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from Jesus:
It is an unfortunate fact
that many Christians, especially many evangelicals or fundamentalists,
do not acknowledge or understand the reality of free will. They simply
do not understand the basic fact that if human beings did not have free
will, there would have been no need for God to send me as a savior to
this planet—a savior who can obviously be rejected. If people
did not have free will, why would the Old Testament say, “Choose
life” (Deuteronomy 30:19) and “choose you this day whom
ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15)? There would have been no need for
me to tell people that you cannot serve two masters but must choose
one over the other (Matthew 6:24).
Free will is indeed a reality, and therefore Judas did have a choice.
However, as I explained elsewhere,
Judas had indeed chosen to play this particular role in order to illustrate
certain aspects of my message. Add to this that if Judas had decided
not to play his role, someone else would have filled it and given me
up to the authorities. Yet the importance of Judas playing this particular
role is that he was one of my disciples.
One of the deeper interpretations of Judas’ actions is that my
disciples can be seen as representatives of the 12 aspects of human
psychology, corresponding to 12 God qualities. All souls have these
basic God qualities, such as Power, Vision, Love and Wisdom. All souls
have a major quality on which they have great attainment. Most souls
also have one or more qualities on which they have little attainment
and are unbalanced.
The weaker quality is what causes the soul to become attached to some
aspect of the material world, as Judas became attached to a particular
outcome of my mission. It is this particular attachment that causes
the soul to fall into a lower state of consciousness and lose its spiritual
sense of identity. It is this fall that makes the soul vulnerable to
becoming crucified by the forces of this world.
So the example of Judas is an illustration of how the weakest part of
your psychology will betray you to the authorities of this world, who
will then crucify you in an attempt to prevent you from manifesting
your personal Christhood and expressing that Christhood in this world.
Once this has happened to you, you cannot go back and change the weakness.
You cannot turn back the clock.
What you can do is to allow your mortal sense of identity to "die"
on the cross, so that your soul can be resurrected into its true identity
as an immortal spiritual being. Thereby, you can rise above the weakness
and the entire consciousness of duality that has crucified your soul
since it fell.
The process whereby a soul raises itself over its own psychological
weakness, overcoming all mortal sense of identity and the forces of
this world, is the true message behind my mission.
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