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NOTE:
This
answer was given on October 27, 2007, during the Shangra-la conference
in England.
Answer from Jesus:
My beloved, the judgment is specific to the Church of England. Now,
naturally, you will know that many other churches in the Anglican Communion
or Community are very much tied to and based on the Church of England—that
they have taken on many of the things and the beliefs in the Church
of England. And so the judgment is not only for a specific institution,
but it is actually a judgment of the consciousness behind that institution.
So the judgment in that sense extends to everyone who is affected by
that state of consciousness. But there are certainly churches within
the congregation, within the Anglican Community, that have already begun
the process of separating themselves from that consciousness. And you
have been fortunate enough to be associated with one example of this.
Again, this does not mean that the Church of Scotland is in any way
living up to its highest potential. For there is still much more transformation
needed before the true teachings of Christ are restored. But it is indeed
true that there is always, my beloved, a range of consciousness, even
within the Catholic church. You see that some individual congregations
or communities or churches do not blindly follow the dictates of Rome,
but have created their own set of practices, their own set of attitudes
and beliefs and world views that are much more flexible than the dogmatic
dictates that come out of the papacy.
And so we do indeed work with everyone, everywhere, who are open to
new ideas. We work with people everywhere. We do not desire you, who
are the spiritual people, to form a generalized consciousness, saying
that because of what we say about the Catholic church, the Catholic
church is bad and all Catholics are bad. This of course is the old dualistic
way. For we work with many souls everywhere.
There are many people in the Church of England, and in the Catholic
church, there are many priests and leaders who have risen to a higher
state of consciousness. And we work with them on an individual basis.
But you must understand that anyone who belongs to a certain outer church,
such as the Catholic church, is still serving to maintain the institution
as a whole. This does not mean that they should necessarily separate
themselves, for the potential is that they could help transform the
whole.
But what you need to realize is that what we are doing is addressing
the consciousness behind the institutions, and that is the consciousness
that needs to be challenged, that needs to be exposed—and that
ultimately needs to be judged. So, the judgment is first and foremost
against the state of consciousness.
And my beloved, in this respect, consider my statement from the Bible,
that I am not judging people, for what is really judging people is the
Word. By your word you shall be justified or condemned. For you justify
or condemn yourself by the word you accept. Do you accept the Living
Word or do you cling to the dead word? Yet my beloved, until people
have experienced the Living Word, how can they really make that choice?
If they have grown up in a culture where they were only presented with
a dead word, they have never really had a choice.
And so, that is the way we desire all of you to – in your own
individual ways – become the open doors for the Living Word, so
that you can give people that true choice. And again, this is the only
way to renew any Christian church—that a particular church opens
itself up for some form of expression of the Living Word.
And my beloved, be careful to realize that this does not mean that the
church needs to accept that I can speak through a physical person and
that they need to follow what is being said through this messenger or
anyone else. There are different forms of the Living Word. But the essential
realization is that the Living Word comes from a higher source, from
the Spirit of truth that is beyond man-made doctrines. And thus, when
you have the tradition of the Living Word, you have a foundation for
reaching beyond the duality of the ego. And this is the only way –
the absolutely only way – that you can avoid that a church will
be taken over and perverted by the duality consciousness.
There is no other way to reach beyond duality than through the Living
Word. For you cannot reach beyond it with the intellect alone. For if
that was possible, my beloved, I can assure you that there are many
Christian churches who would have found the kingdom of God through intellectual
reasoning. But despite the fact that they have the most elaborate intellectual
doctrines and apologetics, they have not found the kingdom, have they?
What I desire to add to this is that there are indeed many members and
leaders and preachers in Christian churches who have some measure of
the Living Word. Certainly, I do not mean to imply that it is not found
anywhere, but that only a few people have it. We want to get away from
all exclusivity and realize that all human beings have the potential
to be instruments for the Living Word, but there will still be some
who will hold leadership positions in various organizations and institutions.
And so, again, we honor all those who hold some measure of the Living
Word, but we also want to make you, who are the most spiritual people,
aware of the fact that the Living Word always flows through the consciousness
of an individual. Which is why we are open about making it clear that
when I speak through this particular messenger, I am speaking through
the messenger's consciousness and thus what I say is somewhat affected
by the culture in which the messenger grew up. Which is why there are
some limitations on what I can say here, because if the messenger has
no outer awareness, there is not the vocabulary, the concepts in the
mind, that I can use to formulate words through this particular instrument.
And this is why, my beloved, many people need to have it.
But the other very important realization that springs from this is that
those who want to be the best possible instruments for the Living Word
need to be always aware of the potential that they might color the Word
through certain firmly held beliefs. For you see, my beloved, there
are some Christian preachers that have a measure of the Living Word,
of the Holy Spirit as many of them prefer to call it. But because they
have certain very firm beliefs – that they are not willing to
question – well then the Living Word does indeed become colored
by those beliefs, so that the Living Word could never question those
beliefs through that particular preacher. For if the Living Word was
to question it, the preacher himself would believe that this was the
devil speaking and he would thus cut it off.
That is why you need to contemplate the statement that the Holy Spirit
bloweth where it listeth. And that for a time, you might have the Holy
Spirit flow through you as an opportunity, but if you are not willing
to transcend yourself and your firmly held beliefs – thus flowing
with the Spirit, flowing with the River of Life – well then you
will eventually be cut off from the Holy Spirit. And that is when you
see some preachers not being willing to give up the position they have
achieved, and thus immediately tuning in to a lower spirit who still
gives them some sense of power that can blind their followers and make
them think that everything is as it used to be.
My beloved, let me in this context comment on the teachings
of IS, that I have given through my other messenger. Why did I give
it through Lorraine and not through Kim? Well, because I know very well
that many of those who study the AskRealJesus website have put me in
a mental box. And I wanted to give people an opportunity to break down
that mental box by realizing that truth can be expressed in many ways
and that nobody can have a monopoly on truth.
Certainly, my beloved, Kim does not in any way entertain the idea that
he has a monopoly on the real Jesus. For if he were to do that, well
then the real Jesus would very quickly withdraw and perhaps some impostor
would come in instead.
For you see, my beloved, being an instrument of the Spirit requires
you to be willing to constantly transcend yourself. For what is the
Spirit other than constant self-transcendence? The River of Life is
constantly flowing because it is constantly transcending itself and
becoming More, whereby the finite expression of the Creator comes closer
and closer to its infinite source. This is the cosmic dance, the in-breath
and the out-breath of God. Flow with it, my beloved, and let go of the
temptation to put it in a mental box of any kind. For no mental box
will hold the Spirit—but it WILL hold you.
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