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from Jesus:
Thank you for asking this question; it gives me the opportunity to give
some important teachings for all who consider themselves spiritual people,
whether you call yourself a lightworker, a lightbearer, or a spiritual
and religious person. Let me give you some thoughts.
Thought 1
Let me begin by saying that I can fully understand that many people
feel frustrated. This is especially true for those who pray or work
to bring about changes and then do not see these changes manifest. If
you read the scriptures, you will see that when I was in embodiment,
I often felt and expressed frustration over the fact that people did
not respond to my message or my actions as I had hoped they would respond.
I was even frustrated with my own disciples on a regular basis.
So I understand your frustration, but I also have to say that I would
like all spiritual seekers to develop an attitude whereby they can avoid
falling into the trap of frustration. The more you can avoid being frustrated
over the actions or non-actions of other people, the more useful you
can be to the Ascended Host and the more peaceful will be your personal
path. In other words, I would like to help you do better today than
I myself did 2,000 years ago.
I understand that when you look at the presidential election through
the filter of the mind of a person in embodiment, it can seem very frustrating.
Yet we of the Ascended Host have been associated with humankind for
a very long time. So we naturally have a much broader perspective, and
I would like to give you a bit of that perspective. We have seen so
many times that individuals, or a group of people, have not lived up
to their highest potential. They have chosen the low road instead of
the high road. Because we have seen this so often, we have learned to
deal with the frustration and adopt an attitude of practical realism.
If you read my previous comments on the presidential
election, you will see that between the lines is this attitude of
practical realism. I talk about the need for sweeping changes in the
American political system. Yet I also realize that it would not be possible
to bring about such changes in this presidential election. Therefore,
from the standpoint of a practical realist, it wasn't all that important
who won the election.
Thought 2
I understand that many spiritual people have severe issues with George
Bush because of the war in Iraq and other parts of his policies. I understand
that many of these people are leaning toward the Democratic Party and
were therefore disappointed that the party's candidate was not elected.
If you read my discourse carefully, you will see that the Ascended Host
do not endorse either of the major parties in the United States. The
reason being that neither of the two dominant parties are able or willing
to – on their own accord – bring about the political reforms
that we would like to see happen.
Yet these changes could still come about if enough people raise their
consciousness. In other words, nothing is lost and we of the Ascended
Host do not consider this election as a blow to our ongoing plans. What
would be a blow to our plans is if many lightworkers become discouraged
and stop doing their spiritual work to bring about changes regardless
of which political party holds power. As a spiritual person, you must
never forget that the power of God is greater than any political power,
but the power of God must work through people.
My point here is that as spiritual seekers it is important not to become
attached to either of the two political parties. And if you are not
attached, then you really should not be heartbroken or feel like your
Spirit has been ripped out of you. That is a feeling I would like to
see all spiritual people rise above, and it can only happen when you
overcome your attachments to the things of this world.
Instead, you need to take the long view and maintain the vision and
keep up the spiritual work for bringing about the long-term changes
to the political system that I have outlined in my discourse. You also
need to keep working and praying for the raising of your own consciousness
and the raising of the consciousness of a critical mass of the American
people. This is the only way to bring about political changes. You cannot
do this by simply electing one or the other party or one or the other
candidate.
Thought 3
Let me now move on to some more general remarks that are very important
for all people who consider themselves the extensions of the Ascended
Host and part of the change in consciousness that is surely happening
on this planet. As I said, we of the Ascended Host have been working
for a very long time to bring about positive changes on this planet.
As I explain throughout this website, we would like to see very dramatic
and swift changes.
Yet time and time again, people choose to cling to what is familiar
instead of being willing to flow with the necessary changes of the times.
How can we stand to see this happen over and over again? We can stand
this because we have an unconditional love for our unascended brothers
and sisters and we have an uncompromising respect for God’s Law
of Free Will.
It is extremely important for all spiritual people to develop a clear
understanding and an uncompromising respect for free will. As I have
said many times, the Law of Free Will is the basic law for the material
universe. If human beings insist on blowing up their planet, then the
Ascended Host will let them do this. The reason being that the very
purpose for the creation of the material universe is to be a schoolroom
for souls. Everything on planet Earth has one purpose, and one purpose
only, namely to give souls the best possible opportunity to learn.
As I explain in the book Save
Yourself, there are two ways to learn in the schoolroom called Earth.
There is conscious learning and unconscious learning, there is the spiritual
path and the school of hard knocks. You can either learn by listening
to a spiritual teacher or you can learn by reaping the consequences
of your own actions, as they are mirrored back by the material universe
itself.
We of the Ascended Host would love to see people learn by following
our directions, but we have no intention of forcing people to do this.
Therefore, we have no intention whatsoever of forcing human beings to
choose certain changes, including a particular candidate for president.
Because we have no such intention, we are not disappointed when human
beings do not choose the highest possible option (indeed, we know that
sometimes there isn’t a highest possible option available). We
are not disappointed because our respect for free will and our love
for human beings make us non-attached to the outcome of certain events.
Thought 4
It is important for all lightworkers to learn from the example of the
Buddha, when he sat under the Bo tree and was challenged by the demons
of Mara. It was a similar initiation to what happened to me after my
time in the wilderness, when I was tempted by the devil. The simple
fact is that the prince of this world will always seek to tempt spiritual
people into reacting to his schemes. The best weapon he has is that
people become attached to a particular outcome in the material universe.
This attachment makes it easy for people to become discouraged, and
discouragement is the sharpest tool in the Devil's toolkit.
If you are attached to a particular outcome, the prince of this world
has something in you, and he will exploit it to detract you from your
spiritual growth or to even abort that growth completely. As an obvious
example, see how many truly religious people have become attached to
a certain outcome and therefore crossed the line into fanaticism that
caused them to engage in this or that kind of holy war. This is the
last thing I want to see happen to the lightworkers of today, and the
only way to avoid this is for people to make a conscious effort to develop
true non-attachment.
One of my colleagues, the Ascended Master El Morya, has the motto: “Do
right action, and be non-attached to the fruits of action.” This
is an extremely important concept to internalize. When you do internalize
this principle, you realize that as a lightworker it is not your job
to bring about specific changes on planet Earth. Yes, that is exactly
what I said.
Although we of the Ascended Host would like to see specific changes,
we realize that these changes can come about only when people in embodiment
make certain choices. It is not our job to force people to make these
choices. It is, however, our job to help people have the best possible
conditions for choosing the high road over the low road.
This equally applies to our unascended brothers and sisters, those who
consider themselves spiritual people or lightworkers. It is not your
job to bring about specific changes. It is your job to raise the consciousness
of humankind to the point where a critical mass of people can make the
choice to bring about these changes.
Do you see the important distinction? It is not your job to choose for
people. It is your job to help them choose for themselves. When you
understand this, you will never be disappointed when things do not go
exactly the way you would like to see them go. You will know that you
did the very best you could, by raising your own consciousness, by doing
your spiritual work, and by speaking the truth as you see it. You made
a valiant effort to give other people the best possible conditions for
making better choices, and this is all you are required to do. You are
required to shout your message from the housetops, but you are not responsible
for what other people do or don't do as a result of hearing the message.
That is their choice, and it will be their karma.
Thought 5
If you read my discourse about the levels
of the material universe, you will see that I talk about four levels.
So when I talk about a specific change that needs to happen on planet
Earth, for example changes in the American political system, you have
to understand that these changes begin in the etheric realm as an idea
in the mind of God. The changes then need to work their way through
the mental and emotional realms before they can become a physical reality.
There are many of the spiritual people in today's world who have the
inner attunement to see the changes that need to happen on Earth. However,
it is important to understand that many of the things you see are presently
manifest only as ideas in the etheric realm, or perhaps in the mental
realm. Because you have the vision to see these changes, it becomes
your responsibility to do the work to bring these changes down into
the material realm. Yet that process cannot take place overnight.
My point is that as lightworkers, you need to maintain the vision of
how a particular idea filters down from the etheric realm, into the
mental realm, then into the emotional realm and then finally break breaks
through into physical manifestation. In other words, the process of
bringing about changes requires four steps, and you can play an active
part in all of them:
- Etheric.
Tune in to the ideas that exist in the etheric realm. Without vision,
the people perish, so we need people who can capture the vision and
who will hold on to it in the face of all outer appearances. You can
do this by making a determined effort to reach for Christ consciousness
and then seek to communicate your vision of a better future. Spiritual
work can make it easier for you and others to grasp this higher vision.
- Mental.
Increase your understanding of a particular spiritual idea and what
would be required to bring it into physical manifestation. Then communicate
your understanding and do the spiritual work to help others grasp
the importance of it.
- Emotional.
Increase your feeling for your vision and express those feelings in
a loving way. Purge your emotional body of all fear or negative feelings
that stand in the way of the manifestation of your highest vision.
Then do spiritual work to purge the planetary consciousness of all
such ideas.
- Physical.
At this stage, spiritual work is very important in order to pave the
way for a vision to become a manifest reality. This includes purging
people of all negative energies or dark forces that oppose the manifestation
of the vision. It is also very important for you to demonstrate your
vision by living it. Only by seeing examples will people begin to
strive for Christ consciousness or be willing to make major changes
in their personal lives or in society. Obviously, it is also important
to communicate your vision and to work physically – depending
on your expertise and personal calling – to make the vision
a reality.
Thought 6
Look at my life as it unfolded 2,000 years ago. I had the vision of
the kingdom of God, yet I was not allowed to personally bring that kingdom
into manifestation. The reason is the Law of Free Will. The kingdom
of God will not come into manifestation until a critical mass of people
attain a high enough degree of Christ consciousness, so they can serve
as the open doors for bringing about the needed changes. My point is
that as a lightworker you should focus your attention and effort on
raising people's consciousness and their awareness of the particular
changes that need to happen.
You do this by calling for the clearance of the etheric, mental, emotional
and material bodies of planet Earth and of humankind. You always need
to be aware that a change must cycle through all four levels of the
material universe before it can become a manifest reality. In other
words, you might be able to clearly see the changes that need to happen,
yet those changes might not yet have cycled through the energy system
of planet Earth to the point where they can break through as a physical
reality.
It is therefore important not to become attached to seeing a physical
change at a particular time. I see so many people who sincerely pray
or work toward a specific physical change, and then – when the
change does not come about at the time they expected it to happen –
they become disillusioned, and they often give up on their efforts.
In many cases, people's efforts brought a specific change down into
the mental or emotional realm. Yet because people gave up just before
the change could break through to the physical realm, the change either
did not happen or was delayed. The darkest hour is always the hour before
dawn, so never give up just before you have your victory. In your patience,
posses ye your souls—and the Earth.
It is extremely important for all lightworkers to consider these ideas.
When you fully internalize the importance of free will and the importance
of allowing a change to work through all levels of the material universe,
you will never be disappointed. You will never feel like your spirit
has been ripped out, and you will never feel hopeless about going back
to your work for the light. You will reason that either the change has
not yet broken through into physical manifestation or a critical mass
of people have not yet chosen to embrace the change. Therefore, you
will simply keep up your work unabated, knowing that if you keep working,
the change will come about.
My point is, that when you have the correct vision, you can know with
absolute certainty that it will come into manifestation on
Earth. I can assure you, that the coming of the new spiritual age cannot
be stopped. God’s kingdom will be manifest on Earth.
We have already passed the point of no return, and human beings, even
humanity as a whole, cannot stop the changes that have been set in motion.
What human beings can do is to delay or speed up these changes.
So as a lightworker, it is your job to hold true to the vision you have
and to keep working for that vision to become a manifest reality. However,
focus your attention on raising you own and other people's consciousness
rather than focusing on specific physical changes.
Contemplate my saying,
“Seek first the kingdom of God – which truly is the Christ
consciousness – and all else shall be added unto you.” In
other words, focus on attaining the Christ consciousness and helping
other people attain the Christ consciousness. Then allow the physical
changes to happen as a critical mass is reached in the material realm.
Thought 7
Have I given you words of consolation? I think that if you fully embrace
the uncompromising respect for free will and the unconditional love
for human beings, you will be consoled. You will know that the efforts
of so many spiritual people around the world are indeed producing changes
on this planet. The New Age, the golden age, will become a
manifest reality. It may still take some time, and there may indeed
be some birth pains. Yet the changes cannot be stopped, and they will
eventually break through in the material realm.
What greater consolation can there be than to know in your heart that
you are attuned to the eternal cycles of being, that you are attuned
to your older brothers and sisters of the Ascended Host and that you
are attuned to the will of your Creator? Allow yourself to feel that
you are in the flow of love, the river of life itself. And do not allow
any condition on Earth, including at presidential election, to disturb
your peace and take you out of the flow of love.
Flow with the river of life and ignore the many voices that are calling
to you from the shore and tempting you to attach yourself to a particular
spot on the river bank. As a spiritual seeker, you cannot allow yourself
to be tempted into forming an attachment to anything in the material
universe. After all, if you are a truly spiritual person, you are not
looking for your reward here on Earth. You are looking for a reward
in Heaven, and that reward will surely come. If you hold the vision,
some of you might even receive the reward when Heaven comes to Earth
in your lifetime.
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