One Heart One Spirit One Mind One Body

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One Heart   One Spirit   One Mind   One Body

Martin Cecil   August 20, 1978

Remember it is not the physical numbers that are important;

it is what is generated by reason of those numbers, the substance that is generated,

so that it becomes tremendous. There is the power,

the power of which the human mind knows nothing, but it is there nevertheless.

We have a creative purpose and we do not experience what happiness is except we participate in that true creative purpose. How big is this potential do you think? How big specifically is your potential as an individual? We can see something here which relates to our participation with others. All of you are gathered here this morning physically speaking. Individually we may say that we have a body but we might also collectively say that this is our body, a collective body, the flesh of many individual bodies. There is a collective body which can be a useful instrument if there is one mind. For there to be one body in the collective sense there must be one mind. If this collective body is to be one body there must be one mind. If there is to be one mind there must be one spirit. If there is to be one spirit there must be one pure heart.

To what extent is there one body? To the extent that there is one mind. To what extent is there one mind? To the extent that there is one spirit, one quality and character of living. And to what extent is there that one true spirit? To the extent that there is one pure heart. So our size collectively may be considerably larger than it is individually but we may look at it individually too and see that the same thing is true. We each have one body. What is the fact with respect to your body? Is it holding together pretty well or is it falling apart? Your body is not isolated, not all on its own—it is related to other people and the circumstances around you, but also there is this matter of the mental capacity which is present.

Most people are inclined to think of their minds as somehow being simply in their heads. Well the brain is in the head but the brain is not the mind. The brain is a physical implement one might say, useful. It plays a part. But the mind is not limited to the head; it occupies the whole body. There are various levels of mind and it extends beyond the body. The skin does not contain the mind. The mind is larger than the body. It permeates the physical substance but the substance of the mind extends beyond the substance of the body.

We have the capacity to express either human nature or what might be described as divine nature, the nature of God, seeing that we were made in the image and likeness of God for this purpose in fact. So we have a capacity that is beyond the body and the mind but the substance of it is present with the physical substance and with the mental substance but goes beyond both. We are getting bigger. If we think of ourselves as being these capacities we are getting bigger. What in fact is happening is that our capacities of expression may begin to be seen in their true stature. If we think of our stature simply as being our physical stature, some of us are quite small, others are bigger, but none of us physically are all that big.

We might consider the occasion described in the story of long ago when the lad David went out to meet Goliath. Oh there was a big giant physically, but I suspect there was very little beyond his physical stature. On the other hand here was little David—a boy. He couldn't even carry the armor that Saul put on him. But we begin to see that because of the expression of spirit which was in him, emerging through his mind and through his physical form, he was much bigger than the giant. This was factually so, not apparently so but factually so. And of course, as has been noted, his small physical stature was advantageous because it allowed the stone to be cast at the right angle so that it penetrated where it needed to go. And that great giant didn't have a chance. But clearly from the standpoint of David's spirit on that occasion he was vastly greater than Goliath, much bigger. There was no question in his mind that here was something that needed to be done—let's go ahead and do it! “What are all these silly people lying around for, blinded by the physical stature of this man?”

When we look at all the things that are going on in the world, that seems to be a giant in the land, doesn't it? There are several giants striding across the land, exemplified by what are sometimes called great nations. All this seems to rule the world but there is something vastly bigger than this. When we begin to experience our own real size because we stop trying to maintain the viewpoints and the attitudes which have been inherited from generations past and embellished by each generation—we are willing to let those go in order to accept what is true—then there is a facility on earth which is far greater than any of these seeming giants, and what needs to be done can be done.

You remember that Goliath didn't think much of David. He was going to feed him to the vultures—this little squirt here! But Goliath lost his head nevertheless. The stature of the living God in the facility made in His image and likeness on earth is capable of doing whatever it is that needs to be done here in the world to rebuke human nature, to get it out of the picture. Now that requires that there be those who hear the question and give the right answer—so that it is out of the picture in them. Then there is the facility for asking the question beyond them. But let us never think of what God creates as being insignificant.

Sometimes there has been the attitude of apology: We're sorry to be trespassing in the domain of the devil. Stop being governed by the circumstances that you yourself, however inadvertently, have created. Stop being subject to those circumstances. Of course we recognize that the whole body of mankind has a responsibility in this regard; there is a collective creation, clearly so. But we don't need to be governed by any of it. There is no necessity to keep generating it anyway. What we are here to do is to reveal the truth, the creative character of the living God, which is available to be expressed by anyone at any time.

Stop hiding behind the trees in the garden. The voice of the Lord God came walking in the garden. Where art thou? Wilt thou be made whole? Of course when that first question was asked of Adam in the story, he had a whole lot of blather to offer which had nothing to do with the question at all—when he might have stood up and said, “Here am I. Here am I to reveal the fact, the truth, of what I am.”

What cringing, weak, wishy-washy people there have been on earth for millennia. A few stand out. I am sure you would think of Moses for one of them, certainly Jesus for another, because they took responsibility. Jesus—He moved right with it. But Moses had a few doubts to start with: Let it be by the hand of another. Which other? Let us ask ourselves that. Who else is going to do it?

Are those who don't see, who don't understand, who are embedded in the human nature state—are they going to do it? Of course they're not! Only those who begin to have a glimmering of understanding at least, who have heard faintly the question and who really know what the right answer is. These are the ones, these are the hands of the Lord—this is the means by which the job gets done. And there certainly is a job to be done but it is not such a tremendous job as the human mind would have you think, because it is not done by human-mind ways at all. It is done in spite of that, although there need to be some human minds who begin to be governed by spirit, and therefore who are thinking what needs to be thought, not merely what they find pleasing to think.

Most people just want freedom of thought, as they call it, free to think any old thing. “Of course my thoughts are going to be good, they are going to be constructive. I am going in this direction.” But it is all destructive, because the only constructive expression is that which results from the movement of the spirit of God. The spirit of God can't get to move the mind until the heart is pure. The heart is impure just as long as human feelings are governed by the realm of effects around them. And how people delight when they say, “Well I feel this way, I feel that way.” About what? About the effects.

What is felt with respect to the living God?

That relates to the first great commandment. When the heart is totally open to the spirit of the living God the experience of that spirit is known, but as long as the heart is closed it can't be known. Then the individual imagines he has to trust this laborious business of trying to think everything out. It can never be done that way. It multiplies confusion and it is a fatal disease. The fatalities have been immense over the millennia and in these days—they could be even more immense almost by the flick of a switch.

Who has what it takes to accept the challenge of being a man or a woman? “Gird up now thy loins like a man: for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.” This is a very gentle question, “Wilt thou be made whole?” But it's a tough question too—no ifs, buts, maybes. When we respond, we respond because we rise, take up our bed, and walk. We do not remain under the control of our circumstances; we begin to make right use of those circumstances. It's not as though we were trying to deny that they were there. They are there, but they need to be handled rightly, and they can only be handled by the one who is incarnate in this facility, whether it be the individual facility or the collective one. There is one who is capable of handling things. That one is present and the facilities begin to become aware of that fact to the extent that there is the expression of that one. Otherwise it remains unknown. Of course! We only know what we express.

If we express God we know God. If that which finds expression in the quality of our living is fathered by the creative spirit of God, that is what we know. That is what we are. When we speak of identity let's not think of it as being over there somewhere. “Oh I need a new identity. I am looking for my identity.” Where do you expect to find it? Under the stones? You'll find something under there but not a very valuable identity. The identity is already present but you have no faintest idea what it really is until you express it, when the quality of your life reveals the sounding of the real tone of life.

There is one tone which is differentiated in a multitude of ways but it is still just one tone—one spirit, one heart, one mind, one body. And behold, all things are made new and the powers of this world are powerless. They simply dissolve. We come to know this because the power of human nature in ourselves simply dissolves. Then we know the way it works, we know the truth—and that only has to be extended on out and the job for which we are all present on earth is done.

We give glory to God in the highest, and the evidence of that is peace on earth, goodwill toward and among men—God's will in expression by reason of man. It is that that creates a new world of course, but there certainly is something to be dealt with to reach that point, and we deal with it in our own living moment by moment by moment in the expression of the truth. And ye shall know the truth because you express the truth. It is the only way to know it.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free to live—to be yourself. This is absolutely not dependent upon what anyone else does particularly, at least in the initial stages. As we move forward we begin to find that we are moving together and that there is something being generated on the larger scale. But remember it is not the physical numbers that are important; it is what is generated by reason of those numbers, the substance that is generated, so that it becomes tremendous. There is the power, the power of which the human mind knows nothing, but it is there nevertheless.

Here is our responsibility individually speaking. We have no other reason for living on earth. One spirit, one heart, one mind, one body. Let us let it work the way it was designed to work, to the glory of God.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Your Questions Answered #1

Your  Questions  Answered  #1

Uranda  1938

Uranda takes this method of answering certain of your important questions which are of vital import

to all the Earnest Ones who have chosen to Walk the Flaming Way

in Response to the Expression of Reality in the out-working Cosmic Plan.

Uranda’s Answer to a Question on Truth — Both by written and spoken word I have often expressed the Truth that no Truth contradicts another Truth, and if it were not so tragic, the conclusions to which many have jumped in this connection would be most amusing. The Truth about anything is the Essence, or the essential, Eternal Fact and Principle expressed in specific function, in and through that thing. Every Truth is harmonious to every other Truth, but Truth is not in harmony with many things which human beings think to be true. Human concepts of Truth are usually at variance with the Truth itself.

It is useless to try to harmonize the multitudes of human concepts with the Truth itself. When a person is willing to let go of all his pre-conceived concepts of Truth in a true Response to his Father within, he will find that the Truth remains as it is. Letting go of a concept of Truth is not a denial of that Truth. When the vision has cleared, it will be seen that whatever one had seen of Truth before is still to he seen; but because of the Expansion in Consciousness, that Truth is now seen in more nearly perfect perspective in relationship to all Truth. Until the Earnest One is willing to come as a little child, thereby being willing to let go of all his old concepts of Truth by closing his eyes to the old vision, it is not possible for him to allow his Eye to be Opened to the New Vision of Truth. The Changing of the Vision of Truth does not in any way change the Truth itself.

So very often, when a Responding One reaches a point where a New Vision is necessary, he struggles and tries to make his old vision conform with what he thinks the New Vision to be. The result is a meaningless tangle. Then it is that such an one is put to the test, for in such a case I ask that one to forget all that he thinks he knows of the Truth of Reality, that he may make a new approach and gain a New Vision. So very few are willing to do this. They insist on carrying their old ideas with them; saying that to let go of it all would be to deny the Truth that had already been seen. This is not true, but it is almost impossible to convince the struggling one that nothing will be lost by letting go. Whatever there is of Reality in the present vision will still be in the New Vision, though it will be seen in a very different Light; but it is not for the Responding one to try to determine what portion of that vision is the Truth, and what part is false. Let the Responding One let go, and the New Vision of Truth, and the New Understanding will appear in due season. Each must come as a “little child”, willing to let his Father’s Will be done. Let self-activity cease.

Question — I was taught that Heaven was a state of consciousness, in fact, that everything was a state of consciousness; so I supposed Heaven was a consciousness we attained to when we had reached a higher consciousness of Perfection.

Uranda’s Answer — This word “consciousness” has been used to attempt to cover up the appalling ignorance of some self-styled teachers. Any one who will look the word up in the dictionary will find that it relates primarily to an awareness of some thing or knowledge. If consciousness is a state of awareness of something, then there must be something about which one may be aware—and no one should confuse the thing itself with the awareness of the thing. You can be conscious of the sun without being in the sun. Heaven must be the Presence of the God-Being, individually and collectively, together with all the God-Created things which relate to God-Being. That would include this earth, and everything in it excepting the things which man has made. Those who are aware of Heaven as being here in this present instant of Eternity certainly would never confuse the consciousness of the fact of Heaven with Heaven itself. So it is, also, with every use of the word “consciousness” in relationship with Spiritual Truths.

Question — Is mind everything?

Uranda’s Answer — No. That which is called mind is the radiation of the thing itself. All substance has a radiation, just as the sun radiates light. That radiation, no matter from what substance, is the mind of the substance from which it radiates. Most vibrations of mind, insofar as the humanly perceived world is concerned, are in an unconscious state. In other words, in human beings the radiation, or mind reaches a vibration where it allows self-consciousness, or awareness of self, and consciousness of the presence of other people, and of many things. It is a very common error among students of widely accepted schools of thought to confuse mind and the form in and around which mind functions. Also, many confuse mind and consciousness—and many people confuse the brain and the mind. The brain is not the mind. The brain is made up of billions of tiny generators which have a direct part in the radiations from the human organism; and so the brain has a close relationship with the mind, but it most certainly should not be confused with the mind. Many would-be teachers are looking through such dark glasses that all they see is one big blur, and so they conclude that there is no detail in the picture—and they deride anyone who points out the lovely details which are required to make up the whole.

Question — In your paper you speak of the Union of the mind and body with the Higher-Self bringing forth—what? Is there still another phase we have to become aware of, or is it a creation of the Union?

Uranda’s Answer — That which is brought forth through the Union of the outer-self with the Inner-Self is the Release of Reality and Illumination in the Perfection of Being and Function in the state of Divine Man. The only other phase the Responding One must become aware of is the state of Divine Man in the Garden of Eden, or Heaven on earth, here and now for those who will let it be so, and for all the earth after the destruction of evil by evil.

Question — Insofar as human “knowledge,” which can be “learned” is concerned, is that which is taught at any one period generally applicable to all periods?

Uranda’s Answer — The answer is NO! Take an illustration within the span of one life time in the field of “modern Medicine,” as accepted by the world at large. A doctor who graduated thirty years ago, having “learned” all that was available at that time, has found that, while some certain fundamental principles have persisted, much that he learned has had to be unlearned to be replaced with new learning—in some instances a number of times.

However, there arises the point of those general principles of life which persist through all human expression, such as the need for Honesty, Courage, Faithfulness, Steadfastness, Friendliness, Ingenuity, and Love. Surely, if one learned such things in one life, the memory of that “learning” would be helpful in the next. But wait, there is another question: Does one “learn” these things? Are not these qualities which must be allowed to spring forth into manifestation from the Lord within? You may say, “But one has to learn how to let those qualities come forth.” Very well, but the value of such learning is in the actual experience, else there will be no result in the organism. You can read books telling of the value of these qualities, but that will not give them to you—neither will the memory of what you read cause you to be freed from such things as fear, as many can well testify. Many have struggled a whole lifetime with something like fear, and have never won, even though they read, and memorized, and repeated affirmations, and all the other things supposed to bring results. This is a point that has been completely missed by most teachers.

People who try to “learn” a quality must always fail. A quality has to be already present. The secret is to Release the Quality that is present. The learning of, or, I would rather say, the exploration of ways to Release Reality is the truly great thrill of Living. The Reality already Is. The human body and mind form the channel through which Reality may be Released into active Expression in this plane of Manifestation. That means that your particular body has to be tested and proven and harmonized and moulded until it allows the function for which it was created. That is much more than “memory,” is it not? It is evident that most people do not Respond to the Lord enough to begin to let the Transformation take place by which the Release of Reality would be made possible. The result is that most people suffer a great deal, and go through life struggling. Does that mean that they are learning anything of value by all of that suffering? No! If they were learning, their lives would be expanding instead of shrinking and crystalizing and disintegrating. That which “learned” in any past life is that which Ascended, to a degree at least. Lessons 11 and 12 of Steps To Mastership illustrate this point.

There is a general purpose in Life, and it would only be natural that all the life manifestations of any certain God-Being would be in the outworking of a certain vibration, or part, in the Cosmic Plan. Yet, I question, would it not be logical to suppose that each life manifestation is designed for a specific purpose at a specific time in a specific way? Certainly, and if this be true, I would ask: How could the memory of another person in a past time who was working for a very different specific purpose, be of any great value now? It is evident that such memory would not only be useless, it would be very harmful. If the God-Self knows all already, and the outer mind and body are to be obedient to the God-Self, letting the Father do the works, any idea held by the human mind, whether from supposed memory of a past life, or from memory of yesterday, in belief that it knows what it should do, and how, would cause self-activity and prevent the fulfillment of the Lord's purpose in that individual at that time.

All of this brings us to the Realization that the Responding One depends on his Father within, and not on memory, whether of the present or a past life.

Now, if this be fully Realized, it is well that we consider your question from another standpoint. What was left of the body through which your God-Self manifested in any past life was returned to the elements. That substance was scattered, and lifted into many forms. Some of it has already Ascended through Vegetation and Animal Life-Rays, and so that substance, because it refused to Ascend with your God-Self, has been received into the Inner Plane formations, but not into the state of the God-Being. Some has remained in the earth, and it is now scattered far and wide in scores of different forms. In all likelihood, not one single atom of any of your bodies in any past lives has ever been received into your present body manifestation. However, you have billions of atoms in your body, and each atom has had a distinctly separate history from every other atom in your body. Around each atom is an aura, and in that sura is a complete history of the experiences of that atom in all the forms in which it has had a part down through thousands of years. Each atom has a possible history which includes passage through scores of human bodies, through hundreds of animals, fish and birds; and through all sorts of forms in the vegetable kingdom. Here you have a “mental” vibration which “persists” from life formation to life formation.

Many people develop a “psychic”, or “mind reading”, vibration which allows them to begin to touch some of these billions of experiences which are focalized in their bodies. They touch the vibration of an atom that manifested in an Indian, and they immediately tell of how they were once in Indian life. Such an one, on another day, touches the vibration of an atom that was in an oriental body and at once he tells of being a Hindu, or something else. Out of these tiny points of fact relating to single atoms, great stories are woven which are supposed to apply to human beings—and the whole thing has to be classed as a figment of imagination.

You begin to see that there is a mental life that persists, as you suggest, but it is something that the Creator has very wisely shut completely out of consciousness, allowing the mind of the human being a perfect start toward Victory—but foolish human beings are not content, and they open up those vibrations which should have remained without power of expression until the day when they could be subjected to the Flaming Fire of the Christ Love which would burn away all the evil vibrations, leaving only that which was lovely and beautiful.

This is true of all people, and not just those who try to open their psychic centers. Attempts to open psychic centers are, to say the least, most foolish and without possible value. However, the average person is taught from childhood to respond to external things, and that vibration is dominant in the world consciousness. The result is that many of these ill vibrations of the atoms are let loose to play havoc in the life of the human being. Such things need not be; but they will be so long as man insists on eating of the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

No matter, after realizing that all these stories of different incarnations are based on the vibrations of an atom, and not upon the actual expression as such a person, it still is evident that even though a person could “remember” scores of past lives, he would not thereby be caused to be acquainted with his God-Self. He who first becomes acquainted with his God-Self, and is so received into Oneness with his Lord, can have outer consciousness of some of the life-manifestations of his God-Self, if and when such consciousness can be of value to the world—but such knowledge should never be sought after. Also, those who think that their Father reveals “who” others “have been” are only suffering from a delusion. Something of the Cosmic Identity of the true Teacher may be revealed to the Faithful Student, even as the Great Master asked his disciples, “Whom say men that I AM?” Let no one think to know the past lives of others; for out of such things come confusion and failure. Rejoice. One more point: Each atom has been in both male and female bodies—but the Feminine God-Self always incarnates as a woman, and the Masculine God-Self always incarnates as a man.

Question — Please tell me why I get a sense of separateness in thinking of the outer mind in conjunction with the Father within, or the God-Self. I know that the outer mind has to “Let go,”—but really they are all one; or are they two distinct phases? I suppose what gives me that sense is because I think I am that which is within. It came so clearly and vividly and remained with me all day. Then I lost it.

Uranda’s Answer — In the Perfect State of Divine Man as in the Motherland in the Beginning, and as will be in this New Age that has dawned, the manifestation of Mind in Man is really an extension of the Christ Mind of the Lord, or God-Self, within such Divine Man, and they are one. However, since the so-called “fall,” the manifestation of mind in man has fallen from its Conscious Connection with the Christ Mind which always Radiates from the Father within the individual, and so there are two distinct phases of mind in man at the present time. So long as the outer mind insists on being self-active, doing that which it thinks best according to human concepts, that separation cannot be changed into Oneness.

Just as soon as the outer mind begins to let go of its human desires and ideas and concepts, so that it begins to truly let go To the Father within in Love, that Responsive Love becomes the opening in the veil through which the Christ Mind of the Father may begin to manifest in the outer mind. The outer mind does not need to “try” to go in. “Behold, I stand at the Door and knock, and if any man hear My Voice, and Open the Door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me” (Rev. 3:20). Love Response to the Father within is the only door through which any person may let his God-Self come in to abide with him. The only way the Door may be opened in any person is through a steadfast, unwavering Love Response at all times. The proof of a Love Response is: “if ye Love Me, keep My commandments.” That does not mean just the commandments recorded in the Bible. It means the moment by moment commandments received from the Lord within—and in this does all self-activity cease, that it may truly be the Father within Who doeth the Works.

The human mind has been trained for so long to respond in love to things of the outer world according to human concepts that it takes a little time to re-train the mind, that it may be Lifted Up into Oneness with the Christ Mind of the Lord within. The sense of separateness comes when the attention is directed toward the outer mind, or the outer things of life in general, in an outer attitude. Rejoice in the Presence of your Lord within you, Responding to Him in Love; for this is the only Way.

Question — How can one keep his thoughts directed to the Lord within and still take care of the many duties that must receive the attention of the average human being?

Uranda’s Answer — To abide in a constant Love Response to the Lord within at all times is the great need of every Earnest One. Many become discouraged because they think that they have to think all the time of what they think Spiritual things to be. Here is a great Secret—all things are Spiritual when they are looked upon from the Inner Standpoint. The outer attention is to be directed toward the Lord within, that the Inner Attention may be directed by the God-Self through the Responding outer attention, and so to the doing of all things needful to the daily life of the Earnest One.

A person interested in Mechanics can, and should, use that interest to allow an Expanding Consciousness, and he should not try to fight against that interest. The points of your greatest interest offer you the greatest opportunity of true Release in Spiritual Understanding. It is necessary to look for the Cosmic Principle that is being used, no matter what application may have been made of it by man. Remember that man’s applications of Cosmic Principles are inspired by man’s concept of his own need, and not by direct Divine Inspiration as has been falsely taught by so many teachers of widely accepted philosophies. So it is that the inventions of man as widely used at the present time cannot rightly be looked upon as having directly Divine Origin. When this is Realized, the things which man has made no longer have a “sacred halo” around them in the eyes of those who view with understanding. This is the first great step in ceasing to worship false gods—the things that man has made. Most metaphysical and occult teachers have taught their followers to worship false gods; and to have an unholy reverence for the things which man has made all based on the idea that these things were special gifts from God to man, made possible under direct inspiration. When it is seen that this is not true, it is easy to look at all things, and to work with them, without reacting to them as if they were, in and of themselves, of great value.

In the new attitude, the things man has made are seen to be of value, true value, only to the degree that they help in filling man’s true needs—and they no longer carry false values based on man’s false concepts of his own needs. So it is that the primary interest of the Responding One is in detecting the Cosmic Principle that is involved in any specific man-made thing in which he may be interested, and then he considers that thing from the standpoint of its true values. If he finds it worthy of further attention and interest, he allows his expression in relation to that thing to be of a nature that helps to make it of more value in the filling of man's true needs. In most cases the Responding One will not be in position to do anything of a concrete nature in an outer sense toward changing such things—and though he does what he can in that direction, he uses all such things as object lessons, first for himself to himself in allowing everything he touches to permit an Expansion of Spiritual Consciousness; and then, secondly, to give expression to such object lessons to others when and as the way is opened to do so.

In the first instance, it must be remembered that every Individual Realization of Reality, in no matter what connection of life manifestation or function, is a true Release into the world consciousness to the degree that such Realization is in Harmony with Reality and is Released in a Love Radiance with an attitude of thankfulness toward the Lord within for Revealing that Truth. Therefore, all such activity has a Cosmic Value in helping to transform the world consciousness, even though the Responding One works in secret, unknown to the world. This same principle is true of every phase of life. With this Realization the Earnest One can see what we mean when we say that all things are spiritual when looked upon from an Inner Standpoint.

All things are not Spiritual when looked upon from the outer, or human, standpoint. He who responds to things, as the average human being does, is thereby worshipping those things. He who sees things for what they are, understanding the Cosmic Principle therein Released, and so uses things in a full Response to his own Lord within, is he who begins to experience true Release. So many people try to take their attention away from things of the outer world in an attempt to give full attention to Spiritual Realities, but remember this: A Vision of Spiritual Realities, no matter how perfect or beautiful, is utterly worthless, both to the individual who sees the Vision and to the world as a whole, until such Spiritual Realities are allowed Release in the outer world—thereby permitting Heaven to express in Earth; so that Heaven and Earth are ONE. There are hordes of self-righteous individuals who think that they think much of “spiritual things,” and who look with condescending pity on those whom they think to be asleep in the material world, who are in no sense better off than those they think to look down upon. Frankly, we are not interested in getting away from the world—we are interested in letting Heaven come forth in the world here and now. In this New Attitude is the Key to the Way.

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The  Mystical  Language

Uranda   August 26, 1946

 

I have in mind for tonight a consideration of what we might call the mystical. When we speak of mystical things we mean simply a consideration of those spiritual realities, those eternal verities, which cannot be expressed in mere words alone, a portrayal of truth which must be spiritually understood. There are levels wherein words can be used to simply convey information as such, but there are those realms which cannot be clearly conveyed by any means if we undertake to do it by words alone. 

Mystical language has for its purpose the conveying of an idea, an awareness, the development of a sense of perception beyond what we might call the ordinary. I use “ordinary" rather than "normal,” because humanity is functioning on a subnormal basis. That which is normal, or natural, in the true sense of the word is of reality, or the absolute truth. That which is natural to this world is actually unnatural. What is ordinary in this world is not normal; it is subnormal. And when we consider the realm of awareness ordinarily conveyed, in this subnormal expression of life, by words usual to this subnormal consciousness, we cannot fully convey, or reveal, that which is of the true normal, the true natural. We must let ourselves develop a sense of awareness, an ability of perception, which will open a state or level of consciousness above this subnormal state in which the world is engulfed, and when we begin to approach this normal, or natural, realm of being we find that the language upon which human beings depend for the conveying of ideas is inadequate.

In Scripture we are told that in the beginning there was one language—a means of conveying ideas which was not limited, as the many languages now in existence are limited. That one language had words to convey meanings which are not to be found in our present language. In that original language the spirit of the expression was of the essence, and that spirit of the expression is still a universal language. There is still, regardless of the divisions of language, a universal language. Some have tried to say that music was the universal language. It partakes of the nature of the true universal language that is utilized in the world today, but the languages of today are inadequate in their comprehension and expression of this universal language.

The universal language is the language of love. The barriers that human beings have erected are not barriers to that language, and unless we let the spirit of divine love be in the spirit in which the word is spoken, and unless that universal language in its essence, as it emanates from the divine source, is recognized in the word that is heard, there cannot be true comprehension. These things transcend the realm of so-called scholarly attainments, because the intellectualist undertakes to define and confine to the letter of the word and the letter of the law, to bring everything down to a point where it may be analyzed, taken apart and put together again. A peculiar thing about these things which can be analyzed, taken apart and put together again is that they are dead—all of the brilliance of man brings, in fact engenders, death.

We begin to understand the true purpose, yea, the necessity, of what we may call mystical language, because it is in this that we begin to truly comprehend the reason for the word that is written: “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” Mystical language undertakes to convey without limits, undertakes to make possible an awareness that cannot be set within definite confines, undertakes to reveal that which cannot be defined.

In this particular expression, conveyed in mystical language, which I would consider with you tonight, we have something that shows a most remarkable wisdom with respect to the use of mystical language, for it begins in its mystical expression in a realm where comprehension should be easy, concerning things that are readily recognized, and moving from the realm of the known, which is portrayed in the simplicity of mystical language, it moves into the realm that is not known, into the realm where there is very little comprehension in the world; and it is done in a few words. To my mind it is one of the most remarkable of all the mystical passages to be found anywhere in all of literature. Its achievement in this regard, in so short a space, so effectively done, sets it apart as a brilliant gem, something that is well worthy of our consideration.

I am going to read just seven verses and all of this is achieved within the range of seven verses. And one verse contains the epitome of the mystical portrayal that is essential to man if he is to become more than man: four lines, one verse—the sixth verse by the way. You can call it coincidence, happenstance, whatever you wish, but nevertheless it is the sixth verse and it reveals that by reason of which man can become aware of his true nature and of the right way to function in harmony with God.

Or shall we say, with respect to this specific verse, it reveals the machinery, if you want to put it that way, the means by which man can become more than man. When I read it, at first you may be unable to see all that I have just suggested, but my introduction is not leading up to an anticlimax. Just let go to the spirit of the Word. Remember that we are dealing with mystical language, which must be spiritually perceived and understood. I am going to read seven verses from the 12th chapter. As I go along, don't try to figure anything out; just let go to the spirit of the Word.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not,

nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened,

nor the clouds return after the rain:

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,

and the strong men shall bow themselves,

and the grinders cease because they are few,

and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low,

and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird,

and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way,

and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden,

and desire shall fail:

because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Or ever the silver cord be loosed,

or the golden bowl be broken,

or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,

or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:

and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Seven verses, moving from the realm of the known to the unknown, revealing the secrets of life for those who have eyes to see. There we have the beauty of mystical language immediately evident. Let us consider the meaning of this mystical portrayal. It moves from the realm that is obvious into the realm of the unknown. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them." It is obvious that we should remember our Creator in the days of our youth, and it is obvious that when the individual does not remember his Creator in the days of his youth the evil does come, and the years draw nigh when he says, “I have no pleasure in them.” And that leads to the mystical expression of the known: “While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain."

“In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble..." The house is the physical body. The keepers of the house are the hands. He is talking about the human body, the human being. “Tremble” indicates advanced age. “...and the strong men shall bow themselves...” That is the obvious mixed in with the mystical. “...and the grinders cease because they are few...” The teeth are the grinders that cease, because they are few. “...and those that look out of the windows be darkened.” The sight gets dim; they are not able to see. Here we have mystical language describing something that is known, that should be immediately recognized and grasped. “And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low”—outside influences shut out as much as possible. I don't think that I need to talk about the balance of that verse, or the next one; it should be obvious.

We come to the 6th verse: “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.” There is the mystical portrayal that is of vital importance to us, that moves out of the realm of the known into the realm of the unknown.

“The silver cord” is the mystical language utilized to describe that connecting link between the Source of life and the human being. In Revelation we have a portrayal which correlates with this, also given in mystical language. This silver cord is the connecting link between the Source of life and the human being at the point of what we call the seventh seal—the pineal gland in the head. Once that silver cord is broken the physical body is dead. As long as that silver cord remains there is life, and that is true of all human beings, without exception. “Or ever the silver cord be loosed.” Of course the original point is: “Remember now thy Creator,” before the silver cord is loosed, before the connecting link between the body and the Creator is broken.

“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.” Let us begin at the end of the verse and move backward. It would be a little easier, because the golden bowl is the least understood. A cistern is a means for storing water. It is not a source of water, merely a means for storing water. Water is the symbol of truth, and a cistern is a means for storing water; therefore the cistern here symbolizes the human mind which undertakes to store up certain truths in itself. The wheel is the means by which the water is lifted out of the cistern, and that means the processes of thinking, or memory, etc., by which the truths which have been stored in the mind can be lifted up to the surface for use. But the mind is not the Source of truth. The mind is merely a storage place; and the wheel represents the thinking processes, the memory processes, by reason of which that which is stored may be brought to the surface for use.

“Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain.” A fountain is more than a cistern. A fountain is that through which the water springs and bubbles and flows. It is a source, not just a storage place. It doesn't say that the fountain is going to be destroyed; it simply says, “or the pitcher be broken at the fountain.” The pitcher is the means by which that which is at the fountain may be taken and utilized by the individual. The water bubbling from the fountain cannot all be contained, or all stored. All that the human being can do is to go to the fountain with his pitcher and receive of it. So the fountain does not become destroyed; it is the pitcher that is broken at the fountain. The fountain is the source of water, or truth, or the water of life. And it is a fountain.

What is the pitcher? What is the fountain? What is the source of the water of life, or truth? It is the Lord, or the Creator, the Father within. And there is a fountain, if it be recognized and known, within every individual who has any ability of comprehension. We might say that the fountain is there anyway; but the fact of the fountain being there would not make any difference if there was not any ability to have perception, any intelligence. “Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain”—the means by which the water of truth, the water of life, is carried, conveyed, so that it may be utilized. This has what we might call a double meaning. It is a function of the mind, particularly in this illustration, but it also applies to the physical body. The important application, however, is that the mind itself is not just a cistern, although it has the ability to store up; but it also is a pitcher which has the ability, if that ability be used, to go to the fountain and receive of the water that bubbles forth from the fountain freely, fully, available to all alike.

There we begin to reach into the realm of the unknown, because there are very few human beings who realize that the fountain even exists, let alone to take their pitcher to it that they may receive the water of the fountain. Nevertheless the fountain does exist, for every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, and every individual who has any intelligence at all has the pitcher wherewith he may go to that fountain and receive of that water, concerning which the Master said: “He that drinketh of the water which I offer hath eternal life. He shall never thirst again.” That is the water.

When individuals function in the realm of the cistern mind the water is more or less stagnant if the water from the fountain is not continually being put into the cistern, and when the individual undertakes to function from the cistern level of consciousness he finds that when he drinks of that water it doesn't quench his thirst; always he wants more and more— he can drink of the water of this cistern and keep drinking, keep drinking, keep drinking, and his thirst is never quenched; and the more he drinks the more he wants. You can go out and examine all these great intellects in the world who think they are going somewhere and doing something wonderful. They have all this knowledge and information; they have been drinking freely of the cistern water. How many of them are satisfied? Those whom I have contacted were obviously still just drinking the cistern water that was not very fresh. They were in a sore state of mind.

But that is not all. The pitcher being broken at the fountain: if there is such a pitcher, and if there is such a fountain and it is connected here, that is, while the individual has life—and until the silver cord is loosed he does have—it behooves each individual to find out how to use his pitcher and how to find that fountain.

“Or the golden bowl be broken.” What is this golden bowl that is broken when the silver cord is loosed? When the life of the body is gone the manifestation of spirituality is gone, the manifestation of nobility, of all that is the highest and finest and best that is possible in the realm of the kingdom of heaven on earth. “Or the golden bowl be broken.” That relates to the spiritual expression plane of being. All the way through the Bible gold is used to symbolize the true expression of spirituality, that which is of the divine essence of being. We remember, for instance, in Revelation, in the mystical language that is used there, the portrayal of the seven golden candlesticks. We can turn to the Old Testament and find the use of gold with respect to the temple, fixtures of the temple, vessels of gold, etc., all revealing the same thing. Gold is used all the way through the Bible to symbolize the expression of true spirituality of being, the essence of divine being made manifest on earth. There are specific reasons for that.

When the light of true spirituality is made manifest through the individual there may be the pure white light that contains the all, or there may be the creative light that is of the current of divine love, and that is golden in color actually; not just according to imagination, not just something someone develops as a fanciful theory, but that light which is of the light of divine love is actually golden in color. And that is the reason for the utilization of gold as the symbol of the expression of the essence of divine being on earth.

The golden bowl means the expression of the divine essence through the individual, the spiritual expression plane of being, the means by which all that is noble, fine, true and real may manifest, that phase of the human being which is revealed when the human being responds properly to the Lord, the essence of divinity on earth. That is the golden bowl, and the golden bowl should manifest through every man, woman and child upon the face of the earth. It doesn't. Most human beings do not even know that there is a golden bowl. But actually everything that is an expression of true nobility in any individual is something of the manifestation of that golden bowl—not its fulness, but at least an indication that there is such a thing. It behooves each individual to find out what that golden bowl is, find out how to let that golden bowl manifest.

What is a bowl for? It is to contain something, to convey something. We have a pitcher at the fountain, but we have the golden bowl. The divine source of life, or the expression of life, is contained in it—it is the means by which God would convey to every human being the very essence of the atmosphere of heaven, that it may manifest on earth, that man may enjoy that which is contained in the golden bowl and let it overflow. That golden bowl will overflow, and keep overflowing, in the life of the individual if he simply continues in true attunement to his Source of life.

So, until the silver cord is loosed, which means the end of life in the physical sense, there is a golden bowl for every human being, there is a fountain, there is a pitcher at the fountain, there is a cistern, and there is a wheel at the cistern. The brilliant intellectualists of this world, with their educational programs, confine themselves to the cistern and the wheel of the cistern. They ignore everything else, and then wonder why conditions of chaos exist in the world. The answer is contained in the 6th verse of this 12th chapter. There you begin to see something of the revelation that is possible through mystical language, and it should emphasize why mystical language must be used, because if the cistern mind could comprehend it, and if the wheel at the cistern thought that it could understand it, it would forthwith make it a cistern expression, and that would not give contact with the fountain, or with that which is contained in the golden bowl. That which is contained in the golden bowl is not lost when the golden bowl is broken. The fountain is not destroyed merely because the pitcher is destroyed at the fountain.

“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.” When we realize these things that exist for the individual, that are living, are just as real and more so in fact than the cistern itself and the wheel at the cistern, when we realize that the intelligence of men is supposed to be lifted up to a realm beyond the cistern mind into an awareness of the fountain and the uses of the pitcher at the fountain, to the uses of the golden bowl and all that which is contained in the golden bowl, then we begin to live. The world is not truly living; it is merely existing until it dies under the rule of the prince of death, because it is subject to the things of death, as the cistern mind always is until that cistern mind is connected up with the fountain by means of the pitcher at the fountain, and until that which is of the golden bowl begins to overflow in the individual life.

We see that humanity, having separated itself from God in consciousness, closes out the multitude of blessings which the Lord our God would so gloriously make manifest for human beings. Why is it that the human being refuses to recognize, acknowledge or utilize the fountain, or the pitcher at the fountain, or the golden bowl, or that which should overflow through or from that golden bowl, that all these blessings of true life might manifest while the silver cord unifies the human being with his Creator?

“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” That is the end of the physical manifestation, just like that. That is not what God intends. He intends that we should know the fountain, utilize the pitcher at the fountain that He has given us, that we should come to recognize and know the golden knowledge, that which is contained in the golden bowl, and let it overflow through us into the world. Then will we be serving God and man, fulfilling that for which the Creator made us, and then will our lives be worthwhile. Concerning the Creator and His attitude toward you, toward each one who will hearken, toward all who will become aware of the fountain and the golden bowl, there is more mystical language, that reveals the love which the Creator has for you, that reveals what will take place in you and for you when you become aware of the pitcher and the fountain and the golden bowl.

There is the mystical language of the Lord calling to you: “Come near unto me,” or again, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” It is all the same story: Come away. Cease to function in the stagnant realms of the cistern mind. Cease to depend upon the wheel at the cistern. Begin to depend upon the Creator. Begin to be aware of the pitcher and the fountain. Begin to be aware of the golden bowl and that which it contains, yea, and that which will overflow through it, filling your life until even the water that is in your cistern shall be cleansed and purified, until that water is living water—because it comes bubbling from the fountain, no longer sour, no longer stagnant, no longer impure—until your cistern is filled with the water that satisfies.

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