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The Battle of Armageddon Q. I have a battle to fight and I am the only one that can fight it, for it is within myself. A. The sage knows that there is no battle. The work of any genuine Gnostic order has nothing to do with Armageddon. In being lifted above all dualistic illusions (via contact with the Ark of Christ) we, at most, simply observe the battle, as a movie. Q. You are totally correct about there being no battle. The battle I refer to is the deprogramming of my dualistic thoughts that have been asserted by society for my entire life. A. You will fail and create further tension (and karma) if you seek to change yourself by self-will. Let Christ do the work in you. BEAUTY AND THE FALLEN KINGDOMQ. I have always held the philosophy that it is important to strive to fully enjoy the many beauties of this world. Is this wrong? A . The 'beauty' of this world is but a shade of the true Beauty. The fallen kingdom in which we live is beneath the divine Kingdom in terms of vibration. Our world is not included in God's Beauty. It is in absolute disharmony with the divine Purpose in regard to world and mankind. It does not vibrate with God's Plan. This world, this human race and everything thereof are not in harmony with the intercosmic Divine Radiation of Beauty. They are in conflict with and in contradiction with the Light-power activity of the Logos, which bears and sustains the entire Creation. The other Kingdom, the Kingdom to which we are called back by Christ, the Nirvana of which the Buddha spoke, the Kingdom of Tao to which Lao Tzu testified, that Kingdom of God which is not of this world. . . that is the divine World to which we must return before we can truly en-Joy Life's Beauty, for that is the only place where Life and Beauty actually exist. Humanity's sham existence is a living death, and it has been so for eons. The only reason that Avatars and saints incarnate or develop upon Earth is to pull fallen souls out of this world of the shadow. Only in the other World of absoluteness, that World of Eternal Life, of Divine Light can we know freedom from pain and delusion and so partake in God's Beauty. All 'enjoyment' in the fallen kingdom is but a faint echo of the original Joy. The real Work of Christ during this stage on Earth, the immediate consequences of the approaching Christine Power, must be a breaking-up and disintegration of the shadow, of the distorted reflection of God's Perfection, with all the attendant consequences, hence the preparation, right now, of the Ark. 'Life' in the shadowlands is but a travesty of the supernal Life in the real World. Everything in the fallen regions is in a perpetual state of decay, of atrophy and of death. Medical science has found that even in the womb the first signs of wear and aging appear in the child. This should bring us to the logical conclusion that existence as we know it does not bear the mark of Eternity or, therefore, true Life and Beauty. All disease, misery, disharmony and resultant suffering in humanity's field of existence are the tangible proof that this fallen kingdom, this world and this humanity, are not included in the great Universal Beauty of God. How could it be otherwise? Humanity has been wandering about for eons, in incarnation upon incarnation, going through the same experiences hundreds and thousands of times in this darkened world of the treadmill, of perpetual repetition, of cyclic rising, glimmering, fading and dying. Humanity, the prodigal son, has been wandering these bleak shores for ages and ages, with its unappeased appetites, its passionate struggle and its vain attempts to escape from the suffering caused by its self-created error. Now, mankind seeks to enjoy and even improve the fallen kingdom, which is impossible, for it has been set apart from the Kingdom of God; it is an emergency order, established by Divine Fiat in order to prevent fallen man from destroying himself completely. The so-called joys of the fallen universe are only imitative, a parody of the divine Joys known in the transcendental Universe, and there is no prospect of improving the fallen kingdom; it can never be done, but this is the great delusion in which so many people believe, and which, therefore, distracts them from the true Path that leads out of the fallen kingdom and back into the original divine Kingdom. Any focus upon the fallen world simply perpetuates man's incarceration there, and this is the crux that you need to grasp before you are out of immediate danger and before you can truly help others spiritually. Symposiums, world-concerts, entertainment, science, art, politics, environmental work, world-peace meditations, etc., etc. are all part of the great lie that seeks to keep mankind trapped - forever. No amount of goodwill without true Knowledge can avail mankind anything more than an extended stay in the fallen kingdom, as it ensnares him ever deeper in the mire of illusion. And even today, on the eve of world-transfiguration, billions are still falling for it. Billions are still eating of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil - duality. All the selfless activity, all the dualistic knowledge, all the efforts to help mankind in the fallen kingdom are as nothing if they do not lead to Liberation. There can never be any real peace without right understanding of how duality works in the fallen world. Although peace vigils have their value, the kind of divine force needed to help planet Earth today in its advanced state of imbalance and corruption cannot be mustered via the heterogeneous vibrations of the masses, no matter how compassionate groups may feel. By 'beaming light at Iraq', for example, the dark forces will become more enraged. Humanity is in need of the aid of far more powerful forces than it possesses by itself, and this aid is on its way. Again, I say: obtain Knowledge and true understanding before you take one more step out into the morass that is ignorantly called 'life' here on Earth. If a person received the spirit of Truth in our teachings, he would drop everything - everything - and follow the Christ (which today means active and uncompromising collaboration with the group-Avatar). The realization of the truth of mankind's fallen condition ever compels the soul to dash toward the portal of Liberation while offering to share the truth with others. Personal sentimentalities disguised as blessings - such as 'love and light', 'peace on Earth', etc. - are not the expressions of a rightly-informed mind. The multitudes are so busy and distracted with dualistic work, with dualistic peace and dualistic love - which proceeds from the personal self - thereby directly serving the archons and aeons of the fallen, dualistic realm, that they have forgotten the words of Jesus: "Seek and ye shall find," and the words of the Buddha: "He who seeks the Truth with diligence and detachment will find it, and it will enlighten him". The
history of this sunken world is strewn with the records of trillions of
well-intentioned men who fancied that they were ready to show others
the Way and so who left the path of seeking Truth prematurely only in
order to, once again, become themselves lost in the wilderness of the
dark labyrinth that is the fallen kingdom. If one, therefore, seeks for
Beauty in this world, he shall be forever disappointed, and worse, he
shall, if he persists, be enticed down many of the well-trodden paths
to arrive eventually
at the
centre of the luciferic maze in utter frustration and even despair.
Often it takes such experience for souls to turn wholeheartedly towards
the divine Kingdom, to God, which is not of this world. Q. If a person has had a belief system for their whole life, then realises it needs to be changed, that's great, but plunging in head first and wanting to change everything in one go, as you seem to do, can lead to the opposite affect. A. If one wishes to walk the Path, then all belief systems need to fall away in order to be replaced with the living Truth. To replace one belief system with another is to step sideways; it is not a vertical progression towards the mountain top, the summit of life, the Goal. Psychotherapy is an example of how one delusion of 'I' may be merely transferred to another, and that is why psychotherapy does not produce saints. Therefore, belief systems do not heal the fallen soul or lead to transfiguration. Belief systems are but mental speculations; they are worthless in the light of Truth and even obstructive of it. All beliefs are essentially delusory, being born from the lower mind that creates illusions. The following questions may serve to further highlight this point: What is the nature of an experience that arises from beliefs and ideas? Is that nature Reality? If not, does the experience have any real-ationship with Truth? Would you not rather have a mind opened by wonder than one limited by belief? Two and half millennia ago the Buddha would give very comprehensive sermons about the nature of samsara; he would amaze his disciples with his lucid and penetrating insight into the nature of things and of the Truth, of Reality. After finishing one of these very enlightening sermons one day, the Buddha then said, "Do you all understand? Good. Now forget everything that I have told you, for it is all illusion." I am attempting here to point to a level of illumined, empty mind in which the living Truth may be reflected in consciousness and so known. This has nothing at all to do with belief or ideas or concepts, and that is why a child-like consciousness can apprehend it. The true and Holy Life is actually very simple; that is why "only a child can enter the Kingdom of God". It is the mind of man that complicates life, and this is how he becomes lost in the labyrinth of interesting things, beliefs and opinions. Yet if people have any investment in their ideas and knowledge, then they cannot find the living Truth, and unless they find the Truth they cannot be Free. Such a life lived in chasing ideas and beliefs is all vexation of Spirit. Those who choose to use beliefs and ideas as stepping stones towards the Truth (thus evoking the illusion of time and space, self and destination in their own minds) are still on the treadmill of samsara, are bound to the wheel of birth, suffering and death and are making absolutely no progress whatsoever towards the realisation of Truth and so Liberation. For Truth - being timeless and without dimension - is not approachable in time and space by the very limited mind of man. Truth is only ever realised here and now, and no amount of knowledge can ever reveal the Truth; neither can the mind of man apprehend it. The living Truth is here and now in the eternal Present where it has always been and ever will be. The only reason it is not known by the majority of human beings on Earth - esoterically erudite or not - is due to beliefs, ideas, concepts and, in a word therefore, delusion. "All the mind's arbitrary conceptions of matter, phenomena and of all conditioning factors and all conceptions and ideas relating thereto are a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a lightning's flash. Do not get attached to them." - Lord Buddha. Now, he who can let go of all his cherished knowledge and beliefs in order to embrace the Reality that Buddha indicated, he who can surrender all personal investments of ideas born in his mind, he who can renounce all desires and aversions in this world of temporal appearances - he is a very unusual being indeed, and he will be Blessed. Yet letting go of all cherished knowledge and beliefs is precisely what is required of the one who would find the living Truth, and so attain Liberation from samsara by entering Nirvana. Anything less than this realisation of the Goal of all unenlightened, suffering existence is but running around like a hamster on the treadmill of futility and karmic accumulation, which must result in reincarnation and further suffering. "Death, the end-maker, will exercise his will on a man busy picking flowers with a besotted mind, before he has even found satisfaction." - Buddha. Q. What happens when an entity lays down his mental body as a part of the transfiguristic process? How does he think or make decisions? A. The lower mind or intellect is a fallen faculty. It did not exist before the Fall and it can never avail us of Truth. Once transfiguration has been attained, we do not need to use the lower mind/intellect anymore, for in the divine Soul-body we have access to a higher faculty of Pure Reason, which is perfect Intuition. Q. ...I am, no doubt, ignorant as I do believe the writings regarding the forces and influences, but more and more the search for the truth inside is the goal and service to that, the hope. It may be I end up here for many more lives, the knowing is in the Harvester's hands... A. If you think like that, then you will return to the fields of darkness, for God grants us our wishes, every single one of them. For is He not our loving Father? Every thought of or belief in 'I', past or future binds us to the lie in the temporal universe, which actually is only a self-perceived illusion, a choice. The world of time and space has no reality. THERE IS NO FALLEN UNIVERSE. And I can prove it, too. For example, where does the evil/pain/darkness/self etc. go when you fall into deep sleep? Hmm? Peaceful there isn't it, and so different to what you believe when you are 'awake' that you can't even remember the Bliss of it, can you? When you awaken and come to your 'senses', you choose to believe in the great lie yet again, don't you? What a funny playmate you are in the field of the Lord. Now, stop pretending and come Home this instant; Mum and Dad are waiting for you. You must be exhausted with all that serious pretending you have been doing for lifetimes. How about coming in from the cold and joining us at our Birthday party? It's so warm and snug inside. Q. ...There have been certain responses inside and changes outside that continue since reading and entering the Gnosis. Questioning focus, priority, evil/good, dualistic fleeting world, suffering, trust, love, TRUTH. This has manifested as a pulling away from many of the things I had been involved in. It is not a process that is complete by any means. There seems to be a 'stripping away' occurring of that which has stolen and sucked my life-force. My son, the one that humanly I best loved, has been kicked out, the release is difficult yet internally sparked. It brings with it many questions regarding again love, truth, purpose, illusion and the nature of believing that I control. The work with cancer victims that I have done, believing it to be helpful, is being questioned. I find a halt to many creations. I seem to be more isolated, wanting to be alone... A. You are very clear today. It is so good to be hearing from your heart thus. Q. ...The last 28 years have brought me into contact with Yogananda's writings, The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ and many other writings... A. Some of the very best books in the world, those. The fact that you have found them amidst the great mountain of false or distorted and diluted teachings on this Earth means that you have sought them before, for how else would you know where and how to look, or how to recognise? And since you have found and recognised them you are much closer to enjoying our Birthday party than most children here who are still busy pretending and playing outside. So maybe you could invite them inside with us; we have plenty of really good Food to share with them all. Q. ...The truth within these writings spoke to me, apparently the self rallied all the more in the face of these threats... A. Ahah! But the fact that these divinely-inspired writings spoke to you at all means that you have ears to hear. Most in this world do not; they render themselves both blind and deaf in their game-playing. Maybe they are waiting for you to convey to them what you have heard? There are many children playing in these arid, lifeless fields, and we need you to pass out invites to the Birthday party. But when you believe in their games, you lose sight of both the Birthday party and the invitation which it is your right to deliver. Q. ...I often felt as if there was something, some force going ahead of me and attempting to hold me back. Perhaps even trying to 'kill me'. That force esoterically may be what you are referring to. To my knowledge it is the evil that is my lower self... A. Such thinking may assist the Christ in you to begin to transmute that 'evil' into something much Better. However, if you want Christ to take you all the way Home, then you will have to rise above the notion of your self (or anything else) being evil. In fact you will want to do away with all notions, eh? For what do we really Know for sure? Therefore how valuable are notions, really? All I really Know is that Love is the most Real experience that I have ever had; nay, the only Real experience I have ever had. Where there is Love there is no evil. The two are mutually exclusive, where there is one you will never find the other. Q. ...So, I have found the more I read of late, the more pursuing and love of truth, the more willing to be of service, the less writing/talking there appears. Of course, my self stuff continues to demand attention and get it, although seemingly less often... A. Good. You are walking the Path. Oh how we have longed so much to walk again with you, our beloved playmate. Q. ...There is a spark within that completely understands what you write... A. Good. Q. ...There is also a very frightened self... A. Or so you believe? Forget about it and look Up. For our Birthday party is happening only one room up from where you are still playing in the field outside. Q. ...Reliance is on Truth, love and giving and being as honest and genuine as possible at any given moment, no matter how revealing and perhaps in order to reveal. Therefore, please send whatever is available, if something is disturbing I will not hesitate to admit it. A. But you didn't answer my earlier question: please let me know if this kind of esoteric information is helpful to you in any way. This question is part of God's game, you see, and you have to answer it correctly in order to come to the Birthday celebration. See you at the door, then? You will know which door it is by
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