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from Jesus:
Certainly, no question is
taboo, although some people would prefer that I didn’t address
certain topics. This unwillingness to consider a topic is usually due
to the fact that the person is not willing to revise his or her opinion
about the topic. In my discourse on the spiritual
cause of homosexuality, I give the following teaching:
God has a dual nature,
namely the masculine and feminine, the yang and the yin elements.
Everything in the entire universe is created through a harmonious
interaction, a harmonious union, of the masculine and feminine polarities
of God. When the two come together in a harmonious union, new life
is created.
Everything in this universe is an expression of these two aspects
of God. This filters all the way down to the material universe, and
that is why a human soul has a masculine and feminine aspect and why
human bodies are masculine or feminine.
You will notice that when a masculine and feminine body come together
in sexual union, new life can be created. However, if two bodies of
the same sex attempt sexual union, they cannot create new life. What
you see in the material universe is simply an outpicturing of a spiritual
principle.
This ties in with the fact that all of your actions will qualify the
energies of God. When a man and a woman come together in sexual union,
it is possible that this union will qualify the energies of God in
a pure, one might say Holy, manner. Therefore, the energies generated
by the sexual union can ascend back to the spiritual realm. When this
occurs, both sexual partners will have a deep experience of union,
not only with each other but with something beyond their souls. They
can indeed experience a spiritual union with their higher selves.
However, I must caution that there is no guarantee that heterosexual
sex will always produce a sense of union or qualify the energies in
a pure manner. On the contrary, the vast majority of sexual intercourse
falls below the critical mark and misqualifies the energies of God.
This will inevitably occur if people engage in sex purely for the
gratification of the body or the physical senses. If there is not
a true and pure love and a pure desire for spiritual union, sexual
intercourse is likely to misqualify energy.
When you have an interaction between two bodies of the same sex, you
do not have a masculine and feminine polarity. Therefore, there is
no possibility that the interaction can produce a true union between
male and female aspects.
I think it should be obvious
that these statements also apply to the topic of masturbation. When
there is no masculine/feminine polarity, there is no possibility that
the energies released can be qualified with a higher vibration. In other
words, masturbation will always misqualify energy.
Add to this the statement, “However, I must caution that there
is no guarantee that heterosexual sex will always produce a sense of
union or qualify the energies in a pure manner.” The deciding
factor here is whether the partners seek to give or to get? Do they
seek the gratification of the physical body and the carnal mind, or
do they seek the gratification of the soul? Do they seek gratification
of the lower self or the larger self?
A soul can have a legitimate desire for sexual union. However, this
desire is not focused on the physical body and it is not fueled by the
carnal mind. It is truly a desire for union with something outside itself,
and in order to experience that union, the soul must look beyond itself.
My point being that although the soul can have a desire for union with
a person of the opposite sex, that desire will not be expressed as a
desire for masturbation. Therefore, masturbation is always fueled by
the physical body and the carnal mind. It is always a self-centered
desire that seeks self-gratification without the giving of self. One
might say that the soul has no desire for masturbation, meaning that
when a person feels such a desire, it is because the soul has retreated
and the person’s conscious mind has given in to the desires of
the physical and the emotional bodies.
There are many people in the world who live almost their entire lives
on a quest to satisfy these lower desires. Yet for a person on the spiritual
path, it is important to rise above these lower desires. You must silence
the loud voices of worldly and carnal desires so you can hear the quiet
voice of the true desires of your soul.
Let me make it clear that masturbation is not necessary to the soul’s
growth, and it is not healthy for the soul’s growth. The problem
here being that when you give in to the carnal desires, you place yourself
on a slide, and the gravitational force of the mass consciousness will
constantly pull on you to go further down that slide. Many people slide
further and further down the slide during a lifetime, but as a spiritual
seeker, you cannot afford to do that. The essence of spiritual growth
is that you go the other way, that you overcome the gravitational force
of the mass consciousness. That consciousness is very strong when it
comes to sex, and people will do almost anything to justify the desire
for sex.
The idea that masturbation is “healthy and relieves stress”
is a perfect example of the “justification” that springs
from the mass consciousness. The reasoning is that since God created
us with sexual organs, it is only natural that we express our sexuality,
and if we don’t have a partner, masturbation is a natural way
to relieve the stress. The lie here is that there is no end to carnal
desires; they are like a black hole that can never be filled. So you
can literally spend your entire life trying to satisfy carnal desires
without ever getting there. It is an impossible quest that ends up swallowing
up your life.
In reality, masturbation might relieve stress on a temporary basis,
but in the long run it only reinforces the carnal desire that created
the stress in the first place. In other words, when you give in to carnal
desires, you create a self-reinforcing spiral that takes you down as
far as you allow it to take you. If relieving stress only leads to more
stress, where is the relief? In reality, this leads to addiction rather
than freedom.
I am aware that most young
people come to a point where they start exploring their bodies, and
they end up masturbating. This is not necessarily a serious concern
of mine, but the problem is that once you start going down the slide,
masturbation quickly develops into an addiction. Your body now starts
telling you that it cannot survive without sex, and it makes your life
miserable if it doesn’t get it.
The biological fact is that if you don’t eat, drink or sleep,
your body will die. Yet you can live an entire lifetime without having
sex. My point being that sex is not a survival need; you can indeed
live without it. I am not hereby saying you have to live without it.
I am only saying that as a spiritual seeker, you need to be clear that
you cannot allow the sexual desires that spring from the carnal mind
to run your life. You need to master the body and the carnal mind instead
of letting them run your life.
This starts with a firm decision, and you have already made many decisions
that can help you. For example, I am confident that for the people open
to this website, rape is not an acceptable way to relieve the stress
of sexual desire. So you have already made the firm decision that certain
types of behavior are not acceptable ways to fulfill sexual desires.
You simply need to add masturbation to the list. I have no problem with
people living in a committed relationship, where the two partners fulfill
each others sexual desires in a balanced and loving manner. Therefore,
I encourage people to decide that this is the only acceptable way to
fulfill your sexual desires.
The consequence of this is that if you are not currently in a committed
relationship, then you simply cannot fulfill your sexual desires. Therefore,
you need to find other ways to deal with those desires, which I will
comment on shortly. My point here is that once you have made a firm
decision, you are more than half way to the goal. The reason most people
are continually bothered by sexual temptation is that they have not
made a firm decision concerning how to fulfill sexual desires. Therefore,
it is so easy for their own carnal minds and for dark forces to tempt
these people. And once you open yourself up to temptation, the pressure
keeps building until you can no longer stand it. Something breaks, and
it is usually your will. You need to avoid getting near that point of
no return.
This leads us to one of the above questions, “If masturbation
isn't beneficial to the soul, then how do you get rid of the stress?”
The best way to deal with stress is to prevent it from building critical
mass—meaning that you can no longer control it. As I explain throughout
this website, you are alive because you receive a stream of spiritual
energy from your I AM Presence. This energy, this life-force, enters
your energy field at the bottom of the spine. It enters through an energy
center that is normally called the base chakra.
The natural flow of energy is that the life-force rises through all
of the seven main chakras, but the energy can be diverted into any of
the chakras. For example, when people have a self-centered, body-centered
sexual desire, some of the life-force will be diverted into the base
chakra. A self-centered desire always causes the chakra to spin the
wrong way, which will cause the energy to be qualified with a lower
vibration, leading to a buildup of energy in the chakra. This is what
feels stimulating to the sexual organs, but as the energy builds, the
stimulus turns into stress that can become very uncomfortable.
As the energy builds, the chakra is discolored, and that is why you
see many spiritual and New Age teachings that show the base chakra as
orange or dark red. When the base chakra is spinning the right way and
is pure, it radiates white light.
As a spiritual seeker, you need to learn how to feel when energy is
building up in your chakras, and this is very easy to learn about the
base chakra because it has physical symptoms. The first step toward
taking control over your energy field is to avoid anything that leads
to sexual stimulus. In other words, if you are a spiritual seeker, you
don’t indulge in pornographic images or movies, and you avoid
sexually explicit conversations. I admit that in today’s Western
society, you are constantly bombarded with sexually explicit material
through the media and advertising, yet you can learn to simply let it
pass you by without affecting you. You simply refuse to give it direct
attention because it is your attention that magnifies sexual desire.
My point is that if you want to avoid being burned, you don’t
deliberately pour gasoline on a fire.
You can also achieve a lot by invoking spiritual protection, and as
always Archangel Michael’s Rosary is my first recommendation.
Call for the protection of your desire body and base chakra. There are
numerous dark forces who seek to inflate your sexual desires in order
to trick you into misqualifying energy. These forces are directly behind
the entire sex industry, including movies and advertising. So you need
to be diligent in defending your forcefield from their attacks. Obviously,
you can also use Mother Mary’s rosaries to transform any misqualified
energy that has already built up in your base chakra and desire body.
You might even review my teachings on how to combat
an addiction, because for many people sexual desires have become
a lifelong addiction.
The next step is that you learn not only to sense how energy flows through
your chakras, but you learn how to control the flow of energy. This
is an essential ability for any serious spiritual seeker, and again
sexual energies are the perfect way to practice. You need to learn how
to consciously prevent your life-force from flowing into the base chakra
and the sexual organs. And you need to learn how to reverse the flow
once it has already started flowing in the wrong direction.
For an intuitive person, this is not nearly as difficult as it might
seem. Yet most people will be greatly assisted by using a technique,
and I have given one elsewhere. However,
you can also use various forms of Yoga and Tai Chi exercises for this
purpose.
Let me end by stressing the importance of making a clear decision. Most
people were brought up with a confused and contradictory view of their
sexuality. If you can resolve some of this confusion – and I have
given a number of teachings in this section that can help you –
you can end up making a firm decision about how to express your sexuality.
Once you have connected to your soul's desire concerning sexuality,
you have the best possible foundation for taking control over the sexual
desires that spring from the physical body and the emotional body.
As always, I encourage you to adopt a positive attitude. For many spiritual
people, sexuality has been the source of shame, confusion and other
negative feelings, and this often hinders their spiritual growth. Instead,
use sexuality to enhance your spiritual growth by learning how to take
command over the energy flow through your chakras. When you have mastered
these energies, you should be able to appreciate the beauty of the human
body without feeling sexual desire. In other words, sexuality no longer
runs your life; your spiritual quest does. You have decided that spiritual
progress is far more important to you than sexual gratification. You
have discovered that you are not a sexual being, but a spiritual being.
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