Q. It appears that life for me at this time is very demanding on material levels. Perhaps soon I might be able to fully dedicate myself to the Path.
A. 'Soon' is an illusion and a trap, for the future does not exist, nor will it ever. Why 'soon' and not immediately, now in the eternal Present?
So many aspirants procrastinate in putting themselves firmly on the Path after they have received the Call or a revelation. They make all kinds of subtle excuses for delay, and then, to their great dismay on Judgment Day, they realize that they have lost everything they thought they had gained or retained and must account for their every excuse and delay.
There can be no compromise in living the truly spiritual life. Compromise equates to a chink in the armor of God, through which the master of self may easily foil all projected hopes and plans.
Q. I could not abandon five people who had their homes fraudulently taken from them by the IRS and the US government. It was tugging at me. It was not about money. These people have paid me what they can, which amounts to about the same as a hamburger flipper makes at MacDonalds. It was about serving and honor. I have very few clear memories about my duties in this life, but I know that I came in with one goal, and that was for HONOR. This I know as clearly as I know any past life experience.
A. Go forth in detachment from results, and the master of self will not be able to deter you. It is an unfortunate thing that, in past, too many honorable people became proud. True honor, like true humility, has no thought for itself. I know that your above statement about honor was due and apt. However, do be careful not to become so self-consciously honorable that you become proud. Pride is the nemesis of the mental types, and a very surreptitious intruder to our spiritual life.
Q. Of the teachings of Krishna, Jesus and Mohammed, what single thread runs through them that can be described in a single word?
A. There is no grammatical word that can describe what you allude to above, for the teachings of these great ones encompass much.
Q. The one word that best describes the messages of those three Avatars is "HOPE."
A. The above statement is incorrect. There lies much of danger in the idea that the Avatars gave hope as the one most valuable, most important or 'best' aspect of their teaching and divine radiation. This demonstrates a lack of esoteric comprehension.
Hope is essentially self-oriented. Ponder. To hope is to desire. To desire is to perpetuate ignorance. Better than hope is belief; better than belief is faith; better than faith is Knowledge, or Gnosis, and Gnosis leads to Realization/Liberation, which is best of all.
So although our Avatars would have indeed brought
hope to a lost and fallen race, hope was certainly not the greatest or
most vital aspect of their teaching. Only spiritual perception may
truly see and understand the hidden value of the presence on Earth of
the Avatars.
Q. The reality experienced by myself is by no means enlightened. I do not have conscious communication with other realms and dimensions in the sense I read others do. That said, somewhere within, all my life, there has been a trust and experience of resting in the hands of God...
A. Then you are much closer to Christ than the vast majority of 'knowers' and 'spiritual teachers' in this world. Only 'children' can enter through the Christine Gate, and the true child is innocent and pure. Lower psychic experience is a great distraction from the Real. Thus so, let us all thank God that you are not psychically aware. For psychic awareness is not innocent Awareness.
Q. ...I realize that is not the current primary experience seen by my human eyes, but yet it is seen. The best is within, in the intuitive voice/response and guidance I have always experienced to varying degrees. It is there that hope lies...
A. Good. But beware of thinking in terms of hope. Hope, being a personal desire, binds us to the pain of frustrated desire, for as long a desire is, unfulfilment also is. Christ does not hope - He knows, and so, then, do You. Transmute hope into Faith (true Knowing). Re-member that you are Christ. Only by thinking of and aspiring to Christ - for others - will you recall the Truth and so allow Christ to serve humanity through you, as you. This glorious Reality is closer than you believe, and it is only your be-lie-f that makes it appear to be far away. Remember how much you used to giggle and laugh when you were a child? That's because you believed the Truth that everything is ok and that Father and Mother really do Love you. They still do, of course. Believe, therefore, what you know.
Q. ...That is the vibration I believe you are referring to, the spark of spiritual creation and love. The drop of the Father that resides inside the heart. The spiritual writings and discussions seem to place the focus back, back, back on the heart. The pure drop within the sick heart. I feel I have searched for the truth of that drop and the willingness to be and serve that while on the Earth. My will (the self) desires not to seek the pure, but only to seek outward here and there, continually seeking for enlightenment, pleasure, distraction, evil outside. The challenge is to submit my will to the pursuit and service of the essence of love. It is a difficult challenge...
A. That was quite beautiful. . .until you brought in the false notion of Love being difficult. This is what doubt (your own perceived ignorance) wants you to believe. But since it is only a perception, a belief, you can cancel it immediately simply by having faith in the Truth. And if you don't believe the Truth then I will do it for you, because I refuse to perceive you as being imperfect. I want to See You in all your beauty, and so I will. One day, and sooner than you think, you will believe me on this, and when you believe me you will believe in You, too. Then you and I will both be Happy forevermore.
Loving is the most Natural and effortless thing to do since it is the Essence of Life. In order to let it be done we must simply look to the Greater Life, the True Life (best done through humanity but also through all the lower kingdoms of nature) and give, give, give, give, GIVE, without any reservation. Christ, Who is You, simply Loves to Give, and Gives in order to Love. We are Home in any moment that we are truly doing that. Isn't Life simple? Our young children know this simplicity, so all we have to do is remember what we forgot when we 'grew up' into complicated adults.
Most adults do not know how to really Play. But it is only because they forgot how to be natural by believing a lie.
Q. ...Many times in this life I too have sat at the feet of Masters, monks, spiritual giants, those in the know. The whole time looking outward, the whole time staying distracted and confused. Thinking I knew something and seeking to learn more etc. The truth responds inside as you say. There has almost always been a clear response within...
A. You are sweetness itself whenever you are just natural and true.
Q. ...The listening to it and responding to it has been the problem for me...
A. Why a problem if you do not choose to make it so by believing that lie? I don't perceive any problem with you, so I'm afraid I have to say that I don't believe what you say. And if you love Truth, then you will stop lying to me. Love reveals the Truth that all, everything, absolutely EVERYTHING is ok just the way it is, including you.
Q. ...The sentence "Self-professed Master of the West" caused a response inside my being. Need we read any further? Of course, the evil that is my mind and also whatever esoteric influences exist to cloud vision and continue to feed, urge me to read on and on. My mind says yes ok, good point, correct point. My insides want to hide...
A. Then best to adore that little fearful child in there with at least as much selfless and unconditional love as you feel for your most loved one. That is what God does in you best. And can I let you into a little secret? That little hiding child in you is God! He is just pretending to be hiding so that you can seek and find Him again. What fun! God has such a lovely, playful sense of humor, don't you think?
Q. Did you know that the Hopi Indians (a tribe of North American Indians) are aware of the great purification of the Earth that you speak of? It has been in their predictions for hundred of years.
A. The Hopis are one among a number indigenous tribes who have known what is to come and why.
Q. What is it about "self-less" service that avoids "horizontal seeking" (where it is impossible to reach integration) as well as feeding the psychic sphere (via creation of "light-ether")?
A. The fallen world is perpetuated by 'self' or ego and by our identification with the illusion of separation. When we become self-less, the illusory ego begins to disappear, and Reality - which is a Unity - can dawn within our consciousness. Then the emergency order or fallen universe no longer exists for us. Once we are again thus sustained by the original holy Ethers, we do not produce density in our thinking, willing, desiring or acting, and so when our consciousness has become thus spiritualized, we cease to feed the entities in the psychic sphere.