Illumination: The Golden Silence

December 18, 1956

Cleveland, Ohio

The closer we get to God, the more Light moves through, the more radiant our personality until it is a vivid glow. For the Light to move through, we must first in-draw our personal reactions or sensitivity. The five physical senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell) must be indrawn into the Golden Silence to become soul faculties. Our physical senses are supposed to be radar beams of protection from earth vibrations while we enter the Silence. When indrawn, the five senses serve the soul through the five-pointed Oversoul Star, forming rays of sensitivity, called the Rings of Saturn, which protect the physical body and the chakras.

"When you pray, go into your room and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father, who is in the secret place." The whole process of entering the Golden Silence is learning how to ascend to our closet of Light and close the door on the world. Then we can begin high prayer, which consists of praise, prayer and singing.

Through our fingertips we draw in our expression of the five ordinary physical senses but not our radar screen of protection. We draw our attention to create an impersonal life. We become impersonal to the little self, not reacting to praise, blame, or condemnation, which we lift into the Light. If we have really entered the Golden Silence, we have gathered and indrawn our personality and the little self's five physical senses and synthesized them into the great faculty of apperception.

Principle is first Light, then Color, Tone, Number, Name and Form. As we ascend into the Light, Love, Joy, Faith and all other soul faculties become intensified. When we have really learned how to enter the Golden Silence, we then become Humility, a balance of Love and Wisdom emanating as Compassion in the world. This opens the soul faculties of Illumination and Intuition acting as Apperception, which is the ability to perceive a thing before it happens. We must balance Intuition and Illumination, so that they rule our lives when we live in the Golden Silence.

How to Enter the Golden Silence

As we lift our hands (palms inward at the ears), the gesture automatically aligns our chakras, opens lotus centers and sets alight the nerve endings, which whirl like little lights above the head to open the thousand-petaled lotus (the halo shown in old paintings). Apperception comes as the white Light of the Christ through the crown of the head. The world vibration or subconscious composite world mind whirls up through the feet. The world mind swamps us when we are looking out horizontally or down at the negative. Instead of pouring out Compassion, which is Christ-consciousness, many people pour out sympathy that only opens them further to the world mind influx.

Our five-pointed radar radiates to protect us the minute that we draw in the five senses and ascend to draw in pure Mind. The subconscious mind is then so interested in the high pictures it sees that it has no time to pay attention to the world mind.

We can use Imagination only one way at a time. If we want to prepare our mind to read, we move up and imagine ourselves in a cloud garden. Entering our garden is the first step in reaching the Golden Silence. We make subsoul sit there until egoic soul can feel and see this garden through Oversoul's eyes.

We reach with arms of Light and gather all our scattered parts together into one place. Say, "I ascend with my Oversoul, as one, to be absorbed into the Light." See the Golden Light! We cannot follow our Oversoul unless we see the Golden Light. Then we are there as pure Mind. We can use our soul faculties and have no trouble with the subconscious mind. We can read anything we like, and it will be more than mundane, physical words, for we are reading from above.

In our garden, love fills us with a sense of praise for God, which is our first step in high prayer. Enter the Golden Silence on praise, praising God. We go through the silver fields, the rainbow fields and into the Golden Light. "Thank You, Father, that Your Mercy and Light flows forever and ever and are never turned off. God, the Father-Mother, whom I worship and praise, is both Personality and Principle that are unfailing."

In the spirit of praise and exaltation, say: "I arise and go into my Father's house. I stand under His Light which He shares with me from above. I wait upon the great Voice and the great Face always while I work out my salvation through outer attention to details."

Praise starts the whirling action of lifesparks and raises our rate of vibration. Praise expands our Substance under Joy and opens the floodgate of our Star to pour Substance into our molds. Praise opens the inner eye to the beauty surrounding us in our garden. Then we turn our mind to the abstract by visualizing this beauty. At this second step, we are there.

How can anyone who is drained dry of vitality, who is weak, give anything of lifting to the world? How can such prayer be more than beautiful words? We must lift the world by the Light, Life, Glory and Power of God.

Singing is the highest form of praise and rejoicing known to man, and is the second step in high prayer. Singing is one form of rejoicing that takes us from a puerile body into the Power of soul strength. Nothing on earth can resist the Power of a singing soul!

Singing brings high vision and we see the Light so clearly that nothing the world presents can stand before our discerning eye. The walls fall down. The bonds of self fall away. All negativity dissolves and we are free. Nothing bothers or touches a singing heart and soul.

Finally, our soul's song, wordless and wonderful, arises to the Source. Our fervency, love of God, praise, singing and music open Heaven's Door. Someday the world will learn to enter the Golden Silence on music. Each soul will sing a new song, play an instrument and make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

When we have reached our garden and begin your visualization of beauty and praising, our radar screen is sending its rays of sensitivity and protection. Then we go over our lines of Light to everyone we have contacted, beginning with our family and worst favorites, the ones who need us most!

The Master came to save the sinners and transgressors, not the righteous. Blame, criticism and condemnation are curses, words numbered and named with your rate of vibration, which create after their degree and kind.

Our worst favorites are our own "sinners" to save first. All we can do for them is to put them on a cloud of Light and speak the word for their healing. The Power does the work.

We cannot make the Power do anything for anyone, yet we cannot save the sinners we abandon in a dark alley. We need not love their sin, but we must love them into Light. We need not love the ugly things people do but we certainly cannot afford condemnation and blame. We cannot make anyone change, be better, be what we want them to be or think they should be.

All we can do is sit in our garden and see them on a cloud filled with Light from Above. We see them as pure souls, perfect in the Light, perfect before God. When we have held them there long enough, when we have loved God enough, they are healed.

We are privileged to sit in our garden in the Golden Silence and lift everyone we know. When we devote ourselves to this Golden Silence, we begin to receive calls from all the people on our lines of Light who need prayer.

After we ascend to our garden, thank the Father and praise Him, we look up and "wait upon the Lord," which is how we attain seership and prophecy. This brings an ecstasy of soul that we can achieve in no other way. We just meet life from our garden.

At first it is the living room, bedroom or wherever we pray and our consciousness of our garden may seem a bit unreal. Gradually, as our garden becomes more real, a little more of us stays there each time we ascend.

We begin to deal with everything that comes to us while we are still seated in our garden, which turns our faculty of imagination up instead of down, out into the world. We remain in our garden to study because this turns Imagination toward Divine Mind, and this garden we are creating is the Source of Divine Mind.

Our success in entering the Golden Silence depends on our ability to turn our faculty of Imagination up to the Source of our strength. The Power we invoke in prayer for the millions moves through our body as strength.

When we return to outer consciousness, we do not descend from our garden. We remain in that High Place and turn our attention to the outer. Remain in contact with God, knowing that Power is using us. Eventually, we live in our garden, and reach out to wrap arms of Light around everyone and everything. This is God-consciousness, cosmic Christed consciousness.

Every hour's investment increases the flow of soul substance from our Star and insures against lost time and effort in holding our gains. So we spread the Wings of our Soul and rejoice!

The Love of God becomes the Law of our life. We are no longer conscious of a need to love. We love. Love becomes a flame and a fire, a glory to us. Even as the Seraphim and the Cherubim lift their wings above their heads when at rest, so do we lift our Wings of Joy until their tips touch above our head. We bow in reverence before High Altars to pray.

Now we are ready to arise, spread our wings to soar into an ever higher Golden Silence, where even greater than comprehension is the Power of becoming One with God.

"This is now become my hour of fulfillment, for I have declared my Heaven and my earth good and very good!"

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