Being the Fire

Being  the  Fire

Martin Cecil  August 15, 1982

Trustworthiness only begins to appear to the extent of spiritual expression, to the extent that the angel of life is in command of the human soul. For this to occur it is necessary to allow the increase of spiritual expression to occur. The increase of spiritual expression includes life, true living; truth, the design and control which are not of this world; and love. We know something about the meaning of the word Shekinah or the Christ. Shekinah, the Christ, is characterized by the fire of love, the fire that burns eternally. Because of this fire there is the light that glows, and because of the fire and the light, there is the cloud of glory. The cloud of glory characterizes life, the expression of life on earth in physical form; the light that glows rightly characterizes mental expression on earth; and the fire that burns is the fire of love, the central core of spiritual expression. In union with the angel of life there is union with Shekinah. In fact it is Shekinah, the Christ, which makes the union possible. In that union it may rightly be said, “I am the cloud of glory, I am the light that glows, I am the fire that burns.”

When we think of fire it is usual to associate it with something painful. If you put your hand in the fire—Ouch! But as has been stated before, fire obviously does not burn itself. I am the fire; that is my character. I am the fire that burns eternally. I am the light that glows eternally in consequence. I am the cloud of glory, which gives evidence of the light that glows and the fire that burns. Therefore in that experience the former things of pain and sorrow and crying are no longer present. Death is no longer present; death does not cohabit with life. Death is simply the absence of life. In truth, life is never absent.

If the former things are to pass away they do so to the extent that there is one present, incarnate in human form and in expression through human form, who may say, speaking truly, “I am the fire that burns, the light that glows and the cloud of glory. I am THAT I am.” I know, in your experience as human beings, thus far you have known pain, sorrow, trouble, discomfort, and you have been aware of what is called death. What is it, then, that suffers these things? It certainly isn't you, the angel of life.

The burning of the fire consumes the bonds of earthly heredity. This is the only way that those bonds will be consumed. You can't evolve out of them. At least the only way you can do that would be to die, which I don't think is evolution but rather devolution. It might be said that a person is trustworthy up to the level where the discomfort becomes sufficiently intense to cause him to revert into slavery. I have noted that there are those who are afraid of discomfort. This is one of the reasons why lethargy is so convenient, because it seems to offer the temporary opportunity to avoid placing oneself in a position of discomfort. One may hide in the shadows because there is an awareness that discomfort will put in an appearance if one comes out into the open. Of course the one being spoken of here is the human soul.

The bonds which bind the human soul may be seen in terms of heredity. Heredity is to be dissolved, burned in the fire. That will be uncomfortable for heredity presumably; and if that is the place of one's identity, then there will be an inclination to hide in the shadows, endeavoring to keep the fire from getting too close. From the standpoint of the angel of life the purpose is that the fire should be brought to bear upon the bonds. A person who is always hiding, humanly, from the anticipated discomfort of the fire will not let the bonds be burned, at least not for a while. It seems that it is possible to avoid discomfort in this fashion, even within the range of those who should know better and also should do better. But it is much easier to let the bonds be burned at low temperatures than to wait for the furnace to be heated perhaps seven times hotter than it is wont to be heated; then there is no avoiding it if one is to keep one's integrity.

Human beings everywhere, ourselves included—certainly in times past—have been accustomed to dance to the tune of the tyrant. That has been the compulsion of human existence. If there is a passion born in the human soul toward the angel of life, then the whole desire is to allow all bonds to be consumed in the fire. It is a lot easier to let them be consumed at a low temperature, one by one, than to hide in the shadows and wait for the violent explosion; because that will surely come.

Assuming the stance of the angel of life, the words, “I am the fire, the way of the fire, the way of union and of love,” may be spoken. And this is fulfilment indeed for the human soul, because the remaining bonds will be easily and naturally burned. Human heredity as a controlling compulsion will be dissolved. There is no other way by which this can happen. It is based in spiritual expression. If one is totally occupied with the expression of the angel of life, then the soul's discomfort is a very small thing. It certainly can be no distraction from one's true purpose, from the expression of one's integrity.

Now if there is spiritual expression, as there necessarily must be if we accept the responsibility of trustworthiness—this acceptance is in fact our integrity—then we are in the place of extending an invitation to all people everywhere to step into the fire with us, because we are there already. This is what is required to clear the hereditary state for mankind. You cannot invite anyone to step into the fire unless you are already in it. I suppose it's possible to suggest that it would be good for somebody else to get into the fire right away, but such a suggestion would ring rather hollow, I think. It rings true only when one is not merely in the fire but when one is the fire. Being the fire, we are not burned by it—but the bonds are. To the extent that we still have a little involvement with the tyrant of death, then it may be said that one is uncomfortable. But the fact of the matter is that one is not really uncomfortable; the bonds that have been present in the human soul are being burned. Good riddance! That's just wonderful. And no big deal is made out of the supposed discomfort. Thank God for it! Welcome it! Come out of the shadows to stand as the fire.

There are those who say, “When I come out into the open there's too much pressure. Bad business, too much pressure.” Well if one wishes to remain identified with the former things that are going to pass away anyhow, then discomfort is inevitable—pain, sorrow, all these things, and ultimately death. I would emphasize a point that it is not a matter of the soul trying to save itself alive. In human self-centeredness this has been one of the hopes and desires of human souls: that they may be saved for eternity. If we recognize what a human soul is, then I think that is rather a vain expectation. There have been some fanciful ideas in this regard, about corpses coming up out of tombs; but if all that was left was a little dust, it would be quite a trick to get it all together again—and who would want it?

I am the way of union, of love, of the fire; I am the truth, the light; I am the life, the cloud of glory. I am that I am, and consequently eternal. I inhabit a human soul which may be useful to me. It may hold out on me and suffer the consequences, the discomforts of so doing, but I am the one incarnate and the one who is here to make right use of my soul, right use of those with whom I am associated, right use of my circumstances, right use of all that comes to me. I can do this because I make right use of my soul. The right use of my soul is to allow for my spiritual expression, to allow me to express what I am. We are all here on earth to speak such words truly.

We do not necessarily anticipate that this human soul is going to live forever. I think that it is inevitable that it would change. In fact I don't think that as an angel of life we'd want the human soul as it now is to hang around us forever. It is useful now, it may be useful tomorrow, it may even be useful next year, possibly ten years from hence—who knows? All that is of concern to us is that we should be in position to make right use of it. Making right use of it, we are present in mind and heart and body in order to make right use of the environment around us, and as long as this present soul can be usefully so employed, presumably we'll make arrangements for it to remain. If it isn't of any more use in this way, then what would be the purpose for its continued existence? We have a realistic viewpoint; and what human beings think of as death, which is the passing of the human soul, means very little. It means very little to the angel of life who is in command, in the sense that its value is based in right use for particular purposes in a specific aspect of the unfoldment of the creative cycle.

If I am the way, the truth and the life, death means nothing; it doesn't exist! That the substance that composed the human soul may be reintroduced into the natural creative cycles on earth is quite satisfactory; that presumably is what should happen. It may be that if, as angels of life, we do play our parts wisely and rightly in these present human souls there could be a transformation in the realm of the human soul which is presently beyond imagination, or unknown. But be that as it may, all that is presently required is to make right use of the human soul in present circumstances, whatever they are. We don't make right use of our human souls with the expectation that changes are going to come in our circumstances to suit the human soul. Therefore it's quite useless for the human soul to have mental and emotional concepts and desires as to what the changes should be.

The only value of the human soul is to provide the opportunity for the angel of life to give creative expression to spirit in the present moment. What will ensue because of that is what should ensue because of that, regardless of any judgments that may creep into the consciousness of the human soul. Forget it. Let it be what it is; let it be what it will be. Oh yes, it's going to change, we can be sure of that; but let not the judgments of the human soul try to determine the changes on the basis of what it considers would be pleasing to itself. The changes come at the hand of the angel of life. On this basis we all stand as one, the angel of life on earth with a variety of human souls. This is very useful. It would be too bad if we all had duplicates of the same soul. That would not be very useful.

So here we are as angels of life, incarnate in these human souls of great variety, not by chance. Obviously, if the angel of life has incarnated in some particular soul, as is the case for all of us, it wasn't a haphazard business. Specific choices were made as to what would be most useful should the human soul reach the point of willingness to allow the angel of life, who one is, to do what one incarnated in that human soul to do. And all these human souls are related, in one way or another, because they have the opportunity of participating in a collective, unified body. The angel of life is also the angel of the way of union. And so union is the natural experience, not only between the human soul and the angel of life who one is but between all the human souls who are the embodiment of the angel of life. On this basis there is one functioning, unified, coordinated body in action on earth, administering the creative cycle. Not making the creative cycle be—it already is—but administering the expression of it within the range of creative responsibility right here on earth. Then the invitation may be extended to all people: “Come out of slavery to the tyrant of death into the way of the fire.”

I think in times past there have been some ideas about extending an invitation to others, usually on the basis that it would be helpful if other people would come on the mailing list, would attend Class, seminars, what have you. But if you think of that from your standpoint, it would be the fact for most of you that you would be inviting them into something else, not into something for which you have responsibility. In other words you're passing the buck, and it would not be a true invitation. The invitation is to come into your fire, your personal fire; not to say, “Well I think it would be helpful if you went into someone else's fire. Why don't you get in touch with so-and-so?” Now it may be that in inviting people into your fire the sensible thing for the particular person would be to connect them up with somebody else, should you not be on hand to do anything in a direct way. But there must be that in you, in your own personal experience, which has invited that person to come into the fire with you, and you are not just ducking out and passing the buck to somebody else. The invitation you extend is to come into your place, where you are; otherwise it is a phony invitation. We're speaking of all the people, whether they ever get on the mailing list or whether they ever come to a Class, whether they ever do any of the supposedly orthodox Emissary things. The vast majority won't, but they may come into the presence of the angel of life because you are incarnate in form on earth.

I think you are aware of the fact that while I may have on occasion suggested that it would be useful for a person to come on the mailing list or to go to a Class, that, in your own experience, has not really been the invitation that you have felt from me. It is because there was a place of the fire that you could come to that you could experience whatever you have experienced. There may have been some blessing known because of many things that have happened, that you have done, but I'm sure that you have always been aware of the fact that there is a safe place for you to come into insofar as I am concerned, an enfoldment, but also a fire. Some have preferred to stay out on the fringes, so that they didn't experience too much soul discomfort. Others have been willing to come in closer, and been willing to experience whatever discomfort was necessary. It was not made into a big deal; it was something that would necessarily happen.

Coming into the fire, there is the experience of the soul being restored. Now what that restoration for any particular soul might mean remains to be seen, and one shouldn't have expectations and feel slighted if it doesn't happen the way you expect. I'm pretty sure it won't, for any of us. Let it be what it is!—because until there is this yielded openness on the part of the soul, how can the angel of life come forth? And it is the coming forth of the angel of life that burns the bonds, so that there is a new experience known in heart and mind and body because it may be said, “I am present and in expression.” And the whole human soul is unified into the one—there is no separation.

We find, in the natural cycles of living, that we eat and drink day by day; we stay alive that way. Of course we breathe as well, and do other things, but we also excrete. That's as necessary, isn't it? There is something taken in; there is something left behind. This is all natural in the cycles of living. So, with the incarnate angel of life, there is a body and a mind and a heart, a human soul received; and various aspects of waste are left behind day by day from this human soul. Where is the mystery? Where is the mystery of so-called death? At that point just a little more is left behind, that's all. From the standpoint of the angel of life, that is all that is happening. It is human souls who bewail their passing, because they have this sense of separation and isolation and fear and all these things—pain and sorrow and all the rest—of their own choosing.

The door is open for the fulfilment of life, and we are all here to extend that life, which includes the fire, to all who will share it with us; but we must be that fire to have anything to share with anyone that is of any value. So we speak the Word to all people, “I am the way of union, the way of the fire; I am the truth; I am the life. Come unto me. Come unto me personally!” Not come unto EDL, not come unto Class, not come unto the mailing list, but come unto me! If that invitation is a true one, and someone comes, that person is received by you; and in the receiving there may be this suggestion made, that suggestion made, something else, but not to ditch your own responsibility. The angel of life would never do that. So we, all together in oneness, may extend this invitation to all people everywhere, “Come unto me.”

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