No Power On Earth Could Have Touched Him

No  Power  On  Earth  Could  Have  Touched  Him

from  The Final Victory

Uranda   January 27, 1952

He who had moved among men before and disappeared at will prior to that time—

do you not think that, if His disciples had been holding steady,

He could have disappeared in any moment He had chosen?

On this beautiful day, which gives promise of a springtime not too far away, let us meditate for a moment upon some of the principles that our Master revealed in relationship to this phase of our own progress along the way. The Master said, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do,” and that work which the Father gave was finished before that experience that was made necessary to our Lord by human imposition in the trial and the crucifixion. The work the Father gave Him to do was completed before that trial and before the crucifixion, for we have the Word from His own lips: “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” Why, then, was it necessary for Him to experience the mockery, the indignities of that trial, and the sufferings of the crucifixion? It was because man imposed those things upon our Lord. They were imposed by man’s rejection of the divine pattern.
 

The ill things that nullify the expression of the beautiful pattern of God’s design on earth are never God’s will. They are imposed by man’s rejection of that which God offers. The shame and the suffering, the indignities, are never the result of the divine pattern or of God’s will. They are the result of man’s denial and betrayal of his responsibilities, and they are imposed by that which man himself does. Very often those who consider themselves Christians, or who long to move along the spiritual path, are inclined to think: “If I had lived, if I had only had the privilege of living at that time when our Master Himself walked on earth, I would not have been among those who were scattered so quickly from that vast throng who were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the king.’ I would not have been like Peter, denying, or like Judas, betraying, nor like the others who followed afar off, for I would have appreciated my privilege and opportunity. And, cost what it might, I would have been among those who stood at the foot of the cross.” So many have felt that way—perhaps they would not express it in so many words. 

Yet today, in this hour and in all the hours to come, we have the same privilege of remaining true, the same privilege of standing at the foot of the cross, the same privilege of proving the reality of our love and our trust. The passage of the centuries has not denied us any privilege that we might have had then, with the one exception of seeing the physical form through which our Lord was manifest. And He said of those who lived then, that for their sakes it was expedient that He should go away; and if it was expedient for them, there is nothing taken from us, because we do not have the privilege, as our minds might think of it, of seeing Him in physical form. It is expedient for us that He so arranged the divine pattern.
 

So, let us examine something of what happened and see if we can gain a deeper conviction of that which is necessary to ourselves, that we may come to a recognition that it is not what we feel out of the subconscious heart or mind, it is not what we feel externally, that is properly the directing force in our lives. It is what we see and recognize and realize with the conscious mind to be the truth of the matter, for the mind which is allowing the spirit of God to work in it is stronger than any feeling that can come surging up from the subconscious. It is stronger than any idea that may be buried somewhere in the subterranean phases of the mind. It is stronger than any current of feeling that may be imposed from the outside. 

What you feel is beside the point. As long as the conscious mind continues to yield to the impulses that come from a distorted subconscious mind or heart, as long as it yields to the currents of feeling or action from without, it is saying, “I am not a guardian angel. I am not fortified by the spirit of God. I am a weak thing and I must of needs acknowledge the extent of my weakness and say that God cannot serve me because I am subject to all of these ill things.” He who says that betrays our Lord, as surely as Judas betrayed Him. He denies, as surely as Peter did, and he is not even following afar off. He is scattered into the darkness, hiding in the alleyways, lest someone see and say, “Are you not one of those who followed Him?” 

Let us see what happened at the time of our Master. He had finished the work that God gave Him to do, but certain things were imposed upon Him. In either case, He was going away, as far as His physical form was concerned. But do you think He could cause His body to be changed more easily after all this humiliating experience than otherwise? He could have ascended without the suffering, the crucifixion and those days in the tomb. Man imposed that upon Him and made it necessary. Sometimes people ask a question and say, “But did not the prophets say He would have to die? Does not the Bible say there could be no salvation except as His blood was shed, etc.?” I grant you that after this experience was all over, certain ones developed some ideas with respect to it. And in the pattern of prophecy in the Old Testament you will find those things which recognized not only the possibility but the probability of the manner in which man would function. But because it worked out the way it did, the human interpretation has been on the basis of one idea only; and there has been a complete failure to recognize the fact that an alternate path, the ideal path, was foretold just as surely, as definitely, if man would have allowed it to have meaning. 

That which was of God’s design was revealed by the prophets much more abundantly than those comparatively obscure texts that recognized the probability of what man would do. Because man did fail, the texts that relate to that possibility are picked out and held up as what was prophesied. And it is not so at all, because God’s provision of the pathway did not require that Jesus should die. It was human beings that condemned our Lord to the indignities of the trial, so-called, and to the sufferings of the cross. God did not require it. From God’s standpoint, it was not necessary, and I can take the book cover to cover and show you how the pattern was revealed there. Let us examine it. 

The idea of the shedding of the blood, from the standpoint of the spear in the side and the nails in His hands and feet, is supposed to have had some particularly efficacious result—that God, being a hardhearted something-or-other, would not accept the salvation of a single man, woman, or child unless His own Son should physically bleed. Anyone who stops to consider that which is revealed of God in the Bible will recognize that that is so completely out of character that there is no reasonable excuse for any person believing it. It is completely out of character. The blood is the symbol of life. He had shed His blood, in the true sense, before He ever reached the agonies of Gethsemane or the sufferings of the cross. He had shed His life upon the earth. He had shed the currents of His life in the revelation of Deity. He had revealed the principles of life. He had given His life to the revelation of the things of God, and He Himself said before any of these things took place, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” There was a recognition that certain things were yet to be faced because of what man had imposed upon Him, but it was not the divine plan or purpose or necessary from the standpoint of God, as if He were a bloodthirsty being who demanded that blood be shed. No. That is not the character of God. It was not the plan or purpose of God. And the only reason why our Master accepted that outworking was because man imposed it upon Him. 

Who imposed it upon Him particularly? Who among men? Herod or Pilate or the power of the Caesars? Oh, no. Who imposed it upon Him? His disciples were the ones who imposed that upon Him. It is true. They simply accepted the focalization of the world in the hour of stress, rather than remaining true to their focalization in Him. But consider if the hour of crisis had come and all twelve of the disciples had remained steady. There are those who say Judas, poor creature, was predestined to do it; someone had to do it in order for God’s plan to be fulfilled. Someone on earth had to be a traitor and betray our Lord! Oh, no. God is out of character the moment anyone begins to conceive such an idea. God never predestined anyone to be a traitor or to betray the things of God, let alone the Son of God! Judas did not have to betray Him. It was not necessary; it was not a part of the divine plan. It was a part of human failure.
 

Consider. If it had worked out according to that which God had made available to them, if according to God’s true plan there had been a following through—of course the Master knew, particularly toward the last, that they were not going to hold when the crisis came; but, even so—suppose Judas had not betrayed Him, suppose Peter had not been of that type who would deny Him, suppose twelve men had stood faithful and true to their Lord on earth—twelve men, not one wavering, not one breaking in the face of the crisis—then His body on earth, the body of these twelve men who were supposed to be the key men of the Christ body which should fill the earth, holding steady, would have allowed Him to carry out God’s plan. Not from the standpoint of continued work on earth in the sense of His doing it, but His doing it through the members of His body—the very principles He had outlined to them such a few hours before, the principles and Laws that He had expounded to them over and over again through the three and a half years of His ministry with them. But if that body, the focalization of the body in twelve men, would have held the pattern, hundreds and thousands who had received blessings at His hand, who had cried “Hosanna to our king,” would have stood if the twelve disciples had stood. And there would have been a body on earth. 

He who had moved among men before and disappeared at will prior to that time—do you not think that, if His disciples had been holding steady, He could have disappeared in any moment He had chosen? Could humanity have heaped the indignities of the cross or mockery of the trial upon Him? No. Why did He accept that imposition? The body that He had been building through the years of ministry died, scattered first—the scattering of the disciples. When they broke, when they slept in Gethsemane instead of watching with Him one little hour, when they slept, when He came to face the final pattern, of course the Lord would not have suffered as He did—even in Gethsemane—had this pattern been holding properly. Because already Judas had gone out to betray, His body had started to decay and die, the body of His disciples. That body of the disciples was scattered, brought to the point of death before His physical body as a man was brought to the point of the crucifixion.

If that body of twelve disciples had remained steady and true, no power on earth could have touched Him, because then the victory would have been assured without His going through what He did. The same truths would have been revealed in the outworking of the cycles of time, but there would have been a body established—twelve key points, with others rallying around vibrationally. And if they had sought to touch Him, whether He would have used spiritual power to prevent it or whether He would have disappeared is beside the point. That would have been for Him to choose and it is not for me to speculate upon, but they could not have touched Him. That we know. If the body He had built, or undertaken to build—the body of many members—had held true, His physical body would not have had to be on the cross. But on the cross of spiritual creative activity, the crossing between heaven and earth, there would have been a revelation of divine power that would have carried through effectively and saved man centuries of suffering, sorrow, misery and death. The body would have been complete and this world would have been restored already. 

It is not until after this plan had failed to carry through that we have the prophetic portrayal, for instance in Revelation, of that which should yet be done. Because in Isaiah, and many other places, there is mention made: “Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” That is part of the prophecy of what was divinely ordained for the time when Jesus Christ should come on earth, that which could have been, but man prevented it. Man spoiled the pattern of God, so there was a divine reorganization and a reprojection of the same goal under a new pattern. Not all was lost, it is true. Our Master had finished the work. He had revealed Deity, established the truth on earth, set the pattern. And somewhere there would be those who would follow through, those who would not be so quick to betray for thirty pieces of silver or their own human desires. 

I wonder how many of you know why Judas betrayed, what the working of his mind was. I happen to know what was going on in Judas’s mind because I was one of those who was there at that time and watched this process working out in his mind, and did what I could to head it off—but I did not. He had the idea that as a political personage Jesus did not have quite as much understanding as He should have had. He was a wonderful spiritual teacher—that Judas clearly acknowledged. But He did not have a practical understanding, according to Judas’s idea, a practical understanding of what was necessary. Judas thought his own vision was clearer, his own understanding more acute. And when he went and betrayed, he had no more idea in his mind, and conviction, that it would lead to the crucifixion of Jesus than you have an idea that it would lead to some disastrous result if you were self-active for five minutes, here and now. His idea was that he would so maneuver things that he would force Jesus to use His spiritual power. He was not acting on the basis of intent to hurt Jesus. His idea was: “I will maneuver here, and as soon as it comes to the point of crisis Jesus will use His spiritual power. He will see that I was right, that it is time to take political action. It is time to use this power to establish a kingdom here on earth.” 

Judas had not gotten it out of his head that it was not simply a kingdom like Solomon or David had had here on earth. He still had that idea, and he thought, “I will so maneuver undercover that it will force the issue, and Jesus will use His great power to defeat, and He will be seen as the King of this kingdom that is to be established.” And as soon as he recognized that his own calculations had miscarried and that He was not going to use His power on any such basis, his sorrow and chagrin were tremendous. He realized that his own puny mind had misled him. He did love the Lord. He did not betray Him knowing that it would lead to the Lord’s crucifixion. He betrayed thinking that it would force the Lord to use His power to establish the kingdom. He thought it was a smart political maneuver. And consequently, when he saw that his Master was allowing Himself to be subject to it, when he saw the pattern that was unfolding, he went out and hung himself in terrible regret. Do not imagine that Judas betrayed Him for thirty pieces of silver, knowing it would lead to His crucifixion. His mind did not grasp that point at all. 

Very often the human being thinks, “If I can just improve on the Lord’s plan a little bit—my brilliance, my understanding is such that the spiritual leadership, the outworking, needs to be improved on a little. And the human mind gets busy and betrays today, as surely as it did then. If the twelve had remained true, there were hundreds and thousands of others who would have remained true. And God’s will being done in them would have provided a starting point for the beginning of that great transition into the divine state here on earth, for it was the divine intention. 

The Master was still trusting at the time He spoke the words that are recorded in Matthew 24. He still recognized that it was possible. And if you will read Matthew 24 with any understanding of what is actually contained in the so-called prophecies of the Old Testament, the outline of God’s will, pattern and intent, you will see that He recognized then that it was still possible that the complete change could be worked out within a very short period of time. Part of that which He prophesied was fulfilled about 70 A.D., and the rest remains to be fulfilled. But there is not one single thing in the record to indicate that Jesus made a guess and said, “Part of this will be fulfilled in 30 or 35 years, and the rest will take 2,000 years. He presented that in the recognition that it could be done in its fulness. He recognized the possibility but He knew the plan of God. He taught it over and over again. 

The manner in which most of the disciples failed to grasp what He was talking about is emphasized in the record in the first chapter of Acts. Even after the crucifixion, after all of this had taken place and the Master had appeared for forty days to them at different times, “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Even after His resurrection He was talking to them of the things of God. Then they were assembled together and “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him [after all that had happened and it was almost the last moment before He should leave them, the disciples], saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” They were still so dense, they had not yet completely grasped what He was talking about, that they were thinking about an earthly kingdom, that inane concept that had stuck in their minds after all the Master had said. And there, at the last moment, some of them had the gall to ask that inane question, “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” There is the secret of all this failure. 

There is the secret of why our Lord was crucified. Because this idea in the human mind was allowed to control. The logical, reasonable understanding of the things that He had taught, which denied this old idea, was not allowed to control. When we stop and examine it, we see there was nothing logical, reasonable in this failure, because He had talked to them about the kingdom of God and had still talked to them about it after the resurrection. And they still were clinging to the old idea. 

If you read the record you will find there was only one disciple who stood at the foot of the cross in the final hour, only one. If there had not been one, there would have been no connecting substance remaining; the Master’s body would have been left in the tomb and the world would have been left to degenerate and decay. That plan of our Master’s coming would have failed, as far as humanity was concerned. Because one stayed steady, that plan and pattern were allowed to continue to work out—because one stood firm. Only one out of twelve, but that one has made it possible for the fulfilment since that time, and for the fulfilment now, so that the Master’s coming and that which He did should not be in vain. 

It was because the body that He had been working to produce died, became meaningless, responded to fear, etc., that it became necessary for the physical body to be crucified. He had already shed the brilliance of His life in the world, He had already shed God’s love wherever He went, He had already revealed the patterns of truth, He had already finished the work that God gave Him to do. And it was the failure of those eleven disciples to hold steady and stand with Him that made necessary the crucifixion. And if those eleven had stood, many others would have done likewise, but with nothing to look to, no true pattern, there were only a few who held. 

This pattern reveals that which is necessary in our lives here and now. It reveals the fact that we need to so abide in His love, remain so centered, remain so true to our divine calling, that the things that come up from the subconscious mind—the old ideas, the old feelings—are not allowed to control. Pressures from without are not allowed to control. But the conscious mind, centered in God, stands steady on the basis of its recognition of the things of God, its conviction of the rightness of God, so that logic and reason may be made manifest by the power of God. The mind that was in Christ Jesus is then made manifest in us. 

That mind, the intelligent mind, that recognized the things of God, did not yield to the feelings or the ideas, either at the time of the Temptations or the agonies of Gethsemane. Do you think there were not feelings that could have turned Him aside? What was it? It was divine intelligence—mind that would not yield, mind that stayed true in the divine conviction, mind that allowed logic and reason to control, regardless of feelings, regardless of anything else. And there was the dominion. 

He made the victory manifest, the victory that we are to share. But how are we to share it? By twiddling our thumbs and waiting for someone to hand it to us on a silver platter? By mumbling a few words of belief and then continuing to be subject to the ill things around us? No. It is to be known when we allow the dominion of God to be a reality in our conscious minds. When that dominion, that control, is established there, regardless of the subconscious mind, regardless of what is external, regardless of what we feel or do not feel—when that divine intelligence is made manifest without wavering and there is dominion there—then God’s guardian of the subconscious mind can cause change in your life. Then the things of God can begin to have meaning. But until that dominion is established because your mind—your conscious-reasoning, logical mind—is centered in the mind that was in Christ Jesus, you cannot share the victory. We share it by letting those Laws and principles be revealed in ourselves. 

Because He did it without a precedent, we have the privilege of having a precedent. We have an example. And because it is done, we have something to move to. We do not have to suffer, as He did—not one. Not one has to go through what He did, to face the miseries, discouragement and mockery that He did. He said, “The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” He meant there was not a real manifestation on earth for the kingdom of God, no starting point for the expression of dominion. But as you yield and come into the pattern God designed, and let His dominion be established in mind and heart and expression of life, then the Son of man begins to have a place to lay His head. Then there is a beginning of the reality of the kingdom—not a concept that human beings have developed, but the reality of that kingdom as God designed it, as Jesus taught it and revealed it. That is what we are interested in. That is why we are here—so that that divine control in the conscious mind may be the starting point for the victory in and through you. 

Only as there is that dominion in you that is unshakable, constant and true, can you be an instrument through which that dominion is extended out to others. Only so can your light shine. Only so can you render true service. Only so can you be a member of His body on earth. Only so can you share the victory. Only so can you have a part in seeing to it that what the Master went through on earth at the hands of men was not in vain. 

As far as I am concerned, I have infinite patience for those who are moving toward the end that what our Lord did on earth shall not be in vain, but no patience whatsoever with those who refuse to share in that work. As far as I am concerned, there is just one thing that is important: that what our Lord and King did on earth shall not be in vain. And for those who share it, well and good. For those who do not, to me they mean nothing. But it is important that every man, woman and child on the face of the earth shall have the opportunity of making his or her own choice. What our Lord went through on earth is not in vain and shall not be, and one bright day we shall have the privilege of presenting to Him not just a place to lay His head on earth but a kingdom restored, where His will is done on earth as it is in heaven, and His kingdom has come. Blessed are those who share in the victory of the spirit of the living Christ. 

Peace be unto you, that you may ever choose to share the victory and let the mind that was in Christ Jesus be in you.

© emissaries of divine light

Your Responsibility Is Not Mine

Your  Responsibility  Is  Not  Mine!

Martin Cecil   December 11, 1977

William Martin Alleyne Cecil  September 21, 1926 

The spirit of the Creator is rightly the spirit of man. Human beings have little experience of the reality of the Creator. The Spirit of Truth, the spirit of the Creator—that spirit is now present insofar as each individual human being is concerned, as long as life remains in the human form. We have described the Spirit of Truth in human form in terms of the angel incarnate. We recognize that the earthly consciousness of the human form is the capacity for the expression of the truth, for the revelation of the incarnate angel. The angel is on hand to make possible a knowing of the truth, the truth that cannot be found by the efforts of the human mind and heart.

The truth is to be given by the angel into the expression of momentary living. For this to happen the earthly consciousness must become somewhat aware of what we have called the tone of that heavenly angelic expression; not aware of specific detail, to start with at least, but of the quality of the tone of it, the tone of life, something very different to what human beings experience in their present existence. If this tone of life is to be known the Word must be spoken on earth. The incarnate angel naturally expresses the creative Word, but human consciousness has been so rigid and so structured that it has scarcely been aware of the tone of that Word at all. At best it was a still, small voice. The very moment the individual, imagining that he heard this still, small voice, tries with his human consciousness to catch it he loses it, because the truth cannot be found that way. The truth doesn’t really need to be found. It is already present. It simply needs to be expressed, and what we express we know—there is one ready to express it, namely the incarnate angel.

The earthly consciousness has very little relatedness to what it is that would be expressed by the angel, so there must somehow be a provision of the Word, the Spirit of Truth, external to the earthly consciousness, so that the Spirit of Truth may be with the earthly consciousness. “The Spirit of Truth is with you,” was something that the Master said to His disciples, or those who heard Him speak. It was with them because He was present; at least this was part of the reason. He had spoken to them much and they had heard Him speak. They had heard what He said. They had been aware of His expression in living, the quality of it, the tone of it. The tone was sounding in their vicinity, so they had the opportunity, because the Word was with them, to let the Word be in them; in other words to become so blended with what was with them that it became their own expression. Of course this doesn’t only relate to something way back then but relates in a specific sense to human beings now. The provision of the Word has been made, the tone sounded in this fashion, so that all who began to sense the truth which was with them might become so immersed in that tone that it became their own expression of living. Only when it becomes one’s own expression of living does one know what it is.

Human beings all on their own can’t find the tone for themselves. It must be sounded for them. We have noted how it has been sounded on various occasions in a very specific sense for human beings, down through the ages, something external to those who might have been exercised by that tone until it became their own expression of life. Some false starts were made, and you will note on these occasions, while many human beings were involved what was potential to be achieved related to a body of people. Back then they were called the children of Israel, a collective body of people. And again, when the Master was on earth Himself He began to draw together a body of people. He spoke of the one vine, the true vine. He spoke of the greater works, works made possible by reason of a larger body, a larger body than one person, and so it is today.

What is needful is not merely an individual thing, although individuals are necessary, but what is more important is a body of individuals, a body of many members to accommodate the incarnate Archangel. Just as the individual human body accommodates an angel—unawares usually—for the brief life span of the body, so is there rightly a collective body which accommodates the Archangel.

The concern is to let this body take form—to be resurrected. This is only possible by reason of the spirit of that body. Just as you as an individual may become so saturated with the true tone of life that it is found to be your own expression of life, revealing the incarnate angel on earth, so also the same principle holds true for the collective body which reveals the Archangel on earth, the Spirit of Truth incarnate in a body of many members.

The Spirit of the Archangel is differentiated as the spirits of all the angels whose physical forms compose that body, the body of the Archangel. All the angels who are present collectively are the spirit of the body which is brought to focus in the identity of the body which is the Archangel. We need to see things from the standpoint of the truth individually speaking; in other words from the angelic standpoint, rather than from the standpoint of the earthly state of consciousness. As angels we are capable of expressing the truth through the earthly consciousness if that earthly consciousness is willing to relinquish its involvements with the customary human state. This will be relinquished naturally to the extent that that earthly consciousness is willing to accept the sounding of the true tone into its own experience. That true tone is provided externally to start with; the Spirit of Truth is with you.

I have indicated that the tone, the Word, has been made available over the years through the words that have been spoken, something done consistently over many many years, that all who are willing might pay supreme attention to that as being the most important thing within the range of their awareness. A few have taken such an attitude. Most have been associated with the Word to some extent, but the only way that a person might discover in his own earthly consciousness what the real tone of life is is based in this baptism by the Word, by the water of truth; and it requires total immersion!

I have suggested that there may come a time when the means of communication that we now know in the external sense might be considerably restricted, so that the words, printed or otherwise, which bear witness to the Word may no longer be available. Whether that happens or not—and I suspect it will happen in due course—before it happens there is the necessity that there be a body of many members in whom the earthly consciousness is so saturated with the tone that it will continue to function with the tone as the natural expression of life even if the Word is no longer with them, no longer needs to be with them because it is in them. But for it to be in them it first needs to be with them, and those with whom it is must be willing to pay adequate attention to it consistently, to be conscious of the real nature of the tone.

It is not a matter of interpreting what is said and developing human concepts and structures and building them into one’s consciousness, which becomes more rigid than it was before. It is a matter of moving with the spirit which was the source of the words; and moving with that spirit in moment-by-moment living it becomes, one might say, the habit. The tone is sounding because the angel is present and finding increased expression through the earthly state of consciousness. Then there is a body, one body, because the same tone is sounding through all the members of it; and that tone is known in living, not in theory—not on the basis of some sort of belief but in the actual experience of living.

The truth finds expression, the angel finds expression, through the earthly capacity of consciousness, so that every thought and word and deed bears witness to the truth. This of course doesn’t mean that a person spends his whole life trying to preach at other people. It merely means that he lives, that there is the actual experience of living. No doubt there would be the fitting word to be spoken, the fitting act to take form, because it would all be based in the true tone of life, the angelic expression through the earthly capacity of consciousness. When that is so, the old human identity has vanished, the human ego as such has gone. There is an identity, certainly, but it is the angelic one.

When the Master was on earth He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” This statement should be capable of being made truly by anyone. There has been the tendency to restrict it to this one man, Jesus, thereby rendering what He brought on earth virtually meaningless. He revealed the truth for everybody. Because the truth, the Word, has been present with all concerned there has been opportunity for it to be experienced in all concerned, and when it is found to be the natural expression of one’s own living there is no need for it to sound externally any longer. It will be sounding externally because it will be being expressed; but there is no need for that, to maintain the expression of the Spirit of Truth in you.

The Master said, “It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” What He was saying in effect was that those who were with Him at the time were simply dependent upon Him to provide the Word external to themselves, so that they need not bother letting it be internal to themselves; and this has tended to be the attitude of human beings. They may have followed somebody whom they thought was expressing the Word, and said, “Oh we’ll support this, we’ll follow this. We’ll back it up.” But what happens is all dependent upon that person. That in effect was what was said by those who were close to Jesus for instance: “We’ll go along with it, and you’ll get the job done!” But that isn’t the way it works at all. The job is done by this collective body, and the reason why He came on earth was to make possible the formation of that collective body, just as the opportunity was available before through the children of Israel.

Those who have stayed with me over the years have been for the most part somewhat inclined to take this attitude: that they’ll go along with me, they’ll support me as far as possible, they’ll give me backing in one way or another, but it’s up to me to get the job done. Oh no it isn’t! at least not the job that you are thinking about.

My job has been to make it possible for the Word to be with you. Would you say that I have done a reasonable job in that regard? That’s my job. Presumably I couldn’t make the Word available to be with you if it wasn’t in me; I would have no Word to make available. My job relative to you has been to make it possible for the Word to be with you, but your job is to make it possible for the Word to be in you. I can’t do that. Only you can do that, only you can accept that responsibility as an individual; and it is not dependent upon what anybody else chooses to do, just what you choose to do in your earthly state of consciousness.

Insofar as the angel is concerned the choice has been made—or it never was a choice; there’s no choice necessary because it was the natural expression of the angel. But the earthly consciousness needs to make a choice either to accept or reject; it’s as simple as that—accept the Word into oneself so that it becomes one’s own expression, that’s all. On this basis the angel is in expression; a multitude of angels are in expression. All of them put together provide the spirit of the body of the Archangel who is at the focus point of all these angels, all these angels who differentiate His spirit in His body.

You may note in this regard that the focus point, the Archangel, is the only one who knows what it is that His body should be doing. None of the angels do; they do what they should be doing. They do not need to know what the Archangel knows; all they need to know is what they should know. There has been a tendency to imagine that one can’t function correctly unless one knows everything about everything. The human mind could never know all the factors which would need to be taken into account to make a wise decision. It simply could not encompass all that needs to be known, so why try? It is the spirit that gets the job done, the Spirit of Truth, and you do not need the human intellect to decide what is valid in the expression of the Spirit of Truth, because the human intellect doesn’t know.

The Spirit of Truth in expression does what should be done. You know what should be expressed in the moment when your expression is that of the angel, is the sounding of the tone. You know what should be done, and you do what should be done. You don’t know with your mind all the ramifications. You may not know why you expressed in a certain way but it was fitting in the moment in your consciousness of the sounding of the tone. I am sure that you have all had the experience of knowing very little about some situation and yet you had a responsibility to say or do something, and you said or did something in the current of the spirit. Later you may have found out that what you said or did was very valuable to somebody else. You didn’t know it at the time; you didn’t have to know it at the time. You simply provided what was necessary and you didn’t try to take care of it with your human mind.

All that is properly achieved is achieved “by my spirit, saith the Lord.” This is the way it is done. We don’t need to know everything about everything mentally speaking. There must be some contact with whatever it is we are dealing with, but remember there is far more substance present than the mind, certainly, knows anything about; but the spirit is permeating all this substance, and so it can handle the whole of what needs to be handled and not just a little bit of it, ignoring all the rest. So it is movement with the Spirit of Truth that achieves what is needful in the world, the expression of the angel, the sounding of the tone in momentary living, now and now and now and now, consistently. When this is the fact because there is a body of angels incarnate on earth, in expression on earth, revealing thereby the Archangel, there is an immense impact—greater works done at the level of heavenly substance first; and heavenly substance permeates earthly substance, so it’s done at the level of earthly substance second.

Here is where the true control is. Here is where the control is from the standpoint of the universal operation. Things work the way they do throughout the whole universe on this basis, and it is quite possible for one galaxy to pass through another galaxy without any collisions. But you try that with two groups of human beings! So we are here on the basis of the spirit. Our agreement is in the spirit. Our home is in the spirit, and in the spirit we find a natural agreement. If we are abiding in spirit we are at home anywhere, it doesn’t matter what the external circumstance is. So let us move easily as angels on earth, allowing the expression of the Spirit of Truth constantly.

My ministry is to you. I don’t know how you can share in that. But your ministry is the ministry of the Archangel to the world, and you can share in that. So you’re not really sharing in my ministry, as many people have been inclined to say, because my job has been to make it possible for the Word to be with you; but your ministry begins when the Word is in you. Then you are responsible. The fate of the world then hangs upon you!

© Emissaries of Divine Light

The Peculiar Significance Of The Divine Arrangement

The  Peculiar  Significance  Of  The  Divine  Arrangement

Uranda   March 29 1947

The other evening, in one of our Services, I brought out the point that people have very often undertaken to judge me on the basis of comparing me, and my function, with that of the LORD of Love when He was on earth as Jesus the Christ. He came into the earth to reveal Deity, and to bring a focalization of Divine Love into the earth, that whosoever will may respond thereto. I pointed out that my function was to inspire Love Response to the LORD of Love and that only those who let themselves be so inspired can really share in the expression of Love on earth from the LORD of Love. Those who, by reason of their failure to Respond rightly to the LORD of Love, separate themselves from a position of truly sharing His Love, thereby separate, insofar as they are personally concerned, Love and Truth.

Truth, to the degree that it is received in Love Response to the LORD of Love, is something that is a joy; it brings peace; it sets individuals free so that they can truly live life; but when Truth is separated from Love, insofar as individual consciousness is concerned, then Truth is seen in its hardness, shall we say. Truth, separated from Love in the consciousness of the individual, appears to be something cold, and perhaps harsh. The unyielding, undeviating nature of Truth is something that is sometimes difficult for individuals to comprehend. They have been setting up their concepts on a basis of a human concept of Love because they imagine Love—and therefore they imagine Jesus Christ—to be so yielding and amiable and so tolerant, that no manifestation of the Rock therein is recognized, and consequently in such a human consciousness anything that is of the Rock is judged to be foreign to Love. In all of this we find the reason for the failures back along the line of history, when man has sought to so function as to align himself—or, perhaps, in some instances, to let himself be aligned—with God.

We speak of the Triune Ray as being Light, Love and Life. When we recognize the Triune Ray in relationship to the Creative Currents of Being, we find that Light is that which manifests through Truth, and if there is no Truth there is darkness, regardless of the individual consciousness concerning Love. Therefore, it is seen, with respect to the Four Creative Forces, that the first is Water and is associated with Light. When the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters God said, as the first Creative Act, “Let there be Light”. Next in the Triune Ray is Love, which is symbolized by Fire, which is the fourth of the Four Forces. So between these two we have the manifestation of the other two Forces, and they are thereby understood to be included. When there is Truth, through which Love operates, the result, insofar as this outer world is concerned, is the expression of Life; therefore, the Triune Ray, which recognizes Love to be the Center, also reveals the relationship of Truth to Life, but Love, even if it be Divine Love, does not produce Life, without Truth.

When these things are clearly seen in the Triangle, the individual must come to recognize that if his own consciousness—and consequently his own life experience and environment—are to be changed and recreated, the Spirit must move first upon the face of the waters before there can be Light, and the Light must manifest before there can be a consciousness of the Fire, for though the Fire may be to some degree present, and may to some degree be felt, it is not effective in relationship to the manifestation of the true Life expression until the Light is seen, and the Light cannot appear except through Truth. Therefore, in the range of human experience, the initial approach to the outworking of Reality in the individual life must be in the mental plane, through the mind, with respect to the Truth, by reason of which the individual begins to see the Light and consequently permits himself, to that degree, to be illumined, whereupon his consciousness of, and polarity in, the Fire of Divine Love, permits the Four Forces to begin to operate in recreative function which begins to shape and mould and bring forth the true expression of Life.

The peculiar significance of the Divine arrangement with respect to the manifestation of life on earth cannot be clearly comprehended until there is an understanding of the three planes of the Negative Triune World in relationship to the three phases of the trinity of the human manifestation, whereby the individual may, if he will but let it be so, Respond to the Positive Source of Life which is the LORD of Love, and become thereby a manifestation of Divine Life on earth, thus revealing Deity on earth.

   

       

       

Consider the fact that the Lord of the Sacred Three is likewise the Lord of Truth and that the Lord of the Sacred Two is the focalization on earth of the Spirit of Life, representing the Lord of the Sacred Five, and so may be rightly recognized as the Lord of Life on earth. The correlation of the Lord of the Sacred Two with the second or mental plane of Being is seen to be peculiarly significant with respect to the Divinely ordained means by which man may share in Life Eternal and express Life in Reality here on earth. The Lord of the Sacred Three, representing the LORD of the Sacred Seven, provides the focalization of the Spirit of Truth on earth and thereby establishes the Divinely ordained pattern in relationship to the Spiritual Expression phase of man, or the third plane of Being in the Negative Triune World. However, until that Truth is seen and recognized by the mind, the Light of the Spiritual Expression has no meaning with respect to the individual, and until it has meaning it cannot produce the essential life in the manifestation of the individual on earth.

Therefore, this Divine arrangement is seen at once as a means whereby a Creative Field is established on earth wherein the individual who is attuned in Love Response to the LORD of Love may let his mind be so opened that he may begin to know and see the Truth, through which the Light of Illumination is caused to fill the temple, which is the body of the Responding One, whereupon, to the degree essential to the fulfillment of the individual life, an awareness of Truth, as it is in Reality, begins to be made manifest in consciousness, but that Truth is seen to be based in the Spiritual Expression plane of Being and not in the physical and mental realms, for it is only after Truth in its Spiritual Essence is perceived by the mind, so that comprehension is on the basis of the Spirit that giveth Life, that the individual can begin to truly share in the true expression of Life on earth.

In all of this we begin to see the vast scope of meaning that is contained in the Master's words, "I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life", for the Way is the Way of Love Response to the LORD of Love, but that Love must be allowed to manifest through the individual according to the Pattern of Truth before he can begin to share in the Christ Life, and so be a member of the One Body through which the LORD of Lords may cause the Greater Works to be accomplished, and we recognize that only in the accomplishment of the Greater Works can that Life which is called salvation be effectively carried to the children of men, so that evil may be eliminated from the face of the earth and the Christ Kingdom may be made fully manifest for all the children of men who will let themselves be drawn under the Banner of the Prince of Peace.

In all of these things we have that which is of vital importance to each and every individual who would Respond to God and let himself become an instrument in the Hand of God, whereby the Will of the Father is done on earth—and all of this we recognize in Love Response to the LORD of Love, for His is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Aum-en.

© Emissaries of Divine Light