Establishing the Patterns of Perfection

Establishing  the  Patterns  of  Perfection

Uranda  September 20, 1949

There is something that I have worked for a long time to bring into focus, to make it possible for you as a Unit to see a vitally important truth that has been presented to you in various ways heretofore, but which has not as yet been adequately grasped. If I talk this morning about something that we have considered before, then do not assume you already know it, but let go to a new vision, a new vibrational understanding of our subject. We have considered in time past what it means to be in the Christ, to live and move and have our being in the Christ. We recognize that it means to be in the Christ Kingdom, and it means to let the spirit of the living Christ work through us, establishing the patterns of perfection. We have considered in time past the necessity of letting the Father's will be done, and we have considered those assurances, those promises the Master made, that when we should speak in His name the Father would do the works. We have recognized the necessity of letting the Father do the works: “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works… Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.”

Last night, and then beginning again this morning while it was yet dark, I was working to bring to focus a new vision, a new understanding, a deeper realization, of what these things mean. Because this vitally important point was brought to focus this morning, I called you together that it might expand out through you into the world while the current is still active and fresh, in point.

There has been a great tendency in the past to listen to my presentation of the truth, to my descriptions of that which is of reality, and then for you to try to make those things your own. There was no rebellion against the truth in that cycle or vibrational sphere of which I am speaking, but you listened, accepted according to your idea of what I meant, and then you undertook to make it your own, and you tried to feel in yourselves that which was described or presented as the truth. Such effort brings failure. You cannot make the truth your own. Intellectually you saw and recognized that long ago, but the tendency has been to still try to do it. Some of you have been inclined to judge yourselves or condemn yourselves, or to feel a sense of futility in some fashion because you could not make your minds work according to the pattern that you thought they should, and you could not make yourselves feel what you thought you ought to feel, and you could not make yourselves express what you thought you ought to express. All such effort is contrary to the teaching which has been presented to you, and yet the effort has continued, and as a consequence feelings of futility or inadequacy have been in you. And because such feelings were in you, you could not feel adequately what was there to be felt.

You will remember the Master's words: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Our purpose this morning is to take a new look at the truth, so that, letting go to the truth, you may let the truth make you free. Many vitally essential fulfilments through you, individually and collectively, and in relationship to our material situation, depend upon the effectiveness with which you let go in and to this point this morning.

You have recognized and acknowledged that focalization of Divine expression which I am privileged to make manifest for you, and you have accepted that as being the expression of the Father. So our need this morning is not that you should accept that idea but only that you should learn more effectively how to let that which is of the Father have meaning in you. If you listen to that which is expressed of the Father, accept it in your minds, and then try to make it your own, try to be what you think you ought to be, try to feel what you think you ought to feel, you will fail. As I am privileged to express to you and through you that which is of the Father, and as you, being many members of One Body, receive that which is of the Father and let it flow through you, then that which is of the Father accomplishes that whereunto it is sent; but if you listen to that which is of the Father as if you were apart from the Father, and then according to your idea of what is meant try to feel it and try to make it your own, you will inevitably establish a false pattern through which the true release of power is not made manifest.

You all recognize the absolute necessity of an increased release of power through this Unit. You recognize that there are a multitude of needs in you, and in our situation, which need to be filled. These needs, or empty vessels, can be filled. It is not a question as to whether they can be filled; it is a question of correct function that allows them to be filled. As long as we work under unnecessary handicaps we are not as effective in our Father's business as we ought to be. We recognize that there will be for some time to come certain handicaps under which we must work, because the cycle will have to work out until all needs shall be filled. But we have been in the position of working under unnecessary limitations, unnecessary handicaps, and when this point which I am approaching, or dealing with, this morning is clearly realized we will be in position, working together with one accord in one place, to let these lacks be filled.

That which is of the Father is supposed to flow through you. When by word I give a description of that which is Divine expression, I am not suggesting that you should listen to it with your minds and then try to feel that which is being described; for if you do you will fail. It cannot be done. When I give a description by word of that which is in radiation from the Father, I am describing, giving form for you, that which you will be feeling when your response is correct. The description, the form, by word is not designed to give you knowledge that you can take into your own minds and use in making yourselves see and feel and function. If you were able to perceive clearly that which is vibrationally released from the Father in radiation in the feeling realm the words would not be necessary to give adequate recognition of that which is in radiation.

Feeling perception is the first point of contact and recognition of that which is of the Divine. After feeling comes seeing, etc. That which is expressed from the Father; that which is true because of the attunement between the LORD of Lords and myself, released in the current of radiation, flows forth in a feeling vibration which is received and perceived in the feeling realm in and through you, individually and collectively. If we took the position that you would have to learn to feel correctly and to give form to that which was in radiation without the help of my words, it is obvious that it would take a long time, if it could ever be accomplished; but such is not the requirement. That which is in feeling radiation is given form through the words also, so that by the hearing you can recognize the form of the vibrational factors that are in radiation through the feeling realm.

The purified feeling realm is heaven in you when you let that which is of the Father fill the heart. When that which is of the outer world fills the heart, or the feeling realm, it is not heaven—oftentimes, as you could no doubt testify, it is hell. If the feeling realm is filled with that which is not of God you have hell. If the feeling realm has been purified and is filled with that which is of God you have heaven within you. The currents of radiation from the Father into the feeling realm cleanse and purify your hearts, so that you can perceive that which is of heaven and let heaven fill your hearts.

Now all of this brought to focus simply and clearly is this: When you are letting the Father do the works your minds are not supposed to know in advance that which is expressing from the Father. Your hearts are not supposed to feel in advance that which is being released through the feeling realm by the Father. If you are trying to take that which is expressed by the Father so that you can learn it mentally and cause it to be in yourselves, you will fail. But if there is no self-judgment, if you are not requiring the impossible of yourselves—for God does not—then, without any vain regret, without any false pride, without anything that interferes with the current from the Father or divides between you and the Father, you simply let go in love response, according to the Law, to the Father, so that the feeling current flowing from the Father through you into the world is not blocked by your heart or your self-active mind. Then, as you relax into that current, you do not assume that your mind is supposed to know exactly what it is, but you let your mind likewise relax, so that the form of the radiation, as signified by the words that are spoken, becomes the means by which you have a conscious awareness of that which is flowing from the Father through you into the world. If you stop it in yourselves, trying to think about it and trying to make it your own, you are preventing the radiation through you, and so preventing your own true growth.

The word and the act, the whole expression of life, is supposed to be that which is of the Father simply flowing through you, and you are not supposed to know the reality of such expression until it finds expression through you. Then you know it, and see it shining or radiating, expressing in some fashion out into the world. And so is that which is vibrationally released from the Father given form through you, so that it can have meaning on earth in blessing to others. When you share in the expression of blessings from God you are thereby blest. To the degree that you try to take the blessings from God and make them your own you are not blest. You find that the blessing is gone and the increase does not appear. The only blessing that can truly bless you is that which you allow to come from the Father, flowing through you into the world. Then, because the manifestation of the Divine expression appears through you in outer form, the increase caused by the completion of the cycle in its return must necessarily appear in you, and the form of it abides with you while the spirit of it ascends to the Father. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-returning-cycle-martin-cecil-may-21.html]

The increase in the outer comes as the form of the blessing radiated, to which response is given, so that the form of the response returns to the point where it was made manifest in outer form, which in this case is you as a Unit. Then the form of the increase abides with you, to enlarge the form of manifestation, while the spirit of the form ascends to the Father. When you allow the increased radiation, which then becomes possible, to take place, there is an increase in power which goes into the world accomplishing that to which it is sent, whereupon the response thereto, because it is in the realm of form, takes form, and the form of the response returns to you, increasing the outer things.

The Master said: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” When you try to get the things, they are inadequate to the need. When, because you have sought and found the kingdom of heaven, you function rightly, that is, in righteousness, you let that which is of the Father move out through you unimpeded, in true radiation, in blessing to the world. Because the Father's blessing is allowed to have form in the outer world through you and because of you, the returning cycle engendered by response in the world must come back to you. It is the Law. Coming back to you in form, the form of the response makes possible the adding of the things, which forms abide with you while the spirit of the current returns to the Father, and the increased radiation through you allows increased power in blessing to the world. That which the Master stated is absolute Law; it makes possible the filling of every empty vessel. But it is dependent upon your letting that which is of the Father flow through you into the world, that because of you that which is of the Father has form, and because it has form it has meaning in the outer world.

To the degree, then, that you cease trying to make the truth your own, you cease trying to feel what you think the Father wants you to feel, and you simply let yourselves feel that which is of the Father, then that which is of the Father is given form in you according to your perception in the feeling realm, and according to your recognition of the Word, which likewise gives form to the radiation. Being open in response, you then let the whole radiation in feeling and in Word that is in form flow through you. You do not try to stop it in you; you do not try to make it be anything; you do not try to get hold of it in some fashion; you do not simply listen to it and then try to feel what you think the Father wants you to feel. You let go. You stop trying to make it your own. You simply receive it and feel what you receive, letting the Father cause it to have form according to the perfect patterns of the spirit. Then as that which the Father releases finds manifestation through you because of your response, because of your letting go, it has meaning in the world and the power is released into the world in the field of form so that others can perceive it, whether they have the perception to recognize that it is of the Father or not.

You are the ones who act as the transformers, receiving the current from On High and letting it have form that can be used in the world. It will have a different appearance to you than to others, but being released in this world it will have a form that can be received by the responding ones of the world, whereupon the response returning will bring to you the form of the response, which form abides with you; and as you keep polarized properly the spirit of the form then is centered in the Father and allows increased radiation. This is what it means to let the Father's will be done. This is what it means to let the Father do the works. This is what is necessary to believing; for he who believes lets the Father do the works, which in season shall be the greater works, because there shall then be an increased form properly polarized in the Father which allows an increased release of the Father's power into the world.

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” First you must abide in the Christ. Then you must be letting the words of the Father find expression through you. Then the will that is in you is the Father's will, and it is an all-powerful will—a will that has the power to control and to cause things to be. Then ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done of the Father. You will not be trying to do it. You will let the Father do it because it is the Father's will.

Now we do not wish to have this current dissipated by much talking, words that spring from the supposed wisdom of your own minds—but I would like to ask a question. Do you see more clearly the truth concerning this important point; do you see the distinctions which I have been undertaking to clarify? The human mind that is wise in its own eyes, and sometimes makes a considerable impression on its fellow human beings, does not necessarily allow that which is of the Father to find true expression. Do you see more clearly what the Master meant when He spoke of coming as a little child; of simply letting go to that which is and letting it find expression through you?

There is need that many things should be accomplished here. There is need that many empty vessels should be filled here, so that we may move quickly to be in position to render a larger ministry out into the world. Do you see where you have been trying to feel what you thought the Father wanted you to feel? As long as you do, you cannot feel what you ought to feel, and as long as you receive the Word that is spoken as if you thought it were an expression of that which ought already to be in you, so that you try to think about it and make it your own, you will be asking the impossible of yourself.

When you recognize the words that are spoken as the form of the vibration that you should be feeling, and let both feeling and form flow through you, so that you simply let go to that which is of the Father, then you will feel, and the form will make the feeling have greater meaning and you will know that which is of the Father as it flows through you carrying blessings out into the world. It is the Father's will that every empty vessel shall be filled, if by that filling you are caused to grow into the stature of the Living Christ, and if by that filling blessings are released into the world. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/12/discerning-and-working-with-creative.html] It is not the Father's will that empty vessels should be filled if that filling is going to be short-circuited out of the world and taken selfishly by the individual. The Father's will is that every empty vessel, every need, shall be filled as that filling is allowed to carry blessings to the world. As long as anyone tries to get the blessing, he prevents the manifestation of the blessing in any true or satisfying form, at least as far as he himself is concerned.

Believing in the Living Christ allows the individual to function from within the Kingdom, and being in the Kingdom, in the Christ, the individual is abiding, as the Master put it, “in me.” Then if in addition to that, as the Master put it, “my words abide in you”—that is, the expression of the Father is in you in outer form as well as in spirit, so that you are functioning before God, worshipping in spirit and in truth—then “ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done of my Father in heaven.”

Now as I have presented these things to you, both in radiation—that is, in the feeling current—and given them form, to flow through you that they may be truly in you, I suggest that you return to your activities of the day, being busy about the Father's business, so that, being attuned in that current which is now established, you may more effectively let the Father's will be done and you may be ready, when we gather together again, to truly let that which is of the Father find expression in power through you. The power is there. If you block the power it cannot manifest. If you let go, as I have outlined to you, you will feel the power flowing, you will find that the power works according to the Father's will on earth. And then all things, whatsoever they may be, are used as the starting points. They are used and caused to work together to perfection for all who love and serve God according to His purpose, in the Christ. Peace be unto you.

© emissaries of divine light

The Radiant Focus Of Spirit On Earth

The  Radiant  Focus  of  Spirit  on  Earth

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Martin Exeter   December 6, 1987   Vancouver, B.C.  

We seem to be a little short of seats. It's wonderful to see so many here this morning. And we are joined today by others who are gathered in various locations at the end of the telephone line Green Pastures, Glen Ivy, Still Meadow and 100 Mile House. The point of origination is here in Vancouver. There must be getting on for a thousand sharing this hour, which is a goodly number. There could, of course, be many more around the world! We might question as to how come all these friends are participating directly in what we share in this hour, and also that there might well be others around the world who would delight to be a direct part of what we ourselves now know. How come? Was an advertising program put on? There have been those who have been a little enthusiastic in times past in an endeavor to gather people out of the highways and the byways; but this isn't really the way it works, although no doubt people do come from the highways and byways—all of you, for instance! No. The requirement is that there should be an attractive force, a point of spiritual radiation, so that the substance of the quality of character in people may begin to resonate therewith.

This radiation has been present in a specific way for many years. The force of attraction has been in operation. The substance has been resonating and has been drawn, and brought with it all these people. We are usually rather proud of our independence and that we choose to do this and to do that. But really it isn't a matter of choice. When something genuine puts in an appearance it is no longer a matter of choice. If there is genuine substance of character in a person and there is this focus of spiritual radiation, there will be resonation, there will be attraction. While there are those who resist the attraction and come rather reluctantly, they can't help but come. It just depends on the extent of that quality of character that may be present. For those who do come, they discover that there was really no choice. One might as well admit and acknowledge that right away; otherwise there is a good deal of discomfort. But to be true to oneself as this attraction works, one is compelled to come home.

It is a matter of coming home—coming to a place where we all belong. We have managed, with a great deal of effort, sweat of the brow, to stay away from that place, together with most of the human population. But it takes much effort and much grief. It seems that people are inclined to enjoy their suffering; otherwise why would there be the inclination to keep at it? It is a matter of yielding to a compulsion. This compulsion relates to a focus of spiritual radiation. I'm quite aware of the way it works, because it had to work for me, just as it is available to work for anyone, anywhere, at any time. The spiritual point of radiation insofar as I was concerned turned out to be the one whom many of us knew as Uranda. Oh yes, he had a name like the rest of us—Lloyd Arthur Meeker—but he offered himself on the basis of this name Uranda so as to indicate something which was not merely of human nature.

The requirement is that there should be a point of focus—radiant focus, spiritual focus—in form on earth to provide that attractive force. Obviously we are all very much aware that there must be a point of focus in the invisible sense. Many people on earth believe that. Christians particularly think of it in terms of Jesus, and other characters for other peoples. But the mere fact of an invisible point of focus, which apparently is quite successful in operating the universe, is not enough insofar as human beings are concerned. In spite of claims to the contrary, that point of focus has consistently been ignored in the actual practical experience of living, so that humankind has got way off into left field, separated from any awareness of this coordinating point of invisible focus. That has always been available for everyone, but the state of human nature has been so strong that scarcely anyone has acknowledged that point of focus, except in theory, in an attitude of belief perhaps. But as practical experience of that point of focus in one's own expression of living, it has been absent. It seems helpful for some to believe that there is such a point and to try to conduct their lives according to what they deem would be the requirement of this invisible point, but no one really knows. There are all sorts of ways by which people have attempted to do this; but it has all been very theoretical, and it has all been very conflicting.

There is only one way by which this conflict might be dissolved, and that is if all concerned found their centering in this one, presently invisible, point of spiritual focus. Without that there is no possibility of what human beings think of as peace. Trying to get human beings together to agree, I’m sure all would be inclined to recognize, is an absolutely impossible task. It can’t be done. The Christians say, “Well if everybody would agree to be a Christian then we’d have peace.” Do you think so? Is there peace in the Christian world, or in the Islamic world, or in any of the other worlds that are around? The conflict is everywhere; we are aware of that.

We recognize the necessity for realignment with, repolarization in, the point of invisible spiritual focus. But that is impossible. Everybody has been trying to do that, but people had their own ideas as to what it was, and those ideas differ. The Roman Catholics, in the Christian world, have one idea; Anglicans have another; the United Church has another. People feel comfortable, or less than uncomfortable, associated with these various aspects, and they try to do what is considered to be the proper things in relationship to these various designs of religion, whether Christian or any other. But we still have conflict. There are masses of people now who do not particularly relate to any religion. It doesn’t really make much difference. The state of the affairs on earth has always been conflict. War is not a modern invention, and there is no less of it on earth today than there ever was. Clearly enough, whatever has been done has been of little value, simply because this point of radiant spiritual focus has been ignored. To be acceptable as it really is, such a point must be embodied in human form. Those who call themselves Christians have recognized this, and they have fingered Jesus for the task. Unfortunately He apparently lived a couple of thousand years ago, which isn’t much help now. It could have been then, but it wasn’t.

There is the necessity for the spiritual point of focus to be embodied on earth. This is the one thing that has been lacking. There has been no common point toward whom all could orient. This necessity has been recognized by people in general, that there is this need, and so there are various ones who have presented themselves as usefully providing this point, not only in the world of religion but in the world of politics and everything else. “Follow me, follow me. I'm the great one. I'll lead you into heaven on earth.” And there are all these ways, all these systems, all these various conflicting undertakings, coming to focus in different people, everybody vying with everybody else: “If you would only come my way, then everything would be solved.” Nonsense—I don't care whose way it is.

There is only one way, and that is the way of this heretofore invisible point of focus. That point of focus, of spiritual radiation, must emerge through a person. It doesn't emerge through two dozen people. It emerges through one person. I had the very fortunate opportunity of becoming aware of this in this very city of Vancouver. I have had something of a love affair with Vancouver for a long time. I first visited the city in 1930. In 1940 Uranda came to Vancouver and I met him here in person. I had been in touch with him before and had arranged for his coming here to Vancouver to speak in a room that I obtained in the medical-dental building opposite the Vancouver Hotel. He came, and he spoke seven times there. There was a handful of people who thought it worthwhile to come and listen. I had a house in Vancouver, a rented house, on Blenheim Street almost at Marine Drive, and it was in this house that Michael and I first met Uranda. Michael was only four or five years old, but he remembers. I had only recently had contact with this man. He came to the house. There was something about him that was very familiar. Of course I was busy racking my brains, which is the usual procedure, as to how this could be, because I had never met Uranda before. The mind usually, on such occasions, goes off on its round trips: “He must remind me of somebody.” I suppose in a way that's true. If there is a genuine focus of spirit the reminder is of oneself. But of course I was searching around, looking here and there to see if there wasn't someone who fitted the bill; but I never did find anybody.

I attended all the lectures; and at the time I felt rather desolate, because I could hear what was being said and it seemed, at the time, like an impossible task was being undertaken. I am sure we have all had that sensing at times as there has been an initial movement with the creative focus of spirit. Uranda provided this for me. The reason why such a necessity is there is that one may awaken oneself to one's own responsibility in the matter. It is not that it can all be left for somebody else. For a while this usually is the attitude. It took a while for me to begin to realize that I had a responsibility in the matter and so proceed to assume some of it. Fortunately, somewhere along the way it all fell into my lap, because Uranda was no longer here. That was a most wonderful blessing. Tragedy? That's what it was thought to be at the time, but it opened the door for something which had not occurred up until that point. And I was compelled, very specifically, to assume responsibility. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2015/08/facing-martin-cecil-august-7-1954-do.html]

It is much better to assume responsibility without having to be forced to do so. I can't say that I did it exactly unwillingly, because I knew it had to be done and couldn't do anything else. One needs to recognize that for oneself in whatever field of responsibility one may be, that what is required in your individual world will not be available in that world unless you provide it. It is very specific. I am sure there are many who are now awakening to this fact, so that the focus point of radiation in form on earth may expand, may become more intense. That is what draws resonant substance to itself. It isn't because someone stands up, like I'm doing now, behind a lectern and merely speaks words: “You should do this. You should do that.” It comes because there is somebody present, oneself in particular, who is actually doing it—not merely telling someone else to do it.

Mind you, there may be some sort of inspiration offered perhaps, so that others may be inclined to do it, let it happen, emerge out of the state which is present on earth with respect to all people, the human state. Usually when that is called in question a person will say, “Well there are some good things about that human state.” Maybe. By the same token there are a lot of bad things too. But it is the whole human state that is the revelation of failure. Everything, whether it is judged to be good or bad—it's all failure. It's all failure because the focus point of spirit—the spirit of Love, the spirit of Truth, the spirit of Life, the focus point of that—has been rejected, ignored, in favor of each individual doing what he or she pleases. That is considered to be freedom. “I have the right to do as I please, I have the right to think as I please”—human rights claimed.

But this claim—that one has the right to move in any other way than the way that the focus of spiritual radiation requires—is a wrong, not a right. There are manifold human wrongs which people claim, calling them rights. The truth of the matter is that we either accept the established design of things the way it is or we perish. And because human beings have refused to accept that, every generation has perished. Perishing is taken for granted. What really happens, at the time of what is called death, to that person? The world which human beings have made—I've called it the mind-made world—passes away insofar as that person is concerned; it's gone. They had it in consciousness to the last gasp probably, and then it's gone. That world passes away in every generation, for each individual in that generation. It is an unreal world.

There is a real world, but that has been lost, because everybody has been so busy sustaining their unreal worlds. This is considered necessary. One has to find one's place in this unreal world; one has to make one's mark in this unreal world; one has to prove somehow or other that one is worthwhile when in fact one isn't. It's impossible to prove! There is an endeavor to fool oneself on this score, but everybody has doubts.

The essential element that has been entirely lacking, as far as history goes back, is this focus point of spiritual radiation on earth. It hasn't actually been lacking, because it's always been there, but unknown to human beings, so that one has to have beliefs about it. There are all kinds of beliefs about it, but that achieves utterly nothing. The knowing comes because one accepts the fact of it for oneself. You can't accept the fact of it for anybody else. Many who go out and try to convert other people say, “You should accept the fact of it.” But the individual doesn't accept it for himself. The truth has remained unknown; therefore we have to believe this and believe that and believe the other thing. What an unreal state. What a counterfeit state! Yet it has become so thoroughly ingrained in people that it is taken for granted: this is the state. There isn’t any other state.” That is because one has chosen that. And human beings are inclined to go along with the crowd. Everybody does it, it must be right—majority rule. Does the majority make anything right? Of course not. One may be very, very sure that if there is a massive majority of human beings in favor of something, or against something, it certainly isn't the truth, because the human state has been maintained over all these millennia on the basis of a lie. The lie is that I can do as I please, provided I'm good—whatever that means—and things will be all right; and if you believe in God, God will be in favor of it. How anyone can maintain such a stance, involved in this counterfeit state, is really beyond belief!

We are well aware, because we see it so vividly portrayed in other people, that fear and greed are primary motivations in the human world. “Of course, not me.” But then when we stop to consider the matter, “Oh, I’m a bit fearful at times, and fear does determine the way I act and behave. And greed—well, modified, you know. I don’t aspire to be a billionaire yet.” “Oh, that will solve all problems, you know.” Do you believe that? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want more money. Did you ever meet anyone who didn’t want more money? Why? “Because it’s going to be better if I had more money.” Is it? Somebody has more money—is it better? No, they want more money; it isn’t enough. More, more, more!—which is clear evidence of the fact that the acquisition of the money in the first place wasn’t any answer to anything. It seems to be an answer right at the beginning, “because I need the money; otherwise I’m going to starve, I’ll have no place to lay my head. Therefore I need that money; therefore the government has a responsibility to hand it out to me.”

There is a state of affairs in Canada in general—I don’t know if it’s limited to Canada but it’s very obvious in Canada—where there is a great reluctance for anyone to take any responsibility at all. Someone else has to take the responsibility—hopefully the government, whatever the government is. “They’re responsible for me!” No, I’m responsible for me. It’s done in every field. It’s done in the health field, for instance. “The doctor is responsible for me.” No he isn’t. Who knows your experience better than you? Oh there are plenty of observers round about who will give you good advice—they think they know—but the only one who is in position to really know is oneself, no one else. Who has the backbone, the manhood or the wo- manhood, to say, “I am responsible. The government isn’t responsible. The medical doctor isn’t responsible. No one is responsible but me.”

I was talking about the attitude in Canada of weakness, softness; somebody else is always responsible. Whom can I sue? Of course that’s a popular pastime in the United States, but Canada isn’t exempt. But who is there who is responsible in fact, not in fancy? What finds expression through me determines what my world is, not what finds expression through somebody else but through me. I am responsible for my world. We can each say that easily enough, but it takes something to make it stick. It takes manhood, or womanhood, as the case may be.

The responsibility comes because of the spiritual focus of radiation, which is the base of one's own responsibility in the expression of living, that one may convey into one's world this radiation, which means that one is no longer controlled by everything that is going on round about. That's where fear and greed come in, of course, because all these things round about engender fear or, “ah!—make it possible for me to get something.” Most people are on the get, aren't they? Are we on the get? Is our purpose in life to get something? There are those who have very high aspirations in this regard; they're going to get the truth. Where are they going to get it? From somebody else? The only truth that anyone can experience is the truth that is expressed in his or her own living, not the truth that's gotten from somebody else.

In order for an awakening to come in an intelligible way to human beings, there must be an initial point of focus of spiritual radiation which will set the substance of character, if there is that substance present, to resonating. It is that resonation that begins to enable a person to see and understand, so that all the things of the human state cease to be the controlling factors in human existence. And that's what it is—just existence, not life. Human beings exist for a few years and then they're gone. Unless someone erects a statue, they're forgotten. But there is a purpose for mankind. We are all aware that that must be so, or mankind couldn't have lasted as long as it has.

That purpose begins to come within the range of awareness as there is resonant substance in oneself which begins to acquaint us with the fact that there is a focus of spiritual radiation. One sees that, apparently, beyond oneself, to start with. There must be that in fact on earth if there is to be any starting point at all. There is one point of focus, one invisible point of focus. Human beings talk glibly about one God. There is one God, one point of focus. They think of God as being a sort of miasma spread throughout the universe. That's a very human view of things—smoggy! In fact it all comes to point. There is one point, and out of that one point everything is coordinated. Everything fits together. There is a design. Human beings can't have their own way without destroying themselves. Well they've done a pretty good job of that, generation by generation.

We share the responsibility, individually, to allow this focus of radiation to be the expression in one's own living. It is differentiated in various ways, because there are unique people around. It can be differentiated beautifully, and because it is differentiated it is understood. But until it is differentiated it is not understood. It is understood only when one gives expression to this beautiful reality of being in one's daily living because one is no longer controlled by one's heredity, one's culture, all these things that are so worshipped in this world—not only in religion. One's religious beliefs are part of it. You can't have religious beliefs and know the truth at the same time. That should be obvious to anyone who thinks about it, because there are multitudes of religious beliefs, and the fact is that none of them are true. They may have some relatedness to the truth but, if clung to, immediately become non-truth. That sounds like a lie. The truth is only known when it's expressed, not when something is believed in. That doesn't make it true, does it? “Oh I believe this to be true.” Who cares? It doesn't make it true. The truth can't be known until it's expressed, and it's expressed in momentary living because the individual takes responsibility for doing it.

We share this opportunity in this particular setting now; but always it's present with us, so that we cease to be governed by all these human nature states; good states they are, undoubtedly. But we were enjoined not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—it would bring death. Did anybody notice that there's dying around here? Why? Because of that. There is another way. There is another state, which has been totally excluded from human experience so that they have to believe that there must be something after I'm dead. Why not something while I'm alive? Wouldn't that be more sensible?

So we share the opportunity of revealing the radiant focus of spirit on earth when we are expressing it. If we are expressing it we find that we are put together. Love one another. "Oh I'm going to try to love my neighbor; it's going to be a tough task but I'll try." That's not love. Love doesn't come because of trying. It comes because one totally resonates with the radiant expression of the spirit of Love and of Truth and of Life. That is what finds expression, and there is no longer the control of religious belief, no longer the control of culture, no longer the control of any of these human things which human beings worship—idols, maintaining the hell of conflict. The truth is one, and as one expresses that, one fits with everybody who expresses the truth. And there is love consequently one for another, not because one tries but because that is the experience. We may share this, now and always.

All of us are under the necessity of living in the world the way it is, but there is no necessity to be governed by the world the way it is in our own individual expression of living; no longer to be governed by all the antics of politics, for instance, of religious belief, of culture, of all the hereditary influences which have been present in us. Yes, we’re in the world. But why let these things govern the expression of our living when equally, even more so, the spirit of the one point of focus, the spirit of the King, is freely available?

Giving expression to that, we find ourselves put together in the design of life, not the way we want it but the way it is. And if we are participating in the design of life we live—if we’re not we die. Very simple. Apparently everybody has agreed to die, in other words to reject the way of life. Now we begin to awaken to an understanding of the fact of it. But it isn’t a fancy belief; it’s a practical experience. What is going to control our thinking, our speaking and our acting? What is going to father that? We share the opportunity of letting the fathering be done by the One who heretofore has been an invisible King, an invisible point of focus. Let Him become visible! Christians are always talking about the second coming of Christ, after all. Why not let it happen then? "Well I'm not going to let it happen unless it comes through my church." How rediculous. It comes through one’s own living, and it only comes through one’s own living to the extent that these controls in the man-made, mind-made world cease to govern the way we express, behave and live.

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A Halo Of Gentle Benediction

A  Halo  Of  Gentle  Benediction

“The spiritual expression plane should manifest as a Spirit of Gentle Benediction over all,

which is above and beyond those things that tend to produce petty reactions, bickerings and inharmonies.

That spiritual expression plane of our trinity of manifestation should be as a Halo, as a Glow of Heavenly Light,

that rests benignly over and around each member of this Unit, and all that we think and say and do.” 

Uranda 1949

The  Halo  Of  Radiance  And  Protection

Martin Cecil   February 21, 1982  am

Disregarding the arbitrary time differential, which is merely based upon the rotation of the earth, we may find ourselves, to the extent of our openness and willingness, with one accord in one place. The one place is the place of the spirit of God, where accord or agreement is naturally known.

This agreement and accord and unification is made easily possible by reason of what we are sharing now through the sound of my voice and the words which I speak. These words carry authority. There are those who recognize the authority and consequently understand and agree with the words. I trust that you who are present this morning may be counted in this number. Others may recognize the authority but disagree with the words. There are those also who agree with the words but deny the authority, and of course beyond these there are those who neither recognize the authority nor understand the words nor agree with them. So we come back to the first classification: those who are aware of the authority and who consequently understand and agree with the words.

The word agreement perhaps does not define in human consciousness what exactly it is that I have reference to when considering the matter of being with one accord in one place. Most human beings have the experience, as they think, of agreeing with someone from time to time, but this is usually a rather surface thing, and the right to disagree is prominent in consciousness. We are aware that only agreement can be known when there is a sharing of the experience of the One Spirit. The attempt to agree merely upon external forms never succeeds beyond a certain rather limited point, but in spirit there may be absolute agreement, and it is this absolute agreement that is essential to the creative process. By the same token disagreement ensures the destructive process. We are very much aware, in our own experience and in our observation of the world around us, that there is a very great deal of disagreement. There is also, of course, consequently a very great deal of destructiveness. Few have recognized that the destructiveness springs from the disagreement. The common human habit, for the destructive disasters that put in an appearance from time to time, is to try to find someone to blame, a scapegoat; but when we come right down to it the point of origination for the destructiveness always stems from disagreement. We need to clearly see not only that disagreement brings disaster but that true agreement makes sure that what unfolds will be creative. Every time any of us indulge in reactionary disagreement with each other we are, in that moment, denying the spirit and establishing a cause of disaster. The disagreements may seem to be about small things, but it makes very little difference as to what they are about—it is the fact of disagreement that is the destructive cause.

We should be delighted to know that the reality of agreement brings forth the wonder and the beauty and the glory of all things made new. Here is the base of the creative process. We have, ourselves, recognized these things, been aware of the truth of the Master’s words when He said, “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing ... it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” The trick is to agree on earth. There can only be agreement on earth, true agreement, about what should be done, not about what human beings might want to be done, because the agreement is established in the spirit of God and the spirit of God is the source of authority—the authority of words which may be spoken, of thoughts which may be thought, of feelings which may be experienced, of actions which may be brought into form. We are here to exemplify what it means to agree on earth as touching the things of the spirit of God. This is what needs naturally to be done, so that all things may work together to perfection in the creative fulfilment of Divine Purpose.

Spiritual movement is concerned primarily with a process of unification, of agreement consciously known. The authority of the Word which is proclaimed through words and in other ways is made possible by reason of conscious action. The authority remains dim and unfocused, nobody being quite sure of it, until it comes to point consciously and is proclaimed consciously. This relates to the conscious levels of the human mind, which are designed to allow the authority and the direction of God to be brought to focus in action on earth. This is not the conscious mind merely of one individual, or a few individuals, but the conscious mind of the whole body of mankind, for man indeed was made in the image and likeness of God, so that God could be proclaimed on earth and His creative action known on earth in a direct and specific way. The authority of the Son is necessary first if the power of the Holy Ghost is to be a reality in human experience. The power of the Holy Ghost properly relates to the unconscious levels of mind. We have a rather clear awareness that the unconscious levels of the mind of mankind could not be classified as the Holy Ghost—rather, the unholy ghost. Nevertheless here is the facility for the creative movement of the Holy Ghost. Here is the facility in the unconscious levels of mind and here is the realm of power—the power of the Holy Ghost. There is a certain power to the unholy ghost; this is the destructive power based in disagreement.

The fundamental disagreement, initially speaking, is a disagreement with the LORD. This engenders disagreement between people, between groups of people, between nations. The world is filled with violence in consequence; the lack of agreement is very obvious. It is made very obvious by reason of the nature of the reports that come to us of goings-on. What is considered to be news is based in an adversary situation of some kind, a proclamation of disagreement, so that the news media are always filled with the evidences of disagreement. There are evidences of this everywhere—even in our own immediate experience, so we could not deny that the world is filled with disagreement. However the fact of a basic agreement emerging is overlooked on this basis; at least it’s not reported, because it is not considered to be news. If two people agree I think that should be news—it’s a rare occurrence! But there is a tendency to get into habit patterns and constantly reiterate the same things over and over and over again. It gets deadly dull, so the disagreements have to be more and more violent to claim people’s attention, because in effect anyone can say, “Well we know about that without having it reported in the newspapers.” But very few people have much conscious awareness of the extent of agreement that is also present—in other words the extent to which the spirit of God is already in motion.

The spirit of God is in motion relative to the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. It is the same spirit in motion, so there is no disagreement there. And if there is the experience of that movement of spirit consciously and unconsciously, the individual knows the reality of agreement within himself or herself. If there are those who know this agreement within themselves, then they will find the same agreement relative to each other. We can have a very good idea of the extent of our internal agreement as reflected by our external relationships. Of course this is not merely a surface thing, so that we smile at people and say, “Good morning. Isn’t it a nice day.” It goes deeper than that presumably, so that the agreement is known even if we don’t say anything, even if we don’t smile. Yet how people keep judging each other by the looks on their faces. Presumably if there is internal agreement, that will tend to be reflected in the individual’s visage and in the way he behaves.

But it is the authority which rightly centers in the conscious mind that makes possible the generation of the substance of agreement. We have spoken of the substance of agreement before; agreement cannot be known without it, and this includes something occurring also unconsciously. We might say, to define it a little more directly, agreement between heart and mind. But this will emerge into experience, the substance of it will be generated increasingly, as there is a sense, an awareness, of authority, consciously speaking. I think a lot of our experience has been based in an unconscious idea of authority. We say hopefully, “Things will work out. Everything’s under control. It’s all right.” Splendid. I suspect it is: “God is the Ruler yet.” But who really knows it? We begin to know it to the extent that there is this absolute attitude consciously. Various things may put in an appearance from the unconscious levels of mind which would distract. Such things become more subtle as time goes on—if it were possible, capable of deceiving the very elect. Fortunately it isn’t possible and we discover who those are, because it is those who reveal the fact that it is impossible to be deceived, and this stable foundation in actual experience comes because of a choice that has been made consciously, regardless of what the unholy ghost says.

The unholy ghost erupts into the level of the conscious mind on occasion in very subtle ways. What is offered is clothed in robes of light in such case. But what is it that maintains the integrity, consciously speaking? It certainly isn’t all the theories and concepts and ideas that human beings have as to how things might be made better in human experience. If you watch the TV you will be constantly assailed by all these wonderful things that are going to improve the lot of human beings on earth. Do you think that is really what is required? I think if it were possible to satisfy all human beings by reason of an improved lot on earth—and I am sure you would agree with me that that would be very doubtful—then God would be defeated. We can all be healthy, we can all be peaceful; we can all be all these wonderful things by our own brilliance, by our own efforts, by all our wonderful discoveries, so that we make use of things to produce this glorious fulfilment for mankind! Who is speaking, if not that old serpent called the devil and satan? It looks so good—but there is the right choice, consciously speaking, to be made. And what does that choice relate to if not to the spirit of God, which is the authority of God revealed through the Word, and the words which proclaim the Word? [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/08/from-culture-and-language-of-kingdom.html] Here is the very simple choice. It’s easy for human beings to be distracted by so many seemingly valid things, good things—if we just knew a little more about this or about that, then we would have it made! But who would have it made? Certainly it would not be made by God.

So there are those who acknowledge the authority of the Word, understand and agree with the words. These are the ones who provide what is necessary for the creative achievement that is to occur in the world. Here is the reality of agreement by which what needs to be done is done spiritually speaking—to weave a Halo around the earth. Halos are usually around the head. They are not around the arm. There may be these fancy auras around the arm, around the body, and seemingly associated with the head; but a Halo relates to the head very specifically, to the conscious mind, to the Son consciousness, those who acknowledge the authority of the Word because they speak the Word themselves and their words are a proclamation to this effect. There are those who are present in our unified gathering today who might come into this classification so that the world may be encircled in this way.

It is interesting to note that for the last while there has been very little variation in the numbers of those who are included on our mailing lists, but from my standpoint there has been a vast increase of emissaries. The mere fact of being on the mailing list of course doesn’t establish anything particularly except that the individual will receive the mailings. But there are those who are making themselves increasingly known, very often directly to me, that they are emissaries of divine light. We’ve had so few of these on earth for a long time, and relative to the population of the world there are very few yet; but I think that’s all right. I recall the story of Gideon and his troop. He had to whittle them down, didn’t he, before he had those who could be trusted. Now this is the point. From whatever base it is that is established—here in a particular sense, but of course the base that is established on this North American continent in a larger way—here should be the immovable mass, so that the irresistible force may go forth to accomplish that whereunto it is sent around the world, all relating primarily at the moment to the conscious mind of the body of mankind. You can’t have a conscious mind without a subconscious mind, so that is included; but the choice can only be made consciously and agreed to unconsciously. So until it is made consciously there is nothing to agree to insofar as the unconscious mind of humanity is concerned.

We have some awareness of the vast numbers of those who might be particularly related to the unconscious levels of the mind of humanity. There has been a longing in these in a very wide sense for the appearance of the authority of the Son. They have been disappointed a number of times already because the one who put in an appearance, in the conqueror role as a rule, hardly could be said to be the Son. But finally, if there is a focus of the conscious mind present, the Son is present, or may be present, by reason of this, and there is something toward which the unconscious mind of humanity may orient. How does it orient? Well unconsciously, if it’s the unconscious mind. However, obviously there is, what shall we call it, a twilight zone between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, where things of the unconscious are close to the surface of consciousness; and so we find this beginning to occur relative to various aspects of the population of the body of mankind who are just discerning, sensing, the presence of the Son. Presumably there will be a certain amount of skepticism involved because of prior disappointment, but clearly there can only be a fulfilment in the right way to the extent that the Son is present, that there is something absolute, consciously absolute, that cannot be tempted, that cannot be distracted, by all the glorious kingdoms of this world. And those kingdoms, you know, nowadays reach out into space, that strange envelope that seems to enfold the earth and indeed the solar system.

There is a short passage here out of the 3rd chapter of Revelation which may be seen in the context of our own experience: “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”

“I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation.” I think probably that might be better translated “keep thee from succumbing to the hour of temptation,” because that comes upon the world and, after all, that’s where we are. Every individual will be tried, in other words, for him- or herself. Let us be careful not to be overly concerned with respect to others in this regard—personally we are tried, and we are responsible for that. We can’t be responsible for the attitudes taken by others. If we get involved with those attitudes we ourselves will fail. It has been said that God is no respecter of persons. If there is an acceptance of the spirit of God in our own living we can be no respecter of persons: each individual will prove him- or herself out. This has been happening all along the way, hasn’t it? Do you think the job has finally been done: everybody is now absolutely tried and true? I don’t think so yet. There’s a bit more burning to be done. Let us not fool ourselves that it is not going to happen. It is happening now.

I don’t say these things to make anyone afraid. It is said that perfect love casts out fear anyway; so there you are, no problem! But if you become involved with something other than love, then look out! But love, how? Love, as this centers in the authority of the Word and the words which proclaim the Word. Here is the vital provision that has been made on earth by the Lord. There have been some words here in the Bible, and other scriptures, which have been available to human beings for a long time. It hasn’t done them all that much good. But there is the reality of the living Word in the present moment now and this is what provides the point of centering, the point of love. If that is absolute there is no problem. If it isn’t, so that there is a little doubt, a little sucking of teeth, whatever people do when they doubt, then you’re not very safe.

There is a level where one may make a conscious choice. Where else but at the level of the conscious mind? And when that choice is absolute—here is the point of centering, here is my loyalty absolutely—then the unconscious mind has something to orient to and the Holy Ghost rises up through the unconscious mind and there is power to achieve whatever it is that is necessary. It’s the only way it works. Human beings in general have been trying to get around that for a long time. It becomes more and more obvious in these days, very largely because there begins to be the reality of a focus of authority of the conscious mind, not limited to one or two people but including increasing numbers.

I am concerned particularly with this as it relates to people, that all may have the opportunity to make a deliberate conscious choice, in a clear awareness that there are those things which rise up, sometimes quite powerfully seemingly, out of the unconscious levels, seeking to sow the seeds of fear and doubt and uncertainty and to generate reactions of various sorts. From the human standpoint it might be said that it would be easy to succumb. We have such a beautiful example of absoluteness in the story of the Master in His experience with what are called the temptations in the wilderness—no equivocation, no: “Well perhaps we might make a little bread out of stones, I suppose. Or if I don’t go too high up on the pinnacle of the temple maybe I can safely cast myself down. Or if I don’t aspire with too much ambition to the glories of this world it will be all right.” Do you think so, really?

You will note in the story as it has come down to us, for a reason presumably, there was something absolute each time. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God … Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Get thee hence, Satan ... Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve”—a conscious choice, but there is an available focus point, so that it may be held absolutely steady. It has never been done on earth, even in whatever measure it may have been done in the past, without a manifest focus point; otherwise everybody has the idea that they can go their own way, being true to their own conscience, as they might put it. But then consciences are not very reliable, because they are very largely based in human heredity of various sorts. No, it is the spirit of God, something that has been very largely foreign to human experience.

So a focus is provided and we see ourselves as being associated with that focus, giving it form on earth so that it may be available to the children of men. That’s the only chance they have. That has seemed like too big a thing for many. It has been the producer of doubts: “How? It couldn’t be me!” Well who is the “me” that it is then? As long as everybody says that, there isn’t any; there isn’t any way. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” So we share in providing now the immovable mass of absolute substance from which the irresistible force may proceed to go forth, to weave, to accomplish, what is essential in the fulfilment of the purposes of the Lord. And let no one imagine that he understands fully what those purposes are. Just let’s move with the spirit and let it be done. The mind certainly doesn’t have to know everything; it couldn’t know everything anyhow. So we share in providing this rock, and then from this rock springs the irresistible force by which all things are made new, by which the Holy Ghost may be released in the experience of human beings the world around, rising up in response to what at the moment is not seen consciously but sensed nevertheless. There is a level of those who represent the unconscious mind of humanity, where there begins to be a little awareness, the level of the unconscious that is closest to the conscious; something is seen there. As the union begins to occur the power is released and the greater fulfilment comes, something that no human being can in fact prevent.

I delight to have shared this morning hour with you. It’s good to establish the basis for conscious agreement in this way relative to what it is that is now happening and which shall be in the days to come. How delightful to be with one accord in one place in this hour, but what a continuing delight it is to be with one accord in one place in every hour which is yet to come. Here is the immovable mass once this is so. As there is an immovable mass in this sense there can be the irresistible force, and if that force is in fact irresistible certainly the job gets done, a job which we are here to do together in agreement. Glory to God in the highest of our understanding, based in the authority of the spirit of the living God.

Uranda  1949

The Shadow of the Almighty is properly the Spiritual Expression Plane of Being,

which overshadows all and permeates with the Spirit all things of mind and body —

and of the whole material realm which respond thereto.

There are various ways by which a specific focalization of Identity might be established in this regard,

but for the purposes of the Sanctuary and this cycle we shall recognize Grace in this focalization

as being the Spirit of Benediction — Blessing.

The Benediction is a Blessing and properly contains within it all Blessing.

So the Spirit of Benediction is seen as the Spirit of Blessing manifesting in all things —

for Blessing must be the actuality of the Spirit of the Living Christ made manifest in form.

So, having recognized the Spirit of Benediction,

we come next within the scope of the Nucleus to the focalization of the Second Plane —

Therefore, with respect to this focalization within the Nucleus,

we recognize and acknowledge the Spirit of the Single Eye.

© emissaries of divine light