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from Jesus:
Holy Communion is
a very significant ritual. However, the value of any religious ritual
is in direct proportion to the attitude with which you participate in
that ritual.
To explain the true significance of Holy Communion, let me first clear
up a common misunderstanding concerning this ritual. When I walked the
earth, I appeared in a culture that was very heavily influenced by the
idea of blood sacrifice. The Jews believed that animal sacrifice was
necessary to appease God. While animal sacrifice was clearly a lesser
evil than the previous human sacrifice, it is nevertheless a completely
unnecessary ritual. Only people in a very primitive state of consciousness
can believe that spilling the blood of a human being or an animal will
somehow appease God. Today, I would like to see all human beings leave
this state of consciousness behind.
Because the Jewish culture was so attached to the idea of appeasing
God through the spilling of blood, some of the early Christians developed
the idea that my crucifixion was the ultimate blood sacrifice. I would
like you to understand that we of the Ascended Host have to work with
people in their present state of consciousness and then seek to help
them rise to the next level. Therefore, I do not condemn my early followers
for developing this idea. It was, to some extent, a practical measure
that did help some Jews abandon the practice of animal sacrifice and
embrace Christianity.
However, I must tell you frankly that the idea that the spilling of
my blood was somehow necessary to appease God or to atone for people’s
sins is completely and utterly groundless. Your God is a God of unconditional
love. As I have explained elsewhere,
your God is not angry, and your God does not require sacrifices or the
spilling of human or animal blood. Therefore, my crucifixion was not
a necessary sacrifice, and it truly had no connection to the practice
of human or animal sacrifice.
The significance of this teaching is that Holy Communion has no connection
to the spilling of blood through sacrifice. When you receive Holy Communion,
you are not eating the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. This is not
a cannibalistic ritual.
You must understand that when a person has completely united with the
universal Christ consciousness, as I truly did towards the end of my
mission, that person makes statements based on this union. When I said,
“This is my body which is broken for you,” I was not referring
to the physical body of the person of Jesus. I was referring to the
spiritual body of the universal Christ consciousness. Obviously, this
also applies to the blood which is simply a symbol of the energy of
the universal Christ consciousness.
I started the ritual of Holy Communion as a tool whereby people could
remember not simply the outer person of Jesus, but the universal Christ
consciousness. As I have explained in the Teachings section, the very
basis for spiritual growth is individual Christhood. To attain this
Christhood, a person must receive a portion of the universal Christ
consciousness. It is the universal Christ consciousness which is broken
for you, meaning each human being. Only by accepting this individualization
of the universal Christ consciousness, in the form of your personal
Christ Self, can you rise above the carnal mind.
When you receive a portion of the universal Christ consciousness, the
energies of that consciousness will, if you allow them to do so, act
as the leaven which will raise the vibration of your entire consciousness.
Therefore, Holy Communion can be seen as a symbol for the transfer of
the Christ consciousness to each human being. The ritual of Holy Communion
can also release a certain amount of light or spiritual energy from
the universal Christ mind. Each time you receive such a portion of light,
it will help raise the vibration of your consciousness and thereby help
you take one step closer to personal Christhood.
It is important to understand that the transfer of light through Holy
Communion is not guaranteed. It depends on the inner attunement, the
level of consciousness or the level of Christhood of both the person
serving Holy Communion and the person receiving Holy Communion. It is
incorrect to believe that because a priest goes through a certain ritual
to bless communion that communion will automatically be charged with
the light of the Christ consciousness. The transfer of light does not
happen through the outer ritual. It can only happen through the consciousness
or heart flame of the person performing the ritual. Thousands of priests
bless communion without opening up for a transfer of light. Therefore,
the communion is not holy.
However, even if the actual bread and wine is not charged by light,
a person receiving communion with an open heart can still receive a
transfer of light. If you receive Holy Communion and make a sincere
effort to attune your mind and heart to me, you can receive a transfer
of light, even if the person serving the Holy Communion was not able
to be an instrument for such a transfer.
Therefore, the more sincerely you approach the ritual of receiving Holy
Communion, the greater the light that can be transferred through this
ritual. Obviously, if you have a priest who has great inner attunement
and is able to transfer light through the blessing of Holy Communion,
then a person receiving that communion can receive a double transfer
of light. Therefore, it is the inner attunement of both the person giving
communion and the person receiving communion that determines the significance
of the ritual.
Obviously, I created the ritual of communion by serving both bread and
wine. However, I am not attached to whether people serve bread and wine
or serve bread alone. The transfer of light is not guaranteed by the
outer ritual but by the inner attunement of those participating in the
ritual. Therefore, the transfer of light can occur no matter what people
serve. Let a particular organization serve what people prefer to serve.
However, I would like to see those who make such decisions receive those
decisions through their Christ Self instead of making such decisions
with the outer consciousness.
I cannot tell you why some New Age groups serve communion and why some
do not. This depends on decisions made by the leaders of those groups.
Once again, I would like to see such decisions be based on direct communion
with people’s Christ Self.
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