Pioneering Mystic Sermons, 1984

The High Tower

Lotus Landis transcript, October 21, 1984, Cleveland, Ohio. Scripture: Psalm 8

  “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!–Psalm 8
  The service began with the baptism of Michelle Christina Whyman.
  How much more do you love God today then you did on the tenth of August? How many miracles have you all had these past months? How much more are you magnifying God today than in the past or how much greater is your concept of God in this hour than it was yesterday?
  Baptism is a sacrament—we have baptism by water not only at infancy or in childhood, but baptism by both water and by fire throughout the years of our life, if we decide to go back home to God. When do we choose to go home? In Psalm 8 it says, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.”
  When we begin to remember who we are, our origin, where we came from, that we were crowned with glory and honor, we become nostalgic. A yearning and a restlessness comes over us and we want to go back, we want to find out where we came from, to whom we belong and where our destiny lies.
  It isn’t so much a case of who we are, as where are we. Where are you? Are you all gathered together as one with God? Or, are you scattered all over every place, in feuds and resentments and bitterness and disappointments. Where are you?
  I can remember very well one of the first meetings I ever had with Edna Lister. She said to me, “And where were you?” which was a very good question. I was supposed to be a minister. I was supposed to be taking care of God’s business and where was I?—and where are you? Most of the time we are all out in the fields, going about our business, but we are not going about our Father’s business!
  And this is the reason we have baptisms at birth, in childhood and throughout our lives. We need them. This is the reason that it is time for us now, at the harvest time, to gather up all these wonderful bits and pieces of substance that God has given us and offer them up to Him in gratitude for all that He has done for us.
  “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.” All that God has is ours to use, you know. We have dominion and all things are under our feet. All the substance that He has, He has shared with us lavishly, poured out upon us. Are we accountable?
  When we decide to repent, that is, to go back up to the high place where we were crowned and glorified in the beginning, we don’t like to go back to God empty-handed. We like to take back with us the experience, the lessons, the substance that God poured out upon us. We like to take it back to Him. After all, what else do we have?
  You know, the Japanese have a very interesting habit. When they are over here or any place away from home, they never go back empty-handed, but they go back home loaded with presents for everyone. It’s expensive too, I want to tell you. It’s equally expensive when you want to go back home.
  The minute you begin to take soul inventory and take stock of your substance and how you have handled it, you begin to realize that it isn’t quite as perfect as it was when it was released through you in the beginning when you were crowned with glory and honor. But still, you are accountable for this entire dominion and kingdom.
  A baptism for an infant seals and signs that child with and in the cross of Christ. That child is bonded to God forever, eternally. And, you, as you return, as you go back up and gather from your own storehouse, your own treasury, your own inventory of soul substance, the many little items and gifts that you are going to give to God, you get to that point where you think, Well I’ve done everything. I’ve done all the praying. I’ve done all the lifting. I have served well. I have been a great good agent of God—and nothing happens! What else could anybody possibly do? you wonder.
  That’s when you have a new baptism. Just at that point where you have done all, there is a great release! A refueling as it were, of the Holy Ghost, of the Light that moves through the Oversoul, and the Light of the Oversoul star sets your vital centers and your glands on fire, renews your bloodstreams, stimulates your brain cells and you have inspirations and wonderful new ideas.
  This is the first Marriage of the Lamb, but it isn’t the end—just the beginning! This may happen to you when you are fourteen or you are twenty-one but that’s just the start. You have at hand the greatest gift, the God-given kingly faculty of imagination. Edna Lister said that the secret of a perfect life is to use your imagination for high, creative good, to use your imagination to picture the divine and the perfect, and to let the power of God do its work through you.
  We often stumble on imagination. Out of imagination often grow our fears, our doubts, our anxieties, our worries and our concerns. Unless you learn to turn your imagination upward into the divine, you go along on the point I just told you about, where you feel as though you have done all you can or need to do. That’s because your imagination has stopped at that point. That’s as far as you have gone. Now, God hasn’t gone anywhere. God has been with you all the time and you are here, at this point. But, your imagination takes you out into the daisy fields to roam.
  If you can become conscious of God in your imagination by the hour, by the minute, so well that it wakes you up at three o’clock in the morning, and you hear yourself say, What was I going to do with that sermon?—then you know without a doubt that you’re conscious of God. Then as you get up and write fifteen minutes on the sermon and you go back over it until you know you have it you are grateful to God. You’re God-grateful, aren’t you? But when you wake up in the morning and you don’t feel so well, you have a flat tire and your gas tank is empty, then where is God?
  It means you have to pump your flat tire up and refuel all over again because—this is a marvelous thing about ascension—you have to practice it all the time to catch the slip before it happens. So, whatever you hear you have to re-translate, you have to re-interpret. For example, you hear someone say, “He’s too old, he is at least 65 or 70, going on 95.” Those are the world’s terms. Here’s where your imagination comes to work. You turn it around, and say, “He is (or you are) immortal now. You are immortal and eternal as you will ever be. You are as young as you will ever be.”
  Do you know what that does? That not only helps the other fellow, it helps you, first of all. You’re the one that made the effort of turning your imagination around. When your little-self two-year-old child says, “No! I’m not going to do that!” that’s where you get your imaginative exercise as a parent. You’ve got to think quickly to divert that aspect of your mind from being run by instinctive intelligence—where I must say most of us are being run that way most of the time—back into the aspect of divine intelligence.
  Every word you speak from your imagination to your two-year-old child, to your subconscious mind, to the world, makes an imprint. Whenever you say to your baby in the crib, “I love you,” follow it with “You are good!” That makes an imprint to be carried all through his life, to form the mosaic of a life map for the child to go by. But, you know, it really does the parents more good than it does the child because you learn, as a parent, to practice staying up in a high tower of consciousness, which is God.
  You know king David says, in the eighteenth Psalm, second verse, “God is my high tower.” He is our high tower, and we have to stay there! We have to be there! And that is where you practice your imagination from—in the high tower, not instinctive intelligence. Not the ordinary intelligence that’s just so smart—you know the intellect that always has to catch everything, not miss anything, has be there, right there with the criticism and condemnation. Not that, but the high intelligence, the high, the high tower, where imagination becomes the vision of God.
  We are ascending in this age, in this year, from instinctive intelligence to creature, from the state of son of man to the son of God, creators. We are going to go back and we are going back to God, bringing to Him our extra riches of experience, of learning, of knowing we are never going to do that again! Of all the treasures we have gathered, we are coming back, ascending unto Him a little higher than the angels.
  Prayer: Father, thank Thee for the glory and the Light and the Power—but especially for the gift of imagination upon which we climb, soar, ascend into the high place to be one with Thee—that we may glorify and magnify Thee, who hath poured out all Thy riches upon us. And let Thy Light go forth through us and through this congregation that as we approach the season of joy, initiatory as it may be, we shall come unto Thee singing even as we bring Thee gifts of the small self. And thank you, Father, for the Light that dost move through us in this hour, and in Thy name have we spoken, our Lord. Amen.

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