2008-10-29 04:05:00
You find yourself on an unknown path that takes you away from home. As you follow it, you deceptively think the path is taking you home. Finally as the territory gets more and more unfamiliar you realize that you are not going toward home -- you are going away. When you realize how far away you are, you become despondent and feel alone for a time. Then, you rouse yourself and realize that the only way back is along the path that took you there in the first place. It's a long journey but when you finally get courage to begin you feel a burden has been lifted. You know the path will be difficult and the obstacles great, but the joy of beginning is yours...
Upon arriving home you are reunited with your family (God -- the One Great Life), but that which is YOU remains.
A reader asks:
"Are we separate from the "One Great Life," God, the Universe, etc., in any way other than our belief in that separation?"
It may surprise you to know that the answer is Yes.
Here we arrive at some knowledge that you will not read in books. The books you read tell you that belief causes your separation from the One Great Life. That is not true. If it were true then the fact that you now believe that you are one with God would remove the barriers...
But it doesn't.
The barriers are still there. You are still Carole, and I am still Joseph even though we both hold a similar belief in the One Great Life.
The very fact that you are in a separate physical body from me -- and if you pinch your body it will hurt you more than pinching my body would hurt you -- illustrates that a belief in oneness has very little effect in the separation we find ourselves in.
A belief in oneness creates oneness no more than the person lost on the path (see above parable) can get home by believing he is home. However a belief that he CAN get home is the beginning -- the all important beginning.
Before you can go home you must do more than believe. You must obtain certain keys of knowledge. You must learn WHO/WHAT YOU ARE in your present condition. You must learn where you are on the Path before you can tread the Path. Going back to the parable of the Path: If you are far away from home, yet believe you are home, then you are in a great state of disadvantage, because you will not begin the journey home. If you do not begin the journey home, you will never go back.
I will end this hint with these words: If it is not your belief that created the separation from God, then what is it? The answer brings you close to WHO/WHAT YOU ARE.
Also continue contemplating what you are not. Is what you are not (the great illusion) the believing part of yourself?
Comments to Reader:
Please don't apologize for getting "mental." A pragmatic person must be somewhat so inclined. The plane of the mind is higher than the emotional (astral) where the majority of humanity have their polarization. Most of what people call "intuition" is also astral.
True intuition reveals principles and one principle can reveal a thousand facts, but it take more than a thousand facts to reveal one principle. A principle is closely aligned to what I call "Keys" in my teachings.
You are correct. In order to guide you to a realization I have to be there myself. It is possible that you are there too, but there is no way to tell unless I test you. I will say this. I have found no one else on earth that understands the principles or keys I am presenting; and I have looked far and wide. Many have implied they know all things that are possible to know but they always refuse to elaborate. That is one way I am different. I am willing to defend my teachings and explain why they are correct. I don't expect you to believe me on some obscure faith. I expect you only to believe if what I say speaks to your Soul and also that I can satisfy your mental questionings.
It sounds as if that you have the general New Age belief that all knowledge is within you and that you do not need a teacher because all you have to do is look within to find an answer.
This is an illusion, and is a thoughtform that one must carry for a few lives to attain a certain level of understanding about the Life within.
To illustrate my point let us take examples of certain people who have had nowhere to search but within.
Every once in a while we hear stories of mislead parents who lock their kid in a room for 5, 10, or even 15 years. They allow the child no contact with the outside world and slide his or her food under the door.
If the child was six years old when this began and is sixteen when he was released then he will still see himself as a six year old and have little or no recollection of this 10 year period. He will also have little or no growth.
If the child was nine when this experience began and is released at nineteen then he will still believe he is nine.
In other words; by only looking within his growth came to a standstill.
I am not saying that the truth is only without either. If one only looks without, his growth will also come to a standstill. One needs to search without and verify within to maximize spiritual growth. This is a great principle and we will talk more about it later.
Therefore one who refuses to consider the knowledge that is without will find his spiritual growth at a standstill.
Therefore, I do not apologize for being a teacher in this world. My job is to stimulate all those who do not know what I know. If you do know what I know you can easily show yourself. Just explain the keys and then I will consider that you should be my teacher. Again the first principle:
"Who and/or What Am I?"
You say that you would like to know about my personal life before I can be credible for you.
Do you not realize that the personality throws up a cloud that hides the light of truth? This is because all personalities are different, and the ways that my personality is different from yours, you are likely to see as evil or at least mislead.
Let's take the greatest teacher, the Christ for example. Many were bothered by His personality; and, after His life's work and His crucifixion, He had only 120 followers. But shortly after He left, His followers, thousands and then millions sought after Him and His teachings. This was because His personality was out of the way only His words and teachings remained, plus His invisible Presence.
Now, for the first time in history we have a method of teaching where the personality does not get in the way -- the method we are using right here. You do not know my favorite color, my parents, my wife, what type of neighborhood I live in, how rich I am, how good looking I am... Now that would really overwhelm you!
The point is you have to decide by non-personality methods whether or not my words are true. You are stimulated by without and contemplate within without astral influences entering in.
You say you want to know how I live? Feel how I live in my writings. You want to know if I have a loving heart -- feel the love in the givingness of my words. You want to know if I am honorable. Every false teacher will tell you that he is. I will show you honor by the consistency of my words if you follow them over a period of time. You ask if I am serving "all Life." I am here as a servant -- free of charge to "all life" that comes forward.
Your last question is, why do I think of death as an enemy that needs overcoming?
In the sense of continuance of life, you are right there is no death, but few would argue that we are currently plagued by the death of the physical body. I am amazed that many do not see any advantage to overcoming the death of the body.
The reason it is advantageous is because it brings us greater freedom. And, for the path of humanity the next stage of greater freedom is always desirable.
There are seven worlds or spheres of matter and we are presently in the one of coarsest vibration. In this world we are greatly handicapped because we are stuck here. Those who have not overcome death cannot consciously travel anywhere but the physical. The only exception is that some travel briefly to the astral and come back with a partial recollection, but that still leaves five other worlds where even this person cannot go.
One way to visit the two worlds higher than the physical is to die (physically). In this case most wind up in the astral world and become stuck there. He cannot now visit the physical world where many of his friends and family are and he usually can't go to the higher worlds either.
Those who are subject to physical death are not free on either side of the veil. It's like being told that you cannot leave your home town. You may not be unhappy with that restriction when you are young, but when you grow up the desire to see the country becomes overwhelming. When you realize you are restricted then you will want to be free.
Those who overcome physical death take a great step (but not the ultimate) toward greater freedom. They are able to visit freely all the three lower worlds of form, and are given the keys to explore the formless worlds.
Tell me brother... Taking this into consideration... Do you not wish to have the greater freedom that the travel in the three worlds (and later -- seven) will give you?
I know of no one who will choose slavery to freedom after he realizes that greater freedom is there waiting...
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