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 Fellowship Church and the Act of Worship

Paul Solomon thought this reading excerpt important enough to read aloud during a Joy in Worship Service, titled "The Master of Masters," on Sunday morning August 15, 1976 in Virginia Beach.

If there is one thing that we might express in this moment that might open you to a greater truth within you, it would be this. There is a tendency among you to understand this or that through the intellect, or through finding and using methods, and techniques, and purposes. There is a tendency among you to reject reverence, piety, holiness, sanctification of the body—things that you think of as superstition and reverence in worship.

Understand, children, that there is a God so holy that you must transcend all that is physical to stand in his presence. So, begin doing so. Begin respecting your physical body as a temple of the Holy Spirit, so sacred, so sanctified, that upon entering the chapel that you have prepared for worship, you would set aside the world and enter there with reverence—such holiness that the character of the place where you worship would be changed, the nature of the vibrations would be different. You would then enter into worship naturally without a word being spoken. It would not be a channel, nor a minister, who would bring his presence. It would exist within you.

There is a God so holy that your body in its natural state cannot stand its presence. It is not only within you, but it surrounds all that is in this universe. The universe is alive with the presence of God. Then, open yourself to it and see how holy God is. Establish that holiest place within you, the Holy of Holies, that he might enter, that you might worship there.

Become aware that this Holy God has been made a plaything by those who call themselves psychics, spiritual teachers, advisors—those who would apply laws in this and that discipline and would attempt to understand intellectually. Let these become humble, and bow the knee, and prostrate the self before that most holy God, and remove the shoes—for they stand on holy ground.

Understand how holy is the Creator. Make it not light or simple, but give way to his holiness by dedicating yourself and all that is. Respect your bodies, respect his temple, respect the place of worship, the chapel that you set aside, and make it a holy place. So that all who enter there would feel his vibration, his holiness, and would begin naturally to worship just from entering such presences.

So often, there have come these who are assembled at this moment on inner planes. They bless this place. They grace it with their presence. They would seek to abide there always, as they have been commanded to do. And so they do. Their presence is real, and felt and known when you recognize it. How would you recognize it but to make yourself sensitive to it? Open to such presences so that you may know, and feel, and touch, and communicate.

Give yourself often to worship in such a manner. Make it not light, make it not a simple exercise, make it not small through habit. Make it greater each time you come to worship. So less of earth would be known, less of the physical, more of the spiritual—so that you would transcend this plane. Often, you would simply leave your temple behind and walk with him in the clouds. And he would take you by the hand and walk with you. Has he not said, "I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."?

Paul Solomon Source Reading #11 3/29/72

Remember the words of the Apostle Paul, "I am crucified with Christ, but I die daily." Entering your own moment of quiet meditation, you must die daily to the world and the things of the world and give yourself daily, anew and fresh, to God so that he may work in your life.

You seek a blessing so that you may know that you have accomplished something for God. Know that the greatest you have done in your short life in Christ is often that loving deed you did for another in the cleaning, in the menial tasks that you performed in love.

Is it because this was done for one who is a special one of God, or for one who is a teacher, or for one who means something special before God? Of course, this is not so. The reason for the blessing, the reason for the spiritual growth, growing from a task of actual physical labor, is the spirit in which it was done, the reason for which it was done.

We find that even in washing dishes, the task was done that you might please the master. It was bound then for God and not for another of the physical plane. The lesson here to be learned is the lesson that Christ taught, "In as much as you have done for one of the least of these, my brethren, you have done it for me." Be blessed then by doing those little things of love daily for others around you and know that God is pleased. Make every action a spiritual act, bound for God.

For those of you who come from another faith, different from others who serve here, we would give these words, for there has been confusion in the heart. Know this then. One church is not greater than another, for the church that Christ has established is the important thing in your work, with this group or with another—that you seek a way to work together. Seek the best way that your life and the lives of others around you may be blessed.

If you would experience a great blessing by testifying to the power of God, by being baptized and rising up to walk in newness of life, if you would place your heart and your life in the work of a local church in which the group might work together, then seek this. But seek first spiritual growth and understanding. Understand what that type baptism is. Understand what the work of that church is. Understand what their beliefs are. And understand what Christ taught. There is much you need to learn. There is much that might be sought through the heart in prayer.

And know this one thing. Listen to this, ponder it in your heart, and remember it. Prayer is not a group of words. Prayer is not a form. Those prayers that are heard and blessed of God are very often those prayers that are never spoken. Prayer is the cry of a heart in need. Use this definition when you speak of prayer. The cry of a heart in need—a seeking for God.

How then will you grow spiritually? Learn those things of your Scripture. Discuss them together among you that you may understand. Pray not daily, not weekly, but constantly in your heart, attuning the heart constantly to God. Have those moments of meditation that God may instruct you through your heart.

Seek to remember that experience when God impressed himself upon your heart, when you first felt a need to become a part of God’s Kingdom. The blessing will come as you become aware that this same God lives even now inside your heart.