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| RESIST NOT EVIL
Q. It is written in the Bible that Jesus said, "Resist not evil". Yet how can any reasonable person possibly refrain from being repulsed by evil? How do we deal with the shadow in a loving way? A. For a fallen personality to love evil is indeed a difficult thing to do, yet this is precisely what must be done in order to rise above the shadows of the world. In order to love evil it is necessary to fully comprehend its nature, which is essentially ignorance. To refuse to love all alike is to be selective or conditional with our love, and once the selection process begins it may escalate indefinitely until the conditional consciousness itself becomes evil. In other words, were a person to decide to only refuse to love the dark side of life, then such a person would not be far away from refusing to love those beings who were tainted by ignorance in some form. If this continued, the unloving being would eventually, in all probability, choose to withhold unconditional love from any being whom he judged to be inferior or unworthy of that love. This would be an undivine action resulting in correspondingly undivine results that would manifest sooner or later in the unloving being's reality. This is how the Fall of Man began, and we may discern that in order for man to return to the divine Kingdom, only a complete reversal of the cause of the Fall will guarantee success; nothing less will do, for any refusal to love is a rejection of Love. Nothing good is ever wasted (lost). If we learn from our past 'negative' experiences, thus transmuting darkness into light, then we may utilize 'evil' to praise God. Q. The trick,
then, is not to become deluded by evil (which is only an effect of a
corresponding cause) and hence to keep one's inner light from dimming
by ignorant reaction to evil? Did you ever consider that evil (Lucifer) is a teacher/messenger sent by God to train His 'little ones'? Q. Naturally, but a devious and treacherous taskmaster he is! A. Judge not lest ye be judged! I have observed in my life how 'Satan' has been my greatest teacher. Yours, too, I deem. Perhaps it is time to express gratitude to this seemingly unbalanced part of Creation, and in such an unconditionally loving disposition shown toward the prince of this world, he shall be healed and subsequently he must dissolve, having achieved his purpose in helping mankind to see that evil also bears within itself a seed of Grace, as do all things. Q. It has been averred by the Great Ones that evil does not exist. Therefore, how can it have any real power over humanity? A. Well, it does not have any power. However, due to fear and ignorance, fallen humanity has not yet realized this. In a relative but not an absolute sense, evil and suffering do exist to the point of consciousness that experiences them. If that consciousness chooses to fall into a shadow and then identify with it, then its illusory experience will be one of evil, just like a nightmare. Yet, as we know well, the nightmare ends when we awaken. Lucifer doesn't know that he doesn't exist either, so he is just going about his necessary business of honouring the Law of Karma for God. Q. Neither did I know that I don't exist until pondering this. A. And neither did Guatama, the Buddha to be, until he decided to take a closer look! At first, the Truth is somewhat alarming to the unprepared personality, then it becomes like a wrestling opponent to the deluded ego, finally we come to realize that we have been fighting with ourselves, and then we cry a lot, laugh a lot more and finally dissolve forever into the All.>Q. ...For the reasons mentioned by myself previously, I am inclined to provide, (make available) any information which is requested by anyone, no matter how advanced or esoteric that information may be... A. Then
you will learn, as we have learned, that the whole Truth is just not
welcome in this world and you will also suffer the blows that we have.
Imagine going out into the human wilderness today and assuring
virtually every single person we meet that their whole life is a lie;
indeed, that they have been living a lie for countless lifetimes! (This
is what the Buddha and all Avatars revealed, not to the masses, but to
their inner circles). Do you think that such an approach to the beast*
is wise? Yet it is the Truth, nonetheless. * The beast in John's Revelation is a
reference to the selfishness and evil that will express itself via the
mass of humanity in the end times. Evil has never been so concentrated, highly organized, intelligent and pervasive upon this planet as it is today. But do not take my world for it. Have a look, see for yourself. Experience will teach you anyway. Q. I'd love to
start reading Servers of the Divine Plan but feel to wait.. A. Delay while existing in the fields of darkness equates to further pain and suffering. You will likely experience some resistance/reaction to the following uncompromising message. Therefore, before you begin, please try to bear in mind that all reaction/resistance is born of desire, and that desire blinds. Can you empty your cup completely before reading? Become like a child again if you can; it is the only way to learn what we already know. Servers of the Divine Plan is not an ordinary book. However, its grace may be completely overlooked unless it is read with right attitude. I cannot emphasize this enough. Your existing 'knowledge' and attachment thereto may prove to be a great obstacle to receiving the spirit and revelation that is Servers of the Divine Plan. It is the blueprint for the Aquarian Passion Play, and relatively few are able to really see it. Therefore, it would be prudent to prepare yourself. If you are to return Home in this round you shall have to lose everything that you 'know' and start again, and you will have to want all of your incarcerating delusions shattered. How precious to you is your existing knowledge? How much do you really thirst for the Divine? Q. I not only thirst for God, I am an instrument for the Divine! A. Only God can live as a divine human being. If there is still an "instrument", then God is not yet present. Q. God That I Am... A. We must realize that we are God. It is not enough to know it intellectually nor even to have faith that it is so. The intellect of man is a fallen faculty that can only, and at best, reveal to us what is not True. When we believe that we actually Know something simply because we can cogitate about it, we delude ourselves terribly and keep ourselves in the fallen world, apart from God. Intellectual conviction may be an even greater enemy of Truth than are lies. How many full cups there are in this world, yet how few divinely enlightened individuals. Q. OK-ness is present here. Emptiness is part of the flow of Being. A. Your words are devoid of the spiritual energy of Realization. This is evident to the eye and heart that Sees. You yourself have stated that you are still seeking enlightenment/liberation. Please consider that even the highest spiritual knowledge is used to serve Lucifer (self) unless it is applied in life selflessly and with right attitude. As Yukteswar told Yogananda in 'Autobiography of a Yogi': "A being may have attained great knowledge and power; he may even be able to create worlds, and yet still not know God". If you had attained right attitude, you would not be holding onto anger. Come, let us seek together like children, otherwise all our exchanges will come to naught. Q. The thirst IS. The dissolution IS. The death IS. Knowing IS. A. If Knowing IS in your case, then you will not desire to study further. You will have no need, for you would have already Found. You will not be interested in reading Servers of the Divine Plan or applying for our inner teachings or anything else. If Knowing IS for you, then you will only have one Question: how may we serve humanity best together? Such an earnest inquiry into divine Purpose is true Invocation. However, it is clear that your knowing is incomplete. This is why you are still struggling and seeking. But spiritual Seeking is an art and begins with right attitude. Q. Thank you for the two books. My reaction to The New Call was a largely "ho-hum and so what" as I have been reading and hearing much of this material for some time and I already know all this. >The subsequent book - Servers of the Divine Plan - however, blew my mind in that I have never read nor heard such material - and, more importantly, it comes the closest ever to my own experience of my own spiritual journey and life. I found this book very comforting, having been isolated for all my life in a view of the world which no one else seems to share, even in the esoteric group to which I was a member for three years. Just before leaving that group I was told by a departing member that you don't belong there; and found myself despairing with the thought: well if not there, where do I belong or must I walk alone till the end of my days. When I joined that group, I feel I was prompted within to begin to engage with others and the message 'find a group' became a strong directive. I still feel that it is important to establish connections. However, there seems to be a lack of very high level purity within the groups I have encountered thus far. Having fallen back on my own resources - a good thing in any event - and my feeling that I could really use the assistance of the advanced teachings which you disseminate to retain my clarity of Purpose, I would like to reiterate my interest in establishing contact with your group. A. Hmmm. 'Ho hum and so what', eh? The New Call is our first-written book. It is quite diluted since it was written for the masses who are, as you know, in fear and in ego! However, a lover of Truth will always rejoice when truth is presented, however 'safely-packaged' that truth may be in order to reach and appease the mass-consciousness. It is the vibration of Truth that satisfies the God-yearning heart, and so we are somewhat concerned that you were reading The New Call only with intellectual curiosity ("I already know all this"*), for the Truth can never be found with the intellect; the Truth - which can only be experienced - is an inner Radiative Plenitude that reveals itself only to the one who is in earnest, spiritually intelligent and humble. * May we just say that such reactions to contemporary facts are common in this world of self-seeking and intellectual 'knowing', yet to the open-eyed observer, these sentiments betray the fact that such people do not actually Know anything at all, for it is only the pure heart that impels one to selfless Action in service to the Divine Plan, and it is only such an attitude that can truly Know anything at all by way of its experience within the Serving Christ Hierarchy. Servers of the Divine Plan is, as you have observed, somewhat higher in vibration than The New Call since it constitutes our mid-way teaching and calls especially to the strategically-incarnating Servers. HOWEVER, IT IS THE SAME CALL TO GROUP AND WORLD-SERVICE AS THE NEW CALL, and it is this Call that all genuine candidates for world-service and, therefore, also for harvest will necessarily respond to. What we would like to know is did you prefer Servers of the Divine Plan because it applies to yourself or perhaps because it is novel, or were you inspired by it due to the fact that it is a genuine Call from Home and therefore an opportunity to serve humanity for the cause of human and planetary redemption? The true heart, you see, does not seek comfort for itself; being truly Intelligent, it does not seek for self at all, and we wonder whether your motives for seeking via our group may present a barrier between yourself and actually walking the Path of the Divine Mysteries (the uncompromising keys of which are clearly presented in our innermost teaching, the Teaching of the Avatars). May we remind you of one very key point that will ever spell the difference between success and failure in these times. From Servers of the Divine Plan:
May we also remind you of what we said previously regarding the inner teaching: namely that it is raw, unadulterated, undiluted and as such constitutes a veritable revelation as well as a responsibility for the human race. Should we choose to disseminate such information indiscriminately in the world we would be guilty of overburdening the shoulders of most people who would not benefit from esoteric facts that have, in past, only been given to initiates of genuine Mystery Schools, where stringent tests had to be passed before entrance to the Divine Mysteries was permitted. Therefore, and in a way paraphrasing Patanjali's comments regarding yoga, we would say that the Pure Gnosis may be liberating for the wise seeker whereas it would produce only bondage for the less sincere. Since the Teaching of the Avatars presents a very real kind of danger for most unprepared people in the world today, we would request of you a little more evidence that you have counted the cost of actually walking the Path and that you are galvanized from within to do so. We would ask you to further elucidate upon what exactly you have in mind by wishing to "establish contact" with ourselves? |
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