The Irresistible Power

The  Irresistible  Power

Lord Exeter  October 4, 1987

Be honest

Be still

Listen

Hear

Is there sufficient stillness that we are able to hear?—stillness of heart, stillness of mind. This does not imply that the heart is open to receive all and sundry currents of feeling that may be moving around—it has been too much open in that regard—but sufficiently still that there may be a touching, a sensing, of the spirit of truth. It is flowing, it is moving, unceasingly. There may be various intensities of movement, pulsations, but never a cessation. The river of life, ever flowing—and these human capacities are here present, particularly of heart and mind, available to accommodate that flow of the river of life. The yielded and still mind and heart are present because we are also present in the flesh.

This flow of the river of life moves through this Body, through the mind and the heart of this Body. It does it individually speaking, and collectively in this Body. The veil, which has prohibited the movement of this spirit in the minds and the hearts of human beings for so long, dissolves. We have the experience of it dissolving, both as individuals and collectively. No individual heart and mind could say, “I am doing the dissolving.” What might be said is that I am willing to allow this dissolving to occur. It occurs because of the flow of the river of life, because of the creative movement of the spirit of truth. We find that that movement cannot be separated from the creative movement of the power of love. Here is an immense power.

The universe is operative. The human mind certainly hasn’t really understood this. It tries to pick the universe apart in the same way that it picks a frog apart in the lab. If that is done successfully, of course, there is no frog. Likewise, insofar as human beings are concerned there is no universe; it’s just a fanciful imagination. But there is a real universe. We call it a universe, but what does that mean? Do we need to know? Or do we have enough responsibility right here where we are? Perchance if we take care of this we may know something of that.

But there is the power of love, part of the flow of the river of life, combined with the spirit of truth. Here is immense power. It has been foolish for mankind to contend with it. They have been doing this for a long time, in human terms. That we are still here is indicative of the merciful nature of love. It was said of the Master that He endured the contradiction of sinners—that is, of human nature. Whenever there has been a focus of spirit brought to point on earth, there always was this factor of contradiction, the arrogance of the human mind which rejects, and always has, the spirit of truth. But, being aware somewhat of the immensity of power that is involved here, finally a point is reached where the contradiction is enough—no more!

We are blessed with the opportunity of accommodating this creative power. The way we accommodate it is to receive the holy spirit, the spirit of truth, into expression in our own living. Again very mercifully, the extent of this power has been modified, because if it was really released through this representation of the Body of the King I think there would be ashes sitting in the seats. We may become aware that this is not really funny, but a fact. Even the little power that is moving now through this Body is having immense repercussions. We ourselves are perhaps largely unaware of what those repercussions are. I don’t say that we may not observe certain repercussions, but we do not know particularly how these relate to the release of this power which is our responsibility. That is fortunate. We might, on the one hand, become somewhat arrogant if we knew; on the other hand we might be even more scared than we are. So there is a veil still over our consciousness for a reason.

But the power is moving. We might say truly that it is an irresistible force. There are two aspects to this irresistibility. One relates to positive radiation which brings attraction where there is resonant substance. The other is positive radiation which produces repulsion where there is substance held in the structured patterns of human nature. This was described as casting out what is kept in such structures into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. This is the Law at work, isn’t it? The Law has always been at work but, mercifully, it has been modified insofar as human experience is concerned, because of love.

We realize that all this comes to issue because we find it is being brought to issue in our own experience. What happens as it is brought to issue in our own experience will determine what happens in the world. That’s a statement that can be made but, insofar as human logic is concerned, cannot be proven. It doesn’t need to be proven in advance. It certainly will be proven in fact. And we can wait around for it to be proven, but that would hardly be very profitable. On the other hand we have sufficient understanding at this point to provide the facility for the release in radiation of this irresistible force which is the power of love. This may be safely done to the extent that we receive and express the spirit of truth.

There is much substance which will resonate as there are those present on earth who are willing to let it come out of the structures of their own consciousness. This is what has been provided for us, isn’t it?—the understanding and the assistance, that we might allow the substance, this spiritual substance of our own being, to be released from the structures in which it has been held so firmly in times past.

There hasn’t always been great enthusiasm about this, because some of those structures seem to be good. But when we reach a point of trusting the spirit of truth and the creative process, there is nothing to be defended, there is nothing to prevent from happening. The control and the design is present by reason of the spirit of truth, and as that occupies our hearts and minds, because there is resonant substance there, then any remaining vestiges of the veil may be easily dissolved. The veil is describable as the remaining structures which hold spiritual substance from resonating. I am sure we have all had experience of digging in our heels on occasion. Fear of course is a strong motivation in human beings. But at last we come to what may be trusted, so that there may be the release of the radiation of the spirit of truth, unhindered and unfettered by such restrictions as we may heretofore have placed upon it.

Here is the power which is producing effects, in human beings and beyond, that might from the human standpoint be said to be immeasurable. Let’s not try to measure them then. Let’s let them be, but in an awareness that it is our responsibility to maintain the clear space through which this creative radiation may be released, and to do it consistently. This both provides a point of orientation for any resonant substance that may be around, so that it may be drawn quickly, and it also repels, not so much the substance that is held in structures so that it cannot resonate but it repels the structures, it disintegrates the structures.

An interesting portrayal of this comes in something like an earthquake. There is quite a bit of rubble around Los Angeles these days, shaken out of structures. This is seemingly rather inert substance that cannot quickly be absorbed into the creative process. We ourselves are concerned with a different type of substance, contained in human beings and in their institutions. It takes something of an earthquake to break that loose. Probably as individuals we discovered that it needed something of an earthquake to allow our personal vibrational substance to become sufficiently free that it might resonate easily and carry us in the direction, at least, of where we belong. In varying degrees we have all had this experience.

Let’s not humanly take credit for it. It simply happened because there was this power of love, this immense power—and yet a very gentle power in many ways—which draws resonant substance to itself. If, as happens, there is sufficient resonant substance in a person, as I said before, the person comes along, maybe a little unwillingly, maybe with a little fear. It is the substance coming home and bringing human beings with it. We have all had this experience. We may finally admit that it wasn’t because of our good sense, it wasn’t because of anything that we happened to do as human beings but largely in spite of what we did as human beings, that we ourselves have been brought home, simply because this spiritual substance was present sufficiently in us to come home, and so we came along with it.

This should engender a little humility, which is a most necessary ingredient if our hearts and our minds are to be used for the purpose for which they, were created: to accommodate such conscious thinking as is necessary on behalf of the spirit of truth. The spirit of truth is not dependent solely on conscious thinking, but there is something to be done consciously in this way which relates to the creative process. But at the same time the spirit of truth, which identifies what I am for each one, brings to bear the power of love and, insofar as any remaining resistances that may be present in our makeup, will consume them. That happens more or less automatically. It may be an easy experience if in the human sense we don’t object, or it may be a painful one if we do.

So this power is emerging through this Body. It takes individuals to compose the Body; it takes their individual minds and hearts. But it is the power through the Body, this flow of the river of life, that releases the irresistible force into the consciousness of mankind, which is still very structured. However, I am sure that we can observe these structures crumbling. I am not thinking of what has been referred to as the crunch. I am thinking of the structures that are dissolving, so that the substance is freed up. It comes home, and the individual comes along with it. We can observe this occurring.

We need to see, somewhat, why it is happening and what our responsiblity is with respect to it. We are here to receive what is returning to our King. We receive it in His name; and that name, we know, is I am. So it is a very personal receiving. It isn’t a receiving as though the King was over there somewhere, and on His behalf we’re going to have this and we’ll hand it over sometime. How do we do that? No, we receive it in His name. It comes home to us. We are trusted with it, and we need to remember that. We are trusted with all this that is drawn by the irresistible force back to the King. We receive it in His name.

This is an irresistible power, drawing resonant substance and dissolving structures which are holding substance, which would be resonant if it was free, from coming home. This has a lot of implications, I am sure you can recognize. There is no need to speculate as to what it is that is going to happen. That engenders concepts of doom. We are thinking of substance coming home. That’s hardly doom. Because of this power, substance is freed up because the structures begin to dissolve. In individual human beings, their human-nature structures begin to dissolve, and the institutions of human beings dissolve also. How that will happen, when it will happen, what it involves, we are delighted to find out, probably a little later.

We need to let the power work now, to move easily, because we hold steady and participate in the expression of the spirit of truth in our own personal lives. When we do that we see how it is working through the Body. It is no longer a mystery. And it is working. Even with this little crack through which it may flow—I don’t mean to insult this Body as being merely a little crack, but that’s really all it is, isn’t it, if we consider the world body—even the power that can flow through this little crack is proving to be immense. The power that can take care of the universal operation is certainly quite competent to take care of this little blemish in the universal operation quite easily. It doesn’t require the whole of the power of the universe, only a small fraction, to get the job done.

We need to accept, acknowledge, the responsibility that is ours, to provide the means by which this minimal release of power may occur, even though the minimal release of power on earth may seem, from the human standpoint, to be immense. It’s all a matter of relativity, isn’t it? I rejoice that we have a continuing open way in which we may move together. For a while I will be somewhere other than Sunrise Ranch. But then, I’ll be somewhere else, and that is acceptable, I think, to wherever else that might be. We move easily, because we really don’t go anywhere. We stay where we belong, releasing the radiant power and blessing of the King in our momentary living.

Roger de Winton — Martin, this is a magical moment with you. Surely in this hour consciousness is cleared; the actuality of service is, you might say, revealed to me, to us. But I think, above all, the wonderful gentleness of love has been conveyed so unmistakably, so that whatever is undertaken when you aren’t actually with us here may continue in that way, so that in patience and understanding and gentleness, whatever I have to do or anyone has to do here may be carried forward and the greatness of what we are really about may be allowed to come down into consciousness and be conveyed. Thank you very much.

Lord Exeter — The power is no less because any particular person happens to be here or there geographically. The river of life continues to flow unabated.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

Excellency of Dignity — Excellency of Power

Excellency  of  Dignity  —  Excellency  of  Power

From  Within  Outwards

Uranda   May 1, 1953  Class

Rumours reached me that some of you didn’t recognize what I was doing [in Class] yesterday, but I thought that was a good opportunity to give you some of the basic Principles of Meditation. The only thing you have to meditate upon, after you reach a point of Oneness, is the vibratory factors you’re dealing with—not the things of Reality, not the things of God, not the things that are Real, not the things of Truth. But, you do have to meditate upon the vibrational factors in relationship to the processes of bringing them to point, dealing with them in various ways. So, once we reach a point of actually working from within outward, so that we are not seeking to work from the outside inward, our meditations are upon the factors with which we deal. There is no necessity of meditating, as such, upon the Truths of Being.

In this connection we have opportunity to emphasize a very important point, and that is, that the less you try to work from the outside in, as if you were trying to get in, the better off you will be. The human tendency is to try to get within, or work toward the inside—but you see, that isn’t God’s Way. God’s Way is working from the inside out, and as long as you are trying to work from the outside in you are running contrary to Divine action, doing something that is not in harmony or alignment with what God is doing. God is working from the inside out. We speak of the Father Within, and the necessity of functioning on the basis of that which is of the Lord Within, but trying to get in to find it is one of the most futile endeavours in which human beings can engage—trying to meditate on a basis of getting in to the Lord, the Lord Within, is utterly futile. It doesn’t work that way.

Your problem is to begin to come into alignment with that which is of God. When your mind begins to be aware of the Truth, and you have an opportunity to definitely recognize that it is the Truth, on the basis of right response you have a confirmation from within yourself. If your mind is not filled in some prejudice or fixation pattern, or if you are not controlled by some escape mechanism, you have a confirmation from within when you hear the Truth, and then you know the Truth. Then you begin to function on the basis of the Truth—no matter what feelings or beliefs or concepts or ideas there may be, no matter what may tend to come up from the subconscious realm, you remain true to the Truth. And it is only as you are honest enough to remain true to the Truth, without regard to control through feeling, that you can begin to experience the individual fulfillment which is in harmony with the Divine Pattern for you.

What then do we do? Divine action is already a reality. Once you begin to recognize that Truth and accept it, many of the pitfalls and difficulties are immediately removed. The human being imagines that God is withholding his action, he has to be begged into action, or that he has to be mollified in some way to make him even consider acting—but that is not the case. God is already in action with respect to all things whatsoever. There is no problem but what God is already acting with respect to the solution of that problem. There is no need but what God is already acting with respect to the process of filling that need. There is no necessity for an expansion of consciousness and understanding but what God is already acting with respect to providing the means for that expansion of consciousness, that increase of vision. Once you begin to actually accept the Truth that God is already in action with respect to all things needful, within the scope of your awareness and beyond the scope of your awareness, you begin to be in position to work with God and to learn to let God work through you.

Once you actually realize that God’s pattern of action with respect to the needs that are present in the world—all of them, without any exception—is not in any sense confined to the scope of your awareness but is on the basis of all needs for all people at all times, you can then begin to recognize why the self-active rearrangement of the Divine Pattern of action within the scope of your consciousness nullifies you, because the Divine Pattern of action has taken into consideration all needs—not just those of you here, but the needs of every human being on the face of the earth; the needs of nature, every need, without any exception, that rests within the picture of the process of restoring the whole earth to the Edenic State. So, if God is in action already with respect to all of these things, our problem is to learn to share God’s action with respect to those things that come within the scope of our responsibilities and capacities.

God does not ask of you anything that is actually beyond your capacity, although you may think He does. Most human beings have a very limited concept with respect to their own capacities insofar as Reality is concerned. They may think they have a great capacity for doing wrong, or functioning in some self-active manner, but generally speaking human beings have a very limited concept of their own capacity for doing the right thing, for sharing Divine action. So, while God’s requirements of you may seem to be far beyond your capacity to fulfill, they actually are not; and if we did not maintain a pressure causing you to exert yourself beyond your immediate consciousness of capacity you would never grow—if there was no pressure, nothing to urge or inspire you to go beyond the limit of what you think is the best that you can do. That’s why I never accept your best as good enough—never. Its fine, I thank God for it, but I never accept the best that you have made manifest as good enough, because I know that you have a great deal more capacity than you have yet discovered in relationship to yourself. And when you start excusing yourself for having less capacity, or less function within the range of capacity than you know you ought to have, then you are in trouble, because the best that you are aware of isn’t good enough—ever. I’ll accept it for the moment, but that’s all.

Only under a certain amount of pressure can you grow. All growing works out under a certain amount of pressure, but you reach a point where the pressures of Reality never produce discomfort—in fact, they produce joy and pleasure and satisfaction far beyond the power of my words to describe. But you must be under pressure to truly grow, and once you begin to let the pressures be designed by God they are all pleasant, comforting, beautiful—Divine. If pressures make you uncomfortable it’s because something is there which God did not design, He did not establish. You are responding to some unreal thing; you are under the necessity of dealing with some unreal thing.

Now, I am under the necessity of working under uncomfortable pressures very often. Why? Because human beings within the scope of my responsibility begin to function on an adverse basis—they let some unreal pattern into the picture; they have some wrong type of reaction. Well, I’ve accepted that individual, which includes all of you, into the pattern of my own personal hedge, to take care of you, to protect you, as much as you will let me. Those who go out from that, of course, they’re no longer my responsibility. I pay no attention to them. But those who still remain in it, they are my responsibility, and those who are moving toward it, they are my responsibility—and I do everything I can to inspire and protect and encourage, strengthen, so that each may move as rapidly as he or she will along the way. All of those who have been so accepted are within my own personal vibratory pattern, or hedge of Radiance—whatever you want to call it—the expanded expression of the pneumaplasmic sphere; and anyone within that sphere has been accepted as a part of myself, to whatever degree of response there is.

Whoever it is, that person has been accepted, as far as I am concerned, as a part of myself, and that means that I have accepted at least a share of responsibility with respect to what that individual does, and if that individual has a false reaction, does something wrong, I either have to share the pressure, the suffering if you please, or segregate that person from my body. I have no other choice. And I don’t segregate people from my body. I wait and let them do it—if they go out from it, that’s their business. But I never remove anybody from it. I let them remove themselves. If they must act as refuse, well then, so be it. But, while any human being is within the scope of that hedge, he or she is a part of me. I have accepted it so, whether the individual involved realizes it or not, and the pressures that develop are within the scope of my own Being, not my personal responsibility, in the sense of me as an individual, but my personal responsibility in the sense of me as a Body of many members—My Body of Many Members—because you could not have any process of growth or development, or progress, or blessing here, except in that position.

You’re not a segregated individual once you begin to respond and move into the pattern here. You are a part of My Body—and, as such, that which works through you influences my whole body and I feel it. I must of necessity work with it. And those pressures are sometimes very uncomfortable. Sometimes I can protect the individual involved from the results of his own actions and sometimes I cannot. But that moves into the realm of intercession. You cannot actually perform intercessory work for anyone who has not accepted, in part at least, the responsibility and privilege of being a part of what you are—within the scope of the Body. Now, the Body extends over all the earth, in actual fact. The Body is not fully formed over all the earth, but the vibratory cords of its initial beginnings extend over all the earth at the present time. When you begin to actually realize that this is the case, and that you cannot do anything wrong without hurting others, and without making it difficult for me, without throwing an extra load, an extra unnecessary burden upon others, you begin to realize that that type of function is dis-service—it is not serving God; it is not serving man; it is not serving yourself; it is not doing anything that is worthwhile. It is serving the devil.

So, what is the Divine Pattern of action in which you may share? God is in action with respect to all things whatsoever, with respect to every need, in you or in anyone else—whether there is response or not—and at the point of proper response you can connect up with the pattern of Divine action, but it must be within the scope of the Divine Design before the effectiveness of that contact can begin to truly manifest. You have to begin to yield to that Divine Pattern. So, instead of trying to move from the outside in, like a worm—that’s why human beings feel like worms; they are trying to go in the wrong direction—they begin to let that which is of God come out through them. They begin to deliberately, consciously, come into alignment with that which God is doing.

What is your God Being doing? I have pointed out that your God Being is responding to the LORD of Lords, and that is true. But on what basis does your God Being respond to the LORD of Lords? Within the scope of the Pattern of the Divine Design. I came into the world with a specific purpose. Every God Being of every man, woman and child on the face of the earth is responding to Me—without any exception anywhere—every God Being of every man, woman and child, high or low, white or black, it makes no difference. I came into the world to fulfil a Mission in relationship to this process of outworking, and without one single exception, every God Being on the face of the earth is already responding to Me—not me as a man, as you see me in the outer sense, perhaps, in the sense of the external revelation of the fact, but from the standpoint of the inner vibrational factors as far as the God Being is concerned, that centering is there. And no God Being attempts to bypass the focalization on earth—no God Being, whether in you or in someone anywhere, ever violates that focalization.

When human beings imagine that they can do something that the God Being cannot do, and does not do, they are wrong. They can try, they can spend their lives, their periods of existence on earth, trying to do something else but it doesn’t work. Once any human being begins to realize that there must be a focalization on earth if the Divine Plan is to work on earth, we can see how important it is. God’s will is to be done on earth as it is in heaven—in exactly the same manner. The Divine Pattern comes to a point of focalization in heaven. If it is to work in exactly the same manner on earth it must come to focalization on earth. There is no other way. Anything else is utterly impossible.

So, we begin to realize the wonderful privilege and glorious responsibility we have here—not to go out and try to talk to other people about what I’ve just said. It would only turn them away; only confuse the issue. It is not in any sense necessary. But it is necessary that you begin to realize the reality of your own privilege and responsibility as a member of My Body on earth. And until you so do, you cannot respond to the LORD of Lords. You cannot fulfil His will if you, as a human being, violate His will as it is done in heaven within you. In the heaven within you, your own Lord does not violate His will according to that Divine Design—and the focalization must be on earth if there is to be a fulfillment on earth.

Now, we can readily see that man, trying to work from the outside in, on some basis of obtaining spiritual illumination, or progress of some kind, for himself, is violating the basic commandments of God—as surely as if he went out and undertook to deliberately do evil. Why is it that the so-called good people suffer the same problems, the same difficulties, the same illnesses, the same miseries that the so-called evil people do? This is the reason—because, in their very efforts to do what they think they want in relationship to God in the spiritual processes of growth, they violate the Law. They work contrary to the Law, and they suffer the ill consequences. Until the human being stops trying to get in to God, stops wanting, stops trying to impose his will, his determination, he cannot begin to know the fulfillment of Reality. But you say, “Well I want to have spiritual development so that I can go out and bless people. I want to be illumined. I want to have this so that I can render a greater service.” All right—your motivation is in a sense all right, your intent is all right, but your function is wrong, and if your function is wrong you will not get the results even though you are very sincere.

God is in action from heaven out through the earth—working from the inside out. And when you begin to accept the reality of your polarity with God without first having to be convinced of all of its factors—when you simply accept the Truth, because you see it, and yet do not know it in the sense of full experience, and remain true to that, it begins to move out through you. You begin to conscious of what God is doing. It begins to move you. You begin to speak and act in the current of what God is already doing, and then—Divine action through you. And there is growth, there is illumination, the gifts of God full and beautiful and complete, ready to be given to you as soon as you stop trying to get them, as soon as you begin to be a channel for their delivery into the earth. It is not a question of whether there are blessings, whether God wants to give blessings. God’s problem has been to find someone who would act as a delivery truck, a means of conveying them into the earth; and once you begin to let them be conveyed, you share them! They manifest through you, and you begin to be that which manifests by reason of your life. It’s so simple and so easy.

Human beings have struggled for so long, trying to make it work in some other way—but it doesn’t. They can flounder around in attempts to make the mind accomplish something or other, they can work with memory, they can work with whatever they can get their hands on—all kinds of ways. Many of these efforts were brought to a very fine point of development in India, for instance, long years ago; the patterns of self-activity which have kept humanity bound: the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—the Forbidden Tree.

But God is in action and if you let Him act through you, by simply responding, letting it appear, in the little things and in the big, the process works out so easily, so naturally and so quickly. And you begin to be a blessing to those who share your Body of Being. Or, if it is My Body of Being, of which you are a Member, it is likewise your Body. It couldn’t be more your Body if you were the Focalization Point for it. It’s Your Body. It’s My Body, yes—but until you begin to actually realize that it’s Your Body, and that you have responsibilities in it, you have privileges, you cannot begin to come into that alignment where you are true to the Truth and you let Divine action appear through you. God’s Way does not take anything away from you. The fact that I provide the Focalization on earth does not detract from you one iota. How many of you would like to undertake to go through this process without any assistance from me? Well your presence here is answer enough.

Then, what is it that you should do? You should recognize that you cannot be something other than you are, and that God is not going to take away from you that which you are. No matter what method you try to use, you could not become, in any sense of Reality, something other than that which you are—and God is not going to take that away from you. You couldn’t be happy in being, or trying to be, something other than that which you are in Reality already. Trying to be something other than that only defeats you, and every part needs every other part. I need you—you need me. I need every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, without any exception. From the standpoint of the God Beings involved, they’re doing their part, but human beings haven’t learned to come into alignment with that which God Beings are doing. Once they do, all is well—the rest is so easy, so simple, so beautiful, so wonderful.

And once you begin to work, actually, from the inside out, letting it be God’s action through you, you do not have to meditate upon yourself. You do not have to meditate to convince yourself with respect to anything that you know, and if you know the things of Reality you are not under any necessity of meditating in order to know them. No. From the standpoint of our ministry on earth, when we work from within outward, we have to meditate upon the uncertain factors with which we are dealing. As yet, you are all question marks, to some degree; all X’s in the formula. Oh, I know what you are inside; that’s not the problem. I know what you are inside, from the standpoint of your God Being, from the standpoint of your Reality. From the standpoint of your true potential, I know what you are; I don’t have to convince myself of that, or try to find out what it is. There’s no problem. But, the question mark is: how well are you going to let that come out? What is there here that I can absolutely depend upon, so that a creative cycle may be initiated, and I can be absolutely sure that it will come out so, because everyone can be trusted, everyone will stay true to the Truth; there will be no reactions, nothing to spoil it; it will all work just the way God intended it to? When we work from within outward, we must meditate upon the things that we cannot say that we know. And can I say that I know just what you’re going to do, when, how? As you learn to maintain polarity and stay steady, I can begin to depend upon you. I have no other choice.

I begin to depend upon you so that you may begin to be a part of the Body—and we open a cycle to carry blessings to others. A certain pressure comes, things begin to move, there is a little power starting to manifest, and then if you give way the blessings don’t get out to those out there. We have to stop and repair the machinery, and start over again. And as long as the machinery keep breaking down, it doesn’t make any difference what God does. The fact that He’s doing something has no meaning on earth. He too must wait while we repair the machinery—get human beings worked out to a point where they’re willing to take some responsibility, hold steady, remain true to the Truth, let the power begin to work, let the pressure begin to come, let the force begin to have meaning, and we begin to move again—and whether we go three inches or five feet or ten miles depends on how well the machinery holds together. But the Lord is merciful, and patient, and as long as the individual has anything at all to offer in potential, in the outer sense, He keeps the door open for that individual.

The working of God is from within out, and once we begin to work in the same direction in which God is working—once we begin to work in the same direction in which God is working!—something starts to be what it ought to be. Do not imagine you are so far ahead of God that He will never catch up, if you start working in the direction He’s moving. And don’t imagine that you are so far behind God that He’ll never pay any attention. This present moment is the present moment for God too—not just you. This present moment is the present moment for God, for all God Beings, just as surely as it is for you—and once you begin to let it come from within outward you begin to be what you ought to be.

How do you share these things? By reason of their expression through you. If you are going in some other direction, can you begin to share them? No—because you will not be where they are. And how can you begin to share? In giving, in serving, in doing, in action—in action in the Spirit of the Living Christ. You know something about the reality of that Spirit. You do not have to try to get in to find it—it’s there; and you can begin to act in that current and remain true to it—and it’s there. Blessed Ones. God in action on earth through you becomes a reality as you let yourselves begin to truly give, truly serve, in a spirit of true thanksgiving—thanksgiving for the privilege, the opportunity and the responsibility. If you serve to get, you are working contrary to God’s Plan and it doesn’t work. You never get connected up with Him. If you give to get, you’re going in the wrong direction. If you are trying to utilize these opportunities and privileges for some purpose of self-aggrandizement you will fail. Why? Because you are going in the wrong direction—you are trying to move in the opposite direction from God. You are setting yourself up to be as God: to be as great as God, to be as powerful as God, to be as eternal as God, to be as wise as God. You’re going to choose your own course and overcome God so that you can be the god of all the universe. How senseless can human beings get? How foolish?

When you stop trying to work counter to God, and stop excusing any counter-patterns of action, you can begin to move with the Tide of Eternity. You can begin to move with the movement that has been from Eternity and is to Eternity, moving with the Stream of Being in the Currents of Life—and you begin to let the Beauty of the Truth manifest in the realm for which you are responsible. You begin to do, and God is in action on earth because you live.

In our Meditation yesterday we were considering the principles involved in letting blessings find expression on earth—of being a blessing to others or conveying blessings to others—the process of Attunement. And we began to see something. You began to realize that this portrayal with respect to Jacob’s Blessing to his Twelve Sons is a portrayal of world history—a portrayal of the vibratory factors working out from the Beginning, from the time that man was created, through the cycle of man’s fall, the outworking of the steps to this present time. And when we come to the end of the Blessing we see two things, revealed by two sons: Joseph, revealing the process which we are sharing at the present time of bringing about the Restoration; and Benjamin, showing the result, the outworking as it applies to the self-active ones in the world. “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.” The outer appearance of things—some going up and some going down, some letting the will of God be done and some refusing—the outer battle—the realm of the self-active ones. And what happens, in them and through them and to them? Here is the picture of world history, and the process of the fall.

And we remember that the First Born: “My might, the beginning of my strength.” Where? On earth. Man was the beginning of the manifestation of God’s strength on earth, so that God could begin to do in this realm of things that which was according to Divine Design. “The excellency of dignity”—Divine Men and Divine Women—“The excellency of dignity”—the Pattern of Nobility which God established for Men and Women, and to which He would return them, for God is not seeking to degrade human beings or make them feel low so that He can thereby feel that much higher. He is under no such necessity. He wills that you should be a Noble Man or a Noble Woman, revealing the Excellency of Dignity, revealing the Beauty of Truth, revealing the Reality of Eternal Life, centered in the Wonder of Everlasting Love.

And so, we are working out to the Restoration—to the Reality of Might, and the Beginning of Strength, and the Excellency of Dignity, and the Excellency of Power. That’s what was in the Beginning, and that is our Goal today—that these things of God may be made manifest on earth because we live.

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Hosts of Heaven and Hosts of Earth

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Hosts  of  Heaven  and  Hosts  of  Earth

Martin Cecil   December 24, 1978

Our gathering this morning follows the Music Service which we shared in this same Chapel last evening. This was a Service, or at least the opportunity of serving, in a particular way. Some were inclined to take the attitude that it was a concert but this would be an interpretation by the mind on the basis of some already existing structures of consciousness. We need to be able to see things freshly so that we do not lay upon our experiences what we have known out of the past. If we impose upon our momentary experience the forms that are already present in our consciousness then the newness of what properly should come forth is prevented. The tendency then is to keep going around in a more or less meaningless circle. This has happened of course in human experience in every field. Is there not something new to be brought forth by the spirit in this hour, and in each moment, as we move together?

So the gathering here in the Chapel last evening was not to share a concert but to participate in a Service. We all had our proper roles to play in this. But what was experienced yesterday evening was properly describable as a Service. We use that word because it is a matter of serving. We have the constant responsibility of serving, serving in the sense that as angels we are incarnate on earth for a particular purpose in serving our Lord and King—who is not here in person. We have the responsibility of assuming the position of representing Him and consequently of doing whatever it is that is necessary to achieve the purpose for which we have been commissioned. This relates not only to such occasions as the present one, or the one last night, but concerns every aspect of our living constantly. There is no moment, rightly, when we cease to be who we are. If we really did cease to be who we are we wouldn’t be here anymore; but we may forget at times, I suppose, in the human state of consciousness, thereby obscuring the reason for our presence on earth.

If we are alert in spiritual expression then there is spiritual discernment and we do not translate, or interpret, what is occurring in human nature terms, in the terms of the structures that are already present in human consciousness. So we would not interpret an occasion such as occurred last evening as a concert, for instance. This is a structure of human consciousness which rather firmly prevents what is supposed to be happening from the angelic standpoint from doing so. We tend to try to channel what is happening into the old forms of this structured state of consciousness. If we do that then we are responsible for preventing any adequate fulfilment of what might have taken place.

Of course there are occasions when maybe it is wise that, mentally speaking, we do not know exactly what it is that is happening, because if we did begin to understand, mentally speaking, we might interfere with it. So there are many occasions when from the mental standpoint we do not know really what is going on, and that is fortunate. But if we do not know what is going on, let’s not lay on it some interpretation which we have gleaned out of the past. Let’s let it be free. Let us be willing to admit that we don’t know what is going on, therefore we do not wish to encase it in some structured concept or other, trying to figure it out, because it is none of the mind’s business anyway. But as there is the development of spiritual discernment because there is an increasing consistency of spiritual expression in our living, then we do perceive something of what is occurring. It is unlikely that at this point we will perceive all that is occurring, or all that might occur, but we may see something.

For instance, last evening, as I say, we participated rightly in a Service, a Service which was brought to focus by reason of musical expression. The music was in some respects incidental. Now that is a terrible thing, I suppose, to say in the hearing of those who sang and performed on their instruments, because they had worked at it over quite a period of time. To have it all swept away in a moment by saying that it was altogether incidental might engender in human nature consciousness some disappointment. However this is not so if there was any real recognition of what was happening, for the choir and the instrumentalists provided a particular pattern of representation, just as those who were in the audience or the congregation also provided a particular pattern of representation.

The representation from the standpoint of the performers might be described in terms of the Hosts of Heaven. Here was a small body of human beings on earth in the position of providing representation for the invisible Hosts of Heaven, these Hosts being made visible by reason of this representation. On this basis then, something heavenly could be brought into form and expression on earth. It was done in a special configuration by reason of those who were also present in the Chapel as the audience or congregation. Here was another pattern of representation. The representation could be said to be the Hosts of Earth. The Hosts of Earth include the body of mankind as a whole but actually go beyond that—there is more on the face of this earth than human beings. But in any case here are two patterns of representation, brought to focus by reason of those who were actually present in the Chapel last evening—the Hosts of Heaven on the one hand, and the Hosts of Earth on the other.

We are well aware of the fact that heaven and earth have been separated in human consciousness. There has been a veil between. Our concern is to let that veil be dissolved so that the truth might be known. The truth is that heaven and earth are one, and so in this pattern of representation the Hosts of Heaven were brought to the Hosts of Earth. Because of such consciousness of these things which may have been present in those concerned, the blending of the two might take place. That blending of course would be a revelation of the fact that there was no veil between heaven and earth actually: heaven and earth are indeed one. Here was an opportunity of experiencing this truth and to some extent it was experienced. Maybe most didn’t see it that way, mentally speaking, but from the standpoint of the experience itself there was a certain blending between those who were onstage and those who were in the body of the audience. It wasn’t as though the audience was separated from what was going on on the stage. There was participation on the part of both aspects on the basis of the roles that were being played.

Representation of the Hosts of Heaven is properly a representation of something that is absolute. This could be correlated with what is describable as clear radiation—undistorted, clear radiation. I am sure those who did play a part in these roles on the stage had in mind something of the necessity of providing a perfect performance. However, what would a perfect performance be? The mind doesn’t really know. It has an ideal in concept perhaps but this certainly is not the truth. It is simply a mental idea of what should be offered. Sometimes when there are performances of this nature in the world that we know, it may be indicated as being a very polished performance. This presumably means that it conforms pretty well to the ideals somebody had in mind. The mere fact of a polished performance does not indicate that it is what it should be. It merely indicates that it conforms to some idea somebody has as to what it should be. And of course there has, over the years, been the building up of structures of various sorts which are supposed to define the nature of excellence in these various fields. When a performance comes along in the world these structures tend to be imposed in order to produce a polished performance. But what would the spirit bring forth? This has very little to do with the ideal that may be present in the human mind, because there are many factors to be taken into account of which the human mind is totally ignorant.

If we see the situation as it was last night, where there was a representation of the Hosts of Earth, then obviously we are keenly aware of the fact that insofar as the Hosts of Earth are concerned there are a multitude of distortions present. The state of affairs in the world is not the way it should be. The condition of human consciousness is not the way it should be. Of course the responsibility of the audience, the congregation, last evening, was not to bring to focus all the things that should not be. The responsibility was to provide a representation of what might well be described as response—response upward. We rejoice that there is something in this regard to be represented but I am sure we are very well aware, not only from the standpoint of our observation of others but because of our own experience, of the inadequacy of response upward insofar as the human state of consciousness is concerned. So what might be described as the perfect response is not really available to be represented, is it? All that can be represented is what the fact is, and that fact is far from what it ultimately must be; nevertheless it is the fact and we can only deal sensibly when we deal with the facts.

So there was last evening, from the standpoint of the representation of the Hosts of Earth, a representation of something that was somewhat inadequate. The responsibility of those who represent the Hosts of Heaven is to handle that inadequacy, recognizing the facts as adequately as may be possible. This produces an interesting situation because what are called mistakes may come into the picture. If a performer makes a mistake, that may seem to ruin a polished performance; but if a polished performance is not what is required it hasn’t ruined anything. I am not suggesting a casual attitude on the part of those who are offering, in song or on their instruments, as to what should appear. Of course the greatest care is taken to allow the spirit to bring forth something beautiful and something right, but there are other factors which are impinging upon the situation when we are functioning in service. Our purpose is Service—not to produce a polished performance—to bring forth nevertheless what is fitting, what is right, in handling the focus of the Hosts of Earth in the representation which is actually present. In handling this it may seem as though a mistake is made, but the basis for assuming that a mistake is made is the human concept of what should have appeared; whereas the human concept of what should have appeared is based in ignorance. It is based in non-perception of what the facts actually are.

I am not suggesting that, as I say, there should be a casual attitude on the part of those who perform. They are seeking to allow the greatest possible expression of the spirit in action, accurately; but what that greatest possible expression will be is found out on the occasion. It cannot be known beforehand and it cannot rightly be judged in the moment of experience, nor on the basis of some sort of postmortem, where people say, “Well, you should have done this. If you had done the other thing, then you should have done this.” Well there may be something to be learned from the standpoint of developing more efficient facilities to permit a greater expression of spirit but the expression of spirit always fits the situation—the facts that are present. It is not an arbitrary thing.

Some seem to imagine that if there was the true expression of the Lord on earth it would just appear, regardless of human beings, bang into the middle of everything! Well if it did that I doubt if there would be many human beings left, and God is not willing that any should perish. We have to choose to perish. It is not God’s will. So He doesn’t come on in that way. He seeks to develop a facility on earth which He may use to deal with the facts as they are, not according to some human ideal—and we share Services on this basis, whether a Musical Service or a Service such as this, or any other. We are responsible for handling the facts as they are. We see clearly enough that perfection is an ongoing thing and that it relates to circumstances as they are—it relates to the facts the way they are.

We find ourselves playing various roles continuously, roles which are in representation of the Hosts of Heaven and roles which are in representation of the Hosts of Earth. We all have this dual responsibility. But insofar as particular configurations of angels are concerned, then certain specific roles come into the picture, just as they did last evening—the representation, on the one hand, of the Hosts of Heaven, and on the other hand, of the Hosts of Earth. Where there is spiritual perception we discern these things, not merely in hindsight. Certainly if we look at these things now it is simply to make us more keenly alert spiritually speaking. We cannot go back to last evening and do it all over again.

If we can begin to see that a circumstance such as was present last evening in the Chapel here provides a means of particular Service, we may see that there is not a moment in our daily living that does not also provide a means of service. If we have accepted the responsibility of angelic expression on earth we do not do it on the basis of a forty-hour week. We do not do it on the basis of nine-to-five. No, from the standpoint of our service as angels on earth—which is Service to the Lord, incidentally—we are serving Him—we are serving Him in the achievement of His purposes on earth. So we are concerned with those purposes and we are alert in our momentary experience spiritually speaking, and we are not translating everything on the basis of already established mental concepts. We do not interpret all our experiences as though they were simply a repeat of what was already present in the structured human nature state of consciousness. How could anything new possibly come forth on that basis? It is remarkable how much has been allowed to come forth in our own experience spiritually speaking, in spite of the fact that there was a constant tendency to bind it up in the graveclothes of prior structures of consciousness, instead of letting it be born as something that was fresh and new and had never before put in an appearance.

So in our momentary living we have this same responsibility. If it isn’t an ongoing experience, which leads up to the point of the Service and continues thereafter, there is no basis for anything to happen at the Service. We share this ongoing experience rightly. Moving together, one of the elements related to such spiritual discernment as may be developed is the generation of spiritual substance, spiritual substance which is describable in other ways. It has been described in various ways in the Bible for instance. There is a passage here in the Book of Revelation: “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.” How does a wife make herself ready? By covering herself with structures of various sorts? We have just been speaking about the dissolution of such structures so that the spirit may bring forth what is fitting in the moment. Then the form which clothes the spirit is what should clothe the spirit at that point on the basis of the situation as it factually is. The bride here of course relates to this matter of the form of things. It relates to what is represented of the Hosts of Earth in the way of response. There is a yielding of this to what represents the Hosts of Heaven, so that there may be a blending and the transformation that is required in the Hosts of Earth may be set in motion and maintained in motion.

“For the marriage of the Lamb is come.” This is the blending— the experience of the fact that heaven and earth are one. This needs to be experienced individually because we are accepting the responsibility of angels incarnate and in expression on earth, and also collectively in the various collective configurations that properly put in an appearance. “The marriage of the Lamb is come,” the blending of that which represents the Hosts of Heaven with that which represents the Hosts of Earth. We are in position to experience this, aren’t we? Who else is? We have been moving toward this experience and have known something of it for quite some time, but there needs to be a vivid consciousness of the fact that we do serve as angels and that we cannot take even a moment off from serving.

“And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.’’ A saint is in evidence when the angel is in expression through human form. Then what emerges on that basis is describable as a saint but it certainly doesn’t conform with the human concept of a saint. A saint is not a dead person! Saints refer to living people, not dead people, and it doesn’t require any human mind to determine as to whether a saint is on hand or not. The human mind doesn’t know. When the angel is in clear expression through human form on earth, that is the condition of a saint, and it is a very practical, down-to-earth, sensible sort of thing. It handles things, it is capable of handling things, the way they are, the factual state. Saints are right here on earth doing what is needed to be done, but they are doing it consistently—not an on-again, off-again thing. They are clothed with fine linen. This is the spiritual substance which is the righteousness of saints, which is present by reason of the fact that there has been the expression of right living—right living in the circumstances the way they are; not trying to live rightly in some supposed Edenic state but right living with respect to the circumstances the way they are now. When there is such right-use-ness of everything, there is the clothing, the generation of the substance, described here as fine linen, clean and white. This is the true spiritual substance, isn’t it, uncontaminated.

“For the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” It is based in right living. Here is what is offered to enable the spirit of God to find right expression, both in the individual circumstance and collectively speaking in the world. There is something much more than our individual affairs for which we are responsible. We have something of a consciousness of a Body. We may speak of this at times in terms of a family but it is in fact a Body; the Body of the Archangel has been one description. And always, regardless of individual responsibilities in the immediate sense, there is primary concern for this Body as a whole.

So we share the responsibility of doing it—on the basis of the fact that there is an angel in expression in our momentary living consistently. We do not require anyone to make us ourselves. We are ourselves and when we give expression to ourselves in that angelic sense we know it. We don’t need anyone to explain it to us. We don’t need anyone to keep us toeing the mark, because the mark, when it seems that we are required to toe it, is simply a human endeavor. It has nothing to do with the angelic expression. There is no consideration given to toeing any marks. One just simply reveals the expression that is natural to oneself as an angel—that’s all. One doesn’t have to be prodded into that expression. One doesn’t have to be inspired somehow. It is the natural experience when it is accepted. When it is accepted the human nature condition of our consciousness no longer is permitted to go off on its own. So we share this matter of responsibility in Service constantly and are willing to experience that greater spiritual discernment in our human consciousness that makes us aware of the nature of the Service that is natural to us in any given moment, in any given situation, in any given configuration of association with other angels. We are very capable of doing what is required in this regard, as there is an acceptance of the natural responsibility of being oneself.

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