Senior Service In The Secret Place
Alan Hammond
Our Divine And Cosmic Identity Volume 3 Chapter 31
Here is the first verse of Psalm 91: “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Abide in the Secret Place of the Most High. There are several possible interpretations of that place. It might be seen as the highest vibratory rate in the dimensional universe. Or the Most High place could be the place from whence comes the highest quality of spiritual expression, of Character. It is safe to say that the true power and scope of this place is largely secret to human beings now. We can only awaken to a consciousness of this place if we consistently express the qualities of the Most High. The Most High place shouldn’t be a secret. It should be revealed through Man, through us. When it is consistently expressed through us, we begin to realize that this place of the Most High is in fact everywhere. Indeed, this Most High place should be seen through Man’s consciousness as being present throughout the whole Cosmos.
This Holy Presence is perhaps most easily seen by us as the Life current moving through other people, and also through animals. Most of us have had pets, and I’m sure we’ve become aware that this current of Life moving through them is sacred. It is an aspect of the Spirit of Life itself. To a less dramatic extent to our consciousness, the current is also present through vegetation. We gradually awaken to the truth that the secret and sacred place is indeed everywhere—in everything, everywhere.
Perhaps we occasionally find ourselves bored—maybe with the people we know, or maybe with our circumstances. We often seem to do the same things day after day. Well, we might know that there are always new levels, vibrationally speaking, in which we can interact with the people and the circumstances of which we are aware. If we begin to see and do this, life begins to be a process of ascension, a ceaseless adventure of discovery and creativity. As we refine the quality of our expression, we generate finer spiritual substance within ourselves, and we may begin to be more aware of the bands of vibrational substance above the physical and the mental levels, of which human beings, ourselves included, have been largely unconscious. In these finer bands of substance, Spirit is ceaselessly moving. The Divine technology is moving in these levels. If we express the true Tone of Being, then we participate in what Spirit, the Archangel, is doing in a coordinated fashion everywhere simultaneously.
Focused in these higher levels, above the physical and above the mental, we are not seeking to draw people physically together in a large group, or into what has been called a spiritual body. There is no need to do this, because as we express our aspect of the One Spirit that is doing everything, we are moving in conjunction with the Life current moving through everyone, and everything, everywhere. We are already in the One Body and it is being activated by the One Spirit.
Every person has a Secret Place of the Most High within themselves. The full nature of this place is obviously hidden from the fallen human mind. In its present depleted condition, the mind couldn’t even understand what that state is. It could not be fully comprehended. In each of us it is the place of our deepest sense of beauty, our deepest sense of love, and our deepest sense of meaning. To whatever extent we are able, we should let this Secret Place take as much form as possible, moment by moment. In this way we reveal it to our outer minds—and we reveal it to others. Whether they actually see it or not is, of course, another matter.
Today, people’s “highest” often resides in other values—perhaps in earthly forms, positions or activities. But it is not usually in Character. However, we can discern the place of the Most High even in these earthly forms, positions and activities, because there is an essence, a shred of this Highest place, in everyone and in everything they do. Pure Spirit is at the core of everything, albeit we may have to have considerable discernment to see it. But it is there. So we look for that and enhance it, at least within ourselves and, where possible, externally.
There is something interesting to consider in this regard, even with respect to so-called death. One wouldn’t think there was much to be cheerful about in considering that! In such a consideration we are certainly not trying to evoke any fear, or love of death, but we are, as always, concerned with coming through to the conscious experience of true Identity. Our personal consciousnesses are connected intimately with the mass consciousness of mankind, so invariably there is trepidation when this subject is considered. We are not so much concerned with life after death. We are concerned with service now. This is where we are. This is where our creativity is required to find expression and use in the Archangelic Body.
As life is now on Earth, there seems to be no other route out of the Earth except through the portal of dissolution. The human consciousness looks out and sees this process in every form that it can observe throughout the whole Cosmos. Now, some spiritually minded people aspire to ascension rather than to death. Either way, the individual leaves this sphere of things and this experience of life as it has been known. However, there is a difference. First of all, by either way of departure, the human ego ceases to exist. In the ascension process (which is still making an exit from this world), if there has been a generation of fine substance in living and identification has moved somewhat into true Identity and the quality of that, then ascension is merely a continuation of that path of experience. If one’s identity has been thoroughly embedded in human nature, then the transition would be experienced as much more abrupt. Nevertheless, the Angel is eternal. Our concern is with how to move through such a transition—and not merely for ourselves, as we shall see.
It is not enough, apparently, to proclaim Identity in Life, to say, “I Am an expression of Life, the one animating Power of the Cosmos, through this little pile of dust.” Of course, this is true of you too, and of everyone. Even though this fact must be self-evident, the human consciousness has been so mis-educated and mis-conditioned that it cannot even appreciate this blatantly obvious fact. “I Am,” we may each say, “an expression of the one Power animating everything everywhere. Any limitations that I exhibit (and there are plenty) are limitations in the form through which I am expressing myself.”
Everything we say or consider is rightly part of a reconditioning process of the outer consciousness. We are not trying to make anyone think about old age or death before their time, but are considering the challenges and opportunities of older years. As we know from experience, there are ages and stages in life. Each one of them is designed to be delightful. Surely we have had enough delightful experiences in different ages and stages to see the potential inherent in the design of Life. It should be no great stretch of the imagination to perceive the intention of Life. It is very important that we appreciate what Life intended through its perfect design. Life was to be a delightful experience from the beginning, during it, and at the end. We appreciate that this design has been messed up, so the experience has been messed up. But there is something to be done, to be experienced, and to be contributed in every age and stage of life. These contributions are holographic contributions to the larger Archangelic Body, through differently aged cells in that Body. Other people may not be aware of the holographic effect of their living. However, those who perhaps unconsciously express integrity, the Tone, are making their contribution. Each stage has its own creative opportunities and responsibilities. Those who are coming into their more “senior generations” have a very special opportunity in the world today.
As we’ve considered on several occasions, the planet is in a process of multidimensional reintegration into the Divine Design. Human nature is to be shed, one way or another. This obviously applies to both the young and the old—to everyone in the Archangelic Body. In these days we are approaching the climax of the fallen human state. It will be resolved. We can observe in the world that the human race is beginning to face physical, ecological disease, and perhaps extinction. This process, naturally enough perhaps, evokes emotional discomfort, with anxiety and fear, as never before. Holographically, the senior generations face the same process personally. So never has the Earth’s condition and transitional process ever had such an apt focus within itself as it has now with the elderly—and herein lies the opportunity for their greatest service.
Personally thinking about this transitional process is not a self-centered aberration, because we are in fact considering a universal experience. The question is, how does true Identity engage in this process of transition? Well, Identity must come into subjective “I Am.” No matter what is transpiring externally in one’s own body, or the body of mankind, or the body of the planet, keep conscious Identity centered in who I Am—and express that quality in the midst of every situation. We may be assured that human nature and its assumed identity will pass away, and that our own human-nature experience of fear, anxiety, resistance to change, is a miniature of what is gaining momentum in the larger Body. We can help ease this transition by our own process and attitude, which is “I Am an aspect of the universal flow of Life, of Being. What I do affects the Whole.” What greater spiritual work could we be presented with? It is wonderful! One of our greatest achievements and contributions will be to help the human consciousness bridge the gap between its present, transitory experience—to Identity in Eternal Being.
Well you may say that all this is merely a rationalization about death. Yes, it is. It is bringing rational thought to the process. If we have lived adequately in the current of Life, we know something of its nature as it has operated in our experience in the Design. We have known and now know, therefore, the thrilling and reliable nature of Life. We therefore have much confidence—and that is a word for the outer mind, which needs confidence, needs trust. We are establishing that within our own consciousness. We have already experienced a life cycle composed of experiences of delight, challenge, adventure and fulfillment. So we know the nature of Life, and we know the ongoing certainty back of the transition process out of this cycle of incarnation.
There is more than this rational view, however. There have been human beliefs in “life after death,” as it is called. Concepts and theories about heaven depended upon where the person lived, but all such images are distorted anyway. However, the point here is that there is an inherent subconscious awareness in human beings of Identity in Eternal Being.
So we may reflect again upon the joys we have known, knowing that the intention of Life is delight and that this is still possible, even in this fallen state. But this intention has been messed up, and we too have contributed to this messed-up experience. After a lifetime of deft guidance by the Spirit, do we yet lack confidence? It might be said to our outer minds, “O ye of little faith!” So we are concerned with the ascension process—ascension of our outer consciousness into an awareness of true Identity, and wakening to the fact that this is a never-ending process. The cycle in Being is always from glory unto glory. The subject of death, or ascension, is not a morbid topic. Every stage that we’ve experienced in this life cycle has died, hasn’t it? We died as children; we died as teenagers. Stage by stage passes away. In its place emerges the opportunity for a fuller experience of our Selves, and a greater opportunity to contribute into the magnificent Design of Eternal Being.
Literal Light
from EDL: The Door
Martin Exeter December 13, 1987 a.m.
The human mind is the means by which the light may shine. We have spoken of Lucifer, the light-bearer. The transparent mind allows the already existing angelic light to shine through. The mind is not an entity of itself, as it tries to be in the human state. Trying to be an entity of itself, it becomes satan; it lands up in darkness. The state of the human mind, in the peoples of the world as we now know it, is darkened. The light is still present—we're still alive—but the light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehends it not. We are aware of this state, the state where there is a separation between the heaven and the earth of the individual human being. That separation has taken place because satan, the darkened mind, has usurped the position of the true identity, which isn't Lucifer but is revealed by the fact of Lucifer's presence, because Lucifer is the light-bearer, the identity-bearer. It makes possible the experience of the true identity.
Let your light so shine. It is a spiritual light, in which case it probably seems to be incomprehensible light. But heaven and earth are one; so what is deemed to be spiritual light has its counterpart in the earth, which could be said to be literal light. The evidence of the truth of Man is in the light.
This physical form is something of a burden, isn't it? We have to lug it around. Some of us are more sprightly than others, more agile, but it becomes a more evident burden as one grows older. It's a heavy load of flesh to pack around! This is a form which has enabled the continued existence of potential Man on earth. It is useful because of this. But to become the form of Man it must be filled with light. “If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light”—literal light. They say that light weighs a little, but not much. It's very light! And if the composition of human expression in living is light, the body becomes light. Here we see something of a transformation, even transmutation, to occur. Man is more than one person. So the light relates to more than one person. Man is composed of a body of individuals, and the form of that body is made up of the individuals who compose it. That body is properly the light in expression, the radiant light made manifest. This is something very different to this heavy clod of flesh. Where to start to let the restoration come? We know where to start, because we have started. The question is of no interest any longer. Emissaries of Divine Light: a form composed of individuals through whom the light shines.
The light shines through the form of EDL to the extent that it is shining through the forms of those who compose the form, those individual forms that are drawn together to compose it. The shining of the light relates to that form. The transformation relates to that form. Obviously it relates to the individuals who compose that form, but it doesn't happen merely for this individual and that individual. It occurs because there is a form. Because there is such a form there is a facility through which the light may shine. But then we come back to the individual, because the extent to which it is shining is dependent upon the extent to which it is shining through each individual. As we have recognized before, the sum of the light—in this instance, light shining through these individuals—is not the total light shining through the form of EDL. That is far more. We have seen this from the standpoint of putting two people together, a man and a woman for instance. Each has an ability to reveal and express and radiate the light, to whatever extent. If you add one and one together, we find more than two. This is a new math! Properly there are at least three: there are the two who are together and there is the new state that comes because they are together. So one and one make three.
This just illustrates something. The composition of the body, the form, provides a facility which can radiate far more light than the sum of all the light of the individuals who compose the body of EDL, and because that is far more, it enhances the individual expression of light. We begin to find something happening exponentially here, but it only comes because, individually, responsibility is being taken for letting the light shine to the extent that it may now do so. Then that extent of light, put together collectively, is found to be far more than the mere sum of the individual light. This is indication of how rapidly transformation can occur. We ourselves as individuals simply keep it from occurring, if it doesn't occur. We have known the fact of our own individual responsibility. We may see it now in terms of letting the light shine.
We find that there are variations in the shining of the light. We may take what is occurring now as an example. My responsibility is of a particular nature which will permit an intensification of the light to shine by reason of my radiant expression. This is very different to what may occur in conversation during the day. As Uranda put it one time, the sun rises, and there is day; there is a bright intensity of radiation for whatever period of time is necessary for that. And then the sun sets. But the Morning Star is still there. In fact when the sun is shining the Morning Star can't be seen, but when the sun sets the Morning Star is right there. Lucifer is always on hand, but he is the light-bearer. He doesn't bear a flaming torch which is always the same intensity. He bears whatever light is necessary in the particular circumstance of the moment. And there is a variation in the intensity of that light, but it is always the same light. It's not some sort of strange extraneous light coming in on special occasions. No, it's the same light, but there are pulsations in the creative process, and it shines with the intensity that is necessary in the moment. At least this is the intent, unless we block it.
So we are very much aware of the real nature of our responsibility mentally. The light determines what is thought. The light determines what is said and what is done. Here is the process of creation. Creation comes through thought. It has continued to come through the thoughts of human beings in this fallen condition, but very sluggishly. It takes a great deal of the sweat of the brow to get anything done. We all know that, in this human state. We've struggled with it and exhausted ourselves at the business. But where the thought which moves through the mind is not generated by the mind but is generated by the light, it's easy and there is a natural flow. And all creation has occurred on this basis within the range of the responsibility of man. It would be very risky, wouldn't it, if presently your thoughts during a day were immediately to take form! So it's useful that a certain sluggishness has put in an appearance. But they do take form after a while, and they come back to haunt us. What a wretched state.
How wonderful to have the mind transparent so that the fitting light of the moment may be born, the fitting thought of the moment may be born—not generated because one is thinking so desperately, as human beings do in an endeavor to control all their circumstances, but the thought which is the creative thought coming down from God out of heaven into the earth. How? Through the mind. That's what it's for—not to do its own thinking and to mess things up constantly on that basis, but to become transparent so that the light may be born. The light may be carried, yes, but also born into expression, and the first expression comes through thought. There is something which precedes the thought, mind you, but the first awareness that one may have of what it is that is moving comes through conscious thought. Conscious thought is controlled thought, controlled by the design in heaven, controlled angelically. That thought may safely take form, and it will do so. I'm sure you have found already that when there is that thought, what is thought very quickly takes form. The world is transformed on this basis, not by manipulation either mental or physical but by the flow of creative thought out of heaven into the earth by reason of a transparent mind. The transparency of mind cuts human beings down to size. The usual view is that value comes because a mind is very capable of generating its own thoughts. But that all dissolves, and there is a totally new state, a new heaven. Out of the new heaven the new earth springs, and the basis of that coming forth is the flow that occurs through the transparent mind. I most thankfully share these thoughts with you now, that we may all be willing to let the light shine.
The light shines and, in the shining, transforms. Creation occurs by reason of the shining of the light. Re-creation occurs in this way. Insofar as human beings are concerned, the only way that there may be participation in creation is when the facility for the shining of the light is available to that shining. And the facility is the human mind, not merely the conscious mind but the unconscious mind as well. The light is apparent consciously, and it transforms by reason of the radiation. We are familiar with the process: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. This is a mental description of something which happens continuously when the mind is in place to let it do so. There is radiation and there is consequent transformation.
It is not only what may be deemed to be spiritual light, but it is literal light also. When the light shines, the flesh is revealing of it and is transformed by it. But, as we have recognized in our consideration this morning, it is not possible for it to occur individually without it at the same time occurring collectively. The collective shining of the light is what clarifies and restores the flesh to the point where the light may be intensified so that the transformation occurs. However, the flesh is the last along the line. The light only comes to the flesh because there is a transparent mind, and it is the transparent collective mind that permits the intensity of radiant light to be of such power that the very flesh may be transformed. All these things work in the creative process, if we trust the creative process and let it work. Moving together in the assumption of individual responsibility for the light, the fulfillment comes.
The importance of the light may be easily seen. Mention was made of loving the light, which is what is essential. If you love darkness more than you love the light, well you'll stay in the dark. But loving the light implies loving the Word, the illuminating Word. This has always been stressed, hasn't it? Finally there are those who suddenly seem to have become aware of the vital nature of the Word, not of the printed form in and of itself but of the radiance which is made available in this way. It's made available in other ways too, and it's made available rightly through each of us and all of us continually. But to appreciate the light and to know the nature of it, it must be loved, certainly, above all else. In the light is the one identity, the One I am. So there is natural love for the light and consequently a delight to bathe oneself in it, because thereby it is found that as the substance of one's own external being resonates with the light, it is resonating with one's own true identity. And one's own true identity consequently emerges. It can never emerge except by reason of the light, because that's what it is. And in the radiance of the light the truth is known: “I am the door. I am the open door.”
© emissaries of divine light
