June 27, 2014

Be Spiritual Man

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Be  Spiritual  Man


Martin Cecil   May 26, 1974





Our Master undertook to provide the point of focus in His own expression of living, within the scope of the consciousness of mankind, for the movement through the complete creative cycle by which the reality of spiritual man in material form might be once again a fact on earth. He was unaccompanied by anyone else in what occurred. Because it occurred on earth within the range of human consciousness, the door was opened for others to follow through also into the experience of the mature state of spiritual man. The specific process is described rather accurately in the Gospel according to John. We remember the correct sequence of the four forces: water, air, earth and fire. Just before the Passover, when He and His disciples were gathered, He undertook to initiate the particular cycle, in the creative sense, which would allow for the restoration of spiritual man in material form on earth, by reason of His own presence and willingness to let it occur no matter what the circumstance might prove to be in the unfolding of the event.

First of all, He did something with His disciples that has not been adequately understood as to its significance. He took some water in a basin and washed their feet. This had something to do with the water force. It was the point of initiating this particular cycle. We can see in this a refocalization of the truth of the First Sacred School. The feet represent understanding. The first requirement with respect to the First Sacred School was to clarify understanding, and also to offer a point of orientation for the whole body of mankind. Here was a point of refocalization with respect to that same truth. The disciples evidently didn't understand what our Master was doing. Some of them objected, Peter particularly. So has it always been whenever anything has been undertaken from the divine standpoint: human beings who became aware of what was happening have always objected. Finally it all settled down and our Master got on with the job, but He was obviously doing something that His disciples didn't understand. He was the one who was initiating this creative cycle and moving through it. Here was the water force which permits the cleansing of the understanding that there may be light.

Having brought this to focus and initiated the cycle, of course it then proceeded forward. He spoke to His disciples, and we have record of some of what He said. This related to the second of the four forces and also, to the Second Sacred School, which had particular application to the mind. He taught His disciples. In effect He was saying, "Spiritual man"—which is what He exemplified on earth—"is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to a consciousness of his origins, of the truth of himself, except by spiritual man." There is no way except the way provided by spiritual man. The way of material man is no way at all. It is the way into the tomb, where disintegration takes place.

While it is evident that the disciples didn't have a clue as to what He was talking about, you would have to acknowledge that you do. There is a consciousness of the refocalization of the truth of the Second Sacred School. This has emerged through you and others on earth. It has taken nineteen hundred years to do it, but it's happened.

He said, spiritual man is the way, the truth, and the life. You must be spiritual man if you are to experience the truth of yourself. "Be spiritual man. Don't look to somebody else to be spiritual man for you, because it simply doesn't work that way. " One can only be spiritual man for oneself. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also"—the works of spiritual man. He who walks through the door which He opened shall do the works of spiritual man, and greater works, because there will be more people doing them. Here was the example of spiritual man in action, that others might participate in the same action—not to be acted upon, not to have their feet washed, not to be taught, but to wash the feet of others and to teach. Spiritual man does not need to be washed nor does he need to be taught; he washes and teaches.

Coming to the end of this period when He was speaking to His disciples, there is the great prayer of intercession. Here He was completing the cycle as it relates to the Second Sacred School and initiating what was to follow in the Third Sacred School. All that most people have seen of what followed was the arrest, the trial and finally the crucifixion, and He landed up in the tomb. This is the external evidence of something that seemed to be happening to the material aspect of spiritual man. It didn't change spiritual man at all. The character of spiritual man continued to be in evidence all the way through, no matter what happened to material man. 

This is necessary in the experience of the Third Sacred School—no matter what happens to material man, to the person in the external sense, he remains true in his expression of what he knows of spiritual man. In the external sense it seems that a person lands up in the tomb. It wasn't really a tomb; it was rather a womb out of which something was being born.

It seemed like a real tomb into which the material aspect of our Master was placed. There was a boulder placed upon the entrance to the sepulcher, which was finally rolled away. What does that represent? The hardened human heart, which relates to the veil between the experience of material man and spiritual man. It is the impure heart that keeps human beings in the tomb, on the wrong side of the veil, identified in the state of material man.

It's only when the heart begins to melt, begins to yield so that it opens the individual to receive something of spiritual man, that there may be movement out of the tomb; the tomb may be transformed into a womb. The movement out of the womb of the Third Sacred School is birth into the Fourth Sacred School, which is characterized by what was described as a garden. The yielded heart which opens in love and trust, without trying to understand but willing to move, willing to accept the responsibility of spiritual man, is the open door to the Father.

When Mary Magdalene came to the tomb filled with sorrow she met up with one whom she supposed to be the gardener. When her name was spoken she suddenly became aware of who it was really. Her heart was open. She saw the truth, and, she wanted to take hold of it, posses it. But our Master said, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." That was true. The fourth day of creation is not yet the seventh day. There is some more movement necessary, for man to be restored to the state of the living soul in oneness with God.

In all of this we may recognize what it was that was occurring in His experience, how He was, as an individual, alone in the world, leading the way through so that later others might accept the same responsibility of spiritual man; and then it would not be such a lonely task. The way is very clear. It's just a matter of moving in the recognition that, as the creative cycle unfolds, we belong in the garden, out of the tomb. To the extent that that is experienced we also may say, "I am not yet ascended to my Father. I am not yet returned to my origins. I am just on the way."

But there is something of spiritual man present. Be true to yourself, then. Be true to the self that says, "I am spiritual man," and your business is to offer understanding to others; by example, by being spiritual man. Be spiritual man, and this experience is possible to you as you emerge into the garden. And you emerge into the garden when the stone is removed from the mouth of the tomb. And the stone is removed from the mouth of the tomb when your heart is made pure. And your heart is made pure when you are no longer identified with material man, when your treasures are laid up in heaven.

Those who begin to emerge find that there really is a garden; it's not just a figment of fancy. We have to leave the tomb. We rejoice in such awareness as we have of the garden and we stand in the garden to do what we have to do as spiritual man, extending the water of truth in our living, teaching by the expression of our lives, and bringing assurance and comfort to those who still remain in the tomb state but whose hearts are yielding.

The yielded heart permits the stone to be rolled away from the mouth of the tomb, so that a person may emerge into the wholeness of being, a living soul rather than a disintegrating soul, little bits and pieces scattered until it's all scattered. Each individual who reaches the point of being really honest with him- or herself may say, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am spiritual man. I am the son of the Father. My character springs from my true origins." The true origins are in God.



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