Initiation of the Third Sacred School

Initiation  of  the  Third  Sacred  School

excerpt from  Opening Day of 1954 Class

Uranda   April 2, 1954

The opportunity to have such a Class here on Sunrise Ranch is something that appears by reason of the fact of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light. The Church programme is a part of the work of the Third Sacred School. This programme of special training for which you are now here is also a part of the Third Sacred School.

You might say that any really constructive endeavor—this may sound fantastic to you to start with—but any constructive endeavor, anything that has a part toward moving to the fulfillment of the Divine Design, anywhere, through any person upon the face of the whole earth, is a part of the Third Sacred School program. Every church on the face of the earth, every religious body that has any meaning in truth, or that is being of any service in blessing to human beings, whether they know it or not, is within the pattern of the Third Sacred School. Every human being, whether in the scientific world, or the industrial world, or the professional world, or anything else, regardless of place on the face of the earth, color, creed, language—it matters not, everything little or large—that has a part toward moving the mass of humanity toward the fulfillment of God's Will on earth, is contained in the scope, the program of the Third Sacred School.

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This program is not something that was recently inaugurated. The application to the present problems was initiated at the time of the Fall. Our program does not just date back to the time that Jesus came into the world, or some such period. His coming into the world was a part of the Third Sacred School program. The prophets before Him, who revealed in the current of the Holy Spirit some of the truths of Being, the patterns of the Divine Design, were a part of the Third Sacred School program. The application to the world's need in the fallen state was established at the time of the Fall, but the Third Sacred School was not initiated at the time of the Fall—only in application of it's purpose was it altered to meet the need.

The Third Sacred School was initiated at the time of the creation of Man. In the beginning of the history of this world, from the time of the creation of Man, there has been a definite program working. Most human beings know little or nothing about it, but it is there—and coming here you have accepted a degree of responsibility in the conscious realization of relationship to this great program that has been in action down through the millennia. The Third Sacred School was functioning long before the Fall of man, and has continued to function, both with respect to the true purpose—which you will understand more about as we go along—and the specific immediate purpose of saving man from the results of his wrong function.

We look back in history and see that which was accomplished by great men and women, and we recognize that they had a part to play in making this hour possible. They may have made mistakes, and what they did may not have in all things been perfect—but they had a part. Those who have worked to build, say the railroad, or to develop the highway system, in any capacity, whether designing, developing in any fashion, or working as a laborer—any man who has ever worked upon a railroad, or a highway, between here and there, wherever that may be, has had—unknowingly probably—but definitely has had a part in making this here possible. And in that pattern of life expression, there may have been many things that ought not to have been, but there was a contribution to the program of the Third Sacred School.

It is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth—whether he knows it or not—it is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth without doing something, without contributing something, to the program of the Third Sacred School. He may, in some respects, do things that seem to, or actually do, hurt it. There may be opposition, but even oppositions are used. But there is in every life, wherever there is anything that could in any sense be called normal, or natural, or that unheard of thing, average—there isn’t any really—but every person has contributed something constructively. Even those who may be classified as evil, by reason of their life pattern—they may not know it, it may not be immediately evident to the human vision, but every person that has lived on the face of the earth, before or since the Fall, has contributed to the program of the Third Sacred School.

We begin to realize that while it has been a seemingly slow process, all who have gone before us have had a part, and all who live on earth now have a part. We begin to realize something of the integrated factors, so that you are not thinking of yourself on a segregated basis. Others have gone before us to make this possible. People have lived and died and suffered, gone through all sorts of things, so that we could have this hour. So there are factors of appreciation to God and to the working of His Will in the children of men, extending in all directions in all fields. You begin to realize what it means to be a citizen of the world, and a citizen of the Christ Kingdom, by which you may be a good citizen of your country, whatever it may be.

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Initiation Of The Third Sacred School

Initiation  Of  The  Third  Sacred  School

from

Opening Day of 1954 Class

Uranda   April 2, 1954

The opportunity to have such a Class here on Sunrise Ranch is something that appears by reason of the fact of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light. The Church programme is a part of the work of the Third Sacred School. This programme of special training for which you are now here is also a part of the Third Sacred School.

You might say that any really constructive endeavor—this may sound fantastic to you to start with—but any constructive endeavor, anything that has a part toward moving to the fulfillment of the Divine Design, anywhere, through any person upon the face of the whole earth, is a part of the Third Sacred School program. Every church on the face of the earth, every religious body that has any meaning in truth, or that is being of any service in blessing to human beings, whether they know it or not, is within the pattern of the Third Sacred School. Every human being, whether in the scientific world, or the industrial world, or the professional world, or anything else, regardless of place on the face of the earth, color, creed, language—it matters not, everything little or large—that has a part toward moving the mass of humanity toward the fulfillment of God's Will on earth, is contained in the scope, the program of the Third Sacred School.

YouTube  Audio

This program is not something that was recently inaugurated. The application to the present problems was initiated at the time of the Fall. Our program does not just date back to the time that Jesus came into the world, or some such period. His coming into the world was a part of the Third Sacred School program. The prophets before Him, who revealed in the current of the Holy Spirit some of the truths of Being, the patterns of the Divine Design, were a part of the Third Sacred School program. The application to the world's need in the fallen state was established at the time of the Fall, but the Third Sacred School was not initiated at the time of the Fall—only in application of it's purpose was it altered to meet the need.

The Third Sacred School was initiated at the time of the creation of Man. In the beginning of the history of this world, from the time of the creation of Man, there has been a definite program working. Most human beings know little or nothing about it, but it is there—and coming here you have accepted a degree of responsibility in the conscious realization of relationship to this great program that has been in action down through the millennia. The Third Sacred School was functioning long before the Fall of man, and has continued to function, both with respect to the true purpose—which you will understand more about as we go along—and the specific immediate purpose of saving man from the results of his wrong function.

We look back in history and see that which was accomplished by great men and women, and we recognize that they had a part to play in making this hour possible. They may have made mistakes, and what they did may not have in all things been perfect—but they had a part. Those who have worked to build, say the railroad, or to develop the highway system, in any capacity, whether designing, developing in any fashion, or working as a laborer—any man who has ever worked upon a railroad, or a highway, between here and there, wherever that may be, has had—unknowingly probably—but definitely has had a part in making this here possible. And in that pattern of life expression, there may have been many things that ought not to have been, but there was a contribution to the program of the Third Sacred School.

It is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth—whether he knows it or not—it is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth without doing something, without contributing something, to the program of the Third Sacred School. He may, in some respects, do things that seem to, or actually do, hurt it. There may be opposition, but even oppositions are used. But there is in every life, wherever there is anything that could in any sense be called normal, or natural, or that unheard of thing, average—there isn’t any really—but every person has contributed something constructively. Even those who may be classified as evil, by reason of their life pattern—they may not know it, it may not be immediately evident to the human vision, but every person that has lived on the face of the earth, before or since the Fall, has contributed to the program of the Third Sacred School.

We begin to realize that while it has been a seemingly slow process, all who have gone before us have had a part, and all who live on earth now have a part. We begin to realize something of the integrated factors, so that you are not thinking of yourself on a segregated basis. Others have gone before us to make this possible. People have lived and died and suffered, gone through all sorts of things, so that we could have this hour. So there are factors of appreciation to God and to the working of His Will in the children of men, extending in all directions in all fields. You begin to realize what it means to be a citizen of the world, and a citizen of the Christ Kingdom, by which you may be a good citizen of your country, whatever it may be.

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Temple of the Three

Temple  of  the  Three

Uranda  December 14, 1936

To the degree that you have recognized and learned to live in your own inner reality you are coming into a clear understanding of your appointed place of service within the Temple of the Three, through its sacred function in the Temple of Light. You are beginning to truly see that the Temple of Light is the fulness of all seven planes of being which make up the Whole Holy World, at the head of which stands our beloved Master, the LORD of Lords, who is the Lord of the Sacred Seven. You also see that the Temple of the Sacred Three is that which is called Mother God, or the three planes of the negative creation, wherein we are functioning in that divinely ordained service whereby man is being drawn into his perfect position in one-pointed polarity between negative reality and positive reality.

You begin to see that each one is at this present moment in that place and situation best suited to a free release of the Father's Christ radiance into the world consciousness, and so it is that each of the blessed ones has a glorious and sacred opportunity of service in this present time and place. You see, also, that each one fills that divinely ordained place in the Great Plan to the degree that he or she lets go in the directing impulses of the Father’s action, so that the outflowing of the Father’s action is made manifest as the Body Temple action, and thus is the Father’s will done in earth as it is in heaven.

As we have harmonized in the realization of reality in being, we know that all things needful to our life expressions are already provided, but we have not as yet fully harmonized with the actual use in expression of all this equipment which we see that the Lord has provided. The expression equipment with which the Lord has provided us may be recognized from the standpoint of negative reality as thought, word and act, the trinity of expression through the Body Temple.

As the Body Temple is a trinity, expression through the Body Temple must likewise be of the trinity. We see that this holds true, and that action is of the physical plane, words are of the mental plane, and thought is of the spiritual expression plane. As we begin to recognize all three of these planes of expression as the channels of release which they are, and cease thinking of them as if they were something of themselves, we find our vision expanding and our lives becoming increasingly effective.

We begin to function in accordance with the cosmic principles which were so gloriously exemplified in the functions of the Third Sacred School in the Third Sacred City of the Motherland.

 

Initiation  of  the  Third  Sacred  School

from  Opening Day of 1954 Class

Uranda   April 2, 1954

The opportunity to have such a Class here on Sunrise Ranch is something that appears by reason of the fact of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light. The Church programme is a part of the work of the Third Sacred School. This programme of special training for which you are now here is also a part of the Third Sacred School.

You might say that any really constructive endeavor—this may sound fantastic to you to start with—but any constructive endeavor, anything that has a part toward moving to the fulfillment of the Divine Design, anywhere, through any person upon the face of the whole earth, is a part of the Third Sacred School program. Every church on the face of the earth, every religious body that has any meaning in truth, or that is being of any service in blessing to human beings, whether they know it or not, is within the pattern of the Third Sacred School. Every human being, whether in the scientific world, or the industrial world, or the professional world, or anything else, regardless of place on the face of the earth, color, creed, language—it matters not, everything little or large—that has a part toward moving the mass of humanity toward the fulfillment of God's Will on earth, is contained in the scope, the program of the Third Sacred School.

YouTube  Audio

This program is not something that was recently inaugurated. The application to the present problems was initiated at the time of the Fall. Our program does not just date back to the time that Jesus came into the world, or some such period. His coming into the world was a part of the Third Sacred School program. The prophets before Him, who revealed in the current of the Holy Spirit some of the truths of Being, the patterns of the Divine Design, were a part of the Third Sacred School program. The application to the world's need in the fallen state was established at the time of the Fall, but the Third Sacred School was not initiated at the time of the Fall—only in application of it's purpose was it altered to meet the need.

The Third Sacred School was initiated at the time of the creation of Man. In the beginning of the history of this world, from the time of the creation of Man, there has been a definite program working. Most human beings know little or nothing about it, but it is there—and coming here you have accepted a degree of responsibility in the conscious realization of relationship to this great program that has been in action down through the millennia. The Third Sacred School was functioning long before the Fall of man, and has continued to function, both with respect to the true purpose—which you will understand more about as we go along—and the specific immediate purpose of saving man from the results of his wrong function.

We look back in history and see that which was accomplished by great men and women, and we recognize that they had a part to play in making this hour possible. They may have made mistakes, and what they did may not have in all things been perfect—but they had a part. Those who have worked to build, say the railroad, or to develop the highway system, in any capacity, whether designing, developing in any fashion, or working as a laborer—any man who has ever worked upon a railroad, or a highway, between here and there, wherever that may be, has had—unknowingly probably—but definitely has had a part in making this here possible. And in that pattern of life expression, there may have been many things that ought not to have been, but there was a contribution to the program of the Third Sacred School.

It is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth—whether he knows it or not—it is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth without doing something, without contributing something, to the program of the Third Sacred School. He may, in some respects, do things that seem to, or actually do, hurt it. There may be opposition, but even oppositions are used. But there is in every life, wherever there is anything that could in any sense be called normal, or natural, or that unheard of thing, average—there isn’t any really—but every person has contributed something constructively. Even those who may be classified as evil, by reason of their life pattern—they may not know it, it may not be immediately evident to the human vision, but every person that has lived on the face of the earth, before or since the Fall, has contributed to the program of the Third Sacred School.

We begin to realize that while it has been a seemingly slow process, all who have gone before us have had a part, and all who live on earth now have a part. We begin to realize something of the integrated factors, so that you are not thinking of yourself on a segregated basis. Others have gone before us to make this possible. People have lived and died and suffered, gone through all sorts of things, so that we could have this hour. So there are factors of appreciation to God and to the working of His Will in the children of men, extending in all directions in all fields. You begin to realize what it means to be a citizen of the world, and a citizen of the Christ Kingdom, by which you may be a good citizen of your country, whatever it may be.

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The Lamb

The  Lamb

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Martin Cecil  May 12, 1974 a.m.

The Trumpet: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-trumpet.html

The True Tone: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-true-tone.html

In Three Days: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

This Is The Day: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

Delivered From Evil: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/01/delivered-from-evil.html

Represent The Truth: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/represent-truth.html

The Third And Last Call: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-third-and-last-call.html

The Way Of The Master: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-way-of-master.html

The Seed: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-seed.html

The Reason: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-reason.html

The Tabernacle of God is with men. The consciousness of human beings is experiencing once again the evidence of the Presence of the LORD; not merely a theoretical evidence but something actually known. It is interesting to note that there have been various names given to the evidence of the Presence of the LORD at various times in the unfoldment of the creative cycles by which restoration has been made possible.

In Old Testament times, at the time of the Israelites, the First Sacred School, the name of that evidence was Shekinah. Shekinah is defined as the Cloud of Glory, the Light that Glows, the Fire that Burns, all relating to well-known phenomena in the experience of human beings in this physical world. Clouds we know, light we know, fire we know. And so the name Shekinah described, during the period of that First Sacred School, the evidence of the Presence of the LORD, and it was to those concerned an observable phenomenon. It was something apparently separate from all concerned. It seemed to have some relationship to the Tabernacle but it was apart from the people, who were able to observe something. They observed, for instance, the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, and on certain occasions the Glory of the LORD filling the Tabernacle and shining round about. So the evidence of the Presence of the LORD, and therefore of the LORD Himself, seemed to be separate from those who observed.

Later, in the Second Sacred School, the evidence of the Presence of the LORD appeared in a person. It was possible to observe this man whose name was Jesus and to see a person closer to those who observed than Shekinah had been, but nevertheless separate from them. The evidence of the Presence of the LORD had entered the consciousness of human beings at the time of the First Sacred School through what was called Shekinah; the evidence of the presence of the LORD came into the consciousness of human beings at the time of the Second Sacred School as the Christ. The Christ, the Spirit of God — Love, Truth, Life — all related to what might be described as mental experience. Physical experience first, then mental experience with respect to the Christ; but still, what appeared seemed to be, and has seemed to be, separate from human beings. Capable of being observed, yes; considered, perhaps analyzed to some extent, studied. Anything of this nature is obviously still separate insofar as the experience and attitudes of the people were concerned. So there was Shekinah and then the Christ.

Insofar as the Third Sacred School is concerned we have another name appearing frequently in the Book of Revelation, which is the Blueprint related to the Third Sacred School. The name there appearing is the Lamb. Now the Lamb is the name given to what specifically is experienced from the standpoint of spiritual expression. All of these names refer to the evidence of the Presence of the LORD, but more particularly with respect to specific levels of consciousness: physical, mental, and finally spiritual expression. The Lamb has seemed rather a peculiar symbol to many people; it has tended to be related more particularly to the sacrificial view of the Old Testament and what has later been assumed to apply to the New Testament. But if we look at this word “Lamb,” we perhaps think of a creature, a young sheep, which is presumably a rather gentle animal; it seems to be rather weak in many ways, and helpless. And this is an apt symbol in relationship to spiritual expression, because in the world that man has made the spiritual presence of man has been rather conspicuous by its absence; it's been overwhelmed by what one might well call material man.

This was rather accurately portrayed in the story of Cain and Abel. Cain was material man and Abel was Spiritual Man. Material man finds it rather easy, or has found it easy, to overrule Spiritual Man. Spiritual Man has seemingly been slain and material man has been dominant in the world. Here are the two basic possibilities with respect to man. Of course they should be one, when Spiritual Man is dominant; then material man is also present but under the dominion of Spiritual Man. The external manifestation of man is supposed to be the revelation of Spiritual Man. In the story of Cain and Abel, Cain brought his offering to the LORD out of the earth; in other words what he had built in an external sense. And this is what human beings have been engaged in: building a world, a material world which looks, in some of its aspects at least, rather magnificent.

We have a seemingly immense civilization, a very complicated structure, and this has in effect been offered to the LORD but has not been acceptable to the LORD; it isn't what is required at all. “And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.” Of course the countenance of man has certainly fallen; he is no longer revealing in his countenance, in the expression of his life, the beauty of Divine Being. He is only revealing what he has made of himself as material man, which he has not found to be very acceptable. It's always breaking down; it's always falling apart; it's always in trouble. This is the evidence of the fact that what has been built by Cain on earth has not been acceptable to the LORD; it just simply disintegrates, and it takes a very great deal of the sweat of the face to keep any semblance of order at all.

So material man has been dominant; Abel has apparently been slain. Spiritual Man has ceased to be a factor in the world that man has known; it has all been material, even from the standpoint of what he has thought of as spiritual, namely the religious pattern of things. This has all been material man, who has built something out of the earth which he thought would be good. He has built it physically speaking; he has built it intellectually speaking; he has built it religiously speaking. And all this vast affair that man has produced on earth has certainly not been acceptable to the LORD. And its unacceptability is proven constantly by the breakdown which occurs in the affairs of men.

Now, in the Book of Revelation, Spiritual Man is spoken of in terms of the Lamb, the “Lamb as it had been slain,” seemingly out of commission — material man in ascendency, dominant, and anything that began to appear of a truly spiritual nature was quickly eliminated. This of course was made evident in the outworking of events in the life of Jesus. Here was the evidence of the Presence of the LORD, the Christ, brought to focus — Spiritual Man beginning to appear at the mental level — and how quickly this was eliminated. We needn't go into the story in this regard; we are familiar with it; but we recognize that the evidence of the Presence of the LORD by reason of Jesus initiated the Second Sacred School, and in the initiation of this it was necessary to refocalize the truth of the First Sacred School. At a certain point in the unfoldment the Second Sacred School failed insofar as the world was concerned; human beings did not offer the required response. At that point it is said that Jesus wept over Jerusalem. And the opportunity of the Second Sacred School was lost to the children of men, just as surely as the opportunity of the First Sacred School had already been lost. So this man undertook to carry the cycle through into the Third Sacred School, and this was the focalization of the evidence of the Presence of the LORD as the Lamb.

Considering some of the passages in the Book of Revelation, we may recall that there was the “Lamb as it had been slain,” who apparently was capable of opening the Seven Seals of the Book of Life. It had become obvious to John, in the experience that he was having, that no man could open that Book; no effort on the part of human beings could open the Seals and allow the Book of Life to be experienced by human beings on earth. The experience of the Book of Life by human beings on earth is the experience of MAN the Living Soul on earth, MAN restored to his true state; and there was no method by which human beings could achieve this. So John, when he considered the strivings of human beings, particularly with respect to his contemporaries at that time, wept that their efforts were in vain; they were achieving nothing, they were not getting the job done. And this became increasingly obvious as time went on, in the emergence of what was called Christianity.

First of all there was considerable tribulation involved, martyrdom and so on, a great deal of suffering and slaughter, leading into what were rightly called the Dark Ages. And then, when so-called Christianity emerged again, it was material man, wasn't it? — material man still trying to use the methods of material man to achieve what he thought should be achieved in the world. And he was going to use the methods of what he thought was Christianity, for a while. Later, of course, it turned into something else: the application of technology, scientific know-how, etc. But in any case it has seemed that the Lamb was slain. Insofar as what human beings thought Christianity to be, the Lamb was in heaven someplace; insofar as the earth was concerned He was slain. But nevertheless the only way by which the Seals of the Book of Life could be opened was by reason of the Lamb.

What was it that was achieved by the LORD through Jesus? [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-way-of-master.html] It was the movement victoriously in an individual, personal sense, in the creative cycle, through all the Sacred Schools, by which the restoration of man was made possible. He personally, in His own experience, opened the Seals of the Book of Life while He was on earth. The way was established. He moved victoriously, first of all in establishing a refocalization of the First Sacred School and then initiating the Second Sacred School. And w,hen the children of men rejected that, He in Himself initiated the Third Sacred School and continued from level to level until all Seven Sacred Schools had been included in His experience. The Seals were opened; as we have put it, the Tone was set.

Now insofar as the Third Sacred School is concerned the victory was established and has been present below the crust of Christianity to this very day. And we have seen it emerging through that crust of the Second Sacred School, the failure of the Second Sacred School at its weakest point, where the crust was not too crusty; in other words where the set, crystallized patterns of Christianity were not too strong. This plant, which had been in the earth for so long, germinated and began to grow into the experience on earth of the Third Sacred School; and that came through one individual in its initiation, in the person of the one who was known as Uranda. It is rather interesting, as he himself pointed out long ago, that his earthly name was Lloyd Arthur Meeker — L. A. M. — and his earthly title was Bishop — L. A. M. B.  Here was the refocalization of both the First and Second Sacred Schools, but in the victory of the Third Sacred School through the Lamb, the apparently weak and helpless spiritual expression; this weak and helpless spiritual expression which had been, “as it had been slain,” apparently gone, and material man was still in the ascendency; material man was still dominating the affairs of the world. And to most people it seems that way yet. We have begun to know differently.

But we recognize that what we have experienced of spiritual expression is not experienced to get into a battle with material man; it is experienced in order to open the way to the restoration of Spiritual Man on earth. And Spiritual Man is true MAN, the Living Soul; material man is untrue man, the dying soul. The only way by which this restoration can occur is through the Lamb, through the Spiritual Expression Plane approach; for it is the Lamb who opens the Seals. Specifically the First, Second and Third Seals are opened by reason of the refocalization of the Third Sacred School within the consciousness of human beings on earth. Here it is.

Now each Sacred School is contained within the next higher: the First Sacred School is contained within the Second Sacred School, the Second within the Third, and the Third within the Fourth. The victorious spirit which was so vividly apparent on earth through the One called Jesus held the door open for the refocalization of the Third Sacred School, which has occurred in these present days, breaking surface once again; having been lost to the experience of human beings by reason of the failure of the disciples after our Master's ascension.

Now this was more or less anticipated, because of their lack of understanding while He was still with them, let alone after He had left them. And of course there was a reversion into the material approach once again, the endeavor of human beings — no doubt with the best of intentions — to do what they thought was necessary, to build what they thought was necessary on earth, in the Name of the LORD, they thought. But it wasn't. Material methods, the methods of material man, were used. The product has been called Christianity. However, out of that has come the Third Sacred School, which is established in victory and which includes the victory refocalized for both the First and the Second Sacred Schools. It is interesting to note that within the scope of our present experience in the unfoldment of this Body there are those who have emerged out of Christianity, the Second Sacred School, and there are those who have emerged out of Judaism, the First Sacred School, or perhaps I should say out of the evidences of the failure of these two Sacred Schools. And the composition of our ministry is of this nature, rightly so. There is no judgment with respect to anyone in this regard. The composition of what is now taking form must primarily be of this nature; this is the way it should be. Let there be no doubt about this; let there be no judgment with respect to it. This is the way it is and we rejoice that it is so. We have the evidence of the victorious First Sacred School, the evidence of the victorious Second Sacred School, and, expanding this, we have the evidence of the victorious Third Sacred School. And the Third Sacred School includes within it the First and the Second.

However, we are not going to stop at the Third Sacred School. There is the Fourth. Now the Third Sacred School offers the evidence of the presence of the LORD under the name of the Lamb. This is the Spirit of God, isn't it, which has been seen as finding release and expression through human beings. It's coming a little closer, isn't it? The Spirit of Truth, which our Master said, while He was still on earth, “dwelleth with you, and shall be in you” — that is, a greater closeness than had been known while He Himself was present in physical form on earth. His presence, with His disciples and others at that time, was closer to those who were with Him than Shekinah had been to the children of Israel; so here was the evidence of the presence of the LORD coming closer. And it comes closer still in the Third Sacred School, from the standpoint of the Spirit of Truth — the Spirit of Truth which moves through the human beings concerned. However, it is seen as moving through in spiritual expression. Here is the opening of the Third Seal collectively speaking, but it still does not permit the experience of man the Living Soul. MAN, after all, was created on the Sixth Day, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/not-from-i-love-you-lord-martin-cecil.html] and MAN does not appear on earth until that comes again in human experience. But the way is clear, the Seals have been opened; it is only a matter of participating in what is already established, growing, taking expanded form.

So here we begin to see that there is something appearing which relates to the Fourth Sacred School. The Lamb leads into the Fourth Sacred School. We might recall that the Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with him an hundred and forty and four thousand. Of course those who look at that merely from the standpoint of the Third Sacred School tend still to see the Lamb as being something closely related to them; maybe He is finding expression through them, but somehow separate from them. Let the Spirit of God, let the Spirit of Truth, have its way with you! Who are you? Who are the yous [ewes]? It's not ewes that are needed; it's the Lamb!

We have used a word recently which relates to the evidence of the presence of the Lord as this applies to the Fourth Sacred School. The word Tone has been used, the Tone which sounds in the pure heart. The Spirit of Purification is the fourth of the seven spirits, and the heart relates to the fourth level of consciousness, the Fourth Dimensional Plane of Being, the plane which connects the Triune Earth with the Triune Heaven. We find ourselves there in time, times and half a time — three and a half. But the approach is through the Third Sacred School. The possibility of the purifying of the heart comes by reason of spiritual expression; not by the methods of men, not by anything that human beings might do to mortify the flesh, or to blank their minds, or to sink into some deep stupor of meditation. None of these things work; they are all a part of the experience of material man.

Spiritual expression is the one possibility that is left [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-third-and-last-call.html] by which contact may be made with the evidence of the Presence of the LORD, which is what restores, what renews, what saves in this sense — the Lamb. The Seals are open, and to the extent that there is space in the heart the Tone has been heard. And it is this Tone that needs to be expressed, and that is spiritual expression. And even though from the material viewpoint it seems like a weak and ineffective thing, this is the way that restoration occurs; this is the way by which the power of God is known in the affairs of men.

Those who are involved with material man scoff when they look at Spiritual Man, or what they think that Spiritual Man is. “There shall be scoffers in the last days.” Well there always have been. But the scoffing rings rather hollow in the last day because the spiritual expression emerges. It seems rather innocent, and the quality of that spiritual expression is guileless; it is seemingly meek and lowly; it's not trying to assert itself; it's not trying to dominate anyone. Well from the material man viewpoint, what's the use of that? What's the value of that? It's not going to achieve anything. You have to get out there and do something! You have to get into a battle with somebody; you have to tear down the evil. What is evil? Virtually everything that anyone looks at, but always in the other fellow! This Watergate thing is typical of the vile attitude that human beings have, and they think they're so righteous about it. It's rotten all the way through. Of course most people see the rottenness “over there,” and they have found a convenient scapegoat in the person of Richard Nixon. Well he is a material man just the same as everybody else, but why judge him as though he were the only material man on earth? How ridiculous! Anything to cover up the True Tone, anything to maintain the ascendency of material man. Oh so good he is, in his own eyes, so self-righteous — Cain, the slayer of Abel, the slayer of Spiritual Man.

But we have discovered that Spiritual Man is not quite so ineffective as material man would have us believe. We begin to find that spiritual expression gets something done, in spite of material man. In spite of all the things that human beings do the victory emerges, because the way is open, the way is open for it. It is no longer, as it has seemed to human beings — it never really was that way, but as it has seemed to them — a matter of human effort. It is a matter of spiritual expression, just that. And that is acceptable to the LORD because it is His expression. And as the heart is purified the greater release of that spirit comes; the evidence of the Presence of the LORD. It comes as the sound of a Mighty Trumpet, a trumpet sound which drives material man crazy. And we see that craziness multiplying on every hand, the insanity becoming more and more obvious. Why? Because of spiritual expression, because of the increased sound of the trumpet. And that increased sound of the trumpet raises up those who yield to that sound rather than contend with it. And so it is that we are concerned to know the nature of that sound, the quality of it, letting that sound as it really is find expression in our own living, that the victory may be known with absolute assurance as we move from level to level in the cycles of restoration, resurrection.

I am most thankful that we have had the opportunity of sharing this meditation this morning here in this Chapel on Sunrise Ranch and also where those other blessed ones are gathered in oneness of spirit in Portland, Oregon. As we begin to sense real agreement we know that whatsoever is asked will be done. But what is asked? Just the fulfilment of the victory, that is all. Not that “my” problems shall be solved, that “my” diseases should be cured, that “my” affairs should be set in an order that is pleasing to me. No, none of these things, because we find ourselves coming again into a new experience of identity, which is the first awareness that we have in any true sense of the reality of our own being. And this occurs on the Fourth Day, by reason of the Fourth Sacred School—the final realization of true identity, final in the sense of the untrue one disappearing, but only a beginning in the greater experience of the true identity, which is not finally complete until the Seventh Day of Creation.

So we would let it unfold, abiding in agreement, knowing the victory every step of the way because we are not looking for something in a personal sense. We share the larger vision which sees the whole, and we know that we only have meaning in the whole, our identity is only a true identity when it is in His Name, when it is an aspect, a differentiated aspect, of the LORD, giving evidence of His Presence.

Our most gracious LORD, how deeply thankful we are for the victory which was established by Thee so long ago and which is now emerging into the collective experience of human beings as they yield in the creative cycles to what is moving now. We thank Thee for the evidence of Thy Presence, no longer something separate from us but known increasingly by reason of the expression of Thy Spirit in our momentary living. And this brings with it an awareness of new being, an awareness of abiding in Thee; no longer separate from Thee, no longer trying to find Thee, but allowing the expression of what Thou art to express individually and collectively in the achievement of Thy creative purposes on earth. So is it in this moment. So shall it ever be in each ever-present moment of eternity, to Thy Glory, in the Shekinah, in the Christ, in the Lamb, in the True Tone of Thy Eternal Being. Aum-en.

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The Third Sacred School #2

The  Third Sacred  School  #2

Martin Cecil   November 13, 1977 p.m.

To start with this evening I thought we might consider some signposts that were provided long ago. These were given by the Master when He was on earth, after it became apparent that those who had the opportunity at His time to accept the truth which He offered were refusing to do so. The Second Sacred School came to an end some little time prior to the concluding phases of His ministry on earth. According to the record, He spoke those words, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,” and that was that; the house was left desolate; the opportunity for movement on the basis of the Second Sacred School under His hand was at an end. Seeing these things clearly Himself He undertook to gather the vibratory factors together for the purpose of initiating the Third Sacred School, which might have been carried forward subsequent to His departure.

In connection with this matter of the Third Sacred School He spoke, as the record has come down to us, of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, all relating to the spirit of the Third Sacred School, the spirit by which the purposes of the Third Sacred School might be achieved. Obviously He was not saying to His disciples, “You fellows need some more education so that you might have better mental equipment to do what is necessary.” He indicated that the means of doing what was necessary came to focus in the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of Truth to be meaningful on earth requires a facility for expression. We say spiritual expression. The Third Sacred School is concerned with the matter of spiritual expression. The only approach to it is on the basis of spiritual expression. No physical means or mental means can actually introduce anyone to the Third Sacred School. It may introduce a person to some ideas about it but the factual reality can only be known on the basis of spiritual expression. So the Master made mention of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth.

There are some passages here which I would read because they relate to the signpost of which I made mention. For instance, He said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments. 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.”

He was speaking specifically to those who were present with Him at that time. However, in view of the fact that the Third Sacred School never got off the ground when it could have after the Master's ascension, we can see these words as a signpost relative to what is happening now. He was saying at that time that the Spirit of Truth is with you. It was obviously so from the standpoint of His own presence with His disciples, but there was more to it than that. He was indicating that there was the means by which the expression of the Spirit of Truth might be held in focus until the Body had formed sufficiently for it to find natural expression through that Body.

We have some awareness that at that point the focus in this regard was in John, the Beloved Disciple. There may be some who have wondered why, if after our Master's departure John was the one to provide the focus of what should occur thereafter, the Master Himself had not said so definitely. Of course He did say so, but there were very few who heard it or understood what it was He was saying. The point here is that, from the spiritual standpoint, external appointments cannot rightly be made. Just take a look at what occurred in the First Sacred School, for instance. Who was it who appointed Moses to go down into Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out? Who in the external sense had the authority to do it? Of course Moses took the responsibility because he recognized that it was his own responsibility. He carried his own authority. In spite of all the stories that have subsequently been told about the birth of Jesus, who was it appointed Him? There was nothing in the external sense in fact. He simply revealed His own authority, and it is only on the basis of the revelation of the true authority that anything can happen from the spiritual standpoint. If the Master had said to the rest of His disciples, “Now look you, I'm appointing John here to assume my responsibilities,” do you think that would have worked? There might have been those who would have said, “All right. If you say so we'll accept John.” But would they really have done it, do you think? It has to be something experienced on the basis of the actual expression of the authority.

It appears that the disciples were not sufficiently discerning in the spiritual sense to recognize the truth in this regard as it related to John, so the particular point of focus that was with them never came to be adequately in them as a Body. There was what has been called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and according to the record they all started to speak in other tongues, “as the Spirit gave them utterance.” They all went shooting off in different directions and running off at the mouth, so that a Body never adequately had an opportunity to form. It could not have formed except on the basis of the point of focus that carried the authority for that formation—in this particular instance it was John—and so the cycle was aborted. It wasn't a failure of the Third Sacred School, because the Third Sacred School never started back there.

Incidentally, you may recognize, when through ignorance or for whatever reason those who have responsibility do not accept it correctly, what disaster can occur! There was disaster of course very shortly when the destruction of Jerusalem came, for instance. But the major disaster was not really that. It was the fact that it has taken nineteen centuries before what was possible then could again be brought to point. And how many human lives have been offered in sacrifice on earth during these centuries? From this we can see the seriousness of the responsibility that is ours now; not that it needs to weigh on us heavily, but it needs to be understood.

The Master took quite a bit of trouble in gathering things together. Let me read some more: “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 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.”

There is another passage: “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.” Some have supposed that He was just speaking to the disciples who had spent the three previous years with Him, from the beginning of His ministry; but if witness is to be borne it is borne by the angel, isn't it, and the angels have been with Him from the beginning of this whole creative cycle of humanity.

“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 came on earth to make possible the restoration of man through the Second Sacred School. The Second Sacred School was dissolved, so what needed next to occur was not under His hand anymore, at least not in the direct sense, not by reason of His presence on earth. He came to offer that second opportunity to the children of men and He was rejected. He suffered the consequences of that rejection, and that was that; there was no reason for Him to hang around on earth anymore. So there was another opportunity, another door, provided. But this opportunity could only appear after He had left, because it was appearing on a totally different basis.

As we have noted,

the provision that was made through the Disciple John was never acknowledged,

and so the door remained closed.

The opportunity did not occur again until recent years,

and the door has been opened this time.

“And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” One of the principal evidences of the ministry of the Spirit of Truth, by reason of His Body on earth, is reproof, or rebuke. We begin to understand something with respect to this, not as a theoretical requirement but as a factual experience: the rebuke which occurs with respect to our own individual earthly consciousness and what is present in it, as well as the rebuke which in consequence is extended into the whole earthly consciousness of mankind. If you are faithful as an angel of the Lord in rebuking what is present with you in your own earthly consciousness that shouldn't be there you are rebuking the world. It doesn't require that you go out and start thumping a tub out there!—home employment.

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” You have seen something more with respect to that statement. We are required to bear the Word of God 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 shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” Have these words not been fulfilled in goodly measure over the last number of years and in this present moment?

So the stage was set for the Third Sacred School to appear on earth; but the one who provided the focus for that appearance was never acknowledged, so it never appeared—in spite of whatever may have been experienced and later called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Those concerned, because they never accepted the true point of focus, never allowed the Body to take form and it was scattered. On the basis of this scattering Christianity emerged. Of course Peter looked like a fairly good bet as a leader in the human sense. He had a strong character, even though it was not all that stable. And later Paul of course jumped in. But there was a scattering, presumably in fulfilment of the concept of what it would mean to preach the Gospel to the whole world. And this is the cry which has been taken up again by Christianity of course, the evangelical movement: Go out and tell everybody about the particular ideas that were popularly accepted as being the base for Christianity—convert the world. That is exactly what the disciples started to do in their initial enthusiasm; they converted thousands every day; but the Third Sacred School never took form.

The only means by which the restoration that was needful could occur never came within the range of the experience of those concerned. Later of course John, on the Isle of Patmos, wrote what is now called the Book of Revelation, which has also been called the Blueprint for the Third Sacred School. He gathered into focus again the vibratory factors which were needful to allow the Third Sacred School to appear on earth in the proper seasons of the LORD. And this has taken a long time.

So here we have some signposts which point to the way by which the things of God take form on earth, and we should feel a new closeness of connection between the angelic action that occurred those many centuries ago and what is happening now. We may perhaps learn something from human failure, that the things that do not belong in earthly consciousness may be quickly rebuked now; but what is needful is the angelic expression to fill the space left by the things that are rebuked into nothingness, and this is of concern to us now as angels.

We might recall something of another signpost in the Book of Revelation. Right at the beginning of it John wrote: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia … And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.”

What he was doing then was setting the stage for what should in season need to be done upon the reestablishment in form on earth of the Third Sacred School. The voice must be heard. When it is heard it is found to be behind and not out front. Most of the voices to which human beings pay attention are out front, and there is a considerable clamor in the world today, as there always has been in one way or another, a clamor out front, voices claiming the attention of people. But the true voice is not out front; it is behind. This does not refer to the past, although there may be a recognition, as we have right now, of the signposts that come to us out of the past. No, the voice is in the present, but is not heard from the direction which impinges upon earthly consciousness, to which earthly consciousness has habitually been paying attention. We have spoken of earthly orientation, and the voices that are heard are heard on the basis of earthly orientation. But there is another voice which is not in that direction; it is in fact in the opposite direction. It springs from heavenly orientation, and in the sense of the habitual experience it is behind.

There are many people who have heard something of that voice. Usually it was not as of a trumpet. It was more likely to be a rather still, small voice. And some have cocked an ear toward it, so to speak, to see if they could learn something, but they never turned around. They never turned to see the voice. That would be too risky from the human view. What does it mean to turn to see the voice? This indicates a willingness to share something; not to stand aloof and just listen and decide whether what is heard is acceptable or not. This is the way most human beings behave; the human mind assumes that it is in position to judge in this regard.

Turning to see the voice requires the relinquishment of judgment in order that one may begin to share something in one's own experience, which is in fact the only way to go if one is not to continue on the downward path. And being turned, he saw; in other words there was available experience. Most people keep their back to the voice and try to hear all they can without actually experiencing anything. Some, if they like what they hear, then claim to believe it, but it doesn't do them much good because they are still facing in the wrong direction. As you know, to the extent that you have turned to see the voice and are thereby caused to experience something, to share something, your vision opens up. Your vision opens on the basis of your action; this is no longer merely imagination.

Of course in earthly consciousness one sees symbolically; there is no other way of seeing in earthly consciousness. We constantly operate on the basis of symbols. Every form, physical or mental, is a symbol of something; it bears witness of something; and human beings function on the basis of these symbols. Words themselves are symbols. So, beginning to experience something, it is seen in symbolical form. No one ever sees the real thing in earthly consciousness. The real thing only becomes known on the basis of heavenly consciousness, and to move toward the experience of heavenly consciousness one must turn to see the voice. As it is put here: “And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks.”

Did you ever see seven golden candlesticks? There comes an awareness of the fact of an earthly state of consciousness, and we have seen that this earthly state of consciousness should be the capacity capable of reflecting the heavenly state of consciousness. It provides the facility by which heaven may be known on earth. There is a certain design to this state of consciousness. There is a spectrum of consciousness with, it might be said, seven principal colors. This relates to the capacity of earthly consciousness which has been misused for twenty thousand years, so there is a good deal of rubbish present but there is still the design. It may be said that there are seven principal colors, then, to the spectrum of consciousness. To put it another way, in the house of consciousness there are seven main rooms. All of these rooms are for use, as rooms are in a house. For the most part we inhabit houses that have one room for each particular purpose. We do not as a rule find it necessary to have two living rooms for instance; just one is sufficient, and one dining room. Mind you, there may be some palaces around in which there are duplicate rooms of various sorts, but from the standpoint of this representation of the design of consciousness there are seven main rooms, each required for a different purpose.

I have used two analogies here: one of a house with rooms, another of light and a spectrum of colors. Neither one is the fact of the matter; they are simply analogies. They are symbols of the reality, just as the candlestick is. So whether we say “seven golden candlesticks” or “seven colors” or “seven rooms,” the reference is to the same reality, the design of consciousness, the design in the capacity of earthly consciousness. Other things were seen in this turning: “… in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot …” And a description follows.

We have some consciousness of the angel. Initially there is a tendency for the earthly state of consciousness to think of itself as being something separate from the angel, as though it could exist all on its own. This is the attitude that human beings take. They find out differently eventually; they stop existing all on their own. So in the initial awareness of what may be present in relationship to this earthly state of consciousness, which is a heavenly state of consciousness in which the angel is present, the idea occurs that it is something separate from oneself in the human sense, and the individual will say “my God Being” or “my angel” or “the Father within.” All kinds of expressions are used which indicate that the individual identity is being maintained in earthly consciousness as though it had a separate existence of some kind and was going to hang on to it like grim death. And it is pretty grim.

“And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” Here is a very impressive figure. In his right hand he had seven stars. We can see here the means of control, from the heavenly standpoint, of the seven rooms of the house of earthly consciousness. As long as there is no control in operation with respect to these seven rooms they are used for purposes for which they were not designed, and a mess is created in every one of them. This is the state of earthly consciousness as it is now known. There is only one way by which this may be changed and this is by reason of the angel and the seven stars in his right hand, in the hand of primary action.

In the last verse of this 1st chapter of Revelation this is written: “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” Now we have another analogy here. Candlesticks, colors, rooms—now churches. Take your pick. What we are concerned with are not the analogies but the reality which is present now in our earthly state of consciousness, because this is the design of it.

In making this record there is something of an historical view of what was to unfold in order to allow the Third Sacred School to take form on earth once again. So we can see this aspect of symbolism in relationship to the seven churches, a changing state of consciousness in the body of mankind which unfolded sequentially in the events of the world. This is one way of seeing it, but we also may recognize that it applies in the moment. It is something that is present now in relationship to the earthly state of consciousness that is present now.

Considering the matter again from the sequential standpoint, you may recall that the last church (of the Laodiceans) was concerned with something very materialistic: “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”

We find ourselves, in the historical sense, in an extremely materially-oriented state of affairs, which could give a clue to what is now occurring. But my concern was really to introduce you to the fact of the seven churches as relating to your own capacity of earthly consciousness, the very design of it. With respect to that design there were things that were wrong in these various churches that needed to be corrected; there were things to be rebuked. And what is necessary in this regard is outlined in these words in the Book of Revelation. We have perhaps been using other words but it is the same requirement.

It is through the angel individually that the earthly state of consciousness is rebuked and brought into line by reason of spiritual expression. Collectively speaking, insofar as this forming Body is concerned, it is the action of the Archangel through all the angels of the churches that gets the job done. We may recognize that human beings very often wander around in the various rooms, these various cluttered rooms, in the house of earthly consciousness; you can never be sure as to which room they are going to be in. Others live mostly just in one room. We find a whole spectrum here. Those who live in one room have association dominantly with one church. Of course this doesn't mean that the other churches aren't present insofar as they are concerned and won't need rebuke.

So there is a Blueprint and there is the Third Sacred School, and all that is achieved by reason of the Third Sacred School comes to pass because of the Spirit of Truth—the Spirit of Truth that operates in you. It operates in you because you are parts of One Body, and the Spirit of Truth incarnates in that One Body and so there is the experience of the Spirit of Truth being present and in action in this One Body, rebuking what needs to be rebuked, calling all things to remembrance, bringing to pass what needs to occur both in this Body and by reason of the presence of this Body on earth.

We share this responsibility as angels of the LORD. We are part of a vast unfoldment of the creative purposes of God as these relate to this world in which we live—actually beyond this world, but for the moment our concern is simply with the body of humanity. We share the responsibility of the angels of the Lord, carrying the messages to the churches, that all may be set in order, that the rooms in the house of consciousness may be cleaned up and brought into order, that they may be available for their proper uses.

How blessed we are to begin to share an experience of these things to the extent that we have actually turned to see the voice and to participate in what is occurring with respect to the churches. That participation is only possible to the extent that our expression springs from the heavenly state of consciousness. So I thank God for all of you and many more who are willing, beginning perhaps to be more willing, to allow the unfoldment of all that is proper in these particular seasons of the LORD.

 Initiation  Of  The  Third  Sacred  School

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Opening Day of 1954 Class

Uranda   April 2, 1954

The opportunity to have such a Class here on Sunrise Ranch is something that appears by reason of the fact of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light. The Church programme is a part of the work of the Third Sacred School. This programme of special training for which you are now here is also a part of the Third Sacred School.

You might say that any really constructive endeavor—this may sound fantastic to you to start with—but any constructive endeavor, anything that has a part toward moving to the fulfillment of the Divine Design, anywhere, through any person upon the face of the whole earth, is a part of the Third Sacred School program. Every church on the face of the earth, every religious body that has any meaning in truth, or that is being of any service in blessing to human beings, whether they know it or not, is within the pattern of the Third Sacred School. Every human being, whether in the scientific world, or the industrial world, or the professional world, or anything else, regardless of place on the face of the earth, color, creed, language—it matters not, everything little or large—that has a part toward moving the mass of humanity toward the fulfillment of God's Will on earth, is contained in the scope, the program of the Third Sacred School.

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This program is not something that was recently inaugurated. The application to the present problems was initiated at the time of the Fall. Our program does not just date back to the time that Jesus came into the world, or some such period. His coming into the world was a part of the Third Sacred School program. The prophets before Him, who revealed in the current of the Holy Spirit some of the truths of Being, the patterns of the Divine Design, were a part of the Third Sacred School program. The application to the world's need in the fallen state was established at the time of the Fall, but the Third Sacred School was not initiated at the time of the Fall—only in application of it's purpose was it altered to meet the need.

The Third Sacred School was initiated at the time of the creation of Man. In the beginning of the history of this world, from the time of the creation of Man, there has been a definite program working. Most human beings know little or nothing about it, but it is there—and coming here you have accepted a degree of responsibility in the conscious realization of relationship to this great program that has been in action down through the millennia. The Third Sacred School was functioning long before the Fall of man, and has continued to function, both with respect to the true purpose—which you will understand more about as we go along—and the specific immediate purpose of saving man from the results of his wrong function.

We look back in history and see that which was accomplished by great men and women, and we recognize that they had a part to play in making this hour possible. They may have made mistakes, and what they did may not have in all things been perfect—but they had a part. Those who have worked to build, say the railroad, or to develop the highway system, in any capacity, whether designing, developing in any fashion, or working as a laborer—any man who has ever worked upon a railroad, or a highway, between here and there, wherever that may be, has had—unknowingly probably—but definitely has had a part in making this here possible. And in that pattern of life expression, there may have been many things that ought not to have been, but there was a contribution to the program of the Third Sacred School.

It is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth—whether he knows it or not—it is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth without doing something, without contributing something, to the program of the Third Sacred School. He may, in some respects, do things that seem to, or actually do, hurt it. There may be opposition, but even oppositions are used. But there is in every life, wherever there is anything that could in any sense be called normal, or natural, or that unheard of thing, average—there isn’t any really—but every person has contributed something constructively. Even those who may be classified as evil, by reason of their life pattern—they may not know it, it may not be immediately evident to the human vision, but every person that has lived on the face of the earth, before or since the Fall, has contributed to the program of the Third Sacred School.

We begin to realize that while it has been a seemingly slow process, all who have gone before us have had a part, and all who live on earth now have a part. We begin to realize something of the integrated factors, so that you are not thinking of yourself on a segregated basis. Others have gone before us to make this possible. People have lived and died and suffered, gone through all sorts of things, so that we could have this hour. So there are factors of appreciation to God and to the working of His Will in the children of men, extending in all directions in all fields. You begin to realize what it means to be a citizen of the world, and a citizen of the Christ Kingdom, by which you may be a good citizen of your country, whatever it may be.

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