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Mother Mary, November
26, 2006
Perpetual forgiveness
My beloved, I know that once you have become caught in this downward
spiral of hurt and pain, it can seem as if there is no way out. But
my beloved, I have indeed risen over the human condition and so have
many other ascended Beings. And thus, I must tell you that most people
on Earth are caught in an illusion. But the reality proven by so many
ascended beings is that you can indeed rise above the downward spirals
from the past.
But you can do so not by transforming the past, not by controlling
the past or controlling other people. You can do so only by transforming
the way you look at the past, so you are willing to let go of the
belief that you have been holding on to up until now.
Do you see, my beloved, that it is not a matter of finding some magic
wand that can set you free from the past? The magic wand is your conscious
awareness and your willingness to simply let go, to let go of the
pain, to let go of the hurt, to let go of the belief that you need
to respond to certain situations in a negative way, to let go of the
entire tendency to think that in certain situations you can only respond
with negative feelings.
You see, my beloved, once
you truly enter into the spirit of forgiveness – and allow the
spirit of forgiveness to enter into your lower being – well
then you will be in a state of perpetual forgiveness, so that you
have already forgiven yourself and other people before they have done
anything to you.
And thus, when they do something to you – for truly you cannot
control the actions of others – well then they are already forgiven.
And when you know that they are already forgiven, you also know that
you can then stay free of any negative reaction, no matter what other
people do to you. And thereby, my beloved, you can follow the most
profound advice given by Jesus, namely that you resist not evil, but
when a person smites you on one cheek, you will turn to him the other
also.
My beloved, turning the other cheek can be done only when you are
in a state of perpetual and unconditional forgiveness. And so, when
some person does something to you, you do not go into a negative reaction.
You stay in peace. You stay in love. You stay in forgiveness. And
thus, you simply turn the other cheek so that you can give the other
person another opportunity to see his or her own evil, his or her
own imperfections.
Helping others see their illusions
For my beloved, what happens when a person hurts you and you respond
negatively and seek to hurt the other person? Well, my beloved, do
you not validate the other person’s belief that you are a bad
person? And was it not such a belief that in most cases caused other
people to hurt you in the first place, namely that they believe you
have done something wrong and you deserve to be punished or hurt.
And so, when you allow yourself to be hurt and respond back by trying
to hurt them or defend yourself, then you only reinforce the other
person’s belief. And you not only reinforce the belief in the
mind of the other person, but you reinforce it in your own mind. For
after all, it was only because you have an imperfect belief about
yourself that you allowed the other person’s actions to hurt
you.
And so, my beloved, when you turn the other cheek, you break the spiral.
When you respond with love when someone else hurts you, you are challenging
the other person’s belief that you are a bad person or that
you deserve to be punished. You are showing the other person that
you are a person who can respond with love. And thereby, the other
person is forced to reconsider his or her own actions and his or her
own image of you. And this can often help people step out of their
own illusions, so that they see that they are trapped in imperfect
beliefs about themselves and about life. And thus, they receive an
opportunity to overcome those beliefs.
Yes, my beloved, I know
full well that there are persons with whom you can turn the other
cheek and they will hurt you again. But you see, my beloved, when
you turn the other cheek in perfect love and forgiveness – in
unconditional forgiveness – and another person still hurts you,
then that second act of hurting you becomes the person’s judgment.
And that judgment will release a reaction from life itself that will
cause that person to experience such an accelerated return of what
it is sending into the cosmic mirror. And that accelerated return
will either cause the person to wake up or will ultimately cause the
person to be judged to the point where the person will not be allowed
to reincarnate on Earth until it has changed its consciousness.
And thus, you see, my beloved, what Jesus was really saying was that
if people would adopt his advice of turning the other cheek and not
resisting evil, then they would allow the law of God to work in full
measure. And by doing this, the law of God will actually be able to
remove evil from the Earth at an accelerated rate.
For you see, my beloved, when you allow other people to hurt you while
you are turning the other cheek, well then God can step in and remove
those people from the Earth. And thereby, you will quickly have a
situation where the most evil people – the most selfish self-centered,
egotistical people – will be removed from the Earth. And therefore,
humankind as a whole will simply rise up to a higher level and overcome
certain states of consciousness that you today see outplayed over
and over again in a seemingly endless spiral of people hurting each
other and seeking revenge for hurt—thereby creating a new hurt
that gives the other people an excuse for seeking revenge.
Breaking the cycle of revenge
My beloved, can you not see that this has been going on over and over
again on this planet, especially in the Middle East, where the cycle
of revenge and revenge for revenge goes on and on. And thus, can you
not see that this downward spiral will not be broken until someone
decides that they have had enough. They will not perpetuate the cycle,
and therefore they will do something completely different instead
of responding to hurt with pain and revenge and a desire to punish.
They will respond with love and unconditional forgiveness.
Ah my beloved, can you also see that by doing this, you will set yourself
free from any ties to the people who have hurt you? And my beloved,
when you think about it, does it make any sense whatsoever that when
a person has hurt you, you will want to keep yourself tied to that
person?
My beloved, unless you are a masochist – which I trust
most of you are not – why would you want to come back and invite
another person to hurt you again? You see, my beloved, if someone
hurts you, your logical response should be that you simply want to
be free of that person and never encounter them again. But you see,
if you go into the cycle of being hurt and wanting the other person
to be punished, you tie yourself to that person.
For my beloved, the very desire to punish another person means that
you are not willing to turn away from that person until you have seen
the other person be punished. And so, therefore, you will automatically
keep yourself tied to that person until you feel that the person has
been punished sufficiently. And my beloved, that might not happen
in this lifetime or even in many lifetimes. And this is indeed how
people in the Middle East have created these ties with each other,
so that the same souls keep reincarnating over and over again.
And my beloved, I have
told you before that it is not a matter of the outer race or religion,
for people will switch places so that many of the people who are now
incarnated as Jews were in their past lives incarnated as Germans
who perpetrated the Holocaust or as Arabs who persecuted the Jews.
And many of the people who are now Arabs were in past lives Jews.
And so you see, my beloved, it is these people’s unwillingness
to forgive unconditionally that keeps them repeating these cycles.
For there is indeed an entire consciousness in the Arab world that
believes that Jews cannot be forgiven. And there is a consciousness
in the Jewish community that believes that Arabs or Germans or Christians
cannot be forgiven. And so you see, my beloved, when a person is born
into a certain culture, the challenge for that person is to rise above
the cultural belief and to forgive unconditionally, to forgive regardless
of the cultural belief.
For the person must realize that he or she is more than the cultural
belief, more than race, more than religion, more than political affiliation,
more than national affiliation or any other outer label. And thus,
when you forgive regardless of outer labels, you also set yourself
free from these labels. And that is how you can rise and transcend
yourself and rejoin the River of Life, whereby you experience that
bliss of constant self-transcendence.
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