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from Jesus:
My beloved heart, there is nothing to forgive, and indeed there is no
reason to ask for forgiveness. If I was bothered by people's questions,
why would I have set up this website? I am a spiritual teacher, and
I will never be bothered by questions that spring from a pure heart
and a sincere desire to know.
I am asking you to consider that there is a reason you fear that you
could bother me with your questions. And that reason is that you have
been brought up to see me as an idol who is so far above and beyond
you that you cannot approach me and relate to me as you relate to a
good friend. One of my desires for this website is to help people overcome
not only the idolatry but also the sense that I am so far above and
beyond them that they cannot relate to me.
Therefore, I am asking whether you are willing to let go of this sense
of idolatry or distance between you and I? If you are willing to let
go, please take a few moments to center in your heart and visualize
that you take your fears, your sense of separation from me and your
idolatry of me and cram them into a small ball. Then visualize that
I am standing in front of you and my sacred Heart is a blazing fire
that consumes all unlike itself. Now decide that you are willing to
give up this ball of imperfect thoughts and feelings, and then toss
the ball into the flame of my heart, where it will be instantly consumed.
Incidentally, you can use this visualization to get rid of all negative
thoughts and feelings. The key is that you must be ready and willing
to let go of them, or the fire of my sacred heart cannot consume them.
Concerning worship, let me say that this question does not have a simple
or single answer. It would be helpful for you to read my discourse on
the levels of spiritual
development. You will see that there are different levels of consciousness
and each level is based on a certain view of God. Therefore, people
at that level of consciousness face a particular challenge in terms
of working out their relationship to God. This has a profound impact
on how people can or should worship. If you look at the levels of development,
you will see that at every level people are working on resolving their
relationship to God. However, if you step back and look at the big picture,
you will see that what is truly happening is that people are moving
away from having their relationship to God dominated by fear and moving
toward having a relationship to God that is based on love.
The lowest level of spiritual development is represented by people whose
relationship to God is entirely based on fear and separation. As you
move higher, you move into stages of consciousness at which people's
relationship to God becomes increasingly the product of love. The importance
here is that while people are trapped at the lower levels of spiritual
awareness, they simply will not be able to worship God in a way that
is based on love. Therefore, they will gravitate toward forms of worship
that are based on fear.
For example, for some wounded souls it can be necessary to spend some
time in a traditional form of worship, even though it is based on fear.
The reason being that such souls have a need for stability in order
to heal their wounds. That is why some orthodox or fundamentalist Christians
cling to their religion with such tenacity. These souls have such a
strong need for outer security that they cannot yet move into a more
love-based form of worship. However, I must also say that there are
many souls who are ready to move on from a fundamentalist religion but
have not yet consciously recognized that they no longer belong in such
a religion. Many such souls are severely limiting their spiritual progress
by holding on to a fear-based form of worship.
When you fear God, you see God as being separated from yourself. Therefore,
you see God as being above and beyond you, like one of the earthly kings
or emperors that you have seen either personally or in history. In reality,
most earthly rulers have been fear-based individuals, and that is why
they attempted to set themselves up with absolute power that allowed
them to rule the population through fear. Many secular rulers have based
their power on military might and the threat that they would kill people
who did not obey them. Many religious rulers have based their power
on the fear of God and the threat that those who did not obey would
burn forever in hell. Sadly, this even applies to the Christian religion,
which claims to represent me on Earth. Yet did I not say to love God
with all your heart mind and soul [Mark 12:30]? And so how can you love
God if you fear God and want everyone else to fear you?
So you see that many, if not most, of the forms of worship known on
this planet are based on fear. They portray God as being some remote
deity which has a need to be praised and worshiped by human beings.
This, of course, is a misunderstanding of God's nature and being, and
this misunderstanding springs from the sense of separation from God.
Because of this sense of separation, you lose contact with the reality
of God and you begin to build a false image of God, an idol which is
based on the relativity of the carnal mind.
As you move out of fear, your relationship to God begins to be anchored
in love. As you begin to love God, you realize that God is a completely
self-sufficient, self-contained being. Therefore, God has no human needs
and God certainly has no need to be praised or worshiped by human beings.
How could an all-powerful God, who created an immensely vast universe,
possibly have the need to be worshiped by human beings living on a planet
that is like a speck of dust in infinity? I am not saying this to in
any way degrade human beings. I am saying it to give a certain sense
of co-measurement that God has absolutely no need to be worshiped. God
is all, and therefore God is complete in and of itself.
However, God has a desire to experience his creation through human beings
and God has a desire to create certain parts of creation through you—by
you becoming the co-creator with God that you were created to be. However,
for this to happen you need to move out of the fear-based sense of separation
from God and into a love-based sense of being a worthy son or daughter
of God.
If you read between the lines in the New Testament, you will see that
I did indeed come to bring a love-based approach to religion as a replacement
for the fear-based approach of the Jews. This is explained in the book
The Secret Coming of Christ. If you were to take a look a church
history, you would see that orthodox Christianity has indeed obscured
and perverted this love-based approach and turned Christianity into
a fear-based religion.
So the real issue here is whether your worship of God brings you closer
to union with God or cements you in the sense of separation from God?
One might say you do not worship God for God's sake; you worship God
for your own sake. You are not worshiping God because God has a need
to be worshiped; your are worshiping because by doing so correctly you
overcome all sense of separation from God and come closer to God. However
for this to happen your worship must be love-based instead of fear-based.
If you follow this line of reasoning, you will see that the outer form
of worship is not nearly as important as the effect it has on the person.
In other words, if a particular form of worship opens your heart and
brings you closer to God, or to an Ascended being such as myself, then
that form of worship has a positive effect on you. On the other hand,
another person might engage in the same form of worship and it will
either be a rote repetition or it will cement the person in the idolatrous
sense of being separated from God and being afraid of God.
What I am saying here is that I am not overly concerned about the outer
form of worship. The real question is, “Does it open your heart
to God or close your heart to God?” There are indeed some Christians
who go to church every Sunday and engage in various forms of worship
that truly spring from a fear-based approach to religion. Yet these
people engage in it with such pure devotion that it opens their hearts
to the love of God or to my love. If people worship with an open heart
that allows God’s love or my love to flow through them, then that
is an appropriate form of worship. Yet if people come to church with
fear or resentment toward God or toward me and say the exact same words,
then that form of worship will do nothing for them. Therefore, it would
be better for them either to refrain from all worship or to find another
form of worship.
That being said, I truly would prefer that all people would leave behind
the many forms of worship that spring from a fear-based approach to
religion and engage in forms of worship that are based on love and have
been designed from the beginning to bring them closer to God by opening
their hearts to God.
As just one example, the phrases “Praise God” or “Praise
Jesus” represent a fear-based form of worship. Neither God nor
I have any need to be praised. A much more appropriate form of worship
would be to say “Thank you God” or “Thank you Jesus”
and thereby pour out your heart’s gratitude for the opportunity
for growth that life truly is. You could also say “Love be to
God” or “Love be to Jesus” and then envision that
you send us love. Even better would be to say “I accept God”
or “I welcome Jesus into my being.” In fact, I would much
prefer that people said “Welcome Jesus” or “Jesus,
I accept you into my being” or “Jesus, I accept your unconditional
love for me and I accept that I am worthy of your love.” There
is an almost infinite number of such statements that could be made,
statements that would affirm love and union with God or with me.
I do not want to put limitations on how people should worship, and I
have no desire to give a formal set of statements for worship because
it is so easy for people to turn them into an exclusivist doctrine.
Therefore, I would like to leave it up to people to find or define the
kind of statements that help them open their hearts to God. People should
also be open to the fact that as they grow on the path, they will find
new ways to express their love for God.
Let me also say that if you will read the New Testament honestly, you
will see that I often chastised those who made a spectacle out of their
worship, those who prayed in public and wanted others to admire them
for being so devoted to God. What really matters is that your form of
worship opens your heart to God, and how can you open your heart to
God if you are concerned about how you are perceived by your fellow
men? You open your heart to God by directing your attention inward and
putting your attention on God instead of the things of this world. So
truly, the best form of worship is a private form of worship that gives
you a sense of being connected to God or connected to me.
I would therefore recommend the Christhood affirmations given in the
book The Christ Is Born in You or the exercise for inner
attunement. Also, the decrees given on this website and most especially
the rosaries by my beloved mother are truly efficient forms of worship
in terms of opening your heart to God.
You ask if it is appropriate to worship me or other Ascended beings.
In reality, we have no need to be worshiped, and it is not appropriate
to worship us the same way you worship God. This is truly the reason
for my statement, “And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me
good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God.” [Mark 10:18].
Many Christians, by worshiping me from a fear-based state of consciousness
and with a sense of separation from me and from God, are actually engaging
in idol worship. However, as I said earlier, some people can say “Praise
Jesus” with such an open and pure heart that it is not idolatry.
So the essence here is that the true purpose of worship is to establish
a connection between you and God or an Ascended being. There is no competition
in heaven, and therefore it is fully appropriate to seek to establish
a connection between yourself and any Ascended being who is close to
your heart. For example, many people have been so disappointed or wounded
by orthodox Christianity that they will find it easier to open their
hearts to another Ascended being than myself. This is perfectly acceptable
to me, and people should not feel any kind of misguided loyalty or sense
of obligation toward me.
Many people have, in
past lives, established a very strong heart tie to a particular Ascended
being other than myself. For example, many Catholics have a strong heart
tie to Mother Mary. Likewise, many people embodied in today's age have
a strong tie to Saint Germain, and they embodied at this time precisely
to help bring in his Golden Age of Aquarius. There are also other Ascended
beings who have sent their best students into embodiment at this time
to help facilitate the crucial changes that are meant to occur in this
age.
So once again, the outer form of worship is insignificant compared to
the inner result of opening your heart and establishing a true connection
between yourself and the object of worship. The ultimate form of worship
is union with, oneness with, the object of worship. This can be seen
when you understand that the original sin is a sense of separation from
God.
The only way to be completely free of sin is to overcome the sense a
separation from God. And the only way to overcome the sense of separation
is to remove the distance between yourself and God. Because God is all
and in all, there never was any real separation or distance between
you and God. There was only an illusion of separation, and that illusion
exists only in your mind. Remember my statement, “Ye are Gods.”
The ultimate way to worship God in this world is to BE God in this world.
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