Service In The Temple Of Light
David Barnes May 2021 Salmon Arm, BC
First, we should acknowledge together, and thank the LORD for the wonders that have been made manifest in our lives over the years, each one of us, and the wonders that are yet to come. Right at the beginning, I want to say a few words about the initiation of a new service pattern, and how this new monthly Temple of Light service opportunity opened up last February and March. We acknowledge and clearly recognize that it is emerging and being born through all of you, and many others as well. We do not open up such things in isolation. They emerge through the whole, through many Angels in expression on earth at this time. This morning I was reflecting on a passage from the Gospel of John. The Master Jesus—the Master of the Temple of Love—had this to say: “Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.” The word Son relates to the formation of the Temple of Light, and the hour has come to initiate a new cycle that complements the fine work that is being done by many people, coming alive with new energy, new spirit and new substance in this day. In this initiation, the Son may glorify the Father and prepare the way for the Mother.
We have a life span in which to give ourselves to this vibrational formation which has been developing. If we do it right, when our incarnation is complete we pass it on to another generation of Angels who have come into Temple service with us, prepared to carry it on after we are finished and we leave. This is a large project, the restoration of the consciousness mankind, and the formation of the Temple of Light, which rightly should enfold within its sphere of influence every human being who yields to that; and it also includes the whole earth and all of creation. We are in the midst of a vast re-creation project, and process of refocalization.
Recently a certain amount of emphasis has been placed on an awareness of the spiritual presence of Melchizedek, Priest of the Most High God, and the Melchizedek influence that is known in these days, as we bring our substance and our contributions toward the building and the shining in the Temple of Light in this era. Not long ago, Yujin Pak spoke of these things in a service in Seoul, South Korea. What a privilege and a great responsibility, to recognize that Melchizedek came four thousand years ago and reminded Abraham of his work and his commission in initiating the cycle of the restoration of the Temple of Light in the earth; and Moses carried it forward with the formation of the Tabernacle, the Ark, the Priesthood and the Twelve Tribes; and Melchizedek came again, this time in the form of the Master Jesus, born as a human being, to live the life of a man on earth, calling others to remembrance and awakening, and setting in motion a cycle that would absolutely, firmly establish the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, the Tribes of the earth in oneness, and all creation as part of the glory of the shining of the Temple of Light. More recently Uranda incarnated to carry forward this work, to open up the cycle in this Age. We find, right from the beginning, that he emphasized the reality of the Temple of Light. All of us were introduced long ago to Uranda’s writing, Seven Steps To The Temple Of Light, which we have opened many times I am sure. But now we find ourselves walking those Seven Steps in reality every day, opening the Way for others, even as he opened essential doors for us—and as the Master Jesus opened the Seven Seals in a complete sense for all who would walk in the Way of the Master on earth. We acknowledge the Angels and the Archangels who came before us and very clearly opened the Way to the Temple of Light.
Here are some words by Uranda, speaking about Melchizedek, Priest of the Most High God, KING of Salem, KING of Peace. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/09/melchizedekking-of-salem.html] Addressing the 1953 Class, and speaking to us right now, he said: “Your function here in this School has for its purpose the basic initiation into the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. There can be no true manifestation of spiritual power except on the basis of the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. This is the keynote, the key point, in relationship to the outworking of the whole Divine Plan and Pattern. And those who would share in the fulfilment of that Divine Purpose on earth must, to some degree at least, begin to share the reality of the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek… It is necessary that we enter the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek—not only to speak the Word of the Lord but to do the works of the Lord, to work out the Divine Pattern on earth, to live the reality... And it is only as this reality of Priesthood is made manifest that we can have the manifestation of power necessary to the accomplishment of the Divine Purpose on earth.”
We here know that long ago we participated in that basic initiation, and we have moved along the Path leading onward from that point—we and many others, not just we few here—but we may clearly acknowledge that the initiation took place for us way, way back. And here we are now as Angels, friends together with a responsibility that is in accord with the Word, the Creative Command, “Let US remake man, mankind, and all creation.” Let US as Angels, as a collective, working together with the Archangelic focalizations who are centered in the LORD of Lords—let US play our part, letting it come to focus from the lowest to the highest vibration in the Heaven, according to what each one of us is called to do in our work and our service together. In order to lay the foundation clearly, I want to say a few things right the start of this new cycle, represented by the initiation of this new monthly Temple of Light service pattern.
Throughout the past few years, many of us have become more keenly aware of the opportunities available to let intensified and rhythmic currents of radiation flow through our own body temples, into the living earth itself, and into the world body of humanity that is showing so many manifestations of sickness. When thinking about these things this morning, it took me back to late 1987 and early 1988, that time when Martin Exeter was completing his incarnation; and all of us were aware that something unprecedented in experience was taking place in his body—and then he left. That was thirty-three years ago this year. Thirty-three years is the length of time that the Master lived on earth in the body of Jesus—preparing Himself to begin His public ministry and complete His incarnation, and finish the work that He came on earth to accomplish. It is written in the Book of Acts that after the crucifixion He continued with the disciples for forty days, “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.”
I have often thought, over this past year, of these thirty-three years that have passed since Martin left, as symbolizing thirty-three of those forty days when the Master remained close with His disciples—a period where Martin’s spirit has lingered close with us, and has been felt by us, speaking silently and heard by us in the sanctuary of the Temple of our own hearts and minds and bodies—speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God in this day, and preparing a body of people who would assemble in the forming Temple of Light and serve in Angelic maturity. All of us have been involved in that unfolding pattern of listening, and hearing what it is that the Lord has been speaking over the past thirty-three years. We have been diligent about our generations, being prepared for a day when once again there could be drawn together an assembly of disciples and ministers, prophets and priests, male and female, in the Upper Room of the Temple, letting an outpouring of the Spirit occur through us in waves of radiance, and return, so that the LORD might have a vehicle, a Temple Body on earth through which to release His radiance. We discover, as we find union in the Temple, that this is our own Angelic radiance, one with His Almighty radiance.
Some of Martin’s last words to us were, “The light of the body is in the eye. If thine eye be single thy whole body shall be filled with light.” “Let your light so shine.” The Word of the Lord to those who are invited to participate in the formation and serve in the Temple, is: “If thine eye be single thy whole collective Temple Body shall be filled with light—shall be a Temple of Light composed of many Angels incarnate and in expression”—many human beings in spiritual expression together. Laura Fisher wrote me a note this morning; she said, “It is my pleasure to be with you as you prepare for service this morning. The times I was with Martin's household on Sunday mornings before service, there was a silence that rang like universal Toning! It was deafening and all consuming!” The Lord is in his holy temple—let all the earth keep silence before Him.
Here we are gathered today, some of the people who worked and served with Martin; some of those who, over these intervening years, have come to know him as he was and is, and have come to know the LORD because of him. And so right now, in the early months of 2021, it is keenly felt that there is a need to begin a new pattern of service that is designed to facilitate the generation of a very unique quality of refined pneumaplasm. This will happen—it is a Divine promise—when everyone gathered together in one accord in one place is sustaining an atmosphere that allows an outpouring of spirit that is natural to each specific service period. This is an opportunity to bring our love and thanksgiving to the focus of spirit for this Seven-Plane World, the LORD of Lords, and provide Him with a Body, a vehicle through which to release His Power under control and through His design—worship in spirit and in truth. We wouldn’t be able to do that if we didn’t know Him and His spirit, that spirit which is present in the Temple of Love, the Temple of Light, and the Temple of Life, now forming in Heaven and on earth. He is the High Priest in the Temple—not as in priestly lineages of this religious world, but as we spoke earlier, the lineage of the Melchizedek Priesthood.
So we will gather, as we are here, to provide a Body of ministers and disciples, prophets and priests, who know that this is who they are—who I am. By reason of our presence in that capacity, by whatever name it might rightly be called, we provide a living vehicle through which the radiation of Shekinah may flow into His Body and His world—may pour forth in rhythms of blessing, released outward to all, and welcomed as they return to us and to Him in the ascending current.
Those who know the Voice of the Master love His Voice. The Master is in the Temple. We find that present often in the eastern world—when one enters a Temple there is a priest or a master in the Temple. Those who love the Master of All know His voice, and they follow Him. So we are going to use, as part of what we do, the high vibrational qualities that are inherent in primary Third Sacred School materials, to open some doors, release the radiation, look at things anew, and allow a movement together into higher ranges—and let a vertical expansion take place. Much preoccupation with external or horizontal expansion has prevailed over the last 2000 years—some of that necessary in order to get people and situations in the world changed around so that the LORD could have a clear shot at refocalizing the cycle of restoration in this era, working through new arrangements of substance and people. But there has been a tremendous over-preoccupation with horizontal expansion and horizontal creation, even among our numbers in the past, and most people seem to think that squashing all activity into the physical and mental levels, with a thinly destructive emotional layer woven through it all, is the only way to go. But here we have an opportunity to let a fine vertical, pneumaplasmic and spiritual expansion occur.
So we are hopeful that, in the days to come, this service opportunity will give each of us who are Temple Priests and Priestesses an opportunity to share what we each have to bring and offer, through reading a transcript excerpt by Uranda or Martin, and speaking extemporaneously—original, authentic and fully alive now! Let each one speak in their own natural tongue and language, their own choice of phrasing and words—anything that fits in Temple service. Anything is welcome, that helps, as Uranda put it, “to work out the Divine Pattern on earth”—anything that is respectful and respecting of others, that is reverent, anything that is sacred, from lowest in the clear Heaven to the Most High that can be wisely and rightly shared. All this is open to us. There is no room for conflict, no room for judgment, no room for criticism. But there is a great deal of space for straight, clear, clean, direct talk, conversation and silence in Upper Room of the Temple—anything that really fits in the movement that we share together. After any reading, will have an open space for free-flowing and radiant conversation, moving in the clear current of the Word. And there is no need to imagine that any one of us should speak in a particular kind of group language, group-speak, or group-think. Each is totally free to speak in their own natural manner, as I am free now with you—and I certainly don’t expect that you would say it like I do.
Each Priest, male or female, is called to bring what they uniquely as an Angel are called to bring to the LORD and to His Priesthood Body. As such, each is part of the Body of the High Priest, reforming on earth in a conscious way, through conscious expression, because of the transformation that has been taking place in the subconscious, because of the pure heart and the Holy Ghost substance now permeating that subconscious realm. So there is no concern about what might erupt out of the subconscious into the conscious, to disrupt in a manner that doesn’t fit in the Temple, because only that which does fit is allowed in and out.
So we begin with small numbers, and let a vertical expansion take place, not so much concerned with horizontal expansion or larger numbers of people. But we have been interested in inviting certain ones to begin with, knowing the Core Focus that various ones have been maintaining; that focus which has allowed the emergence we have all seen through various groupings in various locations over the past couple of years in particular. And this monthly Temple of Light service pattern, at this point, can assist in providing a Core Focus point, that contributes in an integrating way, in a creative way, to all that is being offered everywhere through everyone who is functioning at any level in a genuine spiritual sense, in spiritual expression, whether they are conscious of so functioning or yet unconscious, but who have a love for what is at the core of integrity in themselves and in the world body. We can assist in providing an orientation point for this greater coming forth, something that is helpful in the world. So, as the highest essences of the spirit that we are naturally equipped to allow to move from the inner realms through us are allowed release, we are a representative Core Body and an external Temple setting through which the spirit can move both consciously and subconsciously from Core to the periphery of all that is being drawn together by love, into union with the Spirit of the Most High. We can let it build, and evolve and reshape in the creative process over the coming months.
I feel that it is important to be clear and specific at the beginning, relative to what this new venture is about. We are all very aware of the profane world. Profane is defined as that which is outside of the Temple—out of timing, out of phase, out of rhythm. Centered in the Word, we walk easily in the profane world, speaking with those who are awakening and who are drawn to us. But here there is opportunity to gather as Priests of the Most High God, in Temple service. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-temple-of-light-is-here.html] This rings true and right to me. There is pure delight at the opportunity we have to be together in this way—together in Heaven on earth, as we have been over the past thirty-three years, letting this important cycle of clarification come. With an awareness of all its apparent losses, there is this apparent gain: evidence of the Presence of the LORD, of the Word made flesh, to this degree. We acknowledge these things and move together in accord. What fulfillment might the next seven years bring!
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Lucifer
The Transparent Mind
Martin Exeter November 22, 1987 pm
“I have always found the movement of the spirit in the creative process to be most ingenious.”
It has been said that there is a need for faith. I suppose if one is not familiar with the movement of the creative process in one’s own experience, then there would need to be some sort of faith to assure oneself that everything is going to work out all right. But if the creative process is present in one’s own expression of living, then there is the assurance constantly that everything is all right, everything is under control.
We were considering the first heaven and the first earth, the state in which human beings are embedded at present and out of which, by reason of the creative process, there may be those who shall emerge into the experience of the new heaven and the new earth. The new heaven and the new earth include the creative process. The creative process is universal. It is not restricted to operation in what we now conceive of as this planet. The creative process is at work everywhere. I have touched on the manner of its working in this broader sense before. Evidently it didn’t have all that much meaning to those to whom I spoke. Gradually, as the creative process continues to work and we abide with it, clarification may come.
I spoke of the creative process in broader terms as relating to the overall picture. The creative process makes possible what we think of as creation. I have spoken before of what Uranda referred to as the unformed—“potential substance” to be used by the creative process. It isn’t anything to start with, and yet it isn’t nothing; you can't make something out of nothing. But there is the unformed, the unactivated substance—“non-substance.” There isn’t any word in the human language which would describe it, because insofar as the human view is concerned it’s nothing. But when activated by reason of specific radiation from the angelic standpoint it becomes—not physical substance necessarily yet, but as available material in which the creative process can work. At that point where it emerges out of the nothingness into the somethingness it is in a state of chaos. It is just available material—no form to it, no design to it—raw material into which the radiation of the creative process continues.
This radiation springs out of the new heaven. We may bring this out of the larger universal picture into what’s happening within the range of our responsibility. The first heaven and the first earth are present. The human state as it now is is present the way it is because of the rupture of its connection with the true heaven. The first heaven and the first earth is a mind creation—a mind unconnected with its source, unagreeable with its source, seeking to have its own way, to do its own thing, to create something that would be pleasing to itself. This is the way human beings function. The attempt is made to lift what is available for the working of the human mind out of the creative process and to institute something that is under the control of the mind. We are aware of these things and we see the chaos that has resulted—the increasing chaos.
The creative process as it works properly, without the interference of a rebellious mind, moves through successive states leading out of chaos into order. The order is present in the new heaven. The chaos at the starting point would be present in the new earth—but it’s all under control, it’s all working as it should, and there is an orderly progression out of chaos into order on this basis. When the connection was broken, the connection being the human mind in this particular field of responsibility, then the creative process had no way of operating in what is now called the first heaven and the first earth. That state is chaos. It is gradually becoming more and more evident that this is so—it is moving toward complete chaos. The starting point for the creative process in the larger picture was at the point of complete chaos. There is no necessity for it to go, in this human experience, to the point of complete chaos. The creative process could come into operation when the mind of man is available, when Lucifer is in place, at any time, and begin to move everything under control out of whatever level of chaos there is toward the state of order.
Another way of putting this would be to use the terms dissonance and consonance. The new heaven is a consonant heaven and, because it is a consonant heaven, the new earth is a consonant earth, even though there may be considerable dissonance in it; because there is a movement out of complete dissonance toward the experience of consonance. But it’s all under control and there is nothing wrong with the dissonance in such case. In other terms, this is the movement out of evil into good. These are rather risky terms to use because human beings have so many concepts about good and evil. But the genuine article of evil is required in the creative process and the genuine article of good also. If we see it in terms of movement from dissonance to consonance we can understand better perhaps what is happening.
At any point where there is a facility to permit Lucifer to be on hand again, the radiation out of the consonant heaven into the first heaven and the first earth brings that state of dissonance into the movement of the creative process. I don’t think there’s any greater dissonance—just a different kind of thing—in the human state now than there was at the point of the initiation of the creative cycle when there was complete chaos in the material available for the use of the creative cycle. It’s quite all right—spoken of rather graphically in the story of creation in Genesis: “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” There was nothing—the inert material not yet activated, the positive and negative factors not yet set up in the material so that it becomes available to the creative process.
Well in the state of the world the way it is, everything is in chaos because it has become separated from the radiation out of the true heaven, the new heaven, the consonant heaven, where it originates, and the radiation has not had a means of reaching this chaotic condition. Human beings have been intent on keeping it separate. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.” The earth belongs to the creative process, not to man. Man has stolen it and done with it as he pleases and produced this extent of chaos. The chaos will keep increasing until there is an adequate provision out of the new heaven through Lucifer into this chaotic condition. It is then drawn into the state of the new earth. This can only happen when Lucifer is on hand. It will never happen as long as satan is on hand.
Most of human effort has related to the endeavor to try to convert dissonance into the concept of consonance that the particular person had. In this first heaven and first earth state nobody knows what the consonance of the new heaven is. It is always a concept that someone has as to the way things should be, and with Emissaries, of course: “Things should be the way I interpret what the teachings of the Emissaries are.” But the Emissaries aren’t a teaching. They are the evidence of the restoration of Lucifer, which is an experience that can’t be taught: it must be accepted. We ourselves have seen something of this, but still have endeavored to deal with dissonances that came up in our experience by good effort of some kind. There is nothing that can be done in the first heaven and the first earth state which will achieve anything but more chaos.
We don’t get rid of the things that are supposedly wrong in ourselves and in others. We’ve often been very keen to get rid of such things in others, and some have been very sincere in their efforts to get rid of these things in themselves. But it never happened, never could happen, because working out of the first heaven only increased chaos can be produced. It isn’t a matter of trying to deal with the things that are seemingly of a dissonant nature in our experience—and the fact of the matter is that virtually everything in human experience is of a dissonant nature, because the possibility of consonance has been excluded. The true heaven has been excluded in favor of the human invention. So this whole state of the first heaven and the first earth is being called in question—we know that. What has been referred to as human nature is to pass away. The first heaven and the first earth are to pass away. This is the inevitable experience. But the true heaven has never been dissolved; it’s always been there, it’s still there, it’s still operative. The creative process is still working, in spite of all the antics of human beings in their first heaven and first earth. All that has been achieved is increasing chaos, increasing dissonance.
All right, here’s an excellent state of affairs for the working of the creative process—but the creative process doesn’t work out of the first heaven. The creative process works out of the new heaven, the true heaven, the heaven that has been excluded. It ceases to be excluded when Lucifer is on hand to let it be in the living experience which is known on earth, so that there is radiation out of the true heaven into this dissonant state presently called the human condition. The radiant action of the creative process is brought to bear upon this dissonant state. That is the natural course of events, that it may be drawn into consonance. This is what happens in the creative process in any case, but now it needs to happen in something that has been extraneously produced because of the state of the human mind accommodating satan. There is this state of chaos, this state of dissonance, which can be included in the creative process in a constructive way once Lucifer is present, once the consonant radiation out of the consonant heaven can be brought to bear in the dissonant earth. Our concern has been to allow this restoration of Lucifer, the mind of man, out of the first heaven into the true heaven.
It is useless to struggle with anything that is present in the first heaven and the first earth—here is satan contending with satan. The human mind must be restored to the true heaven. Then it discovers that, while it has something to do—there is a purpose there—it doesn’t direct what is done. I’m sure all can easily relate to the endeavor to correct things. You see something that you think is wrong, it shouldn’t be that way, and you try to correct it. Of course we’ve ascended a little bit because we don’t try to correct it anymore in somebody else—isn’t that right?—we’re more concerned to correct it in ourselves now. That’s un-selfish, but it’s useless. It doesn’t achieve anything, because no one can correct anything that way.
The creative process does the job. But it only does it when there is a means by which this creative process can be released in radiance into the field where the work needs to be done. And that requires Lucifer on hand: a transparent mind, not a mind that imagines it can do anything on its own, that it can think up some great scheme for getting everything into shape. It can’t do it! All it does is produce more chaos. It doesn’t matter how good the intention is, it just doesn’t work that way. This is the state of affairs that has been stolen from the true heaven. As was originally indicated, the thought was that man might be as God, might be able to do everything without having any participation in the creative process. “I'm going to do it all myself. I’m going to arrange things. I can see how they ought to be. I have some good ideas here. I can set up a very effective political system, or a religion, or something else. We’ll get it done this way.” Never! Of course the chaos is here; the proof is here.
Chaos is a natural starting point insofar as the creative process is concerned. It’s no problem to the creative process. The creative process is available but there must be the mind in heaven to allow that creative process to flow into the earth. And there is a flow to it, there is a pulsation to it. Finally we come to the point of participating in peace and serenity. There must be room, space, stillness, so that what is actually working because of the creative process has a means of ingress into the earth. And immediately the radiation in the working of that creative process begins to put things together, bringing order out of chaos, drawing dissonance into consonance. In the true creative process where there has been no human interference it works naturally. Only in this particular field of human interference has the trouble put in an appearance. Let the creative process work in us—discover what it is. Heretofore it’s had no room to work, because our minds and hearts have been so full of clutter. So, relinquish the clutter. Do not try to get rid of it, just be willing to let it go, not struggling with it, not judging it, not feeling badly because you tried to do something and it didn’t work out.
Let us rise up to the level of the new heaven, being drawn up. That is the way it happens—the attractive power of love. That’s what is experienced first. That draws resonant substance up. If there is some resonant substance in us we will be drawn up. Those in whom there isn’t resonant substance presently, won’t be drawn up. But we have been drawn up to the point where we can begin to experience the reality of the new heaven and the reality of the creative process, and the fact that it works without the conscious mind necessarily understanding what’s happening. The conscious mind has become so arrogant that it imagines that nothing can really happen unless it understands what’s happening. But when it imagines that it understands what’s happening, it always messes things up. So by and large it’s much better to remain unconscious and trust the working of the creative process. As we move along, it rises up to the level of a conscious awareness and we know exactly, specifically, how it is working relative to our own field of responsibility. But one can never come to that point until there is a willingness to relinquish the futile thrashing around of our minds and hearts, trying to do all the things they try to do.
Come to rest. Be still. Let peace and serenity come into experience. Let peace and serenity be the atmosphere of the Emissary body, be the atmosphere of any unit, any group, because it is the acceptable experience of all the individuals concerned. Let me be at peace. Let me be serene because I can trust the creative process. So order comes out of chaos. Dissonance is resolved into consonance. Lucifer is the Morning Star, the Son of the Morning—the Morning Stars sang together. This is what happens at the point of resolution. It’s a song indeed—dissonance into consonance. The Morning Stars sing together, and all the Sons of God shout for the joy of the radiation of love. Here is the experience of the creative process, available to be known.
The human mind usually thinks that everything has to be discussed, argued about, considered back and forth, until some sort of a consensus of agreement can be reached. That is a useless undertaking. As there is the natural movement through the yielded mind and heart as the creative process flows, there is agreement between all through whom it is flowing. Nobody has to make an agreement—it simply is the fact. This is the way of life. The way of the first heaven and the first earth is the way of dying and death.
“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/09/i-am-come-in-name-of-lord.html] That is a key. “Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” This is the Word of the King as it has come down to us. It’s true. There is the requirement of this acknowledgment, which cannot ever happen without love. But it is this, when it’s actually done, that allows the Lord, the King, to be seen again because the spiritual substance, the clouds of heaven, are available for His coming. The clouds of heaven are the spiritual substance of His Body. All this hinges on that statement: Ye shall not see me henceforth, until ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. That’s not meant to indicate just some words spoken, but allowing the gift that has been provided by the King to fill one’s experience of love. Then there will be spiritual substance sufficient in this body to accommodate His coming. Behold, He comes “in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory”—the power of His love, because one has the experience of love. And the great glory relates to the revelation of spiritual expression in living that becomes undeniable—undeniable both to those who rejoice in it and to those who curse it. But we are charged with that responsibility of providing what is undeniable.
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Lucifer In Heaven
Let The King Of Glory Come In
Martin Exeter October 25, 1987 am & pm
The greatest blessing that can be brought into the world by those of us who are present on earth is the King, the Supreme One, who provides the point of focus for all of us, for the heaven and the earth. The life of any human being has meaning only to the extent that there is participation in bringing this blessing on earth. Presumably most of us have had an awareness of this for some time and have undertaken to offer ourselves in the process of losing our human lives to find the life of the King on earth. For the King to be on earth He must have a body, a form in which to incarnate. All of us have physical forms available for angelic incarnation. We are aware of this truth and are responsible consequently for letting it be revealed—so we delight to participate in the coming of the King.
Consciously there has been something of an awakening for many of us to an awareness of the truth. So we are present on earth with the opportunity to have that known experience. We have shared somewhat in letting it occur. The conscious awareness of the truth has been referred to by the use of the word Lucifer. “Lucifer,” the word itself, means “daystar” or “morning star” and actually may be seen as relating to the conscious mind of man. Lucifer belongs in heaven. Very clearly, the conscious mind of man has not stayed in heaven. The conscious mind of man is very much involved with the earth. There is a pertinent passage in the Book of Isaiah referring to this matter: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground…”
What is the nature of human thought? It relates to what may well be described as the ground, to the manifest external world. The conscious mind of man is not in heaven—it is, rather, in the earth. But the place for that conscious mind is heaven. When Lucifer fell from heaven into the earth, Lucifer obviously changed character. The conscious mind no longer had the experience of heaven, but only of the earth. The changed character is called satan. This is a designation of the conscious mind of human beings the way they now exist. Satan is not merely the conscious mind alone; there is included also the realm of the unconscious—the unholy ghost. So “satan” may be recognized as a useful word to describe the whole range of human consciousness as it presently is. There are other words too: “the devil, that old serpent.” It is not really a matter of words; it is a matter of fact. The fact is the state which human beings have known, and still do.
We have all been involved in this, and still are to varying degrees, but at least now we know better. When we say we know better, that's a matter of no excuse, isn't it? Those who know better have no excuse for remaining in the satanic condition. Satan is certainly expert in producing hell on earth, hell which is characterized by conflict, suffering, tribulation—all these things which are common to the human state, all self-produced, all produced by this character whom we refer to by our human names, our little separate human names. I am me and you are you, temporarily at least. It doesn't last, does it?
Awakening to the truth, there is the recognition that the conscious mind of man belongs in heaven, in which case thought would be heavenly thought. Having sunk into the earth, thought is earthly thought, and while each individual claims this thought as his or her own, it is quite clearly a composite thing—shared thought. It is produced en masse, because Lucifer fell into the earth and became satan, and is controlled by what happens in the earth. Virtually all human thought relates to this, doesn't it? “What's going on around? How can I take advantage of it? How can I protect myself?” All this sort of thinking relates to the earth—the earth is supreme. How are we going to survive? “Man shall not live by bread alone.” By bread alone he dies pretty fast.
There is the availability of heaven, where the conscious mind belongs. In such case the conscious mind can well be named Lucifer—the daystar, the morning star. Morning indicates the beginning of something, where the creative process first emerges to be conveyed in blessing into the earth. In our own experience we have known satan, very little of Lucifer. But to the extent that Lucifer is known, because consciously, deliberately, we stay in heaven, then blessing may be conveyed into the earth. The earth naturally—it was created this way—responds to heaven, because heaven and earth are one. There is a unity here, actually inseparable except in human consciousness, from the standpoint of satan.
Because satan has been rampant in the earth, the conscious minds of human beings trying to dictate and control everything, mostly based in fear and greed, the reality of Lucifer has almost entirely vanished from human awareness. But as there are those who remember something of the truth, then there is a beginning point for transformation, a transformation which is in fact occurring on earth. The very fact that it is occurring on earth, and is capable of being seen as occurring on earth, indicates that Lucifer again may be present—the conscious mind of at least some human beings in heaven, ungoverned, unaffected, unmoved by what is going on in the earth. Over the years there has been provided an understanding of this.
The true experience of man is life. The true experience of man is heaven. The fact that man also lives in the earth brings heaven into the earth then. We are very much aware that heaven has been excluded in a general sense all down through the ages. We are also aware of the fact, if we are honest, that we ourselves individually have excluded it from our own experience. If anyone has anything to complain about, heaven is being excluded from experience. The very fact that there can be complaint is a revelation that heaven is absent to that extent. So if you find yourself identified from time to time with the complainer, it's not surprising that it seems as though heaven is absent. If it didn't seem that way you would have nothing to complain about, would you?
It is impossible to dwell consciously in heaven as long as the unholy ghost is hanging around. The unholy ghost relates to all the factors in human experience and heredity which have been dominant in the control of human behavior. So people behave in hellish ways, imagining that they are well justified in doing so because of all those bad people out there, whoever they are. I find difficulty in locating bad people. Are there any bad people here this morning? “Well of course not! We are all good people.” Satan has two faces—he's two-faced—a good one and a bad one. He tends to see the bad face in his neighbor and the good face in his mirror. It ain't so! The whole human state is rotten. There are those who are very self-righteous about their rottenness, claiming that it isn't; but it is.
Because satan prevails, the truth is absent. Consciously human beings do not dwell in heaven. They dwell in hell and complain about it. I suppose one is welcome to stay in it, but there is no need, because heaven is present. However for the conscious mind to begin to be aware of that fact there must be a willingness no longer to be controlled by the unholy ghost, which is the unconscious aspect of the mind polarized in the earth. Each individual inherits most of this, but assiduously adds to it during the course of his existence, so that a more intensified state of affairs is handed on to the next generation. It's all beginning to come to a point of issue and climax now in the world as a whole.
There is only one way by which this deplorable state can be handled, and that is to let the King come into the world. This requires that Lucifer be in heaven, available for the heavenly thoughts—the King's thoughts. Humanly speaking we have no more right to think our own human thoughts. The human mind belongs in heaven. It doesn't belong to satan. It belongs to Lucifer, who belongs to the King. Here is the King's Mind—the King's Mind differentiated in remarkable ways through all those who participate in that differentiation. It doesn't eliminate individuality, but it does eliminate self-centeredness, where the individual says, “I am going to think my own thought”—human thought, satanic thought. Satanic thought produces satanic results, and we have a satanic world in consequence.
Lucifer may be known again in heaven. The human mind may ascend into heaven. In heaven the conscious mind begins to know the King. Let the King of Glory come in. Is silence a discomfort or a delight? To angels incarnate on earth it surely is a delight! To the extent that it is no longer a discomfort to us, in this setting for instance, there is some evidence of the presence of angels conscious in human form on earth. It evokes a memory which might be articulated by the words, “I have not, for so long, seen and known you on earth,” this articulation relating to each other. But as Lucifer comes again to heaven in oneself, then we begin to know each other in an entirely different way.
Do you think the heavenly machine, if we can call it that, operates because of computers? Is the universe governed in this way? Do the other planets in the solar system have to be instructed in this fashion to stay in orbit? Obviously the universal government springs out of a different realm. It isn’t an external government. It isn’t a government of imposition. There is no great figure who pushes things around with his finger so that they stay in place. Yet everything stays in place, except in the affairs of human beings where it is deemed that force of some kind—mental, emotional and physical force—must be applied to keep things moving. The whole of our world is governed in this way by human effort, and it leads to disintegration. The true government is found emergent in heaven. If there is no one in heaven to receive what it is that is emerging, then the true government remains unknown on earth. Heaven and earth are one.
“Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.” This relates to human beings, to this earth, this planet, and the government thereof. The human mind and heart in particular can well be described as gates and doors. This is the nature of their function, a far cry from the way human beings use mind and heart now. “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors.” Be present in heaven. And then the King of Glory shall come into the earth.
That state where mind and heart are available to the King of Glory obviously is an absolute experience. It isn’t a ten percent experience. It isn’t a matter of providing a little crack in the door, and the gate slightly ajar, so that ten percent of the King can come in. Do you think He comes in on that basis? Factually, it’s all or nothing. We do receive encouragement along the way, and we experience various things which indicate an increased expression of spirit, but this is a far cry from what it is that is required. Now we find ourselves in position to experience something absolute, where you cannot think, feel or do anything else but what is present and ready to come forth in heaven.
As angels we incarnated on earth to restore everything to the King. Individually we have no life of our own. If we think we have, we will discover that it isn’t so, sooner or later. We will discover that such an attitude is theft. And the thief receives his just desserts. There is only one life; that’s the life of the King. There isn’t any other. We either accept that or we have no life. We are given a little period when we may have the opportunity of accepting or rejecting, but there isn’t any other life than the life of the King. That is something absolute.
It is necessary that our minds and our hearts should reach a point of absoluteness where they are incapable of doing anything else than what is required by reason of the life of the King. There is still a good deal of uncertainty in the minds and the hearts of some of those who have been associated with this ministry—double-mindedness, because if the life of the King is actually accepted, there is no question. One cannot help but do what one is doing. There is no alternative. It’s absolute! And when there is this absoluteness the King of Glory can come in. But He is not really going to come in twenty percent. What would that be? We may have a little leeway—we certainly have had a lot of leeway over the years, when we were approaching the point of absoluteness. But one can go on approaching that point as long as a trickle of life remains, but never come to it. I can see no point to just approaching it. Why not come to it? Then there is something whole present. The King is whole. Reaching that point of absoluteness, it is such a relief. We cannot do anything other than what we are doing.
I have found over the years that one experiences a very great deal that one certainly would not have experienced on any other basis. As the absoluteness comes, as mind and heart are willing to let themselves be lifted into heaven once again, then the gates and the doors open and the King of Glory comes in. This spiritual body is the Body of the King. It is equipped with all that is necessary for the King of Glory to come in. There is a mind and a heart, there is even a physical form. Let it come together in absoluteness so that there is no other life for any individual than the life of the King—the life of the King through His Body on earth. There have been many prayers, pleading for the coming of the Lord, but thus far there has been no adequate body on earth to let it happen. The true prayer is to accept the responsibility which each one has with respect to this One Body. That is the prayer—to do it. One only can do it for oneself. If one is letting it happen one has no time to fuss about what one imagines someone else should be doing or isn’t doing.
I am very grateful for the fact that I have never done very much fussing about that. I well know that I cannot do what you must do. I can only do what I must do; and I seek to do this as consistently as may be, trusting that there will be those minds and hearts which awaken to the presence of the angel who is already in agreement with me in this matter. Awakening to that, there is no problem. Here we are, all together to provide that essential facility for the King of Glory, to let Him come in. This is rightly all we know. We cannot indulge ourselves anymore in these ridiculous human fantasies, but be present together in love, in heaven—same thing—unjudging, but absolute. And the King of Glory comes in.
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