Unconditional
acceptance leads to unconditional surrender of all conditions
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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