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MESSAGE THIRTEEN
ON THE METHODS OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN HISTORY
April 9, 1982 in Martinique
The following messages have been received today from the Lord.
It is advisable to remind oneself of the following important facts:
Since the time of the so-called cave man until now, one of the major
sources of acquiring knowledges of any kind has been through sensory
modes of the human external mind. This is also true with regard to the
activities of prophets and revelations which came through them. For that
reason, they saw, heard, dreamt, and had visions and words which they
were ordered to record. This was by the way of obedience, frequently
without their knowing or truly understanding the spiritual, internal and
interior meaning of such revelations or visions. Very often and in most
instances they took these visions, dreams and words literally, applying
them narrowly to their own time, to physical events and to Earthly
nations and people without any concept of their true inner spiritual,
interior and universal significance.
This methodology was required because of the closure of direct access
to the Inner Mind as a result of the hoax of the cave man fabricated by
the pseudo-creators.
In order to maintain some semblance of contact with the Inner Mind
and spiritual world, it was necessary to develop a special methodology
which would fit such a spiritual situation which has been in existence on
this planet until recently.
This methodology accommodated itself to the only available source of
acquiring and understanding all kinds of knowledges through and by the
external means and external human mind which operates through and
by sensory tools. Therefore, in this methodology it was necessary to use
the language of external events which would be literally comprehensible
to anyone and, at the same time, which would contain within itself
precise correspondences of events from and by “within”, in the Inner
Mind and in the spiritual world. This enabled deep spiritual meanings to
be manifested through and by ordinary, literal, everyday events,
behaviors and happenings in people’s, nations’ and groups’ lives and in
the natural world.
In such a methodology, no internal comprehension or comprehension
from “within” is possible and discernible because one is turned to and
faces “without” and has one’s back to “within”. This manner of
conjunction necessitates that people who were supposed to transmit
revelations would have abilities to see, to dream and to hear various
events which personally for them would be very obscure and which very
often would not make any tangible sense. The real sense to these things
comes only from “within”. However, at that time the ways to “within”
were closed so that no profanation by sensorial inputs from “without”
could occur.
Since those times, people were instilled, almost in their genes from
the very first moment of their physical conception, with a need, a desire
to look outside, to “without”, and to seek all knowledges and answers to
their questions outside or “without” of themselves. Only a few “chosen
ones”, such as so-called holy people, monks and nuns, and similar people
were trained and allowed to look and to seek inside, from “within”.
However, even these people in actuality were not capable, with some
exceptions, to contact the true “within” or inside because they went about
it in a wrong, external manner. First, they accepted doctrines,
conceptualizations, philosophies, prescriptions, rituals, ceremonies,
obscure mysticisms and distortions of their own religious pseudo-
spiritual concepts (which were fabricated from sensorial-externals).
Then, by them and through them, they attempted to make such a
contact. Wrong methodology, of course, leads to the wrong area of
contact. Instead of contacting their true internals, they ended up in
contacting the artificially developed area of the mind which is comprised
of wishful thinking, personal predispositions, subjective projections,
self-fulfilling prophecies, false expectations, suppressed and repressed
fantasies and daydreams and similar matters which do not have the
reality of true internals. Then they assumed this area to be the real
Inner Mind or “within”.
These situations and methodologies are one of the major sources of all
kinds of distortions, misconceptions, misinterpretations, misguidances,
misleadings, twistings, perversions, errors and mistakes which have
been plaguing mankind’s various religious doctrines, beliefs, faiths,
concepts, ideas, thoughts, social establishments, laws and institutions
since the time of the cave man.
As long as people on planet Earth choose and are forced by all
available means without exception to look outside, to “without” and to be
preoccupied with externals only, no true understanding of anything in its
essence and substance, and no true spirituality will be accessible and
available to them.
The first critical evaluation of the above methodology was given by
Swedenborg. However, in reality, it was Jesus Christ who was first to
warn people that the Kingdom of God is not here or there, but within.
That means that all understanding and answers to spiritual questions as
to the meaning of life and religion are only “within”, in one’s Inner Mind
where the Most High resides in people. But nobody paid too much real
attention to this statement because, by virtue of the spiritual situation
on Earth and in the spiritual world at that time, Jesus Christ by
necessity spoke mostly in parables or correspondences and symbolism.
However, people took such statements literally or they simply did not
understand the true meaning of what He was talking about. Swedenborg
was the first who properly explained this situation.
As mentioned previously, to accommodate themselves to the current
situation of the spiritual ignorance of people of their time, all prophets,
Jesus Christ, Swedenborg and other such people were necessarily
equipped with external sensory powers which would demonstrate visibly
and experientially the spiritual principles at work. They all performed
so-called miracles. The problem with this methodology is that, despite
the fact that it proves the spiritual principles at work, it comes from the
outside, from “without”, of one who observes the performance of such
miracles. Whatever comes from outside is compulsory and has little
spiritual appropriation unless, of course, it triggers some spiritual
internal processes that awaken one to the reality of one’s Inner Mind or
internals — “within”. But unfortunately it does so only to a very few.
People who observed Jesus Christ’s miraculous works ultimately
crucified Him. His own Earthly relatives considered Him to be mentally
ill. Others claimed He performed these miracles by the powers of the
Hells. Most prophets before and after Jesus Christ were imprisoned,
tortured and killed despite the fact that they performed great miracles
and everyone was a personal witness to such a performance.
Contemporaries of Swedenborg, together with some present time
scientists, claimed that Swedenborg suffered from a psychotic disorder
labeled in the old psychiatric textbooks as paraphrenia — a form of
schizophrenia.
This all points to a very important fact — nothing can be considered
spiritually valuable which comes from the externals and the sensorial
alone without first being initiated in one’s internals and then having
proper impact on the externals also. Otherwise, in the end, it is
vehemently denied by most people, and messengers of such works are
considered to be insane or working by the powers of evil spirits.
Therefore, in order that the New Spiritual Age take hold on planet
Earth, it is necessary to teach people to give up their dangerous and
destructive habit of millions of years to look and to seek outside,
“without”, in the external sensory mind, and to start to turn inside, to
“within”, to their Inner Mind where the Most High is. This is a new
methodology for the coming New Spiritual Age. For a few years, now,
people have been told about and drawn toward special so-called mind
techniques, such as various meditative techniques, self-hypnosis and
hypnosis, spiritual hypnosis and self-hypnosis, biofeedback, guided
imagery and many similar methods that herald the very important first
step taken by many in the right direction — to look to and to seek in
“within”, in their Inner Mind.
Until recently, people by and large always expected that things would
be done for them by someone else and not by themselves (something like
going, for example, to a doctor for a cure by external means, instead of
going to a doctor to learn how to cure oneself by the means of one’s Inner
Mind). This was a part of the old methodology. A good example of such a
methodology is the so-called medical model. It can treat only from
without and describes everything only by observable symptoms which
are sensorial means. Such a methodology will no longer be tolerated in
the New Spiritual Age. Everyone will be properly trained to utilize all
available powers of one’s Inner Mind from the presence of the Most High
in it for accomplishment of whatever one needs in accordance with one’s
chosen style of life.
All “miraculous” types of healing and other psychic and spiritual
powers will be natural occurrences in everyone’s life not by the external
tool of someone else’s abilities, but by one’s own determination and
reliance on the Lord within one’s Inner Mind.
The various new methodologies for getting in touch with one’s Inner
Mind and the Spiritual World and the tapping of their inexhaustible
resources for one’s benefit and the benefit of all will be developed,
revealed and utilized on the broadest and widest possible scale. No one
will be lacking anything one needs for successful fulfillment of one’s
purpose of being on this Earth within one’s chosen type of use that one
will perform and style of life that one will want to lead.
The external human mind will be productively engaged in useful
service to the Inner Mind by providing proper routes to the external
world and nature. The externals will no longer dominate human life and
no one any longer will be habituated and enslaved to them.
Because the new revelation, reflected in the “Fundamentals of
Human Spirituality” and in all these and future messages, is for the first
step in establishing the New Spiritual Age, the revelator, messenger and
transmitter of them from the Most High is not equipped with externally
observable powers to perform so-called miracles or to have unusual
sensory methods of communication. As mentioned previously, such
powers would defy the very principles of the New Spirituality. He must
serve as a first example of complete reliability on his Internals from
where the Most High Himself/Herself speaks to and through him by
logic, reasoning, intellect, intuition, ideas, thoughts, concepts, feelings,
inner senses and similar methodologies of his Inner Mind. They all come,
appear and are thought through while he is in a deep state of meditation,
spiritual self-hypnosis and prayer in the presence of all his spiritual
advisors, appointed by the Most High, Swedenborg and other entities
who are present by the will of the Most High under the direct presiding
of the Most High in the High Council of the newly formed heavenly
society. These internal events then are confirmed, verified, checked and
validated also by external means, such as various life events, examples of
external happenings, ideomotor reactions, etc. Whatever comes in this
respect comes directly only from the Most High, from the Lord. No one
else is allowed to put into him anything from oneself except with direct
permission from the Most High and in His/Her presence with instant
feedback of corroboration or modification by the Most High.
Such a methodology is a living example of how things will be done
and accomplished by people of the New Mankind, of the Age of New
Spirituality.
This is the end of today’s message.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
