Be still, and know that I am present, heretofore obscured behind the veil of human self-preoccupation. We are, I am sure with many others, increasingly aware of what might well be called an approaching cataclysm in the realm of form. The full impact of this has not yet come. But it is coming, and there are many who are already affected by it. There are those, of course, who continue to go about their daily affairs in much the same way as they have always done. Yet behind everything there is this increasing sense of doom. We understand this. We are no stranger to it in our own experience. But we are aware of another drumbeat. This new drumbeat may seem to be faint to start with, but the reverberation of it increases as we are willing to move with it. There are many, many people who do not know how to move with it, even if they discern it a little. We have come on earth in such a way, through all the vicissitudes of our lives, to the point of awareness, so that this impending cataclysm ceases to be cause for fear. “Fear not” has been an instruction that has been repeated in the scriptures of many peoples. Fear not. Let not your heart be troubled. Be still, and know that I am present, not merely present in the form of somebody else but present in this form, for each one. Be still, and know that I am present. Fear not. Let the heart be untroubled.
We have many things to do day by day, which we need to do well. We need to be trustworthy in this sense, but we are well aware that this is quite superficial. It is something that needs to be done in the world the way it is and in our association with others the way they are, but always there is a transcendent awareness that there is something much larger occurring by reason of one’s own presence on earth, simply because I am present. In the human sense we do not really need to know all the ramifications that this fact engenders. What is engendered, of which we naturally become aware, is the power and the control which is present simply because I am present. We learn never to deny that. We deny it when we become fearful. Whenever we become fearful we deny the One I am and we start to sink. And that engenders more fear. It has been the custom of human beings down through the ages in such circumstances to call upon the name of the Lord. Generally speaking, human beings have functioned in their self-preoccupation on this basis, that if things got too bad they could always call upon the name of the Lord: “Help me, lest I perish.”
I am present. Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, in that great creative power that is back of all things; believe also in the One I am. Receive that; accept that. Fear not. So we begin to find this place of stillness. It is a place of safety. It isn’t a place to escape to. It is a place where we already are. It is necessary to acknowledge the fact, that we may know that I am present in that place. And as we abide in this sanctuary [https://greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-martin-cecil-july-12-1987-we-are.html] where we belong, where the reality of our being is already, no longer so obscured by human self-preoccupation, then fear begins to dissolve. The fear has been the fear of the dissolution of this self so humanly preoccupied. But that is what needs to happen, that it should be dissolved. All human problems would be dissolved instantly if this human character on the face of the earth was dissolved. Problems, difficulties, turmoil—all this would simply vanish, because it only exists because it is maintained in human consciousness.
We have a purpose. We are here present because of that; and we still have an excuse for being present, to the extent that we have recognized the purpose—not only recognized it but accepted the responsibility of it. Then we stand where we belong, in this generation of vibrational substance by which the Ark may be built. For some time it has been a-building. Nobody is aware of what the blueprints are. The trouble has been that those who have been associated with the building of this Ark have tended to imagine that they knew how it should be, and they have looked around and said, “Well it shouldn’t be that way.” Generally speaking they are much more able to see how it shouldn’t be than how it should be. Obviously we can’t see how it should be until it is as it should be. Then, there it is. There is a design. There is the power by which this design works when we stop interfering with it. We have sensed this, I’m sure.
There is indeed a much greater willingness in these days on the part of many of those who have been participating in the generation of the necessary substance for the building of the Ark, a much greater awareness that it works and that we do not have to manipulate it. We do not have to manipulate each other, or try to make anything be because we think it ought to be that way. We’re much more willing to let things be the way they are. That is the course of intelligence. Let things be the way they are. Release them from our grasp so that they may move in their natural, creative rhythms. They will move to this new drumbeat. Everything is moving to that drumbeat, except within the range where human beings are and can exert an influence to keep it from moving with the drumbeat. It has always been assumed that it is a very difficult business to participate in the creative process. The difficult business is to prevent oneself from participating in the creative process. And human beings, generally, have become expert at resisting the movement of the creative process, at blotting out the drumbeat, because they have established in their own consciousness other drumbeats that have been habitually followed.
We are all aware of how seemingly strong the human habit is. There is only one way by which the human habit can be dissolved, whatever it is—and it isn’t just one habit, is it? It is the whole mass. The only way this can be dissolved is by the power of Love, because there is Love Supreme to move with the Creative Drumbeat, because there is Love for the One I am, whose drumbeat it is. Love is the power by which creation occurs. We have all had experience of other spirits as we’ve come along the way, spirits other than Love—and we have accommodated them. Usually we accommodate destructive spirits simply because we can rationalize to ourselves that we are justified in doing it. We’ve been accustomed to justifying ourselves and accommodating such spirits in ourselves.
We surely come to the point where once again we may be willing to be still. Be still, and know that I am present. If I am present my spirit is present, the quality of my spirit is present, and this permits me to generate substance. Because I am present here in a flesh body the substance is generated by reason of this for the fuller accommodation of my spirit. It is the radiance of spirit that engenders the generation of the substance for the increased radiance of spirit. That is very satisfactory. It is compound interest, isn’t it? And with compound interest there is a great expansion of this substance, which is the substance of the Ark—the Vibrational Ark. It is substance capable of accommodating the spirit of the One I am. And to the extent that there is that substance, we begin to know the One I am.
This has been happening, hasn’t it? We all have some awareness in this regard already. Isn’t that a marvelous thing? Shouldn’t it be a gala occasion because there is this consciousness of the new drumbeat, and of the glory that is consequent because of what has been happening? We’ve been so accustomed to giving weight and meaning to all the meaningless things in the human sense that it seems a little difficult for people sometimes to really appreciate what it is that is putting in an appearance. Looking back to the time of the story of Jesus Christ—there really was the Son of God. Here was a marvelous thing: Divine Incarnation, and the revelation of something of great beauty and power. It is easy to look back two thousand years, but to recognize what is present now, that is the trick. It obviously wasn’t recognized back there two thousand years ago when that was now; likewise no one is inclined to recognize the truth in this now, or the glory of the truth now, the wonder of it, the marvelous nature of it. When we begin to do that, then there is an intensification of Love, an intensification of Love that means something, not love of some imagined figure back two thousand years ago but Love of the One I am now.
So there is the increased generation of the substance of the Ark. It is vibrational substance. The Ark, the Body of the One I am, is generated out of flesh. We all have to be present on earth, and we can’t be that without having the flesh along. It is generated out of the flesh, but His Body is a Spiritual Body. The Body of the One I am is a Spiritual Body. It is spiritual substance—it is the Vibrational Ark. [https://greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/09/from-martin-exeter-16-1987-individually.html] As this generation takes place it is not separate from the flesh. It only has been engendered by reason of the flesh, and by reason of a willingness of whatever degree to let it occur, so that we’re not so bound and determined anymore to have our own way. Let it be the way of the One I am, just that, without any personal overtones arrived at out of this peculiar human self that has been so prominent in my experience heretofore.
Be still, and know that I am present. As we do that collectively, then we find that we are with one accord in one place. There is no struggle to agree. If you find difficulty in agreeing with others it is obvious that there has not yet been generated sufficient spiritual substance so that you might be in that one place which does not require any effort whatsoever, on the part of anyone, to agree. The first concern: Thou shalt love the One I am. Then there may be a coming all together with one accord into one place. That’s fine, but let’s stay there, going no more forth. Be still. Fear not—be still. There is no need to be defensive or to try to erect protection around oneself. That would never be effective anyway. Be still, and know that I am present. Knowing that, all of us together, we are immediately with one accord in one place. Immediately the One I am is in His temple. It is said that way in the Book of Malachi, about the Lord coming suddenly into His Temple. Of course, He is there already, but the fact that He is there already is suddenly revealed when all concerned are sufficiently still to know that I am present.
Finally we come to the point where we may be still, with untroubled heart, and consequently know that I am present. There is the Ark composed of spiritual substance. There is some flesh tagging along as well. That’s fine, but the important aspect of the matter is the spiritual substance. That is where we know our identity. That is where we know the truth. And so, knowing that truth, we are free to move easily to this new drumbeat, which might be described as the Heartbeat of this Spiritual Body, a spiritual body that at the moment is revealed in the form of flesh. We are content with that, and we abide in that Spiritual Body, in the Ark, which remains unaffected by such cataclysm as may occur—unaffected in the sense that it is not threatened by it. Obviously there is what is required in the way of handling the situation. If the situation is a cataclysmic situation then there is something to be handled from the standpoint of this Spiritual Body, but the Spiritual Body is not threatened by what happens in this cataclysmic sense in the realm of form. If there is some notion that one can somehow escape into this Spiritual Body and be safe, it doesn’t work. There is no way to do it. Only by letting the substance be generated to accommodate the One I am can we be useful in this impending cataclysm. Cataclysm, from the human standpoint, would be looked upon as disaster, but it isn’t at all. It is what needs to happen and, provided there is this focus of the Spirit of the Living God present on earth, all is well. It has been termed “a joy unspeakable and full of glory,” but I don’t think it should stay unspeakable! Let there be the expression, the radiation. The radiation goes forth, but we don’t.
Vibrational Intensification
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Martin Exeter August 24, 1987Central Council
Who is aware of a vibrational intensification which occurred a little while ago, particularly when Richard was speaking? There is something available to be sensed, perhaps, here. It is vital that one should be aware of what is happening vibrationally. We tend to have our awareness, as we well know, filled with forms. Vibrational impacts that come are usually based in uncontrolled emotion; then we feel something intense. But in a controlled atmosphere such as we have here, and in the building that has been taking place in this vibrational sense, we need to have very keen awareness of this so that we don’t discount it.
We can use words to convey something as it relates to the vibrational state, but it is the vibrational state itself that is of vital concern. Again we come back to the awareness that we’ve had, presumably, for a long time, that, as it has been put, this is a vibrational ministry. Well, if it is, we need to know what’s going on then. And most of the things that people think are going on relate to form rather than to vibration. But our concern is to abide in the Ark, and the Ark is a Vibrational Ark. We need to be aware of what it is that is happening in that way.
I don’t think Richard was talking particularly about things out of the past. Perhaps there’s a tendency to relate Richard to his undertaking of this particular book he’s writing, which relates to matters out of the past. But he’s writing it for a purpose which is not particularly related to the past; it relates to the present. And he brought to focus an intensity of spirit that shouldn’t be denied.
How capable are we of receiving intensification of spirit? Some have described that as fire falling from heaven. It is this that is of supreme importance, isn’t it? The prophets of Baal of old were very active and very busy trying to produce something. Nothing happened; there was no answer, no one took any notice. This is the human state. We say there is no answer. Not everybody has recognized yet that there is no answer, that the god isn’t answering, Baal is not providing anything. But we are responsible for letting the answer be experienced, and I suppose the vital word here is experienced. And if it happens to begin to be experienced so that we sense an intensification, let’s pay attention to it so that we don’t get side-tracked by something else. I was delighted in what happened when Richard allowed this focus to appear, and I certainly was moved by this. Were we not all moved by this? Or didn’t we take note of it? Were we not sufficiently alert to sense what was happening and what was available to come to focus, to be received into expression and radiation?
We talk about apocalypse. Apocalypse merely means the passing of the first heaven and the first earth. That’s all it means—that all that has composed what I suppose would be referred to as civilization dissolves. That’s apocalypse. How it dissolves is unimportant. That it dissolves is important; it is important to us, presumably. However, it is very important, insofar as we are concerned, that this should have dissolved in us, so that we are open and free and capable of receiving the fire falling from heaven.
There is speculation about what the cataclysm is, what might be. Perhaps it might be well to note that in the statement that is made in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, something was said about wars and rumors of wars, but the end isn’t yet. This conceivably might indicate that it isn’t war that is evidence of the end. People have been looking with trepidation toward nuclear war. That has receded a little in consciousness, although there are many so-called peace groups who are much concerned about the matter. But as we well know, that’s only one small part of the massive threat that there is to continued existence on earth. We are not looking for descriptions in form of what is referred to as cataclysm. Maybe it’s not a cataclysm, in the usual human definition of the word. Maybe it’s just apocalypse. That’s very simple: the passing of the first heaven and the first earth, that’s all. Let’s let it pass. To let it pass we must surely be identified with what it is that makes it possible for it to pass. I suppose it might be said that there have been many opportunities in times past for it to pass. It nearly passed in the time of the Deluge—not quite. And that not quite was important too, because it was indication of the fact that when the passing actually occurs, there would be a focus of the reality that remains. Evidently there wasn’t adequate reality insofar as what was represented by Noah and his family were concerned. It was Noah who provided the point of focus—his family evidently did not share that with him, and so the whole thing started over again.
But now we come to apocalypse, which is the passing of the first heaven and the first earth—no more, no repeat. I am reminded of some words that you may recall, words of Uranda, spoken quite a long time ago, where he said it was necessary to live as though everything ended tomorrow, and also to live as though it was going to last for the next thousand years. In other words one has to deal with the situation as it is now, but without giving it any particular weight. Apocalypse certainly is not the rise and fall of the stock market or any of these things; it’s the passing of the stock market. It is the passing of everything of human invention. This boggles the mind, but it doesn’t boggle the spirit. We have reached a point where, in theory at least, we are willing that these things should pass. We are going to find out as to whether that attitude can be sustained in the actual passing. Well, there is an actual passing going on now, but it is a long way from being complete.
The passing comes because there is this focus of the fire present in human form on earth. It comes because of that. If we can equate ourselves with that fire in the human form which accommodates it, then we see we are responsible. And whenever there is an intensification which appears in a vibrational sense, that is what is to be welcomed. We don’t need to speculate as to what that intensification is going to do. What it is going to do is dissolve the first heaven and the first earth. We can say that in general terms. What it is going to do specifically in any given moment remains to be seen.
Richard mentioned something about men’s hearts failing them for fear. Sometimes an intensification, particularly when it is discerned here, is interpreted as fear. That sometimes happens for a person who gets up to speak before a crowd of people. We’re all seasoned Emissaries here, of course, and we’re able to do that with the greatest of ease. But I suspect there are situations where it might be not as easily handled as it is in front of other Emissaries or those who are at least somewhat open to what we have to offer. Then comes the question as to whether we interpret that as fear or not.
Almost anything that human beings feel, touch in feeling, can be interpreted one way or another. It can be revealing of the emergence of the creative process, the intensity of the fire. In such case it is cause for the greatest thanksgiving. Otherwise, interpreted as fear, then there is the inclination to run for cover. The instruction is to stand. One cannot stand except as one is present in that fire. If the sensation that comes is interpreted as fear, one is immediately in the yellow part of the flame. If one accepts the vibrational intensity as the radiation for which one is responsible, then it is easy to be still. “Be still, and know that I am present.” And it is that presence that permits the fulfillment of the purpose for which individually and together we are present on earth.
“In this moment, be still and know that I am present.” Whenever any measure of intensity is experienced, let these words be recalled: “Be still, and know that I am present.” I am the intensity. And if My human form is aware of that, the human form to that extent is sharing in My presence. The intensity may be allowed to build. “Be still, and know that I am present. I come in the name of the King.” This word, “the King,” becomes increasingly comprehensible in our own experience. “I am come in the name of the King”—and the King’s name is I AM. I cannot come in the name of the King without saying and revealing “I am present.” And in that presence, the power of the spirit of the King, the power of love, pours forth. It pours forth under control and within the design of truth. It is under control because what is experienced is known for what it is and not misinterpreted. “Be still, and know that I am the King and I am present.” Such a statement made by any one of us does not cause any of us to assume, as an individual, the position of the King, but it does allow the King to be present because I am present.
Perhaps we share in these moments something of an exercise in letting vibrational intensity be rightly used. It is not used to benefit us in any way whatsoever. It is used to fulfill the purposes of the King. We no longer have any inclination whatsoever to judge how those purposes should be fulfilled. All we are concerned with is that they be fulfilled.
A man commented — Martin, I feel something has to come back, and I haven’t anything clever to say or anything formulated, but just rejoice in the intensity of this moment with you, and realize the incredible intensity and respect and love in the allowing of my capacities to reveal all they can of my King and who I am. I think we could have gone on forever listening to you verbalize what is in the atmosphere right now. But something also had to come back. So here it is.
Martin — It comes back, brought to focus specifically by you. Let what comes back, brought to focus in this way, be what is present in each one. There begins to be a sense of reverence and respect and love and humility, because we are in this moment in the presence of the King. It might be said that all people are in the presence of the King, but the fact has been hidden. There is the mystery of God—but here it’s finished. And I rejoice to receive what you bring as a person, but I receive it because it is representative of what is brought by all who are subjects of the King.
