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from Jesus:
From the highest viewpoint,
the love of God is always unconditional. God has only one kind of love
and that love is completely and utterly unconditional. You do not have
to do anything to earn God’s love because your earned that love
when God created you. You must remember that God created you in his
image and likeness. If you are created in the image and likeness of
God, how could there be conditions to God’s love?
However, it is understandable that from the viewpoint of the soul, one
can can experience a difference in the love that comes from God the
Father, or the masculine aspect of God, and the love that comes from
God the Mother, or the feminine aspect of God.
One of the main problems in this context is that for thousands of years
most Western religions have portrayed God as being exclusively masculine
and have basically ignored the feminine aspect of God. At the same time,
so many religions have portrayed God as an angry and judgmental God
who is ready to punish any soul for the slightest transgression of his
law. As I have explained elsewhere,
this image of God is incorrect. God is not an angry and judgmental God.
God is a God of love and that love is unconditional.
To fully understand this, we need to look at a teaching that has been
most beautifully described in the religion of Taoism. The Taoist symbol
of the Tai-Chi depicts two elements of creation, normally called the
yin and the yang elements. These two elements illustrate how the entire
world of form is created. The world of form is created by an interaction
of two complementary forces. In this context, I will call these forces
for the Father and the Mother, symbolizing the masculine aspect of God
and the feminine aspect of God.
The Father is the masculine, or active, principle which acts upon the
Mother, or passive, principle. The role of the Father is to initiate
the creative process and also set parameters for how that process will
unfold. In other words, the Father is the one who defines the principles,
or laws, that will guide the unfoldment of the world of form.
Before creation began, God the Father envisioned the world that he wanted
to create. God has unlimited imagination and can create anything he
can imagine. However, to create something that has form, you must make
a choice. You must choose which form you will manifest, and when you
make that choice you exclude other potential forms. There is nothing
mystical or abstract about this. This is simply a matter of the mechanics
of creating anything. Once you choose one form, it will exclude other
forms because a thing cannot be round and square at the same time.
The important point here is that God defined a certain set of principles,
or laws, that would guide the unfoldment, or evolution, of this universe.
It is quite possible to create a universe that has different principles,
but for this particular universe God chose a certain set of principles.
These principles became the Laws of God. Everything in the entire universe
is based on these laws.
Some human beings, and some dark beings who have rebelled against God’s
Law, seem to think that God’s law is somehow a restriction. This
viewpoint is not correct, and it is based on an incomplete understanding
of the mechanics of creation. God’s law simply ensures consistency
and sustainability. If creation was not based on a set of consistent
laws, it might actually self-destruct or gradually degrade instead of
growing indefinitely.
Let us return to the two elements that make up creation. The Father
defines a set of laws and principles. The Father begins the creative
process, and in doing so the Father imposes a certain form on the passive
substance, or energy, of the Mother. The Mother, being the passive or
reactive substance, will take on whatever form is projected upon her
by the Father.
When you look at this from an overall perspective, you will see that
there truly is no difference between the love of the Father and the
love of the Mother. They are both love, and that love is unconditional.
However the Father and Mother are playing different roles in creation.
It is the Father’s role to impose or define the laws and principles
that guide the unfoldment of this particular universe. To ensure consistency,
and to prevent the universe from self-destruction, God must impose these
laws without any kind of variance. God is no respecter of persons, meaning
that God will not change his laws just because some human beings, or
some non-material beings, want them to be different so they can do as
they please.
When God started the creation of this universe, God made a promise to
the beings who inhabit this universe. God made the promise that they
would have a set of invariable principles upon which they could build
their individuality and within which they could express their creativity
without destroying themselves. God cannot break that promise. Therefore,
the Father's laws are completely invariable.
When you look at this from the perspective of an unenlightened soul,
a soul who does not understand the mechanics of creation, it might seem
as if God’s laws are setting restrictions. It might seem as if
God is requiring his sons and daughters to obey his laws without question.
It might seem as if God will punish those who do not follow his laws.
Therefore, it might seem as if the Father’s love is conditional.
In reality, there is a difference between God’s law and God’s
love. As I said, God’s law is simply meant to insure a stable
evolution of the universe. God’s law is meant to ensure that his
sons and daughters have a stable platform for their personal evolution.
To ensure this, God’s law must be firm. However, God’s love
is not contingent upon a soul obeying his laws.
The problem in this context is that human beings have a tendency to
project their own human qualities upon God. They think that because
they get angry with their own children, God will also be angry with
his children. This is not the case. God has simply created a set of
laws, which state that if you misuse energy, certain consequences will
be the result. When you understand how God’s law works, you see
that God is not punishing you for violating his laws. Got has simply
created an impersonal law, which will return to you what you have sown.
Therefore, in reality you are punishing yourself.
When people begin to become aware of the feminine aspect of God, they
often feel that the Mother is more unconditional than the Father. Again,
this is understandable because an unenlightened soul does not yet understand
the true nature of God and creation. I earlier said that the Mother
will take on whatever form is imposed upon her by the Father. The Bible
states that the first act of creation was that God said, “Let
there be light.” Light is created from the feminine aspect of
God. Light is a substance that has no form in itself, but it has the
potential to take on any form.
When God created the spiritual beings, who currently see themselves
as human beings, God created them in his image. A soul is created to
have the same creative abilities as God. Therefore, the soul of a human
being has the potential to create the same way God does by imposing
a specific form upon light, or upon the divine Mother.
The mother aspect of God is reactive. The mother aspect will take upon
herself whatever form you impose upon her. In other words, the Mother
will let you do whatever you want, and that is why human beings have
created the misery and suffering currently found on planet Earth. This
does not mean that God the Mother wanted this misery and suffering.
But it does mean that God the Mother, by her very nature, will allow
human beings to impose any form upon her.
What you now see is that God the Father has defined a set of laws and
principles that are completely invariable. At the same time, God the
Mother will take upon herself any form that you impose upon her. When
you look at this situation from the perspective of an unenlightened
soul, it will seem as if the Mother is unconditional because she lets
your do to her whatever you want. At the same time, it seems as if the
Father is conditional because the Father will never let you get away
with anything.
When you step back from this situation and look at it from the perspective
of an enlightened soul, you see that the Father and the Mother God are
simply playing their respective roles in creation. Both the Father and
the Mother have an unconditional love for your soul. That love will
not change or die even if you disobey the Father’s laws and impose
imperfect images upon the Mother.
However, what will happen when you disobey God’s law is that you
will use the energies of the Mother to create a prison for your soul,
a prison of misqualified energy. By creating this prison, you gradually
make it more difficult for you to see yourself as a son or daughter
of God. You gradually descend into a lower state of consciousness where
you lose all awareness of your divine source. You no longer realize
who you are, or you can no longer accept who you are.
You have been given free will. The very fact that you can misuse the
energies of the Mother, and create a reality in which you think you
are separated from God, should prove to you that the Father’s
love is unconditional. If the Father’s love was conditional, why
would the Father allow you to disobey his laws? Why would he allow you
to cut yourself off from your source?
So when a soul becomes enlightened, it will begin to realize the difference
between God’s law and God’s love. It can then gradually
begin to accept God’s love, and this acceptance of the perfect
love will cast out all of the soul’s fears, these fears being
the primary cause that makes the soul feel separated from its source.
A soul might go through a phase in which it finds it easier to accept
unconditional love from the Mother aspect of God, such as through a
feminine deity or ascended being. This is why some people find it easier
to relate to Mother Mary or her Eastern counterpart, the Goddess of
Mercy, Kuan Yin. However, as a soul matures, it will gradually begin
to connect with the Father God and accept the unconditional love of
the Father. This will allow the soul to balance its own masculine and
feminine qualities and thereby become whole.
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