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Q. What is the nature of this world in which there is so much suffering and war? A. The lower illusory worlds are formed by ignorant thought-currents over many ages. These worlds are unreal in relation to the divine Universe, and because they are unreal - temporal, rising, glimmering and fading - identification with and attachment to or investment in anything within them creates pain and suffering. Pain may be regarded in its truest purpose as a kind of teacher that urges us to re-establish right focus, and when we do that and maintain such a focus, we eventually find ourselves back Home vibrating in Reality. In that last sentence you have the whole of true religion, all the rest of what we have been told is but commentary. Since what we focus upon grows, to give attention to anything illusory is to strengthen it, to perpetuate it. So many well-intentioned individuals today are earnestly forging ahead with the deluded notion that they can improve and ultimately perfect the illusory world. This is impossible because that which is born of ignorance can never be modified to produce anything other than more illusion, and hence more pain and suffering. The fallen self - the 'I' - is illusory too, made from the same fallen, undivine matter as the fallen world. Yet just look at all the human beings who strive after self-improvement, self-empowerment, self-healing, self-liberation, ad infinitum. Are you beginning to see here man's dreadful delusion and hopeless, endless pursuit within his self-created hell? And are you seeing how it all has to end; to be dissipated and recycled in order that all those souls who do not make the grade at the Harvest Time may start all over again in a purged world, in a relative Garden of Eden (though still, of course, fallen). This is why the Buddha commented thus (paraphrased): If this
Earth were all that the poets dreamed of, if all disaster were swept
away, every pain brought to an end, every joy made more profound, every
beauty made more sublime, even if everything here were raised to the
summit of perfection, the soul would still be weary of it all and,
freed from all lesser desires, it would turn away there from. Since an illusion is born, it must also die. That which is unreal cannot possibly be transformed into that which is Real. Since, however, this latter project is one which the vast majority of unsuspecting and well-intentioned reformers, statesman, teachers, etc. in the world are engaged in today in their oft enthusiastic worldly investments, and since everything on our planet is speeding up in accord with the behests of the divine Will for Earth and mankind, is it any surprise that more and more tension and pain is being experienced in the world? May I let you in on a little secret which you may not have considered yet? This undivine world-order was actually established by the Elohim long ago as an emergency order so that fallen mankind might be saved from ultimate dissolution. The emergency order was created by divine Fiat not in order to make a heaven here which, as I have explained, is quite impossible, but which ignorant humanity has been attempting to do for eons. No. The emergency order, which is undivine or fallen due to its multifarious illusions and unintegrated matter, was established as a last resort so that man might realize where, in fact, he actually was and so wisely choose to return to Life. Hence you may begin to see that the sole purpose for creating an emergency order in the first place was only that mankind might transcend it, via the process of transfiguration exemplified by all the Avatars: "What all men must do, I must also do." - Jesus. Hence the sole purpose of our being here is actually to resolve our ignorance-born karma and return Home - or find God, as some might say. If we investigate the wisdom of all truly Enlightened beings throughout history, we shall observe how their ultimate service and spiritual duty to the 'little ones' was to help mankind free itself from the emergency order of illusion completely and return to God's Kingdom. This is the sole purpose of every single fallen incarnation and it has been called among other things: Salvation, Redemption, Deliverance, Liberation or Ascension. Salvation, then, is the ultimate goal of every fallen life; not to earn money, not to struggle to survive in the emergency order, not to be happy and 'successful' on Earth and so remain complacently lost forever on the wheel of reincarnation, but to return Home. So can you now see how to focus upon or identify with anything of the emergency order* - that so painful illusion of separation from God - is actually to vivify it? Can you understand why the Buddha advised us to "Seek the solitary cave or forest and meditate, for all life [in the emergency order] is suffering"? * Including the long-cultivated dark forces and all the problems which they repeatedly create on purpose just to distract us from the Lighted Way leading Home and so maintain us in the fallen world so that they may continue indefinitely to feed upon our ignorance-generated ether-bleedings. In a free-will system such as ours, as long as we choose to focus upon the illusion* and endeavor to find gratification or purpose there, we are actually saying to God: 'I wish to remain in this emergency order, Lord; I have not yet understood the Truth or my purpose here on Earth. Therefore, please send me further painful lessons; please nail me even more firmly to the ever-rotating wheel of birth and death in order to learn my lessons, for I am not yet ready to come Home!' * As nearly 6 billion physically-incarnated human beings do naturally and perpetually in this world, not to mention those trillions of incorporeal entities who dwell upon the hidden side of life and who are doing exactly the same. So can God be blamed for granting humanity its wish? No, because the Law of Free Will is divinely-given and - up to a point of collective contamination (which we have reached as a race today on Earth) - cannot be interfered with; it is a vital part of the Divine Plan and so must be honored. And how long does the wheel keep turning in the illusory world of pain? Indefinitely if man so chooses. Indeed, fallen mankind has already been on the wheel for eons just on this little planet alone! Please do note that this wheel of birth and death only rotates on one plane; it does not spiral; it goes nowhere but round and round and round and round (have you ever had deja vu?) until each fallen soul, through the repeated experience of pain and separation, says: 'I have had enough. I am a fool. Without Christ, my real Self, I can do nothing. Without you, Lord, I am nothing. Thy will be done, Lord, not mine; I am Yours!' And then there is great rejoicing in Heaven, for
if even one single prodigal son returns to God's Kingdom, all the hosts
of Heaven rush to greet him and to share in the good news. Such is the
nature of divine Love. Such a wondrous Return is about to be again
realized by a number of successful souls in our times here on Earth due
to the Christine intervention, which always ensues at the end of
cycles. It has happened many times before - during the Hyperborean era, the Lemurian era, the Atlantean era and also thirty-two times during the present era - that a kind of separation has taken place between the 'righteous' and the 'unrighteous', between those who worship the earthly things of the emergency order and those seeking the gateway to the eternal Kingdom of Grace, in order to enter through it into the blessedness of the original Freedom. Today, once again, mankind stands before such a separation. Will it allow itself to be dragged along in the circular course of illusory, fallen nature, chained to the treadmill of birth, suffering and death? Or will it follow the Path of Salvation and receive the New Spirit by applying and actualizing the Holy Science of Transfiguration? From Servers of the Divine Plan:
Considering well all of the above - which your
heart knows to be true - is it any wonder, then, that at the end of
world cycles such as the one we are currently experiencing, the teacher
called 'pain' necessarily intensifies his lessons to all those of
humanity who choose not to accept the saving Grace of Christ and so
return Home? The pain is a last-resort symptom of Christ's great
Compassion and wish for as many souls as possible to attain the Harvest
on the metaphorical 'Judgement Day'. Q. Could you please point out which prophecies you are referring to in your book The New Call which are pointing towards this time? A. There are very many. To my limited knowledge they include indications from the Old Testament, New Testament, the Koran, Nostradamus, the Hopi Indians (and multifarious other aboriginal peoples), Buddhism, Hinduism, the Brahma Kumaris, Rosicrucians, the Mayans, the Cathars, numerous individuals like Mother Shipton, Kahlil Gibran, Yogananda, and also too-numerous-to-mention modern prophets like David Spangler, Sir George Trevelyan, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ken Carey, etc., etc. I could go on and on, but the 'who' of it is not our interest. Rather we are concerned about the causes, laws and opportunities that are intrinsic within the forthcoming unprecedented unfoldment on Earth. Our focus is uncompromisingly vertical, which means that we do not lose sight of the Path or the Goal by becoming interested in the multifarious distractions that exist in the world today, including the names and lives of past or present prophets. Our writings contain everything an aspirant needs to understand with regard to today's global transition and spiritual opportunity. The long-awaited
moment of humanity's collective initiation into spiritual adulthood is
nigh, and many human beings will soon become consciously aware of
interstellar familial affiliations that predate the most ancient
scriptures upon Earth today. In instigating a vital process of
light-energy invocation for the world, selfless group alliance will
serve to bridge the existing gulf between mankind and these
civilisations that constitute the greater part of its cosmic family. Q. I have been telling people for the last 40 years that 'we are here to help each other'. Thus the positive impact of your writings. It seems that I am working out the kinks in my enlightenment... A. You as an individual will never become enlightened. Before divine illumination may precipitate into your awareness, you will have to die completely and unconditionally. However, as long as we hold onto the false notion that the 'I' can become enlightened, we shall remain on the left-hand path of seeking for self, even if subtly so under convincing but false pretences. Q. ...I am working through a lot of anger from the past set-ups I have created, where I feel I made 'wrong choices'... A. Good. We salute your candor and personal courage to be real and true. But why not let Divinity do the work in you? It is much better at it than we are! Q. ...Of course I know better. Some dark masters that I have tangled with have shown me the most important lesson: how not to do it!. A. Ah yes, the path of neti neti, which is synonymous with the left-hand path. The vast majority of so-called spiritual aspirants - new age and old - tread this painful and long road. All for the lack of true Knowledge and right attitude. Q. ...But I have come thus far and will go the whole mile. Enlightenment will be mine, and soon. A. "He who seeks the Truth with diligence and detachment will find it and it will enlighten him." - Lord Buddha. Do note that the Buddha did not say: He who seeks to become enlightened will find the Truth. The word 'detachment' in the first quote is key, and the Buddha alludes to the fact that the quest for Truth must be made for itself, and not for the self. Milarepa, the great Tibetan yogi, also advised his disciples to: "Meditate for others". The Path must be sought for itself, and not with regard for the feet that shall tread it. You may wish to read the last section from 'True Healing' on our website - The Sun and the Soul - for further elucidation on right focus. For spiritual success to be known, it is imperative to look in the direction of the goal, otherwise we shall continually trip over our own feet. There are many who practise mystical or spiritual techniques in order to achieve Liberation from the fallen condition that has been humanity's lot for ages; we have encountered a great number during our search around the world. However, so few of these aspirants have understood that the 'I' can never liberate itself. Only the Grace of Christ can redeem fallen souls. Thus we must look to Christ and never to self (nor any other self either). Upon our own uncompromising spiritual search across four continents for Knowledge and Understanding, we have encountered numerous long-practising yogi-types (some have been practising far longer than you have) who are experiencing more and more struggle, tension and lack of results these days. There is a very good reason for this, which is inseparably connected to the age in which we live and the new and adjusted laws that are already influencing human consciousness and life on Earth as we enter the Aquarian era. If you have set your heart on 'getting enlightened' and in seeking a guru in order to help with your personal goal, then even a thousand perfectly enlightened Buddhas will not be able to assist you at this time. I wonder if you will be
able to at least consider the above facts, or whether your concretised
belief system (based upon the old way of self-liberation)
will eclipse your capacity to receive that which is new,
contemporarily-relevant and truly Liberating? ENLIGHTENMENT
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