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Jesus,
April 7, 2007.
Understanding how salvation works
Now, my beloved, you all know from your daily experience why this
is impossible. You know very well that most of you have screens in
front of your windows. The screens have small holes in them so the
air can pass through and the light can pass through, but insects that
are too big cannot pass through. You know very well that if you tried
to drive a big truck into an ordinary garage, you are going to have
a problem, because the opening is not big enough for the truck to
go through. And so you know very well that if you are to enter through
an opening, you must be able to fit through that opening.
And so the image I would give you is that the pearly gate that leads
into heaven has a screen door with very tiny holes in it. Your physical
body cannot pass through that—that is obvious. But what I want
you to understand is that those elements in your being, in your consciousness,
that spring from duality, those elements cannot pass through the screen
door either. They are like little moths and flies, buzzing around
in your energy field, in your consciousness. And they will hit the
screen and not be able to pass through. And so the problem is that
if you have these elements in your container
of self, as you try to go through the screen door – and
if you are not willing to let go of them – well then, my beloved,
they will hit the screen and keep you outside. Is this not obvious?
And so the only way to pass through the screen door to heaven is to
realize that you are more than all of these dualistic beliefs, for
you, the core of your being, is the conscious
self. Your conscious self does not have any substance as such,
and therefore your conscious self can pass through the screen door.
But it can do so only when it is willing to give up the dualistic
beliefs and come into the condition I described when I said, "The
prince of this world comes and has nothing in me" (John 14:30).
For I had gotten rid of all the little bugs in my subconscious mind.
And so there was nothing, there was no resistance for me passing through
the screen into heaven.
And how do you overcome these dualistic beliefs? Well, there is only
one way and that is to reach for something that is beyond duality.
And that something, of course, is the Living Word. And so the Living
Word, when you allow it into your being, will purge you of those unreal
beliefs. It will expose them to you and then you can see them and
you can let them go. But what has happened to many people in the world
is that they are not willing to look in the mirror, they are not willing
to look at themselves.
And for some, as I said, this is understandable for they are not ready.
They would be too devastated if they were to look in the mirror and
acknowledge that they had some kind of flaw that would keep them out
of heaven—a flaw that they are unable to change because they
are not yet ready to take full responsibility for themselves.
But, my beloved, what I am addressing here are the many people who
are ready at inner levels, and who simply need to shift their
outer minds to the point where they acknowledge the reality that the
outer path can never lead you to the eternal life, to heaven, to salvation,
to cosmic consciousness, to the ascension or whatever you want to
call it. By following an outer path, be it in a New Age teaching or
in any of the traditional religions, you will never – ever –
get to where you want to go. For you will never get rid of all the
bugs that cannot pass through the screen door. And so only when you
step onto that inner path – and are willing to look in the mirror
and realize, "There is an element of duality in my consciousness"
– well only then will you truly enter the path to Christhood.
Overcoming the gray zone
And, my beloved, I know that there is a point, there is an interim
stage, where you are ready at inner levels but your outer mind has
not yet acknowledged it, has not yet accepted that you are ready.
And so your outer mind resists the process of looking in the mirror.
My beloved, I saw this in all of my disciples in the time I spent
with them—how they went back and forth, being somewhat willing
but not quite willing to allow me to expose to them their own imperfect
beliefs.
And so, I understand you go through a process of trepidation. I do
not expect you to – in one day – suddenly be shaken out
of it. For you see, my beloved, there is a very important principle
that Saint Germain described last
night. And that is that we walk a tightrope. For we want to awaken
people, but we do not want to awaken them so abruptly that they are
devastated or shocked by it and therefore switch from one extreme
to the other.
We know very well that you all still need to have some sense of self-esteem.
And as long as your sense of self-esteem is based on the things of
this world—if we were to expose all of the illusions that you
hold, your self-esteem could be shattered and you would feel like
you were no good. And this is, indeed, what you see in some people
in the Christian movements, who come to the realization that they
are miserable sinners.
And what you see, my beloved, is that on one hand these people needed
to be awakened because they were heading in the wrong direction and
creating one crisis after another for themselves. But when they fall
into the traditional fundamentalist Christian mindset, they switch
to the opposite extreme, and now they see themselves as miserable
sinners who can never do anything on their own. And they think I am
the only one who will save them. And so they fall prey to the illusion
– again – of the outer path presented by the Christian
churches, that by the simple measure of declaring Jesus to be your
Lord and savior, you need to do nothing else, for now you are saved.
And you see, my beloved, this then causes these people to be no better
off than they were before they were converted. For, you see, they
are still in the same mindset of not having taken responsibility for
themselves, not having taken responsibility for changing their own
hearts and minds so that they can free their minds from all the debris
that cannot pass through the screen door.
Only the WORD will purge you of duality
This is indeed the problem, the essential problem, on planet Earth—in
every tradition, even in secular traditions where they somehow think
that a political party is the key to some form of salvation, as they
truly believed in most of the communist world. Or at least some believed
this.
So my beloved, the reality is this: only the Living Word will help
you, will empower you, to overcome the imperfections in your own being
that stand in the way of your entry into heaven. And this is precisely
the truth that I hope you will all internalize – truly understand
– and then go out and teach to others. For this is the truth
that must come out in this age.
For, as I have explained in my ego
discourses, there are many spiritually mature people who have
seen through the fallacies of the black-and-white thinking of the
fundamentalist and orthodox Christians. Yet they have unknowingly
gone into the opposite extreme of gray thinking, where they still
think that they can create their own tradition independently of the
Living Word.
And so, you have many people in the New Age movement who look down
upon the Christians, realizing that the Christians have created their
own tradition and therefore made the Word of God of no effect. But
they fail to see that they have done the same thing, just from the
opposite direction. They have arrived at the same point of creating
an outer tradition and mindset that simply will not allow them to
enter.
For you see, my beloved, once again we have the image of the external
God who judges everything. But nobody in heaven is looking down upon
Earth and judging people. It is, as I said, the WORD that will judge
you. It is through your words that you shall be justified or condemned,
it is through whether you have the Living Word in your being, whether
your beliefs, whether your sense of identity is based on the Living
Word or on the dead word, the dualistic word, the divided word.
If you have too many elements, or for that matter any elements, of
the divided word, the dualistic word, in your being, you cannot pass
through that screen door. Only when you have fully absorbed the Living
Word and have been willing to look at anything in your being, then
can you enter through that screen door, for now there is no resistance.
Is there any absolute truth?
And so, my beloved, I desire you to understand more of the nature
of the Living Word. And truly I will speak more about this. But I
want to leave you with one thought to contemplate and that is: There
is a dream in religious tradition of finding some absolute, some infallible
scripture or teaching that is absolutely true at all times and for
all conditions. And so many people look for that absolute truth and
think there has to be such a thing as absolute truth.
But what I desire you to contemplate is my words spoken 2,000 years
ago, "God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship
him in Spirit and in Truth" (John 4:24). Take note that I did
not tell people to worship God through the scriptures. And so how
can it be that so many people in the Christian world think that they
can only know God and contemplate God through the scriptures—and
that any idea about God must conform to scripture or it is false?
You see, my beloved, the Living Word is what allows you to rise above
duality, but only when you internalize it and make it come alive in
your heart. So as I speak these words into the physical octave –
where you can hear these words – if you only listen to my words
with the intellect, then these words are not the Living Word. They
are the dead word in your mind, even though I speak them from the
spiritual realm, and I, as the Living Christ, truly am expressing
the Living Word in the material universe. The Living Word does not
come alive in you unless you allow it to come alive, allow it to transform
you, allow it to show you something that you have not so far seen
and that your ego is not willing to see and does not want you to see.
So you see, my beloved, there is no way to express an absolute truth
in the physical universe. Because anything that is expressed becomes
subject to interpretation. And so, people impose their filters upon
it and, depending on their willingness to see through their own filter,
they can kill the Living Word in an instant, in the instant it enters
their being.
You have heard the saying that what someone says to you goes in one
ear and out the other. Well, I can tell you that there are many people
who listen to the Living Word, and the Living Word goes in one ear
but then the dead word comes out the other ear. And so it has no effect
on them, for these people have made the Word of God of no effect in
their tradition, in the tradition that is between their ears, namely
in the brain and the analytical mind. For they are not listening to
the Word with their heart but only with their mind. And that is indeed
why I could say that these people honoureth God with their mouth but
their heart is far from him (Matthew 15:8).
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