Let There Be A Man On Earth

Let  There  Be  A  Man  On  Earth

Martin Exeter   November 2, 1986  am

What we do in this moment, presenting ourselves before the Lord, is done because of what we are. What we do is always quite secondary to what we are, because unless we know what we are, what we do is of very little consequence. What we are is known to the extent that it is, insofar as each one of us is concerned, because of the One that we speak of as our King. We have no being apart from that. Those who imagine that they have—and this would include most of the human population—discover that it isn't true. At some point they cease to have any being on earth.

We are together this morning simply because we have discovered a certain measure of oneness in spirit, oneness in the creative process we may say. That is exactly the same as being one in our King. A definition of the creative process was apparently given by Him, when He was on earth a long time ago, using the words “the way, the truth, and the life.” This is the creative process. And He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; I am the creative process.” The only way by which anyone can experience what it means to be in Him—which, by the way, isn't a matter of being in Jesus somehow; that would be quite a trick—is to be in the creative process, which He is, and which each one of us may say “I am” when we are there. It is a matter of being fused into the creative process so that that is what we are. It is no longer, then, something separate from us into which we may come on occasion or with which we may, if we find it pleasing, associate ourselves. It becomes exactly what we are, no separation, a fusing in oneness.

We discover that there is nothing else but the creative process. If, as human beings have done, we should exclude ourselves from the creative process by rebelling against it, by resisting it, by wanting to do our own thing, then we find ourselves sooner or later out in the cold, very literally, because there isn't anything else but the creative process. There is no existence apart from that. While we are on the way out into the cold there may seem to be a little temporary existence which, according to the number of complaints one hears round about, is not a very satisfactory state. So we share in this moment some awareness of the creative process and, to that extent, some awareness of who we are. Let us never anymore allow heart and mind to rebel against the creative process, to resist it, because we are attempting in heart and mind to have our own way.

There is a story in the beginning of the Bible which speaks of a woman by the name of Eve, who wanted to have her own way. That is where the trouble started, and that is exactly where it continues. As it turned out she had a pretty sad experience. She not only lost herself and her womanliness, she lost her man, and found a pale male creature as a substitute, and then proceeded to complain about him: “Look where I may, I cannot find a man. Therefore I have to depend upon myself to establish control in this rather limited state, and so I am determined, one way or another, to have my own way.” This may seem to be rather a brash way of putting it but it is the fact nevertheless. Complaining about the absence of a man, she apparently fails to recognize that all the men that have put in an appearance over the course of the ages have been through her. She may say, “Well men want to have their way too.” Of course! They put in an appearance on earth through her and, in the early years of life at least, they are thoroughly imbued with the female determination to have her own way.

There is an interesting passage in the Book of Revelation where there was a woman in labor. She brought forth a man child. There was another character on hand ready to take charge, but this man child was caught up to God and to His throne. Here is a portrayal insofar as every man child is concerned who is born into the world. This woman was apparently a remarkable character, clothed with the sun and all, and willing for this to transpire. So her son was caught up to God and to His throne and delivered from the control of the dragon—the intent being that there might be a man.

A man is a man because of heaven, because of being caught up to God and to His throne. There must be a man on earth. And we have the record of one in particular, the One who was called Jesus. Here was a man who carried authority. He carried authority because He did not fall into the trap of trying to do what He wanted to do in the human sense. I am sure I speak with the greatest of confidence when I say of all the men within the sound of my voice now, every last one of them, including myself, were intent upon doing what they wanted to do. Anyone here who would dispute that point? I trust not.

I am not describing the situation this way so that the men can then say, “Well all the women are to blame; after all, I was brought up by a woman”—women probably. Some of you may have had the experience of an older sister too, who established the idea that one should do what one wants to do. Of course there was, no doubt, a certain amount of discipline involved, for some anyway, when what the little boy wanted to do was considered to be bad: “Shouldn't do that, naughty.” But this didn't in any way detract from the idea that one needs to do what one wants to do, presumably provided it is good. “Just don't do the bad things; you will find it's much more useful to do the good things, and then you will be a success.” Some found out there was some sort of a fallacy in this and so they did the bad thing anyway. But whatever the experience may have been, it was all based in the idea that one should do what one wants to do. Of course living cheek by jowl with a lot of other people, one has to modify it a bit so that you don't tread on too many toes; otherwise you won't be able to get what you want to get. Here is the picture of mankind, the state of mankind: the men playing at being men, having been brought up by women; and the women intent upon maintaining their control over men, but in any case maintaining a hand on the way things go. A hopeless state: fallen women—that is one way of putting it—establishing control over fallen men.

We have looked at this before, but I reiterate the matter because there is only one way out of the condition, and that is that there should be a man on earth. This is clearly seen from the standpoint of the creative process. That is why the Master put in an appearance. He put in an appearance for both men and women, that there might be a point on earth, a point of authority, spiritual authority, which was uncontrolled by the human urge to do what one wants to do and to get what one wants to get. There is no way out of the human impasse without that. There has to be such a point that will not conform to the female requirements. I became aware of this myself by reason of Uranda back along the way and found myself, at a certain point, projected into the focus of this requirement.

Of course the endeavor to do what one wants to do, as I have indicated, was no longer limited to the female. It was part of the character of the male too. If I point to the original female action it is not to put anyone down but merely to face the fact of it. That is where it occurred, and it will not un-occur without a man. It has been an impasse, hasn't it, because the woman determined how the men should behave, and then when the men behaved the way she had determined they should behave she would complain about it and say there is no man there. And there has been this perennial seeking of a man—“my own personal man, my puppet.” Sadly, men have gone along with it, and only broken out a little bit by establishing various male arrangements which excluded the female. So the woman lost herself.

As you may recall, according to the story, she was taken out of man. There is a natural unification between male and female when there is a man. But that unification is not based in any way at all upon what either the woman wants or the man wants. Because there was something in a woman that a man wanted he has remained in subjection to her, beating his chest the while. And because there was something that the woman wanted from the man she has remained trapped in her own determination to have her own way. We have had the opportunity of looking at all these things, and no doubt we have glanced at them occasionally. And we have had the opportunity of talking about them—as though talking about it was going to change anything. It is a matter of accepting the creative process, isn't it, whatever that is. We have had some theories about it. We talk about positive and negative, and the four forces, and all this, which is supposed to make us feel wise in our own eyes. But what has it really meant? There is a truth to be known, not merely theories to be discussed. There are some factors in relationship to that truth that it is well that we should become mentally aware of; otherwise we would be inclined to reject the very thing that we seek. So we share the responsibility of experience.

There has to be a point of authority, a male point of authority, to provide a point of orientation. We know this in theory, and I am sure that many of you have recognized your own responsibility as men to provide a point of authority, a point of orientation. You can't do that until you first know what that is; and you can't know what that is without recognizing and acknowledging the point of orientation of man that is provided in the creative process. It can't be done outside of the creative process, so that narrows it down considerably and makes it very pointed. There is the necessity, then, for men to acknowledge and accept that point of spiritual authority—not an authority which is going to shake a finger and say, “Well you do it this way or else,” relative to the external field of activity.

One of the things that the male has very largely lost is the ability to have communion with another male. This is the first order of business in actual fact. Men are quite willing to discuss all kinds of external things with each other but usually steer well away from anything which would relate to revealing something of the heart. There is fear here. The close spiritual communion between men allows for the male point of focus of authority to put in an appearance in an expanded sense; otherwise it can't. There is nothing available then, and the woman can support her view that there are no men, because that's the fact of it. While from the Emissary standpoint there has been a certain amount of admission in this regard, what was necessary has yet continued to be inadequate.

Let there be men. Then let there be women. Men are not made to be men by women. Men are men because of God, only because of that. If God is excluded, if the experience of the creative process in actual daily living is excluded—this is a spiritual experience—then there is no man; there is merely the character that was forthcoming by reason of female intervention.

We know very well the mechanics of the situation—how in the external sense we are made. We have a physical body; we have a mind; we have a capacity for spiritual expression. And there is the matter of the heart; we are well aware that it is the impure heart that blocks everything. The physical substance of our own bodies, we are aware of that. We are also aware of the fact of a mind—this relates to vibrational substance, at a different level to the physical substance, and yet it is not separate from the physical substance, any more than one band of color in the rainbow is separate from the others. They all blend, it is all one thing. So physical substance is filled with mental substance, permeated by it. And the mental substance is not separate from the physical substance; it is just a different vibratory level. So mind and body are in fact one. And there is some spiritual substance also, which permeates the mental substance and the physical substance. They are all one. But the extent of spiritual substance has been so restricted that only a distorted limited range of spirit could occupy it. We may speak of this as the unholy ghost; it is not whole, just bits and pieces. And it is through this unholy ghost that the control has been present, or the expression of character has been present, in both men and women.

Permeating all this again is what may be spoken of as emotional substance, the substance of the heart; and the substance of the heart is the means by which the connection is made between spirit and all the rest: physical, mental, and spiritual expression. The substance of the heart has been wicked. “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” That is the way it has been. That is a very accurate description of human experience, simply because the heart was impure and the remains of spirit that got through was of a distorted, limited, restricted extent and consequently would be accurately described as the unholy ghost. And the unholy ghost has been the controlling basis for human function, human nature.These are things that we can mentally describe in this fashion. The description doesn't say really what it is.

We have to come to know what it is because the door opens between heaven and earth and the Holy Spirit can flood through and bring the understanding. That is the only way that understanding can come. It can't be gotten out of the mental realm somehow, through study and intellectual effort. All that happens is that things get more and more confused. Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God, they shall be permeated by God. The physical form permeated by God, the mind permeated by God, spiritual expression is then the expression of God, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, whole, complete, balanced, accurate. As this occurs there is, first of all, a man.

It is a matter of the heart, isn't it? And men are very reluctant to allow their hearts to be purified. They can't be purified as long as they keep them locked up: no admittance, no admittance except to women. And men become devastated on this basis, naturally so. A man's heart does not belong to a woman; it belongs to God. That is all there is to it. But men have become so accustomed to opening their hearts to women that what is of the female floods in, and then the man acts like a pale imitation of a woman. He could never be a really good imitation! And we have all this mixed-up confusion and nonsense in the world, where everybody wants what they want, wants to do what they want to do, and wants it enshrined in law. The way things work, the creative process in other words, is the way it is, and it doesn't allow for any of these human discrepancies. To try to enshrine human discrepancy in a legal state is ridiculous. It doesn't belong anywhere and it disappears sooner or later. It could go out with a big bang, couldn't it? No more human beings and their nonsense! I don't think that should happen. I don't think it needs to happen.

There must be authority in focus on earth from the male standpoint. There must be a man who cannot, will not ever, be pushed around by women—or by other men for that matter. But the point is with respect to women. If there are those women who are willing to let their hearts be purified so that they accept that point of spiritual authority absolutely, then they no longer feel inadequate and try to fill their inadequacy with inadequate males. There is something here which relates to the matter of no marrying or giving in marriage in heaven. There's a hump to come over here. The question is: “What is it in heaven?” Well you never find out without being there, and you can't be there except you let heaven come into the earth.

So we share the responsibility of doing this, but it requires an absoluteness that is absolute. When there is a stable point of male focus on earth there is a beginning point for what needs to happen—only because of that. Most have been so wrapped up in their own affairs that they overlook the one thing that is necessary: establish absoluteness from the standpoint of this spiritual point of authority. Then share in it—be it. But you will not be pushed around by women anymore, and you know how that happens. The control is there where it belongs, and only as it is there is there any expectation of anything of value happening. Whatever may have happened within the range of our own experience as emissaries has happened because of this one thing; and because of this one thing there has begun to be an expansion of male authority.

Out of male authority women come. That is the way it works. Some may object to it. You are welcome to object but you are not going to change it. That is the way it is. Now I say this with a certain authority. You may say, “Well I don't know whether to accept that authority or not.” Try it. Yes, there are those who are accepting it in their own experience, not as an external thing but as an internal thing, a clarifying, a cleansing, a purifying of the heart, so that there is the substance of connection between spirit and form—that's in the heart. But what has the heart been filled with insofar as human experience is concerned? Emotional stuff of all kinds, and particularly the interaction between so-called men and so-called women. Let the heart be purified. “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Such a statement indicates that hearts are troubled and are afraid; that is where the control is. Women are afraid of losing their control, whatever it amounts to; and men are afraid, of course, also of losing what they want. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. This could be said to be the basic instruction or the basic experience to be known now, in this moment: an untroubled and an unfearful heart which is willing to accommodate the creative process in action.

Here we are this morning together to provide that, that there may be a unified, fused means by which the creative process may emerge in spiritual expression on earth. We perhaps have shared this somewhat in this hour to the extent that we were not caught in the human nature state but were willing to let our hearts come free and be purified. “I shall not want.” Nice words. True words. But how much do any of us know as to what they really mean? We have the opportunity of sharing that because it is the way, the truth and the life. It is the creative process. Let there be a man on earth. Then let there be a woman on earth. What that might be is only discovered by letting it be. It allow the fulfilment in male and female experience based in the state of man, man inseparably one with God, man revealing the creative process in all his ways, in all his living. Let it be so.

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