Divine Cooperation

2001-12-9 11:58:00

JJ:

I'll tell you something interesting about Moses that is a little too fantastic to include in the book. Moses was two people in one body just as were Jesus and the Christ. The lower entity was a disciple and the higher was a Master of great power.

In response to my above statement John Z asks:

"That is very interesting. How would that work, from a consciousness point of view? I mean, if there were two beings in my body, would both of them be 'aware' of what I did? Would there be interaction/communication between them? What would determine which one would control thought, speech, etc.? Or, would it function as if one had primary control, and the other was in the 'background' (so to speak)? How often do you think such a dual-occupancy has occurred? Could it be that one of the two is in a 'trainee' mode? Something like that sounds like it could have great potential."

JJ:

Several have mentioned that we have numerous lives which make up the one life that we are in totality. Then too, there is the Solar Angel which is a Master on its own plane which we eventually merge with. The overshadowing and divine possession are mergings of a different nature than are these individual accomplishments. With overshadowing or divine possession two complete and whole entities are involved for the sake of some service to mankind.

In a basic overshadowing you will have a master of some degree working with a disciple from a distance. The master's consciousness will reside in his own body but will merge with the disciple so seamlessly on the higher planes that the disciple will sometimes feel the master's thoughts are his own. In this case the disciple acts as a transmitting agent for one higher than himself.

This is not like channeling for the disciple always maintains full consciousness.

Alice A. Bailey, H. P. Blavatsky, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Joseph Smith and Mohammed (to name a few) are examples of this experience.

The divine possession is quite another experience. This involves a merging with an entity of very high order -- of the office of Christ or above. In this case, the consciousness of the actual entity comes into the disciple's body and resides there. There is a merging of the disciple, the Holy Spirit and the Christed One. The disciple will feel overwhelmed, as if he is walking in the heart of the sun, or perhaps a thousand suns.

The clearest example we have of this is the record of the baptism of Jesus where John saw the Son of God descended, "enter into" and "remained" with Jesus. This was so overwhelming for Jesus that He immediately went into the wilderness to fast for 40 days to adjust and commune with the presence.

The Divine possession will not always last for the life of the disciple as it did with Jesus for his last three years. Peter was possessed by the Christ for a period of time after Pentecost; and Paul, Moses, and Merlin were most probably possessed for short periods and overshadowed the rest of the time.

John asks:

"How would that work, from a consciousness point of view? I mean, if there were two beings in my body, would both of them be 'aware' of what I did?"

JJ:

Yes, both would be aware of everything. The disciple would only receive the thoughts from the Master, however, that the Master wants revealed.

John:

"Would there be interaction/communication between them?"

JJ:

Yes, but not quite as we have with us mortals. The communion would sometimes be telepathy, but the preferred method is called "impression" as spoken of by Djwahl Khul [through Alice A. Bailey].

John:

"What would determine which one would control thought, speech, etc.?"

JJ:

The disciple born into the body has full power of decision over the body and can reject the overshadowing or divine possession at any time. He will formulate the words even though the thoughts and ideas may come from the Master. You are right about the Master in the "background."

On the other hand, there are occasions where the disciple will leave the body and turn it over completely to the Master making him a "Walk-In." This can happen with entities below the Christed degree and does not involve so complete of a merging.

John:

"How often do you think such a dual-occupancy has occurred?"

JJ:

Divine Possession occurs rarely, but will happen when a new age, dispensation, or new approach is being introduced to mankind. On the other hand, the overshadowing and the "Walk-In method" are in play somewhere on the earth regularly.