from
Be Spiritual Man
Martin Cecil May 26, 1974
June 27, 2014
Be Spiritual Man
Our Master undertook to provide
the point of focus in His own expression of living, within the scope of the
consciousness of mankind, for the movement through the complete creative cycle
by which the reality of spiritual man in material form might be once again a
fact on earth. He was unaccompanied by anyone else in what occurred. Because it
occurred on earth within the range of human consciousness, the door was opened
for others to follow through also into the experience of the mature state of
spiritual man. The specific process is described rather accurately in the
Gospel according to John. We remember the correct sequence of the four forces:
water, air, earth and fire. Just before the Passover, when He and His disciples
were gathered, He undertook to initiate the particular cycle, in the creative
sense, which would allow for the restoration of spiritual man in material form
on earth, by reason of His own presence and willingness to let it occur no
matter what the circumstance might prove to be in the unfolding of the event.
First of all, He did something
with His disciples that has not been adequately understood as to its
significance. He took some water in a basin and washed their feet. This had
something to do with the water force. It was the point of initiating this
particular cycle. We can see in this a refocalization of the truth of the First
Sacred School. The feet represent understanding. The first requirement with
respect to the First Sacred School was to clarify understanding, and also to
offer a point of orientation for the whole body of mankind. Here was a point of
refocalization with respect to that same truth. The disciples evidently didn't
understand what our Master was doing. Some of them objected, Peter
particularly. So has it always been whenever anything has been undertaken from
the divine standpoint: human beings who became aware of what was happening have
always objected. Finally it all settled down and our Master got on with the
job, but He was obviously doing something that His disciples didn't understand.
He was the one who was initiating this creative cycle and moving through it.
Here was the water force which permits the cleansing of the understanding that
there may be light.
Having brought this to focus and
initiated the cycle, of course it then proceeded forward. He spoke to His
disciples, and we have record of some of what He said. This related to the
second of the four forces and also, to the Second Sacred School, which had
particular application to the mind. He taught His disciples. In effect He was
saying, "Spiritual man"—which is what He exemplified on earth—"is
the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to a consciousness of his
origins, of the truth of himself, except by spiritual man." There is no
way except the way provided by spiritual man. The way of material man is no way
at all. It is the way into the tomb, where disintegration takes place.
While it
is evident that the disciples didn't have a clue as to what He was talking
about, you would have to acknowledge that you do. There is a consciousness of
the refocalization of the truth of the Second Sacred School. This has emerged
through you and others on earth. It has taken nineteen hundred years to do it,
but it's happened.
He said, spiritual man is the way,
the truth, and the life. You must be spiritual man if you are to experience the
truth of yourself. "Be spiritual man. Don't look to somebody else to be
spiritual man for you, because it simply doesn't work that way. " One can
only be spiritual man for oneself. "He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also"—the works of spiritual man. He who walks
through the door which He opened shall do the works of spiritual man, and
greater works, because there will be more people doing them. Here was the
example of spiritual man in action, that others might participate in the same
action—not to be acted upon, not to have their feet washed, not to be taught,
but to wash the feet of others and to teach. Spiritual man does not need to be
washed nor does he need to be taught; he washes and teaches.
This is necessary in the experience of the Third
Sacred School—no matter what happens to material man, to the person in the
external sense, he remains true in his expression of what he knows of spiritual
man. In the external sense it seems
that a person lands up in the tomb. It wasn't really a tomb; it was rather a
womb out of which something was being born.
It seemed like a real tomb into
which the material aspect of our Master was placed. There was a boulder placed
upon the entrance to the sepulcher, which was finally rolled away. What does
that represent? The hardened human heart, which relates to the veil between the
experience of material man and spiritual man. It is the impure heart that keeps
human beings in the tomb, on the wrong side of the veil, identified in the
state of material man.
It's only when the heart begins to melt, begins to yield
so that it opens the individual to receive something of spiritual man, that
there may be movement out of the tomb; the tomb may be transformed into a womb.
The movement out of the womb of the Third Sacred School is birth into the
Fourth Sacred School, which is characterized by what was described as a garden. The yielded heart which opens in love and trust, without trying to understand
but willing to move, willing to accept the responsibility of spiritual man, is
the open door to the Father.
When Mary Magdalene came to the
tomb filled with sorrow she met up with one whom she supposed to be the
gardener. When her name was spoken she suddenly became aware of who it was
really. Her heart was open. She saw the truth, and, she wanted to take hold of
it, posses it. But our Master said, "Touch me not; for I am not yet
ascended to my Father." That was true. The fourth day of creation is not
yet the seventh day. There is some more movement necessary, for man to be
restored to the state of the living soul in oneness with God.
In all of this we
may recognize what it was that was occurring in His experience, how He was, as
an individual, alone in the world, leading the way through so that later others
might accept the same responsibility of spiritual man; and then it would not be
such a lonely task. The way is very clear. It's just a matter of moving in the
recognition that, as the creative cycle unfolds, we belong in the garden, out
of the tomb. To the extent that that is experienced we also may say, "I am
not yet ascended to my Father. I am not yet returned to my origins. I am just
on the way."
But
there is something of spiritual man present. Be true to yourself, then. Be true
to the self that says, "I am spiritual man," and your business is to
offer understanding to others; by example, by being spiritual man. Be spiritual
man, and this experience is possible to you as you emerge into the garden. And
you emerge into the garden when the stone is removed from the mouth of the
tomb. And the stone is removed from the mouth of the tomb when your heart is
made pure. And your heart is made pure when you are no longer identified with
material man, when your treasures are laid up in heaven.
Those who begin to
emerge find that there really is a garden; it's not just a figment of fancy. We
have to leave the tomb. We rejoice in such awareness as we have of the garden
and we stand in the garden to do what we have to do as spiritual man, extending
the water of truth in our living, teaching by the expression of our lives, and
bringing assurance and comfort to those who still remain in the tomb state but
whose hearts are yielding.
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