No Power Without Pressure
from The Magic of Life or the Magic of Death
Uranda June 3, 1953 Class
I wonder if any of you have felt any pressures of any sort since yesterday? A few of you indicate that you have. That is to be expected. We have been moving forward in the pattern of the contest. Remember this: We did not ask for this contest. From the standpoint of deity we did not ask man to fall. From the standpoint from which we function we did not ask man to resist the patterns of deity for twenty thousand years. From our standpoint we did not ask man to crucify our LORD and KING. From our standpoint we did not require that there should be any Gethsemane for Him. But there was, and when He drew His last conscious breath upon the cross, lapsed into coma, the command of the battle passed to other hands than His, hands dedicated to His cause. And we are here because of that. Our purpose is to quell the revolution; for there have been those, and there are those, who revolted against the Kingdom of our KING and they have said in their hearts that they could succeed in their revolution and maintain their rebellion. But it is not so. Our KING has been long-suffering and He has been patient, that any and all who would yield and respond might not perish because of the rebellion but rather respond and become citizens of the Kingdom. So we have not sought the battle that looms before us; it has come to us unbidden. And when the pressures come it is time to give thanks unto God and to be thankful that the revolution of the rebellious ones cannot be maintained forever.
The battle is being joined individually and on many fronts—the pattern of the world situation, all of the things that are at work in the world, on both sides. Those who at any level stand for that which they recognize to be right under God are a part of this in which we are engaged. As you have begun to recognize, the adversary is versed in some of the distorted and reversed principles of magic up to a point, but within the realms of the revolt. They do not know and cannot know, they do not use and cannot use, the Divine form of Magic which is granted to our use. So remember this whenever pressures appear, hold center and give thanks to God for the battle that is drawn. And remember what I have emphasized several times: It is not your business to contend with the black magicians or the patterns of black magic in the world; it is for you to remain centered and hold steady under pressure, for if there be no pressure there can be no victory. If there be the manifestation of the power of the unreal in the world, the power in us must mount to a higher point than that power, and there can be no manifestation of power without pressure. These are unnatural and abnormal pressures because of the situation in the world mirage and the realm of illusion. But the things of this realm of illusion must pass away and those who are subject to them must make a choice and choose whom they will serve.
We have been using the Old Testament patterns to provide you with a setting for the true working of the power of God, so that you could more readily feel and know the fact that you are in eternity and that which was true two thousand years ago or four thousand years ago is true today, so that you may function from the standpoint of eternity and not from the standpoint merely of a moment of time in the cycle outworking, not limited to the concepts of a short cycle of existence on this earth. And you may recognize that the longings of your heart which would avoid the pressures that arise are legitimate—for we all long for that day when the Prince of Peace shall rule supreme upon the earth. But do not let them be used by the adversary to make you turn from the fray, or to yield your place of responsibility; for that would only prolong the agony and bring havoc to yourself and to others. We are not here to play children's games. We are here to be men and women, citizens of the Kingdom in the service of our KING. Blessed ones, until we reach a point in dedication where there is one thing that means more to us than anything else, there is going to be a tendency to waver back and forth across that line, and wavering across that line is extremely dangerous. One might waver the wrong way once too often and never come back, and that is tragedy. There must be a dedication to one thing: that this earth, every part and parcel of it, shall be restored to the government of the Kingdom of our KING. Basically I am not concerned about saving human beings. Basically I am concerned about serving my KING and restoring His Kingdom, and if I am going to serve my KING and restore His Kingdom to Him it will be a rather meaningless, empty gesture if there are no citizens in the Kingdom. I want some people in it. So, incidentally, we will save some human beings.
I have had people say to me, “I don't like pressure.” Well that depends. In the Divine pattern of creative function there is pressure, but it always brings joy and pleasure and ecstasy, and a realization of fulfilment and accomplishment. So there are those pressures which are of the Divine pattern. But in this contest in which we are engaged there are pressures which none of us like. I have never felt any pressure from the pattern of the unreal realm that I liked, but liking it or not is beside the point—I thank God for it because it gives me an opportunity to do something. If I couldn't work out a pattern in the realm of Divine Magic so that there would be pressure, and opposition from the realm of the black magicians, I would never get anywhere, I would never accomplish anything; and neither would you. I have no desire to drift for eternity in a senseless sea where nothing matters. So whether we like it or not is beside the point. From the standpoint of what we are going to accomplish we like it; not because we like the feel of the pressures as they are—they are not nice, they have all kinds of nasty things in them and we do not like them as such—but we thank God for them and we like them because this is a part of the way by which we get the job done. So we thank God. As the Master said, “When men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake, rejoice, and be exceeding glad.” Don't say, “Well I don't like this. I don't like the accusations. I don't like the other thing.” Rejoice and be exceeding glad. That is the attitude that the Master told us to take, so let us take it.
Let us note something very, very carefully: Any human being who can be enticed into fighting against the devil becomes subject to the devil. The devil has two primary policies: one, to make you crawl in subservient submission; failing that, to make you fight him. Either way you are doomed and damned. We talk about a contest. As long as the devil can entice you to try to use the devil's methods in the service of God you are really serving the devil. We have to learn to face the truth, for only the truth can make us free. We are the servants of our LORD and KING, and if we are not rebelling against Him we belong to His Kingdom and there is no necessity for us to be rebellious. About what? We are serving the KING. We are citizens of the Kingdom and we do not need to rebel against anything. We are not the ones who are rebelling. It is on the other side of the fence. They are rebelling against our KING. Let them do the rebelling. We do not have to rebel against them merely because they rebel against our KING. Stay centered in our KING and we do not have to rebel against anyone or anything. If you begin to see this point you begin to have the secrets of victory. You begin to see the difference, so that you cannot be enticed into rebelling. Rebelling against what? The only direction in which you can rebel is against God; so if you rebel, you are rebelling against God, even if you think you are rebelling against the devil. You aren't.
So this contest—it is a battle, yes, and there are going to be pressures, yes, but are we going to fight with the devil's methods? If we are we are going to be subject to him. If he dictates our methods, our patterns and our programs, who is our king, I ask you? Let us remember that we have a KING, and our KING has no need whatever of the devil's methods. Believe it or not, He can win the victory without the devil's help, without any of the devil's methods, without any of the devil's wisdom or knowledge or understanding, strange as it may seem. Take an honest look and you begin to see how human beings anticipate God's victory but they are going to have to work and be practical now, and really get the job done in a hurry. “We will have to use some of the devil's methods to win the victory for God.” And you see it permeating practically every field of human endeavor, up and down the line. To take the attitude that you have to fight against the devil is a declaration, “I do not trust God. I do not know anything about the power of God.” For if God is almighty, why should you be concerned about fighting the devil, unless you are subject to the devil? And if you are not subject to the devil you are subject to God; and if you are subject to God, He is almighty and there is no necessity of fighting the devil. It is as simple as that. The way is easy and the burden is light. Once the human consciousness begins to let go to these basic truths of being, we begin to move into a realm where there can be victory after victory for our KING. There it is. What is our choice?
Respond to God the Almighty, stay centered, and the power of God begins to work through you, the almighty power of God. So let it be. Keep centered and remember your responsibility as a citizen of the Kingdom, a servant of the KING.
Let The Will Of The Father Be Done
Under the Direction of the Son
By the Power of the Holy Ghost
Uranda November 15, 1951
As our Master came near to the concluding hours of His ministry on earth He made a very significant statement: “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” Long ago I pointed out whenever there is an increased manifestation of divine power because we have moved upward along the way, there will tend to be pressures, or backwash, from out of the world because of the reality of increased radiation. We cannot move forward, in the sense of letting the power of God be released into the world, without having some reaction out of the world. When that reaction out of the world comes back to us, when those pressures come back, if there remains in the individual, in the ghost of his being, that subconscious realm of the mind and heart, those things that are of the world, then this backwash, this reactionary pressure from out of the world, will connect up in the individual with that which is not yet what it ought to be and there will be a tendency to have a reaction. There will be a tendency for whatever there is of the ill things remaining to come out.
The Master said, “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.” He recognized that, while there had been various cycles of reaction from out of the world during the period of His ministry, the full force of that ministry was coming to its climax and the backwash from out of the world would be appearing. It was near at hand. We remember how, according to the story, He began to meet that reactionary vibration of the world in Gethsemane. If it had not been true, as He had said earlier, that the prince of this world could find nothing in Him, the backwash, the reactionary currents from out of the world, would have destroyed Him in that hour in Gethsemane. The meaningfulness of that hour is something that we might well meditate upon, but before we do we need to recognize certain principles in relationship to ourselves. When there is the reality of radiation, of the working of the power of the Holy Ghost through you, it tends to dispel, to cleanse out from you, those things that do not belong to you and are not a part of your reality. However, that radiation going on out into the world produces a reaction in the world consciousness and there is a returning cycle. As you remain centered, fully obedient to the One Law according to the two commandments, that backwash cannot upset you, even though the coming of the prince of this world may reveal something in you that belongs to the prince of this world, something that is not of the Divine origin. If you allow yourselves to be controlled by these ill things that remain in you and get connected up in the world pattern, you spoil the outworking of the cycle and by such function deny God, betray His trust, and put yourself in a position where you have to go through the process all over again. The complete process is not, generally speaking, completed in one operation. Cycles of outworking take place. “The prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing in me.”
We are supposed to reach a point where we let the Holy Ghost abide in us and work through us, and it is only by reason of the Holy Ghost in us that we have the privilege of sharing on earth the expression of God's power. The guardian angel, the conscious mind, must reach a point where it is not subject to the subconscious aspect, where it stays centered in the Father, so that it is a manifestation of the Son, or the mind that was in Christ Jesus. The conscious mind stays centered because it is anchored in the Father. Although there is something in the individual which belongs to the prince of this world, the individual does not allow his centering in the Father to be lost and that which is coming out is cast out. If, however, the conscious mind gives way on an emotional reaction of some kind, so that the irrational expression of the subconscious realm takes control, then the prince of this world not only finds something in the individual but reestablishes his control over the individual and anchors that much more solidly. When you respond to something below you, you are connecting up the very center of your life force with that thing and becoming subject to it. Response to that which is below you, response to that which is not of God in your own subconscious realm, makes you subject to such things—and the mind is in the habit of giving way and turning expression and function over to the subconscious mind instead of holding steady and being the Guardian Angel. To the degree of response, that sends out a rootlet that connects up with that to which the individual responds.
However there are rootlets which appear on the basis of controlled command. We will consider this controlled expression at a later time, but remember that there is a controlled expression of the rootlets of the silver cord which can extend out on the basis of command, not because you are responding to something out here but because, by the Will of the Father, under the Direction of the Son, in the Power of the Holy Ghost, a connection is made through which the power may flow to do something. There is an interesting key. We will get to a consideration of that in due season.
The subconscious realm is connected to the Father by means of the silver cord. If the subconscious realm, having sense of shame, is separated in consciousness from the Father, there is no way by which anything from the Father can reach it. It shuts itself off. It cannot forgive itself. It shuts itself off from the Father. The current from the Father is supposed to reach the level of the conscious mind from two directions: a positive and negative pole working through the conscious mind—one, direct from the Father; and the other, indirectly from the Father, through the subconscious mind and back to the conscious mind. From above, from the Father, direct to the conscious mind, there is an impulse conveying some idea. Unless there is response in the subconscious realm the projected thought never gets into the conscious mind. If the subconscious realm is ashamed before the Lord, it will not let anything come out of itself to rise up. If there is the projection from the Father to the point of the conscious mind and the subconscious responds, some idea that has relationship to that which is being projected is drawn to the surface and comes into the realm of thinking and something begins to move. You begin to think in the realm of logic and reason. Projected into the realm of logic and reason, the element of control is established, something arises out of the subconscious realm to give body to it, and then it becomes a thought in the mind. Then meditation upon it allows an expansion of vision and understanding, related ideas begin to appear, and a current of divine inspiration flows. But as long as the subconscious realm is ashamed before the Lord, it will not let any idea arise out of itself in response to that which is projected by the Father—that which is projected by the Father in radiation, or inspiration, does not connect up. It remains meaningless and the individual exists as if he did not have any connection with the Father, controlled by the subconscious realm and its fears and its shames, subconsciously related to the ill vibrations in the world that relate to the ill things in itself.
Until the individual allows the guilt complex to be removed, and until the sense of shame has vanished, he cannot be a true instrument for the expression of the Will of the Father under the Direction of the Son, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Until the unholy ghost has been cleansed, so that it becomes through the working of the spirit of God the Holy Ghost abiding in you, you cannot be a means by which God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Here you have a little glimpse of the machinery by which these things work out. If we are allowing the silver cord from the Father to the subconscious realm to be meaningful during life, so that the subconscious realm has been cleansed and there is no sense of shame controlling there, the subconscious mind is open to the Father, its face is turned toward the Father, and then out of it come those things, rising up to the current of inspiration, that come to focus in the realm of the conscious mind, and the individual begins to know the Will of the Father. He begins to speak the Word of the Father. Then he begins to find that the power of God is a reality, that the wisdom of God, the understanding of God, the knowledge of the cosmos, can find focus in his being according to the need and the response.
In the stillness of the human mind you begin to recognize and realize the meaning of the words, “The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Be still, and know that I AM God.” In quietness of spirit, abiding centered, those who trust and stay centered can know what it is to be made every whit whole by the healing power of God working in body and mind and heart, to the depths of one's being. In stillness before the Lord we begin to know Him as He is. God bless you.
© emissaries of divine light
from
The House of Communion
Martin Cecil May 29, 1983 p.m.
The sun of our solar system symbolizes the true Father. It has been said that there were sun-worshippers in the past, and I guess there are a few around in the present. Perchance more than the physical sun was being recognized—here is the Father-symbol. And the earth—the Mother-symbol. By reason of the earth, in combination with the sun, birth was given to the body of mankind. These symbols may be very instructive, because certainly mankind has taken the attitude that the earth, the Mother, belongs to him.
We have the story of old concerning Oedipus: the son who marries his mother, taking the mother away from the father—which is exactly what mankind has done. The Mother has been raped by the son—mankind. Here is a picture available to be seen by anyone; precious few ever look at it. But it is revealing of exactly what has happened. What is necessary is that the Mother should be restored to the Father, that the sun of the solar system might possess the earth, with the son—mankind—no longer playing the part of the thief and the adulterer, allow this to happen, so that what rightly may be brought forth by reason of the presence of the Son, by reason of the presence of mankind, may appear through the union of Father and Mother. No more judgment is required on the part of mankind as to what it is that should happen. The creative process is perfect and brings forth what should be brought forth when mankind not only does not interfere in the process but plays a creative part, with an attitude of love and reverence toward both Father and Mother: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” There has been a very restricted view as to the meaning of these words, but we may see their application now in this present circumstance.
The Son of God is become the son of perdition, so we are concerned with letting a restoration come, so that the rape of the Mother may cease and the Mother may be returned to the Father. Some may look at that merely from the physical standpoint and see how human beings are upsetting the ecology, destroying the forests, ripping minerals out of the earth, and polluting the atmosphere and water; therefore one should get on one’s white charger and take issue with all these bad people who are doing this. With much practice over the millennia human beings have no difficulty in finding these bad people, but they seldom, if ever, look in the mirror; because there is the one person with respect to whom something can be done. We have seen this necessity from our own standpoint—the requirement of looking into the jadestone, that something might begin to happen. We have seen this with respect to human beings in general, who are very immature, because maturity requires a balanced experience, including the spiritual component.
So here, in the picture of the rape of the Mother and the denial of the Father, we have the reason for all the wreckage that we see on every hand within the range of human activity. It’s a horrible thing. This morning we were very much aware of the Temple of God having been made into a den of thieves by human beings. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2018/09/from-visible-god-martin-cecil-may-29.html] The Mother has been stolen and forced to submit to human intentions. You can see that in terms of sexual rape—this is what has been happening. And everybody has participated in it, everyone on the face of the earth! Having seen something of the horror of such a state, why would anyone have anything more to do with it? It’s always rather amazing, isn’t it, or should be, that having stepped, partially at least, out of the hog trough, one should dive back in again.
There is an alternative to the den of thieves: the House of Prayer. I don’t think that has had too much meaning for most people, any more than the injunction to “pray without ceasing” has, because the concept of what prayer is is a total distortion. You can look the word up in the dictionary and you can find definitions there that indicate what human beings have decided it should mean; which is: pleading and, insofar as God is concerned, trying to get Him to supply what the individual imagines he wants—as though God was so dumb and so uninterested that He wouldn’t have already made the provision, which of course He has. Prayer has nothing to do with that, nothing to do with trying to wheedle something out of God, or wheedle something out of anyone, for that matter: “Pray give me what I want. I’m in a miserable state. Pray give me what I imagine I need.”
Prayer relates to this matter of communion with God. The effect of communion with God is the experience of being part of the body. Communion: the House of Prayer. Communion with God and communion with each other in the Body of God: here is the natural experience for human beings, the way by which the creative processes may work as they should. We all have had our excuses for not letting this happen. The point is: the House of Prayer, communion with the One whose house it is, that there may not only be an initial awakening to the beauty and the wonder and the glory of that One but to allow that beauty and wonder and glory to intensify in one’s own experience and expression of living. When it does, the Tone of Life sounds so loudly that all this stuff in the hog trough—what does it mean anymore? You don’t have to fiddle with it; you don’t have to talk about it; you don’t have to try to get someone to get rid of it for you. It just simply is dissolved, once there is that strong awareness of the creative sounding of the Tone of Life: this beautiful, wonderful, glorious outpouring of spirit.
And if some memory out of the past is triggered, so that something comes up, it just simply doesn’t fit with your character, your nature; you couldn’t accept it; it just drains away. You don’t have to fight with it—perfect love casts out fear. That's true when there is the experience of the outpouring of that spirit in living. We let it happen in our daily movement, in our living; and that is so strong, so brilliant, so powerful, that these ridiculous human aberrations simply carry no weight—they only hang around as long as we give them weight. There are those who might say, “Well I’m stuck with my earthly heredity.” Who isn’t? Jesus had just as much earthly heredity as anybody else. We all have it, but why make such a big deal out of it? Why take the whining, ridiculous attitude that one cannot help but be subject to these things?
We know something about this as it relates to these appalling childhoods that we had. I think it’s about time that everyone started to give thanks for whatever happened—everything!—because it brought us to this moment. And who can say that if something had been left out we would be here in this moment and capable and ready to let the light shine, to dissolve all that nonsensical murk? It has no weight except the weight that we ourselves give it. There’s only one thing that makes a difference, and that is to let the light shine. Then that becomes so strong, one’s own character and nature is of that quality, that any miserable elements of human nature putting in an appearance simply ... well ... “Who’s that? Not me. It has nothing to do with me. Get thee hence, satan.” Human nature, remember? “Get thee hence, human nature.” One may have to take a forthright attitude in that way on occasion, but for the most part these factors out of the past are simply obliterated by reason of the radiation of the present moment.
If you are totally occupied with allowing the sun to shine, that’s what you know: the shining of the sun. The sun of our solar system has been busy shining for quite a while; they say it will go on for a while yet. This happens regardless of the fact that nowadays, at least in many places, there are a lot of clouds around on earth. If you are looking at things from the perspective of the sun, I doubt if you would even notice that there were clouds around on the earth. When you look at Venus you may now, being so well educated, know that there are some clouds related to Venus and Mercury and so on, but you don’t notice them: “There's a planet shining.” Well these human nature elements that have hung around for so long are scarcely noticeable, really, yet human beings make such a big deal of it. Forget it! Let it go! Let it go because you let the light shine, and so it dissolves.
We don’t have to try to correct earthly heredity, or our own human nature—make it over somehow. We don't need it! Let it dissolve because we are so wedded to what may well be called angelic nature that human nature no longer amounts to a row of beans. When anything out of that messy old pot comes up it has no relationship to us at all. It’s gone insofar as we are concerned—no more weight.
The beauty, the wonder and the glory of the radiance of the Father is offered to the Mother. We are concerned to respect the Mother, to protect her. This doesn’t mean that we become rabidly ecologically minded. That will take care of itself when we stop interfering, and we will discover, in the radiant stance, what needs to be done. But the first thing that needs to be done is to let mankind come back into place. Until that happens there isn't anything else much that can be done. All this effort that is being put into trying to correct things on earth may have the advantage that human beings will be able to live on earth a little longer. But why should they? Only so that they may awaken to the light and let the light shine. That’s the only reason. Well let's prove that that is the only reason by what we ourselves do, now and in the days to come.
© emissaries of divine light
This Is The House Of Belonging
The Gate of Heaven
Martin Cecil July 20, 1977 Class
Our approach toward everything is from the Holy Place. We do stand in the Holy Place when we have a sense of sacredness with respect to all that transpires in our experience. While there may be many things going on that are not righteous in the world we nevertheless are in position to stand above such things without being involved emotionally, and to enfold and encompass everything of our worlds. There is a radiance of holiness enfolding all things because of our Presence, which gives opportunity to those who are in our worlds to become aware of the reality of this holiness. Of course there are various reactions to the fact. There is this quirk in human nature which seems to want to destroy anything that is evidently sacred. It is a reaction of shame, guilt and fear. This enfoldment of all that is going on in our worlds was summarized by the Master's words, recorded, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” And so we extend the spirit of forgiveness. Perhaps this is easier to do with respect to events that are not too close to us, but obviously the reality of our spirit of forgiveness will be dependent upon its factual experience in specific instances.
Daily we have opportunity to prove whether we do enfold our world in the spirit of forgiveness or whether it is merely a theory off the top of our heads, because I'm sure you find that there are many occasions when things arise which seem reasonable to condemn, and people who seem to be in a position where they may rightly be condemned, when what is necessary is the spirit of forgiveness. When we stand in the Holy Place this is natural to us. There are those who say, “Well, I can forgive but I can't forget.” Forgiveness and forgetfulness go together. It could be said that it is rather helpful if one doesn't have too good a memory. The trouble is that people have poor memories about the things they should remember and good memories about the things they should forget! There cannot be forgiveness without forgetfulness—insofar as one's own consciousness is concerned whatever it was has just gone, not that it could not be recalled, because someone would likely come along and remind you of it. A very prevalent human nature approach is, on the part of those who want to stir up a bit of trouble, to remind people how badly they have been treated, and most people go right along with it. But if we have the spirit of forgiveness it is all gone, the slate is clean and we have not been badly treated. In any case, we are living in the moment—nothing's happened yet.
So we stand in the Holy Place, and in the Holy Place we have a sense of the sacredness of things and we have a growing consciousness of the real quality of the Tone of Life with respect to all areas of our living. The mind usually wants to pin things down somehow and says it should be this way or it should be that way. The only thing that can be pinned down is the quality of spirit. When that is right in the moment and one is standing actually in the Holy Place, then it becomes quite apparent what the right thought, the right word, the right action, would be, because we let something emerge in the moment that is fitting for the moment on the basis of the sounding of the true Tone of Life.
We've begun to see more clearly something of the Tone as it relates to the field of sex. People, again with their minds, tend to want to have things pinned down in this field—“Well, is this right or is that wrong?” It can't be pinned down. This is the creative field of angels. The sex principle is present with respect to all angelic function. This does not mean that it is merely that angelic function in the intimate function between male and female. The sex principle is at work everywhere and one aspect of this centers in this particular field. However, it is in this area where the sex principle comes to point in the creative expression of life moving through the physical form that is the core of living. If a person is not clear in this intimate area, intimate with respect to him‑ or herself—I'm not talking about relationships with someone else, at the moment, but having a clear consciousness of the nature and quality of the Tone of Life as it sounds in this most intimate part of one's own being—only as that is as it should be will all the other aspects of living be as they should be. We can have a sort of veneer of righteousness with respect to various areas of living—at least it passes as righteousness, because human beings are not all that perceptive—and still have something cloudy, gray, if not black, in this core pattern of one's own most intimate place. When this is clear, when the Tone of Life is sounding clearly here in this core place, in this Holy Place—and it is a Holy Place—then all the other areas of living will be conditioned by this holiness. But if it is not there in the core there will be nothing adequate to condition the rest of one's living. So it is very important to be clear in this area, not clear from the standpoint of mental standards that may be set but clear from the standpoint of an awareness of the nature and quality of the real Tone of Life in this field.
It is to emphasize this that we have considered various matters pertaining to the field of sex, so that you might begin to sense the clarity of this Tone in this area. It is never a matter of trying to get things to conform with some human concepts of what might be right or fitting in the external sense. We need to be careful of other people's concepts in this regard, of the way other people see things and think, but we ourselves need to be clear within ourselves so that we understand spiritually. We know that the actual emergence into expression of what is springing from this core of clarity may take a vast variety of form. We do not begrudge other people the forms that they may hold at the present time. This is why the subject needs to be approached with the very greatest of care, because no matter what is said someone is going to misinterpret it. You might remember that in what I'm saying to you.
All that we are concerned with at the moment is to get a feel of the pure expression of the creative principle in this core experience, and how it comes out in expression will be on the basis of the inherent design in spirit. As we begin to become aware of certain aspects of this design as it merges we rightly are very protective of it. It is not something that is exposed to the profane view. There is a veil, rightly, about it. There are those things in our own most secret place—which should be the Holy Place—which are nobody else's business except the Lord's. In other words human beings, having little sense of the sacredness of things, tend to bandy about considerations in fields which are in reality, or should be, holy. Talking about these things, trying to figure it out—that's just a mental trip. It never achieves anything because one never understands anything until there is a clarity from the standpoint of one's spiritual perception, of the real nature of the Tone in this most central area. So we are not trying to force it into forms: Would it be this way? Would it be that way? It will be the way it should be, when you are moving with that Tone; and it will emerge as it should emerge, initially on the basis of the state of affairs as it is present with you as an individual. What is present with you as an individual will be distinctly individual and it will not apply to any one else. We cannot have overall rules and regulations and at the same time allow the emergence of the true Kingdom State in experience.
It has been necessary in the human nature condition to maintain some sort of structures, some sort of rules and regulations, so that everything wouldn't get entirely out of control. And in order for this to work at least partly there had to be a majority of people who would accept them. These rules and regulations in the external sense have had their purpose, and still have in the world the way it is, and we are not interested in trying to throw off all these shackles. But we know that there is a true state which needs to emerge and it can only emerge through a pure heart, and a pure heart will not be known as long as there is continuing reaction to externals. This is what muddies the heart. Only when the heart is open toward heavenly heredity and the true sounding of the Tone of Life does there begin to be purity. In that purity there is a clarity of vision. Those who have presented themselves before the Lord in human nature, seeking to draw close to the Lord in human nature and to experience an increase of spiritual awareness on this basis, always run into the evil because human nature cannot approach the Lord. It has to be left behind. We can't persist in identification with earthly heredity and approach the Lord at the same time. That would be a contradictory attempt. So those who try this—and all good human beings seeking for better spiritual understanding make this approach; they are not conscious of any other possibilities as a general rule.
So there is an approach, rising up in relationship to the spiritual expression plane of being, which permits an awareness of what one might call a bright effulgence, as though one might approach the sun for instance. Well certainly it is not wise to look at the sun if you don't want to damage your eyes—and it is not wise to persist in trying to approach the Lord on the basis of the only consciousness a person has from the human nature standpoint, and that is of the general effulgence. That is actually the veil or the flaming sword which prevents a person from going any further; and because he is prevented from going any further, very often the individual says, “Well I've arrived. This is as far as you can go. This is heaven. This is Nirvana. This is wonderful. Such a brilliant light here; it must mean something.” One might see that what is to be experienced is not this, rightly. This is the human nature experience. But the veil becomes transparent rather than opaque, even though the opaqueness is pretty bright. Vision is only possible on the basis of this transparency, and the transparency of the veil is the purity of heart. As long as the heart is not pure there is opaqueness. Sometimes that opaqueness is pretty black, but it can be on the other end of the spectrum, pretty light. And people are fooled by this; whereas before it was black, now it is light. But it is still this side of the veil, so to speak. And we can't penetrate through the veil, but we can let the veil penetrate through us on the basis of our expression. And it is this penetration of the veil through us which brings with it a sense of clarity. The veil, instead of being opaque, becomes transparent. We ourselves become transparent. That doesn't mean that anyone can look at us and see all the way through, but in our own experience there is a transparency. This relates to the matter of guilelessness. Some think of this as being simply that the person is naive, but there is a true state of guilelessness which doesn't prevent one from seeing what is present but rather being unmoved by what one sees. It seems to others who observe that one is pretty naive, but in fact you know what is going on but you don't emphasize what is going on from the standpoint of earthly heredity because it doesn't mean that much to you.
And so there is this clarity which comes on the basis of the sensing of the true Tone of Life in one's own experience, and particularly in this central core area of experience where the focus of the working of the sex principle is. The sex principle works everywhere but it has a point of focus and that is the most intimate place in one's own experience, the Secret Place of the Most High. It has been secret to human beings because there has been no inclination on the part of most to keep anything sacred. And the words sacred and secret are alike, in a way. So there is concern to allow a greater clarity to appear in this core place in our experience. And we are not trying to establish any mental ideas about it but to let it be fluid, let it be what it really is, so that we can sense what is fitting. Here, as there is movement in this way, is the evidence of the emergence of the angel, the angel who is incarnate on earth for the purpose of utilizing everything to advantage in the achievement of the purpose for which he or she is incarnate—everything is used—but being used by the angel, it is used out of the Holy Place. Everything is seen as being sacred and the understanding of how things can be used begins to emerge by reason of the purity of heart. There is increasing clarity of vision, increasing experience of the transparency of the veil. And it is not just anymore a vague effulgence. It becomes increasingly specific in relationship to the immediate field of action. There is a consciousness of being present in one's human facilities, which are in the immediate circumstance, to handle what is present in the circumstance for the purpose for which, as an angel, one is present on earth. And that handling rightly is righteousness. We make right use of everything.
Our first consciousness of this may be a rather generalized awareness but it comes increasingly to point in our specific experience when we are living from the Holy Place, when everything with which we are dealing is seen as being included in the creative field of our action as angels. I am speaking of a shift in consciousness from the merely human to an awareness of the merely human—in other words, the merely human is not the accepted identity. It is accepted as the only facility one has to do what one is here to do. One will utilize that facility on the basis of its capacity to be utilized. We do not imagine, as angels, that we can do anything by reason of the human facility. We are very conscious of certain limitations in that human facility. As angels it might be said that we can do anything, but we can't do anything in this particular circumstance except as the facility makes it possible. So we are concerned to develop the capacity of that facility to make more that is possible to us possible of expression on earth, because there is vastly more that we can do than our human facility will permit. We begin to see things from the true viewpoint rather than the reverse viewpoint.
Most people in human nature identity—well all people in human nature identity—approach it from below: “Well how can I permit my capacity to be more valuable in the hands of the Lord?” That is the human approach and on this basis you run into the effulgence, because you're still a human nature person who wants to be improved somehow so that you might be more valuable in the Lord's service—a very good idea from the human standpoint, but it simply doesn't work. We have to be right for anything to work. So there is the need for this change in consciousness, which begins to become more familiar, of looking at things from the angelic standpoint, of accepting the truth, to the extent that it may be experienced at this point. But the truth will never be experienced as long as we stay in the human nature state—and we will stay in the human nature state as long as we approach everything from the standpoint of the human nature state. So we begin to align ourselves with the angelic state and the angelic outlook, the angelic viewpoint, and lo and behold, as this is done consistently we find the reality of our own true expression. It appears—not in the sense that we can analyze it or get it all classified and categorized, but in the sense of a flow to momentary living. We begin to live from the standpoint of the angel and we see when the facility that we have makes a mistake, or what appears to be a mistake to the facility, probably. We are not thrown by that. We are not, if we are the angel—it isn't the angelic mistake in any case. Again, mistakes are only mistakes if we repeat them too often. If the angel is present and a mistake is made then something is learned from the standpoint of the working of that facility, and you do not need to let that happen again. It wasn't a mistake; it was a means of learning. I suppose most people don't learn the first time; it takes several mistakes of the same nature for a person to finally wake up to the fact that it is a mistake even; and even when he realized it is a mistake it is likely to be repeated again—but let it not be too often. One is quite capable of learning and one will do so very easily when the approach is from the angelic standpoint. You see the element in the human aspect of yourself which prevents an adequate expression of yourself, you do something about it. As an angel you take responsibility for yourself. This does not preclude the possibility that other angels may come and minister unto you. But no matter how many angels minister unto you, you still hold the primary responsibility with respect to the human aspect of yourself.
We were considering the matter of incarnation and the term of incarnation. As the angel begins to come forth, of course, the reason for one's presence on earth becomes apparent—not necessarily to the human mind, but one has a sense of meaning, of the creative cycle in which one is moving as this pertains to what is moving through other human beings in whom the angel is also incarnate. You have an overall view. We have that now, don't we? We understand what the overall purpose is—the restoration of man. That to the human part of us is just a statement of words which doesn't really mean very much, but to the angel it means everything because that is the reason why you as an angel are here on earth. You may have had a rather sick human state to get out through but nevertheless you begin to see how even these things are used to advantage. You can look back, I'm sure, upon your experience in the past in the human sense and you can see value to those experiences. You didn't want any part of them at the time, but looking back you can see value and you could see that something was working out. Something is working to bring you to this moment, in this particular setting, at this particular time. Everything that is back of you comes to point. You begin to be aware, then, of creative cycles that have been working out in spite of the fact that you didn't know anything about them, because they were not working out on the basis of you in the human sense. They were working out on the basis of you in the angelic state and the human aspect of you had very little consciousness of that.
Now the consciousness of it is beginning to emerge because the angel is beginning to emerge and you begin to see things from this standpoint. You are concerned that all the seeing, here in the field of your responsibility, should be from this standpoint. If it slips back into the human view of things on occasion, then you become aware of that. You step back from the human view into the angelic view again. You can deliberately do this. The angel can begin to work consciously with the facility, and as this is done there begins to be the increasing consciousness of the real Tone of Life. When there is this state of increasing holiness there is the state of increasing life. When there is the state of increasing unholiness, that is the state of death. One cannot be unholy and live. This is why human beings don't live very long. In the human sense there is the necessity of being holy, and when there is the experience of holiness there is the experience of the angel who lives. It is not as though life was being acquired, that we were getting it somewhere, some generous God somewhere was handing out life because He approves of us. No. The life is already present—life is the nature of the angel, and in the experience of the angel there is the experience of life; there is the experience of the reason for one's presence on earth, alive. And that life naturally is born through the physical form with its capacity of consciousness, and consequently there is the increasing expression of angelic life known, humanly speaking, on earth.
We move with the creative cycles for which as angels we are here. We do whatever is necessary in that cycle right up to the point of its completion. Now the human nature view of this is “until I die”—but it isn't that at all, because the angel doesn't die; the angel completes the creative cycle on the basis of the facility through which this expression was appearing, and miracles can occur in this facility as the angel comes forth increasingly, so that the restrictions which have been present in the human form, in one way or another, are not seen as being necessarily permanent. The angel can come forth. The angel who you are is very ingenious in this matter of coming forth so that there isn't a coming forth with great intensity through some restricted area, which would blow the whole thing. The coming forth is through those areas where there is a certain freedom of coming forth, and then this will exert an influence on the areas of restriction and they will begin to relax, and there will be an increasing coming forth. In Class here we've moved along in relationship to various areas of consideration and then we have moved over to another area and then to another one and another one, maintaining a balance in the process of coming forth and not coming forth too much in any one area, because if that happens it is liable all to be blown. A balance needs to be maintained. With each one there are different areas of restriction; it's not the same for everyone. We have to deal with the areas of restriction in everyone, so for that reason we have to keep moving around too. Something may not be an area of restriction in one person but it is in another. So we need to keep the whole miniature body here moving together by allowing restrictions to be dissolved as may be possible, and an increased intensification of life as the restrictions fall away.
So we become aware of the fact that we are here on earth to do something very specific as angels in company with other angels, and we use everything to advantage on the basis of righteousness—righteousness which springs forth because we stand in the Holy Place with a continuing sense of the sacredness of our mission or destiny on earth. Sacredness shouldn't be correlated in consciousness, as it sometimes is in human nature, with goody‑goodyness. The expression of sacredness can sometimes be pretty harsh. You have only to recall some of the Master's words recorded in the Gospels, when He was speaking to the hardness of human hearts, specifically indicated as the scribes and the Pharisees in that setting. Sacredness is sometimes pretty tough. Love can be very gentle but it also can be very hard. Human beings can hammer themselves to death against it, and it won't move! God has never moved His position. He stays in place. That's just wonderful, isn't it? We can depend on it, then. If He kept switching around because human beings wanted Him to—which they have—then nobody could depend on anything. But we know He is right there and He is not going to change by reason of the whims of human beings.
So we are here present in this particular creative cycle, however long it may be in the individual sense, to do certain things. And if we have done everything that can be done on the basis of all the factors involved, which would include our own earthly facilities, then there is no point in staying around, is there? If you can't do anything anymore then you don't stay around. But as long as something is being done and there is a reason for you to be there, well you better stay there, not duck out. Human beings have the inclination to duck out, while they are still apparently alive on earth, of all kinds of things. The pressure gets too much and they duck out. Well eventually the pressure gets too much and they duck completely out. We don't do that—we don't duck out! But at the same time we become aware of when creative cycles are complete; we become aware of this with respect to others, those with whom we may be working, and we help in the matter, we have something to offer. But also in relationship to ourselves we become aware of the fact that the appointed time is complete. There is nothing wrong with that. No doubt there will be residue left behind, but then we are leaving residue behind every day. It is only a final experience insofar as that physical form is concerned. But if it is residue, it needs to be left behind. That doesn't change the angel any. The only difference is that there is no means of incarnation for the moment. Probably that's a temporary relief. You have to pick up the pieces anyway a little later on.
All these things relate to an increasing consciousness of our purpose as angels, rather vividly portrayed in a passage in the Bible, about Jacob—he dreamt a dream. “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it.” That illustration presumably means something to us now—from the standpoint of the fact that angels are incarnating and then completing their sojourn and returning from whence they came. It also relates to the ascending and descending processes that are going on in us as individuals—something coming down from God out of heaven, to the extent of the pneumaplasmic substance available, finding expression on earth; and because of that expression, something returning and ascending as an increased generation of pneumaplasmic substance; sweet incense before God, ascending and descending.
“And Jacob awaked out of his sleep”—it is what we are supposed to be doing—“and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” That's what we awaken to, isn't it? Most human beings are asleep to it. They think that the Lord is someplace else. But when we awake, “Surely the Lord is in this place; now I know it. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” That is a shocking realization when one first awakes. “What's been happening all this time and I knew it not? This is a sacred place, a Holy Place, and I've been profaning it, defiling it.” So fear may enter in a little. “What's going to happen to me?” Of course, the individual was getting along all right before he knew this, apparently. So the fact that he knows it, is not going to make all that much difference to the effects; but presumably it will make some difference, in the person who knows it, to the causes which find expression in his living. This is the House of God—the physical form—the House of God—and this is the Gate of Heaven. What is the reference here? To the pneumaplasmic body—the pneumaplasmic substance that is present is the Gate of Heaven through which the ascending and descending processes may occur. We awaken to this out of our prior dream and we know the reality of the Holy Place. If we have awakened truly we never forget it.
© emissaries of divine light
