December 10, 2014
The Body Is Me
Many of you are beginning to realize
what it means to be in the body. The son of perdition may explain it in terms
of loss, loss of what human beings have been persuaded is freedom. But there is
no freedom for any human being to experience outside of the Son of God, outside
of that one body. All the forms of life on this planet, for example, are
included within the scope of this body. All forms of life are free to be
themselves. They are not free to be anything other than themselves. This is
still widely revealed in the various forms of nature. A lion is not free to be
a camel. It is quite free to be a lion.
Insofar as human beings are
concerned, the fact of the matter is they are only free to be what they were
created to be. Otherwise they are in bondage. All human beings find themselves
in bondage to the extent that they are not revealing what it is that they were
created to be. And what it is that any individual was created to be does not
exist outside of the Son of man.
There comes a time when it is not a
matter anymore of dealing with individuals as though they were not a part of
one body. There is no need to discuss anything with anyone—and I do less and
less of that—relative to anything that is not included in the one body, because
it means utterly nothing to me. There is something else to be done. We have
reached a point where what needs to be done must be done, and all the talk and
discussion won't ever get anything done.
Being, in experience, part of this
one body allows for a very clear awareness of what it is that needs to be done.
Nobody needs to be told. If one insists upon needing to be told, one is making
a very strong statement that "I have no place in this one body."
There is the one spirit which moves through this one body, and all those who
compose that body are capable of being moved by that one spirit. There have
been so many holdouts, haven't there? "Well I want it to work the way I
want it to work. I want to do what I want to do. I want to go where I want to
go." All this. But those who have had any association with this body for
any length of time know better. That's not the way to go. It has no interest
for me, because it is not part of what is required of the one body.
There is one answer. I suppose it
could be summarized in the words, Come home, and stay home, going no more
forth, so that the creative process has a body on earth which is trustworthy:
it will always be there. Now we can say "Hooray for the body!" But
the body is me, each one individually, or there isn't any. And that must be the
attitude of each one. Otherwise one is pulled this way and that way by the son
of perdition, and one has no part in the body.
The fact is that for myself, and I
know for others as well, there is no reason whatsoever to be present on earth
except to do what is necessary to permit this body to act; not to act on the
basis of the usual human ways of doing things, but to act because it is the
body of the King. It is His body, and when we are a part of that body we come
into position to say, "It is my body." It is not a secondhand body.
We share this tremendous
opportunity—tremendous privilege and tremendous responsibility. The question
is, are we going to do it?—it is very simple, really—or are we going to go our
own human way, inspired by the son of perdition? He inspires, you know, as well
as driving with a whip. He can provide what seems to be necessary in a
multitude of different ways, and human beings have been falling for it for
millennia.
Finally there begins to emerge a
body, and that is all I have been interested in from the word go. And there are those who have shared
this interest with me. I thank God for all of them. But there are those who of
course halt between two opinions, maybe not deliberately so—some deliberately
so—but because the reason for fear, the controls which operate through fear,
have not yet been faced and honestly seen.
When one honestly sees what the
human state has been, one is so revolted by it that one could not associate
oneself with it anymore and retain the slightest degree of integrity. This is
the fact of the matter. I am not preaching hellfire and damnation. I am merely
indicating what the fact is, and we can be exercised by the fact. I rejoice
that there are those who are facing the facts and letting the creative process
work.
There is something new being
experienced. There was something new being experienced this afternoon in the
West Chapel, with people right there. Well we need to be right there. What is
more important, of course, is that we need to stay right there, so that the
King has a body He can depend on. It is His responsibility to act through that
body, not for us to develop any fancy schemes. We become aware of what the
action rightly is as we participate in the creative process. It is not a
spineless operation, but we don't need to make choices. It becomes obvious what
is needed, and we do it. It becomes so customary that we love it. We love to
be, and we love to do what the fact of our being brings forth. We love that
individually and it is consequently loved collectively.
There is one body. There is one body
which can be trusted. The creative process is working, and it works perfectly
all the time. It works on the basis of what is present in individual human
beings, and brings forth accordingly. The bringing forth is just perfect
always, on the basis of what is present—completely just, just the way it should
be by reason of what is present.
We are content to let the creative
process work. It doesn't make any mistakes. You don't need to be suspicious
about it. Let it work. It will prove itself out. And what is brought forth, the
effects—integration, disintegration, whatever they are—will be absolutely
perfect, just exactly what they should be.
We don't need to
discuss it very much, do we? It happens automatically when we let it. We don't
try to manipulate anything. Most human talk relates to this matter of
manipulation. But there is a willingness to let the creative process work, and
to prove out one's own stability, one's own trustworthiness. What a marvelous
thing. This is what has been called the restoration, the restoration of man to
the state of being made in the image and likeness of God, so that the
expression of God by reason of man is natural to man. Then one may say,
"That's me!" And so we rejoice to be ourselves.
Let there be expanding life
throughout the body of mankind, even though there may be a recognition of the
fact that most human beings cannot stand expanding life. It behooves those who
are aware of what it is that is happening to come into a position to
accommodate expanding life, without being pushed out of the picture.
December 09, 2014
Naacal Sage of the New Age
Naacal Sage of the New Age
from
Turning on the Light
Uranda April 12, 1939
Whatever my temple consciousness needed
to learn it learned from Me—and the most important thing it learned was that it
does not need to know anything of itself other than to let My knowing flow
through it according to the need. In that My temple and its consciousness has
so responded to Me as to allow Me to draw it into oneness with Myself, it is a
manifest expression of Myself. Only a few Naacal sages have been given world
recognition as teachers of spiritual reality during the period of present
recorded history. Heading the list of Naacal sages stands the Lord of the
Sacred Seven, known in the world as Jesus the Christ. Others were Moses, who
led Israel—of whom the Jews were only one-thirteenth part—out of Egypt, and
John the beloved disciple, who wrote the Gospel and the Epistles bearing his
name, and also the Book of Revelation.
I now manifest in the earth as the Naacal sage of the New Age, according to the promise. All true teaching has always been given to the world by the Naacal sages, though that which was given by Naacal sages has been taken by others and changed to suit their own fancies, and then offered to mankind in ways designed to achieve selfish ends of profit and domination, thus deluding the people and hindering the work of the Naacal sages. Nevertheless, as the Naacal sages work from the standpoint of eternity and are not subject to the limitations of time, space, distance, place, condition, the so-called wealth of the world, or to any other thing, except as they may willingly work within such limitations in order to better serve all mankind, it is evident that the Naacal sages have no need to learn anything; nor are they in any way concerned about the boasted knowledge of human beings; nor can they be long hindered in the accomplishment of their mission, which is the salvation of humanity.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
December 06, 2014
The Initiation Of A Great Creative Cycle
The Initiation of a Great Creative Cycle
from Becoming A Virgin
Uranda April 15, 1951
Tonight I have chosen a text which has tremendous significance.
Our own view with respect to it is not according to the popular concept. Tonight
let the vibrational pattern be as focalized as possible. Let us, then, in our
focalized meditations, see what new significance we can find in meditating upon
the birth of Jesus Christ on earth. In the first chapter of Matthew, beginning
with the l8th verse, we read:
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this
wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. "Then Joseph her husband,
being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to
put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel
of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear
not to take unto Thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of
the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they
shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Then
Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and
took unto him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her
firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS."
In this simple story, which has confounded the
minds of the worldly-wise, we have a record of the most significant event that
the world has known since the fall of man. Here we have a portrayal in a few
simple words of a process by which God initiated a Creative Cycle on earth, the
Creative Cycle by which salvation should come to man, the restoration from that
low estate to which man had fallen to that Divine Estate for which God first
created man. We are particularly concerned tonight with a consideration of the
principles that are involved here.
First, to clarify our approach to the matter, I
would point out that we do not accept the popular idea that the laws of
conception were in some manner superseded, or some supernatural method of conception
took place. We do not believe that a right understanding of this passage teaches
any such thing. As we have before recognized, it was essential that Jesus, in
His Life and Ministry, reveal the Heavenly Father. This story, as it is
presented, does not violate Truth when it is understood; it does not violate
the facts. Our particular concern tonight is not with the manner in which this
conception took place. It is not of particular importance to our subject and
consideration, but always, when a great leader has appeared in the world and
has been more or less generally accepted—the same, for instance, is true of
Buddha—the idea has become prevalent that such an one was born of a virgin, by
some supposedly super-natural process of conception.
Actually, from an ordinary approach of mental
processes of human beings, any conception is a miracle. Any conception is
super-normal in the sense of anything that human beings can do. It is beyond
the normal of the range of human activity. So, there is the Divine Aspect, and
we recognize that in every case insofar as the reality of the matter is concerned—the
true conception, the true manifestation of life that begins to appear in the
womb, is the result of Divine action—and that that is not limited to the case
of Jesus or of some others. It is simply emphasized in our text that the
reality of the Life Force that permits conception and birth is something that
is of God, far beyond the range of human understanding. And that is true of each
and every one of us.
One of the great stumbling blocks to a true
understanding of the Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ has been that human
beings, generally, have imagined that the initial beginnings with respect to the
birth of Jesus on earth were so far different from that which is true of the rest
of us that we have no valid hope of fulfilling promises and instructions which
He gave which anticipate that we should do as He did. He said that the works
that He did we should do also. Human beings have taken this portrayal of His Birth
as an excuse for accepting a far lower state of life than God intended that we
should. We approach this consideration from the standpoint of considering how
the principles that are revealed with respect to Creative Cycles can be allowed
to more effectively manifest in relationship to our own lives and our Ministry
on earth.
Notice here that it is the beginning of a great
Creative Cycle. The meaningfulness of our lives today in Ministry is dependent
upon our relationship with and in that Cycle that began then—the Creative Cycle
designed to bring about the restoration of man to the Divine Estate. Human
efforts which disregard that Cycle come to naught. Human beings, with all of
their increased knowledge, struggle and strive to establish a better world.
They invent great things and accomplish much that is laudable according to
human vision, but the state of the world shows that human beings in their
efforts to improve the world have failed to recognize the Creative Cycle which God established and designed for the
achievement of the Goal.
Birth is used symbolically in many places in the
Bible to portray the beginning of a new cycle. He stated that His Gospel was that,
"The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." It had been at hand, and He was
undertaking to reveal that it was at hand. He revealed the manner in which we
may let the Kingdom have meaning on earth in our lives here and now. The Gospel
was that the Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand, and He revealed the Way by which we may share in that Kingdom. When we
have the vision to recognize the great over-all picture of the beginning of
that Creative Cycle in which we now share, how little, how insignificant, from
a human standpoint, was that conception. The conception of that Cycle of
Salvation certainly was not of man. The conception of that Cycle of
transmission and transformation was of God, and it was of what Aspect of God? The
words here are translated, "Holy Ghost." We prefer, "Holy
Spirit." The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, or, as it was then and still
is, the Spirit of the Living Christ. The Spirit of the Living Christ, working
through human agencies, initiated the great Cycle of Salvation, the Creative
Cycle which should transform the world so that ultimately it would be recognized
that the former things shall pass away—"And behold, I create all things
new."
The specific consideration here, of the principles
of the Creative Cycle, will need a little relaxation of mind, and technical
recognition of the symbolism that is involved, because we know that underneath the
simple stories of the Bible there are profound revelations of the Truth of God.
"When, as his mother, Mary, was espoused to Joseph."
Mary, the mother, yes—but Mary, the mother, represents a great deal more than
just a woman, or womankind. Mary represents the body of humanity as a whole—that
which needs to bring forth on earth the things of God. The great influence
which Jesus has had upon the world and upon the people in it has been because
the greatest thing He did was to reveal Deity on earth. All things else that He
did were a result of that central fact. The greatest thing He did was to reveal
Deity on earth. And He instructed His followers to do likewise, to follow Him
in that fulfillment and to do the same works that He did. He revealed Deity on
earth. So, Mary here represents the mass of humanity which is supposed, under
the right influence, to bring forth the things of God on earth and to reveal
Deity. At this point we recall our recognition of the fact that man was originally
created to be the connecting link between Creator and the creation. Man fell
from that position and the creation was left without adequate correlation with
the Creator, and consequently chaos has been in the world. The process of restoration,
then, is supposed to bring man back to the point where he is a connecting link
on earth between the Creator and the creation.
"She was espoused to Joseph before they came
together." In other words, here we have the elimination of the popular ideas
of human effort, human trying, human struggling, by which it is generally
supposed that great things are accomplished. Here the human element of
self-centeredness and self-sufficiency are set aside and we recognize that this
work of bringing forth the things of God on earth, of revealing Deity, of
becoming again the connecting link between Creator and creation, necessitates something
in humanity that cannot be engendered by man. It is something that must be
engendered in man by God and the
process of establishing that conception, that beginning, is through the Holy
Spirit, or the Spirit of the Living Christ. That Spirit of God must be allowed
to work in man; it must be received by man; and it must begin to produce something in man.
At first, as in the birth of the physical child, the results of the workings of the Spirit are hidden in the darkness of the womb. Something is growing, developing, but it cannot be seen with human vision. Its nature cannot be determined. Its ultimate fulfilment cannot be known by the human mind. It is hidden from human eyes. If there is not a recognition in the physical sense of the proper conduct, proper care, etc., that which is being formed in the womb may be destroyed before the fulfilment can be realized. We, in Love Response to God, in letting go to the workings of the Holy Spirit, have seen that in our progress along the Way. Coming up to this point, it has often been true that something has been conceived in us by the working of the Holy Spirit; something of God has been begun in us, which, because the human eye could not see it, was rejected. There was not enough faith, enough patience, enough willingness to let the things of God work out, and as a result of self-activity, wilfulness, and turning aside from the things of Truth and Life, that which had been conceived of the Holy Spirit in us was destroyed. It was never allowed to come to the point of birth where it could be seen and known and recognized. But even at the point of birth the nature of the ultimate fulfilment cannot be known.
What is to be achieved according to the Divine Design down through the years that are ahead cannot be seen and recognized by human vision at the point of birth. The parents may have all kinds of dreams and longings; there may be ideas which, according to the concepts of the moment, are high ideals for that child, but it is possible that that child, moving forward, growing into adulthood, shall in season accomplish something far greater than the parents could possibly have dreamed of. This was the case with the parents of Jesus. It has been the case with many parents. It emphasizes that text: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love and serve Him."
We begin to see, then, that we, individually as members of the human family, have the privilege of sharing in this fulfilment as it came to Mary, that this portrayal as it relates to Mary is, and was supposed to reveal, the Way whereby we may share in the Creative Cycles of God on earth. It is not that we should undertake to initiate, ourselves, that which has already been done. Jesus Christ initiated the Great Cycle, focalized it, and did His work well. We do not need to try to imitate Him or to do what has been done, but we do need to let the same cycle of Creative activity have meaning in our own lives here and now. We have envisioned that, talked about it, and theoretically accepted it; and yet the very fact that we have not gone further along the Way, have not experienced greater fulfilment than we have yet known, proves that there is opportunity for a still greater understanding of the processes by which the Creative work of God can be made manifest on earth through us. As representatives of the mass of humanity, we can accept for ourselves the privilege of that which is symbolized for the mass of humanity here in relationship to Mary.
She was espoused to Joseph. That means that, according to the natural outworkings of ordinary life in the world, this that was used by God would have become the property of man, to use from a human standpoint. We look out into the world and see that most human beings, upon reaching adulthood are considered as belonging to the mass of human activity. This that has been brought forth, this individual that has been raised up to the point where he or she may begin to live, is considered to belong to the mass of human activity. That individual is espoused to the human programs—the popular concept is that the individual part of that world body is espoused to this mass of activity out here, all of the plans and programs, all of the organizations which man has designed in the great field of human activity, as represented by Joseph.
Ordinarily, the individual, this person coming to adulthood, does not recognize the working of the Holy Spirit, does not recognize God's design or purpose of fulfilment for his individual life, and he is absorbed into the Joseph activity of the world. The Joseph activity of the world did not produce that person, did not cause the conception, did not bring about the fulfillment—this Joseph activity out here did not produce the individual. Yet, this person, coming to adulthood, is espoused to the human activity that ignores the Patterns of God, the Designs of God, the Purposes of God, and there is a steady flow of young people coming to adulthood into this vast activity which is humanly designed, with human self-centered purposes that ignore utterly the things of God. Oh, they may be good church members, but the real Pattern of the Spirit of God is never allowed to manifest. They are shaped and molded by what they conceive to be the necessities of working so that they can eat and sleep, so that they can work—round upon round of human endeavor, accomplishing what? So it has gone from generation to generation, with ups and downs of all kinds, and human beings have accepted the idea that this is what God intended. They imagine that to be God's intent because that is what exists, and they do not know what God intended. It is not what God intended. Yet He made it possible for human beings to understand what He did intend.
He established a cycle with the manifestation of Jesus Christ on earth, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings coming into the world, born as a babe in a manger, to grow up as a man, to reveal the things of God on earth. If we begin to see, in this portrayal, how it is that the mass of humanity can bring forth according to God's Design only in response to the Holy Spirit, and that, generally speaking, that which is born is taken over by the Joseph activity, the human activity, according to human plans, and it is not allowed to share in God's activity on earth, we begin to see the true significance of this passage: "When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." What is the introduction to that text? "Now the birth of Jesus was on this wise." That does relate to an individual Being Whom we gladly recognize as our LORD and KING, but why limit it to that? He pointed to the fact that there was supposed to be One Body with many members, the Vine with many branches, the fulfilment that we speak of as the Christ Body on earth. How is this which He outlined to find fulfillment.
"The birth of Jesus was on this wise," and the birth of the Christ Body on earth must, also, be on this wise. We cannot follow out some human plan or pattern, no matter how desirable it may seem to be, and hope to experience the outworking that God has planned for us. We recognize that we have to let that Divine fulfilment be conceived in us by the working of the Holy Spirit, and we have to allow it to come to the point of birth. Then, after it has been born, we must take care of it tenderly. We must protect it from the Herod of the self- active human mind that would destroy it. We must allow it to grow to maturity and find manifestation in a vivid ministry on earth here and now, not waiting for some far distant future time, not expecting Jesus to come in some cloud somewhere and set everything right, without our doing anything about it. His Body on earth, His continuing Body on earth, is supposed to let the Christ Works be done. Through this Body God intends that the changes should be wrought.
Jesus’ coming—Christ's coming—the working of the Christ Spirit on earth, the working of the Will of God according to that which Jesus Christ revealed, the coming of Christ on earth. Not the coming of Jesus in the form of a man. But the coming of Christ on earth is something that is vitally important. If we read a-right the word that is written we begin to see that human misconcepts have distorted the picture and made it ambiguous. We must let the Spirit of the Living Christ work through us and give us understanding as we read. Then we recognize that through the Body of many members, all peoples, of whatever race, color or creed, the Spirit of the Living Christ shall come into manifestation to accomplish the Works and cause God’s Will to be done, so that His Kingdom might be made manifest. It is all revealed here according to His Design. Yet, human beings continually attempt to impose their human concepts upon it. They think they can say, "I believe thus and so," and become engulfed in the Joseph activities according to human patterns, and some day, somehow, everything will be straightened out and be all right. That is not God's Plan. It is not indicated anywhere here in the Book. It originated in the twisted, distorted concepts of human beings.
So, the birth of the Christ Body must be after the same manner as the birth of Jesus Christ. It is something that is conceived of the Holy Spirit in those who have not let themselves come under the control of the Joseph activities in the world, all of the human plans and programs. Those who dare to refuse to become subject to all of this human plan and pattern, who dare to remain virgin for God, not virgin in the sense that human beings ordinarily think of it, as if it were merely related to human concepts of sex—no, but virgin from the standpoint of the direction of our devotions and subjections—become members of the Christ Body.
When you reach a point where you let God’s Will have full sway in your life, when you cease to be controlled by those external things that ought not to control, then, by the Creative Spirit of God, you become a virgin, whether you are a man or a woman. You receive forgiveness, you receive the Pattern of God which we call the Truth, the Divine Pattern for you, and you become a new creature in Christ, you become something that you were not—and it is that virgin through whom the Holy Spirit can work to bring forth the things of Christ on earth. The human being who has not let himself reach that point of purification, the human being who has not truly repented and allowed his life to be redirected, the human being who has reserved certain rights of self-centeredness, is not yet purified. He has not yet become a virgin, subject to the Holy Spirit instead of being subject to the whims and fancies of the human pattern of activity in the world.
We begin to recognize that every man and woman who truly responds to God and begins to yield to the Spirit of God, becomes a virgin, in the Divine sense, when he is purified, transformed, and made every whit whole, and that process is open to anyone who will accept it. Then, and then only, can that individual be used by the working of the Holy Spirit to bring forth on earth the things of Christ. Then that individual becomes truly a member of the One Christ Body, a branch of the One Vine, and then the Holy Spirit brings forth a conception in that individual that is of the Christ Life, and if he holds steady, remains true to God and the directions of God, if he allows the fulfilments to come, the reality of that Christ Life is born in him. If he allows God's Will to be done, it is nurtured, cared for and protected from the onslaughts of the world and allowed to come to the maturity of Ministry. That is our purpose here, to allow that cleansing and purification to so take place that we may reach a point where we allow the virgin field of our hearts to be subject to the things of God.
What was it that the Master said? "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." When we let that purification of heart become a reality we begin to see God, we begin to know the working of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit in us conceives the things of Christ, and they begin to come forth through us into manifestation. That which is conceived in each one and brought forth through each one, blends with that which is brought forth through all others who likewise let God's Will be done, so that the whole Body of many members is coordinated truly in the Spirit of the Living Christ, and all of them together with one accord in one place let God's Will be done—and then the Power of the Holy Spirit becomes manifest; then they have Power because the Holy Spirit has come upon them and filled them. Then they have the opportunity of sharing truly in this great Creative Cycle which God established through Jesus Christ our LORD. Until we let that process take place in ourselves here on earth while we yet live, we are not following Jesus Christ, no matter what we may think or say. Until we accept the personal responsibilities involved we are not doing our part toward letting His Kingdom come.
There is more revealed in this text, but these are our meditations for tonight, that we may, in Love Response to God, fulfilling the Law, allow these things to be fulfilled in us. If we wonder sometimes why a greater manifestation of the Power of God has not appeared, wonder why we have not shared a more vivid outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we have in this the answer. There is only one Way by which we may let that outpouring of the Holy Spirit be full, free and complete, and that is for us to so respond that we become virgin.
We must become subject to God and cease being subject to the external patterns and activities which human beings have engendered. That does not mean that we will not participate in those activities. It simply means that while we may share in the doing of those activities, it is not in the sense of being subject to them. We can do the things that are necessary under this particular pattern of life as we have it working here or there—it matters not as long as we are honorably engaged—but we cease to be subject to those external things and become subject to God, and when we are completely subject to God, with no violation of that, then before Him we are virgin; we have come to the point of fulfilling the Law and then the Holy Spirit shall conceive in us those things which are according to God’s Design. This is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
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