Let Us Make Man

Let  Us  Make  Man

Martin Cecil  April 8, 1979

Mention was made of two particular areas of angelic responsibility on earth. Primarily there is that area which is concerned directly with the creative process so that God's will may be done in earth as it is in heaven. Those angels who carry this responsibility should not rightly be distracted by squalling children; that is, by human beings who may be moving toward the angelic experience. Those who are in that process are rightly under the care of those angels who carry this aspect of responsibility. Heretofore in our own experience there has been a somewhat mixed-up state. There has evidently been little clear vision of a distinction between these two fields of responsibility, so that those who are coming out of the childish state might refrain from letting their childishness become a factor to be dealt with in the range of those who had the particular responsibility of the creative process.

This is all easily seen in terms of the manner in which human beings function about their own affairs. There are adult matters of responsibility to be attended to in which children should not be included. Provision is made for children in various ways. There is kindergarten and then school, besides what is provided in the home. However if the parents have other important responsibilities, then there is presumably a need for a baby-sitter or someone else to look after the children so that the parents may attend to their rightful business. These same principles can be seen relative to the angelic sphere of action.

There is continuing responsibility here, which must be carried somehow by someone. Rightly there are angels available who have the responsibility of handling the spiritual children. When this is actually so, and that job is being done effectively by those who have the responsibility, then the Angelic Core which is responsible for the creative cycle in the overall sense may really begin to get down to business. This Angelic Core shouldn't be restricted. It has been indicated that properly a Core of 144,000 is required. Whether or not all these 144,000 would be involved in the direct field of creative responsibility is another question. The 144,000 would include those also who are caring for the children, but there would be at least 12,000 in the Core that was carrying direct responsibility.

We need to see these things, because it obviously indicates that there is a necessity for a greater acceptance of maturity on the part of more people, a greater acceptance of the angelic expression. If you are depending upon human strength, human wisdom, then you will find yourself feeling inadequate. This sense of inadequacy will be emphasized as various situations arise, so that if the sense of inadequacy does arise you are being reminded thereby of your childishness. You are not being reminded to try to get adequacy from somewhere, from some other angel perhaps who is going to smooth you down somehow and assure you that you are really adequate when you know darn well you are not. In human nature nobody is adequate, so it is not surprising that people feel inadequate. The point is to rise up out of human nature in the acceptance of the mature responsibility of angels. When we do that the sense of inadequacy no longer dominates. It may be present, because human nature is still present, but we don't pay any attention to it. Why not accept angelic nature and refuse to keep kowtowing to human nature and the sense of inadequacy?

Accepting angelic nature one is in position then to handle what needs to be handled. You no longer are holding the back door open so that you can slip out if things get too tough. Things are going to get too tough for human nature—praise the Lord! we should rejoice in this fact—but nothing is ever too tough for angelic nature. It is, after all, human nature that is passing away. That's a tough business for human nature. Angelic nature is not passing away. It is increasing in expression and in experience for those who accept it. For those who reject it in favor of human nature, well there is trouble. It is as there is an acceptance of angelic nature that there is the acceptance of a sense of responsibility, so that there is a willingness to handle what needs to be handled.

Do we have a clear recognition that nothing can be done except by the Father? If we have that clear recognition and accept it in our own experience, then everything can be done by the Father—no problem. If we don't accept it we find that nothing can be done and we are filled with a sense of inadequacy. There is a clear-cut choice presented in this regard. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve”—if the Lord be God, serve Him; if Baal, then serve him; but don't dither between two opinions. Let's be men and women enough to make a choice. Nothing can be done in fact except the Father does it. Do you agree? You may say Yes, but I ask, “Do you agree?” I think on this basis you would not answer a word, because it is something you have to prove, something you have to reveal. It is easy to say Yes, or even No.

“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” Here is a way of describing oneness, the Oneness of angelic expression; not the Father doing something and then the Son doing something, trying to imitate the Father, but the Father in expression by reason of the Son: the angel in expression in the individual sense by reason of the human facilities for that expression. The human facilities are not something separate; they do not have any life of their own. Do you know that? Your human facilities do not have any life of their own. “I can of mine own self do nothing”; I can of mine own human self do nothing. If we think we can do something of our own selves we are deluding ourselves.

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will [mine own human will], but the will of the Father which hath sent me. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” Here are three particular statements credited to the Master, which make a point: “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” Believest thou? Are you willing to understand this? That is really what is being said. Belief we have looked at before: be willing—be willing to understand, that in the acceptance of the truth you may know it. It is the angelic expression that alone can do what must be done, because that springs from the Father. Again you agree. Answer me not a word, but agree. Be genuine.

When man was first created it is said that the Lord God made a particular statement: “Let us make man.” This statement, when it was originally made, was before man was made. In order for that creative happening to occur something very specific had to be done by what is referred to as the Lord God. However you will note that the statement indicates plural: “Let us make man.” Evidently whatever was undertaken was effective, because here we are. However we now recognize the necessity for the restoration, for the re-making of man. Man in the sense of the dust of the ground, with an available capacity of consciousness, does not need to be created, because all that is here already. Therefore the approach, from the standpoint of re-creation, is from a different level. The Lord God does not need to do over again what He has already done. However there is the necessity for the restoration, the remaking of man, the re-creation. This must occur directly in relationship to what already is created—human beings as they are, in other words.

The creative process requires that these words which were originally spoken be spoken again, but at the level where the re-creation is necessary. It is fundamentally a re-creation of consciousness, which brings with it a re-creation of form. It is required that there be someone on hand representing the Lord God at this level and consequently capable of speaking the words “Let us make man.” This statement is simply a summary of all that is necessary in the creative process by which the job is done. I am sure you do not imagine that the Lord God merely made the statement, “Let us make man,” and there was man. Things don't work that way. There is always a creative process—a creative process which will take a certain measure of time no doubt, and which did in that original instance. We do not need to go into that, because the human mind couldn't understand it anyway. All we need to do is to accept the responsibility as angels now, because there must be that on earth which represents the Lord God at this level to speak the words—in other words to do what is necessary: “Let us make man.” In this instance you could say, “Let us re-make man.” But it is “make” actually, because this job has never been done before. It was done from the standpoint of another level originally, but from the standpoint of this level it has never been done yet. So we can forget about the past, accept the knowledge that we are here—and human beings are here, all over the earth—recognizing that man is not present; just a bunch of human beings thrown together in a disorderly manner. Here is the raw material for the creative process now.

There is needful, then, a group of angels who are in position to say—and to do what is required—“Let us make man.” Here is something very specific. There have been some vague ideas floating around as to how the restoration might occur: things will unfold and it will somehow happen by magic. No, it happens because what needs to be done is very specifically brought to pass. We have a responsibility in this regard which relates to these two groups of angels of which I have been speaking. I would suggest that you will discover that there are a great many more than two groups involved, but there is a clear-cut basis for understanding what is required now from the standpoint of these two groups. I am not saying that there may not be some dual responsibilities in this regard with respect to some; obviously there still are.

Along the way, as things were developing, it was necessary for many of us to play a host of different roles. Some of the roles weren't seemingly natural to us perhaps, but they had to be handled. Sometimes the things that had to be handled were very down-to-earth, like driving a nail; and for some this meant hitting a thumb, because the person concerned was not really trained to play that role. Nevertheless all of those who have played their parts over an extended period of time in this ministry have been required to do almost everything, and because there was a willingness to do almost everything without objection, without complaint, in fact with some measure of enthusiasm, we have a ministry on earth today.

There has been a proliferation of talent, one might say, in the external sense, so that those who were more fitted to certain tasks could undertake them. However they could only undertake them to the extent of angelic expression. This has all been evolving over the years, and we do have a number of angels incarnate on earth who are also, in some measure, in expression on earth. I thank God for this, but I am drawing to your attention, and the attention of many more besides you, that there needs to be an awareness of the real exactness that is required to handle our angelic responsibilities. It has been a vague thing, a mixed-up state. It must begin to come clear—in other words, clear into the true design. Very little of this has so far been seen. The design in most people's consciousness is related to externals. But it isn't primarily externals; it is a spiritual design, an invisible design, which requires responsible angels to handle. So I have drawn these two particular groups to your attention in this regard, that the primary group may come into position to say and do what is required: “Let us make man.”

This is the responsibility of the primary group: “Let us make man.” As angels we are not interested in human egos but in man: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Would it be safe for you to make that statement now and have it stick? What sort of place would the world be, I wonder. Obviously it is necessary that there be the reality of angelic expression if this statement is properly to be made, but it is an indication of the assumption of responsibility. This other part of that original statement needs to be made: “Let us make man”—that's part of it, but not fashioned according to some human whim—“in our image, after our likeness” as angels. It requires those on hand, willing to understand this, to do it. Otherwise there is no possibility of re-creation, no possibility of making man. The original creation of man was so because there were those who accepted the responsibility of speaking the words, “Let us make man in our image and likeness,” and did what was required to let it be so. I rather doubt if as yet we are very much in position to make this statement, “in our image, after our likeness,” and have the Divine Design emerge.

This is the only way that man can be made. Here is the real responsibility that rests upon us as angels, that it may be done. It can't be done unless there are those who rightly may make the statement, “in our image, after our likeness.” The original Lord God was a translation from the word Elohim, which is a plural word and indicates a group of Divine Beings, an Archangelic Group who had the responsibility of creating man, creating man according to the already existing Divine Design. The Divine Design must already exist in our experience, in our expression of living, if the creation is to occur in the fulfilment of that design. If there are little failures and little weaknesses here and there still, human nature compelling this way and that, then obviously we shouldn't dare to say, “in our image, after our likeness.” But it must reach the point where there is a group who can say that, dare to say that, because they know that it will be right.

This group must emerge, without distraction, so that there is total concern for the fulfilment of the requirements of what was described before as the Lord God—representation of the Lord God in angelic form and expression on earth. That Core group hardly exists as yet. Certainly the group that is required to permit the restoration of man is not in evidence, but it has to start somehow, somewhere; and it starts because there are those who believe, who are willing to understand, and who accept the responsibility of that understanding. Believest thou this? Well we're going to find out. We must, after all, keep moving. We can't rest on our laurels—I don't think we have any to rest on—and there are some very specific things that are necessary. Let us, as angels, make man in our image, after our likeness. Let us be very sure that the pattern is exactly the way it should be; and the pattern is a matter of individual responsibility, which we find expands into collective responsibility. But there is no collective responsibility until there are those who have taken individual responsibility. However it is the collective expression of creative responsibility that speaks the words, “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness”—and it is done. We can summarize it by using these particular words, but there are vastly more ramifications to the creative process than merely to speak these words. This provides a focus for the consideration but the essences contained there must expand on out in creative expression, and we will discover what they are.

So there is a need for this group of angels at the Core, undistracted by children. If that is to be the case there must be another group of angels who are handling the childish distractions, so that they never reach the Core. Unless something begins to emerge absolutely exact and pure at the Core, unsullied, there isn't any facility for creative action in the hands of the Lord. So we all have a responsibility. The first responsibility has related, insofar as all of us are concerned, to this handling of spiritual children coming home. This needs to continue—there are more to come home, doubtless—but let this not prevent the other aspect from being taken care of. We've all been handling the children coming home, including the human nature of our own brand. That has been, and is, our responsibility, yes—but there must emerge at the Core something which goes beyond this; otherwise we are stymied; otherwise we can do no more. It is not a matter of merely assisting human beings to come home, when there isn't a home to come home to. The home is this undistracted area of centering in the Core. That is home, and when those who are coming home experience angelic expression they will find themselves home, part of that Core. So there are those who assist others to come home, and those others who are assisted to come home then come into position to assist others to come home, whereas perhaps the ones who were assisting them then begin to move into this central Core. There is a purifying process by which all come again into the Body of the Archangel, where the Word, the creative Word, may be spoken.

Of course the speaking of that creative Word is not something that hasn't been going on to some extent already, in spite of distractions; otherwise no one would have come home, or would have moved toward where home should be. But we want to make very sure that there is a home there when they reach it. So we all have our parts to play in this. As angels we do whatever is required of us, whether it relates primarily to one aspect of this angelic configuration or the other. It doesn't matter, just so long as there are those who are doing the job. We all have opportunity to do the job; we're not pickers and choosers. We accept what is natural in the unfolding creative cycles. And as that Word is spoken from the Core the effects of it are seen in those who begin to come home: “Let us make man”—here it is, here it is beginning to emerge.

At the same time, there are other things happening—there is the disintegrative process occurring, and we recognize that too. Some people look at that disintegrative process with horror. Anybody in human nature would, or should. Our concern is not that things should be brought to the pass where it is simply a matter of survival. Very often this is the viewpoint, that there will be such a disaster that all that anybody can think about is survival. Well if that is the case we have failed, we've absolutely failed, because we need to be thinking about something other than survival. We need to be in position to do what is required. While there is bound to be an immense amount of destruction and confusion and misery, if we do our job correctly that will never deteriorate into the mere matter of trying to survive.

So we have the responsibility of making man and protecting the world, shall we say, protecting this planet from an ultimate holocaust which destroys everything, utterly. That is an alternative. It is not an alternative to which we should pay much attention, because we are too occupied rightly with our angelic responsibilities, and we know very well that if these are handled correctly the Lord God is on hand, the creative process is under control, and all things do in fact work together to perfection.

We rejoice to allow our vision to expand at the human level, because there is a greater emergence of the angel into expression. It is that greater emergence of the angel that is the key to everything. So let us be willing to understand and to accept the responsibility for ourselves as individuals, in whatever field of action may be necessary for our service now, but also, having an understanding of what the requirements are, so that we can intelligently play our part in letting those requirements be fulfilled by whoever the angels may prove to be. So I thank God that we have had the opportunity to allow something of these things to emerge more specifically into consciousness, because this surely needs to happen. We see that things are moving apace in the world around us. We'd better stay ahead of the game, praising the Lord and abiding under the shadow of the Almighty.

© emissaries of divine light

Kindling For The Fire

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Kindling  For  The  Fire

Martin Cecil  January 3, 1982

We had some music again this evening before our service. This is useful to produce something of an atmosphere. However, with all such offerings it seems necessary that what is going to be offered be prepared ahead of time. There is obvious disadvantage to this because ahead of time nobody knows just what is going to be required. What do you suppose we could do about that? It requires some rather careful thought, I think. Perchance there are some other possibilities.

It seems that when I am on hand to give the services on a Sunday everybody looks to me to do it, and I do—have done fairly consistently. This, however, tends to establish a habit, with respect to which there presumably would need to be change. Clearly I have a particular part to play, not only with respect to giving services here or on Sunrise Ranch in particular, as though those services were just for the people who were gathered in either place—but there is a more extensive reason as to why this routine has been followed over the years, and you are aware of what the reason is, I am sure. There is the provision of a central current of movement in which everybody may easily and naturally share. It is one means by which unification can be sustained, up to a certain point anyway. There is indeed a central current of the spirit at work constantly. It is not a static thing. It keeps moving, and it needs to be given expression within the range of our hearts and minds and the hearts and minds of human beings everywhere. For this reason I have continued to provide something on a regular basis, week by week. Nevertheless there is rightly the necessity for change. Some consideration might be given as to what that should be.

After our services we have had these opportunities for various ones to make comments. This has become somewhat routine too. I think something needs to emerge that has greater possibilities. It is not so much a matter of comment anymore, even after a service, but of participating more directly in the current of the spirit that is at work, so that there is a movement foreward from what had been brought to focus during the service, and others have the opportunity of giving form in expression to what continues to move, not harking back to what moved in the service. This tendency to hark back is a habit that seems a little difficult to change. I always give the service and you always sit there listening to what I have to say—so this is habitual—and when I finish the service you give comments—that is habitual. But there is the current of the spirit moving, whether specific expression is being given to this in a service or not. It is moving constantly, we are happy to say, I am sure. We wouldn’t be moving either if it wasn't! So there is something to take form in expression through each of us at any time, but I am thinking of it more particularly as it relates to these periods of service when something is coming forth that is useful at the time—it comes forth, but is also subsequently useful in giving what is needful to many others besides those who were present at the service. I don’t think I have ever received an offer from anyone—maybe it never occurred to anybody; well we need to let things occur to us occasionally—to provide something at the beginning of a service. I am looking for something of a spontaneous nature that is fitting, the right person at the right time. Probably the Sunday morning service is still properly the way we have it. But why wouldn’t it be fitting for someone to assume responsibility for giving continuing expression to the spirit, the nature of which was particularly revealed through the morning service? There might be continuity of response then brought to focus. If someone did that it wouldn’t just be response, would it? It would be radiation, alignment, attunement, with the spirit that is continuing to move. Here is a possibility. I like people to awaken to possibilities for themselves. It requires a bit of thought. You require me to think a bit, Sunday by Sunday. How would it be if I required you to think a bit, Sunday by Sunday, so that it is not quite so lopsided? Doubtless there are other possibilities.

The music that is offered before service, I recognize, needs to be brought together and presumably practiced and, as I say, this has established a limitation to its value. Improvisation is possible; we have utilized, on occasion, chant. When we sing hymns before the morning service, there are all the words, there’s the music, it’s all set up, and sometimes it tends toward a little bit of churchiness. There have been those who have objected to this; after all, they were endeavoring to come out of that sort of pattern, so they were troubled when it seemed to be present again in our own services. Well I think there are various ways of looking at that. There needs to be a connection somehow, even with the other churches of the world, besides a connection with people in every area. So perhaps that has been a link that has been sustained for a reason.

I am sure we can all sense that when there is a true unification and movement with spirit, what occurs is of a spontaneous nature; it’s not all set up ahead of time. My services are this way—not all set up ahead of time. I didn’t really know what I was going to consider with you this evening and it has turned out this way. It may be a useful consideration. Anyway I take a chance in this regard. I suppose in a sense I take a chance every time I give a service: I stick my neck out. How about you sticking yours out a bit more?

So we are here to provide accommodation for the working of the spirit of God. Many human beings have seen that there was some sort of necessity in this regard. They didn’t quite know how to go about it and some peculiar things have appeared in the religious world on this account, where people maybe feel the spirit urging them to shout, or roll on the ground, or whatever. Generally speaking, it is not the spirit of God that is doing that, because the spirit of God is, amongst other things, the spirit of intelligence and it doesn’t do foolish things or useless things, and if we are aligned with it we don’t do foolish or useless things. So there has been a careful educational process over the years for all of us to begin to become aware of what the nature of the spirit of God is, and what is fitting in the expression of that spirit. Moving into this area it has been somewhat an unknown undertaking and human beings tend to feel safer when they can establish some sort of known routine—they know what’s coming next. This has been done in the religious world, hasn’t it? You have the Book of Common Prayer in the Anglican Church, for instance. It’s all there. You know exactly what to do: when to stand, when to kneel, when to sing, when to say Amen or whatever—or give the response. And that is very satisfactory to most human beings who feel the urge toward greater spirituality in their experience but don’t quite know how to go about it. It’s safer to go about it in the routine way, according to the regulations that are set down.

This is one of the factors that disturbs some people about the Emissary ministry, because it isn’t that way, so it’s liable to upset the apple cart. From the religious standpoint, really, the minimum has been required from people. From our standpoint the maximum is required. I think that is the distinction, isn’t it? We have been concerned to become perceptive of the spirit in action in our own living as individuals. To develop that perception we have done things collectively, because there is a certain broad base which is common to all, even insofar as spiritual expression is concerned. The individual uniqueness comes a little later. It’s like learning to play a musical instrument, isn’t it? You have to go through the routine of doing that, and then when you have certain mastery in that, you can allow a greater expression of spirit to emerge through your playing; you don’t have to be thinking all the time about where to put your fingers. So we have had an educational process, in order to gain a greater familiarity with the basics, shall we say. But somewhere along the way we need to allow our individual genius to emerge. In the world usually these geniuses are few and far between. From our standpoint it relates to everyone, and particularly to oneself. There is a genius, hidden for the most part, who needs to come forth: the coming forth of the angel. Here is something of greatness to put in an appearance through anyone—distinctly unique through each person but, nevertheless, greatness or genius. So there has been a base established.

I had a very excellent letter of response after this morning’s service, where it was suggested that emissaries were the kindling for the logs of the world. It can be seen that the kindling is chopped out of the logs—it is separated from the logs. And there was the necessity of separateness to occur with respect to those who might rightly in season be called emissaries of divine light. Without the kindling there could be no fire, and so some kindling had to be chopped, in one way or another, out of the logs that were present in the body of mankind. Now even if you have a very big bonfire, not yet lit, composed of logs, even trees, it only takes rather a small pile of kindling to get it started, which I think is a fairly accurate analogy in this instance. But it won’t get started without the kindling, and so there is this necessity for those to be separated from the logs. It doesn’t require that all the logs be chopped up into kindling—that’s too much of a task—just some kindling is required. And we have it—I have emphasized the fact that we have enough. This is not to say that there may not be some more bits and pieces around that could be added. But of course the kindling is not much use until it catches fire. Just lying around as kindling it doesn’t do anyone any good.

In order to provide the initial starting point for what is needful of the greater blaze, the kindling has to be arranged in a fitting way. You don’t just take a handful, throw it down and throw a match into it; it has to be arranged. There is rather an excellent story, which we have considered many times, of another analogy relative to this when Elijah rebuilt the altar of the Lord, in his contest with the prophets of Baal—very careful: twelve stones. Presumably he didn’t just push them together with a bulldozer. He required people to carry them, put them where they belonged, to build the altar the way it should be built, and then to go through all the rest of the requirements that were needful to make a facility capable of receiving the fire, capable of accommodating the spirit of God—that’s what it is. And the arrangement was made carefully, and then water was poured over, which was part of the formula. We know something about the symbolism of water: the substance which is capable of accommodating the spirit of truth.

We know something about this ourselves. We have been aware of the responsibility of letting this substance be generated in our living, with assistance in the matter—we weren’t left entirely to our own devices in this regard. There were particular things done: the mailings were always available, latterly videos, tapes of various kinds, classes, various facilities which would be useful in allowing the essential substance to be generated through those concerned. Of course those concerned had to do something themselves. It wasn’t just a matter of closeting oneself away and doing nothing but read mailings. One had to resonate with what was being released through the mailings in some way, so that it became a part of oneself. In this fashion substance was generated and there was a good soaking with the water of truth. It has seemed to some that this wasn’t very good material for burning. Water? You use water to douse the fire! Nevertheless, in the way it really works, water is required before the fire, and we all have had opportunity to be thoroughly baptized.

The translation of what Jesus said about His church, against which the gates of hell should not prevail, and the rock upon which His church was to be built, has enhanced a misconception, because the Christian church, which originally was monolithic, was considered to be the church which Jesus was talking about. Subsequently, it has proliferated into numberless denominations and so it is assumed that He was talking about each of them. I suppose whatever word was used, it could have produced the same pattern which is now referred to in terms of “church,” but fundamentally we recognize that He was talking about His body. We are all very much aware that Jesus certainly never established a religion—human beings have done that subsequently. Obviously what He initiated was not a religion; it was simply life itself. In one sense, religion means the worship of God; so we worship God, that’s all right. But it also has come to mean specific church structures. Not all associate themselves with these structures. Nevertheless religion is one portion of the total experience of life, just a department inhabited by some, not everybody—whereas what was brought by the Master was the totality of life. But what He revealed has been compartmentalized into what are called churches. He never brought anything of the sort.

The experience of living needs to be permeated completely by the spirit of God in every conceivable way, in everything that human beings do. Spirituality is not a separate compartment; it is life itself. And life itself needs to flood through the total expression of man. So here we have had the opportunity of becoming aware of this. When I am talking about it now you, I am sure, say, “Yes, that’s right, we know that.” If I were to stand up in the pulpit of a church and say the same thing, there might be some who agreed, up to a point at least, but most would be horrified. I recall that the Master stood up one time in the synagogue and said something and was thrown out!

We have had the necessity of being cut out of the logs. This has happened, but you need mature kindling for burning; if it is too green it is not much use. So there has been a period of time when the maturing process has been going on, the substance has been generated which would allow for the receiving of the fire. The fire emerges through the true design, so the true design must be present. This relates to the water, to the substance which has been generated in living capable of accommodating the true design. As this substance is present and the true design is accommodated, we become aware of what the true design is to that extent. We do have an awareness which the majority do not have, because of this. Obviously there are others, who have not had the opportunities that we have had, who have some awareness because they have generated some substance in their own living. We are not at all exclusive in this regard. It’s open to anyone. But from our standpoint we have had a particular opportunity. So the kindling has been prepared, the altar has been built, the sacrifice has been put on it, the water has been poured, all this, and then the fire needs to come.

The fire burns the kindling first. How about that? Because it burns the kindling, sufficient heat is generated that some of the surrounding logs can begin to catch fire. Clearly it is seen, then, that the same task that was required to make the kindling is not required throughout the whole bonfire, through all the material that is going to be brought into the fire. We don’t have to anticipate that other people have to go through exactly the same experience that we have. But it was necessary that there should be those who do go through this experience; otherwise there isn’t any kindling, as we are speaking of it now, so the fire could not consequently be started. The logs around, of course, are accustomed to being logs. They look askance at the kindling: “What’s this? It doesn’t even look like a log anymore.” Yet it came out of the log. But seeing that there is a certain maturity from our standpoint now, it makes utterly no difference what the logs think. They’re going to burn! But we’re going to burn first!

So we reach a point, and I think we are coming to that, where all this nonsense that puts in an appearance round about through people, through the media, however, is simply of no concern. It doesn’t mean anything; it’s not going to change anything. The only concern we would have is with the people concerned, who, after all, are going to be burning shortly. They had better be rightly identified at that point. But for the moment we are the ones who had better be rightly identified, because here is the first evidence of the fire, the fire which rightly is the coming forth of the genius, of the angel, through the facility which is now capable of accommodating that coming forth and is of such a nature that it is not destroyed by that coming forth. When we think of fire it is often thought of as being destructive, but we recognize that it is not destructive to those who are associated with the fire. It merely makes possible a new experience, a new state. Before the fire burns we don’t know what that state is, so it is no use speculating about it.

We have to trust that the fire is safe. It is the fire that comes from heaven. We have identified it in terms of love. Should we be afraid of love? Human beings have been afraid of God. God is love, so they have been afraid of love. Of course love which is not conditioned by truth is found to be quite destructive. There are vast numbers of human beings who can testify to this fact in their own experience. But we have had the opportunity of being conditioned by the truth, and love emerging on this basis is creative. It comes forth in creative expression—the kindling is transformed thereby, and the transformation of the kindling we can see in terms of our own experience. The transformation that occurs in us is what carries the fire to the logs, into the body of mankind. It is what actually occurs in ourselves as individuals that transforms the world. We see that it isn’t magic, in the ordinary sense at least; it is a process. Most people are inclined to look for something to happen in the future; they are goal-oriented, we say; but that has nothing to do with the spirit of God. The spirit of God is operating now, initiating and maintaining a process, and it is participation in that process that allows the fire to come forth.

One evidence of that fire is that we find ourselves in position where the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune all around us don’t bother us as they used to. The ill reports that come to us, the nastiness that sometimes spills out of human beings, is their problem—not ours. This is discovered as being the truth of the matter. It hasn’t quite come home to people yet. They still go on regurgitating nastiness without realizing what they are doing to themselves, and what they are inviting other people to share with them. Fortunately there are quite a number of fairly intelligent and balanced people in the world who are not fooled or not interested in becoming saturated with bilge water. But as far as we are concerned it makes no difference. What is on the move is on the move from the standpoint of the spirit of God, and to the extent that we are aligned with that we have reached a point where we could be counted as kindling—and the kindling is for burning. Maybe while we were in the process we didn’t think of what the end result might be.

It is not so much that a match is going to be put to anyone. The burning comes forth out of heaven, and we find changes wrought by reason of its coming. There have been some remarkable changes wrought in the experience of many, you included, and it seems the days are being shortened in the sense that the changes come more quickly and more intensely. If there is any rubbish around it gets burned, and if we have an identity with that rubbish it is painful. Usually if you pick up a brand of burning wood in your hand you are careful not to hold it where it is burning. But if you do happen to hold it where it is burning, what happens? You let go of it very quickly! Well I would suggest that is good advice when we begin to experience times of painful burning—there is something to be let go of quickly, and it needs to be done quickly. So this is happening, and we may see a role in terms of kindling, right now. I think perhaps this analogy will change very shortly, but we can see it in those terms now, as the way by which the fire starts elsewhere.

There is this attitude in people which expects someone to put a match to the kindling. I have been cast in this role at times, that I am somehow going to put a fire under you. But that was what the prophets of Baal did, wasn’t it? In the contest they weren’t allowed to do that, so they had no fire. The only way they could have gotten a fire was to strike a match, but this was a no-no in that particular situation. So it is with us. The fire comes forth, and consumes all that is there, transforming it into something else. No human being is capable of doing that for anyone. Where would you start? What would be the end result of the transformation? Lots of people have tried to live other people’s lives, or make them over, but it is a useless and hopeless business. Only when there is the coming forth of the fire in the expression of living now, in each moment, does the kindling ignite, to start with. That is what needs to happen first.

So we have this opportunity. Something needs to come forth, so that one isn’t always sitting and waiting for somebody else to strike the match. We have sufficient understanding at this point to be relatively confident that we are not going to have our feet continuously in our mouths. There is a way to go. But the way to go for each individual can be gone only by that individual. We know the principles so well. Nobody else can live our lives for us; but we can live them for ourselves, and we find such a glorious experience as it happens. We have touched it heretofore sufficiently to know that.

We are here to make sure that the fire burns. The earth is reserved unto fire—this fire. Let us be very sure that this fire is available before the other kind of fire puts in an appearance. Maybe the other kind of fire will put in an appearance sometime, but we have something to do first. Let’s not speculate about that. Let’s do what we are here to do. We have this moment, after all; that’s all we need. And so the door, the way, is clear before us. Let the genius come forth. Let the Angel, who is a Flaming Fire, emerge to consume what heretofore we may have thought ourselves to be. That’s called restoration.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Brought To Remembrance

Brought  To  Remembrance

Hear Me   Respect Me   Love Me   Be Me

Martin Exeter  September 27, 1987

For so long have the children of men dwelt in the tents of wickedness that the courts of the Lord are remembered no more. This is the fatal amnesia. Our friend Immanuel Velikovsky pointed to the cataclysms that have occurred on this earth, immense horrors for the children of men. He suggests that because of this there has been a general state of amnesia, because no one wished to recall such horrendous events. That is perhaps an aspect of the amnesia but a very peripheral one. There is a deeper suppression of guilt which relates to the cause of those cataclysmic events. Human beings usually assume that the cause of such things is God; they refer to them as “acts of God.” This is one way of excusing human beings from responsibility. But there is this very deeply established guilt in the subconscious of all human beings, well covered over, so that there is a loss of memory to such an extent that these days there is a general unwillingness to take any real responsibility for anything. “It's not our fault.” At least someone else is to blame. But ultimately, whatever the Deity may be, He is to blame. Destructiveness is imputed to God, to the acts of God.

It is a little difficult these days to evade the fact that human beings themselves have been busy producing their troubles, which are moving toward a point of climax in these days. They have dwelt in the tents of wickedness for so long. By the way, wickedness is usually seen as relating to evil. I would suggest that it relates equally to good. It relates to the choices that human beings make, whether they are deemed to be good or bad. It is all wickedness. And the results of wickedness are not far to seek. In one way or another all of us as individuals have experienced such results. I trust that we have reached a level of maturity now, so that we do not blame someone else for our own troubles, even though we can, so accurately still I am sure, pinpoint the source of our troubles. But those sources seen external to ourselves are simply a reflection of what is already internal to ourselves. Honesty requires that we admit this, so that we nevermore assume that there is some external devil somewhere intent upon our downfall, usually easily spotted in somebody else.

There is an amnesia, certainly, related to the results, the effects, of a more deeply hidden cause. There can be no restoration of memory as to the truth of man until that cause is unveiled, until we reach a point where we can acknowledge the fact of it as it relates to ourselves individually. Clearly it relates to mankind as a whole, and that is an obvious aspect of the matter; but what is occurring on that larger scale cannot be correctly handled until there is the acknowledgment of our own responsibility as an individual. We have seen this, I am sure, most clearly. The necessity for repentance, then, puts in an appearance. But the repentance is really only the matter of letting the basic cause for the loss of memory be unveiled, so that as individuals we are ready to admit it, regardless of what anybody else does, regardless of anyone else's behavior anywhere on the face of the earth, and I suppose particularly with respect to those who are close to us. These are the ones that get under our skin at times. But they're not really getting under our skin. There is something under there already, of which we become aware because of the behavior of other people. This is very useful if we see it in the right light. We should be very thankful that other people unveil to us what is already under our skin, what is already present within ourselves, so that the cause of the trouble may be acknowledged.

There is only one way by which this remembrance can come, and that is by reason of the spirit of truth. It was said, very truly, the spirit of truth shall call all things to your remembrance. This is the dissipation of amnesia, is it not? We may take a look at some of these cataclysmic events, and that's fine; they certainly were terrible things in human experience. But evidently somebody survived or we wouldn't be here. What is more important is that there should be a vivid awareness of what it was that caused this disruption of the natural cycles as they move in this solar system. This could hardly be called an act of God. It would, rather, be described as a failure of man. It certainly indicates that man has a very vital and central part to play in the creative processes of this universe as they come to focus here in the solar system and in this planet. It implies that we are not so useless as we thought we were.

Out of this deep, hidden guilt spring all the ways of wickedness. We cannot help but dwell in the tents of wickedness when we are born on earth. It is of little consequence as to our racial background, our national background, our religious affiliations, or anything else. These are all outgrowths of this central guilt, an endeavor to assuage the guilt in various ways. We will try, for instance, to worship God in a way that will be pleasing to Him, so that He won't clobber us so much. The fact of the matter is that He never clobbered anyone at any time. All the clobbering has simply been the result of human behavior, consequent upon the suppression of memory. The spirit of truth alone can restore memory. But how does the spirit of truth put in an appearance? Things work in very reasonable ways. All the ingredients that are necessary for the spirit of truth to be present are on hand.

“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” The spirit of truth comes because there is one who comes in the name of the Lord. Then the spirit of truth can be “with you, and shall be in you.” The spirit of truth must first be with you, in form and expression, through one who comes in the name of the Lord. When there is a resonance within oneself related to the spirit of the one who comes in the name of the Lord, then one will be drawn to that spirit—it is a drawing into the experience of a greater resonance of the spirit of truth within oneself. But for that to have focus and to have meaning, there must be one who comes in the name of the Lord. This is the way it works. There must be focus. This is something that human beings have steadfastly rejected. When there is such a focus, and the spirit of truth is present in radiant expression because of that, then it is possible to have one's memory restored. The restoration of memory comes as that same spirit of truth emerges through oneself.

The word of the One who comes in the name of the Lord is “Hear me.” That's the first word. “Hear me. Respect me. Love me. Be me. Share the responsibility of being the one who comes in the name of the Lord, in the expression of the spirit of truth.” There are not five billion expressions of the spirit of truth. The expression of the spirit of truth is One. There are five billion—or might be—differentiations of that spirit, but they would all be that spirit. And it works this way. One comes in the name of the Lord. There is a focus of spirit provided, the spirit of truth, which is capable of dissipating amnesia. All human beings on the face of the earth have forgotten who they are and why they are here. What is the purpose of man on earth? Who can answer that? We have been talking about it now: to participate in the creative process, which works in a very definite and specific way. And one can't second-guess that. It works the way it works.

If we begin to let ourselves be drawn by the spirit of truth, because there is some substance in us that resonates in response to it, then we begin to awaken to an awareness of the spirit of truth in expression through the one who comes in the name of the Lord. This may be succeeded by willingness to hear, to listen, possibly to understand. Then respect is engendered as understanding comes, and this is found to be love. Love puts in an appearance because one was associated with the creative process and willing to let it work without too much interference. We do interfere because we are all inclined to want to have our own way. But when there is love, then we hear the final word which is “Be me.” Accept exactly the same responsibility of being in expression the spirit of truth. When this is so, there is no conflict between those who are the spirit of truth in expression. It all blends together. Individually speaking, what is expressed is not all the same; but it all fits together, and it fills in the details of the reality of man, what man is, what he is here for, why he exists. Life has meaning. The revelation of that meaning is the expression of the spirit of truth. That is the truth—the revelation of the meaning of that focus of life which is present in oneself. One can't become aware of the meaning of that without becoming aware of the meaning of life as it relates to the whole. It's the same life, after all.

But to come again to the spirit of truth, to acknowledge the fact of the one who comes in the name of the Lord—“blessed is he.” Here is the spirit of truth, which is saying, in effect, “Hear me. Respect me. Love me. Be me.” Because I have had a particular responsibility in this regard, which I have assumed for myself, those words may relate seemingly to me, but it is to the spirit of my expression. Hear me. Respect me. Love me. If there is a genuine hearing, these other things follow along naturally. Many of you have found them following along naturally, until the point is reached where you say, “It is me.” When that point is reached, all concerned are in agreement. You could define that as peace. Human beings in the general sense have no idea what peace would be. There never has been peace in the memory of human beings.

Life doesn't appear in spurts. It is really a steady flow. If it is allowed to flow naturally because we don't contend with it, we will find that it is something smooth. There may be some natural pulsations, just as the seasons come and go; but there is a natural flow. So we may participate in this natural flow. But it is the spirit of truth that makes all this possible, because the state of Man is the state of embodying that natural flow without interruption. It provides whatever is necessary for the thinking of the mind, for the feelings of the heart, for the life of the body. There are external things provided, which have been messed up terribly by human behaviour—human behavior which has denied the spirit of truth. It's been intent on going its own way, doing its own thing, arranging things on earth the way it wants them; and then when they are arranged, it objects to them. Let the spirit of truth be present, acknowledged.

I could say, without proving anything, I am come in the name of the Lord, to give focus to the spirit of truth. This is not an exclusive thing at all, as so many seem to try to make it when they form their cults and so on. But a cult can only form when the focus point is not the spirit of truth. Mind you, human beings desperately try to make things into cults. They have tried to make what is happening here into a cult. Some people observe from outside and say it is a cult, but they say that principally because it is a cult from inside in the view of some. It only becomes what it really is as one acknowledges the spirit of truth, by saying “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Then, having said that, one hears, one respects, one loves, and one is. Then there is no separation.

The spirit of truth, focused and in expression, is not exclusive, but it is absolute. It can't be contended with without fatal results—there has been this persistent contending with the spirit of truth. This vicious circle in which human beings have been moving cannot be transcended without the action of the spirit of truth, which brings to remembrance the reality of Man. Accepting the reality of Man is repentance. Let the spirit of truth be your expression in living, and that is all that is necessary. It will restore memory. I am sure that many of you can say now, with a certain clarity of awareness, why it is you are present on earth. One is present on earth to give expression to the spirit of truth, and if you do it you know why you are on earth. If you refuse to do it you don't know. All this is very simple, really. Human beings are inclined to make things so complicated.

Let the behavior be restored to the behavior of one who dwells in the courts of the King. One cannot discover the forms of such behavior and then try to conform to those forms and consequently experience the spirit of truth. It doesn't work that way. It is the expression of that spirit in living which creates its own forms of behavior, and those forms of behavior mesh between all who are letting the spirit of truth create those forms. There are those who have been associated with the Emissary ministry who have tried to make behavior forms and then insisted that everybody should conform to those behavior forms. What a waste of time! There are people doing that all over the world as it is, in various ways. The pervasive influence on earth says to human beings, “You conform to these cultural forms; you conform to these religious forms; you conform to these scientific forms; you conform to all these human inventions, and you'll be all right.” It hasn't proved out that way, because it's a lie. Yet most people imagine that they are being good if they are conforming to the particular pattern which has been foisted on them. It's deadly—based in this loss of memory.

The spirit of truth says, “Remember.” And you will, if you accept the spirit of truth, if you accept me and allow “me” to be you—allow the spirit of truth to be your expression. It will be individual and unique in that sense. But it produces the quality of behavior in thought and word, feeling, action, which permits a person to be in the courts of the King. If one has the capability of dwelling in the courts of the King and one allows that capability to characterize one's living, immediately one is in the courts of the King, no longer dwelling in the tents of wickedness—repentance has occurred, and the person hardly noticed it! Sometimes it seems that a person needs to notice it, so that there may be a willingness to let the change occur, and sometimes it takes quite a shaking to do that. We subject ourselves to these things, we build our own troubles. Finally they may overwhelm us, and that's that. Or they may cause us to wake up and say, “That's enough of this nonsense!”

The provision has been made. The spirit of truth is present. The expression of it is clear, focused, consistent. Why not be aligned with that? Why not hear what it is? Why not respect this above all? Why not then be willing to know the reality of love? And, in that, one is back where one might have been if all this interim had not occurred, the interim of human rebellion—the determination on the part of human beings to have their own way. That is the fall—and anyone who says, “Well the fall never took place,” didn't examine very closely what's happening in human experience on earth. The evidence of it is everywhere, and particularly in one's own experience. What a mess! We have the opportunity to emerge out of that, and have been assuming the responsibility of doing this, sharing that responsibility, sharing the expression of the spirit of truth. And, behold, we begin to mesh, in spite of everything, in spite of all our judgments and everything else.

We find ourselves being put together in a new design—or a design that is new to us at least—I suppose you could say the state of society in the kingdom of the King, in the courts of the King. And we express the spirit of truth consistently or out we go. It's a matter of being what one really is—the truth of oneself—and in that is the restoration of Man on earth. And when Man is on earth the creative process is brought to focus and all things work together to perfection. That is what is happening now because there is an emergence, to this extent, of Man on earth, of the spirit of truth in focused expression. What the spirit of truth says, in effect—it doesn't quite put it this way—is “Shape up or ship out.” That is the way it is. It is all being brought to issue. We share the responsibility, letting it be brought to issue in ourselves so that it may be brought to issue with respect to everybody on the face of the earth. And this is happening.

Hear and Remember

Lloyd Meeker

Hear Me!

Hear, and remember.

Remember the straight unshaken lines of power

that made and hold this holy earth,

that join the yielded heart to heaven's will.

Remember the Court of the King.

Remember purpose clean of guile,
and reason sprung from perfect love.
Depart the tents of wickedness,
discard the shifting garments of beyrayal
and return,
return to me.

For behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
here there is no death, nor even sorrow,
here the former things are passed away.

Enter!

Abide in Peace,

radiant, steadfast,
going no more forth.

© emissaries of divine light