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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