I Am Come Into My Garden

I  Am  Come  Into  My  Garden

Martin Cecil  August 7, 1977  pm

“I am come into my garden.” The garden is prepared on earth by the angels of the Lord incarnate in human form. It cannot be prepared by human beings as such but by the angels of the Lord incarnate in human form, which permits the generation of the substance whereby radiation may be received on earth and understanding may increase in human consciousness on earth. We have noted that there are very specific ways by which the purposes of God may be accomplished at this level where human beings are. The purposes of God are inherent in the radiation. The radiation becomes comprehensible at the level of human consciousness when the essential spiritual substance is present. The extent of comprehension will depend upon the extent of spiritual substance and the particular levels at which it is generated. You present yourselves here this evening as angels of the Lord. The fact that there are angels present is only made apparent and meaningful because of your physical flesh and the consciousness that is present by reason of that flesh. It is through this instrument that the song of life is sung.

Light requires substance to become meaningful. Even if we consider the light that comes to us from the sun, it is the reflection of that light, that radiant light from the sun, from the surface of the earth, that causes it to be meaningful and valuable on earth. There must be substance for the reflection. We have considered the Tone of life and recognized that if this Tone is to be discerned there must be substance present in which it may sound. These are analogies of the truth. If we let it go with the analogies and insist that we understand the source of the analogies we remain ignorant. But if we allow the reality to be the experience then we know the truth. We know it not because someone told it to us—as though it could be transmitted by words, which it cannot—but because we let the light shine, because we became aware of the Tone of life by reason of the substance that has been generated by the human facility. Angelically speaking we know these things at the level of the angel but they need to be known at the level of human beings, so angels put in an appearance in human form. There are a number of those human forms sitting here this evening. I trust there is a sufficiency of angelic expression for me to assume that there are angels sitting here this evening, not just human forms. As angels you are here to play a particular role in the creative process.

Upon first approaching spiritual things the positive and negative aspects are usually seen as God on the one hand and human beings on the other: human beings must respond to God, the positive radiation, and something then happens. If the response is true there will be the generation of some substance. The reason for the generation of the substance is not to enlighten the human being particularly. It is to make possible the emergence of the angel, that there may be an angel present in human form and functional on earth. Only as this requirement is fulfilled is there any means by which further steps may be taken. So you as angels in the flesh have a particular role to play in the situation in which we find ourselves this evening. This role may be seen as a negative role; and remember, when we use the word “negative” we do not use it to indicate something wrong. The negative aspect of being is just as essential as the positive; there must be both—this is a real duality. So you have a negative role to play here as angels: first of all to bring such substance as has been generated through your human form with you into this place; and then to participate in further generation of spiritual substance, of finer substance, that there may be a garden, that you may invite the Lord into your garden.

Now the Lord of whom we usually think is not incarnate at this present time in human form, so it is necessary that He be represented somehow. If there are angels who provide the facility and play the role of the negative aspect essential to the working of the Law in human experience, then there is the necessity for an angel incarnate in human form to play the role of the positive aspect. The one who plays that positive role in any particular situation is properly, in that situation, an angel representing the Lord on earth through the flesh. The flesh is not the Lord; the spirit is what is being represented; but if the flesh permits that representation to appear so that there is an angel made evident in the flesh, it is difficult if not impossible to separate the flesh from the spirit which is made known by reason of the flesh. And yet the spirit is primary. In this particular situation, evidently I am the one charged with the responsibility of providing a representation of the Lord in the flesh on earth. That representation is only possible to an angel—an angel who is sent to provide what is necessary in this regard. Now I am not limiting this to myself, because in many other situations there is the same requirement of an angel in the flesh representing the Lord, because there must be the positive aspect and the negative aspect of the angelic union if there is to be the true creative expression.

We may perhaps see this in other terms. You may recall the occasion recorded in the Book of Acts when there was what has subsequently been called an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The ultimate experience was described as “cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.” Let us see this in relationship to our own experience now. Here we are, gathered together with one accord, in whatever measure of agreement between angels there may be present, and in one place physically speaking. We're all here together in this Chapel and we could say consequently there is one flesh, one body of people, one body of people composed of a positive aspect and a negative aspect, in this sense the union of male and female, one flesh. And out of that one flesh of our gathering here this evening, as it truly is a gathering of angels, there appears the flame, the cloven tongues as of fire. Cloven—two aspects.

It springs forth from the head, or the consciousness of this unified body here present. There is one flesh at the base but there arises from that one flesh two aspects of what is described as fire, an ascending flame of fire, an intensification. And fire propagates light and heat. Light and heat come from the sun. They are made meaningful on earth by reason of reflection; there is substance available for reflection. This light and heat which is generated out of the flame is made meaningful by reason of reflection in the spiritual substance that is present; and there is unified radiation—unified radiation consequent upon the presence of angels with one accord in one place, composing a body which can be referred to as one flesh. It is one flesh because there are the two aspects, the male and the female aspects, the positive and the negative. We could say spiritual union—spiritual union on earth, out of which springs the radiation of the spirit of the Lord on earth, is obviously essential for that radiation.

To the extent that this occurs in our own experience there is radiation at the level of mankind, and it becomes discernible, comprehensible, generating vision in the world wherever there is substance to reflect it. This is happening without those in whom this substance may be present having any idea whatsoever as to what it is that is happening. Insofar as all of you are concerned you had no idea what was happening in your experience, and yet there has been some sort of an experience, hasn't there? This occurs quite rapidly but is all based in the fact of radiation at the level where that radiation is required and the fact of substance at that same level whereby the radiation may be reflected and so become meaningful to human beings. It becomes meaningful to individual human beings for the purpose of generating more substance, because if there is an awareness of new understanding, if there is new vision, the individual's lifestyle, as it is called these days, will change. His attitudes, his approach to living, will be different. It will be consequent upon his new vision, his new experience of himself; and this in turn will generate more spiritual substance both quantitatively and qualitatively. In other words there will be finer levels of substance generated, thereby permitting greater vision, greater understanding, and an increased change in lifestyle.

Of course while this is going on there will be many factors present, dragging the individual back into the old routine. Some will succumb to those factors no doubt, but others, those with integrity, will seek to be as true to their vision as is possible to them. You have come along the way to the extent that you have kept your integrity and been true to your highest vision. It seems relatively easy in the world the way it is to deny and betray that vision with the idea that it will be profitable to do so, perhaps profitable financially or profitable in some other way—you are going to get more of what you want. Every endeavor on the part of a human being to get what he thinks he wants is a violation of integrity. And because it requires that one express something less than one's highest vision, you have to manipulate to get what you want. So this is not yet the experience of the angel on earth. But there are those who will be true to their integrity and will live according to their highest vision.

In the world the way it has been there have always been such, but their vision never went very high simply because on the one hand there was the inadequate generation of substance on the part of those concerned which would allow a reflection of the essential radiation, and on the other hand there has been, for the most part, an inadequate provision of a facility of angelic radiation at the level where human beings are. Once this facility begins to appear so that there is radiation at the level where human beings are, then there will be activation of this spiritual substance which may be present by reason of the generation of at least a segment of the population. So this creative cycle necessarily has had to be set in motion. It is in motion in our own experience now, but there were requirements by which it could be set in motion.

We have noted the fact that a creative cycle has from time to time been set in motion in the world in times past. Something was set in motion at the time of the children of Israel. Something was set in motion at the time when Jesus was on earth. It was set in motion because there was a facility which provided a means of essential radiation at the level where the radiation was required. There was present, and always has been present in the body of mankind, a certain measure of spiritual substance capable of reflecting spiritual radiation. Generally speaking when that reflection has appeared it tended to be overwhelmed by the strong drag that there is in human consciousness based in earthly heredity. This strong drag was very evident in the story of the children of Israel and it brought about the eventual dissolution of that opportunity. The strong drag has been very evident in what has been called Christianity, and so what might have been, from the standpoint of Christianity, has never been. There is dissolution here also. Christianity has become conceptualized in human consciousness and bears virtually no resemblance whatsoever to the truth which was brought into the world by the One whom we may rightly refer to as the Lord, or the Master. And yet that One is supreme to us. We know what was brought from the standpoint of the children of Israel, we know what was brought from the standpoint of the Master, and we know this because we know what is brought now. Only what has been generated now and reflects the radiation now brings with it what might be called enlightenment, understanding, understanding of the past; not that what happened in the past is all that important now except as it brought us to this point. The question is what is happening now. And we see the essential elements needful to permit creative action on earth. There must be angels present in human form, angels willing to play their particular roles in given circumstances.

Now we have this particular circumstance of the moment and there are particular roles to be played in this circumstance. There are other roles in other circumstances but all the roles are included in the working of the Law. We may at one time be playing a negative role in a particular situation and at another time playing a positive role; and I am not making the division in this regard on the basis of male and female. In this particular circumstance now I am a man and playing a positive role. You are both men and women and playing a negative role. In fact I don't stand alone as a man here. There are those who have made possible the role I am playing by providing a garden for me. If I had had to wait around for you to provide me with a garden I would have been waiting a long time. You are now providing me with a garden but only because there have been others who did it before you. And in relationship to that requirement of a garden there are of course two who have played a consistent role in that regard over the years—Lillian and Grace—and so it may be said, in a sense, that the three of us are standing here.

We begin to recognize that there is an expansion, rightly, not only of the negative aspect but of the positive too. In the overall sense of what we call our ministry the positive aspect is the CORE aspect which is composed of quite a number of people. In given situations here or there it may be just one person who provides the positive point and other angels incarnate in human form who willingly offer what is required from the negative standpoint. But we should not assume that because we play a positive role at one time we should not play a negative role at another time. There is complete flexibility in this because as angels we play the roles that are necessary to allow the creative cycles to unfold as they should in all their ramifications. Some of those creative cycles are large ones, some are quite small, and there are many in between; but it requires angels who are present and functional in human flesh in order to get the job done.

As I say, we have a special occasion right in this moment. Every moment, as far as that is concerned, is a special occasion for angelic function, but we may recognize something rather specific in our gathering here this evening where there is a body of one flesh—positive and negative aspects, and something of the flame ascending from this point of junction. And it ascends on the basis of the positive and negative. But from this dual flame there is radiation occurring in the consciousness of mankind as a whole, and within that consciousness is some substance to reflect it. The substance reflects it and those who are associated with the substance that is reflecting it begin to see something, begin to understand, begin to move in a creative cycle, to the extent that there is a willingness to let go to what is being experienced by reason of the radiation. Of course those concerned don't know what is happening but they have an increased vision; something is stirring. It is necessary to let go to that.

Very often the instruction is given to let go of the factors of distortion, the factors of human heredity; but no one will let go of those unless there is present something which he can let go to. If you let go of the factors of earthly heredity, what would you have? What would most people have? Just a blank. And that verges on the experience of insanity, doesn't it? Letting go of earthly heredity is absolutely essential, yes, but it only becomes possible to do when there is something to which human beings may let go—let go to the true radiation. But the true radiation in its initial stages is something rather vague. A person may feel the urge to do the right thing. He's not sure what the right thing is but he feels the urge to do it anyway. So he has a certain level of vision, and he tries to be true to that level of vision. Here is someone of integrity on hand; but if there is to be real movement so that he is not more or less thrashing around in the dark, so to speak, the point of radiation must be seen. We see the sun for instance from the surface of the earth. Everybody is more cheerful on a sunny day. When the light is diffused because of the overcast, then gloom tends to prevail in human consciousness. There may be an awareness of light, it must be coming from someplace, but the individual doesn't know where specifically. But when the sun comes out, there it is; we know; and the whole world lights up because of it. There are many human beings in the twilight state. They are trying to be true to their highest vision but it doesn't seem to be getting them anywhere, and they look at their fellows and they see people violating their integrity all around, getting away with it apparently. It is only when the sun comes out that there is a specific point which brings a sense of certainty.

In our fulfilment of responsibility this evening, to the extent that there is unified radiation released by reason of our presence here, those in whom the substance is present which can reflect this radiation find nothing much more than a diffused light, as it were under an overcast, because they are not in position to see the source of the radiation. You know the source of the radiation because you participate in its release; so it is not a mystery to you. And you consequently have a far greater sense of assurance. You begin to share the knowing of the angel who you really are. But most people in the world don't have that awareness yet. Some of them are in deep, dense darkness anyway, with no flicker of light in the true sense. Those who have some substance to reflect the light and feel the warmth realize that there is something somewhere, but they don't yet know where or what it is. But as, in your own experience, you were true to your integrity, somewhere along the way the light broke through and you became aware that it had a source on earth at the level where we are.

Most people who look to spiritual things are looking into the sky somewhere, into some invisible heaven somewhere else than on earth. There are many people on earth of course who are looking for leadership of one sort or another, and they set this person or that person up on a pedestal but he inevitably falls off it. Then the idea is generated that no one can be trusted, which is true of human beings certainly. No one can be trusted. I don't trust you at all as human beings but I do trust the angel. To the extent that that angel is putting in an appearance I know I can depend on you. I'm not trusting the human being. I'm trusting the angel—the angel who is in charge of the human facility. There begins to be something trustworthy. And so we find a sense of mutual trust to the extent that the angel has put in an appearance and there is a light shining of which we are aware.

We have our contribution to make, whether of the positive aspect of the flame or the negative aspect of the flame, whichever it may be, varying back and forth in different situations. We know the light because we are the light angelically speaking. And others may awaken to that too. They begin to see something, as you have seen something along the way. To start with you don't know what it is. Sometimes it seems too good to be true. But only as you continue to keep your integrity, as you begin to emerge increasingly out of the coarse levels of human function, do you have the substance available which permits the vision to appear by which you can understand. If you don't have the substance you can't understand and you will continue in the old human ways of blaming people and criticizing people and condemning people. That is the filthy state of human nature and it dissipates any substance that might have been present.

I don't care how much substance anyone may have generated back along the way and how much they may have experienced of spiritual things, they can blow it anytime—and many have. Many have insisted upon remaining at coarse levels. “Well if the Lord will come here and save me here, all right, but I'm not going to move.” What a foolish attitude, because on that basis we never know the truth of ourselves; we have no faintest idea of the reason for our presence on earth. Some have complained about that: “I don't know why I am here. I thought I knew somewhere along the way but now I don't know why I am here.” Well if that is true the substance has been blown somehow. There is only one way to go and that is to generate some substance in living. But you can't generate that substance if you are immersed in critical attitudes and in demanding attitudes.

So as angels here present, all that has receded into the background, has no further meaning to us. Let what is filthy be filthy still, but not in us. Let what is righteous be righteous because there is an angel present and he keeps all his expression sacred and plays whatever roles are necessary in the unfolding creative cycles, a negative role sometimes, a positive role sometimes. But there is great variety with respect to the roles themselves, never a dull moment when we are doing it as angels—otherwise boredom and uselessness and hopelessness set in. Well if anyone has that experience in human consciousness he knows in that moment that the angel has been ejected from his experience. We make our own choices. We are responsible for whatever occurs in our experience; no one else is.

Seeing this, how important it is then that we should play our roles as angels in whatever the circumstances may be. And we don't try to make the circumstances be some way that we want them to be. We let them be whatever they are and play our role there. That is the only role we can play; otherwise it is just simply imagination. The way it is is the only thing we can handle, because it is the way it is. It is the only real thing that is present to handle, and if we are not struggling with all the things that we think should be, then how easy it becomes. We only have one thing to handle, the thing of the moment. We only have one thing to handle in this moment. I have my role to play, you have your role to play; nothing else is required. It is quite sufficient; it may occupy our total experience and consciousness if we are willing to let it. To that extent we are with one accord in one place.

And there is the fire burning, transmuting, radiating. The radiation goes forth but not for our personal benefit; it goes forth to achieve the creative purposes of the One whom we represent on the basis of the roles that we play. We all have the responsibility of representing that One, and we don't do it secondhand; we take responsibility for that representation. I do in this moment. I represent Him in this moment. I take that responsibility. I don't say, “Well Lord, please come here and take my place.” Of what value would that be? He is in no position to come here and take my place. Collectively we are providing a garden of increasing quality and size so that there may be a place where He could come, if He chooses to come; but that is His business. We provide the garden and we keep the garden, whether He is here or not, because this is His domain and we are stewards of it, responsible people—responsible angels.

I thank God for the angelic expression which is appearing through the human facility. But we remember that the human facility needs some training to be in position adequately to encompass the angelic expression in every circumstance. We can handle that too when we know the business we are about. I thank God for your participation this evening as angels, to the extent that this has been true in expression through your human form, that there might be creative achievement to the extent that there has. Glory to God in the highest. We are here to let that be true because we live always to our angelic highest.

© emissaries of divine light