CALISTHENICS MAY 21, 1980 CATALYST FOR THE ACTION OF THE HIGHER BEINGS AS HUMAN SAMPLE ---COSMIC WORK , SOLAR CENTERED ---FEEL EVIDENCE ---SENSING ---MEANING ---
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That piece of music was a reminder of our last music session. it contains what I call a monotone. And that monotone, that steady pitch (although sometimes it changes a little bit) contains a steadiness, and along that steadiness you have the melody. The steady tone is the main direction -- the main point. Because of that it's one of most difficult types of music to play I mean for you to join in. At its lowest level it symbolizes one-pointedness. Now you might use other words, like perfect concentration. You keep one note, you go along that one note and that one note only. All the melody is around, but you keep centered on the one note. When you can do that you know what concentration is, you know what one-pointedness is, and that's only a beginning. we might play it again next time, I don't kncow, maybe other things will happen in between. But try to be steady -- only for that short time. Or, if we have a music session, for the whole side of a record this is much more difficult.
The highest symbol is the sounding Of the Word, which is hinted at in the Statement of Purpose. One part of the activity is related to the sounding of the word I have told you, related to that, that you don't know what Logoic is -- you don't see it -- but I notice that some of you have at least some intuition. You are not able to define anything, but you are still able to recognize some action related to what we call the Logos or the Logoic action In this instance, what we call the Logos is the same as the Christ- "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God." The word Logos is the same. Logos is Greek, for word. And this related to the one we have called the Christ.
If, for those who have some sensitiveness, you allow the Word to sound -- that means you allow the sounding to reach you -- then you will notice that it does something in you. Perhaps you will experience goose-flesh, or tingling along the spine. Yesterday someone asked if it is mandatory to feel these things. No. This is just a side issue that simply shows a change in the dynamics of the body. It can happen with the symptoms, it can happen without the symptoms, and the symptoms are not the proof of a Logoic action. They are simply the proof of a change in the balance of the body,-- possibly body electricity. Simply that.
For your reference, for those who know a little bit, you have heard or read about the Hierarchy, so you have heard or read about the Ashram of Sanat Kumara. You may have heard about Sanat being a disciple of the Logos. According to that type of description, the sounding is no lower than that.
When you have Beings sounding the Word, some of you might imagine that you hear a sound, no, the true sounding does not produce any sound. Like I told you, the level of music itself has no sound wave -- none at all. It's simply that some people sensitive to that level do produce sound waves and thus are called musicians -- as a reflection of what they connect with. So the sounding of the Word is not as it sounds.
Don't expect a fundamental note like the one you hear in nature with the wind through the trees, or things like that.
No, it's not that -- not at all. It has no shape as you know it.
So in relation to that type of music -- that steadiness, with a very high directivity -- you have all the levels from true one-pointedness to the sounding of the Word. So, you might realize, when you participate in this kind of music, the participation is very exact. It asks a lot of you.
There is another related point that it's time for you to become aware of : The activity in which we happen to be involved has many aspects. One of them, I say one of them, is to prepare the way for a future that is no longer that far away -- still several centuries, but this is very little-- in which you will have possibly several centers where higher Beings will appear and "teach" -- whatever teaching means.
For this to happen, you have to be able to create a surrounding an atmosphere, a condition of personal emanation, that is fit for something like that. With the usual human emanation that we have it's not possible -- they just ignore that level. So something else has to be created.
You might have noticed last week when the music was played, there was from the whole assembled group an emanation in the room that is in the process of becoming more and more evident. Each time that we met, for about two or, three months now, I notice that this becomes stronger and stronger. Now I have a question. Who noticed that? (Many hands lifted)
When this becomes more evident, more clarified, the presences of whatever is in the room increases too. You always have the two aspects: the dynamics of what is going on and the presence related to these dynamics -- both aspects. As you yourselves are part of a dynamic aspect of the whole, a rather bigger whole than what you see here, at the same time you are presences in that.Who is sensitive that since a little while the aspect of foreign presence in the room increases? The more you participate, the more it happens.You know, in your minds, you always have to do things in order to... and so on. To allow Presence to become more and more tangible (that does not mean visible), for a few it is pretty tangible, you are here as catalysts. This is a type of function you might not be used to so we have a chemist, besides a geologist, who is going to tell you what a catalyst is.
; A catalyst is a substance which increases the rate of a reaction. The catalyst enters the cycle, lends its substance to the action and comes back to itself.
Martin: So this description comes fairly close to what actually happens here --I mean as a physical example of what happens with you.
It's pretty serious, because as a catalyst you lend yourself to an action going on, and if we look at it from the angle I'll show you today, you lend yourself to the activity of those who come closer to mankind in order to be able to work among men. Well maybe not all of society-- it will be rather selected groups-- but still on the conscious human level (not supra-conscious, but conscious, and that is new). But for this you have to lend to them the human quality that is proper to mankind. If you understand that, you will understand a lot better what I mean when I say that you work on yourself as a sample of mankind. They don't use you as an individual, except if you have to accomplish a certain purpose, but as a group. You are used as human samples. So you serve as catalysts in order that they are able to be present on the so-called human level. This is a poor explanation because the human level encompasses a lot more than you are aware of. But then you happen to be incarnated and they are not. So we are linked with the personality aspect in a way that they are not. Definitelynot. Some of them are quite far removed from that -- meaning that in their usual condition they don't even acknowledge the presence of a human person-- a human Being, yes, but not a human person. So some adjustment, and a big adjustment, has to be made. But for that you have to furnish the surrounding-- the culture medium.
Still the term catalyst is not complete-- as Daniel said, after a while the catalyst is changed. The human being as a catalyst changes, but not immediately. During each session you are used as catalysts anyway, knowingly or not. of course if you do it knowingly you participate much more, and you create a surrounding, a culture medium, that is much more fit than if you are unconscious. Unconsciousness offers much more resistance--- but still you give a kind of surrounding that is helpful. And that does not work along your usual line of thinking that you have to work --.I have to do this, I have to do that-- no. You live the fullness of what is going on and that's all whether consciously or not (it's not that important).
Do you have questions?
I've shown you two aspects you're not used to: the sounding of the Word that relates to the Logos and the catalyst aspect.
Participant: I'm interested to know if there's a geographical range of something going on, or if it's something going on for humanity as a whole, or is it something going on in this roomMartin: All that together simultaneously. I'm very serious about that, and I do insist, because I realize if I scan your mind, you haven't yet understood what it means to work on the self as a human sample. I told you that when you are catalysts you are used as a human sample. Now, just imagine something that is fairly simple to imagine: You are raised in a given society, you have a certain type of intelligence certain types of abilities, a certain type of sensitiveness, a certain type of physical body, and so on... that belongs to a certain "level" in mankind. You might have other ways of looking at it, but still it's typical of what I call now a certain "level" of mankind-- that means you are not alone on that level. You have lots of other people on earth who are not exactly like you, but pretty close. You have some thing in common -- that level. So, if you have a Being working on a certain level, i.e., you as a sample, and if that Being reaches that level, then that Being is going to reach all the people of that level, because he was able to adjust to that sample. See what I mean? You don't? Now who can explain in other words? For me it's frightfully simple.
Participant: Are you saying that if I, as a sample, make a shift, I shift for all the persons that are on the level that I'm on?
Martin: In a way, yes. it does not mean that they will shift at the same instant but it does mean that, as you have shifted, the way is open for all the others on that samples level to shift also. They might do it tomorrow, They might do it in a few incarnations time is pretty elastic you know but you open the way. I have an example that I give from time to time to show you that it's a process that is little known in the general Public but very well known in scientific surroundings: I had a brother who was an engineer, and he told us that they had a patent office in the factory where he worked, and when a discovery was made -- even if the experiment was half finished, but it worked -- they would run to the patent office and register the hour of the deposit of the proposal, because they knew perfectly well that in several places in the world there were laboratories doing exactly the same work.
If you have a group that lends itself to the adjustment I spoke of (for Beings to become much more tangible -- eventually visible to ordinary eyes) it makes things possible for the whole earth not just the isolated individual or place.
You live in a personality that shows a certain set of dispositions -- some are nice, some are not, there are problems and there are easy things -- all mixed together. But it is a situation you deal with. If you deal with that situation as being yours and yours alone, as most people do, you have an enclosed situation that is not linked to the outside -- so you solve your situation for yourself alone. If you deal with it as a human situation and you solve it, you solve a human problem, not just your own.
If you observe your life, as you go along the spiritual, path (to use a classical expression), you will notice that in the usual frame of mind, as a prospective Initiate you always have to solve your personal problem for you first, and when you have done that you have to do it again -- this time on a much greater scale. You might begin with it on a small scale -- that means as your problem -- you can also do it right away as a human problem that saves time. But then you don't have the thrill of possession.
I want to insist again on the catalyst aspect, because you're not used to it. You have to realize that when you work here you get acquainted consciously (however poorly) and more than that through experience (most of it unconscious) to a play, an activity that is going on. It is related on one side to the whole, on the other side to the earth, I mean usual society. That means that you serve as a link. Not only a catalyst, but a catalyst that is linked, that allows something to happen on the usual level. Don't underestimate that. And the catalyst is not passive. The catalyst gives of its-own substance, it comes back, but it comes back after having performed a function. This essentially is an activity-- it's not passive.
When the atmosphere becomes stronger in the room, you will notice that as long as you join in, especially if you're one pointed, you are not a bit passive. It's simply that the consciousness has a hard time.following.
3, for instance, you have to introduce some sort of relativity in the feeling of "I am me". If you begin to be aware of those Beings who sound the Word, whatever that means, you will no longer take as a joke that, that personality of yours, that you feel belongs to you and you alone, does not belong to you and you alone. And the problem of ownership might be solved in court in your disfavor. I mean that what we call the Planetary Logos, that spirit whose body is the planet, has title of ownership -- because whatever lives on the planet is part of his body. That's hard to swallow. Now, who is more owner of the body, the Planetary Logos, whose body it is, or yours whose body it is.
If Itake the image that you take it away from Him (actually you cannot because you still live on earth anyway so you still live within Him. Like it says in the book: "...in whom we live and have our Being." Few people realize that it is literally true). So, you go away, out of the reach of that Logos. The body would die. Disintegrate. Because you are not able to hold it together. You just use it. So you can possibly consider yourself as a parasite on His body -- you know like a virus or a microbe -- maybe a useful one, hopefully you are useful. But to pretend to own it, is very relative. So if the theory of relativity is, as Steiner said, no good (and there may be a time when this will be questioned too, I think it has already begun), use it at least to put some relativity on your possessiveness.
When you work on yourself as a sample of mankind, you really work in and on a situation. And that can be fascinating. Much, much more than working on yourself, which is boring.
What you call cosmic is only one order of life. Don't forget that. People use the word cosmic as being superlative. No. it's a figure of speech. If you want to understand the symbology of it, it's very simple. People are ego centered until the soul is strong enough to change all that. But they happen to be mainly ego-centered. They are also geo-centered -- that means earth-- centered. Not solar-centered, earth centered. That was a frame of mind that was prominent in the middle ages when people believed that everything revolved around the earth. Until some fool came along and said "that's not true, we turn around the sun". So the picture was destroyed. We say that we are solar-centered now, not earth-centered -- believe it or not,, your minds have not caught up with the new situation. You are still earth-centered. Symbolically speaking, psychologically speaking.In ordinary occultism the sun stands for the spirit. So, if your consciousness is aware that the system in the sky is solar-centered -- our planet turns around the sun and the sun is the center-- so the spirit ought to be the center rather than the ego which is related to personality. This change has to be made. In this respect the mind is still in the middle ages. this is one of the big changes you undergo.
First you cannot deny that you have a feel, so you register the feel, but mind-wise as you have no way to control what it is, you just stay with the acknowledgement that it feels kind of funny or that it feels like someone is here. That's all, Don't go further. You go further only if there is an evidence. I would-say in this respect that the definition of evidence is that it arises no question of any kind. Not sensory, not emotional, not mental. It is too evident. Too self-evident. There is a difficulty handling, in the beginning, the different types of awareness that come to you. You might feel the presence of something that might be for instance an astral projection. Or simply an emotional projection, which amounts basically to the same. But you sense it. If you take it for being the real thing, you make a mistake. It is not a mistake in sensing, it's a mistake in reading the sensing. Because many people say "My sensing was wrong". No. Your sensing is your sensing. Simply that. It's neutral in itself, so you have to acknowledge. But the meaning of these sensings can vary, and you have to be cautious with the meaning. This can vary. Acknowledge your sensing, but be cautious with the meaning, until further evidence arrives. It is better to wait for further evidence than rush to give a meaning. See what I mean? It's a matter of safety. Otherwise there is always the risk of running into uncontrolled sensing because of the phenomenal aspect, and some people are attracted by that. And this can be a pitfall. As you acknowledge the sensing the sensing refines, shows more shades, and one day you know what you do. But the sensing is not the meaning. Then you can associate the sensing with the meaning, and with this last one be prudent. Be cautious: