Angelic Core Archangelic Achievement

Angelic  Core

Archangelic  Achievement

Martin Cecil  April 4, 1979  Assembly

The most vital part of our ministry is the core of it. Unless there is a core, a sound, solid core, no sound, solid ministry can emerge. Everything that we are here to accomplish is dependent upon the fact of this core. We all need to have a very keen awareness of this fact and also of the nature of the core, so that we may individually be in position to play our proper parts. Obviously there is a core for this ministry, which has allowed the ministry to develop to the point which it has. All of you who are here present have in some measure been playing a part in that core. The core is not related to a particular geographical position. There are geographical positions related to the core. We need to see this in this fashion so that we don’t merely think of a core as being, for instance, Sunrise Ranch. This particular geographical position relates to the core. All those who are present on Sunrise Ranch are not necessarily a part of the essential core. We have to understand that this core is something like an onion. There are layers. The onion has a core, but the onion may be seen as being a core for something larger—using this as an illustration, it gives indication of the nature of the core.

We have a particular opportunity together during this month, to allow the development of a specific core pattern. This specific core pattern is at the center of things if for no other reason than that I myself am present. We share the responsibility of this core, first of all the development of it so that we may gain understanding experience with respect to the reality of the core which is necessary for the achievement of the Divine Purpose. What I have illustrated of the primary and secondary creative triangles relates to the core and to the development of the core.

The core itself, in this particular area of responsibility which is held by what we call this ministry, is a core composed of angels. Only when it is an Angelic Core does it have the meaning that it needs to have. We can look around the world and we can see cores of various sorts in the human sense. Nothing operates without such a core. We see this in terms of the working of the One Law. There is the positive core and the negative surround of the core—positive radiation, negative response. Of course, within the core itself there is positive radiation, negative response—the same principles which operate in the great whole operate also in the core. It is because of this that the core has a connection with the great whole. It’s not an isolated little core somehow that is a law unto itself. It is part of the working of the Law, and the Law works in the core; it works beyond the core, but it’s the same law.

So we are sharing in the development of a particular core, for a particular purpose. We may not at the moment with our conscious minds comprehend what the purpose is, other than in general terms. We know we are concerned, together with many others, with the restoration of human beings to the state of man, so we have an awareness of purpose here. But the particular aspect of that purpose which comes to focus in this core we do not know until it reveals itself to us by reason of the fact that there is a core. It is not a matter of theorizing about something; it’s a matter of discovering what the fact is, and the fact cannot be discovered except as there is the reality of the core present. Then we begin to understand the core and the particular purpose of the core in this special formation.

So here we are together, letting this core be developed by angels. And we ourselves have to assume the position of angels even though there may be those elements still present in our human consciousness which are inclined to deny the angel. The denial of the angel—I’m not talking about waving a flag or something and saying, “Well I deny the angel!” But what actually happens in daily living? You are aware that sometimes the angel is denied in this fashion—the expression which appears in the moment is not that of the angel. We may be willing to acknowledge this and still assume the stance of the angel—in other words, when such a thing occurs, there is the opportunity for rebuke, for one thing, an instant acceptance of responsibility with respect to whatever the human nature expression was. “The Lord rebuke thee; get thee hence, Satan.”

In the story of the temptations in the wilderness, satan certainly put in an appearance. Of course the usual picture of it is that he was some sort of entity other than the Master, but of course it was all occurring within the range of the Master’s own experience. There was a testing out of the quality and nature of the human consciousness at that point—and where human consciousness is, human nature certainly hangs around; satan puts in an appearance and must be dealt with one way or another. We have a very excellent outline of the proper way to handle a situation in the way the Master dealt with satan in the temptations, so-called. They were not temptations to Him. But nevertheless satan was there, human nature was there, put in an appearance, had something to say, but was told without any equivocation where it should go. Well we need to have this angelic attitude whenever satan puts in an appearance.

Now I’m speaking of this more particularly about satan putting in an appearance in our own personal expression. You may observe satan putting in an appearance, as you think at least, in someone else; but for the moment our concern is with our own expression. We are taking responsibility for this, that there might be the emergence of a particular core—a particular core which is synonymous with this Assembly, a core in which certain things are to happen and certain things to be achieved—not only within the core itself but, because these things are being achieved within the core itself, the achievement is thereby being extended beyond into the area which is being centered by this core. If the core remains passive nothing happens—well, obviously nothing is happening beyond it. The mere fact of position, then, means nothing. And here we come back to the tendency in human nature to be position-conscious, so that there is the thought that if one is somehow claiming position, that something thereby is happening. On that basis the only thing that is happening is destructive, because we don’t claim position. We simply provide it in the natural angelic expression which makes the formation of this core possible.

The core is a core of angels. Obviously, within the core then, our experience is properly Angel to Angel. Such an experience is quite different to the concepts that have been present in many Emissary minds about server and servee, focalizer and focalizee. Such a relationship is necessary when there is to be the development of the angelic experience, but once there is the angelic experience that necessity no longer prevails and we function on an entirely different basis—Angel to Angel. This step has been made or experienced by very few—almost everything continues to be looked at on the basis of a prior concept of focalization. Another analogy in this regard is the parent-child state of affairs. Those who are coming back to the angelic experience must, to start with, come as little children. This was emphasized by the Master when he was on earth. It is a requirement that one come as a little child, because in fact, spiritually speaking, that is what everybody in the human nature world actually is. So there must be the acknowledgment of the fact—one must get down to basics and be honest, and not pretend anymore that one is mature when he is not.

I would touch on this matter of maturity for a moment. This is always thought of in terms of growth: we’re going to grow into maturity. Who’s going to grow into maturity? The angel is mature already. Certainly, if we begin to accept the fact of our angelic nature we at the same time accept the fact that we do not need to grow. The angel is already mature. There is no necessity to become mature—there is no growth involved insofar as the angel is concerned. What appears to be growth toward maturity in the human view is properly the emergence of the angel into increased expression by reason of the human facility. That increased expression of the angel gives the effect of growth in the human facility—the human facility is in fact changing to allow for the expression of the angel. The human facility is not really maturing, but the angel is mature and reveals that maturity with increased effect as there is the expression emerging through the human facility. We do not emphasize, then, the human facility in this situation. The emphasis is on the emergence of the angel. The angel in expression is mature, and when the angel is in expression on earth, that is the evidence of maturity made manifest. But it wasn’t a maturity that has been grown into; it was a maturity that already existed. It merely becomes evident, that’s all. This changes the consciousness from one of anticipating a laborious growth, which is going to be very painful and difficult and will take years, to a recognition that the maturity is a reality now, in this present moment. We don’t need to go anywhere, grow into larger people somehow, in order to experience it. It is present already. So our concern is to accept into expression what is already mature.

Angel to Angel — this is the experience

We are mature as angels, and we handle our mutual responsibilities as angels with maturity. This experience is not something that has been widely known in the Emissary world. It has been very largely hung up in the childish state, where there was a parent, or a schoolteacher, or some authority or other, doling out what was required to the children. Well, there is the necessity for dealing with children to start with, because the only way that anyone can come is as a spiritual child. One will never find a spiritually mature person in the human nature world. There are those who claim to be adults—maybe we’ve made the claim ourselves—but it wasn’t true. You can’t find a mature person in the human nature world, because maturity requires spiritual maturity. When there is spiritual maturity—when the angel is in expression—then everything else will be mature.

So we find ourselves as a core of angels who are now mature. We deal with each other on this basis. One is not assuming any position. We don’t need any position. We’re already in it as angels, whatever it is. Insofar as we are concerned, manifest here on earth, our position is in the moment. Whatever is required in the moment, that we do. So as long as we’re doing that we’re always in position, but that position is incapable of being defined by the human mind. It simply is known by the angel. It is the experience, one’s own experience as an angel. One is always in position, and one doesn’t need to think about it—one doesn’t need to say, “Well, what is my position?” This is a question that is often asked by by human nature: “What is my position?” The position of human nature is solely to allow the expression of the angel to appear on earth. That’s the only position it has. If it’s not doing that it doesn’t have any position, and it soon proves out that it doesn’t have any position. We can see these are actual matters. We’re not trying to believe some fanciful idea. The thing is in front of us all the time.

So we have this angelic association. Now the angels who are present do not know how this association is going to emerge in fact, because it is dependent upon so many factors. It is dependent upon the human facilities of all concerned, for one thing; but it is dependent on far more than that, because in the human sense we are connected up with a large world beyond us, and what is present in this large world beyond us cannot be ignored. It’s there and it has to be handled. It is handled by reason of the fact that we have these human facilities. But the way what needs to emerge may emerge will be dependent upon all these various factors. The angel is quite capable of handling whatever it is that appears, so there is no problem about it—but it cannot be pre-cast, so to speak. You don’t know ahead of time; the angel doesn’t know ahead of time. What was it the Master said in that regard, about the particular fulfillment toward which he was pointing? “No man knoweth, not even the angels in heaven.” All right, let’s not be so concerned about the fact that we may not know certain things. Let’s not assume that because we do not know certain things that we do not have the experience of the angel. There are certain things that the angel does not know. If in angelic consciousness we knew everything, how dull it would be! We knew what was coming, we knew everything—well why bother? No, we don’t know. It’s exciting, it’s an adventure. This is part of the whole creative process. This is a part of the experience of God. We are delighted to move in such exalted circles.

But you can sense the difference between this angelic association and the usual association that has been known in Emissary circles, where there has been a looking up to the server. Here was the parent, and I’m the little child. “Please instruct me and help me, and I’m going to rebel when my emotions get out of control a little, because I’m just a child, you know. I can’t help it.” The fact is that within the scope of this ministry there are a lot of retarded children, children who have refused to grow up. They have accepted the original experience as though it was the final experience—the original experience of being a child and having someone to respond to, having someone to provide all the necessities—no need to take real responsibility for oneself: the meals are put on the table, the bed is made, everything is prepared—as children. Well this may be all right for children; they need to learn that there is something dependable in the way of a parent. The parent needs to provide the evidence of that dependability, stability, and honesty, consistency of expression, if the child is to grow in the right way, is to be led forth in the right way—but being led forth, the child doesn’t stay in that situation forever. The child is supposed to mature and take responsibility for its own expression. Rightly this does not cause a cleavage in the family pattern. It allows for the expansion of the family pattern. Of course, in the human world the family sort of flies off in all directions, and maybe they have a get-together now and again. The get-togethers are often fraught with conflict, disagreement, and probably all concerned can only stand it for about one day a year.

Our concern is not to fly off in all directions and become isolated, but to allow the expansion of what we have referred to as the family experience, which is the experience of mature people, and that is the experience of angels. So we, in angelic association, begin to lose the external relatednesses that were before considered to be so important. These are very important to a child: father and mother, brothers and sisters—the titular unit in which the child feels secure. That is necessary in the development, that there might be a greater sense of security known. But let it not be assumed that that sense of security is there by reason of the parent-child relationship. It is there because there are angels present. The angels need to emerge through the children, in order that there may be maturity. If the angel doesn’t mature through the child, then we have a retarded child; and while I’ve related that to what has occurred with respect to many within the range of our ministry, it certainly has occurred with respect to all those who are outside of the range of our ministry—retarded children. The world is run by retarded children. No wonder that it’s in a mess! Of course they don’t see themselves as retarded children. They have the ridiculous imagination that they are adult, and capable therefore of handling all these responsibilities.

We begin to see a different picture. There are two requirements with respect to angels in expression on earth. One of them is association with other angels in the particular relationships that are essential for the Archangelic achievement. We may see this now in terms of the core pattern which is to be experienced. That is one proper responsibility of angels—the primary one, in actual fact, because nothing can be achieved without it. The other one is the relationship of angels to humans. The human being is the child; the angel is the parent; and for a while, then, the parent is responsible for the child in a very direct sense, to care for its needs, to love and to provide all that is essential for the development of that child—but not so that the child might become a superchild, but that there might be a constantly increasing emergence of the angel by reason of that facility, which will then be no longer childish. It will stay childish as long as the angel doesn’t emerge. This is why I say there are so many retarded children around. The angel has never been allowed to emerge.

What a rational world it is when the intelligence of angels provides the means by which the world is governed. The world governed by irrational, retarded children is bound to be a horror. The world becomes a place that bears scarcely any resemblance at all to the real world. And of course the retarded children suffer in that state. God is not willing that any should perish, but it requires that people grow up. I suppose you could say that one of the interpretations of the word repentance is grow up. Stop being childish. Repent from staying in the childish state. The only way to come out of it is to permit the angel to emerge into expression at the level of human consciousness, where everybody has been functioning. If the angel emerges where everybody has been functioning, everybody experiences the angel. So we see these two aspects of the angelic ministry on earth. The first requires the Angelic Core to develop, a family core which is not composed of parents and children. It’s composed of mature people, actual people—us!—mature people who have a relatedness to each other based in whatever it is that is to be achieved according to the fulfillment of Divine Purpose. This is the sole concern of angels. We already have certain patterns of relatedness between the human aspects of these incarnate angels. All right, that’s the way it is—married couples for instance—whatever it is, is for angelic use—blessed singleness. In any case, there are certain relationships between the people concerned; but it isn’t those relationships that are the important thing. It’s the relationships of the angels concerned.

Now almost all human relationships were based in how one human felt toward another human, one child felt toward another child—puppy love, very often. That’s all it is; it’s all it can be. It is perhaps an experience for children, but it needs to be relinquished if one is ever to mature. It is this puppy-love state that is so popular in the world. Oh, we love this which we call love! It isn’t anything really to be taken so seriously—it’s something that is natural to children perhaps—but it shouldn’t be seized upon so that the individual won’t grow out of the puppy-love state. He insists upon remaining a child, in other words. The only way one can discover mature relationships is in the expression of the angel. And those mature relationships are not anymore based in the likes and dislikes of the human nature state of consciousness. They are based in what is necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose for which the angel is incarnate on earth. There is a totally different approach to all the things that human beings think they know about, and think they are going to enjoy, and think perhaps that they’re going to bring some sort of fulfillment. These things never do—they never can. The fulfillment is already a reality when the angel emerges, and there is no need to set up a system of relationships in order to experience fulfillment.

The association of angels is already a fact

How this is going to emerge in human form is a question. If the angel is present and in expression, it will emerge in order to allow these various configurations to achieve the Divine Purpose, and they’re not there so as to please the human being. It is very pleasing to the angel, because the one thing that pleases the angel is to achieve the Divine Purpose. Therefore anything that allows this to be so is accepted with rejoicing, and the experience is one of creativeness; and the experience of creativeness is what human beings call happiness--of course, a very distorted experience insofar as human nature is concerned. Happiness doesn’t come by acquiring things, whether those things are money or a mate or whatever the individual imagines would bring fulfillment. Fulfillment comes by reason of the expression of the angel—full and free. And that brings with it all the angelic associations that are necessary to do what needs to be done.

We may see this in terms of this Assembly. If this Assembly is put together now on the basis of the fact that we are all here present in person by the emergence of the angel through each one, then we can see that this is an association of angels. You’ve all been brought here. Our human equipment has been brought along because the angel came along, and the human equipment sits down in that chair because the angel says, “Sit down in that chair!” Perhaps angelically it’s not put just in this way, but that is the way it works. So we are here in a configuration of angels with human facilities—most essential—in order that the angelic expression might appear as it should in this core, to achieve what is necessary, because it is all connected up because of our human facilities with the rest of the world.

So we have a little core here for a specific angelic purpose—the Lord’s purpose. We are here to find out how this purpose may be achieved in a specific sense. We know what the general purpose is: the restoration of man. Okay, here we have a little core which is to achieve a certain aspect of that overall fulfillment during this time. And we are going to find out how that is to be done. We don’t know ahead of time, because we have not been able to prognosticate all the factors that are going to be present in the external sense, but we sense, as angels, that we are quite capable of handling whatever those factors may prove to be—and we will find out what they are as we move along. I trust that we will handle them effectively as we do move along together, by reason of our association as angels. We see our association as angels as being paramount to us. This is more important to us than any of the temptations which may arise in the wilderness—in other words in the external sense, any of the things that may come into the range of our awareness brought there by satan, brought there by human nature consciousness. We may see these things, just as the Master saw what the devil was bringing him in the temptations in the wilderness. He saw what they were. We are all aware of them when they arise. But being conscious as angels, just as the Master was, we deal with the thing right there. We know what must control.

One of the central factors in the development of our core here is control—that control may be extended. Control is extended because control is experienced. You can’t extend anything, you can’t give anything, that you are not experiencing. This is why it seemed to be a little difficult to inspire response, perhaps, in some, because you were trying to deliver something that was not your experience. We have a very wide range of possessions, shall we say, spiritual possessions, but it isn’t a matter of doling these out. They won’t be of much value to anyone. The value is when these possessions become what we are. Then what we offer is genuine, and children respond to the genuine. Children spot phonies when they are adults. They don’t so easily spot phonies when they are other children. And this is the situation, isn’t it, in the human world? Human beings are all the time being taken down the garden path. More and more laws are made so as to prevent people from being taken down the garden path—at least this is the idea. It doesn’t, of course, because they’ll find new and better ways of being taken down the garden path. Perhaps it is better for people to be led down the garden path so that they find out that that’s what is happening. Maybe they will wake up. If they are all swaddled around with wool, they never learn. We see this with respect to growing children. You can’t keep them so protected that they never get hurt. They need to be hurt. We all need to be hurt. There is nothing wrong with being hurt. It’s one of the most valuable things, and I think you will look back and recognize the fact perhaps, that the times of hurt and trouble and stress, and all the uncomfortable things that happened, were the most valuable in our lives, and when anything went along smoothly we began to rot. So, humanly speaking, we need to be hurt in order to wake us up. This is true of everybody. Of course it’s sort of getting out of hand in the world. It certainly is something that human beings have brought on their own heads, and maybe there are those who will wake up because of it.

Now, if we are angels we find that we are capable in ways that we were certainly not capable merely in the human sense. And one of these things relates to the capacity to encompass. People trying to be good find that there are all too many whom they can’t encompass. With many it has been a very, very narrow little range. Everybody else was excluded. Well we’re not here to be exclusive. We are here to welcome everybody Home—and home is Heaven, isn’t it? Who is going to welcome everybody Home to Heaven if not the angel? The angel can do it. The human can’t. Humanly speaking it is impossible to encompass everybody—angelically speaking we can. Angelically speaking we are keenly aware that human beings are very much the same. Human nature is human nature. It has little different casts, little bit of colorations here, differences there, but it is all human nature—and from that standpoint we feel entirely capable of encompassing what needs to be encompassed in anyone. And fundamentally what needs to be encompassed in anyone is response, but that response will come in different ways through different people.

Very often there are those who are intimidated by this or that in human nature, by some great human nature achievement—everybody is kowtowing to this human nature achievement. Well we are not interested in the human nature achievement, we are not really trying to encompass that. We are seeking to encompass whatever of response is in that person who, in human nature, may have achieved this or that. We are capable, as angels, of encompassing what is right, what is encompassable from the standpoint of heaven. And we are not intimidated by human nature achievement. Some people are very clever mentally speaking, and their minds can do all sorts of things that perhaps the duller ones of us cannot do. From that human standpoint, I have been thankful that my mind is not all that brilliant in the human nature sense. I was, what shall we say, mediocre in school. There may have been various reasons for that, mind you, but not from that standpoint at all in the upper range. But the mind is as brilliant as it needs to be on the basis of angelic expression, and on that basis we are capable of encompassing what needs to be encompassed.

We encompass response. This does not mean that we exclude what is not. Because if we did that we would exclude virtually everybody, because, no matter who it is, there is lots that is not response. So we do not try to encompass what should not be encompassed, but we are able to encompass the person, because that person originates in the angel. There is always the angel present, and we are acquainted as angels. There may be seeming conflict human to human. Well, we can take one human at least out of the picture. So there doesn’t need to be any conflict. As they say, it takes two to have a battle. Well if there is only one, then of course that one must fight himself if he is to find an antagonist. And this is what human beings do. You may have noted that from your standpoint, that very often people in contending with you, as they think, are only in fact contending with their own concepts of what it is that you represent, or what it is you are associated with. But it is entirely in their own consciousness and they are battling with this. Well let them battle with it; they’ll wear themselves out after a while. You do not need to get into a battle. That would be foolishness and futile, because they are fighting with shadows. They are not fighting with anything that is fact. So we let people exhaust themselves if they wish to, on that basis, and we play our part in encompassing all that rightly needs to be encompassed in a person, so that they may begin to feel something that is welcoming them home. They won’t know what it is or where they’re going, what it’s all about, but those whom you encompass in this fashion begin to feel that they are close to home.

I suppose our slogan is, with respect to all who are willing in this regard—Welcome Home! And so we share this together in our core focus, extending, as angels in angelic function, this invitation, Welcome home! As angels we experience mature love one for another—this is the natural state—and we extend love, true love, enfoldment, encompassment, to the children.

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