A Morning Star
The Focalization of the Spirit of Life
Uranda February 23, 1947 Riverside, California
The Lord spoke to us out of the Cycles of the Spirit, and said,
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
or who laid the cornerstone thereof:
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:1-7
This morning, in the early dawn, I looked Eastward. The darkness was giving way before the coming of the light, and already a veil of light, like a garment, fringed the mountain, over which the sun would soon arise. The brilliant morning star, high in the Eastern heavens, hung like a jewel in the blue of the sky, signaled a message of calm assurance, and in its flashing brilliance I beheld a beacon of the heavens, sending earthward a message that the Sons of God still reign supreme, and shall once again shout for joy when the earth shall have been cleansed from all sin, suffering, sorrow and death.
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,
wasting nor destruction within thy borders;
but thou Shalt call thy walls Salvation,
and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah 60:18
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
and the former shall not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
Isaiah 65:17
“They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 11
In this place, set apart, to which we have been brought by the Spirit of the Living God, I meditate this morning upon the workings of the Great Creative Triangles, of which I have told you before, and in my meditations I consider the words by which I may convey to you that which I would long to convey if you were gathered here with me in person, sharing the California sunshine, resting under the green trees, listening to the sound of the breeze, and watching it sway the branches to and fro. In the Spirit, time, space and distance are transcended, and so it is that In the Spirit of the Word of Truth I am with you where you are, as surely as if you were sitting here within the sound of my voice.
We have moved to establish the focalizations of the Creative Triangles in the earth as a Reality, that the Creative Cycles may effectively transcend the limitations of physical circumstance, and begin to shape and mold that form which the Will of God ordains on earth, that all who will may see and know and understand the Power and Reality of the Living God. I would consider with you the words of realization expressed by one whom you already know in Spirit—one whom I wish shortly to introduce to you in a new light.
“Our Great Master, when He was living on earth, made the statement: ‘I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life.’ In Him all that was necessary to the Salvation of the human race was, and is focalized. The Way, is the Way of the Christ Love, and we recognize that He in His Place is the Lord of Love. Naturally, when He was living out here on earth He was the supreme focalization of the Divine on earth, and therefore, under those circumstances, and by reason of that for which He was in the world, He focalized the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Life within Himself. That which was possible of accomplishment then, was possible only under His personal direction. After His Ascension into the Inner Planes, He remained, of course, the focalization of the Spirit of Love, as the Lord of Love, and resumed His responsibilities as the Supreme Being at the apex of the Seventh Plane, but the responsibilities of the Spirit of Truth were returned to, and placed in the hands of, the Lord of the Sacred Three. We have then remaining the Spirit of Life, which relates primarily to the Christ Body made manifest on earth. It is the Expression of the Christ Life in and through the One Body, that establishes and brings forth the One Body. Therefore, as through response to the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth, the Christ Body begins to come into manifestation, the focalization of that Spirit of Life automatically begins to become aware of the currents of Life focalized in himself and flowing through the One Body. Does that make for separation? In the idea of the serpent it is a splendid opportunity for division. I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. There is no separation for they are One.” (Martin Cecil February 16, 1947)
The focalization of the Spirit of Life, coming into manifest expression through and at the Head of that Form established according to the Pattern of the Spirit of Truth, moving under the Power of the Spirit of Love, provides the means for the intensified function of the Creative Triangle on earth, by which Resurrection from darkness into the Light may cause the Restoration to become a Reality.
I take this means of announcing to you that under the blessing of the KING of Kings, the ordination of the Second Bishop of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light shall soon be an accomplished reality. Seven years ago an important step in the outworking of the Plan of God on earth was fulfilled, when the LORD opened the Way by which Martin Cecil harmonized with us in this Ministry. The initial fruitage of that seven years of faithful function now begins to appear, carrying blessings to you and to all who Respond, and shall Respond, to the Way, the Truth and the Life. The focalization of the Spirit of Life, made manifest in the person of Martin Cecil, soon to be ordained a Bishop of the Church, makes possible the next great step in the fulfillment of the Cosmic Plan, in the Cycles of the Creative Triangles, by reason of which the Service of the LORD on earth shall be caused to increase, according to those things that are written in the Book of Books, concerning which more understanding will be given to you in due season; for that Rock cut out without hands shall grow, and fill the whole earth.
For the faithful and the true, who turn not from the Spirit of their dedication, according to the Word of the Master, as recorded in Matthew 16:24,25: “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
The words of the Promise, as found in the 21st verse of the 30th chapter of Isaiah, are written: “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.”
However, in the first verse of this same chapter, there is, likewise, a promise: “Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin.”
Let us remember, therefore, the Word of the Lord, as recorded in Isaiah 29:14: “Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.”
And in Isaiah 5:18-21, we read: “Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say. Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”
Let us consider, and remember, the words of Isaiah 43:4-13: “Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?”
In the first processes of Creation, the Morning Stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy. So let it also be now in the Restoration—where the Spirit of Life, working through the Pattern of Truth by the Power of the Spirit of Love, shall surely accomplish that whereunto he is sent, to the Glory of God and the blessing of all the children of men, In the Christ. Blessing you in the Holy Name of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, and continuing with you in Spirit that you may worship God in Truth, I AM Uranda
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Abyss Of Nothingness — Sabbath Rest
Uranda September 9, 1948
Blessed ones, holding steady when the human vision cannot see the way, holding steady through that last phase of the cycle that permits fulfilment, is so vitally important. The world is full of those who begin things. Multitudes have started to do very marvelous things, and those beginnings are often with much fanfare and display; but beginning something, while it may be necessary and important in its place, is of little avail if we do not finish it. The Master said, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." God is a finisher of things. If we are to complete our work, if we are to fully perform our task, we must let God's will be done through the completing phases of each cycle, so that the energies that have been expended shall not be dissipated, so that that which is builded shall not come to naught, so that that which is done may carry through to glorious success. Only through God's Power, only through God's Love, only through obedience to God's Will, can these things be, and only as we let go in the spirit of the Christ, only as we allow the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and only as we let the fire of love cleanse and purify and make whole, according to the pattern of truth, can we know what it is to be received of the Lord in that full adoption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Each one, individually, works through cycles of development and fulfilment and outworking. Each one here has at some time—many times—passed through an abyss of nothingness. That abyss of nothingness, that seems so empty of all fulfilment, is always, until one reaches a certain level of consciousness and being, a prelude to fulfilment. I have so often given the assurance that the individual who comes to the abyss of nothingness is coming to the door of fulfilment. When the individual begins to feel that abyss of nothingness he should know that he is being prepared, if he will but hold steady, to be born into a new and higher level of life. Each one of you has passed through such an abyss more than once, but the human tendency is to still get disturbed when that abyss appears. When one is leaving an old level of life behind, and before one has found himself in a new level of life, it seems to the human mind that there is nothing; but he who holds steady, centered in God's Love, maintaining correct polarity, finds that he passes through the abyss of nothingness and comes forth into a new and higher level of life, just as the babe comes forth from the womb.
I would that I could establish in each one's consciousness the fact that there is nothing wrong with the fact that you have the experience of passing through an abyss of nothingness. The fact that you come to an abyss of nothingness is not cause for discouragement; it is not cause for being upset or bothered in any fashion whatsoever. The fact that you come to an abyss of nothingness is proof that you are growing and that, if you hold steady in the completing phases of the cycle, you will come out of that abyss onto a higher tableland than you have known before. I am not suggesting that you should try to look for, or find, or get into, an abyss of nothingness; for if you do, that is of no value. But when one comes to the abyss of nothingness in the cycles of his being in the movement forward, it is proof of progress.
So often I hear the expression: "There must be something wrong with me. I must be failing somehow. Things are not right in some fashion or I would not have this abyss of nothingness. I would not feel this loneliness, this utter separateness from things." You know, each one, what it is. Each one is also inclined to feel that no one else has such experiences. Each one imagines, if he lets the unreal mind work, that he alone has to suffer so, that he or she alone has to pass through such things, and that for everyone else it is easy, or that there is no abyss of nothingness. But you know individually, and I know with respect to you collectively, that there has not been a single one of you reach this point without passing through the abyss of nothingness, and I wish to assure you again that when you come naturally to that time in your progress it is proof that you are moving forward in the way.
When you are passing through the abyss of nothingness it seems that you are alone. Those who have attained to high illumination back through the ages have said that that is one place which you must traverse alone—utterly and absolutely alone. Now I must point out that that statement is not true, but I must also point out that it always seems to be true to the individual. As far as the individual himself is aware, he thinks that he is alone. He cannot see the fact that he is not alone. As you move forward and reach a higher point of consciousness you come to know that it is not actually an abyss of nothingness.
Do you think that I have fulfilled my ministry these years that I have worked with and among you without passing through that which is, at certain levels of development, called an abyss of nothingness? I have passed through those cycles not a few times only, but scores of times. In years gone by it was to me also an abyss of nothingness. No one reaches that higher level of consciousness without passing through what is to him an abyss of nothingness, and it must be several times. Every movement from one level of consciousness to another requires that you pass through what is called an abyss of nothingness.
Finally you reach a point where you know it for what it is, and it is not an abyss to you but it is a point or phase of the cycles that seems to be peculiarly formless. Sometimes little steps or movements upward are experienced, where the abyss of nothingness may last only a few moments or an hour or two and it passes away. Those may relate to little steps of progress; but in the larger cycles, where the true outworking is appearing, there come the big gulfs, as it were. It seems as a huge abyss of nothingness, and the individual feels that he is utterly alone. He cannot even see or feel or recognize that I am with him in spirit. He cannot see how it is that the Lord is with him. He cannot see how it is that his brothers and sisters are with him and have shared that experience in aloneness. So he is inclined to begin to look down instead of up. But if the individual always remembers, when he comes to the abyss of nothingness, so called, to look up and hold steady, in season he will begin to see a light as it were, and the light will grow and the darkness will be dispelled as he draws nearer, and shortly he will find himself on a higher plane of being than he has ever known before.
On the higher levels it becomes simply the Sabbath Rest of the Cycle, but that completing portion of the cycle is always formless. It is easy enough for some human beings to hold steady in the beginning of the thing, working it out toward the culmination, but when they come to that formless period, where it means simply holding steady on the vibration regardless of anything else, they tend to spoil all the things they built before. Blessed ones, whether it is for you an abyss of nothingness or a Sabbath rest in the Lord, know this: you must pass through these cycles to find yourself moving toward Higher Land in the Kingdom. You can no more escape it than you can simply cut one day of the week out of the cycle and escape it. It is there. You have to live through every day whether you like it or not, so let us like it, let us praise God for it, and let us let that Seventh Day, that abyss of nothingness, be a time of attunement in God, so that when we come through we can look back without regret and praise God for the assurance fulfilled. All things work together to perfection for those who love and serve the Lord. It is not through self-centeredness, not through selfishness, not through trying to get something for ourselves, even if it be love or companionship or anything else, it is by loving God and holding steady in the cycle of fulfilment that we come to fulfilment and know what it is to grow in grace and in the stature of Christ Jesus.
Blessed ones, our Master went through many such cycles when He was on earth. I have spoken of His Garden of Gethsemane, but there were many periods when He had to pass through that abyss of nothingness, when He went apart into the mountain alone to pray. And if you think I have not had many such periods, you do not know what the facts are. If you think there is anyone here who has made any progress at all who has not passed through the abyss of nothingness and known periods of aloneness—whether the individual be married, single or anything else—if you think such a thing, you do not know the truth of the matter. It is not a matter of whether the individual is married or not. The married ones get just as lonely and feel just as alone as the single ones when they get into the abyss of nothingness. I have sought to tell you that before, but for goodness' sake, listen to my word tonight and remember it, and stop rebelling against the necessities of passing through the abyss of nothingness.
When one is in that abyss there is no cause to be bothered, no cause to be disturbed about anything under the sun. Hold steady in the Lord and let Him do the works. He will carry you to that higher level and you will learn to be at home there, and then, as soon as you have reached a point of feeling at home at the new level, you will have to leave it. It will be broken up, it will change, and you will move through another abyss of nothingness to a still higher level. And every time the human mind thinks it is all worked out and that it will be thus and thus and thus, then it will be broken up; for to stay in such a state would be to stagnate and die. No, blessed ones, as soon as you begin to feel at home at any level of consciousness, if you are truly moving, progressing, you will come to another abyss of nothingness. Some of them will be small, some of them will be large and long according to the human concept, but it does not make any difference whether they last a few moments or a few months. They do not have to last a few months, but I have had them last far longer than that myself. But it makes no difference. Hold steady and let it work.
I remember a period of some months just before, and just after, the LORD provided Sunrise Ranch for us, when I had to go through a long abyss of nothingness. It was not just for a few days or a few weeks; it was over a year. I was criticized by various ones. Some thought I was not doing everything I should or could, and some thought this and some thought that, and there was pushing and pulling and criticisms of every sort, and I had to live in high disdain of the whole disturbed state, without anything but aloneness in that, and hold steady. And if I had not done so we would not be here tonight. I am not saying that to take credit to myself. I am saying it to emphasize to you that if you are going to have any fulfilment you are going to pass through the abyss of nothingness. You cannot have fulfilment without it.
I have pointed this out before. It is in my writings, and I have taught you, but it has not been realized deeply enough. We are coming to a time when there must be a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That means that when you touch your abyss of nothingness you must function just as if it did not exist. If you are bothered or disturbed you are going to shut off the current and—but let us not talk about that. When you hold steady in the abyss of nothingness, undisturbed, tranquil and serene, no matter how lonely you feel, you will come to know that companionship in the abyss of nothingness is impossible. So often there are complaints from those who do not have husbands or wives: "Oh, if I just had a companion like you, or someone else, then I would not feel this terrible loneliness." And if I undertake to tell them they do not know what they are talking about, they look at me askance and say, "How can you talk like that?" If you want to be convinced, I will ask every married man and woman to stand if they agree with me, and I do not think any one of them would remain sitting. I do not care if you have a husband or wife, or how much you love your husband or wife, when you come to the abyss of nothingness you have to take it alone and hold steady and let it work.
Blessed ones, hearken to my word and let it sink in deep. You will save yourselves much misery, you will let the thing speed up tremendously, and you will make it much easier for me, because then, when I speak to you concerning these things, you will not come back with the old idea of the outer mind, "Nobody understands; even Uranda doesn't seem to understand my particular situation. He may understand somebody else; but me! I am peculiar, I am different; he does not seem to understand me." The point is that as long as you have any such idea you do not understand yourself.
So, blessed ones, if we are to have that glorious outpouring of the Holy Spirit for which we have prayed and longed, if we are going to have that fulfilment as members of the Christ body, we cannot hope to avoid our cycles in the abyss of nothingness, and we would not if we could, because at this level, while it may be an abyss of nothingness, as you get higher it will be the same thing seen in a different light and you will call it the Seventh Day of Rest. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/what-has-never-been-done-since-man-fell.html]
Uranda March 9, 1947
Those who seek to draw near unto God through love response begin to recognize that the Christ Body on earth, formed of the dust of the ground, is a reality, but there comes the added realization that the love response to God must be so full and free that the individual may be held in polarity while he or she is shaped and molded according to the pattern of Truth before there can be a true blending as a member, or part, of that One Christ Body on earth. One of the greatest difficulties encountered by those who seek to find and to know God is encountered by the responding one when he first reaches that point where he must begin to let himself be shaped and molded according to the Pattern of Divine Truth.
Generally speaking, he who turns to God is under the compulsion of some form of disturbing experience in human life. The individual may be disillusioned by reason of some individual experience; he may, in the early phases of his journey, be under the compulsion of some type of fear; in any case, he is restless and disturbed in spirit, and he is inclined to try to cling to God, and the things of God. In the early stages of the journey, when the individual is first beginning to move upon that Path, which is the Way, such things are perfectly permissible and understandable, but when the individual begins to find and to know the Truth, by reason of which he is privileged to live the Life, he finds that he must let himself begin to see in the Light that which is, so that the spirit of tranquility may fill his heart and mind.
He who is so afraid of slipping that he tries to cling to God, never reaches the point of entering into the Sabbath Rest by which Oneness with the Divine may be experienced. He who clings to things Divine is but beginning to move along the Path of the spiritual life, for he who truly begins to live finds that it is not in clinging, but in resting in the Lord, that the true experience of rebirth may be known. The restlessness of spirit, by which the individual may struggle to get closer to the Heart of God, has value only in the period of awakening from the self-active sleep of earth's dark night, for he who begins to see, in the Dawn of the New Day, finds that it is not through human struggle that the earnest one comes closer to God, nor is it by clinging that he can remain near to the Heart of God, but it is by letting go and resting in the current of the spirit which comes from the Heart of God.
He who tries to hold tight to God that he may not fall, is forever in danger of falling; he who comes to trust in the Lord and to know Him as He is, finds, yea and knows, that the power of God is great enough to hold the responding one close in the realm of reality; and thus it is that the one who lets himself be reborn lets himself be held by the power of God in his appointed place, not fearing that he will fall, not trying to cling or to hold fast, for he who clings has not come to rest as a part of that One Christ Body on earth which the Lord God is forming out of the dust of the earth, and until the responding one has let himself be blended into that One Body he cannot know the reality of that final phase of God's creative act where God breathed the Breath of Life into the nostrils of the Body that He had formed—and man became a Living Soul.
So, also, is it with the Christ Body today, and until every member of the Body knows what it is to breathe that Breath of Life, the Body cannot be a Living Soul, a living reality, through which the works of God may be done on earth. After man was first created in the Divine Estate, he became a channel, or means, by which God could continue His creative work on earth. However, man fell from that High Estate and ceased to be a means by which God's creative work might manifest on earth.
The reality of the One Christ Body, created even as God first created man, makes possible the manifestation of God's creative work on earth, and it is in this that we let the Father do the works—the greater works by which the Kingdom comes, by which the will of God is done on earth, even as it is done in Heaven. We have entered into a new Creative Cycle, wherein the creative works of God must manifest through His Body on earth if the world of man is to be blest by the currents of Divine outworking which are available now.
We are informed that the largest sunspot ever observed by man is now in existence. I have, in times past, considered with you the fact that the Creative Cycles made available to man relate to the release of Cosmic energies in connection with what the world calls sun-spots. I pointed out long ago that in the beginning of this twenty-two year Creative Cycle [1944] we could anticipate the manifestation of the release of these Cosmic energies by which we are privileged to accomplish the will of God on earth, if we but let it be so. The world of man has had its attention forcibly drawn to the sunspot activity which has so disturbed radio communications. These same Cosmic energies, rightly utilized by those who are members of the One Body, permit the manifestation of God's creative works on earth, that the greater works may be done according to the will of our KING. The opportunity is ours because we are privileged to be aware of these cycles outworking according to the Plan of God. The only question is: What shall we do with our sacred opportunity? According to the response of each one, so is it established unto each one, and those who have let themselves be blended into the One Christ Body on earth will let the will of God be done on earth. We rejoice and praise the LORD of Lords that it is so. Aum-en.
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Known To Unknown To Known
Martin Cecil April 24, 1980 Assembly
All are faced with the ministry of life and the consequent handling of the creative processes as they emerge within the range of our awareness. This is all included in what is rightly called sex. As was noted yesterday, there is no marrying or giving in marriage in heaven. The matter of marriage as we know it has been something that was produced by human beings to maintain some sort of a control in the field of human sexuality. This has very little to do with true spiritual purposes. The human approach may be, “Let’s establish laws, rules, regulations of various sorts, so that things don’t get out of hand.” And there is a sufficient government in this sense established so that we can all get on with what we want to do in the human sense without so much disruption as otherwise would be the case. But all this is in the human nature world.
So we can see that the true design, the spiritual design, is of a totally different nature. As we have come along the way we have allowed certain changes to occur in our own consciousness so that we begin to see things from a different perspective—a spiritual perspective. We see the world in a different way, and we see our own personal function in the world from a different standpoint, so that we do not anymore follow out the usual orthodox ways which have been established by society in the human world. At least we do not follow out these ways because of those ways. It may be useful to acknowledge the ways of Caesar so that we may function in a reasonable manner in the eyes of others. We are not interested in throwing up roadblocks in front of people by creating valid reasons for their reactions. But having a spiritual perspective, we recognize the reason why we do things is not the same as the reason why most people do things. For the moment we can keep it under cover, so to speak, under wraps to a certain extent, so that all concerned are not aware of what our motivations are, because that in itself would produce unnecessary reaction.
If we do keep sacred things sacred it is not because we are ashamed or afraid but because we are thoughtful of those in our worlds, for whom we carry a considerable responsibility. We do not wish to place stumbling blocks unnecessarily in the way of others. But we ourselves in increasing manner are aware of a vast difference of right action in our field of function to what may be considered as right action in the human sense. We need to know how to be right in our action without activating unnecessary offense to others, but in such a way that it brings to bear what needs to be brought to bear in our worlds, and in the consciousness of people, both in the general sense and from time to time in the specific sense, when we have to deal with this person or that person.
In order to be able to handle this situation we need to be free in ourselves, so that factors of fear and shame, which predominate in human consciousness, no longer push us around. And we are deliberate in attitude and action. That deliberation is based in the movement of the spirit of God, because we have generated at least some substance of a fine nature which causes us to be capable in this regard. We are capable in our spiritual function at whatever level we find ourselves now, and because of such spiritual substance as there is, we have a certain perspective vision, spiritually speaking.
I am sure we are all very conscious of the fact that there are finer levels of experience in this regard. We need to be aware of this so that we stay humble, amongst other things, but let us not deny the level that we now know. This is the known insofar as we are concerned. We know much in our own experience, from the standpoint of our own viewpoints, our own vision and perspective, that obviously most other people do not know. So our known is not the known in the general sense. Now again, we need to be careful that this does not cause us to feel somehow a spiritual elite. This is merely just the fact of the matter. This is the situation in which we find ourselves. Let us just leave it at that, and not try to make something out of it to boost the human ego, because if we do that, then we lose the whole thing anyway. So we stay humble.
But our point of knowing is not the same as the point of knowing present in the vast majority of people. Therefore, when we move from the known to the unknown, our movement is at an entirely different level. We need to remember this when we are dealing with other people, that their known is not our known, and if they rightly should be moving from their known into the unknown, we need to take into account what is their known, so that we do not expect them to jump from their known into our known. That would be likely, for most, too big a leap, and it needs to be done in steps, as we were recognizing before.
However, in considering this matter from our own standpoint, we are allowing something to transpire in our human consciousness which is part of our responsibility of government. It cannot happen in our human consciousness without happening in the human consciousness of mankind in general, at whatever level people may happen to be, though the experience will be different for different people. But we ourselves are responsible for allowing our human consciousness to accept what is coming down from God out of heaven, heretofore unknown to us.
It seems more comfortable to human beings to stay within the bounds of what they know. The unknown looks rather fearful. As it is said sometimes, the devil that is known is safer or better than the devil that isn’t known. Obviously this is not necessarily true. It may not be the devil at all. But people feel safer to stay in a bad state, even though it is a bad state, rather than venture into something that might be worse. Clearly, what we now know is not sufficient. We may say that it is adequate for now, but it will soon become a destructive experience if what we now know persists too long. There is a constant need to relinquish what is now known if what is as yet unknown is to come within the range of knowing. And so there is much still to be relinquished, obviously.
I introduced yesterday something with respect to sex, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/spiritual-sex-and-physical-sex.html] deliberately using that word, because true knowing requires that we see what is meant by this word in a way that is presently unknown to us. We may see something with respect to this word that most people have not seen so far, and we may conceivably have felt a little self-satisfied about this, as about other aspects of our knowing, so that when what we have known needs to be relinquished we may feel somewhat threatened, because what we have known is what we have been. We know what we give expression to, which is revealing of what we are at that point.
We are all constantly expressing ourselves and revealing ourselves thereby. Presumably we express ourselves on the basis of what we factually know. We may try to express ourselves at times on the basis of what we theoretically think we know, and we reveal ourselves thereby. We may find ourselves at times talking, for instance, in a way that sounds good but in fact we don’t know what we are talking about. And if we are honest we will acknowledge that this has been the case on occasion. We do it probably because we are pretty sure that the other person doesn’t know that we don’t know what we are talking about, and therefore we’re making a good impression. But we really need to be honest in the matter.
However, obviously there are things that are known at this level and we need to proceed into what is presently unknown, which when it is known will be quite acceptable. But if we try to hang on to what we think we know, as a basis for judging the unknown, we will never be in position to accept what is presently unknown into the range of our knowing. We will always keep it out there, because it doesn’t conform with our present knowing, therefore it must be wrong.
I introduced this little consideration relative to sex from the standpoint of our responsibilities of government in this particular Assembly, so that there may be those things that are not yet known in human consciousness, our own in particular, to come within the range of knowing. That will not happen if there is either fear or shame present in our attitudes. That is what closes the door. But if we have come to the point where we consider the LORD to be adequately trustworthy, then there is a willingness to allow these changes in human consciousness to occur. We are quite willing that these should occur in our own consciousness, because it is the only one where we have responsibility. If it is going to happen anywhere, insofar as we personally are concerned it must happen in us. Even if it happens in somebody else, that will not get the job done insofar as we are concerned. It has to happen personally in our own consciousness for us to share in the knowing that is needful. We cannot leave it to somebody else to know for us.
In approaching this particular area, which is all-inclusive, we are in fact approaching all areas. If we can do it in this area, one could say that it saves quite a bit of trouble, because you don’t have to go through all the mass. You approach this one area and it opens up everything, because it is everything. We have seen that it is everything insofar as the working of the Law is concerned. The One Law is a statement of the sex principle, and there is nothing outside of the Law. So our approach to a consideration in a specific sense of this central, focused, core area makes it possible for the Gates of Heaven to be opened, so to speak. I think many people have felt this to be so, and from the human nature standpoint they have undertaken all kinds of things. But as long as it was from the human nature standpoint nothing ever really happened. All that did happen was a multiplication of sorrows and tragedy.
Our approach is the spiritual approach. This is the proper approach from the Third Sacred School—a spiritual approach, so that we see everything with spiritual perspective. And this requires a stability of attitude relative to the spiritual approach, so that we do not anymore easily revert into a human nature approach. Because the very moment we do that we are again in darkness. We stay in the light because the approach is made spiritually.
Now this perspective is non-judgmental. Human nature is characterized by the attitude of judgment, and it has its code of ethics, shall we say, which provide the means by which everything is judged. And if you have your book of rules out in this sense, and you are going to weigh everything that comes against this book of rules as though the book of rules was a sound basis for judgment, you will not receive, and certainly will not understand, what needs to be known. We have no basis of judgment. Some of the ethical and moral considerations that have been present in human experience do have a seed back of them that is of the true design, but obviously, by the time it’s got through all the rigmarole of the ages to emerge into our consciousness now, you would never be capable of tracing that back to the original seed. That would be a very laborious thing, and impossible in any case. So we will not undertake that.
We need to have the spiritual approach, so that we begin to discern what that seed is now, and we can only discern it now if we have relinquished the barriers that have been in between. So this, fundamentally, gives us the basic starting point for whatever it is that needs to emerge. We have no pre-established lines of demarcation, so that we might say, “Well it must emerge this way, so as to satisfy my ethical sense, or my moral sensibilities,” or whatever it is. All these things have been built up by human nature in order to have some sort of a controllable state of affairs on earth. That is all it is. We are not interested in the human nature controllable state on earth. We are interested in the controlled state, the state of dominion, that comes by reason of the spirit of God. And so I trust that we may be in position to move on this basis in the times we spend together in the days to come. And I will not always use the word “sex.”
We are not going to violate basic spiritual integrity. We should all have sufficient confidence in our experience of the action of the spirit of God thus far to be assured that this is the case; and while it seems as though some of the very foundations are being shaken, it is necessary that they should be. Earthquakes are needed in this sense, in order to shake things up loose enough so that the true design, for which we carry the responsibility in our expression of living, may begin to fill itself out with the freed-up substance. Then it all becomes very natural and easy.
World Abyss Of Nothingness
Uranda January 25, 1945
Human beings everywhere are being tested and those who are not attuned to divine wisdom will break under it. Since the world is as it is and all these failures came into being back through the ages, we have to lead the way through the abyss of nothingness, coming up over where others have failed. It means that we ourselves will be put in places of strain. If our positions in life held no tests or strain we would be of little value in the outworking of things. We know that in the world as it now is the unreal appears to have the upper hand. Those who function wrongly seem to get by—sometimes it looks as though the evil forces have such a completely dominant hand that it does not look as though we should stand for the right.
I think it would be well to consider a little different phase of the same subject. I touched on the world abyss of nothingness. We are in the period of the crucifixion, or the world tomb. All this is implied by the use of the term abyss of nothingness, and if we consider that from the standpoint of the individual progress along the way, we will be able to see better from the world standpoint and understand our part in the world body as we move through this abyss of nothingness.
Every individual who sets forth in the way finds that wonderful experience of exhilaration that he enjoys as he first becomes aware of the beauty of the Divine, and then, when he remains on that plane for a time, begins to feel at home. He feels so much at home that the exhilaration that he experienced has gone and there is nothing strange or new about the place where he is living. Then he is liable to think that he has lost something. He does not lose anything if he knows the right direction of response. Then he comes to a point where, as it were, he feels suspended in space and feels very uncertain. He feels that no one understands, that there is no one to help, and he does not know quite where he is going to land. While a certain degree of assistance can be given, the passage through this abyss must be made basically on the foundation of what is contained within himself. No one can reach out and pull him across.
If he does not look down but looks up and holds steady, he will find his feet on solid ground. Up a little further, he experiences a new exhilaration and again, on this higher level, he begins the process of getting acquainted with his new position, and then the exhilaration goes because he gets used to it. Later on he hits a new abyss, which may last for minutes or days—some have lasted for months. But as you go along, the abyss becomes shorter, and if you remember the Law all can be passed without any qualms. However, the individual must pass that abyss; there is no other way. With each new crossing we are on higher ground, on a higher plane than before, and then sometimes, when we start being lifted up, we may get panicky.
If we grasp the principle and remember that, when we come face-to-face with problems in that period, as we all do at times, we will see that the world too is going through the same thing. This is its biggest abyss of nothingness—and it is going to last for a while. We are part of the world body, and to the degree that we hold steady it helps the world body carry through the abyss of nothingness. The average person is likely to go all to pieces unless somewhere there is a sustaining vibration. If we look from the standpoint of the outer mind, it will look hopeless. If this world gets through the abyss of nothingness it will depend upon what is in itself. In a sense—and this could be understood—the world is shut off from assistance from the Divine in an external sense. We can see that in various church activities. They think and struggle and work, and yet they know that the spirit is not in them.
Those who have a conscious understanding of what is taking place have a greater responsibility. If the world gets through this abyss of nothingness it will be because it has held steady. That is our big job for the time to come. I think we will remember that when we hit the tight spots.
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Spiritual Sex and Physical Sex
The Increase — New Heaven and New Earth
Martin Cecil April 23, 1980 assembly
Perhaps we have begun to see more clearly that the only possible approach that anyone can make towards spiritual things, in the world as it now is, is from the standpoint of human nature. This emphasizes the necessity for the introduction of something into the world that is not from the standpoint of human nature. For this to happen there is a special requirement and a special provision, proceeding from the LORD in the unfoldment of the creative cycles that are at work. We have recognized this as being a fact by reason of the presence of Uranda, in the first place, in these recent times.
Human nature is childish at best—perhaps I should say childlike at best. Usually it is childish, rebellious and destructive. The best that can be expected from human nature is to be childlike. This is essentially what the Master himself said. The only possible way of approach was as little children. Maturity is a different state altogether. True maturity is not some sort of a mature human nature. One could say that there ain’t no such animal; it is either childish, or childlike at best. If there is a childlike attitude then the creative cycle can be initiated. As long as it merely remains rebellious and destructive childishness, there is nothing of any meaning that can occur. To the extent that in times past we ourselves exhibited some sort of a childlike attitude we began to move, so that the new state might emerge. This requires resurrection. Now, obviously, in the state of the child there is the initial requirement to deal with that state of the child. A child requires control externally applied, simply because no mature capacity has been developed yet which would allow it to spring forth from inside. Of course the intent is to provide whatever education is necessary, in the growing process for the child, so that the capacity might be developed, and that reality of control then emerge into expression because there is the facility to let it happen. Now, if we see that the best that can be expected of human nature anywhere is childlike, then our approach is on this basis, in the handling of children.
This may seem to require a certain imposition. So one can see the necessity of extending to the children of the world—most of them in adult bodies—some sort of control—and in fact, children are looking for control. They may rebel about it if it is provided, but they were looking for it in the first place, because it is a natural unfolding in the sequence of events of growing up. It needs to be provided in the right way, with love and understanding. But firmness is one of the most essential elements for which a child seeks. Of course, if a child stays too long a child then it becomes a more challenging business to offer the essential control. The habit of destructiveness and rebellion has been firmly established by then. But here is the picture as it really is.
No matter how impressed human nature has been with its own abilities it has in fact all been childishness. Now again, we would need to be careful about saying this sort of thing, because it is sweeping away the rubbish which is still valued highly. So we cannot sweep it away too quickly. But obviously, there could come physical events, for instance, which do sweep it away very quickly. All this relates to the traditions of the human nature past. It is part of what is rightly passing away. All this culture is going down the drain.
A New Heaven and a New Earth—this is the reality. But thus far I think it has been mostly a fancy. The important things are what is here now, all the great achievements of human nature, and it takes a little while for a person to reach a point where he stops giving weight to the treasures of human nature. And the treasures of human nature are not just what is in the bank account, but all the cultural traditions, which most people consider to be life itself. But we begin to know the truth to the extent that we have continued in the Word.
A rather interesting picture is portrayed in the story of Job, at the very beginning of the book: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil… There were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”
This was a subject of complaint a little later on the part of satan. Satan’s word was, to the LORD, “Thou hast increased substance in the land.” Substance is increased in the land. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/seeing-from-above-and-below.html] This would seem to indicate wealth. The emphasis should be placed upon the true values. One has just so much capacity to appreciate value—all that capacity needs to be given to the true value. The question arises as to how this is to be done. In what is said here about Job there was no indication that he should not have been the greatest of the men of the east, or that he shouldn’t have had all this substance. In fact it is said of him that he was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil. And perhaps the words “eschewed evil” are the key in this respect. He was not subject to any supposed great value of all this substance. He was not controlled by it. He feared God, and he eschewed the creative process which is operative relative to external things.
That creative process as it operates in the substance of the earth does not deplete the earth. The human tenure here on the planet has depleted the earth considerably, but the true creative cycle does not do that. In fact, just the opposite. Here is a creative process—there is increase, and the evidence of this was the increase of substance as it related to Job. He was a perfect and an upright man because he feared God and eschewed evil. His values were where they belong, in the heaven and not in the earth. He eschewed evil. He did not have to destroy the forms of physical substance in order to prove that he feared God. Satan took the attitude that he didn’t fear God for naught, because he had all this substance, and therefore, take away that substance and we would soon see whether he was a perfect and upright man anymore. Well, the way it worked out he lost all the substance; but he did not curse God and die—it didn’t change his values.
So whether there is substance or there is not substance is irrelevant. With human beings who judge on the basis of externals, it has always seemed that the substance or the lack of it was the supreme point. If the true creative cycle is in operation there is no depletion, there is a constant increase. There is the generation consistently of the finer substance, which in turn permits the action of spirit to occur and consequently the creative process to continue. And the creative process, working as it should, increases substance at every level. Presently we think of the importance of increasing this fine substance, but there is a balance here, when everything is working the way it should. There does not have to be such a tremendous concentration upon increasing the fine substance, because it is already there. There is a balance all the way through. There is the essential substance at every level, and therefore the increase that comes as the creative cycle operates increases substance at every level, in balance.
How this may actually happen in the earthly sense remains to be experienced, because that is the only way it can be known. It would be quite futile, even if we were capable of seeing ahead, to do so. What would be gained by it? We are under the necessity of letting all our available capacity and energy be brought to focus relative to the way things are. We have sufficient to handle the present moment, and all for which we are responsible in the present moment.
Obviously, as long as human nature is hanging around, as long as satan is on the scene, there is a danger of reversion into subjection to the substance which rightly increases at every level, subjection to the substance in the earthly sense. This after all is what caused the fall in the first place. There was nothing wrong with the Garden, nothing wrong with the beautiful state and all the wealth in the earthly sense that was present in that state, until human beings began to be subject to it, and began to govern their function on the basis of this substance because it seemingly added to their pleasure. But the very moment you become subject to the substance for your pleasure, your pleasure starts to go out the window and depletion sets in. Depletion is now seemingly reaching some sort of a crescendo in the world today. Everything is going to run out, and there is a wild scramble for what is left. Well, that has scarcely begun, I would suggest.
But the true state is to be restored through the creative cycle of resurrection, and none of the childishness of human nature can achieve resurrection. There is nothing that can come out of human nature that can achieve anything. The world is filled with rebellious and destructive children. Here and there, there is someone who is childlike, and there is the immediate starting point, provided that there is an adequate state of spiritual maturity present on earth to offer what is needful to the childlike. If the childlike are left to their own devices they will probably become childish, rebellious and destructive, like everybody else. There does not seem to be any other way, and there has not been any other way, because there has not been what was necessary on earth of spiritual maturity to offer that other way, the one way out of human nature, the way out of childlikeness. All too many have thought that the permanent condition was to be childlike; therefore to remain a child. But that is only the starting point.
Resurrection is resurrection into spiritual maturity, which is an unknown state in human nature childishness. So here in this story of Job there was initially spiritual maturity evident—a perfect and upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. And it is said that “there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.” The vital importance of the right use of sex is actually being emphasized in this verse. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/seven-dimensional-worldseven.html] When the values are given to the earthly substance the physical experience of sex becomes supreme. It is weighted at that end of the scale. This is one factor in human experience that has kept him thoroughly bound under the domination of satan. The supreme value has been given to the experience of physical sex as it has been known by human beings in the human state. This is only a fraction of the reality of sex, and the reality cannot possibly be known as long as this unbalanced approach is foremost. And yet, once given a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil, then the reality of sex becomes very important, because without it the essential creation that is to occur cannot do so.
The creative process is sex. If you exclude it you have no creative process. Now, obviously, it has not been excluded in human experience, at least at the physical level. And because of this there has been a creative process at work in the affairs of men, but the creative process was not a constructive one. It was not the true, balanced creative process for which man was created. It became destructive, and all the hell that has taken form on earth is not unrelated to this dominance of physical sex in human experience. The unbalanced experience in this regard has produced an unbalanced state.
Here is an emphasis upon the importance of sex in the sense that whatever happens is produced by it. If sex is an unbalanced experience, as it has been, then this unbalanced state has resulted on earth. If included in that unbalanced experience have been factors of destructiveness in the attitudes and the emotions of those who have been indulging themselves in this field, then all this is reproduced abundantly. Here is the key, then, to destructiveness. But it is also at the same time the key to true creativeness. Generally speaking when sex considerations arise, those considerations emphasize themselves in the consciousness of those concerned with respect to physical sex. This has been the habit, and as long as that is the first thing that is emphasized we remain trapped. We have had some awareness of the spectrum of the balanced state.
As an Assembly we are probably the bow, in other words representing the whole spectrum, not just the lower end of the spectrum. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/let-there-be-firmament.html] Flesh is obviously present here, but there are other levels also present, to which heretofore inadequate substance has been given. Only as there is substance at any level does that level have any meaning insofar as experience in the dimensional world is concerned. Because all the substance which human beings have generated has been at the lower end of the spectrum, weighted in the physical sense, there could not be anything else but an unbalanced state. Orientation was downward. Human beings have been weighted at the bottom. The weight needs to be properly distributed. There is a proper proportion, where weight is evenly distributed. Considering this matter of sex then, more attention should be paid to where there has been little or no experience than to where there has been experience. But if one comes to speak about sex as a valuable tool in the creative process, most people think of it simply in physical terms, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/new-heavenfine-substance.html] and they want it explained to them how sex can be used in this physical sense to be of value to the Lord. You cannot use it to be of value to the Lord if that is all you are thinking about. There is a whole spectrum here.
When sex is used rightly, in a balanced way at every level, there is the creation of the New Earth at the lower end. But our concern has been with the New Heaven, which is at the upper end, and the end where there has been the least experience—the least experience because there has been no substance there for the experience. So there must be the generation of the substance to fill out the various levels where the creative spirit of God may be accommodated. If you simply try to accommodate the creative spirit of God at the level of physical sex it is bound to be a very unbalanced thing. In general terms one could describe the upper spectrum of sex as spiritual sex. Spiritual sex in experience is necessary for the creation of the New Heaven, just as physical sex in experience is necessary to the creation of the New Earth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/spiritual-bodyflesh-body.html] But which comes first, do you think? Obviously the heaven comes first.
To describe the nature of spiritual sex, one could say that it is the union of the Word with the consciousness of human beings. Here you may recognize why emphasis has been placed upon the importance of the Word. There have been a lot of people associated with our ministry who have had little awareness of the vital nature of the Word in this sense—that it would be impossible to know the right use of physical sex without having first experienced the right use of spiritual sex, without the Word having entered into one’s own consciousness so that it would abide there, so that there might be union.
This is a process of which you are also familiar: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. The radiation is the Word to which, if there is a state of being childlike, there may be uncluttered response, response which does not have any axes to grind, which has no expectations of personal fulfillment or anything else. You know if you are honest, from your own experience, that most of what you have experienced in the way of response in the past has had expectations. “If I respond, then I will experience thus and so.” That is childish, not childlike. The childlike state is the guileless state, where there is no expectation, no requirement at all, no need for a reward. When there is no need for a reward there is no need for punishment. If you find yourself being punished, as you suppose, it is because you have been a seeker after a reward.
The guileless, childlike state seeks nothing for itself; there is a spiritual yielding. Without spiritual yielding there cannot really be physical yielding. What has passed at times as physical yielding has simply been a wilted state. So we are concerned with spiritual sex—not merely for itself, because the fact of the matter is that heaven and earth are one. Physical sex requires union of a sort, spiritual sex requires union of another sort; but the union of spiritual sex and the union of physical sex establish the true union—the union of heaven and earth.
Now the working of sex when seen from the spiritual standpoint is not at all structured. There is a design, but in the sense of what in the movement of the creative cycle is fitting. Human beings want, as a rule, to get things pinned down. Well, in any field, “Is this all right or not?” Who can tell? We are not dealing with the form initially, but with the spirit, and there are multitudes of creative requirements, both from the standpoint of the individual and also from the standpoint of the collective purposes of God. Each moment is unique. We cannot crystallize any moment and say, “Now this is the perfect moment.” It is impossible to do. Isn’t it an amazing thing that there is such a vastness of experience available that each moment is unique? It never happened before, it will never happen again.
So if we see this in terms of sex, then clearly you are not going to be able to establish any structured rules and regulations. There is no marrying and giving in marriage in heaven. This is all an earthly production that, incidentally, as it is known in the human nature state, is one of the things that is passing away. It has been important to human beings because it has given some sort of a feeling of security, to have a structure set up that is going to endure. This is even carried to the extreme in some areas, where those concerned try to set it up so that it is going to endure for eternity. As though human beings could determine what the way of God is. No, there is no structure in that sense. One of the things that characterized the world, according to the Master’s Word, was that, as in the days of Noah, they were marrying and giving in marriage, eating and drinking—all the usual human activities. Sex and food.
Because the state is unstructured does not mean that it is somehow uncontrolled and promiscuous in some fashion. It merely means that what occurs occurs accurately and rightly in the natural creative cycles as they are moving, and this requires whatever may be essential to allow these creative purposes to be fulfilled. The human attitude toward that would probably be, “I’m not sure that I like that. I’m not going to have any say in the matter.” Well, who are you to have a say, if you’re just this human nature creature that is going to pass away anyway? So you wouldn’t have any say. But there is say from the standpoint of the spirit of God, and if one is associated with that expression as one’s own, then one has say in the matter. And the say one has is based in the wonders of true creation.
The experience of this has been lost to human beings, so that they cannot recall it at all. They try to hang on to such supposed pleasure as they think they now have, fearful of what this austere God might do if He had His way—as though that would take all the joys out of living, when in fact the true way is the way by which there is increase, multiplication. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/melchizedek-increase-grace-van-duzen.html] Man was instructed to multiply in the beginning—not merely to procreate, but to let everything be multiplied. Let the increase come.
What is the full potential in this planet do you think? Human beings have no idea at all. Is this planet somehow isolated from the rest of the solar system? What is the full potential of the solar system? There is a realm of complete blank insofar as human consciousness is concerned. Well all this is within the range of the true creative process, in which we have a part to play. I emphasize this morning something of that part as it relates to the field of sex, because this is the creative process. But do not get trapped into the view that the creative process is merely physical sex. If we have the usual view of the seven colors of the rainbow, then it would only be one-seventh, wouldn’t it? There’s another six-sevenths missing. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/seventh-sense-martin-cecil.html]
So we concern ourselves primarily with this matter of spiritual sex, spiritual union, which is the union of the Word with our own consciousness. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/activation-of-seventh-sense.html] And there are ramifications to this that may not immediately present themselves to our awareness. But if there are possibilities of delight relative to physical sex, possibilities of great variety in fact, then how much more is that true spiritually speaking? And it is the spiritual experience that brings the delight into the physical experience, and there is no longer the attitude taken that the physical experience is what brings the delight into some sort of higher level of spiritual experience. No, it is the other way around. So we have opened the door a crack this morning, and we will see whether it will open wider as we proceed.
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