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Jesus,
October 1, 2006.
Thus, the eternal question, presented by the Living Christ is, “Will
you choose life or will you choose death? Will you continue to choose
death or will you leave behind the consciousness of death and be reborn
into the consciousness of life, that the Living Christ bestows upon
all, as his body and blood that is broken for all who are willing
to take it?”
Thus, the question to ask yourself is, “Am I alive in a spiritual
sense? Or am I still weighted down by some aspect of the death consciousness
that then makes me feel burdened, overwhelmed, focused on myself or
whatever it may be?” I ask you who are here and all who might
hear or read this, to take a minute to center in your heart and ask
yourself that question. "Am I really alive right now? Am I fully
alive?" Or is there an entirely new level of life that I perhaps
have glimpsed but have not yet internalized and become? So my beloved,
ask yourself this question honestly, "Am I fully alive?"
Stop sleepwalking through life
Now then, I am not in any way trying to make you feel burdened or
guilty for not being alive. I am trying to help you see that almost
everyone is still, to some degree, burdened by the death consciousness.
For it is indeed a black cloud hanging over the planet. Yet what I
hope I can help you see is that there is something beyond that death
consciousness and that it is possible for you to step up and glimpse
that consciousness of life. And then internalize and embody it, until
it becomes your everyday reality and you are in that consciousness
24 hours a day and radiating that consciousness, sharing it with all
people.
And my beloved, this is truly the goal of the path of Christhood—to
be fully awake, fully alive all of the time and to not sink into that
death consciousness that makes you just sleepwalk through life. Yes,
my beloved, your ego is shaking in its boots as you are hearing these
words because it knows that when you are fully awake, there will be
no room for the ego. And thus, it has come up with thousands of cleaver
schemes to prevent you from being fully awake, to prevent you from
letting that light shine. And it has found an inroad into almost everyone’s
consciousness, that causes you to think that you should not be awake,
you should not let your light shine, or that you should not be awake
in certain situations. This, my beloved, is the trap. And it is very
subtle because – through the force of habit – you become
so accustomed to it that you barely realize that you have slipped
away from the consciousness of life into the consciousness of death.
Do you not see, my beloved, that all true spiritual teachers, that
have come to this planet throughout the ages, have had the same message
and the same goal. And that is to awaken people to the reality that
there is an entirely higher level of life that they are not even aware
of. We want you to be free as we are free. We want you to be all you
can be and more. For the potential is always more, for God himself
is more, is self-transcendence. For God is the Living God. And the
Living Christ is the only begotten Son of the Living God.
And the Living Christ can never, ever be put into a man-made doctrine
of philosophy or church or organization or system of any kind. For
there is no man-made system that can hold the Living Christ, for he
will break whatever chains people put upon him. There are no chains
that can hold the Living Christ, and thus there should be no chains
that can hold you. There should be no prison that can hold you for
an entire lifetime—if you are willing to exercise the potential
you have been given by God, the potential to become the Living Christ
on Earth.
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The temptation of the death consciousness
My beloved, there are many people who have followed the spiritual
path for a long time. There are many people who have studied the Teachings
of the Ascended Masters, practiced our techniques, be it decrees or
rosaries, and they have done so diligently. And they have made progress
by doing so, but there will come a point where you will not make any
further progress until you start to consciously make what I have called
LIFE
decisions.
My beloved, it is a law of God that the devil is allowed to tempt
you. For in being tempted by the death consciousness, you have the
opportunity to choose life and prove that you are willing to choose
life. And you see the example of how I was tempted by the devil after
my stay in the wilderness. And the stay in the wilderness symbolizes
that I had withdrawn from the ways of the world, from the consciousness
of the world, and put my entire attention on the kingdom of God within
me until I connected to that kingdom.
And then, my beloved, I faced the challenge that when you connect
to the kingdom of God and reach a certain level of Christhood, you
cannot just sit there in your cave and meditate and be in bliss, for
the world is crying in pain. And the role of the Living Christ is
not to remove himself from the world, but to be in the world
while not being of the world—and thus demonstrate to
the people of the world that there is a higher way, not just a different
way, but a higher way.
And thus, the Living Christ must go out, and in going out the Living
Christ then meets the consciousness of the world as was exemplified
by the devil who came to me and tried to tempt me into perverting
or aborting my mission to bear witness for the absolute truth of God.
The devil tried to tempt me into pursuing worldly goals or denying
my Christhood or using it in frivolous pursuits of creating miracles
or tempting God to save me.
This, my beloved, is a temptation, but I must tell you that although
I was tempted three times, it does not actually mean that the devil
can tempt you only three times. For you are the one who must decide
how long you will allow the devil to keep tempting you, how long you
will allow the worldly consciousness to pull you into this direction
or that direction and pull you away from bearing witness to the truth
and letting your light shine.
My beloved, there are people who have been on the spiritual path for
decades and who are still allowing the devil to tempt them on a daily
basis because they have not been willing to take a firm stand on the
rock of Christ and say, “Enough is enough! Get thee behind me
Satan!” When you make that decision and you are completely resolved,
so that you make it with every part of your being – so that
you are not a house divided, but you are of one mind, your eye is
single in being focused on the one vision of Christ – then the
devil will flee from you. The worldly consciousness will flee from
you in the sense that it cannot touch you anymore.
This obviously does not mean that you will not encounter that consciousness.
For when you interact with other people, you will encounter their
consciousness. But it means that you have established a hallowed sphere
inside yourself, and you know that there is a core of your being that
the prince of this world, that the forces of this world, that the
demons of Mara simply cannot touch. Because it is your hallowed ground.
It is the meeting point between your conscious self and your I AM
Presence, your God.
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