Blessed  Is  He  Who  Comes  In  The  Name  Of  The  Lord

William Martin Alleyne Cecil  September 21, 1926

from  Assembly — Sunrise Ranch

Martin Cecil   May 1, 1981

The Assembly has been moving particularly with what the Master offered when he was on earth. I'm sure you have an increased sense of His presence, the reality of it. He was a real person on earth, in one sense the same as all the rest of us; but of course we also know that we ourselves are all unique individuals. So it was with Him: He was Himself, and to the extent that He was permitted to do so, He revealed that genuine person. He always was genuine, of course, in His expression of life, but not too many had any real awareness of it. Looking back from this distance, seeing beyond the rather stereotyped picture that has been developed by Christianity, we find the Master Himself, and the intervening centuries tend to disappear.

Obviously, at that time when He was on earth, the external state of affairs was very different to what it is now. But we can see how, coming into that world, He accepted the condition as it was and was capable of handling it the way He did. This emphasizes the fact that we come into the world now on the same basis; accepting things the way they are now, we can handle these. To the extent that we have been doing this, we have what I suppose might be described as a fellow feeling with respect to the Master Himself, not that we do not have an attitude of respect and consciousness of His position, but if He had been here now in this present situation in the world, He would have handled it just as He handled things back there, in a way that was fitting to the state as it actually is. He trusts us to do this, in His name.

We have been seeing more clearly what He actually was capable of offering to the world, if there had been those willing to receive it. As it turned out, there simply weren't. He offered a conscious understanding which nobody else had; on the basis of that conscious understanding, He could have provided the guidance and direction for the whole world, through the circumstances that were immediately at hand where He was. We understand that, from the standpoint of our own ministry now, the world is reached through the immediate circumstance and through those who are present in our immediate circumstance. That was so with Him. He had the understanding and was capable therefore of giving the guidance and direction that was needed. The door was open. Here was the very specific point of the conscious mind of the body of mankind manifest in form and expression on earth, and capable of allowing that point to expand as necessary under His hand, so that the restoration could have so easily taken place. I think we've had the awareness that He came to make that possible, at that time, but I think perhaps it now becomes more reasonable in our awareness that it certainly was possible. It could have been done; He was there to do it. That in itself is such a wonderful thing.

The Christian world particularly talks about the love of God and how this was brought into the world by the Master, revealed by Him so fully. They've seen or sensed something of this but haven't understood what it was. It was a very practical thing. It was something that, there and then, opened the door for the restoration, mankind to be man once again. But quite quickly it became evident that, while there were those who sensed something perhaps, drew close, they weren't really going to let it happen. We have seen the particular point where this fact of rejection was acknowledged by the Master Himself; it has come down to us through the words in the 23rd chapter of Matthew, the last three verses:

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”

Of course, he didn't just have reference to this one occasion, when He Himself was incarnate upon earth. All kinds of opportunities had been given before that, but of course this was included. So He was the final link here, and could have let it work out in the rational way, and be something that was rational and reasonable to the minds of human beings if they had been willing to accept it.

“Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.” Here we have the necessity of allowing this to become no longer from the conscious standpoint. But going down into the subconscious mind, there is no conscious direction available. All that was to work out was to be done in a way that undoubtedly would produce a great deal of desolation, which it has done over the centuries since that time: all sorts of unnecessary suffering which we can see, looking back, quite easily and which He saw, knowing the way things would have to work out. “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth”—there will be no conscious awareness anymore—“till ye shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Only when the conscious state once more emerges out of the subconsciousness of the body of mankind, so there is something recognizable.

Now this is something that has come from the working of the creative spirit of God in the subconscious mind of humanity, to raise up a point of consciousness once again, whereas before when He came, of course, there was a projection there from above. It wasn't dependent at all on what was happening in the subconscious mind of humanity. He came as that point of consciousness regardless of what was going on and could have handled everything on that basis if He'd been allowed to do so. But the next cycle required that what was to emerge at the level of consciousness should come out of the subconsciousness of the body of humanity. It has done that, and we ourselves are aware of it because we participate in what has emerged. You can't take any credit; it just simply is what has been working out in the last 19 centuries. As there is such a conscious emergence, it assumes the position of the Son, and there is the opportunity for human beings everywhere to begin to say, “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord," because there is something on earth that is in the name of the Lord.

And we find that, as it is working out, there are many who are reaching a point where they are saying this, albeit mostly subconsciously. Creative changes are occurring in the consciousness of people everywhere, but some of those are rising up toward the light so to speak, still interpreting what they are experiencing in their own structured views, but nevertheless it's clear enough that something is happening. And we presumably are on hand, in some instances directly, to keep what is rising up from becoming introverted—in other words, merely more greatly infused with the structures they already have. It is easy to interpret the increase of awareness, as many people have done, to the structures in which they find themselves.

There are those who have found a new awareness from within the Roman Catholic church, from within Islam, from within almost anything; and usually when that happens, the individual imputes what has happened to the structure in which he was contained. It may be of course, at times, that the structure reached the point within the individual's own awareness where it was so structured that it was evident nothing was going to come of it, so they turned to something else; and because they have relinquished something and turned to something else, there is a greater release of light and then that is imputed to whatever it was that they'd turned to. Now this has been done in the Emissary ministry just as much as elsewhere, as though what was happening was coming out of an external structure, a form, even out of the teaching. But we have an awareness that, if anything has happened that has any meaning whatsoever, it is because something has come out of the person.

Human beings are so addicted to form that they see everything in terms of form, whereas what is happening is happening by reason of spirit. Now this is what, of course, was portrayed so beautifully in the story we are considering about the Master at the well with the woman in Samaria. She was drawing water out of the well; she had a facility for doing that, she had the water part or whatever it was, I suppose a rope and all the rest. This certainly portrays the view, the human view, that everything that is of use must be brought to the surface through the efforts of the conscious mind, which is not the Son, but rather I suppose the son of perdition.

All kinds of stuff is stored away in our wells; both directly and indirectly we inherit a lot out of the past, and we also have undertaken to various extents to put some more stuff down in the well, which is on file so to speak. If we have develped a good system of recall, we can get it up out of the well and this is considered to be the only basis of operations in the world as it now is. Everything is supposed to depend upon the precedents of the past: all the knowledge that has been accumulated and stored away, and which by various means can be gotten out of the storage. Go down to the library—we may have a pretty good storage bin and a capability of getting it out, mentally speaking. This tends to be a trap, of course, because the person imagines that he is pretty capable and wise and so on, on that basis. The thing that struck the woman of Samaria, of course, was that the Master offered something and apparently there was no means of getting home with it. This is the state of affairs which we've all experienced. Of course, we've tended to try to get hold of it, to grasp it; in other words, to follow out the same usual process of getting stuff and sticking it down the well so that we can draw it up as necessary. The Emissary concepts and ideas, beliefs, and so on—we've done this with these.

But there's a different manner of operation, as we are well aware. If we depend upon that, we're going to be thirsty most of the time. A question has often been asked, I suppose particularly with respect to Uranda in times past: where did he get it all from? There was no vessel to get it out of the well, apparently, because the vessel relates to this matter of human education, doesn't it, and the amount of water in the well, too; and Uranda didn't go all that far in grade school.

Where did it all come from? Well, we have some experience in this field. We are still often most inclined to place dependence on what we can get out of Jacob's Well, out of the world of precedents, the world of human knowledge, and it is thought we can slake our thirst that way and achieve great things. But it isn't the way at all, as we well understand. The way of spirit, something that you can't grasp, something that, from the standpoint of the human mind, is very elusive. And yet, here is the means of drawing: spirit draws what is required. It isn't a material bucket.

So there must be acquaintance with spirit if there is to be the experience of true thinking and of intelligence, of life itself. We find the spirit is very capable of drawing the material that is needed to give form to whatever it is that is required. This is the basis of healing, isn't it? The human view of healing and the healing arts is that you need to have a great deal of knowledge and a good bucket so that you can get the water out of the well as needed. You can diagnose, and then you can draw up the answer, which is very typical of medical training.

We begin to be more fully acquainted in the conscious sense with the fact that all healing, all of the necessities for resurrection and restoration, are made available simply by the working of the spirit, not by the bucket at the well. The well of water that springs up from within anyone—no one is superior or inferior in this regard. What is needful for intelligence is made available to the individual regardless of his intellectual prowess or lack of it, according to the particular part that that person is rightly playing in what is emerging on the basis of this creative spirit—something unique, individually speaking, in this regard. We need to have assurance that this is so, not only with respect to ourselves but with respect to others, so that we do not discount what others offer or what we ourselves have to offer.

Nothing is loosed in heaven without first being loosed on earth. A person will never learn or know what it means to give expression to the spirit of God without action of some kind. One can live in a dream world, but it requires action for the reality to put in an appearance, the heaven to be made known. The action which is required may be seemingly limited or restricted in the initial stages at least; there isn't any other way of loosing what is required in heaven without first loosing on earth.

So we have shared in this Assembly much more than is generally shared in the educational processes of the Classes, of allowing this well of water that springs up within a person to be released. The material action is what makes possible the drawing of the spirit; it opens the door to heaven, to the working of the spirit, to carry the creative process forward. But if the spirit in heaven is bottled up and prevented from having any release on earth, then of course nothing can happen from that standpoint. There's no drawing; there's no true intelligence; there's no real understanding. This has certainly been lacking in the world, obviously so. Now we introduce a little intelligence to the extent that we take action. We have reached a point, have been elevated presumably sufficiently in this process of the working in the creative spirit of God so that we have some idea as to what the necessary action would be. Most people are quite at sea in this regard; they have their precedents of rights of various sorts that they go through, which is not the sort of action that is required. We have a conscious awareness of the sort of action that is required.

While we're assembled at least it relates to this matter of speaking, of taking action on earth in this regard, and something is released in heaven. All such things obviously require a starting point. Most of you who have taken advantage of starting points in the past so that you have something already moving in this regard are aware of the fact that, if you do act, something is released and something more is thereafter available—there is something that is fitting, and we learn to work in a fitting way. Action—doing something. “Whatsoever ye shall loose on earth.” Well, what are we going to loose? We need to think a little bit about it; it's not just a platitude to be mulled.

What is this “whatsoever”? We'd better think about it. It has something to do with all kinds of actions which are necessary to make the facility by which the drawing of spirit is done available to spirit, to do the drawing. Then we begin to have an operating machine, so to speak, a living organism that is capable of coming in the name of the Lord—in other words, coming in the conscious expression of the mind of mankind. The Lord comes through that conscious expression in a very specific and definite way.

I don't think anyone who has any perception at all imagines that the Master could be pictured as He has sometimes been pictured, as a weak and vacillating individual. Nothing, even in the Gospels, gives any indication of that at all. He didn't hesitate to call a spade a spade when it was necessary to do so, and He didn't undertake to express Himself in a way that would win a popularity contest. He just spoke the truth, as it was fitting. Some people pride themselves on speaking the truth, and they splatter things all over the place, they have no awareness of what the truth is in the first place. But there also is little awareness that expressing the truth relates to a sense of the fitness of things; it's not something that one can sort of lay on everybody without regard to what is present in those concerned. It is what is fitting.

This conscious level of understanding and direction is coming into our experience. It is exactly the same experience as was true of the Master. He was a particular person, and we are particular people, and together we make a particular focus of consciousness, so what is happening is unique in that sense— but nevertheless it is exactly based in the true working of the Law which was known in the experience of Jesus. It's coming in a little different way in our experience, although it came in that way also for Him as an individual.

When you begin to see Him as a focus for the conscious mind of man, that is a little different because He came into that position and was therefore a projection, whereas we are letting something come up and begin to be raised up from the dead to come alive in intelligence. That is different to what occurred from the standpoint of His world ministry because, by the time He initiated that, He was already the projection, He was already the focus of the consciousness, the conscious aspect of the mind of mankind. But in His own personal experience, He had to come up from a baby, after all, all the way through, which is exactly what is really happening in the overall picture of the body of mankind. Of course, we might see it as we have in terms of the tomb and the resurrection, but the tomb proved out to be a womb, anyway.

So we see these cycles repeated in various ways, and if we come to the point of a clarity of understanding so that the reality of the Son consciousness is present, there is certainly a projection into the total mind of the body of mankind. The way it is coming about is a little different to what was the case insofar as our Master's public ministry was concerned. We rejoice to share these things, to have a sense of closeness to Him, to know that He went through the mill more so than we did, or have done, or are likely to do. But we understand Him to the extent that we have come to the point of understanding ourselves, of understanding what it is we are here to do, and are participating in the doing. I'm sure we're all most delighted and thankful for what has been brought to us during this time, that we might have the opportunity of participating consciously in the direction necessary to the restoration of mankind.

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