The Anti-Force Rendered Impotent

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The  Anti-Force  Rendered  Impotent

Martin Exeter   June 21, 1987

How very close the kingdom of heaven is. It is said that it is at hand. It isn't over there somewhere just out of reach, or even farther afield; it is right here exactly where we are. It is at hand. It is within reach. It is present. It has been obscured from human awareness because of what has been described as a veil. This veil has been developed in human consciousness over a long period of time and is particularly added to from generation to generation. We have some awareness that it is woven out of this matter of judgment, accusation, blame. Darkness is maintained and what is actually present cannot be seen or understood.

Judgment is based in a view which includes good and evil. On the basis of this view, all human action arises. I am sure we are all much aware that bureaucracy is another word defining human nature. There are vast ramifications to bureaucracy. There is bureaucracy in every field of human endeavor, and within all of these fields there are a multitude of different departments. We clearly see that in connection with the bureaucracy of government, but the same is true in every other field of human endeavor. There are various departments which require human beings to behave in certain ways. They all have their books of rules. The endeavor appparently is to make a book of rules which covers every conceivable situation: "Do this. Don't do that."

Human-nature bureaucracy may be seen as the body of the son of perdition—the way by which human beings are controlled. In some areas there aren't necessarily actual books of rules; in most areas there are. But in cultures and social systems it is usually more a matter of sensing what fits and what doesn't. One becomes aware of how one should behave in this particular culture. Moving into a new culture, perhaps a new country, there is the necessity of becoming familiar with the customs, and one will make one's mistakes for sure; gradually the person learns to conform, to fit into the culture, into the social system, whatever it is. Everywhere one looks there are these instructions as to behavior. What a very clear portrayal this bureaucratic state, the body of the son of perdition, is of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. All these rule books tell you what is good and what is bad, what you should do and what you shouldn't do. The endeavor is to pin it all down and then, by whatever means, get everyone to conform. It doesn't work very well—here, or anywhere else for that matter.

The bureaucratic state of affairs is universal on this planet amongst humankind. It composes the symbol of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We are all instructed to eat of this fruit: "Behave according to the rules, not only governmental rules but many others as well; if you do this you will be good." Eat of this fruit and you will be able to live in this country, or in this society, or in whatever department of it. If you don't eat of it you will be an outcast, you will be harried from pillar to post; but if you will conform and be good, be obedient to all these instructions about what is good, then you will be acceptable and you will be secure. You will be taken care of by mother, whoever mother may happen to be, whether it's the government or the union or the particular organization which you may be a part of, all these things. Here we have a picture of the human state, very graphic, and characterized by bureaucracy. It's all in the book and there are always experts around to tell you what's in the book, so that you must behave this way.

As we look at it in this fashion, it evidently is very restrictive. One doesn't really have very much freedom at all. It seems there may be a sense of freedom if one conforms. Then one feels that one can thread through this labyrinth successfully and perhaps even make a buck, perhaps even be rewarded in some fashion for being so good, perhaps The Order of Canada in this country. My, that really makes the ego swell; and one will be honored and respected because of this, simply because one has lived by the book. Of course it may turn out that one wasn't quite so good as was originally thought. Things get uncovered, don't they, here and there, and people are put on the spot in various ways. It is of course virtually impossible anyway to conform to all the rules in all the books, because so many of them are contradictory anyway. But it is a great struggle and effort to make this attempt, and I suppose a person feels really worthwhile if he achieves some success in this regard.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil! And one is instructed to eat of the fruit of it. Most people meekly go along. Oh, there is a certain amount of rebellion of course, but eventually most settle down and find that their bread and butter, so to speak, is composed of the forbidden fruit. This is a picture of the crowning creation on earth! How sad.

The kingdom of heaven is at hand. In the midst of the garden is the tree of life. The tree of life, in our own immediate experience, symbolizes the body of the Son of God, whereas the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has come to symbolize bureaucracy.

Over the millennia, because of the unpolarized human function, there has been created by mankind what may be called an entity. Of course there has been some recognition of this. You will have noted that someone is always looking for those ultimately evil people who are subjecting all of us to this terrible condition. And various people and groups of people are fingered from time to time as being the authors of the evils which assail us.

The fact of the matter is that there has been created, during this lengthy period of intensifying bureaucracy, a very compulsive force in human experience. It compels toward judgment of good and evil. I suppose it could be said that it panders to all the so-called human weaknesses. It brings pressure to bear on this basis, and insofar as human beings are concerned this is a very real compulsion.

There is an anti-force, one might say. This has been called the Antichrist, but that takes it into a rather different field of concept. There is an anti-force which is very compelling insofar as human beings are concerned in their present state; it compels them to do what they do. We may imagine that we are clear to a certain extent from this compulsive anti-force, so that we can look over there and see the anti-force at work in the foolish behavior of human beings all over the place. Human beings behave the way they do, imagining either that they should behave that way, or that they can't help themselves. Do you ever have the idea that you can't help yourself?

Here is the anti-force at work, something very real in human experience, something that only exists in human experience. The anti-force isn't a cosmic entity that roams around through the galaxies. The anti-force is restricted to human experience. It doesn't have very much scope but it makes the fullest possible use of what it has. The idea of this anti-force is to bring human beings into absolute slavery to it. It's a strange thing, isn't it, because human beings have created this force but are intent upon being enslaved by it. Of course they always have been enslaved by it to some degree ever since the fall, but it's been building and building. We see in this bureaucratic model how everybody is being brought into absolute slavery. And they are not brought into absolute slavery kicking and squealing, for the most part. They happily give themselves to it without any apparent awareness of what it is that is happening.

Some people wake up to it and they are going to really do something about it, so they organize. They create anti-anti-forces! That looks to me like compound interest. There are all kinds of organizations against all kinds of different things. Sometimes in democratic countries governments are elected in order to scale down the bureaucracy. It never happened, by the way, because the bureaucracy is human nature, whether it's in government or anywhere else, and as long as human nature is in the saddle in individual human beings it will be revealed in these various ways.

The best way to strengthen something is to fight against it. You may eliminate a form along the way by fighting but you still have the anti-force after it's all done. It has been strengthened in fact by this struggle, which is purportedly, for good reasons, against something that is deemed to be bad. Oh how heartily everybody eats of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and, by doing so, maintains this compulsive anti-force which drives them inevitably to ruin. We see the whole world being driven to ruin and nobody knows how to stop it, because everybody is participating in the force which is driving the human population to ruin. We have heard the words "Come out of her, my people"—stop contributing to this process, stop giving power to the anti-force. And how is that done? Because there is acceptance of the one supreme power, that of love.

There is the tree of life in the midst of the garden. No one can come to the tree of life except by passing the flaming sword, except by accepting the fire of love and the sword of truth in one's own living, so that all connections with the anti-force are severed and dissolved. Then one may come into the body of the Son of God, which is the tree of life. We don't come to the tree of life to eat of it. That would have been the attempt made by those who were cast out of the garden. They want to get back, so as to eat of the fruit of the tree of life and live forever. This is what human beings have been trying to do all along. They can't get back, because to come back to the tree of life one comes back as a part of the tree of life. The tree of life doesn't eat its own fruit. It brings forth the fruit in a consistent way, twelve manner of fruit, one each month, continuous. This is the fruit of life.

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. If a body forms for the Son of God, it is a formation of the tree of life in the midst of the garden. It is unknown insofar as most people are concerned because they can't get past the flaming sword, so the tree of life remains an unknown quantity. But we begin to experience the reality of it to the extent that we have come past the flaming sword—only to that extent—which severs our connections with the anti-force, so that we can no longer be compelled to operate at the behest of the realm of effects. We operate on the basis of the flow of life, the flow of life through the tree of life, bringing forth the fruit of life. And that fruit appears as effect, but we don't eat of the effect. Our concern simply is to bring forth the fruit and let the effects be what they will. This is the creative process, isn't it? And it works with absolute certainty as there are those who give form to the tree of life in the midst of the garden on earth.

As that body of the Son of God forms, it is secure because there is the protection always of the flaming sword. What is that? We know it relates to the truth of love. Here is the radiation, the power of love. As soon as there is the body of the Son of God present, the tree of life present, in form again on earth, here is the power of creation. And the power of the anti-force, which hitherto has ruled everything, immediately begins to diminish. Mind you, in the view of the anti-force and of those who give the anti-force particular accommodation, it seems as though the compulsion is leading toward the ultimate objective: the complete enslavement of mankind. Of course the anti-force remains in darkness and unaware of the power of love.

The power of the anti-force is what can be stolen from the power of love through human beings, through the blood of human beings, through the passion of human beings. And human beings are very passionate in various ways, as witness what is going on all over the place. It doesn't take very much to stir the passions in human beings. The passions of human beings are there to be used by the anti-force. Human beings are the source of the power of the anti-force. They give their passions to the anti-force, so that it consequently exists. They created it in the first place, without being aware of what they were doing, from the individual standpoint. Nevertheless here is a very massive force, in human terms at least—not very massive from the standpoint of the universal whole but big enough insofar as human beings are concerned to reach the ultimate goal of human enslavement.

No doubt there are those who particularly embody the anti-force in the human sense, profiting by the deal; but there is little awareness, thankfully so, of the tree of life, the body of the Son of God, the power of love, the creative power of the universe. As there is the tree of life, as there is the body of the Son of God on earth, that power can move by reason of it. And as it moves freely there, it is withdrawn to that extent from the anti-force, which consequently perishes. It seems to me it landed up in the lake burning with fire and brimstone. That's a good place for it. It ceases to exist—burns forever and ever, no comeback!

Here is the way it works. Here is the creative process. It is a serious business. It is something that is so vast that there has been little awareness of the immensity of it insofar as we ourselves are concerned, but it begins to emerge. It must emerge if this power is to be released by reason of the body of the Son of God. As it is released there is an awareness of it, of the immensity of it, and there is in fact nothing that can stand against it. It is only because human beings have shut it off that something has been able to stand of a different nature. Let it come back, and nothing can stand that is contrary to it. The anti-force is easily dealt with once there is the form of the tree of life available to bear the fruit.

"And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations," that is, for the restoring of the design of man on earth, not according to the human idea of nations and cultures and all this but the way it really is. It comes for sure when there is the body of the Son of God available to the Son of God, for the essential creative action. "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." This is the word of the One whose body it is. No problem. Easily attended to. This is not to say that what happens is easy on everybody, but the job gets done. And that is what is of sole concern insofar as this body of the Son of God is concerned. That's the way it is.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Reproof—Antispirit Prevails Not

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Reproof — Antispirit  Prevails  Not

Martin Exeter   June 15, 1986  p.m.

"To speak with one voice is to let the King speak on earth."

Commitment—considering this in the light of various varieties of human-nature commitment, we do not wish to accept a fanatical attitude which tends to emerge when it is a matter of the human-nature commitment. While there may be an initial sense of commitment, in due course this dissolves because there is one present who becomes known in expression and, in fact, has no commitment at all. There is simply the participation in the creative process.

We need to be rather careful not to take an attitude of commitment to the creative process. Initially maybe we do, but if there is an approach based in commitment this relates to human nature. Human nature is committing itself to all kinds of causes, and finally has the satisfaction of committing itself to the cause of truth—ah, this is a real boost to the human ego! But it never is a matter of commitment by human nature to anything. Let human nature pass away, that there may be unveiled the natural, consistent, powerful expression of truth in living. This comes because there is space for that expression. As that emerges, the truth is known, and there is no necessity anymore to try to force anything to be so. If at any time you find yourself trying to compel yourself to do something that you feel is aligned with a commitment to the expression of truth, you may know that the human ego is in the saddle.

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” The way that is put, it doesn’t indicate there was any great effort or stress or strain. Just be willing to dwell in the secret place of the most High and consequently abide under the shadow of the Almighty. No big deal. Human nature tries to make it into a big deal in order to sustain its own presence and control; but all the approaches of human nature need to dissolve, so that what is left is simply the truth, and it is found to be a natural thing.

We abide in the heaven of spirit. If we actually do abide in the heaven of spirit, then we act, we do what needs to be done. We don't need to hype ourselves up to produce what human nature would think of as results. We know that this is needful if one is to become a super salesman. You have to hype yourself up and it helps if there is a group of people all hyping themselves up: “Go out and sell the product!” We don’t need to hype ourselves up. Just abide in the heaven of spirit.

If we do abide in the heaven of spirit, we are, at the same time, aware of the heaven of antispirit because it is the same place. Different elements are at work in the heaven of spirit to what are at work in the heaven of antispirit, but the work is being done in the heaven. I think this has been something of a mystery heretofore, and we haven’t particularly considered it, because there was the need to come to the point of abiding in the heaven of spirit without fussing about the heaven of antispirit. We would never come to abide in the heaven of spirit as long as we were contending with antispirit. This is why it has been so important to cease judgment, for instance, to cease the conflicts which are engendered by subjection to the machinations of antispirit. Let them go, that we may come into the heaven of spirit and abide there.

Probably in doing so we didn’t count on the fact that if we came into the heaven of spirit we would also be coming into the heaven of antispirit, because it is the same place. But we are able to do what we are here to do by reason of the fact that we are abiding in the heaven of spirit. We are here to do something with respect to antispirit. We noted that this was spoken of in the Book of Revelation as war in heaven. Well we need to be present in the heaven of spirit before there can be the acceptance of responsibility with respect to the presence of antispirit.

I trust we have reached a point where we are sufficiently aware of the heaven of spirit that we can abide there, and at the same time observe the machinations and the antics of antispirit in the heaven without being thrown off balance, without losing our polarity, without being caused to be ejected from the heaven of spirit. We need to be in the heaven of spirit and to abide there, but there is something to be done. The doing presently relates to the restoration of man. This requires the ejection of antispirit from the heaven.

I am sure we are all quite aware that antispirit still throws a bit of weight around in the heaven which we have come to know. There are occasions when it seems he takes over. We have had plenty of time, however, to learn to abide in the heaven of spirit regardless of anything that is going on insofar as antispirit is concerned. We are going to retain our centering; we are going to be on a firm foundation; we will be consistent and trustworthy; we trust the creative process in the heaven of spirit—it’s at work there. The antispirit substitutes a different working in that heaven and heretofore has had almost uncontested control in human existence throughout the body of mankind.

So we come into the heaven of spirit and abide there, and in doing so we become aware of antispirit, rightly so. Some were hopeful that if they came fully into the heaven of spirit they wouldn’t have any more truck with antispirit: “Ah, what a relief! Now we don’t need to concern ourselves anymore with antispirit.” Well we do need to concern ourselves with antispirit, but not in the way that was done before we came to abide in this heaven of spirit. Only when we abide in the heaven of spirit can we deal with antispirit.

The dealing with antispirit was described by the words, “The dragon and his angels prevailed not.” They were incapable of taking charge, taking charge of the one who abides in the heaven of spirit. They can’t be inveigled into allowing antispirit to prevail in one’s own personal experience; and our own personal experience is now wrapped up with experience of the body. So the machinations of antispirit are not allowed to govern at all in the body as a whole, because all abide in the heaven of spirit and have the consequent ability and power to deal with antispirit. But the basic factor of dealing with antispirit is that antispirit cannot prevail anymore, prevail in one’s own expression, or prevail in the expression of the body.

This isn’t a battle in the ordinary sense; it is simply a matter of withdrawing power from antispirit to take control in one’s own experience. Antispirit can only take control as life, the power of life, is given to antispirit to do so. Remove that power and antispirit is powerless. Antispirit only exists because human beings give antispirit power, the power of their own living, or of their own existence as it would then become, not living.

Something was recorded for us in the Gospel of John with respect to reproof. The way by which antispirit can no longer prevail is because antispirit is reproved. One must be in a position of strength, in the position of control, to reprove what needs to be reproved. If one is subject to what needs to be reproved, certainly one can't reprove it. One wouldn’t know what it was to reprove it anyway.

But there are these three matters relative to reproof: the matter of sin, the matter of righteousness, and the matter of judgment. Here are the three areas in which antispirit maintains primary control. We come at last to the specific points where this control is maintained in the body of humanity. These three points differentiate into a multitude of other points, and human beings are always fussing about this multitude of other points, so that the core of the control of antispirit is never even seen. The differentiation of antispirit provides a vast variety of points for contention in the body of mankind. If you start to try to deal with all the quirks of human nature that are present in yourself, you won’t live long enough to do it!

Let’s get to the core of the matter; and we can only come to the core of the matter when we come to the heaven of spirit, because here we are approaching the absolute focus of things. Where the focus of spirit is present, we may have defined that in terms of love, truth and life, which are merely words, but we cannot abide in the heaven of spirit without letting those words become a reality in our own experience of living. When they are a reality in our own experience of living we find that we don’t really need the words anymore. When there is alignment with the truth, all that is true finds expression and there is nothing present in one’s own internal nature, so to speak, which will contradict that.

All human-nature antics are based in conflict. Everyone has been sold a bill of goods on this: that you cannot know pleasure without pain, for instance. If there was merely pleasure and no pain, there would be no need for the word “pleasure” to describe it, would there? It would be the state of affairs. You would experience pleasure without knowing it, without knowing it as pleasure. All you would know it as, would be just the state of affairs. This relates to the experience of the creative process. As the creative process finds expression in one’s own living, that is what is known. It doesn’t require anything else to prove that it’s the creative process; it just is. That’s what is being experienced.

This matter of sin, righteousness and judgment all is indicative of the fact that human experience is separated from the creative process. The reproof of sin, it is said, was required because, as the Master put it, “they believe not on me.” What does that mean? Belief on Him may be seen as unification with the creative process. Belief is not a mental concept or an emotional feeling, at least not the way this word is used in the context which I have quoted. It simply indicates that there has been no experience, insofar as human beings are concerned, of unification with the creative process. It can easily be seen that the Master exemplified unification with the creative process. To experience unification with the creative process is describable as belief in Him, but that’s a very different thing to the usual mental concept or emotional feeling with respect to this.

There is unification with the creative process, and that is the reproof. It is the reproof of the state of separateness from the creative process. Accepting and experiencing unification with the creative process reproves the world of separateness from the creative process. That is exactly what the Master Himself did. But human beings got the evidence out of the way as soon as possible, so that they might not be reproved. So sin remains, separation from the creative process; that’s all it is. Anything that anyone does, any human being does, in the state of separation from the creative process, is describable as sin. It doesn’t matter whether somebody says it’s good or whether somebody says it’s bad, it’s still all sin. So to reprove the world of sin there must be present on earth the evidence, through human beings, of the unification with the creative process. Reproof is immediately there. And which do you think has the most power: unification with the creative process or separation from it? Of course there is no contest!

The same thing with righteousness—as the Master put it: “Because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more”—there is no external evidence anymore of unification with the creative process. Therefore all righteousness, as human beings think of it, is not righteousness at all. It is self-righteousness, insofar as the self of human nature is concerned. The world is full of self-righteous people who would be shocked to awaken to the fact that they were self-righteous. They think they know what is righteous, what is good, what should be done in this situation or that one—everybody is so sure of their righteousness, and yet none of it is righteousness at all.

Righteousness is only known when there is the experience of permitting the creative process to find expression in one’s own living. The Master is not on hand in human form as He was to reveal this, so one has to take the responsibility for revealing it oneself. There isn’t any other way; and there is reproof again with respect to righteousness. As long as human beings can be fooled into fiddling around with all the classifications of sin that have been foisted upon people, and as long as everyone can be assured of their own human righteousness, the antispirit is in absolute control. And human beings can be manipulated constantly, as they are!

And finally judgment, of course: this is the character of antispirit. This is what antispirit promotes, judgment: “Now if you are intelligent people you can see the situation, you see what’s right and what’s wrong.” And everybody falls for it! Probably also, “Well if you stop judging, there is no means of determining how you should go; you would be just a nothing! We have to have our opinions, we have to have our judgments, to go this way and that and prove that we are men and women of substance.” Oh, how the whole world is deceived!

Now, coming into the heaven of spirit we can see this. We begin to see what it is that is operating throughout humanity. We stop looking so much at the surface manifestations which human beings are now enjoined to judge. This surface play, which grabs human beings in their emotions and they get all hyped up about it, has nothing to do with what is really going on. What is really going on is the fact that antispirit has had control of humanity all down through the ages, and still has.

However, we see a little light at the end of the tunnel, to the extent that we begin to abide in the heaven of spirit. Then we see what is happening from the standpoint of spirit, and at the same time we see what is happening by reason of antispirit. We have an advantage over antispirit in this regard, because antispirit doesn’t know what is happening from the standpoint of spirit. It has become so fat in the land that it thinks it will sit a queen forever! Isn’t that what was said? Something along those lines. Fine, let it think that.

But here we are in the heaven of spirit, with a consciousness of the way the creative process works and a participation in that working as we give it expression in our own living. We no longer trust minds and emotions to direct us in the way we should go. We trust spirit; we trust the creative process and we let it work. The prince of this world, the antispirit, is judged; it establishes its own judgment. It’s very true, as the Master said, “With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged”—much safer not to judge at all, because it’s going to come right back, and it does. Of course coming back, with most people, it makes them judge even more!

Finally we come to abide in the heaven of spirit, and we are not shocked to find out that as we abide in the heaven of spirit we become aware more vividly of antispirit. We understand what’s going on and we know how to participate in the creative process to bring reproof. In the creative process here is the truth, and antispirit is reproved. The prince of this world is judged. It doesn’t know it yet, but we know it first. And by reproof, the fact of being judged, self-judged, becomes apparent to antispirit. This causes a good deal of disturbance. The process is going on, it’s what is happening now, and there is increasing disturbance.

Let the dragon and his angels be cast out of the heaven, because Michael and his angels abide in the heaven. On this basis antispirit can never prevail. We experience strength and understanding, and we are quite willing to let the creative process work. It’s the work of our own living: and we participate in this process, which has been hidden from human understanding, but we come to an understanding, and behold, the world of mankind is reproved—no great battle. But that old serpent, the devil and satan, is cast out of the heaven. He then fiddles around in the earth in the experience of vast numbers of people, but as this matter of reproof is consistent and held steady there is a clarification. Heaven becomes a sea of glass, clear as crystal, and the design present in heaven is unveiled and takes form on earth as the first heaven and the first earth pass away. The two processes work together. The new heaven and the new earth emerge, and the first heaven and the first earth dis-emerge—a simple process when there are those who abide in the heaven of spirit!

© Emissaries of Divine Light

The  Astral  Realm

Uranda   October 27, 1937

Many people consider the astral realm and so-called experiences therein to be very real. No matter what anyone has said or written concerning the astral, the simple truth of the matter is that it is the emotional phase of the mental plane, and the mental plane is limited to the realm of human consciousness. There are no entities, either good or evil, in the astral realm; nor is there such a thing as an earthbound spirit. Psychics, who think that they contact astral beings, or earthbound spirits, are simply opening the emotional phase of their own human minds to thought forms which have been made by the thinking of human minds. These thought forms are not beings, or entities, in any sense of the word, any more than a phonograph record can be said to be the person who spoke or sang the words recorded thereon. Intense and habitual thinking in any one way produces a thought form which can be contacted by a mind reader, and whatever has been impressed on that thought form can be detected—but all that comes from the astral realm had its source in faulty human minds, and its value is literally less than nothing.

When a person who has had an intense thought and emotional life dies, the inner God Being ascends with all of the responsive portion of that person—that which ascends is completely beyond the reach of any psychic, or mind reader, or anyone else who thinks to contact the dead. The thought forms which that person created by his thought habits, whether good, bad, or both, are released into the mental plane, where they dissolve and disappear, unless they are attracted by some human being who is functioning on a vibration similar to that upon which the thought form was first made, in which case the thought form may become attached to the person who attracts it. If a sufficient number of such thought forms are attracted by any person, he begins to show signs of being unbalanced, and if he continues to be subject to such thought forms and to attract more of them, he will finally become what is called insane. However there is no entity of any kind involved in such a process, other than the living human being who attracts the thought forms.

Not long ago an earnest sister asked this question: “What will become of the astral realm and the evil, earthbound entities that are said to inhabit it?” My answer was: “The astral realm is in the mental plane, and all things therein are but thought forms which will be burned up in the transforming fire of love. The astral realm, so called, will be no more, and now there is no such thing as evil, earthbound entities, excepting ordinary human beings!”

Various questions recently asked might be combined like this: “Will a new planet be created for those who fail to respond and do not make the right-hand turn? Or will they be taken to some distant planet for further development? Or will they continue to incarnate here on this earth, as in the past, until they are able, finally, to make the right-hand turn? If not, what is their fate?” Time after time, in my writings, I have pointed out that the inner soul, or Lord, or Father, or God-Self is perfect in each and every human being. During physical life there is an ascension, or resurrection, or transition, of the human body into the divine inner body to the degree of the earnestness and sincerity and love that expressed through the human being; and all else, including that which remains at death as the corpse, is exactly the same as the refuse that is cast out of the body day by day through the bowels—it is no longer a part of that being, and insofar as that form, or person, is concerned, it is as if it had not been. That which ascends from any person, no matter how evil that person may have been on earth, is perfect, Divine, and holy, for all the evil is left behind as refuse. The refuse that is cast off day by day, and at the end of physical life as it is now known, simply returns to its natural mineral elements, to be picked up from the soil by vegetation and to be returned thereby into the cycle of life, wherein that substance is given another opportunity to ascend.

Understanding these facts, it becomes clear that after the great change into the new age, there will be no more incarnation of God Beings into evil or wayward human beings; for there will be no more evil beings of any kind. The Inner Beings of all people are now perfect. That which ascends, either at death or through experiencing the true transition into the new age without death, has been, is, and will be perfect. Insofar as the ascended being is concerned, there will be no difference whatsoever, whether the whole body ascends or whether a portion of the body, because of evil, is cast off as a corpse. The difference is with the human beings involved. Those who respond are those who ascend into oneness with their Lords. Those who refuse to respond and fail to make the right-hand turn are simply returned to the dust of the ground from which they came, and that substance will never again be drawn into the same form. So it is that that form, or human being, will be as if it had not been. Instead of ascending, such an one, speaking of the outer human, is returned to the dust, to be picked up in a thousand different forms of vegetation, and from thence to enter into a thousand different manifestations of the animal kingdom. It is easy to see that atoms that have been in human bodies are picked up by grass. A cow eats the grass, and a hundred different people eat the cow. So is the cycle of life in the outer world at the present time.

The point which so many people cannot yet get clear in their consciousness, because of the mass of false information that has been taught in the world, is that whatever ascends with the inner God Being is perfect in every last detail. In that which ascends there is not the slightest vibration of evil in any form, no matter from whom it ascends. Let us illustrate our point. There are gold nuggets which are almost pure gold and there is gold ore of all degrees of value. No matter how much dross per ton there may be in any gold ore the gold that is drawn from it is just as pure as the gold that is taken from higher-grade ore. The amount of the dross per ton does not change the quality of whatever gold is present therein, but it does determine whether or not such ore is pay dirt! The same thing exactly is true of human beings. Whatever ascends is gold, and whatever remains is dross, whether it be from a person who is mostly good, or high-grade ore, or from a person that is mostly bad, or low-grade ore. There is no such thing as an in-between state, other than the human state of physical life as it is now known.

There is no such thing as a young soul or an old soul, for all inner souls are eternal, not subject to age, without beginning and without end, and perfect in wisdom, knowledge and understanding, having no need of experience in human form to teach them anything. Those who attempt to find out about their past incarnations in the usual ways, or in any way, always develop a split consciousness, and if they persist in such things they will surely become more or less insane. Why? Because each person has billions of atoms in his body, each with an auric record of its experiences, and every one of those atoms has been in one or more different human bodies. You have the atoms from millions of other human bodies that have gone before you. In the psychic field all that can be touched is the atomic vibration, and there are so many of these, and they are so at variance, that it is a hopeless maze. Until a person has ascended into the consciousness of his or her own God-Self, and is abiding there, he cannot know of the past incarnations of his God-Self, and then such knowledge comes, if it be needed, without any trying to get it.

There are no evil entities other than human beings. When this fact is understood the rest is easy to comprehend. Those who wished to control people through fear have taught otherwise; but that which leaves the body at death is perfect, no matter what the body and its mind may have done contrary to the direction of the God-Self. There are no evil entities other than visible, physical, ordinary human beings as now known to mankind.

At this point the question always arises, “What, then, is the use of trying to be good? Why not just go out and do whatever I want to? For I don't care what happens to my body, if my soul is all right and ascends anyway.”

That is a perfectly human attitude, which springs from the fact that the person who asks such a question has not yet come to understand the true purpose of incarnation. The average human being has been taught to believe that, in his human consciousness and mind, he is something apart from his body. Many have taught that there is some sort of a soul between the human being, with his mind and body, and the Inner God Being. Such an idea is utterly false. The soul about which the Bible speaks is the human being. The human being, as the ordinary one knows himself, is simply a physical body with a conscious mind, and a vague idea that he has some sort of connection with what is vaguely called God. Some teach that the God-Self is outside of the body, while still others teach that the human being has no direct contact with God Being in any way. It may be argued that it makes no difference what a person thinks about the position of God Being in relationship to himself so long as he is earnest. It is true that the earnest one, if he wavers not, will carry through into a realization of the truth, but he must be willing to acknowledge the truth when he comes face to face with it, for otherwise he will repel himself from his one source of life.

The God Being incarnates into the human being for one purpose; namely, to bring eternal life and perfect function to that human being, if he will only respond and let it be so. The God Being does not come into the body to learn something or to gain experience. The awakened human being knows that it is in accordance with the divine plan that his physical body, with its mind, should ascend into the divine body and Christ mind of his God-Self, and he also knows that he can live now in the ascended consciousness state and live among men, taking care of that to which he is called in service in a perfectly natural manner, so that he does not look to death, nor to the end of physical life, for a time of ascension. Such a person could not ask a question like the one above.

If you feel like asking the above question, answer this question first: “Since you do not care what happens to your body, would you object if someone wished to cut off your hand, or foot, or some other portion of your body?” When you face the fact, you come to the realization that you do care, and care very much, what happens to your body. When you come face to face with yourself you will have to admit that you, as you know yourself, are your body and mind. You, then, are a human being who is mortal. The presence of your God Being in you allows you an opportunity to respond in the Christ love and be adopted by your God-Self. To the degree to which you are so resurrected, or that you so ascend, you will take part in eternal life, and you will continue on after what the world calls death. However, to the degree that you follow after your own carnal or human mind and refuse to respond to the love of your God-Self, you will be subject to death—and to that degree, death will be the end of you. Those who waste time playing with the astral realm and their experiences or dreams, thinking thereby to gain knowledge and make progress on the Way, are being deluded.

Those who are truly responding in love to their Lords do see many things, which may be called visions, and thereby is their consciousness caused to expand, but that is not of the astral realm; it is of the Christ radiance. The earnest one rejoices in each vision but he does not attach undue importance to it; he learns his lesson and carries on, always standing upon the rock of fact and truth. Such an one has no time for self-hypnosis or the passing fancies developed by human minds and released into the astral realm. Such an one knows that in this present Life he can experience full release into reality.

© Emissaries of Divine Light