Electrical Substance And The World I Create

Electrical  Substance  And  The  World  I  Create

Martin Cecil   October 24, 1982 a.m.

Once more we have the privilege of standing together in heaven. Thus we may participate in creating all things new. Here are two verses from the 1st chapter of the Book of Job. You have heard these words read many times before, but this is the first time they are being read this morning: “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

As I have read these words to you you have shared with me in the creation of a picture in consciousness. There are some little black marks on a sheet of paper in front of me. Somehow or other those little black marks have been used to create a picture for all of us. Remarkable, isn't it? Some might say there are smudges of ink on some sort of emulsion made from wood. These things can be described in various ways, and that is what they are; but with our capability, and the equipment we have, we have been able to create something which certainly transcends the smudges of ink. I use this as an illustration to indicate the creative ability which we share; we share it with many other people. There may be those who can read only Arabic, we'll say, who might take note of these little squiggles on the paper, but they could hardly be used to create what we have seen and what we understand from what we have seen. Clearly, then, we have the facility for creation.

We are aware that all things do need to be made new. How is it then going to be done? Because some mythical god somewhere reaches down with his finger and produces a new creation? That is a very fanciful idea, isn't it? when the means by which it may be done is sitting here this morning. Perhaps this grouping is not the only means there is, but certainly we are the ones who are here and consequently have the opportunity to bring forth a new creation. We sometimes speak of the earth as being composed of three levels: physical, mental and spiritual. But when we begin to look at the matter, according to the mental view of things at least, we have become aware of something rather different in these days. The physical earth, even of our own bodies, is composed of what are called atoms. These atoms are put together in various combinations; but the basic substance of what we describe as the physical realm is supposed, at least according to this theory, to be made of atoms. Atoms themselves are composed of something presumably, describable as electrical charges and electrical fields.

The words "electric" or "electrical" describe something too, which is unknown. We could substitute the word "electric" for "unknown", because nobody really knows what it is. It can be utilized in various ways for human purposes. This is done, of course, but what it is that is being used nobody knows. So we have a state of affairs fundamentally composed of electrical charges and electrical fields, whatever they are. We do not have the ability to discern with our senses electrical charges and electrical fields. I suppose we do if we get an electric shock, but this is a very limited range of experience in the direct sense. So to make it more useful, presumably, and to make it more interesting anyway, we have the ability to translate these electrical charges and electrical fields into a world—a world which is also a dwelling place.

We have translated these little black marks on the page into a picture, but we have done far more than that. We have translated this electrical world into a world of form, color, aroma, taste, touch; and we then assume that this is what it is. But we really know what it is. It is electrical charges and electrical fields. This is not to say that we have no business translating it into the world. That is why we are here. We have that creative capacity; we can do that. Marvelous, isn't it? We can see, then, that the fact of the matter is that we have created the world. We didn't create it out of nothing; we created it out of electrical charges and electrical fields, whatever they are. And having created it, we then found ourselves lost in the world of our own creation. While making this creation—which we all have done; we have all shared in it; we all continue to share in it as long as the world as we know it exists for us—we may have jumbled up somewhat the electrical charges and the electrical fields. But the basic, substance could we call it? for sake of a word; it isn't really substance as we know it—but the basic substance of creation is in a way quite intangible, and it isn't at all what we make it into, any more than these little black marks on this page are the picture which we see. We simply created that ourselves. We have the ability to do this, utilizing the English language. Other people do it in other ways, but with everyone it is basically the same process, a process of creation.

If we are really aware of this as being so, then we may clearly know that we share the ability to create. It is not something that is unknown to us. We are doing it all the time: creating beautiful or ugly things out of electrical charges and electrical fields. Interesting, isn't it? The world, the universe, which we have thus translated only exists as long as there are those who are present to translate it thus. It could be said, looking at it simply from the standpoint of human beings, that if human beings ceased to exist then the world which they had created would likewise cease to exist—not the electrical charges and the electrical fields; they would still be there, but there would be no facility to create what has been created in the consciousness of human beings. The mind tends to get a little unsure of itself, and possibly somewhat afraid, looking at things from this standpoint. Perhaps we are in position to do so without the necessity of becoming fearful, because it is the fact anyway. We can't get out of the situation. Man was created in order to create. We might say that man was created in order to make possible a new creation for God. But then we use the word God and we don't really know what that is either. If we see how perfect this human facility is for creating something which might well be all beautiful, all functional, all living, out of a matrix of electrical particles, electrical charges and electrical fields, then that is tremendous. What ability we have! Of course we don't have it as though we ourselves produced it. It is inherent isn't it? Intrinsic. We all have this ability and we all use it without having been aware of what we were doing.

As we have come along the way we have awakened to many things. We have looked at this before, but probably didn't see it quite in the way we are seeing it now. But everything within the range of human experience has been created by reason of human beings. The substance out of which it was created was there regardless of human beings, but the creation that has emerged out of that is there because of human beings. It is present in their consciousness. It is an interpretation, a particular interpretation, of these electrical charges and electrical fields and it is up to us as to what the nature of that interpretation shall be. We might recognize that there has been what could be called a misinterpretation, a very mixed-up state, mixed up in the sense that what was originally there in the way of electrical charges and electrical fields has been mistranslated. But in doing that the electrical charges and the electrical fields have been influenced so that there is a jumble, a very mixed-up state. We can acknowledge that. It is the only state we now experience, so it must be accepted the way it is if there is the expectation that it might be retranslated, reinterpreted—recreated, in other words.

One must start, always, with what is present—in this case what is present in the consciousness of human beings; that is where the re-creation needs to occur, so that there might be a consequent retranslation of the electrical charges and the electrical fields which are discernible to human beings. We may perhaps understand that there may be electrical charges and electrical fields which human beings were not created to interpret. We live in an immense universe, even according to our interpretations, and there is far more around than is contained even in our Emissary philosophy!

But we have a certain range where we belong, where it is our responsibility to create. This responsibility to make the required interpretation is possible because we are composed of the electrical charges and electrical fields, in the realm where we belong. We have that ability. We were made that way. And  whether we like it or not we have been making that translation. The way we made it didn't suit us much of the time; we thought it should be some other way. But of course we didn't realize that we ourselves had made it that way, nobody else!—because the interpretation is in our own consciousness as individuals.

Now we have shared an interpretation; I suppose, agreed upon some of the things anyway. But the basis upon which a true translation, a true interpretation, might be made has been largely lost, obscured. Our concern has been to return the facilities for translation to the means by which a correct translation may be made, and consequently the true world once again be created. The creation of the true world requires a right interpretation of the electrical charges and electrical fields, but also a willingness to let those electrical charges and electrical fields which have been distorted in whatever measure be brought back into alignment again. As long as they are distorted it is impossible to make a correct interpretation. The interpretation is bound to be distorted. There are two elements here. The primary one is related to allowing the electrical charges and electrical fields to be restored to their true design. Then when that is done it becomes possible to make the correct interpretation. But until that is done you can't make the correct interpretation. It will always be out of kilter in some way.

Human beings have been very much engaged in the endeavor to change their interpretation, without perhaps realizing that this was what they were doing, so that the form of things might conform to the particular view they had of what would be beautiful, satisfactory, pleasing. Unfortunately, because the electrical charges and electrical fields which composed human beings was out of whack, the view as to what this delightful form of things would be has been contradictory, to say the least, and there has been consequent conflict between human beings. So there is something to be done in a personal sense, so that the composition of this electrical substance might be restored to its true design, which would then be available to be reflected in the world which is thus created. But to try to change the world, which human beings themselves create, without changing the electrical substance could never achieve what was anticipated. It would always bring conflict. And while people have been engaging in this sort of activity with the best of intentions for millennia, the end result is confusion added to confusion, and what has been called Armageddon, at hand—conflict, universal conflict, in the consciousness and consequent experience of human beings. If you have a nuclear holocaust, that is what has been created by human beings; obviously so, isn't it? even when viewed from the very limited perspective of the human state. No one else but human beings have produced the nuclear weapons. God didn't do it! The mistranslation of somewhat distorted electrical substance has produced the world, and this has been done by human beings individually and collectively.

As we have come along the way, we have begun to understand many things, to see with a new perspective. Why would this be, do you think? What makes that possible? Was it our own sweat of the brow?—we studied so earnestly, so rigorously, burning the candle at both ends. I don't think too many have done this actually. No, something has been happening to reestablish the true animating design that is present in the electrical substance, so that there might come again the ability to make a correct interpretation. As I say, it is impossible to make the correct interpretation while this electrical field is out of whack. All that can be done is to make interpretations out of whack, and that is the world: out of whack.

So there is something to be done with respect to this electrical substance, the animating design of it, which has been mixed up by human beings in their misinterpretation of what originally was a true world. Misinterpreting the electrical substance so as to produce a different world also interfered with the electrical substance which was in the immediate vicinity of human beings. I don't think it had too much effect in the larger picture of things, but where human beings are it certainly has had that effect. There is a distorted state. We have said, for instance, that the pneumaplasmic substance—what is that, do you think? the electrical substance—which is closest to the human consciousness has been distorted. And because of that the interpretations have been wrong and produced in human experience a lot of tribulation. The endeavor has been to try to correct that tribulation, which is merely the result of the disturbed electrical substance close in the individual's experience. The main body of that electrical substance has not been disturbed. Human beings only have the ability to mix up what is right next to them.

We have been concerned to let this be cleared. We have talked a lot about this, and about the clearings that are coming and happening. Well there is some little bit of truth in there. But it is not coming because human beings have applied themselves to make it come. It is coming because there is a creative influence at work relative to the electrical substance so that this might be adjusted into a truer design, and to the extent that this was done we ourselves, as individuals, have found that our outlook has changed. Human beings who are usually inclined to boost their own egos say, “Ah, now I am ascending up so that I can see things with greater clarity.” But the fact of the matter is that the person hasn't moved. There has just been an influence at work clarifying this close electrical substance so that the true design might again begin to animate it, and consequently consciousness changes and we see things differently. We are beginning to make a new interpretation of the world.

We no longer assume that the world is the way everybody is inclined to see it—of course it is changing for everybody, in fact, but the way everybody has been inclined to see it—cannot be made in any other way. We don't assume that at all, because we recognize it is a very fluid thing actually, related to our own consciousness and the interpretations that are made therein. If we think of it in terms of what we have translated as physical form, then there is tremendous effort required to get any sort of change to come. And things have reached such a point now that it really is dawning upon many, many people that it is quite impossible to sort it out. There are some who still cling to their superstitions of old, anticipating that by all this human effort things are going to be straightened out somehow. But for many there is the reaching of a point of what one might describe as desperation—utter futility; what's the use, it's hopeless! Well that sort of attitude is looked upon as not being at all commendable, and so there are those who try to hype things up a bit so as to bring assurance to people that, “Really, this can be done,” because if everybody were to accept the fact that nothing can be done, well everybody would be inclined to commit suicide. So it doesn't come quite in that way. And we don't need to be too eager to convince people that nothing can be done, because they would be left with nothing.

There is something to be experienced in consciousness, a change occurring in consciousness, and if it occurs in us first, then we have a particular responsibility in this regard. And it has been occurring, so that we live in a different world to what we lived in we'll say ten, twenty years ago. “Well,” you may say, “time marches on and changes come, and certainly it is a different world. We now have aircraft and all this, TV.” I'm not talking so much about that—although that is an interpretation, mind you—but about the way that the world is handled, about the way we behave, in the recognition that our behavior relates very directly to the quality and nature of the world in which we live. I think even that could be agreed to by anyone who thinks about it. Human behavior has certainly deteriorated, hasn't it? At least it is more visible now as being destructive and therefore as producing the world in which we live, but it could work the other way too.

Certainly as the electrical substance right next to us begins to be sorted out, put together in the way it belongs, because there is a certain willingness to let that happen, then our vision, our outlook, our understanding, changes. And we rejoice in the change but we don't take credit for it. We stay humble. Something happened to us. I wouldn't see anything gained by inquiring too deeply as to why it happened to us. Accept the fact of it. This is the way it works. There is an acceptance of things as they are, with an understanding as to why the world is the way it is, and besides that, an understanding as to how the world can be recreated. It is recreated because there is a change in oneself. From one's own standpoint it is not recreated because there is a change in one's neighbor, just in oneself! One is experiencing one's own state of consciousness, whatever that is, and as that is transformed, to that extent the world is transformed. And if we assume, on the basis of the translations we have been making, that our world is populated by others, then they will be transformed, but only because one is transformed oneself. One then becomes aware of things the way they are and the true world is thus created. And that true world is populated by true people. But it all happens by reason of the transformation in one's own personal, individual experience. One may say it is done alone, with nobody else there but you.

Behold, I create all things new! The word wasn't, Behold “we” create all things new. Behold I do it! It is only when a person reaches the point of accepting that responsibility that anything creative really begins to happen. As long as you are waiting around for someone to change, or for circumstances to change, or for whatever to change in the world the way it now is, no creative restoration can occur. We are all responsible for our own worlds. Did you ever hear that? You didn't believe it. That's right, you didn't! But there it is, it is the truth. And until one assumes that responsibility, so that one's expression is aligned with the true design of the electrical substance, only then will the world change, the world of one's own creation. No one else made it! Someone else may agree with you and say, “Yes, the world is the way you see it.” But that other person won't really see the world the way you see it, even though there may be little things here and there with which there is agreement. Never mind what anyone else thinks or says. Let the world be recreated because you do it, you allow that alignment, of which you are increasingly becoming aware, the nature of it, the quality of it, the behavior which emerges because of it. This is the changing experience of the electrical substance being brought into alignment, so that on that basis you can proceed, in the expression of living, to allow this to permeate what your world heretofore has been in your consciousness. Then that world changes.

This is the creative process. It seems like nonsense to a person who imagines that the only way to change the world is to get an army together and go out there and lop off the heads of all the evil people. Well, they are hard to find! Either that or there are so many of them there would be nobody left. So let's leave that nonsense and allow the world to be recreated in the way it can be recreated. There isn't any other way. We share some measure of understanding, at this point, that it is our own living, our own behavior, our own awareness of the way to handle things, that allows the changes to be wrought. It is never, “Well somebody will do it.” What do I do? That's the only question that any individual has to answer. If we think of it in terms of questions and answers, that's it! And no other question needs to be asked, because we're not rightly in the business of asking questions; we're in the business of providing the answer. “I will demand of thee, and answer thou me” is the attitude of the Lord toward each of His angels. You give the answer! Most people are expecting the answer from the Lord, or from somebody. Maybe somebody just simply represents the Lord. “Oh the answer is going to come from Jesus.” If there is any answer, it comes from you and from me, each for ourselves.

So we rejoice to share in allowing this experience to be known. We are not anymore superimposing on it the futile endeavors that are current in the human view of things. It doesn't work that way! So we stop being futile. If we stop being futile we stop feeling futile. As long as we are being futile, well it is natural that we should feel futile. Remember that, when you feel futile. Let us naturally be what we are, and behold, the word is spoken, “I create all things new.”

© emissaries of divine light

Without Human Inhibitions—Without Thought Of Reward

Without  Human  Inhibitions

Without  Thought  Of  Reward

excerpts from  No Promises!

Martin Cecil   August 26, 1979

 

How open and clear and easily moved is your consciousness this evening? How rigid and set are the patterns in your daily living? How firm is our grip upon the state of consciousness to which we are accustomed? Some may think that state is a particularly fine one, but if there is a state of gripping on to it, it certainly isn't what is required. As we assemble together, how much material is there freed up, already free because you have the experience of already being free in the expression of spirit before we assembled? From my observation there are many rather stiff conditions. If there are structured states in your consciousness, habitual ways of thinking and doing things, then these are all present, thereby restricting the freedom of flow in the creative field for which we mutually are responsible.

For many millennia the Lord has searched throughout the world for those who are in position to be moved by His spirit; most are not. Everything is set and rigid. How free are we to move without human inhibitions? I expect that if I arbitrarily undertook to move regardless of what was available in the consciousness of those who are here present, there are some who would be shaken right down to their heels, some who would be shocked. And I'm not speaking of moving very far either. But most seldom undertake the responsibility of thinking for themselves, of following out implications. There is much that needs to be said, which should be easily said because all concerned have followed out implications arising from prior considerations. But if there has been little thinking then obviously ruts are sustained and a more or less rigid condition prevails.

What is it that may be seen as being dominant in human nature? Why is it that human beings are persuaded at all to move out of their lethargy? One way that this may be achieved in human nature is to offer an adequate reward. This relates to human greed, doesn't it? The other side of the coin is punishment, isn't it? If the punishment is sufficient someone may move; that relates to fear of course. So greed and fear are buttons which may most easily be pressed in human nature to galvanize people into some sort of action. Shame is another button. "What's everybody going to think of me? They could make me feel ashamed." We can remember some words that the Master apparently spoke, "Which of you convinceth me of sin?" Who can make me feel ashamed? Who can produce action on my part by offering me a reward or threatening me with punishment?" It became quite evident, in the unfoldment of the experience, that He was not subject to any of these things. In other words human nature was not His nature.

You know from your own experience of what is offered through this ministry that, insofar as I am concerned at least, I haven't offered you a reward. I haven't tried to get you to do anything because you imagine that you would be benefited by doing it. It's conceivable that you may have translated some of my words in that fashion, but I've never been interested in offering anyone a reward. Leaders Wanted—With no thought of reward. The very moment that a reward is offered human nature is on the scene.

I suppose it is conceivable that something which has been said, something in our literature, could be twisted around to indicate a promise of some kind; but from my standpoint I never made any promises, and I trust no one else has, to try to persuade someone to do what perhaps you considered would be the right thing: "If you do this then you will receive that." We're not looking to satisfy human nature. Human nature methods always appeal through shame, fear or greed. We're not in the business of making promises. We're seeking those who have integrity, who are concerned to do the right thing regardless. I'm not interested in anyone else. Are you? I trust not. Sometimes it takes a person quite a little while to get around to letting that be absolute in his own experience.

Can the spirit of God come and find everything available in us? What do you think would happen if that were actually so? Maybe we shouldn't speculate, but I think we are aware that something remarkable would happen, because we at least have some experience of what does happen when the spirit of God finds a little bit of flexibility someplace in us and we are caused to move, relinquishing rigidities. If we are anticipating a reward we are associated with the wrong organization. No promises have been made to anyone—no promises of health, happiness, what have you, which is what human beings are usually looking for, rewards of all kind—no promises whatsoever; just the opportunity of accepting a true character of integrity in one's own living. Then see what happens.

Why complain about the inevitable effects of human nature? I suppose here is a promise, at least it could be interpreted this way: The Law works! The Law does work. We reap what we sow, and because we are not alone on earth we participate in the sowing and reaping of others. This is the way it is. But we can take responsibility for ourselves, acknowledging that the Law works; and we presumably have accepted the responsibility of letting the Law work the way it was supposed to work in bringing forth what we are responsible for in the name of the Lord. If we don't bring it forth then we have our troubles. But even if we do bring it forth maybe we'll have our troubles too. Did you ever think of that? This is the idea of reward, isn't it: "Well if we do the right thing, everything will work out just the way it should." How do you know how it should work out? Of course that interpretation is saying, "Its going to work out so nice for me"—reward for being good. But no such promises have ever been made.

Those who come on earth to accomplish the Divine Purpose are not looking for a reward for themselves. They're not looking for a reward for anyone on earth. They are seeking to return what has been stolen from the Lord to the Lord. Are there enough human beings on the face of the earth who have sufficient integrity to let that be done, who are not feathering their own nests in one way or another?

If at times we get ourselves into trouble, we get sick perhaps; we may say, "Well what have I been doing wrong?" Is that the way to look at it do you think? If those who are genuinely seeking to do what they're on earth to do get sick in the outworking of things, the question is: How is that going to be handled to allow the greatest blessing to be brought forth because of the circumstance? Would you take the attitude that if you are functioning the way you should be to do what you are here on earth to do in the world the way it is, you would never get sick, you'd never have any troubles? It seems to me the Master ran into a little trouble along the way. No such promise has ever been given.

All that has been said is that we should learn to take it as it comes. Let us not judge what comes. Let us learn to take it, handle it the way it should be handled, even when it comes close to home. Job gave a beautiful example in all this: "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” I will not violate my integrity no matter what comes. Can we say that? How much does it take now, to cause any one of us to violate our integrity? Sometimes seemingly not much. When the prince of this world comes, as he does daily, what does he find? No reward. No fear of punishment. But whatever is the fact now needs to be accepted now. Handle the situation rightly now, without shame, without fear and without expectation of a reward.

There is a prayer that was supposed to have issued from the lips of the Master, that this cup might "pass from me."  I'm very doubtful if that's what He said. He wasn't self-centered. He was looking at the events that were coming upon the world because of what was being set in motion then. These events have been coming upon the world ever since and it seems nowadays they are building up in a crescendo. That wasn't a very happy outlook insofar as the Master was concerned; He wasn't thinking of Himself. He was thinking of humanity. Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. This was His attitude, and He knew that what was being done to Him was being done to the whole human race. The whole human race has been suffering the consequences since and will certainly suffer them increasingly in the days to come. We can't complain about it. What has been sown must be reaped. Are we men and women enough to take the responsibility and to accept what is needful now because we do take that responsibility?

If this is so for those who provide the essences of leadership then it is so for everybody else too. Let us not expect something to be delivered to us on a platter so that we don't have to do any thinking, whoever we may be—thinking on the basis of this movement of the spirit of God; being alert and aware, with increased understanding, that we may be accounted of value on earth. And don't imagine that your value is in what you think you can do in the external sense. What you do may be of value if you know your value, but don't try to know your value from what you think you can do. That isn't your value. The value is in God. The value is in Being. The value is in the One who says the words "I am." If you can say the words "I am," and speak truly, then you may also speak the words "I will" or "I can" or whatever. But you can't speak those latter words until you are first capable of saying "I am." So don't build up your ego by all the things you imagine you can do, even the spiritual things you imagine you can do. The one question that needs to be answered is: Can you say, and speak truly, "I am"? If you can't say that then you have no value to give to what you do. Value is in being, and that value in being is transmitted into achieving, but the achieving never gives anyone value of itself. It may reveal the value of being, that's all. So let us be intelligent in our approach to these things. All value is in Lord God Almighty. Holy, holy, holy.

© emissaries of divine light

Openhearted Response — Key To Intelligence

Openhearted  Response

Key  To  Intelligence

Martin Cecil   October 10, 1982

One could ask the question: Is it really safe tor human beings anywhere or everywhere to open their hearts to the sounding of the Tone on earth? Will that Tone be sustained? We may sound that Tone now in a collective sense and there may be response thereto in a collective sense. There is a particular focus of something here because we are together in person. Radiation occurs and response comes again. When the bread is cast upon the waters it may return after many days; it is not anticipated that it will be an immediate thing. Will there be a collective place to which that response can return? We have a sense of cohesion and unification when we are together like this and there undoubtedly is such a sense when we are geographically separated, but how consistent are we as individuals in sustaining the Tone when we are not together in person? It must be so sustained if there is to be a continuing consistency of collectiveness. If the radiation goes forth by reason of a collective body it will return to that collective body. If upon the return there is nothing there, then the cycle is aborted and what was set in motion ceases. So, regardless of where we may happen to be and what we may happen to be doing, the consistent sounding of the Tone individually is vitally important, because consequently it is sounding collectively and there is a place for the collective response to return to. As we are aware of this we are concerned to sustain this collective sounding of the Tone. And it doesn’t only relate to this grouping here. In this moment it relates to this grouping here because that’s what is here now that we are dealing with, but there is a larger collective radiation occurring also. So this Tone needs to be sustained in the larger sense as well, so that there is on earth a place toward which human hearts may open with safety.

What is happening is happening subconsciously; we may say, the collective response which returns is subconscious. But we are conscious of what we are doing. There must be this conscious focus for the sounding of the Tone and for the receiving of the response to it. Because we are conscious of these things it obviously is our inevitable responsibility. So we are concerned always to be on hand with the Tone sustained and a delighted willingness to receive what comes back in response thereto. As I say, this, insofar as the returning cycle is concerned and those who participate in it, is an unconscious thing.

There has been some thought given to the matter of various peoples of the world who were supposed to be representing the subconscious mind of humanity and other people who supposedly represent the conscious mind of humanity. I think we can forget about that, this evening anyway, and begin to recognize in a more practical way that all of us sitting here necessarily have as our equipment both conscious and subconscious minds. We wouldn’t be very effective if somehow or other we could separate them. The amnesia victim tends to find a condition of this nature and it is somewhat unhinging. The subconscious mind is a most necessary part of our equipment, as is the conscious. We have noted that the conscious is less in volume than the subconscious mind. It is more of a skin on the surface, with a very great deal underneath in the subconscious sense.

As our own individual subconscious minds and hearts have opened toward the Tone, we have experienced a loosening up of the structures that were already present in the subconscious mind. I’m sure all of you could testify to that fact. It is indicated very particularly because of the different outlook you have toward what is going on around you. Your attitude is changed somewhat from what is generally the case with human beings everywhere. There is a new awareness. This couldn’t happen if the already existing structures in our subconscious minds had not begun to dissolve so that the substance contained in those structures was freed up. Being freed up it was available to take form in a new way, by reason of the activation of the spirit. And it is because of this that we see things in new ways. The structures of old were largely dead structures. If they had any life at all it was because we ourselves momentarily gave them a little life. Something rose up into the conscious mind out of the subconscious structures and we injected a little life into it. But when structures are brought forth by the action of spirit they are living structures. And that is quite different, because one of the hallmarks of a living structure is constant change. It will not stay in the same form for very long. We have all experienced this ourselves during the course of our presence on earth. We have all found these changes occurring. In the human state of affairs it is usually a downgrading change. We are more interested in letting it be turned around so that there might be life and life more abundantly. We have our own subconscious minds in which something has been occurring—rather fixed hereditary structures have, in some degree at least, been dissolving. To the extent that this has been so, there has been some substance available then to take form according to the requirements of the truth, the spirit in the moment.

Most people tend to have structures which they carry around with them, not only in their subconscious minds but in the notes that they feel necessary to enable them to come up here, for instance, to this lectern, in order to say something that is presumably to have some meaning and impact. I do not say that notes may not be useful or valid for a while, but sooner or later it is necessary, as the structures already present dissolve, to let them go. Even the ones that we have written down ahead of time need to be relinquished, so that we are in position to allow the spirit of the moment to bring forth what is required in the moment. This should be increasingly possible to us, because the prior structures in our subconscious minds have been in the process of dissolution, making available substance to fill out the living form which appears on the basis of the sounding of the Tone, or the speaking of the Word, in whatever way that may occur. We couldn’t do that right away. There have been those who read something in the Gospels about not thinking what you shall say but your Father in that moment will give you the words; then they came up here and were struck dumb! Well it was not surprising, because there wasn’t sufficient available loose substance, unstructured substance, to fill out the form that would appear. Not only that, but perhaps there wasn’t that much experience of the movement of the spirit. It was an unknown quantity very largely.

Now the spirit moves. It is always moving. So it is our dumbness, not the fact that the spirit isn’t moving, that makes us unaware of it. It moves in two ways—the Law works, positive and negative. So there is a positive aspect to the movement of the spirit and a negative aspect to the movement of the spirit. The negative aspect relates to what happens in our subconscious minds and hearts. The spirit moves there, and if consciously we are willing to let it happen it will proceed to dissolve the structures that are present in the subconscious mind and heart, freeing up substance for its own use, for the use of the positive aspect of the spirit. So something begins to rise up, compelled by the negative aspect of the spirit through the subconscious mind and heart, rising up toward the level of the conscious mind. But there is spirit already present at the level of the conscious mind, or above it, which is there unknown to the conscious mind. It is always there, as long as life remains. But it remains meaningless until something rises up out of the heart to give it the substance that is required to allow spirit to take form. As it takes form then we know what it is. Until it takes form we don’t know what it is. We can’t somehow turn our eyeballs around, or up, and examine this spirit which is supposedly there, in order to find out what it is and what it’s doing and what it would like to do. That is quite impossible. It is factually there; however we don’t know it and we can’t prove it until we allow all the elements to be brought together in the way they work. When we let them be brought together in the way they work, then we begin to know, because it is working. It isn’t working because of our great cleverness but because there was a willingness to allow it to happen. Now there must be a conscious willingness which is matched by a subconscious willingness.

Because we have evidence that there are human hearts everywhere on earth beginning to open up more, to yield more, we have evidence of the working of the spirit, the negative aspect of the spirit, through not only individual human beings but through the whole population of the earth. Something is happening. We may look out and say, “Oh, that’s wonderful, something is happening. We’ll be able to take advantage of this—for the Lord of course.” But how? What is happening in that collective sense is theoretical very largely, insofar as we are concerned. But there is something which may be actual in our own experience, and that relates to our own subconcious minds and hearts, and the conscious mind that is present.

The spirit rising up through our hearts raises up available substance that is not being held in structures. Freed-up substance begins to be lifted to the level of the conscious mind, and because this is happening, by reason of the negative aspect of the spirit, it correlates with the positive aspect of the spirit, because it is one spirit. The available substance then is offered into the level of the conscious mind to clothe the positive aspect of spirit that is already there and in action. The spirit never ceases to act. We don’t have to wind it up to get it to go. It never ceases to act. We may not have known that, because there was so little substance available to clothe that spirit in form. All these subconscious structures maintained a structured state in our conscious minds, because what came up into our conscious minds came out of this bank of structures, and so we would always think along certain lines.

Sometimes human beings assume that they are freethinkers. Never! What is thought always is based upon what is available in the subconscious mind, and what is available in the subconscious mind all came out of the past. It isn’t of the present moment; it all came out of the past and is all structured. So there is, to put it nicely, precious little freethinking. The real freethinking comes by reason of the action of the spirit, but the spirit can only be known to be in action consciously, in our own conscious minds, to the extent that there is substance available to clothe it in form. Then we know. Then there is the awareness of what is being brought forth by spirit, the conscious awareness in our own minds of what it is that is being brought forth by spirit. But the mind at that point doesn’t say, “Oh, I’m very clever. Look at what I now know. I thought this all up all by myself.” Nonsense! If it happened, it happened because of the action of spirit. The conscious mind needs to stay humble; otherwise the action will cease in the conscious mind’s experience. It doesn’t cease insofar as spirit is concerned, but there is nothing to clothe the spirit until the conscious mind is sufficiently humble to allow the material to rise up, the freed-up material to rise up out of the heart.

Individually we all have this mechanism, and as individuals we can let it work. It may be seen that when it is working just in the individual sense it tends to be rather restricted; because man was designed as a whole—not as a bunch of individuals in a box, but as a living, breathing, thinking, feeling, living whole. As individually we allow this to begin to work we begin to find that it relates to something beyond ourselves as individuals. It begins to fit into a design. Here in this room this evening, now in this moment, we all have our subconscious minds and hearts along. They are all here. How available they are to the working of the spirit is a question, I suppose, that probably can’t be immediately answered. We’ll find out. So there is the spirit working through the heart, raising something up collectively—free substance available. We share also conscious minds. We have a collective subconscious mind and a collective conscious mind. What is raised up of free material out of the subconscious mind can begin to clothe the spirit, the positive aspect of spirit, in form. And we share the clothing of the positive aspect of spirit in form consciously, because it is the freed-up substance in all of us that is being used. Now, I may give it form in specific words, but the words are not merely mine and what can be said will depend upon the extent of freed-up substance that there is available to give form to the positive aspect, the creative aspect of spirit in its positive expression, in its radiant expression.

From my own personal standpoint, over the years I have had available what was present in the individual sense in my own subconscious mind. Added to that, as the years went by, was what was made available through other minds and hearts. Gradually it has increased to the point where we are aware of at least a unifying body with its subconscious mind and heart and its conscious level of understanding. When I stood up here in days past—I’m sure it’s not true now anymore—there were those who sat in the audience or the congregation anxiously awaiting some profound words to be spoken which would illuminate everything. But, you see, that only could be said by reason of what was available in the way of substance to clothe the spirit in form. It is absolutely dependent on all of us, always. It is never a one-man show; it couldn’t possibly be; it wouldn’t work that way. We all share the responsibility of allowing the substance to be made available for the action of spirit. The substance is raised up by the negative aspect of spirit in our own hearts. It is present in its positive aspect already, at the level of the conscious mind, and the conscious mind knows that when the substance rises up and clothes the spirit in form. Then we are able to share something consciously and there is a creative radiation in consequence, because the machinery that has been here all along, the living machinery, is beginning to work again—creaking at the joints a little, to start with, but gradually it may be allowed to intensify and pick up speed and power as it continues to move. I have offered an explanation of something, but it is not the explanation that really means anything. It is the experience that means something, isn’t it?

In this sophisticated, intellectual Western world, most think they have to have everything explained before they will move at all. They have to be convinced in their minds that it’s all right. Well something has to be said in this regard to satisfy the mind, presumably, but not so that anything can happen that way from the standpoint of what needs to happen. It merely allows the mind to relax, shall we say: “Well, it seems to be all right.” It doesn’t really understand anything. (By the way, the intellect of man doesn’t really understand anything!) The trick is to provide what will allow this conceited creature to let go of its conceit for a moment and relax, so that something can move in the heart; because until something moves in the heart there is no substance available to clothe the spirit, and until the spirit is clothed in this way there is no such thing as the experience of intelligence. Ha, ha, ha!

As we have moved along the way over the years I have been under the necessity from time to time of pulling the rug out, so to speak, because the tendency has always been in the human state to build structures. The tower of Babel is an immense one in the past and it symbolizes something. But Emissary structures did begin to proliferate over the years, so from time to time I had to do or say something which would cause them to fall down, hopefully—some manfully tried to hold them up—because what is needed is freed-up substance, not substance freed up out of one structure to be put into another. Let the substance that is present subconsciously be freed up, so that it is available for the use of the positive aspect of spirit. Then we can begin to be intelligent, because the thought forms that appear are brought forth by spirit which understands. They are brought forth, clothed in this substance, and the conscious mind understands. That happens because of the working of this machinery and not on the basis of the usual human endeavor, which is to stuff stuff in from the outside and from the past. This has seemed to be necessary because there was no experience of rational thought. Human thinking appears to be rational, at times at least. It is an expression of logic and reason perhaps but, as we have noted, the premise has been false. Therefore no amount of logic and reason can possibly bring an intelligent answer, at least only intelligent at the level of irrationality!

Rational thinking comes on the basis of the action of spirit, raising up the substance that is available in the subconscious mind to clothe the positive action of spirit in form, so that it is comprehensible to the conscious mind; not because the conscious mind thought it up but because the conscious mind is sharing in the process by which rational thinking can take place on earth, the thinking of God. It was said in the Old Testament: My thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways, saith the Lord. Well that has been the case, but it’s not what should be the case. True thinking is the thinking of spirit utilizing the equipment for so doing, and the equipment has no more right thereafter to go its own way, imagining that somehow by its own efforts it’s going to find the ultimate theory which will explain everything. It could never happen, and who would want it anyway? What do we want a theory for? Why not experience what the fact is, what the truth is? So the only way we can do that is to participate in the natural working of the equipment which was made for this purpose in the first place. It has for a long time been used otherwise, so there are a lot of habits to be transformed, but we find ourselves participating in this transformational process.

We see that the important thing is that the heart should be freed up so that the structures are dissolved—this for people everywhere. It is not a matter of going out and trying to explain some mental concept, some theory that somebody has about the way the universe operates, or whatever it is. That’s totally irrelevant. It’s not a matter of convincing human minds. If conscious human minds will just relax, let go, stop trying to figure it all out, and allow the movement of spirit to do what is necessary through the heart, then some rational thinking can put in an appearance, but not before. So if we see people on earth now beginning to open up their hearts, that is the very thing that is needed. Of course when a person begins to open up the heart, so that the spirit has a chance to move and structures begin to dissolve, the individual may become aware of this and be afraid—“I’m going to lose everything”—particularly those who have stuffed themselves with structures. But we all have structures anyway, whether we have deliberately put them there or not; we have inherited all kinds of them. And when a person begins to feel that these things are getting a bit wobbly there is a tendency to object and try to hang on to what it is that is being dissolved. Fear! The first word of the Lord usually was, “Fear not.” Don’t be afraid to let it happen, because here is the way to freedom, the way to understanding, and the way to the experience of true manhood and womanhood.

So together we share this opportunity of allowing the heart to be opened because there is, in our own experience, something stable and trustworthy present. It should be sufficiently in our experience now for us to say that we know it. It’s there. We don’t have to keep checking it out every now and again to make sure it’s there. We know it’s there, so that we may provide what is necessary of the continued, sustained sounding of that Tone for others, maintaining that so that it is a sure thing, a safe place, toward which response may come, collectively and individually, for it comes individually in our own individual circumstances to be taken care of, to be handled by a trustworthy person.

We rejoice to move in this current of the spirit. We have called it that without probably knowing what it was. It’s a good word, current, isn’t it? There are usually positive and negative poles involved with current; yes, certainly, that’s true—the current of the spirit. But it works the way it works. It won’t work any other way, so we might as well accept the way it works. And what a relief, what a very joyous and satisfying relief, that we can move with the absolute assurance that we now know, to provide what is necessary to all those yielding and opening hearts wherever they may be on the face of the earth.

© emissaries of divine light