Joshua and Caleb—The Word of Good Report

Joshua and Caleb — The Word of Good Report

David Barnes  Salmon Arm, B.C.  and  Robert Merriman  Denver, Colorado

91st Anniversary Service — Temple of Light

September 17, 2023

David Barnes — Thank you everyone. Good morning, and welcome to the Dawn of a New Spiritual Day. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD. We have treasure in heaven. Great is your reward in heaven. Where your heart is there will your treasure be also. Let's have a moment of devotion, at the opening of this new seven year cycle.

O LORD of heaven and earth, may we now feel and know, vividly and keenly, that we are all together here this morning in Thy heaven. If this is Thy heaven, then You are present; and each one of us and all of us together are visible and known to Thee. We are not hidden from Thee; although we know that if one is not in heaven, the LORD of heaven and earth is hidden from those who hide themselves, who do not come naked and unashamed into Thy presence. And so we would be innocent and guileless, open and yielded, providing evidence of the presence of a body of angels who come and go by Thy Name on earth. This a small, composite Body, representing a movement through the cycles of restoration, cycles that may come to completion in us as individuals and as a Body, that there might be a governmental priestly Body on earth, available to steward the cycles of restoration that may come for the whole body of mankind, however many individuals that might include, in the days to come. How very thankful I am, and we are together, to be present in this significant period of time, acknowledging the cycles that have been opened in the rhythms of the Creative Spirit emanating from Thee and Thy heavenly host, being made available to be known in our consciousness here on earth, in this earthly host, in this small nucleus, composite Body of angels who receive the privilege of being present and acknowledging the opportunity that is before us in the years to come, to move through the complete cycle of restoration, that Divine Man and Divine Woman may be present on earth, God-Man and God-Woman might be present on earth; and then a Whole New Day will open. For now, we are here and we are grateful to be present in this Holy Spirit, one another together with Thee in the heaven of Thy Christ Spirit. Aumen

Perhaps the words of that devotion or prayer bring to us all some of the essences that are present now, and have been moving in the creative cycles that have drawn all of us to serve, and held us in place, through adversity—there has been adversity. It was rather promised in the Book of Revelation that if you took the little book of life and ate it, it would be sweet in the mouth; but when you came into incarnation, it may well be bitter in the belly—a little adversity. However, staying in the processes of recreation in consciousness, the bitterness begins to pass away; and then a new and thrilling adventure begins; and there comes a sweetness, not only in the mouth but in the belly, and in the mind, and in the heart, and in the whole body. And then you begin to recognize that this same experience of transformation is available to all, and you have a responsibility to assist others to come through this period where they remember that they too took the little book and ate it—and when they were born and were growing up, there was a certain amount of bitterness and a sense that all is not quite right. So how do I reconcile the fact that I have had this experience of illumination, where I look around and I see that All is Love, and yet I also look around and I see that most people are terrified, living in fear, and know not that All is Love. And so the work begins, to bring an experience and a consciousness, and assurance through living, some words of assurance, to draw the world of my responsibility out of fear and into love.

So an awareness of the largeness of the task begins to dawn. How does one go about doing this. Well, none of us were left alone; and somewhere along the way we met someone who knew more than we knew. And it was so wonderful to meet someone in the flesh who knew, someone who was consciously moving through the cycles of restoration. Probably we met someone who knew Martin, who knew Uranda, the one who opened this movement that we're all aware of and continuing within, this cycle that opened in 1932. We call it the Third Sacred School; we called it Emissaries of Divine Light, and still do. I do. We thought of it as the spiritual expression plane, and were called to express our own true Spirit, the Spirit of the LORD, the Spirit of the Body of the LORD, to let the Body of the LORD be drawn together, into a formation of angels who together let His Spirit imbue this Body. And so the cells of the Body were drawn together and birthed.

Four cycles of seven years. Uranda was here for three of those cycles and in the next year, at the beginning of fourth seven year cycle, a fire cycle, he died. It was a time of considerable confusion in the developing Body. Martin was present and he assumed full and victorious, magnificent, responsibility, to steward, to guide the cycles of restoration. Nonetheless, there was a great loss. Martin and others, in the relative obscurity of the Cariboo region of B.C. and at Sunrise Ranch, carried through, and around 1974 we began to see the emergence again of a coordinated Body, more substantial, and a design of focalization within it. The first four cycles of seven years ended in 1960. The next four cycles of seven years ended in 1988. 56 years—from 1932 to 1988. The seven year period from 1981 to 1988 was a fire cycle, and something profound and powerful was moving in the Emissary Body at that time, with a promise inherent within it—also a warning, that came many times through Martin, a warning that there was a steadiness needed, steadfastness that had to be maintained in leadership. So that was a seven year fire cycle, from 1981 to 1988. At the end of that cycle Martin's incarnation was finished.

We moved into a new seven year water cycle, full of promise. Within seven years, by 1995, it was scattered, pretty much. Many people were not held together by the fire of love, by the gravitational pull of the Spirit of Love. Thus the centrifugal force that is an aspect of the Spirit of Love tended to throw people off in various directions, different ones making various interpretations about what had gone on. But the creative cycles were still operating. And there were those who continued to move, aligned in the Victory Pattern, that being dominant in consciousness; and there were several threads that took form. But by 1995 what appeared to be an integrating experience in the Emissary Body, in the leadership formation of the Third Sacred School, had fragmented. This that should have come, in the cycles of restoration, to the point of being a mature and well developed representative body, because of the priesthood leadership presence within it, fragmented. There was failure evident in those first seven years as we moved from 1988 to 1995, a seven year water cycle.

So, 1995 through 2002 was a seven year air cycle, and I think it could be said that for many the Lord was not in the wind—for many, from 1988 to 1995 the Lord was not in the water. For others, moving in the Victory Pattern, the Lord was present in water and in the air; but for many the Lord was not in the water or in the air. We moved into an earth cycle, 2002 to 2009, and for many the Lord was not in the earth—there was just an earthquake. For some the Lord was in the earth, and the cycle was stewarded with care, knowing that there was something of a Promised Land ahead; even while all of us were functioning in a wilderness cycle. Even the leadership that carries through clearly and honorably is in the wilderness when the whole body, or the promise of that body, insists on wandering through the wilderness. And then we came to 2009 and the fire of that cycle which concluded in 2016. Water, air, earth fire—four cycles of seven years.

I ask you to think back to 2016, and consider what has happened between 2016 and today, as more and more of us have been moving with vigor in the integrating aspect of this new water cycle that opened under the hand of the LORD in 2016. Speaking for myself, I am a new man in a completely different place than I was in 2016 when this water cycle opened. In 2014, Anne and I were driving down the North Thompson River past Riverbend Orchard. I had lived there for 20+ years on and off, and I found my orientation in the Third Sacred School and in EDL, with Martin, at Riverbend Orchard. [And I would mention Don Berger, who was a leadership presence at Riverbend for a number of years, and a very good friend. Don completed his cycle of incarnation last month. Stewart Berger is with us today, Don’s son. Stewart and I were there at Riverbend in those early days. I am thankful for Don and what he brought, and for his good friendship to me over those years.] But in 2014 we were driving past Riverbend Orchard and an inspiration came to both of us and we decided to initiate the Great Cosmic Story website. I came home and I began the work that night. By the next day, May 1st, although I'd never done any of this kind of computer work, we had the website up and running; and I think Don Hynes and Tom Starrs were the first two that wrote to me and gave me feedback and encouragement. Don still writes almost every week about what's posted and Tom is here. This was a point [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2014/05/listen-exeter-april-18-1982-spirit-is.html] of initiation within a vision that a new seven year water cycle would be opening in 2016. And along with that I began to watch other people going through the same kinds of changes in consciousness that I was going through, being prepared to move into in entirely new time. So consider for yourself, and think about the steps that have unfolded for you between 2016 and 2023.

I think we can all agree that we are in a profoundly new and different place in consciousness, in the heaven. According to response and interest, the Spirit present in this water cycle has brought forth an awareness of the refocalization of the design of leadership in the Christ Body that is forming. By leadership, I don't mean one person is going to be leading all the rest. I mean each of us as a point of priesthood leadership in the continuing formation of the Christ Body. And I now, at this point, acknowledge that I stand, we stand, on the threshold of a new and Promised Land. What might have been but a vision a number of years back is now right at the door. What was it that was said long ago? “Go in and possess the land.” At that time it was a physical land. This time it is a new quality of pneumaplasm, substance, design, control, a new movement of the four forces at work in the creative process, stewarded by me and you and others that we know. This is happening. This is the Dawn of a New Day, and a new range of experience opening up, that we could call a heavenly Promised Land.

This is not just for us. It relates to what might occur in this composite and reforming Body of the LORD on earth, the Lord of Love, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/composite.html] the Lord of Truth, and the Lord of Life—three focal points which are One, the Triune Ray continuing to incarnate in this Archangelic Body, in the rhythms and cycles of recreation. It's always been happening since the LORD of Lords conceived, over 2000 years ago, what it is that is unfolding right now; and since it was carried forward in a very particular way by the disciple John; and which John wrote about in the Book of Revelation, which is the blueprint of the Third Sacred School—opening up into, not just the Third, but the Fourth, the Fifth, the Sixth, the Seventh, and beyond.

Now, we should understand that moving in the Third Day doesn't mean that when we move into the Fourth Day we move into the Fourth Sacred School, as some have assumed. It means, among other things, that we move into a level of purification that is beyond that which possible in the Third Day. Martin spoke of EDL the Door. Here it was, 1988 [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/edlthedoor.html] and the door was opening into a new cycle. Move through the door! The door is from one room in the Temple of Light into another room in the Temple of Light. And the room of the Third is just as important as the room of the Fourth and the Fifth and the Sixth and the Seventh—and the Second and the First. They are all necessary—Seven Rooms in the Temple of Light. And they all must be occupied by angels, angels who know what they're doing in their human consciousness, and are capable of stewarding the cycles of restoration in the whole Body, but initially this composite Body that we call the Body of the Son, composed of both the Sons and the Daughters of God.

There was considerable loss between 1988 and 2016; but during that same period there was also considerable regeneration under the hand of certain ones. And now, here we are, with a water cycle having been opened, bringing us to this point, where we move into an air cycle, which relates to the quality of the atmosphere that moves through those who are drawn into this new design and control formation of the priesthood. According to response and radiation, so it will be. It is not complete by any means. But there's something coming before us that is filled with promise, and that relates to generation of new qualities of pneumaplasm, the firmament, the air of the spirit, in this new seven year cycle which relates dominantly to air, and carries within it the design and control of the new water cycle that is still present. And if we handle ourselves right, it will expand the experience of what is present in the water. And the fire is certainly with us, and the material that is being acted upon is the earth itself—the earth of our own being, and the earth of the Christ Body, transforming it.

This seven year air cycle, with us between now and 2030, is of vital importance to the new development of the nucleus of the Christ Body, this composite Body. And then we move into a seven year earth cycle, from 2030 to 2037. What we do in alignment with the Spirit of this coming seven year air cycle is going to leave us well placed, because we will do our job well as angels and as a priesthood, well placed to enter into a new seven year earth cycle, which is vitally important in relationship to what's to come. And there's always the danger of a bit of failure creeping in, in an earth cycle, because people get comfortable, and substance begins to accrue; we begin to gather things and stuff around us, and we seem prosperous. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let it be treasure in heaven. Great is your reward in heaven.

But that seven year earth cycle—based on what we have done in the water cycle, what the LORD has done in that water cycle and us cooperating with it, and now moving into the air—will be very important. And after that earth cycle, what comes next? A seven year fire cycle—2035 to 2042, a fusion cycle. Now some of us may say, “Well, I won't be alive at that point, so it doesn't matter.” Yes it does! If we do our job there will be those coming after us who have been educated, who have been awakened to remember why they're here, as priests and priestesses, to steward this cycle. Then we move into a seven year water cycle once again. So we're in a time frame here relative to the development of this Body, and moving through the ongoing cycles of restoration, where we are in a position, because the LORD has brought us to this point, to recognize that the job is not finished at all. We are basically approaching the Three-and-a-half Day mark, where we might move deeper into the range of the Fourth and then completely into the Fourth where the fires of purification can burn hot and bright—and that is most welcome to us. No fear of the fires of purification—most welcome—clearing the heart and making us available as a clear, unclogged channel, able to continue movement in the Cycles of Restoration.

I want to leave you with one sentence by Uranda, just to bring these specific essences into our midst, because these things are going to continue to unfold and be discussed and considered, lived with daily in the months and years and cycles to come. He said, “We are allowed six days, or six steps in the creative cycle, to allow us to move from the state of the fallen realm to the state of man restored.” Now, I'm not trying to say that man will be restored in the next three, seven year cycles, but I am giving a vision of the fact that we haven't completed the job. The goal is restoration, and there's still at least Three-and-a-half Days yet to move through; and what they will bring we don't know exactly, except coming events do cast their shadows before, and if we're attuned we're paying attention; and there is an assurance about what will come; and we're thrilled about it, and we're really interested. And we don't for any moment think that we've reached the goal. The goal is the restoration of a Nucleus Body, the Body of the Son, so that this Body can assist in providing the government necessary so that many more can awaken and come to their day of restoration. And then we will have Man restored, and God revealed in Man restored, with the Body of Divine Man being Jehovah, or the Body of God in expression on earth.

So let's not be complacent at all, but be open to this thrilling adventure that we're on, that is opening up into things that we haven't experienced before. This is the movement of the Spirit in the Body. We have to prove this out in the Body. We don't have the Lord of Truth and the Lord of Life with us, or the Lord of Love incarnate, but they are present with us and guiding us in Spirit. And there is a very great deal to unfold as the Body of the Archangel—which is the Body of the Lord of Love, the Lord of Truth, and Lord of Life—as the members of the Body of the Archangel allow the Spirit of the Archangel to completely fill this Body. Then we can say the restoration is complete. Then we get on with another level, another range of creative action.

This is what I want to bring this morning. And we all have enough background in the terminology, and the movement itself, so that I don't have to go back and outline in detail and define what I'm talking about. We've got enough in our consciousness, so that we can get a clear sense of what I am saying. And it's not just us here, we know that. EDL is still present. There are people at Sunrise Ranch who are moving through the same cycle we're moving through. And there are others going by other names, moving in the same cycle. But this describes the central aspect of what is emerging, that which leads us home, brings us into the experience of oneness, of love, in the Body of the Lord of Love on earth—restored.

Robert, I love you! We share so much over the months; we speak together frequently about these and other important things. Take your time and say what you need to say as you share with us all what is moving now.

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Robert Merriman — Thank you. David. I don’t know about you all, but I’m remembering the first time I saw the Epoch Timeline that Uranda had prepared that was preserved and brought to Class. And that Timeline was so magnificent and filled with so many facets. As I came to understand it more, I realized that I had been called to participate in a great undertaking. A movie was made in the 60’s about the life of Christ called “The Greatest Story Ever Told”. Well, this story that we are in spans beyond the life of Jesus alone, and Uranda, and Martin, and us (in this incarnation). This is a story that we’ve been weaving together through eternity. How good it is to greet you here in these forms today, to allow new forms of pneumaplasm to be generated among us.

David, as you were speaking of the many levels opening up, of stretching beyond our ceilings, I was harkening back to Mary Janak’s part in the service that she and Robert Kauffman recently did in the Temple of Light, where she described the eagle, the symbol of Truth, the consciousness of the LORD moving through all the levels effortlessly on the wings of an eagle, to any level on which He needs to operate at any point in time. I do believe that what you’ve outlined here is a prescient view of the kind of freedom and the kind of expanse, and the kind of majesty that the Christ Body is meant to carry and bring to this Earth as an ultimate blessing. Yes, to the children of men, but also to all forms of life. What an adventure!

In Uranda’s transcript from July 21, 1946 titled, “The Work Is Not Finished”, he said this:

“The One Christ Body is not an organization; it is not just a group of individuals responding to the LORD; it is actually a Body—One Unit, a single entity made up of many members. And it is from the standpoint of that Unit of that One Body that we have been privileged to function to a degree, already, in that period of Pentecost which has actually begun. As we continue on, letting the Father have His way, we will be privileged to reach the point of unison in function in the power of the LORD of Lords, where all things necessary shall be accomplished, that He, through His Body on earth, may finish the work which He began when He was here as Jesus Christ. He finished the work that He came to do at that time. He accomplished that which He was supposed to accomplish as one individual; but the work that He started was not finished. It still is not finished, and in order for it to be finished He must be permitted to function on earth through His Body, so that through His Body, [through His Collective Body] His Will may be done on earth as it is in heaven.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-work-is-not-finished.html]

Such vision! I think of that young man, Lloyd Arthur Meeker, in 1932 opening his heart and mind to initiate the adventure, the journey, that we are on, and that we’re in the process of inviting so many to participate in. I felt like I needed to put pen to paper in thinking about the 91st Anniversary of the coming of the Third Sacred School, what it meant in my heart and my understanding. I’d really love to share that with you.

1. First and foremost, I find my heart celebrating the opening of the vibrational portal for the second coming of Christ—this is huge!—this time through His Collective Body. The opening of the portal; it’s really happened! And it’s really in motion. And we really are, if we say “Yes!”, part of that. And then,

2. The coming of the Third Sacred School spelled the consistent speaking, once more, of the Word of God on Earth—unadulterated. The Word of God, the creative force of the stars, themselves! And then,

3. The creation of an effective vibrational invitation to every member of the human race to respond to the Word and to play their respective parts in the Collective Christ Body as it enters in and possesses the Promised Land, New Jerusalem, Paradise—the revelation of the KING’s Home on Earth, and nothing less.

I think of such an invitation as to come into this Body and possess the Land, the Vibrational Land—but it will relate to the physical, and we’ll see how, in some ways, during our lifetimes—and I also think of the spirit that was in Uranda to allow this invitation to be so clearly articulated and so masterfully coordinated within the cosmic rules of being, to allow the ley-lines of force to be created that would call, eventually, you and me, and so many others, to come participate in this great adventure. What was that spirit that was in him?

There is a line in the story of Caleb and Joshua, and the spies that went into the Promised Land, a line that really jumped out and grabbed me. This is the Lord speaking: “But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.” (Numbers 14:24)

I’ve heard reaction, by the way, to the word “posses”. Like, well, in some cases it evokes thoughts of evil spirits; or, perhaps the spirit of greed, like a human ego in a separate state trying to own something for itself. But what about being “possessed” by God? What about being possessed by the Power of Love and the Wonders of Truth that created this very planet? Once possessed by such a spirit, anything possessed by the one possessed by that Spirit, he or she will possess it in the Name of the LORD, in the Vibration of the Wholesome Creation of True Being. So, when Caleb was rewarded with “possessing” he didn’t do it in the name of little Caleb. He did it in the Name of the LORD.

I love expanding on the wholesome righteousness moving through Caleb’s agreement with Joshua, under pressure, because when they came back from the 40 days reconnoiter in the land of Canaan, and reported as they were commissioned to do, that they had seen great resources—"a land flowing with milk and honey” as they said. And they had also seen fortifications and some people of larger stature than they. But ten of the spies said, “It's way too frightening. It's a dangerous venture. We should not go!” But Caleb and Joshua, attuned with the current of the LORD, their heart and His heart, they, possessed by the LORD, had a completely different take on the same set of factors. When Caleb reported, he said, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30)

As we saw in the Life of Jesus, and at other times in our own history, there has been, when the positive focus of Spirit is actually provided, a reaction from all that is not purified yet. And there was a great reaction among the people of Moses and Aaron, even building up to an uprising, a mutiny! In the King James version, it goes on to say: “And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were with them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto the company of the children of Israel saying, The land which we passed through to search it, is exceeding good land. If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us, a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only, rebel not against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.” (Numbers 14:6-9)

Caleb had another spirit with him. It was the spirit of victory, undaunted by the things that seem large and immovable in human nature. Do we gathered here today see giants or do we see malleable substance that the Lord can use? When we check out the media we hear stories of wars, rumors of wars, shifting of tectonic plates, earthquakes, erratic weather patterns, floods, fires. Are those giants? Climate change: is that a giant, or is that an opportunity? Or even more personally: how about issues of aging, health concerns, inflation, economic concerns, financial concerns? Wasn't it fear that was at the core of the objections and the exaggerations?

Was it lack of attunement with the heart of the One with whom we made a contract to come into human form and allow the affairs of this planet to be returned to attunement with the One that we serve?

And yes, as the Word has gone out, and as we show up together, having not rubbed shoulders for a long time, we are going to find many, many patterns coming among us, not just the world out there, but among us up close and personal for purification. And we'll also find ourselves working, perhaps, with individuals who are on their way to where they rightfully belong in the Christ Body—a beautiful process, a process of graceful ushering and malleable movement, in the Lord's guidance. But, if we object to that substitute pattern, and refuse to work with it, well, we won't ever be freed of that particular cosmic drama. It will stay with us.  As Uranda put it in a Class session on July 8, 1953, titled “Shekiah and Sex”:

“We have to be adaptable. I have functioned in a thousand and one substitute situations, substitute conditions, all the way from maintaining a vibratory core by working with horses, back a few years ago, when my human pattern broke and went to pieces, I had to depend on horses for a while to have any kind of central control vibrational pattern. And maintaining it that way, it began to work out. Soon I could leave the substitute pattern of the horses behind and move into a higher sphere… In practically everything I do—not all—but most things I do I have to be functioning in some kind of substitute situation. And only as we function correctly in substitute situations can we move to the point where we can get out of them. But never if you say well, ‘I don't want to function as a substitute pattern. I want the real thing.’ All right, we will get to the real thing, but only if you function correctly in substitute patterns. Reject substitute patterns and you will never get anywhere; you will always be in them.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/01/shekinah-and-sex.html]

Well mankind has been in a substitute pattern for quite some time. I might say a rather macabre one at that. But it's all been unnecessary, just as the delay of forty years in the wilderness was unnecessary for the children of Israel. Had there been agreement, had there been clear thinking, by the people, in the consciousness of the Lord, they could have gone in, and they could have done the work that we're doing right now, with those resources eventually, had they held steady, had there not been a break.

Oh yes. There is a great adventure ahead and immense need to hold steady, giving thanks in all things, as patterns come and go. As one friend put it: any situation that we can be in in our adventure of serving the LORD is but a freeze frame in the LORD's home movie. It changes as we function rightly and give thanks in it, and it moves from glory unto glory. What a wonder to be about the business of the generation of new forms of pneumaplasm, to the end that the LORD may be free to move through consciousness on earth to any level He needs to operate at, for the fulfilment of His wishes, and for the creations of His perfect desires. We do this in our hearts; we do this individually, and we do this together. So together, let us open our time for response to the LORD.

Christina Pivarnik — Such exquisite, powerful and beautiful words that you have spoken—truly the Word of God. And what a humble joy and privilege it is to come together and speak the Word of God. To be the Word of God. And I was thinking that we meet so many people in our days and our lives, and there cannot be any room for judgment or opinions about any of them, what they're doing, because all these people on earth are here to fulfill God's mission, whether they are aware of it or not. What comes into play is to look for what is right, what's true, what's clear in those that we meet, and celebrate it, and that is jsuch an amazing experience to have. We share it together, because we need one another to fulfill this mission. I love David's timetable of everything. We don't always think in those terms, so thank you for that. Here we are, to let this all come forth in the most beautiful, gracious, powerful way that we are capable of, with no judgment, no opinion. Just let it come, whatever it might be. Let the fires roar, let the winds blow, whatever is needed to cleanse the earth and let it come into the new earth, because that's what we're here to embrace. Thank you very much and to all present for what we've been able to generate together—just so beautiful, in His work.

Anne Blaney — Well thank you, Joshua and Caleb. I mean David and Robert. I was thinking about those two—they were actually sent by Moses. They didn't go off on their own—they were actually sent, and they went, and they carried out their commission. As was described in the story, they saw something entirely differently, compared to the other spies who went, looking at the same facts. I think this gives us a big clue regarding new forms of pneumaplasm. There is so much that to be explored in this regard: what is coming down and opening up. It's available, it's always been available, the possibilities have always been endless, in Spirit. But with the purification that has happened and is happening, we are now open to welcoming absolutely new ways to see what is taking place around us. You could term that, “recreation and consciousness”. There's a very specific job for the head or the nucleus of the Christ Body. There's a certain ability that has been given to us; we've had a lot of instruction regarding this. So we are embarking in this Air cycle, where the pneumaplasm can be generated, but it's going to be new—new forms of pneumaplasm. And I was thinking in terms of the four forces, how they're all happening at the same time. There's one that's dominant. But we can't forget that love, which is symbolized by the fire that is present, has two purposes: to burn away what doesn't serve us or the Lord anymore, and we're glad for that; but it is also present to blend and to unify, and to bring together those who are seeing the same vision, the same Promised Land, who have the same commission. These things can only be spoken of in a fine atmosphere, and I thank you both for creating that, and I am thankful for the atmosphere that's present this morning, so that we can consider this. It is so wonderful to share this anniversary time, to really see it in new ways, to look behind us and see in new ways, and know that the possibilities in Spirit are endless. It is in the heaven that we will be able to welcome the new forms that are waiting to be born through us. So thank you so much. Well done, Joshua and Caleb, David and Robert.

Gary Courtland-Miles — David and Robert, thank you, thank you for the report you to have brought back from the Promised Land. I think we have evidence this morning of that new substance, of pneumaplasm present in our collective consciousness—something that the mind can't nail down and shouldn't nail down. The generation of the right Spirit will allow this feast of pneumaplasm to receive Spirit, in a more expansive way and to let its intelligence inform us, so that we are “in-formation”, letting it have its way. It's not really an it, but it's something of the Lord's. It's something indefinable. So we have some new evidence today I think, as we've shared this hour together. So wonderful to let that seed grow and expand. Thank you all.

Millicent Holliday —I very much delighted in both of your expressions and I enjoy the atmosphere in this room where we are—not only here in this room in Atlanta where there is a distinctive atmosphere, but in our current collective room. Robert you were speaking of what was in Uranda's heart when, in 1932, he had his awakening, and what came to mind was “passion.” Well, where there's passion that is what controls our hearts. And I feel like Caleb and Joshua, because to me, the fields are white for harvest. They are waiting, longing for us, to present ourselves to our worlds, and shine radiantly so that they can come in their hundreds and in their their  thousands. They wait, they wait, they long for us to mature. They long for us to be pure and passionate, passionate to provide for them the restoration. Yes, we have been so privleged to know; this fourth phase is the phase of purification, and it's also the phase of assurance—we know. We know it's not the phase of realization; it is the cycle of assurance. We don't have to be taught, but many do, because they long to know that assurance in us. So we have the responsibility just as the Master had, of renting the veil. We have been given the tools for the veil to be rent, so that heaven can flow free into the earth, and the earth's passion may rise up to meet the Spirit of Heaven. I thank you both for the beauty of your passion, and I feel the assurance of the days to come when our LORD can walk again in His Garden.

David Barnes — I appreciate the responses. After listening to her speak, you can see why Anne is so important to me, spiritually articulate as she is. It's wonderful to have such a partner in this creative activity. I also want to comment on what Milly just said about knowing. When the Master was on earth, speaking to scribes and Pharisees, He said: We speak that we do know and we speak that we have seen, and ye believe not our words. He spoke these words to Nicodemus, “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things?” We haven't spent a whole lot of time this morning talking about earthly things. We've been talking about heavenly things; and we're actually able to move together in the heaven, with understanding, seeing, hearing, sharing a knowing.

The Master also said, a wicked and evil generation “seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the  sign of the prophet Jonas.” What we've been sharing relates to the sign of the prophet Jonas—to an understanding of the movement of creative cycles. Jonas referred to the time when the Master would be present, and to the time when Uranda would arrive on the scene; and the cycles would shift. And here we are, moving in the rhythms of the three primary, creative cycles, in an Air-Water-Air pattern. We’ve got a lot of water and a lot of air with us and surrounding us. And then in this immediate seven year cycle pattern, we are moving from water to air. So we've got Air-Water-Air-Water-Air. We're swimming and flying in the Water of Truth and the Air of the Spirit, and something is knocking at our door, saying to us, “You are the evidence of the fulfillment of the sign of the prophet Jonas in this age. This was also called by Martin, the sign of the Son of Man in heaven.

So, as Robert outlined with such artistry, and as was emphasized by Anne and Gary and Milly, together we bring this Good Report from the Promised Land. This has been our work today—at the end of one cycle and the opening of another—to bring this Word of Good Report to the Archangel, the Word that comes through His Body: that we know, we have seen, and we are here; and there is some intelligence present in this Body; there is a heart that is no longer run around the foolish mind of fallen man. So heart and mind are present in this, His Body, awake and active, alert and keenly interested in continuing to move through the cycles of restoration, and steward them as we go through them. This is the Good Report of Joshua and Caleb, representing many; they came back and they reported to Moses and to the people. This is the Body of Moses. It says that the Archangel contended with the devil over the body of Moses. Well, that's what tends to happen as we move into the fires of purification—a bit of a struggle goes on for a while. Then, moving deeper into the fires, it becomes ecstasy as we come naked, and there's no shame and no fear. We're not afraid of the Lord of the Fire, or the Lord of Truth or the Lord of Life, because this Triune Spirit is moving in this My Body, and we're not afraid of our own Spirit. It's not going to destroy us. It's going to make us whole as individuals and whole as a One Body.

There's one more point I would like to bring, related to what Robert said about when we move deeper into the fire, there will be some things to meet, and one of them is the mistakes that we have made in the past. And we have the ability to look squarely into them and acknowledge that there was a mistake made, and a course correction is necessary; and we make the correction. I do, when I see that it's necessary; so that the mistake does not become a sin, and then grow to such an extent it becomes an unpardonable sin, because of the hardness of the heart. It was said long ago that Jesus became a Master because He didn't allow His mistakes to become sins. He corrected His mistakes as He moved along. He was interested in moving through the fires of purification and going beyond. He never let little mistakes that He made as a man prevent Him from moving into the cycles of complete restoration, of Mastery, and so His consciousness became that of Divine Man. In this regard and in conclusion, let me read you something written by David Karchere at Sunrise Ranch a few months ago. It’s good to read this right now:

“We are one people. And in knowing it for ourselves, we declare it to the world. This is our wake-up call… One love, one reality, one truth, one people, one ministry… This is not homogeneity I am talking about here… We are creating what is ours to manifest now. And what happens when you create? I will name something else that is almost guaranteed. We make mistakes. Do you get to begin anything without making mistakes? So we could think, Let’s not begin so we won’t make mistakes. We are beginning with each other. We are beginning with anyone who will join us, and they will make mistakes too. We will all make mistakes. And what do you do when you make mistakes? Get up and try again. Learn, and correct any errors you have made. Do it differently next time. That is all part of beginning, part of doing this in earnest. And if you think that those of us who are more experienced make mistakes, what happens when you bring younger people into the mix, who are fresh and new and just starting out in life, and just starting out in this work with us? Are they going to make mistakes? I guarantee it! And what happens then? We have to learn. They have to learn. We have to teach, guide, and lead. We are here for this. I am here for this. I know you are too.” [emissaries.org/the-fertile-crescent-of-today/]

Here is part of the pattern purification. So we can see that the Spirit of this newness is emerging through many. One body, one people. We move in the revelation of the sign of the prophet Jonas, in fire of purification, living from that place of assurance in where the LORD is leading His Body—to finish the Work.

Robert Merriman — Thank you, David. Thank you all. And above all. Thank the LORD, in whose heart we dwell. Steve, do you have a closing for us?

Steve Ventola — My closing thought is that it's such a joy to be all together and to hear the Word of the Lord today. Isn’t it? Individually we've heard it. And if I can emphasize something here, to go back and read the transcript by Uranda, “The Reality Of Leadership”, posted recently on the Great Cosmic Story, because it's chock full of thoughts about learning from our mistakes, facing the contests—but more than that, getting into the realm of actual creative activity. So, as we continue creative action in our worlds, let's hold what we shared in this time deep, deep, deep in our hearts. Our next Temple service will be on October 29th. Anne Blaney will lead us.

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Seventh Cycle

Seventh  Cycle

Uranda  August 1, 1953

From the 2nd chapter of Genesis, the 1st verse: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Outside of this reference, which is most significant, we hear nothing about keeping the Seventh Day, or the Sabbath, or having a particular day of rest, until the time when the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness and the Ten Commandments were given at Mt. Sinai. In all this interval the subject is ignored, and yet during that interval there were many who were very closely related to God, as was Enoch, for instance: “He walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” Yet here the point is emphasized: God rested from the work which He had made, on the Seventh Day.

The Seventh Day is the Seventh Cycle, or period, or step, in the outworking of the life of man. Now in the Divine State, reaching the Seventh Day would mean something quite different from our present circumstance. In the Divine State, when the seven cycles were completed, that meant that the individual had completed his purpose in life on earth for that particular incarnation. Whether it took seven hundred years or seven thousand years was beside the point; the cycles of outworking leading to ascension were seven in number, depending upon the individual and the pattern of being, the purpose on earth. We have recognized that in relationship to fallen man the seven cycles of the seven days, or seven periods, lead to the restoration of man to the Divine Estate of Oneness, that we may come to that place of consciousness where we may experience what the Master spoke of as Oneness. He pointed out that He and His Father were One, and in His closing expression of ministry He gave that great prayer—in the 17th chapter of John it is recorded—and He prayed “that they all might be one as we are”; that those who should follow Him and let His Body take form and have meaning on earth might truly be One, even as He and the Father were One. The attainment of that state of Oneness is that which we experience on the Seventh Day, when we cease all self-activity and come to rest in the Lord, so that from that time onward we are functioning on a basis of Oneness. God rested from the work which He had made, in the sense of His work without regard to the work of God being made manifest through man. The period of Oneness, of correlation between Creator and creation through Oneness with the Crowning Creation, was supposed to be the Sabbath rest.

Man has allowed his awareness of these basic principles of Being to degenerate into the idea of keeping a day; but the Sabbath in the true sense is not something that can be kept merely by setting aside one day a week to cease physical labors in the ordinary human sense and then go back to physical labors in a self-active pattern on Monday morning. No man or woman keeps the Sabbath—I care not what the religion, I care not what day the human being seeks to keep—no man or woman keeps the Sabbath until he or she has attained to the day of rest; which is to say Oneness with God on earth, so that from that time on self-activity ceases and the Divine Pattern of function is made manifest from there on, twenty-four hours a day, day in and day out without limit, keeping the Sabbath. For the true day of rest is the cessation of self-activity; rest in the Lord, Oneness that is attained when we truly follow our LORD and KING and let His prayer be answered so that His Kingdom comes in us, His control or dominion is established in us and through us, and we attain to that Oneness of which He spoke so many times. This then is the Sabbath rest for man in this present state of things. But once that Sabbath rest has been attained, a new week begins, a new cycle of outworking in the achievement of the purpose for which that human being came into the world—and in that new week he does not function self-actively; he lets the works of God be done so that man is doing God's work.

When God first created mankind, God ended His works in the direct sense of creative action so that man could begin the works of God. But this human beings have failed to recognize and realize. God's work was done in the sense of direct action on earth, but God's work was not done in the sense of the work of God which was supposed to appear through mankind. So we see how it is that since the fall of man there has been a failure to let that Seventh Day have any meaning, that day of rest. Man has failed for twenty thousand years to enter into the Sabbath rest. The Seventh Day has had no meaning—a symbol has no meaning the moment it is disassociated in consciousness from that which is symbolized. We have many symbols which we must use in the interval of transition and resurrection, but a symbol ceases to have meaning the very moment it is disassociated in consciousness from that which is symbolized. And that which is symbolized is the day of rest, when man ceases his self-activity and begins to let Divine Activity be made manifest on earth because man lives on earth. We have recognized something of the pattern of these cycles and their relationship to the Four Forces. When we reach a point of being with one accord in one place, in agreement on earth as touching all of these things, then something wonderful and beautiful is going to happen. How soon shall it be? 

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“As I Have Loved You”

“As  I  Have  Loved  You”

Uranda   July 14, 1946

If we merely consider the Word as something that we know already, it will not bring additional illumination. To the degree that we consider the Word as if we had never heard it before, that there is a New Spirit in it, the fullness of which we have not known before, we will find that the Word is always new. When we think of the great privilege and opportunity we have of entering into the One Christ Body on earth in the real or true sense, not merely a passing, emotional experience, but something that abides continually, something that is vivid and real, and brings forth fruit in the individual’s life, we naturally recognize that of all of the words that we may consider, those words which the Master Himself spoke are most vividly pregnant with meaning—and they are alive to us tonight.

As our starting point let us consider: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” How did He love those who heard Him speak? How does He love us? He lived for us; He lived a life that was a revelation of God. He proved by His Life that the things of God can be allowed practical expression in our daily living in the world, and so He loved us enough to live for us. If we love Him truly, then we love Him enough to live for Him; and if we love one another as He loves us, then it is that we live for one another. This is the basis of discipleship, and we must experience discipleship before we can experience the adoption into Oneness in His Body on earth.

There is a point where He spoke to His disciples and said, “Henceforth, I call you friends.” He was setting the vibration for the time when they might be received into His Body on earth, where they might provide, in fact, as many members of the One Body, the expression of His Divine Being on earth. But they had first to be His disciples. Therefore, the standard of discipleship must be passed before we can hope, individually and collectively, to know what it really means to be adopted into the One Christ Body on earth.

Individually we are living, not just for the Master, in the sense of someone in Heaven, but for one another. He loved us enough to live for us. We must love Him enough to live for Him. We must love one another enough to live for one another. That means that those personal things, those human things, which would make us say, “This we will cling to; this we will hold; thus far will we go and no farther in our living for others” stand as barriers. The Master did not set any limitation on His living for us, not even when it meant dying for us. He says, “... as I have loved you ...” That is the way we are to love one another. His love for us made Him live for us, all the way that led to the Cross. The Victory in the Tomb, the coming forth and the Ascension, all signify the way in which He loved us, and so we must live for Him and we must live for each other.

If there be only one or two or three, among many, who undertake to so live, then there will be imposition. I think I might properly say that, undertaking to so live while drawing you from out of the world to this time and place, there have been times when there was a great deal of imposition on me because you had not yet so learned to live. I am only pointing out that it may be, as His disciples and as members of His Body, that there will be times when you may, if you listen to the outer mind, think that you are being imposed upon for one cause or another. There is no possibility of our being imposed upon to the degree that the world imposed upon Him. He so loved us that He lived for us. I do not think there is much danger of your being imposed upon as much as I have been. I have no regret and, rather, I have great reward, because I see you coming into that place of living here and now where you live for one another, and living for one another, in the true living for Him, you begin to truly live for the blessing of others in the world.

“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” We have there the standard of discipleship which must be fulfilled in us before we can hope to share in the adoption.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”

Here we have another standard of discipleship. We talk about abiding, living in the One Christ Body on earth. He says, “Abide in me, and I in you.” Blessed Ones, when that is fulfilled in us, we will have reached a point where we know what it is to be in the One Christ Body on earth. “Abide in me, and I in you.” It is really very simple, as all great and glorious Truths are.

Here, He has given instruction to the many members of His Body, the many individuals who are to be drawn into that Body, who are to form His Body on earth, and if you are in His Body, you are in Him. If you live in His Body on earth, you are in Him, and if you are a part of that Body, and He is, through His Spirit, incarnate in that Body, then He is in you. That is the state of Being for which we long—to be in Him, that is, in His Body, that He may be in us, that is, in His Body. That is the goal that has been set out here in the Master's Word, through all these centuries. Does the state of the world indicate that His Body has had real form and has been really operative in the world? I think not, because if His Body had had true form through the many members, and had been really operative in the world, things could not be as they are—for now, in our so-called modern civilization, between a quarter and a third of the world's population is facing starvation. We have war and every kind of terrible thing that can be inflicted upon the world. That sort of thing is not the fruit of the Christ Body. He said that we are to bring forth fruit; that we will be purged, that we may bring forth more fruit, and then that we are to reach a point where we will bring forth much fruit.

When we have reached that point of blending in Him, so that we abide in Him and He in us. He says, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” And then comes the change from disciples to friends—“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” What did He command? He said, “Abide in me, and I in you.” We are not doing what He commanded us to do unless we abide in Him and let Him abide in us.

“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.”

First—“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you,” and then He says, “These things I command you.” “Abide in me, and I in you.” He is our friend, in any case, whether we are merely servants or friends. What do you think? Is there anything greater, or more to be desired, anything for which the heart could more earnestly long, anything for which you could more deeply yearn than to be His friend? You know that I know what I am talking about when I speak of being His friend.

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.”

Notice, He did not say, “Because I die, ye shall live.” According to His Own Word, He says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.” “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” Here the picture is enlarged—not just two-fold, but three-fold. He says, “At that day…”—that is, the day of the fulfillment of these things in you—“ye shall know.” Not hope, believe or wish but “Ye shall know that I am in my Father”—that is, that the One manifesting as Jesus ascended unto His Father. “And ye in me,” that is, that we have been gathered into the true formation of His Body on earth. He says, “Because I go unto my Father, these things shall be.” It was because He went unto His Father—Jesus ascended unto His Father—that it remains for those who are truly following Him, and love and live for Him, to become members of His Body on earth. “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father…”—that we know He ascended unto His Father—“…and ye in me.”

That we are learning to know, learning to be, and abide in, His Body on earth. “…and I in you.” That we know we shall experience when we let the Spirit of His Love so bring us together with one accord, in one place, that the expression of His Spirit through us into the world shall let it become an actualized reality. Could He have said it any more plainly, any more simply, that human beings might know the Way, the Truth and the Life? Could He have said it in any other way to make it more real, to make it more pointed, to make it more worthwhile? You know, as you are truly learning to be His friends, that it could not have been expressed in any way that would have been better for humanity or for you.

These are the things we are to know, and then He says, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” He does not say that it was those who were with Him at that time. He leaves it unlimited as to time or place. “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” At that point, it does not say just how He will manifest Himself to us, but only that He will.

We know that in the immediate sense, without limiting the ultimate outworking, the way in which He manifests Himself to us is in the outpouring of His Spirit through His Body on earth, and that that outpouring is the Breath of Life in His Body, that He may do the greater works on earth. The questioning one said, “Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not unto the world?” Does that remain for you a question? Jesus answered, using the same simple words arranged a little differently. “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” This time it was not that just He would come, but we—He and the Father—“we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” That is, in the One Christ Body, because if you are abiding in the One Christ Body and He is in His Body, then you are abiding with Him and He with you.

“He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

The work of the Comforter then, in part at least, is what? To function in His Name? Yes. To teach you all things? Yes. But also to bring to your remembrance all the things that He said. When we bring His words to remembrance, or when they are brought to remembrance by the Spirit, is it just that we remember the words, as words learned like a parrot, or do we each time have a deeper realization of the Love which He expressed through those words, a deeper realization of the Spirit of His Presence contained in those words, a deeper realization of the wonder-working power released through those words? The words of Jesus Christ Himself, if they are simply repeated as words, become empty and meaningless. Merely because He said some words and we can repeat them as words, does not give us life, and we can repeat those things without having remembrance; for remembrance is that remembrance that springs from the Divine Source to cause you to remember your LORD, to cause you to remember Him, to cause you to remember the things of Eternal Reality, to cause you to remember who you are? “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” He was before the beginning of the creation of this world.

There are a lot of things to be brought to remembrance

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” What beginning—just the beginning of His Ministry three years before? It might go back further than that.

We read His Words, bringing them to remembrance, that the Spirit of His Word may burn in our hearts as He walks in the Way with us. What was it that the disciples said? “Did not our hearts burn within us when He walked in the Way with us?” Do you think that is limited to a half-hour’s journey with two or three disciples nearly two thousand years ago? When He walks in the Way with us, because we let Him here and now, His Words burn within us. Our hearts burn within us. It is the Fire of His Love which we feel and know, and if it were not for the Water of Truth in this world, present in you, the Fire of His Love would consume you.

The Fire of His Love is to cleanse and purify the world. The world is reserved unto judgment by Fire. What Fire? The Fire of the Christ Love, and only those who have the Water of Truth will be able to withstand that Fire. All others will be burned up, according to the Word. Then He says, “These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.” He never wants us to be offended. He says, “But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.”

When He, as Jesus, ascended to His Father, He made it possible for you and you and you and you to become a part of His Body on earth, but you could not be a part of His Body on earth as long as His personal body—in the sense that He was here as Jesus—as long as His personal body was on earth, could you? He could not have two bodies on earth, so it was expedient that He as Jesus should ascend, that all of us as One Body might share and know that which He knew. “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” He departed—therefore, we have the assurance of fulfillment through His Promise.

“And when he (the Spirit of Truth) is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.” Three things—and those are the things about which I talk to you tonight. “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they believe not on me.” That is, they believe not on Jesus Christ. As we have considered the expression of the Spirit of Truth in the earth, we find that the world has been reproved of sin, and we find that the Way is clear whereby believing on Him is not just saying with the lips, “Yes, I believe on Jesus Christ.” Believing on Him is loving Him, keeping His commandments and letting His Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

So many who claim to believe on Him, do not do so. What was the standard of belief that He Himself set? He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.” Those who claim belief on Him and do not do His works do not truly believe, because He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

He knew that the greater works would have to await the manifestation of His Body on earth through those who were responding, and those who would respond, and let themselves be directed and taught all things, and have all things brought to their remembrance—and so we see that belief on Him is more than lip service. We find the world reproved of righteousness. Why? “… because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more.” What does it mean to have the world reproved of righteousness? “… because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more.” Would any of you say that your understanding of that tonight is crystal clear? First, the world is reproved of sin and then of righteousness. Why?

Because He goes to His Father. He was ascending unto His Father. Under the influence of the Spirit, His Body was to continue on earth, not as one human being, but as many members in One Body—belief on Him was to draw together from every nation, kindred and tongue on the face of the whole earth the members of His Body, that in true belief on Him they might live for Him, and then His Body would continue on earth in the expression of the Spirit, in the manifestation of the Christ, and through that continued expression, under the direction of the Spirit, the world would continue to be reproved of sin and of righteousness. Now, the reason is clearer. He says, “…because I go unto my Father.” The reason is clearer, because His Body should continue to manifest—the many Branches of the One Vine.

But what does it mean to reprove the world of righteousness? What is reproof? Reproof is essentially a process of redirection. There has been a lack of righteousness; there has been a lot of so-called righteousness; there has been a lot of being content with about one-tenth of one per cent of the righteousness that ought to be. I am pointing out that the righteousness that is made manifest in the world—I do not care how earnest and sincere they think they are—is so far from the righteousness which ought to be. Jesus Christ established the righteousness of the actual doing of the Father's Will on earth, the actual expression of the Kingdom on earth here and now.

“Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.” In our consideration of Truth, under the inspiration of the Spirit, have you found these three specifications fulfilled? Jesus outlined three specifications. He gave certain specifications that we have already considered, that is: that the Spirit would teach you all things, lead you into all Truth, bring to remembrance whatsoever He had said. But here are three other specifications to be fulfilled of the Spirit, if the Spirit is the expression of which He spoke, namely: to reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. “Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.”

Have these specifications been fulfilled through my Ministry in your own experience? Would you say, “Yes”? Have you found that it is so? Since that is so, and all of these points have been considered and dealt with in various ways throughout our consideration of Truth, under the inspiration of the Spirit, it follows, therefore, by the Master's own Word, that that which is required of you from this point onward is not dependent on blind faith or blind following. It is a matter concerning which—by the standard the Master Himself set in His Proclamation—He Himself gave proof that you are on the right path, that you are moving in the right direction, under the right inspiration. Therefore, the outer mind in its wanderings and questioning has not much ground to stand on. You know that continued Love Response to Him, so that you love the LORD with all that you are in body, in mind and Spirit, and in the emotional realm, that is, in the heart, allows the expression of His Love through you to surely bring you to your place of adoption into the One Christ Body on earth.

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.”

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