Development of the Divine Instrument on Earth

Development  of  the  Divine  Instrument  on  Earth

from  Divine Manhood and Womanhood

Martin Cecil   March 9, 1958

How patient the Lord is! The Lord's patience with the children of men is indeed a marvelous thing. We have seen something of the patience of the Lord as He has builded within the scope of recorded history those structures through which it was His intention to achieve the divine purposes. He builds patiently, carefully, knowing the design, understanding the purpose. And how consistently human beings have wrecked that which the Lord began to build. Some of the destructiveness did not entirely eliminate the opportunity that was offered and it was possible to repair the damage and continue in the cycle, but thus far there has always come a time when the destruction was so complete that the Lord was under the necessity of saying, "That is that! It will not work out that way anymore." And then He proceeded to make possible an outworking in another way. We see this in the large patterns of opportunity that He has offered to the children of men which we find recorded in the Old and the New Testaments. But consider the millions and billions of individual human beings who have been builded on earth.

We have taken note of the marvelous mechanism of the physical body of man, the intricacy of its operation, the perfect provision that has been made for the maintenance and balance as it allows the expression of life to manifest in form on earth; and the building of a human mind to the point where it is capable of logical thought, of following out in a pattern of reason, of acquiring essential knowledge for the discharge of responsibility in life. And the heart, the emotional realm of man, though it has been such a limited and distorted thing in fallen man, yet what a marvelous capacity! How flat and meaningless life would be if there were not that capacity to feel, to appreciate, to enjoy, to experience satisfaction. Every human being who has been born into the world has had these capacities in varying degrees, carefully developed and builded during the course of that individual lifetime. And though the Lord has made these miracles possible, He has had to watch human beings throwing away their opportunities, failing utterly to comprehend or to do anything to fulfil the true purpose for which He created them. 

Generation after generation, the world around, human beings have been born. Their bodies and minds and hearts have been builded: they have lived out a little life span—to what end? From the standpoint of the Lord, what was achieved? In virtually every case, practically nothing—the gift of life wasted; all the Lord's care and provision for the development of that marvelous mechanism by which He might express Himself on earth has gone for nothing. What infinite patience! What faith He has had in the children of men, that there would be those sometime, sooner or later, in sufficient number, who would let this tremendous provision which the Lord has made in relationship to each one come to fruition, be used for the purpose for which it was created. And yet He has had to watch generation after generation simply passing away with nothing to show for it. Patience. Faith. How wonderful is the Lord's patience and His faith! 

There are those, or have been over the ages, who have in some measure—some more, some less—allowed this mechanism to come to the point of being really useful to the Lord. We have the record of many, particularly in the Old Testament, who did permit the marvelous provision of the Lord in relationship to themselves to have some meaning. A few allowed it to have great meaning. Then our Master came into the world, carefully building an instrument for His use on earth—a physical body with the capacities of mind and heart, growing and maturing, being trained, brought into position to allow that wonderful expression of divine being to be offered to the children of men. The instrument in His case was perfect for the needs of that time, capable of functioning in the fulness of the wisdom of the LORD of Lords, capable of doing the work, capable of being used under absolute control. What a marvelous thing—something that in the same degree had been virtually unknown in the world since man fell. This instrument was developed and brought to this point of capability and capacity, a marvelous thing, so that the ministry of our Lord and King might begin to appear on earth. And human beings undertook to destroy it out of hand, at least they destroyed it insofar as they themselves were concerned. Obliterated it—something that the Lord had so carefully builded! 

It had only taken Him thirty years. And after three more years it was gone, lost to the world. No wonder there was darkness on that fateful day when our Master hung upon the cross. And yet how patient He has been. How many millions and billions of human beings have lived on earth since that time, bodies and minds and hearts carefully builded, provided with every opportunity, brought to the point where they might be, if they would be, trained to be the divine instrument on earth. But how many have been willing to let it be so? Very, very few.

 

And in our own lifetime we can remember one man whose body and mind and heart were trained and developed to the point where they might be a true instrument for the expression of the Spirit of Truth on earth, and then, in a moment, it was gone. In his case, forty-seven years on earth, a very brief span, but even so, fourteen years longer than our Master was here in the world. That instrument through which the Spirit of Truth might express was builded with care, the facilities, the capacities, were developed with care, trained, brought to that pitch of perfection which allowed the expression of the Spirit of Truth on earth. And then, no more. 

The Lord has builded in relationship to each one of you, carefully, providing every means and opportunity for the development of your capacities, your abilities, so that you might become instruments in His hands for the fulfilment of those purposes for which He created you. How much has He been able to achieve in that regard up to this point? We know His patience; individually we have all experienced it. How perfect is the instrument at this point? How long do we have to allow Him to complete it into what it should and can easily be? 

It is usual in the world of men to consider the next generation. Human beings think to achieve so much so that their children can go on from there, but if the divine purposes are to find fulfilment on earth it must come in one generation. The question is, “Are those who are charged with that responsibility, all things else being equal, going to live long enough to let it be?” It is indicated that man, under the conditions of the world as it now is, should live threescore years and ten, or thereabouts. You know, in the divine state it took threescore years and ten, approximately, for divine man, divine men and women, to come to the point of being adequately mature to begin to undertake their life work. Just about at the time that the Lord might have developed an instrument to the required pitch, in this day and age, it is liable to become so decrepit that it is no more use. We cannot wait and let the job be done at one and the same time. 

The Lord seeks to build the essential instrument on earth. We have examples of what happens when the outworking is left to future generations. It is not a very victorious picture. Little distortions, little deviations, become greater and greater, and soon any resemblance to the original is virtually nonexistent. It seems to me that there is indication that those of us who participate in this opportunity had better go on through, for the next generation may not have the chance. We would that those who are of the next generation should share the fulfilment with us, but let us not imagine that we can leave it to them. It is our responsibility; it is our opportunity; and the Lord has builded carefully, in spite of failures along the way, and brought this present cycle to this time. 

Let us not try His patience any further, so that we may, by our own choice and action, let Him complete the instrument that is needed both with respect to each one as an individual and with respect to all together. He is capable of doing it; there has never been any question with regard to that. But are you, and others who share this opportunity, going to take advantage of it so that you may let the job be done in you? Our Master let it be done in Him, through His body and mind and heart when He was on earth, in thirty years. Most of you are older than that; some of you may be younger. Those who are younger do not need to wait. Those who are older have obviously been waiting too long. 

Yesterday evening I spoke of the confidence which the Lord has had in you, and I suggested to you that there is no valid reason why you should not share His confidence, so that you are confident in that which God has established in you. The Lord has confidence in you, otherwise you would not be here on earth. And if He has confidence in you it should be safe to acknowledge that He is right, no matter what you feel, no matter what anyone says, no matter what your experience may be. 

There are many wrong things in the world, probably still many wrong things in you. The Lord has no confidence in wrong things.  But there is that in you in which He has confidence and in which you may have confidence. Trust that and do not let supposed limitations cause you to distrust it. Because you happen to feel this way and that way, because on the basis of your experience you have had this failure and that failure, do not take the attitude that you cannot have confidence in that in you in which the Lord has confidence.

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Forms of Beauty

from

Forms  of  Beauty

Martin Cecil   September 5, 1982

The way of the creative cycle is already prepared on earth. A garden is rather an apt symbol, as it was used in the story of creation, for what is required of us in assuming responsibility for giving form to the creative cycle. The creative cycle already is. It should be brought forth in forms of beauty. Here we may acknowledge the aptness of the symbol of the garden, where the plants and the flowers are revelations of forms of beauty.

There are seasons in the garden. We do not anticipate, for the most part at least, that spring flowers will still be blooming in the summer; by then they have faded and passed away. In our responsibility for giving form to the creative cycles there are seasons; there are pulsations of creative movement. If forms of beauty are allowed to appear they have their seasons.

I think there may have been an assumption on the part of some that if the garden of God was allowed to appear, there it would be, forever just the same, a beautiful garden with flowers eternally blooming. No, forms change according to the times and the seasons. The plant grows, it buds, it flowers; there is the evidence of the beautiful form. But then in the natural course of events the flowers fade and pass away, only to be replaced by others according to the season.

So we may see that this movement of the cyclic appearance of forms of beauty, and of the passing thereof, is natural. It is to be anticipated; it is what should happen. We are here to clothe the creative cycles in forms of beauty. These forms initially may not be recognized as form. In other words the initial experience in this regard relates to a level which is in one sense as yet invisible. In another sense it is not invisible; we can think of thoughts, for instance, in this connection. If you are clothing the creative cycle in the form of thought, someone who is standing next to you may not be able to observe as yet what that form is; it needs to emerge further before it can be shared. To share it further, I suppose we might consider the matter of speech. There may be communication so that the form of thought can be shared. It hasn’t as yet taken physical form in what I suppose would be called the manifest sense. Yet it is a process, an unfolding cycle, all aspects of which are necessary to what emerges in the full-blown flower.

Even with a garden, I’m sure we are aware that there is something very much back of the plants which we may observe. They are present in their particular forms in a very specific way. This is because there is something very specific back of them. The design of the plant was already present in the seed, for instance, and so it is a matter of the design unfolding.

And it unfolds initially in an invisible realm, which becomes visible to the individual through whom the unfoldment is taking place. The matter of thought and feeling is experienced within oneself, and when the polarity relates to the unfoldment of the creative cycle because we are centered in spirit insofar as our thinking and feeling is concerned, then something begins to put in an appearance in thought and emotion. This is very different from the state where emotional compulsions continually are arising out of the reaction to environmental factors. Here is something which is coming from an invisible realm and is taking form in successive levels of experience.

First of all there is, rightly, a spiritual sensing of what it is that is emerging. At that point it doesn't have any form that we could put our fingers on, but if there is space for spirit it continues to emerge and begins to activate the processes of thinking and the processes of feeling. This is an individual matter, because it is still present in the individual.

It only begins to emerge into collective expression as it is shared with others. On this basis I have shared many things with you. We may allow this sharing amongst ourselves to be through the medium of words. The words of course are simply the further form appearing at a new level to clothe the creative cycle which has already emerged in the individual sense in thought and feeling. But this creative cycle is not limited to one individual, certainly; it is moving through many. We ourselves have been concerned collectively with this movement, but it does put in an appearance first individually speaking. We may share an increased experience of the bringing forth of what is necessary to clothe this creative in various vibratory levels of form: we have touched upon thought and feeling, and now words. Where we begin to share it in the form of words amongst ourselves it becomes a collective thing then. If all have been allowing this creative cycle to be clothed correctly within themselves, when it comes out in words the words are found to be harmonious. We agree on the basis of the words that are spoken. The way the words are put together by one person is a particular aspect of form, by another person another aspect of form, but there is a mutual awareness that it is all arising from the same source.

In this sense we could say that the garden is beginning to take form. It is a living thing, because it comes forth on the basis of our own living. The thoughts and the feelings, the words, are alive because we are alive. And then because of this mutual experience other aspects of form may appear. We share in the doing of many things: action, which clothes the creative cycle in much more apparent material form, physical form.

Here is the creative process, but it requires people to let it occur. This is the only part of the creation here on earth that is so capable. Other aspects of the creation here on earth have other areas of responsibility, we might say, for revealing in form differentiated aspects of this creative cycle at the particular level where they are capable. And so there may be what could be described as a depthful whole; it has many dimensions, a glorious thing.

We are, I’m sure, capable of comprehending through our own experience up to this point the validity of this process. We have participated in it in varying degrees, clothing the creative cycle in fitting forms of beauty, forms that are brought forth, forms which mature and forms which rightly fade and pass away. There is something else emerging next and next and next, and this emergence can take place as there is space for it to do so. In order to provide that space something else must pass away. Human beings when they consider these things think of that passing away as death. But what is it that is really taking place?

Whether we are considering it in the symbol of the garden or whether we are considering it in the symbol of our own field of creative responsibilities, the principles are the same. Substance is required in order for anything to take form. Initially the substance that is needful in our field of responsibility is emotional substance and mental substance in order to accommodate spiritual substance, in order to allow the creative cycle to emerge into the earth where we presently dwell. And so we have the responsibility of providing the essential substance, that this may occur.

This substance is of different vibrational qualities. We could, I suppose, describe it as fine substance all the way through to coarse substance. From the standpoint of the truth of the matter, fine substance is no better than coarse substance, and coarse substance is no better than fine substance. It’s all needed in the creative process; it’s all perfect; it’s all what is required. When I use the word coarse substance I am probably not referring to what is usually thought of from this standpoint. My reference is to substance that is of a different vibratory nature from what I have referred to as fine substance.

The fine substance is what provides the initial connection between what is unmanifest and what is taking form. You can’t start with the coarse substance, because the coarse substance remains completely unmoved by the creative cycle if it is not connected to the creative cycle by all the levels of substance in between up to the fine substance, which is the initial connection.

So life emerges through this substance which we provide. We are aware of what it is that makes the generation of this substance possible: the quality of our own living. As that substance begins to be generated and puts in an appearance, there is the immediate possibility for something to take form as the creative cycle emerges. The creative cycle of life is accommodated by this substance. And as the emergence continues it takes coarser levels of substance to clothe the emerging creative cycle in the complete range of beauty, of substance, which allows the beautiful form to be apparent.

Now we have something which has emerged, a living form of beauty, like unto a flower in the garden, and we rejoice. We rejoice in the beauty of it, in the aroma of it, and it is good. That is the extent of our comment, utilizing this word, because what happens next is that this beauty begins to fade. And when it begins to fade human judgment usually says that’s bad. The beauty was fine but it should persist, it shouldn’t fade away; but it does in the natural cycles of things. And that is the evil fruit but we don’t need to eat of it. We let it be what it is. There has been a creative cycle, which until the full-blown flower appeared was incomplete and therefore could be said to be evil. But here is the flower; it’s good. Now it leads into a new cycle and the first fades away.

What happens when this aspect of the matter begins to occur? From the standpoint of external observation we see less and less life in the form. The substance which has been composing the form is no longer filled full of life. Here is what we would naturally call the evidence of a descending aspect of the creative cycle. The substance which had heretofore accommodated life in its fulness now no longer does so in that form. But the substance is still substance and it is being made available thereafter in a different form, so nothing was lost of that substance. All that seems to have been lost is the form of beauty that was apparent before, when the substance was filled with life at the level of that form.

Being aware of the nature of the continuing creative cycle, this should disturb no one, because whatever beauty appeared then will be naturally replaced, and is already being replaced, by forms of beauty of a different nature. And we are so delighted with the forms of beauty that are appearing, redolent with life, that the fading away becomes a very unnoticed thing. And such substance as is no longer accommodating life in that particular form is available to accommodate life in some other form, so that’s perfect.

But during the time when this creative process was unfolding, the form of beauty was being born and growing to reach the point of its fulfilment, life was present, and substance was present filled with this life, and a certain portion of that substance was in the process of being lifted up, obviously so. There is life filling the substance in that form, the power of life.

This process by which the substance is lifted into a material form is not the only thing that is going on. In any living form there is always substance coming in and substance going out, even during the developmental period. We’re quite aware of this in our own physical experience. And so there is this aspect of the cycle, ascending and descending, but the ascension is more than merely filling out the form of the particular aspect of the creative cycle which has appeared. There is that vibrational quality of substance present which may be said to be transmuted or to blend with the life which is present in the substance. There is a unification process going on, so that the ascension of substance doesn’t stop merely at the level of what appears in the beautiful form but continues on. So there is, at the conclusion of a particular form of living beauty which is due to pass away, the substance which will descend and some which will still ascend; but the ascension has been going on all through the life of that form of beauty, unifying with the life itself.

Because of the disturbance on earth by reason of man’s failure, these things are not working exactly as they would if man were in place, but the basic essentials are present and will become activated again very easily in greater fulness as man reappears to play his part in providing the essential substance to be unified with the creative cycle. The place of man is at this point of union between the two.

I have been describing this relative to our creative activities, spiritual expression, which is the basis for all the forms which appear: first of all the form of our thoughts and feelings, then the form of our words, the form of our actions, and the consequent gathering together of material substance in whatever way to complete the process of the creative cycle taking form. But we may see that this is something that happens relative to our own souls, because here is substance lifted up into a form. For a while it is full of life; form reveals the fact that the substance is full of life. And while this is so, there is still the ascending and descending of substance in the form, but there is that which is unifying with life to the extent that the finer levels of substance, and therefore the expression of that person, is spiritual expression.

So the substance of the form may be filled with spiritual expression but, as with everything else, there is the proper cycle in this present state where something begins to fade. What is happening? Well the incorporation of ascending substance has moved in the unifying cycle toward oneness with life, still moving, and that substance is separating from what is remaining in the physical form, in the coarsest level, and there is a natural fading. All right! There is nothing wrong with it. The substance is simply moving to another level where it may be incorporated in the cycles of life. But the one who is present, incarnate in that form, may be said to be richer because of what has ascended and what has been received into oneness.

Here is a description in words of what occurs, of which we rightly need to be aware so that we may act intelligently in this field, no longer subject to the ridiculous concepts and the unbalanced emotions that are related to what human beings think of as death. It is the natural creative cycle and while  it isn’t what it ultimately rightly becomes as we play our fitting parts in clothing the creative cycle, it is what it is now and we can live with it. We are not in the business of dying with it but of living with it.

Life is supreme, and what happens to substance and the forms in which it is incorporated at the present time is, in a sense, a minor matter. Life is supreme. Spirit is supreme. The Lord is supreme. And our experience of union with spirit and with life and with the Lord allows us to handle whatever arises in our own personal and collective experience wisely and well.

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The Nature of the Manifestation of the God Beings

The Nature of the Manifestation of the God Beings

Uranda   February 22, 1948

Was there a creation of a form for God Beings? That cannot be answered Yes or No. The nature of the manifestation of the God Beings of the Inner Planes is conditioned by the vibratory Currents of the Inner Planes, so that the God Beings, say of the Inner Planes of this world, would not have the identical manifestation that the God Beings that the other worlds would have in relationship to those worlds. However, it is not something that prevents the God Beings of this world from going somewhere else without shedding a body and taking on some other body. 

The Creation of the Planets that became the Sun had already been a process in which they had participated. Of course, the Sun was not just one Planet in its original manifestation. It was originally a Planet in relationship to some distant Sun around which other satellites were created. Then this Central Sun became a Planet, and others went out around it. It was what we would call a high focalization of Planet Being that formed the Center of the Creative process, and then, as it all coordinated, the whole thing in this whole unification became the Sun in its final outworking, around which the Solar System began to take form, because no Sun is the result of a Spiritualization of a single Planet.  When I speak of this Planet becoming a Sun, it will actually become part of that Sun which is, the Sun of our Solar System.  It will not be a Sun in the same sense as that; it will be this higher focalization until these other worlds are created around this Sun, and the whole thing within the scope of this Solar System ultimately becomes a Sun, which would be comparable to Betelgeuse.  The basic starting point of a Solar System is different from the start of our world, for instance. 

The God Being works through certain cycles harmonized to the Cosmos, and in harmony with the Principles and Currents involved and, broadly speaking, we may say that, under proper conditions, or having properly relinquished focalizations to other God Beings, and having fulfilled all responsibilities, etc., God Beings can move anywhere in the Solar System without undergoing any special change. But if, for instance, the God Being were going to make a journey to some point beyond the Solar System, to the Central SUN of Suns, there would be a stop, we might call it, at the point of the Sun—a period of refocalization, or preparation, to undergo certain changes which would allow the leaving of this Solar System, and movement toward the Center of this universe on the Current of relationship between the Sun and the Center of the universe. In other words, out here, the function is on the Current in relationship to the Planets involved in the Sun, and the God Being could work it out individually, in relationship to any Planet in the Solar System; but, going beyond that, there would be the clearing through the Sun, the re-polarization of the vibratory Currents in the Body of the God Being, that would be harmonized to the Current in the Sun of the Center of the universe and, at that point, there would be another re-polarization from the Center of the universe on to the next Current, etc., going through those changes in vibratory rates and polarities until the God Being would be prepared to approach the SUN of Suns, because they could not, in that particular state, move to the Central SUN of Suns. So, there are changes, but it would not be comparable to incarnation, as we think of it out here, although it is the core there from the Inner Plane standpoint.

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