THE BEAM IN MY EYES

My first encounter with the statement: 

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 

was in grammar school. Hope I did not carbon date myself with this! Like most religionists, I used to interpret scripture literally. It is the norm in many faith circles.

The mental picture of a beam in my eyes never ceased to stimulate my imagination. I have never checked the mirror though! Time has elapsed and my perspectives have been realigned to match reality. In other words, the Creative Forces and the Christ Consciousness continue to assist the alteration of my awareness.

The process to adjust my realization--though ever chaotic in real time--is a necessary Divine tool for spiritual arousing. God provides such paths for every individual. The route may appear to be turbulent and unsettling but the rewards are worth every ounce of the pains.

Like any exercise to disengage dependence--in this case on the ego self--stormy emotional reactions are inescapable. Attained level of spiritual growth, especially in past incarnations, determines the options available to each soul. The onus lies on the individual to accept or reject the offer.

I preserved the choice free-will to follow or turn away. Thank goodness. My guide prods and I continue to try to cage the ego. Hence my sojourns in different spiritual wildernesses. To outsiders, my spiritual experiences might look like a lack of focus. The opinions of strangers busy bodies never faze me in any way.

I joined and experienced different organizations--esoteric and religious--without long-lasting satisfaction at any stop. At the end of the day, the call came and the unity of all teachings unfolded. Ever since, the clarification continues.

The Master’s quote referenced in the first paragraph is one of the many important principles towards spiritual awakening. With the benefit of the Akashic records, some principles shall be disclosed in this post. In future postings others shall be discussed as directed. The decision to apply any or all is up to each soul.

I used to engage in the genuine religion or true esoteric organization arguments with close associates. My experiences as a practitioner of different religions, I innocently thought, give me unique perspectives to see the speck in opposite creeds.

I never paused to consider the possibility of the tendency to be the beam in my eyes. How wrong was the mistake? The Akashic says:

Be ye mindful that He of whom ye speak, when ye preach, giveth power to the words, only as ye practice it in thine own life. Ye may not expect to succeed in convincing thy brother that he should be patient or kind, or even hear thee unless ye are patient and kind thyself. Don't preach one thing and practice another. For this is inconsistent, and inconsistency is sin, and be sure thy sins will find thee out... Don't keep telling people what they ought to do, nor keep telling them what a great personage thou art, but so live that thy life is consistent with what the word speaketh. For as ye may know, and should know by this period, "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart and mind and body and thy neighbor as thyself," is the whole gospel and as ye live it ye can preach it... For whatsoever a man soweth that he also must reap.  5275-1

My devotion to Christ-based spiritual living has changed everything in my world. Aside from the benefit of being guided by principles from the Book of Record, I also receive direct guidance on any matter. Yes, on any issue if I dare ask.

The problem with asking is that the response might not be what I want. God only gives what I need! Not getting what I think want makes seeking a fearful enterprise. I still grapple with the ramifications in some cases. Nevertheless, I understand that the responses always serve my best interests.

The main law which governs requests from the spiritual realm is: Never act to aggrandize self or trump the Divine Will. By the way, to align my will with His is what co-creating with God is. I shall elaborate on co-creating in a future post.

For the microwave-minded impatient, I do not force guidance. My task is to continue to pray, meditate and apply The Law and Love. In the beginning, I made strenuous efforts to seek guidance. I am now at a point where it comes almost naturally. The catch is that I have to listen to the little voice.

How long has it taken? Though, I cannot actually pinpoint when the manifestation commenced, the present phase of my spiritual journey is seven years and counting. Right here, the I want it right now crowd might back off. 

Exercise your birthright--freewill--on this matter.  It is difficult to categorically state the reasons for the success I have noticed. Most probably, the Creative Forces want to encourage and reward the fidelity of my efforts.

The efforts are centered on living according to The Law and Love, praying and meditating. Once more, The Law and Love is:

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, your body, your soul; and your brother neighbor as yourself.

I strive to allow above injunctions to motivate my thoughts, words and deeds.

Through its application and study of the Akashic records, I have come to the realization that none of my experiences stem from external sources. The issues I have had and will have are due to two facts. One, choices I made in the past. Then, choices I will make every waking moment consciously. 

My decisions are now guided by the mindset of not moving out of His side. It is easy for any soul to find and remain on God’s side. Like all things in nature, there is a prevailing principle-- apply The Law and Love. We could debate its efficacy and reasonability in the material world. It will never change the reality that its application liberates me from doubts and fears. 

The foregoing leads to spiritual awakening. And what is spiritual awakening? It is a consciousness of the latent ability to reestablish a relationship with God, no matter past separations. From this awareness flows the capability to transcend religious and esoteric dogmas. 

I am now able to read any scripture and find the core message about The Law and Love. Also, I am able to separate cultural requirements masquerading as God’s words in all religious texts. Spiritual awakening opens unimaginable vistas in the incorporeal firmament.  

With perseverance, spiritual awakening will lead to the realization of the unity of all creatures in the Creative Forces we call God! Now I can feel the oneness of humanity. Furthermore, I presently appreciate and utilize spiritual information from all scriptures. After all, there is only one God!  

Religion and metaphysical organizations tend to foreclose the profane average mind. By this I mean: there are established boundaries beyond which adherents are not allowed to stray. Put simply, do not go outside our scripture and dictum. Consequently, their adherents tend to suffer from spiritual malnutrition.

    

Since the cessation of my affiliation to any religion or metaphysical school, I have been chipping away at the beam in my eyes. One of the symptoms of its presence was the unnecessary urge to tell others to remove the speck in their eyes. In other words, I failed to identity who needed help most. And that was myself!

The Akashic drives home the point of why my issues are buried deep within. It states:

. . . each soul has a mission in the earth, and is in expression a manifestation of the thought of God, of the First Cause. Thus all stand upon an equal basis before Him. Then, ye have no right to condemn self or to judge others. Let all be done rather, then, as an appreciation of the love, the thought as may be expressed in appreciation to that Creative Force called God. And the greater lessons may be learned from His manifested activity in the earth through Christ Jesus.  2683-1

In addition, I know that God always has the back of His children. He is just and ever ready to forgive, if I ask for forgiveness.  This is what sustains me in spite of my transgressions. However, there is a catch. 

Nowadays, I am liable to expectations of higher standards of conduct. Why? Because I know better. The Master throws down the gauntlet to anyone who has come to the realization thus: 

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

Furthermore, I am aware of another certainty.  To ensure that the present state of affairs never cease, I rely on His Will after the initial rebellion led by Lucifer, subsequent to the creation of all souls. The promise is: 

Then we say, when our loved ones, our heart's desires are taken from us, in what are we to believe? This we find is only answered in that which has been given as His promise, that God hath not willed that any soul should perish but hath with every temptation, every trial, every disappointment made a way of escape or for correcting same. It is not a way of justification only, as by faith, but a way to know, to realize that in these disappointments, separations, there comes the assurance that He cares!  1567-2

…God never willed that any soul should perish. This is what keeps me going when doubts and material worries tend to overwhelm my being. 

Then,…realize that in these disappointments, separations, there comes the assurance that He cares!, shuts the door firmly against the ego. The ego self is the source of my many doubts and fears.

In addition, there is the combo of The Law and Love. Actually, the Creative Force requires me to only live according to The Law and Love. Then, all other goodies will follow. The Creative Force is not interested in my religion or metaphysics. God does not seek perfection from me or any other human. All these I know for sure!

Feel free to try whatever you have read that is appealing. It is never too late.

Let the light of the love the Christ continue to be our guide in all activities.

WHY I FEAR GOD

I do not fear God because He is a tyrant! Religions have etched an erroneous image into our collective memory: an old, gray-bearded, angry, fire-breathing and arbitrary Man, intent to punish any misstep.

In addition, they sell Him as a Man out to visit all sorts of nightmares on those who fail to obey His inconsistent commands. As a Christ-based spiritual living practitioner, I know this is far from the reality. 

One of the objectives of this site is to detail mans’ relationship with God. Not from a religious perspective but from the spiritual. New or casual visitors to this blog should, please, take the time to explore past posts and try to keep up.

A permanent feature in nature is order and predictability. Any form of arbitrariness would have been a recipe for unimaginable catastrophe. So, I am not scared of a wanton Force the Creator.  Rather, a look around and grasp of His wondrous works is what holds me in awe.

It is difficult to put into words the amazement, which arises whenever I try to comprehend God’s our Creator’s marvelous works. Scientific discoveries are just a tip of the iceberg of the phenomena of the Creative Force. The fact that no two blades of grass are the same is astonishing. 

On a patch of any lawn how many blades of grass do you think are there? Take it further. On an NFL a sports pitch it is almost impossible to imagine how many blades of grass are on the surface. Amplify this with all the pitches, parks, lawns, etc. all over the world. Yet, no two blades of grass are exactly the same. Is it not amazing?

How about animals? What makes them know when unfavorable weather conditions are about to set in? For example, why do bears know when to go into hibernation? Before Tsunamis hit, why do animals instinctively head to higher grounds? How do birds feel the imminent arrival of their predators?

Trees shed their leaves in the fall, just before the weather chill wreaks havoc. Mammals and other creatures obey a gestation law that is generally predictable. Who set the laws that guide the development of fetuses? Sow a seed and before you know it, a plant with the potentials to replicate the initial seed many times over is in place.

How about the fact that no two humans have the same finger prints! With over seven billion souls on planet earth, and more to come, is this not mind-boggling? It goes on and on. These are more than mere happenstance. How about the fact that it is only on the earth that life as we know it is capable of surviving?

We have a bloated sense of how important humans are in the overall Cosmic scheme. Images from space, specifically from Mars put paid to such convoluted notions. The earth looks like a dot from the red planet Mars.

Click here, scroll down to a photo with the words: You are here. Before getting there, enjoy the wonders of our Creator as seen from space. At the end, decide on the importance, or lack thereof, of the earth within the universe.

Yet, man continues to defy the Creator. We use our birthright, freewill, to relegate the Source to oblivion. I used to go about my business as if God had no place in all scheme of things.

Somewhat, I harbored a mistaken notion that His counsel and guidance could be shelved whenever my actions were for selfish ends! It was naively convenient for me to pick and choose when to invoke His omniscience and omnipotence.

Now that I am trying to work and walk my way back to Him, recall of some of my past actions, especially to defy God, terrify me.  I am reminded that all along, He was privy to all my shortcomings and shenanigans. Notwithstanding, whenever I felt threatened and sought Him, He was always there.

The commencement of the journey to Him was unpleasant. I used to feel shame and guilt because of my past. Now that I know He is Love and forgiving no matter what, guilt and shame have given way to fear. Fear, is used in a spiritual sense. I try not to make a fool of myself any time I go before His Throne.

Initially, my attempts to go into silence enter His presence seemed to always resuscitate the past. Guilt, shame and embarrassment used to overwhelm me. How come I never came to the present realization much earlier? 

With the benefit of a spiritual law, which frowns against all forms of condemnation, I successfully made the transition. My fear now is to avoid thoughts, words and deeds that would evoke trepidations when I go before the Throne. 

As sages understand and teach, the body, my body is the temple of God. I meet Him at least twice daily via meditation. I try to adhere to the injunction: Be still and know that I am God. This is what meditation is all about. I remind myself to shut-out all thoughts for the duration of silence.

I know I can pray at anytime and anywhere. My efforts to align my motives with the little knowledge I have about the essence of the Creative Forces God has made a world of difference. He knows what I have need of. My part is to defer to His will. This is the path to heaven on earth! 

Anyone can achieve the same level and state of comfort before God. Nothing extraordinary is required. Take it one day at a time. With steadfastness, before you know it, you can come to the same realization. Try it and see for yourself 

Let the light of the love of the Christ continue to guide all our activities.