Atomic Power

Atomic  Power

Correlation  of  Concurrent  Cycles

Uranda   July 11, 1954  Class

We have been considering together the principle of reciprocity, and through this pattern of meditation we have drawn closer to an understanding of that which is essential if we are to rise above that level of function and accomplishment which is already established and widely known in the world. There has been a beginning, as we all well know, in relationship to accomplishing that which is necessary in the Lord's service in the earth, but we also know that there is a need for greater power, a greater degree of accomplishment, than we have yet known. 

We have recognized that increasing power, as such, would not be helpful but would only bring devastating results. Increased power, in and through us, without the development of the control which makes use of that power on a constructive basis would be just as devastating, just as terrible. 

If the outworking of God's plan on earth had not moved forward, if there had not been real steps taken by which the spiritual power might be made manifest on earth, I do not think that man could have reached the point he has with respect to the physical manifestation of power which we might well classify as the counterpart of spiritual power. If we fail to see the correlation between that in which we are engaged and that which commands the attention of the world, we make that to which we are called in the name of our King to be of little or no value. By such an attitude we establish a basis on which our only hope can be defeated. It is difficult for me to approach this subject and deal with it without making some personal reference to myself, which could be misunderstood, and if it is misunderstood it will tend to hinder our program, rather than to help. 

Now if I came into the world with a divine commission—and there is the point of possible divergence of viewpoint and opinion, and that is the reason I put it this way, not because there is any doubt in my own mind but because I recognize that there has been, and can be, doubt in other people's minds—but if I came into the world with a divine commission, which has been the motivating factor in building this ministry to this point, it is obvious that the development of the program in the overall sense would not be left strictly to that which was directly involved in the sense of this ministry as such. This that we are doing here is of utmost importance, yes; but that which I came into the world to accomplish is not in any sense limited to that which is being done here. 

Many cycles were established and opened up in the world to be carried forward more or less simultaneously in many fields, not just that which was immediately in front of me in a visible sense, which has come to the point which we share in this hour. Now, to whatever degree any human mind has the idea that that in which I am engaged, and that for which I am responsible, is pictured here, that person has not yet caught the vision. From the standpoint of those who do not have a basis for that vision a statement with respect to anything else seems to be arrogant, seems to be egotistical, seems to be utterly fantastic, and I know that. My business is the presenting of the truth. But as we have continued to this point where we can begin to glimpse the actual working of the principle of reciprocity, it has carried forward to a point where I cannot refrain, and be true to that commission which brought me here—I cannot refrain from bringing to your attention certain facts, whether they seem to you to be fantastic or not. But if you imagine that that in which I am engaged is limited to that which is here known and here formed, you are very wrong. 

There are many fields where individuals have permitted themselves to be the means by which cycles have been initiated, where those involved have absolutely no awareness of any idea that I, as a person or a being, have anything whatsoever to do with that which they are doing. They do not know anything about it, and to those who do not have the true vision it would seem fantastic and ridiculous for me to suggest that I do have something to do about it, because in the external sense, shall we say, I am not in position—nor am I interested, in fact—I am not in position to offer what would be classified as conclusive proof.

But to those who have any vision here, it will not seem so fantastic to realize that the cycles initiated were not limited to that which was directly and personally under my hand in an outer sense. This is that, moving toward the fulfilment of the Law in human beings, so that spiritual power might manifest under control. Concurrently, other cycles were initiated through individuals who had no awareness of a personal relationship with me and the program, who had no idea that they were doing anything in relationship to a cosmic plan, generally speaking anyway, and who had no idea of any endeavor such as this.

Now I am not in the slightest degree interested in convincing them that there is any correlation. But if we are to understand the significance and importance of what we are doing we need to begin to see it, we need to begin to know, not just from the standpoint of what I know but from the standpoint of what we all know, because if this is not seen and accepted and realized, we are never going to reach the point where we can exert the essential control to prevent the other cycles, which have been opened up concurrently, from going clear out of control.

The point is that these cycles that were opened in various fields, the cycle that developed and came to a head in relationship to atomic power, that was shaped into atomic bombs and the H-bomb, etc.—all of these things, they are the result of cycles opened on earth for which I am responsible. Whether anyone else on the face of the earth knows it or acknowledges it or not, I am. I am responsible for these cycles that have opened, the cycles that are working in the field of medicine, in the heart of the medical profession, cycles that are at work in the armed forces of our country, cycles that are at work in the realms of government—not just in the United States, by the way—cycles that are at work in every field of human endeavor that appears to the world to have any significance or importance.

In every cycle of endeavor which the world thinks to be important I have a personal responsibility—with respect to cycles that were initiated and opened and set in motion concurrently with this development which you share here consciously. And the control factors essential to keeping those cycles moving correctly depends upon what I get done here. It cannot be controlled in a direct sense through those cycles themselves.

The control factors have not developed as rapidly as I had anticipated and they have not developed as rapidly as some of these other cycles have developed. A number of the cycles that have been working concurrently with this program are behind us in development, not enough to make it a matter of concern; they are not pushing us any. But some of them are getting too much ahead of us. We have reached a point where actually I did not have any choice left but to bring this to your attention, to help establish in your consciousness a deeper realization of the real significance of that in which we are engaged.

Why do you suppose I have had the attitude I have had with respect to the outworking of all these factors in diplomatic circles and world controversies? If you look back and analyze it, you will see that I could not very well have had the attitude that I did have on any basis other than this, knowing that if we function correctly and establish the machinery, there would be a control factor beyond and above anything that the world has conceived of.

From the standpoint of the fulfilment of the divine plan, it is expected that my part in it, or the relationship between this and that, will not be known for a long time to come. I am not interested in establishing any idea of relatedness.

Now if you do not like such a big responsibility, if you do not like to be associated where this idea exists, or where the leader has such a fantastic idea, or where there is such a great responsibility, now is the time to pull out. If you don't want to share it, now is the time to pull out and sever connections with me, because as far as I am concerned that is what it is, and whether you are aware of it or have been or not, it is my responsibility, and if you are going to continue to share this ministry with me you are going to have to share that responsibility.

If we take a good look at it you will see, I am sure, that any ideas that just this program right here, immediately at hand, could somehow, all by its little self, accomplish what has to be accomplished in the world—that would to my mind be fantastic. I don't think one of you can look back and say that I said that we were going to have to do it all by ourselves. I have suggested that there were other people in the world who would have a part and a share. Perhaps I didn't undertake to tell you just how. But these other cycles were opened and they have been working concurrently with this one, with the idea, as far as the divine design is concerned, that this one would develop rapidly enough to provide the essential spiritual control to keep the others in hand, without their knowing anything about it. It is not at all essential to the accomplishment of our purpose that they should know anything about it, at least not for quite a long while.

But if you look back, I did tell you, that every activity upon the face of the earth, every church, every school, every educational institution, every philosophy, the whole works, was in one way or another—insofar as its initial aspects were concerned, or the truth that was contained in it was concerned, or insofar as its value was concerned—it was all a part of the program of the Third Sacred School. Did any of you ever hear me make a statement to that effect? Certainly you have. But these programs are moving concurrently. If we had to wait until we reached a point where we had all the control and could be assured that you and you and you would be in your place and all completely prepared, and then we would open up these other cycles, do you know that before we could get to the point of using them you would be dead? And it would have to be done all over again, and there wouldn't be any chance of doing what we set out to do.

The only hope of doing the job was to initiate the cycles concurrently. And there were qualified individuals in the realm of science, and all of its different phases, etc., to initiate and carry on these other cycles, and they were used for that purpose. Whether they knew anything about it or not is beside the point. But it was left to me to personally oversee the development of the program which should reach the point where the vibrational or spiritual pattern of control should arise and in season be made manifest, so that it would be there when the time came when it was needed, so that these other cycles might be kept in a range of control and accomplish that which was needed. I am forced to admit that we are not as far along as we ought to be.

This power that I have been talking to you about for so long, the spiritual power, the power of the Holy Spirit, can manifest only on certain controlled conditions. The development of the counterpart of that power in the physical world has moved on apace and is ahead of us—atomic bombs, etc. I am not at all concerned about the atomic bombs if we reach the point where we exert the counterpart power correctly, but if we don't we will have helped to produce a Frankenstein monster which will destroy us. I'm not afraid of any such consequence; I just hope that we can get the job done so that it doesn't happen. Because a lot of people would suffer. A lot of people that do not need to suffer would suffer. It isn't for myself that I am concerned; it is for you and a lot of others—millions of them.

It is this counterpart power, in a spiritual sense, that needs to manifest. God works through human beings and the natural channels. And do you think you are the only human beings on earth? Not by a long shot. There are a lot of people out there, and they are doing something too—the scientists, all of the programs, the atomic power plants, the UN, and other cycles—they are a part of it. How is this power going to accomplish so much? By simply working through the human beings who are already in their respective fields in relationship to control.

Have I ever said anything to you about control that is important? And did I ever say anything about the secret place, or heavenly magic, or any of these other things—have I? You are not going to have to go out and do what Oppenheimer did, or someone else. They have done, or are doing, their job. It is wonderful. I have watched it with tremendous interest. Did you ever notice that, that I have an interest in all these things that are going on? Just casually, as a bystander? No, not at all. It is a part of my job. They are my people, whether they know it or not, just as much as you are. They don't have to know it; you do, because you were supposed to provide me with a means of having a control pattern that would keep them from hurting themselves and a lot of other people. What they did had to be done.

Some people imagine that the world would be better off if the atomic bomb idea had never been developed. I don't agree. It is important. I am not going to tell you how or why, or just what part it is going to play. Speculation will not get you anywhere. If you become fearful, that will not help. In human strength alone you can't do a thing in the world about it, and you know it. Can we do something about it? Is it so fantastic? Am I just suffering from an hallucination, illusions of grandeur or something, got an idea that I am much more important than I really am?

My concern is: Am I going to get my job done in time? If I don't, a lot of people will pay an awful price. It holds very little gain. It will not be all loss, but it could be a lot more tragic than it needs to be. There will be some tragedy at best. At best there will be tragedy; we cannot prevent it all. It is impossible, because there are too many things outside of the cycles, the primary cycles that are at work, and human beings are peculiar creatures and we have been pretty slow about getting that control pattern developed.

How is this control to come, the control factor in manifestation? I was commissioned to get that into operation. That was my personal project—control. Have I ever said anything about control, dominion, kingdom at hand, or any of these related subjects? What was I talking about? Just words somehow? I was seeking to help you reach a point where you could intelligently work with me in the discharge of this responsibility, and if you don't want to share that responsibility, now is the time to get out. If you do, then I will expect something of you—not just a little but much, not self-centeredness but selfless service, to the end that this control pattern will take form and begin to have more meaning.

In spite of all of the uncertain factors, there has been a good deal of control exerted in the world, whether you know it or not. A good many things have worked fairly close to the point that they were supposed to. There has been quite a bit of control, but not enough, and some of the cycles are getting ahead of us; and if we fail and they get out of control, then I fail, and that will be that as far as this generation is concerned, as far as possibly a number of generations are concerned. Even if a few people survived on earth—and there might very well be a few here and there—it might easily take quite a while.

I have pointed out that this is man's last chance, man as we know him, as we have his history for the past five or six thousand years. It is because man as we know him would not emerge in the next cycle. It would be somewhat different, but that would be speculation on your part if you tried to figure out what I mean. But it could easily take another five or six thousand years to reach a point where we would be this close to the victory once more, and there could be a lot of suffering in the interval, and God would have to wait. And even if a thousand years is as one day to the Lord, who wants to keep Him waiting for even a week? I don't. It is not my intent.

I am not saying that this is what is going to happen; I am only pointing out that there will be a tragic result if we fail and if that control pattern is not made manifest, if we are there with too little too late. That has been one of the tragic things in the world in the past in many, many ways: too little too late. What will it be with us? What will it be with me? We shall see what we shall see.

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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