As we gather on this beautiful Sunday morning, I would like to meditate with you for a little hour on one of the aspects of significance, to be found in the Master’s Gospel, His Good News—the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Let us have a moment of devotion. Our gracious Lord and Holy King, we thank Thee for the privilege we have of yielding body and mind and heart into the Spirit of Thy Presence, that Thy name may be hallowed to us in every phase and department of life, that we may share in letting Thy Kingdom come and the Spirit of Thy Presence appear, not only in our minds intellectually, not only in our hearts as a hope for the future, but as a realization of the present in body and mind and heart, that Thy Will may be done on earth in relationship to ourselves, in ourselves and through ourselves, and so also for all who turn to Thee, whosoever, wheresoever they may be, in a recognition that Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever, IN the Christ, Aum-en.
As we aspire to move from the world of the unreal into the realm of the Divine Design in form and function, our progress, individually and collectively, encounters the hindrances established in the human pattern of life by the realm of illusion—the mirage world around us—and it is highly essential to our progress that we should, being with one accord in one place, share a realization of the distinction between the mirage world which human beings in self-activity have produced and the reality world which the Master called the Kingdom of Heaven at hand.
Innumerable philosophies and religious concepts have been developed on the basis of the idea that the human being can make of his life whatever he may determine by the uses of will, determination, perseverance, devotion to a goal—that he may achieve his purpose. Within a certain limited realm, this is true within the scope of individual capacity in function and aspiration. The stuff of life, physically, mentally and emotionally is all around us and is subject to the impulses which we project into it, but that which comes forth by such endeavor can be no more than that which is contained in the design utilized—and the design utilized can appear only as there is a firmness in dedication and purpose with respect to the heart and mind, so that ones whole capacity of Being is channeled to the given end.
This then means that by reason of such endeavors as we see all around us in the world, the usefulness of life is limited to the level of consciousness of the human beings involved, limited to the clarity with respect to the vision inherent in the individual, limited to the individuals own potentiality in forcefulness, will and determination, and limited by his capacity to maintain a sustained application of these factors in the equation of his chosen pattern of life. Add to this the fact that human beings are not the masters of themselves, that they are subject to various emotional stresses—those of which they are aware and many of which they are ignorant—and we see that even with diligence in application, even with a strong will in sustained endeavor, there are countless factors which enter into the pattern, changing its nature, limiting its fulfilment and producing something far below that to which the human being thought he aspired.
And having attained his goal in a limited sense, he finds it to be a hollow victory, and he is assailed by an emptiness of spirit, a fearsomeness with respect to the ultimate possibilities of fulfilment because having reached futility and failed in his endeavor, he imagines that the invisible future contains nothing more than that which has already been experienced. Under such stress of consciousness and heart, he falls back upon the vain hope of a slow progressive movement upward, which even while he wishes for it, he sees to be endangered by man’s ingenuity in the realm of destructive endeavor. And all of the things to which human beings apply themselves are measured on a basis of relativity—of relative values in relationship to the accepted goals of other members of humanity—and each one tends to judge his pattern of relatedness with others on the basis of the degree to which the other person’s pattern or ideal or endeavor can have meaning to his own—a relative measurement, wherein we find nothing stable, nothing sure, except as may be stated by the old saw, “death and taxes.”
Until we find something stable and sure; something that relieves us of the necessity of measuring our own endeavors and the activity of others on a basis of relativity, we cannot have any true orientation point in life. Witness for instance, the pattern as it appears commonly in the lives of human beings who follow the traditional course of growing, getting a certain amount of education, getting married, and finding a job. The points of orientation with respect to the pattern of life which such human beings think of as home, has two poles—the love which may be experienced between the newlyweds, and the sense of security permitted by reason of the job or the business. And human love is such an uncertain thing when it has no consciousness of orientation in that which is above and beyond the mirage world in which human beings move while they decay and die. And the uncertainties of the job, of the business cause human beings to shrink within themselves, subject to unspeakable fears with which they decide they must learn to dwell. So they harden themselves and assume a sophistication which belies their aspiration.
This is the mirage world—the thing which man has made with the substance which God gave him. This is the realm of illusion, where such things are for a little time, because man creates them and sustains them with the outpouring of his own life's blood. And within the scope of the levels found in this mirage world, human beings can choose and do this and that to add their little forms for a moment in the realm of illusion, but the little forms pass away with them and if, perchance, they have achieved recognition in the patterns of history, they are remembered for a time—but with how little meaning are they remembered, are the historical events that have been shaped and molded by great men and women who have achieved the distinction of historical recognition.
And when the child goes to school, how little meaning is there to the child's mind and heart as he is compelled to study those historical events; and as he passes into the realm of practical living in the world mirage, how soon are the significances and the meanings forgotten. And he contents himself with being as other men are; of measuring his own worth by his own concept of the worth of others; his own successes by the successes of others; his own failures by the failure of others. And he knows of no measurement by which he may properly comprehend himself, let alone have a means of evaluating the lives of those around him.
And so, with the passage of time, the human being comes to the end of his days, the cycle of his creativeness is concluded and he is retired from activity in the realm of illusion. He looks out into the mirage world with the wisdom garnered by his years of function in that mirage world and he assumes that he knows something, and seeks to impose his ego upon others, or he assumes that he means nothing and by his attitude proclaims a gospel of futility. Thus it is that in this realm of illusion, in the mirage world, human beings have concluded that if there be any fulfilment, it must of necessity come after death, and they hope with an inner longing that there is something that survives the grave, and that they may come to know the blessedness of higher aspiration in some realm on beyond.
Because of these compulsions in the mirage world, we find those who give themselves to the delusions of spiritualism, for instance, as they seek to establish a connection between the realm of illusion and the realm of whatever there is beyond the veil. The futility, the heartbreak, the disillusionment, the failure, and in the end, man’s seeming greatness is seen to be so small that it may hardly be recognized. The greatness of a Napoleon or a Hitler or a Stalin, who for a moment impose their tyrannical wills upon unnumbered human beings, changing the patterns of existence in the mirage world and robbing human beings of the privilege of living in the realm of illusion. They strutted like tin gods upon the stage of the mirage world and hypnotized human beings into thinking that they were great, but as they are gone, the mirage begins to shift and change and lo, that which seemed to be so great, appears to be so small and has meaning no where but in the realm of illusion.
How is it that human beings have contented themselves, generation after generation with having a part in the building of the unreal passing forms of the mirage world? Each generation assuming that it could produce forms that would endure, each generation assuming that those who had gone before were old fogeys and had no real intelligence, no real understanding. “Look at us! We are the young. We shall arise in this realm of illusion and pass forth upon the stage of the mirage world, and that which we build shall endure.” But when they have came to the doddering steps of their passing, they have become the old fogeys, and round and round it goes once more.
What is there in this life of illusion that should be so appealing, so fascinating, generation after generation, so that the things of God are ignored? The illusions about God are hugged to the bosom and the Truth is left untouched, unknown, while human beings imagine that they search for Truth when they examine the relative and temporary facts of the mirage world.
And in the midst of all of this, there was one who came into the world and he said, “This good news do I bring you, the children of men, that you may begin to know that you are in truth, though you have long forgotten it—the Children of God, that your bodies are not to be looked upon as something foreign to God, something widely separated from God. I bring you the good news that this realm of the Kingdom of the Divine Control and Design is at hand, within reach, available to you, so that you may have a point of orientation, so that you may have a true foundation upon a Rock, and you may no longer build your houses of life upon the shifting sands, merely to give an appearance for the moment in the mirage world. Lo, the time is at hand for you to begin to see that you do not have to measure your lives by the relativity of other human lives.
Lo, the time is come when you can begin to know that this stuff of life with which you play as children at their games, can be shaped and molded to fit the Divine Design. You can come to know a sure foundation. You can come to know a Power greater than yourselves by which the limitations of this realm of illusion may be transcended, by which you may know the beauty of Truth and the Truth concerning beauty—that you may no longer in your own attitude toward yourselves be governed by the sordid concepts of ugliness, but that you may begin to perceive and know and appreciate the beauty of the Divine Design in your own physical body; that you may begin to know that God gave you these physical bodies, that they might be the Temples of God in this world; that you might know the secrets of the human heart and mind and arise and be noble men and women, measuring the expression of your lives, not by the changing mirage of the realm of illusion, but rather by the eternal verities of the Kingdom of Heaven—that Kingdom which remains invisible to you because you are so busy shaping the stuff of life to patterns that are unworthy of you; being controlled by your own concepts of your own sordidness, controlled by your own convictions of ugliness within yourselves and others.
Behold, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and you have the privilege of letting the stuff of life be molded to that Kingdom—that which endures. For this of which I speak has endured down through all the generations, all the centuries while you have played at your children's games, misshaping the stuff of life, abusing your opportunities, making it to be a mirage, a passing thing in the realm of illusion. But this realm of illusion need not be what it now is, for it can begin to be a realm in which the things of Heaven, the things of beauty, the things of the Divine Design may take form, that they may be seen when you have let the stuff of life give them form, when you have ceased to misuse and abuse the stuff of life and let it be shaped to that design which is yet invisible—but which can be made visible as you let it take form according to the Will that is stronger than yours, according to a Power that is beyond your own weakness.
And so, the Voice of One has given an invitation and summoned those who have forgotten their heritage, forgotten that they are Children of God—summoned them to return to the Father; to recognize that the things of God are at hand, that the Truth can be known; that stability and certainty can come into life, and the stuff of life can be shaped to the beauty and the wonder and the glory of that everlasting Design, which has survived the ages of man's lunacy in the realm of illusion—his own idiocy on the stage, not of life, but existence, while he plays at being a man or a woman in the mirage world.
There is the invitation to sanity—the invitation to a recognition that we need not measure ourselves or others on a relative basis, for we can begin to know our relationship to the Divine Design; and measure not with the passing show, but with the cosmic standard of Being which endures from Eternity to Eternity, and has meaning from star to star, from solar system to solar system. And as it has meaning in the uttermost parts of the cosmos, so likewise is this solar system—so likewise does this earth revolve around a star, so likewise does that which holds true in the uttermost parts of the universe, hold true here, and we may share that which cannot be altered or changed, we can share the creative fulfilment possible in the movements of cosmic forces.
We can cease to fight so futilely against that which is taking form and share its forming. We can cease pitting ourselves against the God of all creation and begin to share the work of God in bringing forth creation. We can cease being puppets in the fields of chance. We can cease being creatures of weakness in a mirage world, and become giants of strength in Divine manhood and womanhood in the world of God—which man has not destroyed, nor will he. When the realm of illusion comes to an end, who shall there be to weep among the wise? When the mirage world is sinking into oblivion, the oblivion from whence it came, who among the wise will regret its passing? For then shall we see and see clearly, the Divine Design that is at hand, and we shall see the beauty that manifests as we let the stuff of life be shaped and molded to that Design.
No matter how much we may talk about the beauties of Heaven, no matter how much we may meditate upon the things of God, those things have no true meaning in our lives while we are governed by the passing show of the mirage world. No matter how much we may think we have faith in that which God shall cause to manifest, it has no meaning to us until we let it appear through our lives.
There is the old saying that hope springs eternal in the human breast—and it is well, or the lunacy of the mirage world would long since have caused man to pass from this sphere of existence. Nevertheless, is this the end to which we were born? Is this the goal for which we came into the world? The purpose for which we breathe? No. Let us accept the basic fact that man with his limited intelligence, is not able to produce a substitute Divine Design as good as the one that God has made, for the Truth is that Design—and if he would know the Truth, he must stop accepting temporary facts of the realm of delusion as if those passing factors were the Truth. He must stop alluding to them as the Truth. He must begin to see the Truth for what it is, and accept it and receive it, and acknowledge that he was created so that something greater than himself might appear through himself, that thereby his own greatness might be increased.
Man has desired to prove his own greatness in this mirage world. He has gone to all kinds of extremes in rejecting God, or proclaiming false concepts about God, in order to establish his own greatness. But greatness is not something which is at any given moment to be recognized on a basis of relative patterns. Greatness is that which results from the increase of that which is to be, and not the decrease of that which is round about. If one remains for a moment as an island in the sea of life, when all else has fallen below his level, he may imagine himself to be great, but that is the aspiration of the decrepit. True greatness manifests by reason of the increase, and the increase can be known in any human being, only as he lets that which is greater than himself find expression in himself and through himself to others, and by reason of such increase, through service, he comes to know greatness—and he gives himself to the work of shaping the stuff of life to the end that the Kingdom of Heaven which is at hand may appear to the dim vision and the dull consciousness of those who live in the mirage world. And to those who are of such dull consciousness, the things of reality will seem like a mirage, for they are of the mirage world.
And as the things of reality begin to take form through the mist of creative function, there are those who will deny that it is, and will proclaim loudly that such things are merely an illusion, and that the realm of illusion, the mirage world, is the only thing that is real. And so there is the challenge today as down through the ages: whom will ye follow; whom will ye serve; whom will ye believe? If the Lord be God then follow Him, if Baal, then follow him.
To what is the stuff of your life being shaped? Where is the helm of control? Where is the centering of design, and upon what foundation does the house of your life rest? Why should those who for so long been in prison in the mirage world hesitate to step forth into the light of a new day and share in forming the stuff of life to the Design which God Himself hath made, that the things of God may appear on earth in blessing to all who will receive? For truly, the Good News is good news—the Kingdom of Heaven is now at hand.
Our gracious Lord, we would let Thy Design and Thy Control determine the shaping and the molding of the stuff of life that appears because we live on earth; that the reality of Thy Kingdom may appear to the children of men and that all who will respond may he saved from the mirage world; that all who will let go, may he lifted out of the realm of illusion and illusion that they may know the beauty of the Divine Design, the wonder of the Divine Control, the Glory of living, living here on earth in the fulfilment of that great Truth, for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Aum-en.
The Law Works With Terrible Certainty And Exactness
Anniversary Meditation
Uranda
September 13, 1953
Having recognized the reality of
polarity, under the Law, and the need for centering so that we may truly be
with one accord in one place, we need to recognize something of the principles
and processes by reason of which our togetherness, in the state of being with
one accord in one place, may begin to have meaning. The physical presence of a
number of individuals in one place, in one room, does not signify accord; it
does not signify togetherness.
As we serve we are dealing with
pressure, but pressure, as such, does not cause weariness. Pressure, as such,
does not cause difficulties within ourselves. We can deal with pressure without,
in any sense, being upset, or disturbed, or limited. It is not the fact that
there are pressures in the world, or pressures here or there, but the violation
of principle within the scope of the One Body, that causes weariness. Most
human beings tend to have a blind spot wherein they fail to see their personal
responsibility in the range of violation. This reminds us of the Master's
Words:
"Judge not, that ye be not
judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged, and with what
measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again, pressed down, shaken
together, and running over."
"With what measure ye mete,
it shall be measured to you again."
"As ye sow, so also shall ye
reap."
"As ye forgive others their
trespasses against you, so also shall your Heavenly Father forgive your
trespasses. But if ye forgive men not their trespasses against you, neither
will your Heavenly Father forgive your trespasses."
Human beings seem to imagine that
illumination must relate to some grand and awful secret, some great and
mysterious thing, some tremendous outworking. There are great and mysterious
things in the cycles of illumination, and I would not detract from those, but
we need to begin to realize deeply that illumination relates to some simple
things, to some little things.
There are flashes of reaction
which tend to appear, there are ill attitudes or harsh attitudes which tend to
manifest, which are not always recognized as the violation of these basic
principles. Sometimes they seem to be little things, sometimes they seem to be
justified, and sometimes the individual acts as if he didn't even know what it
was that found expression through himself. He goes on and acts as if it never
appeared, and he expects everyone else to act as if it never happened. But
where there is a violation of the pattern, it is injecting destructive behavior
into the body of the whole, and it cannot be cleared away by merely closing
one's eyes to it, by trying to act as if it never happened. Something has to be
done to clear the vibration.
There is one thing that has always
struck me as being rather strange, rather on the amazing side. Individuals who
seem to imagine that they have special license to break the pattern in some
fashion, to do something that disrupts the vibratory cycles, say something that
is harsh or inconsiderate, some sharp-tongued expression, some lack of control,
expect others to just take it. They seem to expect it, because they are that
way. But if I started to move on the basis of dealing with them as they deal
with others, their howl would reach to high heaven. They would be the ones that
would blow up first.
Why does it take so long for
people to learn? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
There has been a stubbornness and contrariness and reactionary expressions,
snappy attitudes, right here. I seek to meet such issues in the services,
generally. I offer a solution in the services without dealing with the
individual on an individual basis, if he will accept it that way. Sometimes
people go right on, exactly as if I had never said a word that applied. They've
got blind spots, perhaps. They can apply it to their neighbor but not to
themselves.
"With what measure ye mete it
shall be measured to you again." The Law works with absolute certainty.
What shall I say? With awful, terrible certainty? It is. With terrible
certainty. With wonderful exactness.
Think you that we are going to
share the experience of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit while these
principles are being violated? No. There will be
an outpouring of some spirit but it will not be the Holy Spirit. "Judge
not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be
judged." Perhaps results will not manifest in the moment. Over and over
again, I have seen people when results start coming back. Oh, they are hurt. It
starts coming back. They have to pay the price, but they do not like it. The
Law works with terrible certainty. With wonderful certainty.
What do you think would happen if,
for one week, for seven days, you actually measured every attitude, every word,
every thought, every deed, and expressed nothing but that which you were
willing to have come back to you, released absolutely nothing in thought or
word or deed, in attitude, but what you were willing to have multiplied an
hundredfold and have that come back to you? For just seven days? Do you suppose
it would make any difference?
It is going to come back; whatever
it is, it will come back. Let us be more careful of what we sow. Let us be more
careful of what it is that we measure out and ask others to receive at our
hands or at our tongues. This is something that any one of you can do in
relationship to yourselves. I am not asking you to try to apply it to your
neighbor, your husband, your wife, your friend, whoever it may be.
These are the little things that
reveal the quality of your service. Maybe you can get by with it for a little
while, but are you ready to pay the price? Only the right can secure the right
results, step by step. Are you ready to face your responsibility in these
things? Until your are, you cannot, will not, share in that greater outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, which we call Illumination. You cannot know what it is to
abide in the Shekinah Cloud of Glory, or know the illuminating wonder of the
Light that Glows, or touch the unspeakable wonder of the Fire that Burns, until
you take this step.
If you think we are not a large
enough group to do it, you are wrong. It could be done with just two or three.
Let us remember that only as we come to Center and abide in true polarity under
the Law, letting the pattern unfold according to the Divine Design, can we be
in position to let the Truth make us free. When we are actually living "Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you," we will be on the Way.
Blessed Ones, I cannot emphasize
strongly enough the vital importance of these things. Think upon them. Meditate
upon them. Watch yourself concerning them.
I have heard people say, "But
I've tried it, and it doesn't work." Oh no they didn't! They did not. They
did not let it work, because it does work. We need not labor under the pattern
of futility, getting nowhere. If we let it work in ourselves, it will begin to
work through us just as surely as the sun rises and sets. It is absolutely
certain.
No Discords
fromThe Shekinah Fire
Uranda June 14, 1953
The body of the man or the
woman is supposed to be an Ark of the Covenant, a manifestation of the temple
of the living God, a specific place that is supposed to be holy and sacred
within which no ill vibrational pattern may be found.
Wherever there are stress
patterns in the vibrational factor at any level, the evidence of the presence
of the One who dwells is withdrawn and only when the patterns of accord and
true peace are again made evident can there begin to be the restoration of the
manifestation of the evidence of the presence of the One who dwells.
When it begins to appear, we
have evidence that the creative field has been maintained, that there have been
no adverse vibrational factors, no discords, no resentments, no critical attitudes,
no conflicts, no fear, for where these things rule we never see the beautiful
glowing light of the cloud of glory revealing the evidence of the presence of
the One who dwells.
Human reactions, patterns of
attitude such as resentment, and the whirring of the endless rounds of
meaningless thoughts, or so-called thoughts, maintain a condition which
prevents the manifestation of the light that glows, and the cloud that forms,
that in season the cloud may become still more dense, and the glowing light begins
to appear as if it were a fire.
As long as human beings are
more concerned about the expression and manifestation of their own ideas and
concepts and desires, their own pattern of thought and word and action and
feeling, than they are of the manifestation of the evidence of the presence of
the One who dwells, they will have their reward: the privilege of expressing
that which they think they think, which they think they feel, which they think
they believe, which they think they wish to do; but none of these things bring
peace or satisfaction or the glory of living. Only the futility and the
emptiness of the processes of dying.
Remember well that wherever
there are vibrations of conflict, resentment, any ill attitudes whatsoever, you
keep yourself shut out of the cloud of the Shekinah and contain yourself in the
cloud of darkness.
Wherever there are
resentments, frictions, conflicts, within or without, within the individual or
between individuals, you cannot know the beauty and the wonder, the glory and
the peace, of the Shekinah, the manifest evidence of the Presence of the One
Who Dwells, everywhere, always.
We are assembled here
on this beautiful Sunday afternoon, the 8th day of August, 1954, in the Chapel
on Sunrise Ranch to undertake a most holy and sacred task, and to give honor
and to pay tribute to Bishop Lloyd Arthur Meeker, Head of the Church of the
Emissaries of Divine Light, and his wife, Kathleen Meeker, also Albert
Ackerley, one of the outstanding leaders in this Ministry, and the two
children, William Van Duzen and Sharon Call.
Always, when we come to the times of parting, there
is a sense of sadness, a sense of loss, Even when we move about on the surface
of the earth and are parted from our loved ones, there is a certain sadness and
sense of loss, But to so many human beings, mere is such a seeming finality
about what is called death. What is the fundamental cause of that feeling of
loss? We may say it is apparent the ones whom we have loved are not with us any
more in person, and consequently we miss them. But in relationship to that
thought, is it not because there is such a seeming gulf—a thick veil, between
that which is called visible here on the surface of the earth in relationship
to physical things, and a realm here or anywhere which is supposedly invisible.
Human beings put so much store by the outer manifestation, by the appearance.
We recall our Master's words when He said: “Judge not by the appearance.” That
was a command, you know, and in relationship to this particular tragedy there
is an appearance which has caused some to judge a little bit and wonder why, to
speculate. It is not that God would not show us why, but that if we are
disturbed, if we are subject to any of the ill spirits which are so prevalent
in the world, and self-pity is one of them, we cannot understand or comprehend
that which God would reveal.
The physical body is very important. We could not
be gathered here together, associated with each other this afternoon, if it was
not that we had physical bodies. The physical body is given meaning, not by
reason of itself, but by reason of that which is revealed through it, and when
the expression of True Being is made manifest through any human body, that
human body, that human being, becomes meaningful in the world. But the
expression of True Being itself is invisible until the evidence appears in form
by reason of the physical body. The expression of True Being which gives
meaning to any human being, is invisible and we are functioning in relationship
to that invisible pattern constantly, every day. Seemingly the
physical form blinds us to the fact that we have this direct contact with that
which is has seemed to be invisible.
The characteristics of Being
that make an individual life worthwhile, are all invisible things until we
begin to see them by reason of some action, some word, that appears through the
physical form. But once that True Expression of Being is absent from the
physical form, the physical form has no more meaning and consequently there is
a need, decently and in order, to return the substance to the realm from whence
it came, and that is part of our task this afternoon, but to my way of
thinking, only a very small part, for that which has real meaning is the
expression of True Being which is no less a reality now than it was before. If
we insist that there must be the individual human form to make the expression
of True Being meaningful to us, then we are likely to be very sad and distraught.
But when we recognize that the reality of True Being in relationship to each
one of these loved ones is just as real now as it has ever been or as it ever
will be, then our cause for sadness is merely a personal thing to us, that we enjoyed
having our loved ones with us in person, but they are still with us insofar as
the expression of True Being is concerned. And perchance there is a certain sadness
insofar as they are concerned, because they do not have the Instrument, the body
by which they could be with us in person. But that should be the extent of our sadness,
because the Reality is not lost. It is just as surely present now as it ever was.
We have known our Bishop for varying periods of time. He has provided us with leadership.
Leadership! Did you ever see leadership? It is invisible. He has been our
friend. Did you ever see friendship? I do not think so. You may have seen the
evidence of it in form, but the invisible quality is invisible. You have seen a
manifestation. All the characteristics that made Uranda so meaningful to us
were, in fact, invisible, although by reason of his physical form we began to
recognize them. Can we not still recognize them even though the form is no
longer with us?
His
beloved wife, Kathy, one whom we have all loved deeply, revealed to me at
least, and I think to all of you, the expression of True Being, of womanhood as
the expression of God created it to be, just as Uranda revealed the True Being
of manhood as God created it to be. And anyone who knew them, actually knew them, loved them. It would be impossible to
have known them without loving them. Love is an invisible thing. And Albert,
the invisible qualities of Being, of manhood, of faithfulness, of dedication—so
many. I do not enumerate these things—I could not list them in any case—but I
do not innumerate them as some sort of platitudinous eulogy. We know from our own
experience, in our own lives, the reality of them. Meaningful things, yet invisible
things. And the little children. Bill and Sharon, they were moving forward in
the Way of Life, not having yet come to the point of expressing the fulness of
the true qualities of their "Being", but there were evidences of it, precious
evidences of it, invisible things that were taking form and becoming meaningful
on earth. Oh, yes, it is quite true that invisible things need to take form in
this realm of things if they are to have real meaning in this realm of things.
And so it is that we have opportunity of providing form for the expression of
True Being, that which is invisible, for that which is yet with us. We do not
only give honor and pay tribute to these our loves ones just by sharing an hour
of Service such as this. The real tribute is that our lives should continue to reveal
that which we saw exemplified in theirs. And so, this particular Service should
be but a starting point, a starting point leading into unlimited fields of the
revelation of the expression of True Being in form on earth.
God is so good to us. He has given us so much, so many
blessings, let us make sure that those blessings are not wasted. Let us make
sure that the lives of these our loved ones, are not in vain. This, to me, is
the true meaning of our Service this afternoon. This carries the current of the
Spirit of God and allows it to begin to take form on earth in the days to come
with ever-increasing beauty and wonder and glory. And so we are not really
parted from our loved ones. They are here. And do you think that in the True
Expression of Being they are any less interested in the purposes for which their
lives were given when they were here, the purposes of God, the fulfilment of
the purposes of God on earth. Let us not let their lives be in vain. Human
beings have been inclined too much to let our Master’s life to have been in
vain. We do not see very much of the fulfilment of His Promises on earth. Let
us not make the same mistake again, that neither His Life nor the life of our
Bishop and his wife, Al and the children, may have been in vain.
Our most gracious and loving Heavenly Father, we
thank Thee for the privilege of sharing together in the invisible things or Thy
Spirit, that these invisible things may begin to take form and become
increasingly meaningful on earth by reason of our lives, for we know that all
things work together to perfection for those who love and serve Thee, and we
would let our lives be dedicated to that purpose more fully than ever before,
so that we may be in position to become what we ought to be, what Thou didst
create us to be, and to fulfil those purposes for which we came into the world,
to Thy Glory and to the blessing of all who will receive. We thank Thee for the
lives of these our loved ones, their precious lives, so precious to us, and let
us keep them precious and sacred so that the same Spirit which was in them may
be in us, and the same dedication that was in them may ever be our dedication,
that Thy Kingdom, O Lord, may come on earth because it is given form, something
invisible given form, something that is at hand which may be given form. And
Thy Will may be done in earth as it is in Heaven, in the invisible realm. For
Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory forever, IN the Christ. Aum-en.
