I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 20:
The question today, Q’uo, has to do with what is happening for the individual seeker; what is the metaphysical reality of what’s going on in our world today as each of us struggles to understand inner spiritual truths while we are caught in the swirl of economic, political, social, and other activities that are just increasing at exponential rates. We’re wondering what is really going on, when you consider that the various religions of the world have all been affected in one way or another by negatively-oriented entities trying to sway our ability to believe and where we put our faith. They have had some success, in causing us to have thousands of years of war as the concept of the holy war is born and carried out in each of the religions. In the Old Testament, for the Christians, there was a New Testament; there was a new covenant. Jesus brought the way of loving one’s neighbor. There seems to have been for the last couple of thousand years a smaller and smaller group of people who really feel committed to the way of Christ. Could you give us an idea of just what’s happening in the way of metaphysical and spiritual evolution planet-wide and individual-wide and how our various religions and their current difficulties are being affected?
(Carla channeling)
We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator in Whose service we are privileged to be. We thank you for the opportunity to share our thoughts with you on this interesting subject and would ask only that each of you uses your discrimination to winnow out those thoughts that are useful to you from those that are as the chaff that may blow by, letting them be released from the need to have meaning. We ask that you not treat us as authorities but as those who have opinions, and subject everything that all authorities or so-called authorities offer to you to the searching gaze of your own powers of discrimination, which we assure you are excellent. Trust and believe in those feelings of resonance and those feelings of flatness that separate out for you those truths that are yours this day and those that are irrelevant to your situation. This will give us the elbow-room, shall we say, that we need to be able to feel that we are not infringing upon your free will but are only sharing the opinion of friends.
You ask this day, what is occurring with the individual who is moving through this particular phase of evolution upon your planet at this time; what is occurring individually; what is occurring in terms of the religions of the world; and what is occurring in that ever-changing intersection between the metaphysical that is unspoken and the metaphysical that has been delineated by those of a certain set of dogmatic beliefs. This intersection changes constantly, and yet it does have fairly consistent, shall we say, structures that are typical, and so we may in some degree generalize about this. But we would always point out that there is no generality that is true in all cases.
Your world religions indeed have had a long-term habit of turning from the original impetus of a certain way of religious believing to the machinations of what this instrument would call the priestly class, and here is a generality that we share with you that applies to this priestly class: the causes of spirituality are without politics and have to do with an instinct that is bred into the bone of your species. However, the religions of the human animal are those structures that are taken from a spiritual system and recreated in such a way as to benefit or be seen to benefit this particular class of ruling church leaders. The energy of religion, therefore, as opposed to that energy which is purely spiritual, tends towards moving into those areas of dogmatic and rigid belief systems that vitiate the pure strain of compassion and devotion that the religious system, as it is begun, offers; taking away little by little those freedoms to doubt, to disbelieve, and to explore that create the opportunity for the individual entity within human incarnation to seek and know the truth for the self.
Theimpulse or instinct to spirituality is that which bites at man’s heels and calls his thirsting faculty of hope forward at all times, thereby increasing continually the energy towards individual knowing or knowledge. The energy of religion is that which, more and more as the years go by, has a tendency towards removing bits and pieces of the believer’s free range of will so that, more and more, that entity which wishes to be part of a religious system must then yield up the right to judge for the self in an increasingly large number of areas of dogmatic belief. Each time that spirituality is hardened into a dogmatic belief, and faith is exchanged for the tenets of a creed, the personal power and the personal responsibility for the self, the thoughts of the self and the progression of the evolution of the self is released in order to choose a structure in which there is no further responsibility for knowledge but only the responsibility of repeating those pieces of perceived knowledge that have been handed down from authorities. In this effort to organize and then maintain a religion, the emphasis almost inevitably turns from the excitement, fervor and joy of religious seeking to the maintenance, increase in productivity of, and enlargement of the existing corporate system.
The benefits of spirituality, then, are those which accrue to that careful and thoughtful entity who does not resonate to the defined belief systems that are available and instead chooses to create, day by day and perception by perception, an independent path of seeking. That system of knowledge can never be more than subjective. There is a desire within the third-density entity for this knowledge, and from this striving, on an individual level, has come the term, “gnostic.” This term simply indicates someone who is involved in creating a personal path of seeking the truth. Those who find resonance within religions are, and, in this way we generalize overly much also, basically of two types. The first type is, as this instrument is, one who has found its niche within an established belief system, has chosen the path of mysticism which simply steps aside from all dogmatic questions and focuses upon devotion and service. The second type of entity is one which desires to fit into a group, to belong to that group and have choices taken away from it rather than left to it, so that there is not the need to judge that which is truth, that which is gnosis but, rather, only the need to learn the individual points of belief of the system to which they wish to belong, at which point they then feel that they are safe.
The group question for this session was: “The question today, Q’uo, has to do with what is happening for the individual seeker; what is the metaphysical reality of what’s going on in our world today as each of us struggles to understand inner spiritual truths while we are caught in the swirl of economic, political, social, and other activities that are just increasing at exponential rates.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that within our world religions there is an intersection of those portions of each religion that are mystical and those that are dogmatic, and this intersection is always changing so that generalizations about it are difficult to make. Q’uo went on by saying that the birth of spirituality is without politics and has to do with the instinct that is bred into the nature of our species, but our religions are those structures that are taken from a spiritual system and recreated in such a way as to benefit a higher class of ruling church leaders so that the energy of religion, as opposed to that energy which is purely spiritual, moves into those areas of dogmatic belief systems that reduces the purity of the compassion and devotion of the religious system from its beginning and takes away those freedoms to doubt and to explore that allow us to seek and know the truth for ourself. Q’uo continued by saying that the term “gnostic” indicates someone who is involved in creating a personal path of seeking the truth which can be divided into two types, and the first type is one who has chosen the path of mysticism which simply steps aside from all dogmatic questions and focuses upon devotion and service, and the second type is the one which desires to fit into a group and have choices taken away from it so that there is no need to judge that which is the truth but only the need to learn the various points of belief of the system to which they wish to belong, at which point they feel that they are safe. On June 20, 1990, Q’uo described the general nature of mysticism:
A mystic is not a word which means one thing. It may mean any number of things, that is, it may refer to one who chooses a non-literal interpretation of life in any non-literal interpretation that entity may choose. Thus, there are no two mystics whose paths are the same, for the golden glow of sanctity is shone to one person in one way, to another in another. There is no set pattern for mysticism. It is indeed rather a process of growth or evolution which may be chosen by the seeker as the most comfortable or the most efficient way though uncomfortable, of living the most consciously accelerated spiritually evolutionary life possible while living in the illusion of third density. The mystic is one who says, “I do not need an objective referent to believe that something is there.” Thus, some mystics never leave those things founded upon what other mystics would call sheer superstition. There are as many non-literal ways of looking at the world as there are entities.
The one known as T was asking earlier about why such deeply religious people as some of his friends and relations would be so governed by fear, and perhaps it can be seen in this light that the entity who chooses the established and carefully delineated way of belief that focuses on a specific set of beliefs that make a system are choosing this structure because it feels safe. Thusly, one may see in general that the entity who has chosen to seek a personal path is less a creature of fear than the entity who feels that it is necessary to hew to a dogmatic set of beliefs and to define spirituality in terms of a laundry list of those things that are believed and those things that are felt to be not worthy of attention or even harmful to the developing spiritual entity. Along one path lies an enhanced feeling of chaos, for with free will does come more confusion or, shall we say, apparent confusion. There is less company for the one who decides to make choices for himself, and it is a rockier and more difficult path at the outset.
It is our observation, on the other hand, of those who follow the path of religion that there is indeed a tremendous amount of solace in being part of a group. We find that there is a large degree of complete sincerity in the belief system of many entities within religion and those that have the capacity to be of service to others and to think along terms of offering their love in all situations, yet who do not have a grasp of their own spiritual nature, but instead have been content to rest in the structures built by others. For that is what your temples are, those outward structures that have been created as sacred spaces and that do indeed create an atmosphere, through a long number of years and a long number of generations of workers, that is palpable and that can be felt.
We are not attempting by this description to condemn all religions, for all religions began with the yeasty, powerful, muscular energy of new vision, new realization, and new inspiration. Indeed, it is possible for those within church structures, whether they be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Shinto or other structures of religion, to remain Gnostic; to remain those upon a personal path; to be those who do not compromise that which they feel within their hearts to be true simply because an authority figure suggests that it must be true.
However, there is a substantial portion of the population of your planet that has indeed been affected by religion in the way that those detractors of religion have suggested through history, that being that religion is a drug, a kind of addiction which keeps the “little people” contented with their difficult lives as those who have their primary use in making money for other entities. This strays far afield from the simple, single, elementary truth that connects all entities, whether truth is that which is perceived within a pilgrim heart that is moving out into that personal path of seeking, or whether that same loving heart is content with the patterns that it has been given. The vibrations in which the heart is moving, that tune that the heart is singing, has the capacity to be perfectly one with all that there is. And, indeed, at the heart of all vibrations, of all energy fields that denote an entity, there is that perfectly balanced, totally creative, original Thought that is purely true, so that at the heart of the chaos that is each entity’s unknown self lies the Creator in all of Its creative genius, in all of Its lack of limits, in all of Its power to create and to destroy.
This is the truth that underlies vast differences in opinion. It is the truth from which stems the completely unpredictable potential of all third-density entities to achieve realization in an instant; to find the epiphany in the turning of a leaf or the turning of a page. It may seem at one moment that two entities are so far apart that they could never agree, yet such is the capacity of the human heart to embrace truth when it is perceived that any two entities may in one, strong, fine moment find that rainbow bridge that unites them and release the bonds of fear which girdle so many entities to the load-bearing help of organized religion.
Then Q’uo said that the entity who chooses the established dogmatic way of belief that focuses on a specific set of beliefs is choosing this structure because it feels safe, so one may see that the entity who has chosen to seek a mystical path is less a creature of fear than the entity who chooses to follow a dogmatic set of what to believe and what not to believe so that for the mystical path there is more of a feeling of chaos, for with free will there is more apparent confusion because there is less company for the one who decides to make choices for himself, and it is a rockier and more difficult path at the beginning. Q’uo went on to say that for those who follow the path of religion that: “there is indeed a tremendous amount of solace in being part of a group. We find that there is a large degree of complete sincerity in the belief system of many entities within religion and those that have the capacity to be of service to others and to think along terms of offering their love in all situations, yet who do not have a grasp of their own spiritual nature, but instead have been content to rest in the structures built by others.” Q’uo continued by saying that they did not mean to condemn all religions, for all religions began with the powerful energy of new vision and new inspiration, and it is possible for those within any church structure to remain focused on the knowledge for those to seek upon a personal path and to be those who do not compromise that which they feel within their hearts to be true simply because an authority figure suggests that it must be true. Then Q’uo said that a portion of the population of Earth has been affected by religion being seen as a kind of addiction which keeps the masses of people content with their difficult lives and whose basic purpose is in making money for others which strays far afield from the elementary truth that connects all entities, whether truth is that which is perceived within a pilgrim heart that is moving out into that personal path of seeking, or whether that same loving heart is content with the patterns that it has been given, and: “The vibrations in which the heart is moving, that tune that the heart is singing, has the capacity to be perfectly one with all that there is. And, indeed, at the heart of all vibrations, of all energy fields that denote an entity, there is that perfectly balanced, totally creative, original Thought that is purely true, so that at the heart of the chaos that is each entity’s unknown self lies the Creator in all of Its creative genius, in all of Its lack of limits, in all of Its power to create and to destroy.” Now Q’uo said that this is the truth that is the foundation that supports vast differences of opinion, and it is the truth which awakens the unpredictable potential of all third-density entities to achieve self-realization in an instant and to find an epiphany in the turning of a leaf or the turning of a page, and it may seem that two entities are so far apart that they could never agree, yet this is the nature of our human heart to embrace truth when it is perceived that any two entities may in one, fine, strong moment of inspiration find that rainbow bridge that unites them, and then they can release the bonds of fear which bind so many entities to the load-bearing help of organized religion. On July 27, 1986, L/Leema spoke of the process of self-realization:
However, take yourselves seriously, my friends, seriously enough to be serious about joy, to be serious about peace, to be serious about love. We hope that you may discover the joy that lies within tears and sorrow when one has the knowledge of greater horizons and greater cycles, that each one may experience the peace within difficult times as one discovers that one is not alone, but may share each burden, the love which is not cloying or sentimental, but creative and transformative, in other words, the state of divine unrest which is the ceaseless changing reality, shall we say, of one who is on the path and striving to realize Oneness with the infinite Creator. Never let the knowledge of your own seeming imperfections cause you to be cynical about your divinity or the importance of your self-realization of it. Look for it in yourself, not just in other people.
We are aware of your discussion before this meditation and are very sympathetic with those feelings of disappointment and even betrayal that so many among your peoples feel at the news programs which discuss the failings of those priests within organized religions whose behavior towards children has been undesirable in the extreme. The patterns of service to self and service to others have their cleanest and most healthy expression outside the biasing and distorting energies of organized religion. In particular, we would point out the lack of validity within that church which you call the Roman Catholic Church of certain practices, the specific one which we have in mind being celibacy, which indeed was not part of the original spiritual roots of this fairly mystical and person-driven, gnosis-driven system of spirituality discussed by those of the Essene sect of mysticism within Aramea such as the one known as Jesus and the one known as John the Baptist. This generative spark which the one known as Jim has called the New Testament, the new promise, the new plan, was offered as a very simple and unitary way of being.
The requirements of this particular covenant or testament were that each entity would love the Creator and love the neighbor as the self. All of the law and the prophets, then, depended upon this basic truth, and, when there were discrepancies, the simple requirements preceded and updated the requirements of the Old Testament. We do not need to point out to any of you that the origins of this that is called Christianity among your people were not hewn to with much faith for very long, for there soon came to be an increasing effort to regularize, preserve, and establish the church of Jesus the Christ as a Church rather than as a community of teachers and students. When this grew to a certain degree, for political reasons and reasons of social and economic power, it was decided that the discipline of celibacy would be placed as a requirement for being a priest in this particular church. When some entities are born, one of their choices for their incarnation may be celibacy. For many others throughout the centuries since this decision was made, not by those seeking truth but by those seeking power, many have been in a position of desiring to be a priest and needing to accept the strictures of that position including celibacy.
We would suggest in this instance as in many others in the history of your religions that the requirement in and of itself is an unbalanced one, and it is not surprising that there have been unhealthful and insalubrious distortions that have come about in the personalities and actions of those who truly desired to be of service to others but who, along the way in attempting to deal with an outer, physical organization called the Church, have found themselves in difficult and unbalanced situations which they were not able to control. Please note that there is no political, religious, economic, or social system that does not have its imbalances, inadequacies and potentials for abuse.
It is to be noted that the vast, vast majority of those in positions of this kind have pure souls, clean hearts, and no actions of which they must be ashamed. Further, we would suggest that the pattern of distortion remains the same throughout the institutions of the world. We would suggest that there is no more difficulty in one religious structure than in another once the structure has been penetrated and enough has been learned about the abuses of that particular system to be able to speak clearly and without injustice of that particular system. It is, shall we say, the predilection of third-density entities to find ever-new ways to create a sense of comfort, a sense of power, a sense of confidence; to aggrandize the self and to protect the self in some way. These are all ways in which it is the illusion that is seen; it is the illusion that is manipulated, and yet it is the spirit within that loses the opportunities to seek in a clearer, more lucid way because of being caught up in the various distortions of a particular system.
But each of you swims in an archipelago of distortion. There is the distortion from each of the helpers that touch the life of the young and the innocent child: the teacher, the salesclerk, the babysitter, the children of friends, the mothers of friends. All of these comprise part of the world in which the child lives. All of these teachers, and friends, and parents, and those who truly do care for the child have their own biases and distortions, their own fears, and their own projections of their hopes and dreams for that child which they are offering to the child. Is it any wonder, then, that, as the child grows, it becomes more and more steeped in the acculturative forces around it so that, more and more, the child begins to give away its ability to seek, its clarity of mind, its sharpness of questioning?
Think of the very young child, and you think of a child who is asking questions. Think of the older child who is at the start of the teenage years, as this instrument would call it, and see how that entity’s basis of self has been eroded in terms of that which is that entity’s alone, in order to be replaced, by choice, with the look that is appropriate, with the sayings that are those of the group to which this child belongs. In one way and then another and then another, the child’s mind has been taught that in this and this and this area, this is the perceived truth, and there is no need or hunger for more. When this has been truly successful, it is that which keeps an entity asleep, which keeps that yearning for true inner vision at a minimum, and I think these are the concerns that justifiably can fill the hearts of those who feel that there is the possibility of subjective, personal knowledge and who mourn those energies within a culture which are attempting to stop that energy from moving forward by, shall we say, the empty calories of dogma rather than faith.
Now Q’uo said that the paths of service to self and service to others have their clearest expression outside the distorting energies of organized religion, and Q’uo gave an example the lack of validity within the Roman Catholic Church of celibacy which was not part of the original spiritual roots of this fairly mystical system of spirituality discussed by those of the Essene sect of mysticism within Aramea that included the one known as Jesus and the one known as John the Baptist. Q’uo went on to say that the requirements of this testament were that each would love the Creator and the neighbor as the self so that all of the law and the prophets evolved from this basic truth, and when there were variations it was necessary to update the requirements of the Old Testament which brought about the origins of Christianity, for there soon came to be an increasing effort to regularize and establish the church of Jesus the Christ as a Church rather than as a community of teachers and students. Q’uo continued by saying that when this process grew because of considerations for political, social, and economic reasons it was decided that the discipline of celibacy would be placed as a requirement for being a priest in this particular church, and: “when some entities are born, one of their choices for their incarnation may be celibacy, and for many others throughout the centuries since this decision was made, not by those seeking truth but by those seeking power, many have been in a position of desiring to be a priest and needing to accept the strictures of that position including celibacy.” Now Q’uo suggested that the requirement of celibacy is an unbalanced one, and it was not surprising that there have been unhealthy distortions that have come about in the actions of those who truly desired to be of service to others, but when they attempted to deal with the outer organization called the Church, found themselves in unbalanced situations which they were not able to control, so they experienced potential for abuse just like all other political, economic, or social systems. Then Q’uo said that the vast majority of those in positions of this kind have pure souls and have committed no actions of which they must be ashamed, so Q’uo suggested that this pattern of distortion is the same throughout the world, and they said once research had been done no religions experienced more abuses than any other religion, and they said that it is the way of third-density entities to find various ways to create a sense of power and to aggrandize and protect the self, and these are all ways in which the illusion is manipulated, but it is the spirit within that loses the opportunities to seek in a clearer way because of being caught up in the various distortions of a particular system. So Q’uo said that there are distortions from each of the helpers that touch the life of the young and the innocent child: the teacher, the salesclerk, the babysitter, the children of friends, the mothers of friends, and all of these are part of the world in which the child lives, and all of them have their own biases, fears, and their own projections of their hopes and dreams for that child, and is it any wonder that, as the child grows, it becomes more steeped in the cultural forces around it so that the child begins to give away its ability to seek, its clarity of mind, its sharpness of questioning? Q’uo said that when we think of the older child who is at the start of the teenage years, and see how its basic self of its younger years has been eroded in terms of that which is unique to this entity alone by the facial expression that is appropriate and the manner of speaking that is used within the group that it belongs to reflects how its mind has been taught in each of its experiences of what truth is, then this is what keeps it asleep, and there is no hunger for more, and when this has been done then there are concerns that fill the hearts who mourn the cultural energies which are trying to stop the subjective personal knowledge from moving forward by the nature of dogma rather than faith. On January 11, 2011, Q’uo spoke of the nature of dogma:
In the first place, free will is a matter of perception for each person who is living in incarnation on Planet Earth in third density. If the entity has had a successful indoctrination into some religions, for instance, the matter of free will has been declared null and void, and instead the child will obey each dictate and dogma of the religion which has an answer for every situation, usually heavily couched in judgment and narrowing one’s choices so that there are prisons made of dogma, each tenet a bar. The door is locked for the entire incarnation, once such tenets are accepted.
There are others who have been trained by their parents and indoctrinated into their culture in such a way that there is a prison made of enculturation. There are rules governing each action. And often these bars are as stringent as those of religion in limiting the choices of those who have chosen to obey the dictates of society without thought and without question.
Fortunate are those who awaken within an incarnation to a realization that it is their right and part of their basic nature to make their own choices; to discern and evaluate the truth for themselves and to remove themselves from any prisons made of words, the tenets of dogma, or the rules and regulations of society, which are words of imprisonment for many.
Now let us switch gears and gaze a bit towards the end-times scenario which your conversation previous to this meditation dealt with to some extent. Several of you were wondering what the negatively-oriented entity wants, how the negative entity perceives this time of graduation, and how it wishes to see things go. This is a complex question, for this group of negative polarity upon your planet has been to some extent distorted by a group of higher-density negative entities, primarily those of the fifth density, who have found that if entities can be kept from choosing either the positive or the negative path, and if they can be taught a maximum degree of fear, so that their minds are worried and their hearts are troubled at all times, this creates a kind of food which is used by these higher-density entities for the equivalent of an excellent diet.
The political and social history of your peoples—as you were speaking earlier of Atlantis and ancient cultures and then those that are more modern—have been these generations of those whose fear, terror, anger, hostility, and pain have been offered up as food to the forces that enjoy that world of dark shadows and negative emotions. Consequently, there is almost no true negative polarity in the sense of an organized group of people that work together for the graduation into fourth-density negative of the planet or even of a group of its people. Those who have truly found the possibility of graduation in the negative sense within this particular harvest have been those whose focus has been extremely self-absorbed and unassociated with the energies that look, from the outside in, like negative polarity. The creators of your present global situation, then, are not entities of tremendous negative polarity but rather are those entities who have been most effective in shaping the society towards maximum degrees of control over others through the uses of what this instrument would call the media, so that these are not terrifying dragons but rather dupes for fifth-density entities who are using them as well as all others within the planetary system insofar as they can be taught to hate, to covet, to control. These are the energies that are encouraged along with the fear that lies beneath such policies.
All of this dwells in the illusion, is washed by the waters of consciousness that stream endlessly through the illusion, carrying the waters of truth and beauty and life. It does not matter how intense the outer forces of fear and negativity are when the heart of an entity rests in faith, in hope, and in love: faith that all is well, hope in every hopeless situation, and love of all things, of all biases, of all entities. Rest and perfect peace, how beautiful those words are, and yet this instrument has asked over and over again since 9/11/2001, “What is perfect peace? What is the peace that passes understanding? In what does that consist, is there in my heart already?” This instrument has asked over and over again, “That peace, do I know it already? Am I squashing it; am I pressing it down out of my reach by my choices?”
We suggest to you that this peace is a state of mind, a state of consciousness, a way of vibrating. When fear runs through the system, this state of mind is unavailable. When the fear is dropped from the illusion by the choice of the entity, this state of consciousness becomes available. Many are those among your peoples who have attempted through drugs to find this state of perfect peace, but we suggest that this peace lies within your heart, it is your native and natural environment; it is real, it is not the illusion. It is one tiny, thin veil from you at this time, for fourth density truly is coming upon you. Thusly, your faculties of faith, hope, and love have an increasing amount of potential to take hold within your life. We encourage all forms of positivity within your minds, within the way you talk to yourselves within your hearts, for that state of consciousness which you create day by day and hour by hour within yourself is as the training wheels for that spontaneous and unrehearsed state of consciousness that comes to you as you awaken to the new day.
So Q’uo said that this group of negative polarity entities upon our planet that is seeking graduation has been distorted by a group of fifth density negative entities who have found that if these entities can be kept from choosing either the positive or the negative path and can be taught to experience a maximum degree of fear, so that their minds and hearts are in darkness and fear at all times, this creates a kind of food which these higher-density entities feed upon as their diet. Then Q’uo said that: “the creators of your present global situation, then, are not entities of tremendous negative polarity but rather are those entities who have been most effective in shaping the society towards maximum degrees of control over others through the uses of what this instrument would call the media, so that these are not terrifying dragons but rather dupes for fifth-density entities who are using them as well as all others within the planetary system insofar as they can be taught to hate, to covet, to control. These are the energies that are encouraged along with the fear that lies beneath such policies.” Q’uo went on to say that it does not matter how intensely we feel the outer forces of fear and negativity when our heart rests in the faith that all is well and in the love of all things and for all entities, so they suggested that peace is a state of consciousness, and when fear runs through our system, this state of mind is unavailable, but when we choose to drop fear from our life this peaceful state of consciousness becomes available. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that this state of perfect peace rests within our heart, and this is our natural environment that is real, and it is one thin veil from us at this time, for fourth density truly is coming upon us, so our faculties of faith, hope, and love have an increasing amount of potential to take hold within our life, and Q’uo encouraged all forms of positivity within our minds by the way that we talk when we talk to ourselves within our hearts, for that state of consciousness which we create hour by hour within ourselves is the stabilizer for that spontaneous and unrehearsed state of consciousness that comes to us as we awaken to the new day. On August 18, 2004, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the new day:
In the midst of all this concern for others, remember that you must tend to your own stability, wellness of mind, heart, body, and soul, your own financial wellness, your own staying beforehand with the requirements of the world. What does it take to keep you grounded and balanced and ready for the new day? In most cases, there is that need for daily meditation, daily contemplation, a time that is sacred to oneself, a time spent in the temple of the inner heart, resting with the one infinite Creator. If you have to get up early, my brother, to do this, then set your alarm and give yourself a half hour to stare at a candle, to think over the day ahead, to make to-do lists, to do whatever it serves you to do to rise from your night ready for a new day, seeing into a new land filled with infinite possibility.
This morning I discovered that the fountain on the fishpond had once again began shooting water out of the pond, so I got the garden hose out of the basement and filled the pond until the height of the fountain was small enough, by a couple of feet, to keep from shooting water out of the pond. I have no idea why this keeps happening after a short period of time, but I need to keep my eyes on the fountain frequently throughout the day.
This afternoon I went for my first speedwalk since the big snow fell a couple of weeks ago. It felt good to get back into this rhythm of taking a speedwalk, stretching, taking a bath, and posting my Camelot Journal entry for the day.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
January 22
Useful Challenges
I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love divine. Sometimes we have not the will to go on.
Sometimes the consciousness within the body gazes upon the morning with rejection of all that it portends. These times of discouragement are important.
These times of difficulty are to be observed with great compassion and self forgiveness, for it is within the framework of trouble and sorrow that much of your spiritual work is done.
Therefore, do not chide yourself for your discouragement but rather, praise and thank the blessed Father that in the mysterious way of grace, such dark days may be seen to cause the greatest inner illumination.
Thus, to the discouraged we would say, “Take heart and know that trouble and difficulty are but useful challenges to a servant of the consciousness of Love.”
In that Love and that peace may you go forward this day and forevermore. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
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