I appreciate so much what JaeHyoung Lee and Yujin Pak opened in the last two services about people who live in another dimension. They are in the world but not of it, in other words not captured by it. I want to take a further step with that. But first I want to consider what Yujin also spoke about: the grip shame has on people. His description of shame’s historical roots and why it continues brought new understanding to me and to many of us.
After Yujin spoke about the momentum of shame, that evening we watched a Korean drama, Navillera, which was a real eye-opener for me. It showed how pervasive this shaming and demeaning of others is, even among ordinary people of the same age. In the drama one young man actually said to another: “You don’t deserve to live a good life.” What an example of the gaslighting Yujin spoke of! An abusive message that causes a person to doubt themselves and actually believe the demeaning message is true. Although I’ve lived in Korea over fourteen years, I’ve been largely insulated from that, probably because I don’t speak Korean. So I was surprised. After the drama I asked some Korean friends if most people encounter this demeaning, and they said, “Yes.”
How do we shake off this momentum of shame? Yujin helped you take a very important step in that. In the comments afterwards many of you were deeply moved and declared, “I won’t be deceived again.” To me it felt like you made a vow to leave shame behind. I thought, “This is Liberation Day for Koreans!” I hope what we share today can help you keep that vow, even amidst the humiliation and shaming that is still present in our world. Not only in Korea. Different versions are present in other countries in varying degrees.
When you’ve felt profoundly liberated and even made a deep vow, you still need something that helps you keep that vow. Something that helps you access your true power, which comes from living in another dimension. To be more specific, it’s really living in more dimensions than most people do.
Most of you have heard there are seven dimensions to your Being. But most people live only in two: physical and mental/emotional. All that they perceive comes through their five senses. I think all of you have some experience beyond that. You probably all are aware of your sixth sense, which is generally considered intuition. But I want to suggest you likely also have some experience of what is called the seventh sense. You may find on the internet some other versions of the seventh sense. But the seventh sense I’m speaking of opens us to the higher dimensions of our Being. We begin to see the world from a higher dimension, the place of timelessness that JaeHyoung and Yujin described. Those who live in another dimension use the seventh sense.
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The seventh sense brings to our awareness something beyond this world. It allows us to perceive an already present reality that has not yet materialized. It’s present in the invisible, but not yet visible. An example of this some of you have heard is from 1984. I read to a small group of people a poem by a person with a name unlike any I’d ever seen, and for English speakers could be difficult to pronounce. But when I read that name, somehow I knew how to pronounce it. As I read “Yujin Pak,” my whole body vibrated. It was as if I knew that name. Then when I read his poem, my body vibrated even more. The seventh sense brings something unexpected, an awareness that is beyond what we perceive through our five senses. In my example the already present reality that had not yet materialized was my relationship with Yujin. This eternal relationship was already present in the invisible, but at that time we hadn’t even met. It was important to Heaven’s design that our relationship eventually materialize, come into the visible world, so it could bless many people.
Another example of the seventh sense is what one young woman here last Sunday said in the comment period. “Today I felt a massive inflow of light. It was not visible, but it was marking its presence today. It was establishing an axis, saying ‘I am present!’” The seventh sense acquaints us with something out of this world. Something enters into our consciousness that wasn’t there before.
The seventh sense is actually present in all people. It’s part of our innate abilities. Probably all of you as a young child had some sensings that were beyond this world. But shaming messages likely caused you to doubt those sensings. Then over time your seventh sense atrophied through disuse. But you still have the seventh sense. You just need to activate it again and develop it.
Earlier I said you need something that helps you keep your vow to leave behind control by shaming, something that helps you access your true power. Activating our seventh sense allows us to override the fears and anxieties of the world. It lifts us above that level of shame and fear so we can bring the power of Heaven into the situation. Then we’re no longer subject to the controls of gaslighting. The seventh sense allows you to access power and confidence that is beyond what’s usual in this world. It helps you discover a different approach. You become aware of pathways you couldn’t see through your five senses, or even your sixth sense.
Sometimes people think following your intuition, your sixth sense, is the same as following spirit. In the initial stages it may seem like that. But as you develop your perception, you realize it’s not the same. People often attribute their sensings to intuition. You may have thought it was intuition that opened new awareness for you, when it really was your seventh sense. There is a difference between the sixth and seventh sense. Recently I read something by Martin on the seventh sense. I appreciated how he distinguished between the sixth and seventh sense. He said, “The seventh sense acquaints us with something out of this world.” But “all that is discerned by this sixth sense is contained in the same world which is observed by the other five.” In other words, the sixth sense, intuition, gives us awareness of this world. People have intuition about many things. For example, an intuition that you can’t trust someone or that things won’t go well today. But the seventh sense gives us awareness that is beyond this world. It is for this world, but it is not from this world. The two examples I gave earlier show awareness that came from beyond this world. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/01/from-seventh-sense-martin-cecil-june-5.html]
Have you ever been writing or speaking and something came to you that was totally new? Maybe as it came, you felt a powerful current moving through your whole body. Very likely that was your seventh sense. A Korean friend recently told me while she was traveling the world early in 2020, suddenly she had an impulse to return to Korea instead of flying to India. That was one week before the coronavirus outbreak. I think that came through her seventh sense. In our third level seminar we have a greeting ceremony where we look deeply into another person’s eyes. Sometimes what I sense of the other person’s Being is so wondrous, my whole body tingles. That too is from the seventh sense.
We need our five senses and our sixth sense. They give us important information about our world. But so often people are caught by their judgment of what comes through their six senses. Instead of just observing, people are caused to act by what they like or don’t like. A friend living in America recently said that people are dealing with so much aggression from others, they often react immediately on an aggressive level, without even thinking. We’ve all experienced that, right? That’s the wrong use of our six senses, and it actually produces a state of slavery in us. We’re slaves to what comes through our six senses by our judgments of it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. That’s not the way we were designed to use our six senses.
Martin said when we learn how to use our six senses rightly, the seventh sense opens. Because most people have been ruled by what comes through their six senses, he suggested it helps to withdraw some attention from our six senses so there’s space to perceive the seventh. Some of the practices we teach are good ways to do that. Time set aside to listen to Heaven in morning and evening sanctification. You may find, as I do, it’s often the richest, most precious part of your day. It energizes and inspires you. It gives you perspective to handle more wisely the circumstances that unfold through your day. But even during the active times of your day, take a few moments of stillness, so you can withdraw your attention from the world and give space to perceive what Heaven brings.
Our six senses bring us awareness from the world. But they should not be the cause of our actions, the source of our activation. The source of our activation should be from Heaven’s impulse, not from the world. Martin said when activation by the six senses recedes, the seventh sense opens. As we use our six senses rightly to observe, not to judge and not to activate us, we can perceive more from our seventh sense. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/01/from-activation-of-seventh-sense-martin.html] We discover the perceptions and impulses that come through this seventh sense show us how to play our part in a larger Creative Process that is unfolding. Most of the time, we don’t see the ultimate outworking. We just move step by step and discover what Heaven is unfolding. Of course, we have some sense of it, but we’re not the director. Heaven is. We’re here to play our part.
The seventh sense gives us awareness that is beyond this world. It is for this world, but it is not from this world. It comes to us through our seventh sense because it’s our job to bring it into this world. That doesn’t mean we immediately try to make something materialize. We honor the cycle that is unfolding and follow the impulses from Heaven moment by moment. For example, my relationship with Yujin took ten years to materialize after that powerful first sensing. That was perfect. If I had tried to make it materialize, it would have interfered with the cycle. Other things had to happen before it could materialize.
So we learn to trust the perceptions and impulses that come through this seventh sense. So many of the practices we teach help us do that, even while we take care of our material responsibilities. Thankfulness, for example, opens trust. When we’re thankful, we feel greater ease. Attunement helps us open our seventh sense. Harmonizing with the Creative Process helps us move in balance step by step from the known to the unknown. When your feet are firmly planted on the ground, and your head and heart is opened to Heaven, then with assurance you can take a step into the unknown.
Developing and trusting this seventh sense will be even more important in the days ahead, as the world experiences much uncertainty while it goes through large purification. Old precedents may not apply. In the complexity of many challenges, sometimes there won’t be time for old ways of research and analysis. It’s good to develop our seventh sense now so when the situation doesn’t allow usual ways of discerning what to do, we may have strong, clear guidance from Heaven through our seventh sense.
I hope what we’ve shared today helps you keep your vow to leave behind control by shame and instead access your true power. For a vow to really land in our living, it has to be more than a momentary commitment. It has to become part of our regular daily life. Your morning and evening sanctification especially can help you do that. They’re wonderful times to revisit your most important vows so they begin to change the habits of your living. As you do this and other practices I’ve mentioned, your experience will deepen of being in the world but not of it. And you will increasingly be part of those who bring Heaven’s wisdom and power to lift up this world.
True Home—Seventh Sense
Yujin Pak May 30, 2021 Seoul, South Korea
Good Morning, everyone! Very good to be with you. Here in Seoul it’s a really beautiful, radiant, sunny day. Last week Marsha shared a very important service. Today I want to continue that theme and develop it further. Marsha shared some insights and perspectives about the seventh sense. She spoke of the seventh sense as a perceptive capability beyond the five senses, beyond the sixth sense, a higher level of perceptive capability. She also spoke that the seventh sense is a perceptive ability for this world but not sourced in this world. In other words, sourced in another level or dimension. Marsha spoke of the sixth senses, five plus the sixth, as receiving information from the world; and she spoke of a sixth sense, but didn’t say much about it. I want to speak a little more about it now as we touch on this topic.
The sixth sense contains several ranges of perceptive ability: general intuition is one of them, and then there are various deeper perceptive abilities having to do with functioning in the world. Besides general intuition, there is an acuity of perception developed by experts in their particular field through repetition of experience. They develop a very keen sense of what is going on as well as what is effective. This is like a sixth sense but it is based on a lot of experience; so expert acuities are sometimes called a sixth sense but are more an experience-based discernment. Another range of perceptive ability is those who have some ability to foretell things; also shamans. There are many shamans in Korea. Shamans in Korea and perhaps elsewhere have a developed ability to perceive what most people can’t perceive, which is vibrations, energies, and this can be spoken of as perceiving the lower levels of pneumaplasm or lower levels of heaven. This ability to sense lower levels of heaven or vibration or pneumaplasm is different from the seventh sense.
I want to speak more specifically about the seventh sense. The seventh sense comes from Being, from true identity, comes from alignment in the light. Another way that some speak of this is that the seventh sense comes from super-intelligence or super-mind. Another way that we can speak of this is that the seventh sense emerges spontaneously from the place where fear and shame have dissolved, have retreated, and there is present stillness and dwelling in the quietness of the light. From there the seventh sense begins to operate when other levels of perception have been quieted.
Sometimes even though there are birds singing, we can’t hear them because there are too many other noises, but when the other noise retreats and settles, and there is stillness, then suddenly the bird song is clear as bird song—beautiful. It was always there. The seventh sense is always there. There are many levels to the seventh sense, just as there are many levels in the stratosphere of the planet, levels of atmosphere. Just as there are many levels to our consciousness, there are levels to the seventh sense. In the Western world people sometimes, when speaking about having a wonderful experience, say “Oh, that was seventh heaven,” implying tacitly that there are levels to heaven, as well.
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Marsha said also that in children there is often present a seventh sense until such a time as it becomes polluted or diluted in such a way that they can no longer perceive the finer levels of vibration that they could in their natural purity perceive it initially. Just as there is the beginning root element in a child’s purity of heart and mind, so that purity begins to return when a person begins to awaken anew. In the awakening process, the beginning of the return of the seventh sense takes place, and some experience this as synchronicity. Synchronicity can be seen as a beginning experience of the seventh sense. But beyond the emergence of the beginning of a seventh sense in a person who is awakening, when that person has awakened fully and is in true identity, there is increasingly an awake person, with a mature seventh sense. So I want to speak about the highest levels of the seventh sense.
Uranda spoke of remembering past lives—some of them as though they were yesterday. The highest level of the seventh sense can be spoken of as an awareness of timelessness, or a timeless awareness—a dwelling in, and therefore seeing, what is already present beyond the levels that are clouded by shame and fear in the majority of human consciousness. Human consciousness is filled with dark clouds, pollution. We have spoken of this as the state of trauma in humanity, and the ensuing shame and fear present in human consciousness. In the highest level of the seventh sense we come into the eternal present—to live the eternal present, and therefore to bring the eternal present—this is what the seventh sense allows us to do. The Bible speaks of “on earth as in heaven.” If we are to bring on earth as in heaven, we must first experience and see heaven through the increasing opening of our seventh sense.
In human beings there is a very deep and profound core longing, and this longing has a relation to the seventh sense. This is the deep longing in human beings for true Home, a place of warmth, genuineness, cleanness, a place of rest, ultimately a home of light. Deep longing. But people have developed many convictions and beliefs regarding this longing. Among these beliefs and convictions is a belief that such a home is not possible.If there was such in one’s own experience, “It is not here now— it is gone. It will not come back, certainly not in my lifetime.” Or maybe it is for the lucky few to find the light somehow and to experience that.
Sometimes regarding luck, people watch dramas and movies about beautiful love between men and women and think, “Oh, I’m envious; the lucky few who are in a loving relationship experience such a Home.”I want to convey good news to you today, and that is that this is possible for you to experience also. The good news is that true Home is already present—already present in levels of vibration or pneumaplasm that are slightly above and beyond what generally is experienced. But it is already present. Just as the sun and the blue sky is present even in the darkest cloudy days, above the clouds, so is true Home already here, present. Through the continuing purification of our hearts and minds and the increasing emergence or development of the seventh sense in us, we begin to experience the true Home of spirit, of light, that is already present. And beyond what I just shared about the already present Home, there is more good news. That news is that that Home is not just present but is coming towards each of us, as we open.
I want to share something that I have been experiencing in an intensified way in recent times—the experience that Home is coming. Perhaps two weeks ago Marsha and I were by a beautiful stream one kilometer from here, with beautiful green nature and flowers blossoming. We were reading by this crystal clear stream a service, and Uranda was speaking of this planet and the natural life in it as being the Home of the Lord, a Home for the highest vibration of Love—that this planet is His Home. And as we sat there by the stream meditating on Uranda’s words and spirit, and feeling nature all around us, it began to enter into us more and more that nature is not just nature, beautiful, abundant or full of life, but something much more than that—the consciousness that nature is a Home, a vessel for the Spirit of Love.
And what came to me increasingly was that all of nature, the flowers we were seeing, are a Home for this Highest Love; but also that nature, every tree, every plant, every flower, is oriented and responding to the highest vibration of Love. We have spoken of that vibration as the LORD of Lords—that highest vibration is centered there. And what came further is that nature is being very quiet, in some ways deliberately so, being quiet as in holding back. What came to me as the reason why nature is being so reserved, quiet, holding back, is because the veil that humanity has been under, in its traumatized state, has been such that nature can not express itself fully. What came also is the awareness of just how much nature wants to express the fullness of itself, and is waiting. And gradually what emerged in that meditation was that as the vibration of Highest Love begins to return, how much nature has longed to answer and respond, and shout in joy, and blossom in its full power and answering glory—and I saw how Earth once was, and shall be.
There is a reason why these realizations are coming, of what is already present but has not been fully experienced before, and that is because there is a finer level of pneumaplasm forming at a collective level on earth. This pneumaplasm is being generated by the presence of those on earth who are providing the highest point of pneumaplasmic contact with the already existing reality of Home.
Home is returning. When our highest senses are open, we begin to perceive this, little by little. Regarding the emergence of the seventh sense, I want to speak of it in slightly different words. Someone once said that in our hearts, our sensing and expressing organ, there is a higher heart and a lower heart. The part of our heart that is able to perceive the return of true Home in the finer levels of vibration and pneumaplasm is our upper heart. Marsha touched on what can help in the development of the seventh senses, or in different language, the upper sensing heart. She spoke of the continuing practice of thankfulness, also of morning and evening sanctification, the times of sanctification being the time when we open our seventh sense to perceive heaven. Marsha also spoke of attunement—being aware of the creative cycles and processes that are moving.
Today I want to mention another key component. This other element is non-judgment, in that judgment veils the seventh sense. Not being so attentive to the world—withdrawing some of the attention from the world—but also especially to the things that are wrong in the world, or wrong with people, especially what is wrong with the people around us, and our judgment of that. We can justify our judgments as trying to improve, or trying to bring changes in other people, but how much is our heart actually responding to what is wrong rather than to what is right?
There a famous saying in the Emissary culture: “What is right with you is the starting point; what is wrong with you is beside the point.” Focus on what is right in people around us, even if there is something wrong in such a person, focus on what is right in the person and give that the energy. It is through such a practice as focusing on the Light, on what is true, and responding to that, that our seventh sense grows. As our seventh sense increases so does the awareness of true Home that is returning. True Home is here. The already present Home becomes increasingly perceptible as we are thankful for the Light present in all things, all people, including nature. So as we open our senses in love response to the Light, to the truth, we begin to see the already present Home increasingly, and begin to live it, and by living it, we bring it.
Thank you, each one. Nature has waited a long time for the return of true man and true woman. When men and women walk this earth with God’s love and see with God’s eyes, then nature can respond fully and flower to the fullest. So let us provide those eyes of the Lord for nature. Thank you all.
Trustworthiness only begins to appear to the extent of spiritual expression, to the extent that the angel of life is in command of the human soul. For this to occur it is necessary to allow the increase of spiritual expression to occur. The increase of spiritual expression includes life, true living; truth, the design and control which are not of this world; and love. We know something about the meaning of the word Shekinah or the Christ. Shekinah, the Christ, is characterized by the fire of love, the fire that burns eternally. Because of this fire there is the light that glows, and because of the fire and the light, there is the cloud of glory. The cloud of glory characterizes life, the expression of life on earth in physical form; the light that glows rightly characterizes mental expression on earth; and the fire that burns is the fire of love, the central core of spiritual expression. In union with the angel of life there is union with Shekinah. In fact it is Shekinah, the Christ, which makes the union possible. In that union it may rightly be said, “I am the cloud of glory, I am the light that glows, I am the fire that burns.”
When we think of fire it is usual to associate it with something painful. If you put your hand in the fire—Ouch! But as has been stated before, fire obviously does not burn itself. I am the fire; that is my character. I am the fire that burns eternally. I am the light that glows eternally in consequence. I am the cloud of glory, which gives evidence of the light that glows and the fire that burns. Therefore in that experience the former things of pain and sorrow and crying are no longer present. Death is no longer present; death does not cohabit with life. Death is simply the absence of life. In truth, life is never absent.
If the former things are to pass away they do so to the extent that there is one present, incarnate in human form and in expression through human form, who may say, speaking truly, “I am the fire that burns, the light that glows and the cloud of glory. I am THAT I am.” I know, in your experience as human beings, thus far you have known pain, sorrow, trouble, discomfort, and you have been aware of what is called death. What is it, then, that suffers these things? It certainly isn't you, the angel of life.
The burning of the fire consumes the bonds of earthly heredity. This is the only way that those bonds will be consumed. You can't evolve out of them. At least the only way you can do that would be to die, which I don't think is evolution but rather devolution. It might be said that a person is trustworthy up to the level where the discomfort becomes sufficiently intense to cause him to revert into slavery. I have noted that there are those who are afraid of discomfort. This is one of the reasons why lethargy is so convenient, because it seems to offer the temporary opportunity to avoid placing oneself in a position of discomfort. One may hide in the shadows because there is an awareness that discomfort will put in an appearance if one comes out into the open. Of course the one being spoken of here is the human soul.
The bonds which bind the human soul may be seen in terms of heredity. Heredity is to be dissolved, burned in the fire. That will be uncomfortable for heredity presumably; and if that is the place of one's identity, then there will be an inclination to hide in the shadows, endeavoring to keep the fire from getting too close. From the standpoint of the angel of life the purpose is that the fire should be brought to bear upon the bonds. A person who is always hiding, humanly, from the anticipated discomfort of the fire will not let the bonds be burned, at least not for a while. It seems that it is possible to avoid discomfort in this fashion, even within the range of those who should know better and also should do better. But it is much easier to let the bonds be burned at low temperatures than to wait for the furnace to be heated perhaps seven times hotter than it is wont to be heated; then there is no avoiding it if one is to keep one's integrity.
Human beings everywhere, ourselves included—certainly in times past—have been accustomed to dance to the tune of the tyrant. That has been the compulsion of human existence. If there is a passion born in the human soul toward the angel of life, then the whole desire is to allow all bonds to be consumed in the fire. It is a lot easier to let them be consumed at a low temperature, one by one, than to hide in the shadows and wait for the violent explosion; because that will surely come.
Assuming the stance of the angel of life, the words, “I am the fire, the way of the fire, the way of union and of love,” may be spoken. And this is fulfilment indeed for the human soul, because the remaining bonds will be easily and naturally burned. Human heredity as a controlling compulsion will be dissolved. There is no other way by which this can happen. It is based in spiritual expression. If one is totally occupied with the expression of the angel of life, then the soul's discomfort is a very small thing. It certainly can be no distraction from one's true purpose, from the expression of one's integrity.
Now if there is spiritual expression, as there necessarily must be if we accept the responsibility of trustworthiness—this acceptance is in fact our integrity—then we are in the place of extending an invitation to all people everywhere to step into the fire with us, because we are there already. This is what is required to clear the hereditary state for mankind. You cannot invite anyone to step into the fire unless you are already in it. I suppose it's possible to suggest that it would be good for somebody else to get into the fire right away, but such a suggestion would ring rather hollow, I think. It rings true only when one is not merely in the fire but when one is the fire. Being the fire, we are not burned by it—but the bonds are. To the extent that we still have a little involvement with the tyrant of death, then it may be said that one is uncomfortable. But the fact of the matter is that one is not really uncomfortable; the bonds that have been present in the human soul are being burned. Good riddance! That's just wonderful. And no big deal is made out of the supposed discomfort. Thank God for it! Welcome it! Come out of the shadows to stand as the fire.
There are those who say, “When I come out into the open there's too much pressure. Bad business, too much pressure.” Well if one wishes to remain identified with the former things that are going to pass away anyhow, then discomfort is inevitable—pain, sorrow, all these things, and ultimately death. I would emphasize a point that it is not a matter of the soul trying to save itself alive. In human self-centeredness this has been one of the hopes and desires of human souls: that they may be saved for eternity. If we recognize what a human soul is, then I think that is rather a vain expectation. There have been some fanciful ideas in this regard, about corpses coming up out of tombs; but if all that was left was a little dust, it would be quite a trick to get it all together again—and who would want it?
I am the way of union, of love, of the fire; I am the truth, the light; I am the life, the cloud of glory. I am that I am, and consequently eternal. I inhabit a human soul which may be useful to me. It may hold out on me and suffer the consequences, the discomforts of so doing, but I am the one incarnate and the one who is here to make right use of my soul, right use of those with whom I am associated, right use of my circumstances, right use of all that comes to me. I can do this because I make right use of my soul. The right use of my soul is to allow for my spiritual expression, to allow me to express what I am. We are all here on earth to speak such words truly.
We do not necessarily anticipate that this human soul is going to live forever. I think that it is inevitable that it would change. In fact I don't think that as an angel of life we'd want the human soul as it now is to hang around us forever. It is useful now, it may be useful tomorrow, it may even be useful next year, possibly ten years from hence—who knows? All that is of concern to us is that we should be in position to make right use of it. Making right use of it, we are present in mind and heart and body in order to make right use of the environment around us, and as long as this present soul can be usefully so employed, presumably we'll make arrangements for it to remain. If it isn't of any more use in this way, then what would be the purpose for its continued existence? We have a realistic viewpoint; and what human beings think of as death, which is the passing of the human soul, means very little. It means very little to the angel of life who is in command, in the sense that its value is based in right use for particular purposes in a specific aspect of the unfoldment of the creative cycle.
If I am the way, the truth and the life, death means nothing; it doesn't exist! That the substance that composed the human soul may be reintroduced into the natural creative cycles on earth is quite satisfactory; that presumably is what should happen. It may be that if, as angels of life, we do play our parts wisely and rightly in these present human souls there could be a transformation in the realm of the human soul which is presently beyond imagination, or unknown. But be that as it may, all that is presently required is to make right use of the human soul in present circumstances, whatever they are. We don't make right use of our human souls with the expectation that changes are going to come in our circumstances to suit the human soul. Therefore it's quite useless for the human soul to have mental and emotional concepts and desires as to what the changes should be.
The only value of the human soul is to provide the opportunity for the angel of life to give creative expression to spirit in the present moment. What will ensue because of that is what should ensue because of that, regardless of any judgments that may creep into the consciousness of the human soul. Forget it. Let it be what it is; let it be what it will be. Oh yes, it's going to change, we can be sure of that; but let not the judgments of the human soul try to determine the changes on the basis of what it considers would be pleasing to itself. The changes come at the hand of the angel of life. On this basis we all stand as one, the angel of life on earth with a variety of human souls. This is very useful. It would be too bad if we all had duplicates of the same soul. That would not be very useful.
So here we are as angels of life, incarnate in these human souls of great variety, not by chance. Obviously, if the angel of life has incarnated in some particular soul, as is the case for all of us, it wasn't a haphazard business. Specific choices were made as to what would be most useful should the human soul reach the point of willingness to allow the angel of life, who one is, to do what one incarnated in that human soul to do. And all these human souls are related, in one way or another, because they have the opportunity of participating in a collective, unified body. The angel of life is also the angel of the way of union. And so union is the natural experience, not only between the human soul and the angel of life who one is but between all the human souls who are the embodiment of the angel of life. On this basis there is one functioning, unified, coordinated body in action on earth, administering the creative cycle. Not making the creative cycle be—it already is—but administering the expression of it within the range of creative responsibility right here on earth. Then the invitation may be extended to all people: “Come out of slavery to the tyrant of death into the way of the fire.”
I think in times past there have been some ideas about extending an invitation to others, usually on the basis that it would be helpful if other people would come on the mailing list, would attend Class, seminars, what have you. But if you think of that from your standpoint, it would be the fact for most of you that you would be inviting them into something else, not into something for which you have responsibility. In other words you're passing the buck, and it would not be a true invitation. The invitation is to come into your fire, your personal fire; not to say, “Well I think it would be helpful if you went into someone else's fire. Why don't you get in touch with so-and-so?” Now it may be that in inviting people into your fire the sensible thing for the particular person would be to connect them up with somebody else, should you not be on hand to do anything in a direct way. But there must be that in you, in your own personal experience, which has invited that person to come into the fire with you, and you are not just ducking out and passing the buck to somebody else. The invitation you extend is to come into your place, where you are; otherwise it is a phony invitation. We're speaking of all the people, whether they ever get on the mailing list or whether they ever come to a Class, whether they ever do any of the supposedly orthodox Emissary things. The vast majority won't, but they may come into the presence of the angel of life because you are incarnate in form on earth.
I think you are aware of the fact that while I may have on occasion suggested that it would be useful for a person to come on the mailing list or to go to a Class, that, in your own experience, has not really been the invitation that you have felt from me. It is because there was a place of the fire that you could come to that you could experience whatever you have experienced. There may have been some blessing known because of many things that have happened, that you have done, but I'm sure that you have always been aware of the fact that there is a safe place for you to come into insofar as I am concerned, an enfoldment, but also a fire. Some have preferred to stay out on the fringes, so that they didn't experience too much soul discomfort. Others have been willing to come in closer, and been willing to experience whatever discomfort was necessary. It was not made into a big deal; it was something that would necessarily happen.
Coming into the fire, there is the experience of the soul being restored. Now what that restoration for any particular soul might mean remains to be seen, and one shouldn't have expectations and feel slighted if it doesn't happen the way you expect. I'm pretty sure it won't, for any of us. Let it be what it is!—because until there is this yielded openness on the part of the soul, how can the angel of life come forth? And it is the coming forth of the angel of life that burns the bonds, so that there is a new experience known in heart and mind and body because it may be said, “I am present and in expression.” And the whole human soul is unified into the one—there is no separation.
We find, in the natural cycles of living, that we eat and drink day by day; we stay alive that way. Of course we breathe as well, and do other things, but we also excrete. That's as necessary, isn't it? There is something taken in; there is something left behind. This is all natural in the cycles of living. So, with the incarnate angel of life, there is a body and a mind and a heart, a human soul received; and various aspects of waste are left behind day by day from this human soul. Where is the mystery? Where is the mystery of so-called death? At that point just a little more is left behind, that's all. From the standpoint of the angel of life, that is all that is happening. It is human souls who bewail their passing, because they have this sense of separation and isolation and fear and all these things—pain and sorrow and all the rest—of their own choosing.
The door is open for the fulfilment of life, and we are all here to extend that life, which includes the fire, to all who will share it with us; but we must be that fire to have anything to share with anyone that is of any value. So we speak the Word to all people, “I am the way of union, the way of the fire; I am the truth; I am the life. Come unto me. Come unto me personally!” Not come unto EDL, not come unto Class, not come unto the mailing list, but come unto me! If that invitation is a true one, and someone comes, that person is received by you; and in the receiving there may be this suggestion made, that suggestion made, something else, but not to ditch your own responsibility. The angel of life would never do that. So we, all together in oneness, may extend this invitation to all people everywhere, “Come unto me.”
There is a simple line in the familiar hymn “All Things Bright and Beautiful” which goes like this: “How great is God Almighty, who has made all things well.” How great is God Almighty. If that is a question it could hardly be answered. If it is just an emphasis on the fact of God's greatness then we may have some consciousness of the truth of this statement. We cannot really know God Almighty. We can know about Him, I suppose. But this term has reference to undimensional God, supreme God. It would be impossible to describe that in dimensional terms. Also, because we are properly present here in a dimensional world we may find no necessity to try to get out of it into some undimensional state in order that we might comprehend what is there present. There is undimensional God and there is also dimensional God. Dimensional God was described by using the word Jehovah.
We have before considered that highest spiritual substance of the most intense vibrational nature which merges into the undimensional state. This substance fills the whole of what we would refer to as the universe. There isn't any place, dimensionally speaking, where it isn't; this is the reason for the idea of the omnipresence of God. This substance is of such a vibrational nature that it is capable of accommodating the spirit of love. The spirit of love is not, obviously, separate from God; it has been said that God is love. So the essences of God in the dimensional world are the essences of love, the union between this highest vibrational substance and the spirit of love. Here is the substance that fills the whole of creation, the whole of the space where creation is. It is undifferentiated. In this sense we may say all is love. Here is the union between the spirit of love and this substance which is capable of being one with love, so that love may emerge into the dimensional universe. At that level there is only love substance filling and composing all that creation is to be.
In order for creation to take place this undifferentiated substance must be differentiated The essence of truth is present initially in the process of differentiation of the original love substance At all the vibratory levels of substance below this highest substance the essence of truth is present. It is by reason of the spirit of truth in union with the essential substance that the differentiation of the original substance of love may transpire. So there are the essences of love and the essences of truth. At every level below the essences of truth, are present the essences of life. Here is the holy trinity: love, truth and life in the dimensional world by reason of the substance with which these spirits may find union. These essences rightly pour forth through the substance which is present at lower levels, initially what might be referred to as heart substance. When the heart is pure there is an open door of connection between this holy trinity and the earth, what we think of as the manifest world, the world of form as we understand it. This pouring forth is spiritual expression in this world of form—mental form, physical form.
As we noted this morning [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/05/we-are-vitally-with-essences-from.html] the largeness is at the highest levels. Here is the creative process by which something is coming into the world. It is being differentiated and consequently narrowed down, brought to focus, in that process of differentiation; and we ourselves have a responsibility for allowing this differentiation to take place at the level where we are. In order to gain perspective in this regard we may well return to those simple words: “How great is God Almighty,” who in this process of creation has made all things well. But there is a very specific way in which it happens, and properly we are a part of the happening. Otherwise within the range of human experience the true happening is absent, it is lacking, and there are voids consequently on every hand.
I am sure that most if not all of you have given some consideration to The Song Celestial—The Bhagavad-Gita, in the recognition that here is a portrayal in symbolic form of the truth as it relates to human experience. The principal characters were Arjuna and Krishna: Krishna, the God in human form; and Arjuna, who was aware of the God in human form. After a great deal of consideration of earthly things there came a point when Arjuna felt that it was most necessary that he should begin to see things as they really were. So he spoke to Krishna along these lines, and here is part of what he said:
O Thou Divinest One!
If this can be, if I may bear the sight,
Make Thyself visible, Lord of all prayer!
Show me Thy very Self, the Eternal God!
Krishna can be seen as providing a focus point in the dimensional world for these highest essences. I suppose from a different approach we might say here was the Christ, the Word made flesh, the essences brought to a particular point of focus. But these essences are not something all on their own. As we have already noted, this substance, this highest substance, is present throughout the whole universal creation, everywhere. If it is brought to focus at some point, that fact doesn't extract the essence from itself; it is still the essence but merely brought to focus; it is still the universal essence. Here is the Word that was with God in the beginning, the Word that is God—God dimensional. There could be no God dimensional if there wasn't first God undimensional, but you cannot separate the two; there's no line of demarcation. This universal substance [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/03/universal-substance-martin-cecil.html] at the highest vibratory level merges into the undimensional.
It is useless for us to try to examine the undimensional. Insofar as we are concerned it would be nothing. It isn't nothing; we discover that it isn't nothing by reason of dimensional God. So dimensional God relates to these essences at the highest vibrational level, the love essences, which in the creative process must be brought to focus, must be differentiated into the various levels dimensionally speaking. We have noted how this is achieved—not by reason of our experience particularly, but just looking at the picture—the emergence through the connecting substance of the pure heart into the world of creative action when we have a sense of the reality of dimensional God, the essences of love. These essences of love are not only brought to focus on this little earth, rightly, but everywhere else in the universe in various ways. Arjuna was asking for an awareness within the scope of his own vision of what this would be, the essences brought to focus throughout the whole universe. I think one should be a little cautious about asking for any such thing. However, according to the story here, whether brash or simply trusting, Arjuna requested this, and I have read the words. And here is Krishna's reply:
Gaze, then, thou Son of Pritha!
I manifest for thee
Those hundred thousand thousand shapes
that clothe my Mystery:
I show thee all my semblances,
infinite, rich, divine,
My changeful hues, my countless forms.
See! in this face of mine,
Wonders unnumbered, Indian Prince!
revealed to none save thee.
Behold! this is the Universe! —
Look! what is live and dead
I gather all in one — in Me!
Gaze, as thy lips have said,
On God Eternal, Very God!
See Me! see what thou prayest!
Thou canst not! — nor, with human eyes,
Arjuna! ever mayest!
Therefore I give thee sense divine.
Have other eyes, new light!
And, look! This is My glory,
unveiled to mortal sight!
Then follows a description by the servant of what was seen. I do not propose to read this now; we may have opportunity sometime. But here was something so vast, so tremendous, so majestic, that Arjuna went into shock, as might be supposed. So here are some more words of Arjuna, not all of what he said:
Be merciful, and show
The visage that I know;
Let me regard Thee, as of yore, arrayed
With disc and forehead-gem
With mace and anadem,
Thou that sustainest all things! Undismayed
Let me once more behold
The form I loved of old,
Thou of the thousand arms and countless eyes!
This frightened heart is fain
To see restored again
My Charioteer, in Krishna's kind disguise.
I read this this evening, without going into all that was said with respect to the vision, so as nevertheless to emphasize the majesty, the greatness, the vastness, of dimensional God; and dimensional God is only an aspect of God. It has sometimes been felt by those who were associated with this ministry that it was a little thing; human beings tend to be impressed by numbers. But to the extent that the heart opens and yields and the creative processes of purification take place, there comes some sensing of the smallness of this external world in which we dwell; I suppose in one sense it could be said, the insignificance of it when seen in the light of the reality of dimensional God, dimensional God revealed by reason of this highest vibrational substance filling the whole universe. God is omnipresent in this sense, in the dimensional sense. The substance is here where we are.If it is anywhere and everywhere in the universe, it is here where we are.
As the windows of heaven are opened, or as a door is opened in heaven, we don't go through into heaven; we become aware simply of what is already present with us. The wholeness of God is already present with us, brought to specific focus in the reality of the truth of our own being, so that this differentiated aspect may find expression in a fitting way according to the part which we are here to play. But what it is that enables us to play this part dwarfs into insignificance the circumstances, the environment, in which we play the part.The circumstance, even the earth itself, becomes scarcely discernible from the standpoint of true perspective, because whatever comes to focus of dimensional God in our own expression is not in any way separate or apart from the whole of dimensional God. It's not as though God had chopped off little segments from Himself and planted them here and there in human beings. This is the view perhaps that human beings have tended to have in their own experience of themselves, as being little chopped-off chunks, isolated from each other and from God. It's not the fact; it's a fancy. It's a fancy that immediately dissolves as the veil dissolves and what is true begins to emerge into experience.
If we see relative values here—I suppose you could also say relative size—then where's the problem about handling the affairs which are brought to us to be handled? And we may recognize again that these matters which do come to us do not come to us by chance; they are brought to us. It may be said that the true essences call to the material of this world to come home. As we give focus to these true essences, that's the call. We have a new outlook then with respect to what it is that comes to us, what it is that is present in our environment. It is brought to us, It is coming by reason of the call, the call of the essences to which we give focus. Here is the material answering the call.
You may say that some of the things that come to you are not particularly heavenly, they don't particularly appeal to you perhaps; but let us see these things in the true light. Here in fact is the material of this world coming again to associate itself with the true essences. The material of the world cannot actually help itself once the true essences are there. When we are giving focus to these true essences we see things in this way. We're not cringing as puny little human beings overwhelmed by their circumstances, trying to fend off the giants. We don't really see too many giants around anyway. I recall that when the spies came back from investigating the promised land, ten of them were very insistent that there were giants in the land. But two didn't give much emphasis to that.They didn't notice any giants around particularly, because those who have a right perspective couldn't possibly see any giants in this very small world for which we are responsible. In this sense nothing very much has been committed to our charge, certainly not when we begin to understand that of which we are simply a focus, a focus point of this vibrational substance in combination with the spirit of God, to which we have referred as essences, the true essences.
When the true essences are here, when we are providing the focus for them and giving expression to what pours out because of those essences, then something is going to happen in our world and there will be what comes to us in consequence. We don't have to question what it is that comes to us. We certainly know why it's coming to us. It is coming to us in response to the essences to which we give focus. And it is going to sort itself out: the material that belongs will come closer and stay; the material that doesn't belong will be set on one side. Maybe some of it has to wait awhile before it is capable of coming any closer; maybe some of it belongs somewhere else, at some other level where the changes are occurring; but we don't have to judge in the matter. We let it come to us. We're going to find out, on the basis of maintaining the focus of these essences in our living, what it is that belongs with us, what it is that is on hold, so to speak, and what it is that needs to move out. It will do it automatically.
It comes to us all mixed up together. It's not as though we're going to swallow the whole mass, but we let it come to us, that coming closer into the fire of these essences to which we give focus it may have the opportunity of being sorted out—and this is what will happen. We will discover that we have things to do, we have things to say, we have things to think, and there are times when it is altogether the right thing to keep quiet! But we are responsible for this sorting-out process and we can only handle it when we have a true perspective; otherwise we'll be afraid of everything that's coming to us. But if we have the true perspective and we have a sensing of the immensity of the essences which we represent, where's the problem? The whole perspective changes, and it doesn't matter what comes to us, it's a little thing. It can be handled with ease provided that we maintain the true focus.
If we let that slip then there could be problems, couldn't there? Where we see problems there is the urge to manipulate, and wherever you manipulate you create more problems. Someone had a computer in which they programmed the required information concerning a large city—all large cities have problems, you know, immense problems—and it was discovered by reason of what came out of this computer that no matter what anyone did, with the best of intentions, it would make the situation worse. That's the fact of the matter. No matter how you manipulate, with the very best of intentions, it makes matters worse. It may not seem to make matters worse in the immediate little bailiwick where you're manipulating; you may get things, temporarily at least, into shape; but how do you know what the repercussions are beyond and beyond and beyond? Difficulties will multiply, and of course eventually the chickens come home to roost. If by reason of your action something goes out, it's going to come back somewhere along the line and, depending upon what it is of course, you may find that it clobbers you. Then you say, probably, “Poor me!I'm being so badly treated; it's so unfair.” Not at all. The Law works. We may not be able to connect the particular clobber that hits us with the cause of it back along the way somewhere, and it's always easy to find someone who is handy to blame for it when the clobber occurs. But that is foolishness.
So we hold the focus of these essences in the space that we have provided where it is kept holy, and we need to be willing, indeed anxious, we might say, to let that space expand so that more can be accepted into it, both from the standpoint of essences and from the standpoint of what is coming to us by reason of the action of those essences; for when the essences are present they are calling to the lower vibratory levels of substance to take form according to the design that is provided, and the material starts to wake up and come home. As I say, coming home it comes home in a mixture. Consequently as it approaches closer the sorting-out process will transpire. It may be that a person sees something approaching and, if he has lost his perspective a bit, it looks pretty big. It's coming closer; he wants to hold it off. No, don't hold it off. Let it come closer, because as it comes closer the things that don't belong will begin to drop off, and by the time it gets to you it probably will be quite small. Well in the true perspective it was quite small at the beginning. It becomes almost infinitesimal by the time it gets to you!
But here we begin to see the association that we have at the crossover point, with the true essences on the one hand and the material of the world for which we are responsible on the other. We are responsible for letting the essences cross over into expression in our living and we are responsible for letting what is coming back be drawn to us. It's being drawn by these essences, that what is drawn to us may give form to these essences. The essences will be taking their true form in this fashion. Well in order to take their true form there's a lot of stuff that needs to drop off that doesn't belong, and it will do so if we hold it steady. I suppose one of the most obvious evidences of what happens when something is held steady was what occurred in the experience of Jesus long ago. He held absolutely steady, no matter what it was that was coming to Him. And it came right up to Him. But there was no wavering. There was no denial of the essences for which He was responsible at any point along the way, and what didn't belong fell away. And what did belong was there when He came forth from the tomb. Here is the evidence of the opening of a door on this earth through which anyone might come and let these principles in action be experienced in living. We share this understanding in whatever measure our hearts are pure, so that we may participate in the process, very keenly aware always of the quality, the nature, the character, of dimensional God, Lov —the vastness of that, the infinite power of that—so that we may be in position smoothly to handle whatever presents itself before us.
Obviously there is still some tendency to manipulate. We've been accustomed to this, to imposing something externally on things to try to make them work better. So we find ourselves in a transition experience, but increasingly, as the veil dissolves, we may be aware of the reality which comes to focus in our own expression, these essences which are primarily of love, then of truth and of life. And being aware of this, there are no giants in the land. What needs to be handled in our worlds may be handled from inside, not from outside. It becomes an organic process. We do not have to beat people over the head to try to make them behave. We do not need to carry placards around protesting against this and that. We just share in the process that works. None of those other things work. They're all attempts to manipulate and they make the situation worse than it was before.
So we participate in the easy way because we have accepted the easy yoke, the yoke of the true essences in our living. As we allow these essences to be the essential quality of our living we become quite familiar with them and we find ourselves in position to work easily with essences in an awareness of those essences and of what is happening by reason of those essences.What was it that the spirit of truth would do? Amongst other things, He would show you things to come. You know exactly what is to come when you are working with the essences that cause it to come. Your eyes are no longer fastened on the forms, fussing about the forms, worrying about the forms, trying to manipulate the forms, change the forms to make the world a better place for forms. You let the world alone in that sense; you leave the forms alone. You just let the material come to you, the material that composes these forms—you're not interested in the forms; the material is coming to you that composes these forms—and that material will be released from the forms which it had previously occupied, in order to give form to what is emerging by reason of the essences to which you give focus.
Here is the creative process. Obviously there needs to be, what shall we say, a little practice; it needs to be done. But one needs to be able to see what it is that's happening and how it is done, so that we may work intelligently in this field. Intelligence, we find, is part of the outpouring of those essences; we don't stay stupid!We begin to understand and to play our part in allowing the glory of God to be revealed on earth by reason of the forms which appear because of the essences that are present. How great is God Almighty, who does make all things well!
