Zero Dimension — Now Everywhere
Martin Cecil April 13, 1979 Assembly
The first heaven and the first earth must pass away—and are passing away. “And there was no more sea.” That refers to the forms in which substance is held in human-nature consciousness. No more sea—no more human nature consciousness, because of the New Heaven and the New Earth. This is the true heavenly power, and the consequent true earthly power. Heaven and earth are one. These two powers are not in conflict, as they are insofar as the first heaven and the first earth are concerned—these are constantly in a battle, on the surface at least. They get together sometimes, but that isn’t very comfortable for anyone. The New Heaven and the New Earth are that to which our experience is dedicated—spiritual power, which allows for the emergence of a material power in alignment with it. In thinking of spiritual power, it is often imagined that somehow it is going to work without regard to material things; they just get arbitrarily pushed around by this invisible magic of spiritual power. But heaven and earth are one; the movement of the spiritual power is the movement at the same time of the material power. They work together in unison, in oneness. Heaven and earth are indeed one. And this is known in the coming of the New Heaven and the New Earth, so that the expression in our experience may no longer be governed, consciously or subconsciously, by the powers of the first heaven and the first earth, by religious powers and by temporal powers as human beings have known them in human nature. We cease to be governed by these things, not because we rebel and object and fight against them, but because we find ourselves participating in the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth. Life is then withdrawn from the old in our own experience. It is not yet withdrawn from the old in the general patterns of the world, but in our own experience it is. And that withdrawing of life force relates to the structures that are present in human consciousness, our own specifically, because regardless of what we may have thought about it consciously we are all the product of what went before subconsciously. We all therefore have a residual state which is describable in terms of religious power and temporal power.
If you examine history you will see how these things have been so strong in human experience down through the centuries. Has that all just evaporated in this generation, do you think? No. It is right here. It is present in the human nature consciousness of everyone, ourselves included. And without realizing it, everybody is moved by what is there present as strings are pulled by the devil. The human nature state of affairs activates these things in our subconscious human nature state, and we find ourselves reacting this way and that—we do not know exactly why. That is uncomfortable, so we try to explain it. And we have considerable interest in psychology and all this sort of stuff, which is trying to explain something to make it more acceptable—something that is very uncomfortable until, of course, the human mind can get in there and give it a supposedly logical explanation. But it never is logical, because the premise is wrong, and the whole pattern of human nature mental experience is irrational. Those who participate most directly in this mental activity are the ones who usually claim it is very rational, because they base it, in their own imaginations at least, upon logic. “It’s all very logical. We follow this out. We’re not ruled by emotion. We see the thing is here and here and here.” But the logical process is all based in a fanciful premise that has no reality, and so no matter what derives from that, it is going to be as fanciful as its point of origin. It is an excellent exercise at times to look at something that has been firmly established in the human nature consciousness as being irrefutable and see if you cannot find an alternative explanation.
Mention was made this morning about darkness, a new way of looking at it. We are supposed to see, when we look out into the universe on a clear night, light which is reaching us from immense distances, taking a long period of time to come to us, so that we are really supposed to be looking into the past. This seems very logical to the human intellect. Light, after all, takes so much time to arrive at any given point; it travels at a certain speed, and therefore if we see stars a long way off, it must have been coming for all that time. If it came for all that time, maybe the thing we are looking at doesn’t really exist there anymore; it may have flickered out. Well, this is a supposedly scientific way of seeing things, but possibly that is not the way it is at all, because there is something there that was not taken into account—namely darkness. I might just touch on it for a few moments in order to indicate something which would allow a different way of looking at things.
Darkness is presumably the complete absence of light. Light we see dimensionally speaking—a rather peculiar thing, mind you; it shows up as what they call a “constant” in many calculations. But it is supposed to travel at 186,000 miles a second. That’s fast, from the human perspective at least. But not very fast, however, if one sees it relative to the universe—it’s kind of sluggish. It’s taking these millions and billions of years to get to us from far places. However, it gets to us somehow through the intervening darkness. Now the darkness is a factor. Darkness is zero light—at least we could describe it that way I suppose—and therefore it has zero dimension. It has zero speed. I suppose in one way it could be said that it is dimensionally speaking nothing—zero everything. Now this is a factor when we look at far-distant light objects, because it intervenes, it is in between. If you strike a match in a dark place it illuminates a little area around. Sometimes you don’t have a flashlight; you strike a match in order to see something. You have to get pretty close with your match if whatever it is is to be illuminated. So there is illumination available from light. There’s some that illuminates the earth in the daytime, and this illumination evidently extends out quite a way, because the sun is pretty powerful. In other words it’s pushing this light out—if you look at it that way—for quite a distance. The solar system is encompassed in the sun’s illumination. We can see Pluto, which is supposed to be the furthest planet. It isn’t right now as a matter of fact. I think Neptune is the furthest one out, because Pluto has a rather peculiar orbit; it comes inside Neptune at times and it’s inside right now. We see these planets—they reflect the sun’s light, so the sun must get out at least that far.
But going back to this match again. A person who is standing, we’ll say, a couple of hundred yards away can see the light of the match when you strike it, but no matter how carefully he looks at his book he won’t be able to read by the light of that match. So there are two kinds of light in this sense. There is the illuminating light, and there is the light which is seeable at a distance through darkness—in other words, the medium for the transmission of the light is darkness, and the medium by which we see the light is darkness. There is this space of darkness which is zero dimensionally, so it doesn’t take any time at all for that light to reach us. It is not in fact reaching us, any more than we are reaching it. It is there, and there is zero dimension in between. So in fact it could be said that we see the universe now, everywhere, the way it is now, because we see it through the dark—through zero dimension. There is no dimension in between; there is no speed in between. I don’t particularly want to expand that at the moment. It has many implications, incidentally, which we would recognize as relating to the truth. We know that it is now every place in the universe, regardless of what the light is doing. Even if it is taking immense periods of time to come to us, it is still now wherever it came from. But maybe it is not taking those immense periods of time to get to us.
Light illuminates in its immediate system, like the solar system for instance, or there is galactic light. But it does not force itself through billions of miles of nothing to get to the eye that sees it. The nothing in between is zero. So there is the light we see in that way through darkness, and there is the light which illumines the immediate system. When we strike a match it has an immediate system just around it. Get beyond that, you can’t see anything by that light. It is a different kind of light that is then perceived. So here is a very well-entrenched concept in the scientific mind, with regard to the universe and light, which perhaps is totally untrue. And we might suspect that virtually every other concept that the intellect holds is equally untrue. It is not the way it is thought to be. Things are the way they are, not the way the human mind thinks them to be, and that doesn’t make anything so. The thing is so already. The human mind has this infernal habit of trying to make everything fit into its own little thimble of consciousness, which it won’t do. Certainly the universe won’t fit in there, and it is ridiculous to try to make it. It proliferates a fanciful world of imagination, logically explained of course, but simply created by this little thimble of the mind, and has nothing to do with the way things really are.
Now if we can see that as it has application with respect to something vast like the universe, or something very small at the other end of the spectrum, then we may possibly deduce that the same thing is true right where we are in the factors that are present in the immediate daily experience. They are not the way the mind thinks they are. And yet the mind presumes to judge everything in this field as though it knew. It doesn’t. The truth is spiritually discerned. Only the spirit is capable of encompassing what is present—very small, or medium sized, or very large—so that it is comprehensible to spirit. That comprehensibility is revealing of the way things actually are. I have pointed out on various occasions—it is particularly drawn to point in the book As Of A Trumpet—that in human nature human beings live in a dream world, one they have dreamt up themselves. It is not what is actually there. It is simply something that is parading through the little human nature consciousness of the individual while he is sleeping. As long as a person is asleep, that is the only experience he can have, the fact of a dream. The dream may be evidence that there is a reality somewhere, about which the dream is woven in the human consciousness. We are concerned with the reality, not with the dream. In our awakening to the reality of being, the dreams simply vanish and are as though they had never been.
© emissaries of divine light
