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from Jesus:
The members of the Ascended
Host have different assignments and specialties. Given the office I
hold, I am not the Ascended Master who is primarily assigned to oversee
the American election. My beloved brother, Saint Germain, is far more
involved with America, including the election, because he was the primary
Master who sponsored the founding of the United States of America. Yet
given that we are all one, I can certainly give you some thoughts to
ponder.
Thought 1.
The Ascended Host are quite concerned about the upcoming American election.
We do consider it a watershed election, but not for the reasons given
by partisan politicians and their supporters. We do not consider it
very important whether this or that candidate is elected president,
because in our estimation neither the candidates nor their parties will
be able or willing to bring about the changes needed to bring the United
States of America in alignment with the spiritual principles that formed
the basis for the founding of this nation.
Simply consider the fact that both candidates have ties to rich families,
graduated from the same university and were members of the same secret
society at that university. The fact that they claim to be on different
sides of the political spectrum only serves to demonstrate what we of
the Ascended Host can clearly see, namely that both sides of the political
spectrum are advancing the same agenda. That agenda is an elitist agenda.
It is an agenda that seeks to further advance the state of affairs where
a small elite runs the country instead of the American people. This
is clearly against one of the founding principles of the United States,
namely that this nation should have a government that is of
the people, by the people and for the people. Instead,
you now have a government that is of the power elite, by
the power elite and for the power elite.
Thought 2.
The Ascended Host consider this an important election because we hope
that the events leading up to the election, and the turmoil that is
likely to transpire in the weeks after the election, will awaken the
American people to the fact that major changes are needed in the political
system. We hope that this will lead to drastic reforms in the United
States that will eventually spread to most other democratic nations,
as the original American Constitution inspired the founding of many
other democratic nations around the world.
The central issue here is that the basic principle in a democracy is
that the government must rule by the consent of the governed. The fact
that so many Americans are dissatisfied with both candidates and feel
like none of the political parties express their views, shows clearly
that the American government is currently not ruling by the consent
of the governed. If that is not the case, then the American political
system is morally bankrupt, and it no longer rules by moral, but only
by legal, authority. This is a situation that is not sustainable, and
that is one reason why I, in a previous
discourse, called for a non-violent second American revolution.
Thought 3.
What should be the ingredients of such a political revolution? As one
aspect, it needs to become obvious to a majority of Americans that the
political system that was put in place in the late 1700s has become
outdated because of technological advances. One example of this is the
electoral college, which was practical at a time when the means of communication
were primitive and slow. In a nation as large as the United States,
the electoral college had some merit 200 years ago. However, in today's
world of instant communication, the presidency should be decided exclusively
by the popular vote. It should not be possible that a candidate could
win the presidency while receiving a minority of the popular vote. The
vote of every citizen should count the same, regardless of which state
you live in.
On a more fundamental level, it should be obvious that while a representative
democracy was an absolute necessity when this nation was founded, modern
communications and information technology has made this far less essential.
This should lead to the conclusion that it is no longer correct that
the political apparatus should make all major decisions in this nation.
There are already several European countries that have various processes
in place, whereby important decisions are made by public referendum
and simply cannot be made by the president, the ruling party or even
parliament.
This should give rise to the recognition that the elected representatives
should serve more as administrators and not as policy makers. This could
lead to a streamlining of the government, whereby the Senate could be
abandoned. The president and the Congress would make the day-to-day
decisions about how to run the nation, how to respond to a crisis and
how to implement policy. Yet policy should be decided by the people
through referendums.
The most obvious example of how major political decisions are out of
touch with the will – and the consent – of the people is
the issue of abortion. If the founding fathers knew that an issue of
this magnitude had been decided by the vote of one single supreme court
justice, they would rotate in their graves—to use a popular expression.
Given that some of your founding fathers are today members of the Ascended
Host, I can assure you that they are appalled by this development. Therefore,
it needs to become obvious that all major policy decisions should be
made by the American people after a free debate.
Such a debate could not have taken place before the advent of the Internet,
because the mainstream media has for decades been completely controlled
by the power elite who wants to tighten their grip on all aspects of
American society, and for that matter the world as a whole. Yet in today's
world, there are far better opportunities than ever before for people
to be informed about what is really happening in society.
Therefore, what needs to happen is the emergence of a grassroots movement
in the United States which argues for constitutional reforms that puts
major policy decisions in the hands of the people. Anyone who would
work against such a reform would clearly be against democracy, against
freedom and for elitism. Only a power elite who wants to maintain status
quo could be opposed to such a reform. I am aware that some people will
come up with a range of arguments against what I am suggesting, but
these arguments have no validity in today's information society.
Today's people are perfectly capable of governing themselves, and they
do not need an elite to govern them. This is the lie promoted by dark
forces for thousands of years on this planet, and as the consciousness
of humankind is being raised, this argument is becoming increasingly
weak.
Thought 4.
The change I propose above would serve one more important function.
It would signal to the power elite in America that "the party is
over." In other words, we need to take party politics out of the
political process. You have a situation today in which many politicians
are forced to argue for a case that they either do not believe in or
that they realize is not the ultimate truth. Yet in order to support
their party, they have to conform and follow the party line. You have
a situation where many people are forced to take a certain position
in order to distinguish themselves from the other party on that issue.
Therefore, you have two parties who each tend to take one of the two
extreme positions on any issue.
In another discourse, I argue
in great detail, that the most important change that needs to happen
in American politics is that America needs to abandon black-and-white
thinking. Contrary to what many Christians believe, the Christ consciousness
is not an extremist type of consciousness. It is neither the ultra-conservative
hellfire and brimstone position proclaimed by some Christian fundamentalist
preachers, nor is it a liberal, anything-goes type of consciousness.
The Christ consciousness, as I seek to explain throughout this website,
is above and beyond the relativity opposites, the dualistic extremes,
that spring from the carnal mind.
Yet in today's political climate, both parties are often forced to take
one of the extremist positions, meaning that neither party can, for
political reasons, afford to take the Christed position—if they
were able to discern this position, which they often are not. This needs
to end, and it could be ended by leaving all major policy decisions
to be decided by popular vote.
Thought 5
Another way to approach the problem of party politics is to say that
what is currently happening in the United States is that the people
are feeling more and more politically disenfranchised. They feel they
have less and less say over decisions made by the government and that
there is an increasing gap between the ordinary citizen and the government.
They feel they can do little to change things because they have no real
candidates or parties to vote for. This is again in direct opposition
to the principle of having a government that is of the people, by the
people and for the people. That is why there needs to be constitutional
changes that make it more feasible for the people to challenge status
quo.
One step towards breaking up traditional party politics would be to
create a process that made it easier for new political parties to gain
influence on the democratic process. The two-party system has simply
outlived its usefulness. Several European nations have systems that
make it far easier for a third party to gain entry into the political
process. It is simply not democratic that a number of Americans could
vote for a presidential candidate, as happened in the 1992 election,
who is not a member of one of the two major parties, and after the election
those people had no representation in Congress.
It is necessary to
make it easier for new parties to be on the ballot and to have seats
in Congress, depending on the percentage of the popular vote they receive.
I am aware that in several European nations this has led to a proliferation
of political parties that often create political gridlock. Yet this
political gridlock could be avoided by letting all major policy decisions
be decided by popular vote.
Am I saying this would be an easy transition? I am aware that it is
easy to outline the transition and much harder to implement it. Yet
what I am saying is that this is an essential transition because you
have two simple options:
- You
can allow the current political system to become more and more elitist
and to place more and more power in the hands of a smaller and smaller
segment of the American population.
- You can change the system
so that you can once again have a government that is of the people,
by the people and for the people and that rules by the consent of
the governed, meaning a majority of the governed.
Thought 6.
I am fully aware that many Christians find themselves in a conundrum
concerning which candidate to support for President. Yet if these people
would take a step back, they would realize that their conundrum goes
much deeper than political issues. It goes to the very heart of their
religious beliefs and how they see Christianity.
As I seek to explain throughout this website, orthodox Christianity
has perverted my true teachings by creating doctrines that spring from
the duality of the carnal mind. Over the last several decades, humankind's
consciousness has been raised dramatically, and this has helped millions
of people, both Christians and non-Christians, to begin to see through
the fallacy of dualistic thinking.
Yet at the same time, the rising spiritual light has also forced many
people to take more extreme positions. In the United States, this has
caused most Christian church leaders to take an exceedingly conservative
position. And this conservative position is in many ways out of alignment
with the truth of Christ. The best example is that so many Christian
church leaders supported the war in Iraq, while the Ascended Host did
not, as explained elsewhere.
Millions of Christians are beginning to realize the fallacy of black-and-white
thinking, and that is why they find it increasingly difficult to support
the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. Yet the only true solution
to this issue is not a political, but a spiritual solution. What these
many Christians need to do is to recognize the simple fact that their
Christian churches are out of alignment with my true teachings. Therefore,
the key to resolving the situation is that millions of Christians wake
up to the reality of my true teachings, namely that they have the ability
to know Christ truth within their hearts, to follow my footsteps and
put on the mind of Christ. This is the only factor that will significantly
change not only the political landscape in the United States but also
the religious landscape. This leads to another important thought.
Thought 7.
As I attempt to explain throughout this website, the current conditions
found on this planet were not created by God. They are almost exclusively
an expression of the current state of consciousness of humankind. The
logical consequence is that the government of any country is an expression
of the state of consciousness, the collective state of consciousness,
of the people of that country.
What is happening in the United States is that millions of people are
rising to a higher level of consciousness. They are beginning to see
the fallacy of the dualistic, black-and-white thinking. Yet they have
not yet broken through to a conscious realization of what is happening,
and therefore the changes that are taking place at the deeper levels
of people's minds have not yet been translated into visible changes
in people's personal lives and in society as a whole. One might say
that America right now is sitting between two chairs. It is stuck in
a kind of no-man's-land, where the current religious culture and the
current political culture is outdated and obsolete. Yet we have not
yet had a critical mass of people who have attained a clear vision of
why it is obsolete and what it will take to change it.
One major reason for this impasse is that so many Americans have been
bought off with the “good life” represented by the good
material life. Therefore, they are reluctant to rock the boat by abandoning
what is comfortable. As a result, many Christians are in reality seeking
to serve both God and mammon, yet as I said 2,000 years ago, you cannot
serve two Masters. Unfortunately, until a critical mass of Americans
decide to leave their nets – of entanglements with the power elite
and the good life – and serve the true Master of the Christ mind,
the nation will remain stuck in its current political stalemate.
What can break this impasse? Only one thing, namely that more people
attain a higher degree of Christhood. And the main thing that could
bring this about is that my true teachings, as I describe them on this
website, would spread as a wildfire and be recognized by a critical
mass of people in the United States and elsewhere.
When a critical mass of people in a nation rise to a certain level of
Christ consciousness, it will cause a chain reaction that will ripple
through all aspects of that society. If Christians in the United States
were to consciously recognize the need to follow in my footsteps and
put on personal Christhood, it could quickly change the religious culture
in this nation. This would lead to a clear, conscious recognition that
the mind of Christ is beyond the relative extremes of the carnal mind.
In the political spectrum, this would lead the way for the changes I
have talked about earlier, changes that would lead America away from
the elitist political system and put the decision-making power back
in the hands of the people. This would also cause such a dramatic shift
in consciousness that you would suddenly see political candidates that
were beyond party politics and had the true characteristics of a statesman.
These candidates would be the type of candidates that people with some
degree of Christ consciousness could support wholeheartedly.
Thought 8.
What I am saying is that the two candidates that are currently running
for president are typical expressions of the state of consciousness
of the American people. George Bush represents the one extreme, namely
the people who cling to the status quo and the dualistic, black-and-white
thinking. The biggest problem with George Bush is that he is unwilling
to admit when he has made a wrong decision and change his decision accordingly.
He believes that if a leader changes his position, it is a sign of weakness.
Yet a true leader will always change his position when faced with decisive
evidence, and his mind is always open to finding such evidence.
John Kerry represents the many people who have realized the fallacies
of black-and-white thinking but have swung into the opposite extreme.
Instead of judging everything based on black-and-white thinking, they
now tend to believe that anything goes and that there are no higher
guiding principles. This is what makes it difficult for these people,
John Kerry included, to take a firm stand on any issue and to maintain
that stand. They simply cannot see through the many relative arguments
to make a firm decision.
The middle way between these two extremes is the Christ mind, which
realizes that all decisions must be based on timeless principles that
are above and beyond the duality of the carnal mind. Yet it also realizes
that you cannot apply such principles in a black-and-white manner. Because
humankind is currently so enmeshed in the consciousness of duality,
it can be necessary to adapt principles to this temporary reality. The
Christ mind realizes that it can sometimes be necessary to make decisions
that seem to compromise timeless principles, and this is a temporary
necessity that is done to bring society forward. Therefore, the overall
progression of society is indeed in accordance with timeless principles
and will ultimately lead to a higher state of consciousness.
Thought 9.
Let me say that the lesser of two evils is still an evil. To say that
the lesser of two evils represents the greater good shows a complete
ignorance of the tactics used by dark forces to control the people of
Earth, a tactic that is personified by the power elite. Let me make
it clear that the dark forces did not want to see the creation of democracies.
They opposed this with with all their power, and ever since the emergence
of the first democracy, they have attempted to use their henchmen in
the power elite to undermine democracy from within. Their tactic is
twofold:
- In a democracy, people
can vote, but they can only vote based on what they know. So if you
can control information, you can to some degree control how people
vote. That is why, for a very long time, the power elite has attempted
to gain control over the mainstream media, and they have been very
successful, especially in the United States where the media is driven
by profit. It is so easy for the dark forces to control people who
are driven by greed.
- In a democracy people
can vote, but they can only vote by selecting from the available candidates.
So if you can control who can run, you can control who will be elected.
And if you do this well, all of the people running will work for the
same larger agenda, namely to maintain or expand the control of the
power elite.
What has happened in the
United States is that a small elite has attained a very high degree
of control, and they are greatly helped by the two-party system and
the mainstream media. They have managed to create a situation where
the only candidates who have a realistic chance of being elected president
are those representing the two major parties. And in order to be nominated,
you have to sell your soul and demonstrate that you will follow the
party line. Despite the alleged differences between democrats and republicans,
millions of Americans are beginning to realize that both parties are
advancing the same agenda. They simply go about it in slightly different
ways.
The result is that no matter which party you vote for, you vote for
the same elitist agenda. Nevertheless, if you can make people believe
that the lesser of two evils is the greater good, there is little risk
that they will rock the boat by demanding widespread political reform.
Thought 10.
As I have said, the Ascended Host cannot endorse either of the two candidates
running for president. Even we find it difficult to make a clear choice,
and let me describe some of the reasons why.
From our perspective, one of the major issues in American politics is
abortion, which we would like to see made illegal with proper allowance
for protecting the life of the mother. Obviously, George Bush is the
more likely candidate to select a supreme court justice that might make
this possible. Yet abortion could also be restricted in other ways by
giving power back to the individual states, and both candidates could
be forced to let this happen.
On the other hand, saving the lives of millions of aborted children
could be offset if America is plunged into a major war that escalates
into a world-wide conflict. As I have explained elsewhere Link
1, Link 2, we are gravely
concerned about George Bush’s unwillingness to admit mistakes
and change course in the face of clear evidence and his refusal to look
at such evidence. This is exactly the kind of mindset that led to both
the first and second world war, and it is the mindset that could lead
to a third war.
So with that in mind, what is the lesser of two evils? If I knew that
George Bush would be able to keep America out of a major war and would
cause abortion to become illegal, the choice would be clear. And if
I knew that George Bush would lead America into a major war, the choice
would also be clear because obviously John Kerry is not as likely to
be blinded into starting a chain reaction that leads to such a war.
Yet there is no guarantee that Kerry would not be fooled or forced into
engaging in a war.
Given the Law of Free Will and the fact that America is currently in
a twilight zone between Christ consciousness and the dualistic consciousness,
who can predict what might happen? Yet I will predict that the major
risk for the next American president will be the potential of a large-scale
war that could escalate into a world-wide conflict. As things stand
right now, nothing is more important than to avoid such a war because
it truly could set back the progression of humankind in a way not seen
in recorded history.
Thought 11.
What can you do to change the situation? I have said that there needs
to be a reform movement that emerges from the grassroots level and gains
such widespread support that it cannot be ignored by mainstream media
and mainstream politicians. Locally elected politicians will still respond
to demands made by the people who voted them into office and can vote
them out at the next election.
Nevertheless, such a reform movement cannot emerge in a vacuum. It must
ride the wave created by a change in consciousness, and that is why
the only factor that can truly break the status quo is that millions
of Americans wake up to the need to put on the mind of Christ.
So for those open to this website, I am not saying you should start
of join a political reform movement, although you could certainly support
it.
The most important thing you could do is to work on your personal Christhood
and work on spreading the knowledge of my true teachings. In other words,
if you want to make a difference, you will make the greatest difference
by helping the rise in Christ consciousness both on the personal and
collective level. Remember my statement, “And I, if I be lifted
up from the earth, will draw all men unto me” (John 12:32 ). If
you lift up yourself, you will lift up your society and bring the mind
of Christ into American politics. This is the most valuable contribution
you could possibly make to your country, be it the United States or
any other nation.
In the short term, it would also be very helpful for people to use Archangel
Michael's Rosary and the Rosary
of Infinite Light to call for the exposure and overturning of the
power elite and for reform in American politics. It would be extremely
valuable to call for the exposure of all corruption in the election
and for the enlightenment of the American people in the aftermath of
the election.
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