Exact Alignment

Exact  Alignment

from  God  Almighty

Martin Cecil   December 6, 1970

"This brings everything up to date within the range of our own field of responsibility."

The will of God is done in heaven. When man is in place what occurs in heaven instantly occurs in earth. The human view of God's will has tended to be a concept—if it is done in heaven, someone needs to find out about it so that at some later date it may be instituted on earth. This idea is partly consequent upon the fact that with man out of place what happens in heaven takes some time to show up on earth, and when it does show up on earth it has been so thoroughly mutilated and distorted that the heavenly original is scarcely discernible at all. The impact of what occurs in heaven upon man is considerably delayed because of his insensitivity, his coarseness, his uncomprehendingness. Eventually a little of it gets through subconsciously and it hits him. He reacts to it, and the result is the action of man on earth. While the heavenly original was intelligent, purposeful, and had meaning, by the time it comes out on earth, what there is left of it, it may be a century or two late and an entirely different thing altogether. There has been this lag between the heavenly doing and the earthly result consequent upon man's delayed reaction to the heavenly doing.

It is possible to examine earthly events in order to trace them back to the heavenly original, not that very much would be gained by such an undertaking, because it's all several centuries out-dated. If we see that the things that are occurring in the external sense in the phenomenal world are of this nature, then it emphasizes the utter futility and nonsense of trying to deal with the phenomena. Human beings rationalize what they do, but we have become aware that what they do springs from something out of the past, something that erupts out of the subconscious mind for instance. Now we may begin to see that while there was a heavenly impact of some kind, the earthly result through man has become a garbled portrayal of what is long out-dated. All the grandiose efforts of human beings today are of this nature. The activities of men result from something established in heaven in the past but reacted to by unpolarized man.

The Heavenly Plan is designed so as to bring this lagging state of affairs up to date. The evidence of this being done was spoken of as the shortening of the days. There is a thinning out of the dense cloud that has surrounded man, so that the heavenly impact penetrates more quickly and the reaction consequently comes more quickly. The delay between the original action and the reaction is not quite so lengthy; there is not so much of a lag as there has been in centuries past. We can see something of the change in this regard on the basis of our own experience. Our association with this has permitted us to share a much more immediate experience than has been true in the general sense for most people. We have a keener awareness of what is happening in the heavenly sense, closer to the time that it happens, than most people do. In the case of most the awareness merely is of the reaction that more or less automatically occurs in the person according to his polarity, according to his response.

Where there is response it rapidly becomes an instantaneous thing. Where there is reaction it tends to be delayed because of the wrong polarity in those concerned. But the faster the reaction appears, the more destructive the experience. As the days are shortened and quicker reaction occurs to what is being done in heaven, the destructiveness becomes increasingly apparent. We look around and we find destructiveness of all kinds taking form. The destructiveness is not going to get any less as the days are shortened.

The lag is reduced and the intensity of destruction is increased wherever there is reaction. It can be easily seen how futile and indeed ridiculous it is to wrestle with the destructiveness, because this destructiveness is merely a reaction to something else. This something else is happening and there is nothing that anyone can do to stop it happening. God's will is done in heaven; the happening occurs in heaven. If the polarity is wrong the individual will react, and that reaction will be a destructive experience. There is nothing that can be done in the external sense to stop it being a destructive experience. The only way the external change could come, so that there might be a creative experience, is for reaction to change to response.

The result of God's will being done in heaven has tended to be destruction on earth simply because man was out of place, didn't know what was happening, hadn't a clue—it proves to be a destructive experience because it was based in reaction. It was not based in response. All the things that are happening on earth are simply the lagging results of impacts out of heaven that eventually penetrate sufficiently to hit people on earth. Something that at the point of origination is creative and perfect becomes something terrible and tragic on earth, both in the larger sense and of course in the smaller, individual sense. To the extent that anyone begins to open up in yielded response to God, the gap between lagging reaction and instantaneous response begins to close, so that there may be a participation in the heavenly action now.

The heavenly action now will for the most part produce results in the experience of human beings in the world tomorrow—not necessarily in the next twenty-four hours, but maybe next week, next month, next year, depending on how rapidly this lagging process is being dissipated. All this is resulting from what is happening in heaven. God's will is done in heaven, and the gap is closing. When it reaches the point where it is in exact alignment, that's it!—instantaneous destruction for reaction and instantaneous revelation of God's will on earth through response.

All the things in our experience in the external sense that come to us day by day—all of them—are the result of heavenly action in the past. Our responsibility when these things come to us is not to judge them. The things that are appearing in the external sense are old stuff. They are absolutely meaningless, all of them, until someone who is letting God's will be done in earth as it is in heaven updates them. This is what we are here to do: to let the things which come to us be the means by which God's will can be done in earth now, as it is being done in heaven now. Then the thing is updated. When we do that we find that the things we handle are not what we thought they were. They are transformed by the creative action of God's will which is allowed to work in the earth now, as it is in heaven. This brings everything up to date within the range of our own field of responsibility. "Behold, I make all things new."

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Resurrection In Fact

Resurrection  in  Fact

Martin Exeter   April 19, 1987

During the last fifty-five years a miracle has been occurring in the body of mankind. The view of most is fastened upon external events, of which there are multitudes, some close at hand which we may observe, others reported to us—probably quite inaccurately—by the media. But the miracle has been overlooked. We ourselves properly have some awareness of this miracle in our own personal experience.

At Eastertime in the Christian world, which incidentally is only a part of the total world, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated. It is assumed that this person really existed and lived on earth and, according to the Christian view, was finally crucified, placed in a tomb from which He came forth in the resurrection. If one stops to consider the matter, setting aside for the moment the multitude of beliefs that are present in human hearts and minds with respect to all this, it is simply based in a story that has, rather miraculously I suppose, come down to us out of the far-distant past. Apparently the story was written some considerable time after the events, if you think of two or three hundred years as being considerable time, so how accurate the stories are might be open to question. But in any case there are stories which those who are associated with the Christian religion remember. They remember the stories about something that was supposed to have happened almost two thousand years ago. No one living on earth today was present at that time; no one has firsthand knowledge of what it was that occurred—consequently there has had to be the development of a considerable system of belief.

One might possibly be inclined, observing all this, to see something of a fantasy which is present in human consciousness, firmly believed in by many people. The belief varies somewhat from one group to another, but the fundamental factors seem to be commonly accepted. However, in fact it is a fantasy. I do not say that to denigrate anyone’s beliefs, but merely to state a fact. Such memory as there has been—and this was thought to be important—has related to some events which may have taken place a long time ago, a memory of the past. It’s interesting to note that in one of the central observances of the Christian religion there is what is called the communion service, and this is designed to call something to remembrance also. But, always, the calling to remembrance has been relegated to the past, as though this was the only kind of memory that anyone could have.

Recalling the past, even our own individual pasts, is presently recalling a fantasy. It isn’t real now. At the time in the past, when that was the present, there was a sense of meaning to it, or a sense of reality to it; but looking back upon it, it becomes a fantasy. I’m sure you’ve all noted how memories differ when recalling past events: “This was the way it was!” “Oh no, I remember it quite differently!” It’s all a fantasy! Even the experience at the time was quite different for different people. The only reality we could possibly know is in this present moment. The only connection we have with reality at all is now. As soon as anything slips into the past it is removed from the present and immediately becomes fantastic. It becomes imagination.

The experience that needs to be remembered is what that experience might be in this present moment. Our experience in the present moment is virtually all based in what has gone before in the past. It is all based, in other words, in a fantasy—so that we live in a fantastic world. Anyone who has opportunity to examine what is going on in this world would be inclined to agree that it really is fantastic—not in a very pleasing way, either, for the most part. So remembering the past, blocks the remembering of the present. There is something to remember now, an experience which has not been known up to this point.

Obviously there is a lack in human experience; otherwise so much attention wouldn’t be paid to all these things in the past. It is hoped that somehow or other we can drag something out of the past to ourselves to fill this gaping void in our own experience. At least this is the general state of affairs insofar as most people are concerned. Apparently the only value of the past is to make the present bearable! Why shouldn’t the present be bearable for itself? Something must be being excluded, if there is a void in our experience now which has to be filled up with all the stuff that may be remembered out of the fantastic past. This view of memory, as though that was important, is a faulty view. We are given the opportunity to remember now what we have forgotten now. And one of the things, it seems, that everybody has forgotten is who they are, why they are here; and I suppose you could say where they came from, but that is the past. The only connection we have with ourselves is right now.

The story that is central to Christianity, having come down to us out of the past, is some sort of a memory of a fantasy. The only reason for remembering is to see it as an allegory which relates to the present moment. All too many Christians, particularly around Eastertime, think that one has to get back into the past there and suffer so, because of what supposedly happened two thousand years ago. What good is that supposed to do now? But as an allegory of something which is applicable to our present experience, there is value and meaning, to the extent that what we remember is true. The only way we can prove out if it is true or not is to let the allegory find application in our experience now.

I suppose Easter should bring us to the point of considering the resurrection—not considering it from the standpoint of a story out of the past which is deemed to be factual but from the standpoint of considering that story as an allegory applicable to our present experience. The resurrection, as I recall it according to that story, is of the body of the Son of God. This is the Christian view. The Son of God was deemed to be the person who was called Jesus Christ. Remembering that, isn’t it wonderful that the body of this particular person survived the tomb and came forth in resurrection and then in due season ascended into the heavens? A lovely story, but completely meaningless insofar as human experience now is concerned. We don’t observe too many people coming forth from the grave and walking into the surrounding garden, then communing with those who remained, and later disappearing into the heaven. It’s a fairy tale, isn’t it? Let us see how it applies, what it means in present, practical experience; otherwise it is a waste of time considering it. This may offend many who are imbued with the Christian doctrine, but is nevertheless the fact if one can disassociate oneself sufficiently from this packet of beliefs that has been swallowed by human beings generation after generation after generation, so that it is in the very genes of those who are of Christian extraction. It is very difficult, seemingly, to shrug off all that—we’ve got to carry around the burden with us. We don’t need to really, because the allegory simply points to the fact that there is rightly the experience of resurrection now.

I commented on this matter of the fifty-five years when a miracle has been occurring within the body of mankind. That miracle relates to many of us, and others who are not here present. There has been the emergence of a body of people, drawn together not on the basis of some belief—there are some who have tried to make it be on that basis. It isn’t on that basis, but on the basis of the fact that there is a focus of spirit present in form on earth—and has been for fifty-five years, in this particular aspect of the moving cycle of things—who provided that focus of the spirit of the Most High, so that the Word might be spoken and the Tone of Life sounded.

Because that has been the fact of the matter—readily available in our experience as we came along the way, but readily available in our experience now—there has been the magnetic force which has drawn a body into form, to the extent that it has up to this point. This is the resurrection of the body. Christians are very much inclined to say, very often, “We believe in the resurrection of the body.” Okay, here it is! It isn’t a matter of believing in it; it’s a matter of accepting the experience of it. And the allegory of the old story which is familiar to Christians can be accepted and acknowledged as relating to oneself here and now.

We are taking a look at this this morning, but it’s something that we’ve been aware of, most of us anyway, for some considerable time. It isn’t just a matter of taking a look at it, is it? That may be helpful, may be necessary to start with, to begin to see that there is something to be experienced which hasn’t yet been experienced. Even with respect to those who have experienced something. I’m sure each one would readily admit that the experience is as yet rather incomplete. But by reason of the fact that there has been a focus of spirit on earth moving in the creative process, the Word has been spoken and the Tone has been sounded. That is all that is necessary, for the body to be drawn together—at least from the standpoint of the Most High, that is all that is necessary. It isn’t all that is necessary insofar as the rest of us are concerned, because there has to be a willingness to be drawn. There has to be a willingness to let the resurrection take place, to let this body take form within the darkness of the tomb of this human world. After all, that’s the only place it could take form. This is the place. We are here. And the earth presumably is valuable to make it possible for us to be here. As I understand it, none of the other planets would be very conducive presently for life to be known in human form.

So we’re here. This is the fact of the matter. And it is the fact of the matter that there is a tomb. We are well aware of that. Virtually the whole population of the earth revolves around death. Death is the supremely important thing, because in various ways death has been looked upon as the gateway to life. It’s rather a backwards idea, one would think. Life is the gateway to life, isn’t it? And the fact that we’re alive indicates that the gateway is present with us. Perhaps if one waits until one is dead one may find that the gateway has slammed shut. Life is the gateway to life. Even in the Christian world the central figure said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” He certainly didn’t say, “I am come that everybody might die and find life.” That is some fantastic concept that the rather ignorant and stupid human mind has thought up, and a lot of people have swallowed it whole. We’re alive! Let’s take advantage of the fact. We’re not really supposed to sit around hopefully waiting to die.

It might be said that we have no business dying. All sorts of ideas erupt into consciousness when such a statement is made, but those who live would not be of the nature and the character of those who die. We do, all of us, spend the days of our years dying, rather than living. It seems that for the first few years there is a spurt of increased life burgeoning through the human form, but shortly thereafter it’s downhill all the way. People frantically try to keep themselves in shape and all this, so that they may live a little longer. What a travesty of the crowning creation on earth, man. It has no resemblance to MAN whatsoever. Yet human beings are very well able to pat themselves on the back for all their marvelous achievements, and they do it. We do it. We puff ourselves up in various ways: we need to be recognized! Why do we need to be recognized? Because we deem that we don’t have much value, and if someone recognizes us then that will help to convince us that we really do have value, when we know very well that we don’t. Let’s be honest about it. As human beings, we have no value whatsoever, just a potential, that’s all—the potential which becomes a realized fact by reason of the resurrection. The resurrection, whatever it may have been in the past, was never intended to give an excuse to human beings for failing to experience the reality of it now. “Oh we can just rest in the arms of Jesus, because He was resurrected.” If we can get into His arms, then I suppose we’ll go up too! What fantasy—what a fairy tale.

But the truth is available, to experience the reality now. Very few human beings have proved to be willing to let it happen. But since the focus of spirit was reestablished in form on earth, there has been a sounding of the Tone and a speaking of the Word; and it is because of this that the miracle has been occurring within the body of mankind, through you and others, of a body being drawn together, drawn together by spirit. There are lots of people who inquire: “Well what do you believe?” How do you answer that? What’s the point of believing something? Let’s know the truth. If we have to believe something we don’t know the truth. We hope that what we’re believing is the truth, but we may be very assured that it isn’t, because the only way one can know the truth is to experience it in the expression of one’s own life. It comes forth in expression through oneself. That is the only way anyone could ever know the truth. No one else can tell someone what the truth is. There may be indication, as I am indicating now, that this is the only way it could be known, but that doesn’t hand the truth to anybody.

It is the individual’s personal responsibility, and there has been virtually no one for the last two thousand years who has actually accepted that responsibility. It is said of Jesus Christ that He spoke the words, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” Who else has been able to speak those words? There are those who say, “Well, He was an example.” Okay, let’s come into position to speak those words then, and make them stick. It is initially a very individual and personal matter. One has to accept the responsibility for oneself. You can’t accept the responsibility for anyone else, and no one can accept it for you, the responsibility of experiencing the resurrection. In the resurrection, the body of the One who spoke those words comes into form, so that the words may again be spoken. The allegory comes into the present moment, to be known now, to be experienced now, because of the willingness to accept the responsibility of it.

The responsibility always must be accepted individually. There has been a good deal of hope on the part of many of those who are associated with this ministry that, somehow or other by being associated with it, they would be lifted up. Well they may find it works for a little, but then somewhere along the way they’re dumped. No one dumps them, they dump themselves, because you can’t float into the experience of the resurrection in the arms of somebody else—not even Jesus, whoever He might be. And who knows that? People have concepts, they have visions—and usually their visions stem from stained-glass windows. Did you ever note that those who have had visions of Jesus make Him appear always the same? I don’t think it’s Jesus at all. It’s an eruption out of their subconscious minds. After all, we have a lot of stuff in our subconscious minds. I was going to say rubbish, which is what it really is. It needs to get out of there, so that there is space to receive the working of the spirit of the living God now.

Coming to this present moment, we delight to move in the creative cycle that this miracle which has been happening, and is happening now, may come to fruition, to fulfilment. The question is, “Through whom will this happen?” That has always been my question, and I look around and I see: “Well perhaps through that one, and that one, and the other one.” Some let it work, and keep moving. Changes begin to be wrought, and they begin to discover that they’re not really this human creature they thought they were before. But others are oh, so reluctant to let go of that miserable creature, human nature. Human nature is all based in the past; we all have our heredities. Most people think those heredities are important. They only become important if we’re willing to let them be dissolved. Their dissolution is important.

What has occurred has drawn a body into expression by reason of the working of the spirit, and that alone. This is the miracle, but how many of you within the sound of my voice are aware that you are a part of that miracle? Oh it’s easy to organize human beings and get them to follow out a set of beliefs, imagining that that will bring them security. But the security is in the spirit. Only those who respond to the spirit, without demanding explanations, without requiring anything from anyone, but just yielding to the spirit in the expression of their own living, find themselves drawn together with others who are likewise letting it happen. I know that those who have been drawn have looked askance at one another sometimes: “Well I didn’t choose you!” No, you didn’t! What was the word we might recall? “Ye have not chosen me; I have chosen you.” Those who will accept the choice find that they have no choice, and so there is a drawing together. Gradually it begins to be found that we really have some friends. We stop looking merely at the external factors, the factors of human nature that still may be hanging around. We begin to become aware of the factors of the true nature of man which are also present and which are also emerging into expression. There is the unifying experience, that there might be a state of being all together with one accord in one place, certainly not because of externals.

Who cares what you like or don’t like? It’s immaterial, totally irrelevant. What is the true design emerging in the creative process? Let’s find out what that is, and let’s set aside our human likes and dislikes and let the truth put in an appearance. Do you think the truth would ever be changed because of your likes and dislikes? This has been the very ignorant and stupid idea even in Christianity, hasn’t it? We’re going to pray to God to change things around to suit us! That is blasphemous, I would say. Let’s let it be reversed. Let’s let things be changed around in us so that we suit God, so that we are the evidence of God. Isn’t that the way man was supposed to have been created in the beginning, in the image and likeness of God? Well let’s let it happen, rather than saying, “I’m going to follow out my own course and desires and what I want to do, and what I want to have and what I want to get.” Oh there are some who say, “Oh yes, I’ll go along with God. I’ll worship God, but only if He conforms to my denomination or my religion. If He won’t do that I don’t want to have anything to do with Him.” It’s strange, strange—very strange! Let’s let Him be God.

Human beings say, “Why does God allow all these terrible things to happen?” Presumably God has no particular desire that these terrible things should happen, but we decide that we’re going to produce them. And for man, made in the image and likeness of God, there is this little matter of freedom. God is free to fulfil whatever His purposes are. For man to reveal God he also must be free, so that God can be free in heaven and on earth. Of course God hasn’t been free in human beings as they now are. God in a sense has been in jail, because human beings have been intent on following out their own desires and designs: “I want it this way; I like it that way.” Everybody is at everybody else’s throat. Come out of it! Come out of that ignorant nonsense, that there may be the acceptance of what is present now, the resurrection and the life.

It may seem to have been a slow process, drawing some sort of a body together that could begin to be coordinated and effective. Well, children take a while to grow up. They’re very uncoordinated to start with. Gradually they come together a bit. But then adults impose upon them the adult attitudes and views and ideas and concepts and beliefs, and the poor child becomes a reproduction of his or her forebears. What a sad fate! What an awful fate for one who is made in the image and likeness of God. Let us accept once again the fact of this reality into our own experience, refusing anymore to be pushed around by our own human-nature character, that dumb creature that emerged out of a fantastic past. It’s all fantasy! Let it go. There is a reality here, but nobody knows it until it is expressed. “Well, I don’t know about that,” people say. “I wonder. Maybe it’s so, but I’m not sure.” Of course they never find out, because the only way to find out is to accept the fact and give expression to it.

We have found this rather a gradual process occurring. I would that it might be a little faster—it could be—because I don’t know just how much time we might have, individually or as part of the human race. There is a cycle, there is a growing-up period, but if we behave as human beings usually do we find that we never grow up. As we have noted, there is scarcely anyone who grows past the age of five years old emotionally. That is ridiculous, but it is a fact nevertheless. Have you ever watched these “leaders of men” and their behavior? Childish, absolutely childish.

Let us allow a maturity to be present because we live, and this is included in the process of resurrection: a movement into maturity, so that there is something stable and sure and unmoving on the face of the earth. Then there is a body containing the spirit in expression which brings understanding, and what is needful is known and what is needful is done. Very simple, once all this human-nature rubbish is swept out of the way. But as long as we are corrupted by human nature we are in a sad, sad state—a dying state. Individually that’s taken for granted, isn’t it? One could easily take it for granted collectively too. The resurrection is available and is at hand. “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away,” were some words written in the Song of Solomon. “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” This is the invitation to the resurrection. Each is a fair one when the grotesque mask of human nature falls away. And we may let it happen.

So today we celebrate the resurrection and the life in this present moment in our own experience. That is the only thing that has any meaning in our own experience as individuals. And when we accept it in our experience as individuals we accept it collectively. There is a body which is in the process of resurrection.

Grace Van Duzen — Martin, surely this miracle of fifty-five years has come to a very vital point today. God is free. This is the first Easter Day the world has known. The Lord has come out of the tomb which man made, and this hoax is allowed to be dissolved. Who would ever think that on Easter Day satan would be divested of his power? You wouldn’t think it would happen on Easter Day, with the Easter bunnies and the flowers! But it is on this day, in this year, by you, that this happened; because this was not an innocent accident, this tomb and this hoax; it was deliberate—it was deliberately done to bring into the hands of self-active man the control of the body which belongs to the Most High. And this is done. Praise God!

Lord Exeter — This body belongs to the Most High. It doesn’t belong to anyone who composes it. But those who compose it love it. I have loved this growing body for many years. I loved it just the way it was. What else was there to love? But those who composed it didn’t always agree with me. They had complaints. They wanted me to change something, so that they would be more comfortable, I suppose, or so that whatever was happening would conform more with their view of what should happen. But nobody knew what should happen. I personally was quite content to let it happen the way it would happen, and I have delighted over the years in those who agreed with me on that point, so that they weren’t always trying to stick their two bits’ worth in, to make things be the way they thought they ought to be. If human beings are so clever, why is the world the way it is now? They don’t know. They’re stupid and ignorant, but totally unwilling to admit it for the most part, and so they go blindly on, destroying everything—themselves included. There is nothing new about that, of course, except that it’s coming to some point of climax.

Well if that self-destruction can come to a point of climax, so can the resurrection. I’ve been interested in that, and I’ve loved the body. I didn’t know what the body was going to be. If you indulge in a little self-examination, you might wonder as to whether I would have chosen you or not! Let it be the way it is, with the creative process at work because the spirit was brought to focus, the Word was spoken and the Tone sounded. I trust that—and as this spoken Word and sounded Tone amplifies, I trust that. It amplifies through those who accept absolutely this body, this growing body, and love it as I love it. Do you think for all these years I would have bothered with all the nonsense that has gone on if I didn’t love the body? I love the body because I love my King, and it is His body.

The earth doesn’t belong to human beings; the earth belongs to the Sun. That should be obvious enough for anyone. The earth belongs to the Sun. It orbits around the Sun. It doesn’t orbit around human beings! Let it be possessed where it rightly should, so that we do not interfere with the way things work. We do not try to usurp the control of this earth, as has been customary in human nature for thousands of years, we let it be restored into the hands of the One to whom it belongs, which may well be represented by the Sun in this allegory. We are identified with that radiance, that outpouring of love, of power, of creative purpose. We participate in that and, behold, all things are made new—made new according to the true design. The human-nature design is out.

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Let There Be A Firmament

Let  There  Be  A  Firmament

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A  Radiant  Letter  of  Realization

Uranda  and  Martin Cecil   May 15, 1946

There are certain things that I wish to consider with you. Step by step, as we move along the Way, vibrations are focalizing and many things are being accomplished. Tonight I should like to talk to you on the subject: “Repairing or rebuilding the Altar of the Lord.” Many times in the Old Testament period we have the record that the Altar of the Lord that had been broken down was repaired by individuals who were serving the Lord. In each of those cases, examination of the record will show that the people had been worshiping at the altar of Baal, and in some of those cases where we have reference to the rebuilding of the Altar in the earth, specific mention is made of tearing down and destroying the altars of Baal. That is the work in which we are engaged.

The rebuilding of the Altar of the Lord is a definite process in itself, and another definite function is required after the work of repairing has been completed. It is evident that those who have been worshiping at the altar of Baal have functioned according to the principles, the vibrations and the nature of the altar of Baal. They have been in the habit of conforming to the processes essential to the service that takes place before the altar of Baal. That means that the individual himself must, of necessity, undergo a change in function. He must let his attitudes, his concepts, his visions, and his direction of Response be changed so that they are no longer in conformity to the service before the altar of Baal and come into conformity to the service of the Altar of the Lord. These statements are specific expressions of principle in view of a generalized application. Let us together, with one accord in one place, on the one vibration of the Christ Love, consider how these things relate to us.

In the beginning, according to the Word, the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, and Creation resulted. The Currents of Truth, the whole body of Truth, have of necessity a specific focalization, and the Currents of Love and the whole body of Love have of necessity a specific focalization: and we recognize Divine Love to be the primary Creative Force. We recognize that Truth provides the Principle and the Pattern; therefore, there is, in the Body and in focalized form, the Spirit of Love, and there is, also, in the Body and in focalized form, the Spirit of Truth. These two focalizations have worked together since the beginning of Creation when the foundations of the earth were laid. The text in Genesis states: “The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The Spirit here indicated is the Spirit of Love, and the waters here indicated are recognized as the Spirit of Truth. Through the centuries and the millenia since man fell, these focalizations of Creative Activity have worked to restore man to the Divine Estate, so that the whole of Creation as it relates to this world might manifest the perfection which characterized its inception.

The Spirit of Love came into the world in focalized form with the coming of the second year of Cosmic Being, and He focalized the Creative Forces essential to the recreative work incidental to the salvation of man, and He gave manifest expression in the Creative Current to the Principles and to the Pattern, that being established in the focalization of His Being, in manifest formation with respect to the Negative Triune world, they might extend out from Him and fill the whole earth. According to the Response of the human beings who have lived since that time, the processes of recreation have been at work in the world. We have now come to the time which corresponds in large measure to the Second Day of Creation. Concerning the First Day, we read: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” With the coming of the Master in the age that has just past, God sent His Word into the world with the command: “Let there be light,” and through Jesus Christ there was Light. “And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness,” and that also was accomplished. The Light was divided from the darkness. As the Master said: “I come not to bring peace but a sword,” and He indicated the manner in which the Light and the darkness would divide those who were attuned to those two manifestations of Creation—and then there comes the Word: “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” We recognize that that first Day came to a close in the eighteenth century, and we see that the world itself as a whole neglected, during that Day, to take cognizance of the difference between the Light and the darkness. Nevertheless, that First Day came to a close.

Next we read: “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.”

That is the Creative Cycle in which we are functioning now—that is the Creative work in which we are engaged. In the Light of all that you have learned in the Third Sacred School, consider the words: “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven.” The waters that are above, then, are the expressions of Truth, the manifestations of Truth and the focalizations of Truth in the Inner Planes, and the waters which are below the firmament are the expressions, manifestations and focalizations of Truth in the Negative Triune world, divided by the Air of the Spirit which He called Heaven. The Air of the Spirit divides the waters that are above from the waters which are below. The Air of the Spirit divides the Truth that is above from the Truth that is below. The Air of the Spirit He called Heaven and “Heaven,” the Master said, “is within you”—and “the Kingdom of Heaven,” He said, “is at hand.” The Air of the Spirit, the firmament that is Heaven, is within you.

It is in this Second Day that we see the Inner and the outer established in Reality as an accomplished fact. We see the polarity of the positive and negative phases of the Whole Holy World clearly established. That is the important point. Human beings, considering the application of the First and Second Days of Creation to the lesser ages, and knowing that we are in the Second Cycle now, might say: “Since man was created on the Sixth Day, we shall have to wait until the Sixth Age of this Cycle to have the Restoration to the Edenic State,” but such a concept is faulty. Why? Because man has already been created; man already exists, and the Second Day established the polarity of the Inner and the outer. The Second Day makes manifest the operation of the One Law. The Second Day provides the co-ordination, through the Spirit, of the firmament between the waters that are above and the waters that are below.

The incarnation of our Great Master provided a manifest formation of the focalization of the Creative Currents of Love that are above and that are below. The incarnation of the Spirit of Truth provides a focalization in outer form, in manifest expression, of the waters that are above and of the waters that are below. We have, then, the Creative command: “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” The manifestation of positive Truth and the manifestation of negative Truth, focalized at one point and co-ordinated through the Air of the Spirit, is called Heaven.

Consider the result of that Command as it works in the world, today—the bringing forth of the firmament that God called Heaven on the Second Day, the manifest expression of the One Law, the co-ordination of the Inner and the outer, the establishment of correct polarity on the basis of the Principles and operation of Truth. With that Creative Command fulfilled with respect to this Second Age of the Cycle in which we now live and serve, what is there that can remain of the unreal?

The unreal is that which is out of polarity; the unreal is that which is not conforming to the manifest operation of the One Law; the unreal is that which is foreign to Heaven; the unreal is that which does not conform to the waters that are above nor to the waters that are below.

Fulfilment of that Creative Command restores the world to the Edenic State. Do you see that it is so? You know and have known for a long time in the Third Sacred School that we are in the Second Age. You see that this period corresponds to the Second Day of Creation. We see that in the First Day, the Divine Command issued forth and was fulfilled. He said: “Let there be light: and there was light;” for He Who is the Light of the world came into the world. Now, just as surely, just as certainly, the Command has issued forth: "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters," and that Command accomplishes that whereunto it is sent.

How does this apply to the work of rebuilding the Altar of the Lord? Actually, they are one and the same thing. With that background and that recognition of the absolute certainty that characterizes the Currents with which we are harmonizing in the world, let us return to our point of consideration in the opening of this Service. The Altar of the Lord is being repaired in the earth. That means that there is an actual rebuilding process. That is true individually, collectively and in a world sense. The service of the Lord before that Altar, the function with respect to that Altar in its fulness, is the function of all the Life Forces in the Negative Triune world after the Restoration, but those processes manifest now in part during the processes of rebuilding.

What is the human being individually? To the degree that the human being is what he ought to be from the standpoint of Reality, he is the Altar of the Lord in the earth. Then, in harmonious expression, all these individuals are, collectively, the Altar of the Lord in the earth. The formation of this Creative expression is the One Christ Body which is coming into form. The manifest expression of the One Christ Body, in co-ordinated and effective expression, is the manifestation of the Altar of the Lord in the earth. We see how that relates to the world as a whole and to the restoration of the Divine Estate, but to consider certain specific phases of Truth that are involved, let us examine these things as they apply to you as an individual.

To the degree that your mind functions self-actively, it is functioning according to the process and nature of worship and service before the altar of Baal. To the degree that the Spirit expresses through you and that which is manifest in you springs from the Father within, your function is by nature and expression and process a part of the service before the Altar of the Lord. That being true, it is easy for us to see and recognize the importance (in a deeper Realization, a greater Illumination) of the processes of instruction, training and progressive development which you have been and are experiencing in the Third Sacred School.

We have the admonition in the Book of books: “Let the Mind which was in Christ Jesus be in you.” The manifestation of the Christ Mind through the individual accomplishes that which is necessary for the Restoration, and, also, that which is necessary for the fulfilment that is natural to the Second Day of Creation. I have considered with you various phases of mind function as they relate to Spiritual Expression. I have spoken to you of what I call Spiritual thinking. The machinery of the mind broken down; in poor repair; some of it not used; some of it rusty and unoiled; some parts functioning partially—such are the conditions which do not permit the full expression of the Christ Mind through you. Therefore, before the fulness of the manifest expression of the Christ Mind in function can appear in and through you, the machinery of the mind must be repaired and brought into that place of being where the flow of the Spirit through it permits a full function—operation of all of the machinery of the mind.

The value of meditation, for instance, is seen to be very great to the degree that participation in meditation actually begins to produce function in the mind—not from the standpoint of self-active expression but from the standpoint of mental processes which result from the flow of the Spirit through the mind. When the activity generated in the mind is self-actively induced, it has a semblance of correct mental function to the degree that the Source of Power for the operation of the machinery of the mind is permitted to come into manifest expression and function, so that there is a flow of the Spirit through the mind. The machinery, even though it be incompletely repaired and incompletely brought into operation, begins to allow the manifestation, not only of Creative Radiation, but also of effective function; which is to say, the results of Creative Currents begin to appear in harmony with the Cosmic Plan. Now, before I go any further, I wish to ask a question: Does our consideration tonight bring you increased Illumination? Did you ever see in these verses what you see in them tonight?

You have been making progress in permitting the fulfilment of the Command:  “Let the Mind which was in Christ Jesus be in you.” You are helping to focalize certain of the vibrations with respect to the manifest formation and function of the One Christ Body on earth. From the standpoint of actualized focalization of vibrations, from the standpoint of the Radiation of realization and from the standpoint of a consideration of this process of Spiritual thinking, I should like to read to you a Radiant Letter of Realization from Martin Cecil.

May 10, 1946

Beloved Uranda and Kathy:

I have been looking forward to the opportunity when I might sit down and write to you, giving some sort of form to the abundant Realizations which I have been privileged to experience during the last few weeks and days. And in undertaking this expression I may perhaps focalize many vibrations and serve in the capacity of representative of those members of the One Christ Body in the earth, who although scattered upon the face of the earth, nevertheless feel the blending Radiation of Divine Love and, through steadfast response on the vibration, a quickening of the Spirit within them. For myself I know that I have been greatly blessed in experiencing the opportunity of coming to Headquarters and partaking so freely of the Bread and Wine of Life which, under the Hand of the Lord and of His Representative in the earth, are so freely provided there. If my expression in Realization can convey in some measure the Peace and the Assurance and the Love and the Understanding, which are the natural Fruits of the Spirit in the Unification of the Christ Love and which have been and are so vividly experienced by me in consequence of the privilege of visiting Headquarters and Sunrise Ranch at this particular time, then the accomplishment already established may be allowed to move forward in the expanding Cycle of the Greater Works. The accomplishment of which I speak relates, of course, primarily to my own individual function in the One Christ Body in the earth, although, being a part of the Body, it cannot at any point be separated therefrom.

Observing the various phases of the world crisis which are so obviously and so rapidly drawing toward a climax, it is not difficult to recognize the importance of that which is working out in and through the Lord's Service in the earth in relationship thereto. Being in a critical period, while there may be a certain precedent of failure, nevertheless the possibility, nay the certainty, of great accomplishment is surely present. We have seen the manifold manifestations of the unreal, and perceiving the abounding evil everywhere, we have perhaps felt the futility of any attempt at direct correction of the maze of ill conditions in the fallen human world. But now we come to a point in understanding which reveals the simplicity of the outworking Cosmic Plan, whereby all that is needful in the removal of the unreal and the bringing forth of the Christ Kingdom on earth is brought to pass step by step.

Recognizing that there is only One Source, and therefore only One Current of Life Force as it springs forth from the One Source, it becomes obvious that all manifestations in this outer world whether of the Real or the unreal originate and are maintained in being by reason of the One Current of Life Force. This Current then must divide into two streams, the one to bring forth Reality and the other unreality, and the result of this division manifests as the one or the other according to the channel through which that Current finds release into the earth. The question then arises as to where and what these channels might be.

The contact point between the Inner Planes and the outer planes of this world is established at the dividing line between the Third and the Fourth Planes, and this dividing line constitutes the veil through which it is impossible for man in self-activity to penetrate. He cannot force his way into the Inner Planes on the basis of human will power exercised on a self-active basis. The highest point he can possibly reach under these conditions is the highest point in the Third Plane. However, the Current of Life Force must pass through the Third Plane in order to manifest in the realms of the second and first planes. Originating in the Seventh Plane and channeled through the Fourth Plane, the Current finds release through the focalized channels provided in the Third Plane into the outer world.

In the fallen world as it now is, these channels are established in self-activity, with the result that the Current is distorted and utilized to bring forth and to maintain the evil and the unreal forms which appear in the world. In other words, it is the focalizations in the Third Plane, established on a self-active basis, that actually permit the continued manifestation of the unreal in the world, because they are conducting the Life Current into the world which makes it possible. Therefore to allow the recreation of the world to manifest on the basis of the Pattern of the Christ Kingdom requires, first, that a focalization of Reality be established through which the undistorted Life Current can be permitted to bring forth the perfect form, and, second, that the focalizations of the unreal be cast down. When these latter are removed, naturally there is no more Life Force flowing into the unreal forms and evil patterns of the world which consequently must collapse and disintegrate.

Now we begin to see more clearly that which IS the One Christ Body in the earth, for it is through the One Christ Body in the earth that the true Current is permitted to find perfect expression in the accomplishment of the Greater Works. The One Christ Body in the earth, polarized in the Fourth Plane, is thereby established upon the firm foundation which cannot be moved or shaken, and so provides the means whereby the unreal focalizations, which, while functioning in the Third Plane, have no polarization in the Inner Reality, are cast down and removed; opening the way for the re-establishment of the Life Current upon the Divine Pattern.

(The expression thus far was written May 10 and 11 in Vancouver and on the road from Vancouver. It is now continued from Banff, Alberta, on May 12.)

I feel very strongly the unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace in the One Christ Body today, and it is surely only as these things are actually experienced by the individual members therein that the Body itself may be fully and consciously made manifest in the earth in due season through the processes of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. These processes, step by step, must cause the fusion of the individual members into the Body, and of the Body into Oneness with the Father within the Body, who is the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. Only as this blending is completed can we “be one” even as was made manifest by Jesus in His Oneness with His Father—that we may be made perfect in one. Then it is, and not until then, that the expression of the One Christ Body in the earth becomes fully and completely the Expression of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings in the earth, carrying His absolute Authority. That the developing Christ Body has been brought to such a high degree of Polarity and focalization gives us assurance that as we remain faithful and true that which is required in the accomplishment of the Greater Works in the earth must surely come to pass. There are no doubts; there are no ifs and buts; the Pattern is set; the Christ Body is coming into full manifestation in the earth, carrying with it the absolute Authority of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings.

Now we begin to see that the LORD'S Prayer is the Prayer of the One Christ Body in full response to the Father of the Body; and the expression of the Body in Oneness with the Father surely accomplishes that whereunto it is sent, for it is the Word of the Father through the Body which shall not return unto Him void. That which responds to Reality shall be lifted up. That which opposes Reality shall be cast down. And the fulfilment of all seven points upon which we “agree on earth” is sure and certain according to the Promise. Let us give glory to God in the Highest that It is so, in the Christ. Au-men.

Greetings to all the Blessed Ones at Headquarters. I shall not soon forget the joy and the privilege of associating with them during the all too short three days of my recent visit. In the Peace of the Lord and in Oneness of Spirit, and with most reverent love to you and Kathy, I am — Martin

Uranda — Is that an example of the Spiritual thinking of the Mind which was in Christ Jesus? That is the positive vibration in focalization.

The Responding Ones who become the focalization of the primary polarity in the earth have to let changes come and the unreal manifestations have to fall away—but from the world standpoint, the manifestation of the Altar has to appear before the unreal in the world is cast down. It is not so much a casting down as it is a filling of the voids on a higher level of consciousness. It is true that the unreal powers have to be cast down in the sense that they cease to exist and manifest, but in the higher sense, in the Creative sense, it is a filling of the voids, because the unreal is a lack of the Real.

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