The Spirit of Mother God
Martin Exeter June 30, 1985 pm
Over the years I have had the doubtful pleasure of watching people wandering away toward the wilderness. Certainly I could not rightly grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, “Come back here.” I undertook what I could in various ways to provide the understanding necessary to allow whoever it was to choose to relinquish his or her hold on what it was that was taking them away, and to offer a vivid possibility of seeing the truth, which would let them come home again. In such case from the human standpoint there tends to be an urge to try to deal directly with what is taking that person away. But each one has to accept responsibility for his own willingness or unwillingness to find polarity in the truth. In the very initial stages where a person is beginning to come in, a very great deal may be provided; but once a person has become aware of the true focus of orientation in the truth, one cannot violate the right to choose which is present in that person. I've sought over the years constantly to provide the orientation point in the truth, but each one must choose to accept it for himself. It is a rather repetitious experience of sadness to observe how there are those who drift back into the human nature state.
The spirit of truth is always present. The door is always open. We need to be very sure, as individuals, that this is the fact in our own expression of living—the fact for others. Once self-centeredness begins to dissolve, our concern is for others, not so much for this one or that one but for providing what is necessary to bring the world back to the Lord, whom we love and are present on earth to serve. We know that this can't be done if we violate the right of choice in others. What need there is for this consistency of provision, the truth in expression in one's own living, so that all may have no excuse for failing to come home because of us.
The spirit of truth is the spirit of Mother God, just as the spirit of love is the spirit of Father God. Our own spirit, as sons and daughters of God, is found in the union of these two spirits: love and truth. And the evidence of that union in our own experience is the spirit of life, the revelation on earth of what life is in man, male and female. Obviously human beings for a long time have failed to reveal this. What they have revealed is the spirit of death, and the fulfilment has come, generation after generation. This has become so automatic in human experience that it is considered inevitable. In theory perhaps we are aware that it need not be so inevitable as it looks, but in fact it has remained more or less inevitable.
As I say, the spirit of truth is the spirit of Mother God, and this relates particularly to the planet upon which we dwell, the earth. There have recently been a number of those giving form to this Emissary body who have recognized that the earth itself is a living organism. It is indeed the body of Mother God insofar as we are concerned. Mother God comes to focus in the earth, and the planet itself is the living form of the spirit of truth. The sun of the solar system is revealing of the body of Father God. If we consider the creative process as it has related to this planet we may recognize a correlation with a fairy story, of which we may all be aware, namely the one which tells of the sleeping beauty, the sleeping princess who remains in a coma until the prince puts in an appearance and offers the kiss of life. This is merely a story, indicative of the factual happening as it relates to this planet. “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” And then came the kiss of life. The prince, the father-to-be in this particular configuration within the solar system, may be recognized in the form of the solar orb from which comes the kiss of life insofar as the planet earth is concerned. And the earth awakened to life.
In the story of the creation the various forms of life which appeared on the surface of the planet were present before ever man was thought of. The evidence was present of the clothing of the form of Mother God with life. There was the vegetation and there were the creatures of the earth, all of them proclaiming the reality of life. Exactly what that was is unknown to human beings presently, but clearly it was a harmonious condition generated by reason of the kiss of life from the prince, through the form of the solar orb and its radiation, bringing the form of Mother God into the experience of life, awakening. So here we can share in an awareness of the natural blending between the forms of Father God and Mother God, so that Mother God might live and participate with Father God in the creative process which was yet to be. God has, generally speaking, been looked upon as male, at least from the standpoint of Christianity; and while there has been some recognition that there must be the female aspect which, insofar as Catholicism for instance is concerned, is found in the one that is called the mother of God, that isn't the mother of God but, rather, Mother God. Because of this romance within the solar configuration there was the conception and the birth of the Son of God, the son of Father and Mother God, namely man on earth.
Man's primary responsibility was, as it was put, to dress and to keep the garden, in other words to care and protect the form of Mother God. If we observe what has occurred on earth we can be easily aware that this responsibility has been forgotten and, instead, the son has raped the mother. The spirit of the mother is as it always has been; we see this in terms of the spirit of truth. But the body of the mother has been raped by the son who had the responsibility for keeping and caring for the body of the mother. This was a primary responsibility, not indeed the only responsibility, but if that responsibility was not handled correctly, then the larger responsibility could not be taken care of.
The son contains within himself the nature of the father and the nature of the mother, love and truth, to be naturally revealed in life, in the expression of the spirit of life which is a balance of the nature and the character of Father God and Mother God. The union of love and truth—the spirit of love, the spirit of the father; and the spirit of truth, the spirit of the mother—established the spirit of life for man and for those purposes which should be served by reason of this life. Primarily we recognize that the son is responsible for keeping and caring for the body of the mother. As we have noted, there has been terrible failure in this regard. No wonder there is this deep, devastating sense of shame in humankind.
The One who came on earth in the form of Jesus has been referred to as the Son of God. Here a focus of the union of the spirit of Father God and Mother God was established in the living expression of a man on earth: the Son of God restored. We are aware that it might have been a far greater thing when He came than the human beings who were there present allowed it to be, but it was the fact insofar as this one individual body of flesh was concerned. The union of the spirit of the father and the spirit of the mother allowed the revelation of the spirit of life in form on earth—the spirit of man. He was left alone to do this without any agreement or assistance from others. He did it. Here was the focus point of man restored. His body was just an individual body, one man, insufficient obviously to reveal anything but the essences of man restored. Those essences certainly were established and revealed, and so the foundation, the lines of force for the true body of the Son of God, which is rightly mankind—however many that might involve—could take form. We ourselves have some experience of what this implies. We and others have participated in an emergent collective form based in the union of Father God and Mother God—the spirit of love and the spirit of truth, revealed in the spirit of life finding expression through those who actually compose this body.
I suppose all this could be looked upon as some sort of mystical thing, but it isn't really, is it? It is a very obvious thing, in a sense we might say a very down-to-earth thing. The body of Mother God has been raped. That fact must be accepted. You can't unrape it. Human beings in their sense of shame and guilt, at least some of them, try to unrape it. They talk about cleaning up the air and the water, reestablishing the proper processes of ecology. But you can't unrape what has been raped. Human beings have come up with various schemes by which they hope to make the earth, as they think of it, a better place; but for what purpose?—because it would be more satisfactory to man, or to this travesty of man that exists on earth. Virtually nothing has even entered the consciousness of the vast majority that the purposes of man only maintain the state of rape of the body of Mother God.
We can see this in a larger general sense, but of course it's important that one should see it right close at hand. We do care for our surroundings here, and some may be impressed by the evidences of beauty that have put in an appearance. But I doubt if what has put in an appearance is anything better than what has put in an appearance in many other places on the face of the earth. The only distinction is the motivation for doing it. If we're merely trying to beautify our surroundings so that we may be more self-satisfied, there is no point to it. If it is an evidence of the fact that we're beginning to be aware of our responsibility for caring for the body of our mother, then perhaps there is some blessing released, but not because by anything we may do can we unrape what has been raped. In other words the state of all living forms on the face of the earth has been utterly spoiled.
What is required initially is the restoration of man. Nothing can be done for the body of Mother God except as man is restored to the state of being the Son of God. Then what has happened in man is the creative means by which the body of Mother God may be restored. But human beings in their blindness and darkness certainly would have no idea as to what the body of Mother God would be if it was restored. That restoration certainly would involve all the forms of life on earth, but it would also involve what is presently called the mineral kingdom. This, after all, is also a part of the body of Mother God. No doubt this relates to a change in the shape of the earth, in the forms of continents and seas, for instance. Because of the rape of the body of Mother God this form has been scarred and is in the process of being destroyed. The son of perdition, which is man presently as he is, destroys. We look around and, as has been indicated, there is a continual increase in the deserts on earth, in the destruction of the forests, in the pollution of the air and the water, in the awful and lethal weapons that have been produced by the son of perdition.
But the Son of God takes form again on earth. The body of that Son is male and female. We share the experience of this creative process, but it has nothing to do with the way things have been or even the way things now are. There is a creative process at work which increasingly is brought to focus as the body of the Son of God permitting the Son of God to be present.
This evening we have looked at these things from what might be thought of as a heavenly standpoint, observing what is really happening. We see human beings with their ideas and their opinions and their beliefs, fussing around on the surface of the earth, trying to save the world from disintegration, and others bent on destructiveness. I suppose those who are trying to save the world from disintegration would be looked upon as good and those who are destructive would be looked upon as bad. But what's the difference? They are all participating in the process by which the world disintegrates, whether good or bad.
“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” This is the invitation to the re-creation of the body of the Son of God on earth. The Son of God abides in heaven: “Rejoice, ye heavens!” The son of perdition remains on earth: “Woe unto the inhabiters of the earth!” If we see woe putting in an appearance near and far, that is exactly the way it should be. We are not anxious to stop the woe. Human beings are attempting in their varied ways to do this.
One aspect of genetic engineering relates to a process of working with DNA to eliminate the existence of cells in the human body subject to disease—a very worthy objective, one might say. There are a lot of people who have been trying to do this for a long time with synthetic chemicals of various kinds. Others try to do it with vitamins and minerals; this latter is the “good” way of doing it! But perhaps this genetic engineering might also be looked upon as a good way of doing it. You can create a cell that will not tolerate cancer, for instance. That's good, isn't it? All it is is trying to defeat God, to make it so that man can survive and be healthy without God, without being man. Can you imagine a world populated with these healthy creatures? What destructiveness! It's bad enough now, and they're all falling apart! But if they were all filled with vibrant health, what terrible hell would ensue. We don't look for a way to defeat God, because that is self-destructive anyway. No matter how human beings try, there's always something that gets in the way of their objective; and the hoped-for result is always just a little over the horizon, because in fact it doesn't really exist—just imagination, a mirage.
What does exist is the spirit of Father God and the spirit of Mother God.
No matter what has been done to the body of Mother God, the spirit is untouched. That is the spirit of truth, which is part of our makeup of spirit as individuals. It relates more particularly to what is subconscious. The spirit of Father God makes possible restored consciousness, however not without the spirit of Mother God being present. Here is what might be called a rebirth. We begin to see how nonsensical this idea that human beings have about being born again is—just a fancy; it's just a nonsensical mirage. And human beings remain exactly the same as they were before, subject to shame and to fear.
So we come ourselves into the acceptance of the way things really are, that in our own experience the body of the Son of God may grow and mature on earth. We ourselves share that experience. Here is what Christians have tended to call the second coming. The first coming was in the individual form. Now, if it is to be a reality it is through an adequate body of flesh, not just through one individual form; and we have the opportunity of sharing that. But we only share it when it becomes an absolute necessity in our own experience that it should be shared, so that there is nothing that can lure us again into the stance of the raper of the body of Mother God. If you really see that, we can understand how putrid the human state is; there is nothing right about it whatsoever; it is all filthy! Until there is that awareness we are going to imagine: “Well it could be fixed up a little. We still have some pretty good things humanly about us and we had better preserve those.” Nothing can be preserved, for the prince of this world is lost, is in the process of disintegration.
Let there be the body of the Son of God present because we are here and the spirit of the Son of God is in expression in our daily living.
Janine Romaner offered spontaneous movement and George Hanson spoke an original poem, while Betsy Hanson improvised on piano.
Blessed is the spirit of truth,
The fountain of beauty.
Holy is our body,
The protector of Mother Earth.
Behold our purpose,
Sustaining sacred life.
George Hanson repeated some of the words in song, and the congregation joined him in a chant. The congregation stood and, while continuing the chant, joined in unison gesture with Janine. A lengthy period of silence followed.
Martin Exeter — Thy body, O Lord, is present on earth to receive Thy command in each moment of living. Thy commands are written by Thy finger of fire upon the tablets of our hearts, that these commands may govern in every aspect of our living, in every moment of our living. These words are spoken here in this holy place, but they are spoken in the holy place throughout Thy body now present on earth to make possible the expression of Thy spirit in the recreative processes by which Mother God, the form of Mother God, is restored to Thee.
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