To  Find  Our  Orientation  With  The  Lord  Himself

this is the beginning portion of the

Ordination Service for Martin Cecil

Uranda   Riverside, California

March 23, 1947   12:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

We have been having what I would call a re-focalization of the Summer Session, covering many points, and we have made wonderful progress; but coming down to this hour together there are still quite a number of things that I would like to bring out as part of the work of focalization and as a means of providing what I would call background. The beauty of any gem is greatly enhanced by its setting. A wrong or inadequate setting always detracts, and if this that we undertake is to have true meaning in the outworking of the Cycles of God’s Will on earth it must have that setting, not just for the purposes of appearance but for the purposes of practical fulfilment. So completing the focalization to the highest possible degree and providing the background or the setting, is of vital importance. I think that with this outline of my intentions you will the better understand what we are seeking, in our unification, to accomplish. 

This morning Martin and I were considering some of the principles of the Creative Cycles by which these Cycles are made manifest on earth, that as man harmonizes with those Cycles he may become a revelation of the Power of God on earth. When Martin was in Colorado about a year ago we were considering some of these same things, and he mentioned this morning that in our deliberations at that time we took note of the fact that the period of the Age—2,156 years—is naturally sub-divided into ninety-eight 22-year Cycles. Up to that time the consideration of the sub-cycles within the scope of the Age had not received a great deal of attention, because we were working from the standpoint of establishing a focalization on earth of the One Body, or the One Vine, by which such things might begin to have meaning, and while we did not have an opportunity to develop the point this morning, I did a little checking. 

We remember that the Age in which the Master lived and ministered began in 388 B.C. That carries the period of that Age to 1768, and we recognize that this present Age began in 1768. Since the beginning of this Age, calculating on the basis of the 22-year cycles, we find that there were exactly seven and one-half such cycles leading up to the time of the beginning of my Ordained Ministry. From 1768 to 1933 is exactly seven and one-half 22-year periods. You will recall that my official Ministry began in September of 1932, which is virtually the beginning of 1933, and the effect of that Ordination really did not begin to manifest until 1933. Eleven years from 1933 bring us to 1944, which means that there have been eight 22-year periods from the beginning of this Age until 1944. We all know of the Session of 1944 and the changes that took place at that time, and the new Cycle of outworking on the absolute basis of Reality which began at that time. From the point of my Ordination to the point of the world entrance into the King’s Chamber, on the basis of the Great Pyramid calculations, was four years, and we recognize that in 1936 came the first great expansion of this Ministry. We are now at a point exactly eleven years later, living in 1947. 

I do not think that I will take time this morning, or today, to develop all the phases of significance that I see in those mathematical facts, but I focalize them as a background of recognition and consideration in relationship to certain of those things which we need to bring into focalization for background in moving toward a recognition of the wonderful way in which God is fulfilling His promise and making possible the accomplishment of the greater works. 

At the Center, the Creative work of God must be carried on. We have had a considerable outline in focalization, of the necessities of that which is required that the true Creative work may manifest. To the degree that the human element that is involved lets itself be harmonized with the Divine on the basis that is outlined, the human being begins to be a means by which God may reveal Himself on earth. Jesus revealed God on earth. We are supposed to follow Him; that is, to so function that God may reveal Himself through us individually and collectively. Therefore, in connection with the focalized outworking today, I think it is both proper and needful that we should consider the processes of Creative activity. Briefly, we might review that which we have considered together many times, the principles made manifest in the story of Creation, as portrayed in Genesis.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” There we see the first step in the Creative process. We remember that the Four Forces are water, air, earth and fire—and some of you, at least, have a background of realization as to what those words signify. Perhaps, to focalize the matter, I should deal with this point briefly, because there is a tendency on the part of some to feel that these words in themselves are rather poor names for the four primary Creative forces. 

We recognize that water is the symbol of Truth, that air is the symbol of Spirit, that earth is the symbol of that which is acted upon, and that fire is the symbol of the force which permits action to be possible. That which is acted upon is of necessity a force, and is a requisite to Creative Activity, because Creative Activity with nothing to act upon would not be true Creative Activity. So we have water, air, earth and fire. These things are presented in this order for a very important reason. That is the order of their working in order to bring forth—what? Life. 

From the standpoint of the first act, or the first function with respect to the Creation of this world, we have the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters, which is to say the Water of Truth. Then we have the manifestation of Light in connection with that movement. On the second day there was the division of the waters from the waters and the establishment of the firmament, or the place where the air of the Spirit functions. The division of the waters from the waters means the establishment of the positive and negative phases of being, so that there would be a manifestation of the Truth with respect to the positive aspect and a manifestation of the Truth from the negative aspect, and within these two aspects we have the manifestation of the Spirit. Next, on the third day the dry land appears. On the fourth day the atmosphere cleared to the degree that let the Light from the sun and moon and stars reach the earth, carrying the vibration of fire. Now we recognize here, when we are approaching this thing from a theoretical standpoint, that we have to prove a point and that is, the consistency of the function with respect to this order. We know that it works that way but nevertheless, let us take note. 

If the order is absolute, then the first day of the next cycle of four days should again bring into manifestation the function according to the first force, or water, because there would have to be a repetition of the cycle after you have completed the four. The next step would have to be keyed with respect to water. So on the fifth day God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly”. On the sixth day God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so”. Now we are getting into the more detailed or, from an outer standpoint, complicated manifestation of the Creative Activity, and a limitation of human vision might lead to a false conclusion—but with respect to these living creatures that function on the face of the earth, what is the one thing that they cannot do without for more than a few seconds? Air. So these things brought forth on the sixth day, including man himself, are primarily keyed to air. He can go longer without anything else than he can without air. Let us, then, turn to another story as it is revealed here in the Book of books. 

Sometimes human beings imagine that they have the greatest troubles in the world and they imagine that someone else does not have many troubles. I have never met the individual yet who did not have troubles, who did not have problems to work out, necessities of function to carry through. We remember that Elijah was one of the three that are mentioned in the Bible as having carried through to the point of ascension. “And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him”. Enoch was the first to ascend, according to the legend; the second was Elijah, and the third was the Master Jesus Himself. Three who ascended in the whole story of the Bible—and that is significant, because it is the trinity of the body and mind and Spiritual expression that must ascend in oneness with things Divine if we are to function as we should. 

But consider Elijah, one of those who, during his ministry had many difficulties and yet came to the point of ascension. I would read to you a story from the 19th chapter of 1 Kings. “And Ahab (which symbolizes the outer mind) told Jezebel (which symbolizes the emotional realm of the individual) all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there”.

I have often wondered, from the standpoint of principle—not that it does any good to speculate about the past—what would have happened if Elijah had not slipped at that moment, and had sent back a word to Jezebel that he was very pleased to let her word be fulfilled. She had said, “Let God do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time”. But it seems that even Elijah had a tendency to forget that the Lord required firmness in dealing with Jezebel. Man has always been so inclined to go to almost any extreme rather than to bring some kind of a contest into manifestation with a woman! 

So Elijah “went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said. Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?” 

Whenever the human being tries to run away from the necessities of Service to God and man, he comes either to destruction or, if he should become still enough he hears the word, “What doest thou here?" The only place where we may properly be is where the Lord directs us to be, that we may let His Will be done on earth. But now, in these verses, we have a revelation of something great and glorious, something that is of vital importance to us here and now. I mentioned to you a little while ago the Creative forces by which the world was brought forth, which are the same forces by which we must let the Will of God be done on earth now. We see here in Elijah a symbol of those individuals who are seeking to follow the Lord and yet, because of a wrong reaction to Jezebel, the human feeling, emotional realm, have gotten off the course. 

It must be our function in the world to help all those who have gotten off the course. We must be on earth a revelation of Deity. In this case, Elijah was able to perceive and comprehend directly that which the Lord did, and he could hear, but it is not so for the mass of those who would turn to God, those who feel that there is no way out, and no way in. So in this we find a great secret with respect to the manifestation of our true Ministry on earth, for we must be the means by which this same word my reach those who are off the course, those who are willing to listen. Those who will not listen must be allowed to go their own way to their own doom, but when there is a stilling that will allow a hearing we must be ready to Serve. 

Notice the revelation here that God gave to Elijah. Elijah was instructed to go forth and stand on the Mount before the Lord and then behold, the Lord passed by “and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice”. What do we notice here that is extremely significant? We have an outline of the three forces without beginning at the point of the water. We have the wind which brake in pieces the rocks but the Lord was not in the wind; we have the earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake; we have the fire but the Lord was not in the fire; and we have the revelation of these forces in the same order in which they were utilized in Creation, but how is it that man does not know how to function in relationship to these Cosmic Forces? 

It is because he has lost his contact with the Truth, the first one of those Forces which must be used. So the final point of contact which must be used was revealed at the end—the still small voice which was the Voice of Truth, and it was the Voice of Truth which set man back into position in relationship to the proper workings of the Currents of the Power of God as they manifest on earth. So it is revealed to man that this still small voice of Truth is, and must ever be, the starting point for his re-orientation, that he may be put back in place in harmony with God and the working of the Creative Forces. That is a vitally important point which we should ever remember if we are to serve effectively, but there are other important points here that reveal why it is that man has found his efforts to be so futile, in his effort to live a Spiritual life, or to function according to what he thinks to be God’s Will. 

When there is a strong wind—and remember that the wind is a symbol of the Spirit—man imagines that God is in that wind; man imagines that God is in that Spirit, but the Lord is not in that Spirit, in that sense. The Spirit is the expression of the Lord; it is that which Radiates from Him. It is important, and one of the great Creative Forces, but that Force is not the Lord—and yet human beings have tried to act as if that was the Lord, and that is not true. The same thing is true in relationship to the earthquake. Man has tried to function as if he thought the Lord was the Power or Force by which the subject is acted upon. That Force is of the Lord, but it is not the Lord, and to try to worship that Force is not worshipping the Lord. So, likewise, with the fire, because that fire, though it is of the Lord, is and carries that which is a revelation of the Lord in many ways, is not the Lord, in the sense that they are indistinguishable. 

So our primary point is to find our orientation with the Lord Himself, and that is achieved by reason of listening to the Word of Truth—and then what is the message of the Word of Truth as portrayed in the Bible today? “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins”. Therefore, when we are re-oriented on the basis of the Truth, then we are automatically at the place where the Forces may begin to operate in our lives; but until these things are realized, and that re-orientation becomes a fact, all the human ideas as to what the Will of God is on earth are so much nothing developed by the fancy of the human mind. Always, until that takes place, even the good people who seek to serve the Lord are running away from Jezebel—the wrong reactions in the feeling realm that are portrayed by Jezebel. So we have seen in our day, many individuals run back into the darkness of the world because they were trying to run away from Jezebel. We have already noted that Jezebel’s word was just right so that she could have been dealt with just right, if Elijah had stood his ground, because she said, “Let the Gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time”. So our position with respect to Jezebel—and I do not care where Jezebel may manifest, in man or woman—is not to run away from it but to let it be as they have said, because we do not run away from Jezebel. 

So in this we begin to find what it means to let the Cosmic Currents work through us in true Creative function. This is of vital importance to us today, and in the days to come, because of the significance of the developments which have taken place in the manifestation of the Will of God on earth. I think you will find that, while I have never dealt with it from this standpoint of the Creative Triangle until I could focalize it in that Center by reason of which these Forces may begin to be made manifest in actual working according to the Will of God on earth regardless of all the Jezebels in the world, regardless of all the Ahabs or anything else, but that we may left these Four Forces move forward in the Creative work to which we are called—because they do work, just as certainly, just as surely, today as they did when the world was first created. 

Now the purpose of the operation of these Four Forces is what? That Life may manifest. The Master said, “I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life”, and He said, “I come that ye might have life and that it might be an abundant life”, and He said again, “that your joy might be full”. The only way that joy can be full is in the expression of the abundant Life in harmony with the Way or the Will of God, which is to say that it must be in harmony with the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and permitted to function in harmony with the Four Forces, that the works may be done, that the real Creative Activity may become an actualized fact.

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