Which Of You Convinceth Me Of Sin?
from This Is The Way It Works
Martin Cecil August 26, 1984
It has often been said, “It all works the way it works; it doesn’t work any other way.” Other ways have been imposed upon the way it works by the strenuous efforts of human beings, and it has been discovered, although not thoroughly admitted yet, that it hasn’t worked. From the standpoint of our own awareness, to the extent of our radiant vision, we know something of the way it works. The way it works requires a spiritual body. To the extent that we have been willing to agree, a spiritual body has been forming, composed of the substance which we ourselves have provided through our own living. There is an evidence of failure on the part of many, who have the opportunity of knowing the way it really works, to participate in the way it works.
I’m sure all of you have had some experience of reading some services that were given even years ago that you had read before, and you suddenly discover that you hadn't really heard what was being offered through that particular service; it seems fresh to you. I have frequently pointed out that the mailings themselves are my personal letters to all concerned. There is some purpose to being a part of the process that works through the mailings. Unless there is true vision there cannot be true understanding.
There are two main factors that make observation very unreliable. One of them is that one cannot observe anything except through one’s own state of consciousness, and if the human ego persists at all one's state of consciousness will be distorted. We have been advised that it is unwise to judge. Well it is unwise anyway, but one can postulate a reason as to why it is unwise: because your observation will be distorted, so you will be judging something that you yourself have distorted. That is one aspect of it; you can’t see anything, observe anything, in this way except through your own, conditioned state of consciousness. Then, having done that, the impact of your distorted observation comes upon you and there is a mental and emotional reaction of some kind relative to this distorted observation; so that adds another layer of distortion on the whole thing.
This proclaims the importance of radiant vision, the vision which allows a person to live rather than perish. Radiant vision is aware of the forming of the spiritual body. This formation has appeared in the experience of those concerned to the extent that there has been alignment with the way it works. If there is radiant vision there is understanding of why the mailings themselves have significance and importance, for instance. True doing is never a duty or obligation. It is the natural and unavoidable expression of oneself in concert with the whole. Consider your correspondence with me in this light. Correspondence is the conveyance of spiritual substance into the core. The conveyance of that substance enables this spiritual body to live; without it it will very quickly perish, and perishing comes by reason of no vision. So if there are those who feel that it is sufficient for them to dispense with the mailings, there is evidence of no vision, and such people are not only not contributing their substance but they are unwittingly a parasitic drain upon this forming spiritual body. I’m saying these things because it is indeed a vital matter. I’m sure we’re all very much concerned to allow the increase of life rather than the decrease of life; therefore we will function in a way that allows this to happen.
Radiant vision allows what may be observed to be seen as it truly is, and there will consequently be no inclination whatsoever to judge it. After all, it is already in the past; what’s the point of judging it? It’s a waste of life-force. We see clearly how things work. It may be that I have seen fairly clearly how things work for a long time. I suppose it could be said that, from the human standpoint, it is rather frustrating to be able to see the way things work and then to observe how so many people refuse to let it work that way. Now it seems that there are more who are coming into alignment and exhibiting a willingness to let it work the way it works, so that the creative process may be differentiated effectively through a growing spiritual body. The growing spiritual body through which this differentiation is occurring builds its own form. It builds its own form in the sense of physical flesh; the flesh body puts in an appearance, increasingly coordinated, composed of individual human bodies. So there is that much of a body, a spiritual body and a material body, but of course the purpose is not merely to produce a material body of flesh.
This whole process relates to the assumption of proper responsibility vested in man. All these things are not happening merely for the benefit of man. We are aware that man has a purpose, a reason for being, so there is form to appear beyond man. There is form which has appeared beyond human beings the way they now are, which we are inclined to call the world: the state of affairs on earth, which includes everything that is happening on the earth and some things that are happening beyond the face of the earth too. Our commission, our responsibility, is rather large, is it not?—to create a world.
I have asked the question as to how big we are, in our own sense of awareness and our own sense of destiny, because we certainly cannot create anything bigger than we are in the acceptance of ourselves. If there is an insistence upon being a little person who can’t do very much, well not very much will be done, obviously. But if one begins to have vision, radiant vision, you become aware of the immensity of the creative power by which a world is brought forth. Because all this is so unknown in human experience, completely unknown, it has seemed to many as though it was fantastic. But what is really fantastic is the human ego experience, polarized in past and future. That is the fantastic thing. Now we are emerging into the experience of reality. We find this fantastic state to be with us at the same time. We can’t leap out of the fantastic state into the real state; we’re fastened, still, quite extensively to the fantastic state. If we tried to leap we’d probably tear ourselves apart. So, rightly, because it’s the practical thing, it is a gradual process, and we have known it to be a gradual process, but there is no reason why we shouldn’t let it pick up speed—there’s no reason to drag our feet unnecessarily.
We have these fantastic connections with people, and we do not wish to shut them off so as to leave people without any connection to the reality. We experience within ourselves many of the factors that are present in human nature. It has always been assumed that this wasn’t true of the one called Jesus, but it was; He would have been useless if it hadn’t been. It is so for all of us. And sometimes people are rather surprised by the fact that these elements of human nature may still be hanging around. After all, we have been seeking to let our lives be transformed by the truth, and yet we’re still aware that there are elements of human nature in ourselves of which we may at times be quite ashamed.
We might recall a statement made by the Master long ago: “Which of you convinceth me of sin?” Which of you can make me ashamed, which of you can make me fearful? He wasn’t saying that there was no connection with these things in Himself but that He simply was not ruled by His awareness of these things from within Himself. We have these connections. That’s part of the commission, that we may have these connections and be aware of shame, be aware of fear, be aware of these elements of human nature, without being brought into subjection to them. It’s interesting: in the human nature state most people seem to imagine that they are unique, that they have things in themselves that are not shared, really, by anybody else. But when you begin to have vision you begin to become aware of the boring sameness of human nature anywhere in anyone! And while some aspects of human nature may be emphasized more in one person than in another, there is emphasis in everyone somewhere. And there is human nature present with everyone. We know these things.
But we are becoming aware, because of radiant vision, that there is no necessity to in any way be subject to such experiences as may still remain in us. We thank God for those experiences, because they connect us with other boring human beings too. And so, in allowing our own experience to be uncontrolled, uninfluenced, by these human nature elements that remain, we are opening the door for the same thing to happen to everybody else. If all are uninfluenced and uncontrolled by these factors of human nature, the factors of human nature would cease to exist. But you can’t expect to be picked out as a special person in whom these factors of human nature are going to be dissolved all on your own! Wouldn’t that be nice? “Now I’m free!”—and useless. While any are bound none are free. So this is to be expected; there is nothing strange about it; but we have the authority, we have the electromagnetic force [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2014/08/transcendentsignificance-martin-exeter.html] to be unmoved by these puny little human nature elements. People sometimes look at some emissaries and think of them as cold fish who are never moved by the usual gamut of human emotion. Well they may not be moved by that but they certainly know what it is. That’s true of each of us. We all know the particular gamut of human emotion that is our own, and it is very little different from what is true of somebody else.
But we have vision. We stand in the present moment. We may observe these elements of human nature. Because we observe them they are already in the past. They no longer influence. “Which of you convinceth me of sin?” That’s a rhetorical question, but each one may ask it of everybody else: Can you make me feel ashamed or guilty because there are elements of human nature still present within the range of my experience? Of course there are, but why be ashamed or guilty about it when it is recognized that here is the salvation of other people, in whom these same elements of human nature are present? They don’t know what to do about it. They’re pushed around by their emotions, by their intellectual beliefs and all this; they don’t know how to come clear. But we do, we know. And we cannot be brought into subjection by the accuser.
The accuser is sometimes oneself, accusing oneself and saying in effect, “Well I shouldn’t feel these things.” That’s not true at all; you should feel them, you should be aware of them. That’s what makes you valuable. That’s what maintains a connection with other people, so that because you know how to handle a situation without becoming subject to the accuser, others may come clear also. They couldn’t except for those who let this happen in themselves. Then that electromagnetic force is extended to others, and others may find themselves hooked to it and begin to come clear too. They hear the word, “Come near unto me.” We say, in effect, “I know how to deal with this; come near and you will know how to deal with it too.” We invite people to associate with us, not because we are fulfilling some concept of perfection but because we are what we are, and we are in the present moment. I am. I have these elements in my form of manifestation. I don’t object, because I know if they were removed I might as well be removed. So we share this privilege of participating in the creative process with others, because we ourselves have vision, vision which makes our observations at least somewhat more accurate than they have been in times past.
I don’t suppose there is anyone sitting here who hasn’t at times felt weak and futile and inadequate and all these things, and we may have judged ourselves and said, “Well I shouldn’t be feeling that way." Oh yes, you should! But that need not be the element which determines how you act, how you behave. Your behavior is in line with your vision—it’s radiant. There is sufficient radiation so that all these other things can’t penetrate that radiation; and no one can convince you of sin then, even though there may be these things present within the range of your experience. Let us rejoice that we are capable of handling what comes to us effectively in the radiant power of spirit.
© emissaries of divine light
