Silence in Heaven
October 25, 2014
John, the beloved, tells you how to open
the seventh seal of spirituality. This you can do when the first six seals have
been opened within you. "And when the seventh seal was opened, there was
silence in heaven for the space of about half an hour."
Remember that to find the kingdom of
God, or heaven, which is your Astral Body, the dwelling place of the Soul-God,
you must turn within yourself, even as your Master instructed. "But thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,
pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly."
Thus are you to find a quiet place where
you may be undisturbed for half an hour a day—fifteen minutes in the morning
and fifteen minutes in the evening. And there relax perfectly, consciously
letting go of all muscular and nervous tension. Then shut your door; that is,
close your eyes, for the eyes are the doorways to the secret places of your
Soul. Then remember that "your Father knoweth what things you have need
of, before you ask Him." Therefore in the silence seek not to talk to God
but rather let God talk to you; for this is true prayer.
Seek then to ask
perfectly and you will receive the perfect. Learn also to let the breath of God
flow through you by breathing rhythmically and deeply at all times.
Learn to select with care those atoms which
you take into your bodies. The atoms which have reached the development of ripe
fruit and leafy vegetables will be very easy to control when they have entered
your body. The atoms of low vibration, such as are found in all processed foods
and meats are very unruly and you will therefore find much difficulty in making
them obey you. Choose, then, whether you will make your way easy or hard by the
foods you eat.
This brings to a close the Seventh Step
in the Way, and there are two Steps more that remain for you.
Step Eight in the Way brings you to a
true realization of yourself by the means of personal analysis, which will
guide you in making personal application of these great truths and mysteries to
your own needs, that you may be a true success.
Step Nine in the Way carries you to the
completion of the Way, for it reveals to you the means by which you can gain
true spirituality by the Way herein revealed; for he who will may hear with his
physical ears the words of God as they are uttered by those who dwell not in
flesh.
For these two final Steps in the Way
seek out one who is spiritual, who has been taught in the supreme science the
manner in which he may understand the inner needs of his brother, that he may
teach them to you. Such a one is he through whom I have written these words. In
all love and humility will he seek to serve you, because for this purpose came
he into the world. By these words do I exhort you, and by these words do I
guide, that you be not a partaker of the sufferings now creeping upon the
worldly who scoff at my words and heed not these my instructions.
October 24, 2014
Moving Together In This Creative Spiral
Moving Together In This Creative Spiral
Special Session at Sunrise Ranch
Martin Cecil April 10, 1978
We are here to achieve something not so much from the standpoint of our personal experience, as though we were seeking to attain some individual heights, but more because we forget the personal aspect of the matter and are concerned with what we are here to do together as a whole, in this overall body of ministry.
There are things present individually, of course, that relate to what is present in the consciousness of mankind as a whole—and we have no desire to isolate ourselves from the consciousness of mankind as a whole. There is a need for the connection, so that what happens in us as individuals may have an impact insofar as the mass consciousness is concerned. So we no longer object to things that need to be dealt with, we no longer struggle with them, but we accept them into our creative field collectively.
I have before emphasized the fact that there is nothing properly merely personal. If there are those personal factors which arise in consciousness, or that have been carried around by a person which need rebuking, the rebuke is offered because those things don't belong in the whole, not merely because they don't belong in "me." And one would not sustain anything in the whole which obviously does not belong there. So when we offer rebuke we offer it on a much wider basis than the merely personal one.
Someone may say, "Well I have this tendency, this weakness, and it takes charge of me on occasion. It needs to be rebuked all right." But if we are merely doing it on a self-centered basis it will never dissolve; it will always be there to spring out at you. But if you see it as something that doesn't belong in the whole then you are in position to deal with it. Personal attitudes with respect to anything in such case no longer have any weight. And if there is something that hangs on it is because the person in fact doesn't wish to let it go; whatever he may say consciously, he doesn't wish to let it go. And the rebuke offered on this basis doesn't achieve very much. It only begins to achieve something when you see that what is present in you is a part of the whole, and that if you sustain it you are sustaining it for everybody else as well. In particular you are sustaining it so as to provide a barrier insofar as the expression of the Lord is concerned, by reason of the whole. See those things not merely as something personal. See them as a factor in the whole. And if we truly love the Lord and are truly concerned with providing Him with an instrument capable of doing what He needs to do here on earth, then instantly the rebuke becomes effective.
In isolation we are weak. Weakness characterizes the individual all on his own. There may be an appearance of strength but the real strength comes because what is being undertaken is not merely being undertaken by the individual. "Well I've got to deal with this thing," a person may say with respect to something in relationship to himself. Well if you've got to deal with it all on your own you won't deal with it. It will just hang around. It is only when it is recognized as being a part of the whole that it is possible to deal with it from the standpoint of the whole. And there is the necessary strength in the whole to do whatever is needed to be done.
I'm sure in your own experience along the way you have been faced with particular problems individually speaking and you've struggled with them on your own. It is a strange trait in human beings; they seem to want to isolate themselves in this regard and struggle with their difficulties on their own, partly because they know they will never succeed in experiencing any victory on this basis and they can remain merely human. But when it has been shared with somebody else—if it is the right person, that is, someone who doesn't agree with your weaknesses—it is handled very simply. And when you begin to let everything be handled from the standpoint of the whole then we begin to serve.
Now we have a very specific focus of consciousness provided by all who are present. This enables us to handle many things. If we were to take each of you individually and examine your background and the quality of your earthly heredity and all the factors of influence that have been brought to bear in your existence on earth thus far, we would find a very wide spectrum, wouldn't we? I think it is quite wide enough to encompass all that needs to be encompassed insofar as our purpose together is concerned, because we are here together very specifically to achieve something definite.
I am not suggesting we should try to figure out what that is with the expertise of our human intellect; it couldn't be done anyway. But we need to come into position where there is a sufficient pattern of experienced agreement so that what is necessary can happen. And it happens, as we know, on a very definite basis. We call that basis the One Law. Everything works as it should when the One Law is allowed to find its proper application.
Yesterday I was mentioning something with respect to what might be called "new thinking." I am sure that you have had some experience in this regard, where something unfolded in consciousness naturally as you moved along because the spirit was in action. We are moving together in this creative process on a spiral—at least this is one way of describing it—moving around an ascending spiral so that we find ourselves coming back over the same point again but at a different level. This will be happening as we move along, because we are not here to strike out in some amazingly new direction. What would be the point? Isn’t the direction we've been going all right? Are we going to just dissolve all that and say "Well we'll start out in some other direction"? No. Presumably we have an awareness of the fact that we have been moving as we should have been moving, up to a point at least, and this is the right direction to move. So we still move in the same ascending spiral, we still come back over the same points, but at a new level. We are quite willing and happy to do this because by this movement there is a drawing power exerted into the consciousness of mankind.
That drawing power at times may seem like a dragging power, depending where you are looking at it from. If a person is being drawn by it then he is being drawn along with it. But if a person is providing the focus of this drawing power then human consciousness is somewhat sluggish. When you are pulling something along there is a drag seemingly. So as we move up the spiral there may be a sense of drag in that way. A sense of drag to us, however, is a sense of being drawn to somebody who is being pulled along by our drag, so we don't object to some sensation of drag at times.
In other words, very often people think they are only really achieving something when everything is so free in the rushing-along role, enjoying the thing so tremendously. Well there are moments when that happens no doubt, but let us not look askance at the weight which sometimes seems to put in an appearance. Because we have a job to do. And so there is nothing wrong with this sensation of weight at times, of a drag at times. So often people have objected to this. But as angels we recognize that it is one of those things; it is part of the creative process; it is part of the way by which we achieve what we are here to do. So we are delighted in the various aspects of experience which put in an appearance as we move along.
They put in an appearance because we are moving along. And when they do, well, that's fine. We are moving along together in this creative spiral. And so it may be that as we move we will find some recapitulation of various things that you thought perhaps you knew before, but seeing them at a new level you find that you really didn't see them before; you didn't experience them adequately before. Let's do something with the time we have. In order to do what is required there is the necessity for a freedom of movement mentally speaking; otherwise the drag that we experience will be of our own making and it will drag us down.
© emissaries of divine light
October 22, 2014
Unified Radiation Instantly
Unified Radiation Instantly
Special Session at Sunrise Ranch
Martin Cecil April 14, 1978
We need to come into position where there is a sufficient pattern of experienced agreement so that what is necessary can happen. It happens on a very definite basis. We call that basis the One Law. Everything works as it should when the One Law is allowed to find its proper application. We have a proper application here that includes all of us.
Response is something that is very essential, but usually response is thought of as being something separate from that to which the response is given—response on the one hand, radiation on the other. You must have radiation to have response; and so there are these two things.
The actual fact is that when there is response there is only one thing. We know the way that that has been described: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. Well if there is real response it is instantaneous; there isn't a long drawn out cycle—"Well now I'm being attracted. And I'm going to enjoy this period of time, lengthen it out perhaps some." We allow the response to generate union and unified radiation instantly, together.
In this particular situation at the moment I have the responsibility which centers in radiation and you have the responsibility which centers in response. But if we are to achieve anything it is because they are one and because you are sharing in radiation— to the extent of your response. Where there is genuine, real response there is no distinction between the radiation and the response; there is union, it is one thing. It is one thing to be shared in the creative expression essential in the moment.
This of course is something that keeps changing but the basic way by which there is something achieved is always the same. There is great variety in the achievement but the way it is done is always the same: the One Law, the working of the Law. There is really the focus of radiation and the focus of response involved here, and whether it is radiation or response it turns out to be unified, one thing. And angels are present to provide what is necessary in either aspect.
I think sometimes the idea has been that angels are always positive—in other words, they are always involved with radiation and somebody out there somewhere is going to respond. But the Law works within the angelic state. We need to let it work there that there may be a positive radiation for the achievement of what is necessary at this point of what we have referred to as the restoration. There is something to be done with respect to the mass consciousness, and it requires what we bring along related to that mass consciousness to connect us up. But still we function as angels. We function from the standpoint of angels who assume whatever role is necessary in the circumstance. Sometimes the role is positive radiation, sometimes it is negative response. But if either role is played correctly it is all found to provide unified radiation; it is all found to extend an impact into the mass consciousness of mankind.
All this requires that our human equipment—I'm speaking from the standpoint of an angel—our human equipment to function in a certain way. It hasn't been accustomed to functioning in this way in the general sense for human beings on earth, but presumably you have been learning to let it function increasingly in the way that it should. The very fact that you have offered yourselves here in this class is an indication that something has been achieved along these lines, because you are responsible for providing what is necessary in this creative process which we will be sharing.
I would emphasize the fact that it is not for your benefit. It is not to enable you to be much more effective after you leave here—it is a matter of what we are going to do now and what we are going to share in this ever-present moment. And we are here to let something be done now. Whatever subjects may be under consideration, let them be under consideration by angels.
Very often when the angel is on hand and things are under consideration then something crops up that needs to be dealt with one way or another, rebuked one way or another, and the rebuke is offered because we are all moving together as one. If we as an individual hang on to some particular thing that needs to be dissolved then we are hanging this weight around the neck of everybody else. We need to have concern for each other in this regard so that we don't impose anything on anyone, and so that we can move freely in this one spirit.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
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