The Origin Of Fear

The  Origin  Of  Fear

Martin Cecil   December 20, 1981

The way by which we may achieve what we know we must achieve is really a very simple matter. Mankind as a whole has been in attunement with what is present in the mass consciousness, moved in various ways on this basis. It has been suggested that there should be those who are in position to give the body of mankind an attunement, to move it out of attunement with the mass consciousness, or what is present in that mass consciousness, into attunement with the Word. Some have had an imagination about this; perhaps we might project somehow the spirit of God to zap the world body of mankind. But what is it that is really necessary? To provide that to which all might properly become attuned. In the sense of spirit this has been present for people, but the dragon in the mass consciousness of humanity has held sway in the lives of human beings, albeit those human beings have been unconscious of the fact.

For an attunement with the true state to be provided there must be those, even if it is only half a dozen people to begin with, who themselves reveal the fact of that true attunement. Then the change in polarity can begin to take place. It hasn't taken place heretofore because there were not even half a dozen people to provide what was necessary. We are concerned that there should be considerably more than six people, but it requires that those concerned have themselves experienced the true attunement. The attunement ministry has been present for quite some time but there is scarcely anyone, even yet, who knows what it is. It has been seen very largely in personal terms; sometimes there is an endeavor to bring into the picture something more. But the real attunement is in the matter of living.

We may recall the words spoken in connection with the fall of Babylon the great: “Come out of her, my people.” I think we have been inclined to translate that in terms which relate to ourselves. The Lord is calling, “Come out of her, my people,” and we are going to rise up and come out. How is the Lord going to call? From the standpoint of spirit He has been calling for twenty thousand years. Scarcely anyone heard, because the invitation was not offered within the range of human hearing. Of course it has been offered within the range of human hearing now and again, but most people didn't want to hear. The invitation is offered because there are those on earth in position to offer it, to speak the words, “Come out of her, my people.” We may easily see this as our responsibility now in this hour: to let these words be spoken, if not in form, except as I may say them, but nevertheless spoken because we are present, by reason of our state, the state of our being here. This state rightly reveals the fact of attunement with the Word, so that we are moved in our thoughts, in our feelings, in our words and actions, by the Word—our whole lives are an expression of the Word. If this is so, the invitation is extended, “Come out of her, my people.” Attunement is offered. There is something to which human beings can become attuned other than the dragon. So we are here this evening for this purpose: to provide the Word spoken on earth, “Come out of her, my people. Come out of attunement with the dragon.” This Word comes because we ourselves presently experience the true attunement, which means that we are capable of handling what arises by reason of the dragon, what comes within the range of our own immediate experience. We don't have to go anyplace, do we, to have these immediate experiences. They come to us.

I mentioned the matter of fear this morning, jealousy and greed. We could say that jealousy and greed spring out of fear. Did you ever try to tell someone who was afraid, “There's no need to be afraid”? Did that person stop being afraid because you said that? You perhaps might have known there was really no need for fear, but it takes more than presenting the idea that the person doesn't need to be afraid. Where does the fear come from? There have been those who have sought to pin it on some past events: the violent cataclysms, for instance, that have occurred on earth, the memory of which is present in the mass consciousness but suppressed. Surely that must have been a very fearful experience for those who were on hand for it; scarcely any survived. That particular reason for fear has been hidden away. Immanuel Velikovsky unearthed it, much to the consternation of many people, who reacted violently. When a person is lying supine on the psychiatrist's couch the psychiatrist will approach such fears that may be present in that person slowly and gently. But Velikovsky's action was rather violent, requiring those who were the proponents of uniformity to be shocked by this sudden impact which came upon them, perhaps reminding them of something which they preferred to forget by using the elaborate theories that had been developed to make it seem as though there was nothing fearful to remember out of the past. I don't know about you, but even in a short human lifetime I can look back upon events which were cause for fear: fearful events, perhaps not so horrendous as the cataclysms which affected the whole earth but nevertheless there were factors of fear.

Whenever fear does show up in human experience there is an endeavor to explain it away, to give it a form of some kind, a body, to say, “I'm afraid because of this or that.” It seems more bearable if one can put a body on it. But quite often fears arise where there is nothing that you can pin it on. Did you ever have the sensation of fear and you looked around and you couldn't find anything that you could immediately be afraid of, and yet the fear was there? Where did it come from? Well it came up out of the subconscious levels. Possibly it might have related to something with which you had an immediate personal connection, but it also could have come from this reservoir of memory in the mass unconscious. The fears to which we do give bodies seldom originate with those bodies. We delight to rationalize. So there have been those such as Velikovsky who have looked back a little further and found fearful events back along the way, and these are purported to be the reason why human beings are largely governed by what arises out of the mass unconscious without anyone really knowing what it is. From the psychiatric standpoint, of course, the usual approach is gradually to bring it out into the open so it may be looked at and if possible relived, so that then it goes away. Well that may be all right, I suppose, up to a point, but you haven't really got back yet to the origination of the fear. After all, even these cataclysmic events were brought to pass by reason of something else. It wasn't just by chance that these things happened. If it was just by chance then it is very convenient to be able to say, “Well I couldn't help it; I have no responsibility in the matter. All this trouble just descended upon the human race. Poor human race.” If there is belief in God, then presumably God would be blamed: He brought these troubles on everybody. And this has been the attitude of human beings: “Let's pray to Him to take them away.” The vengeance of the Lord! I think we know better, don't we? It has been described in this way because this is the way that human minds have thought.

We are aware of causative factors that go back beyond those events, causative factors which were initiated by human beings. It doesn't help all that much to uncover these violent cataclysms that may have occurred in the past if one stops there, because the individual is still excusing himself: he couldn't help it. Well in an individual sense I suppose there may be some truth to that, but each individual is a part of the body of mankind and the body of mankind has been responsible. We can't extract ourselves from the body of mankind and stand over there somewhere and say, “I'm white as snow; no sin attaches to me.” This is what brought about the idea of original sin, isn't it? One can't escape it; one is a part of the body of mankind which failed back along the way, and so the consequences appeared. And some of those consequences were really very violent, in and of themselves cause for great fear. But do you think human beings weren't afraid before that? Of course they were. I think the story of the fall is rather accurate when it is said that Adam and Eve hid behind the trees when the Lord came walking in the cool of the day: “Where art thou? ... I was afraid.” There is the origination of the fear. He wasn't afraid of events that had not yet occurred. At that point, in this analogous story, Adam and Eve had not been put out of the garden.

No, the fear related to something much deeper than external events. It related to a failure to maintain attunement with the Word. This is what introduced fear. It didn't exist in the experience of man before that point. So the fear that has to be faced is not the fear of externals but the fear which resulted from the failure to maintain attunement with the Word. That fear obviously is very present with each individual now, because individually speaking no one has maintained attunement with the Word. So there is fear, and human beings look around for a body to clothe it with, to avoid facing what the fear really is, where it originated; and all kinds of bodies have been found. Human beings delight to rationalize—if they are going to be afraid they had better have something to be afraid about—and so they create all these things to be afraid about. It is their continued failure to allow attunement with the Word to be restored that brings all the seemingly valid reasons for fear, none of which are the true reason for the fear.

As I say, that true reason goes much deeper and it relates to what is present with every individual on the face of the earth now. It relates to us. Therefore we don't have to go out somewhere else looking for the reason for it. It's right here. As long as human beings are controlled by fear they are attuned with the dragon, and manipulation from the mass unconscious occurs with everybody. We could never get rid of the fear on the psychiatrist's couch simply by remembering some fearful event—and this relates to other traumatic experiences which might not per se be fearful; most of them are, of course—because it isn't the event that caused the fear. The fear was present before the event. It is an inherent factor in earthly heredity, one might say, stemming from that original occasion when attunement with the Word was lost and there came an awareness of, at that point, an indefinable result. To this very day most human beings are afraid of ghosts. Some try to assuage that fear by saying ghosts don't exist; they don't exist because that person never saw one. But the fear of the unknown, the unknown which was the origination point of that fear, has been so deeply buried that it has remained hidden. And even if there were those who did come along and begin to unearth it, they were quickly disposed of. Very irrational, but that is the way human beings act.

The real trauma of human experience was the loss of attunement with the Word, the loss of meaning, so that, ever since, human beings have been trying to create meaning for themselves, because they didn't have any. In the core of themselves there was no meaning, just emptiness, because the attunement with the Word was gone, indeed a fearful experience. Now we are being reminded of it. Perhaps it has been done so slowly and so gently that we are still present; we didn't pack our bags and scoot. Finally it comes back into focus, so that we know the origination of the fears that arise within the range of our own awareness. We can't be fooled anymore by the bodies that it has been customary to place upon the fear. This is the awakening—the necessity of awakening to fear, to the reason for it, the reason why it has been introduced into human experience when originally it wasn't there at all.

So we need to go back beyond these horrendous events that occurred in the past to where the cause of those events originated. This gives indication of the tremendous responsibility that man originally had. We could hardly imagine in these days that the things that human beings do would disrupt the solar system. However, human beings have gotten themselves to the point where they can indeed disrupt the earth; one might say, blow it apart. They have created a cataclysm, or a potential one at least, which is going to absolve them from their fears and their guilts. It sure would, wouldn't it? There wouldn't be anyone around to have any fear or guilt anymore. And it would indeed be a disrupting element in the solar system, wouldn't it, something that would affect the other bodies in the solar system. It might look as though a planet exploded at one time: the unoccupied orbit, planetary orbit, between Mars and Jupiter. There are fragments out there somewhere; they hit us occasionally. So it can happen. And human beings have been so brilliant that they have been able to devise a means of making it happen, deliberately making it happen. Extraordinary, isn't it?—absolutely irrational, all stemming from this original point where the attunement with the Word was lost. Now we are here to let it be restored.

We need to have a certain awareness of what happened, so that we can deal with the fears that arise within the range of our own awareness, so that we stop sticking peculiar bodies all over them and saying, “This is the reason,” when we really know better; because none of these bodies which human beings create to clothe their fears would be fearful at all if there was no sense of fear. That's right, isn't it? In other words the sense of fear is the factor that is present which needs to be faced. Of course that has been explained away: “Well we need to be afraid. You should be at least a little fearful about crossing the highway out here; otherwise you're not likely to survive.” So, rationalizing, we say, “Well we must fear.” Would it not be possible just to do the right thing without fear? Do we have to be forced to do the right thing because we are so afraid? Well it isn't the right thing if that's why we do it. We do it because fear compelled us, the dragon compelled us. So there is a need to come to grips, as they say, with origins—the origin of fear, for instance, the origin of any of these destructive elements which take control of human lives. They all stem from the same point. Knowing this, we see these things rising up because they are present in the mass unconscious and put in an appearance. If we simply react in the way that human beings have done over the ages, what use are we? No, we are supposed to be enlightened. We know what's what; we claim that at times.

There is something to be handled right here where we are, where the experience arises. Where else are we going to handle it? We can handle it right here; not the events, that's not the point. The events will occur by reason of what is happening in human beings, and as long as human beings are subject to fear, for instance, those events will be destructive; and nobody can prevent them from being destructive. The only events which will prove to be constructive are those which arise by reason of the fact that the Word is spoken because there are those who are attuned with the Word on earth. That is the only point of origination for anything constructive. There isn't any other! People are beginning to find this out. Anything they do proves to be wrong, and there is always a host of people to make sure that whoever did what he did knows he was doing the wrong thing. Well, right; it was wrong. But then the people who point out it was wrong, if they did what they thought should be done, that would be wrong too. So there is nothing that anybody can do as dupes of the dragon, angels of the dragon, which is constructive. It is not possible.

The only constructive causes spring out of the Word, and the Word needs to be spoken for those constructive causes to be present in the world. So we have this awareness of responsibility, but it is such a simple thing because it relates to what is here. It relates to things as they are all around us immediately. We can't ever reach over these things to “out there.” We can handle events out there by handling the causes of events right here. Unless we come to grips with this we are useless. It is what rises up in one's own experience that is to be handled rightly, handled by the Word, by the creative expression of the spirit of God. The source of our living is no longer, then, the dragon. Of course that is not the source of living; that is the source of dying. Everybody is so accustomed to that habit that they assume there couldn't be any other habit. It's not true.

So we share these moments considering these things, aware that there is going to be brought to us whatever is going to be brought to us. Only the fearful want to prognosticate about that. They want to know what is coming, so that if they don't like what is coming they can do something about getting out of the way. Of course if the prognostication is true, then it must be going to come anyway; so how can you get out of the way? It is much better not to look too far into the future but be open to receive what is coming now—that is the only thing that has to be dealt with—so that we are not compelled by the dragon in our behavior at all. We are simply the compulsion of the Word on earth, which is quite capable of dealing with what arises. Nothing is required of us more than we are capable of handling. Of course if we don't take advantage of our opportunities I suppose it builds up after a while and finally we can't handle it anymore. But if we do handle what we are capable of handling in the moment, and in the next moment, and the next moment, we'll never find ourselves out on a limb.

It isn't so much the events that should be looked upon as being troublesome; it's the feelings that arise relative to those events which cause the problems in human experience. How do you handle that, something in a sense invisible? People become quite effective at handling events. If there is a fire, call out the fire department; they'll handle it effectively. But if fear arises in you, who is going to handle that? The fire department isn't any good! Of course it may seem to be useful if the fear that has arisen has been given the body of a fire by you. No, the fear one has to handle oneself. All these things that arise—are you going to be pushed around by them, or is the Word going to be brought to bear? When it is, the dragon ceases to have any more power—get thee hence, satan—you can't be governed by any of these things arising out of the unconscious levels. This was what was demonstrated in the story of the temptations in the wilderness. Whatever arises, we understand; but we don't understand it on the basis of pinning a body on it. We understand what it is that has arisen, impinging upon our own feelings, as a vibrational factor, because the fall originally took place at that level. For quite a while there were no particular evidences of fearful results occurring from the failure to remain attuned with the Word. It was only later that finally it was brought home.

Now we remember again because the Spirit of Truth calls all things to remembrance. We remember again and we are capable of dealing with the fears that arise. If you say, “Oh, I'm afraid; I can't deal with this,” fear is in control once more and you have pinned a body on it: “I can't do this.” Oh yes, the Word is known. Let it be spoken. And so we may use to advantage what are seemingly most of the time rather insignificant affairs, because within those insignificant affairs the awareness of various feeling reactions arises, and that is where we deal with them. It's easy, very close. We have already said that it's insignificant, so, easily dealt with! Yes it is, when we actually undertake to do it.

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