Spiritual Union

Spiritual  Union

Martin Cecil   May 14, 1978

The spirit of the womb—recently we have been sharing a particular consideration in this regard, not only a consideration but a participation. When human beings think of motherhood the emphasis is generally upon children who put in an appearance in physical form. The birth of physical form is considered to be all-important. A very inadequate appreciation of spirit is usually present. This pertains to all human experience, doesn't it? The form of things is thought to be of the greatest significance.

As angels our primary concern is with spirit, consequently with the heaven rather than the earth. We are aware of the oneness of heaven and earth, so if concern is with respect to the heaven it is also, incidentally, with respect to the earth. The earth is not neglected if we pay attention to heaven. So our concern relates to spirit particularly; the spirit of the womb may be in the forefront of consciousness. This spirit makes possible conception by the spirit of love. Conception requires a setting. The setting is the spirit of the womb. Most people think of it as the womb. It may be said that we have a physical setting by reason of this Chapel, but the Chapel of and by itself has very little significance. There are numerous buildings on earth presumably of a sacred nature and while the architecture may be striking, even beautiful, the building itself has precious little significance merely as a physical building. It only has significance, if it does, by reason of people. We know this to be true of this setting this morning; there certainly is the potential of meaning by reason of the presence of people, which means the presence of angels.

Angels dwell in heaven. Angels are therefore concerned with spirit, and so this morning we are concerned with spirit rather than merely with form. Form is important; a building gives us a setting. Our own physical bodies are significant because they make possible the presence of angels. But our concern is with the heaven, with the spirit of the womb and with the spirit of love. The conception of the spirit of life is made possible by reason of the spirit of the womb and the spirit of love. As a particular configuration of angels this morning you all have a special responsibility related to the spirit of the womb. I have a special responsibility related to the spirit of love. As union is established between us there may be a specific conception which relates to a specific focalization of the spirit of life. In season there may be the birth of whatever is now conceived, so that life may increase in living form on earth.

We might recall something of the process of conception in the usual sense. There can be no conception in the uterus of the mother without spirit. The physical elements may be present but there is only conception because of spirit. This conception occurs by reason of the fact that there is the provision of spiritual substance. The spiritual substance related to the initial seed is there because the physical substance is there, but there could be no physical substance present without the spiritual substance of the proper consistency to allow for the conception by reason of spirit. So the spiritual substance is essential if there is to be conception. The conception itself is made possible not only because there is spiritual substance but because there is also spirit—a focalization of spirit. The focalization of spirit may impregnate the spiritual substance that is present. The spiritual substance that is present relates particularly to the spirit of the womb. The spiritual substance that is present therefore is primarily your responsibility. The spirit of the womb emerges into experience to the extent that there is spiritual substance present. To that extent you begin to know the reality of the spirit of the womb.

It is, as we have already noted, a spirit of enfoldment, a spirit of encompassment, a spirit of containment. It is a rich spirit by reason of the fact of the substance that is present. And so there may be a direct experience, on the part of all of you who are here present, of this most beautiful spirit, the spirit of the womb of truth. The womb of truth is present that there may be the conception of love in that womb. I have a special responsibility to provide the focalization of the spirit of love which may make possible conception in the spirit of the womb, which is your spirit. There is obviously a blending here, a blending of two aspects of one spirit: the spirit of love and the spirit of truth. The spirit of truth has primary relatedness to the Mother aspect of God, the spirit of love to the Father aspect of God. As there is a blending of the two, conception by spirit may occur. Such conception occurs because the substance of spirit is present. The substance of spirit is the substance by which life may be born, after the period of gestation, into particular expression according to the form that has been drawn together to permit it to appear in the world.

We can see here, then, a very special reason as to why we assemble Sunday by Sunday for our services in this setting, or some other setting. All concerned who are present rightly provide what is necessary of the spirit of the womb. This makes a service possible. For many, many years there has been a gathering in the chapel of the time, but it only now begins to be apparent as to why these gatherings took place. Essentially it could be said that there was a creative process by which the spirit of the womb could be present in those concerned, because their momentary living day by day had generated the essential substance to permit it. Observing the experience over the years, it has taken what may seem a considerable period of time to generate adequate substance that would begin to allow a conscious awareness of what it is that is happening. I can speak of these things to you now in such a way that it is possible for you to comprehend and to discern spiritually. 

Of course, once more, if your mental apparatus grinds into gear all on its own you will find yourselves at a loss, because the place of our experience is in heaven. The mind may participate in some measure but the experience is of angels in heaven. What is experienced in heaven will certainly be reflected in the earth but only because something has been experienced in the heaven. If nothing has been experienced in the heaven there is nothing to reflect in the earth and the individual, mentally speaking, tends to remain a blank. The mind considers this to be an uncomfortable situation, so it immediately sets about building structures of one sort or another to make its belly feel full.

An important aspect of all this is of course this matter of the generation of substance. It is the substance of truth, the substance of the womb, which is essential. This is a particular consistency of substance. We have taken note in times past of the nature of the substance of truth. That nature has been summarized by the word lust. Of course in human consciousness lust is generally related to something that shouldn't be, at least not according to the good ideas of human beings. We are considering lust when we are considering the substance of truth as lust directed upward, lust after God we might say. But the only way we can lust after God is through His spirit, and in a specific sense the spirit of love.

Lusting after the spirit of love cannot be seen in the light of the human spirit of gettingness. Human beings so often want love; they feel starved for love; so by various manipulations they endeavor to satisfy this appetite. However, their lusting in this regard is in the wrong direction. It is imagined that the fulfilment comes out of the earth, the fulfilment comes out of the realm of effects; and virtually all human lusting, the endeavor to satisfy human appetites, is directed toward the realm of effects. Well that is not the sort of lusting that generates the substance of the spirit of the womb. It generates, rather, a spirit of barrenness, a spirit of void, a spirit of emptiness; and this human beings have experienced, so that they are never satisfied. One may note this in every level of human endeavor. If a person is able to get something more than he had, this simply engenders a desire to get more still. In other words there was no filling of the void. The void was not filled, so there was apparently the need for something more to fill it. Seeing, however, that the lusting is in the wrong direction, it never gets filled on that basis. The lusting, the hungering and thirsting, is properly after righteousness, after the right experience of spirit, the lusting upward in other words, lusting, hungering and thirsting for the spirit of the womb initially. The spirit of love cannot be known except by reason of the spirit of the womb.

I suppose it could be said that the spirit of the womb intervenes between the individual and his experience of the spirit of love. He cannot reach the spirit of love directly. He knows it only to the extent of participation in the spirit of the womb. That is why I have brought to your attention the necessity for the experience of the spirit of the womb in a setting such as this. We have all the ingredients here present for a right conception, and indeed, particularly over recent years, there has been something of a right conception occurring at the times of our services, so that at the proper seasons, after the period of essential gestation, whatever was conceived of life might be born into expression, not only by reason of the womb in which it was conceived but by reason of the whole body of which the womb was a part. Here we see something of Mother God.

So whatever is conceived in a particular setting such as this, to the extent that the spirit of the womb and the spirit of love find union, will be born in season relative to the whole body of what represents the Mother. If there have been evident changes appearing in the lives and the experience of those who have participated, in whatever measure, in the overall, the whole, body of our ministry, it is by reason of the fact of such fulfilment as there has been of the creative process. The creative process requires the spirit of the womb in combination with the spirit of love. Then there is the conception of the spirit of life which, after its period of gestation, will be born by reason of the whole body; and all who compose that body experience something of that birth. It has been interesting to note how angels in far places have been experiencing what angels in near places have been experiencing. We may have, then, an awareness of these creative cycles for which individually and together we are responsible.

If there is the spirit of the womb in your experience and the spirit of love in mine, then you know that spirit of love also in your experience, because there is a setting for it to be present. We move together as one. You know the union of the spirit of the womb with the spirit of love; I know the union of the spirit of love with the spirit of the womb; and in consequence there is conception, conception at the level of spirit. Of course form is present, but what is happening relates to spirit. It relates to the heaven. Just as in the individual sense of procreation when there is conception by reason of spirit, the presence of spirit in the substance of spirit permits the development of the physical form. Physical substance associates itself with the substance of spirit which has associated itself with spirit, and all this occurs in sequence. Spirit comes first, the substance of spirit comes next, the substance of form comes last.

We are concerned that the spiritual setting for conception should be pure and fitting to receive the spirit of love, so that the conception may occur. This is primarily a matter of spirit then, the nature of our own spirit. The nature of our own spirit of course will be reflected through spiritual substance into physical form. One cannot judge the quality of that spirit merely by looking at the physical form. If there is a recognition of the reality of the spirit of the womb and the essential quality that must be present in the spiritual substance related to that spirit, then there is concern that one's spiritual experience should be of the right quality. If there is the right quality of spiritual experience, that will be reflected in physical form and there will be a keen consciousness of the fact that as an individual, as an angel, one is a part of something much greater.

We may this morning think of ourselves as being a part of this particular womb setting, a womb setting which is within the greater body. What occurs in the womb setting will have an effect upon the whole body; it cannot be restricted just to the womb. If there is the conception in the womb then whatever is being conceived is being carried not only by the womb but by the whole body; and coming to birth, as we have noted, there will be an effect in the whole body. So our spiritual behavior will always be seen relative to the whole body; we have an awareness of the fact that we cannot do anything without affecting the whole body.

Our concern, then, as angels, is for the whole body, because it is by reason of that whole body that the birth may occur. Therefore our own personal behavior is always seen relative to everybody else. It is never an isolated experience if we are included in the whole, and we are included in the whole if our behavior is angelic. Therefore whatever we undertake to do in our living reflects itself in the whole. We can't isolate ourselves. We are concerned for the health and welfare of the body through which birth is to take place.

Individually speaking, then, as angels our outlook encompasses the whole and our behavior will be such as to be of value, of benefit, to the whole, and we do not see anything that we do as merely being personal: "Well it's my life, after all; I can do as I please." As an angel? No! Never! Never! There is the state of discipleship relative to the earthly facilities which we use to live and to function on earth. Discipleship is discipline. Here is the body, here is the womb, here is the means by which what is of God may be born into living expression on earth. All this occurs not by chance but because there are those who participate in the means by which it happens, and that participation is initiated at the level of spirit: the level of spirit, then the level of the substance of spirit, then the level of material substance; that is the order.

We may see this in a reverse way if we have been thinking of what has been called the resurrection. Everybody starts out deeply involved with material substance, and there is a necessity of being lifted up to the level of spiritual substance and therefore to the level of spirit. Here is a cycle of resurrection working out. "And I, if I be lifted up…will draw all men unto me." If there is participation in the creative process at the level of spirit then there is a lifting up which is extended out to all people. Perhaps all people will not take advantage of it but it will be there, and there will be those who do take advantage of it. In the ultimate analysis these are the only ones who count. Finally, those who do not take advantage of it are classified as waste. They are classified that way by their own attitude, by themselves, by their own choice, not by anybody else. We're not going around looking at people and saying, "Well you here are a nice responding one, but you over there are waste." Where would any of us be if someone had taken that attitude?

No, we have a fundamental willingness, surely, to participate in the creative process, and it requires something very exact. If the true spirit of life is to be born increasingly through form on earth it will be because there is a pure and perfect facility by which it may happen. The spirit of the womb is on hand, the spirit of love is on hand; they come together in a basic pattern of true union at the level of spirit, and the quality of life that is to appear will be born in season.

I have spoken of these things this morning not particularly to offer you more information—actually the information has already been present with you, available to be recognized by you without my saying a word—but that there might be a sharing in the actual experience by which spiritual union occurs and consequently spiritual conception. Because of the conception there is subsequently the obvious need for continuing in the spirit of the womb, enfolding whatever has been conceived so that it is kept safe and is allowed to grow and develop. If the conception has taken place by reason of you who are here present this morning you have the primary responsibility in this regard, but the whole body also enfolds the womb, so all have a part to play.

You will find that as you do continue in the spirit of the womb because your lusting is always toward the Lord, then the birth will surely take place and all will rejoice in it. There may be some travail in birth but this is not looked upon as a painful experience but as a glorious delight, and as birth occurs upon birth the wonders of heaven emerge into living form on earth. We do not think of this living form merely as relating to this person or that person. We see it as relating to all that is unfolding in the field of responsibility carried by the whole body as the facility of the Archangel. What happens, happens in the world, and we rejoice in the increase of life made manifest in the design of truth, giving glory to God in the highest.

Our song of life is always this—"Glory to God in the highest." This we hunger and thirst for; no longer for any idea of personal fulfilment of some kind but that all that comes into expression in our living may give glory to God in the highest. This is what we love above all. This is our experience of continuous lusting.

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