It is wonderful to be with you all. As some mentioned, Marsha and I are here in Atlanta with our friends here; and we have had a marvelous time together since yesterday. We will be here for one more day.
I'm still feeling the echoes of the powerful soaring spirit of the music of “Home Among the Stars” [“Ceremony of Exaltation”]. I felt in the music, the power of the soaring spirit of the body of the Lord—perhaps the soaring of the eagle Mary Janak and Robert Kauffman touched on one month ago in their service here. An eagle in flight, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-living-expression-of-god-on-earth.html] a symbol of the Spirit of Truth, perhaps a symbol of the body of the Lord in flight. A very apt symbol, don't you think, of the character and spirit of the Lord, of divine expression?
I want to recount an episode that Marsha and I were witness to five days ago on a high mountain lake above Loveland, Colorado, at about 6,500 feet nestled among mountains. Truly beautiful. Marsha and I were a little above the lake shoreline overlooking the panorama, sharing what might come to focus in this Sunday service today; and mid-sentence, a short distance from us, across the water, a white-headed eagle came swooping down from above and landed on a small rock. I thought this amazing, wonderous, what coincidence! And then within a minute later, a second white-headed eagle came flying above and then swooped directly down onto the same rock. And the two eagles were then standing together, wingspan distance from each other on that rock that was maybe five or six feet wide. This was a dramatic sight; and I wondered: “What is the message, the meaning? Evidently, heaven is conveying something. In the spiritual context of this moment, the timing... How does an eagle appear now? Not one, but two. Not in a tree, or far, but in front of us on a small rock, on this pristine lake, and in this pristine moment... The eagle that was already on the rock wasn't perturbed by the second eagle swooping down and landing next to it. Evidently, they were partners. I discovered, googling on the internet later that these were bald eagles and that they mate for life, and are often in pairs.
“What does heaven desire to bring to focus?” This was the stream of conversation Marsha and I were having as the eagles appeared. Various thoughts came to me, some of it progressively over the last five days, including about the meaning of these two eagles. One thought was: These were two eagles in agreement—majestic, independent, strong, upright, but in agreement, and completely unafraid of each other. And standing on the rock together—what rock? the Rock of Truth. And then I thought about two other eagles: Uranda and Martin. The spirit of Uranda, the eagle, landed on the rock of truth in this incarnation first; then a second eagle came flying and landed on the same rock, and shared agreement. Two majestic beings sharing one agreement in service to our LORD and KING. My heart was full of the meaning of this: two majestic eagles in agreement.
Then I thought, these two eagles in agreement relate not just to the past—Uranda and Martin, as magnificent as they were—but they relate to two God Beings in agreement, anywhere, and now; two God Beings in agreement today. And ultimately not just two in agreement, but two in agreement and more; and the expansion of that agreement. The strength, the uprightness, the noble expression of the divine through any one of us, first. But it has to start with one. And who might that one be? It's each one of us. It’s the noble expression of the divine, symbolized in the eagle in each of us. It begins to come forth in us. That brings the possibility of the second eagle appearing and coming into agreement. If there isn't the first starting point, there isn't a starting point. So there has to be one first, and that's each one of us. As each one of us comes into agreement with the LORD Most High, that's the first agreement. Then there is the natural agreement between us, between the divine expression, the eagle in each of us, the natural agreement between you and me, between you and someone else near you. That's how it happens. The LORD’s power is manifest through two or more—we have heard this before—two or more in Noble Agreement.
Some of you probably remember the drawings of the Ark of the Covenant: two cherubim with wings extended towards the center, between which the LORD comes forth. The wings of two cherubim—and I thought, hmm, the wings of two eagles in agreement, allowing the LORD's power to come forth.
And I want to say a word about the services offered through the Temple of Light monthly; the services offered through the Tone of Life; through other groupings; through Sunrise Ranch; through Korea. These are all important vessels in the manifestation of the LORD's expression on earth, and I hold them precious and valuable.
Yesterday a group of us were gathered here and at Carol Smith's suggestion we read Uranda’s 1954 service transcript, Atomic Power [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/07/atomic-powercorrelation-of-concurrent.html]. So timely, so pertinent, so important. As probably many of us here know, the movie “Oppenheimer” just opened a few days ago and many people are seeing it. Uranda speaks about Robert Oppenheimer in this service “Atomic Power”, and his own keen interest in the emergence of right power, spiritual power on earth. But, he says, that the manifestation of material power is moving ahead of the manifestation of divine control through the LORD's body on earth and we have some catching up to do. And he was urging diligence so that the divine control needed to allow power to be used rightly would be in place.
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Hearing this could engender, for some of us, a little sense of discouragement. If the control pattern that was manifest under Martin’s leadership dissipated so much, the thought might go, “What chance now?” To this concern and possible sense of futility, “How could we do it now?” I say this: Victory is possible in the exact conditions we have now. Victory is possible in these exact conditions. One person maintaining true agreement with heaven—a true control pattern brought forth decisive victory. We already have the precedent of that through our Master, under the most unfavorable condition imaginable. Are our conditions today less favorable than His? He did it in circumstances of the greatest imaginable pressure. So here's my rhetorical question: Should we do less? Should we do less? Did we come on earth to do less? Did we want all conditions to be really nice, really favorable? Our KING didn’t ask that. He would have preferred otherwise. We would have preferred otherwise. But we take the circumstances and the conditions exactly as they come. And one person holding true agreement in heaven, allowing the pressure of the circumstance to be in fact the power, the wind behind the wings, can allow the flight of the expression of the KING, the expression of the eagle. That one flight establishes victory. One flight. And we can be sure, if here is one flight there will be a second flight, and a third and a fourth.
In what worked out with our Master, He held the control pattern and the heavenly agreement under those circumstances, and brought forth victory. But He wasn't alone. There was one disciple that held that control pattern with him. Not just one, as probably all of us recall. There were three women who held the agreement and the control pattern, and that assured a victory that needed to come. Because of that, that which worked out in this time could work out. And had those patterns not held, we probably wouldn't have had the beginning in this recent cycle. Not ideal circumstances and conditions, but victory was established. Not ideal circumstances today, but we can establish victory regardless. One person, two persons, assuring there's the flight of the eagle in themselves—this is the victory.
In the late 1990’s when there was great deal of turbulence going on in the Emissary body, the manifest body of the LORD on earth focalized at that time, Grace Van Duzen said this: “We didn't come this far, to fail.” There was no doubt, no question, in her statement, “We didn't come this far, to fail.” Yes, we didn't come this far to fail. Let there be the wings of two eagles in agreement, standing in the pattern of truth, now. As Martin often said, “We don't need great numbers.” Great numbers would be great, but we don't need great numbers. The Master didn't have great numbers to do what He did. We don't need great numbers to do what we need to do today.
I want to come back to this a little later, but I want to bring to you something different for a moment, different but in the vein of the emergence of the expression of the eagle. I want to bring to you the evidence of the manifestation of one wing of an eagle that relates to the emergence of spiritual expression in Korea. And I want to show you some of this through words as well as through photographs. Some of you have known about this, but I want to bring it a little more specifically. But I want to bring this not as one specific place, but as a symbol—a symbol of the noble spirit, the response, and the hunger present in the world, in response to the LORD of Lords. I also want to bring this in a spirit of mirth and joy, and in a spirit of enlivenment, and also encouragement. And I want to put it this way: I want to introduce you to your dance partners in the East—you, a wing of the eagle here in the West, please meet your dance partners of the eagle in the east. They also happen to be your younger companions. That's also the delightful part—younger companions, in a shared passion for the truth shared passion for the LORD, in a shared passion to stand in the identity of upright Noble Kings, serving the KING of Kings together. So. I'll show a number of photos quite quickly, and then I want to read some things for you.
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This first photo, I put in because of the symbol and the feel that it gives. It's a symbol of the passionate response upward, represented in this body and group of people. The photo is one of our numbers in Korea. Isn't that truly beautiful? Then, a picture of a triangle of light—this is a physical setting that is in many of our seminars.
Now, various individuals. I'll go over them quickly. These are your younger companions. Many of these are our staff; many of them are faculty; they range in age from twenties to sixties. Isn’t that delightful! And in the center of this photo is Jae Hyoung, our main other eagle in Korea. He and I and Marsha gave services in Korea; now he and I mostly, but now joined by the younger generation in giving services. This is all our staff in seminars and classes. Vigorous expression.
This is an Art of Living seminar, a first level seminar, doing the water wheel—you'll remember that—true thinking. We have a lot of attunement teaching and practice going on. That's Marsha giving a presentation, and me and another translator translating. Here are three white-haired ones; so there are older generations—both of these individuals have been with the ministry for 25-30 years. Then, these are 3 young sisters. The oldest sister has done all the classes, and is serving as staff in our seminars. And that's the mother, by the way, of the three sisters. She's come to a number of our seminars and has been transforming, and the daughters say their house and home have changed so dramatically; there is ease and tenderness and something that they had not known together because of various traumas that they had gone through together. In this photo, she is crying in joy. The new generation—aren’t those eyes gorgeous!
Now I want to introduce these three women. These three women are the focus or vision team in Korea, beside me and Jae Hyoung, and have the responsibility to set the pattern and direction for the whole program. These are the three women and Jae Hyoung. And this one, she is the one who has probably been with us the longest as faculty. She was a top corporate coach in Korea. And this is a group of seven women who coordinate something that is called a Servers Group, which is about 36 people now, used to be 22—and the 22 had been meeting every two weeks by Zoom for hour and a half to two hours for the last two years; having done all the classes, and they've been growing together, and they've been joined by 14 more.
So about 34 are meeting every two weeks by Zoom now. And these seven coordinate that group, and they break up into small groups, and so on. And this is a group of—I'm not sure if all 33 were here—but 33 individuals gathered just in April, and this occasion is just after the Living the Word class. And in that Living the Word class I took a risk and shared in the last hour, “Meeting My King” by Uranda, which is the final hour in some of the classes we used to have long ago. It penetrated very deeply for many of them. So they are moving in the spirit of this. And this servers group is, right now, reading Uranda’s “Talks Beside The Sundial, Volume One.” They already read “Volume Two” a while back, so right now they are reading “Volume One”. And one of the things they're doing is, every couple of days, each one of them uploads one or two lines that they loved and a comment about it. So, there's a powerful generation going on. But when this group was gathered, they wrote a poem together at the end of the weekend which I want to read to you. What they did was that the 33 of them wrote one sentence each, and then one person collated them and synthesized them into one collective poem. It was this man, Woosung, in his late thirties, who did the synthesis. I want to read what emerged because it carries the spirit of the eagle rising. It is titled “The Song of the Sword”. They also titled it, “Opening A New Cycle Of 50,000 Years.”
It's time.
It's time.
It's a good time right now.
A time that will not return again.
O sons and daughters of the sun,
On this morning of a new 50,000 years.
We who have passed through a new serene and exultant door,
Clad in armor of dignified light
That neither harm nor destroys.
Let us dance the joyful dance of life,
Let us sing the song of love.
The sharpest most peaceful sword in the world,
The sword of worthiness,
Is here within.
There is nothing to fear.
Whatever comes, I shall trust the heaven within me.
I shall stand tall.
I will reveal heaven's timeless longing.
I will bring forth the ocean of life, the forest of heaven.
Come, kindred sisters and brothers
Here now into the embrace of light.
I shine light upon the light in my sisters and brothers.
I reveal the will of heaven. 04-23-23
They wrote this, but it wasn't one person, it was the 33 together. And I had no part in it. I was amazed and delighted. So you can feel the spirit of deep response to the LORD, and the rising in stature. Next, I want to play a short portion of an audio of Norae Jiyoung, who is one of the three women. She is our executive director. In the three women is represented the seed of a new generation of spiritual focus, but she in these words will really represent all of them. By the way, this was sent to a small group of us, but I felt it representational to all of us as elders of light, so I wanted to share it:
“Dear Elders of Light. I am very grateful to be able to write this letter. I am Norae Jiyoung. A few weeks ago I heard through Yujin that you have been doing zoom meetings. My heart was warmly beating and I was deeply grateful because you were there, even us in Korea were able to meet these words. I want to tell you our story along with my thanks to you. Korean friends, including me, had the last time of Living the Word program today. This was a time to meet every two weeks after LTW to read and share the words of Uranda and Martin. Since it was the last day, they shared their thinking and inspiration about the Living the Word program. The expression that came out the most in that impression was ‘the body of light.’ And I would like to convey a few more sentences. ‘I am so grateful to be able to be with this the body of light.’ ‘I don't want to go back to me before Living the Word.’ ‘Solidarity with the Word and divine people who love the Word.’ ‘Living the Word is LOVE.’ Hearing this story, I thought of you all together. Before we were like this, my mentors Yujin and Masha, and you must have been there. I thought that. I am here in Korea. But my spirit is with you. Yujin introduced you to me. You are indeed dear Friends of the Light. Because of you, we were able to be invited into the body of a light. Your service in the past has become a path for us. Thank you for being a channel of light. With you in your meeting. I send you deep love and blessing. 27th May 2023. Norae.
I want to share some words from about a month ago, which was the first service where now we are having this younger generation of leadership speak together in service with me and with Jae Hyoung. Norae spoke at that time, along with Sunhee Lee and me. I want to read Norae's closing words in that service:
“Come, let us stand in the identity of the KING together. Let's truly allow ourselves to be Kings. Let's stand together and shine our light on each other, and let's center in our KING of Kings in heaven so that heaven's creation may be born in a new earth. That is our work. That is what we are here to do now. And let us close with these words together. LORD, not my will but Thy will be done.”
Then I want to share a response that someone wrote two days later. And it was written by this young woman, Soyeun. She says: “Today I heard this service by Sunhee, Norae and Yugin. I was so thankful to hear such precious words: An invitation to the position and identity of the King. An invitation to be a channel for heaven through releasing all and giving all. An invitation to so function as to assist in the emergence of the greatness of heaven through one's companions. I heard it deeply. Thus, it is to be outwardly a true King, and inwardly a Priest of Light. I inscribe deeply inside me, that all that is needed is to give way, so that heaven might come forth through me. There was a time when I pondered living as a priest or priestess. On this day, I lift to heaven my inner ceremony of ordination. I will live as a Priestess of Light. I will stand in the place of the King.”
So, I wanted to share the spirit of the priests and priestesses, emerging in the East—one part of the body, one wing of the eagle. And I want to share this, for us to know that there is more emerging than just the ones that are immediately visible to us. And in part also to know that they are depending on us. They know our presence. They keenly know our presence! And they know the training that we have had, the training that they have had much less of. With the lesser amount of training, they are doing their utmost to come forth, release self-centeredness, release patterns of preference, stubbornness, and to allow the Lord to act through them. Just before I left, I spoke with the small group of them, particularly the three women, and I said to them, “Your job is to speak the Word. Your job is to represent the LORD on earth. But to represent the LORD on earth, ultimately, you will need to accept being the Lord on earth, through yourself.” And I said, “This may seem like a big job. But this is the call of the day, and it is what the accelerating cycle is assisting in happening, that the identity and spirit of the Lord may come forth fully.”
There was a time when we were with Martin—in some ways we were young. We are older, more experienced now. And in a way, the requirement was maybe a little bit lesser then, than now. Two words of Martin stay with me. In a way this is his legacy, will and wish for us: Be Me. Be Me. Don't imitate me, but be me, as in the full stature of Divine Being through you. Be me, as in be the full expression of the Lord through you. And the younger generation emerging is already attuning into that creative invitation: Be Me, on earth. And I feel we, in a way, have a responsibility from this side, to embrace them, invite them, to join as the two noble, majestic eagles on the rock of truth.
So, in part today, I bring you your dance partners. But again, not just Korea, but representing many more that are rising in the earth. And as I said earlier, to never think that the fewer in numbers means that victory is not possible. One Divine Being, God Being, in agreement with heaven, brought victory. It doesn't take numbers. Let us let there be one, two, three, four, more—through a core, even if small. There's something to transpire, which is a great and decisive victory. So, let us be heartened—the LORD is with us.
Gary Courtland-Miles — Thank you so much Yujin. It's been a delight to soar with you and all our friends, to hold that spirit inviolate, as we look down with the great vision, to let the great vision of truth come through our eye—the I that we are. And it's just such a joy to see and delight in the love in each one of the individuals and as a group from Korea. It's wonderful, wonderful work that's been done there, and as you reminded us, we hold something steady and sacred for them as well. So yes, it can be done. It's wonderful to fly with you.
Carol Travis — I am so moved, that it's difficult to speak; I am moved by the beauty and the wonder of the spirit of those Korean friends that you have shared with us. I've had a privilege of attending some of your Zoom calls over the last couple of years and I know how much they appreciate our surround for them and how glorious this spirit is that's come forth, just in the last couple of years for them. And as you said, we had so much more, in our experience of the mentors that greeted us when we came in touch with this ministry. And now we are the elders and we do have the responsibility to put our arms around these ones that we know of, and many more that we don't know of. I'm so grateful for what you have brought to focus, and I love the image of the eagles. I too have had such experiences. Once when I came back to Sunrise Ranch after many years, there was an eagle that flew along the side of the road of the bus that I was travelling on to the Ranch, and I thought my goodness, that's interesting! Then once when there was a Congress and I went up the hill above Green Ridge with a friend and we got lost. We came down the hill; it was difficult, all kinds of brush and everything and we came out right by the canal. As we were giving thanks for having made it down the hill in time for the Congress session that we were supposed to be focusing, an eagle came and landed on a branch, right next to us. And I felt the spirit of Martin and Uranda so deeply in that. I don't think it was a coincidence, not at all. Thank you and bless you for what you bring to focus.
Jim Crowner — Yujin, I live in a place where I'm blessed—some call it God's country but we all know it's all God's country—but I live in a place where eagles are very apparent all the time. I can't go outside my house without hearing them and I'm blessed in that. But through what you shared today, we all live with eagles. We all live with eagles that are everywhere, but we may not readily see that in momentary living—but with expanded consciousness, expanded heart and expanded love for one another, we have opportunity to see that more readily apparent in everything and in everyone we come in contact with. I just thank you for your magnificent expression.
Millicent Holliday — Yujin, it's just been wonderful to be closely with you today, and I'm thinking of what you showed of those beautiful, precious ones in Korea, and it makes me think of the parents' attitude towards their child, that they would do everything to offer protection, to offer encouragement, to offer enfoldment for their child so that they can grow to be their full radiant potential and shine their glorious lights. Their lights shine so brightly. What a wonder and what a joy. And how much in our own day to day worlds, we can be aware of those lights around us and give them the opportunity to rise up and fly with us, and restore this glorious place to what the Lord intended. Thank you Yujin.
Laura Fisher — My thanks to you Yujin, and for the glory that has been put upon us on this day. I am thinking of something that we once called the long view. And I want to tell you that I was privileged to be in the home that cared for the family, for Martin when he was leaving. It had been very foggy in Kamloops for 3 weeks. About 10 minutes after we got the news, the fog began to lift. And shortly after that a huge eagle landed in the tree outside the kitchen window where I was working. There is such proof of longevity and absolute trust in a process that has been going on forever. And here we are, a gathering of elders, saying good-bye to some and hello to others. I so honor the work you and Marsha have done in Korea, to bring these ones to such a glorious abundance of adoration of true purpose. Our job of providing a place on earth for people to sing their praises upward is a glorious job, and how beautifully we do it together, my friends, how we always have, and we always will. Two wings of the same eagle. Thank you, so much.
Anne Blaney — What stood out to me listening to Norae, and hearing about the these young ones in Korea, was the nakedness of their heart. How they were able to speak with a freshness, a yieldedness and an openness of heart. And I was thinking how there is a tendency as one gets older to cover the heart by various means. You said something Yujin, about using the pressure to be the wind beneath the wings, using the pressure of the world. As we get older, we are more aware of the pressures of the world. The response to that is really key: not to let the perception get burdened, or go numb to what it is that has been exposed, the fact that has been exposed. And to take that next step of using the awareness of the pressure to allow the heart to continue to be used as it was in its naked youth. So I don't know about anyone else, but I was having memories of the state of the heart; for instance, when went to class when we were younger—and these stories reminded me of that state of the open heart which is so crucial for the Lord, because it allows perception of finer things. And that's our job now. So I appreciate very much what you brought, and I too was very touched. Thank you.
Arno Van Haght — Thank you Yujin, and to Mary for refocusing the presence of the Spirit of Truth a few weeks ago. Earlier Yujin, you provided encouragement—that victory is possible, regardless of the circumstance; and shortly thereafter you used the word “establish”, and of course you cannot establish anything if it hasn't already been present, insofar as it has already come up in consciousness. But you used it as an encouragement for us not to despair—that the victory has always been present. Perhaps what has been missing is the willingness to offer the fullness of the capacities that we have, to establish the reality of that victory. The design and control is already in place. It is simply for us to embody the reality of that, as we take up the place that is individually, uniquely ours, in that design, the place already established for us, and then the reality of that victory becomes a personal experience, but also a collective experience. The fact that we could even be here, even have memories of Martin and Uranda, have the Word that was shared in Korea, their fruit the way that it has, is evidence of the victory. The Spirit of Truth, the Comforter has never left us, ever. It's the reason that we are able to continue to work with such devotion and passion and joy to release more of the fulfillment, that the KING has been waiting and wanting and desiring to share with us. And here we are, with the opportunity to allow that, to be real, in the midst of things just as they are. On the one hand, we might recognize the responsibility to what was symbolized by the newly maturing ones in Korea. They are actually evidence of the victory; they're already the evidence of the expansion of that victory, and the many more that are symbolized by them. And in fact they enfold all of us as much as we enfold them, because arguably while some of us might have doubted that victory was possible in the last 15-30 years, clearly they don't believe that! So one wonders who's encompassing whom. But again, the Lord in His sense of humor, but also in the inevitability of the fulfillment of His promise, will not take “no” for an answer. And so we're back to Grace Van Duzen, who said “We've come too far to fail.” What a wonderful way to celebrate with all of you, the present victory, to expand the victory in the little things as much as in the big things; to know that the East meets the West, the South meets the North, the cross is established over the entire holy world, and the LORD is in His Holy Temple because we are here. We are able to let that light shine—because we can.
David Barnes — Yujin, I had an image come to mind, of the two wings of the great eagle. And I thought of how often that great eagle, Martin, who himself came in the spirit and power of Elijah, told the story of the prophet Elijah. The story of how Elijah had told his disciple, Elisha, that if he was present at the time of Elijah's ascension that Elijah would cast his mantle, and if Elisha was present and was in the right state of consciousness, he would receive the mantle of Elijah. And Martin years ago cast his mantle, you might say he spread his wings over the body he loved and brought forth, and said: if you are present when I depart, my mantle will land upon you, and the great responsibility that comes with the bearing of that mantle as my disciples, becomes yours. And there's evidence of that here today, in what you've brought to us, of the recognition that that mantle has been cast and that there are those who know that they are here to bear it—the great cloud, the great wing, the mantle of the Master surrounding and flowing upon those who carry the responsibility for the focus of spirit, the spirit of the LORD's Body, now. I know that Uranda's mantle was spread over the whole of Robert Oppenheimer's life. We saw the movie the other day and it became obvious: I spent a lot of time yesterday, working with the paper “Atomic Power” and it became obvious to me that his great mantle was cast like protecting wings and as a guiding force, over Oppenheimer and all that he had under his care at that time. It's easy to perceive the spirit that was present there when you listen to the man. My main point is that that mantle of the LORD's casting has been present over all those who have done the work to receive it, and we have been offered the opportunity to bear that great mantle and to carry forward our responsibility now, providing the reality of agreement, the arc of agreement, between those two wings above the Ark, with the mercy seat between, and the spirit of Shekinah moving in the Temple. This is a reality. It's happening now. We're experiencing it. And your great spirit, bringing the expansive field from the east to us today has been so rich. There is a great deal of work to be done, and fields of enfoldment and care that await our hand; and you have demonstrated, Yujin, how this can be done with a light touch and a light spirit, focused absolutely in the spirit of the KING. It's been a wonderful morning, all of us together. It has felt like we were in Council together, and I think we have been.
Yujin Pak — Thank you, David, and each one. I'm delighted to bring the wing of the east into our midst; but more delighted to bring the spirit of victory of our KING into our midst. And I want to close with these words. There are some who have thought, “if what Martin raised of a body of the KING on earth went through what it did, there's no more possibility and it can't be done.” So the words, “It can't be done.” We have heard them somewhere, “It can't be done.” Twelve spies of Joshua went into the promised land and ten of them reported back fearfully that there were great giants in the land, and we are as grasshoppers before them: “It can't be done.” In the vocabulary of the body of the LORD. There is no such sentence, “It can't be done.”
Would our KING say of the circumstance that we currently are working with, “It can't be done”? Would Martin or Uranda say to us now, “It can't be done”? We know their spirit. We know the spirit of the Lord. It can be done, and the doing is the maintaining of the character, the spirit of victory of the LORD, no matter what happens at the level of form. And that's exactly what the Master did. No matter what happens at the level of form, no matter what pressures emerge—which may emerge quite a bit, in the days ahead, no matter what happens at the level of form, we express the character and the spirit of victory of the LORD into that condition, that circumstance. And we are unmoved by the results, unmoved by what happens at the level of form.
This is the victory. It was made very clear to us, again and again, and all that is left is for us to prove it. How large a body maintains the spirit of victory through the tumults that may come, we don't know. But there will be a core that will maintain that spirit of victory, just as the three women and one man maintained it with the KING at that time. That representation will be present—and may it be not just three women and one man, but many women and many men, and all of us included here. So, it is wonderful to be very flexible, and surrendered at the level of form, expressing the spirit of victory, knowing that the victory is spirit, and that spirit and spiritual expression is supreme. Wonderful to share this time together. Thank you, friends.
Robert Merriman — Wonderful indeed, Yujin. Thank you so very much. Our next service in the Temple of Light will be on August 20th with Daniel Cartwright. And the following service on September 17th will be with David Barnes and myself. Let us sustain the current that is moving as we listen to some music, and prepare to provide living proof that true stature walks on the earth.
I greet all of you who are present here. It is the present moment now—always has been and always will be. That simplifies things considerably. It is a very significant matter, usually overlooked, because human polarity is basically in the past. If one is polarized in the past, one will likely be speculating about the future, because of one's awareness or experience of what one deems to be of the past. It wasn't really of the past though, if it is a personal experience—it was always of the present. However, clearly there is a polarity in the past which is known to all of us.
We have seen this in terms of earthly heredity, human history out of the past; not merely of the things that we may think we know about consciously, but the vast majority of the past is a conditioning element subconsciously. What happened in the past seems to be present with us now in subconscious terms, from memory, from heredity, from history. This burden of the past follows us along and permeates our very flesh. It has seemed always quite difficult for human beings to extricate themselves from the past in order to experience, vividly, what is now present.
The present experience has always been conditioned and colored by what has been carried forward out of the past. We do not see things as they are. We have a blend of past events present with us, and through this fog we observe and experience the present. Yet the present moment is the only reality, when it is unconditioned by anything out of the past. If in our own experience it is conditioned by what has come out of the past and is now present with us subconsciously, our experience of the present moment will be very muted from what it really is—there will be a blanket spread over it. This is the fact, whether we like the idea or not, or whether we try to get rid of it. It is there. But we can become aware that our experience of the present moment is very inadequate because all this paraphernalia out of the past is conditioning what we know of the present. Yet we are all together in the present moment; and we have learned somewhat how to come to point in the present moment in such a setting as this, so that the things of the past do fade somewhat from consciousness, the external world recedes, and the real world begins to come to focus—the real world which is the world of the present moment.
From the human standpoint we have all this hereditary paraphernalia present with us. Whether we appreciate the fact or not, it is there, and it has formed what might be described as a womb. All our living has been from within this womb. We have been surrounded by, and permeated by, the past, as have all human beings. Everyone has been contained in this hereditary womb. It is of such a nature that in fact it hasn't proven to be a womb for the vast majority of people, out of which they might have been born perhaps. It has proven in the end to be a tomb in which they perished. The very genes which are present within us compel toward perishing—a fatal disease, suffered by the whole body of humanity.
So the womb has proven out, in virtually all human experience, to be a tomb in the end. But it can be a womb. I think we ourselves have been discovering this; there is a possibility of being born out of the womb of the past. If you are born out of a womb, the womb has rightly no more significance in the practical sense. You are no longer in it. It may be around somewhere, but you are no longer in it. Being born out of the womb, there is a different state. Presumably it is a more or less comfortable place in the womb; it is a familiar place at least.
There is this womb of the past then, the hereditary, historical past, in which human beings everywhere have been encased. There is certainly the necessity of being born out of this womb. This is the process that is actually in motion insofar as the whole body of mankind is concerned. It is happening now. We ourselves can bear a certain amount of witness to the fact that it is happening, because we have had some experience of factually being born out of the womb of the past into the experience of the present moment. It is not very vivid yet but is something other than what was the past experience, and the usual experience for most people.
The womb only has significance as long as one is in it. It provides the requirements for life in the womb, and human beings are quite familiar with life in this womb. What it would be outside of the womb, having been born from the womb, is quite an unknown quantity, just as unknown as it would be to the babe before it is born. It doesn't know what it is getting into. It knows what it is getting out of, and presumably there is a certain amount of reluctance to that because, after all, it was warm and comfortable and one could exist there. Of course it is not all that comfortable, even in the human sense of a babe in the womb, because for a lot of the time the mother is not comfortable and experiences disturbance of all kinds, which are known in the experience of the babe also, being in the womb.
Out of this womb of the past, humanity is in the process of being born, and if it is a natural birth the head comes first. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-large-upper-room-furnished.html] It doesn't happen all at once. There is in human experience a good deal of stress at the time of birth—the matter of pain to be delivered. We see a certain amount of stress occurring in the world, everywhere, with all people—more violent in some places than others. But still it is not a very comfortable world, on the whole, and something is happening. There is the process of birth in motion, and we ourselves have emerged sufficiently from the womb of the past to be aware of a different state. That different state may seem to have its problems initially. It is not familiar, and sometimes there is the desire to duck back into the womb again—and there are those who do this of course—but stay in the womb too long and you perish. It is a good idea to come out when the time is right. And for us, we have been aware that the time is right. We may see that it is not perhaps as right for others as yet as it is for us, but then the babe isn't born totally all at once. It comes out by degrees—headfirst as a rule; that is the best way. And so it happens in the body of humanity.
Another way of describing it—we may speak of it as resurrection. It is a rising up from a more limited condition into a more unrestricted condition. One's life has been maintained because of one's connections to the past heretofore, which is true of the babe in the womb. It is connected to the mother and shares the mother's bloodstream and is nourished thereby. So it has been in the human state, in the darkness of the womb. But this can be used to advantage as a place from which to be born. That is one of the alternatives. The other is that one can stay in and realize the state as being not a womb but a tomb. This is what has happened, individually speaking, down the ages. It hasn't quite happened yet insofar as mankind as a whole is concerned. But there is the presence of pain to be delivered, right now; and how long the labor will be remains to be seen.
We ourselves have a certain dawning consciousness of the possibility of life beyond the tomb, or the womb, as the case may be. The body of mankind is wrapped up in the past, nourished by what has come out of the past. Great store is put by the things of the past. But that is not applicable if birth takes place. It may seem to be applicable while one is in the womb, but come out of the womb and you are in a totally new state and condition, in a new place altogether, and the old nourishment and sources of nourishment are valueless. Well there is a break to be made. Eventually the cord has to be severed, so that the newborn babe can begin to live on its own without nourishment out of the past.
This is all very descriptive of what is occurring, of which we ourselves in fact have some experience because no doubt we have exhibited some willingness to relinquish our grasp upon the past. Mind you, the past seems to reach out and grab us at times, so that we begin to function once again on the basis of the past, or what is present in the womb. But if we are ever to come clear, to be born in fact, then we cannot depend upon nourishment out of the past. It must be relinquished; for if we try to retain or maintain it we will remain in the womb and eventually perish therein. One must be born at the time appointed if one is to survive. This relates to the whole of mankind, and to each part which composes that whole.
We are all a part of this One Body in the process of emergence, and we get a glimpse of the world into which we are emerging first, apparently. Presumably that indicates a part of the head, and this can be a very exciting experience if we will let it be so. Look! here is something new; here is something freeing and wonderful, a coming out of the very restricted and dark place into an expansive place filled with light. That is what is happening. We can close our eyes to it and try to hold onto the past, but that is a dangerous thing to do. The past is passing away; the first heaven and the first earth are in the process of passing away. Those who try to hold on to the past—mostly this is done subconsciously—find themselves involved in a great deal of violence and destruction, because it is passing away. We see the emotional involvement of people in their past, starkly revealed in the events occurring the world around. The media doesn't report everything that is going on on earth, just selected events which, in the eyes of the media are the significant ones. They may not be the significant ones at all.
In any case, wherever this earthly heredity is strong and people are emotionally involved with it, you have violence, increasingly so. It is one way of taking the earthly heredity out. If one is involved in it one will likely go out with it too. But this is a purifying process. It is much more satisfactory to let it be done naturally and easily, to participate in the process of birth as the babe, not as the placenta. That comes out too, but that is rubbish after the birth has taken place, and should be disposed of. The same sort of thing is happening on the worldly scene, and we all have a part to play. But we play it significantly and valuably just to the extent that we are capable of functioning in the present moment, undisturbed, uninfluenced, untroubled by the past, clear of the past, out of the womb.
Obviously there is a process involved here. Different parts of the babe come out in sequence, but eventually the whole babe is out. We wouldn't speculate at all on the time elements involved here—but we do have a responsibility, personally speaking, because we have a certain awareness of these things and what is happening, not just from the standpoint of theory, looking at it as some sort of observers separate from what is going on. We are a part of what is going on and we have a responsibility in the matter, being concerned rather deliberately with relinquishing our polarization in the past.
So much is deemed to be of value out of the past. It was of value in the womb; we acknowledge that fact; but if we are outside the womb it is of no more value. And we emerge out of the womb into the present moment. We emerge out of the past into the present moment. That is the eternal moment. There isn't any other, ever. Eternal life is right there in the present moment.
We have talked about these things, we have looked at them from time to time, but thus far had rather a minimum of experience. Theoretically, “Yes. Yes, that is right.” We will agree that this is so, but then we go on to something else because the past compels us to do it; and we lose our positioning in the present, we lose our experience of reality, and we find ourselves in the fanciful world once again.
We ourselves, together with the whole body of humanity, are in the process of being born out of the womb. We will prove out, as we go along, as to whether we are a part of the babe or a part of the placenta, the afterbirth. This is true of everybody. We prove out that we are part of the babe because we are no longer being governed and nourished by what is coming out of the past, through heredity individually speaking, or heredity collectively speaking. We tend to repeat, don't we, what has happened in the past. We haven't come out of it yet, entirely.
The Word, or the words, can be spoken now by anyone. It is in the actual experience of what happens, not what we think should happen, not what we think is going to happen. We don't know. The experience necessary is what is in the present moment—that is sufficient. The past is not the source for the future; that is only so when we are in the womb. Outside the womb the present moment is experienced as a new state. Just saying that is one thing, but actually to know it, because real significance is seen and understood and begins to be experienced relative to this, is what allows the birth to occur.
We have done quite a bit of talking about this process of birth before, which can be useful because we are more aligned than we would be if we had not talked about it. Many people are in rather a less fortunate position because they have had no basis for understanding as yet. However, if those who do have a basis of understanding let it happen as it should happen, the head comes out, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-collective-body.html] then the body is going to follow, because it is all connected. So the first fruits of the birth are vitally important. Let the first fruits come on through and the rest will come on through very easily and probably quite quickly.
So we look to the experience, rather than to mere words which describe the experience. I am sure that all of you would say that you are very willing to let it happen, but we will find out how genuine those words are as the actual experience comes. One can be very boastful, can't one, about something that is going to come: “Oh yes. I'll be there, right there, and providing what is necessary.” But when the time comes, what then? Well let's find out, when the time comes.
So we may allow this continuing creative movement to happen in our own experience because we are aware of what the happening is. We described it this morning as birth from the womb of the past, that the womb [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-womb-unto-womb.html] may be proven as being a womb and not, as heretofore, merely a tomb. I am thankful for the opportunity of having greeted all of you here present this morning through these words. And everyone who is present in spirit is so greeted likewise. Whether they are here, or at the other ends of the earth, makes absolutely no difference.
Under the night sky life force surges, waterfalls of energy falling like rain on the awaiting earth. Owls awake in forest darkness, hooting their welcome to the transforming vibration.
The old earth passes and creation comes alive in the advent of this new Eden, an emerging paradise born from innocence.
As starlight fades the day rises pregnant with life. May the garden be full in me under sun and star for the birth to come of light and love on this once silent planet.
