Laura Fisher — Holy, Holy, Holy. Lord God Almighty. Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee. Holy, Holy, Holy. Merciful and Mighty. Lord of Creation, God eternally.
Pamela Gray — Holy, Holy, Holy. Lord God Almighty. All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea. Holy, Holy, Holy. Merciful and Mighty. Lord of Creation, God eternally.
Laura Fisher — “I would like to draw your attention to the Supreme Gift which all of us have had opportunity to receive. Perhaps it might be said that in many respects it was spoiled.”
The Supreme Gift
the transcript from a service by Martin Exeter given on November 29, 1987,
was read aloud by Laura Fisher in British Columbia and Pamela Gray in California,
followed by radiant conversation.
YouTube Video
Laura Fisher — “There is no other real fulfilment possible.” Thank you so much, Pamela. Here we are together—together with our King, with Martin’s words amongst us, and a mighty challenge. Do we have the courage, the courage that is required to let our thinking be completely different, to be divinely inspired? To have a complete absence of opinion? That would be a new world. A complete absence of opinion! Do we have the courage not to use all our book learning when we are looking at something?
This morning, to honor all of you, to honor the service, I decided to try out this radiant seeing, this radiant perception, and I went out into my beautiful garden and I radiantly viewed the ground cover there. It was really quite amazing how the lime green of the Creeping Jenny just leapt out at me. I’ve never seen a lime green like that and it’s been there all along. And the purple flowers were so purple, the living essence of those plants were singing with my radiant view of them. We’re supposed to be the crowning creation. This is part of what that means: we radiate outward with our eyes because our mind is still, our mind is settled in the court of the King. We rest in complete assurance that that is so.
I have a brilliant friend. She is an Ayurvedic practitioner. Her name is Erica. She’s studying for her doctorate in ayurvedic medicine. This takes some mind attention. It’s a very complex system. And she asked me what I was doing and I told her I was giving service on Sunday and I told her what the process was: we would read fromMartin’s words and then we would speak. And she said, “Aren’t you lucky to have such a starting point!” And it actually made me cry in her presence. AREN’T we lucky to have such a starting point?! Most of the thinking is done for us! This ability to let the mind rest in the comfort of the kingdom of our King brings forth—you could call it “new thought,” but it’s actually thought that hasn’t been on this earth for a very long time and it’s thought that the earth is just literally screaming for in these days! I can hear the screams. “Please somebody do something different.” And here we are. We have been bathed in something different seven times seven.
I did a little math. Do you know it has been almost 90 years since Uranda first spoke words of truth and wisdom, almost 89 years. And just look what’s been gathered together: the purity of the people that’s been gathered together. We’re all leaders and we know we’re leaders. Remember that ad: “Leaders Wanted! Men and women of the highest integrity.” So here we are, us leaders. And we’re responsible to create an atmosphere that liberates other people. We’re not responsible to tell them who they are or what they’re doing wrong, etc., etc. I think that could be classified as opinion. We’re responsible to liberate them, from their own thinking processes. We bring forth the elegance of God’s design.
There’s another famous quote, by Lao Tze Tzu: “Leadership is best when the people say ‘we did this ourselves’.”And that is our job, to let the mind reorganize itself, clean itself up, let the opinions go elsewhere, wherever bad opinions go, or good opinions, and bring forth the inspiration to let others inspire themselves, and so they inspire their world. That’s our job and none of us can say we haven’t been trained for that. It’s such a pleasure to be with you this morning. It’s a pleasure to gaze upon you and to speak with you. Thank you.
Pamela Gray — Thank you, Laura. It’s indeed a pleasure to speak as one, to speak these words as one. We have a shared spiritual history together, all of us that I can see on this screen. And we’ve seen many cycles that have been broken, looking at the past, the past spiritual history. And I was thinking of the saddest words in the Bible, during the crucifixion, not because of that aspect of the crucifixion but because of what wasn’t seen by people. Just two words: “He wept.” He wept. And in these words we just shared, coming at the end of Martin’s ministry, some other sad words, three words: “It was spoiled.” Both of those statements have to do with the carrying through of the Word.
Obviously not all was lost, not all was spoiled. There is a remnant of the spiritual body, the Lord’s body on earth, that remains vibrant and open to the spirit of the King. And that’s why we gather—that’s why we gather, to articulate this, all together as a collective, and it is the collective carrying through that lands in our lap. And no matter who articulates it, words of truth, in times like this, it is that collective, it is because there is evidence of the presence of the King on earth through people. We read these words as words spoken, words of truth, of love, of life, because the one who spoke them lived with the presence of the King, within. That’s the invitation, that is the gift, the gift to be received. I was thinking how appropriate that word is, “received.”
We receive gifts into our home. John and I recently have had various ones come and be with us, of like mind and like spirit and sharing in the reality of true friendship, speaking these things. Well, a guest in your home comes and goes, but the receiving is the receiving of the King into my house of Being, so that this is His Temple, this is where He lives, this is where He speaks through me this morning. And His eyes look upon the world. We see many things but it’s that radiant vision—we see radiantly. We see good and bad, and horrific, and such unnecessary destruction on earth because there wasn’t a receiving of the gift.
“Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold the reward of the wicked,” it is said. I looked that up, because there’s more to that: “Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy my habitation.” (Psalm 91: 8-9) Making the Lord my habitation. He lives and breathes and is in my Temple, in my house of Being.
In the course of the last couple of years I’ve seen some people—close-in people, it might be put—who went into a dark place. And there wasn’t anything I could do to pull them out of that, no matter how inspirationally I spoke to them, or the attunements I could give. It’s the person who has to bring themselves back. And I’ve seen that with some close people; I’m thinking of certain ones, maybe you have seen that too, andyou say “They’re back” or “He’s back”; “She’s back.” And there’s rejoicing. There’s not any opinion about what went wrong, what went before, but there’s a rejoicing of what is now, who’s here now, that’s the rejoicing.
As it was put in this service, there comes a point where there’s a point of no return. I was thinking of that—in the beginning, the Garden and the fall in consciousness, where the consciousness of mankind as a collective consciousness fell because there was the thought of doing one’s own self-centered thinking and getting, without honoring the Lord, and so there was the hiding. But the safe thing that was in place was the flaming sword, and the cherubim, that kept safe the Garden, kept safe the Tree of Life. Well, in this day there is the evidence of the rising in consciousness, and we see it with many other people in the world. There’s this rising of spiritual consciousness because the remnants have been letting the radiation do the work. And that is rising, the spiritual consciousness is rising. So now the experience of being in heaven, the experience of radiant living, is such an emphasis in our lives that there’s no going back to that other state—that we come into the experience of the Garden. It was protected before by the flaming sword, but it is the truth of love, the fire of love, that is our passion and we find ourselves in that state of consciousness, and there’s great rejoicing. There’s great rejoicing in being together and articulating these things.
So we would love to open it up for further radiant conversation.
Suzanne Core — Pamela and Laura, holy, holy, holy; brilliant, brilliant, brilliant light! What radiance we have shared in this hour, and continue to share in this moment, this gift, this present. It dawns on me that I have sometimes thought of the shining of the light as something that was coming at me—which would make it a little difficult to see. I’ve thought of the shining of the light as something diffuse, which happens when you flip on a light switch, or even when the sun rises over the mountain out my back door each morning, and begins to shine the light that makes the shadows and then springs the green into being. What I’m seeing and thinking of in this moment is that the spirit of the King shining radiantly, through the Lucifer that I insist my mind provide, shines out into my world. I then see that world differently, not because there’s light shining into my eyes but because it’s shining out through them. What a simple flip in consciousness of Lucifer. What a precious setting you two have provided for all of us, and the world, this morning. I am so thrilled to have been here, to be here, with each of you all, my dear, dear, dear friends. Thank you.
Shirley Malin — I would offer my thanksgiving too, Laura and Pamela. What a precious hour this has been. And I love the spirit and the passion offered through both of you. I feel the spirit of womanhood reawakening on earth. And this is our time, as Uranda had said—the spirit of the woman must lead the way in coming out of this chaos, this fallen state, since she led the way down. And in this time together I feel such an honoring of the female. Not because of “female lives matter” or “me too” or any self-importance but because of the true love of the King. And that became very evident in both of you, passionately. We as women must prepare the way for man, manhood, to be honored and loved, because here is the power of love seeking to manifest on earth through the male and the responsiveness of the female allows this magnification and the expression of life into the body.
So what a beautiful opportunity for us, all of us together, to really take stock of what has happened over these past 89 years, as you said. Now is the time, and the time is drawing short; and I love the emphasis on the fact of no more judgment, releasing all opinions, because that’s what makes us trip over one another. We have different opinions, so suddenly something comes up that says, “Well, I can’t agree with that!”—when the agreement is not designed to be in that realm, but in the heaven which I am here to bring into the earth. So in tranquility of mind and heart I can receive anybody’s “stuff” and not be disturbed. It’s so beautiful. Thank you so much. I just loved this time together. Womanhood is a joy, not a trial.
Stewart Berger — Laura and Pamela, thank you very much for sharing yourselves with us today. It’s been wonderful to hear your voices, in all senses of the word “voice”—your revelation of the Word in this moment. Laura, I think you mentioned—both of you did but I know Laura you did—you mentioned radiant perception and I did some of that myself last night. And I was observing that what I was perceiving was a scattered vibration coming to me, I believe from ones that I am connected with in the world. And I think it may have something to do with the pandemic. You have some people who are happy that we have reached a certain point where there’s a degree of normalcy but there are other people who I think are still fearful, and I was perceiving an emotion of hopelessness in that respect. And of course we know that the virus has various variants that are still in play. So what I was observing was kind of a mixture of these different vibrations. Uranda used to speak of “patterns”, vibrational patterns. So this perception that we have is very valuable for observing what’s going on in the world, or what may be going on in the world.
So I think we can talk with ones we know about how to deal with these things depending on our position, one way or the other. And of course, in connection with this there are various effects that the pandemic has had economically and socially, and in other ways, so there is a state of flux and uncertainty. But even though we can discuss these issues, we do have the great gift of being open to the Lord, to life, to Source, and receiving the message that comes through, to and through us in every moment—to receive, as it was put, the heavenly essences and to translate that, or manifest them in natural ways—natural to us—so that we can be a blessing to the world, to those we know, and to the Lord. So thank you very much. It’s wonderful to be with you all.
Davina Misroch — Pamela, Laura, thank you. I’ve been very moved by the depth of what you both offered, and the uniqueness of your own individual passion and spirit, which is beautiful, very beautiful, and not the same at all, and yet one thing. “Only with thine eyes shall thou see the reward of the wicked.” Not with thine emotions, not with the entanglements, not with the reactions, not with the response. And Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” But in all things… I forget the exact words. But it takes something to stand in this moment with you radiantly, actually. It is another level for me, which I embrace gladly.
What I want to say is that I have an absolute responsibility. I remember the command which says not to let anything into my holy place that would work an abomination or a lie. Just living that truth alone, moment to moment, is a fulltime job. And of these few words that I’ve been speaking I know the correlations are very particular, very specific, and not only show what needs to be done but how. The invitation is to receive the gift and let this Temple be a place of the King’s habitation, so that He can articulate through this particular instrument, and therefore I am the Guardian of the Temple. I have something to do—as we all do—not to let something into our holy place individually and collectively that works abomination and makes lies. It’s actually quite simple, and it’s all housed in the love for the King, first, last and always. Thank you.
Millie Holliday — I think today we’ve just had the most exquisite example of Lucifer, the bright and morning star, shining through us and amongst us. And how strange that the mind of man thinks of Lucifer as Satan. It just gives such indication of how lost man is. But here we are, the bright and morning stars, looking with radiant eyes at our worlds, holding our worlds in the hands of love. When there is abomination of desolation, we let the spirit of the King pour forth into our worlds—and I agree that there is no greater joy than this, to be together and to represent our King. Laura and Pamela, I have delighted so in your expression. Thank you.
David Barnes — I can feel the intensity of the current of the Spirit moving strongly in my own body Temple—in my heart. Laura and Pamela, you are so beautiful. What a supreme pleasure to just view you on this screen, through these eyes as you read and speak. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before, at least it was certainly very new this morning. Being in the Kingdom of the King, feeling very much present in His Court, invited into His Household on occasion, I’ve seen that there is the presence of One we would call the Queen, always present there as well—not known to any great degree on earth because His Kingdom and His Court, and His Household, and His Family hasn’t been known to be a reality. But living in His Kingdom it becomes known. She becomes known as He becomes known to me, to us.
In the story of the King as it is recorded of His time incarnate as Jesus, there were three Marys present who are referred to, to a great degree, in that story. Mary, His mother gets a lot of attention. Mary Magdalene—a lot of opinions about her are being written in various books these days. And there is another Mary—Mary of Bethany she was named then. Uranda, One who served with the King over the ages, in a very direct sense, has told us about her and her spirit. And so, being in the Kingdom, Her presence and Her Spirit becomes increasingly vivid as well. I feel Her Spirit present here this morning—as is the spirit of the one who was in form as Mary Magdalene, and the spirit of the one who gave birth to the man Jesus, His mother. All these three spirits of Divine Woman are present here this morning, in the Court, in the Household, of the King. And they are One Spirit, one with His Spirit, even as I find that I know Him and know Her because I begin to know my own spirit as one with His.
One Spirit unwrapped—the Gift unwrapped. And even if it’s not unwrapped fully yet, we might say it is wrapped in transparent wrapping so we can look through the wrapping and see the Gift. and experience something of the thrill that yet remains when it is fully unwrapped and is right here—if that happens to be where we are in consciousness now, any one, here or out there. This Gift is for all, not just thirty-six of us here on the line.
As a man, an angel incarnate on earth, I’ve known wickedness in my own soul—so it’s not just the wickedness out there, the reward of the wicked. I’ve experienced the reward of the wicked. It helped wake me up to this extent. It’s a good thing to experience the reward of the wicked. It might encourage the opening of the Gift. Indeed it did and does. But the main thing is this Almighty Spirit and presence, and the reality of what we call the Kingdom, heaven, the heavenly reality that we have an opportunity to live in every day—and the exquisite heaven that you two brought and magnified, which you know so well, a gift in your own life. How precious to experience the Spirit of the Queen, present with the King, and always be attentive to that Great Spirit, that it might be brought to the forefront and made known to men and women on earth; and that there can be freedom and release from the bondage of wickedness, and release into the joy and the wonder and the ever new vision of heaven right here and right now. It’s been so exquisite, being with you and everybody else, letting this new thing appear this morning, in the fire of His love and His great giving. Thank you.
Steve Ventola — David, your words touch our hearts. I don’t know about you but a tear came to my eye when you mentioned Mary of Bethany. You know the depth of what we can share together as one, and we may see reflections of ourselves here on the screen but it’s … being a part of the spirit of God on earth, of the Lord’s radiation. So I give thanks for our time, Pamela and Laura, I give thanks for the time we are all together. I could spend all day long on this call and at the same time we have lives to live. So let’s hold dear, hold fast in these things. Perhaps Laura and Pamela have a few closing words to share.
Laura Fisher — Yes, thank you. I have so appreciated this part of the service. Wonderful to hear you all. I’ve been thinking about protection. The world is in a very tough place and we are at least some of the ones who are going to change that. That’s going to require some protection of us. I have always been very, very thankful for the protection of the men in this ministry, the ones who hold dear and speak highly of the women in this ministry. It has always been my experience to be acknowledged in that way, and have men around who serve and protect. I thank you for that.
I also have been thinking during this time—I love what you said, Davina, about it taking something.You bet your boots it takes something! Even after 89 years it takes something. If we were all doing the very most ultimate job, the world would not be the way it is, the world would be different. So I appreciate the humility that was spoken along, with the protection of a clean consciousness. Because it is our own clean consciousness that keeps us protected. It doesn’t matter what else is around. If we insist on messing around in the trenches we’ll get hurt. So wonderful to hear the bright lights.
In the Book of John, Chapter 1, Verse 14, it says “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,” in truth and in glory. It is the Word made flesh that does the job—my Word made into flesh. It is said that the body is made up of 75% water. That water is made holy by my thinking, when it comes from the King. The flesh is made holy and dwells among that which is not holy. And it’s no problem.It’s easy. I have friends here at Sun Peaks that you don’t say the word God to, or anything related to it, but they say to me when I express my idea of the future—because they’re all talking about the future—“it’s a wonderful time, it’s going to be a whole new life, it’s going to be absolutely wonderful.” And they say “Oh, Laura, I wish we had your confidence.” But of course we are confident, because we know we are the ones doing that job. We are in the end game here, folks. It’s time to hit a home run. And God always wins, so we can rest in that reality and continue in our own great flesh, and radiant thinking.
Pamela Gray — Thank you, Laura. I was thinking of the protection as well. I appreciate that coming right toward the end there, with Steve and David and Davina—the guardian of that protection. We couldn’t speak of these things in a general audience, obviously. They’d be trampled on. They’d be interpreted by the mind and it would be spoiled. But we can, in this safe container of shared substance, of shared spiritual radiance. And I’m just filled with thanksgiving that it is so, there is this container where we can speak of this. The King of Glory can come in, and all of what has been generated in this time together, it ascends before the throne of God. That is the purpose of this container. Bring it all and let it ascend. And carry this with us and know that we will have the spiritual perception, the right timing, to say the right thing, to do the right thing, because we carry the Spirit of the King within us. And it shines forth in our living. So I’m thankful for this outpouring of which we’ve all participated to the glory of our King. Thank you.
Steve Ventola — Thank you Pam. Thank you Laura. Again, let’s enfold what we shared today and let it continue in our hearts.
I would like to draw attention to the supreme gift which all of us have had opportunity to receive. Perhaps it might be said that in many respects it was spoiled. The gift of which I speak is the spirit of our King. This has been offered over many years in many ways. The Word has been spoken, the Tone sounded, the gift made freely available. Each of us here gathered this evening is quite aware of this, I’m sure. What has been done with that gift? To what extent has it been received?
There is the habit at Christmastime for people to give gifts to each other, and usually in these days those gifts are not wrapped in newspaper. There is very fancy paper available, and ribbon and bows available to decorate the wrapping. Most of us I suppose, upon receiving a gift, may admire the wrapping, but we are probably more interested in finding out what the gift is. I think there has been a tendency with respect to this gift of which I have been speaking, the spirit of the King, to leave it a good deal under wraps. We know what the gift is, or at least we think we do. We have the evidence of it—the wrapping, the decorations—but to what extent has that gift been opened up and received for what it really is?
There have been many associated with this Emissary ministry over the years who appreciated the wrapping and the freshness that was maintained in that regard, but we all know that it is the gift itself that is important. But it has little importance unless it is received—the wrappings removed, so to speak—so that it may be present with us and in our immediate experience: the spirit of the King. No doubt we have received something of this into our living—that’s what the gift is for—and have been blessed thereby, which could well be cause for thanksgiving. The total receiving of this gift would engender total thanksgiving. If total thanksgiving is present, then obviously there could be no complaint. As I say, the Word has been spoken, quite consistently I believe. I think it has been spoken just about as much as could be borne, and the Tone sounded so that all might hear.
To know the spirit of the King we all realize that it must be received into expression. Here is the most magnificent gift that could possibly be given to anyone. The spirit of thanksgiving has been increasing in recent months and years, and that increase has come because the gift has been received into the living experience of those who axe thereby caused to be thankful. The suggestion was made that we could well articulate our thankfulness, particularly whenever it seems that we would have something to complain about or to object to. Perhaps this is a small technique that could be used profitably, but the fact of the matter is that when the gift is received and the spirit of the King finds expression in our living, the spirit of thankfulness is known. We don’t have to hype it up; it’s part of the gift.
The gift is for radiant use. It is an outpouring of radiation, and to the extent that we have participated in the expression of the spirit of the King, we know this. It makes possible radiant vision. That’s the way we see things, no longer looking in the mirror. With radiant vision there comes radiant perception through all the facilities that have heretofore been used to examine the reflection in the mirror. Our ability to see, to perceive, is not for the purpose of receiving and being affected by what we see. The eyes are not merely present to acquaint us with what seems to be present in the environment and the circumstance. This is about all that human eyes are used for: “Let’s have a look.” But the eye is a radiant instrument. That is its primary reason for existence, not in order that we might get something out of our apparent environment because we are able to see it, but to permit radiance to shine forth.
The mind, which has been busy doing the interpreting of what comes in through the eye and through the other senses, is, we know, rightly a window of heaven, not a mirror. It is a window through which the light may shine. When this is the case Lucifer is restored to heaven. The light shines forth, and what is seen is seen radiantly. Part of that seeing, we noted this morning, is of the working of the creative process, a radiant vision based in the shining of the light which reveals what it is that is being brought forth in the creative process. We don’t need to see a reflection of something to understand that. The mirror mind is the satanic mind. There is so much reflection present in the mirror that it has blocked the shining of the light. The mirror mind creates separation.
Incidentally the mirror mind has been busy creating a self for itself. We have experience of this. This self is produced by gathering a great deal of material out of the past. We have what is called heredity. All this material is brought along and composes the main part of the mind itself, and out of this comes the sense of self which the mind is busy creating. We all have that sense of human self well established: a mental creation, coming up out of the subconscious mind and added to assiduously by the conscious mind—there are these characters walking around on earth, mind-made characters—and the mind gains thereby a sense of self and of identity.
It’s all artificial
This has been done over many generations and is accepted as being so by each newborn person quite rapidly. This self is a mirror, a mirror self, reflecting all these elements out of the past. Of course this is reinforced by general human agreement when a baby is given a name: “This is now who you are.” As I say, it’s reinforced because the name is registered! and, particularly in these days, sundry other registrations take place as the years go by, so that the person is more and more convinced of this mind-made identity. Everybody accepts it as being so, both for themselves and for each other; there is a general agreement. But because the majority may vote for it doesn’t make it so! This of course is the usual human approach in these days, that what the majority says must be right, majority rule. And politics gets mixed up in all this. There are lots of political identities around, but identities of all kinds, mind-created. This is consequent upon the fact of the mirror mind, which deals in the material that is reflected. That’s the material that is available to build this human identity.
But now we are aware of the window mind. The window mind has no need at all to create an identity, because what shines through the window mind is the identity. It isn’t a mind-made identity. It isn’t even a heaven-made identity. It is the one identity, namely the One I am. This is all a mystery to the mirror mind, but it is clear as day to the window mind. The window mind is Lucifer. The mirror mind is satan. As long as attention is taken up with what is reflected in the mirror, satan prevails and Lucifer is unknown. As the window mind begins to put in an appearance it does so because there is the shining of the light. The shining of the light illuminates the scene, and the scene is not at all as it was deemed to be in the mirror. It is a heavenly scene, it is a radiant scene: and there is no separation in what it is that puts in an appearance. We speak of heaven and earth as though they were two separate things; they are not. They are aspects of one thing; and when there is a window mind and the light is shining through it, one thing is seen, one thing is known. That one thing is the truth.
We come again with Lucifer present because the light shines. That has something to do with an Emissary of Divine Light, I believe— the truth of that. One doesn’t know the truth of it just by mouthing the words, but the truth of that reveals the King. It reveals the King in His kingdom— one thing. The King is not separate from His kingdom. He didn’t go on a journey. He has always been present in His kingdom. We haven’t known that because we haven’t been present in it.
But once again, receiving this gift without trying to manipulate it, but letting the light shine, there is an easy awareness of what it is that the gift really is. Mention was made earlier of a gift which was available at the beginning but which the mind was inclined to think it could work with. It seems to me that Emissaries have had the idea of “working with things,” and that we have minds so that we can think. Think what? Who is going to do the thinking? Is the mind not the window of heaven in the hands of the King, so that the light shining through it enables vision and understanding as to what it is that is happening in the creative process? Once there begins to be that, there is no necessity to try to manipulate something. It’s found to be beautiful, just wonderful.
Well what one has seen at the point of initiation is not all that will be seen as the light shines and the creative process continues. But what puts in an appearance doesn’t put in an appearance because the mind is manipulating anything, but because there begins to be a unification with the spirit of the King. That is what is moving, and it moves us. We don’t take hold of it and try to make it move anything. It moves us. And we find that it is a natural experience; now we know. Now we know what it is that needs to happen, what it is that is actually happening, and we can participate in the process. It unfolds. It is a delicate thing. It requires perception, but the perception is impossible without the shining of the light. The understanding only puts in an appearance because the light shines. And that requires a window mind, a very far cry from the mirror mind.
Utilizing the mirror mind we look into it and we see all sorts of things reflected there, and such things usually claim a person’s attention. But they are just a reflection, in the absence of the window mind. They are evidence of the absence of the window mind. Why pay so much attention to the reflection then? It doesn’t mean a thing; it isn’t really anything; it’s just a reflection. Let the reflection pass away and you have a clear glass through which the light may shine and there may be participation in the creative process because the King is present. He is the One who participates in the creative process; it isn’t the mind. It isn’t that arrogant creature which imagines that its thinking is so important. The mind presently, I suspect, would imagine that it has no purpose at all if it wasn’t thinking the way it is used to thinking. It has a purpose as a clear glass, transparent, doing nothing of itself, a complete absence of opinion. Then the light shines through. Heaven and earth are seen as being one, not two separate entities, just one. I don’t think we have a word for that, unless perhaps we speak of the kingdom of the King, which includes the all-that-is.
The window mind is Lucifer. The Morning Stars sing together—that’s an easy and a natural experience—and the sons of God shout for joy in the radiant outpouring of the spirit of the King. There can be no outpouring without the window. We may speak of these things. This is the wrapping of the gift. Receive the gift, now, and consequently forever.
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Mentally we have all been so brash. The sea of glass, clear as crystal, which was mentioned, is before the throne of God—Lucifer, the transparent mind, through which the King speaks His Word and sounds the Tone of Life. In all we do, sensitive perception is needed to discern what it is that is ready to be born or brought forth. It is said that fools rush in where angels … are cautious, because they wait to see, to discern, what is needful. Always the right atmosphere is required at the point of initiation of anything. Then one may wait and become aware of what it is that is needful. If one doesn’t do this one will surely go off on a tangent, as it was put. The creative process continues to work, and if we are amenable it will bring us back off the tangent eventually. But why waste the time, as though it was necessary to the creative process? It isn’t. The creative process is very forgiving, and if one doesn’t go too far on a tangent it will bring you back. But there is a point of no return. Obviously it’s working through all this stuff on earth to get the job done. So we share the responsibility of doing what we are here to do, so that that job can be done. But it is done by the spirit of the King working in the creative process. It’s not done by the bright ideas of the human mind.
We share such an easy responsibility; it’s not taxing upon anyone. You don’t have to have a great intellect. As long as you have a mind at all, it’s all right! The intellect is arrogant and uses itself for its own ends. The window mind is humble and open to the radiance of the King, which shines forth, creating the atmosphere needful. And as perceptiveness is developed in the light, what needs to happen can happen easily without any necessity to go off on any tangents. One can rationalize that, saying, “Well the creative process is working.” Yes it was; it did its job if it brought you back. But why did you go out there in the first place? As I say, the spirit of the King working in the creative process is very forgiving. It always has been or we wouldn’t be here at all. Let us not trade on that forgiveness, but learn to let the light shine radiantly, consistently, so that what needs to be seen can be seen. And what we see is what is coming forth. We encompass what is coming forth. We don’t try to manipulate it. We don’t try to make it be something other than what it is. There is no need for all this mental thrashing around. There is that which is to be born moment by moment, and we learn to shepherd it into radiant expression; and because the radiance is there we see what's happening. We don’t see what we don’t need to see. We just see what we need to see. I think we can be very thankful for that. There’s no need to be all cluttered up like we were.
We share the outpouring of the radiance of the King, and we love that above all. Again, I speak of these things. We all need to know the truth of them because we receive the gift into ourselves in our own living. There is no other real fulfillment possible.
I am sure we all have some sensing of a climactic point being reached. I never like to contemplate failure—my whole concern, and I trust yours also, centers in this matter of victory. Victory, however, is not something that occurs through wishful thinking, just because we might like it to be so. There must be the fact to back it up. These things will prove themselves out. It is well, however, that we should all have an awareness of what it is that needs to prove itself out. The question might be put, “Can we individually, and consequently together, be counted upon?” This does not only relate to those of you who are here gathered this morning but to many others as well.
Obviously there is great joy in victory; by the same token there is deep sadness in failure. There have been many failures over the millennia of human history. One may be keenly aware of this in recalling the occasion when the Master, when He was on earth, wept: Jesus wept. These might be called the saddest words in the Bible. When there is one present who has a vision of what it is that is really happening, and what it is that could happen of victory or failure, then when those who are present act in a way that brings failure, what deep sadness there must necessarily be!
I do not wish to dwell upon the matter of failure because presumably, with all of us, no such thing will be allowed to occur. However let us not delude ourselves into imagining that this does not require something very specific of us, each one. We have had varying lengths of time, some of us many, many years, of participation in the unfolding creative cycle by which victory might be assured. We come to the moment of truth. It is not my intention to lay a heavy burden upon anyone, but it is well that we should face the facts—it could not be a moment of victory if we were to delude ourselves. So we come to this time prepared, to the extent that we are prepared. We might look back and see a certain amount of time wasted, but also there was time rightly used. The creative cycle has continued to unfold in our own experience, and in the experience of human beings on the face of the earth everywhere. There is really no separation between us in this matter, except that we have the greater responsibility because we have some conscious awareness of what it is. Most people don’t know. We do, and so this matter of victory is in our hands.
When the Master wept this simply indicated that what might have occurred at that time couldn’t be what it was intended to be. If it had been, it might have obviated the necessity for His own subsequent experience of mistrial and crucifixion. There was failure before, but victory from His standpoint later, however a very lonely one. It did open the door and initiate the cycle in which we now participate. We come again to the moment of truth. We have an awareness of what makes the victory possible, and indeed certain, if we associate ourselves with it. This is certainly something that cannot be achieved by human effort or so-called human wisdom. It occurs in the power of the spirit of the living God. It occurs on earth for the children of men when there are those present who embody that spirit in action. We do it factually and not merely in fancy. We have become aware over the years of the essential factors which must be present if the truth is to prevail in our experience and in the experience of the world. We became aware of these things probably quite some time ago—some even twenty, thirty, forty years ago. To become aware is not enough. Continually we have had the opportunity of proving these things out in fact.
One recognition we have had—mentioned in times past quite often but seldom really understood—is that the first failure of mankind occurred through two people and then multiplied. We may recognize that human emotions have, from the point of the original failure, wreaked havoc in God’s world, so that it is no longer recognizable as being God's world, at least not in human consciousness. This emotional control, prevalent in the world, is pictured as a woman—a whore, sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast. This picture is painted in greater details—not a very pretty one; yet it is the factual state, and here is the basis for failure. The impure hearts have been filled with emotions of various sorts, some of them looked upon as being good, others obviously bad; but whether good or bad the world has been governed by human emotions, supported by the human intellect which devises reasons for supporting these emotions, ever since the first failure.
I'm sure that we have finally come to the point where we recognize the devil when we see him. Maybe I should say, see her, but of course I don’t think the devil is particular as to sex. Man was made in the image and likeness of God, created male and female, so male and female are present in God, obviously—they’re present in the devil too. Men and women are not equal. Men don’t equal women, women don’t equal men. There is a truth to the word equality, but it certainly doesn’t lie in the endeavors of human beings to better each other. Men and women are not equal. There is quite a distinction here and it is right that there should be. There is the matter of complementation involved, because the true state is oneness. There cannot be a state of oneness without the parts being present. If anything is left out, then there is no state of oneness.
In this initial matter, relating to man and to God, there are two aspects, designated as male and female. The male isn’t the female, the female isn’t the male. But let them be put together on the right basis and there is the truth of oneness. The right basis is is already established in God. Human beings can’t make it. It already is so, but thus far everybody has rejected it. Why? Well because they want to have it their own way. Who is willing to let it be the way it actually is? Any endeavor that ignores that is futile, because it already is—the truth is—we don’t make it not be by ignoring it. It’s still there, and if we ignore it we find ourselves in troubles of various sorts, and then try frantically to do something about the troubles. But there is nothing that human beings can do about the troubles in that way. The answer is really very simple: accept the truth—not only accept it theoretically but factually.
These matters concern us, who would be inclined to claim that we understand, that we know. Here is the nub of the situation, relating to both female emotions and male emotions—the emotions of impure hearts, the emotions present in human beings everywhere on the face of the earth in this present world. The state is universal. No one was born into the world without inheriting the emotional package. Some inherit this part of the total package and some that part of the total package. Some people put greater store by their inheritance than others do but it’s always there in everyone. The truth already is. If we reject it we suffer and die; that’s all there is to it. Human beings have suffered and died because they rejected it. That includes all of us. Presumably we have begun to see the stupidity of such a state and therefore exhibited some willingness to let it be changed, because the opportunity of change has always been here. “The kingdom of heaven is at hand”—always.
Human beings have a habit of going along with the crowd—the crowd composed of individual human beings who have firmly held the door shut and suffered the consequences, and then bewailed their fate, complaining about it endlessly and trying to think up good ideas to get rid of it. The simple way has always been present and available for those who finally were honest enough to admit it. A certain measure of honesty has come into our experience. We are going to find out how much! It all hangs upon this matter of human emotions, the dominance of the impure heart. Let the heart be purified, because there is an awareness of the truth, a willingness to let the creative action of the spirit of the living God assume the dominant control.
There is a passage which we have looked at in times past, contained in the Book of Job, that speaks of these things. This is the oldest book in the Bible, so the availability of the truth has been present with human beings as far back as anyone can go. It has consistently been ignored down through the ages. It cannot be ignored anymore. The moment of truth comes, and God will not be mocked forever, just for a little time, very brief actually in the cycles of eternity—that has been permitted for man’s sake. These verses are contained in the Book of Job: “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?” Can human emotions be brought into the proper design of control? Unless they can there is no hope—failure is absolutely certain. By the same token it is in this field that victory is absolutely certain too. Can human emotions be brought into line in both female and male? The second part of this same verse is also included in what happens. “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” We can see this in terms of female and male. Because the sweet influences of Pleiades have not been bound in women the bands of Orion have not been loosed in men. Men have been bound hand and foot in the world as we now know it.
The female is required to be adequately in place if the restoration is to occur. She led the way down; she leads the way up—not in the absence of the male however. He certainly had a part in the fall too. Let no males delude themselves on this point. They have permitted the fallen state to be maintained ever since. But this does not deny the fact that women must accept their own responsibility in the design. There has been this sense of guilt and shame present, unconsciously for the most part, because of failure, but it seems safer to try to maintain their position of failure than to relinquish it. Emotions are not alone present in women. They are in men also, and it is because they are present in men that men participated in the fallen state, introduced by women. They thought they were going to get something out of it too—and they have! Everybody has, but not exactly what was expected or desired, certainly.
Oh no doubt many males—we can hardly call them men—have sought to achieve great things. There have been human giants who have been striding across the pages of history. They thought they were really going to accomplish something, build great empires, which all disintegrated and came to naught. Oh what futility! Because it seems, from the human standpoint, to take some time for these things to happen there is the illusion that really there is a rising up to achieve something great. But then somewhere along the way we find ourselves on the skids—right now for instance—because it’s all a futile waste of time. But the truth is true and all is well, unconquerable life prevails. Here is the victory that is offered to those who will accept it, who will allow emotions to be brought under the dominion of the spirit of God. Human beings are equipped with emotions; there’s nothing wrong with that; they have the capacity to emote. So I bring it to point, with respect to this matter of emotions. There is more to the picture than is seen solely on the basis of a consideration of emotions, but here is a central element. And unless we undertake to face this fact nothing else that we might consider would make any difference. “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” Here is the key to victory or failure.
In the words a sea of glass clear as crystal is the summary of all that women are.
A sea of glass clear as crystal! In the female experience, both individually and collectively, this has never been known as far as present human memory goes back. So there has been no sea of glass clear as crystal upon which a man might stand to fulfil his responsibilities. When that is done the sweet influences of Pleiades can be bound in the design of the truth; then there is indeed a sea of glass clear as crystal.
The experience must be known of the sea of glass clear as crystal, within the heart of each one. The emotional realm of mankind has been a stormy sea, filled with violent tides and crosscurrents, with waves of murky water. The whole human race has been suffering from seasickness. All manner of sickness and all manner of disease may be seen as springing out of this seasickness—the emotional state of mankind. As long as it continues the way it is the sickness continues. There is no way of stopping it by trying to treat the sickness. Let there be a sea of glass clear as crystal, and there is no more reason for sickness.
I mentioned that Job was the oldest book in the Bible. There is a story here which carries considerable significance. There is also the story of the failure of human beings recorded at the beginning of the Book of Genesis. That story, and the story at the beginning of the Book of Job, are a portrayal of two aspects of the same thing. We usually hear about Adam and Eve because that failure has been emphasized in human consciousness, chiefly through the subconscious sense of shame and guilt. While initially it may have involved just two people, clearly enough it shortly involved considerably more, until now the whole human race is in this state of failure. Something different is portrayed with respect to Job. Job represents those who kept their integrity. So on the one hand there were those who kept their integrity, and on the other there were those who lost it. Because there were those who kept their integrity the possibility of restoration has remained a very real potential. In fact this restoration has been anticipated. This is portrayed in the Book of Job—thirty-eight chapters of mess, and then the fulfilment came. It came because Job had kept his integrity. He was asked by his wife to curse God and die, but he didn’t follow this female suggestion. The suggestion was to lose his integrity—he was badly afflicted; there seemed to be every valid reason for him to curse God and die, but he would not do that.
There have been those down through the ages who were represented in this story by Job, individuals who kept their integrity in spite of everything. We have various outstanding examples of this, coming to a point of culmination in the One called Jesus. He would not curse God and die, so He lived. Simple! There have been a great many people who have, in their various ways, suggested to me that I curse God and die. So far I haven’t done it. Usually that suggestion has been brought by a female, as it was in the story of Job, and as it was also in the story of Adam and Eve. Adam lost his integrity. Job retained his. Because that integrity was retained, there has been a continuity of integrity present among the children of men ever since, as well as a very broad continuity of the loss of integrity.
So we come to this present time when the sea of glass clear as crystal has begun to re-emerge so that God might speak out of the whirlwind and claim attention. This thread of continuity, maintained by those who have kept their integrity, has been so slight that most of the time it went unnoticed. But it was there, just as it was in Job, so that the time might come when there was sufficient substance present for the radiation of the spirit of God to become known in a direct, conscious sense. Something is called to remembrance by the Spirit of Truth. We and others have shared that remembrance to a certain extent, either by hearsay, which is one thing, or by actual personal experience, which is another.
When Job finally came back into position to receive what the Lord was offering, and had been offering all along, it turned out to be considerably more than it was at the time when the human failure first put in an appearance. This is an interesting thing to note. There are those who have thought of it in terms of God being particularly pleased with Job because he kept his integrity, and so He was going to reward him accordingly. That is a human nature portrayal—it doesn't happen that way. People are inclined to try to look back to what the true state was. It has moved on since then. There has been an increase, an expansion, a movement, occurring in all this blank space when human beings have been asleep. When the awakening comes, that is something else—it isn’t a repetition, over and over and over endlessly, throughout eternity. No—something new, something fresh, something building upon what went before. As the awakening comes, there we are. As is portrayed in Job, he had twice as much as he had before. This is rightly what is now occurring. There is simply the individual matter of awakening. As individuals we can only awaken for ourselves. So we awaken.
“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” This question is posed to each one of us, and is seen in terms of disturbed human emotion, running riot and bringing forth sickness and finally death. Can human emotion be brought under control and into the true design for right use? There is nothing wrong with the capacity for emotion. There is only something wrong when it is wrongly used. Now we become aware of right use, under the dominion of the spirit of God, which is accepted as the basis for the quality of our momentary living. When that quality begins to come out in our expression the sweet influences of Pleiades are bound, and when they are bound they are found to be sweet. They are pretty sour when they’re running rampant—very bitter.
We saw this in particular terms relative to the female aspect of being, so that the male aspect might be released into the creative expression of the Son, the conscious, directing element in man restored. This then includes the unconscious aspect—the intuitive aspect, particularly represented by women. There are these two aspects in both male and female, but rightly the unconscious aspect is represented by women and the conscious aspect by men. Here we have the Son and the Holy Ghost in concert—complementation. On this basis there may be the acceptance of right responsibility on earth portrayed in these words: “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?” What are we here to bring forth? “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Mazzaroth portrays the true experience of life in man, male and female. This is to be brought forth, that it may be available not only within the body of mankind but beyond the body of mankind, to all the kingdoms of this world—that finally there may be some glory to them.
Life is moving everywhere throughout the whole universe. It is moving obviously in our galaxy and in our solar system. It is moving in the earth. Life is certainly not restricted to what is present on the surface of this planet. It is all-inclusive. If there is a bringing forth of life in our individual and collective field of responsibility there is association with life as it is brought forth everywhere. We can see various connections relative to the bringing forth of life in our environment close at hand and vastly further afield. There is life moving at every level, through everything, and if life is being brought forth through us, what is being brought forth through us relates to everything, it meshes with everything; and we find that there is a wholeness which moves all together to perfection. There begins to be awareness of what is necessary relative to that wholeness within the range of our own particular fields of responsibility. But this awareness is absolutely impossible until life is factually being brought forth. We know what we express.
“Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” It is interesting that this goes quite far afield—in relationship to the great sun Arcturus. We don’t need to do anything about it; but Arcturus and his sons certainly have a relationship to what’s going on here. All life meshes together. So whatever it is that comes to focus relative to Arcturus and his sons in our own experience is rightly guided into the creative field which is our individual and collective responsibility. It is impossible to do anything rightly on the face of the earth without having what is done mesh with everything that is being done rightly everywhere else. Some of that which is happening elsewhere indeed has a particular relatedness to what is happening right here, and we no longer think of the universe around us as being millions of light-years away from us, because it is right here where we are. That right-hereness relates to spirit, not merely to the form of things. It may seem, form-wise, that some celestial objects are millions of light-years away. This is a concept of the human mind; it has little relationship to the fact of the matter. If we find ourselves expressing spirit, that’s what we know—and we do not judge by the appearance. We judge righteous judgment, which is the truth that is known when the truth is expressed. So there is much that comes within the range of the experience of man that has long been excluded by reason of human failure.
And finally, “Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?” This clearly has something to do with the reason for man’s existence. He was created in the image of God, male and female, to have dominion. All on his own? Of course not. That aspect of the matter went without saying in the beginning. The state of separation had not occurred yet. The dominion was the dominion of God, and man allowed that dominion to be brought to a particular focus for particular uses in the creative cycles. It emerged out of what is spoken of here as the ordinances of heaven, that which is ordained from that standpoint. Do you know what is ordained? The only way we can know it is to bring it forth, and then we begin to know. How are we going to bring it forth? Could the right influence relate to our immediate circumstance right here? Where else can it start? We can only reach something that is larger through the small thing that is right next to us. It is futile to try to jump over that.
So there are things ordained relative to the immediate requirement now. There are things ordained for us to share now. Certainly, from my standpoint, I have to be aware of something of this in order to bring it forth. As I bring it forth I know what it is—do you? You share it. Of course it has to filter through your consciousness a bit too, so it may get diverted there a little. But, increasingly, we begin to agree, because what is being brought forth is being brought forth as one thing for which each individual has an aspect of responsibility. It can’t possibly be all brought forth by one person. There is a need for all of us. Each individual has something to bring forth of Mazzaroth, and something to guide; and the guidance can be given because of what is being brought forth through the whole, not separate from that—something being brought forth even in Arcturus that relates to what we bring forth here.
I doubt if everything that needs to be said was said in these three verses. Here is a general view of something, which needs to be made very specific by each individual. So we begin to know the ordinances of heaven, and can set the dominion thereof in the earth. All this depends upon a sea of glass clear as crystal. It isn’t all that clear yet, is it? We’ve been looking at some things here, but there is vastly more to be seen and understood. It requires a sea of glass clear as crystal to let it happen—human emotions—we have the responsibility to let them be clear. Then the design of creative expression emerges, and it emerges in very specific ways which we begin to discover individually.
We arrive at the moment of truth. Every moment is a moment of truth to one who is the truth. It can show up now. To the extent that our experience of living is the truth, then each moment is a moment of truth. Each moment we know the truth to the extent necessary to assume right responsibility for that moment. And nobody can do it for you but you. I rejoice that we have come to this time when we may speak of these things, as I did this morning, quite forcefully. One can deflect the truth by taking the attitude that it doesn’t really apply to me. Let us share an attitude of honesty which allows us to be where we belong, in the sea of glass clear as crystal, so that the creative process may continue as it should, under the dominion of the spirit of God, because there are those who are willing to allow it to work that way. I trust that we may all be included in that number, for this is indeed the moment of truth.
