It isn’t a
matter of numbers; it is a matter of angels. That is the sole thing that is in
question: whether there are going to be any angels in expression in human form on earth, or whether everybody is going to proclaim
human nature and continue to proclaim that, trying to find the answer by
various manipulations.
Now there are
angels who begin to become conscious of the fact that they are present on earth
in human form. The angels are always conscious of that. Human minds and hearts
haven’t acknowledged the fact, but are presumably beginning to do so. We
rejoice that this is so, because it places upon us a new awareness of the
reason for our presence here on earth. We begin to become aware that we were
sent, for one thing, as angels, and the human mind and heart begin to accept
and acknowledge this fact. Only when that is accepted and acknowledged is it known
on earth. As long as human minds and hearts are busy denying it and finding
reasons and justifications for making sure that it isn’t true, the angels are
inhibited; there is no means by which anything can be extended angelically out
of heaven into the earth.
But now there
is something, and one of the evidences of this is that angels recognize each
other. We become aware of each other on a basis that allows for coordination. What
it is really
is the emergence of love through human hearts, acknowledged by human minds. As
this happens the angel is present because the primary characteristic of the angel is love. Emerging
through human forms,
minds and hearts, then the experience of love begins to be known and there is a sense of
belonging, a sense of home, a sense of oneness, of being part of one beautiful, coordinated
whole.
This angelic
awareness comes from above—it is higher than what has been known in human nature—but
it also comes from below. We may recognize that the planet, the earth, is
relatively quite large when considered in relationship to the surface of the
earth where human beings scratch around—it doesn’t go very deep. There is far
more of the earth into which human beings have not been able to penetrate than there is of it into which
they have been able to penetrate. So there is a
little skin around the surface of the earth and some of the atmosphere above,
which is being very thoroughly polluted, in which human beings function; but
the main body of the earth has remained untouched in a direct sense by these human
scratchings on the surface.
There is
something that is in the core of the earth which has been recognized in terms
of heat, fire, that relates to the fire of the sun, for instance. As there is
something emerging into conscious awareness through a few human beings on
earth, there is also something which arises from the core of the earth to meet
what it is that is coming down from heaven, so to speak. What is coming down
from heaven is the coming forth of the angel through human hearts and minds and
bodies. And there is something rising up from below, far more rising up from
below than is exemplified by the forms of life on the surface of the earth.
This rising up from below has a relatedness to what happens through the forms
of life on the surface of the earth that we think of as nature; it rises up
through nature.
It should rise
up through the human population too, but of course there has been a very solid
barrier in this regard, set up because of this endeavor by human beings to do
what they want to do and to extend the intellectual control of what happens on
the surface of the earth to everything that they can get their hands on. This
has been done. We can speak of it in a collective sense and that takes it away from
ourselves a bit; but it has been true of each individual, because each individual
has sought to get his hands on what was in the vicinity, apparently
controllable and ownable.
Now the
awareness comes that there has indeed been a den of thieves, and that included
us. It is a wonderful thing to recognize this, to realize that mentally and
emotionally and physically we have been thieves. We have tried to possess the
earth. We know now, because angelic consciousness has begun to emerge, that
that really isn’t the truth of the matter. We are not designed to be thieves
but to provide the means by which the Lord possesses His own. That is only possible
by reason of human beings. That is why we have continued to exist on the
surface of the earth: that one day, by some means, there would be a restoration
of this facility of man to the state for which it was designed, so that the
order and the balance might be restored.
There is a certain
order and balance which has been maintained by nature. It becomes more and more
difficult for nature to maintain that order and balance, in view of the way
that the human mind has been operating, and the human heart also. Human hearts
have been filled with various acquisitive desires, and the mind has come along
and justified them. It is immediately rationalized and justified.
Now,
relinquishing this sort of imbecile function, we may once again come into an
awareness of the reason why, as angels, we have come into the earth; not to
follow out all of these endless and confusing trails of human nature but to let
those go. The angel is quite willing, but human minds and hearts have been
reluctant. However there has been something happening, and a new consciousness
of purpose on earth has come. That purpose is angelic: a heavenly purpose and
not an earthly purpose. The earth reflects the heavenly purpose rightly, but
the purpose does not originate in the earth.
Because there
is something rising up from the earth and something coming by reason of
conscious angelic incarnation from above, everything is caught in between that
is on the surface of the earth. What we call nature is delighted to be caught
in between; but humanity, in a general sense, is not so delighted to be caught
in between. The squeeze comes on and it is uncomfortable. Now, finally, angelic
consciousness begins to emerge and there is an awareness of comfort from the
angelic standpoint, because the angel is quite comfortable. All that is
uncomfortable is human nature. One way or another human nature is always
uncomfortable and complains about it.
As angels put
in an appearance there is an awareness that there is really nothing to complain
about, because the creative process is working and is emerging as magnetic
expression. The creative field is emerging into the field of human operations,
and if there is a resistance to it it is uncomfortable. Human nature is
inclined to become a little desperate, because it is passing away. While there
isn’t any great conscious awareness yet on the larger scale of the fact that
human nature is passing away, sufficiently resilient minds and hearts and
bodies are quite aware of the fact that it is passing away, because here comes
the angel!
We share the
responsibility of participating in this creative process which restores the
planet, the forms of life on the surface of the planet, and the world that has
heretofore been claimed by mankind, to the true owner. And the true owner is
represented by His angels. He sends forth His angels into the earth to gather
the elect. The elect are those who respond to the magnetic field—the creative
field that is set up by reason of the presence of the angels. Those are the
elect.
It isn’t a
matter of unfurling our banners and unsheathing our swords and going to possess
the land, as used to be the idea of human nature. It doesn’t work, does it? It
isn’t a matter of having a cause and going after that cause. That’s the way of
human nature, that’s the way of death. It simply is a matter of allowing this
magnetic creative field to be established, and that is the sole leadership that
is required. Then those who will come will come. They can’t help themselves.
We have some
awareness of that because we couldn’t help ourselves. We didn’t choose to
associate. We were chosen; we were fingered. “You, you and you”—a call for
volunteers! Here we are, angelically present with minds and hearts increasingly
willing to let it be the way it really is. And there is nothing more comforting
than to be associated with the way it really is. That is where the comfort is.
That is what might be called the coming of the Comforter.
The
discomforter is very thoroughly present! But becoming associated in mind and
heart with the angelic reality which we are brings a sigh of relief to mind and
heart. Now at last we can relax, without feeling anymore that there is a
hostile world all around us with ogres there ready to rend us in pieces, so
that we always have to have our human defenses up. Angelically speaking we
don’t have anything to defend, because nothing can encroach upon this angelic
heaven. The angelic heaven is to come into the earth, and it comes in with
power and great glory. It is a wonderful thing
But there are
hosts of people who don’t think so, because they are trying to establish and
sustain their own human ideas of the way things should be. We have masses of
people, don’t we, doing this all the time now. I am sure that terrorists, for
instance, are very sincere about their efforts. They imagine that this is the
way to go, or they wouldn’t go that way. And there is very little difference
between that and what is considered to be the more normal function of human
nature. It is the same thing, really: “We are going to go the way we want to
go. We will try to do it in a more gentlemanly fashion, but we want what we
want and we are going to get it.” That’s human nature speaking.
We no longer
associate ourselves with that, because the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness
thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. And that is what is being
proven out. It hasn’t been proven out up to this point because there was no
focused body permitting the angelic expression on earth—a unified, focused
body. This has never happened. It certainly didn’t happen at the time of Jesus.
The disciples had very little understanding of what was going on at all. It is
a matter of letting the angel come forth. It is a matter of living, a matter of
daily momentary experience. And we share this, angelically speaking.
We find, as
angels, that we belong together—not always nudging up against each other. We
may be anywhere on the face of the earth but still know we belong together, and
are aware that there is an easy and natural movement occurring by reason of
this forming body through which the angelic expression appears, the creative
lines of force are set up, and the whole process is in action. Let it work!
Nobody can make it work; it is
working! All that has
to be done is to accommodate that working. Let it be accommodated in our own
living and, behold, all things are made new. And no one can stop it; it is
something absolute.
Finally it is
coming to pass. It is the emergence of the angels sent forth into the earth to
gather the elect from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other.
One end of the heaven
to the other—it is
done from a heavenly standpoint, not from an earthly standpoint—reflected in what happens in the earth.
So we rejoice
to participate in something tremendous, to become aware of the fact that here
we are to let it happen—not only this little grouping sitting here, but through
others in many places. And it doesn’t require vast numbers. It would never
happen if it required vast numbers. Where would you find them? No, it requires
a select few, a company of angels who are sent forth to do this. And because
they carry the authority of the One who sent them forth, it will be done. It
will certainly be done. And behold, all things are made new: a new heaven and a
new earth.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
