John
asked Michael, “Master, what is the Kingdom of Heaven?”
And
Michael responded saying: “The Kingdom of His Sovereignty is comprised in these
three virtues: first, ye must hold recognition of the fact of the Sovereignty
of the Paradise Father; second, ye must believe in the validity and truth of
thine Sonship with the One Father Principle and Infinite Divine Personality;
and lastly, ye must hold that dedicated and devoted faith trust in the efficacy
of the supreme human desire to do the will of the Father — to be as God Is.
And this
is the glory of thine Inheritance in Him; through this Living Ideal and
Everlasting Gospel: that by faith every mortal being may enter into His Eternal
Embrace in order to attain the threefold initiation into His Light Eternal; to
enter the Kingdom of His Sovereignty and the Living Network of His Supremacy
upon the Royal Road of the Immortal Ones.
Our association and divine fellowship is dedicated to this very Precept of Paradise; to become perfected,
even as the Great I AM. Our dedicated mission is to illuminate the divine
highways that lead the individual personality soul unto Spiritual Sovereignty
and the Living Network of Supremacy.
These
are the teachings of the Order of the Spirit of Truth Holy Comforter of Michael
and the Infinite Holy Spirit of the Universe Mother. Our Society is dedicated
to primarily one endeavor, Spiritual Sovereignty and Divine Supremacy for the
Individual Personality Soul.
These
Living Teachings of the Order of Michael at our society stimulate a craving
for Truth and Love of a Higher Order for humanity. Guided by the Spirit of
Truth Holy Comforter and the Holy Spirit of the Mother Flame.
Our activities are a living outpost of the Network of Supremacy
of the Host of Heaven.
Pure
spirituality and pure religion originates in the domain of man’s character and
consciousness, and is revealed in the growth of man’s spiritual insight and
divine perception — that faculty of human personality which accrues as a
consequence of the presence of the God-revealing Spirit of the Father in the
God-hungry mortal mind.
The
Great Law of the Host of Heaven is the understanding of the “I AM”. That each
is an Individualization of the One Supreme God with co-creative power to set
into motion vibratory influences and qualities that will continue to act in the
life of the individual at his command unless offset by the Sacred Fire
activities of the Host.
It is
the way provided by Life to raise the activity of human beings into the next
octave of Life. It is the only way by which individuals can correct the
mistakes of the past and go forward free from them in the future.
It is
the approach the Law of Life provides which enables the individual to give a
balance back to the Universal for his misuse of Life’s energy.
… the
greatest Mercy of Life to It’s creation. It is the grace which Michael teaches
and by which he is quickening His aspirants unto the seamless garment of light.
This is
the Eternal Embrace made possible each day by learning the daily Embracing
Eternity Exercises.
All who
have graduated from the rounds of the flesh have used exactly this same Divine
Application to become the Perfection and Power of Life which they are now
living and breathing in the octaves of pure light and life…Immortality is the
Supreme Goal for each Individualization of the Supreme.
At one
of the evening conferences, Andrew asked Jesus: “Master, are we to practice
self-denial as John taught us, or are we to strive for the self-control of your
teaching? Wherein does your teaching differ from that of John?” Jesus answered:
“John indeed taught you the way of righteousness in accordance with the light
and laws of his fathers, and that was the religion of self-examination and
self-denial. But I come with a new message of self-forgetfulness and
self-control. I show to you the way of life as revealed to me by my Father in
heaven.
“Verily,
verily, I say to you, he who rules his own self is greater than he who captures
a city. Self-mastery is the measure of man’s moral nature and the indicator of
his spiritual development. In the old order you fasted and prayed; as the new
creature of the rebirth of the spirit, you are taught to believe and rejoice.
In the Father’s kingdom you are to become new creatures; old things are to pass
away; behold I show you how all things are to become new. And by your love for
one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from bondage to
liberty, from death into life everlasting.
“By the
old way you seek to suppress, obey, and conform to the rules of living; by the
new way you are first transformed by the Spirit of Truth and thereby
strengthened in your inner soul by the constant spiritual renewing of your
mind, and so are you endowed with the power of the certain and joyous
performance of the gracious, acceptable, and perfect will of God. Forget
not — it is your personal faith in the exceedingly great and precious promises
of God that ensures your becoming partakers of the divine nature. Thus by your
faith and the spirit’s transformation, you become in reality the temples of
God, and his spirit actually dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells
within you, you are no longer bondslaves of the flesh but free and liberated
sons of the spirit. The new law of the spirit endows you with the liberty of
self-mastery in place of the old law of the fear of self-bondage and the
slavery of self-denial.
“Many
times, when you have done evil, you have thought to charge up your acts to the
influence of the evil one when in reality you have but been led astray by your
own natural tendencies. Did not the Prophet Jeremiah long ago tell you that the
human heart is deceitful above all things and sometimes even desperately
wicked? How easy for you to become self-deceived and thereby fall into foolish
fears, divers lusts, enslaving pleasures, malice, envy, and even vengeful
hatred!
“Salvation
is by the regeneration of the spirit and not by the self-righteous deeds of the
flesh. You are justified by faith and fellowshipped by grace, not by fear and
the self-denial of the flesh, albeit the Father’s children who have been born
of the spirit are ever and always masters of the self and all that pertains to
the desires of the flesh. When you know that you are saved by faith, you have
real peace with God. And all who follow in the way of this heavenly peace are
destined to be sanctified to the eternal service of the ever-advancing sons of
the eternal God. Henceforth, it is not a duty but rather your exalted privilege
to cleanse yourselves from all evils of mind and body while you seek for
perfection in the love of God.
“Your
sonship is grounded in faith, and you are to remain unmoved by fear. Your joy
is born of trust in the divine word, and you shall not therefore be led to
doubt the reality of the Father’s love and mercy. It is the very goodness of
God that leads men into true and genuine repentance. Your secret of the mastery
of self is bound up with your faith in the indwelling spirit, which ever works
by love. Even this saving faith you have not of yourselves; it also is the gift
of God. And if you are the children of this living faith, you are no longer the
bond slaves of self but rather the triumphant masters of yourselves, the
liberated sons of God.
“If,
then, my children, you are born of the spirit, you are forever delivered from
the self-conscious bondage of a life of self-denial and watchcare over the
desires of the flesh, and you are translated into the joyous kingdom of the
spirit, whence you spontaneously show forth the fruits of the spirit in your
daily lives; and the fruits of the spirit are the essence of the highest type
of enjoyable and ennobling self-control, even the heights of terrestrial mortal
attainment — true self-mastery.”
The Urantia Papers
