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Saint
Germain (2), December 15, 2007
Why love does not seek to own
So you see, my beloved, you cannot stand still when you are in the
flow of the River of Life. And therefore, you see that when you are
in the flow, you simply cannot be poor, for what is poverty my beloved?
Well, it is precisely a state of stillstand, where people believe
they are trapped and have neither the will, nor the knowledge to change
their situation.
But why do they believe they are trapped? How can they believe they
are trapped? Because they are not open to love! And therefore, they
do not believe they are worthy to have more. They do not believe they
are worthy to be in that flow of the River of Life. They somehow believe
– perhaps because of a mistake they have made, perhaps because
of a sense of being sinners, perhaps because of a sense of being merely
highly evolved animals – they somehow believe that they either
cannot be in that flow, or that they are not worthy to be in that
flow. And thus, they must accept that they have to stay at their current
level for the rest of this lifetime, which they often believe is the
rest of their opportunity on Earth—for it is the only lifetime
they have, as they have been taught by both materialistic science
and dogmatic mainstream religion.
So you see, my beloved, for poverty to be overcome, there must be
a willingness to reach for a higher understanding of oneself and of
life. But as one begins to gain that understanding, there must be
a recognition that the only way out of poverty is to once again open
oneself up to the flow of the River of Life. Not that it is flowing
outside of oneself, passing one by, but that it is flowing inside
oneself because one has realized that the Kingdom of God is within.
And thus, the open door through which the River of Life can flow is
inside of you, not somewhere outside of you.
But my beloved you can look again at the people who are stuck in poverty,
and you can say, “How can they possibly come to accept that
God loves them when they have grown up believing that they are poor
precisely because they are not worthy of God’s love, and that
is why he has punished them by making them poor?” Or perhaps
they have grown up to believe that there is no God, there is no flow
of God’s love. And how can they then overcome that sense of
being stuck, of being separated from the flow of love?
Jesus’ mission of love and your mission of love
Well, once again, it can be done only by them seeing examples of people
who are willing to put themselves in the flow of the River of Life,
and to allow that River of Life to take them wherever they need to
go in order to fulfill their divine plans. So you see, my beloved,
one of the main reasons why Jesus came to Earth was to demonstrate
to the people that God has love for them. For did he not say, “God
so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son into the world,
so that the world through him might be saved.”
So we could say that the essence of Jesus’ mission was to help
all people understand and accept that God loves them, for they are
worthy of God’s love. And that God has sent his son into the
world to show an example of one who loves unconditionally. Of course,
this was meant to be much more than what it has been turned into by
official Christianity, that once again perverted the inner teachings
of Christ by turning Jesus into an exception. That Jesus, the outer
person of Jesus, was the only son of God, instead of the reality of
Jesus’ teaching, namely that it is the universal Christ consciousness
that is the only begotten son of the Father.
Because only this state of consciousness can recognize the reality
of the Father while at the same time recognizing the unreality of
those who have fallen into the duality consciousness and have separated
themselves from the River of Life. And thus, the Christ consciousness
is the only one who can bridge the gap between the Creator and those
who have separated themselves from the River of Life, thereby serving
as the open door through which they can get back into oneness with
all life.
And so you see, my beloved, Jesus came to set forth that example of
someone who loves unconditionally. And with loving unconditionally
we mean, of course, as we have said before, someone who will not accept
current conditions as final or unchangeable, but always goes into
a particular situation seeking to raise up that situation and the
people in that situation to become More. The Christ realizes that
it is not realistic that people can come from a state of extreme poverty
to manifesting full Christhood in the blink of an eye. So he meets
them where they are, giving them a cup of cold water in Christ’s
name, giving them whatever they need at their current level of consciousness
in order to raise themselves up to that next level, and then continue
from there.
Yet my beloved, you must understand that precisely because of the
consciousness of separation, precisely because of the downward spiral
of poverty, both spiritual and material poverty, people were not ready
2,000 years ago to understand the inner teachings of Christ. And that
is part of the reason why Jesus’ teachings were perverted, so
that he was set up as the exception. Whereas in reality the hope was
that many people would dare to follow in the footsteps of Christ and
also express that unconditional love by saying, “We cannot accept
current conditions, we need to change, we need to come up higher.”
And when you look at the past 2,000 years, my beloved, you will see
that there have indeed been outstanding individuals who had that love
of Christ to come into this world, into a particular society, and
say, “Things must change! Things cannot remain the same! Things
must become more because they CAN become more, and this is right!”
The greater Right that is beyond any human discussion, or any human
definition of the duality of human right or human wrong. It is right
because it is Right in God.
And so you have seen a few individuals who have taken that stand,
and you have also seen that, once in a while, a greater group of people
were willing to take a stand for a greater cause, for something that
was right. And every time you saw that happen, you saw a shift in
the collective consciousness, and you saw that being outpictured in
the physical reality, so that society changed at least a little bit.
Speaking out for what is the greater RIGHT
Now my beloved, had the true teachings of Christ not been perverted,
many more people would have come to that point, where they had dared
to speak out and take a stand for what is right. And thus, society
would have changed even more. But again, we are not the ones who regret
what did not happen in the past, for we are always in the flow of
the Great IS. And therefore, we are constantly looking at the situation
on Earth, looking at both the problems from a realistic assessment,
but also looking at the potential that those problems could be overcome
– in many cases as in the blinking of an eye – through
an expansion of awareness on a collective level.
And that is why, as I have said in my previous discourses, we recognize
that even though appearances might be grim in some areas of this planet,
we see that underneath the surface, the past 2,000 years have not
in any way been wasted. For even though there has not been an outer
manifestation of millions of people taking a stand for Christ, there
has been an inner growth, where millions of people have been prepared
at inner levels to, in this age, finally take that stand and speak
out against what is not right, by simply stating what is not right.
You see, my beloved, we know because we see the inner potential that
it is possible that, in a very short time span, millions of people
can be awakened to the realization that certain problems in society
simply are not right and that they are no longer acceptable. And one
of those problems is precisely poverty. And you see, my beloved, when
– and mind you I do not say “if,” I say “when”
– that breakthrough occurs, you will see that everything will
change. Because the collective consciousness will shift almost instantly.
And thereby, within a very short time span, even the physical “reality”
will shift.
The absolute need for a non-violent approach
Now my beloved, this morning I inspired this messenger to read a speech
given by Mahatma Gandhi many years ago, when India was still very
much suppressed by the British colonial Empire. This was a situation
where Gandhi was invited to give a speech in front of a group of all
the important people in India, all those who were part of the power
elite. These were people who were not used to having anyone speak
out against them, they were not used to having anyone speak the truth.
But Gandhi stood up in front of this group of people and very calmly
and very humbly – and in a very straightforward, honest manner
– expressed what he saw as the wrongs in Indian society, and
how they needed to change and why they were not right.
My beloved, this was not in itself a great, magnificent speech, but
it was a ground-breaking speech in the sense that, for the first time,
someone dared to say publicly what many many Indians knew in their
hearts to be true. And what they had dared to say privately but had
not dared to speak out in the public for fear of various kinds of
reprisals, even fear of ridicule. Or even the sense that this was
not proper because a person from a lowly station in society surely
should not speak out in front of those of a higher station—such
was the consciousness of the time.
Yet, my beloved, by the fact that one person dared to stand up in
a public forum and simply speak the truth, there was a shift in the
collective consciousness in India that started a chain reaction. And
by Gandhi and others continuing to speak out, that shift gained momentum
until it became an unstoppable force. But you see, my beloved, what
was significant about Gandhi and the reason why I bring him up as
an example, was that at a very early stage in his career, he realized
that he personally had a choice to make.
He knew that he had the ability to become an orator and a leader who
could lead an uprising against British colonial rule. And he knew
that he had the potential to become a leader for those people who
were willing to engage in a violent uprising against the British,
even if it had little chance of success. So he saw – very clearly
– the handwriting on the wall, so to speak, of whether he would
go the way of becoming a revolutionary leader in a violent revolution,
or whether he would seek a different approach, a Middle Way of non-violence.
And that is why he decided, at a very early stage, that the very foundation
for his mission and service had to be non-violence. And this is precisely
why, my beloved, he was successful in setting India free from British
rule. For had he gone the way of violence, well then India would not
have been free until much later. And there would have been such bloodshed
that it would be almost unimaginable, even to the British people,
who if that had come about would have ended up being so disgusted
with themselves that it would have been a great detriment to that
nation. As it would have been a great detriment to the Indian nation,
for they too would have been disgusted with themselves and their capacity
for violence.
Take stock of your life
And so, my beloved, what we are asking you to do today as the spiritual
people, is of course to look for that Middle Way, look beyond duality,
but also realize that sitting in your cave and meditating on God is
not in itself enough to change the world. For as with everything else,
there must be an Alpha and an Omega action. There must be the great
flow of IS, where the energy of God, the love of God, flows down the
figure-eight flow to the bottom. And then those who catch that figure-eight
flow in this world do not simply use it for their own growth, their
own gratification. No, they use it, as Christ demonstrated, to go
out into the world to "set my people free."
You see my beloved, Jesus said, “Greater love has no man than
to lay down his life for a friend.” And he was willing
to go to the ultimate extent of laying down his physical life, but,
as I have said before, in this Aquarian age, this is not what is needed.
What is needed is that you lay down your human sense of life, your
human sense of identity, so that you are willing to reconnect yourself
to your divine plan, the divine plan that you made before you came
into embodiment. You are willing to take stock of your life and say,
“Is my present form of life, my present path of life, is it
in alignment with my own divine plan? Is it is alignment with the
choices I made when I was not blinded by my current situation in the
physical octave?”
And if you find that there is a discrepancy, then I am asking you
to reconnect to the higher love of your own being, to open yourself
up to the flow of the River of Life, so that you will feel that flow
through your being. And through that flow you will effortlessly –
effortlessly my beloved – change your life to bring every aspect
of your life into alignment with your divine plan.
Do you see, my beloved, in the past – because of the lower state
of consciousness of the people – many spiritual people
have gone through extreme disciplines in order to force themselves
to be more spiritual. Many have withdrawn from the world, engaging
in a great battle within themselves to separate themselves from the
lusts and the desires of the world. And this was necessary at the
time, but I am telling you that there is an alternative. And it is
to reconnect to the love, and to allow that love to flow through you,
whereby you will effortlessly shift your life to bring yourself into
alignment with your divine plan. Because you will know that this is
a much greater love of your being than the love that you might have
for any activity on Earth that gives you pleasure or comfort.
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