The Master Role—The Servant Role

The  Master  Role — The  Servant  Role

Angelic  Friendship

Martin Cecil   April 2, 1979  Assembly

In our relatedness we handle our responsibilities in different ways. And here you may begin to see something of a more specific nature emerging. You have a specific point to fill. I have a specific point to fill. My point is a constant in relationship to all of you. 

This provides for continuity and stability, and maintains everything in its proper perspective. You each have your own individual points, which are all different. Those differences are included in whatever the design is that is emerging by reason of you as a group, as a body. It is not as though everybody was going to be the same. Every part of the emerging body is different, is specific in its function and in fulfilling the requirements for which it is responsible in the body. And that is true of each one.

Now our concern is to let this substance be generated on the basis of what one might call friendship, the friendship which emerges when the human consciousness is the obedient servant. Then the angel is on hand by reason of that state of consciousness, and the angels are friends. We don’t need to say, “Well, I’m going to try to be friends with you.” That would imply that I think it’s going to be quite a job! No, the angels are already friends. We discover this, and we discover how our friendship together may allow us to participate in the collective creative cycles which are to emerge in the days to come.

One of the principle factors in this field is that I might put in an appearance before you so that you become better acquainted with your friend—and others will put in an appearance before you for the same purpose—that we may all experience the reality of angelic friendship. And friends love each other, friends care for each other, friends assist each other. And it is in all this that the substance is generated. 

No substance can be generated if we remain little isolated cells, without any proper relatedness, without any association: “I’ll take care of my thing if you take care of yours.” No. We emerge into the heavenly level, where angelic friendship may be experienced. And contained in that friendship are all these other factors of love, and care, and so on. And it is the actual experience of this in our living that generates the substance, the substance which connects us with the Lord. And being connected with the Lord, we then have the first ingredient by which there may be creative achievement beyond us.

Of course, in the experience of friendship known in human consciousness there is a transformation occurring in human consciousness. What we knew before is not what we know now. And it keeps changing; the experience of friendship expands. We delight to be together, we delight to be in each other’s company. We don’t try to make anything be so, we don’t try to live in someone else’s pocket. We let there be space—angels all need space to fill with their angelic substance—we don’t wish to restrict each other in any way but to allow a freedom and an easy movement which is natural between friends. And we don’t have to keep trying to prove that we are somebody’s friend. We simply are when we are angels, and we do the things that are natural in this configuration of friendship. 

We begin to find a great flexibility in this regard. And we don’t know what is going to emerge. We are delightedly anticipating something new anyway, and we are quite willing to let it emerge. But we maintain the absolute control in what is happening as angels, because the human consciousness through which we are functioning is obedient, it is completely obedient to the tone which we offer into it. It cannot very well be obedient to a tone if we don’t offer it into it. Now, of course, we have assistance in this; I am giving you assistance now, in offering the tone into your human consciousness. And we offer it directly into our own consciousness, and we offer it into the consciousness of others. We assume—we should assume—that there is an obedient servant on hand, and it is going to be willing to move with the spirit which we provide.

And so we move together as friends. First we become better acquainted, and then we move together as friends. The angel comes forth into the human consciousness so that we are together on earth as angels, and the design takes form. Because of the design the creative achievement is made possible. We are to discover all this during this period together. This is a session of angels, an assembly of angels. It is this if it is meaningful and if we are to accomplish anything while we are together. I am sure that none of you came here with the idea that we wouldn’t accomplish something. We are here to do it, so let’s do it.

There are no dishonorable roles when we are functioning correctly. And in certain aspects, as angels we are servants as well. There is nothing dishonorable about it. We serve the Lord, don’t we? That makes us servants. Well, we delight in that. And we find that delighting in that, we are filled with the spirit of the Lord and we are His friends. And there is a certain right pattern of friendship between master and servant, which is different between those who are functioning at the same level. There is friendship at that level. There is friendship at every level. Why not allow everyone to be and reveal what is natural, without trying to classify one role as being more honorable than another role? That’s not true.

As angels we can play any role. In the external sense we can play any role at all and delight to do it, love to do it. And if it happens to be a servant role for the moment, well we love to do that. If it is the master role, we love to do that. Whatever it is, we love to do it. And it is this experience of love in doing what we are here to do that generates the substance. If we are sort of backing off all the time from the things that we should be doing, then we don’t generate any substance. Nothing happens. So let us move easily together as angels.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

To What End? To Glorify Our King

To  What  End?

To  GLORIFY  Our  KING

from  Control Factors

Uranda   October 9, 1952

Extensive, expansive living requires true vision, clear vision, that is not limited to the immediate sphere of one's daily task, not limited to the realm of what may be physically seen. It is the perception with respect to that which is beyond immediate physical seeing about which we would meditate, something which, to the uninitiated, seems to be intangible. Extensive, expansive living requires clear, far seeing. And this seeing is something which is not accomplished with the physical eyes. It is accomplished through the heart. 

The reality of that Kingdom made manifest is that to which we are dedicated. Resistance with respect to the necessities of correct function within the scope of the control pattern is, in fact, opposing the manifestation of the Kingdom. Individually, we recognize that any person who proves to be consistently dependable with respect to any vibrational factor of the invisible realm, giving it consistent form and meaningfulness on earth, is by that very fact a control factor in relationship to the coming of the Kingdom. 

The Kingdom is a reality in the invisible realms. We look out into the world and we realize all too keenly that this Kingdom of Heaven has not yet had adequate manifestation in form. This should cause us to be so consistent in correct function that we may, regardless of anyone else, do our part toward the development of the outer form through which that invisible Kingdom may be made visible. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Our responsibility is in letting it take form on earth. As soon as the consciousness of man has a true realization of the fundamental fact which the Master called His Good News, there must be, surely, a vital, burning desire to do all that one can toward letting that Kingdom at hand have meaning on earth, not from the standpoint of trying to get into it or to get something from it, but to give it form on earth. 

The pattern of motivation in relationship to centering is of peculiar importance, as we examine this matter of control factors. What is the reason for the action? What is the motivating force within us? To achieve something for ourselves personally? To get something? Or is it simply to Glorify our KING? 

If as much earnestness, time, effort, expenditure of energy and material substance had gone into the work of bringing forth in form the right pattern, as has gone into the development of erroneous patterns, the Kingdom of Heaven would have such manifestation on earth in this moment that there would be no power to withstand it or question it. There would be a control pattern extending into all the earth in blessing to all the children of men who would yield to it. The development of the tangent patterns does not allow the manifestation of power. 

We are interested in the central pattern, the one which avoids all extremes, takes into consideration all factors and remains centered with respect to purpose. And there is a way by which the individual can, even though he does not have adequate understanding of the entire situation in any given moment, know whether or not he is properly centered, properly functioning in relationship to the fulfilment of God's Will, the coming of the Kingdom. He can know whether he is truly a control factor. 

The one who has reached a point of such dedication that he is willing to be a control factor no longer has any concern about getting something personally. He is not concerned about arbitrarily imposing anything on anyone. He loves to see the blessings of God made manifest. He loves to see lives changed. But it is not in his getting, on the one side, nor in his giving, on the other, that he has his pattern of centering or his own focalization of control which allows him to be a control factor. There is, as I have pointed out many times, the characteristic expression of the spirit of givingness manifest in and through those who are centered in God, but that is not the proper centering of motivation. If we are, or are becoming, citizens of the Kingdom, proving to be loyal, what is our primary concern? It is that the KING should be Glorified. 

The Glory of God, or the Glory of the King in Heaven, relates to the reality of life in that realm which to the human eye is invisible. If we let God's Glory manifest in the places where it is not yet evident, then we are Glorifying God. We cannot add to His Glory in Heaven but we can let His Glory increase on earth because it is not adequately revealed or made manifest on earth. That Glory cannot manifest except in relationship to the living of life, for Glory is something which appears in relationship to life, and the living of life. The living of life for what purpose? To get something? To give something? No. If the centering is with respect to either of these factors the tangent pattern of erroneous function appears. But if our purpose is to Glorify our King, then we will have the spirit of givingness but we will not be in position to be carried into a tangent pattern by it. 

But God is the Giver, and the giving must be from God through us in relationship to that which is within the scope of control in the realm of form. So, the one and only means by which we may avoid becoming subject to tangent patterns of erroneous function which are so prevalent among those who sincerely seek to serve God, is to have one central, constant, consistent purpose which is manifesting as a control factor in all that we think and say and do, all the time without any exception. If that purpose is to Glorify the KING of the Kingdom, we are not going off on tangents. We will let the Spirit of the KING manifest, yes, we will share in His giving, share in His creative endeavor, we will do many things according to our talents and capacities, our stewardship, the use of our thoughts, words, deeds, the emotional patterns of our hearts, all of these things—but for what purpose? To Glorify our KING. 

This is not to say there will be less service, less interest in helping human beings or being a blessing to them. It only means that the pattern of motivation must not, with respect to any moment, be to save anyone or to uplift anyone or to do any of the other things that are commonly thought of in relationship to serving God. The central purpose, the primary point of motivation, must be to Glorify the KING. If you are letting your function be centered in the motivation of Glorifying the KING as a loyal subject of the Kingdom, then you will be doing those things which will increase the form and meaningfulness of the Kingdom, and human beings will be blest and uplifted. You will be serving human beings, you will see their lives changed, but it will never be, in any moment, simply, primarily an effort to uplift someone or save someone or change someone. 

The only way you can live a life untouched by all these various factors all about, and the flow of human emotion, the changing patterns of circumstance, the only way you can live free, untouched in the circumstance, reaching out beyond the limitation of the circumstance, is to have a central pattern of motivation that is never lost in any moment with respect to any necessity—to GLORIFY THE KING. Not to save human beings, but to GLORIFY THE KING. Not to solve problems, but to GLORIFY THE KING. Not to get anything, but to GLORIFY THE KING. 

Oh, things will be gotten. There will be those things which come into the pattern of control. Why? Because their coming will help to GLORIFY THE KING. There will be individuals saved from their own limitations. Why? To particularly bless them? No, not at all. To GLORIFY THE KING. Each step is centered in one motivation—to GLORIFY THE KING. Anything that deviates from that in primary motivation will fail, no matter how sincere, how earnest, you are. There is only one right central pattern of correct function, and the central motivation with respect to every thought, every attitude, every feeling, every word, every deed, must be to GLORIFY THE KING. Such centering does what? It causes all things, large, and small, to begin to work together in the realm of form—to what? To GLORIFY THE KING. 

What can we do to Glorify the KING more than to give the KING a Kingdom in form? His is the Kingdom. His is the Power. Are you going to go out and do it as a human being, change yourself, grow, develop, achieve something or other? Or are you going to change someone else? What are you going to do? Blessed Ones, it is not what you do in any such sense that truly carries forward the Service of God on earth. It is what you do to Glorify the KING. All of your talents, all of your abilities, the hours, the days, the months, the years, all of your life—you are a steward over all these things. You are a steward over hours, days. You are a steward over talents, abilities of various sorts. You are a steward over your capacities of feeling or heart. How are the feelings of your heart tonight, or how have they been today? Have they been pure, centered in God, each and every feeling in your heart dedicated to the Glorification of your KING? 

You are a steward, not just with respect to outer things in the realm of form, possessions of various sorts. These things in form must be brought into the pattern in order to Glorify the KING, to give form to His Kingdom on earth. But can it be achieved by individuals who neglect to maintain correct stewardship with respect to their thoughts, with respect to their words, with respect to their feelings? What is it that is going to permit the manifestation of control in you? The point is this: What is your motivation? To get something? Oh, for such a good cause, for such a good purpose, to help someone or even to Glorify God. That is not the way. Oh, you are going to give someone something, give someone a lecture. You are going to prove how great you are in the realm of God’s Service on earth, so that you can show people how much you have to give to others? Are you? It is such a good purpose and your intentions are so good. That is what paves the road to hell—good intentions. No. 

There is only one way—when you are a faithful steward with respect to your feelings, so that every feeling which is allowed expression in form in your own heart Glorifies the KING, when every word that passes your lips Glorifies the KING, when every attitude you express toward your fellows Glorifies the KING, and every act Glorifies the KING. That must be the center of motivation. Why do you act? Why do you do what you do day by day? Is it to the best of your vision and understanding to Glorify the KING? One cannot long be dedicated to that Purpose and suffer any self-delusion with respect to any phase of life. If you have that motivation with respect to all things you very quickly learn. 

It is all for what purpose? To GLORIFY THE KING. If, within the scope of your vision and understanding, your true motivation, without any self-delusion, without any rationalization, is to Glorify the KING, it will be used. Even though it is limited, short-sighted in some fashion, your vision will expand, you will learn the lessons necessary, and you will learn to be a good steward with respect to all your capacities, all your talents, a good steward with respect to the golden hours, the blessed days, the opportunities that appear at your hand, your capacities of heart and mind, whatever they may be, your words and acts. 

Are you a good steward? Can you inspire others to right stewardship? Why right stewardship? What is its purpose? To GLORIFY THE KING. How can you inspire others to that right pattern of function unless you are a good steward? For what purpose? To make yourself appear to be wise in the eyes of others? That will not work. Only one thing will—to GLORIFY THE KING. Why do you act in any moment? Why am I here before you? To GLORIFY THE KING. Why have I ever given an attunement? Why have I ever ministered in any way whatsoever? Examine it. My whole purpose is to Glorify the KING. 

The only way we can Glorify the KING on earth is to have a living manifestation of the Kingdom on earth, with people in it, with the substance conforming to the Laws of the Kingdom, with hearts and minds functioning according to the principles of the Kingdom. If you would let your Service increase, if you would truly Serve God, remember: Your primary purpose must always be, without any exception at any time or place or in any circumstance, to GLORIFY THE KING. Then you do not have to be worried about human values, human questionings, human possibilities. 

You are not trying to get anything, you are not afraid of anyone taking anything away from you. You are free in the Truth of the Kingdom. There may be pressing circumstances round about, limitations of every sort, but you are still free. Why? Because you can look beyond the realm of limitations and see the action of your Spirit reaching into the hearts and lives of the children of men. To do what? To save them? Oh, no. To GLORIFY THE KING, because those who respond will make good citizens. They will help GLORIFY THE KING. I am not interested in any human being on the face of the earth except as he or she may help me GLORIFY THE KING. We are interested, not in saving people, as such, but in inspiring human beings to GLORIFY THE KING. 

Let that be your centering motivation and you will be a control factor in the Kingdom of God on earth. Be a Control Factor with respect to that of which you are capable, within the sphere of your proper influence and control. Be a Control Factor. We are only interested in one thing, to GLORIFY THE KING. To inspire others to share in that. Ah, it is in living that we GLORIFY OUR KING, untouched, unmoved by all the ebb and flow of human emotions, struggling and trying, untouched, unmoved by all the things that control human beings, and yet in position to extend love and tenderness and care to those who will receive it, understanding to those who will accept it. So it is that we Minister. To what end? To GLORIFY OUR KING. 

The KING is the centering point of the Kingdom. Anything that does not center in the Kingdom does not belong to the Kingdom. The central Law of the Kingdom, the One Law, emphasizes this point, that if we would be a part of the Kingdom we must be centered in the King. And if we would increase the meaningfulness of the Kingdom we must let our lives be dedicated to the KING. And the way in which our lives may be used to increase the scope of the Kingdom is the business of the KING. We must be centered in the KING, and then everything else follows. Whether it is immediately evident, to your own mind or not, in what fashion you are a part of the Kingdom, is of small concern. If you are centered in the KING and the Glorification of the KING is your true motivation in all things, then you are a good citizen of the Kingdom, and as you function you find the Kingdom made manifest in the realm of outer form. 

There are places all over God's Kingdom for millions of citizens, and it is well that all these places should be filled. But there are places in the KING'S Court for those who will let themselves come into that realm of infinite sweetness and beauty where one begins to know the KING, where one begins to know the beauty of the KING'S Control, as it extends out to those who are citizens or who are willing to become citizens of the Kingdom. It is well that all these millions of places in God's Kingdom should be filled, but it is so sweet to know something of the KING'S Court, know something of what it is to live before the Throne, the Kingdom of God on earth, the Kingdom that is at hand.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Universal  She

Jean Hammond   April 22, 1989

I was thinking that one way that our purpose as women could be described is: to manifest in the world again the living presence of what could be called the Universal She. We could each say "I am this She. I am here to reveal Her." The Universal She focuses that part of the creative force which we could call the feminine. She possesses and reveals a strong conscious focus. She knows who She is, why She does what She does, what's really going on, and also has a deep intuitive side. She is a huge flexible Being, able to operate in countless ways, doing whatever is most useful. As we have each undergone the process of awakening, remembering who we are, we start to recall Her characteristics and know them as our own. We each then deeply know that we are differentiations in fact of this huge focus of femaleness. 

She is artistic. An aspect of artistry in which women are naturally gifted is the ability to provide the blending point for things, the receiving point for even apparently disparate factors in the moment. There is the artistry of right containment—a huge art form—and in Her artistry there is always finesse. 

She is generous. In all of our circumstances, the people next to us probably automatically evoke what is needed. And I was thinking that sometimes it is good not to think too much, but simply do the obvious thing generously in the moment. 

She easily forgives and forgets and is not very interested in ghosts, or residues that can accumulate unfinished business. She easily releases things in a current of honesty that just washes them away forever. 

She has accurate intuition, perception that is at work all the time. This is an area for deeper consideration by all of us. How accurate are our sensings, our intuitions, our perceptions?

She loves to consciously keep space open in which the very newest things can emerge. I have thought a lot lately about the fact that there are a lot of new things to be thought and felt and said and done that require a new kind of open space, so that they can easily manifest. Maybe sometimes we have been caught in thinking "Well, what do I have to think about or do, because this situation or this person is impinging?" Maybe there is another kind of experience to open more for all of us, where the question really is "What should I be thinking about or doing, that Source would love to find a window for on earth?" 

I have been thinking also about how amazing women are as generating plants and the need for right perception so that individually and together we do not overgenerate or undergenerate, but generate exactly what is needed next. 

Another quality of the great beautiful Universal She is that She is unafraid to deal in absolutes. When a straight line is needed that says "That's enough," She will happily draw it firmly, and that is that! This could be with respect to Herself, an immediate situation, or inherent in a current of radiation extended beyond. 

She matures gracefully at all levels. Perhaps you have felt from time to time, as I have, that new windows should open for new functions as our female forms grow older, not the other way around,. We have the challenge of constantly finding what the new rhythms are, whatever our age. Just a little parenthetical thought here—we have moved in our awareness to become somewhat aware of the sixth sense or the seventh sense, but I wonder how many other senses there are: eight? nine? twelve? Maybe hundreds of senses, of capabilities yet to open as we participate correctly in the true maturing processes. 

Another quality that She enjoys is discipline. Probably some of us from time to time feel aspects of trauma that are going on in the planet's earth, and at other levels too. This may register quite acutely in our own facilities sometimes. Lillian mentioned something about moving into doing the greater works now. I thought that maybe the doing of the greater works requires deeper awareness of life's tone as it comes from Source. Deeper levels of this knowing requires deeper levels of discipline in our outer capacities. When some of these things, such as the earth traumas, are felt in our own flesh from time to time, we may know that such intensity is not us personally but that we are in fact feeling something beyond our own facilities. A well disciplined facility knows how to handle those stronger elements, and in such moments we may know that there is no earth current that can sweep us away or in any way impinge inappropriately upon our own awareness of who we are and the nature of our Source. 

Another beautiful quality of this wonderful She is contentment. In these days with all that the earth and humanity is undergoing, I have been aware in my own consciousness, over and over again, of the fact that if any are bound, none are free. And so to know a true current of contentment, something that is genuine and authentic in the midst of much that is under way, provides a radiant, useful stance. 

So I feel with you today a great current of celebration in the awareness of the fact that we are indeed each here to do very distinct things individually as aspects of this Universal She, as is being acknowledged this evening. And yet, we have to do it together. 

We need to find the ways of sharing more of who we really are in the world. This becomes very natural as we stay where we belong, doing what we always knew we came to do. We came—fired from above—to burn brightly wherever we are and to focus a refreshing current on and in the earth. 

Having recently read the Bhagavad-Gita, the Song Celestial, I thought of sharing a portion with you tonight from the Eleventh Chapter of this story. There is a little section here where Krishna, who symbolizes male God, speaks of himself. As I read what he says of himself, I thought how equally true it was of female God, and so would love to share these few lines as an expression of the truth of female God, of Universal She, of Her character. Following that there is a portion where the servant in this story speaks, and in the original he describes male God. I have taken the liberty in that section of changing a word or two to denote female God. We will begin with Krishna; here is a description of Universal She:

I manifest for thee
Those hundred thousand thousand shapes that clothe my Mystery:
I show thee all my semblances, infinite, rich, divine,

My changeful hues, my countless forms. See! in this face of mine,
Wonders unnumbered …

That statement is rightly ours into the world. And now the servant speaks, describing female God:

… Displaying
All the splendour, wonder, dread
Of Her vast Almighty-head.
Out of countless eyes beholding,
Out of countless mouths commanding,
Countless mystic forms enfolding
In one Form: supremely standing
Countless radiant glories wearing,
Countless heavenly weapons bearing,
Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,
Robed in garb of woven lustres,
Breathing from Her perfect Presence
Breaths of every subtle essence
Of all heavenly odours; shedding
Blinding brilliance; overspreading—
Boundless, beautiful—all spaces
With Her all-regarding faces;
So She showed! If there should rise
Suddenly with the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of
Then might be that Holy One's
Majesty and radiance dreamed of!

Perhaps in these words we feel Her nature, Her beauty, Her uncluttered and unencumbered presence, Her vastness, Her power, Her positiveness, Her yieldedness, Her "everythingness!" It is this spirit that we came to exemplify and bring again on earth, in the situation the way it is now. 

I bring you my love and deep honor for your interest in this, for your willingness to come again to the true place of being, from which these things may easily manifest again on earth.

© Emissaries of Divine Light