Food For Thought

Aquarius123 · Nov 27, 2015

The Road From Sinner To Sainthood

Part Two

Mercy And Forgiveness

Compassion and love, mercy and forgiveness are the Divine characteristics that awaken in you quite naturally when you finally grasp that whatever once happened on the Earth plane – and still does in some parts of your world – has always been and to this day is doing so for wise educational reasons. This is My way of teaching all of you, as a race of young Gods in the making, your most vital evolutionary lessons. Once you have gained the gift of hindsight, you will be able to see for yourself that for all of you there is every reason to be grateful for the experiences of the past.

Before Me, each one of you is of equal value and loved totally and unconditionally, and that this is true from the most highly evolved souls down to the smallest and least significant, the dirtiest, smelliest and most miserable members of the human race. The more you work with and practise My Divine characteristics, the more your consciousness expands and your energies and vibrations grow lighter. And that is the only means by which human souls can draw ever closer into the loving reunion with Me on the highest levels of life.

Wise ones, who are aware of these things, refuse to peer down their noses onto anyone and that includes those who at present have to do battle with experiencing the depths of human depravity and desolation. At the sight of the suffering of these poor souls the wise one’s own soul memories stir within and an aching feeling of compassion and love opens their hearts. Their whole being fills with a great yearning to help their younger siblings and do whatever is within their power to alleviate any kind of suffering that is in your world.

For each one of you it is also necessary to look at yourselves and your ways of the past with compassion and love. This becomes easier when you understand that what you experienced in your role as one of the sinners of your world is an essential part of everyone’s evolutionary pathway. The first section of this road takes you down into experiencing the lowest and darkest corners of human existence and the deepest depths of deprivation, humiliation and despair. And for each one of you it is true that every step of the way, for a very long time unbeknown to your small earthly self, I, your Highest or God Self, the living God who is part of you, is with you.

Never forget that each time you reach the bottom of any kind of a pit, there is nowhere to go but in an upwards direction. When you truly have had enough of exploring one field of experience and cannot take any more, I am the one, your Spirit Self, who mercifully takes you out of it. This is how slowly but surely, lifetime after lifetime your Angels and Masters, friends and helpers in the world of light, on My behalf and demand move you forwards and upwards. This continues until you are at last ready to return into the conscious awareness of your true nature and your oneness with Me. The Christian hymn below is speaking the truth, although it is not Jesus, a force outside of yourself, but Me and My messengers who accompany you on the highways and byways of life that lead every human soul from the state of sinner to that which is known as sainthood and spiritual Mastership.

You shall cross the barren desert,
But you shall not die of thirst.
You shall wander far in safety,
Though you do not know the way.
You shall speak your words to foreign men,
And they will understand.
You shall see the face of God and live.

Refrain:
Be not afraid.
I go before you always.
Come, follow Me
And I will give you rest.

If you pass through raging waters,
In the sea you shall not drown.
If you walk amid the burning flames,
You shall not be harmed.
If you stand before the power of hell
And death is at your side,
Know that I am with you through it all.

And when I told you in the Bible’s St. John 6:40: ‘My Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.’ When approached from a higher standpoint, it is easy to see that this teaching is neither a lie nor an empty promise, because esoterically the last day stands for the final stage of every soul’s earthly curriculum. When all its lessons have been successfully absorbed by you and this plane of life has nothing left to offer you, you will be allowed to leave Mother Earth’s environment.

As soon as no further lifetimes in physicality are required by you, the Angels will lift you out of it and take you to continue your studies on ever higher and more exalted levels of life. Up to the highest every one of you will eventually journey, back into the fully conscious oneness with Me. All your friends and helpers in the world of light, and especially the Angels will then no longer be invisible to you and travelling incognito with you. You will be able to see them and talk with them to your heart’s delight. But to ensure that these things will come to pass for you, it is of vital importance that you patiently and willingly surrender your ego desires and submit yourself to whatever earthly lessons are still in store for you, so that even the last one of your Karmic debts will be paid in full.

From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World

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Aquarius123 · Nov 28, 2015

The Road From Sinner To Sainthood

Part Three

Know Yourself And You Will Know God

Rolling stoned, gathering no moss
nothing ever gained, so nothing lost
don’t stop to count the cost

Rolling stoned, feeling no pain
burned out memories, no shame
ready and willing to play your game

Rolling stoned, there’s nothing to hate
bad things happen, that’s just fate
can’t change the past, it’s way too late

Rolling stoned, can’t find peace
the needle offers no relief
still too many secrets to keep

Rolling stoned . . . maybe it does gather moss
I can’t count how much hell it cost
and how damned much I have lost

Julia WF

All you human souls in distress, the stone of the misery of your fears and anxieties about the future and the unknown, the fragility, uncertainty and precariousness of your earthly existence, has come rolling to My feet. Through the Jesus legend I told you in St. Matthew 11:28: ‘Come to me, all who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.’ The figure of the man Jesus is but a symbolism for Me, the living God within you. Because I am part of you, not one of the tears you ever shed and your plaintive cries have been unseen and unheard. I have always been with you and I am now picking you up and taking you into My loving heart. Never again will I let go of you and allow you to dwell in the misery of thinking that you are alone in the tests and trials of earthly life.

Bring Me your burdens. Tell Me about them and then listen within, so I can help you to work your way through and find resolutions even for the most difficult relationships and situations you encounter. Whenever you do not understand something, do not judge hastily and as a result of this react in the wrong way. Leave your problem with Me and wait until I show you intuitively how to proceed. Discrimination is one of the most vital lessons of Earth life for you at present. Take care to discern between advice you receive from Me, your Highest Self, and that which has its origin in your small earthly self, the small and frightened part of you that loves to jump to conclusions and acting in too much haste and without due forethought.

All of you are longing for safety and certainty. Yet, for as long as you search for it on the Earth plane, you are bound to fail. True and everlasting security can only grow in you organically when you get to know who and what you truly are, what kind of a destiny awaits you, where you have come from and where one day you will be returning to. So that in the end you find your back to Me and my world and its values, your true home, Earth life has purposely been designed to keep you from finding the things you are longing for most there. And for as long as human souls lack the awareness that life serves a higher purpose to which they can and indeed are required to dedicate their life’s work, it is all too easy for them to get sucked into a downwards spinning maelstrom of feelings of futility and hopelessness.

When the going gets rough and you cannot see a way out of your misery, as it has to do for all of you now and again, Earth life may seem like a depressing dark and endless tunnel that seems to have no light shining at its end. You may seek oblivion in alcohol and drugs of any kind, but it does not take long until you discover for yourself that they are not the answer. The temporary relief they bring with time only pulls you deeper into the moods of despondency and despair. For all human souls there eventually comes a moment of awakening when you realise with ever greater certainty that you must be on a wrong track and that it may be time for looking whether life could have some higher things to offer you.

Eventually you go off in search for Me. For a long time during this quest, you may roll to the ends of the Earth and bark up any tree that looks promising, unaware of the fact that in order to find Me all you have to do is go within. There comes a moment when you wait no longer and look around inside you now, to see what might be there for you and come to greet you. After having tried all the wrong ways first, at last you are now on the right track. Now every step of your pilgrimage through Eternity consciously takes you back to Me.

Your feelings of being lost and alone on the Earth plane were part of My grand design of life, in which nothing anywhere happens perchance or by coincidence. This plan has always provided that some real progress on the evolutionary spiral of life can only be made by those who make it their business to find out who they truly are and who I am. Hence the old adage: ‘Woman/man know yourself and you will know God and the Universe.’

Those who to this day think of Me as some far distant force that is outside of you and beyond your reach, you could not be more wrong. Being part of you, I know you and your true requirements better than you will ever be aware of yourselves. I am familiar with all the suffering and pain that ever had to endured by you. On the long road from sinner to saint I am with each one of you, from its very beginning to the end. It is a long and demanding pathway, to be sure, but what else would you expect for aspiring young Gods?

Only when the demands of this section of your education have been satisfied and your vibrations have become sufficiently lighter, can the Angels and I move you forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life. You then begin to experience its higher manifestations and from this point onwards you gradually proceed on to the highest levels of life. Bearing in mind who you truly are, it is hardly surprising that this thoroughfare, along which every earthling has to travel back home into the oneness with Me, is strewn with stones of all shapes and sizes. They range from the smallest pebbles to the biggest boulders and each one of them represents one of the obstacles you have to grapple with and learn to overcome.

Soren Kierkegaard spoke the truth when he wrote: ‘God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but God does what is still more wonderful: s/he makes saints out of sinners.’ As always, there is much more to this than meets the eye. No-one will come and make a sinner into a saint for you. You alone can and have to do it, for you are the one who is in command of the ship of your whole being. It is the God part of you, the living God within, who gradually pulls you forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life. I am this aspect of your nature and I am the one who, in the fullness of time helps every last sinner of the Earth plane to evolve into one of its saints.

And if My words are speaking to your heart and soul and even if you only get a small amount of relief from them, if you know someone who is suffering like you, do not forget to share what you are finding here.

Dedicated to Julia, who inspired this new chapter of my jottings,
and to all those who are searching and suffering like her,

With love – Aquarius

From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’

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Aquarius123 · Nov 29, 2015

The Road From Sinner To Sainthood

Part Three

Mercy

The Great Father/Mother of all life is love.
This is a love that truly understands all.
Being the creator of the great plan of life,
It knows each human soul’s development
From beginning to end and
Needs no telling that each one of us can only
Save and redeem ourselves and make up for our sins.

That’s why this love forgives all and
What God has forgiven we surely can pardon too.
No-one has the right to dwell upon
Sins that have been truly repented
And forgiven by God.

The sinner of today is the saint of tomorrow.
So let us be unmindful of the sins
And shortcomings of our neighbours and
Instead look for our own imperfections
And see what is in need of change there.

Eckhart von Hochheim
Circa 1260 – 1327
Known as Meister Eckhart
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’

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Aquarius123 · Nov 30, 2015

The Road From Sinner To Sainthood

Part Four

You Never Walk Alone

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.

Walk on, through the wind.
Walk on, through the rain.
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart,
And you’ll never walk alone,
You’ll never walk alone.

Richard Rogers

From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 7, 2015

White Magic And Black Magic

God’s nature and our own is one of duality. Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine, highest and lowest, Heaven and Earth and so forth. The world around us reflects these dualities and polarities. It is a realm of ideas and every one of them has a lower and higher, positive and negative aspect, and can be used for good or evil purposes. The choice is ours which side we would like to align ourselves to. Learning about the abuse of the idea of brotherhood – I prefer the words kinship or siblinghood, whilst in pursuit of power, has always been part of the equipment used by every regime our world has ever seen, religious and otherwise, at least during the history that is known to us. It is used by the countries and organisations that to this day attempt – and in many cases so far succeed – to suppress the natural and God-given rights and privileges of their siblings in the great family of humankind.

The centuries old struggle between Christianity and Islam has always been but one of the many expressions of this struggle. Yet, even this can only continue for as long as the members of the warring factions on both sides remain stuck in the past, unaware. of their true nature and therefore failing to grasp the reason why they are here. There is no doubt in my mind that this too will eventually have run its course and disappear from our world. It will do so with the passing of time when every one of the belief systems that still exists in our world returns to their common spiritual roots, when people become aware of their true nature and their relationship with the Divine. All of us will then realise that in truth there is only one God to whom the various religions have been praying in different ways. There could be no better example for this than Sufism, the seed faith of Islam that comes from the heart and teaches tolerance, love and respect for ourselves, each other and all life. The Sufis are the Gnostics of the Islamic world.

We are all in this wonderful school of life together, so that we may act both as teachers and pupils to each other. For this purpose some of us, at any given time, may find themselves at the giving and others at the receiving end of every type of experience. Good, bad and indifferent ones alike, each one is only there to teach us something. That is the only way every soul can imbibe the lessons it requires on its evolutionary pathway back home into the awareness of its true reality and the oneness with God.

The teacher/pupil principle is also true for those who to this day are doing their utmost to lead us and our world down the slippery slope of warmongering and evil. Whether someone is as yet aware of this or not, all evil deeds create alliances with the dark forces of the Universe and are in fact black magic practises. The sole purpose of these experiences is to help us and our world to differentiate between darkness and light, good and evil. The lessons of evil have to be absorbed as thoroughly by each one of us as the ones of good. Only by each one of us personally wading through the suffering that is created by evil can every individual soul and the soul of our world reach the bottom of the pit of evil.

Not until we have learnt our lesson and in our desperation at last turn to God and the Angels to ask for their assistance, are they willing to show us how to find the turning point of our development. In the end all human souls through their own experiences have to reach the bottom of the evolutionary spiral of life. Only then can they begin to move in an upwards direction that consist of experiencing the polar opposite of evil in the compassion, tolerance and kindness of Universal love, again at the giving and the receiving end.

The zodiac with its opposing signs and houses and their energies clearly depicts every soul’s evolutionary pathway through life. It is a spiral that first takes us down to experience and become familiar with the negative aspects of each sign and then gradually upwards so that we can make their higher and highest qualities our own. The zodiac is a symbol of the wheel of life or fortune. Round and round we go on this wheel, one lifetime after another. The negative Karma accrued on the downwards slope has to be made good and redeemed on the upwards one, until the balance of our spiritual account in the great book of life has been restored. That in a nutshell is the road from sinner to sainthood, which every soul on its evolutionary pathway is constantly travelling.

And when the going gets too touch, anyone who reaches out for the blessing and healing hands of God and the Angels and prays for their assistance, does receive it. Our pleas align us to the Universal forces of goodness and light. If we respond in the right way to what the Highest are giving to us, we slowly begin to evolve into channels of light who are capable of acting as lightbringers for our world. This makes us valuable instruments in the hands of the Divine forces and when they work through us we are taking part in and practising white magic. As increasing amounts of spiritual wisdom and understanding flow through us onto the Earth plane and ever more of those around us are waking up to their true nature, they too begin to feel drawn quite naturally into the energies of this higher stream of life.

That is how down the ages every individual consciousness and that of our world has slowly but surely been expanding and growing. It is a process that will continue until every last shred of darkness and evil in our world has been dissolved, uplifted and transmuted by the forces of goodness and light into blessing, healing and harmonising energies for all. And when finally every one of us on the Earth plane is operating on the same positive wavelength, peace and goodwill to all life will once more reign.

All of us together are responsible not only for our own development but also for that of our world. The right way of making a valid contribution towards achieving this state of affairs is by living not merely to enjoy ourselves, but for the beautification and benefit of our planet. Even the smallest of efforts in that direction by any one of us moves the spiritual evolution of the whole of Creation forwards and upwards.

Recommended Reading:

‘The Road From Sinner To Sainthood’

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From ‘Our World In Transition’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 8, 2015

A Visit From Wisdom

Or

The Guardian Angel

One day, when I was in deep despair and could no longer
See the way forward on my pathway through life,
I prayed for the wisdom and love of
The Great Mother of all life to come to my help.
In dreamtime in the stillness of that night
One of Her Angels came and stood by my side.
It gazed upon me like a tender mother,
Wiped away my tears and said:
‘I have heard the cry of your soul
And have come to comfort you.
Open your heart to me, so it can be filled with God’s light
Of wisdom, truth and knowledge,
Which flows through me into you.
Whatever is troubling you, tell me about it
And the wisdom of Divine Mother
Will speak to you and tell you what you need to know.’

Encouraged by this, I replied:
‘Who am I, beloved Angel and messenger of God?
How did I come to this frightening place, the Earth?
What are the mighty hopes, the many books
And strange patterns I encounter?
What are the thoughts that pass
Through my mind like doves in flight?
And the words that seem to be composed by
My desires and sung by my delights?

‘What are the conclusions, grievous and joyous alike,
That embrace my spirit and fill my heart?
Whose are the eyes that are looking at me,
Can see into the depths of my inner most being
And watch me when I am trying to flee from my sorrows?
Whose is the voice that I hear mourning throughout my days,
Chanting of my human smallness and unimportance?
Who or what is it that plays with my desires
And mocks my longings, is forgetful of yesterday’s deeds
And rejoices in the paltry things of the moment,
And at the same time is fearful of tomorrow’s coming?

‘What is this world that gets me to despise myself
And leads me to I do not know where?
What is this planet that opens its mouth wide to swallow
Animal and human bodies alike and nurtures
Evil things as well as good ones on its breast?
Who is this creature that is satisfied with the love of fortune,
When it knows full well that beyond it lies
Nothing but a union with the grave?
Who is this being that seeks life’s kiss whilst death smites it,
That brings us human beings minutes of pleasure
That sometimes can be followed by years
Of regret and repentance?
Who gives itself to slumber at times and is guided by dreams?
And what happens to those who flow down the rivers of folly
To the sea of darkness?
O Angel, please help me to understand.’

The Angel replied:
‘You are on the Earth plane to learn how to look at life
Through the eyes of God, your Highest Self.
First and foremost you are a spirit and soul.
In truth, you are a young God in the making,
A spark of the Divine, the Light of all lights,
The Sun of all Suns, The Universal Christ.
The purpose of your existence is evolution.
Without grasping this you will never be able
To understand Earth life.
And through the thinking of your earthly mind alone
You will never be able to penetrate the secrets of the hereafter.
Trying to do so is the height of folly.

‘Go to the wild places and watch the bees visiting the flowers
And the eagles revelling in their glorious flight.
Visit your neighbour’s house and observe a child
Enjoying the leaping of the fire in the hearth,
While its mother is busy with her household tasks.
Be like a bee who is happy with who and what it is,
And do not waste your time admiring the soaring of eagles.
Be like the child that delights in the firelight,
Untroubled by its mother’s affairs.

‘Become like a bee who gathers the nectar from all flowers
Within its reach and converts it into honey.
As you move from one experience to another,
The nectar you collect is the learning Earth life provide for you.
Even or rather especially from the most bitter ones
Your innermost being extracts the honey
Of wisdom and an ever growing understanding
Of the purpose and meaning of your life.
Become a wise one, who patiently and diligently
Applies itself to its earthly lessons with the persistence
Of bees attending to their task.
In the fullness of time this will lift your vision
Above the concerns of the Earth plane.

On the mighty wings of God’s wisdom and truth,
The Great White Spirit, whose symbol is the white eagle,
You will be able to rise above earthly life and
With the passing of time perceive
An ever greater picture of the purpose and meaning of all life.
Fear not for those who shirk their earthly lessons
And try to run away from them.
In due course they will be granted the gift of another lifetime,
So they can repeat the lessons they once shied away from.

‘For a very long time, the bee’s harvest has been
The sweet delight of humankind.
If need be, honey can be stored for thousands of years,
Without going off or in any way deteriorating.
The bee’s gift also has some wonderful healing qualities.
And the wisdom and your constantly improving understanding
Of life is your yield.
It has the same healing powers as the bee’s produce.
The honey you gather is yours to keep forever
And after first having healed yourself with it,
When you share it with those around you,
It can do the same for them.
The most wonderful thing is that
When one of you is healing,
Your whole race and Mother Earth is doing the same.

‘Everything that is in your life is there
For you to enjoy and for teaching you something.
All books and patterns and also
The beautiful as well as ugly thoughts
That come to you unbidden.
They are the results of the things you created
By your own thinking and behaviour patterns of past lifetimes.
In this one make sure that the only words you speak weave a bond
Between you and all your siblings in the great family of humankind.
Your grievous and joyous experiences are the result
Of the seeds you scattered in the field of your spirit
In previous lifetimes and earlier in this one.
Knowing this, make sure from now on only to sow
The things you want to reap in the future.

‘The young soul inside you, who plays upon the world of your desires,
Opens the door of your heart for the light of love to enter
At a later date and the Earth with its ever open mouth
For all of you in the end
Frees your spirit and soul from the slavery of
The desires of your lower earthly self.
The inner world is alive in your heart.
It contains everything you think of as your world.
The ignorant, small and insignificant creature
You believe yourself to be,
Once freely and willingly emerged from the heartmind of God.
It ventured forth to experience the joys and laughter of earthly life,
But also its pain, suffering and sadness.
With the passing of time all of these things together
Are helping you evolve into an ever more understanding
And enlightened, compassionate and loving being.
Alas, the way from the darkness and ignorance of the Earth
Back into the illumination of God’s wisdom and truth
Can only be found by wading through all these things.’

Gently the Angel laid its hand on my burning brow and said:
‘Go forward now and take possession of all parts of your being
And do not tarry on your journey into the oneness with your Creator.
This is the road that eventually takes all God’s children of the Earth
Into healing, perfection and wholeness, which is holiness.
This means being in command of every aspect of your nature,
Upper and lover, earthly and Divine alike.
So, do not fear any thorns and boulders on your path,
For I am with you and will light your way,
Now and forever.

‘The role I have been given by God
Is to support and sustain you at all times,
Not only when you have a special need, like now.
I am not allowed to carry you,
As that would interfere with the development
Of your own strength.
But rest safely in the knowledge that whenever you call for me,
I shall come to hold your hand and show you the way,
The way I am doing now.’

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese/American poet
Edited by Aquarius

Recommended Reading:

‘About Angels’

From ‘A Celebration Of Kahlil Gibran’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 11, 2015

I Would Give Anything I Own

You sheltered me from harm.
You kept me warm.
You kept me warm.
You gave my life to me.
You set me free.
You set me free.
The finest years I ever knew.
Were all the ones I spent with you.

I would give anything I own.
Give up my life and my heart, my home.
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again.

You taught me how to love.
And what it’s of,
What it’s of.
You never said too much,
But still you showed the way.
And so I knew
From watching you.
Nobody else can ever know.
The part of me that can’t let go.

I would give anything I own.
Give up my life and my heart, my home.
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again.
Just to touch you once again.

Is there someone you know
You’re loving them so,
But taking them all for granted?
You may lose them one day.
Someone takes them away
And they’ll never hear the words you have to say.

I would give anything I own.
Give up my life and my heart, my home.
I would give everything I own
just to have you back again.
Everything I own.
My life, my heart, my home.
I’d give everything I own.
My life, my heart, my home.

Every little thing, every little thing –

Just to have you back again.
Just to hold you.

Anderson Rolim

‘I Would Give Anything I Own’
From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 13, 2015

Food For Thought

Third Sunday in Advent 2015

At the moment, until 22nd December, the day of the solstice, the Sun is moving through Sagittarius. This masculine Fire sign rules vast topics like higher education of all kinds, among them religions and philosophies. Fire in this sign is of a spiritual nature and is said to burn mellower than in the other Fire signs. Do not be deceived by this though! Although the fire burns in a different way in Sagittarius, it can turn into the most destructive one of all. By the time it reaches this sign, even an unevolved soul has its learning from the Aries and Leo experiences under its belt.

When the Sagittarian fire unites itself with the negative aspects of these two signs, the result can be worked out on two fingers; it can be an especially lethal combination in the context of religions. Just look at the state of our world now and see for yourself how the push, drive, enthusiasm, over-confidence, arrogance and intolerance of Aries, ruled by Mars, the God of war, comes together with the abundance of creative ideas of Leo. Now, take a look at the weapons arsenal of our world and you can see what happens when they are applied to means of destroying each other.

To this day, there is much evidence in our world that a small amount of knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing. All along it seems to have been very much part of unevolved human nature that having got hold of one small corner of God’s truth, we believe to have found the answer to everything. In such cases the Sagittarian fire may express itself as religious fanaticism that is willing to go on the rampage and turn us into a crusader. Carried away by the missionary zeal of our still limited vision of life we then allow ourselves to be guided by the dogma and creed of religions, whose teachings could have long lost most of their validity for the times we live in. Either we choose such a belief system consciously in this lifetime or, unbeknown to our earthly self now, we do so before physical birth in the world of spirit. Another expression is the priest who blesses those who go to war and the weapons for maiming, killing and suppressing others.

The human spirit in both genders, without its soul, is masculine. It is in this world to become familiar with all its aspects and learn their wise handling. First and foremost it must get to know the destructiveness of its nature, and that pain is the result when any of God’s creatures is hurt. The best way of demonstrating this is through having to spend as many lifetimes in physicality as it takes to learn this. Every spirit and its soul must spend time on the Earth plane and move about in a physical body, an extremely delicate and sensitive vehicle, so each can find out through their own experiences that this body gets hurt easily and, at the extreme end of the scale, can be killed and lost for good.

That is why time and again, a new physical body has to be created through souls who are already on the Earth plane. Into it enters a spirit, equipped with its own soul that is capable of absorbing and retaining the knowledge and understanding that is gained; through them it grows and expands. There is no way of imbibing life’s most vital lessons, like getting to know the meaning of pain or death and dying, than at times finding ourselves alternatively at the giving and the receiving end of painful experiences.

From ‘God’s Nature And Our Own‘

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Aquarius123 · Dec 14, 2015

A Song For The Warmongers Of Our World

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago.
Taken husbands every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to soldiers every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing’.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to grave yards every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the grave yards gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the grave yards gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to flowers every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Young girls picked them every one.
And where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one
When shall we ever learn?
When shall we ever learn?

Pete Seeger

‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone?’

Sung by Joan Baez

From ‘War And Peace Between Nations’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 16, 2015

When A Child Is Born

A ray of hope flickers through the sky,
A tiny star lights up, way up high.
All across the land dawns a brand new morn’.
This comes to pass, when a child is born.

A silent wish sails the seven seas.
The winds of change whisper in the trees,
And the walls of doubt crumble fast and torn.
This comes to pass, when a child is born.

A rosy hue settles all around.
You’ve got the feel you’re on solid ground.
For a spell or two no-one seems forlorn.
This comes to pass, when a child is born.

And all this happens, because the world is waiting,
Waiting for one child. Black, white, yellow?
No-one knows.
But a child that’ll grow up and change tears to laughter,
Hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone’s neighbour
And misery and suffering will be words
That will be forgotten forever.

It’s all a dream and illusion now,
It must come true, sometime soon somehow.
All across the land dawns a brand-new morn’.
This comes to pass, when a child is born.

F. Jay

To my mind the above song is a celebration for every soul who re-enters life on the Earth plane to partake in yet another lifetime of learning and growing from the experiences and opportunities that are on offer here. How about a small change from: ‘This comes to pass, when a child is born,’ to: ‘This comes to pass, each time a child is born.’?

I believe that the child our world has been waiting for so long is the Christ Spirit, whose spark each time when Christmas comes round is newly born in all human hearts. It is the spirit of love, kindness to and friendship with all lifeforms that share our beautiful planet with us. The long promised and yearned for second coming of the Christ is a metaphor for this awakening of the Divine spark in each individual soul and the collective soul of our whole world, which is presently taking place.

The newly born in the manger stands for the first stirrings of the Divine characteristics of love, respect, tolerance and compassion for all life that in the long course of our evolutionary odyssey of life comes alive in all human hearts and souls. The realisation of this provides us with a whole new meaning to all life on the Earth plane. Even the least devout ones in our midst can then afford to humbly and happily kneel in love and devotion before the Holy child and its Divine parents. That represents the true meaning of Christmas in our time for me.

Recommended Reading:

‘Away In A Manger’

From ‘The Miracle Of Birth’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 17, 2015

Christmas In Our Time

When we live in difficult times
As a good example of what having faith truly means;
When we try to make sense of the sacred texts of our world
And find in them a new understanding of the symbolisms
Of the ancient wisdom each one of them contains;
When we realise that the newly born in the manger stands for the
First stirrings of everybody’s own Divine qualities
Of love, respect and compassion for all lifeforms,
Which eventually comes alive in every human heart and soul;
When as a result of this, we humbly kneel in love and devotion
Before what the Holy child and Its parents in truth represent,
That’s what Christmas means in our time.

When another one of God’s children of the Earth
Finds out that the Jesus story is a legend
And that no-one will wave some kind of a magic wand,
To save and redeem us and our world,
And that the only way this can happen is when each one of us
Brings forth from within their own Christ characteristics,
And starts to behave accordingly,
Another Divine spark is coming alive and a Christ child born.
That is what Christmas means in our time.

When through such knowledge those in despair
Find rest and peace, comfort and healing;
When the bringer of this good news acts unselfishly,
With love and integrity, honesty and truth,
And without seeking their own advantage,
But feels compassion and enters with into the other one’s suffering,
More sparks in human hearts are coming alive,
Christ is born on the Earth plane and
It’s Christmas in our time.

When in recognition of their true nature as children of the One,
People’s hearts and souls open up and reach out
To each other and say: ‘I forgive you!’,
The wounds of all lifetimes are healing
And the soul of our world does the same;
When human beings treat each other with kindness and respect
For themselves and each other;
When hands reach across all barriers of race, colour, dogma and creed,
And souls, knowing that we are all children of the One,
Look for that which unites us and forget about
What once separated us from each other,
It’s Christmas in our time.

When souls love each other wisely, through thick and thin,
Faithfully and true, totally and unconditionally,
The way our Creator loves all of us,
Their love is Divine and holy;
When people understand that God means the Holy Trinity of
The Great Father/Mother of all life,
Whose only born Son/Daughter is the Great White Light
At the top of the spiritual mountain,
The Universal Christ;
When yet another one of us grasps that it was S/He who
Once spoke to us and our world through
The tale of the Master Jesus,
To teach us about the initiations all human souls
Have to experience in the end,
It’s Christmas in our time.

When the depiction of the child in the manger
Helps us to recognise the love of our own Divine Parents,
The Great White Spirit, Father/Mother of all life,
Who created our world and everything in it,
Including each one of us, to offer us opportunities for learning
Something from every experience and
For growing in wisdom and understanding;
When with deep gratitude we feel that the Divine characteristics
Of our true parents are coming alive in ever more hearts,
And increasing numbers of us are making a conscious effort
To act in more loving ways and that in all their encounters,
Not just at Yuletide but any day of the year, then every day
Is Christmas in our time.

When, for the people of today, these good things happen,
Regardless of the events in the world around us,
Christmas, in spite of everything that some say against it,
Truly becomes a feast of joy;
When the imagery of the child in the manger
Helps us to recognise and reconnect with our own inner child,
And we take a new delight in the beautiful old stories and carols,
Because we recognise that in a way they have always been true, after all,
It’s Christmas in our time.

When instead of taking the ancient tales literally,
The way it was done in past ages,
People start to look for the esoteric symbolisms
That are hidden behind the surface words and through this
Find a fresh appreciation for them;
When yet another human soul on the Earth plane
Grasps that the only thing that was ever needed
Was a fresh interpretation of these stories,
Then a renewal of faith is taking place in our world
And a genuine love of God’s wisdom and truth,
Mercy and love grows in ever more hearts and
It’s Christmas in our time.

When people of all nations throw away their weapons
And resolve their disputes in peaceful ways;
When instead they reach out for each other in friendship and love;
When with each new soul who awakens to their true nature,
The Christ spirit is born and comes alive in yet another human heart,
The soul of our world and the Angels in the Heavens rejoice,
For at long last the long promised second coming
And true Christ-Mass is taking place on the Earth,
And Christmas has in our time found its real meaning.

Hallelujah!

From ‘Words of Wisdom For The Seasons Of The Year’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 18, 2015

Why Is There So Much Suffering In Our World?

One of the greatest mysteries of our earthly existence has always been why there is so much suffering on this plane of life. And why is it that just about everybody is presently experiencing such difficult times? Do you know anyone who is having an easy ride through life? I don’t! Does that ever set you wondering why this should be so? I believe that it is due to the fact that we are presently going through a major transformation of our whole world. Because of this all of us are struggling with repaying the Karmic debts we have accrued in previous lifetimes. Some of our most ancient outstanding issues are waiting to finally be attended to and resolved, to provide the healing all lifeforms of our earthly existence are in need of.

This is especially true for every kind of relationship and in particular the one with God. It also applies to the relationship with ourselves, the most difficult connection of all, as well as that with our whole world and everything it contains. The Karmic chains and shackles we have brought with us into this lifetime are of an emotional and highly complex nature. We ourselves created them, in some cases many lifetimes ago. As long as any unresolved issues remain between two people, their relationship is brought into each subsequent lifetime, until the outstanding problems have finally been satisfactorily dealt with.

Viewed from this angle, it is hardly surprising that most people are struggling with exceptionally tough difficult relationships. They have been brought into this lifetime because it is an extra special one, in which the Universe is offering every one of us sufficient opportunities for restoring the balance of our account in the great spiritual bankbook of life. Whatever it is we may still be called upon to go through in this process, it is essential to reach out for the helping hands of God and the Angels. Everything that has ever happened to us and our world did so for good and wise reasons. And they alone can take us safely through the wilderness of our emotional minefields and in the end bless us with a renewed understanding of the higher meaning of our suffering.

The Age of Aquarius is the age of friendship, kinship and love for everything that shares our world with us. Being true to the Aquarian ideals in all our daily encounters becomes easier when we consciously return into the awareness of our true nature. As the Christ Spirit comes alive and begins to grow within us, our heart slowly opens ever more with compassion and love for our own suffering and that of our whole world. This is the beginning of our homecoming and healing together with God. Learning to trust the guidance that rises into our conscious awareness from our inner teacher and willingly following its instructions, we play our allocated role in the healing of all life, as well as working on the redemption of us and our world.

Forgiveness now grows quite naturally in our hearts, first for ourselves for having created our problems and especially those in relationships in the first place, and then also for all who have ever hurt and wounded us. For us, as children of God, it is of the greatest importance to attend to every one of our outstanding issues as carefully as we can, so that in the end all our relationships are converted into spiritual friendships, in which people meet each other with as much love and respect for themselves as for each other.

On the inner level all life is one and God and the Angels are as much part of us, as we are part of them. In the normal course of events, to allow us to get on with our learning and growing process, they remain in the background of our consciousness. Constantly on standby and observing, they will not interfere with us and our actions, unless being asked. This creates the illusion that we are alone on the Earth plane, but in truth nobody ever is.

German folk wisdom tells us: ‘When the need is greatest, God is nearest.’ It is true that in times of suffering our individual soul and that of our world draws ever closer to the Divine. Yes, it is sad that this should be necessary, but undoubtedly this too happens for good reasons and fulfils a wise higher purpose, the same as everything else in our world. For as long as things are going smoothly, the earthly self happily marches along on its own. In the normal course of events, only in difficult times when we have reached the end of our tether, do we go down on our knees and from somewhere miraculously comes the inspiration to ask for help from above. When we do, lo and behold, it does come – although it may take a while to manifest. In the end this brings us, the human soul, back into closer contact with God.

Wise ones, who have found healing and are now healers in their own right, have learnt from their mistakes of the past and make every effort to remain in touch with their God or Highest Self at all times. They trust this part of their being because their own experiences of the past have taught them that this is indeed the part that knows the way of all things and has the answers to every question we may ever care to ask. Because it is as much part of us as we are part of it, it has always been with us and therefore knows every aspect of the whole of our past, present and future.

Whenever we turn to it and seek its advice, much good can come from any kind of apparent evil. With its help, it is possible to find ways of resolving any problem and healing all our relationships, even or maybe especially the most difficult ones. When we patiently endure whatever our Karma of previous lifetimes and this one has brought to us and make a genuine effort at following our inner guidance, the Universal law of compensation sees to it that in the end there will be some kind of reward, which can be great when it eventually comes. And if it happens in the form of increased inner strength and understanding, as well as faith and trust in ourselves and the goodness of life, that surely is the most wonderful gain anyone could hope and wish for.

From ‘Healers And Healing’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 19, 2015

The Road To Bethlehem

The road to Bethlehem is long.
Through the deepest, darkest and coldest night of the soul
Of failing to understand who we truly are,
And through the labyrinth of false beliefs and prejudices,
Every soul must eventually find its own way back
Into the comfort, warmth and light of recognising
Once again its own true nature and origin.
That, to me, is the road to Bethlehem.

This road to Bethlehem is hard.
It takes many lifetimes, until our small frightened earthly self
Realises that no Saviour and Redeemer
In the outer world will ever come to our rescue,
Because the true Saviour, the Christ child, promised of old,
Has always been waiting to come alive and
Be born in everybody’s own heart.
And when one fine day the human soul begins to open up
To the pain and suffering of others and endures them with them.
The love of the true Christ stirs and
The holy infant within is born and starts to grow.
The Heavens rejoice because one more human soul
Is coming home and kneels before its true Lord and Master,
The living God within, the Universal Christ,
Whose spark we all carry within.

The road to Bethlehem is tough and cruel.
Until human hearts take possession of the qualities of their Divine parents,
The Great Spirit, Father/Mother of all life,
They cannot help growing ever colder,
Selfish, greedy, judgmental and unforgiving
Towards the suffering of others.
This is a sign that the Divine spark within is still asleep
And the qualities of the gentle Christ Spirit
Of compassion and love are slumbering with it.

The road to Bethlehem is steep.
But only for as long as the true God is still hidden from our inner view.
Regardless of that, each soul must continue its climb
Up the spiritual mountain.
While the wise ones, our guides and Masters,
The good shepherds in the world of light,
Stand closely by, take care of all our needs and keep watch,
Until the glorious moment when yet another one of us
Becomes aware of their own nature and destiny again.

The road to Bethlehem is long,
But eventually every human child of God stands
In awe and wonder before itself, when the Divine spark,
The Christ child, comes alive and is born
In the most humble place on Earth, the cave of our own heart.
The loving union of the great God and Goddess of all life,
On its highest levels, once created the child, so that
Untouched by all earthly things,
Its conception was indeed immaculate.
Father/Mother Creator, the child’s true parents,
Look upon each one of us, their earthly offspring,
Through all our wanderings, lifetime after lifetime,
With much tenderness and wondrous love.

The road to Bethlehem turns into a joyful one,
When at long last, the miracle of birth takes place,
The Divine spark, the Christ Spirit within, comes alive
And the qualities of the gentle Christ motivate us and run our lives for us.
When this happens to you, rejoice!
Your very own child has been born and you are reborn with it.
Our hearts fill with gladness, love and gratitude,
The road up the mountain becomes easier and
The cross of our earthly existence grows lighter,
For the goal, our final re-union with the Godhead,
Turns into a reality and we have reached Bethlehem!

The road to Bethlehem twists and turns.
Yet, we all get there in the end and the Angels ensure that
None of us is forgotten, left out or ever truly lost.
When we give of our best and bring forth from within
The highest we are capable of,
Sharing whatever gifts have been bestowed upon us with all
Who are walking behind us on the road,
Means kneeling before and worshipping the newly born King
In our own heart and assisting its birth in the hearts others.

Giving of our finest gifts to all, laying them
Down on the altar of life and doing our best
To alleviate whatever suffering we encounter in our world,
Hand in hand with God and the Angels,
We fulfil the purpose of our being on the Earth, which is
Doing our share of blessing and healing our whole world
And all those beyond.

God bless you all, not only at Christmas, but always.

From ‘War And Peace Between Nations’

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Aquarius123 · Dec 20, 2015

What Is Soul?

As there seems to be a great deal of confusion about this, let’s take a closer look. Traditional astrology and its four elements can go a long way towards a better understanding of God’s nature and our own. Fire and Air represent the masculine, positive and outgoing of our own nature and the God aspect of the Divine Trinity. Its counterpart consists of Earth and Water, the feminine, passive and receptive elements of the Goddess and us. God’s spirit and our own is masculine and belongs to Air, the realm of thought, and Fire, the creative ideas which are constantly flowing from the Godhead into the whole of Creation. The Air element transmits these fiery ideas into its feminine counterpart. And the love and wisdom of the Great Mother of all life decides where they should be manifested in the physical realms of Earth and Water, for example as physical bodies of Mother Earth’s children of the animal kingdom.

In our role as earthlings, for a long time we have not idea that in truth we are much more than earthly beings who are wandering around, each in their own physical body. Eventually it dawns on us that there is a part of us that dwells invisibly within these bodies that is more important by far than their outer shells. This aspect of our being does not die when our physical body returns to the Earth. It is immortal and eternal, and therefore will and can never die. At the death of our physical body this part moves on into different dimensions of life, the world of spirit or light, the place we once came from, our true home. It comes clear to us then that in truth there is no such thing as death, merely transformations into different life states.

Whether we are as yet aware of this or not, every woman and man without exception has these different aspects of their being and is subject to the same evolutionary processes. Each one of us who is presently taking part in Earth life is an individual spirit, who is temporarily encased in matter and has a soul of its own. Every country, every planet, our world and all worlds has a soul of its own and all together they are part of the Great Soul, the Mother of all life. On the inner level of life all is one and every individual soul, the soul of our world and all worlds are evolving simultaneously. Hence the saying: ‘What is done for one is done for all.’

The soul is the memory bank of every one of the events and encounters we are experiencing in the course of all our lifetimes. The soul is our feeling nature, the soft, sensitive, caring and nurturing feminine aspect in both genders. This part of us grows and develops through the learning we gather, each under their own steam, in the course of many lifetimes. As the feminine aspect of God is conscious in women, they usually are more in touch with the world of their feelings. And because this part is unconscious in men, it is much harder for them to gain access to this world.

Having established that the essence and core of our being is spirit and soul, the question arises whether it is possible to study our spirit. I don’t think so, but then we are not in this life to study our spirit – it just IS – always has been and forever will be. It is abstract and invisible, eternal, immortal and indestructible. Nothing can hurt, harm or damage it. Every spirit, at the beginning of its epic evolutionary journey, has to build itself a soul, so that with its help the spirit can begin to experience itself and the world in which it finds itself from time to time.

Soul cannot be seen either, but it can be felt. Any pain in our physical body is a soul signal that something on the inner level of our being is crying out to be looked at. The outer pain is invariably a manifestation of some kind of soul pain. It represents a shadow and an unresolved issue from the past that could have been waiting to be dealt with for a very long time. Each pain is an indication that something is asking to be looked at and dealt with and forgiven in an appropriate manner, so that healing can take place.

The soul belongs to the Water element, the realm of feelings and emotions. It is part of our waterbody and because our physical bodies consist of about seventy percent water, it is huge and clearly of great importance. The physical body acts like an overcoat that is worn over other more subtle bodies, for example the astral one for getting around and exploring the spirit world, after the physical body has been shed. Being the storehouse of the memories of anything that ever happens to us in the course of all our lifetimes up to the present moment, everything leaves its imprint in our souls. At each entry into another lifetime we bring these memories with us and we constantly carry them around with us. In the cells of each newly created physical body they are already present.

All spirit is consciousness and belongs to the realm of thought. God’s spirit is thought energy and because we are part of God, so is the main part of ours. The most powerful force in the whole of Creation is thought. Although they are abstract and cannot be seen on our present level of existence, God’s as well as our thoughts are very real. If, whilst on the earthly plane of life, we believe that we can think as we please because no-one will know, we could not be more mistaken. On the inner level of life every one of our thoughts is visible and with them, so to speak, we are constantly shouting our intentions from the rooftops, for all to see. The intentions behind every one of our thoughts and deeds decide whether they are serving the good of life or whether they are evil. Read more about this by following the links at the end of this chapter.

Be that as it may, each newly created spirit needs to create itself a world and then a soul through which this world can be felt and experienced with the help of its feelings. In the final analysis God created us, so we can be sent out into the world, to experience and learn about itself. This is how God – and by this I mean the Universal Life Force, the Great Father/Mother of all life – gets to know Itself through us, Its creations.

We are consciousness and in truth, nothing on the Earth plane belongs to us, except the amount of awareness we have found up to any given point of our evolutionary development. The purpose of all human earthly sojourns has always been that we should grow in wisdom and understanding. To put it quite simply, each spirit once it has created itself a world of matter, is in possession of a physical body and has grown itself a soul, during its earthly sojourns finds out that when we as earthlings cut ourselves with a knife, we bleed and it hurts. When someone speaks hurtful words to us, our soul moans and weeps. And when we climb to the top of a tower or a wall and jump down from it, we discover that in spite of the fact that our spirit is free and can in truth travel in its thoughts wherever it wants, our physical bodies are unable to fly.

Aquarius is the sign of equality, equal rights and duties for everyone. And the Age of Aquarius is bringing us the recognition that the right of taking part in earthly life presents us with a duty and an obligation. Each one of us is in this life to develop their own Christ nature and through this evolve into an ever more beautiful, kind and loving, tolerant and compassionate being. Through bringing forth and practising our Christ characteristics and qualities in our daily lives we gradually grow into saviours and redeemers of ourselves and the whole of humankind. And that is the only way the Christ Spirit will ever be able to fulfil this long promised function for us and our world.

As the same characteristics that are in God are also in each one of us, there is never any need to feel inferior or superior to anyone. Everybody has everything within and nobody is all good or all bad. Even though to this day in many the Divine powers merely exist in seed form, they are there. If we cannot yet recognise them in ourselves or someone else, it is because they are still slumbering. But with each one who awakens to their true nature and begins to grow and evolve consciously, Mother Earth does the same. Life on our beloved beautiful planet will never cease. Just the same as we as individuals and as a race are doing, it will always move forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life onto ever higher levels of existence of such beauty and sophistication as we as yet are unable to imagine even in our wildest dreams.

And yet and yet, there will come a time for every human soul when, having returned to the world of spirit once more, we and the wise ones in charge of us can see that Earth life no longer can teach us anything. Only then do we, our spirit and soul that is, know that we are ready to move onto higher learning on different levels of life.