The Ministry Of Reminder

What  is  Happening  Now? — That  is  the  Question!

The Ministry of Reminder

Martin Cecil   September 16, 1979

Today is the anniversary of the inception of this ministry, and I call it to your remembrance. On this date in 1932 there emerged into the consciousness of one man an awareness of the particular spiritual task for which it was necessary that he assume responsibility. Subsequently there have been others who have shared in this awareness also, in whatever degree, but at that time it came to point in this one man whom we know as Uranda. Here was something quite stupendous insofar as he was concerned. As you may know, he had been looking for spiritual leadership somewhere to which he might turn, and he could not find it, until the moment came when he saw that the essential spiritual leadership was his own responsibility.

This is something that is necessary for each of us—now: to come to the point of that awareness, no longer looking for spiritual leadership somewhere else but accepting our immediate responsibility. We have no doubt all looked for such leadership and we may have imagined that we found it, but what we found was simply a reminder of what our responsibility is as individuals. If we found anything it was simply a calling to remembrance of what we already knew. If it isn’t that it isn’t anything. Insofar as Uranda was concerned it was a calling to remembrance in his experience. Something that was already present, already existent, began to emerge through his consciousness and he acknowledged the fact of it. He undertook to provide spiritual leadership in this matter of calling to remembrance.

This was the task of the spirit of truth: calling all things to remembrance, things that already exist for us as individuals and for us all together, something which had been long forgotten to emerge into consciousness in this world. To whatever extent, this has been experienced by you and others, but for the most part heretofore it has tended to be a matter of belief rather than knowing. You may have had the experience of thinking that you had known something and a little later on there was a bursting forth in your own consciousness and you realized that you hadn’t known it at all. What makes you think that what you now see you really know? It could happen again, couldn’t it, this bursting forth? It needs to. I suppose it could be said that there are various levels of belief, but it isn’t until we come to the point of knowing that anything really has happened yet.

You know from your experience in association with this ministry that I have never made any promises to anyone and I have never required any promises from anyone. I have never said to you, “If you believe this, thus and so will happen.” My sole concern down through the years has been this matter of calling to remembrance something that you already know but had forgotten. It may be recalled through words which are spoken as there is a discernment of the Word that is back of the words that are spoken. Then there is something familiar, something that a person seems to know and yet he doesn’t really know what it is.

To assist people to remain related to what it is that is being recalled—which isn’t yet known—some forms have been provided, so that there was something available to make you feel a little more comfortable for the moment. Unfortunately as those forms were offered they tended to obscure the feeling. The form was glommed onto: “This is going to make me more comfortable. I will now understand, I can now explain it to myself and to others, so that there will be those who will agree with what I now understand.”

So these forms have tended to become the thing over the years—concepts, ideas, sometimes we call it the truth, but it was a mental form, something that we could grasp. We’ve all had this sort of experience, happy to grasp hold of something so that we might for the moment feel safer. But that is a false security in the end. We must let go of the hand, or the concept, the idea, the form, whatever it is, if we are to come to the experience of knowing, if we are to allow what is present with us in reality to come forth so that we know it.

There is something being called to remembrance which had been forgotten, and it is, for many of you, beginning to nudge you so that you are aware that there is something there, something that needs to be brought forth. Somewhere along the way a person needs to awaken to the fact that he doesn’t need to look external to himself. The reality is present with everyone as long as life remains. Life itself is an evidence of that reality, and only as that reality begins to emerge into expression is there the remembrance of it. It only is remembered when it does actually emerge; then there it is! No question, no argument; nothing else is required but that particular expression in that particular moment. And when it’s there you know it and it isn’t a belief.

When Uranda initiated this ministry in form on earth he certainly had a knowing in this regard, but he was well aware that this knowing could not be transferred to anybody else. All that can be done is to call to remembrance, somehow, to assist people to become aware of the fact that the truth is present already with them and needs to be expressed. That’s the only way it could ever be known. So there’s no need to shop around. There’s no need to follow out all the peculiar ideas and concepts and beliefs that people have, because this is merely piling form upon form and producing greater and greater obscurity, less and less understanding. Knowing is life.

One of the first indications that was offered in this business of recalling, bringing to remembrance, was: Let go! Stop imagining that you know anything. You can admit that you have many beliefs if you like, but we need to reach a point where we are willing to acknowledge that we know nothing. The knowing that is required is of the truth, and the truth is only known in expression. Only when we express it do we know it.

So here is the reason for the existence of what we call this ministry, to call something to remembrance so that those who are stirred a little bit and begin to hear something may be assisted into a larger remembering, a larger expression of life, in other words, because the true evidence of this remembrance comes when there’s the true evidence of life, the quality, the reality of what life is in expression, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, a total whole expression of life. Then the person begins to know.

As long as you are shopping around in the supermarkets of the world—and there are plenty of them—looking for enlightenment, you go down the drain, because the enlightenment is not there. It cannot be found there. The only enlightenment that anyone can find is in the expression of the truth in his own living. For this, then, there needs to be the provision of a ministry of reminder, we might say. It seems to me that would be the ministry of the spirit of truth, wouldn’t it, calling all things to remembrance. What is being called to remembrance is present with each person and it cannot be conveyed by one to another. The release of it may be triggered so that it is brought forth by a person; then he knows it. There is a vast difference between knowing and believing. The truth is found in the experience of knowing.

Uranda’s task was stupendous. He knew but nobody else did. And how on earth was he going to achieve what was necessary? Obviously if anything was to ever happen in the experience of human beings on earth it would only do so when the provision was made by which remembrance could be stimulated—this is the only thing that is required—only one thing—to wake up; to be reminded of the truth so that one may let it find expression for oneself. Then you take responsibility for spiritual leadership that will remind somebody else; not because you pile ideas and concepts and more beliefs, on everybody else. Who needs more beliefs? We have appalling indigestion now! But how much knowing is there? Very, very little.

So the only basis for hope insofar as this human race is concerned would be as there is a facility, a means somehow, by which the spirit of truth could call to remembrance something that was already known. The treasure is always somewhere else, from the standpoint of the human view of things, but the fact of the matter is that it is right where one is. One doesn’t need to go anywhere. You have it! Each individual has it when responsibility is taken for expressing it; no more wandering in the wilderness.

The truth is here. It’s present in this room. It’s present by reason of each person who’s sitting in this room. I call it to your remembrance that this is the fact of the matter. But beliefs seem to have quite an attraction, don’t they? They keep people wandering around, following after this, going after that, expecting to find some remarkable revelation over there, and all the rest. There’s always something just over the horizon. Never! It isn’t there. It’s useless to look there if it isn’t there. Stop looking and accept the responsibility, as Uranda did for himself for what should find expression through himself. If he knew, that’s the reason he knew. He could not convey that knowing to another. If I know, I cannot convey that knowing to anyone here present. Each individual can know for himself, but it requires a real quality of living to do it, something that most people are not willing to offer.

There are some amongst the population of the world—a few—who have a basic integrity, a basic sense of honor, and who are unwilling to violate that integrity. These people have been referred to as a “remnant.” In every generation all down through the ages there has always been that remnant. Thus far it hasn’t done the world much good, has it? These people are there, living according to their highest, in a consciousness of a certain basic honor, and yet it hasn’t changed the world.

There are those who are always looking to the remnant to do something. They won’t. They can’t. It isn’t until there is brought into the world what has been lacking in the world that anything can change. As long as we are continuing simply to try to adjust the furniture in the world, to make a nicer arrangement, things will continue as they always have since the fathers fell asleep. But when this begins to be brought into the world because there are those who are caused to remember in the expression of their own living, then there is a focus in the world composed of those who might be said to be enlightened. They are not trying to live according to their highest vision. They are not trying to do anything. They are simply expressing the truth in their living, and that is a totally different thing to what anyone has known on earth in the world the way it has been.

There was One who knew that, in the person of Jesus. He brought that into the world. He was capable of calling to remembrance all that needed to be remembered, but obviously no one was willing to let it happen. Not even those who were closest to Him were willing to let it happen. They still had their views, their concepts, their ideas, their beliefs. “Wilt thou now restore the kingdom to Israel?” Perhaps we think of that as being a very inane remark, because it had nothing whatsoever to do with the reason for the Master’s presence on earth, and yet exactly the same attitude is taken in these days. Supposedly, we are here to clean up the mess. But how? So One came in the person of Jesus and showed the way: This is the way—calling to remembrance. And He was rejected.

What is happening now? That is the question. What is to be brought forth now? All that Jesus did was to remind us of what should be being brought forth now. He did it. Scarcely anyone was interested, let alone willing, to let it happen with respect to themselves. So He was left alone. Alone. I don’t know how many millions of people there were on earth at that time, but He was left alone. That’s the fact of the matter. “Oh well,” you might say, “they didn’t have TV and radio then. They couldn’t tell everybody about it.” Do you think telling everybody about it would have made any difference? None at all.

There are those who feel that we should really be broadcasting on TV like what’s-his-name?—some real rallies. Why? Who’s going to pay any attention anyhow? No. The remnant may hear, but the remnant hear when the truth is expressed in living by those who have the responsibility to do it, and they don’t have to hear it on TV. They will hear it anyway. As the Master put it, “My sheep hear my voice,” not because they are in physical earshot necessarily; but they come home. They come home in remarkable ways. Maybe you have some stories to tell. Very often a person has, seemingly, to go to the other end of the earth to discover that the reminder is present in his own hometown. That’s been done over and over again.

Unless there is this reminder on earth there is nothing for the children of men. This is our responsibility, when we know it: to provide that reminder. The spirit of truth in expression through more than one person, that’s what was needed back at the time that the Master Himself was on earth. But He was left alone. What He came to do couldn’t be done then. He provided a substitute—it opened a door then. The door has been open ever since but nobody ever went through it. I don’t know what the use of a door is unless you go through it; it might as well be a solid wall. And that’s pretty much what it has been—a solid wall to human beings. And they continue to worship their idols on the wrong side of the wall. But the door is there; the reminder is still present. It is offered; it is being offered in an expanded way in these days. Some of you play your part in this. Remember that it is a reminder and not the imposition of beliefs on anyone.

As I speak, I bring to focus this matter of letting the spirit of truth bring all things to remembrance insofar as those on earth who are willing to remember are concerned. We can’t make people remember but we can provide the impact of the spirit, the expression of the Word of life, which brings remembrance to those in whom the layer of belief is thinnest. There are some who are under a real blanket of belief. There are those whose shell is thinner and they begin to hear something. And we are present on earth that there may be something to be heard, the Word in expression, the reality of life revealed, not just for people to see—but because of that revelation there is a creative sound, present in the consciousness of human beings, within the scope of that consciousness; and those whose layer of belief is not too thick hear something. When they hear it, of course, they try to fit what they hear into the concepts they already have. It doesn’t work too well. Some people are successful in doing this and they follow along for a while. Then they suddenly become aware of the fact that that sound is no longer fitting into their concepts. Well there’s the point of choice, isn’t it?—whether you wish to move with the Word or whether you prefer your concepts, your beliefs; and there’s a parting of the ways for many on this basis. Let them go!

Only those who are genuine, only those who worship God wholly, are worth a snap of the fingers insofar as what is required on earth is concerned. When the sole concern is to allow the sounding of this tone in one’s living one will see the foolishness of all the stuff with which human beings become involved, the waste of time that it is; and I suspect there are those nowadays even awakening to the fact that there isn’t much time. That’s the fact; there isn’t much time. We have no time at all ourselves to fiddle around in the field of beliefs, while failing to permit the expression of the truth.

The truth in our living—here is what is required of us on earth, that there may be one who comes in the name of the Lord. Unless one does come in the name of the Lord in fact—not in fancy but in fact—nothing is provided so that anyone could say, “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” There is One to occupy the position that was occupied by Jesus as an individual on earth, to be occupied now by a collective expression of life through those who accept the responsibility of true spiritual leadership for themselves. This is the only way it can be done. Then there is on earth what is required to speak the Word which brings the remembrance to those who are willing to remember. And then shall the end come; the gospel preached in all the world, and then shall the end come. But this is the gospel. Someone must be there to preach it; there has never been anyone on earth to preach it since the Master Himself was here. If there had we wouldn’t be in this fix now. But we are here, and others are here with us, to accept that spiritual responsibility and to let be done what must be done to the glory of God. It’s always to the glory of God and not to sustain the arrogant conceit of human beings.

So, how blessed we are to begin to have the opportunity of knowing more fully the truth that is our individual responsibility to express in living. As we do that we find we are associated with those who are doing likewise, and there is a formation, a living organism on earth, a living body, by reason of which the tone is sounded in the world loud and clear for those who are willing to hear it. In actual fact everybody hears it when it is sounded loud and clear. But not everyone likes to hear it, and there are those who react quite violently with respect to it. Woe unto them.

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