Vibrational  Substance  –  Sacred  Space

from   Assembly Session

Martin Cecil   August 9, 1979

Do you think that any of us are going to achieve what we’re here to do without passion, without an intensity of emotion which is giving evidence of the fact that the spirit of God is moving with increased freedom and effect because there is substance present through which it may move? If we’re afraid of that movement, and afraid of that passion, well we’re in the wrong business, because obviously that’s what we’re here to let happen. The passion gives evidence of the movement of the spirit of God through the available spiritual substance, and if there’s plenty of spiritual substance there’s more passion then experienced, and that passion gives evidence of the power. Here is the power. Now we don’t want to stand in the way of that power. We don’t want to become subject to emotion so that we block its movement, because it’s going to be a risky business.

We have the necessity of learning to experience this emotional passion at ever-increasing intensities. If we recognize the need for power, you can’t have the power without the passion. And as we are here to handle that power in the recreative processes, then we’d better be willing to accept the passion and learn how to let the passion be present, giving evidence of the power. Here is something controlled. This has been what has been absent, isn’t it? Dominion, the control which would allow power to be intensified to the point where it might do what needs to be done in the sense of what we call restoration.

On the one hand power has been made available for destructive purposes, and it is unleashed, presumably, on the basis of what might be called the passions of men, the lusts of this world, whatever type of lust that might be. We were considering recently the lust for power, for instance, and if you can’t have the power you’re certainly not going to let anyone else have it. That’s just about it, isn’t it, on the international scene. Of course it’s explained by saying, “Well you have to keep a balance here.” So human consciousness is well aware of some sort of immense destructive power. Human consciousness is far more occupied with destructiveness than with true creativeness, so obviously the power that is around is seen in destructive terms and has been developed in destructive terms.

But we begin to become aware of a power which is the creative power, the power by which there may be restoration. While at the same time we are quite aware that there is a certain amount of what human beings would describe as destruction related to the restoration, the primary factor is the constructive aspect, the integrative aspect. It is only because of that that what should survive survives.

So we need substance, as we well know, but we need to see that it is living substance. It isn’t just, “Well it’s nice to have substance, and we’re going to be able to achieve so much if we have substance,” as though it was just a dead tool, so to speak. This is a living experience, and it involves our emotions, intensity of emotion. If there is to be substance through which the spirit of God moves, it must be generated, and there must be space for it to occupy. Here again, we are using words which may bring enlightenment if we are allowing the spirit to move through such substance as is available in ourselves. There must be space into which the substance may be generated and which it may occupy.

We have seen that universally speaking the physical substance in the universe is scarcely anything in the relative sense. As we have noted, there is far more space in the universe than there is physical substance—space into which there may be the generation of spiritual substance. Now we need to see this from the standpoint of our own field of creative action. We need space.

Now we have assembled ourselves together here, physically speaking, over the last four weeks for a specific generation of substance, that there might be the greater outpouring of spirit, and consequently the greater generation of substance. But in generating substance there must be some place for it to go; there must be space. And we need to see space relative to our associations with others. Mostly what has been seen in the Emissary world is the physical level, in fact, and it has engendered tightly packed physical associations, because in the human consciousness there is the idea that you have to get together to experience oneness—when the fact of the matter is that oneness can only be experienced when there is the necessary space. The universe is one, there’s one universe, but it is only so because there is so much space.

But there is something that is present with us now, and we speak of it as the universe. It appears to be thus and so, but we may have an awareness of its nature because it has a very close relatedness to our own. Now, in our association here, as I say, we have come quite close together physically speaking. But I trust that in our association together in this Assembly there has, at the same time, been a consciousness of expansion, a consciousness of something much vaster than it was before we came together. In other words, in our association with each other we become aware of the space, holy space we might call it, sacred space, which increasingly, because we see it as sacred, we would not violate in any way. And there is need for a great deal of space in this sense between us.

We were looking at the matter of time yesterday, and seeing how we function in the present moment, but that in the present moment there is space into which there may be the generation of this substance, or the release of this substance, so the spirit may move through it. We don’t need vast periods of time to let it happen. In fact, when we become involved with our concept of vast periods of time, we just scatter everything abroad into a realm of fancy. It may seem to be so real to those who study it, but in fact it’s fancy, because to the extent that they are involved in all this, they’re failing to live now. They don’t know what it is to live now. They’ve projected this imaginary scheme of things into the forefront, as though they were living in that, which is just a realm of imagination. They’re not living there at all. They’re living in their imagination, one might say, or existing in it. But how about living in the reality, which is now? The first thing to do, of course, is to relinquish all that stuff of imagination. And this is too much for the conceit of the human intellect, that it should acknowledge that it is really nothing. That’s too much. It has the sense of somethingness because of all this vast imagination that has been created, and the view is that the intellect is so tremendous that it can encompass vast areas, when in fact all it is encompassing is the field of imagination—nothing real about it at all. It isn’t encompassing reality. And it is only when the intellect becomes humble--“I of myself can do nothing, except indulge in fancy”—that one may finally come to the point where reality is, which is the present moment.

And we have seen that in that present moment there is great depth. There’s lots of space into which we may pour this substance, so that the spirit can pour forth because the substance is there for it. It does so in the present moment. It doesn’t do so in the past, it doesn’t do so in the future. I suppose it might be said it did so in the past and possibly will do so in the future, but that again opens up a realm of fancy. The only reason for looking at the past is to see how one may experience what is necessary in the present. Sometimes it’s helpful to look at the past. For that reason we’ve done it. But if we think that we’re looking at it just for the past, that’s a waste of time. That is the study of history, isn’t it? Fiction. Human imagination. Whereas the present is real, and here we are in it. And functioning in the present moment, we allow space in which this substance may be generated.

You cannot experience oneness with another person—I suppose this particularly relates to the association between male and female—you cannot experience oneness without what, in a sense, is unlimited space. It isn’t a shrinking experience. It’s rightly an expansive experience. One becomes one with everything. One’s personal relatedness to someone else opens the door for the experience of oneness with the whole. The purpose is not to have a nice little sort of imaginary oneness with somebody else. That’s all it could possibly be, if there is a consideration of closeness and the matter of possession—a shrinking in. The reality of oneness comes because one has the experience of the whole. That is a spiritual experience, isn’t it?

All this relates to what we are here to do, because what we are here to do is only done by the spirit of God. We’ve had that theory for quite a while. We’ve still persisted a little bit; we didn’t understand how the spirit of God might get it done. We thought maybe it needed a little help here and there. It wasn’t doing it yet the way we thought it should, so we had to put in our two bits’ worth, and we were sure, back along the way, that the spirit of God would be very grateful for this. But that isn’t so, is it? The spirit gets the job done. We ourselves have a role to play in order to let the spirit get the job done. Not to interpret what we imagine the spirit would do to get the job done, but to let the spirit get the job done actually. And this is so unaccustomed in human experience that it virtually doesn’t exist at all to start with. There’s nothing to go on. Therefore it seems like there’s nothing there. Therefore we have to put in our two bits’ worth. But certainly anything that may have happened in this Assembly during your time together here has been achieved by the spirit of God. How much we’ve allowed to occur may be a question. But anything that has occurred has been consequent upon the action of the spirit of God that was allowed because there was substance through which it might act.

So in all our affairs we are concerned to let the spirit of God move through the substance. Therefore we must have the substance. And therefore we must have the space for the substance to be in. And we need to have an attitude, therefore, with respect to each other, which allows us to have plenty of space, and we’re not trying to cram people into some sort of particularly good Emissary structure. If there are groups of people, such as here on Sunrise Ranch, all together in a relatively limited space, physically speaking, there needs to be, one might say, more consciousness of vibrational space than if one wasn’t in such a situation. There should be on Sunrise Ranch a vast space vibrationally speaking, into which all the spiritual substance required may be generated by those who are closely together physically speaking. But unfortunately in groups, these groups tend to be much more conscious of being physical groups than they are of the space which is present also. The fact of the physical group should be the least impressive of the factors that are present, because it is the smallest factor. The consciousness may expand to be aware that there is a vast space here and each individual in that group needs to have plenty of space into which this vibrational substance may be generated.

But because people who are in small physical spaces keep bumping up against each other in those small physical spaces, they pay more attention to these bumps than they do to the space which is actually there. If the space was as prominent in the consciousness as the physical factors, then there wouldn’t be any bumps, because there’s so much space that the people are far apart in that sense. Now you may recognize how this is symbolized in its working, at least in some measure, by a number of birds flying together, maybe thousands of birds flying in close formation, starlings for instance. And they go this way and they go that way; they never bump into each other. Why? Well there’s lots of space insofar as they are concerned. Their sensing relates to that space, vibrational space, rather than to the physical factors. Well it needs to be more so, doesn’t it, insofar as human experience is concerned. But human experience has been encased in a little physical area, emphasized by reason of the closeness of people in large population centers, and they say, “There’s no space here.” And people want—“Oh I need to get out into the country where there’s space.” But this is internal space—plenty of it, plenty of it in the present moment. It opens up indefinitely in the present moment. After all, in this present moment there’s all the space, even in the external sense, in the universe. So let us not be bound in the smallest level of our experience, when we have so much immensity available to us.

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