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Jesus Christ, January 3,
2004.
I am your Jesus.
I am your older brother, and many of you have known me in times long
forgotten. You have known me truly as an equal, and not as the idol
that many of you have come to see in this day and age. In today’s
world, the very religion that claims to represent me on Earth has
turned me into an idol and put me on a pedestal, where many of those
who are my own see me as unreachable.
I come in this hour on a very special mission, one might call it a
mission impossible. You see my beloved, if you survey the history
of the human race for the past many thousands of years, you will see
that human beings have indeed been trapped in a state of consciousness
entirely dominated by ignorance. This ignorance makes it impossible
for them to understand the truth about who they are, where they came
from and why they are here on Earth.
As a typical example, an exponent for this state of consciousness,
look at the situation in which I stood before Pontius Pilate during
my trial. I stated that I came to bear witness to the truth. My beloved,
do you remember his reaction? He said, “What is truth?”
I can assure you that he did not say this mockingly. Pontius Pilate
was not an uneducated man, he was not an evil person, and truly did
not want to convict me because he believed I was completely innocent
of the charges labeled against me by the religious authorities.
So when he made his remark, he did so with the agony of a soul who
knows that there is something more to understand about life, but it
simply cannot grasp that something more. A soul who is in torment,
the torment of knowing that there is something which it cannot reach,
yet it knows that that something exists.
How to help human beings see truth
You see my beloved, as I have tried to explain many times, there is
a hierarchy of spiritual beings, and we call ourselves by many names,
but the name I use in this context is the Ascended Host. We are the
spiritual teachers of humankind.
Some of us have been working with planet Earth for a very long time.
Many of us have actually taken embodiment on planet Earth, and we
have been trapped in the same state of consciousness in which you
are trapped today. We gradually started to part the clouds in the
mind, to part the veil and to see glimpses of truth. After we embodied
and internalized that truth, and allowed it to become the leaven that
raised our whole consciousness, we eventually qualified for the process
of the ascension, whereby we could permanently ascend to our home
of light here in the spiritual realm. Since then many of us have functioned
as the spiritual teachers who are seeking to raise the consciousness
of those of our brothers and sisters who are still trapped on planet
Earth, trapped on the wheel of rebirth.
You see my beloved, for millennia the spiritual teachers of humankind
have been discussing various ways for how to help people start the
gradual process that leads them to a higher state of consciousness,
a consciousness in which they can grasp truth. We of the Ascended
Host work together as a team, but this does not mean that we are all
alike or that we are in complete agreement on the best way to help
human beings.
Over the centuries, there have been many discussions among us concerning
how we could possibly help human beings grasp and accept the Living
Truth of God. I must tell you frankly that there is a large group
of beings here in Heaven who believe it is impossible to make most
human beings grasp and understand the Living Truth of God. This is
indeed a topic that has been the subject of much discussion. I happen
to belong to a group of us who hold the hope in our hearts that it
will somehow be possible to find a way to make people understand the
truth, the Living Truth about themselves and about God.
Why is it so difficult for people to see truth?
I come today in an attempt to provide such a way for human beings
to grasp truth. I come in an attempt to perform the impossible mission
of helping people see what many of them sense must exist, but which
they simply cannot grasp and hold on to. And therefore their souls
are crying out, like the soul of Pontius Pilate cried out with the
eternal question, “What is truth?”
Before I have any chance whatsoever of successfully completing my
mission impossible, I need to set the stage by telling you why it
is so difficult for people to grasp truth. You see my beloved, a very
long time ago, in fact at a time when there was no time, as time is
known on planet Earth, God decided to create the material universe
in which you live.
When God creates a new universe, he creates it out of his own Being
and consciousness. But he does not create it in the fullness of who
he is. The reason is that God himself is not what human beings envision
him to be. So many human beings have built an idolatrous image of
who God is. They think that God is almighty, that God is perfect.
And they think that if something is perfect, it must be complete,
and therefore it could never change, it could never grow, it could
never evolve. This is a fallacy, and it springs from the consciousness
into which human beings have descended.
I will shortly comment on this consciousness, but for now let me simply
say that this consciousness gives people a distorted view of the nature
and reality of God. The truth about God is that God is indeed perfect
but not according to a human standard. Therefore, God is not static,
God is not stationary. God is not something that can be fixated, and
the reason is that God is the eternal creator.
As I explain in the book The Christ Is Born in You, God has
a dual nature. One aspect of God is the state of pure Being. This
state of Being is indeed completely without change because it is completely
without form. The other aspect of God is what I have called the Creator.
The nature of the creator is to create that which has form. So the
creator aspect of God is always changing. God is not an old man with
a white beard sitting on a great throne somewhere in Heaven. God is
like a river that is always flowing. God is a process. God is a process
of growth and self-transcendence.
How does God grow, how does he transcend himself? He grows by creating
worlds and universes out of himself, out of his own being and consciousness.
So God creates by encapsulating his own consciousness and Being within
a certain form. A form that has limitations and that exists in a limited
state, such as the time and space that you know in this world.
You see my beloved, the essence of creation is that it is an ever-moving
process. So therefore God never created anything that was meant to
be static and unchanging. God intends everything he creates to evolve
and grow and transcend itself. And what is the purpose of this growth
and transcendence? It is that his creation will grow into realizing
from where it came, namely that it is an expression of, a materialization
of, an individualization of God himself. And after that realization,
the creation can then realize that it has the potential to become
one again with the creator. Not one in the sense that is disappears,
but one in the sense that it becomes the creator, it becomes the new
creator who can continue the never-ending process of creation.
So when God creates a world that has form, that world is created out
of his consciousness, but it does not yet have the full awareness
of whence it came and where it has the potential to go. How can a
world transcend its limited state, its state of ignorance of its own
reality, and come to the recognition that it is truly a part of God
and that it was never apart from God? To help the creation grow in
awareness, God sends conscious beings into his world. Those conscious
beings are created in his own image and likeness, meaning that they
have the capacity of consciousness to become aware of their own identity
as individualizations of God. Thereby they can act as co-creators
with God.
This has created a hierarchy of beings extending from God the creator
through a number of spiritual beings, an entire hierarchy of spiritual
beings, and finally to the beings who volunteered to descend into
the material universe and help that universe become self-aware and
recognize its own identity, origin and potential. These beings are
you, my beloved. You are the divine shock-troops who volunteered to
descend into this material world to help the entire universe rise
and become self-aware.
The mechanics of the process of descending into this universe makes
it inevitable that you will lose some of your awareness of who you
are and from where you came. However, you can never lose your potential
to regain that awareness because the consciousness of God himself
is embedded within your being.
People think they can act on their own
I will now jump ahead of the story and talk about the consciousness
in which most people find themselves. The consciousness that you now
experience is not what God intended for you. You descended into this
state of consciousness through a long and gradual process, and I have
described the mechanics of this elsewhere. I will not go into it here
because it would detract from my purpose.
The essence of the consciousness in which you are now trapped is the
sense that you can act entirely on your own. You literally believe
that you are a self-contained being who has the power to act in this
world and who needs nothing from beyond the material universe in order
to live and to act in your environment. You believe that all you need
in order to survive is material nourishment in the form of food. And
the energy you use in order to perform your daily activities supposedly
comes from the food your eat, the light you absorb through your skin
and other material means.
What has happened to human beings is that they have become entirely
disconnected from their source, and that source, of course, is God
himself. Some human beings have started identifying themselves fully
with their physical bodies and with the material universe. Therefore,
they literally believe that the material universe is a self-contained
sphere and that they need nothing from outside this universe in order
to exist. Many of these people truly and firmly believe that there
is no God because they believe there is no need of him.
Obviously, there are many people on this planet who do believe in
God, in one form or another. It is interesting to see that many of
these people actually believe that they know the truth about God.
They firmly believe that their religion has told them the essential
truth about God and about their relationship with God.
People are trapped in mental boxes
Oh my beloved, how my heart overflows with love for those people who
are so trapped in both of these belief systems and world views. How
I wish I could somehow find a way to reach into their mental boxes,
to drill little holes in the boxes that they have built around their
minds, and let a ray of the pure truth of God shine through to their
conscious minds. I wish I could help people see that there is oh so
much more to truth than what can fit into their mental boxes.
You see my beloved, it is precisely these mental boxes that make it
so difficult for us, who are your spiritual teachers, to reach you
with a ray of God’s truth. So let me now attempt to explain
to you why the mental boxes that you have created around your minds
make it so difficult, and in many cases almost impossible, for you
to grasp God’s truth.
The essence of this problem is what I explained when I said that people
firmly believe that they can act on their own. Oh yes, I realize that
many religious people believe they are acting by God’s grace
or that everything is subject to the will of God, but these beliefs
are merely intellectual, and most people do not truly understand the
reality of the situation.
The reason is that they all believe that God is somewhere up there
in Heaven and not here on Earth, and certainly not inside themselves.
So you see my beloved, even most religious people have created an
image of God as being outside of and separated from themselves. Many
religious people look at atheists or materialists and believe that
they themselves are far more pleasing to God than the people who deny
God’s existence. But you see my beloved, most religious people
are also denying God’s existence because they are denying God’s
existence within themselves and within everything that surrounds them.
As I explained earlier, God created everything out of his own substance,
his own Being, his own consciousness. So everything you see around
you is simply God wearing a disguise, and everything you see inside
of you is also God wearing a disguise. And you yourself are God wearing
a disguise. And this is what most religious people fail to see, and
therefore they too are denying God. It is not a fundamentally different
kind of denial than that promoted by atheists; it is different only
by degree. The atheists simply say that God is not, and most religious
people say that God is not here.
Both of these beliefs are a denial of God because God is everywhere
and God is everything. So what happens here is that in their minds
people have created a false image of reality. Both the atheists and
the religious people have created the image that they themselves,
and the world in which they live, are not God.
This is indeed a violation of the very first commandment that thou
shalt have no other gods before me. When God is everywhere and God
is in everything, if you do not see God in everything, then you are
worshiping a false God. If you see God up in Heaven and deny his presence
within you, you are worshiping an idol, and you are dancing around
the golden calf.
What you have done in your mind is that you have created an image,
and your are saying, “This is God, this is reality, this is
truth.” And then you project that image upon reality and you
begin to build a mental box around your mind. And as a soul continues
to reembody on planet Earth, it reinforces that mental box, until
the mental box is solid and will not let in any of the light or the
truth of God that is continually shining upon the Earth from the spiritual
realm.
My heart is burdened
for you
The inhabitants of the Earth are indeed like the people who were chained
inside of Plato’s cave. They could not see what was happening
outside the cave but could see only the shadows on the walls of the
cave. And so the cave is representative of the mental boxes that people
have built around their minds, and the shadows on the walls of the
cave are the fleeting images, the projections, the mere shadows of
reality that managed to filter through the erroneous beliefs that
surround people’s minds.
And some people have completely closed their caves, and there are
not even shadows of reality on the walls of the cave but only the
illusions created by people’s own minds. And I can tell you
that some of the people with the most tightly closed minds are indeed
sitting in their Christian churches every Sunday, feeling that they
are surely following my teachings, doing my work and that they will
surely be saved.
Oh my beloved, what a burden to my heart it is that so many people,
so many Christians, have indeed used me to build a mental box around
their minds which says that they could not possibly do the works that
I did, attain the Christ consciousness and ascend to Heaven. And the
reason is that they are not sons and daughters of God because I, Jesus
Christ, was the only Son of God.
Oh what a fallacy this is. And if I could, for one second, make you
feel the burden this is to my heart, I think it just might jolt you
out of your mental box and have the scales fall from your eyes, as
happened to my beloved Paul, when he finally stopped kicking against
the pricks. And so what is the true meaning of the statement I made
to Paul, “It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks?”
Well my beloved, you will recall that Paul was a very religious person.
He knew the letter of the law taught by the Jews, and I can assure
you that he believed firmly that he had followed that law all his
life and that he would surely be saved because he had done everything
right according to the outer law. You see, Paul was the perfect example
of a human being who has built such a firm mental box around himself
that he simply cannot see the fact that truth cannot fit into that
box, and therefore truth is more than the box.
That is why Paul himself could not recognize the Living Christ. You
see my beloved, what is not recorded in scripture is that Paul did
indeed meet me before my crucifixion. He did not meet me in a personal
encounter, but he did attend one of the talks I gave on the banks
of the Sea of Galilee. He was indeed among the multitudes that were
fed by the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. And yet because
of his mental box, he was not able to recognize the Living Christ
when he saw me physically. He was unable to recognize the miracle
of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, and the reason was
that some of the things I said that day did not fit into his mental
box of how God was portrayed in the Jewish religion.
God, according to the Jews, was an angry and judgmental being up there
in Heaven, and I portrayed God as a loving father figure. Well my
beloved, Paul could not accept anything beyond the orthodox view of
God, and therefore he rejected me as a false teacher who was using
trickery instead of truly producing the miracle of the multiplication
of the loaves and fishes.
The importance of free will
So Paul went his way. And I must tell you that I was ready to let
Paul go his way because he truly had had his opportunity to affirm
the Christ, and he had used his free will to deny that Christ. Yet
after my resurrection, I realized that Paul was indeed sent to this
planet on a mission to help bring forth the new religion of Christianity.
I also realized that because Paul had now started persecuting my followers,
he was not only compromising that mission but indeed making such a
severe karma that he was compromising his soul. That is why I resorted
to the dramatic measure of appearing to him in a powerful vision that
shattered his mental box and made him see the light and truth which
could not shine through that mental box.
Now my beloved, here is a subtle but important distinction. Everything
in this universe is subject to the free will of human beings. I am
a spiritual teacher, and I have an absolute and uncompromising respect
for the Law of Free Will. From a superficial viewpoint, it might seem
as if I violated the free will of Paul. Yet the reality is that the
soul of Paul had volunteered for a special mission before it came
into that embodiment. Had Paul recognized me at the Sea of Galilee,
he could have joined me as one of my disciples, and it would not have
been necessary to appear to him in a vision. Had he gone his way and
not started persecuting my followers, I would have let him go his
way without appearing to him.
This would have compromised his mission but it would not have compromised
his soul. Yet because he started persecuting my followers, I could,
according to the Law of Free Will, appear to him in a vision that
forced him to choose this day whom he would serve. You see my beloved,
Paul could easily have denied that vision and explained it away as
the work of the devil. Yet Paul did not deny the vision, and thereby
he turned his soul around and started the upward path that led him
to become not only one of my apostles but eventually to become an
ascended being such as myself.
What I would like you to understand about the situation with Paul
is that it was his soul’s choice to come into that lifetime
with the special mission of helping spread the teachings of Christ,
and this made it possible for me to appear to him in a vision that
jolted him out of his mental box. Yet that was possible only in a
very special situation, where I came at the beginning of an age and
where my mission depended on a very few souls who had volunteered
to come in to carry the torch and spread Christianity. As you can
certainly see, had not Paul been awakened, Christianity might never
have spread and become a significant force in the religious life of
this planet. That is how important one soul can be at certain crucial
times in history.
The situation today is a little bit different. Today, we are also
at a crucial point in history. We are indeed on the threshold between
the old age of Pisces and the new age of Aquarius. Humankind is going
through a transformation between two levels of consciousness, and
it is indeed fully as dramatic and fully as important as the transition
that occurred 2,000 years ago. Nevertheless, what we have today is
a situation where millions of souls have volunteered to come into
embodiment and support the transition from the old age to the new.
These are the souls who over the past 2,000 years have managed to
embody my inner teachings, to read between the lines of the orthodox
Christian scriptures and doctrines, and to discover the inner meaning
and the path to Christhood hidden behind the outer doctrines.
So you see my beloved, today we have the potential to experience the
second coming of Christ. But whereas the first coming of Christ was
the coming of the Living Christ in one person only, namely myself,
the second coming of Christ is meant to be the coming of the Living
Christ, the Christ consciousness, in millions of people. And therefore
the completion of this mission is not as dependent upon a few individuals
as was the case 2,000 years ago. As a result of this, I do not have
the dispensation to appear to everyone of the millions of people who
have the potential to manifest a high degree of Christhood and awaken
them through a vision that is as powerful as the vision I gave to
Paul. This simply is not allowed according to the Law of Free Will.
You see in today’s age, it is necessary that people discover
their mission, their identity, their Christhood and their Christ potential
through an inner experience, through an inner knowing and not through
some powerful outer vision or some material proof, such as the raising
of the dead, the walking on water or the turning of the water into
wine.
This is truly an age where I have need of those who see not and yet
believe in their inner potential to be the Living Christ in embodiment
on Earth. So you see, my beloved, today I do not have the option of
appearing to each and every one of you and give you some undeniable
proof of the truth of the teaching.
You must find the truth by finding it inside yourself. You must find
it because you discover that you already have that truth, a morsel
of truth, anchored in your heart. And so how can you discover that
truth, that Christ truth, which is already within you?
The Living Truth of God
This is why I am talking to you today. The simple fact is that there
are certain people in embodiment today who have advanced far enough
on the spiritual path that they have obtained a momentum which allows
them to discover and recognize the truth within themselves without
outer stimulus or reminders. Yet for most people it will take an outer
reminder for them to be quickened and remember and discover the truth
inside themselves, and this outer reminder comes in one form only
and that is the Living Word, which is delivered through the power
of the Holy Spirit.
You see my beloved, what has happened to most people on Earth is that
they have created mental boxes, which prevent them from seeing and
acknowledging the truth of God. Yet there is a morsel of truth within
their beings, which makes it impossible for them to be completely
content and at peace inside their mental boxes. Pontius Pilate stood
before the Living Christ and could not recognize me as the Living
Christ. Yet he nevertheless recognized that there was something more
to reality than what he could grasp with his outer mind, and that
is indeed why he cried out, “What is truth?”
Today, most people are in a similar situation of knowing there is
something more but not being able to grasp it with their conscious
minds. And this is indeed what causes people to accept ideas and beliefs
that are in direct opposition to personal Christhood and the reality
that they are truly the sons and daughters of God who are meant to
be part of the Second Coming of Christ.
Many of these people are indeed the people who call themselves good
Christians, and in reality they are good Christians because they are
my own. They have volunteered to come into this lifetime precisely
because of their love of me and out of a desire to see my mission
fulfilled the only way it can be fulfilled, namely by thousands and
millions of people following in my footsteps and manifesting a high
degree of Christhood.
This is precisely why these people have become attracted to the Christian
religion and why many of them have followed that religion diligently
in the outer form that they have come to know. But unfortunately what
has happened to many of these people is that they have become trapped
in the outer religion and its outer doctrines, rituals and practices.
And out of their love for me they have built this misguided loyalty
to the outer religion and the outer church, and this is exactly what
you saw in my beloved Paul. He also had a misguided loyalty to the
outer religion, the Jewish religion. And therefore, he refused to
acknowledge that I had come to renew that religion and take it to
its next logical level of a higher understanding of the reality of
God. And this is indeed what caused Paul to kick against the pricks,
because his outer mind was going against the inner longing and the
desires of his soul, the very longing that had caused him to volunteer
to descend to this planet to support my mission.
I am calling my own to awaken
I am telling you now with the full fire of my heart that so many of
those who are in the Christian religion today also have a deep inner
soul love for me, and many of them have volunteered to come into embodiment
in this day and age to be part of the fulfillment of my mission of
the Second Coming of Christ. Yet in their minds they have accepted
the orthodox Christian doctrines that there was only one Son of God,
and therefore they cannot become the Christ that I was. And this is
indeed why these people are kicking against the pricks and why they
are, in reality, persecuting me and the true teachings of the inner
Christ and the Christ potential of every son and daughter of God,
just as Paul was persecuting my followers.
Do you not see what is going on? Do you not see what is happening
here, and that this is simply an outplaying of a pattern that took
place 2,000 years ago. You are today in the exact same situation that
Paul was in, when he walked the road before his vision. And I can
assure you that if you could look at the situation today, you would
see that as Paul was heading down that road, he was fully convinced
that he was a righteous Jewish warrior who was fighting against the
onslaught of the ungodly Christians who were threatening the Jewish
religion. And he was firmly convinced that he was doing the works
of his God and that he was being loyal to everything he was brought
up to believe in.
Yet, my beloved, as I said to Paul, he was truly persecuting me and
he was kicking against the pricks of his own soul. And therefore,
I now say to those of you who are still trapped in the orthodox Christian
doctrines and following in the outer path that has been promoted by
the Christian religion for these 2,000 years, I say to you, as I said
to Paul, “Why persecutest thou me; it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks!”
So my beloved hearts, stop kicking against the pricks. Recognize the
deepest desires of your soul. Recognize the deepest love of your soul.
And recognize the fact that you are not loving the outer church, the
outer doctrines, the outer rituals. The love that you have is the
love for me, Jesus Christ. It is a love for the living spiritual being
that I am. And it is a love for the Living Truth that I am and the
Living Truth that I bring.
My beloved, if I had one wish, it would be that you would, for one
moment, decide to set aside your outer beliefs in Christianity and
just listen to these words, and as you read these words, turn your
attention towards your heart. What you will discover if you look inside
your heart with an unbiased mind is that as you are reading these
words, something is stirring in your heart. The reason is that you
have a portion of Christ truth anchored in your heart, and as you
read these words, the Living Truth that is carried in these words,
is resonating with the Christ truth that is already in your heart.
My beloved, if you were to recognize and admit that resonance, you
could go through an experience that was fully as powerful and fully
as dramatic as the one experienced by Paul. Fortunately, you would
not have to be blinded by that experience, and instead your inner
and your outer sight would be opened to recognize the Living Truth
that I am.
What is the Living Truth of God?
We have now reached the point, where I will explain to you the meaning
of the Living Truth of God. Do you remember what I told you in the
beginning, namely that God is a process, an eternal process of self-transcendence?
Now contrast this with the fact that most human beings have created
a mental box around their minds. What is the essence of this mental
box? It is that it is not flowing, that it is not growing, that it
is not transcending itself. Instead, it contains a number of fixed
pictures, still pictures, of what you think reality is like. And you
are constantly holding on to those fixed pictures and trying to make
reality conform to your images.
Many of those who call themselves Christians have used the Christian
religion to reinforce and build those still pictures of what they
think God is like, what they think Jesus Christ is like and what they
think truth is like. And so they have created a fixed image of me
and a fixed image of God and a fixed image of themselves. And those
fixed images say that God is up in his Heaven, that Jesus Christ is
the only son of God and that they are poor sinners who are separated
from God and can only be saved through Jesus Christ.
The fallacy of these images is that God is everywhere and in everything,
that Jesus Christ is not the only Son of God, but simply their brother,
and that I came as an example, not the exception. I came to show the
path of personal Christhood that everyone has the potential to follow.
And therefore you are not sinners, my beloved, you are not separated
from God, you are indeed babes in Christ with the potential to grow
into the full Christhood that you saw me demonstrate, and which will
enable you, empower you, to do the works that I did and even to do
greater works.
You see, my beloved, the truth of Christ cannot be fit into the mental
boxes that human beings have created, even the mental boxes that are
created based on the outer religion of Christianity. The truth cannot
be fit into the fixed images because God is an ever-moving process
of self-transcendence, and therefore the truth of God is not fixed,
it is not absolute, it is not unchanging. The simple reason is that
as God transcends himself, his truth is expanded. It grows, it moves
and the truth transcends its former state.
Do you see my beloved, the fallacy and the danger of religion, a religion
which seeks to promote the idea that it is possible to capture the
truth of God in a fixed doctrine, in a fixed church and in a fixed
ritual? Oh my beloved, how I wish I could raise your souls up to where
I am today and help you look down upon yourselves, your outer forms,
as you go about your daily business on planet Earth. How I wish I
could give you a glimpse of the contrast between the consciousness
that we have in Heaven and the consciousness in which so many people
are trapped on Earth. You would instantly see that we, who are your
spiritual teachers, have such a deep love for you and such a deep
longing to help you be free. And yet, because you are trapped in your
mental boxes, it is so difficult for us to communicate with you and
to make you understand and accept our love. It is so hard to make
you accept and understand the Living Truth that will set you free.
The true purpose of religion
Do you remember that, 2,000 years ago, I talked about the truth that
will set you free? What is the truth that will set you free? Well
my beloved, it is precisely the Living Truth of God. And why will
that Living Truth set you free? Because if you accept and absorb the
Living Truth of God, you will transcend the mental box in which you
are now trapped.
It is precisely this mental box which keeps you out of the kingdom
of Heaven by making you think that you are separated from God, that
the kingdom of God is somewhere up there and that it could never be
where you are. Well my beloved, the kingdom of God is a state of consciousness.
And yes, it is certainly easier to maintain that state of consciousness
after you have ascended to Heaven. But I tell you it is possible to
obtain the Christ consciousness while you are on Earth, and when you
do so, you will be in the kingdom even while your soul inhabits the
physical body. In fact, you will bring the kingdom of God to Earth.
Do you remember what I said in the very beginning, when I said that
the very purpose of God’s creation was to create a limited creation
which eventually transcended its limitation and became aware of itself
as an extension of God, as an individualization of God. So you see
my beloved, that even though a soul must ascend to Heaven to become
permanently saved, it is not really the purpose of religion to get
all people to ascend to Heaven. The real purpose of religion is to
bring God’s kingdom to Earth by making a critical mass of human
beings manifest their personal Christhood and thereby draw down the
consciousness of the kingdom of God, so that the entire Earth can
be raised up to a high level of awareness, where even the stones themselves
will reflect the consciousness of the kingdom of God.
You now see that we of the Ascended Host have a purpose for giving
religion that is entirely different from the purpose which most people
see in religion. So many people think that a religion is meant to
give them an absolute and infallible truth. And therefore they think
that their particular religious doctrine is the only truth, is the
only possible way to describe the reality of God and therefore all
other descriptions must be false. Therefore, all other religions must
be false religions, and it is their holy duty to seek to save other
people from those religions or even to wage a holy war to destroy
those religions, possibly by killing all the people who follow those
religions. And so we have the endless human power struggle, fueled
and justified by religion, whereby people kill each other in the name
of God.
My beloved, it is my sincere hope that there is a critical mass of
human beings in this day and age who can and will recognize that this
approach to religion is a fallacy. Time has utterly and completely
run away from this outer, dogmatic, fanatical, extremist approach
to religion. Oh my beloved, when will people wake up and realize that
this is not why God gives religion. God is not attempting to bring
forth a religious doctrine which contains absolute truth because God
knows that the truth of God is the Living Truth, which is constantly
transcending itself.
The Living Word and the dead word
Do you see the all-important distinction here? Throughout the ages,
many religions have been inspired by the Ascended Host, and the founders
of those religions were bringing forth a new spiritual understanding
through the power of the Holy Spirit and the delivery of the Living
Word. What happened to almost every religion on this planet is that
after the original founders were no longer on this planet, the flow
of the Living Word through that religion came to a halt. The reason
being that the followers of that religion were not able or willing
to raise themselves, to raise their consciousness, so that they could
become the instruments for, the open doors for, the flow of the Living
Word.
When the flow of the Living Word stopped, people took what had been
brought forth through the Living Word, and they turned it into an
outer doctrine. And when that outer doctrine was written down and
codified, that which was originally the Living Word had now become
fixated in time and space. And therefore it did not take long before,
with the addition of interpretations and official doctrines, the Living
Word had now become the dead word.
And yes the dead word can still contain fragments of truth, but nevertheless
the dead word can never contain the truth that will set you free.
Only the Living Word can empower you to transcend your mental boxes
and be free of those boxes. Only the Living Truth of God has the power
to raise you up. And so my beloved, this is the true meaning behind
the statement that unless you eat of the body and blood of Christ,
you have no life in you. The body and blood of Christ is the Christ
consciousness, and it is only through the Christ consciousness that
you can recognize the Living Truth of God. So unless you partake of
the Christ consciousness, you have no life in you, no matter how many
doctrines that you have memorized.
My beloved, do you not see that I was in constant opposition to the
Pharisees, the scribes, the Sadducees and the lawyers? Those were
the people who knew the outer law. They had taken the outer doctrines,
the dead truth, and they had memorized it. They knew every letter
of that outer law. But they were truly, as I said, like whitened sepulchers
full of dead men’s bones.
Do you not see what I am saying here? Do you not see the stupendous
importance of recognizing the distinction between the dead, outer
doctrine and the Living Word of God, which can only be delivered and
flow through the power of the Holy Spirit? Why do you think I sent
my apostles out to preach by the power of the Holy Spirit? Why do
you think I didn't write down a fixed outer doctrine and told them
to go out and read aloud from a book? Well, I did this precisely because
I knew that only the power of the Living Word, the Living Truth, can
set people free to transcend their mental boxes, to stop kicking against
the pricks and stop persecuting the Living Christ within themselves.
The Movement of the Living Word of God
My beloved, I am truly like the voice crying in the wilderness saying,
“How long, oh Lord? How long before these people wake up and
see what has been under their noses for these 2,000 years and yet
has been so obscured by dead outer doctrines that only a precious
few Christian mystics have been able to read between the lines and
discover the Living Truth?”
How long oh Lord before people will wake up and realize that I came
to Earth to deliver a morsel of the Christ consciousness to every
human being? And my hope was that that morsel would be the leaven
that would raise the whole loaf of their consciousness, until they
too manifested the Christ consciousness that I demonstrated and did
the works that I did.
So therefore, I have now attempted the impossible mission of trying
to explain to people, who are stuck in the relativity of the carnal
state of mind, the significance and the reality of the Living Truth
and the Living Word. And so I trust that some of those who will make
the effort to read these words will indeed stop kicking against the
pricks, will indeed have the scales fall from their eyes and recognize
the value of the Living Word of God.
And therefore, I now take the next step, and I tell you that I desire
to create a new movement, a new movement on planet Earth. And it is
the Movement of the Living Word of God. I do not want to call this
movement a church, I do not want to call it a religion. Because thereby
so many people would see it as just another religion promoting an
outer doctrine. And this truly is not my intent. So what I desire
to see is a movement that is based on the recognition of the essential
difference between the dead outer word and the living inner word.
A movement based on the recognition of the stupendous value of the
Living Word of God, and that only the Living Word can deliver the
Living Truth that will set people free.
Therefore, I desire to inaugurate a movement that is dedicated to
delivering that Living Word, so that people do not have to base their
spiritual growth on a dead outer doctrine that is written in a book.
Instead, they can experience personally the Living Word of God, delivered
to them through a living person who has been willing to go through
the process of raising his or her consciousness, until he or she becomes
the open door, whereby the Living Word and Living Truth of God can
stream into this material octave and indeed quicken the consciousness
and memory of those people who are yet stuck in their mental boxes.
Through that quickening, people can feel that the outer word itself,
the Living Word itself, resonates with something in their own hearts.
And when they recognize that there is something in their own hearts,
they realize that they have a portion of Christ truth anchored in
their hearts. And by focusing their attention on that morsel of Christ
truth, they can indeed let it rise and raise the loaf of their consciousness,
until they too become the open door for the Living Word. And so I
desire to see thousands, and eventually millions, of people raise
their consciousness and quicken themselves and allow their Christ
selves to quicken them until they become the open door for the delivery
of the Living Word.
I inaugurate on this day the beginning of a new movement, the Movement
of the Living Word of God. And I hereby call my own, those who know
who they are, or who are willing to be quickened into remembering
who they are. Those who stood before me in this spiritual realm before
they came into this lifetime and the physical body in which they now
abide. Those who stood before me and took a solemn vow to descend
to planet Earth and to be the instruments for the bringing about of
the second coming of Christ and the awakening of millions of souls
through the power of the Living Word and the Holy Spirit.
I have need of thee!
My beloved, I showed you, 2,000 years ago, that there is only one
way to be a teacher for the people of Earth. Why do you think I rebuked
the scribes and the lawyers who had a mere intellectual understanding
of the letter of the law, but had not the spirit of the law? What
does it mean to have the spirit of the law? It means that you have
embodied the teaching to such a degree that the teaching is not an
intellectual idea for you. The teachings is a living reality; it is
a Living Truth. You are living the truth that you are teaching. So
you are not only preaching it through the dead outer word, you are
preaching it through the Living Word and the living example of being
that truth and that teaching in action because you have become the
teaching, you have become the truth.
So you see my beloved, the only way to teach the Living Truth of God
is to teach by example. And that is truly what I showed you 2,000
year ago, namely an example of what a person can be, when he or she
has become one with the Living Truth and therefore can say, “I
am the way, the truth and the life!”
This is not a mere outer understanding, a mere intellectual construct
of the mind. No, this is a living reality. You do not simply recognize
the truth; you are the truth. And everything you do and say
expresses that truth in action for all to see. By recognizing the
Living Truth that you have become, people are quickened, and they
realize that they have a morsel of that truth in their hearts. And
therefore they have the potential to follow your example and become
that Living Truth.
This is what I desire to see. And my beloved, millions of souls volunteered
to come down here to walk that path, to be instruments for the Living
Truth and to bring about the second coming of Christ. Your soul stood
before me, and you said, “Jesus, I will go and help you fulfill
your mission and bring about the second coming of Christ!”
I am now telling you that it is time and high time that you remember
the vow taken by your soul and that you break down the mental box
that stands in the way of your full acceptance of why you are here
and that you truly have the potential to be the Living Christ in embodiment.
Because I tell you, my beloved, “I have need of thee!”
Can you see that it is totally obvious that orthodox Christianity
has built such an idolatry around me that hardly anyone dares to follow
my example. And so to help people wake up and realize that they have
the potential to follow the example of Christ, they need to see those
who dare embody that example and become the Living Christ in embodiment.
And when they see that someone, who is like them and has grown up
in the same culture and society, can become the Living Christ, then
they too can finally overcome their idolatry and accept that they
have the potential to become the Living Christ.
My beloved, this is what needs to happen on planet Earth. This is
indeed what I and all of my brothers and sisters of the Ascended Host
are waiting for. We are waiting not for one human being to wake up
and realize his potential to become the Christ. We are waiting for
a critical mass of human beings to bring about a large-scale awakening,
whereby millions of people recognize their potential to become the
Christ and therefore bring about the true Christ Mass, the mass awakening
of human beings into the full manifestation of their Christhood.
This Christ Mass is precisely what can bring God’s kingdom to
Earth. And I tell you, it is a living reality, a living potential
a Living Truth. So I , Jesus Christ, hereby stand before your soul
at inner levels, and I say,
“In
the name of the living God, the I AM THAT I AM within me, and by
the authority given to me by Almighty God as the Savior for humankind,
I hereby call YOU to recognize the reality of the Living Word and
to recognize the Christ truth in your heart, to allow that Christ
truth to consume the unreality and the lies that surround your conscious
mind. I call you to come to a conscious acceptance of who you are
as a son or daughter of God and why you are here on planet Earth,
namely to bring about the second coming of Christ and to bring about
the manifestation of God’s kingdom on this planet, so that
we can turn this Earth into a bright star, a star of spiritual freedom,
so that we can turn the Earth into Freedom’s Star. And therefore
I say, Stop persecuting me! Stop kicking against the pricks! And
BE the Living Christ that you are!
It is done, it is finished, it is sealed, for the mouth of the Lord
has spoken it, I AM THAT I AM, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
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