Translation Of Vibration Into Creation
Martin Cecil July 25, 1980 Assembly
There is so much noise in the world, racket—discharge sounds, and so people fall apart on this basis. We are all subject to a certain amount of noise. We are blessed to be where there's a lot less noise than there is in the city and many of the noises or sounds that are heard would correlate with charge sounds—the sounds of nature. We need to learn to listen. That's one of the suggestions that is made at the very beginning of the first Class, so that we may be capable of hearing the sounds that are available to be heard. There are those sounds which are above or below the capacity of the human ear to encompass. As we develop the perceptive ability within that range, within the range that is possible to us as individuals—this varies from individual to individual—we open the door to the reception of those sounds which are outside the range of our hearing.
There has been some consideration given to sound related to healing—relating to color and hearing and healing. Most of the sounds which would be creative in the healing sense are actually outside the range of the hearing of the ear; but they would also be recognized as overtones of the sounds that can be heard. One needs to be careful in trying to pin down sounds relative to the physical form, for instance. This sound relates to the liver or some segment of the spine, or whatever, because it's not that so much as the sounds that can't be heard. One may get into a tangle of stuff with this endeavor, merely to correlate the physical form with heard sounds, because the correlation is not so much with heard sounds as with unheard sounds. But the heard sounds, if we become aware of them, can provide us with some sort of a connection with the unheard sounds, which then has some sort of a connection with the physical form. So there is a field here which tends to be restricted in human consciousness, when human nature begins to think about it, merely to the levels of vibration that are immediately perceptible in the sense of sound or color, or what have you.
We are concerned with vibratory levels which are way beyond the spectrum either of sound or of color. Sound and color may result from the action at the vibrational levels of spirit. Sound and color, which is merely our perception of something, wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the action of spirit in the first place. We might recall what a wonderful instrument the human form is with all its related capacities created so that God could have pleasure in His creation. If we were to say that all things are vibrational, that might be true—but if perception of vibration was just perception of vibration itself I don't think it would be very exciting. But the means of translating that vibration, which is available in the human form and related capacities through the human senses, allows for this enjoyment of a wonderful world—of form and color and sound and smell. It's not just a flat range of vibration. It's something far more than that but only because there is an instrument capable of translating it that way. Now this instrument is man but the translation is for God, so that God may enjoy His creation. Well human beings have said for a long time, “It's for my enjoyment and God stay out of it. You stay up in your heaven, wherever that is, and I'll have all the fun I'm capable of experiencing here on earth. I don't need you. I have the ability to perceive all these things and to squeeze out of them the last drop of enjoyment.”
Well that's of course not at all what the human being is here for—but to open the door for God's enjoyment, and of course the instrument of enjoyment shares the enjoyment. There is a blended state. Heaven and earth are one. So we have this opportunity of opening the door for the Lord to enjoy His creation and we enjoy it with Him. But it must be enjoyed in the way that it was created to operate. If we distort that operation in our own consciousness then there's a lot that isn't enjoyment. We suffer the consequences. Of course while we are busy suffering the consequences, God is not then capable of enjoying what would otherwise be enjoyed if we were not so busy suffering the consequences.
This living mechanism which makes all this possible of experience, is marvelous, isn't it? It speaks of vast intelligence, to bring into manifest expression a facility that is capable of touching all these vibratory factors and translating them through the eyes, for instance, into form, color; through the ears into sound, and so on with our various senses, the sense of touch. We say this is a lectern. We can see it. We can see its color, its shape. We can feel it. It's there. We're sure it's there, but what is it? Well it is a vibratory state of some kind and if all that we were capable of seeing, or knowing was present, was just a vibratory state it wouldn't be very useful and it wouldn't be very interesting, I don't think. So it is, because we have the facility of translation, that the opportunity is then provided for the enjoyment of what is present in particular ways, according to the nature of the translation that is made.
We think of this in terms of the human form but I'm sure that we could envision the fact that from the standpoint of God there are endless possibilities of instruments to detect and translate the beauties of the vibrational world in ways altogether different than are translated from the human standpoint. Of course this is the fact. There are other worlds—other worlds because there are other ways of translating what is present. In order for that translation to occur there must be something at the level, the vibratory levels which are to be translated, to do the translating. And this must be of the same consistency of the vibratory patterns that are being translated. It can't be of some totally different consistency. Then there would be a division, separation.
So we find ourselves to be a part of this whole vibratory situation, but because of the nature of the way we have been created we can enjoy this world in which we find ourselves, because of the fact of our own physical forms with their capacities which are of the same consistency as the world in which we live. There are those who have thought, “Well it would be nice to be able to enjoy this world without being stuck with a physical form” which gets into trouble and suffers. Well you couldn't enjoy this particular translation that way, because it requires the physical form to translate it. If you had some other form, then you'd be able to enjoy some other world, and we have some awareness of the fact that there are other ways of enjoying what is present in this vast and complex vibrational universe. It is not capable of being enjoyed only by human beings, or what we know as human beings. There are other instruments available to God for His enjoyment of His creation. He has simply been excluded from most of the enjoyment of what is present in this world.
Well we need to open it up to Him again, not because we want to enjoy the world more than we do, and not suffer so much, but because we are solely concerned to give Him the enjoyment of the world that He created. And to let Him have the enjoyment of the world that He created we must be willing to allow the world that human beings have created to pass away. The first heaven and the first earth are passed away. This is so as there is a willingness to let them pass away, but at the same time there is an awareness of the fact that the world itself, the vibrational state, does not pass away. “My word does not pass away.” It is simply the translation of it that changes and becomes the translation made by God and not by human beings. The translation made by human beings is uncomfortable most of the time. We can happily let the vibrational world alone—it is the way it is—and allow the facility which translates it to change so that it translates it correctly instead of in this distorted and painful fashion. The capacity of translation is being recreated to become aware of what is actually there. But what is actually there is not something different than it was before.
So we can have a rather different approach, different way of looking at things, on this basis. Of course just because I have talked about it now doesn't mean that we are looking at it differently hereafter. It is something that we ourselves as individuals need to follow out. We talk about implications—the implications relate to a different way of viewing what is present and of consequently relating to what is present. Human beings now relate to everything askew, so to speak, and because of this it's uncomfortable. Get back into alignment and everything's fine. Everything is the way it should be. It's merely because as human beings we have been translating things falsely that we find ourselves in a false world, which is a far cry from what would be experienced if we were in position to translate what is present correctly.
This emphasizes the point that we make our own worlds according to the nature of our translation. When we see something as being wrong, painful, causing suffering, we have made a mistranslation. Well human beings, having made that mistranslation, take the attitude that what they now see is the way it is and therefore is cause for complaint; but they themselves made it that way. There is nothing that is actually cause for complaint. The only cause for complaint is the way that human beings translate what is there. And we have indulged in these false translations and then felt justified in complaining about it, but we ourselves translated it that way. I hear so much about the terrible things that happen. “Oh, it's so terribly hot, awful.” Someone's making this translation of the heat in this way and then complains about it. You have, I'm sure, known people—perhaps it may be true of you—that the heat and the cold are not all that big a deal. It isn't that way at all, if we translate it correctly, but it's made to seem this way. And you know how the media makes a big thing out of everything, and people die, and so on. It's all blown up out of all proportion. Well we can see the media distorting things, but we do it ourselves in the direct sense, in the way we translate what it is that is present with us.
This is why I have been continually emphasizing the point that we need to accept what is there. It’s all right. If there's something wrong, it's the way we see it not the way it actually is, and we need to come to a point where we cease judging. I seem to have heard that before somewhere. What we are saying is that we cease translating it the way we were translating it before and we take things as they come. Another aspect of this might be indicated by saying that we have no life of our own. As long as anyone thinks he has a life of his own he is mistranslating something. As long as a person has the idea that he can do as he decides in this human nature condition, in this condition of mistranslation, he maintains his state of mistranslation. And while excellent arguments can be put up for following out this course, it's really stupidity. One may be able to justify oneself in one's own consciousness but one is simply insuring that one will be associated with a distorted state, out of which the experience of suffering and death come.
The experience of death as it is known now is a distorted experience. There isn't any such experience in fact. It is merely the way human beings have translated. Vibrationally speaking, the way the creation actually is, there is no suffering, there is no death, but human beings have mistranslated on the basis of their wrong perspective—having fallen, we say—all this beautiful vibrational tapestry which composes the creation, in particular the one that is right close at hand, the part of it that is right close at hand, mistranslated it and suffer the consequences. Why not let it return, from our standpoint, to what it really is and then translate it correctly? As long as we are holding it out as though our false translation was real, was the truth of the matter, we're stuck with it. Only when we let go of that, in the recognition that the vibratory pattern that is present at every level is just exactly the way it should be—it is God's perfect creation—that we may feel confident enough to let it alone and to re-experience our inherent ability to translate it correctly. Then the world is restored. The garden has been there all the time but human beings have put themselves out of it. It didn't dissolve the garden. It merely produced an unreal state.
Now I say these things so that they may perhaps be capable of being comprehended consciously, but I say them also because they may also have an impact subconsciously and particularly relative to the sense of feeling. Because here is one of the ways in which we translate things. We translate things on the basis of whether we like them or not—whether they're painful or not, whether we enjoy them or not, whatever—by reason of our feelings. We are capable of doing that. If we realize that the vibratory tapestry is perfect, it’s never been made anything else but perfect—human beings certainly had no capability of changing that; all they could change was their own awareness of it, and this has been thoroughly done—but if we see that that tapestry is perfect, then we needn't be fearful; everything is all right. As it was put, “unconquerable life prevails.” Everything's fine.
The vibratory pattern is the way it should be, and our sole concern is to let our conditioning—which has come to us mostly out of the mass consciousness out of the past—to be changed, clarified, so that we can begin to translate what is actually present accurately, clearly, for what it is in fact. And as this translation occurs God then is in position to enjoy His creation. He hasn't been in position to enjoy His creation, because the facility for that enjoyment hasn't known what the creation was. It's engendered something that is entirely a figment of fancy. And all this translation has been a barrier, we might say a veil, to God. What He created to allow for the enjoyment, His own enjoyment, the enjoyment of what He created has become a barrier for that enjoyment, and if you take the enjoyment away from God you take it away from yourself. So there has been a very minute, actually, blank spot in God's enjoyment of His creation. But of course it's a very specific thing relative to that aspect of God which carries responsibility in this field.
That aspect of God which carries responsibility in this field relates to us in this Assembly now. We are those who dwell in heaven, those who therefore are the aspect of God relative to this mistranslation all around us. Now we are familiar with the mistranslation. This is the outlook of human nature. We're familiar with that. We know about it and we see it on every hand. We see everybody indulging in it and complaining about it. Well it's no use jumping into that soup and doing the same thing. We stay in heaven where there is no mistranslation, but we recognize the fact of mistranslation by human nature on earth. No longer are we going to associate ourselves with it. There's no point to it. We're not interested in fooling ourselves any longer, deceiving ourselves—not so much because we don't want to suffer these consequences any longer but because we wish to return the facility for right translation to the Lord, so that He may be allowed to enjoy His creation the way it really is. This emphasizes the fact that the way that human beings experience it now is not real. It's just a fog behind which the reality really is, and the fog is the way human beings translate what they perceive with their senses. Well, all on their own, without the creative action of spirit, that translation is bound to be false. But when the spirit is in action the translation can begin to be of what is really there and it restores the beauty of the garden on earth. The kingdom comes.
We see this from the standpoint of our own responsibility now in this particular setting. We are in the business of allowing a retranslation to occur in our own awareness of what is present. We see, because of the information that is brought to us in various ways, the mistranslation that has been made and is being made and continues to be made. But that is of very little concern to us. We know it's just a figment of fancy. Our concern is to let a correct translation be made of what is present in our own consciousness. We're not expecting it to be made in anyone else's consciousness particularly, just our own. We need to see things as they are, translate them correctly. Well we can't translate them correctly if we keep agreeing with the mistranslation. Now of course this seems like a deception. “Well the thing is there. I see it there.” Well all we see is a mistranslation of what is there; that's all. That may loom quite large but it doesn't make it anything else but a mistranslation. All right, we're not interested in agreeing with that mistranslation. We're not interested in supporting that at all. It's a disintegrating ghost and we find ourselves busy then about making the correct translation in our own consciousness.
You can see how the idea that has come into some schools of thought that one must deny the unreality and it would go away, has a base, a root, in something that is true. It's not going to go away unless there are those who participate in the process of correct translation, and merely saying, “Well that's all false,” if it made the thing go away, would just leave a blank. No, our business is to do the correct translation. That's something to do. It's a positive action and we share this responsibility as we stand in heaven. We become aware of what is present in the heaven and this is the reality, and we translate it in our own living. We stop agreeing with the translations of human nature, objecting to them, fighting against them, struggling with them as though they were real, because we are so busy making the correct translation in our consciousness and revealing the fact that we have made the correct translation in our living. Now this won't perhaps for the moment change the translations that other people are making falsely, but it initiates something. And we are concerned with allowing this facility for making the correct translation be present in the world, specifically in this instance in this room now.
This is the heaven, or the Holy Place, where we belong. There must be this starting point of the heaven. We've allowed some translation to be changed in our own consciousness so that we recognize there's more beyond the Holy Place. We've defined it in words by saying the Outer Court, and beyond that again the Encampment, all of which relates to the heaven which is emerging in our own experience of living to be a fact within the scope of the world of mistranslation. Now there couldn't be the Outer Court, there couldn't be the Encampment, without the Holy Place. So the first order of business, insofar as the Third Sacred School is concerned, was to do what was necessary on the basis of the action of spirit to bring those who were open and willing to allow a new translation to be made in their own consciousness, to the point where the Holy Place—which already exists; it’s the vibrational pattern; it's never been changed, it's here—but that it might have some inhabitants, some people in it. Of course we're in it just so long as we're making the right translation. As soon as we make a false translation and revert into the human nature state, out we go.
We don't have some special badge that says we're always welcome in the Holy Place. Well, there's a security check, I suppose, because we can't get in the first place as long as we're making mistranslations. And we only find ourselves there to the extent that our translations begin to reveal in our own consciousness, in our own living, the truth—the truth of this vibratory pattern which is just exactly the way it should be. The vibratory pattern doesn't need to be changed in that sense; just the ability to translate it needs to be changed, so that it's done correctly. Then there it is. The kingdom of heaven comes.
And so the Holy Place must be there, the place where there are people present to allow the action of spirit to occur. There is the positive action of spirit—radiation—and this permits a focus of right translation to be present in the world of wrong translation: in other words, a point of true orientation. And there are those who are influenced by the impact of spirit that emanates from the Holy Place by reason of the fact that it is now inhabited by at least a few. That impact of spirit has an effect, initially a subconscious effect relative to those who are still caught in the field of mistranslation, but begin to sense that it is the field of mistranslation. They might not define it with those words but they begin to feel that there's something wrong here that cannot be corrected by any of the antics of human beings as they have been known heretofore. And those antics are very repetitive, aren't they? They go over and over again. People do the same silly things over and over. Of course, given enough time, people forget about it, forget that it was silly and do it again.
So the Holy Place needs to be established, and this has been our primary concern insofar as the Emissary ministry was concerned—not that an emissary cult should be established on earth, amongst all the myriad of other cults, but the fact of the Holy Place in which there are those who are making correct translation of the vibratory pattern that is present in heaven. And when the Holy Place is there, then there is the point of orientation and the point of spiritual influence and impact, and others are attracted to the experience of right translation, which is the experience known in the Holy Place. They're not being attracted to the Emissary ministry as such, as people have thought of it anyway, but to the genuine reality, a focus of those who are making right translation of the vibratory pattern that is present in a world of people who are making wrong translations.
And so there is this attraction, based in this response to this genuine reality. Now many of those who perhaps were beginning to be drawn into the Holy Place themselves mistranslated what was happening and said: “Well this is attraction to the Emissary ministry.” It would be possible to describe the Holy Place, where the correct translation was being made, as the Emissary ministry, but the fact of the matter has been that it wasn’t, or only to a limited degree. Once there is an awareness of the genuine reality, because the right translation is being made, it doesn't need to be defined. That's the way things are and one just knows the way things are. That's all. However, in the world of mistranslation things are constantly mistranslated of course, and even the emergence of people who are actually in the Holy Place is mistranslated. Well we understand. People mistranslate things, that's all, and you can't arbitrarily bang people over the head and say, “Stop mistranslating things.” You know that this hasn't been done, particularly to you, because it doesn't work. One has to reach a point where one's longing, one's hungering and thirsting for right translation, is greater than anything else. Then there begins to be a movement to the point where one may find oneself in the Holy Place, which is the place of righteousness. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” They shall come into the Holy Place and be filled with right translation, a true outlook, a true understanding and a true revelation of this in living.
And when there is the Holy Place, because there are those present in it, then there may be something that goes beyond the Holy Place. There may be the provision of the Outer Court, and the Encampment beyond that again. It is as though there was a bright light in the Holy Place shining forth, but a different vibratory range of light appears in the Outer Court, and again beyond that in the Encampment. In other words there is within ourselves the range of vibratory states that correlate with the vibratory states of human beings everywhere. However, we have found the Holy Place, which is not true of the general population of the world. Therefore there is a point from which action may proceed, and that action emerges into expression relative to other people, at the level where the other people are. It doesn't emerge, insofar as they are concerned, at the level of the Holy Place, because they have nothing to correlate with that. It emerges at the level where they are and we are thinking of this of course with respect to those who have some response to the expectation of right translation, so that they are being attracted, and our touching of those is at the level which they now occupy in the cycle of attraction.
This is our immediate relatedness, connection. We don't suggest in our attitude, or in the way we offer what we need to offer to some particular person, that they stay at that level. In other words, there is always the attitude, “Come up higher, come up higher—not necessarily into the Holy Place, because there is a correct level of right translation of what is present, all the way from the periphery of what we have spoken of as the Encampment right through to the Holy Place. And then there are more people as you go further out. We've had the symbol of the pyramid before—so again we're not anticipating cramming everybody into the Holy Place. It wouldn't be possible. It's not intended. There are those who belong in the Holy Place. The priests and priestesses belong in the Holy Place—the ultimate focus of government relative to all the various fields that are present at the various levels in the total body of mankind—all that comes to focus in the Holy Place.
There are relatively few cells of the body related to the processes of true thinking, but all the other cells of the body are connected up, and everything functions rightly at its own proper level. And we let it be that way. This emerges as there are more and more making a correct translation of this vibratory tapestry which includes all these levels. So in our own consciousness there is space for everyone at every level. There's no attitude of exclusiveness. There is the capability of encompassment on the part of those who are in the Holy Place, and only there. The same encompassment is not possible when you get beyond the Holy Place. There will be points of focalization, here, there and everywhere, encompassing certain segments, but the total encompassment is only possible in the Holy Place. There must be, as I say, the Holy Place established. There must be the capability of encompassment there for anything to reach beyond. The first thing that Elijah did, you may remember in that contest, was to rebuild the altar of the Lord, to reestablish the Holy Place, because until that's there there's no point of orientation. There's no point from which the creative power of spirit may act to achieve whatever next needs to be achieved.
Now we see this achievement reaching out and all these levels, all these people in all these levels, are encompassed by those who function in the Holy Place in their own consciousness. It isn't that one has to go out and find all these people and somehow gather them together, get them into a room and say, “Now you're all encompassed.” The encompassment is spiritual encompassment and it works relative to different ones, certainly, who present themselves in our environment at different levels—participating in the attractive process. And there would be some indication of this, if that person actually came to you into your environment. Here's an opportunity of some kind, at least to find out, but you're not trying to drag someone into the Holy Place. Let's not ever do that. Let's leave them where they are functioning, in the field where they are. and offer what is possible for them to rise up where they are. And we work through individuals in this sense, but we begin to have a larger awareness, because our translation is more accurate of what is really happening everywhere. And we are capable of encompassing people everywhere at every level in the cycles of attraction. Those who are not yet moving in the cycles of attraction we can leave alone. And again we don't judge people. We let them prove it out.
And so we share this responsibility of abiding in the Holy Place, that we may offer what is necessary because we begin to be increasingly capable of making correct translation of what is actually present with us. The truth is true and all is well; unconquerable life prevails.
© emissaries of divine light
Letters and Words
Martin Cecil June 11, 1978
“Bless the Lord, O my soul.” How is this possible? A door may be opened for the Lord so that He might enjoy the blessings of His creation by reason of the souls of men. The souls of human beings have cursed the Lord, excluding Him from the enjoyment of His own creation. This is part of our purpose, to make it possible for the Lord to be blessed once more by reason of the souls of men. Let us remember that the soul to which reference is made is the physical form of the human being, composed of the dust of the ground into which has been breathed the breath of life. The living soul lives for and by reason of the Lord.
We have some understanding of these things and some increasing ability to minister in the name of the Lord on earth, speaking the Word of the Lord to the consciousness of mankind, the Word that is fitting at this present time: “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.” For this to occur in the experience of mankind the truth of it must be proven out, the visible precedent must be established. We have the opportunity of playing a part in making that precedent visible. Our gathering here is because some aspects of the substance of our consciousness as human beings have been under the heaven—that is, influenced by the heaven—so that we were willing consciously to be gathered together unto one place. The dry land has appeared because of this and we are all present physically speaking, present and in position to let the precedent continue by reason of the command of the Lord: “Let the earth bring forth.” Let our lives reveal the truth from moment to moment but particularly now in this setting. By reason of our physical bodies being here we are capable of functioning in this setting on the basis of whatever the command of the Lord may be. We are here to discover what that command is; not to have any preconceptions about it but to let it be revealed in this moment.
All things work decently and in order. There is nothing haphazard about the way of the Lord. Human beings are haphazard in their human nature consciousness but the Lord is orderly. There are very specific creative cycles moving, with which His angels are naturally harmonious. That movement is in fact the movement of angels. The human consciousness has had virtually no awareness of this. It has been foggy. The truth has been obscured. The reality of life has remained unknown. People ask one another what is the secret of life; perhaps some great guru somewhere will explain it. But life is no secret, except to the human nature consciousness. Life is plainly revealed throughout the whole universe but the consciousness of human beings has become so darkened that there is ignorance. Because there is ignorance it seems as though there is a need to try to discover many things, amongst which presumably would be included the secret of life. We recognize that there is no need to discover the secret of life, because life is no secret. We would accept the reality of it in our own experience moment by moment.
Every moment is a beginning. Whatever went before culminates in this moment. Out of this moment springs the reality of life, to be expressed according to its true character in this moment. What is to appear because of this movement of life is unknown. We know what is now and we continue to know what is now but we have no need to peer into the foggy future; just to experience what is now. Now is our contact point with life but the future always remains dark. Human beings generally feel uncomfortable about that darkness. They want their teacups read, or whatever, so as to find out what is in the offing. It is much wiser to accept the darkness, because that is the way it should be. We have no need to peer into the future—it is naturally dark. At the beginning of any creative cycle there is darkness. According to the story of creation in Genesis darkness was upon the face of the deep: “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” What is to emerge has not yet taken form.
The darkness with which we are principally dealing is the darkness of human ignorance. It is, one might say, an unnatural darkness. It has been called the darkness of Egypt. But darkness is always the beginning point of a creative cycle. As has been previously noted, God is very practical. He doesn't try to function in relationship to something that is not. He accepts the situation as it is. The present situation includes the darkness of human ignorance. All right, He accepts that darkness as a starting point for whatever creative cycle is necessary to allow that ignorance to be dispelled. This darkness of course is very different to the darkness which was upon the face of the deep, described in the Book of Genesis, but exactly the same principles operate in either case. Obviously the earth has been created; we don't need to do that over again; but there is a state of darkened ignorance in human nature consciousness. Darkness is the essential starting point for any creative cycle, so we accept that darkness the way it is. Human beings have very little awareness of what it is that is going on. They build their fancies in their darkness, but out of darkness light may be generated.
Darkness and light are interdependent. You cannot actually have darkness without light or light without darkness. If it were all dark, as it is in human consciousness, that is the way it is. No one thinks of it as being darkness, because there is nothing of light to make it apparent that it is darkness. On the other hand if it were all light, what would that be? There are these two aspects. We could say that darkness is undimensional substance. We would speak of it as nothing, the absence of light. But clearly, quite apart from human ignorance, we are very much aware of the darkness spread out throughout the universe apparently, perceived on a clear night. There are many pinpoints of light present. The more magnification you have in your telescope the more of these lights become apparent, but darkness nevertheless is a very prevalent state of affairs. It is a most essential state of affairs. It makes creation possible. It provides the undimensional substance out of which initially light emerges. Darkness and light relate to the two aspects of the creative field in which God works. “The earth was without form, and void.” So it is now, relative to what is yet to appear; and darkness is upon the face of the deep both of the future and of the human nature state of consciousness, but the spirit of God may move upon the face of the waters. There may be an activation relative to the darkness so that what we think of as positive and negative poles may be engendered. This relates to light.
Everything is based in what we speak of as the One Law. The operation of the One Law is light. The darkness comprehends not the light. Certainly the darkness of human ignorance comprehends not the working of the Law. There have been some ideas promulgated relative to the Law but the manner of its working has been very obscure, concepts perhaps in the human mind about it but real understanding, no; everything is still dark. The spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters. It moved upon the face of the waters insofar as you are concerned: “And God said, Let there be light.” And out of the darkness of ignorance light has emerged, because there has been an activation within the range of your consciousness of the working of the Law.
We see such creative cycles initiated in each moment, cycles within cycles. This morning we were observing the larger cycle. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/05/let-waters-under-heaven-be-gathered.html] In that, relative to the world as a whole, we are at the point where God says, “Let the waters be gathered together unto one place, the waters under the heaven, those levels and states of consciousness which are in whatever measure yielding to the heaven. The waters are seen collectively; the state of the consciousness of mankind. The consciousness of mankind is present in individuals, brought to specific focus in each person; but it is all part of the consciousness of mankind, so that what moves relative to that whole consciousness will also be moving relative to each individual. The creative Word spoken by God is spoken to the consciousness of mankind. From our standpoint we would say that it is spoken by the Archangel. We properly share the consciousness of the Archangel. It is because of this that he has some consciousness on earth and, by reason of that, can speak the Word of God: “Let the waters … be gathered together unto one place.” So the waters under the heaven begin to move and that movement becomes increasingly apparent. Most people do not know what it is or what is happening, but to the extent that we have angelic perspective we see, know and understand. We participate in speaking that Word: “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place.” And so we participate in this greater cycle.
But there are also lesser cycles, individual ones. The present moment for each individual here present is the beginning of a cycle. It is the beginning point where rightly the spirit of God, your spirit as an angel of God, moves upon the face of the waters of your consciousness and the word is spoken, “Let there be light”; so that you may become aware in the moment of what it is that is moving in the moment. This does not say that you are aware of everything that is moving everywhere in the moment; that would be utter confusion, wouldn't it? You are aware of what is moving as it relates to the particular point of the consciousness of mankind that comes to focus because of you, because of your soul as an individual. You see what you see. Someone who is sitting next to you sees what he or she sees, and I am sure you recognize that your individual visions do not exactly coincide. Rightly so. We are not all supposed to be the same. There is One Archangel—there is a point of focus in that sense—but His consciousness on earth is composed of what is present in many individuals who have emerged into an awareness of these things because of the command, “Let the waters … be gathered together unto one place.” Because this is happening within the range of your own consciousness as a part of the consciousness of mankind, you are aware of it and you find yourselves compelled to be gathered together unto one place—this place, to be specific in the present moment. But being gathered together in this place, there is a creative cycle now relative to this place, this setting, this configuration of angels. And the creative process always unfolds in order. It is an orderly process. Because it is an orderly process it brings order out of apparent chaos.
Order obviously would never be brought out of chaos if the means by which order was to be brought out of chaos was not orderly. If the cause was chaos the result would be chaos. Actually if we think of chaos as meaning a totally mixed-up state which really shouldn't be there, then of course there has been a chaotic cause for that. But there is the creative process which unfolds in the creative cycles and it may appear to be chaos to human minds but really isn't. What is happening is that various stages in the creative process are being brought forth. The human mind is inclined to think that anything that isn't the finished product isn't the way it should be. This is rather a ridiculous view because continually we are working with things that are not the finished product, and in any case, what is a finished product? I don't think we really need any finished products. That would be the end of it, wouldn't it? There is a product that is ongoing, and it is that ongoingness in the creative cycles that is perfect. That is perfection. Perfection is not some ultimate goal somewhere. It can only be rightly seen as an ultimate goal from the standpoint of our participation in it. If we are not now participating in the perfect creative cycle as we should, then presumably we have some sort of goal in mind, that one day we will get to the point where we are participating in the creative cycle and that will be perfect. But the point is that we are where we are. The Lord is quite willing to accept that fact. Even though many human beings are not, apparently, He is quite willing to accept the fact that people are the way they are. Let's get going, then, on the basis of the way things are; not on the basis of the way anyone would like it to be or hopes it will be one day, but the way things now are, the present moment.
The creative movement comes on the basis of what we have spoken of as True Cause. This is spiritual expression. It is the angelic action. Consequently, if we are to participate in what is actually happening in the creative process, we must be aware angelically speaking. We can't be aware angelically speaking as long as we are fiddling around in the realm of effects, as long as we are struggling in the realm of effects. That is the only place anyone ever struggles anyway. There is no struggle in the realm of cause. The key word in the realm of cause is Let. There is no struggle about that. Just let it. Mind you, letting is not a matter of sitting supinely, hoping for the best, because probably you will experience the worst on that basis. Letting is not a passive activity; it is an activity. It requires let-ers! You know, words require letters, and for the Word of the Lord to be spoken there must be letters in that Word. Then the Word may be spoken because all the letters are in place. When the letters are in place in the Word the Word may be spoken. If you have some particular word and the letters are all jumbled up—it is an anagram we'll say—it needs to be put together in the right way. Until it is put together in the right way it cannot be spoken; nobody knows what it is. So all the letters must be in place. The letters are the angels of God incarnate on earth.
As they come into place there begins to be a comprehensible Word. Actually it is more than a word, isn't it? There are sentences. There is something to be said. When the initial creation was undertaken, “God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” After that He didn't just shut up so that there was nothing else. Some of the further words that He spoke are recorded. Do you think He said nothing in between? The creative process is a constant one. There is constant radiation, we call it. There rightly is constant spiritual expression. It comes to specific points of focus in various ways at different times, but words follow words rightly. There is a creative language, a true language, a language which can only be spoken when there are letters available to form the words and when the words can be spoken and put together in the language. There is one true creative language insofar as the children of men are concerned, rightly, not all this mass of confused tongues that we have now. So in the creative process there is the matter of letting. As angels we need to become proficient letters, accurate letters. In this fancy writing that is sometimes used it is pretty hard to make out what it is that is being written; ancient documents are usually hard to decipher. The Word of the Lord is quite simple, quite straightforward, very exact, but in order for it to be this way on earth it requires exact letters to form the words.
Perhaps we could see Words as relating to this matter that we have described as angelic configurations. Here are some letters being put together in a Word, a Word which is not an isolated word. Isolated words are not all that useful. They may sometimes be used to stir someone from slumber, a couple of words maybe: “Wake up!” But for the most part, to have an intelligible ongoing creative expression we require a sequence of words. If we see the various groupings of angels as relating to this matter of words then we see how sentences are being formed even now. If one is included in any particular configuration let us not imagine that that is the end of it, that is all there is to it. It relates to some other configuration, and when these words are put together in their right sequence then there is a comprehensible statement, a creative command spoken by the Archangel. We have seen that what is now being spoken is in essence: “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place.” But we are not going on repeating that forever. There are other things to be said in that connection. There are the details of the creative process; but all of them are based in the creative command, all of them are based in the creative Word, the creative words put together. So there is an ongoing unfoldment in the creative sense.
In describing these things I have used an analogy of letters and words, but I think it is an analogy easily seen as applying, because we are all supposed to be letting the truth be revealed in our momentary living. You are not going to be able to make it be revealed by any effort of willpower on your part, but it is ready to be revealed in an orderly manner when you let it, when you stop imposing human nature structures upon what it is that is properly emerging. This is customary with human beings. They tend to translate everything into the structures that are already present in their rigid minds, but the creative process is a fluid one. So we learn to let. As angels we are very proficient at letting. The human nature consciousness is not so proficient. At least it lets in the wrong sort of way. It lets according to the habits of human nature consciousness.
So we participate in a creative cycle which is constantly the first day. This seems rather incomprehensible to the mental apparatus, but do you think if there is function on the basis of the commandment that was given on the second day of creation that at that point the light went out, the first day light went out? No, it is still there. So in any moment there is always that, and it always provides the starting point in relationship to what is to follow, but we find that there are definite configurations in the field of creative cycles which allow us to be constantly present at whatever point the creative cycle may be moving. All this is most confusing to the human mind because the human mind is in darkness. Ah, we need the first day! The light that is needed in the human mind will allow an awareness of the reality of the moving of creative cycles and it is quite unnecessary for the human mind to try to pin them down. It simply may know that they are moving. It may have some awareness, as we have, of the larger creative cycle and of lesser ones but it needs also to be alert to experience light moment by moment by moment; not trying to understand something that it doesn't understand but experiencing the understanding that is available in the present moment, whatever that may be. And if that understanding doesn't live up to the expectations of the human mind, are you going to allow the mind to dictate to you what your attitude is going to be? Are you going to be disgruntled: “I'm not seeing what I think I ought to see with my mind!” How do you know what you ought to see? Be at least as willing as the Lord to accept things as they are, because it is only when we work with what is so, that we can continue to move into the greater experience of what really is so.
So from moment to moment we move in the creative cycles. The spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters. There is darkness as to the future; there is darkness in the human nature consciousness. Let there be light, the light which comes as the spirit of God moves, so that there is a sense of lightness. In that original creative process, what do you suppose there was to be seen when the light came on?—apparently nothing had yet been created to be seen anyway—just the coming on of the light, the sense of lightness, the awareness of the reality of light. Then this effort that the intellect of man makes to try to engender light may cease. It tries to engender light by increasing knowledge. This is the method used by the mind of man to produce what it imagines light to be; but that isn't light; that is darkness, that is the state of darkness, the state of ignorance. Any mind is ignorant that thinks it can produce light by increasing knowledge. It produces confusion; it produces darkness in other words. It doesn't change the condition of darkness. The condition of darkness is only utilized in a creative cycle by reason of the spirit of God. It cannot be utilized by the mind, because the mind is a part of the darkness anyway. Darkness acting upon darkness doesn't produce anything but darkness; no change. It is only when the spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters that something happens. All the rest is fancy, deception, illusion. The world produced by human nature is the world of illusion.
Of course there is a tendency for some to say, “Well that is natural; it should be the world of illusion; it is the world of the senses, the world of illusion.” That is kind of a cop-out, because there is a real world that needs to be here, that isn't a world of illusion. It is only a world of illusion because of what human beings have made of it. So if you include that world of illusion as part of the glorious creative process instituted by God then you really are deluded. A lot of people are deluded on that basis. God is willing to admit that there is a world of illusion that human beings try to live in, and because of that He is willing to start there; but let us for heaven's sake come out of it! Let us move in the creative cycle and participate in extending the creative command into the consciousness of mankind as a whole, because that is what we are here to do. And we only have meaning when we do it; so we only experience the fact of meaning on this basis. If we do not function on this basis then it would not be surprising if we sometimes felt a little meaningless, because that would be the truth of the matter. Let us have meaning because we participate in the meaning of the creative process. Let us share in the unfoldment of this, not trying to understand it, not struggling with it—that maintains the darkness—but letting the creative process continue and moving with it with increasing expertise; spiritual expertise, that is.
We have moved with the creative process in some measure this evening. Now if the mind tries to get hold of what has been happening it will wonder after the beast, won't it? “What on earth has been going on?” And yet if you have been moving with the creative process something has been going on; you know it has been going on. Well don't try to figure it out; just let it go on. That is what we are here for. We are letters, and what is going on doesn't have to conform to some concept of our minds. If it does it will be wrong for sure. Let it be whatever it is. The Lord is willing. Sometimes human beings say, “We'll do this, the Lord willing.” Well the Lord is quite willing to let it work this way. Let's go along with it. Let's share it. Then we begin to experience spiritual understanding, which is very different from an intellectual idea about something. We understand. We play our parts. We fulfil the purpose for which we are here and we participate in the speaking of the creative command by which the changes are wrought in the consciousness of mankind. This is the only way it can be done. Nothing else that human beings can do leads anywhere. It leads in fact nowhere. Let us participate in the now here rather than in moving toward the experience of nowhere.
The spirit of the living God is beautiful; it is powerful, strong, and not in the least haphazard, very orderly. So we share the coming of the Kingdom, the orderly state; first of all in our own consciousness, then in the consciousness of mankind, and then in the environment round about. As we participate in this our souls begin to extend a blessing to the LORD. He may come near to His world on the right basis, come near to a world which is being made orderly according to the living design of the Kingdom. We answer His prayer: “Thy kingdom come.” Yes, certainly! Let us let it come.
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The Simultaneous Cosmic Current
Alan Hammond
Our Divine And Cosmic Identity Volume 1 Chapter 47
The true experience of life is designed to be one of continuous expansion, so that it is always full of interest, with a sense of something new and glorious opening up. We often have hints of this true experience through young people. Their whole lives are before them. However, because most human beings are identified either with their bodies or their minds, after about the midpoint in life they begin to feel that their lives are shrinking. Human civilizations have the same basic experience. They seem to flourish, after a fashion, for a while, then decay. But we are interested in knowing for ourselves and reintroducing the truth into human experience. There is always a level of our Being which is in an expansive phase. Fundamentally, it is the lack of fine substance between the undimensional and the dimensional realms in the human psyche that has caused this disruption of the true process.
Certainly, in the spiritual field there is arrested development in human consciousness. Very little expansion of awareness had taken place since the presence of Jesus on Earth 2,000 years ago, until very recent days when Uranda and Martin Exeter continued the development of consciousness relative to true Identity and function in that Identity. We currently share in the ongoing development of their ministries, seeking to let there be an expanding expression and vision of life through human form. We have every confidence that, although some of the subjects considered may seem outside some peoples’ current experience, they may prove of value later in the awakening process, because the true spiritual Tone and lines of force are inherent in the meditations.
We don’t anticipate that the human mind is going to become aware of all the knowledge that exists in the cosmos. The mind isn’t designed for that purpose, anyway. But it is designed to have its own scope of awareness and function within the Divine Design. We recognize that in order for the true mind of the body of mankind to be present, it would require many Self-aware human beings and their coordinated thinking to facilitate the proper function of that body. There are so few people on Earth at the moment with either adequate fine substance or the basic premises in consciousness to do much real thinking. Nevertheless, we have no trepidation about that, for we know that the overall process of restoration of the true design on Earth is under way, regardless, and we are content to play our part at this juncture in the process as it is, here and now.
Many people believe that God used to speak through human beings a couple of thousand years ago, through people in the Bible or in other religious scriptures, for example, but that God has stopped saying anything now. However, Life is just as much in expression now as it ever was, and Life has something to say through human beings relative to the situation as it is now. Most people rule themselves out as possible participants in God’s expression, so they don’t have as full an experience in this regard as they might. When we seek to articulate the current of Life and Spirit that is moving now, we may quote people from the Bible because they may have articulated something we are experiencing now, and many people accept them as authority figures. But actually Life, we, in this moment choose what we will quote and what we won’t quote, simply because we want to say what we want to say now.
So it might be interesting in this light to examine something that Jesus said, to see what significance there may be in it for us today. He said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” Does that relate in any way to our personal experience? I think it does. There are various ways one can approach this statement. When we read about magnificent expressions of character, where there was nobility, honor, beauty of spirit expressed through historical figures, we recognize that that is the same character and spirit that I Am. Each of us can say this because I Am is fundamentally one spirit. The expression of it back there was my spirit. It was Me.
When we know ourselves, we know that the very core of our Being is this magnificent quality of character. This is who I Am. Spirit ultimately is one. That is why, really, to say “I agree with you” to another human being is quite a modest level of union. That is the expression of one separate person saying to another, “I agree with you.” There is, however, a level of experience that says, “I am one with you. The spirit you have expressed is my spirit. That is Me.”
This is love. Love is oneness. That is why, if one truly loves someone, there is the experience of oneness. There is then movement to protect, to enhance, because there is this experience of oneness. We are one. Friendship is rather a pale word also. By contrast, oneness—love—is the angelic experience of relationship. We are this one quality of Being. And so it is when we read about this spirit in expression in the past, we could each say, “I was there!” This quality of Being, of nobility, beauty, strength, was being expressed then. “I Am” was present then. “I Am” is present now.
There is another way we can think about Jesus’ statement, “Before Abraham was, I am,” which may initially seem a little superficial. But the fact is that each of us experienced Jesus’ words, in this sense. We were born and we generated in our consciousnesses an awareness of ourselves. After that, there was generated in consciousness awareness of other people and things. We may have learned about Jesus or Abraham in Sunday School, for example. Thus before Jesus (and Abraham) was, I Am. All these other people—even the whole world—were generated in my experience after the generation of the awareness of Self: I Am. In my consciousness, before any of these historical people appeared, I Am.
Finally, it wasn’t just the human being, Jesus, who said, “Before Abraham was, I am”; it was the Divine Being, the life essence, speaking through the form of Jesus. But Jesus said to everyone, “Follow me.” So if Jesus could say, “Before Abraham was, I am,” this is true of each of us also. Now this may not be our experience in this moment, but we can have the idea on a shelf, as it were, in our consciousness, so that we can eventually face the fact. Of course, such awareness cannot be plastered on from the outside by merely clinging to a concept. Each individual must generate for themselves adequate fine substance that connects the outer consciousness into the undimensional levels of Being. Then the awareness flows from inside-out. But it is useful to have a general picture of the truth.
There is some truth to the experience of self-centeredness. Most of our experience of self-centeredness has been of the human-nature variety, our own in particular! However, we see it in virtually all human beings now, that they are identified as segregated, isolated individuals who have little relatedness to, or respect for, the cosmos. And they demonstrate this through their lack of respect for the people and things immediately around them, which are part of the cosmos. However, if there is a generation of fine spiritual substance, the outer consciousness is blended into the undimensional levels of Being and the outer consciousness becomes aware of the true Self. Once there begins to be awareness of this beautiful Self, the beauty of Being, we realize it is the same Being that is at the core of all other forms. As there is reverence for one’s own Being, it naturally follows that there is reverence for Being wherever it is encountered. This is the fulfillment of the two Great Commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God”—the truth of one’s own Being—“with all.” As we do this, we naturally love our neighbor as ourselves, because all are aspects of the same Self. This is the true Self-centeredness, which ultimately includes everything.
The cosmos is the one vast body of Being. Much of it is invisible to human awareness. We only really notice the physical aspect, but this cosmic body is animated by radiation emerging out of the undimensional levels of Being. We could call that the vertical radiation—or the current of the Spirit—coming down out of the undimensional into the dimensions of time and space. That radiation is simultaneous throughout the whole cosmic body, causing immediate and coordinated action throughout the universal body. This radiation creates and sustains every atom, moment by moment. If the vertical radiation ceased, the universe would instantly disappear.
Now, in the dimensions of time and space, it seems as though there are what you might call secondary causes operational, such as the movement of light or heat or sound. I suppose you could call them examples of seemingly lateral radiation. But bearing in mind that the vertical radiation is moving simultaneously throughout the whole universe constantly, what seems like lateral radiation is the reflection of the changing relationships of factors in the undimensional levels of spirit. To make it easier to understand, if you walk from A to B, that is a reflection of some changing relationships of factors in spirit. Those changing relationships are conveyed in the vertical radiation and in the manifestation of lateral movements in time and space. Vertical and lateral radiation are one. Of course, with the lack of fine substance in human beings to connect the undimensional and dimensional world, that translation of vertical radiation is distorted. However, if we are aware that all movement in time and space relates to the changing relationship of spiritual factors, we can consciously participate in relating to the essences of spirit present in our immediate circumstances.
In current human consciousness, light is considered to be the swiftest form of energy in the cosmos. But there is much more to the picture than that. There are other energies that move much swifter than light, which only creeps around the cosmos. Perhaps an example by which we can glimpse some other modes of energy relates to thought and telepathy. Consider this: in a human physical body there are billions of atoms and, relatively speaking, vast distances of space between them. And yet, that little cosmos shares universally and instantaneously certain sensations, certain thoughts. So it is with the cosmic body, where throughout that one body there is the simultaneous experience of sensations and awareness carried by the universal, vertical radiation from the One Spirit. Obviously these sensations and thoughts are not as we experience them in our human forms, but the principle is the same.
There are many implications to this universal unity of experience. It means that we here on this little speck of dust in the cosmic body are in instantaneous, continuous communication with the whole body. Thus, for example, in this very room this morning we have immediately connecting factors relative to the Central SUN of Suns. That is true at all times, because we are an integral part of Being at every dimension. So each of us can begin to relax in the outer consciousness and become aware that I Am an integral part of the cosmos at every level. I do not have to try to control the movement of Life, the movement of the Whole. I am identified as a part of the Whole, and ultimately I am also identified as the Whole. I do not have to anxiously hold life under control. I can relax and move with it because I know the nature of it, and I know its unfolding experience is always from glory unto glory.
As a focus of Being in consciousness, I know that God, the Lord, the Whole, wants me to serve in the Whole exactly where I am—in time and space, in this galaxy, in this planet, in this human form, in this consciousness, in the midst of these specific vibrational factors in which I find myself. If I don’t express my beauty, nobility, honor exactly where I am, where am I going to do it? If not here, where? And if not now, when?
So we are aware that we can bring to focus, here and now, exactly the same absolute forces that are at work throughout the whole universal body. In fact, this is precisely why we are here. All those divine, vertical factors are brought to focus in the quality of the sublime Being which I Am, We Are. As that radiation moves from us, undimensional Being acquires form in these dimensions in which we currently find ourselves. Life is an eternal experience of expansion, and a movement from glory unto glory, as we express who we truly are.
