2000-2-7 10:55:00
Thank you again for your birthday wishes. It's hard to believe that I am 55 and eligible for senior citizens discounts in many restaurants. Whenever I get any mail from AARP I throw it away immediately. I have much too much to accomplish to ever think of retiring in this life. I believe that every seventh life is a Sabbath and you get to take it easy, but this life is definitely not a Sabbath for me.
I also wish to thank Rick, Mark, Marylin and others who have worked on the archives. I'll bet we are the only list on Spiritweb who value their archives enough to attempt a project such as this. I would also be willing to bet that the work done here will be appreciated by many for a long time to come. Perhaps more than we realize.
And Rick, if you see something interesting from the past, I think it would be a good idea to remind us of it (as you have been doing) or even repost it.
LeLona - glad to have you back. Your postings seem wiser than ever.
I'm glad to see Sterling has decided to stay on the list and take that which registers with his soul as all of us try and do. On this subject Joseph Smith made an interesting statement: "Have the Presbyterians any truth? Yes. Have the Baptists, Methodists, &c, any truth? Yes. They all have a little truth mixed with error. We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons." (DHC, Vol.5, p.517)
I see that you, Sterling, see great doom ahead for the bulk of humanity, but such has not been decreed by God. We have been warned of it, but we are in no way doomed to mass destruction. You seem to have a mindset on this very similar to Fundamentalists Christians using a literal interpretation of the Scriptures.
I take a different approach. Even though I study many scriptures, the black and white words are far from the final verdict with me. What is then? It is the whisperings of the Holy Spirit given through my soul. So when I look to the future the Spirit says with great power: "My will is not to destroy, but to save. Go forward in the great work of the salvation of my sons and daughters. Give hope to the whole of the human race."
What I receive is the opposite of what I hear from many Bible believers. They see God up there on his throne in a very agitated state because we have not gone through someone's interpretation of repentance. In many cases those who are preaching repentance to the world are the ones in greatest need of it. To see nothing but doom and gloom on the horizon feeds negative energy into a thoughtform that could bring on some type of mass destruction if enough energy were poured into it.
What should we do then? Should we blissfully go ahead in denial of the dangers that face us? No, but neither should we allow the dangers to be our prime focus of attention. Make reasonable preparations for the dangers that face us, but focus on the positive. Let us not be like Jonah and sit back and wait for God to bring fire down on the wicked, but let us go forward with a true salvation and work to save the race of men and women from their lack of hope. If we bring them hope through the soul then they will look forward to a better world. Energy follows thought and if the mass of humanity hope for a better world then energy will be created that will make this happen.
Just as humanity pulled together and prevented disaster through Y2K we can also pull together and guide humanity into the coming age of peace with a minimal of problems.
I felt a strange feeling when we were watching TV on New Years Eve and in time zone after time zone watched the peoples of the earth rejoice at the new millennium, and the non effect of the Y2K bug. The people of the whole planet had heard all the doom predicted and when they saw with their own eyes that we had pulled together and solved the problem, I sensed very strongly it gave them hope that we could also pull together as a human race and solve the greater problems in the world that threaten us. I felt a partial lifting of the negative thoughtform that has plagued us for so long.
The latest question:
According to my book, The Immortal, this was not actually the case. Can you remember why it is that we are a combination of lower lives, including animals, but that which is our individualized self did not come from them? If this is so where did we as entities come from? Did we have a beginning? Will we have an end?
Many people who believe in the pre-mortal existence of man think that he began his evolution as the lowest life forms, perhaps a worm, plant or even an atom, and eventually evolved to where he is today. But what is the real truth here?
The answer I am going to guide you toward has not been explained by Blavatsky, Alice A. Bailey, the scriptures, Mormon writings or any other that I know about.
We can discover this truth by the understanding of spiritual principles. Perhaps we should call this number 11 in our principles of discovery:
(11) Truth is in harmony with spiritual principles; therefore, discover that which is true through the application of those principles.
What principle(s) can we apply to discover the truth of this great subject?
Principle One: If a thing has a beginning it will have an end, but if there is no beginning, there will be no end. The opposite is also true. If there is an end, there was a beginning, and if there will be no end, there had to be no beginning.
This means that if there is a beginning to us as intelligent individual entities that there will be an end. If there is a beginning to eternal life then there will be an end. If there is a beginning to us being gods then there will be an end. I submit that that which you are never had a beginning in time and shall never have an end. As a human entity in a human body you are one of the reflections of God, or as the Aquarian Gospel say: "one of the thoughts of God."
Principle Two: A life whether it be an atom, a worm, a man or a planetary Spirit evolves to relative perfection within its sphere. When this relative perfection is reached its progression on an individual basis comes to an end, but it uses molecular principles (see The Molecular Relationship) to enter a path of higher evolution.
Question: How can you apply these two principles in discovering the great mystery? If you were not once an animal or a plant, what have you always been and will forever be? When you reach relative perfection how will you continue to "Become?"
The answer is hinted at in my writings, but I do not believe I have fully explained it. I'll send a free Immortal book to the first person who reveals the mystery we are headed toward.
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