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A discourse by
Jesus, November 10, 2009
For thousands of years this planet has been enveloped in a thick cloud,
created by the epic dramas that where defined by fallen beings who
rebelled against God in a higher sphere. These dramas have influenced
the thinking of individuals – even entire civilizations – in many
subtle ways. And when I say “subtle,” I mean that the dramas have
distorted people’s view of life in such a way, that people truly and
firmly believe that the illusions defined by the dramas are real and
give an accurate view of reality. They mistake illusions for reality.
As a result, there are only very few people in embodiment who are
able to understand how we of the Ascended Host look at the earth and
how we seek to help human beings rise above the clouds, the veil,
created by the drama consciousness. It is my hope that my discourses
on dramas can increase that number, but as always it depends on your
willingness to let me challenge your mental box and disturb your sense
of equilibrium.
The grand illusion of right and wrong
Do you understand what this means? Master MORE has said that if people
knew better, they would do better. This is true because when the conscious
self truly sees how it is limiting itself, it WILL change. The problem
is that the drama consciousness prevents people from actually knowing
better. As long as people think their dramas present an accurate view
of reality, why would they even consider questioning their dramas,
their world view? Why would they even consider that their thought
system is simply seeking to fit the entire universe and God into a
particular mental box? They will be absolutely convinced that they
are doing the right thing, even doing God’s work, while they are simply
outplaying an epic drama and their personal dramas.
People who are trapped in this state of consciousness cannot fathom
that they might be living a lie, they cannot even consider it. So
how do you know whether you are affected by this subtle lie? Let me
give you a guiding rod. I have talked about the Law of Free Will,
and I have said that this law gives all self-aware beings the right
to create any experience they want and to hold on to it for as long
as they can. I have said that this law makes YOU responsible ONLY
for your own growth and ascension, and you are NOT responsible for
the growth and ascension of anyone else.
Now, one of the most subtle effects of the consciousness of the epic
dramas is the belief that there is an absolute standard for right
and wrong. If you follow the standard, you are a good person, and
if you violate the standard (repeatedly) you are a bad person. In
other words, choices can be divided into right and wrong and people
can be divided into good and bad.
Let me now make an absolute statement that will surprise – even infuriate
– many. If you believe in this division into right and wrong choices
and good and bad people, then YOU ARE AFFECTED BY THE EPIC DRAMAS
OF THE FALLEN BEINGS!
There are no two ways about this. We of the Ascended Host have ascended
precisely because we have transcended all of the epic dramas and their
illusions, especially the one just described. We do NOT evaluate the
choices of human beings by comparing them to any standard that can
be defined by words and labeling them as right or wrong. And we do
NOT evaluate people and label them as good or bad. To us, there are
no bad people—but neither are there any good people. We do not look
at people and label some as evil, as fallen angels or as beyond hope—even
though we are aware of the history of each being.
When we look upon the earth, we see only self-aware beings who are
making choices based on their present state of consciousness. To us,
the choices you make are irrelevant in the sense that the cosmic mirror
WILL reflect back to you what you send out. So we of the Ascended
Host are NOT seeking to influence your choices. Why not? Because we
understand the eternal truth that your choices are the products of
your state of consciousness. Therefore, we are focused on one thing,
namely to inspire you to RAISE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. We know that when
you do raise your consciousness, your choices will automatically change.
Do you now begin to see the problem with the epic dramas? They sprang
from the minds of certain beings who came to believe that the fact
that co-creators could get lost proved that there was a flaw in the
Law of Free Will. Thus, these beings reasoned that they had to correct
this flaw in God’s design by seeking to force other beings to change
their choices.
Do you see that traditional, mainstream religions on this planet are
indeed focused on changing your behavior by making you change the
choices you make? What I describe as the outer path is based on the
promise that if you change your outer actions – without changing your
consciousness, without looking at the beam in your own eye – you can
– and will automatically – enter the kingdom.
This is a direct effect of the epic dramas, and it has caused most
people to believe in the overall illusion that if only the actions
of all people conform to a standard defined by their belief system,
then God’s kingdom will come to earth. And if not, the earth will
be destroyed and all souls be captured by the devil. Thus, such people
think that it is their duty to change the actions and choices of other
people. The net effect being that they look only at the splinters
in the eyes of others and do not look at the beam in their own eyes—which
means they cannot escape their own dramas and thus are not growing.
They cannot move from the broad way of dramas to the strait and narrow
way of Christ.
Do you begin to see how subtle and pervasive this state of consciousness
is? If you think that YOU have to “help” other people by getting them
– by means that you think are legitimate and benign – to change their
minds, change their choices, then YOU are trapped in an epic drama.
If you think you have to evaluate other people’s choices and judge
them as right or wrong based on ANY standard, then YOU are trapped
in an epic drama.
We of the ascended host have no need to judge or evaluate people’s
choices, as we know a simple reality:
For by thy words
thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
(Matthew 12:37)
We also know that this
quote is not entirely correct. The true meaning is that by thy WORD
thou shalt be justified and condemned. The term WORD refers to a person’s
total state of consciousness, the sense of self with which you express
yourself in this world. This is comparable to the concept of the LOGOS,
which is the basic vision – held in the universal Christ mind – that
the Creator defined before creating anything that had form. You likewise
have a basic vision of life through which you color everything you
do in the world of form. This basic vision is shaped by your life
experience. I referred to this when I said:
A good man out
of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and
an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
(Matthew 12:35)
Obviously, you can see
that while in embodiment I did use the dualistic term good and evil,
but nevertheless the point is that what I called “the heart” is your
WORD, your LOGOS, your basic approach to and outlook upon life in
the material world.
We might say that entering the kingdom of God – which as any student
of this website should know is the Christ consciousness – is like
entering a door with a screen that holds back anything too big to
fit through the holes. Any illusions that spring from the duality
consciousness – any remnants of a personal or epic drama – cannot
pass through the screen and will thus keep your conscious self from
passing through the door as long as you identify with them.
Do you see that we of the Ascended Host have no need to form opinions,
to evaluate or to judge anyone on earth? We know that the law is unfailing
and that people will enter the Christ consciousness ONLY when they
take full responsibility for their own state of mind instead of worrying
about other people’s state of mind. Therefore, we focus all of our
attention on inspiring people to raise their consciousness.
However, in doing so, we are – naturally – having to adapt to people’s
current state of consciousness. We always have to challenge people’s
existing mental boxes, but the question is how much we can challenge
the mental boxes without disturbing people’s sense of equilibrium
too much—meaning that they panic, close their minds and start to defend
their mental boxes. So we walk a delicate balancing act, and let us
take a closer look.
Why some people are beyond our help
Let us return to the basics. The purpose of life is growth in self-awareness,
and the entire world of form is designed to allow a self-aware being
to progressively expands its sense of self-awareness from any level
to that of a full-fledged Creator. The vehicle for the expansion of
self-awareness is your life experience, the experience you get as
you interact with a particular environment in the world of form, including
other self-aware beings in that environment.
Do you understand why experience is so important? Your growth in SELF-awareness
cannot be forced upon you from without—it must happen as a result
of your internal process, meaning how you choose to respond to your
environment. You can be put in a situation where you have conditions
that make it easier for you to develop self-awareness, but there is
no guarantee that all people exposed to the same situation will respond
the same way or that all will grow.
What does it mean to grow? It means that you come to the realization
that it is NOT the external circumstances that affect you but your
REACTION to them that affects you. In other words, your INNER life
experience is what affects your sense of self, and thus the master
key to your personal growth is to take command over your life experience.
So the real question is how long it will take for you to come to this
realization. However, this can happen only after you have had enough
of the experience of allowing external circumstances to control your
state of mind. And you have the right to have this experience for
as long as you want—within the framework of the law.
What is the framework of the law? Well, since the very purpose is
the GROWTH in self-awareness, the law is set up to make sure nothing
can stand still. You are either raising your awareness or you are
lowering your awareness—there is nothing in between. I know this will
seem contradictory to common experience, so let me explain. The material
universe is in the latest of a series of spheres. Each sphere has
been made from progressively denser energies (as its starting point).
The denser energies create a delay factor, so that it takes time from
when a mental image is projected from the mind until the cosmic mirror
reflects it back as a physical form/circumstance.
This delay factor is what creates the illusion of time and that you
can maintain a certain experience over time. Yet in reality, you are
always affected by the two basic forces, namely the force of life
(the upward pull) and the force of death (the second law of thermodynamics
that seeks to break down any structure). So even though it may seem
as if you can maintain certain physical conditions or even a certain
inner condition over time, you are always being pulled in one direction
or the other, which means your sense of self is either expanding or
contracting. You are either flowing with the River of Life and growing,
or you are resisting it and thus falling further and further behind,
which increases the downward pull.
So, do you understand what I am saying here? There are two ways to
evolve and grow, one is to flow with the River of Life and expand
your sense of self, and the other is to resist. How can resisting
lead to growth? Well, what does growth mean? It means to expand your
sense of self, or we might say it means to expand the mental box in
which your conscious self has chosen to clothe itself. And when you
resist the upward pull, the second law will eventually – and believe
me, it WILL happen – break down your mental boxes.
Do you see the point? Growth happens when your mental box is challenged
to such an extent that your sense of equilibrium is disturbed. It
is important for spiritual students to understand what this means.
You see, the effect of having a sense of equilibrium is that you are
not really thinking about life and evaluating your approach to life.
You feel that everything is stable, and thus you see no need to rethink
your basic approach to life. It is only when your current mental box
is challenged to a critical degree that your sense of equilibrium
is disturbed to the point where you acknowledge the need to re-evaluate
some aspect of your WORD, your LOGOS, your approach to life.
What will it take for a given being to come to the point of acknowledging
the need to re-evaluate life? Well, it depends on how attached the
being is to its sense of equilibrium. The most advanced students have
very little attachment and are constantly re-evaluating some aspect
of life, always looking for insights that can help them expand their
current mental box—which is seen as simply one step on the staircase
of growth. They have taken full responsibility for their state of
mind.
Those who are trapped in a drama are very attached to their sense
of equilibrium, because they stepped into the drama in order to avoid
taking responsibility for themselves. Thus, they have closed their
minds to any knowledge that is beyond the mental box of their drama,
and since the mental box is seen as reality, it is believed to be
the final view of life—it is a closed system, an end in itself. This
means such people are unreachable and unteachable to the true spiritual
teachers, who have uncompromising respect for free will. These people
simply are not on our radar screens, so to speak, as we know the law
and physical conditions will take care of their growth.
How does this happen? Well, it is what I have called the school of
hard knocks, and it has three main elements:
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People are not alone
but live in an environment with other people who are trapped in
the drama consciousness. Because the epic dramas are defined from
the duality consciousness, they always have a built-in conflict.
An epic drama is based on a concept of right and wrong and a standard
for judging other people as good or bad. Thus, it is inevitable
that those trapped in one epic drama will see themselves as being
in opposition to those trapped in another drama. So you see all
kinds of groups on earth who are essentially challenging each
others mental boxes, and we of the Ascended Host really don’t
need to do anything—people are so good at doing it themselves.
In other words, the effect of the epic dramas is that you cannot
leave other people alone, and this makes sure that everyone’s
mental box will be challenged by someone.
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The material universe
is designed as a cosmic mirror that reflects back to you what
you send out. The Ma-ter light will take on forms that outpicture
the mental images projected upon it. As an example, it is the
mental images of human beings that have created disease, poverty,
starvation and all of the other limiting conditions on earth.
By experiencing such conditions, people’s mental boxes can also
be challenged to the point where they see the need to re-evaluate
their approach to life.
- The Ma-ter light will
take on any form projected upon it, but the second law of thermodynamics
will instantly begin to break down any form and return the Ma-ter
light to a state of equilibrium. This also works in terms of people’s
mental boxes, as the second law works only in closed systems. So
because of the two factors described above, people begin to defend
their mental boxes and close their minds to new knowledge. Yet as
soon as their minds become closed systems, the second law begins
to create disorder and chaos internally, and this can eventually
lead to such stress and mental disease that people can no longer
stand it and thus become willing to rethink.
Do you see the overall
point? The school of hard knocks inevitably leads to suffering, and
it is really only a matter of how much suffering people are willing
to take before they decide to rethink their lives. People create their
own suffering by their own resistance to growth—the harder the resistance,
the more intense the suffering. Thus, it is only matter of time before
people cannot maintain their sense of equilibrium. And as their mental
boxes are challenged, people do get an opportunity to look at life
without the filter of the mental boxes.
The effect of this is that even though people have been going deeper
and deeper into the drama consciousness, they can – at any time –
come to the point of being willing to rethink life. And if they truly
are willing to look beyond their mental box, they can have a true
conversion experience that in an instant puts them on the upward path.
Can you see that we of the Ascended Host do not condemn people for
taking this road, for we know that even the via dolorosa can lead
to genuine growth. Growth means that the dramas are transcended, and
you can do that in two ways. You can use a spiritual teaching to see
through the illusions of the dramas or you can live out the dramas
to the fullest, until you have finally had enough of the struggle
and then see through them—and thus take responsibility for your life
experience.
Either way works, and one is not better than the other. In fact, most
self-aware beings have to experience some drama in order to truly
gain the experience that empowers them to see through the drama consciousness
in all of its forms. So to us, the only difference is that those who
take the school of hard knocks are not open to direct assistance from
us, which means we leave them alone and let the law do its work. Only
when someone is open to ideas beyond their mental box, do we step
in and get more directly involved in helping people grow.
As a matter of completeness, it should be mentioned that the school
of hard knocks can cause some beings to go into a state of perpetually
refusing to rethink. As soon as one mental box is broken down, they
create another one that justifies why they do not have to take responsibility
for themselves. Because everything in the world of form must have
a limit, each lifestream has a given time-span to choose the upward
path. If a lifestream refuses, it will go through what has been called
the final judgment. In this process, a lifestream is shown all of
its mental boxes and illusions, so that it can clearly see beyond
them. It is then given a choice between taking responsibility for
itself (beginning the upward path) or losing its opportunity, whereby
the conscious self returns to the Creator and is no longer a self-aware
extension, an individualized being.
Seeking to help people through spiritual teachings
I have said that we do not judge people based on a dualistic standard,
but we do – naturally – evaluate people. Our criterion is simple:
can we help people or can we not help them? Most people on earth are
still in the school of hard knocks, and such people simply are not
on our radar screen, as they are not open to our help. So what will
it take for people to be open to us?
In the most general sense, people become open to our help when they
reach a critical point of being willing to question their mental boxes,
even if it disturbs their sense of equilibrium. This might happen
as a result of people receiving such hard knocks that their mental
boxes and sense of equilibrium are disturbed by force. Or it might
happen by people using the mind’s built-in ability to analyze and
compare, whereby they see contradictions in traditional or mainstream
thought systems. It might also happen as a result of people developing
a love for something more than the dramas.
As I have said, all larger or mainstream thought systems – be they
religious, political or scientific – have been influenced by the drama
consciousness. They have all become tools for promoting the epic drama
that those in a specific thought system are the good people who are
working for the ultimate cause, and this gives these people a firm
sense of equilibrium. So only when people – one way or another – become
willing to question the mental boxes defined by established thought
systems, will they be open to direct teachings from us.
What I am talking about here are teachings that are given for a general
audience and are available for anyone to find and study. Examples
are the teachings of the Buddha, the teachings I gave 2,000 years
ago and the teachings we have given through various messengers over
the past century.
However, be careful to realize the reality that we of the Ascended
Host face. Contrary to what some students prefer to think (based on
the drama consciousness) we are NOT seeking to bring forth an ultimate
or absolute teaching. We realize that no teaching expressed in words
can be absolute or ultimate. Your conscious self has the capacity
to experience ultimate truth – what I called the Spirit of truth –
but only by going beyond any expression in the world of form and experiencing
its source, the Creator.
So we are practical realists who are seeking to reach as many people
as possible, meaning we inspire or release many different teachings,
each of which is carefully adapted to a group of people who are affected
by a particular epic drama or mental box. In order for such a teaching
to be successful, the first requirement is that it must contain something
that the people can fathom and relate to with their present state
of consciousness.
Do you see what this means? Even a teaching given by us must be adapted
to people’s mental box, which means that it can be necessary for us
to seemingly confirm certain illusions to which the people we seek
to reach are attached. In other words, in order to reach people, we
cannot challenge their mental box beyond what their sense of equilibrium
can deal with. If we give a teaching that is too far beyond people’s
mental box, we cannot reach them at all, and thus we cannot even begin
to help them. So you see that our teachings are not given in order
to set forth ultimate truth. They are given in order to offer a specific
group of people a way to transcend a particular mental box—and once
they have done that, then connect to the ongoing path.
Many of the teachings we give and inspire are given for people who
are not ready to acknowledge the existence of ascended masters, so
we keep our identity secret. There is a great variety of such teachings,
often disguised as self-help or as belonging to a particular tradition.
For example, we must take vastly different approaches in order to
help people from a Christian, a Muslim or a Buddhist background.
Within the last century, we have also sponsored certain teachings
that openly spoke about us and that sought to give forth a more universal
teaching for people who had attained a higher degree of openness.
However, even such teachings are not meant to set forth an ultimate
truth. Up until now, our teachings have all been designed to help
people escape the mental boxes of the Piscean age, which means they
had to be adapted to those mental boxes to some degree. My point being
that even the teachings given by us as direct revelation have been
adapted to people’s mental boxes, including the epic dramas that dominated
the Piscean age.
This realization has many ramifications, but the one I want to focus
on here is the fact that people who find these teachings respond to
them based on their personal and epic dramas, their mental boxes.
In other words, these teachings have been published for anyone to
find, and the only real criteria is people’s willingness to question
their mental boxes. Yet the important question is how this willingness
came about?
What I have explained above is that most people on earth have enrolled
themselves in the school of hard knocks. For some the knocks eventually
became so hard that they developed a willingness to question certain
mental boxes. However, the crucial distinction is that for most people
this did NOT means that they have also developed a willingness to
take responsibility for themselves. Take note that people can indeed
develop this willingness through the school of hard knocks, but the
fact that they are in this school proves that at one point they refused
to take full responsibility. And thus they have a big hurdle to overcome
and must truly go through a change of heart.
So what happens is that the vast majority of the people who have –
over the past century and more – found a teaching sponsored by the
ascended masters, have come in without the willingness to take responsibility
for themselves. We have been fully aware of this, and our teachings
have been designed to help people take that responsibility. However,
we have also been fully aware that there is no way to guarantee that
people will actually accept responsibility.
Do you see my point? It is quite possible to be willing to question
your mental boxes in terms of questioning outer teachings or thought
systems WITHOUT being willing to look in the mirror and take responsibility
for yourself. For example, many who claim to be ascended master students
can clearly see the fallacy of mainstream religion, and they are quick
to place blame upon various external sources who supposedly tricked
them and other people. However, an illusion can ONLY appeal to you
if you have something in your own consciousness that corresponds to
that illusion. And that something is a spiritual blindness that prevents
you from seeing through the illusion. Yet where does spiritual blindness
come from? It comes from your unwillingness to look at yourself in
the mirror, which comes from your unwillingness to take full responsibility
for your state of mind.
Misusing our teachings to build an equilibrium
What I am saying here is that a majority of the people who come into
ascended master teachings are willing to question their mental boxes
but are not – yet – willing to take responsibility for themselves.
I realize this may sound abstract to some, so let me explain it a
different way. I have talked about your mental box and your sense
of equilibrium. For this discussion, the mental box is how you look
at the world, including an outer religion you follow. It is how you
look OUT from yourself. Your sense of equilibrium is how you look
at yourself, meaning how you look IN at yourself.
As an example, let us take a person who grew up in a mainstream Christian
religion. He eventually receives some hard knocks that causes him
to acknowledge the contradictions of his belief system. Thus, he is
willing to question his outer religion, his mental box. As a result
of this, he finds the ascended masters’ teachings and it opens his
mind further. Yet he comes to reason that his traditional religion
was influenced by the power elite and dark forces, and he thus places
all responsibility on these external forces.
What he has NOT done is look at what it was in his consciousness that
caused him to be born in that environment—what is it he needs to learn
about his approach to life and religion in order to rise above his
current level of consciousness. In other words, he has not yet taken
responsibility for himself but is placing responsibility outside himself.
And while this may still lead to a growth in his understanding of
the world, it has not yet led to a growth in his state of consciousness.
Another way to say this is that such a person has had his mental box
challenged, but he has not yet had his sense of equilibrium challenged
so severely that he is willing to look at himself. My point being
that most of the people who find our teachings either have their sense
of equilibrium largely intact or have only had it challenged to some
degree. And this – finally – brings us to the CRUCIAL point I want
to make with this discussion.
Most of our students come to our teachings with a desire to reinforce
or repair their sense of equilibrium. And they quickly take our teachings
and build a new sense of equilibrium, which means they have now USED
OUR TEACHINGS TO JUSTIFY WHY THEY DO NOT NEED OT LOOK AT THEMSELVES!!!
They have taken an ascended master teaching and elevated it to some
ultimate status, such as claiming it is the most advanced teaching
on the planet or the gospel for the next 2,000 years. And they have
selected certain aspects of the teaching and used them to build a
sense that they have no need to truly question their basic approach
to life and religion. After all, since they have found and accepted
this advanced teaching – as opposed to the majority who are not evolved
enough to accept the teaching – they must be advanced students. And
as such, they have no need to even consider that they have a beam
in their own eyes.
As a result, their minds become closed systems, and we of the Ascended
Host cannot reach them, even though they claim to be our best students
and call upon us day and night. We can only stand by and say to them
(which they cannot hear): “Hello, if you want to see us, look inside
yourself. And when you have been willing to look through anything
that is in there, you will see us on the other side!”
The self-esteem trap
Why is it that people need a sense of equilibrium? Well, all self-aware
beings need some foundation for their interaction with their environment,
some sense of who they are. A new co-creator who is playing a role
gets this sense of identity from the role he or she is playing, and
it gives a sense of self-esteem.
As you come to the crucial turning point of having to take responsibility,
you awaken from the first forgetting, and you now reconnect to the
fact that the core of your being is the conscious self, which is an
extension of the Creator’s own Being. You also become aware of your
I AM Presence,
and thus you begin to know your spiritual individuality—as opposed
to the sense of self you have built as a result of playing roles in
your environment.
The importance of this is that you gain the best possible foundation
for developing true self-esteem, namely that you realize that YOU
are a spiritual being who is beyond any role you have played in this
world and beyond any self you have developed in this world. The ONLY
true source of self-esteem is to recognize that YOU are an extension
of the Creator’s Being—and that all other self-aware beings are also
extensions of the same source. Do you see why this is so? It is a
self-esteem that is beyond and thus independent of anything in this
world.
How do you develop this self-esteem? There is only one way. You MUST
take full responsibility for yourself. You must realize that it is
YOUR responsibility to connect to your inner being and that you must
NEVER allow anything in this world to come between you and your source.
Thus, you must take full responsibility for being in command of your
state of mind, regardless of ANYTHING that happens in this world.
When you do this, you realize that your conscious self is more than
ANY other sense of self you have developed in this world; it is more
than ANY sense of self based on the illusion of separation or the
consciousness of duality. As such, you have the potential to transcend,
to rise above, to leave behind any lesser sense of self and begin
to express your spiritual individuality in this world. Thus, you can
come to the point where your sense of self – the self you use as a
vehicle for self-expression in this world – is in complete alignment
with the individuality in your I AM Presence. You are here below all
that you are Above.
Yet what happens when a lifestream refuses to take this full responsibility?
Well, it goes into the drama consciousness, and that means it accepts
a dualistic illusion as a justification for NOT looking at itself.
It now builds a sense of self-esteem – a sense of equilibrium – on
this illusion, and as I have explained above, any illusion will inevitably
be challenged in the school of hard knocks. So you now have a being
who is in a constant struggle to build, secure and defend its self-esteem,
its sense of equilibrium.
However, on an even deeper level, the unwillingness to take responsibility
for yourself makes a being vulnerable to the epic dramas. The reason
is that the epic dramas seemingly offer an easy way out of the self-esteem
problem. These dramas – in any number of different variations – define
a thought system that divides people into two categories, those who
are good and those who are bad. So by entering into this consciousness,
you take over the basic belief that there is an absolute right and
wrong – as defined by your belief system – and that it is perfectly
justified to judge people and label them.
You then enter the “us versus them” mentality and the advantage it
offers you (when you are not willing to take responsibility for yourself)
is that by merely belonging to the good people, you have a foundation
for self-esteem. You are part of the group of people who are not only
good, but who are actually fighting for the victory of God’s plan
on earth and for the defeat of those who oppose God. What better foundation
for self-esteem could you have—in this world.
As I have said, the illusions of the epic dramas have been so intricately
woven into the fabric of consciousness on this planet that it is virtually
impossible to grow up without being affected by them. So what are
we of the Ascended Host to do, when we give forth a new teaching?
Well, we have to give something that appeals to people and also is
in line with the lessons people have to learn at the time. And one
of the main lessons humanity was meant to learn in the Age of Pisces
was precisely to overcome the epic dramas. So do you see why our previous
teachings have contained certain elements that are clearly dualistic
and adapted to the epic mindset?
My point being that each of our previous teachings has been a calculated
risk. We know very well that most people – the vast majority – who
find our teachings are affected by the epic mindset and have built
their self-esteem on its illusions. Thus, we know it is inevitable
that such people will use our teachings to reinforce their sense of
self-esteem, their sense of equilibrium, based on the belief that
they are the good people and that they are on the side of ultimate
good.
We cannot require that people leave behind their epic dramas before
they enter the door—as that would defeat the purpose for giving a
teaching. You see, if people had already transcended the epic mindset,
they would not need an external teaching, as we could work with them
directly within themselves. Thus, those who do need an outer teaching
are guaranteed to be in the epic mindset, and we must adapt the teaching
to this fact. This means that we must cater to the need that people
have, including the need to feel special because they have found the
teaching.
Do you see that there is no way around this? Yet if it is guaranteed
that the teaching will reinforce the epic mindset and the false self-esteem,
does that not defeat the purpose from the very beginning? Not necessarily,
because we have options for helping people transcend the epic mindset
once they have walked through the door. For those who can read between
the lines of any previous teachings – for those who have eyes to see
– there are innumerable clues that can help people see beyond the
epic mindset.
Of course, there is no guarantee that people will see or internalize
these clues. In fact, it is clear that the majority of ascended master
students will not and have not used our teachings to transcend the
epic mindset. However, are they any worse off than if they had stayed
in any other thought system that reinforces this mindset?
You see, we always face the initiation faced by Gautama Buddha as
he had entered Nirvana and contemplated returning to earth in order
to teach what he had discovered. The temptation was that the difference
between the state of consciousness he had attained and the state of
consciousness of most people on earth was so great that no one would
be able to understand his teaching. He overcame that temptation by
stating the eternal truth – guaranteed by the upward momentum of this
sphere as a whole – that “Some will understand.”
For each teaching we have given, some have understood and have bridged
the gap between their epic mental box and the ascended consciousness.
I am hoping that by talking about these topics in a more direct manner
than has ever been done before, even more will understand and rise
above.
So in order to set the stage for my next discourse, let me make it
clear that even for the members of the Ascended Host, nothing is a
free ride. When we give a teaching, we invest our own light in it,
and we become accountable for what our students do or do not do with
that light. This is illustrated in my parable about the talents. If
our students use our light to inflate their egos or if they bury it
in the ground, then we will be accountable. And that means we have
to prevent such abuse before it goes too far.
My next discourse will describe the options we have for preventing
the students of a particular teaching from going too far into misusing
our light. You see, for those who will not let go of their epic dramas,
we have the option to precipitate a cosmic drama, which has proven
very effective in disturbing people’s sense of equilibrium and thus
get them to decide whether they are hot or cold. Hot meaning that
they are multiplying the talents, and cold meaning that we are no
longer responsible for their choices as they have gone into a decidedly
negative spiral and have returned to the school of hard knocks.
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