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from Jesus:
It is extremely important
for a spiritual seeker to maintain an open mind and a willingness to
look beyond established, or orthodox, doctrines and dogmas. I will be
the first to admit, as explained throughout this website, that much
of my true teaching has been systematically removed from orthodox Christianity.
Therefore, to know my true teaching, you must be willing to look beyond
the boundaries defined by orthodoxy.
Yet it is also important for a true seeker to find balance and to exercise
discernment. In other words, while it is good to be open, it is not
good to be open to any theory that comes along. This is especially true
in the age of the Internet. There are so many theories and beliefs broadcast
on the Internet that a person can quickly end up feeling overwhelmed.
While certain new theories have indeed helped many seekers expand their
understanding of the spiritual side of life, I must tell you that the
abundance of theories has also caused some sincere seekers to end up
not knowing what to believe or, even worse, not daring to believe in
anything.
Balance and discernment, therefore, are the key words when it comes
to spiritual growth. Stay out of the extremes. Stay out of the one extreme
of closing your mind to anything that goes beyond orthodox doctrine.
Stay out of the opposite extreme of opening your mind to anything that
is out there.
Remember my saying to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Being
wise as serpents means being wise to the existence of the serpents,
or rather the serpentine logic promoted by many false teachers or even
by those who simply do not know better. You must realize that there
are forces that seek to prevent you from knowing the truth. For many
centuries, they attempted to suppress the truth by banning and burning
books. In today's information age, technology has taken this weapon
away from them. Yet they are quick to use technology for their ends,
and one way is to spread so many false, incomplete or outrageous theories
that many people either cling to orthodoxy or give up in discouragement
because they know not what to believe. Remember the saying that discouragement
is the sharpest tool in the Devil’s toolkit!
As a spiritual seeker it is extremely important to be aware that there
is a group of people on Earth who have deified the human intellect.
They believe they have developed such a sophisticated intellect that
they can explain and understand all of the questions about life through
the intellect. This is a fallacy, and no amount of intellectual reasoning
will change that fact. You cannot know ultimate truth through the relative
faculty of the human intellect. You can know absolute truth only through
the absolute discernment of the Christ consciousness. You achieve contact
with your Christ self through the heart and not through the intellect.
The intellectual elite, as they like to refer to themselves, think they
can understand and explain the mysteries of life. Some are found in
the field of science and some are found in the field of religion. Wherever
they are found, they are precisely the people that I rebuked with my
statement, “Woe unto ye lawyers, for ye have taken away the key
to knowledge—the key to knowledge of the inner Christ—ye
entered not in yourselves—you were not willing to put on your
personal Christhood—and those that would enter ye hindered—by
ensnaring them with your intellectual reasoning and theories.
I am in no way saying that all of the theories about me are false. Yet
I must tell you that a very large portion of them are indeed false and,
no matter how appealing they might be to the human intellect, they have
no basis in the reality of Christ.
Yes, I am aware of the many theories that raise questions about whether
there was ever a historical Jesus or whether the person that inspired
the Gospels was this or that person. Yet I must tell you truly that
there was indeed a historical man named Jesus who became the Christ.
And while the orthodox Gospels do not give an accurate account of my
life or my teachings, they are, in fact, more accurate than many of
the theories that you find on the Internet.
Regardless of the sophistication of these many intellectual theories,
there is indeed a reality, a spiritual and physical reality, of the
Christ. I am the true Jesus Christ and I am speaking through this messenger
who has made himself ready and willing to let me speak through him.
Yet how will people know me as the true Christ? How can you know that
I am indeed the real Jesus Christ speaking on a website that is only
one among thousands of others with conflicting theories and claims?
You can know so only by gaining confirmation in your own heart.
Take note of the fact that when the Roman soldiers came to arrest me,
they needed Judas to point me out amongst my disciples. The soldiers
could not recognize me as the Christ in embodiment, and to them I looked
like any other man. What does it take to recognize the living Christ,
whether he appears before you in a physical body, in a spiritual vision
or on a page on the Internet? It takes a certain measure of Christ truth
in your own heart. It takes a conscious contact with your Christ self.
If you have this spark of Christ in your heart, you will know my voice
even though I am speaking through one of your brothers in embodiment.
If you do not know my voice, then you have the option of sharpening
your discernment. Invoke spiritual
protection against the forces of this world that are seeking to
confound and confuse your mind. Make an effort to develop a direct relationship
with your higher self, your Christ
self. And above all strive to maintain balance in all things.
Let me now address your questions. I did indeed travel to the nations
of the East and to Egypt, as described elsewhere.
In the East, I did become known as Saint Issa. There is indeed historical
evidence of my travels, as described in several books.
You are asking about proof, but what proof could possibly be given that
the human mind could not doubt? There are those on Earth who are absolutely
convinced that archaeological evidence supports the creation story in
the Bible. There are those who are equally convinced that archaeological
evidence supports the theories of Darwin. Proof, therefore, is in the
eyes of the beholder. If you see through the eyes of the relativity
of the lower consciousness, you will not recognize truth even if it
stands before you as the embodied Christ.
No, I was not Apollonius of Tyana or Jeshu ben Pandira. These were separate
souls and not my embodiments. Did I marry Mary Magdalene? I have commented
on this elsewhere.
You say that you wish you could talk to the real Jesus, and indeed you
can. You can hear me speak to you in your own heart—if you are
willing to open your heart to my Presence and invite me to enter. To
hear me speak to you in your heart, follow my advice given above and
make an effort to practice the technique for in attunement.
It is not difficult to know me directly. My demands are not high. I
only demand that you are willing to lose your life, your mortal sense
of identity and your intellectual theories about life, in order to know
me directly in your heart. Truly, that is not a high price to pay for
eternal life in the Light of Christ.
NOTE: For more information
about Jesus' travels in the East, see The Lost Years of Jesus by
Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Jesus Died in Kashmir by A. Faber-Kaiser.
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