To Master Self Is To Master Life
excerpts from pages 170-174

The Cleansing Power of Truth

With every problem there is a solution. With every experience  there is a lesson to be learned, not just intellectualized but acted upon to overcome and go higher. Don't concern yourself with where these thoughts come from. Truth is truth no matter whether from your own understanding or from one of us outside of yourself.  And if we all follow ultimate truth, we cannot help but be united on every level in this work.

God Is the Only Reality

We want you to refrain from thinking of us here and you there. There is no separation internally. Spirit world is the world of heart where what you think and feel is also what you are. There can be no illusions here unless you choose to accept the illusions as fact, and then for you that illusion becomes reality.  It is not different on earth. How many, believing that they are right, are willing even to die for their cause! Religious zealots, politicians, people of all kinds of ideologies propound their mental wares as absolute fact. It is an illusion and it has power to cause people to act because they cannot see otherwise. There is only one fact in the world and that is God! Only those lives lived totally according to the ultimate truth of life have substance. All else is illusion. That truth comes from the mind of God Himself. Life as He envisioned it is ultimate reality. That vision has never changed, never once! All the illusions of man, all the half-truths and "derivative-isms" in life, have derailed him and sent him down pathways to disillusion. Over and over has man thwarted God's grand vision. None of us has known this fully. And so the plight of human history is suffering. You cannot follow that which is partially true and be either successful or happy. None--including God--has ever been truly happy, because His ideal, His grand vision, has not been realized.

Awaken from False and Hypnotic Illusions

But, mankind continues to suffer because mankind has not awakened from the hypnotic power of illusions--visions of false grandeur and false happiness. Men go on cranking out unhappiness for themselves and others. We all suffer from each others'  misuse of energy. Look at the world around you and see the misused energies. See them reflected in everyday tragedies from individual battles, suffering and struggles, to all-out war. This is not the world the Creator, in all His love and truth, had in mind. Even He is alienated from earth, while at the same time bound to earth by cords of compassion and love. Worse still, even He is overwhelmed by "what man hath wrought" upon this planet. Even He is frightened for man. Because until enough men and women on earth realize earth's future lies in their hands, He cannot act. He cannot remold man in a moment, nor undo the historical tragedies in a twinkling of the eye. Man must reverse his course. He cannot simply create a new and better world upon the trash heap of yesteryear's failures. Man must clean up the earth physically and spiritually. And he must cleanse himself and create a new world order. Mankind in mutual cooperation must do this. We need such men and women.

Repentance Cleanses the Debris of the Heart

The formula we have imparted here applies not only to Mother Earth and her children collectively, but also to each of us individually. We purposely include the word "us" for we in spirit are bound to this earth to help clean it and its inhabitants. For it is mankind's past and present cumulative misuse of His energy that has seeped into and poisoned not only the earth, but man himself.  The formula indicates that you cannot simply expect to push away all of your misdeeds and their resultant energies and be free and born anew. Each of you too must dig deep into the soil of yourselves--and we mean this word to have actual meaning--and you must cleanse yourselves as well as create a new you.   You cannot simply step over your misuse of energy and expect it not to resurface somewhere from underneath the soil of your heart. Repentance is that action which burns up and cleans up the debris you thought you had left behind and covered up. You must see these things within yourself and confess them so that together you, we, and God can purge you of the old and unwanted. To try to cover it all up with pretense to peace and happiness is begging for trouble--just as while a body can appear entirely healthy it can, at the same time, be filled with cancer.

We do not speak lightly of all of this, nor are we interested in the beauty of our commentary. What we have said is truth. It may cause difficulty. If it does so to the point it makes you love yourselves more, seeing your inner realities and working systematically to change, then so be it!    In the end, these words are not of accusation but of love. Some of you want freedom from all pain. But, truthfully, you are all suffering from spiritual, inherited diseases. We can give you a sugar coated pill "to make the medicine go down in a most delightful way," but it is unrealistic. We do that usually to shield you from too much too soon. But our message today is not for that purpose.

The power of the truth must do its internal work to cleanse you. This starts in the mind. We seek to impress your mind by some relatively jarring frankness so that a kind of crisis is created to cause you to sense an emergency and move toward quick and decisive action.

Pursue Only Eternal Values

The problem is illusions. Because you cannot see beyond what your physical life has shown you, you do not see at all or at least very little of the true effects of the misaligned causes within your soul. And you perceive incorrectly that you have plenty of time, and think that tomorrow will be soon enough to change or act. Time is a thief. And it speeds by faster than you perceive.In his illusions, man uses his time here on earth for strictly material/physical purposes. He indulges in activities that do indeed have their consequences in spirit, but he is not bothered because he does not see their results--otherwise he would be shocked and ashamed! He carries upon his own soul, upon his own spirit-face, upon his own spirit-body, and within his total spiritual energies the scars, the marks, the distortions and twistedness of all of his misdeeds on earth. This is frightening to behold in spirit and at its extreme is absolutely repulsive.

We weep to see man's ignorance of these ultimate realities. No one is free of consequences. "What you sow, you also reap." And everyone has distortions in their perceptions of reality. Consequently, we are not speaking to a few dregs of the earth as those who consider themselves above all this might think. No, we speak to all humanity. All humanity. There are no exceptions. After you realize your inner self, act quickly to clean it up, to get rid of the old by dealing with it. In spiritual terms we first see our wrongs, our twisted natures. Then we voice them in enumerating them before heaven, and we seek to give them up and turn them over by a contrite heart and determination not to redo the wrongs, not even to dwell on them. This we call the act of  repentance: to "turn away from."

Transformation: the Result of Acting According to Truth

Now begins the real work: to act according to truth and to be so imbued with truth and truthfulness that we can't help but act in accordance with it regardless of our feelings. You must now visualize the new you. You must animate it with life, with breath, and you must bring it into existence through the proper use of your life energies--this we call acting in accordance with the truth irrespective of feelings. This act we call "transformation." You must transform your life. You must become master of your energies in accordance with God's will. Love is the igniter of this action and the fuel that keeps the flame of desire to transform alive. But, due to distortions in love and wrong perceptions, we must also direct our love according to God's will or God's truth. To those who think of love in romantic, poetic, or sweet terms, this may seem cold. But, from a higher level as seen by us, love is an energy, a vibration within your soul and it too must be directed and managed. Otherwise, it can and often does direct and manage your reasoning mind. This is backwards. Love is truly sweet when it is elevated to the highest level. But, on the way it can be our enemy until we have understood the emotions of love and mastered them. You all know the truth that we speak by your life experiences--you are endowed with love through His gift in you. But, it is not to be wasted or misused, or it will be turned from a gift that brings joy and eternal happiness to a curse that brings endless sorrow.

Become Master of Your Feelings

We close with feelings. Do not trust them until you are master over them. By that time you will know yourself and what you can and cannot trust in your feelings. Until humanity is elevated back to the very heart of God--cemented in its center and He in the center of their hearts--man cannot trust his feelings to be objective, true, or principled. If we all were to do just what we feel,  we would be animals. And the lowest realms of this world of spirit are populated with those who lived according to their feelings and did what their feelings led them to do. They are suffering the consequences of such a loose and animal life by living in the form of an animal. It is more than appalling to behold.

Make gods of no one, nor of any man-made ideas. Seek the God of this life and all life and raise your being to Him day after day. This and this alone will dispel illusions, raise the mind to its proper level, and cleanse the heart in the soil of the human soul. Turn from the past and transform your energies into pure white light. Then take your seat among the few who have dared to live a life on earth so as to receive joy eternal!

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