Implications
Martin Cecil August 5, 1979
How deliberate are we in utilizing the opportunities that present themselves to us? Or do we take the attitude that it doesn’t really matter? Little things are important. If we cannot handle the little things we will not be able to handle the larger things. From time to time I receive letters, or indication from certain ones, that while they had a sense or feeling of agreement with what I was saying, they didn’t really understand everything I was talking about. If anything could shock me this would, in most instances. Now we utilize certain words, and have done over a long period of time. If I have to go back to square one and start all over again to acquaint everyone with what we are talking about when a certain word is used, we would never get anywhere, would we? I think I have a right by now to assume that there is understanding. I think this matter of a lack of understanding tends to give indication of a cop-out. The individual has never bothered to develop implications for himself.
In another letter of response I had, the statement was made that everything that needed to be said was said in one service; all the implications were there. That is true—just one service, each service. Everything that needs to be said is said in that service. If the individual will follow out the implications, he will have just as much understanding as he assumes I have. If I give evidence of some understanding it is simply that I have taken the trouble to follow out implications. I don’t have a special pipeline out of heaven somehow which acquaints me with all the information that is needed about everything; nothing special at all along that line, merely a willingness to move in the current of the spirit and allow the implications to be made known. And who has no ability in this regard?
I would suggest that if a person reaches the point, when things are said, where he is inclined to excuse himself by saying, “Well I have a feeling of agreement with this but I don’t really understand it,” maybe he is the one who should go back to square one. Why should it be supposed that it is necessary for me to make everything clear to everybody? Why don’t you allow it to be made clear for yourself? That is the only way it will be made clear. I may give you a feeling of making something clear to you but you discover later that it wasn’t made clear to you because you didn’t participate in anything more than the hearing; you didn’t follow out the implications; you didn’t take the trouble to do so.
I am speaking to you generally. I’m speaking to a lot of people generally besides those who are here present this evening. There are those who are here present this evening, and there are those elsewhere, who have followed out implications and have allowed a clarity to come, so that when I speak of things, immediately they are right there. They know what I am talking about. We need to keep moving forward, and if anyone finds himself with a blank, with no sense of understanding, then that person had better go back and start from square one again. If everything that is needed is provided in each service, all the implications being there, then surely on the basis of all the services that have been given all the implications should have by now been absorbed into a second nature, so that when I begin to speak about something there is a flood of the implications into consciousness immediately. That is what is meant by agreement, by being together, by moving in oneness. If you’re sucking your teeth, or whatever you do when you don’t understand, if you are sitting there doing that, then you are utterly worthless.
What floods your consciousness when I begin to touch upon something which you have heard before? These attitudes which arise indicate that the individual thinks that I never said anything about it before, this is the first time; therefore they can't understand. Oh yes you can! Everyone can understand if they have not only heard but done something, and one of the things to do is to follow out the implications. Don’t ever claim for yourself a lack of understanding. That is an indication of the fact that you are embedded in human nature and are determined to stay there, because everything necessary to understanding has been provided. When you have heard the Tone and your life reverberates to that Tone, you have understanding—it is there.
One of the ways this is sometimes put is this: “I don’t understand it with my mind.” Well probably that is because you never learned how to think. That is sometimes presented as though it were a reasonable excuse; but your mind is for something, you know; it’s not supposed just to be a blank. When there is movement with spirit there is unfoldment in an understanding of implications because the individual takes enough trouble, enough time, to let it happen. This is what I have been doing over the years: following out the implications. Perhaps I have done it too much, so that you felt that all that was necessary was for me to follow out all the implications; you didn’t have to do anything because I was going to provide it. But what I can provide is just a drop in the bucket relative to what should be provided by us all together. I can follow out my line of implications, but how about you following out yours? Then there begins to be substance to our understanding. You begin to share in something which carries impact. But if just left to one or two people to do it, it is very thin.
This relates to the need to speak, act, as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Each one properly carries authority of his own. Never trade upon someone else's supposed authority; that is a cop-out. Either what you are saying is true because you are saying it, or you’d better not say it. Don’t use anybody else to back up what you are saying or what you are doing. Whatever it is you do, take responsibility for it: “I am doing it because I’m doing it!” If you shovel it off onto somebody else, that is a sign of pretty weak character, isn’t it? If we all took responsibility in this moment for everything we do, how long do you think it would take the world to be transformed? There is a tendency to look at the concept that is held of restoration: “Well it is going to unfold somehow or other, and one day—a little over the horizon yet—it will be here.” But from our standpoint surely we can say, “It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. I will take responsibility for this myself, the water that is my responsibility to give into my world.”
Some of you may feel that you can trust me to give the water of life freely into the world. All right, let me do it; but you do it for your world! When we assume responsibility for our worlds we do not hesitate to give expression to the spirit of God in our particular circumstances, our worlds, our environment; but we do it for ourselves. After all, nobody else can do it in your world. So we each do it, and when we do it there begins to emerge into expression what has been referred to as the Holy Spirit. Here is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Human beings sit around waiting for the Holy Spirit to pour out upon them, give them a good soaking. Well the opportunity for that has been provided, I think, over the years in this ministry. Something has been poured out in abundance to give everybody a good soaking. But we are collectively responsible for pouring this out to give the world a good soaking.
We know the Tone. Let us see the implications. You’ve heard what I’ve had to say this evening. You’ve all heard it if you were listening and not dozing. This indicates that there is also something to do. All that is necessary is to acknowledge the reality of the Tone of Life and let that Tone sound in one’s own living—that’s all! Then one will find that everything falls naturally into place. There may appear to be contradictions in external form but they only appear to be that way as long as a person is not moving in the current of the spirit in the expression of the true Tone of Life. As soon as he does that everything harmonizes.
So we acknowledge the fact that we understand. If we can still convince ourselves that we don’t, or if we haven’t had sufficient opportunity yet to become really acquainted with the Tone of Life, then let’s go back to square one and start all over again; because it is all there, it is all there! As was certainly correctly indicated, even in one presentation the implications are all there. Let us not admit that we are so lazy that we couldn’t be bothered to find out what they were, but rather let us be in fact sons and daughters of God who carry responsibility for the world, and we are quite willing to receive whatever of the world the Lord would present us with. He presents us with whatever it is we are in position to handle now. We handle what we handle now—there’s some more coming! There’s quite a bit more coming. There is an immense backlog of human garbage.
We are here to let this be handled as it should, so that the world may be transformed by the spirit of God, which is the expression of our living; but this requires intelligence and understanding. We can easily handle what it is that is being brought to us, what it is that is on our plate. It wouldn’t be on our plate if we couldn’t handle it. Let us have that assurance. And if we think we need more know-how somehow, well let’s be diligent in discovering what that know-how is for ourselves. Let us not expect someone else to hand it to us. No one else can hand it to us! We can only know it on the basis of our own discovery of it. Then we know it. If you think you know something merely because I said it, have another think! You know something when you are capable of saying it and know that it is true for yourself. You don’t need any backup on that, because it is the spirit of God which is finding expression because you are present. So let it be always.
© emissaries of divine light
