Intensity Of Response
Intensity Of Radiation
from The Foundation Of In-Built Stability
Martin Cecil May 20, 1979
The whole dimensional creation and the undimensional Creator are eternally connected in the overall sense by spiritual substance. There is consequently a basic stability here, always in operation. This foundation, by which a general direction and control are exerted into the dimensional creation, maintains a balance, but it is also drawn to focus in various ways throughout the realm of spiritual substance, that there might be more specific action.
One focus in this regard was called MAN. Of course here is a very minute point in the overall creation; nevertheless here is something specific for a specific purpose. The primary substance of Man—and I am not speaking particularly of human beings as they now are, but of Man—is this spiritual substance connecting the undimensional Creator with the dimensional creation. We have called this, amongst other things, the substance of the Garden. It does indicate very clearly, if we recognize the fact in our own experience, that Man is rightly the connecting link between undimensional Creator and dimensional creation within the range of his field of responsibility. Man in his true state has been absent—AWOL. We have been concerned to let Man be restored in our own experience, male and female, simply because we find ourselves without any alternative.
Some of you may have imagined at times that you had a choice in the matter. You don't, really. The idea of the human choice is somewhat of a figment of fancy. People move the way they move because of the character of response that is present in them. In the present human nature state people are like puppets. They are constantly being stimulated by external impacts of various sorts, many of them of a hereditary nature, but certainly the environment plays a prominent part. The pinpricks of the environment make human beings jump, and sometimes they are more than pinpricks. But there are these constant stimuli which are brought to bear upon human beings in their present state, causing them to act the way they act. This is rationalized sometimes to make it seem as though they are intelligent, but it is not the fact of the matter. The fact of the matter is that human beings in their present state are governed and controlled by the stimuli to which they react. To make it seem better they explain it intellectually, but it doesn't make any difference to the fact: there is this puppet condition.
There are all kinds of stimulus, judged to be good, bad and indifferent. It is, for instance, suggested that one might well be spiritually inspired; in other words some spiritual stimulus may be brought to bear on a human being and he will jump accordingly. There is a political stimulus being brought to bear to cause human beings to jump accordingly. If it requires someone to be present to supply the stimulus to make us jump—whether it be spiritual, political or any other—then we are being governed by our reaction to the stimulus. The stimulus is external; it impinges upon us; it makes human nature jump. Some are inclined to be a little self-satisfied because they can be stimulated by what they deem to be spiritual stimuli. Recognizing this, we would have to acknowledge the subjugated state of human beings in the world, ourselves included heretofore. I suspect there are stimuli that make you jump even now. Is what I am saying this morning providing a stimulus for you to jump? If so, then obviously you are still subject to external stimuli. We are not here to be stimulated in this sense. We are here—if we accept the responsibility of being Man—to provide the connecting link between the Creator and His creation, the only place where human beings actually belong. When you are where you belong you know it. If we're out of position we're out of position because we have been bumped out of position by the external stimuli and we are therefore subject to the external stimuli. The only way by which one might be restored to the true experience of Man is to stop being bumped around by the external stimuli.
There is this basic underlying stability, because there is this substance of connection in the overall sense insofar as the whole universe is concerned. At the level of that substance, even in this part of the universe where human beings are out of place, this stability is a fact. There is a built-in stability present. The course of wisdom is to let go, to stop trying to make things work the way human beings want them to work. Let everything be restored to this basic stability. There is the need to let go to the basic stability of life itself, the stability that is present by reason of the connecting substance between undimensional Creator and dimensional creation, which is there regardless of human beings. If we learn to stop trying to make things work the way we think they should work and let go, let our human nature have a hands-off policy, we will find that the basic stability of life will restore a balance.
Letting go is the first principle indicated to anyone who begins to make an approach toward spiritual reality. This was the indication that was given by Jesus when He said that it was necessary to become as a little child. Let go! The human approach to spiritual things has all too often simply been an intellectual approach, trying to figure out what it was all about. Theology: spiritual things are now going to be forced to conform to some human theory or other. The person who identifies himself with the human theory will discover that spirit can't be contained in that theory indefinitely. It can't be! The theory will be shattered. You can't put new wine into old bottles without the bottles bursting and the wine being spilled. People are always trying to force life into the theoretical confines of their own beliefs, beliefs of all kinds—and life is supposed to work according to “my beliefs.” Those beliefs relate to what it is the individual wants, what he is looking for to provide him with fulfilment, satisfaction, a worthwhile state, and he crashes every time. He keeps on struggling with the controls until it's too late. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth”—while there is plenty of space underneath. So let go!
Now that's a start! One begins to discover that there is a built-in control, there is a built-in stability, and one may begin to associate oneself with that built-in stability instead of trying to superimpose one's own views in the matter, which are never by any chance right. We may need an instructor, but the instructor is not going to be there forever, is he? You'll never learn to fly an airplane if you have to have an instructor beside you all the time. You are never going to learn to live if you have to be stimulated by the instructor. You have to come to the point where it is an automatic thing in yourself to do this and not do that. No one has to tell you anymore. The connection is beginning to emerge again and the person consequently is coming out of the student state into the actual experience of living. The actual experience of living doesn't require external stimulation. You have an experience of life moving through you in this moment. Can you find where the stimulation of life is? Can you locate it somewhere? No, it's simply a matter of awareness of life.
Let us settle down—let go! Of course in our own experience we should have moved a little further than merely letting go. We are here to provide a means of the creative action of the Creator. Only the Creator can function on the basis of creative action. Human beings off on their own can't do it! One only knows what the reality is in the actual experience of doing whatever it is, and we're here to do, in the sense of living, providing the connection between Creator and creation. This connection extends the control and direction of the Creator to the creation in a specific sense, rather than only in this overall generalized sense—that's what we are here for! Our concern is to extend this direction and control. This is only possible to the extent that there is the substance which connects the Creator and the creation. We must ourselves be functioning from the standpoint of that substance, and extending the creative action because the substance is there.
From the standpoint of the Creator there has always been radiation, the means for creative action. It's always been present and operative because of the spiritual substance which connects Creator and creation in the overall sense. Things work the way they work because of this connecting substance. Because there is the creative action there is the sustaining of the material universe by reason of this connecting substance through which the undimensional spirit of the Creator may act at that particular level, and things always work on the basis of this connection. But something new comes into the picture in this little corner of the universe when Man is in place, because here is a specific means for bringing to focus the creative action. But for that creative action to work there must be the substance present through which it can work, and this requires the generation and intensification of substance at different levels than merely that which is on hand in the overall sense. In the overall sense everything works the way it works. As it comes into focus it works in specific ways. As human beings we don't know very much about this because we have been out of position for so long, but we begin to find out as we let it happen.
So there is the generation of substance which ascends to higher vibratory levels, thereby permitting increasingly specific action—moving out of the generalized action into the increasingly specific, and we have a particular field of responsibility, as Man, in this regard; something that from the human standpoint has been long forgotten. The understanding comes on the basis of the actual experience of the radiation and response in this substance—the radiation, the action of spirit on the one hand, and response to spirit on the other hand. This response to spirit is not so that one might be stimulated by spirit; it is so that one might be in position to express spirit. We're not waiting for something to come down to us from God out of heaven to stimulate us, give us a shock of some kind, so that we jump. Our position is not that of being stimulated. Our position is that of providing the stimulus in the creative process.
We begin to associate ourselves with that stimulus on the basis of what is called passionate response. It is the depth and intensity of that response which determines the extent and intensity of the experience of the radiation which is the stimulus offered through this substance into our worlds. For this to happen our worlds must be immersed in the necessary substance. It is so because we ourselves have let it be generated in the mechanism that is provided for that generation. That mechanism is at a standstill as long as it is merely being stimulated by external factors; whether those external factors are considered to be good or bad it makes no difference. As long as the stimulation comes out of the environment, then this prevents the experience of living which would permit the generation of the required substance. One cannot live by bread alone.
Life is known because there is participation with the creative stimulus which is being offered to our world, and it cannot be offered to our worlds unless our worlds are immersed in the substance through which this creative radiation works. If the substance is not there nobody knows anything about the creative radiation, except simply at the overall level; something rather sluggish goes on in the overall sense, very slow. The astronomers and cosmologists talk about billions of years, and light-years, which simply indicates that human beings think of these things as being tremendously long, either in time or distance—far, far. We are here to hot things up, to allow the creative process to work in a specific sense, which also indicates a speeding-up process. The sluggish days are shortened.
We are concerned to let these controls be re-established because the substance is available and we have filled our worlds with it in our living. You cannot fill your world with this substance if you are below your world—that is the state of fallen man; under his world instead of above it. So we come back into place because, first of all, we let go so that we stop being critical. We let things alone. There's nothing wrong with the way the universe is governed. Let's accept the fact and not try to govern it from the human standpoint! Of course we may say, “I won't try to govern Arcturus and his sons but I'm going to govern the thing that's right next to me.” But that's a part of the universe too, you know; it's not excluded. And our letting go relates to the things that are close at hand. We don't find much difficulty in letting go of our attempts to get the moon to change its orbit!
So the substance must be present in which our worlds may be immersed, in which case we have a protective attitude toward our worlds. We didn't come here to condemn our worlds but to offer salvation to our worlds, and that salvation is offered because we enfold our worlds. And we are capable of doing this only to the extent that there is an abundance of the substance needful in which our worlds may be immersed, this life plasma, this spiritual substance. So we have a protective attitude toward our worlds, and everyone and everything in them.
If we are subject to fear, what are we afraid of? Our worlds presumably; perhaps something specific in our worlds, but our worlds nevertheless. Fear then keeps us in subjection to our worlds; that's just one thing it does. Perfect love casts out fear. When there is a passionate love for the Word of God to find expression in our own living, then we could hardly be afraid of anything that is happening in the dimensional world of the creation around us, the dimensional world for which we are responsible in a specific sense. You can't handle anything of which you are afraid; it handles you. So here is the matter of the generation of this essential substance which comes because of the quality of our living. And the quality of our living is largely based in the nature of our attitude toward our worlds. If we start out by being afraid of our worlds, and consequently trying to manipulate them so that we won't be clobbered, then that sort of living won't generate any spiritual substance with which to enfold our worlds.
Only when we have an attitude of protection to our worlds because we passionately love the Word of God, which is capable of handling our worlds, do we generate the substance by which it may be done. The more substance that is generated the more easily it is done, and we discover that the yoke is in fact easy. We have long experience of the hard yoke and we are inclined to say that life is hard, there are so many difficulties, so many problems, so much to be afraid of, so many terrible people who are going to cause us all kinds of trouble. Well there are lots of things going on in the world all right, but what are we going to do about it? Are we going to begin to take charge, spiritually speaking? Here is the realm of spiritual expression for which we are responsible.
We are concerned to fill our worlds full, pack them tight, with this spiritual substance; and when this spiritual substance is there our worlds will be transformed. The processes of transformation could stimulate critical attitudes, but not if you are enfolding your worlds and protecting them, loving them. Here is the second great commandment beginning to emerge. We are here to keep the world safe, not for democracy but for the Creator, and for the purpose for which there is a world in the first place. We share this responsibility. We begin to understand what it is when we accept our true position, instead of trying to find it somewhere where it isn't. Coming again into place, we share the responsibility of enfolding our worlds, with others who do likewise, and we discover increasingly that the yoke is easy and the burden light.
© emissaries of divine light
