The Spiritual Point Of Orientation
Martin Cecil December 11, 1983 p.m.
Distrust is evident, even rampant, the world around between individual human beings, between groups of people, certainly between nations, coming to a particular climax in the inability to communicate. There is one element which maintains the state where communication in any true sense is virtually impossible, where distrust is inevitable—that missing factor is an accepted point of spiritual orientation. This morning we were aware of the creative triangle putting in an appearance within the range of our own experience. There was a line drawn upon the earth; there was an apex to that base established in the heaven. This had meaning and was indeed a reality because those at each end of the base, the line drawn upon the earth, recognized and accepted the apex point of spiritual orientation. The consequence of that was peace on earth, insofar as those who were present each end of the base line were concerned. Communication was easy and natural, but only because of the apex point of spiritual orientation.
It is clear enough that there is no mutual point of spiritual orientation, therefore agreement is impossible and meaningful communication is impossible insofar as the human state of affairs is concerned. There has been the endeavor to make the world work without an apex point of spiritual orientation. This was what was lost at the point of what has been called the fall. Human beings decided that they could get along, quite well thank you, without any mutual point of spiritual orientation. This has been the case all down through such history as we know, to this very hour, and while there have been attempts to provide some sort of point which would be an apex in which the nations could trust, it has never been achieved, because this point was set up by human beings themselves. The true point of orientation is not set up by human beings. It is already a reality; it is already there. It has been most thoroughly denied in a practical sense, and so there is division, discord and conflict—it’s bound to be that way.
We have experienced a certain amount of division, discord and conflict even within what we speak of as the emissary family. We could say that there has been less of that than is usual in family situations, but it has been there nevertheless, and it has been there just to the extent that there was a failure to acknowledge a mutual point of spiritual orientation. It’s more than mental acknowledgment that is required; those who are associated with the emissary ministry very shortly made some sort of a mental acknowledgment that there was a point of spiritual orientation. Not everybody did this, and some challenged that point from time to time, which was all right. Anybody can challenge, but it doesn’t do any good in the end if there is a true point of spiritual orientation present. One of the things that was done in the human world was to try to set up something of this nature, associated with the human idea of God, through the original Christian church—the attempt was made in other ways in other religions also. But this view required someone, the pope in this instance, to provide a supposedly spiritual point of orientation for everybody. Evidently human beings in general thought they could get away with that by claiming that here was something that provided orientation in God, but factually it did not. It was a human invention. Christianity itself is a human invention.
The One who came and revealed the way, the truth and the life in His own expression did not come in order to set up a religion. He came to provide, initially at least, a manifest point of spiritual orientation for everyone. That had to start where He was, with those who were present next to Him; and this was done. The provision was made insofar as He was concerned but was not adequately acknowledged, beyond some mental acceptance, on the part of other people. If it had been acknowledged in the true sense we wouldn’t have had these two thousand years of tribulation since—but it wasn’t. So we are here now in this situation, which is consequent upon the fact that that initial point of spiritual orientation was denied, and in manifest form eliminated. The net result was that there was no spiritual point of orientation anymore on earth. Evidently the disciples endeavored to pick up the pieces, but they still found themselves incapable of providing a unified point of spiritual orientation. It wasn’t long before they were all at sixes and sevens with each other—the common human habit. So someone along the way later thought up the idea of establishing a church and a religion which would indeed be universal—but it was humanly invented and humanly set up, based in earthly heredity, the heredity that came down from the disciples. It came out of the past, in other words. Some may have claimed that it originated with Jesus—some of it did perhaps—but if something is oriented in the past it’s not real.
Your spiritual orientation is always of the present. There is no valid spiritual orientation which can be gleaned out of the past. It must be in the present—it’s the only time that spirit is present after all. It’s present now. It’s present in this now. It may have been present in that now, but that now is not this now. So it must be in this now. We recognize this and acknowledge the necessity of spiritual orientation now. We ourselves recognize that necessity, and over the years there has been the development of a certain trust in what was made available in this regard. The trust has been sufficient to allow for the experience of friendship which we now have, not only between you and me but between all of us.
Spiritual orientation is the one ingredient that is essential to peace on earth. “Peace on earth, goodwill to men.” But how? Well, “Glory to God in the highest.” We know that. Glory to God in the highest. In other words there is a high point, a spiritual point, which only has meaning when it is in expression within the range of our experience. There always has been a spiritual high point, obviously so, and people have tried to worship that high point somehow by seeing it above, wherever “above” is; but everybody had a different idea about it. It only begins to become real when it is in expression within the range of human experience. It was real by reason of Jesus. That reality has been at work within the range of human consciousness ever since, at work subconsciously—because the conscious ideas that people had about it were for the birds! It’s a good way of describing what has happened with all the mishmash of Christian doctrine, humanly invented. We would say, “Forget it!” Well most people can’t forget it, at least not right away, because it’s built into their very genes. But gradually there needs to be a relinquishment, and we have found this to be occurring in ourselves. It’s not merely a Christian thing either. It relates to all human beings everywhere. Everybody has so much to relinquish, and nobody is going to do it in one fell swoop.
It may be done to the extent that there is factually present a spiritual point of orientation which would always prove itself out as to whether it was trustworthy or not. From the standpoint of what has been occurring in our own program it has taken fifty years for the spiritual point of orientation to be sufficiently accepted as being trustworthy, that there might be orientation ever more fully in it. There are those who think of that in terms of orientation in a person. It isn’t orientation in a person, it’s orientation in the truth—but there must be a person on hand who reveals that truth. If there is no person on hand to reveal that truth, nobody can orient to the truth; the truth remains unknown. This is the way it works. From our standpoint I didn’t set it up that way, you didn’t set it up that way, but that’s the way it works. There needs to be an acknowledgment of the way it works in our own experience.
It doesn’t relate merely to one person. It relates to what it is that is being born on earth through many. What is being born is a spiritual point of orientation to which there may be an increasing evidence of acknowledgment and acceptance. The acknowledgment and acceptance is of the spiritual point of orientation. The spiritual point of orientation is far more than one person. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-voice-sounds-through-my-composite.html] It was one person in the person of Jesus. There had to be a point of initiation, and it was initiated then. But it was rejected then, and there has been an endeavor to pick up the pieces since. It can’t be done, because the orientation must always be in the present moment. Now is the appointed time. This is the present moment for us. It isn't next week; it wasn’t last week. It’s right now! And the spiritual point of orientation is present right now. We have some experience of this, some association with it, some fusion with it. There certainly is no fusion with it unless there is trust. Well no one is expected immediately to provide blind trust. There has to be sufficient divesting of self-centered motivations to reach a point where there may be a beginning recognition of the reality of the truth that is present. Only when there is that awareness beginning to flood the person’s consciousness is there a base for trust. It isn’t trust in a concept, it isn’t belief in some manifest idol; it is an awareness of the spirit of truth. It is our awareness of the spirit of truth that has allowed us to associate ourselves with that spirit and consequently to provide a means for its expression. The spirit of truth is not so niggardly that it can only appear through one person. Human beings were designed to accommodate the spirit of truth—all of them.
As this point of spiritual orientation puts in an appearance and a line is drawn upon the earth—there is agreement on earth. Immediately there is a basis of communication and agreement, which is totally lacking when those concerned are trying to make it work on this horizontal plane with just a base—there isn’t anything there. There must be an apex. In this sense there must be three points. There must be a common point of mutual acceptance. That common point is not some arbitrarily established dictatorship; human beings have tried this out over and over again; it doesn’t work. It is a spiritual point of orientation. For human beings who are merely on the base, it’s an invisible point of orientation; but it only begins to work when that invisible point takes form. Then there’s no excuse for anyone actually, even though most do not realize it to start with. It might be said, “You either orient in the truth or else!” Well that’s the fact of the matter, but we wouldn’t put it quite that blatantly to start with. We have known that is the fact of the matter for ourselves. If we don’t let it happen in us, that’s it insofar as we are concerned; we’re through! Unless it happens in the world, the world is through. But it can only happen when there is this manifest point of spiritual orientation actually present—when that is a fact. We have noted this and we have offered ourselves to provide the facility by which this may be present.
Someone has to do it. Who is going to do it? Only those who begin to awaken to the fact that this is what is necessary. Would you expect the pope to do it, for instance, or the Vatican?—expanding it a little. I am sure you are aware that there are things going on there that are not exactly the evidence of a spiritual point of orientation. One might say the same thing with respect to ourselves. There are things going on in our family which are not a revelation of the fact of a spiritual point of orientation in which everybody can trust—but I suppose you could also say this is the best we have. We can’t write it off because there are things of that nature still present. We have a certain amount of trust in the spirit of truth, do we not?
The spirit of truth calls all things to remembrance and allows for the purifying of the waters of human consciousness, the waters which symbolize the substance of consciousness, both at the level of self-consciousness and below that level. The purification is needed. A centering in the spirit of truth makes that possible. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/11/art-thou-master-of-israel.html] Birth must be of water—not only of water but of the spirit. Well the spirit is the spirit of truth. As this purification occurs, so that there begins to be something stable and factually trustworthy, then it is safe to allow an intensification of fire. The fire is the next step, isn’t it? The fire isn’t safe—it’s destructive—unless there is the stable point of orientation provided by the spirit of truth. If that is not there, then the fire is destructive, and we can envision it quite easily in terms of thermonuclear war—fire is then destructive. Even that possibility does not indicate that everything is not still under control.
The truth works. It’s human beings who get in the way of that working, and either stop getting in the way or find themselves being eliminated. All useless things are ultimately eliminated, and if mankind becomes a completely useless thing then it’s right and proper that it should be eliminated. We do not see this as something separate from our own human experience—we’re part of that too. We need to reach a point where we are quite willing that that should be so. We find ourselves being eliminated somewhere along the way in the human sense anyhow. Why not let it all come with a big bang then, get it over with? One needs to be open to that, so that there is no resistance to it—it may be just what is needed, so don’t resist it. Because you don’t resist it you begin to find, as we have found, that there is something present which cannot be eliminated. We could call that the truth, and if in our own experience that composes our identity, then it may be said that we cannot be eliminated. Human forms come and go, but there is something beyond that, which we have been speaking of as the truth.
We are here to let the truth be present so that it may be apparent in form, providing this point of spiritual orientation for all who will receive it. There are those who are receiving it. We couldn’t have had the line drawn upon the earth if there were not those who were receiving it; and because they are receiving it the evidence of agreement is there, the evidence of peace on earth to this extent. This is the way it works. So we have the responsibility of providing this trustworthy, stable point of orientation consistently, now and in all the nows to come. Doing that, we discover that the design of things reveals itself. Here is the base of the creative triangle. Nobody thought it all out—what all the great significance of it would be—but it has significance if it emerges by reason of this spiritual point of orientation. Without that, there is nothing. This has become quite apparent to us, so that we are very much concerned to allow this point to be a reality. We are not really interested in ending up with nothing. I personally would not like to have to accept the fact that I have lived a life of seventy years or so and ended up with nothing. Are any of you interested in that? Let’s have something, for a change. So we share the truth and the spiritual point of orientation. Without that there is nothing; but with that there is something, and that something becomes apparent—the design becomes increasingly apparent.
There are points along the base all over the place who mutually accept the spiritual point of orientation. It’s an interesting thing that those who compose the points of the base are the ones who also provide the spiritual point of the apex, because the triangle is one thing—it’s not three separate points with lines in between—it is one living manifest organism, and all concerned are in position to provide what is necessary at the three points. We are interested in letting more people provide what is necessary at those three points. We are not anxious to have it all to ourselves; it wouldn’t work anyway. Let it emerge. Let it be born increasingly. It will be, not because human beings rally around and say, “Let’s let it be born,” but because they can’t prevent it. And these things are happening very often in spite of us rather than because of us. I think we are accepting “because of us” a little more—we are not standing in the way quite so much. We are more willing to let it happen, let it come.
Once there is this spiritual point of orientation, let it come! Let’s balance the books. Let’s let it wind itself up as speedily as possible—a very painful business right now everywhere, isn’t it? Let’s get it over with because we provide that spiritual point of orientation. And it is done in our living moment by moment by moment; that is the only place we can do it. It doesn’t matter what our circumstances are, that’s where we do it. The only circumstances we have are the ones that are there; no use dreaming about better ones. What would better ones be anyway? No, what happens happens now, the way things are now; and we are willing, surely, to let it happen now, so we would at last gain some modicum of common sense. Sharing this, the world has opportunity to find orientation. Human beings everywhere, whether consciously or unconsciously, have the opportunity to find that orientation. We may observe that it is happening in various ways and there are those who are moving with it. Sometimes a person who moves with it thinks he has great ideas and he’s doing this and doing that and things are really rolling. That’s not what’s happening in fact; it’s just that person’s interpretation of things. But there is something underneath moving, moving, moving, and human beings are carried along with it. To the extent that they are too heavily laden they sink.
Associating ourselves with that fluid movement, all things work together to perfection because there are those present providing the spiritual point of stable orientation, those who are in fact trustworthy. Whether they are trusted or not is another question of course, but there need to be those who can be trusted so that it is possible for somebody to trust. We can look in the mirror, look in the jadestone a little, and see to what extent we are really trustworthy. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/02/come-out-of-hiding.html] So I am delighted to have the opportunity of sharing what we have, that we may be keenly aware of our spiritual responsibility.
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One Motivation — To Glorify Our King
Uranda October 9, 1952
“For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory.” The concluding portion of the Lord's Prayer is such a beautiful expression in acknowledgment of our KING. A loyal subject who goes before an earthly king acknowledges the kingship, and that concluding expression is such an acknowledgment. When those words are spoken with true meaning in the spirit of a loyal subject of the Kingdom it is an acknowledgment of the KING. It is in the spirit of that attitude that I would meditate with you upon a subject which may be called Control Factors. We have given this subject consideration before, but it is such a vast field, covering so many laws and principles, we need to learn more so that we may have a continually expanding vision, a deepening understanding and a higher sense of realization. The extent of the vision in the true sense determines the extent to which one lives. Extensive, expansive living requires true vision, clear vision, that is not limited to the immediate sphere of what may be physically seen. It is this perception with respect to that which is beyond immediate physical seeing about which we would meditate, something which to the uninitiated seems to be intangible.
The realization of the Truth brings one into a position where one may be made free to operate within such limitations as may appear, and free to operate beyond those limitations regardless of what may seem to be so to the limited realm of ordinary human comprehension. Extensive, expansive living requires clear, far seeing and this seeing is something which is not accomplished with the physical eyes. It is accomplished through the heart. Often you have, “I see”—not a matter of having seen something with the physical vision but having comprehended, having developed an inner awareness of something which had not before been known.
This matter of control factors is of vital importance, because only to the extent to which there is control in the realm of form is there a manifestation of the Kingdom, no matter how real the Kingdom may be from the standpoint of the invisible or heavenly realms of being. The reality of that Kingdom made manifest is that to which we are dedicated, and anything essential to the fulfilment of that goal is that which we not only accept but joyously receive. Resistance with respect to the necessities of correct function within the scope of the control pattern is, in fact, opposing the manifestation of the Kingdom. Any person who proves to be consistently dependable with respect to any vibrational factor of the invisible realm, giving it consistent form and meaningfulness on earth, is by that very fact a control factor in relationship to the coming of the Kingdom.
Human beings so often, even after they have made considerable progress along the way of spiritual development, are inclined to feel that the changing of the external circumstance would be the greatest blessing, and there is a tendency to look to some particular problem and become intellectually and emotionally involved in it and to feel that that particular form of manifestation would be the ideal blessing. When the human mind tends to fasten upon the manifestation of a particular blessing as an evidence of God's care, there is a disassociation of the individual himself from the Source and an identification with the problem, so that the human being is inclined to carry the spirit of gettingness instead of the spirit of givingness—and that is contrary to that which is essential to the fulfilment of the Divine Plan and the proper discharge of our responsibilities.
The Kingdom is a reality in the invisible realms. Anyone who questions the fact of the Kingdom in Heaven certainly has no consciousness of the Divine Pattern at all. The question of the reality of the Kingdom arises in relationship to its manifestation in the field of form where it may be seen and touched or examined by the human being. We realize all too keenly that this Kingdom of Heaven has not yet had adequate manifestation in form. This should cause us to be so consistent in correct function that we may, regardless of anyone else, do our part toward the development of the outer form through which that invisible Kingdom may be made visible. As soon as the consciousness of man has a true realization of that that which the Master called His Good News, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” there must be a vital, burning desire to do all that one can toward letting that Kingdom at hand have meaning on earth, not from the standpoint of trying to get into it or to get something from it, but to give it form on earth.
The pattern of motivation in relationship to centering is of peculiar importance as we examine this matter of control factors. What is the reason for the action? What is the motivating force within us? To achieve something for ourselves personally? To get something? Or is it simply to Glorify our KING?
There are two wrong patterns in relationship to function dedicated to the purpose of letting God's Kingdom have meaning on earth. The more prevalent pattern of erroneous function relates to trying to get away from something into that Kingdom as if one had to leave the earth to find it and to know it. But God created the earth and all the things that are therein—the realm of physical form—so that the Kingdom could have form on earth. It is not correct to try to get into the Kingdom in the sense of trying to get away from the things of the earth. The other erroneous pattern which very frequently manifests comes within the scope of that which is deemed to be service. The crusading spirit, the zealous reformers, tend to become side-tracked in this erroneous pattern, assuming a personal perception, as if the human being were called somehow on a basis of giving the things of the Kingdom to others on an arbitrary, fanatical basis. We see various patterns of activity in the world, schools of thought and general trends of consciousness which fall into this classification. It is definitely a pattern of separation from the Divine form. It always ignores the over-all picture and overemphasizes some particularized part which may perhaps have some real meaning, some real value in relationship to the whole, but it ignores or is ignorant of the relationship to the whole. And this specific point, which may have some real value, being over-emphasized is caused to appear either as if it were the whole, or as an attitude which causes the non-responding ones to feel that the individual is a fanatic.
From the standpoint of the Divine Pattern it is very important that we avoid anything that can properly be classified as fanaticism. But there must be zeal; we must have fire. Fanaticism always tends to move into some narrow pattern and does not partake of the wholeness Divinely ordained. Under the pattern of fanaticism there can appear to be some remarkable results, something which very often satisfies the human mind and acts as a narcotic which blinds the individual to the larger view, and the necessity of shaping the pattern with respect to that larger view, even though the immediate results are not so spectacular. This leaves the third pattern of function which is available to human beings who are interested in the fulfilment of God’s Will on earth—the correct pattern.
We have outlined the two erroneous patterns and it is because these erroneous patterns are widely manifest that we must acknowledge that the Kingdom of Heaven is not widely manifest. Erroneous patterns do not allow the manifestation of the Kingdom. They only allow a manifestation, on a temporary basis, of the erroneous pattern in the realm of form. Most human beings are supporting some such erroneous patterns rather than letting their whole energies be centralized in the correct function that allows the Kingdom of Heaven to manifest on earth. There are so many good, sincere, earnest people, deeply devoted to what they conceive to be the Christian life, or a good life, who come within the range of these two erroneous patterns. The limited human vision very often becomes seriously confused with respect to some pattern of function in the scope of the two erroneous patterns, so that lack of vision keeps the individual from seeing the difference between the central pattern and these two erroneous, or tangent patterns.
If as much earnestness, time, effort, expenditure of energy and material substance had gone into the work of bringing forth in form the right pattern, as has gone into the development of the two tangent patterns, the Kingdom of Heaven would have such manifestation on earth in this moment that there would be no power to withstand it or question it. There would be a control pattern extending into all the earth in blessing to all the children of men who would yield to it. In this one thing we have a factor which tends to slow down the development of that which God has ordained: good people, sincere, no question with respect to honesty, devoted to the tangent pattern because that is all they know. But lack of vision causes their efforts to come to naught. And this is the reason why all the millions of earnest Christians, all the millions of dollars spent, all the millions of lives lived in missionary or church or ministerial work have not brought that condition on earth where the Kingdom of God can be in actual control. The development of the tangent patterns does not allow the manifestation of power.
We are interested in the correct pattern, the one which avoids all extremes, takes into consideration all factors and remains centered with respect to purpose. And there is a Way by which the individual can, even though he does not have adequate understanding of the entire situation in any given moment, know whether or not he is properly centered, properly functioning in relationship to the fulfilment of God's Will and the coming of the Kingdom—he can know whether he is truly a control factor. The one who has reached a point of such dedication that he is willing to be a control factor no longer has any concern about getting something personally; not concerned about arbitrarily imposing anything on anyone. He loves to see the Blessings of God made manifest; he loves to see lives changed; but it is not in his getting nor in his giving that he has his pattern of centering or his own focalization of control which allows him to be a control factor. It is this point which has caused what might be called the slowness of development in our own Program because there is not yet adequate vision or understanding with respect to this one thing. It is not in the spirit of getting nor in the spirit of giving that we have our point of centering of purpose or motivation. There is the characteristic expression of the spirit of givingness manifest in and through those who are centered in God, but that is not the proper centering of motivation.
If we becoming citizens of the Kingdom, proving to be loyal, what is our primary concern? It is that the KING should be Glorified. Glory relates to the living of life. The Glory of God, or the Glory of the KING in Heaven, relates to the reality of life in that realm which to the human eye is invisible. The only way we can Glorify God is to let His Glory be made manifest on earth, and the only way we can do that is in living within the range of the Kingdom on earth in relationship to the realm of form. If we let God's Glory manifest in the places where it is not yet evident then we are Glorifying God. We cannot add to His Glory in Heaven but we can let His Glory increase on earth. That Glory cannot manifest except in relationship to the living of life. The living of life for what purpose? To get something? to give something? No. If the centering is with respect to either of these factors the tangent pattern of erroneous function appears. But if our purpose is to Glorify our KING, then we will have the spirit of givingness but we will not be in position to be carried into a tangent pattern by it.
Many sincere, earnest people have sought to give of their lives, energies, abilities, talents, their material substance, everything in various ways, only to find that they had moved out into a tangent pattern, and that giving did not result in that which they had anticipated because they had become subject to an erroneous pattern. The motivation was in the giving and it ends up with the individual trying to be as God, substituting oneself for God, a pattern which inevitably brings about a separation from God. There is not any question about the necessity of sharing God’s Spirit of givingness—but God is the Giver and the giving must be from God through us in relationship to that which is within the scope of control in the realm of form. The human being, in and of himself, cannot control the realm of Spirit, and if man is not properly centered he becomes subject to spirits which are contrary to his true self-interest.
So, the one and only means by which we may avoid becoming subject to these two tangent patterns of erroneous function which are so prevalent among those who sincerely seek to serve God, is to have one central, constant, consistent purpose which is manifesting as a control factor in all that we think and say and do, all the time without any exception. If that purpose is to Glorify the KING of the Kingdom, we are not going off on tangents. We will let the Spirit of the KING manifest, yes. We will share in His giving, share in His creative endeavor, we will do many things according to our talents and capacities, our stewardship, the use of our thoughts, words, deeds, the emotional patterns of our hearts, all of these things—but for what purpose? To Glorify our KING. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/05/meeting-my-king.html]
If we serve to try to save humanity or save human beings, we will, without exception, inevitably get into a tangent pattern. If you are trying to uplift human beings you will fail; I do not care how sincere you may be or what church or organization you belong to, or anything else. Oh, it is vitally essential that we be concerned about serving mankind by serving God. We are interested in seeing lives changed and people drawn to the pattern of reality but if our primary motivation is to serve others, help others, save others, according to any terminology, you will get into the tangent pattern of erroneous function. This is not to say there will be less service, less interest in helping human beings or being a blessing to them. It only means that the pattern of motivation must not, with respect to any moment, be to save anyone or to uplift anyone or to do any of the other things that are commonly thought of in relationship to serving God. The primary point of motivation must be to Glorify the KING. If you are letting your function be centered in the motivation of Glorifying the KING as a loyal subject of the Kingdom [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/01/subjects-of-king-rupert-maskell-and.html] then you will be doing those things which will increase the form and meaningfulness of the Kingdom, and human beings will be blest and uplifted. You will be serving human beings, you will see their lives changed, but it will never be primarily an effort to uplift someone or save someone or change someone.
If you will examine the pattern of my own Ministry in relationship to you, individually and collectively, what do you find? Not the usual approach of a minister who sets out to change you or save you. According to your response, your various capacities, in every moment, you have seen the manifestation of that which had a primary purpose: to Glorify our KING. It was because of that that the pushings and pullings of human personalities could not disturb; that you have seen the manifestation of patience, the manifestation of that which remained free of the difficulties with which you yourselves labored at times, because no matter how many problems were presented to me you found I did not become subject to them, embroiled in them. No matter how long I may have ministered to you, no matter in what ways, my primary motivation was not at any time to save you or to change you or to uplift you. No. The moment any personal pattern of determination became a factor in the equation, what happened? They had no control; no power to reach me, change me. Why? If I had been primarily concerned about getting, on the one hand, there would have been failure. How about the alternate pattern? The individual who becomes involved trying to help people, goes out to save them according to the usual pattern of churchification, has what result? It does not work.
The only way you can live a life untouched by all these various factors—the flow of human emotion, the changing patterns of circumstance—the only way you can live free, untouched in the circumstance, reaching out beyond the limitation of the circumstance, is to have a central pattern of motivation that is never lost in any moment with respect to any necessity—to Glorify the KING. Not to save human beings, but to Glorify the KING. Not to solve problems, but to Glorify the KING. Not to get anything, but to Glorify the KING.
Oh, things will be gotten. There will be those things which come into the pattern of control. Why? Because their coming will help to Glorify the KING. There will be individuals saved from their own limitations. Why? To particularly bless them? No, not at all. To Glorify the KING. So that someone can stand up and say, “Look what I did?” Ah, no. Each step is centered in one motivation—to Glorify the KING. Anything that deviates from that in primary motivation will fail. No matter how sincere, how earnest you are because if you are trying to save human beings you will fail. Who are you? God Almighty? That you as a human being should set out to save human beings? Why are the churches without power? Because they are trying to be as God. I am simply pointing to the fact that in the range of those who think to serve God there are these two primary patterns of erroneous function.
There is only one right central pattern of correct function, and the central motivation with respect to every thought, every attitude, every feeling, every word, every deed, must be to Glorify the KING. Such centering causes all things, large and small, to begin to work together in the realm of form, to Glorify the KING. What can we do to Glorify the KING more than to give the KING a Kingdom in form? His is the Kingdom. His is the Power. Are you going to go out and do it as a human being, change yourself, grow, develop, achieve something or other? Or are you going to change someone else? What are you going to do?
Ah, Blessed Ones, it is not what you do in any such sense that truly carries forward the Service of God on earth. It is what you do to Glorify the KING. All of your talents, all of your abilities, the hours, the days, the months, the years, all of your life—you are a steward over all these things. How are you doing? You are a steward over hours, days; over talents, abilities; you are a steward over your capacities of feeling or heart. How are the feelings of your heart tonight, or how have they been today? Have they been pure, centered in God, each and every feeling in your heart dedicated to the Glorification of your KING? Or have some of those feelings been glorifying some phase of the kingdom of darkness? You are a steward, not just with respect to outer things in the realm of form, possessions of various sorts. These things in form must be brought into the pattern in order to Glorify the KING, to give form to His Kingdom on earth. But can it be achieved by individuals who neglect to maintain correct stewardship with respect to their thoughts, with respect to their words, with respect to their feelings? What is it that is going to permit the manifestation of control in you?
The point is this: What is your motivation? To get something? Oh, for such a good cause, for such a good purpose, to help someone. You are going to try to get something, are you? You are going to influence people and win friends? You are going to get something to Glorify God? You will get into that erroneous pattern as surely as you try it. That is not the way. Oh, you are going to give someone something, give someone a lecture. You are going to prove how great you are in the realm of God’s service on earth, so that you can show people how much you have to give to others? Are you? It is such a good purpose and your intentions are so good. That is what paves the road to hell—good intentions. No.
There is only one way—when you are a faithful steward with respect to your feelings, so that every feeling which is allowed expression in form in your own heart Glorifies the KING, when every word that passes your lips Glorifies the KING, when every attitude you express toward your fellows Glorifies the KING, and every act Glorifies the KING. That must be the center of motivation. Oh, you may make some mistakes and you may be misunderstood sometimes because the human perception may fail to understand why you act thus and so. How often I have been brought under judgment because there was no vision, no understanding of the wholeness of the pattern. There was not the ability to see into the hearts and minds of human beings and to see the reason for the pattern of action. It is so easy to set oneself up as a judge and to prove oneself to be serving the adversary and not the KING—because the KING did not make you a judge over your fellows. And there is no room for the spirit of self-aggrandizement.
Why do you do day by day? Is it to the best of your vision and understanding to Glorify the KING? One cannot long be dedicated to that purpose and suffer any self-delusion with respect to any phase of life. Oh, you may not instantly be able to function perfectly—no one expects you to—but if you have that motivation with respect to all things without exception, if you never slip from that one central pattern of motivation, you very quickly learn. It is all to Glorify the KING. If, within the scope of your vision and understanding, your true motivation, without any self-delusion, without any rationalization, is to Glorify the KING, it will be used. Even though it is short-sighted in some fashion, your vision will expand, you will learn the lessons necessary, and you will learn to be a good steward with respect to all your capacities, all your talents, a good steward with respect to the golden hours, the blessed days, the opportunities at your hand, your capacities of heart and mind, your words and acts.
Are you a good steward? Can you inspire others to right stewardship? Why right stewardship? What is its purpose? To Glorify the KING. How can you inspire others to that right pattern of function unless you are a good steward? For what purpose? To make yourself appear to be wise in the eyes of others? That will not work. Only one thing will—to Glorify the KING. You may make people think that you are very much interested in saving them from something or other—you have had people try it with you probably back along the way, and it is possibly one reason you are here. They were going to save you. Very important they were. The important thing is: Do not make the same mistake in this Service! For if the pattern of your action as a steward over all these things in the realm of form, feelings, attitudes, words, deeds, material substance is to get something, or to have the appearance of giving something, what happens? You fail. You get into a pattern of erroneous function. Why do you act in any moment?
Why am I here before you? To Glorify the KING
Why have I ever given an attunement? Why have I ever ministered in any way whatsoever? Look back and examine the pattern. Many times you could not understand me or my function because on the one hand it was not possible to classify it in the spirit of gettingness that the world knows so well; and on the other hand it did not classify in the realm of the world's pattern of saving people or the human concepts of service. It just did not fit. So, I have been judged and misunderstood many, many times. But what is the fact? Examine it. My whole purpose is to Glorify the KING. Does it not Glorify the KING to increase the number of citizens in the Kingdom? To save human beings? Oh, no! To have more citizens in the Kingdom? Oh, yes! For what purpose? To Glorify the KING. It makes it so simple. And if one person will not come in, does it bother you? Maybe he will learn his lesson sometime. If not, he is no good anyway. Those who respond and are drawn into the pattern will make good citizens of the Kingdom. For what purpose? To Glorify the KING.
The only way we can Glorify the KING on earth is to have a living manifestation of the Kingdom on earth, with people in it, with the substance conforming to the Laws of the Kingdom, with hearts and minds functioning according to the principles of the Kingdom. If you would let your service increase, if you would truly serve God, remember: Your primary purpose must always be, without any exception at any time or place or in any circumstance, to Glorify the KING. Then you do not have to be worried about human values, human questionings, human possibilities.
You can so easily trust when your only centering motivation is to Glorify the KING. You are not trying to get anything, you are not afraid of anyone taking anything away from you. You are free in the Truth of the Kingdom. There may be pressing circumstances round about, limitations of every sort, but you are still free. Why? Because you can look beyond the realm of limitations and see the action of your Spirit reaching into the hearts and lives of the children of men. To do what? To save them? Oh, no. To Glorify the KING, because those who respond will make good citizens. They will help Glorify the KING. I am not interested in any human being on the face of the earth except as he or she may help me Glorify the KING. Otherwise, human beings mean nothing, except perhaps in a potential sense, if they live long enough to wake up. We are interested, not in saving people as such, but in inspiring human beings to Glorify the KING. Let that be your centering motivation and you will be a control factor in the Kingdom of God on earth.
Do not try to analyze place. Be a control factor with respect to that of which you are capable, within the sphere of your proper influence and control. Be a control factor. How? Not according to the erroneous patterns prevalent in the world but because your primary motivation joins with mine. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/10/passion-for-king-martin-exeter-june-7.html] How can one be so impersonal and yet so personal? How can one enfold human beings in love and consideration and tenderness, no matter how many times they try to hurt or destroy, no matter how many times one may be disappointed? How can one do it? If you are trying to save people it will not work; trying to get something, it will not work. Why? Because we are only interested in one thing, to Glorify the KING. To inspire others to share in that. It is hard, immovable, from the standpoint of those who would fight against it. It cannot be turned aside by those who try to entice us into some path or other, supposedly to help or to save them. No. We refuse tangent patterns, tangent paths. We are interested only in One Path, the Central Way, the straight and narrow Way that leadeth to Life Everlasting. It is in living that we Glorify the KING, unmoved by all the ebb and flow of human emotions, struggling and trying, untouched by all the things that control human beings, and yet in position to extend love and tenderness and care to those who will receive it, understanding to those who will accept it. So it is that we Minister. To what end? To Glorify the KING.
The KING is the centering point of the Kingdom. Anything that does not center in the Kingdom does not belong to the Kingdom. Anything which is supposedly a part of the Kingdom which does not center in the KING is not a part of the Kingdom. Perhaps it should be, but it is not. Anything which does not have its centering, its purpose, in the KING cannot be of the Kingdom, regardless of intention or desire or anything else. The central Law of the Kingdom, the One Law, emphasizes this point, that if we would be a part of the Kingdom we must be centered in the KING. And if we would increase the meaningfulness of the Kingdom we must let our lives be dedicated to the KING. And the way in which our lives may be used to increase the scope of the Kingdom is the business of the KING. If you are a subject of the KING do you tell the KING what you will do or not do? If He is the KING, He is the KING, and there is not any question but to obey the KING. As long as any human will, human self-determination, spoils the pattern of the Kingdom, we are not Glorifying the KING. Trying to glorify ourselves so that we can say to the KING, “Look what I have brought to your Kingdom. You must acknowledge I have truly Glorified you, and look what I have accomplished.” It will not work.
There is only one thing. If we would be a part of the Kingdom, visible or invisible, we must be centered in the KING, and then everything else follows. That which is of the KING finds expression through us to all who will receive. We are not trying to serve. We are serving according to the realm of response, moment by moment, whether it is acknowledged or not, seen or not. No matter. For what purpose? To Glorify the KING, because we are a part of the Kingdom the moment we are truly centered in the KING—and the centering motivation is always to Glorify the KING. You cannot become a part of the Kingdom any other way. Whether it is immediately evident to your own mind or not in what fashion you are a part of the Kingdom is of small concern. If you are centered in the KING and the Glorification of the KING is your true motivation in all things, then you are a good citizen of the Kingdom, you are centered in the KING, you are in the Kingdom, and as you function you find the Kingdom made manifest in the realm of outer form. But you have to be centered in the KING and let that Kingdom have meaning in yourself before its expression through you can give evidence in the outer world that it is so.
There are places all over God's Kingdom for millions of citizens, and it is well that all these places should be filled. But there are places in the KING's Court for those who will let themselves come into that realm of infinite sweetness and beauty where one begins to know the KING, where one begins to know the beauty of the KING’s control, as it extends out to those who are citizens or who are willing to become citizens of the Kingdom. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/10/he-who-would-walk-in-kings-court-from.html] It is well that all these millions of places in God's Kingdom should be filled, but it is so sweet to know something of the KING’s Court, know something of what it is to live before the Throne, the Kingdom of God on earth, the Kingdom that is at hand.
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Maintaining The Focus Of True Essences
Martin Cecil November 4, 1979 am & pm condensed
We have used the word “essence” to describe the reality of God within the range of human experience. The reality of God is also beyond the range of human experience. Undimensional God is a way of describing an ultimate reality. It is only as this ultimate reality comes into the range of experience as essence that we may begin to have a knowing of it. We are vitally concerned with essences. Human nature has been concerned with forms. Essences always precede form. The form is the most peripheral aspect of whatever this creative process is, which doesn't proceed from forms; it proceeds from essences. The right handling of essences permits the form to reveal what has been established in the essence.
We are aware that the physical approach, what has been termed the First Sacred School, is not the one that will now achieve what is necessary. It wouldn't really have achieved what was necessary at the time of the Israelites, but it would have then offered a useful starting point which was acceptable and capable of being understood at the level where people were then. Step by step, changes could have been wrought so that a larger vision might have been known, leading into the point where essences would come into the picture insofar as human consciousness was concerned. Of course essences have always been in the picture, whether anyone knew about them or not. We have noted how the initial steps toward this true spiritual experience were rejected, so that there was only one approach left. This required a direct participation in the reality of essences. In the First Sacred School or the Second Sacred School, the approach which was offered there made possible—if it had been allowed to work, which it wasn't—a conditioning of human consciousness so that the experience of the handling of essences might have easily come on a widespread scale. Because those opportunities were lost, then it became obvious that the approach would necessarily have to be made in this field of essences on a very small scale because there would be very few human beings whose consciousness was adequately conditioned to make this approach. For anything of value to occur there must be the right handling of essences at the level where human beings are, even though it be but by a few.
We find ourselves at this point, with this matter of essences being emphasized to us. The use of the word essence relates to the use of the word Word. It relates also to Spirit—but spirit is incomprehensible to human beings in the human state until there is the essential vibratory substance with which it may combine so that it comes within the range of human awareness. I am not speaking at the moment of the range of the human mind. The human mind has some definite restrictions. There is something beyond this. God is beyond the human mind. The human mind is a very little thing relative to the vast field of essences. Some essences are at the level of the human mind, but there is far more of essences beyond the human mind than is capable of being encompassed by the human mind directly.
Essences may be seen as a combination of spirit and vibrational substance, from the very finest levels to the very coarsest. The true essences are a revelation of the spirit of God in action. In order for that action to occur dimensionally speaking the spirit of God must be in combination with dimensional substance. The spirit of God cannot be in combination directly with physical substance. The flesh of the human body is not merely physical substance. We have recognized that mental substance is not separate from physical substance. All the levels of vibrational substance are not separate from each other. They interpenetrate each other from the top down. At the physical level there is an interpenetration of all the vibrational levels of spiritual substance in this dimensional universe. We have recognized the fact of a veil, which excludes experience of the higher levels in the present human state. This does not deny that all the vibrational factors are present; it is just that, because of the veil, human function ignores what is available for the expression of the spirit in living—ignores essences.
Essences always precede form. The lower vibrational levels of substance are moved by the higher vibrational levels of substance; therefore if function is from the standpoint of the highest level of vibrational substance everything is under control. Here is the reality of the dominion which man was created to exercise in the name of the LORD on earth, and it involved no sweat of the brow, just the handling of essences. On this basis all the other levels fell into their natural order according to what had been established for them. So we come again to essences. There begins to be a clarification of the veil of the impure heart to a sufficient extent so that there may not only be a recognition of the fact of essences but an experience of the essences. Our concern has been to let a purification come in the heart so that the veil might be dissolved sufficiently to bring a sensing of the reality of the essences. The essences are the quality of God.
We could take the human form and recognize that there are some essences present there of which we have an awareness—the character, the quality, the nature, which is made evident by the form. Judge not by the appearance—first of all not by the form, but not by the surface essences either. How deep do you think you can penetrate into the essences of someone else? Generally speaking human beings are not capable of going very deep, because they cannot penetrate further than the level of those essences at which they themselves function. So there are various levels of essences even within the scope of the human experience, and this is a very small part, a distorted part, of the total range of essences.
If we see it in terms of a seven-dimensional state, then this would relate to the first two dimensions only, and the higher intensity vibrational substance permeates the lower and always goes beyond it. So it is getting bigger and bigger as we go up, more and more range, more and more scope—a vastly greater field of essences. Essences are infinitely vaster than forms. The idea has tended to be that essences are small, narrowing down finally to nothing; but the smallest level of substance is the level of what we call physical substance. We can see this to be the fact if we look at the universe; there's scarcely any physical substance in it at all really. We may have a star-filled sky, and see more stars through a telescope, but relative to the amount of space there is it's nothing—just a gossamer. The same thing is true for each one of us sitting here: the form is the smallest part of us, and yet what a big thing human beings try to make out of it. Essences are the concern.
It isn't that we are going to take our consciousness up to some other level. Our consciousness the way it is doesn't belong at some other level; it belongs right where it is and it can't really get out of that. But it is possible to let the levels which are already present come within the range of our awareness, and this happens to the extent that the veil is dissolved, or the heart purified. As it happens we become aware of something vast. At the beginning of the service I emphasized the vastness, the majesty, the glory of God. It would be quite impossible for these puny little human creatures here to add anything to that. It is what it is already. However what it is can be allowed to appear in whatever the fitting way would be at the level where human beings are. The fitting way is what is creative at the level where it appears. The fitting way is not a destructive way. The intensity of the creative expression of the finest level of essences must be stepped down from level to level so that it may appear creatively at whatever level it should appear; and for the moment the least blaze of glory would likely be the physical level. There is quite a blaze of glory that we observe day by day, apparently going across the sky, but I don't suppose anyone is at the moment too much interested in emigrating to the sun. There is something which is fitting here at the present time.
Let us not imagine that what is known now on the face of the earth is supposed to be this way forever. The sorts of experiences that are known are certainly not what really should be known when the essences are allowed to be present within the range of human expression so that the dominion of God is established on earth. Then things would really move. We wouldn't be lolling around on the beach. The world would change in the creative sense. The first order of business is to find a few human beings who will allow these essences to emerge into expression in their own living, here and now, fitting for this state of affairs.
There is the necessity of the establishment of a sacred place in which the finer essences are safe. We gather to allow the borders of this sacred place to be expanded so that it is a holy place, a fitting receptacle for the finer essences to fill, which they will do. In fact they are doing it anyway, but not within the range of our awareness until there is a sacred place in our awareness; then there it is. It doesn't have to come from anywhere—it was there already. As that sacred place is maintained in our living no matter where we are or what we are doing, then there is always something being offered fittingly into the world around us, out of this sacred place of fine essence: the expression of God, which appears as a blaze of glory at a level where it is creative. It doesn't appear as a blaze of glory at a level where it would be destructive.
So we live out of this sacred place, aware of what is fitting to find expression by reason of our living in any particular circumstance. But we cannot know and we certainly cannot provide what is fitting unless there is a holy place, and when there is we will be living out of it; our expression will emerge out of it into the circumstance of the moment in whatever way may be fitting. And being aware of the reality of essences, we see that there is much more to our expression than the thing we do in the moment physically speaking, or even the word that we speak in the moment, or even the thought that we think—because there is something vastly greater than that. But there comes an awareness, as there is a sacred place and the fine essences are consequently present in our experience, that we are living at levels which we had not heretofore dreamt even existed.
“How great is God Almighty, who has made all things well.” We cannot really know God Almighty. This has reference to undimensional God, Supreme God. Because we are properly present here in a dimensional world we find no necessity to try to get out of it into some undimensional state in order that we might comprehend what is there present. There is undimensional God—and there is also dimensional God, described by using the word Jehovah.
We have before considered that highest spiritual substance of the most intense vibrational nature which merges into the undimensional state. This substance fills the whole of what we would refer to as the universe. There isn't any place, dimensionally speaking, where it isn't. This substance is of such a vibrational nature that it is capable of accommodating the spirit of love. The spirit of love is not separate from God—God is Love. So the essences of God in the dimensional world are the essences of love, the union between this highest vibrational substance and the spirit of love. Here is the substance that fills the whole of creation. It is undifferentiated. All is Love. Here is the union between the spirit of love and this substance which is capable of being one with love, so that love may emerge into the dimensional universe. At that level there is only love substance filling and composing all that creation is to be.
In order for creation to take place this undifferentiated substance must be differentiated. The essence of truth is present initially in the process of differentiation of the original love substance. At all the vibratory levels of substance below this highest substance the essence of truth is present. It is by reason of the spirit of truth in union with the essential substance that the differentiation of the original substance of love may transpire. So there are the essences of love and the essences of truth. At every level below the essences of truth, are present the essences of life. Here is the Holy Trinity: Love, Truth and Life in the dimensional world by reason of the substance with which these spirits may find union. These essences rightly pour forth through the substance which is present at lower levels, initially what might be referred to as heart substance. When the heart is pure there is an open door of connection between this holy trinity and the earth, the world of form as we understand it. This pouring forth is spiritual expression in this world of form—mental form, physical form.
The largeness is at the highest levels. Here is the creative process by which something is coming into the world. It is being differentiated and consequently narrowed down, brought to focus; and we ourselves have a responsibility for allowing this differentiation to take place at the level where we are. We may well return to those simple words: “How great is God Almighty,” who in this process of creation has made all things well. But there is a very specific way in which it happens, and properly we are a part of the happening. Otherwise within the range of human experience the true happening is absent and there are voids on every hand. Essences are not something all on their own. This highest substance is present throughout the whole universal creation, everywhere. If it is brought to focus at some point, that fact doesn't extract the essence from itself; it is still the essence but merely brought to focus—it is still the universal essence. Here is the Word that was with God in the beginning, the Word that is God dimensional. There could be no God dimensional if there wasn't first God unidimensional—but you cannot separate the two; there's no line of demarcation.
This universal substance at the highest vibratory level merges into the undimensional. It is useless for us to try to examine the undimensional. Insofar as we are concerned it would be nothing. It isn't nothing; we discover that it isn't nothing by reason of dimensional God. Dimensional God relates to these essences at the highest vibrational level, the love essences, which in the creative process must be brought to focus, differentiated into the various levels dimensionally speaking. We have noted how this is achieved—the emergence through the connecting substance of the pure heart into the world of creative action when we have a sense of the reality of dimensional God, the essences of love. These essences of love are not only brought to focus on this little earth, but everywhere else in the universe in various ways. Essences brought to focus throughout the whole universe emphasize the majesty, the greatness, the vastness, of dimensional God; and dimensional God is only an aspect of God.
It has sometimes been felt by those who were associated with this ministry that it was a little thing. But to the extent that the heart opens and yields and the creative processes of purification take place, there comes some sensing of the smallness of this external world in which we dwell; the insignificance of it when seen in the light of the reality of dimensional God revealed by reason of this highest vibrational substance filling the whole universe. God is omnipresent in the dimensional sense. The substance is here where we are. If it is anywhere and everywhere in the universe, it is here where we are.
As the windows of heaven are opened, or as a door is opened in heaven, we don't go through into heaven; we become aware simply of what is already present with us. The wholeness of God is already present with us, brought to specific focus in the reality of the truth of our own Being, so that this differentiated aspect may find expression in a fitting way according to the part which we are here to play. But what it is that enables us to play this part dwarfs into insignificance the circumstances, the environment, in which we play the part. The circumstance, even the earth itself, becomes scarcely discernible from the standpoint of true perspective, because whatever comes to focus of dimensional God in our own expression is not in any way separate or apart from the whole of dimensional God.
If we see relative values here, then where's the problem about handling the affairs which are brought to us to be handled? We may recognize again that these matters which do come to us do not come to us by chance; they are brought to us. The true essences call to the material of this world to come home. As we give focus to these true essences, that's the call. We have a new outlook then with respect to what it is that comes to us, what it is that is present in our environment. It is brought to us, it is coming by reason of the call of the essences to which we give focus. Here is the material answering the call.
Let us see these things in the true light. Here in fact is the material of this world coming again to associate itself with the true essences. The material of the world cannot actually help itself once the true essences are there. When we are giving focus to these true essences we see things in this way. We're not cringing as puny little human beings overwhelmed by their circumstances, trying to fend off giants. Those who have a right perspective couldn't possibly see any giants in this very small world for which we are responsible. In this sense nothing very much has been committed to our charge, certainly not when we begin to understand that of which we are simply a focus point of this vibrational substance in combination with the spirit of God, to which we have referred as the true essences.
When the true essences are here, when we are providing the focus for them and giving expression to what pours out because of those essences, then something is going to happen in our world and there will be what comes to us in consequence. We don't have to question what it is that comes to us. It is coming to us in response to the essences to which we give focus. And it is going to sort itself out: the material that belongs will come closer and stay; the material that doesn't belong will be set on one side. Maybe some of it has to wait awhile before it is capable of coming any closer; maybe some of it belongs somewhere else, at some other level where the changes are occurring; but we don't have to judge in the matter. We let it come to us. We're going to find out, on the basis of maintaining the focus of these essences in our living, what it is that belongs with us, what it is that is on hold, and what it is that needs to move out. It will do it automatically.
It comes to us all mixed up together. It's not as though we're going to swallow the whole mass, but we let it come to us, that coming closer into the fire of these essences to which we give focus it may have the opportunity of being sorted out—and this is what will happen. We will discover that we have things to do, we have things to say, we have things to think, and there are times when it is altogether the right thing to keep quiet! But we are responsible for this sorting-out process and we can only handle it when we have a true perspective. But if we have the true perspective and we have a sensing of the immensity of the essences which we represent, where's the problem? The whole perspective changes, and it doesn't matter what comes to us, it's a little thing. It can be handled with ease provided that we maintain the true focus. If we let that slip then there could be problems, couldn't there? Where we see problems there is the urge to manipulate, and wherever you manipulate it makes matters worse. Difficulties will multiply, and eventually the chickens come home to roost. If by reason of your action something goes out, it's going to come back somewhere along the line and, depending upon what it is you may find that it clobbers you. The Law works. We may not be able to connect the particular clobber that hits us with the cause of it back along the way somewhere, and it's always easy to find someone who is handy to blame for it when the clobber occurs. But that is foolishness.
So we hold the focus of these essences in the space that we have provided where it is kept holy, and we need to be willing, indeed anxious, to let that space expand so that more can be accepted into it, both from the standpoint of essences and from the standpoint of what is coming to us by reason of the action of those essences; for when the essences are present they are calling to the lower vibratory levels of substance to take form according to the design that is provided, and the material starts to wake up and come home. Here we begin to see the association that we have at the crossover point, with the true essences on the one hand and the material of the world for which we are responsible on the other. We are responsible for letting the essences cross over into expression in our living and we are responsible for letting what is coming back be drawn to us. It's being drawn by these essences, that what is drawn to us may give form to these essences. The essences will be taking their true form in this fashion. In order to take their true form there's a lot of stuff that needs to drop off that doesn't belong, and it will do so if we hold it steady.
We share this understanding in whatever measure our hearts are pure, so that we may participate in the process, very keenly aware always of the quality, the nature, the character, of dimensional God—Love, the vastness of that, the infinite power of that—so that we may be in position smoothly to handle whatever presents itself before us. We participate in the easy way because we have accepted the easy yoke, the yoke of the true essences in our living. As we allow these essences to be the essential quality of our living we become quite familiar with them and we find ourselves in position to work easily with essences—in an awareness of those essences, and of what is happening by reason of those essences.
What was it that the spirit of truth would do? Amongst other things, He would show you things to come. You know exactly what is to come when you are working with the essences that cause it to come. Your eyes are no longer fastened on the forms, fussing about the forms, worrying about the forms, trying to manipulate the forms, change the forms to make the world a better place for forms. You let the world alone in that sense; you leave the forms alone. You just let the material come to you, the material that composes these forms, and that material will be released from the forms which it had previously occupied, in order to give form to what is emerging by reason of the essences to which you give focus. Here is the creative process. We understand and play our part in allowing the Glory of God to be revealed on earth by reason of the forms which appear because of the essences that are present. How great is God Almighty, who does make all things well!
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