Comfort To The Awakening Ones

Comfort  To  The  Awakening  Ones

Martin Cecil   February 8, 1981  p.m.

As we come together into the holy place, letting the light shine, we can see and understand what we need to see and understand. When we are together in the Chapel there may be a collective light shining. What is seen and understood may consequently include more. But it is well to consider how much as an individual one sees and understands in the particular circumstance of the moment during the course of a day, a day when you cannot, certainly, depend upon the collective light, as is possible when we are together in the Chapel. In daily living we discover how much our seeing is dependent upon somebody else’s light and how much is our own. Do the circumstances of the moment obscure your spiritual vision and perspective? Does it seem as though the world builds a board fence around you so that the greater vision, the real balance, is blotted out? What sort of momentary circumstance does it take for us to lose our vision and understanding?

We only participate as a valuable part of the assembled body in the Chapel when we bring the brightness of our shining into this particular setting. The brightness of our shining must be evident in all other settings if it is, in fact, evident in this setting. If it isn’t evident in other settings then that light cannot be brought into this setting, because it was darkness. If that is so and in this setting you begin to see with clearer vision and to understand, you are using somebody else's light and to that extent you are detracting from the light which shines forth in what should be a unified radiation. We become, in such case, light absorbers rather than light enhancers. There has indeed been a certain amount of this, thereby rendering less valuable our time of service together. You are the only one in your own experience to know how far your vision goes in the momentary circumstances of your day. If you are honest you will undertake to make very sure that the importance of the shining of your light, and therefore of your vision and understanding, is paramount. What a delight to come together in a setting such as this, with each individual who is present shining brightly. Then we really have something. We are all light enhancers—after all, that is our business.

At some of our services, particularly the morning services on Sunday, there are others present who may be blessed by sharing vision and understanding, an increase in this, because of the light that is shining. Such will be light absorbers, one might say. That is all right for them, but for us it isn’t. One might ask the question as to how long one might be associated with the opportunity to see and understand and to let the light shine before it is too long, if one’s own light isn’t shining yet as it should. I speak of these things not to denigrate anyone—because I am not going to look you over and point the finger; that is not my business—but so that I might encourage honesty.

There is a light shining because there are those who are letting it blaze forth in some measure, so that this shining of the light comes within the range of awareness of many human beings on earth. Distance is no object. They say light travels pretty fast. So because of that light shining there are those who, we have noted, are stirring in their slumbers, some beginning to awaken, many who sense that there is something at hand. I think that is quite an accurate way of putting it: people are sensing that there is something at hand. That sensing may engender a sinking feeling, some disaster at hand; and in one sense that might be called an accurate sensing. But others are sensing that there is something rather wonderful at hand. They can’t put their finger on it exactly yet and they are quick to interpret it this way or that maybe.

We need to see beyond these interpretations, understanding what it is that is at hand. The kingdom of heaven is at hand and there are those who sense it. Some of the duller consciousnesses on earth are not aware of anything very much except their own tribulations. I have always sensed the Master’s amazement, when He was talking to Nicodemus and Nicodemus didn’t understand what He was talking about, that one in the position which this man occupied as a leader in the community in Israel could be so dumb. If such a man, with his worldly knowledge and position, was so ignorant, how could the masses of human beings round about be expected to understand anything? And for the most part of course they don’t. They are just as dumb, and just as determined to remain dumb. We see these things, and we also recognize the tragic consequences of this foolish insistence, but at the same time we have a certain awareness that there are those who are at various levels of awakening. That awakening relates to a sensing of something at hand. Some are sensing a lightness at hand; others sense a heaviness at hand; and of course these sensings sometimes change places in the individual’s experience. But in either case it is a sensing of something at hand. When it is thought of as lightness, interpreted that way, it is closer to the real truth than if it is merely thought of as a heaviness and the expectation of some sort of doom; not that that is a wrong expectation for whatever it is that is doomed, but it is not the expectation that should be carried by man, male or female.

The kingdom of heaven is at hand. This is made known, awakening this sensing in others, to the extent that Shekinah has arisen in the experience of those who have been provided with the special opportunity for this to occur. This is certainly true of all those who have been associated with the Emissary ministry. It is equally sure that not all have taken advantage of it. I am thankful that there are some and that therefore there is some light shining and that therefore there is an increased sensing of whatever it is that is at hand for people, the sensing on the part of those people. Those who have awakened sufficiently in the holy place, to be the light which shines there, may observe what I have been describing as happening with respect to people—the sensing of something at hand. For those who fluctuate between the light and the dark in this sensing, there would seem to be immediate possibilities. Sometimes of course, in the initial stages, someone will see everything in terms of light, but usually it doesn’t last all that long. The darkness creeps in again, and while there is a recognition that there really must be something right going to happen, the gut feeling is of something wrong going to happen. Those who are awake sufficiently to stand in the holy place and see what the situation is may provide comfort to the fluctuating ones. In a way it is like a child waking up in the night from a nightmare perhaps, and a parent offering comfort to the child in a recognition of what it is. The child is afraid and unhappy. It doesn’t know what was happening, but the parent knows, or should know, and can provide comfort: “It’s all right; it’s just a dream.” The expectation of disaster is just a dream—perhaps it is not quite morning yet for this person. They are moving in that direction. It may be all right for them to quieten down again, with the assurance that the morning is at hand and awakening to the day will then come. We are in position rightly to extend such an assurance. Everything is all right. It is all under control. Human consciousness has not been under control—at least not under the right control, that’s true—and consequently there are these nightmares going on which seem to the person who is having them to be very real at the time.

In this hour, to the extent that the light is shining, to the extent that we are in the holy place for ourselves, enhancing the collective unified radiation, we offer comfort to people everywhere, that everything is really all right; they don’t need to become so frantic. The morning is at hand. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. We are here to provide assurance, comfort, a sense of security, safety, while the individual finally finishes his or her night’s sleep. It is that that comforts the child, isn’t it?—to know that the parent is there. He’ll go happily to sleep again, with the assurance of awakening in season to a new morning. We extend this in this hour because we have this understanding, we have this vision, we have this experience ourselves. The truth is true and all is well, unconquerable life prevails. The dawn is at hand. The kingdom of heaven is at hand for people everywhere, but not just at hand insofar as we are concerned. We make our dwelling there, in the holy place. And in our daily affairs we have this vision still. We understand what is going on. Perhaps our responsibilities require something of us that is not the same as it is here in the Chapel, for instance, but that rightly does not obliterate our awareness of the truth, the truth which we ourselves are.

So there is always that comfort offered in our momentary affairs. It is there for sure, regardless of any of the bad dreams that may be occurring around us. We don’t put much stock in those. We are not fooled into becoming involved in other people’s dreams. We open the door for the awakening in its proper season, and we don’t expect everybody to wake up now. It probably wouldn’t be fitting for most. They need to wake up in the morning. So we are not so all-fired anxious to get everybody out of bed immediately. Let them alone. But whenever there is an awakening on the part of anyone, a sensing either of light or darkness, we take note of it. We should be able to discern something of these things without someone necessarily having to tell us about it. If the light is shining we can see. Of course if it isn’t we don’t see, we don’t know what is going on with respect to anyone, and we lapse into self-centeredness ourselves.

All this has something to do with what was spoken of as the coming of the Comforter. The Comforter is not merely an unknown spirit of some kind—the Paraclete that comes alongside. I don’t know about you but I never found a spirit coming alongside! It seems foolishness to me. But there have been angels who have ministered unto me in various ways. It could be said of them that they came alongside I suppose. The coming of the Comforter is not something separate from human beings. If there is a Comforter available it is because there is yielded human flesh to let it be so. We are to extend that comfort to those who are potential awakeners. We don’t have to judge who these are; we just take people as they come. And people come. We don’t look them over and say, “Well this one shouldn’t have come.” The fact is that that one did come. That is all that is important, and there was some reason for that coming; it would not have happened otherwise. When we learn to stand in the holy place the people who come are those who certainly should come to be blessed in whatever way, not to be cursed: “You shouldn’t have come. I don’t like you; stay away.” I suppose we could have someone come who looks as though he was dangerous. The usual human reaction is, “You, you stay away from me,” and pull out the gun. Well if we are not in the holy place maybe we should pull out the gun; but I don’t think there would be any need for one in the holy place. It is said of the Master that many times they sought to lay hands on Him but He passed through the midst and nobody could. Magic! Well it is a sort of magic.

Sometimes people drive wrecks rather than cars and they fall apart, sometimes creating dangerous situations. The individual may come out of such a situation unscathed even though the wreck was totaled. Ah, the protecting hand of the Lord! Then someone else drives a car that has been looked after and imbued with his own spiritual substance and he gets safely to his journey’s end without any trouble. Wasn’t the hand of the Lord there too? Wouldn’t it be better to be in that sort of situation than to have to be saved from one’s own foolishness? We are supposed to be caretakers, stewards. We take care of everything that comes to us, even our automobiles. In one way or another we take care of all the things we rightly should. We don’t really have to do it alone. I wouldn’t like to be entirely responsible for taking care of my car alone, because I am not an automobile mechanic, but I know enough to watch for signs and then if there is something that needs fixing I find someone who might be able to do it. Then someone has the opportunity of sharing in the care, in my care. We don’t reject others who offer what they may, particularly in areas where they may have expertise and we do not. But we are stewards, caretakers, comforters. It could be said we have a number of roles in that sense, and we know very well that we are capable of handling these roles.

Sometimes you may be called upon to do something that you don’t know how to do. Are you sure that you don’t know how? Maybe if you assumed responsibility you would discover that you knew how. You may have had the experience of thinking that you didn’t know how to handle something and calling someone else in; then you discovered that if you had taken care of it you would have taken care of it a lot better than the person you called in. Don’t be too quick to play down your own abilities. I think that we will very frequently be asked to handle things of which in a human sense we might say, “Well I don’t know how to do it. I don’t have any experience in that particular way.” Who is going to handle it, an experienced human being? This is the way most things are handled in the human world. We don’t see too well-running a machine, do we? The world is in a mess in spite of all the people who think they know how to take care of it. We take care of it from the holy place, in the power and strength of Shekinah. The light shines, we see, we look carefully at what is thereby revealed. We have far more ability to do things than we imagine, when the action springs from the true source. Then we find that there is all kinds of material in our consciousness that we had forgotten about long ago, but the action of spirit revives our memories. In other words when we get started, "Oh yes, I see”; and we didn’t think we could see. But seeing, we can do, handle our stewardship without backing away. It is the same thing that I mentioned with respect to Moses, isn’t it? He had all kinds of excuses. He did not think he could do what was required of him. He had no experience of it at all. Of course not, because it was something new. Well the same is true of us, isn’t it? Something new! Finally he let himself be persuaded and went to work, and he proved himself to be one of the greatest leaders of all time. What’s wrong with us? It is not so much what is wrong with us that is of concern; we need to discover what is right with us. And we discover that when we stand in the holy place, let the light shine, are assured within ourselves that all is well, the truth is true, unconquerable life prevails. I prevail; I am alive, after all. Here is unconquerable life. Let it prevail.

Standing where we belong we discover that we can do vastly more than we thought we could. There is machinery here which was designed to be activated by spirit, controlled by spirit, and when we let it happen then the machinery is used and we find that we have an immense amount of material available in the vaults of memory, shall we say. Most of this material we have been completely unconscious of. We not only have our own store from the experience of our lives thus far but the spirit has access to far more than that. There is, after all, what might be called a mass memory and our subconscious minds are not separate from that. The spirit is quite capable of picking out a little piece here, a little piece there, and putting it together in the right way. There is great ingenuity in the spirit to build marvelous things, the living reality. Then we know! If the mind gets a little bit out from under the leash of spirit, so to speak, it may say, “Oh I didn’t know that.” No the mind didn’t know it, but now it knows it. That is the point. The mind is not God. It does not have to know everything. All it needs to know is what is needful in the moment, and there is no problem in that regard once the spirit is in control. The spirit is in control when we stand in the holy place revealing Shekinah, which is the evidence of the Presence of the Source. Insofar as we are concerned it is evidence of our Presence. We are the source for our world; there isn’t any other.

How much is in your world? I am sure it goes beyond the confines of 100 Mile House, doesn’t it? Certainly it does. How much territory does it take in? Nowadays, with all the information we get over the TV and radio, it takes in pretty well the whole planet, doesn’t it?—little bits and pieces of information anyway. We are very much aware of people everywhere, all of them in our worlds. Human beings are inclined to say, if they are religiously inclined, “God will take care of them.” But who is God? Where is He? How is He going to do it? Is there a God in one’s world separate from oneself and separate from that world? God is present in our worlds because we are present in our worlds, or God is withdrawn. For the most part He has been withdrawn. But here in the holy place we see with balance and perspective, and we include our whole world, all that we are conscious of and also the rest of it of which we are unconscious. It is our world. There we are at the center of it. It is all around us. Who else is at the center of it? God? Yes, but not as another entity, as though one could step out of the center of one’s world and leave God there. If you are at the center of your world and God is at the center of your world, that is oneness, isn’t it? Awaken to oneness. Awaken to the truth. This is the word which we speak on earth. We can only speak it with authority if we know it, and we only know it if we are it. How much power does God have? Human beings say, “Oh, God has a lot of power; He is almighty; but I don’t have much.” Ah, separation. Who are you? Who is “I”? In the holy place there is just one. I am that One. My word is the reason for all things in my world. Human beings try to escape from that by calling it blasphemy, rather than accept the responsibility of it and prove it out. Presumably, if it is blasphemy, that will be proved out too; otherwise a person never knows.

So, we share this hour together in offering comfort to our worlds. It is one world insofar as we are concerned, because we all stand in the same place, at the center of it. And the blessing is offered. The blessing is real, because we offer it in each succeeding moment to the immediate circumstance at hand, to those people and things that are brought to us. We just do it. And if we do it it is done. “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” were supposedly the words of the Master at the age of twelve. The same words apply to us, regardless of age. The only way we can handle that business is from the holy place, that there may be what we have called restoration, others have called salvation. Who knows what that is? Our minds do not need to know now; it is not important now. What is important is the knowing that is needful in the now of each succeeding moment. If we can stay there we have it made. If we wander into the future or into the past we are lost.

So together we may stand in the holy place now in this moment, also henceforth and forever, not still in this particular setting but wherever we are. We still belong in the holy place. We only come into this setting for some particular purpose. The purpose this evening would seem to be to extend comfort, to increase our awareness of responsibility in this field so that we may provide it in all our ways. Then we no longer are reacting all over the place: “Isn’t this terrible? Isn’t it awful?” How easily human beings get trapped into that sort of thing. In all things give thanks. Praise the Lord, wonderful! Isn’t that beautiful? It is tremendous! The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Awaken to it. Sense it. Know it. Offer it. And the magic of creation works. To find those who will let it work seems to have taken, what? twenty thousand years of countless generations of human beings leading to this very hour. And how many are there who will stand in the holy place now to let the kingdom come? We will prove it out one way or another, and we will discover whether our sensing of light is true or our sensing of darkness is true, and that applies to every human being on the face of the earth. It proves itself out in either case. We do not need really to sense the light anymore, do we?—not if we are the light. What is there to sense? It is offered freely, that others may sense and come to the point of sharing those beautiful, fulfilling responsibilities of the holy place. How good to have shared this hour of unified radiation in blessing to all that has been brought to us, namely our worlds.

© emissaries of divine light