PRINCIPLE ONE: Practice Unity Consciousness

The Law of One may be approximated by stating: that all things are one. There is no
polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, but only identity. All is one, and that one is
love/light, light/love. the infinite Creator.
(Singing)
To all, life Thou givest, to both great and small;
In all life Thou livest, the true life of all;
Thy justice, like mountains, high soaring above
Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.[4]
What is love/light? What is light/love? What is the one original Thought? It is a very
powerful thing to think about a love that can create the world’s that we know and the
world’s that we don’t. It’s such a thing the Bible talks about. “In the beginning was the
Word.”[5] It was written in Greek, by a fellow named John. The word for “word” in
Greek is logos [6]. That is exactly the word that those of Ra use. It is a thought, but it is
such a powerful thought, it creates and it destroys. Creating and destroying are part of the
same Logos. There is no disharmony, no imperfection. All is complete and whole and
perfect. (I am quoting, in all of these things, from Book I of The Law of One.)
’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free,
’Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
’Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed.
To turn, turn, will be our delight
‘Till by turning, turning, we come round right.[7]
We have all made many turns to be here this weekend. We have come through a lot of
resistance. I certainly have. I lost the cord to my pants, that is why I was late.[8] Now, it
is really funny, because I lost 75 pounds a couple of years ago and those pants would
have hung on my hips if I had just been fatter.
(Laughter)
Thank God, a gentlemen had given me a pen and I had put it in my purse, because it was
a wonderful pen. It was so smooth. That pen had the tightest little clasp on it and I was
able to get the string and scoot it through the little opening. I was only a little late and I
did get to wear my costume, which I wore because I wanted you to feel that love that is in
my heart. It is my best gift. My words are so poor, and I am sorry. You can feel my heart,
I know you can. And if you can’t, your subconscious can and it will know all about it.
Just so you know it is possible, it is there, it is you. I love Joel Goldsmith’s, “Christ is the
I of me.”[9] When you get down to who you really are, what you are is the Logos. It just
takes a while to let things fall away until you get into that place.
(The tape ends.)
I do want to talk a little bit about polarity. I would like to talk about two issues with
polarity. We have heard a lot about polarity this weekend. Like magnetism as opposed to
radiance, power as opposed to releasing, allowing or adapting, judgment as opposed to
forgiveness. The two that I would like to feature …
(The next tape begins.)
He comes running over and says you’ve got to go around again. I said, “Thank you so
much for your courtesy, I just really appreciate it. You really made my morning, thank
you so much.” You should have seen the look on that guy’s face.[10]
(Laughter)
It is possible to be grateful for anything and everything. And that is, actually, a short cut
to the right attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an absolute truth. That is so true.
Lord, make us servants of your peace:
Where there is hate, may we sow love;
Where there is hurt, may we forgive;
Where there is strife, may we make one.[11]
Trust! How hard is it to trust! It is one of my lessons. I have a tendency to be fearful. I
think to myself, “Oh gosh, I am going to be too cold, I am going to be too hot, I am going
to need something that I don’t have.” I am thinking about the past, I am thinking about
what I need in the future, and you know what? We are right here. And right here, we are
fine. All is well. There is a gift to having trust in the plan, especially when the plan
doesn’t look like it is going well at all. In hindsight, we can see that plan. We can go,
“You know, I really enjoyed the benefits of all of these hassles that I have gone through. I
look back on that and I can see, that is when I was learning the most, right there.” Well,
you know, I am learning a lot right now, about the things that are catalysts in my life, that
I didn’t know before, and I bet all of you are going through some stuff at this time too. I
ask you to trust. Trust the plan. Trust the God-self.
Thy strong Word did cleave the darkness;
At Thy speaking it was done.
For created light we thank Thee,
While Thine ordered seasons run.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Praise to Thee who light dost send!
Alleluia, alleluia!
Alleluia without end![12]
PRINCIPLE TWO: Love, Respect and Honor Yourself
Those of Ra said, “Gaze within a mirror, see the Creator.”
Come, O Thou Traveler unknown,
Whom still I hold, but cannot see;
My company before is gone,
And I am left alone with Thee;
With Thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.[13]
Look into the mirror, look past the face, into the eyes, start a journey. Look into the eyes.
You will be amazed. There is infinity in those eyes. There is soul in those eyes. There is
so much within you! One part within you is the future. That part, way in there, is ready to
talk to you and tell you many stories. Things you hear from the outside become your
personal truth because you recognize them. You may have heard them before but you
weren’t ready to recognize them as your own. When something resonates, grab it and
hold on to it. It is yours.
What is it to respect, love and honor yourself? It is the thing that most of us do the most
poorly, actually. It is easier to love almost anybody, even a wicked person, than it is to
love, forgive and accept yourself. For one thing, leaving mass murderers out of the
general equation, it is easier to forgive people because you are not they. You are not
burdened by having to be aware of their thoughts, of the feelings of their hearts. You only
have to deal with what you see and what you feel from them, and usually everybody you
meet has pretty good intentions. They really, really want to be good people and where
they feel that they have come short of that, there is an everlasting judgment that is
possible from the self to the self. We don’t see it, it is hidden from us, by the closeness of
ourselves to ourselves. We forgive everybody before we forgive ourselves.
That is the journey’s beginning, is to look into those eyes and begin to see past your tap-
dancing, rationalizing, error-prone self. We are all bozos in this place. We all are prone to
error. It is the nature of being human. It is one of the glories of this time, in which we
must live by faith alone because there will be no proof of anything that has to do with
spiritual truth. There is only the inner resonance with which you receive the truth that is
for you.
This is a very organic, growing thing. It is muscular and is in the very heart of you, and
we need to listen to that very powerful, very strong inner self, because it is seeking too,
on a very deep level, beyond words. As you come into received truth from outer sources,
it will trigger your remembrance. Basically, learning is a process of remembering.
There are many different kinds of people. There isn’t one path from third density to
fourth density to fifth density and so on. There isn’t even just a duality of paths. I think
everybody in this room is probably a positively oriented person. But, each of you, just
like having a blood type, has an occult blood type. Each of you has a certain character, a
certain personality that is beyond the personality of careless choice and moves deeply
into those things with which you came into incarnation, those ways that you have always
been biased. Your Mom and Dad said, “ I don’t know, she came out of the womb that
way. I don’t know what to do with this child, I scratch my head! I don’t know where this
child got that, I didn’t teach the child that and look at this child go.” And it’s that way
from the very beginning. As a toddler you were completely different than probably your
parents thought you really should be.
And “Sue me, that is the way I was, that is the way I am!” That is the way you need to
think about it. You need to be very fearless about accepting yourself as you are. You are
not going to be different. You can certainly behave differently. You can train your mind.
You can purify your emotions. You can go through many disciplines. As Scott [14] said,
there are lots of disciplines. What you are doing is refining a certain kind of gem. The
way you refine that is not to change the color of it or to change the chemistry of the gem.
You just need to let the ore knock around in this spiritual refinery that life is and knock
the pieces off that aren’t that gem. And life will do it to you. It will feel like you are
dying, but you are beginning to be real. That is the nature of suffering. You are beginning
to expose the gem that you are.
I went through an interesting experience recently where I watched a video of Bruce
Lipton and Rob Williams talking about the biology of perception and the psychology of
change. I thought it was very helpful and I recommend its source and various places on
the web you can find it. Bruce Lipton’s is www.BruceLipton.com, and Rob Williams’ is
www.psych-k.com.
Anyway, I called Rob on the phone, or rather he called me after I wrote him an e-mail
and said that he would be interested in writing something for my little book [15], but
what he would like for me to do, actually, is write it myself, about my experience, so he
would like to do testing on his wife and she’ll be your surrogate and we will find out just
what kind of cat you are. So he called back after a little while and said that his wife and
he had gone through this process of examining where I was weak, where my belief
system was weak, and they gave me four affirmations. One was: “I release the past with
joy and expect the best now and in the future.” Many of us have problems with releasing
the past. Another one was: I am in control of my own life. Another one was: I learn from
all my experiences, including the difficult and painful ones. We don’t really want to do
that, do we?
That was a very difficult one for me. There are perhaps sixty different affirmations to
choose from and those were the ones that I tested weak to.[16] Each one of you would
test [weak] to a different set of them. So it is very helpful to begin to know yourself, and
to begin to realize where you do need strengthening in your faith, in your life?
Self-healing comes under “love, respect and honor yourself,” because we all have a
process of self-healing to go through. Those of Ra said that the body is the creature of the
mind. So, when we are beginning to know ourselves and we have come to some
realizations about ourselves, then we can begin to see where we are putting stress on
ourselves, where we are putting demands on ourselves that aren’t balanced, where we are
taking responsibility where we have no need to, where we are not taking responsibility
when we do have need to. All of these choices that we make, when not completely true
and honest within ourselves, lead to stress and imbalance which leads to illness. I feel
sure, were I in perfect balance, I would not be experiencing the various varieties of
rheumatic disease that I experience at this time.
Indeed, I have gone through a tremendous healing process. When Scott first met me I was
on my way down to three years or so [of being] bed-ridden. From ’89 through the
beginning of ’92 I was unable to sit-up. I couldn’t hold my head up because I had injured
my neck. My neck and shoulders were incompetent. I am still having to ask for chairs
with arms, so that I can rest my shoulders. It has been a process where the things that
helped me were not diet, were not exercise, as much as changing the way I told my story
to myself. I wasn’t giving myself credit for being a feminine principle. I wasn’t giving
myself credit for being kind and loving and faithful, all of the things which are mine by
nature. We all have gifts to give. My gifts that I brought in are the gift of faith and the gift
of unending joy in the light in this business of living. When I was a little girl, I would run
around and rejoice when the raindrops fell. I would take all my clothes off, I thought that
is what you did when it rained because it felt so good. I would go and hug a tree. My
mother had to teach me not to do that. I heard about that my whole life until Don passed
on, and I guess it’s very true. I was just this little spirit that was very tactile and very
sensual and saw the beauty everywhere.
What gifts did you bring? I’ll bet you have wonderful gifts. And what you came here to
share mostly, is that wonderful thing, yourself. The great discovery here is getting closer
and closer to the heart of you and finding out who you are at a deeper and deeper level.
The more that that happens, the more things simplify, the more irritants fall away, the
more life becomes a magical place and the more everything starts telling you a story.
Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart:
Such a joy as none can move;
Such a love as none can part;
Such a heart as joys in love.[17]
What I am asking you to do is to fall in love with yourself. That is the first step. Just get
over yourself, all of the warts and the pimples, let that part go, we all have them. And
start seeing the beauty of yourself. You each are absolutely incredibly gem-like entities.
So much has gone into you before you came here. You came into this life and picked this
and this and this to have trouble with, and this and this and this to arm yourself with to
deal with it. You are well matched with the situations you are up against. The stranger
those situations are and the less matched you feel, the more you’re in a journey to
discover what it was that this is all about. What is this? What is this pattern? Have you
seen this before? Is this the theme in your lifetime? Have you spiraled around to this
again.
A lot of times the large lessons have to do with loving, loving yourself, loving others and
accepting that they don’t love you, apparently,, and being ok with it. These are hard
lessons but they come around again, and if you didn’t get it, they come around again, and
if you didn’t get it they come around again. Not that we are on a fixed path, but just that
you can make no mistakes, it is going to come around in one guise or another. We have
made agreements with a ton of people. No matter which way we go, there are going to be
agreements in place with the people around us because we have lived many lives and we
have made many agreements. It is like, you can go to plan B, you can go to plan C. I like
to talk about it like. Its like if you are going from Louisville to Chicago, you can go from
Louisville to London and da-da-da and go around the world and get back to Chicago.
That is one way. A lot of people seem to do that. Like Jim, who went all the way to the
west coast and drove back to come 70 miles. But he made it, and no mistake.[18]
I think this is something that is hard to grant ourselves, that there aren’t any mistakes, that
we haven’t made any mistakes, that everything is fine.
Come down, O Love divine,
Seek thou this soul of mine,
And visit it with thine own ardor glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
Within my heart appear,
And kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
O let it freely burn,
Till earthly passions turn
To dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
And let thy glorious light
Shine ever on my sight,
And clothe me round, the while my path illuming.[19]
It is not selfish to focus on your faith. Being good to yourself needs to come first. People
who try to give everything, giving it all through, but forgetting that they need to keep the
physical vehicle going, need to retain just enough of that infinite love and light to keep
the inner energy healthy and vibrant and vital. And when you don’t feel that you are
strong, invite the infinite light and love of the one Creator, because it is flowing through
the energy system constantly.
Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain,
Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead hath been:
Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.
When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,
Thy touch can call us back to life again,
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.[20]
The green grass is always springing forth from our hearts. The dead grass is constantly
being tossed away and dying and being dropped off. We are in a process of changing.
Every cell in our body changes every seven years. We have heard that all of our lives, but
it is true. Every cell in our soul is changing also. We change, we recreate ourselves, again
and again. Sometimes new realizations can change the world in which we find ourselves
and the stories that we tell to ourselves.
When you are working on your pain, when refining your pain, be fearless. Be not afraid!
The Creator is with you.
PRINCIPLE THREE: Love, Respect and Honor Others as You do Yourself
Those of Ra say, “Look into the eyes of another; see the Creator.”
In another way, Ra says, “The universe is one being. When you view another person, see
the Creator. This is an helpful exercise.
(Carla starts to sing, then stops.)
We won’t sing that one. I wrote all over the back of it, I can’t read it.
(Laughter)
What you are, you see, is a mirror. Other people see themselves in you and you see
yourself projected onto other people. If you are upset by what I am doing, you have got
issues having to do with what I am doing over here. If you are upset with your mate, you
have got issues because you are seeing yourself, and you don’t want to see it, you don’t
like that view of yourself, but you know what? That is what you are seeing. Whatever
you dislike, that is the shadow side of self. That is your 360-degree self, expressing itself
to you. There isn’t anything wrong with you because you have a shadow. We are all 360-
degree people. When you see a murderer, realize that is you, you are a murderer too, in
your mind, in your heart. Hopefully you haven’t let it past your teeth, past your hand.
Those feelings are there in all their primal glory and dignity. And you will, from time to
time, be uncomfortably aware of them. Just sit with it. It is part of you. Accept it and
draw it in. Love it, forgive it. This is your strength. The shadow is your strength.
It is very difficult to see the Creator in all people. I had an experience this last
Wednesday while I was doing my housekeeping at church, which I do whenever I can. It
is a great joy to me. In my church, there are tons of professional people, and tons of
working people and all are working. If you have two people in a family, they are both
working, I mean, that is the way we live now. Everybody has to work in order to afford
what we think we need to live. It is what we are used to. We need the house, so we go out
of the house to make the money so we can afford the house, therefore we don’t get to
enjoy the house. It’s a strange little thing we do, it’s a dance. But, this is what we do, we
are tag-teams. We go out and get the bread. We bring it home and we enjoy it briefly,
before we get up and do it again.
OK. So I was at church for this precious time, I had a two-hour window of opportunity.
The last half hour I storm upstairs. I am going to fix up the clothes closet. I have fixed up
the kitchen and I have housekept the church, I have got the spoons back in the spoon
drawer and everything put away in the kitchen and I know what supplies we need, so it is
time for the clothes closet. We give away free clothes to the homeless people in our
neighborhood. I go to a downtown church and the downtown locales are the poorest part
[of the city]. We have people sleeping in the side yard of our church because they have
no home and we give away a lot of clothes. We give them away for free. We have no
limit, we have no rules.
Unfortunately, the person that had been there before I came to clean up, had trashed all
my four storage boxes of out-of-season clothing, along with the shoes that were on top of
these storage bins, [knocking them] behind the storage bins, which hold down the racks
of clothes that are out for people. So, in greedily trying to get something that other people
did not have access too, they dumped all of the shoes behind the rack. So instead of
putting away the new clothes with tags and sizing them, and doing all of the little nice
little lady-things that I like to do to make things look like a shop, so that people have their
pride. I was lucky just to be able to clean up the shoes and put stuff back in the bins
because people had just thrown things all over the place. So I was just folding, and I was
realizing, these people have no respect, da-da-da.. Then [I realized] they’re the Creator
and they just needed stuff, and they didn’t understand about how I had to go back and get
all these shoes and put them back. So I played ‘pick up shoes’ and got a good back
exercise and had some really shadow-self thoughts until I got myself dealt with, because I
really wanted to serve, and was I serving, or was I just treading water here? Not mine to
judge. I just do what I can and go home. You know, I don’t have to worry about this. But
I did for a while, and we all do. So, let these experiences flow through you and see the
shadow side and embrace it, and don’t judge yourself because you lost it in road rage.
Maybe you didn’t give the guy the finger when he cut in front of you, but you felt bad in
your heart. Well, I do it too. We all do it.
Before I leave loving, respecting and honoring others, I’d like to talk about the value of
communication, briefly. Open communication is one of the hardest things to do. We all
know what people want to hear. And usually, it is not precisely what we are thinking. To
be honest with kindness is a very good challenge. It can be done. It can always be done.
But it is not the first thing that comes to mind, almost ever. And when you are in a
challenged situation, the desire to be defensive and to be justifying yourself is almost
irresistible. You just want so badly to say, “This is why I am right.” Well, what difference
does it make? What you are trying to do here is to create an atmosphere in which you can
tell your truth and the other person can tell you his truth. Make that possible, tell your
truth, listen to the other person. I can’t emphasize that enough. If we would communicate
honestly, many walls would fall down.
And the last thing about respecting, loving and honoring others as you do yourself, When
you are at work, when you are doing common chores, when you are cleaning the
bathroom, when you are changing a diaper, when you are taking out garbage, when
somebody at work is telling you one thing and doing another and making your life
difficult, there is a place that, I think, is the best place to be, the most skillful place to be,
and that is a place of respect and honesty. The sacredness of everything is intimately at
the heart of things, pouring out of everything. There is no lack of holiness or sacredness
in cleaning the bathroom or washing out a diaper. Well, nobody washes out a diaper
anymore, that is a bad example. Throwing away a particularly juicy diaper! That too is
the Creator.
I am on Principle Four of Seven and I have four minutes ... I don’t think so! I will get as
far as I can, and that will be Principle Four. We will come together tomorrow and I will
tell you about the other three.
PRINCIPLE FOUR: Love, Respect and Honor Earth and All of Nature.
As of those of Ra said, “Gaze at the creation that lies all about” you. “See the Creator. {In
another place, they say,] “Picture the activity within all that is created. The energy is,
though finite, quite large. This energy is intelligent. It is hierarchical.” When one can
speak to that intelligence, that which you desired has been carried out.[21] This happens
due to the cooperation of the infinite understanding of the Creator, indwelling in all
things of nature. This is the mechanism of action at a distance.
About 10 days before 9-11, I got a desperate e-mail from a very good friend of mine,
whom I believe is a member of the Elder Race. (I’ll let that one lie there.) He has been
here for a long time and he has a very close association with Mother Earth, and he was
panicking. For the first time that I had ever seen, this very large, motorcycle type guy,
who is also a physicist and a tech guy, brilliant with computers, he was trembling in his
motorcycle boots. He could not find the Earth to talk to. All that the Earth would say to
him was that she was going to give up on humanity, that there just wasn’t any way that
she was going to continue to trust or to cherish humanity because humanity had basically
indicated that it was not interested or loving towards her. It had gotten so bad that she
needed, for her own good, to withdraw from humankind. It was really alarming because
Bruce and Gaia are incredibly close. He couldn’t get [enough] in touch with Gaia to hear
any more than that. We were in an emergency situation.
So, right at the beginning of September of last year, the day that I got that letter from
Bruce, I said, “We have got to start meditating for Gaia and for peace, NOW! Every
day.” We meditate in the morning already, at 9 o’clock. We added a meditation at 9
o’clock in the evening, specifically for Gaia and for the consciousness of peace. So, it
was a wake-up call when 9-11 happened. But I can’t say that I was particularly surprised.
We are in this together and we truly need to come more into a right relationship with our
Mother. We need to learn how to cherish her instead of tearing her down. We need to
learn how to feed back into her, instead of taking from her without finding ways to
cherish her and to give to her and to be her children. We need to invite the nature spirits.
We need to talk to the trees. We need to realize that there are fairies in the forest and that
there are devas in every bush and tree and blade of grass that love to dance with you.
They hope that you will notice them and come and play with them. The whole world is
dancing with us, if we will just dance back. You know, if we will just join in! I mean, in a
world where the trees are giving out oxygen and taking in our carbon dioxide, the dance
is endless and its harmonious, and we are a part of it if we will allow ourselves to come
into harmony and rhythm.
It was interesting, we asked quite a bit about 9-11 in one of the channelings we got after
that. We found that, sure enough, there were some souls in the 9-11 disaster that had
departed their bodies so quickly that they weren’t aware of where they were. They
thought they were still alive and couldn’t find their way out. They were sitting around a
campfire on one of the upper floors, huddled together and not knowing what to do.
Actually, as those of Q’uo said, the people that rescued them were from the inner planes
and they were the Native Americans who had sold the island for a few beads to those
from Holland who had come to New York and had decided that they liked that island.
But they have forgiven us for that and they came and they sat around the campfire with
them, and spent some time with them and gently explained what the deal was and helped
them to depart that building in the astral plane, to leave that location and to get on with
the healing that takes place after physical death.
I have died, there is no break in physical consciousness, at least I didn’t have any. I was
just in another world and there was no discontinuity whatsoever, it was a better world.
Jim does that everyday, Jim’s Lawn Service. He goes out and he cuts lawns. He doesn’t
just cut lawns. He is behind a chariot and he is dancing with the devas in his little mower
with the Velke [22] on the back and he is bobbing and weaving and going around the
trees and having a good time. He is inviting the spirits. Every place that he gardens, looks
better than the places around it because he does the dance with the devas, he doesn’t just
go around. I am very proud of him. You have heard about Findhorn? The Native
American way is Findhorn squared. It is just that realization that there is spirit
everywhere and that if we talk to everything, everything will really want to harmonize
with us and really want to give us the best and the most and more. The Creation is
incredibly generous.
So we need to bring the harmony back between ourselves and the land, between
ourselves and the air, between ourselves and the water, and between ourselves and each
other. Because we, too, are second-density creatures. We, too, have a tremendous need to
feel loved, a tremendous need to feel needed, to be asked to be ourselves and to be valued
for ourselves. We can do that and see all the people and the environment as part of us. It
will just change the nature of the world that we live in.
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
And made their tiny wings.[23]
That’s it.
(Applause)
PRINCIPLE FIVE: Practice Consciousness Expansion
[Those of Ra said,] “The moment contains love.” Consciously, see that love. That is the
lesson of this illusion, or density. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing
rests the remainder of the life experience of an entity. Consciously see that the moment
contains love? I like to put it as a question: “Where is the love in this moment?” It is
really obvious in this moment, everywhere. Some moments it is not so obvious and you
really have to look, but there is always a place. There is always a place for love to stand,
even if it is the place of a Beatitude, even if it is a place of blessing those who spitefully
use you, of being poor in spirit, of being humble, of being a peacemaker, of being a
person who mourns. These are blessings. They don’t have the barometer of the world’s
popularity as blessings, but nevertheless, the Beatitude is the best blessing of all as far as
I am concerned. It is where I try to live. I see myself as above all things an honorable and
ethical person. Call it being a knight. I try to keep my armor polished. There are always
chinks in the armor of light. I have many; I make many mistakes. I am so devastated
when I find out about one of them. You know, silly me, why would I be upset because I
made a mistake? It’s what we do here. I am hard on myself. I think we all are.
The Ra group says that before the body can be initiated, the mind must be initiated. How
does the mind get initiated? The mind gets initiated into a mystery. The place of the
unknown is what initiation is.
I know not where the road will lead,
I follow day by day,
Or where it ends. I only know
I walk the king’s highway,
I know not if the way is long,
And no one else can say,
But, rough or smooth, uphill or down,
I walk the king’s highway.
An initiatory method is necessary to provide the mind, the body and the spirit for service
in the Creator’s work. Why would that be necessary? You know how it is, we all want to
get things done quickly. And in the spiritual life we are not on the world’s time, we are
on God’s time. And in God’s time, as opposed to worldly spiritual things, there is no
schedule. So there are lots of unscheduled moments of waiting.
And a lot of initiation, let’s put it this way, a lot of skill in going through initiation is to
be able to sit with it and to wait, through the discomfort, through the sleeplessness,
through all that your body is throwing up to you to explain to you that something
important is happening. That is what waiting is. You can’t push it. You can’t rush it. You
can’t slow it down. What you can do is cooperate with it. And a lot of times that means
waiting and feeling like nothing is happening.
His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour,
The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower.
Trust the timing, trust the inconvenience that it seems like there is in your worldly life.
Just get up, and go to bed, for a while, and when you look back you will discover, “Oh! I
have now seeded that information. How nice! And now I am on another learning curve
and I am much more comfortable.” And then you will get uncomfortable again, as it is an
unending cycle.
The thing of it is, you have to live your belief system. The temptation is to walk the
spiritual supermarket with a cart, putting stuff in your basket and putting it back on the
shelf because it doesn’t engage you. Shopping some more and trying this and trying that,
and then going back and shopping some more. And so you end up with a lot of groceries,
but no food.
You have to search until you have these moments where you know what it is you know.
And you can’t explain it, you can’t rush it, but there are these transcendent moments
where you think, “I think I see where my feet are now. I think I see where the ground is
beneath my feet. I think I could stand here.” And, at that point, it is a very helpful thing to
move from the intellectual appreciation of the excellence of certain thoughts, to the nitty-
gritty of trying to figure out how to live that.
And when you try to live absolute ethics in a profoundly relativistic consensus reality, it
does bring you many an interesting challenge. And it enables you to do a lot of work in
defining for yourself where the polarity lies, and then refining your response, until you
feel that that is your true, honest response.
The important thing is not to be a “goody goody” at all. If you see yourself going there,
do yourself a favor and go have fun for awhile. Just have a ball and get your light touch
back and lift up and lighten up. Because really, ‘lighten up’ does mean, invite the light
and open the self and don’t be stiff about anything. Because this is a very fluid reality.
Spirit is like water. The things that you do, other people will know about half-way around
the world. I don’t know how that happens, but we all create these endless ripples, and you
just have to trust that.
The function of the spirit, says those of Ra, is to integrate the up-reaching yearnings of
the mind and body, with the down pouring and in streaming of infinite guidance.
Let me work with this picture a little bit, because I had trouble myself, trying to envision
what this is. But it is a shortcut if you have looked at the kundalini model at all – in
which you are inviting the spirit down into the energy body, and where your own body
energy meets it is what makes that kundalini rise. So the kundalini is a child of your
desire and your will to focus, and then your asking, you know, “seek and you shall find,
ask and it shall be given unto you. Knock and the door shall be opened.” Look out what
you ask for, you will get it!
Humbly I adore thee,
verity unseen
Who thy glory hidest ’neath these shadows mean
Lo, to thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed.
Taste and touch and vision to discern thee fail.
Faith, that comes by hearing, pierces through the veil.
I believe whatever the light of God hath told;
What the truth hath spoken, that for truth I hold.
“The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state
when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door, the key is silence.” (p.
87, The Law of One, Book I)
The value of silence in my life cannot be overestimated. I yearned for it. I longed for it,
and I sought it as a child. I was very solitary and took myself on rambling walks. I found
Don Elkins, because I was seeking more silence than my church practice offered me. The
Episcopal Church is not huge on having silent retreats, and I was just really looking for a
group to meditate with silently. That is why I didn’t channel until Don put it to me as,
you know, as a personal favor to me, “Would you please learn to channel?”
I didn’t want to, I just wanted to listen to the silence or to the channeling. I am not one to
go, “Oh, I can do that!” When it comes to something like that I have always been, and
still am, a reluctant one to channel, in that I don’t look forward to it. It is a matter of it
being an honor/duty for which I do a great deal of preparation. I would say that if you are
just starting out with a silent practice, don’t do too much of it, since it is powerful stuff.
And expect your body to revolt. Expect whatever hurts to hurt. Expect yourself to
develop headaches, stomachaches, visions, anything to distract you.
Think of how we live. How many times do we sit and not process, not do something, not
multi-task even? How many times do we just sit and have zero function? For me, I have
to make that time. It doesn’t come to me. I don’t get to sit in my chair and go, “Isn’t this
nice! Let’s see what shall I do? I am so bored!” It doesn’t happen, I have so much good
work to do that there are never enough hours in the day.
Getting back to a theme. Taming the wolf. What is psychic greeting, what is the being of
the self? I love Caroline Casey’s solstice talk that she gave last winter. I heard a tape of it
a friend of mine sent me from California. She is on the radio there as an astrologer, but it
is astrology, political-savvy, guests from the whole spectrum of activism. And she invites
everybody, she invites people on the right, she invites people on the left. She is trying to
get at the truth. And she has this wonderful way of saying, “Did you know that …?” and
telling you something wonderful. She was talking about the wolf within in a very special
way. She said that the story of Scheherazade, which is a story she wanted to share with
everyone …
(The microphone slips. Carla: “It could be said I have a leaning towards the left!”
(Laughter))
Her thesis basically is that this is the hour of the salvation of the world, and that that
salvation will come through welcoming, inviting and becoming the feminine principle. It
doesn’t matter if you are male or female, but of course it helps to have the outer form of a
female in terms of identifying yourself with that feminine principle.
This is why I have started wearing costumes that are very beautiful, and that move
beyond the western paradigm of physical beauty in the United States today. This
[business garb] is the working outfit for many, many people. And it has its own beauty.
But what we women have released, in order to be more functional, is that utterly useless
beauty of the embroidery and the decoration and the embellishment; that energy just to be
beautiful. What we need in this world is love, beauty, intimacy, emotional safety. We
need to listen to the story of Scheherazade because she tamed the male principle.
What is the story of Scheherazade? In brief, it is that there was this oriental king that felt
that women were utterly beautiful, but utterly debased in terms of their ability to
withstand temptation. They had no ability to withstand temptation. Only their virginity
kept them from being sluts. You may be familiar with this [bias] in other forms, we have
it in this culture also. There was this virgin/slut thing going on, so he wouldn’t even let
his partners for the night live the next day. At the dawning, he had despoiled them, they
were no longer virgins, so he killed them, because then they could not be faithless. He
didn’t want the pain of them being faithless. He removed them.
Scheherazade was in line for this glorious tasking. The dawn was coming, and she
decided that maybe she would tell him a story. So she started telling him a story and
charming him and delighting him and wooing him with soft images and sweetness. And
he let her live so he could hear the end of the story. And, of course, she finished that one
in the middle of the night, and started another story and she went through a thousand and
one stories. By this time they had three children, and he decided to let her live.
This is what we need to do. We need to tell our wolf our stories. We need to tell the
murderer within our stories. We need to share with all of the shadow self, all of that 360
degrees, 180 of them are in the darkness. Right? Face it. We too are negative entities
because the light and the dark together make us up. The darkness is like the strength, the
grip, the will. When it is tamed, when you have wooed it and asked it to become your
knight in shining armor and give you its strength, it will give you a tremendous amount
of strength.
Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,
Your hands swift to welcome, Your arms to embrace,
Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,
Your love in our hearts Lord, at the eve of the day.
Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,
Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,
Be there at out sleeping, and give us, we pray,
Your peace in our hearts Lord, at the end of the day.
PRINCIPLE SIX: Investigate and Develop Methods of Service to Others
There is not a whole lot you can do in one day to alter the vibration of your being. There
is not a lot you can do in a decade or even in a lifetime, but you can change it a bit. You
can keep nudging at it, and working at that, and identifying places where you feel your
energy is blocked. Gradually, begin to come more into an awareness of your own being,
and the power and the magic of that being, because each one of us is a spark of the divine
flame. Each one of us is that holographic picture thrown out by the one infinite Creator
that remains one infinite Creator, plus all of our distortions, all of our colors.
And we are all wonderfully colored beings with wonderfully complex energies that we
offer to each other. And people don’t exactly get what it is about somebody that they like,
or that they don’t like. You can’t put your finger on it. It’s the colors. There are some
people that whose colors really enhance the aura. There are some people that seem to
infringe. See what you can do to become an aura enhancer, by just appreciating your own
self, and being easy with yourself, and being comfortable within your own skin. I think
that is the thing that you need to do before you can get to the outer gifts and then using
them.
Then, of course, it is wonderful to use the outer gifts, but don’t expect life to give you a
ministry according to your outer gifts. Matter of fact, I almost think the definition of
spiritual work is being given things that you can’t do and being told, “Well, you do it
with those gifts. Let’s see what you can do to apply your gifts to this situation.” There is a
connection, trust it or it wouldn’t be in your life. See what you can do to offer the gifts
that life is asking of you.”
Oh God of love, to thee we bow,
And pray for these before thee now
That closely knit in holy vow,
They may in thee be One.
Those of Ra say, in the case of only one individual acting, that that individual must be
purified of all flaws to move a mountain. But in the case of a mass understanding of
unity, each individual may contain an acceptable amount of distortion, and yet the mass
mind could move the mountain. We in this circle can change the story that the Earth tells
to those that come after us. Today, just a little, just a nudge, but its spreads you see. It is
the start of a ripple.
So, as you sit here in this circle, you can imagine energy moving clockwise around the
circle. And each time that you visualize that, add to it. Visualize that, add to it, spin the
energy, give it your own shot and get the thing really going. You’d be surprised, there is a
column of light, I have seen it sometimes in visions, a column that extends way up into
the heavens. And the angels are thick around us, clustering and praising that beautiful
light that is being generated by those of us within the veil. Because we do it by faith
alone, we have no reason to believe it is working. Except that wonderful, very subjective
process of coming into an awareness of [the fact that] it is not just working, it is working
big time. It is working in my life, constantly, unceasingly.
PRINCIPLE SEVEN: Become a Responsible Co-Creator
It is calling us to work. To work for the good, to work for what we believe in, to work for
what we think is good. To share the best we know how. It is time to work, while we have
life, while we have breath, while we have being. We need to find out what it is we have
to say, and we need to say it. We need to be ministers. We need to realize our priesthood,
that we are a sacred and holy people.
Come labor on.
Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear,
No one so weak but may do service here:
By feeblest agents may our God fulfill
His righteous will.
[1] Don Elkins, original member of the L/L Research team and Questioner for the Law of
One sessions.
[2] David Wilcock. His web site is www.ascension2000.com.
[3] Carla L. Rueckert was trained as a librarian.
[4] From a nineteenth century song by Walter Chambers Smith and John Roberts.
[5] The beginning of the Gospel according to John.
[6] Logos, from the Greek, is defined as the word that expresses an inner thought, or the
inner thought itself.
[7] Shaker song of the 18th century.
[8] This is why the last half-hour of the speech was delivered Sunday. Carla had lost 30
minutes of time. It is to be noted that Scott Mandelker’s off-the-cuff comments, made to
the gathering while waiting for Carla, were most illuminating!
[9] There are many Goldsmith books and tapes from which to quote, but this quote from
Practicing The Presence (London, Fowler, no date given, page 121) is representative: “As
we study, as we read, as we meditate, we are developing a state of consciousness which
recognizes the Father within as the only actor and the only activity, and we are paving the
way for an actual God experience. The moment one has the God experience, he no longer
lives his life: it is God, living his life for him; it is the Christ living his life for him or
through him. He has nothing to do but be very peaceful and quiet. It is like looking over
our shoulder, watching God unfold. We become beholders of God and God’s activity.”
[10] The missing part of the story: Carla attempted to pick up an L/L Research visitor
from the airport, but parked in the wrong spot and tried to back up to the proper door. The
policeman would not allow her to do so. She had to drive around the long airport loop
and try again. This time, she was in the wrong lane, meant for cabs only, and again the
officer sent her around. The third time was a charm, Carla having located at last the
correct lane and the correct airline’s door.
[11] Twentieth century song by James Quinn and Lee Hastings Bristow, Jr., based on a
prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi.
[12] Twentieth century song by Martin H. Franzman and Thomas John Williams.
[13] Eighteenth century song by Charles Wesley.
[14] Scott Mandelker’s web site is www.universal-vision.com.
[15] I am working on a small book on these seven principles of the Law of One.
[16] Lipton works with muscle testing to determine yes/no answers.
[17] Early 20th century song from George Herbert’s 16th century poem and Ralph
Vaughn Williams’ music.
[18] This refers to Jim’s serving with Paul Shockley’s group in Oregon for some weeks
in the fall of 1980, before heading back to Louisville that December to join L/L Research.
Previously to this he had lived in central Kentucky some 70 miles from Louisville.
[19] Fifteenth century poem by Bianco de Siena, put to music in the twentieth century by
Ralph Vaughan Williams.
[20] Medieval French carol tune set to John MacLeod Campbell Crum’s 20th century
poem.
[21] The actual quotation, since the rendering in the speech is not exact, is as follows:
“You must picture the activity within all that is created. The energy is, though finite,
quite large compared to the understanding/distortion by your peoples. This is an obvious
point well known to your people, but little considered.
“This energy is intelligent. It is hierarchical. Much as your mind/body/spirit complex
dwells within a hierarchy of vehicles and retains, therefore, the shell or shape or field,
and the intelligence of each ascendingly intelligent or balanced body, so does each atom
of such a material as rock. When one can speak to that intelligence, the finite energy of
the physical, or chemical rock/body is put into contact with that infinite power which is
resident in the more well-tuned bodies, be they human or rock.”
[22] A Velke is a little sulky that attaches to a big mower so that the driver can hitch a
stand-up ride on the back.
[23] Nineteenth century poem by Cecil F. Alexander, put to music by Martin F. Shaw in
the 20th century.