We  Bring  The  Ill  Things  Out  In  The  Open

from    A  Word  To  The  Wise  #11

Uranda   June 4, 1941

Many people think that if they ignore the ill things in themselves and others, that those ill things will evaporate, but such is not the case. A person may, by such attitude, blind himself to the existing ill conditions in himself or others, but those conditions are still there, and they still limit the expression of Reality. It is only as the ill conditions are actually brought to the surface, and dealt with frankly and squarely, that they can actually be eliminated.

In the Third Sacred School we bring the ill things out in the open, and deal with them, refusing to be ashamed of them. We are not going to gloss over and ignore the ill things in any Student in the School. In this Service you will not be permitted to delude yourselves into thinking that you are something which you are not.

Of this one thing you may be assured, as long as there is anything unreal in you, and as long as there is the least bit of self-activity in your expression, I shall surely continue to stir you up and uncover such unreal things. If you do not like to be stirred up, and cleansed of the unreal, you will never be comfortable in the Third Sacred School.

The world-body has too long been content to delude itself into a false sense of self-righteousness. Let it be understood that we do not dwell upon the weak points, but we do insist upon correcting them.

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One Fundamental Factor Of Unreality

One  Fundamental  Factor  Of  Unreality

from   The  Need  For  Complete  Honesty

Uranda   July 27, 1950

    

We have recognized that the one fundamental factor of unreality springing forth from self-centeredness which makes true progress impossible and true fulfilment beyond realization, is dishonesty. 

I am not speaking of those flagrant manifestations of dishonesty which are recognized as such in the world. I am speaking of those things which are almost invariably present in those individuals who deem themselves to be honest individuals, who from any ordinary standpoint are honest. I am speaking of those little dishonesties by reason of which human beings continually hedge, continually excuse little deviations from the point, continually make it appear that some aspect of self-centeredness should have weight, meaning and value. 

There is a high degree of honesty made manifest in and through you, but even so, there yet remains dishonesty, and this, springing from self-centeredness, stands as the barrier to your greater progress. There are those who speak words which are designed, according to their concept, for my ears, who yet on occasion speak other words which they would not care for me to hear. Such function is dishonesty.

It is hypocrisy, trying to make something appear to be something that it is not.

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All  Things  Must  Be  Made  New — Everything!

from   Sex and Spiritual Intimacy

Martin Cecil   January 11, 1958

I have been doing all that I could to prepare you for that which is needful in the days before us. I emphasized the point of the necessity for honesty, so that you are really honest with yourselves and do not attempt to deceive yourselves with respect to your motivations, the reason why you speak or act thus and so. How easily human beings do deceive themselves in that regard, persisting in self-deception. Obviously there must be honesty in the Holy Place, because if there isn't, there would be the making of a lie, and that, if it is a part of anyone, prevents them from entering into the Holy City. 

There is a need, then, for true honesty, and there is the need for the development of a true sense of the fitness of things. That which is fitting in the Holy Place is very different to that which may seem to be fitting in the world of man. The wisdom of men is foolishness with God, and human beings have judged the wisdom of God to be either foolish or unfitting. We remember the words, "Behold, I make all things new." That certainly indicates a complete change, for that which is in the Holy Place must be fitting in the sight of God, regardless of what human beings think about it. And you will find that, while you have undergone a change of viewpoint and you see many things in a different light to the way it used to be, the new vision and new understanding, the new sense of the fitness of things, the new recognition of values, is yet to come. 

I was wondering tonight if I could begin to speak to you a little about these things, perhaps we might say the characteristics of divine men and women as they serve God from the Holy Place, that you may have an increased understanding of what is fitting there, what is right and proper and what is not. We cannot lay down any rules and regulations as human beings try to do in the world of man. They establish a pattern of some sort and then they say it just is not done, to behave otherwise. Well of course there are those things that are simply not done in the Holy Place, but the correct function is based in something the individual knows from within himself rather than on something which is imposed from outside. 

The Ten Commandments were given a long time ago as a basis of regulation for those who at that time had not reached a point where they had any true spiritual perception, no real sense of the fitness of things yet. There is that within the Ten Commandments which we have already recognized as being of value in helping to develop a sense of the fitness of things, but as commandments in the ordinary sense, they are left behind. As guides to the fitness of things and to an understanding of the divine pattern and the ways of God, they have their value. And when we come into the Holy Place we discover that truly all things must be made new. Everything! And all the old patterns of belief, concept, all the old regulations, dos and don'ts, no longer have any effect. Yet, as we have seen, there is an absolute control insofar as the kingdom of God is concerned. It is not as though all controls were taken off simply because nothing is imposed from the outside. The outside controls cannot properly be taken off until the individuals concerned have learned how to accept the inside controls. And it is those controls which spring from within the individual that operate in the Holy Place. 

To attempt to come into the Holy Place on the basis of some outwardly established and accepted code of ethics, for instance, would end in failure, because the outer control would interfere with the inner control. As long as a person has the two—partially controlled by that which is coming from outside or is imposed from outside, and at the same time seeking to be governed by that which is established from inside—there is a certain amount of conflict, and the individual is not quite sure whether he should be governed by this or by that. 

If we are to move safely into the Holy Place, to serve there as we should, we must come to the point where we can completely accept and remain subject to the controls which God offers from the standpoint of the Holy Place, controls which originate with God and spring forth from within the individual, in body and mind and heart.

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