The Transcendent Nation
Out of the Tomb
Don Hynes October 20, 2018
donhynes@cnnw.net
The big earthquake
already happened,
land split apart,
tsunamis over the coast,
damage and desolation
to souls everywhere
from the great rending.
How much more broken
will spiritual life become
before we realize apocalypse
is in our rear view mirror
and what we are faced with
is the long re-integration.
Not survival, that bleak term,
but the reformation
of the human spirit,
the re-grounding of the soul
in the vast root system
of the eternal.
Unmoved by the shaking
the house of spirit
remains on its foundation
and already the green land
heals the wounds
of mindless invention.
Grafts on the tree of life
fall away and perish
as new growth rises
from the dark root
and branches out
into the chill blue sky.
We are changers
not the changed.
All we lose are grave clothes
as we step forward
out of the tomb
into the welcoming light
of the new garden.
The big earthquake
Precendents of Victory
Martin Cecil November 22, 1981
Come into Thy world, O King of glory. This of course is not telling the Lord what to do. There has never been any indication that there was reluctance with respect to His coming, but obviously there must be a means by which this might be brought to pass. “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” The plural is used to describe the means of that coming: gates and doors. We are very much aware that this refers to people, men and women. “Lift up your heads.” Certainly this is indication of a raising of consciousness. As long as human consciousness remains bound in the realm of belief the King of glory is excluded. Lift up your heads; turn the attention upward, away from the structured state of earthly consciousness. The means by which the King of glory comes into the world is composed of human beings whose heads have been lifted up, whose consciousness is capable of operating at a new level, a level which welcomes the coming, no longer insisting upon excluding it.
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It might be profitable to remind ourselves of some words. The spirit of these words conveys something to us now, even though they were recorded a long time ago: “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
These words are looked upon as being a promise, a promise that evidently has not yet been adequately fulfilled. I don’t think this promise was withdrawn at any point, even though the initial evidences of the emergence of the fulfilment did not find successful completion. This promise is usually tied to the subsequent unfoldment of events, which established the Israelites and continued in their movement out of Egypt into the promised land, as it was called. Here was a nation established on earth, destined to be a great nation. There certainly was some movement in that direction. From this small beginning, one man, Abram, there came the thirteen tribes of the children of Israel, an external manifestation of a nation. The people who composed this nation never really caught the vision of what the reason for their existence was. They saw themselves as an earthly nation and in due season insisted upon doing as the other nations of the world did. They insisted upon a king, a form of government that was like unto the nations of the world. At the time it was made plain by the prophet of the Lord that this was an unwise decision, but they insisted upon it. So the Lord went along with it, as He has been required to do, I am sure, in our experience of life so far. If we are still alive the Lord went along with whatever it was, so that the door to the right way was kept open, both for the children of Israel and for each one of us.
The Israelites saw themselves as a nation similar to the other nations of the world, except that they felt they had the backing of the Lord. They saw themselves as an earthly nation with divine support. A lot of other people have done that too, haven't they? Earthly people with divine support! Some are really convinced that they have divine support in their earthly ways. There never came a recognition in a general sense, insofar as the Israelites were concerned, that they were in fact rightly the evidence of a heavenly nation. Evidently the Lord referred to them as a peculiar people, even a holy people, but not all that much notice was taken of this except to claim divine support for whatever they had in mind. This certainly does not provide a facility for the King of glory to come into the world. It, rather, tends to produce a condition where human beings glorify themselves, saying to themselves, “We are special, a chosen people; we have the backing of the Lord.” So this nation never allowed the truth to be made manifest and, because they did not, the nation failed, as all nations must if they likewise do not allow the truth to be made manifest.
So the promise of this great nation was not fulfilled in the Israelites. It has not yet been fulfilled in the worldly sense to this very day. But the promise still stands. It was certainly not fulfilled at the time when Jesus was on earth, even though He spoke of the manner in which it could be fulfilled and Himself provided the way by which it might have been fulfilled. That was rejected, as we are well aware. At one point, in the presence of Pilate, it is indicated that Jesus said that His kingdom was not of this world—it did not derive from the human world, from the world of earthly heredity. His kingdom was not from hence. It was spoken of as the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God. The word kingdom is used, but the word nation could be used—probably this would be more appropriate in these days.
It was said to Abraham that out of him would come a great nation. This was simply seen in terms of an earthly nation. Certainly a nation to have meaning on earth must have earthly form, but the form of the great nation springs from above. It is not created by human beings for human beings. It is a heavenly nation, the nation of God. Anything that is initiated on earth from the heavenly standpoint within the world as we now know it always has small beginnings in the manifest sense. This necessarily must be so because there isn’t any available form already in existence in the world which human beings have made. There isn't anything. So if this transcendent nation is to put in an appearance in form it always has a small beginning.
In the records that have come down to us we see this small beginning as related to one person. That is just about it, isn’t it? How else could the Lord start? Maybe He can claim the attention of one person out of whatever millions or billions may be present. Here is an evident indictment upon the children of men. He has from time to time been able to find one person. We have taken note of Abram, who became aware of the promise; however I am sure he saw that in extended terms too. It was going to take quite a while to fulfil, when his progeny would be sufficient in number to compose a nation. This did emerge as an earthly nation because this was the approach necessary at that time. The Israelites were established as an earthly nation with the anticipation that they would awaken to the truth as to the reason for their existence, which was a heavenly one. Then there might be an awakening to the realization of the primary need for the heavenly nation, which was far more important than the earthly nation that had taken form, although the earthly nation might reveal that importance. This never occurred. There was failure in the collective sense. There certainly was no precedent of victory established on the basis of this national grouping. If any precedent was set it was a precedent of failure—in the collective sense. That having been set, it was not possible to proceed on that basis anymore. The only basis left would be an individual one.
The precedent of collective failure had been established; the precedent of individual victory was still open. And so the Master came on earth. He did establish the precedent of individual victory. He offered to let that expand so that a precedent of collective victory might have been established at that time. But He was rejected. The opportunity was lost on that occasion for anything more than the establishment of the precedent of individual victory. He did this. There is such a precedent. Heretofore there has been no precedent for a collective victory, nothing out of which the restoration of mankind collectively could come. All that was finally established was this one point of individual victory, so that anything that might occur to allow for the restoration of mankind would necessarily have to spring out of this one point of victory. There wasn’t any other way to let it happen.
So in this sense it is true that this One was the savior of the world, at least He would prove to be the savior of the world if there were those who would share His individual victory. If no one else can be found to share that, then the fact that He provided what could have been salvation would never be known, except in imagination and belief. We have recognized that individual victory and we have not allowed it to rest in our consciousness as relating merely to Him. It did relate to Him and He did establish the precedent. There is a point out of which victory may come into the experience of the whole body of mankind, but to come into the experience of the whole body of mankind this individual victory must be translated into collective victory. This cannot be transferred somehow to a group of human beings; it was, after all, a precedent of individual victory, not of collective victory. He never had the chance to provide what was necessary to reveal that at the time when He was on earth. It has never been done. There is no precedent of collective victory.
So the only way by which the restoration of mankind may come would be as there is a grouping of people who allow this collective precedent to be set. But they are not going to allow it to be set as a grouping of people. They are only going to be able to let it be set as individual people. If all who are here present as individuals allow this to be the experience individually, then we certainly do have a precedent of victory group-wise. But it is only done because the individuals let it happen, not because by some magic means the group lets it happen. The group as a transcendent nation does not exist until individually the victory has been experienced. I trust that this awareness is really coming home, finally, to a few people on earth.
There has always been in the background of consciousness the idea that, somehow, being associated with a group, one would then be in position to know the victory. Oh no! One cannot know the truth because someone hands it to us on a silver platter—or on a wooden platter, any platter, even a golden one. The individual must experience it for himself, accept the responsibility as an individual for the experience, as though nobody else existed on earth. We cannot know the victory by clinging to the coattails of somebody else, not even the coattails of Jesus Christ—if we could find them anywhere around. It is a matter of individual experience, each one for him- or herself. Otherwise the truth isn’t known, just beliefs, just hopes.
If there is to be the evidence of the transcendent nation, the coming of the kingdom, it is because of participation in the precedent of individual victory that has been set. Then this transcendent nation may put in an appearance. We certainly don’t want a repeat of the Israelite situation. That would be a repeat of failure, wouldn’t it?—as though we could somehow organize a program with spiritual backing. It can’t be done; it simply does not work that way. As there are individual human beings who assume absolute responsibility for themselves in the expression of the creative spirit of the living God, in all aspects of their living, such individual human beings proving this out will be found to be the transcendent nation manifest in form on earth. I have been thinking a little bit about Emissaries of Divine Light in this context, seeking to find a suitable definition at this point for ourselves and for other people too. Here are some words at this point—definitions can change, you know, as time goes on.
Here are some words: “Emissaries of Divine Light: A transcendent nation emerging into form on earth through people of all nations in the world.” I have sought to use words that cannot be easily misinterpreted and which cannot all that easily be understood, because it is impossible for people in general to understand. This leads into the definition of an Emissary of Divine Light. That one should be interesting: “Emissary of Divine Light: A person sent on a mission, not immediately comprehensible in the understanding of many, to bring the transforming power of the truth of love into human experience.”
If anything is needed in the world it is the truth of love, is it not? Clearly one cannot know what an Emissary of Divine Light is without being an Emissary of Divine Light. You have to be the truth to know the truth. You cannot know the truth and then become the truth, which is what human beings try to do. Only as there are Emissaries of Divine Light individually is there the nation that might be called Emissaries of Divine Light. Emissaries of Divine Light does not exist on earth, except perhaps as a legal entity in various states and countries, but the reality does not exist on earth, except as there are individual Emissaries. And yet it is the precedent of victory revealed by this heavenly nation, this transcendent nation, which then makes possible the collective victory of the body of mankind. If we were to suppose that every individual on the face of the earth had to prove what we see as necessary for ourselves now, we would wait a long time for the victory.
Clearly the victory comes because of the precedent of collective victory, but the precedent of collective victory can only now be set by reason of individual victory, because that is the only precedent we have. That is all that is left to us. It is enough! And once there is this transcendent nation composed of nationals who know that is what they are, no matter from what worldly nation they may have come, there can be the precedent of victory which allows for the restoration of mankind. Then mankind can be restored as a body, collectively, because there is a collective precedent. We ourselves, and others who are awakening to the truth, or are awake to it, establish the precedent of collective victory, not because we see that collectiveness as being primary but we see the individual, ourselves individually, as being primary. Unless it happens in me it won’t happen collectively, and we could each say that.
Somewhere in the Book of Revelation it says something about “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ.” There is the collective victory, the restoration of mankind, but it comes because of the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and that is present only because of the individual victory of the King. He set the precedent and we are quite capable of acknowledging that precedent in our own experience here and now. As this is done all the rest comes quickly. This has been the sticker, hasn’t it? There have been lots of people who have been willing to organize in bodies and try to experience something collectively, but who has been willing to be so seemingly arrogant as to accept the responsibility personally? That is exactly what Jesus did. Oh yes, but He was the Son of God! Well who are you? The son or the daughter of God? or a miserable, dying sinner? Take your pick!
There is a transcendent nation with seemingly small beginnings but capable of accommodating the power and the glory of the King. It doesn't require vast numbers of people but it requires some people to let it happen collectively, to let that precedent be set. Mention has been made of a critical number in this regard. I wouldn’t try to figure out what that is; there is no need. Just take responsibility for oneself; that is all that is required; it’s the only way it comes anyway. Then we will find that the job gets done. The Lord is not going to be mocked.
So, here in our own experience is emerging into form a transcendent nation. Individually, to the extent that we have thus far taken responsibility, we know this. As I pointed out before, we recognize each other, even though initially we may not always like each other. But, as is quite obvious, likes and dislikes spring from the earthly nations. The recognition springs from the heavenly nation, and that is all that is important to us, to be an emissary of that nation. But we can only be an emissary of that nation because we are a citizen of that nation, because this is our nationality—a transcendent nationality. As this nation takes form because there are indeed individuals who compose it, the gates and the doors are wide open and the King of glory comes in. We have not been waiting for His coming. He has been waiting for us to lift up our heads.
