Let
2008 be a year of positive change
A
message from Mother Mary. NOTE: This dictation was given on
01/01/08 as part of the Shangra-la conference in Los Angeles, California.
My beloved hearts I, Mary, come to give you the sealing dictation of
this conference. And I come with the joy that was reflected in the music
you just heard, the flowing joy that is brought about by the fact that
you have been willing to come together physically in one place, but
more importantly to come to a greater degree of oneness. For, my beloved,
as you come together in one place, you have the opportunity to achieve
a greater degree of physical union and oneness than you have when you
are separated throughout the world. Certainly, my beloved, there is
a union of minds of the people around the world who study the websites
and give the rosaries. But there is immense value in coming together
in a physical place to achieve a more physical union.
And when you do come together, and you give rosaries, and you have discussions,
and you participate, and you talk during breaks, then you achieve –
if you are willing – that union. And this conference is a wonderful
example of that higher degree, what we might call a more perfect union,
my beloved. And so I commend you for your willingness to come into that
oneness. For this is the oneness that allows us to use that oneness
– that you provide in the physical – as an open door, as
a platform, for releasing more or less light during a conference. So
the more people come together and the greater degree of union they achieve,
the more light we of the Ascended Host can release to the planet for
that particular conference.
And this conference has provided us a wonderful opportunity to release
a very large, an almost infinite, amount of light as you, my beloved,
heard reflected between the lines of the Buddha's
dictation yesterday, which truly was a more powerful release than
we can release in many instances.
Understanding cycles leading to 2012
So, my beloved, I come to give you some thoughts that might be pertinent
for your decree work, for your prayer work, for your rosary work, and
for your visualization – for your holding the immaculate concept
– during this year of 2008, my beloved.
You see, my beloved, we often talk about cycles and we have said that
2012 represents an important growth opportunity for humankind. And I
have said before that there is a need that humankind be awakened before
the year 2012 to how consciousness, their consciousness, affects everything,
my beloved. And so we might say that there are cycles within cycles.
And there was a cycle started in 1996 of four four-year cycles leading
up to the year 2012. The first being the identity realm, the first four
years, and then from 2000-2004 the mental, then from 2004 to 2008 the
emotional realm. And now 2008-2012 is where things need to come into
the physical.
Which means that it is absolutely necessary that humankind acknowledges
– at the conscious, physical level – the lessons they need
to learn. For if we do not have a critical mass of people who consciously
raise their awareness and acknowledge the deeper reality that can bring
forth a shift in consciousness – in the collective consciousness
– well then the lesson must be learned by physical appearances,
physical happenings in anything from Earth changes to climatic changes,
to wars or other forms of dramatic events that hopefully then will awaken
humankind.
This is not to be interpreted as if I am giving a dire prophecy, my
beloved. For I am truly the optimist, seeing how many people have embraced
the rosaries and how they have made progress. For, my beloved, if you
will look upon yourselves – those who are here at this conference,
but also those around the world – look upon yourselves and those
you know who are giving the rosaries, you will see that if you compare
to a year or two ago, you have made progress.
You might look at your outer situation and see that there has not been
many changes. But if you look at yourself, you will see that many of
you have attained a greater degree of peace, inner peace my beloved,
a peace that passes understanding. For you have attained that peace
as an independent peace that does not depend on world conditions. And
thus, even though the world might not be an ideal place, you can still
feel at peace, and feel that peace and optimism about the future that
Saint
Germain spoke about and that we truly desire all of our students
to accept and embrace for themselves, leaving behind the doubt and fear,
my beloved.
And if you still have some doubt and fear, then make a habit that whenever
you feel that doubt and fear, you instantly tune in to my Immaculate
Heart, my beloved. And you simply pour or throw that fear and doubt
into my heart and accept that I will consume it for you. And then you
accept that it is gone and you can now feel centered and at peace again.
Let the Divine Feminine be restored in religion
So, my beloved, looking forward to the year 2008, I will describe for
you some of the main issues that we of the Ascended Host would like
to see break through into the physical awareness, the conscious awareness,
of humankind. Let me begin, my beloved, with the overall issue of religion.
It is an absolute necessity that in the year 2008, my beloved, humankind
begins to reckon with the fact that a religion that acknowledges God
the Father, but denies or ignores the feminine, Mother aspect of God
is not a balanced religion. And thus when you look at the history of
humankind, you will see that these so-called monotheistic religions
have often been, if not the cause, then certainly the outer trigger
that provided the spark that lit the fire of warfare and conflict among
the members of the three main monotheistic religions.
And so, my beloved, before the year 2012, it is necessary that humankind
comes to a recognition of the Divine Mother and the importance of unifying
the Divine Mother and the Divine Father. And this must begin in the
year 2008 with a serious recognition that the big monotheistic religions
have become completely unbalanced by ignoring the Divine Mother, by
putting women down, and even making women responsible for the fall.
Which is, as we have explained before, not a reality but really –
to be quite honest with you, my beloved – an extreme outcome of
the male ego's refusal of responsibility, thus projecting guilt and
responsibility for the fall upon women, instead of acknowledging that
it is part of the nature of every human being – male or female
– that is responsible for the fall into duality.
And thus, my beloved, you see the deplorable situation that those who
are trapped in the mindset of the monotheistic religions, especially
the male members of those religions, are not willing or able to look
at the beam in their own eyes and cast out that beam. And precisely
because they will not look at that beam, they go into a state of male
pride, my beloved, where they feel that the only way out of a particular
situation is to attack and destroy those that they now project as being
enemies. Instead of recognizing that the enemy is, as the popular saying
goes: "We have seen the enemy, and it is us." For it is the
ego that is the real enemy, not other human beings.
And so, my beloved, we look forward to, in 2008, a growing awareness
that there is a serious flaw in the monotheistic religions. And that
it must be corrected in this age by a new awareness of the feminine
aspect of God, as a counter-balance to the misuse of power in the name
of control that you have seen outplayed in all three of the major monotheistic
religions—that has resulted in so many wars, such as the crusades
and many other atrocities, including modern-day terrorism.
So, my beloved, hold the matrix that there will be an awakening, a growing
awareness, of the Divine Feminine and the importance of incorporating
the Divine Feminine into all aspects of one's religious and spiritual
life, my beloved. Which of course includes giving men and women completely
equal status in any true religion, so that women can hold any position
and perform any task in that religion and its hierarchy. For you see,
my beloved, men cannot by themselves get out of the trap of a male-dominated
religion. They need women to help as a balance, to literally save them
from themselves and their focus on the masculine aspect of God, which
inevitably leads to an abuse of power even in the name of God or in
the name of some greater good.
And this, my beloved, is, of course, the lie that has been the justification
for so many atrocities. And you will see – if you take an honest
look at history, my beloved – that men are more prone to falling
prey to this lie that the ends can justify the means. Whereas women
are more sensitive to life and therefore often will not accept that
it is acceptable to kill human beings in order to bring about some supposedly
greater good. For they see that the killing is always wrong and thus
cannot be justified by any cause, no matter how just it might appear
to the male ego.
The need for change in China
Now, my beloved, another issue that we look forward to seeing being
exposed in the year 2008 is an issue that revolves around China. You
see, my beloved, in this coming year you will have the Olympics in China,
which will focus the world's attention on China. China and the Chinese
leaders believe that this will become a cause of great national pride,
where they will demonstrate their accomplishments to the world, even
the superiority of their system—which is a strange mixture of
communist philosophy and materialism and capitalism.
But you see, my beloved, what we of the Ascended Host look to see happen
is that the Olympics in China will instead become like a mirror –
a mirror that is held up in front of both China and the world –
and makes everyone realize that there needs to be serious and dramatic
changes in China before that nation can fulfill its full potential.
And also an awareness in the world that the world needs to take a much
more nuanced and mature approach to China than has been taken so far.
My beloved, as just one example of this – for, truly, many profound
changes need to occur – but as just one example, let me take the
recent awareness in the West that many toys produced in China contain
concentrations of lead that can be dangerous to children. My beloved,
the awareness that ideally should come out of this is that so far nations
and consumers in the West have had a completely immature and irresponsible
approach to China. Where consumers and businesses have approached China
as simply a source of inexpensive goods that could allow the businesses
in the West to make an inordinate profit while allowing the consumers
to have cheap goods that, as Saint
Germain expounded upon in Colombia, allows them to feel that they
can maintain a certain standard of living, and thus being able to overlook
or ignore that the value of their labor has actually been degraded over
the last several decades.
My beloved, one of the positives outcomes of such a situation could
be a greater awareness among Western consumers, where they begin to
ask themselves, "Are we willing to always buy the cheapest goods
in the store without considering where and how they were made?"
And my beloved, certainly most people can see the self-interest that
if a particular item – made in China or some other country –
contains toxic chemicals that can be dangerous to themselves or their
children, well then they need to be aware of this. But beyond this we
look to an even greater awareness, my beloved.
For you see, the reality of the matter is, in fact, that in the West
you have a great deal of laws. You have a great deal of consumer awareness,
you have various consumer organizations, government watchdog organizations,
you have labor unions and you have an entire system set in place that
is meant to at least give the consumer some degree of protection against
merchandise that is made without considering the true interest of the
consumer, but only considering how to generate the greatest amount of
profit.
And so you see, my beloved, that the toys that were produced and imported
from China—had those toys been produced in the Western world,
they never could have made it to the store shelves with those concentrations
of lead in them because there would have been protective measures in
place. So you see, my beloved, what has happened is that the West has
now suspended its normal consumer protection in order to allow companies
to import cheap goods from China and make the profit that they could
not make if those goods had to be produced in the West. Where, as another
consequence of Western society's level of civilization, they would have
had to pay the workers more and give the workers good working conditions
and various benefits.
So you see, my beloved, what we desire to see happen also in the year
2008, is a growing consumer awareness that when you go into a store,
my beloved, you cannot simply look for the lowest price. You need to
be responsible and say, “Who produced that item, and what kind
of conditions did those workers have?” How were they treated by
the employers, my beloved? And if I find that those workers were treated
in a way that I would consider absolutely abhorrent if those workers
lived in my own country, well then my beloved, I cannot in good conscience
buy that merchandise. For by doing so, I enable the companies who are
exploiting the workers in distant countries to continue doing so.
And this is not responsible behavior on the part of Western consumers,
my beloved. And so what actually – ideally – should happen,
my beloved, is that the Western labor unions—who are somewhat
struggling to redefine themselves. Because they have done a good job
of getting the Western workers good working conditions and benefits,
almost to the point where in some nations they have partially made themselves
obsolete. And so they are struggling to redefine a role for themselves.
Well, my beloved, a positive role for labor unions would be to say,
"We cannot in good conscience allow workers in other countries
to be treated in a way that we would not allow workers in our own country
to be treated. And if we do not see that labor unions or nations will
enact protective measures for the laborers in other countries, then
we must, as responsible labor unions, encourage our members and consumers
in our countries to boycott those goods and to refuse to buy them. And
instead buy more expensive goods that are produced in countries with
more labor and consumer protection."
This will then force countries, such as China, to go through a revolution
where they say, "We cannot allow the profit interests to run amok
and thereby exploit our own people. We must step up and enact protection
for our own people, and also enact laws that spread the wealth among
our entire population. Instead of continuing to allow a situation that
will lead to a very small elite being incredibly rich and having control
over the means of production, whereas the majority of the population,
such as the peasants in China, still live under the same almost starvation
conditions that they had a generation or two ago."
Awaken to the need to transform the economic system
So you see, my beloved, what would also happen as a result of this awareness
is that the consumers in the West would wake up and realize that if
they were to buy goods that were manufactured under reasonable and responsible
conditions, well suddenly their paycheck would not go as far. And this
would then lead them to recognize the fact that the value of their labor
has been systematically stolen. And therefore, there is a need for a
reawakening among Western consumers – who have been lulled to
sleep, especially the middle class, by the good, comfortable material
lifestyle – to the fact that there needs to be some serious and
dramatic changes in the economy. Where Western nations also need to
step up, my beloved, and not allow a small economic elite to run away
with the economy to the point of killing the goose that lays the golden
egg.
And my beloved, as we have mentioned before, the rise in real estate
prices is a systematic way by the big banks and mortgage companies to
steal the value of people's labor. For certainly, my beloved, when the
price doubles on a house, well the amount of interest that the buyer
has to pay during the paying back of a 30-year mortgage does not simply
double—it goes up exponentially, my beloved. And this means that
the consumer needs to spend an inordinate amount of his or her income
in order to pay back that mortgage—out of which the vast majority
of it is interest paid to the banks and mortgage companies.
So you see, my beloved, the mortgage companies and the banks have a
selfish interest in allowing property prices to go up indefinitely,
or at least until you start seeing a collapse, where the consumers can
no longer pay the interest. And thus, the whole system begins to collapse
under its own weight.
But once again you see, my beloved, that those who are profiting from
such an imbalance in the economy are not the ones who will wake up and
do something to change it. And that is why what we need to see, in this
year 2008, is a greater awareness among Western consumers that they
cannot simply let things slide, that they need to be aware, they need
to take responsibility for all aspects of their society. And they need
to speak out against what they clearly see as unjust and imbalanced
conditions.
For my beloved, one of the major lessons that humankind needed to learn
in the Piscean age, my beloved, is precisely that there is not one savior,
there is not one person, or one government, or one organization that
will come and save humanity. For it is the people themselves –
especially the top ten percent, but also the majority, the top fifty
percent of the population – that must be responsible, that must
awaken themselves and take responsibility for their society and their
nation. For otherwise, the lowest ten percent will drag their nation
and their civilization into a downward spiral that will self-destruct
according to the second law of thermodynamics, as we have explained
so many times. But we keep explaining it, my beloved, because there
are so many people in the world who have not understood this very elemental
truth.
Let the truth be exposed in the American government
So my beloved, the next item on the agenda for the year 2008 is specifically
related to America and the American people. It is very important that,
before the end of the Bush presidency, the American people learn the
highest possible lesson they can learn from these eight years under
the Bush administration.
And this will necessitate the exposure of many things that the American
people rather would not see about their own government, about their
president, about the administration and about themselves. Thus, I desire
both you who are the spiritual people in America and those around the
world to make calls in your rosaries and to hold the image that that
which is hidden shall be revealed, and that that which God wants to
have exposed about the American nation and the Bush administration will
indeed be exposed in this coming year.
For my beloved, there are those in the Bush administration who think
that they can keep coasting and glossing over the many problems until
they are out of office and then it will be forgotten. But we of the
Ascended Host – out of our love for the American people –
want these things exposed so that the American people can have the best
possible opportunity to learn the lessons of what happens when you allow
your own government to run amok under the guise of providing national
security in the fight against the external enemy of terrorism.
I am not denying that there is an external enemy in the form of militant
Islam who have every intention of creating as much chaos around the
planet as they can. But what I am saying is that the American people
need to see how that external enemy was blown out of proportion and
used as an excuse for several problems. One of which, as we have mentioned,
was to drag the American nation and the American military into being
a puppet for the schemes of the international power elite.
But beyond that I desire you to see also how this situation has been
used as an excuse for testing the limits of how far the American people
are willing to go in terms of giving up their civil liberties in the
name of national security, my beloved. And so far I must say that the
American people have been willing to go much further than they should
have gone without protesting against what are obvious erosions of their
civil liberties—that are not necessary in order to ensure national
security.
You cannot, my beloved, allow your own government to start a systematic
misuse of human rights – and at the same time allow the government
to systematically cover up that abuse and get away with covering it
up – and then at the same time think that you can avoid having
an erosion of your own human rights. For as I have said now several
times, those who are trapped in a certain mindset, my beloved, are not
the ones who will stop their unbalanced behavior. For they cannot see
beyond the mindset.
You see, my beloved, it is very simple. If the people in your own government
were not blinded by the philosophy that the ends can justify the means,
they would not be violating the human rights of prisoners in Guantanamo
Bay or elsewhere. And precisely because they are blinded by that philosophy,
you cannot expect them to stop on their own. You must – as the
people – stand up for your rights and say, "Enough is enough!
We cannot allow this to go on."
Another thing that needs to be exposed is how this administration has
allowed systematic corruption in and around the fight against terrorism
and especially the war in Iraq. Where private companies in the United
States have been allowed to make inordinate profits under the guise
of secrecy—for there was no oversight put in place. And therefore,
my beloved, you have a situation that is very tantamount to the old
saying that "All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
You see, my beloved, when you give private companies the ability to
charge the government for their services without having any oversight
of what services are provided and what reasonable costs for those services
should be, well then these companies will inevitably think they have
entered the promised land and that they have access to an infinite source
of wealth. For the government will just keep printing money or raking
up national debt that future generations will have to pay back.
And so how can you expect a company to put on the brakes for their own
ability to generate profit? Thus, again, there must be transparency
and oversight. And if you allow the need for national security to create
an atmosphere where private companies and the government think they
can sweep everything under the rug in the name of secrecy, well then
you will have a systematic abuse, my beloved, on all levels of the government
and the private sector who are involved in this situation.
And again, once they are sucked into this downward spiral, they cannot
extricate themselves, and thus the public and the media must take up
their role as watchdogs. And you who are the spiritual people need to
make the calls for this. And you who are the American spiritual people
need to realize, my beloved that you need to let go of a misguided loyalty
to your own nation, where you are not so concerned about the nation
not being embarrassed. For it is far better that your nation is embarrassed
and learns its lesson, than you sweep things under the rug so that your
freedoms are systematically taken away. But it happens so gradually
under the guise of secrecy, that no one realizes what has happened—until
it has reached a critical mass where it now is much more difficult to
take back your freedoms.
Moderate Muslims must awaken and take a stand against extremism
Finally, my beloved, an issue that needs to be brought out in 2008 is,
of course, the entire situation around the Middle East and the broader
area of the Islamic world. It needs to be seen, my beloved –
by people in the Islamic world especially – that unless the moderate
people in Islam finally in this year rise up and take a stand against
extremism—well then it will be impossible to stop an escalating
conflict that will literally tear the Islamic world apart, my beloved.
And you might think that this will lead to a war against the West, but
I tell you it will not be a war against the West. For once the cat is
out of the bag, so to speak, there will be so much infighting amongst
Islamic nations that they will have very little energy, weapons and
attention left over for fighting against the West, being so concerned
about first killing their own brothers.
And so you need to see that if there is not a dramatic shift in the
collective consciousness in the Islamic world in the year 2008, well
then it will be almost impossible to prevent that kind of a conflict
that you saw outpictured in the movie about Al Andalus,* where you saw
the Islamic factions fighting against each other, and thereby fracturing
the kingdom they had established in Spain. And I can assure you that
there will be a great fracturing of the Islamic world, where entire
nations could potentially disappear and dissolve into smaller areas,
each ruled by their certain chieftain or warlord who is against all
others.
And so you see, such an upheaval is the potential in the Islamic world,
that it will literally be like the scorched earth, where entire cities
can be destroyed, entire cultures can be almost wiped away. My beloved,
you who are the spiritual people who are outside the Islamic world need
to hold the vision that there will be an exposure of the flaws in the
entire approach to spirituality in the Islamic world, including how
they have lost or destroyed the Divine Feminine.
You need to hold the matrix, my beloved, that women in the Islamic world
will finally wake up and begin to make their voices heard. For again,
the changes that need to happen in the Islamic world are so dramatic
that they will not come from the men who are blinded by the male ego—of
thinking that their monotheistic religion is the only true religion,
and that their approach to that religion is the only true approach.
So it is only the women – and a small percentage of the men who
have attained balance – who have the potential to speak out and
bring about balance, a more balanced approach.
This, my beloved, is of course an issue that will require major prayer
support from those outside the Islamic world. For my beloved, what was
it precisely you saw in the recent assassination in Pakistan? It was
not so much an assassination of a particular politician, but an attempt
to assassinate the influence of women in politics and religion in the
Islamic world. It was an attempt to stop the moderating, balancing influence
of the female element in the Islamic world. And to continue the several
thousand year old cycle of systematically suppressing not just women
in a physical sense, but actually suppressing the Divine Feminine. And
thereby creating imbalance after imbalance, conflict after conflict,
where there seems to be no purpose, there seems to be no end in sight—but
it is simply the male ego having become a closed system, and therefore
creating one self-destructive situation after another, not being able
to stop it.
And thus, you need to hold, my beloved, the matrix, the vision, and
make the calls that the Islamic world is finally awakened. And whatever
it takes to awaken that Islamic world – even if it causes some
major embarrassment, my beloved – you need to hold the vision
that sometimes it is necessary – because people are so trapped
– it is necessary to allow some major calamity to occur that finally
awakens people to the need to do something different.
A new role for the Divine Mother
So, my beloved, certainly these are not the only issues that need to
be brought to humankind's attention in the year 2008. But they are the
major ones that I want to give to you at this point. And in order to
not overwhelm you, I will then give more as the year progresses and
as we see the constructive need for bringing forth more teachings on
this issue.
But the overall message I give to you, my beloved, is that I, Mary,
will take on a new role beginning in this year 2008, of being more active,
more direct, more outspoken, more like the tigress who defends her cubs,
more like the image of Kali that you see in the East—of the Divine
Feminine defending her offspring against those who seek to devour them.
For I will indeed speak out more clearly than I have done so far. Even
to the point of transforming my website into a different and a more
direct exposure of the Divine Feminine, and the need to bring the Divine
Feminine into the spiritual life of this planet in order to provide
a balance to the male-dominated approach to religion—that truly
can produce nothing but conflict, and would only produce greater and
greater conflict if it is not balanced by the feminine in all human
beings.
Thus, my beloved, with gratitude for your willingness to provide a platform
that allowed me to bring forth this address, I seal you in the heart
of the Divine Mother, in the fierceness of my heart. For the Mother
will indeed defend her own against all those who seek to devour them.
And I can assure you, my beloved, that whereas you might – in
the male-dominated religions – think of God the Father as all-powerful,
I can assure you that God the Mother is all-powerful in the matter realm.
For God the Mother is not separated from God the Father. God the Mother
IS God the Father expressing itself in the material realm.
Thus, God IS Father, God IS Mother—never one without the other.
And this truth is what needs to be acknowledged by humankind in these
coming years. And I, Mary – as the representative of the
Divine Mother for Earth – will certainly do my part to get that
message across.
Thus, be sealed in the love of my heart and receive the fire of the
Divine Mother as an impetus for yourself, for your own growth, but for
your own willingness to start fulfilling your divine plans and speaking
out in this coming year, and the coming years. So that we together can
be as above so below, and bring forth the message that the Divine Mother
is back—and she is here to stay!
* The participants watched a documentary called Cities
of Light: The Rise & Fall of Islamic Spain. It depicts a society
in medieval Spain, named Al-Andalus, in which Muslims, Jews and Christians
lived together in harmony and prosperity because there was mutual respects
and tolerance between the members of various religions.
The Rosary
for World Change, 2008 is based on this message and is
a powerful way to make calls on the issues raised by Mother Mary.
NOTE: Photos from China copyright
© Maxim Yakovenko.
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