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from Jesus:
Your purpose in life has
two aspects, an individual, personal purpose and a general, overall
purpose that you share with most other people.
Your individual purpose in life is specific to you alone, and its particular
form and expression is unique to you in this present lifetime. Although
I could sit down with a person and give that person his or her personal
purpose in life, I would not do so. You see, the fulfillment of your
personal purpose in life will require all of your attention and commitment,
and that commitment must come from inside yourself.
Therefore, if I, as a spiritual teacher, told you about your personal
purpose in life, you would have received it from a source outside yourself.
This could never give you the internalization and commitment that you
would get from receiving it from a source inside yourself, namely your
Christ self. Therefore, it is essential for you to establish a contact
with your Christ self and through that contact receive your own intuitive
insights concerning your personal purpose in life. However, to discover
your personal purpose, it is very helpful to understand the general
purposes that apply to most people on this planet.
One way to describe the purpose of life is to start with the new golden
rule that I released on this website, “Be here below, all that
you are Above.”
When your soul, your lifestream, was created by God, or rather by your
spiritual parents, it was endowed with a unique individuality, a unique
spiritual flame. This individuality is who you truly are, and no matter
what has happened to you here on Earth, your spiritual individuality
has not in the least been damaged or altered. It is fully intact, because
it is stored in your spiritual self, which is above and beyond the material
universe and therefore can never be influenced by any of the energies
of the material universe.
Therefore, one might say that your purpose in life is to express your
true God-given individuality in this material world. When you do that,
you act as a co-creator with God, and you bring a unique gift to this
world. At the same time, you will also expand and build upon your true
spiritual individuality and enhance it even beyond what was given to
you by God. You will, so to speak, multiply your talents so that God
can multiply them even more.
The problem that we currently see on planet Earth is that most people
have descended into a lower state of consciousness in which they have
no clear recognition of their true spiritual individuality. Consequently,
they cannot express that individuality. For most people, the true individuality
has been covered over by layer upon layer of the outer, or human personality,
that they have created over many lifetimes. This lower mind, this carnal
mind, has for many people completely obscured their spiritual identity.
It has made them identify themselves as mortal human beings who are
very different from the uniquely beautiful spiritual beings they were
created to be.
Therefore, on an immediate level, your purpose in life is to uncover
your true individuality and to leave behind the outer individuality.
This is what Paul expressed in the saying that you must put off the
old man (of the human self) and put on the new man (of the spiritual
self).
Because your spiritual individuality is anchored in a higher realm,
you cannot contact that spiritual self directly with your conscious
mind. You can do this only through the mediator of your Christ self.
Therefore, your immediate purpose in life is to make direct, conscious
contact with your Christ self. This will begin in the form of increased
intuition, and there is much you can do to sharpen your intuition. I
have given several techniques
and teachings
on this website that can help you increase this contact with your Christ
self.
So the overall purpose for your life is to be who you truly are as a
spiritual being, even while you are still in embodiment in this material
universe. However, because you have been in embodiment before, you also
have a purpose that is specific to this particular lifetime. You can
find much inspiration about this by reading books about near-death experiences
or people who have experienced how their souls were conscious before
they came into their current embodiment.
It is important for you to understand that before you came into this
lifetime, your soul had a conference with your personal spiritual teachers.
You determined a divine plan, a mission or blueprint, for what your
soul desired to accomplish in this lifetime. Part of this mission is
to increase your spiritual understanding and attain contact with your
Christ self. Therefore, by using techniques for increasing your connection
to your Christ self and by studying spiritual teachings, you not only
fulfill part of your mission, you will also discover other parts of
your mission.
Most people in embodiment have made karma in past lives, so an important
purpose for this lifetime is to balance this karma. This often means
that the soul has volunteered to be born into a particular situation
and to meet specific people. So no matter what your outer situation
might be, it is important for you to make peace with that situation
and to realize that your soul chose to come into embodiment in these
conditions. When you accept this, you can stop trying to get away from
the unpleasant aspects of your current situation and instead embrace
your situation as an opportunity to move on and to grow spiritually.
So one might say that no matter what your outer situation is, an important
purpose for your life is to see the situation as an opportunity to balance
karma, to learn specific lessons about the spiritual side of life, to
experience certain aspects of life on Earth and to bring forth your
unique gift to the world or to specific people.
When you accept life as an opportunity for growth, your attitude towards
life will be magically transformed. As you go through this inner transformation,
you will often see that your outer situation will also be transformed.
The simple fact is that life on Earth is like going to school. The purpose
for planet Earth is to help your soul achieve its permanent freedom
as a spiritual being. To achieve this freedom, you must learn certain
lessons and they cannot be learned by the intellect alone.
Your lessons must be fully internalized, and that is why you often need
to experience a difficult situation so that through direct experience
you can learn the lesson you were meant to learn in that situation and
fully integrate it into your being. When you understand this, you realize
that once you have fully learned a specific lesson, there is no longer
any reason for you to be in a particular outer situation. Therefore,
when you embrace life as an opportunity and seek to learn your lessons
and fully integrate them into your being, you will see that difficult
situations will begin to dissolve as if by magic. Obviously, this is
not magic at all. It is simply because you have now learned the lesson,
and you need to move on to learn higher lessons in different situations.
Another purpose for life is that you can win your right to ascend from
the material universe, so that you do not have to reincarnate. As long
as you have unfulfilled business in this world, meaning that you have
karma to balance, lessons to learn or experiences that you need to gain
for your soul growth, then you are not free to permanently ascend to
the spiritual realm. You will be drawn back here either by the Law of
Cause and Effect or by your soul’s desire to finish its unfinished
business.
An important aspect of my mission on earth was to demonstrate that it
is possible for souls to eventually graduate from the schoolroom of
Earth and win their permanent ascension. Thereby a soul becomes an ascended
being, an Ascended Master and a member of the Ascended Host.
So one might say that one purpose in life is the ascension, whereby
you no longer have to come back here. However, in today's age a more
important purpose is to win your ascension, to qualify for your ascension.
but to do so while you are still in the physical body. Thereby, you
attain your Christ consciousness while you are still here on Earth.
In other words, you can be an Ascended Master walking the Earth and
thereby you can give a unique service to humankind and to God's purposes.
You can literally be an Ascended Master here below as I, and all my
colleagues in the Ascended Host, are Ascended Masters here Above. This
will give us a unique opportunity to work together and bring God's kingdom
to Earth, which is truly what needs to happen in this day and age.
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