Going
beyond a dualistic view of God’s Will
A
dictation by El Morya
NOTE: This dictation was delivered on April 8, 2007 during the Shangra-la
Easter Conference.
El Morya I AM! And I am indeed the Chohan of the Will of God. Yet I
come to give you a deeper understanding of the Will of God. For again,
my beloved, in previous times – even in previous organizations
that we have sponsored – we have been limited to giving an understanding
of the Will of God that was appropriate, given the state of consciousness
of humankind at the time, even given the state of consciousness of the
members of the previous organizations we have sponsored.
So you see, my beloved, progressive revelation is progressive precisely
because as humankind steps up in consciousness – as our closest
disciples step up in consciousness – we can release a more profound
understanding of some aspect of God than what we could release yesterday
or years ago.
A higher understanding of the Will of God
And so, my beloved, in previous organizations I have indeed personally
given an understanding of the Will of God that was not the highest possible,
for we did not yet have the magnificent teachings released that we have
seen within the last year and more through this activity of the focus
on non-duality, the consciousness of duality, exposing how it pulls
everything into two extremes.
And so you see, my beloved, children must be given hard and fast rules.
Do this—don’t do that. For they do not yet have the maturity
to decide for themselves, to come to a greater understanding and recognition.
And so, in previous times I have been limited to giving an understanding
of the Will of God that is somewhat black-and-white. And indeed, there
are many people in today’s world who are beyond the black-and-white
thinking. Yet they have come into the gray
thinking of thinking that you can ignore the Will of God altogether.
For after all, you have free will so you can do whatever you want.
And in a sense this is perfectly correct. You do have free will, and
you can do whatever you want. But, as we have explained, whatever
you project into the cosmic mirror, the cosmic mirror will reflect back
to you, so you will experience what you create. And so, we again face
the situation that you have used your free will to either create or
enter into these roles
in the play that are defined by the dualistic thinking. And you
have free will to do this.
So indeed, from a certain perspective one can say that it is the Will
of God that you can create this experience for yourself—if you
desire to experience the contrast between light and dark, joy and sorrow.
But it is not the Will of God that you should stay stuck in those roles
forever. Neither is it the will of your own higher Being, for my beloved,
you did not come to earth to fight other people in a ceaseless, endless
struggle. You came here out of a positive desire to bring the light
of your own Being into this world. And therefore light up the world
and truly bring the material universe and the entire
sphere to the point of ascending and becoming part of the spiritual
realm that is beyond duality, so that you can experience that endless,
infinite bliss that has no contrast.
So the Will of God is not something that can be fully understood in
black-and-white terms. But neither can it be explained in gray terms.
It can only be understood by going beyond and contemplating the reality
that you do have the right to make your own decisions, but until you
become aware of why you are making certain decisions and what consequences
those decisions have, you do not truly have freedom, freedom of choice.
True freedom of choice
So you see, my beloved, you have an entire movement in the United States
that champions a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own
body. Yet that same movement is violently opposed to giving that woman
– when she enters an abortion clinic – information about
the potential dangers of abortion, the potential psychological effects
of abortion, the alternatives to abortion—even the higher teachings
on the soul
perspective on abortion.
And so, how can a movement truly be said to be championing a woman’s
freedom of choice, if they will not give that woman the entire information
she needs in order to make a truly free choice? You see, my beloved,
this is not freedom of choice. And so, when you are stuck in one of
the dualistic roles, you might think that you can do anything you want,
but if you do not fully understand what is involved with the decision,
you are not making a free decision.
And so, again, because you have free will, you can envelop yourself
in a limited state of mind where you do not have free choice, but it
is not God’s will that you stay there forever. And that is why
the Living Christ is sent to Earth. That is why the Word
incarnates—in order to awaken people to the reality that there
is an alternative to the entire decision-making process in which they
are currently stuck.
And so, how can people escape duality? Well, they can do so only by
reaching for something outside their current mental box. And indeed,
in the beginning it is necessary for people to have some kind of hard-and-fast
rule which says essentially, “If you do this, you will go to hell.
If you do that, you will go to heaven.” For this allows people
an absolute guideline that their own egos cannot manipulate. And if
they will follow that guideline, even as many people do in a traditional
Christian churches – where they are very black-and-white in terms
of following outer rules – well then they can at least gradually
grow out of the total domination of the ego, the total inability to
determine what is right and wrong in a higher sense, for everything
seems gray to them. Or everything seems dualistic.
Yet as we have explained, there comes that point where you have to step
up and not simply follow the outer rules, but go within and get your
direction from within instead of blindly following an outer rule, or
an outer doctrine, or an outer leader. And this is indeed when you have
to attain the deeper understanding of the Will of God that I am talking
about. And that understanding could not be given in previous dispensations,
which is why many of the students of those dispensations still hold
on to the black-and-white view of the Will of God—as something
they have to follow without questioning, almost as if they were robots
following a leader.
And yet, my beloved, when you come to the realization that there is
more to it than the black-and-white and gray thinking, you suddenly
realize that you cannot take the Will of God and draw it down and create
some rule that applies to all situations. This is the ego
again, with its incessant dream of an automatic salvation where
it says, “Give me a rule that I do not eat with unwashen hands,
so that I can believe that as long as I follow that outer rule I am
guaranteed to go to heaven.”
The Will of God is beyond rules
Yet the mature spiritual seekers need to step up and realize that when
you go beyond the childhood stage, the kindergarten stage, you need
to come to a deeper understanding of the Will of God. And that is when
you begin to realize that you cannot confine the Will of God to any
hard-and-fast rule in this world. For indeed, my beloved, the Will of
God is simply one expression of the Logos, of the Word of God. And as
Jesus has eloquently explained, the
Living Christ comes into this world to meet a person where this person
is at in consciousness and then challenge the person’s illusions,
challenge the person’s mental box in order to get that person
to come up higher.
So my beloved, what is the Will of God? Well, it is that wherever YOU
are at – wherever YOU are at, wherever YOU are at – you
take one step higher on your path. Do you see what I am saying? The
Will of God for one person right now – at that person’s
particular stage of the spiritual path – is not the same as the
Will of God for another person who is at a different level. And so you
now come into the realization that you cannot have a spiritual organization,
a mature spiritual organization, which sets these hard-and-fast rules,
saying all members of that organization should follow these rules or
they will be excommunicated and possibly sent to hell.
And so you see, my beloved, what we need to see in the Aquarian Age
is the emergence of an organization, such as what you have seen in this
activity, that does not set rules for what you should do and what you
should not do. And this, of course, is a challenge, for suddenly all
responsibility is placed on the individual. You see, my beloved, there
was a time – as Jesus explained in a recent
discourse – where I sponsored the organization of the
Summit Lighthouse and gave a certain sponsorship to each person that
entered and vowed to live up to certain outer rules. This was the old
way, the Piscean way. And while it has its place, it is not the ultimate
goal of a spiritual organization.
For surely, as Maitreya explains in great detail in
his book, you will not become the Christ by following anyone else.
You will not even become the Christ by being under the sponsorship of
an ascended master, for becoming the Christ means that you become spiritually
self-sufficient. And now you do not need someone or something outside
yourself to tell you what it is the Will of God. For you can go within
your heart, become one with your own God flame, and thus you will know
what the specific Will of God is for you in this specific situation.
Find the Will of God within
You see, my beloved, I am the Chohan of the First Ray of God’s
Will, so I represent the Will of God to the spiritual seekers on Earth.
And it is my job to help everyone get a greater understanding for and
connection to the Will of God, and I must do so at different levels.
So for those who are in kindergarten, I give them a black-and-white
teaching and a set of rules. But I always look forward to those who
can rise beyond that level and who are willing to take responsibility
for themselves, even to the point where they realize that as long as
they look at El Morya as being outside themselves, then they have not
fully come into oneness with the Will of God.
For my beloved, who are you listening to right now? You are listening
to an ascended Being who is speaking through a person in embodiment.
And thus – clearly – the word of that ascended being is
coming to you from outside your sphere of self, entering your sphere
of self, which is perfectly valid. For as long as people are out of
touch with the Will of God, they can only come into oneness with the
Will of God by having some element from the outside that gives them
a lodestone, a guideline, a leaven that can raise the whole loaf of
their consciousness, the body and blood of Christ that they can multiply.
But you will not manifest your Christhood by taking in only from without.
You will manifest your Christhood only when you realize that what you
experienced from without is not outside yourself. For you can find the
Will of God in the kingdom of God within you. And so, as we have said
throughout this conference, experiencing the Living Word from without,
will only have ultimate meaning when you allow that word from without
to become alive in your own hearts, so that you will find the Will of
God in your own hearts. And you suddenly realize that the Being that
you identified as El Morya – as an ascended master speaking through
an embodied messenger – is also in your heart. For where do I
reside, my beloved? I reside in the kingdom of God. And where is the
kingdom of God? It is within you!
So, when the outer El Morya becomes one with the inner El Morya, then
you will know El Morya. And then you will know the Will of God for you.
For it is unique for each one of you. And each one of you have a unique
opportunity to express a specific facet of the Will of God. For my beloved,
contrary to what some of our previous students believe, we of the ascended
masters have no desire to turn our students into robots, into blind
followers. We want to raise you up to become here below all that you
are above. It is indeed the false teachers of this world who want to
turn people into robots who blindly follow them and who will, so to
speak, drink the cool-aide when they are told to do so.
This is the way of the ascended masters. Yet as I have said, in previous
organizations we had to give people a more simplified way that was adapted
to their state of consciousness, so we had to give them rules. But I
will also tell you that we have had organizations – and we still
have organizations on this Earth – where we give people so many
rules to box them in so tightly that hopefully they will come to that
point of saying, “I have had enough of this. I have had enough
of this role of being the goodie-two-shoes who always follows all the
outer rules to the letter. I can’t even move anymore. There has
got to be more to the spiritual path than this.”
And that is then when people can go one of two ways. They can go into
total rebellion and saying, “I will have nothing more to do with
the spiritual path or any spiritual organization.” As we indeed
have seen some students do. But my beloved, why do they react that way?
They react that way for only one reason. Namely – as Maitreya
explains in his book – they refuse to take full responsibility
for themselves. And so instead of taking the responsibility to connect
to the Will of God within themselves, they find it easier to follow
an outer teacher who promises them that he will save them if they will
follow him blindly.
[This paragraph added later per El Morya’s instruction] The second
option is that instead of going from one extreme – total submission
to the outer rules – to the opposite extreme – total
rebellion – they can go beyond duality and find a more discerning
understanding of the Will of God. Thus, realizing that the only way
to know the specific Will of God for you is through the Living Word
within yourself. Meaning that the restoration of the WORD is the master
key to restoring the Will of God on Earth.
And so, my beloved, this is the challenge you all face. Do you want
to know the Will of God? Well, then stop looking for it outside yourself!
For the Will of God is in the kingdom of God. And the kingdom of God
is, as we have said a million times – hoping that one of these
days it will click – well it is within you. For where else can
it possibly be found, given what you know that everything was made from
the LOGOS.
And therefore, the LOGOS must be in everything—including in you.
Thus, my beloved, with gratitude for your attention, with gratitude
for your willingness to grapple with the difficult questions and come
to the awareness that life is not as black-and-white as you once thought,
I seal you in the gratitude of my heart, my diamond heart, the diamond
of the Will of God.
And my beloved, why is a diamond beautiful? Because it has many facets
that sparkle individually, but together form a whole. You are all facets
in the diamond of the Will of God—when you connect to the Will
of God within yourselves.
Thus I bid you adieu, in gratitude. [Applause]
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