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August 26th, 2001
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador
My dear brother H___, it is true that yesterday I wanted to impress
upon you something more than you finally received. You had this
image of a river in your mind, but you could not interpret it. And
so you did not mention it in the message.
Now, what I wanted to explain to you is that our souls are like
a stream of water, searching its way to the Great Ocean of God.
It is a natural law that the water eventually finds the shortest
way to its destiny, but often in its course, obstacles block the
way, and the water’s course deviates and seemingly loses direction.
Nevertheless, it will reach the ocean, and it will be one with it.
The water will gnaw on those obstacles and erode them, and little
by little, will shorten its path. But it will also create new obstacles,
by the rubble it draws with it.
You can liken this image to the soul, which is hampered and fettered
by beliefs, by the material mind, which always tries to dominate
it, but little by little, the soul will erode and remove those obstacles,
and although new ones will appear, there will come the day when
it asserts itself and finally finds God and its at-onement with Him.
Our soul has the innate desire to find God, and man cannot suppress
this desire forever. In the seemingly eternal battle between soul
and material mind, the soul will prove stronger.
During the day you also received many impressions about awareness,
but your day has been too loud and tense, and so you could not digest
those impressions, as I would have liked you to do. But in spite
of it, I want to go a little bit deeper on this topic.
You have heard that the soul’s development increases its awareness,
and with its awareness, the soul’s perceptions gain a wider
space of activity. In time, they become keener, and when the soul’s
awareness through its selective perceptions has taken advantage
of what its environment may offer, it experiences a sudden expansion,
and a new world of wonders and opportunities opens up.
This is the normal way of development, stimulated by the spirit’s
or the mortal’s interest and inclination, and guided by other
spirits, who in their more advanced state lead their charge along
the chosen path.
But there is another possibility, and this is that the Father Himself
enlarges the soul’s awareness, as if He uncovers a hidden door,
a pathway to a new universe. He did this once, when He blessed us
with the awareness of His Love, a Love which always existed, which
always bathed us, but which mankind could not perceive. This is
the so-called privilege of receiving His Soul’s Substance,
because in order to receive It, you must be aware of Its existence.
Jesus already communicated that God’s Love always flooded
the universe of His creation, but it was not accessible for mankind,
after the first parents had slammed shut this door, and the knowledge
of the door’s existence disappeared.
Now, after the Father’s renewed bestowal of this privilege,
all men, deep inside their souls, know that this door exists, and
it would be the task of the different churches to guide their members’
attention to this door, but instead, they have opened up other doors,
leading to the world of the perfect man, and distracting people’s
attention from the Divine Pathway, which starts exactly at the mentioned
door.
The reason why I have mentioned this is because there have been
two questions which troubled you in the past.
The first one was, why do the messages state that God has a place
of living, when His Love, which is His Soul’s Substance floods
all the universe? You could not and you still cannot understand
this. Ann Rollins wrote that
man does not live and move and have his being in God, but merely
in the attributes of God. But His Divine Love is not strictly God’s
attribute, It is His Own Substance. And It is all around us.
The second question, which disturbed you, was the statement that
spirits in the sixth sphere could not proceed further in their soul
development. And that this stationary state was the cause for their
eventual or possible discontent. Their souls, in their structure,
have reached whatever they are able to reach, and all they can do
is to accumulate more knowledge, that is, to obtain an increase
in quantity, but not in quality.
But you thought that, in some way or the other, something similar
was happening in the Celestial Spheres. All souls, which enter there,
have been completely and perfectly transformed previously in God’s
Own Substance of Love. So what those souls can achieve is to accumulate
ever more of this Substance, but this means, as in the first case,
an increase in quantity, but not in quality.
Now, just to answer the last part of the second question, one cannot
compare Divine Love with knowledge. But let us proceed in order.
It is true, God’s Substance floods the universe, but man does
not live and move and have his being in God, because while it is
true that God is Love, He is not only Love, He is much more. His
Substance of Love is only that part of His Divinity, which He has
offered us. But nobody said that He has offered us all.
God’s Spirit floods the universe, like the spirit of life,
about which we will speak more in detail in the future. And part
of His Substance is all-present, too. But not all of God is all-present
in the universe.
Now, as to the second question, it is true that the inhabitants
of the sixth sphere are restricted to accumulating knowledge and
enjoying their happiness. This is great, but, indeed, their true
progress has ended.
In the Celestial Heavens things are a bit different. You are unable
in your present condition to understand Divine Love and all the
blessings this Substance gives us. But besides mentioning that Divine
Love and discontent are totally opposed, and a soul filled with
the Father’s Love will never suffer unhappiness but increases
its happiness with each particle of Love it receives (an effect
you cannot claim for knowledge), I will only tell you that God’s
Being implies much more, immensely more than you, or I, so that
even the most advanced spirits of the Celestial Heavens are incapable
of sounding It. I will tell you, though, that, as God has opened
up a door to perceive and acquire part of His Divinity of Love,
He can open up other doors to perceive and acquire other parts of
His Divinity, which you cannot imagine in your wildest fantasies.
These are things non-existent to your awareness, but still, they
do exist. It is utterly impossible to explain more, but I will state
that we will never be as God is, but progressively we will take
on more of His Divinity in more facets than this one you know: His
Marvelous Love. So remember, progress in the Celestial Heavens is
eternal, in quantity and in quality. But God’s Divine Love
is so fulfilling and complete that you should not worry about other
things to come. Just strive and enjoy, there is no limit to the
Father’s blessings.
Now, to conclude this message, I wish to tell you a little bit
more about my life. I was born in the town of Kerioth, a place in
southern Judea, where my father was a prosperous merchant. I would
not say that he was rich, but he had sufficient funds and the opportunity
to provide a solid education for his children. I was not an ignorant
man, by the standards of our time.
Like the little bird, which feels a certain impulse to try its wings,
and finally leaves its parents' nest, so I left the house of my
father, a young man full of pride, idealism, nationalism and a strong
desire to find truth, whatever this was. And I did not only find
truth, but I found the Truth, when I met the Master in the north,
in Galilee, where I joined him and finally formed part of the inner
group of his disciples.
You have read the opinion of some scholars that “Iscariot”
is a corruption of “sicarius”, that is dagger-man, or
assassin. They claim that Jesus had formed a highly political movement,
and that many radical elements had joined his ranks, including
Simon the Zealot and Simon (Peter) bar Jonah. The Talmud mentions
the “barjonim”, political extremists, but this word is
a far later invention, and bar Jonah simply means “son of Jonah”
in Aramaic. Simon the Zealot was a zealot, before he met Jesus,
and I was an ardent nationalist, too, like many of Jesus’ disciples,
but Jesus’ movement was not a political movement, as you understand
the term nowadays. So you understand that the root of Iscariot is
the name of the town of Kerioth.
I had found Truth, but Truth, my brother, soulful Truth, always
will conflict in one or other way with your material mind. Let it
sink deep into your soul, embrace it humbly, and listen to it. Let
yourself not be torn apart in this struggle between soul and material
mind. Be yourself, be soul. Not doing this, was the root of my infamous
sin.
God bless you,
Judas.
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