The Glory Of This Angelic Core

The  Glory  Of  This  Angelic  Core

Martin Cecil  August 10, 1979  Assembly

We came to present ourselves before the Lord, to assume responsibility for whatever His will might be. We have had a most precious and valuable four weeks in association with each other, letting something be generated as it only could be by this Assembly of angels. There have been some transformations in consciousness—which is our service. We do not merely look beyond into the larger consciousness of the world and say changes need to come there. They do, undoubtedly—but how? Not by imposition but, “By my spirit, saith the Lord.” The Lord's spirit has been here present by reason of this Assembly, that by this spirit transformation might occur. We behold transformation occurring within the range of our own consciousness. We behold some of the things that need to happen in the consciousness of mankind, but only as there are these happenings in our own earthly consciousness are the changes being wrought in the consciousness of mankind. We do not stand in the judgment seat, observing what we imagine should happen, because we do not assume a vision that does not belong to us. The Master Himself emphasized this point when he indicated that the day and the hour of what it was that should occur, actually nobody knew, not even the angels in heaven, but the Father only. We leave that ultimate authority in His hands, but we have the authority to deal with our fields of responsibility on earth now, and consequently in each succeeding moment. So we accept this authority.

As you came up to speak this morning, I observed those who accepted the authority, those who were somewhat tentative about it as yet, and those who were still moving toward the experience. To this extent the Assembly was not entirely in agreement. I look for the day when we might have an assembly of angels all of whom have accepted their authority in the flesh. To the extent that this did not occur we did not achieve what we might have achieved. I do not say this in a spirit of condemnation but in simply a statement of fact. Obviously there was achievement, and I am most thankful for what has occurred. There have been evidences of individual transformation—greater acceptance of angelic responsibility, and the consequent expression of true authority. A little care needs to be taken in this regard. I noticed here and there, an endeavor on the part of lingering human nature to try to assume the authority of the angel, and it doesn't work too well—it isn't genuine. Sometimes a person feels so genuine about it, but it is the fact that we are concerned with and not the feeling.

I am sure that there was much learned during this period—perhaps learning may not be entirely the right word. We learn in the sense I mean when we find ourselves in position to assume the authority. That is a new experience, and therefore might be described as something learned—it's a new experience in your human form on earth at this time. It is a new experience even for the angel, because although there may have been incarnations in the dim and distant past, which naturally allowed the assumption of proper authority on earth, so that experience was known back then, it certainly would not be the same experience as would be known should it be done now. This makes it quite interesting from the angelic standpoint too. There are no repeat performances—and by the assumption of authority in angelic expression we have that experience in human form now; an experience that angelically had not been known before. Every moment is fresh—nothing boring about angelic incarnation and expression!

We have had experience during this time, as individuals, of association in a spiritual core. Because this association only included a few people, it may seem to be small. This core has had a particular task, but you all recognize that this core is part of a more extensive core—which has many facets. This has been one facet, a temporary facet, because this particular formation will not be in existence anymore in the days to come. This does not mean that you are not still responsible for playing your parts in the core. There are many facets, not necessarily geographical facets, but facets of varying qualities required, vibrational facets, which sometimes come to point in a geographical sense. But if there is no particular gathering of those who constitute the core at any particular time, this does not dissolve the core—it's still there. We may recognize a certain pulsation that occurs in the spiritual substance that has been generated. This pulsation occurs in the substance because of the pulsations of spirit, and the substance moves with spirit. Sometimes that substance is concentrated—the pulsation brings it together. In that sense it might be said, symbolically, that it occupies a smaller space. Such substance as has been generated has been contained, concentrated, so that the focus of spirit that related to the particular achievement that was necessary might have a facility through which to move. And so these pulsations occur when the substance becomes more concentrated, and then again it becomes more rarified.

The pulsations of spirit—the pulsations of life—we need to move as angels easily in those pulsations. For the pulsations to be known and experienced and shared there must be the essential substance, and it must be of our own individual generation. We can't trade on the substance of somebody else. Our connection is based in the fact that we have provided our own quota of substance and it all blends together, and it is all contained in whatever the formation may be at any particular time. We have known what the concentration of substance was during this Assembly period, and there was therefore a concentration of the experience of spirit. Actually, it is the spirit that brings the concentration once the substance is there. You all brought some substance with you, and you not only brought some substance with you, but the substance brought you in the external sense, here. The substance did that because the spirit was activating it—so you all showed up. You all showed up as angels from my standpoint, bringing along some necessary machinery by which we might achieve whatever could be done—taking into account what should reveal itself as being the limitations or the restrictions present in the machinery. I'm not judging you in this regard. The fact of it was revealed when you came up here to speak—whether you realized it or not, or whether you liked it or not, it was revealed. Not so much exactly in what you said, but beyond that in how you said it, how you presented yourself, what role you assumed when you were in this position.

We had a session recently when there was opportunity to play roles—even human roles, like the shy person, for instance. We are not controlled by our roles. If you come up here to assume a focus point with respect to what is happening in this formation, you can't assume that focus point by playing a shy role. I could hardly provide what is necessary in this moment if I retired and played some sort of a recessive role. I have to come out front to do what is required and play this sort of a role. We need to see that with respect to ourselves in relationship to whatever field we may be responsible for, so that we never let roles dominate us—human nature roles. We see the necessity of roles, and for any particular occasion we can look over our wardrobe of roles and don the correct robe of role. We sense what is necessary as we proceed—we must have a starting point of some kind, and that must be fitting.

Here is something else that we need to recognize. What I have offered during this time that we have shared together has not been an arbitrary imposition on my part. I didn't decide ahead of time and say, “Well, these people need to hear this. I'm going to lay it on them.” I utilize the substance that you make available to me. There may have been occasions when I went just a little bit beyond the substance that was offered—I had some available of my own—but not very much at any time because, on the basis of your offering to me, the inheritance that comes to me, we may move together. And it isn't a class, anymore. That's what's supposed to be being learned in a class, actually—how to move in the current of the spirit. We've learned how to do that, so here we are moving in the current of the spirit. All I do is utilize whatever substance is available by reason of our combined generation to permit the spirit to be brought forth, so that it isn't just me. It includes all of us, and we are all sharing in what has been referred to as unified radiation. Unified radiation is possible only when there is a unified participation in the processes of radiation, and there is recognition that whatever substance one has brought is part of what is being used to allow the release of the spirit—and because it is all blended together, we can all share the release of the extent of spirit that is thereby made possible. None of this has been on any arbitrary basis, certainly not from my standpoint. One could say that it might have been possible to experience a far greater outpouring of the spirit if there had been a greater generation of substance. Well, it was what it was.

It is all dependent upon what we ourselves do, and we're not expecting, even in the background of our consciousness, that the Lord is going to provide something regardless of us. We are His emissaries—His angels—emissaries of Divine Light, emissaries of Glory. If there is Glory on earth, we bring it—we bring it. How could anyone else give Glory to God on earth except by sharing in allowing the Glory of God to be revealed on earth? All that happens is that we provide the substance by which the Glory may be made known—that's all—the Glory is there already. So we share in the Glory of God in expression on earth. Then others may sense that Glory, behold it even, and desire therefore to participate in the process by which this Glory is revealed in larger measure.

There was some mention of the fact that at times we do some laughing, and we have fun, and it is a light experience. If we're solemn and quiet the idea is there isn't so much glory around. I suspect that is a human nature concept. Whatever is fitting is the glorious thing, surely. And there certainly are occasions when we need to exercise a little restraint on ebullient spirits which otherwise would put feet in mouth. So there are roles to play, and the fitting role at the time is what is required. I trust that during this time we have shared together there has been a greater sense of the fitness of things. This is part of the reason for our closer and more intimate association during this period—to gain a greater sense of the fitness of things. We can do anything that is needful. We can play any role that is required. I say that from the angelic standpoint—not necessarily from the human standpoint, because there are certainly still some areas of what one might call stiffness, and a lack of resilience, so that one might, with grace and with understanding, and with effectiveness play the required role.

Usually in the human sense if one is an actor or an actress there is need for a good deal of training in playing these various roles—but you know, far less is required once there begins to be the release of angelic expression, because the angel already knows how to play whatever role may be necessary in a much more fitting way than the human mind could figure out. The human mind doesn't really know—but the angel does, and we begin to sense that in our expression. The angel knows—we know—and we bring forth accordingly, and we don’t need a great deal of theatrical training to learn this. Also in the matter of speaking. It may seem at times that it is necessary for a person to take a course in public speaking. I don't think it should ever be necessary for an angel. The angel certainly doesn't need it—and if the human facility is open and yielded, well that's all there is to it, really. You will find that you are doing the things that possibly you would have been trained to do if you had gone through a course; but you will be doing them genuinely, and it won't be an imitation. It won't be for effect, in the human sense. It will be for effect in the angelic sense—the effect that the impact of the spirit is going to have—and that can certainly be enhanced by reason of the role that is being played. So we play the right role in the right place. We discover, with this increasing sensitivity in our expression of ourselves, by reason of what facilities we have available for this, exactly what is fitting. 

We find that we do the things that are necessary when the angel does it—and the angel, he or she, is quite capable of handling the equipment that is available. Angelically speaking, we've all had vast experience in this regard—we've had all kinds of equipment down through the ages. This is not the first shot insofar as the angel is concerned; and he's quite aware of what is possible and what is needful. So we let it happen, we take responsibility as angels. We do not hide our light under a bushel. That doesn't mean we play the same role on every occasion. The light needs to shine in different ways. Glory is not just one great flash of lightning. As we continue to accept responsibility in the spiritual core, wherever we may be physically speaking, we let the Glory of the Lord shine round about.

What was it the Master said, when the disciples were fussing around about how they hadn't understood, and hadn't seen what they thought they should see? One of them spoke up and said, “Well, show us the Father and that's enough.” “Have I been so long time with you … He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” Well, that's what we're here to proclaim—in unified radiation it is done. We proclaim the truth. All the Master apparently could say was, “If ye continue in my word, then ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” Futuristic—one day! And He was going to depart and He would send the spirit of truth, and he would do something in the future. What future? When is the future here? The future is here the very moment someone accepts the responsibility of whatever it is that is required in the moment. That has been our approach. It has allowed something to happen. We do continue in the Word. Not if—not if we do it. We continue in the Word, and because we continue in the Word we know the truth and we are free to express it—and we're not going to allow any nonsensical hesitancies in human nature to prevent it.

Now my expression in this moment is to you who are in position to participate by reason of your own substance, in this formation, in a particular expression of this nature. If you observe what I am doing now and say, “Well, I should be doing that,” you would be wrong. You would be having the idea that you could imitate me in doing something which you merely have externally observed, without any awareness of what it was that made this expression possible. Well, in any situation there is that which makes your expression possible. There is so much substance that you can use. Whatever there is, you use that—as an angel. You never deny the reality of your own Being, but you know that you cannot violate the Law—you wouldn't wish to. You don't have to keep thinking about the Law in order not to violate it. It is a natural thing. Whatever substance is available, you use that. If there isn't much, that will condition what you are able to express. You are not imposing something on anyone. You use the substance that is there. There is a greater concentration of substance in this situation than there would be in some others; therefore there is a greater concentration of the release of the spirit. But when you will find yourself in some other situation, where there's very tenuous substance—you're in a store in town, and there would probably be very tenuous substance there, so your manner of expression would be, naturally, totally different to what it would be if you were standing up here speaking to a group of people who were providing a rich quality and quantity of substance. So we understand the meaning of the words “sense of the fitness of things.” We sense what substance is available and therefore what can be said. If you have a general situation in the world, the substance is very tenuous. Sometimes there will be some person who comes out of the general situation, in whom there is more substance, and you can say something more to that person. Some people have substance, but they never offer it to you. They're so wrapped up in their self‑centered selves that there's very little substance there available for use. A person has to look you in the eye, and offer something, if there is to be a starting point for the right use of substance. And our concern is totally with right use.

There's plenty to use, in fact—all we need to do is learn to use it rightly. We shouldn't ever take the attitude, “There's nothing to use rightly here; there's no response here.” Even if there isn't favorable reaction, that doesn't mean that there's nothing there. There is something else, maybe, to be used rightly. There's always something there. The way we use spiritual substance is one thing, but the way we may use other circumstances and other situations is something else again. We make right use of whatever it is, even if it's opposition, or unfavorable reaction. Nowadays, even if it's indifference we bring something to bear—we can do this to the extent that there is substance available in our own expression. People begin to be put on the spot one way or another. So we have wide fields of responsibility with some excellent substance available for right use, and other not‑so‑good substance available also, for our right use. We need to learn how to use it, so that there may be the Glory of the Lord present—“He that has seen me has seen the Father.” I'm not suggesting that one should have a brash approach in this regard, but you need to be conscious of the fact that you, an angel, are present—not to impose anything on anyone ever, but to make right use of whatever is available to your hand. If you, the angel, are present, don't behave in a manner that denies that the angel is present. As an angel you may play a particular role for a particular purpose—you can use any honorable role.

So we have shared this time, we have shared our substance, and we have consequently shared unified radiation in whatever measure. And we have been in position to utilize to advantage whatever has been brought to us. We have considered various fields, that there might be an outlook which is clear, reaching into the consciousness of mankind. If we ourselves are mucking around in a fog, of what value are we to anyone else? And if we have the attitude, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” then we are very conscious of our usefulness in the world, and we would not let a moment slip by where that usefulness is not present. We are in motion, after all—in action. If it is true, “He that has seen me has seen the Father,” then here is Jehovah, and here is the creative power present on earth, required to accomplish the will of God. As we move along we discover what the will of God is. We don't have preconceptions as to what the will of God will be, as though the will of God was translatable into forms—this form is what is required for the will of God. What is required of us now, so that we may know the truth now, and the will of God be done now? The right word spoken, the right attitude revealed—now, and now, and now.

We all continue to share responsibility in the spiritual core of the body of mankind. Never think of the core as a small place. Sometimes it's thought of as a point that has position but no magnitude. If that refers to the undimensional state, which is incomprehensible to the human mind, fine. There's the whole of that undimensional state, whatever it is—plenty of it. But if you're thinking of the dimensional state, the core is not a small thing at all. If you remind yourself once again of concentric spheres, the largest sphere is the core. Love substance—that is the core of everything, and it is the largest sphere. The smallest sphere is the physical level of substance, the physical sphere—that's just a little marble in the middle, permeated by all the other vibrational spheres which extend beyond the physical sphere. Every one of them extends further than the physical sphere, and the sphere of the pure essences of Love substance extends beyond everything—it is all‑inclusive. There's nothing outside of that. So to function in the core is not to function in a little narrow place. It is to function in a vast expanse, plenty of room—more room there dimensionally speaking than anywhere. Let us never feel that we're being constricted because we should be functioning in the spiritual core of this ministry—“that's just a little place, because after all there are only a few people there compared to the population of the earth.” There are a lot of people in a very small space—and there are a few people in a very big space! That's the way it is. It isn't determined by the number of people.

So there is this space available for those who assume responsibility, and  consequent authority, in the core of Love substance. It isn't a matter of cramming together. There may be occasions when the pulsation brings the Love substance into what might be seen as a density, necessary to accommodate the focus of spirit in the specific achievement that is necessary—and when that's done there is an expansion again. We have had this little four-week period when there has been a concentration of this substance, and we've done whatever was possible on this basis. We couldn't do what was not possible. We need to have a recognition that, given more substance, and given the willingness to let it all come together in a greater concentration, that more would be possible on that basis. We have experienced what was possible on this basis, and we do not condemn ourselves or anyone for what we didn't experience. I'm sure you're all very much aware that there's a lot we didn't experience. On the other hand, there was much that we did, and much that has been of value to many others.

Now as this Assembly dissolves and you begin to move out geographically speaking. You are still in the core of substance. I don't care where you go, you can't get out of it if you're actually in it. We need those who are consciously aware of being in it. That is what composes the core, regardless of geography. Because of that there is a continued presence of the reality of this core, the Glory of this Core, present with the world, with the people in it. Here is the enfoldment of which we may be aware. This is part of our spirit as individuals, as well as the blended spirit of all those who compose the control element in this core. You are invited to continue to share that control element, simply on the basis of your behavior in the proper roles which you will be playing. Then you'll be quite aware of what you need to be aware of relative to your responsibility in this core, and we will continue to be together.

We abide together. We continue in the Word—and because we continue in the Word we know the truth to be expressed in each moment and we experience the glorious freedom of the children of God. There is the Glory of the Lord, revealed in expression earth, which is an open invitation always for others to come and allow that revelation to be increasingly complete. We do not go forth from the spiritual core ever. We possess the land because it is the Lord's and it is brought to us. We have the responsibility for receiving the land into the hands of the Lord, clear and perfect. All that is not clear and perfect passes away. What is now clear and perfect is now in the hands of the Lord. There is more to be revealed in clarity and perfection, and this is the responsibility of those who maintain the core, continuing in the Word, that what is established, what is now done, may be finished and revealed, clear and perfect and complete.

Long ago the Master spoke the words, relative to His ministry—“It is finished.” And yet there were things yet to be clarified, to be made perfect, to be gloriously revealed. So it is in this day. It is finished, and no man can change that fact. After those words were spoken by the Master, it was impossible for human beings to change what took place, in permitting the reality of the resurrection to be known, and following through into His ultimate ascension. That couldn't be stopped. In fact, unwittingly, human beings cooperated in letting it occur. And so it is now with our responsibility. It can't be stopped. Let us be very sure that we are included amongst those who reveal the fact that it cannot be stopped.

© emissaries of divine light