from
The Culture and Language of the Kingdom
Martin Cecil January 24, 1982
There is power in the spoken word
when it springs forth through a pure heart and a spiritually governed mind.
“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” That renewing could never happen as long as one was conformed to this world. Being conformed to this world is being conformed to what is now present in the mass consciousness and to the distorted patterns remaining in our own subconscious minds.
It has been indicated that the spirit of God should give utterance in our speech. We have become aware of the living equipment by which the creative expression of the spirit of God may come into action on earth. We ourselves as individuals are aware of that facility of body and mind and heart, fearfully and wonderfully made, exactly right for right use. These facilities, in our own individual experience and the experience of human beings down through the ages, have been used wrongly; the compulsion has arisen out of individual and race memory. There is no doubt, we clearly see, it is impossible to change the circumstances of the past. But the circumstances of the past contained in memory certainly should no longer direct our momentary behavior. This memory is present now in this moment; it isn't in the past. The events are in the past—they cannot be changed; there is no need to change them—but the influence which they exert upon present experience comes by reason of memory which is present now and can be changed. It is indeed our concern to let it be changed because we are no longer conformed to this world.
In order to let the mind be transformed there is the necessity for the water of truth: sanctification by the truth. According to the record of the Master's words, He was quite aware of this necessity and spoke of the way by which what was needful might be achieved. The Spirit of Truth should “bring all things to remembrance” were His words. We have referred to this experience as baptism by water. We ourselves have participated in this outpouring of the water of truth, some of us for many years, that changes might be wrought at the subconscious levels of our own minds. The changes come because new and more fluid material is available to be received. As we have learned, in whatever measure, to take our hands off the crank of the conscious mind, then the flowing of the water of truth has turned the mind; the cistern has been filled with this fluid material, ready to be drawn up as needful. Baptism, a conditioning process.
One of the elements in the memory of each one of us, something that is shared by all of us, is language. All of us can speak the English language, some better than others maybe. We may have other languages at our command, but insofar as this matter of conditioning in the water of truth is concerned the English language has been primary. We might consider this matter of language. There are many of them in the world. It is said now that there is a process by which they are becoming less, so that in due season, according to the human view at least, there will only be ten or twelve languages in the world. Perhaps we might look for the day when there is only one. We would refer to this language as the Language of the Kingdom. It is the natural state of man to speak this One Language. Perhaps there may be some dialects involved, relating to different levels of understanding and consciousness, but One Language nevertheless. The reduction in the languages of the world which is anticipated is an evident awareness on the part of those who are informed about such things that there is movement toward an ultimate of One Language.
The languages of the world are not isolated entities, just existing all on their own. Educators have often tended to look at them that way, so that in the classroom it was imagined that you could teach a language. In your classroom days maybe someone tried to teach you a language other than English; maybe you needed to learn English too, but I am thinking of another language. The question arises as to how much you may now remember of what you were taught; it vanishes very quickly from consciousness because it was taught as though it was an isolated entity. But a language is merely the expression of a culture of some kind. If one is immersed in that culture one will learn that language quite easily. This is why the easiest way to learn a language is to go to the country in which it is spoken. Then you begin to conform to that aspect of the world, and the language which goes with it becomes apparent to you; it springs out of the culture.
If we see this with respect to the languages of this world, we can understand how the Language of the Kingdom comes to be known. It certainly isn't an isolated language that we could find somewhere and learn—it springs out of the Culture of the Kingdom. Therefore one must participate in the Culture of the Kingdom to learn the language. However we are not going to jump into the unknown; we move from the known to the unknown. The known in this instance, for most of us, was the English language, so we have shared some transformation in our own understanding of the English language. We utilize words in different ways to what is usual in conversational English. We see meanings to words that most people do not see. In other words these words have been transformed in our experience, so that there begins to emerge a new language. This new language sounds like English but isn't. As we realize this, we know that it is incumbent upon us to be very careful of the words we use, remembering what they mean to others.
So there has been this much transformation taking place in our understanding of what heretofore was the English language—it begins to become the clothing for the Culture of the Kingdom. Now those who participate in the Culture of the Kingdom understand the Language. Those who try to use the language without participating in the Culture of the Kingdom turn the language into jargon. It may be that there was nothing wrong with the words; there was something wrong with the people who spoke them. If there is jargon it is because there are those who have not participated in the Culture of the Kingdom trying to speak the Kingdom Language, and it doesn't make much sense; it becomes an increasingly meaningless jargon. But if one is participating in the Culture of the Kingdom, then certainly a new language puts in an appearance as part and parcel of the Kingdom experience—it is the clothing of that experience.
The English language starts off by being fairly fluid, therefore correlates well with water, or the Truth, whereas so many other languages have their restrictions; they are far more structured. That is why it is difficult to learn the English language if you are just trying to learn the language. Those who have learned the English language whose first language was something else have done so because they participated in the English culture in one of its aspects. And there are multitudes of aspects. There are multitudes of variations therefore in the English language. Each segment of culture has its own dialect, and sometimes it is quite difficult to understand what a person is talking about even though he apparently is speaking the English language, because his culture is so foreign to one's own experience.
Well we can see a tremendous variety of stuff in this area, in which we are not greatly interested except for opening doors in some way, utilizing the languages of the world, for people to begin to move toward the experience of the Kingdom Culture. Then very naturally out of that will spring the Language of the Kingdom. There isn't any such language at the moment, just a movement towards it, and that movement in our own experience has come because there has been baptism by water, which meant that we all became wet, soaked. And here we have an analogy of a soaking in the Culture of the Kingdom. We don't really know what it is yet, but considerable material has been provided, absorbed in some measure into our subconscious minds so that it is available for the use of the spirit of God in the creative process. The creative process is required for the transformation which is to occur on the larger scale. So we have been conditioned, in whatever measure, by this baptism by water. We have material in our subconscious minds that most people do not have in their subconscious minds. This does not make us better than other people but it does require of us the assumption of greater responsibility, that this material may be put to use—not the use of the conscious mind all on its own, as some have tried to do, but the use of the spirit of God, which operates through both conscious and subconscious minds.
“But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” This points to actual experience, not merely having available material in the subconscious mind to be yanked out and laid on somebody else. There may be what is necessary to be said to somebody else, but the primary requirement is that one should prove the truth for oneself. This has been undertaken, in whatever measure, by each of us. Only when this is undertaken does the other element come into the picture, namely fire. There is the requirement of baptism by fire. Water first, then fire. The fire puts in an appearance when we prove out the fact that we are not conformed to this world. We may find ourselves getting into hotter water on this basis. The water needs to come to the boil so that it may be converted into steam: additional power. This occurs because there is fire put under the boiler, so to speak. The fire relates very particularly to emotional experience. The emotional experience may be very uncomfortable. If our motivation, springing out of the polluted sea of the subconscious, is to be comfortable, well we will try to avoid the discomfort, and the conscious mind has become very expert in finding methods of escaping from the fire. And yet we are looking for the fire.
While I have emphasized the matter of discomfort, there are of course other aspects to the fire too. It is said of the Spirit of Truth that He was the Comforter. In other words there is the ability, by reason of the presence of the Spirit of Truth, to handle effectively whatever it is that is put on one's plate—to deal with it, to take care of it, to look after one's responsibilities without being overly concerned about the way one feels. Feeling has been so pandered to in human experience that it has been fattened in human experience, and a big deal is made out of the discomforts that are felt. There is in fact no need to make a big deal out of it. If we really want to feel uncomfortable we'll make a big deal out of it. And there are those who cry aloud and cut themselves with lancets, or whatever it was that the prophets of Baal used, to emphasize their discomfort. Well we are not interested in playing the roles of the prophets of Baal, are we, and insisting upon discomfort. With the truth available, the spirit of God in action, there is the capability of taking care of whatever comes to us without making a big deal out of the way we feel. Let that habit be dissolved.
Doors and gates are opened. One of the primary tools that we use are words. “Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” That was the centurion, wasn't it? Speak the word only. We begin to see the true position of man in administering God's creative purposes. He doesn't do it by the sweat of the face. Speak the word only, and it shall be done. But that word must spring out of the Kingdom Culture. It can't spring out of the Kingdom Culture unless the individual who speaks the words is a part of that Culture. Then the spoken word begins to have creative impact. The spoken word impinges upon the spiritual substance that is present with people, and because it is a spiritual word being spoken it has effect. There is attunement between the word and the substance, and that substance is present at the unconscious level of mind, the conscious level of mind, and in the emotional realm. All this substance permeates physical substance too. It is natural for the clarified spiritual substance to respond to the command of the Word, and as there is such response the whole organism moves. This could be seen with our minds as being rather a simple process actually. The true creative process is not all that complicated, and it certainly doesn't require sweat of the face. It requires those who are associated with the Culture of the Kingdom, are a part of it, so that out of that culture may spring the words of the Kingdom. The words of the Kingdom are creative words; they have effect wherever there is substance in human beings anywhere free enough to move.
There is some substance in virtually all the population of the earth which is capable of so moving. It is waiting to be moved. It is waiting for somebody to speak the Word. It is waiting therefore for somebody to be a part of the Culture of the Kingdom. Now we ourselves have been baptized in this regard. We have begun to experience what it means to “prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” To do it, not to talk about it, not to theorize about it, but actually to experience it in living.
By the way, there is something I wish to say to everybody. Maybe it doesn't apply to everybody, but you will see what I am talking about. I have used recently the words “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Yet I continually receive letters, not only from some who may be here present but from all over, which speak of “the way, the truth, and the light.” That isn't true! That isn't what is being said. Our words need to be very specific. We know something about the character of the spirit of God: Love, Truth, Life. It seems to me we learned that in kindergarten. Not love, truth, and light. Where the spirit of God is in action there is light. If the word “light” is used in the context of “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” it is an indication of very fuzzy comprehension. In the Word is life, and the life is the light of men. But it is the Word with which we are concerned, the Word which is spoken in the Culture of the Kingdom. And when that Word is spoken it initiates the creative process and carries it forward. And the first factor in the creative process—it seems to me everyone should know—is light. But that's part of the creative process, not part of what is producing the creative process. It is the spirit of God in action that allows for the manifestation of light—the Word spoken, the Word expressed in living, life. We give account for every idle word that we speak. Let our words never be idle. Sometimes idle words are spoken on the basis of jargon, which often comes out distorted, like “the way, the truth, and the light.” There ain't no such animal! Let us be very careful of the words we use, because we are going to be in trouble with idle ones.
We share the experience of baptism by water, plenty of water—and in some measure, baptism by fire. If discomfort is felt, what is uncomfortable? Something that needs to be consumed by the fire. Let it be consumed! Don't fuss about it, don't complain about it. Thank God for it! It's being burned. Let it be burned. It is a little matter, in the sense of what is felt. There is quite a lot to be burned still, a little at a time. Or do you want it all at once? I don't think we have anything to complain about, only if we have habitually blown these things up in our own experience. Why not accept the offer of the Comforter? We have been provided with the baptism of truth to call much to our remembrance, but most of what is called to our remembrance is of the Kingdom—something beautiful, wonderful and glorious. Think on these things, and behold, the former things, the unreal, passes away and the newness of the new state keeps coming forth increasingly into our awareness, so that we find ourselves standing on a rock and capable of dealing with all that is brought to us for our effective creative action. Much of that creative action is based in words spoken.
We have been sharing in a creative action this evening by reason of words spoken, words which, to the extent that they spring forth from the Culture of the Kingdom, bring to bear a creative influence wherever the substance of that Culture of the Kingdom may be present in human minds and hearts the world around. We do not need to know who is affected, how much, in what way. We may find out in due season what has been occurring by reason of the Word of the Lord spoken on earth which goes forth to accomplish that whereunto it is sent. And it does not return void—it brings back the substance with it. So here is our ministry in the name of the Lord, easy, beautiful, natural. Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
