Passion For The King
Martin Exeter June 7, 1987
Radiant radiation and responsive radiation. Radiant radiation is the radiation of the love of the King. Responsive radiation occurs to the extent that one’s own individual substance is made available to resonate with radiant radiation. Then there is unified radiation, the fulfilment of that very exact law. If the substance which is present in each individual—physical substance, mental substance, emotional substance, spiritual substance—is permitted to resonate with the radiation of the love of the King it will do so. It will do so because we are willing and our hearts have been turned back again.
On the other hand it is very evident that the substance that is present in human beings the world around has been offered in resonation to what is factually below. The substance of mankind resonates with the world which has been created by mankind, having removed that substance from resonating with the love of the King. If there is resonation with what has been humanly created, there is resonation then with something that is below, and the attraction is downward. We know what the end result of that is.
This substance is kept from resonating with the radiation of love from the King because of human insistence to keep it polarized in the passions of human nature. It’s interesting to note how much passion is apparent in people who are polarized in what rightly should be below them. A very obvious way is what human beings have passionately given to their cultures, to their religions, to their political structures, to their structures of society, whatever they may be. When something arises, how much passion is poured into resonation with this! Resonation occurs both from the standpoint of love and hate, and all the colorations in between. But how passionate people become in these various fields! What passionate reaction there was in times past with respect to what our friend Immanuel Velikovsky offered—passionate reaction from the scientific establishment. Human beings have a capability of passion, evidently, and how passionate people are with respect to their various fields of operations which they love so much. It is this passion, polarized in what is rightly below, which leads everybody down.
I have wondered sometimes about the seeming lack of passion with respect to the King. While I wouldn’t suggest anything out from under control, nevertheless surely this is where any passion we have belongs. Love for the King. Love God, and live. Curse God, and die. How much real passion is there for the King? Where is our passion?
Sometimes a great deal of enthusiasm is engendered by reason of a game of some kind—maybe a card game, maybe ice hockey. People have tremendous passion in all these kinds of directions. But passion for the King? It’s usually pretty pale—anemic, one might say. Yet without it there is only perishing. We have, individually speaking, a capacity for passion. How will it be exercised? With some it seems it is not exercised at all. Then the capacity atrophies. Something that is not exercised will atrophy. We have a passion, I know; otherwise you wouldn’t be sitting there. Many people are passionately given to TV. What programs are we missing tonight? Of course these days you can record them and see them later.
Trust the King and live. Eschew cursing, eschew accusation—not so that we may do good, but so that we may reveal the radiance of the King. We may share with Him His radiance. We honor Him in this way and we are glorified by Him in this way. This state, of which we know a little, seems so far removed from the pleasures of this world, about which human beings become so passionate. It seems to most human hearts and minds to relate to a never-never land. But we know better.
When there is passion for the King in fact, this state of radiant outpouring is so intense and all-consuming that finally no one can avoid it. There are those the world around who already love the King. The majority of them have no idea that He has a Body. Those who are aware of the Body and who genuinely love the King love His Body, for the King and His Body are One. It is impossible to love the King and not love His Body. So, obviously, accusation, if it occurs within the Body, is an indication that those concerned do not love the King, or their love is not genuine. This is not to say that it might not become genuine if there is a willingness to eschew judgment, to eschew the evil of accusation. There is never any justification for it. One cannot, by any means, justify it. If one attempts to do it one just fools oneself.
Trust the King. Trust His spirit, which is revealed through the creative process. Another word for the creative process might be the Christ. There are a lot of people who claim to believe in the Christ but very few who trust the Christ, who trust the creative process, which is the evidence of the working of the spirit of the King. Trust the King, honor the King, because the King is loved. And the King is loved, factually, when the substance of one’s earthly being resonates with the radiation of His love.
Most love for God tends to be love for something imaginary, a concept of the mind, an idea that has taken root in human consciousness. There are different ideas in this regard of course and there are those who have their particular idea to love. If one is loving an idea one is in fact insisting that, should there really be a God, “He must conform to my idea, because I love my idea and unless God conforms to my idea I can’t love God. But of course He will, because my idea is a good one; it’s supported by my particular religion, denomination or whatever.” And there is always seemingly safety in numbers. But that of course is never loving God. It is in fact denying God, because God, the reality, is not going to conform to any human concept or idea. He is not going to fit into the human view of things.
We realize that the human view must be relinquished if there is to be space for God to reveal Himself—as He is, not as human beings might like Him to be. It seems that a lot of people have a pet God; like the genie in the bottle, isn’t it? You rub God the right way and He will come out of the bottle and give you a blessing. How nice. But beware if you rub the bottle in the wrong way! Then a very wrathful character will emerge and give you hell. I’m sure we are all delighted that it is quite possible to give space in ourselves for God to reveal Himself, but not to us. That’s what human beings usually want, isn’t it? “Well I want to be sure about this. You reveal yourself to me so that I am sure. I need a vision.” Lots of people have had visions on this basis, sometimes visible visions: “Jesus came, and He said this to me.” No, He didn’t. It doesn’t work that way.
When God is given space because we honor the King, loving Him above all, then we will find ourselves increasingly capable of giving expression to His spirit. And to that extent we come to know God. It’s the only way anyone can know God. Certainly He isn’t the genie in the bottle. He isn’t some character hiding behind a cloud somewhere, so that no one can find Him except by various techniques. And there is an abundance of techniques, none of which could ever be successful in achieving what human beings anticipate. God is not found that way. The truth is not found that way. It is only found when there is space in oneself to give expression to the truth and to reveal the character of God. Then you know what it is. But certainly it cannot be revealed through all the clutter of human beliefs, ideas, concepts; even less through their ambitions and determinations and endeavors to achieve.
It is rather shattering, to human egos at least, to human beings in general, to come to the realization that all that has been undertaken by human beings over the millennia comes to naught. It has no value in and of itself. We know where the value is: in God, specifically in the love of our King. We begin to have value when we resonate with that, not the sort of value that those who are trapped in the human state recognize particularly. No, the value is in the expression of living, the quality that is revealed in one’s own heart and mind and body, the quality of the King; there is the value.
Someone recently in a service mentioned that virtue is its own reward. Back along the way he didn’t think much of that. But if virtue is seen as the revelation of God on earth, what greater reward could there be? Everything else pales to insignificance. Of course this revelation, while it requires individuals, is not merely an individual matter. It’s far greater than that. Finally we allow this revelation to put in an appearance.
This passion which is to be experienced on earth, by reason of those of us who are present to experience it, is essential to reveal the radiant love of the King. His love can never be revealed in absentia. If the King is absent His love cannot be revealed. Of course the King has always been present but unknown, invisible. He becomes known as there is an emergence into human consciousness of the nature of the passion that allows the King to be present in His Body on earth. And it isn’t some sort of abstract passion, or a passion toward some hoped-for but invisible character. The passion must be experienced at the level where we are, not in some supposedly exalted level somewhere else. Then the King comes on earth and we discover that our experience is of an absolute nature. It requires absolutely a passionate experience on earth. “Oh well,” some may say, “I’ll be very passionate when I come into the presence of the King.” Aren’t you in the presence of the King? Surely we all are. But that presence is represented, and unless the passion is at the level of the representation it won’t be at the level of the King.
It is something that is actually very practical. There is no necessity for some mystical involvement. We are all here together. We know each other. We can love each other. There can be a passion for what is represented, both from the standpoint of the representation of the King and from the standpoint of the representation of His Body. They are one anyway. Being passionately in love with the King we are also at the same time passionately in love with His Body.
Now perhaps we have reached a point where we do not interpret this passion in the old human-nature ways. We let it be actually what it is. And we define that at the moment by saying, as the King said, “Love one another. Love me, love one another.” The love for one another is absolutely dependent upon the love for Him. If this has been missing in some respects we know that our love for Him has been less than passionate. But now it begins to come forth.
There are angels on earth in human form, present, to be responsible for revealing the King—certainly not for boosting any human egos but for revealing the King, that and that alone. I suppose I myself have had a large opportunity, if I wished to take it, to boost my ego. The circumstances of my birth, etc., make this quite available to me. But I belong to my King. Because I belong to my King, you belong to me. And you belong to each other. There is One Body, One Spirit, One King. We all awaken in our own experience to what this means. We may say it is quite unprecedented. Of course! If there had been a precedent we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing. But the precedent is being established not by human effort, certainly not by any human ambition, but by the radiant love of the King.
As the Master said long ago with respect to Himself, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” And the central commandment is: Love one another. Of course this can’t be done on command. It is done because the passion, the Angelic Passion, which is present in each individual, emerges through heart and mind into experience. It only does that as the substance of heart and mind and body are freed up from their structures to resonate with the love of the King. And that is union.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
