Re-Attunement With The Word
Martin Exeter December 27, 1981 am
There are many evidences, in form, of cycles in motion. We are capable of observing them and of participating in them, in one way or another. But of course there are also other cycles at work which are not so easily discerned. We could call them invisible. Back of all that is visible is the invisible. There are what might be referred to as the earthly cycles, and also the heavenly cycles. These two aspects of creative movement should rightly be coordinated in an effective way here on earth by man. However, having lost awareness of the invisible cycles to a very high degree, the attempt has been made simply to use the visible cycles to advantage in the human sense, presumably for the achievement of human purposes.
What is moving in the invisible sense is, by and large, ignored. The ordinances of heaven are not recognized and there is a failure consequently on the part of mankind to set the dominion thereof in the earth so that the fact that the invisible and the visible are one might be proclaimed. However, whether these things are recognized by human beings or not they are still at work. If, as has been the case during the course of human history, people are intent upon using whatever it is they are aware of to their own advantage, a very confused, disturbed and destructive state of affairs has been produced. There is no way by which this can be any other way, except as the ordinances of heaven are once more set in the earth by man in the fulfilment of his responsibilities. Should no consideration be given to this necessity, then self-destruction is presumably assured.
Recently we have taken note of the compulsion of fear which governs human beings in their existence the way things now are. [The Slender Thread greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-slender-thread.html and The Origin Of Fear greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-origin-of-fear-martin-cecil-20-1981.html December 20, 1981] The reason for that fear has been largely forgotten; however, forms of various sorts are put upon it as it arises. It seems, for the most part, that human beings are not prevented from finding such forms in their daily existence. There are apparently lots of things to be afraid of. These surface reasons, rationalizations for the sense of fear, do not of course go back to the origins of fear. We have taken note of the violent events that may have occurred with respect to this planet in times past, seared into the memory of the survivors and therefore a part of the mass unconscious presently. This mass unconscious is shared by every human being on the face of the earth. So fear is present at that very subterranean level and it erupts from time to time into the experience of people, who then place a form upon it; and there are plenty of handy forms around.
But we have noted that one may look beyond those past events in the history of this planet and find a time when fear was introduced into the world, before there was anything yet very much in outer form to be afraid of. In the story of Adam and Eve this is portrayed. But the fear was there because of something else. You may recall it was indicated that they were hiding behind the trees when the Lord God came “walking in the garden in the cool of the day”—no one in sight. “Where art thou?” Finally it was admitted by Adam that he was afraid. What was he afraid of? Presumably there was an awareness of failure on his own part, but the results of that failure had not yet put in an appearance, so there was no form yet to pin on his sense of fear. In other words the sense of fear preceded the forms, which came later. I suppose one could say there was a nameless dread, and we all have some experience of nameless dreads. This has been so in every generation.
But that fear, that sense of fear, was present way back because of human failure to maintain attunement with the Word and there was consequently a deep sense of shame. This shame was so strong that it produced a certain stubbornness, one might say. I think this is an experience that many have known, where one might be ashamed of something in these days but unwilling to admit it. And because there was that unwillingness to admit it, to repent, then the nameless fear put in an appearance: We reproduce this sort of experience for ourselves in minor ways, but the really strong element in all of this goes right back to the original point where the first failure occurred. That all has been built into the mass unconscious, the memory that is there present, and this is part of the makeup of every human being on the face of the earth, something which we all share. On top of that, other things have been built over the ages—we have our nationalities; there are national traits of various sorts which spring out of this original shame and fear. Rising up out of that we have our personal heredities in the more immediate sense. Of course even these reach back to something quite common to all of us. We have some common ancestors, not too far back. Then we have what we ourselves are personally responsible for in our own immediate experience as individuals since we were born on earth, and actually before that, since we were conceived.
So this whole pyramid of stuff comes to an apex in each individual, but the lowest stratum in this pyramid is shame. There is a pyramid of feeling and a pyramid of form. The pyramid of feeling produced the pyramid of form. The shame and the fear which began to govern human existence on earth produced forms of various sorts, amongst them these cataclysmic planetary events. So then there is a great pyramid of form with a base in these horrendous experiences shared by everybody who was on earth at the time. Most perished, but obviously a few survived or we wouldn't be here. But in their survival they carried forward that memory. Over the course of time the memory of the form fades, but the memory of the feeling remains and is triggered into experience by present events. In any case this strong compulsion has been translated in human experience as the compulsion to self-destruction. This compulsion has been carried to its conclusion in every generation. All human beings self-destruct. Some of them do it quickly, some take more time about it, but there isn't anyone who has lived on earth who didn't commit suicide. However this business is undertaken it all ends up the same, consequent upon the fact that attunement with the Word has been lost. If this rather deplorable state of affairs is to be changed, then attunement with the Word needs to be found. That is rather a simple statement which should be obviously true to anyone, but clearly it isn't.
In these millennia of human experience on earth shame, fear, and all the related ill spirits that plague human beings have found a fertile ground for development and have been portrayed as some sort of creature, a dragon for instance, a dragon with a number of heads, representing these various ill spirits which take command of human beings. The dragon rules through his various heads: shame, fear, etc. In the story in Revelation there was also a beast which rose up out of the sea, very much like the dragon. He had a number of heads too, the same number, as I recall—spitting image! Here was the form of the creature, and we can observe various forms that exemplify these spirits. It is said of the dragon, that old serpent, the devil, and satan, that he was the accuser. That was one of his characteristics. He was also the destroyer, and particularly the liar.
There are various ways by which lies are propagated on earth—they are propagated by human beings, but it comes to focus in particular ways. I suppose the media might be included as a head of the beast in form. Certainly the media is used, by those who have the use of it, for devious purposes, not so devious in some cases. It is obvious enough in a country such as the Soviet Union, which provides what people should think, through the media. It doesn't matter at all whether it is factual or not, just so long as it is harmonious to the intents of those who seek to control in one way or another. We who live in this beautiful free world of ours look at such things askance and wonder perhaps whether people are being fooled by that. The question is as to whether we are being fooled too, not necessarily by that. We rise up in indignation and say, “Oh, they're telling lies,” but we read our own newspapers, look at TV and so on, most of the time without recognizing that we are being told lies too, in a little different way perhaps but lies just the same.
If we ourselves do begin to proclaim the truth in our living we certainly may expect to stir up some reaction; that's part of the deal. I don't know whether you were aware of that! There are those who certainly are open to receive the truth, up to a point at least. It seems the truth needs to be offered in small doses for people to receive it. What a wonderful thing if it could be provided quickly. Unfortunately, if it comes too quickly too many people would exclude themselves from receiving it, whereas if it was a little more gently and slowly offered perhaps they could more easily accept it, step by step. However in these days, with things leading to a crescendo of some kind, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/09/vibrational-martin-exeter-august-24.html] there isn't all that much time to be gentle about it—it can't be put off anymore if anyone is to survive. And so, behold, I come quickly in these days—that is, the way, the truth and the life come quickly, and it emerges into experience individually speaking. That emergence either will be received with rejoicing, because the individual finds that he can't do anything else—however others have no intention of receiving it. They see a threat to their involvement with the dragon and his heads. They identify themselves as angels of the dragon—they wouldn't be without their fears and their hates and their resentments and their envyings and their jealousies and their greed, and all the rest, for anything. There are a lot of people like that. There are a lot of people who have engendered within themselves an enjoyment of conflict, for instance. Oh there are those who love an argument, and for some, if it comes to blows, so much the better; let's have a good old donnybrook! There would be no spice to life if we couldn't get into a battle once in a while.
Of course all this springs out of this mass unconscious, where the compulsion to self-destruct is present. If the comets and the planets in our solar system won't cooperate in the matter, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-enoch-noah-from-story-of-man-grace.html] then we will devise some means of doing it ourselves. Aren't we clever? We have nuclear weapons; we can do it. We can self-destruct, everything, even perhaps blow the planet apart one of these days. That's the delightful conclusion to which human beings have been dedicated for so long; finally it is coming to fruition. Isn't that tremendous? Everybody should be rejoicing. This is what they want, after all. This is the compulsion that they have been espousing. We have done it too, by the way, and are still doing it to some extent. So there will be conflict, there will be a continuation of shame and fear and hate, because human beings have liked it that way, they wanted it that way, they chose it to be that way. Few have been able to admit that or acknowledge it with respect to themselves. They may see it as it relates to others, and there is always someone else to complain about. How about us? Do we still indulge ourselves in this way when something rises up in our own personal lives? A feeling rises up and we, in our expertness, instantly clothe it with a form of some kind so that it is rationalized to us and we say, “That is the cause for my feeling.” It isn't. The cause for the feeling is well hidden, completely subterranean. You can't get to it.
There is this present with respect to all of us; it is still there. We are connected up to the mass unconscious, same as everybody else. So there are these feelings which rise up and upon which we pin forms, we rationalize. We are expert; after twenty thousand years of doing it human beings have become very proficient. In this sense: Before ye call, I will answer. It seems as though the form came before the feeling, but it isn't so. The feeling came before the form. We are so quick, so agile, that we have a form for it immediately; and because it is so quick we assume that the feeling came because of that form. But every time we do that, every time we find what we assume to be a reason for our discomfort, we immediately align ourselves, attune ourselves, with the dragon and the beast. We believe a lie and we assume the position of the liar. We may say, “So-and-so did such and such; therefore I had this feeling.” If we take that attitude we are a liar, and if we are a liar, who are we—really now? It seems to me that the devil was a liar from the beginning—so we align ourselves with that, an angel of the dragon.
But we recognize that what is present in the subsurface levels of the unconscious, and in the deeper unconscious too, must somehow be cleared, burnt away shall we say; because as long as that exists human beings are going to be governed by it. This has been customary. So somehow or other it needs to be disposed of. How is it going to be disposed of? Is some great heavenly power going to put in an appearance and eliminate it all? Well there wouldn't be any human beings left if that happened. No, it must be done on earth by reason of human beings. It is not exactly done by them, but they must be present to let it happen. It is done by the spirit of God—it is done by the Word. So all the stuff that is present at the unconscious levels—individually from the standpoint of immediate personal heredity; from the standpoint of national heredity; from the standpoint of human race heredity—all must be dealt with.
It is not going to be dealt with piecemeal. That would take quite a while, wouldn't it? There is quite a history back of the human race. But initially it is a piecemeal matter because there must be those who learn to provide the means by which whatever it is that arises may be correctly handled. We have to some extent cast ourselves in that role. It doesn't matter what it is that arises, it has to be dealt with. We are here on earth for that purpose; therefore we can anticipate that things are going to arise. They must; we would be useless unless they did. So we may be aware that “for this cause came I into the world.” And there will be feelings arise. We have become so habituated to clothing those feelings with forms, that we imagine the feelings were generated by the forms. Now we know better. The forms didn't produce the feelings; we pinned the forms on the feelings. Unpin them! Here is a feeling arising; we know from whence it springs. It springs from the fact of the violation of attunement with the Word, whenever that occurred, whether it was a moment ago or whether it was twenty thousand years ago. So, obviously the only requirement is that there should be attunement with the Word now, in that situation, one might say regardless of that feeling, although the feeling is there. Let the attunement be with the Word. We know what sort of attitude that would produce. Let that attitude be there.
In human experience the rising up of these elements of feeling will surely produce a certain amount of discomfort, because we are considering this matter from the standpoint of those who are no longer dedicated to self-destruction. If we were still dedicated to self-destruction, then we could welcome these feelings and really go to town with them, really make a big splash of some kind, just as everybody seems to be doing round about us. But our approach is no longer that. So there will be, on the one hand, a certain discomfort. Come out of all that, that seeing with perspective vision we may recognize exactly what's taking place; but insofar as our own field of responsibility is concerned, whatever arises arises purposefully, so that we may handle our own feelings rightly. Perfect love casts out fear, so the creative expression of the truth of love—the way, the truth and the life—takes care of whatever it is that comes. We don't react in the usual human way. The feeling of being slighted arising, what nonsense; who can slight the Lord in fact? In imagination perhaps, but not in fact. And so that relates to an absence, no doubt.
So many of these feelings do relate to an absence—of course they do—the absence of the Word in expression, when it gets right down to it. But why concentrate on these absences? Why not consider what is present? How about looking around and seeing what is present, what is available now? There is always something. And what is available now will be found to relate to this absence. There is something. For instance, if a person says, “I feel slighted because I wasn't included in some activity of some kind,” consider the activities in which you are included—are there none of those?—and consider the possibilities contained within those activities in which one is now included, because obviously one will not have seen all that is possible with respect to those. One has been fussing about something that was seemingly absent and ignoring what was present and the opportunity that is there. No one ever properly has the excuse for feeling that he or she was excluded. It's never so. Human beings do exclude themselves by becoming involved in absences, and ignoring what is present in which they are now included and in which they could be more completely included if they would give themselves to that and ignore the absences. There are so many possibilities with respect to everyone, and yet how customary it has been to concentrate on the things that are supposed not to be there. If we could just allow our attention to be given to the opportunities that are there, and to ways and means of taking the fullest possible advantage of those, then where would the absences be? They wouldn't even come to consciousness anymore, and that spirit of being slighted would have been dissolved.
So, giving ourselves to this invisible cycle of spirit that is moving, we find ourselves quite capable of knowing the ordinances of heaven and setting the dominion thereof in the earth. And that is what we are here to do. We are here to associate ourselves with that invisible cycle. It is already moving; it is already there, all ready to be included in our experience and correlated with what is happening in form. To do that the forms have to change, to align themselves with the ordinances that are being set. And we handle what comes to us on this basis, forgetting the absences, and all the reasons that we have found to feel badly in one way or another, and acknowledging what is already present and the opportunities that are thereby provided, and undertaking to take fuller and fuller advantage of those opportunities. Behold, on that basis, I come quickly. All things are indeed immediately in the process of being made new, and it doesn't matter what other people are thinking or saying, or judging or splattering around. None of these things move me, because I am too thoroughly occupied with something rather than with nothing. We share this wonderful privilege of knowing increasingly the ordinances of heaven and setting the dominion thereof in the earth.
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Revelation Four
The Lamb On Mount Zion
Martin Cecil December 9, 1956
There are multitudes of human beings in the world who are stirring out of that which has hitherto been a state of sleep. There are many who are in the process of beginning to open their eyes to that which is evident in the world to those who are already awake. As they stir and awaken they come into position to share in a new vision, to share in an understanding of those things which have for so long been hidden from the children of men. That vision and understanding can come to those who are ready to receive it, as it is correctly offered. Human beings have, at various points along the way, stirred in their slumbers and glimpsed, as in a dream, some of those things which the LORD offers freely, but because there was no adequate instrument of control on earth, no means of maintaining proper centering for those who were beginning to stir, that which was seen became distorted and changed, and those involved deviated into tangent patterns of various kinds. No matter what was felt or touched of the things of God, very shortly thereafter the initial impulse became distorted and was, insofar as any really constructive results were concerned, lost. It is only as there is on earth some means of holding that centering true, and of bringing human beings back when they start to deviate and to go off on tangents, that there can be offered to the awakening ones that which will prove to be a true blessing, that which will make possible the emergence out of tragedy into the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Insofar as the world as a whole is concerned, tragedy can hardly be avoided. We see it coming. We see it at the door. But out of tragedy it is always possible to bring forth a true blessing, provided that there is on earth that which offers the opportunity. Man has been stumbling along the way for a long time multiplying tragedy, and the LORD, over and over again, has made possible the emergence of the true blessings of the Kingdom out of the tragedies which human beings have brought upon their own heads. As we look back along the way we have been able to see something of the careful manner in which the LORD works out these opportunities by which blessing might come into a world that has so long been cursed—cursed not by God but by human beings. Because we see the great care that has been taken to offer these opportunities to the children of men it may bring a sense of greater assurance to us today. How carefully the pattern was worked out for the Children of Israel, and even though that failed and did not accomplish what was intended, the starting point was provided for another opportunity. The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine. The way of the LORD is certain. It is certainly true that human beings cannot frustrate it indefinitely. We may be thankful, together with all human beings on earth, that the LORD is full of mercy, longsuffering, and unwilling that any should perish.
As we come to the realization that the ways of the LORD are sure, let us not be deluded into imagining that that gives us license to remain passive, or to indulge in spirits of lethargy. It is really very hard for any alert human being today to be lethargic. The very circumstances in the world are compelling human beings into some sort of action. Unfortunately they do not always know what the action is going to be; they do not know what the control is going to be. If we are going to be forced into action, let us be very sure that we have accepted the proper control in relationship to that action, so that the action that appears is not destructive. As we see that the ways of the LORD are sure, we recognize the truth of this because we accept the responsibility of letting them be made sure on earth. The ways of the LORD are very sure in Heaven. There is no doubt there. But the manifestation on earth has always been an uncertain thing, not because the ways of the LORD were not sure, but because the reactions of human beings were unsure.
The purposes of God will find fulfilment one way or another, but our concern is that the ways of the LORD should be proven sure to the children of men. If the children of men are obliterated from the face of the earth, then they certainly will not know that the ways of the LORD are sure, even though they are proven so thereafter. We are anxious that all those things which have been done by the LORD might be proven worthwhile, so that the fulfilment may come in relationship to living human beings on the earth, but as we accept responsibility in this matter we know that the ways of the LORD shall be proven sure on earth. We cannot tell as to how many shall share in that recognition of proof, but the proof will be there.
It is essential that those who are going to let the proof appear should no longer be governed in any way, in relationship to any aspect of being, by the controls that have been extended into the world, over all the children of men, by that which is symbolized by the great red dragon. We have seen how the patterns of control operate through that which is indicated by the beast which came up out of the sea and the beast which came up out of the earth. There must be those who are in position to meet the issue because there are no control points operating in them from the adversary. Theoretically we have known this for a long time, but we reach a point when it must be the actual manifest fact. If it is not now, and in the days to come, then hitherto we have been wasting our time, and for myself I am not interested in proving that we have wasted our time. I am sure that you are not interested in that either. We are here to prove that we have made good use of our time and that we are ready to acknowledge the control of our KING in the absolute sense. We cannot longer hold out areas of reservation if our lives are not to go for nothing. It has tended to be, in times past, that we have looked toward a point somewhere along the way where finally we would accept and acknowledge the absolute supremacy of the LORD our God in relationship to our lives, completely and wholly. When should that point appear? From my standpoint it has appeared—it is here. We are not looking for something in the future; we are looking for that which must appear now.
Moving forward from the passages in the Book of Revelation which we have been considering, we come to the next chapter, in which we find an outline of that about which I have just been speaking: “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.”
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion.” What is the Mount Zion? We have many passages in the Bible in which the symbol of a mount is used. This is the same place to which Abraham came with his son, Isaac, on the occasion when he willingly offered his only son to the LORD. That mountain was the same as this mountain, and that which Abraham did is the same as is required in relationship to the Lamb on Mount Zion. There was the mount into which Moses ascended to receive the commandments at the hand of the LORD, and coming into the New Testament, there was the mount to which our Master came frequently apart and upon which He was transfigured.
Mount Zion, the high point in relationship to the earth, which makes contact with Heaven, the point at which union between Heaven and earth are established—the point at which man should be, for man makes possible the union of Heaven and earth with respect to this creation. If man does not stand on Mount Zion, then the connecting link which would allow Heavenly things to manifest on earth is missing. And while the Lamb stands on Mount Zion, unless there is some means by which the Lamb can work on earth it means nothing insofar as this world is concerned. The Lamb does stand on Mount Zion, in any case, the point at which the blending of Heaven and earth may take place. God has provided that which is essential insofar as the Heavenly realms are concerned. It is there, standing on Mount Zion—but Mount Zion, insofar as the manifest levels of being are concerned here in the world, has been an empty place. There has been nobody there, or it has merely been that, on rare occasions, certain ones have come to stand on Mount Zion.
There is mention made of a hundred forty and four thousand who were standing on Mount Zion with the Lamb. What is the Lamb? Specific terms give particular emphasis to certain aspects of that thing, but basically they all mean the same thing: the Only Begotten Son of God, the Christ, the Shekinah, the Lamb, the fulness of the Spirit of God. When we utilize the term Christ we may recognize that there is specific emphasis placed upon the Spirit of Love but it includes the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Life also. None of these terms refer to an individual, although an individual may give specific focalization in relationship to them. The Lamb gives emphasis to the Spirit of Truth, although the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Life are included. The Shekinah is characterized more particularly by the Cloud of Glory. That is what is most apparent from the standpoint of mankind and therefore the emphasis is placed upon the Spirit of Life, but included are the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth. Whatever term is used, it actually refers to the same thing—the Only Begotten Son of God, the positive expression of God Being proceeding from God, the means by which God's Will is done, the positive action of the Divine Will appears. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2016/10/from-functional-uranda-june-9-1953-i.html]
The Lamb stands on Mount Zion. This places particular emphasis upon the Spirit of Truth. The essential ministry that is required in the world is the Ministry of the Spirit of Truth. That does not eliminate the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Life. They are all present. But here is that which is coming from God in positive expression, ready and waiting at the point of contact between the Positive Triune World and the Negative Triune World, and unless something comes up out of the Negative Triune World to that point it has precious little meaning to mankind. That which needs to come up is here symbolized by the hundred and forty-four thousand. This has reference to a specific number of human beings. That many are required to allow the manifestation of an instrument that is adequately complete for the accomplishment of the Divine purposes on earth. Therefore the number itself symbolizes that which is complete, that which is sufficient to allow the manifestation of God's Power in the fulfilment of His Will at any particular point. That completeness must appear all the way through if the actual number of a hundred and forty-four thousand is to be available to God for the fulfilment of His purposes somewhere along the way. It is not as though there could be a sudden manifestation, just like that, of a hundred and forty-four thousand people prepared and ready to go to work. The completeness must have appeared in relationship to fewer numbers if that larger number in completeness is ever to appear. You can recognize, then, in relationship to your own field of responsibility that the hundred and forty-four thousand relates to you because there is a proper pattern of completeness with respect to that for which you are responsible now. Of course, the particular field of completeness which is yours is a part of a greater field of completeness with respect to our Ministry as a Whole.
The Lamb stands upon Mount Zion. The Divine provision is there. All that is essential to the Ministry of the Spirit of Truth on earth is provided by the LORD and is waiting for that adequate form of completeness to appear now. The Lamb is not just waiting for a hundred and forty-four thousand people, although that is part of the outworking at the proper time, but there must be that in an adequate expression of completeness at this point if that greater point of fulfilment is ever to be reached. So the hundred and forty-four thousand are you and all those who share in this Ministry at this present time, not the hundred and forty-four thousand people yet, but that which is symbolized thereby, a pattern of completeness at this point. What is complete at this point will not be complete in relationship to that which should appear next week, or next month, or anywhere along the way when that time becomes the present.
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand”—with Him. Are you with the Lamb? You may recall our Master's words, “He that is not with me is against me.” Are we with the Lamb on Mount Zion at this blending point? That is where we must be if we are to play our part in relationship to the unfolding cycle by which the manifestation of the instrument of a hundred and forty-four thousand people may ever appear. “With him an hundred and forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.” Who is your Father? What name is written in your forehead? This relates to the control point with respect to the individual. We remember that the beast had a number written in the foreheads of those who were controlled by him—and here we have the Father's Name, the control of the Father, through the Lamb. “Having his Father's name written in their foreheads.”
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps”—a voice, a sound, a vibration, as of many waters. The voice of many waters is used as a symbol in many places in the Bible. They were all talking about the same thing and they were all utilizing similar symbols, but it is not a repetition. On each occasion it was something fresh and new, the Word of the LORD through the particular individual concerned. The sound of many waters—the Water of Truth. In this particular passage we have an indication of the characteristics of the Lamb. And what is put first? The sound of many waters, the expression of the Spirit of Truth. The Ministry of the Spirit of Truth is that which is required, that which is dominant—so it is put first.
“And as the voice of a great thunder.” That gives the impression of power, does it not? Thunder is the result of lightning. “The lightning shineth out of the east even unto the west”—the Fire which falls from Heaven, the Spirit of God's Love, the Power of God. “The voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps”—the Song of Life. How many patterns there are in the physical body of man through which the currents of life manifest! What tremendous variety there is!—very, very intricate, very, very, wonderful—and all of them are required, blended together and balanced, if the manifestation of life and true health is to appear through the human form. What a wonderful symbol of the currents of life is pictured through the harpers harping upon their harps, something blended in unison, something which brings sweet music. That is the way life should be, not only in the individual body but in the body of mankind, a blended and wonderful thing, a true Song of Life. Here are the characteristics of the Lamb.
“And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the eiders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.” Why could no one else learn the song? Because it can only be sung by those who are on Mount Zion, those who are at the point of union between Heaven and earth, those in whom the Spirit of the Lamb is finding expression, those who have been redeemed from the earth, lifted up, restored, brought back, re-created, to be true Men and Women in Christ.
“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.” Here we have that which has caused a very great deal of misunderstanding, for, in fact, those who are symbolized by the hundred and forty-four thousand, are both male and female. This is talking about being defiled. How do human beings defile themselves? We were considering something in this regard in relationship to the Seven Spirits Before the Throne of God, and their opposites. The Spirit of Purification is one of the Seven Spirits Before the Throne of God, and the spirit defilement was the opposite. We saw how that related to the impure heart—uncontrolled emotions. Human beings committing adultery with that which is properly below them, in the sense of becoming subject to it and blending with it on that basis, defile themselves. They become negative to that which should be negative to them, and consequently there is defilement. And how do they do it? Through the wrong use of their emotions. We are to be virgin in that sense, so that we are centered in the LORD and in the Lamb, and refuse to blend, or to have union, with anything that is properly below us.
“These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” Of course, where human beings imagine that this refers to some individual—Jesus, for instance—the picture is ridiculous, but when we recognize what the Lamb is, naturally we follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. For when the Spirit of God is allowed to control, then our lives are governed thereby.
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Revelation Three
Martin Cecil December 6, 1956
The Seven Heads Of The Beast
We have seen how widespread the influence of the dragon's control on earth is extended. All human beings, in greater or lesser degree, have been governed by the patterns of control which have been established by that which is symbolized by the dragon through what is spoken of as the beast rising up out of the sea and the beast out of the earth—this latter was also referred to as the false prophet. This second beast related to that which is made manifest in the outer sense in relationship to the patterns established in the world whereby human beings continue to live and function. That which is established in the pneumaplasmic realm reproduces itself in the physical levels of being, so it is not surprising that we find indication in relationship to this latter beast of his instruction to make an image of the first beast. The beast out of the sea relates to that control pattern which is established through the pneumaplasmic levels in relationship to human beings, through their emotions; and that which is established in the pneumaplasmic levels of being reproduces itself in the physical levels. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/11/revelation-one-twothe-beast-out-of-sea.html]
The beast out of the sea had seven heads. The dragon must substitute spirits for the Christ Spirit if human beings are going to be kept under his control. We have the Seven Spirits Before The Throne of God which would allow the Divine Control to operate in human lives if those Spirits were accepted; so, in order to prevent this from taking place, opposite spirits are provided for human beings to accept instead of the Christ Spirit. The Seventh Spirit before the Throne of God is the Spirit of Love, the centering of the Christ Spirit. The opposite, of course, is the spirit of hate. The Spirit of Love includes within itself all the other Spirits: the Spirit of Love is characterized by Truth and Life. We remember the First Great Commandment which our Master emphasized, and we recognize that in the keeping of that First Commandment it becomes possible to fulfil the Second Commandment. We become aware of the keeping of the First Great Commandment in relationship to ourselves by reason of our conscious love, one for another. The evidence of love for God appears in the individual's attitude toward his neighbor—your feeling of love one for another.
We remember how our Master emphasized this shortly before His departure—“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.” What is the fact of the matter? What is it that is made manifest in you? What is your feeling and your attitude toward your brother and your sister? There must be that vibrancy of love, one for another, if the control of this centering of the Christ Spirit has been accepted. If it has not been accepted, then of course the experience of the fulfilment of the second commandment cannot be known. The dragon has certainly provided a substitute in relationship to Love which has been accepted by the children of men. You may say you do not actually hate anyone, but there are degrees of hate. There is a very great deal of hate in the world, and those who indulge in hate are convinced that they are justified in so doing. The acceptance of hate, or any ill spirit, reveals a lack of trust in God. The Law works. “As ye sow, so also shall ye reap.” If some human beings are sowing ill things, one way or another they are, for sure, going to reap the results. If those who are suffering by reason of that ill sowing, sow ill things too on the basis of hate, then they also are going to reap the results of their sowing, and the harvest of evil is multiplied.
Our Master indicated that the correct attitude was to love your enemies. Many have considered such an idea as being mushy sentimentalism, but none of the instructions our Master gave were of that nature. They were supremely practical. Nothing is gained by sowing ill seeds, because the harvest will come. So, regardless of apparent justification, two wrongs never make a right. The dragon offers hate, and he has certainly been very successful through the beast in calling forth human response thereto. Multitudes and multitudes of human beings are governed by hate, and when you consider the situation in the world, the things that are going on, when you look at Russia, for instance, what do you feel? Such things are not so very far away from us. When people do ill things here in our immediate environment, what is your feeling toward them? If it is something that actually comes up against you, what is it that you feel? Could there be any element of the spirit of hate still accepted by you? Love—"Love your enemies.” Oh, we do not approve of wrong things; we do not condone them in any sense. We must face ill things with the power of God working through us, with God's Love working through us, but not hate, not any of the lesser currents of feeling that relate to hate.
Then we have the Spirit of the Womb. And what do we have as an opposite here? The spirit of barrenness, emptiness, desolation, aloneness. Human beings feel empty, and as long as the dragon can keep people feeling empty, and turned toward that which he offers to fill that emptiness, he has them under his control, because that which he offers to fill that emptiness never does and never will, although human beings are always imagining that somehow they are going to find something that will fill it. So much is offered to human beings in order to delude them for a little time, so many methods of escape, that they do not have this sense of desolation. The spirit of barrenness, emptiness. No matter what human beings do, how they attempt to bring forth, it all comes to nothing, and that void remains, and human beings are governed by the dragon. Our Master spoke, quoting from Daniel, of the abomination of desolation, human beings rushing hither and yon seeking to find something which will obliterate, at least temporarily, that awful feeling of desolation. The Spirit of the Womb, which is the Sixth of the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God, is prevented from being known, for the Spirit of the Womb is the means by which the things of God's Love may be conceived, to grow and develop in that which has been the empty place in human beings, the place of desolation. That place should be filled with something, but it can only rightly be filled with that which comes from God. Human beings, trying to get away from it, trying to obliterate it, trying to escape from that feeling of desolation, can never do so as long as they live. How is it changed? Through that which is conceived by the Holy Ghost and allowed to grow to fill the womb, that the things of God may be brought forth. As long as human beings can be deluded into imagining that that which the devil offers is adequate to bring satisfaction, the Spirit of the Womb can never be known, and human beings remain under the control of the dragon.
The Fifth Spirit is the Spirit of Life. The opposite of that is the spirit of death and all the things that lead to death, and it is these things which are used so extensively by the dragon to establish and maintain the control of fear. We have so many diseases in the world, engendering fear in human beings, maintaining the control of the devil and maintaining the ill things which the efforts put forward are designed to eliminate; the spirit of fear, relating to the spirit of death.
The Fourth Spirit is the Spirit of Purification. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2020/11/art-thou-master-of-israel.html] The opposite to that would be the spirit of defilement. And what does that engender in human beings? The spirit of shame, the basic ill spirit which keeps human beings bound in subjection to the devil. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” The Spirit of Purification, and the spirit of defilement. As long as human beings can be caused to feel impure, so that shame is engendered, the dragon is content. This has been one of the strongholds of the dragon's power over human beings, establishing patterns of concept which keep human beings subject to the spirit of shame, thereby maintaining the prison walls. The awareness of the sense of shame is essential to its clearing. Those who have no shame in this fallen world, no sense of shame whatsoever, are those who have committed the unpardonable sin. There must be an awareness of shame if it is to be cast out, if it is to be cleared. When there is purity of heart the apparent reason for shame is removed. Can the devil, according to the measure of your purity of heart, bring to bear upon you concepts and ideas emanating from the human pattern, so that you are caused to feel shame by reason of those human concepts and ideas? There are so many patterns of regulation established by fallen man according to his own ideas as to how life should be lived that are the cause of the sense of shame in so many. We have it on the basis of conscience, something that is humanly established, something that is not the true design, and yet human beings are caused to feel shame by reason of it.
Can you, as a part of this Unit for instance, by reason of judgments that may be brought to bear in relationship to the pattern as it is established, be caused to feel ashamed? That has happened over and over again in the past where various human judgments that were brought to bear in relationship to our Program were accepted and agreed with on a basis of a sense of shame. Do the judgments of the world call forth any agreement in you? The sense of shame is the strongest hold that the devil has over human beings, whether they realize it or not. When you are properly centered in God so that your heart is purified, then no one can convince you of sin. The world cannot generate in you a sense of shame because you do not conform with the world pattern. If you find yourself, in word or in action, conforming to a pattern in the world that you know basically is not right, why are you doing it? Is it because you are ashamed of that which is right, and you would not like to display it before others, you would not like to do that which is right because of the possible reaction by others in the world? We avoid as far as possible putting any stumbling blocks before anyone; but what is our motivation in such function? Is it because we are ashamed of that which we know to be right, and therefore we conform and excuse ourselves by saying we do not wish to have the appearance of evil? There needs to be honesty in examining these things. We have, on various occasions, considered the matter of being an Emissary. Are any of you ashamed of it? It has sometimes appeared as though there was shame in that regard. Are you ashamed of being something different? If you are not different to the world, of what possible value could you be to the world? Do you have the courage of your convictions? Or are you sometimes ashamed of your convictions? Shame—has it all been cleared from you? Are you true to the Spirit of Purification?
The Third Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Blessing. And the opposite is the spirit of falsehood, the spirit of cursing. We know that the world—all the people in it—has been deceived by the dragon. We trust that we are beginning to come out from under the shroud of deception so that we might see and know the Truth. What is it that keeps human beings from acknowledging self-deception? What maintains prejudice? The spirit of pride, for one thing. Human beings insist upon maintaining their own states of self-delusion because they are unwilling to admit that they may have been deceived. To think of having lived thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty years, and to have been in a state of self-delusion all that period of time, is too much for the pride of most human beings. They will fight and struggle desperately to avoid being convinced that they have been deceived, and their lives are a curse. They know not what it means to experience the reality of freedom.
The Second Spirit is the Spirit of the Single Eye. The opposite would be the spirit of double-mindedness. “For a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord,” So he does not receive anything from the Lord, and consequently the devil has the opportunity of displaying his wares most effectively. Here, in relationship to this particular spirit, we have that which is closest to the original point of the fall, the eating of the forbidden fruit, judgments between good and evil, double-mindedness. Anyone who is not at least on the way to being centered in God is two-faced. The Spirit of the Single Eye, one-pointed centering in God—the individual who does not have that one-pointed centering in God is wide open to the influence and the control of the dragon. He can be impelled this way and that way by what he conceives for the moment to be good or what he conceives to be bad, for himself.
Finally, the First Spirit, the Spirit of the New Earth. And the opposite to that is the spirit of the old earth which is that of decay. Human beings know not the New Earth; everything is decaying. Consequently there seems to be the necessity to try to hold on to all the things that are passing away, and we have the spirit of greed, selfishness, governing the lives of the children of men. Of course, the devil makes all his offerings seem so reasonable. In the world, under the control of the beast out of the earth, it seems as though you cannot buy or sell, you cannot live life, without accepting the controls which are offered by the devil. A halo of righteousness is placed upon so many things that are merely the devil's offering of that which is of the good classification. How firmly the dragon's control still operates on earth! These spirits are the means by which it is extended into the lives of human beings, nullifying and keeping out the Spirits of the Living Christ. Can we accept the Seven Spirits Before the Throne of God as our control, completely and absolutely? The Spirit of the New Earth. The Spirit of the Single Eye, absolute centering, absolute dedication. The Spirit of Truth and Blessing. The Spirit of Purification. The Spirit of Life. The Spirit of the Womb. The Spirit of Love, in which all the Spirits Before the Throne of God are centered. If any of the spirits of the beast work in you, the Spirit of Love is reduced. The extent of the working of the Spirit of Love in you, one toward another, will be an inverse revelation of the extent of the working of the spirits of the beast in you.
Let us share in acknowledging the Seven Spirits Before the Throne of the One True God, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2017/01/seven-uranda-march-17-1952-from.html] refusing under any circumstances to acknowledge or accept the control of the seven spirits before the throne of the false god. The same principles operate in relationship to the patterns that are established. We can choose one or the other. But when we do choose the Seven Spirits Before the Throne of the Lord our God, then we are in position to play our part in the process by which the dragon is cast out of Heaven in relationship to ourselves, so that the control passes into the hands of the LORD and consequently there is a point established on earth where His control is working and where the dragon has no authority whatsoever.
That is the victory, not only for those who share in letting it be so in the immediate focalization of this Ministry but for all the children of men who will share, accepting it in the days to come. Unless it is established here in our Program, insofar as we are concerned it is not established anywhere, and it must be established somewhere on earth if it is to be known in the world of mankind. Let us meditate upon these things, that we may recognize more clearly the influences which are exerted through the heads of the beast in relationship to ourselves, so that we are true to the right Spirits and consequently share the victory, to the Glory of God and to the blessing of all who will respond. God Bless you, each one, as you acknowledge in your lives the absolute supremacy and dominion of the Seven Spirits Before the Throne of the Lord our God.
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