To Be the Focus of Spirit
Martin
Exeter July 27, 1986 p.m.
These words are spoken to yielding hearts and quietened minds everywhere. There is a place to which to come, prepared by the Lord through all of you and other faithful ones besides. The words “Come unto me” were truly spoken a long time ago, according to human calculations. They are spoken again now by those who have already heard them and consequently have come. In the quietness of this assembled company and of this evening hour we extend the invitation to the hearts and the minds of all who will receive it. It matters not whether these are close at hand or at the other end of the earth—the Word goes forth and it shall not return void, but shall surely accomplish that whereunto it is sent.
We are well aware that all the knowledge which has been unearthed by human minds would be scarcely noticeable in the extent of knowledge that there is. The acquisition of knowledge has inflated human egos and allowed for great swelling words to convince the ignorant of how much achievement there has really been. But if there is any humility we know that the explorations of the human mind have in fact unearthed practically nothing. It seems a lot for the moment, in comparison to what may have been in the past, but here again human judgment enters into the picture: how far does the past go back? I suspect that there have been human beings on earth, beyond the range of history as it is known, who acquired for themselves considerably more knowledge than has been extracted in these days. It matters little—it passed away anyhow. So, the human ego is proud of what it now thinks it knows.
The invitation that is extended, “Come unto me,” is spoken to humble and yielded minds and hearts anywhere who have within themselves a willingness to emerge out of that human morass of confusion into a place of calm serenity, that there may come again the experience, which is opening to us, of the right use of knowledge as that knowledge naturally becomes available to us. Obviously, having partaken of the forbidden fruit ourselves we have a certain store of knowledge; but I am sure that we have all come to the keen awareness that whatever knowledge we do have, in whatever field, it is not going to save the world. So we no longer delude ourselves that such knowledge as we have is important when it is used in the way that it is customarily put to use.
We were speaking of pneumaplasm this morning as providing the connection with spirit by which mind and heart may begin to be filled with the truth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/04/this-is-my-body.html] The two basic elements of truth, design and control, already exist, already are—we do not need to invent them. We do not, certainly, attempt to establish design and control based in our knowledge. If we do that, immediately we are in conflict with the design and control of truth which already exists. Here is an attempt to superimpose the human invention onto the truth. The truth isn’t going to go away; because that is the fact, the human invention must, and does. So the invitation is to emerge out of this human way of existence so that, in the awareness of spirit, the ever-present design and control of truth may be the basis for the right use of such knowledge as may be presently within the scope of our awareness. We have moved in this direction and have let our talents be used to some extent—at least to our highest awareness—for the purposes of the Lord. We claim this at least. It may not always have been so but it was a step in the right direction.
However in making these steps we have become increasingly aware of what has been described as the Tone of Life—the Tone which sounds within our own hearts and minds, with whatever strength—so that we may become aware of what is off-key. If we do not hear that Tone and become familiar with it we are unlikely to notice when our words and our thoughts and our actions are off-key, in which case we go blundering along, sowing the seeds of future trouble.
But we have become aware of this Tone. There is a certain conscious awareness of it, but mentally speaking I doubt if anyone here present would wish to define what it is. I trust not anyway, because it is quite indefinable mentally speaking. After all, the mind itself is one of the effects of the sounding of this Tone. It has no ability to comprehend the Tone itself or from whence it comes, any more than a trumpet comprehends the one who plays it. Yet the trumpet makes a sound—sometimes pleasing, sometimes not—because somebody is present playing it. It is easily seen that if the trumpet had some sort of a will of its own it would make music through the trumpet very difficult to play. I have used the simile in times past of trying to play billiards with a snake as a cue. This illustrates somewhat the problem faced by the incarnate angel present with all human beings. The angel gets things set up and aligned, but then the serpent is still there and inclined to wriggle. And so it has gone.
But mind and heart, yielding, have become somewhat more obedient, so that they do not have their own hidden agendas. Hidden from whom? Most are hopeful that the Lord doesn't notice, which is ridiculous. But very often the agendas are hidden even from the human heart and mind, because there is a compulsion present emanating through human nature, which has schemes in mind of which human hearts and minds are unconscious. We surely are aware of this, observing how people are swept hither and yon to support all sorts of peculiar things, quite illogically. What is the influence that causes this? Here is a hidden agenda, hidden from human hearts and minds, although it is their own tendencies that make them subject to these hidden compulsions. So people are caused to do things which are self-destructive, imagining the while that they are being very helpful and creative.
It is out of this morass, this confused wilderness, that the word is spoken: “Come unto me.” Let it be spoken through the minds and hearts that are obedient to the spirit of the living God and are not at all amenable to the compulsions, widely known to human beings, of what has been referred to as the antispirit. These have been traditionally the strongest compulsions in human experience, and most people of course have fallen down and worshipped at this shrine. Now there are those who heard the invitation, “Come unto me”: rise up and share the responsibility of extending this same invitation to any hearts and minds on earth which will respond. This is our business. Surely we discover that it is our only business. Come unto me, for the one I am is present in my heart and mind. Again, each may speak these words truly. I sound the Tone, and my heart and my mind become aware of it. They are sufficiently yielded that this should be so. The Tone emanates from that focus of spirit which touches the focus of pneumaplasm of which we were speaking this morning. We let that focus come to point, yielding in love, so that there may be a sufficient fineness to the pneumaplasm to reach that focus. Until we do reach that focus we cannot know what the focus of spirit is.
There are those who have found it difficult to do anything other than possibly believe that I provide the focus of spirit on earth. This is a human concept. Such belief presumably is helpful if it brings a person close enough to begin to sense the quality of the Tone, because that quality of Tone is sounding in each individual’s heart and mind but has been obscured by the inadequate generation of pneumaplasm. We well know that sound in the ordinary sense requires air to vibrate if it is to be heard. It requires pneumaplasm for spirit to be heard. A vibration is set up, and this vibration, in the primary sense, is what we speak of as the Tone—One Tone, which must be differentiated. But how can something that isn’t heard be differentiated? It must be heard, and to be heard there must be the fine substance present, brought to point at the focus of spirit.
In order for this to happen there must be sufficient substance present in a person to begin to become aware of what the Tone is. To start with most people are Tone deaf, but gradually the ability to hear may be developed, the ability to discern the quality of the Tone. The quality of the Tone discerned to start with is probably not very high, because there wasn’t adequate pneumaplasm at the refined level to let it be heard at that level; it is heard at a coarser level. Of course there has been the tendency at times for people, thinking they hear the Tone—which they do at that level—to say “Ah, now I know!” And concepts begin to form. One needs to stay humble and realize that what one hears now is not yet what one might call the Pure Tone.
If you try to differentiate an impure Tone in your living you reproduce impurity, don’t you? “Wait upon the Lord” has been an instruction that was given. The disciples were told to wait. They waited a bit in the Upper Room. Something began to happen—“Ah! now we know,” and away they went—just the faint first beginnings of the awareness of the Tone sounding at a rather coarse vibrational level. This is so for all of us—there is no condemnation in this—but let us not ever assume that what we first hear is the Pure Tone. It acquaints us with the fact that there is a Tone, and as we move along and let the substance be generated further the quality of that Tone is refined—refined toward the highest focus of substance that is possible. And that highest point meets and blends with the focus of spirit. The focus of spirit only then begins to become known for what it is, because it has a facility to accommodate not only the focus point but what radiates forth from spirit. We have used a symbol of the capital letter X to indicate the unlimited spirit above, brought to point, brought to focus, at the inverted apex, just as there is the substance brought to focus at the apex opposite.
There is no lack of spirit; there is no lack of knowledge. Everything is included. Everything that is needed throughout the whole of eternity is present. That’s quite a package! But all that is needed is that which would emerge in the present moment. Let us be content with that, so that we do not imagine it is necessary to go exploring in the only direction where we can explore, and that is downwards. It is impossible to get through the needle’s eye—the crossover point in the X—to what is present in spirit, the vastness that is there. It isn’t necessary to do that, because whatever is required in the moment, represented by that crossover point, is available. It is available out of that vast spiritual store, whatever that is; and we begin to know what it is in the moment. What is required is provided when there is a sufficiency of refined pneumaplasmic substance to allow for a point of focus to be established and to blend with that point of spirit. Then the door is opened, the veil is rent, the outpouring may occur.
There is, at that apex, a very specific Tone which is itself. It is the One Tone. But, spreading out below, it is differentiated. It is differentiated at every level of pneumaplasm. We might remind ourselves that there are a great variety of physical substances of which we are already aware, a tremendous variety. Pneumaplasm is the source of this vast variety. So it might be recognized rather easily that there is a vast variety in pneumaplasm. I think the usual view has tended to be that it was a sort of fog, like water vapor, all one thing. Oh no! It is the base for variety as it occurs vibrationally further out. So the variety must be present further in. It is present in spirit, and it emerges through and expands through the pneumaplasm.
A vibration is set up at the level of the emergence of spirit: the spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters and God says, “Let there be light.” This illuminates pneumaplasm, one might say. Here is a creation emerging through the pneumaplasm. That light, amongst other things, permits a certain awareness of the Tone that is sounding; and gradually there comes an awareness of the character of the differentiation of that Tone, which is one’s own particular responsibility. All of these responsibilities come out of the same Tone, so it is not something different or something else, but a differentiation of that Tone.
We can see this in a general sense. We might consider music. That is vibration at a certain level. It requires air to make any sense; it requires the medium of its expression, so that the vibratory rate—which comes from somewhere else—may emerge as music. Until there is the experience of the Tone and the differentiation of that Tone, the setting up of the required vibratory rates as that Tone emerges and is differentiated, let it not be imagined that anything can be known about music. What has been developed in music has been based in that little shovel thing, which has extracted knowledge from the bottomless pit.
So it requires musicians to be humble to start with—it requires everyone to be humble to start with, no matter what their field of operations may seem to be, because there is the need to come back of whatever that field of operations is in order to begin to approach the purity of Tone which must be experienced if it is to be differentiated. It is differentiated from level to level, and music certainly would be one level of differentiation. But here we see something coming down from above, or coming out from the Core, however it might be described. It isn’t emerging on the basis of what’s going on round about, because music is part of the process by which vibration is set up in substances which are beyond music. Music generates something beyond itself, but to generate what should be generated beyond itself the music must be from a generation that is back of the music.
There has been very little comprehension of these things, because there couldn’t be until there were individuals who were willing to let go of their expertise in whatever field, their knowledge in other words, in order to move back to the point where they could become purely aware of the sounding of the Tone in their own living experience. That living experience relates to a good many other things before it gets to music, or before it gets to any other field that is presently included in human affairs.
We have the spectacle of the disciples of old jumping the gun, imagining that everything that was needed was now known to them, so that they could go forth and stir up a storm, which they did. That seemed like a very important thing: all these people were being converted. That was one side of the coin; the other side of the coin was that all the resistance was being generated too, and the result of that is well known in what occurred, martyrdoms and all the rest—quite unnecessary, nothing to do with the way things really work—simply because those who should have held steady at the Core didn't do so. Oh they felt so strong and filled with spirit, they must go out! As I recall it—and I am sure all of you have known something of this—patience is the first step to the Temple of Light.
Wait! Well we’ve waited a while—about fifty-four years so far in the direct sense—that something might come to focus because those concerned accepted that focus for themselves. No one has the faintest idea that I am the focus of spirit on earth, or what that would mean even. It is all a concept of the mind. Whatever it is, no one can discover what it is without being that focus themselves. Then you know, because the spirit is then expressed, the Tone is sounded. You don’t really know the Tone until you sound it yourself. You hear it perhaps because someone else sounds it, but that may be merely a differentiation of the Tone, and in any case it may not be an accurate expression of the Tone. One has to have the experience oneself. Then you know. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/10/trusted-martinexeter-july-13-1986-no.html]
All this wondering after the beast has gone on quite a bit: “Well I wonder if that’s right; I wonder if I should believe this, or whether I should accept that.” You can wonder for the rest of your existence and end up dead, still wondering! No, one has to accept the responsibility for oneself to know. If I know something—and this is the way it would appear to you—something about the focus of spirit, it isn’t because I thought it all up—I don’t have that much intellectual ability—but because I have the experience of it. I know for myself. Do you think I would have stayed all these years where I have in relationship to all of you and others if I didn’t really know something? In the human sense obviously one would become sick and tired of it! What’s the point? A lot of people have sought to provide a focus of some kind and have gone on for year after year, but eventually it all petered out. But spirit doesn’t peter out.
Physical forms may have their problems, and minds and hearts get to be obstreperous, but there is One present who is always there, always steady, always in a position to know—not to know what needs to be known next week, as to what is going to occur next week, but simply to know what is to find expression now. I am abysmally ignorant about anything else, and I am quite happy that it should be that way. Why fill up your mind with speculation about what may happen in the future? Why not let the mind be used the way it was designed to be used, simply to know what is needed in the present moment? It can’t know that unless it is at that apex point where the focus of spirit is. Then the knowing is there.
That knowing can’t be conveyed to somebody else. It may be shared by somebody else for the moment, somebody who is in your presence. But when they go out of your presence it vanishes—it was never their own. That has happened with many in my own experience. But I knew that everybody would go out unless they had the same experience, and that requires a yielded heart and mind which doesn’t really know what all the knowledge that has been acquired is for. It has had concepts about it, it has tried to apply it this way or that way—very often to make a living, as seems to be necessary—but what is the knowledge really for? One cannot find out until one comes to this point of spiritual focus and assumes responsibility there.
I am the one who is responsible for my world. I will allow what finds expression through me to be the sounding of the Tone for which I am responsible, and I will let that be sufficient. There will be those who hear it and come close. Others won't hear it; they pay no attention. That’s fine. Let us not imagine that our meaning is based in the numbers of people who pay attention to us. Never seek attention, just sound the Tone, just let the light shine—that’s the same thing—and those minds and hearts that are open will receive the light and be drawn by love, and some will come home. Who? I don't know. I have looked over the congregations or audiences to whom I have spoken over the years and seen a sea of faces. I haven’t speculated as to who will come home, if anyone.
I am most thankful that there seems to be some evidence that there are those hearts and minds that are yielding, so that they begin to hear the Tone and begin to accommodate the expression of the angel who is present. The angel is home already; I don’t need to speculate about that. It is just this hunk of flesh out here that is the question. And as there is a coming home I find myself in the delightful position of talking to angels and of listening to angels. All too often I am served up helpings of self-important minds and hearts, and I am asked to consider things with these aspects of human creation.
Oh what joy to speak with angels who set aside all those elements in heart and mind which have interfered. They tend still to interfere, where a person will say, oh they have to bring out this, they have to bring out that, they have to discuss this, let’s see how this is going to be taken care of. It will never be taken care of on that basis. It begins to be taken care of when there is an angel on hand and in expression. And when I find angels on hand and in expression we have a good time. But when hearts and minds begin to regurgitate all their impurities it becomes a messy experience for everybody.
So there is a willingness to let the Tone be sounded, the light shine, so that the angel is known and so that there may be a natural blending of angels. That's where the blending is. It isn’t the blending of minds and hearts. Let the angels blend within the human minds and hearts and bodies, and those soon come into line. I rejoice that it is possible to begin to share what angels rightly share in the creative expression of the Tone of Life on earth.
Lloyd Meeker — Martin, I stand with a great deal of caution in mind and heart. If it would be acceptable to you, I would offer that I, and any others who might wish to join, offer an acknowledgment of the one point of spiritual focus in one note of sound, that there may be an audible symbol of the union known in heaven through the minds and hearts that are present here.
Lord Exeter — That is indeed acceptable, and when the note is sounded and continues to sound I will depart from this position here, leaving the responsibility of the sounding of that Tone to all of you, for whatever length of time you yourselves consider is fitting. I would like to say “know” is fitting, but I am not sure that everybody would know, so perhaps a little consideration may be in order. (A sustained chant then followed.)
© emissaries of divine light
