| Answer
from Jesus:
You raise a very important
question. I would like to step back from the issue of homosexuality
and look at the big issue of human prejudice. The animosity against
those with sexual differences is simply one effect of the state of consciousness
which causes people to feel prejudice towards those who are different
from themselves.
One of the recurring themes on this website is that after the Fall of
Man most souls on this planet have descended into, and become lost in,
a lower state of consciousness. In this state of consciousness, people
are trapped by relative viewpoints, and they can no longer see the truth
of God. It is the relativity of this carnal mind that causes people
to feel prejudice towards those who are different from themselves.
If you could look into the mind of a prejudiced person, as I easily
can but don't particularly enjoy doing, you would see that behind the
prejudice is always fear. In reality, there are two basic emotions,
namely love and fear. The cause of fear, the essence of fear, is a sense
a separation from God. During the Fall, the soul, in its own mind, separated
itself from God. This inevitably caused fear in the soul because at
subconscious levels the soul realizes that it has now become mortal.
There is immortal life only in complete union with God. When you compromise
that union, by separating yourself out from God, you become mortal and
this automatically gives rise to the fear of death. With that I mean
a fear of the death of the soul and not the death of the physical body
that you are temporarily wearing.
To cope with this fear, the soul begins to create a false image of reality,
an image which makes it seem like the soul can escape its mortality
by living up to certain outer rules. This gives the soul a sense of
security, and as long as the world around the soul seems to follow the
soul's mental image, this fragile sense of security can be maintained.
When another person does something to question or threaten the mental
image of a fearful soul, the soul will inevitably see the other person
as a threat. That is why the soul responds with the hostility that is
typical when people are driven into a corner. Psychologists call this
the fight-or-flight syndrome. People's first response is to try to get
away from or remove the people who threaten their mental image. If that
is not possible, they will begin to respond with an ever-increasing
hostility.
The more adamant, negative and outspoken people are in their condemnation
of those who are different from themselves, the more these people demonstrate
that they are consumed by their fears. These people are trapped in a
very small mental box, and because they refuse to question the basic
assumptions that caused them to create the box, they think they will
die if the box breaks down. In reality you should pity such people.
The only real way to help people overcome their prejudice is to help
them accept and follow the inner path to personal Christhood. The essence
of Christhood is that the soul accepts its oneness with God, and this
removes the fear of death and gives immortal life. However, the problem
is that prejudice causes people to cling to outer doctrines, and this
prevents them from accepting the inner path. Therefore, prejudice will
be one of the last things that the soul overcomes before it truly begins
to manifest Christhood.
The more firmly people are trapped by the carnal mind, the more they
are consumed by their prejudice, and the more difficult it becomes to
help the soul see the futility and the folly of this prejudice. If you
try to reason with such a soul, the soul’s prejudice will almost
inevitably cause it to reject what you are saying.
In many cases, the only thing that can help a soul begin to look beyond
this prejudice is that the soul is exposed to the same type of prejudice
it feels for others. Only by experiencing such a situation, will the
soul finally see how unnecessary and damaging prejudice truly is. Therefore,
I can tell you that many of the souls who are currently extremely prejudiced
against another group of people are likely to embody among those people
in their next lifetime.
In other words, some of the people who are currently the most outspoken
against homosexuals run the risk of becoming or embodying among homosexuals
in a future lifetime. This will not be because these souls choose homosexuality,
but because the only way for the soul to attain balance is to be at
the receiving end of what it has given to others. For example, some
of the souls who had leadership positions in the regime of Nazi Germany
are currently embodied as Jews. This fact should cause prejudiced souls
to make an effort to overcome their prejudice. Unfortunately, most of
the Christians who are prejudiced against homosexuals are also prejudiced
against the idea of reincarnation, so they will instantly reject this
idea.
I would like to explain why prejudice is so damaging. I have mentioned
throughout this website that you are ultimately responsible for what
you do with God’s energy. There is a constant stream of spiritual
energy that flows through your subconscious and conscious minds. You
direct that energy through the power of your attention. When you send
out mental energy towards and other person, that energy can affect the
person in subtle but powerful ways. One
of the most obvious examples is the influence that parents have on their
children. If a parent holds a negative or limited image of a child,
it can set a negative pattern for the child's entire life. That is why
it is so important for parents to hold a positive image of their children
and their children’s capabilities and potential.
When you hold a negative or limited image of another person, you are
sending mental energy towards that person. If the person is not protected,
this energy will enter the person's energy field [for more on energy
fields, click here].
If enough energy enters the field, it can gradually start creating a
vortex or momentum that will begin to affect the person's thoughts and
feelings. Eventually, this vortex can become so powerful that it begins
to overpower a person's thoughts and feelings.
If you hold a negative image of another person, you can eventually create
an energy vortex in the person's energy field which causes the person
to outpicture the image you are holding. In other words, your negative
image becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is especially dangerous
for people you know and who might be more affected by your opinions
than strangers. Many people have unwittingly had a negative impact upon
the people who are closest to them.
When you understand this dynamic, you can see that it is important to
hold a positive image for every person you encounter. You will personally
be held responsible for what you do with God’s Energy, so if you
hold a negative image of another person, you will make personal karma
for doing so. The amount of karma will be proportionate to the amount
of energy that you send at the other person. It is in your own best
interest, and in the interest of the other person, that you overcome
the tendency to hold a negative or limited image of that person.
We now come to a subtle point that will be difficult to understand for
people who are trapped in the relativity of the carnal mind. As an example
of this, let me refer to your statement, "It was the soul’s
choice and therefore not my place to say anything." Please do not
take this as a personal criticism against you. I am simply using your
statement as an example of how people are often polarized towards one
of the relative extremes. One of these extremes is the prejudice that
you describe in your letter. Such people have gone into the extreme
of judging others based on their own relative standard for what they
believe is right and wrong. This causes them to hold a negative image
of other people, and, as I have just described, this inevitably leads
to negative effects for all parties.
It is very common that when people begin to overcome this negative prejudice,
they swing into the opposite extreme of thinking they have to tolerate
anything. In other words, many people today think that they should uncritically
accept homosexuality and never speak out against it. If you read my
discourse on the cause
of homosexuality, you will see that this form of sexuality is not
natural and has negative effects for the souls who engage in it. So
if you view another human being as a homosexual soul, then you are actually
projecting an image upon that soul, and that image is out of alignment
with the divine potential of the soul. In other words, you are holding
a limited and limiting image of the soul.
Can you see the subtle distinction here? Homosexuality is an unbalanced
state of consciousness. Therefore, it is best for the soul to overcome
this state of consciousness. If you hold the image that another person
is a homosexual, and especially if you do it with the attitude that
homosexuality is a perfectly acceptable and permanent condition, then
you are actually helping to reinforce the soul’s limited self
image. You are therefore helping to reinforce the unbalanced state that
keeps this soul in bondage.
What I am saying here is that both the people who are prejudiced against
homosexuals and the people who uncritically accept homosexuality are
doing a disservice to the souls who temporarily believe they are homosexuals.
Both types of people are actually serving to hold such souls in a limited
state of consciousness. That being said, it should be obvious that the
people who are negative towards homosexuals often direct greater amounts
of negative energy at these souls. A person who is uncritical usually
does not have the same intensity of energy, and therefore that person
does not make as much karma. Nevertheless, what I am hoping you can
see here is that the picture is not quite as simple as many people make
it out to be. One might say that there is a negative prejudice (of condemning
others) and a positive prejudice (of accepting their imbalances as normal
and permanent) and that both are damaging to the victim.
My beloved mother held the immaculate concept for me while I was growing
up. I can assure you that I was not an easy child. I was quite headstrong
and emotional, and a weaker person than my mother might have allowed
me to get away with doing things my way. Yet my mother unflinchingly
held the immaculate concept for my spiritual mission, and that had an
immensely positive influence on my ability to fulfill that mission.
The bottom line is that you cannot deal with any situation correctly
as long as you are looking at it through the relativity of the carnal
mind. You can only take the correct position by rising above that relativity
and connecting to your Christ self, so that you can see the true perspective
of the Christ mind. That is why I told people not to judge. When you
judge based on the relativity of the carnal mind, you cannot judge righteous
judgments, and therefore you inevitably make karma in the process. You
will judge based on appearances, based on what you think is right according
to the relative standard that you currently accept.
So could you please tell me what the divine wishes how people
should treat homosexuals and others of the such?
When you rise above the relativity
of the carnal mind, you gain the correct perspective of the Christ mind.
As I said 2,000 years ago, God does not judge because he has given it
to the Son to judge. The Son of God is the Christ consciousness. The
Christ consciousness is the only begotten Son of God, and therefore
it knows the reality and the truth of God. Because of this, the Christ
mind can judge righteous judgments.
When you look at other people from the perspective of the Christ mind,
you see a clear distinction between the soul and the outer personality
and behavior. You clearly realize that the soul itself is a son or daughter
of God. Therefore, every soul is your spiritual brother or sister. Every
other soul is simply an individualization of the same God from which
you sprang. Through your own sense of union with God, you experience
a deep union with all life.
You also see that all souls have currently taken on an outer personality,
which is often adapted to the conditions found in the soul’s environment.
This personality is a conglomerate of the soul’s many lifetimes
in this world. When you look at this with the clarity of the Christ
mind, you see that this personality is temporary and therefore ultimately
unreal. You also see that some aspects of this personality are in alignment
with the truth of God while others are out of alignment with that truth.
Therefore, you affirm those aspects that are in alignment with truth.
Concerning those aspects of a soul’s personality that are out
of alignment with truth, you will never condemn the soul for these temporary
imperfections. However, it would not be loving towards that soul to
affirm a temporary imperfection as if it was permanent or even acceptable.
Therefore, you see it as a natural extension of your love for the soul
that you attempt to help the soul grow out of this temporary limitation.
When you deal with another soul, your concern is always to help that
soul rise above its temporary limitations. Exactly how you should do
that is a complex topic that must be decided on an individual basis.
However, in general you would seek to enlighten a soul so that the soul
can make the best possible choices, choices that will help the soul
grow towards outpicturing its spiritual potential.
In doing so, you must obviously respect a soul’s free will. As
a guideline, let me tell you that a spiritual Master will often be direct,
although completely without condemnation, in pointing out a soul’s
temporary imperfections. If a soul rejects the Master’s suggestions
three times, then the teacher will withdraw. I suggest that this might
be a good guideline for dealing with other people. You can attempt to
enlightened a person to the best of your ability, and if the person
rejects you three times, you will simply drop the topic until the person
brings it up. You can then feel that you have fulfilled your obligation
to attempt to help the other person, and you can leave it up to the
person's free choice.
What I am trying to say here is that when you begin to attain Christ
consciousness, you stop judging people based on the relativity of the
carnal mind. You therefore see that virtually every human being has
certain temporary imperfections and limitations. You are not condemning
the soul for this, but you take every appropriate opportunity to help
the soul see through its limitations and make better choices. The consequence
is that you would not treat homosexual persons any differently than
you treat any other person. Every human being, no matter what their
outer characteristics, is temporarily expressing certain limitations.
Condemning someone for this only helps bind them to that imperfection.
Holding the immaculate concept with the Christ mind will help the person
rise above the limitation.
When you judge based on the relativity of the carnal mind, you think
that some human limitations are worse than others, and you base this
judgment on your own situation. In other words, people often think that
the limitations which they do not have, or do not see in themselves,
are the worst possible. When you rise above this limited perspective,
you realize that no limitations are worse than any others. They are
all unreal and temporary, and they all need to be left behind for the
soul to grow. So the real concern is the growth of the soul, and that
cause is best served by holding the mental image that the soul rises
above all limitations and becomes the whole, balanced spiritual being
that it truly is.
I don't know but if you want to get me riled up, you just
have to state your dislike of gays and lesbians. but that’s
how bad energy finds me, by using this subject to raise my anger for
such people but that’s how it is.
I must comment on the fact
that if you allow yourself to feel negative emotions towards those who
are prejudiced against homosexuals, then you are actually helping to
perpetuate the state of consciousness that causes persecution of homosexuals
and others.
You see, all kinds of prejudice spring from the same state of consciousness.
So if you engage in that state of consciousness, you feed your energy
into the planetary vortex of prejudice that has been created by humankind
over thousands of years. It is this vortex which overpowers weak-minded
individuals and causes them to express prejudice towards others.
Certain people have become so weak-minded that they can become entirely
overpowered by such negative planetary momentums. That is why they become
the catalyst and commit violent acts that spring from this momentum.
For example, a person who burns the Church of a black congregation is
acting as a catalyst for the planetary momentum of racial prejudice
and hatred.
Instead of becoming angry at such people, it would be more constructive
to pray for their deliverance from this limited state of consciousness
and to hold the mental image, the immaculate concept, that they overcome
their prejudice and achieve greater balance and peace of mind.
The real key here is my statement that as you believe, so shall it be
done unto you. When you hold a certain mental image, you cause spiritual
energy to flow into that image, and it will eventually manifest as a
material reality in your life.
It is an often overlooked fact that whatever you do to others, you are
subconsciously doing to yourself. If you have prejudice against another
group of people, it shows that you are subconsciously condemning yourself.
Therefore, you will inevitably, perhaps in a future lifetime, experience
the outpicturing of your mental image. Experiencing this condition might
cause you to see the imperfections of that image and accept a better
image of yourself and of life. You can then begin to outpicture that
vision.
So the bottom line is that the mental image you hold of life will determine
the conditions you encounter in life. Therefore, you would do well to
hold the highest possible image, the immaculate concept, for yourself
and for all other people.
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