Evening Meditation
Our Responsibility, Our Prayer
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David Barnes and Anne Blaney Salmon Arm, B.C.
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Susannah Light, Garden Village, Costa Rica
August 31, 2025
Temple of Light Service
Stewart Berger — To begin our time, these were words that Uranda spoke to those who were assembled at Sunrise Ranch on September 13th, 1953, as part of a service entitled, “Anniversary Meditation”.
“Twenty-one years ago this morning, at about 4 o'clock, there was the beginning of that cycle which established this Ministry which we share on earth. The 13th, 14th and 15th days of September mark this Anniversary Period, the three days which, in 1932, correlated with the three days of the tomb period and the cycles of the Resurrection, and on the 16th day of September, 1932, our official Ministry on earth began. As I mentioned last evening, that Commission was not merely to me. It was a Commission to be shared by all who would take part in it. And it is to this end that you are here—to share in the fulfilment of that Divine Commission. I have a very vivid memory of that morning twenty-one years ago today, when I was awakened early in the morning at the first faint signs of a coming dawn, with a feeling of being virtually overwhelmed with a tremendous restlessness. I got up and walked about the room for a time. I considered dressing and taking a walk out on the streets, in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. But, somehow, that did not seem to be the course of action. So I tried to read, and the printed page was merely a mass of meaningless words. And I thought I would read the Bible for a while, but it, too, for that moment, appeared to offer nothing. There was a tablet of paper and a pencil on the table, and after it had caught my eye I had an urge to sit down at the table. I had no outer awareness of anything which I might write, but I sat down and picked up the pencil, and gradually the room filled with a Silvery Cloud of Light, until all of the objects in the room were blotted from my view. And, being enfolded in that cloud, I began to write, and in the writing recorded the answers to questions that had been in my mind for many years, seeking the solution.
“Gradually, after about an hour, and the urge to write had ceased, the Cloud disappeared. And I read over, with much interest, what had been written under my hand. The following morning, on September 14th, I was awakened again at about the same hour, and on arising went immediately to the table, and again the Cloud filled the room, and again I was enfolded in that Cloud for about an hour. The same thing happened on the morning of September 15. I have never, since that day, had a similar experience. Just those three mornings. And through that experience the consciousness of the basic Principles of Reality which I have presented to you was presented to my own outer consciousness. At the conclusion of that experience I knew the answers to the questions; and the questions, in that sense, have not concerned me since that day.
“The questions of application in service to humanity have concerned me, but for myself I knew the answers. And I knew the work to which my life, from that moment forward, had to be utterly dedicated, and it is through that Ministry that you have been gathered here to share this hour. In recent weeks and months you have been given an opportunity to begin to understand what we have called the Shekinah Pattern of Being, and when I speak of that Silver Cloud that appeared those three mornings in succession, I am sure you all recognize the reality of what, in olden times, was called the Shekinah Cloud of Glory. I do not suggest that you should try to imitate my experience. I do not suggest that your own outworking should be similar in the sense of the nature of the personal experience, but the principles are the same.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/anniversary-history-destiny-uranda.html]
David Barnes — Thank you, Stewart. That was a strong and beautiful reading. It's very good to be with everybody on this evening hour of meditation together; and it’s good to be able to speak with Stewart, and Suzannah and Anne tonight.
About two years ago, in a Temple service, Robert Merriman and I spoke, and the theme of that service related to, what came to be later titled, “The Word of Good Report”. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/joshua-and-calebthe-word-of-good-report.html] Tonight, I would like to give a little update on that “good word”, from my perspective.
We've moved quite a distance in those two years, in the cycles of regeneration, following in the Way of the Master, and His command, “Follow me in the regeneration.” This was the Word that He gave to His disciples, and to all of us who would follow and walk in that Way. In a sense, we're not so much following anymore, but to a much greater degree we are walking with the Master in the Way. Apparently this is what happened to Enoch. He walked with God—he was God walking on earth. It was also said, “These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” Abram was instructed, “Walk before me, and be thou perfect.” And the Master certainly showed the way to walk in perfection, and He said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”—and follow Me in the regeneration.
So something has been happening that has changed the experience of all of us, I feel; if I want to use as a reference point, just in the last couple of years. It's quite a new heaven, really, that we're all experiencing. We can see the evidence of the emergence of an increasingly Unified Body—and One Voice speaking through this Body. Obviously, there are ceilings yet to move through, and transformations to come, and there is a great deal yet to change. But this integration is worth noting at this time, at the end of this second year of a Seven-year Air Cycle, and at the beginning of the third year of that Seven-year Air Cycle. The air, of course, relates to the Cloud of Glory, that Stewart read about, the atmosphere of heaven, and the Spirit of Life moving in the One Body—which is us and others.
I wrote a few things down about an hour before the service started, and I'd like to read them. This just came to me as I was lying quietly, using that beautiful phrase from Psalm 19: “Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD.” And if they are acceptable in Thy site, then they may be acceptable in the sight of all others who are listening and watching. So, in that spirit, I was thinking about this service hour. I want to read something that I have no way of really proving—I probably wouldn't want to anyway. It may sound a little audacious; it may sound even arrogant; it may sound presumptuous. But what is wrote is born of experience that I've had of being in heaven, with all of you, and with the LORD of Heaven and Earth, over the last couple of years. I wrote:
“We have, for the first time since Martin died, and this Emissary body fragmented and scattered for a number of years in the 1990’s, and for a number of years after that—for the first time, we have clear evidence of a new pattern of integration occurring. We have the evidence of the Fire of Love, and the Light of Truth, and the Glory of Life, in focalized expression, and beginning to work as One—evidence of the Presence of the Shekinah Pattern of Being in focalized representation and expression once again. These three factors are now at work and in action in relationship to the earth of this Spiritual Body, and those who would be drawn to be a part of this Spiritual Body; in relationship to this earth which is being restored, under the dominion of, and at the command of the Lord of the Body, and the LORD of Lords. So this is the first time in all these years that the Shekinah Pattern of Being has been to this degree integrated, and in action, allowing this degree of penetrating power to be released within the Design of Being, and under control. And this is making a huge difference in our experience, and in the experience of many people who don't know anything about us yet; and in the experience of the whole world—that which is disintegrating, and that which is integrating. There are present, men—I emphasize men—and women, now, who are working together in the heaven, to let these Four Forces, focalized in these four levels that we call the Shekinah Pattern of Being and the One Who Dwells, have its way with us, and with the substance that responds; and also with the substance that is imprisoned—because of the people who hold it imprisoned and are still rebellious. But there are men and women now present who are, in dominance, in agreement in this way, in the heaven.”
There's a lot to work out in the earth as this proceeds, as we move through ceilings, and as we continue in this one generation, which was initiated in this cycle by the Master; and in 1932 was opened and accelerated and enlarged by Uranda; and carried forward without a flicker of doubt through Martin. And they both did their work impeccably. I've heard a statement over the years, uttered by various ones as they considered the development of leadership, and the carrying on of the work after Martin died: “If Martin couldn't do it, I certainly can't.” In considering that statement, I think there is the failure to recognize what Uranda's responsibility was, and what Martin's responsibility was, and what our responsibility is. I thought I would read two quotes from Martin. This one from a service on December 11, 1977 was titled, “Your Responsibility Is Not Mine.”
“My job has been to make it possible for the Word to be with you. That’s my job. Presumably I couldn’t make the Word available to be with you if it wasn’t in me; I would have no Word to make available. My job relative to you has been to make it possible for the Word to be with you, but your job is to make it possible for the Word to be in you. I can’t do that. Only you can accept that responsibility as an individual… My ministry is to you. But your ministry is the ministry of the Archangel to the world… My job has been to make it possible for the Word to be with you; but your ministry begins when the Word is in you. Then you are responsible. The fate of the world then hangs upon you!”
Here he was speaking to the individuals of the body who were with him at that time. And then on February 19, 1984 from a service titled “Your Job and Mine”. And I would note that Yujin was at 100 Mile House at that time, and he spoke at the beginning of this service with Martin. These were Martin’s words to the Body at that time; spoken after Yujin’s very fine articulation, the Voice coming through Yujin in representation of the Body. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-fire-from-heaven-is-differentiated.html] But these were Martin's words:
“This unified, fused body which has been in the process of taking form has been for the sole purpose of assuming responsibility for the creative process on earth. This is the responsibility of those individuals who compose this body, not my responsibility. My responsibility is to do what I might to allow the body to take form. That is my reason for being present on earth. But that has very little to do with the responsibility which rests upon the individuals who compose this body, for what is to happen is their responsibility—not mine. It is absolutely in the hands of each one… I have not really done my job that well if you, individually speaking, do not assume the responsibility of alignment with the creative process… To the extent that I have done my job well it leaves you in position to do what you are here to do. But, remember, it's not what I’m here to do. No use looking to me to get your job done—I’m not here to do that. I was here and have been here to do something else. I suppose if I’ve done a good job there comes a point when I am not necessary anymore. That’s all right with me; I trust it’s all right with you too... I am making this distinction principally to bring a little greater intensity to your responsibility, because you can’t look to anyone else to do it—least of all me. This is not the reason for my presence on earth but it is the reason for yours, and we are not very useful unless we acknowledge the reason for our presence. The fire falls from heaven. This is what we are all here for, but you in a particular way and a particular sense—and me in a particular way and a particular sense too, but yours is special. And it doesn’t need me at all to do your job.”
Well, here we are in this new day, and one could say without Martin and without Uranda, and yet we've acknowledged that the spirit of these two great ones is always present with us, as is the spirit of the LORD of Lords. And we have been moving in this cycle of regeneration, learning through the trials and tribulations of that fragmented period that we moved through; and also, now, through the more recent years of greater accord and harmony and oneness that's appearing in the members of the Body. And we find, at this point, that there is evidence that This Body Walks With God; this Body is following in the Way of the Master, and This Body Walks Before The Lord, and takes responsibility for what is to happen now, and what must continue to happen in the movement of the cycles of regeneration in the days and years to come. We will with certainty know that the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of Life, and the focalized presence of the God Beings who we knew, who brought this Body originally into form, is with us; and that these three spirits, Love and Truth and Life are at work in transforming the earth of this Body, making it new, so that Oneness is known, Love is known. We have the capacity to work together in the heaven, particularly; not getting too much mixed up in earthly things over which there's often a lot of contention, but keeping the heaven clear, so that the evidence of being with one accord in one place is increasingly ours. And this would make the LORD's heart rejoice, would it not?
I want to mention in this regard that Susannah and Anne and I recently spent nine days together, and this was our focus. We allowed the experience of what could be called the Upper Room over that period of time, nine days of unbroken, wonderful generation between the three of us, walking, talking, listening, moving through ceilings in consciousness together—sometimes challenging, but never beyond our capacity to move through and let go. So, it's a real delight, having had that experience and continuing in it, to have Susannah speak, and then have Anne speak. So, Susannah, welcome.
Susannah Light — Well greetings. I consider this time blessed. Blessed is this evening hour; blessed is this time that we have together. We share this time to enliven our consciousness—to enliven our remembrance, and to let this radiant remembrance permeate the earth. From time to time over the ages there have been certain incarnations, certain prayers and revelations that bring an existential impact to the children of man, to change the course of humankind on earth. This, I feel, is what has been spoken of, and heard thus far within our beloved gathering tonight. I am in wonder. I am in prayer.
So we have heard some really powerful words tonight already, in this short time, and some history, which is not actually history, it’s present. I sense that the impact of these Holy and timeless conveyances, such as what Uranda brought, and Martin, and what was transformed on earth by the Master Jesus, the impact, in many ways, is measured by us. They did some very important work. They left us prayers, and open doors. The impact upon this earth, in terms of a flourishing creative potential held within those Seeds of Truth from their Eternal Voice of Prayer, depends upon us—whether we hear, first of all, and whether it has supreme value to us, and whether we are able to focus its power with a single-pointed focus, for the purpose of true service. So, the impact of all this is measured by whether we allow their Prayer, which is essentially the Word ready to be made flesh, to take its holy place within us as our own reality, which is what I think Martin’s words spoke very powerfully to.
There is something I take particularly to heart about the prayers of Uranda—part of which I am going to share later on this evening—and the prayer that the Lord Jesus brought, before their Heavenly Father, on our behalf, and on behalf of mankind. We have felt this love, we have been drawn by this love. And we do know that such divine voices of communion between the Father and His elect are powerful beyond all comprehension, and are for the very specific fulfillment and outworking of the Lord’s Holy Will and purposes on earth through us, and with us, as One.
I feel that days like these days where we mark important cycles, provide something significant of an opening, something of a vibrational aperture for us who are living in flesh bodies now, to step into. Uranda is not here right now in his physical body. But we are. And we have before us this amazing, brilliant day of beckoning, where we can in consciousness remove the time and space elements to some extent, and gather ourselves into the prayer that has been activated and extended for us to enliven within, right now; for us to flower and move within, full of Life, full of Grace, as an extension on earth of the Eternal Prayer of Love.
Last month, when I visited David and Anne’s home in Salmon Arm, we shared nine days in a time of focused immersion, communing with Uranda and Martin through the sound and spirit of their voices and writings. I will tell you, Anne and David’s living room carries a potent sense of Holy Presence—the presence of ages and sages throughout time, and the aliveness of a very present and timeless spirit. In that clear and beautiful setting, it could be said that we “hosted” Martin and Uranda, real time. The sound and the fire was real. On one of those days we listened to a July 1953 presentation by Uranda titled “The Challenge Of Shekinah—To Set Your Hearts On Fire.” I was moved to my core, and I want to share some of that presentation with you today. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/to-set-your-hearts-on-fire-from.html]
My experience, sitting there in the living room with Uranda, and Anne and David, I felt the immediacy of potential to clarify my consciousness to the point where I, and we, would be able to use a type of spiritual “cut and paste” function—placing ourselves into that time of the Day of Pentecost, in the Upper Room, which Uranda was referencing, when the Holy Spirit was descending upon those gathered. Instead of making the same mistakes, we would avail ourselves of all the understanding and refinement of consciousness that has been gained over this seemingly large expanse of time. We would tarry there. We would tarry there, and allow the Truth and the Power of the Holy Spirit to come fully upon us so that we can be in perfect service to the LORD, and to the children of His world.
I felt that this was what Uranda was praying in his prayer at the end of his talk here—which I’ll share—a profoundly moving prayer, a great petition to his LORD and KING that he, Uranda, would be given the words sufficient to inspire us that it is possible to carry this work of releasing the old world patterns and bringing the new cycle of illumination all the way through to victory, through us. It felt so immediate and so possible, and so true. I don’t think any of us here would want to be the ones to say to Uranda, or to our Beloved LORD of Lords, that they haven’t left us sufficient inspiration, instruction, or love and possibility. They have left us bountiful inspiration, entirely sufficient to carry through. And it’s why we are here. It’s the hour that we have come to, to realize this.
“The greatest need, from the standpoint of our present function, is to reach a point where there is the reality of the Shekinah Kingdom and Power and Glory in our own lives here and now. We recognize that the Kingdom aspect is the Light aspect of the Shekinah Pattern; the Power aspect relates to God’s Love; and the Glory to the Shekinah Cloud. How can we reach a point where we begin to know the reality of being with one accord in one place? ...
“Blessed Ones, is the cycle of recreation, the work of recreation, sufficiently important so that we can let it begin to be the basic pattern of the meditations of our hearts?—not that we should be recreated, not that we should be illumined, not that we should become citizens of the Kingdom, not to serve ourselves—but first to serve our KING, and finally to serve our fellowman. Once we are with one accord in one place, dedicated to that proposition of service, letting the Shekinah Pattern of reality act upon the substance that is provided by this Unit, we will begin to have the coming of the day of the New Jerusalem Pattern of Pentecost—the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven. Yet a little while?
“Tonight, what shall our message be to our King? What shall be my report to Him? ‘O King of Heaven and earth, All Mighty One, Supreme One, Lord of All, they who are Thy children have decided to wait yet a little while, to wait until they find a more convenient time, and then they shall come together, they say, with one accord in one place, in agreement, that being in agreement with Thee they may finally let Thy power manifest.’ And ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you. Shall we send this message to our King? ‘Yet a little while and, I believe, Oh LORD, that these who have been gathered from the lands, from the north and the south, the east, and the west, will reach a point of togetherness in Thy Spirit.’ What shall it be?
“We must let the New Jerusalem come, for the New Jerusalem is the new manifestation of the Shekinah Pattern of Being, the new manifestation for which we are responsible. Can the meditations of our hearts be upon the true purpose for our living here, our function here, our service here? Can we begin to see the petty things for what they really are? Can we begin to see the important things for what they really are? The day of our letting go in a new cycle of rebirth, a new cycle of illumination—it shall surely come when I have finally found the adequate words of inspiration, when I have finally reached the point where I can give you adequate assurance that it is perfectly safe to let go, to step from the realm of the old world patterns into the realm of the new. Someday, I have faith it shall appear, that we may be with one accord in one place.”
Anne Blaney — I want to follow up on the imagery that Susannah just shared with us. I was thinking that it's not such an impossible thing: to imagine us sitting, for instance, with the 120 gathered on the day of Pentecost; or that we would invite Uranda to sit here at our fireside chat this evening; or that we would have Martin come to be with us. I mean, what's so different from the fact that I'm with you in your living room? In 1963 Martin gave a service called, “The Creative Use Of Imagination”. I think we're free to use imagination; our consciousness is capable of doing that. So, as Susannah was saying it's the Eternal Voice that speaks through all of us, and we can be with these ones, these beings who were present in form on Earth; we can use our creative imaginations in order to keenly realize that we are incarnate now, with our job that they have left for us to fulfill. So thank you, Susannah. I loved your, cut and paste idea.
May the prayer that Uranda offered up be our prayer tonight, as we honor his awakening, and it's good to bring in, evoke, call on, Uranda's LORD and KING, our LORD and KING, right now. I've been thinking about the temptations that the Master went through in the desert, after 40 days of fasting. Now, we haven't been required to fast for 40 days. [It probably took that long for his subconscious to be vulnerable to the tests that were brought.] But we certainly have the experience of facing these ceilings that arise in our own expression, as we continue the work here. In 1962, Martin gave a service called “Let Ceilings Be Broken” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/et-ceilings-be-broken.html] and he quoted from Matthew:
“For them shall be great tribulation. Such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time. No, nor ever shall be. And accept those days should be shortened there should be no flesh saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.” We've heard this quote before and it's probably come up as a topic of conversation or thinking. But one thing we can say, as Martin said: “This is a very definite statement. There have been millions of human beings who have suffered terrible things on earth, but there has been no fulfillment, actually, of these words, just a hint of what was coming.” We can certainly agree with Martin, that in these days, we are seeing the Power of Love in its creative ways, but also very much in the destructive ways, which the Power of Love will also bring. Continuing with Martin: “The intensity of that which shall appear is absolutely dependent on what human beings do... And it depends also upon those who have begun to awaken, who have the opportunity of sharing a vision, and who are offered the privilege of participating in that which may establish a Divine Control Pattern on earth.” Continuing:
“There are many things which need to be seen in relationship to this control pattern and what is required from the standpoint of the divine machinery. It is what we do in relationship to what we see that determines any values such vision may have, and we always find ourselves, when we consider our ministry as a whole, up against certain ceilings. We keep coming up against them over and over again, simply because those who are charged with the responsibility, insist upon maintaining the old patterns of human approach, subjection to the things of this world, the mass consciousness of humanity... And the only thing that can deal with it is the power of God. And the power of God to manifest on earth creatively—not just as a consuming fire—must have an instrument on earth that is under control, through which it may work. Then it may be used on earth on a controlled basis, to achieve the divine purposes. And we must keep moving through every ceiling, so that we do not get stuck anywhere, so that we do not persist in maintaining human patterns of limitation which keep us from coming under control, so that the power of God may be used.”
I think that excerpt requires some meditation on our part. I think that we have seen certain ceilings that have arisen in our collective function, but, most importantly for us right now, let's look at the ceilings that arise in our own experience. These ceilings are often a subconscious factor; things that come up from our subconscious that we don't even actually think about; a feeling or a thought comes up, and it's so easily avoided or skimmed over, when actually what's taking place is that there's a ceiling that's been made evident. These are the things that we have been petitioned to clear through, just as the Master was. He cleared through all those ceilings in His life, in His experience. Can we not expect exactly that commission in our lives, those of us who have been offered the ample petition from the LORD to continue His work? I think that there's a lot that we can examine in our own experience: subtleties. A lot of times these feelings that we meet, rather unconsciously often, are built right into the fabric of our culture, right into the way things are designed, set up: everything is built and created to continue that lie. And so we, who understand the necessity of moving through these ceilings, have the call to be absolutely diligent, to see through this lie. And sometimes it takes whacking your head against the ceiling, doesn't it, to recognize it? There's some humility, that this isn't working; this isn't working for anyone. And we need to, in moments of prayer, you might say, to call on the strength of the collective, and call on the Victory of the Master to be around us and in us, and to listen to the voice that is inside of all of us—that Voice is inside of us, if we will just listen. As we used to teach kids: the “Conscience Compass”, that voice of what is actually the right thing to do, is present.
Now, we can say that we live in heaven, right? I live in heaven. I deal with the world from my heaven. But sometimes we have to examine what that heaven is. Is it the same heaven as somebody else's heaven? Maybe it wouldn't be the same heaven. Is it the emissary heaven that we have kind of programmed ourselves to operate under? So, there are different levels of heaven that I think that we can think about. There are tons of heavens. There are heavens that contain impurities. And people are working from their heaven. So, it's up to us, to be really vigilant that our heaven is real and honest—the Kingdom of Heaven. And I think, as we move along, that we might consider something that Martin brought up in a service called “The Perspective Of The King”. He was pointing out that there's actually another level of heaven which is presiding over the heavens below, the heavens over the earth. That's only one level, one stage of living out of heaven. But who are the ones who can be at the level that sees the whole map, the whole terrain below? And that's what we're starting to explore in our times together: to look at things from the KING's perspective, and to understand that someone has to be conscious at these levels! But in order to do that, you have to be clearing through the ceilings that are given to us to have a victory over. Here's something that Martin said:
“Wherever a person keeps running into something repeatedly he may know for sure he has established a ceiling for himself. He needs to take a good, honest look at his feelings, his attitudes, himself, so that there may be a centering in the right place, in God, in the Spirit of God. And having found that centering, let us stay there. Let us stay centered. How long should it take to reach the point where we are willing to stay centered? This has very little to do with all the changes that need to work out in the individual.” [We all have those.] “Anyone, though, can stay centered—anyone. There are many things to be worked out.” [Things that do not work, nor are they changed by just hoping that it will work out.] “Until a person stays centered—stays centered, not just, ‘How wonderful. My questions are answered, and now I feel fine, and now I'm centered—for five minutes’ To stay centered—because it is only as we do stay centered that something really begins to happen. How people feel so strongly about the things that they think are wrong, and anyone who insists upon letting feeling manifest in relationship to that is bound to establish a ceiling for himself.”
“Oh”, says our feeling realm and our mind “That's just too much work.” I'm saying this. Well, we see the folly of accepting that lie of the tempter. Martin: “So the world keeps moving along the lines that our Master prognosticated because of this lethargic state and intense self-centeredness which keeps human beings from seeing anything much beyond the ends of their noses.” So I think I've raked you over the coals enough on that one! But we do have such a wonderful opportunity to really be alert, and to catch those times when we so quickly fall back into the human level. Like, for instance, when you see that there's a ceiling that you've broken through, and one of the things that happens is shame. I feel shameful for having had that ceiling that I needed to break through. And what happened there? You just plunked right back into the lie again. So even those times have to be caught. Let them go. Let those times, let those feelings, those voices, just disappear! There's really an incredible opportunity that has been waiting for us to fulfill. Is that too much to ask? I think not.
Another service that Martin gave in 1962 was called “This Generation”. This is a service [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/this-generationreturn-on-archangelic.html] that has been used in the Temple of Light before. Carol Smith spoke about it in 2021. And every time she speaks, actually, she brings up this particular theme, which is the fact that the restoration has to be done in one generation. Here's what Martin said about that:
“You've been through some experience to bring you to this point to enable you to emerge from the fallen state to the extent that you have. It has been quite a journey, hasn't it, to bring you to this point? You have had many experience, passed through many things. You have known clearings of various sorts. All that has been put into you, so to speak—this is the Lord's investment in you. We cannot bequeath it to someone else, can we? It is something that is happening to us, not to anyone else. There isn't anything vicarious in this process; we have to know it for ourselves, and therefore, we must come all the way through if our lives are to have meaning, which is the Divine Purpose.”
Now, this has to be said again and again: that it is our own individual experience. We cannot kid anybody about this. This is what we are here to have and experience ourselves. We are personally responsible, moving through these ceilings. Here's another thing that's pretty tough, actually, to look at. Martin said: “‘Well we'll do it just so far; we couldn't possibly go all the way; but our children will then carry on from there.’ We delude ourselves, because the children are only blessed, only receive a blessing, if the generation who are the parents carry through.” Now, I'm not speaking here today of literal parents and children, although you can look at it that way. But I'm speaking about spiritual children and spiritual parents. Are we not, those I'm speaking to, are we not the children of the generations of Martin and Uranda? We are in that one generation, and theirs was the generation of the Master, all in that same slip stream, you might say. So here we are, the children of those Ones. Is it not our responsibility to carry that victory strongly, and accurately in this generation, and those whom we meet, who you might say are another generation of the same one generation, those are the ones that we're responsible for; and there are many in this gathering who are actively involved in welcoming those who are just beginning to be attracted to what it is we have to offer. It's a serious subject, and I'm sure we've all thought of this. Now, here's something that might be of some relief. Martin continues:
“This is something that must work out in one generation. Otherwise, it doesn't. In one generation the restoration can become a reality: not in the sense of its final manifestation necessarily, but the restoration nevertheless, because the cause is established. How long it will take for that to work itself out so as to cover the earth is something which need not particularly concern us. Our concern is to let the cause be established, because we know that when it is there the results are sure, in the cycles and seasons of the Lord. And the cause is established as we ourselves have the experience, in no other way.”
It is not a matter of working it out in one particular generation but that what we do is the one generation of the precedent of victory. And how it works out is not something that we can predict. We don't know that. Why are we collectively gathering? Why are we interested in doing something together, in agreement, and in patterns of agreement. It's because there needs to be the machinery of reality, of and for God, on earth, incarnate in flesh, where the power of God can work through us in a controlled way. Here's what Martin said:
“Because man has been functioning in the fallen state there has been no available instruments for the Divine use; the power of God has been entirely excluded in the truly creative sense, but such as has been able to appear has had to appear through the fallen consciousness of human beings. The life force that is moving through people—that is, the power of God is under the control of the fallen consciousness of human beings, and consequently, it has kept everything in a turmoil. The very moment that there begins to be something which is under God's control the power of God can begin to move through that in a creative sense—there begins to be a shift, and we are here to share in letting that shift take place, actually. But unless we ourselves experience what it means to be under the dominion of God, unless we ourselves begin to discover, and consequently experience, what it means to function on the basis of Divine consciousness, we cannot share in that which needs to be done.”
So that is our prayer today, tonight. That is why we come together, and why we offer to the One that we love, and the ones that we were taught by, and the ones that we are being taught by now, and the ones that we teach, this is why we are here, to provide that machinery, so that the power of God can move through and have a creative result. It will have a result, and we can see one result of the Fire of Love: it burns what does not belong; it's in the process of doing that. So, as David was referencing from Martin, we are here to participate in the creative process as that living machinery. Martin did his job. Here we are, to provide the machinery. And that commission has not gone away. Don't let anything other than that fool you. All that is part of the lie. Hear the Voice inside, hear the True Voice. I say, “Hear the True Voices that we speak to one other.” That is the Voice to listen to. So, it's really wonderful to be together and to honor this anniversary. It's wonderful to do so. It needs to happen. This was a monumental experience on earth: the awakening of Uranda. The whole course of history, actually, was changed. Yes, it is changed. It did change. We are here to carry on in that one generation.
Susannah Light — The moment feels so full, and potently engaged, that I hardly know how to speak into it. But there are a few essences, and I think I would just say that I feel. real thankfulness for the Grace of our LORD, in extending this time to us, to do this work over the ages. And also, I feel an eagerness to further engage, further break through those ceilings in this generation, that you spoke of so wonderfully Anne. And to work collectively, with all of you, to answer the call, answer the invitation, to what is actually the Great Cosmic Love Story Of The Ages—that we're being welcomed into. And we've been duly inspired. So, thank you all for this time.
David Barnes — Very beautiful, Susannah, all that you brought to us, and to the LORD—and what a fine way to reference our life work, naming it this “Great Cosmic Love Story Of The Ages”. Truly, it is. And thank you Anne, for the potency and the fullness of your words.
What a contrast to the attitude I heard former emissary leaders utter: “If Martin couldn't do it, I certainly can't do it.” These words were spoken after the big scattering in the 1990s. The fact is, Martin did do it. Martin did finish his work. Martin and Uranda brought forth the Body of the Son of God, which is still growing and developing. But think about it: all those years with Martin, with Uranda; and all those years of Martin, diligently working, with one goal in mind, and that was to bring forth a Living Body composed of people who would take responsibility for this Great Work on earth. They came to bring that forth, and they did it—to that point of development when Martin died. There comes a point when sons and daughters take up the responsibility and they don't need the immediate presence of their father and mother to guide them in every right step that they have to take. The tonal quality of their living would be in accord with the Spirit of the God Family.
Uranda and Martin bequeathed a Christ Body, a collective body that was barely out of adolescence. And after only a few years there was a massive scattering—a failure at the core of leadership in those years—and it took almost twenty-eight years for the energy of that scattering to finally peter out, so there could be the gathering once again in a new cycle of movement in the One Generation. That has taken place, and we've been moving in the maturing process, facing great challenges, as Spirit brings forth a new pattern of leadership that is actually in agreement—bringing one Leadership Body out of that state of fragmentation, with the proper patterns of focalization appearing in the heaven of that Body, and gradually becoming visible on earth. This is occurring, bringing us to the point where we must be functioning with one accord in one place, so that the Divine Machinery is present and operating.
Look around and see, now, men and women in this Body—you and me and others that we know, who are maturely accepting this responsibility, to be in heaven, in one accord, in one place, letting the Shekinah Pattern in the overall sense be present as the guiding focus for this divine machinery. Here is evidence of that Presence. Is beginning to show up, and it's making a big difference. Power is gathering—penetrating power. A sense of oneness is gathering. What once looked like fragmented groupings of people, each going their own way, with their own definition of what's occurring, now begins to look quite different—something begins to come together in oneness and unity. This is being proven out by men and women. It is necessary to mark that this actually taking place, at this point, in our day. It's something to note, because it looked like it could never happen. And this new design of what Uranda and Martin called the machinery of reality, and a control pattern is taking form in heaven on earth. It certainly isn't absolutely in place yet, but I think it's wonderful that we can even speak these words today, and acknowledge these things.
There is a New Spirit blowing in the wind, in the Air of the Spirit, because the Fire and the Light and the Glory of Life is changing things in the earth of our experience. This is a wonderful thing to bring to focus at this point, this Word of Good Report. And, in humility, give thanks to the LORD for drawing us up, increasingly close to the apex, allowing what Anne was referring to as the Perspective of the KING, with regard to what's working out in the heaven and the earth. Drawing closer to the mountaintop, closer to the apex, we begin to see more clearly what's been happening, in the regeneration of the substance of the New Heaven. So, I am glad to have this opportunity to close with these words, and put a bit of a capstone on what Stewart delivered with powerful Voice, and for what Susannah brought so beautifully with loving consciousness and spiritual eloquence. And, thank you Anne, for your strong, clear and vibrant presence, spiritually perceptive and always cheerful as you move through ceilings, always coming through victoriously, as you did so beautifully tonight.
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Our next Temple of Light service will be at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on September 28th with Steve Ventola and Stewart Berger leading the way.
David Barnes — transcendentnation@me.com
Susannah Light — susannah4light@gmail.com
Anne Blaney — anneblaneyster@gmail.com
Stewart Berger — s2berger@yahoo.com
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