We are here to worship God, not according to the doctrines of men as to the procedure that should be followed but factually to do it. Worship of God is essential if there is to be once more the connecting link between invisible, undimensional God and the dimensional world for which as human beings we properly have responsibility. This right connection requires human beings. Man was created for this purpose.
For a long time there has been no such connecting link insofar as human consciousness is concerned. There has been a factual connection, or human beings would have long since ceased to exist, but this connection should be understood consciously by human beings and participated in intelligently. This which is restoration doesn’t just happen by some sort of chance; it requires a certain kind of action based in a particular attitude on the part of those concerned. I have summarized this as a point of focus this evening by saying that we are here to worship God. This is the action that is required and it occurs when there is a right attitude. It doesn’t occur because we participate in some sort of formal procedure, whatever that might be, perhaps kneeling at the required moment, bowing seven times maybe, whatever might be thought up by the human mind as efficacious in this regard. It simply requires that there be the actual experience of worshiping God. We worship God together.
The purpose of worshiping God is to reestablish the essential connecting link. Perhaps we could call it the first link in a chain, but if the first link is not there none of the others could do much good. The first link is this of worshiping God, which allows for the establishment of our connection upward. Using the word upward here is a symbol. It doesn’t mean that we cast our eyes up to the ceiling. As we have noted before, there are those who might say inward. Well we don’t try to reverse our eyeballs either! We have some awareness of the symbol of the creative triangle. We recognize that this is a symbol, so that we are not wedded to the symbol, but we need to experience whatever it is that this symbol symbolizes. In order to help us toward this experience the symbol may be useful, but the experience is not that of a triangle. The triangle simply is a symbol that illustrates something insofar as our present state of consciousness is concerned. It may be said to turn us in the right direction.
This triangle, as we have noted before, in order to become a reality must have a base. However a base alone certainly is not a triangle. It may give promise of a triangle but it is not one until there is an apex. We recognize that the apex is already a reality. The problem has not been with the apex. The apex is at the point where the dimensional world touches the undimensional state, and here again we are using words to symbolize, to describe, something or other. The apex, in other words, of this potential triangle merges into the undimensional realm, the realm of God. The word God is a symbol too. Let’s not get hooked one way or another on the symbol. We are here to worship God, thereby becoming aware of the reality symbolized by the word. The apex, then, or what is to be the apex of a triangle, is already a reality; it is already present. The problem has not been with the apex but rather with the base. There is a base when there are two points between which a line may be drawn, but this will only become the base of a triangle if each of these two points is connected by a line to the apex.
In order for the initiation of the development of what is symbolized by this triangle there must be a projected point somehow in the dimensional world connected to what is to be the invisible apex of the emergent triangle. There is a line of connection, in other words, between that apex point and a point on earth. That line of connection may be said to represent various things, response for instance, response on the part of the point on earth toward the apex, and also radiation on the part of the apex toward that point on earth, so that a line of connection may be drawn. However, as has been noted before, merely to have these two points does not yet achieve very much. It tends to be a little unstable insofar as the point on earth is concerned. This instability may be described as a pendulum swinging from the stable point of the apex of the triangle-to-be. In order to be stabilized this point on earth requires another point to form the base of this emergent triangle. Then you begin to have what might be described as a stable structure. A three-legged stool is quite stable, you know, even though there may be bumps in the floor; whereas a four-legged stool isn’t; it will rock. The stable structure is this triangle.
Let us bring it a little more within the range of our experience. Obviously there was a point established some years back which provided a line of connection between that invisible apex-to-be and this point on earth. I am speaking of Uranda in a particular sense: a projected point requiring another point in order that there might be a base. This other point emerged along the way and did offer what was required to allow a line to be drawn on earth as the base of a primary triangle. I had that responsibility. Uranda represented to me the One at the apex, the invisible apex of this triangle which was taking form. There was some development of this triangle in the sense of the generation of substance upward, so as to allow this primary triangle to begin to take form in the dimensional world. Of course it is not just a matter of one triangle, although there must be a starting point somehow. I use this illustration because it is something you are aware actually took place. There was the beginning of a primary triangle on this basis. As you are all also aware, for whatever reason, and we do not need to go into that at the moment, a shift took place; but the same requirement remained. There is a point at one end of the base which rightly represents the invisible point at the apex. The way things worked out I assumed the position of this point, so that while I did not necessarily put it that way I could have said that this then was my ministry, just as I have been indicating that it is necessary for those who are in agreement with me to take the same attitude. [My Body My Ministry greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/05/from-my-body-my-ministry-martin-cecil.html]
We are here this evening to worship God. The worship of God requires the actuality of this primary triangle. I have provided a point for you and for others in representation of the invisible point of the apex but there is always the need for the point at the other end of the base if there is to be a base. Each of you as an individual rightly provides that other point of the base. I am speaking to you one-to-one, as has been pointed out before; so between me and you there is a line drawn to the extent of our agreement. That line is a reality because of agreement, and agreement is a reality because both points of the base are centered in the invisible apex. There is some mathematical principle here, I believe: Two things which equal the same thing are equal to each other. We have a balanced pattern of agreement then. We have a stable state which is describable in terms of the primary triangle. So whether it is in a service such as this when I am speaking to you in particular, or whether it relates to the connection that is established by the mailings for instance, there is rightly a one-to-one connection forming the base of a primary triangle. If you are in agreement with the invisible point at the apex and with me then you would be in agreement with all the other points surrounding you now in this particular situation who have likewise permitted the drawing of this line of the base of a primary triangle. I use the word primary to indicate a triangle with the apex upward, the apex at the crossover point between the dimensional and the undimensional states. You and I are in agreement on earth to the extent that we share agreement with that apex point, and you will be in agreement with all others who do likewise; so in that sense, while there are many individual points, they are all seen as composing one point.
This primary triangle makes possible worship of God. To worship God requires the generation of substance, pure spiritual substance upward, so that there may be substance to form the triangle. The triangle is not just lines; it fills in. Here again I am using words which portray something; in other words between you and me there must be a firm agreement, an experience of love which will permit the generation of substance to fill out the triangle, so that there is a factual connection between the point of the apex and the base. We may say that we have our individual lines of connection through to the LORD by reason of our response to Him. That is part of the picture, but we worship God together, and the experience together generates the substance which composes the connection. The triangle, the primary triangle, is the connection between the invisible apex and ourselves. Here is our primary concern. As we have been talking about these things, where did the world go? We have not been paying any attention, I trust, in that direction, because we are commanded to worship God.
“Enter into thy closet.” Well we are not going to shut ourselves up in isolation but we are here together excluding, to whatever extent may be possible in this configuration, what would distract out of the world, so that we may be wholly concerned—and that is a good word, isn’t it, holy—wholly concerned with worshiping God, with looking up, wholly concerned with the generation of substance to compose the primary triangle. I would stress this matter of one-to-one. If it is supposed that I am merely speaking to a group of people, what do you think that means? How can one speak to a group of people? Do they have a group ear somehow to hear what is being said? No, there are individual ears who hear what is being said. There are individual hearts who sense what is present back of the words. It is an individual matter, isn’t it? It is indeed one-to-one, whether in a service such as this or whether from the standpoint of the mailings which go out.
I have described these before as personal letters. They are personal letters to the individual who receives them. If a person takes the attitude that the mailing is going to everybody and not particularly to “me,” then there is no connection or a very inadequate connection. It is only so when a person becomes aware of the fact that this letter came specifically to himself, it was addressed to him, it came through the mail, landed up where he is. It was not sent to a group. It was sent to that person. If there is not that recognition there is a tendency to feel that one needs personal attention, because the individual is not aware that he is receiving personal attention. And so I get letters which are written with the idea of persuading me to give that person particular attention, providing an answer to whatever it is that is bothering him. The point is that I already provided the answer, I already wrote the personal letter, and specifically whatever it is that is bothering that person was dealt with in one of these personal letters. There is a certain amount of laziness in people which wants to get me to point out where it was I said what was required in the mailing, because the individual could not take the trouble to find out for himself.
The same is true with respect to services to a certain extent, because what is said is said to each individual, that there may be this line drawn between us, that there may be a base centered in the invisible apex. This is possible to the extent that there is a line already drawn between me and the invisible apex. Then you begin to share what it is that is moving insofar as I am concerned; and that connects you up, because it is what is moving between me and that invisible point, so it connects you up with the invisible point. Consequently we have a triangle. To the extent that there is a clear openness of heart upward to that point so that we share something moving in our individual connection, then there is the generation of substance which begins to fill out this triangle which has its base between you as an individual and me. But it is not only between you as an individual and me; it is between everybody who is sitting here and me, individually speaking; and if there is the reality of agreement then you all share just one point and there is this enlarged indication of a primary triangle. Of course it doesn’t just relate to those who are here present. It relates to many others besides. But our concern is to worship God, to see that apex point as being supreme to us.
“Glory to God in the highest.” We will concern ourselves with the rest of that quotation in due course, but we cannot concern ourselves at all with the rest of the quotation, “ … on earth peace, good will toward men,” until there is the fact of glory to God in the highest. Glory to God in the highest relates to worshiping God and the development and the establishment of a substantial primary triangle, so that there is an absolute link between that invisible point and us, as individuals and together, present here on earth. That is the first link in the chain.
It might be said that, whether in the spoken word in a service or in the subsequent written word in a mailing, the offer is being extended to each individual who hears the word or reads the mailing to agree with me. Agreement is not based actually in explanation. Agreement is not, initially at least, a mental exercise. It is a spiritual exercise. There is no necessity to make an agreement, because the agreement already exists. All that is required is that we should be keenly aware of the fact that it already exists. If we are not aware of it we do not know it is there; and because human beings have not been aware of agreement between themselves they have had to work to try to make some sort of agreement between themselves, and it hasn’t been very satisfactory, has it? The only way there can be agreement is in spirit. If there is agreement in spirit then the evidence of that agreement will emerge in form. But if you try to set up an agreement in form first without having any agreement in spirit, there will be a disintegrating experience. It simply won’t work.
The agreement already exists in spirit. As we awaken to the fact of this agreement in spirit by reason of the fact of our spiritual expression, then we know it is there. We don’t have to invent it; we don’t have to work at it. There has been a rather popular phrase, that we need to do our homework. Well maybe there is some work to be done but it is not in producing agreement. That is a waste of time. If any imagine they have to work at producing agreement they are greatly deluded, because the agreement already is a fact in spirit. Let us awaken to spirit. Then we will know it. If we don’t awaken to spirit there is no way by which we can make any sort of meaningful agreement, but when we awaken to the agreement in spirit, because of our own spiritual expression in living, there it is. The agreement is present; we don’t have to work at it. So our concern in this matter of finding the agreement is in the development of this primary triangle, the first essential link between invisible God and the visible world for which we are responsible. We were put here to carry a responsibility in this regard, and we each have it as individuals. Let us not try to duck out from it by saying, “Well we can carry it as a group.”
There is not a collective experience unless there is first an individual one. It is because of the individual agreement that there may be a collective agreement. So this base line is drawn between me at one end and you at the other. Sometimes we have described these points as positive and negative. I would rather leave those words out this evening because they engender some peculiar concepts sometimes. I don’t know, maybe it is better to say point A and point B. Perhaps we could say, even, the primary end and the secondary end, because the one who is at the primary end of any given creative triangle whose apex is upward represents that apex point, and the one who is at the other end of the base comes into agreement with that representation, and in coming into agreement with that representation comes into agreement with the apex point, so that there is a factual triangle, a factual means by which invisible God can begin to reach into His visible world by reason of human beings.
As we well know, human beings were created for this purpose: To be Man, made in the image and likeness of God, to connect undimensional God with dimensional world. But it is not done by sleight of hand. It is done because there is actual experience in these matters, so that there is some rich substance, clear, pure substance factually generated, providing the connection between ourselves and God. This is what has been lacking, after all, on earth. There has been the endeavor on the part of many sincere people over the ages to worship God according to the doctrines of men. That may have preserved a memory of something higher but it did not allow for the experience of the true connection with what was higher. This comes by reason of agreement and by reason of what we now describe as a primary triangle.
When the primary triangle is in place—and all of you as individuals would have to be in place to let it be so—then there begins to be the means by which the kingdom comes. The kingdom is first established within the range of this primary triangle. Here is the substance that can make spirit known in actual experience for those who are participating in this particular creative design. What is present in the substance of this primary triangle needs to be reflected in what we have called the secondary triangle. The secondary triangle connects the primary triangle with the world.
In the world there have been forms of government humanly produced by which the masses of human beings are manipulated. It is rather easy to see, as we observe what is going on in the world; we see that people are being manipulated, most of them either without realizing that they are being manipulated or happy to be manipulated. In other words there is a means of government disconnected from undimensional God and operated in this state of disconnection by human beings. I am not speaking merely of the governments of countries as such. We say we have a democratic government here and this directs and controls our lives. Well it does to a certain extent but there are many other things that direct and control our lives other than this democratic government. Some of them we may be aware of when influences are brought to bear upon us; others are more subterranean, shall we say. We don’t see them but they are there nevertheless.
There are those pulling strings in various ways which manipulate those who are subject to the realm of effects. There is no means by which one can overthrow the manipulators as long as one is subject to the realm of effects. One may move from out of the range of one set of manipulators into the range of another set of manipulators, but you cannot get away from manipulation. The only way that anything new can happen is as this connecting link is established between invisible God and the visible world.
It is established to the degree that we participate in allowing the formation and the substantial development of the primary triangle, which involves us all as individuals but also all of us together. Then we begin to move on the basis of what is present in that primary triangle, in the substance of it. This is the emergent quality of our own living. It is the character of God taking form by reason of our presence. It is coming down from God out of heaven. It is pure and perfect in consequence. Whatever has been the case heretofore, without that primary triangle, has always been an adulterated mixture. There are those who govern. They govern through the substance which now composes the secondary triangle, or what is to be the secondary triangle. There are those who stand at the base of this inverted triangle governing human beings in one way or another—perhaps I shouldn’t say governing, just simply manipulating—manipulating human beings without regard to invisible God. There are of course some manipulators who endeavor to take invisible God into account, but there is no connecting link. They have no faintest notion where invisible God is, or what; it is simply in the realm of imagination. To come out of the realm of imagination there must be the primary triangle; there must be that connecting link. Then whatever is reflected in that primary triangle is known. It is part of our spiritual expression.
Here we see the picture that was portrayed of the war in heaven between the dragon and his angels and Michael and his Angels. Michael and his Angels are a way of describing the base of the primary triangle: the primary point here designated as Michael; and his angels, all the secondary points of the base of the triangle which makes possible the connection with invisible God. Our connection is of course specifically with the One who represents invisible God to us. We speak of Him as the Lord, the LORD of Lords perhaps, but there is this one point of apex insofar as we are concerned, which makes possible a connection with all that God is.
There are those who are standing on the base of the secondary triangle, or the inverted triangle—it isn’t yet the secondary triangle—extending control through what is to be the secondary triangle, into the world and the mass of humanity. Because they have no common point of apex, those who are standing on this base are in conflict with each other: there are many heads to the dragon. But mankind is manipulated; all human beings are manipulated. We ourselves have been in that state. We have all been manipulated one way or another—and, to whatever extent, we still are—until we come clear in this new configuration where we worship God and we do not worship anything that is below us, below the base of this triangle, the base which we share. Our worship is all upward. We see what is going on downward and we are aware of the dragon and his angels manipulating mankind. Being in position to manipulate mankind is being in heaven insofar as the dragon is concerned; it is not a very satisfactory heaven but it is the space which is to be occupied by the secondary triangle.
Once we have our base established it is a base of agreement, as opposed to the base of disagreement, which is the human pattern of things. Because there is the reality of the substance of the primary triangle, what is present in that primary triangle can begin to be reflected into the secondary triangle by reason of the substance that is generated there by us who are in agreement, extending what is required into the world; not being governed by what is in the world, refusing anymore to be manipulated by the manipulators, but being clear because of the primary triangle, because we worship God. The dragon is cast out of heaven. There is no question about that, and it isn’t war in the sense of getting into a battle about it. It is simply maintaining our worship of God and the substance of that primary triangle, so that there may be that present in that substance which can be extended into expression in our living, thereby generating the substance which composes the secondary triangle in which what was in the primary triangle is then reflected. And what is present in the substance of the secondary triangle will then be reflected in the world.
This is the way it works. One might say it is inevitable. Once those links are in place it is inevitable; God is found to be the ruler yet. But He rules in a particular way when He has the means by which He can reach the world. He doesn’t reach the world through the wishful thinking of human beings or through the vain hopes and prayers of human beings. He reaches the world when there are those who come into agreement with this design of things by which the connection may be made. We are here to allow this to occur because we learn to worship God, we learn to be oriented upward. Then the kingdom comes, God’s will is done in earth as it is in heaven, because there is the means for this to happen. Once this primary triangle is established and the secondary triangle is in operation, there is space into which substance, as it is released out of the prejudiced structures of human consciousness in the world, will rush. And rushing in it brings along the human beings who are connected with it. Human beings are inclined to be very proud of their right of free choice and all the rest, but if the substance that is present in them is released it will naturally rush into its true design, when the true design is present for it to rush into. It has not been present insofar as people are concerned in this world for a long time, but as this substance rushes in it carries human beings with it. Something of this sort may have already been your experience.
As the prejudiced structures of human consciousness are relinquished so that the substance is free to move, it moves. It moves to the extent that there is present this primary triangle established and the secondary triangle taking form. Then the substance comes in to compose it. The forces of the gentiles come. And the human beings who are associated with this substance which is coming in the integrating pattern just simply come along with it. We see this happening now in the world in our own experience. Those who are associated with the disintegrating pattern of course go down. And so we share in the creative process which is based in the fact that once again on earth there is worship of God by human beings. This is the only way it happens.
As the sound of the music continues to reverberate in the atmosphere of this Dome, bringing praise and thanksgiving to the Most High, there is a stillness in the hearts and in the minds of those who are yielded in repentance for the arrogance of human nature which has prevailed and still does prevail throughout the body of mankind, and even in our own personal experience. In that stillness within oneself there is a voice which speaks the word of truth. That word remains unheard until there is stillness. The voice may be said to be the voice of the spirit of truth which, to start with, is with you and shall be in you. It must be with you in the external sense first, that the spirit of truth, which is present in you and in everyone, resonating with what is spoken by that spirit externally, may emerge increasingly in living expression through each one on earth.
We are perhaps aware of these things, and have been. Merely to be aware of them is not sufficient, obviously. When the spirit of truth does rise up in resonance from within oneself there is no more questioning or uncertainty. The rising up of the spirit of truth into expression clears the facilities of mind and heart, step by step. While that clearing is occurring it is vital that one should remain humble and repentant, because until there is clear space within oneself, whatever it is that finds expression through oneself, and is therefore known, will continue to be conditioned by the human nature which has prevailed in experience on earth for millennia past, even to this day. As long as human nature prevails, the truth can never be known. Human nature is not only reluctant to repent, but dead set against it—and that is a very accurate way of describing the condition: dead set.
In this hour we have the opportunity, as we have no doubt had in many hours in the past, to repent of arrogance, the arrogance which assumes that one knows and understands. The spirit of truth knows and understands, but human nature does not. It never has and never will. In order to mitigate this state of affairs, which is realized as being present subconsciously if not consciously, many mental concepts and ideas and beliefs have been developed as a substitute for the truth, the truth which could not be known as long as human nature was present and dominant. There was a word spoken long ago. Usually only part of it is recalled, namely, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand,” which is true enough. But it doesn't mean anything until the little word which preceded that statement is recognized and acknowledged: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Otherwise it is impossible to know that it is at hand; one can only have a belief about it. Some people believe it and some people don’t; it makes very little difference.
The difference comes when the kingdom of heaven which has been at hand is brought forth into expression in daily living. But that is quite impossible without repentance—repentance from the self-satisfaction and self-righteousness of human nature, which thinks it knows so much, when in fact all its knowledge is self-generated and has little or no bearing upon the truth. Only by reason of the expression of the spirit of truth in living does there begin to come a knowing of the truth. One only knows what one expresses in living. One may have a whole host of fanciful beliefs, but the very fact of belief is indication of not knowing. So to know, the truth must be expressed. Human nature is totally incapable of expressing the truth. Its very existence is based upon the fact that the truth is not expressed.
There is another nature available for human experience, but as long as the arrogance of human nature prevails, that other nature seems no more than a pipe dream. The fact of the matter is that human nature is a pipe dream. It’s there because of an addiction, an addiction to the idea that the human mind is capable of determining the way things should be. Regardless of how much one may have experienced of the spirit of truth in expression up to this point, I am sure each honest one would have to admit that the large majority of experience is still based in the idea that the human mind knows how it should be. As there are these days some five billion human minds on earth, it would not be surprising if there was a little conflict, each human mind considering that it knows how things should be. What unmitigated arrogance! Repent. “Forgive me, for I know not what I do, in human nature. I may have many lofty ideals. I may even consider that I have a rather brilliant mind, but I know not what I do.” In this sense each one may say, “I am totally ignorant.” That’s a good starting point. There may be some space then for a little wisdom, the wisdom that comes by reason of the expression of the spirit of truth in living; not any other way. There isn’t any other way. So in these moments we have, as usual, a wide-open door for repentance.
How easily human nature jumps to its own defense. How fearful human nature is—rather naturally because there is a sensing that it is in the process of passing away. What a fearful unfoldment of events! Human nature always passes away. It has been doing it in every generation for millennia. Strangely enough, it seems that human beings have accepted the idea that when they are born into this world they are born on death row. There are some very fancy beliefs about a loving God, but this peculiar idea which human beings have, and which they prove out generation after generation, contradicts the view of the loving God. Why would He condemn people to be born into a world on death row? Everybody feels they are in prison. They try to break loose; there are all kinds of techniques for this; but they remain in prison, and the day comes for execution.
Yet there are those who believe in a loving God. Whether one believes in a loving God or a wrathful God makes no difference to the way God is, if God exists. We ourselves have some awareness of the fact that there is the Supreme One. Our very existence, even though temporary, is evidence of the fact. Yet, should it not be recognized by now that belief in a loving God, even if that’s true, is totally inadequate? Human nature is maintained on this basis, the state which has been self-created and which passes away, individually. We would all acknowledge that. There may be hopeful beliefs that something is preserved beyond what is called death, but who knows? So human beings have put themselves in this self-created impasse. It is in fact a pipe dream, but deemed to be reality.
We have an interesting condition present on earth in human experience, a condition which apparently keeps increasing in spite of tremendous efforts to stem it. This condition is called cancer. Related to this is another condition putting in an appearance, where the immune system breaks down. Is all this the natural experience that is being foisted upon human beings by a loving God? Such an idea should be seen as completely ridiculous. It is a self-created condition.
Mankind is now a malignant tumor in the body of the earth, a malignant tumor that sucks all the nourishment that is present in the body of the earth into itself. It’s an interesting fact that those individuals who may die of cancer also experience the death of the cancer. The cancer becomes very healthy for a while by extracting all the nourishment out of the host body, but in doing so it kills the host body and kills itself. This is a very graphic picture of human-nature behavior. It is what is happening all over the face of the earth in the body of mankind. Here is a vast malignant tumor. Isn’t that a very accurate way of describing the behavior of human beings? It’s a malignancy. It’s destroying the life of the planet. This is all based in the behavior of individual human beings.
I’d like to read a familiar passage out of the Book of Genesis, made available a long time ago, describing something which has very close application to present experience. What is happening now is not something that hasn’t happened before—maybe not in exactly the same way. Here is a story that very accurately depicts what is happening now—it happened before. “And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” This story relates to a gentleman of old called Noah. “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” This is the way it is put, but it may be easily recognized that the earth was in the process of being destroyed by reason of what was occurring in “all flesh,”—human flesh.
The scourge of cancer is merely the evidence of the behavior of human beings in general, brought out in specific, individual form and expression. But it is what is happening to the whole earth. All that human beings do is to try to stem the scourge in individuals, when the whole pattern of behavior is what has produced it, the behavior of all flesh—not just of this individual or that individual but everybody. The destruction comes because of the malignancy; and the malignancy, the tumor, is mankind in the process of destroying the earth. Whatever this story refers to out of the past, somebody understood what it was all about. So here it is portrayed. But human beings have continued blindly in their human nature. The malignancy has grown. There is an immense tumor in the earth now, composed of five billion cells; and very rapidly and in a multitude of different ways, the host, the earth, is being destroyed.
That is a rather graphic picture which seemingly has no end other than death; and that is exactly what mankind is faced with, obviously. It is necessary to look at these things. Some people find themselves very fearful when they look at these things. They don’t want to look at them: “This can't be what’s happening! There must be a solution; it’s just around the corner. After all, we have many brilliant minds on earth working upon the problem!” But it is the brilliant minds on earth that have produced the problem. Is more of the same going to solve it? Of course not.
The tumor needs to pass away. About the only experience in this regard has been to let it pass away because the host body dies. Then the tumor is dead too. That is the inevitable conclusion of human nature, collectively. It has been the inevitable conclusion of human nature individually for millennia, but now collectively, because there has been a refusal to face the fact and to repent: “Whatever I have been doing has been destructive, no matter how good I think it is.” And there are all kinds of good things that people are doing on earth. Of course the people who are doing what they deem to be good things think other people, who are doing something else, are doing bad things. But this is all part of a human-nature condition: judgment, judgment of good and evil, the eating of the forbidden fruit which brings death. It does; it always has; it always will.
Yet there must come a time when there is no more room for the continued nonsense. And that’s all it is; human-nature nonsense. “Oh there are so many good things that people are doing.” But it is all malignant, allofit. It is the human state that is malignant, and the human state is composed of individual human beings. Can the malignancy be dissolved, do you think? It could only be dissolved if there are a sufficient number of healthy cells in the body to allow the current of life moving through them to be sufficient, so that the current of life moving through the tumor may be withdrawn. That is the way the tumor dies. That is the way that cancer is, not cured but simply passes away, because there are healthy cells available through which the life current may move, to the exclusion of the life current moving through the tumor.
This is the creative way by which mankind may be restored to the state for which it is present on earth. The state for which it is present on earth is not the state which is exemplified by the malignant tumor, and that is the whole shooting match of mankind’s state. Let’s not imagine that the “good” malignant cells, if they are allowed to increase, will do away with the malignancy. That’s ridiculous, isn’t it? They’re all malignant cells. Let there be healthy cells present within the body of mankind, with the life current moving freely through those healthy cells because they have no relatedness whatsoever to the malignancy. Then something can happen—not otherwise. Otherwise the malignancy destroys everything. And it is well on the way. How much time do you think there is to fiddle around, to try to sustain our “good” human-nature state? Everybody has a “good” human- nature state, after all. We’re all good people aren’t we? Are we? I think it might be better described that we all have been, at least, malignant people, destructive people. Violence and corruption fill the earth. “Oh, that’s those wicked people over there; they’re doing that.” What arrogance. What arrogant judgment.
Until one reaches the point where one may say in human nature, “I did it; I’m responsible for it,” nothing whatsoever will happen. It doesn’t happen collectively without happening first individually. My concern over many years is to find some who would be willing to be healthy cells; that’s all. I can’t make anyone be a healthy cell. I can’t make myself be a healthy cell. All I can do is to be willing; and if I’m willing I will repent of my malignancy, because every human nature in expression is a malign influence on earth, a destructive influence on earth. And it all builds to, what? Nothing. The tumor dies with the earth. Do you think this planet was created to die? No, human beings are insisting upon this. And they develop, in their human-nature ideas, how they’re going to save it. They’re going to save it because we’re going to institute laws which will preserve the wilderness, or whatever. There are all kinds of ideas that human minds have, how they’re going to do it. What arrogance. They don’t know how to do it. They brought the world to this pass, and everybody has participated in the process. No one is exempt. Repent!
There is one whose life it is, and consequently the planet and all that is present on it is His. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” That is the truth of the matter, constantly denied by malignant human beings: “No it isn’t; it’s mine! And I’ll be particularly good, because I won’t try to grab it for myself; but I think I know how things should be operated around here, so the desert can blossom as a rose”—when there is total ignorance in human nature, because human nature can’t do it. It doesn’t know. It doesn’t have the faintest idea. It is, in fact, trying to grab everything for itself, even though it won’t, at times, admit it. There are those who have a broad vision to make the world a beautiful place for mankind. Ugh! Who is speaking?
The earth was not created for mankind. Man was created for the earth. There is a vast difference. Now we awaken to the awareness that the spirit of truth is present, has been with you, and is in you. If there is space for the spirit of truth to come forth into expression, then the truth makes free. Free for what? Free for participation in the fulfilment of the reason that this planet exists. So we rejoice, rightly, that this is so. That event which I described by reading these two verses out of the Book of Genesis had along with it the way by which a new state could appear. The next statement after what I read was this: “Make thee an ark.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/08/preserve-from-build-ye-ark-martin-cecil.html] I don’t want to go into what was needed to keep people afloat in a flood. The question is, what is needed now? But the same statement, in principle, is true: Build thee an ark. And you’ll note, in this description of how this was to be done, it was very specifically indicated—dimensions, the type of material to be used; everything was very specific. It wasn’t just a haphazard thing. And Noah was subjected to a good deal of ribaldry, because he was doing something that didn’t conform with the ideas and expectations of those who were round about in their state of violence and corruption.
One might see a parallel here to what it is that may be experienced now. Human nature instantly rejects the truth—of course, because human nature will pass away if the truth prevails. And as you, each one, well know, human nature is not too anxious to pass away. What do you do whenever you get sick, for instance? Oh you rush over to somebody who is going to make you better. Human nature is going to pass away, yes, right. No loss! Let it go. It needs to pass away. That doesn’t mean that your physical flesh needs to die right now, but it does mean what occupies your mind and your heart needs to be released into oblivion, that what is available of the spirit of truth may have space and come forth into expression. And immediately there begins to be a healthy cell, and as these healthy cells experience what they naturally do in the expression of the spirit of truth they are drawn together into a design, into a natural pattern, just as originally our physical bodies were drawn into a design.
But this design is not based in a heredity out of the past. There isn’t any such heredity available out of the past for the design of truth. The design of truth is available now, and begins to put in an appearance now, as there are individuals who will let it because they have repented from human nature and are willing to experience a natural resonance from within themselves to the spirit of truth, so that what finds expression is of that spirit. That brings life. That brings life to a renewed cell of a renewed body. And the more renewed cells there are in this way, the less malignant cells there are. It looks like an immense task, to absorb this vast and awful malignancy of mankind. There is a way, but it isn’t the malignant way, it isn’t the way of human nature. It isn't the way that any human being knows anything about, simply because they never experienced it. The only way to know about it is to experience it, so let’s go ahead and experience it! Anything is better than the malignancy, isn’t it?
So we share something of a vision, and something of an experience of this. It is real. We know it is real when it is totally real for us. Most people are a little doubtful: “Well it may be all right, but then in the practical sense it doesn’t really work.” How do you know? You never tried it; you never experienced it. But the door is wide open. The door has been wide open in this way for the last two thousand years, but now it is finally coming to point, because everything is reaching a climax, and either the body is going to die or it is going to live, one or the other. The malignancy is going to die anyway. Regardless of what happens, the malignancy will die. Will there be a living body left when the malignancy is dead? That is the question. And here we have some understanding, at least, of the way things work, but the understanding is of little value in and of itself unless we participate in the way things work. That’s the only way we know anyhow. Otherwise it’s just a belief, and lots of people have lots of beliefs, which certainly show no sign of healing the earth.
I am thankful that there are those who are repentant. That is something that is necessary for all of us. We can’t help but be involved in human nature, merely by being born into this world: so no one is exempt from repentance: “I’m such a good person, I don’t need to repent.” Repentance is not confessing one’s supposed sins, by the way, except as one recognizes that the sin is the sin of human nature—good, bad and indifferent, all of it. That’s the sin. And who is going to give you absolution, do you think? The absolution comes because you repent, that’s all! It’s there. It doesn’t require someone to say, “Now you're absolved of your sins.” When your sins of human nature are dissolved, there you are. You don’t need anyone to tell you. Then you may make the statement, and speak truly, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
It is good to be together for another hour this evening. In our meditations this morning we were considering something with respect to a flood—it’s still raining, incidentally—but a different kind of flood. What a very beautiful story it is contained in the 6th chapter of Genesis concerning what is called the flood, because it has such obvious implications relative to this present time. Whatever the facts may have been in those far-distant days, the story itself provides an analogy for us which emphasizes our particular responsibility in these days. This responsibility is not restricted to us here present, but there is a question as to how many have really recognized the reality of it as this applies to their own living now.
We noted this morning [The Ark Made Fleshgreatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-ark-made-flesh-martin-cecil-22-1980.html] how the flood came and brought considerable changes to the earth and to those who remained in the earth. We see considerable changes occurring now in the world, changes which are occurring because of some very particular cause. The cause of old was water falling from on high and obliterating the earth as it then was. Whatever that occurrence may have been, human beings today could well learn something from it. We ourselves have seen something and have become aware of a spiritual responsibility which is capable of being accepted by those who are willing to do so. Perhaps it might be profitable to read this story of old and see how it applies, and perhaps more clearly what the responsibility is. You will recall that this was a time when men began to multiply on the face of the earth; it seems that this is such a time.
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
This story is told in a way which has tended to be translated in religious terms rather than being seen for what it is. The behavior of human beings produces effects. We have plenty of effects in these days to observe—many of them might be called shocking. They have been produced by people. The ways of human beings, their attitudes, their motivations, are all involved in this, and the world is now the way it is. As we have often noted, and had personal experience in the field also, there is a tendency for everyone to blame everybody else. This is part of the state in which human beings exist. Criticism and blame are popular attitudes. Somehow it seems to be imagined that by indulging in this, what is wrong will be corrected. But such attitudes are a part of the state in which human beings exist, bringing forth behavior of all kinds which in turn produces the world in which human beings live. That is what is being said here.
“And God saw”—anyone with any clear vision can see—“that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Most people think of themselves as being good. The wickedness is over there somewhere and someone else is blamed. If there is anyone to blame it is the one whom each individual speaks of as “me.” Until there is that factual attitude taken no possible change on earth could come about. The state of human beings is locked into this which is described here most accurately as the wickedness of man. It was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Here is a description of the state of human consciousness, whether the person thinks of his own state as being good or bad. This is what is being described; and it is the state just as surely today as it was then—a sorry state of affairs.
“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” What a sad condition: the earth being destroyed by human beings who are intent upon their own desires and designs. The effects arise. In this instance it was a flood of water, very destructive for most people apparently. “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” It was because of Noah in this story that everything was not obliterated from the face of the earth.
“These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” He was perfect in his generations, in what was brought forth by reason of the quality of his character and the quality of his living. He was deemed perfect, something which most human beings deny as being possible, because it is not possible if one is wicked and every imagination of the thoughts of one’s heart is only evil continually. It is a deliberate choice on the part of human beings, and the world suffers in consequence and hovers on the brink of destruction. “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord,” and it was because of Noah that the destruction was not utter. We don’t have to use much imagination these days to see the possibility of utter destruction. But there is something happening in the consciousness of human beings which is analogous to the flood—a different kind of flood. There is this which is pouring into the consciousness of human beings everywhere, mankind as a whole, impelling them to their intensified destructive endeavors. Sometimes those destructive endeavors are thought of as being constructive. “We have to do this to prevent that; we have to be destructive in this way in order that we are not totally destroyed in some other way.” There is a scramble to save this pitiful state of affairs on earth.
I think it is rather apparent that there is in motion already this flood which inevitably destroys, as the original one did, utterly, unless there is what is represented in this story by Noah: one who walks with God, one who walks in attunement with the spirit of God, so that the spirit of God may find expression in that one’s life. Noah is representative of many, rightly. Always there needs to be a starting point of some kind, and it was Noah’s generation that allowed for the ark to be built, the ark which was saved by reason of the flood. We see the same thing occurring in these days. There is a flood. Because it is not of material substance it is not generally recognized as such, but nevertheless it is there. It is a flood in the consciousness of mankind, which is destructive as long as the prior state persists—a state which is characterized by blame and criticism; resentment, hate, anger, all the qualities which characterize human nature. This is the wickedness. Human nature itself is the wickedness, and who can escape human nature? The general view is that we are stuck with it, but there is something else.
It is said of Noah that he walked with God; he didn’t walk after the dictates of his human nature. Recognizing these things, we accept the responsibility of walking with God, of being compelled by the spirit of God rather than by the usual motivations which arise in human nature. We have seen these things clearly enough, but it is not just a matter of seeing them; it is a matter of walking with God. It is a matter of permitting this right expression in our own living so that the government of the world is no longer dominant in experience. Rising up, we may recognize that there is something more to us than earthly heredity. Seeing this, we have concerned ourselves with what is illustrated by Noah. This is a portrayal that is contained in the Old Testament; there is a portrayal contained in the New Testament, many other portrayals in many places, opening the door to a new experience, so that something may be brought into the world which has not been here for a long time.
The ark needs to be built. This ark was built according to certain measurements, certain substance, of which Noah became aware. It was thought of as being foolish at the time. There is a design for the ark which is essential in these days; and by the way it is not a spaceship; it is not, certainly, a fallout shelter. Even in the days of the original ark, the design of it was first of all brought to the consciousness of Noah. What was required already existed; but it required someone to encompass an understanding of it so that what already existed could be brought forth in form. And so it is now. There is what already exists. Human beings are apparently totally oblivious of this in the general sense.
There is a design, there is a way. But how could this way be known, how could it be experienced, if one is all wrapped up in the usual human nature state based in the usual human nature motivations? Nothing else can be known but that; a person is full of that, and being full of that the results of that are reflected in the environment, and the world is the way it is. Unless a change comes in the realm of human consciousness there is no expectation of anything else but destruction: as you sow, so you reap. As humanity sows, so does humanity reap. We are all part of humanity. We all have a responsibility therefore with respect to the sowing. There is a need then for the sowing of a creative harvest, the harvest that comes down from God out of heaven, the harvest that already exists, the seed of which already exists in the invisible sense but of which human beings are unaware because of their total involvement in what is describable as the human nature state. They cannot see anything else. Everything is looked at in those terms. In that state there are sincere people no doubt who are trying to do the best they know how to prevent this awful slide into oblivion that is obviously occurring. But nothing that anyone does prevents the downward motion. How can this awful state be brought into some sort of order? Great effort is put into this by many people but the confusion only gets worse, the destructiveness becomes more widespread. It is something that every individual on the face of the earth knows something about.
But it is possible to find grace in the eyes of the Lord if anyone is interested. According to this story it only took one man and his generations to make it possible for the continued existence of life on earth—one man who assumed that responsibility. Of course one has to see this before one is likely to do anything about it, but even seeing it, there are not too many who are willing to do anything about it. The very moment one begins to see what is required one has the responsibility, whether one likes it or not, to allow what has heretofore been invisible to take visible form in expression because one lives on earth. And so the ark is built, built of human flesh. It is built according to a very particular design, a design which nobody knows. Isn’t that fortunate? Most people think they know what is required. If they gave up thinking they know what is required it would seem to be impossible to go on living—a recognition that the human nature way is utterly and absolutely futile and ends in disaster. Every generation has proved it out and now the whole of mankind is in jeopardy.
Who has what it takes to face the issue and to accept the responsibility in the quality of one’s own living, in one’s own character?—a character which begins to be a means by which the Lord, the true creative process, can bring forth the ark, which we have designated by reference to the Word, the Word which was in the beginning with God, the Word which is God. [The Word And Its Influencegreatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-grace-van-duzen-may-20-1987-world.html] There are those of course who say that this book is the Word, the Bible is the Word. Well some words here can have some meaning; we are looking at some this evening; but why do they have meaning? Because there is someone on hand who begins to see what they mean. You can't get the meaning out of these words simply by studying them. The meaning comes because of one’s own expression of living. If that is of the quality of the spirit of God then there is meaning, and meaning begins to be transmitted to everything in the expression of life. If the world has become a meaningless place, which it certainly has—a completely meaningless insane asylum—if it has become a meaningless place, how is it going to be restored to meaning? Because there is someone on hand who gives it meaning.
The meaning comes down from God out of heaven into the earth. That is the way it works. So we have the opportunity, as Noah did, to give meaning. The meaning that is essential now is to provide a means by which what is occurring may prove to be creative rather than totally destructive. This is done by those who walk with God, not in theory, not on the basis of some belief, but in fact, in actual experience, so that what is of God may find expression in the circumstances exactly the way they are. We all have our circumstances. They are brought to us. We don’t have to go out and find them. Circumstances are brought to us every day. What do we do with them? Become embroiled in them, struggling with them, worrying about them? Or do we offer into those circumstances what we are here to offer?
We may be aware that whatever comes to us is very similar to what is coming to millions of other people in the world. We are not so exceptional in that regard. The circumstances come, exactly the way they should come, for each one to handle that circumstance correctly. And yet judgment is usually the first thing that enters into consciousness with respect to something, isn’t it? “Oh, this shouldn’t be happening.” Well whether it should or shouldn’t, it is! It is happening. That is the thing to handle then. There is nothing else to handle rightly on the basis of the expression of the spirit of God, in that quality of character. When that begins to be done, something is being brought into the world of right cause.
Someone said that one with God is a majority. It may happen to be true, you know, that when there is that quality of living on earth so that circumstances are handled with this attitude, something is being brought into the world that wasn’t there before and it is going to have an effect. We are here to let just that happen. And something begins to be built: a flesh body of some kind, an ark, a living ark [The Stone Pyramid And The Flesh Body greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-martin-exeter-may-6-1984-those-who.html] which is lifted up by reason of what is happening in the world. Most people are trying to stop what is happening in the world—“Don’t let it happen.” Why? “Because it’s going to clobber me, because I’m going to suffer, and other people are going to suffer too. Stop what is happening in the world.” Why? Let it happen, but make very sure that a cause is provided on earth which will allow the ultimate happening to be creative, rather than utterly destructive if nothing is offered.
We have such a wonderful field in which to operate, a field of beautiful circumstances. Don’t judge them. Don’t say, “Well I don’t like that circumstance.” Who cares whether you like it or not? It’s there. How are you going to behave relative to that circumstance? In a manner that is upright and perfect or, how shall we put it, downright and imperfect?—in other words underneath the circumstance: “Oh I don’t like this circumstance. It’s pushing me around. Poor me. Help me.” What puny people! One with the Lord is a majority. Okay, in that attitude, in that spirit, with that quality of character, anything can be handled as it should be handled, but not in reaction to the circumstance. It doesn’t produce resentment, it doesn’t engender worry; it is just simply handled in the power and spirit of the living God. This is possible to anyone who accepts the challenge and is willing to let it happen. Unless there are those who are so willing it could be said that destruction is inevitable for everyone; it’s on the way.
“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” How about someone else? How about us, for instance? How about anyone who so chooses to let his generations in living be perfect because they are motivated by the spirit of God and not by reactionary human nature, which is always bothered about something? Peace only comes because there is a peaceful person and because that peaceful person brings peace. It doesn’t come by human nature manipulations, ever.
So we share the recognition of spiritual responsibility, which is the only kind of responsibility that bears creative fruit. Then the creative fruit is brought forth; the right seed is sown; the right harvest comes. It is absolutely sure. We should be convinced, incidentally, about all this because when the wrong thing is done the wrong harvest puts in an appearance; we don’t like it. It’s doing it all the time; the Law works. Let what is right be done, and behold, the world is re-created. This is not to say that there is not likely to be considerable destruction in the process, because so precious few people are willing to let it happen. Anyone who is struggling with his circumstances is unwilling to let happen what should happen, and there is an endeavor to grasp things so as to keep the control, keep things in order, “so that I don’t lose my health, or I don’t lose my money, or I don’t lose whatever it is.” Why not? There is a lot to be lost. At least human beings think it is a lot. It isn’t very much, really. How much more there is to be experienced of the fulness and the richness and the beauty and the glory which is already present, waiting to come forth when someone is on hand to let it happen. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” That is the fact of the matter. Let us let that fact be revealed because of our own quality of living moment by moment by moment.
Let us be willing to accept the responsibility which was portrayed so beautifully in this story by Noah. Then the ark begins to be built, because something is being generated; there is a generation. We know there is a generation. It has brought us and many more together because there has been a generation; not because it is a matter of going around beating the bushes and getting people out. No! Because there is a willingness on the part of some, at least, to recognize the real quality and nature of the Word which may be given expression in words. But it is also given expression in every way that we live, when we are willing to let it happen. It is there, waiting to come forth, but we have so many structured states inside ourselves which we are unwilling to relinquish, so that it can’t get out. And where there isn’t this right cause, how can there be the right effect?
So we see our responsibility, spiritually speaking, and I’m sure that if we have integrity we are willing to accept it and to use all that comes to us rightly—that is righteousness, incidentally—use it rightly to the glory of God for the fulfilment of the true purposes of being, the reason why there is an earth, the reason why there are human beings on earth. This is an unknown quantity at the moment but it is ready to be known when there are those who are willing to know it.
