The Crossover Point

The  Crossover  Point

Martin Cecil   February 3, 1974

There is a principle considered right at the beginning of the month Class. This principle relates to the true position of a person—the place of man—who properly provides the means by which invisible spirit is translated into visible form. This is rightly your position. In illustrating this particular principle, we have used the capital letter X. The X does provide an excellent illustration, formed as it is of two Vs, one of them inverted. The respective points of apex of these two Vs are the same in the letter X, and this certainly portrays the position of man as the crossover point between spirit and form. He is the point, when he is in position, by which the oneness of heaven and earth is made known. If he is not in that position he does not, and cannot, know the truth of this oneness.

The upper part of the letter X is a V, which represents the realm of spirit brought to a particular point of focus in the person at the crossover point where the position of man rightly is. The lower part of the X represents the realm of form. The realm of form also comes to point at that same apex, the place where man belongs, a point which has position but no magnitude. This is where the individual belongs.

The fact of having a body and a mind present indicates that there is the potential of the expression of spirit—the translation of spirit into form—spiritual expression. Besides these capacities in the realm of form there is what is called the heart. There are those who have been inclined to imagine that the heart is the same as the spiritual expression, which is certainly not true. There is the capacity of body and mind and spiritual expression, and permeating these levels of experience there is what we call the heart, or the feeling realm. It is present in the physical body, it is present in mental experience, and it is present in relationship to the experience of spiritual expression. By reason of the heart there is the possibility of coming back to the place where we belong, so that there may be the true experience of self, which is at the crossover point between spirit and form.

This is the point which unifies heaven and earth in balance. Without being there the individual obviously must have an unbalanced experience. The point where the individual belongs, where he may say, “I am”, rightly, is this crossover point between the realm of spirit and the realm of form. Here is the connecting link between heaven and earth. As we have noted, there has been a missing link—man in position has been missing. Man has been missing. Insofar as you as an individual are concerned, your awareness of yourself has been missing. You have had an awareness of a material self, which is not you.

You are neither material nor spiritual in your true position; you are at the point of balance, and that point is the point where you say of yourself, simply, I am. You do not claim a material identity nor do you claim a spiritual identity; you just are. That is the point of being—that is the crossover point, the connecting point between the realm of spirit and the realm of form. Only when a person is in that point does he know himself and is he in position to be a balanced expression of himself. That expression is both in spirit and in form.

In considering how the individual may come again to himself, there has been the recognition of the need to accept the true qualities of being. In that acceptance of the true qualities of being there has tended to be the idea that this was spirit. No—the qualities are simply the means by which spirit may find expression. If the individual is in place at the crossover point, then what is of the realm of spirit may be translated into the realm of form. But what is of the realm of spirit is an unknown, invisible quantity. In order for the translation to be made there must be the facility to contain it, and that facility will include the true qualities of being. Spirit released through that connecting point reveals its nature in form, but you cannot get hold of spirit and measure it or figure out what it is. The realm of spirit is an unknown quantity insofar as the realm of form is concerned. If therefore you find yourself identified with the realm of form, spirit is an unknown quantity, and it remains an unknown quantity until you return to your true position.

The primary aspects of spirit are love, truth and life—using words to describe something unknown. There is the experience at the moment of what is called life. What is it? Certainly it is an unknown quantity. But it's real. You may say of yourself, no doubt, “I am alive.” How do you know? “Well I'm breathing; my heart's beating.” Ah, something in material being, something in the realm of form—this gives evidence of the fact that you are alive. “I can move my hand.” But that does not acquaint us with whatever life is as an aspect of spirit. Where is it? Can you locate it? It's present, presumably, in you or in what you say is you. What you mean is it's in this physical body somehow, and it's in the mind too; the mind is animated sometimes. But where's the mind? “Oh, in my head,” the individual says. Is that so? You have got a brain in there, but is that the mind? Mentally speaking, you can be in many places—that's right, isn't it?

We have these material forms and we are rather thoroughly embedded in them, or have been. Maybe we are moving out a little; maybe we are willing to let something be transcended in this regard, but not very much yet, as we discover if we start to think about it. The true experience is unknown because we're somewhere else than the place where we belong; and the deeper we plunge into the realm of material things the heavier the experience becomes.

Human beings have had an imaginary sense of freedom in their descent through the material realm. And it is a descent, you know; it ends up with a bang strong enough to get a person six feet under. There are some illusionary experiences in the material state which human beings imagine they are enjoying at times. This is what most people do with their time—devise means by which they can enjoy falling and delay the moment of impact.

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth”

— which made both heaven and earth —

The point where true identity is—the identity which is accurately described by the words I am—is neither in heaven nor in earth but provides the connecting link between. So we lift up our eyes to the hills, we move toward the hills, and we start to climb the mountain; but we cannot do this if we are wrapped up in the false self which is identified by various dualities of false experience. And people do get very wrapped up in that, don't they? It keeps them from the mountain, it keeps them from themselves; it limits them, circumscribes them, maintains a cell-like condition.

Freedom is only known on the mountaintop, because that is where the truth is known, the truth of oneself—the place where spirit is translated accurately into form. If you are not in that place and life still remains for a little while, then spirit is not being translated accurately into form; it isn't getting through, and what does get through comes out in the realm of form on a distorted basis.

We say that life is an aspect of spirit, truth is an aspect of spirit, love is an aspect of spirit. If spirit is not coming through clearly because the individual is not in the place where he belongs, life will not be known, just a semblance of life, a trickle of life coming through. Truth will not be known. If truth isn't known, what is known? Something that's false, obviously, something that's a lie. And if love is not getting through, what is known? Certainly not love, rather the evidence of the absence of love or the distortion of love in some way. Hate is the absence of love, but there are many ramifications of hate: dislike, resentment, fear. Here is the experience of what might be called false spirit, because it is what remains after true spirit has filtered through the place where the individual is, and if the place where the individual is is down in the material realm, not very much spirit is going to get through and what does get through will be distorted.

Human beings in the material condition do not know what life is; all they know is that limited state of existence which remains after most of life has been blocked off. They do not know what the truth is; they haven't the faintest idea what the truth is; all they know is what comes through after most of the spirit of God has been blocked off. And they have no idea what love is. Love is almost completely excluded. Love is not known; truth is not known; life is not known. The reality of spirit cannot be known as long as the individual is involved in material identity.

As long as a person continues to be identified with his form he cannot know the truth; he does not know the truth of life, he does not know the truth of love, he does not know the truth of anything. Oh he may have a brilliant pattern of concepts logically fitted together, and he says, “Well that's the truth.” Nonsense. It's a figment of fancy humanly invented; it isn't the truth at all. The truth is a part of spirit, and if there is no means for spirit to be translated accurately into form the truth cannot be known; it certainly cannot be known by any manipulations of the human mind. It only begins to be known when a person comes back to the place where he belongs, the crossover point, so that he stops being a missing link.

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills”—I will direct my footsteps toward the foot of the mountain and I will proceed to ascend the mountain. And I know that I cannot ascend the mountain as long as I insist upon a plains identity; it can't be done. But there is a longing in the hearts of human beings—and here the heart comes into the picture—to find something that has not been known. And there are those who become aware of how much the unknown transcends the apparently known. There is a longing to ascend the mountain, to find oneself—not to try to escape from oneself, which is the effort that most people undertake in defiance of the real longings of their hearts. They run away; they run away in every conceivable fashion.

So let us return to that place where we belong, because we begin to recognize how stuck we have been in our material identity, and in the idea of how much meaning something we do in the material sense is going to give to us. We may be acclaimed, and the acclamation of others may boost one's ego; but when it stops coming, what then? You realize you are nothing if your sense of meaning was built upon material things, or even upon supposedly spiritual things. And who are you? The one who properly stands where spirit and form come together.

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From Education To Government

From  Education  to  Government

Martin Cecil   May 11, 1980

No matter what is experienced there is always something to be learned; so education is a factor in all our variety of experiences, if we are open to learn. On the other hand the matter of spiritual government has been largely ignored in human experience for a long time. We have concerned ourselves with this matter. If we have any real reason for being on earth it is to this end: that we might provide the means for spiritual government in this world, not as something exclusive but as something definitely required. No one is being prevented from participating in the processes and cycles of government from the spiritual standpoint.

The pure expression of the spiritual government has been conspicuous by its absence. In fact it has hardly been seen as being necessary at all except possibly within the range of the religious approach; but then, for safety’s sake, state and church are kept separate. But the concern is not with this matter of human endeavor, whether based in some religious belief or merely in political belief. What has been lacking in the world is the reality of God’s dominion. However there is very little recognition that we ourselves may have some responsibility in the matter. It is because you have some recognition in this regard that you are here. I can see no other reason for us being here together.

In order that there might be those who are in position to provide what is necessary there must be some spiritual education first. No matter how willing people may be to serve the Lord, as they say, they must know how. There have been countless sincere and earnest people over the centuries who were desirous of serving the Lord but the state of the world indicates that the Lord hasn’t been too well served thus far. He is only served when He is allowed to be present, and it is our business to allow Him to be present. We cannot allow Him to be present as long as the human nature state prevails in our own experience.

In order to emerge out of that state of subjection, that state of bondage, there is a need for the provision of education, provided of course that there are those who are anxious to emerge. As long as nobody wishes to do so there is no point in any education; there's no one to be educated. It requires willingness to move out of the state that has been, into something unknown. Now this is a fearful business for most. The unknown is terrifying, so they say. I think it is the known that is terrifying—that is, if you want to be terrified. But the unknown in a spiritual sense is available to be experienced; it has always been present. The statement was made long ago that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The truth is here; we may know it. It requires a little willingness, yes, and a little courage I suppose, to laugh in the face of human nature, no longer taking the attitude that here is the supremely strong influence from which it is impossible to escape.

Mention is made of the great red dragon in the Book of Revelation. I am sure you know exactly what that figure portrays—human nature. There is no great red dragon that has a life of its own; it is simply what human beings have made. If we can make it, equally we can unmake it. It can be allowed to dissolve. Human nature obviously is closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet. So we don’t need to try to get at this great red dragon out there somewhere. He is easily found in the immediate vicinity.

We see how it is that the earthly heredity that is present in all of us relates to the means by which human nature retains its hold in human experience. Certainly we inherit something in this regard in the material sense, but this does not deny the fact that we also inherit something in the spiritual sense. However most have been inclined to deny the spiritual inheritance in favor of the material inheritance. The great red dragon is on hand and in the heaven of most people. Here is the controlling element in human behavior—human nature supported by human heredity.

So, on the part of some, there has been a willingness to allow another experience to come because there is not so much faith any more in the great red dragon. How much faith do you, as an individual, have in the power of your earthly heredity, your human character, to dictate as to the way you should behave, what you should think, how you should act, what you should say? So, those who are willing to consider the possibility that there could be another state of experience are considering the matter of letting the great red dragon be cast out of the position of control, so that no longer is there subjection to the human nature state as it comes to particular focus in our own individual experience.

I am sure that all of you have a sensing of something quite remarkable, something rather unlike usual human nature experience. There is a sense of friendship, a realization of what is meant by the word love perhaps, It’s good to be together, not because we necessarily chose each other. There is available a large space in which we may find freedom of easy and natural interaction. This interaction comes because the spirit of God prevails—giving evidence of considerable power. Why not let that power achieve all that it will? There is an inclination to let it go just so far, but beyond that point it's a little scary, beyond that point, “I might lose out. I might lose some of my most precious possessions”—in human nature. Yes, you lose them all! Every last one! But that need not be all that fearful a prospect, because there is something else being introduced, something that might be referred to as treasure in heaven rather than treasure on earth. Where your treasure is, there your heart is also. There you are, so you are present with your treasure—in heaven now instead of on earth; and as the earth reflects whatever it is that is in heaven, well you have the treasure on earth too but not in the same way.

Now there are those who are willing to face up to the situation, to be honest—that we may come clear. And in our own experience of coming clear it is not a dragged-out undertaking. As I say, there is the necessity for some spiritual education, but this shouldn't be too exhausting an experience; it is a delight really, if one really participates in it. It's an absolute delight! One finds the world opening up, a new understanding, a new vision, a new experience. The dominion of the dragon only continues to be a fact as long as he is present in our heaven. The very moment that there is the acceptance of the reality of the spirit of God into one’s own heaven of living the dragon isn’t there—the dragon is cast into the earth. He is in the earth—but he is not in the heaven and we do not need to be subject to his dictates any more. We need to get on with the job. The job is one of spiritual government.

To move toward the point where the experience of spiritual government becomes dominant one must pass through a period when the experience of spiritual education is dominant. As you know, those of you who have been in Class, it is not just a matter of education. There is the matter of experience also—there is an aspect of government as well as an aspect of education. To start with, for spiritual children, it's dominantly education; dominantly, rightly, discipline and all the requirements of control provided for the person until there is sufficient maturity for that control to come from within the person himself. But its only to a very limited extent within a person to start with. Where there are spiritual children there is need for spiritual education and that is provided in one way or another. In the initial stages, spiritual education is dominant and spiritual government is recessive—not there at all to start with but gradually it begins to put in an appearance. And the balance changes until, at the point of what one may call graduation or commencement, the aspect of spiritual government becomes dominant, even though spiritual education is still a factor—one never ceases to learn but one has the responsibility of government nonetheless.

Seeing things from this standpoint, always there is the process of relinquishing the educational requirements in favor of governmental requirements, which are the actual acceptance of spiritual responsibility in one's own living—then there is the concern not with personal things from the human standpoint but with personal things from the Lord's standpoint, from the divine standpoint.

So our concern is that we should all be in the same business, and that business is the business of the spirit of God and not the business of the dragon. I had a letter from somebody bringing up a very excellent point which could apply to this service today: “Now at last Martin will be here and he will tell us this special truth for which we have been waiting all these months and years.” Well what have I been doing in the meantime? Did I never say anything for the past thirty years? The point is that it is all there—it’s been there—it's all been there.

But it's not what I may say that is the point. In fact its what you say, what you say in your own expression of living. That's the only way that you can know the truth. I can give you the keys, which I've been doing for thirty years, and you can accept the keys and open the door if you wish. Anybody could do this; they could have done it from the first point of initiation. We have to admit that the dragon has quite a hold on people—but somewhere along the way there is the necessity of taking responsibility for oneself and not requiring anything else from anyone else. “Well I need a little more help here.” Okay. There's lots of literature; read it. There's the help. If you want more help, do you want someone to come along and bend your ear? I’ve been bending people’s ears for years and also writing letters to people, many of which are now published in booklets and freely available.

People have resisted spiritual education, so much. Why not accept the opportunities that are provided and learn something? Be educated. Spiritual education is offered but not always accepted. Only as it is accepted do people learn; only as there is the spirit of God occupying the heaven of daily expression is the dragon no longer in the heaven. He’s in the earth for the moment; earthly heredity is still around. It is in our own physical forms and in various structure of consciousness perhaps—but these don’t need to be the controlling factors.

When there is a willingness to accept the real quality of living, and be honest about it—snap—just like that, it happens! That’s the only way it ever happens.  As long as there is a long, drawn-out process, nothing is happening—one is still feeding the dragon. In a moment one may acknowledge the truth; and its not as though I, or anyone else, is going to give some great and marvelous truth sometime so that you can say, “Now I have it.”

I've been offering something over many years which is available to be accepted now. It's not going to be any more available in the future. It's going to be more difficult to be accepted in the future. We have the opportunity now. We are sharing in this hour, an hour of what one might call government, spiritual government, something which relates directly to one's own experience. Only on this basis does the Lord come into the world, does the spirit of God have a field of action in the world, because there are those who are experiencing that action. That's government—that's what it is. It's not imposing something upon other people, but it is providing something very positive in living which other people are going to have to say Yes or No to when it comes up against them.  But we need to say Yes if it is to be a reality for anyone else. We can't impose it, rightly; we never make the attempt; but we provide what is necessary and do it with assurance because it is our natural expression.

So I thank God for you and the spirit of agreement that is in you by which we may provide what is necessary on earth, not on the basis of the Emissary ministry as such but on the basis of living, of being what we really are. All we need to be is ourselves, the reality which we are, the truth. Bring the truth. The Emissary ministry is basically an educational requirement, that there may be those who come out of that requirement to be the truth of themselves in living and reveal the unification that is natural between themselves and all others who are letting it happen. Then there is a sense of oneness. We find ourselves out of the land of bondage, in the experience of a freedom that is so natural and right.

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Through  the  Eyes  of  a  Teacher

Uranda  1936

 

No matter where one may find himself to be in the activity of Life, it is well to pause and meditate upon what may be called "the other side" of all the manifestations and activities in which he is interested. Students of Spiritual Truth are prone to get a Student's viewpoint, and hold to it with such ardor that they never see things from the viewpoint of the Teacher who points the Way.

After all, the Goal of the Student should be to reach a point of Inner Understanding and Realized Oneness where he can act and express in the Assurance of the Father within—a state of Being where he is conscious of a Positive Radiation to the world at all times through the Christ Spirit, with every expression controlled through direct cognition from the One within. Having allowed himself to be uplifted into this Realized Oneness, the Student becomes a Teacher, not because he sets himself up as such, but because the Christ Radiance which shines through him attracts those whom he can serve. No true Teacher sets himself up as such. The true Teacher knows that a Way is always provided through which he can contact those who are ready to receive the assistance he has to offer. He knows that when he is ready to teach, his pupil will appear—just as surely as the Student may know that when he is truly ready to advance, the Teacher who can best assist him on the Way will appear. So, also, the Blessed One knows that when a pupil is drawn to him, he should begin to teach—not from the wisdom of his outer mind, and not because of any idea that he is better than another, for the True Teacher is never afflicted with a self-righteous attitude—yet he knows that when the pupil appears it is the Will of God for him that he should let the Spirit direct in the expression of those things which fill the Student's need at the moment.

Too often Students imagine that a Teacher is one who knows a great deal, and who can start out and give a preconceived series of talks or lectures, so that all the Student has to do is to listen. Such is not the case. The Student should realize that the true Teacher can only give as the Student responds. The Student must be conscious of his need before the Teacher can give effectively. The Law is: "Ask and ye shall receive". The Student who does not know himself well enough to know his needs, and to be able to ask definite and direct questions, does not make rapid progress on the Path. Those Students who bring up definite points, and ask direct questions, are the Blessed Ones who make the greatest progress in Spiritual Attainment—all through the day they are busy making applications of what they have learned, and every point that is not clear, or that does not seem to "fit", is noted down at the time it is thought of, and at the first opportunity they ask the Teacher, if they cannot answer the question themselves through meditation and analysis.

The Law is: "He that asketh, receiveth." The true Teacher knows that he must, under the Law, answer carefully every direct and earnest question which is asked by the Student. A Teacher can always tell which Students are the most alert and progressive through the questions that they ask. The Teacher knows that Students who seldom ask questions will not, as a rule, make much progress. The type of questions asked is, also, very indicative of the Student's reactions. Again there is a great difference in the way in which questions are asked. Asking many questions without earnestness—without that Inner Vibrancy which makes the question vital and of great importance—is of no value, for the Student will straightway forget to apply the answer, to his everyday life. There is shallow curiosity, and there is a deep desire to know. The true Teacher always knows the difference, and answers accordingly—the Teacher gives that which the Student really wants—if he gives anything at all. In the true Teacher there is a responsive chord which will assist the Student in drawing the Truth from within himself.

The Teacher must be careful not to encourage the Student  to depend on him, and yet he must help the Student in every way possible. The true Teacher never seeks followers of himself, but he works that all may become true followers of the Father, in the Christ. The Blessed One who reaches a point where he begins to attract Students, is he who truly begins to learn—he becomes the real student. In fact, no Student has becomes a real Student until he begins to teach.

He knows that all Truth is within himself therefore, he knows that no matter what question may be asked, he will be able to answer that question even though he may never have taken conscious thought of it before. Thus it is that the Student draws the Truth from within the Teacher, just as the Teacher draws the Truth from within the Student. When this cycle is complete and harmonious, they two become one in Truth, and they are true fellow students. The true Teacher always rejoices when his Student begins to draw Students to himself, for he knows that a higher cycle is attained. Too often the Student who has become the Teacher places too much stress on the mannerisms of expression in teaching as he has known them in his own Teacher. At this point the outer mind, too often, interferes, and what appear to be differences, to the Student, are magnified into undue importance. Sometimes the Student, in making the change of cognition in polarity, takes a positive attitude toward his Teacher, and then they both lose what has been so carefully builded—yet the true Teacher carries on without complaint, with nothing but thoughts of Love for the one who has failed. The Christ Way is so very easy—but the outer mind makes it appear hard. None of these disturbing things need to occur, yet they do.

Students seldom understand the true purpose of teaching until they become Teachers. The Student who tries to "get" Students, that he may become a Teacher will fail—the Christ way is the Way of Radiating the Magnetic Power of Light, Love and Life, so that those who will, may respond and be served. The Teacher is always the Servant of the Student—but woe to that Student who fails to become the Servant of his Teacher.

The Art of Teaching is the greatest Art, for, indeed, the purpose of all Art is to teach.

The only excuse for lessons, books and lectures is to convince the outer mind that it does not know and need not know All that is. Truth is simple—so simple that the outer mind finds it hard to understand. Intellectual dissertations on Inner Plane Truths and States of Being can never portray the actuality of them—they cannot be known except they be experienced. To spend much time seeking to describe Masters, and the Realms of Light, is to waste valuable opportunities that are present in this instant. Those who have experienced Inner Plane Realities to the full know that they cannot be described by mortal language, and they never attempt to divulge that which is unknowable to the outer mind while it remains in world consciousness. They know that mortal mind in its limited state cannot comprehend such things even if they could be described. Only those who know but little of these things attempt to describe them in any detail to such as have not experienced them.

In many teachings that are prevalent in the world today much emphasis is placed upon things that are phenomenal to the outer mind. Sensational attempts are made to describe Inner Plane Beings, the Masters of the Brotherhood of the Christ Radiance, in order to attract followers, and to make the teachers therein appear wise in the eyes of men. Let the Earnest One beware of all such things, knowing that all these supposed, or part real, experiences can be of value to no one but the one experiencing them, and that they should never be spoken of except to such as have attained greater, or at least equal, understanding.

There are rare occasions when the true Spiritual Teacher may give illustrations and instruction on Inner Plane Realities to Students who have allowed themselves to be lifted to a high state of Spiritual Consciousness, for the Teacher will know when such expression will be permissible and helpful. Yet the Student who never hears such things from the lips of his world-manifest Teacher should consider himself to be blessedly fortunate, for the reason that it proves the Student to be making excellent progress without stimulus, which at best, is to a degree artificial. To understand the secrets of Life on this plane is the truly worthwhile achievement, and he who so understands will surely be uplifted into a true understanding of that which is of the Inner Plane States of Being.

The true Teacher always acts in the Realization of the Presence, through direction of the Spirit. Though he is humble, he is likewise bold. He speaks and acts with authority—not an authority delegated by men, but in the authority of his own union with God. In this he knows the Inner Meaning of the words, “Let your Light so shine before men that they may see your perfect works, and glorify your Father within you.” Let us let the Spirit teach us what to say and do under all circumstances, that we may be called Teachers IN Truth. Let us pray that many Teachers may be prepared and called into the Harvest Field.

A glorious privilege of supreme Service awaits all who will let the Father have His Way. Let us remember that Truth is, that Truth is One, and that it cannot be divided, no matter how many Teachers, or Teachings may appear. Every true Teacher knows that the time is fast approaching when Truth must be recognized in its Oneness—that there must be a manifest blending of the Truth in all Teachings—that the complete Truth may appear in its glory. All Truth is of God, and is God's, not the Teacher's, and in this Realization all pettiness and jealousy will vanish away. The Truth will stand. 

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