The Process of Purification
Martin Exeter November 9, 1986
We carry the whole focus of responsibility. Our responsibility is, of course, within the body of which we are a part. The pulsations
of spirit move through this body in the creative process of purifying the
bloodstream, not only of this conscious body but of the whole body of mankind.
We have seen this in terms of breathing: breathing out in
repentance and in radiance of spirit, breathing in that quality of spirit which
permits repentance and the breathing out of its radiance. This is indeed a very
personal matter. Each one breathes for him- or herself. As there is the true
spirit of agreement in what the purpose of the breathing is, then this conscious
focus, at point here now but extending farther afield, provides a basis for the
cleansing of the life stream circulating through the whole body of mankind. If
it does not happen in those who have a conscious understanding of these things
it does not happen anywhere.
The bloodstream of the body of mankind comes to us in a great variety of
ways. It moves through us in the purifying process in our own personal
repentance of the moment, to flow forth again through all of this conscious
body and into the unconscious body of mankind. The cycle is constantly being
completed on the basis of this pulsation of breathing, using that analogy. Here
the essences of purification take place in each individually. Here is the
filter by which the bloodstream of mankind can be purified. It might be said to
be heavenly magic, but on the other hand it isn't magic at all; it's a natural
process for which as individuals we take responsibility. It only happens as the
individual takes responsibility, so that what presents itself for repentance to
us may provide the way by which repentance happens—one's own personal
repentance.
And so the whole bloodstream is purified. It isn't merely an earthly
process; it isn't as though there was a closed circuit. There is the heavenly
aspect of what is happening. The creative cycle flows out of heaven through
each one in the outpouring through repentance and through the radiant
expression of that spirit. It is the outpouring of life, the life stream, the
bloodstream, which circulates through the whole body of mankind and returns. It
is received again to be purified, but coming back in the ascending process
there is a movement which carries this current of pulsation into the invisible
realms, which we may speak of as heaven, where it moves in the heavenly sense
to return to be released in the same current as had occurred before in the
circulation of the life stream through the whole body of mankind.
The cleansing takes place, the purifying takes place, in the heaven, so
that on the returning pulsation the pure expression of spirit may appear. The
pure bloodstream—what Christians have with complete uncomprehendingness called
the blood of Jesus—is the purified life stream made available to the whole body
of mankind, that circulating through that body the purification may take place.
What occurs by reason of that purification must be allowed to occur without
human interference. If we do provide a proper point of spiritual focus in this
process we rightly have no compulsion at all to interfere with what happens in
the body of mankind.
Human beings are inclined to become involved in what is happening in the
body of mankind one way or another. There is a great deal of emotion engendered
in this regard in many areas where it is imagined that people know how things
should be. They are going to bring pressure to bear one way or another to make
them be the way they think they ought to be. They don't know how they ought to
be in the first place. We see this happening in all directions, but from our
own standpoint we may see it as happening much closer to ourselves than out
there in the world. People are very much inclined to project things away from
themselves. This is a very self-righteous stance which assumes that it knows
how things should be somewhere else in someone else, in the experiences that
are going on in the world.
But the cleansing process, while it will properly take place out there,
has its point of initiation right where one is, and it is in dealing with what
is brought to one in one's immediate circumstance and experience that may, if
it is handled correctly in repentance, release the pure stream of life into
what is occurring out there farther afield. But if it is not allowed to be purified
where one is, there is nothing pure to be extended into what is out there. The
life stream proceeds, through those who are merely concerned with what is going
on out there, in a polluted way, because it has never been allowed to be
cleansed in relationship to one's own personal experience right where one is.
There is where the cleansing takes place, where the purification may be a fact.
It can't be a fact anywhere else until it is a fact there. So the futility of
all this effort that is put into trying to make the world a better place is
clearly seen. This is a way of avoiding personal responsibility.
The personal responsibility is not primarily out there. It is right where
one is, right in one's own polluted heart where the repentance can have meaning.
No one can repent for what is going on out there, but one has the opportunity
of repenting for what is happening in one's own heart and for allowing the
pollution to be swept out of one's own heart in the outgoing breath, the
outgoing pulsation. Then that breath, that outgoing pulsation, will have its
effect in the larger world round about. And so there may be a sharing in the
natural creative process by which the bloodstream of mankind is cleansed.
There has never yet been an adequate facility for this to happen. Perhaps
I should modify that statement a little, because there was an adequate facility
in one man two thousand years ago, so that there was an initiation of this
aspect of the creative cycle, the initiation of a process in which we have the
opportunity of sharing now. It is no use looking back and saying, "Well
why didn't people share in it before?'' The point is: What are we going to do
now? It's the only time we have, after all. You can't change the past; whatever
happened happened. But it brought everything to this point where we are now and
where we may provide this focus for the purification of the bloodstream of the
body of mankind. Is that a large task? I would think so. But it is the only way
it can happen, as there are those who take the responsibility.
Partly because of blindness, ignorance, heretofore there was no adequate
responsibility taken for this process to operate effectively. But the time has
come. It either operates effectively now or there is no way by which it can
operate anymore. And if we have some awareness of this ourselves, then we are
immediately acquainted with our own responsibility in the matter. If the vast
majority of people on earth have no such awareness they have no such
responsibility, at least not in the direct sense.
There must be a point of
focus connecting the invisible heavenly aspect of the creative cycle with the
earthly aspect of it, and I think we should have reached the point where we are
quite capable of saying individually, “I am it.” We do not suffer from the
disease of false humility in this regard, which is in fact a way by which those
who know better find excuse for not doing better. It requires humility to
accept responsibility. If there is an attempt to accept the responsibility in a
spirit of arrogance the responsibility will not be accepted. It requires
humility, a willingness to relinquish one's own self-determinations in favor of
providing a point through which the creative process may work to purify one's
own heart. As that is made pure, or to the extent it is made pure, the onflow
of the current of life carries it into the whole body of mankind. So in this
process of cleansing, which we have correlated with the matter of breathing,
purification of human hearts may take place. This is what is going on.
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