Emissaries

Emissaries

Martin Cecil  November 10,  1968 p.m.

We were talking about Emissaries of Divine Light this morning, recognizing something of the creative nature of what is described by the words Divine Light, the radiation of True Cause. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/divine-light.html] This radiation is the reality back of the whole cosmic realm of effects, but there is need that it should be brought to focus in expression in the area of the world in which we live. This requires that there be emissaries to bring it. An emissary is a representative of one who is greater. As that representative, he must carry the necessary credentials. These credentials may be described by the use of the words Divine Light.

Unless there are those who are sent as emissaries to bring Creative Cause into expression at the level of human responsibility there is no means by which the affairs of men can be changed so that order might come out of chaos. We see in the words emissaries of divine light a vast significance, not because it may apply to us, but because of its inherent meaning. A question might arise as to whether it does apply to us. The fact of the matter is that all human beings should be emissaries of divine light, and that certainly is not saying the same thing as might be said by some religious organization—all human beings should be Roman Catholics, for instance. No, it is a state of being rightly identified, so that what is expressed in living on earth is of a creative nature, creative from the standpoint of what is true, the reality of Divine Cause. When that is so, the effects appear automatically; they don't have to be struggled with.

This morning, when we were considering this matter, utilizing the nature of light to illustrate some points, there were some who were apparently not following too easily. One of the reasons why there is difficulty in this regard sometimes is this matter of trying too hard. One may have an awareness of something without necessarily knowing all about it. In fact this is true of most things of which we have an awareness, isn't it? We know life, for instance. We have an awareness of the fact of being alive, but I don't think anyone would be inclined to say that he knows all about it. So often the endeavor is to try to intellectually circumscribe whatever it is that is being considered, but if it is something that is of real value and meaning the intellect very quickly gets lost. There can be intellectual circumscription of many things that don't amount to much, but when we move into the realm of real things, meaningful things, the intellect is lost. So it is useless to try to circumscribe such things with the intellect; it can't be done. Nevertheless we can have a very keen awareness. Some people have a fairly keen awareness of being alive. Others are not so thoroughly convinced. While intellectual comprehension of things may add something to the experience of being alive, the experience of being alive is not dependent upon what the intellect knows or doesn't know.

We were noting this morning something with respect to the spectrum of consciousness. This spectrum, when it is properly balanced, permits the radiation of what is symbolized by white light. White light is composed of the colors of its spectrum. There is a spectrum of consciousness. A good deal of the consciousness of the physical body is what is called subconscious. The mind, if we were to divide it into levels, might be six-sevenths below the one-seventh of self-consciousness. Yet there must be a balanced experience in relationship to the whole spectrum.

So the awareness that we have is not based merely in our ability to intellectually circumscribe something. We have spoken of feeling, sensing. We have a consciousness of being alive. We have a consciousness of love, to whatever extent. We can't intellectually circumscribe love. We have a consciousness of the reality of cosmic design and the control that operates in that design. We were taking note recently of what is called gravity. We have an awareness of gravity. We do not have to be educated particularly, in the ordinary sense at least, to have an awareness of gravity. In order to describe the way it works we might have to be educated, so that we understood mathematical symbols, but we get along all right in our daily operations in relationship to gravity whether we have intellectually circumscribed it or not, and it would be impossible to circumscribe it anyway. Nobody knows what gravity is, no matter how learned.

There is much of which we are aware without intellectually circumscribing it. If we realize this, then we don't keep blocking ourselves by trying to intellectually circumscribe everything, and perhaps there were some who were trying to do that this morning. All one is doing in such case is trying to fit it into the thimble of one's present intellectual capacity. It doesn't fit, and then the individual is all upset because it doesn't fit. Well why try to fit it in in the first place? It's not going to fit anyway, even if your intellect is the size of a mug. There should be the experience of the consciousness of being Divine in this realm of things. This is the result of the working of the Law, when the Law is allowed to work.

There is rather a beautiful poetic portrayal of some of these principles in the Book of Revelation. You may remember that there was a “woman clothed with the sun”, and the “moon under her feet”, and a “crown of twelve stars” on her head. We were speaking this morning of the working of the Law. The radiation of True Cause engenders response, so that a physical form is built; your body, for instance. This body which is so put together, drawn together, has a very definite design, a design which reflects what is present in the nature of the Cause which produced it. Radiation, response, then attraction. The physical body which is taking form is drawn toward the Cause which engenders the form, that there might be union, that the two might be one. It is in the union of the radiation of True Cause, or in other terms the Spirit of God, and the form which has been brought forth by that radiation that the development of the consciousness of the body occurs. If it is allowed to continue without interruption there will be the manifestation of what is portrayed by the picture of the woman clothed with the sun, the white light—the union between the physical form, the woman, and the radiation of Cause, which is described by the sun here, white light. Here we have the fulfilment of the Law.

The moon is under her feet; the realm of effects is below. Identification is with Cause; identification is with Divine Being, not with the realm of effects. The moon is under the feet. And of course she wears the crown of authority. Also she was, according to the portrayal, travailing to bring forth a child, the child which turned out to be a man child, the positive expression of the radiation of True Cause at the level where the woman is, in the realm where the creation is required, the realm where order needs to be brought out of chaos. Of course there was an additional character in this drama, the great red dragon, just waiting to devour the child. And here we have this red end of the spectrum again. This relates to this incomplete consciousness of man, incomplete in the sense that human beings do not have a consciousness of Divine Being. Their extent of self-consciousness is extremely limited. They have merely an awareness of a very peculiar character at the red end of the spectrum. And of course, as long as identification is with this incomplete state there is no possibility of the experience of the true positive expression of Divine consciousness, the consciousness in man of being Divine. Human beings have insisted upon maintaining their state of consciousness, their state of identity, in the limited condition, assuming that all that was necessary was to have a consciousness limited to the red end of the spectrum, so to speak. So the blue end was absent.

If you have a consciousness that is colored red, everything you look at is going to be colored red. And this is what has occurred. Human beings do not see things in their true colors. They can't, as long as there is not a balance in the spectrum of their consciousness. However, it is necessary somewhere along the way for a person to come to realize that he does see things red, that he does see things distorted. As long as he imagines that he sees things as they are he is in the dark and doesn't know it, and as it is truly said, the darkness comprehends not the light. He doesn't realize that light is necessary, that what is necessary is the balancing colors, so that there might be white light. When the light is white there is a clear view of what is present in the realm of effects. Not only is there a clear view in such case but white is the creative radiation of True Cause.

As we noted this morning, if there is a distorted state, if the creative radiation is limited to the red end of the spectrum, the effects will be accordingly, and we have a world revealing those effects. There is nothing that human beings can do to improve on the effects as long as the creative radiation remains what it is: an unbalanced, distorted, discolored state of consciousness. There is very little awareness on the part of human beings of the responsibility which they carry from the standpoint of what is present in their consciousness. It is quite obvious, when one stops to look at it, that the world which man has made has been made on the basis of what has been present in human consciousness. If that world is chaotic, if it is a disorderly place—everyone is much concerned about the lack of what they call law and order—then it is that way because of the disorderly state of human consciousness. The creative effect in the realm for which man is responsible in the Divine scheme of things is produced by whatever radiation occurs through human consciousness. Of course I suppose it could be said that man has some sort of an idea about this because he thinks, for instance, that he can change his consciousness by more education. Well all he can do is to change his consciousness from being that of an uneducated person to that of an educated person. But it doesn't change the consciousness from the human state to the Divine State; and unless there is the experience of the consciousness of being Divine because there is a balance in the spectrum of consciousness, what is radiated by reason of that consciousness will not produce orderly effects. It doesn't matter what anyone does. We can see that, because human beings have been trying desperately to bring order out of chaos, and it appears that, politically speaking, everybody is running out of ideas. Nobody knows what to do. Well that's wonderful, because there isn't anything that can be done, at least to solve the problem. Of course we can compound the confusion.

There must be emergence into the consciousness of being Divine, and this requires the woman clothed with the sun. As long as we are identified with the red end of the spectrum then we're keeping the great red dragon healthy, and of course on that basis there is a creative process. You will recall that, following along in this particular passage from which I have quoted, mostly in my own words, there was a beast which came out of the sea, and, according to the description, it looked very much like the great red dragon. The great red dragon had seven heads and ten horns, and so did the beast. Well, of course, whatever the cause is, so will the effect be—a reproduction. All we have to do is look around in the world with our distorted outlook and see a reflection of what is present in the consciousness of human beings who have lost the awareness of being Divine. And it's not just everybody else. We have all shared in it.

How many of you really have a consciousness of being Divine? Perhaps a beginning recognition that this should be the truth of the matter. But how much have you accepted it as true? “Well it is a nice goal, a nice aspiration. We hope we will get there someday, but the fact of the matter is that I am human.” This is more or less the attitude that human beings take, generally speaking. Probably they have no recognition of the possibility of a consciousness of being Divine. But this is also the attitude that those who are associated with the ministry of Emissaries of Divine Light sometimes take. They just don't believe it.

“A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet”—this dead state underfoot, certainly not controlling. There is no need to maintain identity with it. If we do so, that is our fault. But there can be a yielding to the radiation of True Cause; not trying to understand it, but merely being willing to experience it, so that the woman may be clothed with the sun. When she is clothed with the sun, she has a crown upon her head; she has the credentials. There is a picture of Emissaries of Divine Light, isn't it?—not a human organization of some kind incorporated in the province of British Columbia, but the reality of the thing, whatever it is. It is this to which we give ourselves if we are honest in such awareness as we have of the things of God. We stop maintaining this state which not only produces chaotic effects but causes us to see things in a distorted manner. The distortion of the radiation is reflected back to us, and that is what we see. That is not the real thing at all. We can only begin to see the real thing as we find a balance of consciousness throughout the whole spectrum; then there is white light, the true creative radiance of the Christ, the Spirit of the Son of God. It is by this radiation that the Divine task is fulfilled.

We can see more clearly than ever that it is not by physical might—pushing and pulling in the realm of effects—nor by the power of the intellect in the realm of effects, that the job gets done, but by the Spirit of the Son of God, by the creative radiance which appears in action in the realm where it is needed, when the Law is allowed to work. The radiation of True Cause brings back the physical form, which was created by that radiation, into union with itself. Radiation, response, attraction, union, then unified radiation, which is the radiation which occurs by reason of a consciousness of being Divine. That consciousness of being Divine is the mind that was in Christ Jesus. Obviously He had a consciousness of being Divine. Why should we reject the idea? That consciousness of being Divine permits a true view of the realm of effects for which we carry responsibility.

When as emissaries of divine light we can see the world, it will be a very different place to the world we think we see now. Now you can look at that in two ways: either you see the world as it really is, and that is quite all right, or the radiation which is proceeding from your consciousness of being Divine makes it right, creates all things new. It doesn't really matter, does it, as long as it is quite all right. We don't have to circumscribe it with the intellect, but be willing to accept an increased awareness, consciousness, of being Divine. In order to do this we have to permit our attention to move away from the red end of the spectrum toward the blue end of the spectrum, to establish a balance. Now human beings who have recognized something of this necessity have all too often imagined that all of the red end of the spectrum was bad and all of the blue end of the spectrum was good. Well that's a silly judgment! There is nothing wrong with any of the colors. But a person who begins to see the distortion produced by being at the red end of the spectrum—in other words, being centered, concentrated, in material things—then supposes that he has to eschew material things altogether, cut them off, throw them away, and depart to the opposite direction, the blue end of the spectrum, which is spiritual isolation, I suppose.

But we need a balance in the spectrum. It is true that we see things from the standpoint of the higher, and the control comes from the higher, but this does not mean that what is lower has any less meaning or value. The red end of the spectrum relates to the mineral kingdom. There is nothing wrong with the mineral kingdom that I know of. One can move upward through various kingdoms, and I suppose this could be called moving out of the kingdoms of earth to the Kingdom of Heaven. But we don't leave the earth behind. It is by reason of the fact that Creative Cause is present that, insofar as our physical bodies are concerned, we have a chance. The Law works: radiation, response, attraction, union. The mineral kingdom needs some means of resurrection. We have minerals in our physical bodies. The mineral kingdom is represented in our physical bodies, also the kingdom of vegetation, the animal kingdom, and the human kingdom. We won't lump that in with the animals, as many people do. There is a distinction here. What have we got? Mineral, vegetable, animal—three—and man, four. That, it seems to me, is the balance point of seven, isn't it? We have three below and three above, and the Kingdom of Man is in the middle, at the balance point. As we noted, this is green in the spectrum, the symbol of life.

We are here to bring the world back to God, we say, but really what is that? Bringing God into the world, isn't it? so that there is creative action at the level where it is needed. Then there can be response to that creative radiation. If man is in place, letting that be taken care of, then the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms will be taken care of. So where there is true radiation there is response, attraction and union. The world is brought back to God. But it can't be brought back to God unless man is in his place, unless there is the experience of a balance in consciousness on the part of man; because man provides this focus point, representing Divine Light, and also containing within his physical form the levels of creation for which he is responsible. He is an emissary of divine light sent into the world, and as an emissary of divine light, creative radiance is at work, to which there is response, because, apart from man himself, the response at the other levels—animal, vegetable, mineral—is automatic; there is no choice in the matter. So when the creative radiation is there, the world is restored; no problem.

We recognize the responsibility of letting this creative radiation be present, of sharing in the process by which a balance comes in our own consciousness, so that there may be a consciousness of Divine Being, or of being Divine. That is the balanced state, and this we are privileged to share to the extent that it is true that we are Emissaries of Divine Light. I think, in this respect, we need to be careful that we don't take our name in vain.

Divine  Light

Martin Cecil  November 10, 1968 a.m.

“Emissaries of Divine Light” is the name given to our ministry. Some have objected to this name, imagining that it should be something different. In other words, to some human minds at least, the name wasn't acceptable. If the human mind could think of a name that was acceptable it is unlikely that that name would be true to the truth. As we have moved, together with many others, in the unfolding cycles of experiences related to this ministry I think the accuracy and the perfection of the name begins to become increasingly apparent.

Emissaries of Divine Light. The radiation describable by the word light indicates the True Nature of Creative Cause. Light is a word also used to describe an electromagnetic phenomenon, but it is a word that is used to describe something even less tangible. If we say that a person saw the light, we don't think of the electromagnetic phenomenon but some sort of increased understanding, awareness. In the electromagnetic sense the total radiation is far more than what is called light, and yet the word “light” may be used to describe the whole range of that electromagnetic spectrum. For instance, what radiates from the sun of our solar system is far more than visible light. There is a total radiation which proceeds from the sun, and we may describe this total radiation by using the word “light,” if we recognize that it includes far more than visible light.

This which radiates from the sun is not the light of which we speak when we use the words emissaries of divine light. And yet it is, in the realm of effects, an illustration of what it is we refer to. There have been in times past those people who it is supposed worshipped the sun of our solar system as God. Of course this may just be a concept of present-day human beings, on the basis of their limited hindsight. In other words the people concerned may have recognized simply that the sun provides a rather striking symbol, striking portrayal, of the reality of God, or True Cause; for there is that which shines forth from True Cause and is back of the reason for the whole cosmic scheme of things, which of course includes far more than is visible to the physical eye.

The radiation of this Cause, the radiation from God, is invisible; it cannot be somehow isolated and examined directly. We have noted that what is in the realm of Cause cannot be observed. All that can be observed is in the realm of effects. Of course examining the realm of effects, we have some evidence of the nature of Cause and so we have some awareness of Cause indirectly. Because it is an indirect awareness there have been those who, most illogically, have said that Cause doesn't exist, God doesn't exist—God doesn't exist because we cannot examine Him. If we could examine God it would place us on rather a high pinnacle, wouldn't it? What we can examine is contained in the realm of effects. The Creative Cause of all that appears in the realm of effects may be describable by the word light. If this word is used to describe the creative expression of True Cause, we should recognize that the reference is not merely to a small section of the electromagnetic spectrum.

So when we use the word “light” in the name Emissaries of Divine Light, we are referring to the radiation, the creative radiation, of True Cause. This creative radiation may be described by other words, but by none so beautifully and briefly and accurately, and really acceptably, as the word “light.” The word Christ could be used, the only begotten Son of God, but I think there would be even more human mind objection to this terminology.

We use the adjective Divine to describe the Light, because we make a distinction between visible light and this light. This radiation from True Cause is Divine Light. Our relatedness to this Divine Light is as emissaries of it. The Divine Light, which may be said to be a cosmic phenomenon in the realm of Cause, must be translated, brought to bear, made active and operative, at this particular level on the surface of the planet where we dwell.

What more accurate description of those who let themselves be engaged in this undertaking could be given than that of emissaries of divine light? We need to see these things clearly, because we are charged with the conscious expression of what is meant by those words: to bring Divine Light, the creative radiation of True Cosmic Cause, to bear at the level where further creation needs to take place on the surface of this planet. This further creation which needs to take place we may describe by the word “re-creation” at the moment, because there is something obviously that went wrong. Something needs to be set right before the true continuation of the creative process relating to this planet may transpire. Now you may think you know these things, but I doubt it. You likely have a concept about them, and you have heard words describing them, but how much do you know? How much do you have the actual experience of the reality? To what extent are you an emissary of divine light?

The creative radiation from True Cause we have called the Spirit of God. Where it comes to focus and is given specific expression this creative radiation produces effects. The effects in toto we describe as the Cosmos. We can, however, bring it down to a realm of greater detail relating to this earth, or relating to ourselves on the surface of this earth. We are aware of certain effects. The effect that is likely to be closest to us is our own physical form. Here is the evidence of a Creative Cause. What that Creative Cause is has been rather a mystery to human beings, even though some may have described it by the word God. Others may attribute the cause entirely to factors observable in the realm of effects. By the examination of the realm of effects various things have been discovered. There is an awareness of genes, for instance, and various other chemical substances and combinations which supposedly relate to the formation of the individual physical body. Of course obviously there is such a relationship, but we haven't quite got back as far as Cause. The process by which the chemicals themselves exist begins to lead into the realm of invisible Creative Cause.

Back of that which takes form is Creative Cause. Back of your physical form is the radiation which we designate by the word “light.” This creative radiation is of the nature of the Cause from which it originates. Contained within the Cause from which it originates, namely God, are all the essences of whatever may have appeared in the whole Cosmos, and whatever may appear in the future. There is nothing that can appear in the realm of effects that is not already present in God, or in the reality of True Cause. It obviously doesn't all appear with a great big bang. If it did, that would be it, presumably. There wouldn't be anything else, would there? It is beyond the comprehension of the human mind how there could be something unlimited, without limit as to scope; but because this is so, it takes an unlimited period of time—you can put it that way—for it all to appear. However in essence it is already present. It is present in the point of origination, and it proceeds from that point of origination through this radiation of which I have been speaking.

This radiation has an effect: positive radiation, negative response. The negative response of which you are most keenly aware is the formation of your own physical body. This is the evidence of the working of the Law—negative response to positive radiation. And how does it go? Response, attraction, union, unified radiation. In other words a new expression of radiation occurs at the level where the union has taken place. If it all works as it should the physical form is drawn into union with the light which produced it in the first place, and that union permits further radiation to transpire at the level of the physical form—in other words at the level for which this physical form was created to carry Divine responsibility. We sometimes speak of this as the world, all that is present upon the surface of this planet.

Now what is reproduced in this regard in the way of radiation is directly related to the radiation which produced the form in the first place. This extended radiation we speak of as the human mind. We speak of the mind as the consciousness of the physical body. How does that consciousness appear? Where did it come from? The physical substance of which the body is composed did not have it before it was in the body. This consciousness of the physical form is the effect of the unified radiation consequent upon the prior fulfilment of the Law. In other words, when the physical form is attracted to the positive radiation which produces it and has union with that positive radiation, there is a new radiation at the level of the physical form, and that new radiation is what is called the “mind”, or the “consciousness” of the physical form. This new radiation might be described as a reflection of the original radiation which produced the form. It has no substance or being of its own. It is simply the effect of the working of the Law.

The consciousness of the body includes various levels, just as white light, for instance, includes the colors of the spectrum. If there is to be white light this indicates that there is a balanced blending of all the colors of the spectrum present. If for some reason some of the colors were left out, or only partially there, there would not be white light. If in the pattern of the human form some of these reflected levels of consciousness are missing, or inadequately present, the consciousness will not be that of Divine Being, and this obviously has been the case insofar as human experience is concerned. Your self-consciousness has not been the consciousness of Divine Being, or the consciousness of the white light. It has been the consciousness of something that was off color. Why? Because some of the reflection of the creative radiation from True Cause was not appearing.

The consciousness of Divine Being cannot be restored until the reflection of the whole spectrum of what we call the mind is present. One may have an increased scope of the various colors in that spectrum within the range of one's experience, but until it reaches the point where there is the right balance there cannot be the experience of the white light, or the actual experience of Divine Being. We may become aware of the fact of Divine Being, of what our experience should be, and there are those who have said, “I know who I am.” Well in that sense yes, perhaps, but not really—not really, until the whole spectrum is there, the blending takes place and the white light appears. Then there is a consciousness of Divine Being at the level where the new creation is to appear, where the unified radiation is to extend into what we call the world.

Now the world is the way it is because the radiation which has been extending through the consciousness of the physical bodies of human beings has been an incomplete spectrum. It is still creative radiation but not of the white light. Presumably the higher levels of consciousness have been the ones that have been mostly lacking, so that we could say, using the visible light as a symbol, that the experience of the spectrum of that light has been mostly at the red end. The blue end of the spectrum has been largely missing. It is interesting how the symbol of the color red has been used in relationship to the activities of human beings, particularly where there is the evidence of an intensification of self-activity. You may “see red”, or we have “the reds,” all relating to a concentration at the lower end of this spectrum, so that there is an unbalanced creative radiation and the effects appear accordingly.

The purpose of Emissaries of Divine Light is to reestablish, reintroduce, the creative radiation which includes the whole spectrum in balance; white light, in other words. And when that creative radiation is allowed to find expression, then the effects will appear accordingly, because light in this sense is the means of creative action. “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” That is absolutely and exactly true. Of course if a person is fiddling around in the realm of effects and imagining that all things stem from this realm, he can't see the light; he is in the dark, and the darkness comprehendeth not the light.

The creative process is based in the working of the Law. If there is to be a restoration of the balanced reflection of the creative Divine Light, it will appear as there is response at the levels where the reflection needs to appear. In the unfolding process which naturally occurs in the development of a child, the necessary creative radiation is present, the light shines. But the light is invisible until it is reflected. Gradually there is an increased reflection appearing, as the development takes place in the physical form. The specific focus points for the reflection relate to the endocrine system. We speak of the Seven Seals. As the physical body develops, the specific points in this regard respond naturally to the creative light of which they are the effect, because the Seven Levels of Divine Consciousness are contained in Creative Cause. But as the consciousness begins to appear, then of course the trouble may start, because as yet the reflection is not complete and therefore there is initially an inadequate experience of true self-consciousness. The individual has not reached the point where there could be a balance of the reflected spectrum, and so there is an assumption of identity relating to the inadequate self-consciousness.

This state of imbalance has been present for so long in human beings that they are encouraged to imagine that this is what it should be. Consequently continued response, which would allow the effects to appear, ceases and human beings get stuck at the lower end of the spectrum. They say of themselves, “This is what I am.” Well it is all that they have experienced of what they are perhaps, but it is a very unbalanced thing, a very inadequate thing. However, even the production of this should give clear-cut evidence of the presence of the creative radiation which, if responded to without making any assumptions or jumping to any conclusions, would produce the balanced state of completeness where there could be Divine self-consciousness, a consciousness of Divine Being at this level. The mind was created to allow this to be so, and it is the means by which the creative radiation is extended into the realm where Divine Man has responsibility on the surface of this planet.

“Let your light so shine before men”; allow all this to transpire. And it is not a vague, undifferentiated thing. It is something very specific. It relates to specific levels of consciousness and experience. We need to begin to see this with clarity. Even from the standpoint of man's consideration of God there has been a recognition of some sort of a trinity. In other words God is not just a permeating divine fog of some kind, but there is something specific in the design, inherent in the essence of whatever God is, and this specific Divine character takes form by reason of the union of the physical body of man with the Creative Cause of that physical body. When that union is complete there is unified radiation, and that is the mind which was in Christ Jesus. That is what that unified radiation is: the Divine Mind, the consciousness of Divine Being on earth.

And so “Emissaries of Divine Light”  is a very specific and accurate definition of what man is supposed to be and what man is created to be: the means by which Cosmic Cause may be translated into action at the level of responsibility, which includes this earth. And this is what an emissary of divine light is.

O Lord, we are most thankful for the working of the Law, so that as there is an increased yielding of response there may be a more complete spectrum of Divine Light experienced. And in that experience comes a new spiritual consciousness, a new outlook and awareness. This which is newly seen relates to what was already present before but unknown. As the light shines in the balanced expression of consciousness all things are made new, for the Creative Cause is present at the level where the new heaven and the new earth are to appear. We are thankful for such vision as we have now, but we know that our vision and our understanding will be limited to the extent of the reflection of the Divine Spectrum of Life which may be present in us. We can't see beyond that, we can't understand beyond that, but we may yield in response to the radiation that is yet unknown so that the reflection of it may begin to appear and consequently become known. And we rejoice to play our part in letting the reality described by the words “emissaries of divine light” be made apparent on earth, in the Christ. Aum-en.

© emissaries of divine light

The Third Sacred School #2

The  Third Sacred  School  #2

Martin Cecil   November 13, 1977 p.m.

To start with this evening I thought we might consider some signposts that were provided long ago. These were given by the Master when He was on earth, after it became apparent that those who had the opportunity at His time to accept the truth which He offered were refusing to do so. The Second Sacred School came to an end some little time prior to the concluding phases of His ministry on earth. According to the record, He spoke those words, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,” and that was that; the house was left desolate; the opportunity for movement on the basis of the Second Sacred School under His hand was at an end. Seeing these things clearly Himself He undertook to gather the vibratory factors together for the purpose of initiating the Third Sacred School, which might have been carried forward subsequent to His departure.

In connection with this matter of the Third Sacred School He spoke, as the record has come down to us, of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, all relating to the spirit of the Third Sacred School, the spirit by which the purposes of the Third Sacred School might be achieved. Obviously He was not saying to His disciples, “You fellows need some more education so that you might have better mental equipment to do what is necessary.” He indicated that the means of doing what was necessary came to focus in the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of Truth to be meaningful on earth requires a facility for expression. We say spiritual expression. The Third Sacred School is concerned with the matter of spiritual expression. The only approach to it is on the basis of spiritual expression. No physical means or mental means can actually introduce anyone to the Third Sacred School. It may introduce a person to some ideas about it but the factual reality can only be known on the basis of spiritual expression. So the Master made mention of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth.

There are some passages here which I would read because they relate to the signpost of which I made mention. For instance, He said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

He was speaking specifically to those who were present with Him at that time. However, in view of the fact that the Third Sacred School never got off the ground when it could have after the Master's ascension, we can see these words as a signpost relative to what is happening now. He was saying at that time that the Spirit of Truth is with you. It was obviously so from the standpoint of His own presence with His disciples, but there was more to it than that. He was indicating that there was the means by which the expression of the Spirit of Truth might be held in focus until the Body had formed sufficiently for it to find natural expression through that Body.

We have some awareness that at that point the focus in this regard was in John, the Beloved Disciple. There may be some who have wondered why, if after our Master's departure John was the one to provide the focus of what should occur thereafter, the Master Himself had not said so definitely. Of course He did say so, but there were very few who heard it or understood what it was He was saying. The point here is that, from the spiritual standpoint, external appointments cannot rightly be made. Just take a look at what occurred in the First Sacred School, for instance. Who was it who appointed Moses to go down into Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out? Who in the external sense had the authority to do it? Of course Moses took the responsibility because he recognized that it was his own responsibility. He carried his own authority. In spite of all the stories that have subsequently been told about the birth of Jesus, who was it appointed Him? There was nothing in the external sense in fact. He simply revealed His own authority, and it is only on the basis of the revelation of the true authority that anything can happen from the spiritual standpoint. If the Master had said to the rest of His disciples, “Now look you, I'm appointing John here to assume my responsibilities,” do you think that would have worked? There might have been those who would have said, “All right. If you say so we'll accept John.” But would they really have done it, do you think? It has to be something experienced on the basis of the actual expression of the authority.

It appears that the disciples were not sufficiently discerning in the spiritual sense to recognize the truth in this regard as it related to John, so the particular point of focus that was with them never came to be adequately in them as a Body. There was what has been called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and according to the record they all started to speak in other tongues, “as the Spirit gave them utterance.” They all went shooting off in different directions and running off at the mouth, so that a Body never adequately had an opportunity to form. It could not have formed except on the basis of the point of focus that carried the authority for that formation—in this particular instance it was John—and so the cycle was aborted. It wasn't a failure of the Third Sacred School, because the Third Sacred School never started back there.

Incidentally, you may recognize, when through ignorance or for whatever reason those who have responsibility do not accept it correctly, what disaster can occur! There was disaster of course very shortly when the destruction of Jerusalem came, for instance. But the major disaster was not really that. It was the fact that it has taken nineteen centuries before what was possible then could again be brought to point. And how many human lives have been offered in sacrifice on earth during these centuries? From this we can see the seriousness of the responsibility that is ours now; not that it needs to weigh on us heavily, but it needs to be understood.

The Master took quite a bit of trouble in gathering things together. Let me read some more: “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

There is another passage: “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” Some have supposed that He was just speaking to the disciples who had spent the three previous years with Him, from the beginning of His ministry; but if witness is to be borne it is borne by the angel, isn't it, and the angels have been with Him from the beginning of this whole creative cycle of humanity.

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” He came on earth to make possible the restoration of man through the Second Sacred School. The Second Sacred School was dissolved, so what needed next to occur was not under His hand anymore, at least not in the direct sense, not by reason of His presence on earth. He came to offer that second opportunity to the children of men and He was rejected. He suffered the consequences of that rejection, and that was that; there was no reason for Him to hang around on earth anymore. So there was another opportunity, another door, provided. But this opportunity could only appear after He had left, because it was appearing on a totally different basis.

As we have noted,

the provision that was made through the Disciple John was never acknowledged,

and so the door remained closed.

The opportunity did not occur again until recent years,

and the door has been opened this time.

“And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” One of the principal evidences of the ministry of the Spirit of Truth, by reason of His Body on earth, is reproof, or rebuke. We begin to understand something with respect to this, not as a theoretical requirement but as a factual experience: the rebuke which occurs with respect to our own individual earthly consciousness and what is present in it, as well as the rebuke which in consequence is extended into the whole earthly consciousness of mankind. If you are faithful as an angel of the Lord in rebuking what is present with you in your own earthly consciousness that shouldn't be there you are rebuking the world. It doesn't require that you go out and start thumping a tub out there!—home employment.

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” You have seen something more with respect to that statement. We are required to bear the Word of God now. “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all Truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” Have these words not been fulfilled in goodly measure over the last number of years and in this present moment?

So the stage was set for the Third Sacred School to appear on earth; but the one who provided the focus for that appearance was never acknowledged, so it never appeared—in spite of whatever may have been experienced and later called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Those concerned, because they never accepted the true point of focus, never allowed the Body to take form and it was scattered. On the basis of this scattering Christianity emerged. Of course Peter looked like a fairly good bet as a leader in the human sense. He had a strong character, even though it was not all that stable. And later Paul of course jumped in. But there was a scattering, presumably in fulfilment of the concept of what it would mean to preach the Gospel to the whole world. And this is the cry which has been taken up again by Christianity of course, the evangelical movement: Go out and tell everybody about the particular ideas that were popularly accepted as being the base for Christianity—convert the world. That is exactly what the disciples started to do in their initial enthusiasm; they converted thousands every day; but the Third Sacred School never took form.

The only means by which the restoration that was needful could occur never came within the range of the experience of those concerned. Later of course John, on the Isle of Patmos, wrote what is now called the Book of Revelation, which has also been called the Blueprint for the Third Sacred School. He gathered into focus again the vibratory factors which were needful to allow the Third Sacred School to appear on earth in the proper seasons of the LORD. And this has taken a long time.

So here we have some signposts which point to the way by which the things of God take form on earth, and we should feel a new closeness of connection between the angelic action that occurred those many centuries ago and what is happening now. We may perhaps learn something from human failure, that the things that do not belong in earthly consciousness may be quickly rebuked now; but what is needful is the angelic expression to fill the space left by the things that are rebuked into nothingness, and this is of concern to us now as angels.

We might recall something of another signpost in the Book of Revelation. Right at the beginning of it John wrote: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia … And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.”

What he was doing then was setting the stage for what should in season need to be done upon the reestablishment in form on earth of the Third Sacred School. The voice must be heard. When it is heard it is found to be behind and not out front. Most of the voices to which human beings pay attention are out front, and there is a considerable clamor in the world today, as there always has been in one way or another, a clamor out front, voices claiming the attention of people. But the true voice is not out front; it is behind. This does not refer to the past, although there may be a recognition, as we have right now, of the signposts that come to us out of the past. No, the voice is in the present, but is not heard from the direction which impinges upon earthly consciousness, to which earthly consciousness has habitually been paying attention. We have spoken of earthly orientation, and the voices that are heard are heard on the basis of earthly orientation. But there is another voice which is not in that direction; it is in fact in the opposite direction. It springs from heavenly orientation, and in the sense of the habitual experience it is behind.

There are many people who have heard something of that voice. Usually it was not as of a trumpet. It was more likely to be a rather still, small voice. And some have cocked an ear toward it, so to speak, to see if they could learn something, but they never turned around. They never turned to see the voice. That would be too risky from the human view. What does it mean to turn to see the voice? This indicates a willingness to share something; not to stand aloof and just listen and decide whether what is heard is acceptable or not. This is the way most human beings behave; the human mind assumes that it is in position to judge in this regard.

Turning to see the voice requires the relinquishment of judgment in order that one may begin to share something in one's own experience, which is in fact the only way to go if one is not to continue on the downward path. And being turned, he saw; in other words there was available experience. Most people keep their back to the voice and try to hear all they can without actually experiencing anything. Some, if they like what they hear, then claim to believe it, but it doesn't do them much good because they are still facing in the wrong direction. As you know, to the extent that you have turned to see the voice and are thereby caused to experience something, to share something, your vision opens up. Your vision opens on the basis of your action; this is no longer merely imagination.

Of course in earthly consciousness one sees symbolically; there is no other way of seeing in earthly consciousness. We constantly operate on the basis of symbols. Every form, physical or mental, is a symbol of something; it bears witness of something; and human beings function on the basis of these symbols. Words themselves are symbols. So, beginning to experience something, it is seen in symbolical form. No one ever sees the real thing in earthly consciousness. The real thing only becomes known on the basis of heavenly consciousness, and to move toward the experience of heavenly consciousness one must turn to see the voice. As it is put here: “And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks.”

Did you ever see seven golden candlesticks? There comes an awareness of the fact of an earthly state of consciousness, and we have seen that this earthly state of consciousness should be the capacity capable of reflecting the heavenly state of consciousness. It provides the facility by which heaven may be known on earth. There is a certain design to this state of consciousness. There is a spectrum of consciousness with, it might be said, seven principal colors. This relates to the capacity of earthly consciousness which has been misused for twenty thousand years, so there is a good deal of rubbish present but there is still the design. It may be said that there are seven principal colors, then, to the spectrum of consciousness. To put it another way, in the house of consciousness there are seven main rooms. All of these rooms are for use, as rooms are in a house. For the most part we inhabit houses that have one room for each particular purpose. We do not as a rule find it necessary to have two living rooms for instance; just one is sufficient, and one dining room. Mind you, there may be some palaces around in which there are duplicate rooms of various sorts, but from the standpoint of this representation of the design of consciousness there are seven main rooms, each required for a different purpose.

I have used two analogies here: one of a house with rooms, another of light and a spectrum of colors. Neither one is the fact of the matter; they are simply analogies. They are symbols of the reality, just as the candlestick is. So whether we say “seven golden candlesticks” or “seven colors” or “seven rooms,” the reference is to the same reality, the design of consciousness, the design in the capacity of earthly consciousness. Other things were seen in this turning: “… in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot …” And a description follows.

We have some consciousness of the angel. Initially there is a tendency for the earthly state of consciousness to think of itself as being something separate from the angel, as though it could exist all on its own. This is the attitude that human beings take. They find out differently eventually; they stop existing all on their own. So in the initial awareness of what may be present in relationship to this earthly state of consciousness, which is a heavenly state of consciousness in which the angel is present, the idea occurs that it is something separate from oneself in the human sense, and the individual will say “my God Being” or “my angel” or “the Father within.” All kinds of expressions are used which indicate that the individual identity is being maintained in earthly consciousness as though it had a separate existence of some kind and was going to hang on to it like grim death. And it is pretty grim.

“And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” Here is a very impressive figure. In his right hand he had seven stars. We can see here the means of control, from the heavenly standpoint, of the seven rooms of the house of earthly consciousness. As long as there is no control in operation with respect to these seven rooms they are used for purposes for which they were not designed, and a mess is created in every one of them. This is the state of earthly consciousness as it is now known. There is only one way by which this may be changed and this is by reason of the angel and the seven stars in his right hand, in the hand of primary action.

In the last verse of this 1st chapter of Revelation this is written: “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” Now we have another analogy here. Candlesticks, colors, rooms—now churches. Take your pick. What we are concerned with are not the analogies but the reality which is present now in our earthly state of consciousness, because this is the design of it.

In making this record there is something of an historical view of what was to unfold in order to allow the Third Sacred School to take form on earth once again. So we can see this aspect of symbolism in relationship to the seven churches, a changing state of consciousness in the body of mankind which unfolded sequentially in the events of the world. This is one way of seeing it, but we also may recognize that it applies in the moment. It is something that is present now in relationship to the earthly state of consciousness that is present now.

Considering the matter again from the sequential standpoint, you may recall that the last church (of the Laodiceans) was concerned with something very materialistic: “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”

We find ourselves, in the historical sense, in an extremely materially-oriented state of affairs, which could give a clue to what is now occurring. But my concern was really to introduce you to the fact of the seven churches as relating to your own capacity of earthly consciousness, the very design of it. With respect to that design there were things that were wrong in these various churches that needed to be corrected; there were things to be rebuked. And what is necessary in this regard is outlined in these words in the Book of Revelation. We have perhaps been using other words but it is the same requirement.

It is through the angel individually that the earthly state of consciousness is rebuked and brought into line by reason of spiritual expression. Collectively speaking, insofar as this forming Body is concerned, it is the action of the Archangel through all the angels of the churches that gets the job done. We may recognize that human beings very often wander around in the various rooms, these various cluttered rooms, in the house of earthly consciousness; you can never be sure as to which room they are going to be in. Others live mostly just in one room. We find a whole spectrum here. Those who live in one room have association dominantly with one church. Of course this doesn't mean that the other churches aren't present insofar as they are concerned and won't need rebuke.

So there is a Blueprint and there is the Third Sacred School, and all that is achieved by reason of the Third Sacred School comes to pass because of the Spirit of Truth—the Spirit of Truth that operates in you. It operates in you because you are parts of One Body, and the Spirit of Truth incarnates in that One Body and so there is the experience of the Spirit of Truth being present and in action in this One Body, rebuking what needs to be rebuked, calling all things to remembrance, bringing to pass what needs to occur both in this Body and by reason of the presence of this Body on earth.

We share this responsibility as angels of the LORD. We are part of a vast unfoldment of the creative purposes of God as these relate to this world in which we live—actually beyond this world, but for the moment our concern is simply with the body of humanity. We share the responsibility of the angels of the Lord, carrying the messages to the churches, that all may be set in order, that the rooms in the house of consciousness may be cleaned up and brought into order, that they may be available for their proper uses.

How blessed we are to begin to share an experience of these things to the extent that we have actually turned to see the voice and to participate in what is occurring with respect to the churches. That participation is only possible to the extent that our expression springs from the heavenly state of consciousness. So I thank God for all of you and many more who are willing, beginning perhaps to be more willing, to allow the unfoldment of all that is proper in these particular seasons of the LORD.

 Initiation  Of  The  Third  Sacred  School

from

Opening Day of 1954 Class

Uranda   April 2, 1954

The opportunity to have such a Class here on Sunrise Ranch is something that appears by reason of the fact of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light. The Church programme is a part of the work of the Third Sacred School. This programme of special training for which you are now here is also a part of the Third Sacred School.

You might say that any really constructive endeavor—this may sound fantastic to you to start with—but any constructive endeavor, anything that has a part toward moving to the fulfillment of the Divine Design, anywhere, through any person upon the face of the whole earth, is a part of the Third Sacred School program. Every church on the face of the earth, every religious body that has any meaning in truth, or that is being of any service in blessing to human beings, whether they know it or not, is within the pattern of the Third Sacred School. Every human being, whether in the scientific world, or the industrial world, or the professional world, or anything else, regardless of place on the face of the earth, color, creed, language—it matters not, everything little or large—that has a part toward moving the mass of humanity toward the fulfillment of God's Will on earth, is contained in the scope, the program of the Third Sacred School.

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This program is not something that was recently inaugurated. The application to the present problems was initiated at the time of the Fall. Our program does not just date back to the time that Jesus came into the world, or some such period. His coming into the world was a part of the Third Sacred School program. The prophets before Him, who revealed in the current of the Holy Spirit some of the truths of Being, the patterns of the Divine Design, were a part of the Third Sacred School program. The application to the world's need in the fallen state was established at the time of the Fall, but the Third Sacred School was not initiated at the time of the Fall—only in application of it's purpose was it altered to meet the need.

The Third Sacred School was initiated at the time of the creation of Man. In the beginning of the history of this world, from the time of the creation of Man, there has been a definite program working. Most human beings know little or nothing about it, but it is there—and coming here you have accepted a degree of responsibility in the conscious realization of relationship to this great program that has been in action down through the millennia. The Third Sacred School was functioning long before the Fall of man, and has continued to function, both with respect to the true purpose—which you will understand more about as we go along—and the specific immediate purpose of saving man from the results of his wrong function.

We look back in history and see that which was accomplished by great men and women, and we recognize that they had a part to play in making this hour possible. They may have made mistakes, and what they did may not have in all things been perfect—but they had a part. Those who have worked to build, say the railroad, or to develop the highway system, in any capacity, whether designing, developing in any fashion, or working as a laborer—any man who has ever worked upon a railroad, or a highway, between here and there, wherever that may be, has had—unknowingly probably—but definitely has had a part in making this here possible. And in that pattern of life expression, there may have been many things that ought not to have been, but there was a contribution to the program of the Third Sacred School.

It is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth—whether he knows it or not—it is impossible for any human being to live upon the face of the earth without doing something, without contributing something, to the program of the Third Sacred School. He may, in some respects, do things that seem to, or actually do, hurt it. There may be opposition, but even oppositions are used. But there is in every life, wherever there is anything that could in any sense be called normal, or natural, or that unheard of thing, average—there isn’t any really—but every person has contributed something constructively. Even those who may be classified as evil, by reason of their life pattern—they may not know it, it may not be immediately evident to the human vision, but every person that has lived on the face of the earth, before or since the Fall, has contributed to the program of the Third Sacred School.

We begin to realize that while it has been a seemingly slow process, all who have gone before us have had a part, and all who live on earth now have a part. We begin to realize something of the integrated factors, so that you are not thinking of yourself on a segregated basis. Others have gone before us to make this possible. People have lived and died and suffered, gone through all sorts of things, so that we could have this hour. So there are factors of appreciation to God and to the working of His Will in the children of men, extending in all directions in all fields. You begin to realize what it means to be a citizen of the world, and a citizen of the Christ Kingdom, by which you may be a good citizen of your country, whatever it may be.

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