The Nature Of True Leadership Now

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The  Nature  Of  True  Leadership  Now

Martin Cecil  December 17, 1978

In the first two Sacred Schools there was need for strong leadership which was capable of handling human nature in those concerned and providing the essential instruction to human nature in order to allow the required movement toward the experience that should come by reason of the Third Sacred School. The law was given in the First Sacred School. Moses was on hand for a period of time. He enforced the law: “You behave this way or else.” Many human beings look for that kind of leadership: “You tell us what to do and we'll do it.” This allows human nature to be maintained—“I'll stay the way I am but I'll follow you and do what you tell me.” The human nature state can then be maintained, which was all right in the First Sacred School; it was a start. This required those who followed the leadership, were obedient to it, and also that there be a true leader, who provided the required expression of the Lord according to the needs of the time in question. This was done by Moses, particularly. The whole thing fell apart later because there was no adequate representation of the Lord in the position of leadership. Human nature still prevailed in the people, and without the leadership to maintain government and control, movement in the ascending sense ceased and there was a failure at that time.

Again, in the Second Sacred School there was the need for leadership, not physical leadership at this time but mental leadership, which could only be provided by the Lord Himself incarnate on earth. He offered that leadership, but it was rejected very quickly. If the Second Sacred School was to have worked, this again was the necessity, that there should be someone, necessarily in this instance the Lord incarnate, to provide the leadership to human nature at the mental level, to find those who were willing to obey and to agree. There were some who started along the way, but while He was present they certainly did not get beyond the very limited state of consciousness which anticipated somehow that the kingdom was going to be restored to Israel. So that opportunity was lost, necessitating the initiation of the third opportunity—the third and last incidentally. Provision was made in this regard. I would read some words in the record here: “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” The wording, as it has come down to us, may not have made the situation entirely clear to most, but here was the indication of a new state of affairs, made possible by reason of the Third Sacred School. This was a different approach altogether.

The physical and the mental approach under the essential leadership was in a sense the easy way. The physical approach was more or less understandable to many people: Here are the rules; obey the rules and you will be all right. Of course something else was required. But the rules were given and for a while they were obeyed after a fashion. In the First Sacred School and in the Second Sacred School leadership was being provided to the already existing human nature. The ultimate objective, even then, was that human nature should pass away. It could not pass away on the basis of external leadership. It could move toward the point where it might pass away by reason of external leadership, and this was provided—leadership was provided physically speaking and then mentally speaking. The physical leadership having been rejected also, even as later the mental leadership was rejected, the children of Israel were scattered. Then out of the Second Sacred School emerged what has been called Christianity—the endeavor to make things work on the basis of such principles as had been recognized with respect to the Second Sacred School. But what had been offered had not been accepted, and the only basis of such offering was by the One called Jesus. It had to be accepted at His hand. It was not accepted at His hand, so it was expedient for Him that He depart in order that the new approach might be made—the spiritual expression approach. It was said of the Comforter that he should be not only with those concerned but in them—the approach was to be made not on the basis of external leadership but on the basis of the expression of the spirit manifesting in momentary living through each individual. Human nature tends to look for leadership, but human nature is to pass away, so we don't need to pay any attention to what human nature looks for. The opportunities of the First and Second Sacred Schools have passed away.

Insofar as Christianity was concerned there was the endeavor to make it work on the basis of leadership offered to human nature. This approach, which placed the responsibility upon the One called Jesus, was a misinterpretation of what should have occurred at the time of the Second Sacred School, when He was on hand to do it. But He is not on hand in that way anymore and therefore the Second Sacred School approach cannot possibly work on that basis. That is not the required approach. We have seen these things, but there is still an endeavor to maintain human nature by trying to make things work out physically and mentally. There was the opportunity before to follow leadership, to learn to obey and to learn to agree with spiritual leadership physically and mentally. This never happened. It never happened! Both Sacred Schools failed in this regard because of the behavior of human beings. The opportunity was there.

Moving beyond the point of these two Sacred Schools, we come to the Third, which is the sole remaining opportunity. Human beings seldom recognize opportunity when it is in front of them. They have 20/20 hindsight, they think. They say to themselves, “Well if we had lived at the time of Jesus we would have gone along with Him.” Ha! Or, “If we had been among the children of Israel we would have obeyed the laws.” Ha! It is not a question of hindsight anyway. It doesn't mean anything. It is what is happening now that is the point. This is the only opportunity there is. Obviously those concerned at the time of Jesus did not see it then. Not even the disciples really saw it then. It is what is happening now that is important, and we need to see this from the standpoint of the Third Sacred School, which is the spiritual expression plane approach. Somehow those who respond to this approach must become sufficiently acquainted with the working of the spirit of God, with the Tone of it, the quality of it, the character of it, to be in position to let it work in one's own individual experience. For this to happen there must be provision somehow which allows the Tone to sound so that it can be heard, but the purpose of the sounding of the Tone is not to tell people what to do but to enable them to find out for themselves what their behavior should be. Yet there needs to be leadership of that nature if anyone is to become really acquainted with the true Tone of Life. We have shared in an awakening to the true Tone of Life, not on the basis of theory, not on the basis of the idea of the mind alone. The question is: What is the behavior, what is the expression of life, what is the character being revealed, what is the quality of spirit in expression? Nobody is being asked questions as to whether they know about it—the question that is being asked is: How much is the Tone of Life being revealed in one's own living? It is the only thing that matters. Beliefs mean utterly nothing until they emerge into experience. Then a person begins to know something rather than merely know about something.

So it was expedient for the Master to go away, because as long as He was there those concerned were simply trying to follow Him in human nature. They might have followed Him in human nature up to the point where the Second Sacred School ceased to operate. You know what that point was, described as the occasion when He wept over Jerusalem: “Ye shall not see me henceforth.” He had come to initiate the Second Sacred School under His own personal leadership, but it was rejected. He had done at that point what He came to do but was not allowed to do. He opened the door subsequently for the Third Sacred School, another opportunity, which would not require His personal presence. There was no more need for leadership in that sense. It was not to be the leadership offered to human nature, the leadership which is inclined to tell human beings what they should do. There is only One who was in position to provide this sort of leadership from the standpoint of the Second Sacred School, or the second level of the mind. He did what He could. Now it is different.

He spoke of the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth. Here is the sounding of the Tone, which becomes loud and clear when it is sounded in one's own living. If it is not sounded in one's own living it is very faint, if it is heard at all. It is heard when it is sounded in one's own living. One cannot experience the reality of the Spirit of Truth by reason of someone else sounding that Tone. One must sound it for oneself to know it. What needs to happen on earth happens in consequence of the sounding of this Tone in the lives of those human beings who are willing to let it be so. We also recognize, and become aware in our own experience, that as there is this sounding of the Tone beginning to emerge it brings forth a body of people—not an organized body of people according to the ideas of the human mind but a body of people who emerge into their natural relationships by reason of the fact that individually the Tone is sounding through them. There is One Spirit, One Tone, differentiated by many. It is this emergence of the Body of the Archangel that allows what is needful to happen on earth to do so, because there is consequently the presence of true spiritual Cause, which when present and in expression on earth inevitably brings true spiritual effects. Then those spiritual effects are reflected in the material realm.

In our ministry there has tended to be the idea that there should be vastly greater numbers, that unless there are vastly greater numbers nothing could possibly happen. Those who are consciously participating in whatever measure in this ministry are, relatively speaking, very very few, and yet isn't it remarkable what has happened? Why then should we suppose that there have to be vast numbers? Is this not the approach of human nature? Human nature is always impressed by large numbers. I mentioned something with respect to Gideon and his three hundred. The gang he had to start with had to be whittled down. What needs to be done actually requires relatively very few, because it isn't being done on the basis of the human nature approach. It may be describable as secret service in some ways, because it is at a level which is not generally recognized as even being present insofar as most people are concerned.

However, it does require those who are in fact sounding the Tone loud and clear, consistently, in their daily living. Within the company of those who have been drawn to share something in this ministry there have been those who have been looking for leadership a la First or Second Sacred School—they wanted somebody to take responsibility for them. If any of this attitude lingers in you, you will not be included in the number of those who are in position to let happen on earth what needs to happen on earth. There must be a Core of those whose living is not a relative matter but is an absolute matter, not because they are being told they should do this or do that by some human mind somewhere but because there is the sounding of the Tone of Life ringing forth from the spirit of the living God in each moment. It isn't a casual thing, is it? It doesn't matter what the circumstance is, the Tone of Life is present. Sound it in that circumstance.

I wish to emphasize the point with respect to the type of leadership that was necessary for the First and Second Sacred Schools. It is not at all the same now. The so-called second coming, or the coming of the Messiah, is indicative of the fact that human nature has passed away. It can pass away in one of two ways. It will pass away in one way for sure; that is called death. However, you don't have to go with your human nature. You can leave the human nature behind, and it goes on the basis of the living expression of the Tone which is the spirit of God: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Let everything in your expression of life be fathered out of heaven, out of the realm of Cause, out of the character of God. Then something happens. Otherwise you can believe what you like and nothing happens of a constructive nature—there is a good deal of disintegration around.

So there must be incarnate angels in expression on earth, undisguised by human nature. That means that we take responsibility as individuals, and we do it in fact, not in fancy; and we do it now, not next week. It can only be done now. So let us do it now. If we do we will no longer put up with the mediocrity of human nature. Human nature is very mediocre; not too much can be expected of anyone. We do not put up with mediocrity. If an angel is in expression on earth through the body and the mind which you have heretofore thought of as yourself—but which isn't; it is the body and the mind of the angel who you really are—then there is a consistency of right expression. If you are simply a human nature ego trying to be an angel you are wasting your time. It is only when we have accepted some other unfortunate identity that we behave in an unseemly manner and we go down. If we go down then we look around for some leadership that is going to inspire us or somehow going to lift us up again. We are trying to get back into the First Sacred School or into the Second Sacred School, but they do not exist anymore. The only thing that exists now, that is real now, is the Third Sacred School, and that requires spiritual expression in our living moment by moment, consistently. Human nature doesn't know what it would be. Let us accept the truth. “Ye shall know the truth.” How? By expressing it, by being it. I have been in a very fortunate position for many years because I really had no one to run to to lift me up. So there is only one thing left to do and that is stay up. Why shouldn't it be the same for everybody else? Why not? This is the responsibility we share for permitting the Third Sacred School to be a reality on earth, a victorious reality, not a failure. A failure might well be fatal, not only to ourselves but to everybody else as well. Last call—that is what it is.

Our concern is to find those on the face of the earth who will participate in the Third Sacred School. We are not looking for vast numbers. If vast numbers put in an appearance, that would spoil everything. What is required is that there should be angels incarnate and in expression on earth, to be sent forth into all the earth. There need to be angels in many places on the face of the earth, but the purpose is not to produce vast crowds of people. What good does that do? It achieves nothing. “Not by might, nor by power,” not by human nature approaches can anything be done, “but by my spirit,” by the Tone of Life sounding by reason of a few. This achieves what is needful on this earth, which belongs to God and not to the depredations of human nature. It is to be restored to Him because there are those on earth who are restored to Him in fact, because they obey the instruction: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” That would be a consistent thing, wouldn't it? So, letting all that finds expression in our living be fathered by God out of heaven, so shall the fact of the good news of the Gospel be preached in all the world at a level where human beings are powerless to prevent it. In this fashion all things are made new. Here is our responsibility—with many others besides, but insofar as the population of the world is concerned, relatively very few.

There is nothing more magnificent, nothing more wonderful, than to sound the Tone of Life together in coordinated expression. You have been aware of those occasions, in particular configurations of people, when there has been a coming together in the sounding of the Tone of Life and something tremendous occurs. How quickly what is needful occurs when there are those in agreement, letting the coordinated expression of the true Tone of Life be sounded continuously.

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Ascension and Rebirth

 Ascension  and  Rebirth

From the Third to the Fourth Sacred School

Alan Hammond   June 30, 1990   World Service Class

I have a service of Martin's upon which we can launch. It is entitled, To Finish the Work [August 2, 1987]. I would like to read the opening paragraph: “There can be no restoration of the planet and of all the various forms of life on the surface of the planet until there is first the restoration of man. It is well that there are those who are awakening to the needs of the planet. They may see and understand the rape that has been going on. But if it is still imagined that there is some way by which further depravations can be stopped, and all this put together again so that it works to the satisfaction of human beings, then there is delusion indeed. The true state of the planet is absolutely dependent upon the true state of man. When that is restored, the restoration of the planet to its true state is no problem. Thus far, this basic fact has been overlooked.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/09/to-martin-exeter-august-2-1987-there.html]

There is something of a cliche in Emissary-dom. “It is a privilege to be here.” But surely we are at least somewhat conscious of the privilege of being in this Dome in this place, and amongst other things, being aware of this first paragraph. As we well know, millions if not billions of human beings are sincerely struggling to save themselves, the world, find happiness. But they do not know the crux of the matter which is contained in this one simple paragraph. All the efforts of every discipline are futile unless somewhere in the body and the consciousness of mankind the restoration of man is recognized as the apex requirement. Now we don't have to compare Emissaries as a group to anyone else, but I would suggest you hear this central requirement voiced very little anywhere else. So if we are aware of this apex, central requirement, we find ourselves in a position of supreme responsibility. Others may be aware of this, and that's fine. We are not in a footrace to superiority but we are aware of this central requirement and are working to let this central requirement be fulfilled.

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Problems in the world abound. I am not going to take any time to rehearse all the problems; globally, internationally, nationally, personal. What would the answer be? The answer would be the restoration of a state of experience describable by the word heaven. That is what all the activity on the surface of this planet by mankind is about—endeavoring to restore, albeit unconsciously, the quality of experience describable by the word heaven. World Service Class: you will undoubtedly be in various positions of service, but one of them will be when individuals or couples come with problems, personal life problems. And if you don't already know you can listen to the rehearsal of these problems, namely, what is making them unhappy. They encourage you to help them juggle the situation. And it's impossible, actually, to produce the experience of heaven by juggling the environment. The only starting point, the only job actually, is the restoration within the individual of the sense of true identity. If we can do that, problems, in the sense of personal anguish and misery, are eliminated.

This is a colossal awareness because although it is true that we do act in the environment and are engaged in the external processes, we don't imagine success in that level brings fulfillment or heaven. It won't. So just knowing this is, I think, a tremendous awareness—one of the privileges of being seated in this Dome, to hear this—because people will wrestle around trying to solve their problems. No success is possible. The answer, obviously, is ascension. Ascension of the sense of self to a level where those problems, or situations as they then become, do not impinge upon Me—impinging, in the sense of disturbing me.

This ascension process is accomplished as we know by the quality of our spiritual expression in every moment, expressing our true character with whatever form of expression is appropriate in the moment. That generates finer substance. The sense of self, then, we find begins to ascend. The sense of identity is focused in the finest quality of substance adequately present so that gradually we begin to be able to be in a place of self consciousness in finer substance within this form we can look down, as it were, upon certainly the physical form; but we can also begin to look down upon the mental level. We can begin to observe the nature and pattern of our own thinking and our own feeling. Most people are identified at the mental or emotional level of substance and they don't realize the nature of their thinking or feeling. They just think it and feel it and act and live accordingly. But as we generate finer substance, the sense of identity ascends and we can begin to look down upon these lower levels of substance and we see the forms of thought and the patterns of feeling in these lower levels of substance. Then we can begin to act from this transcendent position relative to our feelings and our thoughts. I, being spirit, quality of character, can begin to align, attune, feelings and thoughts with the nature of my Being. That obviously will have repercussions creatively in all the levels of substance beyond.

Ascension is a very natural process and we've been experiencing it. We can observe our own feelings and our own thoughts much better now than we could five years ago I'm sure, and do something about them. The vast majority of so-called problems which cause personal angst, unhappiness, are the natural products of what we call the human ego. I don't even want to make that a derogatory label because the human ego is nothing of itself, it is merely the absence of the fullness of the presence of true identity. There are blocks within the equipment, the psyche, which prevent the full expression of the Tone in various aspects of living. Because of those blocks, shadows are cast the other side of the block and problems and miseries appear.

Just for your future meditation, most of the miseries which the human being experiences are caused by attachment to the environment. That is because of identification at those lower levels. We are not haranguing that state, we are just beginning to observe it from above and therefore be in position to do something more effective about that situation because we are here to bring something of heaven into this level of being in consciousness. So there is invariably attachment to various things or people in the environment. It is just a habit, shall we say, that the human consciousness has gotten into.

If you think of some of the areas that cause you the most misery, you will find that it is because of attachment to some pattern of form external to yourself. It may be the lack of money—that causes a lot of people misery. Well, that is attachment to form. I am not going to go into the whole discussion now about what you might say to someone who is petrified of having a cut in pay. The truth is, we could probably all live on a fraction of the stuff we have piled around us. Anyway, attachment to money, things that money can buy, we're unhappy because we can't have this or that, or we're miserable about relationships—I must have this person—why? Why not let them go?! If they want to go, why are you hanging on? Well, you'd tell me, I'm sure, why you're hanging on! Because at the moment the state of consciousness is such that you are afraid that if you let this person go there won't be anyone, you're going to be lonely, etc., etc. On and on it goes. That is all the unreal identity in an unreal world and there's no answer to that state other than ascension into self conscious identity in spirit. I could elaborate further. Jesus, Buddha, all the teachers in the body of mankind have pointed to this—that most of the distorted, unhappy feelings that people wrestle with can be traceable to attachment to external form in the environment: position, money, relationship. There is a petrified clinging to these. I am not trying to rip any of that away from anyone, I am just emphasizing something.

We have to love the Lord our God with All. That is the first commandment. Love the quality of spiritual expression above everything else. Be true to that and let the chips fall where they may. You will come to discover it doesn't matter where they fall because there is always the incredible opportunity of being in human form to express my stature, my beauty, my character, my strength. That is the fulfillment. Not bits and pieces in the environment.

I don't have to tell you what proportion of distorted feelings are accumulated or caused by what I have just been describing. Then there's a small fraction caused by our vibrational connections within the body of mankind. Believe me, there's a colossal burden off our shoulders once we start being emotionally uninvolved with the environment. People would think that to be emotionally uninvolved, you would not love. But it is only when you are emotionally uninvolved with specifics in the environment that you are actually free to express creative love to everything in your environment. The obsessions are with certain things and people in the environment. That is a diseased involvement. Coming free from that external attachment, we are free to actually bless, with the radiance of the creative spirit, whatever, whomsoever comes. There's a big difference there. It's a different world. As you listen to people answer the question, “Why are you unhappy?”, if they tell you about some situation or some person then you know that is human ego. If they can say honestly, “I have no awareness, I am not conscious of anything that I should be miserable or fearful about, I am just feeling this,” then we can switch to cause B which would be, no doubt, vibrational connection within the body of mankind. We can from above send out the radiance of blessing through that feeling.

I'd like to now move over to an area of consideration which pertains to what I have just been speaking about which is ascension or coming into a greater sense of Divine Identity—eternal identity. And that is something which has been labeled, “Ages and Stages in the Life of the Outer Form and Its Consciousness.” If we as world servers look at the human cycle of incarnation and look at various segments of experience in that cycle, surely it is not a put-down to examine some of the factors in those ages and stages.

I've spoken about the midlife age and stage where the bulk of our ministry now is—between thirty-five and forty-five there they are, “the bulge.” This has great significance within the spiritual body. It is in no way in the spirit of put-down that I feel it important for us to look consciously at some of the changes and causes for those changes and experiences that are occurring in those people in that bracket. We look at infants. That is an age and stage. Because we think about that and endeavor to enfold that age and stage, we're not putting down babies or putting down the angels that are incarnate. We can enfold more effectively if we have some thought about what the baby might be going through and needing. Same with teenagers; twenties, and so on; and seniors at the other end. Shouldn't we consider some of the factors with which they are dealing in the life cycle? I would think so. So when I start speaking for a few minutes about midlife and the so-called crisis that occurs in there, this is intended to be helpful.

However one of the characteristics of being in that age bracket is that there are strong feelings going on in the emotions and the psyche which have a natural resistance to authority figures, for example. Now is there something wrong with that? Not at all! I would suggest that the midlife is one of the most important junctures for the emergence of Divine Identity through the human equipment. I want to compare it to the teen age, not because I am trying to say that the thirty-five to forty-five age bracket is in level or intelligence or anything else the same as teenage. But there are certain experiences that are similar. The teenage era is an incredible phase of growth and development and emergence into a greater sense of self, responsibility, identity. Coming out of a child-state, the teenager is moving into adulthood. There is a tremendous burst of development in that teenage era. That is paralleled in the thirty-five to forty-five phase because there's a tremendous surge of development in the capacities and consciousness and there are stresses involved with that.

The person in their midlife has an increased sense of their personal stature and power. That is what is emerging. In that sense of a greater self and the greater power, naturally the confines of the previous patterns of self-expression and the context of a larger design are too confining—and there's a sense of confinement, and it would be called repression, which it is. Not intentional or hostile, but because the greater self is emerging, the new wine needs new bottles. But that feeling of confinement in one's life expression now with this greater self emerging—can I say naturally there are feelings of rebellion against the structure in which one has been performing quite happily for years, and the relationship with authority figures is bound to change. There is nothing wrong with that. It's got to happen. There is a review—what have I been doing with my life? Well usually, whatever you've been doing is not satisfactory now; for many people anyway. For some it is satisfactory and there is a sense “I'll just expand my expression through whatever I am doing.” That's fine—as long as there is expansion. Some people review their lives and they think, “Well, is this all I've accomplished in life?” Great dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Looking for new bottles for the new wine. Well, we can understand that maybe there would be changes in actual occupation. Anybody who understands what is going on is open to that possibility and also, can't we see that some people will have this feeling of confinement, repression, resentment, and it's got nothing to do with anybody else really. It’s helping the individual to emerge into their new stature and therefore new role. And it may be that they just need to hang tough for awhile and the new bottles turn out to be new dimensions of what they were doing previously. It is still new bottles.

Having said this, it's an age and a stage, people think, “Well now you're dismissing what I'm feeling, what I'm saying about the organization, the ministry, as if we should just sit there and we'll get over it.” Well, no that is not the spirit in which this is said. One of the results of a greater presence is greater contribution. The design as it now is, I think is ready and willing to hear new views. Things are going to change if you have angels appearing more clearly, you're going to have a new dynamic both within and outward. So, all I am trying to emphasize here is that what looks like a lot of wrestling around going on in the Emissary body right now, no small portion of it is what I've just been describing. We need to be aware of that and still work with the individual dynamic.

One of the glories of this age and stage is that ascension is taking place or may take place. New dimensions of the form, the human form with its consciousness, new dimensions begin to open up that have not been experienced heretofore—part of the greater Self. The greater Self is emerging; greater sense of responsibility; greater equipment to discharge the greater responsibilities. And that pertains largely to new dimensions of the sense of Self and the expression of Self. For example, in any aspect of our living the greater Self is emerging. Therefore, if we don't change our jobs, we'll say, there will be new dimensions come to consciousness about our work in our work. It will begin to take on global proportions because whatever I am doing I am working with essences. I am working with more concentrated substance. My identity is in more concentrated substance. If my identity is in finer substance then I begin to see instrumentation and levels of action in denser levels of substance so that what I do in my job has global implications. Spiritual expression is global leadership! There is nothing higher than spiritual expression. That is the leadership. That is the apex of human activity. So every occupation has its vibrational essence which I exercise. I express through these essences. Since this is the creative Tone, all activity pertaining to this field is focused by me, as I'm on Tone. That sounds, of course, megalomanic to a human mind but it is the truth of the matter. We don't necessarily say that to others but we know it's the case. The Tone is omnipotent. No man cometh into heaven but by me—this Tone, through these lines of force.

The new dimensions come into relationships also. Whereas previously, sexual relationship, the primary conception of fulfillment would be physical intercourse. For many people, when they talk about sexuality—“What's your sex life like?” If they haven't been having intercourse they think, “Well, I haven't got a sex life.” That is not true. We begin to be aware of intercourse at other than physical levels more acutely than ever before, at the more intense levels of being, and therefore of experience, actually. Even if you are in a married state, your sexual relationship with your partner, if you think about it, if that's the range (gestures with arms wide apart) of your sexual experience with your partner, if you think of the time involved in physical intercourse, it's about that much (holds fingers about an inch apart) compared with all the other dimensions of interaction and interrelationship. You're thinking, you're feeling, you're dealing with one another; the relationship has all these other levels, albeit it's been unconscious for much of our lives anyway, and just this much physical time spent. As the angelic reality emerges, we become aware of this larger aspect and we begin to share more consciously the truth of love through these other dimensions of interaction. And that involves more than just our one partner, too.

The opportunities of communion in the truth of love are vast as we come into true identity and become aware of these other levels of communion and intercourse. So the sex life, instead of petering out at forty, actually burgeons now. It really does. And that applies to every dimension of our living. They say, “Life begins at forty.” Everybody chuckles about that. It sounds as though somebody somewhere had an inkling of the change and the possibilities. But this is the truth. The true cycle of life on earth is from glory to glory.

There is one other aspect I want to touch on in this new dimensional phase of things, and that is focalization. You know what teenagers are like relative to the authority figures because of what we've been discussing. It is the same with the thirty-five to forty-five age bracket. I remember, I used to listen to services and I was arguing all the way through, vibrationally, for a little while. I know what it is now. At the time I didn't. But no matter what our transitional adjustments may be, well, everybody carry on, that's fine. Everybody's got their own individual path in the emergence. Nobody can manipulate from outside. As long as we keep in the general flow and keep trusting the Lord that we are in the right place, fundamentally, it will all keep working out alright.

But with focalization, I just want to suggest that as one becomes mature, with stature, authority because of one's own living, wouldn't that make us more effective in a pattern of focalization? Wouldn't that allow us to present our view to whoever is focalizing a pattern without being affected by whether they did it our way or not? If you think about it, focalization doesn't disappear after maturity, it really begins to get operational. The fight against focus is the fight against external control. But when a differentiation of the One Spirit actually emerges, so that I am not really bothered by whether we do it this way or whether we do it that way—that's the environment. Whether I am in this position or that position—an angel can work with any design and his or her influence will bring about whatever changes are needed. But we don't have to attempt coups or snipe at who is in focus. No. That's not the angelic stature. That is not a prince or a princess of the kingdom. That is not really how they would function. So it is through all our different areas of living.

This is such an exciting juncture in which individuals and also the spiritual body finds itself. If the emergence comes, the greater emergence of what would be the Archangelic Presence, with these other dimensions of function consciously with it, then it's influence will be exponential in the whole. We don't have to worry about that. It will just be that.

What we are really speaking about is what Jesus spoke about. It really is like being born again. Ye must be born again! We were born into the human state and therefore born because of the human state into the human world. We've been educated as to what that is. But Jesus said, “Ye must be born again.” Let me just read this. He is speaking to Nicodemus. “Jesus answered him and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” This is getting back to what we were saying at the beginning. In the kingdom of God there are no personal problems. Now wouldn't that be a different world? Born into a world where there are no personal problems! It's almost inconceivable.

Bearing in mind what we've been speaking about with this transition, rebirth is taking place all the way through the life cycle. Obviously, we've been awakening, becoming more aware of a different world, a different self, all the way through the life cycle. But I am suggesting this very accelerated potential. Nicodemus saith unto him, “How can a man be born when he's old?” Thirty-five, forty. “Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again.” Now in the recreative process of man, true mankind, male and female, in the recreative process, there is this juncture where it is like unto being born again. And I am suggesting this middle bracket, if it hasn't happened, is another excellent opportunity.

Identity in spirit. It says here, “born of water (the truth) and of the spirit.” We in our recreative path encountered what we have called the Spirit of Truth, Uranda, who set the Tone relative to virtually every aspect of life experience. He only touched on many of them. How much development could be done? But the tonal factors were set for life in human form. In other words, essences. The essences were brought out of the invisible levels into the conscious level. The lines of force are in the Tone. If we begin to find attunement with the Truth, the true Tone which those in this ministry have had that opportunity, they will find the awakening process continues. Those lines of force lead into heaven—that is how it is. So there is rebirth. The rebirth of a spiritual self—we must be born of truth and of spirit—the spirit begins to be our identity, and as that identity actually emerges through these lower levels of substance: mind, emotions, physical, into our environment, we find we are in a totally different world than anybody else! It is a world of perfection! And we are here to bring this awareness. The true Self is in the true world. The latter cannot precede the former in experience. So that is why we work away on our feelings and our thoughts and our expression to get them into attunement, union with the Tone of Being. This world upon which we look is beautiful—it is working perfectly.

Another interesting change which comes about at this juncture of rebirth into the new world is that one begins to be less, well certainly less but eventually non-manipulative. Manipulation is of the human mind. Civilization has sought to manipulate life through exoteric technology. The mind has created the instrumentation to manipulate the experience of life according to its good ideas about what would bring fulfillment and happiness and preserve itself. By the way, midlife is where that sort of activity reaches a peak. There's a crisis there because many people begin to realize it isn't producing heaven, so let's chuck up the exoteric technology. Some people turn to esoteric technology—magic—manipulation of vibrational factors. Again, to create or to implement ideas conceived by the mind.

I want very briefly to touch upon Assemblies in this regard. Assemblies were created about ten years ago (in my midlife crisis), and in looking for new bottles for the new wine and becoming aware of larger dimensions of self, it needed new forms of self expression to extend vibrational influence into the world. Some of you probably know that Assemblies were utilized (amongst other things) to explore some of these forms of the expression of the greater Self which had not been conscious to us until that point, in order to extend the greater influence. And we use things like symbols to bring to focus vibratory factors and to radiate through them into the world; ceremonies, same thing; even glossalalia. Even the forums, the set-up of a circular format, emerged out of Assemblies. That was more conducive to developing a sense of communion and communication and complementation. All this, endeavoring to create a vocabulary of the heart and the subconscious mind, rather than what had been primarily in focus in our ministry, which was a more conscious articulation of the truth.

All I am suggesting is that you will find, in this age bracket, in many, a desire to explore such forms. It complements the emergence of the greater Self. In Assemblies we have been very careful to relate such new forms which have pervaded the body of mankind's activity for millenia, relate them back to conscious orientation in the Tone because then the sense of true identity isn't lost; and it isn't a human ego endeavoring to use vibrational technology to implement its bright ideas. Those factors actually pertain to the end of the Second Sacred School. You know we've heard there are seven Sacred Schools. Uranda focused the emergence in the experience of the body of mankind of the Third Sacred School. Previously it was the Second Sacred School, where spirit was focused in an awakening consciousness of identity and purpose through Jesus. But in the Second Sacred School, the mind being predominant (vibrationally that was the part of the equipment which was predominant) there was developed the distorted exoteric technology, in due course, whereby the mind would implement its will. Esoteric technology has been prevalent in the body of mankind too. All were endeavors of the mind to utilize whatever technology or machinery it could to implement its ideas and purposes.

So I feel that we have to be very careful when we hear of people in our body undertaking ceremonies and using symbols, and all this kind of thing. We certainly shouldn't fall into it ourselves, because we have some bright idea or specific purpose and utilize esoteric technology. That is the tail end of function in the Second Sacred School. The Third Sacred School leaves manipulation behind, no matter how well intended.

The identification in spirit emerges and we find that we are consciously responsible for the expression of the Tone, as it has been called — the true character, the spirit. And whatever is needful to be accomplished is accomplished by the Divine technology which operates at a subconscious level. The machinery is already present in levels of substance of which the mind has no awareness, consciously. But in true identity, in the Third Sacred School, we begin to refrain from manipulation and let spirit, the Tone, accomplish what it will in the overall creative process because the creative process has all the Divine technology at its disposal. This relieves us of an awful lot of struggling. This is the new world!

I would like to read something about the Fourth Sacred School—just because being incarnate in human form in consciousness, there is a continuing unfoldment of the restored Divine experience in human form in consciousness. The Third Sacred School isn't the end. It leads into the Fourth. In Genesis, the Fourth Day, remember? “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”

This relates to a phase of evolution of the process whereby identity, the sense of Self, begins to move out of time and space completely. If there are Seven Dimensions of Being; there are three outer dimensions—physical, mental, spiritual expression—and three inner dimensions. The seventh, love, also permeates the six. And as the spiritual, the third, the spiritual identity is established in experience and we live out of that, we generate substance out of that identity, the next phase of experience begins to unfold. And one becomes aware of Self as an eternal quality of Being. The halfway point is three and a half. So somewhere in the Third Sacred School experience, something else begins to emerge which is a sense of Self which is not measureable at all in time and space. I am here in these levels of substance, here and now, here to express who I am. There is really no involvement—certainly there is engagement—with this human world, but we are in the heavens, lights in the heaven ruling over the day and the night, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind—remember those lights were created to have dominion over the day and the night. We begin to have dominion over the human consciousness and its processes.

The dominion is really the Presence in the midst. The radiance of the Presence creates in the substance of consciousness, an experience describable by the word heaven. It's the real world created through the substance, the malleable substance of consciousness in the dimensional world. This is a hint of the omnipotence of the angelic presence. When we consider how human beings below the veil, in the birth canal, struggle to relieve the darkness and the confinement of the birth canal that is their state. Billions of dollars, resources and efforts are all designed to create the experience known inherently at some level as heaven. But when the presence of the Angel is here all the resources, whatever they are in the environment of that Angel, the raw material of physical substance, mental substance, emotional substance, it is all transmuted into an experience of ecstasy. That is omnipotence. Nothing can stop it. God is almighty and that is who we are, the reality of Being. So the omnipotence of true Being is evidenced because whatever the raw materials which enter consciousness are, are fashioned into an experience of delight. Not comfort necessarily, but glorious delight because of the accomplishment of bringing the ecstatic state. And ecstasy isn't necessarily frothing at the mouth! We can be sitting very quietly knowing the true state of being. We may have difficulties with our bodies, we may have times of confusion and stress in our minds and emotions. It is all incorporated into the sum total—heaven. That is why we are here. This is the restoration of man, and then heaven, simultaneously.

So we are privileged to find ourselves exactly where we are in the real world where everything is meticulously, exquisitely, absolutely governed by law. Every atom, shall I say at every dimension, is under the control of the Truth of Love. We begin to know this and that is a very different universe, a different state of Being which we bring with us into these levels of substance.

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Without Fear or Shame or Blame

There  is  Transparency  When  the  Heart  is  Pure

from  Without Fear or Shame or Blame

Martin Cecil   April 5, 1981

This morning evoked from a number of those present a beauty of response that was to me most glorious. I would thank the Lord for what was so offered. I would that we all might have been in agreement in an active sense. There was indication in the Psalms that the redeemed of the Lord should say so. There was a yielded response. This is not all there was. I would that it were. There was also present what I might describe by using the word “diehard.” The diehards are those who have had much opportunity but haven't taken quite as much advantage of the opportunity, so that the dissolution of the human corruption has not occurred to the extent that it might. There is a spectrum of response: a beautiful brilliance of yielded response at one end of the spectrum and then fading away at the other end of the spectrum into a gray area. Occasionally something really black sticks out. If we are stewards of the Tone, the sounding of that Tone will only be as much as there is the fact of agreement—agreement based in yielded response, agreement based in mutual love. Then the Tone may intensify and we may be accounted faithful stewards. So I rejoice in what has been offered in yielded response, what I perceived in the general pattern of things while the service was moving along this morning and what became evident subsequently by reason of specific action that certain ones took.

It has always been the longing of my heart that in the Chapel there might be a gathering of those who are indeed with me with one accord in one place. What do you think might happen? It tends to move into a realm of speculation because it has never occurred in my experience thus far. Some yielded response, some diehards, some gray areas, some definite resistance at times—on that basis we can't have unity. We seem to propose to offer the opportunity of unity to others. How much of it do we know ourselves? What do we have to offer? What would it be to be with one accord in one place? Under the stress of circumstances long ago, it is indicated that there were about a hundred and twenty people in an upper room in Jerusalem who were more or less compelled to be with one accord in one place. It didn't hold. But even with that little experience there was something tremendous known. What was known at that point of focus carried over into subsequent experience of those concerned, even though a scattering almost immediately began to take place. Those people were in a difficult situation, and they had been together for a period of time, so that there came a recognition that nothing else really mattered very much except the experience of being with one accord in one place.

We are inclined to have so many distractions, aren't we? We get carried away by these in our daily affairs. One step forward, one step back; one step forward, one step back. It's remarkable how far we've got on this basis! We must have been inching at least in the right direction. I'm sure we would all wish to be faithful stewards rather than unfaithful ones. What occurs on a Sunday is the initiating point for something expansive to happen during the following week, so that we may move from glory unto glory, as it has been put. When I go out walking, I like to walk briskly, and it is quite painful in a sense to have to accompany someone who doesn't do it. I have suffered this agony over the years in a vibrational sense, this business of inching along, almost marking time in one place. I don't know how anyone can really stand that indefinitely. If anything has tried my patience it's that. Yet I couldn't set out in a brisk walk and achieve what I'm here to do if no one else is going to accompany me on the walk. Oh what agony I've been put through! I'm not complaining. It's just a way of conveying something to you, because I'm still here. But a little creative imagination would reveal that if we all strode out together it would be most exhilarating. The other way isn't too exhilarating, as I'm sure most of you have found out. Let us be with one accord in one place, and in reasonably rapid motion because we are agreed. There's no use remaining in the state of rationalization, because rationalizing is always giving us excuse for failing to experience what would actually be experienced if there was a sufficiently pure heart for the spirit of God to come freely forth.

That spirit of God coming freely forth moves through this realm of the heart where there is a transparency when the heart is pure—it doesn't get hung up in there. And it moves the machinery of our incarnation, in particular the two aspects of mind: conscious and subconscious. The movement of that spirit is designed to resurrect the Body of the Son of God on earth. This is the whole reason for our presence on earth, if we are to have a reason for being present on earth. This has been my total concern over the years. Some have agreed with me with open hearts; others have had their reservations. They would participate in what was being resurrected, or brought forth, if it conformed to their own views and desires, which in turn were based in the impurities of their hearts.

I have indicated that in a personal sense I'm not here to participate in this Body but rather to provide what is necessary to let the Body take form. There is no one else in this particular position. The Body has been taking form, inching forward, or upward, and I have provided what I could to allow this process to occur—bringing forth the living Body of the Son of God. In this Body all are invited to participate. Those who accepted the invitation have found a delightful experience of increasing friendship and understanding with those who are also participating in the process. There is no place else to be! That's going to be found out sooner or later. There will only be this one place for human beings to be. For the moment it seems that they can do their own things, but there comes a point where there is no experience of existence outside of this Body. That's the restoration. That's the re-creation. Man was created to be on earth. Man is restored to be on earth, totally providing what is necessary for the action of God—and all participate in that Body.

As this Body has been forming there have been various tendencies in people to try to make it into something that it isn't. I suppose a general description of this would be a cult. The cultic attitudes of human beings are universal on earth because this is what occurs when the heart is impure. The isolationist, cultic consciousness is strong because the hearts are impure and there is fear. There is shame and fear in human hearts. This is part of the corruption. The fear brings a sense of insecurity, and so the frantic endeavor to gather things around to make one feel secure. Could you imagine that my approach over the years has been an endeavor to gather something around me to make me feel secure? If you have any insight at all into the nature of my character you would realize that I would feel quite secure even if there were none of you here. That hasn't been my purpose—simply that there might be the resurrection of the Body of the Son of God, open to all to participate in.

There has been this tendency still, because of impure hearts, to try to make what was thought of as the emissary ministry into a safe haven so that there could be a sense of security. But we have the opportunity of allowing this living Body to become incorporated into our experience. Sometimes, as we have moved along the way, because of this cultic consciousness based in the impurity of heart, there have been those who have rationalized themselves into producing little cults within the bigger cult—a cyst in the developing body. Wherever such cysts put in an appearance—and they have done it repeatedly over the years—there is one of two ways by which they are dealt with. The most satisfactory way is that the cyst is reabsorbed into the body. The other way is that sooner or later the cyst has to be removed from the body, for the sake of the health of the body. These cliques, or cults within cults, are produced by the rationalization springing out of the impure heart. All those who respond to the invitation to participate in the resurrection of the Body of the Son of God lose themselves in that Body. Only after they have lost themselves in that Body will it be found that they will move in the systems of circulation into the place that is fitting. All who are to participate in the Body of the Son of God must be released into that Body totally. This relates to love. It is because of one's love for the sounding of the Tone, which is resurrecting or recreating the Body, that one may move into the Body.

There is a delight to do that, and to find one's association with all who are present in that Body, in one way or another. It requires some deliberation to do this. People have different natures. There are always right associations. So there needs to be this blending. The blending can never take place, so that all concerned may be with one accord in one place, as long as the impurities of heart are maintained. Fear obviously is one of the primary, out-front elements. Some fears are pushed down well into the subconscious mind; the individual is not quite aware of what they are. But fear relates to this matter of insecurity, and a person is bound to feel insecure as long as he has an impure heart. So, even though it may be based in the subconscious feeling, he rationalizes his actions as being necessary to establish a sense of security. The only way by which a person can be secure is to have a pure heart. So if there is genuine love for the Tone, whose purpose is to recreate the Body of the Son of God on earth, he will give himself joyously and with the greatest zeal and enthusiasm into the developing Body of the Son of God. He will not take a diehard position. What needs to die should die. Why make it hard for it to die?

The longing of my heart over the years has been that there might be a Body in position to share what it means to be with one accord in one place; because if it is allowed to happen with such a gathering as this, that would transform everything that is present in our unified creative field. If my concern has been, over the years, to do what I might to assist in the development of this Body it was for this purpose, a purpose which might be described as the purpose of the Lord—to transform the world. The world is transformed by the sound of this trumpet, by the Tone sounding because there are those who have let their hearts be purified and are consequently in agreement. The evidence of that agreement is certainly friendship, for one thing, a sense of closeness—a closeness which is no longer established on the basis of one's rationalizations. When people try to set up patterns of closeness with others they are always, as long as the heart is impure, based upon rationalizations. Woe unto those who maintain these impurities of heart and try to make things work out on the basis of their consequent rationalizations. They not only defeat themselves but cause a good deal of havoc in doing it.

How beautiful it is to be together, to know the reality of friendship, to have no fear that something might happen to destroy one's own meaning, something that someone might do to us. Can anyone really do anything to you to destroy your meaning? Knowing the truth because the heart is pure it is discovered that one is secure. And that security is not an isolated phenomenon; it relates to this forming Body of the Son of God. The Body is secure and all that is in it is secure. Let us be in it because we choose to allow impurities of heart to dissolve by reason of our love for God, for the truth, for the sounding of the Tone. The consequent Body then puts in an appearance. It means everything to us, because the fact of the matter is that we have no life without it. We do not need to be compelled by fear. If we are compelled by fear, greed almost inevitably comes into the picture too; and in trying to make ourselves secure, probably flattery comes into the picture as well. We try to deceive other people by telling them stories that aren't true, rationalizations that we thought up on the basis of this impurity of heart. But when the heart is pure, it's clear—there is no concern for self anymore. There is no concern for position, or for vast achievement, which is equated in the rationalization process, with meaning. The meaning is already present, and that meaning is included in the whole.

We are keenly aware of this particular aspect of the whole which we call the Body of the Son of God. That Body is not an isolated Body either, any more than we are isolated ourselves as individuals. We belong in the Body. We belong in the whole. Our meaning is there. Let us not have an isolationist attitude but let our love be so complete that we stand where we belong, without fear—without fear, and without shame, and without blame. It is indicated it would be good to be blameless. That is usually translated as meaning that one hasn't done anything for which one could be blamed. It also means that one is not blaming anyone or anything; that is the way we become blameless. So I thank God for those who, yielded in their response, are receiving the invitation to blend into the Body of the Son of God. Then we may all be with one accord in one place, the Body complete unto itself, that what that Body is here to accomplish may come to pass. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see as God sees, they shall act as God acts, they shall think as God thinks.

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