Beauty

Beauty

Steps  To  Mastership  Lesson 18

Uranda  1936

The best way to enter into the impersonal expression of Life is found in Beauty. He who looks for beauty in all people and all things soon finds that which he can truly Love. The blending force which draws one into a realization of Oneness is Love, and the presence of Love in people and all creation is discerned through a perception of beauty. Beauty is not to be confused with surface prettiness. Beauty is that deeper quality which partakes of the Divine. The Inner Being of all things is Beauty. Look for beauty and you will find it. When you find beauty, you will have found the key to Love. When you have found Love, you will blend with that in which you find it. Thus is Oneness attained. The impersonal expression of Life depends on the ability to perceive beauty everywhere. Everywhere present, beauty will attune you with Love, and Love will blend you with God. Beauty and Truth are One. The Essence of all things is Beauty. The Essence of all things is Truth. Through the Pathway of Beauty, you can ascend to the limitless heights.

Set yourself to the pleasure of looking for beauty. Beauty is Reality. Behold it, and the clouds of darkness and illusion will vanish away. Fill your mind with beauty and there will be no room for the ugly things of the personal life expression. The Christ is Beauty. The Way of the Christ is Beauty. The Truth of the Christ is Beauty. The Life of the Christ is Beauty. You cannot Love that in which you do not see Beauty. Therefore look for Beauty and you will find Love. Look below the surface in contemplation and you will find Beauty. Beauty often hides beneath a veil of seeming ugliness, that it may remain pure and unsullied from the eyes of vulgarity, lust and passion. Surface seeming blinds unworthy eyes, that they may not behold Beauty. He who hurries sees not Beauty. Only those who linger long before the rose can see its Beauty. The hurried passerby sees only its prettiness. Follow Beauty and you will find Love. Enter into Love and you will find God. In God you will find the ALL in All.

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The Coming Of Heavenly Government #2

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The  Coming  Of  Heavenly  Government  #2

Martin Exeter   November 11, 1984  p.m.

It was said of somebody or other that he went to and fro in the earth, and up and down in it. The name was Mr. Satan, as I recall, not only rushing hither and yon trying to achieve something but even endeavoring to get higher, and more often than not finding himself lower: the futile human state. Unless there is a foundation established whatever is done will prove to be futile. It’s a very sad thing to see human beings who had such promise in their earlier years turning into old grouchy people, convinced of futility, when it need never have happened. Generation after generation human beings go the same old ridiculous way.

There is a foundation to be built and if we have allowed the experience of this building to occur within our own experience then we discover that there is something to be done. What is to be done is not within the scope of human ambition—it’s never even been thought of!—but it may come into experience if the foundation is built, and we allow it to do so. We are not trying to achieve some great thing; we are not following out the old human designs as to what is desirable and what is commendable and what is to be expected. There have been countless generations who have followed that way; it was all futile. Why would anyone go the same path? It’s like cows walking down the trail, only this time it ends in the slaughterhouse.

The foundation is laid because we handle what arises in ourselves intelligently. We can’t handle it intelligently without having some association with the intelligent spirit of God. There is no other source for intelligence. Where there is intelligence, then those things which arise in one’s own experience to distract and endeavor to cause one to return to the old human ruts will be dealt with. This was described most accurately in what were called the temptations in the wilderness. Here was something personal insofar as Jesus was concerned. It was a culmination of something because He had lived thirty years by then; it was just a proving out of what had been dealt with along the way. He was a teenager, by the way, for a while, as we all have been. The question I suppose is whether we still are or not.

But here was something to be dealt with personally; it related to His own personal experience. Obviously He dealt with it in a very forthright way: no shilly-shallying, no argument about it—and so it was disposed of in the personal sense. This did not mean that in the following years He had nothing to deal with, but He had nothing to deal with personally. It all related to the reason for His presence on earth. We can relate that to our own experience. Certainly there is something that each individual must deal with personally, so that it is absolutely clear where one stands—there is no possibility of removing oneself from that foundation. Then everything that arises thereafter is no longer a personal matter.

In the case of Jesus He had many things to handle, didn’t He? Many people came with all sorts of difficulties, problems, but also endeavors to shoot Him down, so to speak, and there was no difficulty in handling those things. Anyone who has read the story will be impressed with the ease with which He dealt with what came to Him. Many of the things that came to Him could have been translated personally, in the same way that most of us have done it in times past because we had not come to the point of taking that stand, having dealt with everything personally: “That’s it! Now I know where I stand and there is nothing anywhere that can cause me to remove myself from that position.” When one has a foundation such as that, where’s the problem with handling what arises?

There are many things that should arise, many things to be brought so that we may successfully establish the government of heaven on earth. During the period up until the public ministry of Jesus began, He had dealt with all these personal matters. He had, in letting that happen in His own experience, opened the door for others, so that there was preparation for what was then His ministry, when He would be functioning directly with the government of God. Something of what that might mean did take form; there was certainly authority present. The door had been opened by what He had experienced previously in dealing with the personal matters that came to Him in His own makeup; and all that was summarized in the story of the temptations. We’ve all had the same opportunity.

Then comes the initiation of true government. He had opened the door for others to share in that. His disciples put in an appearance and others gathered around, to some extent at least but it became apparent very shortly that virtually no one accepted the same foundation which He had established, accepted it for themselves. There is indication that there may have been one of His disciples who did, in the person of John, but no one else. Even the one who protested most about his love proved to be the one who denied Jesus. It isn’t a matter of protesting. It’s a matter of being. It’s a matter of experiencing what that foundation is, because if that is experienced you never leave it.

Could anyone say that what is needful to permit this foundation to be established in one’s own experience individually has not been freely available? If there is honesty one would have to admit that it has been amply available. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/02/extending-from-motherland-sacred-thread.html] If there has been any uncertainty, any doubt, any feeling of a lack of foundation in one’s living, it could only be because advantage was not taken of the provision that had been made. If in one’s own experience that foundation has not been adequately known, that has been one’s own choice in the matter. It is always that way. There is a creative process in effect; there is change to come. How is it going to come? By opposing it? By saying, “You’re not doing what you ought to do”? How do you know what that person ought to do? You don’t even know what you should do!

What would happen if there really was agreement? Let’s just let it work the way it’s happening and, believe you me, if there is an openness in this regard the spirit of God is quite capable of carrying it through the way it should be carried through. We keep saying that what needs to be done must be done by the spirit. All right, let the spirit do it then! Don’t oppose whatever it is that begins to put in an appearance. What puts in an appearance now is not what will put in an appearance tomorrow or the next day or the next Let it change! Let it move! Free it up, that all may participate agreeably in the overall process and in every detail thereof. Is that too much to expect? We do not know what it is that needs to occur except that it must occur on the basis of the action of spirit. And spirit is acting; it never stopped acting. We’re not waiting for it to act. It is doing so now in the circumstances the way they are. Free it up! Don’t say to spirit “Well if you act, you’ve got to act the way I want you to act.” We don’t know what should happen. Let’s find out by giving spirit free rein because we agree with what is happening; we’ll let it happen.

What is happening within the range of our own experience, you may have noted, has a certain aura of control. It isn’t anything wild; it doesn’t produce a riot. There may be riots out there. Is there a willingness to let things move within the range of the operation of the government of heaven? We have some experience of this. Let it work here, in this. Do you think that would destroy everything? We see the world busy destroying itself. The heavenly government is the only chance—and that isn’t a chance; it’s a sure thing. Let it move freely. We are discovering how it moves freely, much more so than has been in the past. There is a greater willingness on the part of all to find the way it works—less opposition, less arbitrary assumption that “This is not the way it works.” Spirit is on the move because it has a little space. Perhaps we have been instrumental in providing a little space and so it moves, something begins to happen. There are those who look around fearfully; they’re not sure whether what’s happening is what they think should happen, or it’s not as quickly as it should happen, or it’s happening too quickly, or whatever it may be. Let it be whatever it is. We find that there is the essential control present because the truth is present; and a new thing is in the process of taking place. It’s not the same as what has happened before.

How many successful people do you think there are in the world? One can look in the record where they list some very wealthy people; millionaires galore!—successful people. Did you ever meet any of those successful people? Oh my! They may have been successful in amassing what they think of as wealth, but they’re not people. How many people are there on earth? Oh, we say, getting on for five billion now. I don’t think so. Maybe a few hundred. There are some humanoid creatures around, but what about real people, genuine people? Well there are those who aspire to that, and I am not attempting to put people down but merely indicating that the true state of man has been absent.

Now something begins to move. Is there anything greater, or could there be any experience more successful, than allowing this to occur all the way through to its fulfilment? For those with true vision there is a recognition that there is nothing greater possible. It is majestic and it is grand. And we have the opportunity of letting it happen because we have some awareness of it and some experience of it already, which is not true of most of the population of the earth. I have a sense of responsibility because of all this. The responsibility is that I won’t let the LORD down, for one thing, and for another thing, we’ll not withdraw the Way, the Truth and the Life from the population of the world, either by quitting or by falling down on the job. We share the wonder and the glory and the beauty of something absolutely transcendent. We begin to sense the coming. It is coming. We either know it’s coming or we don’t. We’re either with it or we’re against it. We stand together in one spirit, differentiating that spirit individually because individually we take responsibility for our own differentiation of it, something that nobody else could do. I have mine to differentiate, you have yours, but we’re all on a par in that regard.

When there is the government of heaven on earth absolutely, when that facility is there, the way it has been is no longer in effect and human beings are quite incapable thereafter of producing the sort of world which they have produced heretofore. The power is gone. With a little perceptiveness one can recognize that it is in the process of going, and it goes just to the extent that there is a focus of absoluteness present on earth of sufficient dimensions to provide what is necessary for the whole body of mankind. This would seem to emphasize the fact of largeness of vision, largeness of understanding, largeness of capability. If this largeness is not experienced in the circumstance as it now is it could never be experienced in the larger circumstance, because that circumstance would never come. This is a fallacy that has been present with many people, where they thought that their ministry was some large thing over there somewhere, when they couldn’t even handle what was right next to them! That largeness comes in the only way it can come, by reason of the truth in expression in the immediate circumstance. Such a simple little thing, so steadfastly avoided. But now there are those who are awakening to this. They do not have grandiose visions of something great somewhere else but they have largeness of vision as to the meaning and effectiveness and value of what they are now doing as related to the whole. They do not become myopic, but what they are doing is a window into the whole. Is what you do a window into the universal whole? To what extent?

Those who are absolute on earth are the angels of God. They know what they are about. They understand what is happening. They are quite capable of handling it. But it requires a pure heart and obedient mind to do it. And so we share the process by which this happens, in the core of things. It is in fact a delightful happening when we participate in it: Heaven on earth known again because the ordinances of heaven are being set in the earth. When that is factually the case nobody can stop it, nobody can resist it, nobody can make it some other way, because all the power and ability that human beings thought they had heretofore simply evaporates. It’s not there anymore. How grand and glorious it is to share this responsibility, incomprehensible to the impure heart and the disobedient mind but becoming increasingly comprehensible to our own purifying hearts, and minds accepting obedience to the ordinances of heaven. This is the way it is. This is the way it works. This is what we’re here to do. So let’s do it!

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The Coming Of Heavenly Government #1

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The  Coming  Of  Heavenly  Government  #1

Martin Exeter   November 11, 1984  a.m.

These words I speak to you who are present in person, also to all those who shall read or hear these words in the days to come: I love and appreciate all of you. I am thankful for your love and friendship, for all that is genuine in our association. To this extent we are indeed one and the world waits for what we know. We take no credit for what we know; it is simply what we are.

Here is the heavenly government, first in the cycles of transformation of hearts and minds. The door to share such transformation is opened by reason of the purging of heart and mind in our own individual experience. This is the initial offer of heavenly government to all who will receive it, for the most part subconsciously at present. Then as that purging is complete there comes the absoluteness of living. This absoluteness brings with it a knowing of the ordinances of heaven and the ability to set the dominion thereof in the earth. The restoration of true heavenly government, coming as it does first through the changes which must occur in our own hearts and minds, does so gradually, but when absoluteness is known that government comes totally.

There is a period now when the state of affairs on earth is partially consequent upon the continuing impurity of heart and disobedience of mind which has been in force for many millennia past even to this day, and partially because something new is emerging by reason of such transformation as has occurred in our own minds and hearts, bringing with it the experience of increasing oneness. So we have a state betwixt and between. Surely we would not linger in this condition within ourselves but proclaim absoluteness through purified hearts and obedient minds. This is the eternal state of the true and loving expression of life. Once again this provides the heavenly government on earth.

In our times of service, as we call them, we have the opportunity to allow the greater purging to occur, that we might come finally to the point of absoluteness, so that what is undertaken together at these times might be the genuine expression of heavenly government on earth. This remains as yet something unknown because the purging is not complete and absoluteness in experience is not the fact. However the purging itself opens a door of creative movement for all whose hearts are yielding to the genuine expression of life. So there is a level of heavenly government being extended on this basis, but there is something far more to be known. There is this aspect of heavenly government emerging into expression by reason of the willingness of you and others to pass through the process of purging, but there comes a time when the purging is rightly complete. Then the state of absoluteness is present, and in that absolute state there is absolute government.

For millennia past, what has been occurring on earth has occurred simply on the basis of the fact that there is life in human beings, but impure hearts and disobedient minds have determined what has been brought forth. This is the nature of the government that has been in the world as long as conscious human memory goes back. We already have some dawning awareness of what we recognize as true government emerging out of heaven. Allowing that to emerge brings with it the purging process, that hearts may be purified and minds might learn what it means to obey.

Obedient minds are impossible—obedience to the ordinances of heaven—as long as the heart is impure. The heart has been the controlling element in human experience; and the mind has been obedient to the impure heart—disobedient to the ordinances of heaven. Impure hearts, unruly emotions, have governed human existence and the mind has assumed the role of justifying this state of affairs. It has become so expert in this field that it is convinced of its own false reasoning and logic. A state of deception is what is known in the world. We have all known it ourselves. We have begun to see that it is so to the extent that we have come clear of the deception. As long as one is involved in the deception that’s all that is seen, and it seems as though that is the way things are. There has been some emergence out of that deception, so that we may stand apart from it in some measure and see it for what it is. The question arises in our own continuing experience as to whether we still accept the emotional compulsions of the impure heart and the seemingly logical justifications of the mind disobedient to the ordinances of heaven.

The impure heart, the disobedient mind, tries to lay on us a false role, and gullible human beings have swallowed the bait and maintained that falsity while proclaiming that they are being honest in doing so. The fact is that they are denying the truth, betraying the truth. We have a certain awareness of these things, but if we have awakened to what true honesty is we could never again be deceived into accepting what is so patently false. I have noted that many of those who really know better have allowed themselves to be duped in this fashion. One trusts that they will emerge eventually on the other side of such deception. But how can anyone tell you something that you know is not true and convince you that it is true? That would be absolutely impossible if there was an absolute state of alignment with the truth in yourself. If there is a bit of uncertainty present and emergent at times, you know that there is more purging to occur. So we still find ourselves in what might be described as a transition process, where the heart is still in the cycle of purification and the mind discovering what it means to be obedient, not to the heart but to the ordinances of heaven.

And so we share the firm, undeviating absoluteness of the truth in expression. When there is that absoluteness, so that there is nothing that can come to us out of the wilderness to cause us to relinquish the absoluteness, then immediately there is the awareness of the ordinances of heaven. No one can be trusted with that awareness until the experience is absolute. I think you can well see that that is the case. The fact is that God, whatever that word means, cannot be defeated—an effort that has been put forth by human beings in every generation for a long, long time. How futile! We’ve indulged in this ourselves, maybe not defining it in those terms but doing it nevertheless. And it isn’t really important how we define things; it’s what we do that counts. We may be able to justify and excuse almost anything, but it doesn’t change the truth; it just fools us; it just deceives us. So, accepting the absoluteness that is essential, we come into what might be called the seat of government. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-temple-of-light-is-here.html]

Government—those who are participating in it probably have not yet reached a point of absoluteness, so the sort of government in which they are participating relates to the processes of purging within themselves individually. Things come up; they have to be transformed in that person’s individual experience, and that is an aspect of government—the most that seemingly can be experienced by those who are presently associated with the process—by which a door is opened so that others can let the same thing happen in them. They can accept that sort of a movement, a direction, a change in themselves. That’s a different level of government than that to which most are accustomed. So something is changing to the extent that it changes in the individuals who are participating in the focus of government at this particular level.

But you can well see that there is a government that is beyond that level, that isn’t involved with the matter of letting changes come in one’s own individual experience, because they’ve come. It’s not a matter of being in the process of change in this sense forever. There is a process of change that continues forever, but it’s the creative process, something different to what has occurred in the experience of human beings on earth. The human experience is simply a state of deception in consciousness which has to pass away, that the real thing may be present. And as individually the purging is allowed to happen, the door in the Ark can be opened so that others can begin to approach it. But somewhere along the way there must be absoluteness; then we have a totally new ball game, because once that is the fact and there is a body that is absolute, even if it’s only composed of how many? a dozen people, maybe a dozen dozen, there is the facility for it; but for it to be the truth it has to be proven.

The story about the so-called temptations of Jesus in the wilderness is an indication of the sort of things that come to human consciousness, either to be agreed with or to be disposed of. The disposition relates to the process of purging, and it only happens when one assumes the stance of the truth in one’s own expression. Then one cannot be led into temptation because there are elements in our own makeup which have been accustomed to deceiving us. Yes, there is a transition period, obviously.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. In the divided state one will inevitably fall; because of strength one may be able to prop oneself up for a while, but the fall comes. You are all aware that there is indeed something that is absolute. There has been evidence of it even within the range of your observation. That may be a starting point for something; because of that there has been an unveiling in your own personal experience of a sense of the absolute, which is your own. The truth is true. Emerging out of the deception we become aware of what the truth is. To the extent of that awareness we have the opportunity of expressing it. If we do not express it that’s our own choice, but making that choice we will not know the truth. We may have all sorts of fancy theories.

One of the characteristics of God is that in Him there was no shadow of turning. All right, isn’t that the quality of our own being? What other being is there but that one? It can be hidden by a fog of deception, but that would be our own choice, and it has been the choice of human beings in every generation all the way down the ages. But there is spirit on the move and people are being affected by it. The people are not doing anything; they are not going to achieve anything, but the spirit of God is. If there are those who let themselves align with that spirit, then there is a participation in the process. So we participate in the process, and because we participate we become increasingly aware of what the process is: how it’s working, where it’s working, through whom it’s working. But we give glory to the process, not to people. The process is the Word being spoken, and the Word is with God and the Word is God.

Glory to God in the Highest, because we share in providing the space for the working of spirit. We do it individually and we do it together. How great is God Almighty, and how great is His Presence in form on earth. We all are here in His Name. Let us honor His Name.

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