Saturday, September 26, 2026

Not Just Another Man

Not  Just  Another  Man





Martin Cecil   September 15, 1974 p.m.



Moving into this new seven-year period, a new experience should be naturally anticipated. “Six days shalt thou labour.” We have known that, but now something new. I'm not suggesting some sort of instantaneous transformation is to be expected. There has been something working out in a natural cycle over the years. What is it that has been fundamentally happening?


What we have referred to as material man has been dominant; spiritual man was apparently lost. However, gradually, as the attitude of judgment receded some changes have come. The movement out of the six days of labor into the seventh day of rest comes because spiritual man again begins to be revealed and material man recedes somewhat into the background, although still present. Spiritual man would not be very effective on earth without material man. Material man is not very effective on earth without spiritual man—but he's tried his damnedest. There begins to be a greater consciousness of one's own spiritual being, and responsibility is assumed, or right expression in this regard, through material man. He is needful that this might be so.


The sabbath of the Lord was blessed by the Lord and sanctified. We can see here something that relates very directly and particularly to the holy place where the priesthood are—where spiritual man properly abides. There comes an increased consciousness of walking day by day on holy ground. The old material man characteristics are no longer dominant and no longer seem so attractive as they once did.


Each individual is rightly a leader. The human view of a leader is sometimes that of a person who issues orders, imposes whatever is seemingly required upon his followers; but this is not the sort of leadership which we find in the experience of the true tone. True leadership is an exemplification of what is right; not with the idea of imposing that example upon somebody, but to make sure that no support is given to something wrong. If we give support to something wrong, then we are a follower of the wrong thing—of the prince of this world. So we have no agreement rightly with anything that is not right. While we do not make a big thing out of it, there is what might be called a gentle pressure with respect to anything that is not right appearing through somebody else.


For this to be the case, one must be right within himself, so that there is immediate and easy agreement with what is right wherever it appears. But when something is off-key, when a sour note begins to put in an appearance, we do not undertake necessarily to correct the person, to say, “You shouldn't be doing what you're doing; you shouldn't be judging,” or whatever it is. There's really no need for that if you are yourself an expression of the right thing. It immediately brings pressure to bear on the other person without any particular deliberation on your part—you simply are not in agreement with the wrong thing—you ignore the wrong thing. And you thereby exhibit the real nature of friendship, because you're not encouraging the person to follow the wrong thing.


As long as there is not agreement with the wrong thing, because one is too occupied with expressing the right thing, then certainly pressure is brought to bear. Something is felt if there is a person present who is true to the truth and one is deviating from it oneself. You feel it. And one needs to be alert to that feeling. You immediately know that something's wrong. The usual self-centered human attitude is to find some justification for one's own state of discomfort. If the discomfort is consequent upon agreement with something wrong, then immediately there is a warning signal which says, “Let your attitude change.” And it can be changed so easily and quickly in that circumstance. How long do you think it would take for the wrong things to disappear?


If there have been wrong things maintained—the habit of judgment, and there have been others around who have been inclined to agree with that judgment, then, of course, the judgment is maintained, the ill thing is maintained and fattened even, made more healthy. But if all concerned were instantly in this moment in agreement with what is right and simply not be in agreement with anything that is wrong, then the wrong things would clear out pronto; the person would be so lonely in the egression of something wrong. Particularly when we begin to move in the current of the spirit and you express something wrong, you find yourself isolated. And that's the way it should be.


People love to jump right in, don't they? Tear somebody down—something's wrong. How do you know? There's nothing wrong if we agree with what is right. There's only something wrong when we agree with something wrong. If we agree with something right, the tone is sounding and whatever is seemingly wrong will be taken care of as it should be, whatever way that may be—by the tone, not by the human judgment. We constantly make sure that in our association with others we are agreeing with what is right. On this basis comes a new experience of oneself. Spiritual man is right; material man separate from spiritual man is wrong. So, we accept the responsibility of rightness and consequently experience spiritual man. One can't experience spiritual man if one is wrong.



I have a letter here which I received from a lady outlining something which is vitally important to see.


She outlines something most clearly and beautifully: “For almost two years now I've been very careful to agree with your words, period. I had had an abhorrence to anything approaching idolatry of another human being. Lately, it had been difficult because your high vision and even higher expression were hard to ignore, but I worked at thinking of you as just another person. Last year, about this time, I woke up and thanked God for the morning. Not ‘the God that is me and is you’ as previous, but God—the Lord. And last week I suddenly faced the fact that I knew you weren't just another human being that had good things to say, yet for some reason I had refused to acknowledge it. And as soon as I did accept it, I realized what I had been doing. By trying to keep you at my level I didn't have to face the fact that if you were ‘up there,’ I could be as well. I have seen some idolatry of you. Those that kept you separate obviously didn't know you. I guess, too, that it's another way not to have to accept the standards. I realize now, more so than ever, the greatness of you. But I don't think I'm idolizing you. I know I can stand where you are—and I know that when I am there you will be higher, inviting me up. I'm finally, consciously, coming to you; not your words, not the Ranch or the Hundred, but to you. You've been waiting this long. I offer my total love and being in thanks.”


As I say, there is something of vital importance to be seen here. Human beings, in the material man state, look at each other as material human beings. Spiritual man has been so long absent that he is virtually an unknown quantity—he doesn't really exist to people. He may exist in symbol—the symbol of Jesus Christ—there is spiritual man, but not here. And it's convenient if He is there rather than here, because one then doesn't have to measure up—He is different; He is separate, and no one could aspire to be what He revealed Himself to be. This is the general human attitude in the range of Christianity, isn't it? He is something separate from all of us. But it isn't the truth. It is a convenient way of avoiding the necessity of facing what is required of oneself.


The same thing may occur with respect to a person who is now present. In this instance the lady writes to me. She had been endeavoring to maintain a distinction between what I was saying—the truth which appeared in written form or on tape—and me, the endeavor to see me simply as material man. Now material man sees material man, but spiritual man sees spiritual man. If one is afraid, as she expresses it, of idolizing material man, then perhaps there is something valid about the fear. Why should one idolize material man? But at the same time this attitude tends to deny the possibility of spiritual man: Everybody is material man—it can't be any other way. This was more or less the attitude that was taken when spiritual man was revealed so vividly through Jesus. The attitude would be, “Well, he's just another man.” When He went back to His hometown for instance, everybody knew Him. They knew His mother, His father, His brethren, and so on—just another man. What is being said is, “Here is just another material man,” which indicated in that instance, certainly, a great lack of vision. In other words, there were a lot of material people with no spiritual vision, and all a material person can see is another material person.


Now a material person is present when spiritual man is present. What is it you see? What is your vision in this regard? Does it get hung up in this regard with material man? Or do you see the evidence of spiritual man? Of course, a person can only see the evidence of spiritual man to the extent that he himself is beginning to experience the reality of spiritual man in his own expression. The emergence through the six days, as the judgmental attitude of material man is left behind, allows a person to begin to perceive spiritually—spiritual things are spiritually discerned. And who can discern spiritually? Material man? Oh, no. Spiritual man discerns spiritually, so there must at least be some measure of the experience of spiritual man in oneself before one will recognize spiritual man in another.


When there is the recognition of spiritual man in another, on the basis particularly of someone who is providing leadership, then one is no longer separating oneself from the same experience. One's own identity is rightly in the same place. And on this basis we come together in agreement—we agree as spiritual man, male and female. We don't try to agree as material man. This effort has been put forth for a long time by human beings, and still is, to try to produce agreement between material human beings while ignoring spiritual man. It is an impossible task on that basis—no agreement ensues. All that happens is that people become more critical of each other. And the closer people get to each other, the more critical they become of each other. Agreement is based in the experience of spiritual man. One must acknowledge spiritual man if one is to begin to know what agreement is.


I'm not interested in being idolized. We don't need any idols. But we do need agreement—we do need to awaken in our awareness to the reality of spiritual man. And spiritual man is not as other men, because that statement refers to material man. Spiritual man is not as other men, although material man is present in relationship to spiritual man.



There is the appearance of material man, but then the instruction is, “Judge not by the appearance”—rather, judge righteous judgment. See what is actually present and rejoice in that. All I'm concerned with is spiritual man—and spiritual man is spiritual man. I acknowledge spiritual man in relationship to each one. Why not, as you look at each other, do the same thing? If you do do the same thing, then you're in agreement with me. If you get hung up on material man, then we're in disagreement and the evidence of that disagreement will appear, because there will be a critical or judging attitude, where a person looks at material man and says, “That's not spiritual man.” Well, I know it's not spiritual man, but our concern is with spiritual man who is also present. Which carries the most value to us?


We find the value in spiritual man because we know there is no solution to any of material man's problems or difficulties or miserable states except by reason of spiritual man. Spiritual man is the one responsible for propagating the true tone on earth. And the true tone, propagated on earth, clears the mess which material man has made. Material man is totally incapable of clearing his own mess. All he does is add to it, make it worse. Wherever we look, in whatever direction, we see things getting more and more tangled up, and it is the nature of material human beings to condemn or criticize this one or that one because they acted thus-and-so and things became more tangled up. But if they had acted so-and-thus, exactly the same thing would have happened.


Judge not. Let the whole mess alone and agree with what is right. You may say, looking out into the world over there somewhere, you can't see very much that's right. Well, why not come a little closer to home. There are things that are right right here. Let's agree with this. Never mind the world out there. That will sort itself out if we are right. But if no one is right anywhere, it will never sort itself out.


Spiritual man is present. As you have an increasing awareness of this truth, that awareness becomes ever more vivid to the extent that we are in agreement with what is right, because spiritual man is that much more present. Only material man judges. Material human beings have judged God for judging. They're inclined to say that God is a judge. Oh, no. “With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” We judge ourselves in the material condition. Let us rise up out of it. But to do that we have to recognize that spiritual man is present—acknowledge the fact, not because one is going to worship spiritual man but because one is going to share in the being of spiritual man, accepting that responsibility. The failure to acknowledge spiritual man is the insistence upon remaining in the material state.


Anyone can look at me and judge me—lots of people have. But those judgments make no difference to me. Do judgments of you make a difference to you? Does it change you from being you? We are not concerned with material judgments; we are concerned with the spiritual state in human experience, spiritual man—Abel as opposed to Cain. And Cain and Abel are rightly brothers. They belong together. But Cain will only allow the resurrection of Abel when he stops judging. That's why he killed Abel in the first place, wasn't it? Let us be willing to acknowledge the presence of spiritual man on earth, and agree with rightness. That doesn't mean that we have to disagree with wrongness. Don't judge it.


Always the question can be asked when you judge something as being wrong, how do you know? How do you know that it is wrong? Let it alone. To the extent that one begins to associate oneself with spiritual man, one becomes aware of what is right. We don't need to know what is wrong to know what is right—at least, the only reason why we may have to take a look sometimes at what seems to be wrong is so that we may turn to what is right. We're not going to take issue with what is wrong; we're not going to get into a battle about it; we're not going to judge it, but agree with what is right. And when we do, we reveal the fact that we love one another, because we will not support attitudes of judgment whenever they appear in others. We should be delighted that, if an attitude of judgment appears in us, we find that those with whom we are immediately associated don't support it.


Human beings are afraid of being alone, which is why so much trouble is taken to surround oneself with other people, supposedly friends—but the sense of aloneness is the void in a person consequent upon the fact that spiritual man is not being experienced. It doesn't have anything to do with other people. And other people can't take your loneliness away from you. Only you can find the true state of comfort, because you agree with spiritual man. Then the true brothers get together; there's no more loneliness.



So we move into this sabbath day, to stand in the holy place because we are simply concerned with what is right. We are not judging others as being wrong; we are concerned to be right ourselves in the expression of what we are, spiritual man. And as this becomes the increasing experience of all concerned, whatever doesn't belong in the right expression of spiritual man in the moment is simply dissolved—it passes away. Many of the things that perhaps we have judged as being wrong are discovered not to be wrong at all; it was merely our view of them that was wrong. We didn't see clearly. But as we begin to see with the eyes of spiritual man, all these things begin to fall into place and we find that there was really nothing to judge anyway.


All things work together to perfection for those who love and serve the Lord. Let us continue to love and serve the Lord, which means to love and serve what is true and right in the expression of spiritual man. Here is the basis of all agreement. The almighty power of God is released through the tone of life to achieve what is right and true and proper to the glory of God. Let it work out on the right basis; everything's under control. All things work together to perfection—this is true when we love and serve the Lord, when we are true to the truth, when we are true to the tone. Let us assume our responsibility as spiritual man, that we may continue to play our parts together in agreement. The vibrant spirit of the living God is always present, always enfolding, always ready to find full, free, strong expression through you in each moment of your living.













Where Your Treasure Is There Will Your Heart Be Also: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2026/04/where-your-treasure-is-there-will-your.html





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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Seven And Twelve

Seven  And  Twelve





Martin Cecil  September 20, 1981 a.m.  Glen Ivy, California



Most Holy LORD of Creation, I address Thee in these words with the greatest reverence and awe. This morning I bring this congregation before Thee. In Thy Name I invite them to come near unto me, that thereby they may come near unto Thee. In these moments of quietness we are aware of Thy Presence and of Thy Love. According to the spiritual responsibility accepted by each one in their living heretofore, so may these all together offer to Thee a body of flesh for the accommodation of Thy Spirit and Thy Word, that the blessing of Thy creative action may be extended in this hour into all the world to all people, an outpouring of Thy creative spirit, opening the Gates of Thy Kingdom for the inflowing of response wherever it is present in the hearts and lives of human beings everywhere. Thou only, O LORD of Creation, art God. We have no other gods before Thee. Aumen.


This is the first Sunday service I have conducted since the celebration of our Anniversary on September 16. We have now moved into a new year, a new cycle of seven years presumably. We've moved into the Fiftieth Year of this Emissary ministry on earth [the 95th year in September 2026]. It is also not only a year in its own right but it is the first in a succession of years, seven to be exact, which would be characterized by the fire force. This particular year, in and of itself within the cycle of this ministry, is characterized by the air force. Here are two aspects of the creative power by which God's will is done. Making reference to this, I am making reference to something that relates very specifically to the Emissary ministry. We have a certain awareness of the significance of this ministry to the larger picture, the world of mankind.


There is one level of consideration with respect to numbers which we need to understand. Usually when Emissaries, or those who consider themselves to be Emissaries—there may be a distinction here—consider numbers, seven and twelve emphasize themselves in consciousness. This is not by chance, even though there may heretofore have been little real understanding of what it was that was being considered. It is clear that in the unfoldment of the ministry as such, seven has been predominant. We have just completed seven cycles of seven years; we now move into the eighth cycle of seven years. This is presuming that the seven-year pattern continues as before. There is always the possibility that the days may be shortened somewhat. So there is the seven-year cycle, which has been clear enough over the last forty-nine years, relating directly to the responsibilities carried by reason of the Emissary ministry.


At the same time, of course, these seven years are made up of one year at a time. The year itself relates to the passage of the earth in its orbit around the sun. This orbit, from the standpoint of human calculations at least, has been divided up into twelve months. It is not by chance that this pattern has come to be accepted in the world: twelve months on the one hand, seven days in the week on the other hand. Here are two aspects of one thing. They say there are fifty-two weeks in a year, but it isn't quite right. They say there are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, and that isn't quite right either. But there are these divisions, which relate to something with which human beings everywhere are familiar.


We ourselves may see that the seven has a particular relatedness to this Emissary ministry. We recognize here the emergence of a conscious focus, a conscious spiritual focus for mankind. We may recall the story of creation in the Book of Genesis, where emphasis is placed there upon seven: seven days, seven periods of time, seven cycles. Here was a deliberate creative process for a specific purpose, conveyed, on this basis, as relating to seven. Being a deliberate process, we could say it would be a conscious process. So the seven relates very particularly to this conscious focus of what is provided by what the Emissary ministry actually is. What it actually is and what people may have thought it to be could be different. But there is a reality here which we have used Emissaries of Divine Light to describe. The reality, of course, needs to emerge as it actually is so that, in a sense, words to describe it would be unnecessary. But there are words to describe it and we are content with these words which bring to focus the conscious, deliberate action necessary in the creative process by which the restoration of mankind may be achieved.


We recognize that there is no conscious mind without the subconscious aspects of mind. You can't really separate the two, any more than you can separate the surface of the water from the water underneath. So there is a subconscious aspect, which relates very particularly to the experience of mankind over the centuries and the millennia; and this is indicated by the use of the number twelve. There are the twelve tribes of the earth which were, back along the way, represented by the twelve disciples, the twelve tribes of Israel; in other words here is something that is all-inclusive of mankind—in a more particular sense the subconscious aspect of the mind of mankind.



There has been a certain amount of deliberation in this subconscious level of human experience. In other words it could be said that there has been a certain amount of what human beings would probably describe as conscious action in the world. All the human achievements that are seen round about are apparently consequent upon this conscious action. But this relates very much to a dream state, where there is apparently someone present—who maybe one thinks of as oneself—in the dream, doing various things and being done unto by various other things in the dream. And this is pretty well what has been occurring in the world as human beings have known it. It all is included in this subconscious level, symbolized by the twelve. Of course, seven is a number that is included in twelve. It's part of the whole mind of mankind but refers in a particular sense to the surface conscious levels, which are rightly brought to focus by those who may be properly called Emissaries of Divine Light. So we have these two aspects here.


The twelve is very inclusive of far more than the immediate earthly experience. Certainly the earth moves around the sun in its orbit, and that orbit may be divided into twelve segments; but obviously the earth is not alone in moving around the sun. And the solar system is not alone, in an isolated sense, but is a part of the galaxy, and so on. So the twelve may be seen as relating to something far vaster than the subconscious levels of the human mind; the subconscious levels of the human mind simply represent something much vaster. The twelve, therefore, refers to the planetary system as such, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe. Here is the particular connection that mankind has with this vastness—through the twelve.


So there is the twelve aspect and the seven aspect. Our concern has been especially with the seven aspect. Whereas this seven aspect is made up of years, of course, it is immediately related to the twelve, which refers, amongst other things, to the twelve months of the year, the movement of the planet around the sun. So the connection is there in the year. Each individual year as it comes around is directly connected to the twelve of the subconscious aspect of the whole body of mankind. I use words to describe all this but I am trusting that you have some spiritual discernment which enables you to comprehend what it is that I'm talking about; because if you try to intellectualize it you will lose it. But it is clear, obvious, actual, real, when it is spiritually discerned.


This year which is before us is the beginning of a seven-year cycle, but it is a year in and of itself. We don't wish to lay emphasis upon the external factors, which loom so large in human consciousness, because we are now concerned directly and deliberately with what might be described as heavenly elements. These heavenly elements will be reflected in external factors, yes, but we may be reminded of the verse in the Book of Job: “Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?” This is our direct and immediate responsibility. First of all, the ordinances of heaven must be known. One couldn't very easily set the dominion of the unknown in the earth; so the ordinances of heaven must be known. In a sense I've been speaking of this now, utilizing these particular terms relative to the numbers seven and twelve. All this relates to the ordinances of heaven.


Sometimes, I think, the ordinances of heaven are looked upon as being fixed structures. But we recognize that life is the evidence of these ordinances, and life is always characterized by movement and change. So there is something moving, something changing constantly, relative to the ordinances of heaven. They are based in what we may call the Law, but the Law is not static; it's constantly moving, relative to the requirements of the creative process. And so we have ordinances of heaven, which need to be discerned momentarily. You can't say to yourself, “Well now I know the ordinances of heaven; I'm going to set the dominion thereof in the earth,” because as soon as you've said that, they've changed to something fresh which reveals the reality of a living, pulsating movement. And we have the responsibility, in the creative cycles that are before us, to bring to focus these living pulsations and allow them to take their fitting form in their fitting seasons. Coming events, in that sense, the events brought forth by these living pulsations, may in some respects cast their shadows before, so that we are not entirely blind relative to the future. But though we may discern something with respect to the future, we are not wrapped up in what we may discern in that regard, because we don't know exactly what form it is going to take. What is to occur must be vibrationally established; the ordinances of heaven in each moment. Don't be too hooked on your vision, because whatever it should be can only be as the ordinances of heaven, now, are set in the earth now and in each succeeding moment. Then, coming together, we know what it is. All of us have a responsibility in developing various creative movements which are being brought forth. So we need to gain an overall view of the heavenly ingredients that are present relating to what we would refer to probably as vibrational factors. Those vibrational factors may be brought to point by utilizing the seven and the twelve. We see our responsibility in the seven.



In order to make right use of what is occurring we must remain at the balance point where we belong. Human beings are inclined to swing to extremes. There are definitely pulsations. These pulsations are related very particularly to the twelve, or the subconscious aspect of things. But consciously we need to be at the balance point and not swung around by whatever is happening in the subconscious level. What is happening in the subconscious level, from the standpoint of heaven, needs to happen, not in order to push us around but to provide us with the material that is needed for the deliberate achievement of what it is that should be achieved. So we may recognize the necessity of standing at this balance point. The balance point, which can be looked at in various ways, relates first of all to the horizontal component, of which mention has been made before. We may see it in terms of the past on one side and the future on the other. Well we need to be in the middle—that is, exactly now. That doesn't deny the fact that there is a past stretching away and a future stretching away; but here we are now, in this present moment.


Another aspect of this relates to the tendency of human beings to swing to what they think of as a spiritual extreme—spiritualistic, I think, is the more accurate term—and to the materialistic extreme on the other end of the spectrum. No, we need to be in the middle, the Central Way, the balance point, because only there is there direct connection and relatedness with the vertical component—the vertical component which comes to focus in the present moment. It doesn't come to focus in the past; it doesn't come to focus in the future. It certainly doesn't come to focus in the spiritualistic antics of human beings or in the materialistic antics of human beings. And yet there is this pulsation moving from the heavenly standpoint, of which one may be consciously aware. And we need to be consciously aware of it, not to be thrown around by it, because here are the facilities for creative action that we consciously and deliberately can make use of—the point of balance, the point where the creative power is, the point where God and man are one. So we may observe what is happening, we may be aware of the pulsations. These are part of the ordinances of heaven, mistranslated by human beings. But we're here to translate them correctly, not to do away with them. We need to be steady in the middle, but this doesn't prevent us from discerning, and being aware of, the pulsations which are moving on each side of that central point.


These pulsations can be seen in different ways too. It's interesting to note that the anniversary of this ministry falls approximately, in the northern hemisphere at least, at the time of the autumnal equinox. This is a balance point, not only for the northern hemisphere but for the southern hemisphere, when the length of the day and the night are the same—the same thing in the north as in the south. This is indicative of a balance point. When you come to the solstice in the summer or the winter, you have a directly opposite experience in northern and southern hemispheres. In other words, it looks as though in the northern hemisphere it's unbalanced in one direction, but in the south there is evidence of unbalance in the other direction. There is nothing wrong with that, is there? It's quite all right. We at least enjoy the long days of summer; we should enjoy the short days of winter. It's all part of the cycle. But we ourselves are not being flung around by this; we stand where we belong, and are in position then to use rightly what it is that is actually happening.


What is actually happening is what is happening from the standpoint of the ordinances of heaven, not what is happening from the standpoint of human mistranslation of these ordinances. And we have all sorts of events, very troublesome things going on in the world, based entirely in human mistranslation. Well here we are, back where we belong, in order to provide the balance point which allows all these movements, pulsations back and forth that rightly occur as part of the living process, to be rightly used, rightly translated in our own experience. We can't immediately start translating them out there somewhere: “Well the events of the world are not the way I like them. This and that is not happening the way it should.” No, we live right here, we live next to ourselves and in the immediate environment, and here's where the balance point needs to be. One can see, even from the rather surface viewpoint, that if there are enough people who stay in that balance point around the world, we have a balance point represented everywhere. And this begins to assume responsibility, then, for the creative process which is working out, designed to permit the restoration of mankind.


Most of the things that are going on in the world apparently have no relatedness to that; no one even thinks about it. But we think about it, we know something about it, and we are aware of our responsibility with respect to it. And this is very real to the extent that we are in the real position. If we go off from side to side we're not where we belong, and we lose an awareness of what we would know if we were where we belong. I'm sure that you could all testify to this experience. The reality which you know when you're on the beam, as they say, seems to fade away, disappear, when you begin to swing off to one side. Well that should be fair warning: Get back where you belong! Unfortunately, for most people, that doesn't seem to occur to them. They want to plumb the depths or the heights a little more, rather than stay where one belongs, aware of the depths, aware of the heights, but seeing the value of these things from the standpoint of the balanced position.


This morning I am emphasizing this balanced position particularly because certainly the swinging will likely occur with greater vehemence in the world around us as the days and years go on, and we need to have very sure footing where we belong if we're not going to be carried with it. Of course, if that goes too far things are flung right out, and we can see a cleansing process occurring on this basis. But let not everything be cleansed away! If half of it is flung this way and the other half that way, there's nothing in the middle. There needs to be something left, something that is stable and solid and provides a connection for all those who are in the vicinity of it, not physically necessarily but vibrationally.


We have a certain sensing—if our hearts are not overly impure—a certain sensing of a point of stability. Now you know there are many who are awakening in this way, sensing the point of stability, the awareness of people, individual people, you and others, who provide this point of stability without calling it names. Let's not keep the door closed. Let the door be open, because there are more who properly participate in this focus of the conscious aspect of the mind of mankind. It requires, certainly, more than are presently available. So the door needs to be kept open. There should never be a sense of shame with respect to the means by which this conscious aspect of the mind of mankind has been brought to focus. Isn't that a tremendous thing! Why deny it? For those who don't understand we wouldn't particularly shout it from the housetops. But there are those who are ready to understand; for them the door should be open.



So I rejoice to share this consideration of a reality which is describable in symbolic ways; it's the only way it is describable. We have to use words of some kind, and these seven and twelve numbers are useful in acquainting us with something very real that is going on, and in which we properly share. And we're not isolated in some conscious level of understanding, because there would be no conscious level of understanding without the subconscious. It's all one thing; it's all properly unified. But we have the point of conscious stability in the middle where we stay. We are not swung around by all the things that are going on in the subconscious mind and heart of mankind. Lots of things are going on there; we sometimes inadvertently get hooked up with them. Well we need to be alert so that we don't stay with that sort of a ride—we come back to where we belong. And others will tend to come with us and stand where they belong too. Altogether there may be the true ordinances of heaven and the dominion of them set in the earth. When that is so, the earth is known once again to be the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.


How thankful I am that I may speak to all of you in these terms this morning, in recognition of a very significant part you particularly play in what is happening now. I am here, not on Sunrise Ranch, not at 100 Mile House: Glen Ivy. So we're all here and all participating in what is occurring now, and this has significance, immediate significance, to the whole of the Emissary ministry, the whole of the seven pattern, as well as to the pattern of twelve—because you can't separate the seven from the twelve; it's included in it. Praise the Lord! I thank God, as I say, for all of you and for the opportunity of spending this hour together.


John Gray — We're delighted, Martin, to be all together here with you, to have shared this magnificent hour together, to accept the invitation of which you spoke at the beginning of service: "Come near unto me." The Lord's will on earth is fulfilled when the people come near unto His representatives on earth. Indeed these exciting, fiery days of fulfillment move inexorably to a point of great victory, the spearhead of which we are privileged to provide with you, bringing this seven factor in conjunction with the twelve. Perhaps in spiritual arithmetric, seven and twelve are one. We know that to be so if we are with you.


Martin Cecil — Seven and twelve are one. I was thinking they are, actually. If you add seven and twelve you get nineteen; add nine and one, you get ten; one and zero are one. It is a joy, always, to be together, knowing the same spirit, and in that spirit knowing oneness. Oneness is a revelation of love—God it love—a revelation of God. Man, male and female, made in the image and likeness of God, is present to reveal Him. This is our responsibility, walking with assurance in the expression of the way, the truth, and the life.



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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Spiritual Fluency

Spiritual  Fluency




Howard Goodman  Sunrise Ranch    David Barnes  Salmon Arm BC


David Karchere  Sunrise Ranch


September 13, 2026 a.m.



Keahi Ewa — I want to welcome you this morning. My name is Keahi Ewa, for those I haven't met yet. After my prayer, we're going to have a karaoke hymnal, “The Beauty Way,” hot off the presses, last week, I believe, David Karchere created it. So please sing along if you'd like. Howard Goodman from Cape Town, South Africa will be speaking; and David Barnes, from Canada will be offering his gifts; followed by David Karchere closing our time together.


I invite you to close your eyes if you'd like and breathe this in as we deepen our practice of giving and receiving in this breath. Let us take a breath together and allow ourselves to arrive fully in this moment. Let the activity that brought us here begin to settle. Let the mind soften, the heart open, and the body remember what it belongs to—to the living rhythm of creation. There is beauty here. There is beauty in the breath moving through us, in this life stirring within us, and in the unique presence of every person gathered. This beauty is not something we have to manufacture. It is not something we have to earn. It is the inner pattern of being already present, waiting to be seen, welcomed, and given expression through us. As a flower opens naturally to the sun, may we open to the creative power that is here now. May everything within us say, “Yes, come here. Come into this heart. Come into this body. Come into this gathering. Come into the words spoken, the music offered, and the silence we share.”


May we see beyond the outer forms of one another and recognize the essence shining through. Beneath our different stories, personalities, cultures, and experiences, we are already connected. We are already belonging to one another, belonging to one another within the greater constellation of being. May we meet there. May we meet in the sacred place within where nothing needs to be defended, where no one needs to prove their worth, and where the beauty of who we are may move freely among us. May this service be an invitation to life, an opening through which love may enter, creative power may move, and something more beautiful may be born. May we be present enough to receive it, open enough to embody it, and generous enough to offer it into our world. The beauty of being is here. The power of creation is here. And we — we are here together. Let us be here. Aumen.



The Beauty Way


I walk with a beauty before me

I walk with beauty behind me

I walk with beauty below me

I walk with beauty above me

I walk with beauty all around me

I walk the beauty way

May all my thoughts be beautiful

May all my words be beautiful

May all my acts be beautiful

I walk the beauty way

— David Karchere —




Howard Goodman — I don't know how to speak when it's beyond words. Walking the Beauty Way, being in it together; flying across the globe, over the beautiful continent of Africa, moving into the west of it across the Atlantic, coming into this valley, coming into our ancestral home. Anne-lise and I are very glad to be here—for the recovery of our courage.


If we remember somewhere in the deep, beautiful, untroubled waters of our heart of remembrance, that we signed up for this work; and so we join hands, join hearts, and honor and hold each other to the task—the task of letting beauty be born. Why does it take courage for us? Loosen the grip, my friends, the survival grip. For ultimately we wake up and come to understand that who we are is both beauty and power, and the restoration of true memory.


I too call in the presence of our ancestors to join us in this ancestral home—the ancestral home that is born from the future, not from the cultures and the structures that are generated out of the past. We are his, her story, His story, Her story, the creation from the future, from this place of the secret, internal domain of the Most High. We laugh. Whether we know it or not, we begin to remember that what joins us at hip, belly, heart, throat, head, body, spirit, is the fire of our ancestral legacy. The legacy that is, in fact, our destiny. We stand here together—seated, standing, it matters not—to honor the present moment. The present moment is a cosmic portal, wherever we may be in the universal scheme of things. We are not strangers. We may feel we're in a strange land, but we are pioneers of restoration, remembering this beautiful body of humankind, cluster, constellation, pod by pod, as we are gathered by the mystical power of love. For the presence of who we are is speaking in and through us all right now.


This is not a solo form behind a microphone disseminating something separate from what you know already. All of us know from the inside. But we are here like a flower to reveal, to let flourish our remembrance, our joy, to know that we are receiving what has already been given, and it takes courage to loosen the grip of what we have come to believe erroneously is a long walk of struggle! Eh? No, it's the beautiful long walk to freedom, to claim the freedom that comes into the present moment amongst us now. All of us here in the Mountain View, with the beautiful paintings, the artistry, the gorgeousness of how we are constellated as all of nature is. And I'll finish off before handing it over to Brother, powerful Brother David from the north, by sharing how when we are focused in our truth, knowing that truth is beauty, the power of our influence in this natural, extraordinary creation, planet Earth is profound.


And this is—I need to do this very quickly, so I'll do it this way. A gathering, music conference, late 1970s, Sunrise Ranch, two weeks together—amazing! what a generation of unified experience. What joy. We end at Eastview down the road here, and we sit in the garden, and our beautiful ancestral guide, Lillian Exeter, says, “Go now and pray your thanksgiving for what we have generated. Commune.” So I do, by the canal, and I'm sitting, and there is silence, and it's the middle of summer, and I say to myself, “Where are the sounds of nature? Where is this beautiful symphony I'm expecting?” And suddenly, from the left comes a battalion of swallows, swooping past me, and the crickets are sounding, and everything is coming alive, and it's all happening. And then my little mind gets in there, and asks a silly question of doubt, and everything returns to silence. Let us let life, the beauty of who we are, be born constantly through the presence of our ancestral ones, by whatever name—father, mother—who are proud of us. Let us make them proud of us by being really fully present together. David, over to you.



David Barnes — Good morning everyone. I live in south-central British Columbia, Canada, about five hours to the northeast of Edenvale. There has been such a wonderful intensification of the current of the Spirit moving since Gary opened the service this morning. There was a powerful movement through you Howard. And of course we must all let our spiritual substance increase to meet the challenge of the intensification that is with us, both now in this morning meditation, but also in the cycle of expansion that we're in, spiritual expansion in the world, and more particularly in the cycle of expansion that is coming to focus at Sunrise Ranch over the next couple of weeks. All of us are a part of that.


I wonder if you know and remember that it is 94 years ago this morning—September 13th, 1932—that Uranda began to move through his great awakening process. And so this is the completion of the 94th year, and we are moving into the 95th year in the cycles which relate to the initiation of the Third Sacred School on earth, and the founding of the ministry of Emissaries of Divine Light; which led 14 years later to the founding of Sunrise Ranch. So here we are on a journey related to the Commission that Uranda received way back, but it was to be shared by all who would take part in it. And it is to this end that we are all called to share in the fulfillment of this Divine Commission, which relates to the restoration of the consciousness of Divine Man and Divine Woman on earth. Now is this not a most beautiful Commission, and beautiful anniversary remembrance! And remembering, is it not the most wonderful and beautiful and glorious opportunity to provide the substance and the spirit and the presence, which allows it to continue.


Something most beautiful occurred here last Sunday; and David Karchere established it under the name “The Secret of Life”; and he identified that as the qualities of beauty, the Beauty of Truth. I thought that the record of that service, those words spoken, pretty much said it all. If you want to look at it line by line and paragraph by paragraph, you will see that everything necessary to the outworking of the Perfect Plan was identified in essence. It's a very wonderful thing for me to be able to say that; and so it should be for all of us in recognition that this Perfect Pattern was articulated in words by our brother and our friend, who did not come alone. He came with others who spoke, and others who gathered from around the world to be with him—all of us together for this purpose.


I thought I would read a few words by Uranda that relate to the matter of beauty, partly to share some of Uranda's spirit and words on this anniversary morning, and be thankful for his presence and what he brought; but also to show you how perfectly David spoke his words of beauty, in exact attunement and alignment with the spirit of Uranda. And you can check this out for yourself—maybe after the service you can go back and read or watch what David said and you can reread these words by Uranda. Uranda wrote a short piece titled Beauty, excerpted from his 1936 masterpiece, “Steps to Mastership”:


“The best way to enter into selfless service  in Life is found in Beauty. He who looks for Beauty in all people and all things soon finds that which he can truly Love. The blending force which draws one into a realization of Oneness is Love, and the Presence of Love in people and all creation is discerned through a perception of Beauty. Beauty is not to be confused with surface prettiness. Beauty is that deeper quality which partakes of the Divine. The Inner Being of all things is Beauty. Look for Beauty and you will find it. When you find Beauty, you will have found the Key to Love [and I might add here, the Secret of Life]. When you have found Love, you will blend with that in which you find it. Thus is Oneness attained.


“The selfless [impersonal] expression of Life depends on the ability to perceive Beauty everywhere. Everywhere present, Beauty will attune you with Love, and Love will blend you with God. Beauty and Truth are One. The Essence of all things is Beauty. The Essence of all things is Truth. Through the Pathway of Beauty, you can ascend to the limitless heights.


“Set yourself to the pleasure of looking for Beauty. Beauty is Reality. Behold It, and the clouds of darkness and illusion will vanish away. Fill your mind with Beauty and there will be no room for the ugly things of the personal life expression. The Christ is Beauty. The Way of the Christ is Beauty. The Truth of the Christ is Beauty. The Life of the Christ is Beauty. You cannot Love that in which you do not see Beauty. Therefore look for Beauty and you will find Love. Look below the surface in contemplation and you will find Beauty. He who hurries sees not Beauty. Follow Beauty and you will find Love. Enter into Love and you will find God. In God you will find the ALL in All.”



I watched the video of the expansion session held after the service last Sunday. I wasn't able to be on it directly. There was a flow present of wondrous beauty in expression through every individual who spoke—a seamless flow of meaning and beauty and power, with substance gathering. Quite amazing, really! It made my whole body tremble to receive it. There was something portrayed, for example, through Lana—to single one out—which was astonishingly beautiful and intelligent and wise and radiant. And to single out another—I could point to each one really—but I want to mention the words that Maria Zayas spoke. It is such a fulfilling thing to hear the Word of truth and love, of vibrancy and life, spoken and revealed with understanding, and knowledge, and richness of expression, such as came through Maria. And I watched the Wednesday night service from the Ranch, focused by Gary Goodhue in the revelation of his vibrant presence. It is so wonderful Gary, to watch you and be with you and hear you in action. And then, of course, there was this most wonderful, beautiful revelation through Cese Foster. I mention these things because all this happened during this past week, in our midst—an expansion of truth and beauty and love and light.


I have just a couple of minutes left, so I want to read—I could speak my own words very easily, but I want to read Maria's words. They came right from the center of her being, out through my heart, moving out through my consciousness in oneness. Here's what Maria had to say, which I think was such a wonderful expansion and complementary expression offered in relationship to that morning service, and particularly the words expressed by David, his words on the theme of beauty, and the Secret of Life. Maria emphasized the marriage between Mother God and Father God; and the spirit and substance, and the engagement that is available within each one of us through this marriage internally. She said:


“The marriage between Mother God and Father God—that is available within each one of us. It is the source of energy and creation when there is this blending. When we are in our correct place, functioning through the design, there is the emanation of Light and Beauty and Truth, and it happens automatically. We don’t need to look at external qualities in the distorted state. It is an inner experience of Beauty and it expresses everywhere—we see it in manifestation in form. We could call these Father and Mother aspects Electrical and Magnetic: the Electrical penetrates and the Magnetic draws. [Father: Love, Electrical. Mother: Truth, Magnetic.] We can think about how these forces are balanced in different configurations, in anything, and in any one. So, the Beauty of Design and Geometry is perfectly in order, and balanced and functional. To be in the Secret of Life is to be available to fulfill these functions at all times—to let that process of engagement occur within me [and within us all together as a collective body], the Electrical and the Magnetic, the Masculine and the Feminine, the Radiant and the Responsive. It is like a little nuclear reactor when these forces come together, and they generate Substance, they generate Light, they generate Vision and Knowledge. So WOW! Hopefully that’s not so much a Secret to us, increasingly. But it is a Secret in the world. I love the power to bring the Truth of Love in this Generative Way.”


So here is an expression through one of our sisters, speaking the Word, so that if Uranda was here in person he would rejoice to see this magnification of what he initiated, occurring now, referring to what our brother David spoke and wrote, and what Maria brought, and the beauty of what you brought Howard, and you Keahi. We could go on and on and on in these generations, through this little “nuclear reactor”, the Ark made flesh. So, David, I'm going to turn this over to you, recognizing the beauty of your name, which means “beloved”, and how David in the Bible was once called “a man after God's own heart”. Here we are with you, men and women who come with a revelation of God's own heart, a heart of courage. Over to you, David.



David Karchere — Thank you, David. It was a supreme pleasure to hear you speak. And I want to give back to you what you have given so generously to us, which is recognition, a seeing, appreciation. There can be no doubt that here is an uncommon man. And of course there's something unique and uncommon about each of us, unique to us, a unique spirit, unique combination of factors, unique creative abilities. And one by one we get to receive that and appreciate that from others—and then get to bring our gifts. What we've already shared here this morning is so monumental, and for me just such a joy to be with and to receive. Thank you all.


I too want to acknowledge the anniversary of Emissaries of Divine Light. Uranda called what he was undertaking and what Emissaries of Divine Light is all about as the Third Sacred School. And he spoke of it as the spiritual plane approach—an interesting turn of phrase, the spiritual expression plane approach. He was making a distinction there, and using that word spiritual; he wasn't referring to the ultimate reality of spirit. He was talking about that dimension of us as human beings that have the ability to bring the spiritual into the human experience and into the human world—our spiritual nature, the spiritual nature of human beings. And he was saying that the work that he was undertaking, and that those who were with him were undertaking, was the work that was of that level of things that came to focus there.


And what we know is that what happens in our spiritual nature as human beings affects everything else. So it isn't limited to there. What's happening in our spiritual nature affects how we think and feel, and what we do and what we say. I don't know how fully people who have been associated with this Program have appreciated the significance of what was being said. That level of things in human experience has been taken over and largely occupied by, prevailed over by worldly priesthoods, and spiritual and religious institutions. And you have people who are followers of all that, and all the dogma, and all the disciplines that come out of that. And then increasingly in our day you have people who say, enough of that noise, I'm out of here—and by the way I'm going to reject any kind of spiritual approach because it's obviously awful, because it's taken over by institutions, and it doesn't have life. Not realizing that in the process the spiritual is being thrown out, which is not really owned by any institution, or anything of human culture. It's owned by the divine, and ultimately us in the name of the divine. But a sad state of affairs if you think about it.


So to put it this way, this ministry is about a takeover. We're not interested in overthrowing the Roman Catholic Church or any other religious institution. Not a takeover in that sense, but a takeover of the space. Throwing out all the old idols, all the old dogma for or against. Not relevant. Not relevant. What's relevant is this tremendous capacity for spiritual expression that we have, that we are owning. But if you don't have the courage to confront all the religious ideas, the doctrines of the dogma, and all the rites and rituals and disciplines of worldly spirituality, in the name of the creator being that you are, that we are—that we are, that we are, in the name of the reality of spirit—then that area lies dormant in human experience. And then we settle on other things. Are Emissaries of Divine Light are an elevated social club? An alumni association? That's not what Uranda created. And I dare say for any of us who came to be a part of what this is, we didn't come for that. No, we came for something vital. The vitality of our own spirit, the vitality of what we knew and then what we touched. In people for whom it was real. People in whom there was, in fact, spiritual expression. Well, it's a nice phrase.


Last week especially, and again this morning, we are going into depth on some of the factors that are involved in spiritual expression. It's not all monotone, one thing: “Spiritual expression; yes, I flipped the switch. It's on. I'm expressing spiritually.” There's all kinds of—wha —colors to the expression of spirit. David was highlighting truth and beauty. We could well say, as I believe David did say, truth is beauty and beauty is truth. The pattern of creation. The essence of it. The shape and the color and the rhythm of it. And then there is the power of creation, the ultimate value of creation, ultimate reason, which is love. The creative power that moves through the patterns of truth.


Last week I was saying that truth is like a flower. In the beauty of the flower, it attracts creative powers. It attracts the sun. It welcomes the rain. And that's how beauty is. When we know the beautiful, we are calling in the creative powers which all ultimately originate and center in love. And in that there's life, the power of life, the pattern of life. We're alive and it's beautiful, and we know it. All those things are happening in spiritual expression when our spiritual expression is open and alive.


I think of another term, which is spiritual fluency. For talking about expression, I think fluency is a valid word to use. So how is our spiritual fluency, our ability to express—and express whatever color of spirit, whatever dynamic of spirit is called for in the moment? What is called for from us? That electricity that David spoke of, that magnetism that he spoke of? Is that what's called for? What is called for? And do we have the emotional fluency and the spiritual fluency to give it expression? Or are we somehow embedded in some facet of human culture, embedded in some facet of human personality, that constellated as what we think of as ourselves? So we're embedded in that personality or culture, which tells us that this is who we are, this is how we express, this is how we come off, this is the impression we want to give. And even though the moment calls for something else, we're chained in that culture, in that personality. No fluency.


I have an unusual topic for Sunday morning: gender fluidity. We're not going to get into all the political and social ramifications of those words as they're known today. That's not for me to get into, not for us here this Sunday morning. I’ll make only one comment about it. A good place to start is being thankful for what you have, I think. Whatever we have, however we think of it, being thankful for what we have allows us to use what we have as a human being to, you know, bring the optimal pleasure and creativity. But I really want to speak of something else.


We could be embedded in our culture, we could be embedded in our gender as we think of it on a cultural basis. So that even though the circumstance, even though the person is calling out for the love of Mother God, we can't go there because we don't have the fluency, spiritually, to go there. The fluency to open up our arms and allow our arms to be the arms of Mother God that could hold that person or that group of people in the arms of the Great Mother. And if there's a lack of spiritual fluency—and from a spiritual standpoint, gender fluidity—we could be unable to do that. And if a circumstance calls for the power of the Father—the nobility of the Father, the assurance of the Father, the confidence of the Father—but we're stuck in some kind of phase of personality, concept of our own gender identity, we can't go there. That's sad. And the same thing is true for us together. Are we spiritually fluent? Can we go where we need to go? Can we bring the dignity and the power and the nobility of the Father; and the loving arms and the patterns of truth of the Mother? Can we go where we need to go spiritually and allow for a spiritual expression that is called for in this day?



In the last book of the Bible, the Revelation of the Apostle John, John had all kinds of fantastic imagery, dragons and beasts and all kinds of things. And in chapter 18, he speaks about the Babylon as the fallen state, and all of the demons of Babylon. And he was colorful in his language. And I won't use it, you know, read all that. We don't need it all. But in the middle of all that, describing all that, he said something which is so powerful and memorable. “Come out of her, my people.” Come out of her, my people. Come out of your cultural identity. Come out of your personality identity. Come out of her. It's portrayed as coming from a great voice out of heaven. Come out of her, my people. We're not supposed to be living in all that! In a humanly defined state of consciousness, or culture or world. Coming out of it into a place of higher awareness and expression, an appreciation for beauty, which is truth; and speaking out of truth, speaking out of love, spiritually fluent, knowing an abundance of life.


Is this spiritual bypassing? Come out of her, my people. We're just going to take off to some place in some heavenly realm. No, actually quite the opposite. Come out of her, my people, so that you can go into her, and express into her authentically as who you are, with the authenticity of spirit that is unaltered by the cultural state into which you're speaking. It doesn't originate from there. It isn't changed by that. It is speaking into it, and then is embodying itself through it in expression. Come out of her, my people, so you can go into her as me. I think you could say that that's what spirit is telling us.


We're reaching the end of our hour. There's so much more. I'd love to speak about it. And I want to say just a word to give you the territory. In the Book of Job, Chapter 38—some of you probably familiar with it; it's thought of as the examination. And I'll read the first couple of verses. “Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I'll demand of thee and answer thou me. Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare of thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof? If thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof? When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”


So here is apparently, through this Chapter, reference to astronomy and astrology, and cosmic factors related to creation. You might say up there, out there. So the examination is about having some awareness of all that. But then it goes on to talk about Job's ability to allow those factors to be manifest through his own experience. “Who hath laid the measures thereof? If thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof?” Yes, these things relate to cosmic factors related to creation. But then they relate to us. Who has stretched the line upon this creation? How is this creation established? Where are the cornerstones of it? Who knows? Who is one of those cornerstones?"


There are lines between people that allow for creation to occur. Something heavenly being known, but in the flesh as human beings. That establishes a line, a creative line of agreement, we say. A creative line of energy, of awareness, that builds a grid. We are speaking of a constellation, the constellation of being. There's the constellation of being up there, you might say, in the invisible. But who knows the constellation of being here? And if you know it, and I know it, there can be a line between us of knowing each other. And that line allows the powers of creation to move. And if that line is not present, no creation, human struggle. Anyway, maybe next week we'll get into that.



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