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from Jesus:
I encourage you to always
hold on to your feelings of inner attunement with God and with me. There
truly is no church that can come close to a direct inner connection
with your Christ self and with the Ascended Host. The greatest tragedy
that has ever happened on this planet is that for so many people an
outer religion has replaced the inner connection. I also encourage you
to read the following discourse
and ponder how its message relates to you personally.
The main purpose of the discourse on Peter
is to show people that because Peter denied his oneness with me, his
oneness with the inner Christ, official, or orthodox, Christianity was
set on the wrong track from the beginning. The essence of Peter’s
decision was that he was willing to compromise his spiritual principles,
he was willing to compromise his Christhood, to accommodate the pressures
of this world.
My hope was to show modern Christians that from the very beginning this
tendency has had a deep impact on Christianity. At no time was this
impact more obvious or more detrimental than after the conversion of
the Roman emperor Constantine. After being a heavily persecuted minority,
the Christian religion suddenly received state approval and the backing
of the military might of the Roman Empire. Almost instantaneously, the
church, which became the Roman Catholic Church, shifted into a mode
of being willing to compromise its spiritual principles as a result
of the pressures exerted by the forces of this world, personified in
succeeding Roman emperors. In other words, the church was willing to
compromise the truth in order to maintain its backing by the Roman state.
It was my hope that by understanding the tragedy of this, many modern
Christians would see the need to go through an almost complete turnaround,
come back to the truth of my inner teachings and transcend the compromises
of the past. I used Paul as an example in this context because he clearly
demonstrated that he was willing to go through such a turnaround. Paul
was a very zealous man, and as you know he persecuted the early Christians.
Although I appeared to Paul in a very powerful vision, there was no
guarantee that he would accept it as a genuine vision. He could easily
have brushed it aside as a hallucination or the work of the Devil.
Paul had considerable standing and reputation in his community. For
him to reverse his previous course, abandon his traditional Jewish faith
and promote Christianity was a very big step. Not only did Paul have
the pressures of the outside world, but he also had the pressures in
his own psychology of pride and other human emotions. These pressures
were actually far greater than the risk Peter was exposed to when he
denied his oneness with me. Yet despite these pressures, Paul was willing
to make a complete turnaround and accept the truth and reality of Christ.
It was this example that I wanted to convey to modern Christians in
the hope that they would be inspired to make a similar turnaround and
openly admit that orthodox Christianity has been removed so far from
my true teachings that it almost defies description. It is my hope that
some modern Christians will be willing to go through a similar turnaround
as the one that Paul experienced and openly admit the need to bring
Christianity back into alignment with the truth and reality of my inner
teachings.
So it was specifically in this context and for this purpose that I encouraged
people to follow Paul. I agree with you that Paul has had a profound
impact on Christianity. Yet I must tell you that the impact Paul has
had on Christianity is actually based on a watered-down and misunderstood
view of Paul’s actual teachings. Although Paul did not have a
complete understanding of my teachings and mission and was heavily influenced
by his personal background, he did have a very deep understanding of
the basic elements of my message. You can even find hints of this message
in his letters and other writings.
For example, Paul talked about the carnal mind and the natural man.
He talked about the need to put off the old man, the carnal mind, and
put on the new man of the Christ mind. He specifically said, “Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Paul, therefore,
understood that the essence of my message is that all people have the
potential to attain Christ consciousness.
Unfortunately, as I am sure you can see, most Christians, ancient or
modern, did not understand Paul’s teachings. So few modern Christians
understand the true meaning of the point I just described even though
Paul clearly saw the need to follow in my footsteps. This is not entirely
surprising, because not all of my disciples understood this part of
my message. As I have tried to explain, Peter himself did not fully
understand and embrace the need to follow me all the way. This point
was, in fact, the source of some disagreement between Peter and Paul.
So my point is that if modern Christians would follow Paul’s example
and go through a complete turnaround in the way they approach the Christian
faith, much could be gained. If they would then make an effort to understand
the inner message of Paul and the inner message of Christ, much more
could be gained. In fact, if modern Christians would make the effort
to establish a direct personal contact with their Christ selves and
with the spiritual realm, we might yet have a chance to restore Christianity
to its original purity and thereby help bring about my original purpose
and vision for this planet.
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