Your Sincere Student
A Letter of Realization
by Brother Martin Cecil October 23, 1941
Beloved Uranda:
I rejoiced to receive the first instalment
of the Services of the Pittsburgh Summer Session, and am looking forward to
further releases in due season according to our Response. I was a little bit
sad to hear through your Personal Message that you had removed your beard.
However I appreciate your reason for so doing, and only hope that I also may as
easily and fully let go of that which is behind, pressing on to my high calling
in Christ. Your mention of the EXPLORER'S WORD comes as a great Joy, for such a
publication would surely fill a most evident need. I sometimes wonder why it is
that I have not continued on with my series, CHILD LIGHT. But somehow the way
has not opened, though it may yet do so. At the time it was written it filled a
specific need, but that particular need is no longer there, although there may
perhaps be a general need of this nature, which will draw forth further
expression at the right time in the right way. In the meantime I rejoice in the
EXPLORER'S WORD and anticipate its publication with the greatest Joy!
The First Pittsburgh Service is
very beautiful and you surely come to us, each one, through the Spirit of the
recorded words. The Word of your Life fills the word of your lips, for how else
could your expression bring forth the Fruits which are so gloriously revealed
in your Ministry? What is the Fruit of our lives? Is it not the expression of
our every thought, word and deed? These are the Fruits which must contain the
Seed, or they will surely have no meaning and no value. The Fruit, even our
every thought, word and deed, forms the womb in which the Seed germinates and
will finally come to fruition should it fall upon Responsive Ground. Thus it is that the Christ Life in us must bring
forth and fill our every expression and thus it is that we may bring forth
Fruit unto Eternal Life. An intellectual expression, however fine and beautiful
it may appear from an outer standpoint, has not true meaning for it contains no
Seed and therefore cannot bring forth anything. It is a “whited sepulchre.”
Therefore it is evident that it is only a mockery and a delusion to attempt to
build our lives by seeking to control our expression. Our Life is already an
accomplished fact. All that is necessary for us to do is to harmonize in the already
existing Perfect Life within ourselves, when our expression will naturally
become the Seed-filled Fruit.
10-26-41 After rather a lengthy
interruption I continue! The Symbol that you give of the construction of some
great edifice, such as a Cathedral, is most interesting. There would seem to be
three distinct phases in such an undertaking: firstly the conception of the idea;
secondly the establishment of the plans and the organization in outer form,
whereby the building may be brought forth; and thirdly the actual construction
of the Cathedral. In the case of the manifestation of the Christ Kingdom in our
lives individually and collectively, these three steps are again revealed in their
relationship to the three phases of our outer nature. Firstly there must be a
Spiritual Response, which releases, secondly, the “Divine Idea” into the mind,
and thirdly, it is brought forth through the body into manifestation in the
world, as all three phases remain in steadfast alignment. These same things are
revealed to us clearly in the three phases of your Ministry through the Third
Sacred School. In the world's Spiritual Response as focalized in you, the
“Immaculate Conception” took place in the first phase of your Ministry before
September 1936. In
continued right Response the mental understanding was brought forth on the Spiritual
basis, and in the second phase of your Ministry the “Lines of Force” were
established in the outer world whereby the Christ Kingdom might be finally released
once again into full manifestation. In the Booklet “LETTERS TO YOU,” we have
what we might term the complete “blueprint” of the Edifice. And now we come to
the third phase. The construction of the actual building in the outer world
must begin. In that the organization for transcribing the plans, training the
employees, collecting and testing the materials, and all the other manifold
needs of the second phase of this vast undertaking, is totally different to
that organization which is required in the actual construction of the Edifice;
it naturally follows that there must be a dissolution of the old organization,
when that particular phase of work for which it was originally established is
completed, and the setting up of a new organization based upon the needs of
construction. Thus we behold the reorganization which is now taking place in
the Third Sacred School, and the laying of the Foundation Stone in the release
of “THE DAWNING DAY” into the world.
A consideration of these things
and other related matters begins to open up glorious vistas revealing the
perfection of every smallest detail in the unfoldment of the Cosmic Plan. Truly
we may abide in Peace and rejoice that it is so!
I remain, your
sincere Student. Martin.
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