A New Humanity Is Being Born
Birth Out Of The Past Into The Present
Martin Cecil April 19, 1984
I greet all of you who are present here. It is the present moment now—always has been and always will be. That simplifies things considerably. It is a very significant matter, usually overlooked, because human polarity is basically in the past. If one is polarized in the past, one will likely be speculating about the future, because of one's awareness or experience of what one deems to be of the past. It wasn't really of the past though, if it is a personal experience—it was always of the present. However, clearly there is a polarity in the past which is known to all of us.
We have seen this in terms of earthly heredity, human history out of the past; not merely of the things that we may think we know about consciously, but the vast majority of the past is a conditioning element subconsciously. What happened in the past seems to be present with us now in subconscious terms, from memory, from heredity, from history. This burden of the past follows us along and permeates our very flesh. It has seemed always quite difficult for human beings to extricate themselves from the past in order to experience, vividly, what is now present.
The present experience has always been conditioned and colored by what has been carried forward out of the past. We do not see things as they are. We have a blend of past events present with us, and through this fog we observe and experience the present. Yet the present moment is the only reality, when it is unconditioned by anything out of the past. If in our own experience it is conditioned by what has come out of the past and is now present with us subconsciously, our experience of the present moment will be very muted from what it really is—there will be a blanket spread over it. This is the fact, whether we like the idea or not, or whether we try to get rid of it. It is there. But we can become aware that our experience of the present moment is very inadequate because all this paraphernalia out of the past is conditioning what we know of the present. Yet we are all together in the present moment; and we have learned somewhat how to come to point in the present moment in such a setting as this, so that the things of the past do fade somewhat from consciousness, the external world recedes, and the real world begins to come to focus—the real world which is the world of the present moment.
From the human standpoint we have all this hereditary paraphernalia present with us. Whether we appreciate the fact or not, it is there, and it has formed what might be described as a womb. All our living has been from within this womb. We have been surrounded by, and permeated by, the past, as have all human beings. Everyone has been contained in this hereditary womb. It is of such a nature that in fact it hasn't proven to be a womb for the vast majority of people, out of which they might have been born perhaps. It has proven in the end to be a tomb in which they perished. The very genes which are present within us compel toward perishing—a fatal disease, suffered by the whole body of humanity.
So the womb has proven out, in virtually all human experience, to be a tomb in the end. But it can be a womb. I think we ourselves have been discovering this; there is a possibility of being born out of the womb of the past. If you are born out of a womb, the womb has rightly no more significance in the practical sense. You are no longer in it. It may be around somewhere, but you are no longer in it. Being born out of the womb, there is a different state. Presumably it is a more or less comfortable place in the womb; it is a familiar place at least.
There is this womb of the past then, the hereditary, historical past, in which human beings everywhere have been encased. There is certainly the necessity of being born out of this womb. This is the process that is actually in motion insofar as the whole body of mankind is concerned. It is happening now. We ourselves can bear a certain amount of witness to the fact that it is happening, because we have had some experience of factually being born out of the womb of the past into the experience of the present moment. It is not very vivid yet but is something other than what was the past experience, and the usual experience for most people.
The womb only has significance as long as one is in it. It provides the requirements for life in the womb, and human beings are quite familiar with life in this womb. What it would be outside of the womb, having been born from the womb, is quite an unknown quantity, just as unknown as it would be to the babe before it is born. It doesn't know what it is getting into. It knows what it is getting out of, and presumably there is a certain amount of reluctance to that because, after all, it was warm and comfortable and one could exist there. Of course it is not all that comfortable, even in the human sense of a babe in the womb, because for a lot of the time the mother is not comfortable and experiences disturbance of all kinds, which are known in the experience of the babe also, being in the womb.
Out of this womb of the past, humanity is in the process of being born, and if it is a natural birth the head comes first. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-large-upper-room-furnished.html] It doesn't happen all at once. There is in human experience a good deal of stress at the time of birth—the matter of pain to be delivered. We see a certain amount of stress occurring in the world, everywhere, with all people—more violent in some places than others. But still it is not a very comfortable world, on the whole, and something is happening. There is the process of birth in motion, and we ourselves have emerged sufficiently from the womb of the past to be aware of a different state. That different state may seem to have its problems initially. It is not familiar, and sometimes there is the desire to duck back into the womb again—and there are those who do this of course—but stay in the womb too long and you perish. It is a good idea to come out when the time is right. And for us, we have been aware that the time is right. We may see that it is not perhaps as right for others as yet as it is for us, but then the babe isn't born totally all at once. It comes out by degrees—headfirst as a rule; that is the best way. And so it happens in the body of humanity.
Another way of describing it—we may speak of it as resurrection. It is a rising up from a more limited condition into a more unrestricted condition. One's life has been maintained because of one's connections to the past heretofore, which is true of the babe in the womb. It is connected to the mother and shares the mother's bloodstream and is nourished thereby. So it has been in the human state, in the darkness of the womb. But this can be used to advantage as a place from which to be born. That is one of the alternatives. The other is that one can stay in and realize the state as being not a womb but a tomb. This is what has happened, individually speaking, down the ages. It hasn't quite happened yet insofar as mankind as a whole is concerned. But there is the presence of pain to be delivered, right now; and how long the labor will be remains to be seen.
We ourselves have a certain dawning consciousness of the possibility of life beyond the tomb, or the womb, as the case may be. The body of mankind is wrapped up in the past, nourished by what has come out of the past. Great store is put by the things of the past. But that is not applicable if birth takes place. It may seem to be applicable while one is in the womb, but come out of the womb and you are in a totally new state and condition, in a new place altogether, and the old nourishment and sources of nourishment are valueless. Well there is a break to be made. Eventually the cord has to be severed, so that the newborn babe can begin to live on its own without nourishment out of the past.
This is all very descriptive of what is occurring, of which we ourselves in fact have some experience because no doubt we have exhibited some willingness to relinquish our grasp upon the past. Mind you, the past seems to reach out and grab us at times, so that we begin to function once again on the basis of the past, or what is present in the womb. But if we are ever to come clear, to be born in fact, then we cannot depend upon nourishment out of the past. It must be relinquished; for if we try to retain or maintain it we will remain in the womb and eventually perish therein. One must be born at the time appointed if one is to survive. This relates to the whole of mankind, and to each part which composes that whole.
We are all a part of this One Body in the process of emergence, and we get a glimpse of the world into which we are emerging first, apparently. Presumably that indicates a part of the head, and this can be a very exciting experience if we will let it be so. Look! here is something new; here is something freeing and wonderful, a coming out of the very restricted and dark place into an expansive place filled with light. That is what is happening. We can close our eyes to it and try to hold onto the past, but that is a dangerous thing to do. The past is passing away; the first heaven and the first earth are in the process of passing away. Those who try to hold on to the past—mostly this is done subconsciously—find themselves involved in a great deal of violence and destruction, because it is passing away. We see the emotional involvement of people in their past, starkly revealed in the events occurring the world around. The media doesn't report everything that is going on on earth, just selected events which, in the eyes of the media are the significant ones. They may not be the significant ones at all.
In any case, wherever this earthly heredity is strong and people are emotionally involved with it, you have violence, increasingly so. It is one way of taking the earthly heredity out. If one is involved in it one will likely go out with it too. But this is a purifying process. It is much more satisfactory to let it be done naturally and easily, to participate in the process of birth as the babe, not as the placenta. That comes out too, but that is rubbish after the birth has taken place, and should be disposed of. The same sort of thing is happening on the worldly scene, and we all have a part to play. But we play it significantly and valuably just to the extent that we are capable of functioning in the present moment, undisturbed, uninfluenced, untroubled by the past, clear of the past, out of the womb.
Obviously there is a process involved here. Different parts of the babe come out in sequence, but eventually the whole babe is out. We wouldn't speculate at all on the time elements involved here—but we do have a responsibility, personally speaking, because we have a certain awareness of these things and what is happening, not just from the standpoint of theory, looking at it as some sort of observers separate from what is going on. We are a part of what is going on and we have a responsibility in the matter, being concerned rather deliberately with relinquishing our polarization in the past.
So much is deemed to be of value out of the past. It was of value in the womb; we acknowledge that fact; but if we are outside the womb it is of no more value. And we emerge out of the womb into the present moment. We emerge out of the past into the present moment. That is the eternal moment. There isn't any other, ever. Eternal life is right there in the present moment.
We have talked about these things, we have looked at them from time to time, but thus far had rather a minimum of experience. Theoretically, “Yes. Yes, that is right.” We will agree that this is so, but then we go on to something else because the past compels us to do it; and we lose our positioning in the present, we lose our experience of reality, and we find ourselves in the fanciful world once again.
We ourselves, together with the whole body of humanity, are in the process of being born out of the womb. We will prove out, as we go along, as to whether we are a part of the babe or a part of the placenta, the afterbirth. This is true of everybody. We prove out that we are part of the babe because we are no longer being governed and nourished by what is coming out of the past, through heredity individually speaking, or heredity collectively speaking. We tend to repeat, don't we, what has happened in the past. We haven't come out of it yet, entirely.
The Word, or the words, can be spoken now by anyone. It is in the actual experience of what happens, not what we think should happen, not what we think is going to happen. We don't know. The experience necessary is what is in the present moment—that is sufficient. The past is not the source for the future; that is only so when we are in the womb. Outside the womb the present moment is experienced as a new state. Just saying that is one thing, but actually to know it, because real significance is seen and understood and begins to be experienced relative to this, is what allows the birth to occur.
We have done quite a bit of talking about this process of birth before, which can be useful because we are more aligned than we would be if we had not talked about it. Many people are in rather a less fortunate position because they have had no basis for understanding as yet. However, if those who do have a basis of understanding let it happen as it should happen, the head comes out, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-collective-body.html] then the body is going to follow, because it is all connected. So the first fruits of the birth are vitally important. Let the first fruits come on through and the rest will come on through very easily and probably quite quickly.
So we look to the experience, rather than to mere words which describe the experience. I am sure that all of you would say that you are very willing to let it happen, but we will find out how genuine those words are as the actual experience comes. One can be very boastful, can't one, about something that is going to come: “Oh yes. I'll be there, right there, and providing what is necessary.” But when the time comes, what then? Well let's find out, when the time comes.
So we may allow this continuing creative movement to happen in our own experience because we are aware of what the happening is. We described it this morning as birth from the womb of the past, that the womb [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-womb-unto-womb.html] may be proven as being a womb and not, as heretofore, merely a tomb. I am thankful for the opportunity of having greeted all of you here present this morning through these words. And everyone who is present in spirit is so greeted likewise. Whether they are here, or at the other ends of the earth, makes absolutely no difference.
© emissaries of divine light
Birth to Come
Don Hynes
Under the night sky
life force surges,
waterfalls of energy
falling like rain
on the awaiting earth.
Owls awake
in forest darkness,
hooting their welcome
to the transforming vibration.
The old earth passes
and creation comes alive
in the advent
of this new Eden,
an emerging paradise
born from innocence.
As starlight fades
the day rises
pregnant with life.
May the garden
be full in me
under sun and star
for the birth to come
of light and love
on this once silent planet.
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