The Union Of Conscious And Subconscious
Martin Cecil February 22, 1981 p.m.
Holy, holy, holy. We assemble in the holy place. This is not a geographical position, although it may be so represented. We abide in the holy place. We don't stay just in one geographical position. Wherever we are is the holy place. Human beings in general have forgotten this. They behave as though they were not in the holy place. Awakening to an awareness of the holy place in our own living, we keep that place holy where we are on earth. This morning I reminded you of the truth of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/02/from-mind-that-was-in-christ-jesus.html] It is because of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost that we may abide in the Holy Place. The Father is above all, the Son of the Father is the conscious mind, and the Holy Ghost of the Father is the subconscious mind. The heart is present with both conscious and subconscious minds, but to a greater extent in the subconscious mind because it is a larger place.
As the spirit of shame is dissolved in the subconscious mind, the barrier to the movement of the spirit of God is removed. The dissolution of the spirit of shame has been taking place on earth in the experience of many people. It seems as though there has been an increase in what might be called license. Nevertheless, through this process, even though it may have swung to an extreme, this barrier of shame has weakened and in some ways fallen away, so that the spirit of God might move more freely at that level. This has occurred for great numbers of people. The Word has been spoken on earth within the consciousness of mankind with an increasing sound, so that these things have been happening.
The conscious aspect of mind within the body of humanity has, as we are aware, begun to emerge in a way that allows the Son to become a reality. There has always been a certain conscious aspect of the body of mankind. There have always been those who were sufficiently intelligent, in the human sense, to take charge of human affairs in various ways, to impose the human will upon the population in general who were all operating from the subconscious standpoint. Now and again the eruptions would occur from this subconscious mind of humanity and there would be disruptions of all sorts: wars and rumors of wars, revolutions, the antics of human nature; but there were always those around to take advantage of the situation, as they thought of it. So a certain level of the conscious mind has been present in the affairs of men, producing troubles of all sorts. But the Son has been absent. Only in recent decades has there been a certain emergence of the Son into the experience of certain ones within the total consciousness of mankind. Because of this there has been somewhat increased direction given to what has been occurring on earth, particularly as this relates to the subconscious levels of the human race. Presumably we have all had some part in this. Things have happened consequently of which we may not have approved necessarily, failing to realize that we had a responsibility in it. We have been awakening to a realization that we do have a responsibility in it and that the things that are occurring are occurring because of this.
We have had little real awareness of the potency of what we ourselves say and do. It is very potent to the extent that we are assuming the position of the Son in the conscious mind of humanity. We may not entirely have realized that we were doing this. That is perhaps a good thing, because there would have been even more reluctance probably. But it has been happening; and the way things have gone in the world has followed out the direction that has been given through the Son, as well as the direction which continues to be given by reason of the son of perdition: the conscious aspect of the mind of man in its state of separation from God. There are two factors here. We have seen these two factors relative to the dispute over the body of mankind. Here the matter of rebuke began to come into the picture. All these things have been available to be understood by people. For one thing, they have been clearly stated in the scriptures; certainly not alone the Bible as we know it, although perhaps this is the most accurate and succinct presentation that you could find anywhere in any of the scriptures. There are many other scriptures. I would like to read a passage with which you are quite familiar, but this evening it provides an opportunity of seeing what is said in the light of our present considerations, our present understanding, which, even following this morning's service, is not the same as it was last week or even yesterday. So here are the first five verses of the 60th chapter of Isaiah:
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Here we see a reference to the Son consciousness, the conscious mind of the body of the Son of God. “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.”
Here is reference to the realm of the Holy Ghost, or the subconscious aspect of the mind of the body of humanity. Two aspects: one conscious, one subconscious. There is nothing really wrong with the fact that the subconscious is dark; we do not need to judge in the matter. It may be that it is darker in humanity than it needs to be—they call it gross here—but it is all included in the consciousness of mankind, which is being restored to the consciousness of the Son of God on earth. It is all included in the creative cycle, the evolutionary process. If there is darkness, even gross darkness, it might be described as evol. We acknowledge the facts as they are; we don't try to pretend that they are some way they are not. From the divine standpoint facts are always faced, and there is no question that they can always be dealt with; and whatever needs to happen in the creative process will happen. We begin to share this outlook, so we are not scared by the darkness or the gross darkness. We know that the subconscious mind of mankind is necessary, just as our own individual subconscious minds are necessary.
“But the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.” Here reference is made, by using the word thee, to the conscious mind of the body of the Son of God. You will recall a diagram that Uranda used in which there was an illustration of the old carbon lamp principle. As the barrier of shame is removed in the subconscious mind the Word can reach through the subconscious mind and rise up toward the conscious mind, bringing with it the material that is needful for whatever is occurring in the creative cycle. To the extent that this is happening there is the reality of the Holy Ghost. Coming down from the Father into the conscious mind is the other pole of the creative process, something that remains unknown until it begins to be clothed in form. Well the material for the form is rising up from below, and the design of the form is coming down from above. These positive and negative aspects of spirit meet at the level of the conscious mind. There is an arc, there is light: “Arise, shine; for thy light is come,” on this basis, “and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” The Son is then a reality, and direction can be given to the creative process of the restoration; this is the concern at the moment.
The Son is a word which may represent what we have called the Priesthood. As there is illumination at the level of the conscious mind there is understanding. There is a consequent awareness of what is happening, and the responsibility may be assumed to provide whatever direction is necessary so that the will of the Father coming down from above may be done under the direction of the Son by reason of the power of the Holy Ghost—by reason of what is rising up from below. “But the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.” Here is the Priesthood, the representatives of the conscious aspect of the mind of the body of the Son of God.
As this occurs, it is suggested here, “Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.” Can we not lift up our eyes and see what is happening, clearly outlined here a long time ago? “Then thou shalt see [if you look], and flow together [unified radiation], and thine heart shall fear [not be afraid, but be in awe of what it is that is happening: how great is God Almighty; there is awe], and be enlarged [there is the necessity of encompassing more, isn't there?]; because the abundance of the sea [that is, what is rising up to be made available out of the subconscious mind of humanity], the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee [shall be available for your use], the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.” The means by which the power of the Holy Ghost is made known on earth rises up from the subconscious levels of the mind of the body of the Son of God on earth.
We see how essential all the aspects of this perfect design are; you can't leave anything out. In the development of what we have thought of as the Emissary ministry much has been excluded. Again I don't say this in condemnation; it was part of the creative cycle. The vision was restricted during the cycle of attraction leading toward union, and even when there was some measure of union the reality of unified radiation wasn't comprehended or allowed to be adequately experienced. Now it begins to come clear. Why is this? Presumably because there is increased light. And why is there increased light? Because of the current of the spirit operating through the two essential poles. We can't, if we have a certain conscious understanding, pat ourselves on the back and say we have this understanding because we are special people. We have the understanding only when the essential facilities for the operation of the current begin to be in place. Then the positive pole from above and the negative pole from below complete the circuit, the arc jumps across, and there is light. Ah! Now we see a lot more than we saw before. But it didn't happen because we sweated and strained to make it happen, did it? nor because we are really such intelligent and spiritually vital people. I suppose it might be said it happened because we got caught in the squeeze, so to speak. We found ourselves at the level where this happens. Presumably there was some reason why we find ourselves there; it is not just by chance. However a clearer recognition cuts the human ego down to size and any lingering tendencies to arrogance can be dropped forthwith.
Our understanding, our ability to function as the Priesthood in this conscious level of the mind that was in Christ Jesus, is made possible by reason of what has been rising up out of the realm of the Gentiles. All superior attitudes, then, toward these “heathen” can be relinquished. They are absolutely essential to our experience. Of course there has been consistently the availability of the positive aspect of this creative current coming down from the Father. We have been able to operate within the range of the working of the Law because we ourselves as individuals had subconscious minds and something could rise up on this basis, and we could see something because of this. We could share a greater understanding, so that we might be maneuvered into position collectively to provide the facility for the Son aspect of consciousness. We can't say to ourselves, “I did it,” or “We did it,” but we do have some experience of coming into position: abiding in the Holy Place as the Priesthood, who certainly are an essential factor in what is happening. But standing alone they would be useless, they would be nonexistent in fact, because this experience of the Priesthood comes because of all the other things that are happening as well, and because the negative current has been released sufficiently at the subconscious level of the body of mankind to allow a rising up of the essential factor to complete the circuit.
So we have shared in this process, to a very large extent unwittingly, just as all those who participate in the subconscious aspect have been moving also unwittingly. And we begin to be put together in the design which allows for the restoration of mankind. The human mind certainly didn't do it. The spirit of God gets the job done. The initiating point was a Focus of the Word in form on earth. From that point of departure—which was preceded by a good many other things as well, mind you—over the last two thousand years there was set in motion what is occurring and has brought us to the point where we lift up our eyes round about and see all these people gathering themselves together. We have noted that there has been a tendency on the one hand to hold people at bay: “Don't come too close; we might be overwhelmed if you came too close,” and on the other hand saying, “Come on home.” Well that leaves virtually nothing! You say out of one side of your mouth, “Come,” and the other side of your mouth, “Don't come,” so they hover in between.
Something needs to be freed up here; not that what we know, what we understand, is going to be thrown out the window. We still know it, we still understand it; but we have a vision of wholeness which transcends the little petty state in which we may have existed before, a state in which we may have felt reasonably self-satisfied because we were identifying with the Word and we were expressing the Word and we were being fine people in our little areas of operation, but we didn't really know what was happening. Now you begin to see what is happening, and that we are associated with something that is, in human terms, vast; not very big in cosmic terms, mind you, but in human terms quite vast. And there are those who have been doing their thing without knowing that they were doing their thing, spiritually speaking—something rising up in them, compelling them to come into position. That position is not separate from us, any more than the subconscious mind is separate from the conscious mind. They compose one entity: one might say, the mind that was in Christ Jesus; both aspects are essential.
So we lift up our eyes round about and see. There are those who are pressing at the door, so to speak. Our purpose is not to keep them fended off. If we do that too much the pressure will become so great that they will burst through, and then we will all be swept away. However, on the other hand it is not a matter of flinging the gates open, so to speak, and welcoming everybody in regardless. There is discretion needed, discernment, a perception of what may be rightly done at this point. So let us not imagine that if we find something that can be rightly done at this point, or perhaps several things, we may then settle down and say, “Well now we've done it.” No, that's just the door open a crack, so to speak—finally it must be wide in its proper seasons.
There are many opportunities. I am sure that you will allow these opportunities to come into your own consciousness. I could stand up here and recite this, this and this and this as opportunities, but that is not what is required. What is required is that it should be your own awareness because the light is shining and you see. And so there is the opportunity to find ways and means of opening doors. Those who come on the basis of their response are quite willing to be moved in the right direction; that is what they are looking for. But we ourselves need to know what that right direction is.
There may be one in about a thousand—and that I think is a very high ratio—who actually is material capable of participating in the conscious aspect of the body of the Son of God. But most belong in this unconscious, subconscious aspect. Leave them there! There needs to be a rising up perhaps, a greater comprehension of what is happening in their own experience and on the larger scene. And this could be offered in a multitude of different ways, ways that are acceptable to the levels of consciousness of those concerned. The door can be opened. The attitude of welcome is an important element, making possible the blending of conscious and subconscious aspects of mind. Let whatever it is come, and deal with it when it comes. If it is something that doesn't belong it simply moves out very easily. Mention has been made of the power of spiritual expression.
I had a number of letters of response to this morning's service, but I don't think there was one of them, really, that undertook to say anything about what it is that might be open to do. The tendency is to talk about the service instead of moving in the current of the spirit that was initiated by the service. This should engender some awareness that there is an open door here for something to be done. We had a comment period at my house after the service, and a number spoke, and what was said was fine. I am not calling it in question particularly, except I don't think that anything came to point until I said something about this matter of opening doors. Then that carried over, actually, after the comment period with those who were still in the house, a further consideration; and some of these things no doubt will come to your attention in due course. But let's not sleep on the job!
Let us lift up your eyes and see: “see: all they gather themselves together.” What for? Hopefully they are coming home. What home? That one over there? Or the home right where one is? And how is the door going to be open for this? How are people going to be welcomed? Into a greater understanding of the reason for their existence on earth and a greater ability to handle their affairs. We have a world full of counselors these days, marriage counselors and all kinds. How about offering—seeing that this is quite acceptable to people—some true counsel, some true awareness? Maybe not in the form of, “Well you come to my office at such and such a time and I'll talk to you about your troubles,” but in opening doors, maybe collective doors for people, to gain a deeper understanding of what it is that goes on in the world, what it is that actually controls them, for instance, and why they do the things they do. They probably never stop to think about it. They imagine they are free agents and doing things the way they decide, never realizing that they are not free agents at all and that they are doing most things simply because the bell was rung à la Pavlov's dog! There is so much to be shared to increase understanding, for which people are hungry. Who is going to give it to them?
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