The  Morning  Stars  and  the  Sons  of  God

Martin Exeter   May 24, 1987

Radiance! It could be said that this is our business on earth. We participate in both radiant radiance and responsive radiance, but it’s all radiance. It is the habit of human beings to retreat. I suppose it may be that there are occasions where a strategic retreat is in order, but probably those occasions would not have occurred if one had not made an unwarranted advance.

I read some words this morning which I think became useful in the creative process as it moved: “And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” I have some other words to read this evening which I am sure can be likewise useful. These words are purportedly the words which were spoken by the Lord to Job. This is not the fact of the matter at all. The words certainly were spoken by the Lord because Job was available to articulate them. In a specific sense I suppose it could be said that they were spoken to Job’s four friends, perhaps a shocking experience to them. I will just quote two verses, not two consecutive verses even:

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. . . .

“When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

We recognized this morning something of the fact that we had been with the King from the beginning. Here reference is to a beginning. Are our hearts and minds sufficiently pure with sufficient available substance to speak the words “I was there”? I suspect that there is something of a veil present over the mind and the heart so that they are not readily available to allow the truth of these words to be spoken. Of course this mind and heart weren’t there; that is true enough—so that if the identity is the generation of the mind and the heart then the question seems foolish. Where were you at that beginning? Mind and heart can very easily say, “Certainly I wasn’t there; I don’t know what you are talking about.” Where is the identity—with the mind and heart that wasn’t there, or with the one who was there? What is said in these two verses, and elsewhere in this same chapter and in subsequent chapters, may seem to be foolish to the mind and the heart that are excluding the creative process, but they relate to a field of responsibility which requires mind and heart to be available in order that it might be taken care of. The responsibility is in the hands of the incarnate one, but if mind and heart deny the incarnate one then there is no means by which the responsibilities could be accepted. And so, mind and heart denying the truth feel self-righteous in saying that what is portrayed here is foolishness.

We might for the moment take the second of the two verses which I just read and look at it again. At that particular beginning the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The morning stars have reference to the consciousness of human beings. (It was Lucifer, as I recall, the light-bearer, who fell. How art thou fallen, O son of the morning!) Here was the initiation of a creative cycle which required the consciousness of man. Man was evidently present at the time and his consciousness at that point was available to the sons of God—these days we would likely say, as well, the daughters of God. The sons and the daughters of God in unison compose the son of God: the connection between the Father, the source, and the creation. In this bringing-forth process, at the beginning point—this is true of any beginning point of any true cycle—there are certain requirements. In this instance of course there was the necessity for the sons of God to be present. There was also the necessity for the morning stars. The morning indicates that this was a new beginning. Something unprecedented was occurring in the creative process. A marvelous thing was happening, and it was happening because all the requirements were present to let it happen.

The consciousness of man has both a conscious and a subconscious aspect. We speak of the mind and the heart. We talk about them being instruments for right use, but then we are inclined to let them have their own way, which certainly denies right use. The son or the daughter of God has not found the morning stars to be particularly available. How art thou fallen!—fallen to a level which we see in terms of human nature now, where all they do is to create havoc. It makes utterly no difference as to whether the action is deemed to be good or deemed to be bad: it all produces destruction. This destruction has not reached the point of its culmination yet. There have been previous points where, as it was put, the Lord repented him that he had made man. And I suspect we are very near to such an occasion once again.

As we noted on that previous occasion—maybe there was more than one, but one we know about anyway—one of the factors involved was overpopulation. Of course basically it was described, “that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”  That is an accurate description of the present state of affairs, very topical. We know these things. There was a saving grace on that previous occasion, in the person of Noah. We have a fairy story about an ark which he built, and into which came his family, and the animals two by two. This certainly describes something relative to the responsibilities of man. He has responsibility with respect to the earth and all life-forms on the earth. Presently of course we take note of the fact that he is busily destroying them, and destroying himself into the bargain. And there are those who feel that they must rush out and try to do something about it in the ecological field or whatever. But it’s all futile, doesn’t get anywhere, because the creative process continues to be denied and man’s substitute concepts and ideas are what human beings work with. That’s counterfeit, not the genuine article at all. Any human being in the human state, no matter what he does, no matter how good what he does may seem to be, will be indulging in the way by which the forms of life on earth are destroyed. It doesn’t matter what he does.

There is a need for what was represented by Noah before, but on a little different basis. Certainly it isn’t a matter of building an ark in the sense of a boat. The earth apparently is reserved unto fire. Of course. Fire must burn up the rubbish. Even human beings with their very restricted vision are quite aware these days of the possibility of fire burning everything up. That’s one way of getting rid of the rubbish. Our concern has been with a different kind of fire, the fire of love. On the one hand the fire of love could well be the thermonuclear one. On the other hand it could be a creative radiation, so that response to it may raise what responds to a level above the substance which is being consumed by the fire. The substance one way or another will be consumed by the fire, to the extent that it is not capable of resonating with the radiation of love. While this may relate to more than mankind, the particular concern is with respect to mankind, because it is within the body of mankind that the focus of the radiation of love may appear and, as one might say, go to work to clear the rubbish out of what should be man. We know something about this. Presumably we have been participating in the process individually by which this rubbish may be disposed of. Along the way we haven’t always been willing to admit that it was rubbish, in fact quite to the contrary. Very often what was brought up was seen as being very precious. There are many very precious things to human beings that are in fact rubbish.

There has perhaps been a greater willingness, in those of us who have allowed a resonance to be present in our consciousness with the radiation of love, to relinquish the precious things that seemed to be precious in the past. But many of these precious things are precious to many others. It is our relinquishing of them that opens the door for others. There is so much that is traditionally precious, that human beings revere and insist upon pouring their life force into, so that it appears to them to have great value. It is loving an idol, of course, and we see the world full of idolaters. We know all about it because we have done it too, and I suspect there are a few idols still around here and there. Don’t sit on them in the tent. Let them be brought out into the open that they may be disposed of, even though they seem to be so precious.

I am thankful for you and for others who have exhibited a beautiful willingness to relinquish your idols once you caught sight of them. Of course there were occasions when you did begin to catch sight of them but then quickly closed your eyes, because they were still too precious. But they all have to go. That’s true of each one of us. We may find hidden idols popping up into view as we move along. Well, we know this is part of the process, so there is no objection, surely. Ah, here’s another idol; it doesn’t warrant my life force. Let it perish and it will be burnt up. The morning star is essential for the radiation of the sons of God. That morning star participates in a chorus. The morning stars sang together. This was the creative process. Now we are responsible for a recreative process, exactly the same thing.

How musical is your consciousness? How willing to sing? I don’t mean that everybody should be a great tenor or soprano or something, but we have the capacity to sound the tone. And the tone is not just one note, you know. I am sure when the morning stars sang together that all the various parts in the choir were provided for. Here’s a symbolic view of something. It’s an allegory. But the tone is sounded, the radiation occurs at the level where it needs to occur, by reason of the morning stars, the consciousness of man, human minds and hearts. If they are not available it doesn’t occur.

And the sons of God shout for joy. Well, both the singing and the joyous shout indicate a very happy occasion, something just wonderful. There is something just wonderful occurring now. We don’t always associate ourselves with that wonder. “Ugh, I didn’t think it was going to be this way!” Well it is whatever way it is in the realm of effects, but that’s not where we belong. All this singing of the morning stars and the shouting for joy of the sons and daughters of God occurs in the realm of cause. Of course the singing of the morning stars is the means by which what is occurring in the realm of cause is conveyed into the realm of effects. It is a delightful, wonderful experience when it is done. And we are all here to do it. Why should there be any reluctance? Why should we want to soft-pedal it, or perhaps even retreat on occasion when the intensified radiation begins to occur? Stay with it. One command the Master gave long ago was: Take up your bed, and walk. Well of course you don’t need to take up your bed unless you are lying in it.

Someone recently was speaking of depression. Everybody is terribly depressed these days because it seems as though there is no hope, so let’s eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. There is a good deal of that too. Well depression may have some valuable effects, but I don’t think it’s our business to maintain depression. It is our business to participate in the creative process, which is something just wonderful. And I am sure we sense that, even if we have not seen it as clearly as we might. We don’t see it all that clearly unless we are participating in it, and then there it is. The reason for depression is seen as being in the process of dissolution. We have no reason for depression, every reason to sing together the song of life, every reason to shout for joy, to articulate clearly in every aspect of our living that radiation of love.

That comes through both mind and heart when they are available and they are not fiddling around in their own meaningless human occupations. Oh yes, there are things to be done in the external sense, but those things are seen merely as a means of being present, being present so that the morning stars can sing together and all the sons and daughters of God can shout for joy. How is it with us?

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