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NOTE: This
answer was given during the Shangra-la conference in Montana, October,
2006.
Answer from Jesus:
What happens to a person
who has committed an atrocity will depend on the person's state of consciousness.
And with that I don't mean the state of consciousness that the person
had at the moment when he committed that atrocity but the long term
state of consciousness, the state of his soul, his spiritual growth.
My beloved, I desire you to realize that the concept of the second death
is not tied to performance as such. The second death comes about when
a being has had sufficient time in the material universe. This is a
quantity that is not necessarily absolute in that it is not necessarily
the same for every person. It does have to do with the person's attainment
before that person, or that lifestream, fell. That will determine how
long a time is allotted before that person must come back to the upward
path. So when a person has been given a certain time, that person has
the free will to do anything it wants on Earth. And even though a person
committed a certain atrocity, it does not mean that the person will
immediately go the second death or final judgment after that lifetime.
If the person has time left, it will be confronted with the spiritual
reality of its actions, so that it has the opportunity to see those
actions without seeing them through the filter that the person had while
in embodiment. So in other words, the person can look at its actions
without the spiritual blindness that caused him to perform those actions.
And thereby, the lifestream can then receive an opportunity to rise
above that consciousness, hopefully even to turn around and start the
upward path away from violence.
Yet, there are, of course, some terrorists who commit atrocities precisely
because they are close to being at the end of their time and they sense
this subconsciously. And therefore, they have calcified their consciousness
and hardened their hearts to an almost unfathomable extent. Adolph Hitler
was an example of such a lifestream – who had become so hardened
and who knew that his time would shortly be up – that
he was completely oblivious to the results of his actions, and completely
determined to do whatever he “damn well pleased,” as the
saying goes, while he was in embodiment.
This does apply to some terrorists, but not to the vast majority of
them. In fact, many of them are indeed spiritual lifestreams who have
been misled into the black-and-white
thinking that is the cause of all terrorism, violence and other
forms of atrocities. You see, my beloved, when you look at an action,
you might say, "This is an evil act" but I must tell you that
in most cases – in the vast majority of cases – evil acts
are not committed by evil beings. They are committed by beings who are
simply misled by the duality consciousness, by the black-and-white consciousness,
or even in some cases by the gray
consciousness, the gray thinking. And so they do not fully see the
reality of their actions or their consequences.
So indeed, what often happens to terrorists is that they are given the
opportunity to meet their victims. For example, my beloved, the terrorists
who directed the planes into the World Trade Center towers were indeed
given an opportunity to meet with most of the departed souls, most of
the souls that were killed in that incident. And they were given an
opportunity to work on their mutual understanding, so that they had
an opportunity to understand each other and thereby rise above their
outer differences and forgive each other.
Now, in many cases, some souls are not able to truly acknowledge the
full extent of what they have done. They are so shocked when they realize
that they actually killed so many people, that they are not even able
to look at it but must run and hide from the reality of what they have
done—or they would be destroyed emotionally, or at least so they
feel.
And so not all can respond to such an opportunity. But I must tell you
that in the spiritual realm there has been a very great reconciliation
between the victims and the perpetrators of the 9/11 event. And it would
indeed be extremely helpful to the forward progression of this planet
if those people who had family members or friends that died in these
incidents would also work on forgiveness and understanding, so that
they could erase the records that are still there. For my beloved, I
can assure you that most of the people who were actually killed have
risen to forgiveness, have seen that it is better for the Earth, that
it is better for the cause of defeating terrorism, that they forgive.
For by holding on to the hurts and the wounds, they only add to the
dualistic struggle that is the real cause of terrorism.
For, as I explained in my discourses on the Iraq
war and in my comments on 9/11, it
is the dualistic struggle that precipitated this event. And so the people
caught in it on both sides were simply caught. They were all victims,
so to say, of the duality consciousness. And those who are still fighting
the battle today are victims. And the only way to really break that
cycle is that the people in the West – who live in countries that
are further along than the countries in the Middle East – rise
above the hurts and decide to forgive so they take away power from the
dualistic forces and the dualistic struggle.
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