I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight!
The paths of men are dark and devious. Some walk deliberately in them, others ignorantly. There is a straight path and a right way. Those who long to find it shall hear my voice.
The Lord of whom I speak is not the figurehead of religious belief nor mere invention of vain imagination. The word may be rightly translated as Jehovah and it simply means, God in action on earth.
Prepare ye the way for divine action on earth. God acts through man. Therefore I am come to prepare men to let God act, that His creative path may be made straight.
My voice sounds in the earthly wilderness which is the tangled man-made world. Let all with ears to hear hearken to my word and to the living spirit which is the substance of it. Come near unto me.
TO YOU WHO HEAR I SPEAK, calling many things to your remembrance. Some of what I say you may think you already know. Have patience. With other things you may not agree. Withhold your judgment.
Your true nature is divine, not merely human. This indicates a quality of character which is transcendent. This transcendent character is an already existing potential. Some of this potential may have been partially realized, but there is as yet vastly more unknown to you than known. When known this is the truth that makes you free.
The reality indicated by the word “God” includes this truth of your own divine nature. Your acquaintance therefore with God can be no more than your acquaintance with yourSelf as you divinely are.
Some believe and some deny the existence of God. In either case acceptance or rejection is based in the idea of what the word means to those concerned, or perhaps the attitude may be inherited without thought. When the idea is of a logical nature no doubt acceptance will be compelled. Likewise with an unreasonable concept intelligence and honesty require rejection. However the word “God” may be used to define a reality which is capable of being known to the extent that you come to know your true Self. Neither belief nor unbelief is necessary when the truth is known.
If you are to know yourSelf, you must first admit that the self which you now know is at best but a hint of your true Self. It is unlikely that the experience of identity you have known has always been characterized by the highest vision then possible to you, let alone by the divine state yet beyond your awareness. Who without self-righteousness can claim to be all that he inherently knows he could be?
Your consciousness of present identity is likely to be closely associated with your physical body. Various mental and emotional characteristics and idiosyncrasies are also included in the personality which you think yourself to be. All these elements, constituting your human nature, are derived from hereditary sources and environmental experiences. Consequently you are conscious of a self which is merely a conglomerate amalgam stemming from the myriad influences out of your historical past, combined with the reactions induced by them.
However this composite self of which you are aware cannot be you who are aware of it. Neither is it a true revelation of you. It is rather the reflection of an unnatural state brought to you out of the past, resulting from the experience of countless generations of people who lacked any real awareness of divine identity. This is not you nor does it give evidence of the real nature of your true Self.
You are divine. You are not the conglomerate self-made self. However you are also human which fact makes it possible for your divine Self to be experienced and made known on earth. Inherently in you are all the essences of your divinely individual character. You are the potential of the divine revelation of your- Self on earth. When you are your true Self on earth, God is in action on earth because of you. Insofar as you personally are concerned the way of the Lord has then been prepared and His paths made straight.
YOU ARE DIVINE. This is the truth for you, but it remains meaningless on earth until you know it. “Knowing” is the state of realized experience, and this occurs as your divine nature is given expression in thought, word and deed.
One of the characteristics of this nature is creativeness. You are a creator. It is natural for you to share the creative work of God by which divine purposes are achieved. All the essences of the divine state, as these relate to your own field of responsibility, are potential in you. The world of your environment is the creative field for which you are responsible.
Your body, your mind and your emotional nature are a part of the world of your environment. They are not you. You are the one who is capable of observing and using them. Anything which you observe cannot be you, the observer. These capacities, however, are the means for your creative expression on earth. Through them you may know and reveal your divine Self.
However, to the extent that they have claimed your identity the experience of your divine Self on earth has been impossible. The self of which you have been aware was a false one. The you you have known has not really been you. You have existed in a condition comparable to a dream state. In such case you are an unreal person in an unreal world, for your observation of the world around you has been from the standpoint of a false identity. This unreal state with its false self and false world may be recreated or caused to become real by a process comparable to that of awakening.
In the unreal state the self which you know is the conglomerate amalgam of hereditary and environmental influences mentioned before. This self is an individual focus and representation of all from which its composition is derived. Identified with it your thoughts and words, your attitudes and actions, are not really your own. They are generated and governed by the inherited mishmash of irrational impulses characterizing that self as these erupt from the subconscious mind.
The conscious mind endeavors to suppress them or to bring them into sufficient order for the achievement of its self-determined ends. But the conscious mind is also a part of the conglomerate self and cannot separate itself from its origins. It is capable of logical reasoning but the only information with which it has to work does not contain the true premise. This conglomerate self is a false self which has become dominant because the true premise was absent. No amount of logical reasoning on the part of the conscious mind will permit true understanding as long as the original premise is false.
The true premise is the experience of divine identity.
THE EXPERIENCE OF DIVINE IDENTITY is impossible until the present fact of false identity is acknowledged. As long as the false state is assumed to be real, there is no capacity available for the experience of the true state. The admission of this is what the word “repentance” really describes. It requires honesty and a refusal to be governed by the false pride which is part of the nature of the unreal self.
The person who cannot or will not see this, no matter how intellectually brilliant he may seem to be, is in a darkened state of ignorance comparable to sleep or hypnosis. Darkness cannot comprehend light. The fact of darkness must be recognized before comprehension of light is possible.
Once there is the acknowledgment of the falsity of the self which has dominated your experience, causing you to live a lie, the door begins to open for you to know the truth. In this sense I am now setting before you an open door. No man can close it. No one, no circumstance, can prevent you from being your true Self. If you can comprehend these words this is so for you.
This, therefore, I say to you: Come up hither. You may do so if you will. Accept the responsibility that is yours and yours alone. Be what you truly are.
TO BE YOUR REAL SELF you must express your divine nature. As long as the capacities of your body, your mind and your heart are occupied with a display of the unreal self, the expression and consequent experience of your divine nature are impossible.
If the feelings of the body, the concepts of the mind and the desires of the heart cause primary value to be placed in the unreal world, identity is maintained in the unreal self. Your inherent creativeness working through your unreal self reproduces the state of the unreal world of your awareness accordingly. This in turn confirms the seeming validity of the physical, mental and emotional estimates of value. Yet the whole procedure is based in the false premise of identity in the unreal self. This is a vicious circle which ends for the unreal self when the fact of its unreality is finally made clear in what is called death.
However, the death of the physical body which also eliminates mental and emotional capacities is not the only way by which the unreal self may pass away. The unreal self may be dissolved while body, mind and heart remain to allow the manifestation of the divine Self.
In this latter case, as in the former, it might be said that the false self dies, but its death may allow the resurrection of the true Self while the physical body yet lives on earth. It is to this cycle of resurrection that I have called you.
WHERE ARE YOUR PRIMARY VALUES? Have your body, mind and emotions convinced you that the values are properly in the world state that you now know? Let us consider.
Does the physical condition of your own body loom large to you? Do your material circumstances trouble you? Is it your experience that they determine your happiness or unhappiness? Perhaps changes in the members of your family, your friends, your business associates, are required to make you content? Is security found in money or position?
Are you easily hurt by what other people say or do? Are you quick to leap to your own defense? Do you feel that others should treat you differently or love you more?
Does resentment, anger or fear dominate your attitude and actions at times? Do you hate anyone?
Many more such questions could be asked. Be honest in your self-examination. If you say “Yes” to any of them, then to this extent your primary values are in the unreal state and you are identified with a false self.
If the nature of what you express in life is determined by the state of the world of your awareness, you cannot know your true Self. All you know is the experience of a puppet. Your only apparent hope for happiness and meaning depends upon your environment, most of which seems to be beyond your control. The people and circumstances out of the past and in the present encase you in a rigid personal bondage from which, try as you may, you cannot escape. What has come from the past makes the present seem hopeless and any bright expectations must be pinned to the future. All this is consequent upon the state of the unreal world, contained in the consciousness of the unreal self, but appearing to be an objective and very real environment.
It is futile for the unreal self to try to save itself from the devastating experience of its own self-created state. Its natural habitat is the unreal world and it can only exist therein. Each is dependent upon the other. Both need to pass away.
THE REAL VALUES ARE THE QUALITIES OF DIVINE BEING. These characterize your true Self. You find your real meaning in the expression of them. When expressed they determine the state of your world. You are, therefore, responsible for your world.
To carry that responsibility correctly you must be true to your divine Self. You can be true only as you accept the qualities of divine being as your own. You will not do this unless they are of supreme value to you.
What are these qualities? All of them are differentiations of the reality described by the word love. God is love. You are divine. Therefore you are characterized by love. Love differentiated in the expression of your life creates a divine world.
The world of your creating is not isolated or separated from the worlds created by others, any more than your divine Self is independent of the divine Self of anyone else. You are divine, they are divine. All are a part of God.
God is one. The world of God is one and includes the whole cosmos with all its divine ramifications and states.
The false state of your present distorted experience is included within the divine state, much as a dream state is included within a waking state world. The fact of a dream state proves the fact of a waking state from which the confused composition of the dream was abstracted. The fact of your false state proves the reality of the divine state from which your unreal self and world were abstracted. The unreality of your present state is partly consequent upon its incompleteness, being an abstraction, and partly upon the resulting absence of the rational control and design inherent in the divine state.
Placing supreme value in the divine nature, conscious experience of the divine state may begin to be restored. To the extent that the new values become dominant to you, your estimate of the false self and the unreal world undergoes a drastic change.
Circumstances and people can then no longer induce reactionary attitudes in you; on the contrary, identified with your divine Self, reaction gives way to creative action. You extend into your world an entirely new influence never brought to bear before.
Creative action springing from your divine nature is a specific differentiation of love rightly applicable to the situation. Because you are divinely identified you not only cannot help but act in love; you also see and under- stand the situation as it really is—not as it falsely seemed to be to the unreal self. Thus divine intelligence becomes operative because you are dealing with real things instead of a distorted mirage.
SUPREME VALUE CENTERS IN LOVE. All true values are differentiations of this supreme value. The means by which love is differentiated into the infinite variety of its divine nature may be called “truth.” Life is the evidence of the truth of love in action. Because love is eternal and the truth of it unchanging, although infinite in its aspects, life is eternal.
The life experienced by the false self is the evidence of a distorted expression of love. It is a temporary state, having no lasting significance.
The presence of love, which is the supreme value and the central essence of your divine nature, is proven because you know life. If you express the truth of love, you are your real Self and your life is eternal. If your expression is not the truth of love, an unreal self is made evident with only transitory existence.
The distinction between the real and the unreal state is not consequent upon the presence or absence of love. If it were possible for love to be entirely absent there could be no state at all. The difference is as to whether the experience of love’s action is true or false.
No more love is needful to you than is now present. Any apparent lack in your life arises from an inadequate experience of the truth of love. It is this truth that makes you free to know love as it really is and to be your divine Self.
Life is the evidence of the controlled differentiation of love according to the design of love’s own nature. What is called life in the experience of the unreal self is a temporary state of unreal existence resulting from the improperly controlled differentiation of love according to an untrue pattern. Such a state would not be possible if at the same time a certain measure of the true control and design in the differentiation of love did not remain operative. Because this is so for you, the opportunity is still open for you to know the truth of yourSelf, which is the truth of love brought to focus and differentiated through you on earth.
YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUALIZED ASPECT OF GOD and your nature is a particularized differentiation of love. This is the truth for you. This individual truth is a part of the whole truth. The whole truth includes all the individualized aspects which compose God and all the particularizations which compose love. The truth as a whole is the design of symmetrical relationship between all aspects of God and differentiations of love and also the control which governs creative action through the design. Design and control are the basic elements of the truth of God and His nature.
As an aspect of that design and a control factor in its working, you have a particular part to play. Your part is closely related to the parts played by many other individualized aspects of that design. All are coordinated by reason of the design so that control may be maintained in creative action.
Identification with the false self obliterates awareness of the true Self and the design of which it is an aspect. In this state of blindness the unreal self seeks to maintain its existence in the unreal world at the expense of other unreal selves. For the sake of comfort and self-preservation, a social order may be developed by cooperative efforts, but the pattern so evolved is not the true design. Some of the principles must be abstracted from the true design, however, for anything to be achieved at all.
Coordination and control are made possible in the true design by the principle of focalization. This same principle is used in any effective organization of the unreal world. The orderly operation of a nation requires a governing body. The orderly operation of a government comes to focus in a cabinet or some such group. The orderly operation of a cabinet is impossible without a chief minister. The principle is at work in the field of business, religion, or wherever people band together for a common purpose. Without it, or should it break down in application, there is chaos.
In the unreal world human purposes are manifold, contradictory and unreal. Divine purposes are harmonious differentiations of one true purpose. Their nature is consonant with love. Their accomplishment depends upon the design and control of truth. Control is maintained by reason of the principle of focalization, which is operative throughout the whole design.
You as an individualized aspect of God are an integral part of a system composed of many such individualizations. This system, with others, is included in a larger system which in turn is an essential part of one greater still.
However far this design of individualizations and systems may be rightly taken, in its completeness it composes what is designated by the word “God.” The cosmos itself portrays this truth. From the atom to the system of galaxies and beyond, it is minutely and majestically proclaimed.
The God-system with which you are immediately concerned relates to this particular planet. In the design of this system, as with all others, the principle of focalization is at work. One individualized aspect of God provides an apex point of control in which all others, including you, are focalized.
This system is part of a greater system and there are lesser systems within this one. All are properly focalized. The application of the principle throughout maintains coordination and control. This total system within a system is God for this planet and the potential of the divine state on earth—the kingdom of heaven at hand.
YOUR DIVINE NATURE IS UNIQUE. As the specific differentiation of love, which is your true nature, in turn is differentiated in the unique expression of your Self on earth, this is the divine state for you.
The translation of your divine potential into the actual experience of this state occurs as your love for God exceeds all other emotional involvements. It is the real fact in this regard, not the mere desire, that counts.
The principle of focalization applies to your love for God. The manner of its application must be understood and accepted if the divine state is to be known by you. The right application draws your response in love toward the one at the apex of this system, in whom all the differentiations of love within the system come to focus. He is the Lord your God. Regardless of the name used to identify Him, He is the focalization of God for you. Your love for Him and for the fulness of the divine nature focalized by Him and differentiated through you and others, must be complete. When it is, nothing other than the pure expression of your own divine nature could ever find release through your thoughts, feelings, words and deeds.
Your love for this supreme one is at the same time your love for your true Self and also your love for your neighbor; for all the differentiated aspects of the divine nature within this system are contained in essence at the apex point of focus. The system is one. In it there is one identity, focalized at the apex and differentiated into individual aspects throughout. Thus is the system composed.
This system is the potential for a corresponding system, or “body,” in form on earth. When the potential is fully realized the earthly “body” is a revelation of the divine system. This is God in action on earth.
The way by which this occurs is the creative process. In the unfoldment of it there is a further differentiation of the divine nature through the manifest system or “body” into the larger environment. Thus the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms begin to give increasing evidence of the divine state in expanded expression. So does the kingdom of heaven which is at hand, merely potential, come on earth in actual form and function.
The reproduction of the divine system in manifest form necessarily reveals the principle of focalization in operation on earth. The working of this principle, being inherent in the design of the divine system, cannot be established by the determinations of the unreal self without distorting it. As long as the unreal self is present and active the true design will be obscured. Consequently only the willingness of the unreal self to lose its life for the sake of your real Self, permits the design of the divine system to take form on earth.
The whole creative fulfilment is dependent, therefore, upon the correct individual choice. Insofar as you are concerned it is dependent upon the extent to which your unreal self will release you into the experience of your real Self on earth. The unreal self must decrease, the real Self increase.
If you wish to correlate all that I have been saying to you with the recorded words and actions of Jesus Christ, you will discover that I am calling them to your remembrance. I do not invite you to accept some strange belief according to the doctrines of the unreal self, but show you the way, the truth and the life by which your divine Self may come on earth here and now.
THE COMING OF YOUR DIVINE SELF on earth dissolves the unreal state as darkness is caused to vanish before the rising sun.
The manifold achievements of the unreal self consequent upon increased scientific and technological knowledge are not evidence of progressive evolution. They are indications of an explosive proliferation of effects produced by the improperly controlled activity of the unreal self, whose shortsighted outlook lacks awareness of ultimate consequences. This unreal state is self-destructive.
Within the unreal state while it lasts, what has seemed to be pleasing and beneficial to the unreal self has provided the motivation for action. Divine purpose has consequently been ignored or assumed to be non- existent. The attempt of the unreal self to enhance and perpetuate its own existence was deemed to be good. Anything which would detract from its estimate of its own progress and importance was seen as evil. But the truth is that the dissolution of the false self with the coming of the true Self is necessary to the achievement of divine purpose.
Only the true Self and the real world can be a part of divine purpose. Both the unreal self and its world are doomed to oblivion. They have only temporary existence and by their very nature are constantly in the process of passing away. The final and complete dissolution of the unreal world is inevitable.
“Advanced civilizations” have vanished from the face of the earth several times in the past, leaving virtually no record other than in legend. Violent upheavals of the earth’s crust were involved. On each occasion opportunity had been extended to the inhabitants of the earth to accept and experience the true Self, and consequently to recreate the divine world. The present world state obviously indicates that those opportunities were neglected or rejected. Because the chance has never yet been taken does not mean either that it does not exist or that it cannot be taken.
The self-destruction of the unreal world of the false self is again at hand. Once more the opportunity to regain the consciousness of divine being is offered to the children of men. These words are one such reminder.
The inevitable passing of the unreal world need not be ultimate disaster for mankind, although vastly greater tribulation will surely occur. If there are those on earth who have accepted and experienced the divine Self then the divine world shall take form as surely as the unreal world disintegrates.
These words are spoken to you. Should you have ears to hear them and a heart to understand, then the future is in your hands.
Let the unreal state pass away in you and around you. Weep not for the passing but rejoice in the coming. Nothing that is real or true can ever be lost. Only false values and distorted states shall vanish from the earth. Do not look back nor mourn their passing.
LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND SEE the truth that makes you free. Hear and understand the word that has been spoken to you.
There are yet many things to be said to those who can bear them, much to be called to remembrance. All that is needful shall be found by those who truly seek, lifting their hearts and their eyes to the source on earth from whence this book took form. “Behold, I make all things new.”
Steve Ventola — Welcome everyone to our Temple of Light service. It's wonderful to see you all. It's a time when we can worship the LORD together, collectively and individually, sensing the currents that move between us and between the Lord of Love and each of us. Let's begin by sharing some radiation together, and maybe you'd like to put your hands together in that respect, and begin to feel the currents moving between your hands. Let the current feel full, and as the current feels full in our hands, let it extend out to our world, to those that are responsive to us, whether it be other people, or even animals or the vegetable world. Let the current move as it would. It's wonderful to feel a full sensation here, isn't it?
Let’s begin now with a devotion. O LORD of Lords, and KING of Kings, Lord of love, we are so honored to come together to worship Thy name and to extend Thy name into the world, for here is our reason for being. And as we let Thy currents move, Thy feeling felt, our hearts are touched, our minds are opened—open to let Thy will be done, that Thy way be known here and now. As we honor Thy name in this way, we bow before Thy throne, sensing Thy field clear as crystal, casting our crowns before, letting thanks and praise fill our hearts. Here is a fulfilling moment like never before, letting all things be made new here and now. As we generate the substance of connection, of communion, we are invigorated and sense Thy One Spirit through all of us, for the glory of Thy name. Aumen.
Today, Carol and I have a chance to lead our time. We put some thought into it for the past few weeks, right up until the last few moments, and look forward to sharing. Carol will begin with an overview of the Story of Man timeline, and I'll continue.
Carol Smith —It’s nice to greet all of you this afternoon! A couple of months ago, Steve spoke about the Living Timeline, from the creation of our world [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/our-living-cosmic-timeline.html] and mankind to where we are today with the ministry. We both felt that more could be said. I know it sparked something in me to take a deeper look at. It was emphasized in our ministry classes that we needed to be aware of the cycle we are in, so we make use of it. I contacted our friend David Barnes, who sent me several amazing services given by Uranda and Martin. I know most of you can probably recite these things in your sleep, but it was important for myself to review some of the implications of what Steve brought up. I hope what we share today will be a blessing for all of you too. It sure was for us!We know from our ministry classes that every creative cycle is characterized by four forces or elements—water, air, earth, fire, in that order, based on the science of Mazzaroth. The first in the cycle is:
Water — the symbol of truth or light. It’s characterized by stillness. A calm face of the waters starts the cycle off with a stable beginning point. It allows for something creative and lasting, like the creation of our world.
Air — a symbol for atmosphere, firmament, and spirit. As we begin to generate an atmosphere, it begins to connect things together. When the atmosphere is established, the forms appear naturally, which takes us to the Earth cycle.
Earth — the symbol of substance, the things of form, so that spirit may have meaning on earth. The forms that appear are based on the quality of atmosphere we each generate. If that quality is of a fine nature, a sense of fulfillment is known in the Fire cycle.
Fire —the symbol of God’s love, and transmutation. It’s the natural result of creative action.
These four forces are in operation all the time, but one force is dominant at any given time. This applies to everything—the creation of our world, a new relationship, a new job, the solving of a problem, the process Steve and I worked through in providing today’s service. The book of Genesis also outlines this principle in the first chapter, on the very first page. The Lord began each day with the word Let. “Let there be light ... Let there be a firmament … Let the waters under the heaven be gathered unto one place, and let the dry land appear…” I looked up the meaning of the word Let—it means “to allow”. Let or allow the Father Within to do the works.
Each “creative day” lasted about 26,000 years, so a little longer than our 24-hour days. For example:
Solar Age
Day One = Water — Light
Day Two = Air — Atmosphere
Day Three = Earth — Dry land and plants
Day Four = Fire — Sun, moon & stars
Day Five = Water — Sea creatures and birds
Day Six = Air — Man, land animals
Day Seven = Earth — God rested as Man in place to steward the earth.
Day Eight = Fire — Man in right state under the Lord’s control
Day Nine = Water — Man in right state under the Lord’s control
Day Ten = Air — Man in right state under the Lord’s control
Day Eleven = Earth — Man in right state under the Lord’s control
Day Twelve = Fire — Fall of Man in 2nd Fire Age [just past halfway point of Day Twelve]
There are also three cycles of time, related to Cosmic Cycles:
Age — 2,156 years
Solar Age — 25,872 years [composed of 12 Ages]
Universal Age — 310,464 years [composed of 12 Solar Ages]
The four forces cycle through each of the above Ages three times. [Note: At the end of the third Universal Age, the Sun Period begins, and the full transition into the Sun State will take place in the succeeding 310,464 years.]
The Universal Age, the Solar Age and the Ordinary Age were, all three, in the Water cycle when creation began on Day One—the perfect starting point. It took Six Days to create this world. For more than Five Solar Days, more than 155,000 years, Divine Man functioned under the control of the Lord or Father Within. Man had abilities then that he lost after the fall. But for quite a while we functioned as a collective, in agreement, in accord, we collaborated, we loved one another. I’m sure it was a fun and joyful time as well.
The Fall occurred in the second fire cycle on Day Twelve, just past the halfway point. In one of the transcripts, Uranda mentioned that it was known at the very beginning of things, that at this particular point, the earth in its function in relationship to the solar system would move into vibrations of a peculiar nature. There was vibrational cloud, and Man was to hold steady as his vision would not be as clear. He did not, and since then there has been all kinds of trouble. If Man had repented, changed direction, at any time along the way, we would be living in a very different world. It could have been done so easily early on before wrong habits got so firmly established. Several attempts have been made to get man back where he belonged. Leaders emerged at various points.
One example is Moses and the Children of Israel. He was 80 years old, when he led the Children of Israel out of Egypt. That’s good news for us—age doesn’t seem to be an issue! At that time, they had had some major successes. The Red Sea parted—no big deal, right? Immanuel Velikovsky noted how that was possible due to a comet that came close to the earth and the upheaval it caused worldwide. The Children of Israel were at the right place at the right time when the sea parted. Manna fell from heaven, so they had something to eat. The manna was fallout from the comet. However, it didn’t take long for complaint and distrust to manifest. There was the story of the twelve spies who were sent into the Promised Land to check it out and report back with their findings. Ten of the spies saw giants in the land and thought it was not the place to move into. Two had a very different report, they felt they were well able to handle the situation. The spies were so important as they were the ones to lead the way, to instill confidence, supporting Moses. You would think that at that point, they would have had more trust, as they were in a major pattern of success. It took 40 years before the cycle could come around again. Moses, himself, in a moment of impatience, struck a rock with his cane. He was unable to go into the Promised Land, something he longed for and something for us to remember. We are part of an elite group. If we have a reaction, it affects those in the field, and then we have to start all over again. Most of the generation that had been with Moses died by this time, and the next generation just didn’t have enough experience. There are a lot of implications to meditate on from this story.
Another example is that of the Jesus who incarnated about 4 BC. One Universal Age had been completed about 388 BC so He came during an Air-Water-Water cycle, which He utilized. He walked on water, turned water into wine, the disciples were fishermen, He stilled a storm. He was all the time using every situation to illustrate the truth of being, that there was a state of being that was possible for everyone not just Him. Again, there was failure on the part of His surround, those closest to Him. We can understand, the disciples only had a few years of training. I think He meant to work with them a bit longer. Several things happened. He was forced to return to Bethany because Lazarus was in a state of unconsciousness and his sisters and the disciples thought he was dead. Jesus knew that he was not, yet He was forced to return at a very dangerous time. The rulers at that time did not like all the response He was getting. The disciples had witnessed the Master’s ability to heal many times, so it was surprising they did not believe Him at that point. We know the story of Judas who thought he knew what was best for the Master. If he were the King, it would make the job easier. Judas set out to make that happen, not realizing what the outcome would be. Still the Master set everything up for the disciples to succeed. They were instructed to “tarry in Jerusalem” until the power, the vision was clear, but they did not. John, the Beloved Disciple, was meant to take the Master’s place as the focal point. Peter took over as he thought he knew best who should lead. John’s leadership was ignored. He was a young man, and he spent the rest of his life maintaining his clear attunement in the Word of his Master—the Book of Revelation revealed his mastery.
That plunged us into the Dark Ages. Whenever there is a failure, we must start all over and it can take a while before the cycle comes around again. It took 8,000 years after Noah and the flood for Abraham to show up on the scene. It took about 1900 years after the crucifixion before Uranda had his awakening. Uranda predicted five thousand years until the cycle comes around again if there is a failure on our part now. There would be much suffering, as you can imagine with what’s brewing on the world scene.
Let’s look at where we are now. Our Universal Age is Air. The Solar Age is still Water, as it’s a 26,000-year cycle. The Age of 2,156 years changed from Water to Air in 1768, and we’re still in that air cycle. We’re currently in an overall air-water-air vibratory pattern. We have airplanes, the internet, cell phones, computers; we can communicate easily with one another no matter where we live; it is easy to connect with many people with Zoom. Uranda and Martin left us with a treasure trove of material on every possible subject. We’ve had an education like no one else,and the time to put it into practice. No other grouping of people has had as many tools and advantages as we have. All the stops have been pulled out for us to succeed!
Steve’s presentation a few months ago took us through some of the major events with our ministry. We lost Uranda prematurely in a plane crash. Had he lived, he and Martin would have provided a very stable backing for Bill Bahan, Sr. and other focalization points who came forth under their leadership. I think Bill left this sphere prematurely too. Then, in 1988 when Martin passed away, EDL devolved from a larger unified collective body to individuals working on their own or with small groupings. There was some considerable turmoil experienced during that period, and a huge sense of loss. I know I felt it deeply.
Right now, we’re in a 7-year air cycle. It started in September 2023 and ends in September 2030. We’re getting closer to the halfway point of March 2027. Air,the symbol for atmosphere or spirit. The atmosphere we generate will begin to connect things together and have an influence on what forms appear in the next cycle, the earth cycle, based on the atmosphere we establish. There is something significant about a halfway-point or the 3.5-year. If we haven’t generated the substance, then the scales are tipped—like going to class and not applying what you’ve learned during those 3.5 years, and scrambling to finish strong. We saw that with the fall of man; it was just past the halfway point of the Twelfth Day. We saw that with the Master whose ministry lasted only a few years—a little over three years.
I’ll turn this over to Steve now, to continue.
Steve Ventola — Thank you, Carol. What a large overview. Let's continue with what Carol opened up, how we need to continue in the cycle we are in now. I’ll bring back up the timeline of our ministry.
You can review the April service for the details here, but in terms of where we are now, Carol mentioned that 2023 to 2030 is an air phase, air also being the dominant phase. So, in any cycle of four forces, one particular force is dominant, and this is where, in looking to let the field be cleared, we can consider what that actually means within ourselves, with others; and that ideally, generating an atmosphere that allows for communion. We began with a radiation together, and I think if we just kept focused on generating an atmosphere, then it would naturally let the field be cleared.
The next cycle is the earth, 2030 to 2037, the dominant aspect would be of a conscious body functioning in accord. It doesn't mean that we're not in accord now, but there'd be more of a dominance to let that happen. The fire cycle occurs from 2037 to 2044. We want to be in position individually and together, so when the intensity comes on, when that fire of intensity comes on, the currents of restoration can continue to flow allowing for transformative changes and transmutation to occur.
I love considering the solstice, the summer solstice that just passed, where the rising sun shines through a specific area of Stonehenge. It brings an awareness of alignment astronomically and aligned with the influences of the sun. It represents a larger sense of communion and collective generation for carrying through.
I had to think about what does it actually mean to carry through and I came upon the statement in Revelation 11:15: “The kingdoms of our world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” So ultimately, in essence, it's a body for the expression of the One Spirit. And as noted, there was a transition time when Martin passed. I think we can say maybe it was a messy transition, but ultimately for a body, for the expression of the One Spirit, each of us carrying individually that One Spirit as part of the body, individually and together.
Let me read something that I created and then some words from Uranda. In this spirit of acknowledging our part and the expression of the One Spirit, a verse from the Book of Psalms has come to profoundly stand out for me. From Psalm 60:5 and 108:6: “That Thy Beloved may be delivered.” That the One Spirit of our KING be manifested, fully expressed, through us. That the Spirit of our LORD and KING be delivered—brought forth and lived out—through a conscious body of individuals, realizing and knowing our reason for being. That, “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”
Here is our leverage point. When such things as dislike, irritation, or some form with roots founded in hatred, arises in our experience ... we remember the understanding of the truth clears away hatred. The world is on fire right now; hatred abounds. And we may sense its roots within ourselves. Here we are, conscious individuals—Saints in the Camp of the Saints—called not just to hold steady, but to be loving steady. Not just to hold center, but to be loving center. This isn't passive; it's an active, deliberate choice to love being steady, to love being center. This is our leverage to meet that which is rooted in hatred in our own heart and mind. I’d to read some words of Uranda entitled, “The KING, The Kingdom, Citizenship.”
“If we had an attitude which consistently, constantly recognized that the KING, the Kingdom, the laws of the Kingdom, the power of the Kingdom are supreme … so that we applied that attitude to every little thing and every big thing, so that it actually worked through our minds every time we faced a problem, a question, a circumstance—
“The KING, the Kingdom, and my citizenship in the Kingdom; these are supreme, not that every time some ache, some pain, some sorrow, some emotional turmoil tried to make itself dominant, if we could just have a certain attitude… My KING, His Kingdom, and my citizenship in His Kingdom are supreme; His laws, His power, are supreme, this is not. This condition, this problem, this limitation, this difficulty, it is not supreme.
“Just an attitude to be maintained and applied to everything deliberately… The deliberate thinking, a deliberate expression of the attitude every time something loomed so large upon the field of responsibility of life, to answer the question ‘What is supreme?’
“Each of us must, in attitude, answer the question: What is supreme? If your attitude is that the KING, His Kingdom, your citizenship in the Kingdom, and the evidences of the presence of His Kingdom are supreme, regardless of the evidences that can be seen with the senses with respect to that which is of chaos, then we will have an attitude deliberately established and maintained, regardless of anything, that permits the natural Kingdom of God to have meaning on earth.”
Psalm 108:6, “That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.” Let me continue with a diagram I actually use on a daily basis, something I actually write out every single morning, that helps keep me on track. Maybe it may be helpful to you too.
Here is this diagram Robert Kauffman helped me to create, that lends itself to illustrate things in multiple ways. Think about coming to zero, coming to the acknowledgement that each of us has a God being within ourselves, that actually is ourBeloved. And I sense it as our love. We've heard the words, "Glory to God in the highest!" Each day I write this out: “Glory to Thy love in the highest,” and allowing for my heart to continually praise in that way, which allows for a perceiving, a thinking to occur where I can sense the waters of response in my world, where the radiation would naturally be received by those in my world. And then, allowing for harmonization to occur, oneness where I look to bless that response, blessing the waters, which in turn allows for a tonal expansion to occur within my world and with those that I’m with … all of you.
This is the power of orientation, orienting to the glory to Thy love in the highest. As we keep that orientation, we function from the seventh sense. We have seventh sense clarity. Remember Martin’s expansion of consciousness in that respect with his service “The Seventh Sense”? That out of ours eventh sense, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/from-seventh-sense-martin-cecil-june-5.html] our thinking, you can say, is “out of the box.” New thought begins to dawn in our consciousness, where we perceive; we allow for things to be perceived in our consciousness filtered from the seventh sense. Allowing for a perspective of equanimity towards our world of sensory interpretation. We're observing all sensory input without being entangled with likes, dislikes, judgments of what's good or bad. There's an equanimity of perceiving with our thoughts, but not getting entangled with our senses all along, while keeping our response upwards. And as we do that, our, my Beloved, be delivered, my God being be delivered, letting our Lord of Love be delivered as One Body, One Spirit.
This is a little slide that I'd like to show you an experience that I had with this. There's a river here in Atlanta called the Chattahoochee, and a few of us walk along here. I sometimes walk with Bill Bahan and Robert Kauffman. I look forward to those times. For me, it’s usually on a weekly basis, Friday afternoons, just to have some open time. I keep an index card and a pencil with me in my back pocket. If I have inspirational thoughts, I write those down for the classes I've been developing. And then there's a back trail. Recently, I had the sensing to take this path, and then to touch each tree that was easily within reach, with total respect and deft touch. I call it “the perfect touch”, and the interaction was so invigorating.
In preparing for our service, it dawned in my awareness that I was actually extending the touch of the Beloved, extending something through my senses into the world. I was touching my world, allowing my Beloved to touch my world in this physical sense, and that opened up a greater awareness of how I extend the Beloved’s Touch to the whole of my world. This has lent itself to making me a better chiropractor. Soon after I had that experience, I realized when I touched my patients, it was with a greater conscious awareness of extending the hand of the Beloved and brought greater fulfillment in my work. This in turn has given me a greater conscious awareness of how I touch everything in my living. Carrying the pattern through, that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our LORD and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever—so how do we continue in carrying the pattern through? This is what Carol and I wanted to offer today.
Robert Kauffman — Steve, I'd like to speak up. What I've been hearing from you over the past few minutes, and Carol, too, is nothing less than your generation of substance that you are pouring into the world around you, and giving me a point for knowing you, and for knowing what is possible between us. It's also obvious how this relates to all those others in my life. I love what you've presented here today, because in a very systematic way—and you have a beautiful, systematic mind—but you have shown how your thinking has led you into the Beloved, a continuous praise of the Beloved. And as you read from Uranda, that's really all we're about. And Steve, I am with you on this. It's very moving.
Steve — Thank you Robert. I love what you have to say. We share a lot.
Marsha Bogolin — I, too, want to express my praise. Steve and Carol, you both spoke like Priests and Priestesses of Melchizedek, and you laid it out so clearly as Robert mentioned. I was struck by the slide that you use for your daily orientation, and how, in essence, everything was there that you then fleshed out in the service. But beyond that, what I feel that you laid out is a very clear path that probably in our different ways we have also sensed. But there's power in sharing this, particularly at this time, when there is so much happening of fire in our world. And what you said about, “That Thy Beloved be delivered.” Yes, that's why we're here; and I love that part in revelation, which says that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our LORD. So, I truly praise both of you for the pristine clarity that you have brought this day. My love to you both, and all.
Steve — Thank you Marsha—thank you very much.
Deborah Starrs — Yes, Steve and Carol, deeply moving. It's good to acknowledge that over time, with practice, we are functioning individually and collectively in a very different fashion than heretofore. It brings with it a sense of exhilaration that we've arrived at this point, and also a sense of assurance and cohesion. The tremendous responsibility and opportunity in front of us must be handled perfectly and beautifully for the fruition of what is actually promised to manifest. So, the manner in which you have presented this overview of who we are, where we've come from, and what we're here to do is wonderful and very moving. Thank you.
Steve — Thank you Deborah.
June Houlton — Well I too am filled with thankfulness for you two. I couldn't do that if my life depended on it, and certainly not with that clarity and strength and inclusiveness. There's a spirit of inclusiveness somehow in all of that. And I would really like to mention Donna Bahan, and I used to joke about it all the time, but we were both born in 1932—so, I appreciate all the chronological business about it too. But you know, bless you. I mean, that's work, that's focus, that's … that's all the qualities that we're talking about. You just showed them to us in your beautiful presentation, both of you. And bless you Carol, you're an angel. I hope everybody tells you that often enough. Anyway, here's to 1932! My Lord, if there's anybody else out there, let me know.
Steve — That's life expression—we love your life expression! Thank you.
Davina Misroch — Carol, Steve, I found your presentations deeply moving. You echo things, qualities of character, which matter a great deal to me, and you delivered them beautifully. And just, to mention a few: pristine clarity, your remarkable dedication to the truth, which is unequivocal, and that shines through both of you. I love your uniqueness, and I love your excellence. All of these things make my heart jump for joy, and I thank you. What I found very exciting was the Timeline, the air stage that we're currently in, and being at that halfway point. We really have an opportunity here to go beyond holding steady, to go beyond holding center, because it's all got to be in the spirit of love. That's quite a tall order, isn't it, if we look at the world the way it is. But it really, really matters. So, I want to bring that to the fore, and thank you and express the Lord's profound gratitude for what you put together, to bring it to us today.
Steve — Thank you for your words. I'm glad you highlighted “loving center, beyond holding center”. These words dawned on me of loving center, and that allow a shift to occur within me; a shift from trying to hold center to feeling the relaxation that comes from the love of loving center. Thank you for highlighting that.
Bill Bahan — Well thank you Steve and Carol, for what we've shared today. I sure do appreciate the awareness that we have—and it really is remarkable to look at the grand Timeline that you shared with us, and to realize that nothing happens by chance. There's a design to everything. We're not here by chance. We're here for a very specific reason. All the great focuses of spirit through the years, through the thousands of years that you mentioned, they weren't here by chance, they came to bring something very specific. So we realize now that each one of us is here to bring something very specific. And I so appreciate you providing this large perspective for us today and just bringing it down to the here and the now of what we're here to do. And I so appreciate the awareness that all of us share of our purpose.
Steve — Thank you Bill. Thank you for your clear articulation there. Are there any other thoughts to share? Take the opportunity. When we do express our heartfelt thoughts, it allows for something greater to be established in ourselves and it serves as a benefit for all of us. So, if there's something pressing to come forth, feel free to, otherwise we can bring things to a close.
Stewart Berger — Well I will speak, Steve and Carol. Thank you so much for this wonderful time, and I've certainly enjoyed what was said by those others of you who spoke. It's wonderful to know you and be part of this wonderful family. There is a core of people who have their mind stayed on God; as I think was the title of a service many years ago. I think it lines up Steve, when you were asking the question, “What is supreme?” And I know we're aware of continuing events on earth, but the actions of man will always be small. If what is truly supreme—God, and the cosmic workings that we're blessed to be a part of—if that is excluded, mankind will remain small and exclude himself from the large and wondrous and beautiful working of life. And that comes from the spirit of love and truth. And that relates also to what you were saying about the seventh sense—clarity when we know that we come from love, the center of all being, and that is our expression. We know the truth. Then we see clearly how small human events really are. And don't we want to be part of something big? I know we all sense it, and we've all experienced it to this point. And there's, as George Emery has said, so much more. So, I love being with you all. Thank you again, Steve and Carol, and onward, upward and outward.
Steve — Thank you Stewart. Thank you very much for your manly words. Carol, do you have any comments to complete our time with?
Carol Smith — I just think of what it must have been like during the Solar Days that Man was functioning under the LORD's control, in right spirit, in accord, collaborating, in agreement, with love for one another—all those qualities in expression. I think we share those with everyone here on the line. It's something to keep in mind. That's the goal. That's what we're working towards. To get back where we belong, to complete this project. We’ve been so gifted, just so gifted with all that we have for our use. Education—the best educated people on the planet! It was just such a blessing for you and I, Steve, wasn't it, to just work on this project? And to work through that cycle of the four forces: water, air, earth, fire. It’s been just a beautiful experience.
Steve — It has. Relative to the education we have had and the awareness of the larger historic overall Timeline, I sense this allows something within us to order up our conscious and subconscious minds in assisting us to carry through.
Carol — Let me just say one other thing. Uranda made a point of saying that if we don't work with the cycle, if we ignore it, there will be failure. We know what the dominant cycle is right now. I think that was the one thing that we wanted to really emphasize, how important this Air Cycle is right now, because we're coming to the end game here, and to just to be cognizant of that.
Steve — Yes, and it's a matter of clearing the air and letting substance be generated for a connection to be known. And as we do that, then we have a greater sense of communion with each of us, greater respect too.
Davina Misroch — Steve, I have a heartfelt request. Could we close our time with a devotion please?
Steve Ventola — Oh LORD. As we center ourselves, as we love Thy center, we still our hearts and minds, and are still in wholeness within ourselves, and together. Here we sense Thy Halo. Thy Halo. It extends through all the earth, that Thy love may be delivered. In oneness we touch our worlds. We touch our world by seeing, touching, feeling, hearing. As we sense the fullness of Thy vibration, returning before Thy throne; again, returning to Thee our hearts and minds, and in oneness, this is supreme. This is supreme here and now, heaven, experiencing Thy heaven on earth in form. We jump with joy to have this opportunity, our incarnations now letting Thy will be done. This is our greatest joy, and here we know what you meant, that Thy joy, that our joy may be full. As we feel Thy joy and Thy peace, it's our pleasure and treasure, for here is treasure in heaven on earth. In the glory of Thy name, forever and ever! Aumen
Robert, would you please complete our time by playing the video of, “How Shall We Give Thee Glory”, by PenDell Pitman.
