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from Jesus:
Beginning in the late 1800s,
the Ascended Host launched a major effort aimed at renewing and raising
the spiritual awareness of humankind. The Unity Church and many of the
churches in the New Thought movement were inspired or sponsored by us
to various degrees, depending on the attunement of the founders. That
is why you find many similarities between the teachings of these organizations,
the teachings on this website and the teachings of other organization
sponsored by the Ascended Host over the last century.
Obviously, I am not saying that all of these organizations have the
exact same teachings. There are some differences, and not every organization
has a completely pure or accurate teaching. Nevertheless, the similarities
are so great that it should be possible for all open-minded spiritual
seekers to see beyond the outer differences.
Our original hope for the new organizations we inspired or sponsored
was that they would grow into a very dynamic, ever-changing and ever-growing
movement that would always maintain a direct link to the Ascended Host.
Unfortunately, we see the same pattern occur in many of the organizations
we have inspired or sponsored. The organization is very dynamic while
the original founder is still alive. Yet as soon as the founder departs,
the organization loses the direct contact to us and it begins to stagnate.
In some cases, the organization becomes paralyzed by power struggles
among its leaders or by squabbles over this or that aspect of doctrine.
Obviously, this is not unique to these new organizations; it has indeed
happened in every religion known to humankind.
It is the assessment of the Ascended Host that the Unity Church and
most of the organizations in the New Thought movement have stagnated
to various degrees. Therefore, they are not currently living up to our
original hopes or their highest potential. Could this be changed? It
certainly could, but it could be done only if these organizations would
open themselves up to direct instructions from the Ascended Host. In
the 1950s, one of my colleagues did indeed attempt to unite several
of these movements under one banner. Yet the leaders of the various
movements were not willing to set aside their narrow focus on their
own organization. They could not look at the bigger picture, and consequently
there were not able to accept the guidance offered to them.
Obviously, this could be changed at any time. One way – but not
the only way – to do this was that the organizations in the New
Thought movement would discover and embrace the teachings I give on
this website. I am not saying that this would require them to dissolve
or to come under the leadership of the messenger I am using for this
website. I am simply saying that these organizations could use the teachings
I give on this website to renew themselves and to become more effective
at fulfilling their original missions.
Many of the organizations in the New Thought movement were created partly
to bring forth my true teachings in this age. Obviously, that is also
the entire purpose for the creation of this website. So if these organizations
would embrace the teachings I give on this website, they could indeed
make a major contribution to my goal. As I explain throughout this website,
the most important message to get out at this time is the message that
all people have the potential to put on individual Christhood and that
I was an example instead of an idol.
As I explain elsewhere,
no single person or organization can get this message out alone, so
there is a great need for people and organizations to come together.
Such a union can be created only by people with some degree of personal
Christhood, namely the type of people I am talking about in the following
discourse. Some
of these people are indeed involved with the Unity Church and New Thought
churches, but they could accomplish much more by joining forces across
organizational or doctrinal boundaries. Will this happen? I cannot answer
that question—human beings must answer that question.
Concerning the church started by Aimee Sample McPherson, it was somewhat
different from the church you see today. The main goal of my beloved
Aimee was to make my teachings come alive. The church she founded was
partly a product of her times and partly a product of her state of consciousness.
What has happened since then, is that the church she founded became
far less dynamic than when she was at the helm. In recent years it has
also taken a new turn by placing itself as part of the evangelical movement.
While much could be said about this, let it be enough to say that if
spiritual organizations never deviated from the pattern set by their
founders, then it would not have been necessary for me to create this
website. You could have gone into any Christian church and received
my true teachings.
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