Keep Your Sticky Fingers Off The Creative Process!
from
To Pray Without Ceasing
Martin Exeter February 8, 1987
I wrote down a few little—I don’t know whether they are gems or not—earlier
this evening when I was thinking along these lines. And if I can read my small
writing here, I will read what I wrote. This relates to prayer, by the way.
“Whatever arises”—and something is always arising in our experience
moment by moment by moment—“whatever arises, let me dwell in the secret place
of the Most High.” In the creative process the little word let always seems to occur: “Let there be light,” “Let there be a
firmament,” etc. “Let me dwell in the secret place of the Most High.” The place
is secret because it is my place. No one else can get into it. Someone else may
have a secret place, fine; everybody does; if they would consider dwelling
there they would find out. There is a place of stillness, a place of strength.
So whatever arises, let me be there.
“Let there be a place of stillness in the midst of turmoil.” How? Because
I am that place. That’s how it comes in the midst of turmoil. There is plenty
of turmoil around; we don’t have to go looking for that; but how about bringing
the place of stillness into it? Let me not become all excited and try to settle
things, to straighten things out and get things the way I think they should be.
Just let there be a place of stillness in the midst of turmoil. Too simple? Did
you ever allow it to happen? If you did you know that it works. You may not
have to say a word, you may not even have to do anything. Just let that place
of stillness be present because you are present.
“Let there be a place of light amidst darkness.” There is plenty of darkness
around. Most people are fascinated by it. A lack of understanding, a lack of
awareness, of what it is that is really going on—darkness! We have come to an
awareness of what it is that is going on because there some alignment, at
least, with the creative process. That’s what is going on. All this folderol in
the world of human beings means nothing. The creative process means everything.
That’s going to prevail, after all. Do you think human beings could get away
with their rebelliousness in this little pinprick of a planet in the midst of
the universe which is governed by the creative process? Not on your life!
“Let there be a place of ease amid disease.” People everywhere are frantically
grappling with disease, trying to eliminate disease without changing the cause
of it one iota. The cause of it is the lack of alignment with the creative
process. That is the cause of all disease,
of all trouble, of all tribulation. Yet human beings insist upon maintaining
their own determinations. Okay, one can do that; but don’t complain when the
results come along! Complaining is one of the most popular sports on earth.
A place of order. “Let there be a place of order in the chaos.” Why? Because
I am present. I am present, praying without ceasing, part of the creative
process, aligned with it. Let it work. Stop imposing good human ideas on it. Oh
most people daren’t stop doing that, principally because they have no idea that
there is any creative process. We have come to the point of knowing better. Let
us never deny that, but be true to the truth that we know.
“Let there be a place of love and beauty in the midst of fear and ugliness.”
“Let my presence be a beacon of enfolding radiance in every circumstance.”
Is that too much to ask? The creative process is doing it all the time, except
human beings haven’t known it because they have blotted it out. Let us be
willing to know it, that wherever we are we may bring life, and bring it more
abundantly. This is a world of death. We cannot know life in a world of death.
All we can know is dying. And that’s all human beings know. From the moment
they are born, they are dying. The world that human beings have created, by
their rejection of the creative process, is a dying world. In it, death is
worshipped. Everybody is frantically trying to make something good come out of
death. “Oh yes, after we die we go to heaven”—or the other place, as the case
may be. I was going to say that’s not so hot, but it is!
So we pray without ceasing, aligned with the creative process, letting
all the human efforts drain away, because we see so clearly where such efforts
lead. Rise up into the experience of the creative process, which will occupy
hearts and minds as they relinquish that human state of self. Then there is
space, space to experience the natural flow of the creative process emerging
through us, through anyone who will receive it, emerging through the
consciousness of mankind to the extent that there is a willingness that it
should, to the extent that there ceases to be persistence in glorifying the
human self. The human self doesn’t belong on earth, and that will prove itself
out in due course. There is a truth that
does belong in human form.
Two great commandments were given, apparently, in the past: “Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all”—with all.
No one ever did that, did they? They were draining love off here
and draining it off there. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all ... and
thy neighbour as thyself.” This seems to have been taken to mean that it is
proper that you should love everybody. But something specific was said here:
“thy neighbour.” And there was an indication, a sort of definition given, as to
who your neighbor was. The statement wasn’t: "You must love everybody.” It
wasn’t that. “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” And I suppose the
definition of a neighbor is one who, to whatever degree, is allowing the
creative process to work in his or her life. When that is so, the fact is
discernible by reason of spiritual discernment.
There is something which flows between those in whom the creative process
is being allowed to work. It can be sensed. There is what might be called a
communion in the spirit of love. If someone is closed to the creative process, nothing
is flowing; there can be no communion of love. So it isn't a command to love
the unlovable. That would be an impossibility, wouldn’t it? The command is to
love those through whom some measure of the creative process is being allowed
to flow. If one is letting it flow through oneself, one will sense the movement
of that flow through another. No judgment is necessary; you don’t judge
anybody. You just find out whether the flow is there or not. I said in the
past—and somebody took me to task for it—that those who deny the creative
process, deny my King, mean absolutely nothing to me. Of course! There can be
no flow. That’s the way it is. It is a foolish fancy to imagine that one can
love everybody.
There are those who try it mind you. Most don’t. It isn’t a matter of
loving everybody. It is a matter of loving the Lord with all, loving the
creative process with all; and if the creative process is working through
someone, that will be included, won’t it? So there is no contradiction here between loving the
creative process in one’s own experience of it, and loving a perception of it
as it moves through somebody else. It is all the creative process, all loving
the Lord with all. Of course there is always an enfoldment of love. Love is
always available. The creative process is always available to everybody. And
there is nothing to say, “Well you can’t have it; you can’t experience it” It
relates to what happens inside a person as to whether they accept it or reject
it. Let it work. Let them accept it or let them reject it; we’ll find out.
Let the creative process work, and all things on that basis work together
to perfection. But don’t slip in your two bits worth of good ideas to fortify
the creative process. It doesn’t need your contribution. It will work the way
it works, and we begin to discover what that is as we let it work through
ourselves individually. Then we know what it is because it is expressed in our
living, and we know what we express. The truth is known only in that way.
So it is well to put
human nature, the human self, on the spot, which I have sought to do a little
bit this evening. I'm sure you've all joined with me in putting it on the spot,
for it only means something when you do it with respect to your own human self.
“Get thee hence, satan.” The devil, it is said, was a liar from the
beginning. He is also a thief. That says something about human beings. But
our concern is to restore to the Lord what is His.
Keep your sticky fingers off the creative process! As that is done, the
creative process has a chance to move within the range of one’s own immediate
experience, so that there is an increasing awareness of that movement.
Somewhere along the way you will find increasingly that your hands are
necessary to the creative process, but on an entirely different basis, because
there will be an entirely different person present.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
