Honor the King: Reveal the King
Martin Exeter August 23, 1987 a.m.
It is twelve months since Central Council, as we call it, has been assembled in this holy place, the Dome Chapel, situated on this holy place, Sunrise Ranch. Most of those who are here present were here present twelve months ago; some are here for the first time; others who were here are not here in person. But we ourselves who are here in this moment provide a focus of sacredness for all who are willing to share in it, wherever they may be on the face of the earth.
There is an awareness on the part of many that there should be sacred places on the face of the earth. Such are usually identified from somewhere out of the past. There are many such places, most of them having fallen into considerable disrepair if there were external evidences of their presence in the past. But what of the present? Perhaps the sacred places out of the past were an endeavor on the part of human beings in the past to reestablish something that had been lost. These all put in an appearance since what we might refer to as the fall of man. Possibly they were also a vague memory of something. But for a sacred place to be present on the surface of the earth it requires sacred human beings. Locations and positionings on the surface of the earth do not put in an appearance merely of themselves, as though anyone could pinpoint the importance and position of such locations. If we consider man as he was and is created to be, he is responsible for maintaining the sacredness of the earth. Obviously in this he has dismally failed, at least over the last twenty thousand years. He has brought an abomination of desolation into this sacred earth. We have some awareness of this, having awakened to it; and we have awakened to the extent that we have individually assumed the responsibility of sacredness in our own living. Without that we are aware of nothing that has any importance. Here is a sacred place this morning in the Dome Chapel on Sunrise Ranch, a sacred place reestablished on the surface of the earth to the extent that there are present sacred people. It isn’t something that comes into our experience because there is some particular efficacy to this specific location, but because this specific location has offered itself to us for the reestablishment of a sacred place on the surface of the earth.
Originally, when man was Man, there were sacred places on the surface of the earth, and a network of connection. The whole earth was sacred. But these served particular purposes in the fulfilment of whatever it was that Man was present on the surface of the earth to do. All that has been long lost and there have subsequently been these various endeavors, on the part of sincere people no doubt, to bring again sacred points on the surface of the earth — for what purpose nobody really knew. Because there have been people who sincerely gave themselves to this effort, there was no doubt a certain generation of vibrational substance in these locations — just, for instance, as there has been the generation of such vibrational substance in certain buildings, cathedrals for example, particularly those of long standing in the older countries. So there is a little residual vibrational substance around, and some people are able to cotton onto that with a sensing of something, but they know not what. And there have been endeavors to reproduce whatever it was that happened in the past — a rather senseless and useless exercise — ignoring what is available now and where that availability comes to focus.
The focus, of course, is not primarily location on the surface of the earth. It is in human hearts and minds. As there is an activation of this resonant vibrational substance in human hearts and minds it may be drawn into configurations of focus. This has happened within the range of our own awareness and experience. This is why we find ourselves here present this morning. As there are indeed sacred people gathered to be with one accord, then the location where this gathering occurs also becomes resonant with this substance, and we may say then that this building is a holy place. We may say also that the surrounding earth is also a holy place, because we do not, and those who dwell on Sunrise Ranch do not, constantly inhabit this building. We are nevertheless present in the vicinity. There are indeed other points of focus of which we are aware. These have put in an appearance because there have been individual human beings, in whom there was substance resonant to the radiation of the spirit of the living God, who were drawn to these locations. The fact of the matter is that wherever a holy person stands, there is holy ground. It isn’t the ground that made the person holy. It’s the person who made the ground holy. For the most part human beings have everything backwards, as we are aware. Presumably the search for sacred places is based in the idea that if one could stand in those sacred places one would partake of the sacredness of the place. But it has no inherent sacredness as a gift to human beings, except that it is providing a place where people can stand. It gives them the opportunity to make the place sacred.
As I have said for a long time now, the abomination of desolation has been increasing in the holy place — the Earth. We see this. And as there are those who see this, because they are participating in the expression of sacredness in their own living, or to that extent, then the time of apocalypse is at hand. I suppose most people have wondered about that, always projecting it into the future, which is quite convenient because one can then go about one’s personal affairs without any particular concern for apocalypse. These days, however, there is increasing concern in this regard on the part of many. Others apparently are too busy to notice. But whether it is noticed or not is quite immaterial. From the standpoint of those who bring sacredness to the place where they stand — or sit, in this moment — apocalypse is not something to fear or to dread. It indicates the passing of what was in the human state. If we are awake at all we know we are here to facilitate that passing, so why object to apocalypse? From the standpoint of those who are in fact sacred, it is a time of rejoicing. It is the time of what we have referred to in times past as restoration. There cannot be restoration without apocalypse. And so it comes. To the extent that we have awakened to the natural responsibility of being sacred, we have become increasingly aware of what we refer to as the focus of the spirit of the living God on earth. This is an awareness that has been lost in the experience of mankind. It has been lost because the initiation of the fall came because of the rejection of that focus of spirit. We can talk about this as a focus of spirit — no doubt one way of describing it in human language — but we also know what that really is, even though we may not comprehend the reality yet — adequately comprehend; perhaps there is some comprehension.
We speak of the King. It is the absence of the King that has left human beings bereft. But He is absent because He was rejected, and has continued to be rejected all down through the ages whenever an aspect of His spirit came to focus in some person — not only came to focus but found expression. The expression appears on the basis of the level of consciousness that is present in the people to whom the expression is offered. But even though this which was provided was certainly seen, observed, by those in the vicinity, ultimately it was always rejected. While there may have been some sort of an acceptance — a grudging acceptance, or an acceptance because it seemed as though that would be beneficial to oneself — there was never a complete acknowledgment of the King through whoever it was that was present.
We have scriptures all over the world which indicate the fact of the King. This fact may be brought to point in different words, different names, but it is the same fact. It is a fact that nobody wants to look at very much except in imagination, except if that fact was somewhere else. Nowadays in the Christian world, for instance, that fact is deemed to be in someone called Jesus Christ, who is somewhere else. And one can, in the view of many at least, somehow accept this imaginary figure into one’s own heart so that He becomes a personal savior. But this is all imagination. It may indeed point a person in the right direction but, as we well know, if he holds onto the concepts that are provided in this regard he will get stuck. He will not be in position to move in the right direction. One can only move on the basis of the rigmarole that has been produced to indicate how you can move, and it is a very tortuous passage.
One can only begin to move when all that is relinquished. And whether it is in the Christian religion or in any other religion, or in any other form of religion, of which there are many in the world, political systems among them — economic systems — there is considerable worship in that field, isn’t there? — people find themselves hedged around with all these dos and don’ts, restrictions of all kinds, so that all of us become increasingly immobile if we are subject to these things. But the space of freedom is not presently the earth. That should be obvious. If anyone is looking for freedom in the earth they are very much deluded. This seems to indicate that there are a lot of deluded people on earth trying to find safety, freedom, in the earth. It isn’t available in the earth. At least it is not available in experience in the earth without first accepting what we have called the heaven. But fundamentally that is accepting the King.
It seems in the world the way it is, with people the way they are, it is almost impossible to present this focus of the King in representation without the cry of blasphemy going up. Of course these days “blasphemy” is not a usual word, but the meaning of it is there in human consciousness: unacceptable. The truth is unacceptable because it doesn’t allow for all these variety of human ideas and concepts. You can see how the endeavor has been put forth to get things together, while retaining the right to have all these different cultures and these different ideas and these different religious beliefs and political systems and all the rest. That’s an impossible task, of course, and it is a task that has been projected beyond individual human beings. It relates to society all around, to people everywhere, rather than to oneself. The only person one has any real dealings with is oneself. We fiddle around with other people chiefly to avoid accepting the truth for oneself. One can always point the finger at someone else and say, “That person is not accepting the truth.” Of course! Probably it’s true, but it’s none of your business. What one’s own business is, is to ask that question of oneself: whether one is accepting the established design and control of being. It’s present already. Oh no, human beings don’t accept that; they don’t know what it is, to start with. In any case they wouldn’t accept it even if they did, because they want to do what they want to do. We have all been in this state, and I’m not convinced that we’re not still in that state. There has been some emergence into another level of awareness, but how adequately that has been accepted is another question.
Honor the King. Who is the King? Human beings like to think, at least in the Christian world, that they can finger Him: Jesus Christ. In other areas they can’t finger Him quite so well, because He has remained in some other realm. He is the Lord God or whatever. All imagination! Most people don’t like to hear that, because they are so sincere about it. But sincerity goes for nothing if one is being sincere about something that isn’t true. Yet one in the human state is so conditioned to all these things that it seems, again, like blasphemy to relinquish them. However, we have had the responsibility of setting some precedents in this regard. How well we have done this I don’t think we should judge, but we might have a suspicion that we thus far haven’t done it too well. Something has happened no doubt. We have a consciousness of sacredness now in this setting. If we have that consciousness of sacredness it is because we, to whatever extent, brought sacredness with us. The sacredness that someone else brings may, on occasion, seem to be quite impressive, but it doesn’t cause one to experience one’s own sacredness. It may inspire one to experience one’s own sacredness, but one can only do it for oneself.
Who is the King? How can we acknowledge and accept the King? How can we stop our rebellion against such acceptance and acknowledgment? It isn’t a surface matter, obviously. It isn’t a matter of saying, “I believe in this, that and the other thing.” Good for you. The question is: Who are you? Who is this character who is doing the believing? That is the character that needs to pass away in order to allow the truth to appear, the truth of the one who comes in the name of the King. And the name of the King is I am. I am the revelation of that truth. Of course we have all had many excuses for avoiding the acceptance of the truth. “Oh I prefer to be this rather sleazy character that has been characterizing me for some years.” Why? It should surely be quite easy to ditch that, let it go. Of course it hangs around, like a cur dog wanting to be fed, kept alive with the life of the King, because there isn’t any other life.
We have the privilege of receiving the life of the King, but if we claim it for ourselves and do what we want to do because of that — no doubt according to the human views as to how one should behave in this human world, and one can be a very good person on that basis I suppose — it’s all wasted effort and ends in nothing, because the life is the life of the King. There is no other life. We need to see it in these terms, so that life isn’t imagined to be something vaguely spread, at least over the surface of the earth, maybe somewhere else as well. It isn’t. It is very specifically brought to point, in individual human beings particularly. It’s brought to point in other forms of life, as we refer to them, on the surface of the earth; but the point is what the experience of that life in focus is for human beings.
But human beings are all on the grab — “I want this, I want that. I want my life for myself, to do with as I please, so I can get this and get that and do this and do that.” Most people have ideas about good works: “Well of course I’m a good person. I’m going to use this life for good things.” Who told you what’s good? Who did? Well I suppose the church or the priest, the rabbi, whoever, tells you what’s good. And it’s generally accepted, in the human consideration, that people know what’s good. “I’m going to do these good works; I’m going to save these dear little starving children” — and increase the overpopulation of the earth. Is that good? You’re going to save a whole lot of people who are going to increase starvation on earth. Is that good? Are you going to develop medical science so as to make it possible to save thousands of people, increase population on the earth? Is that good? Of course whatever is assumed to be good turns out to be bad, always, and it may happen vice versa too, on occasion, because all that is meaningless. It denies the King: “I — important me — am going to do these good works. I may be very humble and not admit to them; I’ll do it anonymously. That will make it right.” What a sad, sad picture of depraved humanity — no humility; arrogance: “I know what’s good, and I’m going to do it. I’m going to organize, I’m going to get other people who will agree with me that this is good and we will do it.” Tremendous. So we have wars and rumors of wars because of this. We have hell on earth because of this, mostly because of good human beings, or human beings who think they are good, doing good things, good works. “I don’t need the King. I don’t need the will of the King; my will is good enough.” That is the human state.
The King is not now present in individual form on earth, even though He may have been in times past. If He isn’t present in form on earth, how are you going to recognize Him? We know the answer to that. It was articulated very well long ago when it was said: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the King. The name is I am. Blessed is the one who has taken responsibility for revealing the quality, the character, the nature, of the King. And here is the opportunity that has been present with the children of men always. Most people spend their lives looking at their feet. Occasionally someone looks up. If so, there may emerge an awareness within one’s own living experience that one does not belong to oneself. One does not have the right to manipulate anything, even for the best of purposes. The name of the King is I am. That places the responsibility of revealing the King on every individual who is capable of saying “I am.” If that isn’t done, then there is the taking of the name of the Lord in vain, as it has been put. And it is in vain, isn’t it? Take a look around. Consider what human expectations might be, for the individual and for the whole race.
We have the opportunity now in a very specific sense, because we are assembled here in a focus of sacredness, to acknowledge the King through the one who comes in the name of the King. And who is that one? There are those who have tried to point at me. Well I am that one, for me. But remember those other fingers. They point back here: you are the one, for you. From the standpoint of one’s own attitude, one’s own mind and heart, there is this necessity of acknowledging and blessing and giving thanks for the one who comes in the name of the King. That one is right here in each one. If you reject that you reject the King, you reject life; and I suppose if you reject life you’re dead. Certainly human beings have been aware of this rejection: they are expecting to be dead. That is assumed to be natural. But they are hopeful that that experience won’t be quite that final. Why wouldn’t it be, if one has rejected the King, the One who is eternal, the One who is life itself, the life that is brought to focus here with respect to this particular planet through man? There is no other facility for this focus to be known and to be revealed on earth but that of human beings. If they reject it, as they have, there has been no revelation; so one has to indulge in imagination, develop beliefs about this, that and the other thing. Some of those beliefs may have some truth to them, but that’s not the point.
The truth means nothing unless one accepts it into one’s own living. Then there is the experience; then the truth is known. The truth is only known when a person can say, “I am the truth” — not “I am learning about it; I’m going to practice,” because this character who is practicing the truth needs to pass away. Passing away, the truth can be revealed. Otherwise we would only have, at best, a synthetic truth, a plastic truth. That’s the way things are in the world; those little cards are the truth for most people, apparently. They live by that truth, and they die by that truth too! We share the magnificent, tremendous opportunity. There is nothing more glorious imaginable than to acknowledge the King. This is what is being brought to point for all people everywhere. Most people will blot it out and die in their sins. Let us be those who honor the King, who love the King, to whom the King is absolutely supreme. It is His life. It is His way. It is His truth. Let it be so in our own immediate and continuing experience.
Rupert Maskell — Let it be so indeed, Martin. The kingdom can only come as there are men and women on earth who are prepared in their own living to bring that through the quality of their living. And in this moment we recognize the presence of the kingdom on earth through you, through me, and through all who are prepared to accept this one reality, which is the only reality.
Lord Exeter — It is the only reality, and no one has any right whatsoever to use life for his own or her own purposes. That is the license to die. Freedom is the freedom of the King, not the freedom of these human characters but the freedom of the King. And that may be known, if we are willing to reveal it.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
