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Every  Hidden  Thing  

Martin Cecil   August 8, 1976

 

I was speaking of Nicodemus and the Master's words to him. Here are some of them. He was speaking of condemnation, of the fact that human beings are condemned by their own failure to accept the truth in living. "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

We might look at this from the standpoint of our own experience. We can easily, I'm sure, look out there in the world and see all these people floundering around in darkness and quite unwilling to come to the light. But what about us? What do you want to keep under wraps?

I'm not suggesting that it is wise or proper to talk to everybody about matters that are of intimate personal concern. There may be those things in our experience of which we are ashamed or about which we feel guilty—there surely are. There may be fears and so on. Such things we usually like to keep under wraps, and if a person does talk about such things he usually talks about them with the wrong person or people. Such things remain evils as long as they are kept in the dark. Only when they are brought into the light may what is wrong about them be dissipated and what is right about them be revealed, because with most things about which human beings are ashamed and feel guilty they would be surprised to find that their sense of guilt and shame was largely based in a lack of understanding. 

Now, for understanding to be experienced the light must be approached, because you can't see in the dark, and what you think you see there in the dark is not the way it really is. Where is the light going to come from? Well we would, I suppose, probably say, "From above." We don't expect it to come bouncing at us out of a hole in the ground, do we? Physical light comes from overhead—that is, natural light, and even this artificial light. We have to look up. We have to move up if we are to move into the light, into where the light is. 

Now there are those who diligently confess their sins secretly before the Lord who in such case is imaginary. That's not too difficult, bringing, supposedly into the light, these things before the Lord, who may or may not be present. But there is a need that deeds be brought into the light, not into an imaginary light, but into a real light—the light of understanding, so that having eyes, we may see, and having ears, we may hear, and having hearts, we may understand. This requires that there must be someone present on earth, where we are, who has revealed the reality of spiritual expression and has consequently proven trustworthy. 

There is a need that what a person is inclined to keep in the dark should be brought to the light, to someone who has proven spiritual authority and spiritual expression in living, and has proven trustworthiness. Anyone who is in such a position is willing to provide a facility, shall we say, by which a person may bring his doings in the dark into the light—not because the one with spiritual authority is especially interested in what these dark things are, but so as to provide an opportunity for the person who brings these things to be honest. A person must be honest if he is to know the truth. That should be self-evident. If there is an unwillingness to prove honesty, then there is an unwillingness to know the truth. Honesty requires that one bring those deeds, actions, words—even thoughts—that are hidden in the dark, into the light.

What is in the dark needs to be brought into the light, and it is done by reason of someone. There must be a person to let it happen as it must happen. An invisible Lord doesn't do it, as witness the state of the world. There must be those who are in position to provide what is necessary of spiritual authority, and to be capable of receiving what's brought; not that what is received is going to be mulled over at all, but to give the other person an opportunity to give it away. And when it happens that way, as I say, one will discover that the black picture of this thing is probably not as black as you made it out to be, because your judgment of it is based in human views and not in spiritual orientation. Because the fact of the matter is that there is nothing within the range of human experience that did not originate in some way in the truth. There couldn't be. There is nothing else to originate from. No human being ever invented something out of nothing. There is always something back of whatever it is, and if you trace that something back far enough it'll be found to relate to the truth.

And so the necessity for guilt and shame begins to pass away, because whatever it was that caused guilt and shame is dissolved. It either has passed away, gone, because we're living in the present, not in the past or whatever it was has been transformed, transmuted, so that we see it with new eyes and become aware of how it is included in the design of truth. Then there's nothing to be ashamed about. But how difficult it seems for a person to bring something of this nature into the light. As I say, sometimes he doesn't mind discussing it with somebody else, or others, in the dark, but to bring it to someone who is in the light, there's a great hesitancy about that.

The hesitancy is sometimes because there is something rather enjoyable about this thing and the individual is afraid that he might be told, "Stop it!" Well, if you know anything about spiritual authority, that's not the way it works, because you have to take responsibility yourself, whatever may happen, and you can't say, "Oh well, someone else told me to stop it, therefore I'm going to stop it." Or, "I'm going to try to stop it"—at least that's usually the attitude that's taken. But if you're trying to do something, you're not doing it. You can't put your responsibilities onto anybody else. As you become aware of the truth, and you are a person of integrity, all you wish to do is to express it! That's the natural thing to do.

Every hidden thing needs to be brought into the light. If there are hidden things insofar as you are concerned, they will stay there festering and governing your expression of dying until you're dead. How much more sensible, and how much easier in fact, it is to bring these things into the light. And there is all kinds of opportunity to do it. You know how it can be done. You're very fortunate in that regard. All too many people don't and those people who don't will never come to know unless you have done it and therefore are in position to offer the light to them.

I have touched upon these matters because they are vital to momentary living by which unified radiation based spiritual agreement becomes possible.

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