Out Of The Dawn

Out  Of  The  Dawn

Uranda  March 28, 1954  p.m.

This morning, we recall, we were considering that which is immortal. Trying to cause the mortal to become immortal is a vain and futile effort. But we began to see that man has not clearly comprehended that which is immortal and that which is mortal. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/05/from-immortality-uranda-march28-1954-a.html] We have recognized, in relationship to those who have passed from this sphere of things, that all that was noble and right, all that was truly lovable or Divine which was made manifest in that life, still remains—not necessarily in the visible realm where we can see it, although each one who allows the Divine to appear certainly leaves, in the lives of others and in the pattern of circumstance, that which is a continuation of being. But in the realm of the eternal, that which is eternal remains. That which is eternal finds expression on earth through man to the degree that man allows the eternal to manifest. As we comprehend these things we are in position to re-examine the pattern of function as it applies to ourselves and to others. We have recognized that that which is eternal comes down from God out of heaven into the earth, or to put it another way, it comes to us from out of the east, from out of the Garden of God. And coming into the pattern of life, it manifests for the time in which it should manifest, or for the time or period it is allowed to manifest.

We have given some consideration to man and his capacities. We realize that human beings have for a long period of time undertaken to penetrate into the realm of the invisible. There are those who are engaged in what they call occult activities, and there are those who classify themselves as mystics, because their primary concern is with that which is invisible. Because such efforts are made on a basis of human concepts, probing into realms where man is not really at home, such persons exert an influence in a vibratory field where they produce for themselves that which they expect to find in relationship to the fringes of the invisible realm. I mention this so that we may the better understand the principle as it relates to the ordinary processes of living. Those who call themselves spiritualists, for instance, seeking to communicate with the so-called dead, establish for themselves that which they desire or expect to find. That which they contact, imagining it to be the spirits of the departed, is something which they themselves manufacture; they produce it. To say that they do not contact anything would be untrue. What they do not realize is that they themselves produce that which they do contact, and then, because they contact that which they expected to contact, they think they have proof that they are right. These spirits, so called, which they contact are not the spirits of the departed but spirits that they themselves have manufactured by the processes of their own function. There are those who function in the range of the extremes of black magic, for instance—which comes in the range of the occult—and the evil spirits they contact and use presumably give evidence of evil spirits; but what is not generally known is that they produce that which they contact and use. Those who believe in evil spirits manufacture evil spirits, and then proceed to contact them and find the evidence that they are right in believing in evil spirits. Martin Luther, for instance, had a very, very great faith in the devil. No matter how much faith he may have had in God, it is obvious that he had great faith in the devil, and so to him the devil was real. He himself manufactured the devil that was real to himself. And it is always so with respect to those who dabble in the fringe range between the visible and the invisible.

Now this range between is of vital importance. It is the range by which that which is of a higher realm of being may be brought into contact with our level of being. Spirit, God's spirit as such, cannot directly contact the physical body. There must be a connecting link, and in our previous meditations we have studied the nature of this connecting link in the field of the pneumaplasm. This is such a vast subject—and one which tends to be fascinating to human minds—that we must be careful not to defeat our immediate purpose by delving into it too extensively at the moment. But to whatever degree we realize that we each one have a share in the forming of that which is in this range as it relates to ourselves, we can surely begin to see our pattern of responsibility. If that which is of the Divine Design, in the true current of the spirit of God, under the control of His will, is allowed to extend into this range or borderland without interference from us, it can take form in the vibrational realm of our own beings, and be in position to have form in the physical realm of our beings. But man has for so long eaten of the forbidden fruit, feeling himself to be justified in judging good and evil, that he has developed a pattern, common to all human beings, whereby he produces in this range many things of which he himself is not immediately aware.

It is truly said, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Now most people do not understand how this works out. The only way we can reach into the invisible realm is through the feeling nature. The mental pattern of our own beings cannot really extend into this realm except through the feeling nature. An idea about which we have little feeling will not make any impression in this range between the visible and the invisible, the connecting layer of vibrational substance extending from the sea of glass clear as crystal into the realm of physical substance. Most people do not even have an awareness, in any real sense, of the fact of this realm. But any feeling which you have in a deep sense is projected into this realm, and this realm is always causing something to come to us from out of the east. Through it something is moving toward us all the time. It is supposed to be the means by which the things of the Garden of God come to us out of the east and take form in our lives. But man, lacking peace and serenity, lacking control, has been subject not to God but to all kinds of things and conditions out here, ill things, and he has felt justified in having deep-seated reaction to these ill things. What happens? The reaction pattern through the feeling nature projects out like a wave into this connecting range, and then that which man has produced today by reason of his feeling reactions is planted, as it were, in the east and then it is harvested out of the east; it comes back to him. Whatever he projects into that range must come back to him. It cannot go in any other direction but back to himself. No matter how justified it may seem to be to have that reaction, regardless of the processes of rationalization, whatever they may be, those ill things which the human being establishes in the feeling nature, through reactions of various sorts, are projected into this connecting link, because man projects on that basis into this invisible range which connects him with the higher invisible range which he cannot directly contact.

Because man is unaware of its nature he produces in that range, by his own function, a discordant pattern on a forceful basis, which prevents the shaping in that range of what should come to him from God. Now if man would leave that vibrational realm alone, not breaking into it, not disturbing it, that which he has fed into it out of the past would soon all feed back and pass to the west; that is, to the past. And then that which was of God, or the Garden of God planted eastward in Eden, would begin to have an opportunity to take form in that vibratory level; it would come to a point where the human being could contact it, begin to receive it into form through himself, through his actions, words, deeds, and then that would begin to flow past him into the past and he would be expressing reality. You are not supposed to express into the future. You are supposed to express into the present, to establish that which goes into the past. Man has so little trust in God that he tries to produce in his future that which he thinks he wants to reap, and so, by his various patterns of function, he is continually doing something with that which is to come to him out of the future; he is reshaping it somehow, not trusting God. He just must get his fingers on it and shape it in that range where it is susceptible to shaping in the vibrational realm. He cannot just leave it alone. But once you begin to trust God you cease trying to shape your future. As long as you are bound and determined to shape your future you will. You will spoil what God has prepared for you. You will upset it, change it, mar it, destroy it, and establish something that you have produced yourself, and then that will be what comes to you from out of the future.

Now you have a part to play in this moment, allowing that which is coming out of the future to take form in the moment so that it may be the form of the past, and moment by moment that which you do becomes the past. Generally speaking, the past is not altogether satisfactory to the individual. That which is extending into his past he does not altogether like. But once we reach a point where we trust and, trusting, centered in God's love, we are at peace, serene, tranquil—no violent emotional storms disrupting the vibratory field of the future as it relates to ourselves—the remnant of what has been sown passes by, comes to the present, takes form to some degree, and goes into the past. Then we come to the point where that which is coming out of our future is not spoiled, distorted by our own function. It is of God.

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At this point we need to realize that the creative field as it relates to us in this future pattern, the vibratory range, is not just our own. Once having established a path through, so to speak, you may maintain that narrow path in relationship to yourself on a true pattern, but that will not be the wholeness of that which comes into your life, because your pattern is related to other people's patterns. You cannot draw a line into the future and say, "Everything that comes to me from now on is going to be just what God made." However you can hold steady and keep a clear path through. If I did not do that we would not have what we do have here. But that which comes out of the future in relationship to myself, for instance, is not limited to that path. In this field we all have a hand, each one of you. Whatever is there in relationship to us, and to many other people, is never an altogether individual thing. Something of it is yours; something of it is someone else's.

When we reach a point where we let this connecting range to the east of us clean out—as it will if we just leave it alone—when we let it clean out so that we are not producing anything in it that is not of the Divine Design, we can begin to have a broad path into the future. But the first contact you get through will be a very narrow path, just a little band so to speak, a strait and narrow way, connecting you up with heaven, the Divine Pattern of Being. And along that narrow path you can receive something of that which is of God's will for you, but those around you must begin to function correctly before it can broaden out and permit the larger manifestation of God's will. For as long as the vibrational field, the emotional realm, as it relates to us, includes others—and unless it does include others it is of no value—then that which others do relates to this field; there is interference.

Every time I begin to feel that we have an opportunity to get a broad conveyor belt, shall we say, from out of the east cleared so that we can let that which is of God come through into the realm of form, someone has some kind of a reaction pattern, and oh, they are so justified: "So-and-so did that. I am justified." And there it goes again. Projected into the future, through which we must receive whatever we do receive from God, is that which does not belong, that which is going to mar the pattern of God's provision or prevent much or all of its manifestation, and so we must reap that. I have talked and sought in every way that I could to inspire you to reach a point where you would cease interfering with that field, and yet you have felt justified for so many reasons, you have felt justified in doing that which projects into that field. And once it is there we have to deal with it, we have to put up with it and get it out, and it takes time. Now we can keep on projecting into that field until we perish from the earth, if we are so inclined, and we will never receive the pure current of what God has in store for us, His provision, that which should take form. For most reactions are on the basis of displeasure at what is in form in some fashion—displeasure at what is in form. So the individual reacts to what he does not like and produces more of what he does not like, and then what he does not like keeps coming. He still does not like it, so he produces some more of it and refuses to let it pass out of his life. The only way you can interfere in that range is by or through your feeling nature, whatever controls in the feeling nature. Once the heart or feeling nature is pure—that is, it is controlled by God—then your connecting link with that layer through which the things of God must come is of a nature that does not interfere with what God is providing, and the things of God begin to get through to you.

We can look back to the time when the disciples were attempting to develop what has become known as Christianity. They had certain ideas, certain beliefs. They were going to obey what they thought the Master intended them to do. But if you go back and examine the pattern as it was you will see that they tended to project into this range something which was not of God's design at all. There was only one who did not function notably on that basis. Peter, for instance, and Paul, just to illustrate, had a concept of persecution against themselves. They expected persecution. They deliberately did things to produce that persecution. When they could have modified expression and been reasonable, they remained hard and unreasonable, and with deep feeling projected into the future that which they and their followers had to receive in the sense of persecution. They produced the condition which caused them to be thrown to the lions and burned at the stake, and all of the rest of it. The situation as it was in the world, difficult as it was, would not have produced that if they had not established it in their own futures by their own attitudes. It has been said, "That which I feared is come upon me." Why? Because the pattern of fear projects something into the future and then it comes sliding out of the future. How far do you think you can project something? A little boy with a squirt gun, who makes it go ten feet or twenty feet? He gets it out there into the future. Little boys and girls with the squirt guns of their own feeling natures, shooting into the future! And then it comes flowing back to them and they do not like it. So they play with their squirt guns all over again and splatter all over the place, shooting it into the future, and here it comes sliding back. You cannot make anything stay in the future. Whatever you project into the future of your own self-active expression is going to come sliding right back out again. That is true, whether we like it or not. You cannot make it stay out there in the future. Something is going to keep coming out of the future as long as you are here to receive it—something. What is it going to be? It depends on what is in the future, and on your capacity to receive, and on your being in position to receive what is coming out of the future. Many times human beings fail to receive something out of the future which is right there at hand to come from God. They are too busy doing something else, chattering about this and that, to receive it. It is there, ready to be born into the realm of form, but they are too busy with something else, following after their own fancies. They are not on hand to share in the delivery into the realm of form.

Frankly, it is impossible for me to establish and maintain a clear pattern out there in the future for you. I can help you do it, out in the future, but I cannot do it alone. It takes you. And as we agree on earth as touching these things, and stop projecting something unreal into the future which must come back to us, we begin to be in position to receive that which is coming out of the east from God to us. And then, as we begin to learn how to receive that which is coming from God, receive it into the realm of form, we can begin to let it flow into the past. The things of God need to extend into the past. That is what the Master was talking about. He said, "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Of course people have arbitrarily taken that to mean various ideas about Jesus coming. It doesn't have anything to do with that at all. But shining out of the east even unto the west will be the coming of the Son of man; that is, the Divine expression of man—which is to say, the revelation of God, or the spirit of God. If we begin to let the spirit of God get through to us so that there can be an outpouring of it, where is the outpouring to be? Into the present, and then extending on into the past. And where does it come from? Out of the east. That is what the Master was talking about. The spirit of God must come out of the east; that is, out of the future, into the present and on into the past. And when it extends into the past as far as we can see, and into the future as far as we can see, and on both sides of us as far as we can see, we will then be in the midst of the Garden of God.

As it is, we are at the edge of the Garden of God. Man has been out of the Garden, but at the edge of it, down through all these thousands of years. It is there, but this little level of the connecting pattern man could interfere with. He could project something into it and prevent the manifestation of what God had made. He could produce what he himself would receive out of the future, and he was not content to trust God. "Oh, I know I must shape it this way and I must shape it that way." He begins to see something taking form and he must get his busy little fingers on it and shape it so that it will be better than what God could possibly make. And then he receives it and it is empty. It is not what he thought it was going to be, and then he blames God. Before we can be in the midst of the Garden we must let it extend into the past. Generations before us have been at the edge of the Garden. Every step of the way since the fall man has been at the edge of the Garden. Every man and woman on the face of the earth has been at the edge of the Garden, and something has been coming to each one out of the future. But man has had to make it, so he thought. Something of God got through to most, at least, or life would have been intolerable, but it was not the pure expression of God's gift, because man had to shape it his way.

Now I have suggested the proper function before, and I have pointed out that the things of God must come to us from out of the east, but perhaps tonight we can have a deep enough realization of what actually takes place, so that we can deliberately stop spoiling—deliberately stop spoiling—what God would give to us. Man can play in this field and produce all sorts of things. He can demonstrate various things, he can produce fantastic things, but they amount to nothing. Or he can learn to leave it alone, and let what happen? Have you been trying to get through the gate into the Garden of God? Do you want to go through that gate? You never will, in the sense of moving through it. Why? Because you would have to go into the future to do it. How can you go into the future? Can you step into the day after tomorrow and live the day after tomorrow before tomorrow comes? Can you? Can you step into the future? No. Very well, then, stop trying to get through the gate that leads to the Garden of God. There is the sword, the flaming sword that turns every way—the flaming sword, God's love and truth, that turns every way at the gate. Now the gate will come up to you as close as you will let it, and if you will really stand still and see the salvation of the Lord the gate will pass by you and go into the past. You stand still and let it come out of the future, truly, and you will go through the gate, because the gate passes back past you. But if you try to go through the gate you never will. However if you will stand still the gate will come up to you and pass you and go into the past, and then you will be inside the Garden of God. It is the only way. Serenity, peace, nonreaction, trust, faith, all of the ideas that have been advanced and have been so ambiguous to most human beings—just doing that in real trust, real centering in God, and it comes up to us. But we must do something about letting it take form. We must share with God the work of giving it form on earth. If you stop spoiling your future and let that pass so that you are next door, so to speak, to that which God would give you, then you must begin to dare to receive that into form. You have to have a little training to learn how.

Now what is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? I have known some fantastic ideas on that score. However the minute that which is of God, that comes through the Garden out of the east, actually begins to flow through you, be born through you in body and mind and heart, so that it can take form and move into the past, that is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But it does something. It does not come swishing through just to give you a little demonstration of what heavenly atmosphere is like, just a little bit of magic or something. It is something real, something that is to take form. Now if we imagined this layer to be—well how thick should it be? How far into the future? Ten minutes into the future? Oh, it is more than that. How should we measure it? Anything we say in illustration will be a bit arbitrary, but we will say an hour, sixty minutes in the future. Sixty minutes into the future. And we will say that from the physical form to that point an hour in the future is about three feet.

Here we have physical form. Next we have the intervening substance until it connects up with pure spirit. That is as far as we can go, to the range of pure spirit. And in between we have the intermediate substance. Now if we are functioning in certain definite patterns, attitudes, we keep projected out here for eighteen inches, eighteen inches into the future, at least thirty minutes, a pattern which constantly changes the future. You know, most of you are that close to the things of God. Just thirty minutes, or eighteen inches. If you keep something projected out there, that eighteen inches—"This is what I am; this is what I expect; this is what I am going to do; I am going to shape it"—then the Garden is still eighteen inches in the future, thirty minutes from now, and heaven is still thirty minutes away. In other words we waste this thirty minutes, then the next thirty minutes, and the next thirty minutes, because we keep the human pattern projected out there. We never let it all back up to where we are. And everything from God has to screen through that which we project.

Thirty minutes! "About the space of half an hour." Do you think I was arbitrary when I said thirty minutes? That was the estimate utilized by the author of the Book of Revelation. So the space of half an hour is about what it would take for any human being to let the future pattern clear so that the things of heaven could start manifesting. But to get someone to do that. I have been working for twenty years to get someone to do that, and heaven is only thirty minutes away for hundreds of thousands of people, and I have not yet been able to convince people that the Garden is really there, only thirty minutes away. Thirty minutes to heaven! And who will believe deeply enough to do what must be done to prove it? Does it take too much faith, and are your own ideas too precious and your own feelings and attitudes too important? If you let that pass away, will everything be gone, with nothing worthwhile left? Are you afraid to let the unreal pass away? Yet this that you have projected out there for eighteen inches, that thirty minutes, is going to pass away sooner or later. You may be able to hold it until a day or two before you die, but then it will begin creeping back, and when it gets back you will be gone. That is the end of it. It is all over then. It is all over, and no resurrection. Life was spent and life was done, and what happened? Too bad! Perhaps someone else will listen.

Heaven, just thirty minutes away! Eighteen inches! If you could just let it back up—all your pet ideas, all the things you keep projecting into the future. You can't get it out very far. I doubt if any of you could get it quite eighteen inches, try as you may. I doubt if it is that far for any of you. But even if it is six inches, that is too far. It has to come back, and what you have shaped, and the thing you hold out there as yourself, must pass away. Now it will, sooner or later; it is mortal; it is going to pass away. It is so nice to let it do it while the body still lives, while you still have the ability to use your mind and your heart, while you have the ability to see all the beautiful things that God has made and do your part in letting the things of God come down out of heaven into the earth. It is so easy, but you have to trust enough to stop eating the forbidden fruit. You have to be willing to let what you think you are pass away, so that you may become what you really are. Now I doubt if there is anyone here who would actually let his heaven get to him in thirty minutes. It could be done—it could be done. It is possible to any of you here, but it is hardly likely that you would do it.

Thirty minutes to heaven, and how long is it going to take you to get there? If you try to get there through the thirty minutes, it will take your whole lifetime and then you will not make it, because as soon as your mind stops functioning, your emotional nature stops functioning, and your hard, determined will cannot hold it anymore, this that is stuck out here in the future for eighteen inches will start backing up and it will pass away and be gone. You will never get to heaven—even though heaven is only thirty minutes away—by trying to go through the thirty minutes to heaven into the future. You have to back up and let what you have made back up, let it pass away. You cannot see what is coming yet, but you have got to let it pass away. The human being must be ready to relinquish what he has made himself to be, willing to let God make him be what he should be.

Someday there are going to be a few people who come to agreement on earth as touching these things, and they are going to be willing to relinquish all the things that separate them from God, from heaven, from one another. They are going to come together with one accord in one place and they are going to start receiving the things of heaven into form together, and that is going to be a most glorious experience for those who dare to do it—the beginning of the manifestation of the spirit of God, the birth into form according to our Master's plan and purpose, according to His instruction given nearly two thousand years ago. Then it was only thirty minutes away, when He gave that instruction. Heaven was only thirty minutes away nineteen centuries ago. It still is. It is right there. And we are still looking to find someone who will let it connect up in this earth, in this world. You have let something of it get through, yes, but you have not let it connect up. It could be with you here, if you are willing to let it be so in the spirit of the Living Christ.

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He Came Straightway Up Out Of The Water

He  Came  Straightway  Up  Out  Of  The  Water

Martin Cecil   August 9, 1964

The Holy Ghost is the name given to the Holy Spirit in its application and action with respect to the individual. We all gather to allow the bringing forth through us individually of that which is a true expression of the spirit of God. This is not properly for any one person, but should be all-inclusive. It has been obvious over the recent days, as various ones have spoken, that there has been an increased experience of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is this baptism which enables us to come into agreement one with another and stay in agreement. It also permits us to work more effectively together in the practical affairs of living day by day. There is no other basis for oneness. To be sprinkled with the water of truth is necessary, but unless we come to the point of the true release of the spirit of God from within us individually, we do not know what it means to be with one accord in one place. This state of being with one accord in one place should not be limited to the time that we are together in the physical sense, but unless it is known when we are here it is unlikely that it will be known when we are not here.

I am sure all of you recognize that while there have been many wonderful experiences, and we anticipate some more, we are a long way from a really practical state of true coordination. That true coordination comes by reason of the individual expression of the spirit of God. That which is so released impels action. We do not expect to be coordinated just by sitting still. Such a state of supposed coordination wouldn't achieve very much. We are concerned with Divine identity, and consequently with giving expression to that which is Divine. The glory of the Lord will never shine round about through anyone who is not in his right place. We can only be in our right place when we accept our proper responsibilities, and when we are not only content to so function but are delighted to so function—we consider it the greatest possible honor to so function. Unless this attitude is present in a person he is certainly not providing the opportunity, to himself or herself, for the experience of baptism by the Holy Ghost. That person is still saying, “I'm not interested in this. All I want is some more water sprinkled on me, and it doesn't matter too much how I get it, as long as I get it.” We need to be in position where we can function with delight in any particular circumstance in which we properly find ourselves; and when we begin to have this attitude, so that we are not involved in judgments, there is the beginning point for the experience of baptism by the Holy Ghost, because something of the Divine expression can begin to come out through the person.

We have had an abundance of baptismal services from the standpoint of water, but unless it leads into the experience of the baptism by the Holy Ghost it is of little avail. We can be baptized with the truth forever and a day and achieve nothing—but like our Master, we need to come straightway up out of the water. He experienced baptism of water at the hand of John, and He came straightway up out of the water. As soon as it was done He came out of it. He didn't linger in there, splashing around. We need to come straightway up out of the water that there may be the experience of the next step, the baptism by the Holy Ghost, which is the release of the spirit of God from within each individual, that we may begin to share in a coordinated pattern. We are to share in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that there may be the development of the actual experience of coordination. If you limit the idea of experiencing this baptism to being in the Chapel here, you are wrong.

If we serve the Lord we are all dedicated to the whole. It is not this group or that group, this individual or that individual, that carries supreme importance to us; it is the whole, and our concern is to find our places of coordination in the whole, together. Whatever it is that is working out through the whole is always of supreme importance. There is a tendency for individuals to imagine that their own little affairs are the most important things. If any of you have that viewpoint then you are a long way from the experience of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, because the spirit of God is concerned with the whole, not just with this person or that person on a segregated basis. If you are participating in the baptism of the Holy Ghost you are concerned with the whole.

One aspect of that concern with the whole will relate to your particular field of responsibility as an individual—but still, the meaning of the individual, the meaning of the group, is contained in the whole, and it is only because of the whole that any of these things have meaning. There needs to be a very clear-cut recognition of this fact, because no part is more important than the whole. It is the needs of the whole, the welfare of the whole, what is working out through the whole. What is required in the moment with respect to the whole, that is the supreme thing, and we must, as individuals, be ready and willing to drop everything if something is required which relates to the whole. It is the coordinated function of the whole that is important, and there can be no coordinated function of the whole without the right attitude toward the whole, so that the whole of which we as individuals are a part may be seen as carrying the supreme importance. None have any meaning if it weren't for the whole. We need to have this vividly in consciousness as we yield to the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

The spirit of God in action through the individual will always maintain a right attitude toward the whole. Under the dominion of the spirit of God we find something moving in us which relates to the whole, and which enables us to take the initiative on a balanced basis, according to our particular fields of responsibility. When we let it work we find that these patterns are coordinated. We already know that nothing just happens. We have already seen many times that we are not waiting for the Lord. He is waiting to find expression through us in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that something may be brought forth which is true to the design—something which must appear through each individual. We use external circumstances, but the external circumstances cannot prevent the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is our own attitudes and choices that prevent it.

We are concerned with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, on the basis of being with one accord in one place. The outpouring of the spirit is the responsibility of each one. It is not as though we were waiting for some collective experience without individually doing anything about it. It doesn't come on that basis. It comes because each individual is doing something about it according to his or her position of responsibility. That position of responsibility changes from moment to moment. We have a particular one now, here. As we move forward in the way, the pattern changes and there are different fields of responsibility for each one. No matter what the field of responsibility is, there is the requirement of being with one accord in one place. Let us not judge between one external place and another. The opportunity is being extended to participate in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Each one who is present has that responsibility of permitting the spirit of God to be in action, not simply of sitting with mouth hanging open waiting for the spirit of God to be in action through somebody else. Whatever is to occur will occur by reason of the extent of the baptism of the Holy Ghost which each one experiences. So we have a group accepting responsibility.

Everyone here has responsibility. We have a particular cycle working out where something much more effective and much more specific may be achieved, and it requires everyone to be with one accord in one place. It doesn't matter where a person is, or what he or she is doing, the same responsibility is present to participate in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which means that the spirit of God is in action through the individual. There will be a sense of delight in doing whatever is to be done. And it is in this that there is oneness, coordination, between us, and to that extent we come with one accord into one place and everyone experiences the intensification of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And it isn't limited. Anyone, anywhere, who is in position, doing what should be done in the expression of the spirit of God, shares it. There's something to be done, so we do it, and we are delighted to do it. It's wonderful to do it. We can be with one accord in one place with ourselves if we are delighted to do it, and we have a base from which to move into the experience of being with one accord in one place with others, and this is that which must be. Let us actually take responsibility in this matter, so that whatever the Lord would give may be given. I don't think that if anything takes form in the way of blessing through the gathering here that it could be contained by those who are present in person. If it is the blessing of the Lord it can't be contained.

Sometimes, in order to permit the generation of what is needful to allow the increase of blessing to be known, it requires that we establish a certain pattern, a certain form, through which this may transpire. I would that everybody would be delighted that it is just the way it is—that everybody might share that delight in whatever field they are functioning, so that we can be with one accord in one place. And because of this, as we let it be so, there is an open door then to the Lord. He can do what He will then. He doesn't have to keep stumbling over inert bodies everywhere. He can come right on into His world and find a welcome there, because there is nobody standing around sucking their teeth. If the Lord comes through His body on earth, is there any part of His body that won't know it? Of course not. We may all know it when we all do what we should be doing. We have a peculiar opportunity—and this is not just for us here gathered, but for the ministry of the Lord as a whole. We are concerned with the whole. We are concerned to represent the whole to the Lord, and very particularly to represent the Lord to the whole. Let's do a good job of it because we will not accept any other control in our lives than that which comes from God, that which is true to His spirit. As we all do this, surely this is bringing all the tithes into the storehouse, so that as the windows of heaven we may be opened for the blessing of the Lord to pour forth into all the earth. This is a challenge to us, a wonderful challenge. Surely we have what it takes to accept it.

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The Holy Mountain Of Love Response

The  Holy  Mountain  Of  Love  Response

Summer  Session — Sunrise  Ranch

Uranda   September 8, 1946

In these last few days of this particular Session cycle, which brings us to a new beginning, we are carrying into levels of consciousness and function that are new to you—to a very high degree at least. It is not expected with respect to the details involved that you will immediately grasp and understand it, but you have been well grounded with respect to the fundamentals, and, always, if you function according to the One Law, and are content to let the vibrations work out without letting your outer mind become self-active and inject questionings and doubt or fears, you will find that the details of the Pattern will come clear. Remember always that it does not make any difference what the circumstance, if there is anything obscure, do not let the mind fasten upon that and begin to go in circles. You do not need to try to understand every point. Remember to function according to the fundamentals which are clear to you, and we will move forward effectively.

The closing of this cycle will bring the opening of another—the beginning of a cycle of Service unprecedented in the whole history of man. It does have precedent with respect to principles, but that is all. The ever-changing picture with respect to the details of application make it impossible for the human mind to grasp or understand all the phases and factors in advance, and that is fundamentally true with the individual in his daily life. Your life unfolds moment by moment, and you have been learning to live in that unfolding moment, and find your life expression in that moment, without being unduly concerned about that which is to be. When we function correctly in this moment, we will be ready for the next, and we will be in position to meet the circumstances that arise as we remain true to the principles we know in each unfolding moment of Eternity.

It is the unfolding nature of life, moment by moment, that makes it so vitally interesting. Why should human beings want so much to know what is ahead of them, what is coming? They may be very thankful that they cannot know more fully than they do. It is wise to enjoy each unfolding moment as it comes, each day with its new opportunities and new expressions of Reality, and with each morning to realize that: “This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” In such a spirit and attitude, we can let the Spirit direct, and we have that assurance in God, by reason of Love for Him, that lets His perfect Love cast out all fear.

More and more in these days, our work comes primarily in the field of radiation. I have, over a wide range, carefully considered the various facts of Truth with you. We have considered the various expressions or portrayals of Truth, and now as we have reached to higher levels of consciousness, you will find expansion coming naturally and easily when you just let go in the Current of the Word, not trying to understand, not trying to analyze or classify, but just letting it flow freely in the Current of Divine Love, and if our work is to mean anything to the world, it must become, dominantly, a work of radiation.

Tonight, I should like to read you the words by which a picture is painted, a portrayal vivid and dramatic, a revelation of Truth in the Pattern of Life, contrasting the real with the unreal, and so as you relax into the Current of this portrayal through the Word, you will find blendings of the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth, and as you realize the outworkings as they are portrayed here, and see how they have been made manifest in your own lives, you let that Current of Realization flow out into the world, because that which was, is now, and the fulfillment which was within the scope of this picture must likewise now appear on a grander scale. This picture contains the Pattern of Fulfillment as it must appear in all the world. I mentioned that this portrayal is vivid and dramatic. It is, but it cannot be as vivid and dramatic as this actual outworking in which you are privileged to have a share—one of those who takes part in the actual outworking of this on a world-wide scope. In such a drama, excellence of function is essential.

Elijah

“And it came to pass, when the human mind recognized the Servant of the Lord, that the human mind said unto him. Art thou he that troubleth the Chosen Ones? And the Servant of the Lord answered, I have not troubled the Chosen Ones, but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed the prince of this world.

“Now therefore send, and gather to me all the Chosen Ones unto the Mount of Decision, and the prophets of the prince of this world four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the self-active habitations of men four hundred, which eat at the queen's table. So the human mind sent unto all the Chosen Ones, and gathered the prophets together unto the Mount of Decision.

“And the Servant of the Lord came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if the prince of this world, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

“Then said the Servant of the Lord unto the people, I, even I only, remain a Prophet of the Lord; but the prince of this world has prophets numbering four hundred and fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks, as the symbol of the self-active, human mind; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

“And the Servant of the Lord said unto the priests of the prince of this world. Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of the prince of this world from morning even until noon, saying, O prince of darkness, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.

“And it came to pass at noon, that the Servant of the Lord mocked them, and said. Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

“And the Servant of the Lord said unto all the people. Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. And the Servant of the Lord took twelve stones, according to the number of the sons of the responding ones, unto whom the Word of the Lord came, saying, the Chosen Ones shall be thy name: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said: Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. And he said: Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said: Do it the third time. And they did it the third time. And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

“And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that the Servant of the Lord came near, and said, Lord God of the Chosen Ones, let it be known this day that Thou Art God, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said. The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.” (l Kings 18:17-39)

You have been sharing in the building of the Altar on the Mount of Decision. You have been letting the Sword of Truth cut the bullock of your self-active, human mind into many pieces, and you have been letting those pieces be laid, one by one, upon the Altar. In time past you have seen and, perchance, at times shared, in the activities of those who undertook to call upon the name of the prince of darkness. You have seen how the priests of his following leap upon the altar, cut themselves and go through all manner of contortions in order to make their activities appear great, and human life is not sacred unto them, and you have found, and you know, that there is no voice, nor any to answer the call of the lonely, or the call of the weary one, or the cry for help from the broken one who puts his trust in the prince of this world. There is no ceasing from struggle and there is no time of rest for those who are the disciples of darkness.

You have been drawn here to the Mount of Decision to share in proving to the world that the prince of darkness is not only not the only god, but more—that he is not a god. And so you have let your bullock be cut in pieces by the Sword of Truth. Step by step, piece by piece, you have relinquished that which has become the burnt offering. The Altar has been builded of living stones, and the wood has been put in order, and the bullock, cut in pieces, has been laid upon the wood. Carefully we have been pouring the four barrels of water over the sacrifice, over the wood and over the Altar. We have done it once; we have done it twice; we have done it a third time—once for each plane of your being. Four barrels of water—the Truth with respect to the Four Forces which provide the Firm Foundation for the expression of Truth according to the Perfect Pattern in the physical plane, in the mental plane and in the spiritual plane—a barrel of water for each plane and for each Force in each plane. Carefully the work has been done; the saturation with the Water of Truth is complete, and the trench round about is filled with the water. The rest remains between the Altar and the Living God.

As I have come unto you, a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, revealing anew for you the Way, the Truth and the Life, you have found that all the people who respond are being drawn, and that the Chosen Ones are coming near unto the Lord. You are finding out what it is to draw near unto the Lord. I have told you of the test by Fire, and you know that it is the Fire of His Love. You know that in the Fire there is nothing to fear for those who love Him, that only that which is contrary to the perfection of the Divine Pattern can be burned away in the Fire.

(Uranda read verses 9-22 of the 21st chapter of Revelation)

These two pictures are one and the same thing. The Holy City, the New Spiritual Consciousness in which you are learning to dwell, is coming down from God out of Heaven. As you have come unto a great and high mountain, it has ceased to be for you the Mount of Decision, and has become for you the Holy Mountain of Love Response to the Lord of Love.

O Lord of Love, Thou glorious, wondrous One, we wait upon Thee, willing to let Thy Will be done on earth as Thy Will is done in Heaven; for Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” In the Flaming Fire there is Love, and the dark corners are searched out and purified; for there is no house great enough to contain both Him and the prince of darkness.

O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, as these Blessed Ones and all who respond with them are being prepared to enter fully into the Flame wherein the causes of limitation are burned away, I rejoice to know that their response is unto Thee, that they may abide ever in Thy Peace and be forever a channel of Thy Joy into the world.

O LORD, I thank Thee for the wonder of Thy Love and for the blessed privilege we have of drawing near unto Thee, that we may with one accord let that purity of heart be established which lets that Spirit come unto us and abide in us, now and forevermore, IN the Christ. Aum-en.

When your senses blend into one thing and you are focalized in the consciousness of Love Response to the Lord, you cease being conscious of yourself as an individual. How many of you shared that experience? Most of you. Remember that I said it was a losing of consciousness of oneself as an individual. It is the coming to a focalization in a suspended point of awareness in consciousness where consciousness of body or hands or feet or physical or mental or spiritual or anything like that tends to disappear. I think you did a remarkable job of letting your minds be stilled tonight.

Several of you mentioned having a feeling of suspension, of being lifted up. That was true of most of you. That is the longest period of silence where you have been able to function as a Unit on a focalized vibration, and I think you did remarkably well. As we reach a point where we can relax into it and let ourselves be drawn into that type of focalization of consciousness where there is the stillness of Heaven, and your consciousness is then suspended in Love Response to the LORD, the expression of simple Truth through that Current or through that focalization of consciousness into the world will produce a means by which we can share in powerful radiation, and the significance of those simple Truths in that sphere of focalization of consciousness and attunement with the Divine, of consciousness of oneness in the Christ Love and the Current of His Power, will permit increasing steps in Illumination.

You are not attempting to carry anything but a recognition of fundamental principles with which you harmonize in such a period of Silent Radiation as this. Of course, there will be various methods of utilizing it, but there will be expressions of simple Truth that will have peculiar meaning to you individually and collectively and in radiation to the world, and you will find, drawing into this focalization of consciousness, an awareness of Reality on a new level of perception. That is about as near as I can describe it at the moment, because we are coming into this realm, and you know from what you have experienced tonight that words do not convey very much of it. Words are inadequate. What I say under such conditions will tend primarily to be keys that will help your mind make an attunement in the Current, and permit spiritual communion or conveying of Spiritual Truth on a level transcending the use of words, and the degree to which you have a definite consciousness of it in the shape of words is beside the point, and there will develop a consciousness on that level of spiritual communion where words are not necessary in a new level of consciousness.

I feel that you did splendidly tonight, and I praise God for you and with you, and it is really an opening or a beginning of that co-ordination in consciousness which allows an ever-increasing fullness of the Fire of His Love to be made manifest through you in an increasingly powerful Current, and I praise the Lord for you and with you. Perhaps one of the best ways that you could think of it at the moment is as an Open Window of Heaven. The Window is not trying of itself to see what is in Heaven. It is an Open Window of Heaven.

If there comes a sense of being separate from peace by reason of any of your activities, it would be well, in the first place, not to let it be a cause of disturbance. In the second place which is, properly, primary, pause for a few moments in Love Response to the Lord, and it should be easy for you to relax into that sense of peace; and it will be, more and more as we move forward, that all of your activities will be carried on within the scope of this deeper sense of utter peace, and as you become so polarized that you can function from within that peace, you will find that what you say and do tends to carry peace into the world. Unless you can function from within that peace, you cannot give peace to the world.

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