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from Jesus:
One of the main messages on this website is that human beings have descended
into a state of consciousness in which they look at everything through
the filter of relative opposites. One pair of opposites that give people
a distorted view of reality is the opposites of good and evil.
As explained in many places on this website,
there are dark forces who are seeking to deceive humankind. One of the
primary weapons used by these dark forces is to create two opposing
forces, one which represents relative good and one which represents
relative evil. The dark forces then seek to deceive people into supporting
one of these opposites.
Therefore, people give their lives and their energy to fight for a cause
that was never God's cause to begin with. It was, from the very beginning,
a cause that sprang from the relative opposites of good and evil, and
therefore it had nothing to do with the cause of absolute good pursued
by the Ascended Host.
The problem you see through the ages is that many well-meaning and spiritual
people have allowed themselves to become drawn into this conflict between
relative good and evil. Many of these people are eager to do God’s
work, and they realize that there is a force on this planet that opposes
God's will. They therefore begin to think that it is their high and
Holy calling to fight against evil and that in so doing they are advancing
God’s cause on Earth. The problem here is that these people easily
become tricked into adopting the basic paradigm of evil forces, namely
that the end can justify the means.
These people often become fanatical and develop anger and hatred against
evil. In so doing, they misqualify God’s energy. As I explain
throughout this website, the dark forces can survive only because they
trick people into misqualifying God’s energy and steal that energy.
So even when people think they are fighting for the cause of good, the
misqualification of energy will actually support the cause of evil.
It was my hope that, through the parable of trying to remove darkness
from a room, people would see through this fallacy. It is a simple fact
that human beings are slaves of their attention. Whatever you focus
your attention upon will receive the energies streaming through your
consciousness. I am not thereby saying you should ignore evil. I am
saying that if you focus undue attention on evil, and especially if
you become angry or fearful, you misqualify the energies of God and
thereby strengthen the very forces you think you are fighting. This
ties in to my statement to be wise as serpents but harmless as doves.
This statement indicates that human beings cannot fight evil without
becoming mixed up with evil. Therefore, people cannot remove evil from
the Earth. However, they can authorize the Ascended Host to remove evil.
The key to doing this is to remain non-attached to evil, and this is
the true meaning of turning the other cheek. If someone harms you and
you respond with negative emotions or seek revenge, you become karmically
involved with that person. By making that choice, you make it impossible
for us to step in to the situation. When you remain non-attached and
turn the other cheek, you allow us to bring the judgment upon the other
person. This will eventually remove darkness from the Earth, whereas
no amount of effort based on the carnal mind will remove darkness—it
will only reinforce that darkness.
One of the best ways to become harmless as a dove is to realize that
what people are so quick to label as evil truly springs from ignorance.
Once again, there is a very subtle distinction here. On one hand, you
are quite correct that there are many dark forces, and many human beings,
who knowingly rebel against the laws and the will of God. They know
that they are violating the laws of God and that they are violating
the law of free will by manipulating human beings.
From a certain viewpoint, it would be correct to label these acts as
evil. In fact, I use that terminology in several places on this website.
This use of the word evil is not incorrect, it simply reflects a certain
level of understanding, a certain level of consciousness. It also reflects
that words are inherently relative and therefore can have more than
one meaning.
What I attempted to explain in the book is that there is a higher understanding
of this issue. You see, when Lucifer rebelled against the laws of God,
he obviously saw himself in opposition to God. In other words, he had
created a sense of distance between himself and God. This then is the
ultimate definition of ignorance. Ignorance is a state of consciousness
in which you do not realize that you are created by God and created
out of God’s substance, being and consciousness.
Ignorance causes a sense of separation from God, and this sense of separation
is always an illusion. Without him was not anything made that was made.
Nothing was ever created that was different from God, and therefore
no part of God can be apart from God. The sense of separation is the
ultimate form of ignorance.
When you understand this, you see that ultimately even the rebellion
of Lucifer sprang from ignorance. My hope was to point out that ignorance
is not evil in an ultimate sense. That is why one might say, although
I admit this will be a provocative statement to many people, that no
evil act was ever committed.
When you realize that you are one with God and that everyone else is
one with God, you see that whatever you do, you do to yourself. If you
realize that an act will harm yourself, then you simply will not commit
that act. Therefore, if you truly know the reality that everything is
God, you will never commit any of the acts which human beings call evil.
No being will ever knowingly harm itself. So harming yourself, or another
part of yourself, can only be done out of ignorance. In other words,
it simply isn’t possible to have full knowledge of the reality
of God and commit an evil act.
I realize that my statements in The Christ Is Born in You will
be provocative to many people. I gave those statements for the specific
purpose of stirring people's preconceived opinions about evil. One might
say that I should have given further details in the book, but one of
the techniques that we use is to write a book about a specific topic
but to insert a few remarks here and there that will help the more sensitive
students pick up on an idea that will take them beyond the main topic.
My remark that no evil act was ever committed on Earth was precisely
such a pointer, and the fact that you have picked up on it shows that
you are a sensitive student who is ready for a higher understanding.
As I said earlier, many people have been tricked into fighting for a
cause which they think is God's cause, but which is truly the cause
of those who oppose God. Human beings are very quick to judge others
based on some outer standard. In many cases that outer standard springs
from the relativity of the carnal mind, and therefore it can be far
removed from or in complete opposition to the true standard of the Christ
consciousness. It is only the universal Christ consciousness that judges
righteous judgments. It does not judge based on appearances, as do people
who are trapped in the relativity of the carnal mind.
The Christ does not judge people and label them as bad or evil. The
Christ consciousness realizes that all human beings are sons and daughters
of God, so therefore they all have the potential to regain their true
identity. A Christed person never judges any human being. One will judge
acts and ideas and discern whether they are of God of whether they are
in opposition to God. This is a righteous judgment, as opposed to the
value judgments performed by human beings.
To truly work for the cause of light, you must rise above the relative
judgments that spring from the carnal mind. You do that by becoming
wise as serpents and harmless as doves. A valuable tool for rising above
the relative state of consciousness is precisely the teaching that all
acts, which human beings label as evil, spring from ignorance. In fact,
many of the acts which human beings label as good also spring from ignorance.
Once again, the key to true spiritual progress is to rise above the
relativity of the carnal mind and see the truth of the Christ consciousness.
That truth simply will not fit into any of the mental boxes created
by human beings. In many cases, Christ truth will neither fit into the
mental box labeled evil nor the mental box labeled good. So the only
way to know Christ truth is to think outside the box!
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