Uranda Never Minced Words

Uranda  Never  Minced  Words

Martin Cecil   April 17, 1978

We need to have a little intelligent discernment and spiritual perception with respect to our own natural rhythms, and the way our own physical bodies work and the way our minds work too. We need to be aware of these things. We need to be alert mentally speaking and alert spiritually speaking, so that we are in position to discern; and of course we need, above all, to be honest with ourselves. 

I was recalling an occasion, quite a while ago, when Uranda was still here—I think it was 1952, when the first Class was in session. I spent about a month down here in January, I think it was, of 1952. During that time I had opportunity to speak on occasion in various ways, to give a service perhaps, and afterwards Uranda and I used to discuss what had occurred, and this permitted a recognition of what needed attention in my own expression and what was present from the standpoint of the response of those who were present—and these things have a relatedness, incidentally. 

I always enjoyed—not exactly post mortems, because I don't think it was dead—but a consideration of these things; and Uranda never minced words. Everything was brought out into the open, and that's the way I would wish it to be; but sometimes there were others present who became disturbed because of the things that Uranda was saying relative to me, and I heard secondhand that someone had said that "I don't know how Martin can take it." But I wasn't taking anything! I didn't have the experience of gritting my teeth and taking anything at all. I was enjoying the experience. It was just the reaction of somebody else. This was possible in my own experience because I knew what Uranda was saying before he said it. He may have said it and brought it out in a clearer way than was yet in my own consciousness, and I delighted in that, but it was in my own consciousness already. I had been honest enough to be able to see that it was there. 

I have found over the years, in speaking with many people, that when I bring things out for them to look at they get all disturbed about it because they had not been alert themselves to what was present in themselves; they had never looked at it—not only alert enough to see but honest enough to see it. I never anticipate that someone is going to react all over the place when I bring something out. I anticipate they are sufficiently honest that they already know that it's there and that when it's brought out then here are two in agreement and it is dealt with. 

Here is something that relates to the spirit of the new earth: a conscious awareness of what is going on in the external sense, and certainly a conscious awareness of one's own limitations—here is this word again—of one's present state of consciousness. Whatever your present state is now, do you expect it to be that way forever? Of course most people expect it to get worse. If it's going to change, why should it have to change in a disintegrating fashion? It doesn't have to. It is the popular view that it will, and all who are attuned with the spirit of decay are experiencing disintegration. It is the only thing they can experience on that basis, but if we begin to be associated with the spirit of the new earth then there is a constructive, integrating element of experience.

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The  One  I  Am  Speaks

from  With One Voice

Martin Exeter   December 15, 1985

How very simple the truth is. The changes which are in the process of putting in an appearance in and through human beings on earth spring out of what we have called the creative process. This springs out of heaven. It does so to the extent that there are those present in heaven on earth. This we ourselves have acknowledged as being the reason for our existence in the world.

Can I speak this evening in the first person, so that all of you speak with me in that first person, “I” in other words? I speak for myself. I can’t speak for you. You speak for yourself. But if my words in fact spring out of the heaven, spoken as they must be out of heaven in the first person: I am in heaven, and you share those words with me, then we speak together as one out of heaven. The One I am speaks. Our perspective together is a heavenly perspective. We may stand in heaven as angels, to speak through the tools and the equipment which are available to us individually: our own physical bodies, our own mental and emotional apparatus. These we may use to speak, to act, to do what we are here on earth to accomplish.

I stand in heaven—and these are rightly the words of each of you individually. I use these words so that you may use these words.

I stand in heaven and I stand on earth because I have the tools and the equipment to do so. These are for my use. They are exactly the way they are. This is no mistake. I chose to participate in the creation and the development of these tools and this equipment—my body, my mental and emotional apparatus. Obviously these tools and this equipment have hereditary conditioning. This is understood; it has been understood from the beginning. I know this. Over a number of years I have become quite familiar with some of the quirks and peculiarities of this hereditary equipment. These quirks and peculiarities are present and I certainly am not fooled by them. They are there for a purpose. These quirks and peculiarities are not divorced from the quirks and peculiarities of others. I know this; I have known this from the beginning.

I now speak these words and I trust you are speaking these words with me in relationship to your own quirks and peculiarities, your own tools and equipment. Stay with me!

These human facilities, characterized by human nature, took form over the years and are the only equipment and tools that we have. Certainly these are the only ones I have; that is true of each one. It is not a mistake. I have been present from the beginning. I have an awareness of these things, and human nature no longer is capable of obscuring my awareness of my world-as-it-is, and my ability to act in the world-as-it-is. I know, and have always known, in the present moment the truth of the matter. One can only know in the present moment. Here is the knowing. I know, in whatever the present moment may be, what it is that I should express or not express.

I trust I still speak for each one.

I cannot fool myself or let my mind and heart fool themselves that I don’t know. I do know. I do know exactly what the situation is in this present moment.

Are you still with me?

This is true of every moment. We speak of every moment but it is always the present one; it is always now. I know what is now. I know what is rightly to be expressed now. There may be other moments that occur along the way when I know there is nothing to be expressed, in words at least, in the present moment. Words, in fact, are a very small part of what it is that I express. I know the truth of the words emissary of divine light. I let my light shine. My tools and equipment are incapable of preventing that. There is a certain willingness present, developed over the years, which allows what needs to be expressed in the moment to be expressed. It is not a jerky thing. Words tend to be rather jerky—but the shining of the light is a continuous outpouring, whatever words may be, whatever it may be that is being done.

These incidentally are your words too. Let me remind you of this from time to time. I’m not just speaking for myself.

During the course of the years my equipment has learned certain skills. These skills and abilities of various sorts which have been acquired by the physical form, the mind and the emotions, are useful in various ways. These are not the reason why I am present on earth but they do provide a means by which the light may be allowed to shine, by which the Word may be spoken in living. If I had nothing to do there would simply be a blank, darkness. It is useful to have something to do, but we do not see these things, which are acquisitions of our tools and equipment, to be the reason why one is present. The reason why one is present is to know the truth in the moment and to let the light shine through the tools and equipment, regardless of what they are doing. The important factor is that there is an angel present in action on earth.

What I do by reason of my equipment and my tools is done as effectively as possible, but it doesn’t occupy my total attention. In one sense I do it on the side. My concern is to know the truth in the moment and to express what is necessary in the moment. This expression is spiritual expression. I stand up here now. You sit there. We do this quite successfully. I speak. I rest my hands on the lectern. I look around. My equipment is useful for all this. But there is something else above and beyond these obvious elements, even the words that I am speaking, that rightly finds expression and release. I give that expression.

Are you with me?—remembering always that the word “I” refers to each individual.

I speak, I know, in the moment. We’re in the present moment. I am present now. I am not present in the future. I am present now. I know now. Knowing now, there is an awareness of what the creative process is now, and because of that an awareness comes of what is unfolding. It is said that the spirit of truth calls to remembrance and shows you things to come. This is not intended to indicate that everybody indulges in prophecy according to the usual human concept of it, but if one is present in the creative cycle now one knows what the creative cycle is and one is aware of what it is that is unfolding. Obviously in that unfoldment what occurs will be dependent upon the way many human beings react.

As there are those who participate in this creative cycle to which I now have reference, then all concerned know what is necessary in the moment and all concerned are moving in the creative cycle. So what is emerging becomes more and more obvious. What emerges beyond those who are moving with the creative process, in a cooperative way shall we say, remains somewhat unknown, because who is going to react in what manner? Who is to say? But we begin to have a sure understanding and a sure confidence of what is occurring by reason of the presence of the One I am. We share this knowing. I know it.

There is only one "I”. We have been very busy trying to maintain separation; but in the expression, the differentiation, of the One, it is one that is being differentiated. We do not have a whole slew of separate, peculiar characters—just one, just one that is so vast that there is indeed the opportunity for virtually infinite differentiation. But it doesn’t change the fact of the one. In allowing the development of awareness of the One I am, personal experience changes.

I am the one who is here present to do something on earth which far transcends anything that any human being has thought of. We discover what that is in the moment. Nothing is ever done particularly to satisfy the desires of mind and heart. What is done is to express the Word, to let the light shine; that is the purpose. Anything else that is done in an external sense is quite incidental to that purpose. It’s important; we need to have something to do. Sweep away all the things that might need to be done and we’d have no way of letting the light shine. But what we do just simply has importance because it is, and provides a setting for the light to shine. If the light is shining, what we do in that setting will be effective and we’ll be able to do it now. We’ll be able to do it now for a hundred years if necessary; or, we do it now and we do something else in a minute.

At last we begin to have the experience in our earthly minds and hearts of being the angel. I am present. I do what needs to be done. In the earthly sense I have no ambitions at all. I don’t want to achieve anything. It’s all a waste of time. But I am here to do something that has never been done before, and that is only why I’m here. When you know that for yourself you know the truth of yourself. But as long as there are things on the side, things you want to do this way or that way, you remain useless. So I am here. My responsibility in the moment is clear as crystal.
Are you with me?

I do not concern myself particularly with the future, but taking care of what I know now, I know something of what is going to occur in the future because it springs out of what I am doing now; but that’s not what I know. I know what I am doing now. I simply have some sort of an awareness of what it is that is unfolding. And so, is it true that there are angels incarnate on earth and in expression in the moment? This is the only thing that is of any concern to me.

Are you with me?

It brings the light sharply to focus in the moment. I am here with this equipment because it’s exactly the equipment I should have. It provides me with what is necessary for what I have to do, and I do it. These tools and this equipment have no say in the matter whatsoever. They simply accept the One I am. That’s what is called the restoration, isn’t it? And by this means there is restoration. I do not judge anyone or anything. I accept all those who come to me. I accept all the circumstances that come to me. Isn’t that the most sensible thing to do anyway? You can’t get out of it. Of course you can try to resist people coming to you, or to get rid of circumstances.

I love the One I am. I know the One I am in the person of my King. I differentiate the One I am in the way that I can do it by reason of this equipment, these tools. And I trust we are all in agreement in this matter. My King is the KING of Kings. My Lord is the LORD of Lords. There’s no distinction; there’s no separation. It is all one. I have no human nature life of my own whatsoever. There is nothing I must have in the human sense. I am present now on earth in this great variety of equipment and tools. Useful. Let’s be sure that these are used for the purpose that I have chosen them.

Can we abide in heaven, so that we are in position to consider heavenly things? We have considered a lot of earthly things, and there has been a certain amount of misunderstanding, lack of understanding, of earthly things. Do we finally come to the point where we can begin to consider heavenly things because the “I” which is present here individually is in heaven? When we are in heaven we can consider heavenly things and we may know what the creative process is. We may be aware in the moment always of what rightly is finding expression because I am present.

We abide in heaven. There the truth is known, oneness is known. When all the earthly elements are set aside, what a wonder, what beauty it is to be in heaven and to become aware of all that is awaiting revelation from heaven in the earth. That revelation comes because the light shines, and it is revealed in form in a multitude of ways. We judge no one. There is no judgment, because the creative process causes all things to work together to perfection, and that’s enough.

I am the creative process.

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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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