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from Jesus:
It all starts with the recognition that you are a self-conscious being
who has free will to choose what you identify yourself as. And then
you must be mindful of where you direct your attention. Again, this
will all be addressed in greater detail by Mother Mary*. The concept
she gives is that the conscious you resides in a sphere in the container
of self. In that container is your I AM Presence, and when your being
was first created there was only the I AM Presence and the conscious
you within your sphere of self.
Yet when you experimented with the duality consciousness, you allowed
elements of a lower vibration, elements of duality, to enter this sphere
of self. And gradually, over many lifetimes, you have built a mortal
sense of self that opposes or seems to oppose your I AM Presence.
This mortal self is made up of decisions you have made, beliefs you
have come to accept. And many of those beliefs are about yourself. You
might believe that you are a sinner. You might believe you are a mortal
human being who will die when your physical body dies. You might believe
that you cannot do this and you cannot do that. You cannot contact God
directly in your heart but needs the outer hierarchy of the church,
or any number of dualistic beliefs.
As these beliefs enter your sphere of self, they begin to form a gravitational
force and it pulls on the conscious you. It pulls on your attention.
It is almost like the force of gravity that prevents you from rising
into the air, but pulls you down to earth. Likewise, your mind is being
pulled by the gravitational force of this mortal self [another word
for the ego] that has gained entry into your sphere of self. And as
long as that mortal self remains, it will have some pull on your attention
and that is why your thoughts are being pulled back to these old thought
patterns and habit patterns. And it seems that no matter what you do
you cannot get rid of them, they keep pulling on you.
When you use the proper spiritual tools, you can gradually get rid of
the mortal self, and that will lessen the gravitational pull. Yet once
you understand the equation, that your mortal self is an alien influence
in your sphere of self and that the conscious you has the ability to
stop identifying with that mortal self, then you will have taken a major
step toward avoiding being pulled back into these old patterns.
As you use the rosaries or resolve things in your psychology through
other tools, you will gradually minimize the gravitational force until
it just becomes a background noice that may remain for some time, but
eventually you will come to the point where the prince of this world
comes and he has nothing in you because the mortal self has died.
Yet, the essential concept here is that the conscious you is not the
mortal self. It has created the mortal self and it cannot instantly
remove the mortal self, because this was done over a long period of
time and the decisions you made must be replaced by better decisions.
Yet you can instantly choose to stop identifying with that mortal self.
When you make that decision, the mortal self will have far less power
over you, and even when it does pull on you, you can instantly identify
it and say, “Oh, that’s just the mortal self, that’s
just the ego. I choose not to identify with it. I come apart from that
consciousness and I raise my attention to my I AM Presence, to my Father
in Heaven.”
* In the forhcoming book
that has not yet been published.
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