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from Jesus:
Again, 2,000 years ago my
teachings were adapted to the state of consciousness that people had
at the time. Back then, people were much more trapped in the sense of
separation from God. And so when people are trapped in that state of
consciousness, it might indeed be necessary for them to pull apart from
worldly affairs for a time before they can manifest the non-attachment
that allows them to no longer serve mammon but to serve the God within.
That is why you have had a tradition over these past 2,000 years of
monasteries where spiritual seekers would withdraw from the world and
completely disassociate themselves from worldly affairs. Yet in today’s
world, that is not the highest goal. I am not saying that people cannot
or should not withdraw themselves for a time if they feel it is necessary
to do so. But the ideal in the Aquarian Age is that instead of withdrawing
from the world to find spirituality, you go within yourself to find
the spirituality and then you bring it out into your worldly activities.
This applies to family, studies, businesses or any other activity.
So the question really is, as I said earlier, do you have non-attachment?
Can you do your business with love? And if you find that conducting
your business disturbs your inner peace, makes you attached or draws
you into situations where you cannot feel love, then you have a choice
to make. And you might begin by seeing if perhaps you can discover what
it is in your psychology that causes the attachment and then heal that
wound so you can be free of it.
Yet, in some cases, it might also be necessary to say, that my particular
form of business is not conducive to a spiritual lifestyle, either because
of the nature of the business or because it requires too much time and
attention so that I do not have the proper balance between spiritual
in-going activities and worldly out-going activities. Again, this will
be a personal balance that each person must find.
The key is non-attachment. If you are non-attached, you will feel the
love of God flowing through you and then you can and should interact
with the world in various ways to sustain yourself and your family.
But even more importantly, to express your God Flame to the other people
that you meet in your business. Yet if you find that your business is
pulling you away, then it might indeed be right to come apart from it.
And for some people it still may be right to come apart from a worldly
business and instead focus on the spiritual business. This again, is
very individual.
There are indeed many spiritual seekers who came into the world with
a very specific divine plan of helping to awaken humankind in this age.
Many of these people are very capable and intelligent souls. And many
of them are fully capable of running a business. Yet, running a successful
business might not be part of your divine plan and if this is so then
you need to go within and get in touch with your Christ self and with
your I AM Presence and with your divine plan so you can choose appropriately
when it is time to either let the business go or find a different way,
so that you can have the time and attention left over for what is your
real business—your Father’s business that you must be about
if you are to find true happiness and fulfillment.
If you are a spiritual lifestream, no amount of worldly success, no
amount of money or recognition from the world will truly satisfy your
deeper sense that you are here for a purpose. Only when you uncover
your divine plan and fulfill that plan, will you know that you are in
your right place—the right place in consciousness. And so, if
that is true for you, it might be necessary – and again this is
completely individual – but it might be necessary to leave your
nets and follow the Christ within until you are on the mountain of God
where you see clearly what is the path you need to take in life.
Some people can indeed be so embroiled in their worldly affairs that
they have no time or attention left over to clearly see their divine
plan. And so in some cases it will be necessary to leave your nets and
take a step into the unknown before you will know your true path. Yet
for many others it will be possible to live an entire lifetime raising
a family, running a business, having a job or a career.
Always keep in mind that you cannot serve two masters, you cannot serve
God and mammon. So if you feel that you are too attached to mammon,
then you need to take some time and realize that the Conscious You is
a spiritual Being and that you need to stop identifying yourself with
mammon and get in tune with who you really are.
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