Power At The Hub

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Power  At  The  Hub

Martin Cecil  August 14, 1977

As there are angels—some of them present here this evening—who are incarnate in human form on earth and who really begin to present themselves as angels before the Lord then there is an essential starting point by which the state of mankind can be resolved so that man might once more be present on earth. If this is so, then there are those in the world who represent the Lord and who have ceased to pay any particular attention to the blatherings of Satan. We do not wish to waste our time by becoming involved in an argument with the devil. The sons and the daughters of God present themselves on earth in human form in a consciousness of having been sent for a very particular purpose. There is no reason to argue with anyone about it. To the extent that we ourselves have something of this angelic consciousness we know exactly why we are here and we will not deny it. As a person begins to awaken to an increased consciousness of angelic expression Satan is always on hand to suggest that we deny what is happening. I suppose you could say that in the awakening process there is a time of twilight experience when it is still in question as to which way the individual is going—either to wake up entirely or to go back to sleep. My concern is with those who have decided to wake up entirely.

So the angels of the Lord present themselves before Him in order to do what they are here to do. If we look at what needs to be done, observing the immensity of the task we will be inclined to fall back into the devil’s clutches, because he says that what needs to be done can only be done by immense human effort. It is not by such means that what is needful is achieved. There is something that can be done immediately exactly where we are, and when we do what is needed exactly where we are this will resolve what is presently an insoluble mess out there. We do not resolve that mess out there by going out there to do it. We stay right where we are, wherever that happens to be, and there are certainly angels emerging into expression in human form in many places on the face of the earth; but the same principle applies no matter where a person may be.

The state of affairs in the world might be described as an immense dissonance of raucous sound. How is this dissonance going to come to a point of consonance, harmonious consonance? How is it going to be resolved? The creative process in operation throughout the whole universe moves in cycles, in the overall sense in a creative spiral. It is an upward movement with which human beings are not particularly familiar because they have not for a long time been participating in it, but it is going on nevertheless. It moves in this spiral from a point of consonance into a state of dissonance and back to a state of consonance again at a higher level. This is the natural creative cycle; there is nothing wrong with it. In its relationship to human beings it was described long ago as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Good and evil then were part of that original state—both are perfect. There is consonance and there is dissonance and they each have a part to play in the creative process. There is nothing wrong with the dissonance; there is nothing wrong with the consonance. There is nothing wrong with evil, there is nothing wrong with good, until human beings interfere with the process. Then things go very wrong in human experience, not that this interrupts the creative cycles of the universe particularly but it brings a good deal of tribulation and suffering upon the human race and upon many other forms of life which are part of the creative life cycle related to this earth.

So there has been a mess-up in this whole process because of the failure of human beings, so that they are now disassociated from the creative cycle. We could say, to illustrate something, that at the point of human failure there was a state of consonance. The state of consonance was properly to be followed by a state of dissonance in the true creative cycle, but certain ones distorted the state of dissonance in order to conform with their desires, desires which they presumed were good or would lead to more satisfying consonance. Unfortunately this was none of the business of human beings; they had no business interfering with what was happening. They were warned of what would occur if they insisted on this interference, and of course it did, because they did. And so since that point of consonance there has been a constantly increasing dissonance; the cycle has never been resolved. It may be seen that there were a number of points of hesitation in the dissonant pattern when it could have turned again into a cycle which would have led to consonance, but in each case human failure reoccurred and so the dissonance, or the disintegration in this case, continued.

Now if consonance is to come out of dissonance there must be present in the dissonance a starting point, a starting point which relates to the consonance that is later to appear as the dissonance is resolved. That starting point, in our present consideration of what is necessary on earth to emerge out of this unnatural cycle, is the presence of angels in human form on earth presenting themselves before the Lord and refusing to be distracted by Satan. This vast dissonance that is present on earth in the experience of all human beings can only be resolved on the basis of this starting point which I have mentioned, because this starting point is a point of consonance within the dissonance. As there is that point of consonance within the dissonance the positive quality of that point begins to draw into association with itself all the material that is necessary to permit a resolution to bring the whole unfolding cycle to the point of consonance which we have referred to as the point of restoration. Now how is this going to be done? Theoretically we can look at the situation and say, “Oh yes, there must be an adequate angelic pattern manifest in human form on earth and then everything will work out as it should.” Well it’s a nice idea, but how is it going to do it? It is going to do it because there are angels present in expression through human form, angels who are undistracted by the blatherings of Satan. But they have something to do. They don’t just sit there twiddling their thumbs waiting for the world to change. Probably the world would change all right and move into a state of complete dissolution on that basis.

What the angels are to do has been described in various ways but maybe we should look at it in the sense of our immediate fields of responsibility, because if we have been sent on earth as angels and we land up here, wherever here may be for the individual, that is the place we have been sent to; otherwise we wouldn’t be here. This is the place which makes possible the resolution from the worldly state of dissonance to a state of consonance. So there is something very special about the particular place where a person is now. There is a place where we always are. It relates to the present moment, doesn’t it? It always relates to the present circumstance and it will include other people who are in the vicinity, who are a part of our present circumstance—this is always so.

The point is that here is the focus for whatever is to occur to make possible the resolution. We can’t push and pull the world into the state it ought to be, by human effort. In the first place we don’t have enough strength for that and in the second place we do not know how it ought to be. So we mind our own business, exactly where we are in the moment. As angels we are all present in the present moment, no matter what our geographical location. We are all together in this sense, and all together as angels incarnate in human form and beginning to find angelic expression by reason of the human form, we are the core of what it is that makes possible the resolution. As individuals in our respective places we have a world around us. As our immediate contact with that world around us, which may stretch out quite a distance, we have circumstances and people. We have something to deal with moment by moment.

The changes that need to come are changes in consciousness. Did you ever try to change someone else’s consciousness? If I had been trying to do this over these years I would have been discouraged long ago. I have been offering services over a lengthy period of time, not to change anyone’s state of consciousness, because I can’t do that, but to offer the opportunity to those who would receive it to remember how to let their own consciousness change. And I have been very happy over the years in doing this to discover that my own consciousness changed. Now you can’t as a human being change your own consciousness. You wouldn’t know how to do it or what your consciousness should be after you had gotten it done. So that’s not the point. The point is that we have begun to discover and experience a new state of consciousness to the extent that we have been willing to accept a new quality of expression, not struggling to build some model state of spiritual, consciousness that we had decided would be useful but in a very practical way letting our circumstances be used to provide us with the opportunity of giving expression to a quality of living that transcended what we knew before. We had to take responsibility for ourselves to do this, to recognize that whatever it was that was present with us exactly where we were was the facility by which we might let our state of consciousness change.

When you are associated with other people, I am sure that for all of you, you have found on occasion certain characteristics of which you were inclined to be critical. How did you handle that situation? Here was Satan telling you that you should judge this situation, this person, on the basis of the things that you thought you saw. But you had to look at that person through your own state of consciousness; there was no other basis for it. No matter whom you look at you have to look at that person through your own state of consciousness. If I speak to you now, what I am saying will be looked at through your state of consciousness so that it will not come out in your experience on the basis of what it was I said. It will be translated on the basis of your state of consciousness. I know that. I have to put up with that, trusting that it will not be too off-key. Well, this situation can only change to permit a truer consciousness of what it is we share, on the basis of your own living. It is not because you listen more intently, although it is wise to listen intently; but it is not because you get really concentrated in on what it is that is being said and try to grasp it all. You don’t understand that way; you simply interpret it on the basis of your state of consciousness.

The change in consciousness comes by your living moment by moment by moment by moment. You look at people through your state of consciousness and then you are inclined to say, “That person is the way I see him,” when it isn’t so at all—you never saw that person. All you saw was what was in your own consciousness, and it is the state of consciousness that needs to change. So if anyone insists that he sees clearly now all that needs to be seen he is certainly deluding himself. As angels we are present to make possible the changed state of our human consciousness so that that consciousness will be capable of accommodating our consciousness as angels. So the way the world changes is based in the way we let our own state of consciousness change—that’s one thing we can do. If we try to change other people’s state of consciousness we will run up against a brick wall, but we can let something happen in ourselves.

As an angel these circumstances arise, these people come into our immediate vicinity. We see them through our state of consciousness, and if we are functioning from the standpoint of the angel we recognize that. The only way that as angels we can observe on earth is through our own state of human consciousness, but we take that into account. In observing others we say, “Well I’m seeing that through the present state of consciousness of this form and I don’t swallow, therefore, everything I see.” When you are looking at someone whom you are inclined to see in a certain way, if it was possible for the fog to clear and you actually saw that person you might be amazed! Probably it would be a shocking experience, and you would wonder how it could be that you had been deluding yourself for so long. But the point here really is as to how one handles what is present in one’s own consciousness, so that you are not pinning things on somebody else; because as long as you are pinning things on somebody else you are not taking responsibility for your own state of consciousness, and until you begin to take responsibility for that you are not in position to let it change. You are going to be insisting upon your view of things, the view of your distorted state of human consciousness. Why should we insist on that? One of the first things necessary is to acknowledge the fact of it.

As angels we are on earth but we don’t have a clear state of consciousness yet through which to function, and this is quite all right. There is a dissonance here, a dissonance which is to be resolved into the state of consonance; so we are not objecting to it. How about coming into agreement as angels so that we are not concerned with what seems to be wrong; we are concerned with how this creative cycle may move on the basis of the dissonance that presently exists. It exists in other people too; we recognize that; but the resolution must come in ourselves as individuals, and only those who begin to have the consciousness of the angel can make the approach which allows this to happen. I suspect that a lot of those who have given consideration to the matter of the angel have thought that the angel is suddenly going to spring out and there it is—there it is in all its glory, there you are, and you know everything and everything is fine. No. We have a lot of resolving to do, but the resolving is primarily in relationship to our own state of consciousness.

Are we going to believe everything we see or think we see? That’s what the devil wants you to do. Or are you going to take it with a grain of salt? As an angel you may say, “Well this is the only equipment I have, so I must see things through this state of consciousness, but in view of the fact that it is very much conditioned by earthly heredity I’m going to be very cautious in what I observe, because I know for sure that it will not be the way my consciousness thinks it is.” If it was the way your consciousness thinks it is actually, well the resolution would have come to you, and I doubt if any of you would take that attitude as yet. I think you might be a little arrogant if you did. No, we all have whatever the state of consciousness is to work through but we begin to be able to handle it. We begin to be able to rein it in a little, and we begin to offer a suggestion or two, shall we say: “Well wait a minute, let’s look at this a little more carefully,” so that these patterns of distortion may be cleared.

There is movement properly from dissonance to consonance, so we do not condemn the dissonance. We can’t reach the state of consonance without moving through the intervening space of dissonance, and we will move victoriously through that intervening space to the extent that our approach is consistently angelic and we are not assuming that we know something merely because we think we see something with our human consciousness. We exercise patience, for one thing. As I say, wait a minute—wait a minute. Let’s look a little further before we make any snap judgments here, because we are not on earth to make snap judgments; we are not on earth to jump to conclusions; we are not on earth to assume things. We are on earth to let the state of consciousness change. The very fact that we begin to have an angelic awareness is an indication that the state of consciousness is beginning to change. But there is still a lot of cloudiness in it, so we don’t see things with the clarity that we might think we had been seeing things; we delude ourselves.

So we have the set of circumstances of the moment, we have the people in our circumstances of the moment. How are we going to handle this as angels? Even though we think someone else is not behaving the way they should, maybe it is our distorted view in the matter and not the other person at all; so we are not going to jump to conclusions; we are not going to judge the other person and we are not going to judge ourselves. We are going to let it be resolved, move from dissonance into consonance; and it is resolved on the basis of the fact that there is a starting point—a starting point which will be included in the consonance that eventually appears. That starting point is the angel, because the angel would still be present after this movement through the dissonance to the point of consonance; but there will be something far more when that point is reached.

All the material that is present in one’s state of consciousness, which certainly includes what you are observing moment by moment, will not be held in its rigid patterns anymore but allowed to dissolve into its basic elements. Then because there is this positive miniature starting point of consonance present in the midst of the dissonance the material being released out of the arbitrary molds in which we have held it by our view of other people and of circumstances has the opportunity to begin to associate itself with that miniature point of consonance, the starting point, and it will move through cycles of dissonance leading toward the resolution of consonance. When it reaches the point of consonance there will be far more in experience than at that initial point of consonance, the miniature point at the start. All this other material will have come into harmony with that original point. Then what appears at that next point of consonance on the upward spiral is the miniature starting point for the following cycle. This is the way that all true creative cycles work, but there must be a proper starting point, and that proper starting point is the angel. As an angel you are faced with your circumstances and with the people in your circumstances. You are there to let a resolution come should there be dissonance, and there will be dissonance; it’s part of the creative cycle. There tends to be the idea that we need to have a harmonious state of consonance all the time, we will all enjoy ourselves, we will all be friends, and it will be just wonderful, won’t it? Well, we can be friends all right but part of our business is moving through these creative cycles where there is dissonance. We see that immense state of dissonance in the world. How is it going to be resolved? It is going to be resolved at the core through this miniature starting point.

I used the illustration the other day of a hub. This Dome has rather the appearance of a hub—the spiritual hub for the world. Now, if power is going to be transmitted to a wheel it is transmitted, in an automobile anyway, through the hub, or through the axle which moves into the hub of the wheel, and when there is movement at the hub all the rest of the wheel moves. You don’t have to go out to the edge of the tire and start pushing it along. Just apply the power at the hub and the whole thing moves. It moves if the wheel is all together. If somehow the spokes which connect the rim to the hub were weak or not in place then of course when the hub started to move the rest of the wheel would collapse. Well we are not interested in the collapse of mankind. We are interested in the restoration of mankind. So we need to be very sure that our connections from the hub out into the further parts of the wheel are solid, and there are those who play their parts rightly in this pattern so that we keep connected up with the whole body of mankind—but the power is transmitted at the CORE. It is transmitted through those angels who assume responsibility for their proper handling of circumstances and other people in their own consciousness, so that it is always kept clear there.

You may think you see through your consciousness a state of dissonance somewhere. This may bother you if you are bothered by such things, and you say, “Well that shouldn’t be there.” But it is there—that’s the point. It is there in your own consciousness at least. Even if it may not be the fact out there it is in your own consciousness. Well it needs to clear in your consciousness, and it isn’t a matter of having a lovely state of affairs: “Don’t anyone rock the boat.” We can delude ourselves on that basis. I have heard some things said by people that were not borne out at all by their expression of living, and if everybody says nicey-nice things but actually it is not a true evidence of what is back of it then we need a little dissonance around, don’t we? Something needs to be stirred up so that we stop fooling ourselves. There is nothing wrong with dissonance, there is nothing wrong with evil, if we will let it move in its own way without interference from the devil.

So we all have our fields of living for which we are responsible as angels. Let us take that responsibility so that we are always on hand as angels. A person can’t be everywhere in the field of his responsibility at the same time, can he? I certainly can’t, obviously, but do you imagine that I would pull out of my point of responsibility? I don’t think there would be any ministry at all if I ever did that, no matter what is going on. Each one has exactly that same responsibility: to be in the right place handling the circumstances and the people rightly as an angel of the Lord, taking into account the state of consciousness which is still present insofar as your human form is concerned. Remember that it is very fallible, so be cautious and don’t accept its say-so.

You have the ability as an angel increasingly to allow a change to come in that state of consciousness so that it may share with you the true vision, the true understanding, which handles all that arises easily, which doesn’t try to impose anything or force anything to be differently but is willing to let the creative cycle move and let the changes come, as they surely will when we let them; but we never let them if we are obedient to the devil when he says, “Command that these stones be made bread! Impose something on the situation! Clear this thing up right away!” No, handle it as an angel. How would the angel handle it, in view of certain restrictions in the human consciousness through which the angel has to handle it? Sometimes that requires that we ask someone to come and help. We need to become aware of our own limitations, not that they should be considered necessarily permanent but if they are there now we need to recognize them and take them into account in the way we handle things; and this is easily done when our approach is made from the standpoint of the angel.

It is only by reason of the angel on earth that we have a starting point. As that starting point is allowed to become operative because Satan doesn’t carry weight anymore then the power begins to be transmitted through the hub, through the hub to the wheel, and the wheel can begin to turn; and the resolution that is occurring right here where one is in one’s own state of consciousness will be transmitted to the periphery of the wheel automatically. Of course there are many requirements here because there is a need to keep the wheel properly connected up, and there are many roles to be played in seeing that this is so, but the primary role relates to permitting the transmission of the power through the hub to the wheel. So the most important place for anyone is right where he is in this present moment, and it is always so. As long as you cannot be distracted from that and from concern to let the true angelic expression appear in that present moment we have an operative hub and the power begins to be transmitted to the whole wheel.

I am thankful for the sons and the daughters of God who have been present here this evening and who have consequently heard the truth, and I thank God for the sons and daughters of God wherever they may be who likewise share this responsibility with all of us to the glory of God.

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