The Culture and Language of the Kingdom

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The  Culture  and  Language  of  the  Kingdom

Martin Cecil   January 24, 1982

There is power in the spoken word when it springs forth through a pure heart and a spiritually governed mind. “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Being conformed to this world is being conformed to what is now present in the mass consciousness and to the distorted patterns remaining in our own subconscious minds. It has been indicated that the spirit of God should give utterance in our speech. We have become aware of the living equipment by which the creative expression of the spirit of God may come into action on earth—that facility of body and mind and heart, fearfully and wonderfully made, exactly right for right use. In order to let the mind be transformed there is the necessity for sanctification by the truth. According to the Master's words, the Spirit of Truth should “bring all things to remembrance.” We have referred to this experience as baptism by water. We ourselves have participated in this outpouring of the water of truth, that changes might be wrought at the subconscious levels of our own minds. The changes come because new and more fluid material is available to be received.

One of the elements in the memory that is shared by all of us is language. All of us can speak the English language. We may have other languages at our command, but insofar as this matter of conditioning in the water of truth is concerned the English language has been primary. Consider this matter of language. There are many of them in the world. We might look for the day when there is only one. We would refer to this language as the Language of the Kingdom. It is the natural state of man to speak this One Language. There may be some dialects involved, relating to different levels of understanding and consciousness, but one language nevertheless. There is movement toward an ultimate of One Language.

A language is merely the expression of a culture of some kind. If one is immersed in that culture one will learn that language quite easily—the language springs out of the culture. If we see this with respect to the languages of this world, we can understand how the Language of the Kingdom comes to be known—it springs out of the Culture of the Kingdom. Therefore one must participate in the Culture of the Kingdom to learn the language. However, we move from the known to the unknown. The known for most of us was the English language, so we have shared some transformation in our own understanding of the English language. We utilize words in different ways to what is usual in conversational English. We see meanings to words that most people do not see. These words have been transformed in our experience, so that there begins to emerge a new language. This new language sounds like English but isn't. It is incumbent upon us to be very careful of the words we use, remembering what they mean to others.

There has been this much transformation in our understanding of what heretofore was the English language—it begins to become the clothing for the Culture of the Kingdom. Those who participate in the Culture of the Kingdom understand the Language. Those who try to use the language without participating in the Culture of the Kingdom turn the language into jargon. It may be that there was nothing wrong with the words; there was something wrong with the people who spoke them. If there is jargon it is because there are those who have not participated in the Culture of the Kingdom trying to speak the Kingdom Language, and it becomes a meaningless jargon. But if one is participating in the Culture of the Kingdom, then certainly a new language puts in an appearance as part and parcel of the Kingdom experience—it is the clothing of that experience.

We are interested in opening doors in some way, utilizing the languages of the world, for people to begin to move toward the experience of the Kingdom Culture. Then very naturally out of that will spring the Language of the Kingdom. There isn't any such language at the moment, just a movement towards it, and that movement in our own experience has come because there has been baptism by water—a soaking in the Culture of the Kingdom. We don't really know what it is yet, but considerable material has been provided, absorbed in some measure into our subconscious minds so that it is available for the use of the spirit of God in the creative process. The creative process is required for the transformation which is to occur on the larger scale. So we have been conditioned by this baptism by water—we have material in our subconscious minds that most people do not have in their subconscious minds. This does not make us better than other people but it does require of us the assumption of greater responsibility, that this material may be put to use—the use of the spirit of God, which operates through both conscious and subconscious minds.

“But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” The primary requirement is that one should prove the truth for oneself. Only when this is undertaken does the other element come into the picture, namely baptism by fire. Water first, then fire. The fire puts in an appearance when we prove out the fact that we are not conformed to this world. We may find ourselves getting into hotter water on this basis. The water needs to come to the boil so that it may be converted into steam: additional power. The fire relates particularly to emotional experience. The emotional experience may be very uncomfortable, and the conscious mind has become very expert in finding methods of escaping from the fire. And yet we are looking for the fire. While I have emphasized the matter of discomfort, there are of course other aspects to the fire too. It is said of the Spirit of Truth that He was the Comforter. There is the ability, by reason of the presence of the Spirit of Truth, to handle effectively whatever it is that is put on one's plate—to look after one's responsibilities without being overly concerned about the discomforts that are felt. There is in fact no need to make a big deal out of it.

Doors and gates are opened. One of the primary tools that we use are words. “Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” Speak the Word only. Here we see the true position of man in administering God's creative purposes. He doesn't do it by the sweat of the face. Speak the Word only, and it shall be done. But that Word must spring out of the Kingdom Culture. It can't spring out of the Kingdom Culture unless the individual who speaks the words is a part of that Culture. Then the spoken Word begins to have creative impact. The spoken Word impinges upon the spiritual substance that is present with people, and because it is a spiritual Word being spoken it has effect. There is attunement between the Word and the substance, present at the unconscious level of mind, the conscious level of mind, and in the emotional realm. All this substance permeates physical substance too. It is natural for the clarified spiritual substance to respond to the command of the Word, and as there is such response the whole organism moves.

The true creative process is not all that complicated, and it certainly doesn't require sweat of the face. It requires those who are associated with the Culture of the Kingdom, are a part of it, so that out of that Culture may spring the words of the Kingdom. And the words of the Kingdom are creative words; they have effect wherever there is substance in human beings anywhere free enough to move. It is waiting to be moved; waiting for somebody to speak the Word, waiting for somebody to be a part of the Culture of the Kingdom. We ourselves have been baptized in this regard. We have begun to experience what it means to “prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” in living.

Where the spirit of God is in action there is light. In the Word is life, and the life is the light of men. But it is the Word with which we are concerned, the Word which is spoken in the Culture of the Kingdom. When that Word is spoken it initiates the creative process and carries it forward, and the first factor in the creative process is light—but that's part of the creative process, not part of what is producing the creative process. It is the spirit of God in action that allows for the manifestation of light—the Word expressed in living. We give account for every idle word that we speak. Let us be very careful of the words we use, because we are going to be in trouble with idle ones.

Why not accept the offer of the Comforter? Most of what is called to our remembrance is of the Kingdom, something beautiful, wonderful and glorious. Think on these things, and behold, the former things pass away and the newness of the new state keeps coming forth increasingly into our awareness, so that we find ourselves standing on a rock and capable of dealing with all that is brought to us for our effective creative action. Much of that creative action is based in words spoken, words which, to the extent that they spring forth from the Culture of the Kingdom, bring to bear a creative influence wherever the substance of that Culture of the Kingdom may be present in human minds and hearts the world around. We do not need to know who is affected, how much, in what way. We may find out in due season what has been occurring by reason of the Word of the Lord spoken on earth which goes forth to accomplish that whereunto it is sent. It does not return void—it brings back the substance with it. Here is our ministry in the name of the Lord, easy, beautiful, natural. Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds.

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