The Ark — Holy Essences Preserved
Davina Misroch March 19, 2023 London, England
Today I’m going to be capturing essences. Here is a Tabernacle, a Holy Place. Here we stand in the Presence of the LORD to deliver His Word—to us, through us and beyond. “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” [1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV]
Here is the promise! How do I love the LORD? In the deep, quiet recesses of my heart there is a holy place, inviolate, yielded. Here, in that place, is Divine Control, true government of Spirit. If I examine this, I must ask: “Is it steadfast, is it stable, is it continual? Is it a whole or just a partial experience? Am I fully relinquishing my personal hold and assuming the stance of simple stewardship under His direction, letting the Father within do the works?” To the degree that there is total surrender in total trust to the LORD, to that extent my creative field, my world, the responding ones everywhere are returned to Him.
The Holy Place is to be kept inviolate. There must be enough generation of spiritual substance to hold the Vibrational Hedge of the Holy Place. Is it just a small place in the deep, quiet recesses of my heart that is pure and inviolate? How much space is there internally and externally for this Holy Place? To dwell “in the Secret Place of the Most High”, and to make “the LORD … the most High” … one’s “habitation”, as it is said in Psalm 91, takes an obedient mind and a pure heart, that holds the heavenly atmosphere in stability, consistency and balance.
In the Book of Genesis, the instruction was given to Noah: “Make thee an ark.” This initial ark related to an ark of survival so that not all of the human race would be wiped out. It was devoted to the survival of form. Later, a cycle was initiated at the time of Moses who built another ark, made of acacia wood gilded entirely with gold, called the Ark of the Covenant which was a symbol of the Israelites’ special relationship with God. This represented something else beyond survival so that there might be some meaning to survival, to the purpose of form.
The Ark of the Covenant in these times is one of restoration where the pure and holy essences are preserved, kept holy, sacred, inviolate, a space held safe, where the Design of Spirit is present. The emphasis is on essences rather than form, establishing and preserving essences so that an ark of preservation and of restoration may be a reality on earth. This Ark—the Ark of Restoration—is our responsibility.
How trustworthy am I in preserving this sacred space within myself for the Design of Spirit, holding it safe and never, never letting it be violated? No one can keep sacred this space in me except me. We all have equal responsibility in this. If there is a sacred place in us as individuals it is because we have preserved it, and its preservation is what is primary as we go about our daily affairs.
“Individually it is necessary that those who participate in the living formation of the ark should have this space present within themselves where no human nature structures of control may trespass. This is kept safe individually speaking. Only when it is kept safe individually speaking does it become possible to keep a larger space sacred collectively speaking.” “That essence of the ark is kept safe within ourselves as individuals or there is no ark.” [“The Preservation of Essences” Martin Cecil October 21, 1979]
The Tabernacle takes form around the Ark. The Ark must be present for the Tabernacle to be a reality. The Ark is the focus of spirit for what takes form, and we form the Ark of restoration to restore all things to the LORD.
The composition of this Ark is a living ark, it is composed of people. It includes those who are conscious and many who are not so conscious but are handling their responsibilities with uprightness: honour, integrity and honesty—all participating in the expression of the spirit of God at whatever level and in whatever way.
All are essential to the ark, even if they are completely unconscious of the reason why they are in the ark. Those who do see, who understand, or begin to, have the greater responsibility because they have the greater privilege of vision.
As we stay humble and appreciative for all those who reveal the qualities of the spirit of God at whatever level we extend encompassment. Through them there is a focus of the spirit of God in action. We can trust them. Can they trust us? Whatever they do is futile unless there is a focus of conscious understanding and doing. When there is that, then restoration is possible.
The invitation has been extended over decades to relinquish everything of the human world, to “Come out of her, my people.” [Revelation 18:4] The command has come again: Finish the Work! I respond strongly in spirit, but what about action? If I’m honest, I still note areas where I feel the pull of addictive behaviour to the hypnotic and intoxicating effect of the human nature world, the fallen state of man’s world. Some addictions are obvious, others more subtle. I caution myself to be watchful, alert. The stimulation of externals is everywhere, and it produces addictive behaviour. We have a deliberate choice as to whether we are to be subject to, whether we are to be governed by, external stimuli. To the extent that we are subject to such stimulation we remain in darkness and are governed by that over which we rightly have dominion.
Stability comes because we are centred in the stable spirit of God. To the extent of that centring, we do not lose our balance and we are not thrown by, or dependent on, any external events. Even if we stumble or occasionally “fall off our horse”, as Roger de Winton would say, we can get back on our horse, regain our centring in Spirit and find ourselves restored to equilibrium.
There must be a firm hand which says “No” to the addictive behaviour, “No” to the stimulation of externals, and, especially in these days, it definitely takes a certain amount of discipline to move towards the point of stability. The choice is ours: we can either be addicted to human nature or to experience the truth—one or the other. We have that freedom of choice, but if we persist in choosing to sustain the addictions of human nature, the truth is rejected. To choose the truth we have to let go of the addiction, and no longer imagine we are free to indulge in it, no longer give way to it. We can’t have both.
It is not just a matter of hearing and seeing, merely being aware of what is going on and what needs to be done: the responsibility is the doing. It has no value unless we are doing it, and willingly. And, until we emerge out of our own state of addiction, our own subjection to the stimulation of externals so that it is no longer allowed to control, we cannot provide what is necessary for others to do likewise.
“There must be a willingness to participate in this true creative process which is not concerned to preserve the world at all, the world as it is now known, but is simply concerned to preserve a holy space in which the spirit of God may be present and in action through the essential spiritual substance.” [“The Preservation of Essences” Martin Cecil October 21, 1979] The choice is stark: As Martin has said: “Choose God or choose the absence of God. Choose the truth or choose a lie.” In choosing God, choosing the Kingdom, choosing the KING above all else, here is the Spirit of the Single Eye: my love, my passion. “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” [Matthew 6:22]
Here are some essential quotes from a service by Martin Exeter from March 27, 1983, titled “The World To Come”
“What sort of a gatekeeper are you for what enters your consciousness?” “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked; that is the human state.” “Only with thine eyes”—not with your heart, not with your emotions. The very moment you become emotionally involved with these things you have allowed corruption to come into the holy place of your own consciousness.”
“Let the consciousness be kept holy, so that the heart is pure … welcome nothing else but the heavenly consciousness. There is no judgment in heaven. There is no condemnation in heaven, no reason for it. Let it be so in our consciousness, that we may participate in the continuing creative cycle by which the world to come comes. It cannot do so if we keep betraying it, and we betray it every time we allow motivations to come into our consciousness and give them our emotional support, motivations which have little or nothing to do with the heavenly state, motivations which have earthly origins. The world to come is coming. Who shall be included in the world to come? Those who let themselves be included in the consciousness of the Creator of that world, and those who include that Creator in their own consciousness consistently, so that there is never a break. As this becomes absolute then the statement is fulfilled: “Behold, I come quickly,” bringing my world with me, in which are included all who accept that state of consciousness. Nothing shall enter in that defiles or works abomination or makes a lie. If we are inclined to defile and work abomination and make lies, we do not enter in. But if we are a faithful gatekeeper, in our own state of consciousness, then we may participate in what has been described as the new heaven and the new earth, the world to come, which is and has been in the process of coming, thus far, for nineteen centuries.”
“We are invited to dwell in the garden in our own consciousness where we may exercise the duties of a gatekeeper. And sharing in the heavenly consciousness, the world to come comes quickly. Praise the Lord!
”How effective is my mind operating as The Guardian Angel, the gatekeeper for my Holy Place? Am I maintaining my consciousness in the Holy Place, keeping the container holy, inviolate, or am I opening my Holy Place to the corruption all around? Is my response stable and consistent according to the First Commandment, or is it pulled off into the realm of effects? Is there vacillation between the two? Moment by moment, where is the control point? What am I giving myself to? Wherever the control point is, that is what I am subject to, attuned to. Whatever I am attuned to ‘has me’. Neatly put: ‘To be open to the divine, one has to be closed to that which isn’t.’
This has been stated another way too: ‘We cannot serve God and Mammon’—the holy state and the worldly state. To have one foot in the Holy Place and the other foot in the realm of effects, man’s world, the mind-made world, the unreal, is vacillating between the two. This is doublemindedness. Here is a divided state and wherever we see or experience this, we find a house divided against itself—and a house divided against itself cannot stand. As Uranda has taught: Love response to the LORD, obedience and devotion, must be one-pointed, it cannot be divided. It has to be proved out by relinquishing ‘false gods’ and no longer worshipping them, physically, mentally or in the feeling realm.
Are we coming all the way through or are we still in the Borderland? Here is a quote from a transcript titled “Borderland” by Uranda, from October 16, 1947: “He who looks back overmuch to the kingdom of the prince of this world will find himself moving outward from the Borderland and slipping back across the boundary into the realm of the prince of death. He whose eyes are steadfastly set upon that of true citizenship in the Kingdom cannot be turned aside by conditions or circumstances or by what any may think or say or do.” And in another service: “We either move toward God, in the fulfilment of His will, or we move away from God toward oblivion.”
What does it take to yield to the Spirit of the Single Eye? It takes everything—everything! All of me. Relinquishing all. Full reverence and devotion to the First Commandment. This is what it takes to finish the work—individually and collectively. Isn’t that why we are here? To let the LORD’s Light shine through us to all the Kingdoms of His Earth? Isn’t that the only means by which the resurrection can come—in my consciousness, in your consciousness? If my Eye be single, my whole body shall be full of Light. If the Eye of His Body be single, His Body shall be full of Light; and the Veil thins, unveiling what is true, letting disintegrate what isn’t.
“The Word is with us continually, even unto the end of the world. When does the world end? When it is no longer present in consciousness. “We are concerned with the end of the world.” [“The World To Come” Martin Exeter from March 27, 1983] Let His Kingdom come.
The Spirit of the Womb, the place of Truth, the place of gestation, is where the Invisible is kept safe, protected. Here is where the safe place must be in which spiritual substance is preserved. Here abides Wisdom, and the fitness of things, appropriateness, and the next natural steps in the unfolding Creative Process appear from.
In my experience I have known within me many things that will need to be born, to emerge, in the outer, in time. Grabbing hold of the inner feeling and seeking self-actively to actualize it easily aborts a cycle. In patience and tranquillity “divine navigation” governs and controls. We choose. That is how His Kingdom comes. It cannot come on any other basis.
In a service Nancy Rose Exeter gave at the 100 in 1987 she said this: "As we remain trustworthy, as we remain in that appropriate arc, so that we don't separate ourselves for self-centered reasons, ever, then we participate together, male and female, so that the whole spectrum is present in attuning the world, attuning whatever may be in our individual worlds. All of these things that come to us then are indeed felt, but we are stable. We remain in the stance of the one who attunes, the one who is radiant, so that all of these things can move and come into balance and alignment as they should."
When I am in true oneness with the LORD, I know the experience of being the connecting link. In my home, there is one space in particular where the seamlessness of the oneness of being with the LORD comes to focus: that is in my kitchen. In the quietness, tranquillity, my ‘very small’ kitchen is vast. In the simple preparation of food, the flow of what is above translates from the Invisible into the visible, appearing in the outer, creatively, with precision and to perfection. There is great joy in that. When asked ‘What did you put in that dish?’ In that moment I smile quietly to myself and answer “I don’t know!” It truly is unique and different every time. In this apparently small but significant circumstance, through the reality of the flow of Spirit I know the experience of “Behold, I make all things new”.
As we as a Body continue to integrate, we are One together, and the experience of the connecting link becomes ever more present and increasingly known. Within myself I sense a fusion going on—a top down, bottom-up fusion occurring. It is in a quiet internal place—a reunion of the Inner Realms of the Invisible and the Outer Realms of the Visible. It is experienced over time as a move from two distinct directions into one that melds together at yet a higher point, and, along with it, a slow but noticeable dissolving of the distinction.
“As I AM lifted up, I shall draw all men unto Me” takes on new meaning in a vibrational sense, as the process is allowed to continue uninterrupted in an unbroken line. The resurrection and the restoration is proceeding, the real resurrection, Here, Now. What is happening is happening to the whole body of mankind, no exceptions. All are participating in the resurrection or in the disintegration of what has existed in the experience of human beings until now. This nightmare state is passing away. We either identify ourselves with the nightmare state and pass away with it or we allow ourselves to move in the resurrecting process.
There is a vision that has been with me for a very long time, a vision seen from the inner eye. It appears as a collective of angels in formation, a latticework, a garland of gossamer vibration connecting one to another like a web along delicate, beautiful lines, held between angels individually and in constellations. There begins to be a spiritual coronation of blessing being laid on all the kingdoms of this world. As this becomes a reality, then all earth is restored to our KING.
Robert Merriman — We have noted the words “gossamer lattice.” Gossamer—it’s very, very delicate, and we’ve been entrusted by the LORD with delicate, precious substance. I sense our shared rejoicing, and give utterance to it, and yet at the same time note that my response and steadfastness … is required as this delicate substance is allowed to continue to develop into strong sinew, upon which the world can be drawn, as all is returned to the One we serve.
Davina Misroch — Thank you Robert; thank you everybody. Gossamer latticework. The reforming of the capstone, strengthening, taking shape ever stronger. The KING and the QUEEN have been present all along. There has never been a time when the QUEEN has not been here, though virtually unknown, and probably very wisely kept hidden. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-her-alone_16.html] Leave her alone! But leave her alone to blossom. Let her true radiance come forth because there is a safe place for it to do so. And that safe place can only be brought by her angels, male and female, to create that safe place. Thankful are we, now to be, filled with praise, LORD to Thee; so shall our living bless the earth. Thankful are we Holy KING, Holy QUEEN. Aumen.
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