from
The Radiant Magnetic Force
Martin
Cecil July 10, 1983
I have had some offers to open the service this evening. I have selected
just one, in the person of John Gray. I will speak after him. There will be no
gathering at my house this evening, but John no doubt will provide a focus for
a period here in the Chapel after the service.
John Gray — By now many Emissaries are
aware of today’s event. The passing of Bill Bahan is seen as a keen loss of a
very dear and close and valuable friend, as Martin emphasized in his words this
afternoon. It is a fact to be seen now in light of how greater responsibility
may be assumed by all of us. If there had been a certain relationship of
dependence on Bill, as I suspect was the case on the part of some, there may be
a certain feeling of having been orphaned. Such an experience may come as a
shock, to be sure, but it also is a very strong stimulus to grow up, to be a
man or a woman, and to take care of the responsibilities that are one’s own.
Obviously no one can be dependent on Bill now. This emphasizes that we rightly
cannot be dependent on anyone. We cannot be dependent upon Martin to sustain us,
or upon Michael, or upon anyone to whom we may look in our program.
Children are called dependents, at least by the Internal Revenue
Service. If we are to grow up we must come to the point of not being dependent
in this way. Of course the idea may then arise: “What does that mean? Are we to
become independent?” No, there is no point in swinging to some opposite
extreme. Let's just be ourselves, our angelic selves. Let’s be Emissaries of Divine Light. This
more mature view takes in a larger picture—the broader world of man, for one.
This is, to me, something beyond having an international sort of consciousness,
having a world view. The truly mature view, at least as it is beginning to occur
in my consciousness, relates to a reawakening of a spiritual planetary responsibility—what
that might actually mean. This requires that we be of sizable stature to play
the commissioned role.
We see here and there about our world individuals rising into positions
of greater spiritual stability, and this brings great delight. Why is it happening? Martin spoke of the angels sent forth from heaven to gather the
elect from the four winds. The elect are waiting; everywhere I have been there
have been plenty! That was certainly something that Bill often said too.
Everywhere he went there was plenty of response, plenty of eager people, just
waiting for the provision of the one sent forth from heaven, the one who brings
heaven on earth. The question may be asked of ourselves; “Are we on hand
factually to do this job, to really do this job?” I am sure we would all say Yes
loudly. Well we prove that by what we do, as we well know.
Martin mentioned
that maturity is characterized by the assumption of greater spiritual responsibility,
and primary to that spiritual responsibility is the bringing of heaven into the
experience, into the consciousness, of human beings. Oh let us do this—for all
we are worth, let’s do it!
Martin Cecil — No doubt there are
those who have been dependent upon Bill. The fact of his departure will make
plain to all concerned as to the extent of their dependency. I think what has
happened will come as a shock to many. Bill himself always gave the air of
indestructibility. We all have responsibility for one another. No one is
isolated and alone, so obviously in various ways we do influence each other. We
either detract from the life force in expression through somebody else or
enhance it. If we are detractors in this sense we might be described as
parasites. I suppose dependents are parasites. It’s all right with children;
that’s to be expected, and I don’t think they would be rightly classified as parasites.
They are just in the state in which they naturally should be at the time. But
each person is designed to mature. All that is necessary to bring that maturity
is present.
Maturity comes as there is space for heaven. Most seem to have plenty
of space for hell but precious little for heaven. This relates to what we have
referred to as spiritual substance. It must be the substance of sufficient
quality and refinement to be capable of accommodating heaven. That substance is
very precious. We should protect it with our lives, because if we lose it we
lose our lives. This substance is generated by the quality of our living. Surely
we would never deliberately dissipate the substance upon which our lives
depend. It is the substance of heaven. Life is of heaven.
We never assume, rightly, the attitude of the accuser of our brethren.
This is a very common attitude accepted by most people; they are always accusing
their brethren one way or another. That is aligning oneself with the devil. We
are not in the business of accusing anyone, but we are in the business of love. Our supreme love is rightly the truth. Human beings love all kinds of
things. They love each other sometimes, for a little; they love
things; they love certain kinds of circumstance. Because they love some circumstances,
they hate others. Because they love some people, they hate others. This is a
very unstable state of affairs. We have described it in terms of like and
dislike. That’s modified love and modified hate.
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all.” Thou shalt love the truth
with all. We know that the ingredients of truth are control and design. Control
is strong, sure and stable, compassionate, understanding. Is our state, in the course
of our moments, characterized by these qualities? Design becomes known because
there is a natural ease between angels. When that ease is absent, rigidities
set in, conflicts appear, design is obliterated. When there is ease, angels
move easily in whatever way is fitting and right and necessary. The opposite
state could well be defined as disease.
So we protect the essential spiritual substance, having of course undertaken
to generate some because we love the truth. We love the truth wherever it
appears. We love the means of its appearance, but not more than we love the
truth. Bill Bahan was a focus point for the expression of truth in his own
natural way. He was greatly loved by many. However, that love really is for the
truth which he exemplified. If it is that, then maybe we are saddened that the
facility by which the truth was exemplified is no longer present, but the truth
is still present and we ourselves continue to have the opportunity of
exemplifying it. If we do exemplify it, then the truth is always with us and we
are never consequently desolate. Desolation comes by reason of the absence of
love for the truth, Sometimes one may love a substitute for a little while and
assuage the sense of desolation slightly, but it will reoccur, until we decide
to love the truth, so that the truth means more to us than anyone or anything.
Then we come into position to speak the Word of Truth in our living, because there
is substance to accommodate it.
If we love the truth a little, if we have the attitude that we can
take it or leave it, then we don't have much substance, and what we have can
very easily be dissipated. But if our love is absolute we are home safe. We
know the truth. Knowing the truth doesn’t engender concepts or beliefs. No one
could ever rightly say, “I know the truth because I believe this way or that
way.” It would be better to say, “I don’t know the truth because I believe this
way or that way." That would be a more accurate statement. When there is
the substance to accommodate heaven, the angel who we ourselves are begins to
become apparent. We know what we express. It’s not really a matter of seeing
ourselves as others see us. What is necessary is not so much to see ourselves
as to be ourselves, and
that is the expression of the truth.
When there is substance and the truth finds expression, there is what
we call radiation. This relates to the working of the four forces—the four
winds. They operate in heaven, always have. When they are brought into the
earth because we are present in heaven on earth, then they operate in the earth
too, and there is what might be describable as a radiant magnetic force. This
magnetic force we have described in other terms: the Tone, for instance, the
light. It has a number of different aspects for the achievement of specific
purposes, and one of these is a magnetic force which gathers the elect. It’s
not a matter of going out and beating the bushes—there may be some elect
lurking under them, they need to be gotten out of there. No, it’s a much more
gentle act that is required, and a much more effective one, because it only gathers
those who should be gathered.
It isn’t an indiscriminate matter. Are we going to try to fill heaven
indiscriminately? It wouldn’t be heaven for long, would it? Of course it’s not
a matter of filling heaven anyway; it’s a matter of heaven filling people. And
it will do so as this magnetic force gathers those in whom there is at least
some substance capable of accommodating heaven. Those are the ones that are
drawn. You don’t need to judge anyone. You don’t need to look people over and
say, “Well here’s a good prospect; there’s a bad one.” You may find, if you let
it work properly, that your good prospect is not so good and the bad one is
perfect. It’s not a matter of good or bad, is it? It’s a matter of who is
drawn, who is gathered. Well the gathering force must be applied if there is to
be the gathering of the elect, and that application occurs because we ourselves
have accommodated heaven and we are angelically on hand.
The control of truth is extended. Part of that control relates to this
magnetic attraction. We have noted certain qualities—understanding,
compassion, strength, but it’s never defensive. True control is never
defensive. Defensiveness comes because of fear. Perfect love casts out fear.
Perfect love is the truth of love, or love for the truth—so there is no
need for defensiveness. The truth can’t be destroyed. If that is our expression
then we can’t be destroyed either. If we simply associate ourselves
with our physical forms, saying, “That’s me; I see myself in the mirror,” then
destruction one way or another is sure. One aspect of destruction may be
resurrection—transformation. What was there isn’t there the same way anymore.
We speak the Word of Truth in our living. There is an attractive force
which gathers the elect from one end of the heaven to the other. They must at
least slightly be in heaven to be gathered. There must be some substance
capable of accommodating a little heaven; then the magnetic force can impinge.
And we behold many coming home. They come home sometimes in very peculiar ways,
so we are very careful not to judge the way they are coming. Some look as
though they are coming home but it turns out eventually that they are going
someplace else. They come along and then pass you right by. Well this concerns
us not at all, because we love the truth and we love what is gathered because
of our love for the truth. It’s very selective. There is discrimination in this
sense. No one can get away with anything. Human beings try to make a world in
which there is supposed to be no discrimination. What would you have? Is nobody
capable of discriminating? Is everybody really the same? Each person is unique.
Let the way it is be revealed because we speak the Word of Truth in our living.
There is the compulsion of radiation. There is light; there is the
sounding of the Tone; there is magnetic attraction. This is not a little thing.
This is the power which operates the universe, after all. And it doesn’t take
very much of a facility composed of the substance of heaven to let this
creative power work. It doesn’t take a very large facility, shall we put it
that way? It’s well that it should be small so that human beings can’t take
credit to themselves. Looking at what needs to happen in the world—and nobody
really knows what does need to happen, incidentally—it seems like an enormous
task. It will take all the human resources to achieve what is necessary. That’s
the way it seems, and of course on that basis nothing of any real value would
ever be achieved. It would be self-destructive.
So there needs to be a rent in the veil—as there is—enlarged somewhat
so that this creative radiation can move. Those bodies and minds and hearts
through whom it moves do not necessarily know what it is that is being
achieved. The mind is favored with a little view of something now and again.
But let it not become arrogant and say, because of that little view, “Now I
know,” because then it would go off on its own tangent again. No, it was given
a glimpse. How nice, how wonderful, what a blessing. If another one comes, that
will be a blessing too. If it doesn't, well that's a blessing as well.
No demands, no requirements. None with the heart either. “How can I
expect to exist on earth without some sort of satisfaction for my emotions?”
Well you can’t exist for long getting some sort of satisfaction for your
emotions, but you can live forever in the current of the spirit when the
emotions require nothing. This is not to say that there may not be some very
delightful satisfaction and emotional fulfilment, but not on the basis of
demand: “Well now is the time; I need emotional fulfilment. You had better
deliver.” Sometimes wives get that attitude toward their husbands, and husbands
toward their wives. They make demands on each other—each is imposing upon the other. That’s supposed to be marvelous fulfilment,
particularly sexual fulfilment. It isn’t. It’s the way for destruction to be
more intensely experienced.
No, it's not a matter of demanding anything. It’s a matter of giving
these beautifully designed capacities of mind, heart and body freely to the
truth, to the expression of the truth—that is, to one’s own expression, the
expression of the angel. Then you know it. And you don't have to look at
yourself to find yourself. You just have to be yourself and express yourself.
But of course the addictions in mind and heart tend to get in there and
distort the picture, start making demands, start accusing, start therefore dissipating
substance, and the heaven becomes fainter and eventually vanishes from experience.
No accusation, no demand! This is rather a simple state, isn’t it? What’s so
difficult about it? Of course what is difficult is the fact that we have
already established some pretty strong addictions. But just to be available,
vibrantly available—not inert, but vibrantly available—for the expression of
the truth! And when the truth is expressed, the creative power is radiant and
what needs to happen happens.
We find ourselves moving in a natural rhythm mentally and emotionally
and physically, to let this creative power be consistently radiant because we
are present. And we know that we are not all on our own. We can’t go off
somewhere all by ourselves and say, “Well now I am going to let this happen
here. Pretty soon I will be surrounded by heaven on earth.” It doesn’t work
that way. It works where one is, and we are responsible where we are. One of
the evidences of letting it work is being responsible where we are. And behold,
because the creative power is radiant the creative process is in effect and all
things do indeed work together to perfection because of it—not just by chance
but because we are on hand as angels, fulfilling the commission for which we
were born into the world in human form.
We find ourselves all over the place, don’t we, in many countries, many
nations. We are Emissaries of Divine Light. We represent another country. We
represent the heaven. We are not of this world, even though in it, and we
provide what is necessary out of heaven into the earth. Behold, all things are
indeed made new on this basis. We can observe the process by which they are
being made new with our senses, with our heart and with our mind and with our
body: but the addiction of judgment is gone. We just let it be what it is. It all comes out in the wash, as they say, if you let the wash
continue.
Angels have patience. After all, they have had it presumably for at
least twenty thousand years. A few more years or centuries or millennia are
quite all right, angelically speaking—whatever is necessary to get the job
done. We begin to have a transcendent awareness because we know the truth. We
know the truth because we express the truth. How simple, how beautiful. Indeed,
how fulfilling.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
