Everything  Is  Happening  Because  This  Point  Of  Orientation  Is  Here

Bill Bahan  &  Martin Cecil

April 15, 1981   Assembly — Sunrise Ranch

We never surrender that focus to anyone else.

We are always at the point where we belong. We have been trained for this reason.

There needs to be those individual angels who form one focus of spirit and they never relinquish that position.

There must be this point of orientation.

Bill Bahan — None are free if any are bound. This was a statement made many years back by Uranda. At the time that these words were spoken there was the vision of the fact that the ones who were bound were going to be offered their freedom. The outer facility as to how that would be done certainly wasn't in form, but the vision of the fact that it would take place was certainly in his consciousness.

This morning I noted words that were mentioned, two words: binding and loosing. Well we have the responsibility in this process which is going on—the loosing is taking place. And I thought that we might refresh our pure minds in relationship to the process that is involved so that this flood which is coming, which is now, may be handled by those of us who have the responsibility intelligently, deliberately, so that we go about it as professionals, one might say.

We have the words in Matthew 18, the eighteenth Verse, “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Now this loosening process is taking place. It is taking place because of the fact that there are those who are loose—have been for some time now—and there is the facility to provide the focus to begin to unloose those who are tied down in the mass subconscious mind. Human beings have been bound by convention. They are in the habit of tying themselves in knots. We know in our own experience that conventional behaviour, and how we found ourselves tied in knots—probably not too tightly or we wouldn't be here—but there was the binding in our own experience, and the offering of the Lord which allowed that loosening to take place.

The Lord has always offered the word, “Don't be too much in a hurry to unloose them,” because if we do have a large influx of those who have been cut loose and we are not in position to handle them, well we know that they go out and tie themselves up tighter than they were before. And in the next verse which follows this one on binding and loosing is the answer to handling this particular situation, something that we are very aware of and alert to. The next verse: “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” Now, in our recent services we have been looking at this two in agreement and we have seen that there must be two—that is the minimum. I think there are some who consider it the maximum. But there must be two: the Conscious Mind and the Father initially. We have seen in our own experience how that representation of the Father has been provided for us, and in our conscious mind being in agreement with it, regardless of the state of our subconscious mind. We didn't have to be concerned about that. “If two of you shall agree on earth.” There is the representation of the Father—and in our conscious mind we are in absolute agreement with it.

“If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

The third one will come along. I would suggest that this which is opening up is the third one coming along, which is the subconscious mind. It is coming along. Here are those who are putting in an appearance out of that particular level, and I think it is very interesting—the responsibility that we have towards it. Hugh Malafry mentioned something about the subculture; about the subculture being something on its own because it doesn’t trust the greater culture. Well this is just a reflection of the conscious and subconscious minds. The subconscious mind of man distrusts the conscious mind of man, rightly so, because the conscious mind of man has the responsibility of being the guardian angel, of protecting what it is that gets down into that subconscious mind. It has been a very negligent angel, as we know, and consequently all of this stuff has come down on the subconscious mind.

Our responsibility, really, is to work with that subconscious mind, and to develop the trust. This is beginning to happen because the Son consciousness has been expanding and revealing the fact that it is a guardian angel, and we have had the opportunity—whether or not we have recognized what we are doing, what we have been doing—we have had the opportunity of offering something consistent from the Father through the Son consciousness into the subconscious mind of mankind which says to the subconscious mind of mankind, “You can trust.” So it begins to open up, and it is opening up now. And woe unto those who have the responsibility of representing the Son consciousness who, when this heart begins to open up, this subconscious aspect—the subculture of the mind begins to open up—and we offer any defilement into that, because it will close like a clam.

So here it is, opening. We begin to see the release of real power—and change comes when this subconscious opens—particularly through those of us who represent the conscious aspect of the mind, and if it is a true representation there is the Holy Ghost. The third aspect will follow along which is the Holy Ghost. It is the Holy Ghost which does the work—there is where the power is. It is the Holy Ghost being made manifest through the Son consciousness which allows us to begin to work with the Holy Ghost of the body of mankind—which hasn’t been a Holy Ghost, but it is a Holy Ghost aspect. This is where the work is being done. We realize that none of that could have been done unless there had been the presence of the Son consciousness, and nothing could have been done if there hadn’t been the representation of the Father.

I was thinking this morning how things of such magnitude are taking place, and how few see what it is that is taking place. How few saw what was taking place at the time of Moses. How few saw what was taking place at the time when our Lord and King was on earth—even those close in as we read the record. There was just one or two really, who saw something of what was being offered, the greatness of it. And this particular Divine Line which opened up through Uranda—he was the only one who could have come out of this subconscious mess, because of who he was—because he came out he opened the door so that all of us could come out. Now you and I have the opportunity because of that representation of the Father, and those who responded to it initially, with their conscious mind in agreement with it. Now the whole thing is here, and we the have the opportunity of taking advantage of it because the light is on, the surface is there, everything is clear. We can’t see all the ins-and-outs, but we do know what is required.

We can do what is required, as I say, intelligently and deliberately. And one of the things that I would emphasize—that we need to be alert to—is that initially when people begin to move in the pattern of transformation they want to help mankind. We are not here to help man! We are here to serve the Lord. That is first. I think we have reached the point where there has been that clarity in consciousness—where the do-good syndrome has been cleared out of our particular expression. We serve the Lord. Now in the particular gathering that I mentioned that we had in New York, so many of them that were there—and there was a wide spectrum of representation, from political activists, to so-called spiritual people, to environmentalists—and they were all concerned with saving mankind. They were all concerned with serving man. Perfect! That’s where they are—but it isn’t where we are! We serve from heaven, and serving from heaven we serve man, but our first responsibility is to serve the Lord.

So I delight to serve the Lord with you. Isn’t it wonderful to know what we know and to see what we see. And in knowing what we know and seeing what we see we move forward, on that absolute path. It will be done. If any heart should open to the Lord, to us, we know that we will take care of that. It has been offered into our hands. We are stewards of that heart, and we will bring that one to the place where the Lord would have them in His kingdom, right here on earth. 

Martin Cecil — The Word of the Lord is powerful and beautiful. “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” That is an absolute statement. “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

We have begun to understand what agreement is. Many more than those who are gathered here have this understanding and experience, but we provide a focus of representation in this regard in a particular sense, and I am sure all of you are most willing to accept the responsibility of it. We accept it together because we are in agreement. We don’t have to discuss the matter, pro and con—we are in agreement. This is a remarkable state of affairs on earth, isn’t it? Because of this what needs to be done is done. We are constantly being encouraged that this is so by the opportunity to observe what is being done, to see what is happening. We have sufficient vision to be aware, at least in part, of what it is that is going on. We are content with the vision that we have, but at the same time I am sure all of you are aware that there is more to see. We haven’t experienced a complete vision, complete understanding, yet.

As Bill said, “While any are bound, none are free.” There are various levels of the experience of freedom but never complete until it is experienced wholly. This is more or less obviously so, but most human beings have tried to think that wholly meant just me completely, whereas it doesn’t mean the individual alone. The individual participates certainly, but the freedom is the freedom of the whole. What has been bound has been mankind as a whole; therefore the reality of freedom in the experience of mankind includes the whole. Therefore the statement is seen certainly to be true: “While any are bound, none are free,” because the freedom of the whole is not known. Until the freedom of the whole is known, the freedom of the individual cannot be known—only perhaps hints of it. We have hints and delight in those hints ourselves, and this gives us sufficient freedom to move and to act, and to see so that we may be useful in the creative cycle which is already at work by which the fulfillment of freedom for the whole comes.

Now as individual human beings certainly we didn't have anything to do with this creative cycle. It was moving before ever we were born anyway—but as angels maybe we had something to do with it. As the human form awakens to the angelic consciousness, then there begins to be an awareness that we certainly as angels have had something to do with what is happening. It becomes quite apparent to us, for instance, that this cycle in which we now participate, while there was something moving before, was initiated in a very specific sense by the One whom we call Lord and King, when He was on earth. And there is something that has been happening ever after. It appeared in various ways, and we have a record which we can read as to what occurred with the disciples way back, but this was only a little thing that conceivably could have led to greater things—but didn’t. So what was initiated was something above and beyond that. That may have been evidence that something had been initiated, but there has been this unfoldment which has been taking place consistently down over the centuries until we were born on earth in physical form to play our part in bringing what had been initiated to its ultimate conclusion. We are aware of what that conclusion is. We call it the restoration of man, freedom for the whole. The truth makes free. The extent that we see the truth at this point, to that extent we are free. But we know that that freedom is not total as yet.

                  

So we are moving in this process and various things occur because of this. First of all there needed to be a conscious awareness established on earth, and this particular aspect of the matter was brought to focus through Uranda. Here was a conscious initiation, re-initiation, or an initiation at a new level of consciousness, of what had been at work all the way down since the Master set it in motion. And it emerged at this point in human consciousness. We have had the opportunity of awakening to this ourselves at various times in various ways to whatever level of conscious awareness we now have, and this has provided an expanded focus of true awareness in the consciousness of mankind on earth. And because this has been established a certain measure of agreement, as Bill has put it, between Father and Son has emerged. It has emerged to the extent that the Son consciousness has emerged. We participate in that.

We see what we see. We know that there is a lot more to see, and for that seeing to occur much needs to happen with respect to those who do not see. Now we see because something has been happening with respect to those who do not see. You can all look back to a time when you did not see, when you did not understand. And I am sure no one has the view that it was by some special efforts on their own part that they finally reached the pinnacle of success. We have noted that in some ways it has been a painful process, chiefly because from the standpoint of mind and heart there was a certain amount of resistance to it. But to the extent the resistance has been dissolved, we have come a long way and we have what we have now, and we see what is happening on a much larger scale than we originally understood. What we originally understood probably simply related to the confines of the Emissary ministry which was somehow or other supposed to take in everybody else. But it didn’t happen just that way. It isn’t happening the way it may have been set up in the structures of human consciousness, our own included. It is happening the way it does happen, and we are quite willing in these days to allow it to happen that way rather than the way that we had it set up in consciousness.

There is the conscious awareness, some measure of the reality of the Son consciousness, providing a focus of orientation in the consciousness of mankind. At the same time the spirit of God has been moving not only to produce this focus, but to achieve what was properly related to the bringing forth of the focus in the subconscious levels of the mind of mankind. Now, being conscious and aware of what it is that is at work, we begin to see what is happening from the standpoint of the subconscious mind of humanity. We realize that this is not separate from ourselves because we would not be in the position to have a conscious awareness if it had not been that something had been happening in the subconscious mind of humanity—and what was happening was happening by reason of the sending and the consequent coming of the Comforter.

It has taken almost 2,000 years to reach this point, which gives some indication of the crustiness of the human nature consciousness of mankind. It has taken this length of time, but things are showing themselves more in these days than they have in the past and it seems as though there is a quickening of the pace. However, we would have to acknowledge that the Lord has a great amount of patience. He has waited so far 2,000 years, quite apart from what went before that. Maybe patience is a very important quality in the development of whatever is needful in the creative process on earth.

So we are not in any great hurry from the angelic standpoint. We see that the human aspect of the matter may feel that time is of the essence because it is apparently hovering on the brink, so to speak. The control however is present on earth. I think we have a greater sense of this now than heretofore. If the working of the spirit of God could have produced what has been produced to allow for what is now present over these thousands of years, it is not about to bow out of the picture and say, “Oh, well—couldn’t really bring it to fruition.” It is coming whether anybody likes it or not. We have been learning to like it. A lot of people haven’t been quite so sure. We have learned to like it because we begin to understand that it is necessary, and it is beautiful really, when we see what it is that is being brought to pass.

So we have a balanced view here. We are not taking some sort of arrogant stance to say, “Well, we did all this.” No—but we have something to do nevertheless, and we have been doing something—but because the spirit has been at work and certainly not through any human brilliance or effort. We find ourselves a part of what is happening. There is something in focus in the conscious sense and we see this now in particular focus, today especially so. Let us not fool ourselves into imagining that it is the only thing that is happening. If it was we would be in a bad way. There is the necessity for the provision of the continuing point of orientation. There is a point of orientation, whether it has been clearly seen by all or not. It has been acknowledged. It is the fact whether anyone likes it or not. So there is a point of orientation which is the reason why something can come together. If it wasn’t there, it wouldn’t come together, obviously so.

Because there was not an adequate point of orientation heretofore, it has never come together before—just enough to maintain life. Here is a form appearing which is capable of encompassing other forms and of allowing them to participate in a living organism in form on earth. There will be more to the form—and there will be more to the spirit than is now seen as the Emissary ministry. In other words, the spirit has some expanding to do relative to the form that is being brought forth. This is obviously so—we see the expansion necessary in ourselves as individuals to encompass what is putting in an appearance by reason of the form. But seen in this light, I am sure we can recognize that everything is really under control because all that has happened so far has happened because of the working of the spirit of God, and as I say, the spirit of God is not about to throw up its hands at this point and say, “No more; I can't do anymore.” It is just getting started, just finally something is beginning to emerge and here it is. I am sure all of us who participate in this spirit by which the form is being brought forth find ourselves rejoicing that this is happening at last. It’s been a long haul, but now it’s here. How thankful therefore we may all be, both angelically and in mind and heart, for what is transpiring. There are many very practical things to be taken into consideration and done.

Here is the spirit bringing forth at all levels. And we are here as angels to let it happen, and to provide our facilities on earth to let it happen. We all have minds and hearts and bodies by which these things take place. We all have responsibility in it, but we are constantly aware that our individual responsibility is not disassociated from the responsibility carried by others. So we always have this in consciousness. We never act unilaterally. If I offer something to you during these sessions that we share, I trust you realize that I am not acting unilaterally. What I offer comes because of you. We are both required and we share the positive and negative aspects of the truth of love in the expression of living, and behold, what is needful is born on that basis. Being born on that basis it is natural to all of us; we're none of us being imposed upon by anything. We delight to share whatever it is that is being born. Now this same delight needs to be known throughout all this developing form of the body which at the moment can be seen. It all comes together because there is one spirit, and in fact the representation of that one spirit.

We see this clearly enough for ourselves so that we never surrender that focus to anyone else, any other gathering of people who may in themselves be offering something that is all right, part of what is working out. We are always at the point where we belong. We have been trained for this reason. Now we don't need to say to people, “Well, the Emissaries provide the focus”—because maybe many of them don't in fact. But there needs to be those individual angels who form one focus of spirit to provide what is necessary—and they never relinquish that position. There must be this point of orientation. Everything is happening because this point of orientation is there. It wouldn’t happen if it wasn't there, and if we see this we see our own responsibility in the matter surely most vividly. We are absolutely essential to what is happening. This doesn't make us any better than anybody else because everybody else may participate in being essential, and they are beginning to awaken to this fact.

So we rejoice in all these things, but hold firmly the agreement that we know so that the point of spiritual focus on earth is steadfast, unwavering. And all who are coming may sense that point of orientation. For most it will simply be a sensing. For some there will be a seeing, and for those who see no doubt in season a greater participation in that point of orientation. We are to provide what is required of us by the Lord and we do that. And whether someone thinks it is good or bad makes very little difference. There are those who think the Emissaries are a focalization of the devil. Do you know that? Well it doesn't matter what anyone thinks, good or bad. It is what the fact is that matters, and as long as we keep the fact clear, that's it. We've got the job done from the standpoint of our own responsibility. This is not to say that we don’t have many things yet to do and many people to encompass—and a great deal of expanded understanding necessary in order to encompass them. But we do it from a firm foundation—the spirit of God. I am sure you have seen many areas of consideration that have arisen because of what we have been looking at that will necessarily need to be expanded in our consciousness in the days to come. So praise the Lord! This is the way the door is opened in fact for others, because it is opened in ourselves.

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