Creation By The Word
Martin Cecil December 19, 1976
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” “In the beginning was the Word.” These two Biblical statements say virtually the same thing. The universe is created and sustained by the Word of God. This is a way of describing something that is indescribable. In our own experience on earth we have begun to become aware of the reality of the Word. It begins to have meaning to us in a specific sense. We see that words spoken do have a relatedness to what may be described as the Word. Another term we have used in this connection is the “Tone.” If we think of this Creative Tone sounding constantly we may see that the whole range of vibratory design that is present in the universe is kept in manifestation by the Tone. Should the Tone cease to sound at any moment then everything throughout the whole universe would immediately dissolve. We would not anticipate any such thing, but I merely mention this so that there may be a certain awareness of what is back of the creation. We must use analogies to convey ideas, and so we may say that there is a Tone sounding and all things exist by reason of this. This is the Word of God.
If we have responsibility in the creative purposes of God here in the world, that creative responsibility can only be carried to the extent that we carry the Tone, to the extent that we are the Word. The Word was in the beginning. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” but the present moment is always a beginning. We may see that this truth with respect to the Word always relates to the present moment. Those two passages from the Bible are couched in a past tense. It was true at any moment of the past, but it is true in this moment of the present. This moment of the present is certainly the beginning insofar as our experience is concerned with respect to the moments that are yet to come. But the Word is spoken in the present moment at the point of beginning. The effect of the Word is the creation of the heaven and the earth, two aspects of one creation. We have referred to this as the dimensional world. Out of nowhere the Word is spoken; in the now here the effect of the speaking of that Word is revealed. All things exist because the Word is spoken.
Our particular responsibility doesn't immediately relate to the whole universe; it simply relates to the particular field of our responsibility as man on earth. But the same principle which is present with respect to the universe comes to bear in the creative process for which we find ourselves responsible. There must be the Word brought to focus in our field of responsibility. That Word, when expressed, creates the heaven and the earth. We are interested in a new heaven and a new earth. We are not interested in having the first heaven and the first earth sustained in existence. It is sustained in existence now, insofar as human experience is concerned, because the Word that is spoken is not revealed accurately by reason of the expression of human beings; so there is another creation, which is not the true one. There is a false creation, which rightly passes away when it is no longer sustained because the Tone is no longer being sounded through the facilities of fallen human beings. Presently the world that human beings know is sustained by the Word. All things were made by Him, but what has been made has been distorted and out of balance because of the state of consciousness in which human beings are existing. The sounding of the Tone must come through that, and by the time it has come through it isn't the true expression of the Tone, it isn't the true Word. It has been called a lie, and the world is sustained on the basis of this lie.
There are plenty of human beings presently functioning in such a manner as to maintain this false world. There are a few, presumably you included, who are beginning to come into position to sound the true Tone. That true Tone does two things: first of all it tends to dissolve the results of the false tone; at the same time it creates the results of the sounding of the true Tone, the new heaven and the new earth. People read about these things in the 21st chapter of the Book of Revelation, and hear the statement, “I saw a new heaven and a new earth”; and there is a general expectation on the part of some that one day, by some means—divine action presumably—this will occur. But there is very little awareness on the part of anyone that human beings have any part to play at all with respect to what happens; and yet if human beings do not have a part to play in that, of what value are human beings? They certainly do provide the facility, rightly, by which this change may occur. And the change occurs on the basis of the Word.
In the beginning, in the moment, is the Word. This is true regardless of whether the expression of that Word is true or false. The Word is there just the same, and the false world which human beings have made is sustained because the Word is present, present but falsely expressed by human beings. Human beings have provided the only facility by which the Word could be expressed on earth. From the standpoint of the true creation man was made in the image of God to be the facility by which there might be the true creation and by which that true creation might be sustained in that area of man's responsibility. Man is still here, or what passes for man these days. No other facility has put in an appearance to get the job done, so we must depend upon what is here. I'm sure that if it was somehow decided that what remains of man was so useless that he would never get the job done, this remains would completely disintegrate. But there are human beings living on earth, great numbers these days, and so the essential facility is still present, awaiting the emergence of those who would allow the undistorted Word to be expressed. The expression of that undistorted Word creates a new heaven and a new earth—all very simple really!
When there is the true expression there is nothing that human beings in the false state of consciousness can do to prevent the creation from occurring. It hasn't occurred heretofore because there has been no adequate means for the expression of the Word, the undistorted, true Word. Now there begins to be evidence of the emergence of such a facility, but obviously this facility functions on a basis that is not at all the same as had been experienced by those concerned heretofore. The function is not in the range of the false state. It is not a matter of making a better false state. This has been the effort that has been put forward by human beings all down through the ages and so there was seeming betterment at times, but this was always succeeded by worsement because you can't have the good without the evil in the false state. In the true state it isn't a matter of good and evil as human beings understand it but a matter of the way things are. They don't need judging by anyone. There are creative processes at work and changes occurring which if judged could be categorized, as they have been in the false state, as being either good or evil; but in fact they are neither. They are perfect, the perfect unfoldment of the creative process by reason of the Word expressed on earth by those who are created in the image of God. These are specifically so created in order that the Word might be spoken within the range of the responsibility carried by man.
The Word is spoken and the result of this is described as heaven and earth. We are concerned with the new heaven and the new earth, an unknown quantity until the Word is expressed and the result appears. We don't have to try to make the new heaven and the new earth be any particular way, because as human beings in the false state we wouldn't know what that way was anyhow, and also there is no need. The Word is all that is required. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made,” even the false world in which we now apparently dwell. “In him,” in the Word, “was life.” There is no possibility of the experience of the reality of Life except in the Word. When that Word is expressed Life is expressed and there is the experience of what Life is. If the Word, as it truly is, is not expressed but is colored and distorted, then life is not expressed and the dying experience is consequently known. Our total concern relates to the Word.
This Word has focus, so that the Tone may be sounded in such a way that those who have ears to hear may become increasingly aware of it. As there is love for that Word, then the individual expression in living is conditioned by the Word and increasingly the person concerned becomes the Word in expression. Each individual properly expresses an aspect of the Word in his own field of living responsibility. Obviously it could not be that each person twenty-four hours a day reads mailings. If we look at our general pattern here at the moment we see that there are two hours of service a week. There are something like one hundred and sixty-eight hours in a week, so that would be one hour in eighty-four. Possibly in a few of those eighty-four hours mailings may be read or videos observed or audiotapes listened to, or services given by others than myself who are capable of sounding the Tone shared, but obviously the majority of life experience must be one's own particular expression of the Word. Each one has this responsibility. Each one knows life to the extent that he is true to that responsibility, because in the Word is Life.
There is this unifying current which finds release through what we call services, and this in various ways is made available for the consideration of a large number of people. But above and beyond the consideration of words and the spirit of those words, there is the release of spirit in any case, something that is in some measure known by those who are moving with this flow of the spirit. I am frequently informed by people that they had been considering certain points which were shortly thereafter found in the mailings that were received; in other words there is an unconscious movement in the flow of the spirit already experienced in some measure by people in many places. As there is a greater proficiency in the expression of the Word this coordinated movement becomes more obvious and the effect of this coordinated expression of the Word also becomes more obvious—more obvious from the standpoint of the dissolution of the first heaven and the first earth, and the creation of the new heaven and the new earth. These two experiences unfold side-by-side.
Obviously all of us have a considerable background of conditioning in the false state of consciousness which must be dissolved. Whether we like it or not, whether anyone on earth likes it or not, this dissolution is already occurring. The former things are in the process of passing away. Insofar as those who are deeply involved in and committed to a false state are concerned such dissolution is disturbing, to say the least. It is aptly described as tribulation, but it is only tribulation to those who are identified with what it is that is in the process of being dissolved. We would all admit, I'm sure, that there is much present yet insofar as our state of consciousness is concerned which correlates with the false state, and consequently we would anticipate that there would be a certain amount of tribulation within the range of our experience. So if some shows up, as it undoubtedly does and no doubt will continue to do for a while, this should not be any surprise to us. There is no need to be disturbed by it. We can assume an attitude of aloofness toward it. We are keenly aware of the fact that it is something that must occur and we have an attitude of welcome toward the occurrences.
The experience of the new heaven and the new earth is quite bound up with the dissolution of the first heaven and the first earth. If there is a real longing for the creation of the new heaven and the new earth then there is also a real longing for the dissolution of the first heaven and the first earth. When we experience that dissolution and it is uncomfortable, we may easily give thanks. This is a very easy thing to do when we are standing in the place where we belong and see things with true perspective. The place where we belong of course is in the Garden, expressing the Word. We do not think that expressing the Word will simply be uncomfortable for everybody else. It's uncomfortable for us too, but we know how to handle that; we understand what is happening. Incidentally, we may be in position to provide assurance to others with respect to their discomforts, because we understand the necessity for the dissolution of the old heaven, the first heaven and the first earth. We ourselves represent to those with whom we are associated the sounding of the Word, inviting response. And as there are those who are willing to be assured, and consequently comforted by what we are in position to offer because of our vision and understanding, they too begin to participate in the sounding of the Tone as related to their own expression of living.
So the Word is expressed by us and others because we accept the responsibility for it, and we cannot let ourselves return into subjection to the old state of false, restricted, limited vision. Where there is no vision the people certainly perish. There is something going to perish, but why associate oneself with what is perishing, even if what is perishing seems for the moment to be a part of ourselves? The new heaven and the new earth put in an appearance as the inevitable result of the sounding of the creative Word expressed in our living. We live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. We participate in the flowing expression of that Word in every aspect of our daily living.
I speak of these things now and I'm sure that you have a certain understanding of what it is that I am saying. You do have that to the extent of your own experience of living and moving in the Word. And this does certainly include what is specifically brought to focus in an hour such as this, as well as what may be brought to focus specifically in your particular individual fields of responsibility during the course of your daily living. It is all one thing, really, but there needs to be a focus. There needs to be an increasingly clear participation in what is being revealed by reason of that focus, so that there is this unified moving in the flow of the spirit. Here is the creative power. In the Word is Life, and the Life is the Light of men. It is the means by which restoration may occur.
The light already shines in the darkness; the darkness comprehends it not. We are rather fortunate that the darkness does not comprehend the light. There would be a great deal more resistance, objection, violent contention, if human beings in the dark were able actually to see what was happening. Only those begin to sense what is happening, in an awareness of something creative, as there is movement with the Word. Then there is movement with the Light, and the Light comprehends the Light. We do not expect the darkness to comprehend the light and do not try to make it do so, as though that was going to be a valuable service. The valuable service is to leave the darkness in an uncomprehending state; then they are in no position to interfere with the creative process with which we are associated, because they don't know what's going on. What they observe as going on doesn't seem to them to have very much significance, so there's no need to oppose it too extensively. But it is our responsibility to give expression to the Word which is God.
As I say, that expression dissolves the first heaven and the first earth. It dissolves the first heaven and the first earth because when the Word is truly expressed there is nothing to sustain the first heaven and the first earth, so it disintegrates. The Tone is no longer falsely sounding within the range of that false state and so there is nothing to sustain it and it collapses. It may be possible for us quite easily to see these things and the logic of them while we are sitting here in the Chapel. We have a perspective view from the mountainside, if not from the mountaintop as yet. But what happens when we are not together directly considering these things? Possibly most of you could now say, “Oh I see, I understand, I know what it is that is happening. I realize that the Word must be expressed, the Tone consistently sounded, and all these things will work out as they should, the creation will occur.” What was it that James said in his Epistle, about a person looking into the mirror and seeing things, and then straightway forgetting them? Let us not forget, but move with the flow of the spirit, deeply concerned to allow the expression of the Word according to our individual fields of responsibility. What a great and glorious thing this is! Could there be anything more marvellous, really? We should have sufficient vision to see it, and to know it.
Of course, we only really know how marvellous it is to the extent that we do it. We don't know how marvelous it is just by thinking about it. We may delude ourselves into a delightful state of imagination, but the reality, the result, only appears when the Word is expressed constantly and consistently. And as there comes an increasing sense of assurance the force of the expression of that Word is known. It is known because we express it. We may perceive that there is force to it by reason of the expression of another, but if the other isn't around to convey to us the force of it then if we are not participating in that expression ourselves it tends to vanish away in our experience. But we may move together; we are here to do that. There are particular opportunities in this regard every day. Things come to special points of focus at times.
We recognize that the expression of the Word is not merely the responsibility of the one or ones who bring it to particular focus; it requires everyone—as it requires everyone here this evening to permit whatever expression of the Word may appear now. You have a very important part to play in permitting the Word to be expressed. The Word is not going to be released simply at the moment we have a service; it wouldn't be possible on that basis if it had not been being expressed on a more or less consistent basis over the months and years. And so there has been this radiation. Now a door is opened for response to that radiation, and there are people who are ready to respond, because what is being offered is seen as acceptable. To the extent that there is response and openness of heart, because there is a recognition of something that is easily accepted, the impact of the Word occurs—there is creative expression. In the beginning God, the Word, creates the heaven and the earth. It is all part of the creative process by reason of the expression of the Word, a particular focus of that creative process, something which may be experienced by everybody who is present. It is part of a continuing process which is at work all the time to the extent that the Word is expressed.
In the beginning is the Word, and the Word is with God, and the Word is God. The same is always in the beginning, in the present moment. It is so in every present moment. The very fact of the continued existence of all that we know exists is evidence of this. All things are made and sustained by the Word. Let us let the world which we center be made and sustained by the Word clearly and purely expressed in our living. This we are here to do. And I trust in our consideration this evening there may be an increased clarity of consciousness with respect to our creative responsibility, an increased understanding of what it is we are about and what it is that is happening. Here is true purpose, and in the expression of true purpose there is the experience of true meaning. How blessed we are to have the opportunity of allowing such things to be brought to focus in unified radiation, that the creative expression of the Word may continue and intensify to the Glory of God.
© emissaries of divine light
Let Her Alone!
“Return Unto Me And I Will Return Unto You”
David Barnes Salmon Arm, B.C. Canada March 19, 2023
To begin, I will read an excerpt from the book of Malachi, Chapter 3: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts… Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts…” This is one primary theme that I want to share, an acknowledgement of this promise: Return unto me and I will return unto you. “Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts… Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
This service consideration relates to the invitation and the opportunity that is always present for everyone, to return to heaven and to the LORD of Heaven—not just an invitation for ourselves here gathered—presumably that's already been accepted—but the invitation and the opportunity to open the gateways and the doorways for the Great Return of response, return of the substance of the earth and the sacred systems of the earth, and the world, to the LORD of Heaven. “Return unto me, and I will return unto you.” That has been the promise, and fulfillment has always been at hand. In relationship to that Great Return, Uranda said this in a Class session in 1953:
“We have come to the next step. This is the period when Mother God must come into her own, or man is lost. If he continues to cling to the old concepts with respect to God he is going to fail. How are you going to have the Child without the Mother? Jehovah is Mother God, and the manifestation of the [Child or the] Body must be in relationship to the Mother.” We have Father God in the invisible realms of heaven now, and Mother God in the visible, and we have not yet let Mother God have a body. “And until we let Mother God have a body, Father God, in the invisible cycle, cannot have any real meaning on earth to bring forth the child in relationship to individual living, or living in the kingdoms of this world, the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, etc.” And so, “This is the period when Mother God must come into her own, or man is lost.”
This is the Great Return that is so very important—“Return unto me, and I will return unto you” saith the LORD of Hosts. As sons and daughters of God, in representation of the Father and the Mother, we open the door for the return of the Mother, and the ongoing revelation of the patterns of life in the Family of Divine Man restored, and in all the kingdoms of creation, for the return of the Body and the substance of Mother Earth to the Father—all of which essences, Father, Mother and Child are present within us as individuals and as a body of people.
This heavenly world that prophecy says is to come, as we fulfil our part of the promise, has been in the process of coming for 2000 years in a very specific way. Being within the Heavenly Borderland above the fallen world that I am in but not of, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-work-is-not-finishedborderland.html] insofar as I am concerned the world to come is here. Heaven is here in a very real sense; the Garden is at hand, it is here; and the Lord has come to His Temple, in fulfillment of the promise through the Prophet Malachi, “Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”
All of us should be able to easily acknowledge that heaven is here—acknowledge that since that amazing period of time in the mid-1940s, in a very real way the process of the reunion of heaven and earth has been established in this world; and all of us are actually living and moving in an experience of heaven on earth now; not in its completeness, but this has happened, and it is happening. The seemingly impossible has been accomplished—the birth and the emergence in substance and in form of the Christ Body, the Spiritual Body of the Son of God. This has not happened in a body of people, however small a body, since before the fall of man. There has never been a Body of God sustained in heaven on earth since before the fall. The birth of the Spiritual Body, brought forth by Uranda and those who worked with him in its beginning formation, was accomplished, and we are a part of that beginning formation, which occurred not that long ago—1946. And this is a massive project, the restoration we call it.
Recently I did some research based on a transcript titled “Cosmic Ages”, released by Uranda in 1939. According to his dates it was about 28,183 years ago [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/06/from-cosmic-uranda-2-1939-cosmic-age-or.html] that the inception point of the rebellion occurred, resulting in the fall of man—near the beginning of the 12th Grand Age, a Fire Cycle of 25,856 years duration, coming at the completion of a 310,272 year Solar Age. During the first 7000 years of that final 25,856 year Grand Fire Age, the Priesthood leadership worked from within the focal government established in the Seven Sacred Cities to bring man back into harmony with the government of heaven. 28,183 years minus 7000 years brings us to 21,183 years ago. At that point 21,183 years ago, the rebellion by fallen man, and the fall itself, was so complete that the Priesthood Government began to withdraw the Sacred Cities of the Motherland; and gradually over the next 8000 years all of the Seven Sacred Cities were removed from the earth, and the sinking of Lemuria resulted—the Motherland sank approximately 13,183 years ago. 21,183 years minus 8000 years brings us to 13,183 years ago. Atlantis sank about 1000 years later, approximately 12,000 years ago. Uranda writes: “It was during that time [8000 years] that the number of those who rebelled against God increased, and the number of those who obeyed God decreased, until at the time of the submersion it was necessary to remove all the remaining Sacred Cities from the face of the earth and leave man to his own destruction. When the God Beings functioning through the last three remaining Cities—the cosmic vibrations which had been functioning through the perfect consciousness therein established—were forced to begin functioning through the twisted consciousness of fallen man, the earth was thereby thrown out of polarity, and the subterranean supports of the Motherland, or of Lemuria, were caused to crumble and Lemuria settled beneath the surface of the waters which are now called the Great Pacific.” And so, says Uranda, “It has been 28,183 years since the fall of man”—the beginning of the rebellion and the fallen state.
Then, about 400 years after the beginning of a new 310,000 Solar Air Age in 388 BC, and the beginning of a new 25,800 year Grand Water Age, and the beginning of a new 2154 year Ordinary Water Age, the LORD of Lords incarnated as the the man Jesus—approximately 2023 years ago. The Master came into incarnation to initiate this particular phase of the restoration that we are in now. He came in order to allow the conception of this Christ Body formation that is now present—this same Body that Uranda came to bring into manifestation under the command of the LORD of Lords, and by reason of the Commission given to Uranda, in this function as the Lord of Truth for this Outer Triune World. As we can see from this brief outline, the restoration of mankind is a massive project.
This Christ Body continues to grow and develop, and as long as we speak the Word and provide the substance, and hold strong the vibrational hedge related to this ongoing formation, we have the experience of being in Heaven, being in the Garden, being in this Spiritual Body, in the world of the fallen condition but not of it. This is not just a theory—it has happened. It is happening, and the heavenly world on earth is here now for anyone who does what is required in their own life to experience that as being so.
This realization brings a tremendous sense of humility before the greatness of what is yet to be done under the hand of the LORD of this creative cycle of restoration. Having returned to Heaven, to the Garden, it is natural to acknowledge and recognize the One Who is LORD and KING. I am focused in One who is Supreme, Our LORD; but also focused in many who serve closely with Him, His primary Archangelic representatives, and His angels on earth, such as you and me in this Spiritual Body now taking form, which has many aspects to it. But our work is centralized in the return of the earth, the form for the incarnation of the spirit of Mother God, to Heaven and to the LORD, so that Heaven and Earth are allowed to be One again.
The spirit of the Single Eye in the Head of the Body comes to focus right here, in the pituitary in the center of the forehead, in the spirit of the womb, the spirit of truth, the spirit of the Mother—in love with the Father, the spirit of love focused in the Pineal, present in the pattern of the head of the body of the individual, and the Head of the Archangelic Body, so that life and life more abundant can be born through the Christ Radiance—Shekinah—the focus of spirit on earth, moving through the pure heart in blessing, benediction, with a single-minded devotion to let all substance rise up and return home to the LORD (bring all the tithes into the storehouse) that the spirit and substance of the New Earth might blend with the spirit and substance of the New Heaven in me and in you, and in this Christ Body.
There is something of considerable significance that I would like to begin to open up, so that we can entertain it in the months to come, and discover what opens further in services, and in other venues. And all venues that serve the LORD of Heaven on earth in this day are vitally important to what is transpiring; each one is responsible for a different level, range, or dimension of substance, revealing certain aspects of the Spirit in the One Body, functions that are absolutely essential—and more venues for generation will develop in the days to come.
Relative to what I want to consider here, Uranda spoke these words to a small group that gathered with him in a sanctuary space in 1949, mostly women: “All together, you provide that focus of Divine Womanhood as you are centered in your QUEEN, by which the restoration becomes possible, providing you are honest and true.” In our services and meditations in the past we haven’t spoken much about the QUEEN of Heaven and Earth. We talk about the KING of Heaven and Earth. I think there's something we need to share this morning that will open a door of Great Blessing, as we move in the cycles of resurrection from this day forward.
Uranda said this in 1952: “Do you think the Master's life was without love? No! Mary of Bethany was his sweetheart. Mary of Bethany provided the centering, from the standpoint of the negative aspect of being, for that outworking for which He was on earth, and for which He labored.”
I'm sure that a lot of you, probably mostly the women but perhaps the men too, are aware that there were a significant number of women disciples of the Master when He was on earth, women who were absolutely vital to His ministry. I went through the Biblical record and did some research, and I found nine women named, identified, characterized—significant women. A number of them were named Mary. Mary and Martha of Bethany were two of His most relied upon women, in terms of the core of His Body of women disciples. Others named are Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, Salome, Elizabeth and several Marys. A number of these women were wealthy and they provided substance, funds, for His ministry as it was developing. In the Biblical record, by the time that His ministry was over He had eleven primary men that were named. There is something significant recorded here about the composition of His ministry—albeit mentioned ever so briefly—in terms of the angels who incarnated to be with Him, female and male, and the work of gathering those ones. Substance began to gather around a Core of men and women that was centered in Jesus, and Mary of Bethany.
I think it is altogether fitting that very little is said, and very little is known in general about Mary of Bethany. We know how the ministry of the Master Himself was corrupted very shortly after He was here. The Great Return relates to the whole, and there is something we must understand about the defilement of the earth and of the feminine vibration, wisdom, the Mother Presence, that occurred at the time of the fall, when those who were supposed to be the sons and daughters of God became the sons and daughters of perdition, and took over, and usurped the earth, the substance and body of the Mother, and raped it, and maintained that state of rebellion and defilement for the past 28,000 years. And this fallen state continues to this day. Naturally there would be a very great deal of care on the part of the Master about the manner in which He exposed this one, Mary of Bethany, who came into incarnation on earth to be with Him and form that Innermost Core of essential generation, that, as it was maintained in the Holy of Holies and the Holy Place, it would be allowed to expand outward in rings of development of a Spiritual Body, under His guidance. Perhaps you remember this passage in the Book of John, Chapter Twelve—versions of it are recorded four times in the Gospels, each one framed a bit different:
“Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany”—just six days. You can imagine, if you know something of great magnitude is coming your way in six days, you will be feeling it coming; you will feel the weight of it, the density of it, the significance of it, and the challenge of it. Even in the minor things that we have to face in our world day-by-day, we feel the shadow of it coming. This was six days before the Passover, and He knew what was coming. “Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. And there they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.” One can feel the substance rising from that core interaction of spiritual intimacy, in the portrayal of that crucial scene and movement. “Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.”
These three words have resonated in me for many years: “Let her alone.” As the command of the LORD to the satanic government of this world, as it relates to the body and substance of the earth, of the Mother, of the QUEEN, He said, “Let Her Alone”, and that command resonates in this day. Now we're not just talking to or about earthbound men and women; we are talking about that which is most holy and most sacred, as it relates to the whole earth, and the Royal Household of the KING and the QUEEN, of which the sons and daughters of God are a part. Let Her Alone! That command resounds to this day; and it should be resounding through us, as we are sons and daughters of God incarnate here and now. There shall not be any violation of this sacred presence, this holy manifestation, only known in the Holy Place and in the Holy of Holies.
Here are a few words written by Uranda in 1939: “All God Beings are under the Law of the Positive and the Negative, and so are they male and female. The Great Master came into the outer planes to bring the truths of salvation to mankind.” And while He was on earth, under the Law “He could not marry during His life on earth.” We won't go into that right now, as to why the Law worked in this way relative to Him while He was incarnate; we will just accept it as fact. But under the Law, “He could not marry during His life on earth, though His Cosmic Beloved incarnated to be with Him during His outer ministry. Mary of Bethany and the Master Jesus, being Cosmic Beloveds, were very close sweethearts during all of their outer life manifestation. Let it be noted that Mary of Bethany was not Mary Magdalene, who anointed Jesus.” They were two different women. We could go into that another time, considering Mary Magdalene, without regard to any of the dubious statements made about her in popular culture these days; but we could examine it and gain a feeling for the significance of what Mary Magdalene brought as a vitally important disciple of the Master. However it was Mary of Bethany, His Cosmic Beloved, who “incarnated to be with Him during His outer ministry.” As Uranda emphasizes, “Mary of Bethany and the Master, being Cosmic Beloveds, were very close sweethearts during all of their outer life manifestation.” Also note that “Mary of Bethany was of all women, most beautiful, holy and pure… and they are our great KING and QUEEN.” Uranda also tells us that the God Being, that angel who incarnated as Mary of Bethany, “has not incarnated since that time. She ascended with the Master Jesus” when He ascended.
Perhaps that's enough for the moment, except to emphasize that, from this point on, when we speak of our KING—and if we're inside the Heavenly Borderland, in the Kingdom, we have a very vivid awareness of the KING of the Kingdom, always—and when we speak of the KING, or the LORD of this Body that is now developing, we should also immediately recall that in the Kingdom there is also the QUEEN, just as real and present as the KING of the Kingdom, and just as vital. How can there be a spiritual conception, brought about by the vision and the presence of the KING, if we don't have the conception brought about by the vision and presence of the QUEEN as well—the male and the female?
And in this regard, we think of those cycles that the Master set in motion over 2,000 years ago, cycles that have worked subconsciously and to some degree consciously, to bring us to the point where Uranda, the Lord of Truth, was able to incarnate and remind us of these things. And working throughout the cycles of his life, Uranda came to the point where, as a King in his own right in this outer world, representing his KING and QUEEN, Uranda drew to himself his Queen, without whom things would not have developed as substantially as they have—and here I speak of Kathy Meeker. And so, through Uranda and Kathy there was a representation on earth of the KING and QUEEN of Heaven and Earth; and therefore, because of the blending in the two here below, in relationship to the two above, they were able to bring forth through their ministry together that which we now know—this Spiritual Body. And more is to come for all of us, as these things are unveiled, and the Spirit of Truth brings all things to remembrance.
So, in the days to come when we think of the KING of Kings, we should think of the QUEEN of Queens as well, and recognize that 2000 years ago they incarnated together to accomplish something, and there was cycle after cycle after cycle of spiritual conception because of their communion together—and all of this has implications for us now. The Master went frequently to Bethany, because that was His greatest sanctuary, that was the one place that He had on earth to lay His head—and fundamentally they maintained the hedge in a Core sense in that home in Bethany, those three in particular, Mary and Martha and Lazarus, in that sanctuary; and His disciples and others, male and female, frequently came to be with them. And then, in this period of time, a week before the Passover, when Mary of Bethany anointed His head and His feet and wiped them with Her hair, there was something extraordinary taking place in that vibrational space, in terms of the generation of substance that was gathering and allowing Him to move within a somewhat expanded angelic hedge—such as it was, not very much provided by people in general—provided by a few as He moved into the pattern that we know as the Crucifixion, when that which was provided from above was met in that which was provided from below, and there was angelic care present at both levels. There should have been more on this side of the equation, but it was enough. And we know that the beloved disciple John also played a vital and central role in all that transpired during the life of our Master on earth, and subsequently.
And so, with this consideration, through our developing awareness of the KING and QUEEN of Heaven and Earth—with just the little that we know, in the sense of becoming aware of it, not that our minds know very much—in the days and weeks and months to come we can take all of this into our sanctuary space and ponder it, and see what more comes clear in the heavenly space we each maintain. This is all part of the Great Return of the stolen substance, this recognition, first of the spirit of the Mother in oneness with the spirit of the Father, and the great care that the Father, the KING, has taken to bring it to this point, so that His QUEEN could begin to be known once again in our consciousness in this day. And the Mother will not be defiled, and Her Body will not be raped again by fallen man.
We care for all of this in the Holy Place and in the Holy of Holies [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-arkholy-essences-preserved.html] in the Temple of Light which is alive here and now; and we have an opportunity to ponder the presence of the KING and the QUEEN in the Heaven that is here right now, the Heaven that I and you inhabit, and have done without even knowing it, really, through all the years of our life. It's been here all along. Now we know it, and we tend it with greater care and understanding than ever, that the work might be finished. But it's a big job, so it's going to take a while to finish it. It's going to be one generation of substance, but within several generations of people carrying forward.
In this transcript in which Uranda states that this is the time when Mother God must come into her own or man is lost, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/05/mother-god-must-come-into-her-own.html] he emphasizes that it is in this 2160 year Air cycle that things become absolutely critical. And certain things need to be achieved in specific phases during this 2160 year Age—this period that began around 1768, near the beginning of which Uranda then came into incarnation, and Martin. And we came as well. So this is just the beginning of things, obviously, when we think of what it would actually take to have this whole human nature scene cleaned up—it has taken 28,000 years to get into this mess, and it will take some time to have it completely cleared up. When we first considered these things years ago, we may have thought, well, this is going happen in forty years, and it will all be over. Well, certain things need to happen within certain definite time frames; but in the larger picture, in terms of the whole mop-up operation, it is within a longer period—not that long really in Cosmic terms—but it's going take several incarnations of angels, well trained to steward the process. This is our responsibility. This is our joy, akin to the Master's joy, to play our part in the Great Return and the finishing of this Great Work.
a Temple of Light service
Let Us Ascend To The Father
Easter Night
Uranda April 9, 1950 8 pm Sunrise Ranch
We come to the close of Easter Day in the year of our LORD, One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty. We cannot waste time in vain regret for the delays of the past. We cannot let ourselves look back in any manner that brings a re-attunement with the things that have passed away. In the processes of attunement with God and the things of God, the attunement with the things that have passed away and are passing away has been broken, that the identity of Being may be according to that which is Divinely Ordained. Forgetting those things which are behind and pressing on toward the mark of our High Calling in Christ Jesus, we have the opportunity of this hour and of the days allotted to us in time to come. It is for us to let this hour and all the hours that follow it be filled with the Golden Glow of Divine Reality, uncolored, unspoiled by the unrealities of the past or the unrealities of the world.
We have recognized that to follow all the way, we must let ourselves be lifted up to Him Who was lifted up, that we also may ascend unto the Father. That ascension which comes with the leaving of this world is important, but it is not that which we consider. While living on earth in the Kingdom that is at hand, we follow our Master in ascension. In this hour which God has granted us, let us let the inspiration of the Spirit bring a larger vision, a deeper understanding of what it means to ascend unto the Father.
The human mind which has been conditioned in time past to the unrealities of the world does not, immediately on coming into the Atmosphere of the Kingdom, have the ability to grasp and to understand clearly without a consideration of contrast. Coming into the Kingdom, we see that the contrast that is found in evil is not essential to an understanding and a realization of that which is Divine. We refuse to accept the old idea that the good is dependent upon the manifestation of the evil, or that the good cannot be seen and appreciated without the evil. Such ideas we reject, but as yet contrast, the recognition of contrast, helps to an understanding.
We have spoken of, and meditated upon, that Call to ascend unto the Father, as the Master put it, “To my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” If there is the opportunity of ascension, then there must likewise be the opportunity of descending. We remember Jacob’s ladder whereon he saw the Angels of God ascending and descending between Heaven and earth. While we recognize that there is a cycle of ascending and descending in this regard, it does not immediately portray that which is essential to our understanding tonight. There is, then, a process of ascending and descending which is not wrong, which is not contrary to the Divine Will, but the descending which is possible to human beings who are not in the Kingdom is to that which is unworthy of God’s Crowning Creation.
The idea of ascending to the Father tends to be vague to the human mind, or to be hedged about with fanciful ideas of some sort. What does it mean to us tonight? The Master said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The Father is in the Kingdom. I think the popular concept, by and large, is that after leaving Mary at the tomb, the Master must have gone off somewhere up into the skies, perhaps a million miles or so, and then speeded back in time to meet the disciples. I do not think we have to go a million miles or so to ascend to the Father. The Kingdom is at hand, and the Father is in the Kingdom, and He is near. We do not have to try to perform some Indian rope trick, to hang a rope upon some imagined sky-hook and try to climb it. No. Such mental gymnastics are as foolish as the fancy, the delusion, that comes to those who see the so-called rope trick. No, if we are to ascend to the Father, we need to let our minds be cleared of all the human concepts that have developed out of the past in relationship to this fulfillment.
The human mind needs to remember, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love and serve Him.” From the standpoint of that glorious example our Master gave, from the standpoint of His instruction and admonition, yea of His command to follow Him, we see that one of the things which God hath prepared for them that love and serve Him is that they should ascend unto the Father—but, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” and that which I say tonight is not supposed to tell you in just so many words just what you will experience. I am not seeking to express some fixed concept that will stand in the way of your fulfillment, but that in the Current of the Spirit, the realization may be gained whereby we may together be lifted up according to the Promise, “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” Surely this is vitally important to our Spiritual fulfillment whereby we may be in position to render service on earth to the Glory of God and to the Blessing of our brother man.
So, letting the former things remain where they are, passed away, and letting the mind be filled with that which God creates New, let us consider what it means to ascend to the Father. If we were to undertake to completely enumerate the Aspects of Being contained in the Father of which we know, our hour together would be far too short to consider it all, and having enumerated what we know, that which the mind can at the present time comprehend would not be adequate to the reality that is, but a few of the things that we know concerning the Father are: first, His Infinite Love. His Infinite Love. Ascending to the Father is opening ourselves still more fully, still more completely, to that which is of the Father. That which is of the Father and the Father cannot be separated; so the first thing necessary is the conviction in the mind and heart that we do not have to perform some impossible thing, that it is possible here and now, and that we do not have to try, but that we can let this thing take place and be a Reality in our own lives here and now. That which is of God is not to be separated from God.
So, we might conceivably, day by day, take some Aspect of the Father about which we know and deliberately consider that phase of the Father’s Being in relationship to all of our functions through the day, opening ourselves deliberately to that which we know to be of the Father. His Infinite Love—we have tasted much of that Love, the richness of God's Blessings to us, but there is more to be known. In opening ourselves to His Love, we remember that Love is that which produces all true union, all true blending. Without Love there is no true union. Heaven and earth are to be One, according to the Word. Heaven and earth are to be One. There is to be a union between this world and Heaven. There is to be a union between the human being and His God, and the only thing that produces true union is Love. So, the Father's Love is that which makes possible our ascending to Him, that we may be one with Him and let His Will be done on earth.
There is much more that could be said about His Love and about our function in relationship to His Love, but next I would put His Truth—the Father’s Truth, the Patterns of Being. The Father's Love and the Father’s Truth. We think of the Cosmos and we think of something far away and vast and incomprehensible, and yet we are not outside the Cosmos. This world in which we dwell is contained within the Cosmos. We are a part of that Cosmos. So, while there may be the applications of Truth that are peculiar to the far distant parts of the Cosmos, all the Truth that relates to us in any way, shape or form is contained right here where we are. The Father's Truth, then, is not far away. It is here at hand. It is here where we are. So, there are many avenues of meditation open to us in the consideration of the Father’s Truth.
Next, I would place His Life—the Father's Life. The first phase of that consideration would have to be the revelation of the Father’s Life as made manifest through Jesus Christ our LORD, because He revealed the Father, the Father's Life. We have much to consider there. We have given it much consideration, but there is much more. Then, as we have responded we have begun to recognize in relationship to ourselves something of the reality of the Father’s Life, the recognition that it is the Father’s Life that allows us to live, that our life is not apart from Him; it is not separate from Him. The fact of our lives depends upon the fact of the Father's Life. So, our consideration of this is not limited to something that was made manifest over nineteen centuries ago, as beautiful as that was. It is here; it is at hand. The Father’s Life here at hand, contained within ourselves, permits us to live and breathe and have our being. So, the Father's Life is not far away.
Contained within these Three Aspects of the Father’s Being of which we are aware, there are many phases of His Being—the Father's Power is one. We could look into the star-studded sky and marvel at God’s Great Creative Power, and it seems so vast and far away and we seem so small and insignificant. That is a manifestation of the Father's Power in which we rejoice and from which we can learn much, but let us not, seeing that, lose sight of the fact that right here, all around us every day, there are evidences of the Father's Power. We see a blade of grass coming up through the soil. We see a bird on the wing or hear its song. We see the mountains and the plains, the trees. We see the human being, fearfully and wonderfully made, with all of his members coordinated, working together, the heart beating, the lungs pumping the air, and all the mysterious, wonderful processes contained in the human body.
Yes, everywhere we look there is evidence of God's Power that is not far away, but is here, near at hand, manifest in ourselves, else we could not lift a hand, we could not breathe a single breath of air. The Father's Power—it is near at hand. It is one of those things that we must realize more deeply if we are to ascend to the Father, because we cannot exclude from ourselves those things that are of the Father and ascend to the Father at the same time. To whatsoever degree we segregate ourselves in mind or heart from that which is of the Father, we place ourselves in a position where we cannot draw near to the Father, and in ascension to Him we must surely draw near to Him. So, there is the Father's Power.
Then, we might note His Wisdom, the Father's Wisdom. Human beings can study the various things that God has made and gain knowledge about them, but whatever it is, from the tiniest form of animal life or plant life to the most complicated forms of life, whatever one may study, however much knowledge one may gain, one must recognize that the Wisdom that brought all these things forth is wonderful indeed, and always there is something amazing, something beyond the comprehension of man. How does life work and manifest in the blade of grass? Does any man know the secrets of life working in a blade of grass? Can he reproduce it? Can he take the substances found in a blade of grass and make that grass to appear—a living thing? No. Then, we must recognize that God's Wisdom is infinitely great, and that it is not just far away. The Father's Wisdom is here. These things could not just appear. What kind of a marvellous force would be causing all these things just to happen?
Sometimes human beings say, “But I do not know how I can have faith in God. I think I will follow along with those who are agnostics or atheists. I believe these things just happen.” What a wonderful happening. Growing up from an amoeba—and where did the amoeba come from? Faith—O. I admire such faith. It is far more than the faith a Christian needs, to believe that all these things could just happen. No. We do not need that much faith—thank God. So, there is the conviction about God's Wisdom and the recognition that it is not far away, that when the Master said, "The Kingdom is at hand," He meant exactly what He said. God’s Wisdom is certainly in the Kingdom and we see it near at hand, evidences of it all around us all the time, and if we are to ascend unto the Father we must open ourselves to His Wisdom, not shut ourselves off from it and say, “This is not for me; God has that over there, but He does not intend I should draw near to it; that is of God, but.” No, no. The Command the Master gave was to follow Him in the ascension unto the Father in the Kingdom that is at hand. So, His Wisdom, an Aspect of His Being, is all around us, available to us here and now as we open ourselves to it and let His Wisdom have meaning in our lives.
With all this Wisdom made manifest around us, with His Love to us, His invitation to ascend unto Him, to receive of His Love and His Truth and His Life and all the rest, why must human beings imagine that they are condemned to blindly stumble this way and that through life as if they were to be cut off from the very things which God says He longs to give to His Children? Why must human beings imagine they must stumble this way and that, with uncertainty? No, man is not supposed to be walking the way blindly. Wisdom is available for the understanding.
Another Aspect of the Father’s Being is Vision. When we have come in contact with sightless persons, we have surely given at least a second thought to the fact that we are thankful for the gift of physical eyesight. What a blessing it is. But vision is more than just physical eyesight. It is perception in all realms of being of which we may be aware, and it is evident God does not desire that we should go blindly stumbling this way and that. God has Vision. Consider the flowers, all the things that He made, all the things that they mean to human beings. Let us see now—God’s Vision. He made these things quite a long while ago, these things that human beings are just discovering have some use. Thousands of years ago God brought forth something, established it on earth, and for thousands of years human beings have passed it by, had no use for it at all. Maybe it was a weed, maybe something else. It has been there all the time and man just now is discovering that it really has a use.
Now, God's provision of that, so that it would be available when man awakened to the necessity—is that Vision? Does anyone need to be convinced that God has vision? That is what we mean by Vision. The ability to perceive in the outworking of things the natural sequences essential to our own points of responsibility, so that we are not asleep, we are not dull and failing to take account of the factors that are involved, at least insofar as we can perceive them, is Vision. But if we neglect to use our vision now possible to us within the scope of our present ability and we pray God for more vision, what is it? It is a futility; it is a farce. God's Vision is part of the expression of His Being and we are to ascend to Him, but if we fail to utilize the abilities of vision we have, we are separating ourselves from God and saying, “I will not ascend; you must come down to me and convince me of it all; I am not going to ascend.” That is not the way it works.
In all things whatsoever with respect to these phases of the Father’s Being, we must utilize that which is in us already, that which is available to us within the range of our present abilities, because a neglect of that use is a refusal to accept more, and until we are ready to receive more how can we draw nearer to God, ascend to the Father? Are the manifestations of the Father’s Being going to get less and less as we ascend to Him? No, not at all. They are going to increase. So, wherever we are, whatever our responsibilities and abilities, there must be an alertness, an openness and a willingness to use those phases of our own beings which correlate with the phases of the Father's Being of which we know. God is not requiring us to do something about that which we do not yet know, but with respect to the phases of the Father's Being about which we do know, there are certain aspects of being in ourselves of which we are likewise aware that should correlate, and if those phases of being in ourselves are not open to that in Him, and if we are not using those phases of being in ourselves for His Purposes, how are we going to ascend—how are the things of God going to increase in our lives?
So, when the Master admonishes us to ascend to the Father, to follow Him—and He led the Way—it is not some fanciful, far distant, vague something or other. It is something that is practical and near at hand; it is right here open to each and everyone, and in letting the phases of our own beings which properly correlate with these phases of the Father’s Being of which we know be brought into the practical play of living, we are beginning to ascend. It is not by struggling or by mental gymnastics, but by the simple process of recognizing plain, simple facts, by using a little of that Wisdom God has granted to us, a little of that Vision. So, we could go on and talk about more of those phases of His Being, but to what end? You can meditate upon them; you can detect them, but the phases of the Father's Being about which we are aware are the Open Gates through which we may ascend to a closer union with Him, but until the correlating phases of being in ourselves are open to that in the Father, we are not going to get anywhere. That which is in us, that which we now have that correlates with those phases of Being in the Father, must be open to Him so that we can begin to feel a union with the Father, a Oneness with the Father in Love, in Truth, in Life, in Power, in Vision, in whatsoever phase of being we may be considering.
I suspect that if I would not conduct another Service for a whole year, you could not properly run out of something to meditate upon—just from this one focalization of consideration. You could find it opening up more and more and more—not just in a year or ten years. In fact, I anticipate considering it for Eternity and I do not expect to run out of something to meditate upon. So, let us ascend to the Father, not just using fanciful words, not trying mental gymnastics or wishful thinking, but a practical recognition of the fact that the Kingdom is at hand, and that these Phases of Being are in the Father and we know it and He has given us the correlating phases of being which can be opened to Him and used, and union with the Father will begin to manifest through the individual by reason of the working of the Law.
So, I thank God for you, for your progress in time past, and in this Easter Day for the fulfillments that have been made manifest. I thank God for all the multitudes of blessings we have received and for that which has been accomplished, but we are just beginning, and we have a wonderful opportunity. This process of ascending to the Father, of letting that which is of the Father find expression in our lives, is as endless as Eternity itself—always something new, something wonderful and glorious. Let no one in self-righteousness imagine that he has arrived. No, but let us truly follow our LORD and ascend unto the Father, “Unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”
Martin Cecil — O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, we lift up our hearts in thanksgiving this evening for that outworking that we have experienced this day, and not only that which we have experienced this day, but that which has come into manifestation in all the days that have led to this day. We recognize and give thanks for that increased Vision which permits us to know as never before Thy Loving Kindness, and as we draw to the close of this Easter Day we rejoice in that outpouring of Thy Spirit in the Currents of Thy Love and Truth and Life which we have experienced here this evening, for the joy and the wonder of the Vision that is opened before us, that we may truly, according to Thy Commandment, ascend unto the Father. O LORD GOD, we thank Thee that Thou hast turned our heart back again, that coming into the Kingdom we may abide therein, letting ourselves fulfill those Purposes, according to Thy Will, to which we have been called in Thy Name, that the fulfillments to which the prophets of all ages have looked may come to pass surely and certainly in Thy Love and Power and Wisdom whereby all things are made New, in the Christ. Aum-en.
Uranda — Aum-en. Peace be unto you under the Law of the Kingdom, Now and Forever.
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