The Building Of The Ark

The  Building  of  the  Ark

Martin Exeter   June 9, 1985

 

There are terrible things, in the human view, afoot in the world: self-produced diseases of all kinds, in the world and in human experience, and the ultimate threat of thermonuclear war. If this threat could be disposed of we would still have the prospect of suffocating, of polluting ourselves to death in one way or another. It really makes little difference as to how we do it. It seems that, humanly speaking, everyone is intent upon doing it. This all springs out of the motivation of fear and the manipulation which puts in an appearance consequently. We see horrendous things and we see how certain they are. The world is due for extinction. This is a terrifying prospect for fearful human beings. 

We have spoken for many years now about the restoration of the human race but also about the dissolution of the human world. I wonder what we thought that entailed—just a nice easy movement for everyone out of this sick state into radiant health? What was it we imagined would occur? Perhaps it is true that, should human beings have repented back along the way somewhere, things might have worked out in a more or less easy way, but it's far too late for that. We come to a place where it is necessary to face facts. This world as we know it is due for extinction. It is happening, presumably, because it rightly should happen. 

Of course this prospect of extinction is occurring to many people and this fans the state of fear considerably. And there is a desperate endeavor by people to try to manipulate themselves out of this inevitable doom. One can be totally preoccupied with such endeavors, as many people seem to be. But it is all futility, because what has been sown has to be reaped, and in the reaping there is the dissolution of what shouldn't be there in the first place. Because this is all that human beings have known is this worldly state, it seems as though the extinction of that is the extinction of everything. That is the view of human consciousness the way it is now constituted. Doomsday has been anticipated religiously for a long time. Obviously it hasn't happened so far but it's still, presumably, anticipated; rightly so, perhaps with a wrong understanding of what this means. 

There is a passage which I think might be usefully considered: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:).” The point here is: What would the abomination of desolation be? We could identify it with fear, fear which does in fact stand in what should be the holy place, the place of motivation in human experience. "When ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place"—that's one way of translating this particular passage—and I think we see it. We see it certainly relative to the state of human beings everywhere but we also see it in our own experience: fear has stood in the place of motivation. 

The abomination of desolation has been in the holy place for a long time, but virtually no one has seen it. When it is seen then something begins to happen. We see it, however clearly at the moment. We are aware of fear having been the primary motivation in our own living and in the living of human beings everywhere. For many it has been covered up nicely with cultural attitudes. People behave in a civilized way at times, they claim, as though they were not being motivated by fear, because there is this veneer of civilization over the top of things. And people nod to each other and smile and say, "How do you do?" and "The weather's nice, isn't it?" and so on; and everything goes along as it always has gone along. But now we would acknowledge the fact that fear has been standing in the holy place in our own experience. To the extent that we have seen this we have presumably recognized the necessity for repentance, because the abomination of desolation, fear which produces desolation, certainly does not belong in the holy place, the place of motivation in our own experience. 

There is another translation to this particular verse which we may recognize also: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet," then the instruction is: Stand in the holy place; let fear be cast out. We noted that perfect love casts out fear. It might be well to consider the fact of fear, fear being the primary motivation standing in the holy place throughout the body of mankind. There is obviously the necessity for repentance and for love to cast it out. Fear is rampant. If we have any sensitivity at all we know that. It is something that we are aware of—fear. 

We are aware of many things. When you look at TV, look at the news for instance or some programs, you will see many things going on in the world with your eyes, some of them pretty coarse and in the human sense terrible; bloodthirsty things going on in the world. We can see these things with our eyes. Because we see those things with our eyes, coming to us over the tube, doesn't mean that we are involved in those things. We can, if we wish, turn off the TV or we can turn to another station, look at something else. There are all kinds of broadcasts going on which come in over the radio and over TV, and we can switch from one to another or we can turn the set off. 

We have an inbuilt set by which we are enabled to perceive what is going on vibrationally. We've called that the heart. The heart is an organ of perception. We perceive fear. There is a vast difference between perceiving fear, being aware of fear, being aware of the fact that there is fear and, on the other hand, being fearful. 

True being is not fearful. Why claim fear as the nature, the character, of one's being? We might say, "I am fearful." We know that that statement is fundamentally a lie. I am love. I am truth. I am life. I am. Letting this be identified with fear increases fear. There are a lot of people on earth being fearful. Because of this, through our organ of perception, the heart, we are aware of the fact of fear. We can change stations. We can be aware of other things as well. We are not designed to be blind, deaf, dumb. We have this awareness, but we need not claim to be the things of which we are aware: "I am fearful," for instance. Why accept a lie as though it were the truth? It's quite all right to be aware of fear. It's quite all right to be aware of whatever is present, but we do not need to identify ourselves with it; we know that. 

Whatever we are capable of perceiving we are capable of handling, of doing whatever it is that's necessary. What is necessary is not to become subject to it, not to claim it as our own identity. We may, as human beings, have claimed fear as our own identity rather easily: Everybody is fearful; I'm fearful. There are other things we are a little more cautious about claiming as our identity, out front at least; we just do it inside. "I'm greedy"; oh no, not me! But the fact is what is present actually, what we characterize ourselves with. All these things are claimed as characteristics of the individual himself. We are aware of all this but still do it. 

Let me read something else here, a little further on in the same chapter: "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." We have an awareness of what the coming of the Son of man is. We participate in the process of the coming of the Son of man.

Here is the state that is current, is it not?—eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered into the ark. There is a point here. It was at that point that the flood came, that the change actually took place. It is also said that no man knoweth the day or the hour, and in some respects it might be said that it seems to have taken a long time coming, but not really; as was indicated, there is an unwillingness that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Well space was given for that, in recent times about two thousand years for it, but nobody to speak of came to repentance. Everything goes on the way it has always gone on, and the results of the goings on become worse and worse and worse, until finally the world as it has been known is dissolved. And, if that is all one knows, one is dissolved with it! It has been long enough surely. We ourselves have had how long since we became acquainted with the truth, the way things work, the way things are? Yet we are inclined to dilly-dally along the way and still continue in many ways to do whatever it is we want to do. This is the human state.

We have a circumstance which comes to us, is brought to us. It is the fact of the moment, whatever it is. Here it is. What are we going to do about it? How are we going to handle this situation? There is nothing that comes to us which is capable of triumphing over us. For this cause I am here: to receive what comes to me, to handle it the way it should be handled, to handle it in the power of the spirit of truth. It doesn't matter what it is that comes. It is this that allows the building of the ark, as it was described.

From our standpoint, we could say it is a vibrational ark. It is an ark of vibrational substance, which becomes the substance in which we live. There rightly comes a day when we are totally in the ark, the doors are shut—that is absoluteness—and it is on the basis of this that what corresponds to the flood comes.

Mankind has been given the opportunity to repent for twenty thousand years, more particularly in the last two thousand years, but certainly has not done it. So that's that. This is not to say that the opportunity for repentance is not still here. There are people who repent at the eleventh hour, I believe. They just get under the wire, so to speak.

Our concern is to provide this ark of substance because it is our substance. We generate within it and we let it be complete, a very similar situation to what it was at the time of the original flood—not by water anymore, although there are a few floods around, but, it is said, by fire. There are those who say, "Well that's thermonuclear war for sure." Maybe. Maybe. Are we capable of maintaining equanimity in the face of that? We're not going to judge it but let it be whatever it is.

The human world, the world produced by human beings on the basis of fear, is on the way out. Are you capable of saying how it should go out? Are you going to be the arbiter of that? "Well it needs to go out in a nice way so that too many people don't get hurt." There are some imponderables here, that is the fact, because Lucifer-in-the-dark is totally incapable of comprehending what the state is in the light. The darkness comprehends not the light. And it is still a matter of Lucifer-in-the-dark, no matter what may have been unfolding in our own experience, the changes that have come. They have not been very massive. I very much doubt if we are entirely Lucifer-in-the-light. Let fear be cast out, so that we can be aware of fear but without being fearful. We would be pretty dumb if we weren't aware of fear.

No more wants of any kind, that the substance of the ark may be complete and that what rightly happens may rightly happen without any fear. Evidently the door of the ark is still open so that the invitation is extended to everyone. I am thankful that there are those who have participated in the generation of this substance by which the ark is built, so that it becomes factual, a reality, a reality that is far more real, if one could put it that way, than the unreality, which isn't real at all but which human beings have thought was real.

So we may abide in the substance generated, letting the light shine, spiritual expression in living, that all things may take place exactly the way they should take place, without interference, without benefit from our manipulation or the manipulation of anyone else. Trust! As we are trustworthy, we trust, and all things work together to perfection in the fulfilment of the required purposes, which have nothing to do with human expectations.

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Our Ministry

Our  Ministry

Uranda  May 20, 1954

Our ministry, our service, attunements, can be of consequence

only to the degree that there is the actuality of spiritual power

reaching through us into the world.

Without that it turns into so many words and so many ideas

which have no more meaning than a host of other words and ideas

to be found in the world.

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The Essential Core of Unified Radiation

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  The  Essential  Core  of  Unified  Radiation

Martin Exeter   November 22, 1981

"Victory is simply the consistent expression of the creative spirit of the living God in all aspects of one's living."

There is at the moment a gap between the individual victory, the precedent for which has been set, and the restoration of mankind to the true state. The restoration of mankind to the true state is a collective matter. The individual precedent has been set, the restoration needs to take place; therefore the gap between the individual precedent and the restoration must be filled. Mankind as a whole may be restored collectively only when the collective precedent is set. The government by which the restoration is made possible is the responsibility of those who are included in the precedent-setting collective pattern of victory.

We have spoken of this as being the priesthood. The priesthood certainly doesn't include everyone on earth. It doesn't include very many. I think the way by which these things can find fulfilment is relatively simple. At no time has the Lord expected the impossible. He knows very well that it would be impossible to anticipate that each individual on the face of the earth would prove the victory for him- or herself. That would never happen, so he doesn't expect it. But He does expect it from those who are in position to compose the collective body by which the precedent of victory may be set. And that is us, and others of course as well: the ones who know, the ones who understand, the ones who have had the opportunity to gain a large perspective.

You are position to set a precedent. What is to happen beyond that in the restoration of mankind is achieved by reason of the creative spirit of God.

We are aware of the fact, if not as yet understanding it fully, that this is a vibrational ministry. There must be a vibrational core. It must be present. It must be consistent. It must constantly be there. Some may say, "Well the core isn't a place." I beg to differ. It is associated with places. It would be impossible to have a true core without such association. There is a core in this ministry. It has been sustained and is being sustained and will be sustained.

You may recall the story contained in the Book of Acts where there were a number of people gathered in an upper room in Jerusalem. They had been there for a while. Because of the circumstances and because of the fact that they had been there for  while, something began to emerge in their experience. It was called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. They had been instructed to tarry in Jerusalem, but they thought this was it. They were really becoming potent spiritual people now and should carry this to everybody round about, which they proceeded to do; and the core was dissipated. It was gone. And what they undertook to do in their roamings about brought unutterable suffering to immense numbers of people. It was not what was required at all. And yet human beings think they know what is required and try to make it work out that way. It won't work out that way. That will reestablish the failure. It will work out in the only way it can work out: on the basis of the establishment of the precedent of collective victory because those who make that possible have proven out individual victory. The individual victory wouldn't try to reestablish patterns of human activity that lead to failure. There is the necessity for those who compose the core of the precedent of victory to sustain that core.

So we share the responsibility of establishing the collective precedent of victory, so that the creative power of God can work under the hand of God as it is designed to work, and there is no human mind who knows what that is. It will prove itself out to the extent that we permit that collective precedent of victory to be established, and that only comes on the basis of the individual precedent of victory. We don't need to look at anyone else.

We have a mission as Emissaries which is absolute. We certainly are not interested in amending the mission so as to conform with the concepts of men. When it is in the hands of the Lord it works. When it is in the hands of human beings it never works. So there is a core, and this core we see in terms now of what is required to establish the precedent of collective victory, the government of God, which is not in any way the same as the government of man. It is done on the basis of the Law. As the collective precedent of victory is established, there is unified radiation. That unified radiation at the level where human beings are is in fact what gets the job done. In association with that radiation there will doubtless be some movement of human beings from here to there, at least of those who are part of the collective pattern of victory; and it will be very clear, moving out from the core, as to what it is that that movement should be.

We share the responsibility of providing this unified radiation, because individually our living reveals the victory. Then there is something to be unified, there is the individual radiation to be unified, but the individual radiation must be there first if there is anything to be unified. There can't be collective unified radiation if there are no individuals in whom that radiation is a fact. So the radiation is an individual matter and it is unified because there is a core. It is not as though individual radiation, if it is genuine, would scatter people abroad. it doesn't. it unifies them into the state of unified radiation. It doesn't mean that they are scattered all over creation trying to do things the way human beings have tried to do things over the ages and failed.

The Lord has worked miracles in spite of us. Let's give Him a break that He may have the chance to do something because of us! In spite of all our strange ideas, all the Emissary concepts and beliefs, much has been achieved, but how much more if we were on the ball, if that creative expression of spirit were consistently known in unified radiation. And the unified radiation doesn't spring forth without having a focus. We’re not going to do away with that, at least we’re not going to do it if we expect victory.

So the core must be in place, and presumably those who are most capable, most mature spiritually speaking, are the only ones who will consistently be in position to provide what is necessary at the core. Who else is going to do it?

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