Spring Equinox
Uranda 1938
Jesu
Not long ago one of the wide awake Young Explorers asked about the time of Jesus’ birth. Jesus was not born on December 25th, even though we celebrate His birth on that day. There is no exact record of just what day of the week Jesus was born on, nor of the month. However, we know that He was born in the Spring, and not at the beginning of Winter. In the Third Sacred School we accept the 7th of March as the birth date of Jesus, in the year 4 B.C.
I would mention that Jesus came in the early part of the great Universal Water Age [310,464 years] and He was born 384 years after the beginning of the Universal Water Age. An Ordinary Water Age [2,156 years] ended in 1768 A.D., just 270 years ago, and the Ordinary Air Age began at that time. Air is the symbol of Spirit, just as Water is the symbol of Truth. So now we are in the Spirit Age, or the Ordinary Air Age of turning to the Spiritual Life, just as Jesus came in the Truth Age, or the Ordinary Age when Truth was given to man.
Capstone Of The Capstone
from
The Significance of Water Divining
Martin Cecil May 13, 1961
God created this world and established life manifesting through physical form on the surface of the planet, working out the whole pattern according to a very definite design, with the crowning creation, man, at the apex to provide, as we recognize, facilities for maintaining Divine dominion here on earth. There is presently what is recognized as the so-called mineral kingdom, supposedly inert matter. Out of that vibratory level of being springs the vegetable kingdom, giving greater evidence of the manifestation of life in form. And out of the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom—with man at the apex of creation here on earth, designed to bring all these things to a point of focus.
We could use the symbol of a pyramid to illustrate this pattern or design of creation—the pyramid, with the layers at the base representing the mineral kingdom; and moving up from the base levels, which extend fairly well up into the body of the pyramid, there are the higher levels to represent the vegetable kingdom and, moving on up, the animal kingdom. In the world as it now is, the design is no longer a pyramid, because the capstone is missing. We have that portrayal in the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, where the capstone is also missing. Man is not in place; therefore the structure is not a pyramid—it is not a revelation of the true design. Man was created to be the capstone, so that all that is present in the body of the pyramid might be drawn to a point of apex in relationship to God. The capstone itself is a little pyramid, exactly the same formation as the larger pyramid when the capstone is in place. The capstone is a little pyramid, and when it is in place the whole structure becomes a pyramid. The dominion of God was established through man in relationship to this creation. In other words the dominion of God was to work through the capstone in relationship to the whole body of the pyramid—the animal kingdom, the vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom, all levels. In the design of the capstone itself—mankind—the essential control pattern was established so that that control could be extended to all the rest of creation here on earth.
If we think of the capstone, we can visualize the fact that the capstone itself has a capstone. The capstone of the capstone was designed to provide dominion in relationship to the whole body of the capstone—in other words those who compose the capstone of the capstone had the responsibility of extending dominion over the rest of the capstone, over the rest of the crowning creation, man. The capstone of the capstone provided what we might now call the governmental control aspect with respect to the body of mankind; it was in fact the head of the body of mankind. Moving down from the capstone of the capstone, there would be succeeding layers in the capstone which would correspond to the layers in the body of the pyramid as a whole, so that there were those who were specifically responsible for that which was transpiring creatively in the animal kingdom and in the vegetable kingdom and in the mineral kingdom. Control was maintained through the capstone in relationship to the whole body of the pyramid; and the capstone itself, within itself, contained the control patterns in relationship to the rest of the pyramid and also, of course, in relationship to the capstone itself, through the capstone of the capstone.
Now we recognize that there are those human beings who seem to have some sort of a facility with respect to the mineral kingdom. There are those who have rather a special facility with the vegetable kingdom. Others particularly are able to function effectively with animals. Now this is all rather crude, because man has removed himself from the position of the capstone and therefore what he does is done more or less self-actively, and there is a good deal of confusion.
The contact between man and the various levels of creation here on earth, the various so-called kingdoms, is through the levels of the subconscious mind. All things have mind. Perhaps to clarify a principle with which some of you no doubt are already familiar, we might consider the atom of which all physical substance is composed. The structure of the atom has been examined by human beings—not directly of course, but by indirect means—and it has revealed itself as being composed of a nucleus, with electrons revolving around the nucleus in some way. Of course there is far more to an atom than that, but at least it establishes the basic principle. They have more recently been probing into the protons, of which the nucleus is composed, and there is another something or other, called a neutron, which is more or less indistinguishable from a proton, except by reason of the fact that it has no electrical potential; it is neutral. In probing into the proton and the neutron, they find that within the proton there is another nucleus—and so we go from one to the next!—wheels within wheels, positive centers within positive centers.
In the case of the proton, it is assumed that there is not only this nucleus, with a positive charge in the proton, but the atmosphere which surrounds this positive charge is also positive, so that the end result is that there is a positive charge in relationship to the protons in the atom. In the case of the neutron there is a positive charge—the same as in the proton—in the nucleus of the neutron but the atmosphere is negative, and the positive and the negative cancel each other out in this case, so there is electrical neutrality. These things which are being discovered are interesting. But there is also an atmosphere of the nucleus of the atom, something which shines forth from the nucleus into and around and through the electrons. Whatever that is, we can call it mind. What is a proton? Well, they are trying to find out but they are no wiser actually. It is said that here is a positive charge of electricity. What does it mean? What is it? It is described sometimes as a particle and at other times it is a wave. What is it? [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/trailing-clouds-of-glory.html]
We are beginning to penetrate, then, when we get down to this level, into something which, as has been discovered, does not work quite the same way as the things that we know here where we were designed to function; there begins to be movement into a more or less intangible realm, where nothing stays put or shows itself as being anything particularly. Things keep changing shape and nature constantly, and human beings find it harder and harder to get hold of anything. They give these things names, but because a thing has a name certainly does not mean that anyone knows what it is.
Mind, then, is present in physical substance, all physical substance, because it is that which radiates forth from the nucleus of the atom. But that which is radiating forth from the nucleus of the atom is hardly comparable to things which we know here in this level where we function, and while it is present with physical substance, geographical position has little meaning when we begin to reach into such levels of being. Thought—we can move hither and yon from the standpoint of thought. From the standpoint of spirit there is no distance in the sense that we understand distance physically speaking. Human beings have become so accustomed to looking at things from the limited standpoint of physical manifestation that they begin to get lost when there is movement into other realms.
We recognize that there is something which is called telepathy, that subconscious mind makes contact with subconscious mind. These telepathic contacts are not limited to human beings; they obviously function in relationship to animals. The other day when we made a little tour of the Ranch on my birthday, we went to look at the chickens. Frank was in with them there and calling to them. When he went to kneel down, I don't know whether you noticed but all the chickens in unison made a sudden movement. It was not just one chicken made a movement and then the next, and the next, and the next, down the line; it was an instantaneous thing. What caused it all to happen at the same moment? This telepathic contact of which I speak, between the various levels of the subconscious mind. Now, they were all in the vicinity of each other but separated from each other by space—the chickens. So it was not consequent upon physical contact that there was this concerted movement. You may have watched a company of birds in the air flying and how they all move and change direction like one thing. They don't bump into each other. There is a unification on the basis of the subconscious levels of the mind.
It is possible to establish a pattern of attunement with physical substance. Actually, in the creative processes according to the Divine Design, what would now be considered to be inert physical substance was manipulated and used in various ways without necessarily any physical contact with it. Attunement must be established for any such thing to be achieved. There are those who have wondered how the Great Pyramid was built, for instance, and laborious methods of man have been imagined, although they leave unexplained very many things—for instance, the accuracy with which the structure was built. Although it is so immense, and the blocks of stone that were used are so tremendous, yet there is this accuracy, which would be virtually impossible to human beings now using the most modern instruments. The accuracy is of the nature of that which is used in optical instruments nowadays, the blocks laid together perfectly. This was supposed to be all done by thousands of slaves hauling on these things, up slopes and—well, how would the accuracy be there? This substance was controlled and maneuvered in a different way, not by the sweat of the brow. So we may recognize that it is quite possible to establish attunement with physical substance—not from the standpoint of the conscious mind endeavoring to make physical substance do something; it will not—but through the subconscious mind. It relates to the functions of the subconscious mind as they were designed by God to make possible the establishment and maintenance of dominion here on earth.
Substance reveals itself, physically speaking, for what it is. We know water when we see it or when we touch it. It also reveals itself, vibrationally speaking, for what it is. From the standpoint of human beings, they are always revealing themselves for what they are, vibrationally speaking. Most people do not have the perception to recognize what it is that is being revealed vibrationally speaking, so all that is seen is what appears physically or perhaps what is heard of the words that are spoken. But everything, right from the mineral kingdom up to and including man, is constantly revealing itself, vibrationally speaking; the nature of all things is present vibrationally and if the vibration can be touched, then there is evidence of the fact that that which is extending the vibration is present—we might call that the shadow of the substance. If we see the shadow, we know the substance is there. And so it is possible, when attunement is established subconsciously speaking with the particular level of vibration that is present in the substance, for an awareness of the fact that the substance is there to be made evident. Because we are dealing with a realm which goes beyond the physical, geographical distance actually has little bearing. The vibrational contact can be made from the standpoint of the subconscious mind, regardless of distance. However, if we wish to establish the fact of position in relationship to physical substance we need to be where the physical substance is. The whole process is worked out on the basis of a subconscious telepathic contact. There must be the ability to permit certain levels of one's own subconscious mind to be attuned with substance.
So we begin to see that, while these things superficially may appear to be very mysterious, in fact they are not particularly mysterious once there begins to be an understanding of the principles involved and once we ourselves begin to have an awareness from within ourselves of the manner in which these principles apply. The purpose of such ability to establish attunement with physical substance would not be, for the most part, the purpose for which human beings who have discovered this ability in the world as it now is use it. In the Divine State other purposes were dominant, creative purposes. I have touched upon these things, seeking to bring the matter down to earth. It is not magic in the sense that it is totally incomprehensible. We need to recognize that there is always a reason for everything, and that if we function correctly, as we need to know the reasons for things we will find that we are in position to do so. Yesterday evening the matter of flying saucers came up. We did not follow it out very far. There is a reason for everything, and if there are such things, human beings certainly do not know what they are and so there comes in a lot of speculation and many fanciful ideas, and people build up quite a pattern in that regard and imaginations really go to town.
There are all kinds of things of which human beings know nothing, and of the things they think they know something about they know far less than they imagine they do. We need to maintain a balance and to recognize that there is a reason for everything. Some of these reasons are beyond the comprehension of self-active man, but as we begin to move into attunement with God we find that we are capable of comprehending many things that are mysteries to human beings; and yet we could not explain such things to human beings in general because they do not have the perception to comprehend; but we ourselves may begin to know. So let us follow through in the pattern of the Divine Design, that we may be restored into the capstone of the pyramid—and perchance into the capstone of the capstone, because it is in relationship to the functions of human beings that the restoration needs to take place first. So let us move forward with assurance in this process of resurrection, that we may be restored to stand in the place where we belong.
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Perfection — The Absolute Cause
Ann Foorman and Martin Exeter May 3, 1985
Ann Foorman — We come together in this beautiful hour, as the music just expressed, to “Worship the living God,” to be the living God in expression. “The Lord walks on earth again in the beauty of holiness,” and we know the Lord; we love the Lord; we respect and acknowledge that beautiful character in one another. I rejoice this evening to let the Word transform the world, and it begins in my consciousness. I would read a few words from Revelation to begin with. “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God.”
We have come to fulfil those words, to overcome the world as it has been created by man, by us, and to let the real world—the new heaven and the new earth—be the living reality. I would say, It is done. I have overcome the world, the world that was referred to, and had to be referred to for so long, in the words, “I am in the world but not of it.” There is something unfulfilled, in a way, in those words. And in some other words, “My kingdom is not of this world”; here is something unfulfilled. The Word through us this evening may fulfil the job that we have come to do, to let the son of man, which is the Son of God, walk on earth and proclaim, “The kingdom is the world.”
I have been sent into the world not to judge it, but to save it, to reprove it, to overcome it. I was chosen out of this world, ordained to bring forth fruit that might remain. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world, and I am not offended or ashamed by the prince of the human nature world coming, which means the perceived feeling connections that I might experience with the world that is ending. It has often been spoken of, the time of the end, or, “And then shall the end come.” Well the end is come for the unreal world, because it ends in me.
In this day let it be said by the angels of the son of man, out of the clouds of heaven, out of this holy city of habitation where we dwell, “His kingdom, my kingdom is the world." And as was spoken by the Master years ago, “Now is my kingdom not from hence.” I am in the world, the real world, and the world is made by me. We create the real world. And this gospel of the kingdom is being lived, and its word spoken, preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. Arise ye nations! “Come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,” the real world.
These things I speak, that the joy of the Lord might be fulfilled, that all may be one in experience, even as we are one in this very moment: I in them, and Thou, O Lord of Life, in me.
Martin Exeter — These are most precious and beautiful words, spoken by a precious and beautiful angel.
We are here present on earth to bring forth the fruit which shall remain. Our purpose certainly is not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; rather, our presence is in the world to bring forth the fruit of the tree of life. There were two symbolical trees spoken of within the state of man as it originally was: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It might be said that these two trees are one: they represent the creative process by which dominion, the dominion of God, is maintained on earth by reason of man. We can see a representation here of cause and effect, of heaven and earth, both essential aspects of one thing.
By reason of the tree of life, cause may be brought forth, the cause of life itself. Because of this cause the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil puts in an appearance. Some have felt that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was unnecessary: it was just there to test human beings as to whether they would eat of the fruit of it or not. This is a very shortsighted and self-centered view. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil indicates an understanding of the design which is to take form in the earthly sense. These two symbolic trees represented the perfect state.
We might pause to consider for a moment that word perfect. It is a useful word because it points to something absolute. The perfect state is the real state, the true state. The word “perfect” is only necessary because of the relative view of human beings. This relative view put in an appearance in the experience of mankind because of the eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the eating of the fruit of the results of the cause tree, the tree of life. Here were the results present in beautiful form, a true design, a living design under control, the process working out without interpretation by any human mind. Those results appeared in form in the objective world in which man was designed to live. It might be said from our perspective now that those results were perfect: they were an accurate portrayal of the living design by which the purposes of mankind and this earth could be fulfilled.
We know something, at least, of what happened when there was the eating of the fruit of this design tree. Here was human emotion coming into the picture, presumably with the objective of improving the manifest design in a way which would be more emotionally pleasing. The effects of eating of the forbidden fruit, as it has been called, were unknown. There was no other world than this one world. Some other world was inconceivable, in just the same way that now, in this other world which has become not only conceivable but experienced, the perfect world is inconceivable. In what has been called the fall, action was taken contrary to the design, supposedly in order to satisfy human emotion. Of course the mind went right along with it, rationalizing the procedure as being what it should be. This is the way that human nature, which then put in an appearance, has been functioning ever since. The mind has been used to rationalize what might be called the heart’s desire, to make it seem as though the fulfilment of the heart’s desire was reasonable, logical, sensible. We are well aware of what has been produced in consequence: a human nature world populated by human nature people.
Now it might be said that the reverse procedure is necessary. We have some understanding of this and some evident willingness to participate in a recreative process, the results of which are presently totally unknown. Just as the results of what would happen by reason of eating the forbidden fruit were totally unknown, so is it totally unknown in the reverse direction now. In response to emotional involvement with the objective world the mind, in support of that, has naturally assumed a rebellious and disobedient attitude toward the spirit, exemplified by the tree of life. It has been necessary along the way—and you have all had some experience of this—to let the mind refuse to support emotional involvement with the objective world of effects. It has been necessary deliberately to do this. I suppose this is tantamount to saying “No” to Eve. Eve, at the behest of the serpent in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, has been intent upon squeezing satisfaction out of the experience in the objective world. Heretofore the mind has gone along with that, and in doing so has been rebellious toward the spirit of life. There has been an endeavor to bend life to human purposes. All human effort may be seen in this way.
For a moment we might consider what has happened within our own experience with respect to this matter of life. Being somewhat less rebellious and disobedient than most, we have begun to see that there is a life process totally transcending human purposes, the purposes of human nature. If we consider our individual experience, we all have what may be called personal lives. These personal lives include very personal things; they also include our professions, what we are doing in the external sense. Viewing this personal life, would you say, relative to yourself, that the personal life is supreme and any spiritual vision you may have is included in your personal life as a part of it? Or, on the other hand, is your experience of that larger spiritual nature simply including as part of it what is necessary with respect to your personal life? Which aspect is supreme? Which aspect is dominant?
The perfect state is the holy state, the state of wholeness, the wholly heavenly state.
Mention was made of being in the world but not of it. It is important that we should be in the world, because it provides us with the associations necessary within the consciousness of mankind by which reproof may be extended. We don’t stand on a tub and shout imprecations and reproof at any who may be passing by. We do it in a more fitting way, without much noise or bombast, in simply dealing with what we become aware of within ourselves.
So we have this field of operations through which may be extended what we have come to know by reason of our association with this larger spiritual process and our experience in it. Surely this is supreme; it is, after all, the absolute state, the perfect state. When considering what you are going to do in a personal sense, what is it that emphasizes itself initially? Do you see everything from the standpoint of the working of the creative process of which you have an awareness of being a part? Anything of a personal or professional nature is simply included within that; it is not a thing of itself. All too many, obviously, have this personal and professional life as being the thing, and scarcely any awareness that there is anything that transcends that.
We reach a point where the personal and professional life is entirely incidental to what we are here to do in the transcendent sense. There are things which it may be our responsibility to attend to, and we attend to those things to the extent that we are able to do it, without violating the transcendent state. I have many things requiring my attention which are not directly related—there is nothing that isn’t in some way related—but not directly related to the transcendent purpose. Those things I fit in as it is possible to do so; if it isn’t possible to do so, they don’t fit in; they just slide by; because finally there must be an association with the absolute. I think it was said of Noah that he was perfect and upright—or was it Job? they both had a similar statement—perfect and upright, one that eschewed evil, etc.; nothing on the side, no leaks. The question arises how absolute our experience is in this regard.
Most people have their personal foibles, the things which they are accustomed to doing, and woe betide if such things are interfered with. Is there anything of this nature which, if it is interfered with, would cause you to react in an angry or resentful way? “You have no business interfering in my personal life,” would be the attitude taken by some. It may be qualified a little: “I’ve always done things this way, I’ve always done things this way at this particular time; and now you (or circumstances, someone) are injecting into the picture something that is going to disturb this routine.” Well I hope so! because that shows up where the routines are and where we are still bogged down, mired, in the human nature state.
It is kind of a paradox, isn’t it, that perfection is an absolute state, and yet in that absolute state there is absolute flexibility, there is ease of movement with the living design. We have not known what that living design was; we are due to find out. And the living design, which comes into experience as we receive it, as we come into position to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, involves constant change, and we cannot settle down into our supposedly comfortable coffins—call them “ruts”. I think it is very revealing that you can buy coffins these days with innerspring mattresses, so that people can settle down permanently. What makes human nature comfortable is what needs to be recognized so that one may let it pass away.
We have been richly blessed with so much, in fact. Oh, one can always look around and see other people who have things and experiences that we don’t have. How do you feel about that? It should not matter at all what anyone else experiences. The question is as to the nature of our own behavior; that is all we are responsible for, because this is absolute. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,” absolutely right, regardless of human foibles. I don’t think we need to spend time in isolating and identifying human foibles. Anyone with some intelligence should be able to do that for him- or herself, particularly the human foibles which are characteristic of oneself. It is sometimes useful deliberately to interfere with those foibles and not do the thing to which you are accustomed. Do something else just to begin to break the thing up so that there may be material available to give form to the living design. We discover what the living design is when there is material available to give it form, material which may have broken loose from within ourselves, not being held in those old, dead structures to which we have become accustomed.
What is the nature of your lifestyle? Does that control you? You must have that lifestyle; it would be very disturbing if you didn’t have it. There is nothing wrong with the lifestyle, perhaps. It is the fact that you would be disturbed if you didn’t have it that is the wrong thing, the thing that needs to be recognized and dealt with. It isn’t as though there was some God somewhere who arbitrarily wants to impose on human beings some painful state of affairs that is going to make them miserable. I think this is very often the view of some of the religionists: God’s will is a pretty painful business, seemingly. But it isn’t at all; it is only painful to human nature, that’s all. If you want pain, keep human nature around and you’ll have plenty! That makes some people happy, apparently—very odd.
But we have this absolute state: Be perfect. The word perfect causes a reaction in some people; they don’t know what it means anyway. It is only a useful word to us because we recognize that it relates to something absolute, something unknown. You can’t define perfection; it doesn’t include all the human concepts and ideas of what that would be. It is what it is, and is an experience unknown to human beings. But it’s useful to have a word to identify it. Maybe you can invent a word that wouldn’t cause reaction—I doubt it! So we use words, but we use them with understanding because we know what they mean. And our concern is to be perfect, perfect and upright, one that fears God and eschews evil, one who allows the expression of the spirit of God to find release in daily living, whatever the circumstances may be, pleasing or displeasing to human nature.
Angelically we don’t care whether human nature likes it or not. You know, this has been my attitude for a long time in offering what I have. I have never said anything to please anyone. Maybe that’s why so few have come around! But what I have said has been acceptable to angels, unacceptable to human nature maybe not right away, because human nature is pretty dumb, blind. It doesn’t know what’s going on, and so it may take a little time for human nature finally to come to a recognition of what it is that’s been going on and decide that it doesn’t like it. And we have the evidence of this in various ways. But I do not condition unnecessarily what I say to please anyone. I think it is because of that that you are here now. I suppose you could say, “Like it or lump it.” If there is any genuineness in a person they will take it even though they have to lump it. But finally, as human nature begins to fade, it is liked, it is wonderful; it is a joy unspeakable to start with but becomes speakable as one moves along; it becomes expressible. We share spiritual expression, and the quality of our living backs it up, and there is factually no compromise.
This, as you know, doesn’t mean that one cannot be reasonable, one cannot consider back and forth. I have done a lot of consideration back and forth with people over the years, but that has never changed the absoluteness of the truth. We may—I don’t think it’s using subterfuge, really—use diplomacy, shall we say, to assist people to understand what initially they don’t understand. And because they don’t understand it they may react adversely to their lack of understanding, not to what it is that is being offered but to their misunderstanding of it. So we are easily entreated, shall we say; but there is something so strong, so solid, so immovable, that there comes a sense of security in relationship to it. Others begin to experience that security; perhaps you have yourselves, because there is something in that sense unchanging. It is always going to be there; it is not going to be pushed around by human nature.
When we all accept this basis for our living, then the end comes. To the extent that this is done, it comes quickly; and who would want this miserable state drawn out for centuries to come? I doubt that this is possible anymore anyhow. When you have a sliver under your fingernail it is better to suffer some sharp pain for a few moments getting it out than to leave it in there festering and suffer for months. Let’s do what needs to be done, knowing that human nature won’t like it but also knowing that it is the most glorious experience for those who are willing to let human nature go. And we prove this when we ourselves let it go, and that reproves everybody else.
Nick Giglio — Martin, it is glorious. I’m still around, and if I could still be around, anyone could still be around! I love God and eschew evil. And I don’t just like it or lump it; I love it, and I love you. That’s why I am here, to move freely, openly, and with full zest and power in the transformative purposes of life. So it is, Martin, and so shall it be, because I am here, because we are here with you in love.
Martin Exeter — So it is. I am sure that what Nick has just said finds an echo in all your hearts. I have been richly blessed by your love and the love of many others, and I suspect that most of you sense that I love you.
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