The Solar Entity

The  Solar  Entity

Martin Cecil   October 24, 1976

“The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”  You are all familiar with the first commandment, the first great commandment. One cannot command love, but the experience of love is a natural one to everyone. Man, to be clothed and in his right mind, must necessarily experience the fulfilment of this first great commandment. Such an experience is the natural state of man. Obviously, it is quite useless to try to love God; we may awaken, however, to our own natural state.

We will not be inclined to awaken to that natural state if we do not allow our love to center in God; in other words, if we disperse it in other directions we certainly would not be in position to fulfil this commandment. As you have noted, it is an all-inclusive commandment: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all." As has before been emphasized, this does not leave any love available for personal application. I am sure that all of you have recognized this commandment and acknowledged the fact that it should apply, but, at the same time, I suspect that you have not allowed its completeness to engulf you. In other words, generally speaking, human beings are inclined to hold something out to one side, which they consider to be the natural thing. By and large, what is held out to one side relates to the male-female relationships.

Now, obviously, there is something right about male-female relationships; there is something right about the relationships between men and the relationships between women; but nothing of that rightness can possibly be known until there is the experience of the meaning and the fulfilment of the first great commandment. There are those who seek to find the meaning and fulfilment of that by reason of their relationships in the human sense, but it doesn't work that way. The second commandment, with which you are also familiar, but which I have not read because I do not wish to emphasize it at the moment, comes second; and, in fact, it is the natural experience when there is the fulfilment of the first. You have heard these words many times, but as long as they remain just words, just an idea, just a nice belief, without any actual fulfilment in your own experience, the meaning cannot be known, and the fulfilment of the second commandment cannot be known.

We recognize the need to move in a transitional experience from one state to another, from the state of the dying soul to the state of the living soul. We have to start from where we are, as all human beings do, and so there is of necessity a step-by-step movement away from the state of involvement with the dying soul. But as has been emphasized, we are considering a new state and not an improved or made-over old state. The old state of the dying soul might be described as a partial experience of life, a fractional experience of life. Fractions can be described in terms of the decimal point. “The Lord our God is one”—1, not a fraction of 1, not even .99. The fractional experience is the experience of the dying soul, and no matter how many 9's you may add, recurring infinitely, the experience will never be 1. It is a new state. The fractional state cannot ever become the true state. “Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.” Human experience tends to see everything in isolation. Everything is observed through the eyes of separateness. We are inclined to consider ourselves as being separate individuals, and everything we look at takes on the same coloration. Oneness—what would that be? As long as we are thinking in fractional terms, we will never know.

This inclination—which is more or less inevitable in the human state—to see everything in pieces may be illustrated by the idea with respect to the atom. Originally the atom was considered to be indivisible, a little piece of matter, presumably, which could not be further divided. Of course, when the outlook is based in this view of separateness, you can never reach a point where something could not be divided. This was discovered in relationship to the atom, and further so-called particles were multiplied and are still being multiplied—all theoretically, mind you—more and more fractions. It's interesting, isn't it, that, moving in that direction, we are supposed to be discovering the wholeness of things; but the fractional experience can never be the whole experience. If one looks at things on the basis of separateness, seeking to understand things that way, there will come less and less understanding. Understanding is only possible in what may be described as the integral experience, the experience of the integer, the one.

How can we begin to see wholeness, oneness? The extent to which we can begin to experience that wholeness in our outlook and in our living will be the extent to which we know the truth. We could take the atom, I suppose, but this is, after all, not very real to us. Something that is more real to us is the solar system, and when we look at the solar system we are inclined to see it fractionally: there is the sun at the center and there are planets in their orbits around the sun. This is the way that the solar system is seen. Of course, there is more to it than that, but in simple terms these are the main points. But the solar system might be better described as a solar entity, because it is one thing. When we look at our own bodies we see one thing. We are aware of the fact that there are parts, but we are assured of the integral nature of the body.

Looking at the solar system and describing it, rather, as a solar entity, we may see an immense sphere. This immense sphere has the sun at its center, what we call the sun, a physical body of some kind presumably, very hot and very big, relative to the earth. But that is the core of the solar entity; it isn't anything all by itself. The term "magnetosphere" perhaps describes something which may indicate the extent of the solar entity. Perhaps we could not put any boundaries on it actually, but, for sake of a new vision of what we have called the solar system, we may see the solar entity as extending to and beyond the orbit of the outermost planet—Pluto, isn't it?—the sun's magnetosphere. Now, we don't see that physically. Our capacity to discern does not include, at the moment at least, the discernment of the magnetosphere. There are various ways that it can be discerned through instruments, but as human beings, in our present state, we cannot discern it directly. It is there nevertheless, just as real, just as solid, in a sense, as the sun itself.

Now, this wholeness of the solar entity certainly includes parts, but we need to see the wholeness of it, and the extent of our seeing the wholeness of it will be the extent to which we are beginning to awaken to the truth. If we merely see a system, with a sun in the middle and little planets whirling around on the outside, we don't really see what's there. It is a very restricted view, unaware of the reality of the wholeness. Obviously, the earth only exists as the earth in the solar system; in other words, because it is a part of the solar entity. There is a magnetosphere relative to the earth, which we do not see. Certain aspects of it have been described in terms of the Van Allen belt, which I think should rather be the Immanuel Velikovsky belt, because he was aware of it long before whoever Van Allen was put in an appearance.

The world of which we are aware is based in our ability to discern and interpret what we discern. We speak of physical substance, but apparently this physical substance is not so physical after all. It's composed of atoms, and atoms seem to be composed of vibratory factors, and physical substance vanishes into a vibratory pattern of some kind. The point is that all is of this nature. We have become aware of the vibratory nature of all things. There are various levels of vibration. We translate or interpret certain levels of vibration as though it was physical substance.

We do this because of our facility to discern it; we discern it that way; we interpret it that way. It isn't really that way; we make it that way. In other words, we can see our participation in the process of creation, because physical substance isn't really physical substance the way we imagine physical substance to be. It is of a vibrational quality, but we have certain facilities in our makeup which enable us to discern certain vibratory levels, and we discern a certain vibratory level which, in turn, is interpreted as being physical substance. But we interpret it as being physical substance. We make it that way, and we are capable also of giving it shape and color, and we consequently create what may be seen as a rich environment, based in our own discernment of it and our own interpretation of it. But what we are discerning and interpreting is all one thing, various levels of what we describe by using the word "vibration," and we create our own worlds.

Now, our ability to discern has tended to be emphasized at one end of the spectrum, so to speak, because of the fact of what we have called earthly orientation. The vibration which we interpret as physical substance emphasizes itself very particularly to us because we have been oriented in that direction. We have facilities to discern other things, but our discernment at other levels of vibration has suffered because of our hang-up in relationship to the physical level of things. And because of our hang-up with respect to the physical level of things, the appearance has been of separation. We look around and we see bits and pieces everywhere: the bits and pieces of our fellow human beings, the bits and pieces of all kinds of things around us. Now, there has been some sort of an awakening in recent years to what has been called ecology; in other words, there is some sort of a recognition that there is an associated pattern, but it’s still not seen in its wholeness, a wholeness which is the reality and which can never be shattered in fact. It's always there; it always has been there and always will be there. "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." There is a wholeness.

Returning to a consideration of the solar system, we may begin to discern the wholeness of a solar entity. The earth is just as much a part of that solar entity as the sun is, or as any other of the planets are. They are all swathed in the same vibratory substance, a level of vibratory substance that, at the moment, we do not discern directly. Just because we do not discern it doesn't mean that it isn't there. This solar entity springs forth from what may be described as a centering point. Now, we think of the centering point as the sun, but the sun is merely something that we are capable of observing in various ways and is of the level of physical substance insofar as our direct observations are concerned—hot physical substance; we can feel the heat when the sun shines. But there is a centering point which is not physical substance, not that vibratory level which we interpret as physical substance. On occasion we have considered the matter of dimension and how all dimensions spring out of a point, a point which has position but no magnitude. In other words, a point isn't a dimension; it only becomes dimensional as something emerges, is generated, out of the point. And we have noted that the first thing to be generated out of a point is what is called a line. A line has length but no breadth—what's that? Whatever this solar energy is is generated out of a point; and if we want to give position to the point, we say it must be somewhere in the sun. It has position but no magnitude.

I was noticing the other day that the idea was beginning to percolate that somehow or other there was a black hole in the sun. Do you know what a black hole is? They have discovered black holes here and there in the universe into which what we interpret as substance may flow and vanish. Perhaps there's something coming out of a black hole too, which isn't noticed. But the idea of a black hole at the center of the sun is related to this matter of the initial point of generation. There is something emerging into what we call the dimensional world: various vibratory levels, one thin band of which we interpret by calling it physical substance.

It seems to be a peculiar world we live in, doesn't it? It isn't the way we have always thought it to be. If we begin to recognize this without getting bothered by it, it may be an indication of the fact that we are emerging into a state of greater wakefulness, where we see things as they are rather than as we have imagined them to be. Now, it might be said that if I am describing the solar entity, we are indulging in a little imagination; but, you know, all imagination is based in something that is true. You cannot imagine anything that is not based in something that is true.

You can’t pick something totally new out of the atmosphere, so to speak, and there it is! What would it be? There must be something first. We have noted that, in the creative process, God never makes something out of nothing, and if there is imagination, there is something back of the imagination. The point with human imagination is that whatever was real back of it is translated into distorted patterns insofar as human consciousness is concerned, and we have some pretty far-out things in imagination in consequence. But somewhere back of whatever it is, there is the truth, there is a reality, which is sensed but mistranslated.

If we imagine this solar entity as a vast vibrational sphere, that is an interpretation of something that is true, and perhaps it might be said that the interpretation in this fashion is nearer to the truth of the matter than some of the other separatist interpretations. We see how this separatist business permeates all areas of human experience. People want to maintain their state of separation, as though there is something valuable in it, as though “my” culture is better than “your” culture: “I need to make sure that my culture lasts; it doesn't matter so much if yours passes away.” But all of it is based in this separatist approach, so the true culture is never seen; because, after all, if there is human culture of various types, it must spring from some reality. The human culture which comes out on the surface is not the reality, because it has been misinterpreted by reason of the separateness which has now become so inherent in the state of human consciousness. We are concerned to awaken to the state of oneness.

Now, let's look at something else here, in connection with the solar system. It is said nowadays that sunspots have something to do with weather conditions on the earth. If we are aware of the wholeness of things, we could equally say that weather conditions on the earth have something to do with sunspots. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? The point is that everything emerges out of that original point, and there is something back of the weather on earth and there is something back of the sunspots on the sun, and it's the same thing; there is no separation. Where people are polarized in the earth, they see everything in terms of earthly cause and effect, as it is considered to be; but this is a very superficial view, because everything that is happening is happening by reason of what is back of the surface event, or at the higher level of vibration.

If we see physical things occurring on earth—wars and rumors of wars, all the conflicts, all the things that are working out in various ways in human experience on earth—the concentration usually is upon how one thing that is working out is affecting another thing that is working out. In other words, it is a totally surface consideration. But there is something emerging through everything that is working out, and so one thing is not really a cause of another thing, in the surface sense. The things that are happening in the surface sense are simply reactions of various kinds, on the basis of this separate condition in human consciousness, to what is emerging vibrationally speaking, what is emerging from the original point.

This is particularly emphasized with respect to our solar entity. Obviously, the solar entity is not something separate from the rest of the universe. There is what might be called a galaxy entity, of which our solar entity is an essential element. We see, then, a much greater sphere of some kind, vibrationally speaking, of which we have an awareness because of the level of vibration which we discern as physical substance. We also discern, with our instruments, other levels of vibration which are included in this vast galaxy entity, but then the galaxy entity is a part of something else too. Our concern is to awaken to the awareness of wholeness, so that we don't merely see little bits and pieces of what we call physical substance spinning around here and there. That, indeed, is not nearly the half of it! If we look at it this way it certainly engenders a fractional experience, and in the fractional state we are dying souls.

The only way by which we can awaken to the truth is because we acknowledge in our living experience what is portrayed here as the first great commandment, so that we are centered at the point from which what is emerging may come forth in our own experience. Then we are not trying to adjust ourselves at the periphery to what is going on, but are simply allowing what is emerging—which is the cause of what is going on, anyway—to come forth through ourselves in our own particular field of function in the whole. It's coming forth through everybody else too. It is coming forth and is made evident through everything else! But if we misinterpret what it is that is coming forth, we get everything jumbled up in our consciousness, and everything, consequently, jumbled up in our world. How can the experience be a clear one unless we ourselves are clear with the point by reason of which the coming-forth is occurring? Then our movement will be in harmony with that coming forth; and while the movement of many other people may not be in harmony with that, nevertheless it is not outside of what we call the working of the Law. Now, here is another human interpretation of something. In one sense it could be said there isn't any such thing as the Law; everything is just the way it is, that's all. It works the way it works. It doesn't work any other way.

We tend to feel ourselves bombarded by what is going on around us and we have different kinds of feelings with respect to what's happening around us. Some of the feelings we have may be pleasant feelings, some not so good. But if we get all tied up in those feelings of what is going on around us, to that extent we are in no position to discern what it is that is happening at the focus point. Human beings are always trying to set up their little patterns out here on the periphery and, generally speaking, totally ignoring anything that may be emerging from the focus point. Until one pays first attention to the focus point, one cannot possibly know what it is that is rightly emerging on the periphery. But human beings get these things set up on the periphery, and then, because what is emerging from the center point can't actually be stopped—it's going to emerge anyway— they find that what they'd got all nicely set up on the periphery begins to split apart. What is emerging from the center point is forcing it apart, and that's a painful business. People suffer and complain in consequence. But it was their own determination that did it.

There is the endeavor to create a surface skin, so to speak, of relatedness between human beings, and between groups of human beings, between nations, what have you. We have the United Nations trying to do this thing. Obviously, not very successfully. There is a pressure underneath, all the time, splitting it apart because it doesn't belong together the way that human beings try to put it together. Hence, the first great commandment, the one important thing in all human experience. How carried away people are by what they feel with respect to each other! At one end of the spectrum, they think they hate this person; at the other end of the spectrum, they think they love this person; and there are all shades in between. But how utterly meaningless that is. That could relate to the second great commandment, but it never does because there is a failure, utterly, with respect to the first great commandment. There must be a Centering at the Core.

Now, the first awareness of that core is like unto our awareness of the sun. In other words, we see something. We don't need to try to analyze what it is, but that's a first awareness. The centering point is not the sun, as we think of it; it is a point, if we wish to give it position, at the center of the sun, a point which has position but no magnitude. That's the point of orientation. The sun is a very good illustration of the flaming sword, isn't it? You can't get to that center point in the sun without passing the periphery of the sun, which is pretty hot.

Only as we begin to awaken to the necessity of total centering, total love, for that point, toward that point, toward the quality and nature of that point which is revealed most distinctly the closer one is to that point, only as there is this total centering, can there then begin to emerge what should emerge on the surface. To the extent that we get hung up in the surface patterns, to that extent there will be a tendency to ignore the center point. This becomes most clear from the standpoint of a man and a woman who fall in love, as they put it—all wrapped up in each other. A little meaningless cyst! Because, whoever the individuals are, each one has a center point, the same center point, and the relationship there is the only thing that matters. “Oh, but I have this deep feeling!” “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all”—deep feeling, everything. Then see what happens! But, of course, most people, well, they think they're going to lose out. We are here to prove it out.

How much we have considered the Tone, the Tone which emanates from that point and with which we rightly associate ourselves, become familiar, discover what the quality of it is in relationship to this aspect of our expression and to that aspect of our expression. All this is primary, because we don't know, until we find out what that centering point is in relationship to ourselves, what our expression should be; so we don’t know what our relationship with others should be.

“The Lord our God is one.” That is the supreme truth. Let us experience that truth! Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Thou only art holy. Thou only art worthy of our love. Only in love with Thee do we become aware of the truth of love. Aware of the truth of love, filled with the truth of love, radiant with the truth of love, then we know the wholeness that is the true state of man, and in that wholeness the specific patterns of relationship take form at the level of vibration which we call the earth. O Lord, how very thankful we are to have the opportunity to be awakened to the truth, in the Christ. Aum-en.

Using the solar entity as an illustration, we may be very much aware that the nature of this entity emerges by reason of the sun at the center. In this sense, this planet can be seen as a part of the sun, a specific means by which the truth which is present at the center may be revealed in all its glory. This is the challenge that is presented to us and to all the angels of the Lord on earth.

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