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Jesus,
May 10, 2009.
I, Jesus, come to discourse with you, making a guest appearance here
in this series of discourses by the Buddha. But I do not come as the
Jesus that people see in the Christian world, I come in the fullness
of the being that I AM today, having attained Buddhahood after my
ascension. And thus, I come to discourse with you on the twelfth ray—the
twelfth ray of rebirth.
Rebirth, my beloved.
For, as you have heard, the eleventh ray is the ray of the initiation
of giving up, being willing to let go of the old—transcending. But
you see, my beloved, giving up without knowing what comes after is
a necessary initiation. But it does not mean that if you give up,
then automatically a new self will emerge. For what needs to happen
after you have given up the old is that you – your conscious self,
your sense of self – is reborn.
And how does that happen? It happens when you, the conscious self,
accepts itself as being reborn, accepts itself as a new identity,
my beloved. And this can be a difficult step for many people who have
been on the spiritual path for a long time. For you are so accustomed
to looking at yourself, looking at the beam in your own eye, looking
for something to give up, looking for what must be surrendered. And
this is necessary, it is a necessary step on the path, my beloved.
For if you look at many people in the world, [you see that they] are
so identified with their egos, and so believing the lie of the ego
that they do not need to give up any part of the false identity. They
just need to follow the outer path, the automatic path to salvation,
and then they will be guaranteed to be saved.
You, then, as the spiritual people, have risen beyond this level of
consciousness. You are not in denial of the fact that there is a beam
in your own eye, that there is something that must be seen and must
be surrendered and must be given up before you can be free of it,
my beloved. You are not in denial that you have free will, that you
have used your free will to accept certain dualistic illusions, and
that you must, then, see through them and give them up. But some of
you still find it difficult to take that step of accepting that after
you give up an element of the not-self, you, the conscious self, are
reborn into a higher sense of identity. Yet you cannot accept that
you are reborn—that you now are a different being.
Becoming a new being in Christ
And what trips you up in many cases is exactly your willingness to
look for the beam in your own eye. Your willingness to recognize that
there is something that must be given up. And therefore, you are so
focused on seeing the problem, of overcoming the problem, and thinking
in terms of problems, that you cannot let go of the memory of who
you were in the past and how you were an imperfect being and how much
you had to give up. And therefore, you cannot always accept that now
that you have given it up, you are no longer that being who had that
problem before.
Do you see, my beloved? When you are reborn, you become a new person,
a new being in Christ. But you have free will. You cannot accept that
you are a new being – you cannot accept it in your conscious mind
– unless you are willing to truly acknowledge that you are not the
person who made the mistake or had the belief that you discovered
yesterday and gave up.
My beloved, if you look at my life as Jesus, I passed several initiations
where I had to accept a higher identity. You can see this between
the lines of the official scriptures, although some of them have indeed
been taken out, some were never even there, because the gospel writers
did not have the full understanding of my being and the path of Christhood
and the initiations I went through. Nevertheless, the reality is that
I had several initiations where I had to accept a higher sense of
identity in order to take my mission to the next level.
And had I not been willing to do this, then my mission would have
stalled at a certain level. And I would not have gone all the way
to the ultimate end of hanging on the cross and giving up the ghost
of the final limitations—thereby being resurrected. So you see, my
beloved, this is the initiation that all of us have faced as we walked
the path and attained our ascensions.
The ascension is
not automatic
What is the ascension, my beloved? What is the ascension process?
Well it is that you must accept that you are no longer a mortal human
being, you are now an immortal spiritual being. If you cannot accept
that, you cannot ascend.
You might be used to thinking – based on past teachings given by us
in other dispensations – that the ascension is a matter of fulfilling
certain requirements. And once you have fulfilled those requirements
– ”poof” – one day you will ascend.
It is not so! There are requirements to fulfill, my beloved. Certainly,
that is true. But the process of ascension is not an automatic process,
it is not a mechanical process—it is a creative process. Which means
that it involves choices that you must make.
And what are the choices you make? What do I mean when I say “Choose
life over death?” Well, “Choose life!” means that you choose to accept
a new identity, a new sense of self, that is MORE than the sense of
self you had before—even a second ago.
So you see, my beloved, the ego wants to pervert this entire concept
of the spiritual path into thinking that you walk a long path towards
an ultimate goal. And the ego has two advantages of this. By making
you accept that you are walking a long path, it can make you accept
that the ultimate goal is far out in the future. As you indeed have
had many previous students of the Ascended Masters who have believed
that they would ascend, they would become the Christ, only far into
the future. But certainly not now—certainly not right now, right here.
And you see, this is the ego trying to make the conscious self believe
that it cannot simply shift its sense of identity in an instant and
be the Christ in an instant.
And so, the other advantage that the false teachers and the ego gain
from this perception is that there is this idea that there is some
ultimate stage, some ultimate initiation, you go through—and then
you have attained some permanent state.
There is growth
in the ascended realm
My beloved, when this messenger first heard the concept of Ascended
Masters, he was very skeptical of it, because it was presented to
him, at first, as if Ascended Masters were perfect beings and there
was no more growth in the ascended realm. From his inner being, he
rejected that concept, knowing that it was simply not true. And so,
only when he came to understand that even ascended masters grow and
transcend our sense of self, well then could he accept that it might
be a valid path that the Ascended Masters were presenting, leading
towards the ascension.
And so you see, I ascended with a certain level of Christ attainment.
I have now attained the Buddhic attainment – which is higher than
the Christ attainment – because I have not stood still since my ascension.
I have multiplied my talents and moved forward, my beloved.
But how have I done this? By allowing my sense of self to be reborn
many times over. For I tell you that in order to move from the level
of Christ attainment to the level of Buddhic attainment, you have
to be reborn at least ten thousand times. And so, you might consider
that, likewise, in order to move from the level of consciousness that
most human beings are at on this planet to the ascended state, you
have to be reborn many, many times.
In fact, Saint Germain has said that in order to qualify for his ascension,
he had to make one million right decisions. What is a right decision?
It is a
LIFE decision, where you accept that you are being reborn into
a higher sense of self.
So my beloved, is it possible to cover the gap between the lower state
of consciousness – that humankind are in – and the Christ consciousness
in one leap? No it is not! It never has been and never will be. But
yet, nevertheless, your conscious self can at any moment shift its
sense of identity to a higher sense of identity. – to a higher sense
of self – and this is, indeed, the process.
My beloved, Paul said 2,000 years ago: “I die daily.” Meaning that
every day he allowed a part of his human self to die and was reborn
into a higher sense of self. Well, I tell you that while it is good
to die daily, it is far better to die many times every day, for you
speed up the path.
Give up the dream
of an ultimate initiation
You see, my beloved, give up this idea that there is some ultimate
initiation, some ultimate goal that is far out there in the future.
Instead, accept the reality that the River of Life is a process, an
ever-moving stream of constant, on-going, perpetual self-transcendence.
It is precisely, as the Buddha explained, the attempt to hold on to
a particular sense of self that brings you into the consciousness
of death, the consciousness of duality.
In the ascended state, you do not have a permanent, fixed, sense of
identity. You are constantly ascending. In fact, it might be constructive,
my beloved, instead of talking about Ascended Masters, to talk about
Ascending Masters.
For we are constantly ascending, we are constantly being reborn into
a higher sense of self. This is, indeed, what I represent to this
Earth, having taken up a position as the representative of the twelfth
ray of rebirth, my beloved. This is what I came to bring forth 2,000
years ago. And now – in the fullness that I AM now – I have taken
up that position of representing this rebirth. And it is, indeed,
the supreme opportunity for the more advanced spiritual seekers to
accelerate their beings beyond a certain point, where they simply
shed that snakeskin of the old identity and are reborn into a new
sense of self.
But, my beloved, in order to be fully reborn, you have to accept that
you now are that new sense of self. It is not a theoretical concept
that is still “out there” in the distance and that you might someday
take on. No, it is now. It is here. It is you. This is who I am.
You might have made a mistake yesterday, but if you see the mistake,
see the consciousness behind it and let it go, then you are reborn
into a new self. And the self that you are today was not the self
that made the mistake yesterday or ten thousand embodiments ago. And
therefore, you do not need to hang on to these feelings that you had
in the old sense of self. In fact, you do not even need to hold on
to the memory.
Guilt has no constructive
purpose
And this is where many of you are tripped up. For, of course, you
can remember who you were yesterday and what you did yesterday. And
some of you can even remember what you did lifetimes ago. But you
see, my beloved, you are no longer that person—when you have given
up the consciousness that caused you to do whatever you did in the
past. And therefore, you must go through a period – like this messenger
did – that when his own ego and the false teachers were projecting
[the memory of] a mistake into his mind, he would consciously say,
“But I am no longer the self that did that. I did not do that, the
self that I am now did not make that mistake. And therefore, I do
not need to feel guilty about it.”
It is no more different than when you think back to when you learned
to walk. Should you feel guilty for being clumsy and falling down
when you were a few months old and trying to walk? Why on Earth would
you feel guilty over this? So why would you feel guilty over mistakes
you have made as an adult, or mistakes you have made in past lifetimes?
There is no constructive purpose for guilt whatsoever. It is a lower
vibration, a vibration of anti-love. It is a projection of the fallen
beings and of your own ego—attempting to hold you back from accepting
your rebirth into a new sense of identity. It serves no constructive
purpose.
Just LET IT GO MY BE - LO - VED!
For you are more than this.
There is no force in heaven whatsoever that wants to hold you back
in a former sense of self. Therefore, any attempt to hold you back
can only come from below, from the false teachers, from the fallen
beings, from your own ego, from the mass consciousness, from other
people. Wherever it comes from, it is unreal. And that which is unreal
cannot affect that which is real—your conscious self.
Certainly, we all understand that this is not necessarily an easy
transition. I can tell you this – I can tell you this with fire, in
order to shake you out of your old state of consciousness – but I
recognize that while you might be lifted up by my fire, you can easily
go out from this environment and fall back into the old patterns.
And then, what happens when you fall back into the old patterns? Are
you now going to think back and say, “Oh, I just did what Jesus told
me not to do. I should feel guilty for not following Jesus’ instructions.”
And see—then you are right back in the old momentum.
The ego needs a fixed sense of identity
But you see, my beloved, the reality here is this: your ego cannot
flow with the River of Life because it cannot live without – it cannot
exist, it cannot maintain a sense of self, a sense of continuity –
without a fixed sense of identity.
The ego cannot exist when you are constantly transcending yourself.
And that is what I am asking you to keep in mind. Surely, you will
go out, you will be confronted with some old momentum. Simply give
it up! And accept that you are reborn.
Whatever comes back to you, give it up. Accept that you are reborn.
Whenever a projection comes from any lower state of consciousness,
look at it if you need to look for a lie, but do not indulge in it.
Do not go in and overanalyze. Look at it and see—for in many cases,
my beloved, you have already seen through the lie.
You must understand that you can come to a point where your conscious
self has seen through the lie. But you will still be confronted with
the momentum, or even with projections from the mass consciousness.
And that is why you can say to yourself, “But I thought I had given
this up. And now I am experiencing it again. What is happening?”
Well, the reality is that as long as you are in embodiment – as long
as you are walking these denser spheres – you will be confronted with
momentums and projections from the mass consciousness. But once you
have seen through the lie, what you need to do is become aware that
this projection is directed at you and then simply give it up and
accept that you are reborn, that this is not who you are. That you
are more than this.
You see that if every time your ego projects something at you, you
use it to be reborn and accept a higher sense of identity, well then
your ego will eventually become so scattered – so frustrated, so blown
apart by this constant self-transcendence – that it cannot maintain
a grip on “reality,” it cannot maintain the continuous sense of identity.
And thus, you are simply accelerated beyond it. There may still be
remnants of the separate self, as there will be some remnants of it
as long as you are in embodiment. But your conscious self no longer
identifies itself with it, because your conscious self no longer has
a permanent, fixed, sense of identity that is based on the things
of this world.
You realize that you are a spiritual being. And you realize that a
spiritual being has no fixed sense of identity but is constantly flowing
with the River of Life, is constantly transcending its sense of self.
And therefore, you do not need to have that fixed permanent or semi-permanent
sense of identity based on the things of this world. You see that
you are MORE, and you are constantly flowing with it—you are not holding
on to that sense of self. Whenever a limitation of your current sense
of self becomes apparent to you, you let it go, you are reborn. You
accept that you are reborn as MORE. And thus, the ego simply cannot
keep up with you, the prince of this world cannot keep up, my beloved.
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