The  Radiance  of  Love  and  Resonating  Substance

Martin Exeter   May 31, 1987

Substance—physical substance as we think of it, mental substance, emotional substance—all responds very easily to that radiation of love which proceeds from the King. Why then does all this substance not re-form itself into the true living design where it belongs? Each one could answer that question in a very personal sense by saying, “I have prevented it. I have prevented it because I have assumed that it belonged to me, and I have also assumed that I could use it the way it seemed fitting to me.” So all this substance has been held away from the King and from the powerful attraction of His love. This has taken an immense amount of the sweat of human brows to do it. Generation after generation has exhausted itself in this effort.

But there comes a time when the attraction becomes so strong that it is impossible to keep the substance from returning to its natural state. We ourselves, I know, have done a good deal of struggling—internal struggling, some of it; some of it with our fellows; a very exhausting process, totally futile—but have perhaps come at last to a willingness to relinquish our grasp upon the substance which comes within the range of our responsibility. Of course the first substance which is always found to be there is that of one’s own physical body, one’s own mind, and one’s own heart. The assumption can no longer be made that these available means of action can be used for purposes other than the purposes of the King. It seems to take rather a long time, for those who pay attention to the matter even, to relinquish their spasmodic grip upon all this which belongs to the King.

Associating ourselves once again, in mind and heart and body, with the radiance of love which contains within it the living design and control necessary to bring all things into proper balance, we become aware of the reality of the creative process, as we have called it. Aligning ourselves with this, miracles occur. At least they are miracles to the human view. They are all quite natural from the standpoint of the King. Human beings think of miracles as a way of satisfying human desires. Probably the miracles described in the Gospels are acceptable to human beings in the general sense because, somehow or other, by this means one may be made healthy, one may be fed and watered, one may be satisfied. But that isn’t the nature of the miracle at all.  The miracle is that when substance is freed up it rushes to the King. I’m sure that we, at times, have had the idea that it was pretty hard work to get anything to come back to the King. Well there were human beings all around trying to keep it away. But if that radiance of love is intensified, because the substance of our physical bodies, our minds and our hearts is allowed to resonate with it, then this substance is ready to rush home. If it hasn’t done so yet, one may have a suspicion that one has not yet been entirely willing that it should. Of course it is not just an individual matter. We are in a world of mankind that is well practiced in every conceivable method and technique to keep the King’s substance from returning to Him. Everything that human beings do is designed to this end, is designed to benefit human beings, the all-important human beings. Certainly the world is a den of thieves.

We recognize our own immediate opportunity to allow such substance as is within the range of our responsibility to return to the King; and we have been compelled in some measure in this creative process—one might say, I suppose, in spite of our human state. The human state has been so accustomed to maintaining a condition where substance is for human use that to have it any other way seems almost unthinkable. But it is another way, and we are well aware that it really is another way and that indefinitely mankind cannot keep the substance away from the King. We ourselves have found this to be so.

Finally we have admitted and acknowledged in some measure that it wasn’t we who chose to associate ourselves with some sort of a spiritual program that we thought might do some good. If we have been present it is because the radiance of love engendered sufficient response, sufficient resonance, in the substance of our bodies and our minds and our hearts, so that we couldn’t stay away. That of course is where the humility comes in; and we can’t maintain the arrogance which would say, “I decided to respond. I am a responding one.” May be, but why? Simply because of such freed-up substance as may be available to resonate with the radiance of love from the King.

As there is such resonance the substance is drawn home, and it is drawn into the living design and control of the truth. This means it must be drawn out of the state of affairs that human beings have established on earth. This movement of substance in human forms, in this instance, is describable as resurrection. The substance resonates and is lifted up. It’s lifted up according to the quality of the substance and the extent to which it has been freed up. The quality of the substance is largely determined by the nature of our own behavior as individuals. Of course we are all a part of the body of mankind and have been conditioned to function on this basis, but that is what the radiance of love draws the responding substance out of. And if there is some of this substance present in our physical forms and our minds and our hearts, we come along willy-nilly. I’m sure that all could have said, at times, that this has happened whether they liked it or not. It wasn’t a matter of human likes and dislikes. It was a matter of the working of the creative process, which is consequent upon the radiance of love and the resonance of substance by reason of that radiance. And if it so happens that you have some of that substance in you, you come along! Those in whom it isn’t present don’t come along. It’s all very straightforward and scientific, isn’t it? But we know from experience that whatever it is, it works. That is one aspect of the matter. The other we know is that what does not resonate with the radiance of love will be dissolved.

What is it actually that is dissolved? Certainly not the substance. What is dissolved are the forms in which this unresonating substance is present. This brings up the matter of what is called death: the central theme of all human experience. We begin to see that death is really not such a big deal. All that is lost is the form that has contained unresonating substance. And that unresonating substance has been present in that form because the behavior, one might say, of the person—we’re thinking of this in human terms—has been that of a rebellious child refusing to relinquish the brattish intent to have his own way. Having one’s own way is very often in this human world called freedom: “Give us freedom so that we can all have our own way.” What chaos! So in order to stem the chaos somewhat, systems of so-called justice are initiated: you may do this, you mustn’t do that— and a state of slavery ensues. It seems that most people get conned into believing that the state of slavery is a state of freedom. Quite amazing.

All the forms in which the substance has been kept from resonating with the radiance of love, die—inevitably. There’s nothing wrong with that. It would be an appalling state of affairs if it didn’t happen. Yet death is feared, I suppose as it rightly should be if one has maintained this arbitrary and arrogant condition which keeps the substance of one’s own body and mind and heart from returning to the King. Human beings spend their lives preventing that return,  and then when they die they hopefully expect to be received into the bosom of the King. That’s not exactly the way it works.

Where there is resonant substance it is resonating with the radiance of love. It is resonating with the Word of the King. If it should be that a point is reached when the substance of the physical body can no longer sustain life because it no longer resonates with the radiance of love which brings life, then that substance in that form ceases to allow the form to continue. The substance is still there but the form is gone. But there was substance which was resonating with the radiance of love as well. Is that substance going to cease resonating with the radiance of love? That is where the connection is. It is in the process of being raised up.

Some of this substance may bring with it physical substance. There is a recognition that very often, particularly in the case of an older person, their physical substance diminishes; but the substance to which I have particular reference is the substance of consciousness. If the substance of one’s consciousness is resonating with the radiance of love, then there is a state of union here established. And the mere fact of what is called the death of the physical body doesn’t disrupt that union. One may question perhaps, as a human being: “How much of my substance of consciousness is resonating with the radiance of love?” This is a question we might individually put to ourselves. I doubt if you’ll receive any answer, but based in the fact of such resonance there is what I have called union already established. So the mere fact of the death of the physical form has no effect upon that. The loss of the physical form didn’t change anything insofar as the resonance of the substance of consciousness is concerned. Of course presumably, in most, that resonance is only partial. There are some pockets of substance in consciousness which are not particularly resonating with the radiation of love. However the extent to which there is resonance is the extent to which one is already aware of the reality of one’s own being; and when the separation occurs in the experience of death as it is now known, then that awareness remains. It doesn’t remain attached to the physical form but it remains because it might be said to be attached to the radiation of love.

I emphasize this this evening, not to generate speculation or wondering, but to indicate what already should be obvious: that any substance that is resonating with the radiation of love resonates with the radiation of love and is held by that. So the matter of death then is not so traumatic in imagination. Gradually, as this resonance intensifies, there is more and more of the radiation of love present in the experience of this body; and because it is the experience of this body it has come to pass by reason of the fact that it is the experience of the individuals who compose it. As long as this body persists, the resurrection continues. This is what is happening. I do not suggest as to what may happen to the form somewhere along the way, but it is all working according to the radiation of love, so it should be of no concern.

Much more might be considered in this field, but the point I wish to make is that stability, continuity, is consequent upon the union of the radiation of love with the substance which is resonating in response to it. And, as that is the substance of consciousness, it can be easily seen that ascension is natural. With the world the way it is it’s unlikely to take the physical body with it, at least presently. But what is it that gives the physical body any meaning? It is the substance that is present, the substance of consciousness resonating with the radiation of love. And that remains. It isn’t as though the radiation of love says, “You’ve got no body anymore. I can’t be bothered with you.” It works the way it works. The fear of death has been very prominent because there has been so little substance resonating with the radiance of love. But where that substance increases: Death, where is thy sting? It ceases to exist.

I rejoice that we may share the continuing process by which increasing substance is freed up within our own experience as individuals to resonate with the radiance of love, that ultimately perchance there will be no pockets of resistant substance remaining. The substance isn’t resistant, but it is the attitude and the state of the individual which keeps the substance resistant. Free it up and it will resonate like it should, and it all comes home. So we remain together with increasing quantity and quality of resonant substance, so that there may be increasing understanding and, consequently, increasing radiance because we are present.

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