Re-Attunement With The Word

Re-Attunement  With  The  Word

Martin Exeter   December 27, 1981 am

There are many evidences, in form, of cycles in motion. We are capable of observing them and of participating in them, in one way or another. But of course there are also other cycles at work which are not so easily discerned. We could call them invisible. Back of all that is visible is the invisible. There are what might be referred to as the earthly cycles, and also the heavenly cycles. These two aspects of creative movement should rightly be coordinated in an effective way here on earth by man. However, having lost awareness of the invisible cycles to a very high degree, the attempt has been made simply to use the visible cycles to advantage in the human sense, presumably for the achievement of human purposes.

What is moving in the invisible sense is, by and large, ignored. The ordinances of heaven are not recognized and there is a failure consequently on the part of mankind to set the dominion thereof in the earth so that the fact that the invisible and the visible are one might be proclaimed. However, whether these things are recognized by human beings or not they are still at work. If, as has been the case during the course of human history, people are intent upon using whatever it is they are aware of to their own advantage, a very confused, disturbed and destructive state of affairs has been produced. There is no way by which this can be any other way, except as the ordinances of heaven are once more set in the earth by man in the fulfilment of his responsibilities. Should no consideration be given to this necessity, then self-destruction is presumably assured.

Recently we have taken note of the compulsion of fear which governs human beings in their existence the way things now are. [The Slender Thread greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-slender-thread.html and The Origin Of Fear greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-origin-of-fear-martin-cecil-20-1981.html December 20, 1981] The reason for that fear has been largely forgotten; however, forms of various sorts are put upon it as it arises. It seems, for the most part, that human beings are not prevented from finding such forms in their daily existence. There are apparently lots of things to be afraid of. These surface reasons, rationalizations for the sense of fear, do not of course go back to the origins of fear. We have taken note of the violent events that may have occurred with respect to this planet in times past, seared into the memory of the survivors and therefore a part of the mass unconscious presently. This mass unconscious is shared by every human being on the face of the earth. So fear is present at that very subterranean level and it erupts from time to time into the experience of people, who then place a form upon it; and there are plenty of handy forms around.

But we have noted that one may look beyond those past events in the history of this planet and find a time when fear was introduced into the world, before there was anything yet very much in outer form to be afraid of. In the story of Adam and Eve this is portrayed. But the fear was there because of something else. You may recall it was indicated that they were hiding behind the trees when the Lord God came “walking in the garden in the cool of the day”—no one in sight. “Where art thou?” Finally it was admitted by Adam that he was afraid. What was he afraid of? Presumably there was an awareness of failure on his own part, but the results of that failure had not yet put in an appearance, so there was no form yet to pin on his sense of fear. In other words the sense of fear preceded the forms, which came later. I suppose one could say there was a nameless dread, and we all have some experience of nameless dreads. This has been so in every generation.

But that fear, that sense of fear, was present way back because of human failure to maintain attunement with the Word and there was consequently a deep sense of shame. This shame was so strong that it produced a certain stubbornness, one might say. I think this is an experience that many have known, where one might be ashamed of something in these days but unwilling to admit it. And because there was that unwillingness to admit it, to repent, then the nameless fear put in an appearance: We reproduce this sort of experience for ourselves in minor ways, but the really strong element in all of this goes right back to the original point where the first failure occurred. That all has been built into the mass unconscious, the memory that is there present, and this is part of the makeup of every human being on the face of the earth, something which we all share. On top of that, other things have been built over the ages—we have our nationalities; there are national traits of various sorts which spring out of this original shame and fear. Rising up out of that we have our personal heredities in the more immediate sense. Of course even these reach back to something quite common to all of us. We have some common ancestors, not too far back. Then we have what we ourselves are personally responsible for in our own immediate experience as individuals since we were born on earth, and actually before that, since we were conceived.

So this whole pyramid of stuff comes to an apex in each individual, but the lowest stratum in this pyramid is shame. There is a pyramid of feeling and a pyramid of form. The pyramid of feeling produced the pyramid of form. The shame and the fear which began to govern human existence on earth produced forms of various sorts, amongst them these cataclysmic planetary events. So then there is a great pyramid of form with a base in these horrendous experiences shared by everybody who was on earth at the time. Most perished, but obviously a few survived or we wouldn't be here. But in their survival they carried forward that memory. Over the course of time the memory of the form fades, but the memory of the feeling remains and is triggered into experience by present events. In any case this strong compulsion has been translated in human experience as the compulsion to self-destruction. This compulsion has been carried to its conclusion in every generation. All human beings self-destruct. Some of them do it quickly, some take more time about it, but there isn't anyone who has lived on earth who didn't commit suicide. However this business is undertaken it all ends up the same, consequent upon the fact that attunement with the Word has been lost. If this rather deplorable state of affairs is to be changed, then attunement with the Word needs to be found. That is rather a simple statement which should be obviously true to anyone, but clearly it isn't.

In these millennia of human experience on earth shame, fear, and all the related ill spirits that plague human beings have found a fertile ground for development and have been portrayed as some sort of creature, a dragon for instance, a dragon with a number of heads, representing these various ill spirits which take command of human beings. The dragon rules through his various heads: shame, fear, etc. In the story in Revelation there was also a beast which rose up out of the sea, very much like the dragon. He had a number of heads too, the same number, as I recall—spitting image! Here was the form of the creature, and we can observe various forms that exemplify these spirits. It is said of the dragon, that old serpent, the devil, and satan, that he was the accuser. That was one of his characteristics. He was also the destroyer, and particularly the liar.

There are various ways by which lies are propagated on earth—they are propagated by human beings, but it comes to focus in particular ways. I suppose the media might be included as a head of the beast in form. Certainly the media is used, by those who have the use of it, for devious purposes, not so devious in some cases. It is obvious enough in a country such as the Soviet Union, which provides what people should think, through the media. It doesn't matter at all whether it is factual or not, just so long as it is harmonious to the intents of those who seek to control in one way or another. We who live in this beautiful free world of ours look at such things askance and wonder perhaps whether people are being fooled by that. The question is as to whether we are being fooled too, not necessarily by that. We rise up in indignation and say, “Oh, they're telling lies,” but we read our own newspapers, look at TV and so on, most of the time without recognizing that we are being told lies too, in a little different way perhaps but lies just the same.

If we ourselves do begin to proclaim the truth in our living we certainly may expect to stir up some reaction; that's part of the deal. I don't know whether you were aware of that! There are those who certainly are open to receive the truth, up to a point at least. It seems the truth needs to be offered in small doses for people to receive it. What a wonderful thing if it could be provided quickly. Unfortunately, if it comes too quickly too many people would exclude themselves from receiving it, whereas if it was a little more gently and slowly offered perhaps they could more easily accept it, step by step. However in these days, with things leading to a crescendo of some kind, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/09/vibrational-martin-exeter-august-24.html] there isn't all that much time to be gentle about it—it can't be put off anymore if anyone is to survive. And so, behold, I come quickly in these days—that is, the way, the truth and the life come quickly, and it emerges into experience individually speaking. That emergence either will be received with rejoicing, because the individual finds that he can't do anything else—however others have no intention of receiving it. They see a threat to their involvement with the dragon and his heads. They identify themselves as angels of the dragon—they wouldn't be without their fears and their hates and their resentments and their envyings and their jealousies and their greed, and all the rest, for anything. There are a lot of people like that. There are a lot of people who have engendered within themselves an enjoyment of conflict, for instance. Oh there are those who love an argument, and for some, if it comes to blows, so much the better; let's have a good old donnybrook! There would be no spice to life if we couldn't get into a battle once in a while.

Of course all this springs out of this mass unconscious, where the compulsion to self-destruct is present. If the comets and the planets in our solar system won't cooperate in the matter, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-enoch-noah-from-story-of-man-grace.html] then we will devise some means of doing it ourselves. Aren't we clever? We have nuclear weapons; we can do it. We can self-destruct, everything, even perhaps blow the planet apart one of these days. That's the delightful conclusion to which human beings have been dedicated for so long; finally it is coming to fruition. Isn't that tremendous? Everybody should be rejoicing. This is what they want, after all. This is the compulsion that they have been espousing. We have done it too, by the way, and are still doing it to some extent. So there will be conflict, there will be a continuation of shame and fear and hate, because human beings have liked it that way, they wanted it that way, they chose it to be that way. Few have been able to admit that or acknowledge it with respect to themselves. They may see it as it relates to others, and there is always someone else to complain about. How about us? Do we still indulge ourselves in this way when something rises up in our own personal lives? A feeling rises up and we, in our expertness, instantly clothe it with a form of some kind so that it is rationalized to us and we say, “That is the cause for my feeling.” It isn't. The cause for the feeling is well hidden, completely subterranean. You can't get to it.

There is this present with respect to all of us; it is still there. We are connected up to the mass unconscious, same as everybody else. So there are these feelings which rise up and upon which we pin forms, we rationalize. We are expert; after twenty thousand years of doing it human beings have become very proficient. In this sense: Before ye call, I will answer. It seems as though the form came before the feeling, but it isn't so. The feeling came before the form. We are so quick, so agile, that we have a form for it immediately; and because it is so quick we assume that the feeling came because of that form. But every time we do that, every time we find what we assume to be a reason for our discomfort, we immediately align ourselves, attune ourselves, with the dragon and the beast. We believe a lie and we assume the position of the liar. We may say, “So-and-so did such and such; therefore I had this feeling.” If we take that attitude we are a liar, and if we are a liar, who are we—really now? It seems to me that the devil was a liar from the beginning—so we align ourselves with that, an angel of the dragon.

But we recognize that what is present in the subsurface levels of the unconscious, and in the deeper unconscious too, must somehow be cleared, burnt away shall we say; because as long as that exists human beings are going to be governed by it. This has been customary. So somehow or other it needs to be disposed of. How is it going to be disposed of? Is some great heavenly power going to put in an appearance and eliminate it all? Well there wouldn't be any human beings left if that happened. No, it must be done on earth by reason of human beings. It is not exactly done by them, but they must be present to let it happen. It is done by the spirit of God—it is done by the Word. So all the stuff that is present at the unconscious levels—individually from the standpoint of immediate personal heredity; from the standpoint of national heredity; from the standpoint of human race heredity—all must be dealt with.

It is not going to be dealt with piecemeal. That would take quite a while, wouldn't it? There is quite a history back of the human race. But initially it is a piecemeal matter because there must be those who learn to provide the means by which whatever it is that arises may be correctly handled. We have to some extent cast ourselves in that role. It doesn't matter what it is that arises, it has to be dealt with. We are here on earth for that purpose; therefore we can anticipate that things are going to arise. They must; we would be useless unless they did. So we may be aware that “for this cause came I into the world.” And there will be feelings arise. We have become so habituated to clothing those feelings with forms, that we imagine the feelings were generated by the forms. Now we know better. The forms didn't produce the feelings; we pinned the forms on the feelings. Unpin them! Here is a feeling arising; we know from whence it springs. It springs from the fact of the violation of attunement with the Word, whenever that occurred, whether it was a moment ago or whether it was twenty thousand years ago. So, obviously the only requirement is that there should be attunement with the Word now, in that situation, one might say regardless of that feeling, although the feeling is there. Let the attunement be with the Word. We know what sort of attitude that would produce. Let that attitude be there.

In human experience the rising up of these elements of feeling will surely produce a certain amount of discomfort, because we are considering this matter from the standpoint of those who are no longer dedicated to self-destruction. If we were still dedicated to self-destruction, then we could welcome these feelings and really go to town with them, really make a big splash of some kind, just as everybody seems to be doing round about us. But our approach is no longer that. So there will be, on the one hand, a certain discomfort. Come out of all that, that seeing with perspective vision we may recognize exactly what's taking place; but insofar as our own field of responsibility is concerned, whatever arises arises purposefully, so that we may handle our own feelings rightly. Perfect love casts out fear, so the creative expression of the truth of love—the way, the truth and the life—takes care of whatever it is that comes. We don't react in the usual human way. The feeling of being slighted arising, what nonsense; who can slight the Lord in fact? In imagination perhaps, but not in fact. And so that relates to an absence, no doubt.

So many of these feelings do relate to an absence—of course they do—the absence of the Word in expression, when it gets right down to it. But why concentrate on these absences? Why not consider what is present? How about looking around and seeing what is present, what is available now? There is always something. And what is available now will be found to relate to this absence. There is something. For instance, if a person says, “I feel slighted because I wasn't included in some activity of some kind,” consider the activities in which you are included—are there none of those?—and consider the possibilities contained within those activities in which one is now included, because obviously one will not have seen all that is possible with respect to those. One has been fussing about something that was seemingly absent and ignoring what was present and the opportunity that is there. No one ever properly has the excuse for feeling that he or she was excluded. It's never so. Human beings do exclude themselves by becoming involved in absences, and ignoring what is present in which they are now included and in which they could be more completely included if they would give themselves to that and ignore the absences. There are so many possibilities with respect to everyone, and yet how customary it has been to concentrate on the things that are supposed not to be there. If we could just allow our attention to be given to the opportunities that are there, and to ways and means of taking the fullest possible advantage of those, then where would the absences be? They wouldn't even come to consciousness anymore, and that spirit of being slighted would have been dissolved.

So, giving ourselves to this invisible cycle of spirit that is moving, we find ourselves quite capable of knowing the ordinances of heaven and setting the dominion thereof in the earth. And that is what we are here to do. We are here to associate ourselves with that invisible cycle. It is already moving; it is already there, all ready to be included in our experience and correlated with what is happening in form. To do that the forms have to change, to align themselves with the ordinances that are being set. And we handle what comes to us on this basis, forgetting the absences, and all the reasons that we have found to feel badly in one way or another, and acknowledging what is already present and the opportunities that are thereby provided, and undertaking to take fuller and fuller advantage of those opportunities. Behold, on that basis, I come quickly. All things are indeed immediately in the process of being made new, and it doesn't matter what other people are thinking or saying, or judging or splattering around. None of these things move me, because I am too thoroughly occupied with something rather than with nothing. We share this wonderful privilege of knowing increasingly the ordinances of heaven and setting the dominion thereof in the earth.

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