A
message from Mother Mary.
This
dictation was delivered on May 18, 2007 during
the Shangra-la Ascension conference in Ireland.
My beloved hearts, there truly is no greater
joy for your spiritual mother than to experience
her children sharing their heart flames in an
environment where everyone is accepted for their
uniqueness.* For my beloved, if there was one
message that I would want to get across to all
humankind, it is precisely this: In heaven everyone
is unconditionally accepted for who they are.
For in heaven we see only the uniqueness of
your individuality in God, the individuality
for which you were created, and the individuality
that you yourself has co-created in oneness
with the Christ flame in your heart.
My beloved, this unconditional acceptance, could
literally solve all of the world’s problems
and remove all of the world’s conflicts—if,
of course, it could be accepted unconditionally
by the people of the world. And here precisely
is the problem. For so many people in the world
have been conditioned to think that there must
always be conditions.
Your conditions keep you outside the kingdom
of God
Do you see, my beloved, it is precisely the
conditions that prevent you from experiencing
the kingdom that is within you. For you think
that you are separated from that inner kingdom.
And what is separating you, my beloved? Well,
you might very well think that it is some outer
condition such as your sins, your karma or your
psychology. But these outer conditions are nothing
but symbols, symbols for the fact that in your
own mind, in your own being, you have come to
accept conditions. And so you have come to believe
in the lie, the serpentine lie, that in order
to come back to God you have to fulfill certain
conditions.
But my beloved, what was it that separated you
from God in the first place? It was conditions!
You began to believe that you needed to fulfill
certain conditions in this world in order to
be worthy to enter the kingdom of God, which
you had now come to see as being outside of,
separate from yourself.
So my beloved, you saw and experienced yesterday**
that there is a mountain in Ireland that primarily
is climbed by Catholics who do this as a penance
because they have come to accept the basic belief
that in order to be saved they have to fulfill
certain conditions in this world. And the more
painful those conditions are, the more they
think they are paying back their sins.
But my beloved, why did Jesus say that unless
you become as little children ye shall in no
wise enter the kingdom? Do little children have
conditions? No! They love unconditionally. And
they accept love unconditionally. They do not
have the adult sophistication of the mind and
the intellect to even come up with these conditions.
But they learn quickly by observing their adults
around them, from their parents, to their teachers,
to their ministers in church, where they quickly
learn that in order to receive love or whatever
else they need, they need to live up to certain
conditions.
And so that makes them susceptible to believing
in a religion that says that if you put yourself
through pain by walking up a very steep mountain
with lose rocks, perhaps even doing it barefoot,
then somehow through that pain of yours, the
God in heaven is satisfied and will now forgive
you your sins and let you into his kingdom.
And yet, my beloved, the reality is that God
will let you into his kingdom any time you let
go of the conditions that you think keep you
outside that kingdom.
And so you see that the more pain they put themselves
through, the more distance they create in their
minds between themselves and the kingdom of
God. For they will not truly contemplate and
accept the momentous statement made by Jesus
that the kingdom of God is within you. Did he
not say, “The kingdom of God comes not
with observation?” And is walking barefoot
up a mountain not observing some outer rule,
some outer concept, of what it takes to enter
the kingdom of God?
God accepts you for who you are
You see, my beloved, your Creator, your God,
accepts you right now unconditionally for who
you are. And there are two meanings to this
statement. For my beloved, it should be obvious,
given the knowledge that you have – and,
certainly, I realize that most of the world
do not have these teachings or do not accept
them, but you who accept these teachings can
understand that you were created out of a greater
spiritual being who came out of an even greater
spiritual being and that chain of being reaches
all the way back to the Creator.
Perhaps you do not fully internalize and accept
this teaching. But you can understand it –
at least intellectually – and therefore
you can understand that when you were created
out of the Creator’s own Being, surely
God the Creator accepts himself. And certainly
God the Creator accepts that part of its own
Being that is imparted to you. And so you should
be able to understand and accept that God can
have unconditional acceptance for that part
of your Being that truly is an individualization
of the Creator.
Yet my beloved, I desire to give you an even
deeper teaching, which I know will require you
to stretch the mind and the heart and to watch
your emotions and see the inner reaction. And
so I ask you, as I am speaking these words,
to watch your reaction, your thoughts, your
feelings—the conditions that come up in
you. For my beloved, I must tell you that many
of you might look at yourselves today and say,
“I can understand that God accepts my
God Flame, my I AM Presence, my divine individuality,
but surely I have fallen into a lower state
of consciousness. I have created an ego. I have
accepted conditions. I may have psychological
issues. I may have done certain things in my
life. And surely how could God accept this?
So how could God accept the outer personality,
the outer sense of identity that I have created
in this world?”
But you see, my beloved, the reality is that
God accepts you for who you are right this moment.
And God’s acceptance of you is unconditional.
Watch your reactions. Watch how your ego will
struggle with this statement and come up with
reasons for why this cannot be so. “For
if God accepts me for who I am right now, then
why do I have to go through this arduous path
of penance and forgiveness of sin and being
saved by some external savior?”
And my beloved, the truth is, the path that
you have to go through is the path that you
have created through the conditions that you
have accepted. And so depending on what kind
and how many conditions you have accepted, there
is a path for each one of you to follow. But
here my beloved, is the essential key that so
few people have understood. The path that you
have to follow to qualify for your freedom is
NOT fulfilling the outer conditions that you
have come to accept. The path is to let go of
those conditions!!! To come to see that they
are unreal, that they are illusions, that they
are dualistic illusions created by the serpentine
mind, by the fallen state of consciousness,
by the consciousness of separation and duality.
So you see, my beloved, many of you have already
realized this because you have experienced this
in your own lives, that you had to go through
a period of searching or depression or outer
difficulties, only to come to a point where
you surrendered, you let go, where you said,
“I don’t need this belief anymore.
I don’t need this vicarious atonement.
I don’t need to feel like a sinner.”
And do you see, my beloved, the essential difference
between thinking that in order to be saved you
have to fulfill an outer condition, and so you
strive all of your lives to be a good Catholic
or a good Muslim or a good Hindu or a good New
Age person or whatever you think is the outer
path. And yet the alternative is to realize
that the real path, the inner path, is to let
go of the conditions that are inside of you
instead of trying to fulfill outer conditions,
that only take your attention away from the
kingdom of God that is within you, making you
think that you have to enter some external kingdom,
that you need an external savior or an external
church or to fulfill some external conditions.
Do whatever it takes to let go of your conditions
So you see my beloved, sometimes it is indeed
necessary for you to ascend a physical mountain,
to realize that you did not need to ascend the
mountain because you can find it all inside
yourself. Yet there is nothing wrong with ascending
the mountain in order to come to that realization.
Yet there is nothing wrong with going halfway
or not going at all. You see, whatever you have
to do on the outer to be able to surrender the
outer, it is fully acceptable.
But I wish to impart to you – and that
I could inspire you to impart to the world –
that the essence of the spiritual path, the
essence of salvation, is precisely to overcome
the inner condition that makes you think you
have to fulfill an outer condition. And when
you realize that – when you fully realize
it – then you can let go of the outer
conditions. You can be reborn of the Spirit.
For my beloved, did not Jesus say to Nicodemus
(John 3:5), that in order to enter the kingdom
a man must be born of water and he must be born
of Spirit. Well my beloved, following an outer
path is the process of being born of water.
But when you come to the point of realizing
what I have just explained – that
it is not the outer conditions, but it is letting
go of the inner conditions – well then
you can experience the total surrender –
the unconditional surrender – that brings
about the rebirth of the Spirit, whereby you
can suddenly accept who you are. And my beloved,
when you accept who you are right now, then
you can let go of what is unreal instead of
holding on to it.
For my beloved, do you understand the very subtle
psychological mechanism that comes into play
here? When you accept the serpentine lie that
in order to enter God’s kingdom you have
to be acceptable to God – and what determines
whether you are acceptable to God is whether
you fulfill certain outer conditions defined
in this world by some institution or teacher
or even by your own ego – you see my beloved,
when you believe that in order to be saved,
you have to fulfill these outer conditions,
well the psychological mechanism that comes
into play is that you cannot fully accept that
you have these conditions. You cannot, as Jesus
has said, take ownership of them.
And when you cannot take ownership of them,
you cannot surrender them. For you cannot look
at them squarely and say, “But this is
unreal. And I no longer need to carry this with
me. I no longer need to accept this condition
or to accept the belief that caused me to accept
whatever illusion I have carried around for
a long time.”
So when you think the path is about fulfilling
outer conditions it becomes impossible for you
to look at your own imperfections, to look at
your human condition and say, “This is
unreal, this has to go.” Instead, you
do what so many people in the world do. They
ignore the beam in their own eye. And either
they focus all attention in the splinter in
the eye of another or they focus on the outer
path, saying that if only I give so many Hail
Marys and light so many candles or walk up a
mountain barefoot and put myself through this
or that pain, then God will have to accept me
even though I have not let go of the conditions
that keep me – in my own mind –
outside the inner kingdom.
So you see, my beloved, when you come to that
realization – that God accepts you for
who you are right now – then you can say,
“Well if God can accept me even though
I might look at myself as being an imperfect
human being, well then certainly I can accept
myself.” And the reason why you should
be able to accept yourself is precisely this,
my beloved, that God has given you free will.
And what that means is that God has given you
the right to enter this world and to create
a certain world view based on whatever conditions
you have chosen to accept. And God has set up
the universe as a mirror, to mirror that view
back to you, so that you can create for yourself
any experience you desire.
You must choose to let go of your conditions
Do you see, my beloved, that God gave you free
will. God has given you the right to create
the experience that you are having right now—because
you have free will. And God accepts that you
have a right to create your present experience.
But my beloved, when you realize what the path
is all about, you realize that you can let go
of the experience you have right now at any
moment. When you realize that number one, that
it is unreal; and number two, I have had enough
of that experience. I don’t want it anymore.
I don’t need it anymore.
And you see, my beloved, when you come to that
realization, your path will take on a new meaning.
Your life will change, as some of you have expressed
here because you suddenly realize that all of
the outer conditions are unreal and they cannot
keep you outside the kingdom unless you allow
them to do so by continuing to accept them.
And this, my beloved, is precisely what the
world wants you to do. The world wants you to
continue to accept these conditions that you
have come to believe and that the world still
believes: your family, your friends, your society,
the world at large, your priests. They want
you to accept the conditions that they accept.
For if you do not, you disturb them in their
belief that they could not change themselves,
that they don’t have to take responsibility
for their own lives and their own salvation
for they can just wait for Jesus to appear in
the sky or wait for some miraculous apparition
by Mother Mary or wait for Saint Patrick to
come back in some chariot of fire to lift up
the people.
Do you see, my beloved, that this is why there
has always been idolatry of the saints and the
sages who have stood out from the crowd? For
by elevating us, it gives people’s egos
an excuse for saying, “They were special
so I cannot do what they did.” But my
beloved, if you will honestly look at my life
as Mother Mary, what was so spectacular that
I did in that lifetime? My beloved, I gave birth
to a child. But have not many women done so?
Surely, he was at times a difficult child, but
certainly other children have been a challenge
to their parents. Some of you would probably
admit that you challenged your parents in many
ways. And some of you feel that your children
have been a great challenge. So why was I so
different?
So you see my beloved, if there was one thing
that I would want the world to learn from my
lifetime as Mary, it was, that what was special
about me was my willingness to surrender—to
surrender everything. To flow with the inner
prompting that came from my higher Being. Ah,
you say, but did I not have an angel appear
to me and tell me what to do? And yes, but how
do you know how that apparition took place?
For I can assure you that it was not the version
that Hollywood has come up in their ever accelerating
quest to do better than the latest movie and
to have more special effects or more violence.
You see, my beloved, this is again the idolatry
of the world that wants to create these conditions.
For you see, my beloved, your ego is born of
conditions. Your ego seriously and truly believes
that it could not survive without conditions.
Which is true because the moment you let go
of your conditions, your ego will have no hold
over you. Neither your ego nor the prince of
the world will have anything in you. So your
ego does not want you to surrender because the
more conditions you have, the more your ego
has control over you and the more comfortable
your ego feels.
So there are many people in the world who have
become so identified with their egos that they
are so comfortable in having created this very
neat little box for themselves, where they feel
they have everything under control and their
lives are so ritualized, and every morning they
get up and they do the exact same thing. And
they go to work and they come home and they
watch the same shows on TV and everything is
ritualized and regimented. And yet if they were
thrown into a new situation, an unexpected situation,
they would disintegrate. They would not be able
to handle it.
And so my beloved, you see in your own lives
that you have been willing to come away from
your comfortability, even to come to a retreat
like this, or find the spiritual path in whatever
form, and allow it to change your life. And
my beloved, the only true difference between
those of us who have ascended and those who
have not ascended is that we were willing to
surrender – gradually – all of our
conditions. We were willing to die daily (1Co
15:31), as Paul said, to have some of our conditions
die every day. And we kept doing this over and
over and over again until there suddenly was
nothing more to surrender because we truly had
been willing to lose our lives for the sake
of following Christ.
The essence of the spiritual path is surrender
And you see my beloved, certainly it was a big
surrender for me to break off my very comfortable
and regimented monastic lifestyle to suddenly
go back into the world and have a child. It
was again, a big adjustment to realize that
we had to take that child out of Israel and
flee to Egypt. There were many other adjustments
as Jesus grew up and as he gained a clearer
vision of his mission, and I gained a clearer
vision.
Joseph’s death was a big adjustment for
me, left with many children. When Jesus left
home at an early age to go on his spiritual
pilgrimage—when he came back. Certainly
my beloved, when I stood in front of the cross
watching him struggle and finally watching him
give up the ghost of him giving up the last
of his conditions, which inspired me to give
up the conditions I had about how my son’s
life and mission should unfold.
For as Jesus has explained, he had certain illusions
until the very end on the cross. And I too had
certain illusions about how his spiritual mission
should unfold. I even had certain illusions
that I held on to after that, until the end
of my embodiment when I finally let go of them
all.
And so I simply tell you this, you have already
surrendered much to be where you are right now,
whether you are at this conference or elsewhere.
You have surrendered much, my beloved. So is
it so difficult to accept that the path is about
one thing—surrender, letting go of conditions?
For my beloved, once you accept this, it becomes
so much easier to surrender the conditions.
For you realize that the more you surrender,
the more free you feel inside. And so you build
a momentum, and once you get beyond a certain
point, you realize that surrender is not loss,
surrender is not sacrifice, surrender is not
the Via Dolorosa. Surrender is joy. Surrender
is freedom. And the more you let go of, the
more free you are.
And so my beloved, this is my gift to you this
morning, the gift of surrender. Should you need
help surrendering or gaining a clear vision
of what to surrender – seeing the illusion
so you can let it go – then apply to my
heart. Give a rosary if you feel you need to.
Or simply ask me and then listen for my answer.
Listen both within and without. For I will find
a way to give you the answer you seek. If you
cannot hear me in your heart, I will send you
a book or a person who will tell you.
And my beloved, the beauty of a spiritual community
like this is that when you come together, you
can help each other see things that you could
not see in yourself. And I tell you again, the
more unconditional acceptance you can have in
your community, the more you can help each other
and the faster you can grow both individually
and collectively. For truly, we have no greater
desire than to see a spiritual movement, a spiritual
community that will manifest what very few communities
have manifested throughout the ages, namely
an environment where everyone is unconditionally
accepted for who they are.
This does not mean that this is a community
where anything goes and where the ego and the
people who are caught in a serpentine consciousness
of wanting control and power can control the
community. But it means an environment where
everyone can feel accepted.
For I must tell you that if you can create such
an environment, you have the greatest protection
possible against those who seek to destroy or
control. For they will not be able to handle
an environment where they are accepted. They
want you to reject them, my beloved, because
it confirms their essential illusion that they
are separated from you and separated from God.
And this is the illusion they need in order
to maintain their need to feel that they are
better than others. For they have not yet tired
of playing the dualistic game that Jesus
so eloquently spoke about at the last conference.
So my beloved, I leave you with the unconditional
acceptance of a Mother’s heart. And I
commend you for your willingness to share your
heart flames. And I ask you throughout this
conference to ponder how to unconditionally
accept each other. But my beloved, do not forget
to look in the mirror and work on unconditionally
accepting yourself.
Thus, I seal you in the unconditional acceptance
of my Mother’s heart, which truly can
hold all people on this beautiful planet. Be
at peace in my love.
*
Before the dictation, the participants had introduced
themselves and had shared something about their
personal journeys.
** On the first day of the conference, the participants
went on an excursion to Croag Patrick, a mountain
that each year is ascended by thousands of Catholics
as an act of penance. Some walk the rocky and
steep trail barefoot.
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