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from Jesus:
What you read is correct
but there is more to it. As I explain elsewhere,
God in its highest form is a state of pure Being, a state of pure consciousness.
Out of that state of pure Being emerges a self-conscious being who is
the creator of this universe.
The state of pure Being has no form whatsoever. The creator has form
(although not a form as conceived by human beings) because the creator
has individuality. Therefore, the creator has the potential and the
drive to create something that has form. However, the creator cannot
create something that is apart from itself. The creator can create only
by fashioning its own being, its own consciousness, into a particular
form. That is why the Bible states that without him was not anything
made that was made. In other words, to create the world of form, God
must embed part of its being in this world. Everything that was ever
created is really God wearing a disguise. Everything was created by
God and from God and therefore has God’s consciousness within
it.
Even the material universe in which you live is created from God’s
consciousness. Therefore, God’s consciousness is embedded within
everything, and that is why I said that if men should hold their peace,
even the stones would cry out. However, not everything in the material
universe has the same level of consciousness, the same level of awareness.
After God created a world of inanimate forms, God created a number of
self-conscious, self-aware beings to inhabit the inanimate world. As
Mother Mary explains in her discourse,
God created two distinct evolutions that we might call angels and human
beings. Human beings were created to descend into the material universe
and to gradually work their way up through the different levels of the
world of form, until they expand their self awareness, their sense of
identity, to the ultimate level.
The importance of a self-aware being is that such a being has the potential
to consciously recognize that it is an extension of God, an individualization
of God. Obviously, although a rock has God’s consciousness embedded
within it, it does not have enough self awareness to realize that it
is created by God.
It is indeed the purpose of every true religion to help human beings
fulfill their potential to recognize themselves as sons and daughters
of God. When people do recognize themselves as sons and daughters of
God, God can experience this world through them. God can experience
what it is like to be inside his creation and not only be the creator
of it, who is looking at it from the outside.
Yet God has more than one purpose for the creation of human beings.
Another important purpose is that God never wanted to create a world
of form that is static. God did create the world of form and God did
set up certain natural laws that guide the evolution of this world.
These laws make it possible that the universe could evolve without any
input from God. The universe could grow in the mechanical fashion that
is currently envisioned by modern scientists.
Yet what might be the purpose of such a mechanical universe? What good
would it do, because surely God would quickly become bored by watching
the universe unfold according to mechanical laws that make everything
entirely predictable. Just imagine how many children have built model
trains, and then consider how quickly they get tired of watching the
train run around the tracks. The fun is in building the train tracks,
not in watching the train run around on a predetermined track that never
changes.
So God wanted to create a universe that is alive and that can evolve
in ways that are surprising even to God. That is why God created human
beings in his own image and likeness. This means that human beings have
the ability to create something new, they have the imagination to envision
what they might create and they have the free will to decide what they
will create. In other words, human beings were designed to be co-creators
with God.
You might say that God, in the overall sense, is the external creator
who creates the universe from the outside. Human beings are meant to
be the internal creators who help co-create the universe from the inside.
In other words, God created planet Earth as a rough outline and then
sent human beings to the Earth with the command to multiply and take
dominion. This means that human beings were meant to multiply their
creative powers and thereby co-create a perfect Earth within the outline
created by God.
Currently, as I explain throughout this website, the planet is not living
up to its highest potential because human beings have chosen to co-create
from a limited state of consciousness that does not live up to their
highest potential. Nevertheless, even this is to some degree within
the overall plan of God, which brings us to the next purpose for creation.
Human beings are not simply created to experience the universe and to
help co-create the universe. They are created with a potential to grow
in consciousness and self awareness until they reach the pinnacle of
self awareness. This growth process goes through several stages; there
are certain dividing lines in the growth process. One might say that
the universe is a schoolroom for human souls, and every aspect of the
universe is designed to help souls grow in self-awareness. Therefore,
even the current imperfect conditions can serve to help souls grow—if
they are willing to learn the lesson and move on.
When the soul is first sent in to the material universe, it knows that
it is connected to something outside itself, namely the spiritual self.
Yet it does not yet have the level of self awareness that it has the
potential to manifest. If a soul makes wise use of its opportunity,
it will grow in self awareness and build a stronger sense of identity,
until it crosses an important dividing line.
My entire earthly ministry was meant to demonstrate the process whereby
a human being, the son of man, can grow in self awareness until it manifests
the full identity as a Christed being, and therefore accepts itself
as a son or daughter of God. When you do manifest that sense of identity,
the soul can permanently ascend to the spiritual realm and become a
member of the Ascended Host. This is what you saw demonstrated by myself,
by Mother Mary and by other Biblical figures such as Moses and Elijah
with whom I met at the Mount of Transfiguration.
So you have the potential to become an ascended being who has passed
the final exam on planet Earth. However, it is important to realize
that manifesting this level of self awareness does not necessarily mean
that you have to discard the physical body and permanently ascend to
the spiritual realm. Indeed, in this day and age it is the plan and
the desire of the Ascended Host to raise up a number of people to the
level of self awareness where they have qualified for their ascension
but choose to remain in the physical body for a season.
By becoming such an unascended Ascended Master, you can help raise the
consciousness of humankind and thereby help raise the consciousness
of the entire planet. This is indeed another purpose for the creation
of human souls. By exercising their potential to grow in self awareness,
they will help a certain portion of the material universe become self-aware
and thereby become fully aligned with God's purpose for creation. This
will actually make it possible for inanimate matter to receive a higher
level of consciousness, so that even matter itself can become self-aware.
In other words, physical matter is created from God’s consciousness,
and therefore it has the seed of self awareness within it. However,
that seed lies dormant, waiting for an external force to add energy
and cause it to start growing. It is much like a seed that lies dormant
in the soil until the warming rays of the sun cause the seed to spring
to life. The force that can cause matter itself to spring to life is
the light of the universal Christ mind. Yet, as I explain throughout
this website, the universal Christ mind can flow into the material universe
only through the minds and hearts of human beings who have recognized
and accepted a higher sense of identity as Christed beings.
In other words, one purpose for the creation of human beings is that
they can serve as the intermediaries for helping the entire material
universe become self-aware. Thereby, even inanimate matter will become
the lively stones and know that they are part of the chain of being
that reaches all the way back to God.
When the soul of a human being has manifested full Christ consciousness,
it can permanently ascend to the spiritual realm and become an Ascended
Master. However, even after a soul permanently ascends, the growth process
does not stop. My Father's house has many mansions, and there are many
levels of the spiritual realm through which the soul can ascend, as
it keeps expanding its sense of identity and awareness. Eventually,
an ascended being can reach the ultimate level of self awareness, in
which it sees itself as one with the creator of this world of form.
That is why the Bible says, “Ye are Gods.” This means that
ye are Gods in the making, because any part of God has the potential
to expand its self awareness, until it becomes fully conscious of its
divine potential. The self-aware being then merges with God, so that
it too becomes a God. This means that the being has now become a creator
itself. It has reached the same level of awareness as the God who created
that being, and in so doing it has become a new creator with its own
individuality. This new God can create another world of form, separate
from this one. This is indeed how creation has been unfolding and continues
to unfold in a way that is entirely beyond the concepts of time and space
that seem so absolute to people on this planet.
Let me caution that while it is good to know your ultimate potential,
it is important to focus on the immediate situation. You are on a path
that ultimately leads to total self-awareness, yet the most important
thing for you right now is that you take the next step. Therefore, I
encourage you to focus on manifesting your Christhood, and indeed everything
on this website is designed to help you reach that goal.
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