“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart …
“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord …
“Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.”
We share these moments now, letting a certain quietness be our experience, stillness perhaps, because this is natural in the sanctuary. Noah built an ark. This was presumably supposed to have been in the form of a boat. We are not interested in what happened then but in what is happening now, because there certainly is something to be created. We could call it an ark, if we don't think of that as a boat, and if we don't think of it in terms of form. There is something to be created, and we ourselves have found ourselves being drawn together to participate, as we claim, in a creative process. Something is to be created. Why? Most people think of it simply as a body of people who get along together. There may be a body of people who get along better than most, but that is not the end and aim of things. There is something to be created. I suppose we might call it a vibrational ark, a sanctuary. I have spoken of this Dome as being the setting for a sanctuary, but the sanctuary is here only because we bring it, if we bring it. So it is something not quite so tangible as this Dome, for instance.
It is necessary that there should be a flesh body of people drawn together, in order that there might be generated, by reason of that fact, the vibrational substance of the ark. The ark is not a physical form, insofar as the present experience is concerned. It may have been in the past; we don't really know that. They try to dig it up out of Mount Ararat. But if that has any meaning at all it is because it is applicable now in relationship to present experience. I just used the words which I read because there is the application immediately. We are well aware of the violence and corruption, the destructiveness, that is present all around. Why? Because of the evil imaginations of men's hearts, that's all. That's what produced it. It's not going to go away without the evil imaginations of men's hearts going away. That seems obvious. Scarcely anyone has looked at it, apparently. We are going to manipulate forms, and that will fix everything up, without letting any change come in human experience.
We are concerned to let the change come in ourselves. We can't let it come in somebody else. You can't even make it come in somebody else. Did you ever try? It's a lost cause. Even if you succeeded, how awful that would be: someone made in your image and likeness. Ugh! No, there is a vibrational form, if you can put it that way, a body, to be generated. In order for it to be, it must have the vibrational substance to be, and that vibrational substance can only be generated through the flesh bodies of human beings. Human beings are useful in that regard. They are not useful in all the things they think they are useful about, but in the generation of this substance. We call this substance vibrational substance. You can't get your hands on it, you can't manipulate it, but it will take form according to the design that is present in that level of being into which the substance is generated. It takes spiritual form, I suppose you could say, if you want to describe it. We have to use words out of our language in order to describe things. It is difficult, because there haven't been any words to do it because it hasn't been done. Nobody knows what it is, so there are no words for it. We have to use analogies, in one way or another, to begin to be acquainted with what it is that happens.
There is an ark, a vibrational ark, taking form, generated because there are those who have been drawn together by spirit to participate in the process. The process involves changes occurring in one's own human nature, and as those changes occur vibrational substance is generated. And that vibrational substance accommodates the design in spirit.
There is something recorded, as I remember it, in Matthew, in connection with the gathering of the elect from one end of the heaven to the other. It doesn't say from one end of the earth to the other, but from one end of the heaven to the other—that is, in the field of this vibrational substance. If there has been a generation of this substance it is because it has been resonant to the radiation of the focus of the spirit of God on earth. As that has been present, there has been the radiation. And wherever there was substance in anyone which would resonate with that, they have been drawn. If you have genuinely been drawn here it is because of that. It is not because, "Well I decided to come." That's the sort of attitude people take, because they want to preserve their own supposed freedom, as they think of it. "I decided to come, so that's why I am here. Big me! I am capable of doing this." A little humility would help.
No, if there is a genuine coming together it is not because anyone decided to do it. It is because there was substance present in one's own makeup which resonated with the radiation proceeding from the focusofspiritonearth. When there is that, something begins to be drawn together. It may seem to be a slow, tedious process; I know over the years I have thought that from time to time. But it is the only way to go; nothing else works. So stay with it! Be consistent, not just for a week: "Well I'll see if it works"—it won't on that basis—but because one couldn't do anything else. One holds that consistency over the years, for however long is necessary. And, behold, there is substance present in some human beings which begins to resonate with that radiation. The substance begins to come home. That doesn't necessarily mean that a person in Brazil jumps on an aircraft and comes to Sunrise Ranch. The substance comes home wherever the person is. He doesn't really have to move. He may find that, in the process of that substance coming home, the flesh has to move a bit too. Evidently quite a bit of flesh was moved to be here today, not only in the Dome but in other locations as well, connected by telephone.
But if it is a genuine coming, it is because of that resonance and not because the individual imagines that he decided he would come. Ultimately we discover that one can't stay away—and, again, I am not talking necessarily about physical location, but stay away from the focus of spirit on earth through which that radiation comes. Then we find a relatedness to that which is natural to each one. But it only happens because there is this substance already present to start with, and because there is subsequent increase of the generation. And that is the building of the ark. That is where we live and move and have our being, and we are no longer so concerned about external form. That's what most people fuss about, isn't it? "I don't get along with so-and-so." Why? "Because they rub me the wrong way"—the external form of things. But you come back to spirit, and the substance that is resonating, and we discover that we all fit together. We are not all the same but we all fit together. There is a design. There is an ark, in other words. There is an ark created of this vibrational substance, which is where we belong.
Do you think anything is going to be preserved in the realm of form as we know it now? If you're stuck in the realm of form you are stuck in something that is not going to be preserved. There is no safe place in the realm of form. This has been true all along actually, but, in the past at least, it seemed as though one could dig a hole in the ground and hide oneself for a while. But we are discovering now that the fact is there is no safe place in the realm of form. That puts everybody on the spot, because if you imagine the only safety is in the realm of form you're sunk! The safe place is the ark, and the ark is a vibrational ark. When we are familiar in our living with this vibrational ark, there we are. There we are, even though we may still at the moment be in form.
People are beginning to see that this planet is shot. It is not going to be able to support human beings, in the way they are accustomed to, anymore. At least that point is in the offing, not very far away. One could compare that to the flood, I suppose: no place of safety, except in the ark. Of course that's an analogy. But this is the reality now. This is the ark now which is being generated, or the substance for it is being generated, that the design of it may appear. We find ourselves in certain relationships because of that, because of the vibrationaldesign, not because of physical form. If we cling to physical form we will find that we pass away. If we are at home in the vibrational ark, that does not pass away.
This relates to this matter of what they call—today, I believe, isn't it?—harmonic convergence. There must be a place to converge, and that place doesn't exist because of something occurring in the galaxy. There obviously are things occurring in the galaxy, things occurring in the solar system, things occurring all over; but the place of convergence only exists when there are those present on earth now, in physical form but at the same time in vibrational form, so that there is a place of convergence. It is nothing new, the idea of harmonic convergence, is it? We have discovered ourselves being drawn in various ways into various configurations of people who don't usually get along too well, to start with at least. But to the extent that they are not so hooked on form they begin to find that they do have a natural association, they do blend together, they are part of one thing, one thing which already exists, but which hasn't been known because there has been no vibrational substance to accommodate it. In generating that vibrational substance we begin to accommodate it, but if we keep reverting back into this business of reaction to what's happening in form, then out we go, we're overboard, we're no longer in the ark. The ark is a vibrational ark, composed of vibrational substance, and we find that it has a very specific design, just as apparently that old wooden ark had back there.
So we share this opportunity in this moment to be together in the sanctuary which we ourselves bring, where this vibrational substance is present and spirit reigns supreme.
Michael Burghley — Martin, it is a pure delight to be here in this place with you this morning, to have converged here, as we all have. We all have come a considerable distance, whether just now or at some point earlier, because we could do nothing else. And that is a joy. The midnight express of the human state roars noisily, and with increasing speed, down a track to disaster. But we have a chance to share with you in the focus of spirit, in the rhythm, the natural and easy rhythm of spirit, here, now, and to know the ease and the safety of that, and the purposefulness of that. And it is pure joy to be with you in that.
Martin Exeter — I rejoice in your words. It needs to be remembered that our purpose is not to stop the train. If you try to stop the train you’ll be squashed. Let the train go where it’s going; it’s going there anyway. But let the ark be present, so that there is space on earth in this vibrational substance where life is, where the truth is, where the reality of love is. And we have been in the process of discovering that this is all true.
I bring the radiance of the love of my KING. As the substance which you bring resonates with this, then we share the unified radiation of the love of Our KING.
These particular words have meaning to us: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” That choice is revealed to the extent that there is substance within one’s own heart and mind to resonate with the radiance of love. “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, that you may be my body. I live, so my body lives.” Here are the words of the KING. “I have chosen you to be my body.” Those in whom the substance of mind and heart is free enough to resonate with the love of the KING compose His Body. You who are present here this morning bring your substance of mind and heart with you, presumably to offer this to the KING. This is the only reason for our presence together in this setting, representing, no doubt, others in other places who also bring the substance of their minds and their hearts to the KING. We are the ones who participate in this particular evidence of His Body.
We are aware, I’m sure, that while in our self-centeredness we may have thought that we chose to be present, we are in fact present only because we have been chosen, because there has been whatever measure of resonant substance in our hearts and minds so that we are here in a very particular and specific sense this morning. If we still imagine that we chose to be here, we are not here. Only those are really present who have been chosen because the substance of mind and heart was sufficiently resonant to the radiance of love. That is a compulsion which could hardly be resisted. This is the case when the substance of resonance is of sufficient quantity and quality: then we begin to become humble.
We may say, “My mind, my heart, my body are here because they heard the King’s command.” No longer is the attitude taken: “I’m so important and capable that I can choose whether I shall be present or not.” That is human nature speaking, isn’t it? If any such view still persists, to that extent there is an absence of resonant substance, there is what may well be described as a holdout: “I am still going to retain my concept of separation.” But we come physically, mentally and emotionally, because there is the substance which resonates with the radiant love of the King. In all honesty we would never deny that, because if we do we deny the King. If we say, “I’m here of myself, I made the choice,” that is saying, “I’m still a very important human being.”
Body, mind and heart are brought in response to the radiation of the love of our King. And it is the substance of our love, present in mind and heart, that brought us. With this awareness it is so easy to be deeply thankful. If as human beings we still imagine that we are in command and can do as we please, come or not come, we simply fool ourselves and deny the King.
So we understand these words: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.” This fruit is the radiance of love brought into the body of mankind. That radiance is invisible. It has been invisible to us, but it brought us nevertheless. We may have heard words. We may have been willing in heart and mind to draw close to the love of our King. The power of attraction has been experienced, but you really cannot put your finger on what that is. “The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” This does not mean to say that the light didn’t work. It merely indicates that human beings don’t understand it; they don’t comprehend it; they can’t define it.
We realize this in our own experience, but that magnetic power is strong and, in spite of the kicking and squealing that we have had reference to before, if there was sufficient resonant substance, heart and mind came: they couldn’t help themselves. I’m sure we have reached a point where we are willing to acknowledge that, so there is no more human arrogance which says, “I came of myself. I chose to come.” No, you didn’t. If you think you did, you didn’t come. Only those have come whose resonant substance has been adequate to bring them. If this substance does not prove to be adequate, then that heart and mind haven’t really come. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/08/resonating-with-radiance-of-love.html]
So we share this unifying experience to the extent that there is a willing, open acknowledgment that we come because the love of our King has drawn us. And we come to compose His body on earth. It is His body, it is His spirit. His thinking, His feeling, His action. As human beings we have no input. This is a denial of the god of democracy. There is an idol that has been worshipped and still is—perhaps usefully along the way. It certainly was a means by which certain structures in human consciousness have been freed up. However it has also had the effect that other structures have been firmly entrenched. For those of us in whom there is sufficient resonant substance, there is no feeling of being imposed upon at all. Quite to the contrary, there is a sense of freedom. At last heart and mind are no longer under the harsh and rigid rule of human nature in the separated state. Of course much of what human beings do, the way they think, the way they feel, is so taken for granted that it has become quite acceptable. Here is the state of the obedient slave to human nature.
Human bodies, minds and hearts were created to be obedient. They were certainly not created to try to be something of themselves. Of themselves they have no life, and that proves itself out. But composing the body of the King they have life, the life of the King—not the life of individual human nature, the life of the King. That is differentiated, certainly, in a multitude of unique and marvelous ways, but it still remains the life of the King, so that there is cohesion, blending, a unified state, with all the wondrous ramifications and colorings of the spirit of the living God.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you to be my body, ordained to bring forth life and to bring it forth more abundantly. The radiance of the King pouring forth through His body engenders resonance in any substance throughout the body and the consciousness of mankind which is free enough to resonate. One might recognize this as a very foolproof system. It separates the substance which resonates from the substance which doesn’t. Obviously it has an individual effect for each person, but it has an effect more importantly with respect to the whole.
Human beings, self-centered, are concerned about themselves individually. But the truth is that there is One Body, and the individual composition of this body is only validly present to the extent that it participates through resonance in the body of the King. The true state, the only valid state, the only lasting state, is the state of wholeness. As long as individuals extract themselves from that they lose all meaning. In such case those who are most successful in extracting themselves from that, and in feathering their own nests, achieving their personal ambitions, are the most meaningless, because all meaning is in the whole.
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you”—as a body—“that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.” The first fruit is the body itself. We can see that it is well designed to remain, in the sense that if cells pass out of it, cells also come into it.
We have a state in the world which human beings have made, where what is thought of as death is predominant. It controls virtually everything that human beings do, principally through fear; and of course fear has been used by human beings, the fear of death particularly, to whip others into line with the self-centered human state. This has been done quite deliberately. It has been done very particularly through various religions, but of course it has been done politically and every other way, by the use of fear—fear of AIDS, [Covid 19 these days] fear of death, as though in the human state one wasn’t going to die anyway. Why be so afraid of it? So the first fruit is the fruit of the body which remains; it’s a continuing body. This is not the ultimate. This is the way it is now.
“That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” What would we ask of the Father? Self-centered human beings have asked all kinds of things: Help me, satisfy me, make me happy. But this is speaking to the Body. What does the body ask the Father to do? To be in command, presumably, to be in command through the Son, to do what needs to be done because of that. Who knows what needs to be done? The Son, presumably, the King: Let that will be done; “not my will, but thine, be done.” This happens, not on the basis of fear of death but rather on the basis of love of life, love of the life of the King in form on earth, because individually we are all present to let that happen. One might call it the fulfilment of the King. Because there are those who compose His body. His body may share in that fulfilment, but not for themselves, just for the King.
Even from the human standpoint in your own body, if your body experiences health, clarity of mind and heart, that enables you, whoever you are, to experience fulfilment. The mind, the heart, the body, share in that, but it is your fulfilment. So with the body of the King: the body, with mind and heart, shares in the fulfilment of the King. That is fulfilment indeed.
“I am the resurrection, and the life.” Here is the word of the King. I am the resurrection and the life of my body. Here is the first fruit. “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” That which dies is potentially dead. Presumably our concern has been to let human nature die. That’s good death!
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Though he was potentially dead—which is true of human beings in general—yet shall he live. And this is based in what was translated as belief. We have seen something more with respect to belief. I would like to substitute the word resonation. “He that resonates with me,” rather than “he that has a mental concept about me.” Belief has tended to be that, hasn’t it? And if the emotions can be included, so much the better. What arrogant self-centeredness. Would it not be wiser to say, “My heart, my mind, are beginning to experience some resonation with the invisible radiance of the love of my King; this sweeps away my human-nature identity”?
The resonation belongs to the King. It is resonating because of the radiant love of the King. Withdraw that radiant love of the King and down it goes; it isn’t anything. Like that sand in the cymatic experiments, as long as the vibration is there, the vibration of radiation, it will stand up in whatever form according to the frequencies involved. But stop the radiation and down it goes, it becomes inert. It has no life of its own; it can’t stand up of itself. This is what human beings have been trying to do. They have the illusion of being able to do this just so long as the radiation of love is present and there is some substance remaining which will vibrate with it a little. When substance ceases to vibrate, down it goes; it’s all dependent on the resonation. And if we see the word belief in these terms we begin to understand what it is that is being said. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-morning-stars-and-sons-of-god.html]
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that resonates in me”—that is, in my body—“though he were dead”—before that, potentially perhaps for the moment—“yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth”—resonates—“in me”—in my body, unified with my spirit—"shall never die. Believest thou this?” Does this resonate in you?
There may be those who still scratch their heads a little and wonder, not sure what it all means, still a certain amount of uncomprehendingness around, even though the light is shining, even though the radiance is there. And the radiance is there, with everyone, as long as life remains: so no one is being excluded. But what is the quality of living? To what extent is there substance available to resonate with the radiance of love? By our own attitudes and ways we determine how much of the available substance has been stolen. A little hangs around for a while and we imagine that we are alive. It isn’t life; it’s just animated flesh!
Life is entirely different, because there is no life outside of this Body of the King. In the Word is life. In the radiation of love is life, and the life is the light of men. It is the radiation present in all people if they are alive in the limited sense, if there is animated flesh around still; if the light shines in the darkness of human consciousness, then that consciousness comprehends it not. We begin to comprehend it to the extent that the resonation has lifted substance to the conscious level. Then suddenly we begin to see something. The trouble with that is that all too often the person thinks, “Ah, now I see it.” Oh, no, just a little glimpse. Let it continue, let it keep moving. Here is the creative process at work. Resurrection is taking place. Let it take place. Don’t interfere with it by grabbing hold of it and saying, “Now I know.” Heart, and mind never really know. They know just so much. In the true design they know what they need to know, they experience what they need to experience. That’s sufficient; it fills heart and mind.
You may recall the story of that day of Pentecost long ago: “They were all with one accord in one place.” That was remarkable! “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.” It filled the whole—there was something of a body. We may see this, not in relationship to something in the past but to our own experience. We are aware of a rushing mighty wind of spirit, which moves—it is the creative process. If there isn’t much substance to vibrate, then we are not too much aware of the wind. If the substance is not there, there is no wind. So it is the movement of the substance of spirit within ourselves in heart and mind that brings awareness of the wind of the creative process. And it is not something that merely happens individually; it happens because there is a body. It filled the wholehouse where they were sitting, relaxed in the body, part of the body.
There is a body, so there is a facility for the movement of the wind—the unified movement of spirit through the body in doing what the body is here to do because the King is present. Could we conceive of a greater honor and privilege than to provide the means by which the King may be present with us? Is it something that we can receive casually? I don’t think so. It is a marvel. It is a wonder. We may not have known that it was a marvel and a wonder because we were so blind, so insensitive, so unaware, so uncomprehending: but as the substance is raised up, as it resonates with the radiation of love, it reaches the point where one may become aware of the truth of it, aware of the Presence of the King, aware that I have, as an individual, no being whatsoever, except by reason of the King. I delight to differentiate the spirit of the King in my own unique way, but always that unique way is found to resonate with the unique ways of others. There is no conflict. Each color, as it comes forth, enhances the colors which are coming forth through others. And we share the beauty of the King, the power of the King, the glory of the King.
All the substance present, in mankind particularly, which will resonate with this outpouring radiation shall be lifted up into the living design; and all that will not resonate simply drops back into a state of availability. It will be lifted up again later in some other way. We do not concern ourselves that the creative process at work does not know what it is doing. It works with utmost accuracy. We rejoice to share in this. It brings assurance and constantly increased understanding, so that what finds expression through us individually may mesh in the whole. It never goes off as though it was separate from the whole.
Here is the glory of the Lord, emerging into our awareness, and into an outpouring radiation which is comprehensible to us; but it shines in the darkness, for the most part, in the body of mankind. It is not comprehended. This does not mean it is not working. In fact it apparently works rather better in human beings when they don’t comprehend it. When it begins to come to the level of consciousness they revert so often into arrogance. We rejoice in all these things and have shared this radiation with our King because of the level of wholeness that may be present consequent upon the resonant substance that we bring.
extending the vowels and using them to form a round:
Shout for joy
Sons and daughters of God
We are His artistry on earth
And the power of him
Now unsheathed
JehovahJehovahJehovah
Live our truth
Sons and daughters of God
We are his blessing
And water for the thirst of men
JehovahJehovahJehovah
Independent, interdependent
Sons and daughters of God
We are the knowing to be known
And the clarion trumpets of His joy
JehovahJehovahJehovah
Sound our love
Sons and daughters of God
We are His compatriots in the Kingdom
Grace revealed—radiant
JehovahJehovahJehovah
Martin Cecil— The sons and daughters of God are incarnate on earth in human form. There would be no human beings on the face of the earth if it were not so. These angels of the Lord have been hidden and obscured by the antics of human beings who were totally unconscious of the truth. The spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters of human consciousness; the creative word is spoken, “Let there be light.” This movement of the spirit affects human consciousness so that human beings react in various ways, yet unconscious of what it is that really causes them to do what they do. Because the human mind in its state of darkness has developed a considerable state of self-satisfaction as to its own brilliance and capability, the sons and the daughters of God have been denied the opportunity of using this facility which they themselves created.
The sense of self has been a very poor imitation of the truth. Seemingly much has been achieved. We look around and see the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them, falling into a little decay these days but still considered to be a most marvelous civilization. Much has been done in the field of technology. What has been accomplished is claimed by human beings as their own, based presumably in the brilliance of their own minds, but all this has come because the spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters. There is a certain amount of light, which is translated in human consciousness in the old ways to which human beings are accustomed. Developments have ensued presumably to make human experience easier on earth. It hasn't succeeded too well in this, although certainly there are marvelous evidences of the seeming brightness of the human intellect. But the fact of the matter is that the spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters and the creative word is spoken, “Let there be light.” To the extent there is, it is translated according to the usual human ways, all designed to serve human beings.
But the sons and the daughters of God are incarnate, if not in expression, through human form. Human consciousness has been closed to that experience in favor of what is considered now to be the normal state of affairs known by people on earth. But the consciousness of man is designed to permit the consciousness of the son or the daughter of God to be present on earth. There are those who begin to become aware of this, but not through their own efforts—perhaps we may be included among these, together with many more. There is a certain awareness which springs from a different base. Instead of the old self which derives from earthly heredity being so dominant, something new begins to emerge in human consciousness: the son or the daughter of God in the process of coming forth. As this is so, it is found that the sons and the daughters of God recognize each other; at least they do so to the extent that this has emerged in the consciousness of those concerned. We discover friends. Discovering friends, we also discover that together we have purpose. The angels of God are indeed sent forth to gather the elect from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other. There may be little understanding of what this might mean, to start with, because human consciousness still remains, and tends to distort the outlook.
There begins to be a new perspective and a new understanding in consequence, because of the changed position. But what is that changed position? It is simply the coming forth of the incarnate son or daughter of God. A human being all on his own, without understanding, in darkness, has little meaning. People tend to realize that they don’t have much meaning. Meaning on earth is absolutely dependent upon the son or the daughter of God. If our human consciousness is willing to yield, to let go of all its fancy ideas and to accept the fact that of itself it is nothing, then there may be space available for the angel of God, the son or the daughter of God, to become conscious on earth, utilizing human consciousness for that purpose. This is the reason that man was created in the first place, as it was put, “in the image and likeness of God.” Of course.
The son or the daughter of God revealed on earth in the flesh bodies of human beings—if that is so, then the character who was there before has simply vanished. Now, it is this character that is most reluctant to bow off the stage. This reluctance may be seen in terms of what is called self-preservation; it is a very strong characteristic in human beings. This character doesn’t want to bow off the stage; it clings on desperately right until the last gasp, but then it is gone. Having seen something of this, what would be so difficult about returning the facility of flesh and consciousness to the creator of it, to the rightful owner, so that the son or the daughter of God might be incarnate and in expression on earth? Obviously when that is so, there is a different world. That is the coming of the Kingdom.
The Kingdom comes because of people, people who finally have allowed the sons and daughters of God to be incarnate and in expression on earth once again. I think to many people, when they think about the coming of the Kingdom or a new state, a new world, a new heaven and a new earth, it is merely hopeful fantasy. But their view usually tends to include some miasmic state descending somehow from somewhere upon human beings, as though the Kingdom comes regardless of human beings, that it is capable of coming in spite of human beings. But the Kingdom comes because of people. If there are no people to let it come, it doesn’t come. But the coming is based in one’s own individual experience as a son or a daughter of God. There is no need to get anything; all that is required is present.
The Word, the creative Word of the Lord is spoken in living, and the creative results appear. Human beings in their present state of darkness have created a world of darkness. Inherent in their makeup is this creative ability which springs forth from whatever quality of self may be present. That determines the quality of the word that is spoken in living, and according to that word so is the creation round about. The world is the way it is because human beings have made it that way. No malign influence other than that of human beings has been present. Let the sons and the daughters of God bring forth the Kingdom on earth. They can’t bring it forth unless there is the facility for so doing, so in the human sense we are willing to pass away in favor of the experience of the truth: the son or the daughter of God in action on earth—Jehovah.
These twelve men who chanted that word in response to what was offered through the lips of Geoff Tisch permitted some intensification of the currents of life by which spiritual substance is generated through which the sons and the daughters of God may emerge. These things do not happen by chance, just because someone has an idea about it or would like it to be so. All that occurs occurs with exactness, according to the creative principles of life. When human beings stop trying to get their own way, to fulfil themselves in some fashion, and are willing to open the doors of their hearts and their minds and their bodies to the incarnate son or daughter of God, then a creative change occurs. There is the initiation of the creative cycle: the spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters, a process of being born of water and of the spirit, the coming forth of the son or the daughter of God on earth. It might be said that this is happening, not because anyone is trying to make it happen or necessarily because there are those who want it to happen. There is little, if any, awareness of this except on the part of those who have approached the Gate of the Kingdom.
It has been my responsibility over many years to provide, to start with, some sort of leadership that would be acceptable to human consciousness so that a beginning might be made in a movement toward the Gate of the Kingdom—not that leadership of this nature should last forever but that there might be a movement in the right direction so that some sort of birth might take place and there would be a seeing of the kingdom of God, a seeing of that possibility. Many have become aware of this, imagining that that awareness came because I had provided the understanding. I may have had some understanding but if anyone else understood, it was because of something that occurred within themselves. There are those who have tried to keep me in that position of initial leadership, the leadership that would be acceptable to the human consciousness; but the only reason for that leadership, as I say, was to initiate a movement so that there might come an adequate seeing of the Kingdom. Then the awareness might emerge in human consciousness that it was not so much what I was offering as what was being born from within themselves that was allowing for a change in experience.
To come to the door, or the Gate of the Kingdom is to be in the Kingdom. It is the crossover point, the point where the undimensional is experienced in relationship to the dimensional. It is a position from which there may be observation and awareness of the dimensional world for which one is personally responsible. That observation and awareness is based in the position where one is standing. If, as most human beings experience it, one is standing away from the Gate of the Kingdom down amongst the distorted state that is present in human consciousness, that will be the place from which one is acting, from which one is living—if you could call it living. And the results of being there will be brought forth in the world round about: it will be a pretty dark and foggy world, and this is what human beings experience. My concern has been to assist toward the true position those who were willing to be assisted.
When the Master was on earth He said, “I am the door.” He was in the true position. He had a true perspective, a true understanding, a true comprehension of the world for which He was responsible. He saw it the way it really was. He understood it because He was in the right place to do that. Because He did it this certainly does not mean that He should be considered as the only one who could do it. The fact of the matter is that He was providing a true example—in fact—of where everybody belongs, so that each one relative to his own world may say, “I am the door.” Human beings certainly haven’t taken that attitude. They may be willing to say to someone else, “You are the door,” or they may be willing to say of Jesus, “He was the door,” but there is scarcely any willingness at all to reach a point where one might say of oneself, “I am the door.” That would be the Word of a son or a daughter of God—and each individual is the door for his own world, the world which he alone centers. This is true of anyone, as we have noted many times. We all have our own worlds, and no one can get into that point at the center of one’s own world. One is there, one has that responsibility, like it or not; one can’t hand it over to somebody else; one is at the center of one’s own world.
When in true position the Word will be, “I am the door.” The door may be seen as the means by which what is true of God, what is true of the undimensional, may be brought into the dimensional world, specifically into the world which is centered by oneself. One has that responsibility. And in any case, seeing that one centers a world, even though one’s consciousness may be characterized by human nature, one is always creating what is present in that world, because the fact of creativeness has not been taken away from man. He has it whether he likes it or not, and he is constantly producing what is present in his own world and then blaming somebody else for it. The evidence of that maturity which will allow the expression of the son or the daughter of God to appear is that one has taken responsibility for one’s own world—this the son or daughter of God does. The human nature state of consciousness doesn’t do that; it looks at the world round about and sees all the things that it thinks are wrong, and then looks around to find someone to blame for it, refusing to accept personal responsibility for it. The acceptance of personal responsibility is the dawning evidence of true spiritual maturity, in other words the emergence of a son or a daughter of God into expression through human consciousness. So responsibility is taken, and on this basis the creative Word of God may be spoken. It is spoken by the son or the daughter of God. Nothing else but that expression will emerge through human consciousness, and consequently through words and actions and thoughts, when the son or the daughter of God is in expression. That is a mature person, a person capable of handling what needs to be handled in his or her world.
Our worlds obviously overlap. Because of this we discover that when the son or the daughter of God is present in creative action this has an effect on the world around. This is increasingly true as there are those whose human consciousness begins to accommodate the expression of the son or the daughter of God in many places on the face of the earth. The world begins to be encompassed. It begins to be centered by God, who now has a facility for creative action. That creative action comes in ways that are not human ways. As it was truly written somewhere, “My thoughts are not your thoughts… saith the Lord.” My ways are not your ways; that is, the ways of human nature, the ways of darkened human consciousness. But these are the effective ways, the ways of God, the only truly practical ways, bringing the re-creation of the world, which is the coming of the Kingdom. And the Kingdom comes because of people who are providing the facility for the action of the sons and the daughters of God on earth through human form and consciousness.
So, coming into position, there is the dissolution of that old human usurper, that sleazy character who has been occupying most of the space in human consciousness. There always was some space which was not so occupied; otherwise continuing life would have been impossible. But now the son or the daughter of God begins to emerge, and he or she finds others, recognizes others, who are also sons and daughters of God emerging in human consciousness: friends. But not on the basis of, “Isn’t it nice to have friends?” We have been so richly blessed in this regard, so many friends; at least many when we consider how few friends, real friends, most people have. Friendship, as we are well aware, is based in the Kingdom. The sons and the daughters of God are friends already; we don't have to make friends; they are there. And we find they are there in experience on earth when the son or the daughter of God is incarnate and in expression on earth. Then there are his friends, or her friends; and the task for which the sons and the daughters of God are responsible may begin to be undertaken.
There are special things to be done, which partake of an understanding beyond what is usually considered. This can only be done when there are those who are in right position, so that they are there and they stay there. Then in that position there is a consciousness of what is present round about. The coming of the Kingdom doesn’t happen because one comes to the Gate of the Kingdom and looks through it and sees all the marvels of the Kingdom somewhere; where that would be I am not quite sure. It comes because one is in position and one looks toward what has heretofore been thought of as the world. One looks toward the marvels that are present in the dimensional universe. We have a closer-in responsibility in this regard, so we don’t need to delve into the far reaches of the universe. But the scope of the Kingdom is the scope of the universe; it is not a little thing. Obviously it is something tremendous, and we begin to become aware of what marvels are present, which before we could not see or understand because we were in the dark. But now the son or the daughter of God comes forth and there, behold, is the fulness of all that would ever be required—not all manifest in a moment—there is time to let all that fulness appear. But we do not look upon the world, particularly our little personal worlds, as though they were little minute places, fraught with suffering and misery and conflict, destructiveness. We don’t see it that way.
There is a marvelous world out there, filled with sunshine. Be in the true position and you have the true perspective. How about choosing to be at the point where we belong, so that we may have the marvelous perspective of what is called creation? Here is the expanse of which we need to be aware, the expanse which reveals the Kingdom. It reveals the Kingdom to one who is standing in the right position. If one is not in that right position it may reveal something else. Coming back into position, the position where the son or the daughter of God is, the human consciousness is filled with the son or the daughter of God. That is me! I am the Gate. This is my world. I am responsible for this world. And each one needs to be in position to say that and to act accordingly from that position. Immediately the world begins to be restored.
How blessed we have been to have shared the opportunity of coming again to the Gate of the Kingdom. Coming to that Gate, each individual may say, “I am the Gate.” You don’t come to that Gate and look at me and say, “You are the Gate.” I am the Gate for my world, but individually speaking each individual who is here present, and anywhere else on earth, is the Gate for his or her world. This is so, known to be so, when there is a coming again to that true position. “Be still, and know that I am God," specifically a son or a daughter of God, but not separate from God. The Word which finds expression in our living springs from God. “All things were made by the Word.” All things are made by the Word, and without the Word is not anything made that is made. Let us let it be so because we know it to be so. I am the Gate. We may each unequivocally state, “I am the Gate.”
