The Heart Interpenetrates All Three Planes

The  Heart  Interpenetrates  All  Three  Planes

Uranda   April 1, 1947

 

In other Services, I have pointed out that, actually, what we speak of as the heart, or feeling realm, is not a distinct realm. We speak of the trinity of body, mind and Spiritual Expression; and then, in analysis, when finally the consciousness allows us to begin to break it down, we specify the feeling realm between body and mind, and yet the feeling realm is actually an over-lapping something that belongs to both body and mind. It is not a distinct thing itself, but it relates to both the body and the mind, and then, as one continues to grow Spiritually, he becomes more and more aware of the fact that it relates to both the mind and the Spiritual Expression.

The feeling realm ultimately is seen as inter-penetrating all three phases of the trinity and it is not something distinct and separate in itself. So, there is a recognition that part of the feeling realm belongs in the body and part of it in the mind. The mind, in the sense of the intellect, that deals with things on an abstract, impersonal, unfeeling basis, is not the whole mind, because the whole mind includes the ability to perceive through feeling, mentally speaking. Therefore, each one comes to recognize that some of the distinctions that human beings are inclined to arbitrarily make do not, in the final analysis, stand up, although they may be alright at various points along the way.

We have the trinity then, and, ultimately, the ability to perceive with respect to feeling inter-penetrates all planes, so that it is not just the sense of feeling in the touch, physically; it is not the feeling just in that portion of the mind that functions primarily with the state of mind where one might say hurt feelings; but it is also that Spiritual Expression plane ability to feel, which allows one to begin to recognize and partake of the true nature of Love.

Physically, one can feel love, but if it is limited to the physical plane it is not truly worthy of that name Love, as we ordinarily think of it. It becomes too animalistic. Mentally, it is possible to have a certain amount of love, and feel love mentally, but if the expression of love, or the perception of love, is limited to body and mind it still is inadequate to a fullness of satisfaction and, limited to those planes, it tends to be animalistic or it tends to be controlled by the adverse emotional functions within the scope of the mind, such as jealousy or fear, envy and things of that nature.

So it is not until the feeling ability, or the heart, in the sense of the Spiritual Expression plane, balances out the perception and recognition of love in relationship to all three planes of Being, that there can begin to be a manifestation of control in the emotional plane, allowing one to transcend the destructive emotional reactions in relationship to love. Many people say, "It is because I love that person that I am jealous or I am this or that." Actually, that is a totally destructive aspect of the feeling nature which the individual is allowing to operate in relationship to his love.

But when the Currents reach through, so that the dominating influence is Divine Love as perceived through the Spiritual Expression plane in a feeling sense, and that permeates all three planes of Being, then the expression and perception of Love begins to be a beautiful, satisfying thing that has a realization of attunement in and with the Eternal, and then, by reason of that fullness of Love Response to the Lord, the Love of the Lord can begin to express through the individual, allowing obedience to the second of the Two Great Commandments.

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The Union of Conscious and Subconscious

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The  Union  of  Conscious  and  Subconscious

Martin Cecil   February 22, 1981 

We are associated with something that is, in human terms, vast;

not very big in cosmic terms, mind you, but in human terms quite vast.

Holy, holy, holy. We assemble in the holy place. This is not a geographical position, although it may be so represented. We abide in the holy place. We don't stay just in one geographical position. Wherever we are is the holy place.  Human beings in general have forgotten this. They behave as though they were not in the holy place. Awakening to an awareness of the holy place in our own living, we keep that place holy where we are on earth.

It is because of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost that we may abide in the holy place. The Father is above all, the Son of the Father is the conscious mind, and the Holy Ghost of the Father is the subconscious mind. The heart is present with both conscious and subconscious minds, but to a greater extent in the subconscious mind because it is a larger place.

As the spirit of shame is dissolved in the subconscious mind, the barrier to the movement of the spirit of God is removed. The dissolution of the spirit of shame has been taking place on earth in the experience of many people. This has not been looked upon favorably by some. It seems as though there has been an increase in what might be called license. Nevertheless, through this process, even though it may have swung to an extreme, the barrier of shame has been falling away. Because of what has been happening, this barrier of shame has weakened and in some ways fallen away, so that the spirit of God might move more freely at that level. This has occurred for great numbers of people. The Word has been spoken on earth within the consciousness of mankind with an increasing sound, so that these things have been happening.

The conscious aspect of mind within the body of humanity has, as we are aware, begun to emerge in a way that allows the Son to become a reality. I suppose it could be said that there has always been a certain conscious aspect of the body of mankind—a certain level of the conscious mind has been present in the affairs of men, producing troubles of all sorts. But the Son has been absent.

Only in recent decades has there been a certain emergence of the Son into the experience of certain ones within the total consciousness of mankind. Because of this there has been somewhat increased direction given to what has been occurring on earth, particularly as this relates to the subconscious levels of the human race. Presumably we have all had some part in this. We have had little real awareness of the potency of what we ourselves say and do. It is very potent to the extent that we are assuming the position of the Son in the conscious mind of humanity. We may not entirely have realized that we were doing this. That is perhaps a good thing, because there would have been even more reluctance probably. But it has been happening; and the way things have gone in the world has followed out the direction that has been given through the Son, as well as the direction which continues to be given by reason of the son of perdition: the conscious aspect of the mind of man in its state of separation from God. There are two factors here. We have seen these two factors relative to the dispute over the body of mankind. All these things have been available to be understood by people. 

 

Here are the first five verses of the 60th chapter of Isaiah: "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Here we see a reference to the Son consciousness, the conscious mind of the body of the Son of God. "For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people…"

Here is reference to the realm of the Holy Ghost, or the subconscious aspect of the mind of the body of humanity. Two aspects: one conscious, one subconscious. There is nothing really wrong with the fact that the subconscious is dark; we do not need to judge in the matter. It may be that it is darker in humanity than it needs to be—they call it "gross" here—but it is all included in the consciousness of mankind, which is being restored to the consciousness of the Son of God on earth. It is all included in the creative cycle, the evolutionary process. If there is darkness, even gross darkness, it might be described as evol. We acknowledge the facts as they are; we don't try to pretend that they are some way they are not. From the divine standpoint facts are always faced, and there is no question that they can always be dealt with; and whatever needs to happen in the creative process will happen. We begin to share this outlook, so we are not scared by the darkness or the gross darkness. We know that the subconscious mind of mankind is necessary, just as our own individual subconscious minds are necessary.

"... but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." Here reference is made, by using the word "thee," to the conscious mind of the body of the Son of God. As the barrier of shame is removed in the subconscious mind the Word can reach through the subconscious mind and rise up toward the conscious mind, bringing with it the material that is needful for whatever is occurring in the creative cycle. To the extent that this is happening there is the reality of the Holy Ghost. Coming down from the Father into the conscious mind is something that remains unknown until it begins to be clothed in form. Well the material for the form is rising up from below, and the design of the form is coming down from above. These positive and negative aspects of spirit meet at the level of the conscious mind. There is an arc, there is light: "Arise, shine; for thy light is come," on this basis, "and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." The Son is then a reality, and direction can be given to the creative process of the restoration; this is the concern at the moment.

The Son is a word which may represent what we have called the priesthood. As there is illumination at the level of the conscious mind there is understanding. There is a consequent awareness of what is happening, and the responsibility may be assumed to provide whatever direction is necessary so that the will of the Father coming down from above may be done under the direction of the Son by reason of the power of the Holy Ghost, by reason of what is rising up from below. "But the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee."

Here is the priesthood, the representatives of the conscious aspect of the mind of the body of the Son of God. As this occurs, it is suggested here, "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side." Can we not lift up our eyes and see what is happening, clearly outlined here a long time ago?

"Then thou shalt see”—if you look—“and flow together”—unified radiation—“and thine heart shall fear”—not be afraid, but be in awe of what it is that is happening: how great is God Almighty; there is awe—“and be enlarged”—there is the necessity of encompassing more, isn't there?—“because the abundance of the sea”—that is, what is rising up to be made available out of the subconscious mind of humanity—“the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee”—shall be available for your use—“the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee." The means by which the power of the Holy Ghost is made known on earth rises up from the subconscious levels of the mind of the body of the Son of God on earth.

We see how essential all the aspects of this perfect design are; you can't leave anything out. In the development of what we have thought of as the Emissary ministry much has been excluded. Again I don't say this in condemnation; it was part of the creative cycle. The vision was restricted during the cycle of attraction leading toward union, and even when there was some measure of union the reality of unified radiation wasn't comprehended or allowed to be adequately experienced. Now it begins to come clear. Why is this? Presumably because there is increased light. And why is there increased light? Because of the current of the spirit operating through the two essential poles.

 

We can't, if we have a certain conscious understanding, pat ourselves on the back and say we have this understanding because we are special people. We have the understanding only when the essential facilities for the operation of the current begin to be in place. Then the positive pole from above and the negative pole from below complete the circuit, the arc jumps across, and there is light. Ah! Now we see a lot more than we saw before. But it didn't happen because we sweated and strained to make it happen, did it? nor because we are really such intelligent and spiritually vital people. I suppose it might be said it happened because we got caught in the squeeze, so to speak. We found ourselves at the level where this happens. Presumably there was some reason why we find ourselves there; it is not just by chance. However a clearer recognition cuts the human ego down to size and any lingering tendencies to arrogance can be dropped forthwith.

Our understanding, our ability to function as the priesthood in this conscious level of the mind that was in Christ Jesus, is made possible by reason of what has been rising up out of the realm of the Gentiles. All superior attitudes, then, toward these "heathen" can be relinquished. They are absolutely essential to our experience. Of course there has been consistently the availability of the positive aspect of this creative current coming down from the Father. We have been able to operate within the range of the working of the Law because we ourselves as individuals had subconscious minds and something could rise up on this basis, and we could see something because of this. We could share a greater understanding, so that we might be maneuvered into position collectively to provide the facility for the Son aspect of consciousness.

 

We can't say to ourselves, "I did it," or "We did it," but we do have some experience of coming into position: abiding in the holy place as the priesthood, who certainly are an essential factor in what is happening. But standing alone they would be useless, they would be nonexistent in fact, because this experience of the priesthood comes because of all the other things that are happening as well, and because the negative current has been released sufficiently at the subconscious level of the body of mankind to allow a rising up of the essential factor to complete the circuit.

We begin to be put together in the design which allows for the restoration of mankind. The human mind certainly didn't do it. The spirit of God gets the job done. The initiating point was a focus of the Word in form on earth. From that point of departure—which was preceded by a good many other things as well, mind you—over the last two thousand years there was set in motion what is occurring and has brought us presumably to the point where we lift up our eyes round about and see.

What we know, what we understand, is not going to be thrown out the window. We still know it, we still understand it; but we have a vision of wholeness which transcends the little petty state in which we may have existed before, a state in which we may have felt reasonably self-satisfied because we were identifying with the Word and we were expressing the Word and we were being fine people in our little areas of operation, but we didn't really know what was happening.

 

Now you begin to see what is happening, and that we are associated with something that is, in human terms, vast; not very big in cosmic terms, mind you, but in human terms quite vast. And there are those who have been doing their thing without knowing that they were doing their thing, spiritually speaking—something rising up in them, compelling them to come into position. That position is not separate from us, any more than the subconscious mind is separate from the conscious mind. They compose one entity: the mind that was in Christ Jesus; both aspects are essential.

There may be one in about a thousand—and that I think is a very high ratio—who actually is material capable of participating in the conscious aspect of the body of the Son of God. But most belong in this unconscious, subconscious aspect. Leave them there! There needs to be a rising up perhaps, a greater comprehension of what is happening in their own experience and on the larger scene. And this could be offered in a multitude of different ways, ways that are acceptable to the levels of consciousness of those concerned. The door can be opened.

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The Two Crossover Points

The  Two  Crossover  Points — Spiritual  Government

Martin Exeter   April 28, 1980   Assembly

From the human standpoint government tends to be seen in terms of form. From our standpoint, of course, we see it in terms of spirit. The control that should be operative in the world of true man is that of spirit. And so, at every level of the living experience, individually and collectively, spirit is supreme.

Some consideration was given this morning to certain areas of form: sports, science, the New Age movement. This was done most effectively and with finesse, providing an emphasis on spirit relative to these particular forms. Spiritual values were prominent in the consideration. In almost any form presently observable in the world as we know it, certain spiritual values can be found. We may be a little selective of these forms, considering those where the spiritual values are most obvious. There is a vast field of form to examine. Three aspects were brought to point this morning—many others might have been—and the three that were brought to point could be broken down, so to speak, in a vast array of subheadings. It is useful to take a look at these forms, particularly if it reminds us of where the real values are, which is in spirit. 

Now in any field of form, these spiritual values are there because of people. The form itself does not provide us with very much, but always there are people associated with them. As was emphasized this morning, there are various qualities that are exemplified by people associated with these different forms. In a sense, I suppose it could be said that it is plainest where the physical approach is paramount; the mind hasn’t gotten in there so much to distort it. Of course it is doing its best to get in there, particularly in the form of politics relative to amateur sport, the Olympic Games being in focus now. Science of course, where the intellect is very active, finds a proliferation of detail, such a state that it covers up ever increasingly the simplicity of the truth. A point that was made was that when man, human beings, try to cast themselves simply in the role of an observer, they immediately create for themselves an imaginary state, because the fact of the matter is that human beings are more than observers. They are a part of what it is that they are attempting to observe, while at the same time proposing to exclude themselves from what it is they are observing. So they cannot see the truth, certainly, because the truth would include the person who is observing it, or observing such facts as he is able to lay his finger on.

I think this is plainly illustrated by what happens when there are a group of human beings together doing something or other, considering something perhaps—maybe a board meeting—and I enter the room. I have always had difficulty in this regard, because I can never observe what goes on without me being present. The very moment I put in an appearance the whole situation changes. Well, of course it does this in any group of people when anyone shows up; it changes in some fashion. It’s somewhat different when I show up, because those concerned had, to whatever extent, forgotten the spirit which I bring when I show up. If there had been a complete acknowledgment and acceptance and expression of that spirit in what was going on, then it wouldn’t really change anything very much, would it? It would just go on the same way.

So if there seems to be some sort of a rather remarkable change occurring, it is a dead giveaway that the spirit had not been there the way it should have been before and now everybody is smartening up. Of course, it may be that they are putting on their fronts too, so as to impress me. But we cannot observe anything without changing it. Observation has a tendency to lead into judgment. It can be seen, surely, very clearly that it leads into false judgment every time. The endeavor to cast oneself simply as an observer and then judge what is seen is leaving a factor out of what it is he is observing—himself—so that any judgments that occur will be on the basis of inadequate input. It will be false judgment; it inevitably must be. People try to stand back and to be unbiased, but they are taking an essential element out of the picture when they do that.

We need to stand at a level where we are not a part of the manifest picture. And I don’t know any other level where one could stand but at the crossover point between the dimensional and the undimensional. That was indicated as being a point with position but no magnitude. There is no magnitude there, so there is nothing to distort the picture. And that point, of course, is at the high point of spiritual substance in the dimensional world, the point of connection between the dimensional world and the undimensional world. Observation can be made from that point which will include an accurate perspective. Spirit is not excluded, God is not excluded. Obviously, if God was excluded there would not be anything, there would not be anything to observe. So there is an awareness of more than the field of observation, and that “more” is essential to the field of observation; it would not exist without it. So the only place we could observe with accuracy is this point which has position but no magnitude. The position will determine what it is we are able to observe. The fact of no magnitude indicates that we are not in the realm of form where the observation is being made. We stand at the point of the I—maybe just the dot of the i—being in this position, we recognize it as a crossover point. Something is crossing over. In other words there is an influence relative to what we are observing, just because of this; but we are aware of that influence as a part of our observation. Now I suppose we could designate this crossover point as the true point of government. Government, as we well understand, is not in position. Government operates on the basis of the Law. And we would not violate that operation when we are present where we belong, at this crossover point. In one sense, I suppose you could say the Law is back of us and in front of us. There are the positive and negative aspects here, in actual operation, and as individuals at that crossover point the operation occurs totally within our jurisdiction.

So government is natural, because we let the Law work. I think government in the human world is unimaginable except on the basis of imposition. Of course it may be, as some have the view, that there should be as little government as possible, in other words as little imposition as possible. But if imposition vanished altogether, in the human sense government would vanish altogether. We see government emerging on a different basis, on the basis of spirit, and the fact that there is the means present by which spirit and form are unified. And the form that comes into evidence then is simply the effect, or the result, the reflection, of what first occurs in spirit in the sense of the undimensional realm. I suppose you could call this a model. It is a model in the human mind. Therefore be careful, when you are considering these models, that you do not try to make them into the thing itself, because, as was suggested, this simply proliferates complications. And because man was created in the image and likeness of God, he participates in creation, and he finds himself creating things necessary to his own concepts, which are then confirmed. But they are simply his own creation at the level of the model, not at the level of the reality. And I think it is true that the Creator uses this method of scrambling the language, the languages of human beings, when they try to build the Tower of Babel. Invariably they must move off into a realm of fancy, and they become enamored with their models and forget the reality altogether. And the model, in any case, can only provide a potential of understanding of a very limited area, because, particularly in scientific models, most of the information is being excluded.

Now we only have the whole encompassment at this crossover point between the dimensional and the undimensional. There is another crossover point, because the dimensional reflects within itself the larger picture. As was noted, there is always a larger picture in which whatever one is considering is contained, and this leads into a realm of incomprehension insofar as the human mind is concerned. How could it go on forever? And if it does, how could the human mind possibly encompass it? Well, of course, the answer to that is that it couldn’t. So why try? The more it tries to fit into its thimble, the more distorted the picture becomes. The mind has the capacity to handle vastly more than it now handles perhaps, but only what is present within the true realm of immediate responsibility. It can do that. If it trespasses beyond those bounds it gets into trouble, and its main activity so far has been trespassing. “Forgive us our trespasses.” The human mind has not reached the point of recognizing even the need for forgiveness in this field, let alone asking for it. But there is a very specific application of this statement in the Lord’s Prayer to this particular field. The human mind is always trespassing. Those of us who are gathered in this Assembly must have a recognition of the need for forgiveness personally in this area, even though we might look out into the human world and see people everywhere who we imagine need it more than us. Well, that is their business. But we need it. “Forgive us our trespasses,” because we stop trespassing. That seems unbelievable to human beings, that forgiveness would mean that one really did not function on the old basis at all. Forgiveness, in the human view, is usually just a way station, isn’t it, until the next trespass.

So we have this smaller pattern within the larger pattern, where there is another crossover point between what we call the dimensional heaven and the dimensional earth. Now these two crossover points—one between the undimensional and the dimensional, one between the dimensional heaven, the invisible heaven, and the dimensional or visible earth—are really one. As a model, I have cut some triangles out of a piece of paper and then folded them together, and you find that the points of the apex fit exactly, one behind the other. So we have an actual living process here, something emerging into manifest form, which in turn emerges beyond whatever that manifest form is to other forms, and beyond, and beyond. But there is a returning cycle, which raises up that in which this creative process has been at work, and there is what we have referred to as ascension--something coming back, something rising up out of the earth through that crossover point into heaven, and out of heaven through the higher crossover point into God. And we don’t need to trespass beyond this. We may have an awareness of the fact that it is an oversimplification to just use the word “God,” but that is about all that is necessary for the untrespassing human mind. But we ourselves find ourselves at a point of observation and action, as well as response, when we are restored to ourselves. That experience comes at the crossover point between the dimensional and the undimensional. I suppose you could call that point, if you want to give it a name, the Son of God, and the point between the heaven and the earth the son of Man. Man is at the high point of the earth, God is at the high point of the heaven; but they are one. There is a differentiation, a creative movement, the reality of life.

Now, in observing these various forms where human beings are contained presently, as was done this morning, we may see that there is always a tendency for human beings to congeal and become the forms. This has happened, of course, throughout human history, and is obvious enough in the world now, even though some of these congealed forms have become finally so brittle that they do not hold together anymore too well. One can see various stages of crystallization here, which is the downward movement. Something starts off by being fairly fluid or even gaseous, and then it becomes fluid, and then it becomes solid. But eventually the crystallized structure does not have any cohesiveness left and it breaks down into component crystals. In observing these forms, we are not overly concerned with what it is that tends to produce this congealing. We know that it is there in the forms. We are interested in the people, and is it more important that they should be in one form than another? They are still people regardless of the form that they are in, and this is the thing that is important to us. We see these New Age communities. The people come into them and tend to become so accustomed to that particular form that they lose the sensitivity which was present to bring them into that form in the first place. Now we have seen this happening within the range of our own program.

There is always this tendency to congeal Emissary-wise, and when that is done the sensitivity to spiritual things begins to atrophy. There is a danger to the view—which may be a true view, actually—that when one has touched the Emissary ministry one is home. That is both true and untrue. It depends on what is seen as being the home. As most people are primarily polarized in forms, there is the tendency to see the form as being the home. And if this is done, then of course the following steps of solidifying occur, and everything becomes crystalline and eventually disintegrates. The disintegration that is taking place in the world of form now, all around us, we see as being necessary, as being good. “It needs to happen, because it frees up the substance,” we say. But how about the forms into which we ourselves have crystallized? When there is a recognition that these should be liquefied (perhaps there is a difference between being liquefied and liquidated!) then the resistance appears and an attitude of horror may be assumed. These holy forms are being called in question. Well, any form is only holy just so long as it is capable of accommodating spirit, because the form of itself isn’t anything.

As we have already noted, with respect to all these various forms, it is the people who are present in the forms, the living people, who are important; and it really makes very little difference to us, properly, as to what the nature of the form is in which these people find themselves. Of course, I suppose, one could see distinctions here that would cause us to pay more attention to some forms than others. Mention was made of the Mafia, for instance, the family and that area this morning. But I don’t think a particularly judgmental attitude was taken, because obviously, there are human beings even in that camp, and many of them have a deep sense of loyalty, for instance. They sometimes have loyalty, as was emphasized, laced with a little fear, and if they were not loyal something drastic might happen. But I don’t know that that is too different from most forms in which human beings find themselves, the job form, for instance. So the important aspects are the spiritual values, and there would not be any spiritual values there, with which we would be particularly be concerned, if it was not for the people. Obviously, there are spiritual values in the animal kingdom, and the kingdom of vegetation and the mineral kingdom, but our immediate concern of government relates to the human kingdom, because here is the place of government relating to all the other kingdoms. We cannot provide right government in these other kingdoms until it is first a fact in the human kingdom. So here is the first order of business. But the values, the spiritual values, are present because of people. And because people are in these various forms we accept them the way they are, both as individuals and relative to the forms. We don’t imagine that we cannot accept a person until he comes out of some particular form, because if we take that attitude, then we are saying at the same time, “We cannot accept you while you are in that form, but we will accept you while you are in this form.” Well, we are not shuffling people from one form to another. We are offering the opportunity of freedom, freedom from subjection to forms. We cannot be free from subjection to forms unless we are free in the spirit.

You cannot just be free from subjection to forms without being dead. There must be something there with which you may be unified on the right basis, according to the true working of the Law. Because even when people are subject to forms, as they are, this happens by reason of the working of the Law. One might say it is reversed application, but it is still the working of the Law. And human beings find themselves in oneness with forms, and the only way that this state of oneness with forms on the wrong basis, on the wrong basis of the working of the Law, can be dissolved is through death. So death is a very necessary ingredient of the picture, as long as there is this reverse application of the Law. But it would be entirely unnecessary when the Law is allowed to operate the way it should. We learn to accept things as they are. So we accept people the way they are. And if they are associated with this form or that form, that does not have all that much significance to us. The people are there, and within the people there are qualities, inherent qualities of spiritual value, spiritual character. This is true of everyone, as long as life remains. The extent of such qualities, of course, varies from person to person.

So we wish to provide the substance of connection, in which the spirit of God may work. It is the substance of connection upward for those concerned, for those who are open to be influenced by it. It is an uplifting experience that begins to bring a person into alignment with the cycles of ascension. And this happens to the extent that there is a focus point established between, first of all, between the undimensional and the dimensional worlds, and then beyond that again into the realm of form, of earthly form, by reason of that crossover point, that connection between heaven and earth. This is our responsibility. And in either case, whichever point we look at, it’s a point. It has position but no magnitude, and consequently we could not fit anyone else into it. So we are not trying to get anyone into anything. But we may share collectively in providing a crossover point. This is our business here in the Assembly presumably, with this particular configuration. There should be a unified point capable not only of generating the essential fine substance, so that it is available, but of letting it connect up with such substance as may be present in other people, wherever they are. As this connecting-up takes place in a more particular sense, we become aware of what it is that is happening in a more specific way. That is what was undertaken this morning in looking at these three areas of form and acknowledging that there are people, and spiritual values consequently, present within the range of these forms.

Now the substance that we provide as connection, we see it as connection; but those who are being connected don’t. They don’t know what it is that is happening, even though they have experiences of the happening. But they are not in position to say, “This is happening because of that.” Mind you, when the happenings become more outstanding, so that they cannot sweep them under the carpet of usual daily experience, then something may come more specifically into the picture with which they are inclined to identify the happening. The Emissaries have been used in this way by most who found themselves associated. Their experience became sufficiently specific to say, “Well, this is happening because of the Emissaries of Divine Light.” Well, that’s all right for the moment. But if that view is held too long one is merely associated with a concept of one’s own mind. And again, the connection with spirit begins to fade, the sensitivity begins to fade, the congealing goes into effect, the crystallization takes place, and it all falls apart. If one is doing that as a person, well, one just falls apart oneself. So we see the essential nature of this connecting substance—which is the substance of life itself—as the opportunity for people of quality everywhere to find themselves associated in an increasingly conscious way with life, with the reality of life. The various ideas that may be in their minds are not of all that much importance, any more than the ideas that were in our minds were of all that much importance. We thought they were important, mind you, and we doubtless tried to lay them on other people; but they were not all that important to us, let alone to anybody else.

In order to keep human beings from congealing too much in whatever forms they may find themselves, we are aware of the value of water. Water—pure water, mind you, the symbol of truth—is what was poured over Elijah’s sacrifice, you may recall, so that everything was sodden; it was quite soft, capable of yielding. And so truth is a vital element here, an element that is present in our own consciousness. At least it must be there if we are to pour the water over the sacrifice. And we stand at the point of observation, knowing that our presence provides an ingredient into the situation that was not there before. And that ingredient includes our own view and understanding of what it is that is taking place. Our own view, for instance, of the farm was mentioned this morning as a somewhat congealed collection of people who had sufficient sensitivity to rise up above what they were experiencing before, and they find themselves in this particular form. Now, our view of that form is very important, as our view of any other forms is important; because this is the way that the water is poured over the sacrifice. This is not requiring anything of anyone else; it is just our own view, our own understanding of the situation. In times past all too many Emissaries had rather crystallized views—in other words they had congealed to that extent—and they looked at other gatherings of human beings through this congealed vision and consequently entered into judgment in the matter: “They haven’t congealed the way they should have congealed.” But the point is that they should not have congealed, if they have, and neither should we. And we are not seeking to congeal people but to free them up, to let them be in a more malleable condition.

And the first force, as I recall, was water. And the water is the truth of our own outlook, of our own awareness of what the situation really is. And we are not concerned about the form except as it may be a factor which is producing some congealing of the people. But we see the people from the standpoint of their qualities of spirit, from the standpoint of the spiritual values that are present there, regardless of what level of congealing may have occurred. And our attitude is one of blessing, because those inherent qualities that are present are to be activated by the action of spirit moving through the creative cycle, which is associated with these people by reason of the substance of connection. This is all occurring at a level of which the human mind has had no awareness—thankfully, because wherever the human mind gets an awareness it always interferes, it always trespasses, or tries to. So we do not see these things in order that we can explain them to other people. The reason I am talking about them now with you is not to explain them to you but so that we may all together participate in pouring a few barrels of water over these various groupings which come within the range of our consideration, which are brought to us in one way or another. Well, these three areas were brought to us this morning: sports, science, and the New Age.

So I am sure that we are all much more aware now of the possibilities in these areas from the spiritual standpoint, and we do not just write them off, as all too many Emissaries have tended to do and said, “Well that form is no good. That congealing condition is no good.” Well, it isn’t much use, that’s true; but there are people there, and we are not writing off the people. And the only way we can sustain a right connection, on the basis of the true working of the Law with those people, is by reason of the fact that we have the connecting substance. And by the way, the substance is the substance of connection in this instance, and not the substance of judgment. So we let it simply be what it is, and we find ourselves associated with these people to the extent that we ourselves are representatives of the spiritual values that are present in them. And the connection is a real connection, because there is the substance here; it is not anymore just a delightful imagination.

Now this has led into the matter of government more specifically, because you can see how, with the working of the Law and the creative cycle and in the movement of spirit, what rightly can be done is caused to happen. And we do not have to go rushing frantically around the world, here, there and everywhere, trying to preach the gospel according to some human concept. We preach it in this way. We preach it by reason of our own living primarily, because we are then representing those spiritual qualities that are present in people in every formation, wherever they may be around the world. But as I say, as we let this happen in ourselves these things are brought to us. Certain things are brought to this Assembly, for instance. We do not imagine that everything is going to be brought to this Assembly, but there will be those things which are ripe at this point, in relationship to all of us and with respect to all those people out there who are concerned with whatever it is that is brought to us. We let it happen. We do not have to go picking through the garbage, so to speak. What is capable of being brought to us will be brought to us as the substance of connection is there.

And so we share increasingly in the reality of spiritual government.

Martin: A very great deal of my ministry has been concerned with this matter of preventing congealing getting out of hand, because we all move together, and if Emissaries begin to congeal, I am not exempt from what is happening. Of course it is useful to become aware of the fact that there is a congealing going on, because then I know something really needs to be done about it. And consequently I have been under the necessity of doing various things to—well, pouring more water on the scene, and in various ways providing what I was able to let things be loosened up. So we all need to be aware of this necessity, because those who are with us more closely as individuals will have the same tendency as everybody else to congeal. And if we go along with it, we are sunk in the molasses.

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