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from Jesus:
I have no desire to straighten
you out in the sense that I do not want to tell you what to believe
or not believe. Neither do I want to tell you which church to attend
or not to attend. Those are choices you must make, and I want you to
know that I do not condemn you no matter what choice you make. I love
you regardless of your outer beliefs or outer church attendance. I only
ask that you strive to make sure that your choices are based on love
and not on fear.
In that respect, let me say that what you are going through is a very
typical process for those who have been brought up in any orthodox religion,
be it Christian or non-Christian. In the book The
Secret Coming of Christ, I inspired Kim to write a detailed
explanation of the fact that orthodox Christianity has fallen into a
fear-based approach to religion. The book also explains that this approach
is in direct opposition to the love-based approach taken by me.
What has happened to
those who were brought up in or have participated in a fear-based religion
is that they have spent many years ingesting a doctrine and a belief
system based on fear. If you read Mother Mary’s discourse
in which she introduces the East-West Rosary, you will see that she
talks about certain spiritual poisons. Although she does not specifically
mention fear, one might say that fear is the basic emotion that gives
rise to all of the spiritual poisons described by Mother Mary. These
poisons are specific manifestations of fear.
My point here is that fear is a spiritual poison. It is the spiritual
equivalent of a chemical substance, such as nicotine. Therefore, fear
can be as addictive on the spiritual level as nicotine is on the physical
level. What I am telling you is that those people who have participated
in a fear-based religion for many years have ingested the spiritual
poison of fear, and many of them have literally become emotionally addicted
to this poison.
You know that when people try to break a chemical addiction, they will
go through a period where they have intense cravings for one more cigarette.
They have withdrawal symptoms. This is because the body has adjusted
to the poison, and it literally feels as if it cannot survive without
the poison. Many people become addicted to the poison of fear that they
have been fed through an orthodox, fear-based religion, and their emotions
make them feel like they cannot survive, they cannot be saved, without
the poison. You feel like you are incomplete and unwhole without the
poison, and this also makes you feel that you are betraying your church
when you seek to escape the magnetic pull of the poison of fear.
I realize this is a somewhat ominous picture. Yet I must tell you truly
that many Christian churches have become so enveloped in fear that the
people attending those churches are literally being attacked and in
many cases controlled by demons of fear. Breaking free of such a church
can be as difficult as breaking a chemical addiction. Therefore, it
would be helpful for you to approach the situation as if you were trying
to break free from an addiction. Determine whether you really want to
break free from this and then plan a systematic course for moving away
from a fear-based approach to religion. See my answer to a question
about breaking an addiction.
It is quite possible that you can break away from the fear-based approach
to religion and still go to church with your husband on Sunday. Nevertheless,
this might be more difficult than staying away from the environment
for a time, until you feel that you are anchored in a love-based approach
to religion. When you are anchored in the love-based approach, you can
go to any church without absorbing the vibration of fear that is being
generated by that Church. Nevertheless, one might ask why you would
want to be in such an environment? Yet that is a choice that you must
make personally.
The absolute truth
about the blood of Christ is that when I talked about the blood at the
last supper, I was speaking metaphorically. The blood of Christ is a
symbol for the stream of consciousness of the universal Christ mind.
On a personal, physical level, the blood is in subtle ways the carrier
of consciousness. Therefore, by symbolically drinking the blood of Christ,
you are absorbing my personal Christ consciousness and the consciousness
of the universal Christ mind. This then becomes the spiritual leaven
which can raise the whole loaf of your consciousness.
So yes, it is true that the blood of Christ, when it is understood as
the consciousness of the universal Christ mind, is the key to salvation
in the sense that it can wash away your sins. However, it also needs
to be understood that the essence of sin is the lower state of consciousness
that I talk about throughout this website. The blood of Christ can wash
away your sins in the sense that it can transform your consciousness.
This is seen by the fact that love and fear are incompatible emotions.
When you allow yourself to fall into a state of fear, you cannot simultaneously
feel love. When you accept the unconditional love of God, it will be
the perfect love that casts out all your fears. Likewise, the blood,
meaning the consciousness, of the universal Christ will wash away the
sins of the carnal mind.
What the blood of Christ will not do is wash away the effects of your
actions, namely misqualified energy and personal karma. These must be
resolved through your own efforts, and that is why you need to work
out your salvation by being willing to make amends for your past actions
and by transforming the negative energy produced by your fear-based
thoughts and feelings.
One of the biggest problems or shortcomings in Christianity is that
so many Christians have misunderstood the true meaning of the blood
of Christ. Therefore, the concept of the blood of Christ has been mixed
in with the old idea that blood sacrifice was necessary in order to
appease God. You will see that in the Jewish religion sacrifices were
seen as one of the main ways to wash away people’s sins. This
idea goes all the way back to primitive religions who performed human
sacrifices. It was moderated to become animal sacrifices, yet Christianity
has somehow created the idea that it was necessary with the ultimate
human sacrifice, namely that of myself on the cross. This is a fallacy.
It is a severe and grave fallacy that should have no place in a modern
enlightened and love-based religion, which is what Christianity truly
should be.
When I performed the ritual of the last supper, I had my disciples drink
of a cup, which contained wine as a symbol of the blood of Christ. There
was no way I would have had them drink my actual blood. We are talking
symbolically, and my disciples understood that. If I had had the ability
to anticipate how the human mind would misinterpret this idea and mix
it in with the idea of blood sacrifice, I truly would have changed the
ritual. Yet even I cannot predict how people will use or rather misuse
their free will,
At the last supper, the blood of Christ, meaning my consciousness, was
not poured out indiscriminately. It was contained in a cup and given
only to those who were ready to receive it. This is an important principle.
The blood of Christ, the consciousness of Christ, should not be given
to the profane. It should not be given to the evil spirits of hell who
will truly misuse that blood, that light, to commit evil deeds. So you
now see that the consciousness of Christ can be misused if it is given
to the profane. That is why I told my disciples not the cast their pearls
before swine.
What has happened in Christianity is that the Jewish idea of blood sacrifice
has been mixed in with the fact that my blood was spilled at the crucifixion.
The problem of the misunderstanding of the blood of Christ begins with
a mixture of the last supper and the spilling of my blood on the cross.
What I did at the last supper was fundamentally different than what
happened at the crucifixion.
At the last supper, my actual blood was not spilled. It was represented
by the wine, yet even the wine was not poured on the ground. It was
contained in a chalice, and as I have just explained in another discourse,
that chalice is a whole mind and soul, which is able to hold the consciousness
of the Christ mind.
At my crucifixion, my physical blood was spilled. Even though some of
it was gathered by Joseph, much of it was spilled on the ground. Because
blood is the carrier of consciousness, some of my personal Christ consciousness
was actually spilled on the ground. That blood was like the pearls cast
before swine, and the light in that blood was devoured by demons out
of hell. These demons used that light to increase their control over
human beings and to empower the people who crucified me. Therefore,
the blood spilled at my crucifixion was actually used by dark forces
to reinforce the persecution of Christians in an attempt to completely
destroy my work on this planet and prevent the spread of Christianity
as a new religion.
Let me make an absolutely clear statement here. The idea of blood sacrifice,
whether it be of humans or of animals, never originated with God or
with the Ascended Host. Let me say that again. No being in Heaven ever
advocated blood sacrifice as a part of salvation or spiritual growth.
Blood sacrifice has absolutely no positive effect on your spiritual
growth.
Now, if the idea of blood sacrifice did not come from God, from where
do you think it might have come? It came precisely from those who oppose
God, namely the devil himself. You will see that even today certain
satanic cults perform blood sacrifices, even human sacrifices. The reason
is that when you spill the blood of the innocents, their consciousness,
their spiritual light, is released through a violent action, and therefore
it becomes available to dark forces who cannot absorb that light directly
from Above.
Let me state clearly that any ritual that involves the spilling of blood
is of satanic origin. The performance of blood sacrifice, even the blood
sacrifice that was performed in the Jewish temple, was a satanic rite.
That is one reason I overturned the tables of the money changers who
were making money by selling the ingredients for satanic rites performed
in the temple of God. The thieves were not just humans taking people's
money but also demons taking the light released in the rituals.
I must tell you that blood sacrifice does not necessarily take the form
of a religious ritual. Any type of murder is a form of blood sacrifice,
and it is often demons that trick people into murdering another person
in order to steal that person's life blood and spiritual light. This
is also the reason dark forces are constantly seeking to entice people
to go to war with one another and thereby spill the blood of the innocents
on the battlefield.
Have I made my point here? The idea of blood sacrifice has no place
whatsoever in the Christian religion. My crucifixion was not a blood
sacrifice. My death on the cross was not necessary to wash away humankind’s
sins, and my crucifixion truly did not have the effect of taking away
human sins. This is a fallacy, and it was a fallacy from the very beginning.
No truly Christian church should ever celebrate the spilling of my blood
at the crucifixion, even if it happens through the seemingly innocent
means of a song. Incidentally, that is why the movie The
Passion causes people to lose their spiritual light by forcing them
to focus on the spilling of my blood on the cross.
It is perfectly in order for Christian churches to celebrate the ritual
of the last supper, the ritual of Holy Communion, but it should be understood
that the blood of Christ is a symbol for the consciousness of the universal
Christ mind. If you celebrate Holy Communion thinking that you are drinking
my physical blood that was spilled at the crucifixion, you have misunderstood
this ritual, and you are potentially misqualifying light and giving
it to dark forces.
The concept that people were healed by my stripes is a figure of speech
based on a misunderstanding of my true mission, a misunderstanding based
on the idea that some kind of sacrifice is necessary for the remission
of sins.
Yet there is a subtle truth here in the sense that when you make personal
karma, you can balance some of that karma by experiencing what you did
to another. In other words, if you kill another human being, you have
violated God’s law. To make spiritual progress, you must learn
the lesson that this was a violation of God’s law, and you must
choose to abandon the consciousness that caused you to sin. It is quite
possible that a soul can learn that lesson without having to be murdered.
If it does so, it can balance the karma through spiritual means, such
as the Violet Flame or service. In other words, God has no desire to
punish you; God simply wants you to learn your lesson, balance the karma
and rise to a higher state of consciousness.
Yet if a soul refuses to learn its lesson, then the karmic law will
mandate that the person experiences what it has done to others. If you
have killed another human being, you might need to be killed yourself
in order to learn the lesson of how killing someone takes away their
opportunity for spiritual growth in that lifetime. Going through this
process can balance some of the karma you incurred. This then is the
idea which has been misunderstood by many, especially in the West, and
which has been mixed in with the idea of blood sacrifice. This is what
has led to the idea that blood sacrifice can compensate for your sins
and wash away those sins.
The fallacy of this idea is that the blood sacrifice itself will not
wash away your sins. Being killed as a result of having killed someone
else will not automatically balance that karma. Only when you truly
learn the spiritual lesson and abandon the consciousness that caused
you to sin will the karma be fully balanced. And if your soul hates
the person who killed you, you might actually make more karma and start
a negative karmic spiral.
Once again, this is a subtle illusion created and promoted by dark forces.
They know that many people have a soul memory that when they have committed
a wrong act, they need to compensate for that act. By creating the idea
of blood sacrifice, the dark forces have managed to fool people into
thinking that the sacrifice itself will compensate for the past sins.
Thereby, many people have been fooled into giving light and life blood
to the dark forces.
This especially occurs when a person believes in seeking revenge for
crimes committed against him. This is what has caused feuds between
families or nations, where people believe that if an enemy has killed
a member of your family, you need to wash away that act by killing a
member of the other family. This is a fallacy, and you have heard the
saying that two wrongs do not make a right. Killing someone in revenge
will not wash away the sin of the first murder. It will only double
that sin. That is why I told people to forgive their enemies and to
do so seventy times seven.
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