Shekinah
Uranda June 1953
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Source of Life and Names of Deity
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Uranda July 20, 1953
Our basic theme has been, and is, the "Magic of Life, the magic of living. We have reached a point where we are beginning to be aware of life, of life itself. To some degree there was an awareness of the fact of life working through the body in a pattern of existence, an awareness of the results of life—but to be come aware of life itself, the pure essence of life!
We have recognized that
Life is born, or comes forth, issues forth, like a fountain, when there is the
union of Love and Truth. We have considered something of the Shekinah Pattern
of Being and recognized that the Fire that burns is the reality of God’s Love,
the Light that glows is the reality of Truth, and the Cloud of Glory is the
expression, the manifestation of Life. Life is the child born of the union of
Love and Truth. We cannot become aware of Life itself until we become aware of
the source of Life. Broadly speaking, God is the source of Life that is true.
But by what means is God the source of Life?
We have recognized that Life is born, or comes forth, issues forth, like a fountain, when there is the union of Love and Truth. We have considered something of the Shekinah Pattern of Being and recognized that the Fire that burns is the reality of God’s Love, the Light that glows is the reality of Truth, and the Cloud of Glory is the expression, the manifestation of Life. Life is the child born of the union of Love and Truth. We cannot become aware of Life itself until we become aware of the source of Life. Broadly speaking, God is the source of Life that is true. But by what means is God the source of Life?
God is the source of the
Shekinah Pattern. The Shekinah Pattern of Being is the Only begotten Son of
God, and yet we are all sons and daughters of God. We become, in the true
sense, sons and daughters of God when we let the Shekinah Pattern of Being
control in our lives. When we let God’s Love and Truth come to a point of union
in us we begin to have the experience of motherhood, in the sense of being the
means by which Life is born into action on earth.
God is the source of the Shekinah Pattern. The Shekinah Pattern of Being is the Only begotten Son of God, and yet we are all sons and daughters of God. We become, in the true sense, sons and daughters of God when we let the Shekinah Pattern of Being control in our lives. When we let God’s Love and Truth come to a point of union in us we begin to have the experience of motherhood, in the sense of being the means by which Life is born into action on earth.
We speak of the invisible
planes of being as the positive aspect of the Whole Holy World, and these three
outer planes of being in which we function as the negative aspect of the Whole
Holy World. The positive and the negative are the male and female. Living on
earth as focalizations of the crowning creation, the crowning manifestation of
the negative triune world, we begin to realize what it is to share motherhood—regardless
of whether we are male or female something that God the Father has fathered in
us is born through us. But if there is to be a child born in this sense if must
first be conceived, it must have its period of gestation in the womb, and it
must have the privilege of birth. Man, mankind, is the mother aspect of God
Being in this world. The invisible reality of God, being the reality of many
God Beings, is the father aspect in relationship to this world. We
begin to have an awareness of Deity.
Some little time ago I
presented for your meditation something with respect to the vibratory factors
of the Names of Deity. We recognized that the names as they are popularly used
are not the true names, they are substitute names, substituted because in
popular usage they would be spoiled, it would be a sacrilege, it would be
blasphemous. Actually, what man does with these substitute names is not too
important. They should be held sacred, and I am not suggesting that profanity
is permissible, but the popular usage of the popular names of Deity does not
spoil the vibratory pattern of Deity or the vibrational factors.
We find in the religions of
the world various usages of the names of Deity. Whether we think of Allah, or
some other name of Deity, we recognize that they all mean the same thing, but
they are substitute meanings. We can feel the reality of Love and Truth and
power, if we let go of prejudice, if we say “Allah.” We must recognize that in
the Christian world, or so-called Christian world, the use of the words God and
Jesus and Christ is something that is done promiscuously, without
understanding, and consequently without real meaning.
There are multitudes of
people who give God a series of orders, make a series of demands which they
call prayer, and they finish up “in Jesus name we ask it”, or something of the
sort; and they imagine that it’s prayer, which it is not; and they imagine that
they are asking in His name as he instructed: “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name, I will do it.” And they think they are doing it, but they are not. You
have begun to realize that such things are not prayer, that the people who give
orders to God are sacrilegious. Telling God what to do is blasphemous. There is
no necessity of giving orders to God or telling Him what to do.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in
my name, that I will do.” Yes. Does that mean we are to ask God? It doesn’t say
so. That has been an assumption, that man was to ask God, because it was suggested
that we should ask in His name. If we are functioning in His name we are a part
of His body, which is identified by His name. Anything else is a forgery. But
if we have become an actual part of the body of God, then we can’t say anything
without saying it in His name. If we honor His name, the family name shall we
say, the name of our Father, then we live accordingly. But what of this
asking?
“Whatsoever ye will ask in
my name, that will I do.” But must we ask God? No. The asking is God’s asking.
Does He ask Himself? No. He asks His creature to do thus and so. He asks the
cell, the nerve, the tissue, the organ, whatever it may be. The asking must be
from God to the creation; not the creature asking God something, but God asking
something of His creation. If we ask in His name we will have been received
into His body because we have let the Shekinah Pattern of Being fill our
bodies, and it will be the Word of God working through us, giving a command,
shall we say, not to God but to the thing, to the organ, to the tissue, to
anything. And if the patterns have been worked out properly there will be
obedience in the substance, a cell, it matters not.
If we ask in His name, He
said, “I will do it.” Who was speaking? The words of the Father were being
spoken through the lips of Jesus so that it was the word of the Father that was
being spoken, but from what point did He speak? From the point of the Father,
or from the point of His position as the Lord of Love, representing the Fire?
He represented the Father, yes, but His particular position in revelation in
the Cosmic Scheme of things was the revelation of the Father as the One who
focalized the Spirit of Love. We speak of Him as the Lord of Love. Right. Well
then, “I will do it.” What is the power, from whence does the power come? The
power of Love. The power of the Fire. The Fire that burneth forever and ever.
The Fire that purifies. The Fire that human beings have thought to be hell is
what? God’s Love. It does bring about torment to those who are fighting His
Love, but the Eternal Fire does not bring torment to those who yield to it. And
so, the Fire is the creative power.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in
my name” in Shekinah, the power of Shekinah will accomplish because it will be
the word of God in expression through your lips. “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name, I will do it.” Belonging to the body of God, filled with the Shekinah
Pattern of being, the word of the Father passes through your lips in command
and by the power, the creative Fire, it will be done. Just as simple as that! We
can let the creative word of God pass through our lips, asking something out
here to obey. And if the patterns have been set up correctly that substance
will obey, it wants to. The substance of your body wants to obey the Divine Command.
And so, by the power of the Creative Fire it is done, the same power, the same
creative force that brought forth all things.
Now we remember, “In the
beginning was the Shekinah, and the Shekinah was with God, and the Shekinah was
God,” in manifest action and reality. “The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not anything made
that was made. In Shekinah was life.” In Shekinah was life. Why? Because
Shekinah is the pattern wherein Love and Truth find union and bring forth Life.
And the Life that is to be used in any moment is born in that moment, it is
there, if there is the union of Love and Truth. But if you believe many things
that are not true then you are asking Love to have union with a lie, and it
won’t do it. Neither Love nor Truth will commit adultery. You can’t
force them to. Love and Truth will not commit adultery. Human beings who imagine
that they go through life without committing adultery are committing adultery
every day because they are trying to force Love and Truth to have union with
something that it is not supposed to have union with.
Love must be married to
Truth before Love can father anything that can be born on earth. Truth, by
itself, without proper union with Love, brings forth nothing. It’s barren. It
does not bring forth Life because there is nothing to father Life in the womb
of Truth. When we begin to realize that Love and Truth belong together in a
state of wedded bliss, true union, they’ll have a child and that child will be
Life. And as long as Love and Truth remain in union in you Life will be
manifesting through you. Love and Truth are in union in the babe, in the little
child, but our educational processes go to work and pretty soon they start
separating Love and Truth. Finally they are divorced in the individual, as far
as he is concerned, and life begins to diminish and the body dies. That is the
process of existence. So if we would have the processes of living we must let
Love and Truth be married in us, that they may be in union in us, and then Life
appears, like a fountain.
Life is from God but how
does Life come from God or manifest in any form? Love and Truth must be in
union in the form through which Life is to manifest whether it is a blade of
grass, an amoebae, or a man, or a woman. Love and Truth must be in union in the
form through which Life is to manifest. Then we can begin to live. “And in
Shekinah was life.” Shekinah means the union of Love and Truth with the
manifest child of Life—Glory, the glory of the child, of bringing forth. And so whatever is
to appear through us as human beings, or as a body of human beings, as mankind,
if it is to be the reality of being it must be fathered by God (why do we call
Him the Father if He isn’t going to have the function of a father?) and cause
something to be conceived in us, that it may gestate in us, and be born through
us. The function of the father and the function of the mother.
Mankind is supposed to be
Mother God made manifest. Now, mankind is not at the present time. The body of
mankind has played the whore and has had union with everything it could find,
except God—union
with all kinds of things but not with God the Father. But if God the Father is
to have meaning then God the Mother must have meaning and the whole body of
mankind, including every man, woman, and child, is supposed to be a member of
God the Mother.
Now this pattern is
clearly revealed in the Biblical portrayal, and what we find spoken of as, to
use the ordinary word, as Jehovah in the Old Testament, was supposed to mean
God the Mother, not God the Father. Jehovah is supposed to be the manifestation
of God the Mother, not God the Father, although God the Father is revealed
through God the Mother, and the union between the two is supposed to bring
forth something the manifestation of not just the fact of life but of the
forms, the experiences, by reason of which Life may appear. If we just have
life as an illusive spirit it has no meaning on earth. There must be a form for
the manifestation of Life. And what are these forms? We say your body. Yes. And
its capacities. Yes. But the experience is a form through which Life appears.
According to what? The control and design of Truth and the fire of Love, for
you cannot separate these three. That is the family pattern, and if you try to
take the child away from the parents, or if you think you are going to separate
the parents, you lose all three. It will not work, it is a family pattern—Love
and Truth and Life, and Life is the child, Truth is the Mother, Love is the
Father.
But the Shekinah family
must manifest through something—your body and its capacities, yes. And
when we have a unit body with many members, or what we might call the Christ
body, then the Shekinah family is manifesting through that unit body, and the
unit body is a manifestation of God the Mother, which must be then in union
with God the Father, the One Who Dwells. But the forms through which the
Shekinah family appears are many. Your body as a member of the body of mankind,
on an individual basis, the body of a group, friends, all kinds of
relationships—but the body of experience, for experience is a form through
which something invisible is made visible to the Glory of God, to the
manifestation of God’s Life on earth, and to the blessing of the children of
men.
“In Shekinah was Life.” It
is the only place where you can find Life, for the Shekinah Pattern of Being in
one way or another makes possible the Life manifestation in any part of
vegetation, the insects, the birds, fish, the animals, wherever life is found.
So we begin to really know Life, not just about it, not just the results of its
presence. We begin to know that we can know Life and know what it is. And once
we begin to know Life we are in position to function in relationship to Life.
Once we realize that the body of mankind, properly including every man, woman
and child of every color and race regardless of creed and belief, every one is
supposed to be a member of the body of mankind, which in turn is supposed to
become the body of God the Mother that God the Father may conceive something in
God the Mother and that it may gestate in the womb of God the Mother and be
born.
Now there is a creative
process. How do you think the animals were formed? How do you think anything was
formed? They were all made by Shekinah. There was the union of Love and Truth
with the consequent birth of Life, but it had to be in relationship to a form
of some kind. How was the form provided, the body of man or the body of
anything? By reason of the Fatherhood of God and the Motherhood of God. God the
Father in the so-called invisible realms, God the Mother in this realm, and
there was the conception with respect to that which was to take form and the
body of God the Mother provided the means whereby that which was conceived was
given form and was brought forth in what we call birth, creation, with respect
to vibratory fields and cycles, etc., some of which we have studied.
Once you begin to
comprehend this you realize the sacredness of God and the things of God, you
realize that you can be a part of God the Mother only as you keep sacred things
sacred. We think of the female body as being a beautiful thing. You are
supposed to be a part of a female body, man or woman, it makes no
difference the body of Mother God. And a substitute name for the
Mother is Jehovah. Now that is not
the right pronunciation. Just as the name Jesus
is a substitute name, it is not the right pronunciation.
Once we begin to comprehend
these things intellectually, if the mind is willing to rest and be still, we
can begin to perceive through feeling, the
eye of the heart, that which cannot be known any other way, and the ear of the heart, the
perceptions of the feeling nature. So the mind begins to have an awareness of
idea, of Truth, of design. But the mind does not try to struggle with it, the
mind comes under control and is at rest, at peace, relaxed, serene, tranquil.
“Be still and know that I am God.” And then we begin to know that the name of
our Lord, the Lord of Love, the name that applies not only to the body but to
the Shekinah Pattern of Being which He revealed is something of exquisite
beauty, of loveliness. And we remember that the letter killeth but the spirit
giveth Life.
And what is that spirit?
Yielding to it, we can know it. If the mind is tranquil, if there is serenity,
if there is peace and trust, true yielding, we can begin to know the name of
our King, and through His name we can begin to know the Spirit of His Presence.
For the King is also a Prince. He is King to us and a Prince in relationship to
the still higher pattern of Being, the Prince of Peace.
And in the stillness, in
the quietness of the Holy of Holies, we hear the breathing of the breath of
Life. And upon the breath we hear a name (Uranda chants) Jesu Jesu Jesu and
there is and answering (Uranda chants) Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah and there is a union, union of God the Father
and God the Mother, and something Divine is conceived in the body of God the
Mother. And in season the child shall be born and the form shall appear by
which Life is made manifest, that all who will may come to know that The Lord
He is the God. THE LORD HE IS THE GOD.
Our Father who art in
heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name to us. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth
as it is in Heaven. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever (Uranda chants) AUM-en AUM AUM AUM and so are you enfolded in the Cosmic ALL that IS that you may dwell in the secret place of the Most High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty, for the shadow is the Evidence of His Presence and Shekinah is the Evidence of the Presence of the One who dwells. So let it be in you and through you now and forever. AUM-en.
We speak of the invisible planes of being as the positive aspect of the Whole Holy World, and these three outer planes of being in which we function as the negative aspect of the Whole Holy World. The positive and the negative are the male and female. Living on earth as focalizations of the crowning creation, the crowning manifestation of the negative triune world, we begin to realize what it is to share motherhood—regardless of whether we are male or female something that God the Father has fathered in us is born through us. But if there is to be a child born in this sense if must first be conceived, it must have its period of gestation in the womb, and it must have the privilege of birth. Man, mankind, is the mother aspect of God Being in this world. The invisible reality of God, being the reality of many God Beings, is the father aspect in relationship to this world. We begin to have an awareness of Deity.
Some little time ago I presented for your meditation something with respect to the vibratory factors of the Names of Deity. We recognized that the names as they are popularly used are not the true names, they are substitute names, substituted because in popular usage they would be spoiled, it would be a sacrilege, it would be blasphemous. Actually, what man does with these substitute names is not too important. They should be held sacred, and I am not suggesting that profanity is permissible, but the popular usage of the popular names of Deity does not spoil the vibratory pattern of Deity or the vibrational factors.
We find in the religions of the world various usages of the names of Deity. Whether we think of Allah, or some other name of Deity, we recognize that they all mean the same thing, but they are substitute meanings. We can feel the reality of Love and Truth and power, if we let go of prejudice, if we say “Allah.” We must recognize that in the Christian world, or so-called Christian world, the use of the words God and Jesus and Christ is something that is done promiscuously, without understanding, and consequently without real meaning.
There are multitudes of people who give God a series of orders, make a series of demands which they call prayer, and they finish up “in Jesus name we ask it”, or something of the sort; and they imagine that it’s prayer, which it is not; and they imagine that they are asking in His name as he instructed: “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it.” And they think they are doing it, but they are not. You have begun to realize that such things are not prayer, that the people who give orders to God are sacrilegious. Telling God what to do is blasphemous. There is no necessity of giving orders to God or telling Him what to do.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do.” Yes. Does that mean we are to ask God? It doesn’t say so. That has been an assumption, that man was to ask God, because it was suggested that we should ask in His name. If we are functioning in His name we are a part of His body, which is identified by His name. Anything else is a forgery. But if we have become an actual part of the body of God, then we can’t say anything without saying it in His name. If we honor His name, the family name shall we say, the name of our Father, then we live accordingly. But what of this asking?
“Whatsoever ye will ask in my name, that will I do.” But must we ask God? No. The asking is God’s asking. Does He ask Himself? No. He asks His creature to do thus and so. He asks the cell, the nerve, the tissue, the organ, whatever it may be. The asking must be from God to the creation; not the creature asking God something, but God asking something of His creation. If we ask in His name we will have been received into His body because we have let the Shekinah Pattern of Being fill our bodies, and it will be the Word of God working through us, giving a command, shall we say, not to God but to the thing, to the organ, to the tissue, to anything. And if the patterns have been worked out properly there will be obedience in the substance, a cell, it matters not.
If we ask in His name, He said, “I will do it.” Who was speaking? The words of the Father were being spoken through the lips of Jesus so that it was the word of the Father that was being spoken, but from what point did He speak? From the point of the Father, or from the point of His position as the Lord of Love, representing the Fire? He represented the Father, yes, but His particular position in revelation in the Cosmic Scheme of things was the revelation of the Father as the One who focalized the Spirit of Love. We speak of Him as the Lord of Love. Right. Well then, “I will do it.” What is the power, from whence does the power come? The power of Love. The power of the Fire. The Fire that burneth forever and ever. The Fire that purifies. The Fire that human beings have thought to be hell is what? God’s Love. It does bring about torment to those who are fighting His Love, but the Eternal Fire does not bring torment to those who yield to it. And so, the Fire is the creative power.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name” in Shekinah, the power of Shekinah will accomplish because it will be the word of God in expression through your lips. “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it.” Belonging to the body of God, filled with the Shekinah Pattern of being, the word of the Father passes through your lips in command and by the power, the creative Fire, it will be done. Just as simple as that! We can let the creative word of God pass through our lips, asking something out here to obey. And if the patterns have been set up correctly that substance will obey, it wants to. The substance of your body wants to obey the Divine Command. And so, by the power of the Creative Fire it is done, the same power, the same creative force that brought forth all things.
Now we remember, “In the beginning was the Shekinah, and the Shekinah was with God, and the Shekinah was God,” in manifest action and reality. “The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not anything made that was made. In Shekinah was life.” In Shekinah was life. Why? Because Shekinah is the pattern wherein Love and Truth find union and bring forth Life. And the Life that is to be used in any moment is born in that moment, it is there, if there is the union of Love and Truth. But if you believe many things that are not true then you are asking Love to have union with a lie, and it won’t do it. Neither Love nor Truth will commit adultery. You can’t force them to. Love and Truth will not commit adultery. Human beings who imagine that they go through life without committing adultery are committing adultery every day because they are trying to force Love and Truth to have union with something that it is not supposed to have union with.
Love must be married to Truth before Love can father anything that can be born on earth. Truth, by itself, without proper union with Love, brings forth nothing. It’s barren. It does not bring forth Life because there is nothing to father Life in the womb of Truth. When we begin to realize that Love and Truth belong together in a state of wedded bliss, true union, they’ll have a child and that child will be Life. And as long as Love and Truth remain in union in you Life will be manifesting through you. Love and Truth are in union in the babe, in the little child, but our educational processes go to work and pretty soon they start separating Love and Truth. Finally they are divorced in the individual, as far as he is concerned, and life begins to diminish and the body dies. That is the process of existence. So if we would have the processes of living we must let Love and Truth be married in us, that they may be in union in us, and then Life appears, like a fountain.
Life is from God but how does Life come from God or manifest in any form? Love and Truth must be in union in the form through which Life is to manifest whether it is a blade of grass, an amoebae, or a man, or a woman. Love and Truth must be in union in the form through which Life is to manifest. Then we can begin to live. “And in Shekinah was life.” Shekinah means the union of Love and Truth with the manifest child of Life—Glory, the glory of the child, of bringing forth. And so whatever is to appear through us as human beings, or as a body of human beings, as mankind, if it is to be the reality of being it must be fathered by God (why do we call Him the Father if He isn’t going to have the function of a father?) and cause something to be conceived in us, that it may gestate in us, and be born through us. The function of the father and the function of the mother.
Mankind is supposed to be Mother God made manifest. Now, mankind is not at the present time. The body of mankind has played the whore and has had union with everything it could find, except God—union with all kinds of things but not with God the Father. But if God the Father is to have meaning then God the Mother must have meaning and the whole body of mankind, including every man, woman, and child, is supposed to be a member of God the Mother.
Now this pattern is clearly revealed in the Biblical portrayal, and what we find spoken of as, to use the ordinary word, as Jehovah in the Old Testament, was supposed to mean God the Mother, not God the Father. Jehovah is supposed to be the manifestation of God the Mother, not God the Father, although God the Father is revealed through God the Mother, and the union between the two is supposed to bring forth something the manifestation of not just the fact of life but of the forms, the experiences, by reason of which Life may appear. If we just have life as an illusive spirit it has no meaning on earth. There must be a form for the manifestation of Life. And what are these forms? We say your body. Yes. And its capacities. Yes. But the experience is a form through which Life appears. According to what? The control and design of Truth and the fire of Love, for you cannot separate these three. That is the family pattern, and if you try to take the child away from the parents, or if you think you are going to separate the parents, you lose all three. It will not work, it is a family pattern—Love and Truth and Life, and Life is the child, Truth is the Mother, Love is the Father.
But the Shekinah family must manifest through something—your body and its capacities, yes. And when we have a unit body with many members, or what we might call the Christ body, then the Shekinah family is manifesting through that unit body, and the unit body is a manifestation of God the Mother, which must be then in union with God the Father, the One Who Dwells. But the forms through which the Shekinah family appears are many. Your body as a member of the body of mankind, on an individual basis, the body of a group, friends, all kinds of relationships—but the body of experience, for experience is a form through which something invisible is made visible to the Glory of God, to the manifestation of God’s Life on earth, and to the blessing of the children of men.
“In Shekinah was Life.” It is the only place where you can find Life, for the Shekinah Pattern of Being in one way or another makes possible the Life manifestation in any part of vegetation, the insects, the birds, fish, the animals, wherever life is found. So we begin to really know Life, not just about it, not just the results of its presence. We begin to know that we can know Life and know what it is. And once we begin to know Life we are in position to function in relationship to Life. Once we realize that the body of mankind, properly including every man, woman and child of every color and race regardless of creed and belief, every one is supposed to be a member of the body of mankind, which in turn is supposed to become the body of God the Mother that God the Father may conceive something in God the Mother and that it may gestate in the womb of God the Mother and be born.
Now there is a creative process. How do you think the animals were formed? How do you think anything was formed? They were all made by Shekinah. There was the union of Love and Truth with the consequent birth of Life, but it had to be in relationship to a form of some kind. How was the form provided, the body of man or the body of anything? By reason of the Fatherhood of God and the Motherhood of God. God the Father in the so-called invisible realms, God the Mother in this realm, and there was the conception with respect to that which was to take form and the body of God the Mother provided the means whereby that which was conceived was given form and was brought forth in what we call birth, creation, with respect to vibratory fields and cycles, etc., some of which we have studied.
Once you begin to comprehend this you realize the sacredness of God and the things of God, you realize that you can be a part of God the Mother only as you keep sacred things sacred. We think of the female body as being a beautiful thing. You are supposed to be a part of a female body, man or woman, it makes no difference the body of Mother God. And a substitute name for the Mother is Jehovah. Now that is not the right pronunciation. Just as the name Jesus is a substitute name, it is not the right pronunciation.
Once we begin to comprehend these things intellectually, if the mind is willing to rest and be still, we can begin to perceive through feeling, the eye of the heart, that which cannot be known any other way, and the ear of the heart, the perceptions of the feeling nature. So the mind begins to have an awareness of idea, of Truth, of design. But the mind does not try to struggle with it, the mind comes under control and is at rest, at peace, relaxed, serene, tranquil. “Be still and know that I am God.” And then we begin to know that the name of our Lord, the Lord of Love, the name that applies not only to the body but to the Shekinah Pattern of Being which He revealed is something of exquisite beauty, of loveliness. And we remember that the letter killeth but the spirit giveth Life.
And what is that spirit? Yielding to it, we can know it. If the mind is tranquil, if there is serenity, if there is peace and trust, true yielding, we can begin to know the name of our King, and through His name we can begin to know the Spirit of His Presence. For the King is also a Prince. He is King to us and a Prince in relationship to the still higher pattern of Being, the Prince of Peace.
And in the stillness, in the quietness of the Holy of Holies, we hear the breathing of the breath of Life. And upon the breath we hear a name (Uranda chants) Jesu Jesu Jesu and there is and answering (Uranda chants) Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah and there is a union, union of God the Father and God the Mother, and something Divine is conceived in the body of God the Mother. And in season the child shall be born and the form shall appear by which Life is made manifest, that all who will may come to know that The Lord He is the God. THE LORD HE IS THE GOD.
Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name to us. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever (Uranda chants) AUM-en AUM AUM AUM and so are you enfolded in the Cosmic ALL that IS that you may dwell in the secret place of the Most High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty, for the shadow is the Evidence of His Presence and Shekinah is the Evidence of the Presence of the One who dwells. So let it be in you and through you now and forever. AUM-en.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Monday, July 28, 2014
A Sacred Period
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A Sacred Period
Bill Bahan September 13, 1980
This evening I present myself before the LORD, and my soul feels totally inadequate. But I am not my soul. What a wonderful thing it is to stand before the LORD naked and unashamed, having one's mind filled with the LORD, unclothed with concepts as to what to say or what to bring forth, and allowing the mind to be used by the LORD with all of us participating collectively. I'm sure you are all familiar with these words which have been repeated and repeated and repeated for two thousand years:
After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and
the glory, for ever.
This is our LORD's prayer. It was His
prayer that His will should be done in earth as it is in heaven. Human beings
for these many thousands of years have been unable to allow His prayer to be
answered in their living. Repeatedly there have been those who have been on
earth to assist human beings to know the fulfilment of that prayer in their
living, but strange as it may seem, they have been reluctant to accept the one
who came in the name of the LORD to assist them in this fulfilment. Over and
over again the LORD's servants have come on earth to assist human beings to
know the truth and let His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And, as I
say, there has been a gross reluctance to let it transpire.
Our LORD and KING Himself came on earth in
order to say it directly, but He was rejected. To our minds today it may be
unimaginable that that Great One being present in form on earth should be
rejected as the LORD, but He was. He did open the door for all of us, first of
all through this prayer with the instruction, "After this manner ... pray ye," as to how we might allow His will
to be done. There has been the need in the earth for leadership to assist human
beings, even with their reluctance, to let His will be done. We know in our own
experience that there has appeared a prophet of the LORD on earth, to those who
were aware, to let His will be done and, in turn, to assist all human beings
into this true consciousness.
Today is September 13. This actually is the anniversary period. The 13th of September, 1932, was when the focus of enlightenment came into the consciousness of Uranda. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/08/from-focus-of-enlightenment-2-martin.html] In that outworking, in three successive days—September 13, 14 and 15—this enlightenment took place in his consciousness. He became aware of his responsibility on earth, and all of the questions which his mind had had before then were answered during that particular time. He became aware of the truth that heaven and earth are one, and how to let the LORD's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Also this is the conclusion of the sixth year of this seven-year-cycle of the seventh cycle which we are in since that momentous experience took place in the consciousness of Uranda forty-eight years ago. When Uranda received his commission he
thought that he could go and bring this good news to thousands and thousands of
people. He said it was a lack of outer experience on his part which led him to
believe that. He found out that human beings have a deaf ear to the truth. But
he knew the truth. He accepted his commission, but the acceptance of that
commission was not just for him. That commission was available to every man,
woman and child on earth. He sounded the note of that commission; he went from
one end of this continent to the other sounding the note of that commission,
bringing the good news that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He found that
there were those who did respond to that offering and some who came close, but
when it got right down to cases and they had the responsibility of accepting
the commission he had accepted, they went their own ways. But the LORD will
out. Those who have accepted the commission of the LORD do not know failure.
They may in their service see many fail around them, but failure is not
included in the vocabulary of those who have accepted the commission of the
LORD. So regardless of all the pressures and all the sadness experienced by
him, he continued to sound the note, and we know what happened.
Finally one emerged who would agree with
him in that commission. A line was drawn on earth between two who had accepted
the commission, and the time came in the evolving cycles when Uranda left this
sphere of things. The commission, and the note of that commission, the mantle
of it, fell into the hands of Martin. Since 1932, in an outer sense, that note
has never stopped sounding; it has been consistent. You and I find ourselves here tonight because of the continuation of that note by Martin. What is our responsibility? Well, we know that Martin's responsibility is not the same as ours. Within the commission there is design; he has a particular design within that commission, and we have a particular design within that commission. Our responsibilities are not the same, even though we carry the same commission.
The two titles of Martin's services last Sunday indicate everything that is required. The morning service was entitled "Alignment With Original Cause"—that's the commission. The evening service was entitled, "The Responsibility of the Unified Body." Now, we know that the responsibility of the unified body is absolutely impossible without alignment with original cause, without the acceptance of the commission of the LORD. When that commission is accepted and is actual in our experience, in our living, we begin to find that we are a part of this unified body. To be a part of the unified body without accepting the commission of the LORD is an impossibility. We kid ourselves if we think we can do it. It is alignment with original cause which allows what needs to be done to be done. So where's the great problem in accepting that alignment? No problem at all! The kingdom of heaven is at hand; we're in it constantly as long as we are alive. All that is necessary is to stop violating the laws of the kingdom. Human beings have not been aware of the kingdom because they violate its laws.
You and I have had the finest spiritual education available, so we have been made aware of the laws of the kingdom. "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" Well of course! If the ordinances of heaven are broken in our experience it's something deliberate. As our love for the LORD and His ordinances is paramount in our living, so that they transcend anything in the personal sense, we keep the ordinances of heaven. In the keeping of them we know the truth that heaven and earth are one, and we may sound the tone of oneness so that others may come and live in the kingdom with us. How blessed we have been. And yet there does seem to be reluctance present amongst those of us who have had this great gift offered to us. If any of us in our experience find ourselves out of a consciousness of the oneness of heaven and earth, we are deliberately doing it. There is a deaf ear present.
When the commission of the LORD has been accepted the LORD is present because we are there; we're not looking for some representative of the LORD out there. We are there in His name; we are there to represent Him. Then the thing that means more to us is our representation of Him, not that circumstance. Representing Him is the thing that counts. If it counts in fact with us, and our agreement with the LORD is the vital thing to us, then the LORD comes into that circumstance because we're there. His spirit is there and, as has been emphasized recently, He is Almighty.
One-pointedness, discipline, a challenge that's loved—this is the spirit that is actually required if the unified body is to be a fact on earth. If there was the spirit of one-pointedness in the LORD, the spirit of delight in the challenge that lies before us, what would our experience be? One of quibbling, one of doubt, fear and apprehension? No. It would be consistent with the LORD, consistent with His nature, so that we in fact exemplify His expression.
I have had opportunity before to approach this anniversary period, but never the experience like I have had, coming to this particular weekend. I am sure you share that with me. We may all recognize the absolute sacredness of it. It is a very significant time. There is a great shift taking place actually. This shift is pointed right at us. The LORD is expecting us to reveal the truth in fact, the revelation of the truth of human beings who have accepted the commission of the LORD. That is why, as I say, when I presented myself before you this evening I felt, as far as my soul was concerned, completely inadequate. Absolutely! What a wonderful feeling really. One recognizes the absolute nothingness of the human soul in and of itself. As long as the human soul still thinks that it can do it, that it can be the way, the truth and the life, we're lost without a doubt. But because you and I have been nurtured, yea, these many years by the LORD, we come to the point where we may in fact accept our responsibility. And in that acceptance of our commission we may do what we came on earth to do.
This body which has been taking form is an indestructible body. We saw that the body of our LORD and KING on earth was absolutely indestructible, regardless of all the things that were forced upon it. That body did not destruct. Now we may look back and recognize that it was our LORD and KING's body, and because it was His body it was indestructible. Well, whose body are we in? Whose body are we responsible for? It's the same body. It's the same body because there are those in it who accept the truth which our LORD and KING brought on earth. Then it is in fact an indestructible body. What a miracle to find this body at this particular stage strong and pliable in the midst of all the turmoil and strife in the world. The tone of the LORD is sounding on earth and those who are receptive are coming.
Recently we have been talking about the immovable mass. You know, in some respects it would appear that the immovable mass has been on earth for many years, immovable by the spirit of God! But out of that immovable mass have come those who are movable. You and I responded to the spirit of God that was moving and have come to the point where we recognize what is required. We have a particular opportunity for the fulfillment of God. In the acceptance of the truth we accept the reality of ourselves, which is in heaven. What is received from heaven on earth, the forms that appear on earth, are not separate from our doing. It is our doing, it is our expression, which allows that which would be given from heaven to be given; and our total concern is to allow what needs to come from heaven to come.
I speak to you tonight not of the earth but of the heaven, of that which is above. And we know that if that which is above is sounded on earth it is not heard by those who are earthy; it is heard by those who are responding to the heaven. So in our experience we can know in fact that we speak from heaven. The understanding that we know is from above. All of us who have had the privilege of sitting at the feet of the LORD know a great victory and have established our friendship with the LORD. We have come to the point where we may speak from above and we may handle the responsibility of the body of which we are a part. A lot of things have been said about friendship with the LORD. It's a beautiful thing we share, to allow that friendship to be a reality. We know that friendship with the LORD is impossible to human beings in human nature. It is agreement with the representation that allows the reality of friendship to appear. And how easy it is to find friendship with the LORD through His representation. That representation has faith in us.
Do you think that we can know friendship with the LORD and His representation, true friendship, if we don't accept our commission? It is in the acceptance of what the representative of the LORD accepts that we know friendship. Knowing friendship, we know the reality of faith. We know that what needs to be done will be done, and we know that in friendship we may come in the name of the LORD—but until the one who comes in the name of the LORD is accepted nothing transpires. The one who comes in the name of the LORD has come. We have all said, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." In that growing friendship which we know because of our recognition of that one, we come to the point where we stand with that one. If we ever distort that spirit which he represents, our friendship is broken. Heaven forbid!
In the days to come in our service, many things are going to present themselves. In the strength and the power of the LORD we will know what to do in any circumstance, in any moment. I'm sure that all who are here during this very sacred period, which calls forth the truth from all of us who have been moving, would recognize that no circumstance or situation could ever provoke us to distort the spirit. In our hearts and minds and, yea, all of our souls, we long to maintain our agreement in spirit, and in turn, our friendship with the LORD. I delight in what is going to be in the days to come. I delight that all of us have in fact—and don't say we haven't—come to the point where we know that we are responsible for the spirit of the LORD in form on earth. We know this, and we know His spirit.
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