The Temple Not Made With Hands

By Walter C. Lanyon

Experience the life-changing power of Walter C. Lanyon with this unforgettable book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andura Publishing
• Release date: Oct 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220206297

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The Temple Not Made With Hands

Walter C. Lanyon

CONTENTS

OUT OF THE EAST

Chapter One

As the wind bloweth, I go now,

And ye know not whither.

With a warm breath I have blown upon your seedlings,

I have blessed you as a warm rain.

Aye, and from the northeast, icy

And stern was the blast of my indignation

Against the weeds of treachery—

Against the waste of unclean furrows and broken barns,

Wherein mice ate the seed I gave you without stint.

Now look ye to the harvest, for I go,

And neither tear nor bell nor burning sacrifice

Shall summons me again to teach anew

What I have taught so often that your ears are weary,

And ye are fat from hearing and not doing.

-Druid Taliesin*

* Taken, with permission, from writings of Talbot Mundy.

YES, Ye are fat from hearing, and not doing. Hearing endless words of and about the truth and never really hearing the WORD within your soul. Afraid to listen to the voice within you, preferring to listen to another give his idea of what it all means. It probably does mean just what he says to him and for him—but that will not fit into the scheme of your things. You have grown fat by not doing—what an indictment. How can you do anything when you have only the words of another and not the power within them. When will you listen to the VOICE within you and stop discounting yourself—you too are my temple—remember this.

Cyrano asks this pertinent question:

What would you have me do? Use the fire God gave me to burn incense all day long under the nose of wood and stone? No, thank you.

Burning incense to personalities, organizations, false gods and more especially to the human egos, is the surest way to call down the wrath of God.

When you pray, will you dare to stand in the effulgent LIGHT of the Temple, unafraid—with the boldness that comes of pure recognition of God—and ask, simply and with assurance? Or will you seek for the praise and patronage of a great personal god-to climb to heights you could not reach alone? Will you in this golden Light try to demonstrate gold?

Organizations are but the shadows of the personalities who created them. When the energy of the personality is spent, the thing falls to pieces and becomes a memory. Without the Spirit, nothing lasts. That is why Jesus warned against the worship of personalities. Call not me good. He saw the evil of following personalities, however lofty. Follow ME—follow the SPIRIT. When you do, you will see ME in a thousand, thousand masks-and eventually will be able to call ME into being by your recognition of ME. Yes, even in the mass of corruption and death, with all its indications of futility, you will call ME forth and I will come through joyously. Yes, I shall come, as surely as a reflection in the mirror laughs when you laugh.

When you pray, come joyously into the Temple. Put away your desires for the nonce—enter, and be still. Presently, you will see the desires in all their perfection which He has prepared for those who LOVE THE LORD. You will see things that eyes have not seen. The petty desires you left at the temple gates when you entered to pray will have faded into insignificance, for the things that are prepared for those who love the Lord are so much greater. And you will learn the reason for the deep secrecy—you will tell no man.

Ye accuse me of keeping secret knowledge

That I should share among you,

As if a she bear should show you her cubs

Or a thrush should tell you where her eggs are nested.

There is nothing—nay, no knowledge hidden

Saving only from him who seeketh

The wherewithal to fatten ignorance.

-Druid Taliesint*

If ye have ought against your brother or yourself, first lay your gift on the altar. Stop the useless trying to get something. Pray the prayer of recognition and rejoicing for once, and see what happens. Much will take place when you are ready-–things more wonderful than you have planned or thought will happen.

If I AM to give you the desires of your heart, you must be able to take them. How can you take them if you are only trying to believe in a God who transcends all thought patterns of your life? How can you possibly receive the desires of your heart unless you realize that something greater than your thought process will bring them to pass? How can you succeed unless you have discovered that victories are not won on a battlefield of mental effort and argument, but in the garden of your heart?

All belief in karmic debt will loosen and disappear the moment you enter the LIFE which is in Christ Jesus. The moment you cease looking to the ancestors and their evil history, by recognizing the FATHER, then the old karmic pictures become nil.

Call no man (NOT any man) your father. The Divine impulsion which brought you into your temple-body holds your Destiny. You release all of the qualities of the human father the moment you cease identifying yourself with him. You see a sudden and miraculous change taking place when you call no man your father-and appropriate the birthright of SPIRIT and view your Golden Destiny stretching before you.

Slay him? Shoot your arrows at the moon, ye impotently ignorant.

He who hath earned a destiny shall run his course,

Though earth, air, fire and sea were all in league against him.

Look then to your little evil,

Even that is fearsome because it is so little.

Slay that, lest it betray you

When the hour of His destiny

Sendeth him forth to test your manhood.

-Druid Taliesin*

Nothing can destroy the Christ within you, once you have discovered its reality. Slay him? It is like shooting arrows at the moon. Nothing shall stop the on-rush of his presence within you, hurrying in his unhurried way, to the fulfillment of YOUR Divine DESTINY. You have released the fate of the man born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, and have entered into the Divine Heritage of the Son of God. You have earned a destiny and shall fulfill it with ease and beauty Though earth, air, fire and sea were all in league against him. Nothing shall withstand the Brightness of his coming.

SUBJECTIVITY

Chapter Two

IN Oriental teaching there is a degree in which man frees himself from subjectivity. Subjectivity is that state of being under the power or authority of another or a system of ideas, or a code of action derived from the findings of the senses.

When man frees himself from this subjectivity, he recognizes that all mentation, viz., their appearance, presence, change or disappearance (in the field of consciousness) have no genuine reality. They are neither in a temporal nor in a spatial (having nature of space) relation with the ONE SOUL, for they are NOT self-existent.

In other words, when man enters into the ONE-ness he loses all the duality of life, which he now sees as the illusion he once called reality. He sees the rose within the rose and the substance within the symbol and knows where REALITY lies. Likewise, he sees the LIFE unchangeable and eternal in the manifestations of health, which is but a limited concept of LIFE put through the glass darkly of appearances which man has accepted and to which he has become subject.

To the savage, things which are natural to an engineer appear as magic and the workings of a tribal God. He does not understand them, so fears them-and hence can be hurt by them, as a child in its ignorance can be injured by electricity. When we recognize even in a small degree that all states of mentation, every degree of the human thought or finding, that is, all appearances, presence, changes, and even their disappearances, have in actuality no reality, then we begin to experience freedom. Appearances are but shadows cast by spirit in the world of illusion. Hence man does walk through the shadows of belief, even as he is told he shall walk through fire, water, closed doors, and even death-not to work miracles, not to mystify or to induce worship, but because when he is sealed in the WORD of Jesus Christ, he discovers that all the mentations of the human mind are but illusions. And if it be necessary for him literally to set them aside, he will do so, as Jesus did in all his so-called miracles. The illusion of the mind, under subjectivity of the human, self-made laws, saw the healings of Jesus as something from on-high, or something from the realm of mystery-but Jesus was automatically operating the LAW OF GOD, and took no cognizance of the mentation of the human thought.

When you live in the recognition of the true values of LIFE, you rise above subjectivity of the human mind and are freed into the realm of pure Spirit. At this level, what you tell the Father in secret is declared from the housetops of manifestation as a natural sequence. Nothing else could happen. When Jesus went WITHIN and shut the door, he entered the degree beyond subjectivity of any and all human thinking and manifestation, and he then functioned from the place of GOD. Here he found the REALITY that does not pass away and is not subject to belief, nor space, nor time—but revealed the NOW-NESS of GOD.

Finally, the freeing of oneself from the mentations of the human belief causes man to take his rightful place in regard to the coming and going of things. Unto Caesar are the things of Caesar rendered, and unto God the things which are God’s —and the discovery of rendering unto God the POWER which is animating everything in the universe will cause a subtle change to take place in manifestation. It takes the power away from the inanimate thing and places it where it belongs. To discover God as LIFE in the temple—body, is to cause the manifestation of health to rise many degrees in the body. To contemplate God as LIFE is to cause the action of this LIFE in the temple-body to be equal to anything which it has to perform-even though this may seem beyond the accepted possibilities of the body. When this release from subjectivity takes place, many of the revelations of Jesus Christ will become natural and normal.

The unenlightened being has nothing but his subjectivity to follow—and this can be on any one of a thousand levels. Thus the savage, in following his pattern is doing the best he can, and until he becomes Christ-enlightened, he continues to function under the laws of his subjectivity. Thus, if he believes that sitting in a draught causes him to have a stiff neck or get pneumonia, he will come under the law of his accepted subjectivity and produce these effects—and will have to use other laws to relieve himself.

OLYMPIAN DUST

Chapter Three

Into the Light, into the fire—

To the innermost core of the deathless flame

I ascend-I aspire.

Under me rolls the whirling earth

With the noise of a myriad wheels that run

Ever ’round and about the sun.

Over me circles the splendid heaven

Strewn with stars and noon and even,

Soul serene, float with my rainbow wings unfurled,

Alone with Love, ‘twixt God and the world.

-Marie Corelli

MANIFESTATION will only remain as long as it is held in consciousness. The moment a thing appears, it is on its way out. It begins a process of disintegration, going back into the Divine Dust from which it was shapened. The Greeks called it Olympian dust.

In the beginning God made man out of the dust-and breathed into him the breath (fire) of Life, and he became a LIVING SOUL. Dust thou art, to dust returneth is said of the manifestation, not the SOUL of man. By the consciousness of Life can man stay the manifestation indefinitely and can renew the garments and shoes that waxed old. The renewing fire of consciousness revivifies it. All the mysteries are revealed when you enter in and become ONE with the Christ. The blending of the Christ with the body causes the perfect Temple to appear.

The rock you smite will not give forth springs of living water to amuse the curious. If a miracle were necessary, it would be performed naturally and easily.

There were many things Jesus could not tell because of the unbelief—but now you believe in a power greater than human thought and are experiencing and feeling the new consciousness coming into being. In like manner, anything that is released from consciousness will depart, having had the life force drained from it.

Yes, it is said, I can pick it up or lay it down. The Jesus Christ consciousness has the POWER to self-resurrect the dead body, and to rehabilitate the disintegrating body.

Out of consciousness, out of your world;

IN consciousness, IN your world.

When the human thought is broken, the God thought flows and integrates itself through the Temple. Then it is that the IDEA or Cosmic Urge of God comes to man. As he gazes at this NEW idea, it becomes clearer and clearer, until he can say It is done,-and see it appear.

In ALL (every one of them) thy Ways, ACKNOWLEDGE HIM—and HE shall direct thy paths. The hell of human pictures and beliefs in which you find yourself will suddenly change into the FLAME of Love. Where you stand, the ground is HOLY—when you recognize the ONE.

"It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye

Than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."

The Needle’s Eye was a gate through which to enter Jerusalem. It was so low that in order to enter, a camel must be completely divested of its load. So man, in entering into the Consciousness of Jesus Christ, finds he cannot enter until he is divested of all the load of human belief. When he unloads, or lets go, or leaves all, he does not leave person, place or things, necessarily—-but he releases his belief of any power in them. When the closely clutched symbol of a thing is released, the real manifestation will appear.

In the FIRES OF SELF–RECOGNITION do you discover the Spiritual Priority of all things real, all law and power. This Spiritual Priority is the LAST WORD—-the WORD which becomes flesh and dwells among us. The accumulated human thoughts of man are stuck to each other like a pack of wet labels. Man keeps going back to some other premise which will substantiate evil. A Divine forgetfulness will obscure the thoughts and events of yesteryears completely.

Presently the interpretation of the LIGHT comes. We see the Divine interpretation of the FIRE. One time it is consuming—-and another, illuminating.

"Into the LIGHT—into the FIRE,

To the innermost core of the DEATHLESS FLAME,

I ascend—I aspire."

ILLUSION

Chapter Four

I ONCE saw a so-called famous person in a crowd where no one recognized her as anything other than what she was, just a body dressed and painted in the custom of the day. She became a strange thing without her press agent and her publicity, and began shrinking away from the obvious comparison of herself as she appeared without the acclaim. Presently she became violently ill and had to be taken home. Anything, when not recognized, dies—and the old inflated ego needed the winds of acclaim and praise to keep the balloon afloat. When the inflation was not there, the withered skin of the ego settled in against the form like the loose hide of an elephant. In reality there was nothing there. And so with the personality—if it is not recognized, it dies.

I can see her now—looking with wild eyes for recognition. The only thing she lived on . . . was praise and acclaim. The fact that she could run through a whole book of poses meant nothing to anyone but herself, and it was nothing but illusion to her now. She was like a wandering Pleiad, looking for her sisters.

Eventually your old darling will be consumed-no one will save it from the ravages of the flames of time and ignorance. To ignore it is to see it die.

The brightness Of YOUR coming will need no publicity agent or advertising campaign. You are self-announced, self-sustained, and self-expressed, because you have discovered that your body is the TEMPLE of the LIVING GOD-and you bear witness to just that and nothing more.

One is sometimes surprised in meeting a so-called celebrity. For some reason or another, we are always amazed that without the acclaim of the world they are just ordinary people, and sometimes not even that. We are disappointed that the character we have adored exists only in our minds. This imaginary thing which in reality is not there, comes to apparent life when the applause of the crowd is present and retires the moment it is not-like

Reviews for The Temple Not Made With Hands

[Rob Frantz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Walter Lanyon is unlike any spiritual writer I have read. His work strengthen and steadies what I have already felt. No, not what I know or have known, but what I feel is in and about me, where I am situated. I will read more of him and then do so repeatedly.