IN THIS POST I share with you one of the most touching and profound words of Uranda I’ve ever read anywhere. Words that bring me to tears of joy and of unspeakable love that rises up from the depth of my soul for this One that I am, and we all are, privileged to call Master, Son of God, LORD of Lords and King of kings — and, as George Frederick Handel called Him in his Oratorio Masterpiece, Messiah, “Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.”
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My thoughts turn to some of the words of the Master tonight: “Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” And we are, also, to overcome the world.
I was thinking that, in the conclusion of the activities of a blessed day such as this, we might well again give thought to the Master’s Prayer at the time of the conclusion of His Ministry. The conclusion of His Ministry was peculiarly the point where our Ministry begins. The time that has elapsed since has no meaning in that. He had been outlining the Principles of the One Vine and of the means by which we might let the Works of the Father manifest.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full… For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
He had also outlined the Principles with respect to the work of the Comforter or Spirit of Truth. He had pointed the Way to Life. It remained for those who should follow after to prove that Life, to experience it according to His Word. And then, in the conclusion of that Ministry, He gave a prayer—a prayer that is our beginning point.
“Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee”. He was, of course, the manifestation of the Son of God, but He was returning to the Father and He had outlined the Plan by means of which the Son, the only begotten Son of God, should continue on earth. The interval of time that has elapsed before that Plan began to be of effect should be, in our consideration, forgotten, as it were, that it may be meaningless. The trials and the tribulations, the concepts, the efforts and the failures of that interval must not be allowed to have meaning in relationship to our function. From the standpoint of Reality, those things do not have meaning. The connecting thread, the unifying Current, is not less strong because of the passage of that time. Our attitude and our feeling and our function should be as if we had heard these words for the first time a few days ago, as if only a month ago He had stood with us upon the face of the earth, as if it were but yesterday that the vibrant sound of His Voice fell on our ears, as if we, in this flesh, had seen Him come forth Victoriously from the tomb, as if we had, in person, shared His final words of admonition and instruction, as if we had known that hour when He ascended to return no more until what He had begun should have been finished in the hearts and lives of men.
The human mind is so inclined to feel the distance of the intervening years, so that there is a loss in a consciousness of personal contact. The Son is the One Christ Body on earth, then and now. The meaning of the Word as He spoke it with respect to His own manifestation is not to be construed as the only meaning, for He spoke also of that Body that is—“Father, the hour is come”. His was the hour of departing; ours is the hour of beginning, of moving forward in fulfilment. The Father glorified the Son then. He is just as capable of glorifying the Son now. “The hour is come. Glorify thy Son”. Why? “That thy Son also may glorify thee”. The beginning and the end, or the end and the beginning, are the same.
He was here on earth. It seems but yesterday we heard Him speak. It seems but the passage of a moment since His prayer first ascended as sweet incense unto God. Time—these things transcend all time. It was but yesterday He gave the Promise. Today we let that Promise be fulfilled. We remember how our hearts were stirred at the sound of His Voice, and the passage of an hour or a day cannot quiet that stirring or end that surge of consciousness of the Power of God. It is now, in this hour, that the Spirit of His Word finds fulfilment in our hearts. It is now, in this hour, that we let His Promise be fulfilled. The excitements and the questionings, the fears and the doubts, have been stilled. We have ceased trying to make it be so, for in the vibrant Power of His Love we are not separate or apart and we know that the Father Himself loveth us because we have loved Him, because we do love Him Who has walked the earth before us, Who has revealed the Way, the Truth and the Life.
“The hour is come” for us to let the Father glorify His Son, that the Son may glorify the Father. We trembled, and were sad, that the hour had come when He should leave us, but we did not let such things prevent fulfilment of His Word lest what He did should be in vain. The hour of His going was the hour of our beginning, and it is so still, for though He went He has not departed, for His Spirit lingers in our hearts and His Word is as powerful as when it first fell from His lips, Words burned in letters of Fire upon our hearts, memorable occasions that could never pass from mind. Yesterday His hour came—today is our hour of fulfilment in beginning.
“Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God”, and the Christ, the only begotten Son—then Jesus—now the One Christ Body Whom Thou hast sent. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”. How truly is that our point of beginning. How seldom on this earth has the word reverberated in truth—“I have finished the work”. We have seen in the world the feeble attempts at doing some bit of work—human beings, like children, building castles in the sand to admire in one moment and to destroy in the next, and then to delude themselves into feeling that they had accomplished something. And how they brag about the mansions they builded in the sand; but we consider other mansions, Mansions in the Father’s House.
“I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”—and in season the Son shall again speak these words, but before those words may be truly spoken once more, there must truly be the beginning, the opening up, that comes through the surging Power of His Spirit as we hear again, in memory, His Word, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.” That was but yesterday, surely. It is but a dream that some did not keep His Word. There must now be fulfilment which gives meaning to His faith when He spoke that Word, that when these words sound in memory, and stir within our hearts, they shall not be as a mockery, a symbol of the faith of the Son of God that found no answering heart on earth, but a symbol of the faith of the Son of God that finds fulfilment here and now in His Son on earth.
“And they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” Yes, the intervening time when these words remained unfulfilled is surely but a dream. Twas only yesterday He spoke, and today His Word finds fulfilment. Today we prove His faith was not in vain.
“And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” What was His joy? It was the joy of Oneness with the Father. It was the joy of Being the Son on earth. That is the joy that must be fulfilled in us, the joy of Oneness with the Father, the joy of Being the Son.
“And these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.” That is His Word. His Word is true, and we let it be so in us in this hour, and forevermore, for as the Father sent Him into the world, even so has He sent us into the world.
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them”—“And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” It is glory to be the Son on earth. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am”—not where I shall be, where I am. He, the Son of God, stood on earth in the hour of fulfilment. He had finished the work. That was where He was in the hour of fulfilment. And He said, “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am”—and so it is His Will that we should stand in that Oneness of the Son in the hour of fulfilment. “That they may behold my glory. Which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17)
Beloved LORD, we thank Thee that it is so, and we thank Thee for the Holy Privilege of sharing Thy Fulfilment on earth. In the Christ. Aumen.”
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May your Easter be the happiest one ever. Until my next post,
VENUS IS THE MORNING STAR rising at dawn in the Eastern sky just before sunrise, shortly there after fading from view as the Sun outshines the brightest, and hottest planet in our solar system at 880 degrees Fahrenheit , ushering in our days.
FROM MY READERSHIP
Well, I did receive a few comments on my previous post letting me know that I hadn’t pushed the envelope too far after all, so I’ll continue to “muse on” and expand on the luciferous topic. Yes, Phillip, there is a “perfect design to our place in the cosmos.” That’s what I’ll write about in this post.
Phillip J. Zbaraz wrote:“While I often am unsure of the deep meaning and technical/mathematical/scientific/anatomical references, I am nonetheless moved by the underlying tone and comfort in knowing there truly is a perfect design to our place in the Cosmos. I hope you will continue to push the comfort envelope….we are ready.”
Paul Miles wrote: “It appears that this is indeed a time for the revelation of many truths that are no longer able to remain in darkness. I for one would would encourage you muse on these subjects again. The persecution that has kept many truths veiled has lost the numbers game. The rising frequency of our and Gaia’s collective consciousness continues unabated. We are putting the puzzle pieces together one after another and it just keeps getting more amazingly beautiful.
David Barns wrote: I don’t think you’ve pushed the envelope too much here. For most people the envelope is pretty small, confined and suffocating, so expanding the envelope is life-giving, and may in fact be life-saving if the reader allows the fresh air of expansion to envelope him-or herself. . . . I agree: I am a Solar Entity, both a Sun and a system of planetary bodies, and indeed I am a Cosmos [even as Walt Whitman wrote of himself: ‘Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son] extending in radiance and unmeasurable dimensions that merge into the nondimensional and eternal. And thus it can easily be said of me, the reverse of what was written of by Isaiah: How though art risen to heaven O Lucifer, Son of the Morning! Indeed the fall is now being reversed and Lucifer is rising in me and in many—but I am the Son, the Star, and I am not just limited in identity to Lucifer the conscious mind of the Son. (David’s blog: Great Cosmic Story)
SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY
In a subsequent correspondence, Phillip shared these insightful thoughts: “If one’s words are not better than the silence, perhaps one should remain silent. Knowing that man was made in the image and likeness of G-d, I am curious to understand why we spend so much of our time seeking the approval of others for our sense of worth.”
I understand Phillip’s curious query about our seeking approval from others for our sense of worth. Implied in his query is the recognition that one who seeks such approval hasn’t come to know one’s authentic Self, one’s true identity as a divine Being, from which springs a true sense of value, as well as one’s authority. It’s the false identity, the human ego, that craves approval. The truth of one’s Self needs no approval from others. Spirit can be a compelling force when it has something it wants said, regardless of what others may think or of which they may or may not approve. Speak your truth as you know it to be true.
I have written out of the authority of my own spirit and the wisdom of my heart in my blog posts. I have used other sources, such as The Gospel of Thomas and The Gospel of the Beloved Companion as touchstones for some of my followers and visitors, particularly my Christian brothers and sisters. Now, some may have thought without saying “Well, that’s not what Uranda or Martin taught.” One person did say just that in a comment on one of my posts wherein I stated that a positive attracts a positive and repels a negative.
As I have considered the topic in previous posts, the One Law of “positive action, negative response, attraction, union, unified radiation” would be more accurately stated “Positive action, positive response, attraction, union, unified radiation.” To that I would add empowerment. I know that I have been empowered by my open-hearted positive response to my spiritual mentors and teachers. The word “negative” implies a negating, or voiding, of positive action. Uranda obviously didn’t mean nor intend such. However, according to the Law of Attraction, a lesser positive responds and is attracted to a greater positive and repels a negative. (See my previous post for more in-depth consideration).
The word response means answer—either as a positive acknowledgment and affirmationof the truth expressed that one agrees with, or as a negative reaction to the same. A positive response arises from out of the positive core of one’s inner being as an expression of agreement and accord. A negative response arises out of one’s conscious and/or subconscious mind as a reaction expressing disagreement or contention. The former impowers one to internalize and express the same truth in one’s own words. The latter negates any empowering energy and puts one at odds with one’s own inner reality, creating a house divided in one’s temple. At the level of Spirit we are all one and in accord with the truth of love and of life.
WE ARE EACH ONE A STAR
David Barns’ words above resonate in my heart: “I am the Son, the Star, and I am not just limited in identity to Lucifer the conscious mind of the Son.”
The conscious mind of Man has been restored to Heaven—and Venus has been restored to her rightful place in the heavens as the Morning Star, Bringer of the Dawn, and Light Bearer orbiting around our Star. Her restoration happened centuries ago. How and why has it taken so many centuries for the conscious mind of Man to be restored to Heaven; to orient in and orbit around the Lord and King of Heaven and Earth? Has he only now been quiet enough to hear the invitation to draw near unto Him . . . and to respondpositively? Do I know my own Divine Identity sufficiently to extend this invitation to those in my world: “Come near unto me.”? Ultimately, this is what is being asked of each one of us and all of us together as One Body . . . and all that is required—and it is required—is that I love the Lord my God with ALL of my heart and with ALL of my mind and with ALL of my strength—and, with the overflow of love from out of my heart, that I love my neighbor as my self, as who I Am. That’s not asking too much, is it?
OUT OF THE EAST
Venus and Earth in comparison
About the same size as Earth, Venus rises in the East heralding in the new day. As stated above, she vanishes from sight when our Star, Sol, comes up behind and outshines her.
There’s another event that occurred in the East related in the Creation Story of Genesis: “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.” This event is recorded—along with the creation of man and woman, in the second chapter of Genesis, where there’s a second creation event, this one describing how the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, “and man became a living soul.”
There are several and sundry stories and legendary myths about the creation of man. I resonate with the late Bible connoisseur, Grace Van Duzen, in her portrayal of man as being first eternal and immortal Spirit, later to be clothed with form. Divine Being, incarnate in an earthen form—God incarnate on earth—to continue His work, OUR work, of creation as stewards and keepers of the Garden. That’s the biblical story of man’s origin. Grace tells the “Story of Man” in her insightful masterpiece, THE BOOK OF GRACE ~ A Cosmic View of the Bible.* Here’s an excerpt for your enjoyment.
THE ORIGINAL DISIGN AND PURPOSE OF MAN
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion . . . over all the earth. . . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. . . .
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
At the conclusion of each creative Day, God saw that “it was good.” After the creation of Man the comment was that He saw every thing that he had made, and. . . it was very good.
On the Sixth Day, then, we have Man (and Woman), a perfect creation. In the sixth cycle divine Being was clothed in earth substance, in position to let God perform His cosmic creative acts on this planet through His earthly image and likeness—the means whereby the invisible things of heaven could be brought forth on Earth.
Dominion over every living thing is the result of obedience to the command to multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, which indicates a state where perfect control is operative in the act of multiplying, which involves sexual activity at all vibratory levels.
The opposite has occurred, with overpopulation the primary cause of hellish distortions rampant in every corner of this planet which was created to be a paradise. The results of aberrant function in the most vital area of man’s creative activity, the limiting of that act of creation to the physical level, are taking their toll in increasingly massive numbers.
According to this command, dominion over all creatures and kingdoms of the earth is entirely dependent upon control in this central function of life. Multiplication is an essential aspect of all creation, the “seed within itself,” and without the control that causes the design in the heaven to take material form, the result is self-destruction, tragically obvious in man’s present function on this planet.
The fact that Man, male and female, was created with the faculties to extend the control and guidance of a wise and loving God to all the kingdoms of the earth causes one to look at the situation in today’s world, of misery and violence. Something went wrong! Man is afraid, not only of many creatures of the earth but of his own shadow; there is not much dominion in evidence. The drastic change in the being designed to control the earth and its creatures inevitably included that over which he was to have dominion. Animals took on the nature of their “fallen” god. It can also be seen how quickly a “creature” will return to the state of “grace” when in the presence of a human being expressing the Spirit of God.
The Being that incarnates into this planet at the present time assumes a much denser substance than that in which man was first created. A finely tuned body, clothed with the highest vibrational substance natural to this part of the cosmos, would be equipped to travel vibrationally wherever the Spirit directed. Could this be the origin, deeply buried in the subconscious mind of man, of the concept of angels, radiantly robed in white, with wings that enable them to fly? It is an image that has persisted throughout the ages, and I was awed when I became aware, some years ago, that someone had perceived, in the aura of another’s body, the outline of a shape that resembled wings, extending from the area of the shoulder blades. I am not suggesting that the physical form of man’s imaginary wings would be the vehicle for his transportation, but the essence of the design is present, regardless of all that has been done, and cannot be dissolved by fallen human beings. It is still present.
There have been times during Attunement sessions when I have felt such wing-like emanations arising from the area of the Thyroid gland in the neck where the Spirit of Life is focused in the Body Temple. I do know that we are angels from the Realms of Glory come here to this beautiful garden planet to restore heaven on earth . . . and to restore Lucifer to his role of bearing and shining the Light of Truth and of Love in the heaven of human consciousness. I see as well that this is happening the world over. The fall is being reversed, as David said in his comment above, even as Venus shines brightly in our morning and evening skies. It’s a time for rejoicing in the New Earth emerging out of God’s New Heaven. Let the morning stars sing together, and let the sons and daughters of God shout for joy! Selah!
About Grace Van Duzen: “Throughout her life, teacher and author Grace Van Duzen explored and researched the Bible. Her approach, free of religious or political agenda, continues to open the way for thousands to access teachings that are as relevant now as when the Bible was first recorded.” (Amazon)
MANIS SO MUCH MORE than human flesh, blood and bone; more than an earthen form with the Breath of Life in his nostrils. MAN is a Solar System — or, more accurately, a Solar Entity. His Spirit dwells in the blue flame at the center of the sun. His Heart and Mind are embodied by the planets with their moons. His Body is the entire Solar Entity. “We” created man, male and female, in our own image and likeness and placed him on Earth to “dress and keep” the Garden of Eden, according to the Creation Story in the Book of Genesis which says: “Let us make man….” However, the collective body of “Mankind” is not the entire essence of what Man is. Essential Man is embodied by the entire Solar Entity—and Venus may play a focal role in the Mind of Essential Man.
Whether or not Venus was once a comet, as Velikovsky speculated, or whether, as a planet, Venus fell out of her orbit, knocked off by some very powerful vibrational impact, or withdrawal, something profoundly traumatic occurred in our solar system to push the earth out of its orbit and tilt its rotational axis 23 degrees. Could it possibly have been man’s failure to remain in vibrational harmony with the Will of the LORD God for him and his withdrawal from Eden to create his own version of Paradise? There’s no doubt in my mind that the “Fall” had ripple effects and dire consequences on the order and harmony of the planets and their orbital movements in our solar system.
MORNING STAR
According to Immanuel Velikovsky, Venus was once a comet that collided with Mars and passed dangerously close to Earth, disrupting human activities on the planet and spraying the earth with crude oil and insects, most notably flies. She was called “Lucifer” and “Beelzebub“ (lord of the flies). She was greatly feared by earthlings who anticipated her return every fifteen years with great anxiety, until she was captured by our sun and caused to travel in an orbit like the other planets, and to appear in the morning sky. Thus she was called “Morning Star” and “Bringer of the Dawn.” She also appears at dusk and drops down out of sight into “the underworld,” according to Greek mythology, appearing to “fall” from the heavens.
In the Testament of Solomon, Beelzebul (not Beelzebub) appears as prince of the demons and says that he was formerly a leading heavenly angel who was associated with the star Hesperus (the normal Greek name for the planet Venus.
The prophet Isaiah (14:12) spoke of Lucifer as the “son of the morning” who was “brought down to hell.” Here is the passage:
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hath said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?”
LUCIFER AS VENUS
Immanuel Velikovsky wrote extensively about Venus in his trilogy: “Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval, and Ages In Chaos.” I referenced him in a previous post. Much of what he speculated and predicted about the planet, such as her hot temperature, proved to be accurate later in outer space explorations. Today Venus has a rather harsh climate and doesn’t experience typical rainfall like we do here on Earth. “Sulfuric acid rain falls in its upper atmosphere which evaporates before reaching the surface due to extreme heat. Trace amounts of water in the upper atmosphere combine with sulfur dioxide to form clouds of sulfuric acid that cause frequent rainstorms.” (Microsoft Bing)
I bring Venus into the picture simply because, as a member of our Solar Entity, her alleged radical behavior as a comet, falling from the heavens, colliding with Mars, and nearly with the earth, may well speak to the passage from Isaiah above. “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!“
Is the prophet referring to a “fallen angel” named “Lucifer,” or to this cataclysmic cosmic event about which Velikovsky spent so much of his life tenaciously researching and writing about in his trilogy? Another scenario could blend them both together as singular parallel events, one occurring in the Inner Realms and the other an external event manifesting the internal “battle in heaven” between Michael and the “great dragon … that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan.” (Rev. 12:7-10). Interestingly, the word “Lucifer” isn’t even used in this passage from Revelation.
With a little research, I found that the word “Lucifer” was integrated into Catholic literature and thinking by Pope Gregory the Great (590 AD) who attached it to the “Devil and Satan.” Outside of Christendom, Lucifer has been associated with the planet Venus, the bright morning and evening star, therefore the “bringer of light.” In the Gospel of Mary Magdalene Jesus is said to have called her “Mary Lucifer” for her bright light of understanding and expression, and the “Magdala,” tower of strength and power, as well as “Apostle of apostles.” Jesus is referred to only once as the “day star” in the Second Epistle of Peter (2 Peter 1:19). Nowhere in my Crossway Comprehensive Bible Concordance does the word “Lucifer” even appear. I am left to conclude that only the planet Venus bears the name “Lucifer.”
As stated above, the Mind of Man is embodied by the planets of our solar system. We speak of the influence the stars and planets have on us and our psyche in astrology — which is a degraded remnant of the ancient “science of Mazzaroth”—a word that appears in only one place in the Old Testament: the Book of Job: “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?” Mazzaroth has to do with the twelve constellations of the Zodiac and the precession of the earth’s rotational axis through their “houses,” marking the seasons and ages through which we travel. We are currently in the Age of Aquarius. In Genesis 1:14 we read that God made the heavens to be “for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”
“PLUCK A FLOWER AND DISTURB A STAR”
While we know something of the influences that impact us from heavenly bodies, we know very little, if anything at all, about the influences we may have on our immediate Solar Home among the stars. “What!?” you may exclaim. Indeed, how can human beings, in size comparable to “fleas on a dog’s back,”—as my long-departed friend and Earth Science Professor Dr. John Waskom once compared human beings—have any influence on the planet’s function in the solar system?! That may well be so in relationship to tiny and seemingly insignificant human beings — whose tallest skyscrapers and major cities cannot even be distinguished from outer space—but not in relationship to Essential Solar Man. The activity in the Collective Consciousness of Man is so much more impactful on the larger picture than the puny minds of earthbound humans.
The current activity in the Collective Consciousness of Man is increasingly of a more spiritual nature. A recent report indicates that seven out of ten Americans have left their religion and adopted a more “spiritual” path toward enlightenment and oneness with God. The word religion has a Latin root meaning to bind back to. It seems it may have served its purpose and is no longer needed. Religion is a dead end path, literally. The faithful have to die in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. That’s not what Jesus taught. He taught the Kingdom of Heaven is “within you . . . at hand and all around you.” It seems that people are increasingly finding that to be true.
This change in the vibrational climate and content of the Collective Consciousness is encouraging. We will see what impact this shift will have in the larger context of our Home among the stars. This is also a very large and deeply complex subject requiring a degree of spiritual maturity and development of consciousness to even venture into — and I may have “pushed the envelope” a bit too far in this post. However, it is a pivotal and important subject; one to which we must be willing to give serious and mature consideration if we are to remember our past so as not to repeat it. I may return to the subject matter for further development in my next post. We’ll see what Spirit says in my heart . . . and to what the response may be, if any, to this post. I welcome your comments by email. Until then,
IN THIS POST I share with you one of the most touching and profound words of Uranda I’ve ever read anywhere. Words that bring me to tears of joy and of unspeakable love that rises up from the depth of my soul for this One that I am, and we all are, privileged to call Master, Son of God, LORD of Lords and King of kings — and, as George Frederick Handel called Him in his Oratorio Masterpiece, Messiah, “Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.”
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My thoughts turn to some of the words of the Master tonight: “Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” And we are, also, to overcome the world.
I was thinking that, in the conclusion of the activities of a blessed day such as this, we might well again give thought to the Master’s Prayer at the time of the conclusion of His Ministry. The conclusion of His Ministry was peculiarly the point where our Ministry begins. The time that has elapsed since has no meaning in that. He had been outlining the Principles of the One Vine and of the means by which we might let the Works of the Father manifest.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full… For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
He had also outlined the Principles with respect to the work of the Comforter or Spirit of Truth. He had pointed the Way to Life. It remained for those who should follow after to prove that Life, to experience it according to His Word. And then, in the conclusion of that Ministry, He gave a prayer—a prayer that is our beginning point.
“Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee”. He was, of course, the manifestation of the Son of God, but He was returning to the Father and He had outlined the Plan by means of which the Son, the only begotten Son of God, should continue on earth. The interval of time that has elapsed before that Plan began to be of effect should be, in our consideration, forgotten, as it were, that it may be meaningless. The trials and the tribulations, the concepts, the efforts and the failures of that interval must not be allowed to have meaning in relationship to our function. From the standpoint of Reality, those things do not have meaning. The connecting thread, the unifying Current, is not less strong because of the passage of that time. Our attitude and our feeling and our function should be as if we had heard these words for the first time a few days ago, as if only a month ago He had stood with us upon the face of the earth, as if it were but yesterday that the vibrant sound of His Voice fell on our ears, as if we, in this flesh, had seen Him come forth Victoriously from the tomb, as if we had, in person, shared His final words of admonition and instruction, as if we had known that hour when He ascended to return no more until what He had begun should have been finished in the hearts and lives of men.
The human mind is so inclined to feel the distance of the intervening years, so that there is a loss in a consciousness of personal contact. The Son is the One Christ Body on earth, then and now. The meaning of the Word as He spoke it with respect to His own manifestation is not to be construed as the only meaning, for He spoke also of that Body that is—“Father, the hour is come”. His was the hour of departing; ours is the hour of beginning, of moving forward in fulfilment. The Father glorified the Son then. He is just as capable of glorifying the Son now. “The hour is come. Glorify thy Son”. Why? “That thy Son also may glorify thee”. The beginning and the end, or the end and the beginning, are the same.
He was here on earth. It seems but yesterday we heard Him speak. It seems but the passage of a moment since His prayer first ascended as sweet incense unto God. Time—these things transcend all time. It was but yesterday He gave the Promise. Today we let that Promise be fulfilled. We remember how our hearts were stirred at the sound of His Voice, and the passage of an hour or a day cannot quiet that stirring or end that surge of consciousness of the Power of God. It is now, in this hour, that the Spirit of His Word finds fulfilment in our hearts. It is now, in this hour, that we let His Promise be fulfilled. The excitements and the questionings, the fears and the doubts, have been stilled. We have ceased trying to make it be so, for in the vibrant Power of His Love we are not separate or apart and we know that the Father Himself loveth us because we have loved Him, because we do love Him Who has walked the earth before us, Who has revealed the Way, the Truth and the Life.
“The hour is come” for us to let the Father glorify His Son, that the Son may glorify the Father. We trembled, and were sad, that the hour had come when He should leave us, but we did not let such things prevent fulfilment of His Word lest what He did should be in vain. The hour of His going was the hour of our beginning, and it is so still, for though He went He has not departed, for His Spirit lingers in our hearts and His Word is as powerful as when it first fell from His lips, Words burned in letters of Fire upon our hearts, memorable occasions that could never pass from mind. Yesterday His hour came—today is our hour of fulfilment in beginning.
“Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God”, and the Christ, the only begotten Son—then Jesus—now the One Christ Body Whom Thou hast sent. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”. How truly is that our point of beginning. How seldom on this earth has the word reverberated in truth—“I have finished the work”. We have seen in the world the feeble attempts at doing some bit of work—human beings, like children, building castles in the sand to admire in one moment and to destroy in the next, and then to delude themselves into feeling that they had accomplished something. And how they brag about the mansions they builded in the sand; but we consider other mansions, Mansions in the Father’s House.
“I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”—and in season the Son shall again speak these words, but before those words may be truly spoken once more, there must truly be the beginning, the opening up, that comes through the surging Power of His Spirit as we hear again, in memory, His Word, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.” That was but yesterday, surely. It is but a dream that some did not keep His Word. There must now be fulfilment which gives meaning to His faith when He spoke that Word, that when these words sound in memory, and stir within our hearts, they shall not be as a mockery, a symbol of the faith of the Son of God that found no answering heart on earth, but a symbol of the faith of the Son of God that finds fulfilment here and now in His Son on earth.
“And they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” Yes, the intervening time when these words remained unfulfilled is surely but a dream. Twas only yesterday He spoke, and today His Word finds fulfilment. Today we prove His faith was not in vain.
“And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” What was His joy? It was the joy of Oneness with the Father. It was the joy of Being the Son on earth. That is the joy that must be fulfilled in us, the joy of Oneness with the Father, the joy of Being the Son.
“And these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.” That is His Word. His Word is true, and we let it be so in us in this hour, and forevermore, for as the Father sent Him into the world, even so has He sent us into the world.
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them”—“And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” It is glory to be the Son on earth. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am”—not where I shall be, where I am. He, the Son of God, stood on earth in the hour of fulfilment. He had finished the work. That was where He was in the hour of fulfilment. And He said, “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am”—and so it is His Will that we should stand in that Oneness of the Son in the hour of fulfilment. “That they may behold my glory. Which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Beloved LORD, we thank Thee that it is so, and we thank Thee for the Holy Privilege of sharing Thy Fulfilment on earth. In the Christ. Aumen.”
“He who had moved among men before and disappeared at will prior to that time—do you not think that, if His disciples had been holding steady, He could have disappeared in any moment He had chosen?”—Uranda
URANDA: On this beautiful day, which gives promise of a springtime not too far away, let us meditate for a moment upon some of the principles that our Master revealed in relationship to this phase of our own progress along the way. The Master said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do,”and that work which the Father gave was finished before that experience that was made necessary to our LORD by human imposition in the trial and the crucifixion. The work the Father gave Him to do was completed before that trial and before the crucifixion, for we have the Word from His own lips: “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.”Why, then, was it necessary for Him to experience the mockery, the indignities of that trial, and the sufferings of the crucifixion? It was because man imposed those things upon our LORD. They were imposed by man’s rejection of the divine pattern.
The ill things that nullify the expression of the beautiful pattern of God’s design on earth are never God’s will. They are imposed by man’s rejection of that which God offers. The shame and the suffering, the indignities, are never the result of the divine pattern or of God’s will. They are the result of man’s denial and betrayal of his responsibilities, and they are imposed by that which man himself does. Very often those who consider themselves Christians, or who long to move along the spiritual path, are inclined to think: “If I had lived, if I had only had the privilege of living at that time when our Master Himself walked on earth, I would not have been among those who were scattered so quickly from that vast throng who were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the king.’ I would not have been like Peter, denying, or like Judas, betraying, nor like the others who followed afar off, for I would have appreciated my privilege and opportunity. And, cost what it might, I would have been among those who stood at the foot of the cross.” So many have felt that way—perhaps they would not express it in so many words.
Yet today, in this hour and in all the hours to come, we have the same privilege of remaining true, the same privilege of standing at the foot of the cross, the same privilege of proving the reality of our love and our trust. The passage of the centuries has not denied us any privilege that we might have had then, with the one exception of seeing the physical form through which our LORD was manifest. And He said of those who lived then, that for their sakes it was expedient that He should go away; and if it was expedient for them, there is nothing taken from us, because we do not have the privilege, as our minds might think of it, of seeing Him in physical form. It is expedient for us that He so arranged the divine pattern.
So, let us examine something of what happened and see if we can gain a deeper conviction of that which is necessary to ourselves, that we may come to a recognition that it is not what we feel out of the subconscious heart or mind, it is not what we feel externally, that is properly the directing force in our lives. It is what we see and recognize and realize with the conscious mind to be the truth of the matter, for the mind which is allowing the spirit of God to work in it is stronger than any feeling that can come surging up from the subconscious. It is stronger than any idea that may be buried somewhere in the subterranean phases of the mind. It is stronger than any current of feeling that may be imposed from the outside.
What you feel is beside the point. As long as the conscious mind continues to yield to the impulses that come from a distorted subconscious mind or heart, as long as it yields to the currents of feeling or action from without, it is saying, “I am not a guardian angel. I am not fortified by the spirit of God. I am a weak thing and I must of needs acknowledge the extent of my weakness and say that God cannot serve me because I am subject to all of these ill things.” He who says that betrays our LORD, as surely as Judas betrayed Him. He denies, as surely as Peter did, and he is not even following afar off. He is scattered into the darkness, hiding in the alleyways, lest someone see and say, “Are you not one of those who followed Him?”
Let us see what happened at the time of our Master. He had finished the work that God gave Him to do, but certain things were imposed upon Him. In either case, He was going away, as far as His physical form was concerned. But do you think He could cause His body to be changed more easily after all this humiliating experience than otherwise? He could have ascended without the suffering, the crucifixion and those days in the tomb. Man imposed that upon Him and made it necessary. Sometimes people ask a question and say, “But did not the prophets say He would have to die? Does not the Bible say there could be no salvation except as His blood was shed, etc.?” I grant you that after this experience was all over, certain ones developed some ideas with respect to it. And in the pattern of prophecy in the Old Testament you will find those things which recognized not only the possibility but the probability of the manner in which man would function. But because it worked out the way it did, the human interpretation has been on the basis of one idea only; and there has been a complete failure to recognize the fact that an alternate path, the ideal path, was foretold just as surely, as definitely, if man would have allowed it to have meaning.
That which was of God’s design was revealed by the prophets much more abundantly than those comparatively obscure texts that recognized the probability of what man would do. Because man did fail, the texts that relate to that possibility are picked out and held up as what was prophesied. And it is not so at all, because God’s provision of the pathway did not require that Jesus should die. It was human beings that condemned our LORD to the indignities of the trial, so-called, and to the sufferings of the cross. God did not require it. From God’s standpoint, it was not necessary, and I can take the book cover to cover and show you how the pattern was revealed there. Let us examine it.
The idea of the shedding of the blood, from the standpoint of the spear in the side and the nails in His hands and feet, is supposed to have had some particularly efficacious result—that God, being a hardhearted something-or-other, would not accept the salvation of a single man, woman, or child unless His own Son should physically bleed. Anyone who stops to consider that which is revealed of God in the Bible will recognize that that is so completely out of character that there is no reasonable excuse for any person believing it. It is completely out of character. The blood is the symbol of life. He had shed His blood, in the true sense, before He ever reached the agonies of Gethsemane or the sufferings of the cross. He had shed His life upon the earth. He had shed the currents of His life in the revelation of Deity. He had revealed the principles of life. He had given His life to the revelation of the things of God, and He Himself said before any of these things took place, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” There was a recognition that certain things were yet to be faced because of what man had imposed upon Him, but it was not the divine plan or purpose or necessary from the standpoint of God, as if He were a bloodthirsty being who demanded that blood be shed. No. That is not the character of God. It was not the plan or purpose of God. And the only reason why our Master accepted that outworking was because man imposed it upon Him.
Who imposed it upon Him particularly? Who among men? Herod or Pilate or the power of the Caesars? Oh, no. Who imposed it upon Him? His disciples were the ones who imposed that upon Him. It is true. They simply accepted the focalization of the world in the hour of stress, rather than remaining true to their focalization in Him. But consider if the hour of crisis had come and all twelve of the disciples had remained steady. There are those who say Judas, poor creature, was predestined to do it; someone had to do it in order for God’s plan to be fulfilled. Someone on earth had to be a traitor and betray our LORD! Oh, no. God is out of character the moment anyone begins to conceive such an idea. God never predestined anyone to be a traitor or to betray the things of God, let alone the Son of God! Judas did not have to betray Him. It was not necessary; it was not a part of the divine plan. It was a part of human failure.
Consider. If it had worked out according to that which God had made available to them, if according to God’s true plan there had been a following through—of course the Master knew, particularly toward the last, that they were not going to hold when the crisis came; but, even so—suppose Judas had not betrayed Him, suppose Peter had not been of that type who would deny Him, suppose twelve men had stood faithful and true to their LORD on earth—twelve men, not one wavering, not one breaking in the face of the crisis—then His Body on earth, the body of these twelve men who were supposed to be the key men of the Christ Body which should fill the earth, holding steady, would have allowed Him to carry out God’s plan. Not from the standpoint of continued work on earth in the sense of His doing it, but His doing it through the members of His Body—the very principles He had outlined to them such a few hours before, the principles and Laws that He had expounded to them over and over again through the three and a half years of His ministry with them. But if that Body, the focalization of the Body in twelve men, would have held the pattern, hundreds and thousands who had received blessings at His hand, who had cried “Hosanna to our king,” would have stood if the twelve disciples had stood. And there would have been a Body on earth.
He who had moved among men before and disappeared at will prior to that time—do you not think that, if His disciples had been holding steady, He could have disappeared in any moment He had chosen? Could humanity have heaped the indignities of the cross or mockery of the trial upon Him? No. Why did He accept that imposition? The Body that He had been building through the years of ministry died, scattered first—the scattering of the disciples. When they broke, when they slept in Gethsemane instead of watching with Him one little hour, when they slept, when He came to face the final pattern, of course the LORD would not have suffered as He did—even in Gethsemane—had this pattern been holding properly. Because already Judas had gone out to betray, His body had started to decay and die, the body of His disciples. That body of the disciples was scattered, brought to the point of death before His physical body as a man was brought to the point of the crucifixion.
If that body of twelve disciples had remained steady and true, no power on earth could have touched Him, because then the victory would have been assured without His going through what He did. The same truths would have been revealed in the outworking of the cycles of time, but there would have been a Body established—twelve key points, with others rallying around vibrationally. And if they had sought to touch Him, whether He would have used spiritual power to prevent it or whether He would have disappeared is beside the point. That would have been for Him to choose and it is not for me to speculate upon, but they could not have touched Him. That we know. If the body He had built, or undertaken to build—the Body of many members—had held true, His physical body would not have had to be on the cross. But on the cross of spiritual creative activity, the crossing between heaven and earth, there would have been a revelation of divine power that would have carried through effectively and saved man centuries of suffering, sorrow, misery and death. The Body would have been complete and this world would have been restored already.
It is not until after this plan had failed to carry through that we have the prophetic portrayal, for instance in Revelation, of that which should yet be done. Because in Isaiah, and many other places, there is mention made: “Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” That is part of the prophecy of what was divinely ordained for the time when Jesus Christ should come on earth, that which could have been, but man prevented it. Man spoiled the pattern of God, so there was a divine reorganization and a re-projection of the same goal under a new pattern. Not all was lost, it is true. Our Master had finished the work. He had revealed Deity, established the truth on earth, set the pattern. And somewhere there would be those who would follow through, those who would not be so quick to betray for thirty pieces of silver or their own human desires.(Emphasis added)
I wonder how many of you know why Judas betrayed, what the working of his mind was. . . .
Healing Tones 