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The  Living  Capstone

Martin Exeter   May 6, 1984

The land of Egypt, the land of the Great Pyramid. I had the opportunity of being there many years ago—I think probably it was 1928—when I was a brash youth and capable of scampering up the side of the Pyramid to the top. I also went through the various passages and chambers within the Pyramid, including the king's chamber, the chamber of the open tomb.

I outlined something this morning with respect to the purpose of the Pyramid. This is unprovable by any mental means as being so; it is also unprovable that it isn't so; so there is an intellectual dilemma here. What is provable is the present emerging form which we have referred to as the body of the Son of God. This isn't provable intellectually but it is provable in actual experience, and we are presumably in the process of proving it. It is also a process of reproving the world, as it was put in the Master's words—perhaps reproving the world for imagining that one can prove anything by intellectual effort. That's not the way things are proven. The proof becomes known to those who participate in the living processes, which in fact were symbolized by the Great Pyramid.

Human beings have got out their measuring tools and tried to fit everything into some theoretical view of events, as though that was the purpose of the Pyramid—it wasn't of course. We have some awareness of the real purpose, which was to permit a focus of spirit to enter into the earth to maintain a connection at a certain level— at the mineral level principally. Why this should be necessary, no human mind would be able to figure out. But as this flesh body takes form, those who compose it begin to become consciously aware of what the reason for the Great Pyramid really was. It is exactly the same reason for the emergence of this flesh body. The difference is that the body of the Son of God provides a facility for direct action, living action, into the earth.

The Pyramid could be looked upon as a facility by which something has been maintained—it hasn't allowed anything to develop beyond the matter of maintenance. Now the means for the creative process to come to focus and the action of the holy spirit to provide the direct impact is putting in an appearance, so that we go beyond the matter of maintenance. Obviously something has been maintained up to this point, because mankind is still here and the planet is as yet still habitable. But we share the known responsibility, known to us, of allowing this flesh pyramid to reemerge.

The Pyramid had a casing of white limestone originally. There was a capstone originally—but obviously there isn't one now, so there isn't a pyramid. There is in fact no great pyramid; it's some other figure. The capstone is missing. The capstone itself of course is a pyramid—it already is a pyramid—but the rest of the body of stone is not a pyramid until the capstone is in place. Then immediately it becomes a pyramid; it immediately becomes what it is intended to be. I don't think it's all that important that the capstone should be put on top of the Pyramid to make it into a pyramid, because the Pyramid is becoming redundant as this body takes form.

This resurrected body can easily represent in our own awareness the capstone. It is the capstone for the body of humanity. The body of humanity certainly isn't presently in a pyramid form, symbolically speaking  some other shape, not a very handsome shape at that. But here is the Pyramid capstone, which is a pyramid, taking form in the living flesh of the body of the Son of God. The body of humanity remains rather an amorphous mass until the capstone is present, and acknowledged as a capstone. This is beginning to take place somewhat; we have some evidence of this. There are many who are being compelled in one way or another to acknowledge the fact of this emergent body because they find that it has a part to play within the scope of their own experience.

According to the story, Peter the disciple was successful in denying the Master back along the way. There have been many who have tended to take this same attitude toward what is emerging in the form of this body. But such denials make little difference to what is happening. As I say, people are aware increasingly that something is happening in their own experience and consequently in the world, but for the most part they don't know what. We know what, because we are of this capstone. The capstone is the means by which the government of the Son of God is brought on earth—the means by which what isn't now a pyramid becomes a pyramid. I think we increasingly have a sense of inevitability—whatever it is that's happening is happening. It doesn't really matter what anyone does; it's happening.

If we look at this symbol of stone in the land of Egypt we discover many remarkable things about it. Its very construction is remarkable. I would remind you of something that the Master said about the stone which the builders rejected—this is become the head of the corner. The head of the corner relates to the capstone of the Pyramid. This appears again on earth in living flesh. It has a certain form of manifestation, a certain nature. Nobody really knows what it is, not even those who find themselves in a position to compose it at this particular time. Some have exercised their minds to try to figure it out—this very shortly has proven not to be true.

We have had a number of concepts in the Emissary ministry about the Emissary ministry, most of which are rapidly going by the board, because the Emissary ministry is not a concept. If it is anything, it is the Word made flesh, and who can really tell me what that is? I'm not inquiring! because I know for sure you don't know. We know what it is in the moment to the extent that the substance is present in which the spirit can act. I'm sure there is a lot to occur with respect to this substance before it could be described as a sea of glass, clear as crystal. Something has occurred up to this point. We have a certain awareness now that perhaps we didn't have a year ago, or five years ago, but there is more to come. This is part of the creative process—the process of resurrection.

According to the calculations about the passages and the king's chamber and so on, the measurements—they are all horizontal calculations, which is the habit of human beings: to work horizontally. It doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone that when you arrive at the point of this open tomb the direction might change. If you continue on and don't stop there you presumably will hit the back wall. But if the direction is changed to vertical, for instance, which would relate to this symbol of resurrection, the open tomb, then there's a totally different kettle of fish. We're in the business of letting it happen, and the mind has no notion as to what it is that is really happening. It's been quite successful in measuring things horizontally but it has no guidelines or gauges at all to measure things vertically.

The change of direction can also symbolize the present moment—coming out of the past, out of the horizontal condition, to the point where the past no longer controls. This is what permits resurrection. Then at that point the direction would automatically change. We don't need to go anywhere horizontally. This has been the usual human view, hasn't it?—you have to travel horizontally. People are always going here and going there, looking for the answer, wherever, somewhere else than where one is. But of course we discover that the answer is where one is. One doesn't have to go anywhere.

One has reached this point and come to this awareness from the past. Everything that has happened thus far brought us to the point of the present moment, that we might begin to acknowledge the present moment, the reality of it, this undimensional experience of spirit. Here is the means for the experience of resurrection. We're not going to find resurrection horizontally, in the future. But there is space above.

The king's chamber has quite a high ceiling, and there are layers of ceiling above there. Then there is quite a mass of rock, until one might come to the platform at the top of the Pyramid. I suppose in a way this could represent the period of time between the Master's resurrection and what is now happening to regenerate, resurrect, the body of the Son of God. We've come to realize that it's happening now. Most people who have any thoughts about such things usually see in terms of their religion, and perhaps still think of it as somewhere in the future. People have been looking for the second coming of Christ, for instance, for a long, long time. Every generation has been hopeful in this regard, if they gave any thought to it. But it never happened. But now it is happening.

It is happening to the extent that there are those who have arrived at the present moment and are no longer looking to the future, for the second coming of Christ for instance. This is one way of putting it. You're no longer looking for a future nirvana, for a future release from the senseless round of birth and death. But finally there are those who are in the process of awakening to the reality of the present moment and that all that is necessary is in the present moment. It's not in the future; it's not in the past. The resurrection can easily be describable as a vertical experience. Human beings have been lying for a long time horizontally in the tomb of this world and now there are those who are beginning to stand up.

It's interesting to note how lackadaisical most people are when it comes to spiritual things. They get very much worked up about achieving some great thing in the human sense. They go to all kinds of trouble. It doesn't seem to matter how much it costs, whether in money or in one's health or anything else. People will do almost anything to achieve what they deem to be satisfactory ends. Of course the end doesn't really prove to be very satisfactory, but that's in the future of course; they don't know what's going to happen. When we come into the present we know what's happening; we don't need to know what's going to happen. We are associated with what is actually happening. What is actually happening is a spiritual happening, and that is quite safe; that's the only secure spot.

Nowadays the future tends to look pretty bleak to many people. Good! If we look to the future for anything I hope it appears bleak, because that is the fact of the matter. But the present is very rich. All of heaven comes to focus in the present moment, providing what is necessary for all of earth. And there we are, at this point between, a crossover point, where there is a dimensionless condition. The point has position, yes, but no magnitude, no dimensions. That's where we belong.

What is present in heaven crosses over into the earth in the present moment. It seemingly comes out of the future and moves into the past. Anything that has taken form is in the past. If you get wrapped up in form you're wrapped up in the past. You may have some dreams about the future, but the future isn't here. What arrives here in form of which we are aware is immediately in the past. But there is what is coming out of heaven into the earth. If we look at it in dimensional terms, it seems to be coming out of the future, and we have a momentary experience of it before it moves into the past, having taken form.

This capstone of the Pyramid relates directly to this matter of being in the present. Here is the means of government established in heaven. The ordinances of heaven are there; the dominion thereof is to be set in the earth. The dominion of heaven may be said to be, in human terms at least, the government of the earth. It is, and always has been, but human beings, stepping out of the present moment and being governed by the past, have messed things up in their own experience so that it doesn't seem as though the government of heaven is operative. There was a lack of proper government, so human beings got busy and set up their own governments, very different from the true state, which doesn't need setting up at all because it's already there. All it needs is to appear in expression in the moment.

It isn't a dictatorial government in the sense of imposing anything on anything, but nevertheless it is absolute. It's the only thing that works; and if we associate ourselves with the thing that works, that's a delightful experience. We've been associated so long with things that don't work that we have found ourselves constantly in trouble and wondering how we could get out of it—we just about get things under control, we think, and something else shows up we hadn't counted on, and we're right back where we were before. Of course, because the true government doesn't work that way. It can't be established by people who do not know what it is. All they can do is to try to make up their own, and I'm sure most of us have had our bellyful of that. That is what has made us inclined to judgment, incidentally, blaming other people. We see how stupid other people are being. But we're one of them, one of these stupid people. So let's stop trying to establish our human brand of government upon our affairs.

Begin to come into the present moment and share the process of the resurrection of the body of the Son of God. There is no such thing anymore as individual resurrection. Individual resurrection has already occurred; it doesn't need to occur again. What does need to occur is the resurrection of the body of the Son of God, and that's something quite different. We are concerned that this should happen—which gets our self-centeredness out of the way. Whether we physically happen to be on hand throughout the whole process to its completion is beside the point. It would seem at the present time to be a little bit doubtful. It doesn't matter, as long as the resurrection of the body of the Son of God takes place.

It must have flesh, it must have composition, for that to happen; and we all are now, in this moment, sharing in that resurrecting process. There are changes of all kinds working out. We don't know the half of it! We don't know the quarter of it! We don't know one percent of it! We don't need to. Just let it happen. And in the present moment we're here, safe; we're home! Let's stay there. That's the place to be. In fact we can't be anywhere else.

And so the body of the Son of God is drawn together in the process of resurrection, because the body of the Son of God doesn't exist in its true nature in the tomb. It has to emerge beyond the tomb to be the resurrected body of the Son of God. Can anyone figure that out? Don't try. Just let it happen.

We have been blessed with such awareness and experience as we now know, to make it easy to accept the unfolding creative process of the resurrection. It's all part of what we now know; it isn't something different. We're not expecting the body to be resurrected tomorrow, or next week, or next year, because it is being resurrected now. The only time we can experience the resurrection is now. Let us not try to project something into the future. Let's enjoy what is happening now—and it is a very enjoyable process when we are living now. It becomes a pain in the neck when we leave the present moment and we find all sorts of things to complain about.

But coming into the present moment we participate in this process of resurrection by which the body of the Son of God appears symbolically as the capstone of the Pyramid, the governing factor that makes the Pyramid be a reality on earth. It can't be a reality without the capstone; it will always be some other shape. Even if it seems to be very symmetrical and just lacking a capstone, it's still not a pyramid. So the pyramid is being provided by the action of the holy spirit. And there are those who begin to experience what this means.

It is an awakening process. There are various levels of awakening. There are various levels of sleep. Well there's nothing wrong with the various levels of sleep, but for heaven's sake let's wake up! And there are various levels of wakefulness. We have noted the distinctions revealed through the consideration we have had of the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God. Particularly we have taken note of the spirit of blessing, the spirit of the single eye, and the spirit of the new earth, something to be experienced very immediately, various levels of experience. We're not all responsible for functioning at all these levels, and we do not anticipate or expect other people to function at some level which we are laying on them. Maybe the person isn't functioning at that level and shouldn't be functioning at that level. Let it alone! It's all right.

Do we really have an awareness of the absoluteness of the action of the holy spirit? It gets the job done! As human beings we don't get the job done. We don't know what the job is, even. We just participate in providing a facility so that the holy spirit can get the job done. When that happens we begin to find ourselves associated with and identified with the holy spirit. We find ourselves resurrected in the experience which we know on earth. And so we share this process, and delight to share this process, not only happening in this little company gathered here; it's happening throughout the world at different levels. Some of the happening is more conscious to us now than it is for many others, but it's happening, whether it's consciously recognized or not.

We see a lot of people doing a lot of what the human mind would say are stupid things. Well they are behaving that way because the action of the holy spirit in their makeup is producing this interpretation; that's all it could do. But in the process it will change the makeup in that person, and maybe next week, or next year, sometime in the future when it is the present moment, that person will not be quite so stupid anymore. But it had to pass through that level of stupidity to reach a level of wisdom, and whatever level of wisdom you reach it seems pretty childish to another higher level than that. I know you can look back and see how stupid you were in the past. Well don't you think you're being stupid now too? Let us let it be that way, letting the holy spirit have its creative action in the experience of this body.

We are aware of this body. Let us never deny it but be totally concerned to let the creative process operate in this body. We can't ignore what composes this body if we are to allow it to experience the resurrection. We let it happen through all and sundry, ourselves included. And we stop fussing so much about the things that we think are wrong in ourselves, for one thing. As long as you are fussing about it, you'll have it. Let it go! Let the holy spirit create the body of the Son of God on earth. It's well on the way. Isn't that beautiful? I think it is. It is an exciting adventure, unprecedented in any human experience.

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