Understanding
power and love in the roles of men and women
Restoring
the WORD in Britain 3.
A dictation by Mother Mary. This message was given
on Saturday, October 27, 2007 during the Shangra-la conference in Britain.
My beloved hearts, I come
as the representative of the Divine Feminine. And why do I come? I come
because the key to changing Britain and every other society on Earth
is indeed love—the unconditional love that is truly a quality
expressed by the Divine Feminine.
So my beloved, I come now with the great joy of being able to congratulate
you for having achieved a breakthrough at this conference. For while
you might not have noticed it, this latest rosary you gave was the culmination
of the process that you have been going through since you started this
conference—of coming into oneness. And you will notice that when
the participants of a conference are willing to come into oneness, there
is a synchronicity, where they do not need someone to actually lead
or set the tempo, for they are so tuned in to the flow, that the rosary
flows by itself. And everyone is in sync. And this, my beloved, is precisely
the one thing that we always look for when we have a conference—the
willingness to transcend the outer differences and come into oneness.
For my beloved, as we have truly explained, all problems come from the
consciousness of separation, the consciousness of duality. And how shall
we overcome the dualistic problems you see on Earth, unless someone
is willing to rise above that consciousness of division and come into
oneness here on Earth?
For my beloved, why do you think Jesus said that, “where two or
three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them?”
It was because there is a universal law that we of the Ascended Host
cannot give to humankind unless there is a platform on Earth, unless
there is a chalice raised on Earth into which we can pour the spiritual
energies. And what is that chalice? Well it is, indeed, the chalice
of oneness.
You can achieve this individually, and certainly many people have done
so by coming into oneness, by overcoming division in their own beings.
But there is far greater power when a number of you come together in
a physical location and then strive for oneness with each other. For
when you achieve that oneness, here in the material realm, then you
open the door whereby we, in the spiritual realm, can pour out a far
greater measure of light and truth and love.
And so, I congratulate you for this breakthrough even though we are
not at the end of the conference, which means that you can achieve even
more than what was our highest hope for this conference. So you might
give a round of applause for this victory.
[audience applauds]
All you need is love—unconditional love
For in applauding you are releasing even more light, and that of course
is one of the main goals for this conference – the release of
light. For my beloved, you know very well that when you go into a dark
room, you can see nothing. When there is a little bit of light, you
begin to see something, but you also see that there are dark shadows
and you cannot see what is hiding there. And so a little bit of light
can almost be more scary than an entirely dark room. Yet you also know
that as you increase the intensity of light, the shadows disappear.
And so, in a sense, you could say that the light will remove all of
the darkness on Earth. But how shall that light come forth, given the
law of free will? Well, it can come forth only when someone dares to
be the open door through which that light can flow. And when many people
come together in oneness, well, the door is much wider than their individual
numbers, for it is multiplied exponentially.
And so my beloved, this is indeed our goal—to release as much
light as we can through those who are willing to be the open doors for
it. For this will indeed open the door for a new awareness that will
awaken people, so that they will forget about the doom and gloom and
come to realize the eternal truth that the Ma-ter light will gladly
outpicture their vision for a Golden Age. And that the light itself
would prefer to outpicture that vision rather than continue outpicturing
the current limited vision.
Yet my beloved, there is light and then there is light of different
qualities. But there is also something beyond what you normally call
light, for you tend to think of light as something visible to the physical
sight. And so, beyond the light is the source of all light, and that
source is the unconditional love of God. So, my beloved, the key to
transforming your own personal lives, and the key to transforming your
nation and your planet is love—not the conditional, controlling,
possessive, human love, but the unconditional love of God.
And so you have the old song that was brought forth in this country,
with the saying, “All you need is love.” But you see, even
though from a certain viewpoint that statement is true, the context
in which it was given made it a human love based on ego-centered needs,
whereas the reality is that love is not all you need. For if you only
have human love, you can be the most loving human being ever to walk
this earth, but it will not transform society.
What will transform society is the unconditional love of God, but in
order to be the open door for that love, you must have Christ discernment,
so that you do not seek to express love for selfish purposes in order
to gain something, or in order to control others. But you allow it to
flow through you, as El Morya explained
yesterday, where he described the flow of the IS that is the source
of the force of MORE, the source of transcendence. And so you see, my
beloved, having united with that, he has become a representative of
that force of MORE, which is why he has changed his name—to truly
give people the vision of the MORE.
Yet my beloved, all of you have the potential to be open doors for that
flow of love—the flow of love that is unconditional, precisely
because it will not accept status quo. It will not accept any condition
on Earth that keeps people trapped in a lesser state. And that is why
unconditional love will compel people to become MORE, to transcend their
current limitations and rise higher until they truly have the abundant
life, and not what they might conceive of as abundance today, which
is largely a monetary, physical, material abundance.
Why love is power
Now, my beloved, you understand the dynamic that love – unconditional
love – is not the human, sympathetic love that seeks to make people
feel good in a limited situation. It is the living, dynamic love that
compels people to rise above their limitations and become MORE. And
so my beloved, this is the love that I want you to understand, to tune
into.
For it is only when you understand the nature of unconditional love
that you will understand why we have called this conference “Love
IS Power.” For you see, my beloved, human love is not power. It
is indeed, as most humans see it, soft, gentle and therefore it does
not rock the boat. It does not compel people on to transcendence; it
does not compel a society on to transcendence.
And so is it really love to keep humanity in a limited state of consciousness
and a limited state of abundance? No, my beloved, that is not true love.
It is true love to awaken people to their highest potential and to help
them manifest that potential. That, my beloved, is love, and that love
IS power. And so you see in this rosary that you just gave, that there
was a flow in this rosary, and certainly you could have given that rosary
with louder voices that might have sounded more powerful from a traditional
conception of power. But you gave it precisely the way it was meant
to be given, namely as the flow of the unconditional love which does
not need to be loud in order to carry power. And so, in the gentleness
but the steadiness, the unconditionality that will not stop for anything,
is where you have the real power.
Reconsidering male and female roles
For you see, my beloved, the traditional concept of power on this Earth
is as distorted as the traditional concept of love. For the concept
of power is that it is tied to force, so that you must pound against
the wall until you break it down. But my beloved, the real power is
the unconditional power that transforms the wall into a higher vibrational
state, so that it no longer blocks the progress of the light.
And so consider the movie you watched the other day of the traditional
male role, where you see men as powerful and women as more gentle more
loving. Do you see, my beloved, that this very much ties in with what
Master MORE discoursed on today, when he talked about the example he
had attempted to set in his past lifetimes in this nation, of a type
of man that did not believe might is right because he was committed
to higher principles?
Well, my beloved, where does the commitment to principles come from?
It can only come from love, a love for something higher than the ego
self, for something higher than the conditions on this Earth. You love
God, you love the principles of God, more, and therefore you are willing
to align yourself with those principles, come what may in the physical.
This, my beloved, is the matrix that we of the Ascended Host would like
to set—that there is a higher image of what it means to be a man,
and it is perfectly possible and appropriate for a man to express power
in a loving manner, to be loving but still be loving in the way that
is unconditional and does not accept unreality or limitation, but propels
it on to change and transcendence. And when you have, my beloved, men
who can express that kind of love, then do you really have a difference
between the role of men and the role of women?
For my beloved, are not women quite often able to express this kind
of loving power? And do you not see how, in the last several decades,
as women have, so to speak, become more liberated, you see many women
who have entered the workplace or entered politics, and who have been
able to express greater love but still not compromise power. Certainly
you have also seen some women, who, in order to attain positions of
power, have attempted to beat the men at their own game by being more
powerful or controlling or manipulative. But nevertheless, you will
in general see that women are more attuned with their feelings and are
better able to express those feelings.
And so, if you could have an awakening where the men realize that it
is not weak to be loving and to have a love for higher principles, and
the women realize that their love also is a love for higher principles
and not just a human sympathetic love, well then you could see a society
in which the traditional gender roles are simply dissolved and you no
longer have a battle between the sexes. For men and women see each other
as complementary facets of the wholeness of God.
They see themselves, first of all, as spiritual beings who are beyond
sex as you understand it on Earth. And thus, they realize that they
are only temporarily in a male or female body and they are more than
the sex of the body. And thus, they do not have to be trapped in these
traditional gender roles.
But beyond that, they also see that if you are in a male body, you are
meant to express love in a more powerful way, whereas if you are in
a female body, you are meant to express love in a more nurturing way.
For nurturance is not just feeding people to maintain status quo, but
it is giving them the real meat, as Jesus called it, where you give
them the teaching and the love to help them rise higher, and so that
life in the material realm can be a reflection of the reality of the
spiritual realm.
Abuse of power springs from lack of love
And so, when you have this complementary interchange, this complementary
interplay between the transcending love and the nurturing love, well
then society will be propelled beyond the old concepts of love and power.
For do you see, my beloved, what Master MORE was talking about—the
people who have formed a power elite, how they have perverted power
and abused power? But do you see, my beloved, that those who abuse power
do so for one reason only—namely, that they do not have love.
So they do not have real power, the power of God, and therefore they
must take power through force here on Earth and seek to force other
people into submitting to them—and if they will not submit, then
kill them. This is a complete abuse of power, and it is only possible
for people to do this to other people when they have no love for those
other people.
But, my beloved, how can it be that a person can have no love for other
people? Well, as Jesus said, do unto others as you want them to do unto
you, which can be switched and mean: what you do unto others is a reflection
of your state of consciousness. And therefore, what you do unto others,
you have already done to yourself in your own mind. So if you have no
love for other people, it can be for only one reason, namely that you
have no love for yourself—for you do not love yourself, you do
not believe you are a loving person, that you are worthy of love.
And yet, my beloved, how can people come to feel this? Well, it is possible
only because they have been completely blinded by, and absorbed in,
the consciousness of separation from God—the consciousness that
was started by those beings who, in a higher realm – in a higher
sphere, as Maitreya
explains in his book – decided to rebel against God and therefore
separated themselves from God. Do you see, my beloved, that these lifestreams
have separated from God, and thus they cannot experience God’s
love for them?
You see, my beloved, the Creator has the same infinite love for all
lifestreams, regardless of their current state of consciousness. For
did not Jesus say that it rains upon the just and the unjust? So you
see, God’s love is unconditional which means that it is offered
to every life stream, every being. But those who have separated themselves
from God cannot experience that love, for there is only one way to truly
experience God’s love—and that is to come into oneness with
love, to become, as was explained yesterday, the open door whereby that
flow of the love, the flow of IS, the River of Life, can flow through
you and you are one with it.
That is how you experience the fullness of unconditional love, so naturally
when you engage in the consciousness of separation and see yourself
as separated from God, you cannot experience God’s love. And so,
such a lifestream must rationalize that God does not love that lifestream,
and that will inevitably lead to the conclusion that “I am not
lovable.” And even though many of these lifestreams are not consciously
aware of this – and would deny it if they read these words –
I can assure you that at subconscious levels they all believe that they
are not worthy of love.
Misusing power to cover unworthiness
Yet it is very difficult for a lifestream to live with itself if it
feels it is not worthy of love. And so what do lifestreams do in order
to deal with that situation? Well, they must find some way to cover
over the conclusion that they are not worthy of love. And how do they
do this? In many cases by seeking some kind of position on Earth that
makes them seem superior to other people.
For if they can feel that they are better than others, then they can
ignore or forget the sense that they are not worthy of love. In a sense,
what they are doing – often subconsciously – is that they
are doing the same thing as the old story of the fox who could not reach
the grapes and concluded that they were no good anyway, so it didn’t
really want them. They cannot reach God’s love, so they say, “We
don’t want God’s love. Love is weak. Power is better.”
And so, my beloved, when they do not have the love, well then their
power can only be perverted and used for selfish purposes. And so you
see these people and how they suppress others through force because
they have not the love, and thus there is nothing to rein in their power.
And that is why you see some of these lifestreams be willing to go to
almost any length to use their power to destroy those who oppose them.
Yet what you do not see is that they have actually done the exact same
thing to themselves. For as they seek to suppress others through force,
they have already suppressed their own inner beings through force. They
have forcefully denied themselves, their origin as spiritual beings,
their worthiness to rise again and unite with the love of God.
So my beloved, I give you these teachings for several reasons. One is
that you should not allow yourself to fall into the old trap of engaging
in the dualistic struggle. Surely, you need to be aware that there is
a power elite on Earth. You need to be aware of their methods and how
they have influenced society and the mass consciousness. You need to
be aware of their subtle lies. In some cases, you do need to be aware
of who they are in order to stand up and say, “We need to question
those people who are representing a certain state of consciousness.”
Yet you do not fall into the trap of seeing yourself in opposition to
this power elite, or to particular individuals. You do not feel fear
of them, nor anger towards them. For when you unconditionally love yourself,
you can only unconditionally love other people, and the unconditional
love is what the Bible calls the perfect love that will cast out all
fear.
Those who abuse power are consumed by fear
And so you see, my beloved, when you have unconditional love, you are
not afraid of the power elite. You do not feel threatened by them. In
fact, you realize the truth that those who are the most powerful people
are the most afraid. For if they were not afraid, why would they need
the power?
You see, my beloved, when you separate yourself from God, it becomes
possible that a lifestream can cease to exist, that it can go through
the ultimate spiritual death, that we have sometimes called the “second
death,” because it is the death of the lifestream itself, and
not just the temporary death of the physical body. And so, my beloved,
the inevitable companion of the sense of separation is the fear of annihilation,
the fear of the cessation of self.
And for those who are in the duality consciousness, it is a real potential,
but only because they remain in the duality consciousness instead of
stepping outside of it, which they can do at any time. And again, as
it is difficult for people to live with the sense that they are not
lovable, it is difficult for them to live with the sense of fear. And
so the more fear they have, the more they have a need to compensate.
And how do they compensate? They compensate by taking on power on Earth,
by taking power through force. Because if they can make millions of
people in a country believe that they are powerful, well then they can
ignore or gloss over their inner fear, to the point where they almost
don’t feel it anymore.
But you see, my beloved, why is it that some of these powerful people
need millions of people to confirm the illusion that they have power
or that they are fearless? Because if they really knew in their own
beings that they had power and they had no fear, why would they need
other people to confirm their power? So you see, they are also the lifestreams
who have the greatest doubt, and that is why, only when millions of
people follow them, revere them as powerful, only then can they believe
it themselves and therefore push aside their doubt, their fear, their
sense of not being lovable.
And so, this of course holds true for the men that you see take on the
image of being tough men. They also are driven by fear and they compensate
for it through violence because violence is always a way to make other
people fear you. But truly, it can never have a permanent effect in
helping them overcome their fear, for it will always surface again.
And so these people are on an impossible quest that often accelerates
until they lose control of their lives and end up destroying themselves.
And you see this in so-called ordinary people who enter a negative spiral
of anger and violence until they either get themselves killed, or end
up in jail. And this is certainly what you have seen in these boys who
committed the school shootings. It was again their fear, their lack
of self-love. But you have also seen it in some of the “great
leaders” of history, my beloved, such as Hitler, Napoleon, and
others, who in their insatiable quest for more and more power to cover
over their fear, ended up destroying themselves.
Using the power of love to transform society
And so my beloved, the real key to transforming a society is not that
the people use power against the elite who is abusing power and suppressing
the people. The real key is that a critical mass among the people wake
up and realize that the true power IS love. And they connect to the
love they have in their own beings – their love for higher principles,
for higher truth – and then they express that by simply stating
the truth that society needs to change, that the old ways are no longer
working, that it is time to come up higher.
You see, my beloved, when you are still in fear, what you see is that
the people will start a movement, and to some degree it is driven by
a true desire to see improvement in society. But because of the fear,
it always ends up being a scape-goating effort, where the people appoint
somebody as the scapegoat who is responsible for everything that is
wrong in society. So if we only get rid of the scapegoat, we will solve
all of our problems.
This certainly is what you saw in the French Revolution, where the aristocracy
were named as the scapegoat. But in reality, they were just one expression
of the people’s unwillingness to take responsibility for themselves.
And when the aristocracy was removed from power, another power elite
emerged and took over, and thus the people were hardly freer than they
were before.
And the key to breaking this pattern of one power elite taking over
from the existing power elite, is that the people must awaken their
love so they do not need a scapegoat. They do not need to make it seem
like the queen is so bad and that’s why we should get rid of the
monarchy. Instead, they just state the truth that it is time to change
the monarchy in its present form, to ask the questions that need to
be asked.
Because it is a question of recognizing that there is a progressive
movement in the world, as Master Morya talked about, with the River
of Life. And that when society has moved forward to a certain point,
well then the old clothes no longer fit and it is time to throw them
away and get a new wardrobe. And so there will come a point where the
monarchy in its present form has outlived its purpose. And we do not
need to say that it is wrong, that it is bad, that it should be destroyed.
We need to transform it. Perhaps that will mean that we no longer need
a particular institution, but perhaps we need something else as a symbol
for the nation.
Likewise with the Church, it is not necessary to go out and make the
Church seem like an evil institution. But it is necessary to say that
the Church of England is no longer fulfilling the spiritual needs of
the majority of the British people, and that is why they no longer go
to church and they no longer feel that they get the answers they need.
And so it is necessary to seek for a new approach to spirituality that
can meet the needs of the people in this age.
Likewise, you do not need to single out the upper class. You do not
need to be negative towards anyone who has more money than the average.
But you do need to challenge the consciousness that some people are
inherently better than others, and you can challenge that only when
you tune into the unconditional love of God. For my beloved, when you
realize the nature of unconditional love, you see that unconditional
love cannot love some people more than others. For that would be conditional
love, would it not?
Can you accept yourself and receive God’s love?
And so, my beloved, what I desire to see for the spiritual people of
every nation is that they tune in to the love, and that they do it by
following Jesus’ timeless admonishment to look for the beam in
your own eye. Look at yourself, my beloved. Can you accept that you are
worthy of love? Can you understand and accept that if God’s love
truly is unconditional, then it is not a matter of whether you are worthy
or not worthy to receive that love? You are worthy by the mere fact
that you exist, that God created you, that God gave you a spark of its
own Being.
And if you find that you have difficulty accepting these concepts for
yourself, then be willing to work on it, my beloved. For I desire nothing
more than to have you come into that sense that you are worthy, that
you are acceptable to God, and that God loves you unconditionally. For
when you do that, suddenly it will be no struggle to let go of the limitations
that are holding you back. They will just drop from you, and you do
not have to struggle to overcome a certain habit. You will spontaneously
decide that this is no longer necessary in my life. And so, it is gone
instantly.
My beloved, the key to transforming society is the unconditional love.
But that love can only come through those people who have the greatest
spiritual awareness. Yet those people – in order to become the
open doors for love – must be willing to overcome all elements
of the consciousness of separation, all doubt about their own lovability,
and come to the point where you accept yourself. You accept your true
spiritual identity, your own worthiness, and thus you are no longer
afraid to stand up in front of one person or one million people, and
express who you are and what is the higher truth that you see—not
as a matter of belief, but a truth that you know is true, because you
experience it, you have internalized it, you have become one with it.
And thus you can approach the state of consciousness where –
when Jesus was asked by Pontius Pilate “What is truth?”
– well Jesus knew that he was one with truth, which is why he
had already said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
You, my beloved, have a conscious self that, as was so profoundly explained
yesterday, is a spark of God’s own Being, and thus it is infinitely
worthy of God’s love. And it is, in fact, part of infinity and
thus an expression of the infinite, indivisible love of God. For how
can love be unconditional, unless it cannot be divided and therefore
subject to conditions?
Thus, my beloved, ponder these concepts, but first of all take a long
look at yourself. Be willing to recognize that you have all grown up
in a culture where you have been programmed from early childhood, even
in many lifetimes, my beloved. The mass consciousness, the consciousness
of duality, has been pounding on you to make you feel that you are unworthy,
that you are not acceptable. And it is inevitable that you have taken
some of this on.
In fact, many of you have volunteered to take it on in order to transmute
it and show an example for other people. And thus, I am simply reminding
you that you took this on in order to transmute it. So get on with transmuting
it and don’t postpone until tomorrow what you can only accomplish
in the NOW, the Eternal NOW.
As was explained, there comes a point on the spiritual path, where you
have attained a certain spiritual maturity, but unless you actually
dare to acknowledge that and decide that you will accept yourself, well
then, it is not fully manifest. Because it might be in your etheric,
in your mental, and your emotional body, but you have not dared
to let it break through into the outer mind, where you consciously accept
who you are as a spiritual being, as the living Christ.
So simply realize that you are not here to carry this burden for the
rest of your life, to suffer with it. You are here to transcend it,
and thereby demonstrate to other people that they too can transcend
it—that they can transcend the conditional, possessive love and
connect to the unconditional love within themselves, whereby they can
express that unconditional love in their society, and thereby make obsolete
the institutions and individuals who represent the consciousness of
anti-love, namely the abuse of power.
You do not need to battle those who abuse power, as has already been
said. Rise above them and make them obsolete. This is the vision we
hold for you.
And so once again, I congratulate you for your willingness to come into
oneness, and I ask you to play the piece of music that was played before
this dictation. And while it is being played, I desire you to open your
hearts and beings to experiencing the unconditional love of God. Feel
how that love is raining down upon you, washing away all anti-love in
your being, as you are willing to let it go.
And if you cannot fully let it go at the present, well then, do not
get down on yourself for that, but be willing to acknowledge that you
have something to work on. And then work on it with all the tools we
have given, even the tools available in the world, in the field of psychology
and self-help.
And thus, once again, our gratitude for your presence here and your
willingness to come into oneness with each other, whereby you surely
also come into oneness with us.
[Meditation music was played.]
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