The Vibrational Matrix

The  Vibrational  Matrix

from  Recreating the World

Martin Cecil   March 15, 1981

All that exists springs from the one substance of love and is inseparable from that substance. The attempt has been made by human beings to wrest the peripheral elements of that one substance away from the one substance which is the reason for its existence. The earth as we know it we have seen to be the most spaceful aspect of substance, and it is this that human beings have attempted to take by force for themselves. But no aspect of the differentiation of this one substance can possibly be separated from the one substance. All that really happens is that the consciousness which makes this attempt ceases to exist, and so death is known—but it's only known by those who live. As it was put somewhere in the Bible, “The dead know not any thing.”

We have taken note of what is describable as the vibrational nature of all substance. The substance of love is the one substance, which when differentiated into its spectrum by the prism of truth composes what is called creation. It is the truth of love. The one absolute solid of love, when differentiated by reason of the truth, composes creation. Creation only exists because of love; and it is a vibrational matrix, one might say. To have meaning this vibrational matrix must be translated in some way by a facility which is aware at least of some of the differentiations of the one substance. This brings us again to a recognition that we factually create our own worlds. We see them in a certain way on the basis of our perception of the various levels of vibrational substance which are within the range of our awareness. There is much that is not within the range of our awareness, and we don't create anything out of that; but what does impinge upon our awareness we create into a world.

The world which is known by human beings in general is a self-created world. There are certain fundamentals in this particular world which are commonly accepted in the awareness of all, but there are also unique aspects of this world created by each individual. I'm sure you have noted, in considering something with others, that what you see is not just exactly what they see. In other words there is an individual translation being made of what comes within the range of perception out of this vibrational matrix. As I say, we commonly accept the earth. We see it in a certain way, but we see it that way collectively, pretty well. There are some who still are walking around on a flat earth, but most of us have accepted the idea of an orb—regardless of whether it is the truth of the matter or not, mind you. But we have tended to agree on this point and so we have a common earth, which is composed of what we call physical substance. However this is mostly space. It's just the peripheral edge of vibrational substance, and this peripheral edge human beings try to get hold of in one way or another to use for their own self-devised purposes. And of course people get together with each other to achieve certain common purposes.

But it may be seen that all this occurs by reason of the beautifully designed instrument which the human being is capable of creating. Man was made in the image and likeness of God. God is a creator; therefore man is a creator, supposedly also a co-creator with God—at least this was the intention. But he's gone off on his own and created a world according to his own devising. And he sees this world the way he sees this world, “Behold!”—and this exists in the consciousness of human beings. Strangely enough it doesn't really exist anywhere else. There is indeed something which has been translated this way. We have called it a vibrational matrix. Human beings individually and collectively have created the world in which they live, or in which they die I suppose would be a better way of describing it—they exist for a little while—because their translation is a mistranslation.

We've seen something of these things, but we might remind ourselves of them because the world the way human beings see it seems to be a very real place. From time to time we need to be reminded that it is not so real as it seems. It only exists in the consciousness of human beings, individually and collectively. The universe as it is understood, as it is seen to be, is a translation on the part of human beings of something or other—an extended matrix. And so we may have a greater sensing of the insubstantiality of the world. Because it has been created and human beings believe in it, and play their parts in maintaining this world in their own consciousness, paying attention to what is going on in this translation, they give a lot of weight to it. When you pay attention to something it grows in your consciousness; it becomes increasingly important. The importance of the thing to which attention is being paid may be a pleasing importance or a displeasing importance, but if attention is being paid to it it tends to increase, become more weighty, seemingly more solid we might say; and people create their own prisons in this fashion, complete with iron bars. They fence themselves in. We've all done it. We all still do it, with little realization of the potency of the creative ability which is still present in human beings.

While the fulness of the creative ability that was true of man, made in the image and likeness of God, has lessened, and of course deviated into destructive ways, nevertheless there is still a potency there. If you pause to think about it you recognize how you have—particularly when you look at what occurred in the past—created states in your own experience which were absolutely your own creation. When you came out of them you realized that; while you are in them you don't realize it. Well we are concerned with coming out of the world as it has been created by human beings in their supposed state of separation from the true Creator. What has been created is then contained in human consciousness—it is in that sense an imaginary world. But having been given so much weight over so many centuries and millennia it has become pretty solid in the view of most people. We realize, however, the fact of the matter is that it's the most ethereal world—insubstantial world. We are conscious of very little substance, mostly space which we have dubbed with the idea of solidity.

It can be helpful to take a look at these things from a position which is not any longer so deeply involved with what has been created in human consciousness. We can step back from it and begin to see it as it really is: a world created and maintained by human beings in their present state, a state which excludes the experience of the truth of love. Just a very thin, peripheral edge of the total spectrum of substance emphasizes itself in human consciousness; and everybody fights over this, trying to get what they can of it for themselves. This fight is an individual one but it also becomes a collective one, including larger and larger numbers of people. It becomes a national struggle, for instance, and ultimately presumably becomes a human struggle including everybody, because trying to get hold of what is acknowledged as being substance in human consciousness has produced a world where there is less and less substance to get hold of—not that anything has changed at all in the vibrational sense.

The vibrational substance in reality is all still there, but because what human beings struggle to get hold of is not seen as being an aspect of something far greater but is isolated as something all on its own in human consciousness, it seems to be running out—chiefly running out because this is the way human beings translate it. They see it in this way. “Well it seems so reasonable to say that if you keep on pumping oil out of the ground it's going to run out one day. Anybody should see that; it's common sense.” Is it? It's the commonly accepted sense perhaps, although there are quite a few people who don't seem to believe it. But here is a way that human beings have translated the situation. We have a world—human beings have created automobiles in it, that presently run mostly on petroleum. Therefore what has been seen as being petroleum must be gotten somehow, in order to maintain the way of life to which we are accustomed. This massive state of affairs that has been humanly created is nevertheless, one might easily say, a figment of human fancy. Everything is translated in terms of this very peripheral, tenuous substance, which has a number of ramifications—petroleum being one of them, apparently. That's the way human beings have translated it anyway, but it's scarcely anything if we consider what is really there. There is this absolute solid of love; that's not depleted at all.

Because the prism of truth has been lost in human experience the truth of love, which is the differentiation of the whole spectrum of love, is not seen, let alone understood. All that is seen and understood is a very peripheral rim around all this completeness. It is like one edge, we'll say the red edge, of the rainbow, and it is assumed that all that is is red; therefore anything that is done has to be done in red—a very restricted state of affairs. This is the human world as understood by human beings, as translated that way in human consciousness. But there is a vast spectrum to this one substance when the prism of truth is accepted so that that translation may occur—differentiation—and the spectrum begin to put in an appearance within the range of human consciousness so that, surprisingly, it is found that it's not all red.

So we have a world to recreate. This has been looked upon as a colossal task. We see the complexity of the human world the way it now is. How on earth could it ever be recreated into something more rational? Well of course there are many people who are struggling to do this. But if we come again into the position of true perspective we begin to comprehend that it isn't such a massive task as it first seemed, because whatever is present is only present there because of the differentiation of the one substance. If it was possible to withdraw that one substance there wouldn't be anything there at all. And you can't separate the spectrum of the one substance from the one substance. It is merely another state of that one substance—but it exists only because the one substance exists—the substance of love.

So we come again into position to appreciate the prism of truth and to accept that—even though it may not be immediately comprehended or understood—rather than the translations that human beings have made, ourselves included, of the world as it is now known. The world that is now known is a human creation; it exists only in human consciousness. It is the way it is in human consciousness because it has been made that way by human beings. It's easy of course to say, “Well it was somebody else's fault that it turned out this way.” And we have a considerable background of earthly heredity to blame, besides people on earth today. But we're one of those, and we are as responsible as anyone else. It's no use merely looking at that and saying, “Well I'm responsible, you're responsible, everybody else is responsible.” It doesn't change anything, does it? There is the necessity of letting the stance be moved. We must stand somewhere else, so that we can see things in a rational way and we're no longer all involved in this irrational state of imaginary affairs which has been promoted in human consciousness to what they call reality.

We all have our troubles. We all suffer. We have aches and pains. We die. Yes, in that world that's true. But why exist in that world? And why maintain that world when there is the opportunity to allow a re-creation to take place in human consciousness so that a new world takes form? “Well,” a person says, “I'm only one person.” All right, that's true. Each individual is just one person, with a state of consciousness that presumably needs recreating. Are we going to sit around maintaining the state that we have known heretofore, waiting for everybody else to wake up to the fact that it is possible to let the state of consciousness be changed? Well who is going to wake up, then? We do it, presumably. In fact we have brought our human consciousness with us this evening to participate in this creative event.

Here is the opportunity, then, to open the door to this new state of consciousness as it relates to our human consciousness now. There is a sound [Martin knocked on the lectern], a knock at the door: “If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him”—in other words substance is being brought in again. Not that it actually wasn't there already, but we didn't know it. We're being made aware in human consciousness of the substance that is already there. Also, something was already there; we know about that; so we bring that too. “I will...sup with him, and he with me.” There is then a blending of the substance of consciousness. Here is the initiation of re-creation in human consciousness—one's own. It is necessary from the standpoint of our own human consciousness, then, not only to hear the knock and the voice, and open the door once, but to keep it open. Human beings are inclined a little bit to close the door. They open it a bit, something comes in, “Ah,” now they are going to enjoy what came in and see how it may be applied, and so on. In the meantime, of course, they shut the door again; they're paying attention to the old state, attempting to create on the human basis. That's already been done. Why go through the exercise again?

This is a re-creation, something else, something new. It is the emergence into human consciousness of a broadening spectrum of the one substance of love—we begin to see more. And this has happened in our experience along the way. We began to see more. Initially we saw something with respect to the Emissary ministry, for instance, and presumably were delighted with that, and we thought we really were awake—we really knew something. Because we were so enthusiastic about it we wanted to tell everybody else. But at that point we didn't know very much; we had only become aware of a little indication of orange appearing next to the red perhaps. There is vastly more, and we kept finding that out. Well when we discover that there is orange as well as red, that doesn't mean we have to deny the red, does it? “Red is no good anymore; we'll have orange now!” No, we need each color as it puts in an appearance within the range of our awareness. So we do not deny what we already know, but we do acknowledge that we don't yet know it all. And there is vastly more of the spectrum to come within the range of our awareness in this process of recreating the world. As this happens we see the world differently from the way most people see it. That's right, isn't it?

We may, in a specific way perhaps, become so involved in our personal experience of the world immediately next to us that we lose our perspective and we are dumped right back into seeing the world the way we saw it before. Some people coming into that state say, “Well, all that I thought I knew was just a dream, just a figment of fancy.” But the dream is what the person dropped back into—usually a nightmare. So we keep moving, rightly, expanding the horizon. We can only do that by constantly changing our position. Our position moves and consequently more comes within the range of our encompassment; we have a larger perspective and we see the world not as most people see it. We have a certain awareness of the creative process, as we call it—we translate it that way in our consciousness—the creative process, which includes integration and disintegration.

This being so, we don't object to disintegration the way we did before; it's part of the creative process. We tend only to object to it when it comes too close, when our own physical body begins to disintegrate and we drop right back into the old state. But if there is something disintegrating there is something integrating too, which would become the dominant experience if we weren't so hooked on the disintegration. We're so enamored with disintegration that we maintain ourselves related to it all the time. We may say that we don't like disintegrating, but we pay most attention to it. This is why the suggestion that in all things we should give thanks is sound advice, because if you're giving thanks, well you can't be complaining at the same time. All attitudes of complaint and criticism wed a person to the cycle of disintegration. That's what he's looking at, that's what he's objecting to, and he's making a big thing out of it. And how there is this tendency to make a big thing out of what is happening of a disintegrative nature!

But if our movement, our changing stance in human consciousness, is associated with what has come through the door which we have opened, so that we are supping in that direction, so to speak, bringing our substance there, our substance of thankfulness, our substance of delight, our substance of increasing understanding and enjoyment of what is happening, then we are in position to receive more of the spectrum of the substance of love. We include more. The world changes in consequence—the world within our own consciousness. Do you think the step which brought us to the point of recognizing a creative cycle, with on one hand integration and on the other disintegration, is as far as we need to go? Well that has been going on anyway—it's not going to change anything just because we happen to become aware of it.

We must associate ourselves with the integrative process, in the recognition that there is the need for the disintegrative process, but that is not the realm with which our personal association properly is. There is a lot that needs to pass away: the world which human beings have created. However, that's looked upon as a horrendous thing. “This magnificent world that human beings have created! How could that be allowed to pass away?” or, “How indeed could it ever pass away?” It's going! No, that's not really what we give the weight to. We have necessarily to deal with people who are associated with that world. That's the only reason we're still associated with it. We're there to participate in this business of knocking upon the door—the door of those who still are involved with the disintegrating world—to extend the invitation to come out of it, which means moving one's position so that the world is seen in a different way.

When we see it in a different way we are in position then to function intelligently with respect to the way we now see the world. We will not behave the same way anymore. We will not be trying to do the things we used to do anymore, because we see things differently. So we handle them differently. Well this is a progressive experience. We don't take a step and say, “That's it. Now I see the world differently. I'm going to handle it forever on the basis of the way I see it now.” But the way you see it now isn't the way it really is. We have to keep on moving to come to the point where we may have the total perspective, where we may see things as they really are. And when we're at that point, insofar as we are concerned our world is recreated. In the recreated world there is still a creative process going on. Integration and disintegration are going on but we're not involved in them anymore. They are going on at those levels where they rightly should—fundamentally those levels where there is no self-consciousness. That's where this process of integration/disintegration is going on. The level of self-consciousness does not belong there. That's why human beings suffer: because they've become involved in this realm where the fire burns, and it's hot and painful. They are self-conscious at that level and they don't belong there. Being in the fire, of course, it seems very important that one should do something about dampening the fire and getting things more comfortable. But there's no answer in that, because the fire will blaze up again, even if one succeeds in putting it down for a little.

The point is that we need to move out of the fire, out of the level where that is what is taking place, where the separation is taking place—it's a creative process. We come to another level, and we experience this coming to another level in terms of changing awareness relative to the world in which we are. Gradually the world in which we dwell is recognized as being what was referred to as the oasis, or the Garden, in previous services. We find that we are actually there. We are there, but haven't known it because we haven't been in position to appreciate the truth of love, the whole spectrum, only just a little piece. Because that was all we were aware of we thought we belonged there. Well that little piece has a relatedness to us, all right, but we belong in a different positioning relative to the truth of love.

So we are not averse to relinquishing our firmly held convictions about the world in which we have been existing in times past, right up to this point! We still have convictions about it that cause us to believe a lie, and we think that because everybody else believes a lie the lie must therefore be true. Well it is not majority rule, you know. The truth is not subject to majority rule. The truth is true regardless of who acknowledges it, or accepts it, or understands it, or anything else. And four billion human beings can vote against it and say it isn't true, but it doesn't change a thing, except for the human beings who vote against it. They suffer the consequences, of course. So there are many convictions still present in our experience which are shared by others, and we feel supported in these convictions. Usually human beings want other people to support them in their convictions. If you can belong to a big enough group of people, you must be right. If you can belong to a big enough church, that must be the truth. Not so.

We come to the place, as we keep the door open in human consciousness, where we may behold the truth. “Behold, I come quickly”—when the door is open, when it is held open so that we don't keep slamming it shut in favor of some pet conviction that we have relative to the fanciful world in which we live. People are always putting great store by such convictions. “One must have convictions of this nature, and firm opinions this way and that.” What about? Well, nothing. It is about nothing. It's about a world of fantasy, maintained sometimes with enthusiasm in human consciousness, sometimes with considerable objection. But whether one objects or whether one enthuses, the very attitudes themselves maintain the state. If you are fighting against the devil, the devil will always be on hand. But if you love him, of course he'll be on hand too.

So we are in the business of recreating the world to reveal the truth of love in differentiated expression; that is, the truth of love as it really is now and now and now. That is not to say that one recreates the world and there it is: that's the way it's always going to be. I hope not! You'd get bored with it very shortly, even though it was so heavenly. No, it keeps moving, but on a different basis, springing forth from the Creator, with whom we share the creative responsibility. Then a beautiful world may be created for the habitation of the Creator, a beautiful, colorful, joyous, wonderful world, made out of this vibrational substance, which left to its own devices wouldn't be a beautiful world. It only becomes so because there is someone to make it so. And when we share the creative action with the true Creator, then also we share the resulting creation, and that is a joy forever.

I shall be leaving very shortly to travel somewhere else—it doesn't much matter where. As far as I am concerned it is the same place. Things are brought to me; people are brought to me so that we may sup together. We may continue to share with you here, and others in many other places where we will not be, the factual re-creation of the world—not a fancy, but something that is actually occurring in our own consciousness and in the consciousness of those who choose to sup with us, and we with them. Let this continuing creative change occur. Let us behold the beauty as it is unveiled by the disintegration of that which has been covering it up. When we behold the beauty, we are so delighted with that beauty, we're so thankful for it, that we have no time to fuss about the things that are falling away in disintegration.

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