Re-Creation in Consciousness

Re-Creation  in  Consciousness

Martin Cecil   March 10, 1974

I greet you all this evening in this eternal moment. Here is the holy place for each of us. You are all included within the scope of my consciousness and everyone who is here present is presumably included within the scope of your consciousness. We have been participating in an educational undertaking over the last few months, and indeed, for most of you, years—a process of drawing forth. We have used a variety of analogies to describe what the experience actually is, but we only know what it actually is when we have it. Restoration, re-creation, a coming again to the point of true identity in the present moment, are all ways of describing our experience in the educational process.

Coming again to that point, “where I am,” as our Master put it, we have the responsibility of giving form to what is present in that point of true identity. This we have described as something coming down from God out of heaven; and there is something in each moment to which form should be given and for which individually we have the responsibility of giving that form. When we're actually doing this, whatever it is that is present within the scope of our consciousness is constantly changing—something new is taking form in each moment. There may be those things which are already present within the scope of our consciousness, things which heretofore we may have considered as having come out of the past, but if there is anything in our consciousness in this moment it is in the present, isn't it? Whatever is present in our consciousness in the moment needs to be changed in the right way, that there may be a new world.

Once we are at the point of true identity

the full responsibility for that change as it relates to our own world is in our hands.

We may recognize that our Master's healing ministry, which is described in dimensional terms in the Gospels, was based in this principle. He was at the point of apex, the point of true identity, in the present moment; and there was, consequently, coming down from God out of heaven whatever was fitting in the present moment. He was, consequently, engaged in giving form to these things, a creative process, so that what was in His consciousness could be the differentiation of what was coming down from God out of heaven. Applying this to a particular individual in need, where the response was present—seeing this in terms of what was in our Master's consciousness—then the particular structure in consciousness could change according to what was being differentiated and taking form coming down from God out of heaven. The structure in His consciousness changed and the person changed. Now, of course, generally speaking those who were so blessed at His hand hardly paused to give thanks. They were so delighted with what had happened that away they went, thereby taking themselves out of the immediate range of His consciousness.

There has been similar experience in various ways with respect to many people who have touched what is extended through this ministry, beginning to allow the experience of change to be known. Why do you think that change was possible? Presumably because there had been a change in the consciousness of the one who had a particular responsibility in the situation. You have found yourselves experiencing such changes. Some of those who did begin to participate in this then left the general scope of our consciousness—I suppose particularly my consciousness—and in such case I find it difficult to recall the name or the face or anything about that person. You may have experienced something of the sort yourselves.

Of course, there are those who try to keep people within the range of their consciousness who shouldn't be there, try to maintain what they call a contact with someone when they have no business doing so, because there is no capacity on the part of the individual who is maintaining this situation to allow whatever it is to come down from God out of heaven to permit the change to occur with respect to the other. Evidently the change is not occurring with respect to the other, and so the other is being removed from the range of consciousness. This is the way it works. So if you find that happening, let the person go—otherwise you maintain in your own consciousness something that doesn't belong there, and that is of no value to you—the things that don't belong in your consciousness need to be left behind. And it's of no value to the other person, because you are not functioning so as to permit a change to come in that other person which would, presumably, if the individual is wandering away, either restore him or take him out of your consciousness.

Now, there has been an unwillingness to allow those who didn't belong in our consciousness, because they had not allowed the change to come, to move on out. Maintaining such people is a drag, to say the least. I am not talking about something arbitrary, so that we might say of someone, “You're not behaving the way I think you ought; therefore I'm going to have no more to do with you.” We need to come to the point where all that comes within the range of our consciousness is offered the opportunity to change, to be made new, to participate in the re-creative cycle. If there is a refusal to do so, then that person is removed from our consciousness, and this is part of the process of the purifying of the heart. There are those who have unwisely maintained an impure condition in their own hearts by trying to keep something within the range of their consciousness that should be gone. If in the natural cycles of outworking someone who was gone returns within the scope of consciousness, then of course we offer the same opportunity again. If they accept it they will begin to change; if they don't accept it they'll get out of our consciousness, and we will not maintain those things in our consciousness—which includes people—that don't belong there.

“Behold, I make all things new.” If something refuses to be made new, then out it goes, and the going-out process relates to consciousness. There are those who have supposed that somehow or other if a person doesn't respond they're going to be consumed by fire falling from heaven. The disciples had that idea when our Master was here: “Shall we curse them?” No, we don't need to curse anybody, but the things that don't belong in consciousness will get out of consciousness as we return to the place where we belong, because not everybody is going to return with us. If there are those who have no intention of returning with us but are maintained arbitrarily in our consciousness, then we will not return either; and if anyone has found a dragging experience at any time this is one thing that might be checked. Of course all the things we have in consciousness are not necessarily people, but many of them are. The heart can never be purified if we are not willing to relinquish and let go of those who do not belong within the scope of our consciousness.

We are not going to throw anyone out. If we function correctly there are those who will throw themselves out, that's true, and you may have noted that there are those in relationship to me who have thrown themselves out. As far as I'm concerned, they no more come to mind; they're not a part of my consciousness anymore. But there are others who come within the range of my consciousness and others who come within the range of your consciousness, and we are responsible for these, to provide the opportunity to change; and the change takes place first in our consciousness. But if the individual will not go along with that change, based in what is coming down from God out of heaven and taking form through you, then that person will begin to move out. So we don't have to judge anyone; it just happens. Sometimes when a person feels that happening to him, someone who is within the scope of your consciousness, he will blame you for it. He will say, “It's you who are causing me this trouble.” Remember how King Ahab accused Elijah of this long ago: “Art thou he that troubleth Israel?” Well, Elijah wasn't troubling Israel, but Ahab was. So this might be noted, because it relates to the purifying of the heart, and there are many who have been most unwilling to let their hearts be purified if it meant relinquishing something that did not belong in consciousness, or someone who did not belong in consciousness. We're not really playing children's games!

So, when we begin to see from the standpoint of new identity, what we see we see as being new. We may say we see things and people in a new way; and our new vision, if it begins to be genuine and is based in the differentiation of what is coming down from God out of heaven, will change people who are open in response to let the change come so that they draw closer. If they are not so willing they will get further away, and if they keep on going they'll vanish from sight—rightly so! There have been those in our ministry who have condemned themselves on occasion because they thought they ought to maintain someone in consciousness, maybe someone who had in the past been close, maybe some close relative or other, and yet that person kept fading away. The individual in whose consciousness this was occurring felt badly about it and entered into self-condemnation: “Well, I should be enfolding this person.” Yes, there is enfoldment, but enfoldment is not a clinging to people; it doesn't fasten people to us. Each individual within the range of our consciousness can either come or go, and we do not decide which it should be. We merely stay where we belong and let the chips fall where they may. This is the way that all things are made new in our consciousness.

Are you really willing to allow some changes to occur in your consciousness in this area? As I say, it's not the only one, but it is a very central one; it involves our relationships with people. “Behold, I make all things new, in my consciousness.” If, functioning correctly, you find that people are not willing to be made new according to the divine design, well, they don't belong in your consciousness. If you keep them there your consciousness will never be made new. That's right, isn't it? Everything must change in the creative process. And we have discovered, as we have been moving upward on the mountainside, that our associations with people change, rightly so. We have thought of it, probably, in terms of our external affairs, but it isn't really that, is it? It's what is happening in our own consciousness. The creative process occurs in consciousness and then is evident in what may be called objective reality. It may be evident with respect to what we assume is being experienced by people, but the people are all in our own consciousness, and it is there that the changes take place.

In looking at what is needful in the world as a whole, the duck-out usually is, “Well, I'm only one person; how can what I do have an effect?” Of course the individual, when he takes that attitude, is not really being honest, for one thing, but he is considering the matter in dimensional terms, related to the periphery—things and people as they are supposed to be in the world. Well, let's bring it a little closer to home, to the things and people of which we are aware in our own consciousness.

We have our own worlds which individually we center, and our worlds are our responsibility, because when we come back to the point of true identity, then we are in the position of translating momentarily what is coming down from God out of heaven into form on earth in consciousness. We are re-creating our world in this manner and what occupies our consciousness will change. There are two ways of change, as we have noted. One is that the things and people which occupy our consciousness participate in the creative cycle of being made new; and we behold them being made new, and that's wonderful; that's one way. But the other way is that they get to hell out of there, and if we are functioning correctly that's exactly where they go. But we don't boot them out; they just remove themselves because the creative power is working to restore.

Perhaps in our own experience we have found changes working out within the range of our consciousness and we may imagine that the circumstances round about have changed, and our relationships with people. Those people are different! Wonderful, isn't it? They changed so much. Did they? Or did you? It is your responsibility to participate in the creative process, and if others are willing to participate in it, that's wonderful, and we behold the changes in our own consciousness. The world changes on this basis. We do not encompass directly and consciously everybody on earth, do we? But there is a certain scope, and it is this particular scope for which we have responsibility.

The scope relates principally to what seems to be near to us, whatever is contained in our consciousness which is at hand. Our own physical body is at hand—that's one thing, quite close—and there are other people with whom we associate daily. And insofar as our experience here in this particular pattern is concerned, there have been some changes working out, haven't there? Where were they working out? “Oh, in the Unit.” Were they? No, in your consciousness of the Unit. Then, of course, we are inundated with news, as it's called, from far and wide. That's further away in consciousness, isn't it?—it's not right here. And there are seemingly some terrible things going on in the world. But, at the moment at least, it's further away; maybe it's been pushed out there. We call it news, but it's always in the past, isn't it? Sometimes we see something live, as they call it, but even that slips quickly into the past. We're not so concerned with what is slipping into the past, seemingly, but with what is taking form rightly through oneself in the present. Here, after all, is what is to fill the void, what is going to permit all things to be made new.

It is a creative process. We know something about it; we've experienced something with respect to it. We may have misinterpreted it at times. We have thought of it in dimensional terms. But, if there is any real change occurring of which we as individuals are aware, it is occurring in our own consciousness. So, it is not a matter of sitting down and saying, “Won't it be wonderful when everybody changes?” because very quickly, if you do that, you come to the conclusion that it will never happen, because insofar as you are concerned it never will happen. But we have awakened to the consciousness that it is our responsibility to let it happen; not to let it happen in some vague world but in the world that occupies our own consciousness; it's the only one we have. The whole world changes on this basis, because each individual who accepts this responsibility to return to the point of true identity, and actually returns, is undertaking the re-creative process within the range of his own consciousness, and the individual consciousness is a part of the consciousness of the body of mankind. So this is happening in the body of mankind.

We've already seen that almost everyone is engaged in trying to manipulate what they imagine to be the objective world around them. This is the state of consciousness of virtually everyone, and we have seen that as long as this state of consciousness persists nothing creative can ever happen. Therefore the initiation of something of a creative happening is because someone emerges out of that state and moves to the restoration of true identity. When that happens in an individual it doesn't happen just for that individual, because that individual is a part of the whole. We can't get out of being a part of the whole. We may have thought ourselves, in the false state, to be separate, but the truth is that there is one whole. As long as all people are struggling and manipulating, nothing is happening, but the very moment someone begins to move back to true identity something is happening in the consciousness of mankind—the thing that needs to happen. You may say there are so few who do this, and it takes so long that they'll all be dead first, and then where'll we be?

This is what seemed to happen to Jesus, wasn't it? But, you know, we are able to experience what we are now experiencing because of Him, something He did in the present moment. He didn't do it in the past; He did it in the present moment. And we are in the present moment. This is why the door is open. He saw the world as it really is and He allowed the changes to occur in His own consciousness. Some of those changes, in specific instances, related to what is called healing, but in the larger event it related to what occurred to Him. His body, with its capacity of consciousness, continued to share with Him the true identity all the way through, no matter what occurred, and remained with Him in consequence—that was called the resurrection—thereby revealing that insofar as His consciousness on earth was concerned all things had been made new. And we have the opportunity of sharing in that, of sharing in what is true in His consciousness on the basis of exactly the same principle that I have been talking about now.

If we, amongst others, are willing to accept the truth which is present in His consciousness, then we find ourselves with Him—as He put it, “That where I am, there ye may be also,” at this point of true identity. It is imagined that He went away someplace—He was taken up into heaven. Where? He didn't go anyplace in fact. He just stayed where He belongs, in the point of true identity. Because those who were present did not stay in that place, it seemed as though He was gone, and it has seemed ever since as though He had gone. But coming to that place, to that point, we find that we are there where He is. He didn't move, He didn't go anyplace, and we discover the truth of this by coming to that point—there He is. And we only come to that point because we acknowledge the truth which He revealed in His own consciousness, that truth as it relates to us; for insofar as He is concerned we can either be structures in His consciousness, so to speak, or we can get to hell out of there. Now, most people have gotten to hell out of there, but we can agree with Him. He sees things as they are. All right, we will acknowledge that He sees things as they are, and we will not insist upon the nonsensical view in the human state. So, progressively we acknowledge who we are—that's what we've been doing, isn't it?—not who we think we are but who He knows we are. Then where He is we are; we occupy His consciousness. Could we be any closer than that? And we participate in the process by which He may have the wholeness of the capacity of consciousness provided through man on earth.

There is much in the consciousness of man that doesn't belong. To that extent it's not His consciousness. Sometimes it has been said that there are two bodies, the Son of God and the son of perdition. It is really one body but with two apparent aspects. What is present in the consciousness of that body either belongs in the consciousness of the Son of God or in the consciousness of the son of perdition. The re-creative process is to bring to pass the restoration of the consciousness of man, so that that capacity is filled with the consciousness of the Son of God, and no other. And this is accomplished through those who take the responsibility because they return to the point where they belong. Then it happens. And no amount of human manipulation, playing around on the periphery, can stop it happening.

Let your consciousness be made new because you come again to the point of true identity in the moment and you are, in your expression, governed by what is rightly being differentiated through that point in the moment. You're not governed by your views of the world situation or by anything that is happening in the world, by any desire with respect to anything in the world, because you are fully occupied with your one purpose, namely to differentiate in the moment the essences that should be given form from God in the moment, that and that alone. And what is supposed to be the future will take care of itself; but we'll find it isn't the future at all; it's the present. The present moment will always be exactly what it should be. How could it be exactly what it should be if what it should be is not translated and differentiated into the moment? This is the only way it happens, and it's done in the present moment as we stand in that identity which is beyond the realm of space and time.

The renewing of the mind—it is the renewing of the mind, the change of the structures in consciousness which all increasingly become living forms, because all that is differentiated from that one point is living—life and more abundant life created, brought forth, differentiated, in the present moment, and “Behold, I make all things new.” That is it. Let us be willing to allow our individual consciousnesses to be purified, the heart purified, the mind purified, because only what belongs in consciousness can occupy our consciousness and everything else is gone. When that is so, there is a new world. Simple!

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