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Mother Mary,
April 2, 2005.
How can I give
people the truth?
And so I come to give you a small sense of comeasurement of the difficulty
I face, and that other members of the Ascended Host face, when we
seek to enlighten humankind. I would like you to take a little journey
with me in your imagination. I would like you to imagine that you
are up here in Heaven, looking down upon Earth and considering the
state of consciousness of most Catholics around the world.
Most Catholics today realize, at some level of their beings, that
times have changed, that society has changed. And in many ways, the
times have run away from many of the customs, the traditions and the
beliefs in the Church which they consider to be the true church of
Christ.
Many of these Catholics have grown up with questions about God and
about Christ that were never answered by official doctrines. Some
have sought answers elsewhere, while some have simply stopped asking
the questions. Many feel a sense of loyalty to the outer church and
feel that in order to remain loyal to the Church, they should close
their minds to any considerations that cannot be explained by doctrine.
It is as if these people feel that being loyal to the outer doctrine
is more important than knowing the inner truth.
Yet if you would look at
the example set by my beloved Jesus, you would see a person who had
committed his entire life to the truth and who was not willing to
compromise the truth in order to please human beings or please his
own outer consciousness and ego. And this is the example that you
should follow, so that you will not let your own ego or any human
being or institution stand between you and the discovery of the truth,
the truth of Christ that will make you free from all human limitations
and shackles.
And so the question that is faced by most Catholics today is the same
question that has been faced by human beings throughout the ages,
“Do you want the truth or do you want to remain in the state
of illusion, confusion and darkness?” This is the question that
Jesus asked – spoken and unspoken – of every person he
met 2,000 years ago. They were all faced with the necessity to either
accept the truth embodied by Jesus or to reject that truth.
Will you accept the truth of Christ?
And so the question remains today, “Will you accept the truth
of Christ, or will you reject that truth?” And so I ask you
to consider that I, Mary, have been working in various ways with Catholics
for a very long time. You have seen apparitions, you have heard messages,
you have seen tears flowing from statues, and you have seen various
forms of miracles performed by the sun. Yet I would like you to consider
why I have appeared in such ways and why I have often given messages
that are very simple, almost to the point of being simplistic.
The reason for this is that so many Catholics have closed their minds
to anything beyond the official doctrine of the outer church. And
therefore, you might consider how I, Mary, could possibly awaken people.
How could I possibly awaken Catholics to the truth that would make
them free? And the sad fact is that I have very limited options for
awakening Catholics, because many of them are afraid to find a truth
that might be beyond the outer doctrine. Their first and foremost
concern is not to know the truth that will make them free. Their first
and foremost concern is that any idea they come across must conform
to the outer doctrine of the outer church.
And thus, how could I possibly
appear in a way that did not conform to the standards set by the outer
church? And how could I possibly say anything in one of these apparitions,
that are approved by the Church, if what I said did not conform to
the doctrine of the Church? You see, I am a spiritual being and I
know the truth of Christ and the reality of God. I have a great longing
to impart that truth and reality to all who revere me, be they Catholic
or not. Yet how could I pass on that truth if all you want to hear
is what conforms to an outer doctrine, especially if that doctrine
is not completely aligned with the truth?
The role of the Messiah
Consider why Jesus called the scribes and the Pharisees hypocrites
and why it was precisely these people who attempted to silence him
by killing his physical body. The reason is simple. These people did
not want the truth. They were afraid of the truth. They wanted a Messiah,
but they wanted that Messiah to conform to the outer doctrines of
their religion. And yet the Messiah is sent by God to set them free
from their illusions, so if their doctrines are out of alignment with
the truth of God, then what is the Messiah to do? Is he to give them
the truth or is he to conform to their doctrines and thus keep them
trapped in error and illusion?
You see, my beloved, Jesus did not want to compromise the truth and
that is why he challenged the scribes and the Pharisees and the lawyers
who had taken away the key of knowledge, the key of knowledge that
the kingdom of God is within you and that the key to salvation is
not an outer religion but to go within and obtain a higher state of
consciousness.
And so, precisely because Jesus did what he was sent by God to do,
namely challenge people’s illusions, he was persecuted or ignored.
And in the end he was condemned to death and crucified.
This is the tragedy of
the ages, that those who are trapped in illusion are in a catch-22,
where their beliefs are lies, yet they have been programmed with a
fear of questioning the lies that they have come to believe. And so
their fear prevents them from questioning the lies, and if they are
not willing to question the lies, how can they possibly receive the
truth that will set them free from those lies? And thus people are
in a catch-22 from which even a representative of God, even the Son
of God sent into embodiment, even the Word made flesh, cannot awaken
them—unless they have ears to hear a truth that goes beyond
the outer doctrine that keeps them trapped in illusion.
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