Month: July 2020

Texas Gathering, Part Four
Applying the Point of Tension

We’re talking about the steps to create the point of tension; to create a down flow of spiritual energy or attention of lives higher than ourselves. What are additional steps we can take?

Response: I remember you telling us the story when you were a kid and healed a classmate from MS using the name of Jesus Christ. Was a point of tension involved?

JJ: The point of tension in that situation, created there was this. I was sixteen years old and had just been reading in the scriptures about the power of faith and how the prophets of ancient times were able to do these great miracles. I was thinking to myself, “Why don’t we see this in the churches today? We don’t see anything today like the ancient prophets did.” I was thinking that as I was walking home then saw a friend of mine who had been struck with multiple sclerosis a couple weeks previously. She was about a year younger than I was, about fifteen. I saw her but she didn’t see me. I looked in her yard and she was hobbling on these crutches and really struggling to get into her house. I really felt sorry for her.

I was thinking, “The scriptures say that if you ask something in the name of Christ it will be given to you.” So I wondered what would stop me right this minute from demanding her to be healed? Why shouldn’t I do this? At the time I was just starting to go to the Mormon Church and they were telling me you had to have the priesthood and the authority from God, given from the church to you, before you could heal somebody. You had to be an elder or something like that. I was a priest in the church and priests are not supposed to have any power to heal. Once you’re an elder you can have the power to heal. The funny thing is that the elders didn’t heal anybody that I could see. So I thought, “What’s to prevent me from healing her?”

But then I thought to myself, “But the church says I need to be an elder before I can perform any healing ordinance. I’m just a priest so maybe I better not do anything.” But then I thought, “But wait, the scripture says, ‘Whatsoever you ask in the name of Christ, will be given.’ So what’s to prevent me from commanding her in the name of Christ to be healed? What’s to prevent me from doing that?” Then I argued back and forth with myself. The church says you have to have the priesthood to heal. But the scriptures say that whatever you ask in the name of Christ will be given. I kept going back and forth in my mind. But the church says I’m just a priest and I’m not supposed to be attempting anything like this.

I kept going back and forth in my mind until finally I said, “I’m going to side with the scriptures. The scriptures say ‘whatsoever you ask in the name of Christ will be done.’ So I’m going to try it out and see if it works.” So I reached forth my hand and I said, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to be healed.” At that instant I felt a tremendous surge of power go through me. It was so powerful I almost fell down. I ran home. I was scared to death. I thought, “The church must be right. I must’ve really offended God. I think He tried to strike me dead or something.” So I was really nervous and that energy kept going through me until the next day. The next day I felt okay again and thought that I was never going to try that again! I thought I must’ve really irritated God.

Two days later when I went to school the girl was there and had no crutches and seemed perfectly well. I went up to her and said, “I thought you were all crippled and everything.” She said no, the doctor said she’d gone into remission and seemed to be okay now. I asked her if it would come back. She said the doctor had told her it probably would but sometimes in MS you do go into remission. We went all through high school and she remained in remission. We graduated from high school without her going out of remission. I didn’t see her again for 15-20 years. A couple of years ago Artie and I were having a meal in a restaurant and this lady comes over to me and says, “You’re Joe Dewey, are you?” I said yea and asked who she was. She introduced herself and it turned out to be this old schoolmate. I said, “Oh, you had MS back in high school, didn’t you? Did that ever come back?” She said no, it had never come back. Her husband was dead but she was still alive. So, that was interesting.

There have been times when I wanted to do that again but felt constrained not to do it. But in that particular case a point of tension was created. I believe the point of tension was in the argument in my mind between the authorities in the church and the spirit that is within the pure truth of the scriptures; the pure truth that if you have faith you can actually move mountains. I believe that witness gained from the surge of power that went through me from God at that time and caused this to happen was even more important than for this woman to be healed for it taught me a great lesson. It taught me to prepare me for things to come because if I hadn’t learned lessons like that I may still be tied down to the simple doctrines of some church somewhere and not be able to move beyond them.

It’s important that none of us are tied down. This is part of the point of tension to move beyond authority and the power that be in the world that want to talk us out of following that which is within. It’s like Artie and I were looking at the map and I said, “Artie if we go on this back road here we can get where we want to be.” She said, “No, let’s go on this main road. If we go on the main road it will be a lot better.” I said, “In theory you’re right, but I’m not sure we can find that road simply.” I looked at the map and it wasn’t really clear how to get to this main road. She insisted we go on this main road. Something in me told me not to do that. Something in me told me to take the back road but I ignored it because a wife is a very powerful influence. Sometimes if you ignore their advice you get in trouble. So I took her advice and it took us ages to find this main road. The signs in Texas are really weird. It said East when it really meant West and it said North when it meant East. So we went around in circles several times before we found this main road. I had an instinct that told me to take these side roads. I should’ve listened. I kick myself for not listening. So this is the way it is in life. We must listen to our instincts and above our instincts we must listen especially to the soul within. This is an extremely important thing for us to listen to.

Concerning the healing my soul within was telling me that there was something more powerful than having authority given to you by anybody here upon the earth. And that is your relationship between you and God. If you feel within yourself, from the spirit of God, that you should do something, it doesn’t matter who tries to talk you out of it. You should do it. It doesn’t matter whether they be prophet, priest, king or even an angel or some kind appearing out of the blue. You must follow the highest you know. None of us do that all the time. All of us are talked out of what we should do once in awhile. I still find myself being talked out of something once in awhile even though I’ve been trying to correct myself again and again and again. Sometimes I hit it right and other times I don’t listen carefully enough.

All of us are in that boat. Sometimes we don’t listen to the inner voice carefully enough. The thing that all of us have to learn is to listen to that inner voice when it speaks truly. To recognize that inner voice is important because for some of us that inner voice is really just what we want. When we pray for something our prayers are answered because we get what we want rather than what the Higher-Powers-That-Be want from us. When we yield our will to the will of God, then the inner voice will be strong and will be true and we can try it and test it and find it’s reliable. But every time something comes to us, which is true from the Inner Spirit, it will seem like there is an army trying to gather around us to try to distract us from following that voice. Have you ever had that happen? You get something in you that you know is true and it’s like an army of forces begins to gather to try to pull you away from it?

For example, when I received the revelation that I was supposed to marry Artie it was amazing the army that gathered around her to try to talk her out of marrying me. Her daughter thought that I was like Jim Jones. She called everybody she knew. Her dad, which is Artie’s past husband, and convinced him that I was some weirdo with one hand with quirks like Egor; that I was just really weird. She painted the strangest picture. She called her grandma and her grandma flew up here. She immediately got on a plane to save her daughter from this terrible person. Her daughter conjured up this image of me out of the blue and communicated it to everyone we knew. Within days Artie had an army around her to try to talk her out of what she received within herself for we had both received confirmation that we were supposed to be together.

Then one day we were talking on the phone after her mom was coming up and her ex-husband was afraid for her life and her soul and was afraid for her daughter’s safety because she was around a mad man. The image built up was amazing. We’re talking on the phone and she said, “Maybe we should just lie low for awhile until things calm down then we can continue the relationship.” I knew at that point that if I let the point of tension go I would lose her and I knew I had to do something. She didn’t think I would lose her but something within me told me that I would. There was this army gathering around to pull her away from what she had received within herself.

As we were talking on the phone she said, “It’s just too much to handle. I think I’ll lay low.” There was a moment of silence where I felt the spirit and I knew she was feeling it during the time of silence. I said, “What do you feel right this instant?” She said, “I feel peaceful. I feel good.” I asked, “Do you want to pursue this feeling or do you want to pursue the opposite of this feeling?” She said, “I want this feeling.” I said, “So, what are we going to do? Are we going to pursue this feeling or are we going to quit?” She said she wanted to pursue this feeling so I told her then we’re not going to give up. We’re going to continue this relationship no matter what happens, no matter what your mom thinks, no matter what your daughter thinks, no matter what your ex-husband thinks, no matter who comes pounding on your door demanding that you not see me. We will continue this relationship and this feeling will continue. I asked, “Is this a deal?” She said it was.

To her credit, she didn’t go back on her commitment. Most people would. I’ve seen this happen time and time again. People get close to the Presence then an army of negativity comes to take them away from that next step and they yield to that negativity. I’ve seen it happen time and time again. The negativity is so powerful. Then when you yield to it you have a false sense of peace because you don’t have the bedlam around you anymore. You seem to have a peace but it’s not the real peace. It’s not the peace that Artie felt when I asked her what she was feeling. She decided that she wanted to pursue the real peace. To her credit she withstood all the assailments she got from her mother, her daughter and everybody who came out of the woodwork. It was beyond the imagination. She withstood them all and she stood her ground and we continued the relationship and are still together.

I’m very thankful that she stood her ground that way. Not many people do because when you make a step forward, even with something simple, like say you want to quit smoking. Are there any smokers in the group? Rick is. Rick is good at quitting smoking. He’s done it about a hundred times. But when you try to quit smoking doesn’t it seem like everyone who smokes comes out of the woodwork offering you cigarettes? It seems like an army comes to you to get you to try to start up again. In any step of progression that you make you will have an army of negativity to try to pull you back to not only where you were before but lower than you were before. It’s like the scripture that reads, “When a man casts out one devil, the devil goes forth and finds seven more, more evil than himself. And they come back and they possess the man. And the last state of the man is worse than the first state.”

This is what happens. It’s dangerous to move ahead. It’s actually dangerous; dangerous to be a disciple of Christ. It’s dangerous to move ahead. It’s dangerous to progress. It’s not easy because when you do an army will surface and this army, coming out of the woodwork, will have the faces of your friends, the faces of your family, your religious leaders, your political leaders, your neighbors, and they will all try to pull you back so your final state will be worse than it was when you tried to make the step forward.

The only way through this is to take the step forward and stand on that step forward no matter what happens. When you take that stand you’ll find out that all the winds and the storms that are surrounding you are illusion. They don’t really exist. You just thought they were real. You give them power but they have no power. They have no power to pull you back. You just thought they had power. When you really take a stand and make a firm decision, you can stand. There is nothing that can pull you back. There is nothing that can stop you from your onward movement once you attain that faith in yourself and in your relationship to the spirit you can move ahead. Remember you can always move ahead. There is always a way. When you begin to make a step, the more important step it is, the more difficult it will be and the greater will be the illusion that you must take a step backward.

I think the goal of our relationship together is for us to always take a step forward into higher spiritual consciousness, higher relationship between you and your soul, between you and the spirit of God within yourself, and to take that firm step so that you will go where you have not gone before. It will be difficult. When you move forward, taking the step isn’t as hard as standing there after you have taken it. Once you take the step then attempt to stand there and prepare for the next step, you will have a hurricane of force trying to pull you back. Even though when you take the step it may not seem so hard at first, to stand there and keep that communion with the higher parts of yourself and the higher parts of your connection with the spirit of God — to be able to stand there requires the first key in the book, which is the power of decision, to decide a thing then prepare to stand.

Remember the parable in the story? There were four guys who died. There were two paths. One path led to heaven and one path led to hell. It seemed very strange to be told this by this angel. Two of them were so terrified that they did not even want to take a step. One guy made a firm decision. He didn’t know which path led to heaven and which one led to hell but he was supposed to choose one of them. He decided that no matter what happened he would make the best of it and stand on the highest that he knew. This is the way it is in our life. We don’t know for sure if the next decision that we make will led us to heaven or to hell.

Say you marry someone. Is anyone getting married in the near future? When you get married you don’t know if you’re going to heaven or to hell, do you? You don’t know that. Half the marriages lead to heaven, well SOME of them lead to heaven, and a good percentage of them lead to hell. So, you don’t know for sure, even though the person may seem like a nice person at the moment. You don’t know where it’s leading. So when you get married you’re a bit like the guy in the parable. But you have to say to yourself. “I’m going to live by the highest I know and make the most of it.” That’s about all you can do. If you do that one thing, stand by your decision to live by the highest you know and make the most of it and be true to yourself, the highest inner part of yourself, you will come out a winner in the end.

Delivered May 24, 2002 at the Gathering in Wimberly Texas.

Copyright By J J Dewey

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Texas Gathering, Part Three
The Principle of Correction

So when an organization starts to go bad, does it heal? When Congress passes a bad law, does it get healed? The bad law just stays there, doesn’t it? There are still laws that say if you spit on the sidewalk you’ll go to jail. There’s a book written about bad and weird laws. If you kiss longer than thirty seconds in public you’ll be arrested and things like this. There are a lot of bad laws still remaining, laws from a hundred years ago. And there are current laws, new laws passed every day that are bad laws. There are obnoxious laws and laws that we could live without but once they’re passed they just stay there, don’t they? They just stay there and hang with no healing. When a bad law is passed it remains. When taxes are increased, do they get decreased a year down the road? Hardly ever. There is hardly any healing built into the system.

In Idaho, I remember when sales tax went up from 3 to 3.5%. They said this is temporary. As soon as we get our bills paid we’ll take it back down to 3. I never heard that statement again. I kept waiting. Of course, I didn’t really believe I’d hear it but I was watching the papers anyway. Nobody ever talked about bringing it back down. Instead, I waited awhile then they raised it up to 4. I waited a while longer and they raised it up to 4.5%. Then I waited awhile longer and they raised it to 5. It never did go back down to 3. (Note: It is 6% in 2020) Nobody even talked about it. Then they introduced the lottery and brought in more taxes. It was supposed to fix our educational system but it didn’t fix anything. I don’t know where the money went but shortly after the lottery was passed we heard about how all the schools were crumbling and all the kids needed more and weren’t getting anything and it was worse than before the lottery. Things just keep getting worse. There’s no correction built into the system.

Yet, in our system, our bodies, there is correction going on. When one of your cells dies, it’s replaced by a new cell that’s fresh and living and all ready to go. When you cut yourself, you heal. Now that’s what’s going to be different. That’s what’s different in the organizations created in the heavenly spheres. They are self-healing. The fact that it is realized that there is no such thing as perfection as we understand it here. We say that God is perfect, yet what we think is perfect with God is our distorted vision of perfection.

Let’s talk about the word “perfect”. If we were to pass around that word and have everybody in this room talk about what perfection is, everyone would give a different opinion. If God Himself were to come down here and tell us what perfection is at least half of us would disagree with Him. They say, “That’s not what I want.” It wouldn’t matter who defines what perfection is. What real perfection is, is self correction. So, as you move along, everything adapts to the new environment. That is what true perfection is. True perfection is not creating something perfect to begin with and then it just stays perfect forever. This is what everyone has tried to do when they started a religion. They tried to create that religion perfect to begin with so they can relax and have it be perfect forever from here on out. They’ve tried to do that with every religion that’s ever been started and it has never worked. The only way to make any movement, organization, or any body perfect is to put in self correction.

Artie and I drove from Boise to Texas in the past couple days. I bet I corrected my steering wheel as I was driving down the road about a million times. About 2-3 times a second, I adjusted the steering wheel as I’m driving down the road. But if I were to point this car from Boise to Wimberly, Texas and say, “okay car, I made a perfect steering, a perfect plan so I want you to drive all by yourself because I started you off perfect.” How far would I get? I wouldn’t even get a half a block, would I? The car would drive off the road. That car of ours had to be corrected thousands of times I would guess. So you need correction in order to attain the perfection of going from point A to point B.

We say that God is perfect, yet look at this world. God was supposed to have created this world yet this world has all kinds of flaws in it. There isn’t even a perfect rock to be found anywhere in this world. There isn’t a perfect diamond. The most perfect diamond you can find has been chiseled by a jeweler somewhere until it looks fairly perfect. But, if you look close enough under the microscope, you’d even find some flaws in the most perfect diamond. The perfection is to be able to go from point A to point B and to get to point B flawlessly. But to get from point A to point B there has to be a built in corrective mechanism.

This world that God has created is far from perfect from the way we think of perfection yet it’s perfect in God’s eyes because it’s going towards perfection. There are all kinds of corrections being made as the world is going from a rough draft to a celestial sphere. When it goes from point A to point B it will travel a perfect journey because we’ll have millions of corrections going on through the power of God which will eventually bring this planet we have, to its destination. When this destination is reached, perfection will be achieved. Perfection is achieved by correction. It’s never achieved by starting perfect. None of us start perfect. That’s why we see flaws all about us. There are all kinds of flaws in everything that God has created because that’s the way it’s supposed to be. Perfection is a journey rather than a final adjustment.

When a great piece of art is created, it’s created by a master who makes many mistakes. When he paints the face of the Mona Lisa or whatever; he may not like what he has done so far and changes the mouth a little bit. He keeps changing and changing it until he says, “Ah, there it is. That’s what I’m looking for.” To achieve that perfection took many, many mistakes. So perfection isn’t achieved just overnight. It’s a process. This is a perfection that we have to look at.

The perfection of the invocation is what we’re seeking right now. So what we want to do is make another turn of the rubber band, so to speak, so the propeller of the airplane will be winding up and reach a point of tension. What is one more turn that we need to make?

Audience: Well, we have desire and persistence but that still might not get us anywhere until we have an all-consuming desire. Even when winding the rubber band we think it’s getting kind of tight and maybe I should let it go but there’s probably a good ten or more wraps we could go and we’re risking more and more getting too much tension. You need to have the willingness to go the extra mile.

JJ: Okay the persistence gets you to the point where you finally—you keep persisting until you feel the tension building up. You think something is starting to happen. Then, when something starts to happen, like he says, you have a desire and things start to move for you. You have a desire to move ahead.

Response: You have to have action also or are you including that in the airplane?

JJ: Action is important. So many people in this world want to do things by not acting. A lot of New Age people do this as well as Christians. I’d say about half the people here are New Age consciousness and about half are Christian consciousness. That’s an interesting blend we have. In most audiences it’s usually one or the other but we’ve got a really interesting combination of people here and that’s the way it’s supposed to be because we’re a synthesis of people here. A lot of people want to get rich by just meditating and visualizing a million dollars coming in and a lump of money will show up on the doorstep. How many people have you met that have an idea like this? They don’t want to do the nuts and bolts necessary. I’ve met a lot of people like this. Not only in the spiritual movement but Artie and I meet a lot of people in the business world everyday. We do a lot of services for them. Many people don’t want to do the nuts and bolts. They don’t want to cross the T’s and dot the I’s. They want somebody else to do all the busy work and all the hard work then they’ll take all the glory. They’ll do all the visualization and somebody else will put the stamps on and fold the flyers and whatever miscellaneous work.

A lot of people just want to run away from that miscellaneous hard work. Those are the people who don’t make it. The people that make it are the people who are willing to do what is necessary. That’s one thing I like about Mindy over here. She’s willing to do lots of nuts and bolts type work. I send her an audio to type up and she just types it up the next day. She just gets right on it and does the nuts and bolts work. A lot of you in the group are like that. I’m just singling out Mindy because she’s done a lot of work lately and I appreciate it. But nuts and bolts type workers are hard to find. People want to do glorious work. They say, “I want to prepare the way for Christ to come. I want to do something or say some OMs and make Christ show up in the clouds or something like that. I want to do something really good. Or I want to create a molecule tomorrow. Or twelve apostles or something like this tomorrow.”

Here’s what we need to do. We need to do some real nuts and bolts things. We need to create a web site or we need to do this or do some typing or lick stamps. Those type of people who are willing to do the average run of the mill work, they’re the rarities in this world but they are also the ones who will end up succeeding. You need to tighten the nuts and the screws and get everything in order before the whole package can hold together. I’ve met so many people again and again who are unwilling to do the busy work; the work that isn’t particularly fun to do. These are the people who usually do not succeed in whatever their endeavors are. So whether it be a spiritual work or a business or whatever type of work you’re in, the nuts and bolt work is one of the things that will turn the tension one more turn.

Question from audience on initiating

JJ: Yes, initiation is a great power and this is one of the things that will attract the attention of the Masters toward you. The Masters are very busy on their own plane. They’re busy doing a lot of work besides what we might visualize them doing. They have a lot on the plate. Our association with the Masters corresponds to an animal’s association with us. We’re in different kingdoms. The kingdom of God is a kingdom higher than man like humanity is higher than the animals.

Now, suppose you have a dog at home. The dog waits all day for you to come home. His whole desire is to see you walk through that door. Maybe you’ve been at work all day along. He’s just sitting around all day waiting for you. For one thing, you’re going to feed him but he probably thinks you’ve been thinking about him all day too. He probably thinks he’s been on your mind continuously. But he hasn’t been on your mind at all. You’ve been with your boss to lunch, had all sorts of problems at work and you haven’t even thought of your dog all day long. You come home and through the door and the dog just jumps on you because he’s so happy to see you. And you’re thinking, “Oh, I almost forgot about this stupid dog. I hope I left him enough water. He’s probably dying of thirst.” But your poor little dog thinks you’ve been missing him as much as he’s been missing you.

This is the way we think about God and Christ and the Masters and the higher lives. We think they just sit around the table saying, “Joe Schmoe, let’s keep an eye on him today. We don’t have anything better to do.” No, they have their own work in their higher spheres and we’re like the little puppy dogs asking for a bit of attention. They might think, “Oh man, I forgot all about Joe Schmoe over there. I hope I left enough spiritual drink to tide him by. Maybe it’s time to pay some attention to the poor guy.” He thinks he’s really got something going when little does he know it’s a little pathetic effort he’s making over there. And maybe they sit around and joke about how silly we are. “Boy, those humans. They think they’re really accomplishing something. If they could just become more useful to us it would be something. If they could just tighten one bolt right it would be really nice. They’re expecting a big revelation but they aren’t ready for diddly squat.

Robin says we need to develop an attitude of gratitude. That’s good. We need to be more like the puppy dog we’re talking about. One of the things that endear us to our dog is that we open that door and the dog is just so happy to see us. He’s thrilled! Then you give him a bone or something and he’s thrilled again. He’s as happy as can be and the most grateful animal you’ve ever seen in your life. You think, “Oh I love that dog.” Why do you love him? Because he’s so grateful. The dog is just so grateful for the little things you give him. He’s as grateful as can be and it endears you to him.

If we can be as grateful as a little puppy dog maybe we’d get a little bit more attention from the Hierarchy. But how many of us maybe aren’t grateful? Remember the story where Christ cured ten different lepers? They each went their own way but one stopped and came back and told Jesus thank you. Remember what Jesus said to him? He said, “Where are the other nine?” Then He said, “You are healed but the for other nine the disease will come back.” So in other words, this one who came and gave his gratefulness to the Christ was healed. This is an important point. We should be grateful for what we have, grateful for those who help us, grateful for those who serve us and grateful to those who help us along our way in any way. This is an important point.

Question/comment from audience: we should desire the will of the masters

JJ: Yes, the will of the masters. Hold that thought while we take a break and continue to think on additional turns on how that point of tension can be reached.

Delivered May 24, 2002 at the Gathering in Wimberly Texas.

Copyright By J J Dewey

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The Texas Gathering, Part Two
Creating a Point of Tension

This meeting is kind of an invocation. We’re invoking a higher presence in our lives. The first indication of that invocation is desire. We need to desire it. Nothing is going to happen until we desire it whether it be physical or spiritual. If you don’t want a million dollars you’re never going to get it. If you don’t want a higher presence in your life you’re not going to get it. You have to want it. Is that enough? Or is that just the first step? That’s just the first wind of the rubber band on the kid’s airplane. We’ve just got a little twist now on the rubber band . Somebody looking on, say the person that owns the airplane, can say this person must want this airplane to go somewhere because he started to wind it up. It’s not prepared to go anywhere yet but at least it looks like he wants it to go somewhere. What’s the second wind?

Response: Willingness

JJ: Willingness to do what?

Response: To have experience, to have higher energies present

JJ: Okay, could we say willingness to receive? Does that sound like a good one? Willingness to receive. That’s another wind. What’s the third wind?

Response: Heartfelt intent? Your intent has to be genuine.

JJ: Okay. Do you remember the words of Tennyson? I really like them a lot. “My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.” I always felt that was an inspired statement. If your heart is pure your strength is as the strength of ten. It’s very powerful to have a pure heart. What could you be doing to have an impure heart?

Response: Thinking only of yourself

JJ: Right. I want God to come down here and help me to hustle all the women on the block here. I want to be more attractive so everyone thinks I’m really a hotshot. Would that be impure intent?

Response: I think impure intent could include any teacher who tries to teach with an egotistical point of view. You can kind of tell if someone treats you with ego and not the right way.

JJ: Okay. So, whether he be a teacher or student or whatever, if he wants to use his power for his own personal glory it’s impure. Right. So this includes anybody who thinks, “I’m a really great guy because I have this supernatural power, I can read peoples’ minds.”

There are a number of things we can do to have impure intent. It’s very difficult to have pure intent. Matter of fact to have pure intent you have to examine yourself every day and look at all the motives that we’ve done during the day. Look at what you did when you woke up in the morning, what you did at noon, what you did in the evening, what you did with your closest relationships. How was your intent carried out? Was your intent pure? Was there any reason behind it for selfishness, for ego or for some other purpose for self-gratification? Or were you going through your entire day with pure intent? For service, for helpfulness, for harmlessness and just do your best to live your life to the highest of your ability. Were we doing that? Pure intent is an important turn of the propeller.

What’s another one?

Response: Meditation

JJ: Okay. How can you apply meditation to bring forth one more turn and bring more tension? What does that do? Meditation is really focusing your attention, isn’t it? So, by focusing your attention, if you’re going to wind up the propeller, if you aren’t paying attention that propeller may go off and hurt your finger. Did you ever do that when you were a kid? Wind it up and not pay any attention and all of a sudden it starts going and cuts your finger? You need to pay attention as you’re winding it up so you keep winding it up properly or else it’s going to go off and you’re going to lose all your tension. If the propeller goes off prematurely you lose all the tension you created and you’ve got to start all over again. It’s frustrating for a kid to have that happen. It happened to me a number of times. So we have to focus attention through focusing our mind and thoughts on that which we want to accomplish, whether it be spiritual or physical. One more turn then is to pay attention, meditate, in one form or another.

What produces another wind?

Response: Perseverance

JJ: Yes. Maybe you put a couple of winds on it and it feels like it hasn’t done anything yet. If the rubber band is lose, you can wind and wind and wind and nothing seems to happen and you wonder if the rubber band is broken. But you keep on winding and pretty soon you feel the tension begin to develop. Something is happening. But for the first few winds it feels like nothing is happening. Maybe if you haven’t done it before you wonder if anything is going on. If you’re putting salt in a glass of water and put a few pinches in and nothing seems to happen. Put another few pinches in and it just disappears. Nothing appears to happen but then you put a few more in and something begins to happen. This is what frustrates many people when they’re seeking one thing or another. When they begin their work and they work for a period of time, nothing seems to happen. We could say that about the Keys. Rick and I and a number of others have worked on it since 1998 and it’s been sort of a slow process building the group. Sometimes it seems that we’re plugging away and not a lot is happening. Really, things are happening. We’re preparing a group of people that will eventually change a lot of things on this planet. Many things will change over the next 150 years. But in order to create that change a handful of people have to have the vision to create the change.

The work of Jesus is an interesting example. Does anyone remember the number of followers He had after His crucifixion? It was 120. Look at all He had going for Him. He even raised people from the dead for everybody to see. He walked on water, did great miracles, healed a man blind from birth, and did many fantastic things and impressed the dickens out of the people. Yet He only had a 120 gathered together after His resurrection. The book of Acts, chapter one (verse 15) told us that. 120 people was all that they could gather together. That’s not very many for such a fantastic life’s work.

He had quite a few people around him at different times like the time He fed the 5000 with the loaves and fishes. Then He was looking over this group of people who He had fed. They were thinking, “Boy, this guy can feed us. This is really great. We might hang around a little bit.” So He thought He’d put them to the test. Then He says, “Except a man eat my flesh and drink my blood, he has no part with me.” That was too much for them and they all dispersed, all 5000 of them. How many were left after He made this statement? Right, the 12. Only 12 people were left. Five thousand people and they were all scared off when said that to them. And He said to Peter, “Will you also leave me?”

Do you remember what Peter said? He said, “Lord, we have nowhere to go. You have the words of eternal life.” Can you imagine how He felt at that time? At least a handful of people were willing to listen to him and what he had to say instead of what he could give them to eat. In other words he said I have more to give to you than just fish and bread and if you want more than your physical needs, you will stay. Just the 12 stayed. Only the 12 apostles. Why did they stay? He said a pretty outrageous thing, ‘except a man eat my flesh and drink my blood’, sounds a little strange. If somebody said something like that to an auditorium today that would freak a lot of people out. Why did the apostles not run away?

Response: They felt confirmation

JJ: Right. They were selected because they had an inner confirmation. They had a knowledge that there was something there. They knew this man had something beyond what everybody was seeing. They had felt something. The other guys had seen things but they hadn’t felt them internally. They had seen Him perform miracles but they didn’t feel Him perform them. To see the miracle and to feel the miracle are two different things.

It reminds me of a story. I was giving a seminar one time about miracles and afterwards this lady from class came up to me. I was giving weekly classes at that time. It was way back in the 80s, a long time ago. I said does anyone here have anything wrong with them? We’ll do an experiment here and see if we can accomplish anything.” This lady rises up and says “I seem to have lost my hearing. I can barely hear and I don’t know what’s going on.” I felt inspired at the moment and put my fingers in her ears and I commanded her hearing to be restored and she went “Whoa, I can hear! This is really great!” She was so thrilled. I thought next week everybody would come back and we’d have a ton of people show up. She looked like she was going to go tell everybody. But the next week nobody came back. I thought that was strange. The lady who got her hearing back didn’t come back and I never saw her again for a long time. It was quite discouraging and I only gave teachings for a short time at that time because I couldn’t stir any interest.

It convinced me and illustrated to me the difference between seeing a miracle and feeling a miracle. When people feel something internally it is something so much more powerful than actually seeing it. Especially in this day and age when we watch magicians like David Blayne and David Copperfield and we see so many things happening that a lot of people assume its trickery anyway. This guy is just performing these magician- type tricks. In this day and age with so much trickery about, seeing is not believing. Because if a magician can make the Statue of Liberty disappear in this age by trickery, if Jesus Himself was to return and perform a lot of miracles do you think it would convince anyone?

He performed miracles in the Piscean Age because it was important to establish His teachings of that time. But miracles are not performed by teachers in every age. Another great teacher was the Buddha. Interestingly He did not allow any of His disciples to perform miracles. A lot of them wanted to but He told them not to because it sends the wrong message. People then look for the outer, he said, instead of what’s happening inside. He said the true miracle is that which takes place inside. He called this the attainment of Nirvana.

A lot of people make fun of the Buddhist’s belief in Nirvana but it’s actually the same thing the Christ talked about when He talked about attaining the Baptism of Fire and some of these other experiences. Many of the things in the Christian religion are the same things that are talked about in the East but the vocabulary is different.

God actually has worked through all the religions of the world. Every major religion of the world was started by inspiration of some type. Then after they get started they often become corrupt within a generation or so. Almost every one of the major religions has lost the purity of the teachings of their founders. Even those religions that are highly criticized such as the Jehovah Witnesses, perhaps the most obnoxious Christian religion out there, started with a really good idea. They started with a group of people getting together, breaking off the major religions. They got together in homes and studied the Bible from scratch just to see what it said with no preconceived notions. Then what happened? After a period of time they began to tabulate what the Bible says and this is what it really means and they began to create doctrines. Then pretty soon people were coming to their Watchtower study class and were told this is what the Bible really means when it says this. So that starting from scratch and thinking as a little child, so to speak, and learning with no preconceived notions was tossed out the window. Now it’s turned into a kind of obnoxious group who thinks they have all the answers when they come to your door. If you have a different answer, they think you’re wrong. There is no considering at all of your answer if it is different from theirs. Of course, every other religious group tends to be the same way. All of them, even the obnoxious ones, started out with a good idea that influenced people for good in the beginning. Then after a period of time they go into a period of corruption where things change for the worse.

This is what’s going to be different in the coming age. The organizations that are created in the coming age are going to be living organizations. What happens when you cut your finger? After a period of time it begins to heal. What do you do to make it heal? Do you do anything? You might put a bandage on it but unless the cut is really severe it will heal whether you do anything to it or not. What makes it heal? Have you ever heard that your body is completely replaced every 14 years? Every cell in your body is gone every 14 years and replaced by new ones. But you are still here. What causes that replacement? When you get sick or cut yourself or scratch yourself what causes you to heal? The healing is built into your system.

Delivered May 24, 2002 at the Gathering in Wimberly Texas.

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The Astral and Other Worlds
(Transcribed from a posted audio)

Question, “When you say the astral world is not real, are you saying it is not real in the physical sense?”

Basically, it seems very real. Even this world is not real as we understand reality. We have two physical worlds. One is called the dense physical that we see around us. Then there is the etheric which is the true physical world. It’s an exact double of the world we have here. The physical realm that we have is merely like a projection of the etheric double. DK tells us that this dense physical is not built upon a true principle as the etheric matter is. It’s because the etheric world is capable of extension and creation and regular physical matter is not. Physical matter must be governed by a higher principle in order to take any part in creation.

Now, the astral world is not real in the sense that it is a projection or an interplay between the mental world and the etheric world. It’s caused by the evolution of desire. The astral world didn’t really exist until humanity came on the scene and desire entered in. When desire and attachment to form became a human quality, then this power of desire– through the power which originates in the mind and projected down into desire– created the astral world. So the astral world was built upon a desire for form which really has its cause in illusion because form itself, gives no eternal joy. Because it gives no eternal joy it is founded on an illusory principle.

When humanity loses or lets go of his attachment to form and begins to understand the qualities of the eternal self more and what is really important in the entire scheme of things then the astral or desire world will eventually disappear and be no more because it’s illusion. That which is illusion is always temporary and it comes and goes. The astral world then is created by interplay between mind and the etheric world of form. As I said, this interplay creates the desire world. The astral world is called the desire world because on the astral realm is where all of our desires are eventually filled until we reach a point where we find that that which we thought we desired did not bring eternal satisfaction so we go to something higher.

Question, “What does it mean when you say an octave up or a world is an octave higher than another?”

You’re familiar with music and how one set of notes is an octave higher than another. By an octave higher we must remember that the mental world vibrates at a higher vibration than the astral. The astral vibrates at a higher vibration than the physical/etheric. That’s what an octave is. When you move up an octave, you merely move up to a higher but similar vibration. At the higher vibration the notes sound similar. They’re just a higher multiple. That’s how it is when we move up from the physical to the astral to the mental. In the astral world the matter is created and controlled by desire but it is a temporary matter which is a reflection of a higher matter from the mental worlds (or the celestial world as you’re used to calling it).

A higher correspondence where the true feelings are is above the mind, which in esoteric writings is called the Buddhic plane, the plane of the Buddha. In Christian literature this could be called the plane of the Christ which is a similar concept. This plane which is above the plane of the mind, is where intuition comes from. Our inspiration comes from here and our higher feelings come from here. So we have feelings that are temporary and passing and ephemeral and feelings which are true and eternal. Considering love, for instance, we have the selfish love which is the astral plane love, and we have the spiritual or divine love which is the plane of the Christ, the plane above the world of the mind. This is where the real feelings are. What each of us must do is find out where our real feelings lie to eventually replace our temporary selfish attached feelings with real feelings of the spirit. When we discover the real person within ourselves then we discover the real feelings of God. When these are discovered the temporary feelings pass away and the astral plane will pass away as far as the person is concerned. Then he moves up into the higher planes in consciousness.

A reader asks where we were before we were born. The scriptures call it our first estate. What does this mean? As I’ve said many times before, most scriptures have at least three interpretations and so it is with our pre-birth life. There are several correspondences which can fit. Before this world was created as it is now many of us upon the Earth lived upon what DK calls the moon chain. This was billions of years ago. During this time period we evolved in a significant degree. Then came a time when we had to leave and the life of the moon chain, as it was called, gave birth to the life on this planet. So, according to esoteric teachings, that which we now call the moon is a shell of what was once a living body that was deserted by all life upon it and that life came to earth. When it did the moon began to die. The life force of the moon was then transferred to the Earth.

Remember that a chain, as taught in the Ancient Wisdom is a series of globes so it is probable that life on the moon chain was not on the globe we see in the sky.

Now, even before this there was a previous solar system where the form aspect was perfected. He tells us that within this first solar system our goal was the perfection of form. In our current system, billions of years later, the goal is the perfection of consciousness. That which is evil goes back to trying to perfect the form rather than consciousness. This is why Hitler was evil. He did all his experiments trying to perfect the form to create the super race and so on. Whereas DK tells us that if we perfect consciousness, form unfolds automatically into perfection because the perfection of form occurred in the previous solar system billions of years ago. The perfection of form is built in our consciousness. As we stimulate our consciousness the form that is necessary for us to use unfolds automatically because it’s already reached its perfection. It’s like a seed. When it’s nurtured and planted grows up to perfection almost beyond what you could imagine from just a simple seed. We have all the seeds of perfected form within us as individuals and as every life form does. So, the key to current perfection is to work on consciousness.

Then in addition to these physical worlds there were spiritual, more refined ones. Each planet goes through a descent of and then an ascent. We are on the fourth and densest globe in descent. There were three earths of higher vibration before this dense physical materialized and there will be three higher on the path of ascent until the earth becomes as a “sea of glass” as predicted in the scriptures.

Question: “Is there is such a thing as an entity that only has an astral form and is totally without any mental form?”

Yes and no. All of us have mental, astral and physical ingredients within us. But, they’re not unfolded within all of us. All of us have a mental body but not all of us use or have developed the mental body. Many of us think with our feelings rather than with our minds or our true mental bodies. When the person begins to unfold or stimulate his mental body then he begins to use logic and reason and begins to reflect the Holy Spirit down to the physical level. This is what happens when the mental body is truly awakened. For at least two-thirds of humanity the mental body is pretty much asleep and the thinking is done with their physical brain and with their feelings rather than with their true mind.

The Importance of Knowledge
(Transcribed from a posted audio)

Somebody was talking about reincarnation awhile back. They said something to the effect that it doesn’t really make any difference whether or not it’s true. We pretty much live our lives the same whether we believe or not. I don’t think that’s exactly true. For one thing here’s a principle. The principle is this: every piece of knowledge, every piece of truth you discover does make a difference. It adds one more puzzle piece to the whole scheme of things and makes the whole picture a little clearer. When we come to the point where we can see the whole picture, then our life will change dramatically. Whenever a significant piece of the picture is added our life undergoes a significant change. Reincarnation is a significant piece of the puzzle.

When I discovered it was true, it turned my belief system upside down and made me look at every possible belief I had previously held with an open mind, as if I were a little child again. A new truth, whether it be reincarnation or any other spiritual truth, can have a tremendous impact on us

One of the criticisms of the belief in reincarnation is that if you’re going to have another life, you can screw around in this one and make up for it in the next. As a matter of fact, some of the common people in the East do think this way to some degree. But when one matures a bit, spiritually, the truth about reincarnation is a very positive thing. For instance, when I found out about it, it didn’t make me want to take the attitude that if I get another chance in the next life I can be lazy in this one. When you think about it, it’s really silly reasoning. It’s like saying, “I’ll go rob a bank and go to jail for five years because I’ll get out in five years and have another chance.” Five years in jail is a tremendous inconvenience. If you screw up your life and have to come back and live another entire life undergoing tremendous suffering and trial and error you’re wasting an enormous amount of time. That’s time that could be well spent enjoying yourself. Once a person sees reincarnation with the true view of things, it actually makes him want to try harder; not try less.

One thing I find interesting is that many of the average religious believers have little concept of time. For example, many Christians believe if they commit certain sins they’ll go to hell and be there for all eternity and burn with fire and be with the devil and pitchforks and tremendous suffering is envisioned. Yet many times when someone with such a belief system sees a person that attracts him, he’ll sacrifice all eternity for a night of pleasure with the wrong person. Now, if this person really had a concept of what eternity was and if he really believed he was going to suffer in some fiery brimstone area for all eternity, he would never sacrifice all eternity for a day. Many people don’t have a perspective on what an eternity might be or they would re-examine the whole idea of burning in hell forever.

So when is a person ready to believe in reincarnation making it a positive thing in life? The answer is when the mind has a true perspective on what time is plus what cause and effect is. For instance, in this life a person doesn’t want to go to jail for even one year and he would probably avoid a night of pleasure to avoid a year in jail. Others who don’t have a perspective on what eternity is would yield a night of pleasure and spend an eternity in the fires of hell, so to speak. That doesn’t make any sense at all. Some people can put things into perspective and live their lives accordingly and others cannot and don’t have any idea of what burning in hell for eternity would entail. Those who are accepting an eternity in hell for a night of pleasure are probably not ready for a lot of truths including reincarnation. If a person does have a little perspective on cause and effect and what can happen to him in reality, then the belief in reincarnation or the knowledge of it is a very positive thing.

When I began to believe in reincarnation it made me adjust my life so the cause and effect in my life was projected into the future. So the things I’m doing now, in this life, are not just for the effects for a year or two down the road. I’m looking at maybe hundreds or thousands of years down the road because it makes you live your life from a much broader perspective when you know you’re going to have effects that are going to take place in the future, even future lives, that will either be to your advantage or disadvantage.

An LDS reader stated that Christ has forgiven his sins and he is at peace knowing that he has a place in the celestial worlds; What more could desire?

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So let’s throw this out. Our friend is in a state of peace and contentment in his relationship with Christ. Why do anything else? First of all let me ask you, “Is all you want for all eternity – just peace?” I have peace and that’s not enough. I want more than peace. What more could you want besides peace? How about knowledge?

Joseph Smith said, “It is impossible to be saved in ignorance. D&C 131:6

He also said, “A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.” TOTPJS Pg 217

For those of you who don’t have a LDS background, bear with me. I’m going to try to answer his questions steering towards concepts that are interesting to everyone and cover basic metaphysical principles. The metaphysical principle here is that knowledge does indeed save us. Save us from what? For one thing, it saves us from ignorance. It saves us from being in a state where we don’t know what’s going on; of what true salvation is or what it isn’t, we don’t know what true atonement is or what it isn’t. There may be a lot of things we think we know. We may think we’re ready for the highest heaven but we may not be. Knowledge of what is and the knowledge of worlds to come and the worlds past, the principle of reincarnation, the principle of cause and effect, all these things can add to the quality of your salvation.

Joseph Smith once said that man is not saved until he overcomes all of his enemies. If a person has peace of mind but hasn’t overcome all of his enemies then he is not truly saved. He said this, “You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, FROM EXALTATION TO EXALTATION, UNTIL YOU ATTAIN TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.” DHC 6:306

Now a typical Mormon thinks regular believers attain some type of salvation here on Earth. But they see faithful LDS going to the temple and making covenants that will take them to a much higher station – called exaltation – way better than plain salvation. But in the quote Joseph says you have to go from, not one exaltation, but from exaltation to exaltation. The Mormons think that you are raised from the dead then you are exalted but here Joseph Smith says, you go “FROM EXALTATION TO EXALTATION, UNTIL YOU ATTAIN TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.” So you attain the resurrection of the dead after you go through a number of exaltations according to him. An exaltation is far beyond attaining peace of mind through your relationship with the Christ.

Here is Joseph’s interesting definition of salvation. “Salvation is nothing more or less than to triumph over all our enemies and put them under our feet IN THIS WORLD, and a knowledge to triumph over all evil spirits in the world to come, THEN we are saved.” DHC 5:387

What does this mean? He’s really saying the same think DK talks about when he talks about overcoming illusion. Unless we can overcome illusion we can be tricked to believe many things that are untrue and see through a distorted vision until we attain a high degree of knowledge. When we obtain this knowledge we can triumph over all those who are masters of illusion and try to deceive us.

Another interesting scripture given though Joseph Smith is this. “The glory of God is intelligence.” It doesn’t say the glory of God is peace but the glory of God is intelligence. So if you have obtained the peace of God the next step is to obtain the intelligence of God. Remember one of the core doctrines Joseph taught was eternal progression; there is no end to our progression. So suppose we have obtained a peaceful state. Why would we want to stop and rest? The question is then, what is our next step? Is our next step to work on perfecting ourselves in the image of God, by obtaining the intelligence of God, by obtaining the glory of God, by understanding His intelligence and incorporating God within our own lives? How do we do that? We do that by obtaining the Holy Spirit. When we obtain the Holy Spirit and obtain greater and greater communion with it, then our intelligence grows and our knowledge grows and our power of discernment grows also. As Jesus said, “By your fruits you shall know them.” When you have recognized the Holy Spirit, or soul within you can recognize where the true fruit is so you can find where the true knowledge is.

Isaiah gives a good example: “Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he not open and break the clods of his ground? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cumin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?” Isa 28:24-25.

Isaiah tells us that Ephraim and many other religious leaders in the last days will be like the plowman. He just plows his field over and over but doesn’t plant anything. He later tells us about the person who grinds corn over and over, but makes nothing. The religious leaders in our day will be like people who just grind corn over and over and over. Isaiah asks, “Why would you want to do that?” Why would the plowman want to just plow and plow and plow and the grinder just want to grin and grind and grind? Does he not eventually plant his seeds in the fields and cover it over grow the principle fruit? Yes. And does not the person who grinds the corn eventually make something of it? Wouldn’t he make bread or cornmeal or something?

In other words, Isaiah tells us the religious people of this age will be like the plowman who just wants to plow and plow and plow, doing the same thing over but then he says precept must be added to precept. We must add precepts and thinking and intelligence within our life so that we can reflect the intelligence of God and work toward the glory of God.

Again and again in almost all the scriptures of the world, we’re promised to know the mysteries of God, we’re told to seek the mysteries of God and find them out. Study the scriptures, the scriptures tell us, in them you think you have eternal life. Jesus said, “Seek and ye shall find.” He didn’t say, “Find some inner peace then relax and cease seeking.” He said seek and you shall find. Once you find what you’re seeking– if you’re seeking peace, if you’re seeking understanding, if you’re seeking a good relationship — should we then relax? Did He say seek, find, then don’t seek? No, He didn’t say that. He said seek and you shall find. It’s a constant thing that we must do. We seek, then find, then seek another goal and when we find that then we keep on going. We do this (with cycles of rest) for all eternity. This is eternal progression; to continue to stretch ourselves and become what we’ve never been before.

Let me present a thought. All the hundreds of Christian religions have a similar philosophy on salvation and leaning on Jesus yet many of them are under tremendous error. Where does this error come from? The error comes from not understanding the principle and this is the principle taught oftentimes in the scripture. “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm. Jer 17:5 What does this mean? It means that instead of putting ourselves, our attention, our trust in an outward authority we put it on the Spirit within. If we put it on an outward authority we are relying on the arm of flesh. The Bible says you’re cursed if you do that.

So the interesting thing I see is that many people are relying on the man, Jesus. When the person relies on the man Jesus, or the figure of Jesus they have in their mind, they are relying on the arm of flesh. Jesus Himself acknowledged when one time a man came to Him with a question. He said, “Good Master.” Jesus responded and chewed the man out, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God” Matt 19:17 So Jesus didn’t like the idea of this man relying on Him as a person of flesh and bone, as an individual entity above the spirit of God which you can find within yourself. As great as He was, He tried to direct this man’s attention away from Him as an individual to the universal God.

The problem with many of the Christian religions is that they want to have a personal savior. They use that word again and again and the phrase is not even found in the Bible. In having a personal savior they have a flesh and blood, individual man they can rely on rather than merely relying on the spirit of God within.

So how do we take upon ourselves the name of Christ and rely on the name of Christ as the scriptures say? Do we just say I accept the name of Christ? If I accept Baptism, will that do it? No, these are just symbolic gestures. They don’t really do anything. What really does it is when you take upon yourself the actual meaning of the name of Christ. The name of Christ, or Jesus Christ, means “anointed to save.” To take upon yourself the name of Christ you must be anointed to save.

What does it mean to be anointed to save? In the old days, in the Old Testament Bible you’d have oil poured on your head and you were anointed to be like a king or have a certain position. The oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. The name Jesus means to save or to lift up or to deliver. So what the name basically tells us is that if we take upon ourselves the name of Christ we are anointed by the Holy Spirit and it will come within us to the degree that we will reach out to our brethren who need help and seek with all of our power and strength to deliver them and pull them up to where we are. For those who have not progressed to where we are, we reach out a helping hand and pull them up and help them.

Jesus once said, “Who will be found on my right hand? He who will be found on my right hand are those, who, when I was in prison, came to me. They gave me drink. They gave me food and they gave me help when I was in need. These are they who will be found on my right hand. Those who are on my left hand are those who refused to deliver such a person.” When we take upon ourselves the name of Christ, we reach out and we help those less fortunate or less advanced than ourselves and we pull them up to where we are. If we say that we have the name of Christ, that we have taken upon us the name of Christ, but then we pass by those who need help, or we do not strengthen ourselves so that we can help, then we have not really taken upon ourselves the name of Christ. Perhaps I should say Jesus Christ because the whole name implies this meaning that I’m talking about.

After the reader says he must put his whole trust in Christ he says, “That’s what I’ll do for awhile until He tells me otherwise. I will still read and keep an open mind.” Well He’s actually told you otherwise already. He once said, “What type of man should you be, even as I am.” And what kind of man was Jesus? He had a tremendous thirst for knowledge. He knew a lot more than anyone else around Him. So, if we’re supposed to be as He is, we’re should seek the glory of God which is intelligence and learn everything that we can about true principles.

As Joseph said, “We must go from one small degree to another; from a small capacity to a great one, from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation until you obtain the resurrection of the dead.” One small capacity to a great one – wherever we are right now it’s a small capacity compared to what we will be sometime in the future. So we need to go from where we are now to a greater capacity, to a greater knowledge, to a greater understanding of principles and not be as a plowman who just plows over and over. The scriptures given to us in the Bible, the Mormon scriptures and all the other scriptures in the world are good but if we do nothing but read them over and over and over we’re like the plowman. We must move on and not ignore what we’ve learned but to take what we’ve learned then move on to greater things. From a small capacity to a great one, from a small knowledge to a greater knowledge and this we do as long as we are in the three worlds of human endeavor.

Jesus, Himself says, “Does a man light a candle and put it under a bushel? Let your light so shine.” Light is, of course, knowledge. There are many people who put down the principle of learning more knowledge. Why do they do this? Because it takes a lot of effort to gain knowledge and understanding. You must go from a small capacity to a great one to do this. On the whole, people are kind of lazy. We want to do things the easy way. We want to do one thing and have everything taken care of so we don’t have to do anything anymore.

So the religious leaders of the world would have salvation come in just one big lump. When you’re there you don’t have to do anything anymore. You just have it made. This is the lazy man’s way to salvation. The true seeker will go from a small capacity to a great one and continues in the process of eternal progression. It’s a struggle and there is no end to it, but there are tremendous rewards. We reach our reward, we reach our goal then we can rest for a period of time and savor our victory and our strengths. Then we begin a new project with new learning.

Copyright By J J Dewey

May 19, 2002

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Illusion and Self Correction
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One topic we decided is always on topic is health. This is because we want to keep everybody in the group as healthy as possible. A number of people in our group have had health problems and we would like to help them as much as possible. Along this vein, there was a recent Doctor strike in Israel. After the strike was ongoing, an interesting thing was noted. They had a 39% decrease in the death rate. So you might want to think about not going to the Doctor unless you absolutely have to, to get a bone mended or something. As I said in my book, I haven’t been to a regular medical doctor in over 20 years. I think the last time I went was when I did break a bone. Actually I tried to set it myself but I wasn’t very good at it so I was forced to go to a doctor

Years ago I read another interesting statistic somewhere. It said that they’d done some comparison between people who saw a doctor about a problem and people who didn’t. The rate of recovery was almost identical in both groups. If this statistic is right, all the money we spend on doctors isn’t doing us any good. One thing to keep in mind is the principle of the middle way and to use judgment in all things. There are times to see doctors and other times we’re better off doing some investigating on our own. Look at your diet, study herbs, look at alternative methods and so on.

Reader comment: I read Betty Eddie’s book (she died and went to heaven and saw many great things before coming back to life) and in it she says she saw in the pre-existence two men who were best friends. Man A already progressed to greatness in God’s kingdom. Man B was lagging behind A. In order to get B caught up to A, A had to come to earth as a drunk in the gutter so that B, who was a CEO in a nearby high rise, could pass by and help A out of the gutter. Years passed and B finally reached down and helped A out of the gutter. B simply couldn’t keep passing A 1000s of times passed out in the gutter. B went thru hell getting A out of the gutter.”

Now, Mrs. Eddie says some rather odd things. For instance, she tells us that many people come to Earth in a really bad situation, or even sometimes as evil, just so others can learn to deal with evil. She says this about Hitler and says he’s really in heaven now. He was a really decent guy but he just came here to play the role. So when you read something like this don’t go by the fact that the person says, “I went to heaven and this is what I saw.” First of all ask yourself this question, “Does this make sense?”

Does it make sense that Hitler would be in heaven? What would need to happen to Hitler for him to be in heaven? First of all, could he be in heaven and hate Jews who are also in heaven? Could he be in heaven and want to destroy and take away freedom and make all Jews extinct? Could he be in heaven and have these type of thoughts on his mind?

The answer is no. That means Hitler can’t be in heaven and still be Hitler. If he’s in heaven he’d have to be whitewashed in some way so he isn’t even Hitler.

It doesn’t make sense if someone says, “I’m going to come to Earth and be a drunk guy so you can learn how to help a drunk guy.” Someone commented that there are enough drunk guys already without someone needing to volunteer to do that.

In other words, Eddie’s saying that everyone who is in a bad situation is because of a plan. Think of the situations that you yourself have been in. Think of the mistakes you’ve made. Think of the times you’ve mistreated somebody. Do you really feel that you did those things because of an agreement you made? Did you plan to come here and hurt your spouse’s feelings so she could learn to deal with someone who is hurtful? Does that make sense? I remember when I was a kid I threw a rock and accidently broke this guy’s window. When I look back on that I see it was a stupid thing to do and I’m sure I didn’t do that because of a pre-agreement to throw a rock through his window just for him to know what it feels like to have a rock thrown through his window and so he could learn to have patience with a little kid. I just can’t identify with that. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.

If it doesn’t make any sense that Hitler is in heaven or that people come here to be drunks or to kill other people so other people can learn a lesson why was Mrs. Eddie shown this when she had a near death experience? Speaking of that, it’s interesting that after the book came out this doctrine began to circulate a lot and Conversations with God picked up on it. But before Mrs. Eddie made these statements I’d never seen this doctrine around anywhere. People seem to have grabbed on to this idea.

Let’s look at near death experiences. The first thing to look at is that a lot of people come back with different things. Mrs. Eddie had a Mormon background so she saw the standard pre-existence of the Mormon doctrine. She saw a lot of Mormon doctrine affirmations for herself with certain little twists on them; Hitler being in heaven as an example. She wasn’t a standard Mormon but she was sort of loosely into it and had ideas of her own. The ideas that she had were included in her near death experience.

Now, she was told there was no reincarnation yet the majority of people having NDE (near death experiences) are told there is reincarnation. So why was Mrs. Eddie told there is no reincarnation when the majority of those having NDE are told otherwise? Somebody isn’t correct here. When a Buddhist has a NDE experience he doesn’t see Jesus on the other side. He’ll see Buddha. When a Christian has a NDE he’ll see Jesus. A Mormon having a NDE might see Joseph Smith. What’s going on here? Does everyone see what they want to in the next world?

This is the story of the astral world. The astral world is a world that is not real. DK tells us that the astral world is like a lower reflection of the mental world. The mental world is built upon true principles and it has a true reality. The astral world is based solely on illusion and one day we will not be affected by it at all but for now in our state of evolution, the astral world is very powerful. The astral world is governed by matter which is governed by emotional energy. The mental world is governed by matter which is governed by thought.

Another name for the astral world is the desire world. In other words, it’s a world where our desires are materialized for us. The majority of people are polarized or grounded in their astral, emotional, desire energy. Because of this, when they die, they go to the astral world. They go to this place which is conditioned by their desires, especially right after death as in a near death experience. People will often not see a true reality but see a fulfillment of their desires and see their beliefs represented by a reality that is of their own creation. This is why people having NDEs experience many different things. About 10-20% of them go to hell where there is burning fires and pitchforks which scare the daylights out of them. This was created by their emotional feelings. They evidently felt guilty and because of this guilt and religion hammered into them they feel they’re not worthy of heaven. So when they have their NDE they see hell waiting for them. It’s a big shock to people who have this experience.

One of the main teachings of Buddha is to get control over our desires so that we become their master. Thus after we die, we are not trapped in illusion but we can go to a place where there is a true reality called Nirvana. Some people in the West interpret Nirvana as a nothingness but it’s a place where there is no illusion. From some points of view this would be nothingness, if they’re trapped in a lot of illusion and don’t see much true reality in their lives. But for the true seeker, the higher worlds are merely a higher reality which is a better reality that we’re in right here as far as pure enjoyment goes.

So, is Hitler in heaven? Actually his personality is not in heaven. The souls of all of us, the higher parts of our nature are in heaven so from that point of view I guess you could say she’s right. All of us have a higher part of ourselves but we if the lower part of ourselves is not one with the higher part of ourselves then there will be discord. If we were at one with that higher part of ourselves we would be harmless. We, as personalities, where our consciousness dwells; the physical, the feeling and the mind, are capable of creating grievous errors which we have to face, not only in this world but in the world to come.

Right after we die we are in our etheric physical double for a period of time until that dissipates. Then most of us find ourselves in our astral body. If a person is fairly highly evolved, he’ll go straight to the body of his mind and merge with his Higher Self. In your astral body you will dwell in the astral world (if the person is astrally grounded) until near the time of the next birth. Then he will merge back with his soul and descend back into matter again.

So if Hitler is still in his astral body, I wouldn’t think he’d be in much of a heaven. He may still be convinced that he’s right, as far as that goes. He wouldn’t be in any more heaven there than he was here. He wasn’t in very much of a heaven here. He’d get so angry sometimes that he’d roll on the floor and chew on the carpet. That type of feeling and anger and animosity toward other people will carry over to the astral world so that another person would actually be able to see these feelings emanating from this individual in the astral world. It would be embarrassing for many of to have our feelings totally exposed for others to see.

Imagine if you were to die and go live amongst people exactly or very close to your type of thinking and feeling. Would that be heaven or hell? So if you want to know if Hitler is in heaven, just imagine Hitler living with 1000 other people that thought the same way that he did. Ask yourself, “Would this be heaven?” There you have your answer.

Another illusion in Mrs. Eddie’s NDE was that she met Jesus. It seems like every Christian meets Jesus and every Buddhist meets Buddha, Hare Krishnas meet Krishna, etc. How do these guys get around so much? Who did Mrs. Eddie meet? Christ is on the Earth right now in a physical body. He’s not up in heaven somewhere. He said, “I will be with you until the end of the age.” He is with us. He hasn’t really left the Earth so He’s really not in heaven. So who did she meet when she went there? What she saw was the reflection of her Solar Angel. The Solar Angel represents the Christ consciousness so, in a way of speaking, she saw the Christ but it was a reflection of the Christ consciousness talking to her, not Jesus the entity.

The reflected Solar Angel was what she thought was the Christ. We see the reflection of our Solar Angel before we meet the solar angel itself because the average person isn’t ready to meet his true Solar Angel. So, the Solar Angel reflects Itself down into the astral world but the reflection of the Solar Angel will often teach some things that are upside down but they’ll be things that are encouraging to the person to live a good life so they can eventually face their illusions. Mrs. Eddie, after her NDE, was motivated to be a better person so her Solar Angel, upon reflecting Itself and talking to her, actually helped her along even though there was still a lot of illusion involved.

That’s part of the great plan. Give us all the illusion that we can handle until we’re ready to come out of the illusion. The average person loves illusion. He wants to be tricked into believing what he wants to believe and not let the facts get in the way. So the reflection of the Solar Angel and the reflection of the higher energies are here to make us like actors in a play. The play isn’t really real but we play things out until we learn the lessons in the play and we finally decide we don’t want to play anymore and we’re ready to enter into the real world. Then you are nearing the time when you can face your true Solar Angel or the true divine presence.

Comment: I noticed that the sounds and letters of our language seem to have hidden meaning perhaps by design.

There is a lot of truth in that. The sounds we have in the English language and also other languages throughout the Earth, the way the words are composed did not happen by accident. A good example is the word ‘disease’. Dis-ease; when we have disease, we’re not at ease. It’s a kind of flukey arrangement but it wasn’t by accident. A reader points out that ‘evil’ is ‘live’ spelled backwards. Also the way words sound is not by accident. Here we go to a great mystery. “In the beginning was the Word” and we’re touching on one of the keys of eternal life.

I received comments on corruption, that almost all inspired organizations and institutions go through. Some great leader comes forward, creates a wonderful work, then within a generation or two, it’s corrupted so that the original creator wouldn’t even recognize the thing. So the question is, “How are we going to keep the teachings presented here from becoming corrupted?”

This is covered in the book, The Molecular Relationship. The problem that a lot of organizations have is that they try to make a perfect organization to begin with. This is impossible. Making the perfect organization to begin with is like deciding to drive a car a mile down a straight piece of road and lock the steering in place, so that you don’t have to correct the steering even once to drive the distance. Well, take aim and lock it in place as good as you can but what happens? Within a block or two the car will drive off the road. It’s impossible to begin something at such perfection that it will reach its end point without correction.

Look at the human body. The human body is the most perfect thing created in our universe, on the physical plane, yet it has self-correcting mechanisms built into it. If we get sick, there are mechanisms built in that fight the illness and correct it. If you cut your finger, you have corrective mechanisms that heal the cut, perhaps better and stronger than to begin with.

The trouble with every organization that’s ever been created on Earth is that it’s been done with the idea of making it as good as you can to start with. But the natural methods of correction have not been put into place. So every organization that has ever been created goes through a process of corruption. The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is an inspired document but now we’re reaching a point where a lot of it isn’t followed any more because people have added their own interpretation and watered it down so we have a totally different concept of what liberty is today, compared to when they had the Boston Tea Party. When they had the Boston Tea Party complaining about taxes, they were taxed much less than we are today. They were so outraged that they threw all the tea into the bay. Yet, with us, we accept that half of our money is going to taxes (on the average). So, we’re a different country today. It’s been watered down compared to the vision of the founders.

It’s the same thing with the churches. Christ, the highest of us all, established the Christian church but within a couple hundred years after He was gone a lot of things had changed. He would’ve hardly recognized it. By the time Constantine assumed strong control over the church and its doctrines, the church had changed into something not envisioned by the original apostles.

So, how do we prevent corruption from coming into an organization? This is the beauty of the Molecular Relationship. It will be self-correcting. Because, in the molecular relationship, if you do not like something your leader is doing, you can challenge him for leadership and call for a vote. You can do this without any fear of being thrown out or being ostracized or anything like this. If you can convince your group that you can be a better leader then you will switch places with the leader. He will take your place and you will take his place. You’ll have an opportunity to correct the misdirection of a faulty leader.

As it is now, in this world, if a leader in a business, for instance, gets corrupted, what do they do? I don’t know how many of you have read about the Peter Principle. It tells us that people move up in a business until they reach a position in which they are totally incompetent. Once they’ve moved into a job or position where they are incompetent then the managers usually leave them there. They don’t know what to do with them so they leave them in the job in which they are totally out of their element. For example, an engineer may be a very good engineer but then he may be made a manager and he’s a very bad manager. Instead of placing him back as an engineer where he makes less money, they don’t dare demote him so they leave him as a bad manager. So, according to the Peter Principle, in big business you move up until you reach a job where you are totally incompetent then you stay there. This is the author’s explanation for why bureaucracies are incompetent.

In the molecular relationship this won’t happen. When a person reaches a position in which he is incompetent, he can be challenged and replaced without breaking any rules or causing disdain or being looked down upon or anything like this. So this one simple process of election will build a self-correcting mechanism into the molecular organizations.

Let’s say we had an organization based on the molecular relationship with 10,000 people in it. A very talented person enters it from out of the blue. He can quickly move 4 or 5 levels up to the top man. He can move up and become the leader of the entire organization within a few short months by challenging his way up to the top. Thus fresh blood can move in and change places very quickly. It kind of fulfills the parable of Christ where He spoke of the laborers coming in at the last hour and they were given the same reward as those who had worked all through the heat of the day. This is the way the molecular relationship works. A person can come in fresh right off the street and if he has a talent, he can move up to a very high degree of leadership very quickly through the process of election, primarily convincing everyone he has the ability and that he can work for the benefit of the group more than the current establishment can.

Another important factor that will be recognized in the molecular relationship is the power of initiation. In any group or activity you will have the initiate. He’s the one who gets the ball rolling. He’s usually the one with the greatest vision of how everything fits together so it’s usually important to keep him in there unless he’s just outrageously screwing things up.

In the molecular relationship there will be many opportunities to initiate. For example, suppose you wanted to join and initiate your own molecule. So you put together a group of 24 people. This makes you the initiate of this group. The group should honor your power of initiation by keeping you there. But when you leave the group it’s totally turned over to the power of election because those who are left are not the ones who initiated it, but governors. As governors they prevent its corruption through the power of election, opening the door to new initiates.

In the United States, we don’t have any of the founding fathers walking around anymore. These initiates are long gone. Their places are taken over by people who are governing. If it is molecular, everything should be done by the power of election. We have partial power of election in this country and that’s one of the reasons for its success. There are still many leadership roles that are appointments that are not done through election. If you don’t like the President of the United States you need to wait four years to get him replaced. If you don’t like a Senator you have to wait six years.

One of my goals before I leave the scene of things here is I want to get the molecular relationship going so it is self healing. So, if it begins to veer off course, through the power of election those innovative souls can come in and change things and put it back on course. Look at the problems they’re having in the Catholic Church. All these years, with problems from child molestation over to other types of corruption, if anyone raises a red flag and wants to change things, he’s demoted somewhere; sent to be a priest in Outer Mongolia or somewhere. So, he who wants to change things and make things right in the Catholic Church or any of the other churches, is usually ostracized. This is how the molecular relationship will be different. When the innovative guy comes in wanting to change the organization, increase efficiency, and make things better, he will be able to be heard. He will be able to challenge. He will be able to be voted upon. This will cause the new organizations of light to be self correcting.

Copyright By J J Dewey

May 11, 2002

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Going Where We’ve Never Gone Before
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I got a bang out of a comment by a new member. She said, “I just wanted to say I’d never seen a picture of JJ. I would’ve thought he was a black man because he sounds like one on the audio.”

Forty or fifty years ago many white guys would’ve been insulted by that comment but we’ve progressed as a race to the point that we’ve done away with discrimination to the extent that that’s a compliment to many white folks today. So many black guys are cool in this age. As far as voices go, I love James Earl Jones. If I had to pick a voice for God; it would be his.

So, it’s interesting how society has changed.

The Tibetan is the teacher we also quite often call DK. He went by the name The Tibetan before he revealed his name. He says, “The only real sin is the sin of separateness.” In other words, everything that we consider a sin that really produces harmfulness in this world comes from being separative. To be inclusive and draw toward unity is really, in one way of looking at it, the only real virtue.

One of the advantages of working together on the internet is that we don’t even know what a lot of members look like. We might be surprised if we saw pictures of everybody. They might look quite a bit different that we expect. I think most of you have seen my picture and I’m thankful it hasn’t scared you off yet. If you withstood that I think we can withstand to see just about anybody in the group.

It looks like my little pep talk got your wheels spinning. We’ve received more comments so that’s good. It’s nice to have some good interplay going on. When we have a significant number of people posting it makes it more interesting for everyone involved so I appreciate your input here. I don’t have time to comment on all your posts concerning what you are becoming. I think a lot of your comments will inspire others and make others think so even if I don’t comment on them you might be surprised at how much impact you will have on other people on the list. Keep in mind that’s important. I can reach some people with certain truths that I may have but you can reach many that I cannot. You may word something in a certain way that may click in someone’s mind and may change their life. So, you never know how you expressing your thoughts may influence other people.

A member spoke of an interesting fear; the fear of embarrassment. A lot of people don’t say very much because they’re afraid they may sound silly of insignificant or whatever. But don’t let this stop you. You might be surprised how intelligent you sound to certain people. On the other hand, no matter how intelligent you try to sound it may sound silly to certain people. I’m sure a number of people listening to me think I’m out to lunch and a number of items but I just keep on going anyway. That’s what we all have to do because you will reach a certain number of people with your thoughts. They will identify with you and you will give them hope that they can move ahead. This is what it’s all about here.

Speaking of this, the fear of embarrassment reaches into a lot of avenues in our lives. I would suppose that every one of us here has had a certain amount of situations that we could be in that would be disturbing and embarrassing for us. So the fear of embarrassment is a big item, more than most people care to admit. Some people who consider themselves enlightened may be afraid to admit they have a fear of embarrassment.

Fear is a funny thing to talk about with people who consider themselves enlightened because many people who consider themselves enlightened have read books like “The Course in Miracles”, which tells us we shouldn’t fear and really puts fear down. Then they think, “I’m enlightened so if I’m enlightened I must not fear.” What it will often do to the seeker is – he doesn’t want to admit to himself that he has fears for he may not be ready to line up with the Masters.

A lot of seekers like to think they’re up there on the top of the totem pole so it tends to cause many people to suppress their fears rather than face them. By suppressing their fear and thinking they have no fear in any situation they can convince themselves that they are on par with the greater lives of the universe and don’t need to face any fears now whereas many people with this mindset do have fears they need to face. As I’ve said in past posts, one of the greatest fears to face is the fear of fear. Nothing causes the fear of fear more than the teaching that if you are enlightened you will not fear. So people are afraid they aren’t enlightened so they’re afraid of fear. They’re afraid to face the fears within themselves because if they happen to find a fear they come to the conclusion, “I must not be enlightened then because I have a fear.” In truth you can be very enlightened and still have fears.

When God Himself jumped into this universe and took upon this whole universe as His physical body He did so with fear and trembling. DK tells us that fear is in the warp and woof of the universe itself. It’s in the weave of the universe and it can be traced back to something very ancient. It isn’t something you can just will away. When we overcome one thing and reach our next hurdle, there will be a point of tension. Every point of tension has some fear connected with it. It’s true that we need to overcome that fear. When we do we go through a period of fearlessness and peace and union with God but then come back and enter another hurdle. When we approach this next point of tension there will be fear on some level all over again. For the higher lives like the Solar Logos, what may be fear in His correspondence may not be something we would even call fear. But He does approach a point of tension. Fear, as we understand it is strongly connected to a point of tension. Before any manifestation this must happen.

A member quotes me as follows, “One phrase that has never settled well with me is ‘I’m becoming who I already am.” When you think about it it’s really a silly statement. If you’re becoming what you already are, you’re already that so you don’t need to become it. She states, “I’m becoming the awareness of which I’ve always been, that which is unchanged by all appearances.”

Now, beyond the world of appearances is to be beyond the three worlds of form. The physical/etheric is the lowest world, then the astral then the world of the mind. These are three worlds where form lies. Beyond that are four higher worlds in this sphere. These four worlds are the Buddhic, the Atmic, the world of the Monad, and the Divine. Now, these seven worlds make up another world which is called the Cosmic Physical. In the cosmic world there are also seven planes; the cosmic physical, the cosmic astral, the cosmic mental, the cosmic buddhic, and so one up. All these worlds are becoming. When you go beyond the three lower physical worlds, you’re really only scratching the surface of where you can go to in becoming.

In a way, she is correct in that there is a place beyond the world of appearances (which is the three lower worlds of form manifestation). These higher worlds are worlds of energy and ideas. The ideas are still in motion and evolving and becoming. As DK explains to us, even a soul is still in the process of evolving. It is a master on its own plane. Our solar angel has progressed in another sphere, another world. It was once on an earth like this and it has extended itself and taken the seed of the monad, which is us, and nurtured and developed it until we have become what we are now; an independent entity. Even the soul is still becoming on its own sphere and it will be different tomorrow than it is today. There will be a time when our soul will eventually be a solar logos somewhere, or part of a solar logos in consciousness.

But on analyzing her words on the aspect that she’s looking at it she actually sees it quite similar to the way that I see it but she’s expressing it in different words. She’s talking about an eternal part of herself and we do have an eternal part of ourselves. What is that?

The eternal part of our self is the monad. The esoteric books don’t explain very clearly what a monad is because I don’t think a lot of them understand what it is. The monad is basically a seed, the original idea that represents what you are. You began, if you can say that, as an idea in the mind of God and because the mind of God exists beyond time, you are an eternal idea. I often point out that the song “Yesterday” is an eternal idea with no beginning. The idea of this song can never be destroyed. It will manifest time and time again. As it manifests time and time again it will become and take on all kinds of arrangements and sounds. It will have the same identity about it but it will be different in each incarnation it takes. Everyone who sings it sounds it just a little bit differently.

It’s the same with us. We are an idea in the mind of God that is manifesting and we play ourselves just a little bit differently in each life until we play ourselves all the different ways in the world of possibilities. Then we become a part of a greater song. The correspondence, like I say, is never exact but with us, when we play our notes perfectly, so that we sound them in every conceivable positive way that can be sounded, through a series of lives, then we join in a greater song. We then become a single note, so to speak, in a great symphony.

So a monad is like a seed. Let’s take a seed from a great tree for example, an oak tree. When you plant the seed it sprouts up and begins to grow. As it grows it is not becoming the seed but it’s becoming the fullness of the idea behind the seed. As it grows it becomes different than the other monads or seeds. One oak tree may be a different size or a little bit different coloring and have more branches than another oak tree. A pruner may come along and prune one of the trees and not prune another so it creates an entirely different appearance. When the seed, which is the basic idea of the monad, matures, it does not become the seed but it becomes something more than the seed. Then eventually the tree dies then the tree is reborn and it grows up again but this time the appearance is just a little different because the seed, the monad has been altered a bit with the experience of the growth. And the experience of the growth is incorporated into the new seed. The new seed is grown again and the new tree is grown again and the appearance is a little different; a little more refined because the tree is in the process of becoming and manifesting the idea better than it’s ever been manifested before.

It’s the same with you as a human being. Your monad is your seed and it has created everything from your body to your feelings to your mind, all these things. So all these things are expressing and maturing the basic idea. What you are becoming is not as you began because you are maturing into something that has never been, never manifested in the way that you are manifesting.

DK makes an interesting comment about a time in the far future when we will go back to our essence, so to speak. He says, “Respond, O Rising One, to the call which comes within the sphere of obligation; recognize the call emerging from the Ashram or from the Council Chamber where waits the Lord of Life Himself. The Sound goes forth. Both soul and form together must renounce the principle of life and thus permit the Monad to stand free. The soul responds. The form then shatters the connection. Life is now liberated, owning the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience. These are the gifts of soul and form combined.” Esoteric Healing, Page 502

Now when we’ve gone back to our Father in Heaven, so to speak, or the Monad, the situation is different than the beginning. That difference He says in these words, “That the Monad now owns “the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience.” These are the gifts of soul and form combined.” So the monad is not as it was before. It is now different. It owns the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience. This takes place through the process of becoming.

So is this the end of our evolution? To go back to our essence then just be there forever? No, it isn’t. It’s only one part of a cycle. We go back to our essence, so to speak, and we absorb and we nurture these experiences and feast upon them. Here we’re producing fruit, symbolically, and when we go back to our essence we feast on the fruit. That fruit is conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience. We savor and digest all these experiences we’ve had, then begins a new round of experiences; a new process of becoming where we go forth again and we become that which we have never been before. Then when we return we are that which we have never been before and we feast on that which we’ve never feasted on before.

Some people, I believe, misinterpret this ‘being that which you’ve always been’. If you look at it the way some people interpret it, I would compare it to something like this. A man is a doctor and has a successful life. He gets hit on the head, has amnesia and wanders in the back streets of the ghetto and becomes a bum. He doesn’t really know who he was or is. So he bums around for a couple of years then enlightenment hits and he remembers who he is and returns to his status as a doctor. He continues his practice and thinks, “This is great. I’d much rather be a doctor than a bum.” This is all well and good but suppose we had to do this again and again. He gets hit on the head another time and forgets who he is and after awhile he gets enlightenment and comes back and now he’s a doctor again.

Would you want to do this for all eternity to keep on going back and doing the same thing over and over? Getting hit on the head and going back and getting hit on the head and going back. After awhile it would get real monotonous yet this is what a lot of new age people think happens to us. We are gods, we come down, we forget we’re gods, then we go back and we’re gods again. A lot of them believe we repeat this cycle for all eternity. Others believe we go back to being gods and we’re just that for all eternity in some situation and circumstance and consciousness that no one knows anything about or can describe.

What each of us needs to do is go with what we understand. When we move out of our understanding we go in avenues of theory and we’re going to get sidetracked and our progression will be delayed. Take the highest you know. Follow it. Follow the next step in the highest you know. When you do that your soul will give you your next step after that. When your soul gives you your next step make sure you follow it because if you do not, circumstance will force you into situations that make you come back and face what your soul has given you. This is very frustrating and time consuming to repeat. I’ve done it several times myself in this life. Several times I’ve kept coming back into the same circumstance all over again until I face my self and the next step that I have to take. Sometimes it’s very difficult. We enter into our phase, often kicking and screaming and have to literally force ourselves to take it.

Jesus made a very interesting statement that DK often quotes. He said, “The kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force.” DK points out that certain aspects of the kingdom of God have to be taken by force. In other words, when you see the next step you have to take you very often have to take it with very strong discipline, forcing your lower self into harmony with your higher self. It won’t happen by relaxing and allowing it to happen, or just letting your soul take over. You have to make a definite decision and force compliance of the lower self to the higher.

One of my favorite statements of DK is the extract at the beginning of each book. “I am one who has wrestled and fought his way into a greater measure of light than has the aspirant who will read this article. I must, therefore, act as a transmitter of the light, no matter what the cost.” He had to fight himself into the position he is in now and that’s the way it is with all of us. It’s a struggle and a fight. There are those who say you don’t have to struggle and fight or force your lower self into compliance. Many of these are at a standstill and they don’t realize it.

Some are like the Jehovah Witnesses that believe they’re one with the 144,000 and they can now relax. So they’re relaxing, thinking they have it made and not realizing they’re at a standstill. The coming to a standstill is very negative toward our progression and often causes us to waste two or three lifetimes not moving anywhere. Oftentimes our soul has to bring some great dramatic experience to us, similar to our own Twin Towers going down, before we wake up and smell the coffee and decide things aren’t going to move along without a little struggle.

A member explained this by illustrating the caterpillar changing into the butterfly. When it does this it goes through metamorphosis and has to struggle to break out of its cocoon. You’ve probably heard the story that says if you help a caterpillar break out of its cocoon it will die. It stirs the life force in the struggle of breaking free. In this struggle it turns into the butterfly. DK became a Master because He “struggled into a greater measure of light than has the disciple or aspirant who will read these pages.”

A member sites the example of lower part of herself has been receiving messages that were accurate from the higher self and help prepare for things to come. That’s something I think we all believe in. This is part of our becoming, that is to get in tune with the higher part of our self so that we can receive accurate inspirational, psychic messages or whatever name you call them by, so that we can be prepared for the things to come. This idea I’m in perfect harmony with – we’re just expressing it a little differently.

She makes the interesting statement that awareness doesn’t move. That’s true because awareness is from the vantage point that’s beyond the three worlds of human endeavor. Awareness has its seed in the higher world. Awareness in the three worlds can only exist where there is a connection between the higher and the lower. In other words, there is no awareness of the lower worlds unless there is some sort of connection. The principle of awareness itself has to do with formlessness so there is really no moving in form in the principle of awareness itself. The interplay of awareness and form produces the awareness that we undergo here. Awareness itself is becoming on its own plane. It’s changing and evolving and is the fruit of all experience that DK speaks of.

When we go back to our essence we will have that awareness and we will enjoy the fruit of all experience. But the awareness will be amplified. That’s part of the reason for coming down here. It heightens our awareness of the eternal part of our self. Before we came down into the physical plane our monad had very little, if any awareness of the physical world. But now it’s experiencing the physical world so its awareness has actually increased. When we go back and become one with the highest part of our self our awareness we will be that which it has never been before.

One of the reasons we science fiction buffs like Star Trek so much is because of the theme: “Going where no man has ever gone before.” Everyone really loves this motto, “Going where no person has ever gone before.” That’s what we’re doing in every life. We’re going where we’ve never been before. That’s what makes life exciting and what makes the prospect of eternal life exciting. In each one of the multiplicity of an unlimited number of lifetimes in our future, we will go where we’ve never gone before. The prospect of doing the same things over and over, as many people believe, from Christians who think we’ll go sing with Angels over and over for eternity, to others who think we go back to some essence and exist in eternity in a changeless state. Going where no one has gone before sounds much more interesting to me. Since we have the power of decision, you can only spend so long in eternal bliss until, sooner or later, a person will decide, “I’m going to go where no one has gone before. I’m going to go where I’ve never been before.” Sooner or later, no matter how much bliss and stillness you may occupy in a state of pralaya or rest, you will decide to go where you’ve never been before. This decision will keep coming up within you for all eternity. This is the reason why God created the universe to begin with. He decided to go where He’d never gone before. That’s why we are all here.

Copyright By J J Dewey

May 4, 2002

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