Mental Intercourse — Mind Generation
from The Mystery of Love Unveiled #2
Uranda
1937
The secret
of lasting success and happiness in any line of life endeavor is found to be in
generation in the mind, and exactly
the same laws which govern generation in the physical also control generation
in the mind. Mental intercourse has been
indulged in as haphazardly and as ignorantly as has physical intercourse, and
the results have been equally disastrous. He who would make great progress on
the pathway of attainment must be careful to train himself to interpret all sex
impulses in the physical body as a desire to enter into creative expression in
the mental and spiritual phases of activity.
The life essence contained in the
physical seed is always drawn to the point of expression to which the
individual gives primary attention at the time the creative impulse is felt.
The only way the attention can be successfully controlled at such times is
through the process of keeping the mind attuned to spiritual realities at all times. The spiritual realities are the inner
values contained in all natural objects such as are found in nature, and in all
helpful and constructive acts. The inner values of the little things that one
must do each day must not be underestimated. The smallest task must be seen in
a spiritual sense, and it must be done as nearly perfectly as possible if one
would be successful in learning to control the life forces.
Mankind has degenerated to the point
where the vast majority of people interpret the creative impulse as a desire
for sex expression in the physical. This has resulted in the awful waste of the
life forces which makes itself manifest in the prevalence of sickness and
disease, in weak and ailing bodies, in premature death, in the general tendency
to be wasteful in matters of food and general living necessities, in the
evident inability of mankind to cope successfully with national and world
problems, and in the woeful lack of individual initiative and stamina which
results in the everywhere-present failure of individuals to meet and transcend
the problems of everyday life.
There is no magic formula by which an
individual can gain instant control over himself and the life forces which
should be subject to him. The rich rewards and
glorious happiness of the life of mastery are attained only by those who are
ready and willing to put forth constant effort to harmonize with the Laws of Being. Attainment is more easily experienced when the individual knows the Laws
of Life, and he finds such attainment to be a constant joy because he is
enthusiastic about the goal before him; but that goal is reached only through
perseverance and determined effort that never falter. No one can make this attainment for you.
You alone can so attain in your own life, and you alone are responsible for
your own development. Self-control must be attained before one can gain control
over the forces and conditions outside of oneself. This is the only way.
The first step is the development of poise, and in poise is found peace, and out of peace comes true power. Such a
person is aglow with radiant charm and that charming personality must be used
wisely to uplift and serve mankind, else it will be fastened upon by some human
leech who would defile the purity of such life expression. Therefore the next
step is the development of that peculiar ability to radiate light, love and
life freely, and give the bread of life to all who seek, and yet maintain that
pure reserve through which nothing but the pure can penetrate.
That which we speak of as the spiritual
is what might be called the second phase of mind expression. That which is a
positive radiance toward the people of the world in general we call mental.
That which is a negative receptivity toward God and higher persons, truths or
things we call spiritual. These are the two functions of mind, and as long as
the individual harmonizes with this Law of Life he cannot be "pulled
down" or defiled in any manner. But when the individual allows himself to
become receptive to those ideas and things which he knows to be below him, and
becomes positive to—that is, refuses to be guided by—the ideas and truths of
the higher realms toward which he is striving, he will find that his progress
will cease.
Since the development of radiant charm
and the attainment of generation in the mind are one and the same thing, let us
give them further consideration. Persons who possess great charm of
personality, and then allow themselves to use that charm in ways that lead to
dissipation, soon find that their charm begins to fade and a
hardness of appearance and character begins to show forth in their lives. This
gives us the key to the attainment of charm. A magnetic personality and radiant
charm are the results of directing the life forces into expression through the
mind instead of allowing them to be wasted through the body.
One of the
outstanding qualities of charm and magnetic personality is the obvious presence
of a great amount of reserve energy. Many people, aware of this fact, have
jumped to the conclusion that the way to increase magnetic charm is to develop
more energy, and this has led to the use of all sorts of exercises and formulas
which were supposed to increase the energy to the point where there would be a
reserve sufficient to produce the desired charm. The right method is not
concerned with the gaining of more energy so much as it is devoted to the wise
use of the energy the individual already possesses. Increasing power is of
little value when that increased power is wasted, and until the individual can
wisely use, without waste, the energy and power he already has, he cannot use
additional power to advantage.
You
already have all the energy and power that you need at your present point of
development. All you
need to do is to learn how to use that which you now have. If you do this you
will find that the energy and power available to you will automatically
increase as fast as you develop the ability to use it wisely. In whatever you
do, use as little energy as you can and still give perfect expression to the
deed, and you will gradually develop a sense of reserve power, and with this
sense of reserve power you will develop an attitude of self-confidence that is
based on the absolute knowledge that you have available a sufficiently large
reserve to carry you through any condition or circumstance.
Most people use twice as much energy as
is required in doing both little and big things. It is not a show of great
energy that causes people to be attracted to you; in fact that drives people
away from you. It is dwelling in a consciousness of a great reserve of energy
that causes you to radiate charm that attracts and influences other people. Concentrate
your attention on doing everything you do as nearly perfectly as you can and as
easily as you can. As you develop this ease of motion you will find that you
will naturally harmonize with the law of rhythm. With the development of rhythm
you will find yourself working with the cosmic forces that carry the world
onward to its destiny with irresistible force, and that same irresistible force
will carry you to your goal. It is through the process of applying
these laws to the little things of everyday life that the student trains
himself to do greater things.
These are the first steps on the Way. You cannot
leap over the first part and hope to land safely on the top rung of the ladder
of life. If the student is not willing to use and keep using the process of
mind generation in the little things of his everyday life, he cannot hope to attain
the goal of true success. That which is called the superconscious
mind is in reality that vast realm of mind within every individual which the
average person never uses. By applying the methods already outlined the
individual begins to use more of his mind power, and he gradually develops to
the point where he is conscious of dwelling in the fulness of the super-mind,
which is to say, all of his mind. The mind is present in the entire body and it
is not limited to the brain. The flow of the life essence through all the body
is absolutely necessary if all the mind is to be active. Many students of this
subject have failed to make desired progress because they were not content with
beginning to use the power in little things—they wanted to do some great things
first, and because they failed they became discouraged and felt that such
progress was impossible to them.
Every individual feels that there are
certain voids or empty places in his life which he would like to have filled
with those things which would give him happiness, health and security in
well-being. When he seeks to satisfy the longings and desires within himself by
giving attention to the things of the physical plane of being, and the physical
sex expressions which include all the body appetites—a partial list of which
is: sex union in the physical; food, the eating of food, the preparing of food;
clothing and all bodily adornments; money, the making of money with which to
buy physical comforts; and all things related to the satisfaction of all
physical desires—the individual finds that he does not make the proper progress
in life and he is constantly beset with sorrows, aches and pains, and all sorts
of "bad luck." Man is a three-phase being and when he
devotes so much of himself to the satisfaction of the first, or physical, plane
only it is easy to see why human lives are so unbalanced and so unsatisfactory. This does not mean that the things of the physical expression do not have their
place, but it does mean that the physical should be kept in its place and not
allowed to fill the whole life.
He who would make progress on the Way must
learn to see and understand the mental and spiritual aspects of everyday
conditions and things, and he must stop thinking of the physical aspects only.
There is nothing wrong with physical things, but they must be used rightly, and
wise use of them depends entirely upon seeing and knowing the mental and
spiritual aspects of them. Until a person begins to change his way of looking
at physical things, he cannot hope to make much change in his life and
environment.
It
is in little things that great mental and spiritual lessons are revealed. Until a person has learned to see and
use the mental and spiritual aspects in the things of everyday life, he cannot
hope to be successful in using the methods which will be outlined further on. The person who is deeply in earnest, and
who is seeking to let the Christ or cosmic light within him show the Way, will
find it a joy to search for the spiritual meanings that may be found in
whatever is at hand to do. It is not possible to attain the true joys of life
by depending on one's own physical strength, but wonderful joys and progress
are easily attained when one centers his whole attention in the fascinating
search for the spiritual truths which are everywhere present.
Washing dishes becomes a happy and an
educational privilege when one seeks out the inner meanings contained in such
activity. And so it is with everything one does—they all reveal their mysteries
to those who study them joyously. Working in the garden, one finds hundreds of
wonderful opportunities to seek out the spiritual aspects of everyday things.
There is no work or activity where this truth does not apply. Jesus used this
method of study for Himself, and He expressed the inner meanings of little
things when He was teaching others, and this is what made His teaching so
interesting and helpful. This is the way to begin to
use mind generation. The mind cannot generate power unless it is brought into
activity. You now have all the mind you need, and it will generate all the
power you need if you will but start using it as this lesson has already
outlined. This is the way to begin to control and enjoy mental sex union.
As you begin to enter the mental sex union
with all the natural objects around you, so that you can begin to feel the
spiritual qualities of all such objects, you will begin to know what real joy
is. This is the greatest source of pleasure, thrills and happiness that is
available to you. Until you have uplifted your sex expression from the physical
plane to the mental plane, you cannot begin to know the joy of the spiritual
sex union. To the degree that one attains spiritual sex union one can do all
the things which Jesus did, just as He promised when He said, "The things
that I do shall ye do also, and greater things shall ye do."
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Generation in the Ascending Spiral
from Special Session at Sunrise Ranch
Martin Cecil April 18, 1978
As we participate in the consistent expression of the spirit of the new
earth there are evident effects which put in an appearance. We may think of those
effects as relating to what is beyond us, but they also relate to what is
immediately present with us—our immediate living is of a
fitting nature from the standpoint of spiritual expression. We can't anymore
behave any old way; we are compelled into fitting behavior.
There are many things which
require thought and consideration which will be quite natural to one who is
expressing the spirit of the new earth. He
will always be looking beyond himself; and he will always be concerned about
the effect that his presence is having upon those round about. One should never
underestimate the effect of spiritual expression, so if there is whatever
measure of spiritual expression in evidence, and particularly now from the
standpoint of the spirit of the new earth, there will be an effect because of
that.
Effects emerge into the experience of the
angel on earth, effects of right cause centered in right spirit—in this
instance in the spirit of the new earth. There is always a brightness, a
newness; we never let anything get into a humdrum pattern. If it does, as we
have noted, we are subject to the spirit of decay; we are no longer providing
the expression of the spirit of the new earth. We are responsible for providing
that in a fitting way according to what is going on in our environment, but it
is always the control of the spirit that is being offered, the positive radiant
expression of the spirit of the new earth. We extend this deliberately. We
never let that meaningless repetition which appears in the spirit of decay
enter into the picture at all. There may be things we have to do repeatedly,
but we always do them in a new way; we always do them in the right spirit—it will be a new way; it brings
everything that is done alive. There is a vibrancy then to all that is
expressed in living.
I have mentioned these things in terms of
physical sex. I think you have an awareness, perhaps more vividly than before,
that physical sex, which is not something alone all on its own ever—there are
other levels involved here. But we are looking at the physical
level at the moment. Physical sex is a tool, a creative tool, in the hand of
the angel. That is all it is there for. Human beings have been using it for
other reasons of various sorts. It has always carried an aura of mysterious delight.
But it is a creative tool, just as every capacity of life expresssion is a
creative tool rightly in the hands of the angel.
When we begin to see this we see that we
have a responsibility in this field. That responsibility is not a matter of
age. It is a matter of right use. It requires an angel on hand for right use.
In the general scheme of things in the world I suppose youth is rather
characterized by the attitude of unbridled use and age tends to be
characterized by a state of nonuse. In the middle there, which is not
necessarily the state of the middle-aged, there is a state of an experience of
balance, right use—balanced right use.
Here is something that has tended to become
rather humdrum in many instances as the years go by, which is evidence that the
individual, at least in this field, is not permitting the expression of the
spirit of the new earth. It couldn't get that way if the spirit of the new
earth was actually in expression. In our considerations along these lines now,
I am concerned principally with attitude, because when the spirit of the new
earth is in expression the effects will appear and the physical form to clothe
that spirit will naturally emerge.
There are those who have felt very much
compelled in this field and tried to fill the form of it with spirit. "I
know this is a creative tool and must be used rightly by the Lord. I have this
compulsion in this field. I'll go ahead with this compulsion and then on the
basis of what happens I'll endeavor to get the spirit in there." Of course
it doesn't work very effectively that way because the spirit always has to come
first. It has seemed almost unbelievable apparently to the human mind that if
the spirit is right and actually in expression that the form will take care of
itself. There may be a need for some assistance relative to the emergent form—when there is an emergent form—because of the expression of spirit. But to try
to manipulate the form into shape first is a futile endeavor. Let the spirit be
right.
Now when the spirit is in right expression
in this particular field, for instance of physical intercourse, the experience
of the female orgasm is a natural experience, not an uncontrolled experience
but a natural one. It is not uncontrolled, in the sense that it relates to the sustaining
of control with respect to the male orgasm. There needs to be control in this
field if it is to be used as a creative tool. If those concerned get carried
away by their feelings then the whole thing is blown and it is of no value as a
creative tool in the hands of the Lord. It does have creative implications even
then, of course, but what is being created will not be of a constructive
nature. It will be the initiation of something destructive.
I don't say that in order to engender some
sort of a fear, although fear of the Lord may be wisely experienced in the
recognition that one is handling very potent powers, particularly in this
field—in other fields as well, in every aspect of our living in fact. But it is
particularly intense, in focus, in this field of physical sex. It must be
handled with great care and reverence, caution. Then it may become a tool for
the creative purposes of the archangel.
As angels we have responsibility in this
differentiated field of creative purpose, and we may become aware, on the basis
of the expression of right spirit, of what that responsibility is. And it may
consequently be handled wisely on the basis of right use, on the basis of
control, so that this, for instance, is a fitting time—something comes to
focus. And this, where two people are concerned, is a mutual
experience. It is not something being laid by one upon the other in either
direction. There may be a consciousness of something moving in one's own
spiritual awareness, and it may correlate with something moving with respect to
the other. And they may be brought rightly together so that something can
unfold, something can begin to take form on the basis of right spirit that is,
at that point, unknown. It is not a repetition of something that has been
experienced before; it is something entirely new. And it is relative to some
creative purpose.
Gradually there comes the ability to
discern the nature of that creative purpose so that it may be worked with in
consciousness. Working with it in consciousness is one aspect, insofar as the
male particularly concerned, by which control is maintained. He is not all
wrapped up in the physical aspects of what is occurring. Of course a woman
needs to learn to discern what it is that is moving, not necessarily on the
basis of trying to define it with her mind, but sensing what is moving, sensing
the rhythms of what is moving, so that she allows whatever intensity is fitting
to emerge by always bearing in mind the necessity for control—control in the
whole operation one might say.
Here is the creative field which can be
restored in such a way that it becomes possible once more to bring forth living
forms. In procreation that is obvious. But procreation, clearly, in the world
has gotten way out of hand. You may have noted in the stories of the patriarchs
of old, in the "begat" chapters of the Bible, that the begetting
didn't begin in most cases until whoever it was had reached the age of ninety.
Was everything in abeyance until then? Well back at that time there was some
remembrance, some awareness therefore, of something relative to the true state.
The very length of the lifespan was indication of this. And so there was some
continuing right use in this field. But procreation only appeared way down the
line. It wasn't the first order of business. We need to see that presently
it isn't the first order of business. We are concerned with the restoration, not with
repopulating the earth. It is well-populated, isn't it? The restoration of man
restores the authority and government of God so that there would be right
control from the standpoint of procreation. And this cancerous condition that
is obvious in the world would certainly not be the case.
It is a serious matter to provide a
facility by which a particular angel may be given opportunity of incarnating on
earth, not a haphazard thing as it has been for centuries in human experience.
It is something that is deliberately considered and deliberately prepared for. The
story of the birth of Jesus gives some indication of the fact that there was
deliberate preparation of some kind. Obviously from the heavenly standpoint
there was, but also in some measure from the earthly standpoint. Earthly
conditions are taken into account now, even though from the human standpoint
there may be a certain amount of haphazardness, so that certain angels may
incarnate on the basis of certain earthly heredity. All this is based in a
wider view than a personal one, certainly, of what is needful in the overall
creative purpose so that there may be fulfilment.
The incarnation of
angels occurs everywhere over the face of the earth—I'm not speaking of geographical areas particularly, although that may
come into the picture too, but areas of human consciousness. It is very
necessary that certain angels incarnate. There are certain areas within the scope of human
consciousness where it is necessary for angels to incarnate, certain particular
angels for certain particular purposes. When this happens there is a need to
take into account the hereditary background too because it is going to have an
effect, it is going to have an influence of some sort.
We begin to see that from our standpoint,
which is the standpoint of the awakening angel on earth, all these things are
very special and very important. And we are very careful therefore in the
manner in which we handle all our affairs, but in particular this field of
physical sex. Here is a creative tool for a special purpose. In a more general sense, when these things
are handled as they should be handled, there is the generation of spiritual
substance, the generation of a substance which then begins to ascend in the
creative spiral, so that it provides the essential substance for the experience
of the succeeding spirit. We have been considering the spirit of the new earth.
We come to the second level and we have the spirit of the single eye. A
conscious participation in the expression of the spirit of the single eye
requires that there be substance at that level, that it may have meaning to us.
You have taken note of the fact that where
there is no substance there is no meaning insofar as the person concerned.
You've talked to people and outlined something very clearly to them, clear in
your own consciousness, seeking to convey spiritual reality. And the individual
simply looks at you with a blank stare. Of course it was not wise for you to
attempt to make the explanation in the first place because you should have had
enough perception to recognize that the essential substance for understanding
wasn't present. The substance for understanding emerges on the basis of its
generation in the ascending spiral.
We in our present considerations have been
moving in a more or less deliberate step-by-step basis—which is not
necessarily exactly the way it works—but so that we may be first acquainted
with the process from the first spirit to the release of the second spirit, the
spirit of the single eye. To the extent that there has been a consistent
expression of the new earth, there will have been the generation of sufficient
spiritual substance to enable us to experience the expression of the spirit of
the single eye with understanding.
This particular spirit will bring with it
certain effects also. The absence of it is describable as the spirit of double-mindedness,
which is the condition known by human beings subject to human nature. A double-minded
view is the common outlook relative to duality, whether false or real. The
central duality has been described by using the words good and evil. That is a true duality. In other words, good and
evil are essential for the creative process. It is impossible to have one without
the other. The difficulties arise in human experience only when there is an
eating of the fruit of this creative process. The eating of the fruit of that
creative process is what brings a person into identity with the realm of
effects; he is constantly absorbing effects and his action is based upon that
absorption of effects.
If you eat the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, which is the tree of the creative process, it may
be said then that you are what you eat. Too bad if you are, isn't it? Well it's
true of most people; it is true of what they eat physically and it's true of
what they eat mentally. They are what they eat. We have all had that
experience. It lingers around a bit too, you know. If you eat of the effects of
the creative process you find yourself identified with the effects—you are
what you eat. By the same token, of course, if you eat of cause, which is fruit
of the tree of life, you are again what you eat. You are identified with cause.
This has been and is our continuing concern. However we can't reach the fruit
of the tree of life as long as we are partaking of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
I wish to emphasize the fact—which should
be clear in your consciousness anyway—that there is nothing wrong with the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil. Something wrong appears when human beings
start eating of the results which appear by reason of that tree. These are the
creative effects, and it is because human beings started eating of the creative
effects that what is called the fall occurred—and they began to die because,
identified with effects, effects are always changing, there is always
disintegration occurring, and death is known. One must stop eating of that
fruit, which initially seems to be quite impossible, if one is to become in
position to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, to participate in cause.
It is the fruit of the tree of life which
generates the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which
generates the effects which are known on earth. We can see that these two
trees, each called by different names, are one. One is a heavenly tree, the other
is the earthly tree. Properly speaking they are one—cause and effect are
properly integrated. But in the realm of effects there is good and evil. This
may described in another way as integration and disintegration. It is not all
good; it is not all integration.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Remember Who You Are
Uranda Sunrise Ranch
January
16, 1949 Sunday Evening
There is one thing
more which I might say. If, every time a Member of this Unit let the Vibration
break, let the Line give way, every time some Member of this Unit failed to be
true to his or her trust, he could stand right there and watch and see all of
the consequences of his action, not just what he may see in his immediate environment,
but if he could just stand there and watch all the way through to see the chain
of events, to see how many others tended to give way because of that failure,
it would often be a heart-rending picture that would unfold.
The blendings and the
inter-blendings of the Whole I cannot expect you to see and understand, but everything
has far-reaching consequences, whether it be ill function or correct function.
Genuine repentance has far-reaching significance. When there is true repentance
there is re-direction. Something changes. The old is caused to pass away; the
New things are made; there is a New Pattern of Life brought into being. Each one
is his brother's keeper. Each one will some day have to face the consequences of
his or her own actions. It is true, whether we like it or not. Let us remember ahead
of time, instead of using so much hind-sight. Do you not think it would be better. So it comes back to that point —
Remember Who You Are
© Emissaries of Divine Light
