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from Jesus:
An excellent question which
highlights the dangers of interpreting the Bible literally. If you cling
to a literal interpretation of the Bible, it will be difficult to reconcile
the quote from Revelation with the following quote from Isaiah:
How art thou fallen
from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down
to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isaiah 14:12)
Many people are confused
by the seeming similarities between these two quotes. The reason being
that most people have never attempted the difficult task of translating
a spiritual text, such as the Bible, from one language to another. It
is often very difficult to take a word from one language and find a
word that means exactly the same in another language. This becomes even
more difficult when you take into consideration cultural differences
or a separation in time.
In reality, the quote from Isaiah refers to a king of ancient Babylon,
named Helal. He adorned his court and his person with much pomp and
circumstance, and he was therefore referred to with words in Hebrew
that can be translated as the “morning star” or the “son
of the morning.” However, I would prefer the translation the “shining
one.”
It is unfortunate that when the ancient Hebrew text was translated into
Latin, the translator, St. Jerome, confused the Hebrew expression with
the Latin expression of Lucifer, which in Latin means light bearer and
was also the name for the planet Venus. This was simply a mistranslation,
and I might add that it is far from the only mistranslation in the Bible.
When you recognize this as a mistranslation, you realize that there
are no actual references to Lucifer in the entire Bible. The quote from
Isaiah is literally the only use of the word Lucifer in the Bible. You
therefore see that there is no actual connection between myself and
Lucifer, nor is there a biblical connection between Lucifer and the
planet Venus.
Let me mention in passing that some scholars have correctly pointed
out that the use of the word "Lucifer" is a result of a mistranslation.
Yet they have used is to reason that there was never a being called
Lucifer or that he was an entirely mythological creature. This is incorrect.
As both I and Mother Mary describe on this website, there was indeed
a being named Lucifer (or rather his spiritual name was close to the
modern word “Lucifer”). Mother Mary describes in great detail
how Lucifer was created
by God and how he had a great spiritual potential. When God creates
a being, God names that being according to his or her spiritual potential.
Lucifer was given a name that means the one who has the potential to
bring light, meaning that Lucifer had the potential to become the one
who would awaken human beings to the light within themselves.
Lucifer chose not to fulfill this role, partly because he was not willing
to serve human beings, whom he considered to be below him. He wanted
to be the one who brought light instead of awakening people to the reality
that the light of God is already within them, within this their spiritual
selves.
Because Lucifer rebelled against this mission, I then became the being
who was chosen to be the representative of the Cosmic Christ and awaken
human beings to the light within. Unfortunately, Lucifer and other rebellious
beings have managed to project the image upon me that Lucifer wanted
to outpicture for himself. This has caused people to create the idolatrous
image that Jesus Christ was the only son of God, and thereby they have
denied the reality that the light of God is within each and every son
and daughter of God.
In the quote from Revelation, I refer to myself as the bright morning
star. This has two possible interpretations that are both valid. They
both refer to the planet Venus, which is often called the Morning Star
because in the time before dawn it is the brightest star in the sky.
One might therefore say that the planet Venus is a harbinger, a messenger
of the coming dawn.
The planet Venus does not
bring the light of the new day; the Sun brings the light. Likewise,
I came as a representative of the universal Christ to herald a new age
in which people have the potential to awaken to the reality that the
light of God is within their spiritual selves. I came to outpicture
the path of Christhood and to set forth the example of the potential
that all human beings have in the Age of Aquarius. I did not come to
bring light to the Earth through my own being because I of my own self
can do nothing. It is God who produces the light, and God has embedded
a portion of his light within every son and daughter. That portion is
the spiritual self. Therefore I came to bring the message that humankind
was about to enter into an age in which they have the potential to let
the light of God shine through them and therefore bring the light of
a golden age to this planet.
The other meaning is that my soul descended to Earth from the planet
Venus. A very long time ago, the evolutions on planet Earth had descended
to such a low level of spiritual attainment that the cosmic council
that oversees the fate of this planet had considered literally obliterating
the physical planet because it was deemed unsuitable as a platform for
spiritual growth. A spiritual being from Venus, named Sanat Kumara,
volunteered to travel to Earth and manifest a physical presence on this
planet in order to hold the spiritual balance for planet Earth until
a sufficient number of people had been raised up so that they could
hold the spiritual balance themselves. There were 144,000 souls who
volunteered to follow Sanat Kumara, and I was one of those souls.
Although Lucifer did not come to Earth from Venus, there is a connection
between him and Venus. You see, before Lucifer rebelled, he was part
of a large group of spiritual beings existing in a higher realm. After
Lucifer rebelled, a number of spiritual beings followed him into the
material universe. One of the beings that followed him was Satan, and
it is not correct when people think Lucifer and Satan are the same being.
They are two different beings, and Satan never had the rank or spiritual
attainment of Lucifer. He simply followed him, as did many others.
Many of these beings did not personally rebel against God; they simply
followed their leader, thinking he was doing the right thing. Some of
them are presently embodied on Earth, and unfortunately some of them
still think Lucifer did the right thing. Such beings are very difficult
to reach with the truth about Lucifer because they refuse to believe
he could have made the mistake of consciously and willfully rebelling
against God. Therefore, they have come up with a number of explanations
that make it seem like Lucifer didn’t actually make a mistake.
Not all of the beings who belonged to Lucifer’s group rebelled
against God. However, some of them volunteered to descend into the material
universe in an attempt to help those who fell with Lucifer find their
way back to God. Sanat Kumara was one of the beings who descended to
the material realm on such a rescue mission.
The reason planet Earth descended to such a low state was in large part
due to the corrupting influence of Lucifer and his group of fallen beings.
Because Sanat Kumara was part of the same group as Lucifer, he volunteered
to hold the spiritual balance for Earth in an attempt to raise the evolutions
of Earth out of the influence of Lucifer. This then is a great cosmic
rescue mission that has only been partially successful. It has the potential
to be fully successful, but for that to happen a greater number of human
beings must decide to pursue the path of personal Christhood.
Therefore, they must stop seeing me as an idol and follow in my footsteps.
They must take me and my teachings down from the cross of idolatry on
which I was put by Lucifer and his fallen beings as one of their last
acts of defiance against God.
So what I am telling you here is that the idolatrous doctrine that Jesus
Christ is the only son of God or that I am God is a Luciferian plot.
It is an attempt by Lucifer to destroy my true mission and the purpose
that God has for this planet. It is an attempt to prevent people from
accepting the truth that the light of God is within themselves. I did
not come to save people through my light. I came as the messenger of
the coming dawn in which the light of many sons and daughters of God
will shine and bring the new day to this planet.
In regards to the second question, let me state clearly that I am not
Lucifer, and I did not belong to Lucifer's band before he fell.
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