The Real Stature Of Angelic Nature

The  Real  Stature  Of  Angelic  Nature

Assembly  Session

Martin Cecil   April 11, 1979

The real stature of angelic nature—or particularly archangelic nature—is very impressive, but not to human nature. This stature is only seen, recognized, by reason of spiritual perception. The human mind is impressed perhaps by its imagination, its concept, of God Almighty maybe, or of Jesus, but is not impressed by the reality—simply because it doesn't see it. It requires spiritual discernment to behold the tremendous stature of angelic and archangelic nature. It is unbelievably more immense than human imagination could conceive.

We need to have this sensing of the greatness, the immense stature, of divine nature—not only seeing it in relationship to someone else through whom it may have been or be being revealed to some extent, but in one's own experience, or in relationship to oneself. One may not have the adequate experience yet, but there is the necessity of knowing that it is there, of knowing that we are not associated with anything small or insignificant. Sometimes when there is consideration of the few numbers of those who are beginning to open their hearts toward the reality, there is the thought that it is very small. In appearance, maybe so. But from the standpoint of the divine nature which is emerging there is nothing greater on the face of the earth. There is nothing more immense. There is nothing more powerful. We sense this increasingly to the extent that we ourselves share in allowing this stature to be made evident by reason of our own living, because we are aware of the tone of life which is a great and all‑inclusive tone. And we are beginning to share the expression of that tone by reason of our own thoughts, by reason of our own words, and by reason of our own action.

We see that heaven has been waiting to be experienced by those who dwell on earth—to be experienced in human consciousness. What is the quality of heaven? What is the overall characteristic of heaven? What makes heaven heaven? It is said that God is love. All is love. We need not only to find out what love is for ourselves, but reveal it by reason of our living. In fact, revealing it by reason of our living is the way we find out what it is.

From the standpoint of our dimensional experience, love is the substance at every level. There is no level of what is known in the dimensional world, of heaven or earth, where the substance of love is not. Love is the tone which we may sense and which may provide the base, the foundation, for living. Love is substance. The whole of the dimensional world, which includes the visible universe, is filled with this substance. It is this substance that makes the dimensional world possible in all its ramifications. Our association and experience, in whatever measure, with angelic being and angelic expression is associated with this tone, enabling the encompassment of our worlds. Our worlds are filled with this substance. And we ourselves are composed of this substance, in representation of the Lord, of this tremendous character and stature. We find ourselves in position to encompass our worlds.

We have, individually and together, the opportunity of encompassing these worlds in what might be recognized as a horizontal way. These worlds extend out from us horizontally. But obviously there must be more to the encompassment of our worlds than merely the horizontal. There is back of the level of physical substance a number of other levels of substance which we have considered on the basis of the total of seven. In other words the seven relates to the vertical, or the perpendicular, component. There is much more to our physical world than physical substance. Having been born into human nature, we have been oriented in physical substance.

Now we begin to find our orientation being lifted up so that it includes other levels. Each of these levels is at least as important as the physical level; each level has greater stature than the one below it. We can see it perhaps in the dimensional sense as occupying more space. The physical level occupies the least amount of space. We can see that rather clearly in the universe. The universe is mostly space, apparently, with just a little physical substance dotted around here and there. I'm speaking of "little" in relative terms, mind you, relative to the immense amount of what used to be supposed to be empty space.

We see the same thing to be true closer to home, relative to our own physical bodies, for instance. We've always been inclined to think of our stature as being how high we are physically, or perhaps how broad—either way. But this is not the real stature. Obviously so, when we begin to see the immensity of divine character and the divine nature. But this is reflected in the dimensional world, so that there is the mental substance which occupies the space of the physical substance but extends beyond it. And we may, considering all the various levels, see that each higher level of substance occupies the total of the lower levels of substance and extends beyond, so that when we come to the seventh, which is the pure substance of love, could we estimate what dimensional stature that has? There should be a sensing of the fact that our character, spiritually speaking, divinely speaking, even in the dimensional world is immensely greater than what we have thought of ourselves physically speaking.

We all have, dimensionally speaking, a stature of which we have been virtually unconscious. Perhaps we are still unconscious of it to a high degree but we at least have some perception of its reality, so that when the angelic expression is allowed to emerge, to come forth, there is the evidence then of an immense stature. It's not a little thing.

This coming forth is made possible by reason of the substance present in the dimensional world for it to happen. It is the coming forth of a reality that is undimensional. It is caused to be dimensional by reason of the substance. There is just one substance, and that is the substance of love. What we call physical substance is the substance of love at the physical level. We have thought of the seventh level as being characterized by the spirit of love. It is so characterized because of the substance of love, which fills all the space that there is, dimensionally speaking. This substance of love assumes different characteristics. It is differentiated by what may be referred to by using the word "truth." It could be said that truth is the design of love. Truth sets the design for the qualities and characteristics of love at the various levels of love's expression.

Looking at it this way we may see once more that at the sixth level the quality of the substance is described by using the word "the womb." This is the level for the manifestation of what is spoken of as the spirit or the womb. The use of this word indicates enfoldment. Love is the substance all the way through. Love therefore is present at every level in the pure nature of its substance. But in the process by which the expression of love is brought forth, both in the creation and in the operation of our worlds, there is a level of love substance which enfolds all other levels. It is a modification of the pure substance of love already present, a modification which allows a certain design of that substance to put in an appearance. It could be said that the original substance is designless; there is no design present in it yet. The substance is available to allow the design to emerge. And the truth is what makes is possible for that emergence. The design is in the truth. And the first aspect of that design is describable by the word "womb" because it is the enfolding substance, the enfolding substance which contains all the other levels of the substance of love in the design which are yet to be brought forth.

Here is the creative process in operation by reason of dimensionless spirit being brought to bear in dimensional substance. The design makes possible the bringing forth into expression of the real stature of divine being. All this is to make possible the expression of God in the dimensional world in a very specific and direct sense. We have noted that God in action on earth is described by using the word "Jehovah." This is God in action on earth by reason of man. Such action is impossible without man. Because man has not been available for this expression for quite some time, the action of God in a direct sense has been absent. What would occur if there was the total means for the expression of God is unknown. This eye hath not seen nor ear heard. It is possible to indulge in imagination as to what it might be but impossible to know what it would be, except by letting it be.

Now obviously we can't, as a small group here, let it be for the whole world. We can let it be for ourselves. In view of the fact that the true creation includes all mankind as the vehicle for the expression of God, if the expression of God only emerges through a smaller body than the body of mankind, whether a collective body such as this or whether through an individual body, it will not reveal what would be revealed if it was happening through the whole body of mankind. We can't create an isolated bubble of the garden of Eden, for instance, in which we might dwell at every level, because we are not isolated from the whole body of mankind. And what the restoration really is remains unknown until it happens for the whole body of mankind.

In the meantime we have our responsibility in the creative process which allows it to happen for the whole body of mankind. So we are not imagining that somehow we are going to produce the restored state on earth just by reason of a few people. We may experience what the angelic expression is in the present state of affairs the way things now are, and God is always very practical. He doesn't try, as many human beings do, to live in a condition which doesn't exist. The expression of God on earth must come forth in the condition that does exist. And God Himself is not averse to that; He knows that it is the only way that the restoration can occur. So there is the necessity of handling the circumstances that do exist, from the angelic standpoint, letting God be in expression in that setting.

We are here to allow the real stature, angelic stature, to emerge, not to be impressive to anyone but just to be ourselves.

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