Spiritual Sex Physical Sex

Spiritual  Sex:  New  Heaven

Physical  Sex:  New  Earth

Martin Exeter   April 23, 1980   Assembly

 

A new heaven and a new earth—this is the reality. Thus far I think it has been mostly a fancy. It takes a little while for a person to reach a point where he stops giving weight to the treasures of human nature—not just what is in the bank account, but all the cultural traditions, which most people consider to be life itself. We begin to know the truth to the extent that we have continued in the Word. 

A rather interesting picture is portrayed, for the edification of those who have eyes to see it, in the story of Job— at the very beginning of the book: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil… There were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.” 

In what is said here about Job there was no indication that he should not have been the greatest of the men of the east, or that he shouldn’t have had all this substance. In fact it is said of him that he was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil. And perhaps the words “eschewed evil” are the key in this respect. He was not subject to any supposed great value of all this substance. He was not controlled by it. He feared God, and he eschewed the creative process which is operative relative to external things.

That creative process as it operates in the substance of the earth does not deplete the earth. The human tenure here on the planet has depleted the earth considerably, but the true creative cycle does not do that—just the opposite. Here is a creative process—there is increase. And the evidence of this increase was the increase of substance as it related to Job. He was a perfect and an upright man because he feared God and eschewed evil. His values were where they belong, in the heaven and not in the earth. He eschewed evil. He did not have to destroy the forms of physical substance in order to prove that he feared God. 

If the true creative cycle is in operation there is no depletion, there is a constant increase. There is the generation consistently of the finer substance, which in turn permits the action of spirit to occur and consequently the creative process to continue. And the creative process, working as it should, increases substance at every level. Presently we think of the importance of increasing this fine substance, but there is a balance here, rightly, when everything is working the way it should. There does not have to be such a tremendous concentration upon increasing the fine substance, because it is already there. There is a balance all the way through. There is the essential substance at every level, and therefore the increase that comes as the creative cycle operates increases substance at every level, in balance. 

Now how this may actually happen in the earthly sense remains to be experienced, because that is the only way it can be known. We are under the necessity of letting all our available capacity and energy be brought to focus relative to the way things are. We have sufficient to handle all for which we are responsible in the present moment. Obviously, as long as human nature is hanging around, as long as satan is on the scene, there is a danger of reversion into subjection to the substance which rightly increases at every level, subjection to the substance in the earthly sense. This after all is what caused the fall in the first place. 

There was nothing wrong with the garden, nothing wrong with the beautiful state and all the wealth in the earthly sense that was present in that state, until human beings began to be subject to it, and began to govern their function on the basis of this substance because it seemingly added to their pleasure. Of course the very moment you become subject to the substance for your pleasure, your pleasure starts to go out the window and depletion sets in. Depletion is now seemingly reaching some sort of a crescendo in the world today. 

The true state is to be restored through the creative cycle of resurrection, and none of the childishness of human nature can achieve resurrection. There is nothing that can come out of human nature that can achieve anything. The world is filled with rebellious and destructive children. Here and there, there is someone who is childlike, and there is the immediate starting point, provided that there is an adequate state of spiritual maturity present on earth to offer what is needful to the childlike. If the childlike are left to their own devices they will probably become childish, rebellious and destructive, like everybody else. I think all too many have thought that the permanent condition was to be childlike; therefore to remain a child. But that is only the starting point. Resurrection is resurrection into spiritual maturity, which is an unknown state in human nature childishness. 

In this story of Job there was spiritual maturity evident—a perfect and upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. And it is said that “there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.” Here is an indication of the right use of sex. The vital importance of the right use of sex is actually being emphasized in this verse. Now, when the values are given to the earthly substance the physical experience of sex becomes supreme. It is weighted at that end of the scale. And of course this is one factor in human experience that has kept him thoroughly bound under the domination of satan. The supreme value has been given to the experience of physical sex as it has been known by human beings in the human state. This is only a fraction of the reality of sex, and the reality cannot possibly be known as long as this unbalanced approach is foremost. And yet, once given a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil, then the reality of sex becomes very important, because without it the essential creation that is to occur cannot do so. 

The creative process is sex. If you exclude it you have no creative process. Obviously it has not been excluded in human experience, at least at the physical level. Because of this there has been a creative process at work in the affairs of men, but the creative process was not a constructive one. It was not the true, balanced creative process for which man was created. It became destructive, and all the hell that has taken form on earth is not unrelated to this dominance of physical sex in human experience. The unbalanced experience in this regard has produced an unbalanced state. Here is an emphasis upon the importance of sex in the sense that whatever happens is produced by it. If sex is an unbalanced experience, as it has been, then this unbalanced state has resulted on earth. If included in that unbalanced experience have been factors of destructiveness in the attitudes and the emotions of those who have been indulging themselves in this field, then all this is reproduced abundantly. Here is the key, then, to destructiveness. But it is also at the same time the key to true creativeness.

We have seen something of this but, generally speaking, when sex considerations arise those considerations emphasize themselves in the consciousness of those concerned with respect to physical sex. This has been the habit, after all, and as long as that is the first thing that is emphasized we remain trapped. We have had some awareness of the spectrum of the balanced state. As an Assembly we are representing the whole spectrum, not just the lower end of the spectrum. Flesh is obviously present here, but there are other levels also present, to which heretofore inadequate substance has been given. Only as there is substance at any level does that level have any meaning insofar as experience in the dimensional world is concerned. 

Because all the substance of which human beings have been aware, or which they have generated, has been at the lower end of the spectrum, weighted in the physical sense, there could not be anything else but an unbalanced state. Orientation was downward—human beings have been weighted at the bottom. There is a proper proportion really, where weight is evenly distributed. If we are considering this matter of sex then, more attention should be paid to where there has been little or no experience than to where there has been experience. But if one comes to speak about sex as a valuable tool in the creative process, most people think of it simply in physical terms, and they want it explained to them how sex can be used in this physical sense to be of value to the Lord. You cannot use it to be of value to the Lord if that is all you are thinking about. There is a whole spectrum here. 

When sex is used rightly, in a balanced way at every level, there is the creation of the new earth at the lower end, so to speak. But you know very well that our concern has been with the new heaven, which is at the upper end, and the end where there has been the least experience—the least experience because there has been no substance there for the experience. So there must be the generation of the substance to fill out the various levels where the creative spirit of God may be accommodated. If you simply try to accommodate the creative spirit of God at the level of physical sex it is bound to be a very unbalanced thing. In general terms one could describe the upper spectrum of sex as spiritual sex. Spiritual sex in experience is necessary for the creation of the new heaven, just as physical sex in experience is necessary to the creation of the new earth. But which comes first, do you think? Obviously the heaven comes first. 

To describe the nature of spiritual sex one could say that it is the union of the Word with the consciousness of human beings. Here you may recognize why emphasis has been placed upon the importance of the Word. There have been a lot of people associated with our ministry who have had little awareness of the vital nature of the Word in this sense, that it would be impossible to know the right use of physical sex without having first experienced the right use of spiritual sex, without the Word having entered into one’s own consciousness so that it would abide there, so that there might be union. 

This is a process of which you are also familiar: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. The radiation is the Word to which, if there is a state of being childlike, there may be uncluttered response, response which does not have any axes to grind, which has no expectations of personal fulfillment or anything else. You know if you are honest that most of what you have experienced in the way of response in the past has had expectations. “If I respond, then I will experience thus and so.” That is childish, not childlike. The childlike state is the guileless state, where there is no expectation, no requirement at all, no need for a reward. When there is no need for a reward there is no need for punishment. The guileless, childlike state seeks nothing for itself; there is a spiritual yielding. 

Without spiritual yielding there cannot really be physical yielding. We are concerned with spiritual sex—not merely for itself, because the fact of the matter is that heaven and earth are one. Physical sex requires union of a sort, spiritual sex requires union of another sort; but the union of spiritual sex and the union of physical sex establish the true union, the union of heaven and earth. 

The working of sex when seen from the spiritual standpoint is not at all structured. There is a design but in the sense of what in the movement of the creative cycle is fitting. Human beings want as a rule to get things pinned down—“Is this all right or not?” Who can tell? We are not dealing with the form initially, but with the spirit, and there are multitudes of creative requirements, both from the standpoint of the individual and also from the standpoint of the collective purposes of God. Each moment is rightly unique, isn’t it? We cannot rightly crystallize any moment. 

Isn’t it an amazing thing that there is such a vastness of experience available that each moment is unique? It never happened before, it will never happen again. So if we see this in terms of sex, then clearly you are not going to be able to establish any structured rules and regulations. There is no marrying and giving in marriage in heaven. This is all an earthly production that, incidentally, is one of the things that is passing away. Of course it has been important to human beings because it has given some sort of a feeling of security, to have a structure set up that is going to endure. No, there is no structure in that sense. 

Because the state is unstructured does not mean that it is somehow uncontrolled and promiscuous in some fashion. It merely means that what occurs occurs accurately and rightly in the natural creative cycles as they are moving, and this requires whatever may be essential to allow these creative purposes to be fulfilled. The human attitude toward that would probably be, “I’m not sure that I like that. I’m not going to have any say in the matter.” Well, who are you to have a say, if you’re just this human nature creature that is going to pass away anyway? So you wouldn’t have any say. But there is “say” from the standpoint of the spirit of God, and if one is associated with that expression as one’s own, then one has say in the matter. And the say one has is based in the wonders of true creation. The experience of this has been lost to human beings, so that they cannot recall it at all. They try to hang on to such supposed pleasure as they think they now have, fearful of what this austere God might do if He had His way—as though that would take all the joys out of living, when in fact the true way is the way by which there is increase, multiplication. 

Man was instructed to multiply in the beginning—not merely to procreate, but to let everything be multiplied, let the increase come. What is the full potential in this planet do you think? Human beings have no idea at all. And is this planet somehow isolated from the rest of the solar system? What is the full potential of the solar system? There is a realm of complete blank insofar as human consciousness is concerned. Well all this is within the range of the true creative process, in which we have a part to play. And so I emphasize this morning something of that part as it relates to the field of sex, because this is the creative process. 

Do not get trapped into the view that the creative process is merely physical sex. If we have the usual view of the seven colors of the rainbow, then it would only be one-seventh, wouldn’t it? There’s another six-sevenths missing. So we concern ourselves primarily with this matter of spiritual sex, spiritual union, which is the union of the Word with our own consciousness. And there are ramifications to this that may not immediately present themselves to our awareness. But if there are possibilities of delight relative to physical sex, possibilities of great variety in fact—most people tend to get into some sort of a routine here—then how much more is that true spiritually speaking? It is the spiritual experience that brings the delight into the physical experience, and there is no longer the attitude taken that the physical experience is what brings the delight into some sort of higher level of spiritual experience. No, it is the other way around.

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Oh Man Oh Woman

Oh  Man   Oh  Woman

from

Steps to Mastership   Lesson 14

Uranda   1936

It is granted unto you to contain the symbol of the trinity of Being, picturing forth the union of the TWO that are ONE, and the RESULT thereof. In the beginning POSITIVE GOD joined to NEGATIVE GOD, and the CHILD of that union was CREATION. We see POSITIVE MAN (male) joined to NEGATIVE MAN (female), and the result of that union is the CREATION of CHILD. Man is a Three-Phase Being: namely, Physical, Mental and Spiritual Expression. The secrets of these three vibrations in man are these: 

Impregnation of NEGATIVE MAN by POSITIVE MAN results in a PHYSICAL CHILD. Impregnation of POSITIVE MAN by NEGATIVE MAN results in a MENTAL CHILD. Impregnation of POSITIVE MAN by NEGATIVE MAN simultaneous to impregnation of NEGATIVE MAN by POSITIVE MAN results in the BIRTH OF PHYSICAL MATTER INTO THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, and THAT is a SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION CHILD. To produce a Spiritual Expression Child, both parents thereof must be both Father and Mother. This is that which is called ART. ART, in any manifestation, is a physical REFLECTION of a SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION CHILD. 

Know also that they who manifest upon this plane are but HALF of those who are of the plane next higher, and thus do they continue on till all Beings conjoin in Highest God. Therefore TWO from this plane must join to be ONE on the plane above, and they who dwell upon that plane, who are as TWO, must become ONE before entering the plane next above. This also know. They who are as ONE on this plane must join THE HALF from which they separated on entering this plane, before they can again be ONE upon the plane above. In that SPIRITUAL UNION each must join to his own HALF, and no one can take your Spiritual Half from you in the day when you are to be joined together. The TWO of this plane, that are ONE on the plane above, taking the parts of what we on earth speak of as male and female, must always incarnate in the sex which they first made manifest. 

It is SELDOM that both HALVES are incarnate upon the earth at the same time. Thus it is that the USUAL procedure is for the Male-Half to be in Earth Life while the Female-Half acts as his Guardian Angel, followed by an incarnation of the Female-Half while the Male-Half acts as her Guardian Angel. When BOTH Halves are incarnate at the same time for any reason, which happens rarely, they are usually kept APART by circumstances, because, unless their Carnal Minds are COMPLETELY under control and they have both attained MASTERSHIP IN THE FLESH, the joy of union would be so great that the human beings would cease to function from the Higher Realms, and their bodies would be lost to the world that is to come. Thus it must be, else carnal man would lose that Inner Urge which draws him ever upward. 

The supreme thrill of creative expression on the Inner Planes, where union is a thousand times more vibrantly delightful than the greatest thrill of physical union, is sacred to the Spiritual Realms and must always remain so, else man would cease to seek salvation and forget to find forgiveness. That these truths might be made manifest to those who are worthy did you enter earth life. For this purpose did you come into the world, that you might show forth the secret things of God and prove that the Spiritual Phase of Being may be comprehended by man.

Take heed, therefore, unto these precepts, contemplate upon them, govern each thought, word and action thereby, and show forth to the world the results of an Understanding Heart:

Oh MAN, take care that in all things you shelter, protect, uphold and appreciate the FLESH CHILD which you fathered in the woman who is the Mother thereof, that she may feel that IT, her child, is safe in your care.

Oh WOMAN, take care that in all things you shelter, protect, uphold and appreciate the IDEA CHILD which you fathered in the man who is the Mother thereof, that he may feel that IT, his child, is safe in your care.

Oh MAN-WOMAN, take care that in all things you shelter, protect, uphold and appreciate the SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION CHILD which you both fathered in the other as the Mother thereof, that you both may feel that IT, your mutual child, is safe in the other's care.  Thus may the INNER NATURE of you both express freely in art, in music, and in LOVE.

In these three Laws are the secrets by which every problem upon the face of the earth may be solved.  Obedience thereto shall make of every home a heaven, of every Life a thing of beauty, and of every day a joy forever.

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This Body Is The Body Of Shekinah

This  Body  Is  The  Body  Of  Shekinah

  The Altar and the Shekinah #2  

Martin Cecil   January 10, 1971

"Have you been so long time with the body of the Son of God and have not seen Him?"

The altar of the Lord is being rebuilt on earth in this day, the body of the Son of God coming again into form in the world. Who has really seen this? So many claim to have seen it with respect to Jesus, or at least the story about Jesus; but how little meaning that has if the real body is taking form on earth and is not seen!

How many of you have seen the way, the truth and the life, by reason of this body which is taking form? have seen Shekinah, so that you could say, "I have seen the Father"? The Father is here through Shekinah—through the fire that burns, the light that glows, and the cloud of glory. Shekinah can only be known when the form, the body, of the Son of God, the altar of the Lord, is present, to whatever extent it is present. At what point shall a person recognize that the body of the Son of God is present on earth?

Those who know Shekinah through the body of the Son of God on earth are Shekinah. If you know the truth, you are the truth. If you are merely looking for it, expecting to find it one day, you do not know the truth. The only way to know the truth is to be the truth, and the only way to know Shekinah is to be Shekinah.

How vividly are you aware that this body is the body of the Son of God, the body of Shekinah? This is the way it's built. This is what it is. Do you know it? Do you really know that, that the Father is revealed on earth through the Shekinah of His body? That Shekinah is not separate from His body. The Shekinah builds the body and shines through the body. What do you see?

Some people see what they call a ministry. What is the ministry? Ministry is a function, isn't it? There must be someone present who ministers if there is a ministry. Are you the one who is present, that ministers? You are not then the ministry, are you? You are the minister. Those who are associated with whatever it is should know better than to speak of the ministry in this way, as though it were something you could join or leave. What we are really talking about, and seeking to experience, is the body of the Son of God.

Nobody can have a separate will in the body of the Son of God. There is the one will, the will of the Father, which is the expression of Shekinah. One cannot know this truth as long as a personal will is maintained. We have a growing consciousness of the reality of Shekinah. We know Shekinah just to the degree that we are that, so that there is no separation, no separate will certainly.

The body of the Son of God built by Shekinah for the expression of Shekinah—no other reason for being! He that has seen this, not just as a fanciful theory but as a present fact, has seen the Father. This body, the body of the Son of God on earth, reveals the Father, just as the body of Jesus did, but obviously, to see this truth there must be a seeing which looks beyond the physical form. Many knew Jesus as a physical form but never saw Him, never saw Shekinah.

We know that only as the altar of the Lord is built on earth does it become possible for the temple of God to be built on earth, for mankind to be restored as the temple of God—filled with Shekinah, built by Shekinah, Shekinah manifesting through the altar of the Lord, through the body of the Son of God. Those who actually participate in this are themselves Shekinah, the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells in His body.

The truth is here now; the body of the Son of God is here now. Do you respect it? Do you behold Shekinah because of it? Or do you just see it as nothing particularly out of the ordinary, just as many people saw Jesus as nothing particularly out of the ordinary. What do you see?

The body of the Son of God is taking form on earth because there are a few who know it, because they know Shekinah, because they are Shekinah—there is no other way of knowing it—are the evidence of the presence of the One Who Dwells in form on earth. To those the body of the Son of God is beautiful, precious, because through it Shekinah is seen. Shekinah is the minister, and there is a ministry because of the minister. The invitation is extended not to become a part of the ministry, whatever that is, but to become aware of being a part of the body of the Son of God—this! The fact of being proclaims that each one is a part of that body, but scarcely anyone has known it.

Our concern is with the One who ministers. The One who ministers is Shekinah. Our Master said, "I am Shekinah. I am the way, the truth, and the life. He that hath seen Shekinah hath seen the Father." He was not saying, "He that hath seen my physical form has necessarily seen the Father." No! When you look at the body of the Son of God taking form, what do you see? Just the form? Do you think that there is something wrong with the form? You don't think much of the form of the body of the Son of God. You're hung up. You don't see Shekinah. If the body of the Son of God is here, if it is emerging, it is because Shekinah is here. There couldn't be any body without Shekinah. "Without him was not any thing made that was made." How could one possibly come and go in the body of the Son of God? One either knows Shekinah because one is Shekinah or one knows nothing. One can mouth platitudes and follow out personal desires, and die!    

Here are some other words of Shekinah: "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."

How much do we cling to our personal lives? How much can the things that happen supposedly in our personal lives throw us? How much can we be caused to deny Shekinah by the things that occur in our personal lives? We are associated with something, whether we have consciously realized it or not, that is absolute. Finding one's life in the human sense is losing it in the divine sense. Now there isn't really any such thing as life in the human sense; there is only life in the divine sense. The fact of the matter is that the only life that is available to human beings is the life of Shekinah. "In him was life." There isn't any other.

The body of the Son of God is on earth. The very fact that it is on earth reveals the fact that Shekinah is here, because Shekinah creates the body of manifestation. And so the body emerges because of Shekinah. When we begin to know this, this body is seen with new eyes. It is the most precious thing conceivable to us. It would be beyond the bounds of imagination even to consider trying to separate ourselves from it. We do try to separate ourselves from it every time that we inject a personal will. We are saying in effect, "I want to keep my life, my human life"—my subhuman life actually. And on this basis I can keep it for a while. But I lose it, because it is not mine, in the subhuman sense. It is part of Shekinah, and it will never be disassociated from Shekinah. You can't get life away from Shekinah. Being Shekinah, it is inconceivable that one could be anything else; and that's the truth of the matter, because one can't be anything else, at least not for very long.

Have you been so long time with the body of the Son of God and have not seen Him? As I say, it is utterly inconceivable to a person who has actually seen the Father through Shekinah in the body of the Son of God to separate himself from that; it can't be done. The altar of the Lord is being rebuilt on earth—that's my total concern—just with this one thing: rebuilding the altar of the Lord that is broken down. It is the only thing that has any meaning whatsoever. If there are those who will associate themselves with this rebuilding of that altar, I receive them with rejoicing. I have patience, as most of you know, but fundamentally, if a person fools around and doesn't accept this priceless invitation, I don't care what happens to that person! Those of you who offer yourselves to Shekinah agree with me in this. Yes, there is patience, there is understanding, people are given time; but self-indulgence in personal nonsense is of no value, and those who undertake to follow out such courses are of no value to themselves or to anyone else.

The body of the Son of God is taking form on earth because Shekinah is here. Because this is so, the whole world has the opportunity of making a choice. The time is at hand for everyone. It's here now for many.

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