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from Jesus:
I have given some general
comments on the Conversations
with God books elsewhere, and I suggest you study my comments.
When evaluating a spiritual teaching, it is important that you use your
intuition, and part of your intuition is common sense. In its pure form,
common sense is the reasoning of your Christ self.
So when you read the ideas about reincarnation found in the Conversations
with God books, it is prudent to compare them to the teachings on reincarnation
that have been given in Eastern religions for millennia and in Western
esoteric teachings for centuries. This should make it easy to see that
the idea that you can choose to come back as anything you want is in
direct opposition to virtually all other teachings on reincarnation
found on this planet. One might reason that if you could choose whether
you want to come back and how you want to come back, there seems to
be little purpose for reincarnation.
It might be helpful to distinguish between incarnation and
reincarnation. When your I AM Presence
decided to create your soul, your soul's first embodiment was an incarnation.
Your I AM Presence can choose where and how your soul incarnates, although
it often works with other spiritual beings to send a group of souls
down for a specific mission. After your soul makes its ascension and
becomes an immortal spiritual being, it can choose to send a part of
itself back down into embodiment. This is also an incarnation
because not all of an ascended being comes into embodiment.
The central idea behind reincarnation is that
you must come back into embodiment. When you descend into a
physical body, you become subject to the law of action and reaction,
also called the law of karma. This law states that you are responsible
for how you use God’s energy, and if you misqualify a portion
of energy, you are responsible for requalifying that energy by raising
its vibration to its original purity. If you make karma here on Earth,
you will have to balance that karma on this planet. So if you have unbalanced
karma when your physical body dies, you are not free to go anywhere
you want. You will have a karmic tie that binds you to the Earth until
you have balanced the karma.
It is the karma that makes it necessary for you to come back, and therefore
it is also the karma that determines what options you have for coming
back. In other words, if you made karma with certain people, you will
have to reembody with those same people in order to balance the karma.
You cannot simply choose to avoid these people in your next lifetime.
Likewise, if you made karma my making certain mistakes, you will have
to come back into a situation where you have the opportunity to learn
from those mistakes so that you can overcome the consciousness that
caused you to make the mistakes. For example, if you misuse power in
one lifetime, you might have to reembody in a situation where you are
exposed to the misuse of power. If you could choose to walk away from
your mistakes, how would you ever learn?
There are indeed some people who have several options for how they come
back into a particular embodiment. In other words, they can choose from
two or more options for exactly when and how they want to reembody.
Yet most people only have a few options, and some indeed have only one
opportunity to reembody. This is easy to understand when you know the
reality of the Law of Free Will.
I am aware that there are a number of New Age teachings, especially
some (but not all) of the channeled teachings from the mental
realm, that contain the concept that nothing is done to a soul against
its free will. However, the logical conclusion of this idea is that
nothing you do really has any consequences and that you can pretty much
do whatever you want and get away with it. This is contrary to the life-experience
of most people, and indeed the material universe has a way of contradicting
this belief.
I have to tell you that these teachings are incorrect, and by using
common sense you can see why. As I explain throughout this website,
the Law of Free Will is the ultimate law for this universe. Yet this
law works in polarity with the Law of Action and Reaction, the law of
karma. You will reap what you have sown, as most religions on this planet
tell you.
In one sense, one can say that nothing will be done to you against your
free will, but it has to be added that your own past choices can limit
your present options. In other words, every choice you make creates
consequences, and those consequences can limit the options that are
available to you in the future. One aspect of this is the karma you
generate, which can limit your options for when and how you come back
into embodiment. Another aspect is that if you choose to give dark forces
an inroad into your life, they will deliberately and maliciously manipulate
your free will. It is true that no being in Heaven will violate your
free will, but God has created the Law of Action and Reaction to keep
your free will in check.
One of the ideas I present on this website is that planet Earth is a
schoolroom. Your soul is here to learn how to use God’s energy.
If you could do whatever you wanted and never have to face any consequences,
how could you possibly learn anything? What would be the purpose of
a universe where there are no rules and where a large number of spiritual
beings could run around doing whatever they wanted without ever facing
any consequences? Such a universe would simply be chaos, and it would
not be sustainable. It would gradually deteriorate until it collapsed
under its own weight.
You say that according to
the Conversations With God you can "choose to return to
any embodiment that you want to, not the same one or with the same
consciousness."
The one thing you cannot
escape is your state of consciousness. You are in a given state of consciousness
because of choices you made, and you will carry that state of consciousness
with you when the body dies. Unless you make an effort to raise your
consciousness between embodiments – as all spiritually-minded
souls do – you will come back into embodiment with the same state
of consciousness. This will cause you to repeat the same mistakes over
and over again, and that is why so many problems seem like they have
no solutions.
Consider the philosophical implications. The problem with the ideas
presented in Conversations with God is that they disassociate
choice from consequences, and this leads to a philosophical catch-22.
The catch is: if there are no consequences, where is the choice? Say
you are taking a walk, and you come to a fork in the road. If both roads
led to the same place, it wouldn't matter which path you took, so in
essence you would not have a choice about where to go. You can have
a choice only if the two roads lead to different places. You can make
a choice only if you have at least two options and if they lead to different
consequences.
The only way whereby you
could have complete freedom to choose anything you want after your body
dies – regardless of the choices you made during that lifetime
– is if your actions don't have consequences. Yet if your actions
don't have consequences, you essentially have no choice. This is one
of the most subtle serpentine lies ever devised, and it was in fact
the lie that caused the fall of Adam and Eve. The lie was that you could
reach the same place, namely eternal life, by taking both the road offered
by God and the road offered by the serpent. In other words, you could
be saved by following the path taken by Lucifer and other fallen angels—the
path of separation from God.
This simply is not true,
and the proof is all around you. I think most spiritual people will
realize that the many imperfect manifestations you see on Earth simply
could not exist in Heaven. The logical conclusion is that these conditions
are the result of choices that had undesirable consequences. Most people
suffer greatly from these conditions, yet as I said, "Which of
you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" (Matthew
6:27). In other words, people – even humanity as a whole - cannot
simply get together and decide to instantly remove all suffering. The
reason is that in order to remove suffering, you first have to remove
the cause that created it. And suffering is the consequence of a limited
state of consciousness.
People descended into that
state of consciousness by making the choices to accept a number of serpentine
lies that caused them to separate themselves from God and violate his
laws. So the only way out of suffering is to systematically undo those
choices and replace them with choices based on the truth of Christ.
Change the cause, and you will automatically change the consequences.
The catch is that you cannot change your consciousness until you recognize
that it needs to be changed. And how would you recognize that, unless
the universe allowed you to experience the consequences of your current
state of consciousness? It is precisely by experiencing the consequences
of your imperfect choices that you gain the option of replacing them
with better choices. Without consequences, you would remain in your
present state of consciousness indefinitely, and that would be against
the very principle of life itself, namely self-transcendence.
Let me be very direct. Any teaching that seeks to make you believe that
you can do whatever you want – without having your present choices
limit your future choices – is a false teaching. It is not a teaching
that came from the Ascended Host or any higher source whatsoever. It
could only have come from forces that deliberately seek to deceive you
into thinking that you can do whatever you want. They do this because
it can cause you to create consequences for yourself that will bind
you to a state of consciousness which these forces can use to control
you for an indefinite period of time.
This is not the way of the Ascended Host, and therefore we do
teach that your actions have consequences. We are here to help you see
that your present choices can limit your future choices. We offer you
the path to personal Christhood so you can learn to make right choices—meaning
choices that don’t limit but enhance your creative expression.
Spiritual freedom comes through the perfect vision of Christ. Freedom
can never come from doing whatever you feel like at the moment with
no regard for long-term consequences.
Concerning your second question,
pride is a very dangerous emotion for people on the spiritual path.
As Mother Mary explains,
pride is a spiritual poison. She also
explains that it was indeed pride that caused Lucifer to rebel against
God and thereby fall into a lower state of consciousness.
The biggest problem with pride is that it prevents you from accepting
that you have made a mistake. And you cannot correct a mistake until
you acknowledge that you need to change your beliefs and your actions.
Concerning your third question, the Old Testament image of God as vengeful
and wrathful is incorrect. I have already commented on the origin of
that image elsewhere.
Again, as explained by Mother Mary, angels do have free will. Certain
angels decided to rebel against God's law. They have descended into
a lower state of consciousness, and from this state of consciousness
they will do whatever they deem necessary to attain their goals. This
includes actions that could definitely be labeled as “mean things.”
However, all angels that have not rebelled against God are
truly good and will act only in harmony with God’s law of Love.
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