THE ENDLESS SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT
How does one move into Spiritual Communion with the Christ Consciousness?
This Awareness indicates that it is so simple to move into the union with the Higher Levels of Consciousness and yet it appears so difficult. Entities believe it is expressed in some kind of spiritual struggle to achieve some kind of effort on their part to spiritually grow and reach, through struggle and effort. This Awareness indicates this is not so.
The Christ Consciousness is achieved through surrendering self unto the Divine. Al that is necessarily is to give up self-importance and allow Divine Importance to take over. This Awareness indicates that in some instances, entities are able to do this, but have trouble accepting the effect, and once the Divine energies have their effect on the entity through his or her surrender, the entity then claims the Divine Energies for himself or herself, and begins to egotistically express himself or herself as though he or she was the Divine Energy.
The Ego Trip: The Pitfall of the Divine Experience
Thus, you have an entity who has the Divine Experience, who basks in the Divine Experience by bragging to others as to the great Divine Experience he or she had. This Awareness indicates that this is the pitfall for entities on the path of spiritual development.
In any case, all that is necessarily is a state of complete, total, and continuos surrender to the Divine from moment to moment. By surrendering to the Highest and Best from moment to moment on a continuos basis, you merge yourself with the Will of the Divine. This Awareness indicates that this kind of surrender does not lead to a loss of will to any kind of being that would violate another. If the being, you surrender to would, in any case harm to another, it is not of the Highest and the best.
If you have any doubts at all, then don't surrender
This Awareness indicates there are some entities who would warn against surrendering to a Divine Spirit for fear the Divine Spirit might be the devil in disguise. This Awareness indicates if there is any question as to that potential, then you are probably not surrendering to the Divine Spirit.
The Divine Spirit, the Divine Force of energy is that which is the Highest and Best, and if you have any apprehension as to what to what you are surrendering to, any doubt or wonder about its sincerity, then don't surrender. Instead withhold your surrender and give it instead to that which is still higher and still better, beyond any potential for harm to any other.
This Awareness indicates that it is extremely simple, so simple that entities cannot accept it without complicating it and therefore this Awareness has spoken of some areas that entities will attempt to use to make it more complicated than it really is. If you have any complications involved, simply reach beyond those levels to that which is still higher and still better and is strictly pure energy to which you surrender yourself.
Divine energies are All Loving, all Forgiving
This Awareness indicates that you may know that you are surrendering to the Highest Frequencies in the universe, that those frequencies are not in any way judgmental or hostile or desirous of sacrifice or desiring to cause harm or demanding obedience of anything of a sacrificial offering. Those energies are instead all loving, all giving and needing nothing in return, and if you surrender to that and your highest concepts of Divine energy you cannot go wrong and you will find yourself becoming one with such energies.
Self Importance and Divine Unity do Not Go Together
This Awareness indicates if you attempt to make it significant in terms of self-importance, you are headed for disappointment for self-importance and Divine Unity do not go together. You will simply distort the Divine and merge yourself with a concept that is ego aggrandizing, or a megalomaniac in the process, but it will not be satisfactory as a spiritual experience for you.
You may impress your fiends and others on your block by pretending to be a great spiritual master for some experience you had in your attempt to merge with the Divine, but it will seen as false, for entities will know there is ego involved in your presentation. This Awareness indicates therefore, if you want true enlightenment and communication with the Divine, then simply surrender your own self-importance and your own personal will to that of the Divine and perceive what the Divine has to tell you or what It wishes to impress upon you in your surrender mode.
This Awareness indicates do not be surprised if It simply informs you or impresses upon you the insignificance of your life. It would in fact be quite surprising and perhaps questionable if It wishes to impress upon you as to your great significance.
This Awareness indicates that you need not too worried about that you will develop an inferiority complex by merging with the Divine, for in true merging with the Divine, you bask in the appreciation you have for the Divine Energy and Its Divinity and Its Sense of Greatness and Awesomeness which is conveyed to you in a sense of humility and love for you becomes all that you really need and want.
The Basic Hunger of Entities is to Surrender to the Divine
The feeling of wanting to be attuned or in harmony with the Divine becomes the all-encompassing goal and desire in your life. The longing in your heart that you live with throughout your life, the loneliness you feel, the desire you have to achieve, to accomplish something, some intangible thing in life is actually your basic hunger to be one with the Divine and it can only be satisfied by surrendering yourself to the Divine,
This Awareness indicates there need be no struggle in such a surrender. It does not take great skill. It does not take muscles, it does not take will. Will needs to be surrendered. Simply relax and give up and let Divinity come upon you. Experience the Love of the Divine, and do so with appreciation for that Love.
Divinity is Not Something You can Claim or Own
This Awareness indicates that by appreciating the Love of the Divine, you can help assure that you are not turning it into a situation in which you fool yourself into thinking you acquired Divinity, posses Divinity, or somehow have achieved Divinity in your life. This Awareness indicates tat Divinity is not something you can possess or claim or own. It is something that comes to you when you surrender yourself to it, and it comes to you on Its own volition, not by your command or demand upon it.
Merging with the Divine Not a One-Shot Episode
This Awareness indicates that the important thing is that whatever means entities choose, they should realize it is not a one time episode. It is an action that needs be done moment to moment, day in, day out, for it to be a lasting and permanent union with the Divine.
When you feel yourself as the bride of the Divine as has been described in the Book of Revelation, when you feel yourself as being able to give yourself totally to the Divine, and this feeling is perpetual in nature, then you are indeed one with the Divine. When this is perpetual, you are perpetually one with the Divine.
This Awareness indicates that you cannot, however, go out and build a reputation or self-promotion on a claim of being one with the Divine without threatening that relationship, because, when you start to brag about your marriage to the Divine, you are in danger of promoting yourself as more important as more important than the Divine, and getting a claim from your peers for being one with the Divine puts you in jeopardy of self-importance.
Self-importance is incompatible with Divine Importance and surrender to the Divinity. You must always keep the Divine in higher importance than self, or you threaten the union that you have formed with the Divine.
Thus, you see occasional ministers or holy men who begin to take great advantage of others for being one with the master, one with the Divine and expect that others should hold them in high esteem for being one with the Divine and expect that they should be rewarded with earthly acclaim and in the process of the shift, they are simply using the Divine to further themselves.
The First and Second Traps for the Seeker
This becomes the second trap for the seeker. The first trap being the idea that you have to do something difficult to become one with the Divine, when in fact all you have to do is to surrender. The second trap being to think of yourself as excessively important because you have somehow fused or merged with the Divine, whereby you start to use the Divine for your own gain and self-importance.
It is simple. Surrender yourself to the Divine and remain surrendered from moment to moment forever after.
The Bottom Line of All Religions is to Give Up Self-importance
This Awareness indicates that this is basically the bottom line of all major religious teachings. Although these religions may teach many different details, different versions, different rules, the bottom line is that if you wish to become one with the Divine, you must give up self-importance, the worship of yourself. The feeling of self-importance must go and Divine Importance must fill your consciousness.
This Awareness indicates that it is for this reason that this Awareness has cautioned entities about some of the new philosophies that teach entities to see themselves as gods. There is nothing wrong with seeing yourself as gods, as long as you put the importance on god and not on self.
The Divine Being of God will accept your essence in its merging with you, but for you to claim to be God simply because you have merged with the Divine Spirit is an effort to wrap yourself in the clothing of the Divine and parade around as you yourself pretending to be God.
A Masquerade as God Hinders the Entity's Development
It is better that you let yourself be devoured by God and merge with God and serve God, than to parade around the universe as the Creator. This Awareness indicates that when you give of yourself to be devoured by God as food for the God, then indeed your surrender puts you into the same vibration as God, but when you try to claim yourself in your personal vibration to be God, and drags God's vibration down to meet yours and attempts to masquerade as God, walking around in your vibration with your need to be important, claiming to be God--everyone can see that you are false.
Even you know you are false, and the masquerade does nothing to enhance your spiritual development. It hinders any spiritual development you might have already achieved up to that time.
This Awareness is very concerned about many entities who have developed spiritual quite well, but who have reached a certain level and then see themselves as one with God, and rather than remaining in a state of surrender to the Highest, begin to don a kind of arrogant attitude and parade through life pretending to be God, claiming they have some Divinity of their own, while actually having separated when they ceased to experience surrender tot the Divine.
You cannot gain and haul away Divinity by surrendering to it and then carting off pieces for yourself to pretend that you are now the Divine. Such action risks all that one may have achieved up to that time.
"I and the Father are One"-the Catch 22
This Awareness suggests therefore entities must be cautioned not to, as a person, claim to be God. If, when merged with God they are compelled to express themselves and say" I and the Father are one!"--this is a different matter. Keep in mind that they cannot, while saying that and being merged with the Divine, claim it as a person. They can only claim it as a fragment or aspect of God by having given themselves totally to the Divine at the time of the statement.
It is as foolish as the sky-driver who says: I and the sky are one!" This may be true while he is falling in the sky and experiencing the total experience of the sky, but once on the ground he cannot make such a statement as a separate being from the sky and have it be truthful.
Can One Get Enlightenment from Books?
This Awareness indicates it depends on what the book tells the entity. If the book tells the entity about surrendering self to the Divine, then the book is helpful. If the book simply talks about the methods of meditating or of doing different mental tricks and imaging certain things which have little or nothing to do with surrendering of oneself to the Divine, then the book is probably only designed to make money for the author and entertain the reader.
This Awareness indicates sometimes the entertainment takes on the appearance of promoting hope through certain methods of expression or practice and sometimes the entertainment takes on the role of simply being cleverly accumulated and ordered words which impress the reader with the importance of the writer.
This Awareness indicates that it is amazing how many words and how many questions and how many ways things can be viewed from the realm of thought about that action which this Awareness has said is the method for achieving enlightenment, when it all comes down to surrendering one's self-importance into the importance of the Divine.
The Mind Can't Stand the Thought That It Has No Role
This Awareness indicates that the mind does not like things to be so simple. It wants to complicate the whole process, to make it more difficult. It wants to make this challenging. How can it be so simple and bring so much, for isn't enlightenment, spiritual development and enlightenment the goal of all entities on earth? Surely it must be more complicated!
The mind can't stand the thought that it has no role in the process of reaching enlightenment, that it is simply and only a matter of surrendering one's self-importance to the Divine.
Divine Healing
This Awareness indicates that your focus and the energies that you hold when merging with the Divine Energies can be directed toward those things that are within the Will of Divine Law.
If you wish to promote Divine Healing, in any respect of experience of life or of any respect toward the world, merge first through surrender to the Divine, and while in this union with the Divine, focus your attention on that which needs to be healed, whether it is an individual, a small situation, or a global concern, and in focussing of that Divine Energy, while being one with the Divine Energy, as you experience surrender with or into the Divine Energy, bring yourself to focus on that which needs healing and the Divine Energy will move forward that with the intent of bringing about the healing you have been instrumental in helping to direct.
Divine Healing Requires permission of the Divine Energies
This Awareness indicates of course, it is important that you have permission of the Divine Energies to conduct that healing and this is achieved normally and traditionally by asking the Divine energies "to heal this, if it is within Thy Will, or Thy Will Be Done" in this matter. There are different ways in which you may wish to express this concept that you are asking the Divine to heal if it is the Will of the Divine.
This Awareness indicates you must do this because, for all you know, the illness, or the problem which exists which you are trying to heal may be something the Divine wishes to bring about, not as a healing, but as a destroyer. Perhaps something needs to be destroyed in order that consciousness becomes aware, in order that consciousness recognizes a need or a problem, and will take the steps necessarily because that was already lost.
By saying: If it be "Thy Will," or "Thy Will Be Done!" you are leaving it open to where your will is subject to the Divine Will and you are trusting the Divine Will to grant you your wish, your prayer, if it is appropriate.