Lucifer
The Transparent Mind
Martin Exeter November 22, 1987 pm
“I have always found the movement of the spirit in the creative process to be most ingenious.”
It has been said that there is a need for faith. I suppose if one is not familiar with the movement of the creative process in one’s own experience, then there would need to be some sort of faith to assure oneself that everything is going to work out all right. But if the creative process is present in one’s own expression of living, then there is the assurance constantly that everything is all right, everything is under control.
We were considering the first heaven and the first earth, the state in which human beings are embedded at present and out of which, by reason of the creative process, there may be those who shall emerge into the experience of the new heaven and the new earth. The new heaven and the new earth include the creative process. The creative process is universal. It is not restricted to operation in what we now conceive of as this planet. The creative process is at work everywhere. I have touched on the manner of its working in this broader sense before. Evidently it didn’t have all that much meaning to those to whom I spoke. Gradually, as the creative process continues to work and we abide with it, clarification may come.
I spoke of the creative process in broader terms as relating to the overall picture. The creative process makes possible what we think of as creation. I have spoken before of what Uranda referred to as the unformed—“potential substance” to be used by the creative process. It isn’t anything to start with, and yet it isn’t nothing; you can't make something out of nothing. But there is the unformed, the unactivated substance—“non-substance.” There isn’t any word in the human language which would describe it, because insofar as the human view is concerned it’s nothing. But when activated by reason of specific radiation from the angelic standpoint it becomes—not physical substance necessarily yet, but as available material in which the creative process can work. At that point where it emerges out of the nothingness into the somethingness it is in a state of chaos. It is just available material—no form to it, no design to it—raw material into which the radiation of the creative process continues.
This radiation springs out of the new heaven. We may bring this out of the larger universal picture into what’s happening within the range of our responsibility. The first heaven and the first earth are present. The human state as it now is is present the way it is because of the rupture of its connection with the true heaven. The first heaven and the first earth is a mind creation—a mind unconnected with its source, unagreeable with its source, seeking to have its own way, to do its own thing, to create something that would be pleasing to itself. This is the way human beings function. The attempt is made to lift what is available for the working of the human mind out of the creative process and to institute something that is under the control of the mind. We are aware of these things and we see the chaos that has resulted—the increasing chaos.
The creative process as it works properly, without the interference of a rebellious mind, moves through successive states leading out of chaos into order. The order is present in the new heaven. The chaos at the starting point would be present in the new earth—but it’s all under control, it’s all working as it should, and there is an orderly progression out of chaos into order on this basis. When the connection was broken, the connection being the human mind in this particular field of responsibility, then the creative process had no way of operating in what is now called the first heaven and the first earth. That state is chaos. It is gradually becoming more and more evident that this is so—it is moving toward complete chaos. The starting point for the creative process in the larger picture was at the point of complete chaos. There is no necessity for it to go, in this human experience, to the point of complete chaos. The creative process could come into operation when the mind of man is available, when Lucifer is in place, at any time, and begin to move everything under control out of whatever level of chaos there is toward the state of order.
Another way of putting this would be to use the terms dissonance and consonance. The new heaven is a consonant heaven and, because it is a consonant heaven, the new earth is a consonant earth, even though there may be considerable dissonance in it; because there is a movement out of complete dissonance toward the experience of consonance. But it’s all under control and there is nothing wrong with the dissonance in such case. In other terms, this is the movement out of evil into good. These are rather risky terms to use because human beings have so many concepts about good and evil. But the genuine article of evil is required in the creative process and the genuine article of good also. If we see it in terms of movement from dissonance to consonance we can understand better perhaps what is happening.
At any point where there is a facility to permit Lucifer to be on hand again, the radiation out of the consonant heaven into the first heaven and the first earth brings that state of dissonance into the movement of the creative process. I don’t think there’s any greater dissonance—just a different kind of thing—in the human state now than there was at the point of the initiation of the creative cycle when there was complete chaos in the material available for the use of the creative cycle. It’s quite all right—spoken of rather graphically in the story of creation in Genesis: “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” There was nothing—the inert material not yet activated, the positive and negative factors not yet set up in the material so that it becomes available to the creative process.
Well in the state of the world the way it is, everything is in chaos because it has become separated from the radiation out of the true heaven, the new heaven, the consonant heaven, where it originates, and the radiation has not had a means of reaching this chaotic condition. Human beings have been intent on keeping it separate. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.” The earth belongs to the creative process, not to man. Man has stolen it and done with it as he pleases and produced this extent of chaos. The chaos will keep increasing until there is an adequate provision out of the new heaven through Lucifer into this chaotic condition. It is then drawn into the state of the new earth. This can only happen when Lucifer is on hand. It will never happen as long as satan is on hand.
Most of human effort has related to the endeavor to try to convert dissonance into the concept of consonance that the particular person had. In this first heaven and first earth state nobody knows what the consonance of the new heaven is. It is always a concept that someone has as to the way things should be, and with Emissaries, of course: “Things should be the way I interpret what the teachings of the Emissaries are.” But the Emissaries aren’t a teaching. They are the evidence of the restoration of Lucifer, which is an experience that can’t be taught: it must be accepted. We ourselves have seen something of this, but still have endeavored to deal with dissonances that came up in our experience by good effort of some kind. There is nothing that can be done in the first heaven and the first earth state which will achieve anything but more chaos.
We don’t get rid of the things that are supposedly wrong in ourselves and in others. We’ve often been very keen to get rid of such things in others, and some have been very sincere in their efforts to get rid of these things in themselves. But it never happened, never could happen, because working out of the first heaven only increased chaos can be produced. It isn’t a matter of trying to deal with the things that are seemingly of a dissonant nature in our experience—and the fact of the matter is that virtually everything in human experience is of a dissonant nature, because the possibility of consonance has been excluded. The true heaven has been excluded in favor of the human invention. So this whole state of the first heaven and the first earth is being called in question—we know that. What has been referred to as human nature is to pass away. The first heaven and the first earth are to pass away. This is the inevitable experience. But the true heaven has never been dissolved; it’s always been there, it’s still there, it’s still operative. The creative process is still working, in spite of all the antics of human beings in their first heaven and first earth. All that has been achieved is increasing chaos, increasing dissonance.
All right, here’s an excellent state of affairs for the working of the creative process—but the creative process doesn’t work out of the first heaven. The creative process works out of the new heaven, the true heaven, the heaven that has been excluded. It ceases to be excluded when Lucifer is on hand to let it be in the living experience which is known on earth, so that there is radiation out of the true heaven into this dissonant state presently called the human condition. The radiant action of the creative process is brought to bear upon this dissonant state. That is the natural course of events, that it may be drawn into consonance. This is what happens in the creative process in any case, but now it needs to happen in something that has been extraneously produced because of the state of the human mind accommodating satan. There is this state of chaos, this state of dissonance, which can be included in the creative process in a constructive way once Lucifer is present, once the consonant radiation out of the consonant heaven can be brought to bear in the dissonant earth. Our concern has been to allow this restoration of Lucifer, the mind of man, out of the first heaven into the true heaven.
It is useless to struggle with anything that is present in the first heaven and the first earth—here is satan contending with satan. The human mind must be restored to the true heaven. Then it discovers that, while it has something to do—there is a purpose there—it doesn’t direct what is done. I’m sure all can easily relate to the endeavor to correct things. You see something that you think is wrong, it shouldn’t be that way, and you try to correct it. Of course we’ve ascended a little bit because we don’t try to correct it anymore in somebody else—isn’t that right?—we’re more concerned to correct it in ourselves now. That’s un-selfish, but it’s useless. It doesn’t achieve anything, because no one can correct anything that way.
The creative process does the job. But it only does it when there is a means by which this creative process can be released in radiance into the field where the work needs to be done. And that requires Lucifer on hand: a transparent mind, not a mind that imagines it can do anything on its own, that it can think up some great scheme for getting everything into shape. It can’t do it! All it does is produce more chaos. It doesn’t matter how good the intention is, it just doesn’t work that way. This is the state of affairs that has been stolen from the true heaven. As was originally indicated, the thought was that man might be as God, might be able to do everything without having any participation in the creative process. “I'm going to do it all myself. I’m going to arrange things. I can see how they ought to be. I have some good ideas here. I can set up a very effective political system, or a religion, or something else. We’ll get it done this way.” Never! Of course the chaos is here; the proof is here.
Chaos is a natural starting point insofar as the creative process is concerned. It’s no problem to the creative process. The creative process is available but there must be the mind in heaven to allow that creative process to flow into the earth. And there is a flow to it, there is a pulsation to it. Finally we come to the point of participating in peace and serenity. There must be room, space, stillness, so that what is actually working because of the creative process has a means of ingress into the earth. And immediately the radiation in the working of that creative process begins to put things together, bringing order out of chaos, drawing dissonance into consonance. In the true creative process where there has been no human interference it works naturally. Only in this particular field of human interference has the trouble put in an appearance. Let the creative process work in us—discover what it is. Heretofore it’s had no room to work, because our minds and hearts have been so full of clutter. So, relinquish the clutter. Do not try to get rid of it, just be willing to let it go, not struggling with it, not judging it, not feeling badly because you tried to do something and it didn’t work out.
Let us rise up to the level of the new heaven, being drawn up. That is the way it happens—the attractive power of love. That’s what is experienced first. That draws resonant substance up. If there is some resonant substance in us we will be drawn up. Those in whom there isn’t resonant substance presently, won’t be drawn up. But we have been drawn up to the point where we can begin to experience the reality of the new heaven and the reality of the creative process, and the fact that it works without the conscious mind necessarily understanding what’s happening. The conscious mind has become so arrogant that it imagines that nothing can really happen unless it understands what’s happening. But when it imagines that it understands what’s happening, it always messes things up. So by and large it’s much better to remain unconscious and trust the working of the creative process. As we move along, it rises up to the level of a conscious awareness and we know exactly, specifically, how it is working relative to our own field of responsibility. But one can never come to that point until there is a willingness to relinquish the futile thrashing around of our minds and hearts, trying to do all the things they try to do.
Come to rest. Be still. Let peace and serenity come into experience. Let peace and serenity be the atmosphere of the Emissary body, be the atmosphere of any unit, any group, because it is the acceptable experience of all the individuals concerned. Let me be at peace. Let me be serene because I can trust the creative process. So order comes out of chaos. Dissonance is resolved into consonance. Lucifer is the Morning Star, the Son of the Morning—the Morning Stars sang together. This is what happens at the point of resolution. It’s a song indeed—dissonance into consonance. The Morning Stars sing together, and all the Sons of God shout for the joy of the radiation of love. Here is the experience of the creative process, available to be known.
The human mind usually thinks that everything has to be discussed, argued about, considered back and forth, until some sort of a consensus of agreement can be reached. That is a useless undertaking. As there is the natural movement through the yielded mind and heart as the creative process flows, there is agreement between all through whom it is flowing. Nobody has to make an agreement—it simply is the fact. This is the way of life. The way of the first heaven and the first earth is the way of dying and death.
“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/09/i-am-come-in-name-of-lord.html] That is a key. “Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” This is the Word of the King as it has come down to us. It’s true. There is the requirement of this acknowledgment, which cannot ever happen without love. But it is this, when it’s actually done, that allows the Lord, the King, to be seen again because the spiritual substance, the clouds of heaven, are available for His coming. The clouds of heaven are the spiritual substance of His Body. All this hinges on that statement: Ye shall not see me henceforth, until ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. That’s not meant to indicate just some words spoken, but allowing the gift that has been provided by the King to fill one’s experience of love. Then there will be spiritual substance sufficient in this body to accommodate His coming. Behold, He comes “in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory”—the power of His love, because one has the experience of love. And the great glory relates to the revelation of spiritual expression in living that becomes undeniable—undeniable both to those who rejoice in it and to those who curse it. But we are charged with that responsibility of providing what is undeniable.
