Let There Be A Man On Earth

Let  There  Be  A  Man  On  Earth

Martin Exeter   November 2, 1986  am

What we do in this moment, presenting ourselves before the Lord, is done because of what we are. What we do is always quite secondary to what we are, because unless we know what we are, what we do is of very little consequence. What we are is known to the extent that it is, insofar as each one of us is concerned, because of the One that we speak of as our King. We have no being apart from that. Those who imagine that they have—and this would include most of the human population—discover that it isn't true. At some point they cease to have any being on earth.

We are together this morning simply because we have discovered a certain measure of oneness in spirit, oneness in the creative process we may say. That is exactly the same as being one in our King. A definition of the creative process was apparently given by Him, when He was on earth a long time ago, using the words “the way, the truth, and the life.” This is the creative process. And He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; I am the creative process.” The only way by which anyone can experience what it means to be in Him—which, by the way, isn't a matter of being in Jesus somehow; that would be quite a trick—is to be in the creative process, which He is, and which each one of us may say “I am” when we are there. It is a matter of being fused into the creative process so that that is what we are. It is no longer, then, something separate from us into which we may come on occasion or with which we may, if we find it pleasing, associate ourselves. It becomes exactly what we are, no separation, a fusing in oneness.

We discover that there is nothing else but the creative process. If, as human beings have done, we should exclude ourselves from the creative process by rebelling against it, by resisting it, by wanting to do our own thing, then we find ourselves sooner or later out in the cold, very literally, because there isn't anything else but the creative process. There is no existence apart from that. While we are on the way out into the cold there may seem to be a little temporary existence which, according to the number of complaints one hears round about, is not a very satisfactory state. So we share in this moment some awareness of the creative process and, to that extent, some awareness of who we are. Let us never anymore allow heart and mind to rebel against the creative process, to resist it, because we are attempting in heart and mind to have our own way.

There is a story in the beginning of the Bible which speaks of a woman by the name of Eve, who wanted to have her own way. That is where the trouble started, and that is exactly where it continues. As it turned out she had a pretty sad experience. She not only lost herself and her womanliness, she lost her man, and found a pale male creature as a substitute, and then proceeded to complain about him: “Look where I may, I cannot find a man. Therefore I have to depend upon myself to establish control in this rather limited state, and so I am determined, one way or another, to have my own way.” This may seem to be rather a brash way of putting it but it is the fact nevertheless. Complaining about the absence of a man, she apparently fails to recognize that all the men that have put in an appearance over the course of the ages have been through her. She may say, “Well men want to have their way too.” Of course! They put in an appearance on earth through her and, in the early years of life at least, they are thoroughly imbued with the female determination to have her own way.

There is an interesting passage in the Book of Revelation where there was a woman in labor. She brought forth a man child. There was another character on hand ready to take charge, but this man child was caught up to God and to His throne. Here is a portrayal insofar as every man child is concerned who is born into the world. This woman was apparently a remarkable character, clothed with the sun and all, and willing for this to transpire. So her son was caught up to God and to His throne and delivered from the control of the dragon—the intent being that there might be a man.

A man is a man because of heaven, because of being caught up to God and to His throne. There must be a man on earth. And we have the record of one in particular, the One who was called Jesus. Here was a man who carried authority. He carried authority because He did not fall into the trap of trying to do what He wanted to do in the human sense. I am sure I speak with the greatest of confidence when I say of all the men within the sound of my voice now, every last one of them, including myself, were intent upon doing what they wanted to do. Anyone here who would dispute that point? I trust not.

I am not describing the situation this way so that the men can then say, “Well all the women are to blame; after all, I was brought up by a woman”—women probably. Some of you may have had the experience of an older sister too, who established the idea that one should do what one wants to do. Of course there was, no doubt, a certain amount of discipline involved, for some anyway, when what the little boy wanted to do was considered to be bad: “Shouldn't do that, naughty.” But this didn't in any way detract from the idea that one needs to do what one wants to do, presumably provided it is good. “Just don't do the bad things; you will find it's much more useful to do the good things, and then you will be a success.” Some found out there was some sort of a fallacy in this and so they did the bad thing anyway. But whatever the experience may have been, it was all based in the idea that one should do what one wants to do. Of course living cheek by jowl with a lot of other people, one has to modify it a bit so that you don't tread on too many toes; otherwise you won't be able to get what you want to get. Here is the picture of mankind, the state of mankind: the men playing at being men, having been brought up by women; and the women intent upon maintaining their control over men, but in any case maintaining a hand on the way things go. A hopeless state: fallen women—that is one way of putting it—establishing control over fallen men.

We have looked at this before, but I reiterate the matter because there is only one way out of the condition, and that is that there should be a man on earth. This is clearly seen from the standpoint of the creative process. That is why the Master put in an appearance. He put in an appearance for both men and women, that there might be a point on earth, a point of authority, spiritual authority, which was uncontrolled by the human urge to do what one wants to do and to get what one wants to get. There is no way out of the human impasse without that. There has to be such a point that will not conform to the female requirements. I became aware of this myself by reason of Uranda back along the way and found myself, at a certain point, projected into the focus of this requirement.

Of course the endeavor to do what one wants to do, as I have indicated, was no longer limited to the female. It was part of the character of the male too. If I point to the original female action it is not to put anyone down but merely to face the fact of it. That is where it occurred, and it will not un-occur without a man. It has been an impasse, hasn't it, because the woman determined how the men should behave, and then when the men behaved the way she had determined they should behave she would complain about it and say there is no man there. And there has been this perennial seeking of a man—“my own personal man, my puppet.” Sadly, men have gone along with it, and only broken out a little bit by establishing various male arrangements which excluded the female. So the woman lost herself.

As you may recall, according to the story, she was taken out of man. There is a natural unification between male and female when there is a man. But that unification is not based in any way at all upon what either the woman wants or the man wants. Because there was something in a woman that a man wanted he has remained in subjection to her, beating his chest the while. And because there was something that the woman wanted from the man she has remained trapped in her own determination to have her own way. We have had the opportunity of looking at all these things, and no doubt we have glanced at them occasionally. And we have had the opportunity of talking about them—as though talking about it was going to change anything. It is a matter of accepting the creative process, isn't it, whatever that is. We have had some theories about it. We talk about positive and negative, and the four forces, and all this, which is supposed to make us feel wise in our own eyes. But what has it really meant? There is a truth to be known, not merely theories to be discussed. There are some factors in relationship to that truth that it is well that we should become mentally aware of; otherwise we would be inclined to reject the very thing that we seek. So we share the responsibility of experience.

There has to be a point of authority, a male point of authority, to provide a point of orientation. We know this in theory, and I am sure that many of you have recognized your own responsibility as men to provide a point of authority, a point of orientation. You can't do that until you first know what that is; and you can't know what that is without recognizing and acknowledging the point of orientation of man that is provided in the creative process. It can't be done outside of the creative process, so that narrows it down considerably and makes it very pointed. There is the necessity, then, for men to acknowledge and accept that point of spiritual authority—not an authority which is going to shake a finger and say, “Well you do it this way or else,” relative to the external field of activity.

One of the things that the male has very largely lost is the ability to have communion with another male. This is the first order of business in actual fact. Men are quite willing to discuss all kinds of external things with each other but usually steer well away from anything which would relate to revealing something of the heart. There is fear here. The close spiritual communion between men allows for the male point of focus of authority to put in an appearance in an expanded sense; otherwise it can't. There is nothing available then, and the woman can support her view that there are no men, because that's the fact of it. While from the Emissary standpoint there has been a certain amount of admission in this regard, what was necessary has yet continued to be inadequate.

Let there be men. Then let there be women. Men are not made to be men by women. Men are men because of God, only because of that. If God is excluded, if the experience of the creative process in actual daily living is excluded—this is a spiritual experience—then there is no man; there is merely the character that was forthcoming by reason of female intervention.

We know very well the mechanics of the situation—how in the external sense we are made. We have a physical body; we have a mind; we have a capacity for spiritual expression. And there is the matter of the heart; we are well aware that it is the impure heart that blocks everything. The physical substance of our own bodies, we are aware of that. We are also aware of the fact of a mind—this relates to vibrational substance, at a different level to the physical substance, and yet it is not separate from the physical substance, any more than one band of color in the rainbow is separate from the others. They all blend, it is all one thing. So physical substance is filled with mental substance, permeated by it. And the mental substance is not separate from the physical substance; it is just a different vibratory level. So mind and body are in fact one. And there is some spiritual substance also, which permeates the mental substance and the physical substance. They are all one. But the extent of spiritual substance has been so restricted that only a distorted limited range of spirit could occupy it. We may speak of this as the unholy ghost; it is not whole, just bits and pieces. And it is through this unholy ghost that the control has been present, or the expression of character has been present, in both men and women.

Permeating all this again is what may be spoken of as emotional substance, the substance of the heart; and the substance of the heart is the means by which the connection is made between spirit and all the rest: physical, mental, and spiritual expression. The substance of the heart has been wicked. “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” That is the way it has been. That is a very accurate description of human experience, simply because the heart was impure and the remains of spirit that got through was of a distorted, limited, restricted extent and consequently would be accurately described as the unholy ghost. And the unholy ghost has been the controlling basis for human function, human nature.These are things that we can mentally describe in this fashion. The description doesn't say really what it is.

We have to come to know what it is because the door opens between heaven and earth and the Holy Spirit can flood through and bring the understanding. That is the only way that understanding can come. It can't be gotten out of the mental realm somehow, through study and intellectual effort. All that happens is that things get more and more confused. Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God, they shall be permeated by God. The physical form permeated by God, the mind permeated by God, spiritual expression is then the expression of God, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, whole, complete, balanced, accurate. As this occurs there is, first of all, a man.

It is a matter of the heart, isn't it? And men are very reluctant to allow their hearts to be purified. They can't be purified as long as they keep them locked up: no admittance, no admittance except to women. And men become devastated on this basis, naturally so. A man's heart does not belong to a woman; it belongs to God. That is all there is to it. But men have become so accustomed to opening their hearts to women that what is of the female floods in, and then the man acts like a pale imitation of a woman. He could never be a really good imitation! And we have all this mixed-up confusion and nonsense in the world, where everybody wants what they want, wants to do what they want to do, and wants it enshrined in law. The way things work, the creative process in other words, is the way it is, and it doesn't allow for any of these human discrepancies. To try to enshrine human discrepancy in a legal state is ridiculous. It doesn't belong anywhere and it disappears sooner or later. It could go out with a big bang, couldn't it? No more human beings and their nonsense! I don't think that should happen. I don't think it needs to happen.

There must be authority in focus on earth from the male standpoint. There must be a man who cannot, will not ever, be pushed around by women—or by other men for that matter. But the point is with respect to women. If there are those women who are willing to let their hearts be purified so that they accept that point of spiritual authority absolutely, then they no longer feel inadequate and try to fill their inadequacy with inadequate males. There is something here which relates to the matter of no marrying or giving in marriage in heaven. There's a hump to come over here. The question is: “What is it in heaven?” Well you never find out without being there, and you can't be there except you let heaven come into the earth.

So we share the responsibility of doing this, but it requires an absoluteness that is absolute. When there is a stable point of male focus on earth there is a beginning point for what needs to happen—only because of that. Most have been so wrapped up in their own affairs that they overlook the one thing that is necessary: establish absoluteness from the standpoint of this spiritual point of authority. Then share in it—be it. But you will not be pushed around by women anymore, and you know how that happens. The control is there where it belongs, and only as it is there is there any expectation of anything of value happening. Whatever may have happened within the range of our own experience as emissaries has happened because of this one thing; and because of this one thing there has begun to be an expansion of male authority.

Out of male authority women come. That is the way it works. Some may object to it. You are welcome to object but you are not going to change it. That is the way it is. Now I say this with a certain authority. You may say, “Well I don't know whether to accept that authority or not.” Try it. Yes, there are those who are accepting it in their own experience, not as an external thing but as an internal thing, a clarifying, a cleansing, a purifying of the heart, so that there is the substance of connection between spirit and form—that's in the heart. But what has the heart been filled with insofar as human experience is concerned? Emotional stuff of all kinds, and particularly the interaction between so-called men and so-called women. Let the heart be purified. “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Such a statement indicates that hearts are troubled and are afraid; that is where the control is. Women are afraid of losing their control, whatever it amounts to; and men are afraid, of course, also of losing what they want. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. This could be said to be the basic instruction or the basic experience to be known now, in this moment: an untroubled and an unfearful heart which is willing to accommodate the creative process in action.

Here we are this morning together to provide that, that there may be a unified, fused means by which the creative process may emerge in spiritual expression on earth. We perhaps have shared this somewhat in this hour to the extent that we were not caught in the human nature state but were willing to let our hearts come free and be purified. “I shall not want.” Nice words. True words. But how much do any of us know as to what they really mean? We have the opportunity of sharing that because it is the way, the truth and the life. It is the creative process. Let there be a man on earth. Then let there be a woman on earth. What that might be is only discovered by letting it be. It allow the fulfilment in male and female experience based in the state of man, man inseparably one with God, man revealing the creative process in all his ways, in all his living. Let it be so.

© emissaries of divine light

Shared Radiation

Shared  Radiation

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Martin Exeter    February 15, 1987

Radiation. All that needs to be accomplished comes by reason of true radiation. We are all aware of how it was put quite a long time ago: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. The starting point is radiation. Something must be brought to focus, so that the light can shine in a specific sense. For me that was brought to focus by Uranda. There was the radiation. True radiation is very compelling. It engenders response in those who are aware of the radiation. If a person is not aware of the radiation, then there will not be response to it. Thankfully I was aware of the radiation, and so there was response. Others shared in this at the time. Response, then attraction.

In the period of attraction there is the tendency to seek to reflect the radiation, the idea being to become like the one who is the point of radiation: “Let’s reflect that; let me reflect that.” And possibly in that case for a while there may be imitation, but the process doesn’t stop with attraction. Where there is response to true radiation there is irresistible attraction. What is the attraction for? So that one may imitate the radiation? That would be phony, wouldn’t it? It wouldn’t be the real thing. No, the attraction is leading toward what was called union, which in other terms could be described as shared radiation. Shared radiation would be the beginning of genuineness. And awareness comes of what is natural and right insofar as one’s own radiation is concerned in alignment with the radiation which, up to that point, had been the source of attraction.

Certainly one isn’t going to be attracted forever. I think perhaps human beings have looked upon this as indicating there was a long journey, a journey which is consummated because of attraction; you are forever being attracted, you never reach what it is you are being attracted toward. But this is a rather foolish idea. Certainly human beings have felt that there was a long journey. Pilgrim’s progress! But all the attraction does is to bring one into position to share the radiation. That needn’t be a lengthy process at all. You all know of this particular cycle. Necessarily there had to be radiation first; without that there would be nothing to respond to. Because there was radiation there has been response.

As I have indicated, from my own standpoint I discovered rather dramatically the necessity for shared radiation. It couldn’t be evaded. I couldn’t remain in the mode of attraction. Now the same thing is true for anyone if this creative cycle is to come to its proper fulfilment. Each one may respond and experience the attraction; and included in that, as I have indicated, is the usual human endeavor to imitate what it is supposed is the radiation through somebody else. It is seen as radiation through somebody else; and the only way one could associate with that, according to the usual human view, is to imitate it. So there is likely to be a period of imitation. This is a period when one is seeking to reflect somebody else’s radiation.

In the comment period this morning we were noting this as symbolized by the moon. The moon reflects sunlight but in no sense is it the sun. It is a pale reflection, isn’t it? “The silvery moon,” very romantic, but without much substance really. Certainly no warmth seems to be reflected from the moon, just a rather pale light. I think this has been characteristic of many who have participated in the Emissary ministry: just a pale, rather uninteresting light, without all that much warmth. So it isn’t a matter of imitation, reflection. It is a matter of coming to the point of union, and the only way that can happen is to accept the responsibility of sharing the radiation. Then the nature and quality of the radiation becomes known because it isn’t something that is merely being reflected from somebody else. It becomes known because it is one’s own expression. That is union, and when there is union there may consequently be unified radiation.

We have examined this particular cycle on many occasions in the past, but perhaps we see it with clearer vision now, so that we might be keenly aware of any remaining hang-ups we have with respect to the fulfilment of this creative process. It can’t be fulfilled as long as one is a pale reflection. I don’t think anyone really wishes to be a pale reflection of something, but rather be the thing itself. The thing itself is the point of focus which allows for the radiation to be a fact. The way this comes about is that the radiation begins to be more particularly shared.

In my own experience, having assumed the responsibility for providing radiation, it was very necessary for me never to deny it. Human beings find it rather easy apparently to deny it. The story of Peter was a portrayal of this. If one is sharing the radiation one would not be inclined to deny it, because the radiation brings with it an awareness of authority. As I have provided that radiation I had some awareness of my own authority in consequence. Many, virtually everyone at one point or another, have questioned the radiation and have attempted in one way or another to cause me to deny it. I have been educated by various ones as to how I should handle my responsibilities! Very often this was brought to point with respect to a Unit, either here or on Sunrise Ranch. When was something going to be done about these things that were going on in the Unit? And of course the individual who posed this question had an idea as to what should be done and was seeking to persuade me to accept that idea, rather than be true to the radiation.

We all find ourselves in positions of this nature. I have rather steadfastly, I trust, refused to deny the radiation. Come what may, I was going to be true to that, and if that meant not being true to someone’s idea or opinion, so be it. So certain ones became somewhat disgusted and were consequently repelled. There are two aspects to this radiation. One is irresistible attraction and the other is irresistible repulsion. Which it is, is of little moment insofar as I am concerned, but it is of considerable moment for those who either accept the attraction or insist upon the repulsion. However, that’s their business. I am more interested in the business of those who accept the attraction, so that there may be provided what is most helpful to them to assist in sharing the radiation.

Only by shared radiation can anyone come to know whether the radiation is valid or not. Those who have questioned the validity of it never could do so from experience. All they did was from a stance of opinion, because the only way to have the experience is to share the radiation. Then you know what it is; otherwise you don’t. Otherwise you have a concept about it and you may reflect some of what you conceive the radiation to be, but it doesn’t cause anything very much to happen on that basis. So people get tired of doing that and drift away. But when there is a sharing of the radiation, to whatever extent, one becomes aware of the nature of that radiation; and one becomes aware, to the extent of one’s sharing, of the validity of it. “Yes, it’s true,” and one knows that for oneself.

Of course there are things that occur from time to time—there may be buttons pressed—which, if one ceases to share the radiation, may be disastrous in varying degrees because immediately when one strops sharing the radiation the experience of it vanishes. There may be a memory for a while, getting dimmer and dimmer. One only knows when it is actually happening; then it isn’t merely a theory. If one stops sharing the radiation, what remains is merely a theory, which becomes more untenable and more untenable as time goes on. Our concern presumably has been to share the radiation, and to share it come what may. Do you think no buttons have ever been pressed in me? That would be a ridiculous idea, wouldn’t it? Do I have some special dispensation, no buttons? Buttons are pressed in me just as they are pressed in everybody else. The question is as to whether when they are pressed one is going to deny the radiation or not. That has been my responsibility, and it is your responsibility too. These things must be handled.

When we begin to find that polarity is firmly established in the creative process, then the buttons don’t have so much effect and they are seen rather as opportunity to deal forthrightly with the particular aspect of human nature that is involved. This relates to what was spoken of as the temptations in the wilderness, of course. Get thee hence! Aligned with the radiation there is the awareness of authority. One is not going to be fooled by those things that present themselves attempting to establish their validity, the things of human nature. One doesn’t dither—”Well maybe; I don’t know; I’m not sure; I’m uncertain; perhaps.” Anyone can accept that sort of wimpish attitude, and if they do they are sunk. But, by the same token, if there is alignment with the radiation, there is the authority and these things are naturally and easily dealt with.

It is interesting, in the story as it appears in the Bible, that insofar as the Master was concerned it was a one-shot deal. He did it. That was that. Human nature was dealt with forthrightly. Most people have the idea that “Oh well, this is going to come up again and again and again and I am going to have to deal with it again and again and again.” If that is the viewpoint, there’s a wimp! It isn’t, if you dealt with it. If you don’t deal with it of course it comes up again. Another opportunity is provided, and that’s wonderful that it should be, but the authority is there initially to handle these things of human nature that come up in oneself. That’s what the temptations in the wilderness are portraying.

If one exercises that authority in that field, then you are in position to exercise it in any field. In other words, we are not forever concerned with this matter of dealing with human nature, as though the only reason for our presence on earth is to continually be dealing with these things as they arise. If you have really dealt with them you have dealt with them; and while things may arise, you see them no longer in personal terms. They are factors that relate to your field of ministry, your “life” field, what you are present on earth to do. You will observe human nature all around. The mere fact that you deal with it in yourself doesn’t mean that it is gone from the world. It merely means that you are now in position to do what comes next. What comes next relates to this matter of unified radiation.

When there is the fact of consistent radiation, and an awareness of one’s own authority because of that, this matter of irresistible attraction goes into effect, and there will be circumstances brought to you in which that authority may be exercised. This is happening now insofar as our body is concerned. In the past there has been the idea on the part of many that they wanted to be appointed somewhere, to be sent out into the world to do some great work, as though there wasn’t anything to do at home. We have been discovering, to start with, that this is the great work. Whatever else needs to be done when this is done, it will come. You won’t have to go out looking for it all over the place. It will come to you. It will be drawn. We are aware of this magnetic force; and what rightly should come at any given time, will come. There is no necessity at all to seek it out. It seeks us out, once the authority is there. Circumstances arise, people come in various ways because there is a sensing of authority, very often quite subconsciously, sometimes consciously. We rejoice in either case because this brings into our field of operations what is necessary in order to establish dominion.

There are many things happening. You are aware of some of them at least. I am sure you are becoming convinced, if you were not before, that we don’t need to go out looking for—what, trouble? I am not suggesting that we are attracting trouble either, but what needs to come comes to be dealt with from the standpoint of our authority, that’s all. We don’t look out over there somewhere and say, “Oh there’s something over there; I think that needs my authority.” No. It will come right next to you when you are in position to handle it. The handling of it is based in the fact that you handle rightly what now comes to you. If you handle that rightly, more will come. Of course one has to be open to let more come. There are those who think, “Well I’ve Got enough to handle as it is; I don’t want any more.” We are here to get a job done. I don’t think most of us have had any awareness of the scope of what it is that is required, except in a rather vague, theoretical way. But things now come.

There was on Sunrise Ranch recently this agricultural, stewardship conference where people came because there was a facility available to handle their coming. And the facility was available to the extent that all concerned had been handling what was already present. Then something more could come. There is this program with which Barbara Coffman is associated, relating to the production of moving pictures both in the Soviet Union and the United States; and something is coming together. Why is it coming together? There are those who have been undertaking to do what was apparently necessary to let it come together, and I am most thankful for any who have played a part in this, but it is coming together because there is a focus of spirit. There is a focus of radiation. There is attraction.

So those who are conscious of their authority find themselves in situations, not because they produced them in the ordinary human sense but because they were simply drawn by reason of the fact of the creative process and the focus of spirit that was being provided in the individual sense. We all have responsibility in that regard and we all will find ourselves in positions where we are responsible, spiritually speaking, for what is happening. We are responsible already for much of which we consciously have no awareness as yet. But all this moves on the basis of the creative process, and circumstances are brought to us. We can look around and find many things that are happening in this way in these days. They are very small things in actual fact, but nevertheless they provide settings for the presence of a focus of spiritual authority.

We are here to let dominion be established. It has nothing to do with the human state of affairs but everything to do with spiritual radiation. What is it?—Never underestimate the power of spiritual expression! Did you ever hear about that? I think you underestimated it. Now we find that it works, at present, in seemingly rather insignificant ways. Those concerned have no awareness whatsoever of what is going on. There is something sensed by some and there has been a willingness to align with that sensing. Of course the usual human motivations are present and there is the expectation of getting something out of it somehow. We see these motivations but they mean nothing, because what is happening is happening by reason of the creative radiation that is present. It is present by reason of this body. It finds focus in this individual and that individual in different ways at different times, but it wouldn’t find focus in anyone unless it was present in the body.

So there is much that is being attracted—irresistible attraction—and we had better be on hand to handle it as it comes. I thank God that there have been those present and available who have been able to handle, in recent days at least, much that has put in an appearance. I could describe some other things that are happening but I don’t think it’s necessary. It is not a matter of looking out there anyway. It is a matter of assuming the responsibility for oneself, so that one provides that irresistible attraction to bring what should come for one’s own handling. When something begins to put in an appearance in that way—and, heretofore being rather a little person, you may think of what is coming as big—what attitude are you going to take? “Oh I couldn’t possible handle this; I am weak and wimpish.” Or will you assume the authority which you carry? “Certainly if it comes to me I can handle it; it wouldn’t come if I couldn’t. The way I handle it will be discovered as it goes along.” It may involve, probably will involve, others. Almost invariably it does, but not in the sense of pushing off responsibility onto somebody else. It may be fitting to speak to somebody else with respect to the looming responsibility in order to discover how best it could be handled, but not because one is ducking out, not because one is saying, “Not me, Lord.”

These things are happening, I suppose you could say whether we like it or not. So, as usual, we’d better like it! I rejoice that there is evidence of a focus of radiation, true radiation, on earth. Do you imagine that if you are in a point of radiant focus you are going to see the radiation, you are going to sort of bask in a cloud of glory? “This is the radiation, my radiation going out!” No, you don’t see it. You don’t see your own radiation because you are the radiation. It is what you are. What you do see is the effect of that radiation, the effect, the attractive effect, which brings to you what needs to come to you—initially, as I say, those factors of human nature that need to be dealt with most forthrightly. Then, having dealt with those, there is clear space for what needs to come next. And what comes next relates to what is coming home, what is going to provide a setting for your radiation, for the authority of your radiation. That may require doing this and that, saying this or that, maybe that you just keep quiet; but you are keenly aware of the fact that you are present in relationship to what comes, as the point of authority, the point of consistent continuing radiation.

The radiation gets the job done. And we share that radiation with each other. We don’t claim any of it for ourselves—”Well this is my radiation; don’t you infringe on it.” How do you know? You can’t see the radiation anyway. It isn’t a personal matter. It is a matter of letting love radiate. How we have talked about that! We have said those words frequently, but who knew what they meant? Well let’s keep finding out, and we find out by reason of the evidence of what it is that is brought to us. And there is much on the way. Let us be assured of that, not because we can then become scared of it, but because then we are prepared to welcome it and to handle it as it needs to be handled. We all have sufficient understanding to do this; each individual has.

Never deny the fact of the radiation which you share, and never try to manipulate what the radiation is taking care of. We let it work, and what a delight that is. As I say, there is irresistible attraction for what is coming home, what needs to come into the picture. It may not look all that hot for the moment, but let it come. We will find out why it came. Don’t judge by the appearance. And there is irresistible repulsion; that’s wonderful too. It takes the things that don’t belong clear out of the picture.

Let’s let it work the way it works, so that we may share in this beautiful creative process because we stand as radiant points of light. Blended together there is just one light. We think of the sun as being one thing, and it is. I wonder how much it occurred to anyone that there is a vast variety in the sun. It is one thing because of that vast variety. That is what makes possible the outpouring radiation. Let it be so for us in our field of responsibility where the authority needs to be exercised to bring everything into balanced orbit with respect to this radiant point for which we carry responsibility. And so it shall be, as there are those who are found faithful and true in this. So shall it be.

Jon Le Baron — Martin, it is with rejoicing in my heart that I can stand in this spot, representing many others, I know, to give voice in agreement that the time for resistance, the time for staying in the attractive phase, is long over. It is wonderful just to let the genuineness of myself acknowledge the genuineness in each other one, and to come forth and be with you in complete agreement with the focus you provide.

Lord Exeter — We really need to be—what?—locked into the creative process.

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Pulsations of the Creative Process #2

Pulsations  of  the  Creative  Process #2

Martin Exeter  and  Alan Hammond   August 17, 1986  p.m.

Alan Hammond — Most of us gathered in this place have moved with the pulsations of the recreative process over many years. We have been drawn to this place a number of times. Gradually, over the years, we know in our own experience the process of purification which has occurred within us. And now is it not true that there is adequate clarity within our hearts and minds so that we know who we are on earth? I know I can speak for many in this room and beyond when I say: I know the quality and character of my eternal being. I know this on earth through this human consciousness.

Even though I know this, there are occasions when what emerges through this form is not true to my being. As soon as I express it, usually, I know I have not managed to find full expression through these capacities. And I know that this is true of everyone here, and yet I know who I am and the quality of my being. And because I know this of myself, I know this of each of you. And because I no longer beat myself after I have failed to emerge fully into the earth, it is true that I no longer feel the compulsion to beat anyone else either.

I know again that I speak for many when I say that these pulsations of contraction which have brought us together have brought us together this time in an unprecedented quality of union. I suppose if one looked carefully one could see traits, human traits, in others that used to irritate—more than that, incense! But now they don’t, because the consciousness is dominated by the presence of this beautiful unified spirit which is finding expression through all of us.

How shall we extend this quality of power into the earth? I know my own mind has been convinced for many years that television was the answer, public meetings, booklets, reaching out to share the good news. What could be more commendable than that? Fundamentally nothing, except that we now know—I know—that preoccupation with such external forms is not primarily the place of our divine action. We extend this absolute authority and power of the Tone into the world as it finds its pure release in literally every action, every word, every feeling, every thought. Here is ecstasy indeed, that my being should find pure release through these intimate forms of expression.

Purity is power. And so our union with the one who focalizes the Tone is our union in the expression of the Lord’s power and authority. How wonderful to be in this day, to be in this interior place together, knowing an unprecedented union and the joy of expressing this glorious character into the world.

Martin Exeter — We are in the midst of an operational event, universally speaking, which is moving along the way it should. We do not have to look very far in our understanding of what is present universally speaking to realize that it moves in an orderly manner. We are fortunate at the moment to be part of a solar system—we call it—which has evidences of orderliness present. It seems that those who understand these things can calculate the orbits of planets years ahead. Of course they might be surprised one day, but at the moment it all gives evidence of some sort of orderliness. We are in the middle of this, day and night.

Day and night follow each other; the seasons follow each other; the orbit of the Earth moves steadily around the Sun and there is the inclination to depend upon this. There is orderliness, there is design, there is control, and it works the way it works for whatever the purpose might be. Because human beings have divorced themselves from that working they have lost any awareness of purpose, and consequently have had to invent purposes for themselves. A great deal of ingenuity has been exercised in inventing purposes, sweat of the brow, when all the time the creative process was in operation—and it would be quite natural to coordinate with that creative process.

It could be said that we ourselves have been awakening to these things and have become aware that there is a creative process and it does work and it is orderly and it can be trusted. We don’t always trust it—we don’t yet trust ourselves to be aligned with it. We feel quite confident that if we were aligned with it everything would be fine—being aligned with it, the assurance comes with the working of the creative process. But if we happen still to be interested in getting our own way, which is the intent of human nature: to do our own thing, even to excel in doing our own thing—that’s very popular these days, the search for excellence in doing our own thing!—the Lord is forgotten, ignored certainly, and therefore the creative process is set on one side in favor of human purposes—human cross-purposes!

But now we ourselves have a certain sensing of newness appearing. In our own individual experience there is rightly—and this has really always been the case—something new to be known. It is said that at the time when things are wound up the days would be shortened, which presumably means that the changes put in an appearance more quickly, which means also that we need to be pretty nimble on our feet in order to remain associated with what is happening.There are things changing. There are rapid changes occurring, and I think you are all aware of this, and it will be something that is particularly addressed in the Central Council no doubt—because there is the inclination to get oriented toward concepts of proper Emissary behavior as it was. When was that? Who really knows what proper behavior is? It is something that is still, to a very large extent, unknown. But there is an emergence into experience of a new level of what one might call, spiritual know-how.

It has sometimes been indicated that the movement is in an ascending spiral. We find ourselves coming back to a place which seems rather familiar. But, if we are letting the creative process work, our experience of this repetitive place is not at the same level. We find ourselves higher in the spiral—at least hopefully so; I suppose we can perhaps spiral downwards too; some do—so that we come again to something that seems vaguely familiar, or perhaps rather vividly familiar. But let us not judge it as though it was the same as something that was experienced before. It never could be that. We can’t get back to anything, and there is the creative process which is, from our standpoint, a forward movement. So we could never really repeat anything. If it seems that way it is because, instead of ascending in the spiral we are just going round and round. We are not really doing that either, because if you are not ascending you are descending: it is one or the other. One can’t stand still. A lot of people would like to stand still, you know. They don’t like change: “Let’s have things the way we are familiar with. Let's have them that way forever.” Well that doesn’t work!

We welcome what it is that is emerging now; and to discover what is emerging now we must let it emerge. Simple, but it requires a flexibility and an openness, a yieldedness, a constant repentance. The repentance is really letting go of what it was that has been holding us, and there certainly are such things still around—the restoration hasn’t occurred yet, has it?—there are things around, still attached to us. But I think it isn’t quite that way—as though things have a life of their own and hang onto us; really we hang onto them. And when we are willing to let go, they drop off.

So together we participate in this creative process with respect to which I outlined some factors this morning. I would remind you that it was contraction: that is the first thing that we are obviously aware is happening. It is not something we maybe look forward to sometime next week; it is here now, contraction. And in the contraction we reach a point rightly where we have no holdouts; we are not resisting the contraction, which will compact things. In that process there may be those who don’t care for confined spaces. We need to allow the contraction to occur. We find ourselves in close proximity with each other, whereas before there may have been thousands of miles between us.

So contraction takes place, and all are included in this process who are willing to be included—which brings up the matter of repentance, doesn’t it? Repentance: just letting go—letting go of the factors of human nature, that the processes of sanctification may work out because we are willing to let these things go. That is the experience of forgiveness. But this is all happening in a more rapid way when we are brought together on this contraction basis. When you are out there a mile away, a thousand miles away, ten thousand miles away, wherever, things are not sometimes brought so vividly to point as they are when you are jammed together. We are contracted and brought closer together, and we will be this way for the next number of days. I am sure that the matter of repentance will be brought to the fore in consciousness in one way or another, the matter of letting go. It is a matter of participating in the creative process. If there is real participation in the creative process it’s a wonderful blessing, it’s a wonderful experience, and all the seeming discomforts of it fade into the background. This has always been the case. I am sure you have had that experience.

There are many more external experiences which come by reason of the compacting of human beings. There are a lot more human beings around now experiencing this contraction, and there is something very worthwhile because of that. It needs to be recognized, it needs to be understood, that this is wonderful! There is a certain sensing of that because I think we enjoy coming together from all parts of the world. But there is something far more to be accomplished, than this sort of social interchange, by reason of the compaction—the compaction, the contraction, the repentance, the forgiveness.

To move into the next phase, which is very closely related: purification—this is what is happening by reason of the contraction. It is part of the creative process. Let’s enjoy it while we’re here! But let’s get out of the usual human-nature mode, so that we understand what it is that is happening and participate in the process. Let whatever needs to be brought forth be brought forth and relinquished, so that there may be purification, which is the next factor in this creative process: purification. Some find purification a little uncomfortable at times. Well that’s fine, isn’t it? Who’s uncomfortable? Well you can answer that one

Then comes the intensification, which we are capable of accommodating because there is purity there, and there is no double-mindedness anymore. The intensification comes, which is the building up of spiritual pressure—pressure in the boiler. We need to be careful, then, that there are no leaks. The pressure is built up for a purpose. It is because there is a container that is able to accommodate the pressure that something can be accomplished. All these things are happening for a reason, not to satisfy human beings, although if they move with the creative process it is wonderfully satisfying. The dissatisfaction comes when one is bucking it. So there is the intensification which naturally occurs—should naturally occur in this particular configuration that we have. There are various configurations. I am thinking of Central Council, for instance, but there are other configurations, the configuration of this grouping here now.

Let something intensify, that the power may begin to be available for release, which is the next requirement. But the release is always under control. Human beings, experiencing pressure, may blow their tops, as it is said, in other words an explosion. Well there is a valid reason for the building of pressure, but most people don’t know how to handle it. It provides the power by which the operation continues, and we find ourselves associated, then, with the controlled release. And the controlled release we could see in terms of radiation. We are here to let the light shine, after all, but with a great intensity. There has perhaps been a tendency to be content with one candlepower, which flickered in the wind—not very inspiring to anyone. I suppose if it is completely dark all around a candle is useful, but if we each have a candle then we have some candlepower of greater intensity right here in the Chapel.

Finally, because of the radiation, this release, there is the expansion aspect of the creative cycle. And here is the pulsation which moves from contraction to expansion and back to contraction. There is a natural rhythm, and rightly we become aware of that rhythm. There is a rhythm individually speaking in this regard and, as might be expected, the individual rhythms correlate with the larger rhythms and pulsations of the creative process. They are not separate from each other; they are not like human behavior at cross-purposes. Everything is aligned: the solar system is working nicely in the galaxy, thank you; and the galaxy is working very nicely in the system of galaxies, and so on.

The pulsations are all there, they are coordinated, when we ourselves accommodate the creative process. We don’t have to figure it all out.  The creative process is at work. We are moving with it, not altogether consciously as yet but there is a conscious element, certainly, in our experience. It is as there is alignment with this that all things work together in the fulfilment of the creative purpose. And that is just wonderful. I rejoice that we have the opportunity of sharing this now, but always—if we are willing and yielded and allow the creative process to be accommodated in our own minds and hearts, so that we may move easily with the pulsations.

We find ourselves participating in the natural pulsations which move in this way. There are a multitude of ways in which these pulsations occur, a great variety, but the way they occur is very simple, not complicated at all, because it all just fits together. We find the same factors are present in all the compulsions that are going on, all the pulsations that are moving in the creative process. So we rejoice to be together in letting this be known in our own individual and collective experience through whatever configurations are brought together by the movement of that creative process.

© emissaries of divine light