Recognizing an Avatar

Recognizing an Avatar

I was emailed an interesting question and since the answer is of some importance, I shall post it for all. The question: “How will a person know when they meet an avatar?”

It is easy to recognize an avatar after he has been dead for a few years, but they are difficult to appreciate while they are yet alive. One who many recognize as a great avatar was the Christ, yet despite all the miracles and great teachings he had only 120 followers when he was crucified (according to the Book of Acts).

Often when I meet a religious zealot I explain this to him and ask if he thinks he would have been one of those 120 had he lived in the days of Jesus. Always the answer is an emphatic yes. For some reason people think that Jesus would have had some “goody-goody glow” around him so it would have been obvious who he was, but such was not the case.

Even John the Baptist, who received a spiritual confirmation from the voice of God doubted that his cousin Jesus was the Christ and, while in prison, sent his followers to ask Jesus for another confirmation.

Mohammed struggled for many years before anyone recognized that he was a teacher of any kind.

Let us take a look at another great avatar, a racial avatar — Abraham Lincoln. Half of the people in these great States wanted him dead and eventually succeeded in assassinating him. Even after he was elected president, his cabinet did not have much faith in him and wanted him to become a shadow president and leave the decision making to them. Fortunately, Lincoln stood his ground.

Lincoln seemed too much like a regular guy to be a great leader or teacher. His speech was not polished. He sounded more like a blacksmith telling stories at times than a distinguished president.

Now he is long gone historians rate him the greatest of our presidents, but few contemporaries thought he was much above average.

On the other hand, those who are the opposite of avatars often come along speaking what the people want to hear and are temporarily accepted as great teachers or leaders. Hitler is the prime example. Chamberlain, the Prime minister of England who was praised for selling out to Hitler is another.

There are false leaders in the world today who are praised by many, but I will not name them. Wait another 100 years and I will not have to.

To recognize a true server of humanity you cannot rely on what seems to be. You must achieve soul contact and recognize them through the soul. This is the only way to tell for sure. You cannot tell by signs and wonders although they may be present in the true avatar. They were with Jesus, but were not so much with Buddha.

The words of the New Testament are the surest Guide. We are told that we can recognize the Christ because he will baptize “with fire and the Holy Spirit.”

Those few who did recognize Jesus felt the fire of the spirit burn within them verifying to them that a greater light had arrived.

The baptism of fire has never left the earth, but few have felt it and most who claim to have merely felt a high emotional energy from their own solar plexus. The solar plexus energy is very deceitful and clouds reality, whereas the baptism of fire reveals reality.

We are living in an age when a number of advanced disciples are preparing to make their presence felt. There are four that are in the news on a regular basis, but few would be able to name them.

Unless a person achieves true soul contact, he would be unable to recognize Christ, if he were to show up, as anything other than a troublemaker just as the masses did last time.

Comments to Readers

As we go through a long series of lives we do go to both extremes. One life a person may be a nun and in the next a prostitute. Slowly we learn that neither truth nor satisfaction is found in a reflex move to the other side and we start looking in the middle somewhere.

In a way words are concretized images and from an esoteric point of view an image is a word. We are handicapped to a degree by having to communicate on more of a sound level than a light level.

A reader fulfilled the goal of The Keys when he says that he already knew that Decision makes one powerful, but now the realization is sharpened, perhaps enhanced. You will know a certain amount about most of The Keys, but the goal is not to teach black-and-white facts, but to bring greater understanding. By throwing you back upon your own soul only higher realization can result.

I once took a metaphysical course through the mail and every time I asked a question the teacher merely said, “look upon your own soul.” On the other extreme, this was a cop out. I knew he kept telling me this because his understanding was not great enough to give a hint or an answer. I eventually found answers to most of my questions, but it would have been speeded up if I could have been guided in the right general direction.

I hope I can be to you what others have not been to me. This is not entirely unselfish of me. After a certain degree of service we are promised a greater revelation. If mankind were left to entirely unselfish motives then nothing would get done.

A reader commented on spiritual books  she enjoyed to  which I responded.

I somewhat enjoy Joseph Campbell, but don’t get a lot of inspiration from him.

I have studied “The Keys of Enoch” considerably. I am always interested in books that claim to be a revelation. Usually, I can make a judgment immediately. Take the Urantia Book, Oasphe, Creme, Twitchell or Summit Light House. It didn’t take long for me to give them a thumbs down. If the Keys of Enoch is a fabrication it is a good one. I do not put a lot of faith in it however, because I don’t feel the “flashing forth” of the intuition that Djwhal Khul talks about.

I have studied the Bible quite thoroughly as well as some other scriptures including the writings of Joseph Smith and other inspired writings of the world. Have your read the Book of Mormon? Few Mormons understand or appreciate it. I believe the sequel to it will be the history of Atlantis. I think there is a lot more light in the Bible than most New Agers give it credit for.

I have studied Alice A. Bailey quite thoroughly. I look forward to studying them quite a bit more.

I have found only a few books I think are really inspiring. One that really inspired me was The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, and A Course in Miracles is definitely from a high intelligence.

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present. —Anonymous

Feb 6, 2009

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