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Let  All  The  Earth  Keep  Silence

Martin Cecil   June 8, 1975

But the Lord is in his holy temple: Let all the earth keep silence before him.

Let all the earth tremble to obey!

“But the Lord is in his holy temple.” This is as true now, in this moment, as it has ever been. “Let all the earth”—the physical body, the capacity for physical action; the mind, the capacity for mental action; and the capacity for spiritual expression—“let all the earth keep silence before him.” Let all these capacities for physical, mental and spiritual action, present in every human being on the face of the earth, tremble to obey the Lord. 

What that means has been long unknown in human experience. We are concerned to allow this knowing to be present in our momentary living, in this moment of living; after all, we have no other. We have been aware that the mental capacity in us has assumed the position of control in our existence on earth, and this has been true of all human beings everywhere. This control has been, partly at least, a factor of inheritance: we have our heredity. The mind of man has long governed on earth in human experience. 

The order which human beings obey, or against which they rebel, is preset, established by the human mind. This is the world as we know it. What has been so preset also establishes the meaning and the purpose and the security of human beings. Human purposes may be to enhance, adjust, modify the particular pattern of social order which is in effect. They may, on the other hand, be to destroy it and substitute something else. In either case, human purposes are established by reason of the social order. A great deal of human effort is poured into the modification and adjustment of the particular order in question. 

So, we have this state of affairs, and within the scope of the social order human beings have their goals. Any goal that anyone may have was established by his human mind; it is a preset concept; but usually, as human existence unfolds, goals change. But all human function, in the systems of the world, is based in goals. Goals are judged to be good or bad, depending chiefly as to where you sit. But we need to see clearly that where there are goals the human mind is still in charge. Does it not seem almost incredible that human beings could live fulfilled lives without any goals? To the extent that such an idea does seem fantastic there is clear evidence of the fact that one has been, and is, subject to the human mind; because it is the human mind that develops and establishes these goals, and the goals relate to the collective social order. 

Now, we have the whole situation here clearly under the government and control of the mind, and yet there could be no life, there could be no experience of consciousness, there could be no mind, if it were not for the pulsations of life which are already working in human experience. At those levels where the conscious mind and the distorted patterns of the subconscious mind do not have the primary influence, the pulsations of life control. The pulsations of life are present in human beings; they are present everywhere. The movement of the whole universe is based in whatever those pulsations may be, except when it comes to human experience on earth where the mind tries to govern. It can only try to govern because the pulsations of life are present. It couldn’t even do that if it weren’t for the pulsations of life. We wouldn’t have any minds; we wouldn’t have any capacity for spiritual expression; we wouldn’t be anything, in fact.

So, the pulsations of life are present; life is on the move. Life is the basic action of the whole universe. Now, action does not occur without a means of action, nor does it occur without the power of action. We have come to realize the fact that love is the power of action, the truth is the means of action, and life is the action; and that action is present throughout the whole universe and is present insofar as human beings are concerned.

“The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth,” the triune earth, “keep silence before him,” that the pulsating action of life may bring forth whatever should be brought forth physically, mentally and in spiritual expression. But how can it if the mind is there with its preset concepts, its preset goals, its preset intentions? This hard stone of self-centeredness in human experience ignores the pulsations of life. Even though the mind, which establishes these hard patterns, exists because of the pulsations of life, it imagines that it can reach its goal by ignoring the pulsations of life. It is inconceivable to the mind, apparently, as to what it would mean to move with the action of life. “But the Lord is in his holy temple.” Holy temple—that would include all the earth.

We see that this is the case, because we would have no living physical bodies if the Lord were not in His holy temple. We would have no capacity of mind if the Lord were not in His holy temple; we would have no ability to give spiritual expression if the Lord were not in His holy temple. He is! But there is more to His holy temple than the physical body, the mind and the capacity for spiritual expression. This is the earth—“let all the earth keep silence before him.” But what about the heaven? There is no need to give any instruction to the heaven, because it’s already doing it; it does keep silence before Him, so that it is moved by the pulsations of life. This is already present in every living person or the person wouldn’t be living, because the experience of the fact of life, if not the real quality of life, is evidence of the heaven, the heaven that is already present in which there is the movement of life.

Because there is the movement of life in the heaven, some of it filters through into the earth. It filters through the body sufficiently to develop the capacity of mind, because the mind emerges out of the body. As the body develops, the mind develops and, properly, the capacity for spiritual expression should develop. But if the mind intervenes, having developed a little, and decides that it is going to function on the basis of these preset patterns, then the spiritual expression has no chance to develop. The mind cuts it off, and all that a person is then is a physical body with a mind; and that isn’t all the earth, let alone the heaven. All the earth includes the three levels. Let these three levels, including the mind, keep silence, shut up! Keep silence before the Lord, that there may begin to be a sensing of the pulsations of life, so that those pulsations moving through the mind may be as effective as they are, even with all the self-activity of human beings, moving through the body.

What is your goal for the day? Something is being established by the mind. This is not to say that the work that needs to be done, exemplified by the setting of the schedule, should not be done. This is the other extreme to which human beings tend to go, isn’t it? You either are going to be very active—self-active, that is—or you are going to do nothing; it’s either action or non-action. Well, if you’re not acting and doing things, what are you going to do? The only other thing is do nothing! This is all that the human mind sees. If that isn’t ignorance I don’t know what is!

But there is something in between which could be described mentally as rest-action. That seems like a contradiction in terms: you’re either resting or you’re acting; how can you have rest-action? Rest-action results from a yielding to the pulsations of life, not maintaining the rigidities of the mind and saying, “Well, I have these goals now but I’ve got to set these goals aside. Oh, there’s nothing there, so I must go to sleep, I must do nothing.” Those who first make contact with this ministry very often get hung up in this. They say, “You’re not active in all these fields; what are you doing? You can’t be doing anything.” Well, we’re still alive, and there is what is totally beyond the awareness of the self-active human mind, namely rest-action. We see an example of rest-action in the beating of the heart. The heart beats; the heart is active, doing its thing, because of the pulsations of life.

The heart is active because of rest-action, not because of the concept of the human mind, which aggressively tries to make the heart beat. But this is the way it acts with respect to virtually everything else, isn’t it? We’ve got to get this done! Even in the beating of the heart as it occurs, there is the symbolical presentation of a unified movement which is rest-action, contraction-relaxation; but these two aspects are not separate. It’s not as though we work terribly hard and then we collapse, as though that were rest-action. Rest-action is the experience which is known when life, the pulsations of life, govern in all the earth; that is, in the whole of one’s earth, not only physically but mentally and in spiritual expression. When life action, which is rest- action, is present and operating, then there is the experience of what is called man.

We need to come to the point of awareness, somewhere along the line, that there is no means of moving with the action of life as long as the mind retains its concepts and its goals, because the individual will be held rigidly by that and therefore will be in no position to allow the rest-action movement of life to occur. Only as there is the emergence of an awareness of the pulsations of life, so that these become more important in one’s experience than any concepts one may have, is there any possibility, any hope, for human beings. The pulsations of life are present but our minds, with the best of intentions, backed up by the agreement that is present in the social order, maintain a state which ensures disintegration.

So we look to rest-action, which is the movement in our own experience with the pulsations of life. “The Lord is in his holy temple.” He’s in His holy temple, not His unholy temple. If we maintain the limited state of the body-mind continuum, which is the condition of most people, we’re unholy, and the Lord doesn’t stay in the unholy temple. Only as all the earth keeps silence before Him is there experienced the reality of a holy temple, a whole temple, where the Lord is; and this is only known to the extent that all the earth, where the trouble is, keeps silence before Him, trembles to obey. Yet, even in making that statement there is a tendency to maintain a concept of the mind, because if one obeys there must be a master and there must be a servant. The servant obeys the master; but the truth of the matter is that there is only one. There isn’t a master and a servant; there is just one, one person, a whole, holy, person, or being, shall we say? The mind doesn’t have the faintest notion as to what that means, because it has the concept of its own present being—“This is me, after all!” Is it?

“Let all the earth keep silence before him.” And when there begins to be that quietness inside, we hear the tone of life, we sense the pulsations of it; but the concepts of the mind absolutely prevent that.

How much experience do you really have of moving with the action, the pulsations, of life? How much? I think most of the movement that has been experienced thus far has been on the basis of our concepts of what the goal is. Insofar as the mind is concerned there rightly isn’t any goal. Insofar as the movement of life is concerned it is a creative process—whatever that means. We can’t find out what it means by developing concepts about it. We must move with it. And we can’t move with it if we don’t sense it, and we can’t sense it as long as we’re rigidly holding on to our concepts. Preset goals! Let us yield these precious treasures of ours, which are in fact deadly weights, that we may begin to know the reality of life.

O Lord, Thou art in Thine holy temple of the body, Thy body on earth, and Thou art therefore not separate from any member of that body; Thou art present in all. And we know the truth of this when all that we are in the external sense learns to keep silence before Thee. O Lord, how deeply thankful we may be that Thou art indeed in Thy holy temple in this moment, and in every moment, and because of the silence of yielded love the pulsations of life may bring forth easily and naturally what should take form on earth as the designs of human beings, the former things, pass away. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty. Aum-en.

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