Pumpkins In God's Garden
There are people in our world who believe that the treatment we receive when we start to follow one of our religions is not unlike being a pumpkin in God’s vegetable garden. In their view, God simply picks someone from their patch, takes them to a tap and washes off the dirt in their character make-up. Notice that God’s of this nature are always masculine because they are at the head of the patriarchal religions *. Well, He cuts off the top, scoops out and removes the messy bits consisting of negative feelings like doubts and fears, avarice and greed, hatred and the want of dominating others. Then He places His light in the empty space so it can be seen by everybody. It’s like a lamp that has been switched on that signals that the unpleasant parts of someone’s character make-up have been replaced by good, kind and loving ones. The whole thing is crowned with a happy smiling face.
If only it were as simple as that! Alas, the above is but one of the many false beliefs that to this day abound in our world. It’s true that all human beings urgently require to be cleansed and filled with God’s light, but what does this really mean? In spiritual terms knowledge and understanding are light * and ignorance is darkness. More about this theme in the next chapter. I believe that, to achieve the spiritual cleansing all of us require at the end of our earthly education, the first step is taking a close look at the very beginning of our existence and come to terms with who and what we truly are, namely a spirit and soul who is only temporarily encased in matter
Going to church on Sundays and saying: ‘I believe in Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah,’ is sufficient for the beginning of the spiritual development of human beings in the school of earthly life. And the name for the highest authority in the whole of Creation, God *, depends on which religion we are embracing at any given time. As our development progresses, we eventually reach a point when we start to grow increasingly disillusioned and disenchanted with our religion. Its flaws begin to stare at us in a disturbing manner, especially as far as the conduct of its leaders is concerned, now that ever more scandals about it in the past and present rise to the surface of humankind’s consciousness, like scum on a muddy pond.
In keeping with an old folk wisdom that says: ‘Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves!’, that’s precisely what many leading figures in public life – not merely the religious institutions – have been doing for quite some time. With ever greater force unsavoury things about them came to the public’s attention during the period when Pluto’s energies were affecting us and our world through Sagittarius *. Pluto was the God of the underworld of antiquity and its energies have always affected the subconscious realm of each individual and that of our world.
By now Pluto has moved into Capricorn * and its purging and cleansing power is felt in anything that deals with public concerns, for example political institutions, banks and churches, the medical profession and pharmaceutical industries *. Read more about by the latter by following the link ‘To Jab Or Not To Jab’. Witness how some the people employed by them were at that time particularly good at creating as much rope as they needed for hanging themselves. To my mind, there is no need to be unduly disturbed about such happenings. They are good signs that the cleansing process that is badly needed for the healing of our world, which it can only do by ridding itself of any sore that has been festering in its flesh for a very long time. They are like boils that one after the other are brought to bursting point, so the pus goes up into the air with a bang that can be heard around our world, with the special gift of the Aquarian Age, our news media.
It’s hardly surprising that ever more of us are losing their faith in institutions of any kind and are turning to the higher and highest powers of life to show us ways of healthier ways of living and being. Eventually it must dawn on the slowest people in the ranks and files of all large organisations that nothing remains hidden in our world any more. In due course they will recognise that no-one can get away with anything any more and that vast fortunes can no longer be amassed through shady wheelings and dealings at the expense of public wellbeing. Sooner or later they too will become aware that spiritually no-one could ever get away with anything. In the end, only honest and trustworthy people, who unselfishly wish to serve the good of the whole, instead of filling their pockets, will then be drawn to applying for work in any kind of profession. That’s how they will gradually be cleansing themselves.
The Age of Aquarius is increasingly revealing itself as a spiritual age in which nothing remains hidden from public view or knowledge any longer. The deeper we move into this age, the clearer this spiritualisation of our world and all its inhabitants is becoming visible. A great deal of cleansing and purifying is going on at all times, to bring us the healing we and our world are seeking. Losing what we thought of as our ‘faith’ is part of this development. In my view, there is nothing wrong and everything right about it, because that is the only way our consciousness can open for new beliefs that do justice to the present state of our spiritual development. More about this in ‘Losing And Finding Faith’ *.
This process of shedding our old beliefs enables our unseen friends and helpers in the world of light to lead us into the discovery that all of us are sparks of the Divine and therefore contain all God’s characteristics. Soon we shall be ready to understand that the Jesus has always been but a legend * and should not be taken literally. The Angels are telling us through our inner guidance that the story was crafted in this way, so that when the time was right, it should illustrate how everyone’s own Christ nature would eventually manifest itself in us as simple human kindness and goodness, friendliness and compassion, tolerance and love for everything that shares our world with us.
* Recommended Reading:
• ‘Knowledge – Light Of Our World’
• ‘On The Wings Of God’s Truth’
• ‘Pluto In Sagittarius’
• ‘Pluto In Capricorn’
• ‘To Jab Or Not To Jab’
• ‘Losing And Finding Faith’
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