The United States Of America
Martin Cecil July 4, 1976
edited excerpt
The focus of what is unfolding in the world is here on this continent, more particularly in the United States. There is representation present in the United States from all the nations of the world. The same is true in some measure with respect to Canada. The United States provided a setting for what is now occurring in the development of spiritual experience. Only in such a setting as there has been could the development have occurred that we have known in our own experience. Usually human beings get hung up in the settings, scarcely realizing that a setting becomes valuable and really beautiful only by reason of the jewel which may be present in that setting—something living. The setting is essential to allow the emergence of the jewel.
We could use another analogy. The mother is essential if there is to be a child. It is quite clear that the mother is not the child, but there would be no child if it wasn’t for the mother. So it is with respect to what has been unfolding on earth through the various settings that have been present in the world. These have been necessary to what is emerging of the true design of things. It might be said that the distorted and restricted setting which this world has become was not necessary in the first place, but the Lord is a realist. He doesn’t fool Himself into imagining that things aren’t the way they are, and so He uses whatever is actually present to advantage. God is not willing that any should perish, so, in order that some flesh might be saved, might remain on earth, He realistically accepts the circumstance as it is and works with that, because the circumstance has human beings in it.
We are here, together with some [nine] billion others, and we have a responsibility to awaken to a clear awareness that because of us, and others, it may be made evident that “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” The earth, the land, has been divided by human beings for gain. This has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of the earth or the reason for man’s existence, and yet human beings everywhere are all wrapped up in these things, completely ignoring the truth of the matter. But the Lord is very intelligent, very clever: He uses the unfortunate attitudes of human beings to advantage. There may be a recognition that in this regard the United States of America has been playing an important part, allowing for the birth of a new nation. This new nation, which is a spiritual nation, is not, certainly, limited to the United States, but there must always be a starting point.
God never tries to make something out of nothing. There must always be a starting point. The mother gives rise to the child; there would be no child without the mother. All the starting points that are present on earth are used to advantage by the Lord. No matter what human beings think they’re doing, no matter what their particular efforts may be, everything is used to advantage in the true creative process. There is the starting point of the world which human beings have created on earth, and there are all the myriad details of that world. One of those details happens to be the United States of America, and it has provided a setting in which there might be a spiritual birth, of which we ourselves have become aware because we find ourselves a part of it in our own experience; we know it’s there; we don’t have to imagine it. Canada shares something of the American condition; so this young country has certainly been influenced by its guardian. There is something shared, and out of these two particular countries there is the birth of a spiritual nation. It certainly isn’t limited to the North American continent but is an event which is transpiring the world around. However, all things require a focus, and
the focus is here present
Out of the mother, out of the particular setting which is here on the North American continent by reason of the people who are here, comes the birth of the child, the child which is not the United States of America or Canada or any other of the nations of the world. It is something uniquely of itself, just as in the human sense the child is not the mother but is something uniquely itself. We need to recognize the creative process at work here, as it is being used to advantage by the Lord; but in our awareness of how it works on that particular scale, we may see the same principles in operation at every other level of experience. The creative process requires a setting, or a mother, out of which something uniquely itself may be born.
Something is to be brought forth—this is the reason why human beings are here on earth—but not according to their own designs and purposes, not according to some vague inspiration which will produce something that is going to be pleasing to human beings, but according to the design of life itself. And the process of bringing forth always requires that there be a starting point, that there be something to start with. There must be some light present if we’re to see anything, and there cannot be light present unless there is the essential substance which will allow the reflection of it at the level that we need to see. Most of you have had some experience in the generation of this substance that is present, and the proof of its presence is the fact that you begin to see something at another level. You have the opportunity of viewing something, because of that light, at a level that most people cannot see because there is no light for them. There is no light for them because the substance which would allow it to be present has not been generated adequately. We have been participating over many years in the generation of the required substance so that we might be able to see at the level where we need to see. There begins to be something seen by reason of the light at the spiritual level.
We might correlate this process with what occurred in the development of the United States of America, because the founding fathers had a certain vision. Their vision was not quite as complete as it might have been but it was all that was possible at the time. They saw something because there was sufficient light at the level at which they saw the something, and that level related to spirit. The Declaration of Independence, and all that followed in the way of developing the theme, was still in the heaven. There was something that had to be proven out. Just to have a Declaration of Independence, or a Constitution, doesn’t of itself achieve what is needed. It is an essential starting point. So there must be some vision; and to have vision there must be light; and to have light there must be the substance which will reflect it, and the nature of that substance will determine what is reflected. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned, and what is to be born originates spiritually.
So, in the United States, in the development of this country, there was some vision at a spiritual level because there was some light at that level—there was the evidence of some vision. And so the country has taken form from that point of origination. Out of what has taken form it was possible for the conception of something more in the creative process; in other words, the country would then become the mother of a new, unique birth. And this which was being born would not be the mother: it would not be the United States of America, and it would not be any other nation on earth. Out of the nations of the world, but more particularly out of this nation of the United States, which is the focus of all nations, is born the new nation. We may see that the new spiritual natio, which is present with respect to all nations of the world, is not an end in itself. The new nation is a mother for something else. Here is the creative process, an eternal process.
There is some light reflected here this morning, so that we can begin to see what we are able to see now at a level of understanding that is not generally usual in the world of human beings. This substance essential to the reflection of light is generated because there are those who are willing to draw close to the Lord. The place where one is, is where one should be—exactly there, nowhere else—and it is in the acceptance of what is present in the place where one is that the creative cycle can begin to work.
Here is the something!
The starting point is the something that is present in the circumstance at the moment. Whatever it is now is the starting point, always, and unless there is a willingness to accept that circumstance and let it be the starting point, there is not, and never will be, a starting point for any human being on the face of the earth. Let’s be wise and accept the circumstance of the moment. When we do this in our attitude then we may become aware of the manner in which the creative process unfolds. But if we reject the starting point, nothing unfolds.
© emissaries of divine light
