Or Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed
excerpts from The Processes of Death and Ascension
Martin Cecil July 20,
1977
Sunrise Ranch — Fourth Hour Class
The way things now are there is an expectation that the one
sure thing is death of the physical form—the separation of the physical flesh
from its source of life, so that life is no longer being born in that physical
form. This does not mean that there is any less life; in fact it just is not
being born insofar as that physical form is concerned. These things need to be
understood as being quite natural under these circumstances so that there is no
great song and dance about it. It is because human beings do not understand—they
don't for the most part, have the substance available so that they could
understand—that it seems to be such a big deal and such a tragic thing. It
isn't really. It is a natural process the way things are.
Now, in the true state there is properly what is called
ascension, but in that circumstance where ascension replaces death of the
physical form there would likewise be a term of incarnation. The term in such
case might be considerably longer than is presently known by human beings,
because something more effective would in the creative sense be being done by
all concerned; the angel incarnate revealed on earth and achieving what needs
to be achieved. And whatever length of time is required to complete the
particular cycle of achievement, well that will be the length of the term of
incarnation. And while at the conclusion of that term there might rightly be
farewells extended, there is no consciousness of finality in the matter.
Presently with respect to death it seems so final to human
beings because they are merely looking at it from the earthly sense. From the
angelic standpoint there is nothing final about it at all. To put it in a way
that Uranda put it many years ago, incarnation is like eating a meal—when
you have finished the meal you getup and go out and do something else. That
does not mean you do not come back and have another meal. Now, that is not
reincarnation as human beings understand it presently, because being earthly
oriented they think of everything in terms of the physical form, which is
necessary, but in one sense rather incidental.
The incarnation is of the angel and the incarnation is not for
the purpose of somehow improving the angel or that the angel may be becoming
more angelic by incarnating. The point is that an angel is an angel is an angel
and there is no need to improve on that state; but there are things to be done
in the creative way. And so part of that doing, at least as it relates to this
particular planet and creative field, requires incarnation in human form, and
on this basis the creative purposes of God may be fulfilled.
In the world the way it is death is the natural experience, the
separation of the human form from its source of life. Now, this relates to
pneumaplasm of course because pneumaplasm is the connection between spirit and
form; therefore there must be some sort of a disruption insofar as this
connection is concerned if life ceases to be born anymore in the flesh. And so
what occurs occurs in relationship to the pneumaplasmic field, and we just see
the results of what occurs when the body is said to be dead.
It is spoken of in various ways in the Bible, for instance in
the Old Testament. In the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes: “Or ever the silver
cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken,” and so on. The silver cord has a
relatedness to the focalization of pneumaplasmic substance which provides the
essential connection through the endocrine system. As long as that is unbroken
that physical body is not dead, however it may appear. Once the silver cord is
broken the physical form is dead and it cannot be resurrected in that form
again. At the point of death the silver cord is loosed. There is a separation
between the physical body and the pneumaplasmic body.
The way things are angels incarnate on earth in human form
with a clear awareness of the restrictions that such incarnation will involve.
This has been going on for a long time. There has been something unfolding in
the creative sense by reason of the incarnation of angels, which has been
completely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
Calm stability. Look up and see an angel at hand—that will be
seen by a person who looks up. This incarnation of the angel is very clearly
indicated in these words, familiar to you I am sure, the words of the Master: “I
came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the
world, and go to the Father.” Where is the big deal? Just a simple, natural
process; only unnatural to the extent that the physical body disintegrates instead
of ascending.
Our concern is to allow the true forms to appear on earth, and
to do that we have to be oriented in heaven and share the responsibility of
allowing that heaven to be revealed because we live on earth, so that when
people look at us with any degree of perception they are looking up. And if
they look up and keep looking up, they will go up.
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