Belief and Faith
Question: Since the soul represents the voice of God should we even question it?
JJ: The trouble is that we have two voices within. The first is a voice created by the emotional/astral self. This was that which was called in the Bible “the heart which is deceitful above all things.” This does not represent the true heart energies but is the closest thing to it until the energy of spiritual love is recognized.
Many people seek the inner voice for lifetimes and the highest they achieve is the astral voice that always leads them to upside down truths and keeps them in illusion.
The seeker must question all things, including the astral inner voice before he can find the sure voice of the soul.
Then when he first discovers the true voice he will have difficulty in accepting it as real at first and will question its reality. It is only after the true voice proves itself a number of times that the seeker finally accepts it as reliable and begins to trust it. After he has proven its reliability and trusts it the power of the voice is increased until it becomes strong enough that there is no question that the seeker is hearing the true voice when it comes.
A sure reliance on the true voice will take a number of lifetimes and for the seeker who has mastered it in the past – he will still have to remaster it in the current life – though it could be much quicker because he doesn’t have to start from scratch.
A reader quoting me: “He who masters intuition knows, and knows that he knows, and knows why he knows.” How could one really believe someone could be raised from the dead?
Martha had already seen Jesus perform a lot of miracles and this increased her faith. To her credit the inner voice confirmed that Jesus could raise Lazarus and she accepted this.
But before the seeker will master intuition he will mistake the astral voice many times for the true voice. After all, he has nothing to compare the astral voice to until he hears and recognizes the true voice.
Question: Was Joseph Smith killed because he did not listen or was skeptical of the inner voice?
JJ: He wasn’t skeptical of the inner voice. He knew he should have followed it but the pressure from his wife, brother and others just got the best of him and he ignored the voice to his peril.
Reader comment: For the rest of my life and the next and next one, I am supposed to question all of JJ’s teachings, all of Jesus teachings and all of the DK teachings, just in case they are all wrong?
JJ It doesn’t matter if God himself is speaking. Question anything that doesn’t make sense and seek understanding until you can make sense of a thing and have it register positive with your soul. I question DK regularly and this helps me see his teachings from a wider angle.
On the other hand, do not be so skeptical that the mind slays the real. For instance, when I come across something DK says that does not make sense I realize that there may be a part of the picture I do not see and attempt to put the picture together as whole as possible. The disciple must realize that the Higher Lives do see reality from a higher point of vision than ourselves.
Reader: If I was to continuously question that which I know is true, then I will never truly believe in myself or my ability to know truth via soul.
JJ: Use the things you are sure is true as a foundation, but every so often one must reexamine himself and question all things. I do this with myself. If I didn’t do this I would probably still be a regular church member as when I was younger I was very sure that I was on the path of highest knowledge, but because I was open to all things I discovered I was wrong and reset my compass.
However, the true principles that were confirmed by my soul when I was younger are still true today. I just needed a path correction and needed the realization that the soul only gives you the portion of a picture that you can handle at the time.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke
July 1, 2011
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