Attunement

Attunement

Martin Cecil   December 1, 1974

When we think of attunement it is usually in terms of what may be needful in the physical sense to the human body. We recognize that properly this consideration extends to the mind and to the heart, but the physical body is prominent in consciousness usually: aches and pains, troubles of various sorts. The manifest aspect of the human being is, as we know, triune in nature: body, mind, and capacity for spiritual expression. This is the earth aspect of dimensional being. There is also a triune heaven aspect, presently obscured by what is vibrationally between the two. We have spoken of this as the veil and seen it as relating to the heart, the feeling or emotional realm. The word attunement, as we have used it, is concerned with establishing attunement between earth and heaven in human experience. When there is such attunement there occurs what is called radiation. Radiation is present in the heaven aspect of being, but in human experience this is largely unknown because of the veil which divides the earth from heaven in human consciousness. What divides also connects. However, the fact of connection only becomes apparent when the veil is adequately dissolved, when the impurities of heart are cleared. Then the fact that heaven and earth are one becomes apparent. It is the fact now but, insofar as human experience is concerned, not recognized and not experienced. Attunement is designed to provide what is needful to initiate the process by which a consciousness of the oneness of heaven and earth may be known once more.

Because presently this is not known, human experience includes a considerable amount of hell: hell simply being the absence of the heavenly experience—not something particularly of itself, although it emphasizes itself as being something of itself in human experience. However, if what is absent becomes present, then that type of experience vanishes, and one could not say that it moved somewhere else; it just simply is not there anymore. If you have an empty glass and fill the glass with water, water is present in the glass and the emptiness is gone. We cannot know heaven as long as it is absent from our consciousness. We only know it when it is present. It can only be present when what separates heaven and earth in our experience no longer separates but connects. The process of attunement is designed to reestablish this connection. We may see the reestablishing of this connection primarily with respect to the physical body, but it is not a matter that applies only to the physical body. There is a connection insofar as the mind is concerned and insofar as spiritual experience is concerned. All this is made possible by the clearing of the heart, the dissolving of the veil. So here we have some sort of a definition, apparent to us in this moment, with respect to what has been called attunement.

Obviously, if radiation is the natural state in the heaven and the veil is cleared, the radiation extends into the earth. And if we see heaven and earth as relating to the individual, then the radiation extends through his physical body and his mind in spiritual expression beyond himself into the world of his environment. If there is such radiation it includes, amongst other things, radiant thinking and radiant feeling as opposed to reflective thinking and reflective feeling. On the basis of this radiation, which is only a word until it is experienced, there is creative action.

Radiation becomes known as being present by reason of reflection. The radiation of light and heat from the sun is apparent to us because it is reflected—reflected by the earth, so that in what we call the daytime there is light, even though there may be a cloud cover and the sun is invisible in a direct sense. But the reflection is still present. When that radiation is shut off by cloud cover then the direct warmth of the sun is not experienced. When warmth is not experienced we say it is cold. Cold is the absence of heat, although cold, when it is seemingly present, seems to be very much a thing. If you have ever slept in a room in below-zero weather where there was no insulation on the ceiling, it seems as though cold radiates. It is comparable to a frigid weight, almost tangible. And yet if heat is applied the cold vanishes. The cold was not anything in fact. We recognize the radiation of heat, sometimes just warmth, sometimes fiery, from the sun; but we recognize it only because it is reflected from something. It fills the space where it was before absent.

Now this radiation which is present the other side of the veil, insofar as human beings are concerned, has been largely absent from human experience by reason of the veil. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/03/thou-hast-made-hedge-about-him-from.html] Something has filtered through; we're still alive. We are concerned to allow the heart to be purified, that the connection between heaven and earth may be clear and the consequent oneness of heaven and earth—so that heaven is present in the earth—may be known. There are various ways by which this may be achieved, but all these ways are based upon this one thing: radiation out of heaven into the earth. In talking about this it remains merely a theory until it is actually experienced. All of you have some experience; all human beings everywhere have some experience as long as life remains; but the clouds are sometimes pretty thick and dark. It is said that clouds have a silver lining, and this is true because the radiation is the other side, but underneath the thunderstorm is dark.

In order to establish the conditions by which the working of this radiation may begin to have greater effect in human experience certain steps are required, steps which relate to human attitudes. Most people think of steps in this sense as relating to techniques of some kind, maybe physical techniques, mental techniques or spiritual techniques. But I am not talking about techniques, merely attitudes.

There is a Psalm in the Old Testament of the Bible which describes something of the required attitudes in a rather graphic and complete way. It actually describes the sequence of attitudes, changed attitudes, which allow what is needful to occur. It is a very familiar Psalm—the 24th—and we might take time to look at it in order to understand what is being said and in order to understand how this applies very specifically to ourselves. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-earth-is-lords.html]

“The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” This is not the usual view of human beings. The individual is inclined to say, with respect to what he thinks of as him- or herself, “The earth is mine, all of it, and the world is my oyster.” At least this used to be the idea; it's not quite so acceptable these days, because so many people interfere with our opening of the oyster. The human attitude assumes, individually speaking: “This is my body. This is my life.” As long as that attitude is held the veil remains thick and quite opaque. The individual spends the days of his years struggling and dying in a state of futility. There may be the experience of hope or expectation, but as the years go by it usually fades and it is considered inevitable that one must end up dead. To soften the blow, which is inexorably in the offing, various theories and beliefs have been developed, but none of them have been capable of dissolving the veil. They just provide comfort for those who exist under the veil; the human condition changes not at all.

So here is the first requirement, which has been recognized by many people over the ages even though the recognition has not had too much effect: “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Now this does not require the development of some concept about what the word Lord refers to; it merely requires that there be a recognition that there is a transcendent reality. This goes with the recognition that if there is a transcendent reality there must be a veil obscuring it, because we don't really know what it is. But there is the requirement of turning toward what may be seen as the source of radiation, a transcendent but unknown reality. Because of the existence of this reality everything else of which we are aware is present. All the things of which we are aware on the basis of our reflective vision—the world around us and everything that we presume to be in it—exist because of this transcendent reality. This is a required recognition. If we do not accept such a premise there is no basis for the unfoldment of any further logical experience. There cannot be a logical experience unless there is a true premise. Human beings use what they call logic but virtually all their premises are false, so the results of their logic are nonsense. It all seems very real, very true; it all makes human beings imagine themselves to be very intelligent and very wise; but it's all nonsense, because the true premise was rejected, or at best not really seen, certainly not understood.

But these verses at the beginning of the Psalm indicate an initial attitude essential to the creative unfoldment by which the oneness of heaven and earth becomes the experience. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Everything we are in the external sense, everything that is present insofar as our consciousness is concerned, is not properly capable of being possessed by what we think ourselves to be. If we try to possess it we place ourselves in the position of the thief; and the world certainly is a den of thieves, not what it was created to be insofar as human experience is concerned. What it was created to be was described at one point as a House of Prayer, but it has become a den of thieves, regardless of the claims to honesty that many people make. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein”—everything collectively, and everything that we are individually. This is the fact. If we deny it we experience the results of that denial, and the results ultimately are the experience of nothing, obviously so—the absence of the truth, the total absence of the truth. Presently we know a partial absence of the truth, but finally a total absence of the truth, and when we come to that point we know nothing. If we know nothing we are nothing.

So let us acknowledge in our attitude that the earth is the Lord's. This physical form does not belong to the human ego, none of it, none of the systems of it. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world of our consciousness, and all that is present in it. It is not for the human ego to manipulate or try to produce what he thinks he wants; it doesn't belong to him. It is customary, and has been for millennia, for human beings to dispute the truth. They say, in effect, “This does belong to me. My consciousness is my own; my life is my own. Get out of my way!” But it doesn't work. There is no victory; there is no success. The inevitable result occurs. We spend the days of our years as dying souls.

“The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” It is interesting that the earth of the human body is mostly liquid It is the fact of this liquid that makes life possible. If you become too dehydrated you've had it—at least your body has. It is possible to dehydrate a human body and mummify it. It may last quite a while in that state, but it's not very valuable, is it?—except in a museum where people can go and gawk at it. Are not living bodies more valuable? Then they need to be filled with the required moisture, the vital fluids of the body; not only the blood; there are many kinds of fluid in the body. In old age people tend to dry up, don't they?—no more fluid to provide the medium for the experience and expression of life.

But we recognize that water is the symbol of truth, and what appears in the manifest sense of the earth and the world is there because of the design and the control of truth. It can only exist as long as it participates in that design and control. When the control has been finally rejected and the design has been lost, there is nothing; there is nothing in human experience. We recognize that what is called physical substance remains, but it remains because it is transferred to another level of manifestation, where the design is still present. The design, for instance, is still present with respect to this planet as such, and the substance of this planet. Trouble only occurs when the substance is lifted into human form. Then it begins to be taken out of the design; and nothing can exist out of the design, so when it is completely out of the design the form ceases to exist, even though the substance remains. The substance continues at another level of the design; it is impossible to get physical substance entirely out of the design.

So the earth and the world are founded and established upon the truth. The earth continues, and there is always a world of sorts; but in the individual sense the earth finally vanishes and the world of individual consciousness is gone, because there was a denial that the earth and the world were the Lord's. So here is the first attitude necessary: In the individual sense all that we are is consequent upon and belongs to whatever is indicated by this word Lord—a transcendent reality. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-true-holograph.html]

Many human beings have attempted to assume this attitude, but generally speaking they immediately build up concepts about God, about the truth, and they establish once again a world based in their concepts and beliefs. So, while with the lips claims are made that there is the recognition, “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein,” it has had no effect; they remain in the hands of man. But he may think that by becoming spiritual, or at least religious, he can get around the fact that the earth is the Lord's, while continuing in his own determination to keep the world for himself, all without treading on God's toes. So these words at the beginning of this Psalm do not imply that we should begin to develop religious concepts or religious beliefs; it is merely a recognition of a fact, which we do not understand presently but which we may understand if we follow through in the creative cycle by which we are restored into the state where heaven and earth are one in our own experience. But we are being moved toward that, not by our own efforts, not by our own brilliant intelligence, which, after all, is engaged, or has been engaged, almost entirely with nonsense. Okay, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?”

Here direction is being given in the way that must unfold in our own experience. There is to be a change known which may be described in terms of ascension, moving up, moving up into a state of new awareness. This isn't a matter of scrambling up, trying to get up, exerting some effort which will pull us up. The simple question is asked, “Who shall have this experience?”

There is indication of the nature of the experience in the words here written: “the hill of the Lord.” In the physical sense, when you go to the hilltop you have a new view, don't you? You gain a new perspective. You begin to see things in relationship to each other, which was impossible when you were down in the valley. When you are down in the valley things are pressing on you all around. You can't see how they fit together. So here is indication of the need to rise up to a point of consciousness where there may be a new perspective, a new awareness, a new outlook. If there is to be something new in this regard we have to relinquish the old. If we tried to clamber up the hill to stand at the top but decided that we liked the valley view better, so we were going to shut our eyes and just remember what was in the valley, we wouldn't be much benefited by having got to the top of the hill. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/07/spirit-carries-us-up.html]

We can't take the old view along with us; so this implies a willingness to relinquish something, relinquish our traditions and our beliefs, our concepts, whatever they may be [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-martincecil-april-15-1979-igreet.html] and there are a vast variety in the world. It's all these things that produce conflict, isn't it? People say to each other, in effect, “You come over and share my view, my outlook, my beliefs, and we'll be in agreement; but if you stay over there we'll be in a battle.” And that's what happens. So everybody is intent on upholding their beliefs, their traditions—magnificent!—their cultures. So good, aren't they? Wonderful! But deadly, absolutely fatal, because the earth is the Lord's; not for man's concepts of his own culture but for the true expression of life, whatever that may be, something that human beings don't know, because usually they don't care. They want their own way; they want to do their own thing; they want to have their own pleasure; they want to pursue happiness. There is no indication that anybody would ever catch up with it, but it's fun pursuing it.

“Or who shall stand in his holy place?” First of all, who shall have a true perspective with respect to the world of his environment from the hilltop? And then, who shall be aware of the holiness of his true being? Who shall be aware of this transcendent reality? Who shall see God? to put it another way. “Blessed are the pure in heart.”

“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

He that hath clean hands and a pure heart”

“He that hath clean hands …” He that is washed, sanctified, in the water of truth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/01/sanctification-martin-cecil-january-10.html] He who has sufficient of the right sort of fluids flowing in his body. This does not suggest edema! He that is baptized in the water of truth. He who begins to experience the truth in his own living, not seeing it merely in theory. “… and a pure heart …” by which God is known, not in theory, not in belief, but in the radiation of what He is, His true nature, His true character, taking form in human experience. That's the only way God is known. As long as we have a substitute character God can never be known. There may be belief in some kind of a figurehead but God is not known. “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” The soul relates to the earth, the dust of the ground. Where is our sense of identity? If it is what we are in the physical, external sense we are in fact taking the name of the Lord in vain. This is vanity. We speak of ourselves as “I” but who is that “I”?

“I am sick and miserable and unhappy. I am rich and increased with goods. I am this; I am that”—all relating to what is here in the external, material sense. That is taking the name of the Lord in vain. If we function on the basis of such an identity we die; we have the experience of a dying soul, because we are lifting it up to vanity. “Oh look at me. Look at my handsome image. Look at what a wonderful fellow (or girl) I am!” Self-centeredness! Everywhere the soul is lifted up unto vanity! As long as this is being done there is no way by which the truth may be experienced; all we know all our days is something false.

“Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” The expression of one who insists upon human identity is, of all things, deceitful. It is said that the devil was a liar from the beginning. Now who do you think the devil is? All men in this human condition are liars. They can't help it; they can't express the truth; the veil blocks it. The impure heart maintains a lack of true attunement. The attunement of heaven and earth is a dream, if it is anything, insofar as the consciousness of human beings is concerned. Lifting up the soul to vanity and swearing deceitfully is the acceptable state in the human world today, as it was yesterday. Those who are in that state and insist upon staying in that state cannot ascend into the hill of the Lord, nor stand in His holy place. They cannot see anything clearly, with perspective vision; they cannot be aware of the sacredness of life—not the sacredness of human life as human beings know it, but the sacredness of life as it really is, the life which is the evidence of the Presence of the Lord, the evidence of the Presence of the transcendent reality. This is what it is, and is revealed for what it is by those who have clean hands and a pure heart, who no longer lift up their souls unto vanity nor swear deceitfully. And let us not imagine that it is only the riffraff that do this—the best people do it!

“He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” The Blessing of the Lord shall be extended because such an one lives on earth [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/05/cosmic-song-of-universe-steps-to.html] and righteousness shall be the experience, right living, the right experience, the truth known. Then it becomes vividly apparent, not any longer in theory, that “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”

In the quietness and serenity of this moment we are aware, O Lord, that the truth is true, and we are aware of our individual responsibility to make known that truth in daily living, that every thought, every word, every action may be the evidence of the radiation of Thy spirit, which is known as our own. Thy spirit remains unknown to us until it is our own. Then the radiation of life, characterized by the truth of love, shines forth into the earth in creative expression, that all things may be made new and revealed as new by the reflection of that light out of the world of our environment. We are deeply thankful, O Lord, in this moment for the joy of letting this true attunement be reestablished, that the oneness of heaven and earth may once again permeate the consciousness of mankind, all to Thy glory, in the Christ. Aum-en.

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