Vibrational
Design — Scintillating
Strong Beautiful
Martin Cecil May 6, 1981
Assembly — Sunrise Ranch
It seems that there's a factor in human consciousness these days, particularly,
that might be summarized by the word instant.
There are all kinds of instant foods. People can't take the trouble, or think
they haven't the time, to let a cycle work out naturally. And so, catering to
this impatient state in human beings, all these instant things put in an
appearance. We are surely well aware that there are proper creative cycles.
There are times and there are seasons. There are natural pulsations.
One principal aspect of education was to
come into a conscious awareness, in actual experience, of what these are; not merely
to nod heads in agreement and say, “Yes we know there are Four Forces in
sequence, and the various cycles come and go, the wheels within wheels; we know
all these things”—but what are they? And how associated with them are we? There
are times and there are seasons, certainly. And there is a need for a
recognition of what it is that is not there yet, what it is that is just
beginning to put in an appearance, what it is that is in the bud stage, and
what it is that is ready to burst forth in flower. Otherwise we get all things
mixed up and we're trying to produce the full-blown flower when the shoot
hasn't even appeared above the ground.
Now if we see all this in a practical
way we recognize that everything that is transpiring within the range of the responsibility
of which we are aware relates to these creative cycles and we need to see
things in this way. As has been noted, almost every activity that emerged in
the Emissary ministry has been judged adversely in various ways by different
people—and certainly judged adversely by those who are looking in from outside,
so to speak, completely unaware of what was happening. Even those who were
inside were unaware of what was happening, for most of the time. But here a
creative cycle had been working.
We've seen them working out over the millennia.
And more particularly now, we see them working out over the last two thousand
years, and taking various forms in various ways. We've noted how the orthodox pattern
of Christianity, for instance, took form the way it did and the gnostic views were
shelved to one side, because the Lord is, one might say, very intelligent. He
understands what He's doing and how these creative cycles are used to
advantage. There are certain limitations in the operation of these cycles until
the point of conscious awareness could begin to put in an appearance. It had to
work out in a more or less unfocused way in order to move somehow toward the
point where this focus could begin to appear. Now it's been doing that, and who
can say that any event that occurred was not necessary. It's all part of
whatever has worked out.
The same thing is true from the standpoint
of our field of encompassment once we begin to be conscious of the fact that
there is a field to encompass. And in that field of encompassment there are
many things working out. We are careful not to judge what is happening until we
can discern the way in which these things relate to our field of
responsibility. We don't jump to conclusions, in other words. We don't
immediately throw something out because we don't understand how it relates yet.
Let things alone—there is an unfoldment taking place.
Basically there is this vibrational
design present—as revealed somewhat in Kirlian photography for instance—but it
doesn't relate merely to the physical structure; it relates to far more than
that, which is not being photographed, which few people, apparently, have any
awareness of at all. We begin to have some spiritual discernment, so that we
are aware that there is a design. The truth is true—it really is; and there it
is. It can't be any other way. So everything is there. All that is necessary is
for it to be filled out in living form, which means that it isn't a structure.
The Lord deals in life and so any structures that put in an appearance, insofar
as His view of the matter is concerned, and insofar as the truth is concerned,
are imbued with life. It's an organic process.
So this has been happening consistently
down through the ages, that eventually the thing might come to point, there
might emerge a conscious focus from within the body of mankind. Mankind, after
all, is responsible—made in the image and likeness of God so that God might be
on earth. So what is happening emerges from within the body of mankind. We find
ourselves associated with this and beginning to come to a level where we have a
conscious awareness of what it is that is happening, rather a restricted one at
the moment but nevertheless something that is coming into increasing focus to
be seen. There's a lot more to be seen but we're content with what we see now.
Along the way there has obviously, for
some time, been a point of focus in this conscious sense present on earth. It's
expanding out and including more people now. Because of that point of focus
there could be a recognition of various things that were happening, and
enfoldment of those things, and encouragement of those things, and a working
with those things. This had to be the case with respect to the development of
Sunrise Ranch, for instance, or with respect to the development of what
happened at the Hundred. All these things, all these areas, have been specific
in their development to the extent that there was someone present who had a
consciousness of what it was that was happening. Most of the people involved
didn't have a consciousness of what it was that was happening. They may have
sensed that something was happening; obviously it was. And there were some
bright ideas about it, and many concepts were developed which had little
relatedness to what was actually happening. But what was actually happening
happened, and things emerged on the basis of the action of the spirit of God.
And it could be an intelligent unfoldment to the extent that there was someone
present who had the required intelligence. Uranda was here and he had the view
of what it was that was happening, what was needed to happen at that point, and
all along the way there had to be the provision in this regard which, as I say,
has now multiplied out, proliferated out, so that there are those present here,
there, and all over the place now, who have some conscious awareness of what it
is that is happening.
There needs to be care taken, then, that
one doesn't look at some, even one's own, field of encompassment and say, “Well
this shouldn't be happening.” How do you know it shouldn't be happening? Maybe
it's an absolutely essential part of what should be happening—we take that
attitude anyway. And when we begin to have some spiritual perception we begin
to sense what it is that is moving, and we can shepherd things a little this
way and little that way so as to keep it on the rail, so to speak. Then there
needs to be care taken not to look over the fence at something else happening
somewhere else and judge that, because we need to have a wholeness of
encompassment, and know that if something is working out in our own area it is
working out everywhere else as well. So we can have an enfolding attitude
toward all that is happening.
So there are many things that have
happened, are happening, and will happen, within the range of our awareness.
And remember that most of the things that are in the range of our awareness
come to us secondhand, at least secondhand, maybe tenth hand, so that what
we think we know about something is not the way it really is probably at all.
We're content to let things be the way they are working, without any
expectation that our minds are going to be able to determine just exactly what
it is that is happening or, certainly, what it is that should happen. Leave it
in the hands of the spirit. We are that spirit.
We have mental capacity, which is a
little bit puny in a way, that is capable of handling this little thing and
that little thing that happens to come up against us, but it tends to be very
incapable when it comes to the larger picture. It doesn't see things the way
they are at all. But in spirit there is a knowing of the way things are. There
is a certain assurance. And there is, on the basis of this knowing, which isn't
a mental knowing. Let us disillusion ourselves from the idea that knowing is some
sort of intellectual grasp. It isn't. The intellectual grasp usually prevents
knowing. It's only when the grasp relaxes that we begin to know something,
because we're always trying to cram things into the picture that really don't
belong there at all if the intellect has anything to do with it. The intellect
may be a useful tool; in the world the way it is it seldom is. From our standpoint
it needs to be, but it needs someone on hand—that is the angel, who knows, and
who therefore provides the spirit of patience, for instance, to the mental
activity. “Stop trying to figure everything out.” That's what the angel says to
the mind, “Relax! It's all right. Let it work the way it's working, actually,
and not the way you think it should work.” Patience is just the first step,
isn't it?
So there begins to be something knowing
on earth. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Now when that quote is used, it
is usually thought of in terms of God, somewhere, making the statement—but from
our standpoint it's not that at all. It's the statement that is made by one who
knows: “Be still, and know that I AM God. I provide the point of focus for what
it is that is happening in the creative cycle, according to my particular field
of responsibility. My field of responsibility does not stand alone; it includes
the fields of responsibility of all angels on earth.” So that's one aspect of
our business: the business of knowing.
We've defined that in other terms: representing
God to the people. There is the other aspect too: representing the people to
God. And the people are somewhat confused, aren't they? They don't know. They
don't understand. Well if we represent the people to God, I suppose we need to
realize that, from the standpoint of our representation in that direction, we
don't know: we don't understand; we don't see it. But we are bringing together
these two aspects. Representing the people keeps us humble; representing God
gives us an absolute assurance. When the two are together in experience there
is the facility on hand by which the fulfilment of the purposes of God
inevitably come. So here we are with these dual roles which blend together in
oneness. We are at the crossover point, representing God to the people, the
people to God.
Now this design is present in God Whom
we represent, the design that essential to the state of man. It's there; we
don't need to manufacture it. It's present already. It has been hidden because
there has been no one adequately to proclaim it. We're here to proclaim it—not
to try to educate people into understanding what it is, but to provide
education which allows people to come into position to let it be revealed what
it is. There's quite a difference here, you know. It's not filling people up,
it's emptying people out more than anything, so that there may be room enough
to receive what is all ready present, so that this which is already present may
not merely be discerned by some super Kirlian photography but may be filled out
with flesh—so that it is revealed and there is no argument. There it is. The
flesh is there because there is a larger revelation than is possible merely
through the flesh. The flesh includes much more.
The beautiful essences of being
emerge into expression because there is the focus of knowing on earth, the
focus of dominion and control which is not imposing anything on anyone but is
allowing what has eternally been present to be revealed in living form, principally
through the flesh of human beings, at least in the initial sense, because that
is the immediate requirement in the purposes of God: that man should be
present, that God should be on earth and capable because He has the
facility to act on earth and to do what is needful in the creative process,
which certainly involves the earth, but far more than the earth.
Now we have a dawning awareness of these
things because we have a sensing of what it is that is already present. What it
is that is already present is moving, it's living, scintillating; it is strong
and, above all, beautiful. We share in the knowing of this. We find ourselves
with the necessities of the small fields of our creative action to let this
knowing imbue whatever it is we need to do. And we find, then, that our fields
of action combine—altogether it becomes a bigger field of action because of
that, and we become aware of more ramifications to it. But it always starts
right with the individual where he is. We only begin to be able to encompass
the larger ramifications because there is a larger body which is composed of
individuals with small parts, so to speak, to play. We find those small parts
do expand because they become related to what is happening from the standpoint
of the whole body.
We do the works individually, and we're
delighted to do those small works. Oh that there might be those who are aware
of the value of small works. Let the works be done that thereby the greater
works may be done because they're done by this collective body of individual
people who are delighted with their small works—and they're not getting big
heads about all the things they're going to do.
So we share in the focus of knowing. We
begin to see this knowing is perhaps not such a tremendous thing as we might
have tried to make it in times past. It is what it is, for each one
individually and for all together in consequence. Because we are part of one
thing we begin to be aware of the knowing of the whole in greater measure. But
we do not claim the knowing of the whole as a personal possession. We can't
grab hold of it as individuals. We can participate in it and let it be there
because our knowing is there—our little knowing. “My yoke is easy; my burden is
light.” It truly is so.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
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