As many people are alive today as have ever lived throughout recorded history. One reading of the Bible says that everyone who has ever lived throughout recorded history is alive today. If this is true, why would it be so? Logically so that the so-called “Final Judgment” can occur. What is this Final Judgment? In terms of this Earth, it may partly mean that those who wish to remain in immortal bodies may do so now. It may also partly mean that those who wish and believe that they must die have the opportunity to do so.
This planet is moving into an phase of immortality. But there are many mansions in my Father’s garden;
there is a place for everyone.
The concept of eternal damnation is a particularly strange belief of the human ego, that force typically called Satan in the West. Fortunately, there is not the slightest scrap of Reality in it. It is a bizarre fantasy created by sleeping human minds. The Final Judgment has nothing at all to do with such strange dreams. God is Omnipresent and Eternal. Where then the potential ever to be away from Him? There is none. Only our beliefs can color our perception to be unaware of this simple fact. Only our beliefs can cause us pain. Only our beliefs can cause our deaths.
My hope and belief is that a large number will join with the Ishayas and the other Teachers walking on the Earth today and choose to remain here for the ascent of perfection. Why choose to die and do it all over again? Why deny the nectar and the ambrosia? Why renounce the living water of the present for the
pestilent well of the past? Our human lives can be filled with pain and hell or they can be filled with life and Heaven. We have free will. I pray you will all join with us; together we can re-create this world in the image and likeness of the Ascendant. Let us save this planet at this last second, at this final stroke before the tolling of the midnight bell! Let us be part of the solution rather than the problem. Let us unite with the upward current of creation and Heal together rather than destroy separately. Let us be one together. Let us grow upward into the light of Truth and Joy together.
Come with us and let us take your sorrow and your pain and give you peace, joy and health. You have the full potential of God inside you. We don’t want your money, we don’t want your goods or posses-sions, we don’t want anything from you other than for you to realize who you are. You are the sons and daughters of the Ascendant. This is not a difficult truth to realize; in fact, it is infinitely easier to realize this than to continue to deny it. But you must take the first step. You must be willing to let go of your past, your beliefs in limitation and disease and death. You must be willing to be baptized in the fires of purification and knowledge and experience in order to move ahead.
This need not be a painful birth. It will be painful only to the extent that you attempt to hold onto your old beliefs and concepts. Once the willingness is there to drop everything that was falsely created by the ego, the ride becomes smooth. Only if you try to hold onto your possessions of material or belief can there be pain.
Don’t read this in a small or limited way! It is possible to own the whole world and be enlightened.
There is no guarantee that the monk who has renounced the world is more evolved than the king on his throne. In fact, he may be considerably less evolved. True renunciation occurs in the mind. If this must also occur on the physical plane is determined by how deeply the roots of attachment spread inside. If they are shallow, nothing need be given up. If they are deep, giving up everything may not help.
What does help is the practice of Ascension. In whatever form it comes into the life, a true act of Ascension cuts the bondage with the material world, with the beliefs and judgments that keep the human mind coarse and crude. A true act of Ascension liberates the spirit to the direct experience of its own essential Nature. Anything that causes this to occur is Ascension, if it is taught formally by the Teachers of Ascension trained by the Ishayas or not. Liberation from the confines of the ego is much bigger than any system of inner development, regardless how divinely inspired and cleverly created.
XIII. REVIEW: TWO WAYS TO LIVE
Love or fear, which do you choose?
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here are basically only two ways to view the world, our relationships with others, and ourselves. Every thought, feeling or perception is either based in fear or in love. Everyone we meet, every situation we experience, every feeling we have is rooted in either love or fear. This extends from individual reactions inside each of us to global realities -- war, politics, economics, belief systems of all kinds.For example, nations that base their thinking in fear will attack or be attacked by others. Most, if not all, of the countries in the world today are operating primarily from fear. Each year, enormous wealth is devoted to the tools of war -- the resultant loss to other areas of human endeavor is inconceivable. Japan and Germany, forced since their defeat in WWII to be essentially non-violent, have experienced unparal-leled economic growth and today largely dominate the world marketplace. Switzerland, usually at peace with herself and the world since the first clans came together at Lake Lucerne in 1291, boasts more millionaires per citizen than any other country. How much richer would we all be if we had not been such a violent race?
But what of aggressive nations? Is it not our duty to protect the innocent? Did not the Nazis and then the communists need to be confronted, contained, defeated?
This argument is like examining a single piece of a complex object to discover what it is. Imagine six blind men asked to stretch out their hands to feel one small area of an elephant and then told to describe what an elephant is. One touches only the tusk and declares that elephant is another name for a spear. Another touches the tail and knows that elephants are ropes. The man touching the leg is certain elephants are trees and so on. Each is perfectly correct in their interpretation of the specific information supplied, but woefully wrong in terms of the whole.
Similarly in terms of world events. If you have already cut off an arm, of course you must apply a tourniquet to keep the patient from bleeding to death. The point is that there was never the necessity of cutting off an arm.
Hitler and the other political aggressors of history have never acted without help and support from others. If they had attempted to act alone, the mental hospitals would have locked them up long before they could have caused anyone else any trouble. The vibratory rate of the Germanic speaking peoples produced Hitler. The collective desire or race consciousness of the people of the world created the necessary preconditions for the Second World War, just as has been the case for every war since human beings started having wars.
Let me share a story of the Ishayas with you.
Long ago, there was a beautiful nation, a city-state of unprecedented wisdom and peace. Perhaps, if you look deep enough into the collective memory of humanity you carry around in your DNA, you can touch the sweet memory of this wonderful place. Our most pleasant myths from the past -- Atlantis, Lemura, Bharata, Xanadu, Camelot -- are but the shadowy remnant of this magical home. It was more than beautiful; perfect happiness and peace were the norm; the joy of the people was in following the highest good for themselves and for everyone else. It was a land of prosperity and progress unequalled by anything in our histories or even our fantasies, and the simple truth is that it lasted for a very, very long time.
But like the echo of distant thunder, a cloud rose on the horizon of our fabulous paradise. Another people, beyond the furthest borders, envied the wealth and beauty of our civilization and decided to conquer it.
Here we made a fundamental error. We could have educated and assisted the barbarians. The world was large enough, we were wise enough, they were as children before our glory -- but instead we chose to respond to them as if they really could have harmed us. We built walls to keep them out and erected defenses on all our borders.
In time, because we had given away our strength, our perfect harmlessness, our civilization rotted from the inside. In time, what we strove to protect was hardly anymore worth saving. In time, the barbari-ans grew powerful enough to breach our defenses and destroy us. Perhaps you remember now how this happened: we created this fall; we created our degenerative disease; we created our death.
This is today a constantly recurring reality. How often do we feel victimized, abused, taken advantage of? How often do we feel our anger is justified? How often must we seek revenge for the dreadful wrongs committed against us? How often must we protect ourselves so that we will not be further harmed?
There is another way of living. The first step is to realize that we, each of us, create our own world.
We each, by our moment-by-moment decisions, determine our present reality and our future fate. This may not appear immediately obvious. How did I create my own Universe if I am born addicted to cocaine, for example? Where is the love in such a nightmarish, addicted birth?
Again, this is a case of looking at a small piece of the energy stream that is an individual’s relationship with the Ascendant. From the standpoint of Universal Mind, there is no punishment, no crime to be punished, no sinner to be saved. There are only lessons to be mastered. Every person on the Earth today is an individual expression of Universal Mind. Each is like the finger on a hand. How can a finger be bad or wrong? If it slips and the hand is cut, will the other fingers punish it? This idea is of course absurd.
But when we think of individual humans, we have somehow come to the strange conclusion that some of us as individuals have the right to judge, criticize and condemn some of the other individuals alive today.
But what of protecting others? If an individual is damaging himself or others, surely he needs to be stopped?
It is all a matter of perspective. Imagine for a moment that the typical perception of a human being is falsely limited. Imagine, if you will, that this limited perception is recognizing only the tiniest fraction of Reality and that this limited perception is a fundamental error. Stretch your mind with me as I softly suggest that we are multi-dimensional beings, that the three commonly perceived dimensions are not by any means the whole of the story. What then of our space-time-causation bound judgments about reality?
Perhaps an analogy will help.
Imagine the senses of a being limited to only two dimensions. How difficult it would be to know the purpose of any three-dimensional object. Even the pen in my hand would seem miraculous to a two-dimensional person living on my writing tablet. The point of the pen disappears from the familiar boundaries of the two-dimensional reality, flies through an unknown dimension, re-appears in a different place, performs strange, incomprehensible actions, then disappears again.
Two-dimensional slices of the pen would yield little more information; cross-sections taken from any place would be virtually meaningless. Even if a map could be made of all the cross-sections of the pen, it would still be all but impossible to understand what it was. The two-dimensional beings might think it was God, for the pen performs miracles continually. Or they might think it was Satan, particularly if the ink from the pen was misplaced from their perspective. But they would never understand the pen as we do.
The point is that if we as human beings are not in fact limited to the three-dimensional reality that our senses reveal to us, then the rational laws we have applied to judge guilt and innocence must be false -- from a higher dimensional perspective. The frightful concerns of the child are seen by the mature adult as being easy to solve. A young boy cries in agony and fear when the wheel falls off his favorite truck. The father, seeing that it is only a toy, sympathizes deeply, perhaps chuckling slightly that something so small and inconsequential could cause such a fuss -- but what will the same father do if the wheel falls off his truck?
The criminal, judged by his peers as worthy of imprisonment or death, from a higher-dimensional perspective is an energy stream of immortal life acting out all possibilities in his/her required sequence of growth back home. Roots of a tree go in many directions and deep to create the basis for a powerful and dynamic living structure.
A given entity may choose a life that is viewed as bad or sinful by the majority of humanity simply to learn humility or compassion, or to curb self-importance, or occasionally to help others caught by the belief systems of our cultures.
I am certainly not condoning crime. There is no lasting value in behavior that is damaging to one’s self or others. I am only saying that when we find ourselves condemning or judging others -- and this is true if the judgment is large or small in our eyes -- then we are looking from a limited perspective, without
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understanding the whole picture. This is always true. Either the Universe is perfect, filled throughout every particle with love and the Omniscient wisdom of the Ascendant Mind, or else it is flawed, imperfect, filled with pain, sorrow, suffering, error, death.
It may sound surprising to state this fundamental dichotomy so plainly. Most tend to believe that, although there is much of good in life, there is also much of evil, much that is wrong with our individual lives and with the world as a whole. Crime, disease, war, death -- these are indisputable facts of the Earth life. There may exist other places or perhaps other times when these realities do not or did not exist, but certainly no one can argue that these intensely evil or at least painful and sorrowful facts are not a part of our world of today. Like it or not, these are the indelible markings of a dark and powerful mind working in and throughout our world. Or if these abundant proofs do not conclusively demonstrate a conscious mind of malicious intent, they certainly must at least prove that we live in a Universe where Natural Law some-times supports and nourishes but also often destroys -- perhaps so that life as a whole will continue to progress, or perhaps simply because Natural Law unconsciously functions with no regard for the individual entities affected by its action.
I hope you are investing this inquiry with emotional intensity. If you aren’t, perhaps you’d like to see if you can conjure up some resentment or anger or pain. Perhaps you would like to review for a moment all the terrible wrongs of the past and present in our world. Or take a moment to recall all the frightful wrongs and injustices you or someone close to you has experienced. Think of the early death of a loved one, of the horrible disease that caught another you cared for and caused him or her to suffer intensely.
Reflect for a moment how terribly unjust God must be to permit all the pain and agony we human beings and even the plants and animals are forced to experience here on Earth. Doesn’t it make you deeply sad?
Doesn’t it make you want to cry out in rage at such an uncaring God? Don’t you sometimes sob your frustration to the uncaring void? What is wrong with the Universe, anyway? How could these things have happened! Why did God make such a horrible place!
If you are now feeling some degree of frustration for your life or the life of the world as it is here and now, we may be able to begin to make some progress in this direction. What we wish to do is identify the dark feelings so that we can be free of them. You must be able to see an enemy before you can fight him!
Here is another old story, found in several ancient cultures, that the Ishayas like to tell.
One day God decided to come to Earth to see exactly how His children were doing. He did not try to hide His presence, but went about quite openly as God in human form. Some recognized Him at once and greeted Him with love, but many who knew perfectly well who He was ignored Him, and a few even tried to kill Him.
Afterwards, when all involved had died as humans, one of those who had loved God as He walked on the Earth was surprised to find those who had hated God in His human form and tried to kill Him were also in Heaven with those who had loved Him.
“How can this be?” he asked, incredulous. “Is it not better to love than to hate?”
“Assuredly,” God answered, smiling. “But I prefer being hated to being ignored!”
Hate is at least a movement of energy. It is far better to feel your anger, your despair, your frustration than to try to lock it away somewhere inside. The human spirit is an extremely flexible medium.
If we push something down here, it will pop up over there, just like those toys that so many little children
If we push something down here, it will pop up over there, just like those toys that so many little children