Angel To Angel
Martin Cecil April 3, 1979 Assembly
Thinking is a spiritual process. What is called thinking in the world would certainly be classified as a mental process because the mind is involved, therefore it is presumed to be a mental process. Obviously there are mental things going on, but in thinking the spirit is rightly dominant. If you approach anything about which you wish to think merely on a mental basis it becomes a struggle. Sweat of the face is involved. “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” I trust that during the sessions that we share together we will participate in some thinking.
We think together. This is an exercise that may be useful and should be more or less natural to you when you participate in a service. Sometimes a person after a service will say, “I can’t remember what it was about.” If I say that, well that perhaps is more excusable, because I have been moving along in the current of the spirit, moment by moment, giving expression to what is needful in the moment. You are, on the other hand, hearing what is being said. You are presumably moving in the current of the spirit too, but you have an awareness, if you are functioning correctly, of what went before. You see what is emerging in the moment. Remember, the mind is quite capable of moving more quickly than the words that are spoken. Some have found difficulty in this because in the very nature of things there may be pauses in the speaking. There are various reasons for this. You yourselves know something of the reasons from the standpoint of your own participation in speaking at times; but those to whom you are speaking are present during those pauses. The question is: What is the mind doing then? The mind is inclined to go chasing after rabbits, in those intervals—what is said reminds a person of something else and something else, and away he goes. But we need to stay to point. We need to be on hand.
There is an opportunity then, without losing one’s focus in the moment, of reviewing what went before, so that you are aware of what it is that is unfolding. You may perhaps see this as a useful exercise from the standpoint of any comment you are going to make later, because you recall what it was that unfolded during the hour, you see it as a whole. It is connected up in your consciousness all the way through to the final word—because, as opportunity presents itself, when your mind, which would otherwise be inclined to follow out extraneous lines of thought, is brought back into the movement of the current of the spirit as it has been unfolding during the hour, you have it all at your fingertips when the last word is spoken. It hasn’t just vanished into the limbo of forgotten things and you only remember it when it comes again in a video or in printed form. “Oh, I didn’t see that before.” Well, there may be new things to see; presumably we keep moving anyway—but at the time that the service was given you have been with it then, if you have kept it all connected up in your own consciousness. This requires a bit of work and you need to be an obedient servant to do the work.
There are those who have done this and they are in very excellent position to recall easily what was in the service. You may have been amazed sometimes at such ones who have seemingly this ability. I think perhaps Bill Bahan is one who can lay his hand on a service which is pertinent to some particular need. Do you think he is able to do this because he never thought about the service? It isn’t so much thinking about it subsequently as thinking about it at the time that is being given, so that you are conscious of the wholeness of it and you are not merely skipping from point to point in an unrelated fashion, so that all you probably have is the isolated point right at the end, unless some particular statement struck your fancy along the way and you tucked that away neatly in your memory. But still, what has been happening is important and you can utilize opportunities as they arise during a service to pick up what went before and bring it into the present moment so that you have it all there, available in your consciousness. This is an exercise—it will stretch your muscles a little to do it, but it keeps you in point, it keeps you from wandering, and it keeps you from chasing rabbits. What was it that was said? And how does what was said back there relate to what came next? And how does what came next relate to what came after that? And how does what came after that relate to what is being said now? And you have it all together in an awareness of wholeness. Perhaps some of you have done this, but it will sharpen up your mental muscles and you may perhaps find it, to begin with, to be a little difficult or a little tiring, but keep at it and you will in due season have an obedient servant rather than this unruly mind which is scattered all over the place while it thinks that it is present in the present moment, when it is just perceiving the present moment in isolation. The present moment is not in isolation from what went before, nor from what is coming next, for that matter. It is all part of a flow, and if we are to move in the current of the spirit we need to be capable of moving with that flow. So let’s use our opportunities to exercise in this regard. This applies perhaps more particularly to a service, but there is something in this regard also with respect to our sessions.
We are sharing in letting something unfold through our collective consciousness. I have the responsibility of giving it particular focus. It would be the tower of Babel if everybody tried to give it focus at the same time. It is more convenient to have it done by one person. What I offer is not something that is my responsibility alone. You all share in the offering. Here is something that needs to be looked at—there is obviously the necessity for focalization—there is in this moment. I may give expression to something, but it is not isolated from all the rest of you. I am not interested in imposing something on you: “This is what I think you should hear and so I am going to lay it on you.” We are all angels in reality, and we all share the responsibility of letting the spirit of God find expression. We are all rightly in agreement in this regard. We share this agreement both on an individual basis, one to one; and we share it on a collective basis, all of you to me—the agreement of angels with respect to what should be emerging into expression through our individual and collective obedient servants. When we are letting this happen we are together.
Perhaps we could digress for a moment to some situation that might arise. There isn’t anything in focus yet until the situation is present. We know the theory in this regard, for instance, if you are ever required to give a service. You can’t give a service on Sunday which you have written out on the previous Thursday and succeed in providing what is necessary. This is very often done in the usual development of a sermon by the minister. He is trying to figure something out during the week that he can say on Sunday. He has it all set up and he feels confident then—he has the words and he is going to know what to say. The situation must be present for us to know what it is that should emerge. We can’t prognosticate ahead of time as to what the situation will be and therefore we cannot know what the right word would be. This doesn’t mean that we approach anything with blank minds, because there is a flow—we are moving with something. We have a consciousness of what it is that is moving, and it moved into the past; but it relates to the present moment, and there is something coming out of the future which is not yet seen. It isn’t there yet. But when something comes to focus, being in position to deal with it with a group of people, what is actually present must be taken into account.
While for effectiveness there must be a point of focus, the one who provides that point of focus properly has a whole lot of things available in his consciousness—he has everything there that has come out of the past, up to point. And this should be true of everybody else who is there. So there is this mass of substance available. All of you are present here now. Something should happen by reason of this fact now. While I have a good deal available in my consciousness, and you have a good deal available in your consciousness, all this needs to be brought together—something has to emerge through everybody. Now sometimes it emerges because this one and that one have something to say; sometimes, as in this instance, it emerges because there is some capability on my part to be perceptive of what is available in you, so that I don’t go ahead and simply impose something on you because it was available in me. There has to be a union of substance here. So it is in all our movement together in our field of creative responsibility, whatever that may be, wherever we may be. When we are functioning as angels this is our approach. Something has to emerge through all of us. It needs to be given focus somehow, but it isn’t an isolated thing which is dumped by one person upon everybody else. So we develop something together which emerges because of all of us.
Here we see something of the friendship aspect which is present by reason of angels. While there may be certain roles to be played in the particular situation, someone has to take charge of the situation, as I am doing in this moment; nevertheless it is a friendship situation. It relates to the base of a primary triangle. We are all at that level of the base. I have a part to play—you have a part to play. We have our roles but we play them as friends. As friends we have particular fields of responsibility, which may be handled because of our mutual friendship, not because someone says, “Well this is my field of responsibility, you stay out,” which is the inclination all too often. When we are working in this way we work as friends rightly. And here we come again to that base of the primary triangle, with two friends present, one at either end. They are friends in the true sense because of the apex point of that triangle to whom they both look.
Rightly in this moment, I’m sure all of you are aware that while I am speaking to you, and while we have this base here consequently, that there is the apex. We are not ignoring that. We should always be keenly aware of that High Point, not in the sense of trying to visualize someone, a picture of Jesus or something. Let’s let it be what it is without trying to place some arbitrary form upon that point. We speak of the Lord of Lords. We use those words to describe that point, but I am sure you recognize that there is really more than the Lord of Lords at that point. He is not isolated. Because human beings have attempted to isolate Him does not mean that in fact He is isolated. Human beings may have isolated themselves from Him, but there is no way by which human beings could isolate Him from His Angelic Hosts. So there is the point of the apex in this creative triangle. All is present, and while we don’t necessarily think about that point continuously, nevertheless it is always there in our awareness. As it is always there in our awareness, we realize our mutual representation of that point.
Now if we have this triangle, with these two points at the base, both points represent the Lord. However,
there is another representation, isn’t there? It isn’t just a matter of
representing the Lord to the world, but of representing the world to the Lord.
One of these points of the base is dominantly a representation of the Lord
to the world; the other is dominantly a representation of the world to the
Lord. But in each case there is also present the other representation. We all
represent the Lord to the world, and we all represent the world to the Lord. But
in certain configurations in the creative process one or other of these roles
becomes dominant. [More on that later]
As we develop a particular consciousness of friendship in this association which we have now, whatever we have known before is fine, we brought it along with us, but there is something to be known now in this association. We share in permitting that primary triangle to be established, and the essential substance of it to be generated, so that we may begin to have a substantial friendship, not just a theoretical one. Angel to Angel. The human aspect is offered the opportunity of sharing in this and it may to some extent—we will find out how much—but Angel to Angel it is there already. Insofar as our angelic approach is concerned we have particular parts to play and we are anxious to play those parts. That is the reason why we are here incarnate in these forms.
© emissaries of divine light
