Who
and what are you and why are you here?
Understanding
the components of self
Since
you are a religious and/or spiritually inclined person, you already
know there is more to your being than meets the eye.
Yet most of us – especially in the Western world – have
been programmed to deny our inherent spirituality. Modern science tells
us our personality is a product of the firing of neurons in the gray
stuff between our ears. Most Western religions say that although we
have a soul that can enter a higher world, we cannot do so on our own.
We need an outer savior or an outer church in order to be saved.
Thus, both science and religion portrays us as incomplete beings that
do not have the potential to become spiritually self-sufficient. Yet
the inner, mystical teachings of most religions disagree with this assessment.
Jesus himself told us that the kingdom of God is within us and that
we will not find it as long as we are looking for it outside ourselves.
The purpose of this page is to help you discover who you truly are by
describing the components of your total being. By integrating this knowledge,
you can free yourself from the programming of denial and begin to unfold
your spiritual potential. You can BE here below, all that you are Above.
The explanation given here is a summary of the extensive and profound
teachings found in Mother Mary’s book, Master
Keys to the Abundant Life. You will also find additional teachings
on this throughout this website.
Parallel or interpenetrating realities
The foundation
for a spiritual outlook on life is the realization that we live in a
world with two realities, namely the material realm and the spiritual
realm. Most religions agree with this viewpoint, yet Western religion
generally says there is an impenetrable barrier between the two realms.
Thus, you need some kind of external mediator – a savior or a
church – in order to cross the barrier and be saved. Before you
can fully accept who you are, you have to overcome this illusion of
separation.
Ironically, even though science denies the existence of anything beyond
the material world, science has opened up for a deeper understanding
of the relationship between the spiritual and the material realm. Albert
Einstein’s theory of relativity proves that everything is energy.
Energy is often described as a form of vibration, which means there
could be an infinite range of vibrations.
We know there are different levels of vibration in the material universe.
For example, visible light ranges from the low frequencies of red light
to the higher frequencies of violet light. Yet beyond this range we
find ultraviolet light and science has found even higher vibrations.
Science has even proven a flow of energy/subatomic particles from an
unseen realm into the world we can measure.
The importance of these findings is that science has broken down the
barrier between matter and energy. The world is not made from two separate
and incompatible elements but is made from only one substance that takes
on various appearances. Energy can appear as ever-moving waves, as stationary
fields or as “solid” matter. These findings have
broken down all of the barriers we traditionally set up with our outer
minds, such as the barrier between mind and matter or the barrier
between the spiritual realm and the material realm. For a more detailed
discussion of this, see the following
section.
In reality, everything is made from the same basic substance. Science
calls it energy, the Bible calls it light (And God said, Let there be
light!) and Mother Mary calls it the Ma-ter light. This substance can
be molded into any form, and it has been used to create everything in
the world of form. Thus, the material universe is made from the same
basic “stuff” as the spiritual realm. The Ma-ter light has
simply been lowered into a different vibrational spectrum and our senses/minds
currently see it as solid substance instead of vibrating energy. This
is what gives rise to the illusion that there is a separation between
Spirit and matter. In reality, the spiritual realm is interpenetrating
with the material universe—it is right here with us.
The world, our senses and outer minds program us to believe that we
are disconnected beings that have been thrown into a hostile world without
a lifeline. In reality we are extensions of – individualizations
of – a greater spiritual being. This being is not some remote
God in the sky. It is the spiritual part of your own being and you came
out of it. Thus, you can never truly be separated from it.
However, most people have fallen prey to the illusion – an illusion
that can exist only in the mind – that we are separated from,
even that we have been abandoned by – our spiritual selves. The
true goal of all spiritual teachings is to help us reestablish a conscious
connection to our own higher beings, leading to a full realization
and acceptance of who we really are.
The point is that we all have a higher and a lower part of our beings.
The higher part exists in the spiritual realm and cannot be affected
by anything in the material world. The lower part is the vehicle for
our experiences and our expression in the material world. The following
sections will explain the components of the higher and lower parts of
our beings.
Your higher Being
Your God Flame
The concept of a God Flame has been introduced by Jesus, Mother
Mary and other masters in recent years. It refers to the fact that it
is only in the material world that things seem solid. In the spiritual
realm, everything seems more transparent because it is made from energies
of higher – thus less “dense” – vibrations.
As you go to higher levels of the spiritual realm, you encounter higher
and higher – more intense – vibrations. Thus, to the human
eye, the higher spiritual beings seem like balls of fire or flames of
great intensity. This concept is even found in the Bible as God appearing
to Moses as a spiritual fire that did not consume the physical bush:
And
the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of
the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush was not consumed. (Exodus 3:2)
For our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29)
The masters
have not (yet) told us how many different God Flames there are. There
could potentially be an infinite number, especially when you consider
that your personal God Flame has two components. Your flame has a masculine
or Alpha polarity and a feminine or Omega polarity.
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The Alpha
polarity is the core of your Being. It is the God quality out of
which your I AM Presence (see below) came. Thus, the very core of
your Being embodies the central qualities of this God Flame. For
example, your Alpha component might be Love.
- Your Omega
polarity is the specific quality that you are meant to bring to Earth.
It is your gift to this world, the contribution that your higher being
wanted to make to the overall purpose of expanding the spiritual light
in the material world, thus gradually turning this world into another
part of the spiritual realm. When this happens, it will no longer
be possible for people to fall prey to the illusion that they are
separated from their higher beings—which is the illusion that
gives rise to all human suffering. Thus, we might say that we all
came here to help end suffering.
For example,
say your Alpha flame is Love and your Omega flame is Truth. In that
case, you are here to bring truth—for example by giving people
spiritual understanding or a better vision for how to improve their
material lives. However, in order to be successful, you need to bring
truth within the overall quality of your Alpha flame of love. You must
bring truth in a loving way or your truth will not be well received
by others. The point here is that only by having balance between the
two polarities of your God Flame will you be ultimately successful.
As another example, consider that your Alpha flame is Power and your
Omega flame is truth. In that case, you can and should be more direct
and powerful in your expression of truth. Yet you must not fall into
the lower aspect of power by seeking to control others in order to force
them to accept your truth. The essential point is that your particular
God Flame is unique to you, and thus you have to be true to who you
are in order to fulfill your reason for being here.
The concept of a God Flame is probably new to you and it can seem somewhat
confusing in the beginning. Yet as you walk the spiritual path and reestablish
your conscious connection to your higher being (as described on this
page and throughout this website), you will gain greater clarity concerning
the qualities of your God Flame. Here are a couple of hints that can
help you get started:
The point being
that all such observations can help you discover the qualities of your
God Flame.
Your spiritual self or I AM Presence
The chart illustrates the higher and lower parts of your total being.
The core of your spiritual self is also called your I AM Presence to
signify that it is your true identity, it is what gives you the ability
to know that “I am!” The top figure depicts your I AM Presence
as the white sphere.
The French philosopher René Descartes said, “ I think,
therefore I am.” While this is a valid observation from the material
universe, the higher reality is that you must have a sense of being
before you can think. Thus, your spiritual self gives you a sense of
being and the fact that you have consciousness enables you to think.
I AM, therefore I can think.
The name “I AM” is linked to the name that God gave to Moses
on Mount Sinai:
13
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent
me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall
I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
(Exodus, Chapter 3)
As Jesus explains
on this page, there is
a hierarchy of spiritual beings in Heaven. They extend from the highest
God through many levels of vibration, many levels of the spiritual realm.
Your lifestream is part of that hierarchy, part of the Chain of Being.
In other words, in the material realm most people have a sense of identity
as being separate beings, and we see ourselves as separated from other
people, from nature and from God.
In the spiritual realm all conscious beings realize that all life is
one and came from the same source. This does not mean that spiritual
beings don’t have individuality. Yet they see that their individuality
is an expression of a higher Being that reaches all the way back to
the Creator as the source of all life. This is clearly stated in the
Bible:
Without
him was not anything made that was made. (John 1:3)
In other words,
in the spiritual realm, all beings have a sense of oneness without sameness,
seeing each other and themselves as unique expressions of the same transcendent
reality—what we human beings call “God.”
Your lower being is an extension of, an individualization of, your I
AM presence, and it was created out of God’s desire to be more—which
is unconditional love. Your I AM Presence desired to send a part of
itself into the material universe, partly to experience this level of
God’s creation from the inside and partly to help co-create God’s
kingdom here on Earth.
Your I AM Presence contains the divine blueprint for your individuality,
all of the characteristics that make you a unique expression of God’s
Being. This blueprint was created by your spiritual parents –
spiritual Beings existing in one of the spiritual realms – and
it is permanent and immutable. It is, so to speak, the foundation for
your efforts as a co-creator.
The very purpose of life is to grow in self-awareness and to expand
our creative abilities until we can take dominion over the material
universe (the mastery of mind over matter demonstrated by Jesus and
the Buddha) and thereby bring God’s kingdom to Earth. When we
use our creative abilities wisely, we can build upon the foundation
of our divine individuality and can actually expand it. We thus become
more than we were created to be by learning positively from our experiences
in the material universe.
Because the I AM Presence resides in a realm of vibrations that is higher
than the material universe, it cannot be negatively affected by any
mistake we make in this realm. No matter what mistakes you might have
made, it has not impacted your true identity. Therefore, regardless
of how miserable you might feel, you ALWAYS have the potential to reconnect
to your I AM Presence and unlock your true spiritual potential.
This is a safety mechanism built into God’s design of the universe,
and you can NEVER lose your ability to establish a sense of oneness
with your higher being. However, as we will see later, there are certain
components of your lower being that work against this connection and
make you feel separated from God.
Your causal body
On the chart, you will see a number of colored rings around the white
sphere that represents your I AM Presence. This represents the attainment
you have gathered through your many lifetimes in the material world.
It is a product of your positive learning experiences—and take
note that even what seems like a mistake to a human being can be turned
into a positive learning experience.
Thus, it is wise to look at life as a scientific experiment. We are
here to find out what works and what doesn’t work. As long as
we are willing to turn every experience into a positive learning experience,
there is no point in feeling guilty for our mistakes. When Thomas Edison
was working on inventing the light bulb, he tried 2000 materials that
didn’t work before he found one that worked. He didn’t look
at this as having made 2,000 mistakes. He said, “I discovered
2,000 ways not to make a light bulb.”
You might have discovered 2,000 ways not to make the kind of human being
you want to be, but these experiences can still be used to make the
kind of human being you do want to be.
The Bible refers to the causal body in these sayings:
19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew,
Chapter 6)
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One
thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give
to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take
up the cross, and follow me. (Mark 10:21)
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because
he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
(Genesis 37:3)
Your causal
body can be seen as your cosmic bank account that you can draw on for
your spiritual growth and for the fulfillment of your purpose for coming
to Earth. Once you reestablish a conscious connection to your higher
being, you will be able to draw upon your experiences from past lifetimes.
This is why certain people are able to compose symphonies or perform
other amazing feats as young children.
The flow of energy
The figure-8 that frames
the upper and lower figures represents the flow of energy from your
I AM Presence into your lower being. When you are lost in the duality
consciousness, you will misqualify the spiritual energies, and they
cannot ascend back to the spiritual realm. These energies become your
karma, and the misqualified energy accumulates in your four lower bodies
(see later).
This misqualified energy blocks your intuitive connection to your I
AM Presence and it reduces the energy that can flow from your Presence,
thus restricting your creative abilities.
When you reclaim the balance of your four lower bodies, the figure-8
flow is restored, and the energies now flow back to the spiritual realm,
where they are multiplied and sent back to you. Thus, when you multiply
your talents, your creative powers are expanded. Jesus explains this
in his parable about the talents:
For whosoever hath,
to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever
hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
(Matthew 13:12)
The true way to multiply
your talents is to selflessly work on raising up all life. You do this
by expressing your God Flame instead of pursuing goals aimed at raising
up yourself or taking from others. This can be done fully only when
you attain personal Christhood, meaning that you overcome the human
ego (see later). You then see yourself as a co-creator with God and
realize that you are one with your I AM Presence.
Through this state of enlightenment, you will also realize that all
other co-creators came from the same source, and thus all people are
part of the Body of God on Earth. Thus, the true way to raise up yourself
is to selflessly work to help others overcome the ego and attain spiritual
freedom. Jesus described the oneness of all life in the following quotes:
Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
(Matthew 20:27)
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men
unto me. (John 12:32)
Paul also talked about the
oneness of all life:
So we, being many,
are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
(Romans 12:5)
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
(1Corinthians 12:12)
Your lower being
The lower figure in the chart
represents you, the evolving lifestream. The chart shows your lifestream
at its highest potential, meaning that you are free of the consciousness
of duality and have put on the mind of Christ. Thus, your lower being
reflects the perfection of your higher Being. You can be here below
all that you are Above.
The Vitruvian man by Leonardo DaVinci symbolizes your lower being in
a perfectly balanced state. The figure is surrounded by a circle, which
represents the plane of spirit. The square represents the material universe,
created from the “squaring of the circle,” namely the process
whereby Spirit became matter.
The square symbolizes the four basic elements, namely fire, air, water
and Earth. This represents your four lower “bodies,” namely
your identity body, your mental body, your emotional body and your physical
body. (For a more detailed explanation, see later)
Let us take a closer look at the components of your lower being.
The Conscious You
The Conscious You, or conscious self, is a new concept that was introduced
by Mother Mary in her book. It is not found in most spiritual teachings,
and thus it takes some thinking to get your mind around it at first.
However, when you internalize the concept, you see how it can accelerate
your spiritual growth tremendously.
The conscious self is the seat of your sense of identity. Your I AM
Presence gives you existence, but it is the conscious you that is self-aware
in the material world and recognizes, “I AM.” It is also
the conscious self that – ideally – makes the important
decisions in your life.
The key to understanding why the conscious self is such a revolutionary
concept is the realization that the Conscious You is charged with the
task of defining your identity as a co-creator on Earth. In other words,
your divine identity is anchored in your I AM Presence, but in order
to express yourself in the material world, you need a sense of identity
as a co-creator in this world. This sense of identity is not created
for you, and you must define it by yourself. It is the Conscious You
which has been given the task of defining what comes after the words
“I AM…”
The Conscious You is an expression of God’s Being, a state of
pure awareness. We might say that the Conscious You has a built-in sense
that “I AM” but it has no contents in that self-awareness.
Consequently, the conscious self can identity itself as absolutely anything
it chooses. In theory, it can identify itself as a rock.
This is what gives us the ability to identify ourselves as spiritual
beings who are here to take dominion over the Earth (our high potential)
or as human beings who are the products of hereditary and environmental
factors (our low potential). We can either think we are in
the world but not of the world or that we
are in the world and of
the world.
Your highest potential is that your conscious self develops a sense
of identity that is based on and in harmony with the divine individuality
that is anchored in your I AM Presence. When this happens, there is
perfect harmony – even oneness – between the higher and
lower parts of your being, meaning that you are not a house divided
against itself.
Mother Mary explains that everything in the world of form is created
as a result of the interaction of two polarities, namely the expanding
force of the father and the contracting force of the mother. In order
for any form to be sustainable, these two polarities must be held in
a dynamic balance. On a cosmic scale, the factor that is designed to
create and maintain this balanced is the universal Christ mind.
In your own being, your spiritual self represents the father polarity
and your lower being represents the mother polarity. You can express
your highest potential only when there is balance between the two elements,
and it is the Conscious You that is designed to ensure this oneness.
Thus, the Conscious You is meant to fulfill the role of the Christ in
your being. In order for this to happen, the Conscious You must follow
Jesus’ command:
But seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33)
The kingdom of God is a symbol
for the Christ consciousness, meaning that the Conscious You has become
one with the universal Christ mind, has become the Living Christ, the
Word incarnate. You therefore experience the truth in Jesus’ words:
I and my Father
[meaning your I AM Presence] are one. (John 10:30)
Most
people have not yet developed this higher sense of identity as sons
and daughters of God. Instead, we have fallen prey to the temptation
to develop a lower sense of identity as human beings. This has happened
as a result of the process that the Bible describes as the Fall of Man.
In reality, the Biblical story of the Fall symbolizes what has happened
to all people. Adam and Eve are archetypes, symbols for the higher and
lower – masculine and feminine – aspects of our beings.
What really happened in the Fall was that our conscious selves were
tempted into building a sense of identity defined by the conditions
in the material world. Thus, instead of taking dominion over the material
world, we have allowed the world to take dominion over us, even to the
point of defining our identity based on the current imperfections on
Earth. This earthly sense of identity creates a division between our
higher and lower selves and it prevents us from fulfilling our potential
as co-creators. Instead, we create imbalanced conditions that lead to
suffering for ourselves and others.
The problem is that the conscious self is expressing itself through
a limited sense of identity that is centered around the human ego, as
explained later.
The container of self and your four lower bodies
The lower figure on the chart is what Mother Mary calls your container
of self. It contains your four lower bodies.
These are interpenetrating energy bodies that co-exist in the same space
because they vibrate at different levels of frequencies:
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The identity
body, also called the etheric body. The contents of your
identity body define your sense of identity. How do you see yourself,
how do you see God, how do you see the world and how do you see
the interaction between them? Do you see yourself as a spiritual
being who is here to take dominion over the Earth or do you see
yourself as a material being, a product of the Earth with no power
to change it?
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The mental body
contains your thoughts. It is here you form a mental image of the
specific things you want to do in the material world and how to
accomplish them. This mental image will be based upon your sense
of identity, which defines parameters for what you think you can
or cannot do. Thus, if you identify yourself as a human being, you
will limit what you think you can do.
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The emotional
body is obviously the seat of your feelings. Emotion means
Energy in MOTION. Your thoughts
are mental images, but in order to become actions or manifest forms,
they must be set in motion, and this happens at the level of the
emotional body. However, this body also contains your desires, and
they can conflict with your mental plans. Ideally, your emotions
should be reflections of your thoughts that are reflections of your
sense of identity that is a reflection of your Divine individuality.
Yet it is common that the emotions take on a life of their own and
seek to run your life instead of being run by your thoughts.
- The conscious
mind and physical body.
For most people, most of their sense of identity, thoughts and emotions
are hidden below the threshold of conscious awareness. Thus, they
do not understand the process that leads to a conscious thought, feeling
and action. This means they have little power to control their actions,
which simply flow from processes that are subconscious—and people
can only watch.
The key to controlling your conscious mind and your actions is to
push back the threshold of conscious awareness so you begin to understand
what goes on in the higher bodies and can begin to consciously control
it. Your conscious self is perfectly capable of doing this, as it
can project itself anywhere it can imagine.
The essential concept you
need to understand is that your four lower bodies form a filter that
colors the light streaming into your lower being from your I AM Presence.
As Mother Mary explains, everything in the world of form is created
from the Ma-ter Light. What keeps you alive and gives you the ability
to act in the material world is a stream of energy that flows from your
I AM Presence into your four lower bodies. This can be compared to the
light coming from the light bulb in a movie projector. As this light
passes through your four lower bodies, it is colored by the contents
(images, beliefs and energy) of those bodies. It is like the light in
a movie projector that is colored by the images on the film strip—only
you have four film strips.
If you have beliefs and images in your four lower bodies that are out
of harmony with your own higher being – especially when you have
self-centered beliefs and selfish desires – you will impose imperfect
images upon the Ma-ter light. This will lead to unbalanced actions that
produce suffering in your life and it is possible to create a downward
spiral that leads to more and more suffering. In fact, many people do
not start the spiritual path until they experience a severe crisis –
hit bottom – and finally decide they can’t live that way
any longer.
Imposing imperfect images upon the Ma-ter light will produce energy
of a lower vibration. This misqualified energy cannot flow back up to
your spiritual self and become your treasure laid up in heaven. Thus,
selfish actions break the figure-eight flow and the misqualified energy
has to go somewhere. As science has told us, energy cannot be created
or destroyed [by human beings], which means that the misqualified energy
you produce will stay at that level of vibration indefinitely. The energy
will not simply disappear but will be stored in your four lower bodies.
This energy will form a filter – EVIL means Energy
VEIL – that prevents you from maintaining contact
with your spiritual self. This can gradually cloud your vision until
you think your are a human being confined to the material universe with
nothing beyond it. It also reduces your creative powers until you think
your only option for doing anything on Earth is to use your physical
body. The accumulated energy has robbed you of your mental powers.
When you understand that what occurs at the conscious level –
including your outer circumstances – is simply an image projected
unto the screen of your mind, you realize that in order to change what
is projected unto the screen of life, you have to go to the projection
room and change the film strips in your four lower bodies. Life at the
conscious level can be compared to the level of the movie screen. If
you don’t like the movie that is playing in the theater, how much
can you change the movie by working at the level of the screen? You
are much more likely to be successful when you go to the source and
change the images on the film strip, meaning the contents of your four
lower bodies.
When you understand this dynamic, it becomes very obvious that one of
the key elements of walking the spiritual path is to purify –
transform – the misqualified energy stored in your four lower
bodies. You must lighten your load before you start climbing a mountain.
Mother Mary has released a number of new rosaries that are nothing like the Catholic rosaries but are designed
specifically to give today’s spiritual seekers effective tool
for both transforming negative energy and resolving selfish beliefs
in their four lower bodies.
For additional teachings on this, see the following sections: Link
1, Link
2.
The human ego
The human ego is a term that has been used differently by various psychologists
and spiritual teachers. On this website it is used specifically to refer
to a "being" that exists in your four lower bodies. This being
is somewhat self-aware and it has a survival instinct. For most people,
their egos have attained a high degree of control over their lives.
The spiritual path is a process of taking control away from the ego
and thus attaining the freedom to be who you were created to be.
Yet the ego will not give up control voluntarily. It is therefore essential
for you to understand how the ego was created. This is a somewhat complicated
process that is explained in greater detail elsewhere,
so the following is just a brief summary.
As explained above, the Conscious You is the center of your lower being
and it is meant to be in control of your four lower bodies. Yet in order
to maintain this control, the conscious self must be willing to take
full responsibility for your life and make the important decisions.
In order to make balanced decisions, the conscious self must reach for
the Christ mind and take up its position as the Christ in your being.
The Christ mind is designed to ensure oneness between your higher and
lover self, between Spirit and matter.
Because all co-creators have free will, it is possible for them to go
against God’s law of oneness and create the illusion that they
are separate beings. This creates the illusion that you can raise up
yourself in comparison to others and that you can harm others without
hurting yourself. By giving co-creators free will, the consciousness
of anti-christ came into being as an option. In other words, co-creators
have two options for building their sense of identity:
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You can base your identity
on the Christ mind, in which you see yourself as one with God and
one with all life. This creates harmony in your own being and makes
sure your actions will raise up both yourself and everyone else.
You will then fulfill your reason for being and bring the Earth
closer to manifesting the kingdom of God.
- You can base your identity
on the mind of anti-christ, which means you see yourself as separated
from God and from all other parts of life. This inevitably leads to
a division between your higher and lower self, and your lower self
will not reflect your divine individuality. You will never feel fulfilled
in this way and all your actions will ultimately lead to suffering
for yourself.
When you were created as
a self-conscious being, you lived in a protected environment –
a symbolic description is the story of the Garden of Eden – in
which you were guided by a spiritual teacher. As you grew in self-awareness,
you had to face the temptation to use the mind of anti-christ—symbolized
by the serpent.
Most people on Earth gradually became blinded by the logic of the mind
of anti-christ and started making decisions based on this logic. This
led to suffering and the conscious self started feeling that every decision
it made had undesirable consequences. Thus, there came a point when
the conscious self decided that it would no longer make decisions, it
would no longer be in a position of responsibility.
At the moment you decided to abandon your responsibility to make decisions,
your ego was born. This happened because your outer circumstances demanded
that decisions be made, and since the conscious self would not make
them, someone else had to. That someone else is the ego.
To understand the creation of the ego, consider that your subconscious
mind functions much like a computer. If you repeat a certain action
enough times, you create a computer program in the subconscious mind
that can now perform the action without your conscious mind being engaged
in it. One example is riding a bicycle; once you have learned it, you
never forget it. You might not ride a bike for ten years, but once you
get on, the subconscious computer program takes over. The downside is
that if you create a self-centered or self-destructive program, it will
produce suffering and your conscious mind will seem powerless to avoid
it. An obvious example is an addiction.
Before the conscious self decided to abandon its responsibility, it
had already created a number of such programs. When you refused to make
decisions, these programs took over. You have probably read science
fiction stories of a super computer becoming so powerful that it attained
intelligence and wanted to control the world. Well, after you abandoned
control over your life, the subconscious computer became more powerful
and the ego was formed. The ego has a limited form of self-awareness
and intelligence, and it has a very strong survival instinct.
The ego does not actually care about you, it only cares about itself.
It is seeking to control you so that it can use you as a tool for expanding
its power in the world. It is like the mad dictator who can never get
enough. If you threaten the ego, it is willing to destroy you –
destroy your self-esteem and sense of identity – in order to survive.
The ego is generally not intelligent enough to reason that since it
depends on you for its existence, destroying you means destroying itself.
You also need to understand that the ego knows it can maintain its control
over you only by staying hidden. If the Conscious You discovers the
ego and understand how it controls your life, you will not accept this
and will take back control. The ego will do anything to avoid this,
including changing its behavior and beliefs. Thus, when you find the
spiritual path, your ego will not give up. It will seek to use your
spiritual beliefs in order to maintain or even expand its control over
you. Thus, it is quite possible that people can think they are very
spiritual, yet they are still controlled by their egos. This is what
Jesus addressed in the following statement:
Either how canst
thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is
in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in
thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine
own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that
is in thy brother's eye. (Luke 6:42)
Because the ego will do anything
to stay hidden, it will seek to get you to deny or ignore these teachings
on the ego. Therefore, once you begin to understand the ego, you will
see that overcoming it is the real key to winning your spiritual freedom.
All of the true spiritual teachers have taught about how to overcome
the ego. The Buddha talked about attaining enlightenment and overcoming
suffering, which means you must overcome the ego. Jesus talked about
the kingdom of God, namely a state of consciousness in which you are
no longer controlled by the ego.
If you are a sincere spiritual seeker, you need to study the ego and
you can find very profound teachings on it in the following
section.
Your Christ self
On the chart, the figure that sits at the nexus of the figure-eight
is your Christ self. It is the mediator between the I AM Presence and
the lower being lost in duality. We might say that your Christ self
is a spiritual teacher that is sent to you after you lost contact with
your higher being. It is inside your container of self and thus you
can reach it at any time by focusing on your heart and activating your
intuitive faculties. Jesus
talked about the Christ self in the following quotes:
And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide
with you for ever; (John 14:16)
But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John
14:26)
It does not take any superhuman
or psychic abilities to hear the still, small voice of your Christ self.
However, take note that your Christ self is not at the level of your
physical body and the normal, conscious awareness of most people. Nor
is it at the level of your emotional body or even your mental body and
the intellectual, or rational mind. Your Christ self does not descend
below the level of your identity body, and thus it is up to you to raise
your attention to that level.
Unfortunately, the world programs us to focus our attention at the lower
levels. Some people are very focused on the material world, some are
very emotional and some are very intellectual, all of them finding it
difficult to hear their Christ selves. Thus, you must develop the ability
to focus your attention on the higher parts of your Being and on the
spiritual realm. To help you with this, Jesus has given us the
following exercise. Jesus also talked about the importance of attuning
to your Christ self when he said:
But seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33)
In order to hear your Christ
self, you may also have to silence the loud voice of your ego that seeks
to overpower your Christ self or seeks to rationalize away your intuitive
insights. In fact, your ego is constantly trying to set itself up as
the ultimate authority in your life, a position that should be occupied
by your Christ self until the Conscious You attains oneness with your
I AM Presence. The ego does this by setting up certain beliefs as being
infallible, thereby creating a mental box around your mind. Thus, many
people dare not look beyond their mental boxes to hear the voice of
their Christ selves—which is ALWAYS seeking to lead you outside
ANY mental box and thus challenges the "infallible" beliefs
of the ego.
As you follow the spiritual path, you gradually put on the mind of Christ,
meaning that you gain the vision and discernment that empowers you to
see through the many illusions created by the mind of anti-christ. This
helps you reclaim the purity of your four lower bodies from the selfish
beliefs that cause your suffering. It is through the mind of Christ
that you can take dominion, first over your four lower bodies, and then
over the material realm.
At first, the Conscious You will see your Christ self as an external
teacher, but you will gradually build a deeper sense of oneness with
the teacher. This leads to the mystical union whereby you become the
bride of Christ and attain oneness with your Christ self. You can then
accept that the Conscious You has attained its rightful position as
the Christ in your being. You have become the Living Christ.
You will then be “As Above, so below,” meaning that your
I AM Presence can now act through your lower being. You have then taken
dominion over the Earth, as symbolized by the globe under the feet of
the Vitruvian man. You can then claim with Jesus:
My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work. (John 5:17)
The soul
You might have noticed that the above sections do not contain the word
“soul.” In fact, in Mother Mary’s book she does not
use the term soul. The reason is that the word soul has been used in
many different ways by various religious, spiritual, esoteric and psychological
teachers. Thus, it can have so many different meanings and interpretations
that it has become less useful.
On this website, you will sometimes see the word soul used in a traditional
way, namely to refer to that part of your being which takes physical
embodiment and survives between embodiments. Yet Jesus does not use
the word soul to refer to your higher being, as some spiritual teachings
do. In other words, soul is not the totality of your being.
Within the last year, the Masters have started giving us a deeper understanding
of the soul. In Mother Mary’s book she explains that there is
a higher and a lower component of your four lower bodies. The lower
component is specific to this particular embodiment and is erased as
your body dies. The higher component is independent of the physical
body and stores your experiences from embodiment to embodiment.
Thus, the higher understanding of the soul is that it is not created
by your spiritual parents but is created by you during your many embodiments
on Earth. However, the soul is created from energies in the material
frequency spectrum, which is why traditional religion says the soul
is mortal, corruptible and needs to be saved. One consequence of this
is that the soul can be fragmented by traumatic experiences, which can
lead to severe psychological problems, as explained in the following
section.
The soul is made from energies that are not yet fully pure and thus
cannot ascend and become part of your causal body. The soul is made
from your sincere attempts to do good, as opposed to the ego which is
created from your attempts to run away from God or even your deliberate
rebellion against God’s law. As long as you allow the ego to make
decisions for you, you create a downward spiral that takes you away
from God. As you turn around and start walking the spiritual path, you
create an upward spiral, but that doesn’t mean everything you
do has the full purity of the Christ mind.
As an example, consider that you work as a biologist seeking to find
a cure for disease. Your work helps reduce the suffering of others and
is thus a worthy cause, yet your primary motivation is not love for
others but your desire to receive a Nobel prize or become rich. Thus,
your motivation is still self-centered rather than a selfless desire
to raise all life. Consequently your experiences do not have the purity
that can rise to the level of your causal body. Thus, they are temporarily
stored in your soul and will be raised to the causal body when your
motivation reaches the purity of the Christ mind.
It is important to understand that the ego can never be resurrected
but must be allowed to die. The soul can be resurrected, but only when
it is transformed through a spiritual rebirth. As Jesus said:
3 Jesus answered
and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?
can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit. (John, Chapter 3)
In order for the soul to
be fully transformed, you must first attain mastery over the soul—being
born of water. You must then give up the soul and the sense of identity
based on the soul—being born of the Spirit. You can do this only
when you have attained a high degree of personal Christhood, meaning
that you have built a new sense of identity based on oneness with your
I AM Presence—thus not being left in a vacuum with no identity.
Jesus described the process of giving up the soul in the following statements:
He that findeth
his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall
find it. (Mark 10:39)
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever
will lose his life for my sake shall find it. (Mark 16:25)
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth
his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (John
12:25)
The easy way out
Perhaps this description
of your total being has made you realize the spiritual path is more
complex than you thought and requires more work than you had imagined?
If so, do not feel overwhelmed. Go to this
page for further explanation.
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