Known To Unknown To Known
Martin Cecil April 24, 1980 Assembly
All are faced with the ministry of life and the consequent handling of the creative processes as they emerge within the range of our awareness. This is all included in what is rightly called sex. As was noted yesterday, there is no marrying or giving in marriage in heaven. The matter of marriage as we know it has been something that was produced by human beings to maintain some sort of a control in the field of human sexuality. This has very little to do with true spiritual purposes. The human approach may be, “Let’s establish laws, rules, regulations of various sorts, so that things don’t get out of hand.” And there is a sufficient government in this sense established so that we can all get on with what we want to do in the human sense without so much disruption as otherwise would be the case. But all this is in the human nature world.
So we can see that the true design, the spiritual design, is of a totally different nature. As we have come along the way we have allowed certain changes to occur in our own consciousness so that we begin to see things from a different perspective—a spiritual perspective. We see the world in a different way, and we see our own personal function in the world from a different standpoint, so that we do not anymore follow out the usual orthodox ways which have been established by society in the human world. At least we do not follow out these ways because of those ways. It may be useful to acknowledge the ways of Caesar so that we may function in a reasonable manner in the eyes of others. We are not interested in throwing up roadblocks in front of people by creating valid reasons for their reactions. But having a spiritual perspective, we recognize the reason why we do things is not the same as the reason why most people do things. For the moment we can keep it under cover, so to speak, under wraps to a certain extent, so that all concerned are not aware of what our motivations are, because that in itself would produce unnecessary reaction.
If we do keep sacred things sacred it is not because we are ashamed or afraid but because we are thoughtful of those in our worlds, for whom we carry a considerable responsibility. We do not wish to place stumbling blocks unnecessarily in the way of others. But we ourselves in increasing manner are aware of a vast difference of right action in our field of function to what may be considered as right action in the human sense. We need to know how to be right in our action without activating unnecessary offense to others, but in such a way that it brings to bear what needs to be brought to bear in our worlds, and in the consciousness of people, both in the general sense and from time to time in the specific sense, when we have to deal with this person or that person.
In order to be able to handle this situation we need to be free in ourselves, so that factors of fear and shame, which predominate in human consciousness, no longer push us around. And we are deliberate in attitude and action. That deliberation is based in the movement of the spirit of God, because we have generated at least some substance of a fine nature which causes us to be capable in this regard. We are capable in our spiritual function at whatever level we find ourselves now, and because of such spiritual substance as there is, we have a certain perspective vision, spiritually speaking.
I am sure we are all very conscious of the fact that there are finer levels of experience in this regard. We need to be aware of this so that we stay humble, amongst other things, but let us not deny the level that we now know. This is the known insofar as we are concerned. We know much in our own experience, from the standpoint of our own viewpoints, our own vision and perspective, that obviously most other people do not know. So our known is not the known in the general sense. Now again, we need to be careful that this does not cause us to feel somehow a spiritual elite. This is merely just the fact of the matter. This is the situation in which we find ourselves. Let us just leave it at that, and not try to make something out of it to boost the human ego, because if we do that, then we lose the whole thing anyway. So we stay humble.
But our point of knowing is not the same as the point of knowing present in the vast majority of people. Therefore, when we move from the known to the unknown, our movement is at an entirely different level. We need to remember this when we are dealing with other people, that their known is not our known, and if they rightly should be moving from their known into the unknown, we need to take into account what is their known, so that we do not expect them to jump from their known into our known. That would be likely, for most, too big a leap, and it needs to be done in steps, as we were recognizing before.
However, in considering this matter from our own standpoint, we are allowing something to transpire in our human consciousness which is part of our responsibility of government. It cannot happen in our human consciousness without happening in the human consciousness of mankind in general, at whatever level people may happen to be, though the experience will be different for different people. But we ourselves are responsible for allowing our human consciousness to accept what is coming down from God out of heaven, heretofore unknown to us.
It seems more comfortable to human beings to stay within the bounds of what they know. The unknown looks rather fearful. As it is said sometimes, the devil that is known is safer or better than the devil that isn’t known. Obviously this is not necessarily true. It may not be the devil at all. But people feel safer to stay in a bad state, even though it is a bad state, rather than venture into something that might be worse. Clearly, what we now know is not sufficient. We may say that it is adequate for now, but it will soon become a destructive experience if what we now know persists too long. There is a constant need to relinquish what is now known if what is as yet unknown is to come within the range of knowing. And so there is much still to be relinquished, obviously.
I introduced yesterday something with respect to sex, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/spiritual-sex-and-physical-sex.html] deliberately using that word, because true knowing requires that we see what is meant by this word in a way that is presently unknown to us. We may see something with respect to this word that most people have not seen so far, and we may conceivably have felt a little self-satisfied about this, as about other aspects of our knowing, so that when what we have known needs to be relinquished we may feel somewhat threatened, because what we have known is what we have been. We know what we give expression to, which is revealing of what we are at that point.
We are all constantly expressing ourselves and revealing ourselves thereby. Presumably we express ourselves on the basis of what we factually know. We may try to express ourselves at times on the basis of what we theoretically think we know, and we reveal ourselves thereby. We may find ourselves at times talking, for instance, in a way that sounds good but in fact we don’t know what we are talking about. And if we are honest we will acknowledge that this has been the case on occasion. We do it probably because we are pretty sure that the other person doesn’t know that we don’t know what we are talking about, and therefore we’re making a good impression. But we really need to be honest in the matter.
However, obviously there are things that are known at this level and we need to proceed into what is presently unknown, which when it is known will be quite acceptable. But if we try to hang on to what we think we know, as a basis for judging the unknown, we will never be in position to accept what is presently unknown into the range of our knowing. We will always keep it out there, because it doesn’t conform with our present knowing, therefore it must be wrong.
I introduced this little consideration relative to sex from the standpoint of our responsibilities of government in this particular Assembly, so that there may be those things that are not yet known in human consciousness, our own in particular, to come within the range of knowing. That will not happen if there is either fear or shame present in our attitudes. That is what closes the door. But if we have come to the point where we consider the LORD to be adequately trustworthy, then there is a willingness to allow these changes in human consciousness to occur. We are quite willing that these should occur in our own consciousness, because it is the only one where we have responsibility. If it is going to happen anywhere, insofar as we personally are concerned it must happen in us. Even if it happens in somebody else, that will not get the job done insofar as we are concerned. It has to happen personally in our own consciousness for us to share in the knowing that is needful. We cannot leave it to somebody else to know for us.
In approaching this particular area, which is all-inclusive, we are in fact approaching all areas. If we can do it in this area, one could say that it saves quite a bit of trouble, because you don’t have to go through all the mass. You approach this one area and it opens up everything, because it is everything. We have seen that it is everything insofar as the working of the Law is concerned. The One Law is a statement of the sex principle, and there is nothing outside of the Law. So our approach to a consideration in a specific sense of this central, focused, core area makes it possible for the Gates of Heaven to be opened, so to speak. I think many people have felt this to be so, and from the human nature standpoint they have undertaken all kinds of things. But as long as it was from the human nature standpoint nothing ever really happened. All that did happen was a multiplication of sorrows and tragedy.
Our approach is the spiritual approach. This is the proper approach from the Third Sacred School—a spiritual approach, so that we see everything with spiritual perspective. And this requires a stability of attitude relative to the spiritual approach, so that we do not anymore easily revert into a human nature approach. Because the very moment we do that we are again in darkness. We stay in the light because the approach is made spiritually.
Now this perspective is non-judgmental. Human nature is characterized by the attitude of judgment, and it has its code of ethics, shall we say, which provide the means by which everything is judged. And if you have your book of rules out in this sense, and you are going to weigh everything that comes against this book of rules as though the book of rules was a sound basis for judgment, you will not receive, and certainly will not understand, what needs to be known. We have no basis of judgment. Some of the ethical and moral considerations that have been present in human experience do have a seed back of them that is of the true design, but obviously, by the time it’s got through all the rigmarole of the ages to emerge into our consciousness now, you would never be capable of tracing that back to the original seed. That would be a very laborious thing, and impossible in any case. So we will not undertake that.
We need to have the spiritual approach, so that we begin to discern what that seed is now, and we can only discern it now if we have relinquished the barriers that have been in between. So this, fundamentally, gives us the basic starting point for whatever it is that needs to emerge. We have no pre-established lines of demarcation, so that we might say, “Well it must emerge this way, so as to satisfy my ethical sense, or my moral sensibilities,” or whatever it is. All these things have been built up by human nature in order to have some sort of a controllable state of affairs on earth. That is all it is. We are not interested in the human nature controllable state on earth. We are interested in the controlled state, the state of dominion, that comes by reason of the spirit of God. And so I trust that we may be in position to move on this basis in the times we spend together in the days to come. And I will not always use the word “sex.”
We are not going to violate basic spiritual integrity. We should all have sufficient confidence in our experience of the action of the spirit of God thus far to be assured that this is the case; and while it seems as though some of the very foundations are being shaken, it is necessary that they should be. Earthquakes are needed in this sense, in order to shake things up loose enough so that the true design, for which we carry the responsibility in our expression of living, may begin to fill itself out with the freed-up substance. Then it all becomes very natural and easy.
World Abyss Of Nothingness
Uranda January 25, 1945
Human beings everywhere are being tested and those who are not attuned to divine wisdom will break under it. Since the world is as it is and all these failures came into being back through the ages, we have to lead the way through the abyss of nothingness, coming up over where others have failed. It means that we ourselves will be put in places of strain. If our positions in life held no tests or strain we would be of little value in the outworking of things. We know that in the world as it now is the unreal appears to have the upper hand. Those who function wrongly seem to get by—sometimes it looks as though the evil forces have such a completely dominant hand that it does not look as though we should stand for the right.
I think it would be well to consider a little different phase of the same subject. I touched on the world abyss of nothingness. We are in the period of the crucifixion, or the world tomb. All this is implied by the use of the term abyss of nothingness, and if we consider that from the standpoint of the individual progress along the way, we will be able to see better from the world standpoint and understand our part in the world body as we move through this abyss of nothingness.
Every individual who sets forth in the way finds that wonderful experience of exhilaration that he enjoys as he first becomes aware of the beauty of the Divine, and then, when he remains on that plane for a time, begins to feel at home. He feels so much at home that the exhilaration that he experienced has gone and there is nothing strange or new about the place where he is living. Then he is liable to think that he has lost something. He does not lose anything if he knows the right direction of response. Then he comes to a point where, as it were, he feels suspended in space and feels very uncertain. He feels that no one understands, that there is no one to help, and he does not know quite where he is going to land. While a certain degree of assistance can be given, the passage through this abyss must be made basically on the foundation of what is contained within himself. No one can reach out and pull him across.
If he does not look down but looks up and holds steady, he will find his feet on solid ground. Up a little further, he experiences a new exhilaration and again, on this higher level, he begins the process of getting acquainted with his new position, and then the exhilaration goes because he gets used to it. Later on he hits a new abyss, which may last for minutes or days—some have lasted for months. But as you go along, the abyss becomes shorter, and if you remember the Law all can be passed without any qualms. However, the individual must pass that abyss; there is no other way. With each new crossing we are on higher ground, on a higher plane than before, and then sometimes, when we start being lifted up, we may get panicky.
If we grasp the principle and remember that, when we come face-to-face with problems in that period, as we all do at times, we will see that the world too is going through the same thing. This is its biggest abyss of nothingness—and it is going to last for a while. We are part of the world body, and to the degree that we hold steady it helps the world body carry through the abyss of nothingness. The average person is likely to go all to pieces unless somewhere there is a sustaining vibration. If we look from the standpoint of the outer mind, it will look hopeless. If this world gets through the abyss of nothingness it will depend upon what is in itself. In a sense—and this could be understood—the world is shut off from assistance from the Divine in an external sense. We can see that in various church activities. They think and struggle and work, and yet they know that the spirit is not in them.
Those who have a conscious understanding of what is taking place have a greater responsibility. If the world gets through this abyss of nothingness it will be because it has held steady. That is our big job for the time to come. I think we will remember that when we hit the tight spots.
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Spiritual Sex and Physical Sex
The Increase — New Heaven and New Earth
Martin Cecil April 23, 1980 assembly
Perhaps we have begun to see more clearly that the only possible approach that anyone can make towards spiritual things, in the world as it now is, is from the standpoint of human nature. This emphasizes the necessity for the introduction of something into the world that is not from the standpoint of human nature. For this to happen there is a special requirement and a special provision, proceeding from the LORD in the unfoldment of the creative cycles that are at work. We have recognized this as being a fact by reason of the presence of Uranda, in the first place, in these recent times.
Human nature is childish at best—perhaps I should say childlike at best. Usually it is childish, rebellious and destructive. The best that can be expected from human nature is to be childlike. This is essentially what the Master himself said. The only possible way of approach was as little children. Maturity is a different state altogether. True maturity is not some sort of a mature human nature. One could say that there ain’t no such animal; it is either childish, or childlike at best. If there is a childlike attitude then the creative cycle can be initiated. As long as it merely remains rebellious and destructive childishness, there is nothing of any meaning that can occur. To the extent that in times past we ourselves exhibited some sort of a childlike attitude we began to move, so that the new state might emerge. This requires resurrection. Now, obviously, in the state of the child there is the initial requirement to deal with that state of the child. A child requires control externally applied, simply because no mature capacity has been developed yet which would allow it to spring forth from inside. Of course the intent is to provide whatever education is necessary, in the growing process for the child, so that the capacity might be developed, and that reality of control then emerge into expression because there is the facility to let it happen. Now, if we see that the best that can be expected of human nature anywhere is childlike, then our approach is on this basis, in the handling of children.
This may seem to require a certain imposition. So one can see the necessity of extending to the children of the world—most of them in adult bodies—some sort of control—and in fact, children are looking for control. They may rebel about it if it is provided, but they were looking for it in the first place, because it is a natural unfolding in the sequence of events of growing up. It needs to be provided in the right way, with love and understanding. But firmness is one of the most essential elements for which a child seeks. Of course, if a child stays too long a child then it becomes a more challenging business to offer the essential control. The habit of destructiveness and rebellion has been firmly established by then. But here is the picture as it really is.
No matter how impressed human nature has been with its own abilities it has in fact all been childishness. Now again, we would need to be careful about saying this sort of thing, because it is sweeping away the rubbish which is still valued highly. So we cannot sweep it away too quickly. But obviously, there could come physical events, for instance, which do sweep it away very quickly. All this relates to the traditions of the human nature past. It is part of what is rightly passing away. All this culture is going down the drain.
A New Heaven and a New Earth—this is the reality. But thus far I think it has been mostly a fancy. The important things are what is here now, all the great achievements of human nature, and it takes a little while for a person to reach a point where he stops giving weight to the treasures of human nature. And the treasures of human nature are not just what is in the bank account, but all the cultural traditions, which most people consider to be life itself. But we begin to know the truth to the extent that we have continued in the Word.
A rather interesting picture is portrayed in the story of Job, at the very beginning of the book: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil… There were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”
This was a subject of complaint a little later on the part of satan. Satan’s word was, to the LORD, “Thou hast increased substance in the land.” Substance is increased in the land. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/seeing-from-above-and-below.html] This would seem to indicate wealth. The emphasis should be placed upon the true values. One has just so much capacity to appreciate value—all that capacity needs to be given to the true value. The question arises as to how this is to be done. In what is said here about Job there was no indication that he should not have been the greatest of the men of the east, or that he shouldn’t have had all this substance. In fact it is said of him that he was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil. And perhaps the words “eschewed evil” are the key in this respect. He was not subject to any supposed great value of all this substance. He was not controlled by it. He feared God, and he eschewed the creative process which is operative relative to external things.
That creative process as it operates in the substance of the earth does not deplete the earth. The human tenure here on the planet has depleted the earth considerably, but the true creative cycle does not do that. In fact, just the opposite. Here is a creative process—there is increase, and the evidence of this was the increase of substance as it related to Job. He was a perfect and an upright man because he feared God and eschewed evil. His values were where they belong, in the heaven and not in the earth. He eschewed evil. He did not have to destroy the forms of physical substance in order to prove that he feared God. Satan took the attitude that he didn’t fear God for naught, because he had all this substance, and therefore, take away that substance and we would soon see whether he was a perfect and upright man anymore. Well, the way it worked out he lost all the substance; but he did not curse God and die—it didn’t change his values.
So whether there is substance or there is not substance is irrelevant. With human beings who judge on the basis of externals, it has always seemed that the substance or the lack of it was the supreme point. If the true creative cycle is in operation there is no depletion, there is a constant increase. There is the generation consistently of the finer substance, which in turn permits the action of spirit to occur and consequently the creative process to continue. And the creative process, working as it should, increases substance at every level. Presently we think of the importance of increasing this fine substance, but there is a balance here, when everything is working the way it should. There does not have to be such a tremendous concentration upon increasing the fine substance, because it is already there. There is a balance all the way through. There is the essential substance at every level, and therefore the increase that comes as the creative cycle operates increases substance at every level, in balance.
How this may actually happen in the earthly sense remains to be experienced, because that is the only way it can be known. It would be quite futile, even if we were capable of seeing ahead, to do so. What would be gained by it? We are under the necessity of letting all our available capacity and energy be brought to focus relative to the way things are. We have sufficient to handle the present moment, and all for which we are responsible in the present moment.
Obviously, as long as human nature is hanging around, as long as satan is on the scene, there is a danger of reversion into subjection to the substance which rightly increases at every level, subjection to the substance in the earthly sense. This after all is what caused the fall in the first place. There was nothing wrong with the Garden, nothing wrong with the beautiful state and all the wealth in the earthly sense that was present in that state, until human beings began to be subject to it, and began to govern their function on the basis of this substance because it seemingly added to their pleasure. But the very moment you become subject to the substance for your pleasure, your pleasure starts to go out the window and depletion sets in. Depletion is now seemingly reaching some sort of a crescendo in the world today. Everything is going to run out, and there is a wild scramble for what is left. Well, that has scarcely begun, I would suggest.
But the true state is to be restored through the creative cycle of resurrection, and none of the childishness of human nature can achieve resurrection. There is nothing that can come out of human nature that can achieve anything. The world is filled with rebellious and destructive children. Here and there, there is someone who is childlike, and there is the immediate starting point, provided that there is an adequate state of spiritual maturity present on earth to offer what is needful to the childlike. If the childlike are left to their own devices they will probably become childish, rebellious and destructive, like everybody else. There does not seem to be any other way, and there has not been any other way, because there has not been what was necessary on earth of spiritual maturity to offer that other way, the one way out of human nature, the way out of childlikeness. All too many have thought that the permanent condition was to be childlike; therefore to remain a child. But that is only the starting point.
Resurrection is resurrection into spiritual maturity, which is an unknown state in human nature childishness. So here in this story of Job there was initially spiritual maturity evident—a perfect and upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. And it is said that “there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.” The vital importance of the right use of sex is actually being emphasized in this verse. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/seven-dimensional-worldseven.html] When the values are given to the earthly substance the physical experience of sex becomes supreme. It is weighted at that end of the scale. This is one factor in human experience that has kept him thoroughly bound under the domination of satan. The supreme value has been given to the experience of physical sex as it has been known by human beings in the human state. This is only a fraction of the reality of sex, and the reality cannot possibly be known as long as this unbalanced approach is foremost. And yet, once given a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil, then the reality of sex becomes very important, because without it the essential creation that is to occur cannot do so.
The creative process is sex. If you exclude it you have no creative process. Now, obviously, it has not been excluded in human experience, at least at the physical level. And because of this there has been a creative process at work in the affairs of men, but the creative process was not a constructive one. It was not the true, balanced creative process for which man was created. It became destructive, and all the hell that has taken form on earth is not unrelated to this dominance of physical sex in human experience. The unbalanced experience in this regard has produced an unbalanced state.
Here is an emphasis upon the importance of sex in the sense that whatever happens is produced by it. If sex is an unbalanced experience, as it has been, then this unbalanced state has resulted on earth. If included in that unbalanced experience have been factors of destructiveness in the attitudes and the emotions of those who have been indulging themselves in this field, then all this is reproduced abundantly. Here is the key, then, to destructiveness. But it is also at the same time the key to true creativeness. Generally speaking when sex considerations arise, those considerations emphasize themselves in the consciousness of those concerned with respect to physical sex. This has been the habit, and as long as that is the first thing that is emphasized we remain trapped. We have had some awareness of the spectrum of the balanced state.
As an Assembly we are probably the bow, in other words representing the whole spectrum, not just the lower end of the spectrum. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/let-there-be-firmament.html] Flesh is obviously present here, but there are other levels also present, to which heretofore inadequate substance has been given. Only as there is substance at any level does that level have any meaning insofar as experience in the dimensional world is concerned. Because all the substance which human beings have generated has been at the lower end of the spectrum, weighted in the physical sense, there could not be anything else but an unbalanced state. Orientation was downward. Human beings have been weighted at the bottom. The weight needs to be properly distributed. There is a proper proportion, where weight is evenly distributed. Considering this matter of sex then, more attention should be paid to where there has been little or no experience than to where there has been experience. But if one comes to speak about sex as a valuable tool in the creative process, most people think of it simply in physical terms, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/new-heavenfine-substance.html] and they want it explained to them how sex can be used in this physical sense to be of value to the Lord. You cannot use it to be of value to the Lord if that is all you are thinking about. There is a whole spectrum here.
When sex is used rightly, in a balanced way at every level, there is the creation of the New Earth at the lower end. But our concern has been with the New Heaven, which is at the upper end, and the end where there has been the least experience—the least experience because there has been no substance there for the experience. So there must be the generation of the substance to fill out the various levels where the creative spirit of God may be accommodated. If you simply try to accommodate the creative spirit of God at the level of physical sex it is bound to be a very unbalanced thing. In general terms one could describe the upper spectrum of sex as spiritual sex. Spiritual sex in experience is necessary for the creation of the New Heaven, just as physical sex in experience is necessary to the creation of the New Earth. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/spiritual-bodyflesh-body.html] But which comes first, do you think? Obviously the heaven comes first.
To describe the nature of spiritual sex, one could say that it is the union of the Word with the consciousness of human beings. Here you may recognize why emphasis has been placed upon the importance of the Word. There have been a lot of people associated with our ministry who have had little awareness of the vital nature of the Word in this sense—that it would be impossible to know the right use of physical sex without having first experienced the right use of spiritual sex, without the Word having entered into one’s own consciousness so that it would abide there, so that there might be union.
This is a process of which you are also familiar: radiation, response, attraction, union, unified radiation. The radiation is the Word to which, if there is a state of being childlike, there may be uncluttered response, response which does not have any axes to grind, which has no expectations of personal fulfillment or anything else. You know if you are honest, from your own experience, that most of what you have experienced in the way of response in the past has had expectations. “If I respond, then I will experience thus and so.” That is childish, not childlike. The childlike state is the guileless state, where there is no expectation, no requirement at all, no need for a reward. When there is no need for a reward there is no need for punishment. If you find yourself being punished, as you suppose, it is because you have been a seeker after a reward.
The guileless, childlike state seeks nothing for itself; there is a spiritual yielding. Without spiritual yielding there cannot really be physical yielding. What has passed at times as physical yielding has simply been a wilted state. So we are concerned with spiritual sex—not merely for itself, because the fact of the matter is that heaven and earth are one. Physical sex requires union of a sort, spiritual sex requires union of another sort; but the union of spiritual sex and the union of physical sex establish the true union—the union of heaven and earth.
Now the working of sex when seen from the spiritual standpoint is not at all structured. There is a design, but in the sense of what in the movement of the creative cycle is fitting. Human beings want, as a rule, to get things pinned down. Well, in any field, “Is this all right or not?” Who can tell? We are not dealing with the form initially, but with the spirit, and there are multitudes of creative requirements, both from the standpoint of the individual and also from the standpoint of the collective purposes of God. Each moment is unique. We cannot crystallize any moment and say, “Now this is the perfect moment.” It is impossible to do. Isn’t it an amazing thing that there is such a vastness of experience available that each moment is unique? It never happened before, it will never happen again.
So if we see this in terms of sex, then clearly you are not going to be able to establish any structured rules and regulations. There is no marrying and giving in marriage in heaven. This is all an earthly production that, incidentally, as it is known in the human nature state, is one of the things that is passing away. It has been important to human beings because it has given some sort of a feeling of security, to have a structure set up that is going to endure. This is even carried to the extreme in some areas, where those concerned try to set it up so that it is going to endure for eternity. As though human beings could determine what the way of God is. No, there is no structure in that sense. One of the things that characterized the world, according to the Master’s Word, was that, as in the days of Noah, they were marrying and giving in marriage, eating and drinking—all the usual human activities. Sex and food.
Because the state is unstructured does not mean that it is somehow uncontrolled and promiscuous in some fashion. It merely means that what occurs occurs accurately and rightly in the natural creative cycles as they are moving, and this requires whatever may be essential to allow these creative purposes to be fulfilled. The human attitude toward that would probably be, “I’m not sure that I like that. I’m not going to have any say in the matter.” Well, who are you to have a say, if you’re just this human nature creature that is going to pass away anyway? So you wouldn’t have any say. But there is say from the standpoint of the spirit of God, and if one is associated with that expression as one’s own, then one has say in the matter. And the say one has is based in the wonders of true creation.
The experience of this has been lost to human beings, so that they cannot recall it at all. They try to hang on to such supposed pleasure as they think they now have, fearful of what this austere God might do if He had His way—as though that would take all the joys out of living, when in fact the true way is the way by which there is increase, multiplication. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/melchizedek-increase-grace-van-duzen.html] Man was instructed to multiply in the beginning—not merely to procreate, but to let everything be multiplied. Let the increase come.
What is the full potential in this planet do you think? Human beings have no idea at all. Is this planet somehow isolated from the rest of the solar system? What is the full potential of the solar system? There is a realm of complete blank insofar as human consciousness is concerned. Well all this is within the range of the true creative process, in which we have a part to play. I emphasize this morning something of that part as it relates to the field of sex, because this is the creative process. But do not get trapped into the view that the creative process is merely physical sex. If we have the usual view of the seven colors of the rainbow, then it would only be one-seventh, wouldn’t it? There’s another six-sevenths missing. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/seventh-sense-martin-cecil.html]
So we concern ourselves primarily with this matter of spiritual sex, spiritual union, which is the union of the Word with our own consciousness. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/activation-of-seventh-sense.html] And there are ramifications to this that may not immediately present themselves to our awareness. But if there are possibilities of delight relative to physical sex, possibilities of great variety in fact, then how much more is that true spiritually speaking? And it is the spiritual experience that brings the delight into the physical experience, and there is no longer the attitude taken that the physical experience is what brings the delight into some sort of higher level of spiritual experience. No, it is the other way around. So we have opened the door a crack this morning, and we will see whether it will open wider as we proceed.
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The Infinite World Of Rightness
an excerpt
Martin Cecil July 4, 1982 pm
The troubles in which human beings find themselves are simply present because there has been an ignoring of the provision that is always there to allow the causative elements to spring from the Father and the Originator.
We might take a look at the true world and the false world, the world of rightness and the world of wrongness. Those who are in the world of wrongness think they can manipulate the world that they themselves produced so that it becomes the world of rightness. That is an absolute impossibility. So there is the world of wrongness in the experience of human beings. This universal world is a world of rightness; and there is a little speck in this universal world where, in the experience of certain creatures, there is a world of wrongness. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/nothing-is-wrong.html] We begin to get things into proportion when we see it this way. There is nothing in this little speck of wrongness that amounts to a row of beans—but it certainly needs to be dissolved. Even a very small cinder in the eye is uncomfortable and prevents clear vision. Perhaps man was created to be the eye of God, amongst other things, and he has become a cinder in that eye. So even though the Father and the Originator is patient, sooner or later He would like to get the cinder out of His eye.
There is a vast state of rightness—an infinite state of rightness, and an almost infinitesimal state of wrongness just in the experience of human beings and in the world which they have created, having made it out of some of the material that was available for their use. It is virtually nothing in the relative sense. The state of rightness is vast. Everything is all right, except in the experience of individual human beings. My, the Creator is patient, isn’t He?
Awakening to the opportunity that is available to let the world of human experience be the universal world of rightness presents to us the job which we are here to do. We are not here to try to make the world of wrongness into the world of rightness. Is that a hard pill to swallow, when you stop to think about it? The world of rightness already exists; the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. The world of rightness is universally present, except within the experience of human beings, who have created for themselves a world of wrongness.
The world of rightness is present everywhere but in the experience of human beings, who have excluded it. It is fathered and originated by the Father and the Originator, and not by the ideas and the desires of the human mind and heart. Only as the human mind and heart are aligned with the design and the control of the truth, which is an aspect of the nature of the Universal Father and Originator, does the right world come into the experience of human beings. It can’t be produced without the truth, without what is present in the Father and the Originator. There is the Source. The universal world of rightness is present because it is a clear, beautiful evidence of the nature of that Source. The experience of that Source in human expression has been the thing that has been absent.
Human minds and hearts, occupied with their addiction, exclude the expression and the experience of the Father and the Originator of all things visible and invisible; and because that is excluded there is a world of falseness, of wrongness. When the expression of the Father and the Originator is included in human experience then the world of rightness is known. There it is! It has always been there, except in this little speck of human consciousness.
We begin to know in our own experience what it is that has been absent from human experience in the general sense, and we are responsible for providing this at the level where human beings are. We are not here to uphold the world of wrongness. We are not here to try to destroy it, because it turns out to be an unreal world anyway. Why would one struggle to destroy something that is unreal, something that really isn’t there? That would be the height of foolishness, wouldn’t it? Shadow-boxing—there is nothing there. How easily this whole state of affairs in human experience could be dissolved. We begin to see how this is possible, but we recognize our own responsibility in the matter.
We are responsible for making so obvious what it is that has been absent from human experience that it is impossible for human beings to avoid it anymore. There will be those who, when they see, welcome it. There will be those who do not. Well that is their business. But it is the only way that what has been absent from human experience may become present again, and the world of rightness therefore put in an appearance in the experience of human beings. That is the only place that it isn’t being experienced.
How vast is the world of rightness! Let us see things in their true proportions, that, acknowledging this world of rightness and the reason for its existence, we may be found capable of proclaiming this world within the range of human consciousness. That is all that is needed. And those who understand these things must be the ones who are responsible. So we rejoice to know the reality of the world of rightness, to know and experience this Kingdom which belongs in the experience of human beings everywhere. We bring it to them, not so much by trying to tell people about it but by being it [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2022/03/now-or-never.html], so that the world of rightness is here because we are here.
We don’t try to force anyone to experience the world of rightness; that would be impossible anyway. We are not interested in calling the fire of God down upon the heads of those who refuse to experience it. It will come down anyway! The fire puts in an appearance for everyone, but some are a part of the fire and some are what is being consumed by the fire. So, as a part of the fire, we find ourselves in a radiant position. Are we radiant? It is a word that is used sometimes to describe people. “Oh they are so radiant!”
A larger and greater love: here is the fire, here is the radiance. The Fire that Burns, the Light that Glows, the Cloud of Glory: Shekinah, the Christ, irrefutably in expression on earth, a fire that is impossible to deny. This is our destiny. We are incarnate on earth for this reason. All these things come easily to remembrance of mind and heart when the expression of that creative spirit is all with which we are identified. There is nothing else that matters. Then there is an all-consuming fire, and that fire must consume our minds and hearts and bodies in the ascending cycle if it is to be offered in radiation into the experience of all people everywhere.
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