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from Jesus:
I did in fact speak words
very similar to the biblical quote “My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?” There are those who find it difficult to accept
that I should have felt forsaken by God. They have come to believe that
I was the only Son of God or that I was God incarnate, and therefore
I should somehow be perfect. If I was God incarnate, how could I possibly
feel that I had forsaken myself? If I was the only Son of God and therefore
perfect, how could I possibly feel that the Father had forsaken me?
These ideas are based on a lack of understanding of my true mission.
I did not come to Earth to demonstrate that God is perfect and human
beings are imperfect (why demonstrate the obvious?). I came to demonstrate
the path whereby an imperfect human being can rise to the perfection
of the Christ consciousness.
The entire sequence of my life and crucifixion is meant to be seen as
a symbolic illustration of the process of rising from the lower state
of consciousness to the Christ consciousness. An integral part of this
process, as I explain throughout this website (see this
section), is that you must let go of your false sense of identity
as a mortal human being and accept a new sense of identity as a son
or daughter of God.
As you begin to walk the spiritual path, you gradually begin to build
a sense of contact with your Christ self. Through your Christ self you
also gain contact with heavenly beings, members of the Ascended Host,
who serve to assist you on your spiritual path. During this process,
it is easy to begin to rely on these teachers and to take them for granted.
This is not necessarily wrong, but in the end the soul must be able
to walk the last steps of the path without any help from a source outside
itself.
The basic law of this universe is the Law of Free Will. To fully rise
out of the lower consciousness and enter the kingdom of Heaven, which
is the Christ consciousness, you must make a completely free decision
to take that last step. To take the last step, you must let go of any
and all attachments to the lower state of consciousness and to the things
of this world.
Your spiritual teachers can give you much assistance on the path in
terms of enlightenment and encouragement, but they cannot and will not
make choices for you. You are the one who must choose, and you must
do so on your own.
My life and crucifixion was an illustration of this path. You will see
that I had contact not only with my Father in heaven but also with ascended
beings. I constantly relied on this, and I constantly felt that the
Father would answer my every prayer. Yet on the spiritual path there
is always the risk that the tool that is meant to set the soul free
can become a crutch that holds the soul back on the path.
There is always a risk that the soul can become codependent upon a tool
outside itself (an outer teacher) instead of the tool inside itself
(the Christ self). Therefore, in the end every soul must face the final
initiation. That initiation is often called the dark night of the soul,
but should technically be called the dark night of the spirit. A soul
can receive much help from outside itself to walk the path, but in the
end the soul must take the final step entirely on its own. In other
words, when the soul faces the final initiation, all outside help is
withdrawn.
Therefore, the soul literally feels that God has forsaken her. My exclamation
on the cross was simply a vocalization of what my soul felt at that
very moment. Not only was I hanging helpless on the cross, put there
by the forces of this world, yet I suddenly felt left alone by the forces
of Heaven.
Once you understand that this initiation is an integral part of the
path, you do not have to be frightened by it. Once you understand what
is coming, you can prepare yourself. The simple fact is that you must
choose to take the final step on your own. How can you take that final
step? The key is to understand what the spiritual path is all about.
When your soul created a false sense of identity as being separated
from God, the soul began to build the idea that it is acting on its
own, that it is the doer. As the soul climbs the spiritual path, it
begins to realize that it is not separated from God, and therefore it
truly can do nothing on its own. The soul has free will and the soul
can act, but it is acting by using God’s energy. This is expressed
in my saying, “My Father works hitherto, and I work.”
The last initiation of the path is to finally and fully let go of the
illusion that the soul can act without God. This requires the soul to
let go of the illusion that God is somehow outside of or separate from
itself. Take note of my ministry. I talked about my Father in heaven.
Obviously, when you see God as being somewhere in Heaven, you see God
as being outside yourself. This is the final illusion that you must
shed before entering the kingdom of Heaven. You must realize that you
are not separated from God because you are an individualization of God.
Take note of what happened to me on the cross. Up until that point,
I had firmly believed in and relied on my Father in Heaven. Suddenly,
that support was withdrawn from me, and at first my soul felt confused
and left alone. That is why I cried out in agony. Then I followed the
momentum that I had built during my entire mission of withdrawing from
the things of this world and going into the innermost regions of my
soul.
There I finally recognized the illusion that makes people think they
could possibly be separated from God. I realized that the idea that
God could somehow be outside myself is the essential illusion of this
world. When I saw through this final illusion, I did, as the scriptures
record, give up the ghost. What I truly gave up was my false sense of
identity as being separated from God, as being different from God.
The unfortunate effect of the idolatry that has been built around my
person for these past 2,000 years is that so few people can see me as
an example. Therefore, they fail to see that my mission, including my
crucifixion, was meant to illustrate the path that they too must follow.
My entire purpose for speaking in this age is to help people see beyond
that illusion and to truly see the meaning of my command, “If
you love me, keep my commandments.” If you truly love me, follow
in my footsteps. Be willing to walk the path that I walked.
Take note of my saying, “He who is willing to lose his life for
my sake shall find it.” The true meaning is that he who is willing
to lose the false sense of identity as a mortal being separated from
God shall find the true life of the Christ consciousness.
Please note that I am not hereby saying that everyone has to literally
be nailed to a wooden cross as I did. Again, the outer events of the
crucifixion were symbolical of the inner, spiritual path. However, as
a soul puts on personal Christhood, it will go through a process of
being condemned by the forces of this world. The key to successfully
completing this spiritual crucifixion is to surrender your mortal sense
of identity, and all of the attachments that go with it.
Let me also say that you do not have to die physically to win your Christhood.
My death on the cross was a symbol of the death of the lower consciousness,
the false sense of identity, the human ego. Ideally, a soul should be
willing to let this ego die so that the soul can attain Christhood while
still in a physical body. In other words, you don’t have to die
to become the Christ. But you have to be willing to die, meaning that
you are willing to let go of all attachments to the things of this world.
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