Overcome
your grand illusions to find a higher level of service
A dictation by Mother
Mary
NOTE: This dictation was given during the Shangra-la Summer Conference
on the Big Island of Hawaii, June 27, 2008.
NOTE: As a meditation before this dictation was replayed the mantras
from the previous dictation by Maraytaii.
My beloved hearts, say with me now the mantra given by the Great Divine
Director, of his ancient name:
[Audience chants] EUTAI … (9x)
Now say with me the feminine counterpart of that mantra, which is MARAYTAII:
[Audience chants] MARAYTAII … (9x)
My beloved hearts, I Mary, as the representative of the Divine Mother
for the Earth, come to give you some thoughts about what it means to
be the Divine Mother, how it feels to be the Divine Mother. For some
of you have raised the question, my beloved, what did it feel like for
the Divine Mother to be murdered on Lemuria or to see her representative
in embodiment be murdered in Lemuria.
And so you realize, my beloved, that a spiritual being does not have
human emotions—as you are used to experiencing them on Earth.
For you see, my beloved, the Divine Mother has ultimate and absolute
respect for the Divine Father. The expressed God has ultimate respect
for the unexpressed God. And it is the design and the will of the unexpressed
God that all self-conscious extensions of itself should have free will.
And so, as the Divine Mother, we accept and respect that free will to
the ultimate degree that we allow ourselves to be the instrument for
the outplaying of that free will, in terms of allowing the Ma-ter Light
that we are – the Ma-ter Light that is an extension of our Being
– to be used by human beings and other self-aware beings throughout
the cosmos in any way they see fit. Vowing to allow that light to outpicture
absolutely any form that God's co-creators decide to project upon it
through the power of their minds.
And so you see, my beloved, we who are one with the Divine Mother –
who are the Divine Mother – we have made a decision to allow the
outplaying of free will. And thus, once we have made that decision,
my beloved, we do not waver, we do not doubt, we do not argue back and
forth, we do not analyze—as you so often do on Earth. We are true
to the decision because it is made with the totality of our Beings,
my beloved. And thus, we have no feelings, as you conceive of feelings,
concerning how free will will outplay itself.
See the cosmic perspective
So you see, my beloved, we who are one with the Divine Mother, we who
recognize ourselves as expressions of the unexpressed God –
as God in form, as God in mater-realization – we, my beloved,
see the cosmic perspective. So we see that when a person on a small
planet called Earth represents the Divine Mother, then the purpose of
that person being in embodiment is not to be the leader of a particular
religion, but to serve the greater cause of raising the awareness of
the self-aware co-creators. Even those who have forgotten who they are
and therefore are not strictly speaking self-aware. But who nevertheless
have the potential at any moment to switch back into self-awareness,
the awareness of the self as a spiritual being, as an extension of God.
And thus, our purpose is always to facilitate that growth in consciousness
that is the ultimate purpose of the world of form. The growth that we
fully realize can only – only – happen through free will.
For it cannot be forced, my beloved. Self-awareness, the expansion of
self-awareness cannot be forced from outside the self. It must come
from within the self.
And thus we recognize that after beings lost their way, then they started
outpicturing all kinds of manifestations on Earth that were not in alignment
with their highest potential—the immaculate concept that we hold.
Yet, in our infinite and unconditional love, this did not cause us to
go into a negative feeling of anger, frustration, or even wanting to
blame or punish. We simply accepted what was. For we always accept what
is—as an outplaying of free will.
And thus, our concern is then how we can help a lifestream that has
started descending the spiral staircase come to the turning point and
again start ascending. And as such, we must meet people wherever they
have chosen to descend in consciousness. And we do so with no judgment,
with no fear, anger, blame—all the negative human emotions. And
my beloved, why do we not have such emotions? Because as was said earlier
– which you surely recognize was an inspiration from me –
we do not have any "shoulds" or "should-nots." The
word "should" is not in our vocabulary.
Do you need to always have opinions?
For you see, my beloved, when you truly, fully, unconditionally accept
free will, you do not even have an opinion about what people should
or should not do with their free will. You set them free to experiment
and we, as the representatives of the Divine Mother, allow self-conscious
beings to outpicture whatever they want to outpicture, allowing our
light to take on the form that they think they need for some reason
or another.
Often, my beloved, it is because they are blinded by the ego, which
only sees itself and cannot possibly see the cosmic perspective that
we see. And thus, the ego is focused on itself—and our focus is
on helping the Conscious Self of that person see that the ego is trapped
in dualistic lies and illusions, and that the Conscious Self truly does
not need the ego.
But yet, what does it take for the Conscious Self to come to that realization?
Well, sometimes it takes that a lifestream outpictures certain manifestations
that from a human perspective might seem negative or selfish. But they
are nevertheless necessary for the lifestream to realize that this is
not truly what it needs. This is not fulfilling its true needs, its
true longing for something more to life, the longing that the ego can
never share and cannot understand but can recognize is there.
And thus the ego seeks to compensate for it by forcing the Conscious
Self to believe that it needs something in this world. LINK And thus,
the person then seeks to attain that something, whatever it may be,
and only – in many cases – when that something has been
attained, will the Conscious Self awaken and realize, "No, this
did not complete me, this is not what I was seeking, there must be something
more to life."
And then – often – it happens that the ego manages to convince
the Conscious Self that although what it previously told it that it
needed was not the real thing, then surely this other thing in the matter
world will satisfy the Conscious Self's longing. And sometimes it takes
many lifetimes before the Conscious Self awakens and says, "Maybe
what I am truly longing for is something that I cannot find in this
world? Maybe I can never attain a sense of completeness from anything
in this world, maybe there is something beyond that world. And maybe
I should start looking for it?"
And that, my beloved, is when the soul comes to the turning point. It
has reached the lowest level on the spiral staircase to which it needs
to descend. And now it can pause, it can start shifting its gaze from
the self-centeredness of the ego to a broader perspective. It can start
looking up the spiral staircase and realize that perhaps it can find
what it is seeking by ascending the staircase—since it now is
beginning to realize that it might never find it by descending the staircase.
You no longer remember what it was like to be blind
And so you see, my beloved, many of you who are spiritual people and
have reached that turning point many, many lifetimes ago – or
perhaps some of you did not even have to descend to a low point –
so many of you can no longer remember how it was to be so trapped in
the ego's illusions that you were always looking for completion or security
or belonging in the material world.
And thus it is difficult for you to understand and show patience for
those around you that you see outpicturing conditions that you can clearly
see will only limit themselves and can never lead to any kind of fulfillment.
And you are of course right, but you are not right when you cross the
subtle line of thinking that because you can see it, others should also
be able to see it.
For you must realize, my beloved, that the reason why you can see something
is because you have come to an inner realization. Yet these other people
have not yet come to that inner realization, and your inner realization
has no effect on someone else. And thus, what unfortunately happens
to many sincere lifestreams – even many who descended to Earth
for the purpose of seeking to raise the consciousness of humankind –
is that they get lost in the illusions, they get seduced by the illusions
of duality, the original illusions of the original
fallen angels who started believing that it would be better if they
could override free will and force people to be saved.
And thus, you start believing, my beloved, that other people should
start living their lives according to your inner realization. And thus,
you become caught up in the game that you see in most mainstream religions,
of seeking to want to change people's outer behavior, or outer beliefs,
instead of following what has always been the true path of the Ascended
Host—namely seeking to help people attain the inner realization
that is the only key to their progress and growth.
Do you see, my beloved, the fundamental difference between the approach
taken by the Ascended Host and the approach taken by the fallen beings
who are seeking to control? And my beloved, many of them actually believe
they are doing this for a greater cause. They are doing it because it
is right, it is in the best interest of all the people. It is even in
the best interest of the unfoldment of God's plan. For God simply cannot
understand his own plan and his own creation. For surely these fallen
beings understand it better than the Creator itself.
Beware of the ego’s subtleties
And this is then the ultimate blindness of the ego. Yet I must tell
you that this consciousness – which is essentially the consciousness
that the ends can justify the means – is very subtle, very persuasive.
And it is very pervasive in religious and spiritual movements, even
in Ascended Masters organizations, my beloved.
If you study the organizations that we have sponsored in the last century
alone, you will see a very clear tendency for the members to believe
that they belong to some superior teaching. And therefore, it was only
in the best interest of the people, and of God's plan, and of the plan
of the Ascended Host, if others were gently forced to see the validity
of their teaching, even holding the vision that everyone on Earth was
converted to their teaching.
Yet failing to see that this was simply their egos, playing the ultimate
trick of wanting to convert every human being on Earth to its own belief
system, thereby thinking it could prove that this was the one true,
absolute, infallible belief system on Earth. A fallacy, of course, which
the Conscious Self can never be fully satisfied with. Nevertheless,
the Conscious Self can be seduced into pursuing this cause for a very
long time before it starts realizing that this is not actually what
it is seeking. For it starts realizing that there must be more to God
than what can be captured in any belief system on Earth, my beloved.
And thus, we look to you who are part of this new initiative, to be
wiser. And I do not say this in order to encourage a sense of superiority,
but I do say it as a test as to whether you will use it to build a sense
of superiority. But we do look to you, who have been given a more advanced
teaching, to be wiser than previous students in not building the sense
of superiority, the sense that you have a superior teaching and that
all others should – by force if necessary – be converted
to that teaching.
Knowing the Way of the Cosmic Christ
For we look to you to see, my beloved, that when Jesus made the statement
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the
Father, but by me," then, my beloved, this too was a test to see
if those who followed Christ would build that sense of superiority,
would allow the ego and the false teachers to turn the movement of Christianity
into one more religion based on the concept that this is the only true
one.
And so you see, we look for you to acknowledge that when Jesus made
such statements, and others that are not recorded in the Bible, my beloved,
that he was speaking as a representative of the Cosmic Christ, the universal
Christ mind. And thus, when he said, "I am the way, the truth and
the life," it was the Cosmic Christ speaking through him. And thus
the universal Christ mind is the way, the truth, and the life, my beloved.
You who have been given a teaching, should not fall prey to the trap
of thinking that you should turn this teaching into a system, and that
system is now the only true way. For what is the true way? Well, it
is the consciousness of Christ, the spiritual consciousness, the consciousness
of the Divine Mother, of the Divine Father, and of the Holy Spirit,
my beloved.
And so, you recognize, I trust, that this is the consciousness that
is the Way. And it is the potential in every lifestream to shift its
sense of identity, to tune into that universal consciousness, realize
that it is an extension of the One Being, of the Creator, and thus overcome
separation and duality.
That, my beloved, is the Way. And that way cannot be followed if you
think that you have now found or defined some ultimate belief system
on Earth, and thus all you need is to follow the prescripts of that
belief system until you are somehow magically saved at some future time.
And thus, my beloved, the true way is the Path of Oneness. Oneness with
your higher being, with your Creator, with your spiritual lineage Above.
And oneness here below, between people in embodiment, who no longer
see themselves as human beings, but as the spiritual beings that you
truly are.
Understanding the Holy Spirit
And so, my beloved, as another thought I would comment on the concept
of the Holy Spirit. For the reality is that the Holy Spirit was introduced
in the West by Jesus, who said that after his ascension he would ask
the Father to send another Comforter to Earth. And so, my beloved, the
Holy Spirit then can be explained as the collective momentum of all
who have walked the true Path of Oneness. In the case of the Earth,
it is the collective momentum of all those who have actually ascended
from the Earth, or have at least passed the initiations of the material
realm and thus contributed to the creation of an upward spiral.
And every time a Being ascends from Earth, that Being adds its own momentum
to that collectiveness of the Holy Spirit, that flow of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus did so, Krishna did so, the Buddha did so. All beings who have
ascended have added their momentum to it, increasing it every time,
making it easier for people to tune in to that Holy Spirit, my beloved.
And therefore receive a portion of the Spirit that allows you to know
truth from within and allows you to go out and speak that truth with
the power that has the power to awaken people from their blindness,
to shake them out of their blindness and thus give them an impetus for
that inner realization.
You see, my beloved, that this does not force people to have that inner
realization. But it gives them the foundation for having it if they
are open and willing to have it. And thus, the power of the Holy Spirit
can cut through the density of the collective consciousness, the density
of a person's own past momentums, so that the person is shaken and therefore
is, so to speak, in an interval in time—put on pause. The person's
mind is put on pause, and now the person has a moment to tune in within
and ask if there is more to understand about life, more to experience
about life, than the person's ego-based, fear-based dualistic belief
system.
And so, my beloved, what will it take for you to tune in to the Holy
Spirit? Well, it will take for you, my beloved, discernment, so you
can discern between the Holy Spirit and the many false spirits that
have been created. For you see, my beloved, there is only one Holy Spirit,
because the Holy Spirit is created out of the momentum of those who
have successfully walked the Path of Oneness.
And thus, of course, they can only create one unified Spirit. Yet you
must understand also that those who have walked the path of separation,
they have also created a momentum of the false spirits, and there are
of necessity many of those, my beloved, although some have grown strong
because of the collective momentum added onto them by many people in
embodiment, even beings who are no longer allowed to enter embodiment
on Earth but need to stay in other realms or have gone to the second
death. They still have added to that momentum of the false spirits.
How to have discernment
And so you need to have discernment, my beloved, so that you know what
is the Holy Spirit and a false spirit. And of course, many things can
be used to gradually build your discernment, including considering whether
a spirit seeks to make you feel superior to others. For then you know
that it cannot be the one Holy Spirit, but only a dualistic spirit.
But you also need, my beloved, to make a critical assessment of yourself,
to look in the mirror, to look for the beam in your own eye. For I tell
you, my beloved, what makes you susceptible to the lower spirits is
your attachment to one of your ego's desires, which then makes you vulnerable
to hearing what you and your ego want to hear in order to fulfill that
desire.
And thus, many of you have certain false concepts about the spiritual
path, about your role on Earth, such as I expounded upon earlier, about
you thinking it is okay to force people into the one true religion for
their own good. If you have such desires, my beloved, or even a desire
to be seen as a savior of the people, perhaps even THE savior of the
people, well then you cannot hear the Holy Spirit, my beloved.
For what will the Holy Spirit tell you? It will tell you how to overcome
duality and enter into oneness. For the Holy Spirit is an extension
of those who have walked that Path of Oneness. And thus it will expose
all illusions in your being. Not all at once, but as you can handle
it, and as you are willing.
And thus, my beloved, if you have those self-centered desires of wanting
to raise up yourself or do some ultimate service for God – thinking
that God will reward you and make you an important person, either on
Earth or in Heaven – well then you will not hear the Holy
Spirit when it whispers to you as the still small voice within. You
will hear the loud voice of a spirit who will tell you that this is
how you can achieve your desire, this is how you can fulfill God's cause—by
doing this or that outer thing, my beloved, achieving some kind of glory
or recognition from the world.
Be not deceived by your own desires
And so you see, you are deceived by your desires, your attachments,
that center around raising up the separate self, rather than letting
the separate self die, seeking only to raise the All. But you see, my
beloved, the All is also in you, so there is a certain validity to raising
up God in yourself—for how can you help raise up God in all life
if you have not first done it in yourself. But you see that when you
raise up the All in yourself, it is fundamentally different than seeking
to raise up the separate self.
And so, my beloved, I must tell you that the key to attaining this discernment
is to strive for balance in all things. And this is where some of you
could make great progress on your path, by striving for balance, by
being willing to acknowledge where you have been out of balance, where
you have attained unbalanced desires of seeking to raise up the separate
self, for some grand scheme or another.
Perhaps even thinking that you are destined to be a messenger or a representative
of the Ascended Host, my beloved. And thus listening to the false spirits
who tell you that there is a shortcut to attaining this status, where
you do not need to expose the beam in your own eye, even though all
other representatives of the Ascended Host have had to do so. No, you
are special, so you do not need to follow that path of discipline that
Jesus demonstrated. For perhaps, maybe you are even more important than
Jesus, you are higher than Jesus, you are more spiritually evolved.
Or whatever the ego and the false teachers will whisper in your ear,
my beloved.
And if you have an unbalanced desire, you might begin to believe this
and entertain grand visions of what should happen – what SHOULD
happen – my beloved. So the question is, when do you then come
to the point of giving up this idea of what should happen, so that you
are willing to step into the River of Life and flow with that river.
Which will raise you up but only to the extent that you are working
to raise up the All. The All in yourself, the All in all others.
You are close to a higher level of service
And so, my beloved, I ask you to ponder that some of you do have a certain
attainment that has brought you to a point, where you are close to being
able to serve the Ascended Host in a more direct capacity than you are
doing right now. Perhaps as you see these messengers doing, although
your way of service might be different.
But nevertheless, the image I want you to hold is that you might be
close to stepping up to that more direct form of service. But there
may still be an imbalance somewhere in your being, that is deceiving
you and thus making you susceptible to the lower spirits that whisper
in your ear and thus prevent you – with their constant unceasing
chatter – from hearing the still small voice of the Holy Spirit
who never seeks to force but only seeks to awaken and inspire.
And thus, if you would take an honest assessment, study our teachings
on the ego – study the new Course
in Christhood that Jesus has so lovingly prepared for you –
well then you might realize that if you are willing to let go of a few
illusions – perhaps just one grand illusion – then you can
actually step up to that service, where you can be more of an open door
and start fulfilling that part of your divine plan.
But I ask you to recognize, my beloved, that until you are willing to
give up the unbalanced desires, you will not be able to serve as an
open door for the Ascended Host. You will only become an instrument
of the false teachers, who will whisper some grand scheme in your ear,
rather than the true reality of oneness—the oneness of all life.
Warning or encouragement?
And thus, these teachings that I have given you can be seen in two ways.
One as a warning that some of you are dabbling in the false spirits,
allowing them to deceive you because you will not admit that you have
deceived yourself with your ego's desires.
Or my teachings could be seen as a reward for the fact that some of
you have risen to a level of the path, and some of you have used the
teachings we have given, to the point where you are close to breaking
through to a higher level of service. Both interpretations are valid,
and I leave you with both of them, so that you might honestly consider
which one applies to you, or whether both of them apply to you, my beloved.
For is it not always safe to assume that while you are in embodiment
you might be somewhat susceptible to the duality consciousness, and
therefore need to be constantly alert for how it might creep in to your
container of self?
My gift
Thus, my beloved, in
gratitude for your attention, for your physical and spiritual presence,
I will give you a gift—that you might attune to my heart, that
you might ask me, as you are willing and able, to release to you my
unconditional love for you. So that you can sense that unconditional
love and thus let it set you free from all consciousness of wanting
to force others or, my beloved, force yourself to live up to some image
based on the "shoulds" or "should-nots" created
by the masters of duality, the masters of deceit. Thus I ask you to
play a piece of meditation music while you tune in to my heart and my
unconditional love, my beloved.
My beloved, I instructed this messenger to hold his hands up, that you
might have the image that I radiate my unconditional love through his
hands, in case you need a physical focus. Yet I trust you will know
that unconditional love is everywhere, and thus does not truly need
to be radiated from any particular vessel, but can be radiated right
within yourself, right within your own being, right within these cells
and atoms of your being. For truly, unconditional love knows no conditions,
so how can there be conditions that shut out unconditional love from
some place?
[Ave Maria by Schubert playing]
Thus, my beloved, having received the Alpha portion of this gift, I
now ask you to realize that unconditional love wants to flow and raise
up all life. So I ask you to now visualize that you are the open door,
you are the transformers, so to speak, that you received the unconditional
love from Above, and you radiate it out to this Earth, to the people
or conditions or causes that are dear to your heart. Seeking to raise
it up in accordance with the teachings on free will I have given.
Thus I ask you to play another piece of music and thus visualize that
the unconditional love is not only flowing into you but is flowing through
you, my beloved. And thus, your entire being, every cell and atom in
your being, vibrates with that unconditional love and radiates it out
to the condition that you visualize as being raised up by that unconditional
love.
[Un Bel Di (from Madam Butterfly) playing]
And thus, my beloved, my gratitude. And I seal you in the Flame of the
Divine Mother, the Flame of Unconditional Love.
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