Spiritual Sex: New Heaven
Physical Sex: New Earth
October 10, 2014
Spiritual Sex Physical Sex
Physical Sex: New Earth
A new heaven and a new earth—this
is the reality. Thus far I think it has been mostly a fancy. It takes a little
while for a person to reach a point where he stops giving weight to the
treasures of human nature—not just what is in the bank account, but all the
cultural traditions, which most people consider to be life itself. We begin to
know the truth to the extent that we have continued in the Word.
A rather interesting picture is
portrayed, for the edification of those who have eyes to see it, in the story
of Job— at the very beginning of the book: “There was a man in the land of Uz,
whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared
God, and eschewed evil… There were born unto him seven sons and three
daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand
camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very
great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”
In what is said here about Job
there was no indication that he should not have been the greatest of the men of
the east, or that he shouldn’t have had all this substance. In fact it is said
of him that he was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil.
And perhaps the words “eschewed evil” are the key in this respect. He was not
subject to any supposed great value of all this substance. He was not
controlled by it. He feared God, and he eschewed the creative process which is
operative relative to external things.
That creative process as it
operates in the substance of the earth does not deplete the earth. The human
tenure here on the planet has depleted the earth considerably, but the true
creative cycle does not do that—just the opposite. Here is a creative process—there
is increase. And the evidence of this increase was the increase of substance as
it related to Job. He was a perfect and an upright man because he feared God
and eschewed evil. His values were where they belong, in the heaven and not in
the earth. He eschewed evil. He did not have to destroy the forms of physical
substance in order to prove that he feared God.
If the true creative cycle is in
operation there is no depletion, there is a constant increase. There is the
generation consistently of the finer substance, which in turn permits the
action of spirit to occur and consequently the creative process to continue.
And the creative process, working as it should, increases substance at every
level. Presently we think of the importance of increasing this fine substance,
but there is a balance here, rightly, when everything is working the way it
should. There does not have to be such a tremendous concentration upon increasing
the fine substance, because it is already there. There is a balance all the way
through. There is the essential substance at every level, and therefore the
increase that comes as the creative cycle operates increases substance at every
level, in balance.
Now how this may actually happen
in the earthly sense remains to be experienced, because that is the only way it
can be known. We are under the necessity of letting all our available capacity
and energy be brought to focus relative to the way things are. We have
sufficient to handle all for which we are responsible in the present moment.
Obviously, as long as human nature is hanging around, as long as satan is on
the scene, there is a danger of reversion into subjection to the substance
which rightly increases at every level, subjection to the substance in the
earthly sense. This after all is what caused the fall in the first place.
There was nothing wrong with the
garden, nothing wrong with the beautiful state and all the wealth in the
earthly sense that was present in that state, until human beings began to be
subject to it, and began to govern their function on the basis of this
substance because it seemingly added to their pleasure. Of course the very
moment you become subject to the substance for your pleasure, your pleasure
starts to go out the window and depletion sets in. Depletion is now seemingly
reaching some sort of a crescendo in the world today.
The true state is to be restored
through the creative cycle of resurrection, and none of the childishness of
human nature can achieve resurrection. There is nothing that can come out of
human nature that can achieve anything. The world is filled with rebellious and
destructive children. Here and there, there is someone who is childlike, and
there is the immediate starting point, provided that there is an adequate state
of spiritual maturity present on earth to offer what is needful to the
childlike. If the childlike are left to their own devices they will probably
become childish, rebellious and destructive, like everybody else. I think all
too many have thought that the permanent condition was to be childlike;
therefore to remain a child. But that is only the starting point. Resurrection
is resurrection into spiritual maturity, which is an unknown state in human
nature childishness.
In this story of Job there was
spiritual maturity evident—a perfect and upright man, one that feared God and
eschewed evil. And it is said that “there were born unto him seven sons and
three daughters.” Here is an indication of the right use of sex. The vital
importance of the right use of sex is actually being emphasized in this verse.
Now, when the values are given to the earthly substance the physical experience
of sex becomes supreme. It is weighted at that end of the scale. And of course
this is one factor in human experience that has kept him thoroughly bound under
the domination of satan. The supreme value has been given to the experience of
physical sex as it has been known by human beings in the human state. This is
only a fraction of the reality of sex, and the reality cannot possibly be known
as long as this unbalanced approach is foremost. And yet, once given a perfect
and an upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil, then the reality of sex
becomes very important, because without it the essential creation that is to
occur cannot do so.
The creative process is
sex. If you exclude it you have no creative process. Obviously it has not
been excluded in human experience, at least at the physical level. Because of
this there has been a creative process at work in the affairs of men, but the
creative process was not a constructive one. It was not the true, balanced
creative process for which man was created. It became destructive, and all the
hell that has taken form on earth is not unrelated to this dominance of
physical sex in human experience. The unbalanced experience in this regard has
produced an unbalanced state. Here is an emphasis upon the importance of sex in
the sense that whatever happens is produced by it. If sex is an unbalanced
experience, as it has been, then this unbalanced state has resulted on earth.
If included in that unbalanced experience have been factors of destructiveness
in the attitudes and the emotions of those who have been indulging themselves
in this field, then all this is reproduced abundantly. Here is the key, then,
to destructiveness. But it is also at the same time the key to true
creativeness.
We have seen something of this but,
generally speaking, when sex considerations arise those considerations
emphasize themselves in the consciousness of those concerned with respect to
physical sex. This has been the habit, after all, and as long as that is the
first thing that is emphasized we remain trapped. We have had some awareness of
the spectrum of the balanced state. As an Assembly we are representing the
whole spectrum, not just the lower end of the spectrum. Flesh is obviously
present here, but there are other levels also present, to which heretofore
inadequate substance has been given. Only as there is substance at any level
does that level have any meaning insofar as experience in the dimensional world
is concerned.
Because all the substance of which
human beings have been aware, or which they have generated, has been at the lower
end of the spectrum, weighted in the physical sense, there could not be
anything else but an unbalanced state. Orientation was downward—human beings
have been weighted at the bottom. There is a proper proportion really, where
weight is evenly distributed. If we are considering this matter of sex then,
more attention should be paid to where there has been little or no experience
than to where there has been experience. But if one comes to speak about sex as
a valuable tool in the creative process, most people think of it simply in
physical terms, and they want it explained to them how sex can be used in this
physical sense to be of value to the Lord. You cannot use it to be of value to
the Lord if that is all you are thinking about. There is a whole spectrum here.
When sex is used rightly, in a
balanced way at every level, there is the creation of the new earth at the
lower end, so to speak. But you know very well that our concern has been with
the new heaven, which is at the upper end, and the end where there has been the
least experience—the least experience because there has been no substance there
for the experience. So there must be the generation of the substance to fill
out the various levels where the creative spirit of God may be accommodated. If
you simply try to accommodate the creative spirit of God at the level of
physical sex it is bound to be a very unbalanced thing. In general terms one
could describe the upper spectrum of sex as spiritual sex. Spiritual sex in
experience is necessary for the creation of the new heaven, just as physical
sex in experience is necessary to the creation of the new earth. But which
comes first, do you think? Obviously the heaven comes first.
To describe the nature of
spiritual sex one could say that it is the union of the Word with the
consciousness of human beings. Here you may recognize why emphasis has been
placed upon the importance of the Word. There have been a lot of people
associated with our ministry who have had little awareness of the vital nature
of the Word in this sense, that it would be impossible to know the right use of
physical sex without having first experienced the right use of spiritual sex,
without the Word having entered into one’s own consciousness so that it would
abide there, so that there might be union.
This is a process of which you are
also familiar: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. The
radiation is the Word to which, if there is a state of being childlike, there
may be uncluttered response, response which does not have any axes to grind,
which has no expectations of personal fulfillment or anything else. You know if
you are honest that most of what you have experienced in the way of response in
the past has had expectations. “If I respond, then I will experience thus and
so.” That is childish, not childlike. The childlike state is the guileless
state, where there is no expectation, no requirement at all, no need for a
reward. When there is no need for a reward there is no need for punishment. The
guileless, childlike state seeks nothing for itself; there is a spiritual
yielding.
Without spiritual yielding there
cannot really be physical yielding. We are concerned with spiritual sex—not
merely for itself, because the fact of the matter is that heaven and earth are
one. Physical sex requires union of a sort, spiritual sex requires union of
another sort; but the union of spiritual sex and the union of physical sex
establish the true union, the union of heaven and earth.
The working of sex when seen from
the spiritual standpoint is not at all structured. There is a design but in the
sense of what in the movement of the creative cycle is fitting. Human beings
want as a rule to get things pinned down—“Is this all right or not?” Who can
tell? We are not dealing with the form initially, but with the spirit, and
there are multitudes of creative requirements, both from the standpoint of the
individual and also from the standpoint of the collective purposes of God. Each
moment is rightly unique, isn’t it? We cannot rightly crystallize any moment.
Isn’t it an amazing thing that
there is such a vastness of experience available that each moment is unique? It
never happened before, it will never happen again. So if we see this in terms
of sex, then clearly you are not going to be able to establish any structured
rules and regulations. There is no marrying and giving in marriage in heaven.
This is all an earthly production that, incidentally, is one of the things that
is passing away. Of course it has been important to human beings because it has
given some sort of a feeling of security, to have a structure set up that is
going to endure. No, there is no structure in that sense.
Because the state is unstructured
does not mean that it is somehow uncontrolled and promiscuous in some fashion.
It merely means that what occurs occurs accurately and rightly in the natural
creative cycles as they are moving, and this requires whatever may be essential
to allow these creative purposes to be fulfilled. The human attitude toward
that would probably be, “I’m not sure that I like that. I’m not going to have
any say in the matter.” Well, who are you to have a say, if you’re just this
human nature creature that is going to pass away anyway? So you wouldn’t have
any say. But there is “say” from the standpoint of the spirit of God, and if
one is associated with that expression as one’s own, then one has say in the
matter. And the say one has is based in the wonders of true creation. The
experience of this has been lost to human beings, so that they cannot recall it
at all. They try to hang on to such supposed pleasure as they think they now
have, fearful of what this austere God might do if He had His way—as though
that would take all the joys out of living, when in fact the true way is the
way by which there is increase, multiplication.
Man was instructed to multiply in
the beginning—not merely to procreate, but to let everything be multiplied, let
the increase come. What is the full potential in this planet do you think?
Human beings have no idea at all. And is this planet somehow isolated from the
rest of the solar system? What is the full potential of the solar system? There
is a realm of complete blank insofar as human consciousness is concerned. Well
all this is within the range of the true creative process, in which we have a
part to play. And so I emphasize this morning something of that part as it
relates to the field of sex, because this is
the creative process.
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