Man In The Purified Heaven
Martin
Exeter January 11, 1987
The
evening and the morning may remind us of the creative process. This creative
process is now in effect and indeed always has been. It has emphasized itself
in our consciousness to the extent that we have been willing to align ourselves
with it. So we do have an awareness of the reality and the effectiveness of
this creative process. For most, the fact of it has been almost entirely
excluded from consciousness. Human beings in general have been so busy about
their own affairs that they have had no time to entertain even the possibility
of a larger creative process.
Of
course, there has been some awareness that there must be something of this
sort, because the earth itself, our habitation, moves in predictable ways:
turning on its axis and moving around the sun in its orbit. The seasons of the
year come and go. A certain amount of thought has been given to the sundry
cycles in human affairs, seeking somehow to correlate them with influences
emanating out of the solar system, without too much success I may say—human
affairs take precedence over all. We certainly would not seek to make any such
correlations, because we are well aware that human affairs are not a reflection
of this creative process; they, rather, evidence the failure of human beings to
be aligned with the creative process. So there are troubles and tribulation.
There
has been very little awareness on our own part of the vastness of the power
that is available to be embodied when there is true alignment with the creative
process. We know that something works, something does come together, there is
creative movement. We begin to be aware of what it is that is happening in the
experience of mankind. This awareness is present to the extent that we are
aligned with the creative process. The awareness has been absent for most
because of lack of such alignment.
There
has indeed been a condition of formlessness in human consciousness insofar as
the truth was concerned, together with a chaotic void also. Utilizing these
words to describe the condition, we are immediately aware that it relates to
possibilities in the creative process—for when the spirit of God, the creative
power, moves upon the face of this condition, the result of that movement is
the appearance of light. I am sure
that we ourselves can testify to this fact. There is a certain level of what
might be called enlightenment
present, enabling a different view to come within the range of our awareness—we
are no longer so thoroughly trapped in the arbitrary restrictions of the state
of human nature consciousness. There is some light at least. And because there
is some light there has been the creation, to whatever extent in our own
experience, of a firmament which divides the waters which are above from the
waters which are below. This firmament was referred to as heaven, and it is the
proper dwelling place of man. Man belongs in this firmament, which, although it
was described as dividing the waters from the waters, obviously also connects
the waters to the waters.
Water is a very apt symbol of the substance which
accommodates the spirit of Father God and Mother God: the waters that were
above relating to Father God, and the waters below to Mother God, with the heaven,
where man properly is, in between to provide the means for the blending of
these two aspects of spirit. This is something that occurs in man. The human
view of things has produced a God, in the consciousness of many people, who is
separate from human beings, more or less aloof somewhere. This of course is
fantasy. Indeed all of human experience is present in this realm of fantasy. We
have seen this realm as being characterized by the sense of separateness.
Separateness is the basis for human function on earth, which minimally takes
into account any larger cycles that may be at work in favor of concentrating
entirely on human affairs. This state of separateness prevails, and it is also
a state of darkness.
In the
light there is oneness, and when light
begins to be the experience in consciousness the fact of oneness emerges into
experience. There may be many theories about this state of oneness in human
minds and hearts in the present state of human nature, but theories are of
little consequence. It is the fact that needs to be experienced. The theory
tends to dominate, rather than the experience. But at least in theory we know
that the experience is important. If one could permit the theory to recede into
the background of consciousness, then to that extent there may be room in
consciousness and in experience in living to accommodate the truth.
The
creative process is part of the truth. The spirit of the Father and the Mother
seen in relationship to God is a part of the truth, but it doesn't mean much
until it is experienced, and it cannot be experienced until there is the
firmament, until there is a heaven. And that alone is not of much consequence
until there is someone in it—until there is the experience of the heaven. Then
there is a place in which the spirit of Father God and Mother God may blend in
man, so that oneness is the experience—because the fact of the matter is that
there is no aloof God sitting out there somewhere, as some human beings have
imagined. And because this turned out to be seemingly a fantasy, a lot of
people of course have rejected it. And people, including ourselves, have
behaved the way we have on the basis mostly of living in a very fantastic
world. I think most people looking at the world, observing it round about, are
inclined to shake their heads a bit and say it's seemingly rather insane—it's a
fantasy. But everybody goes on living there and behaving in fantastic ways, so
the fantasy keeps increasing in scope.
But there is a creative process, and for whatever reason there
has been an intensification of the spirit moving in the creative process and
it's affecting everybody. It has produced an increase of fantasy, but it has
also begun to emerge in some as a consciousness of the creative process,
because there is somewhat of an alignment with it, so that our living is not
merely a reaction to external affairs, external events and circumstances, which
is the usual condition of human nature. But there is something of a yielding—repentance—in
the heart and a willingness of the mind to agree, so that there could be space
for the experience of heaven. We wouldn't even consider it, it wouldn't even
enter consciousness at all, if it was not for the fact that there was a little
light.
Light is always the first order of business in any
particular cycle of the creative process. As long as it is allowed to work the
way it works everything emerges as it should. It doesn't matter that there is
darkness, chaos, provided that there is space to permit the movement of the spirit
of God, which is internal, upon the face of this present state of affairs. Then
there begins to come light. It is your experience of the focused movement of
this spirit on the face of the substance of chaos in you that has permitted the
dawning of light, so that something might be seen that wasn't seen before. And
this first seeing relates to heaven.
We
begin to understand the pollution that has been present in the heaven.
Obviously it's reflected in external form in the atmosphere around us. We exist
these days in a very polluted atmosphere. Why do you think that is? Oh, it can
be explained very neatly by saying it's all the emanations out of the
automobiles and acid rain and all this sort of stuff, all consequent upon the
behavior of human beings. But why have human beings behaved the way they have?
We can trace it back a little further, and of course their behavior is based in
the maintenance of separateness. One might say that most people don't know how
to let it not be the case, because everybody feels isolated from everybody
else. They get together in packs, in cities for instance, trying to nudge up
against each other to make themselves feel as though they were not so separate
as they know they are. But it doesn't work; there is more aloneness in cities
than anywhere else.
The
pollution in the heaven must be allowed to be dissipated. I am not speaking at
the moment of the atmosphere of the earth. Human beings are trying to do
something about that, not very successfully. Of course not, because the first
order of business is to clean up the atmosphere inside the person, in the
heaven there. And that comes by the continuing movement of the spirit of God.
It was the spirit of God, after all, which initiated the cycle in the
appearance of light, so that one could begin to see something. Now we begin to
see that the heaven is absolutely essential. And it's a personal matter. It's a
personal matter in the initial stages, as we well know, so that there might be
a true heaven, clear—clear as crystal in one's own experience, in one's own
heart and mind.
For
this to happen, to get it in shape, then presumably there would need to be
walls and battlements erected, defenses against all the pollution that is
coming in. In a sense this has been what has been attempted. Even from the
standpoint of our Emissary approach it has been translated in consciousness all
too often as the necessity of vigilantly opposing the various evil spirits that
might come in to pollute the heaven, things like resentment, judgment, fear,
jealousy, all these things. “Oh, we have to fend off all these evil spirits.”
That is a most futile undertaking. It's like the so-called defenses that the
nations erect around themselves to fend off these hostile incursions by evil
embodied in other people. Well, if it's embodied in other people, it must be
embodied in oneself too! So here is evil defending itself against evil. This
has nothing to do with the creative process. It's a human invention, which has
produced all the ills that there are in the world.
Heaven
is a reality already.
An unpolluted heaven is a reality already.
But it isn't a
reality in our own experience, that's the point.
We can accept the reality
without opposing anything.
The reality is available.
We have learned something
about maintaining a heaven.
The
heaven is maintained because our thoughts, our feelings, our actions, are
stimulated, produced, from the impact of the spirit of truth, not from the
environment. There is a vast distinction here, because we have all known what
it means to be subject to the environment, and I am sure we still are, in the
sense that it stimulates what we think and the way we act, the way we behave.
It certainly engenders a lot of emotion—all this as long as that is the state
of polarity in which we find ourselves. We could call it ex-polarity—polarity
in the things around us, the things, incidentally, over which we rightly have
dominion. The polarity becomes in-polarity when the stimulation, the foundation,
for any thinking we do, any emotions we have, any action that puts in an
appearance, springs out of the spirit of truth. That is in-polarity, and there
is a vast difference in behavior then.
For
that to occur there must be the heaven in which to dwell, an unpolluted heaven.
And we have learned something about that because, to the extent that we have
been willing to accept this type of internal stimulation for our living, we
have found the pollution clearing. We have found that it clears not only for
oneself as an individual but the same thing is happening with respect to
others. We begin to find ourselves associating in a clarifying heaven—to
whatever degree, in a mutual heaven. What does that testify to? At least some
measure of oneness.
Oneness
cannot appear on earth until it first is known in heaven. The fact of the
matter is that nothing appears on earth until first it is present in whatever
the heaven may be in which the individual is living—usually a very polluted
heaven. And there is a very polluted earth. Of course! It's the way it works.
To try to clear up the pollution of the earth without letting anything be done
about the pollution of the heaven is utter futility, a waste of time. Nothing
ever happens on that basis, no matter how many rules and regulations are made.
Human beings live in a polluted heaven and they spew that polluted heaven into
the earth. They can't help but do that as long as they live in a polluted
heaven.
So we
are willing, I trust, to allow this pollution to be clarified in our own
individual heavens. When we do that we find that others are doing it and we
begin to have a collective less-polluted heaven. It is out of this heaven that
the fact of the union, the oneness, of Father God and Mother God may come into
experience. Nobody knows what that means, because they haven't let it happen.
The only way to know anything is to
let it happen in one's own experience. One may have intellectual ideas about
this, concepts about that, beliefs about the other thing, but it's all fantasy,
it's all theory. And human beings live in this state of fantastic theory,
knowing nothing. The fact that they know nothing is constantly being
demonstrated by the insistence upon searching to find the answer. They don't
know the answer, of course partly because there isn't any insofar as the state
in which human beings exist is concerned, because it's fantasy. What answer is
there for fantasy?
I
suppose we have all dreamt dreams in which we have endeavored to act in a
rational manner, but we have found it was very difficult because everything was
so fantastic. There is no solution there. One may spend what seems like a whole
night endeavoring to solve the problems of the dream, ultimately failing to
solve the problems. But wonder of wonders, there weren't any problems anymore
when you woke up! This is exactly the same thing insofar as the state of
mankind is concerned. Wake up! Let the light come on.
People
are inclined to wake up when the light begins to shine. There are those who
don't like the light, of course; some creatures of darkness burrow further into
their self-centeredness, their darkened state, when the light comes on. But
there are others who notice it. Very often, to start with, they don't believe
it. And there are so many things in the dream state that come up to convince
you it isn't really there. The dreaming has become so customary, it has become
an addictive habit, that people don't want to let go of it, because there is
always success just around the corner. Did you ever have a very successful
dream? I don't know what success would be. I think success is just to wake up,
and that is the success. Wake up! Become aware of the light. And because there
is an awareness of the light, a certain enlightenment in one's own
consciousness, the necessity for the heaven comes into view.
There
must be a heaven, an unpolluted heaven, unpolluted by all the things that
govern human nature. Judgment is the main thing—accusation, blame, criticism,
all these things, because they are so easily justified: obviously one has to
accuse someone of doing something because they did it! Well perhaps that's
supposed to be logic, but if it kills you it might be better not to do it. And
that is the fact of the matter; it has been regularly killing people every
generation for thousands of years, millennia. And everybody still goes on doing
it because they can justify it. So one of the pollutions in the heaven has been
this matter of self-justification. Let it dissolve in the light—because you see
how stupid it is. Finally you wouldn't do it for anything. You know it's
destroying you. There is no sense to being destroyed, not if we are present on
earth for a reason. Of course heretofore nobody has known what the reason was,
so they have invented their own. And we have all done that.
But
now in the light we begin to become aware of the reason why we are here: to
provide this blending point for Father and Mother God in our own experience,
that the truth may be known. Merely to say “the blending point for Father and Mother
God” doesn't mean very much. One has to have the experience of it to know what
it is. That is the experience of the truth. And the truth frees the individual
into being man, male or female, not separate from anything.
If
you are not separate from anything, why do you need names to indicate it? We
necessarily talk about God perhaps now because separation is still a fact; but
if there is oneness, that is the experience. There is nothing to compare it to
then, except of course this miserable state in which we have been existing.
Then we wouldn't wish to have anything more to do with that, except insofar as
we may be in position to provide what is necessary to transform it, to let
those who are present in that state have the opportunity of rising up into an
unpolluted heaven. They could either choose to do that or not; that's up to
anyone.
For ourselves, surely, it is our business to do it. If that is what is done,
one can speak from the standpoint of heavenly
authority. And the power was said to be almighty, wasn't it?—almighty but
not available for human use to promote their affairs. It takes a lot of sweat
of the brow to continue in that mode. The earth, amongst other things, has to
be raped to keep human beings going in their miserable human nature condition.
The atmosphere consequently is polluted, and all the tribulations of the flesh
are present, all because of this failure to allow the light to be received and
to be the basis for one's living experience.
We have
all had immense opportunity to see and to understand; and we have, at times,
felt rather self-satisfied because we thought we saw and understood so much.
But it means absolutely nothing until it is the experience. People talk a lot
about that, but what is our experience? What is our experience in this moment? Do the things of the human
nature state recede in our consciousness so that in this moment they virtually
vanish away? What do you do when you go out again? It seems to be a habit to
sort of drop them off outside the door as you come in, and then, when you go
out, pick them all up again. And one is again in subjection to human nature.
That is the devil, intent upon destruction. It's rather stupid, really; it's
going to destroy everything, but it can't do that without destroying itself as
well.
So
we stand together in the creative process, letting it work, letting the light
come on, letting the heaven be purified, and abiding in the heaven with a great
concern to allow the radiation of heaven to be the expression of our living, so
that the heaven is protected that way. It is not protected by building bulwarks
against the evil, so called. It is protected by being the radiance, by being
the light. The heaven can only exist that way in the consciousness of mankind.
You know very well that if you stop your radiant stance for a minute, something
comes in and dissipates the heaven. “Oh, I was so peaceful and happy,
everything was wonderful, and now it's terrible again.” Well who did it? One
did it oneself. But the habit has always been to look around and say, “It was
that person who treated me badly so that this heaven couldn't exist anymore; it
was because of that person.” If the heaven ceases to exist for anyone it does
so because of that one, him- or herself, only. No one else can dissipate it.
One always does it for oneself.
So we
may abide in heaven, and I rejoice in whatever extent of that purified heaven
may have been present today in this configuration of unification. It's between
you and the person sitting next to you. And it's a little more personal than
that—it's all inside oneself! Let it be clear. Let the heaven be clear because
there is a radiant outpouring of spirit. Then the heaven is safe. But any
little bit of human nature that gets in there destroys the heaven, just like
that. The heaven has never been able to exist in human experience because of
the coarseness of human experience. It couldn't accommodate the heaven. The
heaven couldn't exist in that state of coarseness. Let it be purified.
There is an experience
to be known that has not been included in the lexicon of the human-nature
state—oneness. This is not known, of course, without what is defined
by the word love. Love is the power
of blending, of fusion. Then we do not find that we are all separate
from each other and that we have somehow an ego to protect and preserve. This
is the basic idea which has produced human nature. The human ego
shall pass away! I say that with the greatest of confidence. It has done it in
every generation. The human ego needs to pass away. But what shall remain?
Thus far, apparently, only a disintegrating corpse. What an evidence
of abject failure.
The human ego is held to the bosom of one’s
experience until the last gasp. Surely it’s better to let it go at this
first gasp, so that it may be free to pass away, leaving
the facility of heart and mind and body to be occupied in
expression by the one who created it in the first place—the truth of oneself. And
truth is not separate from truth. We are all included in the whole.
We may have
different functions, different evidences of character, but none of them
contradict each other. They are all blended together in the one whole,
just as all the parts of our own physical bodies are properly blended
together as a whole. Usually they are not allowed this experience
because of
our maintenance of the state of separation in consciousness. And then the
body falls apart. It should on that basis; it’s simply obeying the command.
Let us be sure that the heaven is pure
within ourselves, there is no shadow of turning, certainly no self-justification or
judgment to pollute the atmosphere. Let the atmosphere be clear, and
the creative process which originates in what has been spoken of as
Father God and Mother God may emerge to be known in our own experience—known
to be what we ourselves are. It may be interesting to talk about it
think about it, but it’s wonderfully fulfilling surely to let it happen. Then we
really know what it is. Otherwise all we do is theorize, and we die in our
theories. Let us live in the truth.
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