As sons and daughters of God we come this morning to present ourselves before the LORD. While satan also may still be present, we are not interested in what he might have to say. In most gatherings of human beings in the world satan comes to present himself as the Lord. Generally speaking there is no acknowledgment whatsoever that there are any sons and daughters of God present. This morning, as sons and daughters of God, we come to present ourselves before the LORD.
This day is the shortest day of the year. This is the time of the Winter Solstice. Christmas is supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but it is likely not the time of year when He was actually born. The significance of the Christmas season relates more particularly to the Winter Solstice. It might be said to be a time of conception rather than a time of birth. Our concern is with heavenly events. The Winter Solstice for this earth might be described as an earthly event, but it is based in the ordinances of heaven. The operation of the universe, which includes the solar system, reflects heavenly government. So there is a heavenly event related to the Winter Solstice. This might be well described in terms of spiritual conception. The birth of Jesus into the world was a point of spiritual conception insofar as mankind was concerned, birth for Jesus but conception for mankind.
As sons and daughters of God we find ourselves coordinated with spiritual events. This may be seen now as relating to a particular point of conception relative to what is to occur in the days to come. Many people see something of this at the point of the New Year. We would certainly play our part in allowing whatever the proper conceptionnow to occur. Human pregnancies last nine months, they say. If we look at it in this way, then the time of the Fall Equinox would be birth. This seems to correlate with what we have referred to as the birthday of this ministry, September 16. If something is rightly conceived now, maybe it comes to birth then. We are looking at this in spiritual terms, not in the terms of form. Almost always, when anything pertaining to dates is considered it is immediately interpreted as referring to some form or other that should put in an appearance. No doubt there always is a form connected with any spiritual event, but usually there is quite a lag between the spiritual event and the form. The form which does appear is seldom recognized as being consequent upon the spiritual event. We are safer to concern ourselves with spiritual events and let the forms take care of themselves, so that there is no preconceived anticipation form-wise.
Here is the point when a particular spiritual cycle may be initiated as a part of what is unfolding in the larger pattern of things here on earth, and everywhere else as far as that is concerned. Spiritual conception now, spiritual birth later. Of course this is only one cycle amongst many; there are wheels within wheels. Some significance has been given, however, to September 1981, because it is the completion of seven seven-year cycles since the birth of this ministry. As sons and daughters of God we naturally keep step with whatever is unfolding in the spiritual or heavenly sense, and this is our primary concern, because we recognize it to be the foundation of the earth. Our job might be defined as laying the foundations of the new earth in this instance. Included in this, the Morning Stars sing together and all the sons and daughters of God shout for joy. So we are quite aware of the natural approach from the standpoint of sons and daughters of God. Human beings do get caught up in the spirit of joy somewhat at Christmastime and we would certainly encourage that, although why it should be limited to Christmas I don't know.
As I indicated before, most human gatherings might be described as satanic. I don't know that people generally would be too agreeable to that, but it may indeed be the fact of the matter. Satan has his kingdom, which he thinks is fairly firmly established. He has what he considers to be the necessary power to do what needs to be done in that kingdom, and of course the glory is all his. Human beings have become satan-man rather than God-man. They are now made in the image and likeness of satan. That explains a lot of things, doesn't it? The image and likeness of God has gone by the board. Of course there is still a connection here with God or there wouldn't be anyone around. But the image and likeness of satan is certainly characteristic of human beings generally, mankind made in the image and likeness of satan—self-made.
If satan does come into the presence of the Lord—occasionally some thought is given to God and spiritual things by human beings—he maintains his own identity. And human beings say of themselves, “I now come before the Lord to worship, to seek guidance, to be strengthened, to be healed,” whatever, but the “I” speaking is a satan “I.” Satan says, in effect, “I still stand in my kingdom and maintain it, but I will acknowledge that there is another kingdom somewhere or other and seek any assistance or blessing that may be offered from that source,” presumably the objective being in such case that improvements should be made to the satan-man model. “Let me be better, O Lord, but still satan.” This is the viewpoint that is held by virtually everybody on earth. It might not be couched in those terms, but as sons and daughters of God I'm sure we see the point.
There is something very unique about the Emissary ministry—looked upon by those who are aware of it but not a part of it, and also by some of those who are a part of it, as being just a human organization with certain views and opinions regarding spiritual things. There are many cults in the world. We have noted that it is a cultic world, and satan-man is cultic man. He has felt so isolated and alone that he tries to establish for himself a home of some kind to which he may relate. Most people have a number of homes, from national homes all the way down to the family home, with intervening organizations of all kinds, all this in an endeavor to produce a sense of belonging. But he never does quite belong, at least if there is any sensitivity left at all in satan-man. Presumably it was because as satan-man we felt out of step somehow that we have participated in EDL. What is this unique distinction which is hardly present at all anywhere else? It relates to this recognition, which is inherent in the approach I am making this morning, indicating the alternatives of satan-man and God-man. Satan-man doesn't belong, so it is not unnatural that those who are identified with this should feel that they don't belong. God-man does belong. We have heard the idea expressed that human beings are somehow just pilgrims. Well perhaps they come and go, but this is because there is no recognition of the reality of God-man—the sons and daughters of God. Satan-man is all that is known; therefore any help that is sought from whoever the deity might be is to assist satan-man to get by, to feel that he belongs somehow, to be enriched in whatever way and blessed, as satan-man.
The intent of the sons and daughters of God is not to improve or unify satan-man. That would be an impossible task anyway, wouldn't it? I'm sure none of us are interested in trying to do the impossible. But most others see the situation in such terms: We need to be better and more loving people so that we may get together without scrapping quite so much. Human beings have been trying to get together as satan-man for a long time. The only way that this get-together is possible with any seeming unification is based in absolute enslavement, and there are those who have this in mind. This is satan's view, after all: enslave everybody and then we'll have oneness; whatever the reality may be, it will have been defeated; satan-man will at last have triumphed absolutely. So human unity in the ordinary sense is human enslavement.
From the standpoint of the emissary view, there is presumably a recognition on the part of most that there is something to be brought into the world that has not been here for a long time. The only way it can be brought into the world is by reason of the sons and daughters of God who reveal themselves on earth as God-man. And God-man is not satan-man. No improvement on the satan model will ever produce God-man. Improvement is about the best that can be anticipated by most human organizations, even of the most spiritual character. The view is that the earth is a mess, upon which point most of us could agree, and therefore needs revamping in some way. This requires better people. “Well let's go to work and reconstruct people”—this is satan speaking! And usually, because human beings are polarized in form, they look at the form of things and say, “Oh well, here's a nice organization; they are doing good work. They are very fine people in this organization or that organization. We can subscribe to something along these lines of form”—and there are those who do. And there is encouragement one of another: “You're doing very well, really some improvements coming. Changes are working out; changes must come.” All this is the embellishment of satan-man. Give him greater glory, really make the appearance shine, polish it up, and we'll have it made! Of course in order to achieve this we must get the cooperation of God, whichever deity it is; and so that is sought in various ways, but all for the benefit of satan-man, who wants to have a nice nest on earth where he may belong. There are some who have been caught a little bit in that approach.
But we speak, understandingly I trust, of what it is that comes down from God out of heaven, something that hasn't been here and which fills the space created by what has been here, so there are no more present on earth what I have now referred to as satan-man. There's no need. Such a thought comes as a terrible shock to most people because they see themselves being eliminated. That's right too, and most don't like the idea of that. As has been stated many, many times, we're not at all interested in improvements to satan-man except as these may provide a starting point for the unveiling of what it is that is really required. One cannot, after all, plunge right in with people, who are satan-man, saying, “To hell with satan-man,” because it's to hell with them. So there is a more cautious approach, shall we say. We are indeed interested in making possible a setting through which the sons and daughters of God may emerge. But in doing so, satan-man is dissolved. No more satan-man—a complete re-creation insofar as the human aspect of the situation is concerned.
We have seen these things at some level, understood them a little, and have a sensing of an absolute distinction between that with which we are associated and all the other organizations on the face of the earth, every last one of them, because they all have the satan-man perspective. Everything is seen from down below. Finally we begin to reach a point where we may share some vision of the sons and daughters of God, from above. There we have some awareness of the Kingdom of God, the Power of God, and the Glory of God. All of this is to be brought into the world. It hasn't been here, because satan-man was not interested in bringing it. He was interested in having his own kingdom. There was a model for everyone. But if the sons and daughters of God are present the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory of God are present—and this is what not only transforms people, which presumably means improves them, but transmutes them. I've used that word. The word describes what takes place, but I don't think there is a word, because satan-man doesn't know anything about it.
In the Book of Revelation, the 20th chapter, the 9th verse, there is this passage: “And they went up…” That is, satan-man, collectively … went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city…” This is the new spiritual consciousness, the new spiritual perspective, or the true spiritual perspective. “… and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.” I think when that is read most people have thought, well that was utter destruction. “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”
If we look at this from the standpoint of the sons and daughters of God, we recognize that the fire which comes down from God out of heaven is what we ourselves are to bring on earth. Here is the power of the Kingdom. The sons and daughters of God are present, incarnate in human form to bring forth the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, and this is the fire of transmutation. That fire of transmutation was present in a specific sense when Jesus was on earth. It was this that allowed for transmutation insofar as He personally was concerned. That was done in the individual sense by the One who alone could do it in representation of all, simply because He provided the point of focus for the whole—here was the conception I was speaking of before. Individual transmutation is a reality by reason of Jesus; so that doesn't need to be done again. What is required is the transmutation of the whole.
I think it would be rather useless as an individual to beg God to transmute “me, because I'm so deserving, or worthy.” No need! That's really not the point. The transmutation that is to occur relates to everyone, all who compass the camp of the saints about. The saints relate to the sons and daughters of God, incarnate and in expression on earth. They are at the core of things. Everyone else is round about—and this fire comes to devour. What does the word “devour” indicate? Here reference is being made to the Spiritual Body of God, the Body composed of the sons and daughters of God, incarnate and in expression. So the devouring simply includes all that belongs in the Body into the Body. When we eat a meal we expect that there will be some waste in that meal, which will be excreted in one way or another because it doesn't belong in the body.
Here is an illustration, using language comprehensible to satan-man, as to what occurs: the transmutation by which the sons and daughters of God are provided with flesh facilities in which to incarnate and be in expression on earth. And this is a collective happening; it is the coming forth once again of God-man, man made in the image and likeness of God. Man made in the image and likeness of God is not man made in the image and likeness of satan—something incomprehensible to satan-man; therefore he's inclined to take the attitude that something of that sort could never happen. Certainly he has never seen it happen; but all things are possible with God.
“And the devil that deceived them [satan] was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” This is simply making the point that forever and ever there shall be no more satan-man. By the way, satan-man has been in that realm of torment, but the normal temperature of the furnace was reduced so that human flesh might survive to the point of restoration. At that point the furnace is stoked up, heated seven times hotter than it is wont to be heated, so that the transmutation may take place. But that transmutation has nothing to do with the ideas and concepts and beliefs of satan-man. He doesn't understand what's going on. He looks for the utopia of satan-man, but utopia is nowhere—nowhere! It doesn't exist. There is no place for satan-man anywhere forever and ever. That is what is being said here.
Obviously, where the human consciousness accommodates the consciousness of the son or the daughter of God there would be intelligence; therefore no one would be so stupid as to go again into the realm of torment. Having been in the realm of torment and having experienced the realm of bliss, what urge would there be to return to the realm of torment? The realm of torment is still there, forever and ever. That's the level where satan-man has existed for all these millennia. Man doesn't belong there. It is a realm of devouring fire by which transmutation takes place. And transmutation needs to take place: first of all, the transmutation of man from satan-man into God-man. But let it not be supposed that one can edge into the experience of God-man from satan-man by little increments. They are different experiences. They are incompatible experiences.
It is this bringing forth of the Kingdom, regardless of what the state may be in the world, that is fundamentally the distinction between the emissary understanding and the understanding of virtually everyone else on the face of the earth. Satan-man's view has prevailed in the world, no matter how exalted the spiritual mountain that may have been climbed by satan-man. Whether satan-man is in the pit or on the mountain peak, he is still satan-man, and this is to be dissolved. EDL provides the facility for the use of the sons and daughters of God, incarnate and in expression on earth. Here is very free use, because there is an awareness of what the purpose is. The use is not nearly so free anywhere else, because there is no such awareness. It is not a matter of judging others but of recognizing the fact of the matter.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” That sums up the emissary understanding. There are lots of people who mouth those words but have no faintest notion what they mean, because they are seen from the satan-man perspective. They are looking off into the distance somewhere for something to come. There is nothing to come from anywhere. It's here, and it's known to be here when the sons and daughters of God are present and in expression. For theirs is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, by which the world is transmuted and returned into the hand of God. God assumes responsibility and control directly in that world because of His sons and daughters, incarnate and in expression. This is indeed Glory to God in the Highest, which brings the Peace of the Kingdom.
Let human minds and hearts be still, yielded and open to the spirit of the living God. You hear these words, but you are not present merely to hear them. As angels we speak them together. I might say that if you merely hear them, hear the words, you are not with me; and if you are not with me you are against me.
Let minds and hearts be still, those that are present in this Dome, and consequently the invitation is extended, to the extent that it is accepted here, to all people everywhere, to all the human minds and hearts the world around. Let these minds and hearts here present, being still, be filled with the golden substance of love. Let human thinking cease. Let human emotions be still. Let minds and hearts, being filled with this golden, peaceful substance of love, consequently be the gates of heaven, the gates through which the angels of heaven may come into the earth. In this, minds and hearts may experience a reversal of polarity. They are no longer trying to achieve anything, certainly not to get anything. Let minds and hearts be still. Then the angels of heaven may be present and known by human minds and hearts. Be still and know that I am God, revealed in experience of mind and heart by the one I am.
Human minds and hearts are indeed designed as the gate of heaven, through which the hosts of heaven may come into the earth. They have been a barrier to this, filled with their own thinking and their own emotions—no gate of heaven, no angels in experience. But now we hear the command in this setting: Let mind and heart be still. Let them be filled with the golden substance of love, because there has been repentance from human thinking and human emotion; these are the character of human nature. Repentance, that human nature has been allowed to occupy our own hearts and minds, is required of those hearts and minds. Let heart and mind be still. Let them be filled with the golden substance of love. Let them, consequently, be the gate of heaven. Let the angel who I am come forth to be known by heart and mind.
Let each heart and mind say, “Forgive me, Father, for I have not known what I was doing.” Each heart and mind may know now, in this moment, that what they have been doing has wreaked havoc in the world. Now, being still, yielded and opened to receive and be filled with the golden substance of love, the gate of heaven opens and the one I am comes forth, in the vivid awareness that, as the Psalmist put it, “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” The hosts of heaven may indeed emerge through these yielded and still minds and hearts. Who shall be the ones who permit this to happen? Who shall be the ones, in their human arrogance and rebelliousness, to continue to prevent it? This indeed shall be revealed.
But here, surely, there are minds and hearts who yield, repent, receive the golden substance of love, and consequently come to know the truth. As the truth is known because the angel is present and in expression, the fantasy of the human-nature world becomes obvious. The angels of heaven know that they come into the world through human minds and hearts and bodies, because this is the only means by which it can be done. There is no other gate but mankind; a gate that, as angels, we recognize has been so firmly closed. But unless there are those human minds and hearts that say genuinely, in deep humility and repentance, “Forgive me, Father, for heretofore I have not known, clearly at least, what I have been doing,” the gate of heaven cannot be opened.
Is there anything more important than that this gate should be opened? The angel of heaven, and heaven itself, have been excluded from the earth, and because of that exclusion the state of affairs on earth is the way it is. Human minds and hearts are totally responsible for this state of affairs. “Forgive me, Father, for I have not known what I was doing, but now I begin to know. And because I begin to know what I have been doing I repent, and yield in stillness to receive the golden substance of love.” Be still and know what it is that is thus received. I am the angel who may be in expression on earth, as the mind and the heart of my physical form yield to me. We see the world around us in chaos and disintegration. We see the very planet itself lonely and bereft, longing to come unto the focus of creative spirit, unto me as I am. And, again, I am not speaking to you—if that is all you know, you know nothing—but you are speaking with me. I am present on earth because of this physical body with mind and heart. Mind and heart have stood as a barrier, but now exhibit some willingness to yield, in deep repentance and humility, from their arrogance and rebelliousness heretofore. So, as an angel I speak, and you as angels speak: I am the one who is present on earth in this form, individually speaking and all together, having heard the cry of the earth, the planet itself, and the world which is present, surrounding the planet. I have heard the cry: “Let me come again to you, you the angel in heaven.”
But, rather naturally, the earth, the world, is somewhat hesitant. These have been betrayed by human beings for countless centuries, generation after generation. There was always the willingness, the longing, of the earth and the world—except the world of human beings—to come again to heaven. But this barrier, this human barrier, has stood in between. Now, somewhere in this barrier of human nature, a few hearts and minds are revealing a willingness to yield, to repent, to be still, to relinquish all their supposedly wise thinking and their supposedly important emotions, that they may indeed, in a sense at least, shrivel down to nothing and provide space for heaven, space for the angel who is still present in human form, as evidenced by the fact of life itself. Let there be repentance and yielding and stillness, before the opportunity that life provides is gone. These words are spoken to the hearts and minds of all mankind, but particularly the hearts and minds that are here present.
Yielding and repenting and being still, letting the golden substance of love flood in, the gate of heaven opens, and it is known that I am present. There is only one who has the right to speak the words, I am. That one is not the self of human nature. The human-nature self continually may be said to take the name of the Lord in vain, because all people are inclined to say, I am, usually qualified with some subsequent words. But I am is the name of the Lord, not the name of any human self. What arrogance there has been, in our own experience, obviously in the experience of people everywhere. But that's their experience; what is ours? I am present, and when my mind and heart are willing to yield and be still, to repent, to be open, I come forth. My thinking, my ways, are as the heavens, higher than the earth and human thought and ways. Let human thought and ways vanish from the face of the earth, that my thought and my way may be known by human hearts and minds once more. I am come, in each human form and in all human forms, that I might bring life and bring it more abundantly. But human minds and hearts have been hooked to death, addicted to death and all the qualities and characteristics of human nature which bring it.
Be still, and know that I am present. My word is truth, my word is life. The earth, the world—all but the human world—long to come again to participate delightedly in the one creative process. They long to come again to the one who provides the focus of spirit for this creative process as it relates to this earth and this world. There is angelic understanding that there would be some hesitancy on the part of the earth and the world—what I suppose human beings would call the natural world, which excludes human beings entirely—to come in response to this invitation, because they have become so accustomed to hearing a false invitation, which has always inevitably resulted in rape and destructiveness. Human nature demands the earth to serve human nature, and the world to serve human nature. Repent!—not by trying to do something about it in human nature, as so many struggle to do, good people no doubt, to try to restore some sort of balance to what is occurring on earth. It can't be done by human nature, because human nature itself is out of balance.
So, always, the word comes: Yield and be still (a creative command, if you will, offered to every human mind and heart present on earth), that you may come to know me and know that the earth is mine, the world is mine, all is mine. That is true when the words are spoken by the angel in heaven through a still human mind, heart and body. This invitation is then extended to the natural world and to the earth, to the planet itself: Come home. And in these days there is a sensing on the part of the angel, through mind and heart, that the earth and the natural world are beginning to hear what it is that is being extended in invitation. But it's too much to believe! It has been so long that this state of aloneness and loneliness has been in effect because there was no man on earth, just a collection of animalistic creatures who have destroyed almost all semblance of man.
Be still, mind and heart. Be still and receive the golden substance of love. Be still and know that I am present. I am present in each little human earth and world, but being present there I am present in the whole of the planet earth and in the whole of the natural world. And I come forth to live and be on earth, providing all that is necessary and possible to let the gates of heaven be opened everywhere in mankind, so that the hosts of heaven may come into the earth and so that the whole population, insofar as man is concerned, is an angelic one. This, we have come to know, through our own experience of the coming forth, is what is happening. And it shall be finished.
The quote has come down to us out of the past as having been spoken by the One called Jesus on earth, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” The fact was established back then. It is now emerging to prove itself out, to prove that He spoke the truth amongst other things. Of course that proof is only of value to those who didn't think He spoke the truth. He knew what it was He said, and why He said it; and as the angelic experience begins to flood human hearts and minds, that knowing comes too. The truth is known, and all this fantasy is seen as nothing. The fantasy of this present human state is seen as nothing, just a mist which is blown away speedily by the rising of the sun, the coming forth of the hosts of heaven into the earth.
We share some understanding of this. Why? Because there has been some coming forth. To that extent we know, maybe not fully as yet, because there hasn't been the fulness of the coming forth. But let it continue. As there is constant repentance and yielding of mind and heart there is an openness to receive the golden substance of love; and that is very real. Only where that is present can it be said that the light is shining. “Let your light so shine.” And I heard tell, also, of something or other referred to as Emissaries of Divine Light! There is no such light without mind and heart being filled with the golden substance of love, and occupied by the one I angelically am.
This morning we have had opportunity to participate in this creative process by which the hosts of heaven—rather small in number insofar as those present in this Chapel are concerned—may in fact come forth. It's not something to be dreamt about or thought about: “Well is it true, or isn't it true?” Who knows? The only way to know is to let it happen; otherwise one can have beliefs pro and con. They mean nothing! Alone does the truth have meaning. That is the fact of the matter, which one is only capable of experiencing for oneself. You can't hand it to anybody else, and nobody else can hand it to you. It must happen in the way that it happens; the creative process works this way. And human minds and hearts and bodies are designed to accommodate the angel of heaven; in fact they already do. But, for millennia, while accommodating the angels of heaven the evidence of that fact has been absent, because minds and hearts have been closed and busy with their own damned business. And it is damned! There isn't anything you can do on the basis of human nature which has the slightest value in the end. That should be obvious to anyone. It should have been obvious in every generation.
But still there is a persistence of plugging away with human nature to get things done the way human nature thinks they should be done; and hence, disaster—perhaps a final disaster close at hand. But even in the midst of that it may be said, “I am come. I am present.” That's something that has to be proven out, of course, by each one. It certainly means human nature gets put on the spot. There can be no more of the old controls allowed to operate in human expression: the control of emotion, the control of intellectual thoughts and ideas, no matter how good and exemplary they may seem. That is the control of human nature. That is the control of the devil. It's been rampant on earth everywhere, through everybody. Because of this, most people have never seen it, because it's what they are. But now there begins to be an emergence, a yielding, a repentance, a willingness to be forgiven and to receive the golden substance of love into mind and heart, that that may be all that is present. That is the evidence of the angel, the one of whom it may be said, humanly speaking, I am. Here is the way, the truth, and the life. I am the way, the truth, and the life. These words may be spoken easily through a still mind and heart, which accommodate the expression, the living Word of the one I am.
Lillian Exeter — Martin, my Word is, I am, because I am living, and I dare—I dare!—because there has been emergence of the angel, to come near unto you and to be with you. So I actually express that invitation, all of us express that invitation to all, “Come near unto us,” in these days.
Lord Exeter — And the earth, and the natural world, longs to do just that. But at the moment there seems to be only a little crack to which to come. Let the gate be flung wide open, that all may come again into the oneness made possible by the union of heaven and earth, the angel of God and the human being.
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.
