The Clouds Are Dissolved From Above

The  Clouds  Are  Dissolved  From  Above

from  The  Action of Spirit

Martin Cecil   October 14, 1979

When a number of human beings are assembled together in one place it usually is not silent. Is it not rather refreshing to be together in this place this evening and experience quietness? Silence without embarrassment. I am not embarrassed by this silence. Are you? Yet this is very different from what is usually known where human beings assemble themselves together. We are all here present this evening in this setting for a reason. I am sure that you are not interested in wasting your time. I am not either. So we are all here present, all together now. Do you think that we are here by chance? You know that you didn't just wander in. There has been much preparation for your coming, preparation in the life experience of each one and preparation in the life experience of others, so that there might be a setting into which you might come. If it isn't by chance then there is some sort of a sense of destiny, rightly. For one reason or another you could not help but be here. We are sufficiently humble not to imagine that we did it. Something was in action that affected us in such a way as to bring us to this moment, in this place together. This should emphasize in our consciousness the fact of purpose. There is indeed a reason why we are here, why we have been put together in this formation. We did not pick and choose each other to any great extent, and yet we are here. This formation is available for something.

You all have some consciousness of the reality which has allowed this to happen. What is the purpose? We might use words to define it, which may be accurate but not necessarily adequately understood. We are here together to allow spiritual action to occur, not for our own benefit but for the purposes of God. We are particular people, all unique; therefore it might be assumed that there is a unique purpose for this particular formation. Human beings sometimes drift into gatherings with the expectation of receiving some blessing—but I trust that none of us imagine that we are here present merely to receive a blessing. We are here to give a blessing, a blessing that is only possible of the giving by reason of these who are here present. The blessing that is possible to be given by reason of us would not be possible of the giving by anyone else. We are not really interchangeable. We need to have a consciousness of this, particularly as it relates to the gathering this evening. But the gathering here will only be valuable and effective as there is something of a consciousness of the unique expression which we individually may offer in blessing in our daily living. This is part of our daily living, but it brings all these unique expressions of blessing together in this one place, so that something even more valuable may happen, a greater intensity of Light may shine, a greater release of spiritual action may occur. It is surely our delight to be present to let it happen.

This little word let puts in an appearance again. We know very well that this relates to any creative process. “Let there be light,” was the creative command. But something preceded that creative command. It wasn't as though a Supreme Being suddenly had a brainstorm and by whim decided to say, “Let there be light.” Even in the record in the Book of Genesis there are several verses which precede the one which includes the words “Let there be light”: “The earth was without form, and void,” for instance, “and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Something is mentioned here which may seem to be more or less nothing to human consciousness: formless, void, empty, dark—and yet here was an adequate starting point, evidently. Reference is being made to something that appears to be nothing, dimensionally speaking—but isn't in fact. Reference is being made to what might be called the raw material of creation which is already present. It is already present now. From our standpoint, if creative action is to occur and the Creative Word be spoken, the Light be caused to appear in a special intensity by reason of this formation, it is because there is something already available to allow it to happen. We don't use the little word let in the creative process, out of the blue, so to speak. If there is to be a letting, it is because that letting is made possible—there is already a means for the letting. The letting doesn't produce the means for itself. There is something already present.

We may be able to see this relative to our own experience now. We have often spoken of the generation of substance, referring to it particularly as spiritual substance. One aspect of this substance has been called the substance of connection, the substance which makes possible spiritual connection so that spirit has a means of action within the range of human experience. This is our concern. Presumably spirit has had a means of action anyway everywhere, otherwise nothing would have happened; but we are aware that many things have happened and are happening and will happen in this whole vast universe. So the substance is already there universally speaking, but from the standpoint of human experience, not so. It must be generated—a substance of connection must be regenerated, we might say. The Master Himself spoke of the regeneration—the regeneration of the substance of connection, so that there may be a means for spiritual action, there may be a means by which the Creative Word may be spoken: “Let there be light,” perhaps.

So over the years there have been those who have been associated with this generative action. Substance has been generated by individuals over the years in some measure, and this also has been the case collectively, increasingly so. There is present, for instance, in this room, not only by reason of those who are here now in this moment but also by reason of what has gone before, a considerable amount of spiritual substance. Because of this there is much that can be achieved that could not have been achieved back along the way when there wasn't this extent of spiritual substance. Each individual is responsible for the generation in a personal sense, but also there is substance available, already present, which may be shared. We are here to increase the generation, certainly not to dissipate the substance that is already present. We all have a responsibility in this regard, but we may indeed be very thankful for the fact that there have been many who went before, and consequently there is an availability of substance in which we may now share quite apart from what we generate ourselves. I don't mean when I say “apart” that it is separate from anything we may generate ourselves. It is all one substance. Because of this substance, spirit can be in action to this extent.

Let us for a moment pause and consider the state of affairs in the human world, which has been sadly lacking in this spiritual substance beyond what we may refer to as the veil. There certainly is a veil in the world, and human beings function underneath it. It is so thick that there is scarcely any awareness that there could be anything beyond the veil. It isn't looked upon as a veil in fact; it is just looked upon as the way things are, and the area in which human beings do function is not seen as being restricted by a veil. Yet the fact of the matter is that it is so restricted. There is a little area under the veil where human consciousness resides and vibrational substance is fairly plentiful, but the operation all occurs under this veil. The realm of human consciousness, which is present by reason of the substance of it, is fairly coarse substance. All the various levels of substance under the veil are relatively coarse when seen in the light of the substance that is available above the veil. Here is very refined substance. This refined substance remains beyond human awareness because of the veil. The veil relates to the impure human heart. There is no open window of heaven, just a murky smog, and all human function is under the veil.

Human consciousness is the heaven in which the great red dragon functions and rules, or has ruled. This coarse substance under the veil has been wrongly used to create structures of all kinds which are then reproduced in physical substance, for instance. We have the physical world that human beings have created. It all emerged out of what was going on in human consciousness, the realm of the dragon who has ruled. The world as we know it is man-made. There are some evidences of the fact of another world, God-made, something that man could not make even though he manipulates it a good deal, tries to make it over. He deems that he has been quite successful in certain areas, changing the nature of animals and plants to suit himself, but there had to be animals and plants to start with. He could not make those. So the dragon has been enthroned in this coarse heaven below the veil.

It is said that there was war in this heaven. Many of these terms are used because they are familiar to human consciousness. It wasn't a ding-dong battle. We properly are permitting this so-called war to occur within the range of the coarse substance of consciousness for which we are responsible. We cannot take responsibility for the coarse consciousness which is present in others but we can with respect to our own. And it is within the range of this coarse substance below the veil, the substance for which we personally are responsible and collectively are responsible, that the heaven is, out of which the dragon must be cast and is in the process of being cast, so that there may be a safe place in this coarse substance for the designs present in the fine substance to begin to put in an appearance. There is nothing wrong with coarse substance as such. It is the uses to which it has been put that have been wrong—unrighteousness. So the coarse substance is available, but what has been present in it must be cast out. The structures must be dissolved in one way or another so that there is room, so that there is space, for the true design to begin to emerge out of the fine substance and be present at this level of heaven.

Here is our field of responsibility. We are to allow heaven to be here where we are, and it is a very practical matter. Let the coarse substance of our human consciousness be cleared. It is cleared of the structures that have been established there when we stop preserving them, when we stop giving our life force to their continued existence—stop arguing to support the things that need to pass away. Human beings have memories which need to be dissolved. It is said that the Spirit of Truth would bring all things to remembrance. This is slightly different. The Spirit of Truth doesn't bring to remembrance your hereditary shortcomings. It brings to remembrance what is already present in the fine substance above the veil, which is to be allowed to emerge through the veil into the coarse substance of human consciousness. The coarse substance itself is all right; that is the composition of human consciousness. There would not be any human consciousness without it. So we don't object to it but we do know that there is a great deal present in human consciousness which certainly doesn't belong there. It has been produced by the evil imaginings of human hearts. As long as it is there the dragon controls, the human state is preserved, and there is no possibility of any other experience until there is a little space created in this coarse substance. You are the container for this coarse substance—the coarse substance available in the individual to be cleared; and it is only available for that person in his own consciousness. This is true of each one.

We all have the responsibility of letting this dissolution take place, but we also recognize that it does take place by reason of spiritual action emerging through the veil from the fine levels of substance which have not been distorted at all. The clearing of the veil to allow this to happen is the purification of the heart. The purification of the heart comes when the emotions are no longer triggered by what is below the veil. When the heart begins to be moved by what is above the veil then it begins to be purified, so that the dark cloud of the veil may be allowed to dissolve, at least at the point where that individual is. The cloud is always dissolved from above. Everything that goes on under the veil in the human nature state of consciousness is consequent upon what is happening under the veil. It goes around and around in a circle under the veil, and human beings are stimulated by their environments in one way or another to do this or that. Sometimes the stimulation is deemed to be good and sometimes the stimulation is deemed to be bad—but all the stimulation in this state comes from what is below the veil. As long as we are being stimulated, in whatever way, by what is going on under the veil we are completely useless. This gives a sad picture of the human race, doesn't it?—completely useless. That is the fact of the matter.

There is a potential for use; that is why the human race is still here. If that potential were gone then the human race would be gone. We are aware of the reality of that potential because we have, in whatever measure, begun to permit the experience of an expression which comes through the veil into the world below the veil so that something is added, a blessing emerges. We are here therefore to bless the world, and in blessing it to awaken it—to change it, to re-create it. Fundamentally it is an awakening that is required, out of the state of evil human imagination. There needs to be something absolute on earth in this regard, just as absolute as the One called Jesus is deemed to be. That is the nature of the absoluteness that is required of those who come into position to let what is in the fine substance emerge into the coarse substance of human consciousness in oneself—that is creative action. It is the creative action of spirit actually present, and this certainly has an effect with respect to human consciousness everywhere, because the fact of the matter is that human consciousness is not really divided up into little wee segments in individual human beings. It is one thing.

This coarse substance permits the creative Word to be spoken when there is someone on hand to speak it. In the beginning of the creation of the earth God was on hand somehow, and God said, “Let there be light.” But first of all the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters—the available substance. The Light emerges from the level where it is and acts in the coarse substance to the extent that the veil has been dissolved. It is like a ray of sunshine coming through the clouds. It makes a difference, doesn't it? Finally a ray of sunshine comes through and the whole world is transformed. We deliberately are willing to allow this to happen in our own experience in order that there may be a blessing extended, coming down from God out of heaven into the earth. We are the break in the clouds by which it happens. We are that break when the heart is sufficiently pure so that it is moved only by the beauty and the wonder and the Glory of the Spirit of God. As long as the heart is moved by the darkness underneath, it remains impure and there is no rent in the clouds to allow the sun to come through. The clouds are dissolved from above, not from below, and gradually the break in the clouds becomes larger and there is a safe place for the sunshine below the clouds.

We each have a responsibility to preserve that safe place. It is in our human consciousness. Did you ever consider as to how much you are really interested in preserving that safe place in your consciousness? Or do the arguments occur to you to convince you that it is impossible? There are so many things, aren't there, that make it impossible—like the impossibility of walking on the water. What really is impossible? There are many things that are impossible in human imagination. Most people think that they have to enter into imagination to be freed from the restrictions. One begins to be freed from the unnecessary restrictions when one comes out of the realm of imagination into the realm of fact, the realm of Truth. I say “unnecessary restrictions” because there really are restrictions that are right and proper. There is the restriction, for instance, of the orbit in which the earth moves around the sun. Would you like to dissolve that restriction? I don't think so. We don't want the earth straying too far out of that orbit. Maybe there is a need for some adjustment but I don't think any human mind is capable of telling what that adjustment should be. There are proper restrictions in this sense. There is a design—a true design. The universe is not an undifferentiated blob. So there are restrictions, and we don't rebel about the necessary ones but we may see that in human imagination vast areas of restriction have been created and steadfastly maintained so that we are all convinced about them. These are some of the structures that need to be dissolved.

With God all things are possible. In reality all things are possible by reason of the action of the Spirit of God, but we remember that the Spirit of God includes the Spirit of Truth, and Truth is characterized by design and control. Given eternity, I suspect that everything that is conceivable could occur, but we wouldn't want it all to occur in one big bang, would we? So, wisely, there is no hurry. There is quite a while yet to go before eternity runs out, and it works out naturally in measured tones, rhythmically. If we are wise we are willing to let that happen, but in order to experience what that actually is the arbitrary structures that have been humanly devised and established must be dissolved. They will, finally, one way or another, be pushed out of the way anyhow. But we have expectations that when they are pushed out of the way they won't at the same time push all human beings out of the way, because there are those who have been willing to let go of those things so that the structures can go and they can stay, and be in position to participate in the creative expression of the Word, the sounding of the creative Tone, the action of spirit.

We are here to let that action occur. We have been here this evening to let that action occur in this particular formation. We have participated in the movement of that spirit in action. We don't have to try to make the spirit explain to us what the action this evening has particularly accomplished. Very largely that is none of our business. Our business is to let that action occur so that whatever is needful may be accomplished—and it is a wise provision that we don't know too much about it, because if we did we would probably interfere. This is the human habit, isn't it? If there is any human nature hanging around, that habit is hanging around too. We want to see things work the way we want to see things work. Never mind. Let it go! Let the creative action of spirit produce what is needful because we offer ourselves in position in this formation, in any formation at any time—or as individuals. We let whatever needs to happen happen on this basis, and we are not sorry to see the structures in the coarse substance of our own human consciousness be dissolved, because it doesn't leave a blank, strangely enough. The fine substance contains the design, and this comes forth naturally and easily, and all things work together to perfection. We have some experience of this already. Let us continue to let it happen to the Glory of God and to bring blessings into the world, which heretofore has been entirely under the veil. And behold, that coarse substance for which we ourselves are responsible may provide a resting place for what is coming down from God out of heaven, and we keep it safe. What becomes possible on this basis is certainly beyond the wildest imaginings of the human mind, is beyond anything, certainly, that is the experience in that realm of human imagination. How blessed we are to have a part to play in this!

© emissaries of divine light