from
The Intervening Provision
Martin Cecil
April 16, 1978
There is a very specific configuration of angels who provide the connection
between the One and the yielded human heart.
This is not a haphazard jumble of angelic beings but a very specific configuration.
"After this I looked, and, behold, a
door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of
a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee
things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit; and,
behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne."
There is One who sits on the throne, not
half a dozen. We have some awareness of the reality of the One Law, of the
truth as it relates to what has been called focalization; this is a fact of
life. The reality of life, the true tone of life, is made evident because of
this fact. There is One who sits on the throne. In order that this might come
out of the realm of imagination into the realm of true experience the throne
which is in heaven must be made known. The composition of that throne is
angelic; in other words it is formed of angels, angels who function in heaven,
in the realm of cause, revealing the reality of the One who sits upon the
throne. It is because of this One, because of this supreme point of focus, that
agreement is made possible, that oneness is made possible.
This One who sits upon the throne we
have seen as relating not only to an invisible point but to an undimensional
point. The throne itself is dimensional. It is a reality in heaven, the realm
of cause for this earth. The heaven and the earth are the two aspects of the
dimensional world, but the throne is set in heaven. This is certainly invisible
from the earthly standpoint but quite knowable from the angelic standpoint.
There is then a heavenly facility by which the One extends His authority and
His government into the world. That authority and that government spring alone
from that One. We may speak of that One, we may identify that One by using
words, perhaps the Lord God, the LORD of Lords, the Lord of Love, but the use
of words of course does not acquaint us with that One. We are only acquainted
with that One to the extent that we are actually centered in that One, that all
our love is offered to that One, nothing whatsoever held out.
The whole capacity to love in the human
sense must be yielded to the One who sits upon the throne if the first great
commandment is to be kept. "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all." How is this to be done? The only
way by which we may love God is through the provision which He has made by
which we might do so—an intervening provision. There is something between the
yielded human heart and God, something to provide a connection.
There is a reality in heaven. There is
the throne, the throne upon which the One sits. The throne is in the heaven.
The One is above the throne. The only way by which one may come in yielded love
to the One who is above the throne is through or by reason of the throne. Now
we are just using symbolic words to describe something here.
There is a very specific configuration
of angels who provide the connection between the One and the yielded human
heart. This is not a haphazard jumble of angelic beings, but as I say, there is
a very specific configuration. That configuration was described in this
particular chapter in earthly terms, and those earthly terms have not meant
very much to human beings generally speaking, because they had no experience of
the reality which was being described.
There is the necessity for this throne
to become known in heaven on earth. It is a reality in heaven already; it
doesn't have to be made so. But because human beings have been functioning in
the earth, below the veil, and the heaven has been unknown, and must remain
unknown as long as the earth of human experience is held out as something
separate. The heaven is then hidden; there is a veil between. What is real must
be experienced to be known and it can't be experienced as it is merely on the
basis of imagination or of an endeavor to believe something.
So heaven is a present reality and the throne
is present in the heaven. The design by which the yielded heart may receive the
truth of heaven into spiritual expression on earth is present by reason of the
fact that the angels who compose it are present. We recognize those angels as being present
insofar as we personally are concerned by reason of the fact of incarnation in
human form. The presence of the angel in human form sustains the life in that
human form and was responsible for the building of that human form in the first
place. So certainly the composition of the throne is very close. It's very
close to each individual. The very cause of life in personal experience is a
part of that throne.
As angelic expression begins to
characterize our experience we begin to discover associations emerging. We find
ourselves associated with others who are experiencing the same thing. We find
this to be true not because we set out to choose this one or that one to
associate with but it naturally happens. Sometimes there has been objection to
the happening. Sometimes those who found themselves associating with each other
didn't much care for the idea in the human sense, but the human sense really
has no bearing in the matter at all; we are concerned with what is the fact,
the reality in heaven. Wisely we do not buck that reality. We accept the outer
circumstance for what it is; it's there after all. We certainly do not indulge
in wishful thinking, in wishful desires that it might be some other way. Human
beings imagine that they can be ruled by their hearts and by their mental
concepts, thereby finding fulfilment in some human pattern of relationship. Effective
personal relationships emerge when we are not being ruled by our hearts and
minds—there is the need for spirit to find expression, spirit which will govern
the operation of the heart and the operation of the mind and the operation of
the body.
So, as ever, our concern is with true
spirit. If the world is to be restored to the One who sits upon the throne,
there is only one way, and that is through what has been spoken of as the
Christ, or in other terms the Lamb, or in still another term, Shekinah. This is
present in the heaven because of the angels who are present in the heaven,
differentiating the spirit of the One who sits upon the throne, differentiating
that spirit in the heaven. The differentiation of that spirit doesn't change
it; it merely causes it to be comprehensible. As long as it remains
undifferentiated in the One, it is not comprehensible. As it is differentiated
by the angels in the heaven it becomes comprehensible, and the angels compose
the design by which authority and government may be extended into the earth. It
is only on the basis of response because of the throne that anyone can be
restored to the One who sits upon the throne. That is in fact what we have
spoken of as the restoration. Mankind is to be restored to the One who sits
upon the throne.
Restoration implies a coming again; in
other words this experience of being one with the One who sits upon the throne
was known on earth before. It is known in heaven now. Because it is known in
heaven now it can be known on earth now, and we have the opportunity of so
yielding human hearts in love toward the One who sits upon the throne, but in a
specific sense toward that configuration of angels which compose the throne. No
man cometh unto the Father, unto the One who sits upon the throne, but by what
intervenes. The angelic design in heaven intervenes. Human beings have been
trying to come directly to God, usually on the basis of some imaginary figure,
but there is only one way.
There is the way, the truth and the
life. "I am the way, the truth, and the life." The true angelic
identity of the individual is the way, the truth and the life for that person,
and only through the angel is it possible to be restored to the One who sits
upon the throne. Collectively speaking we have spoken of the Archangel,
utilizing that word to describe the focus of the collective identity in heaven;
one might say the throne identity, the identity of the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne. The composition of this throne is of angels, in a very
specific configuration. It requires a very specific configuration for the
creative process to work. It was designed this way—the design has not changed;
it's the same as it always has been.
If we begin to have experience of
spiritual expression in living, so that we begin to know ourselves in angelic
consciousness, we find that there are associations emerging between
angels. Necessarily the human element
tags along, but the association is between angels if it is real, if it is a
part of the design, if it is included in the throne upon which there is One who
sits. We find ourselves in these associations. If we lose our angelic vision
and return to the human view then we discover that there are all kinds of
things that are not pleasing or not right, we think, in our associations with
this one or that one. We look upon each
other and we say, "I don't like that person." The angelic association
has nothing to do with human likes and dislikes. Human likes and dislikes will
distract people from the experience of the angelic association. They get hung
up in human nature.
We are presumably very much concerned
for the clear experience of angelic association. In this regard, there are
specific configurations—there are associations which specifically include
certain angels. We need to reach a point where we can assemble groupings of
people. As angels we have our parts to play and that's all there is to it, and
we play our parts in relationship to others. If the creative purposes for which
we are here as angels are to be fulfilled there is the need for a great variety
of these groupings for very particular purposes. The human mind may not
understand. Why should it? Why be bothered if the human mind does not
understand? Don't identify yourself with it and you won't be bothered.
We need to get on with the job, and as
we do get on with the job, without indulging ourselves in any reactionary
attitudes, there begins to be a more specific point of focus and orientation
for human beings everywhere. It is by reason of these various groupings that people
can be touched in various ways, depending upon what is present with respect to
the angels concerned, the nature of the spirit that is being differentiated and
also taking into account the earthly heredity of the particular form of the
individual, because we have our connections on this basis with people
everywhere. We are designed to use these connections, but we certainly can't
use these connections other than in angelic consciousness. Let it work out on
the basis of the angelic expression and it will be right. It is the fact of
these various configurations that provides the means of connecting up with
every aspect that is present in the consciousness of mankind so that all who
will may become increasingly aware of the specific nature of the connection
with the One who sits upon the throne.
No one can circumvent that connection
and reach the One who sits upon the throne. Human beings in their human nature
patterns like to imagine that they have their special connections, but there is
only one way, one truth, one life, and it relates to identification
individually, in a specific sense, with the reality of one's own angelic
nature; in the collective sense with the hosts of heaven who are all already
centered in the One who sits upon the throne and already differentiating that
one spirit. Because of this the restoration of man to his true state is made
possible. We share this responsibility. It has been said that we need to grow
up; that means that we need to accept the angelic identity. Then we know why we
are here.
There is nothing personal anymore that
we hold out for our own. It is all included in the overall purpose of our
presence on earth, and if we need to be a part of one group for a specific
purpose and not a part of another group, well that's the way it is, that's what
we are here for; and we begin to find out that we actually fit in these
configurations. We discover that it is a most fitting state of affairs, a
delightful state of affairs, and we see the creative cycles moving and
unfolding in all directions, all coordinated by reason of the one spirit which
in differentiated expression is providing what is necessary on earth by which
the transformation occurs in human consciousness and man, mankind, is restored.
I am thankful for the privilege of
sharing these things with you this evening, that there may be an increasing
awareness of angelic associations and an increasing willingness to let those
associations take a specific pattern, a specific pattern according to the design
of the throne in heaven. That after all is what we are here to do as angels.
© emissaries of divine light
