Why
difficulties can be blessings in disguise
A message from Hercules
NOTE: This message was delivered on May 26, 2006 during the Shangra-la
Ascension Conference.
I come with the Flame of the Will of God, which is truly the flame of
supreme joy. For how can there be true joy that is separated from the
Will of God, when it is the Will of God that all of his children should
inherit his kingdom, when indeed it is God's good pleasure to give you
the fullness of his kingdom.
And thus, what does it take to inherit the kingdom of God but that one
act of surrender of the separate will that sees itself as apart from
God. Whereby you align your being with the Will of God, and that is
the opening that allows God to give you the Kingdom, which you have
been rejecting for many a lifetime. Some people on Earth [have rejected
it] for eons, for they come from other systems of worlds where they
long ago made the decision to turn away from God.
So my beloved, I come to share with you the fact that there is great
joy, great rejoicing, among the Ascended Host for the experience that
you have had this afternoon. For whether you realize this or not, you
have attained something today that is unprecedented in the history of
Ascended Master organizations. And I do not say this to tickle your
egos and cause pride. I say it to cause you the realistic sense that
you have crossed a barrier, crossed a threshold, where you have now
received a teaching that has never before been given in such clarity
and in such direct relation to your everyday lives.
And this is not just because you have received this from Above but because
all of you here have contributed to bringing forth this teaching.* For
unless you had been willing to come together in one physical place,
and to be of one accord in your desire to truly understand what it takes
to go beyond the ego—well my beloved, had that willingness not
been there, how could the teaching have been released? There would have
been no chalice to receive it, and thus had we released it, we would
have cast our pearls before swine, which we have long ago learned not
to do, for it benefits no one.
Thus, as the Elohim of the First Ray, the Elohim of the Will of God,
I truly want to share with you the joy it is for me, and all those who
work on the Will of God, to see hearts united in willingness to come
into Oneness with each other, Oneness with the Will of God. For my beloved,
were you not all One in this experience? Was anyone above anyone else?
Was anyone excluded? All were welcomed. All were sharing. And all made
a contribution—even if you were silent, your heart made a contribution.
This, my beloved, is the Oneness that is the Will of God, the Oneness
of all life, the Oneness between Man and God, because humans realize
that they are God in manifestation.
And thus, you realize that when you give up the separate will of the
ego, you do not lose your will, your ability to make choices, as the
ego and the prince of this world would have you believe. The Will of
God is not a straightjacket, where you can only do what some outside
will imposes upon you. No, my beloved, for the Will of God is indeed
the will of your own higher Being. And when you recognize that as the
reality of your life, then you recognize that the Will of God is not
an external will.
Why many spiritual people experience difficulties in life
And that is when you can follow the greater outline, the greater vision,
of your divine plan out of pure love. Because you realize that it is
not some external deity, some angry being in the sky, who is imposing
that will upon you. It is indeed your own choices made when you were
not involved with the situation you are facing in this physical body.
And thus, I must tell you, my beloved, that many of the challenges you
face in life as spiritual seekers are not necessarily caused by your
karma or even by world karma. They are caused by the fact that before
you came into this lifetime, you made the choice that you wanted to
come into Oneness with the greater Being that you are while still in
embodiment. You wanted to make that your divine plan, and you wanted
to fulfill that divine plan. And thus, my beloved, you looked down upon
the Earth and you made a realistic assessment of how easy it is –
once you are in a physical body – to be overwhelmed by the many
pressures of this world, so that you forget your divine plan, the greater
vow you took before you came here.
And thus, you said to your spiritual teachers, "Do not allow me
to remain asleep. Do whatever it takes to wake me up. So when I go in
the wrong direction, put a barrier in front of me that obstructs that
path, so I can no longer go in that direction. And then if I start going
in another direction, put a barrier in front of me again, until I finally
come back to the center of Being and give up that lesser will that springs
from the ego and even is imposed upon me as I grow up in a world that
is so far from the will of God. When I go down the wrong path, stop
me! Do whatever it takes. The harder I insist on keeping going down
that path, the harder I want you to block me so that I do not continue
to go down that path, but eventually wake up and realize that I am here
for a greater purpose, that I chose before I came into the dense conditions
I face in this dense physical body and in the situations I face with
the people that I came to help."
Do you see my beloved? So many things in your lives are conditions that
you have wanted as a way to prevent you from going down the wrong path.
And when you see it that way, you can stop focusing on that condition.
You can stop seeing it as something that is imposed upon you, either
by karma, by some unjust coincidence, by fate or by an angry God. You
can see it as something that is actually meant to liberate your soul,
your Being, to fulfill your reason for Being.
And thus, you can change your outlook on difficulties, and you can realize
that they are a potential for stepping back, for re-evaluating your
life. As was so beautifully described a few minutes ago,** that a severe
illness can be a wake-up call, where you realize, "I am going down
the wrong path. I need to step back and re-think my life and reconnect
to my own higher Being and that greater Will of my own Being."
Re-evaluate your life and forgive all
So my beloved, with this in mind, you should be able to look at your
life and the difficulties you have faced and come to that sense of inner
peace that allows you to let go of the hurt, the wounds, the sense of
injustice, any anger or resentment for having gone through these difficult
experiences. And you stop focusing on the past, you stop focusing on
the problems.
Instead, you reach up and reconnect with your own higher Being and say,
"Ah! The obstacle was only to prevent me from going down the wrong
path. And now I see the right path, and I have no more time to worry
about that past obstacles for I have such a love for fulfilling my right
path that I have no attention left for anything else." And that
is when you reconnect to the peace and joy that we desire you to have.
Surely, we do not desire you to have an awakening by going through a
crisis or facing a terminal illness. We would rather have you, as was
also described, come to that realization during your daily life because
you finally decided to think outside the box, to use the conscious self's
ability to project itself outside of its current mental prison. And
thereby, you saw your life with the same greater perspective you had
before you came into embodiment. And now you can reconnect to why you
came into embodiment in particular conditions and situations and why
you are here, what is your divine plan.
As was said, when you stop wanting to do it the human way, that is when
you can discover your divine plan—and do it, not God's way in
the sense of the external God but God's way in the sense of God the
I AM THAT I AM within you, that is your own higher Being, that is YOU.
This is the illusion you need to overcome—that you are separated
from God, that you are different from God, that you could not possibly
be a son or daughter of God. Because of all these conditions on Earth
that you have been brought up to think are real, unavoidable, permanent
or maybe even the Will of God—as some indeed believe that God
created them as sinners, or God created them as homosexuals, or as any
other limiting condition that people have come to see as permanent.
Yet nothing in the material universe is permanent! For it is the Will
of God that everything should transcend itself in an infinite spiral
that has no limits, except the limits that you might impose upon it
by thinking, "I could not possibly be that." But did not Jesus
say, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are
possible?” And so when you realize that you are One with God,
that God is within you, that the Kingdom of God is within you, you realize
there is no limitation, there is nothing that is impossible, when you
are willing to be a co-creator with your God.
My beloved, rejoice in the accomplishment of reaching this state of
realization of what the spiritual path is about. Take it, run with it,
integrate it, do not allow yourself to forget it. Do whatever you can
to internalize it, to reach up for that divine plan. Look at all the
things that prevent you from surrendering to the greater Being that
you are. And when you see them, then follow them, go after them. Make
them visible so you can see how unreal they are and how they are not
your real choices. They are only the choices of the lower will of the
ego.
My beloved, I love the Will of God. And I love to see those on Earth
who come to realize that the Will of God is their own higher will. Thus,
be sealed in my love for the Will of God. Invite me to help you keep
true to that love, which you also have in your own higher Being. Ask
me to help you overcome all resistance and all lies, all wrong concepts
of the Will of God and your relationship to God. Ask me to help you
overcome all the graven images. Ask me to help you give up the ghosts
of your limited, mortal separate sense of identity and will.
Thus, I seal you in the joy, the supreme joy of the Will of God.
It is Done.
* The participants had a long discussion (several
hours) on the topic of death, including the death of the ego.
** After the discussion on death, one of the participants gave a moving
description of his victory over AIDS and cancer.
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