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MESSAGE THIRTY
ON THE SPIRITUAL, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT OF MAN AND ON THE METHODS OF TREATING THEIR PROBLEMS. ON THE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT OF KARMA AND REINCARNATION
April 30, 1982
The following was revealed today by the Lord.
It is necessary to realize and to remind oneself again and again of the
following important facts:
Everyone who comes to planet Earth brings with oneself everything
needed to fulfill the purpose of one’s incarnation on Earth effectively and
successfully. Nothing is missing.
The state, process, condition, content, extent, degree, quality and
quantity of one’s abilities, tools, gifts, talents, or their lack, of course, and
similar things, are determined by a specific choice one made before
incarnation on Earth in order to successfully and effectively actualize,
realize, manifest and bring to full and complete utilization, fruition and
exhaustion such a choice.
There are many possibilities as to how such a choice is actualized and
realized. Some people choose to be and to live in a certain way or
condition for the duration of their life span in the natural degree and
physical body while on Earth. Others choose to go in steps, from one
point to another, choosing certain changes in their lifestyle so that the
final, most important purpose of their life on Earth can come to its
fruition. The latter cases may involve in succession two or more entirely
different lifestyles, very often opposite. In this case, the final choice of
one’s being on Earth cannot come to fruition without the experiences of
previous choices. Whatever the case may be, everyone is fully granted
everything one needs for this purpose. Neither less nor more. Less would
lead to the failure of realization of one’s choice. In such a case, the
opportunities which would be presented to one could not be taken
advantage of properly. More would mean violation of one’s freedom of
choice, which would block one’s proper manifestation within one’s choice.
However, no matter what the case may be, in order to do anything,
one has to be equipped with the most important principle of life — with
the Inner Mind — wherein is the presence of the Most High, from which
presence one lives and successfully fulfills one’s purpose of being on
Earth (or any other place).
But having the Inner Mind and the presence of the Most High in it
constitutes a certain paradox from the standpoint of choices in the
natural degree, and even more so for a choice to be incarnated on Earth
where the negative state is in its dominant and activated condition.
The paradox is that the Inner Mind, and the presence of the Most
High within it, contain the means, ways, tools, possibilities and
knowledges in a completeness and totality far surpassing or extending
beyond anything which one has chosen to have or to actualize in one’s
particular life span.
This paradox is resolved by the activation of only those areas and
levels of the Inner Mind which are needed and necessary at each
particular time in the process of fulfillment of one’s choice. The rest of
the Inner Mind is in a state of dormancy (insofar as its manifestation in
the natural degree of Earth is concerned) and readiness to be activated
whenever proper needs occur.
However, since everyone’s life is a continuous progression in some
mode or another, and because this progression continues to eternity, it is
necessary that everyone possess within oneself all possible choices to
eternity. Without this possibility and perspective, no further choices
could be conceived and made. Without this condition, no life support
system could be sustained in anyone. As one goes from one choice to
another, the Inner Mind’s potentials become activated, and further
abilities, means, ways, tools, etc., become available for the realization
and actualization of each succeeding choice.
This is why it is vitally important for one’s survival that, despite the
fact that one does not have, by one’s choice, a full access to the totality of
the content of one’s Inner Mind (specifically during one’s life span on
Earth), one has within oneself the Inner Mind and the presence of the
Most High within it, from which one can draw everything one needs to
change from one choice to another to eternity. Without the presence of
this eternal opportunity, life would make no sense and have no meaning
for anyone.
Therefore, in the process of one’s life during one’s chosen span, one’s
Inner Mind releases only as much as is necessary and needed for that
particular time span and for whatever steps one determines to take
within that particular time span.
When one is being incarnated on Earth for fulfillment of a certain
choice or choices, one carefully seeks out the most opportune conditions,
situation, environments, lines, heredity, etc., in order that everything
may be available for the successful completion of one’s purpose for being
in that particular life span.
It would be a gross error to assume that people appear on this Earth
in this or that social, cultural, racial, physical, etc., environment, with
this or that problem, limitation or excess, by mere chance without any
planning or choice. Such a conclusion is a scientific fallacy which leads
people to many faulty conclusions and ineffective treatment of their
condition.
Nothing appears or happens by chance. Whatever happens in one’s
particular life span is always, without any exception, determined by one’s
choices and free will. However, these free choices were made before one’s
physical birth within the Absolute Thought Process of the Most High.
Those who incarnate from the negative spiritual state are also asked if
they are choosing this of their own volition, taking full responsibility for
the consequences of their choice.
Thus, one is fully responsible for one’s choice, even though no
conscious awareness or conscious memory exists for such a choice. This
limitation — the obliteration of memory — is valid only for those who
choose to be incarnated on planet Earth where the dominant and
activated negative state exists. Conscious knowledge and memory of such
a choice would totally invalidate one’s necessary experience in this
respect, which is very vital from the standpoint of universal learning and
universal spiritual progression.
However, not having conscious awareness and conscious memory of
such a choice does not mean that one does not know about it inwardly,
unconsciously and in one’s Inner Mind. In fact, this can be discovered in
the process of one’s particular life span, after fulfillment of certain steps
in choices, in deep hypnosis or similar conditions during one’s
determination whether a lesson of a certain experience has been learned,
whether it is time to move on to the next step and change, etc.
In view of this fact, it is obvious that everyone on Earth, regardless of
the condition in which one was, is and will be, be it in outward misery or
outward happiness, is fully responsible for whatever one experiences at
each particular moment of one’s life span. There are no exceptions to this
rule.
So, before one is incarnated on this Earth (or whatever the place may
be), one seeks out synchronicity between one’s choice and the conditions
which are the most suitable and favorable for the fulfillment of one’s
choice. Thus, one chooses the line of heredity and its pool one wants to
assume and to follow; the moment of linear time continuum one wants to
enter this particular heredity pool; the genes which are most suitable
and favorable for one’s physical, mental and spiritual manifestation in
this particular life span; the kind of specific mother and father for
conception one needs to synchronize with to assume this heredity line;
the kind of social, political, racial, economical, physical, etc., environment
one needs to have for this purpose; and all other needed situations,
conditions, states and processes in order to fully and completely exhaust
one’s choice or choices.
From what has been said here, it is very obvious that, in the ultimate
sense, one’s lifestyle on Earth is in no way determined, conditioned or
influenced by heredity, environment or any other external factors. Just
the opposite is true. One determines by one’s own choice the kind of
heredity, environment and all other external and internal factors of this
particular life one will have for accomplishment of one’s purpose of being
on this Earth.
So, it is entirely futile and unjust to blame anyone or anything for
whatever happens in one’s life, regardless of how accidental or beyond
one’s control it appears. People have a tendency to excuse themselves for
what they are, blaming their environment, parents, race, social situation,
etc., without realizing that they placed themselves in all their
predicaments as a part of their choice which they made before
incarnation on this Earth. They agreed to undergo such experiences by
their free will for very important spiritual, cosmical, universal, personal,
private and intimate reasons which, in most instances, are not
discernible and/or consciously perceivable and understandable to them
during their life span on Earth, or for a certain period of time while on
Earth.
However, inherent in the spiritual state of affairs is the spiritual
principle of life which states that everyone is able to change one’s
destiny. This means that everyone may, by one’s free will and choice,
change one’s choice or modify it and its consequences. This can be done
either during the life span on Earth or at any other place, time,
continuum, state and process of one’s eternal life. The condition of such
an ability to change is determined by a necessary learning which one
needs by one’s choice to undergo in order to be able to change. A
premature change of one’s condition would be in violation of one’s
freedom and independence. For that reason, one is carefully safeguarded
by one’s Inner Mind and by the presence of the Most High in it from
assuming or even desiring and wanting to change before important
learning occurs and vital experiences are acquired. Once one feels a need
and desire to change from within, by one’s inner choice (not by any
external circumstances), one is truly ready to change, since one then has
fulfilled the requirement of this or that particular learning and
experience. Therefore, one is given proper opportunities for initiation of
such a change and a new set of tools, ways, means and abilities for
actualization of that change and for making a new, fresh choice.
In the moment of such a change and new choice, that area of one’s
Inner Mind is instantaneously and in synchronicity activated with that
which is the most appropriate and needed for successful realization and
actualization of the new choice, with total and complete retention of all
accesses to the formerly activated areas of one’s Inner Mind. Thus, one
never loses anything one ever had available from the Inner Mind and one
continuously adds new areas of one’s Inner Mind in the process of one’s
life span, making it possible to proceed with the all-universal spiritual
progression. This is the base for spiritual progression and no spiritual
progression could occur without such additions.
In view of this fact, one can see that wrong and faulty methods of
treatment are being utilized by psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians
and various therapists. In most instances they are trying to understand
human problems as a result of the environment, heredity, upbringing or
similar matters, mostly beyond anyone’s control initially and originally.
Therefore, therapists do everything in their power to correct these
situations with little, if any, consideration for the chosen necessity of
such experiences and learning.
As mentioned previously (see message of April 26, 1982, the second
note), all such treatments should be aimed toward discovery of why one
chose to be and to have what one is and has during one’s Earthly life and
whether it is time for a change of one’s current condition. Usually, when
people come for help and are motivated for this help solely by their inner
needs, without any outward duress, they are ready for a change.
Only after establishing this fact may one proceed with treatment in
the way determined by the seeker’s Inner Mind. No other approach is
spiritually feasible and proper because it may be in violation of one’s
freedom of choice, depriving one of important spiritual learning and
experiences.
Due to the fact that this message deals with an important spiritual
principle of choices, it is time to say something about the widespread
human term or concept “karma” or “karman”. Basically this is a doctrine
which claims that every deed, good or bad, receives due retribution. In
Hindu philosophy this concept relates to the doctrine of reincarnation
(discussed extensively in “Principles of Spiritual Hypnosis” and
“Fundamentals of Human Spirituality”). These concepts do not appear in
any form or mode until later in mankind’s history when all sense for the
principle of spiritual homogeneity was lost and when people frequently
started to rationalize reasons for people’s various destinies on opposite
poles which people call pleasurable life or painful and miserable life. At
that point, the need occurred in the human external mind (which began
to be completely disconnected from the Inner Mind) to explain these
seeming discrepancies, inconsistencies and unexplainable sufferings on
Earth and to justify their occurrence. So they came up with the idea that
one is in the process of payment or reward for something one did in one’s
previous life or lives, without any conscious awareness of such existence
or existences and their deeds.
In the earliest Vedic thought, these concepts do not exist because at
that time there was still in existence some limited direct access to the
Inner Mind and the Spiritual World which gave people a better
understanding of life in a broader definition than the one which appeared
later when such direct contacts were lost. These doctrines (reincarnation
and Karma) appear for the first time in Brahmans, and subsequently are
fully developed in the earliest Upanishads. From there they spread into
most of the Indian religions and then gradually they infiltrated into
Western thought. This is quite a popular concept among many people on
Earth at the present time.
Yet, this concept, like the concept of reincarnation, is a distortion of
reality. It is misunderstood and misinterpreted by most of its believers.
The misconception stems from improper conceptualization of the
philosophical principle of cause and effect. In this connotation, this
principle signifies that any action has its reaction. As far as the
previously discussed issue of choices is concerned, it signifies that any
choice has its consequences. But even in this limited application of the
law of Karma there is a distortion because one is capable of changing the
outcome of one’s choices even during manifestation of their consequences.
One can alter, modify, re-direct or totally abolish them if one asks the
Most High in one’s Inner Mind how to do it and the way of doing it. The
law of Karma assumes incorrectly that one is locked in one’s choices and
there is nothing that can be done about the consequences. However, this
is not true because if one learned one’s lesson well, one does not need to
continue repeating the same mode and style of living unless, of course,
one wants to.
The law of Karma does not take into consideration properly the
greatest spiritual laws of all beings and existences — the Law of
Forgiveness and the Law of Mercy.
Karma has the tendency to see everything as an inevitability of a
cause having its effect. But this is not true. The effect of a cause may or
may not manifest itself, depending on the proper and right spiritual
needs which are in existence at any moment of the continuum within
one’s life span. One chooses to come to this Earth with a certain mission.
This is a cause. The effect of such a cause may be continuously modified
or changed in the process of the steps taken in the fulfillment of one’s
choice. For example, one can recognize within oneself that the
consequences of one’s choice are not reasonable and in the best interest of
all concerned. In this case one goes to the Most High in one’s Inner Mind,
from one’s own free will, with good intent, and evokes the law of
forgiveness and the law of mercy which modify those consequences or
entirely abolish them, giving one an opportunity to make another new
and fresh choice with more reasonable and useful consequences.
The law of Karma applies only when one desires its application in
one’s life. Again, one freely chooses to accept this law and by this free
choice one makes it workable. Thus, in reality, there is no other law that
governs human life and destiny than the law of freedom of choice and
change.
The danger of the literal application of the law of Karma in one’s life
is in the fact that one easily loses any motivation for change and
represses any needs for modifying one’s destiny. One starts to
fatalistically believe that whatever is happening in one’s life is inevitable
and, therefore, nothing can be done about it until all consequences of
choices of one’s previous life or lives run their ultimate course. Then and
only then can things change. So, these people, inwardly, do not make any
effort to do anything about their lives; instead they wait all their life to
come back for a better deal. What a waste of time and precious energy of
life!
This attitude plays very nicely into the hands of the Hells and all
their negative states. They want people to believe just that so that people
will not be free to make any changes in their lives and to influence the
consequences of their choices.
When members of the Hells and the negative state from Earth at one
time established themselves in an artificially created “Heaven and
Earth” in the intermediate world, they purposefully blocked planet Earth
from direct access to all levels of the spiritual world and their Inner
Minds. Some of the members of this pseudo-world fabricated from the
distorted concept of choice and its consequences the doctrine of Karma
and Reincarnation and established a strong society and position there
built on this doctrine. From that position they started to flood all kinds of
ideas related to this doctrine into humans on Earth who were by their
choice susceptible to such ideas. It happened that a favorable ground for
these particular distortions was found in Indian religions. It did not take
long for that infusion to be accepted and to be considered a spiritual fact.
Similar numerous distortions and misconceptions were fabricated in
that “world” about many other aspects of spirituality, religion and life.
Then they were transmitted to all kinds of religions on Earth.
In view of this fact, one is advised not to be taken in by or to put one’s
trust in any presently existing doctrines, religions, occults or
spiritualistic trends because they are all under the influence of the
fabrications created by distortions of the Hells.
The artificial “heaven and earth” in the intermediate world was
partly abolished at the time of Swedenborg’s revelation (the part
connected to the Dark Ages). The rest of it was abolished just recently, in
connection with the revelation of “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality”
and at the beginning of the recording of these “Messages From Within”.
However, their fabricated ideas took a very strong hold in people’s minds
through their various religions which are full of distortions and many
spiritual abominations. Unfortunately, this situation keeps people
connected to their respective Hells.
The only way to disconnect oneself from any bonds to the Hells is by a
complete disassociation from any currently existing religious systems
without exception, and to go into one’s Inner Mind — to the presence of
the Most High — and inquire in modesty and humbleness from one’s
heart and good intent for proper guidance, understanding, insight and
protection from all distortions, and for the ability to see clearly what
parts of any religion or spiritualistic trends have true spiritual value, if
any, and what parts should be discarded, if not rejected entirely.
One who does this consistently is truly blessed and will not be misled.
This is all for today.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
