Monday, June 29, 2026

Factors Of Heredity

Factors  Of  Heredity





Martin Cecil  June 23,  1974 pm



Part of our consideration this morning related particularly to young people. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/in-one-generation.html] I received a portion of a place mat that Conrad ffrench sent me from somewhere in the east, I guess. I would like to read this to you. It says: “Stay young. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair—these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whether 70 or 16, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars, the starlight things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the childlike appetite for what is next, and the joy and the game of life. You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your doubt, as young as your faith, as old as your fear, as long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the infinite.”


There is, of course, a good deal of truth from what is said in the passage, but it still remains the cellar view, the view from the bottom of the stairs. What it would be at the top is quite unknown. Human beings have their dreams, of course. Through their myths and fair stories another sort of experience has been retained in human consciousness, but what it was nobody really knows.  However, they couldn’t even think of it if it were not present in consciousness.


I have stressed, from time to time, the vast difference between the present human experience and the true state of man. It seems difficult for human beings to realize what that vastness really must be because they are accustomed to seeing things by comparison, and if you don't know what it is you are comparing something to, it remains rather obscure as to the difference. As there is repentance and the first step begins to be taken up the stairs, one rises up a little from the cellar floor and there is a difference; a difference is experienced. However, even that difference is more or less indescribable insofar as acquainting someone else with it who is still standing on the cellar floor. The only way that someone else can become acquainted is to step up too, and then they may say, “Oh, yes, I see.” It can be recognized easily, then, that mere intellectual dissertations about the truth have very little meaning. There are many, many people in the world who spend a great deal of time talking about what they consider the truth to be, bandying back and forth ideas and concepts and beliefs, theories, while still remaining on the cellar floor. What real purpose is there to that? It is only when something is done, there is some specific movement onto the first step of the ascending staircase, that a difference begins to appear.


In the cellar people are always comparing things in the cellar, and they say, “Oh, this is like that.” Maybe. But to be on even the first step of the ascending stairs is different to being on the cellar floor, and it can't be compared to any of the states that are experienced on the cellar floor. Now, of course, those who are on the cellar floor can't see this. They assume that everything is at that level, therefore everything is comparable to everything else, and if there are differences they are simply modifications of the cellar-floor state.


Some have approached what is offered through this ministry asking, “Well, what’s the difference between this and something else?” Could the difference be explained to someone who doesn’t know what it is? No. A person must come to the level, at least the first step, to be acquainted with what it truly is, and then the individual realizes the difference.



If what is now called Ontology [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-science-of-real-being-from-god.html] is discussed on the cellar floor, nobody is any the wiser. A great deal of time can be wasted that way, but I venture to say that many of you, if not all of you, at some point found yourself sufficiently repentant and humble to be touching that first step and, at that point, there it was, you saw! Whatever the point of contact was—maybe someone speaking, or maybe a service you read, a booklet, or something else—this is it! Now, how could you explain to somebody else what you experienced at that point, somebody else who did not have that experience. Of course, generally when a person does not have that experience, there is a great deal of enthusiasm generated and he tries to make everybody else have that same experience. But they can’t; they’re still standing on the cellar floor. Perchance, if you exemplify what it means to stand on the first step, someone else will come to the point of seeing it somewhere along the way; but they only see it because they themselves, to whatever extent, have also taken that step. They don’t see it otherwise. The darkness does not comprehend the light, and the cellar floor represents the state of darkness. mIt is the world as man has known it for a long time.


Now, I have pointed out that there have been a number of steps which landed man in the basement—there is a flight of stairs, and all these steps weren't taken at once. He came down step by step, and incidentally, he goes up step by step; he can't leap from the cellar floor to the floor above. Human beings, in their present state, have very little awareness, even from the standpoint of myth and memory, of the nature of the steps which brought them into the cellar, and if we touch upon some of these steps, they may tend to look a little fantastic because the only connection that human beings have with them is through these stories, mythological stories, and fairy tales. The reality of the experience itself has long since been blotted out of consciousness. One of the reasons it has been blotted out is because of a sense of shame. Now, human beings don't like to think about it, so they take great pains not to remember it; and if they do find that something filters into consciousness on occasion, it's turned into a myth or a fairy story so it doesn't have any immediate application. And human beings that way have gotten around their conscious sense of shame to some extent. But shame is lurking underneath, because coming down those stairs was a very shameful experience.


Now, as I say, there is rather a clear outline of many of the things that occurred, in the Bible. But, generally speaking, they have not been recognized for what they are. I mentioned this morning that Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Seth, didn't alone refer to specific individuals but related to a larger picture, related to the human race as such, portraying some of the things that occurred. There is one particular passage a little later, as man descended toward the cellar floor, which is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, the sixth chapter:


“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,

and daughters were born unto them,

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;

and they took them wives of all which they chose.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,

for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”



A slightly longer life-span than is common in these days, but a greatly reduced life-span insofar as human beings were concerned before that time. So, obviously, something is being described here that was a step in the fall and that was lowering man's condition. “The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Now, if I speak a little of these things, it is not for the purpose of developing concepts, generating theories, but that there may be a more vivid sensing of what is present in our own makeup, so that we can handle it more intelligently. We could substitute for the words “sons” or “daughters” the word “servants.” There were the servants of men and the servants of God.


What had happened in the first experience of the fall, and there were a number of steps involved in that too, was that the material aspect of man, the material aspect of man as he then was—and as he then was is not at all as he now is—the material aspect of man was separated from the spiritual aspect of man. So in the collective sense there were on earth those who could be said to be the servants of God and those who had become material human beings, symbolized by Cain.


In the story of Cain and Abel, Cain and Abel were two brothers. Now, we recognize that the true state of man is oneness—the material aspect of man and the spiritual aspect of man are properly one. But as the fall developed there was a separation and material man, Cain, lost consciousness of Spiritual Man. But for the time being, in the collective sense, Spiritual Man was still present on earth—those who had not fallen, those who were still identified with the Lord. There came a point when these remaining ones did leave the earth, so that the world was left to material man, and there were some very violent cataclysmic events which occurred as all these things were taking place.


But in the original state, Spiritual Man was provided with a means for the accomplishment of necessary physical work. Now, this means could be described as the servants of men, just as man in his true state could be described as the servants of God. This means, by which man was served on earth, has been carried down in human consciousness, reproducing itself, for instance, in a pattern of slavery. This occurred because man had some remnants of a consciousness of something which he misinterpreted in a self-centered sense. We have had various races and nations who have considered themselves to be master races, for instance, so that those who were not of the master race should all be slaves to the master race. Now here again is a self-centered interpretation of something which was originally true. There were servants of men, but they were not MAN; they were in the animal category. We have to use words to describe something which is, at the present time, indescribable except on the basis of using parallels. We could take what are nowadays called dogs, for instance. The faithful dog who loves his master is delighted to do, in his doggy ways, whatever he may for his master and he doesn't feel put upon by his master. There is the evidence of humility there, isn't there? In this present state, on the cellar floor, this is a portrayal, in a very limited sense, of what was true at the head of the stairs, what was true before man fell. There was provision made in this regard, and these creatures, the servants of men, were not human. Perhaps I use the wrong word there because, as is evident from this passage which I read, those who are represented by Cain, whose response had reversed, whose polarity was reversed, were responding to externals and their response to externals, their lust, their desires, related to what was external to them, and so they undertook to blend with these servants of men, who were very much in the form of what we are now; and the progeny is us—we might say mongrels.


Now, as I say, I'm not speaking of these things to generate concepts and some sort of wallowing in more knowledge. Probably it may seem a little fantastic, but everything at the top of the stairs is fantastic to the cellar dweller. But we do see remnants, as I have said, of this inhuman function. There was rightly, of course, in the original state, this level at which the servants of man functioned—higher than anything that is known (other than man as he is now) in the animal kingdom. The only thing that is comparable is your own physical body. But there is a very peculiar mixture here, isn't there? It isn't the original state at all, and this reemphasizes what I was saying before—the vast difference between what is now known and what is true after the steps have been taken out of the cellar to the top, where man belongs as the servant of God. Now, these creatures were what would now be called slaves, but delighted to be slaves; that was what they were created for; this was their fulfillment; and True Man loved them, enfolded them, cared for them, something along the lines of a good master looking after his faithful hound. The provision that was made for these creatures was completely adequate as far as they were concerned. They weren't human, except that nowadays, if we are to say that, it wouldn't entirely be true because


they're mixed up in us



Now, this shameful experience, which relates to our forebears, has eliminated from human experience the control factors which worked insofar as those creatures were concerned. The animal kingdom, the kingdom of vegetation—all these kingdoms of life form on earth are controlled externally—there is no being present in these forms, as is true of man. Man was given dominion in the original state, and all the government, all the control, of all that was happening here on this planet and beyond, was in the hands of man, who was the servant of God; and so direction and control were given to the development of what we now call nature. But it was a very different state then to what it is now, because nature has been functioning, since man fell, without that guidance and control; and the result is that we have some mess-ups in nature. Of course, there are elements that help to maintain some sort of a control there, but not the same as it was when man was in place, because nature depends upon man. It is said that Adam, for instance, named all the animals. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-magic-of-creation-4man-with-god.html] He didn’t go around giving them names; it's just an indication of the fact that they were all included in the scope of his consciousness; they were all enfolded; they were all kept in their right positions and right relationships because man, in the collective sense, himself had a pattern of right relationship established because of what was inherent in God. So the whole thing was under control; there was dominion.


When man descended to the cellar, nature was left without the control which man had been offering. Of course, as he was descending into the cellar he had more continuing ability to do things with nature than human beings now have. He was still on his way down; he was still up a little, in other words, from the cellar floor. So there were many things he could do in relationship to nature which he can't do now, many things that he could produce, for instance. And, having begun to move in a self-centered pattern, he proceeded to produce some things that had no business being produced. But quite apart from any deliberate action on man's part, and there was quite a bit of that, there has been the fact of his absence—the fact that he hasn't been in position, providing any control. Of course, he's been trying to do it by imposition, but that is not the true control. The more he exerts this sort of control the more difficulty he gets into. Nature, left to itself, has generated various life forms—there have been mutations and what have you, for various reasons, and we have those delightful creatures, mosquitos, for instance. The original Garden had no mosquitos.


But here is man as we now know him, brought into a physical form which is basically the physical form of the original servants of man; but present in this physical form is the angel—Spiritual Man. But what the human experience is in this mongrel state is a composition of these creatures and the original material man. Of course, we call this composition material man now, but it is not the way Cain was. So here was a particular step of the fall, a deliberate step downward, which has brought us into the condition in which we find ourselves.


Now what we are externally has a slave nature, and this fact must be accepted, and yet what human beings have known of themselves externally has been endeavoring to get freedom. The external nature of man is mostly slave, and must accept that fact. We have indications from our Master's words, when He was speaking to His disciples, that He had referred to them as servants but they were to be friends. But they had to be servants first; there had to be an acknowledgment of this slave condition of material man.



Presently material man is a slave to his own nature. He's a slave to the external world around him. He's a slave to his own feelings. He's a slave to his own concepts. He's a slave to everything external to himself. He doesn't like that condition; he tries to break out of it; he tries to stop being in a state of slavery, but the more he tries the more of a slave he becomes. He feels that he is boxed in some way, so he develops various forms of government, for instance, which are going to give him freedom, he thinks, they're going to make him feel secure; but he discovers that what he develops brings him more and more into a state of slavery. We have an election campaign going on at the present time, with various political parties presenting their platforms, as they call them—all on the cellar floor, by the way—of how much better it’s going to be for all if we put them in power, whichever one, because of what they are going to do for us. Of course, this is entirely a self-centered exercise. “Let’s see who’s going to give us the most, and we’ll vote for these!” Well, if we are controlled by these things we are in slavery, and no matter who we vote for, the slavery will become worse.


But the true slavery of the original creature was to man. Man was the master; this creature was the slave, and this creature is right here, right where we're sitting. But man was the master. Man was the master because man was the servant of God, so that God's dominion was extended through man, not only to this creature but to the whole range of his realm of responsibility on earth. Now, obviously, if this step of the fall is to be reversed, the slave must become the slave to man again. But man originally was Spiritual Man, so what human beings are in the external material sense must become the slave of Spiritual Man, Spiritual Man who is the slave of God. But the conditioning of self-centeredness in man keeps making him strive as material man to become free, but material man cannot be made free all on his own. He does not experience what freedom is until he is a slave to Spiritual Man, so that Spiritual Man governs material experience, and none of the feelings, none of the likes and dislikes, none of the good ideas, none of the human view of what should be, is allowed to control in material man's experience. And yet, this is what does control in material man's experience now. He is a slave to these things, and he thinks this is somehow an evidence of his freedom. He has what he calls a freedom of spirit, the spirit of man, so he's able to see so well what's good and what's bad, what he should do and what he shouldn't do, and what he likes to do and what he doesn't like to do, what's pleasing and what's displeasing; he is going to govern himself on this basis. He thinks he knows what's going to be good for his fellows, he thinks he knows what's going to be good for his children, he thinks he knows what's going to be good for himself. But he doesn't know any of these things; he's in a state of complete self-delusion in this regard, the delusion of self-centeredness, the trap. He is in the trap. So, rightly, there must be slavery to Spiritual Man insofar as material human experience is concerned.


Now people don't like that idea. They say, “Well, now I’m going to lose my freedom.” What freedom? They don’t have any no; they’re being pushed around from pillar to post by everything that comes up on the basis of whatever it is. So there is slavery to the wrong things now, and repentance requires that an individual admit that, acknowledge that it's true. If one is a slave anyway, why not be a slave in the right direction, to the right master? The right master is Spiritual Man. Abel needs to be resurrected, as we have seen, into the consciousness of Cain, and when Abel is resurrected into the consciousness of Cain, Abel, who is a slave to God, shares the freedom that is present in God; and Cain, who is a slave to Abel, shares the freedom that is in Abel. And, in fact, it is discovered that it isn't a matter of Cain and Abel at all. Cain and Abel vanish as two separate brothers—there is just one person, and that one person is called Adam, or was in the beginning. Cain and Abel were the progeny of Adam after Adam had fallen—we can see what is being portrayed here. So material man, what we have thought ourselves to be in the external sense here, becomes a slave to Spiritual Man, rather than a slave to externals.



Abel is resurrected


That experience, of course, relates to one of the steps coming up from the cellar—and it is all found to be an entirely different state of affairs, vastly different. One would be hard put to find any similarities. Of course, all the cellar experience somehow originated at the top of the stairs, but by the time human beings got to the bottom it had been changed and distorted to be unrecognizable. Now, human beings have felt a sense of shame in relationship to slavery. Some have tried to exploit other human beings on this basis and their endeavor stemmed from a faint memory of the original state, where human beings have felt that there should be slaves, but where are they? Nowadays everybody is said to be equal; perhaps this is an awakening to the fact that everybody is on the cellar floor, at the same level. But when we step up onto the stairs, then a new level begins to appear, so that everybody is not at the same level; and as there is movement up those stairs, more and more levels begin to appear. Of course, those on the cellar floor have a tendency to try to drag everybody else down onto the cellar floor—we're all equal down here! But we need to come up out of the cellar; we belong on the next floor, and we can't come to the next floor without taking the steps that lead there. And if taking those steps makes it appear that there are higher and lower levels in the process, what's wrong with that? It is merely evidence that there are those who are beginning to come up the stairs, and that's what's needed. We need to recognize that there is this slave nature incorporated in us.


So we need to recognize that there is this slave nature incorporated in us. We stem from a slave background in that sense. Not because God made it that way but because human beings made it that way, and we're the end result right now. Until this is seen, and we acknowledge it in relationship to ourselves, so that there is a willingness to accept what is the fact insofar as the external pattern is concerned, there is no way out of the dilemma. Accepting the fact of being a slave is repentance. It requires that the balloon be deflated, and the balloon is the human ego, which tries to make something of itself by stealing  whatever it can get its hands on from  Spiritual Man. We have this corrupt state in consequence—and it is corrupt. It relates to all human beings on the face of the earth; it relates to the cellar-floor condition.


It is said that disobedience was one of the reasons for man's fall. That's right! Wanting to be something for himself without regard to God. And then that fall kept coming down the stairs, so that the slave condition into which man had brought himself then wanted to be something of itself, without regard to Spiritual Man. Well, we come again into a beginning awareness of the real depravity which has been the experience of human beings on the way down into the cellar; and, of course, coming into the cellar, we think we're trapped there. But the stairs go up as well as down, and they go up when what is a slave is willing to be a slave and doesn't try to be something that it isn't, is willing to be governed from above, so that it is not following out its creature feelings without anything providing a control for them. Spiritual Man provided the control for this creature, the servant of man, and this must be restored. Now, we don't need to speculate as to what occurs in the outworking of this creative process, with respect to the possibility that the servant of man is separated from man, who is the servant of God. In other words, there are two grades of creature—the servants of Men, and Men—because Men are the creature of God, after all.



All our concern is to let the separation take place in us, so that the slave is a slave and Man is Man; and the slave relates to this external manifestation, the physical form with a capacity of consciousness. It is through that capacity of consciousness that the original servant of man was controlled—there is a certain level of consciousness. So that pattern of consciousness in the body, the physical body, needs to come under control of Spiritual Man because Spiritual Man is resurrected into that consciousness, and we begin to find ourselves being something different, a new state of consciousness. But it came from somewhere, the consciousness of Spiritual Man by means of which material man is restored as a servant of the Lord. Material man no longer has any consciousness separate from Spiritual Man, and Spiritual Man does not have a consciousness separate from God; it is all one state. But we need to become aware of the nature of the condition as it really is on the cellar floor, and not try to fool ourselves that this is almost heavenly. There is a whole flight of stairs, and when we come out of the cellar, what a wonderful thing the fresh air is!


And so, as I have said already, I touched upon some things this evening that do not warrant speculation, but may reacquaint us a little with our earthly heredity. And though we have this earthly heredity in close proximity to us, there is also the heavenly heredity of Spiritual Man.












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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Friday, June 26, 2026

In One Generation

In  One  Generation





Martin Cecil   June 23, 1974 a.m.



Recently, on a Sunday morning, I spoke of loneliness. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/thank-god-for-lonliness.html] This service was subsequently entitled “Thank God for Loneliness!” The videotape went to Sunrise Ranch and the transcript went to various other places, so that I have received a number of letters of response from far and wide. One of these I would like to read to you this morning. It was written by a lady, whose identity is not important at the moment, but it outlines something very beautiful on the basis of clear, open response and brings to point what I wish to touch upon this morning later, in connection with what is essential for the experience of restoration, or what we have recently been calling the resurrection of Abel. Here is the letter:


“Dear Martin, Yes, thank God for loneliness! It is a most moving and driving compulsion. It will bring one, depending upon the depth and strength of it, to the depths of hell, or to the heights of glory if it is turned in the right direction. And I have had abundant experience, all relating to the little word ‘loneliness,’ and I surely do thank God for it all. There is such a strong and prevalent pattern in these days in both material men and women to seek relationships to assuage the emptiness and loneliness gnawing at the heart. Actually, these patterns often are established when one is very young; this society encourages such entanglements as a natural and accepted coverup, although everyone really knows that nothing is ever covered up. But beginning at such a young and tender age, these things are well established in the subconscious and the tuggings and pullings are accepted as part of oneself, something that pushes and pulls you around by the nose at the control and will of the devil. It is a hideous and vile state of affairs, established by the devil at the very core of one's being; and because it is accepted as being part of oneself, it cannot be seen. Thank God that these things don't assuage that loneliness; if anything, they intensify it but one still can't see what it is. The only way of purification, of coming to see what really is and of experiencing what really is is to turn to God, Spiritual Man—a point of orientation in form—and let the fires of purification burn the tares and allow the reality, I Am, to be gathered into the Father's barn. And there is no greater joy or fulfilment. In this experience, one realizes that I Am Spiritual Man. In these patterns of fallen manhood and womanhood, those involved—and there are few indeed who aren't—seize relationships and sex and a multitude of distortions in these areas and make them into gods and pour all their lonely energies into worship of these falsities. It is a vile trap and regardless of the longings and loneliness present in one's heart to serve God and move in His way, the person so involved is absolutely untrustworthy and unstable to hold anything of a consistent vibrational pattern when he is at the mercy of the devil. Praise the Lord that the Lord sees these things and is not fooled by them but draws and enfolds until one comes to the point of seeing. How wonderful that loneliness is when it is turned to God, for certainly in time turning the loneliness is filled and there is fulness to overflowing. I suppose there is no one now serving the Lord who hasn't known great and deep loneliness for Abel, for what he knows inherently he should be. I know I have known this; and I greatly rejoice in the experience that this loneliness compelled me to. I know that telling you that now I am trustworthy is not worth a great deal, because the Lord looketh not upon words spoken through the lips or written on paper, but He looketh upon the consistent differentiation of the Tone which always reflects, as a mirror, that which is truly worshiped. And in the Tone and its consistent differentiation the cleansing takes place and spiritual man is revealed through this material capacity which has been freed from bondage. I certainly give deep thanks to see what I was involved in, to see what I accepted as me and to leave it all behind in ashes. And I know as never before the blessings of wholeness, not just in my own individual experience but the fact that this victory opens the way for the Tone to be sounded ever more clearly in this body, specifically relating to the false patterns of relationships and sex. And I also recognize that for full and uttermost service to be extended through these material capacities, all the unreal must be burned and cleansed, so I do not take the attitude that it has all been done and that ‘I have arrived somewhere!’ No. I vividly recognize where every moment and every aspect of my attention needs to be: in absolute and utter devotion to God and the things of God, and surely this comes to focus in one who so perfectly represents Him. Martin, how I praise God for what has taken place in my experience. It feels so good to come clean. How I love and appreciate the great and glorious privilege of serving Him in greater wholeness and fulness with you in these great days of His fulfilment on earth.”


I thank God for what has been the experience of this particular person and for the willingness and ability to convey something of that experience through the spirit of these words. She speaks of a trap, a trap into which human beings of every generation have initially rushed with great enthusiasm, and then they're caught. Though there may be the longing of the heart subsequently to clear out of that trap, as many can testify, it is easier said than done. Clearly, then, it would be better not to go into the trap in the first place. What has happened is that each generation as it came along imagined that it had to prove things out for itself. The inevitable result of this was virtually no progress. Each generation starts at the same place, goes into the same trap, finds itself trapped and doesn't have any time left to emerge out of the trap. So it has been a meaningless circle, a vicious circle, because those who entered the trap usually did it with great enthusiasm and high expectations and it wasn't until later that they found out that it was a trap.


In our recent meditations we have recognized that there were successive steps in what has been called the fall of man. He went down the steps into the cellar. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-stairs.html] Landing up in the cellar, he has continued to exist there ever since he got there, so that it has been customary, in his view, to do what may be possible to enjoy the cellar condition. It has been so long known that now it is thought of as being the inevitable and natural state, and while there is a great deal of unpleasantness in the cellar of human existence, at the same time I am always impressed, and I am sure that you have been too, with the tremendous beauty of the earth. If one can exclude human miseries from consciousness for a moment and observe what is called nature round about, what immense variety there is and what tremendous beauty. What could the state of affairs have been, what could the beauty have been, when man was at the top of the stairs? It is beyond human imagining.


There are endeavors these days to attempt to preserve some of the loveliness of the earth in various ways because it all seems to be finally slipping away; but it isn't really a matter of preserving the remnants but of allowing the restoration to occur. Now, of course, the restoration of man is essential to the restoration of the earth, so first things have to be put first, and it isn't really a matter of trying to preserve the beauties of the earth but of letting the beauties of Spiritual Man be restored, and then the beauties of the earth will take care of themselves. But as we have noted, each generation has exhibited an unwillingness to allow movement to occur up the stairs, right from the very beginning.


We have touched upon the Ministry of Seth, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-ministry-of-seth.html] as we have called it, which is essentially that ministry portrayed by the words, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” There has been provision in this regard all down through the ages. A very great deal of it went unrecognized because human beings, generation after generation, wanted to have their own way, do their own thing, imagining that they were wiser than previous generations and would succeed where others had failed. It never yet happened! But there has been the provision of Seth and subsequent generations springing from him.



We may recognize particularly, of course, something with respect to Elijah in this regard, or Elias, as he was called in the New Testament record. “The voice of one crying in the wilderness,” the messenger of the Lord, the one who knows the way, when human beings at the foot of the stairs don't, but won't admit it, won't admit that they don't. Of course, admitting that one doesn't know is what is called repentance. Admitting that one doesn't know and therefore one needs guidance, one needs to learn something, one needs to be shown what the way is, is indeed repentance, and without repentance the fact that the kingdom of heaven is at hand remains unknown.


There is a sense in which the world is in the hands of young people. Of course the older generation are inclined to take this attitude: The youngsters will have to do a better job than we did if anything worthwhile is to happen. But that is not the way in which anything worthwhile will happen, trying to do a better job than somebody else. The way it works is for young people to move under the direction of Seth, so that they do not go into the trap.


All of us went into the trap. It may be said we didn't know any better; it seemed the only way to go. But you know now that it isn't the only way to go. I can recall in my own earlier experience in life there was a point when I was really open to receive something but there was nobody on hand to give it. Now, I am sure that many of you have had the same experience, but that's not true anymore. There is somebody on hand to give it, so we can't use that excuse again. I can recall being bitterly disappointed. There was a very likable minister with whom I was associated at the time, and he was a good fellow, but he didn't know anything! He was preparing me for what is called confirmation and he gave me a bunch of stuff, dry as dust, and it didn't make any sense, because the Way is the Way of Life and it isn't the way of knowledge. Human beings have tried to make it into the way of knowledge. Some of that knowledge they call experience; they're going to learn from experience. Well, human beings have been having experience, presumably, for millennia, but did anyone ever learn anything from it? Apparently not, because each generation goes back into the same trap.


Now, we who have been in the trap, many rather thoroughly indoctrinated, may long to be out of it, but, as I say, it seems to be easier to talk about than to do. Even though there may be a recognition of many things and a desire to repent, the patterns seem to have been so firmly set in human consciousness that in spite of ourselves we tend to think and behave along the lines established by the trap. Well, obviously, it would be a lot easier for a young person who hadn't yet been swallowed up by the trap to begin to move in the right way before the crystallizations were set; and I thank God that there are some who are not too much embedded in the old state and who have begun to move somewhat, those of more tender years; but all too many think that they have to go through the same old rigmarole again. They may say, “Well, it's customary; everybody does it and if I didn't do it I would be so lonely.” Oh ... thank God for loneliness! Without it you're finished. If you can delude yourself that your loneliness has been satisfied, you're sunk; you have committed the unpardonable sin. You can't repent, and if one doesn't repent he can't be forgiven, and if one isn't forgiven he never lives.


Now, there are two ways here for those who are desirous of repenting. One can put it off. One may perhaps move tentatively toward repentance, but then the provision that is made, the Seth or the Elijah provision that is made, may be lost; the person may put it off so that the one who could make the experience of forgiveness possible finally dies, isn't on hand anymore. So one can put it off that way, or one can put it off for oneself so that you are the one who dies, sitting on the bottom step, the bottom step which is a hint that there is a staircase, the bottom step which relates to repentance, amongst other things. “Well, it is possible to repent, therefore I am going to sit down on the bottom step; I'm not actually going to repent, mind you, but there is a possibility here.” How much easier it is for a young person to be guided, exhibit a willingness to be guided, before the crystallizations have set in. Now, as I say, young people have a tendency to rush with enthusiasm into the trap, imagining that if they didn't they would lose something most valuable. The fact of the matter is that they lose everything that is of value if they go into the trap, but they don't usually find that out until it's too late.


Now the ministry of Seth or Elijah is only necessary because human beings are in the cellar. There is a whole flight of stairs to ascend. It’s not much use only going part way up, because whatever has been experienced by a person, until he comes to the top of the stairs, will inevitably be eliminated with that person from the scene of things, and when that person has gone, no matter what his experience of going up the stairs has been, it is lost. That's right, isn't it? You can't convey it to somebody else. A person has to go up the stairs for himself.



One generation can’t hand it to the next


This is why it has always been said that whatever must to be achieved must be achieved in one generation or it never will be! Where it has had to be carried forward to subsequent generations it has always been lost. That's right. Look around you. Where there are crystallized states in people so that they have the hablt of cellar existence, then the prospect of going up the stairs seems too much. How often I have heard someone say, “Oh, well, I'm too old to change.” It's probably true for that person because that is the individual's attitude and because he has accepted the crystallizations as permanent. If one accepts those things as permanent, well, that's permanent, and the really permanent thing in this regard is what is called death. In saying that it is obviously easier for young people I am not at the same time saying that it is impossible for older ones, but those of you who are older know that there has been a certain amount of drag; you haven't risen instantly to the mountaintop or to the top of the stairs.


There are steps to be taken individually speaking, very specific steps, and you can't miss any of them. But nobody is going to take those steps without a willingness to do it. Collectively speaking, in the world as it now is, we find ourselves at a point where somebody is going to have in take those steps, or good-bye, and if a person can't see that coming...! It has been coming for quite a while in an inexorable way, every year a little more, a little more of the disintegrative condition. And one doesn't have to look very far back to see a vast contrast between what is happening in the world today and what was occurring then; so it is not as slow as some people imagine. We have spoken of the exponential curve before: things intensify and speed up. It's important to come clear, to take the essential steps without dragging one's feet: “Well, I'll feel more like it tomorrow, perhaps when I've enjoyed what I'm enjoying now, then I'll think about it.”


There have been many suggestions as to behavior, philosophically speaking or religiously speaking, which haven't appealed to human beings very much, but this is merely adjustment in the cellar condition, a changed cellar experience in whatever degree this seems to be possible. It is quite different thing to start up the stairs. The only way a person can start up the stairs is because Seth is on hand—it's the only way it can be done. Now Seth, even the original one, didn't refer merely to one person, any more than Cain and Abel were just two people, or even Adam and Eve. The reference is to human beings, and while the principles are at work individually speaking, we can't avoid being a part of the body of mankind; we can't exclude ourselves from it, at least we can't exclude ourselves from it and remain in existence.


Now, of course, it is this sense of being a part of the whole that has been the apparent compulsion that has driven human beings into the herd pattern. They feel they should be a part of what's going on, and this is translated in human consciousness to refer to the peer group, or the social pattern, whatever it may be. But it doesn't refer to that at all; it refers to Man, the true state of Man at the top of the stairs. So the compulsions which would bring human beings to the top of the stairs have been perverted to hold human beings in the trap at the bottom of the stairs: We've got to be one of the boys, or one of the girls, one of the herd, one of the mass, the mass of fallen man, and to do this we have to behave in certain ways. So we behave in those certain ways and they become a habit and we're stuck, we're in the trap.


Now, the lady who wrote this letter referred to “the devil,” and I am sure you know what she was talking about. She wasn't talking about that fellow with the horns and the tail. She was talking about these compulsions which keep people at the foot of the stairs and make them feel justified to be there, and make them imagine, for a little while perhaps, that they are going to be fulfilled there, and that what they are deciding upon, being compelled in this pattern, is going to be really something. Oh, it isn't; believe me, it isn't; and a lot of you older people can testify to this fact. But why wait until one can testify to the fact to let something happen?


Of course, as I say, there are those who are beginning to move, those who are of more tender years, and I thank God for that; but most of them have at least got one foot in the trap, and that's enough, isn't it? The rabbit only has to put one foot in the trap and he's trapped. There is a way to emerge out of the trap and there is a way by which a person need never really go into it, but if one is never to go into it he must find that way while he's still young. But then human beings see everybody else going into the trap and they say, “Well, this must be the way.” Broad is the way that leads to destruction! That's right! Everybody goes down that way, and at the moment the other way still seems to be a bit narrow because so few people go down it. If everybody went down it it would be just as broad as the other now is.


There is a lot of common sense wrapped up in that little word repent. “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Don't keep going in the broad way. That's repentance—stop it! “Oh, but I like it.” Oh, how nice! You do? Lots of people do! Very fortunately the cosmos isn't governed by what human beings like, and if human likes are the controlling element in human experience, that is what is called sin, and “The wages of sin”—so somebody said; Paul, I think—"is death.” Right? Stay at the bottom of the cellar and be buried there, or come up the stairs. But no one will ever come up the stairs without being shown how, and if one is to be shown how, there must be someone on hand to show how. And one must presumably pay attention to the “how”—the “how” as opposed to the “like.” Now, I don't know that it really should be put that way because one can like the “how,” and many of you could testify to this fact. But the devil is rather subtle, and lurks around the corner titivating the likes in you that maintain the cellar condition, and if you pay attention to that and insist upon paying attention to that, well, you belong in the cellar and you'll never know that there was anything else.



As I say, after twenty thousand years, how beautiful the earth still is! Isn't it amazing, after twenty thousand years of rotten human behavior in the cellar the earth still stays so beautiful? What would it be if the experience was at the top of the stairs? Unimaginable. Because this is the fact of the matter, it is always amazing to the Lord that human beings insist upon cellar existence.


Now, you have presumably seen something of these things and are generating some enthusiasm to walk up the steps. One can be enthusiastic about that, you know, rather than going into the trap. When I do see young people putting their heads in the trap, it may be said that it grieves me at my heart. Those who know better, or have the opportunity of knowing better, may rise up so easily and come to the wonder that unfolds as there is movement up the steps. When a person is young and resilient, it is found to be so easy to experience once more the beauty of the truth, the beauty of life, the Glory of Life, consequent upon the restoration, the resurrection, of Abel, Spiritual Man, spiritual identity in material form. And when that is the experience, that is life, indescribable life. Life is only known by the experience of it; life can never be known by the experience of the cellar state, never! What is known there is the process of dying. Yes, it's customary, we would have to admit that. It's been customary in every generation as long as human memory goes back, quite customary, but quite unnecessary and nothing is gained by it. It's absolutely useless.


In times past particularly, ministers have talked about hellfire and have gone after their congregations on this basis. Well, they were right, but they didn't recognize why they were right, they didn't recognize what it was they were talking about. They were talking about human experience, that's all—not some future state; the present state. But the present state apparently has nothing to be compared to, so human beings settle for this. Yet you have begun to sense something else, even though you do not yet know what it is. How could one know what it is without reaching the top step? All you know is that it is something different to the cellar. It's a different state to be on the stairs. But that isn't the true state; it is an interim experience which permits the true state to come. But if you never go up the stairs, you never find the true state. Human beings have found all kinds of excuses for not going up the stairs and they have insisted that the joys were really in the cellar. That is a vile state; I think vile is a very good word to describe it. Of course, human beings don't think so, but it is so. It is corruption; it is filthy, no matter how it may be dressed up in human imagination. The cellar state is a filthy state. “Oh, but this is so natural.” No, not natural, just familiar. The true state, the state of wonder and glory, of Man, male and female, is at the head of the stairs. “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.”


O Lord, Thou who art indeed nearer than breathing and closer than hands and feet to each one, we thank Thee for the enfoldment of Thy love; we thank Thee for the open way up the stairs; we thank Thee for direction, instruction, assistance, all that is necessary to come up out of the cellar state, out of what was described in the Book of Revelation as a Babylonian condition. Thy Word is spoken. Come out of her, my people! We thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast made available all that makes possible the easy movement in the experience of life. And so, enfolded in Thy love, knowing the truth to be present, the design and the control to be here, we may indeed, to the extent of repentance, live, to Thy glory, in the Christ. Aumen.



Reluctance is rather a common human trait, at least with respect to the truth. As we noted, enthusiasm is usually reserved for the cellar. “Be zealous therefore, and repent.” Let the zeal and enthusiasm be in the right direction so that it is withdrawn from the wrong direction. A person can only make that choice for himself rightly, but if he doesn't make it he's stuck in the trap, which, if he doesn't recognize it now, he will recognize it later and perhaps find himself repenting at leisure, when it's not so easy to repent. Do it now. Do it now. While my words were spoken this morning to young people certainly, they were also spoken to everybody else, because the way is open for all. I thank God for those of younger years who are zealous in making sure that what they represent is the truth, but no matter what a person's age may be, we all need to be sure that what we represent is the truth. There is no circumstance possible at any time anywhere which could prevent the representation of the truth.












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