Thursday, August 22, 2024

Their Present Leg of the One Same Journey

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 21, 2024

If the purpose of life for all of us is enlightenment – the knowledge of who we truly are, resulting in mergence….

If the purpose of creating life for God was that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment… (1)

then, if we were to envision our situation, would it not make sense to represent it as a toroidal field, with God at the center?

All of us are birthed from God, as I saw in my vision, (2) and go out into the world of matter (mater, Mother) to learn our true identity.

An ineluctable, sub-tidal thirst, known as a “longing for liberation,” (3) keeps us yearning to return to the One – and on the move. And we find that, as we learn, the hunger to re-unite with God ever grows.

After many lifetimes, if we were 3D humans, we see the utter futility of pursuing sensory pleasures and possessions if what we want is love and bliss. We resolve to seek the bliss of God, to return to God. And we’re aided in this by our guides and celestials at every step we make in that return.

Everything about life is designed to keep us moving onward toward the final re-union. (4) The universal laws, our partnership with our guides and the celestials, our soul contract – everything works to bring us the opportunities we need to unfold our knowledge of ourself, which we discover is God.

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On this one same journey from God to God, some have left the station before us and are farther ahead; some have left it after us and are farther behind. But all are destined to follow the same basic arc, from God to God.

Sri Ramakrishna used a metaphor to convey the point:

“All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (5)

Where you were yesterday, I’ll be tomorrow. But today, I’m not there yet.

Where is the place for racial superiority in all this? Where is the place for religious hostility? Where is the place for anything but helping this person before us on their present leg of the one same journey?

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We often project our ideas of how things should be onto things as they actually are. In this case, we project onto the other person the notion that they should be, say, farther along than they are.

Not so. They’re right where they should be, watched over by their guides, influenced in their choices, etc. They are learning the lessons they chose to learn this lifetime. “Do not disturb.”

The only one we have cosmic responsibility for is ourselves. Our karma is ours alone. I can’t eTransfer it to you or accept eTransfers from you. Only Jacob Marley drags Jacob Marley’s chain around. (6)

Kathleen’s guide Catri’anna once said that the only mistake we humans make is in judging. That’s the action that alters us from being connected to the other person to being disconnected. Given that we make ourselves right for our own appraisals and actions, after judging another, all else is downhill.

My request is that we not judge people who we think are somehow “ignorant” or “asleep,” etc. We were there yesterday – or at least I was … errr…. or was it this morning?

There’s a saying from Oscar Wilde I like: Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Every sinner is a saint in the making and every saint was a sinner at one time. We’re all of us evolving, from God to God, as in the toroidal field. My request is that we show good fellowship along the way.

Footnotes

(1) As the Mother confirms here:

Divine Mother: You are one that, because of your adherence to Truth, likes to go to the Source. That is alright. That is the way it has been designed. [My emphasis]

Steve: … What is the way it has been designed, Mother? …

I mean, the Source, the One wants to know itself. Is that correct?… And it can’t because it’s everything. So it’s taken the aspect of Yourself and designed a universe in order for us to learn our true identities. The moment of Enlightenment is when God meets God. Is that correct?

Divine Mother: That is correct. … Yes, it is designed this way. (“Divine Mother: Know God but Through Joy,” November 4, 2018 (Oct. 26, 2018.) at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/11/04/divine-mother-know-god-but-through-joy/.)

(2) See “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf

(3) See The Longing for Liberation at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Longing-for-Liberation-3.pdf

(4) It turns out not to be final, as the Mother makes plain here:

Divine Mother: Now, in this [one same] journey — for some of you it is millennia, for some of you it is eons; it matters not — there is a drive and an understanding, an intellectual and spiritual understanding that your drive is to make the U-turn and to come back Home, to return Home to the Heart of One where you are so welcome until such time as you choose to emanate again. (“Divine Mother: My Desire is that Every Being on the Planet Falls in Love,” October 3, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/10/03/divine-mother-my-desire-is-that-every-being-on-the-planet-falls-in-love/.) [My emphasis.]

Steve Beckow: Now, Mother, you have just referred to you bringing them back. You’ve just referred to mergence have you not, or union? And you’re saying that after they return in union, they go back out into the world. Is that correct?

Divine Mother: Yes. If they so choose, yes. Now, is it in the timeline that human beings tend to think of? No. But eventually there is re-emergence. (“The Divine Mother: Each and Every One of You Carries Divine Might, Part 1/2,” June 17, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/06/the-divine-mother-each-and-every-one-of-you-carries-divine-might-part-12.) [My emphasis.]

(5) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818.

(6) In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley appears, dragging a chain laden with bells and weights, which represents his sins. He came to warn his business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, to repent his ways because Scrooge’s chain was also at that point very long.

Steve Beckow