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from Jesus:
You have understood the essence
of forgiveness, and you have expressed it eloquently. God's love is
unconditional, and therefore God's forgiveness is instantaneous. You
do not have to ask for it, for it rains upon the just and the unjust.
In a sense, you never need to be forgiven by God; you only need to accept
that you are forgiven by God. The problem is that until you forsake
the consciousness that caused you to commit wrong actions, you will
not be able to accept God's forgiveness.
So one might say that the process of saving a soul is a process of helping
that soul to rise above the consciousness that causes it to misqualify
God’s energy. And as it rises above that consciousness, the last
step is that the soul accepts God’s forgiveness for any of its
former actions, so that it can fully accept that it is free from the
past. However, what will it take for a soul to accept that forgiveness?
Many souls do feel that they need to turn to God and ask for forgiveness,
and doing so is perfectly valid.
By asking for God’s forgiveness, the soul admits its wrong actions.
Obviously, this is not done for God’s sake, because the soul can
never hide its actions from God. So the value here is psychological.
By admitting its actions before God, the soul is admitting to itself
that the actions were wrong. And this is the primary step the soul must
take to separate itself from the consciousness that caused it to commit
those actions. Unfortunately, admitting that you have sinned can give
rise to guilt that can block your ability to accept God’s forgiveness.
The problem on Earth is that there are so many serpentine lies that
cause people to believe that it is difficult or impossible for them
to overcome the past. These range from the belief that God is an angry
and judgmental God, over the belief that some sins are unforgivable,
to the belief that in order to be free of your sins, you need to go
through a certain amount of pain and suffering.
Many people believe that
if you have caused pain to another human being, your experience of pain
will somehow make up for it, as if two wrongs could make a right. Throughout
the ages, the psychological mechanism that people feel they have to
pay back their sins through suffering has given rise to a number of
religious teachings and rituals. These were given by the Ascended Host
for the purpose of helping people trick their minds into accepting God's
forgiveness and thereby becoming free of their past.
Unfortunately, people are quick to build on to such teachings and to
create their own doctrines and rituals that are often quite bizarre.
One example is the concept that inflicting bodily pain upon yourself
will somehow make up for your sins. Another is that inflicting emotional
pain upon yourself will make up for your sins. The simple truth is that
both of these actions will misqualify God’s energy, and how can
you make up for the fact that you misqualified energy in the past by
misqualifying more energy in the present? Misqualified energy does not
cancel out misqualified energy—only spiritual energy can cancel
out lower energy.
There is, however, as subtle mechanism which makes the sensitive soul
aware that it has created an imbalance in the universe. Even though
many Christians do not understand the concept of karma, or misqualified
energy, they sense that they have sinned, and their souls feel that
until they have restored the balance of the universe, they are not free
of their sins. I realize that most Christians are not consciously aware
of the concept of karma, but nevertheless this is one of the reasons
why people have trouble forgiving themselves.
Many spiritual seekers have a deep desire to set things right with God
and restore the balance of the universe. Therefore, they intuitively
feel that they have not yet balanced all of their karma, and therefore
they are not free of the past. While this intuitive feeling is a sign
of spiritual maturity, the many wrong beliefs about sin that are floating
around in this world often cause spiritual seekers to feel that until
they have reestablished balance, they should continue to feel guilty
for their mistakes.
As I explained in the beginning, this simply is not necessary. If you
have forsaken the consciousness that caused you to commit a certain
mistake, then you no longer need to feel guilty for having made that
mistake. What purpose could it possibly serve that you go around feeling
guilty for something that is behind you? It will only keep you tied
to that state of consciousness and prevent you for completely letting
go of it.
My point here being that when you truly understand forgiveness, you
realize that balancing your karma is a mechanical process. As long as
you keep making payments, would you feel guilty for owing money to the
bank? Likewise, as long as you keep working on balancing your karma,
there is no reason to feel guilty for having made that karma, at least
not when you have overcome the consciousness that caused you to make
those mistakes.
I understand that some souls feel the need to retain their sense of
guilt until the karma is fully paid back, feeling that it will spur
them on to move faster. Yet it is always my hope that the more mature
souls can see that this really is not necessary. I hope all spiritual
seekers can accept God's forgiveness and their own freedom from all
sense of being a sinner or being unworthy in the eyes of God.
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