1I AM KNOWN
DAY TWO
What stands before you today, by way of opportunity, is a new agreement to be, to simply be, to allow being to be the presence of your soul in its expression here. Now, the desire to do and achieve is understandable, yes, admirable sometimes, but you forget who you are in your striving, in your desires to achieve. When you allow yourself to be, at the simplest level of being—“I Am”—you actually are in agreement to all that is possible. You design a future, a template for what can be, and you try to sort through every possibility to make this thing so. Instead, what we suggest is that you move to allowance, to the state of being, in the Upper Room, where all is met by you in agreement to its Source.
Now, understand what this means. Again, there is one note sung that is in expression as all manifestation, seen and unseen. When you truly understand what this means as a principle, you align to it in the awareness that any true need will be met by Source, as you are in Source and not separate from Source. The design that you have been utilizing—“perhaps there is a God somewhere up there, perhaps I am stuck down here forever, I must do my best to climb or beseech or pray for what I need to come into manifestation”—prayer, if you wish to know, is agreement to Source, yes. But if your prayers are fearful—“Please, God, give me what I need, I need it so badly”—you are confirming lack, and agreeing to lack, because Source, you must understand, is present in all things, even your idea of lack.
We will explain this for Paul, who is questioning. As you are creators, yes, you hold principles that are agreed to by the frequency that you claim to you. “There will not be enough,” a claim of scarcity, will of course be met by you because that is something you may choose to experience—or, better said, expect to experience. When something is an expectation, it is framed as a potential, and the purpose of the frame is to claim the thing into manifestation. Now, you are not thinking your way to heaven. You are not pretending there is enough when the table is bare. You are moving to a level of alignment, and manifestation, we would suggest, where your requirements are met by presence and being.
The idealization of things has become a great problem here. “I want a candelabra. It must fit on the table as such, and the candles must be beeswax or nothing other. Thank you, my order is in.” You’ve looked at God as a catalog that you must be ordering from, instead of understanding that the perfect table is laid for you by your agreement to God or Source or the one note sung. When you understand that tone, alignment in tone and agreement in tone, is the action you are taking now, you will put away the ideas of what should be, and allow what can be and what will be to be made present for you.
Manifestation is understood as getting what you want, and that is confusing for most of you. In fact, manifestation is all things, are all things, all in form, seen and unseen. The chair you sit in, the air you breathe, the sky and the clouds and what exists beyond them, are all manifestations of the Divine. One is not higher than the other. The one note sung depicts itself as frequency, and the frequency in a solidified state, or what appears solid, is what you would call manifest. The chair is of God, the sky is of God, the cloud is of God, and all other things are of God as well.
Your decision that what must be of God must look a certain way, meet a certain expectation, is the point of confusion you hold. “I would love to marry a man who has so much money, looks a certain way, wants what I want, prays as I pray, and chooses what I would want him to choose.” That is not how love is found, nor even how a mate is fully met. When you are openhearted, “I am willing to receive,” when you are willing to know yourself as worthy of what you desire, “I am agreeing to love,” love will find you, yes, because it is you that is present for it. Please stop seeking and begin allowing. You are not allowing God to be God because you are so busy telling God what it should be. And when you don’t get what you want, you deny God completely. The world that you express in is in denial of the Divine. How do we know this is so? For quite obvious reasons. All of the creations you have made that are operating as limited, are chosen by you through fear—and indeed this would include war, include poverty, include famine—are creations born in the denial of the Divine, and they are your creations.
“How is that so?” he asks. When you decide where God is not, you embellish that idea, you concretize that idea, and you abandon God to that idea. You have made that idea, made manifest, a totem or an idol, a thing that you place before God. “God cannot be in that dark place.” In your limitation of God, you have empowered that dark place, and your choice to deny God, an act of will, is in agreement to itself and is out-pictured in consciousness and manifest. If you don’t understand what we mean, you must understand that you have will. You may choose to see God, choose to limit God, or choose to deny God, and that will become your experience. What you don’t understand yet is how you contribute to the manifest world through those things. When one denies the Divine in herself, she has immediately denied the Divine in all things. If God cannot be where you are, it cannot be anywhere.
Now, you are not summoning God, making God be where you want it. God is actually already there, but is being denied by you, and that becomes the manifest experience. When one says, “I have a right to know, I have a right to be, I have a right to know myself as worthy,” perhaps the door will open. But then you use will to step through: “I am in the Upper Room”—again, a claim of truth. It is the aspect of the Divine as you that resides in the Upper Room and will claim fully each aspect of self there that is in agreement to it.
When we teach through Paul, we monitor his system so that the dictation may ensue perfectly. When we teach today, we have an intention to lift the room, to lift the teaching, to lift the comprehension of the teaching beyond a kind of bias that most of you hold to what should be—your expectations and desires about how God should manifest to appease the small self’s desire for a God that gives it what it wants. God is present as all things. The teaching of the Upper Room, the teaching of reception, is of course a teaching of manifestation—but manifestation through being, not getting, through alignment and reception, not stamping one’s feet and shaking one’s fist to the sky. “I demand what I get be as I say.” If any of you got what you truly thought you needed, you might be grateful for it. But instead you find yourself disappointed because you are not receiving what you wish, what you have designed, and what you thought was so.
Paul interrupts. “There are many teachings of manifestation that say we should outline what we get.” You may outline all you wish. Perhaps you will get the kitten with the long whiskers that you have asked for, but perhaps the pony would be a better gift for you. Don’t preclude the pony because the kitten is what you think you need. You don’t trust the Divine enough to allow it to know you. And you must understand this. You assume the Divine does not know you, does not know your heart’s desire, and does not wish what you wish. So you confuse yourself in writing long lists of gets and shoulds and must-haves that you wave to the sky and say, “This is my list. Thank you, Santa Claus. I will go back to my business now of getting what I want.”
When one knows who she is, she knows herself in agreement, in consort, with her true nature. Her true nature, his true nature, is of Source, because it cannot be other. When we say you can’t make yourself holy, we are speaking to this principle. You are already of God. You have just denied it. And in this denial, you have created systems to manifest what you think you should have. But you don’t understand. Your entire life, the collective world you experience, is also a manifestation of consciousness, born in expectation, claimed by desire, and through the agreement to the denial of the Divine.
A world without God is a world that operates as separate. This is not a world that requires religion. Religion can be useful as a doorway or path for some. All religions hold great truth and have been distorted through misuse of the teachings, embellishment of truth by those who would seek power—and, if useful now, are primarily useful as a doorway or permission to have a relationship with Source. But a relationship with Source is an ongoing relationship. It is not prescribed by dictate, mandate, or law. Any relationship will alter as it matures, will deepen as it grows, and your relationship with Source must be predicated on a belief and an agreement that God, or whatever you wish to call God, knows who you are—that you are not operating as a shipwreck survivor, floating on a log in the ocean, seeking God. God is the log. God is the ocean. God is the experience of all. You are always in God because you cannot not be.
Now, the choice to agree to this comes with an action. The choice to agree is a claim itself. And the claim we have offered you—“I am in the Upper Room”—is a claim made by the Monad, in agreement to will, to support the Divine expressed as the one claiming it. What this means is the choice to align—an act of will, if you wish to say it that way—is your contribution. Imagine you go to a friend’s house for dinner and you knock on the table and say, “Where is the beef bourguignon, and where is the pastry I asked for?” You go to your friend’s house for dinner and are grateful for what is served. What is served in the Upper Room is always in agreement to your true needs.
Many of you come from a system born in separation, lack, and fear, which supports a belief that there cannot be enough, or God would wish you to have a crumb when the one beside you gets the entire piece of cake. You limit God, because the God that you have claimed has been limited by you, in expectation, through prior conditioning and belief. To know the self as worthy of All That Is must require that you know the one beside you to be. You are not the gift of the Kingdom. The gift of the Kingdom is being and presence—and come as you, perhaps, come as who you think you are, but expressing beyond the limitations that personality would choose to know itself through.
All are worthy, you see, or no one is worthy. And the one you put in darkness will call you to that darkness, have tea in the darkness with you, until you decide to release him or her from the dark table you sit at. You may stay there as long as you wish, and many of you may, because you cannot believe that allowing another to be as of God, as all things are, will give you the liberation you seek. You would rather hold a prisoner in a cave, joining him or her in shadow, than lead her to the light that is God and freedom. The claim “I am in the Upper Room” supports all things in aligning to you at this level of choice. At this level of choice, all things can and will be made new.
Now, being made new does not mean your teeth are fixed, your face is not wrinkled, that your idea of self has improved. It means new, re-seen, reclaimed, re-known in God, of God, and as God. The tree is God, the cloud is God, and the one that was once your enemy as of God. We use the word of there expressly, so that you don’t believe that we are inviting you to worship your old enemy. You have left the tea table by then. It simply means you hold no recrimination because you have returned to innocence. The innocent heart does not seek to punish, does not seek to rule, does not seek to gain at the cost of another’s loss.
Each of you who hears these words are being attuned through this transmission, and this transmission is at a pitch or level that has not been brought through the man before you until this day. The tone that is being sung here is in restoration to divinity at a level that had been denied, not by the man before you, but by the collective that had said no. The opening is here. The window is not only open—it is open so wide that the light will not be prohibited from shining in.
The task before you now is actually a rather simple one: To make a new agreement that God knows you as you are, just as you are, with your shame, with your courage, with your predilection for this or that, with the habit you can’t seem to break, with the difficulty that you address your relationships. Let all things be known. Let all things be seen. Let the great light shine, and allow yourself to bask within it. The claim is:
“I Am Known. I Am Known. I Am Known.”
If you cannot allow the Divine to know you, and we suggest it already does, you will continue to seek to meet your needs, make manifest through desperate acts, longing, frustration, and damning what you don’t get, or damning the one that seems to have it. Your idea of sin is doing something bad. All a sin is, is another way of denying the Divine. Sinfulness is not what you think. It is not a terrible thing. It is usually unconscious. “I am so jealous of him and what he has.” The envy that you seek to employ in that interaction is the denial of the Divine—again, born in lack, that there can’t be enough, that you have been given the crumb while he eats happily the cake.
Each of you here who see these words, who hear these words, who comprehend these words, will be known anew. But to be known anew, you must be seen, you must be shown. You must rest naked to the Divine, resplendent just as you are, to allow the Divine permission to receive each aspect of you so that it may move to itself in a higher state of frequency. “What does that mean?” he asks. When you offer your shame to the Divine, it is transformed. When you offer your longing to God, it is known anew. When you offer the belief in self and personality that demands she gets what she wants when she wants it, you are met in true need as they occur.
Imagine living a life where what was required was met by you, when what was chosen by you was chosen in alignment with a higher will, when the receipt of good, or requirement of good, was known by you because it was the expression of the Divine, operative as all things, that you had begun to experience. You see, the Upper Room is not a store, but it is a place without lack, and a level of consciousness where it is the father’s or the mother’s good wishes to grant you the Kingdom. We said father or mother to impose an idea, known through religious tenets that are in fact true, upon a world that is confused by them. “How could God allow this terrible thing to happen?” is a confused idea. You are creators. You choose your world. You made war. You made famine. You starve your brothers and sisters in a belief that there will not be enough for you. But when you lift to the Kingdom, beyond separation, beyond the mandates of separation, you are welcome to receive the gifts of the Kingdom as they are present. You become the gift of the Kingdom through this alignment. And it is your presence and being that support all others in requiring their own mandate for development and growth.
Now, in our texts we have supported an agreement for the entrainment to the higher realm through progressive instruction. We have no expectation that all will read these texts, but we have great expectation that those who attend to them will become the doorways for many who follow, because it is the alignment you hold through these teachings that supports the window opening wider and wider. As each one of you awakens to your true nature, you awaken a thousand more by nature of presence. And this is how you be—how you show up at your job, how you teach your class, how you wash the windows to let more light in. The being that you are, in the Upper Room, from the Upper Room, claims a world made new, because the level of vibration or tone she holds will lift all things to it by presence and being.
We will take a pause for Paul. Please be quiet. We will resume speaking in two minutes. This is indeed in the text. Period. Period. Period.
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The world that you see before you is actually shifting to a new level of frequency, a new expression. When something changes, there is great disruption. When you are changing the stations on a radio, you may encounter static. You may understand yourself in a space of change now, where what was known is not present in the ways that it has been, and what seeks to be born is not yet confirmed by your experience. This is a useful time, and a very necessary time. When you are cleaning a closet, you must take a look at what is about to be discarded, understand why you no longer require it. And the closet is being emptied now, and the accumulation of debris, that which must be relinquished, is being experienced by the collective. The choices made in fear, known by each of you as what you have known yourselves through in fearful acts or in collective agreement to fear, must be re-seen so that you may choose anew.
When we speak to will, we speak to the aspect of the Divine that operates as will. Some of you foolishly say, “I have free will. I will do what I want.” And of course, while that is true at a certain level—indeed, you have free will, it is cherished—even this is of God because all things are of God. The restoration of will to its divine nature does not deprive you of choice. It supports you in a higher choice than perhaps you would have made prior.
To understand choice is to understand desire. When desire is met in the light, it may bloom in beautiful ways. When desire is held in the shadows, it may be malformed or confused in its requirements. Some of you say, “I think I know who I am. I desire to know myself more.” If you give this desire to Source—“I allow my growth to be under the purview, in the benediction, of True Source”—you create a path in light. If the spiritual path that you choose is one of achievement—“I must be seen as spiritual, I must have a dais to sit upon, I must be the miracle worker, and no one else”—you have claimed a path in shadow masquerading as light. There is no one more spiritual than the one beside him.
There are different levels of amplitude and vibrational accord that one may align to through progress. But the progress itself, whether or not you know it, is primarily the byproduct of allowance and surrender and gifting will to the higher realm so that it may be employed. To understand the self as in the employ of the Divine is to allow the will to be utilized in a high way.
He interrupts the teaching. “Well, lots of people believe they are doing God’s will and chaos ensues.” That is not what we are speaking of. We are not speaking of any other calling than being, presence and being. You are still in choice here, but this choice is made by alignment. And the choices accrued in this place of being will always teach you what you require and provide what you require, be it a lesson that one must learn or a choice to care for the self in a way that is necessary, which will be met by the choice met or guaranteed in reception by you.
Some of you say to us, “Well, I pray all day long, I get nothing.” Your expectations of what you should receive must be understood anew—your idealization of outcome, your belief in what you should have, precluding what might be gifted to you. The five-year-old child wants a car. He watches his parents drive. His feet don’t reach the pedals. This child cannot have a car. Terrible things could occur. Instead, the child receives the toy car, enjoys it for a time, and then one day, years later, he or she may drive. You understand yourselves as such. When you strive for the high place spiritually, without understanding the level of alteration that you must undergo to maintain the high tone, you can create confusion. While we support our students in their learning to the level that they may hold the frequency and choose in high ways, we do not rush this process. We would rather you keep your feet on the ground, with your head in the clouds, than be blown by a wind to a level of tone that you cannot manage psychically, emotionally, or physically.
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