| Answer
from Jesus:
I talked about a sin that
cannot be forgiven in the following quote:
Wherefore I say
unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:
but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto
men. (Matthew 12:31)
To understand what this means,
it is necessary to understand the Holy Ghost. As explained by Mother
Mary in several of her discourses and as explained by the Presence
of Unconditional Love, it is a law of God that all life must continually
self-transcend. Human souls were created to be co-creators with God.
To complete this task, people were given free will. One consequence
of this is that they can choose to create something that is not in harmony
with God’s laws and God’s creative intent.
When you create something that is out of harmony with God’s law,
you have committed a sin. As I explain throughout this website, everything
you do is done with God’s energy. When you go against the laws
of God, you misqualify a certain portion of God’s energy. This
is what Eastern religions call karma. One might say that a sin has two
aspects, and one is the misqualified energy, which we might call the
mechanical aspect of sin. This aspect of sin is easily forgivable. The
misqualified energy can be purified or requalified by high-frequency
spiritual energy from Above. When the energy is requalified, one might
say that the sin is forgiven, meaning that it is no longer a burden
to the person.
One way for sins to be forgiven is that a person invokes spiritual energy
and directs it into transforming the misqualified energy. However, people’s
sins can also be forgiven by a spiritual being who chooses to free a
person from some of the misqualified energy created through the person's
sinful acts. For example, if a person has truly forsaken the consciousness
of duality, the consciousness of death, and has sincerely striven to
live a spiritual life, a spiritual being might remove some of that person’s
karma, or misqualified energy.
This can be done for people who warrant this intercession, so that they
can accelerate their spiritual growth without being burdened by the
misqualified energy created in the state of consciousness that they
have now forsaken. In other words, God has no desire to punish human
beings; he simply wants people to learn from their mistakes and come
up higher in consciousness. Therefore, once you have forsaken the state
of consciousness that caused you to commit a certain type of sin, there
is no teaching value in being burdened by the misqualified energy. It
can therefore be lawful for a spiritual teacher to remove some or all
of this misqualified energy. Nevertheless, such intercession generally
happens only when people have forsaken the consciousness that caused
them to sin.
This brings us back to the sin against the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
is that aspect of God which is assigned to remind people that they cannot
stand still in an imperfect and limited sense of identity. That is why
I said:
5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and
of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every
one that is born of the Spirit. (John, Chapter 3)
Being born again means being
born into a new sense of identity that is based on the single-eyed vision
of the Christ mind instead of the dualistic vision of the carnal mind.
Those who are born of the spirit are always willing to self-transcend,
and they do not cling to the sense of identity that is born of the flesh.
So we might say that sin
has two aspects. The
misqualified energy is the outer, or mechanical, aspect of sin. The
inner aspect of sin is the consciousness that causes you to misqualify
energy. However, even the state of consciousness has two aspects.
Many sins are committed because people simply do not know better. They
have limited knowledge or they were brought up with an incorrect understanding,
and this causes them to misqualify God’s energy. Yet if these
people were given a higher understanding, they would chose to abandon
their old understanding and stop sinning. Therefore, even the consciousness
that causes you to sin is not necessarily a sin against the Holy Spirit.
However, it can become the sin against the Holy Spirit if you refuse
to transcend your old beliefs and your limited sense of identity. In
other words, when you refuse to self-transcend, you create a sense of
identity as being permanently separated from God or even being in opposition
to God.
Take note of the subtle distinction. Your actions are always the result
of your state of consciousness, so sin always springs from a state of
consciousness. However, as long as you are willing to expand your understanding
and change your sense of identity when you receive a higher understanding,
you are not sinning against the Holy Spirit. The sin against the Holy
Spirit occurs only when you refuse to expand your understanding and
when you refuse to transcend your present sense of identity. This is
indeed what happened to Lucifer, as explained by Mother
Mary. The entire Luciferian consciousness, which causes people to
believe they know best and therefore don't need to change, is a sin
against the Holy Spirit.
As I said, sin has two components. One is the misqualified energy, the
other is the state of consciousness that causes you to misqualify that
energy. A spiritual being can take from you the misqualified energy
as an act of grace, and therefore that sin can be forgiven. Yet the
spiritual being cannot take from you the state of consciousness that
caused you to sin. The reason being that you created that state of consciousness
through your free will, and a spiritual being is not allowed to violate
your free will. Therefore, the sin of an imperfect state of consciousness
can be forgiven only when you make the freewill decision to undo the
imperfect choices, to abandon the imperfect self-images, that caused
you to accept a mortal sense of identity.
Do you see the subtle distinction here? When you sin against the Holy
Ghost, you accept or build a sense of identity as being separated from
or in opposition to God. All of your beliefs, thoughts, feelings and
actions spring from your sense of identity. No being in Heaven can change
or take away your limited sense of identity for you. You must do this
through a completely free choice.
However, the sin against the Holy Ghost is not simply the limited sense
of identity. It is the refusal to transcend that sense of identity!
This refusal can, over many lifetimes, lead a person to create a sense
of identity that causes the person to believe that he or she either
cannot, or does not have to, self-transcend. There are numerous versions
of this sense of identity, but the important point is that this sin
cannot be forgiven, meaning that it cannot be taken away by a spiritual
being.
It can be overcome only when the person makes a free decision to replace
the imperfect decisions that make up the mortal sense of identity with
choices that spring from the mind of Christ. So one might say that the
sin against the Holy Ghost cannot be forgiven, meaning that it cannot
be taken away by an outside force. It must be forsaken, and once it
is truly undone, you will be free of that sin. You will still have to
deal with the misqualified energy created through that state of consciousness,
and this is where God's mercy can come in and take some of that burden
away from you through grace. And it is true, as stated in the Bible,
that most people have so much misqualified energy, so much karma, carried
over from past lives that unless some of it is taken away through grace,
they cannot not be saved, meaning they could not qualify for their ascension.
Take note that the sin that is unforgivable is an imperfect sense of
identity. This can be much more subtle than most people think. As an
example, look at the following statement:
For I say unto
you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom
of heaven. (Matthew 5:20)
The scribes and Pharisees,
and many of the other religious authority figures who rejected me, had
built a sense of identity that made them believe that because they were
Jews, and therefore belonged to God's chosen people, and because they
were doing all the right things according to the outer law, they were
so good that God simply had to save them. In other words, they did not
truly need to self-transcend and change their attitude to life, their
beliefs about life and their sense of identity. They had built a sense
of identity that made them believe that they did not have to self-transcend
in order to enter the kingdom of Heaven. They simply had to continue
believing and doing what they were doing, and then they would automatically
be saved without changing themselves.
That is why I said that unless your righteousness, meaning your willingness
to self-transcend, exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. Why is that so? Because the
kingdom of God is within you, meaning that the kingdom of God is a state
of consciousness. To enter the kingdom of Heaven, you must put on the
wedding garment of the Christ consciousness, and the Christ consciousness
is a sense of identity which empowers you to see yourself as a son or
daughter of God.
Do you see the all-important conclusion? The key to putting on the Christ
consciousness is to change your sense of identity. You must be willing
to transcend your mortal, limited sense of identity and accept an immortal,
unlimited sense of identity.
Unfortunately, in today's world millions of Christians have fallen into
the very same trap as the scribes and the Pharisees. They have built
a sense of identity which makes them believe that because they belong
to a Christian religion – which they see as the only true religion
– because they have declared Jesus Christ to be their Lord and
Savior, and because they follow all the outer rules and doctrines of
their religion, they will automatically be saved. They think that God
simply has to save them.
Yet they have not been willing to transcend their mortal sense of identity
as sinners who cannot enter the kingdom of God, even though I told them
that the kingdom is within them. They have not been willing to let this
mind be in them, which was also in Christ Jesus. They have not been
willing to follow my example and do the works that I did. Therefore,
many self-righteous Christians are actually committing the sin against
the Holy Spirit, and that sin cannot be forgiven until they use their
free will to abandon the sin, meaning the consciousness of duality and
mortality, that causes them to deny their oneness with me and their
true identity as sons and daughters of God. As I said many times 2,000
years ago, those who have ears had better listen!
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