Pneumaplasm Money Tithe

Pneumaplasm  Money  Tithe

Martin Cecil   July 21, 1977  Class

We have been blessed with a beautiful rain; it still continues a little. I'm sure you understand what is meant when the statement is made that God is nowhere. God per­tains to the undimensional realm. Perhaps using those words seems like a contradiction. If it has no dimension how can it be a realm? God is nowhere dimensionally speaking. Through His spirit He is now here dimensionally speaking. As a means of portraying something of this the point which has position but no magnitude has been used. God has no dimensional magnitude but He has position. That position may be seen in terms of omnipresence. No matter where you may go dimensionally speaking, God is there and yet He is still nowhere; but through His spirit now here. Out of this point which can be found anywhere springs all that is contained in the dimensional world or universe. We have a certain awareness of seven‑dimensional being, all of these dimensions, what­ever they are, generated out of the point. The point is the position in the dimensional state which merges into the undimensional state. Out of God is generated the dimensional world.

We can see this in a certain way by utilizing the process which emerges out of the point, the point which has position but no magnitude. Generated out of that point can be a series of points. A series of points produce a line which has length but no breadth. Out of the line may be generated a series of lines which produces a figure which has length and breadth. You can take a plane which has length and breadth and generate out of the plane another figure which is a solid. It has length and breadth and depth. Out of the solid you can generate another figure which has length and breadth and depth but another dimension. It begins to become a little obscure to the human mind at this point but it is describable perhaps as a persistent solid. It stays there; it is not just a momen­tary figure. One might say that time comes into the picture. There is another dimension in this sense. The reason why the figure persists is by reason of another dimension. It is because of life. In other words we have a three‑dimensional figure which persists and is alive. We recognize that the universe is alive, the earth itself is alive. It is part of a living organism. We have physical bodies which persist for a while and reveal the fact of life. So life comes into the picture as a further dimension. A three‑dimensional figure which persists in time and is alive is capable of reproduction, of bringing forth. This is true of ourselves with our three‑dimensional bodies which persist for a while and are alive and capable of reproduction in various ways. When all this is put together we come back to the point again because it allows the experience of identity. I—One.

So there is the dimensional universe. Incidentally there were seven steps, you may have noted, out of the point back to the point—an octave. This dimensional world—either of our own external dimensional being or in the collective sense insofar as man­kind is concerned, or on the larger scale moving out into the universe—has two aspects. We speak of them as heaven and earth. The substance of the heaven we have called pneumaplasm. Physical substance is the substance of the earth. It is by reason of pneumaplasm that the earth, physical substance, has meaning. We might see this in terms of vowels and consonants. You have heard of the Word, the creative Word which is made flesh. Perhaps utilizing the English language as a basis of approach then vow­els would represent the spirit which is discernable by reason of pneumaplasm, and the consonants would represent form. Vowels without consonants are not very informative. Consonants without vowels, in the English language at least, are not very comprehensible; they need to get together. The word that has been perhaps pronounced Jehovah is properly a word of vowels and it can be seen as including the whole range or spectrum of vowels. Je-ho-vah. [Martin chanted] However, spirit has little meaning dimensionally speaking unless there is form. The consonants are necessary to intelligible language, the consonants and the vowels put together.

Pneumaplasm and physical substance are united and the universe consequently has meaning. Human beings have lost a consciousness of that meaning in relationship to themselves because they have tended to exclude the vowels from their experience, and human experience tends to become very brittle in consequence. We recognize that pneumaplasm provides the facility by which there may be creative action springing forth from God. The spirit of God emerges through the pneumaplasmic substance and has an effect on physical substance. We can see this from the standpoint of our own physical flesh. Spirit activates the flesh, but not directly. It is activated by reason of pneumaplasm, because pneumaplasm is sensitive to spirit and physical substance is sensitive to pneumaplasm. Now of course the intensity of the pneumaplasmic sub­stance in its vibrational nature will determine the quality of life that is possible by reason of the physical substance. The intensity is not very great insofar as what we call the mineral kingdom is concerned, but this is not to say then that the mineral king­dom is not alive. It is a level of life expression which is very much less intense than the level of life expression in human beings, for instance. It also may be seen that because of its less intensity it relates to longer periods of time. The changes that occur in what is thought of as inanimate substance are relatively slow because there is not so much intensity of pneumaplasm involved. But as there is movement up the scale the intensity increases. Man, who should be the crowning creation, has a facility which allows for the full range of vibratory intensity in pneumaplasmic substance. Con­sequently here is the facility made in the image and likeness of God. The whole range of vibratory substance is available for use in the creation which was originally called man. This included both the heaven and the earth of man, the Triune heaven and the Triune earth. This whole range of vibratory expression is capable of accommodating God through His spirit in expression on earth because the whole range is on earth. The physical level is interpenetrated by all the other vibratory levels. So God may walk on earth by reason of His spirit conveyed through pneumaplasm into the various avenues of earthly expression.

Now, the power by which creative achievement is made possible is based in the fact of the heavenly substance of pneumaplasm. Physical substance properly—in its form of manifestation and in the expression which appears through it—is a reflection of the spirit by reason of the pneumaplasm. You may say that earth is a reflection of heaven, rightly. If all these things are working as they should then obviously heaven and earth are indeed one, and the earth is found to be a heavenly place. We have some awareness as to why this is not so at the present time and we have some awareness of the way by which the true state may be restored. The restoration comes by reason of the working of spirit through pneumaplasm. It does not come merely because of some sort of physical manipulation—either a physical manipulation of inert substance or the physical manipulation of human flesh, human beings. It comes on the basis of the cre­ative power of spirit working through pneumaplasm.

Now, in the human nature world this has been very largely forgotten except as there has been some realization of the value of what is called propaganda. Human beings can be caused to do different things on the basis of psychological factors, certain pressures being brought to bear in different ways, so that it is not a direct physical compelling but the physical action appears because of something psychologically established. And peo­ple behave in ridiculous ways on the basis of advertising, for instance, and people will do amazingly ridiculous things in order to get money. If you have ever looked at some of these programs that they have on TV, I am sure you will agree—the objective being to obtain money. The idea of money, of course, has appeal because it is the substance that man has utilized as a substitute for pneumaplasm. Having lost his heaven then he had to create another of his own making. His original heaven, of course, was of God's creating. But having lost the divine creation, he gets busy and tries to produce his own creation and in order to manipulate his environment the use of money has been developed for this purpose. As I have mentioned before, there is nothing wrong with money; in fact, money as a medium of exchange was a useful part of the original divine state. But money is now considered to be power. If one has sufficient money one can do anything, at least this is the idea; and within certain limitations this has proven out to be pretty true for human beings because everybody agrees that money is so valuable. These little bits of paper that we use are not intrinsically worth anything very much but every­body has agreed that the money is worth whatever particular value it is given, accord­ing to the rate of inflation and so on at the time. And it is entirely a matter of faith, isn't it? Human beings complain that they don't have enough faith—“Give us more faith”—but they have a tremendous amount of faith in money, for instance. There is no lack of faith but the faith has been applied in a manner that is not very constructive. Let us let the faith we have be used constructively and we find we have enough. So money has been used as a substitute for pneumaplasm.

Now obviously, if you, functioning as servers, are to handle your affairs the way they should be handled, you will have to handle money. The handling of money cor­relates with the expression of spirit through pneumaplasm because money, instead of being a substitute for pneumaplasm, may be an aspect of the physical evidence of pneu­maplasm—not the only evidence, by any manner of means, but one that is very important in the consciousness of most people. There is a continuous scramble for money and it seems like a scramble because most people don't have very much pneumaplasm. So the evidence of pneumaplasm seems to be rather scarce in some ways. If money is not scarce, at least continually it is devaluating so you have to have more and more of it to keep your head above water. So this is another realm that we need to look at, isn't it? Money. I have approached it in this way so that we don't spring right into the middle of a consideration of money without any preparation of consciousness, so to speak, because we need to look at it in a little different way to what it is looked at in­sofar as most people are concerned. Money is kind of a tender subject with most people, because it has become so important to human beings, and is not really seen for what it is.

Money and pneumaplasm properly are very closely related. If insofar as your own experience is concerned the spiritual substance in you is clear and ample, well there will be ample money to allow for whatever is to be achieved by reason of the cre­ative expression that is emerging through the pneumaplasm. Now, it is not just a matter of money. That is one aspect of substance that will reflect what is occurring in pneuma­plasm, but it includes all substance and it may seem sometimes that there is very little money and yet a tremendous amount is achieved by reason of other types of substance. So we are not, or should not be, hung up with respect to money. It is an aspect of sub­stance that moves naturally with the spiritual expression appearing by reason of pneumaplasm, just as all other types of substance move in the same way, because pneumaplasm is the realm of control, the heaven insofar as the earth is concerned, and whatever needs to happen on earth happens by reason of what is occurring with respect to the realm of pnemaplasm. Now this is even true from the standpoint of the human nature state.

The realm of pneumaplasm in human experience has been very limited and very distorted and what has occurred in this thin layer of distorted pneumaplasm has caused whatever has happened in the physical world. If the pneumaplasmic realm of human experience is distorted, colored, disturbed, then these distortions, colors, and disturbances will be reflected in the physical world, and they have been. Of course there has been little realization as to what it was that was happening, because there was no interest, or very little interest or concern, on the part of human beings to let the state of their expression be cleaned up so that the pneumaplasm might be cleaned up and something else therefore reflected. Everybody has tended to have their eyes fastened upon the physical world and saw it apparently getting out of control in various ways, and trying to therefore manipulate in whatever manner was seemingly possible to keep things from altogether flying apart. Everybody has been busy doing this; they have had no time to consider anything else. This is the cry, isn't it, that goes out from people when it is suggested that it might be helpful to take into account the reality of spiritual things. “Oh well, that may be all right but I just don't have time. I'm so busy with all my affairs. I'm so busy mucking up the pneumaplasm that I do not have time to let it clarify and increase!” Letting it clarify and increase is what produces the clarified and rich state in the earthly sense. It might be interesting to read this passage from what is called the Sermon on the Mount:

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”—little faith in the right direction. “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

The Master was evidently speaking to people with very little spiritual perception, very little understanding. He spoke very simply. He was speaking to children. There is more depth to His words that we can see, but what was heard by those who were present with Him was heard at a very childish level. Unfortunately it has tended to remain that way subsequently, when His words have been read and considered by people down through succeeding generations. He was speaking of physical things. This would include money, wouldn't it, because raiment costs money, and food costs money.

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness”—be concerned about letting the pneumaplasmic substance be cleared and increasingly generated so that there may be the right expression of life, and all these physical things will take care of themselves. As I believe you heard in a tape this morning, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” The treasure needs to be in heaven, in this seemingly impractical realm from the earthly standpoint. And note is made here “(For after all these things”—of an earthly nature—"do the Gentiles seek)”. Who are the Gentiles? The Gentiles are those who are subject to earthly heredity. I suppose if you use the duality here, the Jews and the Gentiles, the Jews would be those who are subject to heavenly heredity. If we see that, then it is not a matter of accepting Judaism to be­come a Jew. There are those Jews who call themselves Jews but are not, but are “the synagogue of Satan,” as it was put. So if the word “Jew” is used in the spiritual sense, it would indicate those who are revealing the reality of heavenly heredity. The Gentiles are those who are revealing the unreality of earthly heredity. So the concern obviously here is to emerge out of that state of earthly heredity, to not do as the Gentiles do, but to "seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness"; that is, be concerned with the heaven, with the realm of pneumaplasm, with the clarification of the distortions in pneumaplasm and the generation of finer substance, that there may be true cause present in one's living. And when there is, the pneumaplasm becomes the medium of control in the earth, the means by which the dominion of God is reestablished, the means by which the government of God may operate on earth.

Obviously this does not require some special sort of political system invented by human beings. The control emerges in one sense invisibly. In its emergence most peo­ple do not see what is happening. We may be very thankful that this is so, because the moment people begin to see what is happening they object. As long as they don't know what is going on they'll go along with it. But there must be those who know what is going on, if there is to be something going on, and so we have a responsibility in this regard, with many others, to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. We have a certain understanding of what that means. If our understanding is accurate it is because we have been doing it, not because we have merely been theorizing about it. And with that expression of doing there is the initial cause on earth, functioning from the standpoint of the spirit through pneumaplasm. Whatever needs to be done on earth, whatever moun­tains need to be moved, it can all be achieved on this basis and it requires no sweat of the face. It is the human nature approach, on the basis of earthly heredity, that involves a great deal of blood, sweat and tears.

And so we are approaching what we do, as angels, on the basis of the facilities that were originally created for this purpose. And the initial facility is the substance of heaven. As our attitudes are clear, as our consciousness reflects the angelic consciousness and we move naturally in the true tone of life, then what we do will be done by reason of our angelic spirit through pneumaplasm, and this will reflect itself in our environment, in the physical sense, the earthly sense. And one of the areas of reflec­tion relates to money. So we approach money from above rather than from below. It isn't the money that is so important; it's the fact that there is some substance at the earthly level reflecting what is occurring spiritually speaking at the heavenly level. Now, in human consciousness, as I say, money is a very delicate subject, just as sex is too, or death for that matter. Well we need to look at these things, but from the angelic standpoint, not from the standpoint of human beings who are subject to money. We will find that there is ample money when our expression is spiritual expression by reason of what is occurring at the pneumaplasmic level. Then everything will move as it should. This requires participation in a proper configuration of all those con­cerned in the creative cycles. These things are not just individual matters. Now, money has tended to be a very individual thing and a person will say, “Well it's my money!” In theory we know that this is not so. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” A very nice sentiment, but insofar as money is concerned there tends to be very often a little hangup.

One of the major hangups in days gone by was the matter of a tithe. Of course nowadays this is hardly considered at all, but “Ten percent is the Lord's; the rest is mine!” The instruction was given to bring all the tithes into the storehouse—ten percent at the moment (we can look at it this way), ten percent of the world's wealth that we are responsible for bringing into the storehouse. That would be quite a bit, wouldn't it? That would be enough insofar as that aspect of substance is concerned for achieving what needs to be achieved. It isn't a matter of saying, “Well I've got to give ten percent out of my income.” It's a matter of seeing with the overall view which is natural to those who are a part of the facility by which the tithe is brought into the storehouse. We do not have anything that is our own. But we also recognize that the world has a lot that does not belong to it, obviously so; but from our present standpoint a tithe of that is what is required to complete the task which we are charged with. And one way or another we bring the tithes into the storehouse. This does not mean to say that we go out into the world grabbing hold of money here and there and saying, “Well this belongs to the Lord, and that belongs to the Lord.” There is no need to when we see how it works with respect to pneumaplasm. When we are clear in the heavenly sense, amongst other things, our attitudes and viewpoints will be right with respect to money, they will be right with re­spect to sex; they will be right with respect to every area of function if as individuals we have brought ourselves as part of the tithe into the storehouse. We can bring along ten percent of the population too, but ten percent apparently is not necessary to get the job done—144,000 would do.

But here we begin to have an overview from the standpoint of the angel, who is quite capable of handling money and everything else when allowed to do so. There are all sorts of peculiar ideas that people have, and they are not clear right here on Sunrise Ranch yet. Here, and in various other places, groups in the field—they function in dif­ferent ways, different groups—but here it works so that the various Unit members re­ceive a certain amount of cash to take care of their own personal needs. As I say, this is the way it works in some other groups as well. So the thought appears that “What cash I receive is mine.” The food, the living quarters, the swimming pool, all the other things that are available on Sunrise Ranch, are ours. Well, that's nice. “We can share all this amongst ourselves. But the money is mine; it's mine to do with as I see fit.” That is really a holdout, isn't it?—because there isn't any division, there isn't any distinction in actual fact. We have responsibility as angels for handling everything, everything. Now, sometimes this is forgotten too with respect to our facilities and with respect to tools, for instance. They may be left all over the place—no sense of responsibility on the part of someone. Of course it may be done inadvertently but somewhere along the way the in­dividual should remember.

So there are all sorts of divisions in people's consciousness with respect to money because there is still the idea that “a certain amount of money is mine.” The only amount of money that is one's own is the amount that may be rightly used under one's own direct control, because we all have areas where we utilize money and other things under our own personal control, in a direct sense. Obviously, in a rather large operation as it has become here on Sunrise Ranch, each individual cannot directly be responsible for the utilization of money in the overall sense. It has to be somehow brought to focus so that it can be handled efficaciously. But in our living, constantly, we are utilizing things in a direct personal way. We utilize a spoon and fork to eat, just that particular one at the time—a particular plate, particular things we utilize all the time. Now, when we eat a meal we don't look at the plate and say, “Well this isn't my plate. Where's my plate?” We take the plate that is there and use it; it's a good plate. We don't need a special plate. Well, if taken to a larger field, a person may say, “Well I must have my car, my special car.” Well we use cars certainly, and it may be that it is con­venient and right that a person should have a particular car. It works better that way because of the hardness of human hearts. In other words if there is a general car and everybody is driving it, nobody takes any care of it. This is an evidence of failure, evidence of continuing earthly heredity in expression, isn't it, because whatever it is that one does directly, it could be said, I suppose, well that is one's own for the moment. This glass of water is mine! [Martin held up a glass of water.] Now if somebody happened to be coughing down there I might hand it over, but it is particularly mine, isn't it? I'm very rich in this moment; I have a glass of water. None of you have a glass of water. We get so that these things are completely flexible. Uranda was talking about something of this nature in the tape before. So we don't really need to pin things down. It may be wise to do it a little bit still because of the hardness of human hearts. Things get spoiled so easily that we have to maintain some sort of protection around things, very often because of the lack of a sense of sacredness in human hearts. Well we see money as being sacred, sacred to us because it is for the use of the Lord, and as an­gels we have responsibility for using it rightly in His name, in whatever way.

So we may begin to have a freer outlook with respect to money. We may not be so concerned about it, because we know very well that if we behave the way we should as angels there is no problem. If there is the generation of pneumaplasm there is the re­flection of money as needful, money and other things. Whatever is needful, all these things shall be added unto you, everything that is required. The Master was speaking to people who—many of whom were very poor in the earthly sense, no doubt—did not know where their next meal was coming from or where to get any more clothes, or any of these things, but He is speaking to everyone else as well. But He put it that way be­cause of the level of consciousness of those who were listening to His words at the time. We need to be primarily concerned with this matter of a clear attitude in all these fields, so that we may begin to make right use of things and thereby generate more spiritual substance. And amongst other things, the spiritual substance is the substance of consciousness, so it gives us a wider vision, a greater understanding. It is through our living that this keeps generating and increasing and expanding. We begin to be aware that as we are faithful and true as angels of the Lord on earth that there is noth­ing lacking insofar as our living is concerned, because our living is for Him on earth. And He is not niggardly. We squeeze ourselves sometimes into little corners in earthly heredity; but as angels we know the truth, we express the truth, and we are free.

Now I have just touched upon the matter of money, this delicate subject, from the angelic standpoint, hoping, trusting, that I could do so, because it is from an entirely different viewpoint to the usual consideration of money and so we could approach it as a totally new subject. We don't know anything about it, just as sex is a totally new subject. You don't know anything about it! No matter how experienced a person may be in the financial world or in the sex world, in earthly heredity it is almost a blank; that is, the experience of the heavenly state is just about a blank. We need to know how to handle money because this is important in the human world, and we are handling people who are in the human world. We need to be wise as serpents—a bit wiser than most—and harm­less as doves. We do whatever it is that is required with understanding, intelligent understanding and effectiveness, because all our expression springs from spirit through pneumaplasm into the world.

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