And therefore it’s time for a reckoning. It is the age of the judgment. It is the age when the Holy Spirit descends into this temple. And when I call for that judgment upon my own head and my own soul, when I implore the living God to send that Holy Spirit into my temple as a fiery baptism and that fire descends, do you know that it is the greatest experience of love that I could ever know. To know that God cares enough for me to chasten me, to show me the error of my ways, and to give me a gift that belongs to all mankind and not only to one religious sect or one political party or one economic class. It belongs to all people who are created of God.
And what is that gift of love? It comes into my temple as a two-edged sword. And that two-edged sword cleaves asunder the Real from the unreal. It divides my own household, my own consciousness. And here clearly before me, I see the not-self, the synthetic self, the programmed self, the product of evolution in an outer sense. And on the other hand, that judgment shows me the real, everlasting Self, my Inner Self, the living Christ, and the I AM Presence.
And then I hear the resounding cry of Joshua that was given to the recalcitrant, disobedient children of Israel, as it is given to my own impoverished self. And it cries out within my temple and it says, “Choose you this day whom you will serve! Will you go on lifetime after lifetime serving that not-self with all of its tyranny and its demands and its wants, wants, wants, and always saying, ‘I want,’ but never saying, ‘I am satisfied in the law of God’?”
And so, we must choose. And at the end of an age is a very opportune moment, a fortuitous moment to choose the living God because there is an acceleration of light in the planetary body. And when there is more light descending, what happens is that the light flushes out the darkness, the darkness comes to the surface, and it ought to be put into the flame and transmuted or changed or burned. But instead, we identify with the darkness because we have not left off from our idolatry.
And so we see cancer of the body and a cancer of the mind, and we see a movement of energy in the political and economic systems of the world eating away at the very vitals of freedom in the individual. And so we see that that energy, whether it is pollution of the environment or pollution of the soul itself, is calculated to deprive us of our supreme individuality.
This individuality must be acclaimed. It must be claimed. It doesn’t just happen, because we have free will. We always have the opportunity to accept or reject God within this temple. And unwittingly, by the misuse of light and energy, we more often reject than accept the living person of the Saviour. This coming into the temple of the living God is always the experience of the Trinity.
And so you see the upper figure of yourself as these great spheres of flaming consciousness, and you see seven spheres, seven planes of heaven. And when Jesus spoke, he said, “In my Father’s house, in the consciousness, in the forcefield of my I AM Presence, are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.” The many mansions are the planes of heaven.
If you read the apocrypha of Enoch and the early books of the Bible, you will find that there is a description of Enoch being taken by the Spirit of the LORD into seven planes of heaven. In each of these planes he experiences sons and daughters of God. He experiences archangels and angels and seraphim and cherubim and hosts of the LORD, numberless numbers of beings of light. Who are they?
We ought to be concerned—who are the evolutions who people a Spirit cosmos. Yet we have not seen them, but we have felt their presence. They are our very own brothers and sisters. They have gone before us. They have accelerated consciousness. They have elected to move into the higher consciousness of their own being and, as such, they have gained freedom from the limitations of time and space. They have followed the admonishment of Saint Paul, who said, “This mortal must put on immortality. This corruptible must put on incorruption.”
Do you know there comes a time in the life of every son and daughter of God when there is that burning sacred fire in the temple that says, “I must be free! I will be free! I will pursue until I have become one with that God! Even if that God is the unknown God, that is the goal of my life and I will be one with that God for this reason—not for a selfish reason but because I see my brothers and sisters suffering all around me. And I see the sick and the poor and the dying, and I see the nations in a great deal of confusion and chaos. And therefore I must reunite with God so that I have something to give when the impoverished in Spirit and in Matter, the poor in Spirit, come to my door.”
And so you see humanity are begging today. They beg for help. And we, as a nation, give material aid, but we must give the greatest aid that can ever be given—that connection to the Source. We must be able to dip into the sacred fire and say, “Here, souls of millions, here is the portion that God has already given unto you. It is your real and your own Self, and the key to unlock that sacred fire is none other than the Word.”
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