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Let The King of Glory Come In
Lord Exeter and Alan Hammond
October 25, 1987 100 Mile House, B.C.
Alan Hammond — We heard this morning that we are alive for one purpose only, and that is to bring the King into this world again. Is there any conceivable purpose greater than this? Is there any greater honor? Is there any commission with greater potential for expressing the glory of life in human form? If anyone can think of one you should share it. What a commission!
It is apparent that the human consciousness, which is certainly the focus of the experience of life on this planet, has experienced hell, perhaps purgatory, because it has been oriented in the forms of earth. We are coming to know in our consciousness a little something of the reappearance of heaven—something beautiful, exciting, utterly delightful. How has this creative miracle been achieved? Because the spirit of the King has, one way and another, been reintroduced into our consciousnesses, and that spirit has been given greater space to govern. In our factual experience this is seen as governing thoughts and governing feelings. Although at first it doesn’t seem like the processes of love, eventually we come to know that it is. It is government with a rod of iron. “You shall not think these destructive thoughts about anything or anyone, and you shall not express out of destructive feeling.” And as that government is established in our consciousness, lo and behold, heaven appears all around us. The King comes and brings His government.
Satan, the human consciousness oriented in earthly form—we know, not only in our own experience but by observation—tries to govern through manipulation of form. This seems the sensible way to do things. There are problems in form all over the surface of this planet. One example which was cited was the financial crisis. But government is factually exercised from heaven, and the scenery in heaven and the shape of the crisis is very different from that vantage point. If we come back from these peripheral levels, these outer levels of manifestation, we begin to come into what to satan is a very insubstantial scene, a place where we begin to find ourselves handling not dollars and cents but anxiety and insecurity. So coming into the invisible levels of being, if we can consciously view what is there, we find that this is the shape and nature of the crisis in the invisible level of substance. And how shall we deal with the situation there?
Because the spirit of the King has put in an appearance in our consciousness, we now know that it is actually futile to wrestle with fear, greed, insecurity. But in the expression of the spirit of the King a substance is generated more precious than money, more powerful than any substance known by satan. How, when, where, shall we generate this substance? Well, wherever we are in the moment, doing whatever we are doing in the moment, doing it in the current of this glorious character. Substance is generated, the voids in these invisible levels in the human being are filled, and the spirit of the King creates the abundance of the experience of heaven. What a different place heaven is then. It is appearing not only in our individual experience, as the King’s government emerges, but collectively—an inner place of beauty and wonder and delight, where all these peripherally manifest problems are dealt with without wrestling with that outer scene at all. We know that this is the place from whence the government of the King originates on earth.
In heaven—this internal place which is appearing in our human consciousnesses—love angel for angel is also reappearing. As heaven is reconstituted in our consciousness, what a marvelous place of communion and creative action together appears. We are all still together. What about experiencing the union in heaven, where we are all together? What an opportunity for us to reintroduce into human consciousness the communion and cooperation known between angels. What an opportunity! It is absolutely ours. We can factually do this now, because it is within our scope of capability; this consciousness wouldn’t have thought of such capability a few years ago. But now we are able, for our consciousnesses are adequately aware of heaven and who is there—namely, all the angels. We can begin absolutely to be, angel to angel.
Lord Exeter —Is silence a discomfort or a delight? To angels incarnate on earth it surely is a delight! Insofar as the human identity is concerned, silence is usually a discomfort. To the extent that it is no longer a discomfort to us, in this setting for instance, there is some evidence of the presence of conscious angels, angels conscious in human form on earth. Once again it perhaps almost evokes a memory which might be articulated by the words, “I have not, for so long, seen and known you on earth,” this articulation relating to each other. Humanly speaking we have been aware of each other for varying lengths of time, and imagined on that basis that we knew each other. We may make such a supposition with respect to each other, but that is merely human nature to human nature. Human nature really knows nothing. It is cognizant of shadows. But as Lucifer is once again in heaven—he isn’t Lucifer anywhere else; anywhere else he is satan—as Lucifer comes again to heaven in oneself, then we begin to know each other in an entirely different way. Between angels there is trust.
In considering what has occurred in this Emissary ministry, over the years there has been a great multiplication of paper: reports of all kinds (not just in triplicate!), rather lengthy communications of all kinds committed to paper. Why is all this necessary? Or is it? If it is necessary it is because we cannot yet trust each other, for where there is trust each one does what he or she is here on earth to do, and it’s complete. We don’t need to be told by others that they have done what we know they have done. There is a tremendous flow of what is called information these days. In the human world this is of course very massive too. At Sunrise Ranch and in Glen Ivy I am usually assaulted by a forest of newspaper—it’s made from the forests. But we all find ourselves assaulted by a great deal more paper than this, simply because the angelic presence is not yet absolute; satan comes also among us.
Do you think the heavenly machine, if we can call it that, operates because of paper? Or even because of computers? Is the universe governed in this way? Do the other planets in the solar system have to be instructed in this fashion to stay in orbit? Obviously the universal government springs out of a different realm. It isn’t an external government. It isn’t a government of imposition. There is no great figure who pushes things around with his finger so that they stay in place. Yet everything stays in place, except in the affairs of human beings where it is deemed that force of some kind—mental, emotional and physical force—must be applied to keep things moving. This has been habitual for a long time. So the whole of our world is governed in this way by human effort, and it leads to disintegration. The true government is found emergent in heaven. If there is no one in heaven to receive what it is that is emerging, then the true government remains unknown on earth. Remember, heaven and earth are one.
There is a Psalm in which a statement is made along these lines: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” This relates to human beings, to this earth, this planet, and the government thereof. The human mind and heart in particular can well be described as gates and doors. This is the nature of their function, a far cry from the way human beings use mind and heart now. “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors.” Be present in heaven. And then the King of glory shall come in—to the earth.
But that state where mind and heart are available to the King of glory obviously is an absolute experience. It isn’t a ten percent experience. It isn’t a matter of providing a little crack in the door, and the gate slightly ajar, so that ten percent of the King can come in. Do you think He comes in on that basis? Factually, it’s all or nothing. We do receive encouragement along the way, and we experience various things which indicate an increased expression of spirit, but this is a far cry from what it is that is required. Is the earth just going to spring a leak so that a little of heaven can seep in? Well a little of heaven has been seeping in; otherwise there would not be any human experience on earth at all. But now we find ourselves in position to experience something absolute, where you cannot think, feel or do anything else but what is present and ready to come forth in heaven.
Uranda always used to say that comparisons are odious, and yet most of human experience is based in comparison: “This or that would be better or worse.” Even from the standpoint of those who have participated in this ministry there has been a certain amount of consideration as to whether it is more profitable to participate, or would it be more profitable not to? What’s the point of making any comparison? It is the basis upon which human nature functions, certainly: “Let’s see where we can get the best deal.” As angels we incarnated on earth to restore everything to the King. Individually we have, rightly, no life of our own. If we think we have, we will discover that it isn’t so, sooner or later. We will discover that such an attitude is theft. And the thief receives his just deserts. There is only one life; that’s the life of the King. There isn’t any other. We either accept that or we have no life. We are given a little period when we may have the opportunity of accepting or rejecting, but there isn’t any other life than the life of the King. That is something absolute.
It is necessary that our minds and our hearts should reach a point of absoluteness where they are incapable of doing anything else than what is required by reason of the life of the King. There is still a good deal of uncertainty in the minds and the hearts of some of those who have been associated with this ministry—double-mindedness, because if the life of the King is actually accepted, there is no question. One finds that one cannot help but do what one is doing. There is no alternative. It’s absolute! And when there is this absoluteness the King of glory can come in. But He is not really going to come in twenty percent. What would that be? We may have a little leeway; we certainly have had a little leeway, a lot of leeway over the years, when we were approaching the point of absoluteness. But one can go on approaching that point as long as a trickle of life remains, but never come to it. I can see no point to just approaching it. Why not come to it? And then there is something whole present. The King is whole. And reaching that point of absoluteness, it is such a relief. At last!
Wondering after the beast is a popular human pastime. “I wonder if it would be better if I did this, or if I went there?” If that is the basis of what you do, you’re in a bad way. We reach a point where we find that we cannot do anything other than what we are doing. There is an absoluteness to this. I have found over the years that one experiences a very great deal that one certainly would not have experienced on any other basis. At last there are those who come to a point of absoluteness: no more wondering. I have had many who have said, in words written or spoken, “Here am I,” perhaps “Here am I, send me”; but the person wasn’t there at all. There was nobody there! There was just a fantasy.
As the absoluteness comes, as mind and heart are willing to let themselves be lifted into heaven once again, then the gates and the doors open and the King of glory comes in. This spiritual body is the body of the King. It is equipped with all that is necessary for the King of glory to come in. There is a mind and a heart, there is even a physical form. Let it come together in absoluteness so that there is no other life for any individual than the life of the King through His body on earth. There have been many prayers, pleading for the coming of the Lord, the second coming presumably. But thus far there has been no adequate body on earth to let it happen. The true prayer is to accept the responsibility which each one has with respect to this one body. That is the prayer: to do it—not to beg someone else to do it. One only can do it for oneself. If one is letting it happen one has no time to fuss about what one imagines someone else should be doing or isn’t doing. I am very grateful for the fact that I have never done very much fussing about that. I well know that I cannot do what you must do. I can only do what I must do; and I seek to do this as consistently as may be, trusting that there will be those minds and hearts which awaken to the presence of the angel who is already in agreement with me in this matter. Awakening to that, there is no problem.
Here we are, all together to provide that essential facility for the King of glory, to let Him come in. This is rightly all we know. We cannot indulge ourselves anymore in these ridiculous human fantasies, but be present together in love, in heaven—same thing, isn’t it?—unjudging, but absolute. And the King of glory comes in.
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