In The Fire — Continuum

In  The  Fire  —  Continuum

Grace Van Duzen   September 12, 1999

Initiation—4,000 years ago—a real beginning in history as we know it. There was plenty that went on before that, but Abraham was a great pioneer, and it was the initiation of his ministry which opened the door for everything that followed. The word he received, which was his initiation, was the beginning of a Body.

In his classes, Uranda always emphasized the fact that Abraham accepted a great promise. He was capable of recognizing a great commission. This is true with each of us—or should be. There is a tendency to say, "Oh, not one person, insignificant me." He didn't say that. And what he initiated was the source of the religions we know today. No one of them can take the credit. They all came from that: Jewish, Christian, Muslim. It wasn't the way it was meant to be. It was meant to stay One Holy Thing—and there must come a time when it all comes together. This is the time. The word that Abraham heard was: "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." That's a lot of people!—without number. People may say, "Well, so many people would fit on this earth, and so many have to disappear," and all the rest. Nobody knows.

But my emphasis here is on the word seed. Here was a seed planted. A seed is a marvelous thing. Everything comes from a seed. It may not be one you can hold in your hand, but it comes from a seed. And everything is contained in that seed. It's a miracle. If it's a plant, the leaves, the flowers, fruit, all come from it. And the design is in the seed, the way it grows, everything.

This was true with the seed which Abraham brought. His seed isn't meant here as his children and grandchildren, and so on. "Without number" is true. His great-grandchildren included the twelve sons of Jacob, the children of Israel. No, this is the seed that would be magnified and fill the whole world. It was the same message Uranda heard sixty-seven years ago. Why is it the same message? Why was Abraham's initiation different from all others? Because it wasn't just for him; it was for the Whole Body. Here was the recognition and acceptance of the grand commission that a Body needed to be formed. Through every age and every generation there have been individuals who were attuned to the Lord, and they contributed mightily to what is possible now—every single one, every act of love—but this was a recognition that there had to be a Body.

There was a renewal of that seed 2,000 years after Abraham. Why a renewal? There was failure. But there was also Victory. There was enough substance to allow something to be there 2,000 years later so that the Greatest One of All could come into the earth. There was substance through that first endeavor, or it could not have happened. So I emphasize the victories. Yes, there were failures, and a sad failure. It could have carried all the way through, but something was there for another seed to be initiated. You might say the same seed, in essence, but on the next level of the spiral. And this is what we need to keep in mind: that there is movement, not just from that seed to the next seed, but now in this time.

To me there is a wonder connected with that second seed when our Master came. The wonder that He could come into the earth, of course—but the fact that substance was carried over from the first was shown by the presence of some here on earth who were aware of His coming and ready to welcome Him. And they were from the two extremes of the walks of life. This shows something of the substance that was carried through from the first seed. There were the shepherds of the so-called lowly station—working class?—and they brought the animals. At the other level there were what the Bible calls wise men but in other records are called kings. They brought great wealth with them. It was all there in response to the Lord. There was nothing wrong with any of it—it was there.

Jesus emphasized the Body, the Vine, which He was and Is. There were countless victories throughout the time that was initiated by the Master. Failures, oh yes, but something has been brought to this point 2,000 years later. So we had Jesus 2,000 years after Abraham, and here we are, 2,000 years after Jesus, the seed on the higher spiral. But there isn't time for seeds to be sown over and over. This is it, and it is shown in many ways in the Bible. There are parables. There is one parable of Jesus where he speaks of the last days—last of a certain thing that needed to disappear; not of the earth, not of its people—not if we have anything to do with it. Right?

There were victories as well as failures, not just during the time when Jesus was here but since then in every generation. And today, with our media, there is great emphasis on the wrong things—violence. But there is wonderful response in the Body, we could say the Vibrational Ark—the Vine. These three seeds are actually one seed—necessary initiations to bring something again to focus.

I shall read something from The Vibrational Ark, which was spoken 22 years after Uranda's Initiation, but it was given one month, exactly, before his departure from this realm—delivered on July 4, 1954, and he left on August 4, 1954.

"God planted a garden eastward in Eden. It does not say He transplanted something already formed from another place into the earth. We see those who neglect what God has planted, and with a frenzy try to plant their own seed and cause it to grow, and the seed from God never has a chance to sprout. The seed is already here. It is for us to provide the right atmosphere for its growing. It is for us to dress it, to give it form, to let it grow and come to the point of harvest, and keep it, not throw it away, not let it be meaningless in the days of our yesterdays."

That wording strikes me, "the days of our yesterdays." It is the time of harvest, and a harvest cannot appear without constant growth. The parable refers to the time of harvest, when the seeds that had been planted would come to harvest. There were wonderful seeds planted by the Lord in His fields. Also the devil planted seeds. And it was said that at the time of harvest the harvest for the Lord would be garnered into His barn and the rest would be gathered into bundles and burned in the Fire. A barn may not be a very exotic name. Another name for it is the Temple of the Living God. And the Fire is present in each one. That's where the Fire is. Do we look for it to come from the sky somewhere? The Fire is present and that Fire is Love. Where am I in the Fire? This depends on whether the gathering is into the Lord's Temple or burned in the Fire.

We have heard that there is a core where the Blue Flame is Cool, where man is created to be with God. There is a process of taking care of the dross, but man was never meant to be in that level. It has to do with eating of the forbidden tree. From the Center, the Core, there is heat, and it changes distortions. In the world and in all the Cosmos there has to be some balancing factor, but man's consciousness was never created to be there, but to abide with the Lord at the Core.

So, it is a time of revealing the harvest from the seeds. We are not to get out there and try to decide what the seeds are. We have no idea, none at all. Let them grow to the time of harvest. Let the seeds sprout. Let them grow together. The weeds will come up with the wheat. Then the Fire takes care of it in each one, and all together. Trying to do something about it would, to quote Martin, always make it worse. And it doesn't mean that we're sitting around waiting for something to happen. We are the instruments for God's action.

The Fire is burning. This is the harvest. It is the time of harvest, and I'm sure that that Fire is felt, not as heat necessarily but as an urgency—"I'd better get on with my life, I'd better do something here." There may be a feeling even of not having enough time to finish it. But this is the pressure. Welcome pressure in the Cool of the Fire, in the center of the Flame. And there are many in the world—we don't know how many, and we certainly can't figure it out, or need to—many in the heat of the Flame. It is called hellfire by those who are in it. You know, there is only One Fire. Where I am in it determines the nature of the Fire, and that Fire needs to increase to let the job get done.

I'm going to mention Martin's name in conjunction with Uranda. They were always in complete agreement. I'll go back to this Word at the end of what I quoted from Uranda on July 4, 1954, when he said not to throw it away, or let it be meaningless in the days of our yesterdays. To me, that's the key. It speaks of continuum. It speaks of something that is not sporadic, that is not allowed to lapse or fall down or fail again. This is a time for carrying through in the harvest. It must have meaning in the days of our yesterdays.

This reminds me of the last line in that beautiful 23rd Psalm: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." That has always struck me, and years ago I thought, How can goodness and mercy follow me? Why? God isn't up there, saying goodness and mercy will follow you, now, all the days of your life. Isn't that nice? If something is following me, it has to be there. I must have put it there, if it's going to follow me. There is the continuum. What will follow me is what is trailing after me, what I did yesterday. That is what will follow me. So, do I allow it to carry over?

Anyone can respond and begin, plant the seed, anytime—now. There's no judgment if it took us a while. But the thing is, do we start again tomorrow? Or can it carry over? That is the only way it can grow, the only way the seed can come to harvest, the days of our yesterdays have meaning. And it isn't just hanging on to something, always being tempted. There comes a point where it isn't there—what was a temptation, and the spirit does it. Abiding in that place, there is the continuum. And the result of those words, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life," is: "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever," in the Father's barn, His Temple. Praise the Lord.

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The Mirage World

The  Mirage  World

A  Call  To  Sanity

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Uranda   May 31, 1953  Class

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.

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The Law Works With Terrible Certainty And Exactness

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

from  The  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.

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