That Your Joy Might Be Full
September 28, 2014
September 27, 2014
from
Implications
Martin Cecil August 5, 1979
From time to time I receive letters, or
indication from certain ones, that while they had a sense or feeling of
agreement with what I was saying, they didn’t really understand everything I
was talking about. If anything could shock me this would, in most instances.
Now we utilize certain words, and have done over
a long period of time. If I have to go back to square one and start all over
again to acquaint everyone with what we are talking about when a certain word
is used, we would never get anywhere, would we? I think I have a right by now
to assume that there is understanding. I think this matter of a lack of
understanding tends to give indication of a cop-out. The individual has never
bothered to develop implications for himself.
In another letter of response I had, the
statement was made that everything that needed to be said was said in one
service; all the implications were there. That is true—just one service, each service. Everything that needs to
be said is said in that service. If the individual will follow out the
implications, he will have just as much understanding as he assumes I have. If
I give evidence of some understanding it is simply that I have taken the trouble
to follow out implications.
I don’t have a special pipeline out of heaven
somehow which acquaints me with all the information that is needed about
everything; nothing special at all along that line, merely a willingness to
move in the current of the spirit and allow the implications to be made known.
And who has no ability in this regard?
I would suggest that if a person reaches the
point, when things are said, where he is inclined to excuse himself by saying,
“Well I have a feeling of agreement with this but I don’t really understand
it,” maybe he is the one who should go back to square one. Why should it be
supposed that it is necessary for me to make everything clear to everybody? Why
don’t you allow it to be made clear for yourself? That is the only way it will
be made clear. I may give you a feeling of making something clear to you but
you discover later that it wasn’t made clear to you because you didn’t participate
in anything more than the hearing; you didn’t follow out the implications; you
didn’t take the trouble to do so.
I am speaking to you generally. I’m speaking to
a lot of people generally besides those who are here present this evening And
there are those who are here present this evening, and there are those
elsewhere, who have followed out implications and have allowed a clarity to
come, so that when I speak of things, immediately they are right there. They
know what I am talking about. We need to keep moving forward, and if anyone
finds himself with a blank, with no sense of understanding, then that person
had better go back and start from square one again.
If everything that is needed is provided in each service, all the implications being there, then surely on the basis of all the services that have been given all the implications should have by now been absorbed into a second nature, so that when I begin to speak about something there is a flood of the implications into consciousness immediately. That is what is meant by agreement, by being together, by moving in oneness. If you’re sucking your teeth, or whatever you do when you don’t understand, if you are sitting there doing that, then you are utterly worthless.
What floods your consciousness when I begin to touch upon something which you have heard before? These attitudes which arise indicate that the individual thinks that I never said anything about it before, this is the first time; therefore they can't understand. Oh yes you can! Everyone can understand if they have not only heard but done something, and one of the things to do is to follow out the implications. Don’t ever claim for yourself a lack of understanding. That is an indication of the fact that you are embedded in human nature and are determined to stay there, because everything necessary to understanding has been provided. When you have heard the tone and your life reverberates to that tone, you have understanding; it is there.
One of the ways this is sometimes put is this:
“I don’t understand it with my mind.” Well probably that is because you never
learned how to think. That is sometimes presented as though it were a
reasonable excuse; but your mind is for something, you know; it’s not supposed
just to be a blank. When there is movement with spirit there is unfoldment in
an understanding of implications because the individual takes enough trouble,
enough time, to let it happen.
This is what I have been doing over the years:
following out the implications. Perhaps I have done it too much, so that you
felt that all that was necessary was for me to follow out all the implications;
you didn’t have to do anything because I was going to provide it. But what I
can provide is just a drop in the bucket relative to what should be provided by
us all together. I can follow out my line of implications, but how about you
following out yours? Then there begins to be substance to our understanding.
You begin to share in something which carries impact. But if just left to one
or two people to do it, it is very thin.
This relates to what we were talking about this
morning of the need to speak, act, as one having authority, and not as the
scribes. Each one properly carries authority of his own. Never trade upon
someone else's supposed authority; that is a cop-out. Either what you are
saying is true because you are saying it, or you’d better not say it. Don’t use
anybody else to back up what you are saying or what you are doing. Whatever it
is you do, take responsibility for it: “I am doing it because I’m doing it!” If
you shovel it off onto somebody else, that is a sign of pretty weak character,
isn’t it?
If we all took responsibility in this moment for
everything we do, how long do you think it would take the world to be
transformed? There is a tendency to look at the concept that is held of
restoration: “Well it is going to unfold somehow or other, and one day—a little
over the horizon yet—it will be here.” But from our standpoint surely we can
say, “It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. I will
take responsibility for this myself, the water that is my responsibility to
give into my world.”
Some of you may feel that you can trust me to
give the water of life freely into the world. All right, let me do it; but you
do it for your world! When we assume responsibility for our worlds we do not
hesitate to give expression to the spirit of God in our particular
circumstances, our worlds, our environment; but we do it for ourselves. After
all, nobody else can do it in your world. So we each do it, and when we do it
there begins to emerge into expression what has been referred to as the holy
spirit. Here is the outpouring of the holy spirit. Human beings sit around
waiting for the holy spirit to pour out upon them, give them a good soaking.
Well the opportunity for that has been provided, I think, over the years in
this ministry. Something has been poured out in abundance to give everybody a
good soaking. But we are collectively responsible for pouring this out to give
the world a good soaking.
We know the tone. Let us see the
implications. You’ve heard what I’ve had to say this evening. You’ve all heard
it if you were listening and not dozing. This indicates that there is also
something to do. All that is necessary is to acknowledge the reality of the
tone of life and let that tone of life sound in one’s own living; that’s all!
Then one will find that everything falls naturally into place. There may appear
to be contradictions in external form but they only appear to be that way as
long as a person is not moving in the current of the spirit in the expression
of the true tone of life. As soon as he does that everything harmonizes.
So we acknowledge the fact that we understand.
If we can still convince ourselves that we don’t, or if we haven’t had sufficient
opportunity yet to become really acquainted with the tone of life, then let’s
go back to square one and start all over again; because it is all there, it is all there! As was
certainly correctly indicated, even in one presentation the implications are
all there. Let us not admit that we are so lazy that we couldn’t be bothered to
find out what they were, but rather let us be in fact sons and daughters of God
who carry responsibility for the world, and we are quite willing to receive
whatever of the world the Lord would present us with. He presents us with
whatever it is we are in position to handle now. We handle what we handle now—there’s
some more coming! There’s quite a bit more coming. There is an immense backlog
of human garbage.
We are here to let this
be handled as it should, so that the world may be transformed by the spirit of
God, which is the expression of our living; but this requires intelligence and
understanding. We can easily handle what it is that is being brought to us,
what it is that is on our plate. It wouldn’t be on our plate if we couldn’t
handle it. Let us have that assurance. And if we think we need more know-how
somehow, well let’s be diligent in discovering what that know-how is for
ourselves. Let us not expect someone else to hand it to us. No one else can
hand it to us! We can only know it on the basis of our own discovery of it.
Then we know it.
If you think you know something merely because I said it, have another think! You know something when you are capable of saying it and know that it is true for yourself. You don’t need any backup on that, because it is the spirit of God which is finding expression because you are present. So let it be always.
© emissaries of divine light
September 25, 2014
The Safe Place Is In The Body
The Safe Place Is In The Body
from Subjects of the King
Martin Exeter August 23, 1987
We speak of the King, the Supreme One. I am sure that it is in our hearts to receive Him in the only way that He may be received. This is to take His name, so that we come into the world in His name. In so doing we are His subjects. We are not objects to Him. He is supreme. In Him come to focus all the qualities of being which are essential to Him in His position. To us He is the Supreme One, even though He provides that point of spiritual focus for what is beyond Him.
We well
know that we have the responsibility of differentiating the focus of spirit
which He is. In this sense we of ourselves are nothing, but have the honor, the
privilege, of revealing His character as each one of us may be in position to
differentiate it. As we understand this, it is very clear as to the greatness
of this One whom we speak of as the King. In Him is all that we as individuals
are. Because this is so, we are in position together to differentiate His
character. His character is greater than all our differentiations.
He is
supreme. We cannot help but approach Him in an attitude of reverence and
respect, in one sense a little reluctantly, as we become conscious of who He
is. Human beings in their human nature are inclined at times to be rather
brash. They behave in ways that are not fitting, very often. We approach the
King, at least metaphorically, on bended knee, perhaps with our eyes cast down.
Humility before the King is the natural stance of His subjects.
We are concerned that there should be present on the face of the earth a focus of spirit in form sufficiently clear so that there may be the acknowledgment of the King. That is the one thing that is required, because that is the one thing that was denied to begin with. There is no restoration without that. But for the acknowledgment of the King to come, it must come first with respect to those who have offered themselves to be His subjects. This must be clearly focused in consciousness.
We
belong in the ark. The ark is composed of spiritual substance. There we dwell,
in the substance which is the character of the King, and we reveal that
character in momentary living, the way we handle ourselves and the way we
handle our environment. Let us be sure that we acknowledge the King, for after
all that is the one thing that has been lacking in human consciousness, in
human experience. We share this responsibility. Sharing that responsibility
accurately, we carry the authority of the King.
The reason for our presence on earth, if we have awakened to it, is to acknowledge the King, to provide for the King a holy place, a place where He is not only safe but from which He may extend His dominion once again. For this to happen there must be an adequate body of subjects. The substance of the subjects is vital.
The
only way that the King can be accepted, received, is as I Am. If that
requirement is not accepted, the King is rejected. And it is an individual
requirement. The only way He can be accepted is as I Am, is as He occupies all
the space that heretofore has been held apart by this human self. The human
self occupies the space, the place, of the King.
There
is a changing view, naturally so, to the extent that the One I am comes forth
more through the available consciousness. Some of that coming forth is
conscious. The majority of it is subconscious. Whether conscious or
subconscious, the coming forth of the angel, the coming forth of the One I am,
dissolves the one I am not. It brings the view and the understanding of the One
I am into clearer perspective in one's own heart and mind, so that we see
things in new ways. We speak of a new state of consciousness—well of course,
because the One I am is coming forth, bringing the design and the control of
truth, so that all things are drawn into that design and under that control,
which are of the required resonant substance.
There
is an ark created: the ark, the holy city, the body of the subjects of the
King. It has a design. The design is the way it is. We just let it emerge, and
it emerges in very specific ways. We have often spoken of the fact that spirit
creates its own form when allowed to do so. Spirit works the way it works,
according to the design and the control of truth and in the power of love. The
creative process is very persuasive and it puts people together whether they
like it or not, and after a while they find out they like it. So we find
ourselves fitting together.
There
is still probably present in all of us some measure of the attitude which sees
things as continuing the way they always have since the fathers fell asleep.
But factually they are not. In the human sense the world is a dangerous place.
You can't take for granted that the way you have been doing things heretofore
will continue to work. Let us not take anything for granted.
The
safe place is in the body. It is a spiritual body. The safe place is in the
spirit of that body. The safe place is not in the world of form. One must abide
in the world of spirit while functioning in the world of form, if that safe
place is to be brought into the world of form. We are responsible for bringing
it into the world of form, not for discovering that it isn't a safe place in
the world of form. We have all had opportunity to do that. Things are hotting
up, getting more intense. If one has the awareness of the One I am, one will
act accordingly.
Have a
care! Acknowledge the King and behave accordingly. In such case one can't
behave like a childish human being. We are all related to each other, so in
various ways our behavior puts everybody else at risk if we fail to remember
who we are. I am not talking about something deliberate or intentional but the
way it happens. And we may put ourselves at risk, or we may inadvertently put
others at risk.
© emissaries of divine light
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