from
The Dominion of Essences
Martin Cecil
November 4, 1979
As the windows
of heaven are opened, or as a door is opened in heaven, we don't go through
into heaven; we become aware simply of what is already present with us. The
wholeness of God is already present with us, brought to specific focus in the
reality of the truth of our own being, so that this differentiated aspect may
find expression in a fitting way according to the part which we are here to
play. But what it is that enables us to play this part dwarfs into
insignificance the circumstances, the environment, in which we play the part.
The circumstance, even the earth itself, becomes scarcely discernible from the
standpoint of true perspective, because whatever comes to focus of dimensional
God in our own expression is not in any way separate or apart from the whole of
dimensional God.
If we see
relative values here, then where's the problem about handling the affairs which
are brought to us to be handled? We may recognize again that these matters
which do come to us do not come to us by chance; they are brought to us. It may
be said that the true essences call to the material of this world to come home.
As we give focus to these true essences, that's the call. We have a new outlook
then with respect to what it is that comes to us, what it is that is present in
our environment. It is brought to us, it is coming by reason of the call, the
call of the essences to which we give focus. Here is the material answering the
call.
You may say
that some of the things that come to you are not particularly heavenly, they
don't particularly appeal to you perhaps; but let us see these things in the
true light. Here in fact is the material
of this world coming again to associate itself with the true essences. The
material of the world cannot actually help itself once the true essences are
there. When we are giving focus to these true essences we see things in this
way. We're not cringing as puny little human beings overwhelmed by their
circumstances, trying to fend off giants. Those who have a right perspective
couldn't possibly see any giants in this very small world for which we are
responsible. In this sense nothing very much has been committed to our charge,
certainly not when we begin to understand that of which we are simply a focus,
a focus point of this vibrational substance in combination with the spirit of
God, to which we have referred as essences, the true essences.
When the true
essences are here, when we are providing the focus for them and giving
expression to what pours out because of those essences, then something is going
to happen in our world and there will be what comes to us in consequence. We
don't have to question what it is that comes to us. We certainly know why it's
coming to us. It is coming to us in response to the essences to which we give
focus. And it is going to sort itself out: the material that belongs will come
closer and stay; the material that doesn't belong will be set on one side.
Maybe some of it has to wait awhile before it is capable of coming any closer;
maybe some of it belongs somewhere else, at some other level where the changes
are occurring; but we don't have to judge in the matter. We let it come to us.
We're going to find out, on the basis of maintaining the focus of these
essences in our living, what it is that belongs with us, what it is that is on
hold, so to speak, and what it is that needs to move out. It will do it automatically.
It comes to us
all mixed up together. It's not as though we're going to swallow the whole
mass, but we let it come to us, that coming closer into the fire of these
essences to which we give focus it may have the opportunity of being sorted out—and
this is what will happen. We will discover that we have things to do, we have
things to say, we have things to think, and there are times when it is
altogether the right thing to keep quiet! But we are responsible for this
sorting-out process and we can only handle it when we have a true perspective;
otherwise we'll be afraid of everything that's coming to us. But if we have the
true perspective and we have a sensing of the immensity of the essences which
we represent, where's the problem? The whole perspective changes, and it
doesn't matter what comes to us, it's a little thing. It can be handled with
ease provided that we maintain the true focus. If we let that slip then there
could be problems, couldn't there?
Where we see
problems there is the urge to manipulate, and wherever you manipulate you
create more problems. No matter how you manipulate, with the very best of intentions,
it makes matters worse. It may not seem to make matters worse in the immediate
little bailiwick where you're manipulating; you may get things, temporarily at
least, into shape; but how do you know what the repercussions are beyond and
beyond and beyond? Difficulties will multiply, and of course eventually the
chickens come home to roost. If by reason of your action something goes out,
it's going to come back somewhere along the line and, depending upon what it is
of course, you may find that it clobbers you. The Law works. We may not be able
to connect the particular clobber that hits us with the cause of it back along
the way somewhere, and it's always easy to find someone who is handy to blame for
it when the clobber occurs. But that is foolishness.
So we hold the
focus of these essences in the space that we have provided where it is kept
holy, and we need to be willing, indeed anxious, we might say, to let that
space expand so that more can be accepted into it, both from the standpoint of
essences and from the standpoint of what is coming to us by reason of the
action of those essences; for when the essences are present they are calling to
the lower vibratory levels of substance to take form according to the design
that is provided, and the material starts to wake up and come home.
Here we begin
to see the association that we have at the crossover point, with the true
essences on the one hand and the material of the world for which we are
responsible on the other. We are responsible for letting the essences cross
over into expression in our living and we are responsible for letting what is
coming back be drawn to us. It's being drawn by these essences, that what is
drawn to us may give form to these essences. The essences will be taking their
true form in this fashion. Well in order to take their true form there's a lot
of stuff that needs to drop off that doesn't belong, and it will do so if we
hold it steady.
One
of the most obvious evidences of what happens when something is held steady was
what occurred in the experience of Jesus long ago. He held absolutely steady,
no matter what it was that was coming to Him. And it came right up to Him. But
there was no wavering. There was no denial of the essences for which He was
responsible at any point along the way, and what didn't belong fell away. What
did belong was there when He came forth from the tomb. Here is the evidence of
the opening of a door on this earth through which anyone might come and let
these principles in action be experienced in living. We share this
understanding in whatever measure our hearts are pure, so that we may participate
in the process, very keenly aware always of the quality, the nature, the
character, of dimensional God, Love—the vastness of that, the infinite power of
that—so that we may be in position smoothly to handle whatever presents itself
before us.
So we participate
in the easy way because we have accepted the easy yoke, the yoke of the true
essences in our living. As we allow these essences to be the essential quality
of our living we become quite familiar with them and we find ourselves in
position to work easily with essences in an awareness of those essences—and of
what is happening by reason of those essences. What was it that the spirit of
truth would do? Amongst other things, He would show you things to come. You
know exactly what is to come when you are working with the essences that cause
it to come. Your eyes are no longer fastened on the forms, fussing about the
forms, worrying about the forms, trying to manipulate the forms, change the
forms to make the world a better place for forms. You let the world alone in
that sense; you leave the forms alone. You just let the material come to you,
the material that composes these forms and that material will be released from
the forms which it had previously occupied, in order to give form to what is emerging
by reason of the essences to which you give focus.
Here is the
creative process. We begin to understand and to play our part in allowing the
glory of God to be revealed on earth by reason of the forms which appear
because of the essences that are present. How great is God Almighty, who DOES
make all things well!
© emissaries of divine light
If we see relative values here, then where's the problem about handling the affairs which are brought to us to be handled? We may recognize again that these matters which do come to us do not come to us by chance; they are brought to us. It may be said that the true essences call to the material of this world to come home. As we give focus to these true essences, that's the call. We have a new outlook then with respect to what it is that comes to us, what it is that is present in our environment. It is brought to us, it is coming by reason of the call, the call of the essences to which we give focus. Here is the material answering the call.
You may say that some of the things that come to you are not particularly heavenly, they don't particularly appeal to you perhaps; but let us see these things in the true light. Here in fact is the material of this world coming again to associate itself with the true essences. The material of the world cannot actually help itself once the true essences are there. When we are giving focus to these true essences we see things in this way. We're not cringing as puny little human beings overwhelmed by their circumstances, trying to fend off giants. Those who have a right perspective couldn't possibly see any giants in this very small world for which we are responsible. In this sense nothing very much has been committed to our charge, certainly not when we begin to understand that of which we are simply a focus, a focus point of this vibrational substance in combination with the spirit of God, to which we have referred as essences, the true essences.
When the true essences are here, when we are providing the focus for them and giving expression to what pours out because of those essences, then something is going to happen in our world and there will be what comes to us in consequence. We don't have to question what it is that comes to us. We certainly know why it's coming to us. It is coming to us in response to the essences to which we give focus. And it is going to sort itself out: the material that belongs will come closer and stay; the material that doesn't belong will be set on one side. Maybe some of it has to wait awhile before it is capable of coming any closer; maybe some of it belongs somewhere else, at some other level where the changes are occurring; but we don't have to judge in the matter. We let it come to us. We're going to find out, on the basis of maintaining the focus of these essences in our living, what it is that belongs with us, what it is that is on hold, so to speak, and what it is that needs to move out. It will do it automatically.
It comes to us all mixed up together. It's not as though we're going to swallow the whole mass, but we let it come to us, that coming closer into the fire of these essences to which we give focus it may have the opportunity of being sorted out—and this is what will happen. We will discover that we have things to do, we have things to say, we have things to think, and there are times when it is altogether the right thing to keep quiet! But we are responsible for this sorting-out process and we can only handle it when we have a true perspective; otherwise we'll be afraid of everything that's coming to us. But if we have the true perspective and we have a sensing of the immensity of the essences which we represent, where's the problem? The whole perspective changes, and it doesn't matter what comes to us, it's a little thing. It can be handled with ease provided that we maintain the true focus. If we let that slip then there could be problems, couldn't there?
Where we see problems there is the urge to manipulate, and wherever you manipulate you create more problems. No matter how you manipulate, with the very best of intentions, it makes matters worse. It may not seem to make matters worse in the immediate little bailiwick where you're manipulating; you may get things, temporarily at least, into shape; but how do you know what the repercussions are beyond and beyond and beyond? Difficulties will multiply, and of course eventually the chickens come home to roost. If by reason of your action something goes out, it's going to come back somewhere along the line and, depending upon what it is of course, you may find that it clobbers you. The Law works. We may not be able to connect the particular clobber that hits us with the cause of it back along the way somewhere, and it's always easy to find someone who is handy to blame for it when the clobber occurs. But that is foolishness.
So we hold the focus of these essences in the space that we have provided where it is kept holy, and we need to be willing, indeed anxious, we might say, to let that space expand so that more can be accepted into it, both from the standpoint of essences and from the standpoint of what is coming to us by reason of the action of those essences; for when the essences are present they are calling to the lower vibratory levels of substance to take form according to the design that is provided, and the material starts to wake up and come home.
Here we begin to see the association that we have at the crossover point, with the true essences on the one hand and the material of the world for which we are responsible on the other. We are responsible for letting the essences cross over into expression in our living and we are responsible for letting what is coming back be drawn to us. It's being drawn by these essences, that what is drawn to us may give form to these essences. The essences will be taking their true form in this fashion. Well in order to take their true form there's a lot of stuff that needs to drop off that doesn't belong, and it will do so if we hold it steady.
One of the most obvious evidences of what happens when something is held steady was what occurred in the experience of Jesus long ago. He held absolutely steady, no matter what it was that was coming to Him. And it came right up to Him. But there was no wavering. There was no denial of the essences for which He was responsible at any point along the way, and what didn't belong fell away. What did belong was there when He came forth from the tomb. Here is the evidence of the opening of a door on this earth through which anyone might come and let these principles in action be experienced in living. We share this understanding in whatever measure our hearts are pure, so that we may participate in the process, very keenly aware always of the quality, the nature, the character, of dimensional God, Love—the vastness of that, the infinite power of that—so that we may be in position smoothly to handle whatever presents itself before us.
So we participate in the easy way because we have accepted the easy yoke, the yoke of the true essences in our living. As we allow these essences to be the essential quality of our living we become quite familiar with them and we find ourselves in position to work easily with essences in an awareness of those essences—and of what is happening by reason of those essences. What was it that the spirit of truth would do? Amongst other things, He would show you things to come. You know exactly what is to come when you are working with the essences that cause it to come. Your eyes are no longer fastened on the forms, fussing about the forms, worrying about the forms, trying to manipulate the forms, change the forms to make the world a better place for forms. You let the world alone in that sense; you leave the forms alone. You just let the material come to you, the material that composes these forms and that material will be released from the forms which it had previously occupied, in order to give form to what is emerging by reason of the essences to which you give focus.
Here is the creative process. We begin to understand and to play our part in allowing the glory of God to be revealed on earth by reason of the forms which appear because of the essences that are present. How great is God Almighty, who DOES make all things well!
