MEDITATIONS ON THE FOUR FORCES

Carrying on from our last supplemental let's listen briefly to Uranda
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF PNEUMAPLASMIC GENERATION
AND THE 'ONENESS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH'.
 

As we begin to recall our previous meditations along this line, begin to let go to the understanding of the spirit, we can the more readily see that when we as human beings, individually and collectively, actually come into attunement with God we are not supposed to act as if we were separate from God. This constant contradiction in attitude and expression distorts the pattern of the vibratory factors in that delicate area where spirit begins to have meaning in relationship to the things of the physical world.
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     We recognized... that unless there is the generation, development, of pneumaplasm--the means by which spirit can contact the physical substance of the body itself, of the mind, the vibratory patterns of the heart--we have no way of connecting up. And this level where the connecting is first established is a delicate field, where any ill feeling of resentment or rebellion,... produces a turmoil, a chaos--not on God's side, but on our side--so that the vibratory factors are not permitted to connect up. It is like having a pool of water, a crystal-clear pool in a little brook somewhere, and then instead of enjoying the clear pool, where there is a visible relationship between the sky, the trees round about and the pool because of the reflection, the individual takes a stick and begins to muddy the pool, get dirt into it, and soon it is not such a lovely thing. Muddying the pool accomplishes nothing. Letting it be clear, crystal-clear, is the important thing. ...if this is to be, we need to have a selflessness.
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...One of the principles--I suppose it might be called elementary principles--which we have come to recognize... relates to the fact that man is supposed to be the connecting link between heaven and earth. He has, as we know, become something of a missing link. Man is supposed to be the means by which the oneness of heaven and earth may be revealed. Without man in place the oneness of heaven and earth is not adequately revealed. Human beings, having become the missing rather than the connecting link, find themselves involved particularly with the earth aspect of the creative unit composed of heaven and earth. In the formation of the individual there is a process by which physical substance, the physical substance of the earth--the dust of the ground, as it is called in the Book of Genesis--is drawn into a specific form, the physical body of man. Something causes this to happen. It is a part of a process of resurrection. The substance of the earth is lifted out of the forms in which it was previously, into a new form, the form of a man or of a woman. There is a cause of course. It would not happen without a cause. The cause is a heavenly cause, an invisible cause.
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     This process of resurrection is not, of course, limited to what occurs in relationship to the body of man. Before the body of man began to take form the substance of the ground had already been lifted into certain forms which are utilized in the diet of mankind. But all this substance came out of the dust of the ground, what we might call the undifferentiated state insofar as specific living form is concerned, of the mineral kingdom. We can visualize an invisible cause drawing that substance out of the physical earth upward from form to form until it appears in the physical body of man. This power, which accomplishes what might well be called a remarkable miracle, does it without any great evidence of strain or effort. We are not particularly impressed by effort in the growing of a plant, or even of a human body. In the view of most it just happens somehow. But nothing just happens. There is always a cause. The cause is there and the result appears. It appears more or less easily and naturally, one might say inevitably, in the development of the various forms all the way through to the physical form of a man or a woman, and so the physical body takes shape. Sometimes there are distortions which enter into the pattern somewhat, but we have some awareness of the reason for such things. We can look beyond that and recognize the ease with which the physical form of man comes into being. It is the resurrection of the dust of the ground, carried all the way through into your physical body, for instance.
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     The trouble starts when the mind of man develops to the point where it may begin to interfere with the natural, easy cycles of resurrection. Man is supposed to be lifted, as far as his physical form is concerned, up to an apex point which would enable the continued operation of the divine cause to have a means of specific manifestation in dominion, in control, of the creative processes here on earth. We see that the form of man is held, then, above the level of the physical earth, the physical substance of the earth. It has been resurrected to a higher level, and in a sense it can be visualized as being suspended there by reason of the fact that something holds it up. The invisible cause maintains it in form. When, or if, that which holds the physical substance up in the form of the individual is parted from the form, the physical substance simply collapses and goes back into the dust of the ground from whence it came. If that which has been in the process of being lifted up in the human form has developed a sense of identity, which is the case with ordinary human beings, and the cause which has held that form in being is separated from the form, then obviously there is no longer any identity to that physical substance. It resumes its identity with the earth as a whole. It loses its identity in a specific individual sense, because there is nothing any longer to have identity. The substance is there, the same substance which before thought of itself as having identity, but it is no longer maintained at a level higher than the mineral kingdom, and consequently it resumes identity with that level of being.
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     We are concerned, however, with living. Of course this separation process is what human beings call dying, perishing. Fallen man has been, for ages, deeply involved with the earth part of the creative unit composed of heaven and earth. He has, as we recognize, failed to maintain an adequate connection with the heaven aspect, so that it is a very tenuous thing which, before too long, inevitably ruptures and there is the experience of what is called death. By reason of a reverse in his polarity this takes place. His response has been to that which was of the earth, earthy. His response, the capacity of response which is developed in the physical form as it is lifted up in the processes of resurrection, is supposed to remain centered in relationship to that which is doing the lifting and not revert downward to that which is in effect dragging the individual down, dragging that physical substance back.
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     The relationship between man and this manifest creation here on earth has been on the basis of man's subjection to it. He has claimed, falsely, that he has been gaining dominion over the earth and all things in it. He deludes himself into imagining that that is what has been happening. But it is not at all what has been happening, because man, on the basis of his response, has placed himself in a position of subjection to the earth and all things in it; and no matter how he has struggled to gain dominion, and no matter how he has deluded himself into imagining that he is doing just that, it is not the fact. His relationship, in other words, to the earth has been one of subjection rather than dominion. The correct relationship, of course, is that of dominion; but this does not mean that man would lose any relationship to the earth--which tends to be the assumption of many religionists, the intent being, apparently, to get out of the earth into heaven. This is not a true purpose. It is something which man has devised in his own imagination. Man has a proper relationship to heaven and to the earth. He must have if he was created to be the connecting link between heaven and earth. His correct relationship with heaven makes possible his correct relationship with the earth, and he cannot develop a correct relationship with the earth without first finding his correct relationship with heaven. So it is not surprising that he has failed in his endeavors, because there has been virtually, except in imagination, an ignoring of the necessity to establish a correct relationship with heaven. There has been a lot of imagination in the field of religion on this score, but it has not enabled man to do anything, in fact. It has just deluded him in imagination, and we have the world filled with the evil imaginations of men's hearts; and whether human beings call them good or bad, they are all evil imaginations. Until man has found his correct relationship with heaven he cannot have a correct relationship with the earth, and until he has a correct relationship with the earth he cannot live, for he was designed and created to live in heaven on earth.
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     His correct relationship to the earth, once his correct relationship with heaven has been restored, permits the earth to be responsive to him. Man's attitude toward the earth is that it is not responsive to him; and that is true, of course, because man is out of place. He takes the attitude with respect to the earth, and all things in it, that he must impose himself upon it. He must impose his ideas upon the processes of agriculture, for instance. He must force plants to grow the way he wants them to grow. He must eliminate, by various means, the things that he imagines should not be there, in the way of weeds or insects or something else. He is going to impose his will upon the forests. He is going to impose his will upon the minerals of the ground. He is going to get the oil, and he is going to use it for his purposes. And by his own forcefulness he imagines that he is establishing dominion on earth. But it is a constant battle. Things are always going wrong, and troubles multiply on every hand. And so he must be, according to his own concept, more forceful than ever, and he must discover more things, get more knowledge, so that he can impose his will more effectively.