Moment Of Truth #2
A Sea Of Glass Clear As Crystal
Martin Cecil September 6, 1981 p.m.
The experience must be known of the sea of glass clear as crystal, within the heart of each one. The emotional realm of mankind has been a stormy sea, filled with violent tides and crosscurrents, with waves of murky water. The whole human race has been suffering from seasickness. All manner of sickness and all manner of disease may be seen as springing out of this seasickness—the emotional state of mankind. As long as it continues the way it is the sickness continues. There is no way of stopping it by trying to treat the sickness. Let there be a sea of glass clear as crystal, and there is no more reason for sickness.
Something came to point after our comment period at my house which I would like to introduce to you and expand upon. It relates very much to all that has been happening over the ages and what is now coming to a time of climax and fulfilment. I mentioned that Job was the oldest book in the Bible. There is a story here which carries considerable significance. There is also the story of the failure of human beings recorded at the beginning of the Book of Genesis. That story, and the story at the beginning of the Book of Job, are a portrayal of two aspects of the same thing. We usually hear about Adam and Eve because that failure has been emphasized in human consciousness, chiefly through the subconscious sense of shame and guilt. So the failure is apparent by reason of Adam and Eve. While initially it may have involved just two people, it shortly involved considerably more, until now the whole human race is in this state of failure. Something different, however, is portrayed with respect to Job. Job represents those who kept their integrity.
On the one hand there were those who kept their integrity, and on the other there were those who lost it. Because there were those who kept their integrity the possibility of restoration has remained a very real potential. In fact this restoration has been anticipated. This of course is portrayed in the Book of Job. There were thirty-eight chapters of mess, and then the fulfilment came. It came because Job had kept his integrity. He was asked by his wife to curse God and die, but he wouldn’t. He didn’t follow this female suggestion. The suggestion of course was to lose his integrity. After all, he was badly afflicted. There seemed to be every valid reason for him to curse God and die, but he would not do that.
There have been those down through the ages, who were represented in this story by Job, individuals who kept their integrity in spite of everything. We have various outstanding examples of this, coming to a point of culmination in the One called Jesus. He would not curse God and die, so He lived. Simple! I know from my own experience that there have been a great many people who have, in their various ways, suggested to me that I curse God and die. So far I haven’t done it. Usually that suggestion has been brought by a female, as it was in the story of Job and as it was also in the story of Adam and Eve. Adam lost his integrity. Job retained his. Because that integrity was retained, there has been a continuity of integrity present among the children of men ever since, as well as a very broad continuity of the loss of integrity.
So we come to this present time when the sea of glass clear as crystal has begun to re-emerge so that God might speak out of the whirlwind and claim attention. This thread of continuity, maintained by those who have kept their integrity, has been so slight that most of the time it went unnoticed. But it was there, just as it was in Job, so that the time might come when there was sufficient substance present for the radiation of the spirit of God to become known in a direct, conscious sense. Something is called to remembrance on this basis, by the Spirit of Truth. We and others have shared that remembrance to a certain extent, either by hearsay, which is one thing, or by actual personal experience, which is another.
When Job finally came back into position to receive what the Lord was offering, and had been offering all along, it turned out to be considerably more than it was at the time when the human failure first put in an appearance. This is an interesting thing to note. I suppose there are those who have thought of it in terms of God being particularly pleased with Job because he kept his integrity, and so He was going to reward him accordingly. But that is a human nature portrayal, if there ever was one. It doesn't happen that way.
An apt analogy of what occurred would be seen in an orchestra who were originally being conducted according to the score that was present, and bringing forth a beautiful symphony. But then the human failure occurred and one by one the orchestra members dropped to sleep, so gradually there was nothing left but the conductor. Rather a tiresome position for the conductor to be in—wearying, to say the least. All the orchestra members were asleep, but the score was there; the conductor went on. From time to time perhaps an orchestra member would stir in his slumber, wake up a little, look at the score, trumpet out a few notes and go to sleep again. This wasn’t a very satisfactory symphony, certainly, and would give a peculiar impression. And those who heard the sound in their sleep would probably be quite critical of it, not realizing that it was that way because they were asleep. Finally the time comes when the responsible members of the orchestra begin to awaken, pick up their instruments and play. But obviously, in the intervening years, as it has proved to be—millennia in fact—the conducting has continued. There has been continued movement, in other words, even though nobody was aware of it. But becoming aware of it and awakening, the orchestra members find that the score is what it is now, not what it was then.
Very often people are inclined to try to look back to what the true state was. They’re not very successful in finding anything that has much meaning, but even if they were successful, what would be the point? That was played long ago. It has moved on since then, and something else is to be played. There has been an increase, an expansion, a movement, occurring in all this blank space when human beings have been asleep. So when the awakening comes they pick up their instruments and play the score as it now is. And that is something else. There is consequently an increase. From the standpoint of this score it isn’t a repetition, over and over and over endlessly, throughout eternity. No—something new, something fresh, something building upon what went before. As the awakening comes, there we are. As is portrayed in Job, he had twice as much as he had before. This is rightly what is now occurring.
Continuing a bit with that analogy, as various orchestra members do awaken and play their instruments there is rather an imbalanced sound, because the whole orchestra isn't awake yet. So what’s the answer to that one? Shall we all go to sleep until everybody wakes up? Do you think everybody would ever wake up on that basis? Maybe they will wake up because of the apparently discordant sound. “Oh dear,” they say, “now I had better put my instrument to work too, and we'll begin to have a real symphony.” Looking at it this way we can see the absolute futility of judgment. There is simply the individual matter of awakening. As individuals we can only awaken for ourselves. We can't awaken for anybody else. We’ve been told this before, I believe, almost ad nauseam; but it is true, strangely enough. And it’s not so strange, is it? It’s obvious. But the habits of slumber seem to die hard. So we awaken and, in awakening, we begin to become aware of the score and of the conductor.
This morning we shared the words, “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” I’m sure we were all impressed with how this question is posed to each one of us, and is seen in terms of human emotion, disturbed human emotion the way it now is, running riot and bringing forth sickness and finally death. Can human emotion be brought under control and into the true design for right use? We recognize there is nothing wrong with the capacity for emotion. There is only something wrong when it is wrongly used, which of course it has been. Now we become aware of right use, under the dominion of the spirit of God, which is accepted as the basis for the quality of our momentary living. When that quality begins to come out in our expression the sweet influences of Pleiades are bound, and when they are bound they are found to be sweet. They are pretty sour when they’re running rampant—very bitter. We saw this in particular terms relative to the female aspect of being, so that the male aspect might be released into the creative expression of what we have called the Son, the conscious, directing element in man restored. This then includes the unconscious aspect—the intuitive aspect it has sometimes been called without understanding what it is, particularly represented by women. There are, as we know, these two aspects in both male and female, but rightly the unconscious aspect is represented by women and the conscious aspect by men. Here we have the Son and the Holy Ghost in concert, in complementation.
On this basis there may be the acceptance of right responsibility on earth portrayed in these words: “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?” What are we here to bring forth? “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Mazzaroth is a word which portrays the true experience of life in man, male and female. This is to be brought forth, that it may be available not only within the body of mankind but beyond the body of mankind, to all the kingdoms of this world—that finally there may be some glory to them. Life is moving throughout the whole universe. It is moving in our galaxy and in our solar system, in the earth. We know that to be so. Life, which presently is merely existence in the awareness of human beings, is certainly not restricted to what is present on the surface of this planet. It is all-inclusive. Therefore if there is a bringing forth of life in our individual and collective field of responsibility there is association with life as it is brought forth everywhere. We can see various connections in this regard relative to the bringing forth of life in our environment close at hand and vastly further afield. There is life moving at every level, through everything, and if life is being brought forth through us what is being brought forth through us relates to everything, it meshes with everything; and we find that there is a wholeness which moves all together to perfection. There begins to be awareness of what is necessary relative to that wholeness within the range of our own particular fields of responsibility. But this awareness is absolutely impossible until life is factually being brought forth. We know what we express.
“Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” It is interesting that this goes quite far afield apparently, at least if we see it in relationship to the great sun Arcturus. Well how are we going to do anything about that? We don’t need to do anything about it; it’s all right; but Arcturus and his sons certainly have a relationship to what’s going on here. All life meshes together. So whatever it is that comes to focus relative to Arcturus and his sons in our own experience is rightly guided into the creative field which is our individual and collective responsibility. It is impossible to do anything rightly on the face of the earth without having what is done mesh with everything that is being done rightly everywhere else. Some of that which is happening elsewhere indeed has a particular relatedness to what is happening right here, and we no longer think of the universe around us as being millions of light-years away from us, because it is right here where we are. That right-hereness relates to spirit, not merely to the form of things. It may seem, form-wise, according to human views at the present time and their massive calculations, that some celestial objects are millions of light-years away. Well this is a concept of the human mind; it likely has little relationship to the fact of the matter. In any case if we find ourselves expressing spirit, that’s what we know. And we do not judge by the appearance. We judge righteous judgment, which is the truth that is known when the truth is expressed. So there is much that comes within the range of the experience of man that has long been excluded by reason of human failure.
And finally, “Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?” This clearly has something to do with the reason for man’s existence. He was created in the image of God, male and female, to have dominion. All on his own? Of course not. That aspect of the matter went without saying in the beginning. The state of separation had not occurred yet. The dominion was the dominion of God, and man allowed that dominion to be brought to a particular focus for particular uses in the creative cycles. It emerged out of what is spoken of here as heaven, the ordinances of heaven, that which is ordained from that standpoint. Do you know what is ordained? The only way we can know it is to express it, to bring it forth, and then we begin to know. How are we going to bring it forth? Are we going to bring it forth so that some right influence can be extended to Saturn? Or could the right influence just relate to our immediate circumstance right here? Where else can it start? We can only reach something that is larger through the small thing that is right next to us. It is futile to try to jump over that.
So there are things ordained relative to the immediate requirement now—things ordained for us to share now. Certainly, from my standpoint, I have to be aware of something of this in order to bring it forth. As I bring it forth I know what it is—do you? You share it. Of course it has to filter through your consciousness a bit too, so it may get diverted there a little. But, increasingly, we begin to agree, because what is being brought forth is being brought forth as one thing for which each individual has an aspect of responsibility. It can’t possibly be all brought forth by one person. If that was possible then there would be no need for anybody else, would there? But there is a need for all of us. That’s nice to think about. We’re all here, after all. Each individual has something to bring forth of Mazzaroth, and something to guide; and the guidance can be given because of what is being brought forth through the whole, not separate from that—something being brought forth even in Arcturus that relates to what we bring forth here.
I doubt if everything that needs to be said was said in these three verses. Here is a general view of something, which needs to be made very specific by each individual. So do we begin to know the ordinances of heaven, and can set the dominion thereof in the earth. All this depends upon a sea of glass clear as crystal. It isn’t all that clear yet, is it? We’ve been looking at some things here, but there is vastly more to be seen and understood. But it requires a sea of glass clear as crystal to let it happen. Emotions, human emotions; we have the responsibility to let them be clear. Then the design of creative expression emerges, and it emerges in very specific ways which we begin to discover individually.
We arrive at the moment of truth. Every moment is a moment of truth to one who is the truth. We think of the moment of truth perhaps as being separated from ourselves still—it’s going to show up this month! It can show up now. To the extent that our experience of living is the truth, then each moment is a moment of truth. Each moment we know the truth to the extent necessary to assume right responsibility for that moment. And nobody can do it for anybody else. Nobody can do it for you but you.
I rejoice that we have come to this time when we may speak of these things, as I did this morning for instance, quite forcefully. And there were a sufficient number of people willing to sit there and take it. I trust it was taken rather than deflected. One can deflect the truth by taking the attitude that it doesn’t really apply to me. Let us share an attitude of honesty which allows us to be where we belong, in the sea of glass clear as crystal, so that the creative process may continue as it should, under the dominion of the spirit of God, because there are those who are willing to allow it to work that way. I trust that we may all be included in that number, for this is indeed the moment of truth.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
