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NOTE:
This
answer was given on July 14, 2007, during the Shangra-la conference
in Los Angeles, California.
Answer from Jesus:
Who says we did not know about it? You see, my beloved, we know very
well that any teaching we give to humankind has the potential to be
misused. We might even say that any teaching that can be misused
will be misused, although I am not completely a pessimist.
Nevertheless, we know very well that when we bring forth a new teaching,
there is a high likelihood that it will be misused by the power elite,
as you see in both Christianity and Islam. Yet the only option we would
have to avoid this was to never bring forth any teaching. And so you
see, again, we get into the consciousness that you cannot be so afraid
of making a mistake that you do not dare to do anything. Which is what
we have said over and over again for those on the path of Christhood.
You must learn from every situation. And so the way we look at it is
simply that when we give a new philosophy, we give another opportunity
to humankind to learn the lesson of what it takes to have true spirituality
as opposed to false spirituality.
You see, the problem with any religion is that there are too many people
who are yet unwilling to take responsibility for themselves. And therefore,
they want a religion – a religious leadership, a religious prophet
– to tell them what to believe and how to live their lives. Saint
Germain talked about the
need for Christ discernment. Well, Christ discernment means that
you do not look to an external authority to tell you what to believe
or to tell you what is true. You are willing to seek the inner discernment,
the inner recognition of what is true, and then take a stand for that
truth that you see within, even though you will often have to go against
the outer authority.
My beloved, it is a continual problem for the Ascended Host that while
we long to bring forth new teachings, we do not necessarily have those
who are fully prepared to be the instruments for that teaching. And
so in many cases we have had to make use of people who were less than
perfect [meaning they were not made perfect in love and had not attained
non-attachment to particular beliefs or agendas], for they had not yet
conquered their psychology or their ego. And this obviously –
for those who have eyes to see – was the case for Mohammed.
And only those who are blinded by idolatry – the same kind of
idolatry that many Christians are blinded by when they look at me –
will think that Mohammed was the perfect human being. Did not Mohammed
do everything he could to prevent people from idolizing him? And have
not the Muslims idolized him anyway? Even though they will not allow
the making of physical pictures of his image, they still have created
a mental and emotional idolatry of him.
Yet the reality is that Mohammed was a product of his time. And in the
beginning years, he brought forth a more pure teaching than in the later
years, when he had become too involved in the dualistic power struggle
because of the opposition that he faced to his mission. Thus, he engaged
in a certain consciousness of resentment and revenge against those who
opposed him and his mission. And that colored the later teachings that
he received.
This is, again, something that moderate Muslims who are open-minded
will be able to see—if they are willing to look beyond the fundamentalist
approach that the Koran has to be the infallible word of God,the exact
same approach that you find among the fundamentalists of the Christian
religion.
You see, my beloved, as I have explained in my ego discourses about
black-and-white
thinking, people who are trapped in black-and-white thinking can
only see conflict, can only create conflict. And thus, it is up to those
who have gone beyond both black-and-white and gray
thinking to realize that they are the ones who must bring balance and
moderation to their own religion and to the world at large.
So until you have a critical mass of moderate Muslims who are willing
to speak out – and thereby incur the wrath of their own brethren
in the Muslim faith who are still trapped in the radical approach to
Islam – well unless that happens, we will not see a major breakthrough
until we have slid even further down into the black hole of violence.
Where they finally get to a point where the violence driven by religion
has become so outrageous that people will finally stand up and say,
"Enough is enough."
My beloved, look at the recent developments in Pakistan, where you have
the radical clerics that are rebelling and yet there are not enough
people who are willing to stand up and say, "We do not want this
in our nation. We want a more moderate and balanced approach."
And so you see the inevitability of a confrontation, which could be
avoided if there were enough moderate people who would stand up and
demand a change. This of course would mean a very drastic change in
the approach to religion. And in the case of Pakistan, an overturning
of a militant government that was not elected by the people.
So again, the question is: Are people ready and willing for the change
that it would take to break the pattern of violence? And I must say
that in the Muslim world you find pockets of people who are the most
rigid that you find anywhere on this planet, and who want to keep doing
things the way they have been done for thousands of years, even though
the world obviously – and inevitably – has moved beyond
the old ways.
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