Q. One has to wonder why the opportunity to serve Christ - one's own True Self - is only accepted by a few. It is dumbfounding to me that I am awakening to just such an opportunity. Awesome.
A. Yes, it is awesome when we begin to awaken and remember. But the reality of full divine remembrance is not as if you or I become suddenly enlightened and very grateful (as many think happened to the Buddha etc.), but rather that the true Heavenly Being that is who we really are will one day merge the awareness of 99.9'% of its greater consciousness with the tiny little veiled and temporary personality that most people believe they actually are.
In other words the tiny particle - you or I - will consciously merge with the far greater part of itself, and then the latter will inform the whole being that it has always known exactly what was going on, had never left Home, had always been cosmically aware, etc., and the only difference at that time of remembrance/re-merging is that the microscopic point of consciousness that was in past the sum total of the little personality vehicle - you or I - is now an active and fully connected aspect of the rest of the group-mind. Do you see?
Q. ...I am
saying: wait I want to help them, I want to give them more of a chance.
But I feel that for what I could do, there isn't enough time...
A.
We have an eternity, of course, but with regard to the blessed
Opportunity in this end of an age, yes, there is little time left in
this round on Earth.
Q. ...I can't
save them, I can't save them. Why? Why can't I save them?
A.
The 'I' can do absolutely nothing spiritually worthwhile. Yet even
Christ, through you, cannot save them either because they do not want
to be saved; they prefer the devil that they know, they cling to the
illusion of 'safety' and familiarity.
Your sentiments above reflect the lament of Christ: "O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem! I came to gather you in like a shepherd tends to his flock,
but you wanted it not." - Jesus.
Christ is still mostly redundant in this world.
That would change in a moment if the critical mass simply surrendered
to the Will of the Logos and so invoked the New Spirit now, today.
Meanwhile those of us who have remembered and so who are ready are
coerced to simply wait and watch.
Q. I wondered how long does it usually take for the soul to be ready for another round? In the Rosicrucian Order, the average time mentioned was 140 years, but I feel it can sometimes be much, much longer as the right conditions must be gathered for the right experiences and lessons to happen according to the karmic needs of the soul.
A. Sometimes Server-souls do not take a break at all; and sometimes thousands of years go by before another incarnating impulse from Divinity takes up another human microcosm. With regard to the doctrine of reincarnation, there are just too many variables to consider. There is no such thing as 'average'.
Q. After reading the description of what happens to a soul before reincarnation, I wondered if there is any place in it for the many thousands of reports from people who had so-called near-death experiences and who all invariably describe first floating above their body and then going through a spiralling tunnel towards a distant light where a Christ-like figure or angelic being guided them through an instantaneous life review after which point they come back, sometimes after seeing some deceased loved ones saluting them from beyond some river.
A. The beings of light are incorporeal Servers of the Divine Plan. The tunnel is the journey that the physically-detaching point of consciousness - the soul - takes through the sushumna nadi (subtle nerve-thread) in the spine. There are some indescribably beautiful worlds and beings in the upper astral and mental worlds, but none of them compare to the cosmic sphereof Christ-Consciousness, which is where the Gateway to the true Evolution is waiting for us.
Perhaps the most vital understanding is that we can restore our entire original divine human vehicular system only during physical incarnation. If we succeed in awakening the divine Spark within the heart while in physical embodiment, then we may escape once and for all from the almost never-ending cycle of death and rebirth in fallen matter.
Q. I have in past been regressed in order to find out more about my previous lifetimes and to see if past karma can be freed up in this way. However, to date I have had little success in receiving any real and transformative insights. Can you offer guidance here?
A. May I strongly recommend that you have no thought for your past incarnations. Find yourself in this life first; anything more is just a distraction from your present and most vital spiritual duty.
Q. This I understand and often believe that the moment of Truth can only be now for me. I see infinite possibilities of futures [within the parameters of the Divine Plan] but when I look at the entity, Edgar Cayce, who passed over in 1945, prior to that life he was a soldier and prior to that a mercenary and what he described himself as - a wastrel. This same entity was Pythagoras, the sage of Samos and also Ra-Ta the High priest of Egypt.
A. The above is not strictly true. In fact, the idea of a reincarnating unit of consciousness - that is, the idea in most people's minds - is a very simplified version of the reality, which in turn cannot be grasped by the mind.
This subject is rather abstruse and we discuss it adequately in our Gnostic writings. However, for now, perhaps the Buddha's words will help to gain a little more understanding.
The Lord Buddha told his disciples that there was no individual, separate soul in man. This has become known as the doctrine of anatta (no soul). Succinctly put, Guatama Buddha said that the whole process of reincarnation may be likened to two candles in different rooms. As one candle-flame goes out, the other flame comes alive.
Deep contemplation on this analogy may reveal much for the serious seeker of Truth.
Therefore, Cayce was not Pythagoras, Ra-Ta, etc., although Cayce's microcosm may have been carrying the karmic seeds and some of the memories of those past incarnations experienced in the realm of illusion.
Q. Is each personality new, experiencing physical life for the first (and only) time? And is the personality required to somehow or other hear and respond to the promptings of its divine spark, necessarily in the absence of any prior accumulated experience other than that deriving solely from its own lifetime? Have I got that right?
A. Not quite. Although the personality is fresh and new, its soul's memory is not. A man of remembrance is one who, through lifetimes of dualistic experience (which is recorded in the soul), gradually hones his 'spiritual senses' to recognize Truth, and thus he also comes to discern the nature of the fallen world. In the vast majority of cases such a remembrance is derived from experiences in previous lifetimes.
This is the usual way in which souls 'progress' towards remembrance in the universe of death on the wheel. However, it is a very slow and arduous road involving much pain and suffering (via reincarnation) in duality. When the Christ-Consciousness appears on Earth at the end of cycles, the Way is opened for humanity and the 'express train' - the Ark of Christ - offers all true candidates for harvest a very quick and permanent egress from the fields of darkness: the Final Liberation, which is the ultimate goal of all fallen life.
Q. ...But the lesser teachings and teachers are surely helping the 'little ones' also, are they not? There are so many lightworkers in the world today working for the same cause of ascension. Are you saying that they are all deluded?
A. We are primarily concerned with the true Harvest, the Final Liberation, Transfiguration, hence we seek the Christ in everyone in order to collaborate for the greatest good of all. Remember that to attain the Final Liberation is the ultimate purpose of human incarnation on Earth; it is also the only truly worthwhile attainment on Judgement Day. To perpetually move toward such a victory justifies one's existence in the fallen world. Anything less perpetuates delusion.
The vast majority of 'spiritual' aspirants today are not ready to 'die' in order to return Home, and that is okay in a free-will system, but what is not so okay (at least for them) is that they are unable to recognize pure motive and so unite with a higher frequency for the One Cause. A true Seeker would always be looking upward. But if our cup is full then we cannot receive any new wine. This is indeed the case with the majority of self-inaugurated 'lightworkers' who have read some books, perhaps attended a seance and had a few psychic experiences.
There is only one power that perpetuates separation and prevents Unity. The vast majority of human beings on Earth today, who habitually and perpetually feed the illusion of self, may recognize on some level the great need for Unity, for union is harmony and strength, but they are unwilling to give up their selves; they want to bring their ego along with them into the Ark of Christ, and they adorn that ego with spiritual names and titles, such as 'lightworker'. No enlightened being would ever regard himself as a 'lightworker' and so this rather vain apellation is usually little more than egotism dressed in spritual clothes. People like to feel that they are helping God! Wherever there is compromise upon the True Path, the Christine Gate remains closed, and this is sadly the case for the majority of human beings on Earth today, even though the Final Call is now going out.
When the Truth is seen together, hearts are united. So why is it, do you think, that most people run away and/or attack when the Call to unity (which necessitates the relinquishment of the self) is sounded? Why was Jesus crucified? Why was Buddha poisoned? Same answer: "Men love not the light, for it reveals their wickedness; men love the dark." - Jesus.
We also relate very well to the following quote from Jesus:
I took my place in the midst of the world and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the world, and empty, too, they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, then they will repent. - The Gospel of Thomas.
The Gates of Heaven are today opening wide, yet relatively very few are looking up. Most are looking in a different yet still horizontal way (that includes the self), so they think that they are better off than they were before, but Lucifer's chess-game is loaded with infinite distractions and pitfalls, and no two games are identical, yet the game itself remains the same (note that there is no actual winner in the game of chess only a surrendered king-piece).
The old prison-warder spell is fooling nearly everyone on Earth again today, just as it did so many times before at the end of major cycles. The vast majority of souls will again, like before, take a fall in this round, for only the pure in heart can enter the Kingdom, and if we were all pure in heart, then we would be singing the same song, wouldn't we? So there would be no reason for the dishonor and enmity that has been received from mankind by all holy orders throughout human history on Earth. These qualities do not exist where there is Loving Purpose and Intelligence. There are no schisms between those who are truly serving the Divine Plan. It is such divine solidarity that the Christ relies upon in order to enter this fallen world and to Redeem.
Now, are the lightworkers fulfilling perfectly the grand pattern for Ascension, or is it that many of them may have wandered - even if slightly - off-track, becoming dangerously immersed in the multitudinous diversions in the mundane (fallen) world?
Again, I quote one of the more famous Avatars: "If you would find the spirit life, the life of man in God, then you must walk a narrow way and enter through a narrow gate. The way is Christ, the gate is Christ, and you must come up by the way of Christ. No man comes unto God but by the Christ." - Jesus.
If we are serious about 'making straight the ways of the Lord', then we cannot afford to miss one tiny detail.