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Jesus,
April 7, 2007.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy
disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread
with unwashen hands? He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth
me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit
in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments
of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition
of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like
things ye do.
A nd he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God,
that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour
thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother,
let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father
or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou
mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer
him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the
word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have
delivered: and many such like things do ye.
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them,
Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: There is nothing
from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the
things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples
asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them, Are ye
so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever
thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because
it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out
into the draught, purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh
out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the
heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from
within, and defile the man. (Mr 7:5-23)
By now you are beginning to see the pattern of how the scribes and
Pharisees were always objecting to the Living Word, brought forth
by me as the Living Christ. This, my beloved, is a pattern that by
no means is limited to the scribes and Pharisees, for you see it in
every religion, in every civilization, in every spiritual tradition,
in every worldly tradition.
And my beloved, what is the essence of this pattern? Well, it is precisely
that the ego is trying to build up the outer appearance that it is
acceptable in the eyes of God because it is living up to all these
outer conditions. And so, my beloved, when people are blinded by the
ego, they identify with the ego, they are attached to the outer tradition
they have created—the outer tradition that says they are saved
because of the outer things they do.
Many are ready to go beyond the outer path
You see, my beloved, I am not bringing this up to necessarily find
fault with those who are attached to outer tradition. For, as a realistic
spiritual teacher, I know that there are people on this planet who
are still very much like children and who need to still be in an outer
organization, an outer church, where they can believe that by belonging
to that church and following a few simple rules, they will be saved.
There are literally people, a certain portion of the population on
Earth, who have that legitimate need. And as a spiritual teacher I
do not expect them to rise out of that need in one lifetime.
Yet, I can also tell you that there is a large group of people on
this planet – in this day and age – who are ready to leave
that entire mindset behind—but who have not yet done so, partly
because they have never been taught. But why have they never been
taught? Because they have not so far been open to the teaching. And
that is why the eternal spiritual law cannot take effect for them.
For is not the law very clear? When the student is ready, the teacher
appears. Or should I say, my beloved, when the student is willing,
the teacher appears? For until the student is willing to hear the
Living Word of the teacher, what is the point of the teacher appearing?
Well, there is indeed a point, and that is why I came to Earth. And
the point is that the teacher can awaken people from their sleep and
shake them out of their comfortability. And you see, my beloved, there
comes that point, as I talked about yesterday,
where there is a gap between the outer person, the outer personality,
the outer mind, and the inner being of the person. And so you have
a large percentage of people on this planet who at inner levels are
ready to step up to truly understand what the spiritual path is about,
but their outer minds are not ready. For their outer minds are still
too controlled by their egos. And the people do not understand the
ego, and thus do not understand the need to separate themselves from
it.
And so what is a teacher to do? Is he going to sit around passively
and wait until the people wake up by themselves? Or is he going to
say, "But at inner levels they are ready, so I will go down in
a form they can see, in a form they cannot ignore, in a form they
cannot deny, and I will do my best to awaken them to the inner reality
for which they are ready." And so, my beloved, this is the true
motivation behind all true spiritual teachers who have ever come to
this planet—to awaken those who are ready, so that they can
snap out of the outer mind and truly be awakened to the inner reality
of who they are.
Letting the WORD be the judge
And so I came 2,000 years ago partly to awaken a certain group of
people who were ready for a higher teaching. But I came also for another
purpose, and that is to bring forth the Living Word that could serve
as the judgment for another group of people. These are the people,
as I said, who are not the innocent ones who are not yet ready for
the WORD. No, these are the beings who for many lifetimes, possibly
even from higher realms, have rejected the Living Word, have tried
to silence that Living Word.
And so there are certain cycles, my beloved. For when a person decides
to enter into the duality consciousness and deny its own divinity,
then that being is given a certain time to come back to the true path,
to the River of Life. And so when cycles begin to turn, and we near
the end of a certain group of lifestreams – their opportunity
– well, then the Living Christ appears to give them one last
chance to accept the Living Word or to reject that WORD and thereby
receive the judgment which says, "They shall have no more opportunity
on Earth," perhaps for some "They shall have no more opportunity
at all."
That is indeed why I said, "For judgment I am come." But
as I explained yesterday, it is not I who judge people, it is truly
the WORD, the WORD in themselves. This is what I also expressed in
the quote just read, where I wanted people to understand that it is
not the outer things that you do or don't do that will determine whether
you enter the kingdom of heaven. It is the quality of the heart, the
state of your inner being, the state of your consciousness. And so
what has always been going on in the religious and spiritual life
of this planet is that you have the two parallel tracks of the outer
path – the broad way that leads to destruction – and the
inner path – the straight and narrow way that leads to eternal
life.
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