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from Jesus:
Let me give you a sense
of co-measurement. Moses did not make his ascension after his embodiment
as Moses. He had to reincarnate again to balance certain karma he had
made and also to overcome a tendency to respond to situations with anger.
Saint Paul did not ascend immediately after that embodiment but had
to embody again to work out certain psychological issues and balance
karma.
I am telling you this to show you that many of the people who were considered
great leaders or saints did not necessarily make their ascension after
the embodiment in which they were famous historical figures. The reason
being that when you are the leader of a big organization or nation,
and your decisions affect millions or even billions of people, it is
quite easy to make karma that will take time to balance.
It is also easy to become so caught up in one’s position that
there simply is no time or attention to work out psychological issues.
For that matter, some souls reason that since they have been appointed
to such a high position in human society, they no longer need to work
on their psychological issues. Others simply set them aside because
their earthly mission seems more important to them than the overall
mission of making their ascension.
In the case of John Paul II, it was indeed part of his divine plan that
he would seek to enter the leadership of the Catholic Church and strive
to become pope. Yet it was also part of his divine plan that he would
continue the process of bringing the Catholic Church into the 21st century
that was begun by Pope John the 23rd.
If you study the life of John the 23rd, you will see that he had a clear
vision that the centralized leadership structure of the Catholic Church
was outdated and needed to be reformed. He also knew that many Catholic
doctrines needed to be revised in order to reflect not only the changing
times but also the truth of my inner teachings, of which he had a good
understanding. You will see that John the 23rd was actually ostracized
by the conservative elements of church leadership for being a modernist.
In reality, he was far more in alignment with my true teachings and
with the need to create a modern church that reflects those teachings
than were the conservative Catholic leadership.
I am not hereby saying that I or Mother Mary agree with everything that
happened during the counsel known as Vatican II. Yet I am saying that
this council was a necessary first step in a process that could have
culminated in reforming the entire Catholic Church and turning it into
a living, viable organization that would have had a certain future in
the next spiritual
cycle.
Had this process been continued in the spirit of Pope John the 23rd,
much progress could have been made by now. You would not have seen the
drastic drop in church membership that you have seen over the past decades.
You would also have seen a church that would have been far more capable
of handling the sex abuse scandal, instead of covering it up and basically
taking the approach that if you ignore an issue long enough, it just
might go away.
What I am telling you here is that Mother Mary was firmly behind Pope
John the 23rd and his efforts to reform the Catholic Church. I can also
tell you that John the 23rd did indeed make his ascension after that
embodiment. This is not due exclusively to what he did in that lifetime,
for he had indeed reached a high level of attainment before that last
embodiment. He had internalized my inner teachings and his own God flame
of Peace to the point where many people felt the Presence of Peace around
him.
I am telling you this because it can give you a perspective on John
Paul the II and his papacy. You will see that he was a very conservative
pope. In his private life, he had mystical inclinations, but as Mother
Mary pointed out, he found it difficult to translate them into action
for modernizing the church and bringing it into alignment with my inner
teachings.
Partly because of the assassination attempt and partly because of his
upbringing in a conservative environment in Poland, he decided to keep
his mystical inclinations private and to turn himself into an administrator
who would continue what his conservative role models considered the
only true course for the church. He also used the need to fight communism
as an excuse for not reforming the church, thus falling prey to the
age-old tendency of letting an outer enemy distract you from fighting
the enemy within. This was most unfortunate, and it was clearly out
of alignment with the divine plan that he and his spiritual teachers
created before his embodiment. (Although the Pope's actions did have
an outer effect in terms of fueling opposition to communism, the real
cause of the fall of communism was partly its own internal contradictions
and partly the determined prayer work performed by a great number of
Saint Germain's students.)
Although John Paul did indeed live a good and spiritual life, and although
he did many good things, he did in fact create more karma than he balanced
during that embodiment. You see, making karma does not necessarily mean
that you have to do deeds that people consider bad or evil. There is
always the possibility that you can make karma through the sin of omission,
whereby you do not complete an important task that you had the potential
to complete.
John Paul did indeed have a greater potential to turn the Catholic Church
into a modern spiritual organization than any single person in recent
history, but he failed to do so on most counts. This created a karma
for himself that he will need to return to Earth to balance. Furthermore,
he made a severe karma for the way he, as the supreme leader of the
Church, failed to openly and aggressively address the sex abuse scandal.
Because he was the one person who had the power to direct the Church’s
stand on this issue, a large portion of the karma generated by the individual
priests actually falls upon the Pope. Although he did not commit the
abuse personally, he could have stopped it and he could have done far
more to prevent future abuse. He could also have done far more to handle
the issue in such a way that it would have improved the Church’s
public image instead of destroying much of its credibility.
Therefore, John Paul will not become an ascended Master until he has
re-embodied and balanced his karma. Furthermore, his soul has a strong
desire to make amends and have a second chance at reforming the Catholic
Church.
You will note to that I have elsewhere
explained that Mother Teresa did indeed qualify for her ascension, although
she did not directly seek to reform the Catholic Church. Yet it was
not her divine plan to work directly on reforming the Catholic Church.
I must tell you that this was not because Mother Teresa did not have
the ability or the spiritual attainment to reform the Church, but because
it was necessary for her to embody as a woman. It was determined that
as a woman she had little chance of bringing the needed reforms to the
Church, given the Church’s long-standing refusal to let women
occupy any important positions in the organization.
Instead, it was her divine plan to set an example of how you can embody
the universal teachings of Christ to such an extent that you focus your
entire life on helping those who are not Christians. This set a magnificent
example that could have inspired the Catholic Church to become more
universal in reaching out to non-Catholics and non-Christians. Although
John Paul did reach out to Jews, he still did not fulfill the true potential
of his papacy in terms of turning the Catholic Church into a more universal
spiritual organization. Doing so would have required a complete reform
of Catholic doctrine and leadership structure, giving far more autonomy
to local Catholic leaders, so they could adapt to conditions in their
countries.
Therefore, John Paul failed to make his ascension whereas Mother Teresa
qualified for hers. I am telling you this to show you the reality that
you cannot judge all people by the same standard. Each person has a
unique mission, and depending on your mission it might not be enough
to lead a so-called good life. That is why I said that unless your righteousness
exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in
no wise enter heaven.
I am not thereby saying that John Paul was a scribe, a Pharisee or a
hypocrite. He did indeed have integrity in outer matters, but he did
not have the integrity of remaining true to his highest inner vision.
And he was not open to consciously remembering his divine plan. This
openness is the only way to make sure that your embodiment lives up
to its highest potential.
I realize that when a soul enters the dense energies of planet Earth,
it is easy to forget your divine plan. Yet any soul can, by maintaining
an open heart and mind, come to rediscover its divine plan. The problem
comes in when people use some outer belief system to accept beliefs
that contradict their divine plan. Hereby, the soul often becomes unwilling
to know its divine plan. The reason being that if the soul remembered
its divine plan, it would have to change its life so dramatically that
it would compromise what the outer mind has decided must be the absolute
truth. Thus the soul chooses, often subconsciously, to remain ignorant,
so that it does not have to go through the drastic changes that it considers
undesirable. This is indeed the case with John Paul, and it is the major
reason he did not qualify for his ascension.
A very similar, although not identical, consideration can be applied
to Padre Pio. It was part of his divine plan that he would seek to reform
the Church from within. He already had great attainment, far greater
than John Paul, before that embodiment. Yet he also failed to translate
his inner vision and attainment into practical measures for reforming
the Church.
It was part of Padre Pio’s divine plan that he should develop
and express his so-called supernatural abilities and then use them to
demonstrate that there is far more to my teachings than what is defined
by Catholic doctrine. By demonstrating that when one follows in the
footsteps of Christ, one attains mastery over matter itself, Padre Pio
could have served as the instrument for making obvious the glaring need
to reform Catholic doctrine, Catholic practices and the Catholic organizational
structure.
Yet, once again, the soul decided to remain loyal to the outer Catholic
Church and its power structure instead of challenging it. He was loyal
to the outer church rather than to the true church, the inner church,
of Christ. So I do indeed say that Padre Pio should have challenged
church leaders, as I challenged the false leaders of the Jewish religion.
It is always the role of Christed being to challenge the liar and his
lie, although this challenge may not always be as direct as was mine.
Instead of fulfilling his mission, Padre Pio decided to Minister to
his flock in his local church, rather than to minister to the flock
of all Catholics and beyond that all humans. You will see that this
was a very narrow mission in comparison to the mission started by Mother
Teresa.
I know these revelations will be surprising and even offensive to some,
yet I hope that others will use them to expand their understanding of
the immense importance of consciously remembering one’s divine
plan and putting all of one’s faculties and resources into fulfilling
that divine plan. Not only will you make karma by not fulfilling your
divine plan, but you will also give your soul a strong sense of lost
opportunity that will make it very difficult for you to leave the Earth
behind.
In other words, failing to fulfill your divine plan can give your soul
such a strong desire to return to Earth and set things right that you
will not want to make your ascension. Thus, I hope people will use the
tools we give on this website, including Mother
Mary's rosaries, to rediscover their divine plan and to fulfill
that plan in full measure.
Remember, that you have to fulfill your personal divine plan that is
individual for you. Therefore, do not fall for the devil’s temptation
to reason that, “Well if a spiritual person like the Pope did
not qualify for his ascension, what chance do I have?” Truly,
no person knows his or her attainment, and thus you should always approach
life as if you have the opportunity to qualify for your ascension in
this lifetime. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that you necessarily
have to do great public or outer deeds to win your ascension. Remember
my statement that only those who become as little children can enter
the kingdom. Focus on fulfilling your personal divine plan. Use the
examples of other people to encourage you, but do not use the examples
of others to discourage you. Your path is unique, and you can
only know your divine plan by going within and contacting your Christ
self.
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