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from Jesus:
Thank you for raising this
very important question. I do indeed have some thoughts for you to ponder.
Let me begin by giving a common definition of the word occult, as found
in the dictionary:
- Related to or dealing
with supernatural influences or phenomena.
- Beyond the realm of human
perception or comprehension.
- Accessible only to initiates.
- Hidden from normal view,
concealed, secret.
If you read the New Testament
with this definition in mind, you will see that every aspect of my teachings,
as recorded in the scriptures, deals with the supernatural. Much of
what I say is beyond the realm of human comprehension and cannot be
understood through the relativity of the carnal mind, which is the normal
state of consciousness for most people. You will also see that I gave
my disciples certain advanced teachings that I did not reveal to the
multitudes [Mark 4:34].
Therefore, one could very well say that everything that is recorded
about me in the official scriptures can be used to label me as an occult
teacher. This is indeed what the orthodox Jews did to me when they brought
me to trial and crucified me. Surely, they used different words, but
the essence of their argument was that I went beyond their orthodox
doctrines, and therefore I was not of the truth, not of the light, not
of God. Consequently, they accused me of being of the devil.
I can assure you that if the terminology had been around back then,
the orthodox Jews would have labeled me, Jesus Christ, as a very dangerous
New Age Cult leader. They would have found ample ammunition for this
accusation in the statements I made. I told people to leave their jobs
and their families and to put me before everything else. I told people
to be willing to lose their lives for my sake. Can you see how the modern
anti-cult movement would have had a field day with these statements?
Can you see how they would have denounced me and put a label on me as
being of the devil?
Can you also see that even those in orthodox Christianity, who claim
to be my representatives on Earth, have used a fear-based mindset to
create the idea that anything which goes beyond orthodox Christian doctrines
is occult and that anything occult is of the devil? It is erroneous
to say that anything occult is of the devil. Occult simply means something
beyond normal human comprehension, and this also applies to God. Would
you label God as being of the devil?
In reality, Christianity has been turned into the same kind of fear-based
religion as the orthodox Jewish religion that crucified me. This fear-based
approach has been taken to the point that if I appeared in a physical
body today and preached my true inner teachings, I would be persecuted
by orthodox Christians. They would label me as being of the devil or
call me a cult leader. Indeed, this is how some of them label the teachings
I bring forth on this website.
As explained in the book The Secret Coming of Christ, those
to take a fear-based approach to religion will reject anything that
goes beyond their orthodox doctrines. They do this by creating an artificial
label and saying that anything which goes beyond doctrine fits that
label, and therefore it is of the devil.
This, of course, is a very immature approach to religion, and it springs
from fear. It also springs from a refusal to take up the responsibility
of becoming a Christed being and building your attunement with your
Christ self, so that you can discern what is of God and what is not
of God. It is a sad fact that many of the leaders in orthodox Christianity
think that they represent me on Earth, think that they are following
in my footsteps, yet they are refusing to put on the Christ mind and
discern between the true inner teachings of Jesus Christ and the outer
doctrines that are like whitened sepulchers filled with dead men's bones.
When you do put on the mind of Christ, you can easily discern between
what is of the light and what is of the darkness. This then allows you
to see through the superficial, man-made doctrines. You can also see
the fundamental difference between the true inner teachings on personal
Christhood and the left-handed path preached by Alistair Crowley and
other satanists.
It is necessary for a sincere spiritual seeker to recognize that the
devil has a clear purpose. He is trying to fool those who are my best
servants on Earth. He is not concerned about those who are completely
enveloped in the carnal mind, because they are already in his power.
The devil’s main concern is to fool those who have already found
some truth but have not yet manifested the Christ discernment that makes
it possible for them to see through the subtle lies of the devil.
These are precisely the kind of people that you are meeting in orthodox
Christianity. They have seen the truth in my teachings, and they have
the potential to rise to a higher level. Yet because they are not willing
to confront their fears, they remain paralyzed by those fears. This,
of course, is what the devil hopes will happen. You see, contrary to
what many people believe, the devil knows he can win two ways. His main
goal is to prevent the appearance of a large number of Christed beings
on this planet, because he knows from my example that he cannot control
a Christed being.
One way to do this is to seek to use people’s fears to make them
loyal to a traditional Christian church, which states that I am the
only Son of God, and therefore no one else could possibly manifest Christhood.
As long as the devil can scare people into accepting this lie, he has
them where he wants them.
However, the devil knows that in this age many people are ready to break
free of the fear-based approach to religion and begin to see the truth
about personal Christhood. Therefore, the dark forces have created a
number of false philosophies and false movements that are designed to
lead such people astray. You must understand that once you begin to
see the truth about personal Christhood, you can no longer be fooled
by a philosophy that is based entirely on error. The devil knows this,
and therefore he creates philosophies that contain a lot of truth but
a little bit of error to lead people astray. This is precisely what
has happened in the teachings given by Alistair Crowley and other followers
of satanism. By the way, Crowley did not found satanism because it goes
back thousands of years on this planet.
What the dark forces will do is to mimic the path of Christhood but
then give it a little twist that ultimately takes you in the wrong direction.
Let me explain this in more detail.
The essence of Christhood is that you can discern between what is of
God and what is not of God. In other words, as you gradually put on
your Christhood, you begin to see through the many philosophies in this
world, some of which were deliberately engineered by the devil and some
of which simply spring from the ignorance and fear of the human mind.
In the end, a Christed being will accept no man-made doctrine or dogma
as a replacement for the Living Truth of God. You will see this demonstrated
in my life by the fact that I constantly challenged the doctrines of
the scribes and the Pharisees and violated their outer laws, such as
healing a man on the sabbath.
When you look at this from a certain perspective, you might say that
I acted as if I was above the law, and I refused to follow any of the
laws in this world. The difference here is that a Christed being is
only above the laws of man and not above the laws of God.
What the satanists will do, as one of their many plots, is to create
a philosophy which mimics the fact that a Christed being will not allow
himself to be limited by any of the doctrines or laws of man. However,
the satanists will not present this in the true light that the Christed
being is not rebelling against the laws of man. He is simply being true
to the laws of God, and if the laws of man are out of alignment with
the laws of God, then the Christed being follows the latter. If the
laws of man are in alignment with the laws of God, he follows those
laws.
The satanists have created a philosophy which states that it is acceptable,
even necessary, to rebel against any restriction of your freedom. In
other words, in order to achieve true freedom, you can and must rebel
against both the laws of man and the laws of God. This philosophy goes
all the way back to Lucifer, who was the original rebel against God
and the laws of God. Ever since then, those who followed Lucifer have
attempted to create a philosophy, a world view, a religion which justifies
the act of rebelling against God. It uses a number of subtle ploys to
make it seem like this was not only necessary but actually beneficial
and sanctioned by God. I talk about this in further detail in my discourse
on absolute evil.
What you are running up against is the fact that there is a true path
to Christhood, and it is this path I describe on this website and which
we of the Ascended Host have described through many other organizations
and spiritual teachings over the centuries. To counteract this true
path and prevent people from walking that path, the adversaries have
created a false path, the left-handed path, the way that seems right
unto a man but which ultimately leads to the death of the soul. This
false path has a number of similarities with the true path, or it would
not fool anyone. In fact, the differences between the true path and
the false path are so subtle that a number of people have been fooled
and have been ensnared by the satanists and their subtle, serpentine
logic.
Do you see my point that the devil can win in two ways? One is to fool
you into following the left-handed path. The other is to make you so
afraid of the devil that you don't dare to open your mind to anything
new. If you are so afraid of the occult that you don't dare to look
at anything beyond orthodox doctrine, then you have allowed the devil
to control you through fear. If my disciples had taken the same fear-based
approach as that taken by many modern Christians, how could Christianity
ever have been born? The orthodox Jews would have killed it when they
killed me!
It is a sad fact that many Christians refuse to exercise their power
of discernment, and they will not look at anything beyond orthodox doctrines.
For some of these people, this might be wise. If they are not yet ready
to take responsibility for their spiritual path and make an all-out
effort to increase their attunement with their Christ selves, they would
not be able to see through the subtle lies of the devil. And therefore
it might be safer for them to stay in a traditional religion for a time.
If you look at my discourse on the levels of spiritual
attainment, you will see that some souls are so confused or wounded
that they need the outer stability of a traditional belief system in
order to be healed. Yet there are many souls in this age who need to
come up higher in order to make further progress. They need to move
into the phase of being spiritual seekers who are open to ideas that
go beyond orthodox doctrines.
If they do not take this step, they will stagnate, and therefore they
will essentially become the prisoners of the devil, whom they are seeking
to avoid by taking refuge in a Christian church. In other words, there
comes a point where a soul can no longer make progress by staying in
a fear-based religion. To make further progress, the soul must run the
risk of opening its mind to new ideas. Obviously, this leads to the
risk that the soul might open its mind to false ideas. Yet it is a basic
fact of life that if you are afraid of falling down, you will never
learn to walk. In a very important
discourse, I explain that any religion can become a trap that prevents
your salvation.
Obviously, I am well aware that many souls are facing the dilemma that
you see outpictured in your Christian friends. They need to move forward
and open their minds to a higher understanding of the spiritual side
of life, yet they cannot quite let go of the fear-based approach to
religion. That is why they cling to orthodox Christianity, which seems
to offer them a safe haven. This is precisely why I have asked Kim to
create this website and write the books. My purpose is to give these
Christians a way to open their minds to new ideas without being exposed
to false ideas. Obviously, the Ascended Host are also using other methods
for bringing forth a variety of true spiritual teachings in this age.
Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee success in the material
universe. My dilemma is simple. In order to help people come up higher,
I must give them teachings that go beyond orthodox doctrines. Yet the
very fact that the website and the books contain ideas that go beyond
orthodox doctrines makes it predictable that some Christians will label
these teachings as occult or even of the devil. Even I cannot solve
that problem. I can only bow in respect to people's free will and wait
for them to make a better decision.
If you feel an inner prompting to attempt to help these people open
their minds to a higher understanding, including giving them the teaching
I have just given you, then I certainly will appreciate your help in
this matter. Just make sure that you are non-attached to the outcome,
as I explain in the last part of The Christ Is Born in You.
Present people with the truth to the best of your ability, and then
set them free to make their own choices. As a representative of Christ,
you should never attempt to influence people’s choices. That is
what the devil has been doing since his rebellion against God, and it
has never been the way of the Christ.
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