Michael And His Angels
The Work Of The Spirit Of Truth
Uranda September 14, 1946 Summer Session — Sunrise Ranch
Once again we gather in the Name of our KING, rejoicing in the abundance of His Blessing, and most especially in the reality of His cleansing power, by reason of which we are prepared to let that which is of Him come fully and gloriously into manifestation in the earth. It is not to satisfy some need of God that we are required to relinquish such manifestations of the unreal as may remain, but, rather, for that blessing which He would give unto us, that we may be so open unto Him that only that which is of Him may appear and be made manifest in the earth. And so, when we realize the blessings which God hath prepared for them that Love Him and recognize, of a Truth, that “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man” what those things are that God hath prepared for them that Love Him, the human mind enters into a state of willingness to let God have His Way, in the realization that all things do truly work together in perfection for those who Love and Serve Him. Loving Him means abiding in polarity in Him. Serving Him means letting His Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1). Always, as we let go to the cleansing power of God, there is, during the cleansing, a certain degree of what we might call fear and trembling before the Lord. That which is real in cleansing always comes with a deep sense of humility before God, and when it is real, there is a recognition of human unworthiness with respect to the abundance of the blessings of God and the opportunity that is granted in having the unreal burned away, that that which is of Him may come gloriously into manifestation. Very often it is difficult to acknowledge the ill thing before the Lord. A certain one once said to me, after having completed a phase of confession, that it was the hardest thing for him to do, and yet, when the release comes, what blessed peace, what wondrous sweetness follows the purging of the Lord. “… and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it.”
To my mind, the working processes of the Spirit in purging and in cleansing should bring to the earnest one one of the highest degrees of satisfaction possible to human beings; for in that there is the assurance that you are a branch of the Vine. If you were cut off, there would be no process of purging; there would be no Call of the Spirit toward purging, and there would be no recognition of the necessities of purging. Therefore, while the purging process may not in itself, for the moment, be the most pleasant thing in the world, the very fact of its existence gives assurance to the Earnest One that he is a branch of the One Vine and that he is bringing forth fruit; for the Master said: “… and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it,” and in order to bring forth fruit, it must be in the Vine. The purging period may be long or short, depending upon many factors, but, primarily, a lengthening of the time of purging comes from the human mind's tenacious holding to the unreal, being unwilling to relinquish it on the basis of human pride or some other such reason. In such cases, the operation is longer and more painful, but when there is a full, true willingness to let go in Love to the LORD and relinquish whatever He may find fit to purge, we find that He does not remove from us those things that are beautiful and glorious. He only removes the things that are not pleasant; He only removes those things that have done so much to make life on earth an expression of hell instead of an expression of Heaven, and all that is lovely, beautiful, fine, real and true remains, and is part of that new expression of the branch that comes forth.
During the process of purging, it is so needful that there be a true realization of these words: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" When there is that consciousness of polarity in Him, the passage through the abyss of nothingness is not difficult. If there be tendencies to respond to those things that are round about and below, fears beset, faith weakens, strength diminishes and a sense of separation from God creeps in. There is the Way, there is the Truth and there is the Life for each one, without one single exception, and when we abide in the realization that “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” there comes a consciousness of the fact that all things are caused to work together in perfection for those who Love and Serve the LORD truly. He does not desire to take anything from us; He only desires to give the fullness of which we are capable, that we may share the joy of the Master, and that our joy may he full.
I do not think I would quite agree with Paul where he says: “For it is impossible…” I would add a word. “For it is 'virtually impossible' (not quite) for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance.” I refuse to believe that there may not be some, under the intensifying currents to come, who may again, under the pressures of life's circumstances, be brought to repentance. The point that is essential is that they be renewed again unto repentance: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
I have not talked much in My Ministry about sin, for the same reason that I have not talked much about salvation, but, rather, have I been seeking to draw individuals into a realization of the Way, the Truth and the Life, that they might come to a true recognition of what salvation is, and to a true realization of the necessities of the cleansing of the Spirit, that, being actually a branch of the One Vine, they might share in that purging by which they may be caused to bring forth more fruit, and finally become true disciples of the Master and bring forth much fruit. There have been many ideas expressed as to that fruit. It is simply the fruit of the Spirit; that is, the fruit of the expression of the Christ-like Life made manifest on earth.
This Unit, coming into a realization of cleansing, that there may be a true and real belief on Him Whom we serve, is being drawn into a focalization of the expression of the Life Currents, and of the blessing of God on earth by which it may be the beginning of the manifestation of the Tree of Life. That Current of Life from God, manifesting through the characteristics that are natural to God—that which is noble, honorable, true, real, lovely and beautiful—causes the manifestation of the fruit of the Tree of Life. That same Life Force, working through the channels of man’s self-activity, according to his human pride and desire and fancy, brings forth the fruit of the tree of death. The Current in both cases is exactly the same. The channel of manifestation determines the difference. It is man's failure to recognize this simple, fundamental Truth that has prevented the restoration to the Edenic State long ago, and, except those channels of the unreal that may have still been retained in you be purged away, how can the fruit of the Tree of Life manifest in you?
During this process of transformation from one level of consciousness to another, you have, to a degree, been bringing forth fruit of two kinds. Only to the degree that you were polarized in the One Source could you begin to experience this transformation which you have been sharing, but the devil of the outer mind, following after his usual custom of sowing tares in the wheat field, or grafting unreal branches to the Tree to bring forth his own fruit, has been able to maintain, to a degree, some of his own graftings. Those branches that have been grafted into your branch by the devil of the outer mind in self-activity are not yours, actually, truly, in reality. Why should there be any hesitancy in letting those branches that have been grafted in be cut off, that you may bear the fruit of the Tree of Life, and that fruit only? What gain is there in maintaining, in hiding within the true branches somewhere, a branch that has been grafted on by the devil of the outer mind? I see no gain, but loss; for there is this great Truth: self-activity always comes at a high price. All self-activity carries a very high price, and there is nothing gained in return. The whole experience of man proves that. So, we recognize that we cannot afford self-activity. If there be a degree of self-activity unconsciously participated in, so that there is what we may call, as Arjuna expressed it, “a witless sin,” and there be true response to reality, then it is, if the individual is abiding truly in his polarity, easily and quickly nullified, and the branch of the unreal grafted in is quickly cut away; it is pruned. Every branch that beareth not fruit is cut off. Let us let the branches of the unreal be cut off, and let us let the branches that do bear the fruit of Life be purged and cleansed, that there may be no fruit of the tree of death manifest in and through you.
Jesus, our LORD, revealed the fruits of the Tree of Life. He established the trunk of the Tree of Life on earth whereunto man might turn, if he would, to partake of that fruit, that man might be grafted into that trunk by the Hand of God, and become a branch of the Vine. He said: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.” He revealed the Father. He brought forth on earth the fruit of the Tree of Life, even unto the Victory over death. “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.” There is the measure of belief, as to whether or not it is real. The Works that He did were to reveal the Father, and to bring forth the fruits of Life on earth.
Concerning the work of the Spirit of Truth, our Master said that he should reprove the world of sin because they (that is, the people of the world) believe not on Him. Any individual who believes not on Him is in sin, and if he does believe on Him he brings forth the fruit of the Tree of Life and reveals the Father. There is the dividing line. It is not something that I can alter or change, nor would I if I could. “He that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad,” said the Master. The Spirit of Truth, the Comforter, “will reprove the world of sin ... because they believe not on me.” They who believe reveal the Father and bring forth the fruit of the Tree of Life on earth. There is the simple, fundamental fact, and we have to face it whether we like it or not.
As a background of that vital fact, let us consider something else. I shall not undertake to list the things which human beings do, and the attitudes they hold, or the nature of function by which they bring forth the fruit of the tree of death, but some of them are: human pride, jealousy, fear of that which is of the unreal, which means faith in the works of the devil; and out of these spring such things as hate.
I was thinking of the first sin. Lucifer, the bright and Morning Star, was in heaven with the LORD. Let not the thought of heaven take you away from the earth; for in the beginning, and as it shall be in the end, heaven and earth were one. Lucifer was the bright and Morning Star, that which gave impulse to the expression of God on earth in a new cycle of time; for Divine Man was in heaven, even though he was also on earth. Remember that. Lucifer, watching, seeing the fulness of love and devotion given to the LORD of Love, began to be arrogant; he began to be jealous of the LORD. Was he not created beautiful? Why should he not receive the same degree of devotion, the same degree of response, and have the same degree of influence? Why should the LORD of Love receive all the wonder of the expression of love response? Lucifer began to be jealous. He began to think that there was no reason why he should not receive at least a portion of that love response. He began to think that he was just as good as our LORD. Pride entered in, and Lucifer in heaven—heaven and earth were one—the bright and Morning Star let the serpent begin to turn into the dragon. And what happened?
Michael and His Angels threw him out of heaven. It mattered not who it was, Lucifer or anyone else. Lucifer and his angels were thrown out of heaven. It was not the LORD of Lords who did it. The sin was against Him who is our KING. The LORD of Lords did not have to do it. Michael and His Angels did it, and they did it promptly, effectively and with dispatch. Lucifer and his angels were thoroughly thrown out of heaven into the earth, that if it might be that they should repent on earth, they might, in season, return to heaven. Do you think that the one who threw Lucifer out of heaven into the earth could stand as a respecter of persons in the process of throwing the dragon out of the earth? Just as surely as the cleansing came in heaven, so must it come on earth. Time has been given, remember, but the dragon is going to be cast out of the earth also.
I have come into the world as a voice from heaven, saying: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” Those who are on the LORD's side, those who will let themselves be established in Him, are being called; but those who choose to be the angels of the dragon on earth will receive no more tender mercy from Michael and His Angels than they did in the first place, when it comes to the cleansing in the earth. Except the cleansing come individually, and then a still higher cleansing collectively, the cleansing of the earth will remove the individual.
Lucifer and his angels undertook to fight. It was a sad mistake. If it had not been for intercession on the part of the LORD of Love Himself, Michael would not have just cast them out of heaven into the earth, they would have been annihilated. The gratitude which has been shown to the LORD of Love through these thousands of years for His intercession, that they should be cast into the earth only, that they might repent and return, has not been such as to make one think that a great deal of mercy needs to be extended much longer. Nevertheless, in order that man might have every opportunity, after our Master came on earth and was rejected and crucified of men, Michael, to keep that Act from being in vain if possible, himself took up the work of intercession; for if it had not been so, that dark day would have brought the end for the human family. That the Act of the LORD of Love might mean something, that it might not be in vain, Michael himself accepted the intercessory work for mankind for a season.
We stand at the door. Michael stands at the Gateway of the Garden, at the entrance of the Kingdom, with a Flaming Sword that turns every way. The call has sounded: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” For those who believe not on Him the blow of death is dealt them now, and that which comes will but slay the slain. The only sin is the sin of not believing on Him, and lip service and claiming to believe carries utterly no weight with the Angel who stands at the Gate. Either there is the return to the Father, and the bringing forth of the fruits of the Tree of Life, or there is no entering in. That is belief. And failure to believe on Him is the only sin as far as Michael is concerned, under which the world stands condemned; for all other so-called classifications of sin are merely stems or branches of that one sin, and they mean nothing.
I have not talked to you about sin, in the ordinary fashion, because human beings only talk about the branches of sin. I have wanted to do it when I might point you vividly to the one sin: the sin of not believing on Him. That is the only one about which I am concerned. To the degree that there is response which lets the individual come closer and closer into an actual state of belief on Him, his so-called sins in the world amount to nothing as far as the intercessor for the human race is concerned. But if they believe not on Him, all the claims of all the self-righteous ones on the face of the earth amount to nothing. All the works you have done, no matter how much you have thought you served Him, or how much you have given supposedly in the name of the LORD, mean utterly nothing unless they be the fruit of belief on Him; that is, the revelation of the Father and the bringing forth of the fruits of the Tree of Life on earth. That is the necessity. It cannot be done in human strength. Only in love response to Him whom the world has rejected can it be done, and that stands as the one requirement. When human beings stop rejecting Him and stop crucifying Him, they are welcomed at the Gate, but if any shall think to enter in past that Flaming Sword that turns every way without having actually believed on Him, they follow after the figment of a fanciful dream.
“Of sin, because they believe not on me,” said the Master. He was outlining what? He was outlining that work which the Lord of Truth had accepted and undertaken, that the Act of the LORD of Love might not be in vain. “He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me.” The one sin—the one requirement. Now is the accepted time. Now is the Day of Salvation. It is written that He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
This morning I have told you what sin is, what the conditions are, and what the requirements are. Since this is the work of the Spirit of Truth, the Lord of Truth had something to do with the establishment of those points. That point with respect to sin has been simplified to the highest possible degree, and the way of man's return to God made as easy as possible within the scope of Truth, because it carries back to the point of the original sin, the first step in the fall, and the whole thing hinges on that one point. All else can be as if it had not been.
“The first shall be last, and the last shall be first,” applies here to that first sin: “They believe not on me.” And so these things are said in the infinite love of God, according to the absolute nature of the pattern of truth, in the simplest possible form. The battle is not done as far as the clearing away is concerned, but the victory has already been won. It is merely a matter of waiting to see who will share that victory. The hand of the Angel has long been stayed.
As you begin to realize these things vividly and truly—and as you recognize that this is the most serious subject possible to the consideration of man under the sun—you have a deeper realization with respect to your calling as a member of the One Christ Body on earth. The utter impudence of man in presuming to continue to hold back in the face of all that is done does not augur well for man. But all of you may have opportunity in the closing days of this cycle—and to the degree that you actually realize the responsibility that is yours as a member of the One Christ Body, you will see that now this Christ Body is a form in which the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth are incarnate together at the same time in the one form, that the polarities may be established and the work of intercession may continue for a little time; for the Angel with the Sword, when he begins his work, will not be interceding for anyone, and except there be intercession, who should remain? This is that to which you are called, and except you be cleansed, how should you stand untouched of that Sword? If you be not cleansed until you are touched of the Sword, how should you intercede for any? It is so ordained. No man can alter or change it except for himself, choosing as to where he shall stand: either upon the rock or the sinking sand.
The Master said: “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” With respect to these things, I suggest that a period of quietness in the LORD, and meditation and deeper examination, especially with respect to the fullness of polarity in the LORD of Love, is in order. The Master said: “For the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.” Let the purging so take place that when the Angel with the Sword appears, He shall find nothing further to cleanse away. When he appears…? He is here, but he hath not yet taken up his sword against the world.
Love Response
To The Lord Of Love
Uranda September 14, 1946 Summer Session — Sunrise Ranch
Today we have been considering the necessities involved in reproving the world of sin, because they believe not on Him whom we serve. We recognize that we ourselves must experience cleansing before we can be a pure channel through which others may be drawn to the cleansing. There may be degrees of impurity, but impurity is impurity, and purity, as far as we are concerned, rests in the absolute fulfilment of the first of the two great commandments. Impurity, whatever it may be, is that which detracts from a one-hundred-percent response to the LORD of Love. Anything, whatever it may be, from human standards—good, bad or indifferent—that detracts from a one-hundred-percent love response to the LORD of Love is a factor of impurity. We recognize this to be absolutely true. This afternoon I would like to assist you to an expanded vision whereby you may more easily distinguish between those things that are proper and those things that are not proper with respect to this one great point.
The LORD of Lords and KING of Kings is the absolute focalization of the Whole Holy World. This means that in fact—spiritually, vibrationally, from any standpoint whatsoever—He is the point of focus for all that is contained within the Whole Holy World. Everything that has any proper place in that whole range is polarized in Him. To the degree that any individual or any condition does not have a focus in Him it is of the unreal and is to be done away with. Since He is the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and all that is properly contained within the Seven Planes of Being is focalized in Him, then every recognition of that which is lovely, beautiful, true, honest, pure, holy, sacred, is in its essence, when recognized in love response to Him, actually a recognition of Him. We are all members of His Heavenly Body that fills the Whole Holy World. This Body of God that fills the Whole Holy World has its absolute focalization of the Head in Him. There are those who share with Him the position of the complete formation of the Head of the Body, but with respect to the Head itself, He is the Head. That Nucleus of the Divine Body, then, that is the Head of the Body of God in the Whole Holy World, while functioning in its position as the Head, in turn recognizes Him as the absolute point of focalization of the Head, and therefore He is the Head. And He is the contact point between this Body of God that fills the Whole Holy World and the Cosmos, the realm of God Being beyond this world.
We recognize that in all things there are focalizations. Wherever there is a cycle there is a Center of that cycle. As revealed in Ezekiel's vision, there are wheels within wheels. Regardless of your relationship to the other members or parts of the Body of God in the Whole Holy World, there is a cycle that has its Center in you—that is, of the individual nature. That in turn is a part of another cycle—whether at the Center or as a part of that cycle is for the moment beside the point—and then that cycle is again a part of another, and so on, until we have the LORD of Lords at the Absolute Center of the Whole insofar as this Whole Holy World is concerned. Recognition of that which is vibrationally above you is a recognition of the LORD of Lords.
We have the word of the Psalm: Lift up your eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh your help. The hills are as high as you can see; they may be at one level for one person, at another level for another person, but whatever you see and recognize that is high and holy and wonderful does not reach the point of the absolute until it is of a truth a recognition of the LORD of Lords Himself. Whatever it may be within the scope of the Whole Holy World, that which is of the real leads to Him, that which is of the real points to Him, and the reality that exists, whether of the Inner Planes or of the outer, and all of the expression of God Being and the degree to which that Divine Being is made manifest in the human being, is contained within the One Christ Body of God, which fills the Whole Holy World. Response to that which is not of Him is a detraction from your response to Him; but response to all things lovely, beautiful, real, fine, true, sacred, holy, in a spirit and attitude of love response to Him, regardless of whether the vision of Him is clear or not, is a response to Him.
The degree to which you see the LORD and know Him is not the determining factor as to the purity of your response to Him, because there may be a one-hundred-percent response at your level of consciousness and point of being in the Body without a full consciousness of Him as He is in reality, the Absolute Head of the Body of God. When this is seen, there should come an easy recognition of the fact that the recognition of the Divine can be experienced anywhere, at any time, under any circumstance, and that is a recognition of God. And a recognition of God is a recognition of the Body of God, and a recognition of the Body of God is a recognition of the Head of that Body. Therefore, while I have emphasized, and do and shall emphasize, the necessity of absolute response to the LORD of Love, it should be recognized that I do not expect you now, or necessarily at any near future time, to have an absolutely clear-cut, vivid, actual, complete knowledge of the LORD of Lords Himself as a Being. This is not to detract from Him, but to open the way for you to draw still nearer to Him, so that you may not feel a separation from Him where you are.
If He, as He is in reality, as He is by His own right and nature, in His place as an individual God Being, were to suddenly appear before us in the fulness of that glory, these physical temples would be utterly consumed and they would not remain for His uses in this world. However the very nature of the structure of the Body of God, coupled with the manner of expression of God through creation, particularly through man, permits a clear consciousness of our LORD and of our attunement and harmony with Him, wherever we may be. He Himself said that we must worship God in spirit and in truth. We might say that the truth of the matter is that God is everywhere, but to worship Him in spirit requires a feeling recognition, a perception of Him as He is made manifest at that point. We might say that God is in this space, or in this tree, etc. While that is basically true, unless there be some understanding of the nature of the Being of God, it might be supposed that the Body of God is there. The Body of God is there in the sense of the spaces in the Body of God perhaps, or in the spirit between the points of focalization in the Body of God. But the thing that I am seeking to draw into clear, vivid consciousness is that the manifestation of Deity, of the Divine, of that which has its source in God, is our contact point with God, and we must have a consciousness of that which is higher than that which is so perceived. That is our vision of God, and it is a recognition of the LORD of Lords if it is a recognition of God.
Our focalized consciousness, in its highest attunement, should always be centered in the highest point of recognition in the Body of God, or the Being of God, of which we are aware. There is of course a consciousness of the LORD of Love as being a Being. Some of you may say that you have seen visions of Him, and I would not deny it, although I would doubt if you had actually seen Him—a projection of Him by some means, for some cause perhaps, probably colored or toned down by your state of consciousness, etc. In saying this I am not advising that you try to get visions of Him, but only pointing out that you have not seen Him as He is, but that nevertheless you are never without a contact point with Him and that all that is of the Divine, when it is recognized, is a recognition of Him without respect to the particular beings that may be immediately involved.
As long as there is love response to Him, whatever is right, according to His will, will work out. The former things are passed away. God Himself shall wipe away all tears from your eyes. There have been a few tears with respect to the process of cleansing that we have had. No one needs to be ashamed of such tears. As there is a true cleansing, a purification, so that that which is of God can move through the individual, God Himself wipes away the tears, a sense of peace, satisfaction, well-being comes, and we abide in that polarity in function with God. We have to learn to function on an open vibration toward God. You do not have to be wide open to the world; you are not responding to the world. There may be at times even an appearance of hardness toward the world; be careful about that, to see that it is not self-active. But the openness is toward God, and anything that is done must be on the vibration of the cycle with respect to that thing, if it is going to be really worthwhile. All of this relates to bringing forth the fruit of the spirit in the earth, which must be, if we are to prove that we believe on Him.
© emissaries of divine light
I Love You, Lord
Martin Cecil April 22, 1973
“The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and in 1946
the initial starting point for the resurrection of the body of the Son of God
came into form right here on Sunrise Ranch.”
“And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” This is the will of God through Shekinah: that those who belong in the Body of the Son of God should be raised up at the last day. The last day is the Sixth Day of the creative cycle, upon which the creation, or the re-creation, of Man occurs—the last of the six days, when man is brought forth complete and whole. At the point of re-creation on the Sixth Day the facility called Man on earth is available for God to extend His creative works from the surface of the earth.
The Seventh Day is the day when God rested because there was a Man. He had therefore a place to rest His head on earth—the union of God and Man. This was the completion of the creative cycle in the sense of bringing forth all the facilities that were necessary for God's action on earth. Of course from that point the creative work for which all this had been brought forth might begin. Certainly it was not as though, having got that job done, God then said, “I will call it a day and rest eternally thereafter.” No, the real job was just getting started because there was a means to do it.
And then of course the failure came—as we know in our own present experience; this is made plain—so that the job which was to be done has not yet been done. Clearly then, the first order of business is to recreate man on earth, capable of experiencing oneness with God. All the elements of heredity, all the remaining influences of self-centeredness, all the distorted patterns in body, mind and heart, must be cleansed away so that man may become again what he was originally created to be. Coming to the last day in this recreative cycle of resurrection it is said that Shekinah will lift him up—lift him up into union with God, obviously a task incapable of being performed in human self-centeredness. The external manifestation of man, both the positive and negative triune aspects, are the creation. The creation cannot govern itself without disaster. Let it be in the hands of God so that the resurrection may occur.
These things are clearly portrayed in this particular passage which we have considered today but also in many places throughout the Bible. It is not as though man had been left without any hint as to what was necessary. It has all been plainly set forth. We are the inheritors of all that has been offered down through the ages. Those who lived in the past didn't have quite so much. This would seem to indicate that we have less excuse for failure than those who went before us. But the truth has been offered to guide human beings in the Way if they were willing to pay attention. However, it is also true that there are definite creative cycles and one cannot ignore what is unfolding in those creative cycles. Some may say, “Why wasn't something initiated before this time? After all, it has been nineteen centuries and nothing happened!”
When there is an aborted cycle it must work itself through to the point where it may rightly be reinitiated in the correct sequence of the Four Forces. We need to remember that nothing can be creatively accomplished from the Divine standpoint except on the basis of the working of the Law and the operation of the creative forces. We noted that when our LORD and KING was on earth He came to initiate a creative cycle, and of course He did it on the basis of the first of the Four Forces: Water, truth; the spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. “Let there be light.” He said of Himself, “I am the light of the world.” However, He made it plain that it was not necessary for the light to be extinguished if He left. Of those who desired to follow Him He said, “Ye are the light of the world.” So He initiated the creative cycle on the basis of the First Force.
But there was failure, not on His part but insofar as the essential response to what He brought was concerned, so that in fact the creative cycle which He initiated was aborted—in the creative sense it never went beyond the First Force. A few hundred years after He was on earth the Dark Ages ensued, clearly indicating the abortion of the cycle. However, this didn't mean that, that cycle having been aborted, one could ignore the rest of the forces and try to start another one right away. It had to work its way through the Four Forces, and this can be followed out in the record of history, as we noted. After the Dark Ages came the Renaissance, a spiritual renewal of vision—something to do with Air, the air of the spirit—mostly related to the field of art, art particularly in religion. So here was the reaction of human beings to the air force, but because it was an aborted cycle “the Lord was not in the air.” The Reformation followed shortly thereafter, having something to do with form, with Earth. Various things worked into this earth aspect of the pattern: the industrial revolution came along. There were sundry earthquakes, “but the Lord was not in the earthquake.” And finally, while there had been many wars and rumors of wars during this time, as there have been throughout human history, the culmination came at the time of the First World War—Fire. The Second World War followed after, as a postscript to the First World War, “but the Lord was not in the fire.” It wasn't until this creative cycle, which could have been included in the process by which the resurrection of the Body of the Son of God took place on earth, had been completed in its aborted condition that the world came again to the point where the Water Force might once more find application.
These things can't be ignored and are not ignored by God. He never tries to do the impossible; He takes things as they come. He is content to let the cycles unfold to the point where advantage may be taken again of what comes next. We see something of what comes next in relationship to that with which we are ourselves now associated, because at about the time the Second World War came to a close Sunrise Ranch was bought, and in 1946 the birth in the Water Cycle of the new creation, or the starting point of the cycles of resurrection occurred. Uranda was responsible for this. There had been of course prior preparation. But the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and in 1946 the initial starting point for the resurrection of the Body of the Son of God came into form right here on Sunrise Ranch—a very little thing, just as small, relatively speaking, as the one cell at the point of conception in the Mother's body.
Now this doesn't really relate to birth in the ordinary sense. Our Master spoke of these things to Nicodemus, and Nicodemus was a bit confused. How would it be possible to climb back into one's mother's womb? It isn't a matter of birth in the ordinary sense, because the Body of the Son of God was already born. The very fact that mankind has persisted on earth to this very hour is an indication that the Body of the Son of God is potentially present—seemingly dead heretofore. So this concerns what may well be called rebirth. And while the cycle of rebirth does relate to the cycle of original birth, it obviously is a different process, symbolized and represented by the body of Jesus in the tomb. This cycle of rebirth, insofar as He was concerned, initiated the resurrection. There had to be a starting point in that apparently dead body. For a starting point to be there it obviously was not dead in fact, no matter what the appearance was. The same is true of the true Body of the Son of God in the world today, and in the world throughout the ages. Life has been in the carcass of mankind all down through the ages; not life which would give evidence of the Body of the Son of God, but life present nevertheless. Because of the fact of life still persisting there is a starting point in the true Body of the Son of God, and this starting point was activated as the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters specifically in 1946.
The Fire Cycle was complete—and it sure ended with a bang, didn't it?—so that instantly the LORD was right there to take advantage of the situation. He didn't linger or hang around and say, “Well we'd better wait for a while; it's not very propitious at the moment; it doesn't look as though many people are going to respond. We'll wait.” No, He was right on the job. In fact He had been making preparation before the point was reached, so that there was something present on earth to permit the spirit of God at this level to move upon the face of the waters. So the new creative cycle was initiated: the cycle of rebirth, which is succeeded by the cycles of resurrection, the Six Days of re-creation. And we have been moving together in this unfolding creative process that we might come, following out the correct sequence of the Four Forces, to the Sixth Day, when man is restored—restored as an adequate Six-Plane facility for the LORD.
Individually speaking the same principle is at work, and the Lord for the individual is the truth of his own Being. The consciousness of the fulness of that truth comes when the wholeness of the facility is available for the expression of Shekinah. We know ourselves by reason of the expression of what we are. If what we are in reality is only partially expressed we can but know ourselves partially, and it will be partially expressed until all the cycles of the recreative process have worked out to the Sixth Day. This does not mean that we do not have a changed awareness of ourselves. It merely means that because the facility for the full expression of ourselves individually and collectively has not yet reached the Sixth Day there can be only a partial experience. So we are content with that. We know why it is that way and we do not fool ourselves into imagining that it is not that way. There are those who have caught a glimpse of the way things are but, still being caught in the self-centered trap, they have proceeded to put on a big front which was supposed to be the Truth of Being, saying in effect, “I am the Lord.” The Lord on earth requires the facility recreated for His expression if His identity is to be known.
So we remain humble, in an awareness that there are many hereditary factors present in the external manifestation, particularly in the subsurface levels of consciousness, which do not make possible as yet the full expression of what we are in reality. We have noted that the requirement is to remain true to the truth that we do know in surface consciousness, not allowing ourselves to be distracted by the call and the clamoring of what is symbolized by Eve, who constantly invites us to eat some more of that delicious forbidden fruit. If we do again accept the government of the results of our own actions we perpetuate the fallen state and we interrupt the creative cycle that was working out in us individually.
The cycle works out, wheels within wheels, always on the basis of the true sequence of the Four Forces. So if you abort the cycle somewhere, by accepting the government of externals, there will be the necessity of letting that cycle move all the way through until it can be reinitiated. I may say that in the outworking of things in this ministry we have vast experience in this regard, most of which was unrecognized by those who precipitated the abortion of the cycle, because the individual, having aborted the cycle—it only takes a moment—then says, “Let's forget about that. Let's get back on the beam again here and get going in the cycle and carry it forward.” It doesn't work that way. Once the cycle is broken it can only be initiated again when it comes around to the proper starting point.
Over the years so many of those who have been associated with the unfoldment in this ministry have been occupied with aborting cycles in relationship to themselves. But of course you can't abort a cycle in relationship to yourself without affecting everybody else. So someone, somewhere, aborts a cycle. It becomes necessary to wait, insofar as that individual is concerned, for things to work themselves through to the point where something can be reinitiated. And while this is going on someone else aborts a cycle over here, and back and forth it goes. As soon as we get something reinitiated over here someone aborts another one over there. So, seemingly the process has been slow because of these things. But the overall pattern has continued. The more adequate the steadfast Core is the more stabilizing influence is released to all those who are beginning to share in the resurrecting process as it relates to the Body of the Son of God.
I bring these things out and emphasize them so that from the standpoint of your surface consciousness you may recognize what happens and you may be more careful then to make very sure that you do not do anything to abort the cycle in which you are moving, to abort the cycle for which you are responsible. Now there will be opportunity to do it, just as there were those three opportunities specifically brought to focus through what are called the three temptations of Jesus. There were provided three very specific opportunities for Him—if He was interested, which He wasn't—to abort the cycle which was moving through Him. He refused to do it, and anyone may refuse to do it. Regardless of feeling, one may stay steady. You find agreement with the Truth, and fundamentally you do this because: “I love You, LORD.”
“I love You, LORD,” and only on the basis of this is a person capable of loving another in the right way. The first commandment really does come first. It isn't just a nice suggestion; it is a command. Do it or else! That's what it amounts to. This is the Law. And when we love the LORD we love Love. And finding oneness consequently with the LORD in that love, there is unified radiation—the radiation of Love. In the expression of the Truth of Love we then know what Love is. Love is experienced because we express it. But we do not try to express love according to our own idea of what love is, because that is self-centeredness. We have no real idea of what love is until we know the truth of it, and we can't know the truth of it until we love the LORD. Very often when a person is told to love the LORD he says, “Well then I am not going to be able to love anybody else.” That's right! Self-centered you is not to love anybody else, because the only way you can love anyone else is self-centeredly, and that is no good. It brings all the woes that we may observe very easily in the world.
“I love You, LORD.” And we come again to be held steady by Shekinah in the creative cycles. We are not trying to do anything else, and we do not need to try to do that even. If we love the LORD we do it. If we are genuine in our attitude, “I love You, LORD,” where is the problem? If you genuinely love, you naturally do what is necessary because of that love; you don't have to try to do it. Love makes it so that one couldn't do anything else; it is actually impossible to do anything else. Of course in self-centeredness the individual is inclined to imagine that that would be some sort of slavery. “Well you have to do what is required. I thought we had freedom of choice.” Here we are free to choose to let go of the freedom of choice, that we may be governed by our Beloved. Human beings in their self-centeredness think of love in this way, don't they? Would there be anything more delightful and wonderful and fulfilling than to be One with the Beloved? Well, there's only One Beloved with whom we should be One. “I love You, LORD.”
And then we do what is natural in that Love. There's no problem; there's no sweat, as they say, no more sweat of the face, just a natural movement in love. We find ourselves being gathered together unto one place. The waters under the heaven are gathered together unto one place in the Third Day of creation, to be with one accord in one place, and the dry land appears. The form of the Body of the Son of God begins to come to life; sensation begins to return to that Body—not too much to start with: the grass and the trees, the evidences of life reappearing in the creative process of resurrection. There's no great rush. Let it work out under the hand of Shekinah, certainly not what you think with your surface consciousness. And in that gathering together unto one place, under heaven, under the realm where Shekinah has control, the dry land appears, the evidences of life come increasingly in the Body of the Son of God. Certain parts of the Body begin to become conscious of themselves again—not the whole Body yet, just parts, rising up in consciousness, feeling something, rejoicing in what is felt.
But this is just the Third Day—not yet halfway even. So let us not jump to a conclusion that this is it. It is it in the sense that we are participating in the creative cycle which brings us to the conclusion where it may be said, “This is it.” But we're still on the way. So we stay humble. We stay humble but steady and centered in the Truth which we know, and gradually we find that what we feel agrees with the Truth that we know, so that heart and mind come together. Here is part of the gathering of the waters under the heaven being brought together under the dominion of Shekinah so that the creative process may continue.
We share these cycles as they occur in us. As we have experience of them we know what they are and we are therefore in position to know what is happening in others who are experiencing what we have known. So in turn we become the means by which others are held steady as they move through these various levels of resurrection. And while there may be some breaking from the pattern on occasion, we ourselves, recognizing the responsibility, hold the line because we're not interested, surely, in going back to square one, as it were. What a waste of time! [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/07/holding-uranda-july-10-1953-class-there.html] And it's not surprising, when we do that, that we begin to feel futile. But we don't need to do it. We can be true; we can keep our integrity; and as we do this we share the resurrection in the increasing awareness of the reality of the Life which is emerging.
How good to see these things at this level of understanding so that we may move with effectiveness forward into the levels of understanding that are yet to come, being willing to relinquish what we thought we knew in favor of the Truth at every step of the way, because until we come to the Sixth Day we necessarily see things through colored glasses to some extent, through the distorted lens of remaining self-centeredness. But the way is clear. Shekinah gets the job done. It got the job done in the beginning, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't get it done now. It's no less capable than it was then; in fact there's less to be done now than there was then, because the Body is already here; it doesn't have to be created.
It is the re-creation of the consciousness of that Body. And we share in letting this happen, moving together and staying together with one accord in one place. Because of this oneness Shekinah can move easily. But remember, that movement will have the tendency, if you are not alert, to cause a scattering again, as it did on that first occasion long ago in what has been called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on that day of Pentecost. Things felt so wonderful. “Here is the power. Isn't it great? Isn't it tremendous?” Have you ever felt that way? “We can achieve great things.” Yes, in the seasons of the LORD, not in the way you may think. Let the increased enthusiasm hold you steady. Don't let it scatter you. If you are scattered, you are scattered out of the Body and you very quickly lose the power then, because the power of Shekinah moves through the Body, nowhere else. So remain where you belong and move forward with assurance in the Way, because we are all with one accord in one place, in our hearts saying always, “I love You, LORD.”
I love You, LORD. These words coming to focus and finding expression through this form, are the words of all who have come into agreement with me, and consequently with Thee. We abide in Thy Love, abide under Thy shadow, the shadow of Shekinah, because we dwell in what has been the Secret Place of the Most High, but which is now no longer secret to us, being true to what is most high in our consciousness of the truth. Abiding under the shadow of Shekinah, all things are made new by Shekinah in the cycles of resurrection. No self-centered human mind is necessary to get the job done; it is done when the surface consciousness at last is content to be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord and no longer insists upon dwelling in the tents of wickedness, the tents of self-centeredness. O LORD, I thank Thee for all those here present and everywhere on the face of the earth whose integrity holds them steady, centered in Thee, because they love Thee, in the Christ. Aum-en.
This evening let your response be a silent one insofar as the spoken word is concerned,
as you remember those words which naturally form in your heart, “I love You, LORD.”
Initiating Cycles — From Inception To Fulfilment
Uranda September 10, 1947 Gabilan Ranch, California
I would like to talk about something that I have dealt with before in various ways, which is vitally important, and has not been sufficiently realized by most Emissaries. A sufficient realization brings actual function, so that one’s life reveals that which one claims to believe. In connection with the interval between the inception of a Cycle and its fulfilment, which has often been illustrated by means of a seed that is planted which ultimately comes to maturity in the ear of corn, there is a period when human reactions that produce tangent function usually brings blight in one form or another. In some grains there appears what is called “smut” which lowers the value of the grain. Unless the individual allows his planting to be cleansed of unreality, some form of smut, or blight, is bound to appear.
This relates to what I call holding a Vibration, holding a point of Focalization, that permits carrying through. We all know the stories of those who have made glorious starts, of those who have come near to success, and yet failed. People seem to love to talk about their failures; they love to stress their shortcomings, almost in the spirit of bragging and bravado. From the standpoint of reality, while one may, properly, acknowledge one’s weak point in certain instances, especially to one from whom one seeks help or assistance along the Way, why should such things be emphasized? Why not ignore them? Why not let them die for lack of attention? After all, it is attention that keeps things alive. Why give so much attention to things that are not perfectly harmonious to reality? They may be there, but unreal things have a habit of tucking their tails between their legs and slinking off to pout and moan in some far-off corner when they are ignored. They just do not like it at all. When we give attention to the unrealities unnecessarily, we are giving them life. If you give enough attention to any weakness, it will purr like a cat, and then scratch you without warning. The attention should be centered in the realities.
The present moment is never the fulfilment of the future. The harvest of yesterday’s planting that may come today may have in it tares, which the Father will burn if you will let Him, as He gathers the wheat into His barn. If you do not let Him, and you seek to struggle with them, you will find there are thorns which will prick and scratch and tear, but if you let the Father take care of the tares, while He harvests the wheat into His barn—not yours, in the human sense—into the Father's barn—then you can let the Field of Being in yourself be prepared for a new planting; you can let Him plant good seed, and if you let Him, He will keep the enemy out so that the tares will not be sown, and the harvest of today's planting will come in the future. Why do human beings reveal so little faith in the harvest that is to come from today's planting? Day by day, we harvest the plantings of our yesterdays, and day by day, the seed of tares is sown in the field because human beings refuse to have faith in the harvest of today’s planting. They act and speak and feel as if today were the fulfilment of the future. How ridiculous—and yet, there are very few who are free from this fault.
This means that when a Vibration is set, when a Cycle of outworking has been conceived, when the inception of a Creative Current has been realized, one should hold steady and let fulfilment come. If the outer mind keeps breaking off this direction, and then that, on various tangents, not letting any particular Cycle find fulfilment, he has no true harvest, and day after day there are no harvests in reality, and so he decides that there can be no harvests in reality. It is foolishness!
Cycles of fulfilment that are worked out on the highest possible basis should be allowed to come to fulfilment. The particular Cycle may not be perfect in every respect; it may not be possible to establish a Cycle now that will come out in absolute perfection, but if we establish the best possible Cycle under the present circumstances and hold to it, not letting the mind go off on various tangents, there will be a harvest, a new plane of action will appear, and a more nearly perfect Cycle can be established. But human beings thoughtlessly, needlessly, almost shamelessly, destroy and bring to abortion the Cycles of fulfilment which they have been allowed to begin under the inspiration of the Spirit. It is a serious matter, this matter of abortion. There may, possibly, be times when a Cycle can properly be nullified before it finds fulfilment, but it is not something that one individual should decide for himself, by himself, even if it relates primarily to himself.
When a Cycle is set, after considering tentatively all the varying factors and problems, after considering as clearly as possible all the Cycles that could be set, then we should be true to the Cycle that is set, and let it come to fulfilment. Then, though it may not be perfect, we at least have a harvest of wheat for the Father’s Barn. He will take care of the tares, and then there can be a new planting, a new Cycle according to the Father’s Will. Holding the Vibration, remaining true to the Cycles that are opened up—unless there is some very, very real reason for doing otherwise—is very important. It is not the glorious start; it is the victorious finish that counts.
Let us not act today as if today were the fulfilment of the future. Let us let the tomorrows have a chance of revealing fulfilment by being true to reality today, by letting the Law work, by holding steady in the Current, for if today we destroy the tender shoots of opening Cycles, then we are to blame for the barrenness of the tomorrows when they come. Only he who is polarized in reality, and who abides in the Christ, can share in the ultimate Victory.
God is a Finisher of things. If we are constantly and consistently destroyers of that which should find fulfilment in the future we will be destroyed because we will come to a time of famine by our own hands. We have no over-abundance which we can throw away with prodigal hand. Let us not destroy the tender shoots that will bring the harvest in the days to come. Let us not destroy that which should appear in God’s Garden, but let us rather tend the Garden and keep it, that we may prove to be faithful stewards in the Father’s Vineyard, that He may in season find it possible to call us Friends and receive us unto Himself, that we may inherit that which is His. Either it is this in Victory, or it is slavery in subjection to the fanciful reactions of the human mind which bring us to famine and failure, a miserable end for those who are destroyers.
“And they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.” So often human beings say, “Why, I would not take a gun and go out and shoot my neighbor”. O, they are so self-righteous. They would not put arsenic in the neighbor’s baby’s milk, but they would destroy those tender shoots which would bring forth the Vine of Life from which the neighbor might, in season, eat and live. Every time an emissary fails to hold a Vibration, every time an emissary destroys the tender Vine which would, in season, bring forth fruit, he is, essentially, committing murder, whether he thinks of it as such or not, because someone’s life depends on that fruitage, someone’s hope depends upon that fulfilment. So many, who would be horrified at the thought of pressing the trigger that would end a man’s life, go thoughtlessly and shamelessly about destroying those tender shoots in the Father’s Garden, which would give the Bread of Life to the hungry one. “And they shall not hurt nor destroy” even the Vibrations which the LORD sets up “in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord”. He who destroys the Vibrational Pattern destroys the form. If destroying the form be murder, then destroying the Vibrational Pattern is likewise murder. Let us live, and let us minister that we may, as members of the One Christ Body, be able to say, with the Master, “I come that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.”
Comments by Uranda on October 12, 1947 at 100 Mile House, BC
About holding vibrations and being careful with respect to cycles that have been initiated, I mentioned that cycles initiated on the highest possible basis at the time should be allowed to come to fulfilment. In a case where part of the individuals that are involved with respect to that particular cycle hold true to it, and part of them do not, then there is usually an abortion of the cycle. Then those who have held true to it and given their best to it, cannot properly feel a sense of personal failure and futility. In other words, there must be a frank recognition of the fact that the failure came about because of the failures of others. Even though someone may look back and say he could have acted better, etc., the fact is that the individual was acting to the best of his ability there, and the fact that he has carried through vindicates his function. It is almost always true that more than one person is involved in a particular cycle. It is virtually impossible to initiate a cycle that would not involve several people, and perhaps a great many.
Well, the factors in relationship to it are generally many more than the individual directly involved can immediately appreciate or comprehend. Because he is involved in the cycle, he has a sense of personal feeling and responsibility, which is quite correct, but if he is carrying through on the vibration the best way he knows how and is still steady at the point where the cycle comes to abortion, he must not, properly, feel that he himself was the cause of that abortion. He must recognize that the others were responsible for the abortion, because looking back with regret would mean there was no movement into a new cycle, and consequently no opportunity for fulfilment opened up out of the ashes of the old. I have had hundreds of cycles crumble under me, but that did not mean I felt myself to be responsible for those things, but I was ready to move forward and forget the old, and that meant a new setup, a new form, and let the dead past bury its dead.
It is forward movement that constitutes ministry—gaining the victory regardless of the slips or anything else—so each thing is used to advantage to the degree that one lets it be so. And to look back and say one should have done something differently is wrong. No one can properly assume the responsibility for another's failure. The fact that the individual is not carrying through proves he was not true to his reality. All of these considerations help to give a clear idea of what it is we are properly doing and help to clear the Creative Field so that there may be an understanding of the true principles that are involved with respect to establishing cycles or bringing about their inception, and then of correct function in relationship to those cycles as they move toward fulfilment. To the degree that all of this has been focalized in consciousness we are in position to analyze conditions and circumstances in relationship to the Patterns in Reality, so that we may initiate cycles and let them carry out to fulfilment.
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