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from Jesus:
I understand your confusion.
I did not explain the concept of twin flames in the book because I believe
it is a bit too advanced for the beginning student.
The concept of becoming my twin is different from the concept of your
twin flame. When your soul was first created by your divine parents,
you were created in a polarity with your twin flame. This was the union
that is referred to in the words, “What God has put together,
let no man separate.”
It was not God’s intention that twin flames should lose contact
with each other. However, after people descended into the lower state
of consciousness, most people were gradually separated from their twin
flames. I talk more about twin flames in the answer to another
question.
The concept of becoming my twin is different. While you can lose contact
with your twin flame, you will always have a spiritual union with that
twin flame. Becoming my twin is something you can grow into. It is more
like an office or title that you can attain by successfully walking
the path of discipleship under me.
Throughout the ages, we of the Ascended Host have taught a gradual path
that leads to a higher state of consciousness. This path is based on
the idea that a person acts as a teacher, or Guru, and takes on a number
of students, or chelas. The essence of this Guru-chela relationship
goes far beyond the worldly concept of the relationship between teacher
and student.
In the Guru-chela relationship, the true goal is that the student attains
union with the teacher and therefore becomes a teacher in his or her
own right. Therefore, the student goes through a gradual transformation
of attaining greater and greater union with the teacher. In the beginning,
the student follows the outer teachings. At some point the student discovers
the hidden inner teachings, the student discovers the inner path that
is not described openly but lies beyond the outer path and the outer
teaching. This is clearly seen in the quote that I taught the masses
in parables, but when we were alone I expounded all things to my disciples.
My disciples had become my disciples precisely because they had gone
beyond the outer teaching and entered a closer relationship with me.
Even after the student enters a closer relationship with the teacher,
there are levels of attainment to which the student can aspire. I chose
to describe these levels of attainment by setting up three different
levels that were named disciple, brother/sister and twin.
This was simply a convenient way for me to explain this in a way that
my students could understand 2,000 years ago. Obviously, it is not the
only way to explain this, and it does have the drawback that it can
be confused with family relationships.
The reality of this system is that the purpose of my mission was to
demonstrate that all human beings are sons and daughters of God. So
when a person first becomes my disciple, that person follows my inner
teachings but clearly sees himself as being below me in spiritual attainment.
As the student progresses on the path, he begins to identify himself
more closely with me. He then realizes that he is my spiritual brother
because he too is a son of God as I am a son of God. Several of my disciples
did indeed attained this union and therefore deserved the title of brother
or sister. I would refer to them as such which has caused some Christians
to believe that they were my physical brothers or sisters. Although
I did have physical brothers and sisters, I more often used these terms
to refer to my spiritual brothers and sisters.
When a disciple has attained the level of brother or sister, he or she
has two options. One is to develop and express his or her individual
Christhood, which can be done independently of me. Two brothers might
be very different and they might work independently of each other, yet
they share a common heritage. In other words, you would respond to a
given situation with your individuality and not necessarily as I would
have responded to that situation.
The other option is that of attaining a greater union with me by becoming
my twin. This is a closer relationship than that of brother or sister,
and it is not meant for everyone. That is why you will see that only
Thomas attained to this level. This does not necessarily mean that Thomas
was my most advanced disciple. He simply chose a different path than
the other disciples for whom it was more important to use their attainment
as my brother to develop and express their individual Christhood. Yet
for Thomas the right path was to lay down his individual Christhood
and attain a greater degree of union with me. This did not mean that
Thomas became a clone of me. He was still very much an individual and
retained this individuality. However it did mean that he had a greater
union with me, as a twin is often more close to his sibling than a brother.
Therefore, after my resurrection Thomas was able to maintain a more
direct contact with me than my other disciples, and he could act as
my spokesperson towards the other disciples.
There is no general guideline for whether a person should strive for
this level of discipleship. However, when you have attained a level
of being my brother or sister in spirit, you will know from within what
is your right path from there.
So far, my understanding of this teaching is: when an individual
attains Christ consciousness, he/she will become one with the universal
Christ consciousness (which you and those of the Ascended Host are
already one with) and therefore would become one with you. Am I on
the right track?
You are correct. However,
becoming one with me does not mean that you lose your individuality.
You see, when you live in the material universe, you tend to think in
linear terms. Therefore, your concept of oneness is somewhat different
than the concept of oneness that we have in the spiritual realm.
So please do not think that becoming one with me means that you lose
your unique individuality, because that individuality is a gift to you
from God. It is not the purpose of the spiritual path to lose it, but
to regain it and then express it in the material world.
When you become one with your Christ self, you see that you are one
with God, that you are an individualization of God. You also realize
that all other beings are individualizations of God, and therefore you
develop a new sense of oneness that is not linear but spherical. After
you transcend the linear way of thinking and adopt this spherical consciousness,
there is no conflict between being one with me and one with God, and
at the same time being the unique individual you are.
Follow-up question: Does this mean that, by becoming your
twin, a person would transcend the need to attain their individual
Christ consciousness because they are already the Christ in you and,
therefore, have become one with the universal Christ consciousness?
You cannot transcend the
need to manifest your individual Christhood. Your personal Christ self
is a unique gift to you from God, and it is both your opportunity and
your responsibility to manifest Christhood. While you can receive great
help from a teacher, in the end you must take the final steps on your
own. This was demonstrated by the process where I am hanging on the
cross and feels that God has forsaken me. This is simply an initiation
whereby you must prove that you have internalized so much of your Christhood
that you can walk the final steps on the path without any assistance
from an outside source.
When you manifest individual Christhood, you do not become one with
the universal Christ consciousness. You become one with your Christ
self which is an individualization of the universal Christ consciousness
that is given to you as a unique gift from God. As I explained in the
book, I identified with the universal Christ consciousness, and that
is why I said, “I am the Way the Truth and the Life.” Everybody
who attains Christ consciousness identifies with the universal Christ
consciousness. Nevertheless, in this world you are still expressing
your individual Christ consciousness and I was no exception to this.
One way to explain this process is to refer to what I said about the
Guru-chela relationship. An outer guru is not meant to be a replacement
for the inner guru of your Christ self. A false guru will attempt to
become such a replacement and make you co-dependent on the outer guru.
A true guru will seek to help you, in various ways, overcome your dependence
upon the outer guru. So one might say that the process of studying under
a guru is a process whereby you gradually come to a point where you
begin relying on the inner guru of your Christ self instead of the outer
guru.
The process you go
through when you study under an outer guru is, as mentioned above, that
you first study the outer teaching and then study the inner teaching.
You then embody the inner teaching until you are literally living that
teaching.
At that point some students will have made such a strong connection
to the inner guru of their Christ self that they can begin manifesting
and expressing their individual Christhood without developing a closer
relationship with the outer guru. Yet some students still need the contact
with the outer guru until they attain such a degree of union with the
outer guru that they leave behind the lower self and become one in consciousness
(of one mind) with the guru.
Another way to describe the process of moving towards Christhood is
to say that the student is losing his or her false, or pseudo, individuality,
namely that of the lower consciousness (the carnal mind) while attaining
union with the true individuality of the Christ self and the spiritual
self. So again the question is what it takes for a particular student
to let go of the pseudo self and unite with the Christ self. And as
I said, for some this can be achieved by embodying the teaching while
for others it can best be achieved as a result of union with the outer
guru.
When you do attain the state of union with the outer guru, you lose
the pseudo self and manifest your individual Christhood. And at that
point you have two options. You can focus on expressing your individual
Christhood or you can move on to become my twin in action in this world.
Becoming my twin means that you maintain such a strong connection with
me that you will know how I would have responded to a particular situation.
If you do not opt to become my twin, you are responding to every situation
by expressing your individual Christhood. When you are my twin, you
are so closely connected with me that you know how I would have responded
to that situation. This does not mean that my twin always responds as
I would have done, because even at twin can choose to express his or
her individual Christhood in certain situations. Yet it does mean that
you will know how I would have responded, and that is why Thomas was
a valuable asset for the early Christian movement and could often lead
the other disciples in the direction that I wanted them to follow. Yet
becoming my twin clearly is not for everyone.
There is nothing wrong with expressing your individual Christhood. For
most people this will be the right thing to do—once they have
attained that Christhood. Yet even today there is a need for some people
who will choose to become my twins and therefore will know what I would
have done or said in a particular situation.
Take for example this website. Kim could have brought forth many of
the teachings on this website as an expression of his individual Christhood.
He could have stated that the teachings came from him or rather from
his higher self. Or he could have set up this website as a dialogue
with an unknown or unnamed master. While this might indeed have made
this website more acceptable to some people who have negative feelings
towards me, it was not what I wanted him to do. So he surrendered his
desire for individual expression and was willing to state that the teachings
come directly from me. Obviously, this will make him subject to the
scorn and ridicule of those who do not understand or who do not recognize
my voice. Nevertheless, I have an important purpose for wanting him
to do this, and in the not too distant future you will begin to see
this purpose unfold.
Follow-up question: Jesus, you mentioned elsewhere
that Mary Magdalene was your disciple who had the deepest understanding
of your inner teachings. Is that because she is your twin flame
vs. your twin?
Yes and no. You must understand
that when we were in embodiment, Mary and I had no concsious understanding
of the concept of twin flames, and we did not know that we are twin
flames. We only had an inutitive sense that there was a close connection
between us.
This connection did make it easier for Mary to understand my teachings
and to establish a close connection with me that continued after my
resurrection. Yet when we first met, there was no guarantee that she
would develop this understanding. She had to walk the same spiritual
path as my other disciples, and she had to make the decision to accept
and embody my teachings.
People often tend to look at me, and even some of my disciples, as somehow
superhuman. Yet when you enter physical embodiment, you forget who you
are as a spiritual being, and you have to work to regain that memory.
Therefore, the path was not any easier for myself, Mary or the other
disciples than it is for you today. In fact, due to the progress humankind
has made over the past 2,000 years, it is actually easier to discover
and walk the spiritual path today than it was back then. It has become
easier for people to discover who they are as spiritual beings.
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