Many times Uranda urged us to: “Remember these things.” The phrase brings to mind familiar words from Ecclesiastes. “Remember now thy creator.” Remember these things. “Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when ye shall say, I have no pleasure in them.” Some spend their youth thinking the evil days will never draw nigh, and so come to the latter days of life with an awareness that there is remembering yet to occur. The word is “Remember now”—and now partakes of eternity, so remember now. Evil simply means incomplete; so, remember before we reach the end of our incarnation without completing the purpose for the incarnation, and so we don’t have the fulfillment naturally known at the climax of the cycle of incarnation. “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.” All four levels of Being are indicated. Let us not come to the end of our incarnation before all four levels are fulfilled. “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
“Remember now” and “Remember these things” also suggests: Re-member now and Re-member these things. In these latter days of fulfilment there is a remembering, and the re-membering is of the One Spirit and the One Body. Remember the fulfillment of the One Body and not merely the fulfillment of the individual. We have a part in the re-membering of the One Body, as a member of the Body of many members that is in a process of development—its membership is yet evil or incomplete. But as I contribute to the life of the Body, allowing the members of my consciousness, the vessels of the Temple of this individual body, to be used in the formation of this larger Body, I experience the fulfillment. Remembering also relates to the One Law. Emphasis has been placed on proper polarity in consciousness relative to the operation of the One Law. Remember thy Creator is one way of saying remember the One Law—the Positive radiation phase and the Negative response phase of the Creator in action. Re-membering relates to each member of the One Body functioning in right polarity with all other ones in the Body on earth, all of which comes to an apex of focus in the LORD of Lords. Polarized rightly with Him, and keeping right polarity with one another, the One Law is obeyed in daily interactions.
All of the weariness, sorrow, pain and lack of fulfillment in life comes because of a failure to maintain right polarity, attunement, within the Law. Here are a few words by Uranda: “I never feel any sense of weariness with respect to the doing of the Father’s Will, the fulfillment of the Plan or what we are here for, but sometimes I feel what may be called an overwhelming sense of tiredness with respect to struggle, and the cross currents, and the lackadaisical functions of those who are supposed to be participating in this Unit fulfillment.” When positive and negative are fused in Love, a unit of power is present and a current flows. One aspect of the current is the generation of light, and another is the manifestation of an atmosphere of rest and peace. There must be those who remember these things, who allow the positive functions and the negative functions, and each one can play either part at different times according to the configuration of members or angels involved, and the needs of the moment.
Let’s consider the Ark of the Covenant as outlined by Uranda in his papers on The Shekinah Fire (1953). An incident is recorded where the Ark was being returned to Jerusalem by King David, and one of his men reached out to steady the Ark. He wasn’t properly polarized with the current of power and he was instantly killed. This experience enlarged David’s awareness of the focus of power manifest in the Ark, “And he was much troubled. So he arranged to leave the Ark in the home of a man nearby and David returned to Jerusalem. But it was reported to him after three months that the man in whose home the Ark had been left had been very greatly blessed of the Lord, and so David determined to go and get the Ark and bring it to Jerusalem, which he did.” Rather than leave the Ark and the blessings in this one man’s home, David brought the Ark to Jerusalem and placed it in the Temple so it could be a blessing to all the people. “Wherever the Shekinah Fire is allowed to actually manifest and to be maintained in manifestation, the blessings of the Lord are abundant. If one attempts to so function that he may cause the manifestation of the Shekinah Fire in order to get such blessings, he will of course fail.” The blessings are the evidence of the Presence of the Lord.
“In the expression of life, the revelation of life, we have actually the expression, or revelation, of the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells—the One who dwells in your body, the One who dwells insofar as the Unit or group pattern is concerned, the One who dwells insofar as the whole earth is concerned, and the One who dwells insofar as heaven and earth are concerned.” So we see that there are many focalizations of the One, everywhere present—lower and higher focalizations, and at any apex point that One contains in essence everything that is found in all the points of focus in the vibrational levels below. In our realm, the One is present wherever there is an angel incarnate as a man or a woman who allows a focus of spiritual expression, and blessings accrue in the home of that one, whether it be the individual home, or the Archangelic Body home, or the national home, or the global home, or the solar home, or the universal home. “The significance of the One Who Dwells, whom our Master on earth spoke of as the Father, is that there is no limitation to the realm of His dwelling—the One who dwells in all, through all, and above all.” Remember thy Creator. Re-member who you are—in the body of human incarnation, as an angel in this Archangelic Body formation that is now being re-membered.
“Let us consider for a moment the particular pattern or design which was utilized in relationship to the Ark of the Covenant.” Remember the One who provides the positive pole, while our Temple consciousness is to provide the negative pole in response to the Inner One. If we violate that complementary arrangement, there is no true home and no atmosphere of home, there no power and no light—everything goes dark. “If therefore the light that is in thee is be darkness, how great is that darkness!” The well-being and blessing, such as was experienced by the man in whose home the Ark was left, is not known. “Let us consider for a moment the particular pattern or design which was utilized in relationship to the Ark of the Covenant: the two cherubim, one standing at each end of the ark, and between them the mercy seat.” Here we pause and acknowledge the mercy of the Lord. Perhaps you have heard an Islamic benediction along these lines, “In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent. Praise be to the Lord of all worlds. Peace be upon you with the mercy and blessing of Allah.” Since the fathers fell asleep, the Lord of all worlds has extended His mercy and forgiveness. Remember now thy Creator.
Two cherubim, two angels—you and me—one standing at each end of the Ark, with the Mercy Seat in between, as the upper part of the Ark, which suggests the head, the seat of the pineal and the pituitary glands. Two cherubim—it could be any two—any angel in right polarity with any other angel anywhere on earth—many angels participating in the formation of the Body. These are the cherubim, one at each end of the Ark, a positive point and a negative point, with the current flowing and pulsing back and forth and all around; and something happens above the Mercy Seat—which represents the mercy of the Lord relative to those factors on earth which have transgressed the Law. When those who have transgressed come responsively within the influence of the Ark and the cherubim, come into that atmosphere, the experience of mercy is available and may be known. Drawn into a pattern of right polarity, the transgressions, the sins, are forgiven and mercy is received. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5:7)
We were told by the Master that there is only one sin—not many sins but one sin. He said that the Comforter would come and he would reprove the world, “Of sin, because they believe not on me.” In other words, the only sin is to be wrongly polarized relative to the One I Am, out of polarity with the One Who Dwells, everywhere, at all levels of Being—but in this context speaking of the Master, the One Who is the focus point for this seven-dimensional world, the LORD of Lords: you don’t know Who I Am and you are not in right polarity with Me, therefore you are transgressing the Law all the time and you can never know fulfillment, and you depart at the end of life with a sense of futility. The only way to know fulfillment is to know Me, come into Oneness with Me, fulfill the Law, and know yourself as a cherubim at either end of the Ark, with the Mercy Seat between you and another, and with the current of life and blessing flowing. This provides a magnetic focus—compelling and attractive. When someone sees that light glowing in the heaven above the Mercy Seat, they may well pause to see this great sight—the fire and the light and the bush that is not consumed. It is a spiritual fire so it isn’t necessarily seen with the outer eyes, but it is felt in consciousness, and the responsive one starts walking toward that light. That is attractive, and it is perceived spiritually. The magnetic force draws, and the individual is brought heart-to-heart within the field of the Lord’s mercy. The Master spoke these words: “Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house.” With the Law fulfilled, the House of Being is filled with the Glory of Home.
“Individually we have that which is spoken of as the pineal gland, which forms the centering in the human body of the Shekinah Fire, the central place of light, surrounded by the cloud … and the two halves of the brain are symbolized by the cherubim… And in the midst of the cloud there is the glowing light.” The atmosphere begins to intensify and wonderful things take place—consciousness lights up. “And in the midst of the cloud there is the glowing light, or the Shekinah Fire; and to the degree that the body yields to the presence of the One Who Dwells, the reality of the manifestation of the fire and the cloud increases. So whenever the Law is fulfilled, to whatever degree it is fulfilled, so long as life remains and the functional processes are possible, we have the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells.” Remember who you are; re-member this Christ Body; remember your point of polarity in the Ark of Agreement between angels on earth; and remember that this agreement provides a beacon, also described as the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, made available by human beings who remember that they are here to help others remember who they are as points of light. When we forget, we sin, and the only sin is to forget who I am and forget the agreement; and so the cloud diminishes, the light grows dim, the fire dies down, and the house grows dark—no longer a Temple of Light. “We are supposed to let this evidence appear in relationship to the fulness of being on a higher or spiritual scale, as well as in body and mind and heart.”
“We wish to emphasize the fact that the body, of the man or the woman, or of the child, 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; for wherever there are stress patterns in the vibrational factor, at any level, the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells is withdrawn.” There must be a greater passion present which doesn’t allow feelings to be misinterpreted, but knows such stresses are simply the creative pressure of the Spirit doing its work of regeneration—a passion which doesn’t allow a forgetting or misinterpretation of what is really going on, because when the Presence is forgotten and ignored, and the individual steps out of right polarity, out of position on one end of the Ark that I am responsible for maintaining with many other angels in this process of restoration which is draws everyone who will come to that light that is sensed spiritually on earth. “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.”
“This manifestation is something which must be allowed to grow.” It is developing and we now have a feeling for how it works. It must be allowed to grow. “It is something which appears in a creative field”—the creative field between me and the LORD of Lords, between someone else and the LORD of Lords, and because of that central agreement these two know agreement with each other, and the manifestation of the evidence of the Presence is allowed to grow in that creative field. “It is something which appears in a creative field and does not manifest in its fulness in the instant.” It does manifest in an instant, but not in its fullness. Each incremental manifestation is absolutely glorious and wonderful; one is forever changed, such is the nature of the transformation in an instant—but it must be allowed to grow in its fullness, allowed to reach the point of fulfillment in its development, which then leads onward to something higher. “When it begins to appear, when the glowing light is first seen, we have evidence that the presence has been there for a considerable period”—we are not emphasizing physical seeing but, rather, seeing with the eye of the heart and with the eye of the mind—“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 or the cloud of glory revealing the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells.”
“As we meditate upon these basic factors
we can begin to appreciate the great significance of the simple words:
Be still and know that I am God.”
“Be still and know that I am God. Generally speaking, human beings are not still enough long enough to permit any real beginning manifestation of the Shekinah Fire. 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 begin to appear as if it were a fire.” These are all phenomena which have outer world counterparts to the Inner world reality of illumination and understanding, of heaven everywhere present. This can only be known and shared with someone who is responsive, who draws close to the evidence of the Presence, where they begin to know and see things in ways they’ve never known and seen before. The point is that there are many people walking toward the Greater Light that they sense is present in the world. We have a responsibility to provide the functioning mechanisms of the Ark, and those who walk responsively toward that Presence are invited to come and sit, and rest, and experience a restoration. “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)
This is attunement—one at each end of the Mercy Seat and the responsive one resting in the currents of renewal. Come unto me—rest upon the Mercy Seat. It happens physically, but the greater essences of the invitation and the response are invisible and vibrational. Wherever angels are in expression this is happening all the time. This is the operation of the One Law, and there are those who draw close in their desire to be cleansed of this one sin, to obtain the forgiveness and the mercy of the Lord. They draw close to the angels who represent the Lord, and come to the place of rest upon the Mercy Seat, and experience the increase of peace and love and life in Temple of Light—and they remember the One. Believe on me. Know me. Be me. Re-member the One Body.
“So it is that sooner or later, somewhere, somehow, we shall surely find among you, or among some people somewhere, those who are willing, yea eagerly willing, to be more concerned about the manifestation of the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells than they are concerned about making evident the expression of their own thoughts and feelings and words and deeds. And when at last there are those who are willing, yea eagerly willing, to be with one accord in one place, and to remain so, there shall surely be the beginnings of the manifestation of the cloud; and within the cloud, finally the beginning of the glowing of the light; and within the light, finally the reality of the fire. And these reveal the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells.”
“When it shall be that human beings, yielding to the spirit of God, shall reach a place where they begin to be in place as angels of God on earth there begins to be established a pattern of polarity, the beginning of the manifestation of a creative field. And under the working of the Law there is the beginning of a glow of the light that glows between these two poles within the creative field. When human beings first begin to feel the glow of the light that glows they imagine they have attained to something great and wonderful, and they have, in the sense of the beginning of things; but generally they do not let it go beyond that point, for at once they begin, as Peter did, to want to use the glow, and the power that they feel in the light that glows”—just the beginning of a new understanding—“for their own purposes, for their own desires. And they may have a little power for a little time, but soon self-centeredness and misuse causes the glow to vanish and the light to disappear. And when the glow is gone and the light is no more, there is a coldness and a hardness and a darkness, that tells of the tomb that is at hand. For it is not only the kingdom of the King of heaven and earth that is at hand. Likewise there is the darkness of the tomb that is at hand.” There is much to be considered and experienced—the richness of the atmosphere of heaven, and the illumination of the mind, which brings the privilege of understanding things that have long been forgotten by most people. But if one gets carried away with the privileges, and the power is misused, well that doesn’t last long and the light goes out, and darkness comes—when there is a personalizing of the gifts of mercy and opportunity, trying to possess love rather than be possessed by love.
“So each must choose for himself or herself the direction in which he shall go, the place to which he shall come: to accept the privilege of learning to be still, ceasing all self-activity, letting the heart be made pure. What was it the Master said? ‘Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God’ … And for those who respond not, the joys and the wonders of the kingdom of heaven shall not be known; or if they be known, if they be touched upon and seen, and such an one does not remain faithful and true, that which was known shall be taken away and such an one shall never know the kingdom of heaven that is at hand. Blessed are they who are willing to relinquish the meaninglessness of human expression, that they may come at last to see the cloud, and within the cloud the light that glows, and within the light the Shekinah Fire, the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells. And from within the fire, the Shekinah Fire, we hear the words: Be still. Be still, and know that I am God.” And perhaps, from within the Fire, we hear the words: Fear not.
Great mercy has been extended, and we come to the realization that we, like others, are also invited to rest upon the Mercy Seat, within the creative field of encompassment that is of a larger order within the One Body and the Whole. Attunement is provided for us as well, that we might experience a restoration of consistent right polarity under the Law; and therefore be in a position to tend with greater wisdom and understanding and clarity, our responsibility in our own immediate creative field, so that others may come and know a restoration when they sit or lie down upon the Mercy Seat that vibrationally we provide, as we keep our Covenant as angels. The mercy of the LORD is immense. But there will come a point when the door of the Ark will be closed for this particular cycle of creative restoration, and those who are responsive will have made the journey Home, and all that is left will be that which refuses to draw near—and another cycle will begin, and a new range of work will be initiated in the heaven at hand
This emphasizes the necessity to remember now one’s position as a cherubim at one end of the Ark, with a creative field that extends in a 360 degree multi-dimensional radius. And there are many other angels with whom I have an agreement—not just one other angel but many other angels. Each of us has many others with whom we share a heavenly covenant; and there is a field established with each one, wherever they may be on earth, whether we know them or not; and there is love and light and glory present—the evidence of the Presence. As angels on earth we never move from our point of right polarity as it is established in the creative field. If, as human beings, we lose polarity, we sin and we deny the LORD, and we let down all those other ones with whom we have said we have an agreement. They depend upon us to hold our point, as we likewise depend upon them—and the LORD depends upon us all. So the Word is: Remember this yoke of right polarity under the One Law. Make available the Mercy Seat. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Remember—and know these things!
One of the basic problems involved in movement along the way of life is to be found in the processes of rejecting, with a very definite rejection, that which is not of reality and accepting that which is of reality with an eager, enthusiastic, openhearted acceptance. We find even among those who are earnest and sincere a tendency to halfheartedly reject those things which are not of the divine pattern and to halfheartedly and lethargically accept those things which are of the truth, which would set them free. The Master said, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." He did not suggest at any time that we could by any of our own efforts or determinations free ourselves. He did not suggest at any time that there was any avenue or means by which man might know true freedom other than by knowing the truth. The one and only way, the way which He emphasized over and over again—if man would be free, free to live life abundantly and gloriously as God designed it—was to know the truth and let the truth make us free.
The human being must so yield to the truth that he permits himself to be made over or be made new. As it is put in the inspiring expression in that blueprint which we call the Book of Revelation: Behold, I make all things new. And the individual must of necessity accept that in relationship to himself in this present life, in this present hour, if he would know the recreative fulfilment of God's will in himself. We must recognize that man can reject the truth, he can refuse to let the truth make him over, make him new; but he cannot make himself new. Only the truth can do that. But if we would reach a point where we may experience such fulfilment we must of necessity know the truth. It is not enough merely to hear about the truth, not enough merely to believe some idea or concept. It is essential that we come to know the truth; for no human being can experience the liberating power of the truth until he or she begins to know the truth.
The process of knowing is experienced only with the development of a sense of oneness-with, which we call love. We cannot know any person until we have had an opportunity to experience the relatedness of a normal pattern of life with that person. We may know about many people but there are exceedingly few who ever come to know even one person during a lifetime. When any person has come to truly know another and to accept the relationship that is so established, there is one word which applies—friendship. Those who in a pattern of truth come to know one another become friends in the true or divine sense, and friendship in the divinely ordained patterns of relationship and association is the highest state to which any human being may attain. But such a state of true friendship with another human being is an utter and everlasting impossibility unless one first begins to realize the significance of the privilege we have of being a friend to our Lord and King and accepting the friendship which He offers. The basis of friendship with God is already established on one side, for He knows you. He does not have to learn to know you. He already knows you. And knowing you, in spite of any limitation which may be inherent in your present manifest expression of life, in spite of anything that may have happened in the past, in spite of any seeming obstacle which may exist, He offers you friendship. A true friend accepts his friend as he is, because of what he is, and is unmoved by any limitation which may for the moment appear.
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It is a remarkable and wonderful privilege we have of receiving the friendship of One who knows us already, utterly and completely, so that no thing is hid from Him. And yet, knowing us as we are, regardless of any pretense, regardless of any front which the human being may have developed, knowing us as we are, He extends friendship. And by reason of this very fact we have a most significant indication of that which is required of us if we would accept that friendship and reach a point where He may call us friend. We may now call Him friend, but we must reach a point where He can call us friends. He extends His friendship to us, knowing us as we are, accepting us in the initial stage of the outworking of the cycle of restoration just as we are, without one word of condemnation, without upbraiding, without any of the reservations which human beings ordinarily establish. If, then, we would receive that friendship, we must accept Him as He is, even as He accepts us as we are, for this is the basis of friendship—not to say, "If you will change thus and so, if you will yield to my will thus and so, I will be your friend." God does not say that to us. Although human minds, with limited concepts, have sought to make it appear that such is the attitude of God, it is not, as the record of divine inspiration through the ages clearly reveals.
However, by the same token, it becomes necessary for us to take the attitude that we will receive Him as He is without our saying to Him, "If You will change things to be thus and so, if You will please me in such and such a fashion, thenI will be Your friend." Consider the attitude of human beings toward Deity. Is it not always, or almost always, a fact that the basis of approach is, "Oh, God, if You will do thus and so, if You will arrange this or that, if You will take this thing from me or give me the other thing, then I will be Your friend"? But that attitude is completely and utterly out of pattern in relationship to friendship. We may note in those rare instances where human beings attain to friendship with a fellow human being that, even though the friendship as such does not require anything of the friend, makes no demands, nevertheless those who are friends exert a profound, a deep and a lasting influence upon each other. This profound influence which each friend exerts upon his friend changes and enriches life, brings fulfilment and gives meaning to those things which otherwise would be meaningless. So God does not say to us, "Change in this way or that; do this or that; reach a certain point of fulfilment; grovel in the dust for a while, or some other thing, and I will extend you My friendship." God says no such thing. He says, "Come as you are. My friendship is great enough to invite you to come just as you are."
With a friend—and if we see in true realization that He is our friend—with a true friend there is never any need to hide anything, never any need for shame, never any need for excuses; for the quality of friendship is greater than all such things. And inherent in that quality is trust which can be trusted. Therefore, since God invites us to receive such friendship on the basis of true friendship, so that we need feel no shame for anything that has been or is, so that we need make no excuses, so that we need have no reservations, no tendency or necessity of hiding something, since He offers such a pattern of true friendship, we in turn, if we would be His friend, must take the attitude of a friend to God. And as He requires nothing of us, so we should require nothing of Him, for it is not the nature or character of a friend to demand anything when it is friend to friend. There is the offering of the giving without demand or requirement. We need make no demand of God, and if we do we deny the reality of friendship and declare by our actions and attitudes that we are not God's friends, since any human being who imagines that he must demand something of God in order to receive it does not know God nor does he know the truth of God. It requires only a simple nobility to accept the reality of friendship.
But in this world human beings are, and have been for so long, governed by the determination to get something. They are going to get something out of their neighbors, out of their so-called friends, out of their husbands and their wives, their children or their parents; yea, they are even going to get something out of God, and particularly do they hope to get some sort of salvation for the time that shall appear after they are dead. They're always going to get something! But the spirit of "gettingness" is never found in the spirit of friendship. God is not seeking to get something from you, He is not seeking to take something away from you; He has no need to try to enhance His own position or increase His own possessions by taking something away from you. Human beings, because of the spirit of gettingness, try to get something from God; and underlying so many of the concepts about God we find that man has assumed God is trying to get something from the human being. If there is some particular treasure, someone greatly loved, there is a fear that God will take it away, as if God were trying to get something for Himself at your expense and to your damage. He does not increase if you decrease. The only way God can increase is for you to increase, and anything that decreases you decreases God insofar as His kingdom here on earth is concerned. And so man has assumed something with respect to God that is not true. Our basic statement is, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." So instead of assuming that which is false with respect to God, we first begin to know the truth about God, and then, accepting that truth, we begin to know God. In that knowing, the knowing of the centering of all truth, of all control and all design—for that is truth—we begin to know the truth as it relates to ourselves. And beginning to know ourselves, we are in position to begin to know those around us.
The friendship which God has extended to man down through the centuries, unchanging and constant in attitude and provision, stands as overwhelming evidence, if evidence be needed, that we can afford to trust such a Friend, that we need have no fear, that there is no necessity of lethargic patterns of acceptance, halfhearted attitudes, but rather that it is a point of wisdom, the sense of the fitness of things, to eagerly, wholeheartedly, enthusiastically accept the privilege of friendship. And all that is required is that we reveal the capacity of receiving such friendship by revealing the attitude of a friend. Friendship cannot be one-sided. It may be offered, but it does not become friendship in fact until it is received, and unless we can be a friend to God, God cannot be a friend to us. For those who are not controlled by prejudice and fear there is no difficulty, once the truth is seen, in rejecting any false concept which may have been held in consciousness. This is the basis of honesty; for he who is not controlled by fear, by prejudice or by human pride but, having seen the truth, accepts it, reveals himself as being honest. And only those who are honest within themselves and toward each other can attain to the state of friendship.
When we have a very dear friend and someone makes an unjust, unkind accusation, we do not immediately assume, "Well now, the accuser must be right.” Is that the attitude of a friend? No, a friend would simply reject, without any qualifications, without any reservations, the condemnation and the sly insinuation directed toward his friend. This is most important to our realization, for attitudes of condemnation and sly insinuation have been, down through the centuries and the millennia, and are now, directed toward God—every sort of insinuation which assumes God to be limited to the limitations of man, to the whims and fancies of the unstable human nature. As it is put in declarations of pompous concept, from many a pulpit, "If you suffer, it is because God has placed a cross upon you and you must accept it. If you suffer a loss, God caused it to be so. If something is wrong, God caused it to be so and you will have to accept it." Now such an attitude of false concept, of condemning God, and of insinuation toward our Friend, is something which we know to be totally unfounded, unjustified, the product of a warped and ignorant mind, of an unclean, unstable heart. Man has no right to judge God or condemn God, nor to assume any such thing.
So often it is declared, "We can't understand why God does these things." What things? These things that bring sorrow, loss and limitation to human beings. And human beings are judging that God did these things. They do not have courage enough to face the fact that they have brought those things upon themselves and that it was not in any instance God's doing. Such attitudes declare, "God is no friend of ours here on earth. He may change His attitude and be a friend after we are dead, but you can't depend upon God's friendship here on earth." If we cannot depend upon God's friendship here on earth we cannot depend upon it in any heaven anywhere. We need to begin to realize that the lies about God, the false concepts and the assumptions that would detract from Him or His nearness, or His power to do something on earth in and through us, are things which we as friends of God reject without any hesitancy or reservation. And once we begin to reach the point where we, as friends of God, reject heartily those things which are not true about our Friend, we find that the things which seemed to separate us from our Friend, or to prevent us from knowing the reality of His friendship, begin to melt and fade away. The limitations of every sort begin to melt as the ice before the rising sun, and the things which seemed to be so hard and crystallized, so immovable, so destitute of life or the possibilities of life, become liquid. They begin to move, and the conditions essential to living, to growing, to a springtime, begin to appear.
If one has difficulty with the openhearted acceptance of the things of God, let such an one turn his or her attention not to the effort to try to receive but rather to the work of wholeheartedly rejecting those things which are false, those things which are not true. There will be room for the acceptance of the truth if we first reject that which is not true. If we say we will reject that which is not true once we are filled with what is true, we flatter ourselves, for what capacity have we? Have we not filled such capacity as we have with the concepts and beliefs and ideas and attitudes which are revealed in daily living? Where is the room for acceptance while there is, by reason of fear and prejudice and pride, an unwillingness to reject that which is not true? "But," you say, "part of it might be true, and I wouldn't want to reject any little part of truth, so I will keep the whole thing or try to sift it out through the days of my years." Blessed ones, suppose some little part is true, would your rejection of the mixture, the impure mixture, cause that little part of truth to vanish and be eternally gone? Can truth be caused to pass away by any means whatsoever? No. And if there be something of truth in that which you, by reason of the falseness of it, do reject, you will find that you have not rejected the truth, for it will appear in a new form and be revealed in a new setting, a proper setting for the truth, wherein you can begin to know it as it is, without the necessity of trying to calculate with the human mind as to whether this or that is the truth. "And ye shall know the truth"—not just about it or concepts with respect to it.
Ye shall know the truth by reason of your oneness with the truth, and the truth will make you free, free to live victoriously, fulfilling that divine design which God established in you, and you alone, as a specific individual. The divine design, with the power of control—that is the truth with respect to anything. So if we would know the fulness of the design established for us, and if we would know the control which makes that design have meaning, it is well that we should be a friend to the One who has offered friendship to us for so long. If we would be friends of God, let us remember the basic nature of the spirit of friendship, for friends make no demands one upon the other.
Recently, in a morning talk, John Gray spoke of the undimensional Presence which we call Source. [https://greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/02/let-tone-of-life-resound-john-gray-3.html] We also refer to Source as the Focus of Spirit, or the True Tone. This Tone has been sounding eternally, but at this time on earth, it is sounding unheard by most human beings. Like sound which cannot be heard in an airless vacuum, human beings in their deafened state lack the essential medium necessary to hear the Tone. This vacuum depicts the absence of mankind, isolated from spirit, separated from wholeness. Man, composed of both male and female, in his whole state, is designed to provide the connecting substance between spirit and form, and to express true spirit on earth. As John said, Man was created as the apex, to express the tone on earth and be the crowning presence. Man’s presence on earth is an extension of spirit, an expression of spirit whose nature is love. In reality, we would be conscious that we are love, living on the planet. That’s who we are—Love.
In our gatherings we frequently speak about spiritual substance, pneumaplasm or fine substance. I'm sure we have an idea of what this means for us. We also say that this substance connects us to the tone, to our Being state; or said differently, it is the medium by which we hear the Tone. When it really comes to point, this medium is the expression of love—it is love substance. When we love the Source of Love, love substance is created, and in that atmosphere we clearly feel and express the Tone of Love. When we express this crowning Spirit, we then know who we are. We realize that in truth we are that spirit, we are love in human form. We all know what it’s like to be in the atmosphere of love. People in love walk in a cloud of loving light that is almost perceptible, and the lovers themselves feel that atmosphere. When the atmosphere of love surrounds us we can more readily connect with the Source of Love, which is the Crowning Spirit.
The term fine substance is very accurate—the Tone is fine vibration; it is invisible spirit. The means by which man is able to perceive such vibration would also have to be of fine vibration. John mentioned that there are gradations of spiritual substance, from the coarsest to the finest. Well, the Tone has immense variety of vibration—it is full spectrum. It has immense potential resting within it, eternally sounding, and available to man. It has always been available, but man has not been present to receive it. Man, sensing that he should have power, tries to manufacture power and use it in manipulative ways. But that power is stolen, and his creations are not sustainable because they are not being fueled truly by the Source of Love, they do not have the power of love in them. If that power, and the design which is inherent in the tone, were to be accessed rightly by human beings, our stewardship on the planet would be based in love, and things would be very different. Man would indeed live at the apex, crowning the creation.
Many don't hear the Tone adequately, and we have to admit we don't hear the Tone all the time, or perceive it full spectrum. Of course, we don’t have to hear physical sound to hear the Tone. There are those who cannot physically hear and yet hear the tone very vividly. Helen Keller is an example. She was blind, deaf and couldn't speak, but she heard the Tone vividly. Here is a quote from Helen Keller: “I believe that God is in me, as the sun is in the color and the fragrance of a flower—the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.” However the Tone is very powerfully conveyed by sound, notably by the human voice; and also in written words, which provide a form for the human voice to speak. We have ancient records which have blessed mankind greatly because the Tone was expressed in words—spirit speaks and the Tone is expressed.
Humans have an ability to express life in an immense range of activities. Certain activities allow a finer generation of substance. For example, in the morning someone may be digging in the garden, expressing spirit and generating a certain quality of fine substance; and later in the day may pick up a violin and play an ecstatic piece of music, generating finer qualities of substance, accessing finer ranges of Tone that we are built to receive and express. We may talk about the Tone in lofty words, like how it is dimensionless spirit entering into the dimensional realms through us as humans. But actually it is very familiar—we know it well, because we are alive! Life is an aspect of the Tone, and we all know very well how to express life. We, as the Tone expressing, are alive and we express dimensional spirit all the time—very easy to do!
Life and living are intrinsic to the Tone—Tone of Life is a perfect name. Because the Tone is integral to the quality of our living, we could think of the various ways that we express the Tone in our daily living. I’d like to read, as an example, a passage from Jean Hammond's book, titled Vistas from My Voyage. “Her outer movements and those of her accompanist were specific. Every hand movement, every glance, the nanosecond of every pause, every step on and off stage, each little nod and every word spoken to the audience meant something. There was no tension—just perfect flow. I could see that the audience was very receptive, knowing that professionals were being encountered and that there was no question as to whether or not they would get to a note. This assurance produced a collective relaxation in the listeners, allowing them to be free to become aware of deeper levels in the performance. The opportunity opened to listen to something else—to the Spirit being conveyed—and to hear sound coming from a level above the outer presentation.”
There's a lot in this passage to note. There's the obvious perception by the writer, Jean, of the fine Tone being shared. Of course, there is the resonant substance in Jean's being, with which she was able to read the audience. She could feel what was happening in the room; she had living substance attuned to musical expression, yes, but attuned to the Tone, she could perceive Tone in the room. This touches on the role of the subconscious: to perceive and store impressions of the Tone which can become conscious, either immediately or perhaps later. For example, when we are in conversation, in a lively atmosphere where ideas start to flow, often new and original ideas appear which had not been consciously thought before. Essences which had been waiting in the subconscious, now surface consciously. I think Jean was consciously aware of what others were sensing subconsciously. Undoubtedly Jean was emanating considerable life substance herself.
Love is the essential spirit that is conveyed by the Tone—love is all, all is love; the Beatles said it and we all know it; love is what we are. Other aspects of spirit are differentiations of this one great spirit. Love is the most powerful quality we can express. Love unifies, love opens hearts, and it touches all aspects of living. If you think about it, everyone is expressing love all the time; but the question is, “What is being loved?” Love belongs to the Source of love. It is not ours to steal and use for self-centered purposes—not for long. Unaligned with the tone, so called love is a constant struggle—the stuff of songs and movies, and most lives. The opposite of love is hate, and hateful expression covers the planet. But for those who are attuned to the invisible spirit of love, the sustaining power of love is known. When expressed appropriate to the circumstance, we may introduce a transforming power into situations, one that disarms hardened hearts. Examples are too many! How do I love thee? Let’s not count the ways here—but there are many. We are love. We know the Source of love as we resonate at the upper ranges of vibration and expression.
Protecting love as it finds expression in the world is a responsibility we all have. It takes courage and wisdom, as we learn to keep safe what of the divine is emerging through us and around us. Creation of a true home is a prime example of protecting the divine, and mothers, parents, most everyone, knows that. Sanctified spaces, environments where the substance is purified and filled with love allow a very powerful expression of the tone. Other people are affected by our homes, because we enter our worlds through the atmosphere of our own homes. Thoughtfulness and care for wherever the process of awakening to the Tone is occurring is part of the ethics of the Tone. Learning to be still, learning what to say and when to be silent are signs of spiritual maturity, all of which protects the precious substance of the Tone. Stillness allows us to sense what is required in all situations, letting us attune to the design inherent in the tone. What to do becomes clear. When the mind is directed to the Source of Love, the current begins to flow and pushes aside what is not of love—it just fades away.
Respect for life is given lip service in most cultures. The taking of another's life is regarded as the greatest crime, and yet life is squandered to an incredible degree. Death is actually the spirit that controls most human beings. Living a life of vitality and purpose satisfies a void in the world. Continual thankfulness for life is the antidote to the pervasive identification with what is passing away, what is not fueled by the true Source. Living our lives with this spirit foremost is the greatest form of service in these days of intensity—lives of light and love for life. Many are not feeling that, and so to exemplify vitality is a healing balm. This is the Tone expressing through us.
From a stance of spiritual dependability, everything that comes to us has arrived to be uplifted in our consciousness. In these times of confusion, we can sanctify, lift up all that we encounter. Blessing is a natural quality of spiritual stature and understanding. The pall of judgment is everywhere and judgment dissipates fine substance immediately. We have seen non-judgment and great generosity of spirit in such ones as Mother Teresa. Here was a figure who brought blessing to great numbers of people. She said, “One thing I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.”
Focused attention is another quality that allows for expression of the Tone. A single-eyed attention is required to stay centered in the midst of distractions. People notice someone who is centered on things that are of the highest and finest. If the attention is on the Tone, the extraneous falls away, and largely unconsciously in most, there is an updraft toward the Source of Love.
Released, the Tone could literally bring forth a new earth. Political and social endeavors are examples of attempts to bring about a renewed earth—mostly they fail. But we can change our personal earths, lightening our bodies, moving in an ascending direction.
One man I admire is Paramahansa Yogananda, an east Indian teacher whose life was committed to love and to spirit. With his early life spent in mediation, worship, devotion, chant—he created a new earth body of light and life, and was compelled to travel and speak widely in the USA, opening spiritual doors for thousands until his death in 1952. The fine substance of his life and of those he touched, contributed to the work we find ourselves doing now. His transcendent spirit speaks in this quote: “Come, Spirit! Come with the glory of the dawn; come with the vitality of the sun; come through the portals of our silence.”
We are what we express. What endures is not concept-based behavior, but taking advantage of life's opportunities to express qualities of the tone, with distinct decisions that we make moment by moment. The experience expands when we meet others who represent these fine spirits. Of course the primary requirement is to be that representative oneself. We know these qualities of character are who we are, and times like this are opportunities to articulate what we know.
