The Slender Thread
Martin Exeter December 20, 1981
It is very obvious that there is a
strong compulsion in the world toward self-destruction. This may be classified
as an irrational compulsion, but present nevertheless. It seems almost
inevitable, to those who are in position to observe what is happening, that the
end result would be fatal to the human race. We all are well aware that there
is considerable nuclear overkill present on earth, capable of being released by
particular individuals who may or may not be all that rational. This is merely
one aspect of the destructive expectation. There are other ways by which it
might be brought about, perhaps not quite so suddenly.
This compulsion to
self-destruction springs out of the mass unconscious. The mass unconscious is
present with each person, so that these influences are everywhere in effect in
human experience. It is easy to see how others behave irrationally, but we may
have suspected that the same was probably true of us as long as the compulsion
sprang out of this mass consciousness. There are those who have investigated to
see why the compulsion is present in the mass consciousness. It doesn't really
matter; the fact is that it is there and the influence is strong, so that human
beings left to their own devices would certainly destroy themselves from the
face of the earth.
I wonder how vividly this is known
in our own consciousness. It is an expectation that tends to be swept under the
carpet if possible, because it seems such an immensely terrible thing. It is
important to face the matter, however, particularly for those who aspire to be
Emissaries of Divine Light, because here is the viable alternative to the
complete self-destruction of the human race—I wonder how vividly that is in the
consciousness of those who aspire to be Emissaries of Divine Light. If it was
clear, I think much of what has happened heretofore, in the attitudes and the
words and the actions and the thoughts and the feelings of those who so aspire,
would not have occurred. The fate, if we could put it that way, of the human
race hangs upon a rather slender thread. And, by the way, we are included in the
human race, you know.
So there is this strong
destructive compulsion arising out of the mass consciousness in the experience
of all human beings, perhaps in varying degrees of intensity. As I say, left to
follow out their own devices human beings have condemned themselves. We have
been richly blessed to become aware of another way to go. That way only becomes
real in the experience of anyone when what rises up out of the mass
consciousness no longer has the capability of directing the individual's existence
but is supplanted by the creative influence of life itself. Mankind has been,
and is, polarized in death, so death, both individually and collectively, is
the ultimate conclusion. This springs out of the premise of death. Those who
deal in death die; those who express life live. The truth of this statement is
rather obvious.
So there is the mass
consciousness, with the great red dragon there, dominating human experience.
But there is also available, not out of the mass consciousness certainly, but
out of a heavenly consciousness, what is capable of bringing life, of changing
the polarity of human beings on earth to life instead of death. This
alternative can only be introduced into the world of mankind and into human
experience as there are those individual human beings whose own living comes
out of this heaven rather than out of the hell of the mass consciousness.
The great red dragon, who has in
these days become apparently so immense, exerts the destructive influence upon
people everywhere. Here is the premise of death, and the conclusion is death.
But we have some awareness, at least, that there is a premise of life, the
conclusion to which would be life. This we would speak of as a true premise,
but it requires human individuals living on earth to prove the truth of it, so
that no longer can they be influenced and compelled by the destructive nature
of what springs out of the mass consciousness.
The truth can never be proven as
long as a person remains subject to what rises up out of the mass consciousness
in his own experience. We know the sort of things that rise up there: fear,
jealousy, greed. Here are three particular points of focus in this regard which
operate quite extensively in human existence. Because of these types of
influence arising out of the mass consciousness human beings react to each
other on the basis of like and dislike, on the basis of human judgments of all
kinds, on the basis of defensiveness and hostility. Obviously all this relates
to what is rising up out of the mass consciousness. If we still willingly let
such things control in our own experience we could be accounted to have failed,
failed in this most glorious and supreme opportunity that has been offered to
us.
Does what is present in the mass
consciousness still have the ability to claim allegiance? I rejoice to see that
there certainly is more concern with the true experience of life than there has
been in times past, but do you think that is enough? Do you think there have
not been people all down through the ages who had such a concern? But now, the
way things have come to focus in the world, the supreme opportunity is here.
The key is in what was portrayed by Michael and his angels contending with the
dragon and his angels. Unless there are those dwelling on earth who cannot be
seduced by any of the many heads of the dragon the inevitable result of
complete destructiveness is assured.
Here is the thread upon which the
whole human race hangs. Who, of all the people in the world, have the supreme
responsibility of providing what is necessary? Only those who have come to know
what is necessary. You here this morning are included in those. How much has
been maintained yet of the influence out of the mass consciousness in the
individual's daily existence? Unless there is something absolutely clear in
this regard there is no hope whatsoever for the human race. I suppose it might
be said, perhaps there are some others hiding somewhere that we have not seen
around who are really doing it now and we can depend on them. Do you think we
should take the chance? I don't think such people exist. Here are the ones. Let
us not have the attitude—Let it be by the hand of another. I don't know who
that other is, do you?
What shall dominate, what shall
control in our own individual, momentary living? That is the question. Is our
polarity in life? Life is characterized by love and truth. We have known this
principle for a long time. Only when our love is rightly centered, centered in
an absolute sense, is the influence out of the mass consciousness of mankind no
longer capable of determining our behavior. Does it seem as though such
absoluteness borders on fanaticism? If we interpret it that way, then I suppose
you could say that fanaticism is necessary. I don't think it is fanaticism. I think
it is exactly what is natural in human experience. It certainly does not
produce anything unbalanced; it causes a person to become capable of a true
perspective of understanding relative to all fields of observation. It brings
balance emotionally; it brings balance in what is done, in what is said, in
what is thought, in what is felt. That doesn't sound like fanaticism to me.
Certainly one-pointedness is necessary.
Words were used long ago,
translated into English as “Get thee hence, Satan.” What on earth does that
mean? It applies of course to all those influences and compulsions that arise
out of the mass consciousness of mankind. We are hooked up to that. But there
is another source, and it is the source of life. We know something of the
quality of that source. We have seen it exemplified in some measure. We have
known it to some extent in our own experience. Until it becomes absolute,
however, there is nothing present on earth to change the direction of mankind
so that they no longer head for oblivion.
There are many people on earth who
see the prospect of oblivion but who do not know what to do about it. It all
seems so absolutely inevitable. There are those who are still whistling in the
dark of course, but it becomes more and more apparent to more and more people
that oblivion is in the offing. Some cry unto the Lord in their distresses.
Perhaps we did that along the way, and He saved us out of our troubles, to this
point at least. But why? For what purpose? That we may get into trouble again?
This has been the repetitive experience of human beings the world around: “Save
us, Lord, lest we perish.” Well that hasn't happened, collectively at least, so
far. But there comes a day of judgment, the last judgment as they say. What
shall that day bring? Oblivion to the human race? Or salvation? I doubt if it
is possible to save the human race in toto; after all, there are millions dying
every day, so that is perhaps not to be anticipated.
The way the world is, the threat
of oblivion is made quite obvious to anyone who has the sense or the courage to
look at it. And all this has been brought about by human beings themselves
subject to the mass consciousness of humanity, or what is present in it,
described as a great red dragon. Because people everywhere are subject to this
the inevitability of oblivion is obvious. Only when there is a point which is
not subject to that, present on earth by reason of particular human beings, is
there any alternative. Most people are very reluctant so far to acknowledge
this. They are not in very good position to recognize the nature and quality of
that alternative anyway; they never have been. But for some obscure reason we
have been raised up sufficiently to see it. As human beings we might say, “Why
us?” Does that question need to be answered? I don't think so, if it happens to
be us. We just need to acknowledge responsibility and take the necessary steps
to let this new experience be ours. It is a new experience; it is not a
modified old experience—that is about what it has been so far. It is a new
state. You may find it hard to imagine, perhaps, a state where you yourself are
not giving body and expression to what rises up out of the mass consciousness
because you are giving expression to something else, and you are giving
expression to something else so strongly and so consistently that there is no
opportunity whatsoever for anything to rise up in influence upon you out of the
mass consciousness of humanity. That is the way it happens.
But giving expression to this
which is new, is new. It is totally what has not been known before. There is an
inclination to take hesitant steps in this regard, toe in the water, just test
it out a little and then draw back. I suppose there have been people doing this
for thousands of years. Finally, drawing back, they fall back, and that is the
end of it. But now is the day when the plunge must be made—come on in, the
water's fine!—that there may be on earth what we have been speaking about for
some time, a collective focus point of orientation and authority, a group of
people, a group of individual human beings, who can no longer be seduced by the
devil.
Of course, let us not look at it perhaps
from that direction. That is the outlook which tends to assert itself with
those who can be seduced by the devil. They are looking for the day when they
cannot be, which is an acknowledgment of the fact that now they can be. How
about those whose sole expression in living is of the angel of the Lord made
manifest, a strong and mighty angel? These are two adjectives which may be used
to describe the character of the angel: strong and mighty—no consideration at
all of what influences have been relinquished, just a consideration of the
nature and quality of what it is that is being expressed. And when that is
strong and mighty the human race has a chance.
We are reminded of these things—perhaps
because we still need to be reminded. Oh for the day when no reminders are
anymore necessary because the fact is there, consistently there. What a wonder,
what a glorious fulfilment this is. Then the tragic drama can be wound up; the
curtain can fall on it: Thank God, the show is over!
“The earth is the Lord's, and the
fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Do we really know
that? Or is it just a belief? It must be known, so that there are those present
who live in that knowing, who live in the kingdom here and now, who are aware
in their own living of the power and who reveal consistently the glory. Can we
be where we are, in the very circumstances where we find ourselves, associated
with the very people who are around us, and reveal the truth? Can we do it, do
you think? Can we let it happen? Of course. It just takes an honest willingness
to accept that particular responsibility. Then it doesn't matter who is around
us, it doesn't matter what the circumstance is. Anything, whatever it is, whoever
is present, is perfect.
That is tremendous; it gives us
our opportunity to prove the truth in our own living, to handle those things as
they should be handled, in the power and the strength of the Lord. Then we have
no particular self-centered expectations anymore, and certainly we would never
take an attitude, “Well I can't be expected to function correctly in this
situation; I must be nasty because somebody else is making me nasty.” Oh, they
have the power to do that, do they? There is your god. No! Thine, O Lord, is
the kingdom, and the power and the glory, now and forever. So it is
established. So may it be in our own experience consistently. Let it be so in
all the days to come.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
We Should Be Able To Talk To One Another
Martin Cecil September 29, 1971
What about the men? Where did they go? Did they resign or retire?
I'd like to point something out, and this is particularly
to the men, because my heavens, we need some men on earth! I do not have too
much opportunity to speak to you, men or women, on an individual basis. But I
do have opportunity to talk with each one, on a collective basis of course,
every Sunday. I set aside two hours to talk to you. I take time to talk to you
and the vast majority never reply. I am thinking of this particularly in
relationship to the men.
Of course I know all of you, men and women, are doing your
job; you're handling your various tasks, and this is tremendous. We wouldn't
have anything without it. But anything that is done is meaningful and achieves
something only to the extent that it is based in what we have called spiritual
expression. It must be something coming down from God out of heaven into the
earth. Now obviously the very core of what it is that is coming down from God
out of heaven into the earth comes to focus in the services on Sunday. Here is
the provision that not only is offered to those who are present but is later
transcribed and goes out to everybody else. Here is the very center of things.
If a person does not have a right pattern of relationship
to that, then he cannot possibly be mature. To be mature we must be restored to
the experience of spiritual being. We can't stay merely material or physical
beings in our experience and be anything other than childish.
Where is the point to which one may relate most valuably in
the experience of the increase of spiritual being? At the core, isn't it? In
relationship to what is coming down from God out of heaven. Not to what is
happening out on the periphery over here. Some are inclined to feel that
they're doing their job, they're doing their task, they're taking care of their
responsibilities out on the periphery, but never
relate to the spiritual core which comes to that specific focus week after
week. If you cannot respond—reply,
is that not another word for respond?—to what is provided on this basis, you cannot
mature spiritually. It's impossible. No matter what you're doing out there in
relationship to the various fields of activity for which you are responsible. That
has its place, but it only has its place in relationship to the spiritual
factor, and if the spiritual factor isn't properly present, what is out there
has a very small percentage of its potential value.
I emphasize this particularly in relationship to the men,
because this is the most vital aspect of our whole ministry, is it not? That
there should be the Son of God made manifest through the son of man. This
doesn't exclude the ladies. They have a part to play and seemingly they're playing
it after a fashion. But what about the men? Where did they go? Did they resign
or retire? Is there an attitude that says, "We'll take care of these things but we won't assume
responsibility in the core"? Only by assuming responsibility in the core is
there any hope for manhood. And it doesn't just happen. It's something that
requires that one move. There are those who sit around waiting for the spirit
to move them and it doesn't.
Now it looks to me sometimes as though there are people
sitting around here hopefully expecting the spirit to move them and it never
does. Of course the spirit never stops moving and it's the lummox who's sitting
there who is the point of failure—not the spirit—because there is something to
be done and what we're about just simply goes by the board if it isn't done.
And if we realize that we're here for a purpose, this is the purpose. Isn't
this the Third Sacred School? Isn't this related to spiritual expression?
"Oh," you say, "Yes, in our daily doing." Well, that's
nice, if it ever gets that far. But it has to have a starting point by which it
comes down from God out of heaven into the earth. Provision is made constantly
on this basis to move people, and if a person just nods his head and says,
"Well, that's nice. I've heard that before, but it was nice," and
that's all there is to it, that person has certainly not been moved.
One is only moved when one opens oneself to be moved. It's
not a matter of daring the spirit—"You move me now. I'll be here for the
comment period but the spirit better get busy and move me or I'm not going to
say a damn thing." And so there's a damn silence. Now these are things
that one might say are quite down to earth. They're not mysterious or mystical
or something strange. We either assume responsibility, we either accept focalization,
or we don't. If we don’t, nothing happens. If we do,
something happens and there's no mystery about It. Why? Why should it be that we can't converse? Surely we should be
able to talk to one another. Can we break through some ceilings and begin to
emerge into the core of things and really take responsibility? There are those men
who do it, of course, or we wouldn't have anything. I thank God for them.
So I bring this to your attention. We block ourselves so
much in these things and then we try so hard to do what we're doing out here on
the periphery and it's such a strain and such an effort and we have to work
such long hours and everything else. But you know, when we let our
consciousness change all that changes too. Everything changes when something
comes down from God out of heaven through us into the earth. Not slipping by us
somehow and getting to those out there somewhere. It is through us at the core
that it happens, and here is the area of our responsibility.
I have received information that the men's meetings here
are really something and I believed it. I haven't attended men's meetings
because I trusted that something would appear where I was present and this, of course, relates to the services and the
comment periods. Men's meetings may be good practice but the real work is right
here. I thank God for those who have
spoken. “Not by might, nor by power, by my spirit, saith the Lord.” These words
have often been spoken. This is the way, the truth and the life!
By the spirit of the Lord which appears on earth as spiritual expression
through human beings. Unless we are acquainted with the meaning of the words
“spiritual expression” in our own experience, we are certainly not yet mature.
This is first.
Many people have said, “Yes, the spirit is important; it
comes first,” but the concept of what that meant has been such a piddly
little thing so often. The spirit is the power of God. It isn't just a nice
attitude on the part of a human being. It is the power of God. The consciousness
of man can’t change the consciousness of man.
You can't change your own consciousness. You can't change somebody else's
consciousness. I certainly can't change your consciousness. How does the
consciousness change then? By the working of the spirit.
Consciousness is not changed by consciousness. It's changed by the spirit of God and only
that way. It's the only thing that can be it. So there's no use struggling with
ideas as to how we're going to be able to follow out this technique or do these
exercises or whatever, mentally; or even spiritual exercises, so called. The
spirit gets the job done when the person lets the spirit get the job done, and he’s
not in there trying to get it to work the way he thinks it should work, or in
there just sitting doing nothing. The spirit gets the job done when we let the
spirit get the job done.
The spirit is concerned with the restoration of man, not
with just healing this person or that person. The concern is with the
restoration of man. Individuals play a part in this, yes; but not when they are
self-centered! And how much of the so-called spiritual activity in which human
beings engage is basically self-centered! The restoration of man means that the
whole world of mankind comes into alignment, and whatever doesn’t
come into alignment ceases to be mankind. When the alignment is established,
then the spirit pours out—and that is the restoration of man. Now we have had
some slight indications of an outpouring of the spirit. Occasionally a focalization
develops—there is an acceptance of focalization sufficiently for it to develop
when we're together—and something is felt; and it's a wonderful thing to know
the movement of the spirit. But let us not become self-satisfied and say,
"Oh, well, that’s nice. This should be the way I
feel all the time." How do you know? It's not a self-centered thing.
Whatever happened that perhaps in that instance made you feel good was of
value, not because it made you feel good, but because it was an outpouring of
the spirit in relationship to what is happening in the whole. And we are
concerned with this, having the absolute conviction, the absolute assurance
that only what happens by reason of the spirit amounts to anything.
Our Master when He was on earth said, “I of myself can do
nothing”; and from the standpoint of self-centered human consciousness, that is
exactly true. On a self-centered basis we can do exactly nothing—only on the
basis of the working of the spirit of God. Should we then neglect any opportunity
to permit this experience to come and to be released because we're here? We
must draw close; “Come near unto me” was the word through Elijah long ago—the
word of the Lord through his lips. And our Master said, “Come unto me.”
There must be a coming to the focus point of spirit and an
ability to function in relationship to that. We may be ever so expert in fields
out here somewhere, but if we're not experts in this field, we can do nothing. Of
course we have some experience in this regard, but we need a much more vivid
focus—something which is in focus—not something which is blurred; something
which is absolutely exact, and everybody who should be there is there and right there and doesn't have to be
maneuvered to even come close. When we begin to allow this focus to come
because individually we have accepted for ourselves focalization, then
something happens, because spirit makes it happen, not because we figured it
out and said, "It should be this way or that way" and try to do this
and build that, and accomplish the other thing. It is the action of spirit that
gets the job done and nothing else. No amount of intellectual effort, no amount
of physical effort, no amount of emotional effort will ever get anything done;
just the spirit of God in action on earth, or anywhere else, for that matter.
That's the way things get done. That's the reason why we have a universe.
That's the reason we're alive here on earth. The spirit giveth life, the spirit
giveth all things; and unless we know how to participate in letting this focus
of spirit come to its absolute intensity of centering, what can be done? We
have a blur, and in the end nothing's done.
I bring this particular focalization to point this evening
because it is vital to all of you. And remember that, while we have
opportunities in meetings and radiation groups and
all this, the true focus is right here in the Chapel; and if you don't deliver
the goods here, you're not really delivering them anywhere. I think this should
be more or less obviously true when I'm here in person, but it's also true when
I'm not here in person, when somebody else is here providing the focus. But
here is the core of things in the external sense, and what you offer, what you
do, how you behave, what your spirit is, what your attitude is, how alive you
are, all this is what determines what happens, because this is the evidence of
the extent of the working of the spirit. If we close it off right at the core
of things, how is it going to be able to get anyplace else? And so how vital
this is.
Don't forget it. I say these things to you because I love
you and I trust you, but I love and trust the Lord more; and it is necessary to
say what is necessary when it's necessary. And never, never is it putting
anyone down—never. The only way a
person can be put down is to put himself down; and some people do that as a
means of evading the issue. Always what is offered by the spirit lifts a person
up when there is response to the spirit. If there isn't response to the spirit,
then the individual's in trouble. But there is response in you. And so we share
these hours profitably together. But let us make it as profitable as it should
be because we know what we're doing.
Do you think I have ever come to give a service—or any
others who have had to give services regularly—and sometimes haven’t felt like
it? Could you pick out the occasions, by observing me, when I didn't feel like
giving a service? There was no difference, none at all, because the way a
person feels or what he wants in his self-centered, nonsensical, meaningless
human ego doesn't count at all. That doesn't mean a thing. Why give it any
meaning? We have meaning as men and women in Christ, in the truth of being. Let
us make very sure that we permit this meaning to find expression through us
when it should, right on time, and in the way it should. And let's not excuse
ourselves. The spirit has no trouble, and as long as you are still alive the
spirit is present.
It has been good to
share this evening with you in this fashion, not an evening to just make everybody
feel on top of the world and wonderful and "It's beautiful and how well
we're doing!" and all this. No, you're not doing so good. We could do a
lot better. But how wonderful to relinquish our blindness so that we see it,
and not only see it but let the spirit do something about it.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
And Jesus Sinned Not
Uranda September 22, 1932
How often have you heard it said
that Jesus the Christ lived on your plane without sin? This very thought has
made you feel that He had in some strange way access to a power that is denied
you.
If Jesus had some power that is
not within your reach He is not the great example for you. If you have access
to every power that Jesus had, and you do not live the life He lived, then
surely it is true that you understand not that which is necessary for your own
victory. How is it that you who lay claim to Christianity at the same time say
that it is not possible for you to live the perfect life? What strange
inconsistencies there are in your body minds; for your body minds seek to
please the body, and the body seeks to ignore the guidance of Soul as expressed
through your astral bodies. And thus does the body sin.
I would give to you a deeper
understanding of Jesus, the Master, and His life, or expression, on your plane.
In order that you may comprehend His expression it is needful for you to first
learn what sin is.
What you call evil is the partly
formed object, and what you call sin is the acceptance of that partly formed
object as if it were the finished thing. It is said, “In the beginning the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
Had you been there in your present state of consciousness, you would have cried
out that the forces of darkness were stronger than the forces of light, for the
forces of light were not then manifest in the earth. This condition you would
have termed evil, for it was “without form,” and from the physical standpoint
it was therefore without purpose. Or at best you would say that this darkness
would hinder the good in its expression. But this would not be true, for the
spirit is not subject to the laws of the flesh, therefore the flesh sees not
that the imperfect is the perfect in process of manifestation. Here, then, is
the secret. Contact with the imperfect, or evil, is not sin unless you accept
the imperfect as if it were the perfect. Sin is the resigning of oneself to the
idea that the imperfect cannot be made perfect.
If you would grow, you must work
constantly with the imperfect, for the perfect has need of nothing. This Jesus
did. He learned the secret of the Supreme Logos and the Great Secret Arcanum,
and thereby was He able to take hold of the imperfect and bring it to the state
of the perfect.
The self-righteous hypocrites of
Jesus’ day could not understand why He was willing to be with the publicans and
sinners, simply because they saw not that on your plane the perfect must first
be imperfect, and that the imperfect needs only the skilful touch of a master
in order that it may be perfect. Is not this also true of your self-styled
religious leaders of today? Of a truth they are themselves the sinners, because
they teach that it is sin to be imperfect. If this were true, then the earth
was in the beginning in sin, and God was the creator of sin. What blasphemy it
is that these so-called teachers shout from the platforms of your churches.
God was not the creator of sin,
because He did not leave the earth in an imperfect condition. Into the darkness
of that etheric substance God projected Himself, for He is light. Then did God
see that substance as it would be in its perfect expression. He spoke the Word
and it was so. These are the steps by which God created, and they are the steps
by which you must create. You are not greater than God, so then do not think that
you can bring anything into your life by any other method.
Jesus became the Master because He, above all others,
realized the truth of these things. Jesus was not the Master when He began life
on your plane. He began with the same imperfections as are within yourself. He
made many mistakes. He often fell short of perfection while He was in training.
The secret of how He attained mastership is in the fact that, no matter how
beautiful the imperfect may have seemed to the physical body, He refused to
accept it as the perfect until it measured up to the standard of spiritual
perfection. Jesus lived a life without sin for the simple reason that no matter
how many mistakes He made, and no matter how many times He failed in His
attempts, He kept right on trying until He was master of the thing He
undertook. And as He mastered one thing, He thought and sought to master
greater things, until at last He mastered all things on your plane, and thereby
He became the Master.
It is not sin to be imperfect, but
it is sin to remain imperfect. The things you are wont to term evil are those
things still on the way to the perfect. So condemn not evil, which is the
imperfect, but rather condemn the stagnation of progress, for this is sin.
Condemn not the imperfect one, whom some have called the sinner, but rather
condemn the act which accepts the imperfection as inevitable, for this is sin.
This will show you how Jesus lived
in your world of evil—which is your world as yet incomplete, or imperfect—and
was without sin.
This shows you more clearly how He
was, and is, your perfect example. For He was “in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin.” See you not that this plainly states that Jesus had to
overcome His imperfections the same as you do, and also that His imperfections
were as many as those of all living beings? But He was not daunted by His
imperfections and failures, which were many, and so was He without sin, because
He rose above evil. In other words He took the imperfect and turned it into the
perfect. This you also can do. The manner by which you can do this is outlined
to you in the “Seven Steps in the Way,” which I have given to you. Meditate
deeply upon them.
This also remember. When God was
creating the earth, He looked on each stage of its development and “saw that it
was good.” When you are contending, then, with that which is in the process of
creation—that is, with your obstacles—why do you not see that “it is good” in
its development thus far, and bless it accordingly? This would cause those
things to respond to your Word much more quickly. In order to say that a thing
is good, you do not have to feel that it is perfect. It is good at the point
where it now is, and when it reaches a higher point in development it will
still be good. One point of growth is not better than another; all are
necessary and all are good. Therefore look upon your creations in the light of
this truth, that you may bless them and thus hasten their arrival at
perfection.
You ask, “How can I bless my
creation?” It is by first seeing it in its true light, and thereby giving
proper credit of goodness to it. This is the step of proper visualization. Next
is the step of the spoken word. So, therefore, you may bless your creation by
always speaking of it in its true relation to eternal progress.
When you speak of your creation as
if it were in a state of stagnation, you do thereby curse it.
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.” And see all things, that they are good, for you do thereby
bless them.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
