Sunday Evening, on the day of the Funeral Service for Uranda, Kathy, Albert, and the children
Once again we are assembled in the Chapel on Sunrise Ranch for another evening hour of meditation, this Sunday, the eighth day of the eighth month of 1954. It has been for us a full day, a wonderful day, a day in which there has been an increased evidence of maturity made manifest through those who share in this Ministry on earth.
Many people came to be with us today, and we would recognize and acknowledge the spirit of understanding, the spirit of helpfulness, which was made manifest through them. They played their part in doing what they could, according to the best of their understanding, to bring comfort to us. But, you know, I am not sure that it didn’t work the other way round. In coming here they found that there was a Spirit made manifest which brought comfort to them. They found, at least, that there was not a group of people here looking for sympathy, but rather a group of people firmly grounded upon the Rock, standing steady, allowing the manifestation of something of that expression of true Being of which we spoke this afternoon. And it is so good to have the privilege of setting such a precedent, a precedent of Victory. There have been so few precedents of Victory brought forth in form by human beings in this fallen world.
We remember that failure so long ago, when our Master was on earth. The circumstance was different, the pressure that was brought to bear was different—but at that point in the garden, so long ago, there was established by fallen human beings, or the representatives of this fallen world, a precedent of failure. The disciples slept in the Garden. Shortly thereafter they were scattered, and left our Master alone, and there was failure. And that precedent of failure has tended to stand since that day. But in this hour we can begin to recognize a starting point, at least, for that precedent of Victory which is necessary to nullify that precedent of failure. It has to be done by human beings somewhere, somehow, and we have had the opportunity, in this particular pattern of outworking, to share in the beginning of that cycle by which the true precedent of Victory is established on earth. There have been individual precedents of Victory—our Master's precedent in that regard is, of course, outstanding—but there has never been any adequate, collective precedent of Victory. And while I do not say that the precedent has yet been entirely set, it has been initiated, and we are sharing in it now.
During the Service this afternoon I read some of our Master's Words which I would like to read to you again this evening. I left some of them out this afternoon, but I think in our meditation this evening I will put them back in. “Verily, verily, I say unto you”—and we remember that when our Master was emphasizing something important He always used those words—“verily, verily”—truly, truly—“I say unto you”—here is an important statement.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.”
Anything that our Master said, anything that is recorded in the Bible, may have meaning to us as it is allowed to find specific application in relationship to ourselves here and now. We might look back and see its application with respect to our Master two thousand years ago, and we might perhaps learn something from such a consideration, but the real meaning of that which is contained in the Bible is allowed to appear when it finds specific application in relationship to ourselves here and now. So, these words must be spoken to us. They were spoken to us, to all who were gathered here, to all people everywhere who would respond to them this afternoon, and they are brought to focus again this evening for us.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you that ye shall weep and lament.” Has that been somewhat true with you? “Ye shall weep and lament.” I think that this has been so. “But the world shall rejoice.” What does that mean? Well, we might recognize that there were lots of headlines in the papers, and it was good news for the papers. That sort of thing is good news for the world, isn't it, from the standpoint of the things that are published in newspapers? Thousands, hundreds of thousands, of aircraft are flying daily without any difficulties and no mention is made of them, but when there is tragedy of some kind, onto the front page it goes. And so, human beings must like that sort of thing, or presumably they would not read it, and it would not be put on the front page. That is one aspect of this matter.
But the world rejoices in such an outworking even as they rejoiced when our Master was seemingly destroyed, because it seems to give evidence of failure, it seems to give evidence that the adversary has the Victory. I think some of you might have felt that just a little bit for a moment, perhaps, in the shock of the news—“What now?”—and perhaps a little feeling that maybe the adversary did have the Victory. That is what causes the world to rejoice, the world of human beings subject to their own self-active minds and hearts, trying to direct their own course in life. The world! The world rejoices in anything that seems to be the evidence of defeat for the things of God.
We find, therefore, that these words surely have application to us, for this experience through which we are passing, even as they had application before, and we find that wherever such things happen this is the pattern. Human beings weep and lament, but they tend to accept the fact that the world is rejoicing—in other words, that the things of God have been defeated, that it is a tragedy, that it is something that reveals failure, and it is accepted as such. Human beings then gather themselves together, and doggedly keep on going, because there is not much else that they can do. Such a spirit is no good insofar as we are concerned, for we recognize that the adversary certainly does not have the Victory. He has received, in fact, a very violent initial defeat, for we have not assumed that his claim is correct. We have recognized that it is not so, and that the Victory may be, and shall be, just as surely as we ever thought before. We might say more surely because you are beginning to realize that you do actually have a part in letting it be so—and that it is not done by Uranda or by anyone else. It is done and accomplished by reason of a body established on earth, according to the Divine Design, under the control of the Spirit, composed of many members. It cannot be done any other way. So we begin to share in a deeper realization of the Spirit of Victory. The Spirit of Victory!
“And ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned to joy.” That is just as much a statement in relationship to the pattern of outworking as this: “ye shall weep and lament. “ “Ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned to joy.” That is a promise, and you are beginning to experience the reality of that promise. You are beginning to sense something within yourselves that assures you that it is so, that while there maybe lingering sadness that is perhaps natural, nevertheless there is something stirring that is strong, something stirring that gives assurance of Victory! “A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her hour is come, but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.” “For joy that a man is born into the world.” God created man in the beginning, in His own Image and Likeness—man, mankind, human beings collectively.
A Man is to be born into the world. That is what we are here for. That is the Purpose of this Ministry, so that there may be a Man on earth again. There have not been Men or Women in the world for a long time, just human counterfeits built according to the human design. But Men and Women as God created them have been conspicuous by their absence. The bringing forth of a Man on earth! And, do you know, I believe that those who came here today began to see something of a fulfilment in that regard. What did they expect to find, do you think? Weeping and lamenting?—probably—that which is considered natural in human beings, and accepted as being natural: weakness, intense subjection to grief, self-pity, rebelliousness against the harsh circumstances of fate, and all the rest of it. They didn’t find that, I don't think. They began to see something of the manifestation of a Man—Men and Women, as God intended them to be, strong, functioning in the spirit of integrity, trusting God, not in a blind faith but with understanding; for while human beings have many beliefs with respect to what they call life after death, the feelings of the heart tend to contradict the beliefs of their mind. But the understanding of our minds is supported by the feelings of our hearts when we are centered in God, because the Spirit of Love which appears in the heart is of God, and the Spirit of Truth which manifests through the mind is of God, and God is not in conflict with himself but, rather, in agreement.
So, we begin to find that we have something to stand upon—two feet. Human beings walk about the surface of the earth on two feet. Animals need four. Those two feet provide the basis for movement, for accomplishing that which needs to be done, and those two feet symbolize to us that upon which we may stand—the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth—the Spirit of Love in the heart and the Spirit of Truth in the mind. And when they are there, we can stand. “Who shall be able to stand?” We shall be able to stand as we stand upon Love and Truth, and we have begun to prove that it is so.
The question is asked, “Who shall be able to stand?" No answer is specifically given—at least, in the quotation which I have in mind. Why? Because it is something that has to prove itself out. Nobody can tell ahead of time who shall be able to stand. But if we prove that we are Men and Women because we are under the control of the Spirit of Truth, letting the Spirit of God's Love work in us and through us in our hearts, we find, in fact, that we are numbered among those who are able to stand, as Men and Women—the beginning manifestation of that of which our Master was speaking here, a man-child born into the world. Of course we need to recognize that that which has appeared thus far is a very little thing, but just as the babe gives free promise of the mature adult into which he may grow, so does that little starting point give promise of that which is yet to be.
“A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her hour is come, but as soon as she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.” We have the opportunity and the privilege of sharing in letting it be so.
“And ye now, therefore, have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” The things of God never appear on the basis of the finished product. What is a finished product? What would you call a finished product? If something is finished, there isn’t any more to come. It is said, of the original creation, that “God finished the work,” the six days of creation—but creation did not stop at that point. There has been continued creation, the pattern of creation which man was supposed to share. But if man has not been sharing in it, it may have been prevented from appearing as God intended, that is true, but it was not God's intention that creation should come to an end. So, while there may be a finishing of one phase of it, there is that which is yet to be, always. When the child is born into the world there is the finishing of the womb phase of it. That is finished, but the child is not yet finished. He needs to grow and develop and mature. So it is in relationship to that in which we share.
This a starting point, and it is a good starting point, based upon a firm foundation, upon that which can enable us to stand. But let us always remember that it is but a starting point, and there is so much to be done. Let us not enter into that so-common human attitude that, “Someone else can do it.” Our Master was supposed to do it, to do it all, and there was tragedy. Uranda was supposed to do it to a very high degree, in the consciousness of so many, perhaps not realizing that that was the attitude entirely, but nevertheless it was there. “Uranda can do it. As long as he is there it is all right.” And we have tragedy, because it is not a question of someone else doing it. It is a question of doing it ourselves. We are the ones, individually speaking, and, of course, all together. But we cannot act for others. We can only act for ourselves.
So, if sorrow is to be turned fully to that joy which our Master promised, it can be so only as, individually, we accept our responsibility, not just for the moment—in the current of the inspiration of the Spirit it is easy to be uplifted and to feel ourselves to be dedicated—but it is the minutes and hours, the days and the nights, the weeks and the months, that truly tell the tale, not what we may feel in this hour or in any other hour but what we feel consistently, what we know consistently, what our lives reveal consistently. It is that that counts. And it is that that permits sorrow to be turned into joy.
“But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” When joy is based upon the fulfilment of those Purposes to which your lives are now dedicated, then you have that joy that “no man taketh from you.” No man can take it from you. Nothing that occurs in relationship to the outer form of things can take it from you. And that is the joy of which our Master was speaking, not the little pleasures and happiness, fleeting things which we experience and which should be matters of rejoicing, but a depth of joy consistently made manifest. So, as we approach the conclusion of this Sunday which has carried so much meaning to all of us, let us remember that it is a starting point for that which is yet to be, for the growth in grace and stature of the Man who is born into the world.
O LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, we thank Thee for the rich Blessings of this day, for the privilege of sharing in Thy Ministry and Service, as we have let the control of Thy Spirit be made known on earth, and as we ourselves have experienced something of the reality of the provision which Thou hast made, both within us and without us; for we have had abundant evidence of the working of Thy Spirit and Thy Power in our lives, and in and through this Ministry which we share, that in the Current of Thy Spirit we may move forward in the Open Way, to accomplish that which yet needs to be done, assured that all things are provided for the days that are yet to come, even as we have found them to be provided for this day which is drawing to a close. And so, rejoicing in the Spirit of Thy Peace, with our lives dedicated in Thy Service, we move forth with assurance, In the Christ. Aumen.
August Fourth 1954
These loved ones have no form through which to manifest on earth, in an individual sense, any more. Do you think that Uranda's dedication to the Purposes of our KING are any less now than they were when he had a form on earth? How then, is the fulfilment of that purpose to be known? Through the forms, simply, which we provide for the manifestation of the same Spirit, the same Being, in the accomplishment of God's Purposes to on earth. We have begun to know and understand something of those Purposes, but human beings are so inclined to look at them as though they were afar off. Oh, yes, as long as Uranda was here, “Well, he'll do it. He'll carry us through. He's the leader. We’ll just follow along.” Do you think it could ever be done on that basis? Never! That has been emphasized over and over, because it requires a body of many members, a body dedicated as his individual body was dedicated, even as the body of Jesus was dedicated, just the same way. But it must be a body of many members, equally dedicated, equally inspired by the same Spirit, equally under the Control of the same Spirit, so that the works of God can begin to be done on earth.
God is so good to us, and when we begin to share in a true Spirit of dedication, there are no tragedies to us, because all things are caused to work together to perfection for those who love and serve the LORD, who are dedicated to Him. This is our opportunity, the opportunity of all who share with us in this Ministry today, and all who shall share with us in the days to come, that the Kingdom, the Control, the Design, of our LORD and KING, may be allowed to come on earth because human beings are willing to let it be so and have ceased to follow out their own fancies and ideas, but have yielded to the Spirit of the Living God, and are under the compulsion, under the control, of the Spirit of God—our opportunity, our privilege, that the lives of those who, until so recently, were being lived with us here on earth in outer form, may not be rendered meaningless, but may bring forth the fruit of the Kingdom of God on earth because we let it be so, that the Kingdom of our KING may come, that His Will may be done in earth as it is in Heaven, because we have come to realize that His is the Kingdom—not just out there somewhere, but in us and through us in the expression of life. And His is the Power—the Power by which His works are accomplished on earth as the means, the machinery, the instrument, takes form and lets it be so. And His is the Glory—the Glory of the revelation of the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of Life on earth, the Glory of the LORD which should fill the temple and shine round about; for “His is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, now and forever.” Aum-en.
It is wonderful to be with you all. As some mentioned, Marsha and I are here in Atlanta with our friends here; and we have had a marvelous time together since yesterday. We will be here for one more day.
I'm still feeling the echoes of the powerful soaring spirit of the music of “Home Among the Stars” [“Ceremony of Exaltation”]. I felt in the music, the power of the soaring spirit of the body of the Lord—perhaps the soaring of the eagle Mary Janak and Robert Kauffman touched on one month ago in their service here. An eagle in flight, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-living-expression-of-god-on-earth.html] a symbol of the Spirit of Truth, perhaps a symbol of the body of the Lord in flight. A very apt symbol, don't you think, of the character and spirit of the Lord, of divine expression?
I want to recount an episode that Marsha and I were witness to five days ago on a high mountain lake above Loveland, Colorado, at about 6,500 feet nestled among mountains. Truly beautiful. Marsha and I were a little above the lake shoreline overlooking the panorama, sharing what might come to focus in this Sunday service today; and mid-sentence, a short distance from us, across the water, a white-headed eagle came swooping down from above and landed on a small rock. I thought this amazing, wonderous, what coincidence! And then within a minute later, a second white-headed eagle came flying above and then swooped directly down onto the same rock. And the two eagles were then standing together, wingspan distance from each other on that rock that was maybe five or six feet wide. This was a dramatic sight; and I wondered: “What is the message, the meaning? Evidently, heaven is conveying something. In the spiritual context of this moment, the timing... How does an eagle appear now? Not one, but two. Not in a tree, or far, but in front of us on a small rock, on this pristine lake, and in this pristine moment... The eagle that was already on the rock wasn't perturbed by the second eagle swooping down and landing next to it. Evidently, they were partners. I discovered, googling on the internet later that these were bald eagles and that they mate for life, and are often in pairs.
“What does heaven desire to bring to focus?” This was the stream of conversation Marsha and I were having as the eagles appeared. Various thoughts came to me, some of it progressively over the last five days, including about the meaning of these two eagles. One thought was: These were two eagles in agreement—majestic, independent, strong, upright, but in agreement, and completely unafraid of each other. And standing on the rock together—what rock? the Rock of Truth. And then I thought about two other eagles: Uranda and Martin. The spirit of Uranda, the eagle, landed on the rock of truth in this incarnation first; then a second eagle came flying and landed on the same rock, and shared agreement. Two majestic beings sharing one agreement in service to our LORD and KING. My heart was full of the meaning of this: two majestic eagles in agreement.
Then I thought, these two eagles in agreement relate not just to the past—Uranda and Martin, as magnificent as they were—but they relate to two God Beings in agreement, anywhere, and now; two God Beings in agreement today. And ultimately not just two in agreement, but two in agreement and more; and the expansion of that agreement. The strength, the uprightness, the noble expression of the divine through any one of us, first. But it has to start with one. And who might that one be? It's each one of us. It’s the noble expression of the divine, symbolized in the eagle in each of us. It begins to come forth in us. That brings the possibility of the second eagle appearing and coming into agreement. If there isn't the first starting point, there isn't a starting point. So there has to be one first, and that's each one of us. As each one of us comes into agreement with the LORD Most High, that's the first agreement. Then there is the natural agreement between us, between the divine expression, the eagle in each of us, the natural agreement between you and me, between you and someone else near you. That's how it happens. The LORD’s power is manifest through two or more—we have heard this before—two or more in Noble Agreement.
Some of you probably remember the drawings of the Ark of the Covenant: two cherubim with wings extended towards the center, between which the LORD comes forth. The wings of two cherubim—and I thought, hmm, the wings of two eagles in agreement, allowing the LORD's power to come forth.
And I want to say a word about the services offered through the Temple of Light monthly; the services offered through the Tone of Life; through other groupings; through Sunrise Ranch; through Korea. These are all important vessels in the manifestation of the LORD's expression on earth, and I hold them precious and valuable.
Yesterday a group of us were gathered here and at Carol Smith's suggestion we read Uranda’s 1954 service transcript, Atomic Power [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/07/atomic-powercorrelation-of-concurrent.html]. So timely, so pertinent, so important. As probably many of us here know, the movie “Oppenheimer” just opened a few days ago and many people are seeing it. Uranda speaks about Robert Oppenheimer in this service “Atomic Power”, and his own keen interest in the emergence of right power, spiritual power on earth. But, he says, that the manifestation of material power is moving ahead of the manifestation of divine control through the LORD's body on earth and we have some catching up to do. And he was urging diligence so that the divine control needed to allow power to be used rightly would be in place.
YouTube Temple Service Video
Hearing this could engender, for some of us, a little sense of discouragement. If the control pattern that was manifest under Martin’s leadership dissipated so much, the thought might go, “What chance now?” To this concern and possible sense of futility, “How could we do it now?” I say this: Victory is possible in the exact conditions we have now. Victory is possible in these exact conditions. One person maintaining true agreement with heaven—a true control pattern brought forth decisive victory. We already have the precedent of that through our Master, under the most unfavorable condition imaginable. Are our conditions today less favorable than His? He did it in circumstances of the greatest imaginable pressure. So here's my rhetorical question: Should we do less? Should we do less? Did we come on earth to do less? Did we want all conditions to be really nice, really favorable? Our KING didn’t ask that. He would have preferred otherwise. We would have preferred otherwise. But we take the circumstances and the conditions exactly as they come. And one person holding true agreement in heaven, allowing the pressure of the circumstance to be in fact the power, the wind behind the wings, can allow the flight of the expression of the KING, the expression of the eagle. That one flight establishes victory. One flight. And we can be sure, if here is one flight there will be a second flight, and a third and a fourth.
In what worked out with our Master, He held the control pattern and the heavenly agreement under those circumstances, and brought forth victory. But He wasn't alone. There was one disciple that held that control pattern with him. Not just one, as probably all of us recall. There were three women who held the agreement and the control pattern, and that assured a victory that needed to come. Because of that, that which worked out in this time could work out. And had those patterns not held, we probably wouldn't have had the beginning in this recent cycle. Not ideal circumstances and conditions, but victory was established. Not ideal circumstances today, but we can establish victory regardless. One person, two persons, assuring there's the flight of the eagle in themselves—this is the victory.
In the late 1990’s when there was great deal of turbulence going on in the Emissary body, the manifest body of the LORD on earth focalized at that time, Grace Van Duzen said this: “We didn't come this far, to fail.” There was no doubt, no question, in her statement, “We didn't come this far, to fail.” Yes, we didn't come this far to fail. Let there be the wings of two eagles in agreement, standing in the pattern of truth, now. As Martin often said, “We don't need great numbers.” Great numbers would be great, but we don't need great numbers. The Master didn't have great numbers to do what He did. We don't need great numbers to do what we need to do today.
I want to come back to this a little later, but I want to bring to you something different for a moment, different but in the vein of the emergence of the expression of the eagle. I want to bring to you the evidence of the manifestation of one wing of an eagle that relates to the emergence of spiritual expression in Korea. And I want to show you some of this through words as well as through photographs. Some of you have known about this, but I want to bring it a little more specifically. But I want to bring this not as one specific place, but as a symbol—a symbol of the noble spirit, the response, and the hunger present in the world, in response to the LORD of Lords. I also want to bring this in a spirit of mirth and joy, and in a spirit of enlivenment, and also encouragement. And I want to put it this way: I want to introduce you to your dance partners in the East—you, a wing of the eagle here in the West, please meet your dance partners of the eagle in the east. They also happen to be your younger companions. That's also the delightful part—younger companions, in a shared passion for the truth shared passion for the LORD, in a shared passion to stand in the identity of upright Noble Kings, serving the KING of Kings together. So. I'll show a number of photos quite quickly, and then I want to read some things for you.
YouTube Video Yujin's Korea Photos
This first photo, I put in because of the symbol and the feel that it gives. It's a symbol of the passionate response upward, represented in this body and group of people. The photo is one of our numbers in Korea. Isn't that truly beautiful? Then, a picture of a triangle of light—this is a physical setting that is in many of our seminars.
Now, various individuals. I'll go over them quickly. These are your younger companions. Many of these are our staff; many of them are faculty; they range in age from twenties to sixties. Isn’t that delightful! And in the center of this photo is Jae Hyoung, our main other eagle in Korea. He and I and Marsha gave services in Korea; now he and I mostly, but now joined by the younger generation in giving services. This is all our staff in seminars and classes. Vigorous expression.
This is an Art of Living seminar, a first level seminar, doing the water wheel—you'll remember that—true thinking. We have a lot of attunement teaching and practice going on. That's Marsha giving a presentation, and me and another translator translating. Here are three white-haired ones; so there are older generations—both of these individuals have been with the ministry for 25-30 years. Then, these are 3 young sisters. The oldest sister has done all the classes, and is serving as staff in our seminars. And that's the mother, by the way, of the three sisters. She's come to a number of our seminars and has been transforming, and the daughters say their house and home have changed so dramatically; there is ease and tenderness and something that they had not known together because of various traumas that they had gone through together. In this photo, she is crying in joy. The new generation—aren’t those eyes gorgeous!
Now I want to introduce these three women. These three women are the focus or vision team in Korea, beside me and Jae Hyoung, and have the responsibility to set the pattern and direction for the whole program. These are the three women and Jae Hyoung. And this one, she is the one who has probably been with us the longest as faculty. She was a top corporate coach in Korea. And this is a group of seven women who coordinate something that is called a Servers Group, which is about 36 people now, used to be 22—and the 22 had been meeting every two weeks by Zoom for hour and a half to two hours for the last two years; having done all the classes, and they've been growing together, and they've been joined by 14 more.
So about 34 are meeting every two weeks by Zoom now. And these seven coordinate that group, and they break up into small groups, and so on. And this is a group of—I'm not sure if all 33 were here—but 33 individuals gathered just in April, and this occasion is just after the Living the Word class. And in that Living the Word class I took a risk and shared in the last hour, “Meeting My King” by Uranda, which is the final hour in some of the classes we used to have long ago. It penetrated very deeply for many of them. So they are moving in the spirit of this. And this servers group is, right now, reading Uranda’s “Talks Beside The Sundial, Volume One.” They already read “Volume Two” a while back, so right now they are reading “Volume One”. And one of the things they're doing is, every couple of days, each one of them uploads one or two lines that they loved and a comment about it. So, there's a powerful generation going on. But when this group was gathered, they wrote a poem together at the end of the weekend which I want to read to you. What they did was that the 33 of them wrote one sentence each, and then one person collated them and synthesized them into one collective poem. It was this man, Woosung, in his late thirties, who did the synthesis. I want to read what emerged because it carries the spirit of the eagle rising. It is titled “The Song of the Sword”. They also titled it, “Opening A New Cycle Of 50,000 Years.”
It's time.
It's time.
It's a good time right now.
A time that will not return again.
O sons and daughters of the sun,
On this morning of a new 50,000 years.
We who have passed through a new serene and exultant door,
Clad in armor of dignified light
That neither harm nor destroys.
Let us dance the joyful dance of life,
Let us sing the song of love.
The sharpest most peaceful sword in the world,
The sword of worthiness,
Is here within.
There is nothing to fear.
Whatever comes, I shall trust the heaven within me.
I shall stand tall.
I will reveal heaven's timeless longing.
I will bring forth the ocean of life, the forest of heaven.
Come, kindred sisters and brothers
Here now into the embrace of light.
I shine light upon the light in my sisters and brothers.
I reveal the will of heaven. 04-23-23
They wrote this, but it wasn't one person, it was the 33 together. And I had no part in it. I was amazed and delighted. So you can feel the spirit of deep response to the LORD, and the rising in stature. Next, I want to play a short portion of an audio of Norae Jiyoung, who is one of the three women. She is our executive director. In the three women is represented the seed of a new generation of spiritual focus, but she in these words will really represent all of them. By the way, this was sent to a small group of us, but I felt it representational to all of us as elders of light, so I wanted to share it:
“Dear Elders of Light. I am very grateful to be able to write this letter. I am Norae Jiyoung. A few weeks ago I heard through Yujin that you have been doing zoom meetings. My heart was warmly beating and I was deeply grateful because you were there, even us in Korea were able to meet these words. I want to tell you our story along with my thanks to you. Korean friends, including me, had the last time of Living the Word program today. This was a time to meet every two weeks after LTW to read and share the words of Uranda and Martin. Since it was the last day, they shared their thinking and inspiration about the Living the Word program. The expression that came out the most in that impression was ‘the body of light.’ And I would like to convey a few more sentences. ‘I am so grateful to be able to be with this the body of light.’ ‘I don't want to go back to me before Living the Word.’ ‘Solidarity with the Word and divine people who love the Word.’ ‘Living the Word is LOVE.’ Hearing this story, I thought of you all together. Before we were like this, my mentors Yujin and Masha, and you must have been there. I thought that. I am here in Korea. But my spirit is with you. Yujin introduced you to me. You are indeed dear Friends of the Light. Because of you, we were able to be invited into the body of a light. Your service in the past has become a path for us. Thank you for being a channel of light. With you in your meeting. I send you deep love and blessing. 27th May 2023. Norae.
I want to share some words from about a month ago, which was the first service where now we are having this younger generation of leadership speak together in service with me and with Jae Hyoung. Norae spoke at that time, along with Sunhee Lee and me. I want to read Norae's closing words in that service:
“Come, let us stand in the identity of the KING together. Let's truly allow ourselves to be Kings. Let's stand together and shine our light on each other, and let's center in our KING of Kings in heaven so that heaven's creation may be born in a new earth. That is our work. That is what we are here to do now. And let us close with these words together. LORD, not my will but Thy will be done.”
Then I want to share a response that someone wrote two days later. And it was written by this young woman, Soyeun. She says: “Today I heard this service by Sunhee, Norae and Yugin. I was so thankful to hear such precious words: An invitation to the position and identity of the King. An invitation to be a channel for heaven through releasing all and giving all. An invitation to so function as to assist in the emergence of the greatness of heaven through one's companions. I heard it deeply. Thus, it is to be outwardly a true King, and inwardly a Priest of Light. I inscribe deeply inside me, that all that is needed is to give way, so that heaven might come forth through me. There was a time when I pondered living as a priest or priestess. On this day, I lift to heaven my inner ceremony of ordination. I will live as a Priestess of Light. I will stand in the place of the King.”
So, I wanted to share the spirit of the priests and priestesses, emerging in the East—one part of the body, one wing of the eagle. And I want to share this, for us to know that there is more emerging than just the ones that are immediately visible to us. And in part also to know that they are depending on us. They know our presence. They keenly know our presence! And they know the training that we have had, the training that they have had much less of. With the lesser amount of training, they are doing their utmost to come forth, release self-centeredness, release patterns of preference, stubbornness, and to allow the Lord to act through them. Just before I left, I spoke with the small group of them, particularly the three women, and I said to them, “Your job is to speak the Word. Your job is to represent the LORD on earth. But to represent the LORD on earth, ultimately, you will need to accept being the Lord on earth, through yourself.” And I said, “This may seem like a big job. But this is the call of the day, and it is what the accelerating cycle is assisting in happening, that the identity and spirit of the Lord may come forth fully.”
There was a time when we were with Martin—in some ways we were young. We are older, more experienced now. And in a way, the requirement was maybe a little bit lesser then, than now. Two words of Martin stay with me. In a way this is his legacy, will and wish for us: Be Me. Be Me. Don't imitate me, but be me, as in the full stature of Divine Being through you. Be me, as in be the full expression of the Lord through you. And the younger generation emerging is already attuning into that creative invitation: Be Me, on earth. And I feel we, in a way, have a responsibility from this side, to embrace them, invite them, to join as the two noble, majestic eagles on the rock of truth.
So, in part today, I bring you your dance partners. But again, not just Korea, but representing many more that are rising in the earth. And as I said earlier, to never think that the fewer in numbers means that victory is not possible. One Divine Being, God Being, in agreement with heaven, brought victory. It doesn't take numbers. Let us let there be one, two, three, four, more—through a core, even if small. There's something to transpire, which is a great and decisive victory. So, let us be heartened—the LORD is with us.
Gary Courtland-Miles — Thank you so much Yujin. It's been a delight to soar with you and all our friends, to hold that spirit inviolate, as we look down with the great vision, to let the great vision of truth come through our eye—the I that we are. And it's just such a joy to see and delight in the love in each one of the individuals and as a group from Korea. It's wonderful, wonderful work that's been done there, and as you reminded us, we hold something steady and sacred for them as well. So yes, it can be done. It's wonderful to fly with you.
Carol Travis — I am so moved, that it's difficult to speak; I am moved by the beauty and the wonder of the spirit of those Korean friends that you have shared with us. I've had a privilege of attending some of your Zoom calls over the last couple of years and I know how much they appreciate our surround for them and how glorious this spirit is that's come forth, just in the last couple of years for them. And as you said, we had so much more, in our experience of the mentors that greeted us when we came in touch with this ministry. And now we are the elders and we do have the responsibility to put our arms around these ones that we know of, and many more that we don't know of. I'm so grateful for what you have brought to focus, and I love the image of the eagles. I too have had such experiences. Once when I came back to Sunrise Ranch after many years, there was an eagle that flew along the side of the road of the bus that I was travelling on to the Ranch, and I thought my goodness, that's interesting! Then once when there was a Congress and I went up the hill above Green Ridge with a friend and we got lost. We came down the hill; it was difficult, all kinds of brush and everything and we came out right by the canal. As we were giving thanks for having made it down the hill in time for the Congress session that we were supposed to be focusing, an eagle came and landed on a branch, right next to us. And I felt the spirit of Martin and Uranda so deeply in that. I don't think it was a coincidence, not at all. Thank you and bless you for what you bring to focus.
Jim Crowner — Yujin, I live in a place where I'm blessed—some call it God's country but we all know it's all God's country—but I live in a place where eagles are very apparent all the time. I can't go outside my house without hearing them and I'm blessed in that. But through what you shared today, we all live with eagles. We all live with eagles that are everywhere, but we may not readily see that in momentary living—but with expanded consciousness, expanded heart and expanded love for one another, we have opportunity to see that more readily apparent in everything and in everyone we come in contact with. I just thank you for your magnificent expression.
Millicent Holliday — Yujin, it's just been wonderful to be closely with you today, and I'm thinking of what you showed of those beautiful, precious ones in Korea, and it makes me think of the parents' attitude towards their child, that they would do everything to offer protection, to offer encouragement, to offer enfoldment for their child so that they can grow to be their full radiant potential and shine their glorious lights. Their lights shine so brightly. What a wonder and what a joy. And how much in our own day to day worlds, we can be aware of those lights around us and give them the opportunity to rise up and fly with us, and restore this glorious place to what the Lord intended. Thank you Yujin.
Laura Fisher — My thanks to you Yujin, and for the glory that has been put upon us on this day. I am thinking of something that we once called the long view. And I want to tell you that I was privileged to be in the home that cared for the family, for Martin when he was leaving. It had been very foggy in Kamloops for 3 weeks. About 10 minutes after we got the news, the fog began to lift. And shortly after that a huge eagle landed in the tree outside the kitchen window where I was working. There is such proof of longevity and absolute trust in a process that has been going on forever. And here we are, a gathering of elders, saying good-bye to some and hello to others. I so honor the work you and Marsha have done in Korea, to bring these ones to such a glorious abundance of adoration of true purpose. Our job of providing a place on earth for people to sing their praises upward is a glorious job, and how beautifully we do it together, my friends, how we always have, and we always will. Two wings of the same eagle. Thank you, so much.
Anne Blaney — What stood out to me listening to Norae, and hearing about the these young ones in Korea, was the nakedness of their heart. How they were able to speak with a freshness, a yieldedness and an openness of heart. And I was thinking how there is a tendency as one gets older to cover the heart by various means. You said something Yujin, about using the pressure to be the wind beneath the wings, using the pressure of the world. As we get older, we are more aware of the pressures of the world. The response to that is really key: not to let the perception get burdened, or go numb to what it is that has been exposed, the fact that has been exposed. And to take that next step of using the awareness of the pressure to allow the heart to continue to be used as it was in its naked youth. So I don't know about anyone else, but I was having memories of the state of the heart; for instance, when went to class when we were younger—and these stories reminded me of that state of the open heart which is so crucial for the Lord, because it allows perception of finer things. And that's our job now. So I appreciate very much what you brought, and I too was very touched. Thank you.
Arno Van Haght — Thank you Yujin, and to Mary for refocusing the presence of the Spirit of Truth a few weeks ago. Earlier Yujin, you provided encouragement—that victory is possible, regardless of the circumstance; and shortly thereafter you used the word “establish”, and of course you cannot establish anything if it hasn't already been present, insofar as it has already come up in consciousness. But you used it as an encouragement for us not to despair—that the victory has always been present. Perhaps what has been missing is the willingness to offer the fullness of the capacities that we have, to establish the reality of that victory. The design and control is already in place. It is simply for us to embody the reality of that, as we take up the place that is individually, uniquely ours, in that design, the place already established for us, and then the reality of that victory becomes a personal experience, but also a collective experience. The fact that we could even be here, even have memories of Martin and Uranda, have the Word that was shared in Korea, their fruit the way that it has, is evidence of the victory. The Spirit of Truth, the Comforter has never left us, ever. It's the reason that we are able to continue to work with such devotion and passion and joy to release more of the fulfillment, that the KING has been waiting and wanting and desiring to share with us. And here we are, with the opportunity to allow that, to be real, in the midst of things just as they are. On the one hand, we might recognize the responsibility to what was symbolized by the newly maturing ones in Korea. They are actually evidence of the victory; they're already the evidence of the expansion of that victory, and the many more that are symbolized by them. And in fact they enfold all of us as much as we enfold them, because arguably while some of us might have doubted that victory was possible in the last 15-30 years, clearly they don't believe that! So one wonders who's encompassing whom. But again, the Lord in His sense of humor, but also in the inevitability of the fulfillment of His promise, will not take “no” for an answer. And so we're back to Grace Van Duzen, who said “We've come too far to fail.” What a wonderful way to celebrate with all of you, the present victory, to expand the victory in the little things as much as in the big things; to know that the East meets the West, the South meets the North, the cross is established over the entire holy world, and the LORD is in His Holy Temple because we are here. We are able to let that light shine—because we can.
David Barnes — Yujin, I had an image come to mind, of the two wings of the great eagle. And I thought of how often that great eagle, Martin, who himself came in the spirit and power of Elijah, told the story of the prophet Elijah. The story of how Elijah had told his disciple, Elisha, that if he was present at the time of Elijah's ascension that Elijah would cast his mantle, and if Elisha was present and was in the right state of consciousness, he would receive the mantle of Elijah. And Martin years ago cast his mantle, you might say he spread his wings over the body he loved and brought forth, and said: if you are present when I depart, my mantle will land upon you, and the great responsibility that comes with the bearing of that mantle as my disciples, becomes yours. And there's evidence of that here today, in what you've brought to us, of the recognition that that mantle has been cast and that there are those who know that they are here to bear it—the great cloud, the great wing, the mantle of the Master surrounding and flowing upon those who carry the responsibility for the focus of spirit, the spirit of the LORD's Body, now. I know that Uranda's mantle was spread over the whole of Robert Oppenheimer's life. We saw the movie the other day and it became obvious: I spent a lot of time yesterday, working with the paper “Atomic Power” and it became obvious to me that his great mantle was cast like protecting wings and as a guiding force, over Oppenheimer and all that he had under his care at that time. It's easy to perceive the spirit that was present there when you listen to the man. My main point is that that mantle of the LORD's casting has been present over all those who have done the work to receive it, and we have been offered the opportunity to bear that great mantle and to carry forward our responsibility now, providing the reality of agreement, the arc of agreement, between those two wings above the Ark, with the mercy seat between, and the spirit of Shekinah moving in the Temple. This is a reality. It's happening now. We're experiencing it. And your great spirit, bringing the expansive field from the east to us today has been so rich. There is a great deal of work to be done, and fields of enfoldment and care that await our hand; and you have demonstrated, Yujin, how this can be done with a light touch and a light spirit, focused absolutely in the spirit of the KING. It's been a wonderful morning, all of us together. It has felt like we were in Council together, and I think we have been.
Yujin Pak — Thank you, David, and each one. I'm delighted to bring the wing of the east into our midst; but more delighted to bring the spirit of victory of our KING into our midst. And I want to close with these words. There are some who have thought, “if what Martin raised of a body of the KING on earth went through what it did, there's no more possibility and it can't be done.” So the words, “It can't be done.” We have heard them somewhere, “It can't be done.” Twelve spies of Joshua went into the promised land and ten of them reported back fearfully that there were great giants in the land, and we are as grasshoppers before them: “It can't be done.” In the vocabulary of the body of the LORD. There is no such sentence, “It can't be done.”
Would our KING say of the circumstance that we currently are working with, “It can't be done”? Would Martin or Uranda say to us now, “It can't be done”? We know their spirit. We know the spirit of the Lord. It can be done, and the doing is the maintaining of the character, the spirit of victory of the LORD, no matter what happens at the level of form. And that's exactly what the Master did. No matter what happens at the level of form, no matter what pressures emerge—which may emerge quite a bit, in the days ahead, no matter what happens at the level of form, we express the character and the spirit of victory of the LORD into that condition, that circumstance. And we are unmoved by the results, unmoved by what happens at the level of form.
This is the victory. It was made very clear to us, again and again, and all that is left is for us to prove it. How large a body maintains the spirit of victory through the tumults that may come, we don't know. But there will be a core that will maintain that spirit of victory, just as the three women and one man maintained it with the KING at that time. That representation will be present—and may it be not just three women and one man, but many women and many men, and all of us included here. So, it is wonderful to be very flexible, and surrendered at the level of form, expressing the spirit of victory, knowing that the victory is spirit, and that spirit and spiritual expression is supreme. Wonderful to share this time together. Thank you, friends.
Robert Merriman — Wonderful indeed, Yujin. Thank you so very much. Our next service in the Temple of Light will be on August 20th with Daniel Cartwright. And the following service on September 17th will be with David Barnes and myself. Let us sustain the current that is moving as we listen to some music, and prepare to provide living proof that true stature walks on the earth.
