Together From the Beginning
Martin Exeter August 24, 1986
I speak to those particularly who
have come to know that we have been together from the beginning. The beginning
of what? This could be seen in various ways, but I refer to the beginning of
that necessity by which the restoration of man might be brought to pass.
Probably all the ins and outs of this process are not remembered by human
minds; there is no need that all that clutter should be present. But we may,
and do, come to know that we have been associated in various configurations
down through the ages for the express purpose of which we are now aware: of
bringing to fruition the restoration of man to his true state. That true state
requires that minds and hearts yield that they so accommodate angelic
expression now. I am sure that there is a longing in most of you here present
that this should be the full and free experience.
The angels who are present know
what is needful, and the first thing that is needful is a yielded mind and
heart. Without that, if there if arrogance or rebellion or self-satisfaction,
or any of these things in mind and heart, there is no place for the angel.
There is no place for the spirit of the living God, by which beautiful dominion
can be reestablished on earth, the dominion which allows the earth to yield and
bring forth in beauty and balance all the things that the earth is designed to
bring forth. So, as angels aware of these things, we need no longer be fooled
by human nature, working through unyielded minds and hearts, seeking to
maintain those things which rightly pass away. We share this awareness as angels,
that it may be with us consistently, now, and henceforth.
Let the tone of life be sustained
in all our ways.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Home
His Temple On Earth
December 15, 1948
Tonight, in this
Christmas Season, the word, “Home,” contains a Spirit of fullness and
significance which we might well meditate upon. First, I am reminded that many
years ago our KING'S Home was divided. His Home originally was—and it was
supposed to be—Heaven and earth; that which we speak of as the Whole Holy
World. Perhaps you have sometimes thought of Heaven as being His Home, and it
has been, although it has been an incomplete Home for Him through all these
thousands of years.
I am reminded
that only a little under two thousand years ago He left one part of His Home
and came to visit the other part, the part that was supposed to complete His
Home. He was born into the world a Babe—into the most humble of surroundings.
He, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, when He came into this half of His
Home, found no place awaiting Him. He was born in a manger in a stable because
there was no room for Him in the inn. The people of the world were too busy following
their own fancies and looking after their own puny affairs to pay any attention
to the fact that the LORD of the world had come. He lived in this world, and
grew to manhood, and He began His Ministry.
He began to
tell the people how this world might become that beautiful other half of the
Heavenly Home, and He assured them that that which was of the Heavenly Home was
not far away. He made clear the Plan by which the two halves might be reunited;
He made clear that the separation between the two did not have to continue: but
the people of the world, instead of welcoming the LORD of the world, crucified
Him. Nevertheless, on the third day He came forth victoriously from the tomb,
and returned to that other half of His Home, where He has been waiting for
nearly two thousand years, waiting for human beings to wake up, waiting for
human beings to put into practice His instruction, to follow His Plan, so that
He might have the privilege of coming again to this part of His Home.
Human beings,
through their self-activity, selfishness and self-centeredness, have kept Him
out of His Home, this portion of His Home, these thousands of years. These
usurpers who prevent His free use of His rightful Home will not be tolerated
forever. Sooner or later, in His own good season, He will return; but it is His
longing, His great desire that springs from His wonderful Heart of Love, that
when He comes again to this part of His Home it shall not be to drive out all
who are living here. He does not want to return to this part of His Home and
find nothing but empty rooms echoing with the deeds of evil. His Heart desires
that those who are living here now should let themselves be so transformed and
so prepared that they may remain here when He comes, that they will not have to
be cast out, and that this part of His Home will not be found to be empty.
He
wants to come to this part of His Home and find those He loves, and those who
love Him. He wants that coming to be a family reunion between those who live in
this part and those who live in that part of His Home, that the Whole Holy
World may again be what it ought to be—His Home, where all the Members of His
Family live in their appointed places, in joy, in peace, in happiness.
This world,
this part of His Home, must be cleansed and purified, the debris must be swept
out; the mean and shameful furnishings that man has put into it must be cast
out and burned; it must be cleansed, and the Sunlight of Love must shine into
every room, and those who dwell here must let themselves be changed, so that
they will not be uncomfortable in His Presence, so that they will not be
annihilated when they come before His Face, so that they will find joy in
beholding Him, and so that they may rejoice greatly, without fear, in the holy
privilege of welcoming Him back to this part of His rightful Home.
Until we, in
our Home here, begin to let the Spirit of His Home manifest,
we will not be doing very much toward preparing the way for the Union, for the
reuniting, of Heaven and earth. We have made progress, it is true. Something of
His Spirit of Love is manifest, or you would not be here; and you have
recognized something of the vision of the beauty of the Pattern of Truth, or
you would not be here; but those old patterns of the world have no meaning
here. Here the Spirit of the Home of our KING must manifest, so that when He
comes again He will be at Home, and we will be at Home with Him.
We want to feel
at Home with Him when He comes, and when He comes we want Him to find His Home
ready and waiting for Him, worthy of Him, with the Spirit of His Home made
already manifest. That is our purpose here, and when we remember the true
significance of Home, and the wonderful privilege and sacred responsibility
that is ours in helping to prepare this part of His Home for Him, surely such a
realization must have meaning by the very force and weight of it, by the very
glory and wonder of it, through every thought and word and deed, through every
hour of every day. We are here for that purpose, so that when He comes He shall
find His Home in the condition that it ought to be.
If He were to
come and stand among us tonight, in a manner that you might see Him as He is,
do you think you would be ready to say, "LORD, Thy Home is prepared; we
welcome Thee, and find joy and complete peace in Thy coming"?
Let us, then,
be about our Father's business, that we may be ready whenever He deems it wise
and proper that He should come. Let us remember always
the meaning of Home, and, in this Christmas Season, be re-dedicated through the
Spirit of His Love to that Plan and Program whereby He shall nevermore have to
come and be received in a stable or a manger, and whereby, when He shall come,
in His Power and His Glory, it will not be to wipe out and remove all who dwell
here, but that there may be those who shall await Him with joy, and welcome Him
in Holy Love, ready to serve Him and make Him feel at Home in this part of His Home,
from which He has been so long separated.
O LORD of Lords
and KING of Kings, we thank Thee, we thank Thee, that here tonight there is, as
never before, a realization of the weight of that responsibility and of the
wonder of that holy privilege which rests upon us, that we may, in all things
and at all times, be diligent about our Father's business, preparing the way
for that glorious day when Thou shalt come again to receive Thine own unto
Thyself, and to be received by Thine own. We remember that, in the hour of Thy
birth, the Angels sang, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men". We remember that it was in that Spirit Thou didst come,
and that the world rejected Thee, and yet that, nevertheless, Thou didst prepare
the Way, and make it possible for all who would enter in, to share in making
this Thy Home restored. We marvel at Thy wondrous Love, Thy patience, Thy
willingness to wait 'until indolent human beings should awake to the glorious
opportunity that awaits, that we may let that One Vine manifest, that we may
let Thy Body be on earth, that we may let Thy Temple, the Temple not made with
hands, be established, that Thy dwelling place may be with men and that all who
will may share in that glorious fulfillment, IN the Christ. Aum-en.
I feel that you
have all come to a deeper realization and understanding of many things tonight.
Everything worthwhile is contained within the true meaning of the word,
"Home". We all love to be at home, but so does our KING; and how can
we hope, anywhere, under any circumstance, to be at home until we can be at
Home with Him, and He can be at Home with us?
Praising God
for your response and prayerful meditation, and for the spirit of realization
flowing through you, I must remind myself that it is needful that we go our
several ways to find rest for the morrow. A time is coming when, as a Unit, we
will let ourselves be so engulfed, with one accord in one place, in the Spirit
of our KING, that the passage of time will have less meaning than it does now.
Day by day each one is learning more of what it means to hold the vibration, to
stay centered in the Central Current of Being; and when we can rest in that
Current without letting it break, or without causing it to break, in its
relationship to ourselves, we will be ready for something that cannot be
described, and I feel that that day is coming. Constancy and consistency in our
worship of the One God in Spirit and in Truth, according to the One Law, surely
opens the Way, it opens the door, so that, for us now the floodgates of Heaven
may be opened, and the Spirit of our KING'S Presence may be made manifest in
and through us, that we may become, in Oneness, so accustomed to the Spirit of
His Presence, in the full wonder of His Glory, that we will be able, and know
how, to welcome Him Home.
That which the
world calls home, or the people of the world call home, has meaning to me only
to the degree that it helps toward preparing this world for the return Home of
our KING. Anything that human beings call home, or imagine to be home, that
does not do that, is meaningless, a waste of time and a futility. Here we have
the privilege of proving the Reality of Home on earth, but I cannot conceive of
any place or any circumstance that could be called home, or that could be of
any satisfaction, or of any meaning, if our KING be excluded therefrom.
So, in these
realizations, we are privileged to rest this night because we are nearer Home
than ever before, and because the Day is nearer than ever before when we can
have that Blessed Privilege of welcoming our KING into His Temple on earth,
that Temple not made with hands.
© emissaries of divine light
from
Glory To God In The Highest
Uranda June
26, 1953 Class
Gradually the pattern is unfolding
so that you can begin to perceive with the eye of your heart the beautiful
reality of the divine design, and seeing it, you begin to relax into it, you
begin to let its control have meaning. You can, on the basis of faith—not
seeing clearly—when there is trust, begin to let control have meaning, but the
fulness of control in the reality of truth appears when you have begun to see
for yourself the beauty of the divine design. Until you do begin to see for
yourself, there tends to be a feeling that you are going to lose something,
that something is somehow being taken away from you, or that you are being
forced into some type of pattern where you lose your independence. Independence
to be a dying soul is not of much value.
When we enter into the glorious
liberty of the children of God as living souls, we find that we have the
privilege of living in the kingdom that is at hand and are no longer enjoying (?)
the seeming privilege of being independent in a prison cell from which the only
release will be death. And so you are beginning to see the beauty of the divine
design, and relaxing into it you begin to let control have meaning. And you are
finding that gradually your questions are either answered or they tend to
become unimportant. Have any of you noticed that? Your questions are either
answered or they tend to become unimportant.
In season all things are made clear. But you must learn to see for
yourself, and you are learning to see with the eye of the heart, with the
guardian angel of the mind, the conscious mind, at work in you.
This morning I would like to
direct your attention to one of the outstanding keys to a realization of
reality that can be found in scripture or Holy Writ anywhere, an outstanding
key which has, from the standpoint of its true purpose and meaning, been
virtually ignored. As long as we ignore the keys, we cannot use them to unlock
the doors and let the things of God come in. It is not a matter of you climbing
up, it is not a matter of you opening your prison door and going out of it. It
is a matter of opening the door—you have to do that; you have to use the key—but
you let the Master in, and when He comes in He begins to prepare a place for
you, He begins to make the place over; not just an ordinary re-modeling, but
the former things are caused to pass away. “Behold, I make all things new.”
Instead of imagining that you must somehow escape from a prison, you let the
prison be rebuilt into a mansion, a mansion of soul, in which the things of
heaven are present and made manifest.
This particular key was given to
man at the time our Master's body was born on earth in the form of a babe.
There were many remarkable revelations of the reality of Shekinah at the time
of the Master's birth, but the central key is the angels' song. The central key
is the angels' song: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men.” Let us look at this expression from the standpoint of reality,
with the eye of the heart. “Glory to God in the highest.”
What is the glory? The Shekinah
cloud of glory. “Glory to God in the highest.” That carries to the highest
focalization of Deity, going beyond the range of human consciousness or awareness.
“Glory to God in the highest.” And the expression was made in relationship to
those who dwell on earth. So if there was a recognition of “Glory to God in the
highest,” we see with the eye of the heart how there was a great cone, shall we
say—or what we have illustrated by the use of the word tent—a great cone
allowed to settle down over the earth, the base of it enfolding the earth as in
a net, and the point of it extending upward to God in the highest.
And what is it that shapes this?
What is it that gives it form? Glory—the Shekinah cloud of glory. And it was
brought to the earth, enfolding man, centered on earth in the babe that was
born. And “Glory to God in the highest,” signifies that the cloud of glory,
made manifest to man through the form of the babe that was to become a man,
extended to God in the highest, that there was no break, no point of
separation, no veil, except the inability of human beings to see. The cloud of
glory, the Shekinah, extended to the earth, enfolding the earth and carrying to
God in the highest. Glory all the way. The Shekinah cloud of glory here—and all
the way to God in the highest.
And then, following, when that is
a reality, what does follow? “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth”—enfolded
in the Shekinah glory something begins to manifest—peace on earth.” “Peace on
earth, good will toward men.” The coming of the Master was the supreme gesture
from God, the zenith of God's gift of love to man; and only in relationship to
love can there be peace; and it is clearly indicated it was on earth— the
supreme gesture of goodwill.
Instead of seeing God as an
avenging God, seeing God as a bloodthirsty God, seeing God as One who is always
looking for a chance to torture human beings, instead of seeing God as One who
had somehow conceived in His own mind the idea that He would not forgive human
beings until His own Son was sent into the world and slain on the cross, we see
that at the time of the Master's birth the divine expression, the angels' song,
conveyed to man the supreme gesture of love and goodwill. If there is goodwill,
can we say that in the pattern of that goodwill there is a desire to get even,
to make people pay for their sins, to make people suffer, etc.? No.
What is the natural result when
human beings allow themselves to be enfolded in the Shekinah cloud of glory
that extends all the way to Highest God? First there begins to be a sense of
peace—peace on earth, from which peace had been banished for so long and from
which it was again banished. Peace on earth, the result of the working of God's
love within the Shekinah cloud of glory. And then goodwill. Goodwill from God
in the highest, through the Shekinah, to all the children of men. Goodwill: the
willingness to let all differences be past, to let all wrongs be as if they had
not been.
This is not the message of a
bloodthirsty God through His angels, His avenging angels, to the cringing
cowards dwelling on earth. This is the message of a God of love, who does not
require any blood sacrifice. This is the message of Highest God to the children
of men through the Shekinah cloud of glory made manifest on earth and centered on
earth in the body of a babe. Peace on earth.
And the angels sang the song even
though there was no room in the inn for Him. People were so busy there
celebrating, they were so busy with important affairs, that there was no room
in the inn, no bed available to Mary. They were busy with such busy business.
And the angels sang the song even though they had to move the ox from the
stalls and put in a little fresh hay in the manger to make a place for the
birth of the babe—the lowliest place. And still, even though that was all that
man could provide for the coming of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, there
was still the angels' song, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men.” No judgment, no condemnation, the open invitation to
come—to come and let the beauties of the kingdom of heaven be revealed in the
lives of the children of men.
In conjunction with this there were
other evidences. This song the angels sang was heard by the shepherds who
tended their flocks. And there we have again the pattern of the shepherd.
Suppose a good shepherd is herding his sheep and one of the sheep wanders off a
bit, gets over in a dangerous place and the shepherd brings it back. Suppose
one of the little lambs is straggling behind.
Does the shepherd come along with the staff and start beating it, and
say, “Get up in there where you belong or I will beat you to death. I will have your blood if you do not get in
there”? And one of the sheep wanders
aside a bit. No, God is not like that.
Human beings have attributed to God their own dastardly attitudes and
conceive God to be as limited as they themselves are, and they have built their
concept of religion on that basis. And instead of seeing the glorious
significance of the angels' song, they have continued to weave the patterns of
assumption and belief on the basis that prevents God's love from being
received, His power from manifesting, His truth from being known.
And so human beings have continued
to die. Remember, God did not curse man.
God did not require that anyone should die at any time, under any
circumstance, and least of all did He require that His Son should die. And once
you begin to see that God did not require the death of any human being anywhere
at any time, that God did not produce the condition which would cause death,
that He did not require the death of our Lord on earth, or His body—once you
begin to actually see these things, the truth of the matter, you can begin to
have a new attitude toward life and toward God.
The angels' song to the children
of men was, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men.” And where is there in that the death sentence for God's Son on earth? The
patterns of religion and belief and worship, and their supposed way of
salvation—all figments of fancy, assumption, pure and simple—have deluded human
beings.
“Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward men.” The shepherd, the pattern of the
shepherd—not concerned about punishing the sheep. What was the parable the Master gave? the
ninety-and-nine that were safe in the fold, and one had wandered away. And the
shepherd went out and found it and carried it back to bring it healing and
restore it to its place in the fold. We cannot understand life, the magic of
life, the principles of living, or even how to give an attunement, until we see
that.
Seeing it, we begin to recognize
that the wise men who followed the star came to the place where the Master was
born directed of the spirit of God. And what was the star? First we have the
pattern with the shepherds—the glory, the Shekinah cloud of glory. And then
come the wise men—wisdom, the sense of the fitness of things, a function in
relationship to the mind, to the truth. And what do we see? The wise men following the star. And the star
is what? The light that glows. The cloud of glory, the light that glows, and
then the fire of love. And within the fire One like unto the Son of God. The
Shekinah pattern of Being was established in relationship to the Master's
birth, and He used it all the way through His ministry. He talked about it. He
revealed it over and over again.
He said, “Let your light so shine
before men”—the light that glows. “Love the Lord thy God”—the Shekinah fire,
the light that glows, the Shekinah cloud of glory—let these things manifest in
you. He said it so many times, so many ways. The Shekinah fire of love in the
manifestation of the divine pattern on earth. The Master said, "And ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," free to live, to
move and to have your being in the Shekinah of our God. And so shall you share
the victory and do your part toward finishing the work which you came to do.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
