Being in Heaven—Achieving on Earth

Being  in  Heaven — Achieving  on  Earth

Martin Cecil   October 10, 1982 a.m.

I am sure that we all rejoice to be together on this beautiful Sunday morning. We rejoice to be together in heaven. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/being-in-heaven.html] According to the story, it was said that the disciple Peter was given the keys to the kingdom of heaven. You can either lock a door with keys or open a door with keys. I think this is something that had not been noticed in considering the fact that Peter may have been given the keys to the kingdom of heaven. It always was assumed that these would be used to open it. It would appear that Peter was rather an emotional man; perhaps he had a big heart, as they say. In any case he could well represent this to us now, because certainly it is the heart which either opens or closes the door to the kingdom. No one was ever able to get into the kingdom merely by the use of the human intellect.

The heart is of vital importance, either to open the door or to close it. Hardened human hearts, as they have been described, have kept the door firmly locked. Now of course the question always is as to what direction the heart may be opened toward. The creative experience comes from the creative spirit of God. However, human hearts have tended to be opened in every other possible direction—which is described as the hardened heart, and this has maintained the destructive state that is apparent on earth. By the way, there is nothing new about a destructive state. Nowadays it is just on a larger scale, that's all.

Every human being is equipped with a heart, or what is symbolized thereby, the realm of feeling and emotion. It has of course, over the years, become the human habit to let the heart be hardened—that is, it is soft in the wrong direction; it is open to every destructive wind that blows. I am sure all of you can testify to this habit in your own experience. How often has anyone been disturbed emotionally? I am not necessarily thinking of being fit to be locked up in an institution! But emotional disturbance is, generally speaking, the order of the day because the heart is opened in the wrong way.

The keys of the kingdom are kept by the human heart. The door has been rather firmly locked. In the passage which mentions that the keys were given to Peter it was also indicated that whatsoever he should bind on earth would be bound in heaven, and whatsoever should be loosed on earth would be loosed in heaven. Here we have indication of the two possibilities: whether the door will be kept locked or the keys will be used to open it. I am sure that all of us have been well aware of these things, at least in a theoretical sense. The question is always as to how seriously we assumed responsibility for what was implied.

We noted last Sunday [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-vibratory-modes-of-love.html] that we were assembled here in this particular setting to be in heaven. Heaven is the place of being. It is rightly “the place where I am.” If there is a sense of identity it is always a false one unless the experience is that of being in heaven. Here is the place of being. There is something evidently to be achieved on earth, but that achievement is impossible except by reason of the fact that there is the experience of being in heaven. Being and achieving go together. Trying merely to be on earth does not permit creative achievement on earth, just destructive achievement. Clearly, everybody has been much concerned about being on earth. Most have felt that experience slipping away to some degree and so there is a very strong endeavor to keep on being on earth. No one wants to die, after all, even if it means going to heaven. Well there is something valid about that concern because we are supposed to be in heaven now. Heaven presumably would be a place that was characterized by life rather than by nothing, which is death; and we are alive now, at least in some measure—we have awareness, conscious awareness. So here is the place to experience life, in other words, to know heaven, to be in heaven—the place which each one may say is “the place where I am.” That is the truth, a truth apparently unknown by the vast majority of people. For much of the time I suppose most would be inclined to say, “I am in hell.” Occasionally we imagine we slip out a little and something nice happens—not for long, however; at least this is descriptive of the human state. Maybe we have known something different; we surely have to the extent that we have experienced being in heaven. When there is that experience, why would anyone wish to duck out, slam the door and lock it again? That is done by the wrong use of the heart.

We have taken note recently that there are hearts which are yielding and opening, hopefully in the right direction, in many people the world around. We ourselves have particular connections with certain ones. Perhaps we might suspect, based in our own experience, that there are more hearts potentially willing to yield in the right direction than may have heretofore been assumed. We hear so much of destructiveness and of human beings engaged in this type of work, that there tends to be the idea that there is nothing else in the world. Admittedly there must be a good deal of that, but then there are a lot of people on earth. I wonder what percentage are in the position of a certain willingness to open their hearts if they could be assured that they wouldn't be hurt by so doing? I am sure all of you have tentatively opened your hearts here and there and been hurt. I don't know anyone on the face of the earth who hasn't. Some of the hurts are so deep and traumatic that the heart is closed up for good, perhaps. But in most, while there is a certain protectiveness present, there is a longing for the opportunity, really, to open the heart if one was sure that it would be protected.

It has been apparent on earth that there has been very little present that was trustworthy. Even if something trustworthy did begin to put in an appearance, it was a human habit not to trust anyway, and so there was a good deal of reluctance even to test it out. I think that reluctance receded into the background somewhat in your own experience, so that you were willing to put your toe in the water at least and move in the direction of proving it out. Well, having had that experience ourselves, we may recognize that there are great numbers of people who would be willing likewise if given the opportunity. Therefore we recognize, having had the experience ourselves of security, safety in opening the heart, that we have the responsibility of providing what is necessary for others and making very sure that what we do provide is absolutely trustworthy.

Are we still looking around for trustworthiness in somebody else? That is the initial approach of anyone, but sooner or later, having found something that provided a point of stability for us, then we need look no more. There is no more searching for the point of trustworthiness but merely concern to provide the point of trustworthiness. We don't have to look for it anymore. Then we can get down to business and provide it. That presumably is what we are here for on earth, but in a particular sense in this moment in this gathering in the Chapel this morning. We may share an outlooking attitude of responsibility for everyone everywhere. It may be, and surely is, true that there are others sharing this attitude with us who are not present in person; but in any case, it is a matter of being in heaven.

Being in heaven doesn't require that we be in some particular geographical place on earth. Perhaps, as we are experiencing now, something may be achieved by being present in a particular geographical situation, such as this setting in the Chapel at 100 Mile House. It enables the achievement of something, but it doesn't change anything insofar as being is concerned, and to achieve anything we must know the reality of being. If there are others who know that reality of being wherever they may be, well we all find ourselves being in heaven. There is no geographical distance involved. The geographical factors only come into the picture from the standpoint of achieving something. We achieve on earth, and we achieve on earth in the true sense because we are in heaven. That is our place of being, that is where each one of us may say, “I am.”

As hearts open because there is a trustworthy core of being on earth, in heaven on earth, the process of purification may continue. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” They shall be aware in heaven. What it means to see God is usually translated in human terms. “Well He's over there; let's have a good look.” That isn't the way it is at all. The name of God is I Am. And God isn't interested in looking at Himself. He is, after all, the Creator—the Great Achiever, we may say. Self-centeredness is an earthly human trait. Human beings are always looking at themselves, in the sense that they are unsure of themselves and want to build up their egos in one way or another so that they may feel sure of being on earth. But it's never sure, is it? It is very uncertain—here today, gone tomorrow. No, the only sure experience is being in heaven now.

Here we are in heaven now. This is our place of being. We may look out from heaven into the realm of achieving and we see various things reflected in form. Some of these things we see directly with our own eyes, so to speak; others we hear about. I suppose most of the things that are happening, that we think are happening anyway, are simply what we have heard about. We don't know for sure, and if it is the news report, we are pretty sure it didn't happen just that way! Or we should be. But that is not of the greatest concern insofar as we are concerned. We are aware of these opening hearts with which we have connection in various geographical places, some of them not so far away. Last night some attention was paid to Mexico and Argentina, various countries in South America, and also South Africa. This may be encouraging if we are responding to that sort of thing, but that is not our place, is it? Our place is in heaven, the place of radiant vision. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” They shall be in the place of being, be in heaven, where the vision is radiant, not reflective. Reflective vision relates to this matter of self-centeredness: “How is this going to affect me? If something comes bouncing back, how is this going to affect me?” If one has radiant vision one is not so interested in what is bouncing back but in seeing what is actually present.

We begin to see from the position where we are—that is, in heaven. But we are in heaven on earth in the geographical sense, so we are on earth where we are. In the present moment it is in the Chapel here, and it is from this position on earth that we look forth with the radiant vision in order that we may see what needs to be seen and handle what needs to be handled. Our looking forth always relates to what is next to us. We have been aware of this principle, shall we call it—you can't jump over what is next to you and achieve anything further afield. This has not been much more than a theory for some because there is the constant attempt of so many to be somewhere else: “If I were somewhere else I could really achieve something.” That is the human attitude, the self-centered attitude, that is taken because there is no experience of being where one is.

If one has the experience of being where one is, then one also has the experience of achieving where one is, because the achieving is not separate from being. You can't be here in heaven on earth in this particular geographic spot and achieve something out in South America. All you can achieve is right here now, in the geographical circumstance as it is. Now, we know that. That's been said so many times, hasn't it? But do we know it? Do we actually assume responsibility because we are in heaven, now, here, for the achieving that is now here? This relates to our presence in the Chapel now, but it relates to each moment. The place of being, true being, makes possible the achieving, and the achieving must necessarily be where one is. Being and achieving are not separate. We are not going to go into a trance here this morning, being in heaven here but achieving something great in South Africa. No! We may recognize that there is the place of being, heaven, which could be defined as having position where we are, individually speaking where anyone is, but no magnitude yet, no dimensions in the sense that we understand dimensions at least.

So there is this point of being, from which the achieving proceeds, and the initial aspect of achieving was indicated by the use of the term Word. In the story of creation in the Book of Genesis, on each occasion it was indicated that “God said.” In other words the Word was spoken. The expression which proceeds from the point of being makes possible the achieving. Unless one proceeds from a point of being, nothing will be achieved, and this is the experience of human beings. They spend a whole lifetime doing all kinds of things but end up with nothing—that's right, isn't it?—end up dead. Being and achieving cannot rightly be separated. The being is in heaven, the achieving on earth; at least this is the way we are looking at it at the moment. But one must be in heaven to achieve on earth. Being in heaven one is at one point, this point. If you want to define it in geographical terms, it is where you're sitting now.

Out of the point of being, then, begins to come the expression of the Word. We have some awareness of this in our own experience, so that what I'm saying to you has at least some meaning to you. If I were saying it to most people it would be meaningless, wouldn't it? But here we have the emerging core of achievement in the realm of dimension in the earthly sense. We may think of dimensions as being physical dimensions: height, breadth, length, etc., maybe some more. Or we could think of it in terms of substance, physical substance: solid, liquid, gas. All these are indications of dimension. But there are some more invisible dimensions too. There is what occurs in the realm of the mind—something happens. The reflection of that can be recorded through what are called brain waves. It isn't what is happening in the mind; it is what is happening in the brain, and that relates to what is happening in the mind certainly. But even in recording such things it is recognized that emotion plays a considerable part. The lie detector is based upon this fact, that when the emotions come into the picture they apparently change the brain waves. That's the way it works, isn't it? It isn't the brain waves producing the emotions. Yet people try to study the effects in order to discover how the cause works. Well the only way to discover how the cause works is to be the cause, to be in heaven in other words. Then we don't need to discover anything, because we are that. What we do discover is the creative effect that the Word proceeding from that point of being has in the realm of achieving. We may observe that and we may play our part in letting it operate the way it does without any human interference.

In the creative process God said, “Let there be light.” He didn't say, “Now I'm going to make some light.” He was quite willing to let it appear in the way it would appear. And when we participate in the experience of being we are equally willing to speak the Word, and the Word is primarily “Let,” isn't it? Let the achievement come according to the fact of being. And the Word is spoken in living, in expression—something outgoing, something radiant in other words, not based in anything that is bouncing back.

Obviously, if there is creative effect something will be reflected. When we take note of what is reflected, are we then going to say, “Now that is happening because I am in heaven and achieving from that place, and so this is coming back. Now I'll look this over and see whether I like it or not and accordingly I will behave”? Well that immediately takes one out of heaven, doesn't it? One is in the earth again, trying to be in the earth; and you can't be in the earth for very long without being in heaven.

So we stay in the heaven,
speak the Word,

let the achieving appear,
to bring forth whatever should be brought forth.

And we recognize that in that achieving process there is a creative cycle. There is something unfolding, something as yet incomplete that is moving toward the state of completion. That state of completion of course is just completion at that particular point, at that particular level, but we recognize that it is ongoing still and it is always the beginning point for what comes next. We don't come to the end: now we have it achieved, nothing more. Nothing more is the state of death. The state of life is the state of achieving in the natural unfoldment of the creative cycles which proceed from being.

Now, we associate ourselves with this and we share in radiant awareness of what is happening. Some people who retain certain aspects of human nature want to see, with radiant vision, matters that are none of their business. “I want to be sure that what's going on over there is all right.” Well you exclude yourself from any real awareness of what is going on over there, anyway, on that basis, and to the extent that you are endeavoring to be over there you are not here and therefore not participating in being here in the processes of achieving here. What we are designed to see, understand and correctly handle is what is right here, and if we are in position to do that we will begin to find that here is the core of something larger; we begin to see connections reaching through beyond. But unless we start where we are we can never see beyond.

The radiant vision is the way we see. It must penetrate through what is here to reach beyond. All we can see if we look first beyond is what is reflected to us. This is obviously so if we are considering events on the other side of the earth, we will say events in the Middle East. You can't look at events in the Middle East from here, can you? All you can do is to look at what is reflected to you by the reactions of other people. Well that doesn't really tell you anything; but it is quite possible to see with radiant vision as far as the Middle East—that's not very far, after all, in this little earth—if your vision focuses where you are with respect to the circumstances where you are. Then you begin to see beyond, if your view of your circumstances is a radiant view. If you are still bogged down in the reflections that are coming to you out of your circumstances immediately around you, so that your emotions are disturbed thereby in one way or another—sometimes the disturbance is painful, sometimes the disturbance is delightful—but if you are being disturbed in this fashion, emotionally, by what is going on in your immediate circumstance, your radiant vision is blotted out. You don't see anything. All you see is what bounces back at you immediately, and you may include in that bounce-back things that are further afield too, that are bouncing back at you on the basis of the reaction of other human beings to those events.

Now, we live in this world of utter confusion. Nonsense, isn't it? It is a realm of nonsense. So we come to heaven, to be in heaven and to look forth with radiant vision into our immediate circumstance, and we see what is going on there. And now, regardless of what bounces back, we see through it; we are not behind the veil anymore. The veil is the bounce-back. We penetrate through what is there and consequently are in position to achieve intelligently. You remember, as it was described, Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. In other words here were the emotions becoming involved with the bounce-back, and Adam, that great male figure, associated himself with the bounce-back. Adam, the conscious mind of the human being, oneself, proceeded to utilize the God-given ability to function on the basis of logic and reason to rationalize the experience of the emotions, so as to be able to go along with that, to go along with the bounce-back, and the mind has been doing that ever since. It is quite capable of being logical and reasonable, but then, as has been noted before, if the premise is the bounce-back there is no sense to it. It doesn't mean anything. One may construct magnificent theories about everything, as human beings have done, but they don't mean anything. They aren't the way things are, because they are based in the bounce-back, whereas the positioning for which we are responsible is in heaven, being in heaven. Then we can look out and we can observe the bounce-back. We have been accustomed to such observation, but there is something more that we can see when the vision begins to become radiant and is penetrating.

It is said God looketh upon the heart. Well if we are in heaven we look upon the heart and we see what is happening there, and we are not disturbed by the bounce-back. The moment we are disturbed by the bounce-back it's all blotted out. So clarity of vision, clarity of understanding, clarity of thought, clarity of feeling and clarity of action are all dependent upon being in heaven, and surely, once there begins to be that experience, who would wish to be anywhere else? Can we be lured out of heaven? Well we have to prove that out for ourselves, not just answer it: “Oh no, I could never be lured out of heaven.”

So we share in this moment something of the radiant vision, radiant understanding, because, to whatever extent, during this hour we are spending together the bounce-back hasn't meant all that much. It has faded into the distance. Even if I mention events in the Middle East or wherever, that very quickly dissipates again, doesn't it? We don't need to keep staring at it. Human beings get hypnotized by such things, don't they? They are held in bonds. Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. We let all that go and we find ourselves loosed in heaven, to see and understand and operate from the radiant standpoint, thereby providing for yielding human hearts everywhere the reality of a point of orientation and stability that is in heaven on earth.

We are aware of many opening hearts; there are many more than we are aware of. Obviously all need a shepherd. They all need laborers in the harvest field to bring in the harvest. Bringing in the sheaves!—but in a little different way. We don't have to go out there, grab people by their necks, rub their noses in beliefs. We just simply provide the fact of being in heaven on earth, and because we provide that fact we speak the Word, the creative Word, in our momentary circumstance. Simple! Some people think it would be easier perhaps to go and speak the Word out there. Ah! The simplest place is right where one is, in fact; not only the simplest place, it is the only place. All the rest is imagination. And when we speak it here where we are, we discover that on the basis of radiation it does go out, but we don't get carried away with the radiation. We stay in the place of being and the radiance proceeds from where we are and it has its creative effect wherever it is needed. But it has that creative effect because we operate in our immediate circumstance, the place where we are. And so we may provide what is essential in the unfolding creative cycles by which man is restored on earth. That restoration comes by reason of the action of the spirit of God, and we are responsible for letting that action be present on earth. 

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Sex And Spiritual Intimacy

Sex  And  Spiritual  Intimacy

Martin Cecil  January 11, 1958

What rich blessings we know at the hand of our Lord! I was thinking particularly of this wonderful winter which we have been enjoying. It has been so mild and beautiful. It makes life easier, doesn't it? And that is God's will for human beings: that life should be easier than as it has been known in this fallen world. As we come together once again this evening we may give further consideration to that which is truly fitting as we serve in the Holy Place. Perhaps you can understand why it was that I used the opportunity to speak of wisdom in the Holy Place before we finally set our course during our service on Wednesday evening.

I have been doing all that I could to prepare you for that which is needful in the days before us. I emphasized the point of the necessity for honesty, so that you are really honest with yourselves and do not attempt to deceive yourselves with respect to your motivations, the reason why you speak or act thus and so. How easily human beings do deceive themselves in that regard, persisting in self-deception. Obviously there must be honesty in the Holy Place, because if there isn't, there would be the making of a lie, and that, if it is a part of anyone, prevents them from entering into the Holy City. There is a need, then, for true honesty, and there is the need for the development of a true sense of the fitness of things. That which is fitting in the Holy Place is very different to that which may seem to be fitting in the world of man. The wisdom of men is foolishness with God, and human beings have judged the wisdom of God to be either foolish or unfitting. We remember the words, “Behold, I make all things new.” That certainly indicates a complete change, for that which is in the Holy Place must be fitting in the sight of God, regardless of what human beings think about it. And you will find that, while you have undergone a change of viewpoint and you see many things in a different light to the way it used to be, the new vision and new understanding, the new sense of the fitness of things, the new recognition of values, is yet to come.

I was wondering tonight if I could begin to speak to you a little about these things, perhaps we might say the characteristics of divine men and women as they serve God from the Holy Place, that you may have an increased understanding of what is fitting there, what is right and proper and what is not. We cannot lay down any rules and regulations as human beings try to do in the world of man. They establish a pattern of some sort and then they say it just is not done, to behave otherwise. Well of course there are those things that are simply not done in the Holy Place, but the correct function is based in something the individual knows from within himself rather than on something which is imposed from outside. The Ten Commandments were given a long time ago as a basis of regulation for those who at that time had not reached a point where they had any true spiritual perception, no real sense of the fitness of things yet. There is that within the Ten Commandments which we have already recognized as being of value in helping to develop a sense of the fitness of things. But as commandments in the ordinary sense, they are left behind. As guides to the fitness of things and to an understanding of the Divine Pattern and the ways of God, they have their value.

And when we come into the Holy Place we discover that truly all things must be made new. Everything! And all the old patterns of belief, concept, all the old regulations, dos and don'ts, no longer have any effect. Yet, as we have seen, there is an absolute control insofar as the Kingdom of God is concerned. It is not as though all controls were taken off simply because nothing is imposed from the outside. The outside controls cannot properly be taken off until the individuals concerned have learned how to accept the inside controls. And it is those controls which spring from within the individual that operate in the Holy Place. To attempt to come into the Holy Place on the basis of some outwardly established and accepted code of ethics, for instance, would end in failure, because the outer control would interfere with the inner control. As long as a person has the two—partially controlled by that which is coming from outside or is imposed from outside, and at the same time seeking to be governed by that which is established from inside—there is a certain amount of conflict, and the individual is not quite sure whether he should be governed by this or by that.

If we are to move safely into the Holy Place, to serve there as we should, we must come to the point where we can completely accept and remain subject to the controls which God offers from the standpoint of the Holy Place, controls which originate with God and spring forth from within the individual, in body and mind and heart.

In the Book of Revelation there is mention made in relationship, particularly, to the four beasts and the four and twenty elders, that they would be made kings and priests unto God, to rule on the earth. The terms kings and priests might well provide us with a basis for meditation. A king, as we already know, symbolizes in the Bible the human mind—the king or Pharaoh or Herod, the human mind—usually in the fallen state. But, seeing as God created the mind of man, we recognize that there is a correct place for it, and that the king might not necessarily refer to the fallen human mind. Our Master is referred to as the KING of Kings. We have here something rather interesting. When He came into the world His approach in ministry was from the standpoint of the second plane, the mental plane, the plane of the king. The mind of man, when it was first created by God, was created to be king on earth, to rule on earth. However there is that, of course, which is higher than the king: the priest. The priest refers to the correct function from the standpoint of the spiritual expression plane of being. So we have the mind, symbolized by the king, and the spiritual expression in you, in anyone, as it comes to focus, symbolized by the priest. And there is that which is above the priest: the Lord. Insofar as you as individuals are concerned, that would refer to your own God Being. And there is, of course, that which is above your God Being. However you do not need to particularly concern yourself with that, because everything that is above your God Being is just the way it should be. The pattern is right; it is all coordinated; it is all integrated; it is all one thing. It is that which is below that requires attention: the level of the priest and the king.

Now the king must be willing to come under the control of the priest in you, and the priest of course ministers before the Lord. The spiritual expression levels of your being constitute the realm of the priest. Now I suppose we could carry it further, below the level of the king, and perhaps we would use the term prophet in relationship to the physical aspect: prophet, king, priest, Lord. A prophet indicates the form on earth through which the word of God, or the act of God, finds expression, and could relate to the physical levels of being. The Old Testament, particularly, gives a record of many prophets, and we remember that the Old Testament has primary concern with the First Sacred School, that which was from the standpoint of the physical approach.

When our Master came, His ministry was introduced by John the Baptist, who was considered as being the last of the line of prophets. Our Master indicated at one point that of those who were born of women he was the greatest, but that the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he. Here we begin to see movement from that level to the next: from the physical level to the mental level, the kingdom, the place of the king, the realm of the king. Now that kingdom, insofar as we are concerned now, is at hand by reason of something else: the level of the priest, the spiritual expression plane of being, which is the level of our approach. So insofar as each individual is concerned, then, there are these three aspects. We have spoken of them as body, mind and spiritual expression, and have coordinated these terms with prophet, king and priest.

That is true of each one. When we consider the whole body of mankind we recognize that there are those who function from the standpoint of the Priesthood, there are those who function from the standpoint of the king level of being and those who function from the standpoint of a prophet level of being. That which is needed on earth in order to make possible the development of the pattern according to the Divine Design is the Priesthood, that which provides the connection between God and the king, between God and the means by which human beings function in a practical and meaningful sense here on earth. So we are particularly concerned with the development of the Priesthood, because as long as the king of the outer mind tries to function without the priest, or without regard to the priest, as the case may be, we have the state of the fallen world: the mind of man separated from God. The priest provides the connecting link between God and the king, that which permits the establishment of government on earth.

As we have noted, those who come into the Holy Place must come in completely, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/through-gates-of-praise.html] body, mind and heart. We cannot leave any parts outside. So the coordinated function of the three levels of being, as symbolized by prophet, king and priest, is essential to those who share in establishing the True Priesthood on earth in the Holy Place—body, mind and heart; all of you—that there may be true men and true women, both serving in the Holy Place, together, in oneness, as a part of the Body of the Priesthood. This indicates the correct relationship between men, between women and between men and women—the right pattern, that which is truly fitting, right and proper in the sight of God.

There have been many concepts developed, even in the scope of our own ministry, with regard to these things; but there is that which needs to be seen clearly, with understanding, in relationship to things as they actually are. We do not wish to hold theories or to maintain beliefs that do not harmonize with the truth. When we begin to move into a consideration of proper relationships within the pattern of the Body of the Priesthood in the Holy Place, we necessarily touch the realm that human beings think of as sex. Actually, of course, all of our considerations in relationship to the Holy Place and the things of God are concerned with sex as it actually is, not, certainly, simply as human beings think it to be, because their view in the matter tends to limit itself to a certain field in the physical plane of being.

Now the human viewpoint in regard to that is very much distorted, of course, very limited, so we could not say that sex as human beings understand it is included in our consideration; but that which human beings have misunderstood in relationship to that level of sex is included in our considerations. Actually, as we have before noted, the One Law, of which you have some understanding, is very definitely related to sex in the divine sense, and all function relates to the One Law. When we understand how the One Law operates, finds its proper application with respect to any field of function, all fields of function, then we are capable of correct function, and that is function in sex in the divine sense.

Now you can see that that covers a very much greater scope than what human beings usually think about in relationship to sex. But we cannot exclude those levels of sex which human beings have so distorted in their own approach to them, because it is all one thing, and the One Law finds application all the way through in relationship to all levels of being, with respect to all function. You can recognize that when you carry on a conversation with a person there is actually function in sex in the divine sense; the positive and the negative are in operation. I don't care if the conversation is between men or between women, or between a man and a woman, there will be that which finds positive expression through one, and if it is to be a true conversation there must be response on the part of the other, and then the pattern may shift around so that the positive is on the other side. And we have in relationship to all things this function between the positive and the negative. Now to imagine that physical sex is involved in all these patterns of association is ridiculous! There are those who have attempted to make it relate to everything. It doesn't! Sex relates to everything, yes, but not simply that particular level of function in sex.

So there is a proper pattern of relationship within the Body of the Priesthood which is contained within what we call sex, or we can use that word to describe it; but the pattern of oneness which is essential relates to the spiritual expression level of being. Those of you who have attended the Class on Sunrise Ranch may recall Uranda emphasizing the necessity for a server to establish a pattern of spiritual intimacy with the servee. Now that is exactly what it should be, spiritual intimacy. There are those who have not understood how to let it be maintained under proper control at the right level of being, and it has tended at times to move to levels where it should not be. If we are to function together in oneness in the Body of the Priesthood there must be that spiritual intimacy. But let us not imagine because there must be that spiritual intimacy that that somehow opens the way for intimacy to appear at the other levels of being, and particularly from the standpoint of the physical level of being. There is a Divine Design. It comes down from God out of heaven, and our concern in the matter is to receive it at the spiritual expression level of being, that we may establish a spiritual intimacy that does not cause anyone to imagine that somehow there will follow a pattern of intimacy which extends to the other levels of being.

There is nothing indiscriminate insofar as the function of the Priesthood in the Holy Place is concerned. There is an absolute control there. Those who serve in the Holy Place are of course servers, and there is the necessity of developing patterns of spiritual intimacy with those whom we serve, otherwise we cannot serve them in any effective sense. But the absolute control from the standpoint of that which is coming down from God out of heaven must be established and maintained. As I pointed out, as we move into the Holy Place, going on through the Cloud of Glory, there is an intensification of the light and of the fire. It becomes possible to see more, to understand more, to comprehend more in the light, and there is an intensification in the feeling realm, in the heart. That is what happens as we move on through. Now, I pointed out the dangers of losing centering, because the intensification of wrong feeling can come just as violently, as strongly, as the intensification of right feelings, should the centering be lost. But I want to make very sure that you are going to let things be under control as we move into the Shekinah Pattern of Being.

There are many things in relationship to the patterns of sex in the physical sense which are fitting and right from the divine standpoint which might not be considered so from the standpoint of fallen human beings. But I would not wish anyone to jump to the conclusion that they know exactly what those patterns would be and that therefore they are capable of functioning in them, because that is not so. I might, in passing, mention something with respect to this particular field. You know that anything in the world of man that persists over a long period of time gives indication that there might be some truth in relationship to it. The descriptive term is used on occasion of that which is called the most ancient occupation, the occupation of the “harlot”. That is something which has persisted all down through the ages, and there is truth in relationship to it. In other words there is a pattern very different to that which human beings have established for themselves, but a pattern that is right and proper from the standpoint of the Divine Design. Many people are most self-righteous when it comes to a consideration of that field of human function. Remember what happened when the woman who was taken in adultery was brought before our Master. He put all those who were present to the test, and there was not a single one who remained to cast the first stone. “Neither do I condemn thee,” our Master said. “Go, and sin no more.” And what is sin? The Spirit of Truth shall reprove the world of sin, because they believe not on Jesus Christ—on the truth which our Master offered to the world, the Divine Design.

I mention that in passing, not because it has any particular significance to you at the moment, but to indicate the necessity of recognizing that there are many things in the Divine Design that, because man has distorted them and established them on the wrong basis, are considered to be evil by man. They are not evil at all insofar as the Divine Design is concerned. But remember that the truth contains both the elements of design and of control. There is an absolute control. There is a right function. It is not an indiscriminate thing. That needs to be recognized most clearly as we move into the Cloud of Glory, so that you let the control be maintained where it should be, in the recognition that there will be and should be an increase of spiritual intimacy, which of course provides the basis for the pattern in form of the Body of the Priesthood. I do not want anyone jumping to conclusions!

There is the need for control and for right function according to a sense of the fitness of things, on the part of both men and women. There is far more to be comprehended in the field of that particular level of sex of which I have been speaking than you certainly now comprehend. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019_01_08_archive.html] There are those who imagine that it is impossible to function from the standpoint of sex in a right pattern, under control, unless one is married and has, consequently, a partner. In other words there are those who are not married who tend to assume that the solution to the problem of sex insofar as they are concerned would be to get married. Oh no! That which appears from the standpoint of a married couple may be part of it. It may, and properly should, provide an apex; but you need the body of the pattern if there is to be an apex. There are those who imagine that getting married would settle everything from the standpoint of the sex pattern, but as all the married couples here present can testify, actually it doesn't. I think if you are honest you will all agree with me. There is more to it than that, more that needs to be seen and understood and comprehended, and one can begin to let the right controls and the right patterns be established no matter what one's state may be. One can begin to allow the body of the pattern of right function to be established so that in season the apex can appear.

Our field of consideration is a difficult one to approach because of the tendencies of human beings to misinterpret what is said. Nevertheless it is necessary to say something and begin to develop some understanding with respect to these things. Above all, I am concerned that there should be control as we let the intensification come, for it will move through you, if you share in it, in body and mind and heart. Human beings so easily clothe what they feel with bodies of their own devising. An intensification of feeling in body and mind and heart so often causes the individual to indulge in vain imaginings. He interprets that feeling in relationship to this one or that one, instead of just letting it be what it is and let the Lord give it form in His season. There is a need for patience.

Patience is one of the outstanding qualities or characteristics required by those who would function in the Holy Place; patience with yourselves and with each other, patience without judgment. Let each one come into the Holy Place in his or her own way. You all are coming. No one is excluded. Do not judge each other, but help each other. Be patient with each other. Be understanding with each other. As the natural increase of spiritual intimacy comes, let it be held under firm control, so that you do not start misinterpreting it. Even with the little intensifications we have had in times past there has been enough misinterpretation, and enough problems consequent upon it. As members of the Priesthood, serving in the Holy Place, it is natural that we should have spiritual intimacy. We are functioning in the Holy Place, the spiritual expression plane of being. Let us let it be right at that level, held under firm control, so that you may participate in allowing the Body of the Priesthood to take its proper form in season. Do not indulge in daydreaming or in vain imaginings!

And so I thank God that I have been able to touch on these things with you to this extent at least, that you may remember my words, that everything may be right and accomplished decently and in order, to the Glory of God, that we may share together in allowing the Body of the Priesthood to appear on earth with that effectiveness which will allow the control from God to begin to be extended to the king, the mind of man. That control cannot come for the mind of man until there is established the connecting link, the means, the machinery, in the Holy Place. You may begin to see, as you meditate upon these things, that the way by which the purposes of God are achieved on earth is really rather simple, and absolutely certain. Let us share in giving the Lord the opportunity for the accomplishment of His purposes, as we stand together in close oneness in the Holy Place.

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Sex—The Spirit Of The New Earth

Sex — The  Spirit  Of  The  New  Earth

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Martin Cecil  April 17, 1978

Special  Session  on  Sunrise Ranch

Our concern as angels is to let the authority and government of God be reestablished on earth. It is already established in heaven. If it is to be reestablished on earth there must be angels present in heaven and on earth. We ourselves have this clear-cut opportunity because we have a physical form, we are on earth, and we begin to have a consciousness of angelic expression, what we call spiritual expression. It is through spiritual expression as it really is that the authority and government of God is reestablished in the consciousness of mankind. Being reestablished there, those who are functioning from the standpoint of the consciousness of mankind, the way it is now, find themselves under the necessity either of responding and accepting the authority and government of God or of resisting it and being dealt with accordingly. Now this isn't an arbitrary imposition on anyone. It is a matter of individual choice as to what occurs. Our sole concern is that the authority and government of God should be present. How people are going to react to it is their own business. It makes utterly no difference to us which way they react because our total concern is with maintaining the authority and the government of God in place. That occurs because of the keeping of the First Great Commandment.

When mention is made of the Lamb in the Book of Revelation—taking the book and going to work, to open the seals so that the book can be read and what is inside can come out—all the elders, the four beasts, all the angels that were present, fell down and worshiped. Here we see the attitude of angels toward the One who provides a focus point in the heaven and toward the One who sits upon the throne. It is one of love, of yieldedness, of worship, of thankfulness. While angelically speaking there is a very positive stance taken in extending the authority and government of God on earth, the attitude toward those who are higher in the design of being is always one of humility and love and worship and thankfulness. So, we are here to have these two attitudes which are natural to the angel. In the heaven we fall down and worship and we are delighted to do so, but in the earth we are responsible for maintaining the authority and government of God.

This authority and government when extended in spiritual expression permits what is described as the opening of the seals in the body of mankind. Now there is nothing very mysterious about this. What has seemed to be mysterious is the fact that nobody has been able to do it. It hasn't been possible for the human mind to accomplish what is needful. In a general sense there has been a recognition of the need for changes in human nature for instance; at least this is the way it is looked at. Human nature is causing a lot of trouble, therefore it seems as though some changes should be brought to pass. We have various methods and techniques, scientific so-called, which are supposed to permit some changes to be worked out in this regard. We ourselves as angels recognize the futility of any such undertaking because it is not a matter of changing human nature; it's a matter of letting human nature be dissolved. And human nature is dissolved when the angelic nature is present and in expression.

This relates to the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God. We have been considering in a specific sense the Spirit of the New Earth, which is the first one in the process by which the seals are loosed. The loosing of the seals is made evident by the fact that the spirit pertaining to that seal is released—is in expression. The influence which is to loose the particular seal in the body of mankind must be in expression in those who are making possible the action of the Lamb who opens the seals. It is our expression of spirit in all its aspects that permits all the seals to be opened. Now we take them one by one to give some consideration as to how this happens, and to the extent to which we are participating in the process.

The First Seal, as it is called, relates to the physical level particularly, and in the individual physical body this relates to the gonads, or the field which is describable as physical sex. We are not so much concerned with physical sex at the moment as with the spirit by which the right experience in that regard may be known. Most people are less concerned about that than they are about trying to find out what the right expression of physical sex would be—in other words, the usual approach puts the cart before the horse. It is the spirit which creates in the first place and which finds release by reason of that creation.

So we are concerned with the release of the Spirit of the New Earth in our living. This does certainly relate to the area of physical sex, and in order that there might be the evidence of the release of this spirit it will relate to the level of physical sex. In recent years there have been some changes working out in the consciousness of people with respect to physical sex. Things have been freed up in the consciousness of human beings to a much greater extent in recent years in this area. This gives evidence of the fact that there is at least some movement of the creative expression of the Spirit of the New Earth. It is having this effect. It may look as though things are sort of getting out of control, but there are structures being dissolved, structures which have been a part of human nature, and in the dissolution of any structures in human nature it is to that extent a dissolution of human nature. It would appear that there is far more license, shall we say, in the field of physical sex now than there was even a few short years ago.

There have been various structures built up in different parts of the world, usually related to the religious concepts but fundamentally based in the apparent sociological needs and then supported by religious views. In Christendom the idea of monogamy is a basic structure. It's mostly a theory, because the actual experience has been otherwise insofar as people have been concerned. There have been those who have tried to tow the straight and narrow path as they saw it in this regard, and heretofore, in days gone by, the failure of the theory or the concept was kept under cover, so to speak. It wasn't admitted for the most part, but everybody knew it was there. Now it's come out into the open and this structure has begun to give way. This is not the only structure, relative to physical sex, present in the world. There are other structures giving way in other places, but obviously this is necessary if what the spirit would create is to be brought forth. There must be material available sufficiently free of the ancient taboos and structures to be able to move into the true design.

Now all this is happening. We see the effects around us. We may have had some experience of those effects in our own lives, but those effects are consequent upon a cause. It could be said that the cause is the self-centered desires of human beings, but in fact that is an effect too, isn't it? We are concerned with the true cause, and the true cause centers in this particular spirit relative to the First Seal, the Spirit of the New Earth. Because there has been some increasing intensity of radiation of this spirit in heaven on earth, by reason of angels incarnate, it has had an impact in the consciousness of mankind and the structures begin to disintegrate. We see the effect. In the disintegration of those structures there is maybe a release of the self-centered human desires of people, but this is not why the structures have been dissolving—because those desires were there right along.

They were previously held in check, but now it is all beginning to come out into the open and we see that this is part of the creative process occurring. It does not disturb us. We may watch what is happening and we may watch the effects with equanimity, provided that we remain identified with the cause. If we get involved with the effects then we find ourselves in various kinds of difficulty. But if we stay centered in cause, in the expression of the true spirit which relates to the First Seal, the first level, then we may play our part in letting the unfoldment continue which eventually permits the emergence of fitting forms to clothe the true spirit. The true spirit creates its own forms. So we are concerned primarily with the expression of this spirit in our living.

The expression of the Spirit of the New Earth is a part of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit would include all Seven Spirits. But in moving forward in this cycle we let them come to focus in turn and we start at the beginning—with the first one. If it is a part of the Holy Spirit the intent is a creative one, of course. The release or radiation of the spirit is to create, to bring forth, what is true to that spirit. We are here as angels to let something be brought into the world that heretofore has not been present, and this comes to focus in our consciousness, at the moment, as the Spirit of the New Earth. What has been present has been the absence of the Spirit of the New Earth, the spirit of decay. The spirit of decay tends to be a rather boring thing. This is why human beings are all the time trying to drum up excitement, because participating in the experience of the spirit of decay is deadly dull—deadly is the word. The falling-apart process is meaningless repetition.

We can begin to see this in relationship to physical sex. While for a few years it seems to be something fresh and new with young people, after a while, particularly in what is called marriage, it tends to become a meaningless repetition. It does so because of the spirit with which those concerned are attuned, the spirit of decay. Things are gradually running down, so to speak, and in that running-down process people tend to become disturbed too. Various crises arise in the lives of human beings because of this running-down process. People feel that they are running down and yet they don't want to—they want to prove that they are still men and women. Well if we are attuned and aligned with the spirit of decay, we're running down; we might as well admit it. But that is not what we are here for as angels. Angels certainly aren't running down, and when there is spiritual expression we begin to find a release which is ever new.

This release relates, at one level at least, to physical sex, although to very much more than physical sex. Here I would emphasize the fact that if we are considering the First Seal, this is only one-seventh of the whole spirit, and physical sex therefore is only one-seventh of the whole of life experience. It has tended to become the whole thing to so many people. Of course, I do not know that one can exactly say that each level is the same size, so to speak, but we can see a proportion here which cuts physical sex down to size. It has its value. It is useful. Of course in the usual human approach, something that has been particularly emphasized in Christianity for instance, physical sex is good if it is used for procreation—this is the more orthodox view—but is bad if it is used for any other reason. There is a structure in human consciousness in this regard which makes people feel guilty with respect to physical sex. They are going to have it anyway but they feel guilty about it.

We may see that this level is the one level that is left in human experience where there is the remaining creative ability to bring forth living forms. This is the only area that is left in present human experience. From the standpoint of the true state of man, every level was included in the creative process. It wasn't just based in the matter of procreation. All the forms that are present, or were present, on earth, man in his true state was responsible for. It is said of Adam that the animals passed by in front of him and he named them all one by one. This is an indication of the fact that he had responsibility for the animals, not only for caring for them after they were there but for letting them be there in the first place. So the scope of creative responsibility in the hands of true man as an expression of the Lord God was vast. Now it has dwindled down. He plays around in various fields of genetics, and so on, trying to do this and that with respect to plants and animals, breeding and all this, but his direct ability to create forms of life has been lost. It has all been lost but for this one point relative to his own kind, procreation. He may still bring forth forms of life there. Because of this_, and of this whole area of physical sex, he has a starting point in the cycle of restoration—because it is the opening of the First Seal in the expression of that spirit that permits something to begin to happen with respect to all the other levels.

There is an ascending process which allows for the opening of the other seals, based of course in the expression of the particular spirits which are related to those seals, but it springs from this first one. There has been some consciousness of this fact in the minds of human beings in various ways. The idea of the kundalini and so on—something ascends—has some relatedness to the real process, but it starts with the first level and then moves up. So we are considering the first level and beginning to associate ourselves with some of the angelic view with respect to it.

We see here a focus available to us for creativeness. It is not properly available to the uses of the human mind and the human heart. This level has been governed and controlled pretty well by the human mind and the human heart. The human mind has brought in the rules and regulations with respect to it that were supposed to keep people in line so that everything didn't get all out of hand, and the human heart was considered to be the basis for participation in this level of physical sex. Of course this is all a false approach because it leaves the human mind and the human heart in control of things. However, it has been valuable over the years in maintaining some sort of a control, so that everything didn't get out of hand. Now things seem to be getting a little bit out of hand but we recognize that this is all right because there is a control present in fact, the control for which we are responsible, in the expression of right spirit, the Spirit of the New Earth specifically in this instance.

We begin to see as angels that everything that comes to our hand is to be used for the achievement of the purposes of the whole. We do not have any desire, rightly, to extract anything for our own personal, private use. The most personal and private place in human experience relates to physical sex and, generally speaking, it's the most reluctantly surrendered to right use because the individual wants to have his say in the matter. But fundamentally, until this area is yielded to angelic use, the use of the Archangel to be exact, the use of the Lamb for the opening of the seals, we remain subject to human nature and we are not in position to participate in the creative process. Perhaps in speaking of these things along this line this morning, it is the first time we have really approached it from this standpoint, that there isn't anything which comes within the range of our possible action here on earth, at any level, that is not rightly used with respect to the whole; and if it is not used with respect to the whole it is wrongly used, no matter how anyone may conform to their concept what is conceived to be the good thing to do.

So physical sex has one purpose and one purpose only, and that is a means of extending something in blessing in the creative current into the consciousness of mankind. How this is going to be done needs to come within the range of our awareness. If we have structures already established in consciousness as to how the operation of sex should be carried forward, and on what basis, and with whom, we absolutely prevent anything worthwhile happening. We multiply confusion. Only as those structures are dissolved so that we do not have any arbitrary views in the matter is it possible. As the spirit of the new earth continues to find expression in our living we become aware of what it is that permits the right use of physical sex. Physical sex is for the use of the Archangel, for the creative purposes of God, that and that alone. It isn't a personal, private thing for one’s use as a human being. Looking at it from the angelic standpoint, we begin to see, as we were considering yesterday in the services, that there are certain configurations. We were thinking of it in terms of groups of people, which properly are used from the angelic standpoint for the release of the creative expression of spirit. By the same token there are certain configurations with respect to individuals. Those configurations are based in the pattern of angel to angel, not in the pattern of human to human.

Only when such proper configurations put in an appearance does there begin to be something that is not a meaningless repetition. I’m thinking of this—it applies in any area of living—particularly in relationship to physical sex, where after a little it becomes humdrum and people are inclined to look over the fence for greener pastures. They feel they have lost something that was originally experienced and perhaps some other arrangement with someone else will revitalize it. But of course all that is simply looking at it from a human viewpoint, the viewpoint of human nature, which has absolutely nothing to do with what is required from the standpoint of the angel. When the angel is on hand, and there are proper associations between angels, whether in the larger groups or on a one-to-one basis, then there is participation in a moving creative current which has never moved before; it's never come to focus in this particular creative focus before. There is something ever changing in this regard. So relative to physical sex or anything else, there is always something new.

I'm speaking to you as angels and I am assured that you will not translate what I am saying as humans, because if you do you will get it all balled up—there will be a mess. It is only when we can begin to approach these things on a clear basis as angels that we really know what we are talking about. But you may see, possibly theoretically at the moment for the most part, that in the achievement of certain creative purposes physical sex is used as a means for that creation and it requires right use; in other words it requires the right angels to be present if anything is to be creatively achieved as it should be, and there are definite configurations in this regard for definite and specific purposes.

Those purposes not only relate to the angels concerned but relate to the human aspect too, because it is by reason of the fact of the human aspect that there may be a reaching into the mass consciousness of mankind. So what is present in the human aspect is also taken into account. It is part of the picture which must be seen in order to know what creatively can be achieved. It is not as though it is merely a matter of angels in heaven. It is a matter of angels in heaven on earth and the earth has a particular condition with which we are now presumably dealing. We are dealing with a state that is present on earth and our connections with that state are through our own physical forms and the consciousness that is present in those physical forms.

What I would wish to emphasize this morning is that this is a field of creative service, and it is not a field for mere private satisfaction. If a person attempts to use it for private satisfaction, which is what is true of most people, then, as I say, it becomes flat after a while; but if it is used as it should be used then here is something ever new because it is ever vitalized and animated by the particular spirit which is in expression—in this case, the Spirit of the New Earth, which permits a keen awareness of the fact that there is nothing in the world as it now is which gives evidence of the New Earth. There are those things which give evidence of a creative movement which in season may allow the forms of the New Earth to appear, and obviously we have to move through that period of time in order to reach the point where those forms have appeared. Let us not suppose that when those forms have appeared that that is that, because they are living forms and the characteristic of a living form is momentary change.

So we are concerned with this matter. We begin to see that physical sex relates very specifically to a creative process with which we are concerned, a creative process reaching into the whole, reaching into the whole on the basis of the understanding and vision of the angel. Never again can we try to isolate physical sex for our own personal satisfaction. After a while it doesn't become very satisfactory anymore anyhow. It isn't a personal matter, and if we can begin to see that this seemingly very personal matter from the human standpoint, is not personal at all then we might almost say that we have it made, because everything else we may consider is less personal. So we start at this core point, and we have had the opportunity of considering it this morning in this particular way.

This seal not only relates to physical sex; it relates to physical function of every kind. This morning again there was consideration of matters pertaining to physical health. Of course all these things are included in the operation of the Spirit of the New Earth. We need to have a balanced view, as was emphasized, the balanced view which recognizes the unique factors that are always present—in other words you can't establish routines, because there is always something in there that is unique. There is a need, as was emphasized, of a greater sensing of rhythms. There are rhythms related to this matter of physical sex, and there are rhythms related to every aspect of living, and we need to be sensitive to those rhythms if we are to move wisely with them and let them be used to creative advantage. This is the reason for the presence of the angel. The angel has his hand on all these rhythms and they may be combined in various ways so as to permit the greatest possible effectiveness in our creative responsibilities.

There is a need to be aware of our physical—I was going to say limitations; I don't want to impose something here—but what is true of us physically speaking, because we are all different in this regard. Never try to pattern yourself after somebody else. Someone will come along and say, “Oh you should go on this diet; this is really effective.” People go hopping around from one thing to the other without ever learning that they themselves need to discover through their own sensitivity what the right thing is for them. It will not be the same as is right for anybody else, and what is right for somebody else will not be right for you. Don't try to impose what you have found to be effective in your own experience on somebody else. One may on occasion say, “Well I found this to be effective in my experience.” We need to have a little discernment as to whom we say that to, because we need to discern as to whether it could possibly be helpful for this other person. If it couldn't be then shut up. Don't say anything. Most people are blind in this regard, aren't they? They keep handing out these panaceas all around whether they fit or not, and people keep accepting them all around whether they fit or not. We need to have a little intelligent discernment and spiritual perception with respect to our own natural rhythms, and the way our own physical bodies work and the way our minds work too. We need to be aware of these things. We need to be alert mentally speaking and alert spiritually speaking, so that we are in position to discern; and of course we need, above all, to be honest with ourselves.

I was recalling an occasion, quite a while ago, when Uranda was still here—I think it was 1952, when the first Class was in session. I spent about a month down here in January, I think it was, of 1952. During that time I had opportunity to speak on occasion in various ways, to give a service perhaps, and afterwards Uranda and I use to discuss what had occurred, and this permitted a recognition of what needed attention in my own expression and what was present from the standpoint of the response of those who were present—and these things have a relatedness, incidentally. But I always enjoyed—not exactly post mortems, because I don't think it was dead—but a consideration of these things; and Uranda never minced words. Everything was brought out into the open, and that's the way I would wish it to be; but sometimes there were others present who became disturbed because of the things that Uranda was saying relative to me, I heard secondhand that someone had said, “I don't know how Martin can take it.” But I wasn't taking anything! I didn't have the experience of gritting my teeth and taking anything at all. I was enjoying the experience. It was just the reaction of somebody else. But this was possible in my own experience because I knew what Uranda was saying before he said it. He may have said it and brought it out in a clearer way than was yet in my own consciousness, and I delighted in that, but it was in my own consciousness already. I had been honest enough to be able to see that it was there. I have found over the years, in speaking with many people, that when I bring things out for them to look at they often get all disturbed about it because they had not been alert themselves to what was present in themselves; they had never looked at it—not only alert enough to see but honest enough to admit it. I never anticipate that someone is going to react all over the place when I bring something out. I anticipate they are sufficiently honest that they already know that it's there and that when it's brought out then here are two in agreement and it is dealt with.

Here is something that relates to the Spirit of the New Earth—a conscious awareness of what is going on in the external sense, and certainly a conscious awareness of one's own limitations—here is this word again—of one's present state of consciousness, and one's present physical state too. Whatever your present physical state is now, do you expect it to be that way forever? Of course most people expect it to get worse, but why? If it's going to change, why should it have to change in a disintegrating fashion? It doesn't have to. It is the popular view that it will, and all who are attuned with the spirit of decay are experiencing disintegration. It is the only thing they can experience on that basis, but if we begin to be associated with the Spirit of the New Earth then there is a constructive, integrating element of experience. People do have this to a certain extent; they get sick and they get well, but usually it seems that after a person has gotten sick he's just gone down one notch. He keeps going down. He may get well but still at a lower rung. Why should it be that way? Well, you say, “We're all getting older.” I wonder how old you are as an angel? Do you suppose there are any young angels or old angels? Do they all start at the same point? Or maybe they didn't start at all. If there is the consciousness of the angel, the consciousness of age in the human sense begins to dissolve, because no angel is older or younger than any other. There are physical forms, of course, which presently show signs of aging, but when you say “aging” it usually means disintegrating, whereas in the true state, the state of man, the experience in physical expression changes. Obviously it must. One has to grow from a baby in one's physical form to an adult state. Are you just going to stop when you are twenty-one, when you are supposed to be physically adult? Are you going to be a physically adult twenty-one-year-old thereafter, forever, or for however long you need to incarnate on earth? I don't think so. There are ages that are proper in this sense. Things keep changing. There is a right cycle. In the true state we see that cycle ending in a little different way to what it does now, and we also may see it to be much longer than it is now.

In the cycle as it is now we are always in a hurry because the cycle is so short. Time is going to run out. If we look at things from the angelic standpoint it is very short too, but it is what it is, and we are not limited to that experience anyway as angels. There can be other incarnations presumably, but, in any case, why maintain attunement with the spirit of decay in this regard? Let us see what happens when we find an increasing attunement with the Spirit of the New Earth. We find that we are more and more able to handle what is needful physically in our own living, and what was true last year of our physical state is no longer necessarily true this year, and what is true now need not be true next year; in other words you find an increasing control, an increasing authority and government, being extended by you into the operation of your physical mechanism. There is integration and there is some disintegration too. The old is sloughed off; the new appears. The changes come on this basis. They begin to conform with the spirit which is being expressed. If the spirit is the Spirit of the New Earth then there is a sense of newness in one's physical experience.

One may begin to move in an ascending spiral even though changes may seem to correlate with the matter of aging, but the aging is not disintegrating. The aging is just changing the form to be fitting at that point, fitting to the right use of the angel. If along the way that physical form can no longer be made right use of, for whatever reason, then there is no concern particularly about discarding it. All these things are looked at from the standpoint of the angel and not from the standpoint of the disintegrating form, if that's what it is. If it is looked at from the standpoint of the angel the disintegration aspect of experience changes. There is some disintegration but there is also integration, and one will find that whatever is fitting for one’s immediate field of creative service will be present, always present. This relates to the matter of physical sex and every other physical aspect of function.

So I rejoice that we have had opportunity to move along in this way to this extent this morning. Let us share the continued expression of the Spirit of the New Earth, that as we are steadfast in this, as we reveal the stability in this, and as we reveal that nothing is personal to us anymore, we don't have to fuss about our personal lives anymore, we participate in the increased release of that creative spirit, and the effects of it come thick and fast. We rejoice in those effects, whatever they may appear to be for the moment. So that concludes our participation in the current of the spirit this morning.

Response — The whole area of sex has been clothed with the feeling of wanting and needing which very much relates to the topic yesterday, of feeling excluded. Actually, in this area of sex we have excluded ourselves from the Lord by keeping these capacities to ourselves. The word is giving—not giving to each other, but giving to the Lord as a form of worship, in its right time and in its right season for His purpose. Thank you.

Martin Cecil — This is a precious creative gift that has been placed in our hands for use in giving. A gift, after all, is for giving, isn't it? Most people think, “Oh the Lord's given me a nice gift here. I'll take it.” But the gift is really for giving, and when we learn to give it from the angelic standpoint then we begin to share easily and naturally in all the creative configurations that are necessary to let God's will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

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