The Process of Purification

The  Process  of  Purification

Martin Exeter  November 9, 1986

We carry the whole focus of responsibility. Our responsibility is, of course, within the body of which we are a part. The pulsations of spirit move through this body in the creative process of purifying the bloodstream, not only of this conscious body but of the whole body of mankind.

We have seen this in terms of breathing: breathing out in repentance and in radiance of spirit, breathing in that quality of spirit which permits repentance and the breathing out of its radiance. This is indeed a very personal matter. Each one breathes for him- or herself. As there is the true spirit of agreement in what the purpose of the breathing is, then this conscious focus, at point here now but extending farther afield, provides a basis for the cleansing of the life stream circulating through the whole body of mankind. If it does not happen in those who have a conscious understanding of these things it does not happen anywhere.

The bloodstream of the body of mankind comes to us in a great variety of ways. It moves through us in the purifying process in our own personal repentance of the moment, to flow forth again through all of this conscious body and into the unconscious body of mankind. The cycle is constantly being completed on the basis of this pulsation of breathing, using that analogy. Here the essences of purification take place in each individually. Here is the filter by which the bloodstream of mankind can be purified. It might be said to be heavenly magic, but on the other hand it isn't magic at all; it's a natural process for which as individuals we take responsibility. It only happens as the individual takes responsibility, so that what presents itself for repentance to us may provide the way by which repentance happens—one's own personal repentance.

And so the whole bloodstream is purified. It isn't merely an earthly process; it isn't as though there was a closed circuit. There is the heavenly aspect of what is happening. The creative cycle flows out of heaven through each one in the outpouring through repentance and through the radiant expression of that spirit. It is the outpouring of life, the life stream, the bloodstream, which circulates through the whole body of mankind and returns. It is received again to be purified, but coming back in the ascending process there is a movement which carries this current of pulsation into the invisible realms, which we may speak of as heaven, where it moves in the heavenly sense to return to be released in the same current as had occurred before in the circulation of the life stream through the whole body of mankind.

The cleansing takes place, the purifying takes place, in the heaven, so that on the returning pulsation the pure expression of spirit may appear. The pure bloodstream—what Christians have with complete uncomprehendingness called the blood of Jesus—is the purified life stream made available to the whole body of mankind, that circulating through that body the purification may take place. What occurs by reason of that purification must be allowed to occur without human interference. If we do provide a proper point of spiritual focus in this process we rightly have no compulsion at all to interfere with what happens in the body of mankind.

Human beings are inclined to become involved in what is happening in the body of mankind one way or another. There is a great deal of emotion engendered in this regard in many areas where it is imagined that people know how things should be. They are going to bring pressure to bear one way or another to make them be the way they think they ought to be. They don't know how they ought to be in the first place. We see this happening in all directions, but from our own standpoint we may see it as happening much closer to ourselves than out there in the world. People are very much inclined to project things away from themselves. This is a very self-righteous stance which assumes that it knows how things should be somewhere else in someone else, in the experiences that are going on in the world.

But the cleansing process, while it will properly take place out there, has its point of initiation right where one is, and it is in dealing with what is brought to one in one's immediate circumstance and experience that may, if it is handled correctly in repentance, release the pure stream of life into what is occurring out there farther afield. But if it is not allowed to be purified where one is, there is nothing pure to be extended into what is out there. The life stream proceeds, through those who are merely concerned with what is going on out there, in a polluted way, because it has never been allowed to be cleansed in relationship to one's own personal experience right where one is. There is where the cleansing takes place, where the purification may be a fact. It can't be a fact anywhere else until it is a fact there. So the futility of all this effort that is put into trying to make the world a better place is clearly seen. This is a way of avoiding personal responsibility.

The personal responsibility is not primarily out there. It is right where one is, right in one's own polluted heart where the repentance can have meaning. No one can repent for what is going on out there, but one has the opportunity of repenting for what is happening in one's own heart and for allowing the pollution to be swept out of one's own heart in the outgoing breath, the outgoing pulsation. Then that breath, that outgoing pulsation, will have its effect in the larger world round about. And so there may be a sharing in the natural creative process by which the bloodstream of mankind is cleansed.

There has never yet been an adequate facility for this to happen. Perhaps I should modify that statement a little, because there was an adequate facility in one man two thousand years ago, so that there was an initiation of this aspect of the creative cycle, the initiation of a process in which we have the opportunity of sharing now. It is no use looking back and saying, "Well why didn't people share in it before?'' The point is: What are we going to do now? It's the only time we have, after all. You can't change the past; whatever happened happened. But it brought everything to this point where we are now and where we may provide this focus for the purification of the bloodstream of the body of mankind. Is that a large task? I would think so. But it is the only way it can happen, as there are those who take the responsibility.

Partly because of blindness, ignorance, heretofore there was no adequate responsibility taken for this process to operate effectively. But the time has come. It either operates effectively now or there is no way by which it can operate anymore. And if we have some awareness of this ourselves, then we are immediately acquainted with our own responsibility in the matter. If the vast majority of people on earth have no such awareness they have no such responsibility, at least not in the direct sense.

There must be a point of focus connecting the invisible heavenly aspect of the creative cycle with the earthly aspect of it, and I think we should have reached the point where we are quite capable of saying individually, “I am it.” We do not suffer from the disease of false humility in this regard, which is in fact a way by which those who know better find excuse for not doing better. It requires humility to accept responsibility. If there is an attempt to accept the responsibility in a spirit of arrogance the responsibility will not be accepted. It requires humility, a willingness to relinquish one's own self-determinations in favor of providing a point through which the creative process may work to purify one's own heart. As that is made pure, or to the extent it is made pure, the onflow of the current of life carries it into the whole body of mankind. So in this process of cleansing, which we have correlated with the matter of breathing, purification of human hearts may take place. This is what is going on.

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