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The  Catalyst

Larry Krantz  and Martin Exeter   August 12, 1984 

Larry Krantz — I was giving some thought to how a catalyst works. In organic systems like our own bodies we call them enzymes, and biological systems cannot exist without these enzymes, or catalysts. A catalyst is something that promotes a certain chemical transformation, so that a chemical entity moves from being one thing to being something totally different. But the catalyst, or enzyme, isn’t particularly changed itself. A very tiny amount of one of these substances can promote change in a tremendous quantity of material, when present. Well isn’t this very much the purpose, one might say, of the Emissary body, providing the stable catalyst for change? When that’s present, even in small quantity—a few thousand amidst almost five billion perhaps—if that is present and stable and isn’t changed by the transformation that’s taking place, isn’t moved, isn’t upset, doesn’t leave its centering, but remains the catalyst to be used again to hold steady during the chemical transformation, then that catalyst is on hand to assist this dramatic transformation that can take place from one state to another state.

It’s interesting—it helps my own consciousness anyway—to see it this way. And it also emphasizes to me that we need to hold steady, we need to be consistent in being that catalyst, in extending that invitation that men and women the world around, in our worlds—our mundane worlds or our dramatic worlds, whatever they may be—who are coming to us, looking for true leadership and guidance, will find somebody there who is steady and dependable, that the human identity with its narrow vision and petty concerns, the different parts vying for control of the whole, may simply be released, may be transformed in this chemical reaction, be lifted up to the state of knowing our true identity—this divine entity which is vast. So I appreciate the opportunity to share these thoughts with you.

Lord Exeter — Thank you, Larry. The example which Larry has just given of the catalyst is very useful. The catalyst rightly remains what it is. I think those who have been participating in the process by which this catalyst has come into being sometimes feel that some dramatic changes should occur in their own experience, presumably to assure them that something worthwhile is happening. If such dramatic changes did occur it would utterly spoil the value of the catalyst. The fact is that some dramatic changes have occurred in the formation of the catalyst in the first place. To the extent that we have some experience of what it means to stay centered, to stay steady, to let happen what should happen without imposing our own designs upon it, we find ourselves transformed people. I'm sure not too long ago we weren’t doing any of those things, but now we begin to have a basis for doing what needs to be done, and so we simply do it. In doing it we have the particular blessing of noting what is occurring in other people by reason of the presence of the catalyst. We see transformation ocurring. That doesn’t engender some sort of jealous reaction: “I wish that was happening in me!” It's not supposed to be happening in you. It’s just a delight to participate in the creative process. I have spoken in times past about administering the creative process. This is the way it’s done. You can’t administer it if you're constantly changing. You have to be in place, you have to be competently in place, you have to understand what’s going on, you have to know what the process is and to provide what is necessary to assist in the unfoldment of that process—the unfoldment of the process in the experience of other people.

I’m sure that we all have a very clear awareness of the essential nature of this catalyst. We have called it a body, a spiritual body in form on earth, put together without hands. There has been a hands-off policy in this regard, to let it emerge according to whatever the design is, and we only find out what the design is as it emerges. We don’t know ahead of time, we don't try to make it be anything or keep it in some particular structured form. We let the changes come, because that’s what the catalyst is there for. We’re here to allow the transformation of human consciousness, are we not? We know what that transformation is in our own experience, therefore we are in excellent position to stay stable and steady and in place so that others may experience what is required. It is not so much experienced because we talk a lot. There are occasions when saying something is right and important; presumably this is right and important in this particular setting this evening. But you will note that I do not constantly talk. Some people have wondered a little bit about that—I supposedly have so many pearls of wisdom to offer! I’ve offered them. They’re all around, and you yourselves are part of that string of pearls. So we let this occur.

Never underestimate the power of spiritual expression! This relates to a statement with which we are all familiar, I’m sure: “Come now, let us reason together.” We offer that invitation, but reasoning together is not merely something of the conscious mind; it’s not merely an intellectual procedure; it’s not just reason and logic. One can be very convincing on the basis of reason and logic, and people may listen and nod their heads—Oh, that seems right—but it had utterly no effect. There was some ingredient missing.

We would have no ability to reason consciously, utilizing the conscious mind, if it was not for the presence of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind, amongst other things, is the residence of memory, and that’s useful. It’s useful this evening: we remember the language which we understand. The conscious mind doesn’t do that; it’s a subconscious matter, and what is needful of language material is made available, moment by moment, to the conscious mind. It’s certainly made available to my conscious mind so that I can speak some more or less intelligent and intelligible words. But the same must be true of you if there’s any understanding of what I’m saying. So we share something on this basis, but it’s a combination effort, isn’t it? We’re not sitting on the surface with the conscious mind, merely looking at things intellectually; that has little effect. It is a needful part of the creative process, but there is something else besides which relates to what we call the subconscious mind, and this includes the largest proportion of emotion.

“Come now, let us reason together.” The reasoning process requires the presence of the subconsious mind and heart so that there may be the ability to sense in a way that is not possible to the conscious mind. If we pin all our hopes upon the understanding of the conscious mind we’ll be left stranded on a reef; it’s very shallow. In order that there might be depth under us we need to go into deeper water, and this requires the subconscious mind, as we are well aware. All of this relates to what is being conveyed through the use of the words “Father,” “Son” and “Holy Ghost.” The conscious mind has been endeavoring to get along without the Father, and the subconscious mind likewise, and there has been a certain amount of conflict between conscious and subconscious, between mind and heart, so that there has been confusion. This is the human state; there is confusion until there begins to be a yielding, both consciously and subconsciously, to the Father, to Deity, to whatever it is that is higher than both. Mucking around in the lower ranges of conscious and subconscious function we get lost in a labyrinth, as human beings are, and we lose the ability to reason.

The ability to reason only is present when the trinity begins to put in an appearance in human experience: Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Son and Holy Ghost are absent as long as the Father is ignored.

The subconscious mind is not particularly rational; it’s not supposed to be. The conscious mind has the ability to be rational but usually it isn’t, because so much erupts out of the subconscious mind of irrationality and the conscious mind becomes so busy trying to explain it away that it doesn’t have time to function in a rational manner. It’s trying to explain away what is irrational. That’s called rationalizing; it’s rationalizing the irrational. Well that’s a futile undertaking. The irrational is irrational, that's all there is to it.

But there is a means by which a proper control can be exercised with respect to what is brought up to the surface of the conscious mind out of the subconscious, when the Holy Ghost is an element in the process. You might recall that Jesus said something about the Holy Ghost, the spirit of Truth, which would be sent and it would bring all things of the truth to remembrance, that there might be material available for the right use of the conscious mind. The conscious mind is the facility for the Son. But there is no Son or Holy Ghost without the Father; hence the necessity, which we have ourselves experienced, of allowing heart and mind to yield to the quality of the Father, which we have seen in terms of spirit, so that there may begin to be an awareness of what we ourselves have spoken of as the True Tone. This is something that you couldn't define using the conscious mind; it’s something that you have to know, it’s something you have to experience. The only way you can experience it, humanly speaking, is through conscious and subconscious minds; they have to be available for that. They are available when there begins to be a yielding to what is indicated by the word “Father.” We’ve all known something of this, let it happen in our own experience.

So there is some sense to the words “Father,” “Son" and “Holy Ghost,” the holy trinity, three persons in one. It’s all one anyway: you don’t have a subconscious mind over here and a conscious mind over there and the Father up above. We may have used diagrams to indicate something, but the diagram was one whole. If it was a triangle, it wasn’t three little points sitting on the blackboard with blanks in between them; it was one whole—indicated by the illustration. Maybe we didn’t notice that and we were inclined to see everything in terms of separation, but that isn’t the way it is. Factually there is no separation between conscious and subconscious minds, and there wouldn’t be any conscious or subconscious mind at all if it wasn’t for the One referred to as the Father. So here is a pattern of oneness, and we are in position to let that oneness be our present experience, not because we’re trying to figure something out with our conscious minds, not because we’re somehow listening for some great emotional experience to come upon us, but because we are accepting the responsibility of providing space for the Father.

That space is provided on the basis of what we have referred to as the Tone. We know what the Tone is through our facilities, conscious and subconscious. That’s how we become aware of it in the human sense and, becoming aware of it, that is the important thing. The conscious mind is inclined to say, “Oh well I’m becoming aware of this; now I understand what the true character is. I can hear the Tone. Now how should this be applied in my living?” You don’t have to apply it in your living. That maintains a state of separation, doesn’t it? “Ah, here we are; here is this wonderful Tone putting in an appearance! Now I can get hold of it and apply it in my living. Now I can be a superhuman being!” Well we may not put it exactly that way, but that’s what we’re doing. It is just the fact of the experience of the Tone that is important. If we share something important in a service, it is that. It may be helpful to use words, but it isn’t the words themselves. It is the fact of the presence of what it is that permits those words to be spoken that is important, and that is capable of being shared by all of us.

There is one Tone but we each find it differentiated uniquely in our own experience. That happens when we let it be differentiated in our own experience. It doesn’t happen because somebody else sounds the Tone. We can’t really know what the Tone is except we sound it ourselves. We have the equipment to let it sound; let us let it sound then! Obviously that equipment, as we have realized, needs to be emptied sufficiently so that the Tone may be encompassed in experience and does not get diverted by all the human idiosyncracies which still may remain. So we share the process of the sounding of this Tone. We have had special opportunity to become familiar with it over the years. That is the most important thing that has happened in our experience, if it has happened in our experience—not all the knowledge we think we have, not all the understanding of principles, but the sensing, the discernment, of the Tone. And most of that discerning comes through the heart, comes subconsciously. Because it comes subconsciously the conscious mind begins to be aware of it. Minds are so busy, aren’t they? trying to understand, trying to figure things out.

“Come now, let us reason together.” We can’t exclude the subconscious mind. This relates to what we have seen as the working of the Law—positive and negative. It relates to male and female. The sexes have tended to become segregated. Men have been inclined to say that they can’t understand women. Well that’s like trying to understand your subconscious mind—what’s the point? The Holy Ghost is quite competent, if allowed to be present. The subconscious mind can be clarified very easily, as there is a willingness to move with the Tone in living. Then things which are out of attunement with the Tone begin to stand out. And you don't meekly go along with the clashing noise that results; you relinquish what is unfitting, what doesn't belong, what is not harmonious to the Tone. That is easily done. But the Tone must be present if one is to do it, and the sounding of the Tone relates to the presence of the Holy Ghost.

This has been happening in spite of all our conscious endeavors to figure it out. Doing that merely sustains the human state. Being willing to be emptied out, we have found that there was something which flowed in. And it didn’t flow in for our benefit particularly; it flowed in to flow out again, if we were willing to let it flow out and didn’t try to grab onto it, which is the habit of the conscious human mind. Ah! now I’ve got it. Let it go; let it go; because if something has come in, let it flow out. We’re the means by which this flow may occur. It is the flow of life itself.

This is what attunement is, participating in the flow of life. Attunements have usually been thought of physically speaking as being valuable, but it’s the flow-through in consciousness. The true state is one of attunement. We don’t need to have attunements; attunement has us. And whatever it is that needs to flow flows through, and because it flows through we know what it is. If it doesn’t flow through we don't know what it is. For most people it doesn’t flow through, so it is assumed that there isn’t anything there; it’s impossible to understand. It’s impossible to understand until it flows through. It cannot flow through until there is a willingness to allow it to do so, and whatever circumstances we may have are the means by which we allow it to do so.

So often circumstances are looked upon as something that is being laid upon us. But that isn’t the way it is at all; it never was that way. No doubt we have been functioning in a manner that was childish in times past, when we should have been mature, or could have been mature, and so we set many things in motion and the chickens are going to come home to roost. All right, fine. That’s very little different from what’s happening with everybody else. The only difference now is that we know how to handle it; we understand these things. Let the chickens come home to roost! And as we accept what comes to us as our responsibility to handle in a fitting way on the basis of the Tone with which we have some experience, then the catalyst is present, and whatever comes to us is transformed.

We know all about giving thanks—just give thanks! If you give thanks then you can’t blame somebody at the same time. It’s just wonderful that the chickens are coming home to roost! We can get rid of all the chickens that way. They can be plucked and consumed for nourishment, and then they’re gone. But if we say, “I don’t like these chickens that are coming home to roost; they’re really so-and-so’s chickens!” and we try to shoo them over to so-and-so, then we have a whole lot of chickens all around and we end up covered with feathers, and we suffocate. No, it’s all easily handled. We know how to do it. We have been doing it, at least in some measure, or we wouldn’t be here. It’s never worth doing half a job. If something is worthwhile doing, do it, and do it right. And we are the only one who can do it right in our own circumstances; there’s nobody else there. Sharing this, how much begins to be transformed because we are in place and we stay in place. We’re never distracted. We can never take the attitude that we don’t get along with so-and-so.

And behold, we are aware of the Tone, we are aware of what the flow is in consequence, and we can move with ease and naturalness in permitting all things to be handled on this basis. And we do it; we find we are doing it together. We’re not trying to handle someone else’s business but just take care of our own, and someone else will take care of their own, and we find that all the business is taken care of. Isn’t it marvelous that we have so many friends letting this happen? There may be vast numbers of people who don’t know yet how to let it happen, but if there are those who are letting it happen there is the catalyst. And that catalyst will transform the world; actually it transforms the consciousness of human beings. How great and glorious it is to participate in this unique process—it’s unique because it's never yet been done. We're on the way. Let's keep moving on the way.

© Emissaries of Divine Light