Moving Together In This Creative Spiral
Special Session at Sunrise Ranch
Martin Cecil April 14, 1978
We are here to achieve something not so much from the standpoint of
our personal experience, as though we were seeking to attain some individual
heights, but more because we forget the personal aspect of the matter and are
concerned with what we are here to do together as a whole, in this overall body
of ministry.
There are things present individually, of course, that relate
to what is present in the consciousness of mankind as a whole—and we have no
desire to isolate ourselves from the consciousness of mankind as a whole. There
is a need for the connection, so that what happens in us as individuals may have
an impact insofar as the mass consciousness is
concerned. So we no longer object to things that need to be dealt with, we no
longer struggle with them, but we accept them into our creative field collectively.
I have before emphasized the fact that there is nothing properly
merely personal. If there are those personal factors which arise in
consciousness, or that have been carried around by a person which need
rebuking, the rebuke is offered because those things don't belong in the whole,
not merely because they don't belong in "me." And one would not
sustain anything in the whole which obviously does not belong there. So when we
offer rebuke we offer it on a much wider basis than the merely personal one.
Someone may say, "Well I have this tendency, this weakness, and
it takes charge of me on occasion. It needs to be rebuked all right." But
if we are merely doing it on a self-centered basis it will never dissolve; it
will always be there to spring out at you. But if you see it as something that
doesn't belong in the whole then you are in position to deal with it. Personal
attitudes with respect to anything in such case no longer have any weight. And
if there is something that hangs on it is because the person in fact doesn't
wish to let it go; whatever he may say consciously, he doesn't wish to let it
go. And the rebuke offered on this basis doesn't achieve very much. It only
begins to achieve something when you see that what is present in you is a part
of the whole, and that if you sustain it you are sustaining it for everybody
else as well. In particular you are sustaining it so as to provide a barrier
insofar as the expression of the Lord is concerned, by
reason of the whole. See those things not merely as something personal. See
them as a factor in the whole. And if we truly love the Lord and are truly
concerned with providing Him with an instrument capable of doing what He needs
to do here on earth, then instantly the rebuke becomes effective.
In isolation we are weak. Weakness characterizes the individual all on
his own. There may be an appearance of strength but the real strength comes
because what is being undertaken is not merely being undertaken by the
individual. "Well I've got to deal with this thing," a person may say
with respect to something in relationship to himself. Well if you've got to
deal with it all on your own you won't deal with it. It will just hang around.
It is only when it is recognized as being a part of the whole that it is
possible to deal with it from the standpoint of the whole. And there is the
necessary strength in the whole to do whatever is needed to be done.
I'm sure in your own experience along the way you have been faced with
particular problems individually speaking and you've struggled with them on
your own. It is a strange trait in human beings; they seem to want to isolate
themselves in this regard and struggle with their difficulties on their own,
partly because they know they will never succeed in experiencing any victory on
this basis and they can remain merely human. But when it has been shared with somebody
else—if it is the right person, that is, someone who doesn't agree with your
weaknesses—it is handled very simply. And when you begin to let everything be
handled from the standpoint of the whole then we begin to serve.
Now we have a very specific focus of consciousness provided by all who
are present. This enables us to handle many things. If we were to take each of
you individually and examine your background and the quality of your earthly
heredity and all the factors of influence that have been brought to bear in your
existence on earth thus far, we would find a very wide spectrum, wouldn't we? I
think it is quite wide enough to encompass all that needs to be encompassed
insofar as our purpose together is concerned, because we are here together very
specifically to achieve something definite.
I am not suggesting we should try to figure out what that is with the
expertise of our human intellect; it couldn't be done anyway. But we need to
come into position where there is a sufficient pattern of experienced agreement
so that what is necessary can happen. And it happens, as we know, on a very
definite basis. We call that basis the One Law. Everything works as it should
when the One Law is allowed to find its proper application.
Yesterday I was mentioning something with respect to what might be
called "new thinking." I am sure that you have had some
experience in this regard, where something unfolded in consciousness naturally
as you moved along because the spirit was in action. We are moving together in
this creative process on a spiral—at least this is one way of describing it—moving
around an ascending spiral so that we find ourselves coming back over the same
point again but at a different level. This will be happening as we move along,
because we are not here to strike out in some amazingly new direction. What
would be the point? Isn’t the direction we've been going all right? Are we
going to just dissolve all that and say "Well we'll start out in some
other direction"? No. Presumably we have an awareness of the fact that we
have been moving as we should have been moving, up to a point at least, and
this is the right direction to move. So we still move in the same ascending
spiral, we still come back over the same points, but at a new level. We are
quite willing and happy to do this because by this movement there is a drawing
power exerted into the consciousness of mankind.
That drawing power at times may seem like a dragging power, depending
where you are looking at it from. If a person is being drawn by it then he is
being drawn along with it. But if a person is providing the focus of this
drawing power then human consciousness is somewhat sluggish. When you are
pulling something along there is a drag seemingly. So as we move up the spiral
there may be a sense of drag in that way. A sense of drag to us, however, is a
sense of being drawn to somebody who is being pulled along by our drag, so we
don't object to some sensation of drag at times.
In other words, very often people think they are only really achieving
something when everything is so free in the rushing-along role, enjoying the
thing so tremendously. Well there are moments when that happens no doubt, but
let us not look askance at the weight which sometimes seems to put in an
appearance. Because we have a job to do. And so there is nothing wrong with
this sensation of weight at times, of a drag at times. So often people have
objected to this. But as angels we recognize that it is one of those things; it
is part of the creative process; it is part of the way by which we achieve what
we are here to do. So we are delighted in the various aspects of experience
which put in an appearance as we move along.
They put in an appearance because we are
moving along. And when they do, well, that's fine. We are moving along together
in this creative spiral. And so it may be that as we move we will find some
recapitulation of various things that you thought perhaps you knew before, but
seeing them at a new level you find that you really didn't see them before; you
didn't experience them adequately before. Let's do something with the time we
have. In order to do what is required there is the necessity for a freedom of
movement mentally speaking; otherwise the drag that we experience will be of
our own making and it will drag us down.
© emissaries of divine light
