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Elohim Heros and
Amora, January 2, 2008.
The reality of spirituality
But the reality of the spiritual path is that you gradually move towards
the point, where you can do what Jesus did on the cross—where he suddenly
saw in a flash that even though he had attained a high degree of Christhood
in that embodiment, he had retained certain expectations of how things
should unfold. And those expectations kept him tied to the Earth.
And then, he decided – in that final act of surrender – to give up
the ghosts of the past. And that was why he was resurrected.
Had he not given up the ghosts on the cross, my beloved, what do you
think would have happened? He would have had to re-embody to again
outlive those ghosts until he was willing to question the way he looked
at the world and realize that it was unreality.
And so, there are those who think that Jesus was God or the Son of
God from the beginning and that his victory and ascension were guaranteed.
But nothing can be guaranteed in the world of free will. And Jesus
could have refused – on the cross – to give up those ghosts and therefore
not become Jesus the Christ. But once again, we refer to what some
people called Jesus the carpenter, although truth be told, Jesus was
never a carpenter in that embodiment.
[Someone in audience says, “I knew it,” and there is laughter.]
I am glad one of you understood something of my discourse. [laughter]
Give people a real choice
So then, the goal of the spiritual path can be described as overcoming
your conditions until you simply see the world as it is, accept it
as it is, accept that what is is an expression of unreality, that
unreality can never be permanent. And therefore, in any situation,
you allow that unconditional love to be expressed so as to give other
people an opportunity to choose love over anti-love.
But you do not go into the vibration of anti-love or seek to force
them to make a certain choice. You give them the opportunity to make
the choice. And you are willing to let love be very direct – if necessary
– in confronting them with that choice, in demonstrating very clearly
– if necessary – that they have a different option. But you do not
cross that boundary of seeking to force them.
And thus, you remain free, so that you can be in unconditional love
no matter what they choose. For, of course, you may have the best
of intentions of helping another – and you may put great effort into
helping another person see something – and then they choose not to
see it, and how do you then feel? Well, if you feel any negativity,
any attachment, then you are not fully in unconditional love.
And then, you have work to do on yourself, to look at that database
of seeing why have you created an image in your database that the
beings around you – whom you know God has given complete free will
– should respond a certain way, should make certain choices based
on your actions or words. Why have you allowed yourself to incorporate
those elements of anti-love in your database, in your world view?
For certainly, if you did not have such expectations, you could not
be disappointed by other people no matter what they do or do not do.
And do you see that only when you cannot be disappointed or otherwise
affected negatively by other people, only then are you truly free.
And only then are you in unconditional love. How can you be free,
my beloved? Only by being in unconditional love. For only when there
are no conditions can you be truly free.
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