Resistance — Natural And Unnatural
Martin Cecil May 2, 1980 Assembly
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” The Lord and His angels incarnate in human form now say, “Let us make man.” The situation is different now than what it was before because it is a matter of re-creation; it is no longer a matter of starting from scratch, so to speak. The creation is already here. But human beings collectively are not man, so there needs to be re-creation. In one sense the situation is more difficult than it was before, because human consciousness is here in its present state, and capable and seemingly determined to resist the re-creation. Initially there was no resistance in the sense of opposition.
The creative process engenders creative resistance otherwise there would be no creation, but not the sort of resistance that is now a fact on earth by reason of the state of human consciousness. The true resistance is quite willing to let something happen, and provides what is necessary so that the form may appear. Human resistance is not at all willing to let the creation take place under the hand of the Lord and will do everything possible to frustrate it. However, the Lord, and the angels of the Lord putting in an appearance on earth, must obviously work with and in and through the state of consciousness that is present, even though there is unnatural resistance.
This resistance, both the natural kind and the unnatural kind, have been present in our association over the last three weeks of this Assembly. Now, this is a fact of human existence with which I have been faced, and all those who have assumed particular responsibility in a point of focus have also faced. I certainly do not object at all to the natural resistance, because this is needful in the creative process. We could not move our physical bodies at all if it was not for the fact that there were resistant elements present—muscles opposing muscles—but they learn to function in coordination, which is what permits the creative process to occur. When we have a cramp and the muscles become rigid it is not only very painful but you can’t move, nothing can happen. That is an illustration of unnatural resistance.
Unless we have this yielded and natural movement together we really don’t have anything. So a particular setting is provided, we all put in personal appearance, and we all are within range of each other so that something may be allowed to move, something which thus far has not moved. There is something specific that up to the point of this session putting in an appearance hadn’t yet moved, and so the Assembly was provided to let that something move. That is what we’re all here present for, really. We have something to say—Lillian has something to say, Grace has something to say, and various other ones who offer themselves in this Assembly setting have something to say, in order that something might move easily between us.
Some of you, I know, have been aware of a certain stickiness—a molasses condition in January, more or less—and it is not because there is not a great desire to let something happen. The only way that anything happens is to the extent that there is a letting go, a yielding to what the pulsations actually are that are moving. Only when there is lightness and ease does anything happen. So, while we may consider some matters of state that appear from the human standpoint to be serious matters, and at times more delicate matters that we’re a little concerned about for other reasons, nonetheless this spirit of lightness and openness and yieldedness is something that needs to prevail consistently. We have heard something about consistency before, and the vital importance of it.
So we have the opportunity of association now to be taken advantage of because we have very a close-in opportunity here by reason of being present all of us together in person. It seems that this is necessary to allow something to happen in spirit. All too many have assumed that close personal contact ensures close spiritual contact. This is not necessarily the case at all; in fact, on many occasions I’ve noted that it mitigates against it. But we do have this personal association. We do need to develop something between us, certainly, but because we are providing something together. It’s not an inward-looking thing; it’s actually an outward-looking thing. In handling our spiritual responsibilities as an Assembly we can be aware of the field of our ministry in the world, not as a sort of vague lump of human consciousness, coming to point of course in individual people, but we may see it from the standpoint of those individual people, so that what is offered is offered so that there may be a movement upward, insofar as those people are concerned, to receive what is necessary at our hand. That will open a door for people everywhere to begin to emerge out of their human nature state.
Here is a breaking up of structures in human consciousness, and we welcome that. But as is usual with human nature, it tends to swing to extremes. And we see there are people who are being compelled in one way or another to take certain stances, which are all included in the creative changes that are occurring in the consciousness of mankind. We’re not going to go around picking and choosing the stances that we think we can accept and the ones that we think we must reject. All these things are going on in the consciousness of people, and we’re concerned with the people. And then they take this attitude or that attitude, but you know that such things can change. We’re simply there to provide the point of orientation, and there are those who respond to it, and the results of that response appear in form in various ways.
We’re not so much concerned with the form. The form is revealing of the fact that there are some changes occurring in the states of consciousness of people. Those changes will be altogether destructive if there is no point of orientation for the operation, and so we see our responsibility in this regard together, that by reason of this Assembly and all that is represented here, we have a hand on everything that is happening and our inheritance keeps being brought to us. This morning various things were brought before us which may allow us to pour the water of truth in the creative cycle into our field of responsibility, because we ourselves have a balanced understanding of what it is that’s happening and we’re not thrown by reason of the fact somebody somewhere goes off half-cocked. There are a lot of people doing that, and a lot more are going to do it, but here is the evidence of something breaking up. We hold the centering point steady.
We’re able to do this to the extent that we are with one accord in one place now. If we are together in the present moment and moving in the current of the spirit, in the creative cycle as it is in focus now, then we participate in a very strong compulsion relative to the consciousness of mankind as a whole. Our best opportunity for this is in this particular hour—we’re “on live.” It is something that is happening in the moment. Now the difficulty has been that there hasn’t been all that much ability yet to function in the current of the spirit live, in the moment, and there is attunement with a certain amount of lag. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/04/flow-of-spiritflow-in-formunprecedented.html] I suppose it could be said that because of this seeming lag, that people get more accustomed to attunement with the lag state than with the live state. But if you’re going to move live something is required of you now, now, now, now.
One could always be grateful for those who were there at the live point, but it has never occurred yet that there were those present at the live point who were actually with one accord in one place, and who actually would move as freely in that situation, which was something totally new. So there is a distinction between the experience of something live and the experience of something secondhand, but there is vastly more needful to be known at the time of the live experience than has yet occurred. Even from the standpoint of your past experience when it has been live, and from your present experience while it is live now, something is opening up fresh and there needs to be movement together in this for it to be effective. I’m not opening it up for you, properly speaking, although there has been the tendency to have this attitude on your part very often. It is simply being opened up with you. It’s being opened up together, so that there is the need for very flexible substance if this is to happen. And the finer the substance is the more easily it moves. If we get stuck down in the coarse substance here, it’s a plodding experience. And there have been occasions when it has been rather a plodding experience even in these hours that we have shared together. It is loosening up a little I’m thankful to say. But let it be a live experience. It’s live for me; I move around a little, flap my wings; but you too, so that you don’t sink into somnolence. The spirit is moving, it’s operational, life is here, and there is obviously something then to be shared when we are open and willing and develop the ability to do so. But we develop that ability during the time when we have the opportunity of doing something.
There is some consideration of the matter of hearing and doing. Usually the human view of things is that one hears now and does later—that’s the usual approach to almost anything in the world. You buy it now and pay later. But it all needs to be together, cash on the barrel head. We can’t operate our ministry on credit in this sense; there has to be the substance right there, not an imagery substance. And so we have been concerned to generate the substance so the substance might be right there. And when it is right there, the spirit is right there, and we know it, we have the experience. The tape is in here [taps his head]. If there’s nothing been recorded in here nothing has happened. And when there is a happening of this nature then there is a capability of participating consistently even though we may not be together in person.
Clearly enough, we can’t all be together in person all the time; but we’re all together in fact in spirit, and this fact is known when there is unified substance to accommodate that spirit. There’s been a lot of talk about being together in spirit which has been just so much talk; it wasn’t the fact at all, because it wasn’t possible of experience. The substance which would allow it to be known wasn’t there. But as the substance is there accommodating spirit, then we are together in spirit. It’s the spirit that unifies, but we must have the substance, otherwise it’s unknown. So we have shared in a certain generation of this substance to the extent that we were alive, to the extent that we were moving together, to the extent that it was a delight, because the actual experience of the reality is a joy.
The Master himself emphasized that point. He offered to share His joy. Well the picture of him as a rule, I think, is of a very solemn person, a very troubled person, wandering around, which of course is a portrayal that has been based in an unbalanced view of him. The fact that it is unbalanced has been emphasized recently, and Grace has mentioned this, by reason of the Gnostic Gospels, which paint a totally different picture of him. I don’t suppose that is balanced either; it takes it all put together. And it isn’t a picture rightly anyway. We need to be acquainted with the reality because we are associated with the spirit which was present in form those centuries ago, but the spirit which is still present; it hasn’t gone anywhere—and with which we become acquainted when there is substance available to let it happen. Then we find something very different in our experience as to the reality of the Master.
We collectively represent him, rightly, and it is on this basis that a balance may appear. But there is a fundamental quality to His spirit which we call love. There is love, and there is the truth of that relative to all levels of our experience, all levels of our being, all levels of our expression. That truth becomes known to us because we actually allow the expression of it. It’s unknown to us if we are merely looking at an image that may inspire us in some fashion to allow something to be known, but the fact that it inspires us is not what is known when we know it. The reality is known in our own expression.
So we share these times together in order that there may be a sensing of unification, that we belong together, and that we have a consciousness of the quality of spirit which we share. It is of a particular nature, and while we all have the opportunity of differentiating it in unique ways, it never changes the spirit which is being differentiated. The differentiation is still part of that same spirit, and it will not be contradictory. So we are letting this happen, to whatever degree. And we are now concluding our third week together; we have one to go, something more to emerge and to be experienced because we share it.
Now this consideration of the female aspect of true being, more particularly this morning when Lillian spoke, and she emphasized the fact that this is no less an aspect of God than the male. In fact Grace has mentioned that in the Gnostic Gospels there is indication that originally it wasn’t only the Father of which mention was made but the Mother too—Father and Mother both, Father and Mother God. Well the way it was distilled into the gospels we have, it came out entirely Father, presumably because the Master himself was male. But that didn’t exclude the female, except in the consciousness of those who developed what is called Christianity. There is a balance here, a proper balance. The concern should be for the female to find out what it means to be a female, and the male to find out what it means to be a male. There is a proper distinction here, a distinction absolutely essential to any truly creative process.
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