to be ignorant. This relates to humility. The conscious mind must be humble, so that there is space provided for the union of the two aspects of spirit. Then the light comes on. When the light comes on, you begin to see things in a new way and you discover that it was quite unnecessary to try to figure things out, because it couldn’t be done.
I’m sure that you have been consciously a bit stubborn on occasion and wouldn’t move until you had a satisfactory explanation—in relationship to anything. Well there is no such thing as a satisfactory explanation in that state. Sometimes, maybe, you have even been fooled by the spirit a little, into believing that you had received a satisfactory explanation, so that you would stop fussing, stop trying to understand. True understanding is impossible until the light comes on, and the light won’t come on as long as there is no space for it at the conscious level and no willingness at the conscious level to hold sufficiently steady so that the purification process can take place below the conscious level. And who is to tell how long that is going to take? Someone may say, “Well I have been holding steady for five years, ten years, and still I am not illumined.” You’re not? I wonder.
This is what I was mentioning before, that those who are associated with the Emissary ministry know a great deal more than they give themselves credit for at times. I am speaking of the spiritual understanding of how, in a practical sense, to handle what comes to one. When something comes to you, do you feel inadequate? Well, not with everything of course; you have some experience of handling things, so in all fields you are not entirely inadequate. But there are many realms of experience in which we function where we are inclined to imagine that we are inadequate. Are you really inadequate? You’re the only one who can do what needs to be done, and you actually know how to handle it. The fact that one may initially feel inadequate is beside the point. Don’t believe a word of it, because it’s not true!
You are aware of the quality of the Tone, and you can look at any situation from that standpoint and know what it is you need to do. This is true of each and every one, because you are never required to do what you don’t know. If you deny that you know it, then you have an excuse, and you say, perhaps, “Well I’m waiting for someone to come and explain this to me, or to tell me what I should do.” Oh no! If whatever it is has been brought to you, that’s your responsibility and you handle it from the standpoint of your already existing awareness of the quality of the Tone sounding in you. You may have to do a little true thinking. It seems to be so much easier for most to abrogate this right to think and hand it over to somebody else: “You think this out for me and tell me how I should handle it.” Nobody else can do that. They may try, and you may be foolish enough to try to act on that basis, but it won’t work, because one must be responsible for what is brought to one, and nobody else can substitute.
It is an acceptance of what comes from the external field that is required. But it is also an accepting of the truth you know, which comes from above; something you already know because you are familiar with the sounding of the Tone. You have heard it in your own living. You have been associated with people who have also heard it, and there is rich substance in this regard. These two aspects, what iscoming to you and what you know, relate to the two aspects of spirit. When you accept the position of the point of union, because you are the one who knows what needs to be done in that circumstance, you are at the point where there is light. You have allowed the two aspects of spirit to find union in you. The light shines, and you see therefore more clearly, more vividly, what it is in a specific sense that needs to be done.
Maybe you see specifically that nothing needs to be done. Very often human beings do get hooked up on the idea that if anything comes to them there must be some great thing to be done. More often than not nothing is to be done, at least not in an overt sense. Something is to be done internally, because you are handling this situation in positive radiation by not doing anything. On the other hand there may be something to be done, something to be said; but you find that you are in position to do, to say, what is required when you let it work the way it works. But you can’t have one aspect of the situation, the thing that is brought to you, without bringing the other aspect to bear also, the fact that you know how to handle it.
One of the poets said something about assuming a virtue. One might suppose that that was a dishonest thing to do: “I don’t know it; therefore I would be dishonest if I gave it expression.” But how else are you going to know it? The only way one knows anything is to give it expression, even the wrong thing. So we have an awareness of the quality of the Tone. Give it expression, and that is the acceptance of responsibility in the particular circumstance which has been brought to you. The two aspects of spirit will unite, so that you have the light shining. No problem! Where did the inadequacy go then? It was a figment of fancy in the first place.
I think you are aware that you have far more understanding than virtually anyone else you may meet in the ordinary course of events. I am always delightedly surprised if I happen to meet somebody who really has some true understanding—such a rare occurrence anyway. I’m not speaking of present company, of course, but of those one runs into as one is associated with people. Occasionally someone will stand out. What a wonderful thing, cause for thanksgiving. I’m very thankful that all of you stand out in various ways and to varying degrees in this fashion. I love you for it, and we need to love each other for it.
I asked a question at comment period this morning, as to how many angels populated your world? Or was your world populated by the other thing—devils? I am speaking of people now. What do you see? Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see angels wherever they look. They may be aware of other elements that are present but these carry no weight. The angels carry weight, don’t they? Or do we give weight to those things that we deem to be wrong or evil? I trust not. When we look around we need to see angels because angels carry weight with us, and we populate our worlds with angels—we are in the business of transforming the world, of making all things new. Where? Out there somewhere? You will have quite a job, won’t you? Where would you start? You can’t start anywhere out there and get the job done, because the job is in one’s own consciousness, and the quality of that. So if we observe in our field of responsibility around us some certain thing needs to happen, some certain quality needs to express into this situation, and we think we haven’t got that quality to express, we might think again and try expressing it. We might be surprised, even shocked, that something was brought forth that you didn’t think you knew. Well your conscious mind didn’t know it, but when the light comes on, then you see it with your conscious mind. There it is!
No one is inadequate to do what is required. One might perhaps judge that a person is inadequate to do something that isn’t required. You may have speculated, at times, as to what you would do if you were faced with this or that situation. Well, you don’t know, because you are not faced with it. One has to have the real thing, and then you find you know sufficient to handle the need. It wouldn’t have come to you if you didn’t know what was necessary. Remember that! So we provide what is necessary with respect to everything that is factually brought to us.
So I rejoice that we might spend a little time considering these things in an awareness of the Tone that is sounding. It has been sounding while we have been moving along here. Part of that Tone is an awareness of the way things work. We can be very conscious of the fact that the spirit is moving in our subconscious minds and hearts. It’s rising up and it’s bringing something to the level of the conscious mind, and as it does that the light goes on and we are able to do what we are here to do. I don’t think the Lord has fallen down His provision. Everything is there, if we really noted what we were considering this morning.
The whole of whatever it is—space—is full of electrical charges and fields, everything that’s needed at every level. Our responsibility is just a certain level. We could say that the universe as we think of it, as it appears to be to us, is a human invention. If there were no human beings that’s not the way it would be at all. There would just be electrical charges and electrical fields. At least that’s a way we could describe it; it’s not exactly what it is. The sun shines, the moon reflects the sun. Astronauts go to the moon, and they find the moon there, they stand on it. But it’s a human creation just the same. Mind you, there are electrical charges and fields which relate to what we call the moon. We only think of it as the moon because something bounces off the moon to us, off that level of vibration to us; so we say there’s something there. And because we are composed of similar sort of material, when we get there we can stand on it. But some other being who was at some other level would go right through the moon—and the earth as well, as far as that is concerned.
We live in this created universe. It’s the way it is to us. It is a reflection of something. The reflection isn’t the reality but it may be very beautiful. And we are charged with the responsibility of letting what is naturally reflected in this way be beautiful. We can do it. We have a little mess to clean up here on earth, as we think of it, but there’s no great problem to that if we will take personal responsibility for it and not leave it to the other fellow. The other fellow may or may not do it. There is only one person who can be sure that it will be done, and that is you. Let us all be sure in that way. All that we do is to the glory of God, not to sustain human fancies.
