Let The Grave Clothes Be Removed
Uranda and Martin Cecil April 8, 1950 Noon Sunrise Ranch
Uranda — Beloved LORD of Heaven and earth, we thank Thee for the multitude of blessings which we have received at Thy Hand, and we thank Thee for the holy privilege we have of letting the self of self-activity be crucified that we may know the joy of the Resurrection and the Life in the Body of Thy Being. We thank Thee for that Resurrecting Power which Thou didst make manifest on earth and which we are privileged to share that the tomb of this world's darkness may not have power over us but that the stony hardness of the human heart may be rolled away and that we may come forth in Thy Name into the Light of Everlasting Day. Father, Thy Will, not ours, be done. We know that the self-active human will rejects the Kingdom and the things of the Kingdom that is at hand, but we know that it is Thy Will that we should enter into the Kingdom and that it is Thy good pleasure to give us the Kingdom. Therefore, we would leave behind in the tomb all those things that are contrary to the Kingdom, and we would let Thy Power cast into outer darkness every human spirit that is contrary to the Holy Spirit of Thy Kingdom on earth that, coming forth from the tomb pure and clean, undefiled, we may truly be Temples of the Living God through which the Spirit of God may be revealed on earth. We thank Thee that in the silences of our own souls, having entered into the closet and shut the door, we are privileged to let our minds be stayed on Thee that the mind that was in Christ Jesus may be in us, controlling the many members of this Body. We thank Thee that, in this day of the tomb, we are privileged to leave behind the old order of human life, that all that is not of Thee may pass away. We thank Thee for the Resurrecting Power by which Thou art making all things new. We thank Thee for the holy joy, O LORD, of seeing Thy Kingdom coming into the earth, for the joy of living in this hour and in these days when Thy Kingdom is coming into manifestation on earth because of the members of this Body who are letting Thy Will be done on earth as It is in Heaven. We thank Thee for those here gathered in whom there is a vivid realization that it is impossible for the human expression of word or idea to convey that which Thou art bringing forth in the heart so that in each there shall be a willingness to let that which Thou dost bring forth in the heart grow and expand until it shall fill the whole Body of every member of Thy Body.
Martin Cecil — Resting enfolded in the Current, in the Spirit of Uranda's Prayer, we share as One Body and, letting our Eye be single, first of all, individually speaking, then according to the Master’s Words, the Body of each one is filled with Light that each may know his or her own Reality of Being. Then, letting go therein, each one being received into his or her place in that Body in which we are privileged to be members, as a Body our Eye shall be single because, individually speaking, our Eye is single.
We recall the Words of the Master when He said that He should lay His Life down and that He would take it up again. He said that this was the Commandment that He had received of His Father. We, too, have received that same Commandment of the Father—that we should lay down our life willingly, freely, without reservation, that in response to the Commandment of the Father, we might, at the time appointed, take it up again. But, taking it up again, it does not manifest through the same form as when it was laid down; there is a difference.
In recalling the story of our Master’s Resurrection, we remember that His Body was wrapped in grave clothes and laid in the sepulchre. The grave clothes were not a part of the Body, even though they clothed the Body. So, also, in that which we have laid in the tomb there are the grave clothes, the things of the self-active self which have hitherto received life by reason of the Life in the Body. When an individual wears clothes, they partake of the life of the body upon which they are worn, moving with it, but they have no life of themselves and, as the body is laid in the tomb clothed in the grave clothes, there is the necessity of letting the grave clothes be separated from the body that they may be laid on one side and left in the tomb. In the processes of the Resurrection we may perceive two factors, the laying aside of the grave clothes in the tomb, and the rolling away of the stone from the mouth of the tomb.
On that first Easter morn when Mary Magdalene came looking for her Lord, she looked into the tomb and she saw the grave clothes there remaining. It is also recorded that she saw two Angels sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet where the Body of Jesus had lain. She saw them there after the Resurrection had taken place. The fact that there were two Angels in the tomb did not mean to say that the tomb was the dwelling place of the Angels. They were evidently there for some purpose. Mary saw them after the Resurrection had taken place; there was no one there to observe before the Resurrection within the tomb, but the Angels were there, one at the head and one at the feet where the Body lay.
In the tomb, sealed with a stone, in the ordinary course of events it would be dark, pitch black. One might be able to feel the granite walls all around, but seeing would be impossible—it would be impossible to tell where, or even if there was a mouth to the tomb. The stone in the mouth would appear as the walls and there would seem to be no way out, but where the Angels of the Lord are, there is Light. There is Light so that the tomb can be seen for what it is, so that the grave clothes can be recognized for what they are, so that the stone at the mouth of the tomb can be known as that which prevents movement from the tomb, from the darkness of the tomb which is lightened by reason of the Presence of the Angels, into the Garden beyond. As we are, in this day of the tomb, by reason of the Light which we have in our tomb, we can see these things in their application to ourselves here and now. The Body cannot come forth from the tomb as long as it is bound about by the grave clothes. Let the Body be separated from the grave clothes that it may be free to stand naked and unashamed before the Lord.
The Master Himself opened the Way before us; we have the record; we have the Light within the tomb. We are privileged to share in that which He established as He walked before us every step of the Way. In His Resurrection, just the grave clothes were left behind; the whole of His Body passed from the tomb into the Garden. The precedent of wholeness has been set for us so that His Body of many members may pass from the tomb into the Garden as the members of the Body who let themselves share in that which He established. Let us, with one accord, let the grave clothes be removed from the Body and placed upon one side to be left in the tomb. Let us let the whole Body see with the single vision the Light that is in the tomb, that in response to the provision of God’s Love and Light and the Current of His Life, the Power of His Angels may be allowed to roll away the stone of the hardness of the human heart which seems as a wall of granite in the darkness of the tomb, that the whole Body may come forth following our LORD and KING all the Way.
As He said, we should deny the human expression of Being and take up our cross and follow Him, but it is not enough to follow Him only part of the Way. We must follow Him through the tomb, through the process of allowing the Angels to remove the binding grave clothes, through the process of seeing in the Light that is provided in the tomb, and follow Him in letting the stone be rolled away, and follow Him in stepping forth into the freedom of a New Day.
Uranda — So let it be for this Body and for all of its Members in the Name of Jesus Christ, my LORD and KING. Peace be unto you in the tomb, that you may come forth from the tomb into the realm of the Prince of Peace and abide in the Kingdom of our LORD forever, for His Kingdom is just beyond that stone at the mouth of the tomb. It is near at hand, and He has sent His Angels to remove the grave clothes and roll the stone away, that whosoever will may come forth from the tomb into the Kingdom here on earth. Peace be unto you that in the silences of your own souls you may begin to hear that which is of the Spirit working in the tomb preparing for thy Resurrection Morn, for thy Easter Day. “Peace, be still,” thus saith the Lord. “Be still and know that I am God, for I am no less thy God in the tomb than in the Heights of Heaven. I have sent My Angels unto thee that thou mayest know that My Hand is not shortened that it cannot save even in the tomb where thou art.”
Peace be unto thee in the Holy Name of my LORD and KING Who led the Way and Who established that first Easter Day that we may share an Easter Day in truly following Him and ascending unto the Father, according to all that which He did. So let it be, IN the Christ. Aum-en.
Now, as we go our several ways about our Father’s Business, let each one meditate upon these things and let the working of the Spirit be real and true in each heart, for the grave clothes shall be left behind. Let no one identify himself with the grave clothes lest he also shall be left behind. Let each one share in the Victory of our KING.
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No Power On Earth Could Have Touched Him
"The Final Victory"
Uranda January 27, 1952
"He who had moved among men before
and disappeared at will prior to that time—
do you not think that, if His disciples had been holding steady,
He could have disappeared in any moment He had chosen?"
On this beautiful day, which gives promise of a springtime not too far away, let us meditate for a moment upon some of the principles that our Master revealed in relationship to this phase of our own progress along the way. The Master said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do,” and that work which the Father gave was finished before that experience that was made necessary to our LORD by human imposition in the trial and the crucifixion. The work the Father gave Him to do was completed before that trial and before the crucifixion, for we have the Word from His own lips: “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” Why, then, was it necessary for Him to experience the mockery, the indignities of that trial, and the sufferings of the crucifixion? It was because man imposed those things upon our LORD. They were imposed by man’s rejection of the divine pattern.
The ill things that nullify the expression of the beautiful pattern of God’s design on earth are never God’s will. They are imposed by man’s rejection of that which God offers. The shame and the suffering, the indignities, are never the result of the divine pattern or of God’s will. They are the result of man’s denial and betrayal of his responsibilities, and they are imposed by that which man himself does. Very often those who consider themselves Christians, or who long to move along the spiritual path, are inclined to think: “If I had lived, if I had only had the privilege of living at that time when our Master Himself walked on earth, I would not have been among those who were scattered so quickly from that vast throng who were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the king.’ I would not have been like Peter, denying, or like Judas, betraying, nor like the others who followed afar off, for I would have appreciated my privilege and opportunity. And, cost what it might, I would have been among those who stood at the foot of the cross.” So many have felt that way—perhaps they would not express it in so many words.
Yet today, in this hour and in all the hours to come, we have the same privilege of remaining true, the same privilege of standing at the foot of the cross, the same privilege of proving the reality of our love and our trust. The passage of the centuries has not denied us any privilege that we might have had then, with the one exception of seeing the physical form through which our LORD was manifest. And He said of those who lived then, that for their sakes it was expedient that He should go away; and if it was expedient for them, there is nothing taken from us, because we do not have the privilege, as our minds might think of it, of seeing Him in physical form. It is expedient for us that He so arranged the divine pattern.
So, let us examine something of what happened and see if we can gain a deeper conviction of that which is necessary to ourselves, that we may come to a recognition that it is not what we feel out of the subconscious heart or mind, it is not what we feel externally, that is properly the directing force in our lives. It is what we see and recognize and realize with the conscious mind to be the truth of the matter, for the mind which is allowing the spirit of God to work in it is stronger than any feeling that can come surging up from the subconscious. It is stronger than any idea that may be buried somewhere in the subterranean phases of the mind. It is stronger than any current of feeling that may be imposed from the outside.
What you feel is beside the point. As long as the conscious mind continues to yield to the impulses that come from a distorted subconscious mind or heart, as long as it yields to the currents of feeling or action from without, it is saying, “I am not a guardian angel. I am not fortified by the spirit of God. I am a weak thing and I must of needs acknowledge the extent of my weakness and say that God cannot serve me because I am subject to all of these ill things.” He who says that betrays our LORD, as surely as Judas betrayed Him. He denies, as surely as Peter did, and he is not even following afar off. He is scattered into the darkness, hiding in the alleyways, lest someone see and say, “Are you not one of those who followed Him?”
Let us see what happened at the time of our Master. He had finished the work that God gave Him to do, but certain things were imposed upon Him. In either case, He was going away, as far as His physical form was concerned. But do you think He could cause His body to be changed more easily after all this humiliating experience than otherwise? He could have ascended without the suffering, the crucifixion and those days in the tomb. Man imposed that upon Him and made it necessary. Sometimes people ask a question and say, “But did not the prophets say He would have to die? Does not the Bible say there could be no salvation except as His blood was shed, etc.?” I grant you that after this experience was all over, certain ones developed some ideas with respect to it. And in the pattern of prophecy in the Old Testament you will find those things which recognized not only the possibility but the probability of the manner in which man would function. But because it worked out the way it did, the human interpretation has been on the basis of one idea only; and there has been a complete failure to recognize the fact that an alternate path, the ideal path, was foretold just as surely, as definitely, if man would have allowed it to have meaning.
That which was of God’s design was revealed by the prophets much more abundantly than those comparatively obscure texts that recognized the probability of what man would do. Because man did fail, the texts that relate to that possibility are picked out and held up as what was prophesied. And it is not so at all, because God’s provision of the pathway did not require that Jesus should die. It was human beings that condemned our LORD to the indignities of the trial, so-called, and to the sufferings of the cross. God did not require it. From God’s standpoint, it was not necessary, and I can take the book cover to cover and show you how the pattern was revealed there. Let us examine it.
The idea of the shedding of the blood, from the standpoint of the spear in the side and the nails in His hands and feet, is supposed to have had some particularly efficacious result—that God, being a hardhearted something-or-other, would not accept the salvation of a single man, woman, or child unless His own Son should physically bleed. Anyone who stops to consider that which is revealed of God in the Bible will recognize that that is so completely out of character that there is no reasonable excuse for any person believing it. It is completely out of character. The blood is the symbol of life. He had shed His blood, in the true sense, before He ever reached the agonies of Gethsemane or the sufferings of the cross. He had shed His life upon the earth. He had shed the currents of His life in the revelation of Deity. He had revealed the principles of life. He had given His life to the revelation of the things of God, and He Himself said before any of these things took place, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” There was a recognition that certain things were yet to be faced because of what man had imposed upon Him, but it was not the divine plan or purpose or necessary from the standpoint of God, as if He were a bloodthirsty being who demanded that blood be shed. No. That is not the character of God. It was not the plan or purpose of God. And the only reason why our Master accepted that outworking was because man imposed it upon Him.
Who imposed it upon Him particularly? Who among men? Herod or Pilate or the power of the Caesars? Oh, no. Who imposed it upon Him? His disciples were the ones who imposed that upon Him. It is true. They simply accepted the focalization of the world in the hour of stress, rather than remaining true to their focalization in Him. But consider if the hour of crisis had come and all twelve of the disciples had remained steady. There are those who say Judas, poor creature, was predestined to do it; someone had to do it in order for God’s plan to be fulfilled. Someone on earth had to be a traitor and betray our LORD! Oh, no. God is out of character the moment anyone begins to conceive such an idea. God never predestined anyone to be a traitor or to betray the things of God, let alone the Son of God! Judas did not have to betray Him. It was not necessary; it was not a part of the divine plan. It was a part of human failure.
Consider. If it had worked out according to that which God had made available to them, if according to God’s true plan there had been a following through—of course the Master knew, particularly toward the last, that they were not going to hold when the crisis came; but, even so—suppose Judas had not betrayed Him, suppose Peter had not been of that type who would deny Him, suppose twelve men had stood faithful and true to their LORD on earth—twelve men, not one wavering, not one breaking in the face of the crisis—then His Body on earth, the body of these twelve men who were supposed to be the key men of the Christ Body which should fill the earth, holding steady, would have allowed Him to carry out God’s plan. Not from the standpoint of continued work on earth in the sense of His doing it, but His doing it through the members of His Body—the very principles He had outlined to them such a few hours before, the principles and Laws that He had expounded to them over and over again through the three and a half years of His ministry with them. But if that Body, the focalization of the Body in twelve men, would have held the pattern, hundreds and thousands who had received blessings at His hand, who had cried “Hosanna to our king,” would have stood if the twelve disciples had stood. And there would have been a Body on earth.
He who had moved among men before and disappeared at will prior to that time—do you not think that, if His disciples had been holding steady, He could have disappeared in any moment He had chosen? Could humanity have heaped the indignities of the cross or mockery of the trial upon Him? No. Why did He accept that imposition? The Body that He had been building through the years of ministry died, scattered first—the scattering of the disciples. When they broke, when they slept in Gethsemane instead of watching with Him one little hour, when they slept, when He came to face the final pattern, of course the LORD would not have suffered as He did—even in Gethsemane—had this pattern been holding properly. Because already Judas had gone out to betray, His body had started to decay and die, the body of His disciples. That body of the disciples was scattered, brought to the point of death before His physical body as a man was brought to the point of the crucifixion.
If that body of twelve disciples had remained steady and true, no power on earth could have touched Him, because then the victory would have been assured without His going through what He did. The same truths would have been revealed in the outworking of the cycles of time, but there would have been a Nody established—twelve key points, with others rallying around vibrationally. And if they had sought to touch Him, whether He would have used spiritual power to prevent it or whether He would have disappeared is beside the point. That would have been for Him to choose and it is not for me to speculate upon, but they could not have touched Him. That we know. If the body He had built, or undertaken to build—the Body of many members—had held true, His physical body would not have had to be on the cross. But on the cross of spiritual creative activity, the crossing between heaven and earth, there would have been a revelation of divine power that would have carried through effectively and saved man centuries of suffering, sorrow, misery and death. The Body would have been complete and this world would have been restored already.
It is not until after this plan had failed to carry through that we have the prophetic portrayal, for instance in Revelation, of that which should yet be done. Because in Isaiah, and many other places, there is mention made: “Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” That is part of the prophecy of what was divinely ordained for the time when Jesus Christ should come on earth, that which could have been, but man prevented it. Man spoiled the pattern of God, so there was a divine reorganization and a reprojection of the same goal under a new pattern. Not all was lost, it is true. Our Master had finished the work. He had revealed Deity, established the truth on earth, set the pattern. And somewhere there would be those who would follow through, those who would not be so quick to betray for thirty pieces of silver or their own human desires.
I wonder how many of you know why Judas betrayed, what the working of his mind was. I happen to know what was going on in Judas’s mind because I was one of those who was there at that time and watched this process working out in his mind, and did what I could to head it off—but I did not. He had the idea that as a political personage Jesus did not have quite as much understanding as He should have had. He was a wonderful spiritual teacher—that Judas clearly acknowledged. But He did not have a practical understanding, according to Judas’s idea, a practical understanding of what was necessary. Judas thought his own vision was clearer, his own understanding more acute. And when he went and betrayed, he had no more idea in his mind, and conviction, that it would lead to the crucifixion of Jesus than you have an idea that it would lead to some disastrous result if you were self-active for five minutes, here and now. His idea was that he would so maneuver things that he would force Jesus to use His spiritual power. He was not acting on the basis of intent to hurt Jesus. His idea was: “I will maneuver here, and as soon as it comes to the point of crisis Jesus will use His spiritual power. He will see that I was right, that it is time to take political action. It is time to use this power to establish a kingdom here on earth.”
Judas had not gotten it out of his head that it was not simply a kingdom like Solomon or David had had here on earth. He still had that idea, and he thought, “I will so maneuver undercover that it will force the issue, and Jesus will use His great power to defeat, and He will be seen as the King of this kingdom that is to be established.” And as soon as he recognized that his own calculations had miscarried and that He was not going to use His power on any such basis, his sorrow and chagrin were tremendous. He realized that his own puny mind had misled him. He did love the LORD. He did not betray Him knowing that it would lead to the LORD’s crucifixion. He betrayed thinking that it would force the LORD to use His power to establish the kingdom. He thought it was a smart political maneuver. And consequently, when he saw that his Master was allowing Himself to be subject to it, when he saw the pattern that was unfolding, he went out and hung himself in terrible regret. Do not imagine that Judas betrayed Him for thirty pieces of silver, knowing it would lead to His crucifixion. His mind did not grasp that point at all.
Very often the human being thinks, “If I can just improve on the LORD’s plan a little bit—my brilliance, my understanding is such that the spiritual leadership, the outworking, needs to be improved on a little." And the human mind gets busy and betrays today, as surely as it did then. If the twelve had remained true, there were hundreds and thousands of others who would have remained true. And God’s will being done in them would have provided a starting point for the beginning of that great transition into the Divine State here on earth, for it was the divine intention.
The Master was still trusting at the time He spoke the words that are recorded in Matthew 24. He still recognized that it was possible. And if you will read Matthew 24 with any understanding of what is actually contained in the so-called prophecies of the Old Testament, the outline of God’s will, pattern and intent, you will see that He recognized then that it was still possible that the complete change could be worked out within a very short period of time. Part of that which He prophesied was fulfilled about 70 A.D., and the rest remains to be fulfilled. But there is not one single thing in the record to indicate that Jesus made a guess and said, “Part of this will be fulfilled in 30 or 35 years, and the rest will take 2,000 years." He presented that in the recognition that it could be done in its fulness. He recognized the possibility but He knew the plan of God. He taught it over and over again.
The manner in which most of the disciples failed to grasp what He was talking about is emphasized in the record in the first chapter of Acts. Even after the crucifixion, after all of this had taken place and the Master had appeared for forty days to them at different times, “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Even after His resurrection He was talking to them of the things of God. Then they were assembled together and “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him [after all that had happened and it was almost the last moment before He should leave them, the disciples], saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” They were still so dense, they had not yet completely grasped what He was talking about, that they were thinking about an earthly kingdom, that inane concept that had stuck in their minds after all the Master had said. And there, at the last moment, some of them had the gall to ask that inane question, “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” There is the secret of all this failure.
There is the secret of why our LORD was crucified. Because this idea in the human mind was allowed to control. The logical, reasonable understanding of the things that He had taught, which denied this old idea, was not allowed to control. When we stop and examine it, we see there was nothing logical, reasonable in this failure, because He had talked to them about the kingdom of God and had still talked to them about it after the resurrection. And they still were clinging to the old idea.
If you read the record you will find there was only one disciple who stood at the foot of the cross in the final hour, only one. If there had not been one [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-leadership-which-jesus-ordained.html] there would have been no connecting substance remaining; the Master’s body would have been left in the tomb and the world would have been left to degenerate and decay. That plan of our Master’s coming would have failed, as far as humanity was concerned. Because one stayed steady, that plan and pattern were allowed to continue to work out—because one stood firm. Only one out of twelve, but that one has made it possible for the fulfilment since that time, and for the fulfilment now, so that the Master’s coming and that which He did should not be in vain.
It was because the body that He had been working to produce died, became meaningless, responded to fear, etc., that it became necessary for the physical body to be crucified. He had already shed the brilliance of His life in the world, He had already shed God’s love wherever He went, He had already revealed the patterns of truth, He had already finished the work that God gave Him to do. And it was the failure of those eleven disciples to hold steady and stand with Him that made necessary the crucifixion. And if those eleven had stood, many others would have done likewise, but with nothing to look to, no true pattern, there were only a few who held.
This pattern reveals that which is necessary in our lives here and now. It reveals the fact that we need to so abide in His love, remain so centered, remain so true to our divine calling, that the things that come up from the subconscious mind—the old ideas, the old feelings—are not allowed to control. Pressures from without are not allowed to control. But the conscious mind, centered in God, stands steady on the basis of its recognition of the things of God, its conviction of the rightness of God, so that logic and reason may be made manifest by the power of God. The mind that was in Christ Jesus is then made manifest in us.
That mind, the intelligent mind, that recognized the things of God, did not yield to the feelings or the ideas, either at the time of the Temptations or the agonies of Gethsemane. Do you think there were not feelings that could have turned Him aside? What was it? It was divine intelligence—mind that would not yield, mind that stayed true in the divine conviction, mind that allowed logic and reason to control, regardless of feelings, regardless of anything else. And there was the dominion.
He made the victory manifest, the victory that we are to share. But how are we to share it? By twiddling our thumbs and waiting for someone to hand it to us on a silver platter? By mumbling a few words of belief and then continuing to be subject to the ill things around us? No. It is to be known when we allow the dominion of God to be a reality in our conscious minds. When that dominion, that control, is established there, regardless of the subconscious mind, regardless of what is external, regardless of what we feel or do not feel—when that divine intelligence is made manifest without wavering and there is dominion there—then God’s guardian of the subconscious mind can cause change in your life. Then the things of God can begin to have meaning. But until that dominion is established because your mind—your conscious-reasoning, logical mind—is centered in the mind that was in Christ Jesus, you cannot share the victory. We share it by letting those Laws and principles be revealed in ourselves.
Because He did it without a precedent, we have the privilege of having a precedent. We have an example. And because it is done, we have something to move to. We do not have to suffer, as He did—not one. Not one has to go through what He did, to face the miseries, discouragement and mockery that He did. He said, “The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” He meant there was not a real manifestation on earth for the Kingdom of God, no starting point for the expression of dominion. But as you yield and come into the pattern God designed, and let His dominion be established in mind and heart and expression of life, then the Son of man begins to have a place to lay His head. Then there is a beginning of the reality of the Kingdom—not a concept that human beings have developed, but the reality of that Kingdom as God designed it, as Jesus taught it and revealed it. That is what we are interested in. That is why we are here—so that that divine control in the conscious mind may be the starting point for the victory in and through you.
Only as there is that dominion in you that is unshakable, constant and true, can you be an instrument through which that dominion is extended out to others. Only so can your light shine. Only so can you render true service. Only so can you be a member of His Body on earth. Only so can you share the victory. Only so can you have a part in seeing to it that what the Master went through on earth at the hands of men was not in vain.
As far as I am concerned, I have infinite patience for those who are moving toward the end that what our LORD did on earth shall not be in vain, but no patience whatsoever with those who refuse to share in that work. As far as I am concerned, there is just one thing that is important: that what our LORD and KING did on earth shall not be in vain. And for those who share it, well and good. For those who do not, to me they mean nothing. But it is important that every man, woman and child on the face of the earth shall have the opportunity of making his or her own choice. What our LORD went through on earth is not in vain and shall not be, and one bright day we shall have the privilege of presenting to Him not just a place to lay His head on earth but a Kingdom restored, where His will is done on earth as it is in heaven, and His Kingdom has come. Blessed are those who share in the victory of the spirit of the living Christ. Peace be unto you, that you may ever choose to share the victory and let the mind that was in Christ Jesus be in you.
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The One Great Intercessor
from Focalization Of Creative Cycles
Uranda July 30, 1946 Summer Session
It’s good to gather again with one accord in one place to focalize in the doing of the Father’s Will on earth. Have you noticed that, day by day, in our function, we have more and more been carrying out the process of creative cycles? We go out on a pulsation at the close of the Service to accomplish various things in the Service of the LORD, and then coming in to a focalization again, carrying these vibrations into an intensity on one point, shall we say; then pulsating out again, back and forth, in the very thing that is working out with respect to the larger cycle of the Service as a whole. In this period of transition from one twenty-two-year period, or cycle, to the next, we have the focalization in, to the point of intensity, to be followed by the expansion outward, to enfold and bring in.
That pulsating expression of the Service is carried on continually within the scope of larger pulsations—for instance, a twenty-two-year cycle in its pulsations appears to the outer mind, at the moment, to be a slow coming in to a point, and then a very slow expansion outward, and then coming in. But inside of that there are lesser cycles working the same way. And here we have been carrying from two to three cycles every day, pulsating in to the point of focalizing it, pulsating out to function where we are individually, then coming together again to accomplish. These are creative cycles, and the way you have been carrying through this period of the cycle has been definitely improving. You have been letting that outward pulsation take place, accomplishing that to which you were called, and coming together again without losing the Current, as you used to. That is not to say that you are doing it to perfection yet, but it has very markedly improved, and I express my praise and thanksgiving to the LORD that it is so.
I am constrained this afternoon to point out to you the absolute nature of the operation of the One Law. I am asking you, as My Body, to consider something with me that we may, to the highest possible degree, render a service, and unless we can look at facts and see things as they are, regardless of how we night like them to be, how shall we serve? So, since this comes within the realm of the Body itself, it does not violate the Sabbath Rest of the LORD in the Way. If it comes outside of the Body, for the present it would have to wait.
Let us be very careful that we have a clear realization of the exactness of the intercessory function necessary. We are working in a field where exactness is so very important, because a little slip one way or another, and it is too bad. Instructions are given that we are to let go of everything—the whole Body must be centered in the LORD of Lords in a receptive attitude toward the Truth in accordance with the present moment of outworking of the Cosmic Plan—the Body itself intercedes before the LORD. You have not been given very much training or instruction as to exactly how that should be done, because you have not been in a place where such work could be properly done.
I might point out that, as yet, I am still a Unified Member in this Body, not that I shall be separated from you, but that change in the polarity of the Triangle has not taken place [A Shifting Of The Triangle Must Now Take Place: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-from-principles-cycles-uranda-july-27.html] so what I am doing by bringing this before you, as Members of my Body, is actually that intercessory work before the LORD of Lords. I have pointed out to you that I am no longer just out here as your Teacher or Leader to do these things alone. You remember that I pointed that out to you, that whatever is done we have to do as a Body, now that the Body has come into manifestation.
Remember that Love Response to the LORD is the prime requisite, and the primary way of service is in Letting Love Radiate, and to whatever degree response is present, that individual is uplifted. We cannot force response, but we can Let Love Radiate.
You will recognize that the Lord of Truth has ever pointed to the work of the Lord of Love; but you will recognize that when the Lord of Love was on earth He emphasized over and over again that it was the work of the Lord of Truth to set men free. As you have let yourselves be set free to this degree, in this vibration of service, you see more clearly how that work is carried on as you let yourselves be anchored in Love Response to the Lord of Love. As you abide in that, it places us in a position, on a vibration, in a current, which permits the work of the Lord of Truth to be carried forth effectively—but the work of the Lord of Truth can accomplish little, no matter how brilliant or perfect the expression of Truth may be, until or unless the earnest one abides in his place through Love Response to the Lord of Love. That is the way it works, and you see it more clearly than ever before, do you not?
If you recognize what that means, you abide absolutely in Love Response to the LORD all of the time, so that He may do the works, and you realize that there is no consideration that we are, in a human sense, going to go out and do something—but rather, that any suggestion that may be offered is going to be a means by which, to the highest degree of understanding, we shall let the Father do the works in all things. There must be no personal reactions, no little hints of judging.
Divine Justice in operation, tempered with mercy and love—on that basis we find that there is never any need to fear the judgments of God. Is it not so? And we remember that all things are caused to work together in perfection for those who love and serve Him. All things. That which immediately appears may not be the exact form, or may not be perfect at the instant of its appearance, but were you perfect in form and function in your placement in the Body when you first came? No. It is not expected. But I am pointing out the basis on which all things must always be considered, because as we work in oneness and let the Father do the works, do we have any faith in Him? Is it going to be the Father’s doing? Certainly it is. Recognizing these things, and realizing the responsibility that rests upon us with respect to letting the Father's Will be done, not just with respect to a Member of the Body, but with respect to the whole ailing world, how vitally important it is that we work together in Love, remembering that commandment, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one toward another,” for that permits harmonious consideration of any question. It precludes personal reaction that would spoil the beauty, the perfection, the impartiality, of the judgments of God that are tempered with mercy and love.
I am the Head of this One Christ Body. Maybe it would be a good thing if we always remembered that, in My Place, if I do not know what is in your hearts, I am a mighty poor Head to this Body; and if I know what is in your hearts, and if my handling matters is on the basis of what is in the heart, and not on the basis of some limited circumstance that might appear on the surface, let your own action be just a shade cautious, because it is written, “God looketh on the heart.”
Remember always, while I am the Head of this Body, you are the Body with me. If this thing is to be done for the world, we do it together, or not at all. My whole Ministry, my whole hope of bringing this thing to the world, my whole hope of accomplishment and victory, I have placed upon the altar, in the conviction that this One Christ Body would at all times work that Divine Justice tempered with mercy and love might manifest, and that there should be no reactions, that we should come to that place in absolute polarity where there should not be anything that would move us—whether it be with respect to reactions one toward another in the Body, or with respect to the things of the world—because if there be a movement one towards another of reaction, it is division, and if there be that which can move us in the Body in such a way, then there is certainly that in the world which can move us out of our places, and it is only in oneness together, in oneness with the LORD, that this thing can be fulfilled to His Glory and to the blessing of the children of men.
You are not yet perfect in Christ. I have not suggested that. But never must we let personal feeling have anything to do with what we do in the One Body. There must be no personal reaction. We must remember that if we are centered in Love Response to our KING, whom we have all acknowledged—then His Love through us must, of necessity, cast out all fear, for fear is faith in something destructive, faith in something of the world, something which we must overcome. So we let perfect love cast out all fear. We let Love Response to the Lord of Love be so very strong all of the time that the Lord of Truth may set you free, [Michael And His Angels: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/09/michael-and-his-angels.html] that the fulness of the Christ Expression may manifest in you, and then perform the essential work for the world. “For ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set ye free.”
If we were depending upon the Fire of Divine Love to set us free, and that Fire were to be operating, virtually no one in the world would survive the cleansing Flame, because that Fire turned loose on such a basis would destroy all evil immediately, and that would mean the destruction of just about all human beings. Look back a few years if you doubt it.
You know that your unified Love Response to the LORD of Lords holds you on an anchorage on the Rock that cannot be moved as long as that Love Response is there. That provides us with the absolute unmovable foundation. But then, beyond that, the uses of the Current of Love are in the hands of the Lord of Truth, and only as human beings let the Lord of Truth shape them, remake them, so that the Truth can set them free, and then that Current of Love can be released through Channels of Truth, can individuals receive of that cleansing current of Divine Love in the intensified outflowing—and not be destroyed thereby.
The Lord of Love focalizes the expression of the Lord of Love, and the Lord of Truth in the world interceded for the world, whether the world has ever recognized it or not—and I am not asking that it should—but the One Great Intercessor, as far as this world is concerned, is the Lord of Truth, and I say that with respect for the Lord of Love. If it were not for the Lord of Truth, humanity would be wiped out, and if you think that even you could withstand that Flaming Fire today, not yet having come into the fulness of the Christ Expression, let your minds be dispelled of such an idea, for you could not yet withstand that Flame and live. Therefore, remember always, it makes no difference what, when or where, if this manifestation of the Christ Body on earth is to mean anything and carry through to Victory, it must never, under any circumstance, undertake to resist with respect to anything done in that outworking, in a true sense, by the Lord of Truth, because He is the Great Intercessor Himself.
You will have a proper sphere of function in influence conveyed to you, but if it should ever come into resistance with the Intercessor who has come through these many thousands of years with the LORD of Lords, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/03/gods-great-plan-1.html] and has held the Current through all these thousands of years, that humanity might have an opportunity to come back now, and not be wiped out—then do not put yourself in position where the Lord of Truth might have to cease being the Intercessor for you, because if you ever do resist him in any real sense, refusing to recognize his influence, and acting as if you had to resist him, then he would cease to intercede, and let the Law take its course—and you need not be told what that would mean for anyone focalized in the Flame. Let that always be remembered. I speak unto you, not just as the Head of this Body.
And now, as you realize the way of working—so simple, yet so true, so absolute—on the basis of the One Christ Body, and you have recognized that care and consideration by which you have been brought along the Way, there should never, under any circumstance, be any necessity of your feeling that the Lord of Truth might somehow cease interceding, so that you may have to resist any specific outworking that is necessary. I do not care who falls, who comes or goes, these things stand eternally, and since these things are true, you should know, if you do not already know, that the time limit in which the Lord of Truth may intercede for the world draws to a close—it draws to a close, even as it is written: “My spirit shall not always strive with man.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/03/gods-great-plan-2.html]
Therefore, let your Love Response to the Lord of Love be always so unwavering, so absolute, so complete, that there is no way in which fear of any kind can creep in. You know that you can come to me with anything. It has been proven over and over again that I will always be considerate of your viewpoint, of that which you wish to present, your difficulties. If it may be so, I shall help you in that. But Blessed Ones, do not ever, in anything, put yourselves in a position of contest with me. Do not start trying to resist me. I am not a dictator. You know that, and if you do not, I don't know what can make you know it, for you have had consideration at my hands. But if you undertake to resist me, to force anything in any direction, you should know that there is no question as to who is going to lose—and I don't like to be forced into contest with anyone. I avoid that contest, but you know also that I do not ever run away from it.
So let us work with one accord. With one accord you can present any viewpoint, you can bring forth any realization, you can come to me with any problem, any time that it is possible for me to consider it. I do not think that any of you have ever been turned away. But do not take open issue with me, and resist me. There was just a tiny hint of that today. It has cleared away, but there was just enough so that I was under the necessity of calling your attention to these things, that you may ever be mindful of them. And surely the focalization of the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth in you causes you to know as to the truth of my words in all of these things.
You know how I love you all. You must know now, at least, that I am interceding to the LORD of Lords for you—and not for you only, but for all who will receive. Thus far in my manifestation in the One Christ Body, you are those who have been gathered out of the world through my years of Ministry, to share in causing the Victory of the LORD of Lords to have meaning, because unless that Victory comes in the world as a whole, His Victory shall have been in vain. God forbid. God forbid.
Let us have our period of devotion: O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, we thank Thee for the holy privilege we have of gathering together into One Unit, that being fused in the Fire of Thy Love, and formed according to the Pattern of Truth, we may let Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven, now and forevermore. And, O Lord of Love, I bring these Blessed Ones, all who are with us in Spirit and all who respond on the vibration so established, before Thee, that their Love Response may ascend unto Thee as sweet incense, and that the power of Thy Love may flow forth through them, accomplishing that which is needful according to their attunement in the Pattern of Truth. Blessed Ones, let the Spirit direct in devotion. (Devotional Period and Song of Praise).
Let me further explain the point of intercession. Jesus Christ undertook to convey Christ Activity to those who followed Him, but they would not receive it in fulness; therefore, it has waited this day when the Christ might begin to manifest in the One Body, that the Christ Body might be the Intercessor before the LORD of Lords, so that the Spirit of Truth might set men free rather than being required at all times to be the Intercessor.
Let me now, on this vibration, undertake to focalize clearly a Great Truth. In my function as Intercessor, you have never found me attempting to intercede for that which does not respond. I have never violated the privilege of being the Intercessor; and, in interceding, I have never set myself, in any way whatsoever, in opposition against our KING. As I have functioned as Intercessor, you have found that it was only when your response became such, through Love, that I no longer needed to intercede for you, that the Truth could then set you free.
You see then, the great necessity that the One Christ Body on earth should truly be the Intercessor that, as rapidly as any shall respond, the Lord of Truth shall, by the Truth, set them free—for it is not in intercession that the Lord of Truth would serve, but rather, in the work of setting men free, that they should no longer be standing in need of intercession.
The Lord of Truth came into the world, provided the negative focalization of polarity for the LORD of the Sacred Seven; and, in that position, focalized true Love Response to the LORD of the Sacred Seven in the earth, that the creative cycles might begin; and, at the same time, he was under the necessity of acting as Intercessor for all who might come within the range of that Creative Current; and the work of intercession for each one had to continue until that one became so polarized in Love Response to the LORD of Lords that the work of the Lord of Truth might begin—for only when the response to the LORD of Lords was individually polarized could the true work of the Spirit of Truth begin to manifest with respect to that individual, that the individual might then be set free to enjoy the glorious liberty of the children of God. As you consider this process, you see that the One Christ Body has two primary purposes:
First, to hold the negative aspect of Love Response to the Lord of Love so absolute, so unwavering, so centered, that the Current may continually and eternally flow; and Second, to so intercede for those coming within the range of that Current that the Lord of Truth may, according to the means at his command, work to transform and change, and set free those who shall let themselves share in that polarity of Love Response to our KING. [A Focus Point Turned Always To The Father: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-focus-point-turned-always-to-father.html]
In this brief outline you see the primary work of the One Christ Body—the necessities, the requirements, which rest upon it, that it may let the Lord of Truth accomplish his Mission in the earth, that men may be set free as they shall let it be so. But it is recognized that the Lord of Truth dare not relinquish his position as Intercessor until polarities are proven real, true and lasting, and until he is assured that the intercessory work shall continue unabated while he accomplishes that which is his work; for, if the work of intercession should cease, his work with respect to lifting up the children of men who might respond, and let them be shaped by the Truth to be set free, would come to an end, and all those who had been so drawn would be lost to the Glorious Victory of the Kingdom. And I pray that not one will let it be so.
Nevertheless, when the One Christ Body shall have entered into this work of intercession, it shall see the Lord of Truth working with the Sword of Truth, without respect to persons, that all who respond not shall be cut off that they may fall away, and that all who respond may be uplifted and set free. If any should undertake to resist the work of the Sword of Truth in the earth, as they see individuals or companies or nations resist under that Sword, then those who resist, instead of interceding, would likewise fall under the Sword and under the Fire. I pray that the work of intercession shall never be hindered, and that the work of the Sword of Truth may accomplish that which is necessary. In this you see more clearly the work to which the One Christ Body is called on earth. [We Are Not In The Old World Any More: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/09/we-are-not-in-old-world-any-more.html]
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