Discourse 9 — Soul Development
The Wastena Retreat, Volume One — The Fourth Dimensional Discipleship
Discourse
No. 9
Soul Development
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Scripture Reading: ‘Paul's lst letter to Corinth, to the early church.
Sarramya: We are still receiving instructions through the Christnature in us, and are told to hold steadfast and true, to keep our faith and be watchers for that which is now very soon to appear. So many have’ made the mistake of believing that they humanly would be righteous, make themselves perfect Christians in the change over, ready to meet their Lord. It is only his righteousnesa that shall make us whole, ‘and in the human effort we cannot do this. We consciously cooperate, begin to let the soul take dominion, to quiet our minds and emotions and control that which is disorderly. Then the desire of the heart opens the door and draws us closer. .
We have to stop depending upon the efficiency of our own human efforts to make us spiritual. We desire the spiritual, keeping our eyes on the goal, remembering that it is only the Christ-nature within that shall be molded by the Spirit, make us ready for the change in the twinkling ofian eyes That which God has raised up without hands, that which the Spirit has been working on will be ready when ‘we least suspect it. Our focus must remain on the fulfillment of that goal, and our faith remain’strong in the Spirit that will bring it about. We give consent ‘and move/in that direction and we manifest love in all that we do, but it is the Father that doeth the works through us.° As we stop
@ resisting, realization comes and then this will take place more quickly.
The main portion is‘being done'without our knowing the details, the ways and means. As the divine host comes in the clouds around the planet and tune. “in with those who have receptive hearts, then the angels can work with that consent given. They know the Father's plan and are working with it.» We give consent and say, "Even so, let it be done unto us, let Thy kingdom come quickly, even if it means the falling-away of things we have become accustomed to, even things that we may like.” We must release them, let them go; be not as earthbound spirits but be ready to rise and follow our Lord, giving up everything we have on Earth that he might» showius a better way, Then as our attitudes and hearts change, we come’closer into: line with this, closer into alignment with his will.
This has been the primary reason for saying that many on Earth should hurry because’ the time.is short. We are to hurry to move into the attitude of a changed heart; not hurry with our human wills to, make something so. Many in metaphysical work have mistaken this and used the human to assert and to will it so. You can have almost. anything you want that. way. But what are the motives, and whose will is it? These are the two things to keep uppermost in our minds as we go’about any work that ve might call “spiritual. Is it for selfimportance?. Do we deceive ourselves by thinking that only we can do it?
The Spirit works: through many. The Father doeth the works; we move into position, we move into the attitude of the transformed heart with, pure motives. We acquiesce and allow the Father to finish the Christ-nature in us, bringing it into that perfected: being ready for immortal life. We give over our wills that His willbe done in us. This brings a more relaxed physical being who is more cooperative to work with as the Spirit moves through--a mind relaxed,
Page 100Neb from tension. The body, the health, everything is improved when the uman will stops pushing and the divine will moves through without interference. Then comes a spiritual poise within the being, an attitude of love, of patience. Many reach it at times. The difficult part is to have it established in our hearts so that we desire to sustain it and be that attitudes; not humanly, forcing Something, not wilfully and stubbornly pushing something to prove we can do it.
; We must maintain an attitude of surrender and the only One of all Creation that we should surrender to is God, the Creator, that He finish His creation, that He bring forth the perfect beings from the seeds that He planted long ago. “Be ye perfect, even as your Father in ileaven is perfect." We become that through our deep inner desire for the Father to perfect that which He began. We get the human will out of the way to allow Him to do this. It may seem difficult at first, yet it is not so very difficult once we have grasped the key of relaxing, of being quiet within, putting down self. Know that the Spirit moves through without our doing anything but. opening our hearts in love and desire.
As we become infilled, the Spirit shall raise us up and we shall walk in His light and love, functioning as physical beings but allowing, the Christ nature to move through. We. must practice this, experience this in our own higher natures. Our higher self is the Christ nature, begotten of the Father, which is to-be raised up into a perfect state of being. The Creator is sending forth His spirit to accomplish this, that His plan may be fulfilled. These are the things that we know when we are still and centered around the God-center. We must be still and know that we are, that we are alive, that we are Spirit of God, that that Spirit expands within us just as the breath when we breathe in: and out. This is the spirit of God breathing in us. Promptings come that we recognize as coming from the divine nature, once we have surrendered the human will.
Divine nature prompts; human nature pushes. When we begin to feel the difference, we take action from the promptings that come from the heart, rather than the compulsions that come from the human, It is as the difference between a crude way of doing things--the’ human way--or the ‘refined way--the gentle way of the Spirit. Now there are times when it comes like a mighty rushing wind over the world or: a tide, but that which comes into the heart of one given over to the Spirit is through his free choice, and even the angels in Heaven do not impose on the free will of man, do not forces But when invited, when welcomed, they assist and minister unto the children of God--of Light, those composed of Light.
Those of darkness influence many on Earth who could be of Light if they held true to their course, but they prefer to move with those in darkness. There is actual choice to this effect. It is hard for you to realize this, for that is not within you. While you yet have traces of a human nature that would be deceiving, you still do not have those motives, and when the power of the Spirit moves thragh you as a baptism of the Holy Spirit, as it were, this cleanses and sends forth those motives. There still is danger of deception within you, but as you give consent that your human will stay out of the way, the soul is given authority and it takes dominion, in a different mamer. Then there is a certain control that helps you to keep out negative thoughts, but this is done ina relaxed state, not with tension. As we aim toward this goal, we each become this. ae We keep our eyes focused on the goal and move into it, becoming that, but if we constantly focus on negative things and the things that we are trying to drive ourselves to give up, the more we'will desire them; just as focusing on the symptoms of an illness will give it added power and build greater symptomse We look at them long enough to recognize that they are out of order, and then see the light flooding over it instead. Rather than dwelling on the pain or the symptom we dwell on the improvement or the healing of the life-giving
Page 101forces--the spiritual nature at work--and on the porfeotion of the Christ within Use
Whatever we look upon we are magnifying, because we have light energies in the atoms of the Divine within each of us. We send them through to the point upon which we focus and this adds power to it. So when we look upon anything, we must be sure it is that which we desire to build or magnify. If we look at it long enough, we are drawn into it and become part of it, so we must be sure this is truly our choice.
Move out into that which you focus upon. Dwell on the Christ-nature within you; look at that and you shall not be so apt to see your stumbling steps. You cannot correct your stumbling by looking at your feet. Forget self. Look at the Christ-nature that came forth in Jesus, and remember his promise that it was to come forth in you. Look for that and realize your true identity, identify with it and know that this is your individual nature raised up into the Christ nature by the Father. Then somewhere along the way your stumbling will go, where or when you will not know, but it does not matter. Forget self and you shall move into the true, divine self; look at self, pick self apart, condemn self and you are still with self. Be not so conscious of self but be conscious of that divine self which is being raised up. This is no credit to you except that you have chosen, you have acquiesced. Give glory unto the Father that this is being done in spite of your human selves which are not yet completely removed. Consciously give you may be
) thanks for this and trust that God will accomplish this no matter how difficult
There is our faith. Certainly we cannot put faith in our getting it done. We travel on as we consciously understand this, and are steadfast in purpose, reaching for that goal, choosing to go the way of the Lord. Then the Spirit is working with us constantly. We look away from ourselves and give thanks daily for that which has been builded within us--an immortal temple containing God-power, God-light and energies--with conscious control to move with it as we are shown. In an attitude of surrender we allow tho divine will and the divine nature to be worked with.
This is our‘change of heart--that we no longer try to tell God what to do or try humanly to make ourselves perfect, but give up in human will and allow the Divine Will that has the strength and the power to make us perfect beings like unto our Father--the perfect fulfillment of the seed sent forth. We are flowers growing in God's flower garden and will be completed. We are moving toward attainment and must continue in this. This is given unto us.
Beloveds, that was Sarramya speaking. We desired her soul to speak directly to your hearts. ie are attuned with her and we are attuned to you, for as you come together there is a bond bringing all into one spirit, one mind, one voice. We are in the mother ship far above you, and yet we have union with your souls.
Many of us are together as one, sending forth the ray of energy into your midst, and many are the various ships which come into the atmosphere of your planet. In this one that you call the "mother ship" you might be interested in knowing that it is of great length and is what you have called the “cigarshaped ship" or the "cylinder". It is almost equal to a space platform, for, it remains stationary for months at a time and we use it in this manner. It would be as though you had an immense mobile home that you would carry with you to the place you desired to work, where you would set it up as your home for some time +o come, whether it be months or years, and then moved on to another area. This is done by some of the immense-sized ships.
We have control rooms of equipment, some set up as laboratories. Some of these rooms are those to which the soul takes flight in its visitation to
Page 102the ship. There it is worked with and helped in the revitalizing of the onergios of the cells of its etheric body. Others are for communication purposes» We have many screens, even as you have television. We speak of it as "univision", for we have vision over much of the universe. There are points we can move to by thought projection or teleportation which requires a different use of the energies, or if we desire to foous upon a certain point we cen bring it to our screens of vision. Woe also have large instruments comparable to some of your great teleScopes, which not only wil! move through heavenly realms ‘but can be aimed toward Particular points of Earth, or can penetrate the waters to the bottoms of your oceans or into the interior of the Earth.
We have instruments that measure your underground testings of nuclear energy and we measure the energies and the upset of the Earth's interior as these occure Or as some of your greater earthquakes occur we have measurements indicating how.severoly the Earth has been upset. There are times when we act quickly to try to counteract that which would have a tendency to cause upset before due season for certain things. Many times we work as the radiation, the radioactivity, as you call it, travels across areas of your planet. We dissipate this as we can, but working with that of third dimension we have to cope with certain limitations of the third dimension until it is all raised up. It is as though we were living at times in duel dimensions, for we enter in your dimension for a purpose.
But we can do far greater work when we remain in the higher areas beyond your atmosphere. It would be as though your planes that travel high in your skies find it expedient to by-pass the thunder storms, and difficulties in your atmosphere and for a time they will come down thrmgh the clouds, storm or fog for certain purposes. So it is that we, at times, draw closer unto your surface for certain purposes. Usually we send out smaller vessels. You have aircraft carriers that carry many planes which go forth and come back unto them. So we have ships built for this purpose that contain those that can be sent out more or less as scouts, or to measure, or to come closer that you might receive helpe
: There are so many purposes to our work, and yet all waiting for that event of great purpose, when the call comes for all to be in readiness. When that obvious intervention takes place, all else stops and then moves together for the purpose of providing the "divine air lift", as we have called it. When the children of Israel needed food in the wilderness, the "manna from heaven" was sent forth from celestial ships under direction of the Lord of Earth, guiding or leading many to certain points. The celestial ships went forth and the children of Israel were led by the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.. They did not know how to describe these great intensities of light that came forth from energies.
Man will some day learn more of free energy, how to make use of it when he is using it in God's purpose: how to overcome gravity's pull toward the Earth, how to be free in the soul. Then he can learn the spiritual laws just as he has learned certain laws governing water when he is within this, or laws of the air that he has learned which govern the flight of planes and gliders. And the soul body does not let gravity interfere with its flight, only the law that calls for it to return unto the physical body with its connecting silver cord that is part of the plan at this time. Just, as a great rubber band might stretch, so does the cord extend just so far and no farther and the soul knows when to return. The soul is like the embryo within the womb, attached to the physical body.
s When man gives up his will and allows the soul to take over and function in that house in which it lives--that temple, that physical body--then
Page 103it becomes spiritualized ami changed, but it cannot be. As long as it clings fast to world patterns. The butterfly could not fly away in freedom if it held to the last portion of the cocoon. The caterpillar would feel: more, secure to be in the Cocoon and remain the caterpillar. You might fool momentarily more secure in holding onto that with which you have grown familiar--the things of Earth--your Jobs, money, the stock market, real estate or your towns. You are afraid to changes These things have not been security at all. You have been deceiving yourselves, and they will fail until at last’ each of you must turn to God for security. }
Those who dare +o trust’in the unseen and turn loose of that which is of the temporal world’ shall receive great blessings, for they are trusting before they see the evidence and they shall: be raised up in God's perfect security. So begin to take the attitude of turning loose. of the cocoon. “Do not hold back the beautiful butterfly, the soul, from flying into its’ freedom and into the realization of its' spiritual body incorruptible. If your attitude: and motives are pure you shall come into this realization. God does not fail in that which He brings forth. Therein is your security.
Be reassured, Ve can also reassure you by seeing within your hearts. lie see that you are making this) change, that you are being transformed, possibly by degrees but at the same time your desires are in that direction, your sincerity is true. We see this, we know it, therefore we faithfully work with you. You have made great progress, not of yourself but of your desires that you permit the Spirit to progress through you. Progress is being made, you: are feeling the change and at times you marvel at this. You are not as you were before. Give God the glory! You have the desire, you are opening, surrender ing to Him; His spirit is making it so.
Thank the Father constantly and glorify His name by being the expression of that which He is. He.is love, therefore the eternal part of you is love. When you let that love shine through you, you are giving consent for God to manifest through you to whatever the degree. This is humbling yourself before Him. It takes away the boastful nature and it brings the humble and contrite heart before its God. The Creator brought forth and the seventh day He rested. This°was symbolic of your allowing that which had been'sent forth in you to rest, just as you would plant seed and rest, knowing the rain and the sunshine would nurture and bring forth, and you would rejoice as the plant came through the ground. He rejoices’as the Spirit: brings the increas and He sees it unfolding. God-power--that raised up in the temple by your consent--then comes into flower and you are the flowers in God's garden cf Life, eternal flowers of beauty with everlasting life. 288
There shall not be the aging or the deteriorating, the sorrowing or grieving, for it. will be: in the natural element of Spirit and these things take place only in that which is corruptible. As: you leave the third dimension and enter more consciously into the fourth’ dimension, you are climbing up into the incorruptible state in which deterioration does not take place. This is the mercy of God.Who sends forth His Spirit to accomplish this. When you become weak and put down your will, His will raises up that spirit: ani continues on. His strength is in you and lifts you out.
These things must permeate your beings» When they become fast in you then you will be thankful for the repetition, that they move deeper and deeper into your beings until finally they are in the nucleus of each cell. You have taken it unto your divine natures, your divine selves. You are filled with light, wisdom, love and power of God--the plan of God--and understanding fills your being. Then you move together as one body. So the power of God moves through His creation to raise it up to the place of perfection which oxists in His idea
Page 104for spiritual man. Do not any longer. settle for substitutes or counterfeits. Your desire is raising you up into the genuine spirit of God. Ye are receptive souls, extremely 806 You have come to the place where you open yourselves as sponges, that you be filled with God's love and light and understanding. You have been willing to put down your mortal minds that would : curiously reach out to grasp, and you are letting your souls open to receive by the natural process of the spirits We congratulate you. You have come toa place of easier receptivity. As your spiritual centers open and as you are Wei receptive, you expand and your capacity is inoreasede The more that you are ib filled with God's love the greater shall be your understanding, your patience wisdom, and more of the plan shall be revealed to your souls in the light. : You light the way before others as long as you remain in the sciousness of your divine natures. In that attitude and with practice you develop discernment as you move through each day, and your physical bodies shall ae improvement from the influence of the spiritual nature as it is uppermost Bou are growing even now, hour by hour, as. we send forth, sentence by sentence, in the voice vibrations which penetrate the cells of your etheric being. It is a stretching and expanding, a feeding and growing taking place; we renew the energies in you.every so often until you reach the place where you can draw on the Source of all Life in the way in which a soul can constantly be renewed» “You are learning to wmderstand that which is taking place within you. You are obedient souls, to the best of your understanding. Pray for greater understanding, and obey your Lord as he shows you each step of the way. Have : patience when this seems to come slowly, for you must learn to handle nn ee You are very definitely showing progress and growth and have gone past the poi of any doubt as to whether you will serve in the Kingdom. You are chrcptere being worked with toward this purpose. You are already allowing light an tee to shine through you and this will increases When the change takes Feceaiar other body manifest through and this one be lost in the expansion of the othere be well. gametes eee shall be of the same groups working together in the Kingdom .That is one reason for particular ones being gathered together in a network, as we have spoken of it, between light centers. As you learn to come a eget ars A are being prepared for work in His kingdom which is more to the Brees, ‘ or whe wyou are doing now, but you are obeying in the preparation. It has already been ordained that you, as souls, will know one another and serve near to one = a in the Kingdom of Spirit. You have known each other before and are being mone together now in training, and you will mow one another then. One spidey sah one flock, one group consciousness, coming from all over'e That has been how the prompting of the Spirit developed hee sa pr of pacreeerry (ee aoe cee Now you are being developed for a greate ° . you did not know one another, in the physical sense, and yet cee eaahs ee together in other incarnations, have followed the same purp 0806 ou have w He ngly obeyed and put down the human self to the extent that you could come together, eifless at times. Much you have learned, and you will learn more Thus you want adequate instruments, to be devélopeds God shall draw others into this with you until you become a living, breathing, functioning organism in the pepe body--a unit of souls, come eee as one--transcending differences, distance i rp0SGe ah aa or uiastbeasore: te His flage You are one in the great army of the Lord of Earth. You: bear His name. and. vibration well. Thanks be unto God + are being raised up in this His Name and vibration of consciousness-biel Bh blishes His Name. You could not reach it that frequency of light which esta shes s 7 : without true motives in your hearts lifting you into that of His) name and natures
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Page 105Go forth and His purpose shall move through you. Be conscious of your oneness with the Christ nature begotten in you, one with the Father. The Father shall do even greater works through you as you are raised up to glorify His Name, His expression of high consciousness of Life. This is the meaning of the Name and number, the rate of vibration, the frequency of light in which you move and moves through you and the manner of its expression. ;
We shall be with you throughout the days of the change-over» We are assigned to you because of your willingness and the motives of your hearts, desiring the will of your Father. We shall move together as ones Bless you. May that hope and peace come into your being as you synchronize in His will. Our love is with you--one in the great Christ love of the Father. Selah.
So be it! Many of us are joined with you. Know our attunement as well as you know the voice through the voicebox. Through our channel and the attunement of her soul going forth unto the higher frequencies are we enabled to join in that with you. Always one going before another, one giving up that the other may have. You will give up that others coming after you may receive. A sacrificial climbing. Peace will come unto you, for you are giving up one life to receive the eternal. Bless you. Selah.