Gird Up Now Thy Loins Like A Man
Martin Cecil May 8, 1977
As individuals, how great is your sense of destiny? This ministry has meaning and effect to the extent that those who compose it are keenly conscious of a sense of destiny. How aware are you that individually speaking you each play a part which is absolutely unique and essential in the achievement of those purposes for which this ministry exists? It isn't only a matter of the other fellow having a sense of destiny, so that you might ride along upon what someone else's experience is. That sense of destiny comes to the extent that our involvement with the earthly state recedes in our experience. If we are wrapped up in the world, which certainly seems to be present all around us, then amongst the four billion other human beings on earth we become equally meaningless; there is no sense to our continued existence. So it is reasonable to suppose that we would feel rather futile. Most people try not to think about it, but presumably we have seen something of a vision which transcends the outlook of most people.
The voice of the Lord has spoken, and in varying measure we have heard that voice: "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away"; remember who you are and why you are here on earth; let the sense of destiny be known. His voice speaks this morning as we share this hour, to call the truth to remembrance. We may hear it, even as Job heard it long ago speaking out of the whirlwind and saying, "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" Who is it that has usurped the position of the truth in your experience to bring a sense of meaninglessness? Who is it that has attempted to control and direct your living by the knowledge of your mind and the feelings of your heart? Who is it that has held sway in your experience so that the sense of true destiny was obscured? As long as this one continues to exist in your experience, of what real value could you be on earth? Do you remember now, and in each succeeding moment, that you were sent as an emissary of the Lord into the earth to manifest and live in human form—your present human form?
"Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me." Remember that man was created male and female. Man is not just the positive aspect of the combination, or the one who should occupy that position, nor indeed the negative aspect, but both—there is no man without both. "Gird up now thy loins like a man." Be prepared to remember what it is to be a man, for in man is the sense of destiny. Man was created in the image and likeness of God for a purpose. Without the experience of man there can be no experience of true purpose. Human beings have invented purposes for themselves to try to fill the void which they feel. If they succeed they have succeeded only in deluding themselves. "Gird up now thy loins like a man," male and female, and hear the question that is asked of you—as it has been asked of all generations of human beings to this hour: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
If you have made any claims to intelligence, if you thought you knew something, answer this question. The question is not asked merely to prove the ignorance of human beings but to emphasize in human consciousness what naturally should be known. "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?" What are the foundations of the earth? This is not talking about the earth itself but about the foundations of the earth, the reason for the existence of the earth. The question might be seen as relating to the planet but it can be seen as relating to what we call "physical form," great or small. What is it that causes the existence of physical form? What is it that has brought forth the dimensional universe? What is it that maintains the existence of this planet and all that is present upon the surface of it? What are the foundations of the earth? The heaven is the foundation of the earth; without the heaven there could be no earth. What is it that you know of the heaven?
"Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
or who laid the corner stone thereof?"
Do you remember? Or are you in darkness? There are many human beings who might say, "The Lord did this." But do they know? Do they know what their words mean? Is there in reality any separation between heaven and earth, between the Lord and the truth of man? Who is the Lord? Pharaoh asked this question and then proceeded to answer it, "I know not the Lord." Apparently in that instance he was at least honest. He acknowledged the fact that he did not know the Lord. It would seem that all too many human beings are not that honest. They think they know when they don't. They have a concept of the mind, they have an intellectual belief, they might even have a belief of the heart, but what is known? What is known of the reason for all existence? Some of the facts of existence are seen and experienced, but what is known of the reason for those facts? If we are capable of girding up our loins like a man the understanding would obviously be present that characterizes a man, and that understanding includes the truth of being, an awareness of the fact that there was no separation between the truth of one's own being and the truth of all being; there was and is no such separation.
What is known of this? Insofar as you are concerned, doubtless you have many ideas about it, but what in heaven do you know? That knowing is based in a sense of destiny, in a sense of eternal purpose, in the fact of one's own being. The Lord says, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?" Are you capable of giving an honest answer? "I was there. I was with Thee. I was and am a part of what Thou art."
When the creation of the earth is mentioned most people think of it in terms of the past; sometime in ages past something happened. The solar system took form somehow and in due season the earth appeared. This is idle speculation in the field of imagination. What do we know? We know that the earth is here; we know that we are here; we know something of the vastness of the form of creation. Has creation ceased? It's still here. If there is creation there is a Creator. Without the Creator the creation is not. The creation is; it certainly has not ceased. It's here and the Creator is here. Now is the day of creation. The creation is known in this present moment. It may only be speculated about, insofar as human consciousness is concerned, as creation may have related to the past. Whoever may have been present at a particular point of creation in the past may be capable of remembering it but what is known is what is present now, the creation that is here now. In human consciousness there may be idle speculation, imagination; in the true consciousness of being there may be memory.
But what is it that is needful? Merely to speculate, or conceivably to remember? I think not. What is needful is to know now the reality of creation, the reason for creation now, the foundations of the earth in all its myriad forms now. The truth is present now. The truth can only be known now. Certainly the creative process was clear to man somewhere in the past. Man participated in that creative process once: "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy"—when there was harmonious expression by reason of the mind of man on earth, by reason of his thoughts and his feelings. "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy"—when the sons and daughters of God incarnate on earth were filled with the joys of creation, and there were the beautiful sounds of creation on every hand. Let this sense of destiny rise up in you, that you may begin to know the truth of creation now, as the morning stars begin to sing together once again and the sons and daughters of God shout for joy.
For this to occur there are many questions to be answered, not for you, but by you. Human beings are always demanding answers; there is what is called an insatiable quest for knowledge. They have been so busy trying to find answers that they never heard the question that was being asked of them: "Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me." This begins to put man back where he belongs—capable of answering the questions of the creative process on earth, capable of handling his field of responsibility in creation. Human beings have imagined that they would know these things by asking questions, by seeking to multiply knowledge, the idea being that when one has all the knowledge then one would be able to answer the questions and do what is required; but who would be doing it? The Creator or an imitation?—namely human beings exalting themselves into the position of a creator.
What are the foundations of the earth? There is a great deal of awareness of the earth and of the multitude of forms it takes, but what of the reason for all these things? Why do they exist? For what purpose? What is it that should exist in this way and what is it that should not? Do you not suppose that there are many things on the face of the earth that shouldn't exist? I am sure that human beings everywhere think that there is much that should not exist according to their view of the matter, but those views are usually contradictory—nobody knows. But there are those things that should exist now and there are those things that should pass away now. This is the creative process and it relates to the foundations of the earth, what is back of the forms everywhere around us. We are not properly dealing directly with the forms but with the foundation of the forms, for the foundation determines what the forms should be. The heaven is the reason for the earth, and there is One who is the reason for the heaven. When the earth reveals what the heaven proclaims, then the true creation is made known; and man is an essential part, not only of the creation but of the Creator. Creator and creation blend in man.
"Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" Have you ever experienced any sweet influences? There are many experiences on earth which human beings have deemed to be sweet. How much influence do these sweet things have over you? Your experience in the world has been largely subject to the influence of sweet things, the things that you deem to be sweet in your experience. Unfortunately human beings are very much aware that the sour comes with the sweet. Perhaps they may suppose that because of the sour the sweet tastes all the sweeter and therefore it would not be possible to know any sweetness if it were not for the fact of sourness. The question put is, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" Are you capable of handling those sweet influences without being subject to them, or is your experience one of a desperate chase after what you deem to be sweet? I suppose these things could be summarized with respect to eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage—sex, in other words. Certainly human beings have devised a vast array of methods of generating sweetness, synthetic sweetness.
While this question is asked of man, male and female, we may see how it particularly applies to the male, because one of the primary sources of the sweet influences is considered to be that which is provided by the female. Where are the men who are capable of binding that sweet influence? The voice of the Lord has long called for men on earth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/10/let-there-be-man-on-earth.html] The very fact that the One who came to offer salvation to the world in the direct sense was a man is indicative of the vital role to be played by those who might be classified as men. It is said that woman was taken out of man. The word "rib" is used to describe the basis for what occurred. A bone of the head wasn't used, neither a bone of the foot, but a bone of the apparatus which keeps safe the heart and the lungs—but we may think of it particularly in terms of the heart. Male and female were supposed to be one flesh, one being, a proper role to be played by each in relationship to the other; but the female was designed to keep a man's heart, a male's heart, safe. She has failed dismally in this. She is rightly the keeper of his heart, of his home, of his heaven. The male has been left without this protection. The female has been concerned for her own heart, her own home, and mostly her own hell.
Man is male and female. The female was called womb man, the means by which the heart, the home and the heaven might be kept safe. The female purpose was not to try to get anything from the male but to provide that essential enfoldment. She may consider these things, but the man may consider them also, because his responsibility is to bind the sweet influences of Pleiades in his own experience. This is not an instruction to try to dominate women. This is something which relates to men and what they know from within themselves. What is the nature of their attitude toward women? What is the nature of their own feelings toward women, and how much are those feelings allowed to determine what a man does? The world has been filled with violence, principally because of the weakness of the male. Weak people act in desperation. Desperate action brings violence, and the world is filled with violence, a reflection of the weakness of the male. Of course he displayed his weakness in the first place by forgetting his manhood and pandering to the female. That is the story of the fall, as it is called. He went along with the female who had lost her integrity, and fundamentally the male of the human race has continued this evidence of failure and weakness ever since.
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" Can you stop being controlled by your desire, your lust for what you deem to be sweet? This not only applies to men. I have brought it to point with respect to the male attitude toward the female, but the female doesn't lack in desire and lust for what she deems to be sweetness. That's what she wants too. So her attitude needs to bind those influences so that they are not dominating the experience of existence.
The American Constitution says something about the pursuit of happiness—the pursuit of happiness, the lusting after sweetness. Man was designed to lust after the Lord. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." It leaves no room at all for all the worldly things after which human beings lust. The beauty of life for man could never be known on the basis of such reversed polarity, and yet how many have awakened to the truth of this, not as a theory but as a fact in their own living? What are the things that you want? What are the things that you think you must have? These are the things that control you, and human beings are controlled by things. No wonder they have become things themselves, pawns to be manipulated by other human beings; just things. Maybe this is what we should call human beings collectively: "things." But a thing has absolutely no basis for comparison with Man.
The sweet influences of Pleiades must be bound by those who have been willing to let this experience be known for themselves. We can theorize about it as long as we exist and nothing whatsoever happens. It only begins to happen when someone is willing to experience it, and again we come back to that little word "willing." That's all it is! Most people, if they were honest, would say, "Well, I don't want to experience it." They try to delude themselves with a surface display of theory, but underneath, "I don't want to experience it," is the attitude. "I like to be dominated by these sweet influences. I like to have my life bring the experiences of sweetness, even though the experiences of sourness also come." You can't have one without the other as long as these constitute the god, the lust after the things of the earth, particularly those things which are deemed to be sweet. The sickly sweetness of what may be experienced in this way bears little relationship to the natural sweetness which comes in the experience of Man.
"Gird up now thy loins like a man" and answer the real questions that are being asked. And when we answer these questions correctly we find ourselves as true male and female components in Man.
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Evolution: Inner Plane And Outer Plane Formations
Uranda February 22, 1948
In principle, the Creative Activity by which the outer forms are produced was not a process of depending upon outer substance as the starting point of the making of those forms. At the present time, in the outer sense, trying to look back, man thinks of the forms being made out of the substance such as we have in the world at the present time, but we recognize that in the Original Creative Processes the substance of this world was produced as ash, so to speak, remaining from what we have called the Creative Fires, or the Creative Processes. Then, basic Creation results from action developed in a vibratory sense in the unformed. The ranges of the Creative Processes reached through all Seven Planes, and were not in any sense limited to the Outer Planes of which man is cognizant.
When we see that this Creative Process, as it came into manifestation in the outer form, was essentially an Activity in the range of what we call, at the present time, the Inner Planes, which Activity was with respect to the Inner Forms, we see that the vibratory currents set up by the process of the One Law—Action and Reaction or Response—intensified the vibratory function in the responding substance that was being drawn out of the unformed, on a basis that did not allow for any consideration of a separation between Inner and Outer, actually, but that they were simply different bands, or ranges, of vibratory manifestation. Therefore, the primary Creative Action took place in the Inner Planes, to create Inner Plane formations. However, the projection of the Pattern and Current was with respect to all Planes, carrying down to the inert substance of what we may call the unformed ash—that is, the substance of the earth itself. Then, the focus of the vibratory Control Currents were bringing forth an Inner Plane Creation, in harmony with the cycles that were in manifestation, and the outer form appeared as the consequent ash, the lower range of this substance, you might say, in a sense dribbling down from a higher form, which was nevertheless within the focus of this control, so that the outer form came into manifestation from substance that was being pressed out of the Current itself, the higher essences of that same substance entering into the Inner Plane form.
Then, the Outer form corresponded thereto, from the standpoint of purposes at the different levels. That does not mean that the Outer form looked in shape like the Inner form. It does not mean that the purposes of the Inner form and the purposes of the Outer form were the same; but that the formation, the ash dribbling down through this focus, was harmonious to the conditions of the time in the Outer Range sphere-of-things; and that the form received life by reason of its attunement with this earth by its consequent focus in the Life Ray of that particular type of formation. Then we see that the cycles were evolving; and that these evolving cycles changed the nature of the forms resulting from this Creative Process from an Inner standpoint; and we see that certain of the forms that were made manifest in the earlier forms, as the changes came, were no longer essential and consequently passed out of the picture—but that they were the only forms of life that could appear at these earlier stages that would be harmonized to the conditions existing in the sphere-of-things at the time. In the evolving of the cycles of the continued operation of the Creative Fires from the Inner Planes, the conditions in the Outer sense changed, so that the forms could begin to take the shape of that which would have the nature of permanency, from the standpoint of the Garden—but the earlier forms were not from the standpoint of permanency at all.
The earlier forms, the residue of these earlier focalizations, found attunement in the Life Ray at that time, according to the conditions of the Outer, for the purposes that were necessary for the Outer under those conditions when Creation was first getting under way. It was not a process of those things being created out of substance on the earth at the time; it was a process of their being created, or made. In a sense, they were not made, because Creation was an Inner Plane thing, and that was merely the manifestation of the residue from that particular focalization. Prehistoric monsters for instance, were the residue of that focalization; but, compatible only to the focalizations or conditions as they were on the earth at that time. As focalizations changed, as things were, those things disappeared; their purposes ended, and other forms began to manifest.
The forms were made on the Creation of the Inner Planes. But the God Beings were already created—they were not created on an Inner Plane basis—so that when it came time to make the form through which the God Beings could appear, the substance already made manifest on the face of the earth was utilized in the creation of the body of man. But the things in the Inner Planes that were being created provided the means by which the Outer creations were brought into manifestation, because that was the residue of that Inner Plane Creation, and the thing was made from that residue in the process of creating that Inner Plane thing, and not from substance already in manifestation on the earth prior to that time.
It was the evolution of the changes appearing on the face of the earth that made possible the manifestation of different animals. When the Creation was finished from an Inner Plane standpoint, anything else that was made had to be made from the substance that was there, because God had finished His Work—the Inner Plane Creation was done.
In the final analysis, the creatures that survived during the period of this evolutionary process on earth, resulting from this Inner Plane Creation, were all animals perfect to that manifestation and condition. But man, after he fell, still had attunement in the Creative Power, so that he changed some of these animals into creatures of a distorted nature—which have, in a distorted form, continued down to this present day—as a means of combating the enemy. The means of distortion was under the control of the individual who produced these changes, and that was, in a sense, devolutionary.
There was, nevertheless, an evolution of those things appearing on the earth—not from one thing to another thing, but of one type of thing to the next succeeding type of thing as the processes worked out in the evolution of the cycles. So while the things in that period would appear as antecedents to the things of this period, in any ordinary concept of evolution, actually they were two different things; not one producing the other, but things produced under different conditions at a different time, because of the evolution of the cycles involved.
Prior to the time when the Creation was finished [the evolutionists try to gauge their time elements on what they can see now, without consideration to the fact that God had finished His Creation from an Inner Plane standpoint] the manifestation as it would appear in these various cycles under the Current of a specific Life Ray would be very different one season to another; and from the standpoint of the same things continuing, you could say there was evolution.
I was thinking before of the different types that were possible under those conditions, the different forms that appeared. For instance, we will take the example of horses. Suppose on some day back along the line, the early part of the period—when conditions allowed the manifestation of the horse—the conditions would not allow that which would appear as the cycle actually worked out. Then, the Creative Force producing the residue formation would make it appear, to illustrate, a small creature, because those were the conditions under which it could manifest at the time. In the changing of cycles proper to the Creation, over a period of ten thousand years, to illustrate, the succeeding forms of that might change from a small horse to a horse similar to that which we have today. So in that sense there would be evolution, but not from one type to another. If the cycles had changed prior to Creation, there would be change in that specie because of the changing conditions held in a charging Life Ray. So it would appear, in that sense, an evolution.
Martin Cecil — Was there a Creation of a form for God Beings?
Uranda — That cannot be answered Yes or No. I do not think I would call it a form. The nature of the manifestation of the God Beings of the Inner Planes is conditioned by the vibratory Currents of the Inner Planes, so that the God Beings, say of the Inner Planes of this world, would not have the identical manifestation that the God Beings that the other worlds would have in relationship to those worlds. However, it is not something that prevents the God Beings of this world from going somewhere else without shedding a body and taking on some other body.
The Creation of the planets that became the Sun had already been a process in which they had participated. Of course, the Sun was not just one planet in its original manifestation. It was originally a planet in relationship to some distant Sun around which other satellites were created. Then this Central Sun became a planet, and others went out around it. It was what we would call a High Focalization of Planet Being that formed the Center of the Creative process, and then, as it all coordinated, the whole thing in this whole unification became the Sun in its final outworking, around which the Solar System began to take form, because no Sun is the result of a spiritualization of a single planet. When I speak of this planet becoming a Sun, it will actually become part of that Sun which is, the Sun of our Solar System. It will not be a Sun in the same sense as that; it will be this higher focalization until these other worlds are created around this Sun, and the whole thing within the scope of this Solar System ultimately becomes a Sun, which would be comparable to Betelgeuse. The basic starting point of a Solar System is different from the start of our world, for instance.
The God Being works through certain cycles harmonized to the Cosmos, and in harmony with the Principles and Currents involved and, broadly speaking, we may say that, under proper conditions, or having properly relinquished focalizations to other God Beings, and having fulfilled all responsibilities, etc., God Beings can move anywhere in the Solar System without undergoing any special change. But if, for instance, the God Being were going to make a journey to some point beyond the Solar System, to the Central SUN of Suns, there would be a stop, we might call it, at the point of the Sun—a period of refocalization, or preparation, to undergo certain changes which would allow the leaving of this Solar System, and movement toward the Center of this Universe on the Current of relationship between the Sun and the Center of the Universe.
In other words, out here, the function is on the Current in relationship to the planets involved in the Sun, and the God Being could work it out individually, in relationship to any planet in the Solar System; but, going beyond that, there would be the clearing through the Sun, the re-polarization of the vibratory Currents in the Body of the God Being, that would be harmonized to the Current in the Sun of the Center of the Universe and, at that point, there would be another re-polarization from the Center of the Universe on to the next Current, etc., going through those changes in vibratory rates and polarities until the God Being would be prepared to approach the SUN of Suns, because they could not, in that particular state, move to the Central SUN of Suns. So, there are changes, but it would not be comparable to incarnation, as we think of it out here, although it is the Core there from the Inner Plane standpoint.
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Flow Of Spirit — Flow In Form
Unprecedented Change
"Man, The Connecting Substance"
Martin Cecil April 15, 1984 p.m.
Like the wind, the spirit moves. We have described that movement as a flow, a smooth movement. It’s not jerky—it’s not tough to chew, and it doesn’t go in fits and starts. When there is an open connection between spirit and what we think of as substance, then forms are created. The forms which are so created conform with spirit and with the movement of spirit. If the movement of spirit is smooth, if there is a flow to it, then so it is likewise with form. In the world of form which is present on earth at this time there is a great deal of turmoil, there is a great deal of jerky movement. The forms are not at all harmonious to each other, for the most part, giving evidence of the fact that there is inadequate connection between spirit and form. The connection is present in some measure but it is troubled, disturbed, and does not transmit the clear impulse of the spirit. We may see this as it relates to our own experience. There are those times when you have an awareness of a flow occurring, a flow of spirit which is reflected in the forms of experience. You perhaps may say that things are going smoothly. Then something happens and the flow is no longer smooth, but in some way rough.
The movement of spirit is quite consistent. I know there have been those who have thought of spirit as putting in an appearance once in a while, and there are some who do a good deal of waiting—sitting around waiting for spirit to move. This merely indicates that the individual has not maintained an adequate connection with spirit, because spirit is always on the move, it is always flowing; we don’t have to wait for it. I suppose it could be said that spirit has been waiting for human beings to connect up, and so flow with the flow of spirit. Never justify yourself for doing nothing because you were waiting for the movement of spirit. It may be that when you experience the movement of spirit there is nothing to be done for the moment, but you are aware of the movement of spirit and of the effect of that movement, which at the moment is to do nothing. It is not as though spirit was not on the move.
So we have an increasing awareness of the continuing, consistent movement of spirit, which requires what we have called the substance of connection to allow for the appearance of form as a reflection of spirit and the movement of spirit. That substance of connection is related to what we think of as a pure heart. When there is a pure heart there will be the substance of connection between spirit and the substance of what we think of as form. Then the substance of form will move according to the movement of spirit. When this is allowed to happen, that is what is called the restoration. That is salvation. There is no interruption between the movement of spirit and the movement of form. The earth reflects the heaven.
For this to happen it requires the substance of connection. Now we may see the substance of connection in terms of human beings. That’s what human beings are present on earth for. They are, properly, the substance of connection between the flow of spirit and the reflected flow through form. This happens as Man is on the scene. This is the process of life as it occurs on the surface of this planet. You don’t need to try to investigate as to how it occurs somewhere else—this is what is rightly happening here. And without the substance of connection, namely Man, it can’t happen. Because Man, the substance of connection, has been out of place the flow of spirit has not been reflected in the movement of form. Of course human beings, observing the fact that the movement of form doesn’t seem to be very effective, try to do something about it, try to make the substance of form move in ways that are considered to be useful. In doing this, it is forgotten that human beings are supposed to be Man providing the substance of connection with spirit. Spirit is obliterated from consciousness by reason of the absence of the substance of connection, and the substitute of the substance of manipulation.
Human beings have been manipulating so long that any other method of operations is unknown. We have awakened somewhat to our own position, individually speaking and together, by which the substance of connection is provided. We see this substance of connection initially as a substance of connection between spirit and mankind. This is not ultimately what needs to happen—it is an interim requirement—because mankind is supposed to be Man and completely providing the substance of connection between spirit and the rest of creation. Obviously this is not the state of affairs presently, and we have awakened presumably to our responsibility for providing the substance of connection between spirit and mankind, that mankind may once again become Man, and being Man find itself restored to the position of connection between spirit and form. Then what is happening in spirit happens in form. That is the restored state.
This is all very nice mentally to look at, to recognize—theoretically at least—the possibility, but we all know there is more to it than that. We, ourselves, are present in order to experience being the connection between spirit and form now. The words “Be now” were particularly emphasized this morning when we were together, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/03/be-now.html] that the flow of spirit, which is the reality, may appear in form and be known through the substance of form. This requires us to be where we belong, providing that connection, being now. This is the only moment that the connection can be provided. As we noted this morning, you can’t really do it in the future or in the past; it can only be done, actually, in fact, now. So this is our immediate concern in this moment, and in each moment as it reveals itself as being now.
George Emery made a remark concerning the fact that I was very current without knowing it. This comment was evoked by another book in which George has been interested, entitled “The Precious Present.” Of course, that title can be read two ways. It can be read as the precious gift somehow available to people. If it is looked at that way it probably will be interpreted as something that one has to find by some considerable effort here or there or somewhere else. Where is this precious gift? Or the words can be read as relating to the precious present moment. One could look all one’s life for the precious present, or gift, that was supposedly obtainable if one searched hard enough to find it. And this human beings are inclined to do—make all kinds of efforts to find this secret of life somewhere, available through someone perhaps, until finally a person might awaken to the fact that it was the precious present moment that was being referred to, and you didn’t have to go anywhere to find it.
Because of what was shared this morning, and because this book was already on the market, George said something about me being very current without knowing it, because I certainly haven’t read the book. I am sure that what I have said about “the precious present,” as indicated in the story, would seem to you to be a very elementary observation, a sort of kindergarten approach; and yet to vast numbers of human beings no doubt it seems a tremendous revelation of some kind, that the answer is in the present moment. Such books that do put in an appearance, seemingly related to things that we have been considering together, indicate the extent of the lag between the movement of spirit now and the reaction of human beings to it. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/03/exact-alignment-from-god-almighty.html] There is some reaction, and certainly many things appear in forms of various kinds that can easily be related to the movement of the spirit which we know. But what appears in form in that way is, by and large, extremely superficial, very elementary, and is revealing of the extent of the lag between the movement of spirit brought to focus through those who are responsible for it and the reaction, or the response, of the body of mankind to that. That reaction, or response, is illustrated through books sometimes, and in other ways; but it is always some distance away from what is occurring in spirit. In other words there is still quite a lag between, and it is questionable as to whether things will ever catch up on that basis.
George is expert at using such material to advantage in contacting people and making them feel that they’re really beginning to understand something. I don’t know whether you could say that is deception or not but they’re not really beginning to understand yet, because the movement of spirit brings forth into form what is, at the moment, totally unprecedented. In all these various ways which human beings reveal, of having been touched some way by the movement of spirit, there is still the interpretation which comes from the wrong stance, the wrong positioning of the person who is looking at these things. They’re all interpreted on the basis of what already is. What is happening is totally unprecedented—it’s not based in anything that already is on the human scene of things. It is not a matter of improving the world. This is the expectation which shall surely put in an appearance as people begin to realize that the present is precious. But nothing has really happened yet. The present is precious, but they don’t know why: because it allows for a totally new stance, in a totally new position. That position that we saw has no magnitude; it is not dimensional and therefore does not relate to what is presently dimensionally understood.
We have the opportunity of recognizing these things, not in a sort of condescending way: “These poor people get these ideas from time to time and see things in a little different way, but of course they haven’t really seen anything yet; whereas of course we’ve seen a lot; we know.” Do we, really? Or do we not make our approach from very much the same positioning that it has been in the past? How are we going to handle what is brought to us? Something needs to have occurred in our own experience, so that we are not trapped in the same state of bondage as everybody else. Yes, no doubt there is something that others need to see and understand and to experience. How are they going to do it? They are going to do it when one can say of oneself and speak truly, “I am the door. This can happen in the experience of anyone, because it has happened in me.” I am sure if you are a little humble you have assumed such a stance on occasion, that “if this can happen in me, it can happen in anyone.” But it has to happen in “me” first. There are many tools to our hands which can be used to provide direction in the movement of others, but we don’t know how to use them, because we don’t really know what the direction is until we have had the experience first. It’s the only way to know; otherwise it’s all theoretical.
So we are concerned with this experience, yes, of the present moment, because it relates to something so infinitely vast. Usually when these ideas begin to percolate in the consciousness of people, about the precious present for instance, it is seen in terms of an individual who, somehow or other, awakens to a realization that the present moment is all-important and presumably starts to live in the present and therefore experiences peace and happiness. How nice. Has anything happened, really? Some people experience peace and happiness by the use of drugs, at least momentarily, or alcohol or something else. Is the objective to experience peace and happiness? Is there an objective of that sort? I don’t think so. This is something that human beings in their state of disruption crave: “Oh, give me peace and happiness! But do it in such a way that I don’t have to let any real changes come in me.” It’s funny, isn’t it how people object to having others lay something on them, as they might put it, and yet they’re always asking for something to be laid on them, in this instance peace and happiness: “Lay it on me, and I’ll thank you eternally!” And so there are valiant people who try to lay it on others, in order to be thanked eternally, presumably.
One has to know the truth for oneself. I don’t think it’s really known yet. We’ve had glimpses. We’ve shared experiences which are, in some respects, transcendent from the human standpoint. We have a sense of oneness which is remarkable in some ways. We delight to move together, to be together. But is this the new heaven and the new earth, do you think? Or is it yet, well a rather improved first heaven and first earth? We can enjoy the first heaven and the first earth a bit more than we did before. We have spoken at times of drastic change, unprecedented experience. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/03/drastic-change-do-we-dare-let-go-from.html] We’ve had little dribs and drabs of it I suppose. But let us never become self-satisfied, and let us never be fooled by the little dribs and drabs that other people experience, imagining that some great thing is happening. There is some great thing actually happening, but how much do we really know it? There is something occurring on earth through human beings that is unprecedented, but it hasn’t been seen yet in that way. The approach is still from the usual human stance. I don’t say these things to discourage, because I thank God for what has happened so far; but we need to be beyond deceiving ourselves, beyond fooling ourselves, as to what really needs to happen and what really is happening. We’re yet quite shortsighted, if not entirely blind.
The changes must come in our own experience, the awakening into the actual expression of spirit which allows for this smooth flow, consistent flow, into the forms that we ourselves make available to spirit. We get accustomed to seeing things in a certain way, perhaps describing things in a certain way, using repetitive analogies of various sorts, which tend to lock a person into a state of consciousness that inhibits the greater movement and flow of spirit. One cannot give anything that one does not have; never try to do so. But obviously there is a need to have the experience of being now, which is not merely indicated by some state of peace and happiness that seems pleasing to human consciousness. That’s not the way it goes! [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/11/divine-disturbance.html] There are many things that certainly are true, which would not be pleasing to human consciousness. They certainly would not bring peace to human consciousness—praise the Lord! What an awful state, to be functioning from the standpoint of this state of consciousness and experiencing peace and happiness in it. We’d be stuck with the state forever!
In bringing forth, in birth, there are the natural and proper pains to be delivered, a certain amount of discomfort. Let us be willing to share that discomfort and not constantly be looking for something that is nice, and pleasing to human nature. There is another state altogether; it’s been spoken of in terms of rebirth. A man must be born again. This has had certain connotations in the consciousness of many people which obscure the truth. But there is a birth out of one state into another—and it isn’t “getting religion”, as some people have described the process. People have been getting religion in every generation for as long as human memory goes back, but it has achieved nothing. There is a birth out of one state into another state, out of the earthly state into the heavenly state, where there may be the experience of the natural flow of spirit. When that is experienced, then we are in position to provide the connection with form so that the flow of spirit may take its natural form. And it will appear as a flow in form, a movement in form.
There has been some sort of a movement in form going on, obviously. This has been interpreted in evolutionary terms as a rule, whether it’s evolution on a larger scale of the creatures and plants and all the rest of the earth, including man, or whether it’s the evolution on the stock market, or in whatever field of human endeavor you may choose. We have high tech these days; this presumably is evolution out of—what? low tech I suppose, something else anyway. All this evolutionary process is seen in terms of form. There isn’t any such process. What happens is that the spirit flows.
We might see this in terms of an analogy, where the flow of the spirit is the reality of which a moving picture is being made. In the moving picture it’s a process of photography frame-by-frame. Each frame represents the flow that has been occurring in the reality. In this analogy we’re looking at the reality of spirit—the flow is there. It’s not frame-by-frame. In our own experience in living we haven’t thought of it as being frame-by-frame. It’s been a movement. From the standpoint of spirit there is a flow. But from the standpoint of form it is as though it was frame-by-frame. The flow of the spirit creates the form. Of course when you run the film through the projector it gives the appearance of movement. It looks as though there’s something really happening there. And most people believe it. Their emotions are affected, they’re exhilarated, or they’re weeping, or they’re whatever. It seems so real!
Well that’s the way things are in the world of form. The form puts in an appearance because something happened in spirit. The connection was faulty, the substance was distorted, so the form that puts in an appearance is not an accurate reflection of what happened in spirit. But it is that reflection. It is a frame, and one frame doesn’t lead to the next frame. The next frame is what happened in spirit, reflected in form. The flow that is happening in spirit is reflected in form frame-by-frame. And the flow of the frames makes it appear as though there were some sort of evolutionary process going on in form. It isn’t! There is a creative process—something is going on in spirit. There is a flow, and this is reflected, in a distorted fashion at the moment, in form. And one form seems to lead to another form, and you have a picture. Oh, what fun! a moving picture. But a moving picture is only a reflection, frame-by-frame, of what was happening in the reality of spirit.
We are concerned with the flow of spirit; that’s where the movement is. And spirit isn’t evolving. Spirit is merely moving in a creative way, and because it is moving in a creative way, when it comes out in form it looks like creation. So everybody studies what has come out in form, looks at it so carefully to try to figure out why one form leads to the next form. It doesn’t! This relates very specifically to the theory of evolution: trying to make some sort of ape turn into a man along the way; one form has an effect on the next form and the next form and the next form. But it isn’t that at all. The forms are simply a reflection of something that has been going on in spirit, and because the connecting medium has been all disturbed and distorted it comes out in very peculiar ways which are more or less incomprehensible, because it’s not a true reflection, it’s not the real thing. It’s a distorted world in which we live, because of the lack of the connecting substance.
Well we are here to provide that connecting substance, as individuals and together, so that the flow of spirit may be reflected in the forms. But we do not see one form as leading to the next form. The movement is impelled by spirit, and it is impelled accurately when there is clear connecting substance, when there are clear human beings on hand to let it happen. We have the responsibility of being clear because we are now, and not caught up in our emotional reactions to past and future anymore, so that the distorted substance drains away. Then there is something clear on hand through which spirit flows unhindered, bringing forth, frame-by-frame, the forms that are necessary.
We do not anticipate that this form is going to lead to that one, necessarily. That’s what human beings are always doing, isn’t it?—trying to figure out what’s going to happen next. We don’t need to figure it out, just let the spirit flow in one’s own experience and expression, and everything will be as it should be. It will be a reflection of that flow in form. And we are here to let this happen. This is the process of resurrection, the process of salvation, of restoration, whatever word is used to describe it. And we are necessary to it, because Man was created to be the connecting substance, now, between spirit and form.
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