The Tabernacle #1
Martin
Cecil December 31, 1972
We may choose
to let a change come in any moment. We do not have to continue to base our
living upon the results of our past living. We are at a point in any moment
when we may, if we will, allow something to be introduced into the world that
is not merely a reflection of what is present with us now—in other words of
what came out of the past—but is something new, a new seed to be sown, a right
seed to be sown, which each one as an individual is alone capable of sowing,
and a seed that has never been brought into the world before. This is really
our purpose when we are in our right minds.
Recently I
have touched again upon the story of Job—one description of him was that he was
"the greatest of all the men of the east." Let us not suppose that
this merely means that he was a prominent Oriental! The garden was originally
planted eastward in Eden. The place of man is, rightly, in the present moment,
allowing what is coming out of the east, out of the future—or to put it
another way, down from God out of heaven, to be introduced into the earth. This
is his place and purpose: to provide the facility by which what is coming out
of the invisible realm may be introduced and given form on earth. If this were
done correctly the earth would be a heavenly place. Unfortunately, it seems
that most have forgotten that this was even possible. What should be appearing
on earth should not merely be the result of what happened in the past but the
evidence of what is putting in an appearance in the present out of the future.
Job evidently
occupied the primary position at his time in this true process—he was the
greatest of the men of the east—he was the greatest of those who had assumed
the responsibility for allowing what was coming out of the east, out of the
invisible future, to be given form and expression in the present on earth. He was in the position at that time of the High Priest.
There is more
to us than the flesh—and the more to us than the flesh is invisible and
indefinable, although we may talk about it in words. There are those who speak
of the Father within. We have made mention of the God Being. Nowadays this is
often described as the true identity. The question is as to who is saying that,
because if it is a false human ego, then the false human ego can never find the True Identity. Only a real person can experience a real person. But if we want
to talk about these things, which may be helpful, to start with at least, we
may say that within the physical form there is a True Identity; there is a True Being there and, in fact, the flesh has potential meaning only because of this.
Because this
is present, there is a flesh body which otherwise wouldn't exist. The elements
of it wouldn't have been brought together and allowed to appear in the physical
form if it wasn't for this invisible being or invisible identity that is
present. Because the flesh has been brought together in the physical form, that
physical form has a consciousness; there is a mind. However when this mind
becomes predominant and assumes an importance which it does not really have, then
of course whatever the reality may be is obscured and the individual assumes
that he is the flesh entity. This is the self-centered, self-willed state and
as long as it exists in a person it may truly be said that he doesn't know who
he is.
However, in
view of the fact that the reality is present, the potential of change is
present too, so that there may be an awakening to the truth of oneself. It
isn't a false self trying to become a real self; it is simply an awakening to
the reality which one is. This awakening is essential if a person is to be
in position to allow what is coming down from God out of heaven to be
introduced into the earth. As long as he is merely involved with the flesh
identity this cannot happen; he remains in a confused and uncomfortable state.
Now, who is
going to awaken, or by what means is this awakening to occur? Only those are
capable of so awakening who have some experience of integrity in their living
in the sleeping state. Not because they have been trying to do so but because
it is the natural experience. This is based in something that is already in
operation in the person, not something that can be instilled from the outside.
As there are
those who awaken there begins to be present on earth what we have referred to
as the Priesthood. The experience of Priesthood is not an earthly experience in
the sense that one could be externally trained and ordained in some fashion to
be a priest—the Priesthood is the experience of the truth of oneself and
begins to allow the facility that is needed on earth by which what is coming
down from God out of heaven may be introduced into the world. This is the
answer to all the problems of humanity.
From the
standpoint of those who begin to awaken, the need is to find those who have
sufficient integrity to become aware of the truth. The need is not to convert
the world to some sort of religion or philosophy or way of life; the need is
simply to seek those who will awaken, that there may be a Priesthood—so that
there may be the facility by which what comes down from God out of heaven may
be introduced into the world. In that seeking it may be that there is a need to
sift a very great number of people. There must be those awakened ones who are
in position to do what is necessary to allow what is coming down from God out
of heaven to be introduced into the world. When that can be done, everything
else takes care of itself, because what is being introduced in this fashion is
far more powerful, far more effective, in a sense far more overwhelming, than
the pallid reflection of those things that are already in the world that is the
usual function of human beings. Then all that results from self-will and
self-centeredness may be dissipated. The only
reason why there is a need for those who discover their True Identity is that
they may function in this design of the Priesthood. Let us look at this in a
little different way.
Supposing that somewhere in some unexplored part of the
world, maybe up in the mountains somewhere, there was a temple, a beautiful
structure built in ancient times, but a building that had not deteriorated at
all over the years. It was still the way it originally was, with all the
furnishings in it, everything needful for whatever the temple service might
have been. But seeing that it was lost to human beings—there was no one there;
there had been no one there for a long time—the fact that it existed would
mean nothing to the population of the world. Here is a building without anyone:
it is meaningless because there is no one there. The only way that that temple
could become meaningful would be for a Priesthood to come into it again with an
awareness of how to handle what was present in the Temple for the creative
purpose of the Temple.
The fact of
the matter is that there is such a Temple—we have called it the Tabernacle—but
it is not hidden away in the mountains somewhere. It isn't a physical
structure; it is a vibrational or a spiritual structure, just as fresh and new
and perfect as it has ever been, just as surely present on earth as it ever
was, but lacking real people—the Priesthood, in other words—present in it to
operate the undertaking. Consequently it has been meaningless; it has been lost
and assumed not to exist. Now this same picture is portrayed in the story in
the Book of Genesis about the fall, when man put himself out of the Garden. The Garden is still there, but he put himself out, so then he assumes that there
isn't any more Garden. The point is that the Garden, the Tabernacle, is still
present, but it can only be handled by true people.
Only the Priesthood can enter into the Tabernacle, into the Holy Place; therefore for
the Holy Place to be known there must be a Priesthood to enter in. As a Priesthood begins to appear, then those who are the Priesthood become aware of
the Tabernacle—the Tabernacle of God which is with men. The Tabernacle of God
is with men, but nobody knows it. Why don't they know it? Because they are not
experiencing the Priesthood. The Priesthood enter into the Tabernacle—they
know it's there.
We
are using these words Priesthood and Tabernacle to
describe something which is indescribable, something which must come to be
known. It comes to be known because one is restored, awakened, to one's own
reality, one's own true identity, so that there is an awareness: "I am
present in the flesh. I am present in my mind, in my consciousness. I am
present so that I may convey, introduce, what is in every moment coming out of
the east into the world." But we don't do it alone; we do it because the
facility is here. The facility described by the word Tabernacle is
present, vibrationally present—it has never been absent, but there is
something to be done in the Tabernacle by those whom we have been calling the Priesthood, those who have awakened to the Truth of themselves. But we can't
consider what it is that needs to be done with people who are asleep; it
wouldn't be very successful, would it? There must be those who are awake to the Truth of themselves, otherwise there is nothing to be said.
So we have this opportunity. Everyone has it but
not everyone is sufficiently aware of their integrity to let it be meaningful.
We seek those who are, that there may be present on earth the Angels of God in
the flesh serving in the tabernacle, serving vibrationally but in the flesh.
Because it is this way, then what is vibrational, what is spiritual, what is
heavenly, may take form. When the facility is present by which this may occur
there is nothing that can stop it. As it happens in the world, of course those
who try to stop it get pushed out of the world; there is less and less space in
the world for them. We are looking for those whose integrity is absolute and
who therefore can be trusted to provide what they are here to provide in
letting what comes out of the east be brought on earth—the true blessing, the
true manifestation of heaven, whatever heaven is. We need to find out what
these things are by experiencing them. It's the only way we can find out.
© emissaries of divine light
