| Answer
from Jesus:
If a person were to read
this answer and had never read the Essene literature, I would encourage
them to spend their time studying other teachings. In the case of people
who have already read the Essene literature, things are a little different.
The simple fact is that there are very few accidents in the universe.
If you have found a particular spiritual teaching and have studied that
teaching, it is because your soul wanted you to have that experience.
In other words, even if the teaching might contain some errors, there
was a reason your soul wanted you to find and study that teaching.
There are two main reasons why this might be the case. One is that your
soul wanted you to find certain true ideas in that teaching. As I explain
elsewhere,
some teachings contain a mixture of true and false ideas. Therefore,
the Essene Gospels do contain some true ideas, and you should take those
ideas and ignore the rest.
Another possibility is that your soul wanted you to study a teaching
in order to develop the ability to distinguish between true and false
ideas. If you study a teaching that contains only true ideas, you will
not have the same opportunity to develop this discernment as if you
study a teaching that is a mixture of both.
You can literally come to a point of sensitivity where you can feel
the vibration of an idea. You can read a true idea in one paragraph
and feel how the vibration of those words stir something in your heart
and open your heart. You can then read the next paragraph, which contains
a false idea, and feel how your heart is contracted and gives you a
sinking feeling.
So please do not fall into the human pattern of making snap judgments
about what to study and not to study. As always, follow your intuition,
follow your heart. If you get a prompting to study a specific teaching,
then by all means do so. And that applies even if someone has told you
that the teaching is not entirely pure. However, as you study the teaching
keep in mind the dynamics described above. For that matter, keep in
mind that both purposes might be involved with studying a specific teaching.
You might have to both pick up a true idea and sharpen your ability
to discern.
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