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Answer
from Jesus:
Thank you for raising this
very important question. I do indeed have some thoughts for you to
ponder. Let me begin by giving a common definition of the word occult,
as found in the dictionary:
- Related to or dealing
with supernatural influences or phenomena.
- Beyond the realm of
human perception or comprehension.
- Accessible only to
initiates.
- Hidden from normal view,
concealed, secret.
If you read the New Testament
with this definition in mind, you will see that every aspect of my
teachings, as recorded in the scriptures, deals with the supernatural.
Much of what I say is beyond the realm of human comprehension and
cannot be understood through the relativity of the carnal mind, which
is the normal state of consciousness for most people. You will also
see that I gave my disciples certain advanced teachings that I did
not reveal to the multitudes [Mark 4:34].
Therefore, one could very well say that everything that is recorded
about me in the official scriptures can be used to label me as an
occult teacher. This is indeed what the orthodox Jews did to me when
they brought me to trial and crucified me. Surely, they used different
words, but the essence of their argument was that I went beyond their
orthodox doctrines, and therefore I was not of the truth, not of the
light, not of God. Consequently, they accused me of being of the devil.
I can assure you that if the terminology had been around back then,
the orthodox Jews would have labeled me, Jesus Christ, as a very dangerous
New Age Cult leader. They would have found ample ammunition for this
accusation in the statements I made. I told people to leave their
jobs and their families and to put me before everything else. I told
people to be willing to lose their lives for my sake. Can you see
how the modern anti-cult movement would have had a field day with
these statements? Can you see how they would have denounced me and
put a label on me as being of the devil?
Can you also see that even those in orthodox Christianity, who claim
to be my representatives on Earth, have used a fear-based mindset
to create the idea that anything which goes beyond orthodox Christian
doctrines is occult and that anything occult is of the devil? It is
erroneous to say that anything occult is of the devil. Occult simply
means something beyond normal human comprehension, and this also applies
to God. Would you label God as being of the devil?
In reality, Christianity has been turned into the same kind of fear-based
religion as the orthodox Jewish religion that crucified me. This fear-based
approach has been taken to the point that if I appeared in a physical
body today and preached my true inner teachings, I would be persecuted
by orthodox Christians. They would label me as being of the devil
or call me a cult leader. Indeed, this is how some of them label the
teachings I bring forth on this website.
As explained in the book The Secret Coming of Christ, those
to take a fear-based approach to religion will reject anything that
goes beyond their orthodox doctrines. They do this by creating an
artificial label and saying that anything which goes beyond doctrine
fits that label, and therefore it is of the devil.
This, of course, is a very immature approach to religion, and it springs
from fear. It also springs from a refusal to take up the responsibility
of becoming a Christed being and building your attunement with your
Christ self, so that you can discern what is of God and what is not
of God. It is a sad fact that many of the leaders in orthodox Christianity
think that they represent me on Earth, think that they are following
in my footsteps, yet they are refusing to put on the Christ mind and
discern between the true inner teachings of Jesus Christ and the outer
doctrines that are like whitened sepulchers filled with dead men's
bones.
When you do put on the mind of Christ, you can easily discern between
what is of the light and what is of the darkness. This then allows
you to see through the superficial, man-made doctrines. You can also
see the fundamental difference between the true inner teachings on
personal Christhood and the left-handed path preached by Alistair
Crowley and other satanists.
It is necessary for a sincere spiritual seeker to recognize that the
devil has a clear purpose. He is trying to fool those who are my best
servants on Earth. He is not concerned about those who are completely
enveloped in the carnal mind, because they are already in his power.
The devil’s main concern is to fool those who have already found
some truth but have not yet manifested the Christ discernment that
makes it possible for them to see through the subtle lies of the devil.
These are precisely the kind of people that you are meeting in orthodox
Christianity. They have seen the truth in my teachings, and they have
the potential to rise to a higher level. Yet because they are not
willing to confront their fears, they remain paralyzed by those fears.
This, of course, is what the devil hopes will happen. You see, contrary
to what many people believe, the devil knows he can win two ways.
His main goal is to prevent the appearance of a large number of Christed
beings on this planet, because he knows from my example that he cannot
control a Christed being.
One way to do this is to seek to use people’s fears to make
them loyal to a traditional Christian church, which states that I
am the only Son of God, and therefore no one else could possibly manifest
Christhood. As long as the devil can scare people into accepting this
lie, he has them where he wants them.
However, the devil knows that in this age many people are ready to
break free of the fear-based approach to religion and begin to see
the truth about personal Christhood. Therefore, the dark forces have
created a number of false philosophies and false movements that are
designed to lead such people astray. You must understand that once
you begin to see the truth about personal Christhood, you can no longer
be fooled by a philosophy that is based entirely on error. The devil
knows this, and therefore he creates philosophies that contain a lot
of truth but a little bit of error to lead people astray. This is
precisely what has happened in the teachings given by Alistair Crowley
and other followers of satanism. By the way, Crowley did not found
satanism because it goes back thousands of years on this planet.
What the dark forces will do is to mimic the path of Christhood but
then give it a little twist that ultimately takes you in the wrong
direction. Let me explain this in more detail.
The essence of Christhood is that you can discern between what is
of God and what is not of God. In other words, as you gradually put
on your Christhood, you begin to see through the many philosophies
in this world, some of which were deliberately engineered by the devil
and some of which simply spring from the ignorance and fear of the
human mind. In the end, a Christed being will accept no man-made doctrine
or dogma as a replacement for the Living Truth of God. You will see
this demonstrated in my life by the fact that I constantly challenged
the doctrines of the scribes and the Pharisees and violated their
outer laws, such as healing a man on the sabbath.
When you look at this from a certain perspective, you might say that
I acted as if I was above the law, and I refused to follow any of
the laws in this world. The difference here is that a Christed being
is only above the laws of man and not above the laws of God.
What the satanists will do, as one of their many plots, is to create
a philosophy which mimics the fact that a Christed being will not
allow himself to be limited by any of the doctrines or laws of man.
However, the satanists will not present this in the true light that
the Christed being is not rebelling against the laws of man. He is
simply being true to the laws of God, and if the laws of man are out
of alignment with the laws of God, then the Christed being follows
the latter. If the laws of man are in alignment with the laws of God,
he follows those laws.
The satanists have created a philosophy which states that it is acceptable,
even necessary, to rebel against any restriction of your freedom.
In other words, in order to achieve true freedom, you can and must
rebel against both the laws of man and the laws of God. This philosophy
goes all the way back to Lucifer, who was the original rebel against
God and the laws of God. Ever since then, those who followed Lucifer
have attempted to create a philosophy, a world view, a religion which
justifies the act of rebelling against God. It uses a number of subtle
ploys to make it seem like this was not only necessary but actually
beneficial and sanctioned by God. I talk about this in further detail
in my discourse on absolute evil.
What you are running up against is the fact that there is a true path
to Christhood, and it is this path I describe on this website and
which we of the Ascended Host have described through many other organizations
and spiritual teachings over the centuries. To counteract this true
path and prevent people from walking that path, the adversaries have
created a false path, the left-handed path, the way that seems right
unto a man but which ultimately leads to the death of the soul. This
false path has a number of similarities with the true path, or it
would not fool anyone. In fact, the differences between the true path
and the false path are so subtle that a number of people have been
fooled and have been ensnared by the satanists and their subtle, serpentine
logic.
Do you see my point that the devil can win in two ways? One is to
fool you into following the left-handed path. The other is to make
you so afraid of the devil that you don't dare to open your mind to
anything new. If you are so afraid of the occult that you don't dare
to look at anything beyond orthodox doctrine, then you have allowed
the devil to control
you through fear. If my disciples had taken the same fear-based approach
as that taken by many modern Christians, how could Christianity ever
have been born? The orthodox Jews would have killed it when they killed
me!
It is a sad fact that many Christians refuse to exercise their power
of discernment, and they will not look at anything beyond orthodox
doctrines. For some of these people, this might be wise. If they are
not yet ready to take responsibility for their spiritual path and
make an all-out effort to increase their attunement with their Christ
selves, they would not be able to see through the subtle lies of the
devil. And therefore it might be safer for them to stay in a traditional
religion for a time.
If you look at my discourse on the levels of spiritual
attainment, you will see that some souls are so confused or wounded
that they need the outer stability of a traditional belief system
in order to be healed. Yet there are many souls in this age who need
to come up higher in order to make further progress. They need to
move into the phase of being spiritual seekers who are open to ideas
that go beyond orthodox doctrines.
If they do not take this step, they will stagnate, and therefore they
will essentially become the prisoners of the devil, whom they are
seeking to avoid by taking refuge in a Christian church. In other
words, there comes a point where a soul can no longer make progress
by staying in a fear-based religion. To make further progress, the
soul must run the risk of opening its mind to new ideas. Obviously,
this leads to the risk that the soul might open its mind to false
ideas. Yet it is a basic fact of life that if you are afraid of falling
down, you will never learn to walk. In a very important
discourse, I explain that any religion can become a trap that
prevents your salvation.
Obviously, I am well aware that many souls are facing the dilemma
that you see outpictured in your Christian friends. They need to move
forward and open their minds to a higher understanding of the spiritual
side of life, yet they cannot quite let go of the fear-based approach
to religion. That is why they cling to orthodox Christianity, which
seems to offer them a safe haven. This is precisely why I have asked
Kim to create this website and write the books. My purpose is to give
these Christians a way to open their minds to new ideas without being
exposed to false ideas. Obviously, the Ascended Host are also using
other methods for bringing forth a variety of true spiritual teachings
in this age.
Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee success in the material
universe. My dilemma is simple. In order to help people come up higher,
I must give them teachings that go beyond orthodox doctrines. Yet
the very fact that the website and the books contain ideas that go
beyond orthodox doctrines makes it predictable that some Christians
will label these teachings as occult or even of the devil. Even I
cannot solve that problem. I can only bow in respect to people's free
will and wait for them to make a better decision.
If you feel an inner prompting to attempt to help these people open
their minds to a higher understanding, including giving them the teaching
I have just given you, then I certainly will appreciate your help
in this matter. Just make sure that you are non-attached to the outcome,
as I explain in the last part of The Christ Is Born in You.
Present people with the truth to the best of your ability, and then
set them free to make their own choices. As a representative of Christ,
you should never attempt to influence people’s choices. That
is what the devil has been doing since his rebellion against God,
and it has never been the way of the Christ.
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