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Let  All  The  Earth  Keep  Silence

Martin Cecil   June 8, 1975

But the Lord is in his holy temple: Let all the earth keep silence before him.

Let all the earth tremble to obey!

“But the Lord is in his holy temple.” This is as true now, in this moment, as it has ever been. “Let all the earth”—the physical body, the capacity for physical action; the mind, the capacity for mental action; and the capacity for spiritual expression—“let all the earth keep silence before him.” Let all these capacities for physical, mental and spiritual action, present in every human being on the face of the earth, tremble to obey the Lord. 

What that means has been long unknown in human experience. We are concerned to allow this knowing to be present in our momentary living, in this moment of living; after all, we have no other. We have been aware that the mental capacity in us has assumed the position of control in our existence on earth, and this has been true of all human beings everywhere. This control has been, partly at least, a factor of inheritance: we have our heredity. The mind of man has long governed on earth in human experience. 

The order which human beings obey, or against which they rebel, is preset, established by the human mind. This is the world as we know it. What has been so preset also establishes the meaning and the purpose and the security of human beings. Human purposes may be to enhance, adjust, modify the particular pattern of social order which is in effect. They may, on the other hand, be to destroy it and substitute something else. In either case, human purposes are established by reason of the social order. A great deal of human effort is poured into the modification and adjustment of the particular order in question. 

So, we have this state of affairs, and within the scope of the social order human beings have their goals. Any goal that anyone may have was established by his human mind; it is a preset concept; but usually, as human existence unfolds, goals change. But all human function, in the systems of the world, is based in goals. Goals are judged to be good or bad, depending chiefly as to where you sit. But we need to see clearly that where there are goals the human mind is still in charge. Does it not seem almost incredible that human beings could live fulfilled lives without any goals? To the extent that such an idea does seem fantastic there is clear evidence of the fact that one has been, and is, subject to the human mind; because it is the human mind that develops and establishes these goals, and the goals relate to the collective social order. 

Now, we have the whole situation here clearly under the government and control of the mind, and yet there could be no life, there could be no experience of consciousness, there could be no mind, if it were not for the pulsations of life which are already working in human experience. At those levels where the conscious mind and the distorted patterns of the subconscious mind do not have the primary influence, the pulsations of life control. The pulsations of life are present in human beings; they are present everywhere. The movement of the whole universe is based in whatever those pulsations may be, except when it comes to human experience on earth where the mind tries to govern. It can only try to govern because the pulsations of life are present. It couldn’t even do that if it weren’t for the pulsations of life. We wouldn’t have any minds; we wouldn’t have any capacity for spiritual expression; we wouldn’t be anything, in fact.

So, the pulsations of life are present; life is on the move. Life is the basic action of the whole universe. Now, action does not occur without a means of action, nor does it occur without the power of action. We have come to realize the fact that love is the power of action, the truth is the means of action, and life is the action; and that action is present throughout the whole universe and is present insofar as human beings are concerned.

“The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth,” the triune earth, “keep silence before him,” that the pulsating action of life may bring forth whatever should be brought forth physically, mentally and in spiritual expression. But how can it if the mind is there with its preset concepts, its preset goals, its preset intentions? This hard stone of self-centeredness in human experience ignores the pulsations of life. Even though the mind, which establishes these hard patterns, exists because of the pulsations of life, it imagines that it can reach its goal by ignoring the pulsations of life. It is inconceivable to the mind, apparently, as to what it would mean to move with the action of life. “But the Lord is in his holy temple.” Holy temple—that would include all the earth.

We see that this is the case, because we would have no living physical bodies if the Lord were not in His holy temple. We would have no capacity of mind if the Lord were not in His holy temple; we would have no ability to give spiritual expression if the Lord were not in His holy temple. He is! But there is more to His holy temple than the physical body, the mind and the capacity for spiritual expression. This is the earth—“let all the earth keep silence before him.” But what about the heaven? There is no need to give any instruction to the heaven, because it’s already doing it; it does keep silence before Him, so that it is moved by the pulsations of life. This is already present in every living person or the person wouldn’t be living, because the experience of the fact of life, if not the real quality of life, is evidence of the heaven, the heaven that is already present in which there is the movement of life.

Because there is the movement of life in the heaven, some of it filters through into the earth. It filters through the body sufficiently to develop the capacity of mind, because the mind emerges out of the body. As the body develops, the mind develops and, properly, the capacity for spiritual expression should develop. But if the mind intervenes, having developed a little, and decides that it is going to function on the basis of these preset patterns, then the spiritual expression has no chance to develop. The mind cuts it off, and all that a person is then is a physical body with a mind; and that isn’t all the earth, let alone the heaven. All the earth includes the three levels. Let these three levels, including the mind, keep silence, shut up! Keep silence before the Lord, that there may begin to be a sensing of the pulsations of life, so that those pulsations moving through the mind may be as effective as they are, even with all the self-activity of human beings, moving through the body.

What is your goal for the day? Something is being established by the mind. This is not to say that the work that needs to be done, exemplified by the setting of the schedule, should not be done. This is the other extreme to which human beings tend to go, isn’t it? You either are going to be very active—self-active, that is—or you are going to do nothing; it’s either action or non-action. Well, if you’re not acting and doing things, what are you going to do? The only other thing is do nothing! This is all that the human mind sees. If that isn’t ignorance I don’t know what is!

But there is something in between which could be described mentally as rest-action. That seems like a contradiction in terms: you’re either resting or you’re acting; how can you have rest-action? Rest-action results from a yielding to the pulsations of life, not maintaining the rigidities of the mind and saying, “Well, I have these goals now but I’ve got to set these goals aside. Oh, there’s nothing there, so I must go to sleep, I must do nothing.” Those who first make contact with this ministry very often get hung up in this. They say, “You’re not active in all these fields; what are you doing? You can’t be doing anything.” Well, we’re still alive, and there is what is totally beyond the awareness of the self-active human mind, namely rest-action. We see an example of rest-action in the beating of the heart. The heart beats; the heart is active, doing its thing, because of the pulsations of life.

The heart is active because of rest-action, not because of the concept of the human mind, which aggressively tries to make the heart beat. But this is the way it acts with respect to virtually everything else, isn’t it? We’ve got to get this done! Even in the beating of the heart as it occurs, there is the symbolical presentation of a unified movement which is rest-action, contraction-relaxation; but these two aspects are not separate. It’s not as though we work terribly hard and then we collapse, as though that were rest-action. Rest-action is the experience which is known when life, the pulsations of life, govern in all the earth; that is, in the whole of one’s earth, not only physically but mentally and in spiritual expression. When life action, which is rest- action, is present and operating, then there is the experience of what is called man.

We need to come to the point of awareness, somewhere along the line, that there is no means of moving with the action of life as long as the mind retains its concepts and its goals, because the individual will be held rigidly by that and therefore will be in no position to allow the rest-action movement of life to occur. Only as there is the emergence of an awareness of the pulsations of life, so that these become more important in one’s experience than any concepts one may have, is there any possibility, any hope, for human beings. The pulsations of life are present but our minds, with the best of intentions, backed up by the agreement that is present in the social order, maintain a state which ensures disintegration.

So we look to rest-action, which is the movement in our own experience with the pulsations of life. “The Lord is in his holy temple.” He’s in His holy temple, not His unholy temple. If we maintain the limited state of the body-mind continuum, which is the condition of most people, we’re unholy, and the Lord doesn’t stay in the unholy temple. Only as all the earth keeps silence before Him is there experienced the reality of a holy temple, a whole temple, where the Lord is; and this is only known to the extent that all the earth, where the trouble is, keeps silence before Him, trembles to obey. Yet, even in making that statement there is a tendency to maintain a concept of the mind, because if one obeys there must be a master and there must be a servant. The servant obeys the master; but the truth of the matter is that there is only one. There isn’t a master and a servant; there is just one, one person, a whole, holy, person, or being, shall we say? The mind doesn’t have the faintest notion as to what that means, because it has the concept of its own present being—“This is me, after all!” Is it?

“Let all the earth keep silence before him.” And when there begins to be that quietness inside, we hear the tone of life, we sense the pulsations of it; but the concepts of the mind absolutely prevent that.

How much experience do you really have of moving with the action, the pulsations, of life? How much? I think most of the movement that has been experienced thus far has been on the basis of our concepts of what the goal is. Insofar as the mind is concerned there rightly isn’t any goal. Insofar as the movement of life is concerned it is a creative process—whatever that means. We can’t find out what it means by developing concepts about it. We must move with it. And we can’t move with it if we don’t sense it, and we can’t sense it as long as we’re rigidly holding on to our concepts. Preset goals! Let us yield these precious treasures of ours, which are in fact deadly weights, that we may begin to know the reality of life.

O Lord, Thou art in Thine holy temple of the body, Thy body on earth, and Thou art therefore not separate from any member of that body; Thou art present in all. And we know the truth of this when all that we are in the external sense learns to keep silence before Thee. O Lord, how deeply thankful we may be that Thou art indeed in Thy holy temple in this moment, and in every moment, and because of the silence of yielded love the pulsations of life may bring forth easily and naturally what should take form on earth as the designs of human beings, the former things, pass away. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty. Aum-en.

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Vibrational  Factors  of  the  Sacred  Name  of  God

from  Jehovah — Jesu

Uranda   May 27, 1953  Class

We have a recognition of what it is that happens that makes it impossible for man to reach true fulfilment when he attempts to develop himself—self-development programs of every sort, and they do not work. They never will work and they never have worked. Human beings of great intelligence and understanding have tried to make them work for twenty thousand years, and they do not work. That was the thing that humanity set out to do when man fell, for man said—while he had all the capacities; he knew far more about the kingdom of heaven than you do at the present time, he had a far more brilliant brain than you have at the present time, but he had not had the background of experience in relationship to fallen humanity that you have—he however said, “Well now I'm going to develop myself the way I think I ought to be developed, so that I can be as God, knowing good and evil.” He was going to develop himself.

Men and women far more brilliant, who had far more knowledge in the sense of the things of reality than you do today, and they failed. And all those down through the centuries have failed, because every self-development program is a process which is repeating the basic factors of the fall. Every time a human being sets out to develop himself by any means or method, under the patterns of religion or philosophy or by any means whatsoever, he is doing the same thing that produced the fall of man in the first place. That is what carried man down into the slavery of Egypt. And here we are beginning to study the laws and principles of being by which man may be delivered from the slavery of Egypt.

Moses felt that pattern of discouragement and said, “Neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.” He did not however go over and say, “Well now I'm going to start a self-development program.” The Lord answered him, and what did the Lord say? “Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.  And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord.”

If Moses had not heard that statement, “I am the Lord,” he would not have been willing to participate in the cycles of outworking by which something of a nucleus power center might be developed, to which others could respond. But it has to all be unified in the pattern or body of Center if it is to have meaning. There is no other way. Then the individual is not developing himself; he is not concerned about self-development. He is concerned about serving the Lord. He is concerned about keeping centered and responding and letting himself have a chance to grow into that which he ought to be, but self-development is out, always. So we have the recognition of the basic principles wherein the human being hears the word, “I am the Lord,” and if He is the Lord, then the human being simply has to yield and let the Lord's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty,

but by my name JEHOVAH [Yehovah] was I not known to them.”

Here we touch the vibrational factors of the sacred name of God. He had been known before that to Moses’ forebears as God Almighty, and human beings down through the centuries and millennia have known Him as God Almighty. The Indians in this country called Him the Great Spirit, or the Great Father; and in all parts of the world, regardless of so-called Christianity, wherever there was any real pattern of intelligence, as in the realm of the aborigines of Australia, for instance, there was something of a recognition of an Almighty. Even they worshipped certain spirits which they considered to be almighty. So man has known God as God Almighty all through the period of man's fall. The human beings who consider themselves to be Christians know Him as God Almighty; the human beings who classify themselves as Mohammedans know Him as God Almighty—they may say Allah, but it means God; it is the same thing exactly, God Almighty. The Buddhists, all kinds of people in all kinds of places where there is any recognition of God at all—they know Him as God Almighty, no matter what the particularized concept of Him may be. So there isn't any shortage on earth of the recognition of God as God Almighty; and yet man has not received the manifestation of power. Man has received certain blessings into manifestation in relationship to himself, yes; but he has not allowed the manifestation of power by which the patterns of being, life expression, might be changed.

And here we come to something else. Here we begin to see the revelation of God in action on earth. The significance of those who talk about Jehovah, as it is very often put [pronounced with a hard J]—there are those who even call it Jehovee, which is an abomination—but if one says “Jehovah,” while that may be a term that may be used in a general sense within the scope of the world consciousness at the present time, it fundamentally suggests that those who so use it do not know what they are talking about, because those who do know, or if anyone did know, he would not call it Jehovah. We have the people who call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses, and they know absolutely nothing about Jehovah and they are no more witnesses for Jehovah than the man in the moon is Arcturus. They are witnesses of the devil, pure and simple—the self-active mind of man—and they do not know Jehovah. You can examine into the religious backgrounds of all kinds of people who talk much about Jehovah, and the very evidence in their lives shows that they do not know anything about Jehovah.

“By my name of God Almighty I was known to them, but by my name JEHOVAH [Yehovah] was I not known to them.” The expression I have given for the enunciation of this particular word or name is not as you will come to understand it. It is an introductory step, not a final step—the process by which you can begin to sense the spirit within the word, so that step by step you may come to have the deeper realization of the true significance. But our key, remember, is that this name signified Deity, or God, in action on earth. There must be a manifestation of God.

Now when we go on and study this story of Moses, what do we find? That through Moses and Aaron there was a manifestation of the power of God actually working, that there were certain elders and certain responding ones in the children of Israel who allowed the development of the basic control pattern, and that there was through these men an actual manifestation of God in action on earth. Once we begin to realize the significance of this, we recognize that everything that the Master taught, and exemplified, and did, was actually to reveal the significance of this name. And He talked about doing the works—the manifestation of the power which would do the works. He likewise was a revelation of Jehovah.

Likewise He taught the principles that were involved in the process by which man might begin to share the reality of this name, for Jehovah is not in heaven. The centering of Jehovah is in heaven, but Jehovah is not in heaven. And the only way Jehovah can be anywhere is by the manifestation of Deity through man on earth. There was the manifestation through our Lord and King when He Himself was on earth in the body that was called Jesus—and there was Jehovah. There was the manifestation through Moses, and it was Jehovah. There was the manifestation of power through certain of the other prophets back along the line, but not adequate or complete; little points of manifestation. But Jehovah is God in action through man on earth.

You look back along the line of your own experience. What have you received from God that did not manifest through human beings, through some human form? What have you received from God, at any time, under any circumstance, which did not manifest by reason of some human form? You may say, “Well I've received some blessings from the animal kingdom and from the vegetable kingdom, and so on.” Yes, but how did they become blessings to you, even then? Was there no relationship of those blessings to any human form? Not even your own? No, there is absolutely no such thing as the manifestation of the blessings of God on earth to man except in relationship to man, through man, through some human form.

Whatever of God has ever reached you, even your own life force, manifests to you because of your human form, and without that human form you, whatever you think yourself to be, would not be able to talk, or speak, or express anything whatsoever on earth. So everything, without any exception, that has come to you as a blessing from God has appeared through some human form. Sometimes the human form did not realize it perhaps, sometimes it was an inadequate instrument, but something of blessing did accrue. Once we begin to see this the way God intends us to see it, we begin to recognize that you have a responsibility of being a human form in the body of Center, by which the blessings of God may be made manifest on earth—you begin to be a part of Jehovah.

Now we could note the particular nature of this name, Jehovah. Je-ho-vah: three distinct syllables, three syllables signifying the manifestation of the Trinity. We use the word “Jesus” as the name of the body of the One who was the Center of Deity at that time, and is now. But what other pronunciations are you aware of with respect to the word “Jesus”? What about certain songs, for instance? Kathy? “Jesu [Yehsoo].” Jesu: that is my point. You have all heard the song. That is my point. J-e. J-e. Instead of Jehovah or Jesus, you begin to realize that a person doesn't even realize the significance of the word “Jesus” when he says “Jesus,” unless he is using it out of consideration of his hearers—as I have done so many times because you wouldn't have understood why I said it any other way—in order to maintain a meeting point of consciousness. But “Jesus” is not the right way to say it, and doesn't carry the vibrational significance.

The word or name “Jesus” does not give those who use it in prayer or meditation a vibrational contact factor in relationship to God. Consider all the millions of people who use the word every day, and where is the manifestation of power? The name did not provide them with a vibrational contact with the reservoir of power of the creative field. It remained a vacuum. It did not work—just words that were spoken and had no force back of them. Jesu—that again is an intermediate step, not the final. It is an intermediate step but sufficient for the moment. Jehovah. We begin to enter into the vibrational contact. Let me demonstrate.

We say, “Jesus.” You may have a certain appreciation for the word and it may produce some answering chord within you, but let go to vibrational factors. Jesu. Jesu. To the degree that you are attuned to the divine source you can tell the difference, something that must be recognized in spirit, the spirit of the word and not the letter only; for the letter killeth. So we have the three syllables in this name. The first suggests the essence of Center, the manifestation of God on earth, the Je, whether in Jehovah or Jesu, the Je in both cases signifying, if you please, exactly the same thing—in both the Old and the New Testaments, the same thing exactly. Next we see ho, the centering in the creative field, the centering in Deity. And then the steps of manifestation in relationship to consciousness and body, individually and collectively. Anyone who does not have some understanding of the Mother tongue could study this word for a lifetime and never gain the significance of it, never figure it out. It carries symbolical meanings, hidden meanings, because man has found some way to desecrate and spoil everything that God has expressed to reveal Himself. Man has even desecrated and spoiled himself, and if he would do that, he would not hesitate to desecrate and spoil other symbols utilized in relationship to the revelation of Deity, and the means by which Deity may come into the field of action in power on earth. Ho. The Je goes back to the Motherland too. The whole word derives from the Motherland tongue—the tongue that man lost at what is pictured in the Bible as the tower of Babel.

But now, with respect to the Mother tongue, perhaps I should remind you that it utilized somewhat different or higher principles than we have in any language in use on earth today, the dependence upon the vibrational factors released by the speaker or comprehended by the hearer—in other words the feeling factors. No word in the Motherland tongue could be set down and defined as Webster undertook to do with the English language. It could not be done. It did not need to be done in the first place, but it could not be done. There could be an outline of certain significant keys in relationship to the proper use of the word, but words were fundamentally channels for the release of vibratory factors which had to be internally perceived. "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." So words, within the scope to which they were used, were channels for the interplay of vibratory factors which were perceived heart to heart. It entered into the field of what we would classify, using a very limited term, as mind reading. Actually it was not mind reading. It was heart exchange. Heart exchange. But impure hearts cannot function correctly in this regard in relationship to the divine design. It cannot be done. So we see why it was that the language was lost—the tower of Babel. They had to make up new languages in order to convey specific ideas which could be intellectually comprehended.

Now the mind, the conscious mind or intellect, did comprehend with respect to these other things, but you have already studied something of the functional aspects of mind and heart, so that you know that so-called mind reading is never conscious mind to conscious mind. It is always heart to heart, or subconscious to subconscious. The proper correlations of conscious and subconscious aspects of mind are necessary if there is going to be any intelligible interchange, any effective interchange. I have pointed out before that a few words in the Motherland tongue would convey more than could be said in the same number of paragraphs using the English language. Now you begin to see why; not that the word as such was supposed to convey everything that was conveyed, as we use a word that is completely defined and means such and such a thing according to the dictionary and we use it that way. No.

You will have noticed that I use words within the general scope of the dictionary significance but I begin to make them have an essence of meaning that the dictionary does not suggest. Or had you noticed? We begin to convey something beyond the word; that is, the spirit of the word. The spirit of the word fits the outer form of the word of course, but is in exchange heart to heart, not conscious mind to conscious mind direct. It reaches conscious mind, it comes from or is shaped by conscious mind in the speaker and in the hearer; but you have found yourselves, sometimes on the basis of that which was conveyed, mistranslating as it was expressed by my mind and heart in the current to you. You felt it, and sometimes, as it came up into your conscious mind, it got mistranslated into preconceived ideas and did not convey to you what was actually expressed. I think you have all had that experience, and no condemnation in it. The point is, then, that as you have grown you have more and more come to a point where that which is rising up from your heart, or subconscious realm, in the current of our interchange, was reaching the level of your conscious mind without being distorted by mistranslations and the idea that was expressed from me to you was conveyed and comprehended. Not perfectly perhaps, but it is growth.

Sometimes people say to me, “Well I think your services, or your classes, are getting better and better. You're doing a lot better job than you used to do.” I always have to smile. I have always done this good a job. It is not a matter of the difference of my expression. I had to work, of course, within the scope of the response patterns afforded me. But it is because you have been growing. You have been going through a process of development—not self-development, because you couldn't develop yourself—but a process of development which appeared naturally and automatically because you let the Law work. And as you developed you found that more and more of that which was conveyed in the spirit of the word was reaching the realm of the consciousness of your mind; so you comprehended and the cycle was complete without suffering a lot of distortion within yourself.

We begin to see that here we have the central secret of being. It was revealed by Jesus Christ on earth, yes, but that is not the first time it was revealed. It was revealed in the range of the children of Israel, and that was not the first time it was revealed. It had been known on earth long before the first faint beginnings of Egypt, but it had been forgotten. Now the Lord said, “I am the Lord: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.” And so your stay here is fundamentally, basically, under instruction and training to reach a point where you not only know about but know Jehovah, where you become a part of that inner reality made manifest. “I was not known to them” in this sense. This is the next step up in the revelation of the things of God—the Lord said.

Now, we can recognize the inner point of focalization and say, “the Lord,” and it is correct; or “the LORD of Lords,” and it is correct. If we are functioning in limited realms of consciousness we may say, “Jesus Christ” to signify the LORD of Lords, so that people will understand something of what we mean; but fundamentally it is not correct—it is not correct. He said, “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” Are the branches to be separate from the vine? And if they are cut off, do they not wither and die? “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” That is Jesu—the inner and the outer, the blending of heaven and earth. That is the basic significance of Jesu—Jesu: the union of heaven and earth. But here the step was the projection of heaven into earth. Our Master on earth made manifest the reality of the union of heaven and earth. He showed that they were not in actual fact separate. But the beginning of the cycle had to be the projection of heaven into earth. While heaven is not made manifest on earth in the sense of the world body of humanity, there is the necessity of the projection of heaven into earth, and is there going to be any power made manifest on any other basis?

You see that the first part of the cycle with respect to the Master, even in His public ministry, was Jehovah. It came to the point of Jesu, but it was not Jesu at the beginning. Remember, the angel said—it was said just a little before His birth, so that the keys would be clear—“And they shall call his name Jesus.” Well they started calling Him that right as soon as He was born. But He was not that, in the sense of the world—He was in the sense of Himself but not in the sense of the world. So at first it was Jehovah, and it became Jesu. And until there is the projection of heaven into earth we cannot have the manifestation of the oneness of heaven and earth, and that is what we are here for. Not to develop ourselves, or to gain power, or to do something else that we might think we want to do.

That is what we are here for: so that man may come to know that heaven and earth are one, and that the things of God shall be projected into the world; for when man was first created and God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the earth,” He was creating Jehovah, and before the fall Jehovah ruled on earth. And the restoration of the divine estate restores Jehovah to manifest expression and dominion on earth, and you are invited to be a part of the body, or the form of manifestation, of Jehovah, according to your response, capacity, and proper place in the cosmic scheme of things. And so, blessed ones, this introduces to you the great significance of this central secret of being.

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