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"...See the cosmic perspective

So you see, my beloved, we who are one with the Divine Mother, we who recognize ourselves as expressions of the unexpressed God – as God in form, as God in mater-realization – we, my beloved, see the cosmic perspective. So we see that when a person on a small planet called Earth represents the Divine Mother, then the purpose of that person being in embodiment is not to be the leader of a particular religion, but to serve the greater cause of raising the awareness of the self-aware co-creators. Even those who have forgotten who they are and therefore are not strictly speaking self-aware. But who nevertheless have the potential at any moment to switch back into self-awareness, the awareness of the self as a spiritual being, as an extension of God.

And thus, our purpose is always to facilitate that growth in consciousness that is the ultimate purpose of the world of form. The growth that we fully realize can only – only – happen through free will. For it cannot be forced, my beloved. Self-awareness, the expansion of self-awareness cannot be forced from outside the self. It must come from within the self.

And thus we recognize that after beings lost their way, then they started outpicturing all kinds of manifestations on Earth that were not in alignment with their highest potential—the immaculate concept that we hold. Yet, in our infinite and unconditional love, this did not cause us to go into a negative feeling of anger, frustration, or even wanting to blame or punish. We simply accepted what was. For we always accept what is—as an outplaying of free will.

And thus, our concern is then how we can help a lifestream that has started descending the spiral staircase come to the turning point and again start ascending. And as such, we must meet people wherever they have chosen to descend in consciousness. And we do so with no judgment, with no fear, anger, blame—all the negative human emotions. And my beloved, why do we not have such emotions? Because as was said earlier – which you surely recognize was an inspiration from me – we do not have any "shoulds" or "should-nots." The word "should" is not in our vocabulary.

Do you need to always have opinions?

For you see, my beloved, when you truly, fully, unconditionally accept free will, you do not even have an opinion about what people should or should not do with their free will. You set them free to experiment and we, as the representatives of the Divine Mother, allow self-conscious beings to outpicture whatever they want to outpicture, allowing our light to take on the form that they think they need for some reason or another.

Often, my beloved, it is because they are blinded by the ego, which only sees itself and cannot possibly see the cosmic perspective that we see. And thus, the ego is focused on itself—and our focus is on helping the Conscious Self of that person see that the ego is trapped in dualistic lies and illusions, and that the Conscious Self truly does not need the ego.

But yet, what does it take for the Conscious Self to come to that realization? Well, sometimes it takes that a lifestream outpictures certain manifestations that from a human perspective might seem negative or selfish. But they are nevertheless necessary for the lifestream to realize that this is not truly what it needs. This is not fulfilling its true needs, its true longing for something more to life, the longing that the ego can never share and cannot understand but can recognize is there.

And thus the ego seeks to compensate for it by forcing the Conscious Self to believe that it needs something in this world. LINK And thus, the person then seeks to attain that something, whatever it may be, and only – in many cases – when that something has been attained, will the Conscious Self awaken and realize, "No, this did not complete me, this is not what I was seeking, there must be something more to life."

And then – often – it happens that the ego manages to convince the Conscious Self that although what it previously told it that it needed was not the real thing, then surely this other thing in the matter world will satisfy the Conscious Self's longing. And sometimes it takes many lifetimes before the Conscious Self awakens and says, "Maybe what I am truly longing for is something that I cannot find in this world? Maybe I can never attain a sense of completeness from anything in this world, maybe there is something beyond that world. And maybe I should start looking for it?"

And that, my beloved, is when the soul comes to the turning point. It has reached the lowest level on the spiral staircase to which it needs to descend. And now it can pause, it can start shifting its gaze from the self-centeredness of the ego to a broader perspective. It can start looking up the spiral staircase and realize that perhaps it can find what it is seeking by ascending the staircase—since it now is beginning to realize that it might never find it by descending the staircase.

You no longer remember what it was like to be blind

And so you see, my beloved, many of you who are spiritual people and have reached that turning point many, many lifetimes ago – or perhaps some of you did not even have to descend to a low point – so many of you can no longer remember how it was to be so trapped in the ego's illusions that you were always looking for completion or security or belonging in the material world.

And thus it is difficult for you to understand and show patience for those around you that you see outpicturing conditions that you can clearly see will only limit themselves and can never lead to any kind of fulfillment. And you are of course right, but you are not right when you cross the subtle line of thinking that because you can see it, others should also be able to see it.

For you must realize, my beloved, that the reason why you can see something is because you have come to an inner realization. Yet these other people have not yet come to that inner realization, and your inner realization has no effect on someone else. And thus, what unfortunately happens to many sincere lifestreams – even many who descended to Earth for the purpose of seeking to raise the consciousness of humankind – is that they get lost in the illusions, they get seduced by the illusions of duality, the original illusions of the original fallen angels who started believing that it would be better if they could override free will and force people to be saved.

And thus, you start believing, my beloved, that other people should start living their lives according to your inner realization. And thus, you become caught up in the game that you see in most mainstream religions, of seeking to want to change people's outer behavior, or outer beliefs, instead of following what has always been the true path of the Ascended Host—namely seeking to help people attain the inner realization that is the only key to their progress and growth.

Do you see, my beloved, the fundamental difference between the approach taken by the Ascended Host and the approach taken by the fallen beings who are seeking to control? And my beloved, many of them actually believe they are doing this for a greater cause. They are doing it because it is right, it is in the best interest of all the people. It is even in the best interest of the unfoldment of God's plan. For God simply cannot understand his own plan and his own creation. For surely these fallen beings understand it better than the Creator itself.

Beware of the ego’s subtleties

And this is then the ultimate blindness of the ego. Yet I must tell you that this consciousness – which is essentially the consciousness that the ends can justify the means – is very subtle, very persuasive. And it is very pervasive in religious and spiritual movements, even in Ascended Masters organizations, my beloved.

If you study the organizations that we have sponsored in the last century alone, you will see a very clear tendency for the members to believe that they belong to some superior teaching. And therefore, it was only in the best interest of the people, and of God's plan, and of the plan of the Ascended Host, if others were gently forced to see the validity of their teaching, even holding the vision that everyone on Earth was converted to their teaching.

Yet failing to see that this was simply their egos, playing the ultimate trick of wanting to convert every human being on Earth to its own belief system, thereby thinking it could prove that this was the one true, absolute, infallible belief system on Earth. A fallacy, of course, which the Conscious Self can never be fully satisfied with. Nevertheless, the Conscious Self can be seduced into pursuing this cause for a very long time before it starts realizing that this is not actually what it is seeking. For it starts realizing that there must be more to God than what can be captured in any belief system on Earth, my beloved.

And thus, we look to you who are part of this new initiative, to be wiser. And I do not say this in order to encourage a sense of superiority, but I do say it as a test as to whether you will use it to build a sense of superiority. But we do look to you, who have been given a more advanced teaching, to be wiser than previous students in not building the sense of superiority, the sense that you have a superior teaching and that all others should – by force if necessary – be converted to that teaching.

Knowing the Way of the Cosmic Christ

For we look to you to see, my beloved, that when Jesus made the statement "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me," then, my beloved, this too was a test to see if those who followed Christ would build that sense of superiority, would allow the ego and the false teachers to turn the movement of Christianity into one more religion based on the concept that this is the only true one.

And so you see, we look for you to acknowledge that when Jesus made such statements, and others that are not recorded in the Bible, my beloved, that he was speaking as a representative of the Cosmic Christ, the universal Christ mind. And thus, when he said, "I am the way, the truth and the life," it was the Cosmic Christ speaking through him. And thus the universal Christ mind is the way, the truth, and the life, my beloved.

You who have been given a teaching, should not fall prey to the trap of thinking that you should turn this teaching into a system, and that system is now the only true way. For what is the true way? Well, it is the consciousness of Christ, the spiritual consciousness, the consciousness of the Divine Mother, of the Divine Father, and of the Holy Spirit, my beloved.

And so, you recognize, I trust, that this is the consciousness that is the Way. And it is the potential in every lifestream to shift its sense of identity, to tune into that universal consciousness, realize that it is an extension of the One Being, of the Creator, and thus overcome separation and duality.

That, my beloved, is the Way. And that way cannot be followed if you think that you have now found or defined some ultimate belief system on Earth, and thus all you need is to follow the prescripts of that belief system until you are somehow magically saved at some future time.

And thus, my beloved, the true way is the Path of Oneness. Oneness with your higher being, with your Creator, with your spiritual lineage Above. And oneness here below, between people in embodiment, who no longer see themselves as human beings, but as the spiritual beings that you truly are...."

Excerpt from:
Overcome Your Grand Illusions
to Find a Higher Level of Service
Copyright Mother Mary's Garden

"We have all done things that we are not proud of. Perhaps we were not there for a friend when they needed us, or we may have been responsible for unhappiness in our family. These sorts of past actions can leave us feeling ashamed and guilty, and we can end up carrying our guilt for years.

Guilt is probably one of the most debilitating and negative emotions there is – one that can, and often does, destroy a person's life. But if we want to live happy lives, we need to deal with the consequences of our past actions and not allow our lives to be wracked with guilt.

Feeling guilty should not be confused with taking responsibility for our past. Taking responsibility means that we actively address the consequences of our actions in whatever way we can, in particular changing our behavior patterns. Taking responsibility also includes moving on by making peace with the past.

Unlike taking responsibility, which is redeeming and positive, guilt has absolutely no value. Guilt does not encourage us to change in positive ways but debilitates us, leaving us unable to take the action we need to bring about change.

Breaking Out Of The Guilt Cycle

As a behavior pattern, guilt often becomes a self-perpetuating cycle: we do something, we feel guilty about it, we punish ourselves and, because we feel bad, we end up repeating our behavior at the next available opportunity.

The debilitating cycle of guilt continues largely because we do not take full responsibility for our actions or for changing our behavior. But how do we start the process of taking responsibility? By considering, with complete honesty, the part we play in any situation and accepting our role in creating events.

The purpose of this self-examination is to evaluate truthfully whatever occurred so that we can learn how we contributed. Through learning and honest self-assessment, we change our thinking and behavior. We can also forgive ourselves and move on with experience and wisdom.

Real Forgiveness

In this process, forgiveness is vital. However, forgiveness is not what we generally believe it to be.

The Toltec approach holds that real forgiveness has nothing to do with feeling sorry or apologizing – neither of which actually changes anything. True forgiveness is contained in its literal meaning. The word "forgive" is very old, and the prefix "for" means literally "to reject." So the word as a whole means "to reject the giving."

We need "to reject the giving" because, if we think we have wronged someone, we use our sense of guilt to 'give' to that person. By giving, we hope to make it better, and to exonerate ourselves from our actions. Conversely, if we feel that someone has wronged us, we will continue to demand payment for that offense.

But giving from a sense of guilt can never lead to forgiveness. Neither can forgiveness be bestowed by another; it has to be brought about by ourselves. In the end, unless we can reject all this giving and truly forgive ourselves, we can never really move on and be free of the past.

How does forgiveness work in practice? Say that you have taken responsibility for your past by changing your behavior. The reality is that you can still have unresolved feelings about what you have done.

By simply feeling bad about the past, we never really move on. What's more, we imply that the past is meaningless and has no value. What a waste. For, if we have caused harm, surely we should try to learn from our actions rather than living with a heap of regrets? The process of forgiveness enables you to resolve unresolved feelings so that you can move on.

Forgiving ourselves means finding value in any experience. Instead of just writing off an experience as a painful episode, we should look for the value in that experience and try to take out of the experience whatever we can learn.

Toltecs look upon life as a journey of learning, and say that all true learning is experiential. Much of our learning does come about through painful experiences, but in order to move on it is important to focus on the learning rather than the pain.

By searching for learning and value from our past, we ensure that there is no more need to give or demand payment; we can, indeed, "reject the giving" and so forgive.

To take meaning and value out of any situation, simply ask, "What has this taught me? What lessons can I learn: about myself, about others and about my life? How can I use this new knowledge to change my thinking and behavior and help others avoid the same trap?"

In this light our past, instead of being meaningless and shameful, has a positive and life-enhancing value. By learning to handle our past, and by taking the steps to forgive ourselves in the true sense of the word, we can let go of the debilitating consequences of guilt, and finally move on."

Copyright Théun Mares

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From Metatron's Message of July 1, 2007:

The presence of judgment, or the designation by human consciousness of the presence of good and evil, causes a descent in frequency and the illusion of separation from the intangible higher realms beyond the material world.

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Whatever you judge, you bind yourself to repeating through your experience, both the good and the evil.

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Karmic transmutation only occurs through ceasing to judge that which has created the repetitive pattern.

You came to transmute the karma of humanity by choosing to rise above the judgments that created it.

The manifestations of these experiences throughout your lives have not been any form of punishment or any sign of failure, but signs of your most important mission on behalf of humanity.

Your mission, above all others, has been to rise above the judgments you have held throughout your human lives.

As you have been told many times before, “love and fear cannot exist in the same vibrational space”.

Judgment, that which creates karma, is a product of fear.  In love, judgment does not exist and all experience is embraced for what can be learned from it.

You must learn to forgive those who have caused you pain and suffering, and move out of the past into now.  Then, moving beyond forgiveness, you rise up into taking full co-creative responsibility for the experiences of your life, without self-judgment.

To place power and faith outside of yourselves as you look to the heavens for your redemption is a part of the old paradigm and its karmic patterns.  To apply the old belief systems to the new gifts of Spirit that are now making their way into your plane will only serve to corrupt their frequencies and render them virtually valueless to your work at hand.

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You will not find your own redemption, or the redemption of humanity any place outside of yourselves.  You will find it only by changing the thoughts, words and deeds of fear and judgment that you hold into thoughts, words and deeds of love.

Your pillar of strength lies within you, in your ability to see fear for what it is and transmute it with love rather than the judgment and attachment that passes for love in your common human understanding.

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