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The Outpouring of Blessing
Martin Exeter June 8, 1986
The vine brings forth fruit. There is a vine and it bears fruit in remarkable ways. This fruit is a radiant fruit; it is not for self-consumption. It goes forth in the expression of life to accomplish whereunto it is sent and it does not return void. When it is the creative process in action, that accomplishes whatever the creative process requires. As we are associated in this experience of life it is natural to trust the creative process. If we have to think about trusting it we’re not trusting it. It is only when the point is reached where the creative process is in action because one is present oneself, that one has a part in bearing the fruit of the vine. It doesn’t come, certainly, because one is trying to do something. If you’re trying to do something you’re not doing it; you're just trying.
But when there is participation in the creative process, then the fruit is borne—the radiant action appears. That radiant action may be at the level of thought, it may be at the level of feeling, it may be at the level of physical form, but it is all part of that radiant process, a process which is not subject to the area into which the action is directed. As we well know, the human-nature state is a constant reaction to what seems to be occurring in the area round about. How are we going to handle this? How are we going to contend with this? How are we going to survive in face of this—of all these things round about? Well there’s a very simple answer to that: you’re not! As long as that is the basis for action it isn’t action, it’s reaction.
We are shedding the human-nature way of reaction, so that there may be room for action. That creative action, radiant action, does what is necessary in the creative cycle that is working out. What is necessary is not known in the field where the action is directed. It is simply known as a part of the radiant action; the knowing is in the radiant action. This is entirely a reversed procedure to what is common in human experience. There is a looking at the things round about and a laboring with the things round about, trying to find some way to operate which will take into account all these things round about and enable us, in one way or another, not only to survive if possible but to get what we think we want. In such case, as we can easily see, the god which is worshipped is the field of action, the field round about: we are being dictated to by people and things and circumstances round about as to what we shall do. This is the human-nature state. It is the state in which human beings have been trapped for thousands of years.
Now we have come free of this because there is association with the creative process. We become increasingly aware that this creative process is in operation already; and as we are associated with it, it will do what it is here to do. But it will do what it is here to do in our own world. Each of us has a world, after all, of which each individual is the center. There is something to be done in that world, and in that particular world there is only one person who can do it, and that is the individual himself who centers that world. Nobody else is there, so it must be done by oneself. There is no one else that one can call in to do it for one. This immediately indicates a certain level of maturity, where responsibility is being taken.
So the action appears by reason of the factual creative process, which is, in its initial movement, invisible. It requires a facility to allow it to become visible, and here is the facility. As one becomes aware of this, one begins to participate in an understanding way in the creative process—in an awareness of what it is that needs to be done. Some of the things that need to be done have cast their shadows before. There are many things, however, which need to be done which haven’t yet cast their shadows before; they are only known as there is continuing movement in the creative cycle.
I think it’s a wonderful provision that we are not privy to all that is going to take place. We have looked at that before from the standpoint of when there was a beginning movement with the creative process represented by this ministry. In a personal way I am most thankful that I had no preview of coming events, because if I had I never would have started! And that is probably the same for each one, so it’s very excellent that we don’t know. All we know is that we are capable of handling what it is that is right in front of us now, and that there is the creative process on the move which permits doing what needs to be done. We don’t know what needs to be done in the detail which we will know when we do it. There are some coming events that cast their shadows before but there are a lot of others that don’t; and it doesn’t make any difference. There is something to be done in association with the movement of the creative cycle and that is all we are concerned with. We are willing to do that, whatever it proves to be, carrying the authority of the creative cycle. That’s always the case if one is identified with it. It has authority because it is going to do what it is going to do, whether anyone likes it or not. But it only begins to be an uplifting creative process when there is a means by which it may be conveyed into the world by someone who is open to the movement of that creative cycle.
If human beings everywhere in their human nature are resisting it, then what a remarkable transformation occurs when someone comes along who is associated with it. Then something really begins to happen. And we have some experience of this, because the resistances have been dissolving a little in our experience, so that we suddenly become aware there is a creative cycle on the move. And we trust it to start with because we are still somewhat separate from it. It’s like someone trying to trust God. Well the creative cycle is God in action and there is, to start with then, the condition of separation to some extent still, so that one is trusting something that seems to be separate from oneself.
So it has been indicated that there is a need to trust the creative cycle, but let us not imagine that’s the last word. It’s something that we do initially because there is still a state of separation in our own experience. We are not yet one with the creative cycle. This is the case because we are still concerned with our own personal affairs; we’re holding out, still stealing a little bit of life to boost our own expectations as human beings. The dissolution of that isn’t as yet complete, is it? But there is an awareness of the reality of the creative cycle, and we associate ourselves with that—to start with in trust, until ultimately we come to the point where we suddenly realize, “I am the creative cycle. It isn’t separate from me. I am that and it isn’t designed to get anything for me; it isn’t designed to draw blessings to me.” There’s no sales pitch on that score. This is the thing that appeals to human nature, isn’t it? “What am I going to get out of it?” Well insofar as human nature is concerned, the answer to that is: not a damn thing! And human nature is going to starve to death.
The creative cycle has been moving for how long? We might say, eternity—anyway, quite a long time! And it’s going to keep on moving, whether human beings participate in it or not. The only thing is, if they refuse to participate in it and let it become what they are, the creative cycle would just simply obliterate them, push them out of the way. We have the example of that, as we already know; generation after generation people are pushed out of the way. Someone should suddenly awaken to the idea: Why should one insist upon being pushed out of the way? The only way not to be pushed out of the way by the creative cycle is to be one with the creative cycle. Then we go right along with it.
We share this as there is a radiant body identified with the creative cycle, so that fruit is being borne. The vine bears fruit; the tree of life bears fruit; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil bears fruit. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil simply indicates that the creative process is understood, not by human beings presently—but it is understood. It is at work. The creative cycle is on the move and it produces what is describable in terms of good and evil. It produces what is to be produced on the basis of the moving cycles: the evil and the good, the evil and the good. There’s nothing wrong with that; that’s the way it works. There is only something wrong when human beings start to try to use what is happening to their own supposed advantage, and this is the state of human nature: trying to use to advantage what is happening in the creative cycle, eating of the forbidden fruit.
But associated with the creative cycle one isn’t seeking to accomplish anything other than what the creative cycle is doing. One has no personal agenda, no personal intent. This has seemed very difficult for people to understand with respect to this developing body, that there isn’t any hidden agenda; they are always looking for a hidden agenda. And it is possible that some of those who have been associated with this body have had some hidden agenda personally. But the true body of the creative process has no hidden agenda; it’s just what is happening, that’s all—just what is happening by reason of the creative process. Being one with that, nothing is hidden; it’s all out front, it’s all on the move. There is a state of transparency, innocence—no hidden agendas, no trying to get anything for oneself, no trying to make anything be other than what it will be on the basis of the creative cycle, the creative process.
Could you say in your own experience that, in your relationships with others, in your affairs day by day, you have no hidden agenda? Oh you would like so-and-so to behave differently. The human view there is that this is only natural: “They’re not behaving the way they should. We’d like them to behave differently. Why not?” That's the hidden agenda. It doesn’t matter how anyone is behaving. Could we get that through our thick skulls, do you think? It doesn’t matter!—IDM—It Doesn’t Matter, because the creative cycle will take care of it. What arrogance to assume that one knows better how to take care of things than the creative cycle does.
So there is a relinquishing of self-righteousness in order to participate in true righteousness, which is allowing the creative cycle to move because it is one’s own expression of living. And finally there is the reproof of judgment; for the prince of this world, the son of perdition, is already self-judged. Human nature passes away. It’s an obvious fact. Do you think any human nature you may still have is going to last forever? It passes away. Isn’t it strange that there should be the idea that somehow or other human nature is going to be preserved? What an awful thought!—billions and billions of human natures preserved eternally. For what? Let them pass away. And that only has meaning when: “Let whatever human nature I have still hanging around pass away. Let my judgments pass away.” There is no need to judge. The creative process takes care of everything. It may take care of everything by obliterating all human beings eventually, but we don’t accept that as being inevitable. Yes, it will take care of human nature; but supposing there is some true nature, divine nature, the son of God, around?—well human nature can go, that’s fine, because what should be here remains.
We share the responsibility of permitting this creative process to come to focus because we are here present with the facilities to let it happen. Then all things are made new. Too easy. Well that’s right, isn’t it? The yoke is easy, the burden is light—the way it should be. Isn’t it funny, when the simple truth begins to be noticed by somebody they are inclined to say, “That’s too easy.” What makes it too easy? It is easy! That’s the way it is. When such an attitude is assumed, “It’s too easy,” it is another way of saying, “I’m not going to be bothered with it; it can’t be right. It can’t be for me because it’s too easy.” Well do we like things to be tough and hard and difficult and complicated? You can have it either way.
The creative process is easy and it brings forth beauty, it brings forth a new world. That new world is of no interest to human nature—human nature can never know it. But the new world is the natural world, the garden home for man in his true nature. The way is available; there is only one way. When it comes right down to it, there isn’t any choice. It’s one way—it’s this way or no way. If one thinks that no way is a choice, I suppose there is a choice. But there is the Way, there isn’t any other, and it is not knowable by human nature. Human nature can know something about it but it can’t know what it is, because what it is is only known to man in his true nature. It’s only known to the one I am—words to be spoken truly by anyone. The one I am is the one whose thoughts and emotions and actions spring out of the creative process, no longer out of self-serving hearts and minds, no longer out of human nature. That is what human nature is—self-serving.
We rejoice to be increasingly aware of the radiance that pours forth because of the vine. And we delight in the fruit that is being borne—not try to eat of it but to provide all that is necessary, so that there may be a fulness of blessing pouring forth, conveying the radiance of the vine in a particular aspect of fruiting, the outpouring of blessing that others may, if they will, share in that outpouring. The blessing doesn’t go forth to people so that they may say, “Oh give it to me; I need that.” A lot of people will say that, but that is not the reason for the blessing. The blessing goes forth that others may become aware of their own ability and responsibility to share in the outpouring of that blessing.
That is the reason for the existence of man on earth: to permit this creative outpouring of blessing, the bringing forth of fruit not for himself but in the processes of creation. And what is brought forth is entirely pleasing, wonderful, but it isn’t designed by the human mind or the human heart to satisfy themselves. The satisfaction comes in the outpouring of the blessing. And behold, all things are thereby made new.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
