Wednesday, August 28, 2019
We are carriers of the vast impersonal forces you began talking about last year.
Remember we said the same forces could be regarded as impersonal or personal. It’s more a matter of viewpoint than of an essential distinction, and it’s more a matter of what and how they manifest than viewpoint.
All humanity is one thing, and is part of something even greater. There are no absolute divisions in the world. Even the division between 3D and non-3D is only a relative rather than an absolute distinction. All is one and everything interrelates. Since non-3D is an integral part of 3D, time is not the absolute barrier that it appears to be when reality is considered only in 3D terms. Relating across space and across time is not only possible, it is unavoidable, and the only question is to what degree such relations will be conscious rather than unconscious. And that depends upon individual decisions.
All is one – and is also distinct and separate and individual, when you look down the opposite end of the telescope/microscope you put on life. No divisions are absolute, still they exist. If you keep in mind both aspects of reality – all is one, everything is differentiated – you get a clearer picture than if you concentrate on either and lose sight of the compensatory other aspect.
So. Healing. You all have the ability to help heal the world, or help curse it. None of you – fortunately! – has the ability to do so single-handed, but none of you is powerless to do good or evil considered strictly in terms of who and what you are in essence; not dependent upon what you do externally. Remember, the external is secondary to the internal. You are 3D/non-3D beings, hence are not pinned to one time and place. For the sake of understanding things you must experience life that way. But you can know better; you can see beyond appearances, and it is time that you wake up fully to your part in the vast cosmic drama that is human life within a continuing weather of non-human forces manifesting within human life.
Do you choose to curse the enemies of what you hold dear, or bless them? This is not as simple and self-answering a question as it may appear. Which you choose to do results in your addition to the total of a human cursing or a human blessing. Which do you suppose is more therapeutic, seen in all?
I have always been impressed that Robert E. Lee prayed every night for his enemies as well as for his friends. It accounts for that vaguely saintly aura that he shares with Lincoln.
Yes. Neither man slackened in his efforts to have his side prevail, but neither (despite whatever personal weaknesses) ever chose hatred over love.
So when we see politically divisive characters, we may regard them as opportunities to discover who we are, by our reaction to them.
That is one effect, yes. Lincoln did not approve of Lee’s actions; he did not slacken his efforts to vanquish him and his cause. But he found no need to add hatred to the total of hatreds that had been disfiguring his country for so many decades, and were now playing out in killing 600,000 young men. And nor did Lee. Remember that the external present manifests as the eternal now, the point of power, the place of application. But just as you may bless Lincoln or Hemingway or whomever, so they (in their continuing point of power in the eternal now) may bless you. You – and in saying “you” we are of course saying “we” – continually act as conscious or unconscious conduits of blessings or curses. Choose wisely.