Four Beasts 

— Four-and-Twenty
Elders 

YouTube  Audio

July 19, 1953  Class

We have been meditating on the basic theme of Heavenly Magic,

the magic of living, and we can feel the pattern of that magic
beginning to work in and through you. You have begun to have a
true realization of the reality of Shekinah; and as the Shekinah
Cloud of Glory is allowed to penetrate into the pneumaplasmic
substance of your body, in that sphere you begin to be One—One
with that which is of the Inner Reality of Being. Allowing this to take
place you are in position to let the Light that Glows begin to have
meaning in your mind, not merely an intellectual process as we
ordinarily think of it but a process of illumination. And with
illumination, with the correct acceptance of the truth by the mind
and the illuminating process in the current of resurrection, the Fire
that Burns begins to be a constant and continued reality in your
heart—it begins to be the manifestation of the Fire that never goes
out; it is a constant flame. Those who live and move and have their
Being in God have this constant flame upon the Altar in the heart, in
the Temple of the body. You are beginning to realize that your body
individually is a Temple, and that all of us collectively have a part to
play in the formation of the larger Temple—the Temple not made
with hands. Your body was not made with hands; likewise the larger
Temple of many members is not made with hands.

Yesterday, in our patterns of meditation together, we gave some

attention to the secrets of sex as they relate to the Shekinah
Pattern of Being
[greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/01/shekinah-and-sexhere-i-
am-lord.html] and our relationship in reality with God. Today,
continuing in this cycle that has been opened to you, I would like to
draw your attention to the record as taken from the 4th chapter of
the Book of Magic, and we will begin with the 1st verse. Perhaps we
will go back just a little to get connected up—we gave meditation to
the message to Laodicea [Chapter 3, Verse 14]:

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning
of the creation of God [that is, Shekinah]; I know thy works, that
thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then
because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth.” In our meditations here we recognize that
we can use patterns of response and patterns of opposition,
but lukewarmness is something which we cannot use, it is
something which we must ignore or work around. Only where there
is response in the sense of yielding or response in the sense of
opposition can we utilize the factors present. “Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire
[the Shekinah Fire], that thou mayest be rich.” And can we hope to
find any true riches in being if we ignore this Fire, the gold tried in
the fire? Gold is the symbol of what? Love. Love tried in the Fire,
“that thou mayest be rich”—the riches of heaven on earth at hand.

“I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest
be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed…” And
what is the clothing? The Light that Glows, that relates to the reality
of illumination and the function of the mind. “… and that the shame
of thy nakedness do not appear…” What is it that clears away the
shame of nakedness? The white raiment, the Light that Glows. “…
and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” Now
here in this particular pattern we have the emphasis placed
upon seeing—"anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest
see.” The clothing, the Light that Glows, and the Cloud of Glory are
so closely interrelated here in the pattern of symbolism that we see
them really together in their oneness. The outer manifestation of
the white raiment is of course the Cloud of Glory, but the Cloud of
Glory has meaning and provides the raiment, the white raiment,
because of the Light that Glows. And when we have our eyes
anointed with eyesalve, that we may see, we begin to see the Cloud
of Glory by reason of the Light that Glows.

“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten…” Did you ever notice
how I love you? “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be
zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in
to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that
overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” With my
Father—not only the One Who Dwells but the Shekinah Pattern of
Reality. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
the churches. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in
heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a
trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will
shew thee things which must be hereafter.” Have you ever known
the experience of hearing the Voice inviting you, “Come up hither,
and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter”?

“And immediately I was in the spirit…” There is one of the great

significant keys. We noticed it briefly earlier in this Book of Magic,
where we find the statement, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,
and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet… And I turned
to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw.” And
here we have the Word, the invitation, “Come up hither, and I will
shew thee things which must be hereafter,” things which must take
form, things which are to appear on earth. “And immediately I was
in the spirit.” Now when you begin to hear the Voice that speaks
with you, what are you in? Are you simply a human being in the
flesh? Or are you just in your mind trying to intellectually
comprehend that which the Voice is speaking? Or are you in some
place far away, some place of the past or some place somewhere
else on the globe? Are we all together individually, with one accord
in one place—body, mind, heart and spirit, in alignment, in one
place? And where is the centering of you? In the flesh? In the mind?
In the heart? Let it be in the spirit, for when you begin to hear the
voice you should immediately be in the spirit.
“… and, behold, a throne was set in heaven…” And where is heaven?
In some far-off sky? It is at hand, here, now. “… and, behold, a
throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that
sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there
was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an
emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats:
and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in
white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold”—
Crowns of God's Love. And they had on their heads the Crowns of
God's Love. “And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and
thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning
before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” We have
been introduced to these Seven Spirits before. “And before the
throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of
the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of
eyes before and behind.”

”Four beasts full of eyes.” I wonder what vision that conjures up in

your mind, in your imagination? Don't be too quick to picture these
beasts that are full of eyes before and behind. “And the first beast
was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast
had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.”

Here we see the four primary focalizations in the pattern of the

relatedness of heaven and earth—four of the seven, the four of
the firm foundation of reality in Being, the four which correlate with
the four forces. And the first beast, the high point of focalization,
was like a lion. We recognize there the focalization of the LORD of
Lords and KING of Kings. And the second beast like a calf. And
the calf is what? A young bullock. And the ox or the bullock
symbolizes the mind, the self-active, lumbering mind of man; but
the calf symbolizes the childlike mind that is supposed to manifest
in those who are responding, the mind that is willing to learn, willing
to be led along the way. And so the calf aspect here, the calf beast,
symbolizes the second focalization working from within outward, the
mental level or the Lord of—what? The Lord of Life. Now what did
we learn about the reality of the three primary aspects of spirit?
That life is the child of love and truth. There must be the union of
love and truth in order for life to be born. And the reality of life
takes on meaning in relationship to the mind or intelligence; and so
at the point of the calf we have the mental level and the
manifestation of the Lord of Life, just as at the focalization of the
beast like a lion we have the presence of the Lord of Love in the
focalization of the reality of love. And then the third one mentioned
is the first, speaking from the level of human beings looking
upward, and this first, who is the third in the pattern, had a face as
a man—a beast with a face as a man. Now how many beasts are
there in the world with a face as a man? Quite a few I would say.
Immediately we see that it relates to the human pattern of being,
the formation of the one body of mankind in the Divine Design—the
face as a man, the One Body, the Christ Body, the body of
mankind. However we may put it, you are supposed to be a part of
this beast with a face as a man. You are called to be a means by
which this beast may take form on earth.

”And the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.” Now we go back to
our Inner Trinity Pattern and we find here the third point, from
the outward moving inward, and this is the position of the Lord of
Truth. The union of love and truth allows the birth of life; and love
and truth and life must manifest in the body of the man, or the form
that has the face as a man. Here then we begin to see the nature of
the symbolism: the flying eagle. Is it by chance that the eagle is
used as one of the symbols of the United States of America? It is
not by chance. But here we have the flying eagle, and that is the
symbol of the Lord of Truth. When we begin to be acquainted with
the reality of truth, what do we find? There is the ability to move in
the air of the spirit: the flying eagle—not something that is
earthbound, not something that is limited to one little point here or
there. And what is the nature of the eagle? The eagle is called the
king of birds; the eagle carries a very positive pattern. Did you ever
see an eagle? Did you ever look at one, even one in a cage? It is a
pitiful sight to see an eagle in a cage. But the nature of an eagle—
perhaps you have seen pictures—the bearing of an eagle, what it
suggests in relationship to the positive expression of Being. [A
diagram was placed here showing a double triangle with “HEAVEN”
in the top triangle and “EARTH” in the bottom (inverted) triangle.
The apex was labeled “LOVE (Lion),” the ends of the common side
“TRUTH (Eagle)” and “LIFE (Calf)” and the bottom (inverted) apex
“CHRIST BODY (Man).”]

So here we have the four points of the creative field, recognizing

the blending of two creative fields to make one. The points of
the eagle and the points of the calf function both from an inner
and an outer standpoint. The point of the lion functions from an
inner standpoint, and we have the Inner Creative Triangle. And then
extending outward in this square, the city foursquare, the creative
field foursquare in relationship to the four forces, we have
the fourth point, which is the first or the third, depending upon the
patterns of relatedness, which has the face as a man, the
formation of the body of mankind as the Christ Body or the Body
of God on earth. And you are called to be a part of that Body.

Now these beasts were spoken of, or are spoken of here, as being
full of eyes. It will be easier for you to see this in relationship to the
Body that has the face as a man; for this Body has many members,
and you are to be one of those members—many members—and
each one has two physical eyes, to say nothing of the eye of the
heart, the eye of the mind, the ability to see, to perceive, and to
recognize. And so the Body that has the face as a man is certainly
full of eyes before and behind, and all the way through.

Now let us note something of the peculiar nature of these four

beasts. “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about
him…” Six wings. Now, like a flying eagle, but an eagle in the
ordinary sense has two wings. But the four beasts had each of them
six wings. That would make twenty-four wings, wouldn't it? “…six
wings about him; And they were full of eyes within…” Now first, the
four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And here we note they
were full of eyes within. 

“…and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord
God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those
beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the
throne, who liveth for ever and ever; The four and twenty elders fall
down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth
for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne [and cast
their crowns of gold, of love, before the throne], saying, Thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou
hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created.”

“And for thy pleasure they are and were created.” How
much pleasure has man given to God in recent millennia? Not much.
But these things on earth are supposed to give God pleasure. Now
can we imagine God having pleasure without sharing pleasure? I
cannot. I cannot imagine God having pleasure without sharing
pleasure and giving pleasure. “And for thy pleasure they are and
were created.” Now that includes you. You were created for God's
pleasure. If you so function that you give pleasure to God, do you
think you will have pleasure? Do you think you will receive
pleasure? And to what extent will this pleasure be limited? Just for a
few minutes of meditation, with this little experience or that? Or will
we begin to share God's pleasure all the time?

We remember that just before the betrayal and the mockery of the
trial, all the things to which our Master was subjected on earth, He
gave a great prayer, a prayer that you might well meditate upon,
how many times? Ten times? A hundred times? Would that reveal
all of its significance to you? It might pay to do it a hundred and one
times, or even more. But in any case, there He emphasized the
reality of oneness; He mentioned His joy, He mentioned extending
His joy to others, His joy by reason of oneness, by reason of union
with the Father: the inner and the outer, one; and the inner and the
outer together, one with a higher pattern of focalization. And He
said that He was going to leave His joy with us, give it to us. In
another place He said, “Fear not, little flock”—little flock; it doesn't
have to be a big one to begin with; even a little flock like this. “Fear
not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom,” the Kingdom made manifest on earth, in body and mind
and heart.

Wherever we turn, the patterns of oneness, the patterns of union,

the reality of blending—not in the limited sense which human beings
ordinarily think of, not just two bodies blended, but the bodies of
all, blended in the reality of God's Love, blended in the pattern
of love response to the KING, with the crowns of gold cast before
the Throne. And we begin to sense something of what it means to
be with one accord in one place; for there is that spirit of blending
now. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
the churches.” And there is the Spirit of Love, the Voice of Love;
and there is the Voice of Truth, the Spirit of Truth; and there is the
Voice of Life, the Spirit of Life. Projected where? Into the Body that
has the face as a man. All of these things, in their aspects and in
their blended form, projected into the Body that has a face as a
man. Again, you; again that blending. And what is the result?
“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and
they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night,
saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and
is to come. And when those beasts give glory and honour and
thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the
throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their
crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all
things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” How much
pleasure do you give to God day by day? How much pleasure do you
give to God? The pleasure you give to God is the measure by which
you receive the pleasure which God would give to you.

Let us go back a bit now. What about these six wings round about?
There are six wings, there are four beasts; there are
therefore twenty-four wings, and there are likewise twenty-four
elders. A wing is that which is necessary to the bird to fly in the
air; but a bird with one wing is rather handicapped. It takes a pair
of wings, and generally speaking those creatures which fly have two
wings. There are creatures on earth which have four wings: one set
to be as the wings of an airplane, fixed in a projected form, and the
other set to work as a propeller, to carry the creature through the
air. So the principle by which man finally built the airplane was used
in the insect world long ago—fixed or stable wings, and the moving
wings. But here we have the four beasts with six wings, and the
wing is something to move in the air, and the air is the symbol of
the spirit. And there are four and twenty elders and there are four
and twenty wings. But the wings need to work in pairs. Let us
note carefully: "And the four beasts had each of them six wings
ABOUT him." Now the reader might not be alert enough to see the
difference. It did not say that each beast had six wings, did it? It
said each beast had six wings about him. There is a difference. I
have seen people try to portray what they imagined these four
beasts to be, and they had eyes stuck all over them in a peculiar
fashion and they tried to work it out so that there would be six
wings attached to each beast--peculiar-looking creatures. Try
putting six wings on a lion, and try putting six wings on an eagle
that already has two wings. And eyes before and behind and within.
And each beast had six wings about him. It does not say, as some
have supposed, that each beast had six wings. Now where are the
four beasts? Let us go back.

“And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set
in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look
upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow
round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round
about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I
saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and
they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne
proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were
seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven
Spirits of God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like
unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the
throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.”

One could very easily suspect that the four beasts were the Throne.
And there was One sitting on the Throne. We begin to see a
pyramid: four beasts, four corners, and a point extending upward to
an apex, a pyramid. And the pyramid touches what? The next
higher focalization of deity, the next higher level. You do not
need to be too concerned about that at the moment, but there we
have the connection with the next higher level of deity. But here we
have something we can begin to see in relationship to the oneness,
in relationship to the reality of Being which we are to share, and the
functions in that state of Being.

“And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal…”
The sea of glass—before the Throne there was the sea of glass. The
sea suggests that it extends out quite a ways from the Throne, that
it is not limited to a spot just near the Throne as such. And we have
recognized that the sea of glass is the pneumaplasmic substance of
the physical realm of creation. “…and in the midst of the throne,
and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before
and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast
like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth
beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them
six wings about him.”
“Now there were likewise four and twenty elders, four and
twenty wings. We have recognized that the four and twenty elders
are made up of positive and negative aspects of being, forming
the twelve—back again to the twelve segments of humanity, the
twelve in the pattern of formation, creation, the cycles of twelve in
creative patterns. In other words we have within each cycle of
twelve three cycles of four, and we have three-phased beings—
three-phased beings—and there are three cycles of four to
make twelve, and the cycle of four relates to the four forces. But if
there be four forces there are four focalizations of force, four
points of being to provide meaning, direction, control, with
respect to the four forces. And so the four beasts, full of eyes before
and behind and within, each had about him six wings. There are,
then, the pairs of wings relating to the four and twenty elders—the
pairs of wings. Each of the four and twenty has one wing.

The four and twenty elders are round about the Throne. And the
Throne itself has within it the formation of the four beasts, and
there are six wings around each beast, at each corner of the
Throne. There are four groupings, then, of the four and twenty;
and the four and twenty would make the twelve; three pairs of
wings make six; so at four points there are six elders,
making three pairs. Now the significance of all of that you will not
grasp in a moment, but it begins to give you an understanding of
some of the fundamental, basic principles relating to the expression
of the divine into the world of man. But in order for this fulfilment to
take place there must be the manifestation of the fourth beast,
which has the face as of a man, and this fourth beast is the One
Christ Body.

Our Master came into the world to begin the manifestation of that
Body, but He could not remain here to be all by Himself the reality
of that Body. How did He receive the power of God into the world to
do the things which He did? By providing a Body with a face as a
man. That Body, with its face as a man, was called, or is ordinarily
called, Jesus. But that was supposed to be the beginning point for
the formation of a Body with many members. And so this Body of
many members is to be the Body with a face as a man, full of eyes
before and behind and within. The eye is the pattern of perception.

Is the reality of truth, or the Spirit of Truth, limited to one point of

Being? There is the focalization point of Being, the Lord of Truth,
but that spirit works in all beings who yield to truth, who are honest
enough to be true. And so all beings, having eyes within—what eyes
do you have within? The eye of the heart, the eye of the mind.
They all become one eye but there are aspects of these eyes, the
means of perception, of seeing. So individually you have eyes
before and eyes within, and if there is someone standing behind you
in the form, there are eyes behind you too—not that you as an
individual must have a set of eyes grow in the back of your head.
You are not supposed to be the whole thing all by yourself; you are
supposed to be a part of the whole thing. So there are eyes before
and within and behind. And whether we consider it from the
standpoint of the pattern of truth or the pattern of love or the
pattern of life, the same is true.

The patterns of perception. The patterns of perception must be of

great importance, of great use. People take their eyes, their
physical eyes, for granted and often abuse them. But if anyone has
lost the use of the physical eyes there is the realization that, while
one may live a full life in many respects, something important to the
physical organism is gone: the reality of the eyes to see, to
perceive. When we stop to think about it, what priceless treasures
we have in our eyes. And we learn to see the importance of
perceiving, alertness. I mentioned in the earlier class this morning
something about the development of seeing, the development of
alertness, of recognizing that which is to be seen.

“And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him
that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, The four and
twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and
worship him that liveth for ever and ever.”

Now here we begin to see the working of the pattern of response:

The outmoving from the apex of the pyramid out through the base
and into the surrounding pattern is obvious. But there is the One at
the Apex, there are the Four at the Base of the Throne, or of
the pyramid; and when the four beasts are giving response to the
Apex of Deity immediately present in the creative field, then the
four and twenty elders follow suit, and those who are attuned to
the four and twenty elders follow them, and there is the cycle of
response to the Apex of the creative triangle. For if there is a
creative field at the base of the triangle, made up of two triangles,
we also have the four triangles forming the faces, the four faces of
the pyramid, so the pyramid has six triangles. Does not every
pyramid have six triangles? Two in the base; four on the sides. Let
me use a little illustration here. We look at the base first; that is,
looking down upon it. [A diagram was placed here, showing a
double pyramid (i.e. two pyramids with the same base, one upright,
one inverted).]
So we have two triangles; the focalization in the inner vibration, the
focalization in the outer vibration—the lion and the face of the man,
the calf and the eagle. So here we have, looking down upon it, the
base, two triangles in the base making the four, the city
foursquare, the place of abiding. A city is a dwelling place, isn't it?
A dwelling place. So the city is the abiding place for the working of
the things of God. Human beings have thought about the city
foursquare, the new Jerusalem that is to come down from God out
of heaven, simply as some golden streets and some houses, a place
where they are going to go and live after they are dead. But what is
the city? It is an abiding place. “He that dwelleth in the secret place
of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty,” and
the Almighty is at the Apex of the pyramid, always. Wherever we
are in the levels of being, the Apex of the pyramid is, for that which
relates to the pyramid, the Almighty.

Why is the capstone gone from the Great Pyramid of Gizeh?

Because the capstone is invisible, symbolizing something for us—the
invisible capstone. Always the focalization point of a pyramid is, for
that which is focalized, the Almighty. And so that which is contained
within the city foursquare, in the creative fields involved, in the
inner sense and the outer sense, is dwelling in the secret place of
the Most High and abiding under the shadow, the evidence of the
presence, of the Almighty.

The pyramid has its four faces, in the surrounding sense, and the
two triangles in the base, making six. We have in this pattern, then,
the reality of the inner, the reality of the outer, the patterns of
their manifestation and their focalization in that which is higher. And
this provides the focalization for that which is lower; for if we saw
this from the lower level, instead of seeing the apex up here we
would see a similar pyramid projected downward into the lower
levels of being, and then there would be twelve, twelve creative
triangles in the double pyramid, two pyramids having the same
base, one pointing upward, one pointing downward. Now, instead of
just looking at the base of the triangle, you are looking at one side
of the double pyramid. This is the apex of the pyramid, this is the
base of the pyramid, and this is the pyramid pointing downward,
because you can only see it from one side at a time.

There is a great deal in that little city foursquare that you may not

have explored yet. And where are the golden streets, the streets of
love? In the city foursquare? You think they are going to be streets
paved with gold? Paved with love, the streets of love in the city. Are
there streets of love in that city? If it is manifest you will find there
are. And you have to walk the Golden Path, the Golden Path of
what? When I talk about the Golden Path that leads to the Tree of
Life, what do I mean? The Path of Love that leads to the Tree of
Life. And what happens to the Tree of Life? It brings forth twelve
manner of fruits, each in its season, one fruit each month. Twelve
months—back to the twelve.

There are many twelves. You have not found them all yet. But the
twelve, the twelve segments of humanity. Now we begin to see that
there are the four and twenty elders, or the twelve; and the twelve
provides us with the focalization of the twelve segments of
humanity. And twelve has three cycles of four, four relating to the
square, the four forces, or the four that are called beasts, points
of focalization, and that manifests in relationship to each of the
three levels of the Trinity of Being, all of these things being
interrelated. You cannot segregate some part and say, “This I'll take
away, and I'll have something.” It is an integral thing. It must be an
integrated thing to have meaning, all of its parts.

We cannot separate the Lord of Love from the rest and have true
meaning—or the Lord of Truth, or the Lord of Life, or man, the
manifestation of love and truth and life. The first manifestation is
life at the birth of the body, but then we begin to have the evidence
of the spirit of love, and as the pattern of intelligence develops
there is likewise the beginning of the integrity of truth, and the
patterns and designs and control factors begin to manifest. The
babe becomes a child, the child becomes a youth, the youth
becomes a man.

The growth, the development, the unfolding of the things of the

invisible realm into the visible, the revelation of deity through you,
the oneness of heaven and earth, the pleasure of that union, the
reality of the Divine Design, the interchange of all the forces of
Being, oneness. Not something separate and apart, but something
that is a part of the whole. We have to have the whole to have
wholeness. Would you be whole all by yourself? Then you would be
the “allness” and supersede God. You cannot be whole by yourself. I
cannot. The Lord of Love Himself cannot be whole all by Himself. In
order to have wholeness we must have relatedness to the whole,
and the whole is the Cosmic All That Is.
So the patterns of blending, the working of the Law, the secrets of
youth, up and down and round about. When we remember that all
things on earth were made for the pleasure of God, we do not
imagine that He is trying to have pleasure by taking pleasure away
from us. God is wise enough to know that if He is to have pleasure
in us He must give us pleasure, and that is a secret some people on
earth have not yet learned, the secrets of oneness, that we may live
and move and have our Being in the Body of God.
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