I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from November 10, 2007:
The question tonight is: Conspicuously absent in the philosophy of the Ra contact is any mention of the surrender of the conscious self to a guidance, intelligence or will greater than its own, be it the higher self, Love and Light, or the Creator. Where is there room for God’s grace and surrender in Ra’s philosophy? If surrender is suggested in Ra’s philosophy, what does an entity surrender?
(Carla channeling)
We are known to you as those of the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this evening. Our hearts are full of gratitude that you should call us to your circle of seeking to respond to the question of the place of grace and surrender in the path of the Law of One. We are delighted to share our thoughts with you upon this subject. As always, we would preface our remarks by requesting that each who listens to or reads these words reserves the right of discrimination as you listen or read, in order that you may choose which of our thoughts you shall pursue and use and which you shall lay aside. Not all of our thoughts shall be equally appropriate for you, and we would ask that, rather than taking our thoughts as a whole and attempting to work with them all, you choose those that resonate to you personally. For the path of truth for each seeker is unique, and we would not be a stumbling block in your way by distracting you from the path of your own resonance. If you shall do this we shall be most grateful, for it clears the way for us to know that we are not infringing upon your freewill or disturbing the rhythm of your process.
The question before us has to do with the place of surrender or grace in the system of philosophy or thinking that we have offered through this channel previously. Firstly, we shall remark that the philosophy or system of thinking which is sometimes known as the Law of One or the Confederation Philosophy posits a singular, unitary consciousness in which all parts are interactive, and all things are one. If all things are one, to what shall any soul surrender? This is why there is no mention of such a surrender within our thoughts which we share with you.
Now let us look at the way of the world, as we might call that world in which it would seem that there is a self that is error-prone and there is a separate Creator which is perfect. This imperfection is contrasted and separate from perfection. The human self of third density is set apart from the Creator of that third-density soul. There are two basic ways in which those of your culture choose to make the demarcation between the human and the divine. The first is that of the Christian, the Jewish, and the Islamic religions or philosophical systems, if you will, in which there is required of the sinner a repentance and a surrender of the human self in order to worship, adore, and be redeemed by the Creatorship of the Messiah or the God named Allah whose prophet is Mohammed. This system of demarcation of human and divine takes its flavor from the male energy of the God-name involved in all three religious systems.
The forerunners to these religions were systems of myth and magic in which there were sacrifices of animals and, in some cases, humans, so that the blood might ascend to the heavens and please the perfect Creator, which then would smile upon the sinning and erroneous human. The human, then, was redeemed to divinity through the sacrifice of an innocent, be it the animal or the virgin human. In your Holy Bible there is the figure of Abraham being ordered by the Creator to sacrifice his son, Isaac. Not questioning the Creator in any way, Abraham builds a fire, sets the wood, sets the tinder ready to light the fire, then binds his son to the fire to make a human sacrifice as requested by the Creator. At the last instance a ram is found caught in a thicket. Isaac is set free, and the ram takes the son’s place.
The group question for this session was: “Conspicuously absent in the philosophy of the Ra contact is any mention of the surrender of the conscious self to a guidance, intelligence or will greater than its own, be it the higher self, Love and Light, or the Creator. Where is there room for God’s grace and surrender in Ra’s philosophy? If surrender is suggested in Ra’s philosophy, what does an entity surrender?” Q’uo began by saying the question before us has to do with the place of surrender in the system of philosophy that we have offered through Carla previously, so we shall say that the philosophy which is known as the Law of One reveals a unitary consciousness in which all parts are interactive, and all things are one, and if all things are one, to what shall any soul surrender? And this is why there is no mention of such a surrender within our thoughts which we share with you. Q’uo went on to say let us look at the way of the world in which it would seem that there is a self that is error-prone and there is a separate Creator which is perfect, so there are two ways in which those of your culture choose to describe the difference between the human and the divine, and the first is that of the Christian, the Jewish, and the Islamic religions in which there is required of the sinner a repentance and a surrender of the human self in order to worship and be redeemed by the God named Allah whose prophet is Mohammed, and this system of demarcation of human and divine takes its flavor from the male energy of the God-name involved in all three religious systems. Then Q’uo said that before these religions there were systems of myth in which there were sacrifices of animals and humans, so that the blood might ascend to the heavens and please the perfect Creator, which then would smile upon the sinning human who was redeemed to divinity through the sacrifice of an innocent animal or the virgin human, and in your Holy Bible there is the figure of Abraham being ordered by the Creator to sacrifice his son, Isaac, and not questioning the Creator Abraham builds a fire, sets the wood, sets the tinder ready to light the fire, then binds his son to the fire to make a human sacrifice as requested by the Creator, and at the last minute a ram is found caught in a thicket, and Isaac is set free, and the ram takes the son’s place. On April 16, 2006, Q’uo spoke about the way of the world in the time of Jesus:
For the one known as Jesus, the old way of doing things was the way of the world. The old way was the way of money, power, and influence. The one known as Jesus was suggesting that it was time for people to wake up, to turn from their worldly ways and release their concepts of the importance of money, power, and influence. The one known as Jesus had another kingdom in mind than the kingdom of the world. He called that the kingdom of heaven. He was interested in turning people’s minds from the world to heaven, from fear to love. As he talked about the end times, therefore, this entity was speaking in stories and parables, not attempting to teach literally but attempting to create an atmosphere in which the truth would become clear.
The mystery of the Law of One is that implicit within the egg of humanity is the full-grown creature of Godhead. And implicit within the Creator is that sending forth of those seeds of self into illusion in order to gather information concerning Its own identity. This does not mean that the concepts of surrender and grace have no relevance to the Law of One, but rather that the process of spiritual evolution is seen, in this model of seeking the truth, to be a journey inward. There is no reaching outside of self but rather the intention to seek the heart of self, which is the one infinite Creator. This is a model which your culture cannot support and which consensus reality itself finds it difficult to understand. Your culture cannot see the infinite value of the self or assume that perfection lies within the self, which is always seen as prone to error and foolish and flawed in many ways.
Consensus reality has no entrance into a system of thought which posits the perfection of humanity for it is quite obvious, when one gazes upon oneself or another being, that neither oneself nor another being either expresses perfection or contains perfection in some latent state. Being unconscious of the illusory nature of third density, the culture simply has no way to absorb or understand a system in which it is posited that all that is, including perfection, exists within the self. We have spoken many times about this journey inward. We have spoken about that surface of life that is consensus reality which, rather than being earth, has more of the quality of the ocean, liquid, penetrable, deep, and capable of being entered by the diver who dives deep, perhaps to gather pearls from the ocean’s floor and to bring up those precious pearls to store away in the treasure house.
Then Q’uo said in the New Testament, the Son is not so lucky since there is no ram in Jerusalem, and Jesus the Christ is crucified upon Golgotha, and in both Testaments the figure is the same of one innocent to die in order to redeem all of the sins of humanity, so looking at this type of difference between the human and the divine we may gaze at the systems of Buddhism and Hinduism, in which the erroneous human is set over against the rest and freedom from suffering, and in this figure each entity becomes the Christ, sacrificing Its selfhood in order to become free of suffering and free of the wheel of karma and endless incarnations, so what these two systems have in common is a split between humanity, and within the Law of One, no such demarcation exists, but it is seen that each entity within third density has the one infinite Creator at the heart of every fiber of its being. Q’uo continued by saying
the mystery of the Law of One is that within the nature of humanity is the Godhead, and implied within the Creator is that sending forth of those seeds of our self into the illusion in order to gather information concerning our identity, but this does not mean that the concepts of surrender and grace have no relevance to the Law of One, but that the process of spiritual evolution is seen to be a journey inward. There is no reaching outside of our self but the intention to seek the heart of our self, which is the one infinite Creator, and this is a model which consensus reality finds it difficult to understand, and our culture cannot see the infinite value of our self or assume that perfection lies within our self, which is always seen as prone to error and flawed in many ways. Q’uo went on to say consensus reality has no entrance into a system of thought which assumes the perfection of humanity, for it is obvious, when we gaze upon our self or another being, that neither our self nor another being expresses perfection because being unconscious of the illusory nature of third density, our culture has no way to understand a system in which it is assumed that all that is, including perfection, exists within our self, and Q’uo has spoken many times about this journey inward, and that surface of life that is consensus reality which, rather than being earth, has more of the quality of the ocean being liquid, deep, and capable of being entered by the diver who dives deep, to gather pearls from the ocean’s floor and to bring up those pearls to store away in the treasure house. On November 6, 2005, Q’uo spoke of the nature of consensus reality:
As we were speaking of the difference between consensus reality, or the world of illusion, and the metaphysical universe, or the world of time/space, we were speaking of a finite universe as opposed to an infinite universe. Your everyday, consensus reality is measurable. One can measure the terrestrial ball upon which you walk. One can measure the beat of your heart and the pressure of your blood. One can use instrumentation to measure the exact electrical charge of each thought that you think.
The world of metaphysics is not measurable by such instrumentation as you are aware of in your everyday world. It is a world in which anything is possible because you are unbounded by any limitation whatsoever except those you create for yourself. The world of time/space is the world of consciousness. It is the world of infinity and eternity. The reason it is difficult for us to describe this to you is that your mind is a space/time artifact. The intellectual brain, that marvelous problem-solving biocomputer, is not capable of grasping the infinite. It can only grasp it by saying, “Oh, it is that which goes beyond that limit.” But since the mind thinks in finite terms, there is always an end to that place that is beyond. And then infinity must again be invoked so that that limit too is transcended.
Our consciousnesses have a regular and layered nature. The surface of the ocean of consciousness is that infinitesimal part of yourself that is fully invested in consensus reality. You are as one who floats upon the surface as long as you are content to remain uncurious as to what lies beneath the surface of self. Much of your psychology is content to remain largely upon the surface of self and to work with the structure of the personality. We have called the personality the “personality shell” to indicate that it is, in a way, a husk which protects the fruit that lies so sweetly within. As long as you feel that you are your personality and are limited by your traits, gifts, and limitations of personality, then you shall float upon the ocean of consciousness, never penetrating below the surface disturbances of waves, moved forever by the moon’s attraction and washed with the tides that ebb and flow with all the influences on the surface personality.
It is our suggestion that you are capable of diving more deeply within the folds of your personality and penetrating at last into deeper waters which are, although illusory, far less distorted in their ability to express the truth of the oneness of all creation and the beauty, the truth and the Creatorship within each soul. We can use words like Christ Consciousness or Cosmic Consciousness to help the seeker begin to penetrate the idea that there is an internalized Christhood within each cell of your body and within each iota of your emotions, your mentality, and your spirit. Thusly, we see a journey that slowly develops for each seeker. The beginning of the journey is the awareness that there is more to the illusion than meets the eye. This awareness rouses the seeker and creates a hunger and a thirst for the truth that is missing from consensus reality.
There is a flatness perceived to consensus reality. Birth, growth, adulthood, working, marriage, children, friends, getting older, failing in health, and then dying are the signposts of the journey across the flat, even if turbulent, sea of consensus reality. However, the seeker becomes aware that this model of life is not accurate—or not fully accurate. Once the seeker has awakened to the knowledge that there is infinitely more than this life and these details of life, the seeker can no longer go back to sleep. Once awake, the journey has begun. There are various ways in which the seeker grows as he seeks ever more deeply for the truth about himself. If the seeker uses the settled religions which we mentioned earlier in an attempt to penetrate the truth of himself and his relation to the Creator, he is forever dependent upon an “other.”
Now Q’uo said our consciousnesses have a regular nature so that the surface of the ocean of consciousness is that tiny part of our self that is fully invested in consensus reality, and we are as one who floats upon the surface as long as we have no interest as to what lies beneath the surface of our self, and much of our psychology is content to remain upon the surface of our self and to work with the structure of our personality, so Q’uo has called the personality the “personality shell” to indicate that it is a husk which protects the fruit that lies so sweetly within, and as long as we feel that we are our personality and are limited by our traits and the limitations of our personality, then we shall float upon the ocean of consciousness, never penetrating below the surface disturbances of waves, moved forever by the moon’s attraction and washed with the tides that ebb and flow with all the influences on the surface personality. Then Q’uo said it is their suggestion that we are capable of diving deeply within the folds of our personality and penetrating into deeper waters which are, although illusory, less distorted in their ability to express the truth of the oneness of all creation and the Creatorship within each soul, and Q’uo can use words like Christ Consciousness or Cosmic Consciousness to help us begin to penetrate the idea that there is an internalized Christhood within each cell of our body and within each iota of our emotions, mentality, and spirit, so they see a journey that develops for each seeker, and the beginning of the journey is our awareness that there is more to the illusion than meets the eye, so this awareness awakens us and creates a thirst for the truth that is missing from consensus reality. Q’uo continued by saying that there is a flatness perceived to consensus reality regarding birth, growth, adulthood, working, marriage, children, friends, getting older, failing in health, and then dying which are the signposts of the journey across the turbulent sea of consensus reality, but the seeker becomes aware that this model of life is not fully accurate, and once we awaken to the knowledge that there is infinitely more than this life and these details of life, we can no longer go back to sleep because our journey has begun, and there are various ways in which we grow as we search more deeply for the truth about our self, so if we use the settled religions which Q’uo mentioned earlier in an attempt to penetrate the truth of our self and our relation to the Creator, we are forever dependent upon an “other.” On April 6, 2003, Q’uo spoke of the truth about our self:
The Creator within you, the Truth of yourself, is happy to live your life. You have sufficient spiritual impulses within you to move through your incarnations in a state of true peace and undiluted joy. Yet it is something for which permission must be given from the self to the self. One must give oneself permission to be conten, and happy, and blessed, for these are not things which are in the training which your culture offers its people. It is not taught among your people that happiness is a natural state, but rather that struggling and competition are the natural state. And each is aware of many ways in which the culture itself offers these lessons to those who are growing and in need of instruction. Always it is the spiritual sense alone that is able to release the conflicts, the struggles, those things which are the truth of the illusion, in order to turn once again to the stunning mystery of oneness, to the love that is all that you see, to the Light that has created all that is, without blinking at those things which seem good and which seem evil.
If the seeker is aware that he is seeking his deepest self, then there is no other, there is only a growing desire to lay aside each mask, each husk, and each trait of personality that veils from him the deepest truth of his nature. Yet this is not a mechanical process. There is no “stairway to heaven” as the song phrases it. There is only the gentle and continuous intention to allow the dropping away of all of those things that keep the awareness from beholding the presence of the one infinite Creator. And this is where surrender and grace reenter this Law of One. For the surrender is to the deeper self. And in surrendering to the deeper truth of the self, the shallower identifications of self with personality traits, accidents of birth, race, religion, and so forth, melt away. All distinctions blur beside the presence of the Creator within.
Itis as though the seeker orbits the self, closer and closer, until finally it is drawn into the heart of self by a kind of spiritual gravity. And suddenly there bursts forth an awareness, a satori, a realization, an epiphany. And in that moment the self is known to the self. And that self is love. Blessed are those moments of grace when all masks fall away and the naked self stands fearless, beholding its own nature, which is sacred and divine. We do not object at all to the seeker’s use of “otherness.” For instance, this instrument works with mystical Christianity and patterns her life after the example of the one known as Jesus, the Christ, whom she calls her Beloved, whom she follows, for whom she would die, and for whom she lives. She is aware of the relative impurity of a model which contains the self and an other-than-the-self. Yet to contain her devotion and channel it in a productive and positive way, she uses the conventions to which she was born in consensus reality as a conscious being.
Q’uo continued by saying if we are aware that we are seeking our deepest self, then there is only a growing desire to lay aside each trait of personality that veils from us the deepest truth of our nature, yet this is not a mechanical process since there is only the continuous intention to allow the dropping away of all of those things that keep our awareness from beholding the presence of the one infinite Creator, and this is where surrender and grace reenter the Law of One, for the surrender is to our deeper self, and in surrendering to the deeper truth of our self the shallower identifications of our self with personality traits, race, and religion melt away, and all distinctions blur beside the presence of the Creator within. Then Q’uo said it is as though we orbit our self until it is drawn into the heart of our self by spiritual gravity, and suddenly there bursts forth a realization, and in that moment our self is known to our self as Love, and blessed are those moments of grace when all masks fall away, and our naked self stands fearless, beholding our own nature, which is sacred and divine, so Q’uo did not object to the our use of “otherness” since Carla works with mystical Christianity and patterns her life after the example of the one known as Jesus the Christ, whom she calls her Beloved, whom she follows, for whom she would die, and for whom she lives, and she is aware of the relative impurity of a model which contains the self and an other-than-the-self, but to contain her devotion and channel it in a positive way, she uses the conventions to which she was born in consensus reality as a conscious being. Q’uo went on to say it is a way to avoid paradox since the conscious mind, with its logical nature, has a dislike of paradox, and it is paradoxical to say both that our surface self is real, and that our deepest expression of our self is real, yet that is what Q’uo says, knowing that it is a paradox and a mystery, and there are those among our mystical groups, as well as individuals, who reject words and choose the way of silence, so over a period of time the habit of silence decreases the difficulty of absorbing the outrage of paradox, and such silent souls smile at the deception of words which separate and logic which delineates to no good purpose, spiritually speaking. On September 5, 2010, Carla described the value of paradox:
When there’s no paradox, there’s no growth. Always remember when you get yourself into a situation and you say, “This makes no sense whatsoever,” you’re on the right track. Finally, you’re on the right track! Because when things make no sense; when they’re paradoxical and mysterious, those are the hallmarks of spirit.
Yet we would not encourage you to become recluses. We would encourage you to embrace paradox and mystery. We would encourage you to continue your journey upon the surface of life, knowing that it, too, is perfect in its way, even with all the masks, all the confusions, and all the misunderstandings, and limitations of dealing with each other and with circumstances which occur in everyday life. For third density was not designed to be a quiet and steady dive to the center of self. It was designed to be turbulent, as the shaker that breaks rocks into pieces or large pieces of ceramic into small pieces of ceramic, polishing them and shaping them by friction and impact.
To come at the action intended in third density another way, we could use the figure of the fiery furnace which tempers and strengthens the brittle, callow young soul so that it becomes an instrument of great flexibility and strength. Your world is intended as a refinery of souls. That catalyst that comes to the surface self is seen by us as a good thing, a useful and appropriate thing, whether it feels comfortable or vastly uncomfortable. Indeed, it is the movement of the self within periods or situations of discomfort which are especially helpful in achieving maturity and a more polished or tempered realization of the nature of the self and the Creator.
Both your physical body and your metaphysical body, or your energy body, are designed to take advantage of and make use of this catalytic effect of the day-by-day occurrences of life. A great deal of the catalyst of life comes from the relationships which you have, first with yourself and then with other people. And as the spirit grows in maturity, it becomes more able to see through the illusion of suffering. It becomes more able to penetrate the devices and desires of its own surface being to see the patterns of learning that lie within those surface movements of the emotions and the reactions of the mind and the body. It does not become more in control of what occurs within life. Rather, it becomes unafraid of not being in control. And this is grace. When all about one is pressured and stressful, and yet there is that within the heart that remembers the true nature of the self, then that spirit is in a state of grace and may maximize its learning and its service within third density.
Q’uo said they would not encourage us to become recluses, but they would encourage us to embrace paradox and mystery to continue our journey upon the surface of life, knowing that is perfect in its way, even with all the confusions and limitations of dealing with each other and with circumstances which occur in everyday life, for third density was not designed to be a quiet and steady dive to the center of our self, but it was designed to be turbulent, as the shaker that breaks rocks into small pieces polishing them and shaping them by friction and impact. Then Q’uo went on to say that to come at the action intended in third density another way, they could use the figure of the fiery furnace which tempers and strengthens the brittle young soul so that it becomes an instrument of great flexibility and strength, and our world is intended as a refinery of souls, so that catalyst that comes to our surface self is seen by them as a good thing whether it feels comfortable or uncomfortable, and it is the movement of our self within situations of discomfort which are especially helpful in achieving maturity and realization of the nature of our self and the Creator. Q’uo continued by saying our physical body and our energy body are designed to make use of this catalytic effect of the day-by-day occurrences of life, and a great deal of the catalyst of life comes from the relationships which we have, first with our self and then with other people, and as our spirit grows in maturity, it becomes able to see through the illusion of suffering so that it becomes able to penetrate the desires of its own surface being to see the patterns of learning that lie within those surface movements of the emotions and the reactions of the mind and the body, but it does not become more in control of what occurs within life, but it becomes unafraid of not being in control, and this is grace when all about us is pressured and stressful, and there is that within our heart that remembers the true nature of our self, then our spirit is in a state of grace and may maximize its learning and its service within third density. On December 17, 1995, Q’uo described the state of grace that is always available to us:
And consequently, the growing entity does not have a way to come into the concept of that state of mind or attitude which is that entity’s natural gift. Rather, the entity tends to drift further and further away from a feeling of wholeness and appropriateness which comes from the heart outward. And most entities move through the incarnative experience only becoming aware of that state of grace in which the universe is kindly, and in which all things which are needed appear from time to time. Thusly, most entities see grace as that which occurs episodically, now here, now there, and then again elsewhere.
In actuality, these times when grace seems to come near and touch the entity are those times when the individual has been able involuntarily or consciously to allow the self to be completely natural, to rest in the center of being and to allow the natural flow of energy. It is as though the self were a receiver that only intermittently worked. In simplistic terms, then, the way towards maximizing the experience of grace in the incarnative experience is to attempt to come to a feeling within of balance. We would encourage seekers to think upon and ponder the concept of self with regard to the nature of the basic attitude that is given as a natural gift by the Creator to each entity, for the maximizing of the experience of grace can be accomplished by increasing the allowing of the self to rest in the natural balance.
This requires that the entity gradually uncover within itself an awareness and a growing familiarity with a kind of trust in the self and in that part of self that goes beyond self and connects with all that there is that is not commonly taught among your peoples. The young child is repeatedly taught what it must do to obtain the approval and the satisfaction of those whom it wishes to please and of the self, for each entity talks to the self and communicates with the deeper self as if it were another person. Thusly, when one talks with another person one is talking to the projection of the self.
Many things will attempt to unbalance the natural poise of a seeker throughout the daily round of activity. There is the constant ebb and flow of the personal and individual rhythms of self, and we are not suggesting that it is easy to become aware of the deep and unchanging portion of the self that is perhaps best described in emotional terms, or rather in terms of emotion. Emotions are given short shrift by your people. Those who are emotional or considered to be emotional are those who seem unbalanced and out of control, whereas from our point of view we would say that those who feel emotion are moving into truth as they begin to purify and refine those emotions. The entity who becomes able through the discipline of the life and the personality to express and manifest pure emotions is the one who shall be closer to balance and nearer to the constant awareness of that state of grace which abides for each entity below the level of confusion which clutters the surface of life and of the mind of each seeker.
What is being refined in the refinery of souls that is Earth? What is the soul within third density? A synonym for “soul” might be “heart.” And we have often suggested to you that you are on a journey into your own open heart. Christ is waiting for you within your own heart. As you allow the surface of self to fall away, you become empty enough to fall in love with yourself. You begin to see that all these details of self, wretched though they may be in some cases, and glorious in others, fall away to nothingness before the self’s desire to seek the presence of the one infinite Creator. And so the self within incarnation becomes merry and lighthearted, whether in sunshine or in rain; whether in good times or evil. For the self remembers that it is on a journey whose destination is sure. And thusly, through all the changes and chances of mortal life, that seeking soul may be confident and quiet within, full of faith and knowing that all is well. And this, too, is grace.
There is great power in words. Words can stir up the emotions. Within the power of those who wish to inspire others, there is the ability to manipulate feelings and emotions and to whip up passion, so that an ecstasy of hysteria is achieved in which there seems to be a breakthrough into the Love of Christ, however you wish to say that condition of perfect Love. And that feels very good. Yet that which is whipped up, dies down. We would rather not proceed with words that inspire in order to whip up passion and to change rejoicing into an hysterical expression of love for the Creator. Rather, we ask you to use every faculty of your being, your intellect, your will, your body, your emotions, and every fiber of your being to seek, seek, seek to remember who you are.
There are so many ways to work on that question! For all of nature is one with you. And all of nature is full of that information which harmonizes with your desires and sets up patterns of attraction and coincidence. And all of Spirit is one with you as well. All that is unseen and not of nature but of Spirit conspires to speak with you in silence, singing into your life those silent melodies of truth and beauty.
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There is a wind that blows through you, changeable and sacred. And in every season and mood of your life it brings new life, new light, new power, new information, new expressions of that which is always the same—love, love, love.
Then Q’uo said a synonym for “soul” might be “heart,” and they have often suggested to us that we are on a journey into our open heart, and Christ is waiting for us within our heart, so as we allow the surface of our self to fall away, we become empty enough to fall in love with our self, and we begin to see that all these details, wretched though they may be in some cases, and glorious in others, fall away to nothingness before our desire to seek the presence of the one infinite Creator, so our self within incarnation becomes merry and lighthearted, whether in sunshine or in rain, for it remembers that it is on a journey whose destination is sure, and through all the changes of our life, our seeking soul may be full of faith and knowing that all is well, and this, too, is grace. Q’uo went on to say there is power in words, and within the power of those who wish to inspire others, there is the ability to manipulate emotions, so that ecstasy is achieved in which there seems to be a breakthrough into the Love of Christ, and that feels very good, yet that which is whipped up, dies down, and Q’uo would rather not use words that inspire in order to whip up passion and to change rejoicing into an hysterical expression of love for the Creator, but they asked us to use every faculty of our being to seek and to remember who we are. Now Q’uo said that there are many ways to work on that question, for all of nature is one with us, and all of nature is full of information which harmonizes with our desires and sets up patterns of attraction and coincidence, and all of Spirit is one with us as well, so that which is unseen and not of nature but of Spirit conspires to speak with us in silence, singing into our life those silent melodies of truth and beauty, and there is a wind that blows through us, changeable and sacred, so in every season of our life it brings new life, light, and new expressions of that which is always the same—love, love, love. On March 28, 2009, Q’uo spoke as to how we can join in groups to create patterns of attraction that draw higher energies and information to us:
As to the seeming paradox, an entity in your linear future reading or hearing this material and realizing that he has touched into the energy vortex which created the material is not the same thing as the entity being forced into a place in space and time in the literal sense. Rather there is the convergence of energies, in a metaphysical sense, with the vibration of love and light upon which this channeling has been carried, it being the matrix for all of those who would touch into that web that is this circle of seeking.
This circle of seeking exists in time, in the sense of space/time, and it exists timelessly in the sense of metaphysical patterns of attraction. In just such a way, the one known as William wrote many plays and sonnets in the seventeenth century and in his brief life certainly did not touch a great many people. Yet, century after century since then, when school children meet the question of “to be or not to be,” they have entered into that moment where there was the creation of that soliloquy and therefore, of that universe.
Thusly, it is aptly said that some works are timeless and in their classic goodness exceed all ages, speaking to those of any age, any century, whose minds are shaped at that moment to perceive and to work with those concepts. It is not something special that those who read the material generated this evening converge upon a place in time/space, for this occurs whenever entities come together with an idea that is greater than themselves and takes them out of themselves.
Weencourage your explorations. However you wish to seek the Creator, we encourage you to follow those preferences and those biases. We simply offer to you our humble opinion of the deeper truth of the process that is occurring within third density. Third density is set up as system after system of opposites. Male and female, light and dark are certainly chief among them. Yet male and female combine to make third density in the sense that it is the male principle and the female principle, attracting each other, which create this illusion that you call third density. It is the very fabric and stuff of third density. And indeed the meat which is chewed in third density is that meat of choice, light or dark, radiant or magnetic, service to others or service to self. There aretwo paths, both valid and quite opposite in their energy, both pointed towards an eventual unity yet choosing two completely different paths towards that inevitable awareness of utter unity.
Inclaiming the Law of One, we move ahead to that point in what you would call your future where the positive and negative paths have once again converged and become one for all time, until the creation itself moves from time to the timeless and enters the womb of yet another creation, as the heartbeat of the Creator throbs once more and another creation begins. You journey homeward. How shall you journey? That is the question of third density. Shall you journey in the light, seeking ever to become more of service, more loving, more giving, more aware of the love within each moment? Or shall you enjoy the dark path where the self is seen immediately as the Creator and all other selves are seen as those who would worship the Creator in you? Thus, the dark path is one where each who follows it attempts to coerce, manipulate, or otherwise use all other selves, to tell them what to do and to make sure they are useful to the self or moved out of the way of self. This also is a valid path, yet it is a dark path and a bloody path. There are those who prefer it.
We are not those. We are those of the radiant path. And so, we ask you to re-member rather than dis-member yourself. We ask you to collect all of the pieces of your self and re-member yourself, to gather all of your members together. We ask that you love your imperfections, gather them to your bosom, honor them, and bring them into your heart. And then we suggest that you remain in that tabernacle within even as you move upwards into the surface of life once again and experience the turbulence of the surface tides of life. There is, to our mind, that constant flow of moving from the depths of the truth to the surface expressions of the truth, which in many cases are highly colored but always carry those seeds of the truth which lies so deeply within. All is one and all is love.
Q’uo said they encouraged our explorations if we wish to seek the Creator, and they encouraged us to follow those preferences, and they offered us their opinion of the deeper truth of the process that is occurring within third density because third density is set up as systems of opposites with male and female, light and dark among them, yet male and female combine to make third density in the sense that it is the male principle and the female principle, attracting each other, which create this illusion that we call third density which is the stuff of third density, and the meat which is chewed in third density is that meat of choice, service to others or service to self, and these are the two paths, both pointed towards an eventual unity yet choosing two completely different paths towards that awareness of unity. Q’uo went on to say in claiming the Law of One, they move ahead to that point in what we would call our future where the positive and negative paths have once again converged and become one for all time, until the creation itself moves from time to the timeless and enters the womb of yet another creation, as the heartbeat of the Creator throbs once more and another creation begins, and how we can journey in the light and seek to become more of service, or we can enjoy the dark path where each who follows it attempts to control other selves and see themselves as the Creator that shall be worshipped, and this is a valid path even though it is dark and dirty path there are those who prefer it. Q’uo completed their reply by saying they are those of the radiant path, and they asked us to re-member rather than dis-member our self, and they asked us to collect all of the pieces of our self and re-member our self and that we love our self and bring it into our heart, and then remain in that tabernacle within even as we move upwards into the surface of life and experience the turbulence of the surface tides of life because there is that constant flow of moving from the depths of the truth to the surface expressions of the truth, which are highly colored but carry those seeds of the truth which lies deeply within us, and all is one, and all is Love. On June 23, 1985, Hatonn described how all is Love:
You are Love, and all is Love. This is the truth about who you are, this is the truth about who the Creator is, and this is the truth about your connection with the Creator. If you wish the storm, so you may learn of the Creator; if you wish peace, so better you may learn of the Creator. But Love speaks only to Love and tempest to tempest.”
Each of you may make that choice at any time—the tempest or the peace. Both are equally full of Love; one is intellectually distorted, the other distorted by the biases of compassion and unity. If you accept tempest into your mind or your heart, then you shall learn by the tempest, and it shall be a good learning, though hectic. If you accept the calm within the storm, then Love shall speak to you plain and clear. We urge you, my friends, to seek the calm within through the quiet of meditation and contemplation. What inspires you may not inspire another, what aids you in meditation may not aid another. Each is unique, and it does not matter how you attain those few moments each day of quiet. What matters is that you intend to rest in the Love and in the Light of the one infinite Creator.
This instrument is suggesting that we cease speaking upon this particular topic so that we may use the remaining energy of this group and this instrument to inquire as to whether there is a desire to follow up on this query or to ask another query at this time. We are those of Q’uo.
[Long pause.]
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware that we have exhausted the questions that this group has this evening. And so, we would thank you once again, our dear friends, for the privilege of sharing in your meditation and being a part of this session of working. Your circle of seeking is beautiful to behold, and your blended auras sing of the Love and the Light of which we have been speaking this evening. Thank you for allowing us to share in the love and affection that you have for each other and for the one infinite Creator. It is a blessing to be part of your circle. We leave this instrument and this group in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.
This morning I ran some errands with my first stop being at Thieneman’s Nursery where I bought two flats of dianthus, six flats of zinnias, and two flats of garden impatiens. My second stop was at Feeder’s Supply where I bought some cat food for Benny and so AquaSafe for my pond water. My third stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought two containers of petunias.
This afternoon I transplanted the dianthus into the second small garden beside the Flower Fall Garden in my front yard. Then I transplanted the garden impatiens on the other side of the Flower Fall Mound. I also transplanted the two containers of petunias in the fourth pot at the northeast corner of the fishpond. Then I watered all the transplanted flowers with fertilizer in the water. Then I sprayed all the transplanted flowers with deer repellent.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
April 21
Lovers Before The Holy Spirit
I am of the principle of the full consciousness of Love and I greet you as the living Word of the most High.
Know ye that men and women alike are as lovers before the Holy Spirit, to be impregnated with the divine, that, within illusion, manifestation of the creative renewal of the infinite Love of Jesus the Christ may take place.
Sexuality is seen only as its gross aspect by most who live the earthly life. Yet there is enormous polarity betwixt the pilgrim and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not nurturer alone but impregnator, that each pilgrim may be full of that which is born of the Spirit and not of flesh.
Know that you may carry the living Word, the Christed consciousness that was and is and always shall be with and in Jesus the Christ. And embrace, as lovers, that life-giving Love of the heavenly seeds within.
We leave you in the expectant peace of all who await the Spirit of the living Christ, now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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