To Be Filled With The Holy Ghost
Martin Exeter October 4, 1987 a.m.
We have often spoken of being together with one accord in one place. If we are to be with one accord in one place it must be because we have relinquished human identity, earthly identity, in favor of spiritual or heavenly identity. This alone makes it possible for us to be with one accord in one place. In this identity we are together for the purpose of expressing the spirit of truth, the holy spirit, in unified radiation. These are words describing what the experience may be, and rightly is. The outpouring of this radiation is possible to the extent that there is substance in us of such a quality that it may accommodate the holy spirit.
Human beings are a little averse, seemingly, to associate themselves—too much, anyway—with what might be described as holy. It is imagined that thereby one would lose all the fun in life. But holiness and fun are not mutually exclusive. The word holy relates to what is of God. It also has the meaning of wholeness, wholesomeness. While human beings have eschewed holiness, it has proved to be fatal. The identity which we rightly accept for ourselves in this moment is holy. It is of God. It is included in the wholeness of things, and it is wholesome. There is a purpose to being still in heart and mind. Only so may the holy spirit come into experience; only so may the truth be known of our own individual spiritual identity. This has been excluded from human experience so long that most people imagine it does not even exist. However the fact that as human beings we do exist is indication that the holy spirit does exist.
We have come to a certain awareness of this to the extent that there has been a quality of living day by day which permitted the essential substance to be generated to accommodate the holy spirit. That substance accommodating the holy spirit has been referred to as the holy ghost. We have mentioned the coined word pneumaplasm. It is a substance, generally speaking for most not visible, but present nevertheless. It is the basis for our thoughts and our feelings. Because this substance is present we are capable of what is called thinking and feeling, and we have physical form which, by some magic means, is held together in an operational mode, for a while anyway. All this is consequent upon what may be referred to as pneumaplasm or ghost substance. Unfortunately the ghost substance has been mainly unholy—that is, it has not been of God. It has been self-generated in the human sense to make possible the experience of what may have been referred to as the human personality. The human personality as it exists now is a human invention that has been made possible because the means by which it could occur has been stolen. Life has been stolen, identity has been stolen. It has been stolen so effectively that most are completely unaware of the One to whom life belongs and to whom identity belongs. So we have a lot of little human creatures skittering around on earth claiming identity for themselves, their consciousness completely unrelated to what is holy, to what is of God. Because there are those who have, over the ages, tried to make something out of this personality in the field of what was presumed to be godliness—this relates particularly to religion—the idea of godliness has come into disrepute, and most would seem to prefer to be unholier than holy.
Because a certain amount of substance has been generated in our own experience we have a more inclusive vision of things, and to the extent that judgment has at least been put on the back burner we do not indulge ourselves in classifying things as good or evil. Such classification is valueless. The fact is that whatever is, is. Whether anyone thinks it’s good or bad, it is. We learn to accept what is. Sometimes we may indulge ourselves a little by saying that something that is happening shouldn’t be, but I don’t think that’s really a very accurate definition. After all, if it’s happening, it is; and presumably it should be, because it is. Taking all the factors into consideration, that’s the way it is. It would not seem likely that one could jump from a state of total judgment, which is the human condition, into a state of no judgment in one bound. Apparently it takes a cycle of time. Perhaps again one might say, “Well maybe it took longer than it needed to, or is still taking longer than it needs to,” but then, here again, things are the way they are. However I am sure that we are all open to the increased generation of quality substance, which will accommodate the holy spirit, so that we may be filled with the holy ghost.
It is proper, if we are to be real men and women, that we should be filled with the holy ghost. This shouldn’t be an exceptional thing; it should be the natural, ongoing experience. As we have assembled, we have a consciousness of spiritual identity as individuals only to the extent that we have generated the substance in our living heretofore to accommodate that identity. If we don’t have the substance, we don’t accommodate it. And, like most human beings, we feel somewhat bereft and have to get busy and generate a personality so that we can say, “This is me. I’ve done this, I’ve achieved the other thing; therefore I must be important”—all the while knowing deep down inside that one isn’t, because the true state of identity has been lost. In that true state of identity, spiritual identity, one doesn’t need to feel important; one simply is. Whatever one is, one is. That is most fulfilling.
We are concerned to allow the generation of this necessary ghost substance to occur and be of such a quality as to be capable of accommodating the holy spirit, the spirit of truth, the spirit of what we actually are. We can’t know that except by moving in this creative process. Minds and hearts have been somewhat reluctant to do this because they have been so thoroughly brainwashed or conditioned by the human state. And we all have specific backgrounds in this regard which have brought along a whole host of elements which simply are incapable of accommodating the holy spirit. There has been a great reluctance on the part of most to relinquish these background elements, factors of culture and race and nationality, because all these things are deemed to be so important from the human standpoint; they give people a sense of counterfeit worth. All that is counterfeit. It is counterfeit because the genuine has been almost totally excluded; not completely excluded, because we are still alive and the human race is still inhabiting this planet. The question nowadays arises as to how long this will be possible.
However we ourselves have today brought into our respective locations such substance as we have permitted to be generated in our momentary living heretofore. That’s the substance that we have. We can’t make it any more than it is or any less than it is. It is what it is. We are dealing with facts rather than theory, rather than human belief. No longer are we embedded, as we may have been in the past, in human belief systems. There is bondage. One must come out of all this to know freedom—the reality of freedom, not merely the word. The reality must be lived. It is the experience of life itself—life itself free to live in human form, rather than to be squeezed out of human form, which is the popular pastime. We bring such substance as may be the fact with us into such a setting as we have today; and according to the quality of that substance, also the quantity of it, so is the holy ghost present. The holy spirit then has an opportunity of radiant expression on earth. The invisible may be translated into the visible, because once again there is coming into position Man, male and female. We can’t substitute the word person in there! That is the name of the creation. There is a word, then, that describes the state of male and female in human form on earth. We use the word Man. I don’t know of any other word. It doesn’t put anyone down, and it doesn’t inflate anyone. It just is a useful word, descriptive of what we ourselves begin to know. That knowing occurs both from the male standpoint and the female standpoint, so all are included.
The substance is present—pneumaplasm, ghost substance—beginning to become holy ghost substance, rather than unholy ghost substance. There has always been some such substance present, but to the extent that the holy spirit was excluded it was unholy ghost substance. That is the normal human state: the state of the unholy ghost. And it is a pretty uncomfortable state for most. People get accustomed to it of course. But now the unholy ghost can evaporate, not because it is thrown out, not because it is battled with and destroyed somehow—that’s self-destruction—but because the quality of the substance of our living is such that it will accommodate the holy spirit, the spirit of truth, the spirit of our true identity. People like to talk about true identity. It isn’t a matter of talk, is it? It is a matter of experience; and the facts tell the tale there, not the theory. However, here we are, such as we are, with whatever the substance is, and, being practical—the holy spirit is very practical—if we are filled with the holy ghost that’s the way we operate too. It is the spirit of truth in operation, and the spirit of truth in operation carries particular identity. We call this identity a differentiation of the one identity.
We are all needed, and this is particularly true in these days when the crunch is coming. There must be those present, and undoubtedly will be those present, who can handle the situation. It can only be handled in the power of love, under the control and in the design of truth. When the spirit of truth is known, because that spirit is accommodated in our substance, then the power of love is known. The power of love cannot be known without first the experience of the spirit of truth in radiant expression in our living, and that can only be known when there is substance to accommodate it. We understand these things. We understand them, perhaps, mentally. But do we really understand? Is that the quality of our living, or do we simply have a theory about it? If you extract something out of the flowing expression of spirit, and the human mind begins to try to grasp it and consequently to be a debater with respect to it, the spirit has been squeezed out.
The spirit is characterized by flow, and one must be associated with that flow to understand what the spirit of truth is. Only by association with that flow is one permitting the spirit of truth to find expression. What you express, you know. You don’t need any theory then. There is a flow. Spirit flows, and one must leave it alone to flow in expression through oneself to comprehend it, to know what it is. To the extent that we have done this, in whatever measure, we know something, and we can’t be fooled by all the debatable arguments of the human mind. The truth flows. A store of knowledge is not the truth; it’s a store of knowledge. Some of that knowledge may be relatively accurate at its own level; some of it may be nonsense.
There is a store of knowledge. There is a cistern with all that stuff in it. Spirit may be able to use some of it. It hauls it up out of the cistern, if it’s useful, and puts it together in a new way so that there is the radiant expression of truth. No one could articulate the truth without these facilities which make it possible, even though these facilities have been used to prevent the flow of the spirit of truth. The facilities are quite all right; there is nothing wrong with them. And we all have them. The only thing is, we’ve been trained in their wrong use. We’ve been trained to exclude the holy spirit and to try to take charge on the basis of a self-created personality. Some people have taken charge to considerable effect in the human world and risen to lofty heights, according to the human view at least, and down they come with a crash! There is another state altogether. Seeing that this present state is on its way out, most obviously, we’d better discover what this other state is before the crunch finally comes.
So we share this opportunity, which is based on our daily living. What is the quality of that? The word we rightly speak in our living is, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” There is substance present in everyone, a percentage of which is available to the holy spirit. We would that there might be more of that substance, but for whatever there is we give thanks and are ourselves open to receive it in the continued generation of what is necessary in our own fields of responsibility. That might be put this way: “I am responsible for me; you are responsible for you.” This is a responsibility that can only be handled when the holy ghost is present, when there is the experience of the truth of identity. When that is so, one may handle everything that arises. One assumes the responsibility of being the truth of oneself. I am that. It is necessary that there be someone on the face of the earth who takes responsibility for him-or herself. Taking responsibility relates to everything.
Idle words have been mentioned from time to time. But I am much more concerned with idle thoughts. They precede the words. Were you ever really honest in looking at your thoughts? Of course you can only look at your thoughts right now. Maybe they’re fine right now, they’re really flowing with the spirit. How long is that going to last? Just as long as I’m up here spouting? This establishes something, a basis, a sensing of something, which needs to be present in all our living. We speak of this as the Tone, the quality of substance which makes us aware of the holy ghost, fills us with the holy ghost. Then we can’t have idle thoughts. How much of your day is spent in idle thought? Some people call that daydreaming, but usually that refers to some lovely idea that’s floating in some beautiful realm of imagination. But idle thoughts include virtually everything that human beings think during a day. Foggy, very foggy. There needs to be focus. Then the thought is generated by the holy spirit, by the spirit of truth. This is the divine design—the design aspect of truth.
Do you let the spirit of truth generate your thinking constantly, or just once in a while? It is what happens during the day that counts—the night as well, incidentally, because that will relate to what happens during the day. It is said that for every idle word we will give account in the day of judgment—which is today, by the way, every day—but for every idle thought, because every idle word is merely the end product of the thought. Until one addresses one’s thought processes one will continue to do all the things that one has been doing in the human state. Let us be honest. We often talk about being honest. It is nice to talk about it. But let’s be it, in recognition that what passes through our minds is the responsibility of the spirit of truth. Turn over that responsibility to the spirit of truth. Then you will judge no more. As long as you don’t do that you will judge. And I see judgment.
I said something about “be careful” recently. I don’t know how that was translated in the minds of those who heard. “Well I should be very cautious when I get out of the bath, or when I’m driving I should be very careful,” thinking of it in physical terms—when, if one is getting out of the bath or one is driving, what are the thoughts that are going on? Because if they have no reference to what is actually happening, well there is an accident about to happen, regardless of how cautious one may be. And accidents have been happening. Why? Because of this fogginess. And we know that this is not just an individual thing, because we are a body and we are dependent on each other. I am responsible for me. You are responsible for you. When we all assume responsibility we are all safe. If we don’t do it we’re not; there is always a pending accident about to happen. At least we call them accidents. They are not accidents; they are reapings of a harvest. We share a look, perhaps with greater honesty, at what the facts are in our own experience—not what the fancies are. What's going on in your head! Let’s look at it, that we may be accounted worthy of receiving the holy spirit into radiant expression in our living. That’s what we are here on earth to do.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
