The Accuser Cast Out Forever
John C. Gray and Louise Broomberg
Lake Elsinore, California and Johannesberg, South Africa
July 25, 2021 Temple of Light Service
John — We bring our untroubled hearts and serene minds with us as we come together now. This place in consciousness where we gather is a holy place. This is the Temple of Light. Welcome! Forever-friend Louise Broomberg and I have opportunity to co-present this morning from Southern California and this evening from Johannesburg, South Africa, respectively—places on almost opposite sides of the planet geographically but both here and now spiritually.
We will be sharing the reading of Martin Exeter’s service of November 25th 1984, “The Accuser Cast Out Forever,” and offering some additional words. On the original occasion, Martin referenced a well-known portion of Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation, beginning with the 7th verse: “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,”
Louise — “and prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven.”
John — “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
Louise — “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.”
John — “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
Louise — “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Louise read the first half of transcript, and John read the second half of transcript.
Louise — Thank you, John. “We are currently far distant in miles but very, very close in spirit, close in heaven…” I'm certainly feeling that. I happened to be living at Fourways in Johannesburg and was present at the time this service was given. I'm feeling the expansiveness of what we were about that does transcend time and distance. And here we are together in this moment. What a joy!
In 1984 apparently the famine in Africa was in focus. Martin spoke about “all kinds of troubles in the world, tribulation, suffering…” but has there ever been a year since the beginning of time, that there weren't trials and tribulations and suffering on earth? It's the nature of this man-made world. David Barnes summed it up in an email he sent me recently: “the world burns on multiple fronts—fear, hate, violence, racism, pandemic ills, raging wildfires, political chaos, financial inequality, arrogant entitlement…” And we can keep going. So this is the state of the world we find ourselves in, and here we are in this place of heaven.
What is in one’s own vicinity seems to loom large. I am now living back in South Africa, and our version of the trials and tribulations was added to with an attempted coup a few weeks ago. Some of you might have seen the harrowing images of looting and pillaging and massive destruction that was shown on news media around the world. The two most populous provinces of Gauteng (Johannesburg) and KwaZulu Natal (Durban) were particularly targeted. It was scary and horrific at the time, and we didn’t quite know how it would end up. But, fortunately, it was brought under control within a week, which was pretty amazing. That was followed by scenes of the indomitable South African spirit coming to the fore, and people of all colors and backgrounds coming together to clean up the mess. There were inspiring acts of heroism and kindness and an upsurge of goodwill and hope. It was wonderful and heartwarming and certainly to be celebrated. But it does beg the question: Hope for what? That we will get things back to “normal?” Back to the way they were? That we will get a better version of human nature in place so we can return to familiar comfort zones? We know that human nature itself is the problem. Whether deemed good or bad, human nature is fickle, unreliable and untrustworthy and the accuser looms large in all of it.
The only answer lies in upward orientation, in heaven. We are the answer—providing that reality of heaven in our own hearts and minds and living so the call can go out within the range of human experience: “Come out of her my people!” We all heard the call along the way—I know that is true for everybody on this call and many others. We are the ones who were drawn together into the Emissary ministry, the spiritual body, EDL. I was reminded of how I responded to the call back along the way. I’ll share a little of my experience. I was living in Johannesburg at the time (1977). I'd known the Emissaries for a few months and signed up for a one-week class to be held at the farm that we had, Helenasvlei, in the Cape. I was driving with a friend of mine who was also going to the class, and as we drove over the mountain pass towards our destination, I felt mounting pressure and trepidation. I confessed to her that I was feeling quite nervous and she said, “I’m terrified!” We both knew that something momentous was about to happen.
After stopping at the local hotel for a couple beers to get our courage up, we eventually did arrive at Helenasvlei. It was beautiful place and there was a wonderful group of people there and the class was great. But it was in the last class on that last day when we heard the recording of “Coming Home” that knocked my socks off. I remember walking out of the class stunned, with Uranda’s words ringing in my ears and heart: “What is your quitting point? If you have a quitting point that is where you cease to be a man or a woman and you become a member of the body of the beast.” Those words were branded in fire on my heart that day. It was a call for an uncompromising commitment. That is what got to me. It was a defining moment in my life. So of course the holiday plans in Cape Town got scrapped. I stayed on at Helenasvlei, attended the two-week Class which was being held the following January, and I actually never left for the next 20 or so years—not all of it at Helenasvlei but in various Emissary communities or communal homes, and I became a full-time committed member of this Emissary program. In my mind I’d interpreted Uranda’s words as, “Don't quit EDL; if you do, that is when you cease to be a man or a woman.”
I have no doubt that there was something right about that commitment and loyalty to EDL along the way, where absolute commitment, loyalty and obedience were required. It was the best training imaginable to prepare us for our commission as emissaries of divine light—to align with Michael and his angels. As Martin said in this service, “I will tell you something about the past: Everything that has occurred up to this very moment has been absolutely perfect. It has brought us all to this present moment… If any smallest element in our experience in the past had been omitted whether we judged it to be good or bad who can say as to whether we would be exactly here where we are now?”
There did come a time when things changed in the organizational aspect of EDL, and I wasn't sure what I was being loyal to anymore. I have since listened again to “Coming Home.” Here is what Uranda actually said: “What is your quitting point? The point where sacred things are not worth it anymore?… Let ‘em go smash. That is the point you cease to be a man or woman and become a member of the body of the beast… The quitting point is where sacred things are not held sacred…” He was talking about honoring our heavenly Father and Mother—Love and Truth. That is what is sacred. The accuser simply cannot exist in the presence of Love—and if accusation, blame and criticism do show up, then sacred things are being trampled on. If I indulge in judgements of any kind about how I think people or things should or shouldn’t be, then I am dishonoring the Truth. From my limited perspective, how do I know anything? So how can I possibly judge anything?
I’d like to read from a letter I received in 1978 from my father, Harold Broomberg:
“You must surely be aware of my daily Thanksgiving prayers for your emergence into the realm of light and reality. I can't begin to tell you how excited I am by what is happening to you and others like you. It is because of what you are becoming that I know that there is hope for the world…
“The present moment of awareness (which means the ever-present moment) is the most exciting and important that you will ever know. Having set your compass bearing, just stay on course, through all weathers and conditions. Things really are working out perfectly!…
“… I see only a cleansing process going on—a breaking down of conditions which have kept our fellowmen entombed for so long. The disintegration is nothing more than a breaking down of a scab encrustation on the body.”
To give you some context: we had a farm and small country inn, the Gwaai River Hotel, in the northwest part of Zimbabwe near Victoria Falls and Hwange Game Reserve. The hotel was the hub for a substantial farming community. In 1978 the country was still Rhodesia and the guerilla/bush war, which had been going on for a number of years, was at its height. All the farms were under constant threat of attack and there was considerable tension and uncertainty.
My father had never attended an Emissary class or lived in an Emissary community, and for the sixty years I knew him, he was one of the clearest, most unwavering emissaries of divine light I have ever known. Earlier that year the hotel had been attacked, and a mortar rocket landed in the office where he was sitting, causing considerable damage to the room but miraculously leaving him unharmed. And still he didn’t waver in his attitude of calm assurance, perfect trust that “things really are working out perfectly.” He was a source of strength and inspiration to many—a living example what it takes to be a beacon of enfolding radiance in every circumstance, transcending organization.
So it is good to honor him today, and everyone and everything that has brought us to this perfect moment to continue doing what we came to do. I offer profound and eternal thankfulness for all of it.
John — Thank you, Louise. I was privileged to know your father briefly.
The heaven we maintain is not locational and it is not temporal; it is undimensional, but it is here and now. You mentioned, Louise, that as you were heading off to that one week seminar years ago you felt something momentous happening. We might tend to be more aware of the momentous when we feel personally affected, but something vastly momentous is happening everywhere right now!
We recognize that it wasn’t Jesus’s intention to initiate Christian religions, but to inspire and lead people into the experience of true spiritual identity. Likewise, I say it was not Uranda’s intention to establish Emissaries of Divine Light as a self-perpetuating organization, but to inspire and lead people into the experience of true spiritual identity. An organization can be vital to serving that purpose, but, as we well know, “emissary of divine light” is a functional description of personal responsibility—to be a bringer, a carrier, an expresser, of the spirit of God on earth. Uranda could have named the church corporations he started something like “The Lucifer Legion,” but then that probably wouldn’t have gone over very well. Far more people associate the word Lucifer with the devil than with the term’s literal meaning of “light bearer.” A legion, by the way, is an assemblage of chosen ones.
However many years ago it was when you and I began to consciously awaken, we were then in the process of emerging from a rather material/mental sense of self, oriented in the world of form. Having it in us to be spiritually responsive—something we, humanly speaking, cannot take credit for, by the way—we felt compelled to move toward the light we saw in expression through others. The EDL organization, with its leaders and its communities and classes and centers and groups, facilitated and hastened this awakening experience. For us, it made it possible. I could not be more thankful for every little bit of my experience along the way!
Spiritual education is no less important for awakening ones today, but that’s another topic. Looking at our Zoom rectangles on my computer screen now, we all appear at least somewhat senior. Most, maybe all of us, had considerable spiritual education in EDL in the past, perhaps now in the long-ago past. Pamela and I went to “long class” on Sunrise Ranch in 1971—50 years ago! It’s where and how and why we met, by the way.
At various times, Martin likened the EDL organization to a spiritual university from which we graduate into the real world, or as a family nest in which we are nurtured while growing into adulthood. The point has always been to come into our own, in experienced identity as divine beings in human form. Within EDL we learned love and loyalty in the process, coming to realize over time that it wasn’t really loyalty to an organization as such but to the eternal reality of God.
Martin said, and Louise reiterated, “I will tell you something about the past: Everything that has occurred up to this very moment has been absolutely perfect. It has brought us all to this present moment where we have the opportunity of letting the accuser be cast out.” The spirit back of those words resounds in the holy place now. When this truth is fully accepted and deeply internalized—it was all perfect—anything anyone may have felt hurt by, anything—real or imagined—anyone else did or said, it all just drops away. We may be able to recall this or that, but there is no emotion attached to the memory. The former things pass away; they have no place in the Holy Place.
A while ago I awoke one morning with some loud words ringing in my mind. The Lord said, “Don’t you dare accuse or blame my responding ones, ever!” Every person who ever has or had the quality of heart to hear the tone of life and be drawn to it, is precious to the Lord—beyond words to describe. All of these extraordinary ones who live and breathe in human bodies form a legion of angels on earth, angels the Lord has sent “with a great sound of a trumpet, and they [and we are among the they]… gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” [Matthew 24:31-33]
We are among those who have been gathered, yes, but being an emissary of divine light involves much more than that! We are in turn sent to gather more elect. By that I don’t imply going out and holding public meetings—the gathering is done in heaven. The Lord’s compelling invitation happens mostly in and then out through our hearts. But we cannot be gatherers of the Lord’s most precious ones if we still harbor the accuser of our brethren. For you and me, the gathering together we are ordained to do begins with our fellow “gatherees”—the diverse legion composed of every person ever associated with EDL, for starters. “Uh oh,” some might think. “Among that group are people I never liked or who did things I didn’t approve of.” Well, if any of that sort of thing is still hanging around, isn’t it time to say, “So what?” to those accusations and focus on what’s so, now? Yes, it is!
“What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.” [Mark 10:9] People usually associate that verse from Mark with wedding ceremonies, but it has far larger meaning too. This holy legion that God hath drawn together on earth, let not accusing men and women put asunder!
Maybe we used to think of the more conscious part of that legion as being EDL, and while that was true it was never solely EDL, was it? Not at all. Am I less spiritually conscious today than I was back in the past? I bet most of us would profess to be more conscious, right? The Lord’s legion is vast and the creative process we steward truly momentous. The accuser may have seemed sly and subtle back along the way, but as the accusing habit is purged from our hearts we see how gross and dark that whole state is, and we judge it not, nor one another.
Anne Blaney — Thank you Louise and John, and everyone, because something significant has obviously been happening through all of us during this time. My thoughts and feelings have definitely been activated in this substance. I was thinking about radiation-response. I was also thinking about the angel and the facilities of the angel—and how those dichotomies come into union as one. I found myself asking, “What and who is it that responds?” An individual angel has at its disposal the atoms and molecules of the physical package, which we call “me.” I've picked up this (indicating my body) for this incarnation. It is this package that actually is responding to this angel. These moving molecules and atoms are very flexible, and can configure in many ways. But to what, and to whom can this package, these capacities respond, along the way?
In this gathering, I would say that initially we all had the experience of responding to an external point—a person, an organization, and the capacities configured, blended in a unified way with that external point. For many, that external point could have been a “server.” For everyone, we come into union with many ideas or external forms. We may have come into union with, say, the Boys Scouts. There is always a resulting heaven created out of every particular union we enter. In our primary example, coming into union with this spiritual body, that union immediately activated, and continues to activate, a whole network of similarly attuned beings. It all lights up, and unifies with many other points involved. We experience a larger heaven into which we connected, with all sorts of different levels of Being. If we were to say, join the Boy Scouts, or a political party, and come into union with those particular heavens, that might be just fine for that experience. But I suggest there is a longing on the part of the angel here, who is burning, burning in angelic fire that propels these capacities to come into union with another quality of heaven. I think that's what happened to us; we came into union with a very specific heaven of this spiritual body.
Perhaps part of that blending had a component of joining the Boy Scouts. Part of what we blended with was an earthly organization, in this case a very useful organization: EDL. The individuals, the atoms and molecules involved, organized around the angelic nucleus. They were people, and they moved and configured in various ways. But there was an ultimate union that was actually available, behind the scenes, behind the forms, and that's what we've been talking about here today, what was available for each angel to come into union with, beyond the more obvious appearances. I note the incredible beauty in the freedom of the capacities to choose what it comes into union with. When we do find union with the angel who we are, individually and collectively, it activates the many other angels who you and I are together, and a much greater heaven is known, and expanded. Perhaps this sounds kind of esoteric but that's what was stimulated in my thinking in our movement together this morning.
Millicent Holliday — I've also so enjoyed our time together, and loved the trip you took with us Louise, down memory lane. I was also at Fourways when that service was given. I had just touched into the ministry, and I was elected to babysit James Maskell while Rupert and Tessa were visiting. In light of what has already been said I was thinking how amazing it is that the Bible starts with… “In the beginning was the Word” or maybe it's the beginning of the Book of John, I always get that wrong, but I think it was John who said “In the beginning was The Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. Today I feel that what we have experienced is the Word of God, and the Word has a resonance to it which is so distinct, which has called us, and woken us, and drawn all things to remembrance.
I feel privileged to be a South African. In 1984 we were at one level of the spiral, now thank God for the Word of Truth, we have ascended. I wouldn't say considerably, but somewhat on that spiral. I left South Africa in 1985, I was attending a one week class at Fourways when a friend of mine called me and asked if I’d help him deliver as yacht from Cape Town to Fort Lauderdale. Absolutely I said, because I knew that Uranda and Martin's ministry was focused in the United States and I knew that I just had to learn more about it. So Louise our hearts burned as one.
I have delighted in the South African spirit these past few week when all the rioting and destruction was happened in South Africa, and my family were very much in the thick of it. In all our communication via WhatsApps and phone calls, they did not speak of the danger that was imminent, but rather they spoke of the spirit of union that was happening in the country. Throughout the country people came together—Muslims, Christians, Africans, Afrikaaners, Englishmen, all getting along together, communing in heart felt ways with one another, while keeping their neighborhoods safe as best they could. Indomitable spirits, that were more concerned to extend the current of brotherly love, than to extend one of accusation, and I felt proud of my people.
What a joy it is to participating in what we have today, it fills my heart with delight that we can be in one accord, in one place, and that our concern is that the accuser of our brethren be truly cast down in these days, in our own experience. While I was preparing to come to this gathering this morning the words of the song “Come and Behold Him” written by Martin, and Lillian came to mind; and I sense today in this Temple of Light gatherings that we have had the opportunity to, Come and Behold Him. To come and behold those who carry the essence of our King, essences we extend into our worlds. We recognize one another, we love working with one another, and because we express the Truth of Love there is union, fusion. Thank you Louise and John for this exquisite time of communion with the One we love and serve, our Lord and King.
Linda Bahan — Another South African would like to speak directly to Louise. I was in that One Week Class with you in 1977 having been introduced to the Emissaries just a couple of months before. I had an awakening during that same audio of Uranda that you referenced. As I recall, Rupert asked that we take notes to keep our minds focused. After we had heard the audio I apologized to Rupert for not being able to take notes because all I could think about while Uranda was speaking was I know this voice; I’ve heard this voice before. Hearing Uranda’s voice was like having a gong hit inside of me that has never stopped reverberating. I knew I had the responsibility to allow that resonating sound inside of me be expressed louder and louder through my own living experience. John likened the EDL organization to a nest where we were all nurtured. I look at all of you who are here today and so many of us were nurtured and grew up together in these “nests”. I just had to add my voice in saying that I’m glad so many of us are still together doing the Lord’s work on earth. Thank you so much, both to Louise and to John.
Laura Fisher — My question always is, "How can I further the purposes of this ministry on earth?" And this morning we have done that together; we all heard "Coming Home", and now we are opening and providing the facility for others to come home. Thank you. Thank you.
Bill Bahan — I wanted to say a word of appreciation for John and Louise and for the beauty of what we’ve shared today. The essences of spirit that have come through you are very special. I am thankful for the EDL ministry that we have known over many years and it occurs to me as I look at all of you through the panels on my Zoom screen that I may never have known any of you had it not been for this ministry. I may not even have met my wife since she comes from many thousands of miles away. We can appreciate the compulsion of spirit that has brought us all together at this time to acknowledge that we are angels of heaven who have discovered a natural agreement. Here is a foundation upon which others are invited to play their part. Wherever I go I see the angels of heaven regardless of how aware they may be that this is so. I see them and appreciate them at whatever level they may function. And so I just wanted to express my appreciation for what we have shared today and for our continuing heavenly agreement.
Louise — I am feeling the incredible richness and the scope of this tapestry that's been woven together over many years in many ways—some we know of and some we don't. It feels like there's so much to say and I would love us to have another hour together, but I'm thinking gratitude is probably what I have to say for now. Gratitude and love. Thank you, John.
John — We might think some of what's been shared today as relating to the past. But we haven't gone back into the past; we've invited the past into the present. It's all been perfect, and it's all here, now. Time and dimensional space evaporate into the present moment. Here our hearts are very full with love for the Lord and love for one another. How long has He again waited for a legion of people who are unashamed to be in the Holy Place together?
Martin Exeter November 25, 1984
The Accuser Cast Out Forever
With these rousing words and music we may move with confidence into our service. It is morning here, evening with you in South Africa. According to usual human calculations we here are ten hours behind you in South Africa. However if we happened to move the date line to the east of us, instead of to the west of us, we would be fourteen hours ahead of you. All this is human game-playing, for the fact of the matter, as we well know, is that we are together now in this moment in what we have come to recognize by using the word “heaven.” This is an invisible place but we are all here present in it whether we can see each other or not. And so we share this present moment in heaven.
I might read some rather familiar words from the Book of Revelation which can be seen in a way that is immediately applicable. “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” If we see this particular passage in terms of what we know, namely the Emissary ministry, the spiritual body, EDL, then I am sure we are all quite aware that even though Michael and his angels were in the heaven, so also have been the dragon and his angels.
Here is the next verse: “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” Another name for the dragon, then, is the accuser; this describes very well his character. I am sure that we are all well aware that the accuser has been in this heaven of the Emissary ministry. We are coming down to very specific cases here, a field in which all of us obviously have responsibility. The accuser has not yet been cast out of heaven, but still remains because this attitude of accusation still remains in those who compose what we call the Emissary ministry, the spiritual body, EDL.
We are all presumably concerned that the dragon and his angels should not prevail. No longer prevailing, they may be cast out of heaven, out of the Emissary ministry, out of the spiritual body, out of EDL. All these terms, we recognize, refer to one thing, one thing with which we ourselves are associated and to which we ourselves have given form. This Emissary program would not exist but for us, so we are directly associated with it. If we align ourselves with the accuser then we condemn ourselves, and the accuser continues to prevail in heaven. We recognize that the accuser needs to be cast out of the heaven as it relates to the whole of mankind, but it must start somewhere. I doubt if it would ever happen on a broad front.
Accusation describes the ordinary human state. Everybody is identified to a considerable extent with the accuser, even in the Emissary program. We have heard about this; we have considered it many times. We understand that blame and criticism are not the attitudes rightly held by those who are associated in this program; but nevertheless the accuser has remained, at times rather big and fat. I do not think any of us expect the accuser to be cast down in a very general sense throughout the human population. Everybody is thoroughly embedded in this human state. However it can well be said that we know better; we understand the destructiveness of the attitude of accusation, the attitude of blame and criticism.
We might expand that a little bit to see what it is, about which we are inclined to assume the attitude of accusation, blame and criticism. One could well ask a question: Have you ever been hurt? I am thinking of this particularly as it relates to the Emissary ministry. Human beings everywhere very easily identify their hurts and presumably those who were responsible for hurting them, but what about us within the Emissary ministry? Have we been subjected to hurts because of EDL, because of those—other than ourselves of course—who were associated in giving form to EDL? Have we ever seemed to be abused, victimized, imposed upon? We can add to this list at will, I am sure. But are these things present in us as reasons for accusation, as reasons for criticism and blame, perhaps in a more or less general sense to EDL but also more specifically to this person and that person who has been with us associated with EDL in giving it form? This begins to bring something down to cases, so that the passage which I read to you may be seen as having immediate and very potent application.
Here we are together associated with EDL. We wouldn’t be sitting here if this wasn’t so, to some degree at least Here we have the heaven, a heaven which we are sharing in this particular configuration this morning. How about letting the accuser be cast out because we no longer give him space in ourselves as individuals? That is the only way it can be done. It may seem as though there are a number in agreement about some sort of accusation, but for a number to be in agreement about some sort of accusation the accusation must be being made by all the individuals who compose that grouping. So it is an individual matter; it is an individual choice as to whether finally the dragon, the devil, the accuser, may be cast out of our heaven, our very specific heaven, the EDL heaven.
I have heard EDL spoken of in disparaging terms. That, it seems to me, would smack of accusation. What is EDL? Us! It only exists because of us; it isn’t anybody else. And each individual can say, “It only exists for me because of me.” So here is a very particular requirement individually speaking, that we might take responsibility for letting the accuser be cast down forever, that there may be a heaven without the accuser. It isn’t much of a heaven as long as the accuser is present. It turns into hell periodically when the accuser asserts himself. We have all had this experience over the years, but finally we come to a point where heavenly dominion must be set in the earth. Heavenly dominion can never be set in the earth until the accuser is cast out. We just fool ourselves if we imagine that we can continue to entertain the accuser. We can always find things to accuse, and people to accuse, in what heretofore has passed for our heaven, a divided state.
Yes, Michael and his angels are present, and we do find ourselves identified at times with what is portrayed through those words, perhaps more particularly when we are gathered in a grouping such as we have today. In this moment we can see these things more or less clearly, but then there always is the tendency to revert, isn’t there, into the usual human state of accusation by which all the world is deceived. As long as there is accusation there is deception, there is dishonesty, because the human state was produced by human beings, ourselves included, and not by anyone else. Ultimately of course, in this attitude of accusation, the accusation comes to point with respect to God or with respect to the Lord: “He didn’t do what is right by human beings; He didn’t do what is right by me, particularly. He caused me to be hurt; He caused me to suffer; He caused me to be imposed upon; He caused me to be victimized.” You know, in theory at least, that that is not true. That is a lie. If we have our troubles as human beings we brought them on our own head.
We may see this, and have seen it, as most people have, with respect to the masses of human beings on earth. Human beings all together have brought their troubles on their head. Well that is something to be recognized, I suppose; it’s true; but what is to be done about it? Obviously someone, somewhere, somehow, needs to emerge out of the state of bringing trouble, into the state of blessing rather than cursing. And whether we realized it to start with or not, we have found ourselves in the position of assuming this responsibility. We have found ourselves together doing this; yes, that’s true. But it doesn’t mean anything until we find ourselves individually doing it, individually taking that very specific responsibility: no more accusation. When the accuser is given no more space in us individually, so that we cannot anymore identify with him, then he is cast out, in the only way that he could ever be cast out. And if he is cast out in me, and in those who assume the same responsibility that I do, then he begins to be cast out collectively. We are provided with this marvelous illustration of where it all begins, namely the Emissary ministry, the spiritual body, EDL. This is the heaven insofar as we are concerned. Do you have any other? Do you know where to go to find any other? This is what we know; let us assume responsibility for our knowing then, that the accuser may be cast out.
There are all kinds of troubles in the world, tribulations, suffering. We nod our heads sagely and say, “Yes, human beings bring these things upon themselves.” There are those of course who have it better than others, and I think we might be counted among that number. This has been particularly brought to the attention of the Western world by the suffering of millions of people in certain parts of Africa—not that suffering is limited to Africa, but at the moment this is out front. And there are certainly those who are in that sort of a hell, a hell particularly identified at the moment by the word famine.
Some people say that that is the fault of the weather. Is the weather, do you think, separate from human beings? Does it have a life all of its own regardless of human beings? Of course we know better than that. Obviously if, for instance, you deforest the world you are going to have a desert; and if you have a desert it is not going to grow much food. If you pollute the air and the water it is going to have an effect upon the weather, and deforesting has an effect upon the weather. Everything that human beings do has an effect upon the weather. And where does what human beings do spring from? Out of their own hearts and minds, out of what should be the heaven; and it does that because the accuser is in there. The accuser has some other names as well; I don’t think we need to go into that, but we might remember that he does have some other names. So weather is a human responsibility. Do you think the weather which occurs on earth is because of sun spots? This has been a good justification for the weather on the part of the more scientifically inclined, rather than face personal responsibility in the matter, that if there is a mess on earth weatherwise, or any other way, it is because of human beings.
We have found ourselves in that classification, but we have also awakened to something to which most people have not awakened as yet, and that is a realization of personal responsibility. Even though there may have been an awakening to this, at times it has not had all that much effect on the way we behave. But now this is coming to point. Our heaven—and we know what that is now, describable in Emissary terms—our heaven is in the process of being purged. Obviously there are two ways that this can happen. Either we remain identified with the accuser and find ourselves purged from the heaven, or we accept our identity as one of the angels of Michael so that any tendencies of accusation in us are purged from us and we remain in heaven.
Here is the starting point of heaven for the whole body of mankind. Here is the focus of it. Look where you will anywhere else on the face of the earth and you will not find a focus of heaven as clear-cut and definite and absolute as is to be found in our Emissary terms. There are others who are afraid of that clarity, that absoluteness, and so they are inclined to be purged and to go shopping around to find something that isn’t quite so definite, so that one can still continue to accommodate the accuser. But we see, I am sure, individually we see, that we cannot under any circumstances continue to accommodate the accuser. Do you justify yourself in accusation by saying, “Well that’s obviously wrong; that person isn’t doing what he or she should be doing!”?
I will tell you something about the past: Everything that has occurred up to this very moment has been absolutely perfect. It has brought us all to this present moment where we have the opportunity of letting the accuser be cast out. If any smallest element in our experience in the past had been omitted, whether we judged it to be good or bad, who can say as to whether we would be exactly here where we are now? There is nothing wrong, in that sense. Whoever behaved however they did behave, it all worked out to let this come to point now. Isn’t that perfect? How else could it have been done? Then what is the value of judgment, criticism, accusation, with respect to things that are happening now? The things that are happening now—oh, they are in the past already!
So we are present now, willing, if we have any integrity and intelligence—these seem to go together—to let the accuser be cast down and out forever. Each one must say: “I am the one who lets it happen. I do it. Whether anyone else does it is beside the point, but insofar as I am concerned, I do it. I have, therefore, integrity. I take responsibility.” So the heaven is purged, and those who find themselves remaining in the heaven have a clarifying awareness of the ordinances of heaven, which couldn’t be seen at all as long as the accuser was present. But once the accuser is cast down the ordinances of heaven become very clear. This doesn’t mean that one sees a panorama of the great outworking in the days to come; it merely indicates that in this present moment we see what it is that is necessary from the heavenly standpoint. We not only see it but we do it. If we can’t see, we can’t do it; and we won’t see as long as the accuser is clouding the issue. When the accuser is cast down we see, and where there is vision the people live. And seeing the ordinances of heaven, we are in immediate position to set the dominion thereof in the earth, that what is present and emerging now may be purely of heaven.
Once there is space in human consciousness, the consciousness of mankind, for the unadulterated state of heaven, then the end comes. It is because this has never happened within the body of mankind in a collective sense that the accuser has remained in command. Of course it was done quite a long time ago by one individual. We acknowledge and recognize that, and realize we wouldn’t be here but for that. However it has taken all these centuries for it finally to begin to come to point because there is a heavenly space on earth within which there is understanding, within which the truth becomes known.
The truth, by the way, presently not only relates to the truth of heaven but also to the truth of hell. And we begin to see clearly enough the rot and the filthiness that has been sustained by ourselves as individuals in this beautiful heaven that has been so freely offered and made available. We are thinking of this in terms of those who are associated with the Emissary heaven, that is our heaven for which we are responsible. Can you imagine how those who carry this responsibility could indulge themselves in accusation, condemnation and criticism of their fellows, doing it day and night?—because that is the human state. That is what happens in the human state. People are doing this all the time, are they not? Certainly it is made very plain in the newscasts on TV, for instance. Everybody lines up, one of a crowd: accuse, condemn, blame, criticize, tear down, destroy. And people wonder why there is war on earth! “Oh let’s have peace,” but change from being the accuser to being the blesser?—that is too much to ask. Is it? We know the way, the truth and the life. Let us reveal that we know it.
Yes, all the things, the miseries, the tribulation on earth, are consequent upon the way human beings have behaved—all of it. How is it ever going to be any different? Because there are those people on earth with sufficient integrity to let the accuser be cast out of the heaven which they know. Most people don’t know the heaven; they hope for something, sometime, somewhere; but we know the heaven now. Knowing the heaven, how could it be that we would sustain the presence of the accuser in that heaven? I would say it is almost incredible, isn’t it? We know these things. Let us let the accuser be cast down forever, that there may be the true heaven on earth. And when the true heaven is on earth through those who give it form, salvation has come. As it is put here: “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” That has been our state, hasn’t it? That is a very accurate description: accusation day and night. That is the quality of the human state. That is the way human beings are. That is the way we have been, but we now know better.
We are sufficiently taken care of, shall we say, in the external sense. We have enough to eat. We have, I am sure, a lot more comforts than we deserve, so that we may have time to do what is necessary. Where millions of people are in a state of famine, of hunger, of dying in that way, all their energy is simply given to surviving just a little longer. But we have space, we have time, we have opportunity. Because these famine pictures have been put on the TV screen a lot of people in the Western world are feeling very guilty about it; and they dish out a few dollars to send some food, as though that was going to solve anything. Maybe it’s all right to send some food, but suppose enough food was sent, and all those millions of people survived and continued to breed, what is going to happen next? Something worse.
But the, well I describe them as fat cats—that would include us—of the world have the time to do something, but they won’t do it! They want to do things for their own pleasure, and I have noticed this even in our own Emissary program. “We should have more; we are not being treated as well as some of those people in the world. The Lord is falling down on the job.” No, we are falling down on the job. We don’t need those things! All we need is to be in place, in heaven, with the accuser cast down. And we need to use the space that we have, and find more space, to do what should be done, so that we are not so preoccupied with our own self-centeredness, the things we think we want or deserve or should have, or whatever. We have everything, everything that is necessary to allow us to do what we are here to do. Let’s do it then. Let us accept integrity for ourselves, that we may abide in the heaven as an angel of Michael, as it was described. No more truck with the accuser; to hell with him! That’s where he is; that’s where he belongs.
So I rejoice that today, together, representing east and west, northern and southern hemispheres, we may let this word be spoken in our living clearly and definitely, so that the ordinances of heaven factually are set in the earth, this occurring within the consciousness of mankind because we are not separate from that. And if it happens where it rightly can happen, with us, it will happen throughout the body of mankind with absolute certainty. There is no certainty at all as long as there is a divided state, as long as the accuser hangs around. At least the only certainty then is death, final and complete.
So we stand where we belong, with our integrity intact, honest and true and loyal and capable, knowing the ordinances of heaven and, moment by moment in our living, setting the dominion thereof in the earth. I would provide opportunity at this moment for Rupert at Fourways to speak a word from that southern part of the human body. All right, Rupert.
Rupert Maskell — Martin, your words came over loud and strong to us assembled here at Fourways this evening—your Sunday morning. This is the conclusion of our all-Africa summit meeting that we have been holding here over the weekend. And not surprisingly the theme of your words this evening has been very much the theme of our council considerations. Here we are assembled on the base of this vast continent where, as you say, many millions of people are facing severe hardship. We recognize that this is just one small part of the suffering that is occurring in mankind. We also recognize that we have here, through our agreement in spirit with you and our oneness in spirit with the Lord, the means by which the suffering may come to an end, because we inexorably maintain the heaven. The accuser is cast out, a lens is focused in heaven, and all the suffering and the fear and the misery which is so rife everywhere in the world disintegrates, as the darkness before the rising of the light. It is so good to share this absoluteness with you, recognizing that we of this ministry, or we who dwell in heaven, are the ones who set the tone and lead the way back into the garden where we belong. Thank you for your beautiful words.
Lord Exeter — I am most thankful, Rupert, for your strong and assured words, representing, as they do, the spirit which is moving in the hearts and minds of those who compose the space for heaven which we have referred to as the Emissary ministry. As there is an absoluteness, which we now understand more clearly than heretofore perhaps, then this tragic human state may come to its conclusion because there are those present on earth setting the dominion of the ordinances of heaven in the world. These are those who have integrity. Let each one be able to speak honestly and say: I am that one who has integrity. So we share this time together, apparently far-distant in miles but very, very close in spirit, close in heaven. Let that heaven be pure because the accuser has gone.
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