Why
do many rich and famous people self-destruct?
Or
why you really can’t serve two masters
NOTE:
This teaching was given on August 7, 2006, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
Background: On Friday, July 28, 2006, the actor and director
Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Malibu, California.
According to media reports, Mel Gibson made certain comments about
Jews, including: "F------ Jews... The Jews are responsible for
all the wars in the world."
Jesus: I
realize the arrest of an actor in Hollywood is not the most important
issue facing the world right now, but I wanted to comment on it because
the story reveals an important underlying issue. I am using Mel Gibson
as an example to illustrate this issue because his life has become very
public and thus I do not violate his right to privacy.
Let me first state that although the media has made a big issue of Mel
Gibson’s supposedly being anti-semitic, I champion his right
to freedom of speech. I am not agreeing with what he said; I am
agreeing with his right to say it—drunk or not. Expressing an
opinion that is not in agreement with the policies of the state of Israel
is not in itself anti-semitic.
Concerning the above quote, let me make it clear that Jews are not responsible
for all the wars in the world. The power elite – in its many different
factions – is responsible for all the wars in the world. Some
members of the power elite are and have been Jews, but many are not.
One might even say that most members of the power elite are beyond race,
nationality or religion and define themselves as an elite based on other
criteria. They believe they have a right to control the general population
and to plunge nations into war at will, as if the world was their private
chess board.
I would also like to point out that Gibson’s attitude towards
Jews is not that different from the attitude of many Christians, be
they Catholics or Evangelicals. Many Christians make the Jews responsible
for killing Christ, but in reality – as pointed out in the book
I Love Jesus, I Hate
Christianity, those who killed me did not do so because they
were Jews but because they took a specific approach to religion. They
had become rigid and refused to change, thus being willing to do anything
to silence the messenger who demanded change. Unfortunately, many modern-day
Christians have fallen prey to the exact same attitude, which is why
they reject this website and the message of change that is presented
here.
Now for the underlying issue I wanted to address. It is described in
a statement I made 2,000 years ago:
For what shall
it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul? (Mark 8:36)
In Mel Gibson we
have an example of a person who seemingly has everything that worldly
success has to offer—a person who has in some sense “gained
the whole world.” Mel Gibson is famous, an oscar winner and has
all the money anyone could want—especially after the financial
success of the movie, The Passion of
the Christ. Yet as this latest incident – which is just
one episode in his life-long battle with alcoholism – reveals,
Mel Gibson does not own his own soul. Several of his friends have remarked
that when he drinks, he becomes an entirely different person, which
is a common occurrence for all types of addicts.
Mel Gibson's life has followed a pattern you will see in many rich and
famous people, who simply cannot enjoy their fame and success but end
up destroying themselves. I would like to now explain the psychological
mechanism that is behind this syndrome. And let us start out with an
example from my historical life:
8 Again, the devil
taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all
the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt
fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered
unto him. (Matthew, Chapter 4)
In this respect, it does
not matter whether you believe in a personified devil that aggressively
tempts people. The important issue here is that the world itself presents
people with a temptation, namely whether you want to pursue success
as defined by the world or success as defined by God’s reality.
This is the eternal human dilemma, that I described as follows:
No man can serve
two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon. (Matthew, 6:24)
Mammon is a symbol for worldly
success, whether you define it in terms of fame, fortune, power or pleasure.
Here comes an essential but subtle point. I am NOT saying you cannot
have any of what the world has to offer. It is a common misconception
that being a spiritual person means that you have to renounce ALL worldly
attractions. This is not the case. The material world is made of the
Mother Light, which is God’s own substance. You are a co-creator
who is meant to have dominion over the Earth, and you cannot exercise
that dominion by withdrawing from the world. As I said:
Fear not, little
flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
(Luke 12:32)
Although this refers primarily
to a state of consciousness, it does include the material aspects of
God's kingdom. The important point is that you have your priorities
straight, so that attaining things in the material world does not become
more important to you than attaining the “things” of the
spirit:
But seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33)
The kingdom of God is a symbol
for the Christ consciousness, and this is a frame of mind in which you
have attained psychological and spiritual wholeness. You are not a house
divided against itself because you have no conflicting or mutually exclusive
desires or attachments. Thus, you can be said to own your soul in the
ultimate sense.
What has happened to many of the rich and famous people is that –
usually in a distant past life – they fell prey to the temptation
of refusing to seek first the wholeness of their souls, instead wanting
their reward on Earth:
Therefore when
thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may
have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
(Matthew 6:2)
In doing so, they fall prey
to the temptation
of the ego to compare themselves to others and thus develop the
desire to be “better” than others according to a worldly
standard. This inevitably leads them to accept the primary temptation
of the ego and the devil, namely that the ends can justify the means.
The ends of attaining something on Earth can justify ignoring the laws
of God.
This leads people into a downward spiral of seeking to glorify themselves
in comparison to other people. They now seek to raise up themselves
by pushing other people down or at least raise themselves without considering
the consequences it has for others. The inevitable result is that a
division is created in these people’s psyches, and the more they
seek to raise themselves, the deeper the schism becomes. That is why
you see many of these people cross the line to insanity, despite the
fact that they seemingly have everything the world can offer.
They do have everything the world can offer, but because they do not
have wholeness of the psyche, they cannot attain peace of mind. Thus,
no matter how much they attain, it never seems enough and they can never
feel at peace. This drives them to always want more, which eventually
leads them to go too far and precipitate a crash of some kind. Sometimes
they wake up and change their lives, but in many cases they simply keep
going until they destroy themselves completely. I think Hollywood has
produced a fair share of perfect examples, but even more are found in
the history books.
Now, my real aim here is to point out that Mel Gibson exemplifies a
specific version of the belief that the ends can justify the means.
If you will look at Mel Gibson’s movies, you will see that he
often portrays a person who can be characterized as follows:
My point is that Gibson has
often portrayed a person who believes in the most extreme version of
the philosophy that the end can justify the means, namely that under
certain conditions it is justified to kill other people. Yet once he
starts killing – as in Braveheart and The Patriot – he cannot
restrain himself. It is as if he crosses the line to insanity and is
turned into – or taken over by – a being that kills indiscriminately,
kills for the sake of killing or kills for no apparent reason.
In reality, such people are often taken over by demons who kill in order
to shed the blood and thereby force a release of spiritual light that
they need in order to survive. When the demon has had its fill, it leaves
the person (for a time) and the person then reverts back to his or her
normal state of consciousness. The person then realizes what it has
done and now has to struggle to live with his actions. This then causes
him to seek to justify his actions by rationalizing that the killing
was somehow necessary or justified after all. And this becomes an ongoing
struggle that can eat up a person’s life.
Let me assure you that killing another human being is crossing a line
that leaves no person untouched. Once you take a life, you cannot simply
ignore it. You must find a way to deal with this. The easy way out is
the philosophy that the end can justify the means, and one of the most
effective ploys of the devil is to get people to lose control for a
moment and kill someone, and then have them spend lifetimes seeking
to reinforce the belief that the end can justify the means. Incidentally,
the real way out is to acknowledge that the killing was not justified
in the eyes of God but was the result of you having been influenced
by an extreme form of the consciousness of anti-christ. You can then
then reach for the Christ consciousness in which killing becomes impossible.
My point is that Mel Gibson is one among many lifestreams on this planet
who has spent lifetimes seeking to justify – in private and in
public – the philosophy that the ends can justify the means. Most
of his movies in this lifetime are designed – largely subconsciously
– to glorify violence and portray it as the only way to solve
certain problems.
This now leads me to Gibson’s ultimate attempt at this goal, namely
the movie that was – supposedly – about me, The Passion
of the Christ. The underlying message of this movie is that the
killing of Christ on the cross was ultimately justified because it was
ONLY through the spilling of my blood that humankind could be absolved
from sin. In other words, as a subtle attempt to justify the primary
philosophy of anti-christ, Mel Gibson makes a movie about Christ. And
the movie’s message is that the philosophy of anti-christ is justified
by the necessity of absolving humankind from sin. Christ has now –
seemingly – redeemed anti-christ.
There are numerous problems with this message, but let me mention the
two most obvious ones:
-
It is incorrect. The
spilling of my blood on the cross was NOT a necessary or ultimate
sacrifice to “buy” humankind absolution from sin. I
know many Christians will say this contradicts the Bible, but I
challenge them to find one statement made by me that supports this
viewpoint. There are statements by Paul that support it, but they
were given specifically to get the Jews – who believed firmly
in blood sacrifice – to give up their practice of sacrificing
animals.
In reality, the ONLY road to salvation is that each human being
must attain the Christ consciousness – the wedding garment
– that is the ONLY way to enter God’s kingdom. That
is why I said that the kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21),
meaning that NO OUTER CRITERIA are necessary for or can guarantee
your salvation. In other words, even my death on the cross is an
outer event that will not necessarily change your state of consciousness.
- It portrays God as an
angry, vengeful and cruel God who requires the killing of his only
son as a payment for humankind’s sins. This is such a blasphemy
against the true God of Love that it is unfathomable to me that modern
people can still believe this fallacy, let alone preach it from the
pulpits or movie screens.
In reality, my death on the
cross was not ultimately necessary or mandated by God. I came to Earth
to give people – and especially certain recalcitrant lifestreams
– an opportunity to meet the Living Christ and either accept or
reject him. If certain lifestreams had accepted me as the Messiah, it
would not have been necessary that I be crucified. Yet because these
lifestreams remained closed-minded, I volunteered to let them kill me
in a last attempt to open their minds to the fallacy of their actions,
including their belief in the philosophy that the end can justify the
means:
Now Caiaphas was
he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one
man should die for the people. (John 18:14)
I hope you can see my underlying
point. The very idea that the killing of one person – whether
or not you believe he was God’s son – is necessary for the
salvation of humankind justifies killing as a necessary evil. Thus,
it justifies the primary lie of the devil, namely that the end can justify
the means. The end of attaining something in this world (to save humankind)
can justify violating Gods law (Thou shalt not kill).
My point being that the reason you need to be saved is that you have
partaken of the consciousness of anti-christ, as I explain in great
detail in my ego discourses.
Thus, the ONLY way to salvation is to transcend the consciousness of
anti-christ and put on the mind of Christ. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT OVERCOME
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANTI-CHRIST BY USING THE PRIMARY LIE PRODUCED BY
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANTI-CHRIST. You cannot escape the temptations
of the devil as long as you believe in and seek to justify the philosophy
of the devil.
In Mel Gibson’s case, his primary motivation for making this movie
was a subconscious belief that it would absolve him of his past actions
by proving his beliefs to be correct. In past lives Gibson actually
was the kind of person portrayed in his movies and he has been
struggling to justify his actions of killing or causing the killing
of thousands of people. Obviously, he is not the only person in embodiment
who has been responsible for the death of many people, which is why
many people have sought to justify that the end can justify the means.
Mel Gibson thought he could "buy" peace of mind by making
this movie, yet because he has done nothing to resolve the underlying
issue (freeing himself from the lies of anti-christ), he has not attained
that peace of mind, as his latest actions clearly demonstrate. This,
of course, proves my point that you cannot attain peace of mind until
you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, namely the
Christ consciousness in which you fully and finally rebuke the lies
of the devil.
Of course, my purpose is not to focus on Mel Gibson but to use his situation
to make a point that applies to the entire world. Many people are trapped
in the belief that the ends can justify the means, but we have entered
a transitional period where these people will find it increasingly difficult
to hold on to this belief. They will either have to transcend this belief
or they will act it out in an extreme manner that hopefully makes them
see its underlying fallacy.
An obvious example – and what contributed to Gibson’s statements
– is Israel’s war in Lebanon. As I have already
explained, Israel’s leadership believes their political ends
can justify the means of killing indiscriminately, and they will continue
to act this out to the extreme, until it finally becomes obvious to
the Israeli people and they elect another leadership.
I would also like to point out that the movie, The Passion of the
Christ became successful only because several Christian churches
acted as Mel Gibson’s marketing machine. They knew that the movie
glorified violence and bloodshed, but they did not care because they
believed it would promote their cause. In other words, they too believed
the end can justify the means. They were willing to use a violent movie
in order to shock people to “come to Christ.” Yet let me
tell you that this movie did not make a single person come to the Living
Christ that I AM. It only made people come to the false christ that
has been built by the false religions that take the Lord’s Name
in vain.
If the leaders of such churches were at all open to the Ascended Jesus
Christ that I AM, it should give them grave concern that their churches
supported a movie that spreads the philosophy of anti-christ. Yet the
reality is that most of them are so blinded by that very philosophy
that they can no longer see reality. Thus, they have become the blind
leaders, and both them and their followers will surely fall into the
ditch and destroy themselves from within. One obvious example is the
statements made by Pat Robertson over the past several months.
It is not to my liking that the movement that claims to represent me
on Earth has become so blinded by the consciousness of anti-christ that
it is willing to seek earthly glory – in the form of members,
money and power – instead of seeking to remain true to the Living
Christ. Yet my immediate purpose for this article is to help sincere
spiritual seekers see through the fallacy of basing your life on the
search for earthly glory of any kind.
Take note that I am not hereby saying you should renounce owning or
doing anything in this world. Do not fall for the black-and-white
or the gray thinking
of the ego. Seek instead the inner wholeness of the Christ mind and
then let God give you the earthly things that you need in order to fulfill
your mission in this lifetime. It is the ONLY way to attain peace of
mind. No possession or accomplishment in this world will buy
you peace on Earth or entry into Heaven.
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