Transcendent Significance of the Mailings
Martin Exeter August 26,
1986
Central Council Sessions
There is something far more significant here than has been seen as yet insofar as the mailings are concerned. It is not just a matter of the significance of the words and the spirit in which the words are spoken, and one’s ability to read the pages and to understand, to whatever degree, what it is that is being said. That is one aspect of significance. But there is another significance entirely which has tended to be overlooked—even though there have been those who have participated in the process, but without clearly understanding why they were doing it.
We used an analogy the other day of a magnet, and I think we could use it again to begin to comprehend exactly what it is that we are participating in here by reason of the mailing list. Everybody should be aware there must be some significance, because this is something that has permeated this ministry right from the word go—it’s always been there. And if there is a casual attitude towards it, obviously a person is quite ignorant as to what it is that is really taking place. We used the magnet as an analogy, but I would rather speak of an electromagnet in this regard.
There is a core of metallic substance which is magnetized by reason of the coils which are around that substance and the current which flows through the coils. Then the magnet is magnetized and the lines of force are present—and what needs to happen, in this analogy, may happen. The field is present, and if there is substance which will form on the field then that substance will form.
We have a complete picture then: there is the magnet, which is magnetized by reason of the coils through which the current is flowing; and there is then the field, and the field becomes visible because substance forms on the lines of force, which are themselves invisible. There is a visible aspect to the magnet; there is the core, there are the coils. There is an invisible aspect of the magnet, which is the magnetic field within the magnet, and the current which is flowing through the coils—that’s the invisible part of it. For it to work, there must be a visible part as well as an invisible part.
We are aware that our bodies and minds and hearts are the visible facility by which whatever is required may occur, and we are seeing it in the symbol of this magnet. The flow through the coils around the magnet relates to what is happening in the core. We ourselves are participating in this core. The mineral substance of the magnet is our own flesh bodies. Of course flesh bodies are not of much account unless there is some current moving through them—they must be alive, in other words. We see being alive as a lot more than merely the fact that the heart is beating and we’re still breathing—that could be the case if we were in a coma. It is the matter of the life flowing through the facilities of mind and heart, which are the coils, which magnetizes the physical form, which generates the magnetic field. There is a very specific process, very beautifully designed, which we can describe in this sort of terms.
The current that flows through the coils is, rightly, the pure current of the Spirit of Life, which is characterized by Love and Truth. We have a symbol of this which allows it to be brought to a very specific point, in the consciousness of all concerned, in what we describe as the mailings. Here the current is flowing through these mailings. There must have been at least one coil to start with for that to occur; and this induces it in other coils that come into the vicinity, until there begins to be a resonance together which opens the door for the flow of Life to be full and free. You can look at this from the viewpoint of attunements as well. We are looking at it from the standpoint of the mailings—the reason why the mailings have always been there. They have provided the current which induces the current; and the induced current in all the various coils that are available opens the door for the actual flow of the Life Force. This is what engenders the creative field of the magnet, because it first engenders a creative field in the magnet, and that then extends beyond the magnet. This is a very simplified portrayal through a fairly accurate symbol.
The mailings have provided this flow in which all could participate in a very focused way. There is something very specific about the current that was released in this fashion—and it gave the opportunity for those who were willing to participate in the flow of the current to begin to do so in a very focused way, so as to keep it moving through the coils.
There is the possibility certainly for this current to leave the coils. People splatter their Life Force all over the place. And one of the reasons for this current moving through the mailings is to bring it all back into the coil and not have it flowing here and there, achieving absolutely nothing. It only begins to achieve something when it’s in the coil. The mailings have provided the focus for the current which rightly should be moving in the moment through the coil, which is one’s own mind and heart. If it moves through the mind and heart it moves through the body, because they are not separate. So there is the magnet, there is the current moving through the coils, so that the whole body of magnet and coils put together is magnetized and then begins to be alive—because this current is the current of Life.
Because there are those who let this happen, who have a vision and awareness in this regard, and they wouldn’t break that current for anything, there begins to be a stable creative field—the lines of force upon which this substance which is capable of participating in the creative field will form. It doesn’t form, really, because of one’s own mind and heart which were so brilliant they were going to persuade this person or that person that they should participate in or back up the Emissary ministry. It never happens that way.
It happens because there is a factual current flowing, there is a factual magnet, there is a factual creative field. Then whatever substance belongs in that creative field will come into it. That’s the way it works. We all have a tendency to imagine that one’s personal ministry is so important that one has to be doing this, that and the other thing, otherwise the restoration would be impossible. Well that’s ridiculous. It doesn’t come by any of the things that are done merely in the external sense, no matter how praiseworthy they seem to be. It is done because there is a factual facility through which the current of the spirit is working, and the spirit gets the job done—but we participate, we offer ourselves to the way it works.
The central aspect of the way it works is by reason of the mailings, a seemingly mundane thing: they go out in the mail, they're printed on paper, lots of little squiggles, and all this. But this is the core by which anything that is to be creatively accomplished by reason of the existence of this body will happen. That provides the basis for the Life currents that are moving through ourselves in daily living. They, aligned with the current of the spirit that brought forth the mailings, will unify the whole process, and we have a unified state of affairs. I trust that in describing it in this way it may provide a larger understanding of why so much importance has been placed upon the mailings.
There are those from time to time who say, “Well I don’t need the mailings anymore. I understand all that needs to be understood now. I can let it happen, so take me off the mailing list.” That person is gone, they have removed themselves from the current of Life. But the door is always open, and there are those who do go on and off the mailing list. These are unstable characters, not much use for providing a stable core in which others might trust. If one does this on-and-off business, there is evidence of a lack of vision as to why the mailing list is there, for one thing, or as to why one should participate in it. Let them find out by moving with the current that moves by reason of being on the mailing list. Let it be consistent day in and day out, year in and year out. Then we have a current moving. Because there have been those, we have this much in effective operation now. But how much more there could have been—those are sad words, aren’t they, “what might have been”—if all concerned had been aware of their immense responsibility. But it was a casual thing: “Well I can be on or off the mailing list, it doesn't really make any difference; the mailing will still be coming out and I can get back on any time.” Well such a person is not participating in the creative process in any way that is effective at all.
I wanted to say something about this, because there has been a lack of vision, a lack of awareness on the part of so many who have been associated with the Emissary ministry over the years, as to why there was this provision. There is a purpose and a reason why our lives should be aligned with the current that is moving, so that there might be what is required to get the job done.
© emissaries of divine light
