The Fellowship Primer

Excerpts from the
Paul Solomon
Source Work Readings
for the
Fellowship of  the Inner Light

Compiled and Edited by Grace de Rond

Two Excerpts from chapter, The Purpose of the Fellowship of the Inner Light

Paul Solomon Source Reading #9014 2/7/83

We could easily give you clear direction for forming an excellent organization, well- structured, even well-funded. And should we do so, we would give you a gift of great detriment and destruction, for you are not prepared for its use, nor its application. It is not these understandings that will help or correct the confusion, the lack, the feeling of limitation that is among you.

See your challenge in this manner. If you could see, there is gathered about you now a Great Cloud of Witnesses. If you would better understand the nature of this Cloud of Witnesses, look into the writings of the Apostle Paul, as he described Abraham and Moses, Jacob and Elijah. Those who have gone before, being committed to such a work, continue throughout the ages their interest in that work, their focus upon it, their presence, their assistance.

So there is gathered about you, overshadowing you, and even available to you, a great Host of Witnesses including those who have died for a cause, who have lived for a cause, and who, even in this moment, are committed to a cause. And that cause is the coming of the Christ, the reigning of the Messiah upon this earth.

In that earlier time, there was a chosen people, chosen not because they were special in a particular way, not because they were better, but because there was a need for a vehicle, a channel through which the Messiah might come, the message might be given.

So in this time, there is a chosen people. We have called you Israel and asked that you become Israel. And how would you become that chosen people, the Expectant Ones, pregnant in this moment, in this time? How would you become the new Essenes, the new Israel? For if you are to fulfill the mission of the Fellowship of the Inner Light, you must become the Essenes, the pregnant ones of Israel, the chosen people, the vessel, the vehicle through which

the Messiah might be ushered into the time of the reigning of peace on this planet toward the end of your lifetime here.

You have gathered for no less purpose than that. You must lift your sights and your understanding to that purpose. Lift beyond the concept of an organization or a structure, to a mission, an ideal, a purpose. It is for this that we have been drawn together, to know one another, to accomplish this great work.

If the Father of all, if the Father of the Messiah himself were to choose a group of people to usher in a new age, would he not choose from among this earth the most illumined, the most illustrious, well-educated, well-prepared, well-trained?

Look at the ushering in of the age before you, for twelve were chosen. Only one among them particularly educated. Two of some means, or wealth. The rest considered as much as anything rabble rousers.

We are saying that there is a group of people gathered here who are Israel. In the lower or the higher meaning of that term, you are Israel. You are either struggling with God, fighting against him at every turn, resisting him. Or you are the Prince of the Lord, a prince, one who has come to know his rightful place as a child of the King and his responsibility to rule over the kingdom, causing that kingdom to be a more pleasant place because of the manner in which he rules.

How would you become Israel, the chosen? How will you create a network, a vehicle, a communication opportunity, a receptacle, an instrument which John the Beloved, the Harbinger, might pick up and use as a means for communicating with, contacting all the earth? How would you become such a people?

First, become a Fellowship, a family. There are still those among you who would say, "I care for this Fellowship. I respect the ideals, the purposes. Yet, I reserve my right to go here or there, to give my attention, my money, my caring to this or that other. This is not the only way. I would be a part of other things. I do not want to be tied to a group, an organization."

Could you be a little bit pregnant? Is it not an all-encompassing experience that is a part of the whole organism?

You are committed, or you are not. You are Israel, the Prince, or you are contending with God. As Christ said, "You are either for me or against me," and there is no middle ground. As John wrote, "Would that you were either hot or cold, but because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth."

Until you have become a Fellowship, a family of which you are proud to be a part, proud to proclaim, "This is my Fellowship. It is this in which I believe. It is this that I am," until that Fellowship becomes a family to be identified with, a strong harbor for those who are troubled, who would come and learn a better way, until you have become that, you have not become the Prince, taking responsibility.

It is true that there are many organizations about the planet that are serving, that are paving the way for John, for the Christ. It is true that one could serve here or there, and perhaps there as well as here.

It is not true that one can be somewhere in between. If it is there that the message is being carried best, then get you there, and make a total commitment of self to there. If it is here that the message is spoken best, then be here, totally committed to the work that is before you.

Become a family, become a nation, become a Fellowship, a company of individuals who are recognized by their supportive relationship of one another. Let it be said of you, "See how they love one another." And when you have begun to relate to one another in such a way, these questions of structure, of organization, of fund-raising, of next steps in accomplishing the work, all become so simple, for they are secondary. They are rather automatic within a group of people who have lost fear and suspicion of one another. It is the dawning of a new day, a new age.

As you begin to structure groups, organizations, functions, projects, and in your structuring, you take care to protect yourself against your brethren within this Fellowship, then you introduce into the very structure of your project a basis of fear, a foundation of fear, so that the project is ruled by fear. Then, is the project of the devil, the evil one?

Learn love. Learn love and respect for yourself. Learn love and respect for one another within this organization. If you have been prone to criticize these little ones that are a part of the work for their inability, lack of experience, un-businesslike manner, study the Christ and his twelve. Look for the systems analysis among their relationships. They argued, and they were not efficient or effective until a time of transformation. That time of transformation did not incorporate a business schooling or new structures. It was a discovery of love. When love came, competition among them, the comparisons of one with another, ceased. Shoulder to shoulder, they set out to conquer the world. And they indeed did. Those twelve, poorly educated men affected the entire world of their day and of yours. And so, these gathered here who are a part of the Fellowship, however inexperienced or untutored, have all that is needed and have been chosen for a purpose.

When you have developed love and respect for yourselves, for one another, and totally enjoy being together and being about the work that is created for you, then you will begin to be effective in creating the dawning of a new day. People will begin to say, "See how they love one another," but will also begin to say, "See how effectively they work with one another."

There are several facets of the work of the preparation for John and the Messiah. The facets of this work are so all-inclusive that they touch every institution that is a part of the framework of your civilization and your culture, of education, of justice, of government, of religion, of communication, all these areas that affect your life are areas to be touched by this work because there are so many tasks, so many challenges, that are a part of this work.

There will be a community of organizations, of companies. This community of companies, projects, organizations, is a network. The common ideal, the common purpose, that which makes a family and a nation of Israel out of all those people who form those organizations and companies, that common ideal is the Fellowship.

The Fellowship of the Inner Light is the family of all those who have made a personal and unconditional commitment to the establishment of the dawning of this new day, a commitment to be the new Essenes, a commitment to follow and apply those techniques and opportunities that you have called Inner Light Consciousness awareness techniques.

Then, Inner Light Consciousness is a teaching organization. It should be quite independent of other organizations, having its own identity, Board of Directors, its own governmental structure - yet, linked as a participating member of a network of organizations, sharing common facilities, common fund-raising opportunities and such. Organizations supporting one another as the individuals within the Fellowship support one another, and all of these absolutely and totally committed to the Fellowship, to be a part of it, to support it, to know it as the common family link among all of you.

You should look to yourselves even now and say, "Which particular area, which particular focus, project, function, might I best facilitate?" Do not wait for some leader among you to set up and structure your project, but get yourselves together with those who share a common goal within this particular aspect or facet of the work.

Organize yourselves, but do be careful. Do not become so independent as to be uncooperative with the other projects and organizations that are a part of the network, the family, the whole. Do not try to become so individualistic or independent that you begin to cause factions among you. Let each of you, as you seek to create, to instigate and direct this or that project, always come before this Source for guidance wherever possible. Bring your questions and receive those suggestions, those hints, those helps, that will assist in your structure and your function.

Be careful to apply those techniques of learning love, one for another. When you are hurt, when you are caused to feel fear or resistance, examine it quickly, and ask, "Where does this come from within me? Why am I harboring fear? Do I want my life to be ruled by fear? What fear is there in me that makes me vulnerable to this hurt, this pain?" Eliminate that, and let yourselves be ruled by love, by light.

Become the Sons and Daughters of Light in this time, so completely, that you are radically different from those out there who consider themselves to be average humans. Become something different. The children of light must establish themselves now. The time is short. You do not have time to waste, but must be about this.

Can you begin to visualize when a loving family, very committed and identifying themselves as a part of a Fellowship Family in one country, and another, and another, are so drawn together, communicating with one another so effectively, that the antagonism between the governments of those countries will be erased by their actions? You will have won a war without bloodshed, a war fought by love and by peace, for the first time in all of history. You will have overcome darkness with light. You will have proved that love is stronger than fear.

You must prove it first within yourself, at this level, within this family, within this room. If the love between you can conquer the fear in you of one another, then you have won the first battle of the war of Armageddon. Let it begin here. Take up your swords and let this be the beginning of a strong nation of individuals who will claim that prize of the high calling, the preparation of the way for the Messiah, the introduction of the Prince of Peace onto this earth in this time. That is the task that is set before you.

Paul Solomon Source Reading

Look about you and see that all those about you are as sleeping gods. And your purpose is to cry them awake for the time that is at hand.

Awaken God in the heart of every man and woman you see. Not placing him there as some have claimed to do, not lighting the Light, but rather, point to, bring attention to, cause consciousness of that Light that is innate within each one. Awaken the gods on this plane that they may rejoice as the Sons of Morning, even as they rushed in in that time when the morning stars sang together, when this plane was perfect. These were the Sons of God, now only captured in sleep, only sleeping gods lying about this plane.

Cause these to awaken to themselves and to shake off the dust of the Earth, to shake off these physical bodes that are the dust of the Earth, and to rejoice, crying out, and to return to the Father.

These all are a portion of the same family, and in coming together, a portion of the same body. So will that giant body of God arise, and in shaking the dust of the Earth from itself, will rise up in glory, in power, in might, in light, upon this plane.

So then will this plane be shaken, this Earth will be changed, will be transmuted to a plane of light that would be as the footstool of God