A  Period  of  Intensifying  Fire

from  Programming and Reprogramming

Martin Exeter  September 12, 1982  a.m.  

Human beings, ourselves included, have found themselves programmed into an earthly state which has excluded heaven. All people are thus programmed from the moment of conception. The initial programming may be described as intrinsic. It is present in the very flesh of the fetus, stemming from parents, forebears and the experience of the human race itself out of the past. This is usually thought of in terms of genes, but there is obviously more to it than the physical genes. There is this intrinsic program present in each developing form, but as soon as there is conception something else comes into the picture as well as what is intrinsically present at that point—an extrinsic influence, imposed upon the developing fetus.

During the time of uterine development the extrinsic is more or less indirect, but as soon as the baby is born then direct influences begin to be brought to bear, so that the extrinsic programming continues. All people are programmed in this fashion with these two components, intrinsic and extrinsic. We may see that the intrinsic is more basic, deeper, one might say almost untouchable. It is there—we all know it is there for ourselves; no one is exempt; it is a carry-forward out of the past. It has been described in the Christian religion as original sin, an intrinsic programming coming out of the earthly experience of the past. Superimposed on top of that is the extrinsic programming which subsequently ensues. This is a more surface programming and is capable of being manipulated to a certain extent. All of us have been programmed in this fashion, together with our fellows in this human world; and the state of the world itself is simply a reflection of this fact. It is brought forth by reason of the programming of human beings. This programming, the surface aspects of it, can be manipulated and changed somewhat as influences of various kinds are brought to bear, but the total package is hardly changed at all. Certainly the intrinsic aspect is not changed; it sits there in the very flesh of the individual, which includes mind and emotions.

We are all programmed. The intrinsic program—the main part—requires that human beings die. Everybody is programmed to die; that's why everybody dies. As long as that program exists there is apparently no escape, and of course there is whatever leads up to that ultimate point, which may come speedily or more slowly, as the case may be. But the programming is set, and the result is consequently inevitable as long as that program is there. We have become aware of the fact that man was not originally programmed that way. It is something that has been self-induced back along the way. We don't need to go into that; we can't do anything about it anyhow. The state of affairs is as it is. We have to deal with the situation as it is.

The original programming could be described as the Truth, with the elements of heavenly design and heavenly control. The manifest body and mind and heart, the human soul, is designed to be programmed. There is nothing wrong with the fact that there is a program in operation—there should be a program. We are aware that the program presently in effect is a substitute one; it is not the right program. You can't tape a new program without obliterating what is on the tape in the first place—so, clearly, there must be some mechanism by which this may occur if human beings are to be programmed once more by the Truth.

That program was described as being made in the image and likeness of God. That was the original program, and as long as that prevailed the fact of that particular program was revealed in the experience of man. Now there is another program in effect, and what is revealed is certainly not the same as the original program, which allowed for the reality of God to be made known. The reality of God is not made known by man. Something else is made known, and it has been described in various ways: that old serpent, the devil, and satan, great red dragon—the human state, a destructive experience, because man is in this state programmed to die. He goes about it in ingenious ways, but he ends up dead because of the program. What is it that ends up dead? The thing that was programmed. If something is programmed to self-destruct it self-destructs, and it is the human soul that has been programmed to self-destruct. Faithfully over the ages this program has been carried out, generation after generation. It has become so customary that while there may be some imagination about another state it has never been much more than fanciful imagination.

Fire represents the means by which one program may be eliminated and another one established. It would be useless just to eliminate the first program, because then there would be nothing, a blank. We are not concerned with trying to get rid of the first program—there is concern for reprogramming. Our concern has been to allow the real program, which is the Truth, to replace the false program, which incidentally must be a lie if it isn't the Truth. One could say then that death is a lie, a very popular one apparently. The false program has been much more popular than the real one. It has reached a state where there is no awareness, for the most part, that there is a real one available. If we see these things in terms of programming we recognize that there must be certain facilities available to allow the real program to be reestablished. It doesn't happen by magic, in the ordinary sense at least. It doesn't happen because somebody would like it to happen, because one consciously is desirous of being made new. There has been a very firm and persistent objection to this experience, because it requires the Fire—it looks dangerous. Of course the Fire does consume the old program, but at the same time there is the availability of the True program, and the Fire is not separate from the True program.

We have described the spirit of God as being triune in nature: Love, Truth and Life—inseparable. So if you have the Fire the Truth goes along with it and is available for the reprogramming process to be experienced. But the Fire is not the first thing to be brought to bear in its intensity. It should remain in the background for a while. Whenever things have started to hot up a bit the human tendency is to duck out, to seek cover, to jump into the foxhole. When the Fire comes along, the individual needs to be on hand, not hiding.

There has to be an introduction, somehow or other, to the possibility of true programming; probably it hasn't been described that way heretofore, but an introduction to the Truth, because that is the True programming. It is a heavenly programming. It doesn't originate in the past, out of the earth; it originates now, in heaven. To experience it one would have to be in heaven. It is impossible for this spurious self to be in heaven. It needs to pass away, and we have become aware of the fact that it does pass away anyway; you can't stop it passing away. But there is the possibility of knowing the Truth, of having this real program reestablished. As the real program is reestablished, the self that is known is the real self, the real person, the person who is present in the facility that heretofore was wrongly programmed. There is the necessary period of time for transformation to occur, so that the individual comes to the point where there is a genuine and factual willingness to relinquish the false state of self, the spurious self. Most people are inclined to cling to that till the last gasp. There is terrible fear of losing oneself. How much effort is put into the preservation of the ego by most people, thereby ensuring their own demise, because the ego is going to vanish away sooner or later.

There is this reprogramming necessary, and this requires what has been referred to as baptism—water—the symbol of Truth with which a person must become acquainted. Four barrels of water poured over, three times: twelve barrels of water. A soaking in the Truth, that's baptism. It seems to take a little time to go through the process. There is an increasing acquaintance with the symbol of the Truth. It is not the Truth yet; it is the symbol of the Truth. We have been considering many, many things in a new and changing light over the years, because it wasn't the Truth yet; it was simply varying levels of the symbol of the Truth. The symbol of the Truth comes in words, for instance; but the Truth isn't words. The Truth is the real program with which man needs to be associated, so that that is established. And that program provides the basis for the creative expression of the One who now is aware and known on earth, the heavenly One incarnate and in expression on earth once more. So there is water.

If we stop supporting the old program by giving our life into the expression of it, then there begins to be space for the experience of the new program. The old program is still there; certainly the intrinsic aspect of it is still there. We may have experienced some changes in the extrinsic aspect of that false program, but if we could see the picture as it is we would find that it was really very little.

There is a new program, but it takes the Fire to reprogram and to, at the same time, dissolve the remnants of the old program all the way through to the intrinsic aspect, all the way through to the factors of earthly heredity, that these may be replaced by the True elements of heavenly heredity. It comes with the Fire. We have before us a period of intensifying Fire and we have the opportunity of letting it be used to advantage, so that the bonds of the old program are burnt, consumed, enabling us to walk in the Fire. The True program is present once more: the Truth. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”—to walk in the Fire, to walk as an angel incarnate and in expression on earth.

At this point, there is still present the old programming; it persists. But we discover how to live without feeding that old program with our Life force anymore, because we are aware of the right use of our Life force in the expression of spirit at the level of which we are now aware. It is all that is necessary, but it is necessary to be true to that and consistent in the expression of it. Doubtless there are those things which arise emotionally, mentally and physically which would distract us into the old programmed state if we would allow it. All of you have had a tremendous amount of opportunity to be aware of what constitutes that old state, and yet I observe occasionally those who are distracted back into it and begin to give expression to that old programming. Repent quickly! This has been the element that the old programming has been most resistant to: repentance. “I am damned if I will!” Yes, you're damned—you're damned if you don't! Repent of the old programming. Stop giving it Life force and allow the Life force to pour increasingly through your present experience of spirit in action. You have enough awareness of the Truth, you've been dunked enough, to know the quality and nature of that spirit—and the quality and nature of the old programming.

So we have brought to focus something with respect to another point of transition in the intensifying Fire, and I trust that all are happy because of it, are delighted to let the Fire burn, to let it be intensified. Oh yes, it will uncover some things that would, if they could, take charge of you again, demanding your Life force. Don't fall into the trap but stay true to the Truth in delighted experience of the intensifying Fire, which comes individually, and it comes for all of us collectively also.

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