Hear Am I
Send Me To Speak The Word Of Truth
condensed from Morning and Evening services
Martin Exeter September 8, 1985
We rejoice to come with one accord into the holy place. In humility and awe we may be in the presence of the Supreme One whom we love and are here to serve on earth. Without Him we are nothing. Aware of this, we know why we are here present in this hour and in all the days of our living on earth. I am reminded of a verse from the Book of Isaiah: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying. Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”
What is it that is lacking in the experience of mankind? It is quite obvious that there remains a void in human experience the world around, a void which is emphasized by the conflict and destructiveness that is easily observable. Something is missing. “Here am I; send me.” Send me into this void, that I may bring into it what is lacking. Where shall this come from? Out of the intellectual endeavors of supposedly clever human beings? Or should it come out of some unknown place, which we might define by using the word heaven, into the earth? How could anything come out of heaven into the earth without someone being present to convey it?
There isn’t a person on the face of the earth who, if he is really honest, would not admit that there is a certain emptiness, a certain awareness of lack of what might be called fulfillment. Constant human striving seeks some sort of fulfillment for oneself or fulfillment for mankind—but there is no fulfillment without the Supreme One who freely offers what is necessary to fill the void. The fulfillment could never be known at any other time than this present moment. There is no reluctance on the part of the Supreme One to provide everything that is necessary in the present moment. The reluctance has always been in human hearts and minds to receive it. Most people have been educated into imagining that they know better what should happen—judgment, human opinion, which arrogantly presumes to know what should happen. And if it doesn’t happen in the way that one has decided that it should happen, then there is reason for judgment and condemnation. This is the state of affairs in human experience: a reluctance to be swept clean.
We have taken note before of what it is that is required to be swept clean, summarized in a little word—repent. Stop being so arrogant, stop imagining that your opinions amount to a row of beans, or that the void which is known by everybody can be eliminated by filling it up with judgment and opinions. That is exactly what maintains it, because there is no reluctance on the part of life itself to fill the void once the clutter gets out. Why is it such a difficult thing for a person to realize that the only reason that fulfillment is not known is because this clutter is maintained? And it all centers in this matter of judgment.
Tradition is constantly being brought forward—the unconscious compulsion of all people, springing out of their hereditary past, sustained on earth with religious fervor, even to this very hour. There is a full bag of stuff available to drag into the present and object to it; consequently there is no space—virtually none anywhere on earth—to receive what is available in the present. This business of maintaining the traditions of the past, either by agreeing with them or by objecting to them, is a way by which fulfillment may be prevented. There is no celestial broom which may sweep out the rubbish, unless the human being concerned is willing to let it be swept out—they eventually get swept out anyway with the rubbish. That is rather an unsatisfactory conclusion to existence on earth. There is a good deal of objection to this traditional habit of dying, but virtually no one has been willing to let it pass away. The tradition is maintained to the last breath, literally!
If we now, in this configuration of people, are willing to recognize the complete valuelessness of the earthly tradition, which maintains human beings in the state of dying, so that there is repentance of this rather ridiculous attitude, then we may really be going somewhere instead of mucking around until we are dead, which is a description of human existence on earth—not a very beautiful picture, certainly not an evidence of the true stature of man, male and female. Why would anyone be interested in preserving it? It is all valueless. If we have space within our own present experience to admit into expression in our living what it is that is coming out of heaven, then clearly what has heretofore occupied our attention must cease to be important to us.
This willingness, indicated by the verse which I read—“Here am I; send me”—relates to the matter of coming out of heaven. “I am the one in heaven; send me into the earth.” This relates to spirit, doesn’t it? As human beings, we get all hung up on form; that is what we complain about. It doesn’t conform to our opinion; therefore we think it is wrong. Who said so? Well, one judged that it was so. Judge not, and be concerned to provide a facility of flesh—a body, a mind and heart—to convey out of heaven into the earth what is seeking to flow forth. But it can’t get past all these hereditary barriers, all these human traditions out of the past, that we maintain in the form of our opinions and ideas and concepts. It is not surprising, then, that life runs out. We squeeze it out! We prevent it from appearing. Everybody has been committed to dying, because there was an absolute refusal to relinquish all the things which have dammed the person from the easy flow out of heaven into the earth. There has been a dam there, so it is not surprising that everybody has been damned. They are damned; we all have been damned! So, relinquishing our trusteeship of tradition, there may be space for what it is that would flow forth out of heaven into the earth, if any of us, as individuals and together, are willing to let it be so.
It is a very simple proposition. It is a matter that I have personally been concerned with for some time, forty years by now; before that I kept things dammed up pretty well. There is a necessity of acknowledging spirit. Spirit may be differentiated in various ways, but that differentiation all comes out of one point. We have referred to that as a focus point. If spirit is to be sent into the world of mankind it must come from this one point. There are not a dozen different points, there is just one point. This is what makes possible peace on earth—something that a host of people claim they would want, but they only want it on their own terms. So there is no peace, no possibility of peace, on that basis, ever. But there is a focus of spirit which may be brought into the earth. It is one spirit in heaven. It is differentiated into the earth, rightly so, but it only comes into the earth on the basis of this One Spirit in heaven—one spirit characterized by love, truth, life, but these describe aspects of spirit which are inseparable. You can't have love without truth; you can’t have life without love and truth. The spirit is one, waiting to be conveyed into the earth. In the external sense there is equipment available, lots of it sitting around here, to let this conveyance be made; but it can never be made as long as one remains a trustee of tradition. That absolutely blocks it, and damns the person who is blocking it.
Now we have an opportunity of opening the sluices in the dam, that something may begin to pour forth which can sweep away the traditions out of the past. We are the ones who are present in this particular configuration today to let the past go and to receive what is already present. It isn’t a form; it isn’t anything that can be judged. It just is. That is-ness is made known to us because we express it. It flows forth of its own nature. It just simply flows forth. There it is; it’s already there, waiting to come forth. There has been no space for it, no willingness, a complete reluctance to let it happen, because all these other things were deemed to be so important—they’ve been the habit. The habit of judgment is perhaps the very strongest one in human beings. It has to be let go. You have to recognize that it is a control factor. You can think about it, and you can say, No. That’s a little word that most people find very hard to say. One becomes aware of something: No! Because what you become aware of will almost certainly be out of tradition, out of habit, out of the past, out of what you have supposedly inherited from your forebears. Aren’t they terrible people? They’ve stuck us with all this stuff! We don’t judge. If we are stuck with it, we stuck ourselves with it. We have no excuse, no possible justification. Let it go, that we may allow what it is that is available from heaven in the moment to pour forth. In pouring forth it will sweep away the controls out of the past. It is the only way it can happen.
So we let the tradition go because there is something fresh and new, wonderful, beautiful, glorious, to come forth. We are present on earth that this should be so. The fact of the matter is, spiritually speaking, each said, “Here am I; send me”— not physically speaking, not mentally speaking, not emotionally speaking. Here am I: Spirit. Send me into the earth. I’ll use this flesh body, its mind and its heart, for the expression of what I am. To let that happen is repentance. Repentance is a one-shot deal: you either do or you don’t; you either do or you are damned! That’s the fact of the matter. How wonderful to be light. Being light means having fun, amongst other things, doesn’t it? There is nothing terrible about repentance at all. You relinquish the old burdensome yoke and discover the yoke that is easy and the burden that is light. And it may be said that Christ has come; we’ve been speaking of what it is that comes down out of heaven into the earth—same thing. We are here to let it happen; we are capable of letting it happen; we have all the equipment to let it happen. Let’s let it happen then. What a wonderful and blessed opportunity it is to share in this wonder, this beauty, this glory, which is just waiting to spill out if we are men and women enough to let it happen—that the fulfillment may come—not for us, we are not interested in fulfillment, we are fulfilled already from the true standpoint. All we are interested in is conveying that fulfillment into the world.
Here am I—send me to speak the Word of Truth, that that Word might be made flesh. That summarizes my purpose and commission. Each one of you, and all who have shared in the creative process by which this flesh has been drawn together by reason of the power of the Word of Truth to constitute a spiritual body on earth, can share with me the same statement of willingness: Here am I—send me to speak the Word of Truth for which I am responsible, that this Body may indeed be complete and available, with an open heart and mind, for the right use of the Supreme One. This commission is no less yours than it is mine. The Spirit of Truth has called it to your remembrance, and is now calling it to your remembrance in this very moment.
Here am I—send me into this Body, not to condemn it but to raise it up, to raise it up by the power of the spirit, that the Supreme One may have a Body through which to reveal the wonder, the beauty and the glory of being on earth. All this is being called to remembrance by the Spirit of Truth. There are many things in memory which must be forgotten. The forgetting process is the process of letting whatever is present in that memory be transmuted into the experience and expression of the truth.
Here am I—send me. The Spirit of Truth calls to remembrance that statement of commission now accepted into the memory of human consciousness. The commission was accepted: we are here; but the fact of it has tended to be withheld and excluded from our own consciousness until the Spirit of Truth is permitted to call it to remembrance. It may be a somewhat faint memory to start with; it somehow rings a little bell in consciousness. But gradually, as we remain immersed in the heavenly atmosphere—because we eschew discord, for one thing—the memory becomes clearer, the tone of the bell sounds loud and clear. Because that tone sounds loud and clear the Word of Truth is known and spoken. Then because it is known and spoken the Word is made flesh. We have the evidence of that flesh in our own physical forms, and in our own experience of this Spiritual Body. Here is tradition being transmuted into present fact. As it is, there is no need for the tradition anymore; it is gone, because the truth is here, known, and in expression. We all have the joyous privilege of sharing it.
We have been sent, certainly, not to condemn this Body which is taking form, nor to condemn the greater body of mankind which is included in our commission, but to raise it up. We have, in whatever measure, let our own flesh and consciousness be raised up to a certain level. We have proof of the effectiveness and the power of the Spirit of Truth in action. We have perhaps delayed the process by forgetting what we have been reminded of year after year: that we did not come on earth to condemn the Body that should take form, but to raise it up. If we ourselves have been raised up to the extent that we have, then surely we should be most willing to let others be raised up also. We would never put a stumbling block which might prevent the process from working in others. We would not put a stumbling block to prevent the process from working in our own minds and hearts, through self-condemnation, but consciously, on earth, trust the creative power of the spirit, which we were commissioned to bring, to do its work. Not by human efforts, not by anything that can be humanly devised, is this miraculous process brought to pass, but simply because there are those human hearts and minds, present in human form on earth, that are willing to let tradition pass because it is transmuted into present experience by the spirit.
Do we still have so much faith, humanly speaking, in the hopes and the efforts of human minds and hearts unaware of the truth? Surely not. We have the commission, and the Spirit of Truth calls it to remembrance. It is being called to remembrance in the words that I am speaking now, called to remembrance in your consciousness and in my own. If I call it to remembrance in words, because of what it is that springs forth into expression in this moment, so also can you. There is One Spirit—to be differentiated, it is true, but it all springs from that One Spirit—the focus of which is present because of this collective flesh body which is taking form by reason of the Word. Indeed it is the Word made flesh, and it is adequate because of this, if the consciousnesses of those concerned are willing to let it be adequate. There has been a certain unwillingness in this regard, both with respect to the personal sense of inadequacy, which is there in human beings because the truth has not been called to remembrance; and there is also the inadequacy that is supposed to exist in others, where one might say, “I cannot trust this Body because the members thereof are so inadequate.” That is a dangerous judgment to make, in the first place, “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” And we have considerable experience of this.
What is sown must be reaped, and when it is reaped let us not sow again the same tare seeds. What would the purpose be? Yet this is done continuously in human experience, but surely not in the experience of the consciousness of this Body. Undoubtedly there is some harvest around yet to be reaped by each of us individually and by all of us collectively. This is the traditional condition, humanly established, and so the traditions come home to roost. But we need not sow the same seeds which produced them in the first place, the seeds which were sown in separation from the Supreme One and from His Spirit. We would sow these true seeds now, and always: no judgment; that clutters up the landscape. We are simply concerned with the beauty of truth, which allows for the experience of the wonder of love and the glory of life.
Here am I—send me to reveal the unhindered glory of life. I no longer can allow my human consciousness to suppose that there is anything that can prevent it. Here am I—send me through this particular human form, through this particular mind and heart, to speak the Word of Truth, that the Word may be made flesh, the flesh of this Spiritual Body which has taken form and is continuing to take form in the midst of the flesh body of mankind. The Father sent not His Son through this Body into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through this flesh body, might be raised up, the body of mankind might be raised up. We see this happening. We may observe the changes that are being wrought in the consciousness of many people. There are many more perhaps in whom there is no great evidence of constructive change, but there is change nevertheless. Some are raised up, some go down, but all this comes to pass just to the extent that there is this Core Body revealing the Word made flesh. We would never condemn this Body. If we condemn this Body we certainly condemn the world, because what happens in this Body is what happens in the world.
If the Word is truly allowed to be made flesh—because we don’t buck it, we don’t object to it, we don’t judge it, we don’t condemn it, we let it be—then condemnation is not offered to the world, but the power of salvation, that all the traditions of men may be transmuted into the experience of the Word made flesh. This is the trust that we hold in our hands. Our concern as angels on earth is to let this body of flesh be raised up. Our concern is with this Body. It is of supreme importance to us. We are concerned constantly with the welfare of this Body, to bless it—certainly not to curse it by our condemnation in judgment but to bless it with our spirit, which we bring individually through our flesh bodies, minds and hearts, into every momentary experience. Here we are, awakened in consciousness to do this. Here we are again on earth, aware.
The beauty of truth is received into the expression of heart and mind in each moment of living, that this Body may prosper, that this Body may be charged with the expression of our individual differentiation of this One Spirit constantly. Certainly we would never allow our hearts and minds to become parasitic, sucking the life-blood out of this Body, which is done when we forget why it is we are here—and we forget that because we deny the Spirit of Truth. Let us never deny or betray the Spirit of Truth. Betrayal is fatal. Denial may have a second chance, even a third and a fourth until seventy times seven, but don’t trade on that! for somewhere along the way the books are closed; that’s it. We would that when that happens we ourselves might be assured that we have fulfilled our task, that we did not fail.
I am thankful that we are able, in our earthly hearts and minds, to comprehend what it is that has taken form in words, and so be reminded of the truth, of the Angelic Commission which is the fact for each one, however much or however little that may have been as yet the experienced fact. We rejoice as angels to abide in heaven and to conduct ourselves fittingly through the equipment that is available to us in the fulfillment of the commission and the purpose for which we are present in human form.
© emissaries of divine light
