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from Jesus:
As explained in The Christ
Is Born in You and in The
Inner Path of Light, the purpose of saying mantras, affirmations
or decrees is to invoke spiritual light and draw it into your personal
energy field or into the energy field of the planet. You can direct
the spiritual light to form a shield of high-frequency energy around
your field to give you spiritual protection. Or you can invoke spiritual
light that will transform negative energy into a higher vibration. Because
you are invoking spiritual light, it is appropriate to say a mantra
more than once.
As explained in the The Secret Coming of Christ, orthodox Christianity
has become trapped in a fear-based approach to religion. This approach
is in direct opposition to the love-based approach that I taught and
demonstrated. One effect of this fear-based approach is that many Christians
tend to label anything which is different from traditional Christian
practices as being of the devil. This happens almost automatically,
and most Christians do not bother to examine a topic properly before
they label it as evil.
If you take a look at Christianity itself, you will see that it has
an old tradition for using the power of the spoken word. You are using
the spoken word to invoke spiritual energy when you give the Our
Father, say the rosary or sing many Christian songs. The same happens
through the Gregorian chants, the reading of Scripture out loud or the
recitation of other Christian prayers and rituals.
The process used by Christians in these ways is essentially the same
as the process used by many other religions in which people use spoken
mantras or affirmations. It is quite unfortunate that orthodox Christians
have labeled the prayers or affirmations used by other religions as
mantras and have labeled all mantras as being of the devil. This is
a fear-based and close-minded approach that has no constructive value
whatsoever.
I am not hereby saying that all mantras are good. There are certainly
some mantras that have a negative effect, and therefore one might label
them as being of the devil. Nevertheless to label all mantras or the
technique of saying mantras as being of the devil is simply incorrect.
One of the main characteristics of personal Christhood is the ability
to discern between what is of God and what is not of God. As you attain
Christhood, you will build this discernment, which starts as intuition.
However, it is a simple fact that you can learn only by doing. You can
build Christ discernment only by exercising your ability to discern
even while it is not yet perfectly clear.
The unfortunate effect of a fear-based approach to religion is that
people are afraid to exercise their intuitive faculties. They have managed
to get themselves into a state of consciousness where they believe that
if they make a mistake, they will go to hell. They easily get into a
state of mind based on a black-and-white perspective, an all-or-nothing
approach to spiritual growth. They believe it is so important to avoid
making a mistake that it is better not to try at all. Yet the simple
fact is that if you don't try, you will never develop the ability to
discern what is truth and what is error.
Imagine that you have a child who is so afraid of falling down that
it does not dare to try to walk. No child could ever learn to walk without
experimenting, and in experimenting it will inevitably fall down. If
the child refuses to experiment, it will never learn to walk. Unfortunately,
this is what happens to many Christians who take the fear-based approach
to religion. In their refusal to use their intuitive faculties to discern
what is truth and what is a lie, they prevent themselves from developing
those faculties. Therefore, they begin to believe that they cannot know
truth on their own, so they should allow some church authority to do
their thinking for them. This often aborts these people's spiritual
progress and confines them to a certain level of consciousness. They
will remain at that level of consciousness until they decide to run
the risk of exercising their discernment even while it is not perfect.
If you read the scriptures, you will see that I often chastised my disciples
for having too little faith or too little understanding. However, I
did not reject my disciples because they were not perfect. I continued
to work with them to help them grow, and this is what every true spiritual
teacher will do. No spiritual teacher requires the student to become
perfect instantly. The real requirement is that the student is willing
to try and to keep trying. As long as the student does not stop trying,
and does not stand still, the student is fulfilling the requirements
of being on the spiritual path that leads to God.
If you are not willing to try, not willing to open the mind to new ideas,
you have essentially turned your back upon God and upon me. Many Christians
sit in their churches and feel holier than other people. Yet I tell
you that they are unreachable for me or for any other spiritual teacher.
They have built walls around their minds that prevent their spiritual
growth. I gave my life to bring forth the teaching that could set people
free from bondage. Do you think I am happy with the fact that so many
orthodox Christians have used my teaching to build prison walls around
their minds?
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