from
Martin Cecil November 12, 1961
In my ministry to you I believe you sense the fact
that I know there is divine being in each of you. I think you sense the fact
that I am not just simply trying to kid myself on this score, that if I had
been trying to kid myself I would have been discouraged quite a while ago, in
some instances at least. There is a knowing. Because of that knowing, the door
is always open. There are certainly occasions when I have drawn attention to
the things that do not, or should not, have any weight, meaning or value,
because perhaps you may have overlooked the fact that they did not have any
weight, meaning or value. But all that was presented, all that has been said or
done, has been based in the fact of the reality of divine being. Some of you
have been aware of the reality of divine being in me, and you have responded to
it. I rejoice. But what is real response to God? What happens when there is
real response to God?
The individual who responds, him- or herself, gives
expression to divine being. That is the evidence of response. The real response is
the expression of divine being through the individual, something which has
never been expressed before. We might say that kindergarten response is one thing, where there is
simply an expression of appreciation. It is all right as far as it goes; but
until it reaches a point where there begins to be something coming forth
through the individual that is the expression of divine being for that person,
there is not yet any evidence of a maturing response. This IS response: the expression of divine being made manifest. It is
this for which I look. It has appeared in some measure. But it is this
expression as it appears, when it appears within the scope of our unified body,
that causes this ministry to be unique.
There have been spiritual leaders all down through
the ages. There has been a supreme point always on earth somewhere, but there
have been others as well. There has been response to those spiritual leaders by
human beings, but the response virtually has never gone beyond the kindergarten
stage; for true response causes those who respond to share in giving expression
to the divine being which is focalized through the spiritual leader. In
virtually every case, if you look back over the record, the spiritual leader
has stood alone. There have been those who had a devoted response, we might
say, in certain points toward that spiritual leader, but it never caused them
to begin to participate, to become a part of that which the spiritual leader
was expressing, and consequently afterwards, after the spiritual leader was
gone, nobody really knew what it was that he had brought into the world. We
have that clearly revealed in relationship to what is called Christianity—scarcely
anyone has the faintest idea of what it was our Master brought into the world.
They have developed a whole host of beliefs and concepts and ideas, but none of
them the reality, because nobody shared in it in fact.
There will be something original, something which has
never appeared on earth before, the very moment that there is the development
of a body of human beings who are actually sharing in the expression of divine
being that is focalized in the spiritual leader. But it means precious little
as long as it just remains there. It only means something when it begins to
permeate the whole body, so that that which is expressed through the individual
members of the body is the expression of divine being. It is not just response,
or what is supposed to be response, which centers in a sort of adulation of the
spiritual leader. The true response is revealed, the evidence appears, in the
expression of divine being through the individual who is responding. If it does
not appear in that, there is no real response. As you begin to find an
awareness of divine being in relationship to yourselves and your fellows, then
there is the beginning of the evidence of response: the expression of divine
being through you. And this will be unique, absolutely unique.
What is needed in the world is a pattern in which
those who respond share in the expression that is made manifest in its
focalized essences at the point of the leadership. There must be that point.
But there has been such a point constantly, all down through the ages. It is
not that that is really unique in our ministry. Perhaps the recognition of it
is something. But the sharing of it!—that
is the unique thing.
It is in the measure that you do know something, share
something, participate in something, experience oneness with something, that
there is the unique provision on earth of that which makes possible salvation.
It has never been on earth yet. If it had, the world would not be the way it
is. No religion has provided it—the way human beings have functioned in
relationship to their religions, at least. The truth has been brought over and
over again and offered, and there have been those who have felt that the
spiritual leader was wonderful, but they never reached the point of sharing
what was being expressed. Only as that point is reached does this ministry, or
any other ministry, have any meaning. Of course, the spiritual leader must be a
spiritual leader. He must be right. He must be providing an expression of that
which is divine for it to work, but it only begins to work as there are those
who share that spirit. The spirit appears individually through the individual
expression, but it is never a violation of that which is focalized at Center.
And as there begins to be this sharing, as you begin to know it because you are
aware of divine being wherever you look, there is something unique on earth,
and it is not wonderful just for its uniqueness but by reason of the fact that
it provides what is essential to the creative achievement of the divine
purposes, making possible the changing of human beings. This may be shared by
all of you and many others, to the glory of God, for you reverence Him and your
attitude is one of reverence as you live and serve.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
