The Positive and Negative Aspects of Identity
Martin
Exeter July 8, 1984
The immediate circumstance is the one we have—when our thought does come
to focus here, then the action of spirit may open
up something new and fresh. We speak glibly of the current of the spirit but it is very real and
always present. We have at times, I’m sure, been inclined to let it slide by, unassociated
with it. If we do that too much and too often we’ll find ourselves forced into
a comer, which says in effect: Come to focus and allow some real thinking to
occur, to occur in the assumption of the particular responsibility that is
waiting to be assumed by you. And whatever responsibilities you may have now,
or think you have, I’m sure it would be safe to say that “they ain’t the half
of it!” There is something far greater, far more.
I think when we speak of oneness, very often the concept of the blob appears
in consciousness, where everything loses identity. Oh yes, there's one great
big identity, but all the little ones somehow or other got lost in the shuffle.
We are quite aware that we are responsible for the unique differentiation of
the one spirit, which immediately refutes the concept of the blob. We have a
certain awareness of the necessity of the positive and negative aspects of
identity. The positive and negative are active in what has humanly been
described as the atom. There is considerable differentiation in this field.
There are an abundance of elements, and then combinations of elements, combinations
of atoms composing molecules, molecular structures built into cells, and so
on—seemingly a very complex business but giving evidence of a certain design.
Things work in a certain way. That way would never put in an appearance at all
if it weren’t for the factors of positive and negative.
We have recently been talking about primary identity and secondary identity.
Secondary identity has taken over in human experience to the exclusion of
primary identity, at least insofar as any awareness is concerned. This
emphasizes the matter of balance, amongst other things, because it’s not
supposed to be all secondary identity, nor all primary identity. Perhaps when
we have looked at secondary identity as exemplified by human nature, then that
needs to pass away. But if we think of these things in terms of positive and
negative—the primary identity positive, and this could be called a heavenly
identity presumably; and the earthly identity negative—here are two aspects of
one identity, both essential.
Nothing can ever be brought to focus without the active presence of positive
and negative. We can see this in many different ways, but we can see it from
the standpoint of the aspect of heavenly identity and the aspect of earthly
identity. Heavenly identity in heaven wouldn’t be of much value on earth. It is
by reason of the fact of the aspect of earthly identity that heavenly identity
has value on earth. There are these two aspects of identity and they are not
supposed to obliterate each other.
There has been a tendency for human beings to drift toward a neutral state.
We have this word “unisex” these days, as though everybody becomes the same and
you can't tell the difference really. Well I doubt if it would ever get quite
that far. But certainly from the standpoint of the appearance of things it
seems that the blob is appearing—a state of nothing. The state of nothing is
the state where positive and negative are not active. Very often the idea of oneness brings a picture of two aspects
so fusing together that there is only one aspect. But if there is only one
aspect, that’s nothing. The something only comes because there are two aspects,
because the positive and negative are present. We have male and female in this
regard too. Very often it is felt that what really is necessary is for male and
female to so get together, so press up against each other, that ultimately
they'll just fuse; and then supposedly you just have one person. No, you just
have nothing! because nothing is the state where positive and negative are not
active. So it isn’t that; oneness isn’t that.
Oneness requires the various aspects which compose the design. There
is just one design, but it isn’t a blob—it is really rather a complex design,
very interesting. It works the way it does, whether human beings understand it
or not. But we can recognize that our experience of unique individuality is
based in the fact that positive and negative are active. We see this,
individually speaking, because there is a heavenly aspect of identity and an
earthly aspect of identity, and we are no longer interested presumably in
trying to obliterate the heavenly aspect of identity by making such a big fat
earthly aspect of identity; that’s called the human ego. If we really succeed
in that we’re dead, we’re nothing, because the positive heavenly aspect has
been obliterated from the unified experience.
The unified experience is illustrated by the concept of the atom. It
is one thing, but it has a composition—the simplest one, perhaps the hydrogen
atom: one proton, one electron—but even in the simplest design the positive and
negative are active; otherwise there would be nothing. So we are concerned that
this should continue to be so. We may recognize that there is positive space and negative space. We can
see this from the standpoint of male and female. A male has certain space which
he rightly occupies and the female likewise. Now there is a design in
relationship to that space. It isn't as though anybody has the right to invade
somebody else’s space. We need to recognize that there is a design and there are certain ways
in which the design works.
The working of the living design is controlled—it isn’t haphazard. In examining into such things those who do
this sort of work come up with various theories as to why things work the way
they work, and perhaps they postulate certain laws which are supposedly
controlling the way things work—but it is a lot of theoretical nonsense which
excludes the experience that is available for human beings by which they might
participate individually in this matter of the positive and the negative, first
of all with respect to oneself.
There is the positive heavenly aspect of identity and the negative earthly
aspect of identity. If we begin to look at it this way we do not need to assume
that the negative earthly aspect of identity is human nature. It has only
become human nature because that negative earthly aspect has tried to
obliterate the positive heavenly aspect. This is exactly what human beings have
done. They have become lopsided, grotesque creatures, unbalanced creatures,
irrational creatures consequently. And certainly I doubt if anyone could
question the fact that we live in a very irrational world. Why is that? Did
someone come from outer space and make it an irrational world? Was it
bequeathed to us by an irrational God? No, irrational human beings made it that
way and keep it that way. All right, we are interested in letting that pass
away. We don’t wish that it should pass away leaving nothing, but rather
leaving the activated positive and negative.
The first requirement is, as individuals, to allow a balance to come
between the positive heavenly aspect of identity and the negative earthly
aspect of identity. If a balance comes individually then there may be a
natural unfoldment where there is a balancing out between those who are
individually balanced. We have the peculiar spectacle of imbalanced, irrational
human beings trying to balance themselves out amongst themselves, as though two
irrational people would make one rational person. It doesn’t work that
way. Unless there is balance in the individual, how could it be
expected that there would be balance between individuals? People rush
helter-skelter into peculiar and irrational designs of relationship. We are concerned with the restoration of balance, so that there is proper
positive space and proper negative space related to each other. Nobody can
figure out what that relationship is mentally. Nobody can make it happen on the
basis of human emotion. These things are brought to pass by reason of spirit.
In order that there may be a focus of spirit so that it becomes intelligible,
there is the need for what we have called a lens. There is a positive and
negative aspect to the lens. Only because this is so can spirit be brought to
focus in rational experience. This is why the importance of balance is
emphasized. If one aspect excludes the other aspect there can’t be balance.
We ourselves have a certain experience of the awakening of the
heavenly aspect of identity. We are still very much tarred with the brush of
the earthly aspect of identity, so that this looms very large and seems to be
the most important part of the experience of identity. Most people are a little
reluctant to begin to relinquish their grasp on this aspect of identity for
fear that if they did so they would become nothing. But the fact of the matter
is they become nothing by hanging onto the earthly negative aspect of identity,
so that that becomes all there is. When it becomes all there is in the experience
of the person, that is nothing—all experience, all life, is dependent
upon the two aspects—positive and negative. They must
be there.
We have seen the positive and negative aspects as it relates to
spirit: love and truth. Love and truth establish what is illustrated by the lens,
and the focus which appears is life. We have some recognition of how this has
unfolded within the range of our own experience. The One called Jesus is
recognized as bringing to focus the spirit of love. We have had the opportunity
of recognizing that the one called Uranda brought to focus the spirit of truth.
Here is the lens which allowed the focus of spirit, the focus of the Father, to
appear: the spirit of life. Here is the focus with which we are directly
concerned—I have a particular part to play in that regard. That is the point of
focus, but the point of focus would not be there at all if it were not for the
lens. And the lens relates to the spirit of love and the spirit of truth, not
just from the standpoint of certain individuals, in this case Jesus and Uranda,
but from the standpoint of each individual.
It is love and truth which permit a lens to be a reality by reason of
the presence of a person on earth. We are very much aware that the spirit of love
and the spirit of truth in human experience have been very roughly handled,
very largely excluded. We have a great deal of hate, a great deal of resentment,
a great deal of fear, rather than love; and we have lies and falsehood rather
than truth. That’s a pretty rough lens. And what does it bring to focus, do you
suppose? What is called death, rather than life. The exclusion of love and
truth dissolves the lens which would bring to focus life. The exclusion of love
and truth causes the experience of the lack of love and truth, which I have
described with certain words, and so, fundamentally, nothing is brought to
focus—nothing, we call death.
We share the particular opportunity of letting these two aspects of spirit
form the basis of our character, the basis of the lens which we are, so that,
individually speaking, life may be brought to focus. The fact of the matter is
that we cannot function merely as isolated individuals. The very moment that
love and truth begin to characterize one’s own experience in living, one finds
that one is related in a design. This is the way that this living form of the
messiah has begun to put in an appearance. It is always true that if any are
bound none are free. Here we are moving in a creative cycle which is absolute.
When none are bound, all are free. The creative cycle of course dissolves what
has maintained the isolated state in which human beings exist for a few short
years.
Once again there begins to emerge the real body to give focus to
spirit, which may be called the Son of Man—that’s the earthly aspect of identity—in
balance with the Son of God, which is the heavenly aspect of identity. And the
word Son is used because of the use of the word Father: whatever it is of
spirit which fathers the Son, the Son who has these two aspects of identity. As
this occurs there is life. “I am come that they might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly.” But it works according to the real design of
things. It doesn’t work when human beings ignore that and try to maintain a
condition pleasing to themselves—in the final analysis it never really is.
In the development of this body it has been within a certain setting—there
are many aspects to that setting—wherever the body is beginning to emerge.
There are many things in those settings, useful things when right use is made of
those things by the focus of spirit in expression through the emergent body. We
cannot rightly lay claim to any of those things, humanly speaking. If we do we
are thieves. We have noted before that the world is a den of thieves because
all human beings everywhere have done this: tried to possess for themselves the
things that are in the setting where the body of spirit should live.
There is the human view, isn’t there, that we have a right—to a
certain amount anyway—of the things that are present in the setting. But it is
there in order to provide a facility for the development of the body, and for the active function of the body:
the right use of what is present in that setting. And who is it that can make right
use of that? Certainly not the earthly
aspect of identity all on its own, which is what has been undertaken by human
beings everywhere and still is maintained as a right from the standpoint of
those who are beginning to allow this body to take form.
We come again to an awareness that the positive and the negative must
be active in balance. The action of the positive aspect, where the action
originates, has meaning because of the presence of the negative aspect, which
allows that action to occur. And there is no distraction. There are no thieves
aboard. It is a house of prayer. The body which takes form is a house of
prayer. It is filled with the spirit of the Father, revealed through the two
aspects of identity unified—heavenly and earthly. They are distinct in their
fields of operation but they are one in the operation. It is one operation, and
we share that operation as we relinquish the role of thieves in favor of a
state of prayer. It rests in this fundamental factor of the positive and the
negative—they must both be present and in balance. And we have the opportunity
of participating in the process by which this happens, so that we may be
balanced rational people.
© emissaries of divine light
from
The Body of the Messiah
Martin Exeter July 8, 1984
Day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, year
in and year out, decade in and decade out, I, together with those who have been
with me, through services, classes, and whatever came in between, have
maintained a spiritual focus on earth. This certainly was not initiated by us.
In recent times Uranda, whom a number of you knew in person, provided the point
of initiation, but this was just a refocalization of what had been established
long ago through that focus of spirit which was known on earth through the One
called Jesus.
Over the centuries, what was factually established by Him has been present
with the children of men regardless of race, creed, color or anything else.
Finally it came again to point, so that this focus of spirit has been
reestablished and maintained over the last fifty years. In consequence of this,
and not because of any organizational undertakings, there has been drawn
together a flesh body, part of the composition of which is presumably present
in the Chapel this morning.
Jesus has been referred to as the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One.
Human beings have been inclined to look for a messiah—someone, a leader of some
kind, spiritual, political, whatever—who might relieve human beings of assuming
their own responsibility. Jesus has been looked upon in this way in the
Christian world. He did what was required of Him, but what is required of the
rest of us? Exactly the same as what was required of Him. The works that I do
shall ye do also, is a statement that has come down to us, very graphically
defining the reason for the presence of anyone on earth.
In the outworking of this particular creative cycle, initiated way
back, a certain clarity of spiritual focus has been established and maintained within
the range of our own awareness and, I trust, experience. In any case a body has
been forming, not made with hands, not humanly organized, but seemingly
inevitable nevertheless. We have all had some awareness of this, some
experience of this, and here is at least the beginnings of a flesh body
designed to allow a focus of spirit to find creative expression on earth, creative
expression within the consciousness of mankind as a whole.
The messiah should not rightly be seen as though this was just one person;
the Messiah is rightly Man, the Word
made flesh. It seems that in the human tradition there is always the
expectation of someone somehow putting in an appearance and then putting things
to rights for poor, mistreated human beings. There really are no poor,
mistreated human beings, so there is nothing to be put to rights. If, as has
been the experience of most, there are troublesome states in which we and
others find themselves, these are all self-produced. Human beings are responsible
for their troubles, their tribulations. It’s easy to say that, because there
are a lot of human beings to spread the blame around; but such a statement doesn’t
really mean very much until it comes to focus in oneself. And we have the
awareness, I am sure, of the correctness of the statement made by each one: “I
am responsible.”
If the messianic experience is ever to come it can only come because there
are those who make this statement and also make it stick. You don’t retire from
the scene when intensified troubles put in an appearance. There has been
prophetic indication that there should be considerable tribulation. This is
rather naturally so, to be anticipated I am sure, because human beings behave
the way they do. So the harvest comes. It comes generation after generation,
but it is evidently coming in a rather particular way in these days, and
everybody is busy blaming everybody else. There seem to be very few who would
be inclined to make the statement, “I am responsible,” let alone make it stick.
We can look around and observe many things of a destructive nature in
the world; we can observe the childish foolishness of human beings playing
their games and trying to get things to work the way they want them to work. Of
course these human wants are inclined to be in conflict with each other, so the
destructive elements are intensified. The opportunity is present because there
is at least a beginning in form, in the flesh, of a stable focus of spirit.
This spirit has been identified in human consciousness by using the word “God” or “Allah”, or
something else. We have indication that Jesus may have used the word “Father.”
Whether this is an accurate translation or not might be called in question. At
least it has traditionally given the impression that human beings are
irresponsible children requiring a firm parent to somehow keep them in line. If
that is what was required, the parent has not been too successful in this
regard, so we might have a suspicion that that is not what is required.
Again this brings us back to the matter of assuming responsibility, so
that we no longer anticipate someone else doing it for us. Is this true with respect
to each individual? There have been abundant excuses found, justifications for
failure, and usually this involves placing blame over there somewhere on
someone else. Somebody is to blame, surely. Well if we want to indulge ourselves
in blame, yes, I suppose you could say there is someone. Me! Just me, nobody
else. Here is finally something coming to focus. Spirit needs to be brought to
focus. Spirit is quite capable of handling all right responsibility. If as
individuals we let that come to focus in our own expression of living, then we
find ourselves quite capable of handling all that comes to us; but the handling
is not for our own pleasure and satisfaction.
The focus of spirit, finding expression through human minds and hearts
and bodies, accepts the facts as they are and is concerned to handle those
facts in the right way. The right way would not include judging them. Judge
not! We are not in the business of trying to make over the human nature state,
as though it could be improved into something else. It is what it is, so we are
not in that business. But things come to us to be handled by that focus of
spirit which is present.
This drawing together of a body through which the spirit of the Messiah may be in expression requires a body of flesh, which includes the
consciousness of that body, to be absolutely amenable to the expression of the
spirit. Some have begun to realize that the vaunted idea of human free choice
is a pipe dream. There is flesh required for the expression of spirit—yielded
flesh. The only way flesh can yield is because heart and mind yield and are
willing to provide a facility for the action of that focus of spirit—that
quality, that character of being, of which one becomes increasingly aware as it
is given expression. But where is it going to be given expression? In some supposedly
perfect state where everything is just the way one would like it to be? Of
course not. It finds expression in the present state the way things are,
exactly as they are, or it doesn’t find expression. There is no place else for
it to find expression.
All you have is today. All you have is now. We know that. OK, let’s be
here now with respect to what is here now and let spirit handle the situation.
If we are busy reacting to the situation, whining about it, wanting it to be
some other way, people to behave differently so it would be all nice and cushy for
us, we are living in a dream world. It’s advisable to wake up; it’s advisable
to mature.
The One who is referred to as the Father simply indicates the nature or
the quality of what it is that rightly fathers our expression in living, not
some benign and benevolent parent somewhere who is going to smooth us down and
make us comfortable with all the things we think we want—not that at all! Such
an attitude and viewpoint is that of an irresponsible child. Well one needs to
pass through childhood to get to maturity; but, for heaven’s sake, we need to
come out of childhood somewhere along the way because there is a willingness to
grow up and not expect, as children are inclined to do, other people to supply
them with everything they think they want.
There is a peculiar absence of maturity, and people never grow beyond
self-centered childhood. In a sense human beings don’t become mature; all they
become is a means for the expression of maturity. There is only one reason for
their existence in the first place: that is to allow for the expression of
spirit; and they are not going to allow for the expression of the spirit as
long as they are trying to satisfy themselves. Human beings have consistently
excluded the experience of the spirit of the Messiah because they have
conveniently misinterpreted the idea, for one thing, and said the Messiah is
over there: the Messiah is Jesus, for instance. Well the spirit was in focus
there, certainly, revealing what it is that is necessary for the whole body of
mankind, not something different, the same spirit in focus in the flesh body of
mankind.
How is it going to happen? It has to happen through the individual. How
else can it happen? If individuals exclude that experience it doesn’t happen
for anyone; and if everybody is just sitting there waiting for somebody else to
do it, it never happens. But we all have the immediate opportunity—as long as
life remains, the focus of spirit is there—to allow that to come forth into
expression, to father thought, word and deed. It's there to be done. But if we
are letting the circumstances and other people father what comes forth through
us, that sounds more like the devil, doesn’t it? That’s not the right father,
is it? You have awakened and know what to do—so there is no excuse, is there,
for any of us, no justification whatsoever. And we can’t fool ourselves
anymore. I trust that’s true. Is it?
We may acknowledge that there is a mess. There is no sense to try to
blind ourselves to that. There is a mess in human consciousness, for sure.
Someone needs to emerge out of that mess. The mess has, for a long time, been
trying to make itself unmessy, an impossible task. There is another state or
another experience available which doesn’t try to fix up what can’t be fixed up.
Human beings have broken the egg—I think they scrambled it too—and now they
don’t like scrambled eggs anymore and they want to get it back into the shell.
It can’t be done, it’s a futile undertaking, and yet virtually all human energy
is being channeled into this business of trying to get the world balanced
somehow so that the anticipated Armageddon doesn’t come. It’ll come for sure;
that world needs to pass away. There is a question, of course, as to how it
passes away.
Let us accept the responsibility of standing where we belong—in the
midst of a mess, if you want it that way—recognizing that there is something
happening of a creative process by which what doesn’t belong passes away. This
is a very usual experience for human beings; they themselves keep passing away
in every generation, because they don’t belong. We don’t belong in the state in
which we find ourselves. All right let’s allow that state to change; and it
changes by reason of the fact that there is the acceptance of a new father of
what finds expression in our living, a new quality of character.
In these moments of quietness the turmoil can subside, recede, and the
clarity of spirit can once again be brought to focus in our own experience,
because in that spirit which individually we differentiate, all things are made
new, not by trying to mend the old but because this new spirit is present, we
have experience of it—the body forms. Amazing! And, as you well know, it didn’t
form on the basis of people choosing each other; it formed on the basis of all
concerned accepting the same spirit. And then, regardless of human notions
about whom one likes or doesn’t like, or thinks one wishes to be close to or
far from, the process works, and we find ourselves together.
As has also been noted, we sometimes thought we didn’t like the
process, we didn’t like the people who were apparently being brought so close to
us. We wanted to change them, and there are those who still are in this business
of trying to change other people, rather than awakening to what it is of spirit
that is present, because only from that standpoint is there a blending and a
fusion possible, and only from that standpoint does a person in mind and heart
become aware that he is with friends. Amazing! He didn’t choose them but there
they are. You don’t have to work at it. In fact if you are working at it you
are not a friend, for one thing, and therefore you will not have the experience
of being a friend. The only way you can experience friendship is by being a
friend. “Love one another.”
We find ourselves associated in one body, to the extent that the same
spirit is emerging with increased freedom. There begins to be an awareness of
what could well be called the Word being made flesh, being made flesh in spite
of human nature and everything else that human beings have produced—a new
state, that is not there because of the circumstances round about.
The circumstances will sort themselves out as that focus of spirit is
maintained. If we become flabby and subject to the circumstances, then we are
in trouble. If we find ourselves in trouble, what needs to be done? Come back
to the focus of spirit, because there is strength—the creative power
by which all things are made new. Probably there is a lot that is present in
circumstances round about that needs to disintegrate. We are inclined to try to
cling onto it. “Oh, what’s going to happen if that falls apart?” Well let’s
find out. If something needs to fall apart, let it fall apart! That’s taking a
chance, isn’t it? It’s taking even more of a chance if we don’t let it fall
apart.
So we share as individuals the same responsibility. Some people have tried
to make me into some sort of a leader, a spiritual leader presumably—for the
most part because the individual who made that attempt didn’t want to take
responsibility himself, or herself. It’s very convenient to have some scapegoat
to hang things on, but it’s all one’s own responsibility. I have feelings and
hereditary elements in my makeup just the same as everybody else, and,
incidentally, so had Jesus. His meaning is based in the fact that those things
did not control Him, not that they weren’t there. Human beings have found a
wonderful excuse here of course. “He was something special; He didn’t have all
the things that we have.” Oh yes, He did. Let’s not try to escape
responsibility.
I have taken responsiblity and it worked out in a certain way. But don’t
let the fact that I took responsibility and it worked out in this way be an
excuse for you not to take your responsibility, which will work out in what
way? Well you have to take it to find out. But it is exactly the same thing.
It’s exactly the same as it was for Jesus—exactly. Certainly the focus of
spirit that was present in Him was unique to Him, but that focus of spirit that
is the experience of each of us, which is in fact what we truly are, is unique.
It is specific for each individual, not a sort of blended thing. We are responsible
for differentiating it so it comes out in its unique, specific ways, each
person assuming the responsibility for himself; it doesn’t matter what anybody
else does; he has that responsibility. If he assumes that correctly he will
find that it blends with those who are assuming it correctly also.
And the one body puts in an appearance, the body of the Messiah, mankind,
that all things may be brought again into the beauty and the perfection of the
universal whole instead of being held out to one side by self-centered human
beings who suffer the consequences and then complain about it. Let’s let it all
come back where it belongs, we say to the glory of God—the glory of the One
whose spirit differentiated composes our individual true identities.
The spirit is referred to as the holy spirit; it is whole. And if
there are any portions of what we are, humanly speaking, that may be held out,
then obviously the holy spirit has no means of adequate expression. The only
hope, if you want to look at it that way, for mankind is by reason of that
wholeness of spirit which is a reality because it is differentiated in balance
through many.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Your Questions Answered #2
Uranda 1938
Uranda takes this method of answering certain of your important questions which are of vital import
to all the Earnest Ones who have chosen to Walk the Flaming Way
in Response to the Expression of Reality in the out-working Cosmic Plan.
Question — My niece was to have been
married, and her friend died suddenly. She takes it very hard, and lies awake
at night waiting for him to return. To my idea, Souls do not return, as when
one dies the Soul of that person goes into a new-born babe. Am I wrong in this?
Uranda’s Answer — You are wrong in the idea that
the Soul goes into a new-born babe upon leaving the body at death. All the
ideas that are supposed to tell how long the God-Being waits between
incarnations are absolutely false. The God-Self again incarnates when and as He
can be most helpful in the out-working of the Cosmic Plan, and so render the
greatest possible Service.
The
God-Self is not subject to set periods of time, no matter what any may have
taught on this subject. You are right in feeling that the Soul, or God-Self
does not return to communicate with those who remain on earth—and all of the
ideas of communion with “departed Spirits”, “Souls”, “Spirit Brothers”, and
so-called “discarnate Masters”, are false. That which is seen, and thought to
be the departed loved one, may be a thought-form. Sometimes, shortly after the
passing of a loved one, a person contacts the thought-form which that person
had created during life, and such an experience can be real, even to the extent
of speaking and feeling. However, that thought-form soon dissolves and is no
more. Then, under certain conditions, a thought-form of that person can be,
so-to-speak, resurrected from the aura of the one remaining. This is what the
genuine Spiritualists (meaning those who are not consciously promoting a fraud)
do, and in some cases, as in so-called “materializations”, the thought-form is
filled out with substance drawn from the “medium” and from the “circle”. But
such a manifestation is never the person
it is supposed to be. Information given under any such conditions is drawn
from the person's own aura, even though he may never have consciously known
such information before. The so-called “great mediums” are really “mind
readers” who pick up vibrations from the radiations of the individuals present,
and personalize those vibrations as much as the response of the person will
permit. All such activity is utterly useless, and should be avoided. Let the
Earnest One ignore all such things, and Respond in Love to his own Lord within,
and in due season, if he wavers not, he will abide in Peace and in
Understanding.
I
would, also, point out that the incarnating God-Being is always present at the time of conception, and remains focalized in
the forming body throughout the pre-natal period.
Question — If we are soul mates here and one dies, then will we know each other, or be permitted to see each other?
Uranda’s Answer — Much has been written and taught concerning so-called soul mates. Truly, “Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.” If people would forget all they ever heard about soul mates they would be better off. There is a Cosmic Mate for each one, and in due season each will function with that Cosmic Mate. God-Beings who are Cosmic Mates always know each other and function with each other, whether incarnate or not. But this is the important point: No one can tell another whether or not his or her mate is or is not a soul mate, and anyone who attempts to tell of such things is guilty of falsehood. In rare instances human beings may become aware of such a Harmonization, but not more than one out of every hundred thousand of such supposed relationships has any foundation in fact. Let every married couple consider themselves to be true Mates in Oneness, and let them let all things work out in due season. Let no one be carried away with the idea that some person other than his or her present mate is a “soul mate,” for much sorrow and suffering has been born of such imaginings. Those who Respond in Truth will understand the Mystery of Cosmic Mates in due season.
Questions — There is a question that has been in my mind for some time that I
am going to ask you to make clear for me. I do not think it is a thing I have
to know—perhaps it is meaningless speculation on my part—but I would like to
know, and I shall never feel free of the question until I am satisfied I have
the answer. It has to do with your message on The Astral Realm. If I can make my question clear, it is this: I
understand that when the body dies it disintegrates and is “as if it had never
been”. I also thoroughly believe that the Spirit that ascends is, and always
was, perfect. But if a Spirit incarnates many times, is there no relation at
all between incarnations? I mean, suppose in this life I learn many things (as
I have) but do not fully ascend and my body dies. In my next incarnation is
what I have learned of no help to me at all? Is there no, shall I say, mental
life that persists to become a part of my next body so that I shall go on from
where I left off this time? Or do I, as Spirit, simply take on an absolutely
new mind as well as body with no connection at all with my former life; not
having any benefit from former lives to help this particular body ascend. I
have always felt that there was some connection, and that what I learned in one
life carried over into the next. But, of course, I know the Spirit is perfect,
birthless and deathless, eternally perfect. It cannot need to learn. Is there,
then, a mental life that persists and gains experience, and forms part of every
incarnation?
Uranda’s
Answer — Truly it is a
joy to behold the way in which my paper The
Astral Realm, has given many a new opportunity to Relax into a new Vision
and Realization. Rejoice. This
question is so well put, and voices what so many are asking, that I would
present a simple and complete answer for all who are willing to be received
into the New Vision.
You are right in realizing that this
point is not absolutely essential to full Release. The essential points I have
given many times in many ways, and they all hinge around the One Great Truth:
Love your Lord with your whole being, and let your Lord's Perfect Love pour out
through you in blessing to your Brother Man in Rejoicing.
First I would ask a question. Would it
not be logical to suppose that if a memory of what one “learned” in a past life
were essential to the perfect expression of this life, the Creator would surely
have caused such memory to be natural to all people. You will have to admit
that that would be logical. We recognize that the Lord provides all that is
essential to the greatest possible Release of Reality in each one, no matter
who or where. We do not find such “memory” of past lives to be a natural thing
to man. There must be a very good reason why human beings come into this life
with a blank mind, and without any memory of anything past. There are a few
rare instances which tend to indicate the possibility of such “memory.”
Question — Is the Release, or Ascension,
of the Earnest One dependent upon “learning,” either past or present?
Uranda’s Answer — Obviously, if one should answer in the affirmative he would at once be
confronted with the task of making “intellectual giants” of all the people of
the world, and none can doubt that under the present process of life that would
need “millions of years.” However, if one really recognizes that the Lord
within already know all, the feeling
of a need for much learning at once begins to vanish away; and in its place
comes a sweet peace, out of which the Garden of Reality begins to grow—not by much learning, but by much loving is
release experienced.
Question — A question has been gradually taking form in my mind, something like this: “If
that body which remains at the separation called death is scattered back into
the soil ... and so into other human bodies”—yet, “all the body-substance which
Ascends is never more subject to physical life and death,” what does become of
that substance? That is, one who has Responded wholly to his Lord appears to
have left his physical substance at death
even as one who has by lack of Response repelled himself from his Lord, even
unto extinction. Is it not so?
Uranda’s Answer — No, dear Sister, it is not so. That human being who has
“Responded wholly to his Lord” does not leave any physical substance behind in
so-called death, for such an one Ascends
as did Enoch and Elijah. Anything that is left did not respond, no matter how good
that person was. That which Ascends must do so during life with a final separation of the Ascending Atoms from
those being left behind taking place at death of the body. That which Ascends,
whether during life or at the time of passing, is received into the Inner Plane
Reality which cannot be described in human language. The Bible speaks of such
Ascended Substance as “stars in the crown”, or, as “a pillar in the house
of God,” and in many other ways. It is enough that that which Ascends has been
received into the Positive Phase of Heaven beyond all human limitation.
It
may be helpfully interesting to know that the average good sincere, earnest person who truly lives the best he knows, and
honestly Loves God and his Brother Man, allows, during a lifetime of “three
score and ten years,” the Ascension of about as much physical substance as
would be required to make three complete human bodies. This is only a broad
generalization in order to give something of an illustration to those who need
it. It must be recognized that there is a variation in every life, and none can
say how much of any person's body has
Ascended unless it all Ascends at
the close of earth life—but even then there has been much that has been cast
out of that person’s body as refuse during his life time. The important thing
is for each one to live the Life of Love
Response to the Lord and let the Father within take care of that which
Ascends. That which does not Ascend will return to the soil of the earth,
whether cast out day-by-day as refuse, or whether left behind at the separation
of Atoms at the death of the physical body. The Lord of the Harvest will garner
the wheat (Ascending Atoms) of the Harvest into His “barns,” or the Place of
His Presence and Function. Our Great Master gave many illustrations in this
regard which apply both to the world as a whole, and to the body-world of each
and every human being.
Question — What becomes of the God-Being
and also the human at death of a person who denies God and immortality?
Uranda’s Answer — The same thing that happens to any
other unresponsive person. The one who so denies is not Responding to his Lord,
and so he goes into the soil of the earth as refuse, and the God-Being goes
into the Inner Planes just the same as any other God-Being. The sins of the
human being never attach to the God-Being.
Question — Is it possible for this body to
become so perfect as to Ascend with the God-Being, and have no atom of it
return to the earth, and how long could such an one stay on this planet?
Uranda’s Answer — The body is in a constant state
of flux, taking on and casting off atoms each day, and the Responding One may
become so perfect in Love Response to his Lord that he is caused to Ascend, but
up to the time of actual Ascension there would be a degree of casting off—and
such a person could stay in manifest life as long as his Service in the earth
might be needed, providing he remained in perfect Polarity of Being.
Question — In the dividing of the “sheep
from the goats,” if some of our Loved Ones here on earth should not Respond,
and should be removed from the earth, will their God Beings, who always
function in Perfection, and who Ascend when separated from the body at death,
have a part in the Spiritualization of the earth from the Inner Planes? For
instance, if one who has had his greatest function in creating wars, unrest,
turmoil, etc., in the earth, and is removed from the earth by death, does his
God Being have a part in the establishment of the Christ Kingdom from the Inner
Planes?
Uranda's Answer — The simple and complete answer
is, Yes. To fully understand this answer requires a Realization of the fact
that the God Being, or Immortal Self which leaves the body at death, was not
responsible for the wrong acts of the human being, and is not in any way limited
by such wrong acts—and so it is that all that leaves the body at death, and
Ascends, is just as perfect as the God Being that Ascends from the body of a good person, and so has a part in the
Cosmic Plan just as surely as if the wayward human body had never been born—and,
also, you may be sure that there was a certain amount of Ascension from that
body during the life span of the human being, so that life was not in vain. The
God Being never sins, and is not in any way subject to evil; and so it is that
the God Selves of your Loved Ones are even now working from the Inner Planes
just as surely as any other, and in due season you will meet them as they are
in Reality. Rejoice. This is true of all.
Question — If we are immortal now, what is
the procedure so as not to have to go through death?
Uranda's Answer — Human beings are mortal, and any teacher that tries to delude human
beings into thinking that they are really immortal now, is either ignorant or a
willful deceiver. The God Self in each and every human being is Immortal, and
no God Being ever dies; even though the human form becomes subject to death.
The only way whereby the human form can Ascend, and so not be subject to death,
is to Love his Lord within in a true and steadfast Response which causes him to
Ascend during the life span of the human form—for that which dies does not
Ascend. A fear of death will prevent such a Response. In other words, you are
not to try to avoid death—you are to respond in Love to your Lord so that he
may lift you up into Himself, and to the degree that you are absorbed into him,
you will be a partaker with Him in His natural Immortality. Such Ascension
takes place to a degree with every Earnest One, even though the remaining body
is subject to death. A complete Ascension is not to be anticipated until after
the world itself has undergone the resurrection into the New Age state.
Question — If we cannot look back on our past incarnations, how do you know that you functioned in Lemuria as Uranda?
Uranda's Answer — I have not, in any of my writings, indicated that it is impossible for
one to know of one's past incarnations. However, I have pointed out that the
vast majority of those who think that they are getting such information are being deluded. Those who try to find out about their past
incarnations are always subject to delusions if they are at all successful in
their attempts. Likewise, those who attempt to tell others of past incarnations
through touching vibrations, and all
the usual methods, are false; whether they realize it or not. When the
outer-self has been lifted up into
Oneness with the Inner Self, the Eternal Knowledge of the Inner Self is
released out through the responsive One to the degree that such knowledge is
truly needed—and such knowledge is never
available to satisfy curiosity. The Inner Self, or Lord, has complete awareness
of His own Eternal History, including all of His incarnations—and the Lord never
goes to sleep nor any of the other
supposed ways in which He is supposed to forget—therefore,
to the degree that the outer-self is One With his Lord, the knowledge of the Lord
is released through the outer consciousness to the degree of the need.
Insofar
as these facts relate to me, I have nothing to say but this: If my Words reveal
to you the Truth that is already within yourself, and you feel the Fire of the
Christ Love drawing you into that Perfect State to which you were ordained, then
may you well have confidence in them. If any cannot believe me for my work's
sake, or for the sake of Him Who sent me, then surely there is nothing in me to
cause him to believe in me.
Question — I would like to ask you why you
don't use the Name Jesus Christ in conjunction with the Names, the Lord of the
Sacred Seven, and the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. It seems to me that your
words would have more weight if you said, ‘Jesus Christ, Lord of the Sacred
Seven.’ To me He means everything. To me Jesus Christ is very real. I love your
lessons, but can't understand why the Name Jesus Christ is omitted. Please
explain to me your reason for omitting His Name.
Uranda's Answer — To this I would reply: Blessed
Sister, I can well understand how you feel in the matter—for our Great Master
does not mean any more to you that He does to me. For all who wish to speak of
Him as Jesus Christ, it is perfectly alright, and when you become more
acquainted with my writings you will find that I have repeatedly mentioned the
fact that the world knew the Lord of the Sacred Seven as Jesus. However, that
was the Name by which He manifested in the earth for only thirty-three years,
while I have known Him since the beginning of Creation by His Holy Name, LORD of the Sacred Seven. It is a
matter of choice. The world uses the Name Jesus Christ without any true
understanding of what it means—and so many take that name in vain; using it
profanely, even as the world crucified Him. The world does not know Him by the
Name, LORD of the Sacred Seven, and that Holy Name is not bandied on the lips
of those who curse God and man. To me it means far more than the One the world
saw—and those who are beginning to catch the Vision of Reality have, also, come
to have a Holy Joy in the Name, LORD of the Sacred Seven, or LORD of Lords and
KING of Kings—a Title by which I often speak of Him. Therefore, you see, I do
not omit His Name, but, rather, am I helping many to become aware, not only of
His Name, but of Him in His Reality. I love the Name by which He was known in
the earth, and should you find that Name more pleasing to you, I Rejoice—and
trust that the Names by which I speak and write of Him will now mean more to you.
Question — Why did Jesus utter these words
on the cross, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Did God really
forsake Him at that time? Can God forsake any of us?
Uranda's Answer — To these questions I would
answer: You will note that St. John, who was the only disciple who was present
at the time Jesus became unconscious on the cross, does not make any mention of
such as utterance; but John does say that Jesus said, “It is finished.” Jesus
uttered His last words on the cross in Lemurian, or the Motherland tongue,
while those present, besides John, understood only the Aramaic and Hebrew.
Matthew gives the original as “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani” and it is only
natural that those who did not understand Lemurian, thought He was quoting the first
verse of the 22nd Psalm. A nearly exact translation of Jesus’ Words,
translating from the Lemurian, would be, “Relaxing into God, the darkness of
the outer world covers the face of my Life.” These words John summed up as, “It
is finished,” which is quite correct. It is evident that if Matthew had been
certain of the meaning of Jesus’ last Words on the cross, he would not have
felt it was necessary to give the original, as well as his own translation.
Jesus did not say that God had
forsaken Him, and, in Truth, God never forsakes anyone. Those who turn from God
are the ones who forsake God.
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