I Am Not Limited To These Things
from Shekinah Patterns
Uranda June 30, 1953 Class
You heard My Voice. My Voice—was it the voice of a man, just the voice of a man? Some people thought so. But, if that is all it was you had no business following it, no business turning to see it, no business giving heed to it. Only to the degree that the Voice you hear is the Voice that portrays and conveys the reality of the Shekinah of the Presence of the One Who Dwells, can it be of any real value to you—and the same is true of you. Man takes his voice, his vocal equipment, and undertakes to use it according to his own design, to say what he thinks he wants to say. And out of the imaginations of his evil heart, his mouth speaketh. And he never begins to find out the secret of the creative Word. What is the creative Word? The Word of God. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth by His Word—by His Shekinah. The Word of God, the creative Word of God, is always the Shekinah and the Presence of the One Who Dwells. The sounds of the lips, the sound of a word, has much to do with your relationship to Shekinah; but what is the Word, the Magic Word, the Creative Word, the Creative Word of God?
Think you to take that Creative Word and use it for yourself, your own purposes, your own will? It cannot be done. But you can begin to be the manifestation of that Word. And what is the Word? It is the Shekinah, which is to say, the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells; and the evidence must manifest on the plane where it is to act, the evidence must take form in the realm where it is to achieve something. The evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells that is in some realm that is invisible to us is of no value to us. Until the vibratory factors are connected up, the right patterns of focalization are established, the right creative fields are established, the cycles are initiated, and we begin to let the things of God come down into the earth—the new spiritual vision, the new spiritual power, the new reality of being, begins to come down from God out of Heaven into the earth, to produce something here.
The evidence of the Presence of the One Who Dwells must take form in this world in relationship to the daily affairs of men if it is to have any meaning. Man has been trying to function outside of the Shekinah for so long and he does not accomplish anything worthwhile: he plays childrens' games, but accomplishes nothing. Oh, there are so many good people who accomplish so much according to the standards of the world. But, did they? Only that which allowed to some degree the revelation of the form, the evidence of the Shekinah, has had any real meaning, any real value. To what degree did it take form on earth, here, so that it could have meaning in clearing away the patterns of distortion or evil, and establish the patterns, the beauty, the wonder, the glory, of the Garden which God planted eastward in Eden—in the days of our tomorrows, that we may let it come forth out of the future into the present and take form in our lives and around us. And until we begin to realize this and to remember it all the time, we cannot begin to be what we ought to be. All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not any thing made that was made. And that which is made by Shekinah fits—Divine Wisdom, the sense of the fitness of things.
Talk about knowing Shekinah—you have not even started,
you just have a bare glimpse, just started to begin.
So, let no one delude himself.
Blessed ones, a part of this equipment for the revelation of Shekinah, according to your particular pattern of focalization in the cosmic scheme of things, includes your voice. And, there will be those, when you truly speak, or truly let the Father speak the words, let Shekinah use your vocal equipment—there will be those who begin to hear. The recognition that is produced and brought forth by Shekinah—can you have it if you do not produce in the pattern of Shekinah? If you speak in the pattern of Shekinah there will be those who hear. It is not a question of if, or maybe. There will be those who hear. How long must you speak? When do you expect those who hear your voice to answer, and how? If you have it all figured out—you'll speak this moment, they'll respond the next, they'll recognize you the next, everything will be almost instantaneous, you will achieve great things you will. You will achieve nothing! You will achieve nothing on that basis. If you act for the purpose of securing a specific result you will fail. If you speak for the purpose of securing a specific result you will fail! It will cease to be Shekinah in action, and when you try to produce a substitute, an imitation of Shekinah action and function, you will fail. All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not any thing made that was made. When you let the Shekinah Pattern express through you in word, in deed, in attitude, it will be the right thing.
How many times back along the way have I had human beings reach a point where they thought they could begin to receive the Word of the Lord, to express it, and they would get some idea or other, they would have some realization, and they would say, “Now, I've learned how to let the Spirit work through me, but the Father doesn't tell me that which fits with what Uranda says. Uranda is wrong now. He taught me how to let the Father speak through me, but now he is wrong; because I can get the Word of the Lord myself, and the Word of the Lord says to me that this is the way it is, and that is the way it is, and that person is wrong, and Uranda is off over there, and this and that and the other thing. Suddenly he or she is the center of things, everyone else should come into step with that one; and if everyone does not, why, he or she is insulted. “Well, this is the Word of the Lord.” And yet it does not fit. It is not the Word of the Lord, it is the imaginations of their own evil hearts!
But once you begin to let the Shekinah revelation of the One Who Dwells appear through your voice, there will be those who hear—whether they be here or somewhere else is beside the point. If we limit ourselves to the particular range of the sound of our voices, in the auditory sense, we do not yet know ourselves. Do you think I speak to you alone when I talk here, or that only because it is going onto the tape recording that someone else will hear it some day, or that you will repeat it and express the same idea in the current of the Spirit and someone will hear it? I am not limited to these things. The Voice that speaks to you speaks not to you alone, not merely to those who shall hear by reason of the recording, not merely to those to whom the revelation shall appear because of your voices, but to those who hear with the ear of the heart without respect to time or place or distance. I am not speaking to you alone. And those who are my sheep will hear My Voice, and they will not hearken unto the voice of a stranger. But those who are not my sheep, they will not hear My Voice. They will listen to the voice of strangers and pay the price.
It is not that some are predestined to one position and some to the other. It comes back to the pattern of response. If it is necessary that My Voice be the means by which Shekinah conveys the realities of being to you, then it likewise must be that your ear, your physical ear, your ear of the heart, your ear of the mind, your ear must be the means by which Shekinah conveys understanding to you. If I must speak in these patterns of being, so likewise must you hear in these patterns of being; for if you do not hear in the reality of Shekinah, you will not hear truly. If you hear according to your ideas and concepts and beliefs, then you will not hear what I say, you will only hear what you imagined that I said. If it is necessary to make my words meaningful that they be a revelation of the Shekinah Pattern of the Presence of the One Who Dwells, then it is just as important to hearing, as in speaking, that it be the pattern of the Shekinah in you. And unless you learn to hear in the pattern of Shekinah, you will never learn to speak in it.
You must learn to hear in the Shekinah Pattern of Being first; and then you can learn to speak in it. But you must hear first, and then speak. You must perceive first, and then express. You cannot learn to express and then learn to perceive. Human beings approach what they conceive to be the spiritual realities of life on that basis. They are going to learn to express it and then they will have perception of all the wonders and the beauties. They are going to do something great in speech or word or act, they are going to have the power and expression, and then they will be able to perceive the wonderful and lovely things all around them, because they have produced them. It does not work that way. Man always tries to do things backwards.
Once you begin to realize that you must begin to perceive the things of God, first, the things of the Shekinah Pattern of Being—learn to hear, first—then you can begin to speak, then you can begin to act, then you can begin to express. Blessed ones, you cannot express Shekinah; you must let Shekinah express itself through you. And if you have not yet learned to perceive in Shekinah, you cannot express it. Let it unfold. Move on into the pattern. Let it not be delusion; let it be a matter of increasing awareness. Learn to perceive, learn to hear, learn to feel; and truly learning these things, you will reach a point of truly speaking, truly expressing, truly conveying, that which is the reality of the Presence of the One Who Dwells.
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More Rebuke
Martin Cecil August 28, 1977 p.m.
How very long it has been since the sons and daughters of God presented themselves before the Lord, and Lucifer came also among them—Lucifer, the Bright and Morning Star, the true mind of man revealing the light of God. For millennia now Satan has been ruling on earth through the consciousness of man and the population of the world has been in darkness. Look where we will we find human beings in darkness. We could say they do not have a clue as to what it is that is happening. In the sense of the true understanding of Lucifer they are unconscious. I’m sure that all of you have been very much aware of this in your associations with people in general. They go about their affairs in much the same old ruts and they are in darkness, unconscious. Here is the coma state of mankind.
This coma state has prevailed in the world for a long time waiting for the word of life to be spoken. The initial word of life is a rebuke. There are many who might say, “Well that’s not the word of life. That simply puts human beings down deeper into their darkness.” As long as Satan has dominion in the world there will continue to be need for rebuke. You have been learning that the rebuke need not put you down. Probably you’ve had experience of being put down by it but that was because of your own attitude, not because the rebuke was intended to put you down. The rebuke makes it possible for you to rise up, and you have been rising up to the point where you begin to sense identity with the one who delivers the rebuke. Then it is no more a rebuke to you but you recognize that it is a rebuke to other human beings because they persist in their association and identification in the human state of consciousness. It isn’t a matter of going around telling all and sundry about hell and damnation. There has to be a certain gentleness.
But we seek the opportunity of rebuking Satan quite forcefully when we can maneuver him out from hiding behind some human being. If in rebuking Satan forcefully we clobber a human being in the process, we have been inclined to see this as failure. We should have more ingenuity than that. If it is possible for me to begin to speak more forcefully to those who are gathered in the Chapel here, in the current of rebuke, it is only because there are more who are present who share with me in offering the rebuke. In other words Satan has to this extent been maneuvered out of the way so that together we might dispose of him by forceful rebuke. What a wonderful day this is as it becomes possible! You may have an awareness of how you have protected Satan, and perhaps some of you still do in various ways, so that you would not allow the angel of the Lord to get at him—you stood in between. Of course Satan is adept at maneuvering human beings so that this is the case. Then the angel of the Lord has to restrain the forceful action until the individual willingly gets out of the way.
We’ve often spoken of drawing a line on earth, something clear-cut. When there is something clear-cut in this way then Satan can be consumed in a moment. As he is consumed in a moment, insofar as our own experience is concerned, then the angel of the Lord is present and able to work the will of the Lord freely. As long as Satan is present with the human being in between it usually means that we have to wear kid gloves if the person in between is not to be destroyed.
There is no question that the power of God could deal instantly with the situation, but if He did who would be left? Satan can only be reached through human beings because they entertain him. Perhaps there begins to be a situation in the Chapel here in this moment when we could deal with Satan because we are with one accord in one place. So far it has never really been so. There were always those present who were spreading their coats so as to keep Satan on hand but not all that much visible. He has found hiding places. So when the sons and daughters of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan came also among them. More recently however we haven’t listened to his blatherings quite so much. At the time of Job, Satan was the only one who had anything to say, and so everything went his way. But now how is it? Would you say that the power of God could be brought to bear directly upon Satan in forceful rebuke without hurting you? I have always had to approach this necessity with the very greatest care. I have no desire to hurt anyone, but I don’t give a damn for Satan. If you do, then we are not quite in agreement yet and so there is no clear-cut line.
There is a verse in the Epistle of Jude in connection with the dispute that arose between the Archangel Michael and the devil about the body of Moses. The archangel didn’t bring a railing accusation against the devil. He simply said, “The Lord rebuke thee.” There was indication that rebuke is certainly the way to handle the situation. But I think in this story about the dispute over the body of Moses it is usually considered to be a dispute over the dead body of Moses. No, the dispute is over a living body. This dispute occupied about eighty years of Moses’ life, right up until the time when he returned into the land of Egypt and confronted Pharaoh. Even right at the end there, he was inclined to agree with the devil and present some excuses as to why he couldn’t do what he knew very well he was going to do. So the dispute is over a living body, in the sense that there is life still in the carcass.
We have the body of mankind these days—there is life still in the carcass. So there is a dispute as to whether this body of mankind shall be for the use of the Lord or for the use of the devil. Of course the devil has had his own way for a long time and there was little evidence of any real dispute in the matter. But now perhaps the picture is changing some because of all of us here, and others. We are reaching a point where we begin to understand what this business of rebuke is all about. It has been a long time coming. We are rebuking the devil over the body of mankind in this dispute, that the dominion that the devil has been exercising by reason of human beings on earth may be finished. It’s about time—it bas been going on for quite a while. Don’t you agree? But it is quite a serious business. It isn’t a matter of playing games.
Human beings in their present state have remained very childish. The whole state of mankind has been childish, and it has been evil. “Deliver us from evil”; deliver us from childishness, deliver us from the lack of true maturity, spiritual maturity. “Deliver us from evil”—that is said to be the Lord’s prayer. It is rather a prayer of human beings to the Lord. But how shall there be a deliverance from the evil of this incomplete and childish state? Only as there is a means of extending the rebuke, only as there is a means by which the Archangel may rebuke the devil in this dispute over the body of mankind.
The means by which the devil has held the body of mankind is through the consciousness of that body. The body itself has no particular choice in the matter. It goes whichever way the consciousness goes. So this dispute takes place in the consciousness of the body of mankind, the consciousness which has been the realm of dominion of the devil. There is indication at one point in the Book of Revelation that there was war in heaven. The consciousness of mankind is supposed to be the realm where heaven may abide. It has been the realm where heaven has been absent and in varying degrees hell has been present. It has never been completely hell in the consciousness of mankind because at that point mankind and the consciousness of mankind would have ceased to exist. There has been complete hell individually speaking, so that the individual has vanished, but the devil has held sway in the consciousness of mankind. So if there is to be salvation from this state the line must be drawn in the consciousness of mankind. Here is the field of confrontation with the devil.
We can’t wage a holy war of some kind physically speaking and gain a victory. A victory over what? That gives the victory to the devil. No, the realm of warfare, if you want to put it that way, is the consciousness of mankind where the devil has held sway, and his rule may be disputed when the Archangel is provided with the means by which he may enter the consciousness of mankind. He has been kept out so far but we are beginning to recognize our responsibility of providing the means for His entrance into the consciousness of mankind. We do it together, but we do it individually, and we have noted that it is an individual matter of meeting the issue in the moment, of rebuking the devil when he puts in an appearance in our own immediate experience in consciousness.
This is war in heaven—described that way in the Book of Revelation. There is war in heaven in the sense that there is a dispute over the body of mankind. This dispute is beginning to put in an appearance. There was no dispute for a long time. There were little forays into the consciousness of mankind here and there along the way—we know something about that—but this is it. We could say, this is it or else. So there is war in heaven. Michael and His angels fought—I trust some of those angels are sitting here; there are others in other places—against the dragon and his angels. You know what happened, what must happen, if the Archangel is present with his angels. The dragon doesn’t have a chance, because the action takes place at a level that the dragon is incapable of reaching; he is ambushed from above. There is war in heaven. Michael and His angels are fighting against the dragon and the dragon is fighting with his angels; but the dragon and his angels prevail not. That is a foregone conclusion if Michael and His angels are on hand to get the job done. They “prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven,” that is in the level of control in human consciousness. The control passes into the hands of Michael and his angels.
As this actually happens then the job is finished in fact, even though there may be a period of time when it is proving itself out, because obviously there are a lot of things to happen. “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.” And we see these frantic endeavors going on in the world to try to solve all these knotty problems. All that happens is the knots get tighter, nothing is solved; everybody is trying to mind everybody else’s business. But if there are the angels of the Lord present, minding the Lord’s business, there is a force in the world which cannot be successfully prevented from doing what it will do. And all the angels of the Lord in human form have a part to play in this.
But it isn’t such a grandiose part, at the start anyway. It is simply meeting the issue moment by moment in the living of one’s own personal life so that the rebuke is extended there. Because the angel does this it is being done within the range of the consciousness of mankind. The devil is in the process of being cast out of this particular area of control. There needs to be consideration on the part of each one presumably as to how much you still protect the devil, allowing him to push you around through your human consciousness, through your earthly consciousness, the consciousness that is the result of earthly heredity. Michael and His angels appear and are active in the consciousness of mankind when there are those who have acknowledged and have accepted heavenly heredity, have accepted that as being everything—nothing else is required. All the elements that are present in earthly heredity are going to be rebuked one by one. It needs 144,000 people to cover the field, to rebuke everything that needs to be rebuked. After all, there is quite a store of it, isn’t there, after all these millennia of earthly heredity. So the dragon is cast out to a level of function where he can still claim some vestiges of control.
“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” It has been going on day and night for ages. There is an inclination for human beings everywhere to align themselves with the accuser and accuse each other. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,” by spiritual expression in living, not by theorizing about it or spouting principles. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.” A goodly proportion of the words of testimony will be rebuke, won’t they—words of rebuke. There may be some other words too but if you are taking care of your own state of consciousness I’m sure there will be some quite frequent words of rebuke.
“And they loved not their lives unto the death.” Well we no longer presumably function in the human state of consciousness, loving to do that, because, for one thing, we recognize that it is going to kill us. If we keep on going that way we are dead. So we love not our lives unto the death anymore. We love life as it really is, and life as it really is is eternal, so there is no death involved. “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea,” those who are polarized in earthly heredity. This relates to physical experience and mental experience. Woe unto those who are subject to earthly heredity, “for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” We understand why he only has a short time and we see the wrath all over the place. There are some people who become fearful of the wrath; things are breaking down; law and order may collapse. We can speculate about a lot of things. There is always a lot of human trash who are waiting for an opportunity to have a free hand in the society which no longer exists; so there is always a great deal of concern when the matter of gun laws comes up, because most people feel that they have no other protection than by a gun. But if it gets to that point, that you have no other protection than a gun, you are in a bad way because someone else has got one too; and from our standpoint it would indicate a failure.
When the Archangel Michael and His angels have cast the devil out of heaven then the control is in heaven. There is the control. You have all experienced something of this control in a rather limited and restricted way thus far. There has been an enfoldment, a protection present. But as angels of the Lord we have in the kingdom the power, and the consequence of the expression of the power permits the evidence of glory. It is not a very glorious thing to anyone who comes up against that power but it is a very glorious thing from the standpoint of the achievement of Divine Purpose. The job gets done this way. We need to allow our spirit of rebuke to be so consistent in our own areas of responsibilities, which is done in our own consciousness, that we come to understand the operation of the creative power; we have experience of its working; we know the ordinances of heaven and we are capable of setting the dominion thereof in the earth.
If we move as we should, without delay, we find ourselves in position all along the way to handle whatever it is that arises; we have learned how to handle it. We handle it in our own consciousness. Some of this was certainly made vividly evident in the Master’s ministry on earth. While, necessarily, anything He did was dependent upon response, He nevertheless revealed mastery in many fields. What has been recorded has come to be looked upon as miraculous but it was natural on the basis of His mastery. What was achieved was achieved on the basis of what occurred in His own consciousness. Usually it is looked upon as though somehow He projected, zapped, someone and there was healing. Well there was a zapping all right, which extended to the person, but it was initiated in His own human consciousness, the level where the angel must work that it may be a heaven, a holy place. And this same operative principle related to His resurrection—the consciousness changes; the body changes.
So Michael and His angels, being present in the heaven, within the human consciousness of mankind, provide the control point with respect to what occurs in the whole body of mankind. Now the devil still has some leeway a little lower down the line. He throws his weight around. He has great wrath because he knows he has but a short time, and the shorter the time we give him the better. The days are shortened for the elect’s sake because the elect are present to shorten the days. They will certainly need to be shortened, so we need to be on the ball quickly. In this fashion we discover within the range of human consciousness all that we are here to do. What we have been looking at with respect to the matter of rebuke is in a sense just a first step in doing what has to be done and we use this step because it is available to us immediately, and I think we have reached a point where we can begin to understand what the step is.
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Perfection and righteousness go hand in hand. Perfection is revealed when there is an angel on hand who is capable of making right use of everything just the way it is; not requiring some arbitrary perfection with respect to everything, because that is a human concept anyway—it doesn’t mean anything. The perfection is the perfection of the expression of the angel rightly handling everything that comes up, even the things that are evil, incomplete, childish, in the state of one’s own consciousness. The evil doesn’t prevent perfection, because the perfection is the right handling of the evil. No one can ever find an excuse with respect to circumstances. Be ye therefore perfect in expression, in handling things. And it doesn’t matter what comes up.
Everything is going to come up to be handled in your own consciousness. If there is a problem in someone else’s consciousness and that person comes to you in order for this problem to be handled you can’t handle it without letting it into your own consciousness, can you? If you just sit there and say, “I don’t want to hear it,” you are not going to be able to do anything about it. So it has to come into your own consciousness and it is there that you handle it. It is not as though you can say to the person in whom the problem is, “Well you do this, that and the other thing and it will be all right.” You handle it in your own consciousness so that you may provide an open door for that individual by which he may begin to take responsibility for handling it in his own consciousness. This was the inspiration that the Master offered, because if ultimately anything was to happen for the other person that person had to take the responsibility for the happening. As the Master put it, “Thy faith hath made thee whole.”
So we are called to be perfect because we rebuke all the evil things that come up. That is part of the business of being perfect, being right, making right use of this thing that came up. People imagine that they have to go here or there to find out what it would be to be perfect, to be divine. It doesn’t matter where a person is; there are always things to be rightly used arising in consciousness. So do it, that’s all. Stop fussing about being here or there—it makes no difference. Those who put so much store by the circumstances as though there were some intrinsic importance in them, so that they go chasing after different circumstances, find that it becomes progressively more difficult to face the thing in their own consciousness. They have been running away from it and they have been using the circumstances to run away from it. The chance to understand is with the experience now, whatever it is. If you don’t use that you are not going to use something else somewhere else. A person can spend his whole life chasing shadows and die in his sins. That is disobedience.
So we rejoice in the opportunity of being perfect, of allowing right use to be made of everything that arises in our consciousness. This is only possible to the angel. So we must accept the attitude, the outlook, the fact of being the angel; and one can only accept that for oneself. When it is accepted the rebuke is offered naturally where it is needed. While I have emphasized rebuke, because it is really the first thing, as we are successful in rebuking what may be present we find that the rebuke pushes those things further away from us so that we have more space to be occupied by other aspects of the required creative action. But if the space isn’t there, we can’t let the required creative action come into it and we don’t know what it is. We always have to do something to let something happen.
It is the rebuke that gives you more space in which to work, more space for the angel to come forth, more space for the creative action in the heaven, in the holy place, a greater awareness of the ordinances of heaven that are present in any given moment, and an increased ability to set those ordinances in the earth. All this comes through experience, through actually letting it happen, not through thinking about it or meditating upon it, or arguing about it, discussing it with somebody, which occupies so much of human consciousness, doesn’t it? That is when the devil has dominion. So let us accept the role of one who rebukes, that we may increase available space within our own consciousness to encompass what needs to be encompassed in the creative expression of ourselves on earth.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Transform The Pneumaplasmic Body Of The World
Martin Cecil April 20, 1955 Class
After reading Uranda's Class transcript from January 28, 1952
There is something I wish to draw to your attention in relationship to the pneumaplasmic body. We have in our diagrams illustrated this point—with the human being at center and the pneumaplasm all around. There is more to a human being than a little circle like that. The human being is a very complicated organism. You are studying in your anatomy class some of the physical factors, and certainly you will have the realization that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. All right, in just the same way, do not assume that this pattern of pneumaplasm around here is just some sort of undifferentiated fluid, any more than the body is. It has within it the patterns that are coming from God through the action of the Christ spirit upon the pneumaplasmic substance. Because the human concept with respect to spirit has been so vague, the idea may have developed that the pneumaplasmic substance is something that is not differentiated.
We might take note of the fact that there is form on every level of being. There is form in spirit. Insofar as we are concerned, in relationship to our recognition of form out here, it is not form; but where there is function at the level of spirit it is form. That which is form to us is form simply because it is manifesting at the level where we are, but there is form at every level of being. When we realize that man was created in the image and likeness of God, and we find in man a very complicated organism, then we recognize that there are complicated patterns in Deity. It is not just some vague radiance, but is of a nature that allows the establishment in pneumaplasm of definite patterns. Uranda mentioned the silver cord, and indicated that it was a focalization of pneumaplasm—a specific focalization of pneumaplasm, designed to accomplish a specific purpose, and to provide the central connecting link between spirit and the form of the physical body. It is composed of pneumaplasm, but it is focalized into a specific form for a specific purpose. We find the same principles operating all the way through, so that the patterns in pneumaplasm are just as complicated as the patterns we find in the physical body itself. We need to make sure that we do not have this usual human concept with respect to things that are invisible: that somehow or other it is just a vague, undifferentiated spiritual substance. It is not.
The substance itself is of a certain nature, but when it is focalized into definite patterns, it takes on the nature that is required in relationship to the patterns that are focalized, in just the same way that, as you have been studying, in the physical body, there is tissue—but there are bones and organs and skin, hair, etc. All different kinds of organs are produced by living tissue; so also in pneumaplasm. And we recognize that pneumaplasm is generated from physical substance—it is not a spiritual projection. Pneumaplasm is generated out of physical substance. In other words the generation of pneumaplasm is in this direction—outward from physical substance. I don't mean that simply from the standpoint of outward from the physical body. There is lots of substance inside the physical body, and pneumaplasm is generated outward from every point of physical substance; every cell, shall we say, is generating pneumaplasm in all directions, so it is all throughout the physical body, even though it does extend beyond the physical body. But the generation itself is outward from the physical substance, therefore what we might call the depth of pneumaplasm—and again, we are speaking of it not in the sense of physical depth, not something you can measure with a yardstick, but depth in relationship to spirit, in the direction of spirit. We could say inwards, but then again we do not necessarily mean inside the body—the depth of the pneumaplasm is determined by the extent of its generation from and through the physical body.
Now if the individual is subject to all the ill patterns that are present in this fallen world, so that the pneumaplasmic layer which is closest to the individual, closest to the external expression, is continually muddied up and distorted, then there is a very small layer beyond that point which can be acted upon effectively by the Christ Spirit; and we can see how it is that then the generation of pneumaplasm diminishes to such an extent that, consequent upon the draining away of the substance in the wrong expression of life, this periphery of the pneumaplasm will gradually shrink and become smaller and smaller.
And as it becomes smaller the proportion of the pneumaplasm that is affected by the distortions becomes larger in relationship to the whole of the pneumaplasm that is present at the particular moment. We can only affect a very small layer here. And if the pneumaplasm reaches out to here there is a very large scope of pneumaplasm upon which and in which the Christ Spirit can work and act. But as there is a draining away of the pneumaplasm, as there is a cessation of generation, this periphery shrinks in, and when it comes down in here, well there is less than half of it, on the scale I have drawn there, that is capable of being acted upon by the Christ Spirit, and it is not surprising then that under those conditions the individual finds that he has very much less life. So there are these various factors which we need to recognize in relationship to this consideration with respect to pneumaplasm.
Let us turn now to the group, rather than the individual. As long as humanity continues to live on earth there will be a pneumaplasmic body for humanity as a whole. As soon as that pneumaplasmic body no longer exists there is no more life in humanity and there is no more humanity. So there is this body which includes everyone, and it is through the working of the influences of the wrong kinds of spirits in this body that we have such a confused and chaotic condition made manifest in the world as it now is, and as it has been for a long time.
We could use this illustration and consider that this central circle is the world body of humanity which is contained in a pneumaplasmic body, a pneumaplasmic body the underside of which is very thoroughly disrupted with all kinds of distorted patterns generated by man. As long as we remain under the control of the mass pneumaplasmic body we are of no value to God. The mass pneumaplasmic body is maintained in relationship to human beings through their subjection to it. We find that when we are a part of that mass we function in the way that is established on the basis of the patterns of that mass body.
We may move from one place to another; we may come out of one specific pattern in one specific place and we may move to another country or to another place and come into another aspect of this pneumaplasmic body, which includes all of humanity. But it is all a part of that one pneumaplasmic body and we can move around in it as much as we like, we can change position in it so as to endeavor to find some place in which we feel we belong more particularly, but moving around within the scope of the pneumaplasmic body that is established for the whole of humanity accomplishes nothing actually—we are still within the scope of the control of this as a whole. We can see clearly in this consideration of the whole how it is that there are many differentiated patterns in the pneumaplasmic body. We have only to look around the world from country to country, within countries, within communities, within families, to find differentiations in the pattern of the mass pneumaplasmic body, which illustrates something, although it is on the wrong basis, something that is produced by man, of the complicated patterns that are in the individual pneumaplasmic body.
So we have this mass pneumaplasmic body, and as long as we are in it, as long as that is our control, the basis of control in our lives, we are accomplishing nothing, no matter how hard we try—that is, nothing insofar as God is concerned. No matter how hard we try, struggle and strive, we are just a part of this fallen body of mankind which is controlled through the distortions in its own pneumaplasmic body. As long as we share in that we will be controlled by the distortions in that body.
I don't know whether you have ever found yourself in a crowd of people, at perhaps a political meeting, and there was some particularly vehement orator present who was whipping up the emotions and producing a pattern of control in relationship to the pneumaplasmic body of that group of human beings. If you have been in such a position, either there or maybe in some religious pattern or other, you know that it is difficult not to move with the crowd. It is far easier for a demagogue to control a crowd than to control the individual human being, because of this mass pneumaplasmic body—working through that, appealing to the distortions that are present in that body one way or another, and engendering feeling in relationship to those distortions. The individuals become thoroughly subject to that group pneumaplasmic body and on that basis you have lynchings and one thing and another. Human beings do things that they would never do individually. There is an illustration of the manner in which human beings are controlled through the group or mass pneumaplasmic body. That is something that is happening all the time insofar as it relates to the whole body of humanity, because all people are in it and it is being manipulated one way or another all the time. Human beings conceive themselves to be independent of course, but in fact they are being swayed and moved according to the extent of the pressure or the control that is exerted through that mass pneumaplasmic body. Well, as long as we remain in it we are going to be moved this way and that. We may not like it in one particular part of that pattern so we move to some other, but we are still in the pattern.
Our problem, then, insofar as this ministry is concerned, is to draw human beings out from under that pneumaplasmic blanket which covers the whole human race. Once we begin to accomplish this end with an adequate group we have something outside of this pattern, something which can then begin to act in relationship to the pneumaplasmic body of mankind, something that can begin to establish a control on the right basis in relationship to that pneumaplasmic body. Here we see that it is quite possible to accomplish the task to which our hand is set in the name of our King, without a very great number of human beings. Your physical body moves and acts, functions, through the control which is focalized primarily in the head, in a very small geographical area so to speak, including a very limited amount of substance, and the whole human body, your individual body, moves on the basis of the control that is thus exerted. We can see that the same principle may operate in relationship to the whole body of mankind.
When we have a service there is the necessity of functioning in harmony with these principles so that there is the coming together outside of the controls established by the mass pneumaplasmic body, so that the pneumaplasmic body of the group may be acted upon by the spirit of God, so as to establish the controls and the patterns that derive from the spirit of God. The individuals concerned then share in that enfolding pneumaplasmic body which is under the control of the spirit of God, and to the degree that they stay in it, a part of it, and do not violate the principles of reality, so that there are no reactionary attitudes or currents appearing later, it will be maintained and we begin to have the basis for the restoration of a focalization of human beings into the pattern according to the Divine Design.
As that focalization develops and grows under the influence and the control of the established pneumaplasmic body, then we begin to have that which can act in relationship to the pneumaplasmic body of the world of humanity, something that can begin to establish a control there on the right basis—because all human beings are under the control on the wrong basis now. It is not as though they were going to be brought under control in fact; it is that they are to be brought under the right control—for the mass pneumaplasmic body provides the basis for the control that is exercised in relationship to human beings the world around, whether they realize it or not. So it is not a matter of trying to get human beings to come under control. It is a matter of so functioning that we have the facilities here on earth with which to act in relationship to the already established pneumaplasmic body of the world of mankind so as to change the pattern of control in relationship to human beings in general. And in this process it does not require everyone on the face of the earth to realize what is happening. They do not realize what is happening now with respect to the wrong control patterns that are established.
There are those who are very cognizant of the fact that they are under some sort of evil human control—many millions of people in the world are in that condition—but most of the people in North America, for instance, are very little aware of it. There is the consideration that it is a free country. Oh yes, there are freedoms, and we rejoice in such freedoms as there are, but human beings are controlled and moved and influenced all the time, constantly, by the mass pneumaplasmic body. It is obvious when you stop to examine it. And that control and influence that is now exerted in relationship to humanity as a whole is not very constructive. We can observe that too. It is well that there should be a change in that regard, to the point where the truly constructive patterns of control might be established by God on the basis of the influence that is exerted upon the world pneumaplasmic body. But it cannot be so exerted until there are those who have come out from under its control. As long as human beings let themselves be drawn out for a little while and then go dodging back in again as soon as the group focalization is relaxed, we have nothing, we can accomplish nothing.
We accomplish something to the degree that you come together into agreement,
with one accord in one place.
For instance, now, something is accomplished to the degree that you are letting it be so, to the degree that you are thereby letting the influence of the spirit of God act upon your group pneumaplasmic body. But if there is a scattering, there begins to be a reaction to this, that and the other thing, and the individual stirs up the underside of his own individual pneumaplasmic body again, immediately he has correlating points with the world pneumaplasmic body and he is back in it, and we have no means of providing that pattern of influence and control. In the blueprint in Revelation it indicates the necessity for 144,000—the essential pattern of control can then operate in relationship to the world body of humanity through the pneumaplasmic body of the mass—but it requires the 144,000. That is a very small percentage of the total population of the world!
The development of the point of that 144,000 is a comparatively easy thing once we have the establishment of that which is providing a group pneumaplasmic body outside of the world pneumaplasmic body—something that we have as yet not accomplished. It appears for a few moments sometimes, to a certain degree at least, and then tends to be dissipated, and the individuals come back and begin to function on the basis of the old controls that operate through the mass pneumaplasmic body, and then we have nothing outside of it. Until we have something outside of it we cannot act on it.
Here we see some of the basic principles which relate to our ministry, relate to the accomplishment of the greater works, so that we may let ourselves be drawn out of the mass pattern because we allow the underside of our individual pneumaplasmic bodies to be cleared so that there are no correlating points there with the mass pneumaplasmic body—but simply, it is open wide to correlate with the Christ Spirit which is coming from God. When that is so, God has the beginning point, the starting point whereby He may accomplish that which is needful in the world.
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