from
The Rent in the Veil
Martin Cecil May 29, 1983 p.m.
The sun of our solar
system symbolizes the true Father. It has been said that there
were sun-worshippers in the past, and I guess there are a few around in the
present. Perchance more than the physical sun was being recognized—here is the
Father-symbol. And the earth—the Mother-symbol. By reason of the earth, in
combination with the sun, birth was given to the body of mankind. These symbols
may be very instructive, because certainly mankind has taken the attitude that
the earth, the Mother, belongs to him.
We have the
story of old concerning Oedipus: the son who marries his mother, taking the
mother away from the father—which is exactly what mankind has done. The Mother
has been raped by the son—mankind. Here is a picture available to be seen by
anyone; precious few ever look at it. But it is revealing of exactly what has
happened. What is necessary is that the Mother should be restored to the
Father, that the sun of the solar system might possess the earth, with the
son—mankind—no longer playing the part of the thief and the adulterer,
allow this to happen, so that what rightly may be brought forth by reason of
the presence of the son, by reason of the presence of mankind, may appear
through the union of Father and Mother.
No more
judgment is required on the part of mankind as to what it is that should
happen. The creative process is perfect and brings forth what should be brought
forth when mankind not only does not interfere in the process but plays a
creative part, with an attitude of love and reverence toward both Father and
Mother: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long in the
land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” There has been a very restricted view
as to the meaning of these words, but we may see their application now in this
present circumstance.
The Son of God
is become the son of perdition, so we are concerned with letting a restoration
come, so that the rape of the Mother may cease and the Mother may be returned
to the Father. Some may look at that merely from the physical standpoint and
see how human beings are upsetting the ecology, destroying the forests, ripping
minerals out of the earth, and polluting the atmosphere and water; therefore
one should get on one’s white charger and take issue with all these bad people
who are doing this. With much practice over the millennia human beings have no
difficulty in finding these bad people, but they seldom, if ever, look in the
mirror; because there is the one person with respect to whom something can be
done.
We have seen
this necessity from our own standpoint, and there was the requirement of
looking into the jadestone, that something might begin to happen. However, this
relates to the first experience of children, who require a little discipline
and who require a little direction and a certain control, that they
may begin to mature. It isn’t as though these things could be imposed on
children and kept there forever, so that they merely become slaves, but that
they might mature. We have seen this with respect to human beings in general,
who are very immature, because maturity requires a balanced experience, including
the spiritual component. The spiritual component is not necessarily, and seldom
actually is, a religious component.
So here, in the
picture of the rape of the Mother and the denial of the Father, we have the
reason
for all the wreckage that we see on every hand within the range of human
activity.
It’s a horrible thing.
Someone
mentioned something about the first flush of feeling that occurs when a person awakens
to what is being offered through this ministry—and there is a great blaze of
light. The awakening one is delighted to experience this, but then it seems as
though it begins to fade. Why? In the initial instance, the experience of
awakening is so vivid that all the judgmental attitudes that are inherent in
anyone are simply blotted out for the moment. But a little later they begin to
come into the picture again, and the individual looks at the visible evidences
and says, “Well it shouldn't be that way.” And doubts and fears and
uncertainties come into the experience, simply because of the attitude that the
individual is taking, not because anything has changed insofar as the blaze of
light is concerned. It’s still there but now it’s being covered over with the
ideas, the concepts, the beliefs, the attitudes that were previously dominant
in the individual experience and now are reasserting themselves. So the visible
form begins to be judged and covered with layers of judgment. Obviously the
light begins to fae for that person; not because the light isn't there to be enjoyed, to
be associated with, but because judgment entered into the picture, judgment
based in all the background of heredity and human nature experience that a
person brings along with him- or herself. With some the initial impact of the
light was so remarkable that it never gets entirely obscured. With some it
does; it’s blotted out, and so such a person goes drifting off into the
darkness again. But there are those, and I trust you among them, who have not
only maintained an awareness of the reality of that light but have come to know
it increasingly because of your own assumption of responsibility for letting it
shine. As we do that, well there you are—you don’t need to judge anyone or anything;
the light is shining.
This morning [Visible God May 29, 1983 a.m.] we
were very much aware of the temple of God having been made into a den of thieves
by human beings—there’s no one else around, really, to do it. The Mother has
been stolen and forced to submit to human intentions. You can see that in terms
of sexual rape; this is what has been happening. And everybody has participated
in it, everyone on the face of the earth! Having seen something of the horror
of such a state, why would anyone have anything more to do with it? It’s always
rather amazing, isn’t it, or should be, that having stepped, partially at
least, out of the hog trough, one should dive back in again.
There is an
alternative to the den of thieves: the house of prayer. I don’t
think that has had too much meaning for most people, any more than the
injunction to “pray without ceasing” has, because the concept of what prayer is
is a total distortion. Mind you, you can look the word up in the dictionary and
you can find definitions there that indicate what human beings have decided it
should mean; which is: pleading and, insofar as God is concerned, trying to get
Him to supply what the individual imagines he wants—as though God was so dumb
and so uninterested that He wouldn’t have already made the provision, which of
course He has. Prayer has nothing to do with that, nothing to do with trying to
wheedle something out of God, or wheedle something out of anyone, for that
matter: “Pray give me what I want. I’m in a miserable state. Pray give me what
I imagine I need.”
Prayer relates
to this matter of communion with God. The effect of communion with God is the experience of being part of the body. Communion:
the house of prayer. Communion with God and communion with each other in the
body of God: here is the natural experience for human beings, the way by which
the creative processes may work as they should. We all have had our excuses for
not letting this happen. The point is:
the house of prayer, communion with the One whose house it is, that there may
not only be an initial awakening to the beauty and the wonder and the glory of
that One but to allow that beauty and wonder and glory to intensify in one’s own
experience and expression of living. When it does, the Tone of Life sounds
so loudly that all this stuff in the hog trough—what does it mean anymore? You
don’t have to fiddle with it; you don’t have to talk about it; you don’t have
to try to get someone to get rid of it for you. It just simply is dissolved,
once there is that strong awareness of the creative sounding of the Tone of
Life: this beautiful, wonderful, glorious outpouring of spirit.
And if some
memory out of the past is triggered, so that something comes up, it
just simply doesn’t fit with your character, your nature; you couldn’t accept
it; it just drains away. You don’t have to fight with it—perfect love casts out
fear. That's true when there is the experience of the outpouring of that spirit
in living. We’re not going to sit around in the Chapel waiting for something to
come and outpour here. We let it happen in our daily movement, in our living;
and that is so strong, so brilliant, so powerful, that these ridiculous human
aberrations simply carry no weight—they only hang around as long as
we give them weight. There are those
who might say, “Well I’m stuck with my earthly heredity.” Who isn’t? Jesus had
just as much earthly heredity as anybody else. We all have it, but why make
such a big deal out of it? Why take the whining, ridiculous attitude that one
cannot help but be subject to these things?
We know something about this as it
relates to these appalling childhoods that we had. I think it’s about time that
everyone started to give thanks for whatever happened—everything!—because it
brought us to this moment. And who can say that if something had been left out
we would be here in this moment and capable and ready to let the light shine, to
dissolve all that nonsensical murk? It has no weight except the weight that we
ourselves give it. There’s only one thing that makes a difference, and that is
to let the light shine. Then that becomes so strong, one’s own character and
nature is of that quality, that any miserable elements of human nature putting
in an appearance simply... “Who’s that? Not me. It has nothing to do with me.
Get thee hence, satan.” Human nature, remember? “Get thee hence, human nature.”
Well one may have to take a forthright attitude in that way on occasion, but
for the most part these factors out of the past are simply obliterated by
reason of the radiation of the present moment.
If you are
totally occupied with allowing the sun to shine, that’s what you know: the
shining of the sun. The sun of our solar system has been busy shining for quite
a while; they say it will go on for a while yet. This happens regardless of the
fact that nowadays, at least in many places, there are a lot of clouds around
on earth. If you are looking at things from the perspective of the sun, I doubt
if you would even notice that there were clouds around on the earth. When you
look at Venus you may now, being so well educated, know that there are some
clouds related to Venus and Mercury and so on, but you don’t notice them:
“There's a planet shining.” Well these human nature elements that have hung
around for so long are scarcely noticeable, really, yet human beings make such
a big deal of it. Forget it! Let it go! Let it go because you let the light
shine, and so it dissolves.
We don’t have
to try to correct earthly heredity, or our own human nature—make it over
somehow. We don't need it! Let it dissolve because we are so wedded to what may
well be called angelic nature that human nature no longer amounts to a row of
beans. When anything out of that messy old pot comes up it has no relationship
to us at all. It’s gone insofar as we are concerned—no more weight.
The beauty, the
wonder and the glory of the radiance of the Father is offered to the Mother. We
are concerned to respect the Mother, to protect her. This doesn’t mean that we
become rabidly ecologically minded. That will take care of itself when we stop
interfering, and we will discover, in the radiant stance, what needs to be
done. But the first thing that needs to be done is to let mankind come back
into place. Until that happens there isn't anything else much that can be done.
All this effort that is being put into trying to correct things on earth may
have the advantage that human beings will be able to live on earth a little
longer. But why should they? Only so that they may awaken to the light and let
the light shine. That’s the only reason. Well let's prove that that is the only
reason by what we ourselves do, now and in the days to come. (The entire
congregation stood.) Look at everybody
standing firm! Well, we rejoice to reveal in symbolic form what shall be
revealed in factual form in the hours and days and weeks and months and years
to come.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
