Martin Exeter September 14, 1986 pm La Sauge, France
We are well aware that the authority and control of what is happening on earth is not vested in the human intellect. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. This is the fact of the matter, rather than the human fancy which claims that everything belongs to human beings and may be manipulated and controlled and directed by the human intellect. The sad result of all this is evident enough. So there are those who no longer put so much store by what the arrogant human intellect puts forth, as though it were the reason why one should do what one does.
We delight, in this setting now, to acknowledge that the earth is the Lord’s and that there is a creative process at work by which the truth may once again prevail on earth. That truth will not prevail by reason of continuing endeavors on the part of the human intellect to boost its own value, but comes because there are angels present in human form whose minds and hearts are sufficiently yielded and open to acknowledge the fact. If one has assurance, as has been common in human nature, that the understanding of the mind is supreme and is required to direct everything that occurs on earth, then the fact that there are incarnate angels will not be known to those minds. They are so full of their own self-importance—maybe not always their own particular self-importance but a worship of the holy cow which is identified in this way. We are aware that there are many, many such holy cows, but the central one is that of the humanintellect, as though that was supreme: it should be allowed to direct everything that happens. Then by reason of this direction, while things seem to be going a little bit awry, nevertheless by a continuing process of intellectual effort the things that are going awry because of that intellectual effort are going to be set straight again. That doesn’t sound like intelligence to me. It sounds like stupidity! And, of all things, the human intellect is stupid.
The stupidity comes because it is addicted to its own supposed ability to accomplish anything. The idea is, of course, as we were noting this morning even, that the human mind can think what it pleases. If it is capable of thinking about it, capable of developing something, then that should be thought about and developed just because it imagines that it is capable of doing this. All kinds of things are developed on the basis of good intentions; there are other intentions that are not so good, rather more hidden; but all the good intentions that the human intellect has had to improve the lot of human beings on earth, backfire. Somewhere along the way they backfire. These wonderful advances that are made in scientific understanding and discovery are found to be dreadful things later on.
One of the most dreadful things that has occurred in the experience of the human race is this vast multiplication of human beings on earth. If a few human beings functioning on the basis of the efforts of the human mind were able to sustain a society which seemed more or less pleasing to themselves, for a while anyway, this becomes more and more difficult as there is a multiplication of people. And there is insistence still that there is the right to produce more and more people. This is another sacred cow. The motherhood question is a sacred cow: you can’t question motherhood. Yet this proliferation of human beings on earth is bringing so many things to point, revealing to anyone with the slightest intelligence that the way that human beings have gone, have been going, and are still going, is not the way to go. However, because this is so deeply entrenched in human experience, at the moment it appears to most that there isn’t any other way to go.
The way we are going is being questioned more and more, but what else is there? Well we know. And we had better be in position—not to tell everybody about it, because what good does that do? People are told about all kinds of things, but it doesn’t make any difference to their worship of holy cows. What does make a difference is the fact that responsibility is taken by those who become aware in mind and heart of this angelic incarnation, of the fact that there are angels, and Iamone. Each one may say that. We look around and we see angels, yes that’s true. There are quite a few here in this room at the moment—not very many compared to the population of the world, but enough—enough here at this time for now, just as there are enough in other places at this time sufficient for now. That is something that is acceptable to angels, even though it is not acceptable to human nature. Human nature is hooked on the idea of numbers: something is valuable because of numbers. It may be numbers of dollars, of course, or francs or pounds or whatever they are, ecus these days I understand, but also numbers of people. If you have a sufficient number of people going along a certain path, that must make it right, even though at the end of the path they all fall off over the edge of the cliff.
It isn’t a matter of numbers; it is a matter of angels. That is the sole thing that is in question: whether there are going to be any angels in expression in human form on earth, or whether everybody is going to proclaim human nature and continue to proclaim that, trying to find the answer by all of these various manipulations. Now there are angels who begin to become conscious of the fact that they are present on earth in human form. The angels are always conscious of that. Human minds and hearts haven’t acknowledged the fact, but are presumably beginning to do so. We rejoice that this is so, because it places upon us a new awareness of the reason for our presence here on earth. We begin to become aware that we were sent, for one thing, as angels, and the human mind and heart begin to accept and acknowledge this fact. Only when that is accepted and acknowledged is it known on earth. As long as human minds and hearts are busy denying it and finding reasons and justifications for making sure that it isn’t true, the angels are inhibited; there is no means by which anything can be extended angelically out of heaven into the earth.
But now there is something, and one of the evidences of this is that angels recognize each other. We become aware of each other on a basis that allows for coordination—you could put it that way; what it is really is the experience of love, the emergence of love through human hearts, acknowledged by human minds. As this happens the angel is present, because the primary characteristic of the angel is love. Emerging through human forms, minds and hearts, then the experience of love begins to be known and there is a sense of belonging, a sense of home, a sense of oneness, of being part of one beautiful, coordinated whole.
This angelic awareness comes from above, one might say—it is a way of describing the fact that it is higher than what has been known in human nature—but it also comes from below. We may recognize that the planet, the earth, is relatively quite large when considered in relationship to the surface of the earth where human beings scratch around like chickens. It doesn’t go very deep, like chickens. There is far more of the earth into which human beings have not been able to penetrate than there is of it into which they have been able to penetrate. So there is a little skin around the surface of the earth and some of the atmosphere above, which is being very thoroughly polluted, in which human beings function; but the main body of the earth has remained untouched in a direct sense by these human scratchings on the surface.
There is something that is in the core of the earth which has been recognized in terms of heat, fire, that relates to the fire of the sun, for instance. As there is something emerging into conscious awareness through a few human beings on earth, some of them here present in this room, there is also something which arises from the core of the earth to meet what it is that is coming down from heaven, so to speak. What is coming down from heaven is the coming forth of the angel through human hearts and minds and bodies. And there is something rising up from below, far more rising up from below than is exemplified by the forms of life on the surface of the earth. This rising up from below has a relatedness to what happens through the forms of life on the surface of the earth that we think of as nature; it rises up through nature. It should rise up through the human population too, but of course there has been a very solid barrier in this regard, set up because of this endeavor by human beings to do what they want to do and to extend the intellectual control of what happens on the surface of the earth to everything that they can get their hands on. This has been done. We can speak of it in a collective sense and that takes it away from ourselves a bit; but it has been true of each individual, because each individual has sought to get his hands on what was in the vicinity, apparently controllable and ownable.
Now the awareness comes that there has indeed been a den of thieves, and that included us. It is a wonderful thing to recognize this, to realize that mentally and emotionally, and physically consequently, we have been thieves. We have tried to possess the earth. Well we know now, because some sort of angelic consciousness has begun to emerge, that that really isn’t the truth of the matter. We are not designed to be thieves but to provide the means by which the Lord possesses His own. But that is only possible by reason of human beings. That is presumably why we have continued to exist on the surface of the earth: that somehow, one day, by some means, there would be a restoration of this facility of man to the state for which it was designed, so that the order and the balance might be restored.
As has been indicated, there is a certain order and balance which has been maintained by nature. It becomes more and more difficult for nature to maintain that order and balance, in view of the way that the human mind has been operating, and the human heart of course also. Human hearts have been filled with various desires, acquisitive desires and otherwise, and the mind has come along and justified them. It’s very good at rationalization, almost instant rationalization. We find, “I want to do this,” and therefore immediately I have all the reasons in the world why I should; it is immediately rationalized and justified.
But now, relinquishing this sort of imbecile function, we may once again come into an awareness of the reason why, as angels, we have come into the earth; not to follow out all of these endless and confusing trails of human nature but to let those go. But the human mind and heart has to do it. The angel is quite willing, but human minds and hearts have been reluctant. However there has been something happening, and a new consciousness of purpose on earth has come. There is a purpose for man on earth, but that purpose is angelic: it is a heavenly purpose and not an earthly purpose. The earth reflects the heavenly purpose rightly, but the purpose does not originate in the earth.
Because there is something rising up from the earth and something coming by reason of conscious angelic incarnation from above, everything is caught in between that is on the surface of the earth. What we call nature is delighted to be caught in between; but humanity, in a general sense, is not so delighted to be caught in between. The squeeze comes on and it is uncomfortable. One of the sacred cows insofar as human beings are concerned is comfort. Everybody wants to be comfortable. They want to be comfortable even though they function in a way that makes it quite impossible.
Now, finally, angelic consciousness begins to emerge and there is an awareness of comfort from the angelic standpoint, because the angel is quite comfortable. All that is uncomfortable is human nature. One way or another human nature is always uncomfortable and complains about it, so that the most popular sport on the face of the earth is the sport of complaint. Everybody does it, about the weather on down the line in every field. As angels put in an appearance there is an awareness that there is really nothing to complain about, because the creative process is working and is emerging in what we spoke of this morning as magnetic expression. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-different-kind-of-leadership.html] The creative field is emerging into the field of human operations, and if there is a resistance to it it is uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable to human minds and hearts, it is uncomfortable to human nature. And human nature is inclined to become a little desperate, because it is passing away. While there isn’t any great conscious awareness yet on the larger scale of the fact that human nature is passing away, sufficiently resilient minds and hearts and bodies are quite aware of the fact that it is passing away, because here comes the angel!
We share the responsibility of participating in this creative process which restores the planet, the forms of life on the surface of the planet, and the world that has heretofore been claimed by mankind, to the true owner. And the True Owner is represented by His angels. He sends forth His angels into the earth to gather the elect. The elect of course, as we noted this morning, are those who respond to the magnetic field, the creative field that is set up by reason of the presence of the angels. Those are the elect.
It isn’t a matter of unfurling our banners and unsheathing our swords and going to possess the land, as used to be the idea of human nature. At the time of the Crusades, for instance, the idea was that they were possessing it for the Lord, presumably. But that’s not the way to do it. It doesn’t work, does it? They were defeated. The Saracens, or whoever they were, had just as much right to be there as the Christians did, because the fact of the matter was that none of them had a right to be there. This is one of the human rights, the holy cows, that has been maintained. So it isn’t a matter of having a cause and going after that cause. That’s the way of human nature, that’s the way of death. It simply is a matter of allowing this magnetic creative field to be established, and that is the sole leadership that is required.
Then those who will come will come. They can’t help themselves. We have some awareness of that because we couldn’t help ourselves. At least we are becoming aware increasingly that we couldn’t help ourselves, that we didn’t choose to associate with whatever we think of as this … how we might have described this movement in our own consciousness. We were chosen; we were fingered. “You, you and you”—a call for volunteers! Here we are, angelically present with minds and hearts increasingly willing to let it be so, let it be the way it really is. And there is nothing more comforting than to be associated with the way it really is. That is where the comfort is. That is what might be called the coming of the Comforter. The discomforter is very thoroughly present, as witness all the complaints there are! But becoming associated in mind and heart with the angelic reality which we are brings a sigh of relief to mind and heart. Now at last we can relax, without feeling anymore that there is a hostile world all around us with ogres there ready to rend us in pieces, so that we always have to have our human defenses up. Angelically speaking we don’t have anything to defend, because nothing can encroach upon this angelic heaven.
The angelic heaven is to come into the earth, and it comes in with power and great glory. It is a wonderful thing. But there are hosts of people who don’t think so, because they are trying to establish and sustain their own human ideas of the way things should be. We have masses of people, don’t we, doing this all the time now. I am sure that terrorists, for instance, are very sincere about their efforts. They imagine that this is the way to go, or they wouldn’t go that way, presumably. And there is very little difference between that and what is considered to be the more normal function of human nature. It is the same thing, really: “We are going to go the way we want to go. We will try to do it in a more gentlemanly fashion, but we want what we want and we are going to get it.” That’s human nature speaking, of course.
We no longer associate ourselves with that, because the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. And that is what is being proven out. It hasn’t been proven out up to this point, because there was no focused body permitting the angelic expression on earth—aunified, focused body. This has never happened. It certainly didn’t happen at the time of Jesus. The disciples had very little understanding of what was going on at all. And afterward, of course, they experienced something or other, but that was taken by human nature and used according to the human intent: “We are going to convert thousands of people.” That’s a good idea, isn’t it? Even Emissaries have had that idea back along the way. I trust it has finally dissolved, because it is not a matter of converting anyone. It is a matter of letting the angel come forth. It is a matter of living, a matter of daily momentary experience. And we share this, angelically speaking.
We find, as angels, that we belong together—not always nudging up against each other. We may be anywhere on the face of the earth but still know we belong together, and are aware that there is an easy and natural movement occurring by reason of this forming body through which the angelic expression appears, the creative lines of force are set up, and the whole process is in action Let it work! It’s no use taking the attitude, “Well I’ve got to make it work.” Nobody can make it work; it is working! All that has to be done is to accommodate that working. Let it be accommodated in our own living and, behold, all things are made new. And no one can stop it; it is something absolute.
Finally it is coming to pass. There have been a lot of people waiting around for the second coming of Christ. There was a very slow elevator that I was riding in one time, and it took forever to get to the floor where you were pushing the button, and a comment was made to me: “This is like waiting for the second coming of Christ.” It doesn’t happen in the way that human beings expect it to happen, and it doesn’t happen without human beings taking responsibility for the fact of it. Here is the second coming of Christ, if you want to put it that way—but I never like to put it that way, because it conjures up all sorts of peculiar ideas in human consciousness. It is the emergence of the angels sent forth into the earth to gather the elect from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other. One end of the heaven to the other: it is done from a heavenly standpoint, not from an earthly standpoint. It is reflected in what happens in the earth.
So we rejoice to participate in something tremendous, to become aware of the fact that here we are to do this, to let it happen—not only this little grouping sitting here in La Sauge, but through others in many places. And it doesn’t require vast numbers. It would never happen if it required vast numbers. Where would you find them? No, it requires a select few, shall we say, a company of angels who are sent forth to do this. And because they carry the authority of the One who sent them forth, it will be done. It will certainly be done. And behold, all things are made new: a new heaven and a new earth.
It has been a beautiful day here, and a beautiful evening. Here is the body taking form, a particular aspect of it this evening and this morning. We delight to share the process, and we are keenly aware of the far larger extent of that body which is moving increasingly in a coordinated manner, under the dominion of the spirit of life, to bring forth what is needful, to gather the elect in the way that they are gathered in the heavenly sense, that all things may be brought into order and balance once again. Man is essential to the order and balance in nature. Nature can function after a fashion on its own, but what is the point? What would be the point of having a planet without man, just nature? What would it achieve? It is the fact that man is present that provides the potential for creative meaning to everything that is happening on earth, including what is happening through nature. Nature seeks the dominion of man, but man has been so long absent and nature has been so thoroughly disappointed by the antics of human nature.
We are delighted to have shared this hour here at La Sauge and with you all at Sunrise and in Mickleton. So the time comes when we must complete this particular focus of spirit which has been moving through this configuration of people by reason of the angels who are present. I thank God for all the angels. So we will complete this telephone connection and complete our time of service together here, letting the spirit that has been moving through all of us now continue to move through us wherever we may be, to the glory of the One whom we are here on earth to represent and to serve. It is a joy to know these things, to be in position to speak the truth consistently by reason of our own individual living. I am most thankful for all of you here present and elsewhere as we move together in this one purpose on earth.
Martin Cecil — “Come and worship the living God, that the peace of God may be in all the earth.” All of you who are present here this morning have issued this invitation. It is your invitation to come and worship the living God. I would speak to you this morning particularly as being the truth of you. Usually I have identified myself with you by the use of the words we, our, us. But this morning, seeing that it is you who have issued the invitation, I would speak to you as the one who you are, addressing therefore your yielded minds and hearts, which in turn represent the minds and hearts of people everywhere. If you issue an invitation, such as you have, you have the responsibility of what then occurs. If you say, “Come,” you have indeed extended an invitation to all the people of the world to come. Where? Where you are, presumably, seeing that you are the one who has issued the invitation. Where are you? The invitation is to come and worship the living God.
There have been invitations of the kind extended before, all down through the ages in fact, to come and worship a theoretical God, even a theological God, a God of belief, an imaginary God. But the invitation is not this, if it is genuine. It is the invitation to worship the living God, the God who is known only as He composes the wholeness of one’s living. In this case you could not invite anyone to share this with you if you do not know that wholeness in your own living. The invitation extended would be a sham otherwise, as it has been. Perhaps the invitation has been extended in the Christian world to come to church and worship, but very rarely has the invitation been to come and worship the living God—rather, the theoretical God.
Is the invitation that you have extended this morning genuine? Is it an invitation to come and worship the living God because this is what composes your living? Perhaps speaking as the truth of you I can ask some pertinent and pointed questions in this regard, because human minds and hearts are wont to deceive themselves. This invitation which you have extended by your participation in singing with the choir, and which the choir has extended by the invitation of those who compose it, in their singing, and which the orchestra, the organist, have also extended through the music which they brought forth, is something that all of you have shared in extending this morning. How conscious are you of the gravity of responsibility that consequently rests upon you? Now I am not speaking of you collectively, although it may seem that way, but I am speaking to you individually. How genuine are you? What is the fact? To what are the people of the world being invited to come? That was defined in the words, “to worship the living God.” If anyone comes to you—personal, individual you—does that person come to one who really, genuinely, knows what it means to worship the living God? What might well be called phony invitations have been extended over the centuries to come and worship God, but it was not the living God, because He has scarcely ever been represented by anyone. Have we, because we are genuine, provided the place for the people of the world to come and worship the living God, because that is our experience, our continuous experience?—I would change a word there, your continuous experience.
In a sense I am stepping aside in order to say what needs to be said to you that you might acknowledge your particular responsibility brought to specific focus this morning, given voice in words and music, particularly by Greg in representation of all of you, and then by Gloria in her song. These two were not standing up there merely for themselves, but for all. I am sure that you, while they were speaking and singing, were aligning yourselves with the words as your words; otherwise they would have little meaning. Here were words clothing the Word. The Word is, indeed, “Come unto me. Come and worship the living God, because here where I am is the state and experience of that worship.” Surely you do not invite anyone to come to a hollow space where there is nothing, or even where there is just a little. There is just a little in many, many places. But where is the wholeness? Where is the Word?
The Word is God. The Word creates all things and in the Word is life, the living God. The Word remains meaningless—it has always been present—until it takes form in the words of living. This includes what we call words in the sense of speaking, but it includes far more than that. Come and worship the living God. Come and give total value to the Word. I have spoken the Word in words, and in more than words, lo these many years. Have you received it? Is the Word of supreme value? That is worship. Worship has something to do with worth. To what do you give worth? In what do you see the supreme value? In what do you see the one true value, or are there many values? With most this has been the case. Values have been equated with the form of things.
Some of you may have seen the movie “Gandhi.” Here was a man who undoubtedly gave expression to the Word partially. It had great effect, but evidently there was the inclination to see what needed to happen in the world in terms of form. Perhaps what occurred has been included in the creative process that is working out on earth, but the immediate intent was to extract India from the control of the British. But into what control? Presumably the control of the Indians. That turned out to be divisive, didn’t it? There were, for instance, Hindus on the one hand and Muslims on the other, who immediately set to work to destroy each other. Will the problems of the world be solved by turning over control from one particular aspect of human nature to another? This is about as far as the vision of most people goes. The government is usually the villain, whatever the government happens to be, so if possible kick them out and put in another; turn from one pattern of human nature to another pattern of human nature, as though that was a solution. You know what the solution is by reason of the invitation which you issued this morning: “Come out of her, my people. Stop your games and come home where you belong.”
That may be said to be the invitation in general terms and it is spoken not only to those who think of themselves as Christians or Muslims or Hindus, or anything else—human beings everywhere. All that pattern of religion is game-playing, all of it—dangerous games, obviously so. So you issue an invitation to come where? To come over from one area of game-playing to another? Self-righteously, I am sure you would all shake your heads. But that wouldn’t do any good. What is the fact? What is the nature of the invitation in fact? If it’s merely an imagination then the invitation is to come and worship an imaginary God. And this has been going on for millennia. No, the invitation is the invitation extended by the Word in the words of living. The Word must take form to have any meaning. This is obvious enough, because the Word has never ceased to be spoken in spirit. It only begins to have meaning to you and to others to the extent that it has taken form in you and in others.
While you are the ones who have specifically brought to focus this invitation this morning, there are others who will associate themselves with you in that invitation, particularly in the days to come when they receive the service in transcript form or video form. But let all be honest and let all be genuine, that there may be a genuine invitation on earth to come to the place where God, the living God, is worshipped. And each one therefore says, “Come unto me.” Unless this is true there is no genuine invitation and there is no real meaning in the fact of one’s presence on earth.
“Come and worship the living God.” These are words which may be used to draw attention to the one requirement if the people of the world are to survive. This is a truth that few are willing even to look at. If they do look at it they look at it in religious terms. But it is not really a matter of religion at all. It is a matter of life, or on the other hand, death. It is a matter of being. It goes beyond the business of merely surviving, of course. I doubt if that is likely to be possible anyway unless there is the invitation genuinely offered, “Come and worship the living God,” the invitation genuinely offered, and response to it genuinely offered. There is no other way. There is a blank wall otherwise; no place to go, no possibility of survival on earth. The earth will likely survive. But we are thinking of the population of the earth, not merely because we are a part of it but because of the living God, that the Word may be spoken in the words of living continuously, wholly, occupying every nook and cranny of what you are in the external sense. In that sense you have no life whatsoever of your own. The fact of the matter is you never did, and of course that is proven out in due course in the ordinary course of events.
I have sought, over the years, to speak the Word in the words of my living so that there might be an invitation to you: “Come and worship God, the living God.” Now possibly somewhat unwittingly, but also consciously, you yourselves have placed yourselves in that position by speaking the words, singing the words, or whatever, sharing in the expression of the words, “Come and worship the living God.” You said it. How genuine are you? Is it safe for others to come to you, because they will find one who worships the living God, one whose total expression of life is the Word—the Word expressed in the words of living? That is the invitation.
Spirit. Spirit has little meaning until it takes form. The spirit of the living God may take form through human flesh. It does through everybody to some extent; there is the evidence of life still lingering. But it takes form through thought, through words, through emotion. What is the spirit revealed through your thoughts, your words and your emotions? What exactly is it? Is it the living God? Is it the Word made flesh and dwelling among the people of the world, to extend the invitation: “Come and worship the living God with me”?—not come into some sort of form or religion or belief.
One may on occasion be asked whether one believes in God. Well possibly we have to answer that according to the understanding of the questioner. One could well say, “No.” But that might be taken wrongly. It needs to be true that we do not believe in God, because we know God. Why do you have to believe in something that you know? In our own living we know the Word. There is no need then for belief. But most people wouldn’t understand that, so probably we would say, “Yes, I believe in God.” One can’t go into a sermon as to what all the meaning of this is; it wouldn’t be understood anyway; but we ourselves need to know. Are you trying to believe in God? Welcome to the religious club, but not to the truth.
It is the spirit of our living which tells the tale, the quality of spirit that finds expression through the words of our living. Without that spirit everything is, to me, deadly dull. I have heard my own words rendered deadly dull, because the one who read them was deadly dull. The spirit wasn’t there, just the form, and the form in such case is a carcass. It is the spirit that giveth life, the flesh profiteth nothing. That is, you can’t get life out of the flesh. You can’t get it into it either. It either is allowed to be present and in expression or it fades away and the flesh is left desolate. The form becomes desolate, and it doesn’t matter how beautiful the form may have been in its original expression, because of the Word, because of the spirit; it becomes unprofitable when the spirit is absent. The spirit has been absent, for the most part, in the words of this book—the Bible—because it was not in those who were reading it. We have found these words coming to life, because there has been the living God present. The same is true of your living in each moment. It is either deadly or it is alive forevermore. Life is eternal. The creative expression of life never ceases. Your invitation to others is to the experience of that creative expression of life. Do you know what it is? Is your invitation genuine? I would say that you had better let it be so. It is an awful thing to be found merely to be a liar, full of wind.
So these words I have spoken to you, not as someone separate from you but as one who is you, the truth of you, that your words of living may be just that: the Word in expression. And when you experience this continuously the Word is more precious to you than anything. This has been stated by many: “I know the importance of the Word.” Do you really? Praise the Lord, if you do, if you are not a liar. But what is the spirit of one’s own living, of your individual living? How consistent is it? How continuous is it? Or do you take a snack break every now and again?—off duty: “It doesn’t matter now; the Word is unimportant.” Are you inviting anyone to come to you on that basis? What a horror, what a betrayal. Your Word, my Word, is, “Come and worship the living God.”
You are a whole and holy people. But that only has meaning because each individual is whole and holy continuously. That is what is meant by whole, and what is meant by holy. “Come and worship the living God, that the peace of God may be known in all the earth”—the peace which passes all human understanding. It is not based in human understanding. It doesn’t come because of human manipulation. It comes because the Word is spoken in the words of living by those who extend the invitation to come and worship the living God.
This morning, we recall, we were considering that which is immortal. Trying to cause the mortal to become immortal is a vain and futile effort. But we began to see that man has not clearly comprehended that which is immortal and that which is mortal. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/05/from-immortality-uranda-march28-1954-a.html] We have recognized, in relationship to those who have passed from this sphere of things, that all that was noble and right, all that was truly lovable or Divine which was made manifest in that life, still remains—not necessarily in the visible realm where we can see it, although each one who allows the Divine to appear certainly leaves, in the lives of others and in the pattern of circumstance, that which is a continuation of being. But in the realm of the eternal, that which is eternal remains. That which is eternal finds expression on earth through man to the degree that man allows the eternal to manifest. As we comprehend these things we are in position to re-examine the pattern of function as it applies to ourselves and to others. We have recognized that that which is eternal comes down from God out of heaven into the earth, or to put it another way, it comes to us from out of the east, from out of the Garden of God. And coming into the pattern of life, it manifests for the time in which it should manifest, or for the time or period it is allowed to manifest.
We have given some consideration to man and his capacities. We realize that human beings have for a long period of time undertaken to penetrate into the realm of the invisible. There are those who are engaged in what they call occult activities, and there are those who classify themselves as mystics, because their primary concern is with that which is invisible. Because such efforts are made on a basis of human concepts, probing into realms where man is not really at home, such persons exert an influence in a vibratory field where they produce for themselves that which they expect to find in relationship to the fringes of the invisible realm. I mention this so that we may the better understand the principle as it relates to the ordinary processes of living. Those who call themselves spiritualists, for instance, seeking to communicate with the so-called dead, establish for themselves that which they desire or expect to find. That which they contact, imagining it to be the spirits of the departed, is something which they themselves manufacture; they produce it. To say that they do not contact anything would be untrue. What they do not realize is that they themselves produce that which they do contact, and then, because they contact that which they expected to contact, they think they have proof that they are right. These spirits, so called, which they contact are not the spirits of the departed but spirits that they themselves have manufactured by the processes of their own function. There are those who function in the range of the extremes of black magic, for instance—which comes in the range of the occult—and the evil spirits they contact and use presumably give evidence of evil spirits; but what is not generally known is that they produce that which they contact and use. Those who believe in evil spirits manufacture evil spirits, and then proceed to contact them and find the evidence that they are right in believing in evil spirits. Martin Luther, for instance, had a very, very great faith in the devil. No matter how much faith he may have had in God, it is obvious that he had great faith in the devil, and so to him the devil was real. He himself manufactured the devil that was real to himself. And it is always so with respect to those who dabble in the fringe range between the visible and the invisible.
Now this range between is of vital importance. It is the range by which that which is of a higher realm of being may be brought into contact with our level of being. Spirit, God's spirit as such, cannot directly contact the physical body. There must be a connecting link, and in our previous meditations we have studied the nature of this connecting link in the field of the pneumaplasm. This is such a vast subject—and one which tends to be fascinating to human minds—that we must be careful not to defeat our immediate purpose by delving into it too extensively at the moment. But to whatever degree we realize that we each one have a share in the forming of that which is in this range as it relates to ourselves, we can surely begin to see our pattern of responsibility. If that which is of the Divine Design, in the true current of the spirit of God, under the control of His will, is allowed to extend into this range or borderland without interference from us, it can take form in the vibrational realm of our own beings, and be in position to have form in the physical realm of our beings. But man has for so long eaten of the forbidden fruit, feeling himself to be justified in judging good and evil, that he has developed a pattern, common to all human beings, whereby he produces in this range many things of which he himself is not immediately aware.
It is truly said, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Now most people do not understand how this works out. The only way we can reach into the invisible realm is through the feeling nature. The mental pattern of our own beings cannot really extend into this realm except through the feelingnature. An idea about which we have little feeling will not make any impression in this range between the visible and the invisible, the connecting layer of vibrational substance extending from the sea of glass clear as crystal into the realm of physical substance. Most people do not even have an awareness, in any real sense, of the fact of this realm. But any feeling which you have in a deep sense is projected into this realm, and this realm is always causing something to come to us from out of the east. Through it something is moving toward us all the time. It is supposed to be the means by which the things of the Garden of God come to us out of the east and take form in our lives. But man, lacking peace and serenity, lacking control, has been subject not to God but to all kinds of things and conditions out here, ill things, and he has felt justified in having deep-seated reaction to these ill things. What happens? The reaction pattern through the feeling nature projects out like a wave into this connecting range, and then that which man has produced today by reason of his feeling reactions is planted, as it were, in the east and then it is harvested out of the east; it comes back to him. Whatever he projects into that range must come back to him. It cannot go in any other direction but back to himself. No matter how justified it may seem to be to have that reaction, regardless of the processes of rationalization, whatever they may be, those ill things which the human being establishes in the feeling nature, through reactions of various sorts, are projected into this connecting link, because man projects on that basis into this invisible range which connects him with the higher invisible range which he cannot directly contact.
Because man is unaware of its nature he produces in that range, by his own function, a discordant pattern on a forceful basis, which prevents the shaping in that range of what should come to him from God. Now if man would leave that vibrational realm alone, not breaking into it, not disturbing it, that which he has fed into it out of the past would soon all feed back and pass to the west; that is, to the past. And then that which was of God, or the Garden of God planted eastward in Eden, would begin to have an opportunity to take form in that vibratory level; it would come to a point where the human being could contact it, begin to receive it into form through himself, through his actions, words, deeds, and then that would begin to flow past him into the past and he would be expressing reality. You are not supposed to express into the future. You are supposed to express into the present, to establish that which goes into the past. Man has so little trust in God that he tries to produce in his future that which he thinks he wants to reap, and so, by his various patterns of function, he is continually doing something with that which is to come to him out of the future; he is reshaping it somehow, not trusting God. He just must get his fingers on it and shape it in that range where it is susceptible to shaping in the vibrational realm. He cannot just leave it alone. But once you begin to trust God you cease trying to shape your future. As long as you are bound and determined to shape your future you will. You will spoil what God has prepared for you. You will upset it, change it, mar it, destroy it, and establish something that you have produced yourself, and then that will be what comes to you from out of the future.
Now you have a part to play in this moment, allowing that which is coming out of the future to take form in the moment so that it may be the form of the past, and moment by moment that which you do becomes the past. Generally speaking, the past is not altogether satisfactory to the individual. That which is extending into his past he does not altogether like. But once we reach a point where we trust and, trusting, centered in God's love, we are at peace, serene, tranquil—no violent emotional storms disrupting the vibratory field of the future as it relates to ourselves—the remnant of what has been sown passes by, comes to the present, takes form to some degree, and goes into the past. Then we come to the point where that which is coming out of our future is not spoiled, distorted by our own function. It is of God.
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At this point we need to realize that the creative field as it relates to us in this future pattern, the vibratory range, is not just our own. Once having established a path through, so to speak, you may maintain that narrow path in relationship to yourself on a true pattern, but that will not be the wholeness of that which comes into your life, because your pattern is related to other people's patterns. You cannot draw a line into the future and say, "Everything that comes to me from now on is going to be just what God made." However you can hold steady and keep a clear path through. If I did not do that we would not have what we do have here. But that which comes out of the future in relationship to myself, for instance, is not limited to that path. In this field we all have a hand, each one of you. Whatever is there in relationship to us, and to many other people, is never an altogether individual thing. Something of it is yours; something of it is someone else's.
When we reach a point where we let this connecting range to the east of us clean out—as it will if we just leave it alone—when we let it clean out so that we are not producing anything in it that is not of the Divine Design, we can begin to have a broad path into the future. But the first contact you get through will be a very narrow path, just a little band so to speak, a strait and narrow way, connecting you up with heaven, the Divine Pattern of Being. And along that narrow path you can receive something of that which is of God's will for you, but those around you must begin to function correctly before it can broaden out and permit the larger manifestation of God's will. For as long as the vibrational field, the emotional realm, as it relates to us, includes others—and unless it does include others it is of no value—then that which others do relates to this field; there is interference.
Every time I begin to feel that we have an opportunity to get a broad conveyor belt, shall we say, from out of the east cleared so that we can let that which is of God come through into the realm of form, someone has some kind of a reaction pattern, and oh, they are so justified: "So-and-so did that. I am justified." And there it goes again. Projected into the future, through which we must receive whatever we do receive from God, is that which does not belong, that which is going to mar the pattern of God's provision or prevent much or all of its manifestation, and so we must reap that. I have talked and sought in every way that I could to inspire you to reach a point where you would cease interfering with that field, and yet you have felt justified for so many reasons, you have felt justified in doing that which projects into that field. And once it is there we have to deal with it, we have to put up with it and get it out, and it takes time. Now we can keep on projecting into that field until we perish from the earth, if we are so inclined, and we will never receive the pure current of what God has in store for us, His provision, that which should take form. For most reactions are on the basis of displeasure at what is in form in some fashion—displeasure at what is in form. So the individual reacts to what he does not like and produces more of what he does not like, and then what he does not like keeps coming. He still does not like it, so he produces some more of it and refuses to let it pass out of his life. The only way you can interfere in that range is by or through your feeling nature, whatever controls in the feeling nature. Once the heart or feeling nature is pure—that is, it is controlled by God—then your connecting link with that layer through which the things of God must come is of a nature that does not interfere with what God is providing, and the things of God begin to get through to you.
We can look back to the time when the disciples were attempting to develop what has become known as Christianity. They had certain ideas, certain beliefs. They were going to obey what they thought the Master intended them to do. But if you go back and examine the pattern as it was you will see that they tended to project into this range something which was not of God's design at all. There was only one who did not function notably on that basis. Peter, for instance, and Paul, just to illustrate, had a concept of persecution against themselves. They expected persecution. They deliberately did things to produce that persecution. When they could have modified expression and been reasonable, they remained hard and unreasonable, and with deep feeling projected into the future that which they and their followers had to receive in the sense of persecution. They produced the condition which caused them to be thrown to the lions and burned at the stake, and all of the rest of it. The situation as it was in the world, difficult as it was, would not have produced that if they had not established it in their own futures by their own attitudes. It has been said, "That which I feared is come upon me." Why? Because the pattern of fear projects something into the future and then it comes sliding out of the future. How far do you think you can project something? A little boy with a squirt gun, who makes it go ten feet or twenty feet? He gets it out there into the future. Little boys and girls with the squirt guns of their own feeling natures, shooting into the future! And then it comes flowing back to them and they do not like it. So they play with their squirt guns all over again and splatter all over the place, shooting it into the future, and here it comes sliding back. You cannot make anything stay in the future. Whatever you project into the future of your own self-active expression is going to come sliding right back out again. That is true, whether we like it or not. You cannot make it stay out there in the future. Something is going to keep coming out of the future as long as you are here to receive it—something. What is it going to be? It depends on what is in the future, and on your capacity to receive, and on your being in position to receive what is coming out of the future. Many times human beings fail to receive something out of the future which is right there at hand to come from God. They are too busy doing something else, chattering about this and that, to receive it. It is there, ready to be born into the realm of form, but they are too busy with something else, following after their own fancies. They are not on hand to share in the delivery into the realm of form.
Frankly, it is impossible for me to establish and maintain a clear pattern out there in the future for you. I can help you do it, out in the future, but I cannot do it alone. It takes you. And as we agree on earth as touching these things, and stop projecting something unreal into the future which must come back to us, we begin to be in position to receive that which is coming out of the east from God to us. And then, as we begin to learn how to receive that which is coming from God, receive it into the realm of form, we can begin to let it flow into the past. The things of God need to extend into the past. That is what the Master was talking about. He said, "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Of course people have arbitrarily taken that to mean various ideas about Jesus coming. It doesn't have anything to do with that at all. But shining out of the east even unto the west will be the coming of the Son of man; that is, the Divine expression of man—which is to say, the revelation of God, or the spirit of God. If we begin to let the spirit of God get through to us so that there can be an outpouring of it, where is the outpouring to be? Into the present, and then extending on into the past. And where does it come from? Out of the east. That is what the Master was talking about. The spirit of God must come out of the east; that is, out of the future, into the present and on into the past. And when it extends into the past as far as we can see, and into the future as far as we can see, and on both sides of us as far as we can see, we will then be in the midst of the Garden of God.
As it is, we are at the edge of the Garden of God. Man has been out of the Garden, but at the edge of it, down through all these thousands of years. It is there, but this little level of the connecting pattern man could interfere with. He could project something into it and prevent the manifestation of what God had made. He could produce what he himself would receive out of the future, and he was not content to trust God. "Oh, I know I must shape it this way and I must shape it that way." He begins to see something taking form and he must get his busy little fingers on it and shape it so that it will be better than what God could possibly make. And then he receives it and it is empty. It is not what he thought it was going to be, and then he blames God. Before we can be in the midst of the Garden we must let it extend into the past. Generations before us have been at the edge of the Garden. Every step of the way since the fall man has been at the edge of the Garden. Every man and woman on the face of the earth has been at the edge of the Garden, and something has been coming to each one out of the future. But man has had to make it, so he thought. Something of God got through to most, at least, or life would have been intolerable, but it was not the pure expression of God's gift, because man had to shape it his way.
Now I have suggested the proper function before, and I have pointed out that the things of God must come to us from out of the east, but perhaps tonight we can have a deep enough realization of what actually takes place, so that we can deliberately stop spoiling—deliberately stop spoiling—what God would give to us. Man can play in this field and produce all sorts of things. He can demonstrate various things, he can produce fantastic things, but they amount to nothing. Or he can learn to leave it alone, and let what happen? Have you been trying to get through the gate into the Garden of God? Do you want to go through that gate? You never will, in the sense of moving through it. Why? Because you would have to go into the future to do it. How can you go into the future? Can you step into the day after tomorrow and live the day after tomorrow before tomorrow comes? Can you? Can you step into the future? No. Very well, then, stop trying to get through the gate that leads to the Garden of God. There is the sword, the flaming sword that turns every way—the flaming sword, God's love and truth, that turns every way at the gate. Now the gate will come up to you as close as you will let it, and if you will really stand still and see the salvation of the Lord the gate will pass by you and go into the past. You stand still and let it come out of the future, truly, and you will go through the gate, because the gate passes back past you. But if you try to go through the gate you never will. However if you will stand still the gate will come up to you and pass you and go into the past, and then you will be inside the Garden of God. It is the only way. Serenity, peace, nonreaction, trust, faith, all of the ideas that have been advanced and have been so ambiguous to most human beings—just doing that in real trust, real centering in God, and it comes up to us. But we must do something about letting it take form. We must share with God the work of giving it form on earth. If you stop spoiling your future and let that pass so that you are next door, so to speak, to that which God would give you, then you must begin to dare to receive that into form. You have to have a little training to learn how.
Now what is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? I have known some fantastic ideas on that score. However the minute that which is of God, that comes through the Garden out of the east, actually begins to flow through you, be born through you in body and mind and heart, so that it can take form and move into the past, that is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But it does something. It does not come swishing through just to give you a little demonstration of what heavenly atmosphere is like, just a little bit of magic or something. It is something real, something that is to take form. Now if we imagined this layer to be—well how thick should it be? How far into the future? Ten minutes into the future? Oh, it is more than that. How should we measure it? Anything we say in illustration will be a bit arbitrary, but we will say an hour, sixty minutes in the future. Sixty minutes into the future. And we will say that from the physical form to that point an hour in the future is about three feet.
Here we have physical form. Next we have the intervening substance until it connects up with pure spirit. That is as far as we can go, to the range of pure spirit. And in between we have the intermediate substance. Now if we are functioning in certain definite patterns, attitudes, we keep projected out here for eighteen inches, eighteen inches into the future, at least thirty minutes, a pattern which constantly changes the future. You know, most of you are that close to the things of God. Just thirty minutes, or eighteen inches. If you keep something projected out there, that eighteen inches—"This is what I am; this is what I expect; this is what I am going to do; I am going to shape it"—then the Garden is still eighteen inches in the future, thirty minutes from now, and heaven is still thirty minutes away. In other words we waste this thirty minutes, then the next thirty minutes, and the next thirty minutes, because we keep the human pattern projected out there. We never let it all back up to where we are. And everything from God has to screen through that which we project.
Thirty minutes! "About the space of half an hour." Do you think I was arbitrary when I said thirty minutes? That was the estimate utilized by the author of the Book of Revelation. So the space of half an hour is about what it would take for any human being to let the future pattern clear so that the things of heaven could start manifesting. But to get someone to do that. I have been working for twenty years to get someone to do that, and heaven is only thirty minutes away for hundreds of thousands of people, and I have not yet been able to convince people that the Garden is really there, only thirty minutes away. Thirty minutes to heaven! And who will believe deeply enough to do what must be done to prove it? Does it take too much faith, and are your own ideas too precious and your own feelings and attitudes too important? If you let that pass away, will everything be gone, with nothing worthwhile left? Are you afraid to let the unreal pass away? Yet this that you have projected out there for eighteen inches, that thirty minutes, is going to pass away sooner or later. You may be able to hold it until a day or two before you die, but then it will begin creeping back, and when it gets back you will be gone. That is the end of it. It is all over then. It is all over, and no resurrection. Life was spent and life was done, and what happened? Too bad! Perhaps someone else will listen.
Heaven, just thirty minutes away! Eighteen inches! If you could just let it back up—all your pet ideas, all the things you keep projecting into the future. You can't get it out very far. I doubt if any of you could get it quite eighteen inches, try as you may. I doubt if it is that far for any of you. But even if it is six inches, that is too far. It has to come back, and what you have shaped, and the thing you hold out there as yourself, must pass away. Now it will, sooner or later; it is mortal; it is going to pass away. It is so nice to let it do it while the body still lives, while you still have the ability to use your mind and your heart, while you have the ability to see all the beautiful things that God has made and do your part in letting the things of God come down out of heaven into the earth. It is so easy, but you have to trust enough to stop eating the forbidden fruit. You have to be willing to let what you think you are pass away, so that you may become what you really are. Now I doubt if there is anyone here who would actually let his heaven get to him in thirty minutes. It could be done—it could be done. It is possible to any of you here, but it is hardly likely that you would do it.
Thirty minutes to heaven, and how long is it going to take you to get there? If you try to get there through the thirty minutes, it will take your whole lifetime and then you will not make it, because as soon as your mind stops functioning, your emotional nature stops functioning, and your hard, determined will cannot hold it anymore, this that is stuck out here in the future for eighteen inches will start backing up and it will pass away and be gone. You will never get to heaven—even though heaven is only thirty minutes away—by trying to go through the thirty minutes to heaven into the future. You have to back up and let what you have made back up, let it pass away. You cannot see what is coming yet, but you have got to let it pass away. The human being must be ready to relinquish what he has made himself to be, willing to let God make him be what he should be.
Someday there are going to be a few people who come to agreement on earth as touching these things, and they are going to be willing to relinquish all the things that separate them from God, from heaven, from one another. They are going to come together with one accord in one place and they are going to start receiving the things of heaven into form together, and that is going to be a most glorious experience for those who dare to do it—the beginning of the manifestation of the spirit of God, the birth into form according to our Master's plan and purpose, according to His instruction given nearly two thousand years ago. Then it was only thirty minutes away, when He gave that instruction. Heaven was only thirty minutes away nineteen centuries ago. It still is. It is right there. And we are still looking to find someone who will let it connect up in this earth, in this world. You have let something of it get through, yes, but you have not let it connect up. It could be with you here, if you are willing to let it be so in the spirit of the Living Christ.
