I have had a story in my mind and heart for many months. It is the time to share it. This is a story in stone. There is established in the earth, and has been for many millennia, a symbol in stone. This symbol, as I am sure you have guessed by now, is the Great Pyramid, and that Great Pyramid has a name. It is spelled G-i-z-e-h, but it is pronounced “jee-za,” and it is a symbol of the LORD of Lords. Being a symbol of the Lord, it is also a symbol of His body.
I have no intention of analyzing the Pyramid—looking at the internal measurements and seeing all the related prophecies. But there are some measurements which I have found interesting of the outside of the Pyramid, brought to focus in recent years by John Michell, an English author. The measurements are not at all important. This is a story. It is a symbol and we can see a message.
Obviously this structure was built by MAN—men, who were aware of the Laws of Being. We don’t know the purposes really, but one of them certainly was to convey a message. It would have been established after the fall of man but before the great cataclysm (plural perhaps), which brought about a drastic change in mankind, so that he lost awareness of very much of that with which he was created. The Pyramid was established as a symbol of Divine Man—but not only that. There was awareness in the erection of this edifice of much of the history that would follow. But it began as a symbol of divine man, and there is enough remaining evidence on earth, in records of various kinds, that this was a symbol of man as he was created to be. At the very apex, one point, infinitesimal perhaps, was the connecting point between heaven and earth.
Here, established in this particular part of the world, is an amazing message. The location itself carries a message. It was and is located in the center of Egypt, and measurements have indicated that this particular place is also at the center of the land area of the world. The Pyramid is located at the apex of an inverted triangle. It is a triangle except for the base line, which is an arc. That is what has been called Lower Egypt, even though it is at the northernmost part of Egypt. (The River Nile flows from south to north.) At the exact apex of this triangle is the Pyramid. This area has been called the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel developed.
In the beginning this monument was like a gem; it was a shining, radiant light. Pyramid means light. So we have a connection, a point of union between heaven and earth, where light entered the world. This was a specific physical thing that happened, but it was also a symbol of the entrance of light into this world through man, Divine being brought to focus in the LORD of Lords. There was an apex. Some speculate and say maybe there never was one. However in this symbolism it would indeed have been there, as a symbol of the wholeness of being. The Pyramid was covered with a limestone arris, a pure-white stone which, because of what was inside the Pyramid, a focus of power in fact, was itself luminous. With the sun’s rays it was indeed a living light. This was a picture of Divine Man. No one knows when the apex disappeared. We do know when its robe of radiance was removed, but we will come to that later.
I will mention some of the things which this author brings out in his book. In these measurements, which are not his alone but discerned in agreement with some others, they discovered that there was a very definite ratio as they moved to the different sections of the pyramid. They said there had to be three pyramids in one. The apex, at the top, which is the only true pyramid (the only one with a top), would not occupy that whole missing space that we see there but would have been a small pyramid at the very top. They figure that it had to be gold because the measurements then would fit all the way through. That apex of gold you could hold in your hand, five cubic inches in volume. The proportion then would be such that multiplying that small pyramid by fifty-six you would find a form that would fill in the rest of the apex; and you would then have that missing space filled in.
So we have a golden small pyramid and the rest filled in by multiplying that first one by fifty-six. Multiplying that gold apex by fifty-six twice, you get that huge body of the pyramid. It seems exponential, but the figures are accurate. He didn’t stop his measurements there. Multiplying the gold apex by fifty-six three times, you come to a very accurately measured plateau upon which the Pyramid sits, the Sphinx with it, and a few other pyramids that have been built, but nothing else on that plateau. The Pyramid itself sits on a rock. It seems to be a part of that rock: immovable, as it has proven. The whole plateau is solid rock. We go on and multiply that golden pyramid by fifty-six four times, and guess where we come—to the land of Goshen, perfectly measured, the place where the children of Israel originated as a people and grew into a mighty nation. This man just gave the measurements; I am drawing my own conclusion. But that is what is measured in that step. He didn’t stop there. He measured the golden pyramid, multiplied It by fifty-six, five times, and it comes out exactly to the earth’s circumference. I think this tells a story.
All of this made me think principally of one word: continuum. If there has been anything on earth it has been a persistence in the mind of man of failure, absolute failure. “What can we do? Look how everybody failed back there.” But I see in this a continuum of what was initiated from the very beginning. If we look at it this is quite a picture, this monument, first of divine man. But then if we see what happened to it, it is a picture of the body in the human state today. First the apex disappeared; and now it has come to this point, where nothing can be seen outwardly but a hulk. If you have ever seen the Pyramid today, it is a hulk and it is not pretty. I think it is an accurate picture of the body of mankind separating itself from that which is above—a separation. Here we have this land called the land of Goshen in the Bible, or the place where the children of Israel, the first evidence of a body of God on earth, found its manifest form. This was all foreseen in these outer measurements of the Pyramid. In this land there is this arc, which encompasses seven tributaries of the Nile; this is the delta of the Nile—a very beautiful symbol of something established in the earth according to divine design.
I did see the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and one has a feeling of something grand, but also there is a very profound feeling of sadness at the state of man today. The Pyramid has survived incredible cataclysmic occurrences. We have heard of the extent of these cataclysms. Very little survived, but this edifice has survived, not however without internal damage. It has been reported, and Velikovsky also referred to it, that there are enormous granite beams above the King’s Chamber which protect this very sacred place of the King’s Chamber. They have been wrenched and torn—but not broken: again a picture of man today. All that has happened has not eliminated the body which was established many years ago. It is in a fallen state, yes, but it is still here. I also went inside the Pyramid, which many have. In the King’s Chamber, unexpectedly there was a great feeling of power. Again, here we are with this same experience. Regardless of appearances the power is in the body, part of a continuum.
While this is not a review of the Story of Man, I will look at a few things with you. This monument appeared in the earth and survived many disasters. The first one who appeared to let the focus of a body of God come again on earth was Abraham. Enoch and Noah came before him, but they were the connecting link between what had been and what now is, and we must include Job in that. But considering history as we know it, Abraham was the pioneer. He came out of Babylon, just as surely as we have, and he was aware of a great promise. In the light of these measurements I will share a few words from the Bible.
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And the Lord said, “In blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore…” Here was a great promise that included the whole world. Abraham knew that promise. He was aware of it. He recognized it. His vision was not small. He was aware of the promise that this was the beginning (as a “seed,” he said) of something that would cover the face of the earth, and that is exactly what it was. I have always found it interesting that these great patriarchs, pioneers, always went down into Egypt. Abraham went down into Egypt and came back again after a few experiences. Isaac went down into Egypt and came out. Remember that there was much established there then which has long since disappeared. It was a place where much had been carried over from earlier times, in records and other ways. Next we come to Jacob.
Jacob had twelve sons, quite an achievement, especially with four wives! We can see through such stories a beautiful victory over human-nature patterns. That is what has allowed this story to continue. It was not some airy-fairy thing. There was victory every step of the way in what we might call little things. What else is there but little things? We wouldn’t go out and commit murder or rob a bank, but what about those little niggling things that obstruct the full flow of the spirit? That is where the victory was established every step of the way in these stories. If you look at the story of Joseph there is a key to what came later in the movement from twelve men to twelve tribes. There would have been nothing for Moses to work with in the way of a body if it hadn’t been for Joseph and his marvelous story. It wasn’t just: Get twelve sons and there you have it, and they reproduce and reproduce and you have Twelve Tribes: and that is the body. What was the quality of this? We found in the story of Joseph that, having been treated terribly, according to any human concept, by his brothers, he wound up in Egypt and functioned perfectly, until in season the only place to buy food was Egypt. Because of his presence the food was there. So his brothers came down into Egypt. If you remember the story, they did not know him but he knew them, and he made them prove themselves. He tested them within an inch of their lives to see whether they had changed. Otherwise there would have been no basis for the emergence of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. They proved that they had indeed changed. They would not sell their youngest brother as they had Joseph. They offered themselves instead of him if he was to be put in prison. The reason was that they could not hurt their father. So it was the love for the father that brought the love for each other—the two great commandments—and the proof that they had changed. There was a solid foundation, and Joseph was aware of all this.
Many years later the children of Israel developed substantially in that land, so that the Egyptians were afraid they would take over. Moses came into the picture and led this body of people with a strong hand—he brought the Law. We have the pattern of twelve all the way through—the twelve sons, then the twelve tribes. In the story you will find Jacob's blessing of the twelve sons just before he left—a very beautiful expression of identification with the All-That-Is—we might say a cosmic representation of the Twelve. Later on, at the time of the Twelve Tribes, when Moses was leaving he blessed them—a very beautiful expression again, emphasizing the connection between the twelve with the cosmos.
Incidentally we have had the blessing in our time of our twelve units before our beloved's departure. So we have a continuum, a very wonderful continuum. Primary in my consciousness is that this is a continuum of victory and not of failure. We think of the children of Israel: they failed. We think of the disciples at the time of Jesus: they failed. But it wasn't the end. I was thinking of the failure of the First Sacred School at the time of Solomon, and many with him. After him Elijah, a great prophet, let the movement of spirit continue. He came out of the tribes of Israel. Here was something allowing a continuation of victory. And it wasn't just Elijah; there were many who were with the Lord. He thought he was the only one and the Lord said, “Who do you think you are?” He said there were at least seven thousand right there!
Anyway, this multiplication table that we have been looking at takes us through that measurement of the land of Goshen, around the world. In the unfolding process of history we have the coming of the Master and all that He brought, and the magnificent opportunity for mankind then. There was failure then, but some thing carried through. John, His most beloved disciple, on the Isle of Patmos, knowing full well that the end would be execution, dwelt in an ecstatic state where the reality was revealed to him. Here was a wonderful continuing. Before all that, there were other prophets: Isaiah, Daniel—mighty ones. Daniel was the one who prepared something in what was called Babylon for the coming of the Master, because it was from that land that a small remnant returned to Palestine, and that is where the Master was born. And so Jesus brought the mighty truths again. In His personal victory He made it possible for the body to continue.
That shining coat on the Pyramid had continued intact for those thousands of years. The building of that pyramid probably goes back at least twenty thousand years. Certainly it was not built in the time of history as we know it. Poor man can’t figure out how in the world it happened! It was not until some centuries after Jesus, seven or eight hundred, that the radiant robe, or covering, was removed. It was there all those years and it was removed after what man did to Him. We can remember that, at the cross, His robe was removed from Him.
Perhaps there is a sensing that after that the state of mankind experienced a great step downward. Here he was, not only separated from the apex in outward form, but the robe of radiance gone; it was stolen. There was an Arab named Al Mamoun who in 800 A.D. came with his gang to force an entrance into the Pyramid because they were sure it was full of treasures; it had to be; and nobody had gotten into it. They forced an entrance, which was a great feat, and it took them a long time. They had an idea, from some old records, of where the door should be. It was on the north side and they were close to it, but they didn’t quite make it. No one knows how that door opens. There is a way. But the opening they forced—which was by sheer force, a cruel destruction of the wall—was below the door.
Our Master had something to say on that score: “He that entereth not by the door ... but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.’’ They found nothing inside to take, but they took the covering from the Pyramid. It took generations to do it. It was very thick blocks of this beautiful white covering; I don’t know how wide—five feet perhaps. It took them a long time to do it, but over in that part of the world you will see white mosques; this is the material which built them. It lost its radiance. The positioning of the Pyramid, with the sun's light and all the rest that went into it, made it a living light and fire. Those mosques are white, but the Master also said something about whited sepulchres which within are full of dead men’s bones. All these things to me are very symbolic of what has happened. Man has stolen, and he thinks he can steal, the substance of God and make his own religions and his own temples. But within them there is nothing. So the Pyramid has been in its present state to this day. Much has happened in the world and there has been quick movement in what has seemed like great progress, and especially in this less than one century when everything exploded, not only people but everything: the industrial revolution and all the subsequent inventions, the car, the airplane, radio, TV, computers, everything.
“But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep… Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep… And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and there shall be one fold…” Again, a beautiful vision. Not, “this is the end.” No matter how it looked, there was the absolute conviction that this voice was something to fill the earth, to cover the face of the earth. Indicated in all of this to me is the fact that this is a body we are talking about, and a body is a whole entity. It must be whole, one thing.
A year or two ago I watched, on a TV program, an actual operation on a physical body, and it was traumatic to me to see the inside. It was sheer sacrilege. But the interesting thing was not only seeing the inside parts of a body; it was the fact that everything in there was moving, not just the invisible movement of cells, but everything was moving, pumping and doing all kinds of things. That impression has never left me. All of you are just sitting there, covered over with skin, and I can’t see anything moving inside of you! It is one whole. And I am sure that from out in space this earth is one beautiful entity. The motion was impressive to me. Recently in a gathering on attunements, I thought how simple healing is when it isn’t seen as a fixed thing. Everything is motion, and yet there is a tendency to fix everything. “This is a condition for ever and ever, or maybe just for an hour.” It is that fixation, that stopping of the motion, that doesn’t allow the healing. If we are giving an attunement to motion it seems like a very simple thing.
Something else impressed me with John Michell’s measurements. I am very grateful to him for these thoughts on the measurements of the golden pyramid, then the next step and the next one, and the plateau, and the land of Goshan, and all around the world, because this points to something that has already happened in reality—a body of people, oriented in spirit, which covers the face of the earth. But it began to occur to me, Why stop there? I wonder what the next measurement would be? Now this is safe to say because nobody can measure it— oh, probably some scientists think they could. But what would the next step be, multiplying the circumference of the earth by fifty-six, six times? That would be the seventh entity. Where would it take us, do you suppose? To the sun?
How about what Job said? “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth?” “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” Can you do this? Can the earth actually be in operation with these constellations? “Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?” “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” Well, I know the measurement doesn't stop with the earth. That would make this a very self-centered entity, just like the individuals who live on it have been.
Where do we go from here? The wonderful thing is that we do take the next step; that is the whole point of this substance which surrounds the world, which is gold. We have noted before that we have the twelve represented today as surely as it was there in the land of Goshen or in the disciples with the Master. Here we have the collective twelve—groups of people, each with a single focus. There always has to be a focus or there is no body. We have a collection of bodies, and it certainly doesn’t end there. What multiples of twelve do you suppose there are? One hundred and forty-four thousand is a multiple of twelve. There is no stopping to this creative process. It doesn't come to the state of the world restored, and stop. This point is when the earth may find its real purpose, because mankind would then be in place in relation to all that is, to the cosmos.
There is a reference in the story of Jesus to laying down one’s life for one's friends. This has been interpreted as dying, but to lay down one’s life is to live in the body of a whole without regard to oneself. It is seeing what needs to be done on earth today in the situations which we may think are inevitable, that can't change. To say they cannot change is a lie. We must do these things without regard to “me,” even in self-pity or guilt. It doesn’t matter who did what. It doesn't matter where it is. We lay down our lives in living for our friends, for this whole body. We are here to live and it would matter to me if I didn't do that; and you would all agree—that it must be done.
As Martin put it, the pollution in the heaven must be dissolved. The old heaven and the old earth are passing away, and that is how it is done. The positive thing that allows it to happen is love. That’s all. God is love. It is that positive force which is still in the body of humanity. It cannot be defeated. We can talk about failure all the way through, but there is a continuum of victory that says: Oh yes it can be done; it is being done. That is not a theory; we know it. This is what we came for. It is what Abraham came for and all the rest of them came for. The victory is much more real, surely, than any failure. There is a tendency to put the emphasis on failure, past or present, and maybe even in the future, but that is saying that the devil is stronger than the Lord, that you can defeat the power of God. It is not possible.
Another thing that has been in my consciousness is time. It was said there would be time no more. Does that mean that everything will be blown up or something? I think it has to do with the concept of time, at least for me. Again it refers to the separation which marked everything man did in his fall of consciousness. We separate past, present and future. I was meditating on the present moment. What is it? Everything I just said is in the past. Where is the present moment? It is all one continuum. In the Book of Revelation, which speaks of this time now, there is a key, a motto, you might say, throughout: that “which is, and which was, and which is to come”—in other words it is all one.
The relation between this planet and the other planets has been subject to much disturbance in the design. We have noted that at the time of Moses there was a great cosmic occurrence which involved this planet and it looked like the absolute end of everything. There was a comet involved which became a new planet, Venus. Venus means “new,” by the way. It is a young planet. That was a constructive outcome but I would say only because there was a focus on this planet to allow something constructive to occur. Moses was in place and a body of people was there with him to whatever extent. We can disregard appearances. Sometimes it can look like hell but we know the victory absolutely as long as there is a truer, absolute body in place functioning according to the one law of love. With that in place it is a part of all there is, and there is nothing that can defeat that.
So in fulfillment of what we might call the prophecy of these external measurements, we come to the place where this beautiful planet is seen as complete, whole—golden, we might say, as was the original apex of the Pyramid, the whole thing golden. We have recognized that the circle around the earth now is of the golden substance of love. So a filling-in can take place until this whole planet fulfils the prophecy of this text in Revelation: “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed With the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.” I used to think that was a very good description of the earth, with the sun up there shining and clothing the earth. But it is only half clothed: part of it is in night! However, clothing is, in that sense, what we are; it goes where we go. The earth is being clothed with the sun. It is sun substance. In this sense the earth is a sun. “And the moon under her feet”—no use for that reflected light anymore. “And upon her head a crown of twelve stars”: here we have a conscious awareness Of Mazzaroth, a conscious awareness of the interrelatedness of the earth with the entire cosmos. That is what mankind is here for He is not limited to fixing up the earth, but once he is restored to his proper place and the Lord can work through him the purpose of the earth can again come into consciousness.
One is reminded vividly of those words in Job; “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” Morning is a beginning time. Here was a beginning creation of heavenly bodies. And now there may be the restoration of that—all the harm that has been done in the solar system—through man. What a mighty place we rightly have in the scheme of things. It has been said that the earth is the tabernacle of God.
There are a few words in Revelation I would read to close: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…” That is what it is all about, literally a new heaven appearing because of a new earth. We always put it the other way around and that is all right too. But it works together, doesn't it? “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city … descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal”—a description of this beautiful connection again on earth, here on earth with heaven, the light of heaven shining clearly into the earth. “And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.”
John brought it all together again. Here he is talking about the culmination—described in Revelation, which, as Uranda said, was the blueprint for today, for this in which we are engaged. John says, here are twelve angels at the twelve gates, but they also have the names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. It doesn't sound like failure; it sounds like something carried through. Then a little farther: “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” So we have got it all together. I wished to share with you the story that has been with me a great deal, the story in stone. It is what we are all about today.
Emissary Servers Council Sunrise Ranch Loveland, Colorado
Greetings and welcome, everybody. Good to be here together this morning, in the room and online, good to see friends old and new.
We've had a remarkable week here in the Servers Council, following up on Trustee Sessions the week before. It was glorious in the room here, what we got up to and with people online, and I'm happy to report that people online had a very engaged experience. And Sece was our head of online engagement. Thank you, Sece, for helping to make that happen. Thanks to everyone who participated, contributed to what occurred, which is culminating in this hour, and then in the service expansion period at 1:15 here.
I’d like to continue with a theme that we were on in the Council that I was speaking to yesterday afternoon. I'd like to see where we can take it together. To me, it is provocative. As I first began to think of this in this way somewhere in the last week, it struck me as highly provocative for myself. I don't know how it will strike you, but we'll give it a go here, and see where it goes.
So, I want to start with this. The indigenous peoples of the world look at postmodern humanity and they see a sickness of the heart. And you can look it up, you can research it. It's prolific, meaning throughout many indigenous peoples around the globe, this is how they see it. And of course, it concerns them. There are the Kogi people in Colombia, some of whom came here several years ago. They live high up in the peaks of the mountains, peaks that go to 18,000 feet. And they've been isolated from the rest of the world until recently. And then recently they came down out of the mountains to express their concern and bring their teaching to the world. And on their world tour they came here. They see themselves as the elder brothers, and postmodern humanity as the younger brother, and they came down the mountain to address the sickness in the heart of the younger brother. So that story has proliferated around the world.
Oftentimes, the sickness of the heart is associated with humanity's relationship with the Great Mother, however expressed. The Great Mother and the Earth that is the embodiment at one level of the Great Mother. So, there's a concern expressed about something out of integrity, something off in the relationship with the Great Mother. And that relates to something off in the heart.
There's the story of what goes wrong for us as human beings that's at the very beginning of our Bible. When you think about it, would you say that that story was written by indigenous peoples, a First Nations people? We don't look at it quite that way now. Now it's some kind of icon of Christianity or Judaism. There was no Christianity when it was written. There was no Judaism when it was written. No, this is a First Nations people, whatever that might mean. As I think about this story, actually, I thought about it this way for some time. It is the story of what goes wrong for us as human beings, and especially what goes wrong in the heart and the consequences of that.
So, I don't intend to read the whole story. But it is, as we know, the story of Adam and Eve. It's hard to know exactly what the author had in mind when they wrote it. Undoubtedly, there were circumstances that they were seeing, yes, when they spoke about what they did. And there was the symbology of the story that related to those circumstances, not all of which we can really know. But here's what we can do. We can intuit for ourselves the significance of this story, the potential significance, in terms of our own life experience and what's happening for us. So, I'm inviting you to see it a certain way, to try it on, and see if it illuminates something for you. I'd like that to be the test here, not whether it's accurate to a past that we don't really know for sure anyway.
What I want to suggest to you is that in the story, Eve is the human heart. She is the human heart. And Adam is a representation of the human mind. It's a story of what happens between heart and mind, and not only between themselves, but in relationship to the highest order of identity.
Portrayed in the story is the Lord God, the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. So, what happened? The idea came to Eve that there could be wisdom and it would be good for her to gain the wisdom, as it was put, of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What would be good and what would be bad? We might imagine, what would be good for her? Instead of allowing that tree to be in the hands of the Lord God, in the hands of the Creator, so that the unfoldment of creation happened according to its own times and seasons, its own direction and purpose and pattern, that she could eat of that tree, meaning that she could change the cycles of unfoldment of creation around her in a way that would be good for her.
And the story is of a collusion, the collusion between heart and mind. And the heart says, “Hey, mind, I got a great idea here. Will you collude with me in this great idea to make things better and to make me happy, the heart happy? I would be happy if you, the mind, helped me arrange the pattern of life around that would be pleasing to me.” In a way, a logical thing to do, right? Why not? Yet we know how the story goes. The way the story goes is that in doing that, in that act of collusion, what was cut out of the picture was the Creator, the presence of the Creator, the wisdom of the Creator, the wisdom of life itself, the wisdom of how to create, the wisdom that allows human beings and the planet and all life to prosper got cut out of the picture.
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There's something so remarkable in this story, I'll say remarkable to me—you can see what it is for you—that only just became glaringly evident to me in the last little while. And it is that the story is a story of the volition of the heart. Volition, not a word we use that often. Volition has to do with will. And in the origin of the word is also the word wish, the wish, the will, and I believe in there also is choice. And so, the story is a story of the volition of the heart, of the choice of the heart, what the heart chose to do. And the mind went along and then blamed it on the heart. That's in the story, too. So why is that significant? Why is it significant to recognize that the heart makes a choice? It is for this reason: that if the heart could make one choice, it could make a different choice.
I think I tended to see choice as a matter of the mind, like a mental choice. That's easy to think about. But consider this. I invite you to ponder deeply that your heart has a choice to make, and that the choice of the heart establishes the basis for everything else that goes on. If the heart makes the choice that Eve made in the story, the mind is helpless. That's a strong word, yes? Helpless. The best the mind can do is stay steady. Stay steady and stay centered. But without the heart, the mind can't create. It can think. It can use its rational faculties but it is unable to create in alignment with, in attunement with the Lord God, because the means for the connection with the Lord God is through the heart.
The best, as I say, the mind can do in that case is to stay steady, undeviating, and the mind can also be, you might say, a coach for the heart. Isn't that true? Whether it's between us or have a little conversation with your own heart. Do you ever do that? Give yourself a little talking to, give your own heart a little talking to, and say, “Hey, it's gonna be okay. Hey, you could recenter here, you could open here.” And still, at the end of the day, it is the volition of the heart that allows all the rest of what is meant to happen for us as human beings to happen.
When the heart opens to the presence of the Lord God, to the presence of the Divine, there's all kinds of connection between heart and mind. Realms of the subconscious mind begin to open up and be available to the conscious mind. That happens within an individual. If the heart is frozen do you think very well? If the heart is frozen in fear we don't think very well. The subconscious mind is not ready to play its part to offer up what it should offer up. It's impossible to be intelligent on that basis, truly intelligent. And so, we have postmodern man. Tremendous intelligence at one level of things to build an atomic bomb, but incredibly, incredibly ignorant, incredibly ignorant. Only someone who has a sickness of the heart could do such a thing.
So, as I began to think about these matters and how all this goes, there is something incredibly sad in the story, and something incredibly sad in where we've come to as humanity. But there's also something happy portrayed in the story. And it is the simplicity of the path back to wholeness, to the healing of the psychic break, as we've spoken about it. The psychic break between the human psyche, between our humanity, and the higher reality of who we are, the simplicity of that healing. You might say, in its outworking, there's complexity to it. But at the root of it, at the beginning of it, is the volition of the heart, is a heart choice. And if our heart has made one choice, it could make a different choice. And when it makes that different choice, everything is set up for success in the human experience.
And the choice is so simple. It doesn't depend on anything other than finding the source of love, the source of identity and presence within yourself, within being, to find that and to turn to it with all your heart and love with all your heart and open with all your heart. That’s all. And then in that turning and in that opening to receive, to receive the river into the heart. And doing that, yes, there's something to think, there's something to do. I'm not saying that's the end of it, and I'm not saying we should be mindless people. I'm just saying that the road back to wholeness as a human being and as a human race begins with an act of the heart.
And so here this morning, we're speaking to the body of humanity and bringing this change of heart to the fore and calling attention to the opportunity for that simple act of turning the heart and opening the heart and letting in the spirit. And then the simple act of doing the most natural thing in the world when love comes in, which is you love back. And when you let love in and love back, then there's a generation of love in the human capacity that begins to burgeon and affect everything in the human psyche and then begins to flow out into your world, our world.
I want to cite a second story here in the Bible, in Genesis. There are a number of stories, as I've pointed to recently, of what goes wrong for us as human beings, just as there are in all cultures, yes? Maybe the most familiar might be the story of Pandora. Pandora's box, the role that curiosity plays, as it's put. Anyway, you go around to peoples around the world; they have what we think of as mythological stories or symbolic stories of what goes wrong for us as human beings. There are four or five of those right at the beginning of Genesis. And one of them is the story of the Tower of Babel. I've come to view it as a humorous story. It has a lot of humor in it to me when you get the symbology of it, and maybe I'll just read it here:
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.” [Genesis 11:1-3]
What could be the significance of that? They had brick for stone and slime for mortar. So, what is slime? It's generally thought that slime is pitch. So, some kind of petroleum product. Can you imagine building a tower to heaven with gooey petroleum pitch in between the stones? Like that's destined for failure right there. And they didn't have stone. They didn't have like the real thing, which is they would want to build it out of, which is stone. They had this humanly manufactured thing, bricks. They had bricks and slime, right? It's a story of not building out of reality.
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name…” Let us make us a name. Any ego in there? “…lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” So, you have a human effort to make something of ourselves and make something of even oneness. And so, the remainder of this story goes back to a superstitious view of the world that was so prevalent back then and even now. And in the superstitious view of the world, the gods are doing everything. There are supernatural powers that are at work. And if we screw up, we blame it on them, right? They're taking it out on us. So, it's portrayed exactly this way in this story. And I say that just because you have to understand that element of the storytelling and kind of filter it out, because it is this superstitious lens through which the author of the story, forgive me, was influenced. So, as it said:
“And the Lord came down to see the city and tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.” [Genesis 11:5-8]
So, it is a story of misunderstanding among people, and division
There's a man who is a friend of some of ours, Etzion Becker, who writes about Genesis. He lives in Israel and speaks Hebrew fluently. And he says of the Hebrew language that it can't be translated. He says that the Hebrew Bible can't be translated because for people who truly understand Hebrew in the deepest sense, it is speaking to them at many levels—at many levels, and those levels aren't translated by a mental translation of the words. There is vibration.
There are pictures in the written language, all of which are conveying something of a spiritual nature. The little I know of the Hawaiian language is that there are vowels and an articulation of vowels that are conveying a meaning that is past the intellectual meaning that could be translated. Uranda said of the Motherland tongue, something similar, that it spoke in a different way. It conveyed meaning in a different way. The vowel sounds were far more important than the consonants were. And through those vowel sounds, the essences of spirit were conveyed.
Does it strike you that these things are related to a matter of the heart? That true communication among people involves the heart and the heart's ability to express essences of the Creator and essences of creation, to communicate at that level. So, what happens if the heart has made a choice not to open to the Creator, not to be a vessel for the processes of creation, for the expression of Spirit?
One individual makes that choice, another individual makes that choice, and then the basis for communication is undone, the basis to be speaking one language. And you could get all of the intellectual components of what is said and shared right, and there will not be oneness, and there will not be communication. Because without a communication of the heart, which brings the communication subconscious to subconscious, there's a Tower of Babel. And as it said, you can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again that way. That's not how it happens. It happens because there's something that's happened in the heart. And when that happens in the heart, there's something that happens in the mind, conscious and subconscious. There's a communication that’s possible, subconscious to subconscious, heart to heart, and then the mind can be brilliant.
One of the things that's portrayed in the story of the Tower of Babel is a quality of human bravado. Did you hear the bravado in it? “Let us make a name for ourselves.” And it was in Adam and Eve. This will be good. This will work well. We'll be happy. In the story that I know of, the history of humankind, it went like that, meaning that there was something that went off in consciousness. There was this psychic break that happened. And then there was bravado. “This is going great.” And for probably centuries, that bravado continued. The bravado continued. We'll build this. We'll build that. We think of Atlantis as being a place where there were all kinds of inventions, all kinds of technology. Bravado. We've eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We're doing this on our own. We got it going.
And then there was a looking to people who had not broken their allegiance, their alignment, their entrainment with the Most High. And we can only imagine that when those people were looked at, it's like, “You poor slobs. You have no idea what you're doing. You're so ineffective. You're not doing all this brilliant stuff that we've got going.” I think it had to go something like this. I can't claim to know. You look at the Kogi people. Who are they? Funny little men climbing down out of the mountains. But they know something. And the thing that they know is the thing that all people should know. I'm not claiming anything spectacular for them because I don't really know them that well. But that's the principle of it.
I do believe we've, as Western civilization—in fact, the whole world—totally underestimated this matter of the heart. It gets so overlooked. I can say not entirely, but in both East and West, there's a tendency to intellectualism. There are different brands of it, but a failure to recognize the matter of the heart that is so pivotal underneath it all.
I looked it up again last night, and in our King James version of the Bible, how many times over would you say the word “heart” is used relative to the word “mind”? Any ideas? Five times over. You know, we don't think of it that way. The Bible is often thought of as a moralistic book, a book of dogma and doctrine and so on. But within it is a teaching of the heart. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.” Not just of the heart, but a teaching of the heart is there. What do you think the Psalms are about and many other teachings? What was Jesus teaching? He was teaching something of the heart, you might say, in a spiritual context with vast spiritual consequences. And yet, what he was teaching was something that so challenged the human heart to do something different “as we're forgiven, we forgive those who trespass against us.” That's a radical teaching of the heart, and so it goes. I could cite many more.
In the Hindi tradition, the heart center here is Anahata Chakra. Here it is, halfway up and halfway down the stairs, with three centers above and three below. There is something here that is so vital, that is embodied right in our physicality—right in our physicality. And as there's a softening here, the higher centers within the human experience can descend and move into the lower centers, and what's from below can rise up. But it requires, then, that openness of heart. And yes, there are those two directions. There is our openness upward, we say, the openness of the heart to the source of Love above in the presence of the Lord, not as something separate from who we are. And then there's the descent down through the heart into the world so that we take heart-filled action in the world, not just mentally-based action, but heart-based action. We call that courage, “Coeur”—the heart. Courage. That's the Spirit of God in action that moves through the heart, not just the heart, but moves through the heart so that there's heart-filled action, there's courageous action in the world, and we need that courageous action.
Maybe like you, I've got nothing better to do than allow my heart to be centered in the One I love, the reality that I love, and then follow the path that is given to me, given to us, out of that reality, and just be with that, be with the Way of the River. And then as Robert Frost said it in his poem, “You go too. You go too.” We invite our friends to go with us. Let's do this. Thank you all.
Here, clothed in the radiance of this Awesome Power
We stand.
Not timid or faint hearted
But strong and assured
Knowing full well that whatever is asked of us
we are capable of actualizing
And as the peace of evening
blazes forth in fiery glory
We come again with yielded hearts
And offer our worlds to Thee, our Holy King.
poem by Millicent Holliday
Millicent Holliday — I have chosen to share excerpts from a presentation given by Grace Van Duzen on November 13, 1988 [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/search?q=a+story+in+stone] entitled A Story in Stone. Grace and Lillian to me personified divine womanhood. Their agreement, not only with Uranda and Martin, but with one another as well, has provides much (I am certain) of the firm foundation upon which we now stand. Here are some of Grace’s words:
“I have had a story in my mind and heart for many months. This is a story in stone. There is established in the earth, and has been for many millennia, a symbol in stone. This symbol, as I am sure you have guessed by now, is the Great Pyramid, and that Great Pyramid has a name. It is spelled G-i-z-e-h, but it is pronounced “jee-za,” and it is a symbol of the LORDofLords. Being a symbol of the Lord, it is also a symbol of His body. In the beginning this monument was like a gem; it was a shining, radiant light. Pyramid means light. So, we have a connection, a point of union between heaven and earth, where light entered the world. This was a specific physical thing that happened, but it was also a symbol of the entrance of light into this world through man, Divine being brought to focus in the LORD of Lords.
“If there has been anything on earth, it has been a persistence in the mind of man, of failure, absolute failure. “What can we do? Look how everybody failed back there.” But I see in this a continuum of what was initiated from the very beginning. If we look at it, this is quite a picture, this monument, first of divine man. But then if we see what happened to it, it is a picture of the body in the human state today. First the apex disappeared; and now it has come to the point, where nothing can be seen outwardly but a hulk. If you have ever seen the Pyramid today, it is a hulk, and it is not pretty. I think it is an accurate picture of the body of mankind separating itself from that which is above. Regardless of appearances however the power is still in the body, part of a continuum.
“The first one who appeared to let the focus of a body of God come again on earth was Abraham, he was the pioneer. He came out of Babylon, just as surely as we have, and he was aware of a great promise. Next, we come to Jacob, he had twelve sons. We can see through such stories a beautiful victory over human-nature patterns. That is what has allowed this story to continue. It was not some airy-fairy thing. There was victory every step of the way in what we might call little things. What else is there but little things? We wouldn’t go out and commit murder or rob a bank, but what about those little niggling things that obstruct the full flow of the spirit? That is where the victory was established every step of the way in these stories. If you look at the story of Joseph, there is a key to what came later in the movement from twelve men to twelve tribes. There would have been nothing for Moses to work with in the way of a body if it hadn’t been for Joseph and his marvelous story. It wasn’t just: Get twelve sons and there you have it, and they reproduce and reproduce, and you have Twelve Tribes: and that is the body. What was the quality of this body? We found in the story of Joseph that, having been treated terribly, according to any human concept, by his brothers, he wound up in Egypt and functioned perfectly, until in season the only place to buy food was Egypt. Because of his presence the food was there. So, his brothers came down into Egypt. If you remember the story, they did not know him, but he knew them, and he made them prove themselves. He tested them within an inch of their lives to see whether they had changed. Otherwise, there would have been no basis for the emergence of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. They proved that they had indeed changed. They would not sell their youngest brother as they had Joseph. They offered themselves instead of him, if he was to be put in prison. The reason was that they could not hurt their father. So, it was the love for the father that brought the love for each other—the two great commandments—and the proof that they had changed. There was a solid foundation, and Joseph was aware of all this.
“In the unfolding process of history, we have the coming of the Master and all that He brought, and the magnificent opportunity for mankind then. Jesus brought the mighty truths again. In His personal victory He made it possible for the body to continue. There was failure then, but something carried through. John, His most beloved disciple, on the Isle of Patmos, knowing full well that the end would be execution, dwelt in an ecstatic state where the reality was revealed to him. Here again was a wonderful continuing.
“To say that things cannot change is a lie. It doesn’t matter who did what. We lay down our lives in living for our friends, for this whole body. As Martin put it, the pollution in the heaven must be dissolved. The old heaven and the old earth are passing away. The positive thing that allows this to happen, is love. That’s all. God is love. It is that positive force which is still in the body of humanity. It cannot be defeated. We can talk about failure all the way through, but there is a continuum of victory that says: Oh yes it can be done; it is being done. The victory is much more real, surely, than any failure. There is a tendency to put the emphasis on failure, past or present, and maybe even in the future, but that is saying that the devil is stronger than the Lord, that you can defeat the power of God. It is not possible!”
Millicent Holliday — What I specifically love about these beautiful words of Grace’s, is her emphasis on “the continuum”. On the fact that there actually is a far greater precedent of success than there is of failure. It is so easy to delude ourselves that this is not the case. Incarnate man without the awareness of Angelic Identity has such limited vision.
Something I feel that is relevant relative to the larger picture is the fact that mankind lived in the divine state prior to the fall of man for 155,000 years.One hundred and fifty-five thousand years! The fall of man occurred roughly 20,000 years ago. ONLY 20,000 years ago, not even one creative day. Uranda in his timeline outlined that one Creative day was 25,872 years. That means that timewise, we have not even been in this fallen condition for a whole creative day. We fell between the twelfth and thirteenth days. It’s the 13th day now, which I believe is … lucky for some! Hopefully for the body of mankind.
The Lord (prior to the fall of man) when he came walking in the garden in the cool of the day, instructed man that, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” He did not say in the days, plural, he said in the day, singular. To me this emphasizes that there would be a finite time, the fall would not be a continuous state, something that would be allowed to go on indefinitely. We are still in that day, time wise, we still have time to stop eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in our momentary living, in “the little things”. And as we each do this and establish patterns of victory personally day by day, then we do it collectively, and we establish a vibrational ark, and this is how the “Greater Works” are done, and the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of Jehovah, His Body, restored.
Bill Bahan — Thank you Milly. It’s good to know the spirit of victory. We can certainly appreciate the great spiritual leaders throughout the Story of Man who fulfilled their commission and we know that it requires a collective body to do what needs to be done now. I’d like to share an excerpt with you from a service given by Martin in August 1987 that was titled The Vibrational Ark. I’m sure we’ll find that these words are as true today [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/09/from-martin-exeter-16-1987-individually.html] as when they were spoken by Martin 35 years ago. And here are Martin’s words:
“There is a vibrational form, if you can put it that way, a body, to be generated.In order for it to be, it must have the vibrational substance to be, and that vibrational substance can only be generated through the flesh bodies of human beings. Human beings are useful in that regard. They are not useful in all the things they think they are useful about, but in the generation of this substance.There is an ark, a vibrational ark, taking form, generated because there are those who have been drawn together by spirit to participate in the process. The process involves changes occurring in one's own human nature, and as those changes occur vibrational substance is generated. And that vibrational substance accommodates the design in spirit.
“Something begins to be drawn together. It may seem to be a slow, tedious process; I know over the years I have thought that from time to time. But it is the only way to go; nothing else works. So stay with it! Be consistent, not just for a week: "Well I'll see if it works"—it won't on that basis—but because one couldn't do anything else. One holds that consistency over the years, for however long is necessary. And, behold, there is substance present in some human beings which begins to resonate with that radiation. The substance begins to come home. The substance comes home wherever the person is. He doesn't really have to move.
“Ultimately we discover that one can't stay away—and, again, I am not talking necessarily about physical location, but stay away from the focus of spirit on earth through which that radiation comes. Then we find a relatedness to that, which is natural to each one. But it only happens because there is this substance already present to start with, and because there is subsequent increase of the generation. And that is the building of the ark. That is where we live and move and have our being, and we are no longer so concerned about external form. That's what most people fuss about, isn't it? “I don't get along with so-and-so.” Why? “Because they rub me the wrong way”—the external form of things. But you come back to spirit, and the substance that is resonating, and we discover that we all fit together. We are not all the same but we all fit together. There is a design. There is an ark, in other words. There is an ark created of this vibrational substance, which is where we belong.
“Do you think anything is going to be preserved in the realm of form as we know it now? If you're stuck in the realm of form you are stuck in something that is not going to be preserved. There is no safe place in the realm of form.People are beginning to see that this planet is shot. It is not going to be able to support human beings, in the way they are accustomed to, anymore. At least that point is in the offing, not very far away. One could compare that to the Flood, I suppose: no place of safety, except in the ark. Of course that's an analogy. But this is the reality now. This is the ark now which is being generated, or the substance for it is being generated, that the design of it may appear. We find ourselves in certain relationships because of that, because of the vibrational design, not because of physical form. If we cling to physical form we will find that we pass away. If we are at home in the vibrational ark, that does not pass away.
“We have discovered ourselves being drawn in various ways into various configurations of people who don't usually get along too well, to start with at least. But to the extent that they are not so hooked on form they begin to find that they do have a natural association, they do blend together, they are part of one thing, one thing which already exists, but which hasn't been known because there has been no vibrational substance to accommodate it.
“In generating that vibrational substance we begin to accommodate it, but if we keep reverting back into this business of reaction to what's happening in form, then out we go, we're overboard, we're no longer in the ark. The ark is a vibrational ark, composed of vibrational substance, and we find that it has a very specific design, just as apparently that old wooden ark had back there (at the time of Noah). So we share this opportunity in this moment to be together in the sanctuary which we ourselves bring, where this vibrational substance is present and spirit reigns supreme.”
Bill Bahan — That which Martin has described is exactly what we find occurring in our own experience now. We’ve all been drawn together by spirit to be the means by which the substance of the vibrational ark is generated and maintained.
In the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about what happened at the day of Pentecost and I see a service by Martin on The Great Cosmic Story website this past week [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-essential-core-of-unified-radiation.html] titled The Essential Core Of Unified Radiation, where he speaks about the day of Pentecost. It must have been a profound experience for those who were gathered in the Upper Room with the disciples after the Master’s ascension. The “Upper Room” is very symbolic isn’t it—indicating that there was a certain level of spiritual consciousness that was shared by those who were gathered. There was obviously a tremendous compulsion of spirit that brought them all together—about 120 people it says. I don’t think they had Zoom back then so they were all gathered in one physical location. It’s quite poetic the way it describes their experience in the Book of Acts. Let us consider these words in light of our own experience now: “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.”
That’s quite an image. Here was the initial development of a core body of individuals who could have provided a focus of spirit for the body of mankind after the Master’s departure. However, they didn’t sustain what had been generated and were scattered abroad—so the whole opportunity was lost.The Master had told them to, “Tarry in the city of Jerusalem until they were imbued with power from on high.” In other words, remain in the holy place in a state of spiritual consciousness until the holy ghost has fully come and your vison has been clarified.
We know something about the rich generation of heavenly substance when we come together for our Temple of Light services or the Tone of Life conference calls. We can easily relate to what happened in the experience of those who gathered at the day of Pentecost in what could be described as a “generating chamber.” In a sense we could say that this cycle of time in which we’ve been drawn together to generate the substance of the vibrational ark is our day of Pentecost.
Martin mentioned in the excerpt I read that we find ourselves being drawn together into various configurations of people and we know this to be true. I just mentioned two examples of our regular Zoom gatherings. No one told us that we should be participating in these activities but there is the compulsion of spirit at work that has brought us together to experience what it means to be with one accord in one place, the place of heaven—the vibrational ark. No doubt we each participate in numerous other configurations of people in which there is the opportunity for a greater generation of the substance of heaven, the substance of love. By reason of this substance there is a blending together, the experience of communion and unified radiation, the radiation of love. Isn’t this the experience that many people in the world are longing for? Those who have generated an adequate amount of spiritual substance in their living will resonate with this radiation and find themselves playing their part in the building of the vibrational ark in one way or another. We welcome and enfold all who are drawn in this way.
We see how essential it is that there be a stable core body of individuals who can be counted upon to let the generation of spiritual substance continue and be maintained so that the focus of spirit is always present within the body of mankind. As we know only a collective body can do what needs to be done in these days. I’m very grateful for the awareness that we have of what is coming together now so that we can let the building of the vibrational ark continue.
Millicent Holliday — Well, this is indeed the treasure that moth and rust cannot corrupt. I am so aware that these words today have been like “a bride adorned for her husband”. That beautiful, exquisite, responsive substance that is offered to our Lord. And as the body of the bride becomes more evident, and this is our responsibility, to be the bride. Then she is revealed, and the earth is once again restored, because it is a place where both Father and Mother rightly should abide in union. Then there is safety for every other creature, or creation. I have so loved sharing this time with all of you and thank you all for the beauty which you have offered.
