June 11, 2014

from


The  Third  and  Last  Call





Martin Cecil  April 28, 1974




"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Here are in fact two aspects of one thing. They come from a dimensionless state and emerge into a dimensional state. The dimensional state which is composed of two aspects—the heaven and the earth—emerges from the nowhere into the now here, into the substance of consciousness. There is a sufficiently refined substance of consciousness capable of accommodating what has been referred to as the spirit of God. When it is so accommodated in the dimensional world, it was referred to in the Old Testament as Shekinah and in the New as Christ; neither Shekinah nor Christ refers to a person, although if Shekinah or Christ is to be known there must be a person to reveal it.
   

The heart is the emotional level of consciousness, the feeling level. Each finer level of consciousness permeates the coarser level. The coarsest level of consciousness is the physical level. The mental level of consciousness permeates the physical level, and the spiritual level of consciousness permeates both the physical and the mental levels, but the heart level of consciousness permeates all three. Now if the heart is pure the heavenly levels of consciousness permeate without interruption, without distortion, the earthly levels of consciousness; and heaven and earth are found to be one in consequence. In such case the heart level of consciousness is as an open window of heaven, and heaven is known in experience on earth; the Shekinah is a reality; the Christ is a reality in expression on earth at the physical level of consciousness, at the mental level of consciousness, and at the level of spiritual expression.
   

Whatever the values are in the human attitude, they will be reflected in his heart, in his feelings, in his emotions. The heart is a veil between what should be a holy place on earth and the Holy of Holies in heaven. The Holy of Holies relates to the refined aspects of consciousness present in man which accommodate Shekinah or Christ. There is the triune heaven, just as there is the triune earth. Shekinah is of a triune nature, as also is Christ. In Shekinah there is the fire that burns, the light that glows, and the cloud of glory. In Christ these are called love, truth and life. So how shall the heart be purified? Only by Shekinah, or the Christ; only by the spirit of God in action through these refined levels of consciousness in the dimensional world. Only when the treasure is laid up in heaven can the heart be pure; because the purity is on that side of the veil, not on the earthly side of the veil, as long as the heart is impure.

The real values are in the Holy of Holies, not in the so-called holy place which isn't at all holy when the veil obscures what should be in the holy place. The outer court is not holy and the encampment is not holy as long as the veil obscures, as long as there is an impure heart.

Now in the outworking of opportunity by which human beings might be restored to the awakened state, something was and has been collectively provided. The physical approach could have worked under the hand of Moses, but by the time of Solomon it was all dissipated. The mental approach could have worked under the hand of Jesus, but the response was completely inadequate. It was rejected in rather short order; and there came a point in His ministry where it is recorded that He wept over Jerusalem. That was the point of failure of the second opportunity. That opportunity having been lost, He provided the open door by which a third opportunity might be made available. So, in relationship to Himself, He initiated the third opportunity, the opportunity of approach at the spiritual expression level. This was subsequently interpreted, after He had departed, as meaning that the world should be converted to Christianity. But Christianity is not the third opportunity. Christianity is the evidence of the failure of the second opportunity, just as Judaism is the evidence of the failure of the first opportunity.
   

Out of the failure of the second opportunity could emerge the third opportunity at the level of the spiritual expression plane. And so we share this now—a new approach, at a new level. In order to permit this approach to be meaningful the first two opportunities had to be refocalized so that there might be an understanding of what that first opportunity and that second opportunity was. This is the refocalization not of the failure but of the victory which was inherent in those opportunities. The approach at the spiritual expression level isn't a physical approach, it isn't a mental approach, and it isn't the religious approach, although it may appear to people to be any of these three things. The approach is at the spiritual expression level of consciousness, and that's the only one that works. It can only work on the basis of such focalization as we have now—that's the only way it can work. There is always a point of focus to provide the essential direction, the essential tone, by which the achievement may come.
   

This spiritual expression plane approach requires that the values should be seen as relating to Shekinah, to the Christ, to the quality and the character of God. Only when treasure is again put in heaven, so that the value is there, can the heart begin to be purified, because then the tone out of heaven begins to sound in the heart and it is that that dissolves the impurities, so that the Shekinah may shine through into the earth, revealing the truth that heaven and earth are one.
   

We are in position to make this spiritual expression plane approach now. It's the only approach that works now. There are some who are beginning to sense the tone and to awaken to the fact that there is the value, the treasure, in heaven right now! In the acceptance of this treasure now, the purification of the heart can occur, so that because the heart becomes pure the fourth level of approach may be made. But the only basis for that approach is a pure heart, and the only way by which the heart may be purified now is to make the approach of the spiritual expression plane level.


The only way by which the heart may be purified, enabling the fourth level approach to be made, is as there is the right approach at the third level. So the third level approach is the last call, the last opportunity. We, and all who would let it be so, are here to make that approach, that the heart may be purified. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."


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