An Actual Focus Of Government

An  Actual  Focus  Of  Government

Martin Cecil  April 14, 1980  Assembly

I recall that the motto of three month classes was: Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain who build it. There is something to be put together here in this assembly which requires certain changes to work out in all concerned, and the experience of a new state which heretofore has been unknown. Obviously, this group of angels coming together is a new formation for a particular purpose. There is a need for relinquishing roles out of the past, not only for oneself. Whatever your particular role was as an individual, there is a need to forget it, shall we say, but also in your view of others. When you look at your fellows you may have some old role or thoughts in your mind in consequence. We are all here as angels, as persons, and there are particular roles to be played in this formation. But there has to be the formation put in an appearance. This is not an instantaneous thing. It can be delayed or it can be allowed to happen easily in the natural cycles of the spirit—because whatever is to be put together is put together by the spirit. We all need to be sufficiently limber to allow it to happen.

One of the things that was emphasized this morning is related to this matter of containment. I have previously stressed the point, that for anything to happen it needs to be contained, as in the illustration which Hugh used on the board of the circuit. You may recall what it looked like. There was a capacitor capable of being adjusted, tuned. This capacitor in combination with the coil allows for a resonant circuit to come into operation so that there may be the intensification required to permit the achievement of whatever is necessary. Now we have similarly a circuit between ourselves here which is capable of being tuned to receive what should be received in any particular time for whatever the purpose may be. There is a build-up of intensity, voltage one might say, according to the capacity of this capacitor. We don’t wish to build up to overload the capacitor, so that there is sputtering all over the place. In other words there needs to be an intensification that can be contained in the particular capacitor that we have here.

Using this illustration, I think you recognize that you yourselves are to contain the build-up, and this means that we exercise discretion relative to what occurs in our sessions when we are functioning out of our sessions. To put it plainly, it’s nobody else’s business. Now there’s a little bit of human nature still around, and there may be the subtle endeavor, sometimes not so subtle, on the part of certain ones who, momentarily at least, front for the devil to try to get information as to what it is that is going on. It may not be fitting every time to say, “Mind your own damn business,” but that’s what you probably have in mind, or should have. You may speak it a little more discreetly. But remember, you are the container for what is to occur, and if the build-up of intensification is not contained, it is going to leak, so that then we have that much less to work with and that much less ability to do what we are here to do.

So one of the things which is most necessary, not only for you actually but for everybody, something that hasn’t been learned by too many, is how to keep one’s counsel. If one begins to experience an intensification there is likely to come, to the extent that there is still some alignment with the devil, the endeavor to release it somehow. There is a proper release, but it is within this circuit. After all, the build-up is for the purposes of the circuit which we represent—it is not for anything beyond that insofar as what happens in the circuit is concerned. There is something that occurs beyond that, there is a reason for the build-up, but what happens beyond happens because of the total circuit, not because of the individuals in it who may feel a bit under pressure and wish to relieve that pressure from themselves by running off at the mouth. This is a very usual way of doing it. Don’t do it!

We have a very excellent instruction given: “And when ye pray, enter into your closet, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret.” Well that is what we are doing in these sessions, praying to the Father in secret. “And he will reward you openly.” In other words, as there is the generation of a greater intensity in the circuit, this will be released, it will run over in the way that it should beyond. But as individuals we are not required to determine the way it should run over. We let the Spirit of God determine that. We leave it entirely in His hands. Our responsibility is within this circuit. What we generate is most necessary to the governmental purposes for which this assembly is here, but we may not know exactly how it is being used. We have, properly, a sense of the fact that it is being used, but not necessarily how. And we certainly do not imagine that we have anything to say to anyone beyond about this, because if we do not understand within the assembly, how could they possibly understand something that we do not understand. So why talk about it?

So I emphasize this point. Let what occurs here be in secret. Not because we are interested in secrecy as such, but because we see the purpose of it and that we can’t do what we are here to do without providing a container for the doing, and we don’t want the container riddled with holes so it can’t hold anything. This business of keeping one’s counsel and knowing what one may rightly say in order to turn away wrath, so to speak, but not to particularly give much information is something everybody needs to learn. It is an essential requirement for those who are trustworthy. Now you are here because, in whatever measure, you have already proven some trustworthiness. I look over the list of applications and take this under consideration, and other factors as well, but this is a primary factor: how consistent you have been, how steady; even though there may have been frivolous times in your experience, you still stayed on the job. So we are here, and you are here not really of yourselves in the external sense, but because the spirit has moved you and brought you together in this particular assembly.

Now we pray to the Father in secret in order that this resonation may begin to occur in the circuit, and it is this resonation that brings you together as the essential capacitor, so that there is one capacitor and not merely a number of parts that haven’t been put together. That putting together comes by reason of the action of spirit. And we need to be alert to this necessity so that we begin to find a sense of oneness. Now this is the natural experience as we are yielded to the spirit which is moving in the circuit. You get the circuit bits put together and you get put to use. This is somewhat different from mechanical contrivances that are put together. It is an organic movement, it is a living movement. We are living people, and the formation which is here is a living formation. And the only reason it is this is because of the Spirit of God. Obviously this is the only reason that any of us are alive. We have a larger awareness of this, so that we are in better position to let what we have come to know as the true expression of spirit continue to bring us into this unified state.

Now we have a generation of intensity to occur. We have been describing it now in terms of that circuit. We don’t need to describe it that way—there are other ways of describing it and other ways that we have used. There is the necessity, for instance, of generating substance, spiritual substance, and we may see that it is to the extent of this generation that we find ourselves blended together. The amount and intensity of that substance is what makes possible being put together as a spiritual body, and we need to recognize that this is what is being put together. We are all sitting here like peas in a box, separate from each other physically speaking, but we are put together spiritually speaking, vibrationally speaking, because there is the substance present—which individually we contribute—capable of blending. And it is this blending that allows our formation to have meaning, the formation of this particular assembly, which is an element of government. We are here to provide a focus, an actual focus of government, in a certain aspect of our field of responsibility in the body that is taking form, and also to gain experience in how it works. The only way we know how it works is to let it work. The only way we can do anything is to do it. So we are concerned with this doing; not only with learning something—that’s part of it—but with doing something, so that we may learn something. And there is the means for this generation of substance then. The generation of substance collectively occurs because there is a generation individually.

Now this collective substance is generated in a primary sense on the basis of your association with me. We may see it particularly in these fourth hours which are held each day, where the opportunity of generating the substance is offered. The Law works: radiation, response, attraction, union. The union comes because substance has been generated through the attraction. Now the attraction has something to do with hungering and thirsting after righteousness. I provide a point of focus in this particular session, others provide the point of focus in other sessions, and the same principle operates all the way through. But in a very specific sense, in this last session we have the opportunity of allowing the generation of the essential substance. This occurs because individually you have the hungering and thirst for righteousness, finding its centering in the spirit that is moving by reason of my own expression. You have at least some sensing of the fact that here is something which will satisfy if you will receive it. The only way you can receive it is to hunger and thirst for it. I’m not going around doling it out like in a communion service or something of this sort. The substance is present, the spirit is present, the action is present, and as individuals there is the necessity of your hungering and thirsting for this in this fashion, in a very specific way.

Human beings have had a rather vague idea limited to hungering and thirsting as related to the Lord, for instance. The Lord—who is He? Where is He? And anybody’s idea went—but it wasn’t the reality. So we are very much concerned to let it be relative to something that is factual, and the fact is that I am here and you are there and we are all together. We have this configuration. Let something move in this configuration because this is the way it is, so that there may be the hungering and thirsting which allows the experience of spiritual food to be received and which allows the consequent generation of substance. I suppose this substance could be described in terms of energy—it is the generation of energy. We can come back to this circuit again and find that here is the resonance beginning to move. It moves between you as individuals and me, and you find that when it moves between you as individuals and me it’s moving collectively between all of you and me. You begin to discover that there is a factual body of substance in which you are contained and which you contain. You contain it collectively. And looking at it in this way of substance, we can see again the necessity of keeping it sacred, keeping it safe, keeping it holy, so that it remains contained in the container.

This is a beginning point here for the generation of this substance, and for the intensification of the energy that results as there is the generation of substance. The lack of energy that human beings experience is always related to the inadequacy of spiritual substance that provides the connection with spirit. Spirit is the source of all energy, in fact, and if spirit is excluded, well, there is no energy. If we exclude it entirely, we have no energy at all and we’re fit to be buried. So we see this generation from an individual standpoint, and because the substance is of this refined nature it blends very easily with the substance being generated by everybody else. We have the one substance, the one formation, the focus of a Governing Body necessary at this point for the proper achievements of the Lord, or of the spirit, not only relative to ourselves but relative to everything—relative to the level of mankind ultimately; more than that, there are other kingdoms too.

I mention this point because there is a need for a keen awareness of the greatness of responsibility that devolves upon us. This may also provide additional incentive to keep what is generated contained, because we wouldn’t let the Lord down for anything. It is not so much that we wouldn’t let mankind down but that we wouldn’t let the Lord down. This is supreme to us. And the only reason that we are quite willing to encompass mankind and to do what is necessary is because of the Lord, not merely for the sake of mankind. Mankind hasn’t proved itself to be all that worthwhile, and we may have a little memory of what was done to the Lord when He was on earth. But we see that this is necessary for the Lord, and that is all that is required. We love Him, we serve Him, and what we do, we do for Him.

Using this symbol of the circuit again, we need to recognize that each individual contains such a circuit. Sometimes the attitude is taken that one cannot achieve anything unless someone else behaves the way they should. It may be said that there is some reason for such an idea because we all rightly fit together in the whole, and it is the whole that has meaning, and because the whole has meaning we have meaning also, because we are part of it. We don’t have meaning simply for ourselves. We have meaning because of proper relatedness in the whole. But individually speaking there is a complete circuit in each individual and we are responsible for letting the resonance be maintained in that circuit. There is our personal responsibility, and we can let that be so regardless of whether someone else is letting it be maintained in their circuit or not. But as there are those who begin to have the resonance moving in themselves, there begins to be something that can be put together. Unless it is moving in the individual it can’t be put together with anybody else, and it can only be put together with the resonance that is moving in someone else on the basis of the movement of the spirit, of course.

There are clashing cacophonies that occur in the world. But this all fits together, and there are various circuits there which are put together—this is one of them here, this assembly. It can be put together because there is presumably sufficient resonance individually occurring, so that there is a base to build on. And as this resonance is put together there begins to be an overall resonance occurring and a build-up of intensity because of this. And we assume in this position, because of the facts that are here, that we are able and competent, adequately competent at least, to provide a point of focus in government, by which what needs to be done in this period of time that we have together may be done. Again, it is done by the working of the spirit of God in action, and it is not done because we have bright ideas of what it is that should happen.

Now there are various ways in which you are being put together with others. We have four groups, for instance, within the scope of the assembly as a whole. You may look at the ones that are in your group and you may wonder why. Don’t. This is the way it came out! Accept it. Don’t take the attitude, “Well, I wish so-and-so was in my group.” Let it be the way it is. We are here to learn to accept what it is that occurs and work with that no matter what it is, letting all resistance dissolve. That is necessary if there is to be the generation of substance, and if there is to be a clarity in the circuit to allow for the build-up of resonance. And if there is a certain pulling and pushing appearing with respect to personal likes or dislikes, or any of these things, then of course that interferes with the movement of the spirit, and therefore the build-up of the resonance and the generation of substance. So whatever it is that puts in an appearance, praise the Lord! Receive it, accept it, delightedly!

This is what is required of us. This is the natural outlook of the angel. It is in a sense a very impersonal attitude. We have a job to do. Well, let’s do it and let’s not fuss if what occurs relative to the job that is to be done may trigger some sort of reaction in earthly heredity, which is what it amounts to—in other words, attract the devil. In all things give thanks. Oh, we know don’t we? That’s right, in all things, so that we receive what comes to us gratefully, because that is what we are here to handle, exactly what it is that comes to us. And as we gain proficiency in this, so that our attitude is consistent in the matter, what we experience here will be the basis for all our experience thereafter. For the moment, our concern is with what we experience in this assembly, because there definitely is a reason for our presence here and something that we are here to do.

I thank God that we have shared this morning together in the beginning generation of the essential substance of blending. As I say, it doesn’t happen in a moment, and perhaps there is still a little tension involved in some of you not sure yet just how well you are going to be able to handle what needs to be handled. Relax. Let it work. You’re not going to handle it anyway in human nature. It’s going to be handled by God through His Angels, and we are all here present to let it happen. So we will conclude the hour now, and while the session is concluded, as such, we still continue to live, you know, and our behavior elsewhere will be put to the test to see really how much we have heard and how much we have accepted, and how much we have been willing to participate in what is necessary to allow the continuing generation and containment of the intensity that rightly occurs. The intensity is not tension in the sense of being uptight—it’s the intensity of life itself, the Glory of Life, and we are here to enjoy that, surely. Life really is enjoyable. Right!

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