Specific  Momentary  Focus — Artistry  in  Living

Martin Cecil  May 5, 1981

Assembly — Sunrise Ranch

 

Out of communion comes healing. Out of communion comes life. Because there is life in form on earth, there is communication. Because there is life there is creation. All creation is by the Word. Without the Word was not anything made that is made. Life is rightly describable as artistic. It isn't a ham-fisted affair. There is great delicacy in life and yet great strength.

Forms may be damaged, but life remains unharmed. There is no such thing as “loss of life”—loss of forms, but never loss of life. Life is therefore eternal. Associated with life, we know the experience of the eternal nature of it. Life can be lost to form, but not to itself. Because human beings have been centered in form loss characterizes their experience. This is seen to be tragic—there is the experience of loss of every sort simply because the centering is in form. Centering in life, there is no real loss.

Forms change; we've all passed through quite a number of physical bodies. Various ones have been used up along the way—bodies which as Life we have inhabited, have been of different sizes and shapes, different ages, but the same life throughout. We do not mourn the passing of the baby form, nor of any of the subsequent forms, all of which have passed away—have been lost one could say. We didn't constantly hold funeral services for the passing. It wasn't a sad affair. Most people are pleased to grow up, as they call it, where the form reaches a point of being adult. Subsequently there are still other forms which come and go, day by day—a completely new body in seven years. So we have a present one which is acceptable to life, to ourselves, because it is useful. It can be used in various ways. It is a marvelous tool for right use. It is right use when it's used by life, which springs forth from the Word which is God, which we ourselves are.

We commune together by reason of life, by reason of the Word, by reason of God. We are one because of this. There is oneness already established. There is a particular focus of that oneness present here, present in this room, present in these physical forms of flesh. It is all so easily seen, a differentiation of that in form. But because it is so differentiated it does not produce a state of separateness in experience; it merely makes possible the achievement of far more than if it was just one body here present. The spirit, the life, the Word, contains within itself all, all that is to take form, all that is to be expressed, in the eternal moment. We share communion by reason of life, which is a characteristic of the Word. Out of the life of the Word a creative expression appears in individual ways, unique ways for each individual. But even with respect to each one of us, those ways are not duplicated. A constant, unending source of creative expression is available, is what we are.

We are content to allow this expression in a particular way to appear through these physical forms in each moment as it puts in an appearance. There is no end to the possibilities here. We accept our own physical forms with their mental and emotional space for our expression. To bring forth what is fitting by reason of this form and its consciousness might be thought of as being restrictive. Sometimes the mind has the idea that it would be much better if it was housed in a different body, different shape of different size, different color, or whatever. But the characteristic of life is that it happily and joyously accepts the facility that is present; therefore this is our attitude toward ourselves and toward others.

We find that the design which has taken form in such unique ways individually has done so for a very particular reason, not by chance. Understanding this because we are moving easily in the natural pulsations of the creative forces of life, we have no objection to anything. Because we see the value of the great variety that there is, we have no desire to be somebody else in outer form because what we are in outer form now is exactly what is required for our individual expression of life. I'm sure that we have all come to the point of being sufficiently contented in this regard. Obviously there are many people on earth who are not, and this may have been true of us in times past. Sometimes the human minds says, “Well I didn't ask to be born into the world; certainly not in this physical form with its limitations.” No, the mind which has such foolish ideas didn't ask because it wasn't anywhere to be asked. It's just a product of life. But the very fact that life took form in the way it did is indication that it is quite willing to do so; and that is us.

We have that willingness, the mind and the heart of the form in which we are incarnate may still be somewhat cloudy and without the awareness that might be possible, but it is sufficient unto the day, is this evil, this level of evol. And as life, as ourselves incarnate, we're quite content with it. We realize that it will not stay the way it is; there will continue to be reincarnation, day by day. There is a truth to reincarnation, you see. There is a right use to be made, and we find ourselves together as individuals for the express purpose of making right use of what is available to us—happy, thankful for what is available to us. We wouldn't be here in this setting if these beautiful facilities were not the forms of our incarnation so that we might be in position to put them together in this particular configuration.

As we share a consideration of these things mentally and emotionally, here is the beginning of communication, communication which has sprung out of an already existing communion. We wouldn't be sitting here together, we wouldn't be happy to be present with one another in this particular setting if the communion wasn't already a reality. We need to acknowledge that it is so.

Minds may wonder at times, but here we are, angels of the Lord incarnate and in communion, content to be incarnate the way we are incarnate, and willing to let whatever facilities of incarnation may be ours to be used righteously. Right use. Part of that right use relates to the matter of communication, communication which emerges out of the state of communion through these facilities of incarnation to allow for those creative actions which are necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes of our incarnation. We are here for this, not for the sake of our facilities of incarnation. This of course is the attitude that the mind is inclined to take, “I'm here for myself.” It isn't true; it's a lie. Obviously such attitudes must be relinquished if the experience of ourselves on earth in these facilities of incarnation is to be known. So we're no longer interested, we never were actually, in the twisted views and emotions of the facility of incarnation. But we know that even these have a purpose which can be useful to us, because by reason of such things being present in these facilities of incarnation, we find ourselves associated with the whole body of mankind. We awaken now to a conscious understanding of these things and our concern is with the awakening of the whole of that body to the experience, not necessarily a conscious experience but to the actual experience, of the facility of incarnation for the Son of God.

This is a recreative process which unfolds on the basis of the sequential working of the Four Forces. At no time is any one of the forces absent, but always there is one dominant. The relationship of the subdominant forces changes also. We begin to discern the rhythms that move, not in set periods of time as such, but according to the natural flow of spirit in the purposeful creation of what is required. Our facilities of incarnation, as individuals and together, must become more naturally proficient in allowing this movement of the creative pulsations to occur.

There is always the central need to discern what it is that is emerging in a particular focused way. It will come, no doubt, through somebody and if we are moving with the true pulsation we'll find ourselves easily associated with what it is that comes through one particular person. I have provided the focus of something here so that the capability of so moving might be easily developed in our facilities of incarnation because you are all desirous of moving with what is being brought to focus through my facilities of incarnation. But as I have pointed out, this is not the ultimate requirement because there is something coming to focus in the emergent body as a whole and in various aspects of that body at particular times, in particular ways.

One needs to discern when something begins to emerge through someone, that it is what should be the focus of what will naturally thereafter develop. If we miss that focus then one can surge back and forth, so to speak, in the ocean without ever allowing anything to happen in a creative sense. There is always something coming to focus and we need to be alert to see it, not to be so full of ourselves, in the sense of the facility of incarnation, that there's no space to enable us to discern what it is that is emerging in any given moment.

We may have all sorts of ideas, and wish to express them, but there is something very specific happening from the standpoint of communion—if it's only from the standpoint of communication there may be all sorts of things bandied about but it won't mean anything very much. There is always something coming to focus, and it will appear through somebody if that somebody is alert to it in the first place. And that gives the opportunity for others to discern it because they themselves were also associated with what has been brought to focus by this one person. Now this is an artistic matter. It requires perceptiveness and an artistic sense. We're responsible for a conscious focus of life, and artistry therefore, on earth. Life itself is an art as it emerges into expression on earth. We need to be awake to that art. Now that art may have particular focalizations through different people in different ways. All living is art, and there are various ways by which this art of living may be communicated. Any communication in this regard relates to the creative process.

Focus of direction is given in any field artistically if it is given rightly, if it is a right use of the facilities of incarnation. And it relates to the creative process with which, in oneness with life, we are concerned. We see this in terms of the restoration of man. Therefore anything that is undertaken is a useful tool to begin to provide a process of specific re-creation relative to the focus of responsibility which that individual has in the overall design. Now of course this wouldn't be meaningful except as there is communion already established so that the one who is letting something be brought to focus, in the proper time, in the proper way, is participating in communion firsthand—is therefore a part of what it is that is totally happening in the overall creative process. But here is something being brought to focus in this particular individual's field of responsibility and he uses this which is available to his hand to participate in the creative process.

Now this is something that relates to the artistry of living as a whole, because everyone is responsible in the particular focus of the moment, and of individual ability, etc., which is present, because we're all doing things moment by moment. We're all artists in our own particular fields. And everything we do relates to this creative, or re-creative process when we become aware of it consciously. We are concerned with the conscious mind of mankind, with those who become aware of it consciously.

Most people go through a day unconsciously; they just surface now and again, momentarily—but scarcely any who bring anything consciously to focus, not for human purposes, not for self-centered purposes, but in the re-creative process for which the angel of the Lord is incarnate on earth in the specific form which, it might be said, he has chosen. So there is artistry for each one of us in our living, that relates immediately to what is occurring in our part of the overall picture of the body of mankind. There are many, many fields where we have opportunity to bring order out of chaos in our own personal realms of living. And we do that because the angelic awareness has come through sufficiently into the consciousness of our means of incarnation so that we see the connection—consciously see the connection.

Here is the beginning of conscious action on earth and it relates to the most insignificant things apparently. Very few people come right back to the insignificant thing. They at least get out a little way, over there. Some see their field of service way over there, when they have not as yet accepted the responsibility of the thing that is right up against them. And only to the extent that one has accepted that responsibility, consciously seeing its connection with the purpose for which we are on earth, can we begin to let what we handle rightly close at hand include the handling rightly of things a little further afield. Certainly there are many things that need to be handled rightly that are further afield, but we're incapable of doing that, we're wasting our time in trying to do it, until first we have accepted the responsibility of the thing that is close at hand because we consciously see how it is connected with our greater field of responsibility.

We do not keep our field of responsibility confined. There is a tendency for people to feel that they are capable in certain directions only, and they insist only in moving in those directions. And if that is what happens, the individual becomes lopsided, very unbalanced. It's not a true expression; there is an increase of unbalance in the larger picture then. So there is the necessity of seeing the balance in one's own living and in one's own experience. We're all present in the field where we are to take care of what is present in that field. And I would suggest that for each individual, close to oneself there is a field that is really common to us all, where we may experience balance because we were quite willing to take care of this, and to take care of that, because we see the connection that goes out beyond.

Now this is the light of the world beginning to come on, because there are those who actually see what they're doing. Amazing that we've had these spheres of living all around us, close to us, and probably we never noticed them. We saw great vistas out there, when tying your shoelace the way it should be tied is the thing that needs to be done to bring order out of chaos—keep your shoe on your foot. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Well this is the vision that is required relative to what we are doing moment by moment. We do what we do artistically, and we let that artistry include areas where we don't imagine we are artistic. We are incapable of specializing in a creative way until we are first balanced within ourselves, balanced with respect to what we need to do in our own immediate field—having the vision to see that as being directly connected with the creative process that is working out everywhere.

When there is movement in this way then positive direction is given in all these different fields so that it's left no longer merely to the chaotic movement back and forth in the subconscious, irrational mind. It begins to have a focus of life here. There begins to be direction. There begin to be those who have the world in their hands because they have their own affairs in their hands, every aspect of their own affairs, nothing left out, balanced.

The communion is present, but there is the opportunity to share a translation from the standpoint of communication; and this communication, to the extent that it has been shared, has opened a door for further communication, in the individual sense, with respect to the immediate worlds around each one. As that is handled rightly the communication then moves out because the connection is not only theorized about but is recognized as being there; and the individual doing this sees it doing that in the larger picture.

It is a beautiful art in which all are invited to participate. And it recreates all things—makes all things new in each succeeding moment because there is an awareness that it is not only a spiritual matter in the more or less formless sense, but a spiritual matter that relates to immediate forms of living. Heaven and earth are one—this is the way it becomes known. What is brought forth in our living comes out of the state of communion which is known, and thereby the Word is made flesh.

© Emissaries of Divine Light