Home

Home — His  Temple  On  Earth

from   Uranda’s Christmas Message

Uranda   December 15, 1948

 

Tonight, in this Christmas Season, the word, Home, contains a Spirit of fullness and significance which we might well meditate upon. First, I am reminded that many years ago our KING'S Home was divided. His Home originally was—and it was supposed to be—Heaven and earth; that which we speak of as the Whole Holy World. Perhaps you have sometimes thought of Heaven as being His Home, and it has been, although it has been an incomplete Home for Him through all these thousands of years. 

I am reminded that only a little under two thousand years ago He left one part of His Home and came to visit the other part, the part that was supposed to complete His Home. He was born into the world a Babe—into the most humble of surroundings. He, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, when He came into this half of His Home, found no place awaiting Him. He was born in a manger in a stable because there was no room for Him in the inn. The people of the world were too busy following their own fancies and looking after their own puny affairs to pay any attention to the fact that the LORD of the world had come. He lived in this world, and grew to manhood, and He began His Ministry. 

He began to tell the people how this world might become that beautiful other half of the Heavenly Home, and He assured them that that which was of the Heavenly Home was not far away. He made clear the Plan by which the two halves might be reunited; He made clear that the separation between the two did not have to continue: but the people of the world, instead of welcoming the LORD of the world, crucified Him. Nevertheless, on the third day He came forth victoriously from the tomb, and returned to that other half of His Home, where He has been waiting for nearly two thousand years, waiting for human beings to wake up, waiting for human beings to put into practice His instruction, to follow His Plan, so that He might have the privilege of coming again to this part of His Home. 

Human beings, through their self-activity, selfishness and self-centeredness, have kept Him out of His Home, this portion of His Home, these thousands of years. These usurpers who prevent His free use of His rightful Home will not be tolerated forever. Sooner or later, in His own good season, He will return; but it is His longing, His great desire that springs from His wonderful Heart of Love, that when He comes again to this part of His Home it shall not be to drive out all who are living here. He does not want to return to this part of His Home and find nothing but empty rooms echoing with the deeds of evil. His Heart desires that those who are living here now should let themselves be so transformed and so prepared that they may remain here when He comes, that they will not have to be cast out, and that this part of His Home will not be found to be empty. He wants to come to this part of His Home and find those He loves, and those who love Him. He wants that coming to be a family reunion between those who live in this part and those who live in that part of His Home, that the Whole Holy World may again be what it ought to be—His Home, where all the Members of His Family live in their appointed places, in joy, in peace, in happiness. 

This world, this part of His Home, must be cleansed and purified, the debris must be swept out; the mean and shameful furnishings that man has put into it must be cast out and burned; it must be cleansed, and the Sunlight of Love must shine into every room, and those who dwell here must let themselves be changed, so that they will not be uncomfortable in His Presence, so that they will not be annihilated when they come before His Face, so that they will find joy in beholding Him, and so that they may rejoice greatly, without fear, in the holy privilege of welcoming Him back to this part of His rightful Home. 

Until we, in our Home here, begin to let the Spirit of His Home manifest, we will not be doing very much toward preparing the way for the Union, for the reuniting, of Heaven and earth. We have made progress, it is true. Something of His Spirit of Love is manifest, or you would not be here; and you have recognized something of the vision of the beauty of the Pattern of Truth, or you would not be here; but those old patterns of the world have no meaning here. Here the Spirit of the Home of our KING must manifest, so that when He comes again He will be at Home, and we will be at Home with Him. 

We want to feel at Home with Him when He comes, and when He comes we want Him to find His Home ready and waiting for Him, worthy of Him, with the Spirit of His Home made already manifest. That is our purpose here, and when we remember the true significance of Home, and the wonderful privilege and sacred responsibility that is ours in helping to prepare this part of His Home for Him, surely such a realization must have meaning by the very force and weight of it, by the very glory and wonder of it, through every thought and word and deed, through every hour of every day. We are here for that purpose, so that when He comes He shall find His Home in the condition that it ought to be. 

If He were to come and stand among us tonight, in a manner that you might see Him as He is, do you think you would be ready to say, "LORD, Thy Home is prepared; we welcome Thee, and find joy and complete peace in Thy coming"? 

Let us, then, be about our Father's business, that we may be ready whenever He deems it wise and proper that He should come. Let us remember always the meaning of Home, and, in this Christmas Season, be re-dedicated through the Spirit of His Love to that Plan and Program whereby He shall nevermore have to come and be received in a stable or a manger, and whereby, when He shall come, in His Power and His Glory, it will not be to wipe out and remove all who dwell here, but that there may be those who shall await Him with joy, and welcome Him in Holy Love, ready to serve Him and make Him feel at Home in this part of His Home, from which He has been so long separated.

If we have been exiles from the Kingdom of Heaven, so also has our KING been an exile from this world; for, as much as we need that which is there, so does He need that which is here, that His Kingdom may be complete, and that all of His Children, all of His subjects, in the Whole Holy Word, may know that glorious world which is according to His Will.

 

I feel that you have all come to a deeper realization and understanding of many things tonight. Everything worthwhile is contained within the true meaning of the word, Home. We all love to be at home, but so does our KING; and how can we hope, anywhere, under any circumstance, to be at home until we can be at Home with Him, and He can be at Home with us? 

Praising God for your response and prayerful meditation, and for the spirit of realization flowing through you, I must remind myself that it is needful that we go our several ways to find rest for the morrow. A time is coming when, as a Unit, we will let ourselves be so engulfed, with one accord in one place, in the Spirit of our KING, that the passage of time will have less meaning than it does now. Day by day each one is learning more of what it means to hold the vibration, to stay centered in the Central Current of Being; and when we can rest in that Current without letting it break, or without causing it to break, in its relationship to ourselves, we will be ready for something that cannot be described, and I feel that that day is coming. Constancy and consistency in our worship of the One God in Spirit and in Truth, according to the One Law, surely opens the Way, it opens the door, so that, for us now the floodgates of Heaven may be opened, and the Spirit of our KING'S Presence may be made manifest in and through us, that we may become, in Oneness, so accustomed to the Spirit of His Presence, in the full wonder of His Glory, that we will be able, and know how, to welcome Him Home.

 

That which the world calls home, or the people of the world call home, has meaning to me only to the degree that it helps toward preparing this world for the return Home of our KING. Anything that human beings call home, or imagine to be home, that does not do that, is meaningless, a waste of time and a futility. Here we have the privilege of proving the Reality of Home on earth, but I cannot conceive of any place or any circumstance that could be called home, or that could be of any satisfaction, or of any meaning, if our KING be excluded therefrom.

 

So, in these realizations, we are privileged to rest this night because we are nearer Home than ever before, and because the Day is nearer than ever before when we can have that Blessed Privilege of welcoming our KING into His Temple on earth, that Temple not made with hands.

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Christmas Message To Young Explorers

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Christmas  Message  to  Young  Explorers

Uranda   December 8, 1938

This year I would address my Christmas Message to the Young Folks—for Christmas is a time when people of all ages feel young and happy as they let go in the true Spirit of Christmas. So it is that on behalf of all the Young Folks of the Explorer's Club, I invite all the adults in the Third Sacred School to be the Guests of the Young Folks' Explorer's Club through this Christmas Season, and during the first part of the New Year. We trust that all of you will find Joy in entering into the Spirit of our Invitation—for Jesus said that all people needed to become as Little Children, and this is a time of year when it is easy to be young in heart and in Spirit, no matter what the years of the calendar ago may be. So it is that we, the Young Explorers, welcome you as our Guests. 

I have prepared a special Christmas Poem, and we designed a special Christmas Folder for it, and had it printed on parchment as a fitting symbol of the parchment that was used during the time of Jesus' Ministry. On the front you will notice the three Wise Men who are following the Star. The three Wise Men represent the three phases of yourself, namely, your own body, your mind, and your outer Spiritual Nature. The Star represents the Christ Light that shines forth from your own Father within you, and as all three parts of you are wise, they will always follow the direction of the Christ Light, or the Star, until the three human parts of you will be blended with your own Father within you, so that you will be Born Again Spiritually, and you will become a true Son of God. 

The important thing for you to do during this Christmas Season is to find a New and Deeper Meaning to Christmas—you are to Explore into the Spirit of Christmas so that you can begin to experience that greater Joy which is the Will of God for you. In this Message I am going to help you have the right attitude toward Christmas, so that you can begin to find many wonderful and interesting things that you have never even thought about before. 

Not long ago one of the wide awake Young Explorers asked about the time of Jesus' birth. We all know that the Christmas Holidays are supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus, in Bethlehem. The story of His birth never grows old, and it is told in many ways; in song, in poetry and in prose. 

Jesus was not born on December 25th, even though we celebrate His birth on that day. There is no exact record of just what day of the week Jesus was born on, nor of the day or month. However, we know that He was born in the Spring, and not at the beginning of Winter. In the Third Sacred School we accept the 7th of March as the Birth Date of Jesus, in the year 4 B.C. 

You are not all supposed to know just what it means now, but I would mention that Jesus came in the early part of the great Water Age—and Water is the symbol of Truth—and He was born 384 years after the beginning of the Water Age. The Water Age ended in 1768 A.D., just 270 years ago, and the great Air Age began at that time. Air is the symbol of Spirit, just as Water is the symbol of Truth. So now we are in the Spirit Age, or Age of turning to the Spiritual Life, just as Jesus came in the Truth Age, or the Age when Truth was given to man. Jesus said, "I am the Truth." In this you will see that we have a great many things to Explore into as we go along the Way. 

Now let us find out why the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25, instead of on the day when He really was born. The Apostle John, who was so close to Jesus all through His Ministry, lived to be a very old man, and after he left the earth, there was no one who took the lead in Living and Teaching the Christ Life. Soon after John the Revelator passed to the Inner Planes, the true Spiritual Teach­ings of Jesus were forgotten by most people, and what they did remember they mixed with their own ideas to please themselves. By the time 300 years from the time of Jesus' birth had passed, there was not anyone, anywhere in the then known world, who was really letting the true Christ Light shine forth. The human ideas had been given more attention than the Truth, and by giving attention to the "letter" of the law, the Spirit of it was ignored. So it was at that time that the Dark Ages of history began. 

Before this time, that which has now developed into the Roman Catholic Church had been started. The man who really started the Catholic Church was a very devout follower of the Christ, but others who sought to have power over the people soon took control away from him. Shortly, those who were giving first attention to the Spirit and the Truth were crowded out of authority, and a selfish priesthood began to de­velop. In the fourth century after Christ, the Catholic Church began to grow rapidly, gaining converts from the so-called pagan countries. Because they claimed to follow Christ, they were called Christians. 

In order to make it easy for the sun worship­pers, and other so-called pagans, to become so-called Christians, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church made it a practice to take the Holy Days of the people, change their names, and then let the people keep the same Holy Days that they always had. There was a certain people that had a great festival for Seven days between the close of the old year and the beginning of the New Year. These Holy Days—for that is what Holidays really mean—began on what we call December 25 and lasted for Seven days. When the Catholic Church went to convert these people, they did not want to give up their Holy Days, so the Church decided to let the people keep the same days, but they would change the name of the days. They had not yet set apart any certain day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, whom they claimed to follow, and so they called it the Day of Christ, and told the people that the day was alright, but that they had to change its name. The Catholic Church always had a special Mass for each special thing which they wanted to celebrate, so on the Christ Day they had a Christ Mass as a part of their religious celebration. In a short time the 25th of December came to be known as Christ Mass Day, which was changed to Christmas Day, as it is known to us. So you see that people now celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day, just because some ancient people had set apart that time to worship the Sun, and the Roman Catholic Church just changed it from a day to worship the Sun to a day to worship the Son of God. 

However, even though we know that Christmas Day is really not the day on which Jesus was born, we can celebrate His birth on that date, and take a leading part in the Radiating of the Christ Love into the world at this Season when others are thinking about Jesus. 

Let us explore for a few moments the reasons why those ancient peoples who worshipped the Sun as a god, should set apart the Seven days beginning with December 25th as a Holy Day Season. It is at this time of the year that we have the longest nights and the shortest days. Because all life of plants, animals and human beings must depend so greatly on the Sun, the Sun was looked upon as the Giver of Life. It was realized that if the sun should go away, and stop shining on the earth, all things on the earth would soon freeze up in the darkness and die. All through the fall of the year the days get shorter and shorter, and the nights get longer and long­er. Now if the nights should keep on getting longer, and the days shorter, all life on the earth would cease. About the first of the year there is a change. 

For the first part of the Seven days before the first of the year the length of the days and the nights appears to be unchanged, as if the Sun were trying to decide whether to keep on making the days shorter, or to begin to make them longer again. So these Seven Days were devoted to a worship of the Sun, first praying that the Sun would re­turn and give them longer days again, and then when the Sun did start giving them the longer days, as it really does at that time of year, they gave thanks to the Sun for returning. In these Holy Days they greeted the New Year, and they knew that before long the returning Sun would melt away the snow, and bring the Springtime when they could again plant their crops and grow their food. So you see those ancient people had a very good reason for celebrating at that time. Now we know that it is not right to worship the Sun, but we do worship God who made the Sun in the first place, and causes it to shine for us. People today are too much inclined to take for granted the blessings God provides for them. They might well learn a lesson from those so-called pagan people in giving thanks to God for their great Blessings. 

As you contemplate the story of the birth of Jesus, it would be well for you to realize that He was born in a manger, in what today would be called a barn, in order to show that Spiritual Realities of God do not come in the way that human beings think they should, with worldly pomp and power. In the manger the oxen and the don­keys were fed. All through the Bible an ox is a symbol of the human mind—of your own outer mind. The ass, or donkey, is a symbol of your own body, which is a temple of the living God. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass, indicating that the Lord of the body will guide it into the New Jerusalem if the body will respond, just as Jesus guided the donkey into Jerusalem on that triumphant day. 

Just so, the ox and the donkey had to be taken out of their stall in order to let Jesus be born in the manger. That means that your own human mind and body must stop being self-active before the Christ Spirit can be born into the manger of your daily life. Both the ox and the donkey are very slow and stubborn—just like people who do not have the Christ Spirit. When your body and mind stop acting like a donkey and an ox, and then begin to respond to the Lord within, just as the three Wise Men came to Jesus, giving Him their ALL, you will find that your body and mind and Spiritual Expression will be made wise, and you will be the three wise men all in one person. In order to do this you must follow the Star of the Christ Light, Love and Life, which will surely lead you to your Lord within you, and as you give all you have and are to Him, He will begin to fill you with His Presence. The shepherds who heard the Angels sing, are symbols of those who respond to the loving Call of Jesus, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you Rest." 

Now you know more of what Christmas means, and you will understand the Love which I send to you, and  I AM  Uranda

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Literal Light — Transparent Mind

Literal  Light  —  Transparent  Mind

from   EDL: The Door

Martin Exeter   December 13, 1987 

Let your light so shine. It is a spiritual light, in which case it probably seems to be incomprehensible light. But heaven and earth are one; so what is deemed to be spiritual light has its counterpart in the earth, which could be said to be literal light. The evidence of man, the truth of man, is in the light. 

This physical form is something of a burden, isn't it? We have to lug it around. Some of us are more sprightly than others, more agile, but it becomes a more evident burden as one grows older. It's a heavy load of flesh to pack around! This is a form which has enabled the continued existence of potential Man on earth. It is useful because of this. But to become the form of Man it must be filled with light. "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light"—literal light. They say that light weighs a little, but not much. It's very light! And if the composition of human expression in living is light, the body becomes light. Here we see something of a transformation, even transmutation, to occur. 

However, Man is more than one person. So the light relates to more than one person. It may be said that Man is composed of a body of individuals, and the form of that body is made up of the individuals who compose it. That body is properly the light in expression, the radiant light made manifest: a form composed of individuals through whom the light shines. 

Because there is such a form there is a facility through which the light may shine. But then we come back to the individual, because the extent to which it is shining is dependent upon the extent to which it is shining through each individual. As we have recognized before, the sum of the light—in this instance, light shining through these individuals—is not the total light shining through the form of EDL. That is far more. We have seen this from the standpoint of putting two people together, a man and a woman for instance. Each has an ability to reveal and express and radiate the light, to whatever extent. If you add one and one together, we find more than two. This is a new math! Properly there are at least three: there are the two who are together and there is the new state that comes because they are together. So one and one make three. 

This just illustrates something. The composition of the body provides a facility which can radiate far more light than the sum of all the light of the individuals who compose the body of EDL, and because that is far more, it enhances the individual expression of light. We begin to find something happening exponentially here, but it only comes because, individually, responsibility is being taken for letting the light shine to the extent that it may now do so. Then that extent of light, put together collectively, is found to be far more than the mere sum of the individual light. This is indication of how rapidly transformation can occur. We ourselves as individuals simply keep it from occurring, if it doesn't occur. We have known the fact of our own individual responsibility. We may see it now in terms of letting the light shine. 

We find that there are variations in the shining of the light. We may take what is occurring now as an example. My responsibility is of a particular nature which will permit an intensification of the light to shine by reason of my radiant expression. This is very different to what may occur in conversation, for instance, during the day. In other words, as Uranda put it one time, the sun rises, and there is day; there is a bright intensity of radiation for whatever period of time is necessary for that. And then the sun sets. But the morning star is still there. In fact when the sun is shining the morning star can't be seen, but when the sun sets the morning star is right there. 

Lucifer is always on hand, but he is the light-bearer. He doesn't bear a flaming torch which is always the same intensity. He bears whatever light is necessary in the particular circumstance of the moment. And there is a variation in the intensity of that light, but it is always the same light—there are pulsations in the creative process, and it shines with the intensity that is necessary in the moment. At least this is the intent, unless we block it. 

So we are very much aware, I'm sure, of the real nature of our responsibility mentally. The light determines what is thought. The light determines, therefore, what is said and what is done. Here is the process of creation. Creation comes through thought. It has continued to come through the thoughts of human beings in this fallen condition, but very sluggishly. It takes a great deal of the sweat of the brow to get anything done. We all know that, in this human state. We've struggled with it and exhausted ourselves at the business. But where the thought which moves through the mind is not generated by the mind but is generated by the light, it's easy and there is a natural flow. And all creation has occurred on this basis within the range of the responsibility of man. It would be very risky, wouldn't it, if presently your thoughts during a day were immediately to take form! So it's useful that a certain sluggishness has put in an appearance. But they do take form after a while, and they come back to haunt us. What a wretched state. 

How wonderful to have the mind transparent so that the fitting light of the moment may be born, the fitting thought of the moment, primarily, may be born—not generated because one is thinking so desperately, as human beings do in an endeavor to control all their circumstances, but the thought which is the creative thought coming down from God out of heaven into the earth. How? Through the mind. That's what it's for—not to do its own thinking and to mess things up constantly on that basis, but to become transparent so that the light may be born. The light may be carried, yes, but also born into expression, and the first expression comes through thought. There is something which precedes the thought, mind you, but the first awareness that one may have of what it is that is moving comes through conscious thought. 

Conscious thought is controlled thought, controlled by the design in heaven, controlled angelically. That thought may safely take form, and it will do so. I'm sure you have found already that when there is that thought, what is thought very quickly takes form. The world is transformed on this basis, not by manipulation either mental or physical but by the flow of creative thought out of heaven into the earth by reason of a transparent mind. The transparency of mind cuts human beings down to size. The usual view is that value comes because a mind is very capable of generating its own thoughts. But that all dissolves, and there is a totally new state, a new heaven. Out of the new heaven the new earth springs, and the basis of that coming forth is the flow that occurs through the transparent mind. 

The light shines and, in the shining, transforms. Creation occurs by reason of the shining of the light. Re-creation occurs in this way. Insofar as human beings are concerned, the only way that there may be participation in creation is when the facility for the shining of the light is available to that shining. And the facility is the human mind, not merely the conscious mind but the unconscious mind as well. The light is apparent consciously, and it transforms by reason of the radiation. We are familiar with the process: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. This is a mental description of something which happens continuously when the mind is in place to let it do so. There is radiation and there is consequent transformation. 

It is not only what may be deemed to be spiritual light, but it is literal light also. When the light shines, the flesh is revealing of it and is transformed by it. But, as we have recognized, it is not possible for it to occur individually without it at the same time occurring collectively. The collective shining of the light is what clarifies and restores the flesh to the point where the light may be intensified so that the transformation occurs. However, the flesh is the last along the line. The light only comes to the flesh because there is a transparent mind, and it is the transparent collective mind that permits the intensity of radiant light to be of such power that the very flesh may be transformed. All these things work in the creative process, if we trust the creative process and let it work. 

The importance of the light may be easily seen. Mention was made of loving the light, which is what is essential. If you love darkness more than you love the light, well you'll stay in the dark. But loving the light implies loving the Word, the illuminating Word. Finally there are those who suddenly seem to have become aware of the vital nature of the Word—not of the printed form in and of itself but of the radiance which is made available in this way. It's made available in other ways too, and it's made available rightly through each of us and all of us continually. But to appreciate the light and to know the nature of it, it must be loved, certainly, above all else. In the light is the one identity, the one I am. 

So there is natural love for the light and consequently a delight to bathe oneself in it, because thereby it is found that as the substance of one's own external being resonates with the light, it is resonating with one's own true identity. And one's own true identity consequently emerges. It can never emerge except by reason of the light, because that's what it is. And in the radiance of the light the truth is known: "I am the door. I am the open door."

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