Let Us Make Man

Let  Us  Make  Man

Martin Cecil  April 8, 1979

Mention was made of two particular areas of angelic responsibility on earth. Primarily there is that area which is concerned directly with the creative process so that God's will may be done in earth as it is in heaven. Those angels who carry this responsibility should not rightly be distracted by squalling children; that is, by human beings who may be moving toward the angelic experience. Those who are in that process are rightly under the care of those angels who carry this aspect of responsibility. Heretofore in our own experience there has been a somewhat mixed-up state. There has evidently been little clear vision of a distinction between these two fields of responsibility, so that those who are coming out of the childish state might refrain from letting their childishness become a factor to be dealt with in the range of those who had the particular responsibility of the creative process.

This is all easily seen in terms of the manner in which human beings function about their own affairs. There are adult matters of responsibility to be attended to in which children should not be included. Provision is made for children in various ways. There is kindergarten and then school, besides what is provided in the home. However if the parents have other important responsibilities, then there is presumably a need for a baby-sitter or someone else to look after the children so that the parents may attend to their rightful business. These same principles can be seen relative to the angelic sphere of action.

There is continuing responsibility here, which must be carried somehow by someone. Rightly there are angels available who have the responsibility of handling the spiritual children. When this is actually so, and that job is being done effectively by those who have the responsibility, then the Angelic Core which is responsible for the creative cycle in the overall sense may really begin to get down to business. This Angelic Core shouldn't be restricted. It has been indicated that properly a Core of 144,000 is required. Whether or not all these 144,000 would be involved in the direct field of creative responsibility is another question. The 144,000 would include those also who are caring for the children, but there would be at least 12,000 in the Core that was carrying direct responsibility.

We need to see these things, because it obviously indicates that there is a necessity for a greater acceptance of maturity on the part of more people, a greater acceptance of the angelic expression. If you are depending upon human strength, human wisdom, then you will find yourself feeling inadequate. This sense of inadequacy will be emphasized as various situations arise, so that if the sense of inadequacy does arise you are being reminded thereby of your childishness. You are not being reminded to try to get adequacy from somewhere, from some other angel perhaps who is going to smooth you down somehow and assure you that you are really adequate when you know darn well you are not. In human nature nobody is adequate, so it is not surprising that people feel inadequate. The point is to rise up out of human nature in the acceptance of the mature responsibility of angels. When we do that the sense of inadequacy no longer dominates. It may be present, because human nature is still present, but we don't pay any attention to it. Why not accept angelic nature and refuse to keep kowtowing to human nature and the sense of inadequacy?

Accepting angelic nature one is in position then to handle what needs to be handled. You no longer are holding the back door open so that you can slip out if things get too tough. Things are going to get too tough for human nature—praise the Lord! we should rejoice in this fact—but nothing is ever too tough for angelic nature. It is, after all, human nature that is passing away. That's a tough business for human nature. Angelic nature is not passing away. It is increasing in expression and in experience for those who accept it. For those who reject it in favor of human nature, well there is trouble. It is as there is an acceptance of angelic nature that there is the acceptance of a sense of responsibility, so that there is a willingness to handle what needs to be handled.

Do we have a clear recognition that nothing can be done except by the Father? If we have that clear recognition and accept it in our own experience, then everything can be done by the Father—no problem. If we don't accept it we find that nothing can be done and we are filled with a sense of inadequacy. There is a clear-cut choice presented in this regard. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve”—if the Lord be God, serve Him; if Baal, then serve him; but don't dither between two opinions. Let's be men and women enough to make a choice. Nothing can be done in fact except the Father does it. Do you agree? You may say Yes, but I ask, “Do you agree?” I think on this basis you would not answer a word, because it is something you have to prove, something you have to reveal. It is easy to say Yes, or even No.

“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” Here is a way of describing oneness, the Oneness of angelic expression; not the Father doing something and then the Son doing something, trying to imitate the Father, but the Father in expression by reason of the Son: the angel in expression in the individual sense by reason of the human facilities for that expression. The human facilities are not something separate; they do not have any life of their own. Do you know that? Your human facilities do not have any life of their own. “I can of mine own self do nothing”; I can of mine own human self do nothing. If we think we can do something of our own selves we are deluding ourselves.

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will [mine own human will], but the will of the Father which hath sent me. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” Here are three particular statements credited to the Master, which make a point: “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” Believest thou? Are you willing to understand this? That is really what is being said. Belief we have looked at before: be willing—be willing to understand, that in the acceptance of the truth you may know it. It is the angelic expression that alone can do what must be done, because that springs from the Father. Again you agree. Answer me not a word, but agree. Be genuine.

When man was first created it is said that the Lord God made a particular statement: “Let us make man.” This statement, when it was originally made, was before man was made. In order for that creative happening to occur something very specific had to be done by what is referred to as the Lord God. However you will note that the statement indicates plural: “Let us make man.” Evidently whatever was undertaken was effective, because here we are. However we now recognize the necessity for the restoration, for the re-making of man. Man in the sense of the dust of the ground, with an available capacity of consciousness, does not need to be created, because all that is here already. Therefore the approach, from the standpoint of re-creation, is from a different level. The Lord God does not need to do over again what He has already done. However there is the necessity for the restoration, the remaking of man, the re-creation. This must occur directly in relationship to what already is created—human beings as they are, in other words.

The creative process requires that these words which were originally spoken be spoken again, but at the level where the re-creation is necessary. It is fundamentally a re-creation of consciousness, which brings with it a re-creation of form. It is required that there be someone on hand representing the Lord God at this level and consequently capable of speaking the words “Let us make man.” This statement is simply a summary of all that is necessary in the creative process by which the job is done. I am sure you do not imagine that the Lord God merely made the statement, “Let us make man,” and there was man. Things don't work that way. There is always a creative process—a creative process which will take a certain measure of time no doubt, and which did in that original instance. We do not need to go into that, because the human mind couldn't understand it anyway. All we need to do is to accept the responsibility as angels now, because there must be that on earth which represents the Lord God at this level to speak the words—in other words to do what is necessary: “Let us make man.” In this instance you could say, “Let us re-make man.” But it is “make” actually, because this job has never been done before. It was done from the standpoint of another level originally, but from the standpoint of this level it has never been done yet. So we can forget about the past, accept the knowledge that we are here—and human beings are here, all over the earth—recognizing that man is not present; just a bunch of human beings thrown together in a disorderly manner. Here is the raw material for the creative process now.

There is needful, then, a group of angels who are in position to say—and to do what is required—“Let us make man.” Here is something very specific. There have been some vague ideas floating around as to how the restoration might occur: things will unfold and it will somehow happen by magic. No, it happens because what needs to be done is very specifically brought to pass. We have a responsibility in this regard which relates to these two groups of angels of which I have been speaking. I would suggest that you will discover that there are a great many more than two groups involved, but there is a clear-cut basis for understanding what is required now from the standpoint of these two groups. I am not saying that there may not be some dual responsibilities in this regard with respect to some; obviously there still are.

Along the way, as things were developing, it was necessary for many of us to play a host of different roles. Some of the roles weren't seemingly natural to us perhaps, but they had to be handled. Sometimes the things that had to be handled were very down-to-earth, like driving a nail; and for some this meant hitting a thumb, because the person concerned was not really trained to play that role. Nevertheless all of those who have played their parts over an extended period of time in this ministry have been required to do almost everything, and because there was a willingness to do almost everything without objection, without complaint, in fact with some measure of enthusiasm, we have a ministry on earth today.

There has been a proliferation of talent, one might say, in the external sense, so that those who were more fitted to certain tasks could undertake them. However they could only undertake them to the extent of angelic expression. This has all been evolving over the years, and we do have a number of angels incarnate on earth who are also, in some measure, in expression on earth. I thank God for this, but I am drawing to your attention, and the attention of many more besides you, that there needs to be an awareness of the real exactness that is required to handle our angelic responsibilities. It has been a vague thing, a mixed-up state. It must begin to come clear—in other words, clear into the true design. Very little of this has so far been seen. The design in most people's consciousness is related to externals. But it isn't primarily externals; it is a spiritual design, an invisible design, which requires responsible angels to handle. So I have drawn these two particular groups to your attention in this regard, that the primary group may come into position to say and do what is required: “Let us make man.”

This is the responsibility of the primary group: “Let us make man.” As angels we are not interested in human egos but in man: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Would it be safe for you to make that statement now and have it stick? What sort of place would the world be, I wonder. Obviously it is necessary that there be the reality of angelic expression if this statement is properly to be made, but it is an indication of the assumption of responsibility. This other part of that original statement needs to be made: “Let us make man”—that's part of it, but not fashioned according to some human whim—“in our image, after our likeness” as angels. It requires those on hand, willing to understand this, to do it. Otherwise there is no possibility of re-creation, no possibility of making man. The original creation of man was so because there were those who accepted the responsibility of speaking the words, “Let us make man in our image and likeness,” and did what was required to let it be so. I rather doubt if as yet we are very much in position to make this statement, “in our image, after our likeness,” and have the Divine Design emerge.

This is the only way that man can be made. Here is the real responsibility that rests upon us as angels, that it may be done. It can't be done unless there are those who rightly may make the statement, “in our image, after our likeness.” The original Lord God was a translation from the word Elohim, which is a plural word and indicates a group of Divine Beings, an Archangelic Group who had the responsibility of creating man, creating man according to the already existing Divine Design. The Divine Design must already exist in our experience, in our expression of living, if the creation is to occur in the fulfilment of that design. If there are little failures and little weaknesses here and there still, human nature compelling this way and that, then obviously we shouldn't dare to say, “in our image, after our likeness.” But it must reach the point where there is a group who can say that, dare to say that, because they know that it will be right.

This group must emerge, without distraction, so that there is total concern for the fulfilment of the requirements of what was described before as the Lord God—representation of the Lord God in angelic form and expression on earth. That Core group hardly exists as yet. Certainly the group that is required to permit the restoration of man is not in evidence, but it has to start somehow, somewhere; and it starts because there are those who believe, who are willing to understand, and who accept the responsibility of that understanding. Believest thou this? Well we're going to find out. We must, after all, keep moving. We can't rest on our laurels—I don't think we have any to rest on—and there are some very specific things that are necessary. Let us, as angels, make man in our image, after our likeness. Let us be very sure that the pattern is exactly the way it should be; and the pattern is a matter of individual responsibility, which we find expands into collective responsibility. But there is no collective responsibility until there are those who have taken individual responsibility. However it is the collective expression of creative responsibility that speaks the words, “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness”—and it is done. We can summarize it by using these particular words, but there are vastly more ramifications to the creative process than merely to speak these words. This provides a focus for the consideration but the essences contained there must expand on out in creative expression, and we will discover what they are.

So there is a need for this group of angels at the Core, undistracted by children. If that is to be the case there must be another group of angels who are handling the childish distractions, so that they never reach the Core. Unless something begins to emerge absolutely exact and pure at the Core, unsullied, there isn't any facility for creative action in the hands of the Lord. So we all have a responsibility. The first responsibility has related, insofar as all of us are concerned, to this handling of spiritual children coming home. This needs to continue—there are more to come home, doubtless—but let this not prevent the other aspect from being taken care of. We've all been handling the children coming home, including the human nature of our own brand. That has been, and is, our responsibility, yes—but there must emerge at the Core something which goes beyond this; otherwise we are stymied; otherwise we can do no more. It is not a matter of merely assisting human beings to come home, when there isn't a home to come home to. The home is this undistracted area of centering in the Core. That is home, and when those who are coming home experience angelic expression they will find themselves home, part of that Core. So there are those who assist others to come home, and those others who are assisted to come home then come into position to assist others to come home, whereas perhaps the ones who were assisting them then begin to move into this central Core. There is a purifying process by which all come again into the Body of the Archangel, where the Word, the creative Word, may be spoken.

Of course the speaking of that creative Word is not something that hasn't been going on to some extent already, in spite of distractions; otherwise no one would have come home, or would have moved toward where home should be. But we want to make very sure that there is a home there when they reach it. So we all have our parts to play in this. As angels we do whatever is required of us, whether it relates primarily to one aspect of this angelic configuration or the other. It doesn't matter, just so long as there are those who are doing the job. We all have opportunity to do the job; we're not pickers and choosers. We accept what is natural in the unfolding creative cycles. And as that Word is spoken from the Core the effects of it are seen in those who begin to come home: “Let us make man”—here it is, here it is beginning to emerge.

At the same time, there are other things happening—there is the disintegrative process occurring, and we recognize that too. Some people look at that disintegrative process with horror. Anybody in human nature would, or should. Our concern is not that things should be brought to the pass where it is simply a matter of survival. Very often this is the viewpoint, that there will be such a disaster that all that anybody can think about is survival. Well if that is the case we have failed, we've absolutely failed, because we need to be thinking about something other than survival. We need to be in position to do what is required. While there is bound to be an immense amount of destruction and confusion and misery, if we do our job correctly that will never deteriorate into the mere matter of trying to survive.

So we have the responsibility of making man and protecting the world, shall we say, protecting this planet from an ultimate holocaust which destroys everything, utterly. That is an alternative. It is not an alternative to which we should pay much attention, because we are too occupied rightly with our angelic responsibilities, and we know very well that if these are handled correctly the Lord God is on hand, the creative process is under control, and all things do in fact work together to perfection.

We rejoice to allow our vision to expand at the human level, because there is a greater emergence of the angel into expression. It is that greater emergence of the angel that is the key to everything. So let us be willing to understand and to accept the responsibility for ourselves as individuals, in whatever field of action may be necessary for our service now, but also, having an understanding of what the requirements are, so that we can intelligently play our part in letting those requirements be fulfilled by whoever the angels may prove to be. So I thank God that we have had the opportunity to allow something of these things to emerge more specifically into consciousness, because this surely needs to happen. We see that things are moving apace in the world around us. We'd better stay ahead of the game, praising the Lord and abiding under the shadow of the Almighty.

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