To Be The Focus Of Spirit On Earth

To  Be  The  Focus  Of  Spirit  On  Earth

Martin Exeter   July 13, 1986

No one comes to the truth except love draw him. There have, of course, been many ways and methods by which human beings have anticipated finding the truth. Such endeavors are an indication of arrogance, because it is factually so that no one can come to the truth except he is drawn by love. Unless there is a willingness to lose one's life in the human sense, which would include all human ambitions, one could never come to know the truth. The truth has been thoroughly obscured because of the arrogant expectations by people all down through the ages that they could somehow wrest the truth by the application of their own knowledge—by the increase of knowledge, by what I suppose might be called inquisitiveness. All this is characteristic of the way human beings operate, but it still remains that no one can come to the truth except love draw him.

How would one ever know what and who the focus of spirit is on earth without accepting that responsibility for oneself? It has been my personal concern to do this. I have made no claims with respect to it but sought to represent that focus in whatever way would be genuine for me. At the same time I have drawn to the attention of all who had ears to hear that the truth concerning the focus of spirit could only be known if the responsibility for it was accepted by oneself, by each individual. It is not something that is rightly true of me or anyone alone.

We are well aware that there is only One Focus of Spirit. Because of this the fact of oneness in the experience of mankind is possible; it can't be found on any other basis. But it isn't found just because one person seeks to accept that responsibility so that everybody else is supposed to look at that one person. This is more or less what has happened with respect to Jesus Christ as it relates to Christianity. Here was One who did accept the responsibility and revealed the truth in consequence. Certainly He never indicated that because of that no one else needed to do it. In fact the instruction apparently was: “Follow me.” But I don't think He had in mind a bunch of foolish sheep trotting along behind Him. What in heaven's name would be accomplished by that? Follow me in the experience of knowing the truth, and that requires that one be drawn by love into the position where the truth may be accepted. Each individual must accept that responsibility for himself. I have undertaken to do it the best I knew how, but that doesn't relieve anyone else of the responsibility.

The idea, of course, relates to the matter of an individual point of focus of spirit for the whole of mankind. I have never claimed to be that. I have offered myself as a point of focus of spirit to you and others who had, at least in some degree, let love draw you. That presumably is why you are here this morning. I wouldn't wish you to be here on any other basis. But how could one know what the focus of spirit is without being it? One might imagine that one knew something about it by observing somebody else, in which case a concept would be developed as to what the focus of spirit was. In that event one couldn't possibly know for oneself; so the only alternative is to have a concept about it. Some have laid their concepts on me, which perhaps is all right as a temporary measure, if there is a willingness later to relinquish the concept in order to experience the genuine article oneself.

It seems that many people who have offered leadership, supposedly of a spiritual nature, to others have been carried away by the response that they received and then proceeded to cultivate more and more of that sort of response. If such was the case it was an indication of a weakness, of the necessity apparently of getting other people to back you up and support you to assure you that you were worth something. People have offered many compliments to me of various sorts, but I'll let you in on a secret: I always accepted them with a grain of salt, and I have never had the notion that my worth, whatever it is, was dependent upon what anyone else said or did. I alone can be genuine. You alone can be genuine.

I think you have at times offered response to me in order to help you be convinced of your genuineness. Well you are not genuine until you express genuineness. That should be obvious enough. Each one is simply responsible for that for him- or herself; that's all. When genuineness is expressed it always takes into account what others are doing, not to be controlled by it but to provide opportunities, amongst other things, for all concerned to accept their own significance and genuineness as a focus of spirit on earth. I have sought to do this for myself, and if doing it for myself it can be of some assistance to others to do the same thing I rejoice. Accepting the focus of spirit, one comes to know the truth, not merely because you may try to accept my focus of spirit but because you express your own. Then you know the truth, or you begin to know the truth, and we all share then in knowing the truth.

One of the basic elements of truth is design. If you know the truth you become aware of the living design which is a basic element of truth. You become aware, moment by moment, of your natural participation in that design. You are not looking for some great thing to do, but you are humble enough to accept whatever it is that is your own genuine placement in the living design. It is a living design; it is not set in concrete, so to speak; but there is an awareness of relatedness to others who also participate in the design. One comes to know what one's own particular field of operations is in that design. This has been true of me, and it is just as true of you. My particular field of operations has been my own. It relates to all of you and others, as yours relates to me. They are not all the same of course. Why would you need a bunch of duplicates? One is enough. One is enough of each one in order to permit the wholeness of the design to emerge into operation. There has been the tendency for some to think of design in rather restricted terms, as though it was set in concrete: “Well where is my place?” If you are looking for a concrete place, there ain't no such animal! Movement and life are one.

So the design emerges, becomes evident in the moment, as the truth is known. The truth is known to those who are drawn by love, not to those who are trying to figure it all out—they are the arrogant ones, too big for their boots—but simply because love draws them. This occurs through no effort of the individual himself. In fact it only becomes apparent when human efforts cease. Obviously it requires a certain amount of trust, but in what—in me? No, except as this might indicate a trust in the spirit which I extend. You have trust in that when you extend it. Then you know it, and there is a sharing in the dominion of love on earth, the dominion of love which displaces the attempted dominion of mankind. I'm sure, being somewhat intelligent we have recognized that the focus of spirit is essential and also recognized that there is such a focus.

The focus of spirit indicates something that might be described as invisible. Human beings are always looking for external visibility: What's going on there, or elsewhere? Well lots of things. But the focus of spirit provides the focus of design, the focus of control, and the focus of creative power, by which what rightly should be brought forth is. By the same token, this coming forth displaces what is already present but shouldn't be. This displacement is causing a great deal of harrowing experience around the world and in individual lives everywhere, because there is a great reluctance to let go: Let's cling to this and try the best we know how to use it to our own advantage! And so it goes. But there is something else present which has not been recognized—and I think that is a blessing—the fact of a focus of spirit. It seems such a little thing but it turns out to be everything, and all else turns out to be nothing. Each individual anywhere on the face of the earth, but you particularly who begin to know these things to the extent that you have actually been drawn by love, has the opportunity of being genuine, of accepting the responsibility of being the focus of spirit on earth. The Master long ago didn't do that so as to excuse everybody else. He did it so as to make it plain that everybody else had the same responsibility.

From my own standpoint, in accepting the focus of spirit which is my own I haven't done it to excuse anyone else from doing it. My friends are those who do it, and we find that we belong in the same design and that we cannot operate outside of that design and live. The focus of spirit centers in the One we have referred to as our King, or the Supreme One, but being the focus of spirit that is invisible, unknown, until given expression in form. Each individual has that responsibility. I have it, you have it. I can do it for myself, you can do it for yourselves. As this responsibility is assumed we become friends instead of trying to be servants by the sweat of our brows. We become friends because we have been drawn by love, and we know love consequently, the love that is natural between genuine people. This love, as it becomes known, is the power of creation or, in this instance, of re-creation.

There has been much effort to try to make things work the way they thought they should work—the divine design no doubt! But nobody knew what the divine design was until they stopped trying to make it work that way. If you try to make it work that way you will be subject to disillusionment. That's wonderful, isn't it? If you are subject to illusion you had better be disillusioned. So that's a blessing. And you may observe things that you don't approve of. Who cares that you don't approve of them? I have people frequently telling me of things that they don't approve of. It's of no interest to me whatsoever! I'm interested in the genuine expression of the person, not something that that person puts up as a barrier to his genuine expression by looking over there and saying, “Well they are not doing what they should be doing.” What a waste of time!

It is the focus of spirit on earth that has meaning, that and that alone. So this is the birthright to be accepted by each one. I became aware of this responsibility back along the way somewhere and tentatively moved in the direction of accepting it, as I have noted others have done. But it took a real kick in the pants to come to the point where it was actually accepted. I see a lot of tentative people around. Maybe my prayer to the Almighty would be: “Let them all have a good kick in the pants.” Well that is not the way it works. It is a matter of being drawn by love. If a certain experience, set of circumstances, forces an awareness of the fact that one is drawn by love and must assume responsibility, then that's fine. But why wait? I can't assume the responsibility of anyone else but only for myself. The same is true of you. It's the human habit to try to assume responsibilities for others, imagining that one is so wise as to know how others should behave. But, assuming one's own responsibility, there is no impulse at all to judge what others are doing. One always has good excuses for judging what others are doing, of course.

There are those who valiantly try to protect each other. Is not the power of love sufficient? Or do we have to add some puny human effort? Those who accept responsibility find themselves in the design of the body, and the body lives. The power of the Almighty indeed is available and at work in the processes of re-creation. We don't have to manipulate. That saves a lot of trouble. There are many things that each individual does not know. That's all right. No single person is supposed to know everything anyhow. It takes all put together to know what is necessary to be known. But that's true also of each individual. I'm in position to know all that I need to know. You are in position to know all that you need to know. Put us together and we really know something. What? The truth, the beautiful truth, through which the power of love works to bring life to all who will receive it. There is another side to that coin; we don't need to look at it particularly, but we should not be shocked by it either.

So in the oneness of love the invisible spirit of the Supreme One may find creative expression into the world all around us. In one sense it could be said that what happens in consequence of that is none of our business. As has frequently been said in the past, the Law works. If there is a focus of spirit in expression on earth then the fulfilment comes quickly, because those who provide that focus do not judge the way it comes. They let it be what it is.

We all have the opportunity of being the focus of spirit on earth—you certainly, and no less than me. But what that means you do not know until you let it happen. Then this which I spoke of as friendship is strong and sure and clear; there is no judgment one of another. The spirit of the Supreme One pours forth in radiant blessing, in radiant light—no longer fiddling around in the world that man has produced in his arrogant stance as though that could be repaired in some way, but willing to let the divine design bring forth what it naturally will when there are those present in the body through whom the action occurs. What a delight it is to be trusted to be the focus of spirit on earth.

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Trust

Trust

Martin Exeter  1986

It seems that many people who have offered leadership, supposedly of a spiritual nature, to others, have been carried away by the response that they received and then proceeded to cultivate more and more of that sort of response. If such was the case it was an indication of a weakness, of the necessity apparently of getting other people to back you up and support you to assure you that you were worth something. People have offered many compliments to me of various sorts, but I'll let you in on a secret: I always accepted them with a grain of salt, and I have never had the notion that my worth, whatever it is, was dependent upon what anyone else said or did. I alone can be genuine. You alone can be genuine.

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Functional Factors In Heavenly Magic

Functional  Factors  In  Heavenly  Magic

Uranda   June 9, 1953  Class

I would like to meditate with you on operational factors of magic. The first one, and one that is of vital importance to all of you in your movement, could be classified as the factor of acknowledgment. To the degree that we begin to acknowledge God, God can begin to acknowledge us. Until we do acknowledge God, God's love for us is of small meaning in direct relationship—we keep everything of God in a sphere of small meaning. This principle of acknowledgment must extend on out until in the basic sense you have acknowledged God, so that He can begin to acknowledge you. You are not in position to begin to acknowledge the focalization factors of response which come within the sphere of your influence—they are overlooked, they are ignored, and you cannot very well acknowledge them. Once they are perceived, recognized, you can begin to acknowledge them within yourself; and once they are acknowledged in relationship to those whom you may influence, and you hold the pattern steady without violating the hedge, you begin to find that there are those who will begin to acknowledge you.

We may properly at this point pause to consider something with respect to the Class which preceded you. I pointed out that what they did here was establishing the vibrational factors which they would have to contend with out there and that their attitude toward me was sowing the seed for the attitude of others toward themselves, and some did not believe me. They thought they could maintain any attitude toward me they wanted to and still go out there and inspire other people to acknowledge them and respond to them and accept what they offered. And lo and behold, the evidence indicates that I was right. There were those who thought they could inspire others to respond to themselves when they refused to be inspired and extend any response to me. But it didn't work!

Now that outline is in a lower vibrational level or pattern than what we are considering in the field of magic, because that Class never let me move into this field. However, the principles apply and we can see it on a higher level in a larger sphere, and when we begin to consider the basic, functional factors of magic, we must have a starting point, and from that which we have studied before, that which is evident from the structure of the universe and the manifestation of life all around us, we know that that starting point must be always with the One Law, with orientation to the One Law; not merely as a theory, but the center of a field where there is action—functional factors. So you can see why I put acknowledgment first, because it is the manifestation in action, in function, of the One Law in relationship to yourself.

The first part of the two great commandments emphasizes acknowledgment of God—a complete acknowledgment—with one's whole being, one's whole soul, body, mind and heart, and with all one's strength, a complete acknowledgment of God. Remember, this is a functional factor of magic. So we see in acknowledgment something that is active, not passive. We cannot acknowledge something merely by perceiving it—you have to say it. Your actions and your words must give evidence of your perception. You may see many things without acknowledging them. But if there is acknowledgment of that which you see, then there are words, there are feelings, there are thoughts, there are actions. We see acknowledgment as a functional factor.

The acknowledgment of God permits this functional factor to begin to work in relationship to yourself, so that you begin to receive acknowledgment, you begin to be aware of that divine acknowledgment of you. As long as you are not aware on a functional basis of the divine acknowledgment of yourself you cannot very well function from the divine standpoint—the pattern of relatedness has not been established. So on a functional basis you begin to be aware, not fully yet, but you begin to be aware of the divine acknowledgment of you. With this cycle opening, you begin to have the ability to perceive the focalization factors of response, or potential response as the case may be, in those around you upon whom you may begin to exert influence. Unless you do exert influence that is received and acknowledged you are not going to be much of a server.

The process of serving is a process of exerting influence on a basis which causes others to accept that influence. The influence exerted must be received and accepted and allowed to have meaning in the lives of others. At first you may not be particularly aware of any extensive meaningfulness through influence upon others, but you do not go through a process of drifting and daydreaming, and then suddenly wake up someday as a powerful figure of influence in the world. The patterns, the cycles, have to be built; and there will be those who refuse to receive the influence, and others will begin to receive it. Some will reject, some will accept.

This field of influence should not be immediately given form in the sense of words spoken. I am suggesting the influence of a life that does not immediately plunge into an avalanche of words to try to tell someone everything you know. One simply lives and allows one's expression to be in harmony with the patterns of response to the occasion. And then there is a recognition that our primary means of influence is not through the words we speak. Most people imagine that if they are not speaking words or doing something that can be seen with the physical eye of the person around, they are not doing anything. One of the biggest problems I have here is to convince even those who have been here for some time that they do not have to do something where it can be seen, and they do not have to say words that have to be heard, in order to be doing something.

We can work in the secret place—we have the privilege of functioning from the standpoint of heavenly magic, and that is our primary field of influence. Once that current is working, once that influence is being exerted, and someone is responding to it—whether he or she knows what it is or not is beside the point—if there is anything real in the individual there there will be evidences of response, and then when those evidences are there, after they are plainly manifest, you can say a little something. You are not going out with your lips to try to sell a bill of goods. There may be times when much talking is required. I do some talking here in the classes and so on; but there is a responsive pattern, recognition, meditation and acceptance. But if there was a vast field of resistance, do you think I would be talking about such subjects as I have considered with you? Not at all. My presentation depends upon your response. I do not arbitrarily make a presentation, hoping you will respond. If there is no response there is no presentation, period. And I let it go at that, as far as the outer sphere is concerned.

There is a constant radiation through the hedge, as constant as the hedge structure will permit, but that is something which the human being must constantly accept or reject within himself. If there is a resistance pattern, he has to be constantly fighting lest it get in; if he stops resisting, it starts getting in and working inside. And so it is the life we live that really counts, and unless that living of life begins to carry a current of influence, we will never get very far. Just going out and preaching, or teaching, or trying to sell an idea through the use of words, will not get the job done. We must function from the standpoint of heavenly magic, meeting the issues, pressing back the ill conditions and opening the door so that those who begin to respond can have an opportunity of movement in the right direction.

So first we have acknowledgment, the fulfilment of the Law; and if you hesitate to acknowledge you are setting a pattern by which others will hesitate to acknowledge. Your attitude toward me is sowing the seed in the hearts of others which shall blossom into their attitudes toward you. Acknowledgment.

Next is the factor of consideration with respect to the conditions with which we are working. What are these conditions? There are only four types or conditions of people in the world, without respect to race, color or creed—only four. We already have our orientation, our polarity through acknowledgment. We have to look around us to see the field in which we are to function in letting the things of God be extended into the earth— we need to see clearly that with which we must work.

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These four classifications are: Those who are dead. They are completely dead to the influence of the spirit, impervious to the currents of the spirit of God. Those who are asleep—that is, they have no awareness of the things of God but in their sleep they have a vibrational attunement with divine things. Those who are awakening—stirring from their slumber. And those who are awake. Any person you meet anywhere in the world will come under one of those four classifications, always. Those who are dead, those who are asleep, those who are awakening, and those who are awake.

Now consider the basic, simple principles of the practical living in daily life. If you are talking to someone who is wide awake you will proceed on the assumption that there will be no difficulty in being comprehended. But if you start talking to someone who is just in the process of waking up, you do not start in talking as if you expected everything you say to be fully comprehended. Those who are awakening must be treated differently from those who are awake. Then there are those who are asleep, and if you go out and start talking to those who are asleep as if you expected them to function as if they were awake—they don't get it; they are asleep. There is something wrong with you if you expect people who are asleep to understand as if they were wide awake. They won't! Then there must be the recognition that there is a very, very large proportion of the people in the world who are dead—and if you try to function in relationship to them as if they were just asleep or as if they were waking up, it won't work. Now there may be some hope for those who are dead. There will be a resurrection one way or another, and you don't want to be too quick to arbitrarily classify someone as being dead. You don't have to classify people at all. Let them classify themselves. It's simple.

Sometimes you may think someone is dead when he is only sleeping. Remember the story of Lazarus? The Master said, "He is not dead, but sleepeth." And what took place? He told them to open the tomb. "He is not dead, but sleepeth." The silver cord had not been broken. Lazarus was in a coma but he was not dead. This is of vital importance to us in many ways, because it reveals some of the basic factors with respect to the working of heavenly magic. This worked out on a basis which permitted the vibratory factors which would be at work in relationship to the Master Himself to be established. As the Master said with respect to Lazarus, so was it with respect to Himself. "He is not dead, but sleepeth," and human beings around Him couldn't see the difference. And people to this day have not been able to see the difference—but there is a difference. He was not dead. The silver cord had not been loosed, had not been broken. He caused the tomb to be opened and called with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." And Lazarus began to stir. He came out of the coma; he was released from the graveclothes and restored to life with his sisters. This was the preview of the outworking of the basic principles that were in operation in relationship to the Master Himself, and human beings to this day still confuse the issue, just as they did at that time, and they have failed to recognize the significance of the Master's word, "He is not dead, but sleepeth." He was in a coma. The silver cord had not been loosed. After the silver cord is loosed the physical body returns to the dust from whence it came.

It is not for you to be attempting to institute the processes of resurrection in relationship to those who are dead. When the cycles work out and the currents of influence are allowed to manifest, those who are asleep will begin to awaken. What does it take to cause the sleepy ones to begin to awaken? It takes the coming of the dawn of the day, doesn't it? There must begin to be light, so that the darkness is dispelled around them. There has to be the warmth of the sun. There must be the sounds of living and of movement, and then those who are asleep begin to stir, they begin to wake up. And it is as they are awakening that you can begin to serve. But you must use discretion and not talk too much. These then are the functional factors which must be seen in relationship to the application of heavenly magic on earth.

Next we recognize a particularized step in relationship to the building of the machinery of reality. When we first begin to draw together those people who are sufficiently awake that they can begin to understand what we are talking about, we begin to draw them together, inspire them to move into the pattern of divine function. Always during this waking-up time there is much opportunity for misunderstanding, so do not say too much too fast. Repeat if necessary, and do not be offended if someone does not understand what you mean. Be patient! But gradually those who respond, those who are beginning to be awake, must be drawn into a pattern.

Until you are able to inspire and draw a few people together who will form a nucleus of a pattern for you, those who will be steady with you, those who have faith in you, confidence, those who are willing to listen to you and be instructed, you do not have anything very stable to work with. There has to be a pattern, and until you begin to gather that nucleus together in relationship to yourself you cannot have any stable, creative field out of which to function. And you cannot build such a nucleus pattern and have such a field unless you are a part of a nucleus pattern, a part of such a field. If you have not become a part of the field here, you will not be able to establish a field there. That has been shown.

But in this process of beginning to establish the formation, there is that which confuses those who are just awakening. They begin to feel something of the working of the spirit within them, they translate that impulse of the spirit thus and so, and then you are under the necessity of gently pointing out that this is what is necessary—this is the divine pattern here. And the responding one begins to get skeptical. There are several factors involved. One is that when the person is first waking up he or she is not going to translate the impulse of the spirit correctly. It is going to be mistranslated in various ways, so you have to be patient with that. But even if the translation were correct insofar as that individual's vibratory factors were concerned, it would still be wrong, even though it is the expression of the spirit of God. Why?

What is one of the basic things that anyone must learn if he or she is going to function from the standpoint of reality? You must learn to follow before you can be a leader. You must learn to obey before you can command. So we begin to see that the impulse of the spirit working through the individual, within the range of his or her comprehension, will tend to appear on the basis of that individual's ultimate potentiality—but there will be colorations, mistranslations; it will not be something which is dependable yet, but it is working in a certain direction. But while that is working, this individual must learn to fit into the basic pattern and to fill the immediate needs, to do the thing that must be done now, because in the ultimate outworking, after the cycle has grown, after there are more people responding, after the body is filled in, that for which the individual has the most capacity will begin to appear as a specific place, and then the two can be fitted together. But until that place takes form by the working of the machinery of reality, the individual is always trying to get into something that is not there, and then he gets discouraged. But he has to be encouraged to be not concerned about that; it doesn't make any difference yet.

Blessed ones, there has to be a core, a focalization, there has to be the beginning of the machinery, and those who ultimately will be here and there and everywhere must now function in some other place. And it does not make any difference where they are to be in the potential sense, they must begin to function on the basis of the elemental factors of the machinery of reality. And if they are so busy trying to find out just exactly what the ultimate end of the impulses they feel will achieve, they are not going to fit in. They are not really awake yet, because if they were awake in any true sense they would not be concerned about where they were to serve. They cannot possibly understand what their own ultimate point is.

They have all kinds of imaginations about it but they do not know. They say, "Oh but I feel the current of the spirit of God in this; it is the divine impulse." Oh it is the divine impulse, yes, but you don't know how to translate it, you don't know what it means. So let it work! Do not be concerned about it, and do that which needs to be done today; fill this place. There must be first the basic design of the machinery—the overall pattern must control first, and unless you are willing to function effectively in relationship to that overall pattern and the central focalization, you will never arrive at your own true point of being, no matter what it is or where, because you will always and forever be seeing the two as if they were in conflict.

They are not in conflict at all, if you let the superior point of focalization control. But if you bring the superior point of focalization under question and resist and refuse to acknowledge, you will not allow the building of that which will make possible the formation of the place into which you will ultimately come. You will defeat yourself because you are so sure that "This is the current of the spirit of God I feel and I translate it thus and so and therefore it must be conflict." It isn't conflict unless you make it so. It is not conflict unless you make it so.

We must begin to see that the ultimate place in which you may be is utterly and absolutely beside the point. If you function correctly you will be groomed for that, prepared for that, so that when that place is made available to you you can step into it and be what you ought to be. But if you are forever trying to get into something that does not yet exist, what is going to happen? You are going to have a sense of futility, you are going to be all bothered, and you are going to feel that you are justified in having patterns of hesitancy and resistance and questioning and what have you, so that you never become anything. We all have to function in substitute patterns, especially in the earlier cycles of outworking.

Your facility for functioning in substitute patterns determines your worth, because there are thousands of people who ought to be here who are not. There are all kinds of things that have to be done, places filled, vibratory factors worked out, and there is no one to do it. Who cares where you are supposed to be? You shouldn't, from the standpoint of some ultimate outworking in the design and the pattern. If you do, you are going to throw yourself away. Where are you supposed to be? You are supposed to be where you can serve today. If you have to be somewhere else to serve tomorrow, that is the Lord's business. What difference does it make? It does not make any if you are a true servant of God. Be ready to serve wherever the Lord puts you, and be ready to serve in the way in which the Lord directs. "But I feel I am particularly equipped to serve over here. I will try to do my best, but I'd really like to be over here." Oh you would, would you? You would like to run the show. You would like to be Lord God Almighty Himself. No!

It doesn't make any difference what you would like. If you are going to serve God you would like to be where He puts you, to do what He wants you to do, when He wants you to do it, the way He wants you to do it, where He wants you to do it. And if you will follow you will learn to live, and if you will obey you will learn to command, and when you can be trusted to do what needs to be done regardless of any feelings you may have, divinely inspired or otherwise, you will begin to have some value to the Lord and to your brother man. But you cannot be what you ought to be until you learn to follow. Ultimately there will be that place which is just your own, peculiar to you—but you cannot get into it now. You are not ready for it, and the place is not ready for you. We have to function in substitute patterns, and we must be ready to do what needs to be done, or we will never be able to achieve that which is necessary in the divine outworking.

If you cannot see enough in the divine design of things to make you thrill to the opportunity of being any part of it, anywhere, at any time, then what are you doing here? Willing to be a gatekeeper. Anything, anywhere! Position? What is position? Position, greatness, is by reason of the larger service to others. If I have any greatness it is because I serve. That is all. The point is, we must do what we are supposed to do in the present, regardless of the future. God is perfectly capable of working it out if we will let Him. We have a job to do, whatever it may be, and unless we take that attitude we certainly are not functioning from the standpoint of heavenly magic, because if you are concerned about pleasing yourself you are self-centered, and God Himself cannot please a self-centered person. Until you are selfless enough so that you are not concerned about pleasing yourself, God cannot begin to please you. You might remember that!

God loves to please people, but He does not attempt to please the self-centered, because that is not possible to God—to violate His own laws of being and destroy the cosmos. So it is time for us to begin to see some of these functional factors of heavenly magic, the reason why the impersonal attitude is necessary. But if we cannot find it a thrilling adventure and a joy forever to serve God in any place, in any capacity to which we may be called at the moment, there is something wrong with us. What difference does it make? If it is to serve God, if it is a part of the cosmic plan of being, that is enough. For how long? Who is to tell? Until you are needed somewhere else, in some other way. Until God is ready to make a change because someone is ready to be where he or she ought to be.

If we had 144,000 people who were so ready to serve, all properly polarized, all properly functioning, then we could begin to be concerned about place; only we wouldn't. It could be that we wouldn't because we would be so happy to be wherever God wants us to be, all the time. All the futile pushing and pulling and all the nonsense wherein people cause the impulse of the spirit to seem to conflict with the impulse of the spirit through the superior point of focalization. There is no conflict. But until we learn to do that which we should do, where we should do it, when we should do it, we are not true servants of God.

And we are not to tell God what to do, when to do it, and how to do it for us. We are to be ready to serve Him; for a servant doesn't say, "Well now, Lord, you know we have a union here in heaven. I'll do this, but anything that touches on the maid's work over here, well that is hers. Lord, I really want to obey, but that belongs to the maid. You will have to see the union." Yes! Blessed ones, a servant of God must be a servant of God, period. And if we are ready to obey, ready to be trustworthy, so God's trust in us can mean something, if we are ready to do our part in movement toward that divine pattern, then we are not going to be swayed this way and that by feelings within ourselves or by attitudes round about us or by anything anywhere; for if we can be controlled by something other than God's direction we are not serving God. Regardless of what people say or do, what we like or do not like, what is or is not, are we ready to serve and let God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven? If we are we can begin to share in the true beauty and the wonder and the glory of the fact that the kingdom and the power and the glory belong to our King.

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