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from Jesus:
The Ascended Host work with
all beings at any level, even the deepest levels of the emotional realm,
which is what many people have seen in visions as various levels of
Hell. You might recall that I descended to Hell in an attempt to awaken
the souls stuck at that level of consciousness. Unfortunately, many
beings are difficult to work with, and the underlying cause is always
that they are not willing to admit that they need to change. And the
first step toward growth is always the admission that there is something
you don't yet know.
Many of the beings channeling messages to people on Earth reside in
the mental realm. Some beings in the mental realm are aware that they
are not ascended, and we can and do work with them in a very direct
way. Unfortunately, most of the beings who are speaking through channelers
are not consciously aware of the fact that they are not ascended. In
fact, they often think they are so advanced that they reside in the
highest levels of heaven.
You might consider why such beings seek to speak to human beings. The
simple answer is that they need people to give them energy through their
attention. The beings in the mental realm would have no need to receive
energy from human beings if they were willing to work with us. But if
they are not, they cannot receive energy from Above, and thus they must
seek to get it from below.
Once you are ascended, you have no need to get energy from human beings
because you have become a completely self-sufficient spiritual being.
You need no energy from outside yourself. So I am not using this website
to get anything from people; I am seeking to give to those who are willing
to receive. This is the principle of hierarchy, where those above serve
those below in a selfless manner. We realize that we are the servants
of all.
If you read my discourse on the levels
of the material universe, you will see that the mental realm is
designed as one level of the process of co-creation that begins in the
spiritual realm. It is meant to take the greater vision from the etheric
realm and make it more concrete through the intellect and the faculties
of reasoning and logic. These are important and capable faculties, but
as all soul faculties, they do have their limitations. You simply cannot
know ultimate truth through the mental faculties, because they are meant
to “translate” the higher truth from the spiritual realm.
So you can know ultimate truth only by going beyond the soul faculties,
which is what is known as a mystical or intuitive experience, sometimes
called “gnosis.”
When there is no connection to the spiritual realm, the mental faculties
easily become unbalanced—as you see in many areas of science where
there is no longer a moral compass, giving rise to the mad scientist
syndrome. Many beings, including many people on Earth, have not understood
this essential truth. Instead, they think they can actually know ultimate
truth through the intellect, and thereby the mental faculties become
an end in themselves and a law unto themselves—instead of a means
to the end of manifesting God's
kingdom on Earth. This leads souls to create very sophisticated philosophies
about life, and because they are so brilliantly reasoned and logical,
they think their philosophies represent ultimate truth and give the
final explanation of the mysteries of life.
The more developed the intellect, the more complex the philosophy it
is able to create, and unfortunately this complexity is often seen –
by the soul itself and by its followers – as sophistication. This
easily gives rise to a special version of pride, which we might call
intellectual or spiritual pride. These beings are completely convinced
that they understand everything. And if you are not open to the possibility
that there is something you do not know, how can you grow from your
present level of awareness?
There are many such souls in the mental realm, but there are also many
people on Earth who are stuck in intellectual pride. You can especially
find them in the halls of science and in many schools of theology from
almost every religion. These people truly believe they have it all figured
out with the intellect, and it is very difficult to convince them otherwise.
This is especially true for those who have gathered a following to affirm
their inflated self-image. This goes for many people on Earth and for
some beings in the mental realm speaking through channelers. I wish
I knew a way to convince such beings, but unfortunately my intellect
is not sophisticated enough impress these souls.
Humor aside, it is true that once a soul has created thick enough walls
of intellectual reasoning, it is almost impossible to reach through
them. The reason being that they have created a world view where they
think they can explain everything. And because the intellect is a relative
faculty, it does seem that way when you look at the world from inside
their mental box. Once a soul is trapped in such a box, you simply have
to wait until the soul eventually backs itself into a corner and finally
realizes that there is something which the intellect cannot explain.
Because of the inherent limitations in the mental faculties, this will
inevitably happen, although some souls can postpone the moment of truth
for a long time.
Once a soul has become unbalanced intellectually, it tends to equate
complexity with sophistication. That is why some beings channel very
complex messages and why some followers of these channelings think that
the more complex the message, the higher the truth described and the
more spiritually advanced the being channeling the message. This is
a dangerous illusion, but once people are caught, it is very difficult
to reach them with the – in reality very simple – truth
about how to ascend. Remember my statement:
Verily I say unto
you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall
not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3)
This statement was meant
to illustrate that you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven through the
intellect, as the scribes, Pharisees and lawyers believed. It is not
nearly as difficult to ascend as some people think. So it is not necessary
to have the most complex and intellectually sophisticated teaching in
order to ascend. That is why both I and Mother Mary are trying to give
an "unsophisticated" teaching on this website. We are not
trying to complicate matters, but to make our teachings easy to follow.
You truly do not need to know everything in order to ascend. In fact
ignorance is not simply the absence of knowledge. There is a form of
ignorance where people have a lot of knowledge, but they do not have
the wisdom to sort out what is useful knowledge and what is simply intellectual
fluff. That is why the Bible says:
Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
(Proverbs 4:7)
Wisdom reaches beyond the
mental faculties, which those who are trapped by the intellect fail
to understand. This is especially true for those who have gathered a
following, such as beings channeling intellectually sophisticated messages
to people on Earth. So in a very real sense, the followers on Earth
are helping to keep the channeling beings in a state of illusion. And,
of course, the mental beings are helping keep the followers on Earth
in a state of illusion, often making them believe they belong to a sophisticated
elite because they are willing to study the channeled messages. Thus,
such people receive pride from above instead of the love of the Ascended
Host, which they could receive if they were willing to reach beyond
the mental realm.
Only the power and love of
the Holy Spirit has a chance of breaking through people's mental boxes,
but this can only happen if people are willing to reach for a higher
reality than the one created by the intellect. No force in Heaven goes
against people's free will, and that is why the Ascended Host have limited
options for reaching those trapped by the sophistication of the intellect.
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