I Was There — I Am Here
Martin Cecil December 14, 1980 p.m.
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” As a son or a daughter of God the answer is, “I was there.” From the standpoint of human consciousness there may be no memory of this. Would this mean that one could not say with assurance, “I was there”? The human consciousness imagines that it has to have all the information immediately available, firsthand. This would be quite impossible. Certainly this particular human consciousness was not present, but the one who has made possible this particular human consciousness was. The human consciousness, in yielding, reaches a point where it does not take the attitude anymore that it needs to know everything for itself firsthand. There is a sense of trust and assurance, insofar as that outer human consciousness is concerned, in the one who knows. There is a willingness to rest in that assurance.
There is one present in each human consciousness who says, “I know,” because that is the fact of the matter, and who could say truly with respect to the laying of the foundations of the earth, whether of the planet itself or of this physical form, “I was there. It wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t been there.” The human consciousness begins to awaken to this truth. The truth that the human consciousness may want to awaken to is likely to be a matter of imagination—to awaken to the vastness of what is contained in the consciousness of the son or the daughter of God. But the human consciousness has just so much capacity, which should not be made available for extraneous and useless information. It simply provides the facility for what needs to be known now. It doesn’t even provide this, for the most part, in most people; it’s so busily occupied with a lot of extraneous and useless information, besides milling around in circles by reason of emotional stimulation. What immense waste there is of this marvelous facility, which is useful only to the extent that it is occupied by the immediate expression of the son or the daughter of God. If there begins to be this experience and the human consciousness then says, “Well wait a minute; I’d like to know more about this or that,” a separation instantly occurs, the blind is drawn, the darkness falls, and it’s right back where it started. But if there is a willingness to receive what is necessary in the moment then there is always present what is necessary in the moment.
Presently, what comes to a rather fuzzy focus in human consciousness as a rule is produced by what is happening in the environment. This has always seemed to be the matter of supreme importance to human consciousness. We know differently. What is of supreme importance is the expression of spirit, which should occupy the available capacity of the human consciousness. Only as there is an exhibited willingness on the part of the human consciousness for this to occur will it occur, but when it starts to occur, as it has in your experience, then the action of the spirit comes directly into the picture. This action is quite capable of carrying forward what needs to be achieved in the human consciousness which is now being made available.
To start with it is quite possible for the human consciousness to withdraw its cooperation. After a certain point in this process that is no longer possible, and when it is no longer possible the spirit has a free hand, the son or the daughter of God has a free hand, to create what is necessary by reason of that consciousness. This is not to say that there will not still be present in that consciousness things of the old state. From the standpoint of the son or the daughter of God it is necessary that there should be, because it is not a self-centered matter from that standpoint. The son or the daughter of God is not interested in somehow cleaning up the act of the human consciousness of that particular individual all on its own. The intent is that the angels, the sons and the daughters of God, should be sent forth. How are they sent forth? Through human consciousness. It’s the only way. The human consciousness, however, must be willing for that to be forthcoming, and if there is the attitude in that consciousness of trying to determine what it is that should be coming forth, nothing can happen of any creative moment. There has been this tendency: “Well I want to know. Tell me this. Answer my questions, and if you give satisfactory answers, then I’ll hear some more. If not, then I’m going to continue in the way I’ve always gone.”
The angels of the Lord are patient and understanding; they are well aware of the human tendencies. Time and opportunity is given to the individual human consciousness to reach a point where all that nonsense might cease. If it doesn’t, the human consciousness goes its own way, and we know where that lands up; but as this facility is made available the action of the son or the daughter of God comes forth. It comes forth through the yielded consciousness, no matter in what state that consciousness still may be. So the son or the daughter of God makes use of what is available in that regard. As this use is made, the human consciousness becomes more assured that it doesn’t need to know all that it thought it did need to know; and there is generated a sense of assurance that what is needful will be forthcoming.
We don’t need to know everything but we have the absolute assurance that it is known, and what needs to be known in the moment will be known by the human consciousness because it is known by the son or the daughter of God. The knowing is then present, but the human consciousness may still have some idea as to what that knowing should be. It says, “Well I need to know this in this situation and I don’t know it.” The human consciousness must come to a point of trust. If something is not known, it doesn't need to be known. What needs to be known will be known and is known. It is in the hands of the son or the daughter of God, not in the hands of the human consciousness. It can’t determine what should be the experience of the moment. Something is being experienced. Accept it. That’s what it is.
This human consciousness is the facility for the right use of the son or the daughter of God. That right use is describable in general terms as the bringing of the kingdom, the kingdom which makes possible what we have called restoration. There was a statement made, according to the translation in the Bible at least, when the Master was speaking to His disciples: “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” It is the Father’s good pleasure to give the kingdom, but how? By reason of the presence of the sons and the daughters of God who have available human consciousness through which to give it. The human consciousness can’t give it. It doesn’t know what the kingdom is. The right word is: “I of myself, in human consciousness, can do nothing.” The human consciousness tries to do many things all on its own. It all ends up as nothing. That’s the observable fact of the matter, the experienceable fact of the matter, if one persists in imagining that nothing is something. The human consciousness is incapable of doing anything of itself. It deludes itself into thinking it is doing something, but finally it is proven out, in the awareness of others at least, that it could do nothing. But the angel of God, the son or the daughter of God, is present. The only way that the son or the daughter of God can come forth is through the individual human consciousness.
I may be able to speak of these things and you may be able to hear what I say, and you may, in human consciousness, be able to agree; but the agreement is really between angels. Rightly the human consciousness comes along. It does not establish the agreement but it may experience the agreement. The agreement already is between angels. That agreement is what permits the kingdom to come. The angels have the responsibility for the coming of the kingdom. What is happening on earth, what claims so much interest and concern on the part of the human consciousness, is in this sense of little moment. The coming of the kingdom is the sole concern. This is not to say that there may not be an awareness of what is happening in the external sense, but there is no idea that what is happening in this external sense can in any way prevent the coming of the kingdom. It is not a matter, for instance, of manipulating anyone to make sure that they are willing that the kingdom should come. It doesn’t matter whether anybody is willing or not. It’s going to come when there are the angels present, sent forth, through the human consciousness which is adequately capable of encompassing what is being sent forth. That will be adequate when the sole concern of the human consciousness is for what is coming forth, because what is coming forth, the kingdom that is coming, will determine, on the basis of human reaction of course, the nature of the events.
The events follow. We begin to have a new orientation in this regard then. We’re not staring out into the world, wondering what the next event is going to be, as though that event was going to precede what we ourselves know. The event is a result, a result from our standpoint as angels, of the coming of the kingdom. That event may take a number of different forms. We may observe the forms with our eyes, may be aware of them in human consciousness, but we see them as results of the coming of the kingdom; not as anything of themselves, not as carrying any great significance, except, as the days go by, in various ways the fact of the coming of the kingdom may become more apparent by reason of the reflection of events. But there again, let not the human consciousness judge, saying to itself and maybe to others, “If the kingdom is coming it should be this way or it should be that way.” Because it is indicated by the event to be a certain way, do not take the attitude that it shouldn’t be that way. It should be that way! It should be that way if we are assuming our responsibility as sons and daughters of God, and we have the absolute assurance in this regard in human consciousness, not because human consciousness knows all the ins and outs of it—it doesn’t need to. All that needs to be known is what is necessary for the coming of the kingdom now in one’s own expression by reason of human consciousness.
If the question is asked then, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” the human consciousness doesn’t say, “Well tell me,” because the human consciousness wasn’t anyplace then, this particular one at least—but there is a sensing of the fact, “I was there,” to the extent that the son or the daughter of God is coming forth in the bringing of the kingdom. It’s all part of the same creative process. If we participate in it now, we participated in it then as sons and daughters of God when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The human consciousness has a sense of awareness of this, not according to the customary attempt to get all the details filled in—just content to encompass what it is that is coming forth of the spirit of God in action by reason of the son or the daughter of God.
Do you imagine that it would be in any way useful for the son or the daughter of God to down tools, in order to explain what occurred whenever, far, far in the distant past when the foundations of this earth were laid? What use would it be now? What is useful now is the laying of the foundations of the earth that is to be here. We’re on hand; the human consciousness knows that; it can agree, “I am here.” And if I am here it is known that I am here in this way, because I share the awareness of the son or the daughter of God who I am. If I have this awareness of being present in human consciousness as a part of this creative process now, then what causes human consciousness to be aware of this was also present at any other creative beginning or creative ending anywhere else in the unfolding cycles of creation in the universe.
Certainly the intent of the son or the daughter of God is not to boost the self-importance of the human consciousness by imparting some wonderful information that will make it feel so superior to everybody else. There’s absolutely no purpose to such an undertaking, so it’s not done. We know in human consciousness what we need to know in the moment, as there is a clarity in human consciousness; that is, the consciousness of the angel who one is, experienced in human consciousness now in this moment, for whatever, the purpose is of this moment. That’s all that is necessary. That’s the only reason the human consciousness is there. We see how human consciousnesses have been trying to spread themselves out into the past and into the future, trying to understand what happened and what will happen, thereby removing themselves from the only place by which they might know what is happening. That place is here and now.
So, coming to this point, we know one frame of the ongoing movie—that’s sufficient. Another frame will come; they keep coming, and from the standpoint of the angel who we are we’ve lots of time. From that standpoint also, everything is under control. “The truth is true and all is well, unconquerable life prevails.” There is that assurance—excluded from most human consciousnesses because they are not available to include the consciousness of the truth. They are filled up with all kinds of irrelevant information, and a lot of human effort is given into trying to make what is entirely irrelevant somehow relevant. If it’s irrelevant it’s irrelevant. Leave it that way. Here is the basis for an absolute knowing. The absolute knowing of the truth in the moment is not based in the manipulations of the human intellect. It is simply there in human consciousness by reason of the yielding of that consciousness to the one who knows, and the one who knows doesn’t explain it all to the human consciousness. That would just fill up the human consciousness with a lot of absolutely useless information, thereby blocking the real reason for the presence of the angel, which is to bring the kingdom in the moment. So the action of God may be defined as angelic action, the action of the sons and the daughters of God. This is Jehovah.
We are interested that God should say what needs to be said now, that the word should be spoken, the creative action taken, the kingdom given. God restores the world. Wonderful. But how? Because His angels are present and do what is required for this to be achieved. That doing is always in the present moment. There is no other moment for the doing. There is no other moment for the living. Here is the action of God now, the action which makes use of human consciousness to bring the kingdom now. We become aware of what is needful in this creative action now. Speculation about creative action that may or may not have occurred in the past is a waste of time. We can be fully occupied with the requirements of now, and when we are, there is an absolute knowing of the truth.
The truth is not equated anymore with the ideas and the opinions of the human intellect separate from the angel. We do not in human consciousness have to have it all laid out so that the human consciousness may say, “Well I see that now, and I’m willing to agree; isn’t that nice of me?” That’s a stinking human ego, isn’t it? All the human consciousness needs to do is to let go, yield, to know the truth. This concept, which has been so current, that one can discover what the truth is by piling intellectual ideas upon intellectual ideas is childish nonsense. The truth is present, the angel is present, and only in the coming forth into the human consciousness of the angel is the truth known, and the angel’s action always relates to that moment of coming forth, which is always the present moment. As there comes in human consciousness increased experience of this, then there is increased assurance of it, the assurance which could say very easily with respect to the foundations of the earth, “I was there,” not because the human consciousness knows anything about it but because the angel is present who was there. The human consciousness simply provides the facility for the word of the angel, and it doesn’t have to know for itself all the ins and outs. If it is true that the angel was there, then the angel speaks in human consciousness and says, “I was there.” The human consciousness then has the opportunity to let it come out in words perhaps, certainly in a sensing of something, but at that point it is quite acceptable and it doesn’t have to pause and begin to say, “Well now you’ve got to make me understand all this.” That is reverting again into the old state.
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
That was a statement expressed through the human consciousness of the One called Jesus. Do you suppose that human consciousness knew all about it, or was it so yielded that it allowed the expression of the Son of God, the expression of the truth? Mind you, other human consciousnesses will tend to object, to argue, as they did with Jesus: “That’s blasphemy: that can’t be so. How do you know?” Having come clear in one’s own human consciousness of all those sort of questions, then that human consciousness, being present in the situation, is ready to allow whatever the expression of the son or the daughter of God is to take form.
We note how easily Jesus was able to handle all that was thrown at Him. He didn’t make a big deal out of it. It was easily handled. It was handled in the moment. I suppose this could be said to be a great secret. It remains a secret until there is sufficient yielding of human consciousness so that the angel of the Lord becomes known to that human consciousness, and when the angel of the Lord becomes known the knowing is in terms of, “This is me.” It is not known in terms of, “Well I’m a human consciousness over here, and the angel of the Lord is going to come.” It doesn’t work that way, because the truth is that there is only One. There would be no human consciousness if it were not for the angel of the Lord. So why should there be any fear? There is, isn’t there, the fear of the human consciousness being caught naked, without an opinion. You may recall that the original state was a state of being naked and unashamed, not having all this vast array of intellectual knowledge but having nothing of itself as a human consciousness, and thereby having everything. That’s the only way it can happen.
It may be said that it is a complete reversal of the human nature attitude, and the way human beings go to try to make themselves wise in their own eyes and the eyes of others. They never get to be wise that way. The human consciousness gets to be wise when it becomes what it really is, nothing of itself. Then it may be everything from the standpoint of God. The angel comes forth bringing the kingdom, and there is absolute assurance on earth, in the human consciousness of those who are letting it happen, that all is well, unconquerable life prevails. This is the truth which is known, because there is no attempt to try to fit the angel into the confines of the structures of human consciousness. When there is emptiness in that sense in human consciousness there is a filling, and there is the experience of freedom. Freedom comes when the human consciousness knows that of itself it is nothing, knows that of itself it could never know anything. No matter how much human knowledge it might glean, it still is nothing; but in that state of nothingness the everythingness of the angel comes forth and is known now, in the eternal now. Because now is eternal, there is plenty of time for the knowing of everything. We share this experience to the extent that the angel is permitted to come forth; then we know ourselves, moment by moment, once more on earth.
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