The Inner Life

ALL STUDENTS of the Inner Life, and all followers of Jesus Christ, realize that the “end of the days” is drawing nigh. They see on all sides clear evidence that the close of a World Age is at hand. Jesus’ mission on earth two thousand years ago, announced the Father’s invitation to His Children to return and inherit the Kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world. The road of return was described and made plain. The way was actually trodden in the daily life of Him who has been named the Wayshower. The process which each man must pass through in his own being before he earns the white robes of the redeemed, was lived out as a pattern by the Elder Brother of the human race, even unto His surrender and His death on the Cross.

Since then that invitation has lain open before men for their acceptance or rejection. Churches of all faiths have preached and exhorted. Creeds have taught and expounded. Great movements have sprung up, revealing to man how he may enter into the liberty of the Sons of God; how he may win to the full use of his God-given powers. Great progress has been made. Countless thousands have listened and obeyed. They have learned how to control their lives to better issues. How to heal and help their fellowman, physically, morally and mentally. A new instrument of power is in their hands.

But the day of the open invitation is over. Mankind stands individually and collectively in the place of judgment. The invitation is withdrawn. The day of accounting is here. Many of Jesus’ parables indicated plainly that the time would come when the door to the Wedding Feast would be closed.

In the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, the present times are graphically and symbolically depicted in the King’s Chamber, and in the Place of the Right Hand Turn. Throughout the long ages of man’s development, there have always been those who took advancing steps ahead of their fellows. Such progress has always been won as a direct result of a full use of every opportunity presented for self-sacrifice and obedience. Many of those devoted Souls have already passed through the place of judgment, and having “washed their robes,” or bodies of manifestation, “clean,” have ascended to the place of dominion and true service. For such, whether that ascension has been made in the days of this present, or of past lives, there is quite manifestly, no time or season set for such attainment. No date or scale of measurement can ever determine, limit or foretell the moment when such as they shall see their God Face to Face.

Today, however, the Race, as a whole, is cosmically and chronologically in the Hall of Judgment. And as having their place in the body of the whole, each Student, no matter where he individually stands, is also in the place of that accounting. For mankind has now reached that level of consciousness where it is possible for it, or for a large number at least of those making up the whole, to rise to Soul Consciousness. The day of that attainment is here. The Good News of the Kingdom having been declared in every land and in every tongue, the Scales are now set up in the Judgment Hall wherewith to weigh and measure what each has done with the invitation of the Heavenly King.

Who have entered the straight and narrow way that leadeth unto life? Who have loitered by the way? And who are those who have chosen the broad road of the development, attainment and indulgence of self that leadeth to destruction?

To those with eyes to see, all manner of hidden things are now being made manifest in their own hearts and lives. This is seen to be true also nationally and racially. Swiftly, age-long secrets of good and of evil are being laid bare. Pretence serves no longer. Disguise is useless.

A growing urgency is evident in the mind of the man of the world, as in the heart of the Disciple. An increasing awareness of immediacy is present everywhere. What is it necessary now to do? The answer is simple: “CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL SERVE.” It is a challenge that must be faced individually and immediately. And the only safe reply is: “AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD.”

The very ripeness of the times is in our favor. Mankind has reached a point where intuition and a Soul-awareness are very active, even in those who do not recognize the nature of this extra sense now awakening within them.

We have but to recognize the God-Self within us. We have but to believe in, turn to, trust in, and ever depend upon the Spirit within us. “Lo I AM with thee always.” We must make a profound obedience to the Divine within our own being. Daily, hourly, momently surrender all consciousness of dependence on, or love of, the separate outer self of the personality, and in its place set up on the throne of our minds and hearts the One Altogether Lovely.

We have long served the “other gods” who reign by reason of the confusion of the outer world of sense and time and space. But in our own Kingdom Within, standeth God within the shadows keeping watch above His Own. Let us from today on, ever PRACTICE THE PRESENCE OF GOD. Let us serve our God in the Holy Temple of our own Being. So may we today take the Right Hand Turn assuredly and safely, and enter into the Joy of our Lord. CHOOSE YE!

KEEP, therefore, WITHIN the CENTRE And STIR NOT FROM the PRESENCE of GOD REVEALED within thy SOUL.—Jacob Boehme.

OWING to many questions arising regarding current interpretations of Pyramid measurements, especially those relating to the King’s Chamber, we are glad to publish the following article sent in by an earnest student.

On the subject of Pyramid calculations, we have always advised our readers not to accept as final any authority, whether spoken or written. On a matter of such importance referring closely to the spiritual status of the individual each must get his own illumination.

On page 18 will be found a notice of some recent books on the Pyramid, of special value at this time.—The EDITOR.

Great interest is manifested at present in the Pyramid, in the measurements of the King’s Chamber, and in particular in those relating to the Right Hand Turn. There is also some controversy as to changes made by some authorities in the calculations of the measurement of time after September 16, 1936. One authority has advanced the date of March 4, 1945, to October 1938, explaining that this is due to the shortening of the Days promised by Our Lord, if the people should turn to Him. This date is given as the moment of the Right Hand Turn towards the Open Tomb.

Just what each may believe the Lord meant by the shortening of the days, will fix the date for them. If the Lord meant that He would not require all the days, as we commonly reckon a day, then the October date may be correct. But if the Lord meant the speeding up of the rotation of the earth on its axis, by which to shorten the twenty-four hours, as some authorities claim, then the date of March 4, 1945 may be correct. This must, however, remain speculation, until events unfold, or each one receives for himself an inward corroboration.

Many believe the length of the days of this generation has been gradually and imperceptibly shortened, causing universal haste and excitement in the rush to accomplish all that requires attention. But whether the days have been made shorter or some have been eliminated, is not of paramount importance just now. Humanity from the sluggard to the most exalted, feel the premonition of impending upheaval and change.

The writer has never believed that all humanity entered the King’s Chamber on September 16, 1936. For there are two races of people on earth today. One is composed of the Sons of God—joint heirs to the Kingdom, true and spiritual Children of Israel. It is this Body of Christ who entered the King’s Chamber on September 16, 1936. These Sons of God with Jesus as Their Head or “Apex,” came to earth to enter its darkness as Redeemers They entered human consciousness for one purpose—to bring Light into earth consciousness. The Bible tells us that some partially, some wholly forgot Their Divine Mission. On September 16, 1936 began the recalling to the memory of the Sons of God, “Who They are, and of What They are a Part.”

The other race of humanity is composed of sons of earth—who are not yet Sons of God at this time. They came to this earth for the purpose of partaking of all the pleasure and pain of materiality for the necessary experience therein. The Sons of God and sons of earth are as widely separated as are Heaven and hell, or as are symbolically, the Ascending and Descending Passages in the Pyramid. The sons of earth are now as deep in the pit of matter as inversely are the Sons of God exalted in Spirit.

All is Consciousness! The Pyramid is a symbol of humanity or the One Man, wherein is recorded the states of his consciousness. Monumental and invaluable as is this Bible in Stone, to man as a history of himself, it is not a requisite to those who know their own Christ within. Many Impersonal students realize that they were far on the Path before the Pyramid came to their attention.

In the King’s Chamber is typified the Secret Place of the Most High: The Open Tomb: All are symbols of states of Consciousness. The Chamber Itself is the Father’s Consciousness. The Armageddon Climax, the Rapture, the Second Advent, and the Judgment of the Nations—every one of these events are states of consciousness.

Who knows but your own God Self when these events will come about for you? Are there not those here today who have ceased judgment of others, knowing that they but judged themselves? Are there not perhaps those also who have already stood before the open tomb as a Christ?

The entrance into the King’s Chamber marks the ending of Time! There is only one word to be remembered by those who have entered the Kingdom and that word is . . . “WATCH!”