Passion For The King
Be Holy Be Perfect Be Humble
Martin Exeter June 7, 1987 am & pm
Be holy. Be perfect. This is the natural experience for human beings. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Who indeed can make him- or herself perfect? No one. Who knows what it would mean to be perfect? Who is it that even wants to be holy? The way of holiness, the way of perfection, is the way of man as he was created to be. Be holy. Be perfect. A myriad of excuses rise up as to why this could never happen: all lies. Why would it be so difficult to be oneself? Be holy. Be perfect.
Love God. Love the Supreme One. Love the King. This is the natural attitude and state of man, male and female. We ourselves here this morning rightly represent this love. Love one another. Curse not. In the Book of Revelation the statement is made: “And there shall be no more curse.” What is the curse? The word “curse” in this context is synonymous with the word “accuse.” Human beings constantly curse each other by accusation. Accusation stems from judgment, from the arrogant assumption on the part of anyone that he or she knows what is good and what is evil. Here is the curse. How arrogant to take the attitude for oneself: “I know how others should behave. I am so wise. I am much holier than thou because I can see what a wrong person you are, and I can list the reasons.” No one can justify accusation. In the story of Job, he was instructed to curse God and die. Accuse God, principally by accusing one’s fellows.
We are aware of the fact that rightly we love God and love one another. So if we accuse one another, we accuse God. That’s what it all boils down to eventually. Accusation—it’s blatant, isn’t it, when we begin to assume a heavenly perspective. Be holy. Be perfect. Be humble. We were not set up to be judges of our fellows. It may be said that there is righteous judgment. This would simply be the view of the way things are seen from a heavenly perspective. No judgment would enter into the matter, in the human sense; there would be no accusation and consequently no cursing. With a heavenly perspective things can be seen the way they are, and because it is a heavenly perspective there is no judgment, there is no accusation. There is simply observation of the way things are.
If the instruction is acknowledged, “Be holy, be perfect,” that is receivable only by oneself. If I have used these words now they are instruction to me. If you use them they are instruction to you. Be holy, be perfect, not because you, in the human sense, know what it means to be holy or what it means to be perfect. But the provision has been made for this experience the very moment the accuser is cast down, so that one is no longer identified with the accuser. Love God. Love your fellows. The love with which we love God is responsive love. Responsive love occurs as there is resonation within one’s own substance with God’s love. That has always been present but there has been very little substance in human beings which resonates with that radiance. It is the resonation with the radiance of love that is love for God. That resonation enables a sharing in the radiance of God’s love, which is then available to love our fellows. Are we not able to handle in radiant love everything that comes to us? Of course. But we have no radiant love available until there is first a resonating with the radiant love of God, the radiant love of the King. When we resonate with that our resonation is unified with that radiation and so we are in position to participate in further radiation. But radiation never brings subjection to that which is being offered the opportunity of response. There is only one way to help anyone else, and that is to be aligned with the outpouring radiation of God’s love. Only those will be helped in whom there is substance which resonates with that radiance. Others continue in the cursed condition. The actual answer for everything is to participate in that radiation of love. That is the only way anything gets sorted out.
Righteous judgment could be defined as judgment without accusation. When there is clear seeing because there is no accusation, then one understands what has happened; and one is quite willing to let it happen, because what’s happening is what should happen. Constantly what happens is what should happen. Let the accuser be cast down. There are things happening in the earth that have been produced by this curse: the insistence by human beings upon their right to judge, their right to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We share in a willingness to let the accuser be cast down, so that we handle our affairs without accusation. No matter what we see, or think we see, in others, in circumstances, in events which are reported to us around the world, there is no accusation. Until that is the fact there shall be more curse; and the evidence of the curse is becoming ever more intense. The more intense it becomes the more reason people imagine they have to accuse. It is a vicious circle. Someone has to break it. Because we have some understanding in these matters, the responsibility must be ours. So we stop cursing.
What engenders conversation between human beings, as a rule? Accusation, chatter, gossip—accusation. It is indicated that one will give account for every idle word in the day of judgment. Today is the day of judgment—it has always been so. Let the accuser be cast down. There is no radiance of love as long as accusation remains. It is a loveless world. Resonating with the radiance of the love of the King, we share that radiance, that the substance in human beings everywhere may be offered the opportunity of resonating with that radiance. This is the creative process. Let the accusations be cast down—they mean nothing; they have no validity whatsoever—that there may be a clear space in which the radiance of love pours forth to seek out substance in human beings the world around which will resonate with that radiance. Leave it in the hands of that radiance. That’s what works.
Only as there are those on the face of the earth who have responded and are resonating with the instruction, “Be holy, be perfect, be humble,” is there the emergent specific provision made understandably available to all human beings who are capable of receiving it. That is all that can be done. “Rise up and come home,” is the command of the radiation of love. Only those who resonate to that command will rise up and come home. Let it be the way of the creative process. Let it be the way of the King. Let it be the way of Almighty God, that there may be present on earth those who love Him and love each other.
Radiant radiation and responsive radiation. Radiant radiation is the radiation of the love of the King. Responsive radiation occurs to the extent that one’s own individual substance is made available to resonate with radiant radiation. Then there is unified radiation, the fulfilment of that very exact Law. If the substance which is present in each individual—physical substance, mental substance, emotional substance, spiritual substance—is permitted to resonate with the radiation of the love of the King it will do so, because we are willing, and our hearts have been turned back again.
On the other hand it is very evident that the substance that is present in human beings the world around has been offered in resonation to what is factually below. The substance of mankind resonates with the world which has been created by mankind, having removed that substance from resonating with the love of the King. If there is resonation with what has been humanly created, the attraction is downward. We know what the end result of that is. This substance is kept from resonating with the radiation of love from the King because of human insistence to keep it polarized in the passions of human nature. It’s interesting to note how much passion is apparent in people who are polarized in what rightly should be below them. A very obvious way is what human beings have passionately given to their cultures, to their religions, to their political structures, to their structures of society, whatever they may be. When something arises, how much passion is poured into resonation with this! Resonation occurs both from the standpoint of love and hate, and all the colorations in between. But how passionate people become in these various fields! What passionate reaction there was in times past with respect to what our friend Immanuel Velikovsky offered—passionate reaction from the scientific establishment. Human beings have a capability of passion, and how passionate people are with respect to their various fields of operation which they love so much. They are passionate about terrorism—very passionate about dying. In a way this could be said of everybody: the methods are different. But it is this passion, polarized in what is rightly below, which leads everybody down.
I have wondered about the seeming lack of passion with respect to the King. While I wouldn’t suggest anything out from under control, nevertheless this is where any passion we have belongs. Love for the King. Love God, and live. Curse God, and die. How much real passion is there for the King? Where is our passion?
Sometimes a great deal of enthusiasm is engendered by reason of a game of some kind—maybe a card game, maybe ice hockey. People have tremendous passion in all these kinds of directions. But passion for the King? It’s usually pretty pale—anemic. Yet without it there is only perishing. We have, individually speaking, a capacity for passion. How will it be exercised? With some it seems it is not exercised at all. Then the capacity atrophies—something that is not exercised will atrophy. We have a passion, I know; otherwise you wouldn’t be sitting there. Many people are passionately given to TV. What programs are we missing tonight? Of course these days you can record them and see them later.
Trust the King and live. Eschew cursing. Eschew accusation. If you want a grand evil, there it is, one to be eschewed—not so that we may do good, but so that we may reveal the radiance of the King. We may share with Him His radiance. We honor Him in this way, and we are glorified by Him in this way. This state, of which we know a little, seems so far removed from the pleasures of this world, about which human beings become so passionate. It seems to most human hearts and minds to relate to a never-never land. But we know better.
When there is passion for the King, in fact, this state of radiant outpouring is so intense and all-consuming that finally no one can avoid it. There are those the world around who already love the King. The majority of them have no idea that He has a Body. Those who are aware of the Body, and who genuinely love the King, love His Body, for the King and His body are one. It is impossible to love the King and not love His body. So obviously, accusation, if it occurs within the Body, is an indication that those concerned do not love the King, or their love is not genuine. This is not to say that it might not become genuine if there is a willingness to eschew judgment, to eschew the evil of accusation. There is never any justification for it. One cannot, by any means, justify it. If one attempts to do it one just fools oneself.
Trust the King. Trust His spirit, which is revealed through the creative process. Another word for the creative process might be the Christ. There are a lot of people who claim to believe in the Christ but very few who trust the Christ, who trust the creative process, which is the evidence of the working of the Spirit of the King. Trust the King, honor the King, because the King is loved. And the King is loved, factually, when the substance of one’s earthly being resonates with the radiation of His love.
Most love for God tends to be love for something imaginary, a concept of the mind, an idea that has taken root in human consciousness. There are different ideas in this regard and there are those who have their particular idea to love. If one is loving an idea one is in fact insisting that, should there really be a God, “He must conform to my idea, because I love my idea and unless God conforms to my idea I can’t love God. But of course He will, because my idea is a good one; it’s supported by my particular religion, denomination or whatever.” And there is always seemingly safety in numbers. But that of course is never loving God. It is in fact denying God, because God, the reality, is not going to conform to any human concept or idea.
He is not going to fit into the human view of things.
We realize that the human view must be relinquished if there is to be space for God to reveal Himself—as He is, not as human beings might like Him to be. It seems that a lot of people have a pet God; like the genie in the bottle, isn’t it? You rub God the right way and He will come out of the bottle and give you a blessing. How nice. But beware if you rub the bottle in the wrong way! Then a very wrathful character will emerge and give you hell. I’m sure we are all delighted that it is quite possible to give space in ourselves for God to reveal Himself—but not to us. That’s what human beings usually want, isn’t it? “Well I want to be sure about this. You reveal yourself to me so that I am sure. I need a vision.” Lots of people have had visions on this basis, sometimes visible visions: “Jesus came, and He said this to me.” No, He didn’t. It doesn’t work that way.
When God is given space because we honor the King, loving Him above all, then we will find ourselves increasingly capable of giving expression to His spirit. And to that extent we come to know God. It’s the only way anyone can know God. Certainly He isn’t the genie in the bottle. He isn’t some character hiding behind a cloud somewhere, so that no one can find Him except by various techniques. God is not found that way. The truth is not found that way. It is only found when there is space in oneself to give expression to the truth and to reveal the character of God. Then you know what it is. But certainly it cannot be revealed through all the clutter of human beliefs, ideas, concepts; even less through their ambitions and determinations and endeavors to achieve.
It is rather shattering, to human egos at least, to human beings in general, to come to the realization that all that has been undertaken by human beings over the millennia comes to naught. It has no value in and of itself. We know where the value is: in God, specifically in the love of our King. We begin to have value when we resonate with that, not the sort of value that those who are trapped in the human state recognize particularly. Certainly no one hands out rewards for it or medals for it. If you want a medal you had better go someplace else. No, the value is in the expression of living, the quality that is revealed in one’s own heart and mind and body, the quality of the King; there is the value.
Recently in a service someone mentioned that virtue is its own reward, and back along the way he didn’t think much of that. But if virtue is seen as the revelation of God on earth, what greater reward could there be? Everything else pales to insignificance. Of course this revelation, while it requires individuals, is not merely an individual matter. It’s far greater than that. Finally we allow this revelation to put in an appearance because we let the curse be finished.
Comment — Martin, my King is embodied. Here am I in the midst of Him. More specifically, my King has a focus on earth, in you, and you are my passion. There is nothing to do on earth but to resonate with you, to serve my King, that there is visible, clear and sweet evidence of His presence on earth because, here we are. And we are in passionate love.
Martin Exeter — This passion which is to be experienced on earth, by reason of those of us who are present to experience it, is essential to reveal the radiant love of the King. His love can never be revealed in absentia. If the King is absent His love cannot be revealed. Of course the King has always been present, but unknown, invisible. He becomes known as there is an emergence into human consciousness of the nature of the passion that allows the King to be present in His Body on earth. It isn’t some sort of abstract passion, or a passion toward some hoped-for but invisible character. The passion must be experienced at the level where we are, not in some supposedly exalted level somewhere else. Then the King comes on earth and we discover that our experience is of an absolute nature. It requires absolutely a passionate experience on earth. “Oh well,” some may say, “I’ll be very passionate when I come into the presence of the King.”
Aren’t you in the presence of the King? Surely we all are. But that presence is represented, and unless the passion is at the level of the representation it won’t be at the level of the King. It is something that is actually very practical. There is no necessity for some mystical involvement. We are all here together. We know each other. We can love each other. There can be a passion for what is represented, both from the standpoint of the representation of the King and from the standpoint of the representation of His Body. They are one anyway. Being passionately in love with the King we are also at the same time passionately in love with His Body. Now perhaps we have reached a point where we do not interpret this passion in the old human-nature ways. We let it be actually what it is. And we define that at the moment by saying, as the King said, “Love one another. Love me, love one another.” The love for one another is absolutely dependent upon the love for Him. If this has been missing in some respects we know that our love for Him has been less than passionate. But now it begins to come forth.
There are angels on earth in human form, present, to be responsible for revealing the King—certainly not for boosting any human egos but for revealing the King, that and that alone. I suppose I myself have had a large opportunity, if I wished to take it, to boost my ego. The circumstances of my birth, etc, make this quite available to me. But I belong to my King; and because I belong to my King, you belong to me, and you belong to each other. One Body. One Spirit. One King. We all awaken in our own experience to what this means. We may say it is quite unprecedented. Of course! If there had been a precedent we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing. But the precedent is being established not by human effort, certainly not by any human ambition, but by the radiant love of the King.
As the Master said long ago with respect to Himself, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” And the central commandment is: Love one another. Of course this can’t be done on command. It is done because the passion, the angelic passion, which is present in each individual, emerges through heart and mind into experience. It only does that as the substance of heart and mind and body are freed up from their structures to resonate with the love of the King. That is union.
© emissaries of divine light
