The Creative Command of the Word

The  Creative  Command  of  the  Word

Answer  Thou  Me!

Martin Cecil   August 6, 1979   Assembly

The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. Presumably there's a larger awareness of what the fulness is. There is a very great deal declared to us by the forms which we may observe round about, so that it is easy to reawaken to the Lord, the Owner, to the essences that are present and permeating all that is observable in form, and permeating much more that is not observable in form. We rejoice in the beauty of creation, the natural rhythms and music of creation, but we rejoice even more in the Creator. None of these observable things would be possible or exist except for the Creator.

Because our delight is in the Lord our delight is in the essences of creative action. Our natural experience is defined by the words “I and my Father are One.” We are, in truth, not separated at all from the creative action. That creative action has been described by the Word, the Word that is God, the Word that is with God, the Word by which all things are. Our responsibility in this moment is a creative one in this sense. We do not merely look at the creation which comes within the range of our observation as though we were merely an observer. This has been the attitude that has tended to be taken by the human mind. It sets itself apart from everything that is going on and takes the position of observer, when the human mind is a part of what's going on. It only deludes itself if it tries to set itself apart as an observer so that the observations become delusions.

Creator and creation are One. We share in the creative process. We are aware of what occurs by reason of that process because we are not separate from the occurrance. If we speak of Creator and creation it always seems to the human mind to be two things. The fact of the matter is that neither one exists without the other, and so there is a close experience of Oneness, which at the sametime is wholeness. Creation separate from the Creator is not whole. Creator separate from the creation is not whole. In ourselves we find a dual experience in this sense, of Creator and creation, but it is this that allows for the experience of oneness and fulness. “I and my Father are One.” I am.

When the Master was speaking to Nicodemus he was conveying something to that rather restricted consciousness—not uncommon of course in human experience—but there was evidently very little comprehension of what it was that was being offered. Because of the restrictions in consciousness it was being interpreted in a way that made it more or less senseless. Now this is done by human minds: something which is easily understood is rendered senseless by the manipulative interpretations of the human mind. Nicodemus more or less admitted that he didn't understand what was being said although he sensed that there was something being said. The Master's words, as they are recorded here, are contained in the third chapter of John, the tenth and eleventh verses: “Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.” In this instance Nicodemus was receiving the witness; he was not undertanding or comprehending what was being offered, not on a deliberate basis. Presumably he came to the Master in order to gain understanding but he was in no position to receive it because of his restricted and structured state of consciousness, very largely because it was imbedded in the Jewish tradition but also because it was merely human nature consciousness.

Our concern is to, as it is put here, “...speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.” Well of course we can't do that unless we know and have seen. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”—a nice expectation for many people. They diligently try to find out what the truth is, ignoring what went before that statement concerning continuing in the Word. “If ye continue in my word” then this will be the experience. We know the truth on that basis. We cannot find out what the truth is. We see clearly enough, surely, the futility of trying to extract the truth from reading the literature of mankind. Why? Well it isn't there. Great sounding words sometimes. There is a feeling that there must be something there: “If only I could just uncover it!”

We know the truth because we continue in the Word. To continue in the Word indicates an appreciation of the Word, to the extent that we now hear it, and because of that appreciation we stay with it. We do not separate ourselves from it in our living. We do not revert into this state where memory is lost once more. The Word, the Tone, is sounding. We have been provided with a very particular connection to that sounding—we have that connection already present with us—and it is then in our speaking, in our acting, in our thinking, in our feeling, that we experience the reality of that Tone. We continue in the Word. This is the same as saying, “We abide in His name,” but if we know what that statement means we can't just mouth the prayer, as some Christians do, and then add a little passage at the end to make it effective: “In His name we ask it.” Well nobody is in His name—what are they asking? When we are in His name we do some asking all right: something along the lines of, “I will demand of thee, and answer thou of me.” Everything that is brought to us, is to be put to the question. It is on the basis of this question that an answer will be offered to us. According to that answer so will the effect be.

Here we begin to see the reality of the creative command, which is immediately present with all circumstances as soon as there is One present who issues the command, which is the asking of a question. That was a command that the Lord asked of Adam and Eve—“Where art thou?”—thought of as a question, but it was really a command. The wrong answer was given but the command had been issued so the effect of the wrong answer was reflected upon those who gave it. The Lord always provides, in the creative process, a question which may be answered one of two ways: I suppose, basically, Yes or No. He's not imposing anything on anyone; He simply asks the question. Let the answer be given. And according as the answer is given so do the results appear. Of course because human beings are accustomed to giving the wrong answer the results that appear are not so pleasing, and so it seems advisable to complain about it to start with, and try to change it thereafter, try to make it more acceptable. Now everybody is at least two steps away from the original question. They've forgotten the original question and the answer that was given. But now that the results have come, “How are we going to handle this?” And so the means of salvation is blotted out of consciousness.

Everybody is now busy trying to deal with the result of the wrong answer. Well nobody had to give the wrong answer—it was human choice, and along the way we have participated in that choice. But now we have begun to back up sufficiently to begin to re-hear the question, so that we stop struggling with the effects of giving the wrong answer and come back to the point where we can hear the question again. Maybe we can give the right answer this time. If we give the right answer then the effects are according to that answer. But you can easily see, not just theoretically, that the Lord doesn't impose anything on anyone. It's all based in a question. And fundamentally, if we are one in this creative process, our attitude is summarized in this matter of posing the question. Emissaries have not really seen this for the most part so that they have assumed that a creative command would be imposing something.

One might say to the ignoramuses with whom we are associated, “You must respond to me. I will give you the answer.” That isn't the way it works. Fundamentally it is, “You give me the answer, and I will abide by your answer.” Now sometimes the answer that people give is a surface answer, when there is something else underneath, and we need to know when we can do what is necessary to set aside that wrong surface answer in order to encourage the bringing forth from underneath, the right answer. There are those who just give the wrong answer and that's that. All right, that's up to them. But our concern is primarily with those who may seem to give the wrong answer, but we don't take it at face value because there is a sensing of something back of that answer. In other words the answer that is given, while it may seem very assured at the moment is recognized as being quite thin, and there is something present in that person which is capable of giving the right answer.

There are those who give the apparent right answer, who are really giving the wrong answer. We need to be able to discern that too. But my interest is to emphasize the point that, participating in the creative process, we issue the creative command. The creative command is “Answer thou me.” We leave it up to people to give the answer; we're not going to impose the answer upon them. We know that according to the answer so will the effects be in their experience, but they must give the answer. And it is a creative command because the results will inevitably appear according to the answer that is given. There's no question about that. We don't have to dig up some great spiritual power somewhere and zap people with a creative command. People zap themselves according to the answer that they give to the creative command, but there must be someone on hand who is capable of giving the creative command, which fundamentally is:

Answer  Thou  Me!

In order for a person to hear that command, “Answer thou me,” the right answer must be clearly in evidence in one's own expression. We're not wading into the world in some fashion—it wouldn't be possible anyway in this way—and demanding answers to a question when there is no provision at all as to what the right answer might be. We must reveal what the right answer is so that everyone is left without excuse in giving whatever answer they do give. People tend to be very blind, even when the truth is standing right in front of them, as the truth was standing right in front of Pilot for instance, long ago. They still say, “What is truth?” They're dumb and blind and stupid. That’s human nature all over. It thinks of itself as being so clever. However those who are awakening are the ones to whom the question is particularly posed. We're in no position to go out into the world in general and pose the question “Answer thou me.” How would we do it yet? There are ways by which we are enabled to issue this command increasingly and we need to develop these ways by which the command may be issued.

The command is issued because we speak the Word, because in our living the Word is present and in action—the Tone is sounding. The Tone is sounding so that those who have ears to hear can hear it. As we have seen before there is the need to amplify that Tone because it is being sounded in the lives of those concerned more totally and also because there are more sounding it in their lives. Then it becomes louder and people begin to hear the last trump. That's what it is—at least that's what it has been called. It needs to become a mighty blast which people on earth can't avoid hearing. It isn't that yet, obviously. People are still wallowing in their human nature, with their ears stopped with mud, chiefly with raucous sound.

So if we are to speak what we know we can only do it to the extent that we continue in the Word. And we speak also what we have seen because there is Light. The essential light must be present which makes it possible for others to see, at least see when they're in our vicinity. If a person begins to see while they're in our vicinity and then loses the vision going out he may remember that he saw when he was in your vicinity and come back in order to see again. Perhaps this time he'll stay long enough for you to convey the understanding that in order for him to see, no matter where he is, his own light must illuminate the area of observation so that, go where he will the light goes with him. Now we can't force people to hear and see but we can provide the means by which they may hear and see, if they have ears to hear and eyes to see. The brighter the Light that is shining the more likely a person is to see.

Now you'll note that there was knowing and seeing mentioned here, relating to the Word and the Light, and you recognize that this is initiating a creative cycle, isn't it? “And God said”—the Word—“let there be light.” Now this relates to our responsibility for the initiation of creative cycles in our living in this fashion. Of course the creative cycle doesn't stop there but it must begin there to go anywhere else. So we are concerned with this particular pulsation in the creative cycles which is summarized by knowing and seeing, but the knowing and seeing now applies to us. We speak that we do know and testify that we have seen. The testifying is in our living—the light shines round about. The light is consequent upon our living.

So we share this responsibility in the creative process. These creative processes relate to essences. We ourselves become increasingly alert to essences and less concerned with forms. Generally speaking with those who are beginning to awaken there is the necessity of providing certain forms for them to look at so that they may awaken some more to the fact that there are some essences behind those forms. But once there begins to be an awareness of the essences we don't need the forms to tell us of the essences. Now it may be intriguing and interesting to examine forms. There was something done in this regard with respect to the earth by John Waskom (https://newlydawningday.blogspot.com/2019/02/dr.html) which certainly indicates that there is something more to the earth than is usually supposed. Here is a living form. If it's a living form then there is life associated, and here we begin to touch the essence—the essence which is of primary importance to us. The earth may be said to be a living form in its own right but it is also a part of a larger living form, and it has life in its own right because it is part of a larger living form. That larger living form we could say is the solar system, but then the solar system itself is part of something larger still, and the life of the solar system is not an isolated phenomena but is there because of the fact of life in the larger form. We could refer to that as the galaxy, and so we go. And there are constantly larger forms in which life is, and the life of the smaller entities emerge out of the life of the larger, to some extent at least—and the life that is manifesting through me, that comes from God.

Well of course that still indicates the state of separation in our own consciousness; but we are inclined to think of our expression of life in terms of the individual state first, when actually the expression of life in terms of the individual state, what we now experience individually, is the last experience of life. It's the most peripheral aspect of it. The Father and I are One. In other words there's something much bigger and our life individually speaking is not separate from that much bigger manifestation of life, so that our consciousness begins to change from this little narrow restricted individual thing here to an awareness of something vast. That something vast is summarized by the words, My Father and I are One. There's no separation from that vastness. There is no way by which the human mind could encompass that vastness—it can't encompass life anyway.

But here is life. We might say, here is God. Life is an aspect of the character of God, and God is not restricted either to the earth or to our little individual forms. We know this in theory but we still tend to have a very restricted outlook individually speaking. We rightly step back, as it were; we have to step back quite a ways to sense our Oneness with the statement, “I and my Father are One.” This was a statement that has come down to us in the record, made by Jesus—we recognize, here, the Son of God or the Focus of Deity, relative to this whole world, including the earth. There's a largeness and our experience as Sons and Daughters of God is contained in that largeness. We can't lift ourselves out of that largeness as an individual and plunk ourselves down here and say now, “I'm going to do something.” I myself can do nothing. Anything we can do we do only because of that largeness. Now we do not necessarily have to go any further back than the largeness of life which relates to this earth because our responsibility collectively is here. But we need to have a consciousness of this so that we are not restricted in our outlook to the little slice of the pie for which we seem to be personally responsible. We don’t think of it as a slice of the pie—in other words, not cut out of the pie—here we are with our slice, we'll take care of this as individuals. No! There's a pie to be taken care of and we do not in fact slice it up. It is one pie, and it needs to be left as one pie. Here is Oneness and wholeness again.

So we begin to share in a consciousness which is capable of encompassing the pie, and we do not extract ourselves from that consciousness and say, “Well all I'm capable of is just encompassing this little slice I have here.” You don't have it here in actual fact except in imagination unless you are aware of the whole pie. Our individual fields of responsibility are not separate from the whole pie. We can't cut them out from the whole pie, and we can't isolate ourselves therefore in handling our responsibilities as there has tended to be an inclination to do when someone has accepted what they deemed to be a spiritual responsibility in the Emissary ministry: “This is my responsibility now. Don't you encroach on this.” If nobody encroaches on what you assume to be your responsibility your responsibility simply vanishes away. It isn't there anymore.

In the statement, “I and my Father are One”, we are proclaiming that we are One. We participate in one wholeness of consciousness and it will come to focus in specific action relative to each one, but what comes to focus in the action, in the word that is spoken, in the thought that is moving through the mind, and the feeling that is moving through the heart, this springs from the whole. It isn't an individual thing and we need to have this awareness. I'm sure that you have been becoming more aware in this regard, although probably in rather structured terms. But you cannot function as an isolated entity. “Well therefore I've got to nudge up against somebody else.” Well it isn't anybody else. Who are the else? “I and my Father are One.” Now the human mind can't grasp this. Of course not! It wasn't intended to grasp it. It has no business trying to grasp it. All it does is to get itself into a state of utter confusion by trying to grasp it. That is why there has been so much confusion and contradiction and argument and conflict—trying to grasp all this and get it down to where they could see what it was with their minds. “Now I understand it.” But we need to get away from the idea that we only understand something because we've grasped it with our minds. That’s when we lose understanding, that's when we squeeze out the understanding. When we grasp something we squeeze it, and if it's a sponge we squeeze all the water out of it, all the truth out of it. We have a dry sponge. That's the result of trying to grasp things. Here is a flow, here is a movement. It must clear at the core if it's going to clear beyond. There is something moving.

If there is movement in the current of the spirit, the expression of the Word, obviously a love of doing what is being done with a minimum of prior structures to encase it, then there is a natural pouring forth, and this will carry the current of the spirit. We are not separate from our world. Creator and creation are One. Therefore, logically, you could see that if you create something as the expression of the Word, and Creator and creation are One, then what you created carries that Word—so that that goes wherever it goes. Do you not think that that will have an effect? If it is a true creation it will. That carries something forth. If we see this with respect to what is now beginning to move with increasing intensity, then obviously if we are concerned with this creative process we will welcome that movement—and however we can open ourselves to let it be enhanced, and to pour forth in greater abundance—and we'll stop having structured views as though it's a little thing on the side that isn't really that important. The main business is to allow the flow of the creative spirit of the living God to reach wherever it will go. And there are ways by which this may be done which most of us haven't even thought of yet; and if we try to box it into little structures we're defeated right from the start.

I'm sure that we're all very much aware that there are restrictions in our own individual states of consciousness. There are restrictions therefor in our whole program. We're not saying that there's anything wrong that these restrictions are there. We need to accept the fact of them, but let us for heaven's sake not sit down and say “Well now we know what is required,” when it hasn't even been glimpsed yet. We do things in order to allow the expansion to occur, opening up a means of release for the creative spirit of the living God, for the Word to begin to resound on earth by this means—and there is something which connects right through to the core, and in this way the world is transformed. In every field it is so. In order for this to happen there needs to be an outpouring of the spirit; there is an outpouring out of the Word, the outpouring of life. “I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” Basically this is the reason that I am come—and who are you? So there is something to pour forth.

There needs to be a symbol in the core, and there needs to be something back of that of course. We have what now is called the Supreme Council, for instance, which is a very little thing, which serves the purpose now. I'm sure that there will be more, much more, to what we might call the Supreme Council than is now in evidence and we will see what emerges on the basis of the movement of the spirit. But anything that is done is designed to initiate these creative cycles, so that we speak that we do know and testify that we have seen. That needs to emerge out of the core of things and be differentiated through the facility which is available, dealing with the essences which are moving out. This doesn't mean that there's a scattering abroad and everybody gets isolated out somewhere doing their thing. No. My Father and I are One. There's a whole, there's One thing. But it seems to take a little time for human consciousness to be in position to allow this understanding to be experienced—to flow through. When it is then we begin to be in position to reach out. There needs to be a movement out to where the action is. There is a close-in outpouring of the spirit, but it doesn't stop there. It needs to move on out and there needs to be a means by which it can move on out—people who go out there and begin to assume responsibility, and if there is someone who is capable spiritually in any situation he will become the leader in that situation. If we have people fiddling around in their little world, just sitting there, there's something terribly wrong. It wouldn't be possible for a true Emissary to be restricted in that fashion. The expansion would come. A creative expression of spirit is expansive and the question is asked and an answer is given. On the basis of the answers that are given things begin to move, but if we never ask the question because we are never in position to do so, well what use are we? A creative command needs to be spoken in the world and we're here to do it

To the Glory of God

We may have a consciousness of the fact that we have much greater stature than has yet been revealed. We need to be humble in that way. But something has happened, and in considering these things we need to see this in relationship to the overall picture and to many, many people. We provide a focus here that something may extend on out in blessing and creative action to many, posing the question to many. We rejoice in the creative action that immediately becomes possible when we know and see because we express the Word—continue in the Word, and let the Light shine. Then we find ourselves instantly living in a world we didn't know was there before.

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