Sex — The Spirit of the New Earth

Sex  —  The  Spirit  of  the  New  Earth

Special  Session  on  Sunrise Ranch

Martin Cecil   April 17, 1978

 

Our concern as angels is to let the authority and government of God be reestablished on earth. It is already established in heaven. If it is to be reestablished on earth there must be angels present in heaven and on earth. We ourselves have this clear-cut opportunity because we have a physical form, we are on earth, and we begin to have a consciousness of angelic expression, what we call spiritual expression. It is through spiritual expression as it really is that the authority and government of God is reestablished in the consciousness of mankind. Being reestablished there, those who are functioning from the standpoint of the consciousness of mankind, the way it is now, find themselves under the necessity either of responding and accepting the authority and government of God or of resisting it and being dealt with accordingly. Now this isn't an arbitrary imposition on anyone. It is a matter of individual choice as to what occurs. Our sole concern is that the authority and government of God should be present. How people are going to react to it is their own business. It makes utterly no difference to us which way they react because our total concern is with maintaining the authority and the government of God in place. That occurs because of the keeping of the first great commandment.

When mention is made of the Lamb in the Book of Revelation—taking the book and going to work, in other words, to open the seals so that the book can be read and what is inside can come out—all the elders, the four beasts, all the angels that were present, fell down and worshiped. Here we see the attitude of angels toward the One who provides a focus point in the heaven and toward the One who sits upon the throne. It is one of love, of yieldedness, of worship, of thankfulness. While angelically speaking there is a very positive stance taken in extending the authority and government of God on earth, the attitude toward those who are higher in the design of being is always one of humility and love and worship and thankfulness. So we are here to have these two attitudes which are natural to the angel. In the heaven we fall down and worship and we are delighted to do so, but in the earth we are responsible for maintaining the authority and government of God.

This authority and government when extended in spiritual expression permits what is described as the opening of the seals in the body of mankind. Now there is nothing very mysterious about this. What has seemed to be mysterious is the fact that nobody has been able to do it. It hasn't been possible for the human mind to accomplish what is needful. In a general sense there has been a recognition of the need for changes in human nature for instance; at least this is the way it is looked at. Human nature is causing a lot of trouble, therefore it seems as though some changes should be brought to pass. We have various methods and techniques, scientific so-called, which are supposed to permit some changes to be worked out in this regard. We ourselves as angels recognize the futility of any such undertaking because it is not a matter of changing human nature; it's a matter of letting human nature be dissolved. And human nature is dissolved when the angelic nature is present and in expression.

This relates to the seven spirits before the throne of God. We have been considering in a specific sense the spirit of the new earth, which is the first one in the process by which the seals are loosed. The loosing of the seals is made evident by the fact that the spirit pertaining to that seal is released—is in expression. The influence which is to loose the particular seal in the body of mankind must be in expression in those who are making possible the action of the Lamb who opens the seals. It is our expression of spirit in all its aspects that permits all the seals to be opened. Now we take them one by one to give some consideration as to how this happens, and to the extent to which we are participating in the process.

The first seal, as it is called, relates to the physical level particularly, and in the individual physical body this relates to the gonads, or the field which is describable as physical sex. We are not so much concerned with physical sex at the moment as with the spirit by which the right experience in that regard may be known. Most people are less concerned about that than they are about trying to find out what the right expression of physical sex would be—in other words, the usual approach puts the cart before the horse. It is the spirit which creates the seal in the first place and which finds release by reason of that creation.

So we are concerned with the release of the spirit of the new earth in our living. This does certainly relate to the area of physical sex, and in order that there might be the evidence of the release of this spirit will relate to the level of physical sex. In recent years there have been some changes working out in the consciousness of people with respect to physical sex. Things have been freed up in the consciousness of human beings to a much greater extent in recent years in this area. This gives evidence of the fact that there is at least some movement of the creative expression of the spirit of the new earth. It is having this effect. It may look as though things are sort of getting out of control, but there are structures being dissolved, structures which have been a part of human nature, and in the dissolution of any structures in human nature it is to that extent a dissolution of human nature. It would appear that there is far more license, shall we say, in the field of physical sex now than there was even a few short years ago.

There have been various structures built up in different parts of the world, usually related to the religious concepts but fundamentally based in the apparent sociological needs and then supported by religious views. In Christendom the idea of monogamy is a basic structure. It's mostly a theory, because the actual experience has been otherwise insofar as people have been concerned. There have been those who have tried to tow the straight and narrow path as they saw it in this regard, and heretofore, in days gone by, the failure of the theory or the concept was kept under cover, so to speak. It wasn't admitted for the most part, but everybody knew it was there. Now it's come out into the open and this structure has begun to give way. This is not the only structure, relative to physical sex, present in the world. There are other structures giving way in other places, but obviously this is necessary if what the spirit would create is to be brought forth. There must be material available sufficiently free of the ancient taboos and structures to be able to move into the true design.

Now all this is happening. We see the effects around us. We may have had some experience of those effects in our own lives, but those effects are consequent upon a cause. It could be said that the cause is the self-centered desires of human beings, but in fact that is an effect too, isn't it? We are concerned with the true cause, and the true cause centers in this particular spirit relative to the first seal, the spirit of the new earth. Because there has been some increasing intensity of radiation of this spirit in heaven on earth, by reason of angels incarnate, it has had an impact in the consciousness of mankind and the structures begin to disintegrate. We see the effect. In the disintegration of those structures there is maybe a release of the self-centered human desires of people, but this is not why the structures have been dissolving—because those desires were there right along.

They were previously held in check, but now it is all beginning to come out into the open and we see that this is part of the creative process occurring. It does not disturb us. We may watch what is happening and we may watch the effects with equanimity, provided that we remain identified with the cause. If we get involved with the effects then we find ourselves in various kinds of difficulty. But if we stay centered in cause, in the expression of the true spirit which relates to the first seal, the first level, then we may play our part in letting the unfoldment continue which eventually permits the emergence of fitting forms to clothe the true spirit. The true spirit creates its own forms. So we are concerned primarily with the expression of this spirit in our living.

The expression of the spirit of the new earth is a part of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit would include all seven spirits. But in moving forward in this cycle we let them come to focus in turn and we start at the beginning—with the first one. If it is a part of the Holy Spirit the intent is a creative one, of course. The release or radiation of the spirit is to create, to bring forth, what is true to that spirit. We are here as angels to let something be brought into the world that heretofore has not been present, and this comes to focus in our consciousness, at the moment, as the spirit of the new earth. What has been present has been the absence of the spirit of the new earth, the spirit of decay. The spirit of decay tends to be a rather boring thing. This is why human beings are all the time trying to drum up excitement, because participating in the experience of the spirit of decay is deadly dull—deadly is the word. The falling-apart process is meaningless repetition.

We can begin to see this in relationship to physical sex. While for a few years it seems to be something fresh and new with young people, after a while, particularly in what is called marriage, it tends to become a meaningless repetition. It does so because of the spirit with which those concerned are attuned, the spirit of decay. Things are gradually running down, so to speak, and in that running-down process people tend to become disturbed too. Various crises arise in the lives of human beings because of this running-down process. People feel that they are running down and yet they don't want to—they want to prove that they are still men and women. Well if we are attuned and aligned with the spirit of decay, we're running down; we might as well admit it. But that is not what we are here for as angels. Angels certainly aren't running down, and when there is spiritual expression we begin to find a release which is ever new.

This release relates, at one level at least, to physical sex, although to very much more than physical sex. Here I would emphasize the fact that if we are considering the first seal, this is only one-seventh of the whole spirit, and physical sex therefore is only one-seventh of the whole of life experience. It has tended to become the whole thing to so many people. Of course, I do not know that one can exactly say that each level is the same size, so to speak, but we can see a proportion here which cuts physical sex down to size. It has its value. It is useful. Of course in the usual human approach, something that has been particularly emphasized in Christianity for instance, physical sex is good if it is used for procreation—this is the more orthodox view—but is bad if it is used for any other reason. There is a structure in human consciousness in this regard which makes people feel guilty with respect to physical sex. They are going to have it anyway but they feel guilty about it.

We may see that this level is the one level that is left in human experience where there is the remaining creative ability to bring forth living forms. This is the only area that is left in present human experience. From the standpoint of the true state of man, every level was included in the creative process. It wasn't just based in the matter of procreation. All the forms that are present, or were present, on earth, man in his true state was responsible for. It is said of Adam that the animals passed by in front of him and he named them all one by one. This is an indication of the fact that he had responsibility for the animals, not only for caring for them after they were there but for letting them be there in the first place. So the scope of creative responsibility in the hands of true man as an expression of the Lord God was vast. Now it has dwindled down. He plays around in various fields of genetics, and so on, trying to do this and that with respect to plants and animals, breeding and all this, but his direct ability to create forms of life has been lost. It has all been lost but for this one point relative to his own kind, procreation. He may still bring forth forms of life there. Because of this_, and of this whole area of physical sex, he has a starting point in the cycle of restoration—because it is the opening of the first seal in the expression of that spirit that permits something to begin to happen with respect to all the other levels.

There is an ascending process which allows for the opening of the other seals, based of course in the expression of the particular spirits which are related to those seals, but it springs from this first one. There has been some consciousness of this fact in the minds of human beings in various ways. The idea of the kundalini and so on—something ascends—has some relatedness to the real process, but it starts with the first level and then moves up. So we are considering the first level and beginning to associate ourselves with some of the angelic view with respect to it.

We see here a focus available to us for creativeness. It is not properly available to the uses of the human mind and the human heart. This level has been governed and controlled pretty well by the human mind and the human heart. The human mind has brought in the rules and regulations with respect to it that were supposed to keep people in line so that everything didn't get all out of hand, and the human heart was considered to be the basis for participation in this level of physical sex. Of course this is all a false approach because it leaves the human mind and the human heart in control of things. However, it has been valuable over the years in maintaining some sort of a control, so that everything didn't get out of hand. Now things seem to be getting a little bit out of hand but we recognize that this is all right because there is a control present in fact, the control for which we are responsible, in the expression of right spirit, the spirit of the new earth specifically in this instance.

We begin to see as angels that everything that comes to our hand is to be used for the achievement of the purposes of the whole. We do not have any desire, rightly, to extract anything for our own personal, private use. The most personal and private place in human experience relates to physical sex and, generally speaking, it's the most reluctantly surrendered to right use because the individual wants to have his say in the matter. But fundamentally, until this area is yielded to angelic use, the use of the Archangel to be exact, the use of the Lamb for the opening of the seals, we remain subject to human nature and we are not in position to participate in the creative process. Perhaps in speaking of these things along this line this morning it is the first time we have really approached it from this standpoint, that there isn't anything which comes within the range of our possible action here on earth, at any level, that is not rightly used with respect to the whole; and if it is not used with respect to the whole it is wrongly used, no matter how anyone may conform to their concept what is conceived to be the good thing to do.

So physical sex has one purpose and one purpose only, and that is a means of extending something in blessing in the creative current into the consciousness of mankind. How this is going to be done needs to come within the range of our awareness. If we have structures already established in consciousness as to how the operation of sex should be carried forward, and on what basis, and with whom, we absolutely prevent anything worthwhile happening. We multiply confusion. Only as those structures are dissolved so that we do not have any arbitrary views in the matter is it possible. As the spirit of the new earth continues to find expression in our living we become aware of what it is that permits the right use of physical sex. Physical sex is for the use of the Archangel, for the creative purposes of God, that and that alone. It isn't a personal, private thing for one’s use as a human being. Looking at it from the angelic standpoint, we begin to see, as we were considering yesterday in the services, that there are certain configurations. We were thinking of it in terms of groups of people, which properly are used from the angelic standpoint for the release of the creative expression of spirit. By the same token there are certain configurations with respect to individuals. Those configurations are based in the pattern of angel to angel, not in the pattern of human to human.

Only when such proper configurations put in an appearance does there begin to be something that is not a meaningless repetition. I’m thinking of this—it applies in any area of living—particularly in relationship to physical sex, where after a little it becomes humdrum and people are inclined to look over the fence for greener pastures. They feel they have lost something that was originally experienced and perhaps some other arrangement with someone else will revitalize it. But of course all that is simply looking at it from a human viewpoint, the viewpoint of human nature, which has absolutely nothing to do with what is required from the standpoint of the angel. When the angel is on hand, and there are proper associations between angels, whether in the larger groups or on a one to one basis, then there is participation in a moving creative current which has never moved before; it's never come to focus in this particular creative focus before. There is something ever changing in this regard. So relative to physical sex or anything else, there is always something new.

I'm speaking to you as angels and I am assured that you will not translate what I am saying as humans, because if you do you will get it all balled up—there will be a mess. It is only when we can begin to approach these things on a clear basis as angels that we really know what we are talking about. But you may see, possibly theoretically at the moment for the most part, that in the achievement of certain creative purposes physical sex is used as a means for that creation and it requires right use; in other words it requires the right angels to be present if anything is to be creatively achieved as it should be, and there are definite configurations in this regard for definite and specific purposes.

Those purposes not only relate to the angels concerned but relate to the human aspect too, because it is by reason of the fact of the human aspect that there may be a reaching into the mass consciousness of mankind. So what is present in the human aspect is also taken into account. It is part of the picture which must be seen in order to know what creatively can be achieved. It is not as though it is merely a matter of angels in heaven. It is a matter of angels in heaven on earth and the earth has a particular condition with which we are now presumably dealing. We are dealing with a state that is present on earth and our connections with that state are through our own physical forms and the consciousness that is present in those physical forms.

What I would wish to emphasize this morning is that this is a field of creative service, and it is not a field for mere private satisfaction. If a person attempts to use it for private satisfaction, which is what is true of most people, then, as I say, it becomes flat after a while; but if it is used as it should be used then here is something ever new because it is ever vitalized and animated by the particular spirit which is in expression in this case—the spirit of the new earth, which permits a keen awareness of the fact that there is nothing in the world as it now is which gives evidence of the new earth. There are those things which give evidence of a creative movement which in season may allow the forms of the new earth to appear, and obviously we have to move through that period of time in order to reach the point where those forms have appeared. Let us not suppose that when those forms have appeared that that is that, because they are living forms and the characteristic of a living form is momentary change.

So we are concerned with this matter. We begin to see that physical sex relates very specifically to a creative process with which we are concerned, a creative process reaching into the whole, reaching into the whole on the basis of the understanding and vision of the angel. Never again can we try to isolate physical sex for our own personal satisfaction. After a while it doesn't become very satisfactory anymore anyhow. It isn't a personal matter, and if we can begin to see that this seemingly very personal matter from the human standpoint, is not personal at all then we might almost say that we have it made, because everything else we may consider is less personal. So we start at this core point, and we have had the opportunity of considering it this morning in this particular way.

This seal not only relates to physical sex; it relates to physical function of every kind. This morning again there was consideration of matters pertaining to physical health. Of course all these things are included in the operation of the spirit of the new earth. We need to have a balanced view, as was emphasized, the balanced view which recognizes the unique factors that are always present—in other words you can't establish routines, because there is always something in there that is unique. There is a need, as was emphasized, of a greater sensing of rhythms. There are rhythms related to this matter of physical sex, and there are rhythms related to every aspect of living, and we need to be sensitive to those rhythms if we are to move wisely with them and let them be used to creative advantage. This is the reason for the presence of the angel. The angel has his hand on all these rhythms and they may be combined in various ways so as to permit the greatest possible effectiveness in our creative responsibilities.

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