The Ark — Holy Essences Preserved
Davina Misroch March 19, 2023 London, England
Today I’m going to be capturing essences. Here is a Tabernacle, a Holy Place. Here we stand in the Presence of the LORD to deliver His Word—to us, through us and beyond. “But as it is written, 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 him.” [1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV]
Here is the promise! How do I love the LORD? In the deep, quiet recesses of my heart there is a holy place, inviolate, yielded. Here, in that place, is Divine Control, true government of Spirit. If I examine this, I must ask: “Is it steadfast, is it stable, is it continual? Is it a whole or just a partial experience? Am I fully relinquishing my personal hold and assuming the stance of simple stewardship under His direction, letting the Father within do the works?” To the degree that there is total surrender in total trust to the LORD, to that extent my creative field, my world, the responding ones everywhere are returned to Him.
The Holy Place is to be kept inviolate. There must be enough generation of spiritual substance to hold the Vibrational Hedge of the Holy Place. Is it just a small place in the deep, quiet recesses of my heart that is pure and inviolate? How much space is there internally and externally for this Holy Place? To dwell “in the Secret Place of the Most High”, and to make “the LORD … the most High” … one’s “habitation”, as it is said in Psalm 91, takes an obedient mind and a pure heart, that holds the heavenly atmosphere in stability, consistency and balance.
In the Book of Genesis, the instruction was given to Noah: “Make thee an ark.” This initial ark related to an ark of survival so that not all of the human race would be wiped out. It was devoted to the survival of form. Later, a cycle was initiated at the time of Moses who built another ark, made of acacia wood gilded entirely with gold, called the Ark of the Covenant which was a symbol of the Israelites’ special relationship with God. This represented something else beyond survival so that there might be some meaning to survival, to the purpose of form.
The Ark of the Covenant in these times is one of restoration where the pure and holy essences are preserved, kept holy, sacred, inviolate, a space held safe, where the Design of Spirit is present. The emphasis is on essences rather than form, establishing and preserving essences so that an ark of preservation and of restoration may be a reality on earth. This Ark—the Ark of Restoration—is our responsibility.
How trustworthy am I in preserving this sacred space within myself for the Design of Spirit, holding it safe and never, never letting it be violated? No one can keep sacred this space in me except me. We all have equal responsibility in this. If there is a sacred place in us as individuals it is because we have preserved it, and its preservation is what is primary as we go about our daily affairs.
“Individually it is necessary that those who participate in the living formation of the ark should have this space present within themselves where no human nature structures of control may trespass. This is kept safe individually speaking. Only when it is kept safe individually speaking does it become possible to keep a larger space sacred collectively speaking.” “That essence of the ark is kept safe within ourselves as individuals or there is no ark.” [“The Preservation of Essences” Martin Cecil October 21, 1979]
The Tabernacle takes form around the Ark. The Ark must be present for the Tabernacle to be a reality. The Ark is the focus of spirit for what takes form, and we form the Ark of restoration to restore all things to the LORD.
The composition of this Ark is a living ark, it is composed of people. It includes those who are conscious and many who are not so conscious but are handling their responsibilities with uprightness: honour, integrity and honesty—all participating in the expression of the spirit of God at whatever level and in whatever way.
All are essential to the ark, even if they are completely unconscious of the reason why they are in the ark. Those who do see, who understand, or begin to, have the greater responsibility because they have the greater privilege of vision.
As we stay humble and appreciative for all those who reveal the qualities of the spirit of God at whatever level we extend encompassment. Through them there is a focus of the spirit of God in action. We can trust them. Can they trust us? Whatever they do is futile unless there is a focus of conscious understanding and doing. When there is that, then restoration is possible.
The invitation has been extended over decades to relinquish everything of the human world, to “Come out of her, my people.” [Revelation 18:4] The command has come again: Finish the Work! I respond strongly in spirit, but what about action? If I’m honest, I still note areas where I feel the pull of addictive behaviour to the hypnotic and intoxicating effect of the human nature world, the fallen state of man’s world. Some addictions are obvious, others more subtle. I caution myself to be watchful, alert. The stimulation of externals is everywhere, and it produces addictive behaviour. We have a deliberate choice as to whether we are to be subject to, whether we are to be governed by, external stimuli. To the extent that we are subject to such stimulation we remain in darkness and are governed by that over which we rightly have dominion.
Stability comes because we are centred in the stable spirit of God. To the extent of that centring, we do not lose our balance and we are not thrown by, or dependent on, any external events. Even if we stumble or occasionally “fall off our horse”, as Roger de Winton would say, we can get back on our horse, regain our centring in Spirit and find ourselves restored to equilibrium.
There must be a firm hand which says “No” to the addictive behaviour, “No” to the stimulation of externals, and, especially in these days, it definitely takes a certain amount of discipline to move towards the point of stability. The choice is ours: we can either be addicted to human nature or to experience the truth—one or the other. We have that freedom of choice, but if we persist in choosing to sustain the addictions of human nature, the truth is rejected. To choose the truth we have to let go of the addiction, and no longer imagine we are free to indulge in it, no longer give way to it. We can’t have both.
It is not just a matter of hearing and seeing, merely being aware of what is going on and what needs to be done: the responsibility is the doing. It has no value unless we are doing it, and willingly. And, until we emerge out of our own state of addiction, our own subjection to the stimulation of externals so that it is no longer allowed to control, we cannot provide what is necessary for others to do likewise.
“There must be a willingness to participate in this true creative process which is not concerned to preserve the world at all, the world as it is now known, but is simply concerned to preserve a holy space in which the spirit of God may be present and in action through the essential spiritual substance.” [“The Preservation of Essences” Martin Cecil October 21, 1979] The choice is stark: As Martin has said: “Choose God or choose the absence of God. Choose the truth or choose a lie.” In choosing God, choosing the Kingdom, choosing the KING above all else, here is the Spirit of the Single Eye: my love, my passion. “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” [Matthew 6:22]
Here are some essential quotes from a service by Martin Exeter from March 27, 1983, titled “The World To Come”
“What sort of a gatekeeper are you for what enters your consciousness?” “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked; that is the human state.” “Only with thine eyes”—not with your heart, not with your emotions. The very moment you become emotionally involved with these things you have allowed corruption to come into the holy place of your own consciousness.”
“Let the consciousness be kept holy, so that the heart is pure … welcome nothing else but the heavenly consciousness. There is no judgment in heaven. There is no condemnation in heaven, no reason for it. Let it be so in our consciousness, that we may participate in the continuing creative cycle by which the world to come comes. It cannot do so if we keep betraying it, and we betray it every time we allow motivations to come into our consciousness and give them our emotional support, motivations which have little or nothing to do with the heavenly state, motivations which have earthly origins. The world to come is coming. Who shall be included in the world to come? Those who let themselves be included in the consciousness of the Creator of that world, and those who include that Creator in their own consciousness consistently, so that there is never a break. As this becomes absolute then the statement is fulfilled: “Behold, I come quickly,” bringing my world with me, in which are included all who accept that state of consciousness. Nothing shall enter in that defiles or works abomination or makes a lie. If we are inclined to defile and work abomination and make lies, we do not enter in. But if we are a faithful gatekeeper, in our own state of consciousness, then we may participate in what has been described as the new heaven and the new earth, the world to come, which is and has been in the process of coming, thus far, for nineteen centuries.”
“We are invited to dwell in the garden in our own consciousness where we may exercise the duties of a gatekeeper. And sharing in the heavenly consciousness, the world to come comes quickly. Praise the Lord!
”How effective is my mind operating as The Guardian Angel, the gatekeeper for my Holy Place? Am I maintaining my consciousness in the Holy Place, keeping the container holy, inviolate, or am I opening my Holy Place to the corruption all around? Is my response stable and consistent according to the First Commandment, or is it pulled off into the realm of effects? Is there vacillation between the two? Moment by moment, where is the control point? What am I giving myself to? Wherever the control point is, that is what I am subject to, attuned to. Whatever I am attuned to ‘has me’. Neatly put: ‘To be open to the divine, one has to be closed to that which isn’t.’
This has been stated another way too: ‘We cannot serve God and Mammon’—the holy state and the worldly state. To have one foot in the Holy Place and the other foot in the realm of effects, man’s world, the mind-made world, the unreal, is vacillating between the two. This is doublemindedness. Here is a divided state and wherever we see or experience this, we find a house divided against itself—and a house divided against itself cannot stand. As Uranda has taught: Love response to the LORD, obedience and devotion, must be one-pointed, it cannot be divided. It has to be proved out by relinquishing ‘false gods’ and no longer worshipping them, physically, mentally or in the feeling realm.
Are we coming all the way through or are we still in the Borderland? Here is a quote from a transcript titled “Borderland” by Uranda, from October 16, 1947: “He who looks back overmuch to the kingdom of the prince of this world will find himself moving outward from the Borderland and slipping back across the boundary into the realm of the prince of death. He whose eyes are steadfastly set upon that of true citizenship in the Kingdom cannot be turned aside by conditions or circumstances or by what any may think or say or do.” And in another service: “We either move toward God, in the fulfilment of His will, or we move away from God toward oblivion.”
What does it take to yield to the Spirit of the Single Eye? It takes everything—everything! All of me. Relinquishing all. Full reverence and devotion to the First Commandment. This is what it takes to finish the work—individually and collectively. Isn’t that why we are here? To let the LORD’s Light shine through us to all the Kingdoms of His Earth? Isn’t that the only means by which the resurrection can come—in my consciousness, in your consciousness? If my Eye be single, my whole body shall be full of Light. If the Eye of His Body be single, His Body shall be full of Light; and the Veil thins, unveiling what is true, letting disintegrate what isn’t.
“The Word is with us continually, even unto the end of the world. When does the world end? When it is no longer present in consciousness. “We are concerned with the end of the world.” [“The World To Come” Martin Exeter from March 27, 1983] Let His Kingdom come.
The Spirit of the Womb, the place of Truth, the place of gestation, is where the Invisible is kept safe, protected. Here is where the safe place must be in which spiritual substance is preserved. Here abides Wisdom, and the fitness of things, appropriateness, and the next natural steps in the unfolding Creative Process appear from.
In my experience I have known within me many things that will need to be born, to emerge, in the outer, in time. Grabbing hold of the inner feeling and seeking self-actively to actualize it easily aborts a cycle. In patience and tranquillity “divine navigation” governs and controls. We choose. That is how His Kingdom comes. It cannot come on any other basis.
In a service Nancy Rose Exeter gave at the 100 in 1987 she said this: "As we remain trustworthy, as we remain in that appropriate arc, so that we don't separate ourselves for self-centered reasons, ever, then we participate together, male and female, so that the whole spectrum is present in attuning the world, attuning whatever may be in our individual worlds. All of these things that come to us then are indeed felt, but we are stable. We remain in the stance of the one who attunes, the one who is radiant, so that all of these things can move and come into balance and alignment as they should."
When I am in true oneness with the LORD, I know the experience of being the connecting link. In my home, there is one space in particular where the seamlessness of the oneness of being with the LORD comes to focus: that is in my kitchen. In the quietness, tranquillity, my ‘very small’ kitchen is vast. In the simple preparation of food, the flow of what is above translates from the Invisible into the visible, appearing in the outer, creatively, with precision and to perfection. There is great joy in that. When asked ‘What did you put in that dish?’ In that moment I smile quietly to myself and answer “I don’t know!” It truly is unique and different every time. In this apparently small but significant circumstance, through the reality of the flow of Spirit I know the experience of “Behold, I make all things new”.
As we as a Body continue to integrate, we are One together, and the experience of the connecting link becomes ever more present and increasingly known. Within myself I sense a fusion going on—a top down, bottom-up fusion occurring. It is in a quiet internal place—a reunion of the Inner Realms of the Invisible and the Outer Realms of the Visible. It is experienced over time as a move from two distinct directions into one that melds together at yet a higher point, and, along with it, a slow but noticeable dissolving of the distinction.
“As I AM lifted up, I shall draw all men unto Me” takes on new meaning in a vibrational sense, as the process is allowed to continue uninterrupted in an unbroken line. The resurrection and the restoration is proceeding, the real resurrection, Here, Now. What is happening is happening to the whole body of mankind, no exceptions. All are participating in the resurrection or in the disintegration of what has existed in the experience of human beings until now. This nightmare state is passing away. We either identify ourselves with the nightmare state and pass away with it or we allow ourselves to move in the resurrecting process.
There is a vision that has been with me for a very long time, a vision seen from the inner eye. It appears as a collective of angels in formation, a latticework, a garland of gossamer vibration connecting one to another like a web along delicate, beautiful lines, held between angels individually and in constellations. There begins to be a spiritual coronation of blessing being laid on all the kingdoms of this world. As this becomes a reality, then all earth is restored to our KING.
Robert Merriman — We have noted the words “gossamer lattice.” Gossamer—it’s very, very delicate, and we’ve been entrusted by the LORD with delicate, precious substance. I sense our shared rejoicing, and give utterance to it, and yet at the same time note that my response and steadfastness … is required as this delicate substance is allowed to continue to develop into strong sinew, upon which the world can be drawn, as all is returned to the One we serve.
Davina Misroch — Thank you Robert; thank you everybody. Gossamer latticework. The reforming of the capstone, strengthening, taking shape ever stronger. The KING and the QUEEN have been present all along. There has never been a time when the QUEEN has not been here, though virtually unknown, and probably very wisely kept hidden. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-her-alone_16.html] Leave her alone! But leave her alone to blossom. Let her true radiance come forth because there is a safe place for it to do so. And that safe place can only be brought by her angels, male and female, to create that safe place. Thankful are we, now to be, filled with praise, LORD to Thee; so shall our living bless the earth. Thankful are we Holy KING, Holy QUEEN. Aumen.
a Temple of Light service
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.
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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
