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Answer
from Jesus: An
excellent question, and you are on the right track concerning self-transcendence.
However, it all depends on how you use words. You see, from a certain
viewpoint one could say that love is the central quality of the spiritual
path, but that is true only if one understands the difference between
human love and Divine Love.
The essential quality of Divine Love IS self-transcendence, the drive
to BE MORE. It was this quality that gave the Creator the drive to
create—in order to become more of itself by expressing itself
in form and in the form of self-conscious co-creators. So without
this form of love, nothing would be created, and thus one can say
that the master key to Christhood and Buddhahood is to have this Divine
Love, which can only be done by becoming one with the flow of love,
the River of Life itself.
In contrast, human love is possessive. It is focused on an object
of love and wants to keep that object. In order to accomplish this,
human love seeks to control, which can happen only by stopping self-transcendence
and thus stepping outside the river of Life. Human love expects, even
demands, to be received and it demands something in return. It will
only express itself when certain conditions are met, which proves
that it is not sufficient unto itself. Anything that is not self-sufficient
is not Divine but springs from the consciousness of separation and
lack.
Divine Love needs no object but is expressed to all life, as the sun
shines upon all. It does not need to own any particular object and
is constantly flowing, expressing itself with no conditions and regardless
of any conditions. It is content to express itself and demands or
expects nothing in return, not even to be received. It receives its
joy from flowing and being what it is.
My point being that if you strive to be an open door for Divine love
– and sincerely seek to transcend all human expressions of so-called
love – then you can indeed reach Christhood and Buddhahood.
However, this will also require you to realize that Divine Love has
many expressions, many manifestations. And in order to have Divine
Love, you must master these and be able to express them.
Let me mention the four primary qualities of Divine Love. As Mother
Mary explains, everything is created from an interaction of the
expanding and the contracting forces. However, for there to be a sustainable
creation, there must be balance between the two, and it is the Christ
mind that is the key to this balance. When there is balance, love
will flow from the Father through the Holy Spirit and superimpose
the immaculate concept upon the Mother Light. Thus we have the traditional
Christian trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit with the addition
of the Divine Mother. Each represents a quality of Divine Love:
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The Father represents
Divine Love expressing itself as power or will.
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The Son represents
Divine Love expressing itself as wisdom or balance.
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The Holy Spirit represents
Divine Love expressing itself as love, but a self-transcending
love that sets life free from bondage.
- The Mother represents
Divine Love expressing itself as purity or the immaculate concept.
These four qualities correspond
to a teaching given by the Ascended Host in previous dispensations
about the threefold flame. As explained
by Mother Mary, the energy from your I AM Presence first descends
into the Secret Chamber of your heart, which is behind the heart chakra.
It comes down as the pure light that is represented as the color white
and corresponds to the Mother and God Purity. It then splits into
three plumes of spiritual fire, called the threefold flame. One plume
in blue and represents the Father and God power. One is golden yellow
and represents the Son and God Wisdom. The third is pink and represents
the Holy Spirit and God Love.
The importance is that the size of your threefold flame determines
your creative powers—it determines how much light can stream
from your I AM Presence into your four
lower bodies. If one of the four aspects of this heart flame becomes
unbalanced, you will tend to misuse your creative powers and this
reduces the size of your threefold flame, reducing the size of the
pipeline through which the light must flow. Thus, you will receive
less creative light which lowers your consciousness and turns your
attention away from your higher being.
The only way to reverse this trend and attain genuine spiritual growth
is to balance your threefold flame so that all four aspects of it
are in perfect harmony, meaning that they express Divine Love in manifestation
rather than an unbalanced manifestation of human power, human wisdom,
human love or a human definition of what is pure. This can be done
only by attaining Christ discernment which is the key to knowing what
is a balanced and an unbalanced expression of any of the four qualities.
That is why I so often stress the importance of balance on this website.
When you have balanced your threefold flame, you can start working
on attaining balance on each of the seven spiritual rays that make
up the material universe. Each ray corresponds to one of the main
chakras and the rays are as follows:
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First ray, God power
and will.
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Second Ray, God wisdom
and balance.
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Third ray, God Love
and selfless giving.
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Fourth ray, God Purity
and oneness with higher purpose and law.
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Fifth ray, God truth
and healing, restoring all to the immaculate concept.
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Sixth ray, God Ministration
and selfless creativity.
- Seventh ray, God Freedom
and independence.
The key to mastering each
ray is to become one with the River of Life so that Divine Love can
express itself through each of your chakras as needed. You have thus
attained mastery on all seven rays, which is one of the major stages
of Christhood.
You are quite right in your observation that many of today’s
spiritual seekers do not realize the nature and qualities of Divine
Love. Thus, they have been misled into thinking that love is all they
need, while failing to see that it is Divine Love in all of its seven
major manifestations that one needs. Instead, they are seeking to
express human love, often disguised as spiritual love.
In this respect, I must point out that the 1960s are by many spiritual
people seen as a crucial decade that marks a turning point in the
spiritual evolution of humankind. There is some truth to this but
not as much as many people think. The reality is that during the 1960s
certain spiritual energies and teachings were released into the four
lower bodies of the Earth’s energy field and the collective
consciousness of humankind. These energies and teachings were designed
to help people overcome the blocks to the free flow of Divine Love
and the potential was indeed great.
Unfortunately, as so often happens on Earth, the highest potential
was not fulfilled. The reason was that all of the false teachers on
this planet sought to counteract our release, and because of the propensities
of the human ego,
they were relatively successful. Many sensitive people were indeed
awakened by the new energies, but they were then misled by the false
teachers and their egos into expressing love in the form of human
love instead of transcending the old state of consciousness and expressing
Divine Love.
For example, one of the blocks to the free flow of Divine Love was
people’s unwillingness to express feelings toward each other.
One manifestation of this was the rather restrictive attitude many
people had toward any physical expression of love, from hugging to
sexual love. The false teachers managed to turn many of the awakened
people into a pointless rebellion against society's norms on sex,
so that they thought a greater expression of love meant free sex.
Thus, the human ego – which can never get enough of any earthly
pleasure – became an ally in getting many spiritual people to
take a detour into the free love movement rather than the freeing
love movement that transcends human sexuality.
One example of this is the famous Beatles’ song with the refrain,
“All you need is love, love is all you need.” This song
was actually designed – not consciously by the songwriter but
by the false teacher who released it from a lower realm – to
insert a psychic hook into people’s consciousness. Along with
many other songs from the Beatles and other groups, this turned many
sincere seekers into a detour of rebelling against society and withdrawing
from it – through drugs, free sex, rock music and alternative
lifestyles – rather than working from the inside to help society
self-transcend.
Thus, the potential of the 1960s was not fulfilled and parts of it
remains unfulfilled to this day. However, in later years this has
been somewhat remedied by the emergence of a group of more mature
spiritual seekers with greater Christ discernment.
Unfortunately many spiritual people today still believe all that is
required for spiritual growth is to express love, but they define
this in a human way. This is often a form of soft, gentle and kind
love that never challenges anyone and thus cannot free them from the
bonds of the ego. As I have now explained, if you want to attain genuine
spiritual growth, you must master – and be the open door for
the expression of – first the four basic qualities and then
the seven qualities of Divine Love. Divine Love – in all of
its manifestations – truly is all you need.
Human love will get you nowhere, regardless of the fact that so many
people have managed to delude themselves into thinking human love
will get them to heaven or a higher state of consciousness. Again,
this is a deliberate effort to slow down the breakthrough that can
potentially happen in this age. To avoid being misled into another
detour of human love, you need to understand how your ego is seeking
to mislead you. Begin by understanding the gray
thinking of the ego, and then study all of my discourses on the
ego. If you do not rise above the self-centered – although well-camouflaged
– love of the ego, you will have no chance of entering the flow
of Divine Love.
As I seek to explain throughout
this website, the Christ consciousness is not a passive force that
leaves people in a limited state. It is an active force that goes
into the world, meets people where they are and – if necessary
– challenges their illusions in order to give them a free choice
of following the Living Christ or continuing to follow anti-christ.
This is a choice they do not have until they have encountered the
Living Christ or Christ Truth. Thus, Divine Love accepts no conditions
that stop its flow and it seeks to help people overcome their conditions.
However, unconditional love also has no attachments to people's reactions,
thus it challenges people and then leaves them free to make their
own decision, as opposed to the human need to control.
The best way to overcome the blocks to Divine Love is to use Mother
Mary’s rosaries. All of them remove blocks to love, but I especially
recommend the Rosary
for Clearing the Heart and the upcoming Rosary for Loving Yourself.
To master love on the seven rays, you must contemplate the properties
of each ray and work with the master of each ray, starting with El
Morya on the first ray of God’s Will. Use the Rosary
of God’s Will for that purpose.
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