MEDITATIONS ON THE FOUR FORCES
Trustworthiness only
begins to appear to the extent of spiritual expression, to the extent that
the angel of life is in command of the human soul.
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As we noted this
morning, for this to occur it is necessary to allow the increase of spiritual
expression to occur. The increase of spiritual expression includes life,
true living; truth, the design and control which are not of this world;
and love. We know something about the meaning of the word "Shekinah" or
"the Christ." Shekinah, the Christ, is characterized by the fire of love,
the fire that burns eternally. Because of this fire there is the light
that glows, and because of the fire and the light, there is the cloud of
glory. The cloud of glory characterizes life, the expression of life on
earth in physical form; the light that glows rightly characterizes mental
expression on earth; and the fire that burns is the fire of love, the central
core of spiritual expression. In union with the angel of life there is
union with Shekinah. In fact it is Shekinah, the Christ, which makes the
union possible. In that union it may rightly be said, "I am the cloud of
glory, I am the light that glows, I am the fire that burns."
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When we think of
fire it is usual to associate it with something painful. If you put your
hand in the fire, Ouch! But as has been stated before, fire obviously does
not burn itself. I am the fire; that is my character. I am the fire that
burns eternally. I am the light that glows eternally in consequence. I
am the cloud of glory, which gives evidence of the light that glows and
the fire that burns. Therefore in that experience the former things of
pain and sorrow and crying are no longer present. Death is no longer present;
death does not cohabit with life. Death is simply the absence of life.
In truth, life is never absent.
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If the former things
are to pass away they do so to the extent that there is one present, incarnate
in human form and in expression through human form, who may say, speaking
truly, "I am the fire that burns, the light that glows and the cloud of
glory. I am THAT I am." I know, in your experience as human beings, thus
far you have known pain, sorrow, trouble, discomfort, and you have been
aware of what is called death. What is it, then, that suffers these things?
It certainly isn't you, the angel of life.
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The burning of the
fire consumes the bonds of earthly heredity. This is the only way that
those bonds will be consumed. You can't evolve out of them. At least the
only way you can do that would be to die, which I don't think is evolution
but rather devolution. It might be said that a person is trustworthy up
to the level where the discomfort becomes sufficiently intense to cause
him to revert into slavery. I have noted that there are those who are afraid
of discomfort. This is one of the reasons why lethargy is so convenient,
because it seems to offer the temporary opportunity to avoid placing oneself
in a position of discomfort. One may hide in the shadows, so to speak,
because there is an awareness that discomfort will put in an appearance
if one comes out into the open. Of course the one being spoken of here
is the human soul.
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The bonds which bind
the human soul may be seen in terms of heredity. Heredity is to be dissolved,
burned in the fire. That will be uncomfortable for heredity presumably;
and if that is the place of one's identity, then there will be an inclination
to hide in the shadows, endeavoring to keep the fire from getting too close.
From the standpoint of the angel of life the purpose is that the fire should
be brought to bear upon the bonds. A person who is always hiding, humanly,
from the anticipated discomfort of the fire will not let the bonds be burned,
at least not for a while. It seems that it is possible to avoid discomfort
in this fashion, even within the range of those who should know better
and also should do better. But it is much easier to let the bonds be burned
at low temperatures than to wait for the furnace to be heated perhaps seven
times hotter than it is wont to be heated; then there is no avoiding it
if one is to keep one's integrity. Human beings everywhere, ourselves included--certainly
in times past--have been accustomed to dance to the tune of the tyrant.
That has been the compulsion of human existence. If there is a passion
born in the human soul toward the angel of life, then the whole desire
is to allow all bonds to be consumed in the fire. As I say, it is a lot
easier to let them be consumed at a low temperature, one by one, than to
hide in the shadows and wait for the violent explosion; because that will
surely come.
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Third Sacred School
( Note:Your Inner BEING Now speaks the following sacred Words to your Outer capacities of expression. They are most effective if read aloud, for this is what your Master Self Within would say to your outer capacities of body, mind and heart in this moment. G.C.M. Ed)
Behold, thou art now invited to attend upon the revelation of the greatest force in the world, in comparison to which all other forces are dwarfed into nothingness. That which thou hast heard spoken of as "occult power" is that which hath its foundation in love. When thou hast learned to understand love thou shalt know that there are no miracles, except as they may seem to be such to the world. When thou shalt harmonize with love thou shalt surely find that thou art able to accomplish all things necessary to thy service to thy brother man, the service for which thou didst come into the world.
The great deeds accomplished by the Master
Jesus were all accomplished through the wonderful force called "Love."
Every person who has ever attained to mastership, and has accomplished
that which is truly constructive to the world, has known and used the marvelous
power of love. If thou wouldst attain to great service, then is it required
that thou shalt know and understand the secrets of love. If thou wouldst
fulfill thy mission in life, then is it required that thou shalt learn how
to use love in accordance with the wisdom of thy Father within thee.
The body of the Triune Ray is twofold,
namely "Light" and "Life." The positive center of the Triune Ray is RADIANT
LOVE. Light and life are ever manifest with love, for the force of love
always transforms that with which it comes in contact. This truth must
be firmly fixed in thy consciousness, that thou mayest understand the mystery
of love. LOVE ALWAYS TRANSMUTES AND TRANSFORMS. Love is the only force
by which creation is accomplished. Love is the force that brings forth
ascension. Love never fails. Love is absolute. Love is the center of God
activity. IN LOVE IS ONENESS.
That thou mayest understand this great
mystery of love, and that it may be fully unveiled before thee, consider
this truth: He who responds to the wonderful love force is uplifted thereby,
and he is transformed and transmuted. He who begins to respond to the love
center of the Triune Ray and then, because of the unwise desires of the
outer mind, steels himself against the love force, so that he refuses to
respond to it after its action has already started within himself, does
thereby fight against love, and as a result he becomes positive toward
the positive center of the Triune Ray. Such refusal to respond after reaction
has started brings so-called tragedy into the expression of the individual.
The darkness and the turmoil resulting from such a refusal is in accordance
with the degree to which the reaction has taken place before refusal to
respond begins.
To illustrate this important truth, let
thy comprehension consider a rift which hath brought disturbance to the
lives of a man and a woman whom thou knowest. Man is the positive of the
human expression. Woman is the negative of the human expression. When they
two respond to the blending and creative force of love, so that they feel
their oneness deeply and react thereto with the fulness of their beings,
they have placed themselves AS ONE in the positive center of the Triune
Ray, and so long as they shall remain thus, responding fully to the God
impulse received through the Triune Ray, they shall find themselves to
be lifted up, and all things shall appear in perfection for them. Yet the
outer mind, which hath usurped the directive faculty for these many ages,
is not content to LET. The outer mind begins to draw attention to the outer
self, and if the individual responds to this separating influence, he begins
to think of himself and what is needful to himself, following the ideas
of the outer mind which are presented under the cloak of what the outer
mind terms "the practical." Thus is the attention allowed to be centered
outside of the love center of the Triune Ray, with the idea of GETTING
this or that. Since they two have allowed themselves to be drawn into oneness
through love, they are then as one...
... He who is fused with another in the fire of love must continue to harmonize with the force that produced his new state of being, keeping his attention centered in the center of the Triune Ray, or he shall, to his sorrow, know what it is to fight against the greatest force in the universe, and in his fighting he shall bring destruction upon himself, for that which he sends forth shall the more quickly return upon his own head.
Love is always constructive. Love always
transforms. He who fights against love finds that he cannot penetrate through
it, and that love's invincible force returns his fighting upon himself.
Love now fills the earth, and all who respond
to love are being uplifted and transformed. All who refuse to respond to
love are to find that their own positive attitude toward love is causing
their every destructive thought, word and deed to return upon themselves.
Even now every person upon the face of the earth is making a choice--the
choice between love and the self-centered desires of the outer mind.
All who choose love shall ascend into perfection
of form. All who refuse love shall destroy themselves, and in self-destruction
shall they destroy all evil. Then shall it be said of the world, "Death
is swallowed up in victory," and "God hath wiped away all tears from their
eyes," for "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." (Rev.
21:4)
If there be any who think that in the new
state of being that dawns there shall be any evil, or if any shall think
that there is any evil or limitation in any being that ascends from the
physical body at the time of separation called death, let him give deep
consideration to the 27th verse of Revelation 21. In the earth, as controlled
by mortal man and carnal mind, is the only evil that is to be found in
all of the universe, and that which is evil cannot leave the earth, neither
can any evil being enter into the realms of the Soul.
Thy (Master Within), even thy Father within,
and also the (Master Self) within every person upon the face of the earth,
is perfect from eternity to eternity, and EVERY (INNER BEING) ABIDES IN
LOVE ALWAYS. That body and body mind which responds not to the love radiated
by the Inner (Being) shall surely be separated therefrom, and it shall
return unto the dust from whence it came, for "there shall in no wise enter
into it any thing that defileth." These words are spoken of the new Jerusalem,
which portrays the new state of being that now dawns, even as the old Jerusalem
portrays the state of mortal being now known in the earth.
Love is that eternal force which removes
all that defileth, and allows mankind to ENTER IN. He who responds to love
shall find that the fire of love transmutes his whole mortal being and
removes from it all that would prevent entrance into the realms of light.
He who responds not to love finds that he, the mortal being, or outer soul,
cannot enter in. Love attracts all that responds to it. Love repels all
that responds not to it.
He who would be an open channel for the
action of love in the world must first respond to love and become one in
love.
He who would become one in love must know
that no one can, by any process, reach out and draw love to himself for
himself alone, for love is selfless. Love judges not. Love radiates to
the just and unjust alike. He who thinks that he loves and yet regards
one better than another knows not what love is.
Love may not be understood except as it
is allowed to have its way, for he who seeks through the intellect alone
shall never enter in. Let the mysteries stand revealed before thee now,
for the time of choice is in this eternal instant.
"Out of Egypt have I called my son." In
these words are the keys to light, for Egypt is the symbol of darkness,
even the darkness of the outer mind that depends upon its own knowledge
and power. Until thou hast gone down into Egypt thou canst not enter in,
for until thou art fully convinced of the darkness of the outer mind thou
art not able to let go to thy Father within thee.
The occult teachings of the world have
taught that long years of special training in special schools, under so-called
masters, were necessary to the attainment of knowledge and power. Though
these schools were called esoteric, they were truly exoteric, for they
depended upon the progress of the outer into knowledge, and because of
this, long periods of time were required, and the attainments of a lifetime
were subject to marked limitations. In the truly esoteric way there is
no dependence placed upon the outer, except in degree of response; for
progress depends on the outer self's complete letting go, so that the knowledge
and power that are already within may have a free opportunity to flow from
within outward through the body self, according to the need.
In the esoteric way the outer self does
not try to gain knowledge, or any other thing, for it recognizes that of
itself it can do nothing, and can know nothing. Instead of seeking knowledge
and power, it lets go and seeks nothing, for it is convinced that the environment
of the God-Self, often spoken of as the kingdom of heaven, IS WITHIN. When
the outer has been convinced of this truth, it needs to know nothing else,
for the rest is then added to the degree that the outer abides in the awareness
that all that is worthwhile to it is already provided and present within.
The result of this constant realization
is that the outer lets the inner knowledge and power flow out through the
body-self in perfect freedom, and then there can be no lack in the environment
of the individual, for he has allowed the environment of his God-Self to
expand and fill the outer environment to an extent that causes the outer
environment to completely disappear into that of the God-Self. Then there
can be no limitation in the individual's environment, because he has none.
He lives and moves and has his being, consciously, in the unlimited environment
of the God-Self, for he has thus become one with the God-Self, and then
these words may be uttered in truth, "My Father and I are one."
In this truth all other truths have their
source. In this way is the One Way, and they who enter therein need not
travel the long byways that have been before considered essential. Herein
is the great secret of the first great teaching given to man, and no matter
what long-drawn-out path anyone may travel, that one must at last walk
in this way, for it is the Christ Way. Though words might be multiplied,
and many volumes written, a greater truth could not be written, neither
could a better way be chosen; there is no other, and this is the full and
final knowledge, beyond which there is no other. This is the beginning
and the end, the "first and the last."
He who chooses the long way first may do
so, but at last he must come to this way, else he will not enter in. Beloved,
thou art privileged to walk now in the One Way, for it is before thee,
and thou mayest quickly enter in. Some there are who will not see the inner
essence of these words, and they will turn from them into ways of their
own choosing--for them we pray. Some there are who will look to the spirit
of these words and not to the letter only, and they will respond to the
One within them, finding their true Master, even the God-Self within them,
that they may be filled from within by the Triune Ray--for them we rejoice
and sing praises unto the LORD of Lords.
Consider now the One Way. It hath been
revealed to man many times, but in his blindness man has refused to see.
But he may refuse no longer to see that THE WAY IS. All who walk therein
shall know eternal life now. All who refuse shall by their own acts of
evil bring destruction upon themselves, thereby destroying evil from the
earth.
THE ONE WAY IS THE TRIUNE RAY. Man is the
lost word. The letter of the lost word killeth. The spirit of the lost
word giveth life, here and now. Love is the positive center of the Triune
Ray, and in love is the whole secret of the power and knowledge thereof.
Love is that which allows the lost word to be filled with unlimited power,
for through love the spirit of the lost word is allowed to come into active
expression.
The long way of the outer mind that leadeth
to destruction is based upon the struggling and striving of the outer self
in an effort to attain, climb and gain, but in the end the outer self must
be convinced that it cannot lift itself.
The short way of the Master-Self leadeth
to life eternal, and that quickly. When the lost word LETS the spirit of
the God-Self fill it, it is thereby transformed into the living word. This
is the work of love, for love allows the outer to let the God-Self have
His way, that the will of the Father may be done in all things, and thereby
is the oneness with the Father established.
The outer words that are written cannot
reveal this mystery, for the spirit of the words must be LIVED if thou
wouldst know the Way.
Here are the keys by which thou mayest
enter in now, where thou art:
1. Recognize that the perfect environment
and being of thine own God-Self is within thee now, and that in Him is
the fulness of wisdom and power.
2. Let thyself be receptive and responsive
to every urge that comes from thy God-Self within thee, that thou mayest
act only when thou art so urged, letting thy Father's radiance flow freely
through thee.
3. Take careful note of the love force
that is released from within thee in thy every thought, and through thy
every word and act, for in this thou shalt find that to the degree that
thou shalt let go to the inner there is an ever-present direction which
shall show thee the Way.
4. Knowing full well that there is no power,
wisdom or knowledge, or any other worthwhile or lasting thing, in thy outer
mind or in the outer mind of any other person on earth, except as that
outer mind hath ceased to act of itself, thou shalt be no respecter of
persons or things, and thy attitude toward the world and things of the
world shall be positive, in that thou art expressing only as thou art urged
from within. And this positive attitude shall surely prevent all the destructive
vibrations of the world from having any effect upon thee in any manner
whatsoever.
5. Being aware of these things, through
thine own experience in the letting, thou shalt see that it is easy to
distinguish the inner urge from the outer idea, in that the inner urge
is ALWAYS vibrating to the force of love, thinking not of itself but giving
every consideration to the radiation of light, love and life in a lasting
service to mankind. The outer idea vibrates to WHAT IT THINKS. The inner
urge vibrates to WHAT IT KNOWS. The outer idea is concerned about itself
or those who are of family ties or selfish choice, as it is also concerned
about things, and ways and means. The inner urge gives no thought to persons,
places or things, and gives no heed to ways and means, for it knows that
all that is necessary is provided already, and to it one person is as worthy
as another, being no respecter of persons because it makes the ever-present
moment supreme in radiation, that the Christ radiance may fill every available
avenue with the Triune Ray.
He who is motivated by selfless love is
he who is able to know that union which is the Seventh Mystery, for in
this is the way which leadeth into the Temple of Light. He who hath entered
into the Temple of Light needs no further teaching from the outer teachers,
and books cannot reveal more to him.
The outer idea is that there is much to
be given up if one would walk in the Way. The inner truth is that he who
enters in gives up nothing, for he sees that the things of the outer are
nothing, therefore there can be no sacrifice--rather does he see and know
that ALL THINGS ARE ADDED, and from that day henceforth he can never be
in need. He hath reached the point where he can truly say, "I shall not
want," for then he hath ceased to want anything whatsoever, no matter how
good that thing, condition or state may appear to the outer-mind idea.
No one can of himself enter in, for all
that anyone can do is to let the radiant expression and environment of
the God-Self expand through him until it shall enfold and enclose him;
then shall he know what it is to enter in. No man can climb into that perfect
state, but all men may allow themselves to be drawn into that wonderful
realm of being.
The fruition of love is oneness with the
God Being within. That which does not draw thee into the inner oneness
is of the outer mind, and its action is to separate thee from the Inner
Self, causing a veil to appear before thine eyes. That which is of love
always tends to draw thee away from dependence on things and persons, so
that thou art increasingly aware of the One within and His radiance through
thee as it is released through every thought, word and deed.
As thou shalt turn thy responsive attention
away from things, so that thou art drawn into oneness with the One within,
thou shalt find that things shall follow after thee, and they shall be
obedient to thy expression under control of thy radiant attention. He who
follows after things of the world finds that they flee from him. He who
turns from things, and begins to let his Father express through his every
thought, word and deed in service, shall find that the One within hath
already provided all that is necessary to a full and glorious state of
being in life, here and now.
In this book there could be written wordy
descriptions of the wonders of Inner Plane Being, but to what end? Physical
words cannot convey the truth of such glories, and neither could the outer
mind of itself comprehend them if they were fully portrayed. He who hath
entered therein needs no words in a book to tell him of that which is.
Until thou hast known for thyself, attempts at description can be of no
value to thee--so it is that they are not written. Such things are too
sacred to be used as entertainment, or to satisfy curiosity.
He who hath written these words sends them
forth in love, according to that which he knows, for he hath not learned
them from books or from teachers of the world. He asks no one to BELIEVE
just because he hath so expressed, but he shall rejoice with all those
who prove these things in their own lives, and to all who ask as one of
the earnest ones he shall respond, rendering every service possible. But
this know: Until thou shalt dare to step forth and live thine own life,
so that thou shalt let the light of thy God-Self fill thy whole being,
thou shalt never know that which cannot be known through words. Even as
thy body-world is in darkness, so shalt thou know the presence of thy God-Self
as soon as thou shalt let go to the Word which He now sends forth from
within thee, "Let there be light." "And it was so." That which was, now
is. "AND IT IS SO."
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My Father, into Thy hands I commend these
words which Thou hast given unto me for my brother man, and I thank Thee
for the assurance that Thou shalt cause them to come into the hands of
all who may be helped thereby, that they may respond to the Father within
them and know the joy of dwelling in oneness with Him. Even as Thy Love
hath charged these words, so shall they surely accomplish that whereunto
they are sent, that the Triune Ray of Light, Love and Life may fill the
whole earth and transform all who will respond in accordance with the cosmic
plan. I thank Thee, Father, that it is so.
Into Thy hands I commend all who will respond.
AUM-En
NAMASTE