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from Jesus:
(May 11, 2004)
I do have several comments.
First of all, concerning the abuse of prisoners, I hope people will
begin to ask themselves if there is a connection between this abuse
and the fact that the United States government, especially during the
fall of last year when much of the abuse took place, was under intense
international pressure to justify the war by finding weapons of mass
destruction, by finding Saddam Hussein or by finding a link to the terrorists
in Al Qaeada. Could this possibly have created a frame of mind within
the system that made it seem justifiable to do whatever it took to get
the much needed information? If so, how high into the ranks of the military
and the government did this mindset go?
In other words, is it likely that the abuse was created solely by the
initiative of a handful of vigilantes, as the government currently claims,
or was there a deeper systemic problem springing from the need to justify
the war? I will prophesy that in the coming weeks there will be more
exposures, and I hope they will indeed uncover everything that there
is to uncover in this matter—and I can assure you there is much
to uncover.
My second comment is that no member of the Ascended Host has any desire
to see the United States humiliated before the eyes of the world. We
did not support this war, as I explained in my previous comments, but
we would like to see the United States, and all the parties involved,
emerge from the situation in a way that can lead to true progress in
terms of establishing a more peaceful world. In other words, we would
like all nations involved to learn the best possible lessons they can
learn, incorporate those lessons into their policies and then move on
in a constructive direction.
In that respect, we are gravely concerned when we hear the President
of the United States, and most of those who support him in the government
and the military - even some voices in the media - state that the United
States simply needs to stay the course in Iraq. There seems to be a
mindset that if the United States keeps doing what it has been doing
so far, then things will eventually turn around and the movie will have
a happy ending. I might remind people of Albert Einstein's definition
of insanity, namely that you keep doing the same thing but expect different
results.
We of the Ascended Host have been involved with humankind for thousands
of years, and we have seen every mistake that was made during human
history. Nothing is more concerning to us than to hear a powerful political
or military leader state that he will not change course no matter what
happens. This inflexibility and unwillingness to adapt to circumstances
has been the cause of some of the greatest military and political disasters
seen in human history. It is a mindset that always springs from pride,
but in this case there is more to it that simple pride and arrogance.
As I said, I would like the United States to learn the highest possible
lesson from this war. The highest possible lesson is that in today's
world black-and-white thinking no longer works. This form of thinking
simply cannot produce results that are in harmony with the greater good
of all. In fact, in today's world allowing your actions to be motivated
by black-and-white thinking is a recipe for disaster. The reason for
that is simple.
As I explain in another
discourse, cycles have turned and humankind has entered at new age,
a new spiritual cycle. As Mother
Mary explains in her discourses, it is extremely important to have
a balance between the expanding force of the Father and the contracting
force of the Mother. This has become much more important in the present
age, and I can assure you that any form of imbalance leads to tension
and eventually to self-destruction. If you become unbalanced, you create
an action, and the universe will immediately create a reaction that
will oppose your action. If you continue to go in the same direction,
without being willing to change your approach, then you will be opposing
the universe itself and no nation, not even the United States, can oppose
the universe and win.
The essence of imbalance is the form of black-and-white thinking where
you define the world in simplistic terms. This is precisely the kind
of thinking that led the United States to go to war in Iraq. In all
fairness, let me make it clear that President Bush was not dominated
by this type of thinking when he took office. He was a much more balanced
and pragmatic politician at that time. Yet after the terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001, President Bush became more influenced by black-and-white
thinking. This mindset is a direct result of the unbalanced approach
to Christianity that has been going on for almost 2,000 years and that
in the United States has found its most extreme expression in the fundamentalist
movement. This movement wants to define everything in the simplistic
terms of a struggle between good and evil, and this is what leads people
to define everything as either being good, meaning white, or evil, meaning
black, with no shades in between. I am not here talking about race,
I am simply talking about the colors black and white.
I am in no way denying that there is an epic struggle between good and
evil on this planet. Yet as I attempt to explain throughout this website,
the difference between good and evil cannot be understood or defined
by the carnal mind because to the carnal mind everything is relative,
meaning that good and evil also become relative terms. This is what
leads people to define an outer enemy as the source of evil and to believe
that if only they destroy that outer enemy, they have destroyed evil
on this planet.
For almost two millennia, certain people in orthodox Christianity have
defined outer enemies as being the representatives of anti-christ. This
led to the Crusades, the inquisition, the persecution of scientists
and many other atrocities. The reason being that when you begin to accept
black-and-white thinking, you step on to a slippery slope, and before
you know it, you end up believing in one of the most subtle lies promoted
by the forces of anti-christ, namely the lie that the ends can justify
the means. This then quickly leads to a belief that the higher goal
of removing what you have defined as evil can justify going against
the laws of God, such as the commandment that thou shalt not kill or
my commandments in the Sermon on the Mount. This is what causes people
to become trapped in a state of consciousness where they firmly believe
they are good Christians, yet their actions are in direct violation
of everything I stand for. They simply do not realize that anti-christ
is a state of consciousness that elevates the relative viewpoints of
the carnal mind to infallible doctrines that are in opposition to the
truth of Christ.
What I hope the more intelligent people in the United States, and around
the world, will learn as a result of watching the events around the
Iraq war is that when you engage in black-and-white thinking, you simply
create an opposition to your actions that will eventually destroy yourself—unless
you change your mindset.
My point here being that the only way to properly define good and evil
is to reach for the higher understanding of the Christ mind. When you
do have that perspective, you see that good and evil must be defined
as states of consciousness, and every human being and every nation has
the potential to be an instrument for both good and evil. Therefore,
it is never justifiable to make generalizations and say that a particular
group of people, a particular race or a particular nation, are all evil
and therefore it is justified that we kill them all. This is a simplistic
black-and-white perspective that will only lead to disaster. Eventually,
especially in this new age, it will lead to self-destruction for those
who insist on holding on to this mindset.
I might add that this mindset has led to the greatest conflicts in history.
A typical example of black-and-white thinking was Nazi Germany. Yet
the reason Nazi Germany rose to power was that black-and-white thinking
was on the rise in many European nations and in the United States. Nazi
Germany therefore became the reaction to the action of black-and-white
thinking already present in the West. After the second World War, the
West became locked in a power struggle with the Soviet Union. Both sides
in this conflict were heavily influenced by black-and-white thinking,
yet the Soviet Union was more extreme than the West, and that is why
the Soviet Union eventually crumbled under its own weight.
What happened during the Clinton presidency was that the United States
was in a vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union. After decades
of having struggled against an outer enemy, the United States suddenly
had no obvious enemy. Unfortunately, the United States did not go through
the necessary national soul-searching that could have led it to abandon
the black-and-white thinking and reach for a higher national consciousness.
As a result of this, and as a result of the lack of integrity that surfaced
during the Clinton presidency, certain forces in the United States became
more vocal, and those forces are exponents of the black-and-white thinking.
The rise in fundamentalist thinking led to the creation of a counter
force, and it was this force that actually found expression in the September
11 terrorist attacks. I am not saying that this force had not already
been present for some time. I am saying that it was the increase in
black-and-white thinking in the United States that triggered the terrorist
attacks.
As I explained in my discourses on the Iraq war and the September
11 attacks, the United States had a unique opportunity to reach
out to the world and forge a real brotherhood of nations that could
have gradually worked toward a real resolution to the problem of terrorism—which
by the way would require greater economic equality throughout the world.
Instead, the American president came under the influence of certain
forces in the United States that are exponents of the black-and-white
thinking. The president then used this black-and-white thinking to define
an outer enemy, which I must tell you is, by many circles in America,
seen as the religion of Islam itself. I know very well that everyone
would deny this charge. Yet I must tell you that the most powerful exponents
of black-and-white thinking are certain Christian groups in the United
States, and many people in these groups consider the religion of Islam
to be the real enemy of Christianity and of Western civilization—even
the real anti-christ. This line of thinking led directly to the definition
of an Axis of Evil that eventually led to the Iraq war.
I realize that the president and most of his advisers truly believed
that once Saddam Hussein was removed from power, the Iraqi people would
welcome the Americans as liberators. I realize these people are genuinely
shocked that this has not taken place, and they continue to believe
that if only the United States stays the course, the Iraqi people will
eventually come around. Yet what the American government does not understand
is that the forces of action and reaction are also at play within the
Iraqi nation.
It was the Iraqi people's tendency to black-and-white thinking that
created the counter force in the form of Saddam Hussein and his repressive
government. This is a problem that you see in general in the Middle
East. As I explained in my discourse on why
Jews and Arabs hate each other, there are many people in the Middle
East who simply cannot function without having an outer enemy. For the
Iraqi people, their own leader became that enemy.
Now that this leader has been removed, the Iraqi people are subconsciously
feeling a vacuum. Suddenly, the enemy they hated, and which gave them
an excuse for not changing their state of consciousness (by facing the
enemy within), has been removed. This means that their sense of stability,
which Saddam Hussein provided (as did communism in the Soviet Union
and Hitler in Nazi Germany) has been taken away, and because they are
not ready to take responsibility for themselves and for their nation,
they are fearful of the future. Therefore, instead of feeling liberated
by the United States, they react with fear and transfer their hatred
of their former dictator to the nation that threw them into this uncertain
situation.
You see, black-and-white
thinking is a form of soul immaturity, and the characteristic of this
immaturity is that people cannot or will not take responsibility for
their own lives and for their salvation. Therefore, they fall prey to
the simplistic thinking that defines the world in terms of black and
white. There is an epic struggle between good and evil, and that struggle
is fought by forces far beyond your control and on an external battlefield.
Therefore, it really isn't your fault, and you don't have to change
your state of consciousness and take responsibility for yourself.
The more mature approach is to realize that the battle between good
and evil is a battle between two states of consciousness, and therefore
it is an internal battle fought in the minds and hearts of all human
beings. The external battles are simply expressions of what is going
on in the collective consciousness, and therefore the outer situation
will not change until people change their consciousness. This change
must begin on an individual basis, and someone must start the process—meaning
you. I explain this in greater detail in another discourse.
I am not saying this is the case for all people in Iraq, because many
people are ready for greater national freedom and responsibility. Nevertheless,
what you see going on in Iraq right now is simply that people's hatred
of Saddam Hussein has been transferred to the Americans. And because
people sense that the Americans are not as ruthless as Saddam Hussein,
they do not have the same fear of standing up to the Americans as they
had of standing up to Saddam. Therefore, they are now doing to the Americans
what they should long ago have done to their own leader.
My point is that the United States, by going into Iraq, truly followed
the old saying that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. The United
States went into a nation with deep inner tensions, involving many different
opposing forces. Therefore, the United States has now become involved
with this intricate mesh of force and counter force. It has become a
force that immediately creates a counter force.
Is there a way out? Yes there are indeed many constructive ways out
for the United States. Yet to find a good way out, it will be necessary
that some of the more moderate and balanced people in the United States
military, in the government and in the Bush administration itself will
reach for the balanced perspective of the Christ mind. In so doing they
must be willing to leave behind the black-and-white thinking.
I am not going to give
any particular advice in this forum. Yet I can assure you that we of
the Ascended Host are more than willing to work with the moderate and
balanced people in the United States government. And if these people
would reach for a higher understanding, we would willingly provide the
understanding of how the crisis in Iraq could be solved in a way that
represents the best possible outcome of a situation that was not the
best possible to begin with.
I also sincerely hope that the United States will begin the process
of freeing the soul of the nation from the penetrating effects of black-and-white
thinking. As I explain throughout this website, orthodox Christianity
is far removed from my original teachings. In this modern age, time
has simply run away from this form of Christianity, and from any black-and-white
approach to religion, including what you see in Islamic fundamentalist
circles.
It is my sincere hope that the United States can rise to a higher understanding
of the true principles behind Christianity and thereby leave behind
the old ways that can only lead to conflict. If the United States does
not abandon this way of thinking, I can assure you that in the coming
years this nation will be involved in ever greater and ever more intense
conflicts that will be even more messy and humiliating than what you
currently see in Iraq.
God has given both individuals and nations free will. If you will not
learn through a higher understanding, you will be given the opportunity
to learn by seeing the consequences of your actions. This will happen
when the universe creates a reaction to your action. The universe will
literally form a concrete wall that opposes your unbalanced action.
For a time, you might be able to pound your head against the concrete
wall without major damage. Yet eventually, you will suffer a concussion
or even more devastating effects.
It was black-and-white thinking that led the United States to go to
war with Iraq. The war and the fact that the United States government
insists on continuing on its present course, has created a counter force
from the universe that this nation has no chance of overcoming. The
more the United States insist on pushing in its current direction, the
more the universe will push back. The opposition you see from the Iraqi
people, and even from foreign fighters, is simply an expression of the
fact that the universe is pushing back. I am not thereby saying that
the universe or the Ascended Host approve of the attacks on Americans
in Iraq. I am simply pointing out the fact that if the United States
want to see this opposition diminish, it has to change course, it has
to change its mindset and its fundamental approach to the situation
in Iraq. It has to leave behind the black-and-white thinking that created
the problem, because you simply cannot solve a problem with the same
state of consciousness that created the problem.
I sincerely hope that this nation will be able to change its mindset
before the situation escalates even more. I hope we can avoid the worst-case
scenario, which would be a full-scale civil war in Iraq after the hand-over
of power. If such a civil war was indeed to take place, it would be
almost inevitable that other nations would be drawn into the conflict,
and it could quickly escalate beyond the control of anyone on this planet.
I realize that I last year stated that if the United States went to
war with Iraq it would later be seen as one of the greatest mistakes
of the Bush presidency. Recent opinion polls have shown that over half
of the American people believe the war was a mistake. I am not saying
this to gloat about my prophesy being right. I am saying it because
I sincerely hope that the prophecy I just gave about the potential worst-case
scenario will not come true and will indeed be proven wrong by the American
government changing course as soon as possible.
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