The Nature Of The Real Is To Grow

The  Nature  of  the  Real  is  to  Grow

The  Nature  of  the  Unreal  is  to  Decay

Uranda   July 23, 1946

You are beginning to realize the value of what I have talked about as “focalizations”. You are beginning to experience a specific focalizatlon of Reality in the earth. Focalizatlon—the key to all things is to be found in their focalizations. Is it not so? With that background—and I will go back and pick up the thread again in a few moments—I would read to you from Ephesians 6-12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

It is true that the rulers could not have become rulers had not those ruled contained within themselves that which corresponds to the qualities of the unreal; but, even so, we find that focalizations established in the world begin, sooner or later, if they be maintained, to overlap each other. There may be, suppose, in a certain place ten thousand people who, by reason of the unreal in them and the situations that cause them to function in the outer, have a focalization of the unreal for some specific purpose, and the focalization exists according to the concepts of needs or of the uses of power. As long as those ten thousand people are left alone, anyone looking at them will see little, if anything, beyond that focalization of the unreal. But when we come along in the Spirit and Power of the One Christ Body and begin to set up a focalization in that same place, or cause a focalization to overlap into that same place, we find that there are those among the ten thousand who have in them that which responds to our focalization. Then, for a little time, two pyramids stand on the same ground at the same time. Such a situation introduces interesting possibilities.

Two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time. So we recognize that the pyramid that we establish in the same place that is already occupied is primarily vibratory—it is not filling all the space as yet, so there is some space for the pyramid of the unreal. But the strange thing is that the unreal, while it can be added to, never grows. You can add to it, but it never grows, does it? It decays. The interesting characteristic about the unreal is that it continually decays. If it were not for the additions all the time, decay would soon wipe evil from the face of the earth. If that which is good, of the Life Current, was not continually added to the form of evil, it would not take very many years for evil to just simply decay—it cannot grow; it cannot add to itself; it would decay and be no more. Is that not right? Evil is absolutely powerless to grow. Had you ever thought about that? All we can do is to keep taking something good and adding it to the form, so that, as fast as the form decays, we keep building around it with that which is of the good. Generally speaking, the way it works in this world is that, as the form decays in the center—in the altar of Baal—the young people in whom the natural essence of life and goodness is to be found, are just pushed into it at the center which is decaying. That is the only way that the altar of Baal can be maintained—that is, as the good in which life is, is added to it. The world is sacrificing its sons and daughters unto Baal. The interesting point, to me, is that that which is of Reality cannot decay—it always grows. Interesting facts, are they not?

When we have these pyramids, not actually occupying the same space at the same time, but having their foundations on the same ground, or at least overlapping—then, the nature of the unreal is to decay; the nature of the Real is to grow. If the focalization is maintained, the base cannot be moved. That is true of both pyramids, but in the case of the unreal pyramid the focalization is maintained by pushing that which still has life in at the bottom and forcing it up, so that a pinnacle is maintained arbitrarily, regardless of decay. The focalization of the Real does not stand on something forced into it and under it, or something that is forced to stay there until it decays. In the first place, it is of the Current of Life; and, in the second place, through the creative power of Love it draws unto itself its own, and by its nature it grows.

Let us suppose that this is an equal contest—now, there isn't anything of equality in this contest at all, but we might suppose for a minute a condition where it might seem to be somewhat equal—and the focalization of the Real is simply maintained. The nature of the Real is to grow, and, as it grows, it finds space around it that was previously occupied by the unreal, but the unreal decays pretty soon and the space is occupied by that which grows, and there is no space for the unreal. Just that simple process alone, maintained, would, in a comparatively short time, cleanse the earth of all unrighteousness, would it not? Do you see what I mean? Even if we had to meet the situation on what we might, in a sense, call equal ground, we should have a sure thing against a certainty of losing on the other side. There is no equality. But we are not limited to that—we have a focalization, and when it is maintained the focalization is not concerned about all the good people who are going bad in order to maintain the pyramid of the unreal. We are not concerned about them at all, for the moment at least—we are concerned about that which is at the point of focalization of that pyramid of the unreal, that which is at the point of control. And so, if we have a point of control, and if we have a pyramid that has an apex—i.e., not just flat on top—then the point of the apex can begin to deal with that which is at the apex of the pyramids of the unreal.

The most difficult thing in the world for human beings is to find people who can be satisfactory points of apex in their pyramids of the unreal. Isn't that true? Leadership according to world concepts is comparatively rare. There have been times in the past when, by reason of some great leadership, there was a great pyramid. That leadership goes and this pyramid settles down and spreads out, becoming half a pyramid with many points of apex. Then, if they cannot find leaders to maintain it at this level, this gradually settles down, and we get more and more little pyramids—lots of them, not because they are multiplying, but because they are decaying. In the world as it is today, you do not find very many really big pyramids. To the outer mind, that makes it seem to be a difficult problem. I rather think that it makes the job easier. The fact is that their points of apex are not very solid, and when we deal with these points, one by one, step by step—or maybe getting a lot of them together once in a while—then what happens to the pyramid? So-called leaders may scramble around and find someone whom they can push up to the top and make it hold, but generally the pyramid squashes down. They may manage to make a few little pyramids, but they do not amount to much. The main thing is that, as those points of control of the unreal are removed, as the strength of these pyramid apexes is reduced, and this thing gets scattered out, then the people who were absolutely bound about by the structure of the great pyramid, so to speak, can get out—they can peek out of the little ones and see the daylight. It is turning them loose. We could go out there and hammer against the base of the big pyramid—we might kill ten thousand from the outside of the pyramid but it would not do any good. So we simply let the thing crumble of its own weight. It is a very simple matter.

The Lord always figures out the easy way to do things. We just let it crumble of its own weight, and then those people who have been bound with bars of iron and gates of brass will have a chance to get out. When they have that chance we want to be sure that they have every opportunity to see that there is a reason for them to come out. We must be sure that they have an opportunity to hear the Call: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sin.” If they are given the correct opportunity, many of them will come out. We are not so interested in just eliminating all of the evil from the face of the earth. Suppose, right now, by some act of God I were given power to wipe all evil from the face of the earth immediately. I wonder how many of you would be left. Do you suppose that there would be enough of the unreal left in you that you would be partly destroyed, at least. Just wiping evil from the face of the earth would be wiping humanity from the face of the earth, destroying the good with the bad. So that is the reason for letting this work out in the way that it has done, so that every individual on the face of the earth will be given every possible opportunity to obey the Call: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sin.”

When we have so functioned that the Gospel of this Kingdom has been preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and all who will have come and responded and been drawn into the Way, the Truth and the Life, then the residue will constitute no great problem. When they see the manifestation of the Real in the earth, their natural reaction will be to feel that the people who have served God are the cause of all of their difficulties. The point is that those who refuse to obey God always have troubles, and they always blame someone else, never themselves, so they jump to the conclusion that the people of God are the cause of their difficulties. That is bound to come as the focalization of the things of God begin to actually appear on the earth, not because we want it so, but we know in advance that that is what is going to happen, and there isn't anything under the sun that will keep it from happening, except to eliminate the people of God from the earth—that is, to stop being people of God. That would deny God and put us in a spot that I would not like to share. Since we have a real focalization, it will continue to be so as long as we abide in the Lord and let Him do the works.

Having that focalization of Reality in the earth, the simplest process of all will be taking care of those who undertake to fight against God. The difficult and delicate operation, after the manifestation of the Body, and it is trained to truly function, is to be certain that we have given every one ample opportunity to turn and know the Way. During that time, points of opposition will appear, and we just let it come—not that we wish it—we are not fighting against them—but we just let it come, because a peculiar fact about the fire is that it will flash out just as easily on a vibration of opposition as it will on a vibration of response. The only thing that does not make it flash is that which is absolutely passive and neutral. Do you see what I mean?

My function previously has been as an individual working to draw together the Members who will permit themselves to be the One Christ Body. Now, with the manifestation of the Body in actual function, our job is to Let Love Radiate. And remember that it is the Head—or the properly authorized Member—who deals with the adversary, because the Head may find that there are occasions where the adversary can be dealt with, with the right hand in proper position. On the other hand, various Members, under various conditions, might be utilized. But always, if it is going to be effective, unless the action is simply leading with one's chin, in which case it is not the Head that is leading—the Head has to direct the action.

The first great realization for the Members of the Body is to remember that they need not be concerned about meeting these things of the opposition, of the unreal, or things of that nature. Understanding in that realm will come, true enough, but remember that segregated action on the part of a Member, self-actively, for no matter how good a purpose, will create division and prevent the function of the Body. In other words, a Member might just want so much to double up his fist and sock, but that fist had just better stay put, no matter how much it wants to move—until the Head says to let go. As long as we function as a Unit under the control of a single point of focalization, we are absolutely invincible, but the very moment that the Members of the Body try to work out these things according to what they think would be a good idea for the good of the Lord's Service, it is going to lead to trouble and they will probably be the ones to catch it first. If something like that ever does happen, I am going to be sure that you are without excuse.

If we are to function properly, the purpose of function is to Let Love Radiate to all alike, regarding no one as enemy. We must radiate all of the time—as the sun shines—not being concerned about so-called focalizations of evil. If you start looking for them, you will think you find them everywhere; you will start imagining things. The thing to do is to remember that the Body has one job, and that is to Let Love Radiate, and when, on the basis of correct function, under the direction of the Head, we do meet opposition—that is, deal with it—it will be on the basis of Love, because it is the only basis upon which we can act. Most of this expression might not appear to the human concept as real at the moment, but that is beside the point.

Since there is a Christ Body and there is a radiation of the fire of the Christ Love, those within the scope of our radiation have, automatically, the opportunity to know, and if it were not for the radiation there would not develop a focalization of opposition—therefore, when the focalization appears, it has already had its opportunity. It would not take form on the basis of opposition unless it had had that opportunity; therefore, we deal with it on the basis of its own judgment of itself. That is the principle involved; but I want to emphasize that except as it may be brought out for consideration by the Head, the Members of the Body are not to concern themselves about dealing with the dark forces, or opposition, or evil, or any of these things, because if you start thinking about it, meditating upon it, or trying to figure it out, you are going to cease to be a Member of the One Christ Body. And it can happen awful fast, and I mean awful—full of awe. Remember always that the basic principles that you have learned all the way through still hold, and except as we give attention to the things of Reality, we cannot possibly hope to carry through.

© emissaries of divine light

Angels Passionately Love The Word

Angels  Passionately  Love  The  Word

from  Increasing Spiritual Usefulness

Martin Cecil   May 20, 1979

We all find ourselves in a human nature world, and right from the start we are in a graveyard spin. It may take up to a hundred years to hit the ground, but still the crash seems to be inevitable. The first step, as I was careful to point out this morning, is to let go; but that is only the first step. In fact most of the service this morning was given to a consideration of what was necessary to extend direction and control into our worlds. There must be the generation of the required substance so that it is available to fill our worlds. We ourselves, in the external sense, are in the world also. We certainly cannot fill our worlds unless there is plenty of substance present in our own experience. In fact our worlds are contained within our experience, aren't they? We may have the habit of thinking of our worlds as being out there somewhere, but at the same time we know very well, if we pause to consider the matter, that they are inside here; they are within the range of our consciousness, in other words.

If we had no consciousness we would have no world, even though it might be said to exist quite apart from our consciousness; but insofar as we are concerned we are only aware of that world by reason of our consciousness and the fact that we have consciousness. Our world is contained within that consciousness; and from our standpoint as individuals it is not out there, it is right where we are. What happens within our own consciousness obviously affects what is happening in the world which is contained in our consciousness. We cannot handle any world out there—if it is out there—we can only handle it because it is in here, contained in our own consciousness. If our own consciousness is filled with spiritual substance then our world begins to be immersed in that substance, and we are not imagining that we have somehow to pump it out there into some mythical world which we suppose exists out there. The only one we know exists is the one right where we are, in our own consciousness. Let's be concerned with this, letting our world be filled with spiritual substance, because this is what we generate within the scope of our own consciousness. If it fills our consciousness sufficiently it will at the same time fill and enfold our worlds which are contained in our consciousness, and the world is transformed in this way.

We have a habit established which makes us imagine a state of separation, where one may consider oneself to be here and everything else is there. Isn't that the way your consciousness has worked? How do you know it is there? It is in your consciousness and that is the only place where we can handle it even if it is there. So our concern is with the generation of substance by reason of our living, that direction and control may be given to the worlds in our consciousness. On this basis the worlds in our consciousness begin to change, as you have already discovered. Something has changed in our own consciousness and it is this that is the important thing. We stop being so all-fired concerned about what is happening with everybody else, because if we have everybody else out there, there is nothing we can do about it; but if everybody else is contained in our own consciousness then there is something we can do about it. We speak of spiritual expression in our living. We are aware of our living not as something external to ourselves but as something that is contained in our own consciousness.

We recognize the necessity of letting there be spiritual expression in this world

for which we are responsible in our own consciousness.

It becomes a tremendous task if we think of that great world out there. Regardless of whether it is out there or not, it certainly is present in your own consciousness; and we can handle what is present in our own consciousness. We need to be above it to handle it. If we are below it, we are pushed around by it; we jump by reason of what is happening in our own consciousness. We have some experience of spiritual expression already, a little anyway—that if this is your actual expression in living, it does have an effect. This is a radiant action occurring and it has effect upon what is contained in the world of your own consciousness. There are some who are delighted to begin to experience this spiritual expression as it comes to bear upon themselves—they respond, they are willing to move in closer. They are beginning to discover the newness of the world which is being made new by your spiritual expression. There are others who don't do that. They object perhaps; they begin to fight and struggle. We just continue to offer steadfast spiritual expression, allowing those who are present in our consciousness to make their own decisions. There are those, the vast majority as it has been heretofore, who halt between two opinions. Our concern is to become so expert in spiritual expression that there is an intensification of the substance in our consciousness and therefore in our world—to the point where it becomes so hot that everybody begins to feel it, even if they are halting between two opinions.

We are concerned with this matter of spiritual expression. We recognize that the real value is here. Our value individually is the extent of the substance that is present with us through which spiritual expression is in action, and it is that spiritual expression in action which is our value. Most are inclined to imagine that their value is a physical or material value. If one has particular expertise in any field in the external sense the person is inclined to pin his value on that. That may be a treasure on earth but it is not the treasure in heaven. The treasure in heaven is the spiritual expression which is the fact: the ability to handle what is present of one's world in one's own consciousness from a spiritual standpoint, developing spiritual expertise, or letting it come forth from where it already is. We don't have to develop it in the sense of the way that external expertise is developed. The expertise, spiritually speaking, is already present in the truth of oneself. All it needs to do is to emerge into expression. That emergence into expression brings with it the sense of value. One becomes aware of one's own value and one is not looking for value anymore. One is not trying to extract value from the circumstances or from one's expertise in the circumstances.

This may be seen also with respect to the matter of youth and age in the external sense. Young people are very often, and naturally should be, energetic physically speaking and capable of doing many things physically speaking that their elders may not be able to do anymore. If one's value is placed in what one can do externally one will lose value as one grows older, and this fundamentally is what has happened in society in general. There is a mandatory retirement age of sixty-five in some countries, and I think amongst our own emissary population this very firmly established outlook is maintained, both from the standpoint of those who have reached age sixty-five or over and from the standpoint of those who observe the ones who have reached this mandatory retirement age where they have no more value seemingly. Value is in spiritual expression, not in what you can do physically. What you can do physically may determine somewhat the nature of your spiritual expression, but young people in a general sense have less spiritual substance available for spiritual expression than older people. This is why it was indicated in the story about the changing of the water to wine, that the good wine was left to the end of the feast, because there is rightly far more substance after age sixty-five than before that age. But as everyone has the habit of placing value upon what one may do in a physical sense, it seems as though most of the value is in youth and it is all lost when you get older, which is absolute nonsense.

Most people tend to be spiritually lazy. Sometimes the endeavor to cover up spiritual laziness causes frenetic physical activity and the person does so much—but his physical activity is just a cover-up for his spiritual laziness. There has been a tendency amongst many who have been associated with this ministry, getting older, to take the attitude that they gave their good years to this ministry and they provided a lot and offered a lot over the years, and now is the time to … what? Retire? That is a cop-out. That is a cop-out! That is a revelation of spiritual laziness. Spiritual activity, where the real value is, can emerge much more fully as there is less capacity perhaps for physical activity. The physical activity has to some extent been covering up the fact that there was or was not spiritual activity, and when the physical activity gets out of the way we find out what the fact is.

We all start out young, you know. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,” so that you do not fool yourself into imagining that by physical activity you are somehow proving spiritual worth. I am not saying that spiritual worth may not be present when physical activity is present—it needs to be. But let us just stop fooling ourselves. If there is spiritual activity the nature of the physical activity will reveal the fact, in some measure at least; but let us be very sure that we do not persist with spiritual laziness, so that when we grow older we suddenly find out how worthless we are, and we excuse ourselves at that point by saying, “Well I did so much in the past.” That was fine, wonderful, if you did something, but what are you doing now? The only time we have is now. There is this necessity, regardless of age, of generating spiritual substance and of participating in spiritual expression, and in the handling of our worlds from the standpoint of spiritual expression, of knowing how to do it. What we are here to do requires spiritual expression.

Of course there is always a starting point with respect to these things, which should have occurred for us long ago: that of letting go. Then we found the basic level where we could trust. There is a level of substance back of the whole universe that connects the dimensional creation with the undimensional Creator. It is always there. We become acquainted with that but we don't stay there. If you stay there you become absolutely worthless—no reason for a human being to be there. The universe will get along very well without human beings at that level; they are not necessary at all. But there is something to be done in the intensification of the substance so that there may be a rising up in the experienced expression of spirit to the levels where human beings should be, and that experience does not come on the basis of laziness spiritually speaking, obviously. It is a very sad thing when people getting older feel that they must have some external activity to convince them of their continuing usefulness. We should all be sure that there has been sufficient development and generation of substance so that we may be useful spiritually speaking. That usefulness should be far more as a person gets older—it should constantly increase. It should increase because the angel comes forth in more intense expression and something is happening in consciousness—the world is being filled with the substance of life—transformation occurs.

Let us never write ourselves off, and let us never write other people off simply on the basis of the fact that they have spent a few more years on earth than we have. From my own personal standpoint, there are many things that I cannot do now that I used to do when I was younger, but I certainly do not take the attitude that because of that I am becoming more and more useless. This unfoldment of years has provided space for the increasing generation of substance through which the greater intensity of spiritual expression may emerge. Are you going to leave that in my hands alone? I rejoice in the substance that is being generated regardless of age, particularly by various ones, but how much there really could be if there had been less spiritual laziness on the part of those who are now growing older. I emphasize the point, because it is never too late! And I do see some evidences here and there of a resurgence of an awareness of real meaning. We all need to be on hand as long as we are needed to be on hand, and really on hand, spiritually speaking, with the substance and the ability to handle the creative action that is necessary. From my standpoint the older people have far more responsibility in this than the younger people. I am delighted if there are young people who are going to grow up fast spiritually speaking, so that they are increasingly capable of handling what needs to be handled; but rightly the wine of life gets better as the years go by. There is the greater expression of it, but not in the same way as it was in youth. It is not physical activity that makes anything valuable; it is spiritual activity, and age has no actual ability to suppress spiritual activity. Here are some things that a lot of people need to think about, all of us in fact, whatever our physical age may be.

Blame, criticism, all these sorts of human nature attitudes, cease to have any meaning whatsoever once there is a recognition that one is dealing with the world within one's own state of consciousness and one is dealing with it on the basis of the working of the Law. Radiation, response: it will all sort itself out on this basis. We don't need to blame anyone in our worlds for taking some particular attitude which we think is wrong. Just continue to allow the expression of spirit to move freely in the substance which is present in your consciousness. Of course you have to keep generating the substance so that the substance of enfoldment, the substance of protection, the substance of this creative action, is available there. Then there may be action as needed, and there will be reaction to that action. The more substance there is present, and the more intense that substance is in one's consciousness, the more reaction there will be. That reaction may be what we call response or it may be what we call opposition, and as we see the temperature being raised there is less and less room for anything to hold out. It is going to go one way or the other.

Here is the creative process, the restoration, the cleansing of human consciousness, our own in particular, that that capacity may be filled with a new state of consciousness—angelic consciousness, the true consciousness of man. As the creative process is allowed to work and sort everything out this occurs quite easily. The yoke is easy and the burden is light when we are standing where we belong, where we have assumed responsibility for the worlds that are present in our consciousness. We are going to handle these worlds from the standpoint of spiritual expression and our spiritual consciousness. We know, we understand, what is needful in the enfoldment of our worlds. We say primarily that is love, and we have some of that to offer if in the acceptance of the responsibility of angels we behave like angels.

Angels passionately love the Word of the Lord. They passionately fulfil the first great commandment. This is angelic function. This is the attitude of angels. The angel already loves the Lord passionately, and if we agree with that then we find ourselves associated with that angelic attitude and that angelic expression.

We find ourselves at a new level of experience. We have emerged out of the level where the transformation is occurring, namely in the world in our consciousness; and we stand above that world in the consciousness of the angel, enfolding that world, intensifying the substance that is present, so that the transformation may occur. And we know very well that in that transformation there will be a certain amount of suffering. Seeing that it is in our own consciousness, that relates to something that we experience, doesn't it? But we know what it is that is happening and we stand at a level where what is happening is actually below us, even though it is within the range of our experience. We wouldn't be much use in accomplishing anything if what we were to accomplish was outside the range of our experience. It is inside the range of our experience; therefore we can be useful there and can accomplish what needs to be accomplished.

This process is a process of transformation by which what is responding is raised up and what is opposing is cast down, until all that can be raised up has been raised out of the level of the old world, the world where human beings suffer. There is a new heaven and a new earth, the angelic world, the world of angelic heavenly substance which now has so permeated the old world that there isn't any old world left. The first heaven and the first earth are passed away. Then there is the experience of the reality of the new heaven and the new earth, for the former things have passed away and man is restored to the level where he belongs, which is not at the level of the transformation. The transforming process causes suffering if there is self-consciousness at that level. There is not supposed to be self-consciousness at that level. Human beings have insisted upon it. Now we are providing the facility by which the transformation may occur and whatever responds may be lifted up to the level in human form where it belongs. The former things are passed away. There was no more pain. There was no more death. There was no more sorrow or crying. Certainly quite impossible in this human nature world! But we are interested in letting that world pass away, that the world where man belongs may be present again and man in it, extending the creative blessing of whatever is necessary for the transformation which occurs in the world where he no longer is. What is at the level of transformation should not have self-consciousness—then there is no trouble. So we rise up and provide what is necessary for the worlds contained in our consciousness to rise up with us, and what will not rise up with us is left behind. Simple.

Once again we have had the opportunity of considering some things within the substance that is available to us here this evening, handling what has emerged of our worlds in the way that this needed to be handled. As we have willingly allowed it to occur in our own consciousness we have participated in the process by which transformation of the world occurs. We need to become very familiar with this so that we do not duck out but let it be a reality consistently in all our living, because our world is not going to go away from our consciousness. You may say it slips out when you go to sleep at night. I don't think it really does. It is still there. You have a hint that it is there sometimes, don't you? You get to dreaming. No, we have a constant responsibility here, and because we know something in this connection we have that responsibility. Woe unto those who try to shuck it off! So let us continue in the way, letting all things work together to perfection as the transformation occurs and all things are thereby made new.

© emissaries of divine light

Angelic Core Archangelic Achievement

Angelic  Core

Archangelic  Achievement

Martin Cecil  April 4, 1979  Assembly

The most vital part of our ministry is the core of it. Unless there is a core, a sound, solid core, no sound, solid ministry can emerge. Everything that we are here to accomplish is dependent upon the fact of this core. We all need to have a very keen awareness of this fact and also of the nature of the core, so that we may individually be in position to play our proper parts. Obviously there is a core for this ministry, which has allowed the ministry to develop to the point which it has. All of you who are here present have in some measure been playing a part in that core. The core is not related to a particular geographical position. There are geographical positions related to the core. We need to see this in this fashion so that we don’t merely think of a core as being, for instance, Sunrise Ranch. This particular geographical position relates to the core. All those who are present on Sunrise Ranch are not necessarily a part of the essential core. We have to understand that this core is something like an onion. There are layers. The onion has a core, but the onion may be seen as being a core for something larger—using this as an illustration, it gives indication of the nature of the core.

We have a particular opportunity together during this month, to allow the development of a specific core pattern. This specific core pattern is at the center of things if for no other reason than that I myself am present. We share the responsibility of this core, first of all the development of it so that we may gain understanding experience with respect to the reality of the core which is necessary for the achievement of the Divine Purpose. What I have illustrated of the primary and secondary creative triangles relates to the core and to the development of the core.

The core itself, in this particular area of responsibility which is held by what we call this ministry, is a core composed of angels. Only when it is an Angelic Core does it have the meaning that it needs to have. We can look around the world and we can see cores of various sorts in the human sense. Nothing operates without such a core. We see this in terms of the working of the One Law. There is the positive core and the negative surround of the core—positive radiation, negative response. Of course, within the core itself there is positive radiation, negative response—the same principles which operate in the great whole operate also in the core. It is because of this that the core has a connection with the great whole. It’s not an isolated little core somehow that is a law unto itself. It is part of the working of the Law, and the Law works in the core; it works beyond the core, but it’s the same law.

So we are sharing in the development of a particular core, for a particular purpose. We may not at the moment with our conscious minds comprehend what the purpose is, other than in general terms. We know we are concerned, together with many others, with the restoration of human beings to the state of man, so we have an awareness of purpose here. But the particular aspect of that purpose which comes to focus in this core we do not know until it reveals itself to us by reason of the fact that there is a core. It is not a matter of theorizing about something; it’s a matter of discovering what the fact is, and the fact cannot be discovered except as there is the reality of the core present. Then we begin to understand the core and the particular purpose of the core in this special formation.

So here we are together, letting this core be developed by angels. And we ourselves have to assume the position of angels even though there may be those elements still present in our human consciousness which are inclined to deny the angel. The denial of the angel—I’m not talking about waving a flag or something and saying, “Well I deny the angel!” But what actually happens in daily living? You are aware that sometimes the angel is denied in this fashion—the expression which appears in the moment is not that of the angel. We may be willing to acknowledge this and still assume the stance of the angel—in other words, when such a thing occurs, there is the opportunity for rebuke, for one thing, an instant acceptance of responsibility with respect to whatever the human nature expression was. “The Lord rebuke thee; get thee hence, Satan.”

In the story of the temptations in the wilderness, satan certainly put in an appearance. Of course the usual picture of it is that he was some sort of entity other than the Master, but of course it was all occurring within the range of the Master’s own experience. There was a testing out of the quality and nature of the human consciousness at that point—and where human consciousness is, human nature certainly hangs around; satan puts in an appearance and must be dealt with one way or another. We have a very excellent outline of the proper way to handle a situation in the way the Master dealt with satan in the temptations, so-called. They were not temptations to Him. But nevertheless satan was there, human nature was there, put in an appearance, had something to say, but was told without any equivocation where it should go. Well we need to have this angelic attitude whenever satan puts in an appearance.

Now I’m speaking of this more particularly about satan putting in an appearance in our own personal expression. You may observe satan putting in an appearance, as you think at least, in someone else; but for the moment our concern is with our own expression. We are taking responsibility for this, that there might be the emergence of a particular core—a particular core which is synonymous with this Assembly, a core in which certain things are to happen and certain things to be achieved—not only within the core itself but, because these things are being achieved within the core itself, the achievement is thereby being extended beyond into the area which is being centered by this core. If the core remains passive nothing happens—well, obviously nothing is happening beyond it. The mere fact of position, then, means nothing. And here we come back to the tendency in human nature to be position-conscious, so that there is the thought that if one is somehow claiming position, that something thereby is happening. On that basis the only thing that is happening is destructive, because we don’t claim position. We simply provide it in the natural angelic expression which makes the formation of this core possible.

The core is a core of angels. Obviously, within the core then, our experience is properly Angel to Angel. Such an experience is quite different to the concepts that have been present in many Emissary minds about server and servee, focalizer and focalizee. Such a relationship is necessary when there is to be the development of the angelic experience, but once there is the angelic experience that necessity no longer prevails and we function on an entirely different basis—Angel to Angel. This step has been made or experienced by very few—almost everything continues to be looked at on the basis of a prior concept of focalization. Another analogy in this regard is the parent-child state of affairs. Those who are coming back to the angelic experience must, to start with, come as little children. This was emphasized by the Master when he was on earth. It is a requirement that one come as a little child, because in fact, spiritually speaking, that is what everybody in the human nature world actually is. So there must be the acknowledgment of the fact—one must get down to basics and be honest, and not pretend anymore that one is mature when he is not.

I would touch on this matter of maturity for a moment. This is always thought of in terms of growth: we’re going to grow into maturity. Who’s going to grow into maturity? The angel is mature already. Certainly, if we begin to accept the fact of our angelic nature we at the same time accept the fact that we do not need to grow. The angel is already mature. There is no necessity to become mature—there is no growth involved insofar as the angel is concerned. What appears to be growth toward maturity in the human view is properly the emergence of the angel into increased expression by reason of the human facility. That increased expression of the angel gives the effect of growth in the human facility—the human facility is in fact changing to allow for the expression of the angel. The human facility is not really maturing, but the angel is mature and reveals that maturity with increased effect as there is the expression emerging through the human facility. We do not emphasize, then, the human facility in this situation. The emphasis is on the emergence of the angel. The angel in expression is mature, and when the angel is in expression on earth, that is the evidence of maturity made manifest. But it wasn’t a maturity that has been grown into; it was a maturity that already existed. It merely becomes evident, that’s all. This changes the consciousness from one of anticipating a laborious growth, which is going to be very painful and difficult and will take years, to a recognition that the maturity is a reality now, in this present moment. We don’t need to go anywhere, grow into larger people somehow, in order to experience it. It is present already. So our concern is to accept into expression what is already mature.

Angel to Angel — this is the experience

We are mature as angels, and we handle our mutual responsibilities as angels with maturity. This experience is not something that has been widely known in the Emissary world. It has been very largely hung up in the childish state, where there was a parent, or a schoolteacher, or some authority or other, doling out what was required to the children. Well, there is the necessity for dealing with children to start with, because the only way that anyone can come is as a spiritual child. One will never find a spiritually mature person in the human nature world. There are those who claim to be adults—maybe we’ve made the claim ourselves—but it wasn’t true. You can’t find a mature person in the human nature world, because maturity requires spiritual maturity. When there is spiritual maturity—when the angel is in expression—then everything else will be mature.

So we find ourselves as a core of angels who are now mature. We deal with each other on this basis. One is not assuming any position. We don’t need any position. We’re already in it as angels, whatever it is. Insofar as we are concerned, manifest here on earth, our position is in the moment. Whatever is required in the moment, that we do. So as long as we’re doing that we’re always in position, but that position is incapable of being defined by the human mind. It simply is known by the angel. It is the experience, one’s own experience as an angel. One is always in position, and one doesn’t need to think about it—one doesn’t need to say, “Well, what is my position?” This is a question that is often asked by by human nature: “What is my position?” The position of human nature is solely to allow the expression of the angel to appear on earth. That’s the only position it has. If it’s not doing that it doesn’t have any position, and it soon proves out that it doesn’t have any position. We can see these are actual matters. We’re not trying to believe some fanciful idea. The thing is in front of us all the time.

So we have this angelic association. Now the angels who are present do not know how this association is going to emerge in fact, because it is dependent upon so many factors. It is dependent upon the human facilities of all concerned, for one thing; but it is dependent on far more than that, because in the human sense we are connected up with a large world beyond us, and what is present in this large world beyond us cannot be ignored. It’s there and it has to be handled. It is handled by reason of the fact that we have these human facilities. But the way what needs to emerge may emerge will be dependent upon all these various factors. The angel is quite capable of handling whatever it is that appears, so there is no problem about it—but it cannot be pre-cast, so to speak. You don’t know ahead of time; the angel doesn’t know ahead of time. What was it the Master said in that regard, about the particular fulfillment toward which he was pointing? “No man knoweth, not even the angels in heaven.” All right, let’s not be so concerned about the fact that we may not know certain things. Let’s not assume that because we do not know certain things that we do not have the experience of the angel. There are certain things that the angel does not know. If in angelic consciousness we knew everything, how dull it would be! We knew what was coming, we knew everything—well why bother? No, we don’t know. It’s exciting, it’s an adventure. This is part of the whole creative process. This is a part of the experience of God. We are delighted to move in such exalted circles.

But you can sense the difference between this angelic association and the usual association that has been known in Emissary circles, where there has been a looking up to the server. Here was the parent, and I’m the little child. “Please instruct me and help me, and I’m going to rebel when my emotions get out of control a little, because I’m just a child, you know. I can’t help it.” The fact is that within the scope of this ministry there are a lot of retarded children, children who have refused to grow up. They have accepted the original experience as though it was the final experience—the original experience of being a child and having someone to respond to, having someone to provide all the necessities—no need to take real responsibility for oneself: the meals are put on the table, the bed is made, everything is prepared—as children. Well this may be all right for children; they need to learn that there is something dependable in the way of a parent. The parent needs to provide the evidence of that dependability, stability, and honesty, consistency of expression, if the child is to grow in the right way, is to be led forth in the right way—but being led forth, the child doesn’t stay in that situation forever. The child is supposed to mature and take responsibility for its own expression. Rightly this does not cause a cleavage in the family pattern. It allows for the expansion of the family pattern. Of course, in the human world the family sort of flies off in all directions, and maybe they have a get-together now and again. The get-togethers are often fraught with conflict, disagreement, and probably all concerned can only stand it for about one day a year.

Our concern is not to fly off in all directions and become isolated, but to allow the expansion of what we have referred to as the family experience, which is the experience of mature people, and that is the experience of angels. So we, in angelic association, begin to lose the external relatednesses that were before considered to be so important. These are very important to a child: father and mother, brothers and sisters—the titular unit in which the child feels secure. That is necessary in the development, that there might be a greater sense of security known. But let it not be assumed that that sense of security is there by reason of the parent-child relationship. It is there because there are angels present. The angels need to emerge through the children, in order that there may be maturity. If the angel doesn’t mature through the child, then we have a retarded child; and while I’ve related that to what has occurred with respect to many within the range of our ministry, it certainly has occurred with respect to all those who are outside of the range of our ministry—retarded children. The world is run by retarded children. No wonder that it’s in a mess! Of course they don’t see themselves as retarded children. They have the ridiculous imagination that they are adult, and capable therefore of handling all these responsibilities.

We begin to see a different picture. There are two requirements with respect to angels in expression on earth. One of them is association with other angels in the particular relationships that are essential for the Archangelic achievement. We may see this now in terms of the core pattern which is to be experienced. That is one proper responsibility of angels—the primary one, in actual fact, because nothing can be achieved without it. The other one is the relationship of angels to humans. The human being is the child; the angel is the parent; and for a while, then, the parent is responsible for the child in a very direct sense, to care for its needs, to love and to provide all that is essential for the development of that child—but not so that the child might become a superchild, but that there might be a constantly increasing emergence of the angel by reason of that facility, which will then be no longer childish. It will stay childish as long as the angel doesn’t emerge. This is why I say there are so many retarded children around. The angel has never been allowed to emerge.

What a rational world it is when the intelligence of angels provides the means by which the world is governed. The world governed by irrational, retarded children is bound to be a horror. The world becomes a place that bears scarcely any resemblance at all to the real world. And of course the retarded children suffer in that state. God is not willing that any should perish, but it requires that people grow up. I suppose you could say that one of the interpretations of the word repentance is grow up. Stop being childish. Repent from staying in the childish state. The only way to come out of it is to permit the angel to emerge into expression at the level of human consciousness, where everybody has been functioning. If the angel emerges where everybody has been functioning, everybody experiences the angel. So we see these two aspects of the angelic ministry on earth. The first requires the Angelic Core to develop, a family core which is not composed of parents and children. It’s composed of mature people, actual people—us!—mature people who have a relatedness to each other based in whatever it is that is to be achieved according to the fulfillment of Divine Purpose. This is the sole concern of angels. We already have certain patterns of relatedness between the human aspects of these incarnate angels. All right, that’s the way it is—married couples for instance—whatever it is, is for angelic use—blessed singleness. In any case, there are certain relationships between the people concerned; but it isn’t those relationships that are the important thing. It’s the relationships of the angels concerned.

Now almost all human relationships were based in how one human felt toward another human, one child felt toward another child—puppy love, very often. That’s all it is; it’s all it can be. It is perhaps an experience for children, but it needs to be relinquished if one is ever to mature. It is this puppy-love state that is so popular in the world. Oh, we love this which we call love! It isn’t anything really to be taken so seriously—it’s something that is natural to children perhaps—but it shouldn’t be seized upon so that the individual won’t grow out of the puppy-love state. He insists upon remaining a child, in other words. The only way one can discover mature relationships is in the expression of the angel. And those mature relationships are not anymore based in the likes and dislikes of the human nature state of consciousness. They are based in what is necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose for which the angel is incarnate on earth. There is a totally different approach to all the things that human beings think they know about, and think they are going to enjoy, and think perhaps that they’re going to bring some sort of fulfillment. These things never do—they never can. The fulfillment is already a reality when the angel emerges, and there is no need to set up a system of relationships in order to experience fulfillment.

The association of angels is already a fact

How this is going to emerge in human form is a question. If the angel is present and in expression, it will emerge in order to allow these various configurations to achieve the Divine Purpose, and they’re not there so as to please the human being. It is very pleasing to the angel, because the one thing that pleases the angel is to achieve the Divine Purpose. Therefore anything that allows this to be so is accepted with rejoicing, and the experience is one of creativeness; and the experience of creativeness is what human beings call happiness--of course, a very distorted experience insofar as human nature is concerned. Happiness doesn’t come by acquiring things, whether those things are money or a mate or whatever the individual imagines would bring fulfillment. Fulfillment comes by reason of the expression of the angel—full and free. And that brings with it all the angelic associations that are necessary to do what needs to be done.

We may see this in terms of this Assembly. If this Assembly is put together now on the basis of the fact that we are all here present in person by the emergence of the angel through each one, then we can see that this is an association of angels. You’ve all been brought here. Our human equipment has been brought along because the angel came along, and the human equipment sits down in that chair because the angel says, “Sit down in that chair!” Perhaps angelically it’s not put just in this way, but that is the way it works. So we are here in a configuration of angels with human facilities—most essential—in order that the angelic expression might appear as it should in this core, to achieve what is necessary, because it is all connected up because of our human facilities with the rest of the world.

So we have a little core here for a specific angelic purpose—the Lord’s purpose. We are here to find out how this purpose may be achieved in a specific sense. We know what the general purpose is: the restoration of man. Okay, here we have a little core which is to achieve a certain aspect of that overall fulfillment during this time. And we are going to find out how that is to be done. We don’t know ahead of time, because we have not been able to prognosticate all the factors that are going to be present in the external sense, but we sense, as angels, that we are quite capable of handling whatever those factors may prove to be—and we will find out what they are as we move along. I trust that we will handle them effectively as we do move along together, by reason of our association as angels. We see our association as angels as being paramount to us. This is more important to us than any of the temptations which may arise in the wilderness—in other words in the external sense, any of the things that may come into the range of our awareness brought there by satan, brought there by human nature consciousness. We may see these things, just as the Master saw what the devil was bringing him in the temptations in the wilderness. He saw what they were. We are all aware of them when they arise. But being conscious as angels, just as the Master was, we deal with the thing right there. We know what must control.

One of the central factors in the development of our core here is control—that control may be extended. Control is extended because control is experienced. You can’t extend anything, you can’t give anything, that you are not experiencing. This is why it seemed to be a little difficult to inspire response, perhaps, in some, because you were trying to deliver something that was not your experience. We have a very wide range of possessions, shall we say, spiritual possessions, but it isn’t a matter of doling these out. They won’t be of much value to anyone. The value is when these possessions become what we are. Then what we offer is genuine, and children respond to the genuine. Children spot phonies when they are adults. They don’t so easily spot phonies when they are other children. And this is the situation, isn’t it, in the human world? Human beings are all the time being taken down the garden path. More and more laws are made so as to prevent people from being taken down the garden path—at least this is the idea. It doesn’t, of course, because they’ll find new and better ways of being taken down the garden path. Perhaps it is better for people to be led down the garden path so that they find out that that’s what is happening. Maybe they will wake up. If they are all swaddled around with wool, they never learn. We see this with respect to growing children. You can’t keep them so protected that they never get hurt. They need to be hurt. We all need to be hurt. There is nothing wrong with being hurt. It’s one of the most valuable things, and I think you will look back and recognize the fact perhaps, that the times of hurt and trouble and stress, and all the uncomfortable things that happened, were the most valuable in our lives, and when anything went along smoothly we began to rot. So, humanly speaking, we need to be hurt in order to wake us up. This is true of everybody. Of course it’s sort of getting out of hand in the world. It certainly is something that human beings have brought on their own heads, and maybe there are those who will wake up because of it.

Now, if we are angels we find that we are capable in ways that we were certainly not capable merely in the human sense. And one of these things relates to the capacity to encompass. People trying to be good find that there are all too many whom they can’t encompass. With many it has been a very, very narrow little range. Everybody else was excluded. Well we’re not here to be exclusive. We are here to welcome everybody Home—and home is Heaven, isn’t it? Who is going to welcome everybody Home to Heaven if not the angel? The angel can do it. The human can’t. Humanly speaking it is impossible to encompass everybody—angelically speaking we can. Angelically speaking we are keenly aware that human beings are very much the same. Human nature is human nature. It has little different casts, little bit of colorations here, differences there, but it is all human nature—and from that standpoint we feel entirely capable of encompassing what needs to be encompassed in anyone. And fundamentally what needs to be encompassed in anyone is response, but that response will come in different ways through different people.

Very often there are those who are intimidated by this or that in human nature, by some great human nature achievement—everybody is kowtowing to this human nature achievement. Well we are not interested in the human nature achievement, we are not really trying to encompass that. We are seeking to encompass whatever of response is in that person who, in human nature, may have achieved this or that. We are capable, as angels, of encompassing what is right, what is encompassable from the standpoint of heaven. And we are not intimidated by human nature achievement. Some people are very clever mentally speaking, and their minds can do all sorts of things that perhaps the duller ones of us cannot do. From that human standpoint, I have been thankful that my mind is not all that brilliant in the human nature sense. I was, what shall we say, mediocre in school. There may have been various reasons for that, mind you, but not from that standpoint at all in the upper range. But the mind is as brilliant as it needs to be on the basis of angelic expression, and on that basis we are capable of encompassing what needs to be encompassed.

We encompass response. This does not mean that we exclude what is not. Because if we did that we would exclude virtually everybody, because, no matter who it is, there is lots that is not response. So we do not try to encompass what should not be encompassed, but we are able to encompass the person, because that person originates in the angel. There is always the angel present, and we are acquainted as angels. There may be seeming conflict human to human. Well, we can take one human at least out of the picture. So there doesn’t need to be any conflict. As they say, it takes two to have a battle. Well if there is only one, then of course that one must fight himself if he is to find an antagonist. And this is what human beings do. You may have noted that from your standpoint, that very often people in contending with you, as they think, are only in fact contending with their own concepts of what it is that you represent, or what it is you are associated with. But it is entirely in their own consciousness and they are battling with this. Well let them battle with it; they’ll wear themselves out after a while. You do not need to get into a battle. That would be foolishness and futile, because they are fighting with shadows. They are not fighting with anything that is fact. So we let people exhaust themselves if they wish to, on that basis, and we play our part in encompassing all that rightly needs to be encompassed in a person, so that they may begin to feel something that is welcoming them home. They won’t know what it is or where they’re going, what it’s all about, but those whom you encompass in this fashion begin to feel that they are close to home.

I suppose our slogan is, with respect to all who are willing in this regard—Welcome Home! And so we share this together in our core focus, extending, as angels in angelic function, this invitation, Welcome home! As angels we experience mature love one for another—this is the natural state—and we extend love, true love, enfoldment, encompassment, to the children.

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