The Reason

The  Reason

Martin Cecil  May 5, 1974 p.m.

The Trumpet: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-trumpet.html

The True Tone: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-true-tone.html

In Three Days: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

This Is The Day: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

Delivered From Evil: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/01/delivered-from-evil.html

Represent The Truth: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/represent-truth.html

The Third And Last Call: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-third-and-last-call.html

The Way Of The Master: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-way-of-master.html

The Seed: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-seed.html

After this morning's service I had, as usual, a number of letters of response. I find it interesting to observe the indications of whether the writer was really moving with what had been offered, or was generating a pattern of his own. This becomes rather evident when an analogy is used. There is always a danger to using an analogy, because people can get hold of such things and really make something out of them, something other than what was being conveyed by the analogy when it was first presented; and I noticed that this happened in one or two instances in the letters I received after this morning's service. Those who are right on make the fact clearly evident in what they write. It is always a delight to receive such beautiful and creative letters of response. Presumably those who are not right on do not realize that they are not right on. A certain amount of tone-deafness is apparently involved, so that a person will write something which looks pretty good on the surface, but the note is flat; there is a certain sourness to it. Of course, people have to learn. Part of my continuing responsibility is to keep sounding the Tone over and over and over, so that finally a person begins to hear it. There are a great many people who do not really hear the Tone yet. They know there is something, they interpret it in different ways, but they never yet really heard what the Tone is. Finally it may penetrate and the individual leaves his confusions, his sour notes, and really comes into position to participate in amplifying that True Tone, right on.

So I used the analogy of a seed this morning [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-seed.html], and the way I used it revealed the True Tone. One needs to be very cautious about using the analogy some other way—which is what occurred in some instances, so that the response started to produce a tone of its own. This is what self-centered human egos like to do, but it is the self-centeredness that needs to pass away. I would like to read a little more from this particular passage that we were considering this morning. “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name.”

Because these words were spoken shortly before Jesus was arrested and came into judgment, was sentenced and the sentence was carried out, it is thought that they referred merely to that. They did, of course, refer to that, but from the standpoint of our present vision we see that much more was happening than most people recognize. He said, “For this cause came I to this hour.” This was the way it was working out in His movement through the re-creative process, and He wasn't about to break the unfoldment of that cycle. He recognized that this now was the reason He was there. There was no purpose to looking back and saying, “Well, it might have been some other way.” The fact was that it was the way it was and He had to utilize that circumstance for the purpose for which He was present. Of course, that related to something which was very extreme insofar as He was concerned, because He alone was doing something that needed to be done but had never been done. He did not have the support, understanding or agreement of His disciples or others. He stood alone, and He was doing something that He alone could do.

This same situation is not to be faced by anyone else, because it has been faced, it has been done; the seed has been sown, the seed of victory. Nevertheless, if we are to serve Him by allowing this seed to germinate and grow, we necessarily must follow Him. As He put it, “Where I am, there shall my servant be.” We do not follow Him by imitating Him, as though if there were enough imitations we could build a plant out of it. A plant isn't built out of seeds; it is something unique to itself. And the unfoldment in the creative process permits each individual to reveal the truth of his or her own being as a part of the growing plant, or tree, vine, in the sense that Jesus allowed the revelation of His particular specific reality of being on earth. And each one follows Him in the same way, but the reality of being of each one is unique to the individual concerned. Now, we want no imitations—just the genuine revelation of the truth with respect to the individual, with respect to oneself; and in the creative movement of this there are times when it may be said that we are troubled. Very often those who turn to God and to spiritual things imagine that all the so-called problems of life are now going to vanish and they will be henceforth riding freely and easily on the clouds of heaven; but as all of you can testify, I am sure, it doesn't necessarily work that way, because there is something to be done.

Our Master, when He was here in the form of Jesus, was here to do something, something that was specific for Him. By the same token, if we are to follow Him we are to do what is specific for us, and there is something specific in this regard for each one. No doubt in the doing there are times when there is what we have before referred to as dis- comfort, when we might say, “I am troubled.” What are we going to do then, when that is the case? In any situation where a person may be, there are always circumstances to be taken care of, handled. If these circumstances seem to be troublesome, then usually the individual wants to get away from them or somehow manipulate things to cause the trouble to depart. How little recognition there is that “for this cause came I to this hour.” In other words, it's no mistake that we're there. Of course many would acknowledge this as it related to Jesus: “He was the Son of God; He came to do something particular, and therefore every event was important and He was necessarily required to handle it correctly, and so on and so forth. But as for me, now, it's different! When troublesome circumstances arise for me, then I can complain about them, object to them, struggle with them, try to change them, or run away. If I run away, then I may live to fight another day.” What an unstable attitude, exemplified universally by human beings.

If we begin to participate in that plant which is growing from the original seed, we find ourselves moving in the design and according to the principles and under the control that were focalized in essence in that original seed, so we have exactly the same attitude with respect to our circumstances as He had with respect to His. He was moving to a particularly climactic point in His experience and could well have said that He was somewhat troubled; but what He felt in that regard in no sense governed His attitude or His action. Immediately upon acknowledging the fact that He was troubled He stated the truth: “For this cause came I to this hour.” And no matter what it is that arises in anybody's life, anywhere, at any time, exactly the same attitude may be taken: “For this cause came I to this hour,” to handle this circumstance in the right way, to deal with the situation, whatever it may be, on the basis of the truth of being. Here is something that needs to be firmly set in human attitude if anything of meaning is to be achieved, because every circumstance that comes to any person is just exactly the way it should be and provides the basis for the required divine action. The door is always open in this regard.

“Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say?” These could be your words, couldn't they, over and over again. “Now is my soul troubled; what shall I say? I don't like it; please change it; help me to get rid of this trouble.” That is the self-centered approach, isn't it? No, that is not the word; that's the word of weakness, the word of the self-centered human ego. What is the word of the Lord? What is the word of divine being? What is your word as an angel of the Lord? “Father, save me from this hour, poor me; save me from my troubles”? No, but, “For this cause came I to this hour, to handle the situation, to accept what the state is and to be true to the truth of my own being.” How many people there are in the world who like to be martyrs; they like to be martyrs provided that everybody around knows they are martyrs. “I had such a tragic experience, you know, and I am going to make good and sure that you know that I had this tragic experience, by my facial expression, by the way I act, the way I drag around. I am going to make sure that everybody knows what misery I have been condemned to. Poor, poor me!”—the self-centered human ego in full flight. It would be no fun, of course, if nobody knew you were suffering so!

Martyrdom is a very popular game played by human beings everywhere. “Father, save me.” Why? That is a good question to ask. Would there be any point to saving you? When one begins to be honest with oneself one can ask these questions, because there is no point whatsoever to saving a self-centered human martyr. What gain would there be for anyone?—least of all for the person concerned. Let the martyrdom pass away. There is some achievement that's worthwhile! If there is a tendency to feel troubled and therefore to want to be saved from the trouble, then there may be a recognition at the same time that here is self-centeredness poking its head into the picture. And one of the requirements of a servant of the Lord is that he should so behave as to allow the self-centeredness to pass away. This is part of the reason why the individual has come to that hour. The word “reason” could be substituted for the word “cause.”

For this reason came I to this hour, to any self-centered controls to be relinquished, so that in handling whatever is to arise there will be no complaint, no desire to duck out or to get someone to make it better for one's own experience, but to let it unfold the way it will unfold in the presence of an angel. We have the responsibility of letting the angel be present in whatever the situation is, the angel who may say of himself, “I am.” The reason for being faced with any particular situation or circumstance is that the angel may be present in that situation or circumstance. This is the reason why you come to the hour. On the one hand, the self-centered person says, “Father, save me from this hour,” or on the other hand one says, “Father, glorify thy name.” Let what finds expression in momentary living with respect to whatever it is that arises give evidence of the presence of the angel of the Lord.

“Glorify Thy Name.” What is the Name of the Lord? In the larger sense we could say that the Name of the Lord is Man, Man the Living Soul, Man made in the image and likeness of God. Here is the evidence of the Presence of the Father. When Man is a Living Soul, he is the evidence of the Presence of the Father, the evidence of the Presence of God, insofar as this world is concerned. “Glorify Thy Name.” Make the glory of the Lord manifest through me—that is what is being said here. Glory always relates to life. Life is glorious; this is the nature of life. And when the evidence of the life of the angel of the Lord is revealed in the expression of the individual, that is a glorious experience. The glory may not immediately be recognized by others. There was virtually no one present at the time that our Master moved through that troublesome time, to see His glory. It was there but most people weren't seeing the glory. The glory of life, the evidence of the Presence of the Lord, was clearly present there in the behavior of this One, in the character displayed, in the quality of attitude, in the forgiving spirit, in His clear understanding of what was required in that particular situation, His willingness to carry through with it. All this was glory—glory for all those who were not judging by the appearance.

So it is with respect to any of us, any human beings anywhere, who accept their own real responsibilities. “Father, glorify Thy Name.” That's a very different attitude to what is popularly held by human beings in general with respect to their circumstances. It's all quite conspicuous by its complete absence. What an exceptional thing to find a person in the circumstances that are present in the world, in the world as it now is, who will have this attitude: “Father, glorify Thy name, here, in this.” And yet it is the fact that for this cause we come to any hour, to let this be so in our own experience. We all have circumstances, of course, of all kinds. Some of those circumstances may relate immediately to others who are associated with us in the same prayer, “Father, glorify thy name,” and yet, looking at them we may wonder whether this is their prayer and we may consequently enter into a little judgment.

“That person, that Emissary, that server, isn't, in my estimation, glorifying the Name of the Father.” Well, do you suppose that Emissary, that server, has to fulfil your estimates? Is that the cause for which he came into the world, so as to satisfy you? I doubt it. That's not the point at all, is it? The point is that this should be your prayer. “Father, glorify Thy Name, in me,” not in the other fellow. And if that is our prayer, then we recognize that it was for this cause that we came into that particular situation. It matters not at all what the behavior of anyone else is; here is the setting—whatever the situation may be—here is the setting where one may let this prayer be answered: “Father, glorify Thy Name in my expression because I take the responsibility for letting it happen, not because I sit twiddling my thumbs, hopefully waiting for a blinding flash of light that's going to be so tremendous that everybody's going to fall down in a swoon because they're not glorifying His Name and then they'll all see that I am.” What happened when this tremendous glorification of the Name of the Father was occurring in Jesus? How about the behavior of others who were present? It wasn't altogether what it ought to have been, was it? It was despicable, to say the least. And yet the glory was there. Do you have to be sure, in any particular situation, that everyone around recognizes that the glory is there insofar as you are concerned?

We noted how people want to be recognized as martyrs, for instance? Do you wish to be recognized as glorious? This is not the purpose—merely that the glory should be there, regardless of whether anyone recognizes it or not. In some situations, of course, people will be inclined to say, “Yes, I saw it,” but in others, “Oh, no.” And I am sure that you have judged some at times adversely when the fact of the matter was that the glory was present. You just didn't see it. Well, who was at fault? You were, obviously. There was something blocking your vision, something composing a barrier in this regard. That would be impurity of heart, wouldn't it? Judge not, for the only reason that each one as an individual is present in the circumstance of the moment is to reveal the glory of the angel of the Lord, without expectation of being patted on the back for doing it; in fact quite often just the reverse may occur, and then if it does you may feel justified in being resentful about it. “Look, I was showing the glory and here someone didn't appreciate it.” Well, if anyone could have been resentful our Master could have been resentful on that score, couldn't He? because there wasn't anyone present, in evidence at least, who appreciated what He was doing. So none of us have any excuses that we could attribute as being justified by Him.

No, regardless of how your husband or your wife or your fellow Emissary or your fellow Class member or your server, or whoever, may be behaving, it is of no consequence whatsoever insofar as your expression of life is concerned, because whatever the situation is, that is the situation that is. There isn't any other; it's the only one in which you can permit the glory of the angel of the Lord to be present; and that is the individual's sole responsibility. Whatever works out because the angel of the Lord is present will work out. You don't have to make it work out; it will work out if the angel of the Lord is present. And what works out may convince you, for the moment anyway, that you are being martyred. Then comes the test as to whether you want to display the martyrdom more than you wish to display the glory of the Lord. There's no question insofar as most people are concerned in this regard; the martyrdom comes first. Where are our values? Laid up in heaven or laid up on earth? When they are laid up in heaven, then the glory of the angel of the Lord carries the most weight with us and there is no situation conceivable in which you may not allow it to be expressed and revealed.

Would any of you dare to stand up and say that you know a situation where this would not be possible? I don't think so. And yet, what do we actually do? How much seeming trouble does it take to deny the glory of the Lord and to take the attitude, “Oh, in this situation ... if you only knew what my troubles are you would be most sympathetic to the fact that I cannot possibly display the glory of the angel of the Lord here”? Could you ever take such an attitude, honestly? I don't think so. Whatever arises in the hour, in the moment, we realize that it is for that that we ourselves came to the hour. Could you still say, “Well, it wasn't really for this. I thought, when I began to serve the Lord, that things would work out differently, and now look at this! I didn't come into the world for this, in this hour”? Oh, yes, you did. I don't care what it is. “Honor and glorify Thy Name”—there's an attitude of strength, isn't it? Here is the beginning of the evidence of a true Man or a true Woman. Sometimes unexpected things arise: “Why did this have to happen to me?” For the specific reason that you are present to handle it correctly.

We recognize how useful the attitude of thanksgiving is in this regard. Something comes up when you may say, “I am troubled,” and then you remember: “For this cause came I to this hour. How thankful I am for what has arisen, therefore.” And it is always so. There's nothing whatever to complain about. Would this leave a gap in your life? What would you do, what would you say, if you didn't have something to complain about? I think a lot of conversation would dry up, even in Emissary circles.

“… but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy Name.” How beautiful! What a tremendous thing when we begin to see it and understand it and recognize that it relates to us. Certainly Jesus, our Master, led the way in establishing the creative cycle of victory in bringing to focus the essences of all that is right and needful. The door is open, the way is clear. We may follow Him by accepting exactly the same attitude in our personal circumstances, for, as He said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” All men are drawn but not all men are willing to come in response to that drawing power. But all who are willing are drawn in the cycle of resurrection. “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth”—which He was, in the sense of moving through the completed cycle of resurrection and ascension—“will draw all men unto me, that where I am there may my servant be,” in exactly the same experience. Thereby is Man restored to the state of the Living Soul on earth, and the immediate purposes of God, no longer at all inscrutable, are fulfilled. For this cause, in the overall sense, for this cause came we all to this hour.

How could these things really be? Human beings have no experience of them and therefore are inclined to imagine that such fulfilment is quite fanciful. It is fanciful insofar as someone who has not experienced it is concerned, that's true, but let us let the fancy be transformed into reality in our own experience. Then we know it is so, regardless of what anyone else may imagine. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

© emissaries of divine light

 

The Seed

The  Seed

Martin Cecil  May 5, 1974 a.m.

The Trumpet: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-trumpet.html

The True Tone: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-true-tone.html

In Three Days: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

This Is The Day: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

Delivered From Evil: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/01/delivered-from-evil.html

Represent The Truth: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/represent-truth.html

The Third And Last Call: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-third-and-last-call.html

The Way Of The Master: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-way-of-master.html

This is the fifth day of the fifth month of 1974. The figure 5 may be used as a symbol of life. As we are gathered here in the Chapel on Sunrise Ranch this Sunday morning there is a vibrant sense of burgeoning life. Each year in the springtime the reality of the resurrection is portrayed; and while it is recognized, and more or less taken for granted by human beings, they do not usually see it as possibly relating to themselves. First of all, except on a very extended basis they do not see resurrection as being particularly necessary. However, we have come to recognize  that there is the immediate Divine Purpose insofar as man is concerned.

So often people have spoken of the inscrutable purposes of God. These are, in fact, not at all inscrutable; there's nothing incomprehensible about them; just that man should be moved from the state of a dying soul to that of a Living Soul. How this might be done may be perhaps incomprehensible to human beings, but as attitudes change it becomes easy to see and understand what is to occur and the means by which it occurs. Let us not be hoodwinked into this foolish view of the inscrutability of the purposes of God. It may have seemed this way to most because there has been a stubborn refusal  to allow the purposes of God to be achieved in human experience; and if they are not achieved in human experience, then human beings don’t know much about them. But it is not because they could not know much about them; merely because they refuse to let them be achieved.

From the Divine standpoint there has been a certain amount of maneuvering over the ages to prepare the soil, so to speak, for the achievement of these essential purposes. Various things have worked out in all parts of the world, both in the Orient and the Occident, that finally somehow a setting might adequately be prepared so that the ultimate achievement could be brought to pass, the achievement which brings man again into the state of the Living Soul. Various patterns of religion were developed in human consciousness correlating with the preparation of the ground. There is, for instance, what was offered through the life of the Buddha; there is the record with respect to Krishna. Out of these and other specific events and people something was achieved in the consciousness of human beings to prepare the setting, so that finally it all might be brought to point, and the required task completed. We need to see all these things with respect to human experience as relating to this purpose in a more or less general sense. But, obviously, when it can be brought to a final focus, there is the event of supreme importance.

It's all very well to cultivate the garden and have the seedbed as it should be in the spring, but it doesn't mean too much until the seeds are sown. Then, of course, there is the requirement for the necessary climate so that the seeds may germinate and grow. Finally, because of this, the harvest may come. People have become very wrapped up in the cultivation of the soil. There are numerous religious approaches made, and have been made all down through the ages, which simply related to this matter of preparing the setting within the scope of human consciousness so that the required seed could be planted. When the seed is planted, then the prior cultivation has reached a point of fulfilment and is not necessary anymore. If one were to continue to cultivate the garden after the seeds had been sown there wouldn't be much of a garden. And this is just about what has been happening in the world. People cling to their traditions and their awareness of spiritual things, such as they are, imagining that their particular approach is about the only one.

Of course the sowing of the true seeds actually occurred at the time that Jesus was on earth, and this has subsequently tended to make those who call themselves Christians somehow feel superior to everybody else. But apparently nobody really understood what had happened, and the seed which should have been planted was put in a glass case, insofar as Christianity was concerned, so that everybody could come and look at it: This is the seed! Of course, a seed in a glass case is not likely to germinate; it must be planted in the right season, in the proper soil, when the climate makes germination rightly possible.

Now, of course, there are those who may take the attitude that Jesus never existed. Well, whether He existed or not He certainly came into the consciousness of mankind; and that, after all, is the point, isn't it? We have noted the preparation that was specifically made before His coming, through the Israelites of old. And this might have obviated His coming, at least in the way He came, if that opportunity had become specific for the world. But it disintegrated, scattered, never adequately came to point so as to allow something to evolve out of it. However, what did remain provided the setting when Jesus was born into the world—or into the consciousness of men. And He was under the necessity, because of the previous failure, to refocalize the approach, bring it together again, and establish a new cycle that's been called, at least in one of its aspects, the New Testament. But by reason of the lack of response, there was another failure on the part of human beings to recognize, appreciate and accept what it was that was being offered. That recognition, appreciation and acceptance has been peculiarly lacking ever since. Something has been clothed in the concepts of men, but the truth has certainly not been known. However, this one man undertook to allow all that was required of the human race to be brought to focus in Himself, and He moved through the cycle, from level to level in the vibratory patterns of consciousness, by which a Living Soul was once more established as a reality on earth.

This was the seed which should permit the plant subsequently to grow. All that was essential for the design of the plant was present in the seed. This is so with respect to seeds as we understand them, isn't it? When He was on earth our Master spoke of the mustard seed, a very small seed which grows into quite a large plant. But one would not recognize the form of the plant by looking at the seed. At one point, according to the record, He Himself commented on this; and these words are from the 12th Chapter of John: “The hour is come, that the Son of Man should be glorified.” There is a peculiar idea in the consciousness of many people about this, imagining that He was somehow glorified by being hung on a cross. The glorification was simply the return to the state of the Living Soul—the Living Soul which was consequent upon what has been called the resurrection, man restored in the seed form. The essences were all present by reason of the experience of this one man. He moved through what was totally necessary, insofar as mankind was concerned, to experience the state of the Living Soul, so that in Him were the essences, the seed essences, which when allowed to germinate would permit the growth of the plant, or the tree—the Tree of Life, indeed—on earth, man restored to the state of the Living Soul.

There has been a lot of talk about salvation, and human beings couldn’t see it anywhere, so they thought it must happen after they’re dead. It should be fairly obvious, to anyone who obviously looks at the situation, that the place where salvation is needed is right here on earth. They even claim that its all right in heaven, wherever heaven is; no salvation needed there. It’s needed right here—and not some inscrutable process but the actual experience of a change in consciousness in human beings, so that they cease being identified with the state of a dying soul and become identified with the state of a Living Soul. This state has been very mysterious to human beings, simply because they were unwilling to experience it. If one could retain the state of the dying soul and convince oneself that one would become a Living Soul after one was dead, then that was a happy ending. But if one begins to look at the thing with a little common sense there may be the recognition that changes are possible in human experience on earth now, and if they have not occurred it is simply because there has been an unwillingness to let them occur; there has been a “won’t” attitude. This has often been translated in human consciousness as a “can’t” attitude, but I don’t think there is rightly any such word, really. It’s always “won’t.”

“The hour is come, that the Son of Man should be glorified.” Maybe He was speaking specifically of Himself at that point, but how about this hour as the hour which has come, that the Son of Man should be glorified, not merely the seed but the whole plant? “Verily, verily, I say unto you,”—and here He was emphasizing something—“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” Now we need to look at this word “die” because there is a very peculiar misconception in the minds of most people. If you take a seed and put it in the ground, does it really die? It certainly passes away. But it germinates, doesn't it? Out of the seed comes the evidences of life—the life is released as the seed germinates, and what was before passes away. One might see this in relationship to Jesus, because human beings have been inclined to keep Him hanging on a cross. The cross, as Christianity has envisioned it, relates to crucifixion. And the seed has been preserved in that sort of a form. We still have a lot of crosses around. There will be no cross in our new Chapel, incidentally, at least as a symbol of crucifixion. The seed rightly passes away when the plant grows. Of course, if you refuse to let the seed germinate, then there it sits.

What Jesus brought and offered to the world has been more or less isolated and set in a special place so that people could look at it—from way below, of course, so that they could say to themselves, “That is so exalted that we could never be expected to participate in anything of that sort. We're just sinners here, and we can't help but sin. So we're going to remain sinners and just look at Jesus up there”—wherever. The seed has been preserved in its glass case. If something has grown and developed, that has been called Christianity, it had very little to do with the seed. It has something to do with various ideas that certain ones had about the seed—particularly Peter and Paul—but the seed itself was set apart, remained alone. That's right, isn't it? Of course, there were those who said, “Well, you have to accept the seed as your personal savior,” whatever that meant. An idea about someone was to be the personal savior, and a peculiar picture was developed in this way of someone who was called Jesus, having very little relatedness to the truth of the matter. So what was preserved was a false seed.

The true seed did fall into the ground, and has been present in the soil. We have recognized the setting of the Tone long ago, and now that Tone has really persisted, even though covered up with all this crust, until eventually the climate was such that it might germinate and begin to grow and reveal the form—which would not be the form of the seed. You can't tell what the tree is going to be merely by looking at the seed. If you have had experience with seeds you may be able to tell that way, but the tree isn't just a big seed. The oak tree isn't an enlarged acorn. It's something different, isn't it? And when the true plant grows you can forget about the seed, right? The very fact that this seed has been preserved is indication that the true seed has never grown, because once the seed dies in this sense there is the evidence of the growth to reveal what is right and proper by reason of this creative process. There is no more necessity to try to preserve the seed.

Of course, as we have seen in this particular instance, the seed that has been preserved hasn't been a true seed anyway; it's been a human concept about someone called Jesus. That wasn't the reality at all, just someone's idea; and a lot of human beings have developed ideas on this score, but they've usually been based in some sort of prior concept developed by somebody else. We have a picture up on the wall here that is someone's idea of Jesus. All it is, insofar as we're concerned, is a reminder of the true seed, that we might be concerned with letting that true seed germinate and reveal what the plant is, what the True Vine is. And one could never tell what the True Vine would be merely by analyzing the seed. This is just about what has been done, hasn't it? There has been an analysis of a human concept of what the seed is, and out of that has sprang what is called Christianity. But to provide the material by which the germinating seed may begin to take its true form, that has not been allowed except as it is beginning to emerge in this present setting—not just here but wherever there are those who are willing to relinquish concepts of the seed and get on with the job of letting the plant appear.

Clearly it was apparent to Jesus, at the time, that human beings would tend to do this sort of thing, but He sought to establish a reminder through what has subsequently been called the Communion Service, so that somebody somewhere along the line might wake up to the fact that the plant needed to grow. But this again became a method of preserving someone's idea about the seed: “We're going to swallow this bread and drink this wine, and somehow or other this is going to cause the false seed to germinate.” No. It may remind people that a seed was planted, and that when there is the right climate it will germinate and grow. Looking at it in this way, obviously the right climate is important; and it isn't the right climate if human beings are looking at a seed—the wrong seed, incidentally—in the glass case and falling down and worshiping that. That doesn't make even the false seed grow! So this matter of dying is not death in the usual sense, is it? It's just change. In order for the Living Soul to germinate and grow, the essential requirements were fulfilled in the person of Jesus. He moved all the way through the whole creative cycle. In Him was the seed, then; the stage was set for what should creatively be the experience in human beings subsequently. Well, of course, such a thick dry crust was established on the surface of the soil that the seed has been underneath that crust. But finally, at a weak point in the crust, this germinating seed pushed through its little shoot.

It's interesting, isn’t it, that it was really at the weak point, the weak point primarily of Christianity, because the emergence is out of that. But where Christianity was strong and beliefs were determined, convictions were sure, that's the strong point, isn't it? That's the crust, and nothing can break through there. Only where there begins to be a little questioning, a little doubting, a little uncertainty that everything that has been said in Christianity was the last word, only so could the plant begin to thrust through the soil, appear above the surface, as something other than the seed. We don't have to try to maintain a human concept about the seed once the seed has germinated.

Speaking of the bread and the wine, our Master said, “This do in remembrance of me”—but when you have remembered what it's all about, then you can forget the reminder because something is actually happening. Of course, in the subsequent verses it is made clear here what the word “die” really referred to: He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal,” being once again identified with a Living Soul. A little further on there are these words, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” This has usually been translated as referring to the fact that He was going to be lifted up on a cross. “Look to the cross,” they say; look to crucifying the LORD! No, that wasn't at all what He was talking about, although that manifest event related to what was happening in the process by which He was moving all the way through in the cycles of resurrection. It only happened that way because it was imposed by human beings; it needn't have happened in that way; that was the human reaction. But what was really occurring was something else. He Himself said, “Judge not by the appearance.” All that human beings have done is judge by the appearance. That's exactly what they have done insofar as Christianity is concerned—a direct contradiction of His specific instructions.

“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth …” This could relate to the seed, couldn't it, the seed which falls into the earth and is below the surface, hidden. Except for the One who planted the seed, no one else would know it was there. And finally the seed germinates and grows. There is a creative cycle in this regard. It doesn't all happen instantly. Those who have looked at the portrayal of the True Vine have rather imagined that suddenly there it is. No, it grows from a seed. It is an unfoldment of a life form, the form of the Living Soul which was called man. Presently we have non-man, the dying-soul. But man is necessary on earth. The resurrection by which man is once more on earth is the immediate purpose of God. It has been for thousands of years, and finally it is coming to a point of fruition, not by reason of all the antics of human beings in their striving and struggling on earth but in spite of all that. When we see this, of course, it reminds us of the worthlessness of virtually everything in which human beings place value. All the vast and marvelous works of non-man are nothing. What else could non-man produce but nothing? It looks like something, it looks grand to those who judge by the appearance, but the fact is that it is nothing. That’s another sort of death, isn’t it?

So the seed germinates and grows because it was planted, because it fell into the earth, because the Tone was set, because the essences of all that was needed for the growth of the subsequent plant were present in the seed. That is indeed a marvelous thing, that it could have been established by one person who was truly alone. In spite of everything that could have been thrown at Him He did it. And because of this we certainly have a deep love and respect and reverence for the One who did it. But we recognize that what He did only has meaning as the seed germinates and the plant grows. And if we do have that love and reverence and respect, we couldn't possibly fail to allow the plant to grow, because if we did fail, then it would be tantamount to saying, “Let the seed rot in the ground!” And that is just about what human beings have been saying all this time—"Let it rot in the ground! We like this seed we have in this glass case and we're going to worship that.” And if there is one thing that has been rife in the world it is idolatry. There are so many good people out there who are out-and-out idolaters. It’s not the right thing to go around telling everybody that, but we need to know it ourselves, for ourselves.

What was done on earth nineteen centuries ago is of supreme importance [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-way-of-master.html] because the seed, with all the essences present in it, was planted; and, by all means, it is the deepest longing of our hearts to let it grow, simply because we love the One who planted the seed. And we wouldn't let all that go for nothing—it won't—but individually, for ourselves, we can make it go for nothing. In the total outworking it won't go for nothing, but from the individual standpoint there are lots of people who make it go for nothing while claiming at the same time that they love Jesus. That's blasphemy, isn't it? We begin to see things as they really are and not as human beings fool themselves into believing; because only the truth makes free: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” And that is all consequent upon continuing in His Word, continuing in the Tone which He set and allowing the germination of the seed, so that the seed itself may pass away and the plant be revealed on earth, the plant which is the True Son of Man. He provided the seed essences in this regard, but the Son of Man needs to be known once again on earth; that is, MAN, the Living Soul.

“And I, if I be lifted up … will draw all men unto me”—lifted up from the earth, the germinated seed appearing above the surface of the earth, revealing what it really is. We can describe it—the True Vine, the Tree of Life—but what is it? Only as it takes form may we know. It's a matter of sharing the action by which it happens, because there is attunement with the essences that are present in the seed. And those essences emerge in a differentiated, expanded manifestation in human experience as there is a willingness that they should, as there is a refusal to stand in the way and prevent that unfoldment. There is the necessity of losing what human beings imagine life to be, of dying in that sense, that there may be the experience of resurrection, of movement into the state of the Living Soul. This occurs inevitably in and through and for those who are willing that it should, and who do not think their human values are more important than the values which appear when they participate in the living process.

The human values include all the things in which human beings have put value, and of course highest among these, presumably, are the values of Christianity as it has been understood; or maybe of Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism—anything. These are the values that human beings so desperately thrust forward: “Keep these values here.” That's the crust, that's what prevents the seed from germinating and growing. One must lose one's life. What life? The life related to the values that one has known. Letting go of those values, an individual imagines that he is facing a yawning chasm, nothing. But the True Tone is present, the seed is germinating, the nature of its form is inherent in the seed. As there are those who are willing to let this occur in their own experience they find their life; there it is. But no one can find his true life without letting go of the false life— “Well, I'm going to hang on to a little bit of my false life now in case there is no true life over here.” But a person can hang on to that false life a little too long, you know. Then it's proven out that it is false life, because life cannot die. It is the nature of life to be alive; life is eternal. So this false condition of dying souls which human beings experience does not acquaint them with life. Life is in the Son of Man; that is, in the growth and development of that form of the Living Soul on earth. And it is to this, surely, that any intelligent person would give himself. But it takes more than intelligence; it takes a yielding in love.

O LORD, we are most deeply thankful for such consciousness of the truth as now emerges into the field of our awareness, and it so emerges to the extent that there is actual participation in providing the substance by which the germinating seed takes form in the plant. Only by reason of participation in that form can the truth be known. Looking at it from outside while still identified with the old values and state, the truth can never be known. Many concepts can be developed about it, but the truth remains unknown. We thank Thee for the privilege of yielding to the creative power of life by which the Tree of Life takes form on earth and human beings once again are restored to the state of man as a Living Soul. O LORD, we are most thankful that it is so and that all these things come to pass because of the working of Thy creative spirit, to Thy Glory, in the Christ. Aumen

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Out Of The Dawn

Out  Of  The  Dawn

Uranda  March 28, 1954  p.m.

This morning, we recall, we were considering that which is immortal. Trying to cause the mortal to become immortal is a vain and futile effort. But we began to see that man has not clearly comprehended that which is immortal and that which is mortal. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/05/from-immortality-uranda-march28-1954-a.html] We have recognized, in relationship to those who have passed from this sphere of things, that all that was noble and right, all that was truly lovable or Divine which was made manifest in that life, still remains—not necessarily in the visible realm where we can see it, although each one who allows the Divine to appear certainly leaves, in the lives of others and in the pattern of circumstance, that which is a continuation of being. But in the realm of the eternal, that which is eternal remains. That which is eternal finds expression on earth through man to the degree that man allows the eternal to manifest. As we comprehend these things we are in position to re-examine the pattern of function as it applies to ourselves and to others. We have recognized that that which is eternal comes down from God out of heaven into the earth, or to put it another way, it comes to us from out of the east, from out of the Garden of God. And coming into the pattern of life, it manifests for the time in which it should manifest, or for the time or period it is allowed to manifest.

We have given some consideration to man and his capacities. We realize that human beings have for a long period of time undertaken to penetrate into the realm of the invisible. There are those who are engaged in what they call occult activities, and there are those who classify themselves as mystics, because their primary concern is with that which is invisible. Because such efforts are made on a basis of human concepts, probing into realms where man is not really at home, such persons exert an influence in a vibratory field where they produce for themselves that which they expect to find in relationship to the fringes of the invisible realm. I mention this so that we may the better understand the principle as it relates to the ordinary processes of living. Those who call themselves spiritualists, for instance, seeking to communicate with the so-called dead, establish for themselves that which they desire or expect to find. That which they contact, imagining it to be the spirits of the departed, is something which they themselves manufacture; they produce it. To say that they do not contact anything would be untrue. What they do not realize is that they themselves produce that which they do contact, and then, because they contact that which they expected to contact, they think they have proof that they are right. These spirits, so called, which they contact are not the spirits of the departed but spirits that they themselves have manufactured by the processes of their own function. There are those who function in the range of the extremes of black magic, for instance—which comes in the range of the occult—and the evil spirits they contact and use presumably give evidence of evil spirits; but what is not generally known is that they produce that which they contact and use. Those who believe in evil spirits manufacture evil spirits, and then proceed to contact them and find the evidence that they are right in believing in evil spirits. Martin Luther, for instance, had a very, very great faith in the devil. No matter how much faith he may have had in God, it is obvious that he had great faith in the devil, and so to him the devil was real. He himself manufactured the devil that was real to himself. And it is always so with respect to those who dabble in the fringe range between the visible and the invisible.

Now this range between is of vital importance. It is the range by which that which is of a higher realm of being may be brought into contact with our level of being. Spirit, God's spirit as such, cannot directly contact the physical body. There must be a connecting link, and in our previous meditations we have studied the nature of this connecting link in the field of the pneumaplasm. This is such a vast subject—and one which tends to be fascinating to human minds—that we must be careful not to defeat our immediate purpose by delving into it too extensively at the moment. But to whatever degree we realize that we each one have a share in the forming of that which is in this range as it relates to ourselves, we can surely begin to see our pattern of responsibility. If that which is of the Divine Design, in the true current of the spirit of God, under the control of His will, is allowed to extend into this range or borderland without interference from us, it can take form in the vibrational realm of our own beings, and be in position to have form in the physical realm of our beings. But man has for so long eaten of the forbidden fruit, feeling himself to be justified in judging good and evil, that he has developed a pattern, common to all human beings, whereby he produces in this range many things of which he himself is not immediately aware.

It is truly said, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Now most people do not understand how this works out. The only way we can reach into the invisible realm is through the feeling nature. The mental pattern of our own beings cannot really extend into this realm except through the feeling nature. An idea about which we have little feeling will not make any impression in this range between the visible and the invisible, the connecting layer of vibrational substance extending from the sea of glass clear as crystal into the realm of physical substance. Most people do not even have an awareness, in any real sense, of the fact of this realm. But any feeling which you have in a deep sense is projected into this realm, and this realm is always causing something to come to us from out of the east. Through it something is moving toward us all the time. It is supposed to be the means by which the things of the Garden of God come to us out of the east and take form in our lives. But man, lacking peace and serenity, lacking control, has been subject not to God but to all kinds of things and conditions out here, ill things, and he has felt justified in having deep-seated reaction to these ill things. What happens? The reaction pattern through the feeling nature projects out like a wave into this connecting range, and then that which man has produced today by reason of his feeling reactions is planted, as it were, in the east and then it is harvested out of the east; it comes back to him. Whatever he projects into that range must come back to him. It cannot go in any other direction but back to himself. No matter how justified it may seem to be to have that reaction, regardless of the processes of rationalization, whatever they may be, those ill things which the human being establishes in the feeling nature, through reactions of various sorts, are projected into this connecting link, because man projects on that basis into this invisible range which connects him with the higher invisible range which he cannot directly contact.

Because man is unaware of its nature he produces in that range, by his own function, a discordant pattern on a forceful basis, which prevents the shaping in that range of what should come to him from God. Now if man would leave that vibrational realm alone, not breaking into it, not disturbing it, that which he has fed into it out of the past would soon all feed back and pass to the west; that is, to the past. And then that which was of God, or the Garden of God planted eastward in Eden, would begin to have an opportunity to take form in that vibratory level; it would come to a point where the human being could contact it, begin to receive it into form through himself, through his actions, words, deeds, and then that would begin to flow past him into the past and he would be expressing reality. You are not supposed to express into the future. You are supposed to express into the present, to establish that which goes into the past. Man has so little trust in God that he tries to produce in his future that which he thinks he wants to reap, and so, by his various patterns of function, he is continually doing something with that which is to come to him out of the future; he is reshaping it somehow, not trusting God. He just must get his fingers on it and shape it in that range where it is susceptible to shaping in the vibrational realm. He cannot just leave it alone. But once you begin to trust God you cease trying to shape your future. As long as you are bound and determined to shape your future you will. You will spoil what God has prepared for you. You will upset it, change it, mar it, destroy it, and establish something that you have produced yourself, and then that will be what comes to you from out of the future.

Now you have a part to play in this moment, allowing that which is coming out of the future to take form in the moment so that it may be the form of the past, and moment by moment that which you do becomes the past. Generally speaking, the past is not altogether satisfactory to the individual. That which is extending into his past he does not altogether like. But once we reach a point where we trust and, trusting, centered in God's love, we are at peace, serene, tranquil—no violent emotional storms disrupting the vibratory field of the future as it relates to ourselves—the remnant of what has been sown passes by, comes to the present, takes form to some degree, and goes into the past. Then we come to the point where that which is coming out of our future is not spoiled, distorted by our own function. It is of God.

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At this point we need to realize that the creative field as it relates to us in this future pattern, the vibratory range, is not just our own. Once having established a path through, so to speak, you may maintain that narrow path in relationship to yourself on a true pattern, but that will not be the wholeness of that which comes into your life, because your pattern is related to other people's patterns. You cannot draw a line into the future and say, "Everything that comes to me from now on is going to be just what God made." However you can hold steady and keep a clear path through. If I did not do that we would not have what we do have here. But that which comes out of the future in relationship to myself, for instance, is not limited to that path. In this field we all have a hand, each one of you. Whatever is there in relationship to us, and to many other people, is never an altogether individual thing. Something of it is yours; something of it is someone else's.

When we reach a point where we let this connecting range to the east of us clean out—as it will if we just leave it alone—when we let it clean out so that we are not producing anything in it that is not of the Divine Design, we can begin to have a broad path into the future. But the first contact you get through will be a very narrow path, just a little band so to speak, a strait and narrow way, connecting you up with heaven, the Divine Pattern of Being. And along that narrow path you can receive something of that which is of God's will for you, but those around you must begin to function correctly before it can broaden out and permit the larger manifestation of God's will. For as long as the vibrational field, the emotional realm, as it relates to us, includes others—and unless it does include others it is of no value—then that which others do relates to this field; there is interference.

Every time I begin to feel that we have an opportunity to get a broad conveyor belt, shall we say, from out of the east cleared so that we can let that which is of God come through into the realm of form, someone has some kind of a reaction pattern, and oh, they are so justified: "So-and-so did that. I am justified." And there it goes again. Projected into the future, through which we must receive whatever we do receive from God, is that which does not belong, that which is going to mar the pattern of God's provision or prevent much or all of its manifestation, and so we must reap that. I have talked and sought in every way that I could to inspire you to reach a point where you would cease interfering with that field, and yet you have felt justified for so many reasons, you have felt justified in doing that which projects into that field. And once it is there we have to deal with it, we have to put up with it and get it out, and it takes time. Now we can keep on projecting into that field until we perish from the earth, if we are so inclined, and we will never receive the pure current of what God has in store for us, His provision, that which should take form. For most reactions are on the basis of displeasure at what is in form in some fashion—displeasure at what is in form. So the individual reacts to what he does not like and produces more of what he does not like, and then what he does not like keeps coming. He still does not like it, so he produces some more of it and refuses to let it pass out of his life. The only way you can interfere in that range is by or through your feeling nature, whatever controls in the feeling nature. Once the heart or feeling nature is pure—that is, it is controlled by God—then your connecting link with that layer through which the things of God must come is of a nature that does not interfere with what God is providing, and the things of God begin to get through to you.

We can look back to the time when the disciples were attempting to develop what has become known as Christianity. They had certain ideas, certain beliefs. They were going to obey what they thought the Master intended them to do. But if you go back and examine the pattern as it was you will see that they tended to project into this range something which was not of God's design at all. There was only one who did not function notably on that basis. Peter, for instance, and Paul, just to illustrate, had a concept of persecution against themselves. They expected persecution. They deliberately did things to produce that persecution. When they could have modified expression and been reasonable, they remained hard and unreasonable, and with deep feeling projected into the future that which they and their followers had to receive in the sense of persecution. They produced the condition which caused them to be thrown to the lions and burned at the stake, and all of the rest of it. The situation as it was in the world, difficult as it was, would not have produced that if they had not established it in their own futures by their own attitudes. It has been said, "That which I feared is come upon me." Why? Because the pattern of fear projects something into the future and then it comes sliding out of the future. How far do you think you can project something? A little boy with a squirt gun, who makes it go ten feet or twenty feet? He gets it out there into the future. Little boys and girls with the squirt guns of their own feeling natures, shooting into the future! And then it comes flowing back to them and they do not like it. So they play with their squirt guns all over again and splatter all over the place, shooting it into the future, and here it comes sliding back. You cannot make anything stay in the future. Whatever you project into the future of your own self-active expression is going to come sliding right back out again. That is true, whether we like it or not. You cannot make it stay out there in the future. Something is going to keep coming out of the future as long as you are here to receive it—something. What is it going to be? It depends on what is in the future, and on your capacity to receive, and on your being in position to receive what is coming out of the future. Many times human beings fail to receive something out of the future which is right there at hand to come from God. They are too busy doing something else, chattering about this and that, to receive it. It is there, ready to be born into the realm of form, but they are too busy with something else, following after their own fancies. They are not on hand to share in the delivery into the realm of form.

Frankly, it is impossible for me to establish and maintain a clear pattern out there in the future for you. I can help you do it, out in the future, but I cannot do it alone. It takes you. And as we agree on earth as touching these things, and stop projecting something unreal into the future which must come back to us, we begin to be in position to receive that which is coming out of the east from God to us. And then, as we begin to learn how to receive that which is coming from God, receive it into the realm of form, we can begin to let it flow into the past. The things of God need to extend into the past. That is what the Master was talking about. He said, "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Of course people have arbitrarily taken that to mean various ideas about Jesus coming. It doesn't have anything to do with that at all. But shining out of the east even unto the west will be the coming of the Son of man; that is, the Divine expression of man—which is to say, the revelation of God, or the spirit of God. If we begin to let the spirit of God get through to us so that there can be an outpouring of it, where is the outpouring to be? Into the present, and then extending on into the past. And where does it come from? Out of the east. That is what the Master was talking about. The spirit of God must come out of the east; that is, out of the future, into the present and on into the past. And when it extends into the past as far as we can see, and into the future as far as we can see, and on both sides of us as far as we can see, we will then be in the midst of the Garden of God.

As it is, we are at the edge of the Garden of God. Man has been out of the Garden, but at the edge of it, down through all these thousands of years. It is there, but this little level of the connecting pattern man could interfere with. He could project something into it and prevent the manifestation of what God had made. He could produce what he himself would receive out of the future, and he was not content to trust God. "Oh, I know I must shape it this way and I must shape it that way." He begins to see something taking form and he must get his busy little fingers on it and shape it so that it will be better than what God could possibly make. And then he receives it and it is empty. It is not what he thought it was going to be, and then he blames God. Before we can be in the midst of the Garden we must let it extend into the past. Generations before us have been at the edge of the Garden. Every step of the way since the fall man has been at the edge of the Garden. Every man and woman on the face of the earth has been at the edge of the Garden, and something has been coming to each one out of the future. But man has had to make it, so he thought. Something of God got through to most, at least, or life would have been intolerable, but it was not the pure expression of God's gift, because man had to shape it his way.

Now I have suggested the proper function before, and I have pointed out that the things of God must come to us from out of the east, but perhaps tonight we can have a deep enough realization of what actually takes place, so that we can deliberately stop spoiling—deliberately stop spoiling—what God would give to us. Man can play in this field and produce all sorts of things. He can demonstrate various things, he can produce fantastic things, but they amount to nothing. Or he can learn to leave it alone, and let what happen? Have you been trying to get through the gate into the Garden of God? Do you want to go through that gate? You never will, in the sense of moving through it. Why? Because you would have to go into the future to do it. How can you go into the future? Can you step into the day after tomorrow and live the day after tomorrow before tomorrow comes? Can you? Can you step into the future? No. Very well, then, stop trying to get through the gate that leads to the Garden of God. There is the sword, the flaming sword that turns every way—the flaming sword, God's love and truth, that turns every way at the gate. Now the gate will come up to you as close as you will let it, and if you will really stand still and see the salvation of the Lord the gate will pass by you and go into the past. You stand still and let it come out of the future, truly, and you will go through the gate, because the gate passes back past you. But if you try to go through the gate you never will. However if you will stand still the gate will come up to you and pass you and go into the past, and then you will be inside the Garden of God. It is the only way. Serenity, peace, nonreaction, trust, faith, all of the ideas that have been advanced and have been so ambiguous to most human beings—just doing that in real trust, real centering in God, and it comes up to us. But we must do something about letting it take form. We must share with God the work of giving it form on earth. If you stop spoiling your future and let that pass so that you are next door, so to speak, to that which God would give you, then you must begin to dare to receive that into form. You have to have a little training to learn how.

Now what is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? I have known some fantastic ideas on that score. However the minute that which is of God, that comes through the Garden out of the east, actually begins to flow through you, be born through you in body and mind and heart, so that it can take form and move into the past, that is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But it does something. It does not come swishing through just to give you a little demonstration of what heavenly atmosphere is like, just a little bit of magic or something. It is something real, something that is to take form. Now if we imagined this layer to be—well how thick should it be? How far into the future? Ten minutes into the future? Oh, it is more than that. How should we measure it? Anything we say in illustration will be a bit arbitrary, but we will say an hour, sixty minutes in the future. Sixty minutes into the future. And we will say that from the physical form to that point an hour in the future is about three feet.

Here we have physical form. Next we have the intervening substance until it connects up with pure spirit. That is as far as we can go, to the range of pure spirit. And in between we have the intermediate substance. Now if we are functioning in certain definite patterns, attitudes, we keep projected out here for eighteen inches, eighteen inches into the future, at least thirty minutes, a pattern which constantly changes the future. You know, most of you are that close to the things of God. Just thirty minutes, or eighteen inches. If you keep something projected out there, that eighteen inches—"This is what I am; this is what I expect; this is what I am going to do; I am going to shape it"—then the Garden is still eighteen inches in the future, thirty minutes from now, and heaven is still thirty minutes away. In other words we waste this thirty minutes, then the next thirty minutes, and the next thirty minutes, because we keep the human pattern projected out there. We never let it all back up to where we are. And everything from God has to screen through that which we project.

Thirty minutes! "About the space of half an hour." Do you think I was arbitrary when I said thirty minutes? That was the estimate utilized by the author of the Book of Revelation. So the space of half an hour is about what it would take for any human being to let the future pattern clear so that the things of heaven could start manifesting. But to get someone to do that. I have been working for twenty years to get someone to do that, and heaven is only thirty minutes away for hundreds of thousands of people, and I have not yet been able to convince people that the Garden is really there, only thirty minutes away. Thirty minutes to heaven! And who will believe deeply enough to do what must be done to prove it? Does it take too much faith, and are your own ideas too precious and your own feelings and attitudes too important? If you let that pass away, will everything be gone, with nothing worthwhile left? Are you afraid to let the unreal pass away? Yet this that you have projected out there for eighteen inches, that thirty minutes, is going to pass away sooner or later. You may be able to hold it until a day or two before you die, but then it will begin creeping back, and when it gets back you will be gone. That is the end of it. It is all over then. It is all over, and no resurrection. Life was spent and life was done, and what happened? Too bad! Perhaps someone else will listen.

Heaven, just thirty minutes away! Eighteen inches! If you could just let it back up—all your pet ideas, all the things you keep projecting into the future. You can't get it out very far. I doubt if any of you could get it quite eighteen inches, try as you may. I doubt if it is that far for any of you. But even if it is six inches, that is too far. It has to come back, and what you have shaped, and the thing you hold out there as yourself, must pass away. Now it will, sooner or later; it is mortal; it is going to pass away. It is so nice to let it do it while the body still lives, while you still have the ability to use your mind and your heart, while you have the ability to see all the beautiful things that God has made and do your part in letting the things of God come down out of heaven into the earth. It is so easy, but you have to trust enough to stop eating the forbidden fruit. You have to be willing to let what you think you are pass away, so that you may become what you really are. Now I doubt if there is anyone here who would actually let his heaven get to him in thirty minutes. It could be done—it could be done. It is possible to any of you here, but it is hardly likely that you would do it.

Thirty minutes to heaven, and how long is it going to take you to get there? If you try to get there through the thirty minutes, it will take your whole lifetime and then you will not make it, because as soon as your mind stops functioning, your emotional nature stops functioning, and your hard, determined will cannot hold it anymore, this that is stuck out here in the future for eighteen inches will start backing up and it will pass away and be gone. You will never get to heaven—even though heaven is only thirty minutes away—by trying to go through the thirty minutes to heaven into the future. You have to back up and let what you have made back up, let it pass away. You cannot see what is coming yet, but you have got to let it pass away. The human being must be ready to relinquish what he has made himself to be, willing to let God make him be what he should be.

Someday there are going to be a few people who come to agreement on earth as touching these things, and they are going to be willing to relinquish all the things that separate them from God, from heaven, from one another. They are going to come together with one accord in one place and they are going to start receiving the things of heaven into form together, and that is going to be a most glorious experience for those who dare to do it—the beginning of the manifestation of the spirit of God, the birth into form according to our Master's plan and purpose, according to His instruction given nearly two thousand years ago. Then it was only thirty minutes away, when He gave that instruction. Heaven was only thirty minutes away nineteen centuries ago. It still is. It is right there. And we are still looking to find someone who will let it connect up in this earth, in this world. You have let something of it get through, yes, but you have not let it connect up. It could be with you here, if you are willing to let it be so in the spirit of the Living Christ.

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