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from Jesus:
In the answer to another
question, I explained two of the
main purposes behind the crucifixion, namely to demonstrate the spiritual
path to Christhood and to bring about the judgment of those who killed
me. Those purposes also explain why I allowed people to kill me. I did
this to demonstrate that in order to manifest Christhood, you have to
be willing to go all the way. You have to be willing to lose your life
(if necessary) for the sake of attaining Christhood.
In reality, the fact that I lost my physical life is meant to be a symbol
which demonstrates that you have to be willing to lose your mortal sense
of life, your mortal sense of identity, in order to manifest Christhood.
In other words, for you to attain a new sense of identity as a Christed
being, your old sense of identity as a mortal human being simply has
to die.
Let me give you further teachings on the purpose for letting people
kill me. It is quite true that I could have called in legions of angels
to rescue me from the crucifixion. Yet I did not do so because it would
have been against the very purpose of my coming.
One of the recurring themes on this website is that human beings have
descended into a lower state of consciousness. They are trapped in this
carnal state of mind and they see everything through the filter of relative
good and evil. The purpose for my coming was to show people that there
is a way out of this mental box. It is possible to escape the lower
state of consciousness and attain Christ consciousness.
In this context, the essence of the Christ consciousness is that is
is above and beyond any and all of the mental boxes, the idols, that
people have created in the carnal state of mind. The carnal mind causes
people to create an image of reality, and then they seek to force reality
to fit into that image. I came to demonstrate that a person who has
attained Christhood cannot be confined to the mental boxes created by
the carnal mind.
When you read the scriptures, you can see that I constantly challenged
people's conception of me and my mission. I challenged the scribes,
the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the lawyers. I challenged the temple
priests and the money changers. I challenged my own disciples and rebuked
them for having too narrow a conception of me and my mission. I challenged
my mother and my brothers and sisters when they came to restrain me
and confine me to their mental image. I even challenged the law, which
the Jews considered the ultimate authority. I said that I was above
the law, and I made statements that caused people to accuse me of blasphemy
by equating myself with God. So whenever I encountered people who put
a mental image upon me, I always challenged that image. I attempted
to destroy all of people's mental boxes concerning what a human being
can do or should be.
The image created by the carnal mind sets some very firm restrictions
for what a human being can do. I challenged those mental restrictions
by walking on water, raising the dead, healing the sick, multiplying
the loaves and fishes and performing other acts that people considered
miracles. What I really attempted to show was that when you are trapped
in the carnal mind, you truly are bound by certain limitations and restrictions.
Yet it is possible to rise above those limitations by attaining the
Christ consciousness.
When you do attain the Christ consciousness, you are not bound by the
lower, mortal, human or material laws. Instead, you can now act based
on a higher, spiritual or divine law, and this will allow you to perform
actions that are considered impossible from the human level.
So you might say that my entire mission was an attempt to break down
people's mental barriers and limitations. What is the ultimate barrier,
the ultimate limitation that people see for their lives? It is, of course,
death itself. The death of the physical body is by so many people seen
as the final limitation, the final boundary beyond which they cannot
go. I had to let them kill me so that I could demonstrate that a Christed
being can conquer even death. When you attain Christ consciousness,
you are no longer bound by death, and you will live on beyond the death
of the physical body. (Even before you attain Christ consciousness,
your soul lives on after the body dies, but it is not free to ascend
to the spiritual realm.)
The reality of life on Earth is that human beings have lost all remembrance
of their spiritual source. People have forgotten that they are actually
spiritual beings who only temporarily embody these limited, material,
mortal bodies. Yet in everything ever created by God the Christ consciousness
lies dormant within, so every human being has the potential to achieve
Christ consciousness by awakening from the sleep, the spiritual sleep,
in which people are trapped.
Everything was created from God's own consciousness. The first element
of creation was the universal Christ consciousness, as explained elsewhere.
The universal Christ consciousness is built into everything that exists.
One might say that the Christ consciousness is the potential to know
that you came from God and that you were created by God. The universal
Christ consciousness was the first begotten Son of the Father, it was
the first-born. The universal Christ consciousness does not have form,
yet it has the potential to take on any form.
God created you as his son or daughter, and you are meant to be a co-creator
with God. God gave you free will, and most human beings have used that
free will to descend into the lower state of consciousness in which
they have forgotten their spiritual origin. That is why God sends them
teachers to remind them of who they really are. So the purpose of my
mission was to remind people that they are more than mortal human beings.
I came to demonstrate this fact, and I did so by challenging people's
mental boxes.
The reality of the situation is that because people have free will,
they can do whatever they want with the Christ consciousness. In other
words, they can encage it in a warped or distorted form, as you see
all over this planet. Yet they can never confine the Christ consciousness
to that limited form. The Christ consciousness will always be more than
the form. The Christ consciousness will never fit into people's mental
boxes. That is what I came to demonstrate.
When you are a Christed being, people can do with you whatever they
want. They can nail you to a cross and kill your physical body. Yet
no matter what people do to you, you will rise above it all and conquer
all of their actions that spring from a limited state of consciousness.
You will even conquer that final limitation, namely death itself.
You too have the potential to attain Christ consciousness and conquer
all of the mental limitations that have been programmed into your conscious
and subconscious minds. You even have the potential to conquer death
itself. I came as an example. This website has only one purpose, namely
to help you follow in my footsteps.
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