Universal Substance

Summer  Solstice  2025

Universal Substance

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Martin Cecil   December 11, 1977

The planet Earth is not an isolated speck of dust spinning by chance in its orbit around a rather mediocre star. In our earthly consciousness we are made aware, through our physical senses, of a rather limited range of substance present with us, close at hand and also apparently spread around throughout the whole universe. This substance is largely discernible because it reflects electromagnetic radiation of a certain wavelength. That reflection we call light. Out of the total range of electromagnetic radiation, what is perceptible to us as light is a very small portion; therefore what we can perceive on the basis of sight with respect to what we call substance is small. This is one of the reasons why it seems as though the universe is full of empty space, because very little of the substance that is actually present throughout the whole universe reflects light that we can see. In recent decades human beings have come again to recognize that there is far more substance present in the universe than was first thought.

We had the opportunity of viewing some slides yesterday evening of various designs of substance both in the solar system and beyond in the universe. When the narrow range of visible light was expanded to include the ultraviolet part of the spectrum and the X-radiation part of the spectrum it became possible to observe a vastly increased amount of substance. Of course in order to make it seem comprehensible to the limited state of our earthly consciousness it had to be colored, so that it might be interpreted on the basis of what we think we already know. The point I'm making, however, is the fact that there is an increasing amount of substance made recognizable when the reflection of electromagnetic radiation extends beyond what is seen by the eye as light. If the whole range of electromagnetic radiation were made perceptible by reason of its reflection it would be found that the whole universe is full of substance. As human beings we think there isn't much there, when we look out into the night sky for instance, because all we see is the reflection from a certain level of substance, little pinpoints. We have been informed, of course, that those pinpoints are sometimes of considerable size; but it doesn't seem so, relative to the whole range of universal blankness. Yet it isn't blank; it's full of substance.

Even if we bring it down to the solar system, there is an inclination to think of this as being mostly space. There is a lot of space to be covered apparently, if we happen to go on a trip to Mars. But, as was noted yesterday evening, the so-called corona of the sun includes the whole planetary system, and the planets are in fact a part of the sun. They are not isolated objects floating around in outer space; they are embedded in the substance of the solar entity. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2014/12/from-martin-cecil-october-24-1976-first.html] When we look at the sun—it is wise to look away quickly—we observe a flaming object in the sky, very bright, and also radiating warmth, which we are able to sense. We feel uncomfortable if there is too much of it, and uncomfortable if there is too little of it. But we see the sun as a separate object; the earth is here, the sun is over there, ninety-three million miles away, with apparently nothing in between. Of course we are informed that there are magnetic fields, solar winds, showers of particles, all this. We may observe something of the effect in the northern lights, for instance, but we are still rather convinced that there is a great abyss between the earth and the sun; also between the earth and the other planets. And yet when the reflection of other ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum is made apparent to us we find that the sun extends out a long way and there is quite a bit of stuff around the earth; but even what is observed on the basis of the limited reflection seen from the ultraviolet light, for instance, does not inform us of all the other levels of substance that are actually present. Perhaps it is rather fortunate that in earthly consciousness we do not have the facilities for perceiving the reflection of radiation from the total range of substance; it would likely be very confusing to us. All we see is a very little bit, minute relatively speaking, of the substance that reflects what we call visible light. The vast majority of the radiation is not visible light. The vast majority of the substance that is present all around us is not seen. To all intents and purposes, human beings in general have no awareness that it is present at all.

Sometimes there is a perception of peculiar phenomena which do not seem to be included in the normal range of human observation. We have all sorts of stories about these phenomena, some of them supposed to be somehow supernatural, some of them presumably explained in scientific terms. Most people don't look too closely at these things because they are a little scary, but actually we live in the midst of all the substance there is, whether we are aware of it or not. If we do become aware of something more, then we are keenly conscious of our own ignorance. Most people don't like the idea of being ignorant, so they try to limit their awareness of things to what is immediately perceptible through the physical senses and ignore all the rest. Under the human circumstance perhaps that is wise but it doesn't lead to very intelligent function in our momentary living, because we ignore 99.999 percent of all that is present and we try to function on the basis of the very little bit left capable of our observation. And as the whole range of substance is not separate—it's all one thing, just different vibratory levels of this one thing—if we try to manipulate the substance that we do perceive as though we could successfully govern our experience on this basis, we will at the same time be stirring up all sorts of storms and vortices in the substance that we don't see, and these will be reflected back in the substance that we do see. So, no matter how carefully we govern our actions with respect to what we do see, we find very shortly that everything is out from under control because we never took into account all the substance that we don't see. Of course on the basis of the true design of things it is not the intent that human experience should be governed merely by manipulating what is visible. We have come to recognize that there is a level of understanding available which makes possible right function with respect to the whole range of substance which is present, but the means by which this may occur is not the human intellect, because the human intellect functions—in its present configuration at least—on the basis of what is observable, what we call the environment, on the basis of the substance that is perceptible in that environment. The perception of some people goes a little further than others in this regard, but regardless of how far it goes from the standpoint of the earthly state of consciousness it's not very far, and the vast majority of what is present is utterly ignored. That is the reason for ignorance.

The whole universe is filled with substance [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/10/trailing-clouds-of-glory.html] and all substance is one substance, and whatever occurs in one part of that substance will affect all other parts of that substance. How important it is that we as human beings should discover how to live in the midst of all this substance without injecting into it extraneous currents of action, action that doesn't belong, action that is based merely in the observation of the limited range of substance of which we as human beings are aware. It's interesting to note how expertly human beings rationalize what they do. Actually, there is something moving through the substance of the universe which extends creative control at all levels. Let us consider this little planet, which after all isn't merely a little planet, because it is an essential part of the whole solar entity, which in turn is an essential part of the whole galactic entity, which in turn is an essential part of the system of galaxies, and beyond that again, however far you would like to go. The earth that we know is a little range of substance under our feet, a part of a far larger range of substance that occupies the whole space of the solar entity, at the core of which is what we call the sun. But nobody ever saw the sun. It has a garment about it, a garment down to the foot. There is a face which may be said to shine as the sun, an observable face, an observable garment. The garment includes the earth and extends beyond into the uttermost reaches of the solar system. If we took the total quantity of substance that there is present relative to this little piece of substance that we are aware of and call the planet Earth, we would find that it extended a long way beyond that speck of dust.

Mention was made that Uranus and Neptune are quite small planets actually, insofar as mineral substance is concerned in the ordinary sense, but they are encased in an immense amount of ice, which makes them very big planets. Perhaps that illustrates something of what the earth itself is, although it isn't ice in this instance. It is vibrational substance at other levels which extends way out, and even when it extends way out it is all included in the sun substance which fills the whole space of the solar entity. In that sense, it's solid substance everywhere. We live in quite a world, ignorant, for the most part, of it. We just stumble around upon the surface of this visible substance which we call the earth, aware that there is fluid substance also, and gaseous substance, besides what are now called electromagnetic fields, and beyond that again; but here is a whole range of substance, and there are currents of life moving through it. Human beings are always looking for the origination of life—the amoeba must be it!—but the substance of this solar entity is the flesh of life; here's the living entity included in a far vaster living entity. There is no substance in which life is not. These currents of life move through this substance to give it form and meaning. How utterly futile to try to understand the meaning of the universe by simply observing what comes within the range of the reflected radiation of which human beings are aware. Obviously human beings have no awareness of the vast majority of what is present.  You can't take a little bit and find out what the meaning of the whole is. It's a futile endeavor, stumbling around in the dark; the darkness comprehends not the light.

I am mentioning all this this morning partly so as to impress all concerned with their ignorance. Perhaps for those of you who were here present yesterday evening to hear what Hugh had to say and to observe the slides, there was a sense of the insignificance not only of puny human beings but even of this solar entity, and yet a sense of the essential nature of each part. When we become aware of such things there is properly a compulsion to repent in dust and ashes for having given ourselves so much self-importance; and how little human affairs become when seen in this setting; hardly discernible, the affairs of the human race hardly discernible. What then about the affairs of the individuals who compose the human race? Why do we give such importance to human affairs, our own individual personal affairs in particular? It's crazy; it's completely irrational. Human beings are able to rationalize almost anything, failing to realize that what they do is in reaction to this current of life that moves through the substance that is everywhere present.

Because human beings are composed of substance—not only physical substance but all the rest of the substance too—they find life moving, impelling in various ways. People do things and then explain why they do them. Usually the thought is that we have considered the matter ahead of time and so we do this, and it's very rational action. That isn't the way it really works. We do what we do on the basis of being impelled by life but also on the basis of the reaction of our earthly consciousness to that, and it's a very distorted reaction. So we do very irrational things, which we attempt to explain rationally as resulting from our emotional and our intellectual action. Well, emotions and intellect are involved all right. I was thinking of an example, a rather usual example apparently this time of the year, when the postal workers go on strike—it's becoming sort of a habit, and regardless of the intention not to do so it happens. So it has to be explained, and very rational explanations are put forward. Some people were suspended and they shouldn't have been suspended. This is the rational mental explanation of why this phenomenon appears. That has nothing to do with it, whatsoever!

It is the reaction of human beings in particular ways, according to the patterns in which they find themselves, to what is moving through this living substance. That's chaos, increasing chaos, because there is an intensification of the movement of life. There's a reason for this too; not a reason that human beings could fathom, but they merely are aware, indirectly at least, that it is happening. So we find a condition of anarchy increasing. There are even those who suggest that anarchy should be an article of faith. And there are all kinds of different activities with which human beings align themselves, completely ignorant of the fact that what is happening is happening because of the intensifying compulsion of life moving through this total spectrum of substance. The human experience has got off on its own in an isolated pattern of attempted function, as though human beings didn't really belong in the universe, as though they could somehow stand apart from the universe and decide what it is all about. That's like the eye trying to look at itself. So there are these compulsions of movement through the total spectrum of substance present.

The substance which is present here in this particular corner of the total universe embodies a certain specific expression of life. There is immense detail, obviously, in the universe, immense detail in this solar entity, and these details are unique to themselves even though they fit harmoniously in the whole. Human function has been largely in violation of the movement of life through this substance, a violation which has been established because it was imagined that the intellect of man could control the earth, this little planet Earth, while ignoring the substance of the greater entity. Such endeavors, pushing and pulling and manipulating in the world, have caused this chaos which human beings call civilization. An interesting rationalization! The fact of the matter is that it is meaningless chaos, going nowhere. The theory of evolution had to be invented in order to make ignorant people imagine that they really were going somewhere. Well I suppose they were going somewhere, but the somewhere, when they reached it, was found to be nowhere. That is what is called death. That's where we're all heading, isn't it?

We don't like to think of it too much. But, all this experience is consequent upon the fact that human beings have been isolating themselves from the real movement of life, trying to make life serve them; and the way this is supposed to happen is by manipulating that very minute range of substance of which they are aware. As I say, any such manipulation is going to have repercussions throughout all the rest of the substance of which human beings are not aware, and those repercussions will come again into the world of which human beings are aware. Then people are inclined to say, “Well I didn't deserve this. I'm being mistreated. I want justice.” Do you, really? Well, you'll get it! The universal system, if we were to call it that, is a just system, absolute. No matter how human beings complain about their undeserved miseries, what is happening is not the way human beings have interpreted it. So there is a hopeless state here as long as there is contention with the movement of life. Most human beings have no realization that they are contending with life but the very endeavor to use life to one's own ends produces that result—one's own end. Many people say, “My life is my own, to do with as I please.” Is it, really? When did you make it? Life is universal. There is the necessity then of being restored to alignment with life.

We have considered this in terms of the angel present, incarnate, in every human form, and in terms of the Archangel collectively. Here is life in expression as it really is throughout the universe, in expression at all levels of substance—insofar as this spot in the universe is concerned, restricted in expression by reason of the attitude of human beings who try to manipulate life to suit themselves, being ignorant of the fact that life has its own purpose. Contending with life is a futile undertaking; we find ourselves increasingly out on a limb and eventually we saw the limb right off, because we become useless in human form—not that the substance is useless; it's still valuable substance; it's still included in the total spectrum of substance. Even when the human body disintegrates that is so, isn't it? The substance is useful. It will be used again in the expression of life one way or another; but if we have diverted that substance to be used in the expression of something that is not true of life—and this is the human condition—then it must pass away. The human condition must pass away, not the substance; the substance remains. Our ability to function in this total spectrum of substance is based in what we have spoken of as the angel; the angel, the reason for the individual's existence. The whole reason for anyone's existence is in the angel, not in the earthly consciousness which assumes roles of various sorts in order to manipulate things to suit itself.

So we have recognized the reality of the angel incarnate in human form but imprisoned by the earthly consciousness of that form which assumes that it is something all on its own. It discovers eventually that that isn't true, but it doesn't do the human consciousness much good at that point. There is a heavenly state of consciousness available to fill the earthly state of consciousness, as we recognize, and it is through the vibratory levels of heavenly substance that the earthly substance is controlled. So it is only on the basis of the heavenly state of consciousness that things begin to come under control again in the visible substance of which human beings are most keenly aware. That substance is not controlled creatively by manipulation, because, as I say, that sets in motion all sorts of forces at other levels of substance which come back and clobber whatever human beings were trying to do. I am sure you have had that experience. Your intentions were so good, you were so careful in what you did, but look what happened! “It wasn't my fault; somebody else was to blame over there.” So human beings blame each other, criticize each other, condemn each other, and, if that is done sufficiently, work themselves into a frenzy of hate until they start killing each other, as though that is going to solve the problem. The mind gets in there busily rationalizing, “Well what would you do in this situation? I have to protect myself.” Everybody has the attitude that they're the ones who are on the defensive; everybody else is positively hostile. So it is by reason of the angel that the heavenly state of consciousness is present with us in this moment, available to us in this moment, to the extent that we are willing to relinquish our ignorance and stop insisting that mentally speaking and emotionally speaking we are capable of handling what is essential in our own experience of existence. Do you think you can? Oh yes, you've been trained in this and in that and you're very capable, but that is a state of delusion.

The heavenly state of angelic consciousness permits the right use of substance, the right use of heavenly substance initially, the heavenly substance of which earthly consciousness has been completely ignorant. The earthly consciousness says it doesn't exist. The earthly consciousness says, to me now probably, “I don't know what you're talking about.” Of course not! How could it? Only where there is a beginning discernment from the standpoint of heavenly consciousness—spiritual things are spiritually discerned; they are not discerned by the intellect—is there an awareness of levels of substance which are, in this sense, first substance. It is here that the true design is, and that true design needs to come through into the earthly substance because no longer is earthly consciousness in its present state blocking it, blocking it by reason of its own arrogance. So we are concerned, as angels, with our true state of consciousness and with the substance which moves easily under the influence of that true state of consciousness. From level to level that movement is reflected until it includes all levels of substance. That is the restoration. That is the earth restored to its true state. Most people think of the true state as a nice garden growing out here, trees and fruit, and everything's lovely, and the lion is lying down with the lamb, just as though it were merely a little thin layer here on the surface of the planet. That's the view of earthly consciousness, but on this basis human beings don't know what they're doing. “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” They're ignorant. The great sin is a refusal to acknowledge ignorance and to be willing to let it go in favor of the wisdom that is already present. If one insists that ignorance is wisdom then there is no space for wisdom. This is the attitude that human beings have: they know so much, or think they do.

So we come again to the angel, and collectively to the Archangel, that there may be a flesh form which includes all the substance that is already present, not merely this that we call physical substance but the total spectrum of substance. That is wholeness, holiness, making possible righteousness, the right use of all levels of substance according to the true design of life. What has this to do with the ridiculous affairs of human manipulation? Nothing whatsoever. It's a new state, not the old state made over, a new state in which God is glorified because there is an awareness that the glory of God fills the temple of this solar entity, of this universe, and shines round about.

O LORD, we are thankful for the opportunity of sharing increasingly in Heavenly Consciousness, and consequently an awareness of the reality of Universal Substance, thereby revealing the fact of Oneness. How good to be offered the opportunity of rising out of abysmal ignorance into a consciousness of the True Wisdom which enables life to be expressed on earth as it really is, thereby revealing Thy Glory, In the Christ. Aumen.

We are gathered here in this room, apparently a number of individuals. Is there really space between you and your neighbor? Is there really space, vacant space in this room? Or do you sense that the room is full of substance, substance of which we have no mental awareness and can have no awareness but which we may comprehend to the extent that that is necessary to our angelic expression of life in the fulfilment of our creative responsibility? We are not isolated entities, and this fact is known in angelic consciousness.

© emissaries of divine light

Let It Rain

Let  It  Rain

David Karchere  Sunrise Ranch

June 18, 2025   Loveland, Colorado

It’s been quite a week in the world. There is a war in the Middle East. There has been the assassination of political leaders in the United States. Yesterday, there was a military parade in Washington, D.C., and over 2,000 “No Kings” protest rallies across the country. Grief is a rational response to what is transpiring in our world. If we don’t acknowledge the sadness of it, perhaps we’ve gotten numb to it.

One of the saddest pieces of literature in the English language is Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. It is a story of love not being able to live in the world. In the play it is about the love between two young people. But the theme is larger than that. It dramatizes how hard it is for the truth of what love is to blossom in human culture. These lines are spoken by the Prince of Verona in the last verses of the play:

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love,

And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings.

The sun for sorrow will not show his head.

Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.

Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.

For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

The play is a tragic depiction of human culture. And behind it all, we can rest assured, is love. Yes, there’s love at work. And yet in some sad twist of human fate, love prompts people to do things that are irrational and destructive. I have no doubt that the mullahs in Iran are full of love—love for their country, their culture, and their vision for humanity. They are full of love. So is everybody else. And yet something is tragically missing. There is a tragic lack of the ability to ground love in practical, rational, wise action. And so, love is corrupted. People can aspire to the highest ideals, including things divine. They can touch the reality of Allah or God, by whatever name. They might have some perception of the angelic realms. But there is no guarantee that what they have touched will become creatively relevant in their lives. There is no guarantee that it will lead to anything but tragedy.

In 1960, Martin Cecil gave a talk on the subject, “The Organization of God-Beings Composing God”. In it, he made this comment: “What I’m talking about now is just a theory at the moment, insofar as you are concerned, but it needn’t remain that way if it is true.”

Martin encouraged people to apply what he outlined in principle in the living of their lives. It is vital that the principle be true. But even if it is perfectly outlined and believed in, that is not enough to avert the tragedy faced by human culture. For tragedy to be averted, human culture has to correlate with the truth being outlined. And the reality of what is true has to penetrate human experience in the land of the living.

There is a key distinction to be made as to how we love our lives. It applies to the closest elements of life—our own thoughts and feelings, our physical body, and our personal life path. It also applies to how we relate to others and to the world, especially to what we might consider to be our own.

In spiritual teaching, it is often said that we shouldn’t be attached to our life, including what is closest to us. Jesus taught: Whoever loves his life loses it. In writing about victory in human experience, John writes this in Revelation: “They loved not their lives unto the death.”

There’s a way to love your life that is not life-giving. If you idolize your own thinking, you can become obsessed with your thoughts. And the same is true of emotions. Have you witnessed people who say, “I feel it so deeply. It must be true.” Or perhaps you have thought that yourself. It’s possible to love life in a way that a person is controlled and dominated by the factors in it. Those factors could seem to be external to the individual. Or the individual could be dominated by their own thoughts and feelings.

If you haven’t noticed, the human mind can be a brutal dictator. If you love your own thinking and allow it to guide what you do without a higher wisdom, it’s brutal. It’s cruel to you. It’s brutal to the people around you. The human mind is a hard master. And there is a way of loving your own thoughts that makes you subject to them. The same is true of the thoughts of another person or the feelings of another person.

Don’t love your life unto the death. But this teaching is only part of the story. Having learned not to love our lives in a way that makes us subject to all the facets of human experience, we have to learn to love ourselves and our lives in a way that transforms us. We have to learn to penetrate our lives from above. Otherwise, we become aloof and disconnected, without the ability to penetrate human culture with love. This is what is sometimes referred to as a spiritual bypass. And no matter how much you love the theory you believe in, and regardless of how accurate that theory might be, until you apply it thoughtfully, wisely, and deeply, the patterns of human tragedy remain unchanged.

There is a way to love your life from above that does not idolize it and does not make you subject to it, but which penetrates your life with the higher spiritual truth that you know. That process begins with penetrating your own emotions and thoughts.

If we have the vision to love from above—to rescue our human life and the human world from above—we can penetrate our life and our world with the authority of who we are as a Creator. That’s a different way to love your life. It’s a different way to love another person, too. It’s a way of loving another person that isn’t subject to them and whatever they come up with as a human being. Yes, we can be blessed by the interchange. But there’s a way to love another person from above, just as you’re loving yourself from above. And if you ever have an experience of both of you doing that, then you are in for a profound creative exchange.

So often, a loving relationship between people can become combative. There can be a reactivity going on so that their love is subject to what is moving back and forth between them. That can be between two people in a personal relationship or between nations. Where are those who say, “I’m here in this relationship to come from a higher place and bring something higher to the relationship”, whether it’s seemingly more personal, work-related, or the diplomatic relationship between nations?

Here in Colorado, we have virga—rain that never reaches the ground. It can be so hot and dry that you can see the rain falling from clouds across the prairie, but it evaporates before it touches the earth. It can be like that in the spiritual experience of the individual. There’s something up there spiritually. The person is beginning to be aware of it. They feel it. But it doesn’t come down enough to drench the person. It does not come all the way through and penetrate their human experience. So it doesn’t pierce their heart or inspire their thinking.

If your mind is like most people’s minds—including mine—it wants to be the boss of you. It wants to tell you what’s going to happen, who’s right and who’s wrong, and why life is impossible. But there’s something higher that can descend into the human experience that shouldn’t be like virga. That higher cosmic intelligence should be moving your mind and mine, so our thoughts are born from it. It can penetrate our mind from above so we don’t have to be subject to every foolish thought that our human mind might come up with.

We can just say this to those thoughts, “I hear you. But we have something bigger we’re about here.” And if we can do that for ourselves, we can do it for each other, so that we don’t have the experience of bumping into each other like bumper cars. Doesn’t that often happen in human experience? Can’t we become like human bumper cars just bouncing off each other? If that’s what is happening, there’s not an actual penetration spiritually between us, so there isn’t the spiritual flow that’s natural in life.

When there is a flow, you inspire me, I inspire you, and now we are creating together. We are no longer bumper cars—an experience that is going on all over the place, near and far. It happens up close in the interior spaces of a person’s life. You could probably watch that happen to other people, and maybe even yourself. And you can see it among nations. It’s the human bumper car phenomenon.

“All are punished.” All are punished. Near and far, it’s tragic, and there is no need for it. But human culture just keeps playing out the bumper car experience. It is the virga experience, where we’re not really penetrated from above with spiritual things. We’ve got all kinds of beliefs about them—the 70 virgins up there when you die, and all the rest, whatever it might be. We have all the beliefs about it. But an individual who is fully penetrated with the reality of what is above is rare. And then there is virga between people. The creative energies that could interpenetrate the field evaporate.

When the virga phenomenon ends and the rain comes, we know what’s happening up there, because it’s what’s happening here. And we make it real, spiritually, here between us. We have a real, live, honest-to-goodness spiritual experience between us as people that correlates with what’s up there.

“As above, so below.” And then, with the resonance of that, we can feel deeply and perceive deeply what it is that’s happening at a higher level of Being because what we’re doing resonates with it. We are relating to it and giving expression to the essence of that reality in form in our own lives.

This is what it takes to make spiritual things real. This is what it is to indeed live a spiritual life—not a pious life in the usual sense, not a religious life in the usual sense, but a life that makes spiritual things real in human experience, a life that allows itself to be penetrated by the spiritual. In the context of Emissaries of Divine Light, the founding leaders of this program did a remarkable job naming the spiritual energies that are available to us, that are looking to penetrate this human experience: love, truth, and life.

Today, we are no longer content with spiritual virga.

We are no longer content with the human bumper car experience.

We are in the midst of a full-scale spiritual downpour.

Let it rain.

Pulse of Spirit — emissaries.org/let-it-rain-2/

© emissaries of divine light

Evening Meditation

Evening  Meditation

Martin Cecil  May 12, 1974 p.m.  Sunrise  Ranch

The Trumpet: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-trumpet.html

The True Tone: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-true-tone.html

In Three Days: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

This Is The Day: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-three-days.html

Delivered From Evil: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/01/delivered-from-evil.html

Represent The Truth: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/represent-truth.html

The Third And Last Call: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-third-and-last-call.html

The Way Of The Master: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-way-of-master.html

The Seed: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-seed.html

The Reason: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-reason.html

The Lamb: greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-lamb.html

This is a cozy little group in the Chapel this evening. It seems that this is the last service I will be giving here in the Chapel for a while—one phase of the unfolding creative cycle completed and another beginning. This may be seen in the conclusion of one Class and the initiation of another very shortly. In the meantime I travel to the Unit at 100 Mile House. This movement back and forth seems to have been necessary in order to maintain a balance. We've been moving here specifically together over the last couple of months and now I will be moving specifically with the other Unit for the next two months. This morning [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-lamb.html] we shared a special time with those who were gathered in Portland, and it was indeed an intensification of the Spirit of God in the experience of all who were open to know it.

The working of the Plan of God on earth comes into increasingly clear focus, so that we are able to see what is happening now, emerging out of what happened before and leading into what will happen. I'm sure that you have sensed a greater assurance in this regard. There is something taking place which is absolutely sure. In spite of many human failures along the way, finally the fulfilment is at hand. Of course, it is at hand because of what was done by our LORD and KING when He was on earth in human form. I have emphasized the tremendous nature of His achievement. He was in the world, after all, a man. The ladies do not know exactly what it is to be a man, any more than the men know exactly what it is to be a lady. But insofar as the men are concerned there is a certain consciousness of being men. And this One who lived so briefly on earth was a man, a young man, in His early thirties, at the culmination of His life on earth.

How clearly do you think He saw at the time what was really happening? He knew exactly what was taking place and what would take place, and His part in it all; it was no mystery to Him. How clear is your vision, whether male or female? How clearly do you see your part in the unfoldment of Divine Purpose? [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-way-of-master.html]

Obviously He did have a clear vision, and He functioned in strength while He was on earth, with no shadow of turning. But as a young man, growing to maturity, He was in the world just the same as everybody else. Everything was for Him the same as it was for others—as for others, so for Him. I'm sure that as His life unfolded there were times in His earlier years when He must have wondered. He was assailed by the things of the world the same as everybody else. And yet, to hold true to that high vision that was His, in spite of everything, was really a remarkable thing because it surely became plain to Him very shortly that His life was going to be rather brief. And yet, presumably, He could have behaved in another way and had it last a few more years. Everybody has a high vision, but how true is that person to that vision? It was because of the fact that He was true to such vision as He had that His vision went so high, and that He was so keenly aware of what was happening in the world.

Who do you think taught Him? There has been a good deal of speculation in this regard. He must have been trained by the Essenes, some say. Bringing it a little closer to the present time, who taught Uranda? No one. The same is true, even more so, of the One on earth who was called Jesus. He learned from people, as we all can do, from circumstances, but, above all, from being true to His highest vision. This was more important to Him than anything else. It needs to be so for all of us, for this is really the way we are led forth in the right Way to a city of habitation. He let this happen in His experience.

He saw the possibility of life on earth in the material sense, just as all the rest of us have seen and do see. But He stayed true to His highest vision. It began to become apparent to Him as to what His commission was. He moved into it, anticipating victory, and when He found the lack of response in people generally, the lethargy, and saw that it couldn't work the way it might have worked, that was very sad for Him. He could have said, “Here I have given my life to my highest vision and moved into my ministry, but nothing happens.” But He looked beyond human beings as such and saw what was necessary if the Way was to be opened. It became quite apparent to Him that the Way would never be opened if dependence was to be placed upon other human beings.

He saw the failure as it had appeared with respect to the First Sacred School—human beings had simply refused to carry through. They had refused to be true to their highest vision and had wandered off in all directions, following their fancies, as people have done all down through the ages. And then, when the same thing happened to the ministry which He offered, He had to assume at that point that if human beings were left to their own devices, no matter who might come to provide leadership it would always fail. This was particularly evident by reason of who He Himself was. He was the Supreme One, and yet it failed, and yet human beings paid no attention. So all He could do was to say to Himself that if the Way was to be opened, it must be through one person, not expecting it to happen by reason of other human beings. Of course that one person, insofar as He was concerned, was Himself. Who else? Who else could He look to? In our own circumstances we need to reach that same point, where we recognize that it is up to oneself.

Now, He saw this clearly enough, as anyone of integrity may, and assumed the responsibility to go all the way through for Himself, not expecting anyone else to do it with Him; not only to allow a victory in the Second Sacred School, or even in the Third, but to carry it all the way through. One might even say that this was a super-human task and, of course, it could only be done on the basis of Divine Being, on the basis of the Truth, and of His acceptance of that Truth—to be true to it all the way. And so He did this, and He did move all the way through. And consequently the veil was rent. This is a symbolical way of saying that passage through the veil had been established for mankind—victory at every level, all the way through, was a fact. It was then just a matter of permitting a focalization to appear which would have sufficient discernment of the Truth to accept what had been established; not to try to do it again, but simply to expand what had already been done. This is obviously the easiest way.

I think we all have sufficient vision now to recognize that if it had been required of us to open the Way through, it would never have been done. But because the Open Way had already been established, all we had to do was to walk through. We begin to see that it was done in spite of us, not because of us. All our efforts were for nothing, because it isn't achieved by human effort. So let us not become self-righteous about what we think we have done. We simply become aware from time to time that something has happened. And it is well that we should become aware. We can willingly allow the happening to continue — let it happen.

This is the creative process in our experience. “Let there be light.” The light is to expand, or differentiate, or extend. If there is no self-consciousness it is more or less an automatic process; but when there is self-consciousness, as there is in human beings, they can take the attitude, as they have, that they don't need to let it, they can do their own thing. This is what was proved through the man Jesus—He was willing to let it happen. He didn't try to make it happen. He admitted that He of Himself could do nothing.

If anything is to be done, it must be done by God. And if it relates to human experience, the doing, then human beings concerned must let it happen. We have been awakening to these things and paying attention to God, fearing God, acknowledging the value of our highest vision, a vision which to most material human beings seems to be somewhat naive. This again brings to point what was done by Jesus on earth in this regard. The story of the so-called temptations in the wilderness related to all this. He wasn't blind. He didn't come into the world without any physical senses, or any of the usual human desires. He knew them—we know them. But He eschewed evil.

Our Master's words were true: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” And you felt the choosing as something began to happen in your experience and then you translated it into your own consciousness in a way that still made you look pretty good. Well, the fact is that of ourselves we do nothing. We awaken to what is happening within ourselves. We've become aware, in our experience, of the Lamb. We are saved to live and serve on earth by the blood of the Lamb, by the life which is an aspect of the evidence of the Presence of the LORD. When we let that life have its way with us we become aware of what that Way is. We may become aware of the fact that that Way had been present all along. It didn't just start when we became aware of it. Moving in that Way, we woke up some more. We were able to discern something that had been before hidden to us; it was there all along but we didn't see it. This is the process. We don't make anything be—we participate in Being and there it is, to the extent of our participation. We have been participating in the evidence of the Presence of the LORD in varying degrees. This has allowed us to become aware of the Truth with respect to what we have been considering recently. How aware you are of that is an individual matter. But you do understand something; and one could say it makes sense.

Understanding is of the heart. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/all-healing-is-healing-of-heart.html] The pure heart understands, because all that is true is reflected through the pure heart into the range of conscious awareness. And that conscious awareness is not, with respect to everything, a mental grasp. We can understand things without having a mental grasp. We understand a lot of things that we couldn't put into words. Why let the mind have so much authority? Our understanding comes to us through the heart. And it is the understanding of the LORD. We share as much understanding as is fitting in our particular position of responsibility. We don't need any more than that—but grasping human beings always want more. Why not be content with what is available in the moment? That's all that is needed. So, we move with what is moving. Just move with it. Then we have the experience of it, and we know what it is, in spite of the fact that the mind may be dissatisfied. Never try to satisfy the mind, your own or anyone else's. A satisfied mind engenders a self-satisfied person.

When our Master was speaking to His disciples close to the end of His ministry, He mentioned the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, who should come. And He said that He Himself had yet many things to say to His disciples and others, but that they were incapable of understanding. Why was that? Because the heart was not adequately pure yet; there was not enough space in the heart to understand. So our Master had obviously hit a wall insofar as the disciples were concerned, and what was needed would have to wait until later; maybe they would be more willing. It didn't prove out so, but He indicated that the Spirit of Truth would come and guide those who were moved by it into all Truth. And he would show you things to come.

Yes, that's been done, hasn't it? We have an awareness of what is coming; we also have an awareness of what went. The Spirit of Truth, the Lamb, the evidence of the Presence of the LORD, known by reason of spiritual expression. This spiritual expression intensifies and increases as there is movement with what is moving — what we have called the Tone of Life. Our awareness of that Tone has increased and it has brought with it understanding, a sense of the fitness of things. We have shared this time together in expanding our consciousness of the True Tone.

I shall not be here in person for a while to sound the Tone myself, so it gives a particular opportunity to all of you to make sure that you keep your instruments tuned up. And there are others here to offer the note as needed, that it may become such a natural experience that you do not have to think about it particularly. It is the consciousness of that True Tone that keeps a person on course. He discerns something a little off, so he veers back to the True Tone. Perhaps he veers too far and goes off a little the other way; he keeps moving back and forth, maintaining association with the True Tone. There always is something of this pulsation of movement. It is a natural pulsation. It isn't a succession of violent earthquakes — let it settle down; don't let it swing to extremes. As you have a consciousness of the Tone, you can tell when it's off beat and you let it settle down. Generally speaking, the way to let the heart settle down is to relax. Maybe a little deep breathing. Abdominal breathing, rhythmic breathing, can be used to relax the heart, so that it can settle down.

Perfect love casts out fear. The opening of the heart to the evidence of the Presence of the LORD allows fear to be reduced, and also allows the individual to take the appropriate action. Relax into the rhythm of life and you will find that there is a pulsation. That pulsation relates to the Tone, and as you are keenly aware of the Tone you may move easily with that pulsation, because it never gets too very far away from the Tone. There is a natural heartbeat.

Let us, in these days which are before us, stay on course together, in agreement, that the movement of the creative cycle may emerge into manifest spiritual expression increasingly, thereby being intensified in all our experience. And that intensification proves out to be the Power of God, by which the Purposes of God are achieved. Then we find that we have not been so naive after all. It is all working as it should, and there comes the increased assurance as we let it be so. It is a joy to share these times which bring a keener awareness of the True Tone and allow us to continue together in Spirit, even though we may be apart in person. So, the enfoldment of the evidence of the Presence of the LORD abides with you.

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Perfection—The Absolute Cause

Perfection — The  Absolute  Cause

Ann Foorman  and  Martin Exeter  May 3, 1985

Ann Foorman — We come together in this beautiful hour, as the music just expressed, to “Worship the living God,” to be the living God in expression. “The Lord walks on earth again in the beauty of holiness,” and we know the Lord; we love the Lord; we respect and acknowledge that beautiful character in one another. I rejoice this evening to let the Word transform the world, and it begins in my consciousness. I would read a few words from Revelation to begin with. “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God.”

We have come to fulfil those words, to overcome the world as it has been created by man, by us, and to let the real world—the new heaven and the new earth—be the living reality. I would say, It is done. I have overcome the world, the world that was referred to, and had to be referred to for so long, in the words, “I am in the world but not of it.” There is something unfulfilled, in a way, in those words. And in some other words, “My kingdom is not of this world”; here is something unfulfilled. The Word through us this evening may fulfil the job that we have come to do, to let the son of man, which is the Son of God, walk on earth and proclaim, “The kingdom is the world.”

I have been sent into the world not to judge it, but to save it, to reprove it, to overcome it. I was chosen out of this world, ordained to bring forth fruit that might remain. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world, and I am not offended or ashamed by the prince of the human nature world coming, which means the perceived feeling connections that I might experience with the world that is ending. It has often been spoken of, the time of the end, or, “And then shall the end come.” Well the end is come for the unreal world, because it ends in me.

In this day let it be said by the angels of the son of man, out of the clouds of heaven, out of this holy city of habitation where we dwell, “His kingdom, my kingdom is the world." And as was spoken by the Master years ago, “Now is my kingdom not from hence.” I am in the world, the real world, and the world is made by me. We create the real world. And this gospel of the kingdom is being lived, and its word spoken, preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. Arise ye nations! “Come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,” the real world.

These things I speak, that the joy of the Lord might be fulfilled, that all may be one in experience, even as we are one in this very moment: I in them, and Thou, O Lord of Life, in me.

Martin Exeter — These are most precious and beautiful words, spoken by a precious and beautiful angel.

We are here present on earth to bring forth the fruit which shall remain. Our purpose certainly is not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; rather, our presence is in the world to bring forth the fruit of the tree of life. There were two symbolical trees spoken of within the state of man as it originally was: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It might be said that these two trees are one: they represent the creative process by which dominion, the dominion of God, is maintained on earth by reason of man. We can see a representation here of cause and effect, of heaven and earth, both essential aspects of one thing.

By reason of the tree of life, cause may be brought forth, the cause of life itself. Because of this cause the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil puts in an appearance. Some have felt that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was unnecessary: it was just there to test human beings as to whether they would eat of the fruit of it or not. This is a very shortsighted and self-centered view. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil indicates an understanding of the design which is to take form in the earthly sense. These two symbolic trees represented the perfect state.

We might pause to consider for a moment that word perfect. It is a useful word because it points to something absolute. The perfect state is the real state, the true state. The word “perfect” is only necessary because of the relative view of human beings. This relative view put in an appearance in the experience of mankind because of the eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the eating of the fruit of the results of the cause tree, the tree of life. Here were the results present in beautiful form, a true design, a living design under control, the process working out without interpretation by any human mind. Those results appeared in form in the objective world in which man was designed to live. It might be said from our perspective now that those results were perfect: they were an accurate portrayal of the living design by which the purposes of mankind and this earth could be fulfilled.

We know something, at least, of what happened when there was the eating of the fruit of this design tree. Here was human emotion coming into the picture, presumably with the objective of improving the manifest design in a way which would be more emotionally pleasing. The effects of eating of the forbidden fruit, as it has been called, were unknown. There was no other world than this one world. Some other world was inconceivable, in just the same way that now, in this other world which has become not only conceivable but experienced, the perfect world is inconceivable. In what has been called the fall, action was taken contrary to the design, supposedly in order to satisfy human emotion. Of course the mind went right along with it, rationalizing the procedure as being what it should be. This is the way that human nature, which then put in an appearance, has been functioning ever since. The mind has been used to rationalize what might be called the heart’s desire, to make it seem as though the fulfilment of the heart’s desire was reasonable, logical, sensible. We are well aware of what has been produced in consequence: a human nature world populated by human nature people.

Now it might be said that the reverse procedure is necessary. We have some understanding of this and some evident willingness to participate in a recreative process, the results of which are presently totally unknown. Just as the results of what would happen by reason of eating the forbidden fruit were totally unknown, so is it totally unknown in the reverse direction now. In response to emotional involvement with the objective world the mind, in support of that, has naturally assumed a rebellious and disobedient attitude toward the spirit, exemplified by the tree of life. It has been necessary along the way—and you have all had some experience of this—to let the mind refuse to support emotional involvement with the objective world of effects. It has been necessary deliberately to do this. I suppose this is tantamount to saying “No” to Eve. Eve, at the behest of the serpent in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, has been intent upon squeezing satisfaction out of the experience in the objective world. Heretofore the mind has gone along with that, and in doing so has been rebellious toward the spirit of life. There has been an endeavor to bend life to human purposes. All human effort may be seen in this way.

For a moment we might consider what has happened within our own experience with respect to this matter of life. Being somewhat less rebellious and disobedient than most, we have begun to see that there is a life process totally transcending human purposes, the purposes of human nature. If we consider our individual experience, we all have what may be called personal lives. These personal lives include very personal things; they also include our professions, what we are doing in the external sense. Viewing this personal life, would you say, relative to yourself, that the personal life is supreme and any spiritual vision you may have is included in your personal life as a part of it? Or, on the other hand, is your experience of that larger spiritual nature simply including as part of it what is necessary with respect to your personal life? Which aspect is supreme? Which aspect is dominant?

The perfect state is the holy state, the state of wholeness, the wholly heavenly state.

Mention was made of being in the world but not of it. It is important that we should be in the world, because it provides us with the associations necessary within the consciousness of mankind by which reproof may be extended. We don’t stand on a tub and shout imprecations and reproof at any who may be passing by. We do it in a more fitting way, without much noise or bombast, in simply dealing with what we become aware of within ourselves.

So we have this field of operations through which may be extended what we have come to know by reason of our association with this larger spiritual process and our experience in it. Surely this is supreme; it is, after all, the absolute state, the perfect state. When considering what you are going to do in a personal sense, what is it that emphasizes itself initially? Do you see everything from the standpoint of the working of the creative process of which you have an awareness of being a part? Anything of a personal or professional nature is simply included within that; it is not a thing of itself. All too many, obviously, have this personal and professional life as being the thing, and scarcely any awareness that there is anything that transcends that.

We reach a point where the personal and professional life is entirely incidental to what we are here to do in the transcendent sense. There are things which it may be our responsibility to attend to, and we attend to those things to the extent that we are able to do it, without violating the transcendent state. I have many things requiring my attention which are not directly related—there is nothing that isn’t in some way related—but not directly related to the transcendent purpose. Those things I fit in as it is possible to do so; if it isn’t possible to do so, they don’t fit in; they just slide by; because finally there must be an association with the absolute. I think it was said of Noah that he was perfect and upright—or was it Job? they both had a similar statement—perfect and upright, one that eschewed evil, etc.; nothing on the side, no leaks. The question arises how absolute our experience is in this regard.

Most people have their personal foibles, the things which they are accustomed to doing, and woe betide if such things are interfered with. Is there anything of this nature which, if it is interfered with, would cause you to react in an angry or resentful way? “You have no business interfering in my personal life,” would be the attitude taken by some. It may be qualified a little: “I’ve always done things this way, I’ve always done things this way at this particular time; and now you (or circumstances, someone) are injecting into the picture something that is going to disturb this routine.” Well I hope so! because that shows up where the routines are and where we are still bogged down, mired, in the human nature state.

It is kind of a paradox, isn’t it, that perfection is an absolute state, and yet in that absolute state there is absolute flexibility, there is ease of movement with the living design. We have not known what that living design was; we are due to find out. And the living design, which comes into experience as we receive it, as we come into position to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, involves constant change, and we cannot settle down into our supposedly comfortable coffins—call them “ruts”. I think it is very revealing that you can buy coffins these days with innerspring mattresses, so that people can settle down permanently. What makes human nature comfortable is what needs to be recognized so that one may let it pass away.

We have been richly blessed with so much, in fact. Oh, one can always look around and see other people who have things and experiences that we don’t have. How do you feel about that? It should not matter at all what anyone else experiences. The question is as to the nature of our own behavior; that is all we are responsible for, because this is absolute. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,” absolutely right, regardless of human foibles. I don’t think we need to spend time in isolating and identifying human foibles. Anyone with some intelligence should be able to do that for him- or herself, particularly the human foibles which are characteristic of oneself. It is sometimes useful deliberately to interfere with those foibles and not do the thing to which you are accustomed. Do something else just to begin to break the thing up so that there may be material available to give form to the living design. We discover what the living design is when there is material available to give it form, material which may have broken loose from within ourselves, not being held in those old, dead structures to which we have become accustomed.

What is the nature of your lifestyle? Does that control you? You must have that lifestyle; it would be very disturbing if you didn’t have it. There is nothing wrong with the lifestyle, perhaps. It is the fact that you would be disturbed if you didn’t have it that is the wrong thing, the thing that needs to be recognized and dealt with. It isn’t as though there was some God somewhere who arbitrarily wants to impose on human beings some painful state of affairs that is going to make them miserable. I think this is very often the view of some of the religionists: God’s will is a pretty painful business, seemingly. But it isn’t at all; it is only painful to human nature, that’s all. If you want pain, keep human nature around and you’ll have plenty! That makes some people happy, apparently—very odd.

But we have this absolute state: Be perfect. The word perfect causes a reaction in some people; they don’t know what it means anyway. It is only a useful word to us because we recognize that it relates to something absolute, something unknown. You can’t define perfection; it doesn’t include all the human concepts and ideas of what that would be. It is what it is, and is an experience unknown to human beings. But it’s useful to have a word to identify it. Maybe you can invent a word that wouldn’t cause reaction—I doubt it! So we use words, but we use them with understanding because we know what they mean. And our concern is to be perfect, perfect and upright, one that fears God and eschews evil, one who allows the expression of the spirit of God to find release in daily living, whatever the circumstances may be, pleasing or displeasing to human nature.

Angelically we don’t care whether human nature likes it or not. You know, this has been my attitude for a long time in offering what I have. I have never said anything to please anyone. Maybe that’s why so few have come around! But what I have said has been acceptable to angels, unacceptable to human nature maybe not right away, because human nature is pretty dumb, blind. It doesn’t know what’s going on, and so it may take a little time for human nature finally to come to a recognition of what it is that’s been going on and decide that it doesn’t like it. And we have the evidence of this in various ways. But I do not condition unnecessarily what I say to please anyone. I think it is because of that that you are here now. I suppose you could say, “Like it or lump it.” If there is any genuineness in a person they will take it even though they have to lump it. But finally, as human nature begins to fade, it is liked, it is wonderful; it is a joy unspeakable to start with but becomes speakable as one moves along; it becomes expressible. We share spiritual expression, and the quality of our living backs it up, and there is factually no compromise.

This, as you know, doesn’t mean that one cannot be reasonable, one cannot consider back and forth. I have done a lot of consideration back and forth with people over the years, but that has never changed the absoluteness of the truth. We may—I don’t think it’s using subterfuge, really—use diplomacy, shall we say, to assist people to understand what initially they don’t understand. And because they don’t understand it they may react adversely to their lack of understanding, not to what it is that is being offered but to their misunderstanding of it. So we are easily entreated, shall we say; but there is something so strong, so solid, so immovable, that there comes a sense of security in relationship to it. Others begin to experience that security; perhaps you have yourselves, because there is something in that sense unchanging. It is always going to be there; it is not going to be pushed around by human nature.

When we all accept this basis for our living, then the end comes. To the extent that this is done, it comes quickly; and who would want this miserable state drawn out for centuries to come? I doubt that this is possible anymore anyhow. When you have a sliver under your fingernail it is better to suffer some sharp pain for a few moments getting it out than to leave it in there festering and suffer for months. Let’s do what needs to be done, knowing that human nature won’t like it but also knowing that it is the most glorious experience for those who are willing to let human nature go. And we prove this when we ourselves let it go, and that reproves everybody else.

Nick Giglio — Martin, it is glorious. I’m still around, and if I could still be around, anyone could still be around! I love God and eschew evil. And I don’t just like it or lump it; I love it, and I love you. That’s why I am here, to move freely, openly, and with full zest and power in the transformative purposes of life. So it is, Martin, and so shall it be, because I am here, because we are here with you in love.

Martin Exeter — So it is. I am sure that what Nick has just said finds an echo in all your hearts. I have been richly blessed by your love and the love of many others, and I suspect that most of you sense that I love you. 

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