Be Spiritual Man
Martin Cecil May 26, 1974 a.m.
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From the standpoint of the Christian world, emphasis has been placed particularly upon the crucifixion. This event was one which occurred during the outworking of the particular creative cycle in which our Master was moving at the time, but it could not be said to be more or less important than any other event which put in an appearance during this same period.
We have noted that He came into the world to initiate the Second Sacred School. He did this, but, owing to lack of adequate response, it became apparent that there were not going to be those who would allow what He had to offer to have its real meaning on earth. Under the leadership which He provided, He could have carried the responding ones through in the ascending cycle, if there had been a willingness to move with Him. When it became evident that this was not going to occur, then He undertook to provide the point of focus in His own expression of living, within the scope of the consciousness of mankind, for the movement through the complete creative cycle by which the reality of spiritual man in material form might be once again a fact on earth. But this simply related to His own experience—He was unaccompanied by anyone else in what occurred. Because it occurred on earth within the range of human consciousness, the door was opened for others to follow through also into the experience of true Manhood or Womanhood, the mature state of spiritual man. During the course of that creative cycle which worked out in His own experience the crucifixion occurred—however, this was certainly not the only event.
Actually, the specific process is described rather completely and accurately in the Gospel according to John. We remember the correct sequence of the Four Forces: water, air, earth and fire. Just before the Passover, when He and His disciples were gathered in the place where the Passover was to be held, He undertook to initiate the particular cycle, in the creative sense, which would allow for the restoration of spiritual man in material form on earth, by reason of His own presence and willingness to let it occur no matter what the circumstance might prove to be in the unfolding of the event.
First of all, He did something with His disciples that has not been adequately understood as to its significance. He took some water in a basin and washed their feet. This had something to do with the water force. Here was a symbolical portrayal of something, but it was more than that—it was the point of initiating this particular cycle, a refocalization of the Truth of the First Sacred School. The evidence of the movement of this first force was originally said to be light: “Let there be light.” The Israelites were charged with the responsibility of providing a focus of example and a point of orientation for the world as a whole, that the understanding of mankind might be cleared. The washing of the disciples’ feet had a relationship to this: the feet represent the understanding. So the first requirement with respect to the First Sacred School was to clarify understanding, to provide an example in this regard, and also to offer a point of orientation for the whole body of mankind. Here was a point of refocalization with respect to that same Truth.
The disciples evidently didn't understand what it was our Master was doing. Some of them objected, Peter particularly. He wasn't going to allow it to happen. He had a concept in this regard which was being violated by what our Master was doing. So has it always been whenever anything has been undertaken from the Divine standpoint: human beings who became aware of what was happening have always objected. It didn't conform with their concept of what should happen. Then Peter was told that it was something that was necessary, so he proceeded to insist that Jesus should wash his head and everything else as well—in other words, he was going to do a better job than could be done by God. And this has been the attitude of human beings: they were going to improve on things—anything but allow the cycle to work out as it should, without any human judgment, without human beings trying to determine what should happen. So, finally it all settled down and our Master got on with the job, but He obviously was doing something that His disciples didn't understand. They didn't really need to understand, because what He was doing related to Himself. He was the one who was initiating this creative cycle and moving through it. However, we may see, with a little hindsight, what He was actually doing. Here was the water force which permits the cleansing of the understanding, so that there may be light.
Having brought this to focus and initiated the cycle, it then proceeded forward. Thereafter He spoke to His disciples, and we have the record of some of what He said in the following chapters in this particular Gospel. This related to the second of the Four Forces and also, incidentally, to the Second Sacred School, which had a particular application to the mind. It is clear, again, that the disciples understood very little of what it was that our Master was saying. The Second Sacred School could have been successful insofar as mankind is concerned if there had been those who had found it in their hearts to yield sufficiently in response, so that they might move with what He was in position to offer. He taught His disciples. It was indicated that He taught the people in a general sense, but it was particularly His disciples. So there was teaching involved, and this certainly applies more particularly to the mind of man. He was providing a focus for the movement of this creative cycle as it proceeded through the sequence of the Four Forces, but His disciples certainly didn't comprehend very much.
There is one particular passage here that I would read. He had said this: “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him. Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” So there was a blank insofar as he was concerned, and probably this applied to most of the others as well.
Do you begin to know the way He went? There is a beginning understanding, isn't there, of what He was doing, which He summarized in these words: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but my me.” In effect He was saying, “Spiritual man”—which is what He exemplified on earth—“is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to a consciousness of his origins, of the truth of himself, except by spiritual man.” He was the evidence of spiritual man on earth. Except as a person gives evidence of spiritual man on earth, there is no way by which he may come to the Father, he may come to a consciousness of the truth of his own being. But there is no way except the way provided by spiritual man. The way of material man is no way at all. It is the way into the tomb, where disintegration takes place.
While it is evident that the disciples at that time didn't have a clue as to what He was talking about, you would have to acknowledge that you do. In other words, there is a consciousness of the refocalization of the truth of the Second Sacred School. This has emerged through you and others on earth. It's taken, apparently, nineteen hundred years to do it, but it's happened.
Those who think of themselves as Christians have always been expecting Jesus Christ to do something for them, obviating any necessity, apparently, of doing something for oneself. But He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life”—spiritual man is the way, the truth, and the life. You must be spiritual man if you are to come to the Father, if you are to experience the truth of yourself. “Verily, verily, I say unto you”—and here stress was being placed upon something: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” This is saying, be spiritual man. One can only be spiritual man for oneself, and spiritual man is the truth of the individual. So it isn't a matter of looking to somebody else; it is a matter of being the truth of oneself. This is what constitutes believing in spiritual man. “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also”—the works of spiritual man.
In His case it was a lonely business; He was the only one. We have noted what a tremendous thing that was that He could do it. He who walks through the door which He opened shall do the works of spiritual man, and greater works, because there will be more people doing them. Here was the example of spiritual man in action, that others might participate in the same action—not to be acted upon, not to have their feet washed, not to be taught, but to wash the feet of others and to teach. Spiritual man does not need to be washed nor does he need to be taught—he washes and teaches.
Coming to the end of this period when He was speaking to His disciples, there is the Great Prayer of Intercession, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-masters-prayer-of-intercession.html] as it has been called, in the 17th chapter. And here He was completing the cycle as it related to the Second Sacred School and initiating what was to follow in the Third Sacred School. All that most people have seen of what followed was the arrest, the trial and finally the crucifixion, and He landed up in the tomb. This, in fact, is the external evidence of something that seemed to be happening to the material aspect of spiritual man. It didn't change spiritual man at all, did it? The character of spiritual man continued to be in evidence all the way through, no matter what happened to material man.
Now we recognize that this is necessary in the experience of the Third Sacred School, that no matter what happens to material man, to the person in the external sense, he remains true in his expression of what he knows of spiritual man. In the external sense it seems that a person lands up in the tomb. It seems that way to those who observe. We recognize that it wasn't really a tomb; it was rather a womb out of which something was born. I am sure that many of you have had relatives and friends who shook their heads over you because you were somehow ducking out of the real world. It depends from which direction you look at it, doesn't it? What is supposed to be the real world, we recognize as the unreal one; but you can't convince a person who is involved in that unreal world that it is anything else but real. It's real to him, but that's not the truth.
It seemed like a real tomb into which the material aspect of our Master was placed, and it was sealed up pretty good. There was a boulder placed upon the entrance to the sepulcher, a boulder which, in this particular instance, was finally rolled away. But what does that represent? The hardened human heart, which relates to the veil, which has been solid insofar as human beings are concerned, between the experience of material man and spiritual man. It is the impure heart, as we recognize, that keeps human beings in the tomb, keeps them on the wrong side of the veil, identified in the state of material man. It's only when the heart begins to melt, begins to yield so that it opens the individual to receive something of spiritual man, that there may be movement out of the tomb—in other words, the tomb may be transformed into a womb.
The movement out of the womb of the Third Sacred School
is birth into the Fourth Sacred School,
which is characterized by what was described as a Garden
The yielded heart which opens in love and trust, without trying to understand but willing to move, willing to accept the responsibility of spiritual man, whatever that may be, is the open door to salvation, is the open door to the Father. When Mary Magdalene came to the tomb filled with sorrow because she obviously didn't understand what it was that was occurring, she met up with one whom she supposed to be the gardener. But when her name was spoken she suddenly became aware of who it was really. Her heart was open and she wasn't anymore deluded by the material appearance. She saw the truth, and like human beings tend to be, she wanted to take hold of it, possess it. But our Master said, “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.” That was true.
The Fourth Day of Creation is not yet the Seventh Day. There is some more movement necessary, for man to be restored to the state of the living soul in oneness with God. In all of this we may recognize in a more specific sense what it was that was occurring in His experience—how He was, as an individual, alone in the world, leading the way through so that later others might accept the same responsibility, the responsibility of spiritual man; and then it would not be such a lonely task.
Some have thought it was going to be a lonely task. They were going to have to give up so much, to leave so much behind, to relinquish their friends and their relatives, and all this. Well, our Master said that was possible too, didn't He? If one is to mature into the state of true manhood or womanhood, one must become a whole person, and those who are not willing to become whole, at the same time cannot remain in any pattern of meaningful relationship, obviously so. They are naturally left behind, and there's no great sweat about it. “Oh, dear, I'm losing such a beautiful friend!” Oh, no. Those who are really beautiful friends are those who are going to come along, who are going to be interested in wholeness also. But if someone doesn't come along, that's no great loss.
The way is very clear. The disciples of old may seem to us who have begun to see more clearly to have been rather dumb, but who is to judge? They certainly didn't have the time that we have had, and it has taken quite a while to come to the point of experiencing this little glimpse—and that's all it is. So it is not a matter of judgment. It's just a matter of moving in the recognition that, as the creative cycle unfolds, we belong in the Garden—out of the womb. But to the extent that that is experienced we also may say, “I am not yet ascended to my Father. I am not yet returned to my origins. I am just on the way.”
So we assume the attitude of spiritual man as a consciousness of spiritual man begins to emerge. The statement is: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life—I am spiritual man. Do you dare to say that? There is something of spiritual man present, evidenced by such vision as you may have this morning in relationship to what we have been considering. Be true to yourself, then. Be true to the self that says, “I am spiritual man,” and your business is to offer understanding to others; not necessarily by bending their ear, but by example, by being spiritual man.
Be spiritual man, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/material-man-and-spiritual-man.html] and this experience is possible to you as you emerge into the Garden, when the stone is removed from the mouth of the tomb. And the stone is removed from the mouth of the tomb when your heart is made pure. And your heart is made pure when you are no longer identified with material man, when you no longer place your values in the material world—not that there are no values in the material world, but the values in the material world are only valuable when they are the reflection of the values in the Spiritual World, when your treasures are laid up in heaven.
