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The Intervening Provision
Martin Cecil April 16, 1978 pm
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:
and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,
Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
And immediately I was in the spirit;
and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.”
There is One who sits on the throne, not half a dozen. We have some awareness of the reality of the One Law, of the truth as it relates to what has been called focalization—this is a fact of life. The reality of life, the true Tone of Life, is made evident because of this fact. There is One who sits on the throne. In order that this might come out of the realm of imagination into the realm of true experience the throne which is in heaven must be made known. The composition of that throne is angelic—it is formed of angels who function in heaven, in the realm of cause, revealing the reality of the One who sits upon the throne. It is because of this One, because of this Supreme Point of Focus, that agreement, oneness is made possible. This One who sits upon the throne we have seen as relating not only to an invisible point but to an undimensional point. The throne itself is dimensional. It is a reality in heaven, the realm of cause for this earth. The heaven and the earth are the two aspects of the dimensional world, but the throne is set in heaven. This is certainly invisible from the earthly standpoint but quite knowable from the angelic standpoint.
There is then a heavenly facility by which the One extends His authority and His government into the world. That authority and that government spring alone from that One. We may speak of that One, we may identify that One by using words, perhaps the Lord God, the LORD of Lords, the Lord of Love, but the use of words does not acquaint us with that One. We are only acquainted with that One to the extent that we are actually centered in that One, that all our love is offered to that One, nothing whatsoever held out. The first great commandment is supreme. The whole capacity to love in the human sense must be yielded to the One who sits upon the throne if the first great commandment is to be kept. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all.” How is this to be done?
We have considered these matters before but let us look at it again. Is it a matter of endeavoring to love some invisible God figure somewhere? No. That would be an endeavor to love a concept of the mind. It certainly wouldn't be loving God. The only way by which we may love God is through the provision which He has made by which we might do so. It might be said to be an intervening provision. There is something between the yielded human heart and God, something to provide a connection. This was emphasized insofar as the Christian religion was concerned when considering the part that Jesus Christ was supposed to play, but the concepts that have been developed around this idea have certainly not revealed what the truth is, because, for one thing, the truth is not a concept of the mind.
There is a reality in heaven. There is the throne, upon which the One sits. The throne is in the heaven. The One is above the throne. The only way by which one may come in yielded love to the One who is above the throne is by reason of the throne. We are using symbolic words to describe something here. There is a very specific configuration of angels who provide the connection between the One and the yielded human heart. This is not a haphazard jumble of angelic beings—there is a very specific configuration. That configuration was described in this particular chapter in earthly terms, and those earthly terms have not meant very much to human beings generally speaking, because they had no experience of the reality which was being described. However, as we noted this morning [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/09/configurations-of-angels-from-spirit-of.html] there is something that can be spiritually discerned relative to what are spoken of as the Four Beasts. In focusing in upon this I am not ignoring all the other symbols that are used to complete the picture, but merely to look at something that relates to our own present experience.
We took note of what was portrayed for us by the choir. The choir as a whole was made whole by reason of these four groups. There were four groups in the choir by reason of the people who composed those groups. Each group had a very particular part to play in the whole. That part was distinct from all the other parts and yet it required them all put together for the reality of the whole, the choir, to be known. This may well also be a portrayal relative to the throne of which I have been speaking. There is the necessity for this throne to become known in heaven on earth. It is a reality in heaven already; it doesn't have to be made so. But because human beings have been functioning in the earth, in the realm of effects, utilizing effects as causes for their actions, they have been below the veil and the heaven has been unknown. There has been speculation about heaven, but the reality has remained unknown and must remain unknown as long as the earth of human experience is held out as something separate. The heaven is then hidden—there is a veil between. Most people imagine that all that can be known about heaven is based in religious concepts or a fanciful roaming in the realm of imagination. The realm of imagination has seemed to human beings very often to be very real; sometimes it's very real in the dream state; but we become aware of the fact that what is real must be experienced to be known and it can't be experienced as it is merely on the basis of imagination or of an endeavor to believe something.
Heaven is a present reality and the throne is present in the heaven. The design by which the yielded heart may receive the truth of heaven into spiritual expression on earth is present. It is present by reason of the fact that the angels who compose it are present. We recognize those angels as being present insofar as we personally are concerned by reason of the fact of incarnation in human form. The presence of the angel in human form sustains the life in that human form and was responsible for the building of that human form in the first place. So certainly the composition of the throne is very close. It's very close to each individual. The very cause of life in personal experience is a part of that throne.
As angelic expression begins to characterize our experience we begin to discover associations emerging. We find ourselves associated with others who are experiencing the same thing. We find this to be true not because we set out to choose this one or that one to associate with, but it naturally happens. Sometimes there has been objection to the happening. Sometimes those who found themselves associating with each other didn't much care for the idea in the human sense, but the human sense really has no bearing in the matter at all—we are concerned with what is the fact, the reality in heaven. Wisely we do not buck that reality. We accept the outer circumstance for what it is; it's there, after all. We certainly do not indulge in wishful thinking, in wishful desires that it might be some other way. Human beings imagine that they can be ruled by their hearts and by their mental concepts, thereby finding fulfilment in some human pattern of relationship. There are all kinds of them set up all over the place and human beings usually insist upon these things. Effective personal relationships emerge when we are not being ruled by our hearts and minds. There is the need for spirit to find expression, spirit which will govern the operation of the heart and the operation of the mind and the operation of the body.
So, as ever, our concern is with true spirit. If the world is to be restored to the One who sits upon the throne, there is only One Way, and that is through what has been spoken of as the Christ, or in other terms the Lamb, or in still another term, Shekinah. This is present in the heaven because of the angels who are present in the heaven, the angels differentiating the spirit of the One who sits upon the throne, differentiating that spirit in the heaven. The differentiation of that spirit doesn't change it; it merely causes it to be comprehensible. As long as it remains undifferentiated in the One, it is not comprehensible. As it is differentiated by the angels in the heaven it becomes comprehensible, and the angels compose the design by which authority and government may be extended into the earth.
It is only on the basis of response because of the throne that anyone can be restored to the One who sits upon the throne. That is in fact the restoration—mankind is to be restored to the One who sits upon the throne. Restoration implies a coming again. This experience of being One with the One who sits upon the throne was known on earth before. It is known in heaven now. Because it is known in heaven now it can be known on earth now, and we have the opportunity of so yielding human hearts in love toward the One who sits upon the throne—but in a specific sense toward that configuration of angels which composes the throne. No man cometh unto the Father, unto the One who sits upon the throne, but by what intervenes. The angelic design in heaven intervenes. Human beings have been trying to come directly to God, usually on the basis of some imaginary figure, but there is only One Way. Obviously, no other way has yet succeeded. So there is the Way, the Truth and the Life. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The true angelic identity of the individual is the Way, the Truth and the Life for that person, and only through the angel is it possible to be restored to the One who sits upon the throne.
Collectively speaking we have spoken of the Archangel, utilizing that word to describe the focus of the collective identity in heaven—one might say the Throne Identity, the identity of the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne. Now the composition of this throne is of angels, angels in a very specific configuration. It requires a very specific configuration for the creative process to work. It was designed this way, but human beings have been trying to change the design to suit themselves. But the design in fact has not changed; it's the same as it always has been.
If we begin to have experience of spiritual expression in living, so that we begin to know ourselves in angelic consciousness, we find that there are associations emerging, associations between angels. Necessarily the human element tags along, but the association is between angels if it is real, if it is a part of the design, if it is included in the throne upon which there is One who sits. Now we find ourselves in these associations. If we lose our angelic vision and return to the human view then we discover that there are all kinds of things that are not pleasing or not right, we think, in our associations with this one or that one. The angelic association has nothing to do with human likes and dislikes. Human likes and dislikes will distract people from the experience of the angelic association. They get hung up in human nature. We are very much concerned for the clear experience of angelic association. In this regard, there are specific configurations. Four of them are described in this 4th chapter of the Book of Revelation—the Four Beasts, the four living creatures. This is not a complete description of all possible associations necessary to the creative process springing from cause in heaven.
We have an association here in the Chapel. This is an open-ended association because it includes all who wish to be here. However, in the creative process there are associations which specifically include certain angels. We need to reach a point where we can assemble groupings of people without anyone who is not included in the particular grouping feeling that they are somehow being excluded or being put down in some fashion. Because of such reactions we have rather seldom been able to have particular configurations for particular creative purposes—the reactions of others who are not a part of the grouping would tend to nullify anything that was being achieved by the grouping. There is one grouping that has more or less been accepted, and that relates to what is called the Supreme Council.
I don't think there are too many in our ministry who feel that they should be included in that, and that they are being put down because they are not included in that. Because there has been the minimum of reaction insofar as this little grouping is concerned we have been able to make use of it to advantage for specific creative purposes—but there should be vastly more such groupings. If these are undertaken, what is the attitude going to be on the part of those who may not be included in some particular initial grouping? As angels we have our parts to play and that's all there is to it, and we play our parts in relationship to others. If the creative purposes for which we are here as angels are to be fulfilled there is the need for a great variety of these groupings for very particular purposes. The human mind may not understand. Why should it? Why be bothered if the human mind does not understand? Don't identify yourself with it and you won't be bothered.
I present these things this evening to open a door in your awareness and in the awareness of others who shall have the opportunity of sharing this service later one way or another. We need to get on with the job, and as we do get on with the job, without indulging ourselves in any reactionary attitudes, there begins to be a more specific point of focus and orientation for human beings everywhere. It is by reason of these various groupings that people can be touched in various ways, depending upon what is present with respect to the angels concerned, the nature of the spirit that is being differentiated, and also taking into account the earthly heredity of the particular form of the individual, because we have our connections on this basis with people everywhere. We are designed to use these connections, but we certainly can't use these connections other than in angelic consciousness. Then we are no longer reacting all over the place, we are no longer feeling put down because we were not selected to be a part of this particular group. How does the human mind know where the angel should be? Let it work out on the basis of the angelic expression and it will be right. It is the fact of these various configurations that provides the means of connecting up with every aspect that is present in the consciousness of mankind, so that all who will may become increasingly aware of the specific nature of the connection with the One who sits upon the throne.
No one can circumvent that connection and reach the One who sits upon the throne. Human beings in their human nature patterns like to imagine that they have their special connections, but there is only One Way, One Truth, One Life, and it relates to identification with cause—identification individually, in a specific sense, with the reality of one's own angelic nature; in the collective sense, with the Hosts of Heaven who are all already centered in the One who sits upon the throne and already differentiating that One Spirit. Because of this the restoration of man to his true state is made possible. We share this responsibility. It has been said that we need to grow up. That means that we need to accept the angelic identity. Then we know why we are here. There is nothing personal anymore that we hold out for our own. It is all included in the overall purpose of our presence on earth, and if we need to be a part of one group for a specific purpose and not a part of another group, well that's the way it is, that's what we are here for—and we begin to find out that we actually fit in these configurations. We discover that it is a most fitting state of affairs, a delightful state of affairs, and we see the creative cycles moving and unfolding in all directions, all coordinated by reason of the One Spirit which in differentiated expression is providing what is necessary on earth by which the transformation occurs in human consciousness and man, mankind, is restored.
I am thankful for the privilege of sharing these things with you this evening, that there may be an increasing awareness of angelic associations and an increasing willingness to let those associations take a specific pattern, a specific pattern according to the design of the throne in heaven. That, after all, is what we are here to do as angels.
© emissaries of divine light
