Let Her Alone!
“Return Unto Me And I Will Return Unto You”
David Barnes Salmon Arm, B.C. Canada March 19, 2023
To begin, I will read an excerpt from the book of Malachi, Chapter 3: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts… Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts…” This is one primary theme that I want to share, an acknowledgement of this promise: Return unto me and I will return unto you. “Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts… Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
This service consideration relates to the invitation and the opportunity that is always present for everyone, to return to heaven and to the LORD of Heaven—not just an invitation for ourselves here gathered—presumably that's already been accepted—but the invitation and the opportunity to open the gateways and the doorways for the Great Return of response, return of the substance of the earth and the sacred systems of the earth, and the world, to the LORD of Heaven. “Return unto me, and I will return unto you.” That has been the promise, and fulfillment has always been at hand. In relationship to that Great Return, Uranda said this in a Class session in 1953:
“We have come to the next step. This is the period when Mother God must come into her own, or man is lost. If he continues to cling to the old concepts with respect to God he is going to fail. How are you going to have the Child without the Mother? Jehovah is Mother God, and the manifestation of the [Child or the] Body must be in relationship to the Mother.” We have Father God in the invisible realms of heaven now, and Mother God in the visible, and we have not yet let Mother God have a body. “And until we let Mother God have a body, Father God, in the invisible cycle, cannot have any real meaning on earth to bring forth the child in relationship to individual living, or living in the kingdoms of this world, the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, etc.” And so, “This is the period when Mother God must come into her own, or man is lost.”
This is the Great Return that is so very important—“Return unto me, and I will return unto you” saith the LORD of Hosts. As sons and daughters of God, in representation of the Father and the Mother, we open the door for the return of the Mother, and the ongoing revelation of the patterns of life in the Family of Divine Man restored, and in all the kingdoms of creation, for the return of the Body and the substance of Mother Earth to the Father—all of which essences, Father, Mother and Child are present within us as individuals and as a body of people.
This heavenly world that prophecy says is to come, as we fulfil our part of the promise, has been in the process of coming for 2000 years in a very specific way. Being within the Heavenly Borderland above the fallen world that I am in but not of, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-work-is-not-finishedborderland.html] insofar as I am concerned the world to come is here. Heaven is here in a very real sense; the Garden is at hand, it is here; and the Lord has come to His Temple, in fulfillment of the promise through the Prophet Malachi, “Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
All of us should be able to easily acknowledge that heaven is here—acknowledge that since that amazing period of time in the mid-1940s, in a very real way the process of the reunion of heaven and earth has been established in this world; and all of us are actually living and moving in an experience of heaven on earth now; not in its completeness, but this has happened, and it is happening. The seemingly impossible has been accomplished—the birth and the emergence in substance and in form of the Christ Body, the Spiritual Body of the Son of God. This has not happened in a body of people, however small a body, since before the fall of man. There has never been a Body of God sustained in heaven on earth since before the fall. The birth of the Spiritual Body, brought forth by Uranda and those who worked with him in its beginning formation, was accomplished, and we are a part of that beginning formation, which occurred not that long ago—1946. And this is a massive project, the restoration we call it.
Recently I did some research based on a transcript titled “Cosmic Ages”, released by Uranda in 1939. According to his dates it was about 28,183 years ago [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/06/from-cosmic-uranda-2-1939-cosmic-age-or.html] that the inception point of the rebellion occurred, resulting in the fall of man—near the beginning of the 12th Grand Age, a Fire Cycle of 25,856 years duration, coming at the completion of a 310,272 year Solar Age. During the first 7000 years of that final 25,856 year Grand Fire Age, the Priesthood leadership worked from within the focal government established in the Seven Sacred Cities to bring man back into harmony with the government of heaven. 28,183 years minus 7000 years brings us to 21,183 years ago. At that point 21,183 years ago, the rebellion by fallen man, and the fall itself, was so complete that the Priesthood Government began to withdraw the Sacred Cities of the Motherland; and gradually over the next 8000 years all of the Seven Sacred Cities were removed from the earth, and the sinking of Lemuria resulted—the Motherland sank approximately 13,183 years ago. 21,183 years minus 8000 years brings us to 13,183 years ago. Atlantis sank about 1000 years later, approximately 12,000 years ago. Uranda writes: “It was during that time [8000 years] that the number of those who rebelled against God increased, and the number of those who obeyed God decreased, until at the time of the submersion it was necessary to remove all the remaining Sacred Cities from the face of the earth and leave man to his own destruction. When the God Beings functioning through the last three remaining Cities—the cosmic vibrations which had been functioning through the perfect consciousness therein established—were forced to begin functioning through the twisted consciousness of fallen man, the earth was thereby thrown out of polarity, and the subterranean supports of the Motherland, or of Lemuria, were caused to crumble and Lemuria settled beneath the surface of the waters which are now called the Great Pacific.” And so, says Uranda, “It has been 28,183 years since the fall of man”—the beginning of the rebellion and the fallen state.
Then, about 400 years after the beginning of a new 310,000 Solar Air Age in 388 BC, and the beginning of a new 25,800 year Grand Water Age, and the beginning of a new 2154 year Ordinary Water Age, the LORD of Lords incarnated as the the man Jesus—approximately 2023 years ago. The Master came into incarnation to initiate this particular phase of the restoration that we are in now. He came in order to allow the conception of this Christ Body formation that is now present—this same Body that Uranda came to bring into manifestation under the command of the LORD of Lords, and by reason of the Commission given to Uranda, in this function as the Lord of Truth for this Outer Triune World. As we can see from this brief outline, the restoration of mankind is a massive project.
This Christ Body continues to grow and develop, and as long as we speak the Word and provide the substance, and hold strong the vibrational hedge related to this ongoing formation, we have the experience of being in Heaven, being in the Garden, being in this Spiritual Body, in the world of the fallen condition but not of it. This is not just a theory—it has happened. It is happening, and the heavenly world on earth is here now for anyone who does what is required in their own life to experience that as being so.
This realization brings a tremendous sense of humility before the greatness of what is yet to be done under the hand of the LORD of this creative cycle of restoration. Having returned to Heaven, to the Garden, it is natural to acknowledge and recognize the One Who is LORD and KING. I am focused in One who is Supreme, Our LORD; but also focused in many who serve closely with Him, His primary Archangelic representatives, and His angels on earth, such as you and me in this Spiritual Body now taking form, which has many aspects to it. But our work is centralized in the return of the earth, the form for the incarnation of the spirit of Mother God, to Heaven and to the LORD, so that Heaven and Earth are allowed to be One again.
The spirit of the Single Eye in the Head of the Body comes to focus right here, in the pituitary in the center of the forehead, in the spirit of the womb, the spirit of truth, the spirit of the Mother—in love with the Father, the spirit of love focused in the Pineal, present in the pattern of the head of the body of the individual, and the Head of the Archangelic Body, so that life and life more abundant can be born through the Christ Radiance—Shekinah—the focus of spirit on earth, moving through the pure heart in blessing, benediction, with a single-minded devotion to let all substance rise up and return home to the LORD (bring all the tithes into the storehouse) that the spirit and substance of the New Earth might blend with the spirit and substance of the New Heaven in me and in you, and in this Christ Body.
There is something of considerable significance that I would like to begin to open up, so that we can entertain it in the months to come, and discover what opens further in services, and in other venues. And all venues that serve the LORD of Heaven on earth in this day are vitally important to what is transpiring; each one is responsible for a different level, range, or dimension of substance, revealing certain aspects of the Spirit in the One Body, functions that are absolutely essential—and more venues for generation will develop in the days to come.
Relative to what I want to consider here, Uranda spoke these words to a small group that gathered with him in a sanctuary space in 1949, mostly women: “All together, you provide that focus of Divine Womanhood as you are centered in your QUEEN, by which the restoration becomes possible, providing you are honest and true.” In our services and meditations in the past we haven’t spoken much about the QUEEN of Heaven and Earth. We talk about the KING of Heaven and Earth. I think there's something we need to share this morning that will open a door of Great Blessing, as we move in the cycles of resurrection from this day forward.
Uranda said this in 1952: “Do you think the Master's life was without love? No! Mary of Bethany was his sweetheart. Mary of Bethany provided the centering, from the standpoint of the negative aspect of being, for that outworking for which He was on earth, and for which He labored.”
I'm sure that a lot of you, probably mostly the women but perhaps the men too, are aware that there were a significant number of women disciples of the Master when He was on earth, women who were absolutely vital to His ministry. I went through the Biblical record and did some research, and I found nine women named, identified, characterized—significant women. A number of them were named Mary. Mary and Martha of Bethany were two of His most relied upon women, in terms of the core of His Body of women disciples. Others named are Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, Salome, Elizabeth and several Marys. A number of these women were wealthy and they provided substance, funds, for His ministry as it was developing. In the Biblical record, by the time that His ministry was over He had eleven primary men that were named. There is something significant recorded here about the composition of His ministry—albeit mentioned ever so briefly—in terms of the angels who incarnated to be with Him, female and male, and the work of gathering those ones. Substance began to gather around a Core of men and women that was centered in Jesus, and Mary of Bethany.
I think it is altogether fitting that very little is said, and very little is known in general about Mary of Bethany. We know how the ministry of the Master Himself was corrupted very shortly after He was here. The Great Return relates to the whole, and there is something we must understand about the defilement of the earth and of the feminine vibration, wisdom, the Mother Presence, that occurred at the time of the fall, when those who were supposed to be the sons and daughters of God became the sons and daughters of perdition, and took over, and usurped the earth, the substance and body of the Mother, and raped it, and maintained that state of rebellion and defilement for the past 28,000 years. And this fallen state continues to this day. Naturally there would be a very great deal of care on the part of the Master about the manner in which He exposed this one, Mary of Bethany, who came into incarnation on earth to be with Him and form that Innermost Core of essential generation, that, as it was maintained in the Holy of Holies and the Holy Place, it would be allowed to expand outward in rings of development of a Spiritual Body, under His guidance. Perhaps you remember this passage in the Book of John, Chapter Twelve—versions of it are recorded four times in the Gospels, each one framed a bit different:
“Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany”—just six days. You can imagine, if you know something of great magnitude is coming your way in six days, you will be feeling it coming; you will feel the weight of it, the density of it, the significance of it, and the challenge of it. Even in the minor things that we have to face in our world day-by-day, we feel the shadow of it coming. This was six days before the Passover, and He knew what was coming. “Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. And there they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.” One can feel the substance rising from that core interaction of spiritual intimacy, in the portrayal of that crucial scene and movement. “Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.”
These three words have resonated in me for many years: “Let her alone.” As the command of the LORD to the satanic government of this world, as it relates to the body and substance of the earth, of the Mother, of the QUEEN, He said, “Let Her Alone”, and that command resonates in this day. Now we're not just talking to or about earthbound men and women; we are talking about that which is most holy and most sacred, as it relates to the whole earth, and the Royal Household of the KING and the QUEEN, of which the sons and daughters of God are a part. Let Her Alone! That command resounds to this day; and it should be resounding through us, as we are sons and daughters of God incarnate here and now. There shall not be any violation of this sacred presence, this holy manifestation, only known in the Holy Place and in the Holy of Holies.
Here are a few words written by Uranda in 1939: “All God Beings are under the Law of the Positive and the Negative, and so are they male and female. The Great Master came into the outer planes to bring the truths of salvation to mankind.” And while He was on earth, under the Law “He could not marry during His life on earth.” We won't go into that right now, as to why the Law worked in this way relative to Him while He was incarnate; we will just accept it as fact. But under the Law, “He could not marry during His life on earth, though His Cosmic Beloved incarnated to be with Him during His outer ministry. Mary of Bethany and the Master Jesus, being Cosmic Beloveds, were very close sweethearts during all of their outer life manifestation. Let it be noted that Mary of Bethany was not Mary Magdalene, who anointed Jesus.” They were two different women. We could go into that another time, considering Mary Magdalene, without regard to any of the dubious statements made about her in popular culture these days; but we could examine it and gain a feeling for the significance of what Mary Magdalene brought as a vitally important disciple of the Master. However it was Mary of Bethany, His Cosmic Beloved, who “incarnated to be with Him during His outer ministry.” As Uranda emphasizes, “Mary of Bethany and the Master, being Cosmic Beloveds, were very close sweethearts during all of their outer life manifestation.” Also note that “Mary of Bethany was of all women, most beautiful, holy and pure… and they are our great KING and QUEEN.” Uranda also tells us that the God Being, that angel who incarnated as Mary of Bethany, “has not incarnated since that time. She ascended with the Master Jesus” when He ascended.
Perhaps that's enough for the moment, except to emphasize that, from this point on, when we speak of our KING—and if we're inside the Heavenly Borderland, in the Kingdom, we have a very vivid awareness of the KING of the Kingdom, always—and when we speak of the KING, or the LORD of this Body that is now developing, we should also immediately recall that in the Kingdom there is also the QUEEN, just as real and present as the KING of the Kingdom, and just as vital. How can there be a spiritual conception, brought about by the vision and the presence of the KING, if we don't have the conception brought about by the vision and presence of the QUEEN as well—the male and the female?
And in this regard, we think of those cycles that the Master set in motion over 2,000 years ago, cycles that have worked subconsciously and to some degree consciously, to bring us to the point where Uranda, the Lord of Truth, was able to incarnate and remind us of these things. And working throughout the cycles of his life, Uranda came to the point where, as a King in his own right in this outer world, representing his KING and QUEEN, Uranda drew to himself his Queen, without whom things would not have developed as substantially as they have—and here I speak of Kathy Meeker. And so, through Uranda and Kathy there was a representation on earth of the KING and QUEEN of Heaven and Earth; and therefore, because of the blending in the two here below, in relationship to the two above, they were able to bring forth through their ministry together that which we now know—this Spiritual Body. And more is to come for all of us, as these things are unveiled, and the Spirit of Truth brings all things to remembrance.
So, in the days to come when we think of the KING of Kings, we should think of the QUEEN of Queens as well, and recognize that 2000 years ago they incarnated together to accomplish something, and there was cycle after cycle after cycle of spiritual conception because of their communion together—and all of this has implications for us now. The Master went frequently to Bethany, because that was His greatest sanctuary, that was the one place that He had on earth to lay His head—and fundamentally they maintained the hedge in a Core sense in that home in Bethany, those three in particular, Mary and Martha and Lazarus, in that sanctuary; and His disciples and others, male and female, frequently came to be with them. And then, in this period of time, a week before the Passover, when Mary of Bethany anointed His head and His feet and wiped them with Her hair, there was something extraordinary taking place in that vibrational space, in terms of the generation of substance that was gathering and allowing Him to move within a somewhat expanded angelic hedge—such as it was, not very much provided by people in general—provided by a few as He moved into the pattern that we know as the Crucifixion, when that which was provided from above was met in that which was provided from below, and there was angelic care present at both levels. There should have been more on this side of the equation, but it was enough. And we know that the beloved disciple John also played a vital and central role in all that transpired during the life of our Master on earth, and subsequently.
And so, with this consideration, through our developing awareness of the KING and QUEEN of Heaven and Earth—with just the little that we know, in the sense of becoming aware of it, not that our minds know very much—in the days and weeks and months to come we can take all of this into our sanctuary space and ponder it, and see what more comes clear in the heavenly space we each maintain. This is all part of the Great Return of the stolen substance, this recognition, first of the spirit of the Mother in oneness with the spirit of the Father, and the great care that the Father, the KING, has taken to bring it to this point, so that His QUEEN could begin to be known once again in our consciousness in this day. And the Mother will not be defiled, and Her Body will not be raped again by fallen man.
We care for all of this in the Holy Place and in the Holy of Holies [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-arkholy-essences-preserved.html] in the Temple of Light which is alive here and now; and we have an opportunity to ponder the presence of the KING and the QUEEN in the Heaven that is here right now, the Heaven that I and you inhabit, and have done without even knowing it, really, through all the years of our life. It's been here all along. Now we know it, and we tend it with greater care and understanding than ever, that the work might be finished. But it's a big job, so it's going to take a while to finish it. It's going to be one generation of substance, but within several generations of people carrying forward.
In this transcript in which Uranda states that this is the time when Mother God must come into her own or man is lost, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/05/mother-god-must-come-into-her-own.html] he emphasizes that it is in this 2160 year Air cycle that things become absolutely critical. And certain things need to be achieved in specific phases during this 2160 year Age—this period that began around 1768, near the beginning of which Uranda then came into incarnation, and Martin. And we came as well. So this is just the beginning of things, obviously, when we think of what it would actually take to have this whole human nature scene cleaned up—it has taken 28,000 years to get into this mess, and it will take some time to have it completely cleared up. When we first considered these things years ago, we may have thought, well, this is going happen in forty years, and it will all be over. Well, certain things need to happen within certain definite time frames; but in the larger picture, in terms of the whole mop-up operation, it is within a longer period—not that long really in Cosmic terms—but it's going take several incarnations of angels, well trained to steward the process. This is our responsibility. This is our joy, akin to the Master's joy, to play our part in the Great Return and the finishing of this Great Work.
a Temple of Light service
Let Us Ascend To The Father
Easter Night
Uranda April 9, 1950 8 pm Sunrise Ranch
We come to the close of Easter Day in the year of our LORD, One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty. We cannot waste time in vain regret for the delays of the past. We cannot let ourselves look back in any manner that brings a re-attunement with the things that have passed away. In the processes of attunement with God and the things of God, the attunement with the things that have passed away and are passing away has been broken, that the identity of Being may be according to that which is Divinely Ordained. Forgetting those things which are behind and pressing on toward the mark of our High Calling in Christ Jesus, we have the opportunity of this hour and of the days allotted to us in time to come. It is for us to let this hour and all the hours that follow it be filled with the Golden Glow of Divine Reality, uncolored, unspoiled by the unrealities of the past or the unrealities of the world.
We have recognized that to follow all the way, we must let ourselves be lifted up to Him Who was lifted up, that we also may ascend unto the Father. That ascension which comes with the leaving of this world is important, but it is not that which we consider. While living on earth in the Kingdom that is at hand, we follow our Master in ascension. In this hour which God has granted us, let us let the inspiration of the Spirit bring a larger vision, a deeper understanding of what it means to ascend unto the Father.
The human mind which has been conditioned in time past to the unrealities of the world does not, immediately on coming into the Atmosphere of the Kingdom, have the ability to grasp and to understand clearly without a consideration of contrast. Coming into the Kingdom, we see that the contrast that is found in evil is not essential to an understanding and a realization of that which is Divine. We refuse to accept the old idea that the good is dependent upon the manifestation of the evil, or that the good cannot be seen and appreciated without the evil. Such ideas we reject, but as yet contrast, the recognition of contrast, helps to an understanding.
We have spoken of, and meditated upon, that Call to ascend unto the Father, as the Master put it, “To my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” If there is the opportunity of ascension, then there must likewise be the opportunity of descending. We remember Jacob’s ladder whereon he saw the Angels of God ascending and descending between Heaven and earth. While we recognize that there is a cycle of ascending and descending in this regard, it does not immediately portray that which is essential to our understanding tonight. There is, then, a process of ascending and descending which is not wrong, which is not contrary to the Divine Will, but the descending which is possible to human beings who are not in the Kingdom is to that which is unworthy of God’s Crowning Creation.
The idea of ascending to the Father tends to be vague to the human mind, or to be hedged about with fanciful ideas of some sort. What does it mean to us tonight? The Master said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The Father is in the Kingdom. I think the popular concept, by and large, is that after leaving Mary at the tomb, the Master must have gone off somewhere up into the skies, perhaps a million miles or so, and then speeded back in time to meet the disciples. I do not think we have to go a million miles or so to ascend to the Father. The Kingdom is at hand, and the Father is in the Kingdom, and He is near. We do not have to try to perform some Indian rope trick, to hang a rope upon some imagined sky-hook and try to climb it. No. Such mental gymnastics are as foolish as the fancy, the delusion, that comes to those who see the so-called rope trick. No, if we are to ascend to the Father, we need to let our minds be cleared of all the human concepts that have developed out of the past in relationship to this fulfillment.
The human mind needs to remember, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love and serve Him.” From the standpoint of that glorious example our Master gave, from the standpoint of His instruction and admonition, yea of His command to follow Him, we see that one of the things which God hath prepared for them that love and serve Him is that they should ascend unto the Father—but, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” and that which I say tonight is not supposed to tell you in just so many words just what you will experience. I am not seeking to express some fixed concept that will stand in the way of your fulfillment, but that in the Current of the Spirit, the realization may be gained whereby we may together be lifted up according to the Promise, “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” Surely this is vitally important to our Spiritual fulfillment whereby we may be in position to render service on earth to the Glory of God and to the Blessing of our brother man.
So, letting the former things remain where they are, passed away, and letting the mind be filled with that which God creates New, let us consider what it means to ascend to the Father. If we were to undertake to completely enumerate the Aspects of Being contained in the Father of which we know, our hour together would be far too short to consider it all, and having enumerated what we know, that which the mind can at the present time comprehend would not be adequate to the reality that is, but a few of the things that we know concerning the Father are: first, His Infinite Love. His Infinite Love. Ascending to the Father is opening ourselves still more fully, still more completely, to that which is of the Father. That which is of the Father and the Father cannot be separated; so the first thing necessary is the conviction in the mind and heart that we do not have to perform some impossible thing, that it is possible here and now, and that we do not have to try, but that we can let this thing take place and be a Reality in our own lives here and now. That which is of God is not to be separated from God.
So, we might conceivably, day by day, take some Aspect of the Father about which we know and deliberately consider that phase of the Father’s Being in relationship to all of our functions through the day, opening ourselves deliberately to that which we know to be of the Father. His Infinite Love—we have tasted much of that Love, the richness of God's Blessings to us, but there is more to be known. In opening ourselves to His Love, we remember that Love is that which produces all true union, all true blending. Without Love there is no true union. Heaven and earth are to be One, according to the Word. Heaven and earth are to be One. There is to be a union between this world and Heaven. There is to be a union between the human being and His God, and the only thing that produces true union is Love. So, the Father's Love is that which makes possible our ascending to Him, that we may be one with Him and let His Will be done on earth.
There is much more that could be said about His Love and about our function in relationship to His Love, but next I would put His Truth—the Father’s Truth, the Patterns of Being. The Father's Love and the Father’s Truth. We think of the Cosmos and we think of something far away and vast and incomprehensible, and yet we are not outside the Cosmos. This world in which we dwell is contained within the Cosmos. We are a part of that Cosmos. So, while there may be the applications of Truth that are peculiar to the far distant parts of the Cosmos, all the Truth that relates to us in any way, shape or form is contained right here where we are. The Father's Truth, then, is not far away. It is here at hand. It is here where we are. So, there are many avenues of meditation open to us in the consideration of the Father’s Truth.
Next, I would place His Life—the Father's Life. The first phase of that consideration would have to be the revelation of the Father’s Life as made manifest through Jesus Christ our LORD, because He revealed the Father, the Father's Life. We have much to consider there. We have given it much consideration, but there is much more. Then, as we have responded we have begun to recognize in relationship to ourselves something of the reality of the Father’s Life, the recognition that it is the Father’s Life that allows us to live, that our life is not apart from Him; it is not separate from Him. The fact of our lives depends upon the fact of the Father's Life. So, our consideration of this is not limited to something that was made manifest over nineteen centuries ago, as beautiful as that was. It is here; it is at hand. The Father’s Life here at hand, contained within ourselves, permits us to live and breathe and have our being. So, the Father's Life is not far away.
Contained within these Three Aspects of the Father’s Being of which we are aware, there are many phases of His Being—the Father's Power is one. We could look into the star-studded sky and marvel at God’s Great Creative Power, and it seems so vast and far away and we seem so small and insignificant. That is a manifestation of the Father's Power in which we rejoice and from which we can learn much, but let us not, seeing that, lose sight of the fact that right here, all around us every day, there are evidences of the Father's Power. We see a blade of grass coming up through the soil. We see a bird on the wing or hear its song. We see the mountains and the plains, the trees. We see the human being, fearfully and wonderfully made, with all of his members coordinated, working together, the heart beating, the lungs pumping the air, and all the mysterious, wonderful processes contained in the human body.
Yes, everywhere we look there is evidence of God's Power that is not far away, but is here, near at hand, manifest in ourselves, else we could not lift a hand, we could not breathe a single breath of air. The Father's Power—it is near at hand. It is one of those things that we must realize more deeply if we are to ascend to the Father, because we cannot exclude from ourselves those things that are of the Father and ascend to the Father at the same time. To whatsoever degree we segregate ourselves in mind or heart from that which is of the Father, we place ourselves in a position where we cannot draw near to the Father, and in ascension to Him we must surely draw near to Him. So, there is the Father's Power.
Then, we might note His Wisdom, the Father's Wisdom. Human beings can study the various things that God has made and gain knowledge about them, but whatever it is, from the tiniest form of animal life or plant life to the most complicated forms of life, whatever one may study, however much knowledge one may gain, one must recognize that the Wisdom that brought all these things forth is wonderful indeed, and always there is something amazing, something beyond the comprehension of man. How does life work and manifest in the blade of grass? Does any man know the secrets of life working in a blade of grass? Can he reproduce it? Can he take the substances found in a blade of grass and make that grass to appear—a living thing? No. Then, we must recognize that God's Wisdom is infinitely great, and that it is not just far away. The Father's Wisdom is here. These things could not just appear. What kind of a marvellous force would be causing all these things just to happen?
Sometimes human beings say, “But I do not know how I can have faith in God. I think I will follow along with those who are agnostics or atheists. I believe these things just happen.” What a wonderful happening. Growing up from an amoeba—and where did the amoeba come from? Faith—O. I admire such faith. It is far more than the faith a Christian needs, to believe that all these things could just happen. No. We do not need that much faith—thank God. So, there is the conviction about God's Wisdom and the recognition that it is not far away, that when the Master said, "The Kingdom is at hand," He meant exactly what He said. God’s Wisdom is certainly in the Kingdom and we see it near at hand, evidences of it all around us all the time, and if we are to ascend unto the Father we must open ourselves to His Wisdom, not shut ourselves off from it and say, “This is not for me; God has that over there, but He does not intend I should draw near to it; that is of God, but.” No, no. The Command the Master gave was to follow Him in the ascension unto the Father in the Kingdom that is at hand. So, His Wisdom, an Aspect of His Being, is all around us, available to us here and now as we open ourselves to it and let His Wisdom have meaning in our lives.
With all this Wisdom made manifest around us, with His Love to us, His invitation to ascend unto Him, to receive of His Love and His Truth and His Life and all the rest, why must human beings imagine that they are condemned to blindly stumble this way and that through life as if they were to be cut off from the very things which God says He longs to give to His Children? Why must human beings imagine they must stumble this way and that, with uncertainty? No, man is not supposed to be walking the way blindly. Wisdom is available for the understanding.
Another Aspect of the Father’s Being is Vision. When we have come in contact with sightless persons, we have surely given at least a second thought to the fact that we are thankful for the gift of physical eyesight. What a blessing it is. But vision is more than just physical eyesight. It is perception in all realms of being of which we may be aware, and it is evident God does not desire that we should go blindly stumbling this way and that. God has Vision. Consider the flowers, all the things that He made, all the things that they mean to human beings. Let us see now—God’s Vision. He made these things quite a long while ago, these things that human beings are just discovering have some use. Thousands of years ago God brought forth something, established it on earth, and for thousands of years human beings have passed it by, had no use for it at all. Maybe it was a weed, maybe something else. It has been there all the time and man just now is discovering that it really has a use.
Now, God's provision of that, so that it would be available when man awakened to the necessity—is that Vision? Does anyone need to be convinced that God has vision? That is what we mean by Vision. The ability to perceive in the outworking of things the natural sequences essential to our own points of responsibility, so that we are not asleep, we are not dull and failing to take account of the factors that are involved, at least insofar as we can perceive them, is Vision. But if we neglect to use our vision now possible to us within the scope of our present ability and we pray God for more vision, what is it? It is a futility; it is a farce. God's Vision is part of the expression of His Being and we are to ascend to Him, but if we fail to utilize the abilities of vision we have, we are separating ourselves from God and saying, “I will not ascend; you must come down to me and convince me of it all; I am not going to ascend.” That is not the way it works.
In all things whatsoever with respect to these phases of the Father’s Being, we must utilize that which is in us already, that which is available to us within the range of our present abilities, because a neglect of that use is a refusal to accept more, and until we are ready to receive more how can we draw nearer to God, ascend to the Father? Are the manifestations of the Father’s Being going to get less and less as we ascend to Him? No, not at all. They are going to increase. So, wherever we are, whatever our responsibilities and abilities, there must be an alertness, an openness and a willingness to use those phases of our own beings which correlate with the phases of the Father's Being of which we know. God is not requiring us to do something about that which we do not yet know, but with respect to the phases of the Father's Being about which we do know, there are certain aspects of being in ourselves of which we are likewise aware that should correlate, and if those phases of being in ourselves are not open to that in Him, and if we are not using those phases of being in ourselves for His Purposes, how are we going to ascend—how are the things of God going to increase in our lives?
So, when the Master admonishes us to ascend to the Father, to follow Him—and He led the Way—it is not some fanciful, far distant, vague something or other. It is something that is practical and near at hand; it is right here open to each and everyone, and in letting the phases of our own beings which properly correlate with these phases of the Father’s Being of which we know be brought into the practical play of living, we are beginning to ascend. It is not by struggling or by mental gymnastics, but by the simple process of recognizing plain, simple facts, by using a little of that Wisdom God has granted to us, a little of that Vision. So, we could go on and talk about more of those phases of His Being, but to what end? You can meditate upon them; you can detect them, but the phases of the Father's Being about which we are aware are the Open Gates through which we may ascend to a closer union with Him, but until the correlating phases of being in ourselves are open to that in the Father, we are not going to get anywhere. That which is in us, that which we now have that correlates with those phases of Being in the Father, must be open to Him so that we can begin to feel a union with the Father, a Oneness with the Father in Love, in Truth, in Life, in Power, in Vision, in whatsoever phase of being we may be considering.
I suspect that if I would not conduct another Service for a whole year, you could not properly run out of something to meditate upon—just from this one focalization of consideration. You could find it opening up more and more and more—not just in a year or ten years. In fact, I anticipate considering it for Eternity and I do not expect to run out of something to meditate upon. So, let us ascend to the Father, not just using fanciful words, not trying mental gymnastics or wishful thinking, but a practical recognition of the fact that the Kingdom is at hand, and that these Phases of Being are in the Father and we know it and He has given us the correlating phases of being which can be opened to Him and used, and union with the Father will begin to manifest through the individual by reason of the working of the Law.
So, I thank God for you, for your progress in time past, and in this Easter Day for the fulfillments that have been made manifest. I thank God for all the multitudes of blessings we have received and for that which has been accomplished, but we are just beginning, and we have a wonderful opportunity. This process of ascending to the Father, of letting that which is of the Father find expression in our lives, is as endless as Eternity itself—always something new, something wonderful and glorious. Let no one in self-righteousness imagine that he has arrived. No, but let us truly follow our LORD and ascend unto the Father, “Unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”
Martin Cecil — O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, we lift up our hearts in thanksgiving this evening for that outworking that we have experienced this day, and not only that which we have experienced this day, but that which has come into manifestation in all the days that have led to this day. We recognize and give thanks for that increased Vision which permits us to know as never before Thy Loving Kindness, and as we draw to the close of this Easter Day we rejoice in that outpouring of Thy Spirit in the Currents of Thy Love and Truth and Life which we have experienced here this evening, for the joy and the wonder of the Vision that is opened before us, that we may truly, according to Thy Commandment, ascend unto the Father. O LORD GOD, we thank Thee that Thou hast turned our heart back again, that coming into the Kingdom we may abide therein, letting ourselves fulfill those Purposes, according to Thy Will, to which we have been called in Thy Name, that the fulfillments to which the prophets of all ages have looked may come to pass surely and certainly in Thy Love and Power and Wisdom whereby all things are made New, in the Christ. Aum-en.
Uranda — Aum-en. Peace be unto you under the Law of the Kingdom, Now and Forever.
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He Has Called Your Name
Easter Day
Uranda April 9, 1950 11 a.m. Sunrise Ranch
It is a glorious day and already we have had a glorious outworking and now we are privileged to gather again to share in a further communion in the Spirit of God's Love and Truth and the expression of His Life.
O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, we thank Thee for the blessedness of this day which Thou hast made manifest, and with hearts full of love, we thank Thee for that first Easter Day which makes possible our fulfillment in this Faster Day as we share with Thee in the Victory. We thank Thee that as Thy Will is done on earth in the Kingdom that Thou hast established, so shall the shining of the Light give assurance and courage to all who turn to Thee, whosoever, wheresoever they may be, that all Thy Children everywhere may share in the blessedness of Thy Wondrous Love and the beauty of Thy Glorious Iruth, that, altogether we may let the Life, the Christ Life, have meaning on earth for all who will receive in Thy Holy Name. Aum-en.
“And when he had opened the Seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour.” You have been sharing this morning the unspeakable beauty of that Silence in Heaven, that which cannot be expressed in word, that which must be lived to give it meaning in the unfolding cycles of time.
Easter Morning—we have felt this day something of the feeling which pervaded Heaven that first Easter morning when our Master established the Victory. Usually, in thinking of Easter, the thought expressed is that our LORD was resurrected from the tomb. The fact is that our LORD was never subject to the tomb, but His Body was. It was our LORD’s Body that was resurrected, not the LORD Himself, for man could not touch Him.
The LORD Himself, men could not crucify. The LORD Himself could not be placed in a tomb and sealed there—it was His Body against which self-active human beings took action—it was His Body that was placed in the tomb—and it was His Body that came forth in the Resurrection and the Life. So is it today, it is not the LORD who has stood in need of the Resurrection and the Life, but the body of His Faithful Ones on earth, the body of His Children everywhere that has stood in need of the Resurrection and the Life.
You have today tasted something of that Resurrecting Power by which the Members of His Body are set free from the darkness of the tomb, that, entering into the Garden of God, they may know that it is futile to look in the tomb to find the LORD. Too long have human beings looked into the tomb, but, as the Angels said, “He is not there.” No, it is not in the tomb that we will find our LORD, although He sends His Angels to bring us forth from the tomb of this world's darkness into the Light of an Easter Day.
It is in the Garden, you will remember, that Mary, when she first recognized the Master's Presence, supposed Him to be the gardener. He was, and is, but not in the sense she thought. No, first perceiving Him, she did not see Him as He was; she did not recognize Him, but He was there in the Garden beyond the tomb. Her fear was that they, persons unknown, had taken her LORD away. How many times since that day have human beings imagined that someone, somewhere, what someone else did, what someone else said, had taken their LORD away. Human beings with their puny activities cannot take the LORD away—it cannot be done. How should the LORD be taken away? No, He was not in the tomb; it was futile to look there and it still is, but they, persons unknown or known, have not taken Him away; they cannot; He is there in the Garden of God.
When her name fell from His blessed lips, “Mary,” the sound of His Voice awakened her from that trance of sorrow that had engulfed her. She was awakened so that she could see that which was before her. The Master was there in the Garden—she knew someone was there but she had not recognized Him. How often human beings have been like that. But the wonderful thing is this: that when He called her name she did not just go blindly on; she was not so deeply engulfed in her own thoughts and ideas that she did not hear; no, she heard Him speak and knew His Voice and answered, “Master.”
There was acknowledgment; there was recognition; there was the depth of love response, uttermost devotion according to the Law of the Kingdom, “Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all Thy heart and mind and spirit and soul and with all thy strength.” Yes, in that answer that came forth from the depths of her heart, you can see and feel and know her fulfillment of the Law, and she saw her LORD. How many times the Master, walking in the Garden of God on earth has called the names of those who did not hear, those who went blindly on, immersed in their own ideas and concepts and their own anguish and human desires, so busy looking in the tomb, so busy worrying about who they might have been and what they might have done to the LORD that they could not hear His Voice.
In time past, you recognize, He has called your name, for today is not the first time He called your name, but you never answered Him as you did this morning. When the anguished heart grows still, and when the mind is quiet, when there is the fullness of love response to Him, then can the human being hear the Call, for He has called your name as surely as He called the name of Mary long ago. We have known something of His Presence; we have sensed it; we have recognized it; so have tens of thousands and millions of others. It is not that we have forgotten the LORD. Mary was searching for Him; so are tens of millions of others searching, looking in the tomb when He is not there; but in the Garden of God He is walking, and He calls the name of each one who searches for Him.
You know that He has called your name, and hearing, you have begun to see and hear truly that wondrous Voice of Love—that Love that will not let you go. Mary answered, “Master.” What do we answer when He calls? If He is our Master, then let us so function in our lives that we prove that it is so, in the fullness of devotion, obedience and trust—in that faith that springs from love for God that cannot be shaken by what any may think or say or do or be, or by what may take place in the world around us, faith that springs from unshakable love for God, that God's Love working through us may have meaning on earth.
That Easter Day set the pattern and opened the Way for this Easter Day which we are privileged to share. What greater honor, what greater privilege could God bestow than this? Our LORD came into the world because God so loved the world and He brought the message, “Repent and be baptized, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” We have found it so. In our lives we have proven His Words are true, true and righteous altogether—the Way, the Truth and the Life. As we meditate upon that Easter Day and see the outworkings of this Easter Day, in our own hearts and minds we know that we have begun to taste, begun to see, that we have begun to feel—but it is little more than that—the Victory of His Kingdom, the Eternal wonders. We have just begun. He opened the Way. He set the pattern for this Easter Day.
After He spoke to Mary, He said, “Touch me not for I have not yet ascended unto my Father.” Having brought His Body forth from the tomb, His first business was to ascend to the Father and what did He say? He told Mary to go and tell the other disciples, saying, “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” His instruction was and is to follow Him, follow Him in the Resurrection and the Life, follow Him in ascending unto the Father. His first business, His first fulfillment of responsibility after the Resurrection of His Body was to ascend unto the Father. It was after that that He met with His disciples and talked with them concerning the things of the Kingdom.
First, he ascended unto the Father, and following through, following Him, we must do likewise. It is not enough merely to taste of the Resurrection and the Life—we must together ascend unto the Father. The only way we can know that fulfillment is by following our Master in the expression of His Love for the Father. His Commandment was: “Follow me.” That is His Commandment to each one of us—follow Him. We have seen how that following must lead to the crucifixion of that human self that is not of Him, how it must lead through the tomb, through the Resurrection and then, if we are to follow Him all the Way, the next step is to ascend unto the Father. What was it He said unto the one who saw Him in the Garden, what message did He give? He said, go and tell them, “Behold I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” He made it very clear that He was not ascending to some high Heaven denied to those who should follow after Him. He was ascending and as He said before, “Whither I go ye know, and the Way ye know.” He had prayed and given assurance to those who followed after that “Where I am, there ye may be also.”
He expected His followers to follow Him all the Way, including the ascension to the Father. We thank God that it is so. As you continue to let the Cycles of the Spirit work in the silences of your soul, holding true under the Law of the Kingdom, abiding in the attitude of the Angels' Song, you shall surely find the processes of ascension working in and through you to fulfill His Word even as He said, “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.”
He made it clear and plain that as He ascended unto the Father, He expected those who followed Him to let themselves ascend unto the Father. “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me,” and so we are to let the process of ascension work in heart and mind and body and soul that we may share that which He established then, that which He made possible for the children of men. This is our opportunity, our privilege, our sacred responsibility on this beautiful Sunday, this Easter, Nineteen Hundred Fifty.
O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, I thank Thee for these Blessed Ones who are letting themselves be opened more fully moment by moment and hour by hour and day by day to Thy Great Love that they may be lifted up into that place which Thou hast prepared for them in Thy Kingdom which is at hand on earth, that they may truly let Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. O LORD, we thank Thee that as we share and know and experience the wonder of the working of Thy Spirit, we know that all Thy Children everywhere of every color and creed, of every race and clime are likewise being drawn into the Spirit of the Resurrection and the Life that, moving steadfastly forward, all who will may share the Resurrection of Easter Season and the ascension to that place which Thou hast prepared for us in Thy Kingdom that is at hand on earth. O LORD, I thank Thee that it is so and I thank Thee for the blessings of Thy peace which rest upon these Earnest Ones here gathered and upon all who turn to Thee, whosoever, wheresoever they may be, IN the Christ. Aum-en.
The Peace of our LORD, Jesus Christ be with you now and forever. The LORD has truly been good to us this Easter Day and now we have a lovely afternoon in which to let His Spirit continue working in our hearts. We look forward to gathering again at the appointed hour this evening.
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