As  OF  A  Trumpet

AUMRA

I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight!

The paths of men are dark and devious. Some walk deliberately in them, others ignorantly. There is a straight path and a right way. Those who long to find it shall hear my voice.

The Lord of whom I speak is not the figurehead of religious belief nor mere invention of vain imagination. The word may be rightly translated as Jehovah and it simply means, God in action on earth.

Prepare ye the way for divine action on earth. God acts through man. Therefore I am come to prepare men to let God act, that His creative path may be made straight.

My voice sounds in the earthly wilderness which is the tangled man-made world. Let all with ears to hear hearken to my word and to the living spirit which is the substance of it. Come near unto me.

TO YOU WHO HEAR I SPEAK, calling many things to your remembrance. Some of what I say you may think you already know. Have patience. With other things you may not agree. Withhold your judgment.

Your true nature is divine, not merely human. This indicates a quality of character which is transcendent. This transcendent character is an already existing potential. Some of this potential may have been partially realized, but there is as yet vastly more unknown to you than known. When known this is the truth that makes you free.

The reality indicated by the word “God” includes this truth of your own divine nature. Your acquaintance therefore with God can be no more than your acquaintance with yourSelf as you divinely are.

Some believe and some deny the existence of God. In either case acceptance or rejection is based in the idea of what the word means to those concerned, or perhaps the attitude may be inherited without thought. When the idea is of a logical nature no doubt acceptance will be compelled. Likewise with an unreasonable concept intelligence and honesty require rejection. However the word “God” may be used to define a reality which is capable of being known to the extent that you come to know your true Self. Neither belief nor unbelief is necessary when the truth is known.

If you are to know yourSelf, you must first admit that the self which you now know is at best but a hint of your true Self. It is unlikely that the experience of identity you have known has always been characterized by the highest vision then possible to you, let alone by the divine state yet beyond your awareness. Who without self-righteousness can claim to be all that he inherently knows he could be?

Your consciousness of present identity is likely to be closely associated with your physical body. Various mental and emotional characteristics and idiosyncrasies are also included in the personality which you think yourself to be. All these elements, constituting your human nature, are derived from hereditary sources and environmental experiences. Consequently you are conscious of a self which is merely a conglomerate amalgam stemming from the myriad influences out of your historical past, combined with the reactions induced by them.

However this composite self of which you are aware cannot be you who are aware of it. Neither is it a true revelation of you. It is rather the reflection of an unnatural state brought to you out of the past, resulting from the experience of countless generations of people who lacked any real awareness of divine identity. This is not you nor does it give evidence of the real nature of your true Self.

You are divine. You are not the conglomerate self-made self. However you are also human which fact makes it possible for your divine Self to be experienced and made known on earth.  Inherently in you are all the essences of your divinely individual character. You are the potential of the divine revelation of your- Self on earth. When you are your true Self on earth, God is in action on earth because of you. Insofar as you personally are concerned the way of the Lord has then been prepared and His paths made straight.

YOU ARE DIVINE. This is the truth for you, but it remains meaningless on earth until you know it. “Knowing” is the state of realized experience, and this occurs as your divine nature is given expression in thought, word and deed.

One of the characteristics of this nature is creativeness. You are a creator. It is natural for you to share the creative work of God by which divine purposes are achieved. All the essences of the divine state, as these relate to your own field of responsibility, are potential in you. The world of your environment is the creative field for which you are responsible.

Your body, your mind and your emotional nature are a part of the world of your environment. They are not you. You are the one who is capable of observing and using them. Anything which you observe cannot be you, the observer. These capacities, however, are the means for your creative expression on earth. Through them you may know and reveal your divine Self.

However, to the extent that they have claimed your identity the experience of your divine Self on earth has been impossible. The self of which you have been aware was a false one. The you you have known has not really been you. You have existed in a condition comparable to a dream state. In such case you are an unreal person in an unreal world, for your observation of the world around you has been from the standpoint of a false identity. This unreal state with its false self and false world may be recreated or caused to become real by a process comparable to that of awakening.

In the unreal state the self which you know is the conglomerate amalgam of hereditary and environmental influences mentioned before. This self is an individual focus and representation of all from which its composition is derived. Identified with it your thoughts and words, your attitudes and actions, are not really your own. They are generated and governed by the inherited mishmash of irrational impulses characterizing that self as these erupt from the subconscious mind.

The conscious mind endeavors to suppress them or to bring them into sufficient order for the achievement of its self-determined ends. But the conscious mind is also a part of the conglomerate self and cannot separate itself from its origins. It is capable of logical reasoning but the only information with which it has to work does not contain the true premise. This conglomerate self is a false self which has become dominant because the true premise was absent. No amount of logical reasoning on the part of the conscious mind will permit true understanding as long as the original premise is false.

The true premise is the experience of divine identity.

THE EXPERIENCE OF DIVINE IDENTITY is impossible until the present fact of false identity is acknowledged. As long as the false state is assumed to be real, there is no capacity available for the experience of the true state. The admission of this is what the word “repentance” really describes. It requires honesty and a refusal to be governed by the false pride which is part of the nature of the unreal self.

The person who cannot or will not see this, no matter how intellectually brilliant he may seem to be, is in a darkened state of ignorance comparable to sleep or hypnosis. Darkness cannot comprehend light. The fact of darkness must be recognized before comprehension of light is possible.

Once there is the acknowledgment of the falsity of the self which has dominated your experience, causing you to live a lie, the door begins to open for you to know the truth. In this sense I am now setting before you an open door. No man can close it. No one, no circumstance, can prevent you from being your true Self. If you can comprehend these words this is so for you.

This, therefore, I say to you: Come up hither. You may do so if you will. Accept the responsibility that is yours and yours alone. Be what you truly are.

TO BE YOUR REAL SELF you must express your divine nature. As long as the capacities of your body, your mind and your heart are occupied with a display of the unreal self, the expression and consequent experience of your divine nature are impossible.

If the feelings of the body, the concepts of the mind and the desires of the heart cause primary value to be placed in the unreal world, identity is maintained in the unreal self. Your inherent creativeness working through your unreal self reproduces the state of the unreal world of your awareness accordingly. This in turn confirms the seeming validity of the physical, mental and emotional estimates of value. Yet the whole procedure is based in the false premise of identity in the unreal self. This is a vicious circle which ends for the unreal self when the fact of its unreality is finally made clear in what is called death.

However, the death of the physical body which also eliminates mental and emotional capacities is not the only way by which the unreal self may pass away. The unreal self may be dissolved while body, mind and heart remain to allow the manifestation of the divine Self.

In this latter case, as in the former, it might be said that the false self dies, but its death may allow the resurrection of the true Self while the physical body yet lives on earth. It is to this cycle of resurrection that I have called you.

WHERE ARE YOUR PRIMARY VALUES? Have your body, mind and emotions convinced you that the values are properly in the world state that you now know? Let us consider.

Does the physical condition of your own body loom large to you? Do your material circumstances trouble you? Is it your experience that they determine your happiness or unhappiness? Perhaps changes in the members of your family, your friends, your business associates, are required to make you content? Is security found in money or position?

Are you easily hurt by what other people say or do? Are you quick to leap to your own defense? Do you feel that others should treat you differently or love you more?

Does resentment, anger or fear dominate your attitude and actions at times? Do you hate anyone?

Many more such questions could be asked. Be honest in your self-examination. If you say “Yes” to any of them, then to this extent your primary values are in the unreal state and you are identified with a false self.

If the nature of what you express in life is determined by the state of the world of your awareness, you cannot know your true Self. All you know is the experience of a puppet. Your only apparent hope for happiness and meaning depends upon your environment, most of which seems to be beyond your control. The people and circumstances out of the past and in the present encase you in a rigid personal bondage from which, try as you may, you cannot escape. What has come from the past makes the present seem hopeless and any bright expectations must be pinned to the future. All this is consequent upon the state of the unreal world, contained in the consciousness of the unreal self, but appearing to be an objective and very real environment.

It is futile for the unreal self to try to save itself from the devastating experience of its own self-created state. Its natural habitat is the unreal world and it can only exist therein. Each is dependent upon the other. Both need to pass away.

THE REAL VALUES ARE THE QUALITIES OF DIVINE BEING. These characterize your true Self. You find your real meaning in the expression of them. When expressed they determine the state of your world. You are, therefore, responsible for your world.

To carry that responsibility correctly you must be true to your divine Self. You can be true only as you accept the qualities of divine being as your own. You will not do this unless they are of supreme value to you.

What are these qualities? All of them are differentiations of the reality described by the word love. God is love. You are divine. Therefore you are characterized by love. Love differentiated in the expression of your life creates a divine world.

The world of your creating is not isolated or separated from the worlds created by others, any more than your divine Self is independent of the divine Self of anyone else. You are divine, they are divine. All are a part of God.

God is one. The world of God is one and includes the whole cosmos with all its divine ramifications and states.

The false state of your present distorted experience is included within the divine state, much as a dream state is included within a waking state world. The fact of a dream state proves the fact of a waking state from which the confused composition of the dream was abstracted. The fact of your false state proves the reality of the divine state from which your unreal self and world were abstracted. The unreality of your present state is partly consequent upon its incompleteness, being an abstraction, and partly upon the resulting absence of the rational control and design inherent in the divine state.

Placing supreme value in the divine nature, conscious experience of the divine state may begin to be restored. To the extent that the new values become dominant to you, your estimate of the false self and the unreal world undergoes a drastic change.

Circumstances and people can then no longer induce reactionary attitudes in you; on the contrary, identified with your divine Self, reaction gives way to creative action. You extend into your world an entirely new influence never brought to bear before.

Creative action springing from your divine nature is a specific differentiation of love rightly applicable to the situation. Because you are divinely identified you not only cannot help but act in love; you also see and under- stand the situation as it really is—not as it falsely seemed to be to the unreal self. Thus divine intelligence becomes operative because you are dealing with real things instead of a distorted mirage.

SUPREME VALUE CENTERS IN LOVE. All true values are differentiations of this supreme value. The means by which love is differentiated into the infinite variety of its divine nature may be called “truth.” Life is the evidence of the truth of love in action. Because love is eternal and the truth of it unchanging, although infinite in its aspects, life is eternal.

The life experienced by the false self is the evidence of a distorted expression of love. It is a temporary state, having no lasting significance.

The presence of love, which is the supreme value and the central essence of your divine nature, is proven because you know life. If you express the truth of love, you are your real Self and your life is eternal. If your expression is not the truth of love, an unreal self is made evident with only transitory existence.

The distinction between the real and the unreal state is not consequent upon the presence or absence of love. If it were possible for love to be entirely absent there could be no state at all. The difference is as to whether the experience of love’s action is true or false.

No more love is needful to you than is now present. Any apparent lack in your life arises from an inadequate experience of the truth of love. It is this truth that makes you free to know love as it really is and to be your divine Self.

Life is the evidence of the controlled differentiation of love according to the design of love’s own nature. What is called life in the experience of the unreal self is a temporary state of unreal existence resulting from the improperly controlled differentiation of love according to an untrue pattern. Such a state would not be possible if at the same time a certain measure of the true control and design in the differentiation of love did not remain operative. Because this is so for you, the opportunity is still open for you to know the truth of yourSelf, which is the truth of love brought to focus and differentiated through you on earth.

YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUALIZED ASPECT OF GOD and your nature is a particularized differentiation of love. This is the truth for you. This individual truth is a part of the whole truth. The whole truth includes all the individualized aspects which compose God and all the particularizations which compose love. The truth as a whole is the design of symmetrical relationship between all aspects of God and differentiations of love and also the control which governs creative action through the design. Design and control are the basic elements of the truth of God and His nature.

As an aspect of that design and a control factor in its working, you have a particular part to play. Your part is closely related to the parts played by many other individualized aspects of that design. All are coordinated by reason of the design so that control may be maintained in creative action.

Identification with the false self obliterates awareness of the true Self and the design of which it is an aspect. In this state of blindness the unreal self seeks to maintain its existence in the unreal world at the expense of other unreal selves. For the sake of comfort and self-preservation, a social order may be developed by cooperative efforts, but the pattern so evolved is not the true design. Some of the principles must be abstracted from the true design, however, for anything to be achieved at all.

Coordination and control are made possible in the true design by the principle of focalization. This same principle is used in any effective organization of the unreal world. The orderly operation of a nation requires a governing body. The orderly operation of a government comes to focus in a cabinet or some such group. The orderly operation of a cabinet is impossible without a chief minister. The principle is at work in the field of business, religion, or wherever people band together for a common purpose. Without it, or should it break down in application, there is chaos.

In the unreal world human purposes are manifold, contradictory and unreal. Divine purposes are harmonious differentiations of one true purpose. Their nature is consonant with love. Their accomplishment depends upon the design and control of truth. Control is maintained by reason of the principle of focalization, which is operative throughout the whole design.

You as an individualized aspect of God are an integral part of a system composed of many such individualizations. This system, with others, is included in a larger system which in turn is an essential part of one greater still.

However far this design of individualizations and systems may be rightly taken, in its completeness it composes what is designated by the word “God.” The cosmos itself portrays this truth. From the atom to the system of galaxies and beyond, it is minutely and majestically proclaimed.

The God-system with which you are immediately concerned relates to this particular planet. In the design of this system, as with all others, the principle of focalization is at work. One individualized aspect of God provides an apex point of control in which all others, including you, are focalized.

This system is part of a greater  system and there are lesser systems within this one. All are properly focalized. The application of the principle throughout maintains coordination and control. This total system within a system is God for this planet and the potential of the divine state on earth—the kingdom of heaven at hand.

YOUR DIVINE NATURE IS UNIQUE. As the specific differentiation of love, which is your true nature, in turn is differentiated in the unique expression of your Self on earth, this is the divine state for you.

The translation of your divine potential into the actual experience of this state occurs as your love for God exceeds all other emotional involvements. It is the real fact in this regard, not the mere desire, that counts.

The principle of focalization applies to your love for God. The manner of its application must be understood and accepted if the divine state is to be known by you. The right application draws your response in love toward the one at the apex of this system, in whom all the differentiations of love within the system come to focus. He is the Lord your God. Regardless of the name used to identify Him, He is the focalization of God for you. Your love for Him and for the fulness of the divine nature focalized by Him and differentiated through you and others, must be complete.  When it is, nothing other than the pure expression of your own divine nature could ever find release through your thoughts, feelings, words and deeds.

Your love for this supreme one is at the same time your love for your true Self and also your love for your neighbor; for all the differentiated aspects of the divine nature within this system are contained in essence at the apex point of focus. The system is one. In it there is one identity, focalized at the apex and differentiated into individual aspects throughout. Thus is the system composed.

This system is the potential for a corresponding system, or “body,” in form on earth. When the potential is fully realized the earthly “body” is a revelation of the divine system. This is God in action on earth.

The way by which this occurs is the creative process. In the unfoldment of it there is a further differentiation of the divine nature through the manifest system or “body” into the larger environment. Thus the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms begin to give increasing evidence of the divine state in expanded expression. So does the kingdom of heaven which is at hand, merely potential, come on earth in actual form and function.

The reproduction of the divine system in manifest form necessarily reveals the principle of focalization in operation on earth. The working of this principle,  being inherent in the design of the divine system, cannot be established by the determinations of the unreal self without distorting it. As long as the unreal self is present and active the true design will be obscured. Consequently only the willingness of the unreal self to lose its life for the sake of your real Self, permits the design of the divine system to take form on earth.

The whole creative fulfilment is dependent, therefore, upon the correct individual choice. Insofar as you are concerned it is dependent upon the extent to which your unreal self will release you into the experience of your real Self on earth. The unreal self must decrease, the real Self increase.

If you wish to correlate all that I have been saying to you with the recorded words and actions of Jesus Christ, you will discover that I am calling them to your remembrance. I do not invite you to accept some strange belief according to the doctrines of the unreal self, but show you the way,  the truth and the life by which your divine Self may come on earth here and now.

THE COMING OF YOUR DIVINE SELF on earth dissolves the unreal state as darkness is caused to vanish before the rising sun.

The manifold achievements of the unreal self consequent upon increased scientific and technological knowledge are not evidence of progressive evolution. They are indications of an explosive proliferation of effects produced by the improperly controlled activity of the unreal self, whose shortsighted outlook lacks awareness of ultimate consequences. This unreal state is self-destructive.

Within the unreal state while it lasts, what has seemed to be pleasing and beneficial to the unreal self has provided the motivation for action. Divine purpose has consequently been ignored or assumed to be non- existent. The attempt of the unreal self to enhance and perpetuate its own existence was deemed to be good. Anything which would detract from its estimate of its own progress and importance was seen as evil. But the truth is that  the dissolution of the false self with the coming of the true Self is necessary to the achievement of divine purpose.

Only the true Self and the real world can be a part of divine purpose. Both the unreal self and its world are doomed to oblivion. They have only temporary existence and by their very nature are constantly in the process  of passing away. The final and complete dissolution of the unreal world is inevitable.

“Advanced civilizations” have vanished from the face of the earth several times in the past, leaving virtually no record other than in legend. Violent upheavals of the earth’s crust were involved. On each occasion opportunity had been extended to the inhabitants of the earth to accept and experience the true Self, and consequently to recreate the divine world. The present world state obviously indicates that those opportunities were neglected or rejected. Because the chance has never yet been taken does not mean either that it does not exist or that it cannot be taken.

The self-destruction of the unreal world of the false self is again at hand. Once more the opportunity to regain the consciousness of divine being is offered to the children of men. These words are one such reminder.

The inevitable passing of the unreal world need not be ultimate disaster for mankind, although vastly greater tribulation will surely occur. If there are those on earth who have accepted and experienced the divine Self then the divine world shall take form as surely as the unreal world disintegrates.

These words are spoken to you. Should you have ears to hear them and a heart to understand, then the future is in your hands.

Let the unreal state pass away in you and around you. Weep not for the passing but rejoice in the coming. Nothing that is real or true can ever be lost. Only false values and distorted states shall vanish from the earth. Do not look back nor mourn their passing.

LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND SEE the truth that makes you free. Hear and understand the word that has been spoken to you.

There are yet many things to be said to those who can bear them, much to be called to remembrance. All that is needful shall be found by those who truly seek, lifting their hearts and their eyes to the source on earth from whence this book took form. “Behold, I make all things new.”

Martin Cecil

Eden Valley Press  1968

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