A Window Finished Above #2
Martin Exeter November 4, 1984 p.m.
There are many events ready to take form — I suppose they could be called emissary events — but I think it seems to many who are associated with this Body that the Body of itself is so small, how could it have any really potent effect in the world of humanity? You have been awakening to a larger vision and a larger awareness of the wherewithal to allow this vision and understanding to accomplish what is necessary in the body of mankind. There has certainly been an expansion of consciousness in this regard through many of you and others; so it might be said that there is at least a world view. No matter how small our particular placement may be in the physical sense, nevertheless there is an awareness that we are in position to provide the essential control for what is transpiring on earth. The mind in its state of separation would be inclined to question this, but we have a certain awareness which transcends such a thimble view of what it is that is really happening.
There is this Body taking form for a purpose—taking form because a window is finished in heaven, so that what would come forth through that window could begin to fill the space where this Body should take form. We ourselves are parts of that Body who have been drawn into position by this radiance coming down from God out of heaven. When I say “we” I am speaking of physical forms with their minds and hearts. We are reaching a point where perhaps we might no longer refer to that as “we.”
Minds and hearts, our own included, have had a recognition of what they imagine that they ought not to do and what they imagine they ought to do. I think we had rather vivid awareness of what we supposed we ought not to do, but as we have proceeded there was rather less awareness, even in imagination, of what it was that we were present to do. This morning we noted that it was important to be still. Those who imagine they know what not to do, or that they know what to do, are not those who are particularly still in mind and heart because minds and hearts are busy trying to stop doing what ought not to be done and to do what ought to be done. This is a human habit. It comes into expression in a variety of ways but it requires a busy mind and also a troubled heart, because there is always fussing going on. One might say, “Stop fussing. Be still.” Be still and provide some space to experience what it is that is rightly emerging through the window finished above.
Here is the point of initiation of the creative process, emerging through the window finished above. In its first emergence it is obviously without form. Spirit is formless in and of itself. It relates to an undimensional space out of which the creative process emerges, the creative process that requires human minds and hearts and bodies in order to come forth. But the initial movement has no form. So the conscious mind can’t get hold of it. It deals in thought forms. There are no thought forms yet, so the conscious mind is at sea. Feeling at sea, it has heretofore gotten busy to try to generate its own thought forms, and that generation was consequent upon what was occurring emotionally speaking.
We have seen quite clearly, even though we may not have experienced adequately as yet, the fact that mind and heart need to be made available to spirit. They can’t be available to spirit as long as they are fussing, as long as they are filled with this turmoil. Be still. Be still, so that what is factually emerging now through this window finished above may begin to have space into which to come. It is coming out of a formless realm, out of an undimensional state, to take form in dimension. This is the reason for the existence of man on earth, that the process may be facilitated. Without man it cannot be focused in a specific way.
Obviously there is some sort of a creative process going on in the larger sense, in the universal sense for instance. It is imagined by the human mind that this involves millions and billions of years—earth years, by the way, or possibly light years, or whatever kind of years the human mind has invented. But we are concerned with our own business I trust. It is the human habit to try to be concerned with everybody else’s business so that one doesn’t have to face oneself. And of course this scientific investigation into far reaches of space is one way of getting away from having to face oneself. It looks so expansive and so important to gain knowledge about this great universal system. But it’s absolutely useless. What is going to be done with the knowledge? Man wasn't designed so as to accumulate knowledge. He was designed so as to facilitate the creative process right here where man is. If he tries to get out into space he is trying to mind someone else’s business, while neglecting his own.
So we have a state of formlessness—we call that spirit, or heaven—out of which the creative process emerges to bring forth what we call form. Of course what we call form is an arbitrary creation, actually produced by our own physical senses. But, in any case, there is a creative process and it is not by chance that there is properly an earth, a planet, on which human beings can dwell—a beautiful earth incidentally, but a far cry from what it originally was, and yet it still is beautiful.
We might consider the importance of beauty. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/beauty.html] It is a part of the creative process. The human mind wants to get its thought processes going so that it can begin to get something down on paper. It’s going to create a new building. Well it has to make plans, get it out into that much form. This is the way the mind tends to work. It may include a little beauty in the forms that are produced, according to the particular view of that conscious mind as to what would be beautiful. I have seen a lot of structures around that were supposed to be beautiful that were, in my estimation, very ugly. That could be said to be a human opinion—the point is that anything that human beings now produce is not produced on the basis of the truth and therefore, factually, it is not beautiful.
Beauty is a part of the creative process. There is something coming down from God out of heaven. There is something emerging through this window and we have recognized that there needs to be space in our minds and hearts and bodies to receive it. So the necessity for the window above can be clearly understood. Where there is no window above we have corruption and violence which result in destruction. When the window is finished above and something begins to emerge, and there are those on hand to receive it, then what is happening is coming out of heaven. Virtually all human function could be said to come out of the earth. It comes because of a reaction to form. If you consider your conversation you will find that usually it relates to factors of form.
Perhaps you have some dawning perception of what you might define as spiritual understanding, which enables you to perceive some things that most people don’t take into account at all. We perceive qualities, for instance, of human expression, some of which are not very creative and others which are of a more creative nature. We have sought to align ourselves with the more creative aspects, so that we don’t sign up for revolution or terrorism or any of these things. We are more interested in participating in this process which is the way things really work: something emerging out of an invisible realm, a formless realm, to take form because there is someone on hand to let it happen. Heretofore in the world of human beings there has been virtually no one on hand to let it happen. From time to time over the ages, there have been those who have put in an appearance who found themselves in position to let something happen, but for the most part the vast majority of the population of the earth apparently were not interested. Now we come to a point where something is taking form, of which we ourselves are a part, by which this creative process may happen. We have no business fussing with forms. As long as we are fussing with forms we have no space available to receive what it is of spirit that is emerging to take form.
We say that the way things take form by reason of human beings is through thoughts, words and deeds. There is more to it than that but this is one way of bringing it to point. Our thinking needs to be capable of accommodating the emerging spirit, the emerging spirit which has nothing to do with the forms that are already here. We have no idea what the form is going to be. I note people all the time imagining that they know what the form is going to be. Here is something coming through the window finished above and no human mind can know what that is. So we need to come into position to let this process happen. We can’t come into position unless there is space there for it to happen, and we don’t have things structured already in our minds.
It has often been said that we do not know what should be. But we are here to create the Garden on earth. What’s that? Anyone here venture an opinion? I hope not. We can find out by creating it, but we have no starting point whatsoever unless there is space in mind and heart for what it is that is emerging to take form, and to have that space requires stillness. Where there is that stillness, where there is that space, the process of thinking can be set in motion. There is something to move the mind: spirit. This facility of mind is still, so that it is in position to accommodate the movement of spirit. The same with the heart. This requires a sanctified mind and a pure heart to let it happen; otherwise we are always trying to make it go this way and that way because our impure hearts desire this or desire that, and our arrogant minds then proceed to set it up so that we get it. If you are honest you know that that has been the way you have operated—I hope in times past. But now we have a totally different thing.
“Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?” We have to become aware of them in order that these may be set in the earth. The earth has no business telling us what to do. So we provide the stillness in mind and heart so that something can begin to move and come forth; for one thing, in speech. What sort of conversation goes on? Is it the giving of form to what it is that is coming down from God out of heaven, or is it reiterating the forms that are all around us?
If there is a group of people who are moved by what is coming down out of heaven and give expression to that in words, then that is part of the creative process and we see that words are very important. They are one of the means of creation. At the moment, most of our words are simply produced by a reaction to something that is happening externally. But if we are associated together with what is coming down from heaven, letting it be differentiated through us—we know all about this in theory—then we begin to have a blended expression. One might compare it to a symphony. It requires artists to know how to speak, how to allow this to be a focus of the creative process by which the ordinances of heaven may be set in the earth.
Speech is not the only means of expression that we have. There are those occasions when human beings write out their speeches and deliver the oration for special occasions—public speaking, it's called. There are other occasions when people do other things. They produce music, for instance, a concert. And another group will dance—special occasions. But all this is a very limited, restricted, unnatural experience. The experience comes in living first. We have been recently receiving some musical compositions. What needs to be produced in this regard should come down from God out of heaven—it’s not a human generation—and it can't do so unless there is someone on hand whose words are right, whose movements are right, whose music is right. And there are all sorts of ways we produce music. When we speak there is a musical sound. This is the way by which creation occurs, because something is being introduced into the world. There is a freshness here, something new. This is the good news, the perfect news, when we let it happen. But we tend to get so involved with our world of form. I have noticed some involvement in the world of form.
Here we come to the artistry of living. It is an art. Every movement should be graceful so that beauty is brought forth. Every word should be beautiful because it comes down from God out of heaven. Beauty may be born through our living—the only way it can be born. Then perhaps those who have particular talents in this field and that field can allow it to find a focus there. But it can’t be done until the individual is permitting his or her expression of living to come down from God out of heaven; otherwise we will have all these structured states that are already present on earth obscuring the spirit which is emerging, and it messes it up.
Living is artistry and we need to be concerned with this. Perhaps in a service such as we have now there is the participation in a process of letting something come down from God out of heaven to be given articulate form, and we all share in this process. Well we have a couple of hours of service on Sunday, a couple of more hours during the week. But what happens in the interim? because the process is a continuous one. It’s not an on-and-off business. So here we have the opportunity of being sufficiently still so that there may be a sensing of the spirit that is moving and an increasing awareness of what it is that should be brought forth, whether in words, in thoughts, in actions. As we let this happen, then we play our part in letting the Garden take form on earth around us, and that Garden is a heavenly Garden and not produced on the basis of earthly desires and earthly ideas. Let us let it happen the way it really happens.
© emissaries of divine light
