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from Jesus:
You say that energy cannot
be extinguished. Yet virtually all religions talk about a beginning,
and even modern science affirms this in the theory of the Big Bang.
If something had a beginning, it follows logically that it can also
have an end.
I am aware that scientists have formulated the first law of thermodynamics,
which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Yet that law
was formulated by human beings who look at life from inside the material
universe. The law is correct in that there is no force in the material
universe which can create or destroy energy. However, God is the creator
of all that ever existed, including energy. Because God created energy,
God can also extinguish that energy.
A soul is made from spiritual energy, which has a higher vibration than
any of the energies in the material universe. Therefore, no force in
the material world can destroy a soul. Yet precisely because the soul
is made from spiritual energy, energy that was created by God and thus
had a beginning, it is possible that the soul can also be extinguished.
Another principle you might want to consider is the idea that energy
can be transformed into other forms of energy. If you make a beautiful
ice sculpture and then heat the water until it turns into steam, you
have transformed the water into another state, and in that state there
is nothing left of the former ice sculpture. Likewise, a soul can be
said to be a complex pattern of energy waves. It is the particular form
of the energy waves that gives the soul its individuality. Yet if the
energy that makes up the soul is transformed into a higher vibration,
the characteristics that gave the soul its individuality are extinguished.
Therefore, the soul, as it was, is truly gone.
The core of the soul is its sense of identity. In reality, the soul
is a spiritual being, but in this world, the soul is what it sees itself
as being. That is why a soul can choose to rebel against the laws of
God, meaning the laws of growth and constant self-transcendence, and
thereby refuse to grow and transcend. This is then what can cause the
soul to become so firmly trapped in a limited sense of identity that
it remains in that identity indefinitely.
When God gave souls free will, it became possible that souls could rebel
against the law of growth and create a limited sense of identity that
was in complete opposition to their true identity as spiritual beings
who are truly individualizations of God. A soul has a right to create
such a limited sense of identity, but it does not have the right to
remain in that sense of limitation forever.
If the Law of Free Will had stood alone, a soul could have remained
in a limited state forever. This would have meant that the energies
of God, which God lovingly allowed to be embedded in the soul, would
have been trapped there forever. This would not have been fair, neither
to God nor to the soul. Therefore, the Law of Free Will was balanced
against the Law of Self-transcendence. This law states that a soul cannot
remain in a specific sense of identity indefinitely.
If you cannot remain in a limited sense of identity indefinitely, it
follows logically that there must come a time when the soul has to “choose
this day whom you will serve,” meaning that it has to transcend
its limited sense of identity or cease to be. This fact is what made
it necessary to create the ritual of the second death, whereby the energies
that are trapped in a limited sense of identity can be set free. When
the soul goes through the second death, the soul does not actually disappear.
Instead, the soul is recreated according to its original blueprint.
Yet all of the soul’s experiences, and the limited sense of identity
it had created, are truly extinguished. Therefore, the sense of identity
that the soul had chosen to create is gone, as if it had never existed.
So God is not actually extinguishing itself. He is repolarizing his
energies to their original purity. As you say:
all
is meant to evolve—a being cannot not stay in evil forever and
a being is not limited in the amount of time that person has before
he/she becomes extinquished!
If you care to step back
and take a look at this statement, you will see that it is contradictory.
When you recognize that the soul has free will, you realize that it
can choose to stay in evil for an indefinite period of time. Yet as
you say, God does not want a soul to stay in evil forever. However,
unless God was to violate the Law of Free Will, how could he prevent
a soul from staying in a limited sense of identity? God cannot force
the soul to evolve, because doing so would be a violation of the Law
of Free Will. God has given souls free will, and no force created by
God will violate that free will.
Yet the Law of Free Will also states that you only have a certain amount
of time to self-transcend. If you refuse to grow, your opportunity will
be lost through your own free-will choosing. This is the only way that
God can, without violating their free will, prevent souls from being
trapped forever.
You talk about the ancient writers creating the concepts of Satan and
the Father in heaven. There is some truth to what you say, in the sense
that human beings truly have created false gods, as I explained elsewhere.
However, in reality there are many intelligent beings that exist in
the spiritual realm. And one of these beings deserves to be called God
the Father. That God is not as described by most religions, including
modern-day Christianity. However, there is an intelligent creator who
acts as a father figure for the material universe.
Likewise, as Mother Mary explains in her discourse,
there are intelligent beings who have deliberately chosen to rebel against
God’s laws. These beings have chosen to embody a state of consciousness
that is the antithesis of God’s law of growth. As Mother Mary
explains, the material universe is created out of two complementary
forces, namely the expanding and the contracting force. Mother Mary
also explains that the beings who chose to rebel against the law of
growth have perverted the contracting force and turned it into the force
that most people call evil. However, this is not an inevitable part
of God’s design. Absolute evil is not the opposite polarity of
God good, as I explain elsewhere.
What human beings call evil is a force that is relative. In other words,
it is not in opposition to God but only in opposition to the concept
of good created through the duality of the carnal mind. I explained
this in some detail elsewhere.
The basic belief expressed in your letter is a belief that is found
in some New Age circles and in some Eastern religions. The problem with
this belief is that if you take it to its logical extreme, it is completely
fatalistic. It paints a picture of a universe in which God has created
both good and evil, and in which what human beings call good will ultimately
triumph over what they call evil.
The consequence of his view is, as you even say yourself, that nothing
really matters. This is a complete denial of free will and the importance
of self-transcendence through your conscious choices. In reality, this
is the very lie that the serpent used to tempt Eve in the Garden of
Eden. It is embedded in the saying, “Thou shall not surely die.”
In other words, it doesn’t really matter that you violate God’s
commands because nothing really bad can happen. God has created a world
in which good and evil are simply complementary, so you can do whatever
you want, and in the end everything will turn out just fine. This is
a very subtle lie that is very persuasive, but it is nevertheless completely
wrong. It is truly the way that seems right unto a human, but the ends
thereof are the ways of death.
The reality of life is that God has given souls free will. By using
that free will correctly, a soul can keep self-transcending until it
actually becomes an individual creator, which has the same powers as
the God who created this universe. However, the only way to ascend to
that level is to constantly choose to let go of any limited sense of
identity that causes you to see yourself as being separated from or
less than the fullness of God.
The lie promoted by Lucifer, Satan and all other souls who deliberately
rebelled against God, is that you can still return home to God by doing
evil. They portray evil as the opposite polarity of God-good, meaning
that even if you choose to rebel against God’s laws, you will
still ultimately arrive at the same place. This is not true, and one
important reason is, as explained by Mother
Mary, that in order to reach this state of Godhood, you must be
willing to be the servant of all. When you rebel against God’s
law, you are doing the opposite of serving all life.
It is true that if you rebel against the laws of God, you will ultimately
return to God. The energies that make up your soul will be returned
to their original state through the ritual of the second death. However,
as explained above, all of the memories, all the things your soul should
have learned through embodying in the material universe, will also be
erased. Therefore, you will have to start all over again as a new soul
instead of continuing the growth spiral that leads you to greater and
greater maturity, until you become all that God is.
Do you see the fundamental difference? Yes, you will inevitably return
to your starting point. The only question is whether you will return
to your starting point as more than you were when you were created.
Only by becoming more than you were created to be, can you fulfill the
law of growth. The essence of evil is the refusal to self-transcend
and become more. This is a denial of love, which is the basic force
that caused God to create the universe, as explained in the following
discourse.
You say:
karma is an illusion,you create IN THE NOW,by your thoughts words
and deeds that you perform NOW not by things you did in your previous
life-that is why you are kept from consciously remembering your past
lives
This is a misunderstanding
of the mechanical aspects of the material universe. What you do create
in the now is your sense of identity, and you do recreate that every
waking moment. Therefore, you can – theoretically – choose
to change your sense of identity at any moment. However, even that can
be difficult because your past choices have created psychological wounds
in your soul. These wounds are caused by decisions you made, and until
you consciously undo those decisions and replace them with better decisions,
you will not be free of those choices. Therefore, you cannot change
the sense of identity based on those choices.
The law of karma simply describes the mechanical aspects of how the
material universe works. Your soul can survive only because it receives
a stream of spiritual energy from your I AM Presence. If you qualify
that energy with a vibration that is above a certain frequency, above
a certain mark, the energy will become your treasure laid up in heaven.
It will return to you multiplied, as explained in my parable about the
talents.
If you qualify the energy below the critical mark, you miss the mark
and commit what Christians have traditionally called a sin. The misqualified
energy will be stored in your personal energy field and in the energy
field of planet earth. Therefore, when you return to your next embodiment,
you will be affected by that energy. You cannot permanently ascend to
the spiritual realm until you have requalified all energy that you misqualified
while in embodiment on Earth. So it is simply not true that you can,
at any moment, choose to walk away from your karma or any other aspect
of your past.
The choices you made in your past have set the stage for who you are
right now. You cannot simply choose to be someone else without going
back and replacing the limiting decisions that you made in the past.
I do not quite understand how you can recognize the reality of past
lives but at the same time deny that your past lives have any influence
on your present life. I think that if you look at the logical consequences
of this view of reincarnation, you will see that is not quite consistent.
In fact, you might discover that is springs mainly from an unwillingness
to take responsibility for your life and recognize that you can only
improve your present and future circumstances by undoing the imperfect
choices you made in the past. Most people who are unwilling to take
responsibility for their lives choose to outright deny the reality of
reincarnation. Yet some people have managed to create a new version
of the concept of reincarnation, which allows them to recognize that
they have had past lives but at the same time deny that those past lives
have any influence on the present. I cannot quite follow the logic of
this belief in reincarnation without karma. How can you have your cake
and eat it too?
Finally, let me say that the tone of your letter suggests that you are
emotionally attached to certain ideas, such as the idea that the soul
cannot be extinguished. If you truly believe that nothing really matters,
because ultimately everything will be okay in the end, then I see no
reason for writing a letter that expresses such strong emotions.
It would be beneficial for you to consider why you have this emotional
attachment, and I think you would find that the cause is that a part
of you does not want your soul to acknowledge the reality of life, namely
that you do not have forever to transcend your present sense of identity.
This it the human ego, which does not want you to realize that your
actions have consequences and because of that there will eventually
come an end to opportunity. The ego does not want to acknowledge any
finality because that would mean the death of the ego. The ego wants
you to believe that you can keep doing what you are doing forever, that
nothing you do will have negative consequences and that you can keep
postponing the day when you choose whom you will serve. If you can identify
the ego, that enemy within, and see that it is not truly a part of your
soul, you can make tremendous progress.
You will then find that a new world of growth opportunities will open,
and you will discover the true meaning of unconditional love. The concept
of love that you present is that nothing really matters because in the
end everything will be fine. The truth about unconditional love is that
everything matters, because every situation is an opportunity to grow
– meaning that you let love flow – or to shut off the flow
of love through you. It is true that many religious people, including
many Christians, have used fear as an excuse for shutting off the flow
of love through them. Yet many people have also used the fatalistic
beliefs you promote to put themselves into a state of spiritual indifference,
which also shuts off the flow of love.
Divine love is unconditional, which does not mean that it accepts everything
– good and evil – as being equally valid. When a human being
allows the flow of unconditional love through him or her, that person
has the discernment to see what is of God and what is not of God. The
person uses that discernment to never accept a limited sense of identity
and to never let any of the conditions in this world become an excuse
for shutting off the flow of love. You express love no matter what conditions
you face, but you never affirm any worldly condition as permanent or
ultimately real. Therefore, your love can easily be the tough love that
challenges someone to come up higher—as you saw me challenge the
scribes and Pharisees.
You say:
LOVE IS ALL THERE IS TO CHOOSE UNLESS YOU CHOOSE OTHERWISE.IN
THE END ALL CHOICES OF THE "END BEINGS" WHICH ARE HIGHLY
EVOLVED WILL BE MADE IN LOVE AND LOVE AND CHOICES MADE ONLY IN LOVE
WILL BE ALL THAT IS MADE!!!!!!
You are correct that the
only right choice is to respond to every situation with love—as
I told people 2,000 years ago. Any choice that is not made from love
is what Christians call a sin. Unfortunately, most people on Earth have
chosen otherwise. Because of that, they have become trapped in a state
of consciousness that makes it very difficult for them to respond to
life with love. You are right that highly evolved beings always choose
from love, but unfortunately many souls on Earth are not yet highly
evolved.
The stark reality is that a substantial number of people are trapped
in a downward spiral that only leads them further away from love. Such
souls cannot simply be turned around by a teaching on love, as explained
elsewhere.
In many cases they can be turned around only through a message that
clearly spells out the consequences of what will happen if they keep
going in the same direction. And for many souls on this planet, their
opportunity to turn themselves around is quickly coming to an end. If
they do not turn around and start an upward spiral, they will go through
the second death. If they do turn around and start walking the path
of Christhood, their time can be extended even beyond their original
allotment. God has great mercy on souls who show a sincere desire to
come home.
One of the dilemmas we face as spiritual teachers is that many souls
on Earth are unreachable with a love-based spiritual message. They are
so trapped in a fear-based state of mind that they can be reached only
through a message that appeals to their fears. It is a sad fact that
the concept of Hell has been necessary to turn some souls around. Such
souls responded only when their fear of Hell outweighed the immediate
advantages of continuing with their current actions.
Fortunately, we are today moving into an age in which more and more
people respond to a love-based spiritual teaching, which is generally
what you find on this website. However, it is still necessary to recognize
that many people have been deeply affected by a fear-based message.
And since one of my goals for this website is to help people become
free of the fear-based doctrines they have been given by orthodox Christianity,
I will gladly comment on such beliefs when people ask.
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