A Select Few—You, You, and You!

It  Requires  a  Select  Few — You,  You,  and  You!

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Conscious Angelic Incarnation

Martin Exeter   September 14, 1986   La Sauge, France

It isn’t a matter of numbers; it is a matter of angels. That is the sole thing that is in question: whether there are going to be any angels in expression in human form on earth, or whether everybody is going to proclaim human nature and continue to proclaim that, trying to find the answer by various manipulations.

Now there are angels who begin to become conscious of the fact that they are present on earth in human form. The angels are always conscious of that. Human minds and hearts haven’t acknowledged the fact, but are presumably beginning to do so. We rejoice that this is so, because it places upon us a new awareness of the reason for our presence here on earth. We begin to become aware that we were sent, for one thing, as angels, and the human mind and heart begin to accept and acknowledge this fact. Only when that is accepted and acknowledged is it known on earth. As long as human minds and hearts are busy denying it and finding reasons and justifications for making sure that it isn’t true, the angels are inhibited; there is no means by which anything can be extended angelically out of heaven into the earth.

But now there is something, and one of the evidences of this is that angels recognize each other. We become aware of each other on a basis that allows for coordination. What it is really is the emergence of love through human hearts, acknowledged by human minds. As this happens the angel is present because the primary characteristic of the angel is love. Emerging through human forms, minds and hearts, then the experience of love begins to be known and there is a sense of belonging, a sense of home, a sense of oneness, of being part of one beautiful, coordinated whole.

This angelic awareness comes from above—it is higher than what has been known in human nature—but it also comes from below. We may recognize that the planet, the earth, is relatively quite large when considered in relationship to the surface of the earth where human beings scratch around—it doesn’t go very deep. There is far more of the earth into which human beings have not been able to penetrate than there is of it into which they have been able to penetrate. So there is a little skin around the surface of the earth and some of the atmosphere above, which is being very thoroughly polluted, in which human beings function; but the main body of the earth has remained untouched in a direct sense by these human scratchings on the surface.

There is something that is in the core of the earth which has been recognized in terms of heat, fire, that relates to the fire of the sun, for instance. As there is something emerging into conscious awareness through a few human beings on earth, there is also something which arises from the core of the earth to meet what it is that is coming down from heaven, so to speak. What is coming down from heaven is the coming forth of the angel through human hearts and minds and bodies. And there is something rising up from below, far more rising up from below than is exemplified by the forms of life on the surface of the earth. This rising up from below has a relatedness to what happens through the forms of life on the surface of the earth that we think of as nature; it rises up through nature.

It should rise up through the human population too, but of course there has been a very solid barrier in this regard, set up because of this endeavor by human beings to do what they want to do and to extend the intellectual control of what happens on the surface of the earth to everything that they can get their hands on. This has been done. We can speak of it in a collective sense and that takes it away from ourselves a bit; but it has been true of each individual, because each individual has sought to get his hands on what was in the vicinity, apparently controllable and ownable.

Now the awareness comes that there has indeed been a den of thieves, and that included us. It is a wonderful thing to recognize this, to realize that mentally and emotionally and physically we have been thieves. We have tried to possess the earth. We know now, because angelic consciousness has begun to emerge, that that really isn’t the truth of the matter. We are not designed to be thieves but to provide the means by which the Lord possesses His own. That is only possible by reason of human beings. That is why we have continued to exist on the surface of the earth: that one day, by some means, there would be a restoration of this facility of man to the state for which it was designed, so that the order and the balance might be restored.

There is a certain order and balance which has been maintained by nature. It becomes more and more difficult for nature to maintain that order and balance, in view of the way that the human mind has been operating, and the human heart also. Human hearts have been filled with various acquisitive desires, and the mind has come along and justified them. It is immediately rationalized and justified.

Now, relinquishing this sort of imbecile function, we may once again come into an awareness of the reason why, as angels, we have come into the earth; not to follow out all of these endless and confusing trails of human nature but to let those go. The angel is quite willing, but human minds and hearts have been reluctant. However there has been something happening, and a new consciousness of purpose on earth has come. That purpose is angelic: a heavenly purpose and not an earthly purpose. The earth reflects the heavenly purpose rightly, but the purpose does not originate in the earth.

Because there is something rising up from the earth and something coming by reason of conscious angelic incarnation from above, everything is caught in between that is on the surface of the earth. What we call nature is delighted to be caught in between; but humanity, in a general sense, is not so delighted to be caught in between. The squeeze comes on and it is uncomfortable. Now, finally, angelic consciousness begins to emerge and there is an awareness of comfort from the angelic standpoint, because the angel is quite comfortable. All that is uncomfortable is human nature. One way or another human nature is always uncomfortable and complains about it.

As angels put in an appearance there is an awareness that there is really nothing to complain about, because the creative process is working and is emerging as magnetic expression. The creative field is emerging into the field of human operations, and if there is a resistance to it it is uncomfortable. Human nature is inclined to become a little desperate, because it is passing away. While there isn’t any great conscious awareness yet on the larger scale of the fact that human nature is passing away, sufficiently resilient minds and hearts and bodies are quite aware of the fact that it is passing away, because here comes the angel!

We share the responsibility of participating in this creative process which restores the planet, the forms of life on the surface of the planet, and the world that has heretofore been claimed by mankind, to the true owner. And the true owner is represented by His angels. He sends forth His angels into the earth to gather the elect. The elect are those who respond to the magnetic field—the creative field that is set up by reason of the presence of the angels. Those are the elect.

It isn’t a matter of unfurling our banners and unsheathing our swords and going to possess the land, as used to be the idea of human nature. It doesn’t work, does it? It isn’t a matter of having a cause and going after that cause. That’s the way of human nature, that’s the way of death. It simply is a matter of allowing this magnetic creative field to be established, and that is the sole leadership that is required. Then those who will come will come. They can’t help themselves.

We have some awareness of that because we couldn’t help ourselves. We didn’t choose to associate. We were chosen; we were fingered. “You, you and you”—a call for volunteers! Here we are, angelically present with minds and hearts increasingly willing to let it be the way it really is. And there is nothing more comforting than to be associated with the way it really is. That is where the comfort is. That is what might be called the coming of the Comforter.

The discomforter is very thoroughly present! But becoming associated in mind and heart with the angelic reality which we are brings a sigh of relief to mind and heart. Now at last we can relax, without feeling anymore that there is a hostile world all around us with ogres there ready to rend us in pieces, so that we always have to have our human defenses up. Angelically speaking we don’t have anything to defend, because nothing can encroach upon this angelic heaven. The angelic heaven is to come into the earth, and it comes in with power and great glory. It is a wonderful thing

But there are hosts of people who don’t think so, because they are trying to establish and sustain their own human ideas of the way things should be. We have masses of people, don’t we, doing this all the time now. I am sure that terrorists, for instance, are very sincere about their efforts. They imagine that this is the way to go, or they wouldn’t go that way. And there is very little difference between that and what is considered to be the more normal function of human nature. It is the same thing, really: “We are going to go the way we want to go. We will try to do it in a more gentlemanly fashion, but we want what we want and we are going to get it.” That’s human nature speaking.

We no longer associate ourselves with that, because the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. And that is what is being proven out. It hasn’t been proven out up to this point because there was no focused body permitting the angelic expression on earth—a unified, focused body. This has never happened. It certainly didn’t happen at the time of Jesus. The disciples had very little understanding of what was going on at all. It is a matter of letting the angel come forth. It is a matter of living, a matter of daily momentary experience. And we share this, angelically speaking.

We find, as angels, that we belong together—not always nudging up against each other. We may be anywhere on the face of the earth but still know we belong together, and are aware that there is an easy and natural movement occurring by reason of this forming body through which the angelic expression appears, the creative lines of force are set up, and the whole process is in action. Let it work! Nobody can make it work; it is working! All that has to be done is to accommodate that working. Let it be accommodated in our own living and, behold, all things are made new. And no one can stop it; it is something absolute.

Finally it is coming to pass. It is the emergence of the angels sent forth into the earth to gather the elect from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other. One end of the heaven to the other—it is done from a heavenly standpoint, not from an earthly standpoint—reflected in what happens in the earth.

So we rejoice to participate in something tremendous, to become aware of the fact that here we are to let it happen—not only this little grouping sitting here, but through others in many places. And it doesn’t require vast numbers. It would never happen if it required vast numbers. Where would you find them? No, it requires a select few, a company of angels who are sent forth to do this. And because they carry the authority of the One who sent them forth, it will be done. It will certainly be done. And behold, all things are made new: a new heaven and a new earth.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Silence  in  Heaven

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Seven Steps in the Way

Uranda   September 1932

John, the beloved, tells you how to open the seventh seal of spirituality. This you can do when the first six seals have been opened within you. “And when the seventh seal was opened, there was silence in heaven for the space of about half an hour.” The wise will comprehend that silence for half an hour a day will bring about the opening of the seventh seal.

Remember that to find the kingdom of God, or heaven, the dwelling place of the Soul-God, you must turn within yourself, even as your Master instructed. “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

Thus are you to find a quiet place where you may be undisturbed for half an hour a day—fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes in the evening. And there relax perfectly, consciously letting go of all muscular and nervous tension. Then shut your door; that is, close your eyes, for the eyes are the doorways to the secret places of your Soul. Then remember that “your Father knoweth what things you have need of, before you ask Him.” Therefore in the silence seek not to talk to God but rather let God talk to you; for this is true prayer.

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Programming and Reprogramming

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Programming  and  Reprogramming

Martin Exeter  September 12, 1982   

I rejoice that we may set the stage for what needs to happen in our administration of the continuing creative cycle.

In a few days' time another year in the Emissary ministry will come to us out of the future. This past year has been the first year in a continuing cycle of seven years. It will therefore be the beginning of the eighth period of seven years of this ministry. I am sure you are all aware that eight represents the union of heaven and earth.

We may see these things in terms of what we think and speak of as the Emissary ministry. The eighth creative day would be symbolized by the fire force. So we have a period of another six years when the fire force is dominant. The fire of love is the power of transmutation, the power by which what is symbolized by base metal may be transmuted into gold, or what is symbolized by gold. Here we see something of what is available in the creative cycles to our experience in these years which are before us.

It is easily recognized that something of this transmuting process has already been initiated in a more intensified sense during this last year since September 1981. What would be described I suppose as changes have occurred quite extensively for most if not all of you, and you are not alone in this. Perhaps the furnace is being heated up. We have seven years—so, seven times hotter by the end of this cycle! You will recall in the story of the burning fiery furnace that, apart from the servants of the king who, following out their orders, drew too close to the furnace, there were no casualties but the bonds with which the three men were bound when they were cast into the furnace. So the purpose is not to produce casualties but to consume the bonds, so that there might be four men, free, walking in the fire, and the fourth like unto the Son of God, the Son of God revealed by reason of the human trinity. This is the transmutation of base metal into gold.

Human beings, ourselves included, have necessarily found themselves programmed into an earthly state which has excluded heaven. All people are thus programmed from the moment of conception. The initial programming may be described as intrinsic. It is present in the very flesh of the fetus, stemming from parents, forebears and the experience of the human race itself out of the past. This is usually thought of in terms of genes, but there is obviously more to it than the physical genes, just as there is more to it than the physical tape in the tape recorder. If that's all there is, then—no particular sound when it is played. But obviously something is imposed upon the tape from some source if there is to be a program reproduced. So it is in human experience. There is this intrinsic program present in each developing form; the music out of the past is there. But as soon as there is conception something else comes into the picture as well as what is intrinsically present at that point. You might call it an extrinsic influence, which is fundamentally the state of the mother; this is imposed upon the developing fetus.

So there are these two aspects, the intrinsic and the extrinsic. During the time of uterine development the extrinsic is more or less indirect, but as soon as the baby is born then direct influences begin to be brought to bear, so that the extrinsic programming continues. All people are programmed in this fashion with these two components, intrinsic and extrinsic. We may see that the intrinsic is more basic, deeper, one might say almost untouchable. It is there, we all know it is there for ourselves; no one is exempt; it is a carry-forward out of the past. It has been described in the Christian religion as original sin, an intrinsic programming coming out of the earthly experience of the past. Superimposed on top of that is the extrinsic programming which subsequently ensues. This is a more surface programming and is capable of being manipulated to a certain extent.

All of us have been programmed in this fashion, together with our fellows in this human world; and the state of the world itself of course is simply a reflection of this fact. It is brought forth by reason of the programming of human beings. This programming, the surface aspects of it, can be manipulated and changed somewhat as influences of various kinds are brought to bear, but the total package is hardly changed at all. Certainly the intrinsic aspect is not changed; it sits there in the very flesh of the individual, which includes what are referred to as mind and emotions. We are all programmed.

The intrinsic program—the main part—requires that human beings die. Everybody is programmed to die; that's why everybody dies. As long as that program exists there is apparently no escape, and of course there is whatever leads up to that ultimate point, which may come speedily or more slowly, as the case may be. But the programming is set, and the result is consequently inevitable as long as that program is there. We have become aware of the fact that man was not originally programmed that way. It is something that has been self-induced back along the way. We don't need to go into that at the moment. We can't do anything about it anyhow. The state of affairs is as it is. We have to deal with the situation as it is.

The original programming, however, could be described as the truth, with the elements of heavenly design and heavenly control. The manifest body and mind and heart, the human soul, is designed to be programmed. So in a sense there is nothing wrong with the fact that there is a program in operation. Only when the program is no longer in operation does the state of nothingness ensue. It is necessary that there should be a program. We are obviously aware that the program presently in effect is a substitute one; it is not the right program. You can't tape a new program without obliterating what is on the tape in the first place. So, clearly, there must be some mechanism by which this may occur if human beings are to be programmed once more by the truth.

The truth was described—or that program was described—as being made in the image and likeness of God. That was the original program, and as long as that prevailed the fact of that particular program was revealed in the experience of man. Now there is another program in effect, and what is revealed is certainly not the same as the original program, which presumably allowed for the reality of God to be made known. The reality of God is not made known by man. Something else is made known, and it has been described in various ways: that old serpent, the devil, and satan, great red dragon, what have you—the human state, a destructive experience, because man is in this state programmed to die. And he goes about it in ingenious ways, but he ends up dead because of the program. Well what is it that ends up dead? Obviously the thing that was programmed. If something is programmed to self-destruct it self-destructs, and it is the human soul that has been programmed to self-destruct. Faithfully over the ages this program has been carried out, generation after generation. It has become so customary that while there may be some fanciful imagination about another state it has never been much more than fanciful imagination.

The fire represents the means by which one program may be eliminated and another one established. It would be useless just to eliminate the first program, because then there would be a blank, nothing. So we are not concerned with trying to get rid of the first program—there is concern for reprogramming. We have these people in the world these days who claim to be DEprogrammers, and they go to work on programmed people. But programmed people going to work on programmed people doesn't really deprogram anyone. Our concern has been to allow the real program, which is the truth, to replace the false program, which incidentally must be a lie if it isn't the truth. One could say then that death is a lie, a very popular one apparently. Yet individually speaking I don't suppose most would describe it as being popular; but the fact shows it is. The false program has been much more popular than the real one. It has reached a state where there is no awareness, for the most part, that there is a real one available.

If we see these things in terms of programming we recognize that there must be certain facilities available to allow the real program to be reestablished. It doesn't happen by magic, in the ordinary sense at least. It doesn't happen because somebody would like it to happen, because one consciously is desirous of being made new. There has been a very firm and persistent objection to this experience, because it requires the fire; it looks dangerous. Of course the fire does consume the old program, but at the same time there is the availability of the true program, and the fire is not separate from the true program.

We have described the spirit of God as being triune in nature: love, truth and life—inseparable. So if you have the fire the truth goes along with it and is available for the reprogramming process to be experienced. But the fire is not the first thing to be brought to bear in its intensity. It should remain in the background for a while. Whenever things have started to hot up a bit the human tendency is to duck out, to seek cover somewhere, to jump into the foxhole. Well, when the fire comes along, the individual needs to be on hand, not hiding.

There has to be an introduction, somehow or other, to the possibility of true programming; probably it hasn't been described that way heretofore, but an introduction to the truth, because that is the true programming. It is a heavenly programming. It doesn't originate in the past, out of the earth; it originates now, in heaven. To experience it one would have to be in heaven.

It is impossible for this spurious self to be in heaven. Mind you, a great deal of effort and theory has been developed so as to make it seem as though somehow or other this spurious self could be saved. It needs to pass away, and we have become aware of the fact that it does pass away anyway; you can't stop it passing away. But there is the possibility of knowing the truth, of having this real program reestablished. As the real program is reestablished, the self that is known is the real self, the real person, the person who is present in the facility that heretofore was wrongly programmed.

There is the necessary period of time for transformation to occur, so that the individual comes to the point where there is a genuine and factual willingness to relinquish the false state of self, the spurious self. Most people are inclined to cling to that till the last gasp. There is terrible fear of losing oneself; that's the fear of death. The son of perdition is lost in any case. That is a false human self, a false human ego. How much effort is put into the preservation of the ego by most people, thereby ensuring their own demise, because the ego is going to vanish away sooner or later. There is not much consolation, if one has had a big, fat ego recognized by many people, to be found in an image and likeness in bronze sitting on a horse in the town square!

There is this reprogramming necessary, and this requires what has been referred to in religious circles as baptism—water—the symbol of truth with which a person must become acquainted. Four barrels of water poured over, three times: twelve barrels of water. A soaking in the truth, that's baptism. It seems to take a little time to go through the process. A person may feel a bit damp and soggy during the course of the experience and complain, “Why can't I dry out now?” No, there are a few more barrels to go yet!

So there is an increasing acquaintance with the symbol of the truth. It is not the truth yet; it is the symbol of the truth. We have been considering many, many things in a new and changing light over the years, because it wasn't the truth yet; it was simply varying levels of the symbol of the truth. The symbol of the truth comes in words, for instance; but the truth isn't words. The truth is the real program with which man needs to be associated, so that that is established. And that program provides the basis for the creative expression of the one who now is aware and known on earth, the heavenly one incarnate and in expression on earth once more.

So there is water. I think the first seven periods of seven years in the Emissary ministry related primarily to baptism by water. That is a larger cycle, a forty-nine-year cycle. There is another one which has presumably been initiated now: another seven periods of seven years. We are just moving into the second year of the first period of seven years. On the larger scale this relates more to what is occurring in the world. The second force is air: spirit. Spirit begins to become dominant in the world to the extent that there are those who are letting this Program unfold, not merely for themselves. But it needs to unfold in a container, so to speak, that there may be a focus present, a sustained focus present, so that it may occur on the larger scale. It has to occur somewhere first on a smaller scale; it must be real somewhere.

Of course it was real somewhere, back about two thousand years ago, in one man, and that allowed for everything to be set in motion. But clearly it must expand beyond one person. To allow it to expand doesn't detract from what that one person did, or even who He is, but it certainly would give evidence of taking Him seriously and being willing to allow His life to have some real meaning because we share it.

We allow that life to be our life, and we can only do that because there is a reprogramming. As long as the old program is there we can't let it happen; we keep repeating, repeating and repeating the same old nonsense. And we have only to read some history, if we have the time to do it, to find out that it is a matter of meaningless repetition. The whole human world is seen in terms of this repetition: Look back into the past and see what happened, then we will prognosticate what's going to happen in the future. Well that has held pretty true heretofore, because those who were present were simply interested in repetition; they themselves brought it about. I trust we are no longer interested in that repetition but in allowing a new program to be present in ourselves as individuals, which we discover is also a new program present in what we have described as the Ministry. That is just simply a way of describing a collective body which is in the process of being reprogrammed.

Reprogramming does not require deprogramming—we discover this. We may have attempted along the way to deprogram ourselves somehow so that we might get hold of this new program. It doesn't work that way. The old program is there but it only exists as life is given to it. If we stop supporting the old program by giving our life into the expression of it, then there begins to be space for the experience of the new program. The old program is still there; certainly the intrinsic aspect of it is still there. We may have experienced some changes in the extrinsic aspect of that false program, but if we could see the picture as it is we would find that it was really very little.

There is a new program to be put on the tape, and it is put on the tape because the old program has faded somewhat by baptism of water. But it takes the fire to reprogram and to, at the same time, dissolve the remnants of the old program all the way through to the intrinsic aspect, all the way through to the factors of earthly heredity, that these may be replaced by the true elements of heavenly heredity. There is a program to go on the tape and it comes with the fire. We have before us a period of intensifying fire and we have the opportunity of letting it be used to advantage, so that the bonds of the old program are burnt, consumed, enabling us to walk in the fire. The true program is present once more: the truth. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”—to walk in the fire, to walk as an angel incarnate and in expression on earth.

Obviously, at this point, there is still present the old programming; it persists. But we discover how to live without feeding that old program with our life force anymore, because we are aware of the right use of our life force in the expression of spirit at the level of which we are now aware. It is all that is necessary, but it is necessary to be true to that and consistent in the expression of it. Doubtless there are those things which arise emotionally, mentally and physically which would distract us into the old programmed state if we would allow it. All of you have had a tremendous amount of opportunity to be aware of what constitutes that old state, and yet I observe occasionally those who are distracted back into it and begin to give expression to that old programming. Repent quickly!

This has been the element that the old programming has been most resistant to: repentance. “I am damned if I will!” Yes, you're damned—you're damned if you don't! Repent of the old programming. Stop giving it life force and allow the life force to pour increasingly through your present experience of spirit in action. And you have enough awareness of the truth, you've been dunked enough, to know the quality and nature of that spirit, and incidentally, the quality and nature of the old programming.

So we have brought to focus something with respect to another point of transition in the intensifying fire, and I trust that all are happy because of it, are delighted to let the fire burn, to let it be intensified. Oh yes, it will uncover some things that would, if they could, take charge of you again, demanding your life force. Don't fall into the trap but stay true to the truth in delighted experience of the intensifying fire, which comes individually, and it comes for all of us collectively also.

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