Archangelic Action — This Is It!
Martin Cecil September 24, 1978
External changes tend to emphasize themselves to us, but gradually there is a greater sense of the un-changingness in heaven. I do not mean that nothing happens in heaven—it is a very active place—but the angels of God abide in heaven; they do not duck out. Regardless of changes that may occur in the earth, there is a stability, a steadfastness, an abiding, in heaven. As angels we are not separate, regardless of what the conditions may be in the external sense. It might be said that we are never alone, from the standpoint of angelic experience.
We do delight in one another’s external company but, regardless of that, we experience no separation even though there may be miles between in the external sense. Miles—these mysterious entities that are supposed to separate human beings and all the different parts of the universe. What we are aware of in the external sense of the universe is in fact a very small fraction of it. Space is usually thought of as being empty, but far from it. Here is one cohesive entity.
It is considered that there are vast distances, relatively speaking, between atoms in physical substance, and yet from our standpoint we don’t notice it much. There is a wholeness. There is a cohesiveness. There is substance present at all levels of which human beings are aware and far beyond, and so we are no longer fooled by external separation, as it seems to be. This is so to the extent that we do abide in heaven as angels. We can’t abide in heaven on any other basis actually—fortunately indeed, because it wouldn’t stay heaven long if human nature could get in there. So we are thankful for the flaming sword which prevents access to the heavenly experience except on the basis of angelic expression.
We are not excluded from that experience if we are willing to accept the responsibility of angelic expression in our daily living. It may be that there is something to discover in this regard but we are not prevented in any way from discovering it. Theory is of little consequence, although it looms very large in the minds of human beings. It doesn’t matter what theories human beings hold; the truth is regardless, and the theories of human beings very seldom indicate what the truth is. They may occasionally, rather rarely, give a hint.
So we are indeed concerned with actual experience, with angelic expression, whatever that may be. We have become aware of the Tone of it to some extent. We begin to understand what it means to keep our integrity in the expression of that Tone so that we do not become subject to humanly engendered reactions to what is going on around us. It is only as there are those who have sufficient integrity to be true to their awareness of the Tone in their own living that there begins to be something brought to bear upon this human condition which permits changes to occur in human experience. Worldly conditions are simply an effect of a cause of some kind. Let the cause be true and the effect will reflect the fact.
We love to do what we do as angels. In fact as angels we couldn’t do anything else, and we never do what we do on the basis of the fact that we are going to receive appreciation or a reward of some kind. On this basis there can be no control exercised upon us out of the world. We do what we do because it is the right thing to do and we begin to determine what the right thing to do is to the extent that our expression is in fact angelic. When it is then it becomes apparent what the right thing is.
There needs to be an expansion of vision which allows us to encompass a larger field than the immediate one. The immediate one is the important field because that is where we are. It is the core or the centering point for our world, but our world is a great deal larger than the immediate thing we are doing. That world extends in all directions and what we do has an effect therefore in all directions. So in order to determine what the right thing to do is there must be a sufficient awareness of the larger scene. This larger scene will always include others. The world all around is simply an extension of whatever it is that is present at the core of it, and you are present at the core of your world. This is true of each one of us, and therefore what we do at the core is what is extended into the world.
On this basis what may appear to be a little thing is not really a little thing at all. The whole of our world hangs on it. The way we behave, the way we handle what is right next to us, will determine what creative or destructive influence is extended into our world. This is true of all human beings everywhere. Most people don’t know it, so they go ahead and handle their affairs in a destructive way and then wonder that the world around them is a destructive world; and out of that world around them comes back onto them the results of their own behavior at the core of it.
In alignment with the true creative power, the angelic power, there is the power to transform the world. How else are you going to do it? This is a very simple principle, too simple for most people. It is a matter of angelic behavior, to summarize it in a nutshell, and who is the one who is going to provide that angelic behavior? If we have integrity as individuals we say, “Me,” and we do not look at our neighbor, we do not look at somebody over there and say, “Let it be by your hand.” We assume responsibility at the core.
Long ago there was one person who did what was necessary because it was forced upon Him to do it that way as one person. Jesus did not come into the world to do what was required merely as one person. He came into the world to include many, but clearly there was an absolute rejection of that. So proving things out narrowed down to the point where it simply had to be an individual thing—one person—not because He wanted it that way but because that way was forced upon Him. He had the choice I suppose of washing His hands of the whole affair or of accepting the responsibility, but being the One who He was He accepted the responsibility. He had absolute integrity. Now that was fine. It proved something out in the individual sense. It opened a door. But what now needs proving out is a collective matter. It relates to the whole of mankind.
For this to happen requires that there be brought to bear within the body of mankind, relative to the consciousness of that body, the creative power of the angelic or Archangelic expression. If we are talking about something of a collective nature we should upgrade the angel a little to the Archangel. The Archangel is properly the one incarnate in the collective Body by which the angelic behavior may be brought to bear in relationship to the body of mankind.
Here is the creative way, which doesn’t make much sense to the human mind, but what makes sense to the human mind is nonsense insofar as the mind of God is concerned. It is a matter of restoring mankind to the true state of man, made in the image and likeness of God so that there may be a right cause present, and when there is a right cause present the world of effects will reflect it. But in order for that right cause to be present, which includes all of mankind, however many people that may prove to be, there is the necessity for the creative expression of the Archangel to be brought to bear. This can’t be done unless the Archangel has a Body. It must be done at the level where human beings are. The One called Jesus brought something in that regard so that it was present at the human level, but it was rejected then. It has been rejected ever since.
Heaven is here. Heaven and earth were created as one. That discovery is what has been rejected, just as the One who came to reveal it was rejected out of hand. He kept His integrity, praise the LORD, so we have a chance now, but it is something which must be proven out not merely on an individual basis but on a collective basis. If there is to be Archangelic action there must be an Archangelic Body to make it possible. So if we keep our integrity we accept the responsibility of providing that Body. It isn’t something to be organized like the churches of the world. Here is a living organism that puts in an appearance on the basis of the Archangelic spirit. As there are those who accept the responsibility of differentiating that spirit in their own experience moment by moment, then there begins to be a Body, not put together by the human mind, but put together by the creative spirit of God.
That Body is rightly governed by the Archangel. That which composes the Body has no proper will of its own. As human beings we have no rights in that regard, no right whatsoever to do as we please. When human nature passes away as the controlling expression of the person then there begins to be something which permits the experience of the creative expression of the spirit of the Archangel, differentiated through all the incarnate angels who form His Body. The only means by which something new can put in an appearance is by reason of the Archangelic state. We are invited to share something in this regard now if we are willing. There is something coming down from God out of heaven in every moment everywhere, with respect to everyone, but virtually no one knows it. What is coming forth in this sense has no meaning to human beings until it begins to be clothed in some sort of form. We all have a part to play in the process. There is something coming down from God out of heaven in this moment to be experienced on earth by those who are present to experience it.
You and I are included in this configuration by which the experience may be known. You have a part to play. What is present in you and is being lifted to God in this moment is essential if anything is to occur. It’s not as though I could stand up here and bring forth intelligible words if there was no one present. What would be the point? It is because you are present, because you have something to offer, that I can provide a point of connection between what you are offering and what is coming down from God out of heaven. Providing that point of connection then something is brought forth which we all can share.
The part for which you are responsible is an angelic part because as an angel you offer your response, your openness, your yielded heart, your willingness to move, to the LORD. The contact point for that offering centers at the moment in me. There must be a point to which it can come, into which it may center. Then, the other side of me, so to speak, there is whatever it is that is coming down from God out of heaven. If your yielding is such that you offer what is necessary, then what is coming down from God out of heaven can be given some sort of form, because you are providing the substance for the form. There is then creative action in this particular configuration of angels; and because you are all in the flesh, you are all incarnate, this action is not separate from what is occurring in the whole of mankind. We are a part of mankind, so what occurs with us provides a centering point for what is to occur in the whole body of mankind. This is so if we function as we were designed to function. There is a reason for human beings on earth and we are beginning to discover what that reason is.
We provide a Body through which the Archangel may incarnate; and it is the action of the Archangel through the whole collective Body that gets the job done. It requires the collective Body and we have no right to behave in a manner which violates that Body. Our behavior must be absolutely in alignment with the spirit that finds expression through that Body. We have spoken of that as the spirit of the Archangel.
The Archangel is the One who comes in the Name of the LORD. In the body of mankind there are those who may say, “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord”—in other words there may be a yielding and a welcome. If there is, because the individual is saying, “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,” he experiences the blessing. There is something to occur in the world, something that is occurring on an irresistible basis. Human beings back along the way over thousands of years have been offered repeated opportunities to let it happen in an easy way, in what one might call a voluntary way. There comes a point when it must happen—there is time no more.
But let us always remember that this does not mean that we are just going to improve what is here on earth now; not at all—re-creation, restoration, salvation. The former things pass away. We find our traditional human nature selves being dissolved. Let this traditional self pass away now so that the angel coming forth may reveal the creative expression that is necessary in conjunction with all the other angels who are coming forth to reveal this. Then there begins to be an irresistible force on earth against which human nature cannot stand. It will be pushed out of the way one way or another; and no doubt that will prove to be a very painful thing to human nature. We see disintegration occurring in so many ways. Praise the LORD for it.
We can be so occupied with expressing the true Tone of life that the disintegration in a personal sense goes almost unnoticed. We don’t care. We don’t put any weight anymore in the earthly treasure, in the human nature state and all the things the human nature state clings to in order to make itself feel secure. The human nature state is not secure! If we manipulate in such a way as to make ourselves feel secure all we have done is to deceive ourselves. The human nature state is not at all secure—it is in the process of passing away right now. It is all falling apart. It must. In that falling apart the material is provided by which the new form may be brought forth. If there is no material for the new form nothing can be brought forth. If it is all held in these structured states of human nature then there is no substance available to reveal the true state. So it must fall apart, even though it is very painful and unpleasant from the human nature standpoint.
But here is something taking form on the basis of what is provided by the Spirit of the Archangel, through the configuration of angels who represent the Archangel on earth; and the Archangel represents the LORD. The coming of the LORD can only be known on the basis of the whole body of mankind, whatever size that may prove to be. I suspect that it might be a considerably smaller size than it is now in the physical sense.
So we share this responsibility, and we recognize that the LORD was incarnate on earth in the form that was called Jesus. Whatever tradition may say, that is the truth of the matter. He came to offer the opportunity way back then but it was rejected, so some other means of letting it happen had to be worked out and this is it. It is happening now and we have the opportunity of sharing in that happening in a creative sense, that we may participate in the integrative process, which doesn’t stand alone as though one could have nothing but integration. There must be something to integrate. There must be some material available to put together, and that material comes because of the disintegrative aspect of the cycle. So we delight to let it work the way it does and we praise the LORD for the opportunity of sharing the responsibility of all the necessary configurations of angels in a specific sense by which what needs to be done may be done.
There is a great deal going on that you don’t know about. I’m always thankful for that. If I just looked at what I saw going on in the external sense I would have been discouraged long ago! When it doesn’t matter, because you are delighted to express what you are regardless of anyone else, you will never be discouraged.
© emissaries of divine light
