The Archangel Incarnate In His Collective Unified Body
Restoration By Unified Action
Martin Cecil October 26, 1980
Holy, holy, holy, LORD God of Hosts. Thy Name is holy. Holy, holy, holy. Thy Name is Love. Thy Name is wonderful. Holy, holy, holy. Thy Word is Truth. Thy Word is beautiful. Holy, holy, holy. Thy Word is Life. Thy Word is glorious. Holy, holy, holy. Only Thou art holy, LORD God of Hosts.
These words, LORD God of Hosts, may be understood by you as something that is not separate from you at all. The hosts are those who compose the spiritual and flesh Body of the Archangel incarnate on earth. The restoration of man comes by reason of the action of the Archangel through His Body on earth. The fall and failure of man was initiated on an individual basis. The fall would never have occurred if it had remained simply an individual matter. It came to pass because others participated and agreed with those individuals who first failed. The restoration comes as it is initiated individually, but the restoration never occurs unless there are those who associate themselves in agreement with the individuals who initiate the restoration.
What might be called the Plan of Restoration [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/gods-great-plan-1.html] in each of its phases heretofore has been initiated by individuals. Restoration has not occurred, because collectively the essential agreement with the individual initiators was not offered. We know of certain occasions when there was individual initiation of the Plan of Salvation. This initiation came through certain ones, such as Abraham long ago who found agreement in an active sense with the one called Melchizedek. This individual initiation of the Plan of Restoration continued on an individual basis through Isaac and Jacob. Through the sons of Jacob the collective opportunity began to appear, the opportunity for agreement with what had been initiated. To start with there was not all that much agreement, except in a destructive way on the part of the sons of Jacob. In spite of that, Joseph as an individual sustained the initiation of the cycle. He did not judge or blame his brothers but took responsibility for himself. Later there was a proliferation of the tribes of the Israelites in the land of Egypt, so that a collective Body began to take form. It was not yet at all conscious of its own destiny or reason for being until Moses, as an individual, came and proclaimed that destiny. The thirteen tribes of the Israelites were brought forth from the land of Egypt as a Body, a Body destined to be the hosts for the incarnation of the Archangel.
By reason of all this the restoration of mankind could have been accomplished. It would have been accomplished, not by some certain individual in the sense of a human being on earth but by the Archangel incarnate in His unified, collective Body. The opportunity and the training offered to the Israelites was so that this might occur. They were to compose the hosts, spiritually and materially, for the creative action of the Archangel on earth, charged with the responsibility of the restoration of mankind. We are aware that this never occurred. If we see that it might have occurred, then we must acknowledge that there was failure. That acknowledgment came through at least ten of the tribes; they ceased to carry any further identity as a part of that original Body. There was one tribe and part of two others that maintained some sort of identity in a rather futile attempt to turn failure into success. It in fact couldn’t be done, and that attempt has introduced a great deal of conflict and unnecessary suffering in a particular way into the body of mankind.
Again, the Plan of Restoration [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/gods-great-plan-2.html] was individually initiated by reason of the One called Jesus. In the previous design the LORD had always been represented by certain individuals who carried the responsibility for initiating that particular opportunity. It required a number of successive individuals, up to and including Moses, and there were some more subsequently who kept the door open for a little while. But the failure came, and so there was a new initiation under the hand of Jesus, not in representation this time but in person. The same requirement was necessary if man was to be restored, namely that there should be a collective Body for the action of the Archangel. This Body in its core aspects was composed of the twelve disciples.
Love was incarnate on earth through the individual body of Jesus. The Word of Love is Truth. Indeed it is recorded that He said, “Thy word is truth.” His Word was also Life. By reason of Love incarnate and the Word of Truth spoken, Life was a reality in expression on earth. Again He said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” In the Word of Truth is Life, and Life is the Light of men; but the Light has shined in the darkness of fallen human consciousness, which remained uncomprehending. It is only by reason of Life that the restoration may come. Clearly, if Life was absent in human experience nothing whatsoever could happen.
So the Plan of Restoration [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-unfolding-divine-plan.html] was initiated by Jesus. It could have no meaning except as there were those who were in agreement with what He initiated, in the recognition that the responsibility for restoration was in the hands of the Archangel to be incarnate on earth through the collective Body, spiritual and material, the substance of which was composed of those who were in agreement and who accepted the responsibility for themselves. Human beings have always looked for some leader, some messiah of whatever nature, religious or secular, to bring them salvation. Salvation is never brought that way.
The fall became a reality because of the collective action of those who agreed with the individuals who initiated it. As I say, if no one had agreed with that, there would have been no fall. By the same token there must be those who agree with the individuals who initiate the restoration; otherwise that initiation remains meaningless, clearly so. However, because of what the One called Jesus did as Love incarnate, regardless of whether there were any in agreement with Him or not, the Word of Truth was spoken on earth and Life was revealed. This was done. There was no shadow of turning in Him. Regardless of what human beings did to Him, Love was incarnate on earth, the Word of Truth was spoken, and Life was revealed. And there wasn’t anything that anyone could do to reverse that fact. It was done. The point of initiation was there on earth in the world of mankind. Those who at the time had opportunity to share the building of the Body for the incarnation of the Archangel on earth did not let it happen. It could have happened while Jesus was still present with them. In such case the Body would have formed, and incarnation through that Body would have occurred, so that the restoration might have happened. Clearly it didn’t.
But the same requirement remains now. The only way by which restoration may occur is as there is a collective Body of agreement permitting the incarnation of the Archangel on earth so that the required action may be taken. It is not taken successfully by one individual; it requires the Body. As I say, human beings are always looking for an individual leader, an individual messiah, to come and do it for them. It does not and cannot happen that way. If it is to happen, it happens because there is a collective, unified Body, a Body which is capable of allowing the unfettered, undistorted action of the Archangel on earth. As long as human ideas, even the very best of them, are maintained as to what should happen and how, the Body which otherwise might form and give free expression to the Archangel will not do so.
Because the Word of Truth was spoken on earth and Life revealed by reason of the One called Jesus, something was initiated at that time which, as we have noted, could not be prevented by those who were on hand then. A creative cycle was initiated. It could not be stopped at the time; it has not been stopped since. In spite of the impositions of human distortion—human ideas, attitudes and beliefs—upon what was initiated, the creative cycle has continued to move. The crust of concept and belief in the field of Christianity, and in the field of all other human religions, has not been capable of preventing what was initiated from working as leaven in the lump, so that the crust begins to break up, to move, and the evidence of what has been working below the surface, initiated nineteen centuries ago, puts in an appearance.
It puts in an appearance in various ways. We ourselves are a product presumably of that working. We wouldn’t be sitting here in the Chapel this morning if it wasn’t so. However we may be aware that it is not a ferment merely designed to bring some very special people together somehow. It will bring some people together—whether they’re very special or not we’re going to find out—but it does many other things too. We see in the world how groups of people have become aware of their power to achieve certain human intentions simply on the basis of collectiveness; this is very evident the world around. Human beings gather themselves together in order to attempt to achieve certain objectives because there are enough of them collectively. Of course this has been done all down through human history but it’s more particularly evident in these days where human beings have their ideas as to what should be done and proceed to bring collective pressure to bear to do them. I’ll leave it to your own awareness to list the multitude of such organizations, of long standing or sometimes spontaneous, by means of which this attempt is being made.
Here is evidence of a dawning awareness in human consciousness, mistranslated and distorted, of the fact that restoration comes by reason of a collective Body. Those who are involved in all these activities see with narrow vision related to their own interests, but the compulsion that is back of all that is the continuing emergence of the creative cycle which was set in motion nineteen centuries ago. It is breaking surface in various ways today. There have been moments during the history of the last nineteen centuries when there was evidence of the working of this creative process, but it is coming to a culmination now. The ferment is obvious everywhere. According to the appearance it looks as though destructiveness is inevitable, because all these collective groups are vying with each other, each seeking to have its own way at the expense of others. It is coming out in this way because of the nature that characterizes fallen human beings.
But amongst the population of the world there are those who are not so entirely self-centered and who cannot excuse their actions because they are going to be “good” for human beings, they think. These therefore find themselves unable to participate in the mistranslations that are being made of this compulsion to collective action. Presumably you have been counted among this number. You couldn’t be entirely fooled anymore by human slogans of various sorts and sensed that there must be something real, which would be a true evidence of Life. Life clearly is a collective thing. No one has a corner on it. We can, as individuals, disassociate ourselves from Life and die. This is the usual human habit. But we have become aware that there is a Body which Life builds when allowed to do so, and we have concerned ourselves with discovering what it is in our own experience that allows this to happen. Certainly it isn’t any concepts we may form, any beliefs we may have, because human beings have had concepts and beliefs from one end of the spectrum of awareness to the other for millennia, and this has achieved nothing more than chaos and destruction. So it is something other than the ideas of the human mind which is required.
We should know that our own individual physical bodies do not have any choice but to reveal what is being imposed upon them. You, through your bright intelligence, cannot add one cubit to your stature, if that is what you thought you wanted to do. Most people are not inclined to try that. They may undertake other physical activities to make their bodies bigger in other ways, sometimes by lifting weights, sometimes by eating excessive meals. There are various methods that may be used to modify the physical organism, but fundamentally the body acts out and reveals what is being imposed upon it, through heredity, through the state of the individual’s consciousness. The body has no choice but to follow along these lines. Consciously we may object sometimes when something shows up that is uncomfortable in our bodies, but we should know that we certainly had a responsibility in letting it happen. There is more to what is being imposed upon the body than what is consciously understood, but the imposition is there nevertheless. If we take a look at this we see that the body really has no choice. It just makes manifest whatever is being imposed upon it. It faithfully does this.
If we look at this collective body then, the body of mankind for instance, we see that exactly the same thing has been happening. If we take a look at the forming Body of the Archangel, we may see that what is of the Archangel may be revealed by reason of this Body if those who compose this Body stop imposing their own concepts, their own beliefs, their own ideas, no matter how good, no matter how well intentioned, upon the individual expression or the expression of the Body as a Whole. It has been assumed, because human beings have become disassociated from the creative action of Life, that if they did not impose their own ideas everything would collapse. It seems that nature has survived without the imposition of the ideas and concepts of human beings; in fact when these begin to be imposed upon nature there is trouble. There is obviously Life present, the Truth of which is capable of allowing for the true expression of itself in the forms of nature. It doesn't require a human being on hand to see that it happens, because the human being doesn’t know what should happen anyway. The same is true of the building of our own individual bodies.
So the Body of the Archangel is for the Archangel’s use, and when permitted to receive the action of the Archangel, that will be reflected in the Life which is thereby revealed. This is such a simple thing that it seems impossible of experience to most people. We’ve all been thoroughly deceived. We are coming out of that deception, I hope, so that this Body of the Archangel may be available for the Archangelic use. But if those who compose this Body, or should be composing this Body, are pulling and hauling within the Body according to their own ideas and concepts, according to the continuing patterns of their own human nature, their own fallen state, then the body is liable to be confused: the Archangel on the one hand offering Life and those who are included in the composition of that Body trying to tear it apart.
There is no salvation, no restoration, without the incarnation of the Archangel in His Body on earth so that there might be complete freedom of expression for the Archangel to do what needs to be done. In a sense I suppose you could say that this is a messiah. It isn't a single person, except in the sense that the Archangel has identity, identity which is revealed through the unified expression of His Living Body, a Living Body composed of those who have revealed the willingness and the capability to let it happen. As individuals we certainly know that we cannot hang on to our own personal lives and let this happen at the same time. To hang on to life, to try to keep one’s own personal life, will ensure that one loses the experience of Life. This is what human beings have been doing and proving out for so long. It’s no different in this generation. Only as one’s own personal life is lost in the Life of the Body of the Archangel do we discover the reality of Life. This was a statement made a long time ago by the One called Jesus; at least it’s come down to us in the record, and it’s true. If there is unwillingness to lose one’s own personal life one will ensure one’s own death. To accept the Life of the Archangel, which permeates His spiritual and flesh Body, of which our spiritual and flesh bodies as individuals may be a part, brings with it the experience of Life as it really is, characterized by Love and Truth.
As human beings we have looked at these things, considering the matter. No doubt the Israelites looked at some of these things and considered them. No doubt those who were present with Jesus on earth looked at what He said and considered it, and there have been millions since that time also doing the same thing. But here is the reality which He initiated, working now and bringing forth according to the works of human beings the world around. The reward is to every man according as his works shall be; not according as his ideas shall be, or his beliefs or his hopes or his expectations, but according as his works shall be, whether they are the works of God or whether they are the works of the devil—that puts it very simply—whether they are self-centered works or whether they are the works which are known in experience by reason of the speaking of the Word of Truth.
This Body of the Archangel is a figment of fancy unless and until there are those who agree and associate themselves with Love’s action, which is Truth, in Living. And Living, you know, is not experienced in dribs and drabs; it is a continuous thing. Fortunately it is a continuous thing. If there were even a momentary interruption, that would be that in our experience. So it is a continuous thing. It has been continuous anyway since we were born on earth. As this continuous experience is characterized by Love’s Word of Truth, then we find ourselves associated with the Archangel in His Body. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/spirit-and-body-of-archangel.html] My concern, as I have indicated before, is for this Body, that the Archangel might incarnate and find expression on earth for the restoration of man. You are the ones, amongst others, who let it happen, who agree that it should happen by reason of you or, on the other hand, say “No”. Without the Archangel incarnate on earth, free to act, restoration is impossible. The fate of the world would seem to be in the hands of those who understand these things.
Holy, holy, holy, LORD God of Hosts.
Thy Name is holy.
Only Thou art holy, LORD God of Hosts.
© emissaries of divine light
