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NOTE: This
answer was given on March 17, 2007, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
Answer from Jesus:
My first answer was intended
to be a bombshell, in the sense that I want people to do what you are
doing, namely become aware of their own intuition. It is not my intent
to make this website a clearinghouse where people can ask questions
about every spiritual movement or teaching out there. I am not interested
in having you follow me through this website but having you find me
in your own heart. Thus, my intent for this eternal Word is to give
people enough hints that they can develop their own intuition and discernment,
eventually finding the internal Word.
One of the main challenges of the Piscean age was for people to overcome
the tendency to blindly follow the blind leaders. The Aquarian age is
meant to be an age of freedom, but you cannot be free if you do not
have Christ discernment to see what is real and what is unreal. Freedom
does not mean doing whatever your ego wants but rising above the ego.
In order to be spiritually free, you must be able to rise above black-and-white
thinking without becoming trapped in gray
thinking. Since this question demonstrates a multiplication of the
talents given in the first answer, I will give further thoughts that
can help people sharpen their discernment.
For thousands of years it has been a divine mandate, or law, that certain
spiritual truths – often called mystical or esoteric knowledge
– could not be revealed publicly. During my mission in Israel,
I was under this law, which can be seen from the following quote:
33 And with many
such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear
it.
34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were
alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
(Mark, Chapter 4)
The official Christian churches
have always been based on the knowledge I was able to reveal publicly,
primarily in my parables. Yet throughout the last 2,000 years (and before)
the Ascended Host have sponsored various organizations, sometimes called
secret societies, that revealed more esoteric knowledge to people who
had been willing to undergo special initiations.
This was only an interim stage, for it was always our intent that all
spiritual knowledge should be given freely to all people. This, however,
could not – for a variety of complex reasons – come to pass
until we came closer to the Aquarian age. In the Age of Freedom, it
is obvious that nothing can be kept secret.
For the past 2,000 years much esoteric knowledge was not publicly available.
Much of what I explain on this website was “forbidden” knowledge
until the divine mandate was changed in the 19th century. The advanced
cosmology in Maitreya’s
new book simply could not have been given under the old dispensation.
As I explain in my ego
discourses, there is nothing that the human ego cannot pervert,
so the system of creating secret societies to disseminate esoteric knowledge
was by no means ego-proof. Secrecy gives opportunity for abuse and manipulation,
for the leaders of a secret society can get away with almost anything
by appealing to the need to keep things secret. Likewise, the entire
psychology of being in a secret society – having knowledge the
general population doesn’t have – encourages spiritual pride.
So those who already have a tendency toward pride will have it reinforced.
Many spiritually aware people know that after the divine mandate was
changed – which allowed the Ascended Host to publicly disseminate
esoteric knowledge – we sponsored the Theosophical Society. However,
let me give you a more nuanced understanding of what actually took place.
In order to give you this understanding, I have to correct a common
misunderstanding about the early Christian movement, a misunderstanding
created by the rewriting of history performed by the early Catholic
church. Consider the following quotes from Acts, Chapter 2:
1 And when the
day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in
one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and
it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak
with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
16 But this is
that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour
out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old
men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those
days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
The orthodox churches of
today tend to portray early Christianity as a very homogenous movement,
centered around the official church. The reality was entirely different,
namely that the early Christian movement was an extremely diversified
movement. In fact, so diversified that it could hardly be called a movement
by today’s standards. Why was this so? As I said to Nicodemus:
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 3:8)
The Holy Spirit is not something
that is tightly controlled by some divine overseer. The Holy Spirit
is like a rush of wind over a lake, and anyone who has a sail raised
can catch it—at least for a season. In other words, the quote
from Acts illustrates a general outpouring that anyone with some spiritual
atunement can be part of. As quoted above, “I will pour out of
my Spirit upon all flesh.”
After I ascended, a portion of my Spirit was indeed poured out over
this planet, and many people – all over the world – caught
part of it. For example, many among my direct followers did catch it,
but also many who had never met me, including many whom the Church later
labeled as gnostics or heretics. This outpouring is allowed because
the Holy Spirit is an opportunity for growth. How does the Holy Spirit
give people the opportunity to grow? By reinforcing whatever it
touches!
Take note of that remark. When you catch the Holy Spirit, allowing it
to flow through your being, it reinforces anything in your being, both
what is of Christ and what is of anti-christ. Thus, by reinforcing everything,
the Spirit makes more visible what is in your being, giving you an opportunity
to let go of what is not of Christ and multiply what is of Christ.
This is an essential realization because it is the very factor that
determines what actually happens to a movement. If a movement begins
to form, that movement may become a conduit for a greater and more concentrated/directed
flow of the Holy Spirit. Yet this flow will increase ONLY if BOTH the
leader(s) and the members use the Spirit’s gifts to transcend
themselves. My point being that a movement can start out as having a
genuine flow of the Holy Spirit, but if the people do not multiply the
talents they have been given, the flow of the Spirit will stop, be redirected
or stall at a certain level.
What I am leading up to here is that when the Theosophical Society was
started, there was a general outpouring of the Holy Spirit that was
designed to break up the old, Piscean mindset – of blindly following
the blind leaders – and clearing the way for a new Aquarian mindset,
where each person can have his or her personal inner connection to the
spiritual realm.
There were indeed a number of individuals who caught this outpouring
and started various movements. Some were part of the Spiritualist movement
and others developed into organizations that still exist today, such
as New Thought and the Unity Church. My point being that Theosophy was
not the only movement that had some degree of the Holy Spirit, but it
did become the largest and most influential, and it is still the best
known. It also had – or rather received as it grew – a more
direct form of sponsorship and involvement from certain ascended masters.
As most spiritual seekers will know, the leader, or messenger, for the
Theosophical society was Helena Blavatsky. Many people also know that
the movement was primarily sponsored by the ascended masters El Morya,
Kuthumi and Dwal Kul. One master was curiously absent, namely myself.
One might therefore ask why a movement that was meant to pave the way
for bringing humankind closer to mastering the test of Pisces –
in preparation for them entering Aquarius – was not sponsored
by or had any direct involvement by me—the spiritual hierarch
of the Piscean age?
There are two main reasons for this. One is that the mainstream Christian
churches had become even more sectarian and rigid than I had imagined
in my worst nightmares (figuratively speaking). Therefore, it was determined
that a new spiritual awareness could not be brought in through Christians.
Theosophy was designed to appeal to the many – often highly intelligent
and intellectual – people who had become disillusioned with official
Christianity and were now on the brink of being sucked into the black
hole of scientific materialism. Some of these people were still open
to spirituality, but they had been so disappointed by Christianity that
they were more open to Eastern philosophy, and that is one reason why
Theosophy was given an Eastern bent.
The second reason why I stayed outside Theosophy was that – as
some spiritual students know – Helena Blavatsky was indeed the
reincarnation of the soul of Peter. As I explain elsewhere,
Peter did indeed fail one of the essential challenges of Christ in that
he denied me before men. Why was the soul of Peter given the opportunity
to lead an organization sponsored by the ascended masters? The reason
was that if the soul of Peter could have been turned around and helped
to overcome its deep-seated denial of Christ, it could have had profound
implications on the planetary consciousness.
It could have brought about a deep shift in the collective consciousness
of the Catholic church and other mainstream churches, who are all built
on the foundation of Peter—what they like to call the rock of
Peter, but which was truly his refusal to let go of his desire to control
Christ instead of allowing Christ to guide him to self-transcendence.
I came to show people how to transcend this world, and Peter wanted
to tell me how I should – in his opinion – adapt to this
world. That is why I said, “Get thee behind me Satan” (Matthew
16:23), for the consciousness of anti-christ has always – since
it separated out from God – wanted to force the Christ and the
Holy Spirit to conform to its graven images.
If the soul of Peter/Blavatsky could have made the leap, I could have
become more directly involved with Theosophy, but that did not happen.
Instead, Blavatsky became more set in her dualistic habits and started
battling the Christian churches, even to the point of putting out some
erroneous information about Lucifer being the real savior who was meant
to save humankind instead of me.
This has two implications for the question asked above concerning more
recent organizations claiming ascended master sponsorship. One is that
it is indeed possible that an organization can be sponsored by some
ascended masters and not by others. As an example, it is generally known
that after Helena Blavatsky stopped serving as a messenger, several
other members of the Theosophical society caught a portion of the Spirit
and started their own efforts. Examples are Charles Leadbeater, Alice
Bailey and Rudolph Steiner. Alice Bailey, for example, was working exclusively
with Dwal Kul – at least for a time – so it is possible
that a messenger or organization can bring forth genuine teachings from
one or a few masters without being sponsored by others.
The other point I want to make here is that there is a somewhat similar
mechanism in the Temple of the Presence as seen in Theosophy. It is
publicly known that one of the messengers of the Temple denounces the
judgment call that was released by the messenger of the Summit Lighthouse,
Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Let me make it clear, as I have done elsewhere,
that Elizabeth Clare Prophet was indeed a genuine and sponsored messenger
(up until the point where El Morya withdrew his sponsorship of the organization
itself). I, the ascended Jesus Christ, did indeed release the judgment
call and sponsor its use, as I still do for the people who are part
of that dispensation. In other words, it is still valid for certain
people to continue to use the judgment call.
It should therefore be clear that I, Jesus, cannot speak through an
organization where one messenger out of two publicly denounces my judgment
call. Yet even beyond what is publicly known, there is a deeper issue
of another soul being trapped in a fundamental denial of the Christ
before men—as severe and as difficult to overcome as the one by
the soul of Peter. This then brings up the logical question that if
I am not speaking through the Temple of the Presence, how can the organization
be releasing dictations that they claim are from me?
As the above question eloquently puts it: “I have attended several
of their sessions, and I have felt a lot of pure and high energies.
I can't believe the Messengers are just making it all up. So am I to
believe that they are "channeling" psychic impostors of the
masters? In my experience, I feel the energy, but I often reflect on
the lack of any real substance in the communication or teaching. This
has made me wonder if the source really is an Ascended Master or just
some entity from the psychic plane.”
I have now laid the foundation for sorting this out. As I said, there
has been a continuous outpouring of the Holy Spirit since the 1800s.
Certainly, some organizations have had a more concentrated/directed
release and some have had various degrees of direct sponsorship from
the Ascended Host. Thus, there always has been and always will be more
than one person who is an open door for the flow of the Holy Spirit.
I am aware some will say that Elizabeth Clare Prophet made the claim
to be the only sponsored messenger, and that was true, but only insofar
as she was the only one who had her level of sponsorship. She did not,
however, claim to have a monopoly on the Holy Spirit, as she publicly
acknowledged that other people also had the Spirit.
Yet there was also an added complexity in that – as I explain
– the Summit was the last organization we could sponsor in the
Piscean dispensation. Thus, it had to make the claim to exclusivity
in order to give people an opportunity to overcome the one claim that
had been the dominating claim in the religious life of the Piscean age—again
led by the Catholic Church. In order to enter the consciousness of Aquarius,
people have to leave behind – fully and finally – the entire
consciousness that any human being or organization can have a monopoly
on God, the Ascended Host, the Holy Spirit or the Living Word. My point
being that the messenger was asked to make certain claims as a test—for
herself and her followers.
Now, what can be difficult for some ascended master students to understand
is that we of the Ascended Host have as our overall goal the spiritual
awakening of humankind. We are constantly seeking for ways to accomplish
this, and contrary to what many people think – because they have
not overcome the Piscean curse of exclusivity – we are NOT seeking
to do this through a particular organization or person. In the Aquarian
age there will not be one savior or messenger but many—in fact
each person must be under his own I
AM Presence.
When we start an organization, we have a high potential and a low potential.
As an organization progresses, it will become clear whether the high
potential can be reached, and if not, we immediately begin to look for
other ways to accomplish the overall goal. I am not saying that we make
light of the sacrifices people have made within a particular organization.
I am simply saying that God is no respecter of persons or the organizations
to which people sometimes become loyal—rather than being loyal
to our overall goal.
When we start an organization, it is not guaranteed whether the high
or the low potential (or some middle ground) will be manifest. For this
will depend on one thing, namely to what degree the leaders and the
members of an organization are willing to transcend themselves. Will
people allow the Holy Spirit that flows through the organization to
expose the elements of anti-christ in their beings and will they choose
to leave them behind? Will people multiply the elements of Christ in
their beings and dare to express their Christhood—even if it is
not encouraged or welcome in the organizational culture?
In the early 1990’s, after the Summit Lighthouse had received
so much bad press for the building of bomb shelters – and I will
publicly acknowledge that many mistakes were made during that process
– it became clear to us that the highest potential for the Summit
Lighthouse could not be reached. Thus, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
did indeed spread and allow other people to catch a certain portion
of the Spirit. The Temple of the Presence being but one example.
However, let me make one thing clear. As I explain,
the Summit was the last organization we could sponsor in the Piscean
dispensation. What that means is that it was the last organization to
receive a general sponsorship of the organization as a whole. This was
an experiment, and under the Aquarian dispensation we will ONLY sponsor
individuals. If people come together in an organized fashion, we will
multiply the group’s efforts, but not in the way it was done in
the Summit, where anyone who entered received a certain sponsorship
from El Morya. From now on, at least for the foreseeable future, no
one will be given sponsorship beyond what they merit based on their
willingness to multiply their talents. In the Aquarian age, everyone
is meant to sit under his own vine and fig tree, not under the umbrella
of a spiritual master.
So when a group of people come together in a positive way and are open
to the Spirit, there will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as happens
in many Christian churches every Sunday. There are some Evangelical
and Pentecostal ministers who have a certain outpouring of the Spirit,
even though they seek to force the wind to flow through their fundamentalist
belief system. This is allowed for a season in order to give both the
minister and the congregation an opportunity to grow. And if people
refuse to grow, it can sometimes go on for a long time, as has been
the case with Billy Graham. Yet it can also happen that the Spirit magnifies
the unresolved psychology of the minister until it surfaces, as was
the case with Ted
Haggard and others.
It must also be noted that when a person or organization catches a general
outpouring of the Spirit, there is always an interim period where people
are given an opportunity to internalize the Spirit, purify their beings
and rise above old momentums. This is typically a three-year grace period,
and in this period a person can seem to have more light than the average
person. Yet what happens after the first three years depends on the
degree of internalization and the willingness to rise above the old—for
both leaders and members.
My point being that this grace period can often be mistaken by both
leaders and members as a genuine sponsorship by the Ascended Host. In
reality, it is a trial period, and if there is not sufficient self-transcendence,
the organization will not receive a more direct sponsorship. One sign
of the lack of such sponsorship will be precisely, as mentioned in the
question, that an organization has light but there is little new revelation
or substance in what is being brought forth. If there is not the willingness
to self-transcend, how can we bring forth new revelation through a messenger
or organization?
We now come to the subtle – but essential – point that mature
spiritual seekers need to contemplate. There are indeed many people
– even some channelers – who
have a genuine outpouring of the Holy Spirit and can thus bring forth
a flow of the Spirit that does come from the Ascended Host. This is
why many spiritually aware people can feel that a certain person or
organization has a positive vibration or a genuine outpouring of the
Spirit (obviously there are also false spirits who can show signs and
wonders but do not have the vibration of the Holy Spirit). There is
nothing wrong with sensing this, and it is indeed a good step toward
Christ discernment to be able to sense the Spirit.
Yet there is a higher level of discernment that can be reached only
after some time and a certain amount of – sometimes difficult
– experiences. To get the full understanding of this, you truly
need to read Lord Maitreya’s book, but I will give a brief summary.
In the end of the book, Maitreya describes the four challenges of Christ.
As I explain,
Peter passed the first challenge, which is to recognize Christ—or
recognize the Spirit. It is good to be able to recognize that some people
have a flow of a higher vibration than the average preacher, who simply
regurgitates from the pulpit what he was taught at seminary.
Yet the second challenge of Christ is whether you will follow the Living
Christ and transcend yourself or whether you will seek to force the
Christ and his teaching into your mental box. Will you grow or will
you stay where you are comfortable? Will you let the old self die in
order to be reborn into a higher sense of identity? Will you follow
Christ beyond your mental box or will you seek to force the Living Christ
to fit into your box, whereby you are left behind by Christ.
As Mother Mary explains on her website, everything is created from the
interplay of the two basic forces, the expanding and the contracting
force, the Father and Mother, the Alpha and Omega. The Alpha aspect
of discernment is to recognize the flow of the Spirit, and the Omega
aspect is to be able to discern the contents and form of that flow.
To use the words from the question above, “I feel the energy,
but I often reflect on the lack of any real substance in the communication
or teaching.”
The first question is whether a person, messenger or organization has
a genuine flow of the Spirit. The second question is whether that flow
is being used for self-transcendence or whether it is being used to
cement a certain position in which people are comfortable? As I said,
it is possible that people can have a flow of the Spirit, but they are
not transcending themselves. Therefore, they are imposing a certain
belief system upon the flow of the Spirit and the Spirit will to some
degree allow this. As I said, some fundamentalist preachers do have
a flow of the Spirit even though they impose their literal beliefs upon
it. Likewise, a person can impose a preconceived belief system to the
extent of believing he or she is taking dictations from Jesus Christ
while I am not there.
Take note that I am not hereby saying such dictations are necessarily
from a false spirit or impostor. I am simply saying that mature spiritual
seekers need to start contemplating just how easy it is for people’s
minds to impose mental images upon the Spirit. The Omega side of discernment
requires one to rise above the tendency to impose mental images upon
the Spirit. The flow of the Spirit is like the white light that streams
from the light bulb in a movie projector. Yet the images on the movie
screen are shaped by the images that are on the film strip that the
light passes through—meaning the mind of the messenger and even
the collective mind of the congregation.
This ability to project mental
images upon the pure light of the Spirit is the main cause of many of
the religious conflicts seen throughout history, where two movements
are sure they have the only true revelation from God. Of course, it
is also this very ability that gives people the potential to serve as
co-creators with God, bringing God’s kingdom into manifestation
on Earth. It all depends on the purity of the film strip in your mind,
which depends on your willingness to let the Christ expose any impurities
and then let them go. So the real question is whether a messenger is
willing to always self-transcend or whether he or she will seek to defend
a certain earthly position.
When a messenger starts out, it is allowed that the person imposes his
or her mental images upon the light. Yet if the messenger – as
most messengers do – reaches a point from where he or she is not
willing to go higher, then the delivery of the word will be stifled
at that level. There can still be a flow of the Spirit, but the contents
will not progress beyond a certain level, which means they will begin
to seem like there is nothing new—which there isn't.
One might conclude from this that no one is an entirely pure messenger,
which is true. Yet this does not mean that all messengers are worthless,
and it is important to avoid becoming a skeptic who denies all communication
from Above. You need to recognize that communication is possible without
becoming attached to ANY particular expression, and you do that by always
seeking to raise your ability to experience the Spirit of Truth directly.
Even if an organization has an imperfect expression of the Spirit, it
does show that there is something beyond the “normal” state
of consciousness, beyond the material realm. And if you keep following
the flow toward its source, you WILL eventually encounter the source
itself. In the Aquarian age, the essential step for humankind is to
recognize that it is possible to receive communication from the spiritual
realm and that everyone has that potential—if they are willing
to engage in the process of perpetual self-transcendence.
When we of the Ascended Host evaluate an organization, we look beyond
outer details—including erroneous claims made by the organization.
We do not demand that leaders or members should be perfect, we look
at the net gain produced by an organization. For example, does the organization
help people transcend themselves—even if not to the maximum potential?
Does the organization release more positive than negative energy into
the planetary energy field? From the latter perspective, the Temple
of the Presence has so far produced a net gain for the planet, mainly
because it has many positive people who are devoted to invoking the
violet flame. Likewise, the Summit Lighthouse, although having cut off
progressive revelation, is still a net gain to the planet. The I AM
movement is also a net gain (although on a smaller scale), whereas movements
such as The Bridge to Freedom and Theosophy have fallen below the critical
level and are now holding people back rather than helping them grow.
Take note again that an organization being a net gain does not mean
it has any direct sponsorship. I am talking about the leaders and members
being able to catch the general outpouring of the Spirit and multiplying
it to some degree.
For a time, a spiritual seeker might benefit from being involved with
such an organization. But if YOU are transcending yourself, there will
come a point where you seriously need to consider whether you will continue
in that environment—and you especially need to be aware of misguided
loyalty to anything in this world. As we always say, when the student
is ready, the teacher appears. The problem is that until you are willing
to leave your nets – where you are comfortable – the Living
Christ cannot appear and call you to become a fisher of men. So as long
as you hold on to an organization because you feel the Spirit but not
the substance, you will not be able to see the next teacher who can
give you the higher substance.
How should you evaluate the contents of a teaching? Here are a few pointers
as food for thought:
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Does the teaching bring
forth something that is genuinely new. A particular organization
is designed to bring forth a certain teaching for a certain level
of consciousness. For example, the Summit was meant to bring forth
teachings within a certain framework (not the ultimate teaching
for the Aquarian age, as there is no such teaching). Another messenger
may pick up that torch and bring forth a more detailed teaching
within the same framework, but it has to be beyond what was already
given. Otherwise, it will not be released from the Ascended Host
but will be the messenger imposing his or her belief system upon
the flow of the Spirit.
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At some point a new messenger
must go beyond the old teaching and bring forth more than was given
in the old. Otherwise, the movement will stall and rise no higher.
An example of this was Lotus Ray Ballard who continued as messenger
for the I AM Movement for many years without actually bringing forth
anything new.
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Does the teaching challenge
you to come up higher or does it make you comfortable where you
are? As I said, people can catch the Spirit, and some messengers
have even had a more direct sponsorship for a time, but if they
do not multiply their talents and self-transcend, the sponsorship
will be withdrawn and the Spirit will now stay within certain boundaries,
defined by what people are unwilling to surrender. The flow of the
Spirit might continue, but the teachings are no longer coming from
the Ascended Host. They might come from a person’s higher
self, from the collective consciousness of the members or from beings
in the mental or emotional realm. Some of these beings might indeed
be impersonating ascended masters. One might even say that the Holy
Spirit is ALWAYS a transcending Spirit, so if a person or organization
is not self-transcending, it is no longer the Holy Spirit but a
lesser spirit. Some messengers can lose the Holy Spirit but because
they are not willing to give up their outer position, they become
open to a lower Spirit and some of the followers cannot tell the
difference.
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Does the teaching make
sense? Is it consistent? Is it useful or does it simply regurgitate
words. Is it all fluff – perhaps with flowering words –
but has no substance? A complete teaching will have both the vibration
of the Spirit and genuine content—it will have the fullness
of Alpha and Omega.
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Is the teaching practical.
Does it help you transform your daily life and solve some of the
problems you face in the modern world, which is in many respects
more complex than any previous time?
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There is an Alpha and
an Omega side to progressive revelation. The Alpha is that new,
more advanced teachings are released, teachings that could not be
released earlier, either because of divine mandate or because humankind’s
consciousness was not ready for them. In other words, we give revelation
today that builds upon but goes beyond what was released in the
past. The Omega aspect is that we make our teachings more easily
accessible and understandable for a broader audience. This means
teachings are explained in a more direct and straightforward way,
often using a more normal form of language.
- It is, of course, also
part of the picture to evaluate the organization and its leaders.
Are they walking their talk in terms of embodying the teachings? This
does not mean people have to be perfect. But it does mean they have
to be wiling to continually transcend themselves, which includes admitting
one’s imperfections and surrendering them (doing whatever psychological
healing work is necessary to accomplish this).
As an example of the progression
in the delivery of the word, you will see that the language and the
concepts released through Theosophy were very difficult to understand,
often because they were deliberately expressed in an ambiguous way with
complex language. This can be a restriction imposed by the messenger,
either because of his/her ability/inability to use words or the messenger’s
clarity of mind (or lack of it). It takes a very clear and neutral mind
to express complex concepts in a way that is easy to understand, whereas
as clouded mind can express concepts in a clouded language.
Today, humankind has risen beyond the level of awareness they had a
century ago, so we can now speak in a way that is far more direct and
unambiguous—although we still leave certain things unsaid in order
to give room for people’s individual discernment. There are some
who prefer the old ways and think that the harder a teaching is to understand,
the more sophisticated it must be. However, remember what I said earlier
about secret societies giving rise to pride over having a teaching that
the general population does not have.
There are also some people who wonder how much more revelation we have
to bring forth, sometimes believing in the claim that a certain organization
has brought forth some ultimate teaching. Yet I can assure you that
the amount of progressive revelation that we can bring forth is unlimited.
Progressive revelation is progressive precisely because it never stops.
We have many more things to say and we have many new ways of describing
timeless truths in order to make them easier to grasp for people in
this particular time.
In reality, the most sophisticated spiritual teaching is the one that
can be grasped and internalized by the greatest number of people. We
are beyond the age of elitism, so we are looking for messengers who
can express truth in a clear, unambiguous and straightforward manner.
And we are looking for students who can appreciate this and become part
of spreading the word to as many people as possible—changing the
entire tone of the religious debate, as Maitreya calls for in his book.
We of the Ascended Host were never in the consciousness of elitism—although
many of our students have been and continue to be. It is time to leave
those nets behind and become fishers of men in the Aquarian waters—in
which the secret of life is given to all who have ears to hear.
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