Let  Thy  Beloved  Be  Delivered

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Steve Ventola  and  Carol Smith  Atlanta, Georgia

June 22, 2025  Temple of Light Service

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 our Beloved. 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.

Carol Smith — carolsmith@mindspring.com

Steve Ventola — drsteveventola@mindspring.com

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June 22, 2025  Service Notice

Please join us for our monthly Temple of Light service on Sunday, June 22nd @ 10 a.m. Pacific Time and 1 p.m. Eastern Time — with Carol Smith and Steve Ventola speaking from Atlanta, Georgia

Here are a few words spoken by Martin Cecil in 1974, pertinent to our experience in expanding service now:

“Air is the symbol of spirit. The second day of creation permitted the formation of the firmament, which was called heaven. And the second of the four forces is air. Here is the development of a fine substance—pneumaplasm—to provide the means by which the truth of the dimensionless realm might be connected with the truth of the dimensional realm, waters above and waters below. It must be the right medium—a sea of glass clear as crystal. Then the Tone may sound—it is a sound, it is a sight, it is an aroma, it is something to be felt; all the various means of discernment are required to encompass the Tone. It is a Seven-Dimensional Tone. Pneumaplasmic substance is essential, substance of the right consistency and clarity to allow the Tone to be heard. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall be aware of the Tone sounding in the dimensional world because the substance, the medium by which the sound is propagated, is present—then it may be heard. The Tone, the Shekinah, the Christ, the Lamb, the Word is rightly differentiated sevenfold, so that there may be provision in this regard at every level, and when this is so, the Tone can sound at every level and the whole Tone then becomes apparent. This relates to holiness—the Holy Ghost may come upon us. Our concern is to maintain the firmament, the heaven, so that there may be the generation of the essential substance and therefore the increased awareness of the Tone. There is no precedent of what is experienced when this Tone begins to sound again in volume. Well let's find out because we let it happen; we are delighted to abide in quietness and confidence, permitting the generation of the essential pneumaplasm and rejoicing in the increased sound of the Tone that we thereby know. What is done here, or wherever you may be in the sounding of the Tone, is done everywhere. The Tone sounds everywhere. As yet it is not heard by everyone, but to some extent it is certainly having an effect on everyone. And that effect is perfect.”

For the first time since Temple of Light service pattern was initiated in 2020, David and Anne will be away, and will not be present for this service. Together, we allow our love and blessings to rest on everything that is brought to focus under the loving care of Steve and Carol.  david barnes and anne blaney

These are the Temple service dates confirmed for the next two months:

Sunday July 20, 2025 @ 10 a.m. PT  1 p.m. ET

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Holy Ground — Ritual Space — Ageless Being

YouTube Video  Speaker View

Susannah Light  Garden Village, Costa Rica

David Barnes  and  Anne Blaney   Salmon Arm, British Columbia

May 25, 2025  Temple of Light Service

Steve Ventola — I'd invite all of you now to put your cameras on gallery view, so we can see and acknowledge each other; and during this time we'll share attunement—you may want to use your hands share radiation with one another heart-to-heart, eye-to-eye, while Robert plays selected flute music:

Honshirabe — youtu.be/Cb9ZkcLIgLo?si=-sTF2GmB6L9uJjlf

David Barnes — Well, there's been a strong current of welcome that we've extended to one another, in the attunement sanctuary where we meet here, in this Holy Place, this service ritual space. On the Holy Ground of this sanctuary where we meet, it's not possible to mistake one another. Coming into the sanctuary, in attunement, it becomes quite clear that however I or anyone looks in outer appearance, I am in the presence of angels, and in particular a very specific angel. We meet in the flesh of our substance of consciousness and heart, the flesh of our physical bodies. We're incarnate in flesh and blood; heavenly flesh and earthly flesh, in the Body of the Christ Spirit, the Body of the Lord—collectively, the flesh and blood Body of the LORD that is gathering on earth, many human beings making their heavenly and earthly substance available to the creation of the Body of the LORD on earth. And we are a few who are gathered in the sanctuary, wherever that sanctuary is taking form in the lives of people who are awakening, or awake already, to these things. We're among those people, many, many people around the world who are participating in the formation of what we have called the Christ Body. There's no need for us to rehearse the principles of spirit, of life, of truth, of reality, that brought us to this point—we know them well. But there are a few words from the Book of Revelation that I'd like to read, Chapter 10. John the Beloved wrote these words:

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices … And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me. Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

Here is a picture of incarnation: my incarnation and your incarnation—incarnation into the Body of God taking flesh form now. There have been many thunderings and lightnings in the processes of that incarnation. There's been sweetness and bitterness; sorrows and joys—all opportunities for us, incarnate in flesh, to generate the pneumaplasm that draws into consciousness an understanding of the commission that we agreed to, and received, and took, when we ate the “little book”, and moved through the processes that allowed incarnation in the flesh, my flesh, your flesh, the flesh of this Body.

It's taken a lifetime to come to a vivid realization of the significance and the importance of the flesh body—to love the flesh body, the flesh of the mind, and the flesh of the heart, and the flesh of other angels who are cells in the Christ Body. It's taken a long time, relatively speaking, to reach the point where there could be a prophesying before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings—for each of us as individuals to come to a point where expression originates in Divine Being, in the one I am; for us as individuals to be alive, awake, functioning, coherent, and able to express the spirit of the One who sent us into this world to participate in the creation of a Body through which He, and the Angelic Host, could incarnate and be present in flesh on earth. Here we are, and this is the day.

This is the day. And so, an aspect of our work today is to acknowledge, and delight in, and allow an increased understanding of how important it is that we are here in flesh and blood, living in these body temples, through which finer and richer and greater varieties and qualities of substance can be generated in this One Body, composed of many, many people. People who, like us, have come to generate specific kinds, qualities, and vibrations of substance that allow the Spiritual Body to be, ultimately, fully functional on earth, with doors of the heart, gates of the mind, and this threshold of the physical body wide open for the coming of the One whose Body this is. We know that the One who comes, comes with great respect and care to the Door; and only comes in when the welcome is there: “Welcome. Welcome, my Lord; come in. Welcome. We have prepared a place for you.”

It is a real pleasure, and fulfillment, to meet together in this place, in this spirit, with this understanding. It is a great joy to participate in this service, and share something generative and significant with Susannah and Anne. We meet each other on the Path that we walk towards the fulfillment of our incarnation. We know how the scripture goes: “And without Shekinah there is not anything made that is made.” On the Path, and seeing someone walking toward you, we know, I know, that this is brought forth by Shekinah, by the Christ, by the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of the LORD drawing together people who need to be together, in a particular Shekinah Pattern in an overall sense—One Pattern, with the LORD of Lords at the apex, and other Archangels and angels filling in the substance of the upper creative triangle. And below, in this vibrational realm of flesh and blood, we are here to fill in this lower creative triangle. We notice and acknowledge one another. We have been brought together by Shekinah, in particular Patterns of Shekinah, for specific creative purposes within this Christ Body.

Anne and I came walking towards each other 29 years ago. We heard the call, inside first, in the inner ear, and then externally a few weeks later. And we've been walking together, not just walking toward each other, but walking together for almost 30 years now. I remember when I first noticed Susannah—it was around 2012. I saw a photograph of her and made note of this woman; and it was just a little over two years ago that we began to meet Susannah face-to-face in a Temple of Light service, and we've been walking toward each other ever since. Anne, Susannah and I have been drawn together by Shekinah for a particular creative purpose; and we came closer, and now we're not walking towards each other—we're walking together, and talking together, and creating together. We are thankful together to be present in flesh and blood to continue the processes of creation by Shekinah, through us, with you, in your fields of Shekinah. And I suggest, if you don't know what they are, that they are here most certainly, at hand, ready to be discovered and unveiled in various ways. This is Holy Ground, these are sacred things, this is ritual space, this is the beginning of something. In the beginning, God creates. I want to give space now to our beloved friend Susannah, who is speaking from her Garden Village Sanctuary and home in Costa Rica. Susannah …

Susannah Light — Good morning. It’s a joy to come into this Beloved Space again with you. I’m seeing your faces, loving you, knowing you, and remembering who we are, remembering our purpose of Being. So, I enter softly into this rich space, for it is Holy Ground. I have removed my shoes; I come in peace and in vibrancy of Spirit. We, the angels, have decreed this to be so, for the purpose of following life’s true nature and allowing it to be clearly present now and always, together. I come this morning with a full heart, and an expectant heart. My heart has been activated by what has been brought into this Temple of Light already this morning, and also by what has been powerfully stirring in these times and days and months. The passion and urgency of spirit has been very clear.

This morning, I want to share some of the essences of my heart with you, and along with that, the essences of my Garden Home from which I greet you. So come with me for just a moment and I’ll show you around. I live on 11 acres of jungle, and meadows, and gardens, with cows and chickens, and my sweet dog-children. The voices of nature are abundant here. I live next door to my sister’s dairy farm. Twelve years ago I named this property Garden Village and built this Sanctuary Home with a conscious and passionate commitment to allow the things which God has planted Eastward in Eden to come alive, to be alive in my flesh and blood, and upon this sacred ground.

In recent Temple services we heard the invitation to sense, to feel, see as it were, the Cathedral of our Life, the arches and pillars, the spaciousness, the Light flowing in. I want to add my word to that reality. And this is not only words or imagination—it is in what we give room for in our hearts and in our minds. This morning as I meditated, my sister Hannah walked in, saddened for something that had gone wrong for her in cattle-care just then. I rose up and we both walked out into the rain; together we resolved the matter and brought it to peace. So, we can say that these vast arches of this Great Holy Arena from which we live and express and create, extend out over the far reaches of the world, for we are indeed living in Temple Space, the Garden Space of God. I feel this vividly. I feel this as though in a Holy Continuum of Ritual Space.

I want to speak a bit on being in Agreement with Life. When we are in agreement with the Spirit of Life through various forms and essences that come to meet us. It has been my experience in these times that moment by moment there is a beautiful, beautiful union, in which I notice an exquisitely fine intimacy with this Presence which is Life, the Divinity that is natural to Life—one could say, the rising up out of the East in each holy moment, which is every moment, every breath.

Last December after a particularly rich Temple Service given by David and Anne and Steve, I wrote a letter to them, and there is a paragraph which I would like to read with you now; so here’s the paragraph:

“For me today, to have been with you in this glowing opportunity for Life to be real in my Body, and in the Greater Body, takes my breath away. I now have more place, more divine placement for my Passion, for it is Holy and has been Holy. And now I can meet, see, acknowledge and feel, and agree with, all the ways and forms through which Sacred Life is presenting itself before me in every Divine Moment— which is every moment, in every breath. For all that is within this Kingdom and Queendom which has come; is here not only to be known and met by me, but now calls me into Union with this Life and therefore Radiant Creation after the Nature and Will of Almighty God, which was from before the foundations of this world. I experience this more every day, through my cows, through the land that offers me ground and fruit, for my incarnation, and to which I in turn bestow my great love. I meet this Divine Presence in everything, through each creation, the creatures, the tall trees, the winged ones, the mountains and the rivers; the marvelous patterns of sky, cloud, sun, moon and a million brilliant tones of Light and Color. And of course through my sisters and brothers of this incarnation.”

I want to emphasize the incarnate experience here—the Life that we touch, the Life that we are. When I am with my cows I am in the Holy Arena, the Great Garden Space of God. I’ll tell you a little story. One lovely morning a while ago I was taking my four young cows, whom I have raised from infancy, across the green hills of my Garden Sanctuary property to a distant pasture. My goal was to take them to their designated pasture across a creek below. Well, my cows began to frolic all around me. They began to dance—up go their heals into the air and their heads tossing gleefully. Then their front feet come up and back down, and so they dance, up and down all around me. They were not too concerned about the distant pasture I was leading them to. They were fully in this moment, and loving it! So, you can picture four happy cows dancing down a gentle hill with me; but I realized I wasn’t sure if they understood their weight compared to mine, and whether I could keep track of where their feet were landing. After all, these are 800-pound dance partners! So, to protect myself I slipped behind a small bush and let them go gleefully by me. Then an amazing thing happened. Two of them came dancing back up the hill, right directly to me as if to say, “Come on already. Let's engage!”

This experience stayed with me as a lasting meditation on what it is that is coming to meet me for my precise attention, and agreement, and engagement. This is a meditation that makes my heart and my mind very still—the realization of the angels at hand—the Hosts of Heaven, in all their manifestations, beckoning for our full attention, now.  Well, we might say we are not seeing anything extraordinary, no people with halos or wings or white robes. But if what is coming to meet us in this Holy Moment is from the Garden planted Eastward in Eden, well then, let us be in profound agreement and union with this. Let us be in One Place in One Accord. Let us enter this ecstatic union so that you and I, in this flesh and blood, upon this Holy Earth may speak reality through our living. And may we be alert, ready, eager, and able to see all the ways in which we can now bring the Mystery of God into rich, expansive and beautiful manifestations.

A couple mornings ago I was walking along a jungle trail near the ocean, and as I beheld the pure wonder of the tall trees, the lush green foliage of wild almond trees reaching so high up that the monkeys feel safe to play and let us hear their voices, and a trail with views out to a brilliant blue ocean, alive with wind and waves, I had the sense of something Extra Divine—Extra Divine. Immediately I knew that the “Extra Divine” was in my perception, and in my willingness to open my heart and my mind to be yielded to Life’s Grandeur, in every moment, with whatever it is that is coming to meet us now. So, my realization was that this was not because God was providing something different than that which is always provided in perfect and limitless proportions, to us, in every single moment that we are living.

Again, this meditation brings me to a place of profound stillness and understanding, that it is I—it is I who have the opportunity to open, or, God-forbid close, my heart and mind to this Pure Place of Divine Presence, to the Patterns of Heaven made freely available, with the sweet beckoning to open and receive—and then to provide that same Sweet Welcome to all my world. The welcome to Come Home and Rest.

I will now read an excerpt titled, “The Natural World Longs To Come Near”, from a service by Martin Exeter [titled, “To Speak The Word Is To Hear And Understand” August 24, 1986]

“Let minds and hearts, being filled with this golden, peaceful substance of love, consequently be the gates of heaven, the gates through which the angels of heaven may come into the earth. Human minds and hearts are indeed designed as the gate of heaven, through which the hosts of heaven may come into the earth. They have been a barrier to this, filled with their own thinking and their own emotions—no gate of heaven, no angels in experience. Let minds and hearts be still. Then the angels of heaven may be present and known by human minds and hearts. Be still and know that I am God, revealed in experience of mind and heart by the one I am.

“Be still, mind and heart. Be still and receive the golden substance of love. Be still and know that I am present. I am present in each little human earth and world, but being present there, I am present in the whole of the planet earth and in the whole of the natural world. And I come forth to live and be on earth, providing all that is necessary, and possible to let the gates of heaven be opened everywhere in mankind, so that the hosts of heaven may come into the earth, and so that the whole population, insofar as man is concerned, is an angelic one. This, we have come to know, through our own experience of the coming forth, is what is happening. And it shall be finished. Let the gate be flung wide open, that all may come again into the oneness made possible by the union of heaven and earth, the angel of God and the human being.”

And with that passion and that love I invite my dear friend Anne, and turn it over to you.

Raven Rendezvous — youtu.be/iCVO4wANADM?si=eMDEEAy1mGVUAs_q

Anne Blaney — The flute has been somewhat of a music theme this morning, it's a beautiful little instrument. I came across a few lines from Rumi that I'd like to read:

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reed bed

Cut holes in it and called it a human being.

Since then it's been wailing a tender agony of parting

Never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute.

Listening to these beautiful flutes got me thinking about my love affair with flutes. When I was in high school, in music classes and band, there came a time to decide which instrument you were going to play, to commit to and enter this whole world of music. My first choice was the flute. But my girlfriend Josie told me that I had clarinet fingers and because I was only 13 I believed her, and I chose the clarinet. But I tell you, as I sat in the clarinet section I longingly looked over at the flute section and wished I had chosen flute. Thinking of the flute as a symbol for our time together, the flute can represent either an individual, as Rumi was saying, or mankind which I think he was also saying. When you think about a flute, it has one player who breathes a controlled breath into the mouthpiece and brings an invisible spirit into the instrument. The player can cover or release various holes in the instrument, with precision, so that each combination allows a particular sound to come forth. The player can trill a key and then there's a tremulous sound that comes out. Another kind of breath changes the whole sound that's coming out. As a metaphor, an individual's capacities are like a flute, in that, according to the ways of expression that we cover or uncover, allow a particular spirit to come through to make a particular sound. Here's that poem again:

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reed bed

Cut holes in it and called it a human being.

Since then it's been wailing a tender agony of parting

Never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute.

Now isn't that so with man! We have these capacities—our own flute, and mankind has not remembered the craftsman who made it. A friend of mine played his flute inside the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza. I imagine he sat there, maybe it was sort of dark, and he meditated on the presence of this massive and ancient structure surrounding him, and felt how he could issue forth a sound that would translate what he was feeling, what he was subconsciously picking up. He had to be open, had to divest himself of any excitement (my goodness I'm in the Great Pyramid!) or concerns (how much time do I have?) and let something come through, something out of the invisible into the sounding chamber. What a chamber to sound your notes into! I’m sure it was a tremendously expansive experience to hear his sound magnified in that outer instrument, and very moving to feel the eons recorded in the very stone which was built for the future—and here he was in the present, releasing his sound into that. Profound experience.

Susannah mentioned flinging the doors open to allow what is seeking to come into the earth, through this earth, and I think we're all familiar with what she was speaking of. I've come to cherish that ritual space experience that I can create in my days where I’m waiting for something to come through, letting the doors be flung open to receive—to sit in the silence and open, open, open. No preconceptions; but there's a passion that is present, and a very distinct desire to let go—the experience of letting go: letting, letting, letting. Not meditating—not meditating on something—in fact if anything I'm focused on letting go, and over time I have gotten able to let go quickly. Maybe you have that experience too—I hope so—to drop in to that place, open, waiting, expectant. And I think that the predominant feeling, which is very interesting, is relief—relief that you're finally present, and not only present but you're useful, you're finally useful because you're present and open and receptive. And then you know that ancient knowing, like that consciousness that was present in that Great Pyramid with my friend; here you are in the great pyramid called the earth, and in your own personal pyramid temple, waiting to see what it is that you need to sound into that space.

When we're in that silence it's not that we come with nothing, even though we have let go of the outer mind and the heart experiences that might be present. We come with the substance of our living. We bring that into the silence. We bring our unique spirit, the unique qualities that we all have, and we bring into it the unique paths that we've traveled in our lives. We've met people, we've had experiences, some of them have been “good”, some of them have been “bad”, but you know you learn just as much from the so-called bad experiences as from the so-called good. In fact, sometimes I think you learn more from the so-called bad. We've acquired certain skills; we've learned how to deal with situations; and our passion has deepened and deepened over our time in this incarnate experience. So that comes into the silence with us. Our minds and hearts must be still, as Martin was suggesting, but here we are bringing something of our own essences in.

I want to read something that I wrote to David Karchere, after he spoke about a particular experience, of how we bring into our lives very specific abilities, passions and intentions, and how we learn what is ours to do. Ours! Not his or hers, but what is ours to do. He was bringing that to focus. In that train of thought I wrote: “Just a note to pick up on what you said. You brought up how we find ourselves in present-day positions by reason of our particular natures and lives moving in the flow and then we recognize that we are the one to do or say something in the present moment or in that cycle, that needs to be fulfilled. It's ours! There is such joy in making ourselves useful to the creative process and consequently we also recognize that others are fulfilling their destinies and for me this has reduced the urge to judge; that tendency to think: ‘Why aren't others doing what I think is important? How come they're not seeing as primary what I'm doing?’ If we really see what is ours to do then we surely recognize what others have been brought to do as well!”

Going back to the flute analogy, the Player is opening certain holes in the flute, closing others, sending air through various groupings of holes you might say, and creating a particular sound, a particular note. We may not know what he's actually doing. We don't know what his intention is. And then the note changes and another movement takes place. But, in the silence we can recognize what is ours, what is our note or song to play in a particular moment or cycle. We are the ones now present, who have been uniquely designed; breathing beings with our flute bodies, ready to play whatever sound is coming through. The other day Susannah and David and I were talking and I spoke of the human voice, how each human voice is so uniquely produced out of our physical structures, the way we're designed, and also by the consciousness that we have, by a particular spirit that is moving when one is speaking. We come to express our ageless being now, in the flesh.

I’ve been thinking about the concept of differentiation. We've been talking about differentiation in services, and I wonder sometimes how deep we go in that thinking. There's a line from Robert Bly that goes, “We cannot remain in love with what we cannot name.” And I would say we cannot name others, understand the truth in differentiation, without knowing first the One who is differentiating, who is differentiated: the Craftsman, the One who created the flute. When first of all we come to know our name, which is I am—I am life, love truth, spirit, I am—then you may know, if you're silent, the name of the One in whose image you were created. It's a very personal access to that One. And then knowing that One, the Craftsman, you can name the whole, the one, and begin to see that One that you and we and I am part of. Then, it seems to me, that state of knowing sets you up to be able to name differentiations, His differentiations. You can look around and you can see those who are differentiating various expressions. They may not be aware that they're differentiating the One, the Whole, but if we're conscious we know whether or not they're differentiating the One. Isn't that part of our job, as the conscious part of Being, of mankind? I think we've established that we have a conscious role to play. So, understanding the oneness, the whole, we get to name His differentiations when we see them, because we understand that they're His differentiations. It's a very powerful ability.

I want to read more from the poem by Robert Bly, titled, “A Cry Going Out Over Pastures”. I want us to hear it as if it's the Lord's poem; that it’s the One, the Craftsman, the Flute Player speaking to us about His Body, and about the one planet. I want us to hear this as seen through His eyes. Here's what the Craftsman is saying to us:

“I love you so much with this alive and lonely body. My body is a young hawk sitting on a tree by the Mississippi, in early spring, before any green has appeared on the earth beneath. Some days walnut hollows in my chest fill with crackling light and shadows. There birds drink from water drops... My body loves you madly, beyond all rules and conventions. Even the six holes in the flute move about under the dark man's fingers, and the piercing cry goes out over the overgrown pastures no one sees or visits at dusk except the deer, out of all enclosures, who has never seen any bed but his own of wild grass.

“I first met you when I had been alone for nine days, and now my lonely hawk body longs to be with you, whom it remembers... it knew how close we are, we would always be. There is death but also this closeness, this joy when the bee rises into the air above his hive to find the sun, to become the son, and the traveler moves through exile and loss, through murkiness and failure, to touch the earth again of his own kingdom and kiss the ground... What shall I say of this? I say, praise to the first man who wrote down this joy clearly, for we cannot remain in love with what we cannot name.”

Robert Bly is naming here, naming essences and differentiations. And finally, I want to bring in a quotation by John, the Beloved Disciple, from the Book of John, Chapter 8, one we know well, which says, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” I would like to open up some possibilities, speaking about freedom, spoken about in the Bly poem, of the unconventionality of how, speaking from the Creator's viewpoint, of how He might love us, with a suggestion that humans allow themselves to be loved freely by Him. Because we judge, as I was saying in that email that I read, because we judge so much, we create prisons. Doris Lessing wrote a book titled, “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”. Alan Hammond used to say, “Don't handcuff yourselves!” I'm not talking about license here, I’m talking about what the truth sets free, and the fact that our judgments are holding us back from feeling the unconventional; the ‘out of the enclosures’ way that the Craftsman is waiting for us, to enjoy His planet. And through judgement we hold back His people from enjoying each another.

I think we really keep ourselves in prison when we allow judgment to enter and think, “Why isn't that person doing it the way I think?” Or, “Why aren't those people doing what I think is the priority?” All that kind of stuff. I think we would be amazed at how the Creator views the possibility of enjoyment of His planet and His people—as I said, not with license, but within the truth of correct patterning. So, these are things that I share with you. And I appreciate the whole experience that we've had this morning. I would like to open it up for comments from any of you, anything that has been stirred; anything that you want to sound through your flute, bearing in mind the pauses in between the sounds that come forth from a particular person—to listen, to see what is seeking to come through each of us. I think there's a great opportunity in that kind of openness and sensitivity. I'd like to open up comments. We've put out something, let's see what comes back.

Greg Fladager — I've been thinking along these lines as well, and the one thing that really came home was how much stuff we carry from the past. The image that came to me was a sled of rocks, filled with rocks that we’re dragging around; a lot of them 20 or 30 years old, 10 years old, five minutes old, 5 seconds old, and they're all in the past, all of them. I mean, they're gone! And yet we continue to drag it around, or at least I do. Just letting that go, just that thought for me was, they're all in the past—let it go. I can't hold onto them anyway, they're past. It is a release into the present moment … what is next, what is next. I know this is not a new thought, but you know, the penny dropped for me, so to speak. I've been working with that for a while now. Yeah, and then I thought, well, what's next? As Anne was saying, it opens the heart and that opens the door to something that's coming, something that's new.

Marsha Bogolin — It's wonderful to feel your heart in that Greg. I too really love what has come through this morning, the earthy sensuality of it, which I guess started even with the sound of the flute. But Susannah, I loved hearing about your cows and their dancing and frolicking; and also what you offered Anne of your meditations from the stillness, and particularly the question, Why do we think we know what others should be doing? I feel something new has emerged through the configuration of the three of you, and I can see how it's amplified certain essences that I think were actually recessive, and now are increasingly more dominant, expressive, positive, and I'm delighted to see that. Isn't it obvious that the Grand Craftsman or the LORD, our Beloved, more than anything else wants us to hear His Voice and sound His Note through our flutes freely, and as we do that there will be a beautiful symphony. The Body can form. So, we let go of those old rocks of ideas of how others should be and fully give our attention to what is ours to do.

Soma Hunter — Well Fort Collins must be buzzing with response to the Word today. It's so beautiful to hear my friends Greg and Marsha. What came to me as my stillness received this beautiful service was the profound stillness that is engendered among us, in the space here present, to let the Word of truth, of love, resound! David, I want to tell you how much I appreciated your open invitation, at the beginning of our time together, and how vast it felt—for the awakening Christ body on earth. I feel that profoundly. Everywhere I go, that's what I'm looking for. When I'm still and in the present moment, and resonant in this way that we are together now, it's so easy to be, and to invite others to join in the one I am.

Carol Travis — One of the words that stood out to me this morning, that Susannah used, is “grandeur”. I wonder how often that's used in our daily experience. Grandeur is not something that people tend to think about all the time; and so it was wonderful coming through all of you, to feel the grandeur of your connection with the Flute Player, and the notes of grandeur that are able to be seen when one is in alignment with that. There are so many cacophonous notes, so much noise present in the world. It feels sometimes like we're becoming inundated, drowning in this noise, and yet the opportunity is always present to become still and pay attention to all that has been given; the longing of the LORD for His Home to be revealed in the grandeur that is already present. Certainly, that is something that is so beautifully revealed in our times together, and the notes that each one brings in their unique way. I am so thankful that each one has their own responsibilities, their own range of authority and vision and creativity, because I certainly couldn't cover all of those bases. So, it's a great relaxation to come to stillness and enjoy the creation that's already present through all of us, and through the world that the LORD has made. It's good to be with you in that today.

Ervin Atcheson — Thank you Carol. This is Irvin. I'm really hearing the call to set creation free, and to see the power I have to do that. And as has been emphasized, this approach, this absolutely essential approach of non-judgment which allows creation to be free. And the power—I have that power, and only I can do it actually. I'm realizing more in this moment the tremendous opportunity I have here; and as Anne was mentioning, this isn't license but it is about listening to the tone, honing my ability to hear that, and judgment dulls, horribly dulls that ability to hear the tone so clearly. I'm filled with appreciation, and filled with my Commission to set creation free and to see the glorious opportunity I have by relinquishing habits and listening. So thanks, all of us, for this company this morning.

Millicent Holliday — I've appreciated as well the sweet essences that we have shared. You said something Susannah about, we have the opportunity of opening to the sweet essences of heaven and extending the welcome of home to our worlds. I delighted to know how each one of us differentiates the beauty of who we are into our worlds. When you think of the glory of this planet that we inhabit and the differentiation that is present, and how each one of us has a very specific essence, I can't think of any other word to describe it, to bring into our worlds. What a joy it is to know those essences that we embody. We have the ability to share those with our worlds, and bring joy and delight and beauty into our worlds. I am thinking of the word “I”. I is always written in capitals, it's a capital letter. We have the ability to embody who we are “in capitals”, to express the beauty, so different.  And I is also one, not a solitary thing, but one with every other I. We are One Body of humanity, and we can extend the joy of who we are into that One Body, bringing the great and marvellous diversity of our LORD and KING into being. That is how the Mystery of God is finished on earth—because we bring it, we share it. We love to do this, and we have the great pleasure of doing it with others who love to do it. This is such cause for celebration. I thank you all for what you have brought today, and for the joy of sharing it all with you.

Davina Misroch — Thank you. What stands out for me is being true to what is mine to do. We understand that we each are unique. What is mine to do can only be done, not just by me, but because the space is there that allows me to do what is mine to do. The presence of the collective translates as the spaciousness that each one allows the other to do what's theirs to do. It's because we're all vertical in our polarity that the agreement comes, vibrationally, that creates the spaciousness that allows each one to do what's theirs to do. The judgment dissolves of its own accord when we function like that. It doesn't exist in that space. It's very much that, in the what was shared today, beautifully described in different ways. It's the space that lets each one be true to what's theirs to do. So thank you for the space to let me do what's mine to do.

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Anne Blaney —I think all the comments have represented many. David do you have anything that you would like to add at this point?

David Barnes — What a fine array of words revealing the Beauty of the Word. There is a lot in the world that isn't very beautiful; it's not pretty even; it's ugly. We see much of a predatory nature walking in the world, that which is of a satanic nature, ready to destroy, devour, consume, make desolate, divide, ultimately separate. Wherever there's a pattern of communion and union appearing there is, at hand, waiting, that which would devour it, eliminate it if possible, but certainly tear it apart, and leave it in a state of separation, fragmented. The LORD has worked all these millennia to bring together a representative Body of love, truth, oneness, differentiated design—a living body composed of living flesh that is beautiful, and now is appearing. I'm always aware that after a time of holy communion, sharing in beautiful things like this service, there are things to be faced afterwards, in the returning cycle, relative to what comes out of the world seeking to tear down, to destroy, to eliminate. Such rapacious energy appears internally; it comes into  consciousness through thoughts and feelings; and it comes through predatory people who sense there's an open door; so they come and they tend to walk right in and take over.

The invitation today has been to fling the door wide open in an upward sense, so that the One who owns the Temple has full access to the Temple, and may come in and have dominion within the House of Being, the individual and the collective Body. When the Master of the Temple comes, there's no reason to be afraid of opening the Door, open upwards, to fling it wide open; no fear that we're going to be hurt or destroyed by the LORD God Almighty, or by His angels. So let’s open upwards, open the Gates and the Doors wide in the upward sense; open to the LORD God through His Body on earth.

And there's another Door which opens outward, extending the Word, extending the invitation that indicates that there is a Home to come to, that there is a Holy Shrine on earth, that this Temple is a Shrine through which the Word, the Sound and Light vibration extends; revealing that this collective Temple now coming into flesh form is a Living Shrine through which the Welcome is extended. If what's moving through that Door is radiant and abundant, then there's not much that can come back at that level of things and try to usurp control, because there's a fullness of radiance going out, the invitation extended. When anyone comes in answer to that invitation, they actually come from above. It's what comes from above that belongs before the Shrine and within the Temple. If anyone is coming Home, they'll come from out of the east, or from above, walking towards the source of the invitation—they'll enter the Door from above. The only way to come in is from above.

So, in closing I feel we should recognize the predatory nature of what is present in the man-made world, and how it tries to dominate attention. Let’s remain alert and keep safe these Holy generations, maintain the hedge, and let the radiation flow forth freely. In conclusion, and to help emphasize this, I will read an excerpt written by Uranda in 1936, titled Beauty. The Word is Beauty. So much of beauty came through this morning, that must be magnified in what we do, the beauty of God's creative action, and God’s creation of which we are a part, as creators. So here it is, from Uranda:

“He who looks for Beauty in all people and all things soon finds that which he can truly Love. The blending force which draws one into a realization of Oneness is Love, and the Presence of Love in people and all creation is discerned through a perception of Beauty. Beauty is not to be confused with surface prettiness. Beauty is that deeper quality which partakes of the Divine. The Inner Being of all things is Beauty. Look for Beauty and you will find it. When you find Beauty, you will have found the Key to Love. When you have found Love, you will blend with that in which you find it. Thus is Oneness attained.

“The impersonal expression of Life depends on the ability to perceive Beauty everywhere. Everywhere present, Beauty will attune you with Love, and Love will blend you with God. Beauty and Truth are One. The Essence of all things is Beauty. The Essence of all things is Truth. Through the Pathway of Beauty, you can ascend to the limitless heights. Set yourself to the pleasure of looking for Beauty. Beauty is Reality. Behold it, and the clouds of darkness and illusion will vanish away. Fill your mind with Beauty and there will be no room for the ugly things of the personal life expression. The Christ is Beauty. The Way of the Christ is Beauty. The Truth of the Christ is Beauty. The Life of the Christ is Beauty. You cannot Love that in which you do not see Beauty. Therefore look for Beauty and you will find Love. Look below the surface in contemplation and you will find Beauty. Beauty often hides beneath a veil of seeming ugliness, that it may remain pure and unsullied from the eyes of vulgarity, lust and passion. Surface seeming blinds unworthy eyes, that they may not behold Beauty. He who hurries sees not Beauty. Only those who linger long before a rose can see the Beauty. The hurried passerby sees only its prettiness. Follow Beauty and you will find Love. Enter into Love and you will find God. In God you will find the ALL in All.”

Susannah, over to you for your final words

Susannah Light — Thank you David; thank you Anne; thank you everyone. I have deeply enjoyed the spirit present with us today, in this gathering, and I just want to speak a Word of Blessing: May we always together, and individually, find and amplify the grandeur of life. And I know that the Path of Life in this flesh and blood can sometimes be an uphill climb. So may we remember one another in compassion. I wish you fortitude. I wish you joy. I wish you safety. I wish you love and blessing. And with that I think Robert Kauffman has some music for us, to close our time: 

“May the long time sun shine upon you

All love surround you

And the pure light within you

Guide your way home.”

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David Barnes — transcendentnation@me.com

Susannah Light — susannah4light@gmail.com

Anne Blaney — anneblaneyster@gmail.com