Innocence Openness Clarity
from I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills
Martin Exeter January 13, 1986
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalm 121
This particular Psalm has been read by countless people over the centuries and, while it may have seemed to be poetic and consequently must mean something, there has been virtually no understanding. These words can be brought to life and are easily understood by all whose hearts are open and whose minds are still. “Going out and coming in” is obviously a process familiar to everyone. Constantly people are going out and others are coming in. We can look at it from the standpoint of the earth—people dying and being born—or we can look at it from the standpoint of heaven: coming into the earth and, in season, leaving the earth, returning to heaven. In order for this to happen in a constructive way, insofar as human beings are concerned in their present state, death is the way by which rubbish is dissolved. If the rubbish was dissolved while the person was living, during the person’s lifetime, then there would be no need for death.
Part of that dissolution could occur in sleep. What occurs in sleep is very much dependent upon what occurs when one is awake. If the eyes have been lifted “unto the hills” and there is a steadfast maintenance of conscious awareness in heaven, then something very constructive can occur in sleep. If the conscious mind has been going up and down during the day, to and fro, then very little is achieved in sleep; there is a tendency to keep going downhill; the restoration isn’t occurring. Only when the eyes are lifted unto the hills and kept there can there be the process in effect which dissolves the crust in the subconscious mind, and sleeping can be part of the means by which dissolution occurs. It doesn’t only occur when one is asleep; it occurs when one is awake too, because everything that comes, requiring in the old mode some sort of subjection to the subconscious compulsions out of the past, may be met and handled without becoming subject. So that is part of the process of purification by which the heart is purified. And when the heart is purified, there is no need for death to get the job done. Very simple.
Of course we have to see this in terms of the body of mankind, not just from the individual standpoint. It needs to occur from the standpoint of the whole and is so occurring to the extent that there is a point of conscious understanding present on earth through that focus which is provided by those whose individual minds have been lifted to the hills and kept there. If there are those on earth, then there begins to be a conscious mind present in heaven for the whole of humanity. And it is this being “stayed on the Lord,” as it was put, that permits all the things that are present in the subconscious of mankind to be easily dealt with, both while one is awake and while one is asleep if one is a part of that focus of the conscious mind for the rest of humanity.
Individually speaking, that focus of the conscious mind is a very small point. All that is necessary is to keep that small point lifted to the hills and let it be stayed there, so that it doesn’t come down and become subject again to the rantings and ravings of this impure subconscious state. We acknowledge that that impure state is there, because nobody has allowed it to be dealt with yet. But the process proceeds once there are those who maintain their centering in heaven consciously. It is a deliberate thing: I will. “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” Because the help comes from above, as long as one keeps one’s eyes unto the hills one is flooded with help, flooded with all that is necessary to permit what is required to be done.
When you scale to a high place, perhaps up the side of a steep mountain, it is advisable not to look down, because if you look down you tend to go down. Well this works too from the standpoint of the conscious mind and this impure subconscious. Don’t pay attention to it! There is no need to indulge oneself, as Jacob did, in wrestling with the angel. There is no need to wrestle unless one is trying to sustain one’s downward view and say, “Well this is justified; look at what’s happening, look at what’s coming to me!” No, look at the hills! And there is the basis then for clarification, so that the dissolution of the subconscious crust may proceed. And this has been thought of as being a great tremendous thing: “After all, human beings have been living on earth and piling these things into the subconscious for millennia! How are we ever going to get rid of this vast mass?” But it isn’t a vast mass, really, because it is repetitive; it is something that has been happening over and over and over again—exactly the same things!
So we begin to find out that there is not an immense pile of manure to be shovelled away, and it would take the rest of our lives to do it, because you deal with whatever needs to be dealt with; and that won’t repeat. And pretty soon you’ve got all the things that have seemed to be so much because they were so repetitive, dissipated, gone. Then there is no longer the false view that one is really struggling with something tremendous and it takes so much sweat of the brow. Well, sweat of the brow won’t do it. Just look up! That’s easier. Keep the eyes where they belong—unto the hills; and what is needful then happens: “My help cometh from the LORD.” That opens the door for that to happen and the dissolution in the subconscious proceeds; one is no longer accepting those impurities as a basis for one’s thoughts and feelings.
Innocence. Openness. Clarity.
And pretty soon there is a sea of glass clear as crystal. The crust in the subconscious is dissolved, and there is the pure water of truth. So we participate easily in this creative process. How clearly this was conveyed through use of this particular Psalm. But such use can never be made until one knows the truth. People who do not know the truth read the words but they have no faintest idea as to what it is they mean. We share the meaning, we understand, we are stayed upon the Lord, and all is easily and naturally fulfilled.
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