Differentiation Of The Spirit Of The Archangel

Differentiation  Of  The  Spirit  Of  The  Archangel

Martin Cecil   April 13, 1978   Advanced Training Session

We have the opportunity of sharing an hour now, letting something emerge which is unique to this particular gathering, to this particular moment, and to the creative needs that are in focus now. We have a mutual awareness that whatever needs to be achieved from the standpoint of the Lord requires our spiritual expression. That is a rather general term at the moment, but we need to see that there is some very specific detail relative to spiritual expression. There may be a general effulgence: let your light so shine before men. We need to let the light shine. We need to exemplify the true character. But in that exemplification certain specific actions naturally emerge. We share the responsibilities, so we need to look at this matter of spiritual expression not only from the individual standpoint but from the standpoint of the whole.

We are moving away from prior patterns of earthly self-centeredness so that the whole of our expression of life is concerned with the overall fulfilment of Divine Purpose. We are no longer holding out little areas here and there in ourselves which we deem to be private and personal. If we do that, in those areas there is darkness, just a blank, a void. Where there are blanks and voids in our expression of living there could never be the Holy Spirit—the Holy Spirit is a whole spirit and it requires every aspect of our being. We are in no position to hold out anything of a personal nature, anything considered to be private to ourselves alone, and experience the reality of true spiritual expression.

True spiritual expression requires the presence and the release of the whole spirit, not bits and pieces. With human experience, for the most part the true spirit has been absent; and it is these absences that have caused the expression of something distorted—a distorted cause which has produced distorted effects. We cannot have true cause without expression of the whole spirit. So we need to understand something with respect to this in a more specific sense. First of all there is the necessity to realize that we cannot participate in the expression of the whole spirit, true spiritual expression, and still maintain personal and private areas in ourselves.

I'm not suggesting that one splatter all over the place the innermost factors in one's expression, but none of them are withheld from the Lord. Every aspect of one's own state of internal being is offered to the Lord for right use. We do not retain anything for ourselves, saying in effect that this is my own area, put up a private sign, “Keep Out!”—so that we continue to have something which is not a part of the wholeness of being. We cannot experience the reality of God while restricting the expression of God to particular areas of our own choosing; the choosing will be that of the mind and heart and restrictions will be placed upon the true expression of spirit. We can maintain these private places where we wish to keep something for ourselves.

The dissolving of barriers in this regard, so that everything opens up, is not something that has been required of anyone in a moment. All of you have been given quite a considerable time to allow these things to transpire—I don't think there is anyone here present who hasn't had plenty of time. If there are still restrictions and limitations and areas in one's own inner being which one has reserved for oneself this is an evidence of a failure to let time be used rightly.

“Step by step,” the Lord says, “You can do it step by step.” But there comes a time when all the steps have been taken. I would suggest that we are gathered here to prove that that time is now. I can see no other reason for our being here. This is not a class; in other words it is not so that you can take some more steps, putting off the final step as long as possible, which is what most people do. We are here to do what is only possible when the final step has been taken. And we don't need a class. We need a radiant session, where we gather together and experience the creative purpose for which we are all on earth, and for which we are all present in this particular setting now.

So there is this matter of spiritual expression. Looking at the unfoldment of spiritual events over this recent period of time [at least 4000 years all together, which would take us to about 2000 BC] there has been a provision in the experience of human beings for the release of true spiritual expression. We have seen this relative to the various Sacred Schools: the First, the Second, and now the Third. The objective in any one of these instances was to bring those concerned to the point of true spiritual expression. It has never happened yet. Presumably we are here to accept the responsibility of letting it happen now. And that is a very vast responsibility; it is not a little thing. On each occasion the means by which true spiritual expression could appear was True Spirit. The facility, insofar as human beings were concerned, had to be conditioned sufficiently, undergo sufficient re-creation, so that this True Spirit could come clear in expression, and not constantly be colored and distorted and changed by the faulty attitudes of human beings. But the means, power, by which the change could occur was always True Spirit, presented in various ways, differently insofar as each of these Sacred Schools was concerned.

In the First Sacred School the word used was Shekinah, the evidence of the Presence of the One Who Dwells, the evidence of the Presence of True Cause. So the word Shekinah—Glory of the Lord—was used in that instance because it had particular application to the level of approach that was being made, the physical approach. And then it changed when the Second Sacred School came along, the mental approach, and the word used was the Christ: true spiritual expression. The Christ was revealed in a very specific sense on earth by reason of one man, so He is usually referred to as Jesus Christ. But the word Christ is not the surname of a man whose Christian name was Jesus; it simply indicates the evidence of true spiritual expression on earth, as it related particularly to the Second Sacred School. Then proceeding to the time of the Third Sacred School, where the approach is the spiritual expression approach directly, another word was used which has been translated in the Book of Revelation as the Lamb.

True spiritual expression is the experience of those who are moving from the standpoint of the spiritual expression plane approach directly. As there is the experience of true spiritual expression from this standpoint, obviously it directly effects the mind and the body; there is mental and physical effect. But the focus of True Cause is in true spiritual expression, and the concern is with that. It isn't a matter of building up towards it by establishing physical rules and regulations, or by the mental approach of trying to understand everything, but of discerning spiritually and living spiritually, living from the standpoint of spiritual expression now. So, the Lamb was the word that was used in this regard; and it is by reason of the Lamb, true spiritual expression, that what we call the restoration is made possible. The essential changes in the body and the consciousness of mankind are wrought by reason of the Lamb.

Now this is nice theory. It has been a theory for a long time, recorded in the Book of Revelation. In our recent Sunday services we were considering a few verses at the beginning of the fourth chapter of Revelation, relative to a door being opened in heaven, and allowing something to be experienced because there was response, and obedience to the words, “Come up hither.” This allows us to have an experience of something that is described in earthly terms. I’ll read one part of that description: “a throne set in heaven” and “one who sat upon the throne”. There is never any description of the One who sits upon the Throne other than to indicate that He was like something or other, because the One who sits upon the Throne is actually not a part of the dimensional scene. There is the undimensional state, the state of God, and the One who sits upon the Throne originates in that undimensional state.

What is initially emerging in the dimensional state is described in rather fanciful terms. There were Four-and-Twenty Elders around the Throne, and there were Seven Lamps of Fire, which are the Seven Spirits of God before the Throne. There was the Sea of Glass like unto crystal before the Throne. And the Four Beasts, or Four Living Creatures, which were in the midst of the Throne and round about the Throne. These Living Creatures indicate the composition of the Throne itself—in the midst of the Throne and round about the Throne. Here was the initial dimensional manifestation of the authority of God, described in these rather strange terms; earthly terms have to be used to describe heavenly things, and they don't work too well; although they give us something of a view of what is present to permit the authority of God to emerge from the undimensional realm into the dimensional state. There is a reason, there is a way, there is a means by which everything happens. We need to associate ourselves with that. So there are these various elements described relative to the design of authority in heaven—this is all a description in heaven.

I have covered the fourth chapter of the Book of Revelation. My concern is to move into the fifth chapter where there is a repetition of some of what is contained in the fourth, but in a little different way. I will read some of it here: “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.”

This book, we could call the Book of Life, which has been sealed from human experience ever since what has been called the fall. The absence of the Book of Life has produced the presence of the book of death—the “Book of the Dead”, and nothing whatsoever of any value comes out of it. What does come out of it could be said to be the actual experience of human beings in the world, the experience of being dying souls. Because dying is so prevalent it seems as though it is important that one should pay attention to it, that one should begin to really understand just why one should go through this process and what is being gained by it, and how one may handle it successfully. But you are well aware that the real purpose is to live, not to die. So why study death? Why not pay attention to life? And that is our primary concern. But we need to emerge out of the conditioned human state where death is dominant.

Now the purpose here is, with respect to this book, to loose the seals, as this relates to the human state. The book, you will note, was written within and on the backside. The backside relates to those experiences before the fall, when the Book of Life was open. The Book of Life was open at that time, and so what occurred was written on the frontside of the book. But by now it is the backside of the book—a long time ago; and even though it is written on the backside, because of the seals it cannot be read. Human beings don't know what happened. They have been frantically trying to understand their origins, their roots, in various ways, but there is always a wall. They can't get past this barrier which is unassailable by reason and logic alone. People develop theories of various sorts, but the theories are not true; nothing is sure. Human beings are still looking; they hopefully look further out; perhaps they will find it out there in the far reaches of the universe. But there is no by which human beings in their present state can discover the true story. The true story has been told to a certain extent, in a very limited way, in myth, one thing and another of that nature. But what happened before the fall is a complete blank. There is no admission in a general sense, certainly not in a scientific sense, that there ever was a fall because there is an absolute barrier there that no one can get behind. This book is written on the backside—it is all there, it's all been written—but the book is sealed. So nobody gets to read it. No man, no matter how spiritual or how scientific or anything else, gets to read it. The book it is sealed.

And it is also written within—inside. Our concern is that the seals should be loosed so that what is inside can come out. What was available in true spiritual expression for human beings ever since the fall has been written in each moment within, but it never got out. The Book of Life, the experience of life, has not been known consequently. The only experience that human beings have is of dying. This is the case since the first point of failure. And it has been so long-standing now that it is taken as being the natural and inevitable thing. The restoration to the true state of man as a living soul requires that these seals should be loosed so that what is inside the book can come out. When what is inside the book begins to come out then there begins to be some understanding of what was written on the backside. The question arises as to how these seals are to be loosed seeing that nobody can loose them.

Of course, where human beings think of themselves as being supreme and all-important and all-wise, if human beings can't open this book, well, nobody else can. And if nobody else can it must be just a figment of fancy; and the whole thing is consigned to a state of limbo in human experience. But as it continues here there is evidence that there is a means by which the seals can be loosed: “And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.” Here is a reference to what was achieved by reason of the One called Jesus on earth, in relationship to Himself.

We have taken note of the fact that the only way by which anything could be salvaged from the failure of the Second Sacred School was as this One Man accepted the responsibility of everything into Himself, because there was no other body available by which it could be done other than His own. He represented in His own body and earthly consciousness the whole of humanity. He stood alone. He was alone in this. And there was a victory. The seals were loosed in the individual sense. And so there was a point of victory established on earth, available for the subsequent right use of those who would let it be used rightly. It has, in a way, been dormant for the last two thousand years, although, like the leaven, working underneath so that something could emerge at the point of the Third Sacred School.

“And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” The right hand is the positive hand, the hand of action. Here is the means by which True Cause [in the unidimensional realm] can begin to operate in the dimensional realm. The dimensional realm is all a realm of effects. But when True Cause generates effects in the heaven aspect of the dimensional realm, the heaven aspect of the dimensional realm becomes the expression of True Cause insofar as the earth aspect of the dimensional realm is concerned, and the earth aspect becomes a realm of effects relative to the heaven aspect.

For this to happen there is the necessity for loosing the seals and opening the book. This is achieved by reason of the presence of the Lamb, true spiritual expression. But the spiritual expression of whom? We have referred to the Archangel as a means of identifying the One who incarnates in the manifest form which is our responsibility to allow to appear. It appears because of the incarnation of the Archangel—nothing could happen otherwise. Using the word Archangel, we could say that here is One who has the responsibility of true spiritual expression—the expression of the One who is incarnating in this Body. But that true expression won't come out through the Body unless the seals are loosed. To the extent that those seals are loosed in His Body, and the consciousness of that Body, then there is a means by which the seals may be loosed in the body and consciousness of mankind as a whole.

We begin to see that we have a very particular responsibility in this matter [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-final-step.html], making possible the loosing of these seals. We may begin to understand as we move along in the days to come more of what is implied when this term is used, “the loosing of the seals”. Heretofore, the inference was that it related to the endocrine system in the physical body, combined with the various aspects that relate thereto in the nervous system—and this certainly is related to the matter. But we need to have a much larger vision than the individual physical body. We are not going to achieve very much, at least beyond a certain point, insofar as individual physical bodies are concerned unless there is some means by which the seals can be loosed in the Collective Body. We have seen the necessity of being totally given to true spiritual expression as individuals. Therefore it is not a personal matter anymore; it becomes a matter of the whole. And what happens personally to those concerned is of secondary concern, and will automatically take care of itself because of what is happening in the whole.

Unless there is a whole, in the sense of the physical and mental manifestation there is no means by which anything can happen. There is what corresponds to the endocrine system in this Collective Whole. The collective whole must be adequately in manifestation if those seals are to be loosed. As long as human beings are fiddling around as individuals, imagining that they have some great thing to do as isolated persons, nothing happens. It is only when this larger Body begins to be a reality that something can be brought to bear. So the Lamb refers, first of all, to the focus point of spiritual expression in that Body, but it includes the differentiation of that spiritual expression through those angels who compose that Body. It is this differentiated spiritual expression brought to bear in a very specific sense in the body and consciousness of mankind that permits the seals to be loosed in that larger body. So we begin to recognize that while this wording here may have seemed to be rather obscure, it has a very pertinent and relevant relatedness to our own immediate experience. Whether we describe what is to be known in that experience in these terms or some other earthly terms is really of little consequence. The point is to have the experience.

This that we are about: the differentiation of the Spirit of the Archangel through our unique, individual angelic expression. And this allows for a wholeness of spiritual expression because, regardless of how many more will properly participate in this Body, there are sufficient present now to cover all aspects of differentiation. The differentiation may continue in greater detail, but there is sufficient present in those angels who now participate in this form to permit the whole of true spiritual expression, the essences of which are in focus in the Archangel, to be differentiated in a rounded sense. Now there is greater detail to occur, but there is this base from which to work.

Each angel has the responsibility of carrying the differentiation of one specific aspect of that spirit into expression in all that is undertaken in momentary living. And we need to see more particularly what this really implies. We have some awareness of it now; we have some experience of it now. And we know that many things transpire that we couldn't have figured out with our own minds, we couldn't have brought to pass by our own efforts. And in fact these things have transpired when we weren't trying to do it on that basis. And if we have been trying to do it on that basis, well, not much has happened because what should have happened is blocked. This cuts us down to size in the human sense because all we can do is interfere. So let's get with it.

This book has been taken from the right hand of the one who sits upon the Throne, and is the responsibility of the Archangel whose spirit is the Spirit of the Body for which we have been responsible to give form and to differentiate that spirit. We see that all of this is totally above and beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend or do anything about. It doesn't know anything insofar as this realm is concerned. It can come to know what it needs to know when it is a good servant and willing to move on the basis of the spirit which is being differentiated. When that happens then what needs to be known can be known. We can know something of these things in this hour, can't we? Here is something that is opening up to the extent that we have been in the spirit, and the mind has been sufficiently yielded so that it can move with what is moving in the spirit—and then it sees. But if it tries to see by grabbing hold of anything it looses the vision; it gets lost. I'm sure that you have found on occasion that you became lost. You were moving along fine for a little and then you became lost because your mind started to take hold of something, and it has various effects—sometimes somnolence is one of them. There is a reason for all these things.

I rejoice in the privilege of clarifying the field of our responsibility. Obviously, in opening this area for further movement you become aware that there is a vastness about it. But if you let your feelings get in there it could be devastating. It is something tremendous, but it is all under control. The Archangel is present, and incarnate, and in expression. The individual expression of all of you as angels is simply a differentiation of that. So it is all held together; it is all one thing. It is all strong, stable, sure. As we find increased ability to participate in this unified spiritual expression we find that the power is moving, and that others who are not specifically in this point of focus for which we are responsible here, are moving with us whether they consciously know why or not. So let us continue to allow this to unfold by being very much aware in our momentary living of the responsibility for what it is that is finding expression.

Let it be true spiritual expression

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