Understanding the challenge of moving from individuality to community
A dictation from Jesus, August 24, 2008. This dictation
was given live over the Shangra-la internet radio broadcast. (Note:
the Internet audience gave the One World Rosary and Oneness Decree before
the dictation.)
In the peace of Christ you
are, as I Jesus manifest my Presence with each one of you, wherever
you are around this planet, my beloved. For truly, I am everywhere in
the consciousness of God. And as you come together in the Spirit of
Oneness, you too are in the consciousness of God. And thus, you earn
my Presence with you—each one of you, as you are willing to receive
me, and as you are able and willing to step outside of your normal sense
of consciousness, your normal sense of identity, and indeed accept my
Presence with you, my beloved. Instead of affirming the idol, the graven
image of Christ as the remote being in the sky, or as the one hanging
up there on the cross at the end of the church.
For you see, my beloved, truly it was never my intention that people
should see me so remote from themselves. Can you see, my beloved, that
those who wanted to distort the true message of Christ were very clever
in putting the crucified Christ up on a cross in most Christian churches.
In order to give people an image of Christ as the one bleeding and suffering
on the cross, so that people would not identify with me. For surely,
who would want to share the fate of being crucified and hanging, bleeding
on a cross with a crown of thorns on his head, having spikes through
his arms and legs?
Can you see, my beloved, that this was a deliberate ploy to make the
image of Christ associated with bloodshed and suffering. And therefore,
also send the subconscious message, "Do not dare to manifest your
personal Christhood, or this is what will happen to you!"
Yet my beloved, we have reached a cycle in Earth's history where this
old-fashioned, dualistic, fear-based image of Christ has had its day.
For indeed, 10,000 people
will rise up and dethrone it. And millions more will refuse to be ensnared
by it, and will indeed dare to consider the true meaning of my words,
"The kingdom of God is within you."
The rosary vigil for the Olympics
And thus, my beloved, I come on behalf of Mother Mary as well, to extend
our gratitude and our congratulations for the vigil
you have performed during these Olympic games. For you see, it was
indeed, as Mother Mary said, a unique opportunity to focus the consciousness
of the world. And thereby, when that consciousness is focused on one
event, we in the spiritual realm can send – through your calls
and decrees, through your rosaries, through the authority you have given
us – we can send a return current to all people who are focused
on this event, my beloved.
And we have indeed made full use of the authority and the energy you
have given us, multiplying it 10,000 times, my beloved, and sending
that Spirit of Oneness, that vision of oneness, that vision that there
is something beyond duality, there is something beyond division, beyond
suffering, beyond strife, beyond conflict, beyond warfare.
The Russian incursion in Georgia
And you see, my beloved, in a sense it was truly to our advantage that
the Russian government decided to do what they did in Georgia. For did
it not, my beloved, provide the perfect contrast between the peaceful
coming together of the world in a sporting event and then, such an act
of aggression and war that truly was deliberately designed to take place
when the world's attention was elsewhere.
But you see, my beloved, the people of the world are not as stupid as
the people who ran the Soviet Union believe. For they are still trapped
in the old mindset of the old Soviet Union and the KGB, when they thought
that their propaganda apparatus could control the thinking of the Russian
people, and even to some degree control the thinking of the world, or
at least their perception of the Soviet Union and communism.
But you see, my beloved, the Russian people themselves are waking up
and realizing what is going on. But we desire you to see even beyond
the Russian government.
The judgment of the warmongers
For surely, my beloved, you do not believe, do you, that this was only
the decision and the doing of the Russian government? For they too are
pawns, as even the communist government of the old Soviet Union was
a pawn in a greater game—what we have called the false hierarchy or the international power elite, who are seeking,
my beloved, to always stir up conflict as a way to divide and conquer
the people.
And to force them into a war that allows the elite to control the people
and also to milk the people from their lifeblood, their spiritual energy,
and of course, let us not forget money. For truly, you must see the
footprints of the moneychangers in this event, of seeking to create
a new arms race between Russia and the United States, so that they can
get even more money from the people.
You might think they would have had enough money, as a result of the
conflict in Iraq. But you see, my beloved, for these people, and the
spirits behind them, there is no such thing as enough. They are trapped
in a never-ending downward spiral that can only lead to their own destruction.
But we do not desire to see that destruction being outplayed here on
this planet.
We instead desire to see the people rise up to acknowledge the truth
of Christ and to choose to go beyond the dualistic struggle and to not
engage in this meaningless warfare and conflict. So that the people
through that oneness will bring about the judgment of those in the power
elite who are in embodiment and those in the false hierarchy who are
out of embodiment. That they may be removed from this planet and go
through the downward spiral of self-destruction in another realm, where
they will not pull the Earth and the beautiful people on this planet
down with them.
Thus my beloved, this rosary you have given, the One
World Rosary, has indeed brought forth a very important action that
serves as the judgment of the forces of division on this planet—those
who have plotted to divide the people, not only amongst themselves,
but to divide the people from their God, my beloved.
Why Christ came to Earth
Which is precisely why I came to Earth 2,000 years ago—to give
people a bridge to reunite with their God through the consciousness
of Christ, the one truth of the Christ mind, as opposed to the dualistic
"truth" of the dualistic mind, the mind of antichrist. And
this work has not been in vain, even though it has taken 2,000 years
to cycle through to the physical, my beloved.
You yourselves are proof. All those who have studied my website and
my teachings on the ego, and our books
on non-duality—you are our proof that they are not winning,
my beloved. We are indeed winning. And we were winning from the beginning,
as Master MORE is fond of saying. For it is indeed the truth.
When you study Maitreya's teachings
on the spheres, my beloved, you will see that it simply is not possible
that the false hierarchy and those who embody it on planet Earth can
pull against the entire upward movement of the material universe. And
thus, it is inevitable that the Earth and the universe will be raised
into the permanent perfection of the spiritual realm.
It is only a matter of time. Yet time is NOT—for the Buddha. And
thus, even though the false hierarchy think they can delay what they
know is inevitable, yet they have not delayed anything. For time is
the ever-flowing stream of the River of Life. And my beloved, in that
stream nothing can stand still, nothing can pull in the opposite direction.
For everything must inevitably flow with the greater River of Life.
It can only be the illusion maintained in the consciousness of the people
that makes it seem like a planet or a people can be outside that River,
even going in the opposite direction.
It is nothing but an illusion, my beloved, and you have taken a mighty
action to shatter that illusion in the collective consciousness. Of
course, more is needed, but this will come forth as we trust you will
continue to make use of this tool of the rosary broadcast as you see
fit, my beloved.
The Olympics and oneness
So now, let me turn my attention to the Olympic games. For surely, as
spiritual students you realize that any human activity can teach you
important lessons about the consciousness of humankind. And so let me
give you somewhat of a secret that not many people are aware of, my
beloved.
Now take a look at a sporting event such as the Olympic games or the
soccer and football games or other games that may take place in your
local area every week. You see that the people come together in one
place, in a big hall, and they cheer on their team. And they go through
either elation or heartbreak, depending on whether their team wins or
loses.
But what is the underlying desire that makes the people come together
for such an event? Well, my beloved, is it not that they long for something
more than their regular, normal daily lives, that are filled with routine
and do not offer them anything beyond the ordinary? What is it they
are longing for? What do they long for beyond the ordinary, my beloved?
Well, they long for oneness, but they do not know this, they do not
fully understand this. Yet, they sense that by coming together in a
great multitude of people, there is some degree of oneness there, in
rooting for their team. Of course, in many cases there are also representatives
for the opposite team who are rooting for their team.
And so what they often experience is a dualistic state where a group
– the followers of one team – come together in a state of
oneness, but it is defined in opposition to the followers of the opposite
team. And thus you see the outplaying – even in the sporting arenas
– of the dualistic
struggle that has been going on for so long.
Yet, my point here is to help you see that the underlying desire is
that people long for something more. And that more is an experience
of oneness. Now, it is indeed possible, my beloved, to experience a
material state of oneness, what we might call an Omega state of oneness
here below, where people feel oneness amongst each other. And it can
give them a sense of having experienced something unique, beyond their
normal daily lives.
Understanding the consciousness of the multitudes
Now, my beloved, in many cases such sporting events do not give people
what they really long for. Because even though they come together in
a certain sense of oneness, it is colored by the spirit of competition,
the desire to have their team win. Yet, even this is to some degree
an expression of that longing for oneness, longing for something more,
something beyond the ordinary. Only again, people do not understand
that for which they are longing.
But you see, most people on this planet are not in a state of consciousness
where they can grasp the true Spirit of Oneness. And thus, they are
in fact in a certain level of consciousness that I referred to 2,000
years ago as “the multitudes.” The multitudes, my beloved,
are wonderful people but they have not yet manifested a high enough
degree of individuality to stand above the crowd, to go beyond that
level of consciousness that we might call the mass consciousness or
the consciousness of the multitude.
Surely, they have some individuality, but it is not strong enough to
go against the crowd, and thus they follow the crowd, my beloved. Not
only in sporting events but in all aspects of life, including what they
believe in, how they worship, what churches they go to, what political
parties they vote for, and so forth and so on. Even down to the details
of how they dress or cut their hair.
So, what I am endeavoring to explain to you, my beloved, is that many
people on Earth – in fact the majority of the people on Earth
– are indeed at this level of the consciousness of the multitude.
They do not have sufficient individuality, but they long for that individuality.
And thus, they seek to find it in rooting for their team.
For who are the people on the team? Well, they are, indeed, my beloved,
people who have more individuality, a more strong individuality than
the multitudes. And that is why they desire to be on a sporting team,
where they excel beyond this "ordinary person." And where
they can stand out from the crowd—and even many of them desire
to be worshiped by the crowd.
For you see, when you begin to raise yourself above the consciousness
of the multitude, you will build a stronger sense of individuality.
But it is inevitable that that sense of individuality will be colored
by – even to a large degree based on – the illusion of separation
that makes people seek to build their individuality as a separate individuality.
And thus, they strive to excel, in order to build that sense that they
are different, they are better than others. And what they seek to raise
is, of course, the separate self.
However, what I desire you to understand is that this is an inevitable
stage in the forward progression of the individual. For as long as you
are blindly following the currents of the mass consciousness, you cannot
actually walk the spiritual path and manifest personal Christhood, my
beloved. For personal Christhood is individual Christhood. Individual
Christhood must be won by you as an individual being, raising up and
attaining a direct contact with your own higher being and with your
spiritual teachers.
Understanding the transition from personal growth to Christhood
This, my beloved, never has been – and never will be, and never
can be – a collective path. You can form a community, my beloved,
and you can help each other, but you must go each one individually.
For each one individually must establish that contact to his or her
Christ Self and I AM Presence and spiritual teacher. For only when that
vertical degree of oneness is there, can there be true horizontal oneness.
So you see, my beloved, even those on the sporting teams of the world,
or those who are individually striving for excellence, are in a sense
on the path of personal growth – of raising up that separate self
above the multitude – so that they can earn the potential to turn
that separate self towards a higher quest, my beloved.
For you see, many of the people that you have seen at these Olympic
games are indeed people who have risen above that collective consciousness
of the multitudes and manifested a stronger sense of individuality.
Many of them have made great personal sacrifices in order to excel in
their sport, setting aside many other normal endeavors. And this has
caused them to develop great self-discipline, great focus, great dedication
to a cause, my beloved, that can indeed be turned into a higher pursuit
of going beyond seeking to raise the separate self.
And thus, I can tell you that many of the people who have tasted this
excellence in the sporting world will – during this lifetime –
come to realize that even though they were caught up in this pursuit
of excellence and competition – even though it gave them a great
adrenalin rush, a great sense of accomplishment, even superiority –
it still left them empty, my beloved. It still left them wanting more.
It still made it difficult for them to come back to an "ordinary
life" after they could no longer excel in their sport.
And thus, some of them will indeed go beyond that stage of the warrior
consciousness to the beginning stages of the consciousness of the sage,
who begins to look for something more than this world can offer. For
you see, when you have stood in a sporting arena and had billions of
people focus their attention upon you – through the television
– well then you have indeed, in a certain sense, tasted some of
the highest of what this world can offer, in terms of giving attention
to the separate self.
And then, when the conscious self begins to realize that this was not
enough, that there has to be something more, well then the lifestream
has the potential to engage in the true path to Christhood—of
seeking not to raise up itself for the sake of raising itself, but seeking
to raise up its separate self in order to go beyond that separate self
and use its attainment and accomplishment to serve the All, my beloved.
So that the ultimate stand-out individual is indeed the one who gives
the greatest service. For did I not say that he who would be greatest
among you should be the servant of all?
And so you will see that in their next embodiment, many of these sporting
stars will indeed become more spiritual and will begin to walk the spiritual
path in earnest. Some of you who are walking the spiritual path today
have indeed tasted that fame or glory in past lifetimes, whether through
sports, through wars, politics, or in other fields of human endeavor,
such as the arts.
My beloved, this is a perfectly natural part of the evolution of an
individual. Of course, I look to you, who have come to a conscious awareness
of the spiritual path, to go beyond this and to see that there is something
beyond these outer pursuits of material excellence—and that is
spiritual excellence. Which is not as some of you still think –
dedicated to raising up the separate self, but to raising up the All
in service to all life.
The high and the low road
Of course, my beloved, what I am telling you here is, indeed, that many
of the people who make up the bottom
10 percent, as we call them, are indeed also people who have walked
this path of raising their individual sense of self beyond the multitudes.
For you see, my beloved, even before you can – so to speak –
excel in the control games, in the money-making games, well you still
have to attain some individuality—to even have that drive for
power, for control or for money, concentrated in the hands of one person.
And thus, what I am telling you is that when an individual being reaches
beyond the consciousness of the multitude, it has the potential to find
the path of personal Christhood. But it also has the potential to find
the left-handed path – not the broad way that leads to destruction
that is taken by the multitudes – but the false path, the path
of antichrist, of indeed using one's attainment to raise up that separate
self for the glorification of the separate self or some material cause.
And thus, you will see that even some of the people who have attained
great power or great money on this planet have indeed walked that path
of first raising the separate self on the path of personal growth, but
then turning it into the left-handed path, the path of antichrist, of
using their attainment to attain power and glory for the separate self.
If you want examples, my beloved, look to China, to the chairman Mao
Tse-Tung, who was an example of this. Look to North Korea, look to the
former Soviet Union—Stalin and Lenin. Look to Hitler. Look to
Napoleon, who had the opportunity to work with Saint Germain, but ultimately
took the left-handed path.
Look to many other world leaders who have taken that path, my beloved.
And then learn from their example, and realize that even you, who are
the spiritual students – even you who are students of my course
in Christhood – face that initiation—that very
subtle initiation where you know you have great attainment, where you
know you have reached a high level in terms of raising up your individual
self.
But now the question is, my beloved, will you then take the path of
continuing to raise the separate self for the sake of the separate self,
or will you take the path of Christ where you realize the truth in my
statement—that he who seeks to save his life shall lose it, he
who seeks to save that separate self shall eventually lose it. But he
who is willing to lay down that life, that separate self, for the sake
of following Christ, shall indeed find the eternal life through the
Spirit of Oneness with all life, my beloved. This is the challenge that
all of you face, this is the challenge to which I call you in my course
to Christhood.
Understanding the role of money
And thus, my beloved, as the conclusion of this address, I would like
to give you some remarks on the topic of money. For you see, on a regular
basis I see people who find my website, and they are somewhat critical
– and whether they realize this consciously or not – they
are looking for a way to reject it, as the scribes and Pharisees did
to me personally 2,000 years ago.
And so some of them come to the point where they see a donation button,
or they see that we are charging money for the books, my beloved. And
they say, "Oh, this cannot be the real Jesus Christ, for when he
walked the Earth 2,000 years ago, he gave his teachings freely. And
thus, this must be a false Christ. For the real Christ would never ask
for money."
But you see, my beloved, as I started out talking about the false image
of me hanging on the cross, there are many false images of Christ. And
one of them is indeed the image that I had no need for money. For you
see, my beloved, even though society was very different back then, you
must ask yourself, “Did I eat during those last three years—besides
the Last Supper?”
And when you realize that I did, you must ask yourself, where did that
food come from? Do you think I had time to grow it myself, my beloved?
Do you think I had time to work in a carpenter shop and buy the food
for the money I made? No. You see the reality—I focused all my
attention on my mission and traveling around with my disciples.
And those disciples likewise did not grow their food and did not work,
for they spent their entire time traveling with me. So we depended on
the charity of people who were willing to give us of their food, of
their hospitality, and fulfill whatever else needs we had, that were
surely modest. But why were they modest, my beloved? Because I was a
practical realist, and I realized that given the state of society at
the time, the state of technology, there was no way for me to reach
a larger audience than the small area in which I could travel physically.
And thus, I knew there was no way to reach beyond that area while I
was still in embodiment, as I was indeed focused on setting an example
by working with the most recalcitrant people on the planet. Those who
were so stuck in their graven image of being the chosen people, that
they were the perfect test subjects to see whether they were willing
to abandon that spiritual pride and lose their life – their sense
of superiority, their identity of superiority – in order to lay
down that life and follow Christ into a higher identity, based on oneness
that cannot see one people as being God's favorite or God's chosen people.
So you see, my beloved, I focused on my mission back then, but I can
assure you that – had the technology been available – I
would have made use of it in order to spread my message beyond that
localized geographical area. And thus, I trust you can see that in today's
world conditions are very different. If I walked the Earth in a physical
body today, my beloved – as I indeed hope to do through many of
you – do you think I would walk around barefoot in the desert
in the Middle East? Or do you think I would be making use of the technology
that is available today to spread my message far and wide?
Surely, you must see that I will always adapt—that the Living
Christ will always adapt to current conditions, my beloved. And therefore,
you live in a society where there are simply many things that you cannot
do without money. And therefore the question is again: Will you focus
a big part of your time and attention on making that money, and then
you can give away the teachings that you can bring forth in your spare
time? Or will you focus on being a messenger full time and then let
other people provide the increase, my beloved, by donating or by buying
the services and the products you provide?
You see, my beloved, this is a perfectly legal exchange. For when you
dedicate your life to the service of all life, then you are entitled
to a return from life, even a material return. So that you can continue
to do what you are doing, and even expand your work and reach more people.
So thus, you see that asking
for donations for taking this movement to the next level by providing
a physical platform is perfectly within the laws of God, my beloved.
As you will know that even the ancient gurus would always ask for some
token offering, whether it be food or flowers, from the student who
came to the feet of the guru. As I indeed did myself on many occasions
that are not recorded in the Bible. And as the churches do today when
they ask for tithing, for even this is, of course, a legal exchange—although
in many cases the churches are misusing the money given to them by their
followers, as they are not in alignment with the reality of Christ.
Nevertheless, it is indeed legal – according to the laws of God
– that people give of their abundance. And I am in no way asking
anyone to give irresponsibly, but I am asking you to give of your abundance,
my beloved, keeping in mind my parable about the servants who multiplied
their talents and were given more.
Multiplying the talents we have given you
For you realize, I trust, that we of the Ascended Host have given tremendously
through this movement, through these websites. We have given an immense
amount of teachings. We have given more teachings – that
are available for free for anyone – than we have ever given through
any past organization, my beloved.
Yet I can tell you that we have certainly seen in past organizations
a greater willingness to give than we see in this. Which is partly because
we have not asked for money. And we do not really want to ask for money.
But we do want to make you aware, my beloved, that there are some times
when you need to take an extra step, you
need to take a movement to a new level. And as I said, in this day
and age, this cannot be done without material affluence.
So you realize, my beloved, that we of the Ascended Host are looking
to you and determining what you are doing with our offering. Have you
multiplied the talents we have given thus far? This will then determine
how much more we can give, my beloved. So you see, there is an Alpha
and Omega, which is the Alpha of how much you internalize the teachings,
how much you use it to raise your consciousness, how much you use it
to raise up others. And then there is an Omega—what do you do
with the teachings? How do you help other people? How do you help the
overall cause of the Ascended Host, including allowing our movement
to grow, by supporting it in whatever way is appropriate and possible
for you?
So you see, my beloved, everything is an exchange, everything is a multiplication.
We can only give so much, and then we must wait for the multiplication
here below before we can provide the additional multiplication Above
that allows all of us to come up higher. So my beloved, we desire to
see you come together as a movement, and this again ties in with my
teaching on raising up your individual selves.
Can individualists build community?
For you see, my beloved, what we have always faced as spiritual teachers
of humankind is the challenge that the path to Christhood is indeed
an individual path—a walk between you and God, between you and
your Higher Self. Yet, in order for that path to ultimately be successful,
it must be expressed through service to life. And that means some form
of community, my beloved, as indeed you saw the Buddha establish the
Sangha, as you saw me establish the community, not only of my disciples
and my apostles, but many who supported them.
So you see, there is always the Alpha and Omega, and the challenge then
is: how can those who have walked the individual path of personal growth
for many lifetimes and decades in this lifetime, how can they transcend
that focus on themselves and their own growth and come together and
form a community, my beloved? How indeed?
This is the challenge that you who have studied our websites, you who
have bought books and come to conferences, this is the challenge you
face right now. As we explained in Hawaii,
you are so close that we at least can taste
it. Can you taste it, my beloved?
For I tell you, it is a matter of you individually overcoming those
last hurdles that prevent you from seeing yourself as part of a community.
And then acting accordingly, saying: the community, the greater cause,
the service to other people is more important than my individual path,
even than my individual material circumstances. And thus, I am willing
to transcend, I am willing to lay down my life, my separate life –
materially and spiritually – in order to come into oneness with
the greater life of the community.
Thus, I leave you with this challenge, my beloved, which I know will
cause quite a stir in some of you—who have been so used to focusing
on yourselves as the solitary wanderer. And it will take a retuning
of your consciousness, even a rethinking – a re-experiencing –
of your identity, for you to come into unity, as the community of the
Christ and the Buddha and the Mother and of Saint Germain—in the
Aquarian age.
Thus be sealed in the peace of Christ, and the peace of Buddha, and
the peace of Jesus Christ as the Buddha. Beloved, I give you my peace,
the Buddhic peace of Jesus Christ.
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