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January 28th, 2002
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
Hello, my dear brother H___.
On Saturday, when you talked with your guest, you undertook in
your mind a journey back through a few decades, to the time when
you were ten years old. It was a year of great changes for you.
You left elementary school, and from there on, you had to go every
day to the nearby town, to the grammar school where your parents
had enrolled you. Your horizon had widened, it no longer only encompassed
the small village where you lived. Along with the school, your friendships
also changed, and you found a new "best friend." He was
an interesting boy, a "genius" in his own way, an excellent
pianist and a surprising music composer. He gave you the basic information
which enabled you to appreciate music. He introduced you in the
works of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and above all, Bruckner
and the symphonic poetry of Sibelius, Grieg, Debussy, Mussorgski,
Ravel, etc. And you remember very well when he told you that atonal
music, twelve-tone music, had no value at all, because it lacked
aesthetics. In some way, the boy's declaration still has validity
for you, but when you spent an evening with him once again many
years later, when he was already a physician, he told you that he
had been wrong. That meanwhile he had studied further, and he now
knew how to appreciate the hidden beauty and aesthetics of twelve-tone
music.
You have still not discovered them.
You made this journey through time, when your guest told you of
the Jesuits, who a long time ago left for India in order to convert
the pagans to Catholicism. As he expressed it, for them, man only
had validity "from the neck upwards", that is, his head,
but from the neck downwards, things belonged to the animal world,
the worthless world.
When the decades passed, and they were able to penetrate ever more
into the depths of that strange and foreign culture, their desire
was no longer so much that of converting pagans, and their understanding
of the world suffered unfathomable changes. They understood that
the purely human and animal natures are in continuous exchange,
as men themselves are in continuous exchange with the rest of humanity
and with all of nature. That there are flows coming and going from
one to the other, and that nothing or nobody is isolated.
Not even stones remain unchanged, but they constantly change. Likewise,
we constantly change, through that flow of exchange, a change of
personality going hand in hand with the change of personal reality.
This is a teaching of life, which you learned about many years
ago, as a boy, but which you have only come to understand now, little
by little.
In order to appreciate, it is necessary to grow and to learn. The
example of the music is very good. The more you study it, the more
you appreciate it, and only with your development in music, are
you able to discover all its mystic and beauty. The inhabitant of
the second sphere of the spirit world, even if he could enter the
fourth sphere, would not feel happy there, because he would not
know how to appreciate all the delicate beauty there, while the
inhabitant of the fourth sphere would know how to appreciate all
the beauty of the second sphere, but he would miss the subtleties
that he left behind in the fourth.
This is why I tell you, when you meet people who do not share your
opinion, and who put forth ideas you find strange or false, do not
reject them beforehand. Dialogue, converse, and talk to them.
It may well be that these ideas are nearer to God’s Truth,
but you still lack the development to understand them. It may well
be that these ideas are more distant from God’s Truth than
yours, but those people still lack the development in order to understand
your thoughts.
You cannot convince. You cannot be convinced. You can only give
and receive impulses to get your development started or directed.
And you will be the one who will determine your own reality through
your growth, as spirits determine their own place of living.
Ideas that do not change, such as the dogmas, are like lumps of
the past, frozen in time. We may appreciate them for the function
they had in their time, but we should not cling to them, because
that will always cause ever more tensions between our mental vision
frozen in the past, and our live perception of a very different
reality.
Only God does not change. He is the unalterable and eternal Reality.
If you seek Reality, seek God. If you look for it in another place,
you will find only static pictures of a given moment, pictures that
will fade away in the flow of time.
Truth does not move in time, but time moves in
Truth.
H.R.: Then, the example I always use that Truth is
like a beautiful diamond, and that we can only see one of its facets,
is not so good after all. In fact, we are in Truth, and we have
a restricted vision from inside, but we lack the global vision from
outside, which encompasses everything.
So it is, my friend. The global vision is God’s
vision. And our faith is our share of it.
You have received the message well. I would like to write more
on some teachings of life.
God bless you, and we’ll meet soon again.
Your brother in the spirit,
Judas
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