The Irresistible Power
Lord Exeter October 4, 1987
Be honest
Be still
Listen
Hear
Is there sufficient stillness that we are able to hear?—stillness of heart, stillness of mind. This does not imply that the heart is open to receive all and sundry currents of feeling that may be moving around—it has been too much open in that regard—but sufficiently still that there may be a touching, a sensing, of the spirit of truth. It is flowing, it is moving, unceasingly. There may be various intensities of movement, pulsations, but never a cessation. The river of life, ever flowing—and these human capacities are here present, particularly of heart and mind, available to accommodate that flow of the river of life. The yielded and still mind and heart are present because we are also present in the flesh.
This flow of the river of life moves through this Body, through the mind and the heart of this Body. It does it individually speaking, and collectively in this Body. The veil, which has prohibited the movement of this spirit in the minds and the hearts of human beings for so long, dissolves. We have the experience of it dissolving, both as individuals and collectively. No individual heart and mind could say, “I am doing the dissolving.” What might be said is that I am willing to allow this dissolving to occur. It occurs because of the flow of the river of life, because of the creative movement of the spirit of truth. We find that that movement cannot be separated from the creative movement of the power of love. Here is an immense power.
The universe is operative. The human mind certainly hasn’t really understood this. It tries to pick the universe apart in the same way that it picks a frog apart in the lab. If that is done successfully, of course, there is no frog. Likewise, insofar as human beings are concerned there is no universe; it’s just a fanciful imagination. But there is a real universe. We call it a universe, but what does that mean? Do we need to know? Or do we have enough responsibility right here where we are? Perchance if we take care of this we may know something of that.
But there is the power of love, part of the flow of the river of life, combined with the spirit of truth. Here is immense power. It has been foolish for mankind to contend with it. They have been doing this for a long time, in human terms. That we are still here is indicative of the merciful nature of love. It was said of the Master that He endured the contradiction of sinners—that is, of human nature. Whenever there has been a focus of spirit brought to point on earth, there always was this factor of contradiction, the arrogance of the human mind which rejects, and always has, the spirit of truth. But, being aware somewhat of the immensity of power that is involved here, finally a point is reached where the contradiction is enough—no more!
We are blessed with the opportunity of accommodating this creative power. The way we accommodate it is to receive the holy spirit, the spirit of truth, into expression in our own living. Again very mercifully, the extent of this power has been modified, because if it was really released through this representation of the Body of the King I think there would be ashes sitting in the seats. We may become aware that this is not really funny, but a fact. Even the little power that is moving now through this Body is having immense repercussions. We ourselves are perhaps largely unaware of what those repercussions are. I don’t say that we may not observe certain repercussions, but we do not know particularly how these relate to the release of this power which is our responsibility. That is fortunate. We might, on the one hand, become somewhat arrogant if we knew; on the other hand we might be even more scared than we are. So there is a veil still over our consciousness for a reason.
But the power is moving. We might say truly that it is an irresistible force. There are two aspects to this irresistibility. One relates to positive radiation which brings attraction where there is resonant substance. The other is positive radiation which produces repulsion where there is substance held in the structured patterns of human nature. This was described as casting out what is kept in such structures into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. This is the Law at work, isn’t it? The Law has always been at work but, mercifully, it has been modified insofar as human experience is concerned, because of love.
We realize that all this comes to issue because we find it is being brought to issue in our own experience. What happens as it is brought to issue in our own experience will determine what happens in the world. That’s a statement that can be made but, insofar as human logic is concerned, cannot be proven. It doesn’t need to be proven in advance. It certainly will be proven in fact. And we can wait around for it to be proven, but that would hardly be very profitable. On the other hand we have sufficient understanding at this point to provide the facility for the release in radiation of this irresistible force which is the power of love. This may be safely done to the extent that we receive and express the spirit of truth.
There is much substance which will resonate as there are those present on earth who are willing to let it come out of the structures of their own consciousness. This is what has been provided for us, isn’t it?—the understanding and the assistance, that we might allow the substance, this spiritual substance of our own being, to be released from the structures in which it has been held so firmly in times past.
There hasn’t always been great enthusiasm about this, because some of those structures seem to be good. But when we reach a point of trusting the spirit of truth and the creative process, there is nothing to be defended, there is nothing to prevent from happening. The control and the design is present by reason of the spirit of truth, and as that occupies our hearts and minds, because there is resonant substance there, then any remaining vestiges of the veil may be easily dissolved. The veil is describable as the remaining structures which hold spiritual substance from resonating. I am sure we have all had experience of digging in our heels on occasion. Fear of course is a strong motivation in human beings. But at last we come to what may be trusted, so that there may be the release of the radiation of the spirit of truth, unhindered and unfettered by such restrictions as we may heretofore have placed upon it.
Here is the power which is producing effects, in human beings and beyond, that might from the human standpoint be said to be immeasurable. Let’s not try to measure them then. Let’s let them be, but in an awareness that it is our responsibility to maintain the clear space through which this creative radiation may be released, and to do it consistently. This both provides a point of orientation for any resonant substance that may be around, so that it may be drawn quickly, and it also repels, not so much the substance that is held in structures so that it cannot resonate but it repels the structures, it disintegrates the structures.
An interesting portrayal of this comes in something like an earthquake. There is quite a bit of rubble around Los Angeles these days, shaken out of structures. This is seemingly rather inert substance that cannot quickly be absorbed into the creative process. We ourselves are concerned with a different type of substance, contained in human beings and in their institutions. It takes something of an earthquake to break that loose. Probably as individuals we discovered that it needed something of an earthquake to allow our personal vibrational substance to become sufficiently free that it might resonate easily and carry us in the direction, at least, of where we belong. In varying degrees we have all had this experience.
Let’s not humanly take credit for it. It simply happened because there was this power of love, this immense power—and yet a very gentle power in many ways—which draws resonant substance to itself. If, as happens, there is sufficient resonant substance in a person, as I said before, the person comes along, maybe a little unwillingly, maybe with a little fear. It is the substance coming home and bringing human beings with it. We have all had this experience. We may finally admit that it wasn’t because of our good sense, it wasn’t because of anything that we happened to do as human beings but largely in spite of what we did as human beings, that we ourselves have been brought home, simply because this spiritual substance was present sufficiently in us to come home, and so we came along with it.
This should engender a little humility, which is a most necessary ingredient if our hearts and our minds are to be used for the purpose for which they, were created: to accommodate such conscious thinking as is necessary on behalf of the spirit of truth. The spirit of truth is not dependent solely on conscious thinking, but there is something to be done consciously in this way which relates to the creative process. But at the same time the spirit of truth, which identifies what I am for each one, brings to bear the power of love and, insofar as any remaining resistances that may be present in our makeup, will consume them. That happens more or less automatically. It may be an easy experience if in the human sense we don’t object, or it may be a painful one if we do.
So this power is emerging through this Body. It takes individuals to compose the Body; it takes their individual minds and hearts. But it is the power through the Body, this flow of the river of life, that releases the irresistible force into the consciousness of mankind, which is still very structured. However, I am sure that we can observe these structures crumbling. I am not thinking of what has been referred to as the crunch. I am thinking of the structures that are dissolving, so that the substance is freed up. It comes home, and the individual comes along with it. We can observe this occurring.
We need to see, somewhat, why it is happening and what our responsiblity is with respect to it. We are here to receive what is returning to our King. We receive it in His name; and that name, we know, is I am. So it is a very personal receiving. It isn’t a receiving as though the King was over there somewhere, and on His behalf we’re going to have this and we’ll hand it over sometime. How do we do that? No, we receive it in His name. It comes home to us. We are trusted with it, and we need to remember that. We are trusted with all this that is drawn by the irresistible force back to the King. We receive it in His name.
This is an irresistible power, drawing resonant substance and dissolving structures which are holding substance, which would be resonant if it was free, from coming home. This has a lot of implications, I am sure you can recognize. There is no need to speculate as to what it is that is going to happen. That engenders concepts of doom. We are thinking of substance coming home. That’s hardly doom. Because of this power, substance is freed up because the structures begin to dissolve. In individual human beings, their human-nature structures begin to dissolve, and the institutions of human beings dissolve also. How that will happen, when it will happen, what it involves, we are delighted to find out, probably a little later.
We need to let the power work now, to move easily, because we hold steady and participate in the expression of the spirit of truth in our own personal lives. When we do that we see how it is working through the Body. It is no longer a mystery. And it is working. Even with this little crack through which it may flow—I don’t mean to insult this Body as being merely a little crack, but that’s really all it is, isn’t it, if we consider the world body—even the power that can flow through this little crack is proving to be immense. The power that can take care of the universal operation is certainly quite competent to take care of this little blemish in the universal operation quite easily. It doesn’t require the whole of the power of the universe, only a small fraction, to get the job done.
We need to accept, acknowledge, the responsibility that is ours, to provide the means by which this minimal release of power may occur, even though the minimal release of power on earth may seem, from the human standpoint, to be immense. It’s all a matter of relativity, isn’t it? I rejoice that we have a continuing open way in which we may move together. For a while I will be somewhere other than Sunrise Ranch. But then, I’ll be somewhere else, and that is acceptable, I think, to wherever else that might be. We move easily, because we really don’t go anywhere. We stay where we belong, releasing the radiant power and blessing of the King in our momentary living.
Roger de Winton — Martin, this is a magical moment with you. Surely in this hour consciousness is cleared; the actuality of service is, you might say, revealed to me, to us. But I think, above all, the wonderful gentleness of love has been conveyed so unmistakably, so that whatever is undertaken when you aren’t actually with us here may continue in that way, so that in patience and understanding and gentleness, whatever I have to do or anyone has to do here may be carried forward and the greatness of what we are really about may be allowed to come down into consciousness and be conveyed. Thank you very much.
Lord Exeter — The power is no less because any particular person happens to be here or there geographically. The river of life continues to flow unabated.
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