Passing
through the screen door to heaven
Restoring
the WORD 4
A discourse by Jesus
NOTE: This dictation was delivered on April 7, 2007 during the Shangra-la
Easter Conference.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy
disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread
with unwashen hands? He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth
me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in
vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of
men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition
of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like
things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment
of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said,
Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother,
let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father
or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou
mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him
no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word
of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered:
and many such like things do ye. And when he had called all the people
unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and
understand: There is nothing from without a man, that entering into
him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are
they that defile the man. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples
asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them, Are ye so
without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing
from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because
it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out
into the draught, purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh
out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the
heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from
within, and defile the man. (Mr 7:5-23)
By now you are beginning to see the pattern of how the scribes and Pharisees
were always objecting to the Living Word, brought forth by me as the
Living Christ. This, my beloved, is a pattern that by no means is limited
to the scribes and Pharisees, for you see it in every religion, in every
civilization, in every spiritual tradition, in every worldly tradition.
And my beloved, what is the essence of this pattern? Well, it is precisely
that the ego is trying to build up the outer appearance that it is acceptable
in the eyes of God because it is living up to all these outer conditions.
And so, my beloved, when people are blinded by the ego, they identify
with the ego, they are attached to the outer tradition they have created—the
outer tradition that says they are saved because of the outer things
they do.
Many are ready to go beyond the outer path
You see, my beloved, I am not bringing this up to necessarily find fault
with those who are attached to outer tradition. For, as a realistic
spiritual teacher, I know that there are people on this planet who are
still very much like children and who need to still be in an outer organization,
an outer church, where they can believe that by belonging to that church
and following a few simple rules, they will be saved. There are literally
people, a certain portion of the population on Earth, who have that
legitimate need. And as a spiritual teacher I do not expect them to
rise out of that need in one lifetime.
Yet, I can also tell you that there is a large group of people on this
planet – in this day and age – who are ready to leave that
entire mindset behind—but who have not yet done so, partly because
they have never been taught. But why have they never been taught? Because
they have not so far been open to the teaching. And that is why the
eternal spiritual law cannot take effect for them. For is not the law
very clear? When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Or should
I say, my beloved, when the student is willing, the teacher
appears? For until the student is willing to hear the Living Word of
the teacher, what is the point of the teacher appearing?
Well, there is indeed a point, and that is why I came to Earth. And
the point is that the teacher can awaken people from their sleep and
shake them out of their comfortability. And you see, my beloved, there
comes that point, as I talked about yesterday, where there is a gap
between the outer person, the outer personality, the outer mind, and
the inner being of the person. And so you have a large percentage of
people on this planet who at inner levels are ready to step up to truly
understand what the spiritual path is about, but their outer minds are
not ready. For their outer minds are still too controlled by their egos.
And the people do not understand the ego, and thus do not understand
the need to separate themselves from it.
And so what is a teacher to do? Is he going to sit around passively
and wait until the people wake up by themselves? Or is he going to say,
"But at inner levels they are ready, so I will go down in a form
they can see, in a form they cannot ignore, in a form they cannot deny,
and I will do my best to awaken them to the inner reality for which
they are ready." And so, my beloved, this is the true motivation
behind all true spiritual teachers who have ever come to this planet—to
awaken those who are ready, so that they can snap out of the outer mind
and truly be awakened to the inner reality of who they are.
Letting the WORD be the judge
And so I came 2,000 years ago partly to awaken a certain group of people
who were ready for a higher teaching. But I came also for another purpose,
and that is to bring forth the Living Word that could serve as the judgment
for another group of people. These are the people, as I said, who are
not the innocent ones who are not yet ready for the WORD. No, these
are the beings who for many lifetimes, possibly
even from higher realms, have rejected the Living Word, have tried
to silence that Living Word.
And so there are certain cycles, my beloved. For when a person decides
to enter into the duality consciousness and deny its own divinity, then
that being is given a certain time to come back to the true path, to
the River of Life. And so when cycles begin to turn, and we near the
end of a certain group of lifestreams – their opportunity –
well, then the Living Christ appears to give them one last chance to
accept the Living Word or to reject that WORD and thereby receive the
judgment which says, "They shall have no more opportunity on Earth,"
perhaps for some "They shall have no more opportunity at all."
That is indeed why I said, "For judgment I am come." But as
I explained yesterday, it is not I who judge people, it is truly the
WORD, the WORD in themselves. This is what I also expressed in the quote
just read, where I wanted people to understand that it is not the outer
things that you do or don't do that will determine whether you enter
the kingdom of heaven. It is the quality of the heart, the state of
your inner being, the state of your consciousness. And so what has always
been going on in the religious and spiritual life of this planet is
that you have the two parallel tracks of the outer path – the
broad way that leads to destruction – and the inner path –
the straight and narrow way that leads to eternal life.
Understanding the WORD incarnate
And what you have seen throughout history is that – truly –
most people in the world have followed the outer path and very few have
discovered the inner path. But I am telling you that we are now at the
fortunate point where there is the potential that a much larger group
of people can awaken to the inner path and truly understand the universal
nature of that path. But we must give them assistance to be awakened.
For it will not just happen by mere happenstance or by some divine force
forcing people to awaken. And that is indeed why the Living Word incarnates
on Earth. And, my beloved, the WORD incarnate is not a limited phenomenon
that could only happen through one particular person 2,000 years ago.
The Living Word can embody through anyone who is open and willing. But
you see, my beloved – as I explained – in order to
become the open door for the Living Word, you have to be willing to
first go through the purging process of being willing to allow the WORD
to purify your own being from those imperfections that could cause you
to either block the WORD or color the WORD with your own mindset, your
own dualistic filter.
And so the question really is whether people, those who are the spiritually
evolved and mature people, are going to be willing to step up and let
go of the ancient mindset that by following certain outer directions
you can qualify for salvation. Will people be willing to acknowledge
the reality that unless you change your inner being, unless you change
your consciousness, you cannot qualify for salvation? Which means that
you have to take total responsibility for yourself.
You see, my beloved, the reason why official Christianity turned me
into an idol, turned me into the savior who is up there on a pedestal
saving all people, is that not enough people were ready to understand
the inner path. And then the blind leaders – who have rejected
the Living Word for eons – stepped into the Christian churches,
took over and set themselves up as the authority, which is what they
always do. The power elite set themselves up as the only ones who know
how to interpret the Word.
And so they do exactly as I said of the scribes and Pharisees: they
turn the Word of God into no effect in their tradition. They teach for
doctrines, the commandments of men (Mark 7:7), because they take the
Living Word and they project their own dualistic filter onto that WORD.
And now they interpret the word through that filter, setting up outer
doctrines and outer rules which they then claim are infallible. And
then they will use that outer tradition to judge anyone who comes representing
the Living Word, in their attempts to either silence that person or
prevent the people from following the true leader who represents the
Living Word instead of the dead word.
Do you see, my beloved, that as soon as a word has been expressed in
this world, in a form that can be copied and interpreted, as soon as
that happens, the Word becomes the dead word. My beloved, as I explained
before, the Bible, the written Bible that you pick up, is the dead word.
But if you read that word and allow it to enter your heart and reach
for the Comforter who can breathe new life into that word as you study
it, well then the word that you read can become the Living Word in your
heart. But it cannot become the Living Word in your head, where you
interpret it with the analytical, linear mind.
And so you see, my beloved, in order to truly accept the Living Word
and accept yourself as the open door for the Living Word, you have to
be willing to let go of the outer tradition and the mindset behind that
tradition, which really is an attempt to create a guaranteed path to
salvation: "If I follow these outer rules, God has to
save me—even if I have not been willing to change the condition
of my heart, to pull the beam from my own eye. Even if I still have
all these lies and imperfect conditions in my heart, God still has to
save me."
Understanding how salvation works
Now, my beloved, you all know from your daily experience why this is
impossible. You know very well that most of you have screens in front
of your windows. The screens have small holes in them so the air can
pass through and the light can pass through, but insects that are too
big cannot pass through. You know very well that if you tried to drive
a big truck into an ordinary garage, you are going to have a problem,
because the opening is not big enough for the truck to go through. And
so you know very well that if you are to enter through an opening, you
must be able to fit through that opening.
And so the image I would give you is that the pearly gate that leads
into heaven has a screen door with very tiny holes in it. Your physical
body cannot pass through that—that is obvious. But what I want
you to understand is that those elements in your being, in your consciousness,
that spring from duality, those elements cannot pass through the screen
door either. They are like little moths and flies, buzzing around in
your energy field, in your consciousness. And they will hit the screen
and not be able to pass through. And so the problem is that if you have
these elements in your container
of self, as you try to go through the screen door – and if
you are not willing to let go of them – well then, my beloved,
they will hit the screen and keep you outside. Is this not obvious?
And so the only way to pass through the screen door to heaven is to
realize that you are more than all of these dualistic beliefs, for you,
the core of your being, is the conscious
self. Your conscious self does not have any substance as such, and
therefore your conscious self can pass through the screen door. But
it can do so only when it is willing to give up the dualistic beliefs
and come into the condition I described when I said, "The prince
of this world comes and has nothing in me" (John 14:30). For I
had gotten rid of all the little bugs in my subconscious mind. And so
there was nothing, there was no resistance for me passing through the
screen into heaven.
And how do you overcome these dualistic beliefs? Well, there is only
one way and that is to reach for something that is beyond duality. And
that something, of course, is the Living Word. And so the Living Word,
when you allow it into your being, will purge you of those unreal beliefs.
It will expose them to you and then you can see them and you can let
them go. But what has happened to many people in the world is that they
are not willing to look in the mirror, they are not willing to look
at themselves.
And for some, as I said, this is understandable for they are not ready.
They would be too devastated if they were to look in the mirror and
acknowledge that they had some kind of flaw that would keep them out
of heaven—a flaw that they are unable to change because they are
not yet ready to take full responsibility for themselves.
But, my beloved, what I am addressing here are the many people who are
ready at inner levels, and who simply need to shift their outer minds
to the point where they acknowledge the reality that the outer path
can never lead you to the eternal life, to heaven, to salvation, to
cosmic consciousness, to the ascension or whatever you want to call
it. By following an outer path, be it in a New Age teaching or in any
of the traditional religions, you will never – ever – get
to where you want to go. For you will never get rid of all the bugs
that cannot pass through the screen door. And so only when you step
onto that inner path – and are willing to look in the mirror and
realize, "There is an element of duality in my consciousness"
– well only then will you truly enter the path to Christhood.
Overcoming the gray zone
And, my beloved, I know that there is a point, there is an interim stage,
where you are ready at inner levels but your outer mind has not yet
acknowledged it, has not yet accepted that you are ready. And so your
outer mind resists the process of looking in the mirror. My beloved,
I saw this in all of my disciples in the time I spent with them—how
they went back and forth, being somewhat willing but not quite willing
to allow me to expose to them their own imperfect beliefs.
And so, I understand you go through a process of trepidation. I do not
expect you to – in one day – suddenly be shaken out of it.
For you see, my beloved, there is a very important principle that Saint
Germain described last night. And that is that we walk a tightrope.
For we want to awaken people, but we do not want to awaken them so abruptly
that they are devastated or shocked by it and therefore switch from
one extreme to the other.
We know very well that you all still need to have some sense of self-esteem.
And as long as your sense of self-esteem is based on the things of this
world—if we were to expose all of the illusions that you hold,
your self-esteem could be shattered and you would feel like you were
no good. And this is, indeed, what you see in some people in the Christian
movements, who come to the realization that they are miserable sinners.
And what you see, my beloved, is that on one hand these people needed
to be awakened because they were heading in the wrong direction and
creating one crisis after another for themselves. But when they fall
into the traditional fundamentalist Christian mindset, they switch to
the opposite extreme, and now they see themselves as miserable sinners
who can never do anything on their own. And they think I am the only
one who will save them. And so they fall prey to the illusion –
again – of the outer path presented by the Christian churches,
that by the simple measure of declaring Jesus to be your Lord and savior,
you need to do nothing else, for now you are saved.
And you see, my beloved, this then causes these people to be no better
off than they were before they were converted. For, you see, they are
still in the same mindset of not having taken responsibility for themselves,
not having taken responsibility for changing their own hearts and minds
so that they can free their minds from all the debris that cannot pass
through the screen door.
Only the WORD will purge you of duality
This is indeed the problem, the essential problem, on planet Earth—in
every tradition, even in secular traditions where they somehow think
that a political party is the key to some form of salvation, as they
truly believed in most of the communist world. Or at least some believed
this.
So my beloved, the reality is this: only the Living Word will help you,
will empower you, to overcome the imperfections in your own being that
stand in the way of your entry into heaven. And this is precisely the
truth that I hope you will all internalize – truly understand
– and then go out and teach to others. For this is the truth that
must come out in this age.
For, as I have explained in my ego
discourses, there are many spiritually mature people who have seen
through the fallacies of the black-and-white thinking of the fundamentalist
and orthodox Christians. Yet they have unknowingly gone into the opposite
extreme of gray thinking, where they still think that they can create
their own tradition independently of the Living Word.
And so, you have many people in the New Age movement who look down upon
the Christians, realizing that the Christians have created their own
tradition and therefore made the Word of God of no effect. But they
fail to see that they have done the same thing, just from the opposite
direction. They have arrived at the same point of creating an outer
tradition and mindset that simply will not allow them to enter.
For you see, my beloved, once again we have the image of the external
God who judges everything. But nobody in heaven is looking down upon
Earth and judging people. It is, as I said, the WORD that will judge
you. It is through your words that you shall be justified or condemned,
it is through whether you have the Living Word in your being, whether
your beliefs, whether your sense of identity is based on the Living
Word or on the dead word, the dualistic word, the divided word.
If you have too many elements, or for that matter any elements, of the
divided word, the dualistic word, in your being, you cannot pass through
that screen door. Only when you have fully absorbed the Living Word
and have been willing to look at anything in your being, then can you
enter through that screen door, for now there is no resistance.
Is there any absolute truth?
And so, my beloved, I desire you to understand more of the nature of
the Living Word. And truly I will speak more about this. But I want
to leave you with one thought to contemplate and that is: There is a
dream in religious tradition of finding some absolute, some infallible
scripture or teaching that is absolutely true at all times and for all
conditions. And so many people look for that absolute truth and think
there has to be such a thing as absolute truth.
But what I desire you to contemplate is my words spoken 2,000 years
ago, "God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him
in Spirit and in Truth" (John 4:24). Take note that I did not tell
people to worship God through the scriptures. And so how can it be that
so many people in the Christian world think that they can only know
God and contemplate God through the scriptures—and that any idea
about God must conform to scripture or it is false?
You see, my beloved, the Living Word is what allows you to rise above
duality, but only when you internalize it and make it come alive in
your heart. So as I speak these words into the physical octave –
where you can hear these words – if you only listen to my words
with the intellect, then these words are not the Living Word. They are
the dead word in your mind, even though I speak them from the spiritual
realm, and I, as the Living Christ, truly am expressing the Living Word
in the material universe. The Living Word does not come alive in you
unless you allow it to come alive, allow it to transform you, allow
it to show you something that you have not so far seen and that your
ego is not willing to see and does not want you to see.
So you see, my beloved, there is no way to express an absolute truth
in the physical universe. Because anything that is expressed becomes
subject to interpretation. And so, people impose their filters upon
it and, depending on their willingness to see through their own filter,
they can kill the Living Word in an instant, in the instant it enters
their being.
You have heard the saying that what someone says to you goes in one
ear and out the other. Well, I can tell you that there are many people
who listen to the Living Word, and the Living Word goes in one ear but
then the dead word comes out the other ear. And so it has not effect
on them, for these people have made the Word of God of no effect in
their tradition, in the tradition that is between their ears, namely
in the brain and the analytical mind. For they are not listening to
the Word with their heart but only with their mind. And that is indeed
why I could say that these people honoureth God with their mouth but
their heart is far from him (Matthew 15:8).
Why people’s outer minds resist truth
And so, my beloved, I must tell you that there are millions of people
on this planet right now who are ready at inner levels to accept this
truth. Yet, you will still find that their outer minds might resist
you for a while. And so what happens here is that you must be willing
to be persistent and to not let their rejection of the Living Word cause
YOU to reject the Living Word or refuse to give it out to others. For
my beloved, if you will be honest in this process, you will know that
when you try to share the Word with someone and they reject you, the
reaction you have to their rejection will show you something about what
you have not resolved in yourself.
For truly, if you give them the Living Word with total non-attachment
– the profoundness of Maitreya's teaching in his
book where he talks about separating action from reaction, separating
action from results, from any expectation of a particular outcome –
if you are willing to do this, then you will have no attachments and
you cannot be affected negatively whatsoever by them rejecting you and
calling you names and accusing you of being a tool of the devil, as
they accused me of being many times.
So again, delivering the WORD to others is a two-edged sword because
it will show you what is unresolved in yourself. But I trust that you
will be willing to look at yourself in the mirror and say, "Aah,
I see now that I reacted to that person in a way that is less than harmonious.
And so let me discover that attachment and overcome it so I can move
on." For truly, my beloved, I will tell you the absolute truth
here: You are not responsible for how other people respond when you
give them the WORD.
Your responsibility is to give the WORD
so that they have an opportunity to make a choice. Your responsibility
is not choosing for them.
So therefore, you can be completely non-attached. For, as I said, everyone
shall be judged by the WORD. And you will be judged by your
willingness to share the WORD you have internalized. And when you have
shared the WORD, you have done your job. And now it is up to them how
they accept or reject the WORD, but that will be their judgment
not yours. And you do not need to judge them, for, as I said,
the WORD will take care of this. Judge not that ye be not judged (Matthew
7:1).
So, my beloved, be willing to observe yourself. And observe when you
have a reaction where you feel uneasy, out of harmony, somewhat fearful
or apprehensive and then say: "Why should I feel that way? There
is no reason for me to feel that way unless I have an attachment. And
that attachment cannot pass through the screen door, so let me uncover
it and get rid of it, for I want to go through that door."
Once again, I thank you for your attention for, I have spoken my peace
in this installment and will surely give you more when the time is appropriate.
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