Identity In The Light

 Identity  In  The  Light

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Martin Exeter   January 4, 1987 p.m.

The Great Spirit, the Heavenly Father, seeks those who will worship him in spirit and in truth.

In this present creative cycle, in which all are moving, human nature is darkness. It is said that the darkness comprehends not the light. It was said of Pharaoh that he knew not the Lord. If the darkness, human nature, comprehends not the light, neither does it comprehend its own darkness. Human beings think of themselves as being at least somewhat enlightened. Here is the darkness not comprehending the darkness but imagining that it is light. As long as one is trapped in the human-nature condition it is impossible to comprehend the light. I think this has at times been a somewhat frustrating experience to those who were beginning to be identified with the light, that no matter what they did or said, the darkness of human nature in others just didn’t comprehend. That’s the way it is. If one is identified with human nature, that is darkness. And the darkness comprehends not the light.

Emerging out of human nature, because there begins to be an identification with the light, then immediately the darkness can be recognized as darkness. We ourselves, having accepted at least some responsibility to be the light, very easily observe the darkness of the human-nature state, but those who are still involved in that human-nature state do not see the darkness of it. Identified with that, one is the darkness oneself, and the darkness does not comprehend the light. And you can’t make the darkness comprehend the light. You may speak with the greatest of clarity, logic and reason—it all seems so obvious—but for anyone who is identified with the darkness it just passes them by. It’s a remarkable phenomenon, and I’m sure that most of you have experienced it at one time or another. It is futile to try to make the darkness see the light. You can’t do it.

The real concern is that one should allow a shift to come in identity, one’s own to start with, so that the identity is no longer with human nature. At least then there is a beginning point for it to be centered in what we have referred to as cosmic nature. To the extent that one has actually accepted a new identity in one’s living, not in theory but in fact, then to that extent it’s easy to see how dark the darkness is. It is also quite understandable as to why the darkness finds it impossible to comprehend the light. I think some very earnest Emissaries have been hopeful that they would develop such expertise as orators, or in whatever way, that they would compel the darkness to see the light. Such an attempt is very frustrating; and if one is frustrated, one may know one is not being very intelligent.

Letting a shift come in one’s own identity in the experience of one’s living, because one is relinquishing the right to judge, to accuse, to blame, to criticize, so that there is no self-justification anymore for doing these things, then there begins to be the experience of a shift in identity. The space in oneself that has been cluttered up with all this judgment begins to become available for the experience of the true identity. How important then that this matter of self-justification should be relinquished. We know that occasionally the opportunity to be resentful, or envious, or something else, rises up into the range of one’s possible experience, if one accommodates it. It is at that point that the matter of self-justification comes in, because if we feel that we have the right to justify ourselves for being resentful, or envious, or what have you, then immediately we have assumed the human-nature identity. That is what human nature does; that is why human nature exists. This is the eating of the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Human beings think they have that knowledge so they can tell what is good and what is bad.

It is quite apparent, as we have often recognized, that there are virtually no bad people on earth. We have seen that in relationship to ourselves: we are all good people. You find, in any grouping of people anywhere, there will be the view that “we are all good people.” This was something that was brought out again by Bruce Allyn in one of his stories, because all the Soviet people whom he has met think of themselves as good people. Well where is the conflict then, if all the North Americans think of themselves as good people? But of course the conflict arises because of the things that are done by good people. There was indication that there is the same saying by the Soviets in Russian that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” And it is! And all the troubles in the world have been produced by good people. I suppose there are some who think of themselves as bad. I don’t mean in the sense of being sinners but in doing bad things to other people. But what do you think the proportion is of those who think of themselves in that way, and those who think of themselves as being good people? I would say there are at least ninety-nine good people to every bad one. And yet there is immense trouble in the world. Who produced it? Just that little one percent, do you think? No, of course not. It’s the good people following out their good intentions that make sure of tribulation. That is the state of darkness.

If there is arrogance in assuming that one is in position to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with impunity, then that is a very deluded state. Nobody can judge with impunity. “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” These are accurate statements, to which virtually no one pays any attention. Paying attention to these things we become willing to assume a different identity, not the judging identity, not the self-righteous identity, not the identity which is involved with self-justification—and that covers a wide range, you know. Did you ever jump to your defense? I’m sure we all have. That’s self-justification. “I’m innocent,” human beings say, or imagine. Nobody is innocent in the human state. So, relinquishing this attitude of self-justification there may be the possibility of the experience of a new identity, an identity that does not justify itself, that does not judge, that does not indulge in accusation, blame and criticism. That’s a totally new identity for human beings. We may think of it in these negative terms, so to speak—what is not done anymore—because one is aware that doing those things maintains one in the state of human-nature identity; so there is no sense to it. That is one aspect of it. And when that begins to be seen there comes space, which was previously occupied by all this clutter, for the experience of another identity, what is a seemingly new identity. I say “seemingly” because it is an identity that has really been the fact all along but has been obscured by the insistence upon the human-nature identity, the false identity. As mind and heart insist on that, that is what they are filled with, that is what they know. And, by the way, it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh, that the expression of life in the individual sense is. If it proves to be judgmental then you know what the identity is: human nature.

But coming out of that there is the acceptance of a different identity, because there is space for it.

That identity may be characterized by light—a coming out of the darkness, out of the identity of darkness, into the identity of light. When you are in the darkness, identified with human nature, you can’t comprehend the light. But when you begin to come out of the darkness into the light, the light comprehends the light. The light also comprehends the fact of darkness. To the extent that there is an emergence into the light, into the new identity, then the darkness becomes comprehensible. We understand what the darkness is. We call it human nature, and we know the characteristics of human nature are judgmental. It is characterized by the arrogant assumption that one really knows what is good and what is bad; one is identified with a lie. So obviously one cannot know the truth in that state. But we emerge out by accepting this new identity, which in no way is judgmental, in no way is characterized by darkness. What the darkness is becomes comprehensible. This doesn’t mean that it makes any sense.

There are a lot of people who are trying to make sense out of the human-nature state, and very well-educated people are delving into the matter with most serious intent, trying to make sense out of a senseless state. That is rather a waste of time. Yet, generation after generation, many have been wasting their time on this futile effort, trying to make sense out of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light, amongst other things the absence of sense. There is no sense to it. What a waste of time to try to figure it out. There is nothing to figure out. Most people are very anxious to have someone come and figure out their darkness. Did you ever find yourself in that sort of position, you wanted to find a counsellor of some kind to help you figure out your darkness? An immense amount of time is taken up by human beings trying to figure out their darkness. What a senseless undertaking. It is, in effect, an endeavor to make darkness light. How could you make darkness light? It’s darkness. Light is light. Where light is, there is no darkness. But where darkness is, there is no light; so how could one ever figure out what darkness is? It’s nothing. It’s the absence of light. We have said this from time to time, and we know that it is no use struggling with the darkness, trying to figure it out, trying to get it to be light when it isn’t.

We move over to this new identity, the identity of light; and immediately, to the extent that we do this, there is emerging a focus of light. And if there is a concern to make darkness over, then, I suppose you could say, this is the way to do it. You don’t really make it over, you just cause it to vanish; because when the light goes on, where did the darkness go? It didn’t go anywhere, as we well know. It was nothing in the first place; it was merely the absence of light. So the acceptance of the true identity, which is worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth, allows for a focus of light to begin to emerge. And where the light is, the darkness flees away. The light needs to be present in one’s own experience. It may be present in somebody else’s experience, and that’s nice for them, but it only begins to mean something if it is in one’s own experience, so that the nonsensical state of darkness may vanish. That’s a lot easier, amongst other things, than trying to comprehend the darkness, trying to get it straightened out so that it isn’t dark. We have all smiled at the figure of the gentleman in the institution who spends his nights with a bucket trying to bail the darkness out of his room. And he really thinks he succeeds, because the sun comes up in the morning! Yet this is the activity of human nature: trying to bail out the darkness. And what effort! What sweat of the brow! All futile.

But once there begins to be a focus of light on earth, there is immediate participation in the radiant aspect of the creative process. It is the light that is the means by which darkness is dispelled. It doesn’t try to make sense out of darkness; it simply causes it to vanish away. There goes human nature. This comes because there is first the acknowledgment of the darkness and of failure, and then the willingness to accept the light, which is always present and always available, because the human efforts which have maintained the darkness are relinquished. Judgment and self-justification are relinquished. The space is there; the light comes on. If you have experienced any light, so that you have been able to view the darkness for what it is, you see it as being separate from yourself, because human nature is now beginning to be separate from you. The light comprehends the darkness and is consequently able to participate in that radiant process by which the darkness is dissipated.

This is our business: the dissipation of darkness, the dissipation of human nature. This happens only when there is an identity experienced in the light. Whatever comes to us we no longer judge it; we no longer try to manipulate it into something else which we think would be better; we no longer try to grab onto the things that we think are good, or to push away the things that we think are bad. We are quite content to let the creative process work, to let the light shine without judgment. There begins to be a trust then in the working of the creative process, something entirely different to the usual human endeavors. We have all become so accustomed to this manipulative practice, to try to make things better, to make things the way we think they should be, to get other people to behave the way we think they should behave. All this effort is so much waste of time, when the creative process is perfectly capable of handling the whole situation. It does handle the whole situation in the end anyway. It sweeps away all that doesn’t belong.

But man, male and female, has a part to play. That’s us. We have a part to play in the creative process. That part is characterized by light. It is no mistake that a true person, no longer of the human-nature ilk, should be defined as an Emissary of Divine Light. How many Emissaries of Divine Light do you think there are on earth? We have all had the quaint conceit at times that there were several, of course oneself included. But has it been the fact? Now we begin to understand more clearly what the fact is. It is the fact of having a new identity. This new identity relates to what was spoken of as the new heaven and the new earth. It is a different state, an unjudging state, but a state which is light, and therefore can see and understand, comprehend what is going on. We have such comprehension, to some degree anyway, don’t we? We see what is happening in the world in a very different way than those who are in darkness see what is happening. There are human beings everywhere striving for useful accomplishment, human beings everywhere with the best of intentions, all the intentions in conflict with other intentions. And the darkness remains. Nobody knows what is going on.

But finally there begin to be those who are identified, in some measure, with the light, and who therefore see that is going on, see no necessity anymore for judgment, because the light is an aspect of the working of the creative process. it doesn’t need human strength, human effort, or even human ideas. The creative process works. Identified in the light, one is identified in the creative process. All things are accomplished in exactly the way they should be by the creative process.

Man, of course, male and female, is designed to bring that creative process to a specific point of focus, that it may work directly in the creative field for which man is responsible. That is a vast creative field, by the way. Most people think of their creative field as just being around them—their job, their home, whatever. Sometimes they glance at the TV and see that there is something beyond out there. Sometimes they get emotionally involved with that. But there is a vast creative field for which man is responsible. It includes this planet but it includes more than this planet. This planet, after all, is just a part of quite a seemingly large solar system. And there are things going on in the solar system which rightly are included in the creative field made available to the Great Spirit, the Father, through man—something brought to focus, so that there can be a direct creative influence exerted. How that is exerted, exactly, is beyond the comprehension of human nature, because the darkness comprehends not the light. Only the light comprehends the light. And one must be the light to comprehend the light. All very logical.

Comprehending the light, there is an understanding of what it is that is occurring with respect to the darkness of human nature. We see the process; we see what is happening. We do not necessarily see how it is all going to come out. We don’t need to see that. What would be the use? We can see what is happening now in the range of our own fields of responsibility as we comprehend them now in the light. Perhaps the light is not all that strong yet, so that we do not see as far as we otherwise might, but we see enough to comprehend that the light is moving in the creative process to dissipate the darkness of human nature. Who is it who wants to know how it’s all going to come out? Is there anyone here who really wants to know? I think it’s much better not to know. We know what it is now.

If we attend to the now, then we may provide the point of fusion between the Great Spirit and the earth, between Father God and Mother God. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/05/to-honor-father-and-mother.html] This is what man was designed to do: to accommodate that point of fusion between heaven and earth. And in that accommodation is, indeed, the highest ecstasy. That is the place where man belongs, male and female. They are male and female for a purpose, not so that men could have their way and women could have their way; that would be, and is, conflict. No, a fused state, so that the father and mother might once again be together, so that the father might receive mother by reason of man. It’s really very fortunate that man has such an important place to fill; otherwise I’m sure he would have vanished long ago. But there has always been the creative expectation that this process of re-creation might be fulfilled. Human beings already exist. They don’t need to be created again. All they need to do is to come again into the state of man; and the state of man permits Father to receive Mother. In that receiving the fusion takes place in man. This is why I said it would naturally be the highest ecstasy. Human beings have been trying to get that experience amongst themselves but have always failed.

Now there begins to be sufficient light, a sufficiency of a new identity accepted, that understanding may come, that the truth may begin to be known, that the magic of heaven might be revealed in the earth and the earth might rise up in response to heaven. This outpouring of love and uprising of love comes to focus in man, once that has been known. From this point of view now, it seems almost inconceivable that it could ever had been thrown away, yet it obviously was. But now are there those present on earth who are willing to accept the light into their own expression of living, to experience the new heaven and the new earth, the new identity, the new state, because all the characteristics of the old state have been allowed to dissolve? Why would anyone hang on to them, nurture them even? We are familiar with the words “let go.” They describe a nice idea. But what is the fact when the idea becomes fact? We have the opportunity of proving what that is.

I thank God that there are those who offer themselves to the Great Spirit because they are aware that any spirit they have known in human nature is deathly; it no longer means anything. The Great Spirit is supreme, the Father is supreme, to those who accept the light identity. Some have said that the Father was invisible, and that’s true, but He has a symbol. We were noting that this morning: the sun. The sun is an excellent symbol of this. Are you pretty sure that the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning? Whether you see it or not you know it rises. It rises because the earth turns. The sun stays where it belongs. The earth turns. And here is, certainly, an excellent symbol which portrays the steadfastness of the Father.

The radiance shining forth from the sunlight, heat, the whole vibrational range of radiation—is constant. It varies a little up and down, yes. There are pulsations in the creative process. But the immensity of what is radiated from the sun is pretty incomprehensible if seen simply from the standpoint of the earth. I don’t know what percentage of that radiation comes to the earth, but very very little; and yet it’s quite sufficient. It’s quite sufficient to allow this to be a living planet. And it allows man the opportunity of being recreated, to come again into his true position, indeed, as the Son of the Father, the Son of the Father and of the Mother. The Son has a very specific part to play in the creative processes which extend out of the heaven from the Father into the realm of form—as man thinks of form—in a very particular way into this planetary system. There is a vastness here which has been unknown because man has been absent. We do not immediately need to see or understand what that vastness is, or what the responsibility is for dominion in that regard.

We have an excellent environment immediately around us to prove out the creative process. Let’s do it there. If it’s not done there how could it go any further? And the first environment we have is our own physical body with mind and heart. Let the light shine there, so that the darkness of human nature is dispelled in oneself. Then the light can go beyond. But as long as the human nature remains as a veil it prevents the light from emerging and prevents the participation in the creative process in a direct focused sense. What wonder to let the veil dissolve. Why would anyone do anything to keep it? We have been noting how it can be dissolved. Does anything more need to be said about that, or can we leave the subject because it is dissolved? We can’t leave the subject until it is dissolved! I find it rather tedious; I don’t know about you.

Let’s come again to the acceptance of the light identity, the cosmic identity, the identity in heaven, the identity which comes to us by reason of the Father. Even in the human world, as a rule—people change it around a little these days—the father gives his name to the son, although this happens on occasion in the mixed-up state that now prevails. It is a true situation that the father provides the name for the son, his own name. The son comes in the name of the Father. And the son opens the door for the return of the Mother to the Father, not for the return of the Mother to the son for the son’s benefit but the return of the Mother, earth, to the Father, that Great Spirit. And as I say, that fusion and blending occurs in the core experience of man.

© emissaries of divine light