Let The Shackles Of Self-Centeredness Be Shattered

Let  The  Shackles  Of  Self-Centeredness  Be  Shattered

from  Look  Up

Martin Cecil  February 20, 1972

Out of God the cosmic cycles of creation spring. The power and dominion of God emerge into the universe of time and space consistently, and the evidence of this is a vast and unending diversity. All that man is capable of observing is contained in this creative expression of God. Human beings on earth today are increasingly aware of an intensifying experience of destructiveness. We have used the analogy of an explosion to portray what is occurring in this regard here on earth within the range of man’s direct experience. If, however, we recognize that all springs from God, what appears to human beings to be a destructive explosion must be, in fact, a creative experience in the unfolding divine design.

An explosion occurs because there is a very rapid expansion of gas, we will say, within a rigid container. When the pressure of that expansion is sufficient to shatter the container there is what we would call an explosion. That explosion is a destructive thing as the shattered parts of the container in turn create havoc in the environment. However, it is possible to control an explosion as, for instance, is done in the internal combustion engine, so that what otherwise would destroy the engine may be converted into useful power which will achieve some particular purpose. We may see something of the same principle at work in the working of God’s power throughout the universe and in the affairs of men, because there is dominion, there is the means by which control is maintained, so that the power generated may be applied to a useful purpose. The useful purposes of God are, in a general sense, beyond the understanding of the human intellect, but the fact that they are not humanly understood does not mean that the useful purposes of God do not exist. The very fact of what appears to man as an orderly universe gives evidence of control and power. Power and dominion from God are quite apparent in the universe of time and space.

When we come to the affairs of men we find that there is in the attitudes of human beings a tendency to resist the power and dominion of God, presumably in favor of the power and dominion of man. The power and dominion of man, such as it is, is a subversion of the power and dominion of God to purposes largely unrelated to the purposes of God; the purposes of man are substituted. This establishes a state of resistance to the power and dominion of God working through the cosmically ordained creative cycles; consequently the pressure builds, and we find the cause of the explosion already at work. There is an expansion of the spirit of God within the container of man’s self-centeredness. This expansion of the spirit of God is partly consequent upon the vastly increased number of people on earth. No individual would exist if it were not for the presence of the spirit of God; therefore if the population is multiplied the presence of the spirit of God in form is multiplied also. The pressure increases. It becomes a seemingly painful and disruptive experience to human beings who compose the container in which the pressure increases. It is subject to stresses and strains. It begins to buckle here and there. Human endeavor is mostly given to preserving this state of self-centeredness and consequently to endeavoring to repair any breaches that begin to appear in this self-centered container. But there must come a day when the pressure is more than the container can hold. At that point there is a climactic experience as the container of self-centeredness shatters.

Because human beings are self-centered, concerned with themselves and with the world which they have made on earth, they are more or less oblivious to the implications of the increasing pressure. All that is observed are the stresses and strains caused by that increasing pressure, and because the polarization is in external things the awareness of the results tends to obscure any consciousness of the cause. People scurry around in the world trying to settle what they call their problems. These problems range from those of the individual in a petty personal sense—although the individual doesn’t usually look upon them as petty—to the larger problems which include massive groups of people or even the world as a whole. Virtually all the attention which human beings give is centered in these things. The question is asked, “What can we do about this? What can we do about that?” in the external sense, “How can we solve this problem? How can we solve that problem?”—the idea being that if the problem is solved, then the self-centered state is successfully maintained. Actually, of course, we begin to see that it is the failure to solve problems that permits the self-centered state to pass away. So, most of human energy is designed to maintain the self-centered state by solving problems. Nothing much else occurs to anybody who is self-centered. But we need to see clearly that the reason for the so-called problems, the reason for the stresses and strains in the self-centered state, is the internal expansion of the spirit of God. 

Out of God the cosmic cycles of creation spring. Nothing else springs out of God but that. These creative cycles are entirely constructive. They are designed to achieve what may be called the purposes of God, purposes which are, as I said, to a large extent incomprehensible to the human intellect but there nevertheless. As human beings in the self-centered state, we find ourselves identified with the pattern of resistance to that expansion and we consequently experience the inevitable stresses and strains. We may acknowledge that there is a shattering event yet to come, because the explosion has already been initiated. The pressure is building and nothing will stop the building of that pressure until the container shatters. The container is the state of man’s self-centeredness. People tend to become frantic as they feel the pressures building in their own experience. The problems seem to multiply. Sometimes the problems can be identified as this or that; sometimes there is just a general state of increasing malaise: everybody becomes certain that there are problems but they can’t really identify them too clearly. Of course, in specific instances people imagine that they are able to put their fingers on them; but, here, we see what is happening. There is a passage in the Gospel according to Luke which relates to the external experience.

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”

“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” Here is the creative aspect of the outworking. “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

Presumably these words were being spoken to those who were interested in the power and the dominion of God. “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.” Most people are not inclined to agree with that conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer. Humanly speaking, it is said, “For mine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for as long as I last.” That is a lie to start with; the kingdom is not “mine.” It takes a tremendous amount of effort to preserve self-centeredness, and the self-centeredness is shattered in the end, inevitably. We are living at a time on earth when this shattering of self-centeredness is approaching for mankind as a whole. It has occurred consistently all down through the ages insofar as individual human beings are concerned; now it comes to the whole works. When this begins to be seen as happening the instruction is: Lift up your eyes, lift up your heads, so that there may be a centering in the cause rather than in the effects. Being centered in the effects there is reason to weep and wail, there is reason apparently for hearts to fail with fear, there is reason to be overwhelmed. However, if the cosmic cycles of creation do proceed from God there is in reality no cause for alarm; only cause, in fact, for thankfulness. It only seems a devastating experience to the extent that we attempt to maintain self-centeredness, to the extent that we are centered in the world of self-centeredness which man has created. To those who are so centered it seems as though everything that makes life possible on earth is passing away. There is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in consequence; all is darkness. People in general have not yet faced the facts in this regard, so the hopes of the human heart are sustained: maybe we can succeed in maintaining self-centeredness and surviving. The two states are incompatible. Self-centeredness does not survive. All that results from self-centeredness is disintegration.

God survives! The cosmic cycles of creation that proceed from God survive. The proper results of those creative cycles in the whole universe survive. So, while it is necessary to recognize what it is that is occurring in the experience of mankind on earth, immediately the door opens to a new heaven and a new earth, the door opens to identification with the cosmic cycles of creation, so that we might find our association with these. If we really are identified with God, then we are delighted with what is occurring. We can no longer be deceived into feeling badly about the tribulation, about the shattering of the container of self-centeredness. However, if we are a part of that container, then that shattering experience is indeed disaster.

We haven’t, of course, come to the point where the shattering in the worldwide sense is complete. In one sense it has only just begun. If, however, we consider the outworking of things in cosmic terms, so that a thousand years is as one day, then what would one hundred years be? Almost an instantaneous experience, wouldn’t it? An explosion is looked upon as being instantaneous, but it isn’t. It follows out the cycle; it takes time, in other words. The outworking of things in this explosion occurs in the twinkling of an eye insofar as the cosmic clock is concerned. We see it happening, and while it takes years from our standpoint the time involved is really nothing. It is an explosion. Of course, there is an ultimate point where the shattering occurs very rapidly, even in our eyes. Let us be found centered where we belong by then!

We may, if we will, find identity with cause. In so doing we begin to have a perspective viewpoint. We still stand in the present moment but we may behold what it is that is occurring. Our vision sees, first of all, the effects around us, but then we begin to see beyond the effects to the intensification of the power and dominion of God on earth in the human population. We begin to see how this cleanses the earth of the self-centered state. In doing so, undoubtedly it cleanses the earth of a lot of human forms; nevertheless some flesh remains “for the elect’s sake.” The elect are those who find their identity in the cause rather than in the effects, so that there is something stable, unshatterable, on earth. This is not unshatterable in the external sense but in the internal sense, in heaven. The elect are finally gathered, you may recall, according to the record, from one end of the heaven to the other. This is heaven on earth, the invisible experience on earth where the concern is not with the effects, where the concern is solely with the cause. The cause, being the cosmic cycles of creation emerging out of God, produces the right effects. We are not required to judge the effects but to let them be whatever they are. Our concern is simply to be identified with the cause, to maintain that identity regardless of what occurs environmentally.

We had better find a stable footing in that regard while the environmental factors can still be lived with, even though there is some self-centeredness remaining in us. If we wait until the point is reached where the environment cannot be lived with if we are self-centered, that would be too late, wouldn’t it? That point comes, not necessarily at exactly the same time for everybody, although ultimately it does. But we do have the opportunity of standing in the Holy Place, identified with the true cause emerging out of God into the world of space and time, into the heaven of our experience. Only as we can abide in that heaven regardless of what is occurring in the earth may we be accounted among the elect for whose sake the days are shortened, by reason of whom the outworking effects of cause may be achieved very rapidly. Because of the rapidity of the outworking some flesh may be saved. If it drags on too long everybody has had it!

There was indication in the Book of Revelation that what was symbolically portrayed by the great red dragon, which deceived the whole world, was cast out of heaven into the earth. The heaven on earth, in other words, became the habitation of true cause in the experience of man. This dragon in the earth raised a very particular hell for a while because he knew that he had “but a short time.” In other words, in the outworking of this shift through the consciousness of man the results which occur in the experience of man, in the earthly sense, are painful. Because they are painful, of course everybody is inclined to resist them to try to stop the pain. Actually the resistance is what increases the pain.

This is very clearly demonstrated in childbirth. If the mother-to-be doesn’t understand and is not trained adequately in an attitude and an ability to cooperate with what is occurring, the reaction is to resist it, and it is this resistance that produces the agony. It is man’s resistance in his self-centeredness to this birth of a new state which is appearing on earth that causes the human agony. If we recognize the value of what is called “natural childbirth” in the individual sense we may see that this does have a relatedness to a natural birth in the collective sense insofar as mankind is concerned. That birth could be relatively easy if there were cooperation with it. It is going to happen anyway, and there is no way by which mankind can be given a shot, rendered unconscious, while the job gets done. Our concern rightly is to find a centering in the cause and to move with the cosmic cycles of creation. Then that is found to be easy; not only easy but delightful and fulfilling.

If a person looks at the world the way it is in the external sense he would be hard put to imagine how the outworking could be delightful and fulfilling. A person who is in the agony of childbirth without any ability to cooperate in the process cannot imagine how this experience could possibly be delightful and fulfilling, and yet here we have a truly creative experience occurring in the world. We begin to know something of its wonder as we return to the place where we belong, to stand in the Holy Place, participating consciously, actively, in the cycles of birth. We see what is coming, looking beyond the immediate experience in the external sense to the delight and the fulfillment which is inevitably the result of the movement of the cosmic cycles of creation emerging from God. This does not mean that we are trying to live in the future. We live now. In our cooperation with what is transpiring we may enjoy the experience of living now. But the very moment we begin to accept an attitude of self-centeredness we will suffer the consequences. There is no exemption from the consequences of self-centeredness for anyone who is self-centered.

So we come again to stand in the Holy Place, identified with cause, observing the effects of the working of the cosmic cycles of creation as they come to focus through us here on earth. We know that the state of self-centeredness must pass away. It will give way, it will be shattered. For those who insist upon being identified with that state, that certainly is a very painful experience; but when self-centeredness is gone the wonder and the beauty which emerge into the universe of time and space from God take form. The material for that formation is then freely available, because the self-centeredness which kept it fixed in humanly devised patterns is no longer present. Everything is free to move easily and joyously into the true design of being on earth. The power and dominion of God come again into the conscious experience of man. The world which takes form is then the world of God.

“Thy kingdom come… For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.” That is the truth of the matter. Let us not try to prove it otherwise. Let us not resist the power and the dominion of God. That is the sure path to failure. The path of victory is available in this hour to all who are willing to let the shackles of self-centeredness be shattered in their own experience, so that there may be emergence into the clear light of the new day which is the coming of the Son of man, the truth of man, made manifest in human experience on earth.

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Thy Whole Body Shall Be Filled With Light

Thy  Whole  Body  Shall  Be  Filled  With  Light

from  Steps To Mastership  #7

Uranda  1936

It is only through an awareness of the Oneness of All Things that you can find and fill your true place in the Great Plan. According to your degree of awareness of unity, so is your happiness, health and success in life.

Direct now your attention to that which you call the brain. In the head you have a symbol of the heavens, and the brain which is soft, pliable, and composed of billions of cells is a perfect symbol of the Universe of Universes. In each tiny cell you behold a generator of life energy. A generator absorbs energy. It does not create it. The life energy already exists; it is eternal.

In the Pineal Gland, in the center of the brain, you behold a symbol of the Central Throne of the Supreme Being, from which are radiated all the life energies in the Universe of Universes, even as the life energies in your body are received from the Divine Soul through the Pineal Gland and are radiated outward to the brain cells. Thus each cell receives of the radiation of the life vibration and transforms it into the particular vibration of life which will supply that which is needed at the point in the body which is fed from that particular brain cell.

The vibrations of life energy required in the heart are different from those required in the bones. And so it is with every part of the body. Thus do you behold the brain cells receiving this energy and re-radiating it in a vibration which will supply the need present in the part under its control—just as the Sun receives the Cosmic Energy and radiates it through the Solar System, that each planet may receive and re-radiate it, thus creating the Twelve Cosmic Energies which you know of as the Signs of the Mazzaroth.

Therefore you see that each cell represents a Solar System in the Universe of Universes, and that just as the Solar System generates energy by transforming the Cosmic Energy into vibrations which you can use in your present existence in the flesh, so does the brain cell receive of the life energies radiated from the Soul through the Pineal Gland, and then it transforms the energy into the type of vibration needed.

Another phase of the generative function in the Solar System is that which you know as gravity. Gravity is the action and reaction of the positive and negative phases of Cosmic Energy. Gravity holds each part of the Universe in its appointed place, because all things which are not misdirected by man are properly positive to that which is below, or of a lesser vibration, and negative—receptive to—that which is above, or of a higher vibration. Thus you see that the moment man allows his outer will to be absorbed by the Divine Will, becoming receptive and responsive toward God and positive toward the physical and mental planes of this world, he will automatically be drawn into his appointed place in the Divine Plan. It is only when an individual is in his appointed place that he experiences true happiness.

Man as you see him is the conveyor of the higher vibrations for which he is the symbol. An examination of the brain will show that the whole body is constructed in a manner similar to the formation of the brain, the right and left halves opposite each other indicating the positive and negative. Your body and the extremities thereof are but the outgrowth of that which you have in your brain. In the Pineal Gland is the connecting link which allows the outer expression of that which is sometimes spoken of as the Super-Conscious Mind—Soul Mind—while in the body, which is an extension of the brain, you have the Outer Mind, which is composed of the Karmic Radiations emanating from the atoms of which the body is composed.

This reveals to you the true source of the Inner and Outer Minds, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/11/seven-from-seven-mind-uranda-june-10.html] and shows you how it is that the Outer Mind is not of itself creative, but is only a channel of creative process, while the Inner Mind is creative but of itself is not a channel for creation in the planes of life manifested in the material world. The body, of which the Outer Mind is a part, is the channel and form, or mold, by which the Inner Mind creates. When the Outer Mind provides channels and molds that are not according to the Divine Plan, the creative force of the Inner Mind, released in such destructive channels, produces evil.

The creative force of the Inner Mind is always perfect in every individual, but when that force is misused by the Outer Mind, evil results. When the will of the Outer Mind is harmonized with the Will of the Inner Mind [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/11/from-cosmic-uranda-june-11-1953-class.html] all of the channels and molds of life will be in harmony with the Divine Plan, and only that which is perfect will be made manifest. This reveals the source of creative power and shows why it is that the efforts of the Outer Mind to direct and control creative power always result in disappointment, failure and disturbing conditions.

Let us look to Secrets of Light. You now vibrate in unison through the Light which radiates from your body, and it is only through that Light that you are able to feel unity with another. It is this vibration of Light, invisible to the eye, that makes the expression of love and understanding possible. Therefore, now, let your eye be single, that your whole body may be filled with Light. In the planes of Higher Being, manifestation is not the same as you behold it on this plane, for in the physical vision you have the ability to see by the means of reflected Light and you cannot behold that which does not reflect Light. Physical manifestations tend to reflect the form of Light which is visible to the fleshly eye. Yet there is Light everywhere, and even that which you behold as darkness is not truly so. It is a form, or vibration, of Light. When God said, “Let there be Light,” He spoke concerning everything that has ever been made manifest in the world. Therefore there are vibrations of Light which you see through, and so do not realize the presence of. And there are vibrations of Light which reflect the Light to which you are attuned. When Light reflects Light, you see Light in the form of some manifestation.

Light  is  All  there  Is

When you leave the planes of physical manifestation where vibrations of Light which reflects Light are present, you enter planes of being where Light blends with Light rather than reflecting Light. Thus, in the blending of Light, a sense of separateness no longer exists. The Light manifesting in that which you would speak of as Spirit Form blends into the Light of another such form, and the countless blendings of all of these expressions of Light bring about a state of being which you can hardly comprehend.

First, envision a beautiful painting, a painting which includes many shades of Light. Next, try to see yourself as a part of that painting. Now, as a part, you would experience the understanding of the entire manifestation through the channel of feeling. Feeling, then, becomes the mode of expression, and the vision of those higher planes manifests through that understanding and feeling. Therefore you do not see a thing or person because Light is reflected from it, but you see into that thing or person because the vibration of feeling makes you a part of that person or thing, and you see it as it is. That is the essence of the truth concerning it.

You have felt this to a certain extent. You feel yourselves blended in the vibration of unison with those of like mind. You are inclined to lose consciousness of yourselves as separate from God Being. You are a part of the All, and function accordingly, submerging the individual manifestation into the All Manifestation. As you enter more completely into this vibration of unity, you begin to see the form within, not depending upon the external expression of reflected Light on the outside. Light is active in both cases, and throughout the Universe; yet the more completely you harmonize yourselves with Light, the more completely you realize, know and experience the beauties of the Inner Planes, where you are separate individuals dwelling in perfect unity—not as various members of a group, but in the same type of unity made manifest in the cells of your body. The cells are separate, but with the physical eye you do not see separation. You see only the oneness of the flesh in the hand and body.

In the Inner Planes you experience that oneness, and yet remain aware of the separateness. In physical life you determine separateness by the amount of space between manifestations. In the Inner Planes, space has nothing to do with separateness, for the blending—and yet remaining separate—is through the Light which is everywhere present, which your physical eyes do not yet behold. In the Inner Planes, then, you are a part of the Whole, in perfect unity or closeness with the Whole, and yet able to move about and express in the Whole as individuals without losing a sense of unity with the Whole. Space no longer operates as a separating force. The only thing which could separate in those planes is Light; but vibrations of Light which do not blend cannot enter those planes, though they may be present with those planes from the standpoint of space.

Light  Wonderful  Light

In the beauty of Light Blending is the secret of joy. For what you feel as happiness is the ripple of scintillating color which vibrates in the Light, filling you and radiating to another individual, or to the world. And what you speak of as sorrow is the result of a lack of conscious awareness of blending, so that there are no scintillating color ripples in the Light. Therefore, when you enter the Inner Planes, the color blendings of Light are always filled with the rippling flow of vibration. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/04/flow-of-spiritflow-in-formunprecedented.html] The thrills of happiness and joy and peace are always present. Only that which destroys the blending of Light, and stops the rippling in the Light, can cause sorrow, fear, worry or hate. And when the Light blending is again established, and the Cosmic Ripples are felt, you are happy, strong, and filled with health. Light is worthy of your contemplation, that you may feel Unity with Light wherever you are. Remain Blended in Light, and joy shall be with you always.

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To Give The Earth Itself An Attunement

To  Give  The  Earth  Itself  An  Attunement

Perspective Vision

Uranda   May 5, 1954

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—and we 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.

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