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On childishness and related matters
July 29, 1995
For the last few days I have had an extensive discussion with The Lord
Jesus Christ and all members of my true spiritual family about the true
meaning of the concepts “infancy,” “childhood,” “adolescence” and
“adulthood.” I am being told that there is a lot of misunderstanding
about these concepts — even among some members connected to The
New Revelation. And not only that but some of them go so far as to try
to imitate Margaret’s condition and behave like little children — even
trying to talk in a childish voice. Of course, this is totally ridiculous.
In cases of such an imitation, they successfully block access to their true
self and to their true nature and they open the door widely for the
negative state to contaminate their life and influence it in all its
aspects. What happens here is that people like that become totally shut
off from their true nature and from their ability to find out who they
really are, why they are here and what their assignment from The Lord
Jesus Christ on this planet is. By doing that, they serve the cause of the
negative state instead of The Lord Jesus Christ.
In human life, in its distorted and distorting condition, these concepts
mean something entirely different than in the positive state of The Lord
Jesus Christ’s Creation. In human life, “infancy’ means total ignorance,
helplessness and absolute dependency on a caretaker from the
externals. “Childhood” in human life means total self-centeredness,
limitation to its own self and dependence on parental guidance and
acquirement of any knowledge in a distorted manner from the outside.
“Adolescence” in human life denotes establishing oneself in the
externals and conforming to the external demands of peer pressure and
rebellion against “adult” authority and similar paradoxes that place
teenagers in a state of confusion and uncertainty about anything. The
only certainty they have is that nothing is certain or clear and that the
only sense about anything can be found in their adherence to what their
peer groups dictate.
“Adulthood” in human life is defined by the biological, physiological
and physical signs and by establishment of various customs, habits and
traditions that become the ruling force and mode of their individual life.
In true reality, humans are never able to accomplish a state of maturity.
In their essence and substance they are very immature and confused in
most aspects of their life (Chapters 11 and 12 in The New Revelation
describe very well what human life is all about).
On the other hand, in the positive state the concept of “infancy” denotes
purity of state and the condition of total knowing of what is right and
proper without the need to think about it by any mode of mind functions
and without the need to ponder whether it is or is not so and without
asking questions about why something is the way it is. It simply
perceives all events and all information by the purity of its intuitive
discernment without the need to speculate or reason about anything.
“Infancy” is a state of all-knowing or all-perceiving of the essence and
substance of everything relative to the Absolute All-Knowing and All-
Perceiving of The Lord Jesus Christ. It also means the state of pure
innocence, modesty, humbleness and humility, and of unconditional
love, wisdom, kindness, gentleness, tenderness, appreciation,
gratitude, thankfulness, mercy, forgiveness, compassion and empathy.
But it also means the purity of the positive state which cannot be
corrupted, contaminated and polluted by anything coming from the
negative state.
“Childhood,” in the positive state, means the process of the state of
infancy which applies the purity of its state to all mental processes for
the purpose of sharing and reciprocating what it has and what it is in its
pure state as outlined above.
“Adolescence,” in its positive connotation, signifies the purity of the
reasoning processes and logic for the purpose of projecting the purity of
the state of infancy and childhood from the within to the without and
anchoring it in the without with the feedback loop to childhood and
infancy. It also denotes the assertion of one unique self or “I am” for the
purpose of establishing a favorable condition and foundation on which
a meaningful, fulfilling, loving, wise and productive relationship can be
established.
Now, “adulthood” in the positive state signifies the total integration of
everything represented by infancy, childhood and adolescence for the
purpose of actualization, realization and manifestation of all which is
contained in the purity of infancy’s state, in the process of childhood
and the “I am” of the adolescence. This is the state of ultimate maturity.
Thus, in this sense, in the positive state there is no separation of these
states, processes, conditions and manifestations but infancy, childhood,
adolescence and adulthood occur synchronously and simultaneously in
all their aspects within the same individual.
In a certain sense, in their positive connotation, as it is in the positive
state of The Lord Jesus Christ’s Creation, you can equate infancy to the
Spiritual Mind; childhood to the interior mind; adolescence to the
external mind; and adulthood to one positive sentient mind which is in
full alignment with the Absolutely Positive Absolute Sentient Mind of
The Lord Jesus Christ.
The negative connotation of these terms, of course, similarly
corresponds to the various levels of the pseudo-mind and their totally
ignorant, false, distorted and upside-down position.
The reason why it is said in The New Revelation and its Updates that
we need to become like little children is because we need to return to our
true nature. To do that we need to go through the process of rebirth
which requires us to experience what true childhood means in its
positive connotation in order to acquire an integrated state and process
of maturity, which is a true adulthood.
But to be like little children also denotes total unconditional trust,
confidence, faith in and reliance on The Divine Providence of The Lord
Jesus Christ. It also means to be lead by the Lord Jesus Christ and not
by ourselves and to do everything in our life from, by, through, of and
with The Lord Jesus Christ, ascribing all love, wisdom, good, truth,
positive works and faith to their exquisite source — to The Lord Jesus
Christ.
It also means to include everything and not to leave anything out in the
process of self-exploration and self-perception in order to accept who we
are, what we are and why we are here, accepting the fact that
everything in our life is by agreement with The Lord Jesus Christ, being
what we are, without lusting, wanting and desiring to be like someone
else or desiring to have and possess what other people have and possess
or without trying to imitate their condition and lifestyle or whatever
they experience and go through in their own personalized and
individualized life.
This, basically, is the brief content of the discussion that we have had
until today. I am sharing this brief content of that conversation with
you for your own consideration.
Peter
Source: COROLLARY OF THE NEW REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
