Good morning friends — It is a very great pleasure to invite participation in the next Temple of Light service onSunday,April 28that 10 a.m. P.T., withRobert and Terry Kauffmanfrom Atlanta, Georgia providing the focus.
In September 1986, Martin Exeter spoke words that are vitally important to us all today — "We delight to acknowledge that there is a creative process at work by which there are angels present in human form, whose minds and hearts are sufficiently yielded and open to acknowledge the fact. Responsibility is taken by angels—and I am one. It isn’t a matter of numbers; it is a matter of angels. Angels recognize each other, on a basis that allows for coordination and the emergence of love. The primary characteristic of the angel is love. Love begins to be known and there is a sense of belonging, a sense of home, a sense of oneness, of being part of one beautiful, coordinated whole. There is something emerging into conscious awareness—the coming forth of the angel—and there is far more rising up from below through nature. Everything is caught in between—nature is delighted to be caught in between; but humanity is not so delighted—the squeeze comes on and it is uncomfortable. The creative process is working and is emerging as magnetic expression. Here comes the angel! We were chosen; we were fingered: 'You, you and you.’ Here we are, angelically present. The angelic heaven is to come into the earth, and it comes in with power and great glory. It is a wonderful thing. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. That is what is being proven out. It hasn’t been proven out up to this point, because there was no focused body permitting the angelic expression on earth—a unified, focused body. This has never happened. It is a matter of letting the angel come forth. There is an easy and natural movement occurring by reason of this forming body through which the angelic expression appears, the creative lines of force are set up, and the whole process is in action. No one can stop it. And it doesn’t require vast numbers. It would never happen if it required vast numbers. No, it requires a select few, a company of angels who are sent forth to do this. And because they carry the authority of the One who sent them forth, it will certainly be done. Behold, a new heaven and a new earth. Here is the body taking form. I thank God for all the angels."
Here comes the angel — and this conscious presence makes all the difference when we gather for a Temple service and let love radiate.davidand anne
These are the Temple service dates confirmed for the next few months:
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April 19, 2024
To Fulfill the Prayer of Oneness
Yujin Pak April 14, 2024 Loveland, Colorado
Greetings friends. It’s so good to see all your faces, including a few of you in the wee hours of the morning in Korea. Welcome, wonderful to have this hour together. In this hour I want to continue in the movement of spirit from recent services and gatherings, and also in what is moving here and now between us.
Two weeks ago Stewart Berger spoke in the Temple of Light service and read beautifully the last prayer of the Master to His disciples and His followers. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/heavenly-governmentearthly-government.html] But did the Master speak those words to a rag-tag band of followers 2,000 years ago or did He speak them across all time, directly to us now, and directly to any and all who are awakening here on earth now, conscious of being a part of His Body—or not conscious but nonetheless a part of His Body today?
I want to enter this service time with the premise that the words that the Master spoke—His last prayer—were spoken not to a group of a few individuals long ago, but directly and consciously to all who would come, all that would in time be His Body; would begin being His Body; but step-by-step, not only beginning, but being a full extension, expansion and expression of Him on earth.
If we consider the nature of the moment when He spoke these words recorded in John 17: “I have glorified thee on Earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, and now O Father, glorify thou me with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” If we consider for a moment the import, the magnitude of factors that came to focus as He spoke these words, would we not be able to draw the inference rather quickly in fact, that as He spoke these words, as He completed His work on earth and handed the baton, the mantle of responsibility, to those who would come, that in fact this momentous moment was the culmination of tens of thousands of years of the history of man, and that in fact all of the longing of the Father, all of the longing of the Master came to focus in these words? Is it not clear to us then, if this is possibly true, that these were not mere words—how beautiful, how extraordinary as they were, but they are words of the will, the yearning, the passion of the Father, set as golden lines of reality, more real than any other words, a plan, a design for what would emerge?
Probably some of you have read Uranda’s service posted in the Great Cosmic Story recently, titled, “These Things Transcend All Time”, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/these-things-transcend-all-time.html] and found it deeply moving, stirring. I certainly found it so, and others around me shared the same depth of stirring: “Father, I will that they also be with me where I am.” “Father, I will that they also be with me where I am.” Perhaps more than words, they were a line of force established, for a time when those who would hear, and not only hear but would vibrate in union with those words: “Be with me where I am.” Who will fulfill those words—and when? What rag-tag band of Sons and Daughters of God will come into oneness with the spirit, the power, of that prayer and allow all time to be dissolved, as though He had spoken those words, when? Just yesterday; just yesterday. This is what Uranda spoke of in that service, “These Things Transcend All Time”—beautiful, eloquent, moving words of Uranda. But just beautiful, eloquent and moving? Or TRUE. And more true, than anything else that we might think or feel.
So to the question as to what rag-tag band of Sons and Daughters of God might be bold enough, have enough gall, to consider that these words of the Master were forever—and for them, more real now than when spoken 2,000 years ago. What band? As for what band of ragtag Sons and Daughters of God, I want to read a few words of Martin that speaks to the matter of what a small band can in fact do. This is just a short paragraph from Martin’s service “Victory in the Lord” from November 14, 1971 [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-essential-focalization-of-divine.html]: “There are many illustrations of how small a manifest focalization of divine expression may be, and yet accomplish great things. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't require very much. In fact there's a necessity for something rather small, because as soon as an association of human beings begins to take in large numbers the real value tends to be lost. They only stay in vivid application through a small number of people.” Just a small number is enough. He's saying that it was ever thus.
I want to read another short paragraph, this one from Uranda, November 3, 1946, on “Qualities Of Leadership”: “I perceive now and again an individual who in his progress of growing in the spiritual life comes face to face with a limitation in himself and tends to find therein a seeming cause for self-judgment.” I'll pause there a moment. Have we ever had a few such judgments ourselves, because of some limitation in ourselves? Well let's go on and hear what Uranda has to say about that. He continues: “I do not recall that ever in the whole history of man”—ever in the whole history of man—"God has undertaken to utilize the strongest or wisest, or those with the most knowledge, in furthering His cause on Earth.”
“I do not recall that ever in the whole history of man, God has undertaken to utilize the strongest or wisest, or those with the most knowledge, in furthering His cause on earth. Moses classified himself as being slow of speech.” Any of us slow of speech? Well, Martin was, at least in the early years. “The Master called his disciples from the humble walks of life.”
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So let's consider, for a moment, what the Master spoke of in His prayer, which could be called the “Prayer of Oneness”—the oneness of Himself with the Father; the oneness of His Body with Him, with the Father; the Oneness of all three. Let's consider for a moment that these words were for all time, and in fact the passage of 2,000 some years are as naught. Then what? I want to read another little portion from Martin in 1974, in which he speaks about the victory having occurred yesterday, so to speak. Martin says:
“As we share a perspective view of the outworking of the creative cycles over the last 4,000 years, we discover that time ceases to separate. We might for a moment consider what occurred 1900 years ago when our Master was here. As we have looked at those events and what it was He actually brought, does it seem like it was separated from us by nineteen centuries? One might almost say that it occurred yesterday... If we look at the events that occurred in the external sense, all the failures, the troubles, the difficulties, all these things, then that was a very long time ago. But the truth that was present, the truth which could have permitted a victorious outworking in the First Sacred School [for example], is just as surely present now as it was then. So the intervening time vanishes when we are polarized in the truth. If you're polarized in historical events, then that was way, way back.”
So I suppose the question arises for us also: Are we polarized in the truth or are we polarized in historical events? I suppose for us that question might apply to, for example: Are we polarized in the historical events of the last 2,000 years? of the last 30 years? Where are we polarized? Are we polarized in the truth? And when we are polarized in the truth, what wasn't true carries no weight, no import. What carries weight is the vividness of the real, the vividness of the truth which was, which is as true now as when the Master spoke that prayer of oneness.
I'll read a few more lines from John 17—this prayer, as I say, sent directly across all time, to any who will vibrate with these words and stand in the spirit of them regardless of when that might be: “Father I will that they also be with me where I am... That they all may be one; as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” We feel the depth of the yearning in these words. He knew what was coming in the few days ahead. He knew that all of His ministry, prepared for how many hundreds, thousands of years were coming, had come to a conclusion. I'll read that sentence again: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” The passion, the will of the One who is the KING for this world, brought to the most poignant focus in these words of wish, will, for His Body. It says, “I will that they also be with me where I am.” Be with Him where He is. Is that possible?
If we are really skeptical and doubtful, we could think that those are beautiful words of His heart, but was it a wish—maybe wishful thinking? The Focus of the power of Love for this world doesn't do “wishful thinking.” Isn’t that clear? But rather, He wills and sets in motion the cycles by which it will be fulfilled. Be with Him where He is.
For us here online, some semblance of thought that might arise: but we're now in our 70s and 80s! Yes, I see our gray hair! Be with Him where He is now, with our capacities now. In this time and age, with our various pains and aches of the body, is it possible to be with Him fully where He is? Here is another question: Do you think He would think it was possible? Well, what do you think? Do you think He would think it was possible?
The greatest rag-tag band of all, right here. Do you think He would think it was possible? The answer is clear to me. The Master, our KING, knows it is possible. His body was crucified. What body? His body in all its meaning. Perhaps some of our experience too—crucified? Then in the darkness of the tomb, for how long? Three days? How long was that? How long were the experiences of the darkness for us? However long, He knows it's possible. Why? Because He did it! He did it with and on behalf of his Body. Are our age and our various limitations greater than the limitations that He moved through? Yet He was true to His prayer of oneness and He did it. Thus He knows it is possible for His Body at any time, after any experience of the crucifixion or the tomb that they might have, experiences of failure that they might have—that regardless, and in spite of, and ultimately through all of that, His Body may fulfill His prayer of oneness: “Be with me where I am.”
Where is this, “Where I am,” Where He is, that He is inviting His Body to? Inviting across all time, dissolved of time, to any who might feel the invitation, as though these words were freshly spoken just hours ago. Where is this, “Where I am”? Where He is”? A hint to that is spoken in the line of that prayer of oneness, “Oh Father, glorify Thou me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.”
“The glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” Is He speaking only about Himself in the singular person, or is the implication in these words that the glory which I had with Thee before the world was, is in fact the truth for His Body, for His Body was with Him before the world was. Well, is that right? This raises the very important question: Were we with Him before the world was?—implying then, were we with Him, with the Father, with and in the glory of the Father, before time was? Well, what do you think? Were we with Him before time was, with the glory of the Father already known, and that this is in fact the reality, the only reality, more real than any other reality, and that all the experience in between where this was not known is—what? as naught, immaterial.
I say that we were with Him, with the glory of the Father, with Him before the world was. Dare we not only say it, but know it, not as an idea that Uranda or Martin presented back along the way; not an idea, but the truth and the most real of all realities? Dare we know this? This is what His Prayer of Oneness was willing, inviting us to, to dare to know with Him the oneness with Him and with the Father, to know the glory of the Father. Not, when?—later? Later when? Well later for a few of us might be not so much later. In fact, not after we have returned to our home in the light, in heaven—no not then, but now. His invitation was to know the oneness in the glory of the Father here on earth, and to breathe it, feel it, embody it, live it, and thus be His Living Body of the Sons and Daughters of God, walking, acting on earth; the Sons and Daughters of God shouting for joy.
David Barnes sent me a little passage in connection with this, where he pointed out the glory we knew with the King of Love, and with the Father, was not just in transcendent time, but it was the glory we knew on earth, in full, as the body of Sons and Daughters of God walking the earth before the Fall in the Motherland. Is this true? “Well, I don't quite remember it, but it might be true that once we already walked this earth in the glory and oneness of the Father”—that we already fulfilled the Prayer of Oneness, and were the living, breathing reality of it, Sons and Daughters of God who shouted for joy, and that the intervening years since then, in fact, are as naught. If there are those who are bold enough, who dare enough to let that be so, that the oneness with Him, that the oneness with the Father is now, and our age, our ailments do not matter. It's now.
If we need a little more logic, I offer this about the inexorability of the Alpha—the beginning, the known oneness with the Father—that the Alpha inexorably concludes in Omega, and that the Alpha and the Omega are one; and that the time in between is as naught. I want to speak a moment about the inexorability of the Omega, which would be what?—the fulfillment of the Prayer of Oneness, of the Father, the Son, and the Body. Martin spoke of this inexorability as the ending of the state of self-activity in humanity, which has been a temporal phenomenon while our solar system was moving through this particular part of the universe. A part wherein human beings could exercise self-active will. But that is inexorably and speedily coming to a conclusion, because it is a temporal and unsustainable blip in the history of this planet. The return to Omega, which is the Alpha of Oneness with the Father, and the glory of the Father is itself final and more real than anything else.
So, I want to conclude our time by again reading from John 17, one phrase in particular. As I read, I invite us all to hear this as if we’re each speaking this in the first person. “And now oh Father, glorify Thou me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” As I speak this again, hear “glorify Thou me” as it applies to each one of us. Would not His glory apply to each one of us, if in fact each one knew His glory before the world was? Thus, this is the invitation that the Master was leading us to accept, in the first person, the glory which “I” and “we” had with the Father before the world was. I’ll speak it again as if you were speaking along with me: “O Father, glorify Thou me”, glorify thou me, each of us, with the glory which I had with Thee, “with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” The hour has come for the Son, the expanded Son, to be glorified in the original glory of the oneness with the Father, so that the Body of the Son may glorify Him, “with the glory that I had with Thee,” every one of us, before time and in time—the glory we already knew. This is the truth of us, that in fact we already know oneness with the Father—in the glory we knew and know with Him, in the now, the Eternal Now—all intervening time, gone.
I didn't speak about what happens when we begin to fully dare to know this, and know this in the personal sense, not only in our meditations and prayers but in the world, in the flesh. Given our time, I'll only mention one important point. As the glory of the oneness with our KING, with the Father, truly descends into our body, into our flesh and mind and heart, we might expect that there is a cleansing process that comes with it; the cleansing of all that doesn't vibrate to that reality; all that was polarized in history and in time and in form. As the glory of the Father descends into this planet fully, yes, there's a cleansing, that comes to each of us personally, to us collectively, and in the world at large. What did Martin say about that? “Welcome, welcome cleansing!” There may be plenty of work to do as we recognize patterns of thought and feeling that do not fit with oneness with the Father. And how about when we notice those? How about something called “quick repentance”—not long repentance, we don't need that—quick repentance and quick adjustments; adjustments in our thinking and behavior, and particularly our willing love and forgiveness of one another.
In the last Temple of Light service, David Barnes spoke about his longing for the oneness of the Body, and he made some acknowledgements that he had made errors; [ greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/my-spirit-to-yours-dear-brother-dear.html ] and we accept those words he spoke as representative for every one of us. Have we not made some errors along the way? And would we not extend the spirit of full forgiveness to one another, for the known and present impurities, immaturities that each one of us have? I too have them. Perhaps you too? Could each of us, in truth, offer anything less than the forgiveness and openness to one another that our KING offered? Could we offer less than He did and be in integrity with His spirit? And ultimately be in integrity with our own deepest honorableness? Yes, she could have acted better; he could have acted better; but so could “I” have acted better. In these important days of the fulfillment of our KING's Prayer of Oneness—that must and will be—how about “I” let the Body of our LORD heal, because I forgive; and forgive, and forgive. Would this not be the greatest longing of our KING for His Body, implicit in His prayer for His Body?
Suzanne Core — Yujin, it truly was only yesterday that we heard His Voice as we walked together with Him in the Garden. And it was truly this hour that we heard His Voice again, through yours. What a pleasure and a blessing to be able to add my Voice to yours, to His. Surely we answer the questions you ask, in the affirmative. Surely we know, as we stand and sit here together, in this Zoom Room, in this hour—we know the truth, the truth makes us free, and we stand with God On High. Thank you Yujin, and thank you each one here now, for this precious, precious time.
David Barnes — Yujin, I would speak a word right now, and acknowledge the fulfillment that is present in this hour that we have shared with you. And being a point of fulfillment, it is also a point of initiation for a new movement in those of us who know each other as members of the Body of our KING on earth. And I'm taken back in the Great Story to that time when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, and there came from heaven a Voice saying, “This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” And then, further along in the Story, Jesus took Peter, James and John up the High Mount, and again a Voice from heaven spoke in fulfillment saying, “This is my Beloved Son,” but the final words were, “Hear ye Him.” And the representation of those three disciples is present in this room today—the John, James and Peter aspects of His Body are present here now. And your words are the words of the Son of the Father; and I acknowledge that, and I love that. This developing Body is the Body of the Son, and we can hear His words, the Father's words, saying, “I am well pleased with the way things have moved to this point of fulfillment.” And now something new opens, and I am so thankful for what you brought to fulfillment, and for what you have initiated of a new opening for and with us all, in this Living Body of the Son of God.
Tony Palombo — I would like to follow in David’s words. Yujin, thank you. I have spent many hours with that passage from John—Jesus’ prayer to His Father. Each time it brings me to tears, and what it draws up in me is the memory that I was there when He spoke them. There's no yesterday; it's only now; there's only today. Those words spoken are still sounding in the present now; there is no yesterday; there's no 2,000 years ago. Years, what is that? Time, what is that? I was there. I have a vivid memory of this every time I read those words. It brings me to tears for some reason, and I just rejoice at what you’ve brought! What does that Glory look like; what does that Glory feel like? Well, I really don't know fully what it feels like and what it is like, but I am certainly willing that it be so. So, thank you.
Robert Merriman — How good it is Yujin, to hold this firm foundation of agreement with you at a time when many forms are on the move, those coming into manifest form and those that are passing away. I know in my household when one of us is waking up the other is very kind and offers a cup of coffee, and says, “You can share this with me; I'll wait for you.” And here we have a body that's waking up from a deep coma, and in this agreement I can say, “Here, drink of me, and I will wait for you; you're part of this Body. I'm holding a place for you.” I do believe you've opened the way for a beautiful, compassionate, spiritual leadership, and for a clear eye at a time when many are confused. I am so grateful for this hour.
Laura Fisher — All that needs to leave can leave quickly—hasten therefore, and repent. All those things that need to leave are human things. I do it now, quickly, so that the true Body that I feel and know can be present through me. And each one says that. Thank you, my long-time friend for this Open Door.
Deborah Starrs — Another passage comes to mind, that when you knew me as I have always known you, you agreed to certain things. We remember. And as we remember the truth of those timeless offerings, our world expands, where all things are possible, and inexorably to His Glory. I love what has been called the Prayer of Intercession. It's very moving. It's an attunement. It's an atunement now for the world. Thank you Yujin.
Yujin Pak — You're right, Deborah, the Prayer of Oneness, the Prayer of Intercession for the world, is the prayer to restore oneness. And if in fact His will for us to be in oneness with Him is true, then perhaps He would like us to speak this sentence that I read earlier in the first person. Let us reread this one sentence as though it is His deepest desire that we read it this way, in the first person, each one of us.
“O Father, glorify Thou me, with Thine own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee, before the world was.”
Can you feel His pleasure, the pleasure of our KING, that His Body, knowing oneness with Him, can speak, could speak these words in the first person? “O Father, glorify Thou me, us, with the glory which I, we, had with Thee, before the world was.”
I want to conclude with these words by Uranda, from earlier: “I do not recall that ever in the whole history of man, God has undertaken to utilize the strongest or wisest or those with the most knowledge in furthering His cause on earth.” Well, that keeps us safe, doesn't it? Moses classified himself as being slow of speech and the Master called His disciples, His Body, from the humble walks of life. As we walk that humble walk, may we fully remember now, and accept oneness with Him, the oneness that always was, and is: the truth of ourselves with the Father; rejecting all self-doubt, all residue of shame, which really is not ours. It's the shame that humanity has known for these tens of thousands of years. Rejecting that shame, that separation, knowing that these are not our thoughts. Our thoughts are oneness with the Father. Thus, through our knowing the Prayer of Intercession for this world, we offer the invitation to those who can that they may return to their knowing of the One Truth, which is oneness and uprightness in God. Over to you Steve.
Steve Ventola — I think we need a devotion to finish our time. O LORD, as we've been stilled at Thy Door we remember, beyond belief, beyond any self-recriminations from the prince of this world; beyond any ache or pain, and move into a place that we know is true, and we hear these words today, “Glorify Thou Me; that I am in Thee—Thy Prayer of oneness. Our radiance together, the most valuable people on the face of the earth because we open to Thy Call and Thy Knowing. We give all thanks to be together in this way. We acknowledge each of us as part of One Body. As we say, “I am that One,” the Lord speaks in this day. The tone is sounded, the resurrecting power of Thy Nature restores all things new. In the Glory of Thy Name, we love and cherish this time now, and as we continue in each moment, now, as I am One. Aumen.
Our next Temple of Light service will be on Sunday, April 24th, with Terry and Robert Kauffman leading the way. All are welcome.
We leave behind religious conditioning that surrounds Easter commemorations, and move into a New Heaven that imbues our meditations with life and vitality, because of the presence of the Sons and Daughters of God right here right now. And thus everything is brought up to date, in the present moment of resurrection and possibility for the Christ Body. We remove the grave clothes, fold them carefully and leave them in the darkened place, and we move out into the Garden experience that is available to everybody who attunes to the spirit moving in the New Heaven.
When I use the term Christ Body I mean qualities of spirit that are being expressed through human beings—human forms with capacities of consciousness that each God Being created for a specific purpose, as part of the Archangelic Body and purpose. This, now emerging as the Christ Body, is a vehicle through which Creator Beings express and create, bringing the government of the spirit into the world.
I will read a few verses from a poem by Walt Whitman titled, “To Him That Was Crucified”. I'm not wrapped up in the crucifixion story at Easter; but I am very interested in what occurred spiritually at that time, when a seed was planted in the Garden consciousness, and over time it grew and became something quite different than the original seed itself. Now, we are aware that it is our responsibility to tend and keep the Garden, and let the planting flourish under our hand. Here is what Walt Whitman had to say about 150 years ago in a poem that is a direct message addressed to Jesus the Christ. He begins, “My spirit to yours dear brother”.
“My spirit to yours dear brother,
Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession …
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down
till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.”
Here is the voice of one speaking to an intimate spiritual comrade, a friend who was as immediately present to him in that moment as if he had been back there 1900 years ago with the Master Jesus. But I particularly want to emphasize two things. First: “Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you. I do not sound your name, but I understand you.” The Name—recognizing that we are in heaven and on Holy Ground, we could say that the Name is the Body of the Son of God. We are “in the Name”. We are in the Body of the Son. We are in the Body of the Sun, that great orb that centers this solar system; and as human beings we are in the Body of the Son—the Body of the God Being within, and the Body of the Archangelic Son. Second: Whitman expressed, “My spirit to yours dear brother.” I could say that to each of you, in thanksgiving for what you bring of your own spirit: “My spirit to yours dear brother, dear sister.” I could say that to Stewart or to John, recognizing the fine stature and largess of spirit: “My spirit to yours dear brother.” Or I could say to Anne, “My spirit to yours dear sister.” We may not go about speaking those words out loud to each other, but walking on Holy Ground we acknowledge that, really, it is always so. And there are other phrases too, that we might use in the Body of the Son. Uranda mentioned that his preferred term to use, when speaking of the God Being, would be, “My Prince.”
When we move in a sacred atmosphere together, conscious of being on Holy Ground, and aware of the Burning Bush at the Core of the Body of the Son of God—the orb of the Sun is a symbol of the burning bush—there is opportunity for holy greeting, sacred interchange and acknowledgment, before we get down to business, the Father's business. Uranda gave a beautiful service in 1954 titled, “Co-owner In The Father's Business.” In the Body of the Son we are Sons and Daughters in our Divine human beingness, and from the standpoint of the God Being we are Lords of our creation, male and female, Lords who love the design of being that is evident in the clarity of the New Heaven and the New Earth that we know. We live in this Body of the Sun at the level of the outer world; but we also live in the Body of the Son that is the formation of God Beings coming into differentiated manifestation of the design in heaven, revealed through you and me and others.
I watch the news and the public affairs programs on the internet and on TV. I've been surprised and delighted to see and hear the radiance beginning to emerge through many of those who are reading the news, and many who are being interviewed. As well, I can see the brutality and the destructiveness, and the inability to recognize the sanctity of life, and to say in attitude, “My spirit to yours dear brother, dear sister.” But I have been noting how the radiance is coming through many in the Body of God—for example, our head CBC news anchor, in whom there is such an abundance of competence and stability, compassion and deep care. It pours out of her and through the screen, and I say, “My spirit to yours dear sister.” She is just one among many. I mention this because here is evidence of what is taking place in the Body of the Son—not what is taking place in the tomb, but evidence of those beginning to emerge into the Garden experience.
A broader spectrum of representation is evident in this emerging New Nation, this part of the Body of God that is the focus of Son consciousness. It isn't visible to the same degree in and through each member in the exactly same way that it may be present in the conscious mind and heart of those who provide that focus, but the radiance of it permeates the Whole Body—those who are somehow catalyzed into agreement with its spirit, finding some measure of union with it. It is easy to see that the illumination of the Whole Body is showing, catalyzed by the illumination taking place in the focus pattern lodged in the Head of the One Body emerging on earth. And that is us in this service pattern; that is us in the Tone of Life service pattern; that is us through all the attunement gatherings; that is us and others. We have been called to this time, called to recognize and know, called to let the radiance of the Light of the City in the Son—and the City in the Sun—increase here on earth; not so much through increasing numbers of people, but through enlarging and amplifying the radiance of those who already know that this is why I am here.
We are the Holy City. Angels incarnate are a Holy City in the Son; the Body of the Son as it relates to this world—all of humanity being resurrected and moving in this restoration cycle—is a Radiant City in a larger Body of the Son. And so each of us can say, “I am a Holy City within a Greater City, within the Body of the Son”—the Body of the Son of God, and the Body of the Sun of the whole Solar Entity.
There are many things that could be considered in relationship to the design as we begin to discover it emerging in our own consciousness. It relates to our own specific purpose for being here; and no one can bring what the other one brings. There may be overlap in some who are working together within specific groupings of angels in the Body, but each of us brings something quite unique. The whole Body needs to be filled out, so that there is a functioning Being and Body here.
The Bhagavad Gita speaks about the nine gateways of the body; gateways for radiance and for response, gateways for assimilation and gateways for elimination. There are also three other primary gateways, related to the consciousness of the mental level, the heart or emotional level, and the spiritual expression level, in their responsive and radiant aspects. So we have twelve primary gateways in the Body of the Son of God, and the thirteenth is the Son Himself, the Wonderful One Within, who created the Body with its twelve gateways for the reception and release of spirit in accord with the purposes of the Father. And of course, in the Body we have seven other primary gateways, representing the Archangelic focal points that are present in the City in the Son. So we have the seven and the twelve in our individual makeup, and in the makeup of the developing Body of the Son of God. All these things begin to dawn on us.
I am sharing some of what I am becoming aware of, flooding into consciousness through this crossover point, this human being; and each one of us will have different things coming into consciousness from On High, thoughts and ideas that relate to our specific responsibility; and ways will naturally appear to blend with other members of the One Body who share related fields of function. This is happening. The little tribulations that arise between us from time to time are no big deal really. The development of this Body is well underway! It is not going to disappear. And what appeara as points of difference or misunderstanding can quickly dissolve as attention is given in the right place, and we proceed. We will have to make adjustments, but these things that come and go in the purification that we share in this resurrection cycle, these cloudy areas will pass away. And we can help them pass away more quickly—or maybe not. Sometimes it is best to leave them alone for a little bit, and not misinterpret what's going on.
We continue to move in a purification cycle, allowing more of this Body of the Son to come forth and be effective in function through each individual member, and through the whole. And every person, all of the creation—animal, vegetable, mineral; and the crowning creation, the human being—all of it is moving in this one grand restorative cycle, with its purpose being to bring as many as will come into a totally new experience from what has heretofore been known in the state of “fallen man.” Although we are in the world of mixed up, confused and imprisoned human beings, we ourselves do not have to be imprisoned. As Whitman said:
“Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down
till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.”
This is the Word of the Third Sacred School. This is the Word of Emissaries of Divine Light. This is the Word extending from the Temple of Light. This is the sounding of the Tone of Life and Love. It has never been exclusive; even though I know that in my human makeup I've been exclusive in times past. One of the greatest blessings the Master brought throughout His Ministry was a continuous spirit of forgiveness. His last words were, “Father, forgive them.”
That phrase, that Word, is resounding in my soul over this Easter season. “Father, forgive me, for I did not know what I was doing in those moments. My human soul speaks these words directly to the Father of All, and to the Mother of All, for not being the true Son of Father and Mother God—or for not being the true Daughter of Father and Mother God. “Father, Mother, forgive me, for I did not know.” And there is forgiveness for what may yet transgress in the future, as we move onward through the cycles of purification and regeneration together. But the word is, “Father, forgivethem”—forgive all those that we can see in the world who slip and slide in the mud of human nature.
And it is so, as we move ahead together. It is One Spirit, One Body, no matter how many formations emerge, formations that are differentiated aspects of this Body, formations that are required to accomplish certain things in the world, through the release of the spirit of this Body. We're in a new time. This is the time for the Sons and Daughters of God in this Body to come forth, and bring what is theirs to bring into the body of mankind, with whom each one has particular connections and responsibilities that maybe others don't know anything about; and don't have to know anything about just yet—but you know that it is so for you. There is One Vine, One Vehicle, One Body differentiated to enfold and serve multiple opportunities that are at hand—and more will come as we use these ones rightly.
This is some of what I feel emerging in the Garden experience—out of the tomb, and into the experience of the Son, who was never in the tomb but is always in the Garden. It is only the human facilities that have been entombed. “Imprisoned Splendor,” Robert Browning called it, the human condition—imprisoned splendor now released from the prison, walking out of the tomb and into the Garden. And so, may these words provide assurance that we are working together no matter what formations we may find ourselves a part of. We each bring the spirit of the angel into the Body just as it is right now. My spirit to yours, dear brother, dear sister. Forgive me my trespasses. I see you and I know you.
“Forgive them Father, their trespasses—this is now my responsibility. My responsibility is to release the spirit of forgiveness, and then the prison doors may open, and people make their choices. We know we've gone in and out in times past; not so much anymore. “My spirit to yours”—to each one here, the ones I'm with right now. “My spirit to your spirit, dear brother, dear sister.” On this Easter day—in this Grand Easter Day of the Ages—where the resurrection and the restoration of the Body of the Son of Father and Mother is happening, and we're a part of that happening. On this Grand Easter day, “My spirit to yours, dear brother, dear sister.”
Gary Courtland-Miles — Greetings Angels, brothers, sisters. Thank you Father for this strengthening, this powerful spirit that has been with us, strengthening us in our Priesthood, our Priesthood that blesses the whole earth and also blesses each other. We bless each other, we lift each other up, we recognize the beauty and radiance of each one. So let us continue to do a new thing, let a new thing be done. Turns out that new thing is that Glory we had in the beginning with Father and Mother God before the foundation of this world. So let us continue to rise up and let it be done.
My spirit to yours, Dear Brother, Dear Sister
April 14, 2024
HeavenlyGovernment — EarthlyGovernment
Stewart Berger March 31, 2024 Norwalk, California
It's very special to be together on Easter Sunday to consider the process of resurrection, transformation, transmutation—the experience of Jesus having the victory over death and by reason of what He moved through, making possible this opportunity that we find ourselves in now, to find our union with God, the divine, and to manifest that in all our ways.
I've really been enjoying our recent services, and it seems to me that there is an extra level or dimension of vibrancy and life that you and we are allowing to be brought forth, and it's the love for the LORD that is at the heart of that. The web of connection that we share transcends our human activity, permeates it, and is protective; my image of that connective, energetic material is as a strong and fine yet flexible mesh, and I find it's evidence of greater union between us, which consequently allows the opportunity for greater unified radiation. Martin spoke about this in 1981 in “The Mind That Was in Christ Jesus”:
“Unified radiation relates to what is experienced in an outward direction. The human mind and heart of all those who are participating in the accommodation of the expression of the spirit of God, of the Word, find themselves associated in that expression. Unified in the radiation, there is an increasing perspective of wholeness and awareness that this which is finding expression of the Word is doing so on the basis of a unified whole. As these various stages consequent upon response of heart and mind are experienced, the nature of the form of one's response changes. It is the response of the heart and mind which should never stop responding, but the experience is different because there is more and more of the Word in expression being accommodated by the heart and mind. As there is movement through these creative stages, attraction, union, unified radiation—what happens at each stage is not left behind but is rather amplified by subsequent changes.”
That's what I've been experiencing in these services. The crossover point where we find our being and which we share is expanded and has greater dimension: it's pretty exciting!
I work reporting, writing and reading news on an L.A. radio station, which certainly keeps me in touch with what's happening in the world.Sometimes I see stories about various individuals acting in crazy ways—maybe you do too—and I have a feeling these incidents may increase. I think it's a sign that life is intensifying and certain structures are falling away, and some people don't know how to handle that. In a Temple service given in January, Jae Hyoung Lee said that after a meeting somebody asked, “Is there hope for humanity?” And of course a number of people all over the world wonder about this. Jae Hyoung said there is hope for humanity: “As long as we are in our place and doing our part, I think this world is safe. And as long as the Lord can be in this world through us, and as long as the Lord is in this world, this world is safe. Long ago, the Lord Jesus had to do it all alone. Most of the disciples weren't with him, but now we are here, for the glory of the Lord.” We are here, and it's up to us. About what's happening in the world, various ones have at times felt fear. But remember what Moses said to the Children of Israel as they were being chased by the pharaoh and his gang when the Red Sea parted: Fear not! “Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.” We have much strength, each of us and together, and that provides a foundation.
Maybe you've seen some polls on the U.S. election in November in which a majority of Americans on both sides say they don't want to see the rematch of the two current front-runners for president, and there's tension because of this. One poll asked people how they would describe what they feel about the election, and one of the top words was “dread”.This issue has made me think about heavenly government and earthly government.
In a great service by Martin, he talked about the ordinances of heaven and the ordinances of earth; and how so many people are really caught up in what's going on in the earth but there's a natural control that originates in heaven: through heaven and through us. Martin addressed this in a few different services, and in one he said: “The Priesthood, in the true state, constitute what may be called government. The government of God on earth is extended through the Priesthood.” In another service he said: “We were considering the matter of ministers last Sunday. By the way, ministers is rather a good word because it doesn't confine the experience to what is deemed to be spiritual. Generally speaking it's called religious. There are ministers of religion, but there are also ministers of government.” So the job is to minister—you've been doing it, as have I.
In the last year, I posted several times about the election on a social media platform and conversed there with others about that. I enjoyed seeing that many people are open to a new and more creative experience politically, while others seem very rigid and insistent on sticking with the way things have been going, and in some cases refused to even consider the idea of change.A good portion of humanity wants to keep going along in the same old ways, and yet we know it hasn't worked.I think this is a time in which the world finally needs to choose as to whether it will stay in that stuck state or find freedom and solutions by being open to and accepting the natural working of life which originates with God: Father God and Mother God.And aligning with that, we may each reveal the Divine masculine or the Divine feminine.
Going back to my mention of the crossover point that we share, I think some who live from that place naturally find their function more in generating heavenly substance or atmosphere, while others are more attuned to service in earthly matters and with people in those arenas.And many operate fluidly in both these realms. Being flexible in spirit and attitude, we can no doubt serve easily in any capacity, as needed; no doubt you have. And because of our web of connection, it all gets covered.
Right now in the U.S., several issues are top of mind; a few are climate change, the National Debt, and wars or conflicts happening elsewhere but which officials take action on. How much more quickly and creatively things might be resolved if those handling them abandoned divisiveness and greed and instead honored our oneness and recognized that, rather than serving ourselves, we're here to serve God, and the greater purposes of life.
So on this Easter Sunday it's wonderful to be with you, providing a place from which a strong and clear blessing may move out through us into the world, to touch whomever is open to receive it; to know that vibrant life is possible now and in all the days to come. I'd like to close with some words by Jesus, spoken just before the events that would lead to his crucifixion and resurrection. These words really spoke to me. There is magic in what Jesus said, and I think the magic was in His love for the Father. We may each know that personal connection and allow it to enliven our beings—our first love. This is from the Book of John, Chapter 17, Jesus speaking with His Father:
Stewart Berger reading John 17
“I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
“While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Yujin Pak — As I hear what you have shared, what comes to me are the final words of the Master, “Be with me where I am.” Eternal words. “Be with me where I am”, and in this day we have the opportunity to fulfill the resurrection and fulfill these eternal words to be with Him now, where He is, in oneness with His Being as His princes and princesses. As we are forgiven of the trespasses that we each have known of each other—ways in which we may have trespassed upon each other—asking forgiveness, releasing in forgiveness, we come back into that place that the Master asked, “Be with me where I am, O my princes, O my princesses.” And we have the opportunity to greet each other in this day in the fulfillment of those eternal words and stand now as Sons and Daughters of God, present in this final hour of fulfillment that all that He did may be magnified, glorified. In whom? In us. Stewart, you spoke about Jae Hyoung's words, “Is there hope for mankind?” As long as the Lord is present through me and you there's hope for mankind. How more true could words be? As long as the Lord is present through me and you; as long as His princes and His princesses are present through me and you today. And the resurrection is not of the past but is now. There's absolute hope for humanity and isn't this the glorious hour in which to fulfill that. To serve the LORD in a kindly human way? Do we want to do that any longer, as individual separate human beings? Why not in these essential hours enter the full surrender that our Master did, released of separate human self, one with the Father, and be the Father present on earth now as He was. This was His prayer for us, that the Father may be present on earth in these final hours, through me, through you. O my princes, O my princesses, I greet you, released of all the trespasses that we may have known of each other.
