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MESSAGE EIGHT
ON THE PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUAL HOMOGENEITY
April 3-4, 1982, in Martinique
On these dates the following messages have been received from the
Most High.
It is necessary to elaborate somewhat on the principles of spiritual
homogeneity.
Since the negative state came into existence, mankind on planet
Earth lost one of the most important values of spirituality: homogeneity.
Homogeneity is an integrating, unifying and assimilating principle of
the diversity, variety and difference of spiritual concepts, understandings
and approaches which exist in relationship to the Most High, religions,
Creation and life.
Inherent in the positive state of existence, being its very immanent
condition and state, is this principle of homogeneity by which everything
is sustained in a harmonious, rhythmical and cohesive functional
oneness.
Inherent in the negative state of existence, being its very immanent
condition and state, are the principles of division, faction, contradiction,
disunion, dissension, intolerance, separation, exclusivity, false
righteousness and perverted morality that continuously undermine,
abolish and ultimately destroy anything that leads toward homogeneity,
unification, integration and harmonization of spirituality.
Because of this inherent and immanent condition of the negative
state, a variety of religions and spiritual concepts exist on planet Earth
which are intolerant of one another, each proclaiming to be superior to
one another.
This attitude, among other things, can be considered one of the major
reasons why all existing human religions, since the time of initiation of
the negative state to the present time, are completely, totally and
irreversibly dead. They do not have and cannot have any true spirituality
in themselves. True spirituality is a vivifying principle of any religion.
Spirituality and aliveness of any true religion are always determined by
the abovementioned principle of homogeneity.
In order to better understand the concept of homogeneity, it would be
useful to elaborate somewhat on its important principles.
1. Principle of Diversified Oneness:
This principle states that there is only One God, One Most High, and
One Creator who manifests Himself/Herself to His/Her creation in an
infinite variety of ways, modes, perceptions, understandings and
accommodations.
As mentioned previously, the Most High, in His/Her Absolute
Condition, State and Process, contains within Himself/Herself all infinite
varieties and infinite numbers of changes and uniquenesses. For that
reason the Most High is always Different and Unique in perception,
acceptance and understanding of those who are not absolute but relative
to His/Her Absolute State, Condition and Process.
Every unique individual perceives, understands and accepts the Most
High somewhat differently and uniquely from all others. This is a
necessary requirement of the principle of spiritual homogeneity because
in such a different and unique relationship the oneness of infinite and
absolute diversity of the Most High is conveyed to all Creation.
From this principle stems the fundamental rule of any prospective
religious doctrines in existence and being: the ability to see, to perceive,
to comprehend and to accept the Most High as One who is manifested in
infinite varieties and numbers of ways of His/Her Goodness and Truth,
Love and Wisdom. There is only One Good or Love and One Truth or
Wisdom. However, this Oneness of Good and Truth is conveyed to
sentient entities in inexhaustible manners, ways, diversities and
differences. The perfection of the Absolute Good or Love and Absolute
Truth or Wisdom of the Most High derives its origin from the diversity,
infinity and variety of modes, ways and uniquenesses of its expressions,
manifestations, conveyances, transmissions and receptions by similarly
unique infinite numbers and varieties of unrepeatable individuals.
Within these infinite varieties of diverse, different and unique
manifestations and conveyances of Good and Truth or Love and Wisdom
of the Most High there are certain similarities and relatedness. Some are
more approximate to each other than others. They are usually perceived
by the sentient entities as various clusters. These clusters of related
varieties are, then, subsumed under a variety of names and labels which
people and sentient entities accommodate or feel comfortable to call the
Most High.
In this respect, any name by which the Most High is called reflects, in
limited manner and comprehension, one such cluster. It is said “in
limited manner and comprehension”. The reason for this is that no name,
no matter how appropriate it seems to be, may and can express fully the
absolute content and function of one such cluster or even its one trait. It
only infinitely approximates its absolute nature.
One major concept of the Most High, adopted by most Christian
doctrines, is a perception of the Most High in three most significant
aspects: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In actuality these three aspects
represent three Major Absolute Clusters of the Infinitely Unique and
Changeable Nature of the Most High, within which there are infinite and
in-exhaustable varieties and numbers of unique and constantly
changeable absolute traits, characteristics and their various absolute
derivatives.
The term “Father”, in this connotation, denotes, in general, the Most
High’s Absolute Essence and Substance, the Absolute Innermost of the
Most High. The term “Son” denotes, in general, the Most High’s
Mentality and all various infinite manifestations of the Most High in the
natural degree of His/Her Creation. The term “Holy Spirit” denotes, in
general, infinite numbers and varieties of activities of the Most High
throughout all Creation.
The Christian term “Jesus Christ” signifies in this connotation, in
general, one manifestation of a specific trait related to Goodness and
Truth from the Most High’s Aspect called “Son”, in the fullness of the
Most High’s bodily expression and impression of the natural degree of
planet Earth and its negative state, for the purpose of a specific mission
related to the ultimate elimination of the negative state and to make
His/Her Human Form Divine. The Divine Human and Human Divine of
the Most High signify in this connotation total and complete conjunction
of all aspects of the Creation in the Most High for the purpose of direct
acceptance of and communication with the Most High. It has further
deep mystical meaning which is beyond the scope of the presented
message.
Now, after the so-called Fall, the pseudo-creators distorted, mutilated
and perverted this principle. From that time on, the existence of the
Most High has been, in many instances on Earth, either completely
denied, or nature and matter have been considered the Most High. In
most instances, one trait or limited cluster of some aspect of the Most
High was taken and proclaimed to be the exclusive and entire Most High.
From this proclamation, it was only one short step to consider all other
clusters and traits of the Most High as either inferior, nonessential,
non-existent or false.
This general outcome resulted in the establishment and existence of
many religions on planet Earth which propose that only their view is
right and anything else is wrong and should be eliminated.
Such an approach toward the Nature of the Most High destroys all
and any homogeneity in the principles of spirituality and puts an end to
the usefulness of all religions on planet Earth.
Yet everything in life and Creation depends upon this important
concept. All else derives from the kind of stance, attitude, understanding
and perception one has about the Nature of the Most High. It determines
one’s position in the hierarchy of the spiritual organization and in the
Universality-Of-It-All. But most importantly it determines how one
approximates the Absolute State and Process of the Most High. On it
depends one’s spiritual progression and, thus, the quality, fulfillment
and usefulness of one’s life.
2. Principle of Synthesis and Transcendence of Synthesis:
This principle requires that all aspects of the Nature of the Most
High, as they are known and unknown alike to people and all other
sentient entities, are approached and accepted in synthesis. No one
aspect in itself and no spiritual or religious concepts in existence which
proclaim and emphasize this or that particular aspect can and ever will
describe, explain and conceive properly the Nature of the Most High.
Only in the synthesis of all such existing concepts in all doctrines and/or
religions may and can one remotely approximate the true Nature of the
Most High.
At the same time, all such concepts must recognize as an indisputable
fact that, although the true Nature of the Most High is reflected to a
certain extent in such a synthesis, it transcends and will always
transcend to eternity any such available synthesis.
Therefore, it must be recognized that, no matter how perfect and
inexhaustible any such synthesis seems to be, it does not mean that it is
the only possible, correct and acceptable one, and it does not mean that
there is no transcending understanding of the Nature of the Most High.
3. Principle of Spirituality:
Any doctrines, religious systems and/or various spiritual concepts in
existence and being must accept an indisputable fact of which they must
be constantly aware: that everything in existence and being, from the
innermost to the outermost degree of Creation, in all modes and ways of
happening without any exception, is of spiritual origin and cause. Such
things as matter and the practicality of everyday life, for example, are, in
their ultimate sense, only one of the infinite manifestations,
actualizations and realizations of spirituality.
Since spirituality denotes in the higher sense the Most High, any
such occurrences, proceedings and becomings are a reflection,
manifestation, actualization and/or realization, and are the continuous
work of the Most High or one of His/Her aspects, traits and/or clusters.
As to negative happenings, such happenings denote affirmation of the
Most High’s existence and being by the process of denial of this fact. This
means that, if the Most High did not exist, no negative state, process or
happening could be conceived nor could flourish because there would be
nothing to deny or to derive from. All energies for such a denial or
maintenance of lack of spirituality are and can be derived only from the
Existence and Being of the Most High for the purpose of denial and
negation of the Most High and for the purpose of perpetuation of the
negative state. This is its very spiritual principle.
4. Principle of Reflection and Application of Spirituality in One’s
Life:
This principle is an elaboration of Principle No. 3 (Spirituality) as
applied to the life of a single individual.
This principle denotes that every individual’s spirituality is
determined by perception, recognition, acceptance and application in
one’s life of the fact that whatever one does, thinks, wills, intends,
desires, feels, etc., at any moment of one’s life, no matter what it is,
without any exclusion, is possible only because of the continuous
presence of the Most High in one’s Inner Mind. From that presence, one
is constantly motivated to be, to do, to function, to think, to will, to feel,
to be active, etc., in one’s spirit, soul, body and behavior.
Moreover, this principle requires that one always keep in one’s mind,
in the process of all activities without exclusion, that, whatever one does,
there are always spiritual implications and consequences, since any
notion and/or motivation for such activities stems in the first place from
some spiritual correspondences which are manifested, actualized and
realized in such activities. All people’s life activities are reflections and
practical manifestations of spirituality and its correspondences.
5. Principle of Use:
This principle has a two-fold meaning. The first one was formulated
brilliantly by Swedenborg. It denotes, in general terms, that whatever
exists exists for some use. By its very existence it performs use. Nothing
can exist without any use. The Most High creates from use, for use and
into use. The existence of anything can be justified by the kind of use it
performs for the common good.
The second meaning, the most important from the standpoint of the
concept of homogeneity, denotes that all concepts, understandings,
perceptions, doctrines, names, acceptances, etc., of the Most High are
useful and necessary if seen in an integrated and synthesized manner as
described in Principle No. 2. They all perform certain important uses.
They allow one to see the Most High in a broader and more elaborate
way than would be possible only from one view or concept or doctrine,
etc. This may and can bring one to closer proximity with the Most High’s
Absolute Condition, thus making one more spiritual, more integrated
and more truly a sentient entity or human being (in the case of people of
Earth). In turn, such a situation makes one more useful.
This principle of use implies explicitly and implicitly that no spiritual
doctrine, concept, system, religion or whatever one has is superior or
inferior to another. They are all equal as to their use and excellent as to
their differences. The differences only mean a different view, vista or
perception of some of the Most High’s infinite varieties and numbers of
aspects, traits or clusters, etc., which ought to be recognized but which
are not to be considered as exclusive, the only important one or the only
one in existence. The distinction between true and false concepts and
doctrines is determined by acceptance or rejection of all principles of
spiritual homogeneity as defined here.
6. Principle of Personal Relatedness:
This principle denotes that every sentient entity, in this case every
human being, in some way or another is actually or potentially an
extension and process of the Most High to the degree of acceptance of
principles of spiritual homogeneity formulated here.
Because everyone is a unique and unrepeatable being or entity,
everyone experiences the Most High in a unique and unrepeatable
manner congruent to one’s uniqueness of perception and overall
personality make-up. Therefore, one has to relate to the Most High in a
very personal, intimate and private manner, unique only to that one.
Only in this way may one allow full manifestation of one of the infinite
varieties and numbers of uniquenesses of the Most High to all Creation.
If one does not relate to the Most High in this personal, private and
intimate manner, one forcefully deprives and robs all Creation from
experiencing the Most High in this particular unique manner. Every
such experience, by virtue of one’s being and existence from and by the
Most High, no matter how private, intimate, personal and within it is, is
instantly related to the Universality-Of-It-All for the purpose of sharing
and mutual benefit. In fact, the more private, personal, intimate and
within this experience is, the greater is the use, the degree and intensity
of sharing with and mutual benefit for all Creation through the
Universality-Of-It-All. Participation in the Universality-Of-It-All is
determined by the principle of the part and the whole. Everyone is a part
of the whole. Therefore, any experience one may have is instantly
available to the whole and to all its parts and may be conveyed at any
time to all for sharing and mutual benefit.
This principle also denotes that in regard to individual relatedness to
the Most High, no imitations, rituals, ceremonies, demands,
prescriptions, conformities, stereotypes, etc., of external religions have
any value without acceptance of this principle first. They are useless and
dangerous because they force deprivation of one’s personal unique
relatedness to the Most High and vice versa, damaging, thus, the whole
Creation. Such concepts have no spirituality in themselves.
7. Principle of Eternal Continuation:
Once any manifestation of life from and by the Most High takes place
in an individual person, that person must continue to eternity in an
individuated, individualized, personal, unique, conscious, self-aware and
unrepeatable manner. After all, every individual in being and existence
reflects, carries and manifests one of the Most High’s infinite numbers
and varieties of uniquenesses. To cease continuation of such a
uniqueness means, in an ultimate sense, to cease the existence and being
of the Most High. This is an utter impossibility.
No other form or mode or way of continuation of an individual person
is conceivable, possible and/or spiritually feasible. It would have no sense
and no use.
These seven principles, as now revealed, constitute the principles of
spiritual homogeneity. In the future any spiritual and/or religious
doctrines, concepts, systems, philosophies, ethics, metaphysics, etc., in
order to justify their existence must build on these principles and derive
all their meaning from them. Neglecting to adopt and/or to utilize one,
some or any of these principles deprives anyone and anything of true
spirituality. Without them, any such concepts are useless and have no
right to exist.
This is the end of today’s message.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
