Divine Light
Martin Cecil November 10, 1968 a.m.
Emissaries of Divine Light is the name given to our ministry. Some have objected to this name, imagining that it should be something different. In other words, to some human minds at least, the name wasn't acceptable. If the human mind could think of a name that was acceptable it is unlikely that that name would be true to the truth. As we have moved, together with many others, in the unfolding cycles of experiences related to this ministry I think the accuracy and the perfection of the name begins to become increasingly apparent.
Emissaries of Divine Light. The radiation describable by the word light indicates the True Nature of Creative Cause. Light is a word also used to describe an electromagnetic phenomenon, but it is a word that is used to describe something even less tangible. If we say that a person saw the light, we don't think of the electromagnetic phenomenon but some sort of increased understanding, awareness. In the electromagnetic sense the total radiation is far more than what is called light, and yet the word “light” may be used to describe the whole range of that electromagnetic spectrum. For instance, what radiates from the sun of our solar system is far more than visible light. There is a total radiation which proceeds from the sun, and we may describe this total radiation by using the word “light,” if we recognize that it includes far more than visible light.
This which radiates from the sun is not the light of which we speak when we use the words Emissaries of Divine Light. And yet it is, in the realm of effects, an illustration of what it is we refer to. There have been in times past those people who it is supposed worshipped the sun of our solar system as God. Of course this may just be a concept of present-day human beings, on the basis of their limited hindsight. In other words the people concerned may have recognized simply that the sun provides a rather striking symbol, striking portrayal, of the reality of God, or True Cause; for there is that which shines forth from True Cause and is back of the reason for the whole cosmic scheme of things, which of course includes far more than is visible to the physical eye.
The radiation of this Cause, the radiation from God, is invisible; it cannot be somehow isolated and examined directly. We have noted that what is in the realm of Cause cannot be observed. All that can be observed is in the realm of effects. Of course examining the realm of effects, we have some evidence of the nature of Cause and so we have some awareness of Cause indirectly. Because it is an indirect awareness there have been those who, most illogically, have said that Cause doesn't exist, God doesn't exist—God doesn't exist because we cannot examine Him. If we could examine God it would place us on rather a high pinnacle, wouldn't it? What we can examine is contained in the realm of effects. The Creative Cause of all that appears in the realm of effects may be describable by the word light. If this word is used to describe the creative expression of True Cause, we should recognize that the reference is not merely to a small section of the electromagnetic spectrum.
So when we use the word “light” in the name Emissaries of Divine Light, we are referring to the radiation, the creative radiation, of True Cause. This creative radiation may be described by other words, but by none so beautifully and briefly and accurately, and really acceptably, as the word “light.” The word Christ could be used, the only begotten Son of God, but I think there would be even more human mind objection to this terminology.
We use the adjective Divine to describe the Light, because we make a distinction between visible light and this light. This radiation from True Cause is Divine Light. Our relatedness to this Divine Light is as emissaries of it. The Divine Light, which may be said to be a cosmic phenomenon in the realm of Cause, must be translated, brought to bear, made active and operative, at this particular level on the surface of the planet where we dwell.
What more accurate description of those who let themselves be engaged in this undertaking could be given than that of Emissaries of Divine Light? We need to see these things clearly, because we are charged with the conscious expression of what is meant by those words: to bring Divine Light, the creative radiation of True Cosmic Cause, to bear at the level where further creation needs to take place on the surface of this planet. This further creation which needs to take place we may describe by the word re-creation at the moment, because there is something obviously that went wrong. Something needs to be set right before the true continuation of the creative process relating to this planet may transpire. Now you may think you know these things, but I doubt it. You likely have a concept about them, and you have heard words describing them, but how much do you know? How much do you have the actual experience of the reality? To what extent are you an emissary of divine light?
The creative radiation from True Cause we have called the Spirit of God. Where it comes to focus and is given specific expression this creative radiation produces effects. The effects in toto we describe as the Cosmos. We can, however, bring it down to a realm of greater detail relating to this earth, or relating to ourselves on the surface of this earth. We are aware of certain effects. The effect that is likely to be closest to us is our own physical form. Here is the evidence of a Creative Cause. What that Creative Cause is has been rather a mystery to human beings, even though some may have described it by the word God. Others may attribute the cause entirely to factors observable in the realm of effects. By the examination of the realm of effects various things have been discovered. There is an awareness of genes, for instance, and various other chemical substances and combinations which supposedly relate to the formation of the individual physical body. Of course obviously there is such a relationship, but we haven't quite got back as far as Cause. The process by which the chemicals themselves exist begins to lead into the realm of invisible Creative Cause.
Back of that which takes form is Creative Cause. Back of your physical form is the radiation which we designate by the word “light.” This creative radiation is of the nature of the Cause from which it originates. Contained within the Cause from which it originates, namely God, are all the essences of whatever may have appeared in the Whole Cosmos, and whatever may appear in the future. There is nothing that can appear in the realm of effects that is not already present in God, or in the reality of True Cause. It obviously doesn't all appear with a great big bang. If it did, that would be it, presumably. There wouldn't be anything else, would there? It is beyond the comprehension of the human mind how there could be something unlimited, without limit as to scope; but because this is so, it takes an unlimited period of time—you can put it that way—for it all to appear. However in essence it is already present. It is present in the point of origination, and it proceeds from that point of origination through this radiation of which I have been speaking.
This radiation has an effect: positive radiation, negative response. The negative response of which you are most keenly aware is the formation of your own physical body. This is the evidence of the working of the Law—negative response to positive radiation. And how does it go? Response, attraction, union, unified radiation. In other words a new expression of radiation occurs at the level where the union has taken place. If it all works as it should the physical form is drawn into union with the light which produced it in the first place, and that union permits further radiation to transpire at the level of the physical form—in other words at the level for which this physical form was created to carry Divine responsibility. We sometimes speak of this as the world, all that is present upon the surface of this planet.
Now what is reproduced in this regard in the way of radiation is directly related to the radiation which produced the form in the first place. This extended radiation we speak of as the human mind. We speak of the mind as the consciousness of the physical body. How does that consciousness appear? Where did it come from? The physical substance of which the body is composed did not have it before it was in the body. This consciousness of the physical form is the effect of the unified radiation consequent upon the prior fulfilment of the Law. In other words, when the physical form is attracted to the positive radiation which produces it and has union with that positive radiation, there is a new radiation at the level of the physical form, and that new radiation is what is called the “mind”, or the “consciousness” of the physical form. This new radiation might be described as a reflection of the original radiation which produced the form. It has no substance or being of its own. It is simply the effect of the working of the Law.
The consciousness of the body includes various levels, just as white light, for instance, includes the colors of the spectrum. If there is to be white light this indicates that there is a balanced blending of all the colors of the spectrum present. If for some reason some of the colors were left out, or only partially there, there would not be white light. If in the pattern of the human form some of these reflected levels of consciousness are missing, or inadequately present, the consciousness will not be that of Divine Being, and this obviously has been the case insofar as human experience is concerned. Your self-consciousness has not been the consciousness of Divine Being, or the consciousness of the white light. It has been the consciousness of something that was off color. Why? Because some of the reflection of the creative radiation from True Cause was not appearing.
The consciousness of Divine Being cannot be restored until the reflection of the whole spectrum of what we call the mind is present. One may have an increased scope of the various colors in that spectrum within the range of one's experience, but until it reaches the point where there is the right balance there cannot be the experience of the white light, or the actual experience of Divine Being. We may become aware of the fact of Divine Being, of what our experience should be, and there are those who have said, “I know who I am.” Well in that sense yes, perhaps, but not really—not really, until the whole spectrum is there, the blending takes place and the white light appears. Then there is a consciousness of Divine Being at the level where the new creation is to appear, where the unified radiation is to extend into what we call the world.
Now the world is the way it is because the radiation which has been extending through the consciousness of the physical bodies of human beings has been an incomplete spectrum. It is still creative radiation but not of the white light. Presumably the higher levels of consciousness have been the ones that have been mostly lacking, so that we could say, using the visible light as a symbol, that the experience of the spectrum of that light has been mostly at the red end. The blue end of the spectrum has been largely missing. It is interesting how the symbol of the color red has been used in relationship to the activities of human beings, particularly where there is the evidence of an intensification of self-activity. You may “see red”, or we have “the reds,” all relating to a concentration at the lower end of this spectrum, so that there is an unbalanced creative radiation and the effects appear accordingly. The purpose of emissaries of divine light is to reestablish, reintroduce, the creative radiation which includes the whole spectrum in balance; white light, in other words. And when that creative radiation is allowed to find expression, then the effects will appear accordingly, because light in this sense is the means of creative action. “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” That is absolutely and exactly true. Of course if a person is fiddling around in the realm of effects and imagining that all things stem from this realm, he can't see the light; he is in the dark, and the darkness comprehendeth not the light.
The creative process is based in the working of the Law. If there is to be a restoration of the balanced reflection of the creative Divine Light, it will appear as there is response at the levels where the reflection needs to appear. In the unfolding process which naturally occurs in the development of a child, the necessary creative radiation is present, the light shines. But the light is invisible until it is reflected. Gradually there is an increased reflection appearing, as the development takes place in the physical form. The specific focus points for the reflection relate to the endocrine system. We speak of the Seven Seals. As the physical body develops, the specific points in this regard respond naturally to the creative light of which they are the effect, because the Seven Levels of Divine Consciousness are contained in Creative Cause. But as the consciousness begins to appear, then of course the trouble may start, because as yet the reflection is not complete and therefore there is initially an inadequate experience of true self-consciousness. The individual has not reached the point where there could be a balance of the reflected spectrum, and so there is an assumption of identity relating to the inadequate self-consciousness.
This state of imbalance has been present for so long in human beings that they are encouraged to imagine that this is what it should be. Consequently continued response, which would allow the effects to appear, ceases and human beings get stuck at the lower end of the spectrum. They say of themselves, “This is what I am.” Well it is all that they have experienced of what they are perhaps, but it is a very unbalanced thing, a very inadequate thing. However, even the production of this should give clear-cut evidence of the presence of the creative radiation which, if responded to without making any assumptions or jumping to any conclusions, would produce the balanced state of completeness where there could be Divine self-consciousness, a consciousness of Divine Being at this level. The mind was created to allow this to be so, and it is the means by which the creative radiation is extended into the realm where Divine Man has responsibility on the surface of this planet.
“Let your light so shine before men”; allow all this to transpire. And it is not a vague, undifferentiated thing. It is something very specific. It relates to specific levels of consciousness and experience. We need to begin to see this with clarity. Even from the standpoint of man's consideration of God there has been a recognition of some sort of a trinity. In other words God is not just a permeating divine fog of some kind, but there is something specific in the design, inherent in the essence of whatever God is, and this specific Divine character takes form by reason of the union of the physical body of man with the Creative Cause of that physical body. When that union is complete there is unified radiation, and that is the mind which was in Christ Jesus. That is what that unified radiation is: the Divine Mind, the consciousness of Divine Being on earth.
And so “emissaries of divine light” is a very specific and accurate definition of what man is supposed to be and what man is created to be: the means by which Cosmic Cause may be translated into action at the level of responsibility, which includes this earth. And this is what an emissary of divine light is.
O Lord, we are most thankful for the working of the Law, so that as there is an increased yielding of response there may be a more complete spectrum of Divine Light experienced. And in that experience comes a new spiritual consciousness, a new outlook and awareness. This which is newly seen relates to what was already present before but unknown. As the light shines in the balanced expression of consciousness all things are made new, for the Creative Cause is present at the level where the new heaven and the new earth are to appear. We are thankful for such vision as we have now, but we know that our vision and our understanding will be limited to the extent of the reflection of the Divine Spectrum of Life which may be present in us. We can't see beyond that, we can't understand beyond that, but we may yield in response to the radiation that is yet unknown so that the reflection of it may begin to appear and consequently become known. And we rejoice to play our part in letting the reality described by the words “Emissaries of Divine Light” be made apparent on earth, in the Christ. Aum-en.
© emissaries of divine light
