from
The One Language
Martin Cecil March 21, 1982
We might well be reminded
of some very familiar words, cast however in the present tense: “In the
beginning,” this beginning, the beginning of each moment, “is the Word,” the
expression of Being, “and the Word is with God,” with Being, “and the Word is
God”; the expression of Being is inseparable from Being.
We have experience of
something of the transcendent state of affairs; but there is always more to be
experienced and it is our concern that that more which is fitting in this hour
should be known. It can only be known because we all provide what we are here
to provide according to our several fields of responsibility. I certainly can’t
do it all; I can extend the welcome but you have to receive it and to offer,
therefore, what is natural in the place and setting into which you come. We
would share this, and what I have to provide I will provide according to what
you provide. Being, and the expression of Being, are rightly inseparable. It is
the human habit to impose, as a rule. I have nothing to impose upon you; I have
no desire to impose anything. But there is something which we may all share
which may be allowed to find expression in this hour. I have a certain
responsibility to give it expression but the expression is not mine alone; it
depends upon what is moving in everyone who is here present as to what it is
that is brought forth. So we have the opportunity of sharing this bringing
forth this morning—not only in this group of human beings here present but in
those who are present in the other places, but nevertheless have the connection
in spirit.
In the beginning,
indeed, is the Word, is the expression of Being, in all of us. It is present in
all of us. It may have been brought forth in our own experience in rather
limited ways, but latterly I’m sure that there has been the increase, and
something clearer and more pure begins to emerge into expression in our living
and consequently in our experience. It is this that is of vital consequence
insofar as the world as a whole is concerned. It all originates in the same source: In the
beginning is the Word, and the Word is with God, and the Word is God. All
things were made, are made, by the Word: and without the Word, without this
expression of Being, nothing at all is. If there is anything it is because of
this. We have some perspective
which includes an understanding, somewhat, of these things: that there is
something occurring in the world which transcends the human experience which
is, and has been, known in the world. It is affecting everything and everyone.
It is affecting everything because it is affecting everyone...
In the world these days, a lot of people are
learning English as a second language. If one is a native of some particular
country which speaks a certain language and then undertakes to learn English as
a second language, one’s original language is always the first language. Right?
One is trying to acquire a second language. I would suggest that our concern is
to relinquish what we have thought of
as our first language. I am using this as a symbol of something. I am not
really talking about language as such but the character of our experience
heretofore. This is obviously conditioned and colored by all sorts of
background factors: personal ones, hereditary ones in the personal sense,
hereditary ones in the larger national sense perhaps, and finally hereditary
ones in the race sense. Well this is our language. It’s a very confused
language. Scarcely anyone understands anybody else on the basis of this sort of
a language. Occasionally we may think we have a mutual understanding; then we
find out that we didn’t have it at all.
There is the need to
awaken to our First Language. Most people want to learn the truth on the basis
of their already existing language. It can’t be done. The already existing
state of affairs must be relinquished in order for one to awaken to an
awareness of the fact that one already has a Language; it’s already there; and
all these other human languages can then be understood for what they are. But
no one speaking those languages can understand this First Language. Here is a Language that is not understood by anyone who doesn't speak it. It can't be
learned as a second language, which is what most people attempt to do. They’re
going to stay in their own language but they want to learn about this other Language. It can’t be done.
Some have thought they
had a very good understanding of things and could write all about it, but
anyone who knows this One Language immediately sees that what is being said is
not true. Nobody who does not have this Language as a First Language can
understand it. This seems to those who do not have it as a First Language to be
an insuperable barrier, which it is as long as they insist upon their present
language. As I say, one can’t learn this Language—the Language of the
Kingdom—one can’t learn this Language and then transfer over into it as a first
language—“I’ll stay with my present language until I’ve learned this new
language, and then I’ll step over into the new language.” It can't be done, because
one can never experience this new Language as long as one is centered in the
old language. One will be seeing everything with the consciousness of the old
language and interpreting everything on that basis.
There is a new Language,
the Language of the Kingdom, and we awaken to it. We awaken to the fact that we
already know it. I’m sure you have had the experience of articulating something
to someone who is in the process of awakening and they have said, “Yes, that’s
right. I always knew that to be so but I’ve never been able thus far to
articulate it.” In other words they didn’t know the Language yet; now at last
it’s beginning to come out and they’re able to articulate it. So our concern is
to provide what is possible to assist people to awaken to this One Language—to
the First Language. Human beings have all these languages now and they've lost
the First Language, the Language which makes possible mutual understanding;
there isn’t any other language that does. The only way one can have
understanding is to awaken to this One Language. Then you can look at everybody
else, no matter what language they speak, and you can comprehend; you can see
what the state of affairs really is. But they, looking at you, can’t understand
anything. They translate what they think they see in terms of their own
language, which is not the truth at all and we shouldn’t expect it to be the
truth. If that happens it is what will inevitably happen; we can’t make it be
any other way. All we can do is to provide what is possible by our own
expression of the Word, this One Language, to assist others who are ready to
awaken to it to become aware of the fact that they already really know it.
There are those who have
shopped here and shopped there and never found what they were looking for,
because of course it’s not there. It can’t be found in any of the languages
that human beings have produced. Those languages include national states, they
include religious states, philosophical approaches, all the various ways and
techniques that have been developed to expand consciousness or do whatever they
are supposed to do. And all that is included in this mass, this confusion of
tongues. But there is the One Language—and there is no way of getting it. One
can't be taught it as a second language—one only knows it as a First Language. When
it becomes one’s own First Language, then you know it. If it isn’t your own
First Language you don’t know it. The tremendous thing is that when it is your
own First Language then you understand all that is present in this confusion of
tongues—you understand people.
So I rejoice that we
have had this time together to share something in this transcendent place and
setting. It’s really there; we really shared something: the truth. The truth
makes free. As individually we continue in the Word, then we play our part in
providing the invitation to people everywhere to awaken; and in their awakening
the world keeps changing. We find that the elements of true value begin to
stick out more and more because we are no longer giving value and weight to the
things that have no value and weight. And behold all things are indeed made
new. I rejoice with you as we allow this to happen, not only in this hour but
in the continuing hours which are to come in our individual fields of responsibility.
Then we find that they are not merely individual; they are part of a great
whole, a whole which is much greater than the human world of imagination.
For this purpose we
came on earth, no other purpose. It simplifies things, doesn’t it? Oh we have
many fields of activity in which to move but there is only One Purpose, which
makes possible the right use of whatever it is that comes to us in our fields
of responsibility. Friendship and love, a fulfilling sense of satisfaction,
comfort, is so freely available in the experience of all who are willing to
awaken and discover the reality that is truth. The reality is discovered in
one’s own living experience.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
