Spiritual Core For The World

Spiritual  Core  For  The  World

Martin Cecil  April 24, 1979  Assembly

Peripheral action relates to our everyday living in the external environment. If we are about our Father’s business, then obviously what occurs peripherally speaking will be an evidence of what has been occurring in the core sense. The core may be seen as relating primarily to spirit. There is obviously peripheral activity insofar as our collective body is concerned, whether this little body here or the larger body of ministry, and this all occurs by reason of what is present in the core. There is no meaningful peripheral action without a core. When there is a core there will be a periphery. We don’t really need to concern ourselves too much about the periphery. Our main concern is with the core. Once there is a right core there will be a reflection of that in the peripheral expression.

If we are considering this peripheral expression, because of what is happening in the core, there are really two aspects to it. The peripheral expression opens a door for those who are ready to come home; and it doesn’t only open a door for people, it opens a door for anything that is ready to come home, anything that has been sufficiently freed up from the structured human nature state of affairs to be able to come home. This may happen with respect to people, and our primary concern is with people, but it may also happen with respect to things, obviously. The whole world needs to come home and everything in it. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.” It all needs to come home; but our concern principally is with people.

There are those who are ready to move through the door, if the door is open, and participate directly with us in the core—the Spiritual Core for the World. There have been relatively few of these. We had to wash a great deal of gravel before finding the little color of gold here and there. But the only purpose is not to find the gold. Gravel has its uses too. The first aspect relates to this matter of the gold, relates to those who have reached a point where they are in position to come through the door and share directly with us in the spiritual core. The vast majority are not in that position yet—it is a very, very small percentage of all those who are touched by reason of peripheral activity, whether that peripheral activity is a collective one or an individual one in the sense of our individual contact with people. So, while we recognize there is the need for those who are ready to come home, and a provision has to be made for that, there is also something else which is properly accomplished on the basis of the peripheral activity. We have some sort of a core now, and consequently, while this first requirement is still there, for those who are ready to come home, something beyond that can be undertaken in the larger sense—there is something to move out in a creative way into the consciousness of mankind and achieve something in that area. What is being achieved in that area is stirring things up, so that those who are moving in the upward direction may be caused to keep moving in that upward direction, and those who are moving in the downward direction may either be caused to change their ways or to move more rapidly in the downward direction. This is the main concern actually, once there is an adequate core to let it happen.

There will continue to be a few of those who come home directly and participate in the core, but that is likely to remain a relative few, properly so, because the core could easily be destroyed in its spiritual effectiveness if the door was open to a host of people to come rushing in. So it is not opened in that way. It is only opened on the basis of a welcome to those who are ready to come in and who are prepared to be a part of the spiritual core. The vast majority of people are not, and let us not fool ourselves in this regard. We are not trying to convert the world in that sense, because we know that that is an absolutely impossible task. If anything was going to be achieved on this basis I’m sure it would have been achieved long ago.

The gospel needs to be preached in all the world—the true gospel, the reality of the good news of the kingdom. What the kingdom is, spiritually speaking, needs to be projected into the consciousness of mankind, but it is not going to be projected into the consciousness of mankind by talking everybody’s ear off. It is something that is done vibrationally—and it is the vibrational impact of the spiritual core which achieves what is necessary. This core must become increasingly cohesive and increasingly specific in its action. For action there is the required necessity of substance, and for action substance there is the required necessity of substance of connection.

In our peripheral living, whether individually or collectively, a pressure must be brought to bear in the consciousness of mankind that is sustained—sustained creative pressure. That creative pressure is the natural expression of angels. When an angel is in expression on earth, incarnate on earth in human form and in expression, the pressure is there simply by reason of the expression of the angel—that is the pressure. But the pressure must be contained some way so that it doesn’t go ‘poof’ like an explosion of some kind and then there’s nothing more. It is something that is sustained, and it is sustained on the basis of the fact that there is a facility by which this pressure may be held and directed. That facility is the human being. That facility is our body and our mind and our heart, in a very specific way. It includes spiritual expression—that is the main part of it—but there is no spiritual expression on earth without a body and a mind. So the container needs to be capable of handling that sort of pressure, to stand up under it so that it is not pushed off balance, which it will be if there is a continuing reaction to externals—if human nature is still in the picture and capable of controlling, so that the prince of this world comes and finds something. As long as he can find nothing all is safe; but as soon as he finds something then a leak is sprung and the pressure that was being generated begins to be lost.

We can see this from the individual standpoint. You have all had experience in this regard when, as it has been put, a person blows his pneumaplasm. But he does not usually see that in doing that he is doing it in the whole body of things too, and everybody is affected by it. You cannot, if you really are participating in the core in any measure, spring a leak and not affect everybody else. The pressure tends to be reduced in the peripheral expression of the whole body, and the effectiveness therefore of the Archangelic spiritual expression is reduced. In such a case, the door is closed to some extent to those who are ready to come and share in the core. But also the pressure is reduced in the other aspect of creative activity, namely the separation of the sheep from the goats; and so the whole thing is delayed. It is the core that is of vital importance then, because it is in the core that the pressure is sustained. And it is by reason of the periphery that the pressure sustained in the core can be directed into the wider sphere of the human consciousness. In that sphere then there will be attraction and repulsion—the working of the Law—radiation, response, attraction. But you could say radiation, reaction, repulsion. That is going on too, and with the world the way it is, the repulsive aspect is usually the one that is most evident. We see many repulsive things occurring the world around. That is evidence of reaction to radiation from the spiritual core of things. So our concern is to allow this spiritual core to be so strong and consistent that there may be the build-up of the essential creative pressure by which what needs to be done will be done.

We have noted that there are three factors here. One, the welcome home of those who are ready to move into the core. The other is the attraction of those who are unlikely to be participating in that spiritual core but nevertheless they are a part of what is happening in the creative sense. There is an attraction, they are beginning to align themselves beyond the periphery with the spiritual expression of the Archangel, but they are not going to participate in the actual spiritual core. The third group, probably the largest, are going to be repelled. So there are those in this further field beyond the periphery who are being attracted and are being integrated into something beyond the core; and there are those who are participating in the processes of disintegration. We see that all this is a part of the creative process. We cannot object to it, and we cannot, certainly, blame the Lord because there are those who insist upon disintegrating. We have done a bit of it ourselves, after all. I don’t think it was the Lord’s fault.

For this core to form as it should, there must be the generation of substance—the substance of connection first, and then the substance of action, the action which extends by reason of our peripheral function, the peripheral function relating to the external expression of our daily living, our immediate contact with the world around us. That is the periphery, whether it is an individual periphery or whether it is a collective periphery. Sometimes, in the collective sense we develop something specific (seminars and such) and provide a focus point for creative action relative to what is beyond the periphery into this field of which I have been speaking. We need to be very much aware of the fact that on that basis, and on the basis of our individual living, and on the basis of the collective movement in a general sense of our whole body, something is constantly being extended in this regard. It is so when there is this creative pressure. This creative pressure will be there to the extent that there is the reality of the core.  That collective core expression is absolutely dependent upon the fact of the individual core state in each person. We cannot sort of jump into a collective core. We have to provide the core individually speaking if there is to be a collective one. So we all have this particular responsibility. And it requires a generation of the essential substance for it to be so, because the core is a spiritual core. There must be a proper connection therefore with spirit, and a proper means by which spirit can find expression beyond the core. There is the spiritual substance above and the spiritual substance below. The spiritual substance below can be seen in terms of a cup running over from the spiritual substance above, because without the spiritual substance above there could not be anything of any value in the way of spiritual substance below.

We have this requirement, then, for the generation of spiritual substance. We may see it as being absolutely essential to the actual ministry for which we are responsible, the ministry which welcomes home those who are ready to come home, and should come home and participate in the core—and that doesn’t include everybody—and the ministry to those beyond the ones who are going to participate in the core, but who are going to provide a further peripheral manifestation which is aligned with the creative expression of the collective core. Insofar as the body of mankind is concerned there is a core for the right function of the body of mankind. It may be said that the whole body of mankind is the core for the right function of what is beyond the body of mankind in the creative field for which man is responsible. But within the body of mankind, which is our immediate concern, there is a creative core, and we have a responsibility to allow this spiritual core to be a reality and to provide the essential pressure by which everything is achieved beyond the periphery of that core.

We have been giving some consideration to the generation of substance, recognizing that at the focus point for this is what we have referred to as the First Seal. It is a physical point of departure for what is to be generated of spiritual substance at all the various levels where this is required, to allow the outpouring of the Holy Spirit—the whole spirit. This generation is initiated at this particular starting point. Unless there is an individual experience in this regard there cannot be anything beyond that—you cannot have whatever number is required for the whole spiritual core. Unless there are individuals who know what they are doing, there is not a basis for anything else. The First Seal—the beginning point at the lowest level. Associated with that first seal we recognize the Spirit of the New Earth. You will note, the new earth, something new. This involves a totally transformed attitude insofar as human consciousness is concerned. The Spirit of the New Earth implies that there is something totally fresh and totally new. “Behold, I make all things new.” The former things are passed away. The old attitudes, the old human structures relative particularly to this specific point, must be relinquished, must be allowed to pass away, so there is no holding on in this regard. If there is, then it prevents anything else from happening. This applies not only to this focus point of the physical realm but to all the various aspects of human function in this material world. There needs to be a total transformation of attitude with respect to everything. We have experienced some transformation in our own awareness, in our own outlook, and in our own attitudes of living. This all comes to focus at this point of the First Seal.

We need to see the Spirit of the New Earth as requiring a total transformation of outlook, of attitude, of awareness, of everything, in relationship to what has been called physical sex. “Behold, I make all things new.” Unless we are willing to let all things be made new at the point of initiation, what else can happen? Yet this is one of the factors in human nature experience where there is one of the tightest holds maintained; and where there is an inclination for people to imagine that they know something about this field. The Spirit of the New Earth—here is a door which has been firmly closed in the human nature experience. We have seen it as a door which leads to the generation of substance relative to the higher vibrational levels, for the wholeness of our expression. If we keep the door closed, keep something restricted a physical experience, there can be no sensing, and certainly no experience, of anything beyond that. This is a door which leads to the Second Seal, the Third Seal, the Fourth Seal, and all the way up the line. It leads to all spheres of angelic expression in the dimensional world. Obviously there is going to be something very distorted, and very destructive too, if it is all limited to the level of the first seal, where there is so little generation of adequate substance that there is no consciousness of the Spirit of the New Earth. Most of the consciousness which people have is of the absence of the Spirit of the New Earth—the spirit of something old, the spirit of something which is decaying. That is the spirit of decay prominent in human consciousness, where all the values are. The Spirit of the New Earth relates to the present moment, the only moment where there may be the experience of what is new. So here we are in the present moment with the First Seal—here and now.

The door needs to be opened so that the attention is not restricted to that First Seal. If we are considering sex function as such, in the physical sense, attention tends to be pinned to this First Seal—it all comes to point in this First Seal. But if we see the First Seal as being a door, well we may recognize that this being opened permits a perception of something beyond the First Seal, beyond the Spirit of the New Earth. We must have some consciousness of the quality and nature of the Spirit of the New Earth, which should take our attention away from the past and away, consequently, from the structures that are present relative to this particular focus at the physical level, so that we can be released and begin to discern something beyond what the experience is at that level. There needs to be a relaxing, a letting go, in this area as much as in any other, so that the door may be opened.

There is something in the 24th Psalm itself: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” There is very little recognition on the part of most that this relates to what human beings think of as sex. “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors,” because here is the door to whatever else is going to be experienced spiritually speaking. If we close it off then there can be no creative spiritual experience. Here is the gate and the door. It refers to the male and female aspects of the matter, which when they are brought together correctly, either in the individual or between individuals, opens the door, the gate, for the King of Glory to come in. The King of Glory—the King of Life, comes in through the substance that is provided at every level for the expression of the whole spirit, the Holy Spirit. So, for the door to be opened it must first of all be recognized as a door and not something in and of itself, an end and aim all on its own. “Here is fulfillment!”—it doesn’t work out that way as a rule. It is not fulfillment. It is a starting point. It is a door which needs to be opened; and if it is to be opened one does not concentrate on the door. The point is to open the door. The First Seal is the door which allows for the movement beyond the door, the sensing first of all of what it is that is beyond the door. We may be reminded of certain passages that have been provided for our edification in the Bible: “In quietness and confidence is my strength.” “Be still, and know that I am God.” There are many such statements which are an indication of the right quality of experience related to this physical focus—the First Seal. One should relax—letting go of the old, letting go to the new—it is all letting go. It all indicates an easy experience. It does not point to some frenetic activity.

“In quietness and confidence is my strength.” Here is the beginning of the creative power to be generated, because substance is being generated and allowed to ascend before the throne of God, being allowed to fill out the creative capacities, that these might be available for the Divine use—not for human use at all—right use, or righteousness. We might be reminded of the 23rd Psalm: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” That does not indicate that one is struggling or trying to achieve some fulfillment or other. One is willing to trust the Lord. When there is such trust and the human desire is allowed to settle down, then “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures”—here is a relaxing into the true experience of life. “He leadeth me beside the still waters”—here is the stillness again. Virtually everything that is offered, particularly in the Old Testament, relates to the physical approach, relates to the First Sacred School, in other words. Consequently we can see it as being brought to focus at this point of the First Seal. There is abundant instruction in this regard, which people have virtually overlooked in favor of their own desires, rather than to allow the true use, the right use, under the hand of the Lord.

“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.” Something very relaxed about that, isn’t there? Green is the color related to life, the richness and abundance of all that is needed for true living. “He leadeth me beside the still waters,” the still waters of consciousness. We see this properly relative to this first point of initiation, the door which has been closed. You know, it’s a door that opens one way, and human beings have been trying to make it open the wrong way. Very frustrating! If the door opens by turning the handle and pulling it towards you, then it is quite futile to try to open it by turning the handle and pushing it the other way. This is exactly what human beings have been trying to do—trying to open a door the wrong way, struggling with it? If they would just settle down, just calm down, just be quiet for a moment and give it a little consideration, then they could easily turn the handle and pull the door towards them. Nobody can push their way into the kingdom of God. The King of Glory shall come in to where one is, and into the world, when the door is opened in the right way.

Then we discover that it is not just a matter of the First Seal. This does not occupy the total horizon—there comes the awareness of something beyond that. The Spirit of the New Earth is seen, a recognition that there must be a totally new experience, a totally new attitude and awareness, but also there is a sensing of the Spirit of the Single Eye, a one-pointedness with respect to what it is that is occurring spiritually, that we are not locked into the physical experience as though that was all there was. And as we should well see, the physical experience is very little, minute, when we consider the whole spectrum. Why should it be seen in such large proportions? If in fact it has a certain magnitude in human consciousness, then what much greater magnitude would be known if the whole spectrum was known? It is not going to reduce what is right relative to the First Seal. It is going to add something tremendously more, so that we finally are amazed to discover that what had been thought of as being so magnificent with respect to the First Seal is scarcely anything at all. When we begin to see this, and to sense something that is beyond, because some substance is being generated and is giving form to something that is beyond now, that couldn’t be comprehended before because there wasn’t the substance there, then we begin to experience the Spirit of the Single Eye.

Our concern is totally with respect to what it is that is needful to allow the King of Glory to come in. There is the realization that the coming of the King of Glory eliminates entirely the human ego—but in the Spirit of the Single Eye, that is our concern, because we have no other reason for existence in human consciousness but to allow the consciousness of the Lord to fill it. And it is the filling of all these various vibrational levels in our dimensional selves that is the experience of fulfillment. There is no other way by which it could be known, and we see logically that it is so. So there is the Spirit of the Single Eye, as well as the Spirit of the New Earth. The reality of these is sensed increasingly because there is substance to allow them to have reality in our own experience. Spirit of and by itself is undimensional, and how can the dimensional consciousness know it? It cannot, until there is substance which allows it to be known, substance in which the particular spirit can incarnate—and when it does, when the substance is there, it is the substance of our own consciousness, and we know it. We know the reality of the spirit, and we see that there is a purpose for all this. We sense the purpose immediately the door begins to open, but we become increasingly aware of the purpose in more specific terms. That purpose comes to focus particularly in the Spirit of Blessing, in the blessing that may be given.

To extend the blessing of spiritual expression, the blessing of love, into the world—here is the action, here is the pressure, here is what compels choices to be made by human consciousness wherever it comes to focus. We are here to exert that pressure, and we cannot exert that pressure without having the substance which lets it be so. And we certainly cannot experience the generation of that substance, and the awareness that comes in consequence, if we keep the door closed which allows us to move into that experience. So we no longer try to get anything. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” Our total concern is to allow what we have known in human consciousness to be dissolved, thereby permitting all things to be made new, thereby making available the space into which the essential substance can be generated and the truth consequently known. The truth of spirit, the action of love, the power of love, in daily living, revealed at the periphery of our living because it floods through the whole of our living. It floods through the whole of our living from this central point of beginning, until all the space is filled with the spiritual substance which belongs. And then the Holy Spirit may be said to come upon the human consciousness, and it shines round about.

There is the pressure of Light present by which all things are made new—by which those come Home into the Core who belong there. Others come home in relationship to that core, belonging there; and others still depart—they are the workers of iniquity. Behold, all things are thereby made new. But it only happens because there is the means for its happening. We are becoming aware of our own individual responsibility in that means, the responsibility which, because we carry it individually, we also carry it collectively. Glory to God in the highest. Let all things be made new. “Lift up your heads, O ye gates … be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.”

© emissaries of divine light