The Spiritual Point Of Orientation
Martin Cecil December 11, 1983 p.m.
Distrust is evident, even rampant, the world around between individual human beings, between groups of people, certainly between nations, coming to a particular climax in the inability to communicate. There is one element which maintains the state where communication in any true sense is virtually impossible, where distrust is inevitable—that missing factor is an accepted point of spiritual orientation. This morning we were aware of the creative triangle putting in an appearance within the range of our own experience. There was a line drawn upon the earth; there was an apex to that base established in the heaven. This had meaning and was indeed a reality because those at each end of the base, the line drawn upon the earth, recognized and accepted the apex point of spiritual orientation. The consequence of that was peace on earth, insofar as those who were present each end of the base line were concerned. Communication was easy and natural, but only because of the apex point of spiritual orientation.
It is clear enough that there is no mutual point of spiritual orientation, therefore agreement is impossible and meaningful communication is impossible insofar as the human state of affairs is concerned. There has been the endeavor to make the world work without an apex point of spiritual orientation. This was what was lost at the point of what has been called the fall. Human beings decided that they could get along, quite well thank you, without any mutual point of spiritual orientation. This has been the case all down through such history as we know, to this very hour, and while there have been attempts to provide some sort of point which would be an apex in which the nations could trust, it has never been achieved, because this point was set up by human beings themselves. The true point of orientation is not set up by human beings. It is already a reality; it is already there. It has been most thoroughly denied in a practical sense, and so there is division, discord and conflict—it’s bound to be that way.
We have experienced a certain amount of division, discord and conflict even within what we speak of as the emissary family. We could say that there has been less of that than is usual in family situations, but it has been there nevertheless, and it has been there just to the extent that there was a failure to acknowledge a mutual point of spiritual orientation. It’s more than mental acknowledgment that is required; those who are associated with the emissary ministry very shortly made some sort of a mental acknowledgment that there was a point of spiritual orientation. Not everybody did this, and some challenged that point from time to time, which was all right. Anybody can challenge, but it doesn’t do any good in the end if there is a true point of spiritual orientation present. One of the things that was done in the human world was to try to set up something of this nature, associated with the human idea of God, through the original Christian church—the attempt was made in other ways in other religions also. But this view required someone, the pope in this instance, to provide a supposedly spiritual point of orientation for everybody. Evidently human beings in general thought they could get away with that by claiming that here was something that provided orientation in God, but factually it did not. It was a human invention. Christianity itself is a human invention.
The One who came and revealed the way, the truth and the life in His own expression did not come in order to set up a religion. He came to provide, initially at least, a manifest point of spiritual orientation for everyone. That had to start where He was, with those who were present next to Him; and this was done. The provision was made insofar as He was concerned but was not adequately acknowledged, beyond some mental acceptance, on the part of other people. If it had been acknowledged in the true sense we wouldn’t have had these two thousand years of tribulation since—but it wasn’t. So we are here now in this situation, which is consequent upon the fact that that initial point of spiritual orientation was denied, and in manifest form eliminated. The net result was that there was no spiritual point of orientation anymore on earth. Evidently the disciples endeavored to pick up the pieces, but they still found themselves incapable of providing a unified point of spiritual orientation. It wasn’t long before they were all at sixes and sevens with each other—the common human habit. So someone along the way later thought up the idea of establishing a church and a religion which would indeed be universal—but it was humanly invented and humanly set up, based in earthly heredity, the heredity that came down from the disciples. It came out of the past, in other words. Some may have claimed that it originated with Jesus—some of it did perhaps—but if something is oriented in the past it’s not real.
Your spiritual orientation is always of the present. There is no valid spiritual orientation which can be gleaned out of the past. It must be in the present—it’s the only time that spirit is present after all. It’s present now. It’s present in this now. It may have been present in that now, but that now is not this now. So it must be in this now. We recognize this and acknowledge the necessity of spiritual orientation now. We ourselves recognize that necessity, and over the years there has been the development of a certain trust in what was made available in this regard. The trust has been sufficient to allow for the experience of friendship which we now have, not only between you and me but between all of us.
Spiritual orientation is the one ingredient that is essential to peace on earth. “Peace on earth, goodwill to men.” But how? Well, “Glory to God in the highest.” We know that. Glory to God in the highest. In other words there is a high point, a spiritual point, which only has meaning when it is in expression within the range of our experience. There always has been a spiritual high point, obviously so, and people have tried to worship that high point somehow by seeing it above, wherever “above” is; but everybody had a different idea about it. It only begins to become real when it is in expression within the range of human experience. It was real by reason of Jesus. That reality has been at work within the range of human consciousness ever since, at work subconsciously—because the conscious ideas that people had about it were for the birds! It’s a good way of describing what has happened with all the mishmash of Christian doctrine, humanly invented. We would say, “Forget it!” Well most people can’t forget it, at least not right away, because it’s built into their very genes. But gradually there needs to be a relinquishment, and we have found this to be occurring in ourselves. It’s not merely a Christian thing either. It relates to all human beings everywhere. Everybody has so much to relinquish, and nobody is going to do it in one fell swoop.
It may be done to the extent that there is factually present a spiritual point of orientation which would always prove itself out as to whether it was trustworthy or not. From the standpoint of what has been occurring in our own program it has taken fifty years for the spiritual point of orientation to be sufficiently accepted as being trustworthy, that there might be orientation ever more fully in it. There are those who think of that in terms of orientation in a person. It isn’t orientation in a person, it’s orientation in the truth—but there must be a person on hand who reveals that truth. If there is no person on hand to reveal that truth, nobody can orient to the truth; the truth remains unknown. This is the way it works. From our standpoint I didn’t set it up that way, you didn’t set it up that way, but that’s the way it works. There needs to be an acknowledgment of the way it works in our own experience.
It doesn’t relate merely to one person. It relates to what it is that is being born on earth through many. What is being born is a spiritual point of orientation to which there may be an increasing evidence of acknowledgment and acceptance. The acknowledgment and acceptance is of the spiritual point of orientation. The spiritual point of orientation is far more than one person. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-voice-sounds-through-my-composite.html] It was one person in the person of Jesus. There had to be a point of initiation, and it was initiated then. But it was rejected then, and there has been an endeavor to pick up the pieces since. It can’t be done, because the orientation must always be in the present moment. Now is the appointed time. This is the present moment for us. It isn't next week; it wasn’t last week. It’s right now! And the spiritual point of orientation is present right now. We have some experience of this, some association with it, some fusion with it. There certainly is no fusion with it unless there is trust. Well no one is expected immediately to provide blind trust. There has to be sufficient divesting of self-centered motivations to reach a point where there may be a beginning recognition of the reality of the truth that is present. Only when there is that awareness beginning to flood the person’s consciousness is there a base for trust. It isn’t trust in a concept, it isn’t belief in some manifest idol; it is an awareness of the spirit of truth. It is our awareness of the spirit of truth that has allowed us to associate ourselves with that spirit and consequently to provide a means for its expression. The spirit of truth is not so niggardly that it can only appear through one person. Human beings were designed to accommodate the spirit of truth—all of them.
As this point of spiritual orientation puts in an appearance and a line is drawn upon the earth—there is agreement on earth. Immediately there is a basis of communication and agreement, which is totally lacking when those concerned are trying to make it work on this horizontal plane with just a base—there isn’t anything there. There must be an apex. In this sense there must be three points. There must be a common point of mutual acceptance. That common point is not some arbitrarily established dictatorship; human beings have tried this out over and over again; it doesn’t work. It is a spiritual point of orientation. For human beings who are merely on the base, it’s an invisible point of orientation; but it only begins to work when that invisible point takes form. Then there’s no excuse for anyone actually, even though most do not realize it to start with. It might be said, “You either orient in the truth or else!” Well that’s the fact of the matter, but we wouldn’t put it quite that blatantly to start with. We have known that is the fact of the matter for ourselves. If we don’t let it happen in us, that’s it insofar as we are concerned; we’re through! Unless it happens in the world, the world is through. But it can only happen when there is this manifest point of spiritual orientation actually present—when that is a fact. We have noted this and we have offered ourselves to provide the facility by which this may be present.
Someone has to do it. Who is going to do it? Only those who begin to awaken to the fact that this is what is necessary. Would you expect the pope to do it, for instance, or the Vatican?—expanding it a little. I am sure you are aware that there are things going on there that are not exactly the evidence of a spiritual point of orientation. One might say the same thing with respect to ourselves. There are things going on in our family which are not a revelation of the fact of a spiritual point of orientation in which everybody can trust—but I suppose you could also say this is the best we have. We can’t write it off because there are things of that nature still present. We have a certain amount of trust in the spirit of truth, do we not?
The spirit of truth calls all things to remembrance and allows for the purifying of the waters of human consciousness, the waters which symbolize the substance of consciousness, both at the level of self-consciousness and below that level. The purification is needed. A centering in the spirit of truth makes that possible. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/11/art-thou-master-of-israel.html] Birth must be of water—not only of water but of the spirit. Well the spirit is the spirit of truth. As this purification occurs, so that there begins to be something stable and factually trustworthy, then it is safe to allow an intensification of fire. The fire is the next step, isn’t it? The fire isn’t safe—it’s destructive—unless there is the stable point of orientation provided by the spirit of truth. If that is not there, then the fire is destructive, and we can envision it quite easily in terms of thermonuclear war—fire is then destructive. Even that possibility does not indicate that everything is not still under control.
The truth works. It’s human beings who get in the way of that working, and either stop getting in the way or find themselves being eliminated. All useless things are ultimately eliminated, and if mankind becomes a completely useless thing then it’s right and proper that it should be eliminated. We do not see this as something separate from our own human experience—we’re part of that too. We need to reach a point where we are quite willing that that should be so. We find ourselves being eliminated somewhere along the way in the human sense anyhow. Why not let it all come with a big bang then, get it over with? One needs to be open to that, so that there is no resistance to it—it may be just what is needed, so don’t resist it. Because you don’t resist it you begin to find, as we have found, that there is something present which cannot be eliminated. We could call that the truth, and if in our own experience that composes our identity, then it may be said that we cannot be eliminated. Human forms come and go, but there is something beyond that, which we have been speaking of as the truth.
We are here to let the truth be present so that it may be apparent in form, providing this point of spiritual orientation for all who will receive it. There are those who are receiving it. We couldn’t have had the line drawn upon the earth if there were not those who were receiving it; and because they are receiving it the evidence of agreement is there, the evidence of peace on earth to this extent. This is the way it works. So we have the responsibility of providing this trustworthy, stable point of orientation consistently, now and in all the nows to come. Doing that, we discover that the design of things reveals itself. Here is the base of the creative triangle. Nobody thought it all out—what all the great significance of it would be—but it has significance if it emerges by reason of this spiritual point of orientation. Without that, there is nothing. This has become quite apparent to us, so that we are very much concerned to allow this point to be a reality. We are not really interested in ending up with nothing. I personally would not like to have to accept the fact that I have lived a life of seventy years or so and ended up with nothing. Are any of you interested in that? Let’s have something, for a change. So we share the truth and the spiritual point of orientation. Without that there is nothing; but with that there is something, and that something becomes apparent—the design becomes increasingly apparent.
There are points along the base all over the place who mutually accept the spiritual point of orientation. It’s an interesting thing that those who compose the points of the base are the ones who also provide the spiritual point of the apex, because the triangle is one thing—it’s not three separate points with lines in between—it is one living manifest organism, and all concerned are in position to provide what is necessary at the three points. We are interested in letting more people provide what is necessary at those three points. We are not anxious to have it all to ourselves; it wouldn’t work anyway. Let it emerge. Let it be born increasingly. It will be, not because human beings rally around and say, “Let’s let it be born,” but because they can’t prevent it. And these things are happening very often in spite of us rather than because of us. I think we are accepting “because of us” a little more—we are not standing in the way quite so much. We are more willing to let it happen, let it come.
Once there is this spiritual point of orientation, let it come! Let’s balance the books. Let’s let it wind itself up as speedily as possible—a very painful business right now everywhere, isn’t it? Let’s get it over with because we provide that spiritual point of orientation. And it is done in our living moment by moment by moment; that is the only place we can do it. It doesn’t matter what our circumstances are, that’s where we do it. The only circumstances we have are the ones that are there; no use dreaming about better ones. What would better ones be anyway? No, what happens happens now, the way things are now; and we are willing, surely, to let it happen now, so we would at last gain some modicum of common sense. Sharing this, the world has opportunity to find orientation. Human beings everywhere, whether consciously or unconsciously, have the opportunity to find that orientation. We may observe that it is happening in various ways and there are those who are moving with it. Sometimes a person who moves with it thinks he has great ideas and he’s doing this and doing that and things are really rolling. That’s not what’s happening in fact; it’s just that person’s interpretation of things. But there is something underneath moving, moving, moving, and human beings are carried along with it. To the extent that they are too heavily laden they sink.
Associating ourselves with that fluid movement, all things work together to perfection because there are those present providing the spiritual point of stable orientation, those who are in fact trustworthy. Whether they are trusted or not is another question of course, but there need to be those who can be trusted so that it is possible for somebody to trust. We can look in the mirror, look in the jadestone a little, and see to what extent we are really trustworthy. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/02/come-out-of-hiding.html] So I am delighted to have the opportunity of sharing what we have, that we may be keenly aware of our spiritual responsibility.
© emissaries of divine light
