Attunement—Receive Ye The Holy Ghost

Attunement

A  Sacred  Responsibility

Uranda   July 22, 1953  Class

Now, in relationship to attunements I will touch this aspect. What is it you are conveying when you are giving an attunement? If your mind is flitting here and there, you are not functioning correctly. Some have had the idea that if they got the current started and just sort of set it, then they could think about anything, talk about anything, let their minds wander and so on, scatter all over the place. The server is supposed to be in one place—his body, his mind, his heart, his whole being. Be this now. Do this now. Be an integrated individual, body, mind and heart at one point, and let that which you are flow through your hands.

I have not touched on this point before in class because until you reached a certain level of consciousness and awareness with respect to God and the things of God, and letting the Divine Pattern work, the laws work, it could be so easily misunderstood. The ordinary concept with respect to will is not what I am talking about. Human beings decide they are going to will something this way and that. You have heard so much about using will power, and most of that which is achieved on the basis of will power is nonsense. It is not the way. A lot of people attempt to work that way, but it is not right. And yet there is true exercise of will and if you undertake to give an attunement and you just put your hands up so, you are going to radiate through the eyes—and whatever is supposed to happen is supposed to happen: the “I guess God will take care of it; it is none of my business,” attitude is not the function of a server. It is your business.

As far as you are concerned in that moment you are God in manifestation in relationship to the discharge of that responsibility. And if God is going to take care of it, it has to be done through you, by reason of you. You are a part of the Body of God, so God's Will must work through you. Most people do not understand will. They have foolish ideas. We are going to see if we can clarify the consciousness with respect to will somewhat. But when you go to give this attunement there is a deliberate something you do inside. Not will in the sense of tension, but an inner will that requires no tension but that might be classified as having something of the quality of determination, of direction—that is will. It begins to flow through. You begin to deliberately direct something through your hands. You do not just put your hands up there and say, “Well that is all I have to do.” You deliberately do something. It is a deliberate exercise of true will. It is dominant. It is gentle. It is invisible. And yet it is all powerful, and you know it. It is all powerful. And you have to deliberately do something about it; and it begins to flow, begins to work.

In that connection, one of the things that can help you very much in truly releasing the current and establishing this that I am talking about, is by the use of the retarded breath. You should practice breath control in various ways—the control of the breath is important, not just from the standpoint of speaking but from the standpoint of serving in every regard. It is important that you be getting the air into your own lungs. It is important that your function in relationship to the natural elements should be right if the balance of the current through you to the individual you are serving is to be right.

Remember this is a sacred responsibility not to be taken lightly when you begin to bring someone into a pattern of radiation or attunement. It is a sacred responsibility. Unless you are particularly prepared and trained and centered you should not do it. We cannot be promiscuous in these things. It should be on the basis of certain laws and principles. If the individual is not properly mentally and emotionally balanced he should not do it. Even if you generally are, and you are upset, and you have let control get away from you for a moment, do not give an attunement or radiation until you are calmed down inside, until you have re-established your peace with God, until you are right. If you are not right inside, do not give an attunement—do not try to. You do not want to give an attunement to the wrong thing, because you are bringing that person into attunement with that to which you are attuned. If you are tuned up with the wrong thing it is no good. If you are a server you must be tuned, attuned, with God, and then you are a manifest expression of God in relationship to that person at that time under that circumstance. You do not try to tell people that. No. You just are that without talking about it.

But then you can use the retarded breath, perhaps not constantly, and perhaps you will tend to make it a little noisier than it needs to be. It does not need to be noisy. You do not need to distract your servee. But while you are practicing here with each other where I can help you, do not be concerned about being a little noisy at first. Let yourself be a little noisy if you need to. I will indicate to you something of what I mean. You inhale through the nose and along the roof of the mouth, more or less naturally, and then for just a fraction of an instant, a second, an instant, you hold your breath. You do not stop and really hold it, but for the instant you do hold it, and then you do not just let it out as in ordinary breathing. It is retarded. That is, there is a partial holding and a partial pushing. You let the air come in, in a perfectly natural way, and then instead of just letting it out you hold it partly, and push enough to make up the difference. Now I am exaggerating it. You will not do it with that much noise when you become proficient. In fact, generally speaking, the individual you are serving will not even know you are doing it.

But there is a retarded breath—a deliberate holding and a deliberate pushing, and the holding aspect relates to the opposition that your vibratory pattern is meeting in the servee, the thing that is wrong, whatever it is—a deliberate pushing, and it is consciously done. And in the current of the air, which is the symbol of the current of the Spirit, you will find that the current working through you can be greatly intensified. If you try to intensify it you will not get it. You do this deliberately and let it be intensified. If you say, “Now I am going to use will like Uranda said. I will use the retarded breath, and I will just make this current become so strong. I will really give this person an attunement,” it will not work. You must be relaxed. You must be centered, and in tune. And you begin to deliberately, with that inner determination and direction, cause the flow to go through your hands, in a pattern of Divine Will.

Now I can release the current through my eyes, or through my hands. I can release the current through my elbow, deliberately, if I want to. There is a spot here on my knee that I have used many times. I should not tell you all the tricks of my trade. I can use that spot right there on my knee and deliberately cause the current to go through, sometimes working with someone who does not even know what is happening, with no indication. There are various things you can do.

You can deliberately release the current through specific parts of your own body—generally speaking, in serving, your hands. And then, as you use the retarded breath it is in the sense of the rhythmic ebb and flow of the Cosmic Forces of Being. You just let it work. You do not try to make it work, but you deliberately let it work. If you try to make it work then you, the human being, are trying to be boss over God. Keep this outer thing in its right place, this thing you call your body and mind and heart. But you must learn to be deliberate—deliberately do the thing that will bring forth the things of God.

Speaking  On  The  Breath

from  Shekinah Fire

Uranda  June 15, 1953

Carrying forward in the current of our basic theme of Heavenly Magic, we have reached a point where our attention has been introduced to the reality of the Shekinah Fire. I might mention here something more than I brought out in the meditation last evening, that the original Hebrew word from which this word Shekinah was derived used the a sound instead of the i sound, something after the order of Shekanah; and bringing this out in relationship to the particular pattern that I suggested from the standpoint of the vibrational factors of the Motherland, the short pronunciation, as it is used, or as I have used it, is really a bit on the inadequate side.

There is more of the vowel emphasis if we utilize all of the vibrational factors possible. You will notice that you can prolong vowel factors, if you have the breath to do it, and the e sounds here in the three-syllable word, concluding with the ah sound, provide us with an opportunity to begin to feel the vibratory factors in sound. If you have thought of the vowels primarily simply as letters or particularized sounds utilized merely to convey the sound of a specific word, you need to begin to realize that the vowels, particularly, have the peculiar quality of conveying the current of feeling. Now what is conveyed will depend upon what you are feeling. Assuming that the heart has become attuned to the divine source, we have the current of that divine source moving through the vowel sounds.

You should bear this in mind in your exercising, from the standpoint of speech, in the development of your capacity in breathing, the control of the air which you use in breathing, the proper pattern of inhalation and the proper controlled patterns of exhalation. If you try to get all of your air, while you are speaking, inhaled through your nose, you will not have a good speaking voice. The air must be received, partially at least—some of it will come in through the nose—but received through the mouth, at the top of the mouth, along the roof of the mouth, the manner which you learn to utilize without interfering with the expression through speech. It is interesting that we have the privilege and the opportunity of beginning to practice these exercises from the standpoint of vowels right at this time when they should be emphasized from the standpoint of our basic meditation, the Shekinah Fire.

One thing we will begin to note as we proceed, and that is that you can come to a certain definite limitation when you are speaking audibly in the sense of the ordinary vocal expression, but that certain possibilities are present from the standpoint of expression, somewhat audible of course, in what we might call whispering. Now there are times when whispering is not considered to be good manners, but the use of the voice conveying sounds vibrationally in what might be conceived to be a whisper is something that is important to our attunement with the powers of reality, and it is important to our ability to convey.

You notice that I used these patterns when I introduced to you the mystical significance and expression of the two words commonly spoken as Jesus and Jehovah—the speaking on the breath, in other words. Whispering suggests the idea, but it is speaking on the breath on a basis which modifies the more harsh aspects of the word and allows the peculiar qualities of the vowels to come into play. And you will find this to be of great importance as we move along.

Now, there are seven different vibratory levels. Just as we have the octave in relationship to music, and the eighth being the repetition of the first in a higher or lower scale, so we have the seven vibrational factors in this realm of being of which we are aware. The seven colors of the rainbow gives another illustration.  According to the level to which we relate words, currents of feeling, etc., they will have different forms. Sometimes the word itself will seem to have a very definite change, and other times not. In any case there will be differences of pronunciation, differences of the feeling current released through the words.

Now it would hardly be practical to undertake at this time to introduce the vibratory factors of the Motherland Tongue. Perhaps sometime we can consider a little of that, but you have much growing to do spiritually, vibrationally, before that could mean so very much to you.  However, we can use intermediate steps, which begin to convey the idea, begin to let you have an opportunity to experience that which is possible to you.

I suppose some of you must have been aware of the Silver Cloud that was in form last night, that was taking form during the service as we considered the mysteries of the Shekinah Fire. If you couldn't see it, I am sure that you all must have felt it. But surely some could begin to see it, because it was visible for a portion of the time. You are beginning, then, as we study these things, to share the experience of the reality of them. And as we have noted the different pronunciations possible in relationship to the name or term utilized to signify this Fire, the evidence of the Presence of the One Who Dwells, you can see something of what I mean with respect to the proper changes in the current of expression, depending upon the levels of the expression—Shekinah, Shekenah, or Shekanah, just to illustrate.

Now there are many variations which tend to appear as we work in the current of the spirit, and you will find that while we give reasonable consideration to dictionary patterns of pronunciation and meaning, we cannot abide within the limits so set and allow the limitless to have expression. We have to utilize the factors of a play on words, and a play on the sounds of the words, some variations in the expressions of pronunciation, and certainly some changes in consciousness with respect to the meaning that is expressed by the sounds that are made with the voice.

The Shekinah Fire—How long did I talk to you before I ever mentioned it? It is not something that I just suddenly thought up or discovered or heard about, or something. I have known about this Fire all the way through. I use it all the time, every day; and in actual fact, every time I come before you, in a class or a service, I begin to work on the basis of developing that Cloud and letting you be in it to whatever degree your response will permit—you will be in the Cloud, the Cloud of Glory of the Shekinah. You may not see it, but you can reach a point where you can see it and it is wonderful. Sometimes it may become so dense, shall we say, so thick or full, that it simply blocks out all vision of the people around you; you cannot see the far corner of the room. I have many times known it to be so thick that I could not even see my own hand that far from my eyes—the Cloud.

And the Cloud you feel, you sense through feeling, to start with. Finally you begin to have the ability to see it, and to hear it; for there is a sound in it. But don't go trying now, because if you try to see it you will not; if you try to hear it you will not. You have to let it appear. And remember well what I pointed out to you last night, and that is that wherever there are vibrations of conflict, resentment, any ill attitudes whatsoever, you keep yourself shut out of the Cloud of the Shekinah and contain yourself in the cloud of darkness.

He  Breathed  On  Them

Uranda  April 6, 1947  Winterwarm, California

Concerning that function in Service with Him, we have His Words here, after His Resurrection, “And Jesus said unto them, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” He did not make any distinctions between His function on earth and ours; He did not make any changes. He said, “As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you”, that we all in Oneness might be the revelation of that which He had revealed to the world. “And then He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit.”

Concerning those, then, whom He sent, and should send, who should be a part of His Body on earth and who should receive the Holy Spirit, He had this to say, “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained,” showing that His Body on earth, having become a Reality and having received the Holy Spirit, and recognizing the Truth of His Word: “As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you,” should have the same power on earth to forgive sins which He Himself had exercised on earth, under exactly the same Laws and the same conditions that had existed for Him. So it is that those who come to a realization of what it means to truly share in the Victory of the resurrection, are drawn into the One Vine, into the One Christ Body on earth, that they may share in revealing the Way, the Truth and the Life to all those who are willing to share in the Resurrection and the Life.

from

Evening  Meditation

Martin Cecil  May 12, 1974

I shall not be here in person for a while to sound the Tone myself, so it gives a particular opportunity to all of you to make sure that you keep your instruments tuned up. And there are others here to offer the note as needed, that it may become such a natural experience that you do not have to think about it particularly. It is the consciousness of that True Tone that keeps a person on course. He discerns something a little off, so he veers back to the True Tone. Perhaps he veers too far and goes off a little the other way; he keeps moving back and forth, maintaining association with the True Tone. There always is something of this pulsation of movement. It is a natural pulsation. It isn't a succession of violent earthquakes—let it settle down; don't let it swing to extremes. As you have a consciousness of the Tone, you can tell when it's off beat and you let it settle down. Generally speaking, the way to let the heart settle down is to relax. Maybe a little deep breathing. Abdominal breathing, rhythmic breathing, can be used to relax the heart, so that it can settle down.

Perfect love casts out fear. The opening of the heart to the evidence of the presence of the Lord allows fear to be reduced, and also allows the individual to take the appropriate action. Relax into the rhythm of life and you will find that there is pulsation. That pulsation relates to the Tone, and as you are keenly aware of the Tone you may move easily with that pulsation, because it never gets too very far away from the Tone. There is a natural heartbeat. Let us, in these days which are before us, stay on course together, in agreement, that the movement of the creative cycle may emerge into manifest spiritual expression increasingly, thereby being intensified in all our experience. And that intensification proves out to be the power of God, by which the purposes of God are achieved. Then we find that we have not been so naive after all. It is all working as it should, and there comes the increased assurance as we let it be so. It is a joy to share these times which bring a keener awareness of the True Tone and allow us to continue together in spirit, even though we may be apart in person. So, the enfoldment of the evidence of the presence of the Lord abides with you.

Receive  Ye  The  Holy  Ghost

from Shekinah Magic

Uranda  June 23, 1953

And God, Shekinah, breathed the breath of life into man's nostrils and man became a living soul. So the man is the soul, if he has the breath of life in his nostrils. Let us remind ourselves: All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not any thing made that was made. In Shekinah was life and the life of Shekinah was the light of men—and in the beginning Shekinah breathed the breath of life. In Shekinah was life—and in the beginning Shekinah breathed the breath of life into man's nostrils, and having the Shekinah breath of life in his nostrils man became a living soul.

What is the distinction to be seen here then, in order that we avoid any confusion in thought and attitude? Any human being who is alive is a soul. He is either a dying soul or a living soul. Many human beings—body, mind and heart—are souls, but they are dying souls. If they will respond and if there is a Shepherd, if there is a pattern of creative activity available to them, they can become living souls; but they do not become living souls until the Shekinah breath of life is in their nostrils. Something of the Shekinah breath of life has already entered into you, or you would not be responding as you are. But what is this process by which the Shekinah breath of life may enter into your nostrils so that you may be in actual fact a living soul? The Master, while He walked among men, set the stage for that particular pattern of outworking, that the Shekinah breath of life might again be breathed into man's nostrils, that human beings might cease their function as dying souls and that they might become living souls.

You will recall that at the time that the disciples allowed the beginning of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, or the appearance of Shekinah, what is popularly called the Day of Pentecost, they were in the habit of breathing upon someone. They breathed upon so and so and he or she received the Holy Ghost, as it is put. What is the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost is the outer Cloud factor of Shekinah—the Holy Ghost has a particularized application in you as an individual, but the same pattern holds true in the Body of many members. So, every human being has a ghost or, in one sense, is a ghost. He is a dying ghost, or he is a living ghost. If he is a living ghost in the pattern of the Heavenly Magic, it is the Holy Ghost—but if we must distinguish that which is of reality by calling it the Holy Ghost, by inference we immediately acknowledge that there is an unholy ghost. There would be no necessity of saying Holy Ghost if there was no such thing as an unholy ghost. So the very fact that we say Holy Ghost clearly indicates that there is an unholy ghost, and the unholy ghost is the pattern in the dying soul. The Holy Ghost is the pattern in the living—and the Holy Ghost also manifests in relationship to the Body of many members.

We begin to see, then, that what is called the Day of Pentecost was actually the beginning of the process by which the Shekinah breath of life was being breathed into man's nostril, that they, then, might become living souls. But they got the first whiff of the breath, they started to get a little of it into their lungs, spiritually speaking, and they got so exhilarated, so thrilled, and their minds got so busy, that they went rushing out and started functioning on the basis of the whiff, on the basis of the little beginning. You will recall the Master's instruction to His disciples. He said, “Tarry in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost is fully come”—until it is fully come. The disciples disobeyed that direction. They did not do it. They did tarry until the Day, the cycle of Pentecost—that is, the cycle of Shekinah started to appear; and the minute it started to appear they assumed that that was all. They jumped to some conclusions and rushed out and tried to use the power that they felt in themselves according to what they thought would be good deeds, not realizing that they were actually disobeying our King, spoiling the pattern, throwing away the opportunity to let the Day of Pentecost fully come.

You see, it never has fully come. There was just the first faint Dawn of it, just the first faint breaking of the New Day, beginning to dispel the darkness for those who were awake at sunrise. They did not even let sunrise come—sunrise, the manifestation of the Body of the Son. The day, the cycle—not a twenty-four hour day—the Day of Pentecost was supposed to fully come, and it did not because Peter and the others spoiled it. They did not let it fully come. And God has been waiting nearly two thousand years for some human beings somewhere to so function that the Son would no longer have to stand still. The Son has been standing still for a long time. What is the story about Joshua making the sun stand still? Well the Son has been standing still, the Dawn did not fully come, there was just a little of the light of the Dawn. And instead of letting the Body of the Son take form and rise above the horizon so that the day might fully come, those who were supposed to be the members of the Body of the Son went rushing off to use the power they felt according to their own idea of what would be good. And so the Son stood still and darkness has remained for nineteen centuries while God waited for human beings to appear on earth who would let the Dawn of the New Day come, who would allow the Son to rise, the Body of the Son to appear, to let the Day of Pentecost fully come.

If we are to let this work out in relationship to ourselves, that we may be a true blessing to others, we must let the Shekinah breath of life come into our nostrils so that we may become living souls, and as living souls, we, who were once dying souls, can be members of the One Body, the Christ Body, the Body of the Rising Son, that the Day of Pentecost may fully come, that darkness may be dispelled from the whole earth and the Kingdom of Heaven be made manifest.

Once you begin to actually see this Divine Pattern, the Divine Purpose, you no longer have the urge to go out and try to do good, as Peter did. So many people have followed Peter's example, Peter's leadership. But when they do they are not following our King, because Peter did not follow our King. He let a little truth appear in his two Epistles. He let a little truth appear there. He was a good man. Oh, he was a good man, was Peter! But let us follow our King! It is not enough merely to follow a good man, a man who was so good that the moment he began to feel the flash of God's power coming into his being he could not wait, he could not let the Day of Pentecost fully come until he realized what was happening. He had to rush out and start using it. What does this tell us? This tells us that he began—and the others, focalized in Peter however—he began to let the Cloud have some meaning; but he did not wait until he was fully attuned with the Cloud so that he could see the Light within the Cloud. And then, becoming attuned to the Light that Glows, they should have let themselves see what was within the Light, that they could comprehend the meaning of the Fire. There were those who sensed the reality of some Fire in it, yes. “And there came a sound … as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, and there appeared upon each of them as if it were cloven tongues of fire.”

There was some recognition of the fact that there was some Fire inside of the Light that Glows within the Cloud, but they had not become attuned to it, there was no real unification in it, there was no real pattern, there was no real Divine control established. They had not waited until they could see and know and obey the One within the Flame, the One within the Fire. If they had waited until they could hear His Voice, so that they could obey the Word of the One within the Fire, they would not have gone off on impulsive tangents as they did. The world story would have been different, where the restoration would have been completed to the Divine Estate centuries ago, as God intended that it should. But impulsive Peter and the others who followed his lead spoiled it, ruined it, and did not let the day of Pentecost fully come. It is for us to let it fully come, that the Shekinah breath of Life may be breathed into your nostrils, and that Life shall be your Light. But the Light is not all. Behind the Light there is the Fire, and within the Fire there is the One who is like unto the Son of God. Let us let the Day of Pentecost fully come. Let us obey our Lord and King.

Communion  With  The  King

Martin Cecil  May 1, 1983

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of heaven and earth. Holy, holy, holy. In this hour I speak for Thy ministers in heaven on earth, Most High, Lord and King. We acknowledge Thee as supreme. We are here to serve Thee in the world because we love Thee; our ministry on earth is, first, to Thee. In communion with Thee we breathe the breath of life in this hour. So is life restored to the soul of man on earth. Thy kingdom comes, Thy will is done. Aum-en.

Each service which we share is rightly a service of holy communion. We may dispense with the symbols of bread and wine, because surely we do not need to be reminded of the truth. Let the communion be real. We are here to breathe the breath of life in communion with our King. Rightly there is a breathing in unison. But it is the breath of life when the Word of Truth sets the Tone of Life. We have a particular opportunity to share in a specific focus of the Word of Truth, spoken and proclaimed by all of us in unison. This sets the Tone of Life in human experience. It is set in our own experience, humanly speaking, when we share the proclamation of the Word of Truth; and because we are not and cannot be separated from mankind as a whole, the Word of Truth proclaimed sets the Tone of Life for everyone. Not everyone is aware of it, even subconsciously, but there are many who are aware of it subconsciously and a few who know it consciously. How many of you present this morning, in fact know it consciously?

There is no communion without love. The first communion with which we are concerned is with the King. There is no way by which we may share this communion except in spirit. There must be love for the King if there is to be communion with the King. There cannot be useful communication between people without the fact of communion first being established with the King. We commune with the King through His Word. And His Word is a Living Word; it’s not the printed word. The printed word may acquaint us with the truth, so that we know something about it, but that is as far as it goes. It is only known when it is lived, when it becomes the cause of our momentary experience. This requires a heart open to the King, to the Word, to the quality of His spirit. So, by all means let us commune with the King, making no demands.

We were considering the matter of ministers last Sunday. The first requirement of a minister is to minister to the King. Usually in the religious field the minister is supposed to be ministering to his flock. How can he minister to his flock if he has not yet ministered to his King? He doesn’t know the King, so he doesn’t have anything to give to his flock. There isn’t any real love on hand until the King is on hand in one’s own experience, because the King is love. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all. And when that is accepted there is a door opened in heaven, a door out of which one begins to live, administering what we have called the creative cycle as it finds focus in oneself—primarily in oneself, then moving out beyond what one thinks of as oneself. It includes the immediate environment, the further environment, the whole environment; it is all in your consciousness. You handle the thing close in for the most part.

Anyone can choose to acknowledge the King. Some may not know what this would mean, so the Ministers of the King are here to reveal what it means because they do it. It is revealed when it is done. Then words may be part of the requirement to fill needs; but those words then are weighty words. They carry the impact of the Word, and anyone who is open to that finds that here is the connection with the King.

We have opportunity of communing with the King through His Word—we have shared His Word. We use words—its useful. People everywhere are using words; let’s use them rightly, because they are the clothing for the Word. And so the Word is shared, there is consequent easy communion, and then whatever it is fitting to communicate can be communicated. In the communion that we have known we have known the King, and we have known His love, and we have known love one for another. We didn’t produce it; we just became aware of it.

© emissaries of divine light

This Supreme Point Of Government

This  Supreme  Point  Of  Government

The King,  His Household  and His Ministers

Martin Cecil   April 24, 1983

The quality and character of the Kingdom is the quality and character of the King. This is also the quality and character of His people. Grace and dignity convey something of the nature and atmosphere of the King and His Kingdom. There would be no Kingdom if there was not a King. The character of the Kingdom is the character of the King and of His people. The King governs in His Kingdom. The government is one of love and truth and life. It isn't an arbitrary imposition; it is readily and delightedly received by those who are present in the Kingdom and by all creatures great and small. There could be no Kingdom but for the King.

The King carries responsibility for the Kingdom. He carries it on behalf of a greater King. But insofar as we are concerned this One is the King. We can trust Him to be the King and to govern in the quality and character of His Kingly nature. Perhaps His true nature as a King is sufficient to identify Him in our consciousness. Those who are His people love Him and desire nothing more than to serve Him—that is fulfilment enough. If it doesn't seem to be so to anyone it is simply because that person does not know the King. There has been very little knowing of the King—except from the standpoint of claims of the lips on the part of some, the King has remained obscure, without any particular authority in the lives and the experience of human beings.

The King has been ignored, factually ignored, and His government rejected in favor of the ideas and doctrines of men. But there is a King, and while He has been largely excluded in human experience there is a level of Being at which He governs. The King is in His heaven, a heaven of which human beings know virtually nothing. But the King governs there. He is loved there. He chooses His Household there. He chooses His Ministers, and there is government from that level. Because there is such government human beings have thus far continued to exist on earth in their rebellious and disobedient state. But the King still rules in heaven—fortunately for the continued existence of human beings on earth. It seems to have been imagined, without any intelligent thought being given to the matter, that it would be possible to ignore the King and steal the earth. Certainly the world is a den of thieves. There is no hope for human beings anywhere until or unless the King is acknowledged.

If we are aware of the reality of this Supreme Point of Government related to this world, heaven and earth, then we also have begun to experience the fact that He chooses His Household and He chooses His Ministers. They are chosen in heaven. There is a heaven, and you have had some experience of the fact of it. There is a realm out of which one may live on earth, ungoverned by any expectation anymore of being able to steal the world. It doesn't belong to human beings. The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. As there begins to be a recognition of these things, the fact of responsibility comes into the picture. The King appoints His Ministers, He chooses His Household—and this fact in heaven begins to become known on earth as there are human minds and hearts who exhibit a willingness to let the fact be made known. You have some awareness of the factual nature of this heavenly truth simply because it takes form on earth. You may let it take form in your own experience and you may observe it taking form in the experience of others.

The choice of the King is absolute. His word is Law. That's the fact of the matter. The King appoints His Ministers. To be His Ministers they must minister to Him. Usually ministers are thought of as ministering to their flocks; but the first concern is to minister to Him, because this is necessary if He is to assume His authority in human consciousness. If a person has an imagination in this regard and then says, “Well I know that the King would require me to minister to His people on earth,” then he has turned his back on the King and is trying to do something according to his own views of what should be done or somebody else's views of what should be done. And so people in each generation tend to follow out the same lines. But that isn't ministering—that's theft. It's trying to steal something from the King and saying, “Well now I have stolen it; I know better than you how to apply it to my flock.” That's a lie! It is necessary to love the King first, above all else, because until that is the experience one's consciousness cannot be filled with an awareness of what it would mean to love His people. If you don't know the King you don't know His people either. We ourselves presumably love the King. To the extent that we do so we will discover what He has chosen. Who are His chosen people? The ones whose minds and hearts are sufficiently willing to allow the truth to become known, the truth that He chooses His Household and His Ministers. One must discover the truth for oneself.

The character of the Kingdom was described in terms of grace and dignity—we could add humility also, for the King Himself is humble. He is humble before His King. Human beings are arrogant. They think they know; they think they are capable of judging; they think by the exercise of their brilliant intellects that they can discern all things. The human mind is stupid.

There is a King and there are His Ministers, and His Ministers rightly take form in the flesh. From the King's standpoint this would be the first order of business. What else can be done until His Ministers put in an appearance? Nothing, nothing at all. So, in whatever measure, this has been occurring. In order for this to be effective, as it naturally will be if it emerges as it should out of heaven, there will always be the necessity of a First Minister. There rightly is a First Minister who, in revealing the character of the King, evokes love. The love is for the character of the King. One can hardly separate the One who reveals the character of the King from the character of the King. If it is a true revelation they are One anyway. So love would include the First Minister, but only because the First Minister reveals the character of the King. Those who begin to become aware of the fact of being chosen as Ministers naturally love the King and His First Minister. There begins to be something taking form here which, when fusion occurs, provides the King with the means of His creative action. But there must be fusion.

The essential ingredients for fusion in what might be called the Ministerial Body are love for the King and love for His First Minister. This engenders easy communion, communion between Ministers and an open communion between all with the First Minister. While elements of communication may be, and rightly are, involved in this, communion is something deeper, because it is based in love. If there is no love, communion is impossible; and because communion is impossible, communication is impossible. The means of communication are fine, but there must be those on hand who have something to communicate. In order to have something to communicate, the experience of communion must have been established. Communion is impossible without love, and all this centers in the King who carries the Supreme Authority. Love for the King brings love for the First Minister, as he begins to be recognized by those who also are Ministers.

It has been said that angels know each other. The Ministers of the King know each other, and they cannot deny their love for the King, their love for the First Minister, and their love for each other. All this follows naturally. There are those who are inclined to think in terms of some sort of a hierarchy being set up. That's a ridiculous human concept based in the state of separation. There is a design of course—nothing works without a design. There is one course of action, one design, one way it works—that's all. It is futile to pay any attention to anything else. Nothing else works. All else is subject to fission, disintegration; but there is the opportunity for fusion. Fusion only comes because there is a King.

There have been many people who acknowledge there must be a King, and they have their ideas and their doctrines, but the King has remained unknown. He wasn't known when He took form in the flesh on earth. He was denied, betrayed and crucified. That's water under the bridge now, but it certainly did not get rid of the King. He is still there. His Ministers emerge. All concerned who play their part in this are One. They love each other because they love His Ministers, because His Ministers love His First Minister, and His First Minister loves the King. Then all share that Fire of Love, which is the Fire of Fusion. Without it there is no fusion, just fission—each individual tends to go his separate way, doing his separate thing, imagining that that is what should be done, that others should agree to it. What foolishness!

There is a design. There is government. And there is a sensible Way by which government occurs. It has been occurring right along insofar as the universe is concerned but it certainly hasn't been occurring in the affairs of men. But now it may, and it is emerging into the flesh because of obedience to the truth. When there is obedience to the truth, so that the truth characterizes the individual nature, love becomes known, not before. Love is well protected from human experience by the truth. When the truth is known there is love. Love makes possible communion; and communion, right, fitting communication. And all that is included in what I have called fusion. Together, because we love the King in truth—in the design and the government of the King, acknowledging the design with delight—obedience in this sense is a delight. And acknowledging that, the design and the government are the experience, the dominion is set in one's own living. If it’s set in your own living it’s set in the earth.

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Hear Me Respect Me Love Me Be Me

Hear Me  Respect Me

Love Me  Be Me

Martin Exeter  September 27, 1987

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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