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off the treadmill of the spiritual poisons
Jesus: My exposure of the anti-disciples
explains that many people become attached to following the outer path,
the way that seems right unto a man. When you follow the outer path,
you easily become unbalanced and adopt a black-and-white approach to
religion and spirituality. This is especially dangerous for leaders
of churches or other spiritual organizations, as explained elsewhere.
Therefore, the following teachings will talk about how certain spiritual
poisons cause people to become unbalanced.
An unbalanced person gravitates towards the extremes and loses the balanced
perspective of the Christ mind. So it will be helpful for people to
understand what causes them to gravitate towards the path of the anti-disciple.
And although this can be explained in many different ways, I would like
to give an explanation that is focused on the spiritual poisons that
trap people in an unbalanced state of mind.
Let me first say that the concept of a spiritual poison must be understood
in the context that everything is energy and that your subconscious
mind is an energy field surrounding your body, as explained in great
detail elsewhere.
Your energy field acts as a storehouse for energy, and as it accumulates,
it begins to exert a magnetic pull on your thoughts and feelings. This
pulls you into emotional and mental patterns, or habits, that can eventually
become so strong that you lose your ability to consciously chose your
response to certain situations. Your subconscious momentums simply take
over and you become powerless to change your behavior.
What happens is that your energy field has accumulated such a quantity
of a particular form of energy, a particular vibration, that it has
formed a vortex that overpowers your mind. This vortex is made of a
specific type of energy, and if it is a negative form of energy, such
as anger, we can call it a spiritual poison. When the accumulation of
such a poison reaches critical mass, you are trapped, and only a decisive
effort on your part can free you from this downward spiral of becoming
more and more trapped by the poison. That is why you see some people
who become progressively more angry throughout their lives.
Ignorance
The first of the spiritual poisons is ignorance. It is ignorance that
causes people to be lukewarm about religion and spirituality. They sit
on the fence, not knowing what to believe and not being willing to make
a commitment to their own spiritual growth. They are sailing along,
and they hope they can keep sailing along and still make spiritual progress.
This, of course, is an illusion.
Today, many people have discovered the spiritual path, and they have
moved beyond being paralyzed by ignorance. However, this does not necessarily
mean that they have completely overcome ignorance, but it does mean
that they are no longer lukewarm. They have moved to a higher stage
of the path and are either hot or cold.
At this stage, people are in the process of moving towards Christhood,
but most of them have not yet attained the balance that is required
for Christhood. To attain this balance, a student must clear each of
his four lower bodies from the four next poisons.
To fully understand this, you need to be aware of the four energy bodies.
As explained above and elsewhere,
there is more to a human being than the physical body. The physical
body is only one of the bodies of man, and it is made of energies that
vibrate within the frequency spectrum of the material universe. That
is why the physical body can be detected by the senses.
Beyond the physical body, and interpenetrating the space occupied by
the body, are three non-material, or spiritual, bodies. They are:
- The emotional body, which
is home to people’s emotional energies. An imbalanced emotional
body can cause a person to be emotionally unstable and on an emotional
roller coaster. This can cause people to have great drive for spiritual
growth yet without having the stability and long-term commitment that
leads to steady and permanent progress.
- The mental body, which
is home to people’s mental or thought energies. An imbalanced
mental body can cause a person to become overly intellectual, approaching
spiritual growth as an intellectual exercise. This can cause people
to develop a sophisticated understanding of the spiritual path without
truly engaging the path, thus making little progress.
- The etheric or memory
body, which is home to people’s memories and their sense of
identity. An imbalanced etheric body can cause a person to go into
one of two extremes. One is that the person has no firm sense of identity
or sense of self-worth. The other is that the person has a very rigid
sense of identity, thus being closed to a higher understanding. This
can cause people to be paralyzed or trapped in a certain frame of
mind, thus making little progress.
One might say that when a
student begins the spiritual path, he or she must start by clearing
the imbalances in the physical body, then the emotional body, the mental
body and finally the etheric body. Obviously, a student might have cleared
one or more of these bodies in a past life and is now working on a particular
body, such as the etheric body.
What can happen is that a student becomes stuck in a particular body
because the student is not willing to let go of that body’s corresponding
poison. Instead of surrendering and removing the poison, the student
either cannot see the poison or believes it is beneficial. This then
can lead the student to become filled with the poison to such a degree
that it spills over into the person’s behavior. This will especially
be visible for students who take active part in church work, such as
leadership. That is why you see some leaders and members express various
negative feelings, such as anger. Let us now look at the four poisons
that relate to the four lower bodies.
The physical body
The poison for the physical body is envy and jealousy. When you are
filled with this poison, you are jealous of those who have more in the
outer, material world than you do. This is not only material possessions,
but also spiritual attainment or position in a spiritual organization.
In a spiritual organization, an envious student will be jealous of those
who have more attainment. Yet because the envy is blinding, the person
will seek to get this attainment by following the outer path. This might
cause a person to seek leadership positions in the outer organization
in order to establish some sense of superiority over those students
who have true attainment.
Some people follow all of the outer rules and eventually attain positions
of power, yet they still have not manifested the spiritual attainment
(because they have been on the outer path) that allows them to exercise
power in a balanced manner. Therefore, such people will inevitably misuse
power. When such a person attains power, he or she will use it to subdue
or degrade those with more spiritual attainment. This will anchor the
person even more firmly on the outer path, the path of the anti-student.
The antidote is the all-accomplishing wisdom or perfected action. With
this wisdom, you realize that you too can attain true spiritual attainment
by following the inner path instead of the outer path. What man has
done, man can do—by following the right path and reaching for
personal Christhood.
The emotional body
The poison that corresponds to the emotional body is passions, cravings,
covetousness and greed. When the emotional body is filled with this
poison, a leader simply cannot get enough power and control. The person
often becomes extremely rigid and demands absolute obedience and loyalty.
There is no middle way, and only complete submission will satisfy the
person’s unquenchable thirst for power. The person is on a quest
that can never be fulfilled.
Therefore such a leader never feels that anything he does, or anything
the group members do, is good enough. The person becomes very attached
to following all of the outer rules and doing everything "right"
according to the standard of man. Therefore, the person is never satisfied
with himself/herself, and consequently cannot be satisfied with anyone
else. Nothing is ever enough or good enough. The person is constantly
miserable and makes everyone else miserable as well. Some people literally
believe that unless you are as miserable as they are, you are not truly
striving as a student.
The antidote is the discriminating wisdom which allows you to see what
is important to God and what is important only to the carnal mind. Therefore,
you can become non-attached to the outer path and anchor yourself on
the inner path. You can allow yourself to feel a sense of victory over
your accomplishments and those of others. Thus you build a self-reinforcing
spiral of victory that pulls everyone else up with you. You move out
of the negative spiral, the negative vortex, the black hole of the anti-students.
The mental body
The poison corresponding to the mental body is spiritual, intellectual
and human pride. When a person’s mental body is filled with this
poison, the person will feel that he or she is superior to others. When
such a person attains a leadership position, he or she will inevitably
feel that leaders are above the ordinary church members. Such people
feel that they deserve to be leaders because of what they perceive as
their superior attainment on the outer path. Their pride prevents them
from seeing that this outer attainment is an illusion.
The antidote to pride is the wisdom of equality. When your mental body
is filled with this wisdom, you realize that all of God’s children
are of equal worth and deserve to be treated with equal respect. Even
though some might have higher attainment than others, a truly high attainment
will make a person the servant leader that I talked about when I said,
“He, who would be greatest amongst you, let him be the servant
of all.”
You also realize that people are often given a specific position in
a spiritual organization precisely to bring out their particular weaknesses.
Therefore, a leader should always be on guard against any of the poisons,
but especially that of pride and a sense of superiority.
You see, the true goal of the Ascended Host is to bring all of our students
to the true equality of Christhood. To speed up this process, we seek
to put a specific student in a situation that will bring out the person’s
weaknesses. We hope that by making a weakness visible, we will help
the student decide to overcome it. Unfortunately, the very nature of
pride is that it blinds people so that they not only fail to see a weakness
but often hail it as a necessary trait and reinforce it. Once again,
anything we do is a two-edged sword.
The etheric body
The poison that corresponds to the etheric body is anger, hate and hate
creation. When the soul first fell (left the inner path of the true
Teacher-student relationship) it felt some degree of anger against God
or the spiritual teacher. If a person has not cleared the etheric body
of this anger, the person will express anger when he or she is challenged.
This is why some leaders suddenly “loose it” and express
anger when they are challenged by people whom they see as being beneath
them in rank. This is why some members become angry when what they see
as their constructive criticism is ignored or put down.
People with a balanced etheric body will never express such anger. They
will be filled with the antidote of the mirror-like wisdom that empowers
them to turn the other cheek and avoid engaging in negative momentums.
Therefore, if a person expresses anger towards you, that anger will
simply be reflected back and you can remain unaffected and non-attached.
When you attain the balanced perspective of the Christ mind, you have
ultimate respect for people’s free will, and therefore nothing
they do or say can make you angry. You are literally like a glassy mountain
lake mirroring back whatever people send at you.
The progression
I hope you can see the progression here. When the soul is consumed by
envy, it develops greed for having the spiritual attainment it sees
in others. Yet because the soul will not follow the inner path, it can
never get this attainment. To compensate for this lack, the soul builds
a sense of pride that causes it to feel superior to students with true
attainment. It uses outer rules and means to build this pride. It attempts
to take Heaven by force. In other words, because the person has done
all of these outer things for the organization, he or she is better
than those who have worked on their Christhood.
Such a soul believes that because it has done all of the outer things
right and because it has attained a certain position in the outer organization,
it must now be superior to the true students who are following the inner
path and manifesting the only true attainment of Christhood. This inevitably
leads the soul to feel anger whenever this fragile sense of superiority
is challenged by others. Therefore, the soul cannot follow my command
to be the servant of all.
Take note of what I am saying here. When the soul is in the grips of
ignorance, it is lukewarm about the spiritual path. When the soul begins
to move out of ignorance, it must now face the four next poisons. Yet
if the soul does not fully overcome ignorance, it cannot see the only
way to overcome these poisons, namely the inner path. Therefore, the
soul becomes trapped by the outer path and it becomes trapped in the
four quadrants of matter.
The soul now begins to accumulate one or more of the spiritual poisons
which leads to unbalanced behavior. This can literally become a closed
loop in which the soul can forever be trapped by one or several of these
four poisons. In other words, the soul is trapped in the four levels
of the material octave, even though it believes that it is a true student
who is walking the spiritual path.
To attain Christhood, the soul must move beyond the material world,
the four quadrants of matter. This requires the soul to free itself
from the first five poisons.
The final poison
When the soul overcomes the first five poisons, it must face the most
difficult test of all, namely the sixth poison of non-will and non-being,
which manifests as fear, doubt and non-belief in the inner teacher,
who is the Christ self and God. The key to overcoming this poison is
the wisdom of the Diamond Will of God. To break the vicious circle of
being trapped in the four quadrants of matter, you must reach for the
diamond will that gives you the strength to leave behind all of your
attachments to the material world. You must literally be willing to
lose your life, or rather your mortal sense of identity and your mortal
attachments, in order to win the immortal life of the Christ consciousness.
What is the key to overcoming the non-being (the illusion of being separated
from God)? It is unconditional surrender to the will of God. What is
the key to this surrender, and the master key to overcoming all of the
poisons? It is love, the perfect love that casts out all fear.
Only those who make an effort to cultivate love for God will be able
to surrender their attachments to the outer path and the pseudo-self.
Only those who have love will be willing to lose their lives for my
sake.
Obviously, this is a process that requires the use of all of the tools
given in this section. The most important are:
- Invoke spiritual
protection against any outside forces that seek to inject the
spiritual poisons into your four lower bodies.
- Use the Violet
Flame to transmute the negative energy of the poisons that have
already entered your being.
- Build the best possible
attunement with your Christ self so you
can truly lock in to the inner path.
- Resolve your false beliefs
that cause you to believe that certain types of behavior, such as
anger, are either necessary, beneficial or unavoidable.
If you will make a determined
effort to move off the outer path, you will see unprecedented personal
progress. You will feel that an entirely new world of spiritual growth
will open to you, and you will sense a new enthusiasm and excitement
that can make you feel spiritually reborn.
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