Structure of the Pineal Gland

The  Structure  of  the  Pineal  Gland

excerpts  from

Word  from  the  Council  of  the  Seven

Uranda  and  Martin Cecil   February 4, 1941

Bishop Uranda — While you have read other Expressions of Realization from Brother Martin Cecil, I release this following paper to you as his first Official Expression as a Member of The Council of Seven. Let it be recognized that in The Council of Seven, Brother Martin Cecil is the Special Representative of the Lord of the Sacred Two, and it is in this capacity that he now serves you. The following paper deals with a Vision and an Attitude most vital to your present function in the earth, upon which much further expansion in Expression is in order. Rejoice and Let It Be So in yourself:

Martin Cecil — The sandy texture of the Pineal Gland in all those who depend upon the response of the outer mind to the things of the world, well symbolizes that the houses of such are based upon the sand which is continually shifting. These are they who say “Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) Sand is made up of millions of separate particles, and the sandiness of the pineal gland symbolizes the separate state of the atomic structure of the unresponsive human body, even though there is a seeming oneness as long as life remains in the form. Thus such human beings, knowing not true Oneness in the Lord, seek to make themselves a “name.” In other words they develop character and personality of the outer being during their lives, and also seek by their functions and activities in the world to perpetrate it after death. No matter how successful they may seem to be, the result is always the same, as it is said “and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth.” In other words the atoms of the unresponsive physical body are distributed back into the dust.

The structure of the pineal gland in the Responsive physical body tends to take on the nature of a stone [Mat. 21:42-44 and Mat, 16:18 where the “little rock,” or Peter, of each individual is mentioned—but the world rejects the Truth of the Stone—Bishop Uranda] the sandy particles are fused into Oneness, thereby giving evidence of Eternal Life in form, through the Adoption of the atomic structure of the whole body into Oneness with the Lord. Such an house is built upon the Rock which cannot be moved.

“Let thine eye be single, that thy whole body may be full of Light.” In that the pineal gland is the single eye, this quotation refers both to the necessity of letting the structure of the pineal gland be fused into Oneness through Response, and also to the need for our Response to be through the “window finished above” to the Lord in the Inner Planes of Reality and not through the double eye, or the eyes of outer vision, in response to things in the world without. As we come into a clearer understanding of Symbolism, we find that it is not merely a superficial picture of little intrinsic value, but that all true Symbols have a use and a need and an active function. The sandy particles of the pineal gland have a close relationship with the atoms of the unresponsive physical body. The fused stone of the pineal gland is a necessity in the unified harmonization of all the atoms in the perfected body temple. And so on through all the manifest Symbolism of the whole earth.

Response through the double eye of outer vision, which is to all intents and purposes the only kind of response that mankind is aware of, reveals that sooner or later any seeming oneness in the nations or among the nations of the world must break up in the confusions of Babel, regardless of what anyone may think to the contrary. With these things clear before our eyes, it is evident why it is said that the elect would be seduced if it were possible. The elect are seen to be those whose eye is single and whose body is therefore full of Light, and the darkness of the outer vision through the double eye has no place at all in such. So it is not possible that they should be seduced from the Lord their God within them. They are no longer concerned with the signs and wonders of the outer world, but with the infinitely greater Glories and Truths of Eternal Reality, not as abstract and helpless dreamers but as doers of the Word, that the Perfection of the Everlasting Kingdom might be released into the earth.

So shall the LORD God be glorified and His Blessing of Radiant Light, Love and Life fill the whole world with Peace and true Oneness, which cannot fail for it is founded and established upon the Eternal Rock of the Christ Love. “The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: This is the LORD'S doing and it is marvellous in our eyes.” Rejoice and Praise the Lord that it is so.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

The Outpouring of Blessing

from

The  Outpouring  of  Blessing

Martin Exeter   June 8, 1986

The vine brings forth fruit. There is a vine and it bears fruit in remarkable ways. This fruit is a radiant fruit; it is not for self-consumption. It goes forth in the expression of life to accomplish whereunto it is sent and it does not return void. When it is the creative process in action, that accomplishes whatever the creative process requires. As we are associated in this experience of life it is natural to trust the creative process. If we have to think about trusting it we’re not trusting it. It is only when the point is reached where the creative process is in action because one is present oneself, that one has a part in bearing the fruit of the vine. It doesn’t come, certainly, because one is trying to do something. If you’re trying to do something you’re not doing it; you're just trying.

But when there is participation in the creative process, then the fruit is borne—the radiant action appears. That radiant action may be at the level of thought, it may be at the level of feeling, it may be at the level of physical form, but it is all part of that radiant process, a process which is not subject to the area into which the action is directed. As we well know, the human-nature state is a constant reaction to what seems to be occurring in the area round about. How are we going to handle this? How are we going to contend with this? How are we going to survive in face of this—of all these things round about? Well there’s a very simple answer to that: you’re not! As long as that is the basis for action it isn’t action, it’s reaction.

We are shedding the human-nature way of reaction, so that there may be room for action. That creative action, radiant action, does what is necessary in the creative cycle that is working out. What is necessary is not known in the field where the action is directed. It is simply known as a part of the radiant action; the knowing is in the radiant action. This is entirely a reversed procedure to what is common in human experience. There is a looking at the things round about and a laboring with the things round about, trying to find some way to operate which will take into account all these things round about and enable us, in one way or another, not only to survive if possible but to get what we think we want. In such case, as we can easily see, the god which is worshipped is the field of action, the field round about: we are being dictated to by people and things and circumstances round about as to what we shall do. This is the human-nature state. It is the state in which human beings have been trapped for thousands of years.

Now we have come free of this because there is association with the creative process. We become increasingly aware that this creative process is in operation already; and as we are associated with it, it will do what it is here to do. But it will do what it is here to do in our own world. Each of us has a world, after all, of which each individual is the center. There is something to be done in that world, and in that particular world there is only one person who can do it, and that is the individual himself who centers that world. Nobody else is there, so it must be done by oneself. There is no one else that one can call in to do it for one. This immediately indicates a certain level of maturity, where responsibility is being taken.

So the action appears by reason of the factual creative process, which is, in its initial movement, invisible. It requires a facility to allow it to become visible, and here is the facility. As one becomes aware of this, one begins to participate in an understanding way in the creative process—in an awareness of what it is that needs to be done. Some of the things that need to be done have cast their shadows before. There are many things, however, which need to be done which haven’t yet cast their shadows before; they are only known as there is continuing movement in the creative cycle.

I think it’s a wonderful provision that we are not privy to all that is going to take place. We have looked at that before from the standpoint of when there was a beginning movement with the creative process represented by this ministry. In a personal way I am most thankful that I had no preview of coming events, because if I had I never would have started! And that is probably the same for each one, so it’s very excellent that we don’t know. All we know is that we are capable of handling what it is that is right in front of us now, and that there is the creative process on the move which permits doing what needs to be done. We don’t know what needs to be done in the detail which we will know when we do it. There are some coming events that cast their shadows before but there are a lot of others that don’t; and it doesn’t make any difference. There is something to be done in association with the movement of the creative cycle and that is all we are concerned with. We are willing to do that, whatever it proves to be, carrying the authority of the creative cycle. That’s always the case if one is identified with it. It has authority because it is going to do what it is going to do, whether anyone likes it or not. But it only begins to be an uplifting creative process when there is a means by which it may be conveyed into the world by someone who is open to the movement of that creative cycle.

If human beings everywhere in their human nature are resisting it, then what a remarkable transformation occurs when someone comes along who is associated with it. Then something really begins to happen. And we have some experience of this, because the resistances have been dissolving a little in our experience, so that we suddenly become aware there is a creative cycle on the move. And we trust it to start with because we are still somewhat separate from it. It’s like someone trying to trust God. Well the creative cycle is God in action and there is, to start with then, the condition of separation to some extent still, so that one is trusting something that seems to be separate from oneself.

So it has been indicated that there is a need to trust the creative cycle, but let us not imagine that’s the last word. It’s something that we do initially because there is still a state of separation in our own experience. We are not yet one with the creative cycle. This is the case because we are still concerned with our own personal affairs; we’re holding out, still stealing a little bit of life to boost our own expectations as human beings. The dissolution of that isn’t as yet complete, is it? But there is an awareness of the reality of the creative cycle, and we associate ourselves with that—to start with in trust, until ultimately we come to the point where we suddenly realize, “I am the creative cycle. It isn’t separate from me. I am that and it isn’t designed to get anything for me; it isn’t designed to draw blessings to me.” There’s no sales pitch on that score. This is the thing that appeals to human nature, isn’t it? “What am I going to get out of it?” Well insofar as human nature is concerned, the answer to that is: not a damn thing! And human nature is going to starve to death.

The creative cycle has been moving for how long? We might say, eternity—anyway, quite a long time! And it’s going to keep on moving, whether human beings participate in it or not. The only thing is, if they refuse to participate in it and let it become what they are, the creative cycle would just simply obliterate them, push them out of the way. We have the example of that, as we already know; generation after generation people are pushed out of the way. Someone should suddenly awaken to the idea: Why should one insist upon being pushed out of the way? The only way not to be pushed out of the way by the creative cycle is to be one with the creative cycle. Then we go right along with it.

We share this as there is a radiant body identified with the creative cycle, so that fruit is being borne. The vine bears fruit; the tree of life bears fruit; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil bears fruit. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil simply indicates that the creative process is understood, not by human beings presently—but it is understood. It is at work. The creative cycle is on the move and it produces what is describable in terms of good and evil. It produces what is to be produced on the basis of the moving cycles: the evil and the good, the evil and the good. There’s nothing wrong with that; that’s the way it works. There is only something wrong when human beings start to try to use what is happening to their own supposed advantage, and this is the state of human nature: trying to use to advantage what is happening in the creative cycle, eating of the forbidden fruit.

But associated with the creative cycle one isn’t seeking to accomplish anything other than what the creative cycle is doing. One has no personal agenda, no personal intent. This has seemed very difficult for people to understand with respect to this developing body, that there isn’t any hidden agenda; they are always looking for a hidden agenda. And it is possible that some of those who have been associated with this body have had some hidden agenda personally. But the true body of the creative process has no hidden agenda; it’s just what is happening, that’s all—just what is happening by reason of the creative process. Being one with that, nothing is hidden; it’s all out front, it’s all on the move. There is a state of transparency, innocence—no hidden agendas, no trying to get anything for oneself, no trying to make anything be other than what it will be on the basis of the creative cycle, the creative process.

Could you say in your own experience that, in your relationships with others, in your affairs day by day, you have no hidden agenda? Oh you would like so-and-so to behave differently. The human view there is that this is only natural: “They’re not behaving the way they should. We’d like them to behave differently. Why not?” That's the hidden agenda. It doesn’t matter how anyone is behaving. Could we get that through our thick skulls, do you think? It doesn’t matter!—IDM—It Doesn’t Matter, because the creative cycle will take care of it. What arrogance to assume that one knows better how to take care of things than the creative cycle does.

So there is a relinquishing of self-righteousness in order to participate in true righteousness, which is allowing the creative cycle to move because it is one’s own expression of living. And finally there is the reproof of judgment; for the prince of this world, the son of perdition, is already self-judged. Human nature passes away. It’s an obvious fact. Do you think any human nature you may still have is going to last forever? It passes away. Isn’t it strange that there should be the idea that somehow or other human nature is going to be preserved? What an awful thought!—billions and billions of human natures preserved eternally. For what? Let them pass away. And that only has meaning when: “Let whatever human nature I have still hanging around pass away. Let my judgments pass away.” There is no need to judge. The creative process takes care of everything. It may take care of everything by obliterating all human beings eventually, but we don’t accept that as being inevitable. Yes, it will take care of human nature; but supposing there is some true nature, divine nature, the son of God, around?—well human nature can go, that’s fine, because what should be here remains.

We share the responsibility of permitting this creative process to come to focus because we are here present with the facilities to let it happen. Then all things are made new. Too easy. Well that’s right, isn’t it? The yoke is easy, the burden is light—the way it should be. Isn’t it funny, when the simple truth begins to be noticed by somebody they are inclined to say, “That’s too easy.” What makes it too easy? It is easy! That’s the way it is. When such an attitude is assumed, “It’s too easy,” it is another way of saying, “I’m not going to be bothered with it; it can’t be right. It can’t be for me because it’s too easy.” Well do we like things to be tough and hard and difficult and complicated? You can have it either way.

The creative process is easy and it brings forth beauty, it brings forth a new world. That new world is of no interest to human nature—human nature can never know it. But the new world is the natural world, the garden home for man in his true nature. The way is available; there is only one way. When it comes right down to it, there isn’t any choice. It’s one way—it’s this way or no way. If one thinks that no way is a choice, I suppose there is a choice. But there is the Way, there isn’t any other, and it is not knowable by human nature. Human nature can know something about it but it can’t know what it is, because what it is is only known to man in his true nature. It’s only known to the one I am—words to be spoken truly by anyone. The one I am is the one whose thoughts and emotions and actions spring out of the creative process, no longer out of self-serving hearts and minds, no longer out of human nature. That is what human nature is—self-serving.

We rejoice to be increasingly aware of the radiance that pours forth because of the vine. And we delight in the fruit that is being borne—not try to eat of it but to provide all that is necessary, so that there may be a fulness of blessing pouring forth, conveying the radiance of the vine in a particular aspect of fruiting, the outpouring of blessing that others may, if they will, share in that outpouring. The blessing doesn’t go forth to people so that they may say, “Oh give it to me; I need that.” A lot of people will say that, but that is not the reason for the blessing. The blessing goes forth that others may become aware of their own ability and responsibility to share in the outpouring of that blessing.

That is the reason for the existence of man on earth: to permit this creative outpouring of blessing, the bringing forth of fruit not for himself but in the processes of creation. And what is brought forth is entirely pleasing, wonderful, but it isn’t designed by the human mind or the human heart to satisfy themselves. The satisfaction comes in the outpouring of the blessing. And behold, all things are thereby made new.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Breathing-out and Breathing-in

Breathing-out  and  Breathing-in

from  the  Positive  Power  of  Spirit

Martin Exeter  November 2, 1986

Life is simple. Because of this the real experience of life eludes many people, because they are hung up with complexity. It really doesn't matter what anyone else does. To get down to this sort of brass tacks is very reluctantly accepted by the pallid sort of people who constantly undertake to blame somebody else or to judge somebody else, imagining that that will take the spotlight away from their own behavior.

From my own standpoint, back along the way in particular, I was aware of some extraordinary behavior on the part of various ones who were associated with the Emissary ministry. But what difference does that make to me? It makes a difference to them presumably, but insofar as I was concerned I had the responsibility of providing the stable point in spiritual orientation that was required. And I don't see anyone else anywhere being in any different position. Most others didn't see themselves that way. But finally, there are those who do. Regardless of what anyone else may deem to be their required behavior, one simply assumes responsibility for what one knows for oneself. As there are those who do this, the fact of being with one accord begins to put in an appearance. It certainly isn't based at all in one's own behavior in the past or the behavior of anybody else. It is based in the immediacy of spirit that is present now, to be given expression now in the fulfilment of the responsibility of providing the essential focus of spirit on earth. One has to do that for oneself; no one else can do it, after all. And when that attitude of responsibility is taken it makes utterly no difference how anyone else behaves. One still has that focus point of responsibility.

The behavior of others, if it can throw one off from providing that point of focus, indicates immediately that one is not assuming responsibility for the unwavering expression of spirit. "Someone else did it to me. They caused me to feel that I wouldn't be able to express my beautiful character if I was in their vicinity." Well I don't know how beautiful my character is, but I do know that there is the responsibility of providing the spiritual point of focus, and I trust that there is no one around who can cause me to deny that. Is not this, again, something that any one of us could say with respect to ourselves? People are very revealing of themselves. There is no necessity to judge anyone. They paste it up all the time. You just observe, that's all. It doesn't make any difference to oneself because one simply still has the same responsibility as before, no matter how anybody else behaves. So we accept this, surely, as the basis for living.

The theme these days may be said to be the spiritual expression approach. How simple. How very simple. Why indulge in complexity, which brings so many other things into the picture which have no business being there, and particularly the behavior of other people? I suppose in one sense I could say, I don't give a damn how anyone behaves. Do you take that attitude too? I don't mean that there is no concern to provide what is necessary in the way of a stable point for other people, but whether they accept it or not is their business. One may say of oneself, "Well I'm going to keep it steady, that's all, and do it for whatever length of time it needs to be done or for whatever length of time I'm on hand to do it." This is an indication of the nature of my own attitude in this regard. And it's because there has been something more or less stable there for a period of time, that the results of that have put in an appearance. In the ordinary course of events human beings want instant results. Nobody can wait. Patience is increasingly something of the past, left behind.

Let the positive expression of spirit be maintained—primarily by men, but also in concert with those women who will agree to it—and let the creative process work. There is a simple summary of the reason for one's presence on earth, and how the part may be fulfilled. Complicated, complex? I don't think so. Simple. The complexities are a means of evading the simple point. "Well things are so complicated!" This is a statement that is frequently made by people. No, they're not! They're absolutely simple. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. It's just as simple as that. Well we'd better get around to letting the heart be purified then, that what is thought may be true—and then, so is he—the truth is revealed.

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the creative process. The creative process is not something separate from me." Can we say that? Only when that can be said are we in place, and it is only then that it is safe for someone else to associate with us. Back along the way I wasn't sure whether it was safe for others to associate with me but I was darn well going to find out. I find out by discovering whether it's safe for me to associate with me! And it is basically the same thing for anyone. There was someone of whom I was aware who took that attitude with respect to himself and opened the door for me. As there are those who take this attitude for themselves the door is opened for others, but only that way—not by meditating on it, not by discussion, not by trying to learn the laws of life, whatever they may be, but simply by assuming the responsibility for oneself to maintain that focus of spirit of which we have become aware. Let us not deny that. We are aware of it. Because we are aware of it we have the responsibility, whether we like it or not. There are a lot of people who aren't aware of it, but we are. So there is no excuse there, or anywhere else for that matter.

We assume together the responsibility for providing, as individuals, that focus of spirit, so that others may be safe in associating with us. Has that always been the case for you? I know it hasn't always been the case for me in times past but I trust it is pretty safe now, safe enough to get the job done if there are those who will assume the same stance. I have never suggested that anyone assume a stance that I have not assumed myself, but I certainly have suggested that that stance be assumed. And there are those who have taken me up on it. Thank God for them. Some of them are here present no doubt. But it is only when it is actually done that there is something of weight present on earth, one might say an immovable mass. And from the immovable mass proceeds the irresistible force. I think many have thought of spiritual expression as being rather a fanciful thing. I have suggested that one should never underestimate the power of spiritual expression, but of course to know what that power is there has to be spiritual expression—one's own. Then you know the power of it. That power is an open invitation to all whose hearts will permit them to come near into an awareness and experience of the creative process.

We have seen the creative process as centering in our King. "I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the creative process. Abide in me, and I in you." Sharing this, the door is opened on earth for anyone to come home to where they belong. Whether anyone does it or not is beside the point. If our continued stability is dependent upon others being affected by it according to the way we think they should, we won't be stable for very long. But when it doesn't matter at all what anyone else does, then finally there is a point of stability. And there are those who will be drawn by the magnetic force of it, the power of it, the power of love we say—a very different sort of love to what human beings have thought of as love. It is the creative power operative throughout the whole universe now. What do human beings know about it? Virtually nothing. They know nothing about love, in other words. But to participate in the creative process is a participation in the moving power of love. To do that requires a pure heart. The pure heart makes possible the movement of spirit to emerge out of heaven into the earth.

"Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." That particular wording was preceded by something concerning peace. "My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Human beings are great at talking about peace, rallying about peace; even, it seems, fighting for peace, as though peace was a human production. Human beings cannot make peace. Peace is the evidence of a pure heart, that's all. Without a pure heart peace remains unknown, impossible of knowing. So words are bandied about concerning peace which have no bearing upon the experience whatsoever, and never could have, no matter how fancy the words. Let the heart be purified.

We are aware that repentance is required if there is to be a pure heart, and we are also aware that repentance is not a one-shot deal. We have seen it related to the analogy of breathing. Repentance is breathing out. If we breathe out it becomes most necessary to breathe in again. When there is repentance, so that the old controls that operated in our existence are relinquished that way, they are breathed out. Let them go. Then there is air, the air of the spirit, waiting to rush into the space created by the breathing out, by the repentance. There can be no experience of the purifying power of the spirit unless the spirit is breathed. It won't be breathed in until you have breathed out what needs to go, until there has been repentance.

The clutter that has maintained the disturbed confusion in human hearts must be breathed out. "Let not your heart be troubled." Repent! Breathe out the trouble. "Neither let it be afraid." Breathe out the fear. And behold, breathing in becomes an absolute necessity. I don't know if you have ever tried breathing out and holding it; it won't last very long. You have to open up with a gasp, breathe in. Some people have tried repenting and holding it, weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth, casting dust and ashes upon their heads. What a useless undertaking. Just breathe in. "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." Breathe in. When the Lord God created man He breathed, as it is put, "into" his nostrils—but I think it was "through" them—the breath of life. Well that was both breathing in and breathing out. We do it all the time. Let it portray for us how we operate spiritually. We have an attitude of humility and repentance constantly. We know we are associated with something that is pretty rancid here on earth. Let's breathe it out. Repent. And breathing in, it is the breath of life. The heart is purified this way.

The heart is a useful organ by means of which the blood is circulated, but it is the breathing mechanism that purifies the blood. And we may see in that that it is not an unnatural process. There has been some sort of a big deal made about repentance, some sort of a big deal about exhaling. But we simply do it. And because we do it we inhale. The breath of life is then in our nostrils once again, and the experience of peace comes. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" and all that characterizes God, peace included. No human beings can get peace. All they can do is to permit their hearts to be purified, so that they need no longer be troubled or afraid. Then the experience is peace, peace given by the One who breathes life through the nostrils of man. That wasn't intended to be something merely of long ago—just a momentary artificial resuscitation, somehow bringing life into the dust of the human form, and thereafter let her rip! The breathing is the natural process divinely designed by which the heart is purified and kept pure. And we share that as we choose.

"My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you." The world doesn't give peace. People are looking all over the place in the world for peace. It ain't there! Peace is simply the evidence, in human experience at least, of a pure heart. Let the heart be purified and peace is known. Let the heart remain impure and peace can never be found. Simple, isn't it? Not very complex, after all. So in this simple way let us share in breathing the breath of life because we're happy to repent and we're happy to receive the Holy Spirit breathed through our nostrils.

I rejoice that in this hour we have shared now in the experience of something of that breathing, that the heart might be purified and that peace might be known.

© Emissaries of Divine Light