What I Know
Uranda 1953
I
do not know that there would be any gain in your aspiring to be the centering
of everything that there is in all the cosmos. You were not created to be that,
and for myself I have no desire to be that. I am perfectly contented that the
centering should be where it is. And it is going to stay there, whether you
like it or not, in any case, so we might as well accept it. But I am happy with
the arrangement myself, completely happy with it, absolutely satisfied, not in
the least bit envious of that God Being who carries the responsibility of the
absolute focalization of everything there is in all the cosmos. That is His
job, and He is happy there; but that is not my place.
Now,
once we begin to see that, we stop trying to be something that we are not
supposed to be, we stop trying to get something to ourselves; because we see
that that is maintaining a pattern of separateness, of gettingness. That is not
the way it works at all. That is a pattern of separateness and of segregation. Our
pattern is of oneness, of unification, of sharing. Once we have about three
billion people living on this earth who have all the capacities of their true
natures in working order, properly polarized, physically, mentally,
emotionally, spiritually, functioning as divine men and women should, then, in
manifest form here on earth, we will have all of the awareness, all of the
consciousness, of God, and everything else that is necessary to perfect
function on earth. And that will be well. But that will not include in specific
form—perhaps in awareness in a general sense, but not in a specific sense—much
of the truth, knowledge, information, that may be available in other parts of
the universe or cosmos.
I
could tell you something about some of the few vacations I have had from the
particularized patterns of responsibility that are mine in this divine
arrangement. I have had a few vacations. But it would sound so fantastic to you
and much of it could not possibly be put in words. Now I could, perhaps, make
it entertaining, perhaps a little spectacular, a little sensational, talking to
you about some of the journeys that I have made through the universe itself and
on out into the cosmos. I am not talking about while I was living in this
particular body that you see here. I am talking about something that worked out
in intervals between particularized manifestations in this sphere of things.
And for some it might have some meaning; for others it would not. I am not
particularly interested in talking about it, in any case, right now. I mention
it for one purpose only: to help you to see that there are these different
levels, that there are these aspects of being.
And
when I stand here before you and talk to you I am not talking from the
standpoint of, well, just what is contained here in the Bible, for instance, or
what somebody said, or what somebody wrote somewhere back along the line. I am
talking to you from the standpoint of what I know from the personal contact and
function in this sphere, extending, if you please, to the central Sun of suns,
because I have been there, I have been there, I know by personal experience. I
would not want to live there all the time but it was wonderful, glorious beyond
anything you could possibly imagine. But I have been there, up and down the
line, visiting so many different parts of the cosmos and the universe and the
solar system. But that does not mean that I have been everywhere and seen
everything and that I know all about these different things.
The Great Cosmic Story
was initiated one year ago today.
The purpose of this Site, then and now,
is to unveil, draw to remembrance, and share the multi-faceted spiritual expression of
Uranda & Martin
Lloyd Arthur Meeker &
Lord Martin Cecil
and a few others who worked closely with these two men over many
years.
During the past 12 months TGCS has received over 24,000 visitors and readers.
How beautiful and fulfilling are the
Cycles of the Grand Creative
Process
Listen! for the sound of many waters.
Listen! for the sound of the rushing wind.
Listen! for the sound of the silent earth.
Listen! for the sound of the radiant sun.
Listen!
Maturity causes the individual to begin
to stand out as an individual from his fellows. If there is an unwillingness to
allow the divine distinctions to appear in the expression of life, that person
is insisting upon remaining a baby. Why should there be this fear of being
different—because we certainly are, from the divine standpoint, each totally
different from every other. We are individuals, and if we try to conform to
some humanly designed mold we will remain self-centered and we will never
discover who we are.
Perhaps one of the reasons why human
beings are afraid of being different is because of the mass attitude in this
regard which tends to ridicule, to judge, and to condemn. There is a fear of
being hurt, a fear of being condemned, a fear of being ridiculed. If we are
subject to fear we remain self-centered. Fear is one of the spirits of
self-centeredness. The fear of being hurt, insofar as our feelings are
concerned, is one of the controlling elements in relationship to the vast
majority of human beings. And so there is an endeavor to hide in the mass. Human
beings seek to hide themselves behind their fellows, hide themselves from God.
God, properly speaking, must find
expression through human beings to be known. If human beings are hiding
themselves behind their fellows they are hiding themselves from God, because
they are preventing the divine expression from appearing through themselves.
Most people have a peculiar concept of what it would mean to hide from God—but
to hide from God is to refuse to give the expression of the divine nature
manifest form in the living of life. The individual who remains self-centered
is hiding from God, and one of the attitudes of self-centeredness is to seek to
conceal oneself behind others, to remain a part of the crowd, without being too
much different. Just little differences may be all right, and the individual
feels the need of some sort of individuality in that sense, so various patterns
of small differences have been worked out which are acceptable in the overall
state of the human norm; but none of these things are a revelation of
individuality, none of these things are more than a pretense. Human beings
playing children's games, pretending to be something, dressing up for the part,
so to speak, but not actually being anything.
It is only when there is a willingness
to come out from behind the mass mediocrity, regardless of whether there is
ridicule or condemnation—as there probably will be—that there begins to be the
satisfaction of discovering oneself and of coming to know God. No one ever, at
any time in all the history of man, has come to know God while remaining a
cipher in the mass of humanity. Human beings know God only when they are
God-centered, so that God and the qualities of divine being are finding
expression through the individual concerned. Then he knows God, because God is
there in expression. Otherwise it is just imagination. The only place where man can know God is
here on earth, and if God is to be known on earth He must appear on earth. Here
in the world, we only know that which manifests in some sort of form—the form
of thought, or the form of physical substance. Man was created in the image and
likeness of God so that God might be given form on earth, and when God is given
form on earth He is known on earth; but He is not given form through anyone who
is self-centered.
The very fact that the vast majority of
human beings are mediocre is evidence that there is no revelation of divine
being, because God is not mediocre. Those who reveal the nature of God in the
expression of life will certainly stand out in a world of mediocrity; it could
not help but be so. Therefore if we endeavor to efface ourselves in the mass of
human beings, we establish a state wherein it is impossible to know God. Anyone
who begins to be God-centered begins to reveal true individuality—true
individuality which will not conform to the norm which human beings have
established for themselves.
It seems that the most effort human
beings put forward, in the world as it now is, is to endeavor to conform to the
patterns which are established by man, to be acceptable according to that norm,
and it is fatal, literally fatal, as millions and billions of human beings have
discovered sooner or later, but then it does not do them any good. We need to
wake up to the fact while it still may do us some good. Unless we wake up to
the fact while we are still living, the experience of maturity and the
revelation of God's action on earth is impossible. And where God is not allowed
to act there is destructiveness, disintegration, death. We see a world in which
God has not been allowed to act, a world full of self-centered human beings,
full of babies playing with destructive toys, without rhyme or reason or true
purpose.
We cannot leave
behind self-centeredness without beginning to emerge from the mass of human
mediocrity. Are you willing to do that, or do you still wish to hide behind the
trees in the garden?
Martin Cecil 1961
