Showing posts with label afterlife. Show all posts
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Monday, February 12, 2024

The Afterlife and Selling Your Soul Clarification

The Afterlife and Selling Your Soul Clarification

By Emerelda

Channel: A. S.

Posted on February 12, 2024

 



Dear people of Earth,

This is Emerelda speaking. I greet you with empathy and love.

Last week Hakann made a remark about selling one’s soul. Someone in the comment section disagreed with Hakann’s statement. To that person: thank you for your comment, I appreciate it because it nudged me to discuss this topic in more detail.

As you may have realized: creation was set up with the central value of free will. Creation wasn’t set up with the central value of niceness, or comfort, or of people being protected from bad or destructive choices. Instead, it was set up with the central value of free will, and the amount of free will you can exercise is actually quite extreme when you think about it.

For example, I am a mother and I think it’s quite outrageous that a person is able to intentionally kill a baby. That is clearly a very destructive and hurtful choice. Yet, it is possible. You can do all kinds of horrible things to other people, and in general no law of nature or angel will step in to stop you.

Similarly, nothing in the universe stops you from using hard drugs, or stops you from drinking alcohol until it kills you. Nothing in the universe stops you from grabbing a knife and wounding or even mutilating yourself. I think this illustrates that creation is set up to allow for an extreme amount of free will, including allowing actions that are clearly destructive to others or yourself.

With this in mind, is it possible to make a deal with a demon along the lines of: “give me riches and fame now, and in exchange after this life I, as a soul, will agree to go to a dark place and / or serve you”? Yes, that is possible. You have an extreme amount of free will in creation, why wouldn’t this be possible? If you make such a deal, the demon will attempt to pull you down to a dark place after your death, feeling justified in doing so. And it will probably succeed in doing so. What would normally prevent a demon from trying to pull you down, will not protect you in this case because you made a free-will choice. And higher consciousness beings are pretty big on allowing people to make free-will choices, even destructive ones.

And that is what is called: selling your soul.

Now, selling your soul is not an irrevocable or a forever-process. Even after you do it, you can call on for example Jesus for help, and he will help you. Or if you raise your vibration and level of consciousness sufficiently through spiritual practice, you can end up in a situation where you can either resist being pulled down because the dark place doesn’t energetically fit you. Or if you already were pulled down you can become high-conscious enough that you just drift up and out of the dark place you were in. Or you can grow to become powerful enough that you can defeat and usurp the dark master you promised to serve.

Still, I don’t recommend selling your soul.

But yes, selling your soul is a real thing. You can do a search and note just how many people talk about or sing about selling their soul.

Now, yes, I do know what a metaphor is, but metaphors don’t spring up out of nothing. If selling your soul wasn’t possible, then the term “selling your soul” wouldn’t have any kind of emotional resonance — then that would just be a combination of words that no one would ever actually say, similar to how no one says the words “duplicating your soul.” Because, you know, duplicating your soul is impossible, which is why no one says the words “duplicating your soul.” Well, similarly, if there wasn’t such a thing as selling your soul, then no one would say those words, and instead people would talk about “selling your freedom” or “selling your principles” to refer to the idea of a person giving up their freedom or principles to become rich or famous.

That’s a good rule of thumb in general: if a term has emotional resonance, then there’s probably something real though possibly misunderstood there.

Now, maybe the words “selling your soul” create a picture in people’s minds of their soul being irrevocably lost forever. Maybe that is why some people have a strong reaction against this concept, why they perhaps feel that “selling your soul” doesn’t resonate to such a strong degree that they feel they can say it’s nonsense. Indeed: it is true that you selling your soul doesn’t mean that it’s irrevocably lost forever.

So, selling your soul is one thing you can do. Another thing you can do is what Elizabeth April called “selling your body.” That is when you make a deal, and a hostile extraterrestrial or a demon enters your body and pushes your soul to the back. Then you can do nothing but watch, as the demon or hostile extraterrestrial takes control of your body and starts moving it. If there is no intervention, you can remain like that for a long time or even until death, at which point you go to the afterlife as normal.

“Afterlife as normal” means that a nice person goes to a nice place, while a person who seriously harmed others goes to a still relatively pleasant but not as nice place. We’ll discuss why later in this message. Right now, I want to mention that no soul is sent to be tortured for eternity. That doesn’t happen. Hell, in that sense, doesn’t exist.

Now, what does exist is a real, physical series of caves underground, where physical demons and hostile extraterrestrials were hurting humans. Fortunately, those caves were cleared between 7 December 2020 and 28 April 2021, through the efforts of an exceptional Earth human lightworker plus angels plus the galactic confederation. The humans in those caves were rescued and the demons and hostile extraterrestrials were dealt with.

Those series of caves were the thing that gave the term “hell” its emotional resonance. Now, souls were never sent to those caves by the creator of the universe, but still, there were humans there and they were suffering terribly. Fortunately, no more — these are just empty caves now.

That was one of the mechanisms that the dark forces used to lower the vibration of humanity and actually that of the Earth itself: deep in the Earth, they made a group of humans suffer terribly and never again let them see the sun. Through the collective subconscious, this stressed out and dampened all Earth humans. Plus, the dark forces feed off suffering.

It makes me very happy that these Earth humans were freed. They’re currently guests of us, the galactic confederation, and they have recovered. Some of them joke that they went from hell to heaven, although I don’t think our society is quite heaven. Though it’s certainly a whole lot more pleasant than Earth.

I empathize with these people — although I also want to physically help you, who are still on Earth.

It’s not impossible that some of these rescued people will serve as ambassadors when it’s finally time for us to land, basically to say: “those extraterrestrials aren’t evil, they’re actually really nice.” But, of course, it’s up to them if they want to do this or not. Alternatively, maybe Hakann can do a peace dance to break the ice.

Earlier in this message I remarked that nice people go to a nice place after death, and people who seriously harmed others go to a still relatively pleasant but not as nice place. This isn’t actually to reward the righteous or to punish the wicked. The universe doesn’t try to reward the righteous or punish the wicked. The universe is set up with free will as the central value, remember, and hurting others is a valid path from a high perspective. Besides, even people who hurt others are still part of Source, and why would Source hurt parts of itself if they so-called misbehave? If anything, those parts need love and help, not punishment. That’s why the afterlife is relatively nice even for people who do bad things — souls need some rest and recuperation before reincarnating again, after all.

No, the reason why souls who hurt others in their last life go to a slightly less pleasant place, is because souls want to know what it’s like to be on the other side of that unpleasant experience. By knowing what it’s like to both do something unpleasant, and have that unpleasant thing done to them, they can gain soul growth and greater understanding.

So if Tom does something horrible to Anna in life, then in the afterlife Tom’s soul may experience having that thing done to him, or Tom’s soul can look through the eyes of Anna and feel what it was like for her.

Hence Tom can know what that unpleasant thing is like as both victim and perpetrator. This way, Tom can learn his lesson and complete the circle, you might say. And this isn’t the universe punishing the soul of Tom, this is Tom’s soul actually wanting greater soul growth — souls are more concerned with gaining soul growth than with comfort.

Then once Tom has learned this lesson, he can move up to a nicer afterlife, or reincarnate again. Or if Tom doesn’t learn that lesson, he can also just reincarnate again and perhaps learn his lessons in physical existence.

Your soul isn’t in resistance to you, for example, in your current life hurting people and thereby ending up in a less pleasant place after death. Similarly, your soul isn’t in resistance to you making a deal with a demon and thereby ending up in a significantly less pleasant place after death, which on Earth is often called “selling your soul.” You may be in resistance to that, but your soul is not. To your soul, it’s all just free-will choices, it’s all just existence and experiences. All paths are valid.

To you, ending up in a dark place after your death because you sold your soul seems like an absolute disaster. And sure, I indeed don’t recommend that. Yet to your soul, it just looks like another chapter in a very, very long journey back to Source.

I hope that was interesting. I enjoyed sharing this with you.

In empathy and love,

Your star sister,
Emerelda

Emerelda 

For Era of Light
 
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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Presenting Silver Birch, on the Times We’re In

Presenting Silver Birch, on the Times We’re In

By Steve Beckow

Posted on November 18, 2023


Wendy Zammit asked me to make a book of the works of Silver Birch on this site. I did and said to myself that it probably wouldn’t interest you, our readers. It was geared towards students of the afterlife, I said to myself.

But then I reasoned that it was also a book of prophecy, in which Silver Birch reported what he had heard, seen, and knew about the New World coming. I was interested in that at the time.

But all that disappeared when I revisited the database and changed my mind. Silver Birch is someone worth meeting and listening to on many more topics than just the afterlife.

He has the gentleness of Matthew Ward but the way of presenting truth of SaLuSa.  He has much to offer us, who are in the times he wrote about back in the early to mid-twentieth century.

You hear the same message from him that you hear from our terrestrial, extraterrestrial, and celestial sources, which is a wonderful validation of the message.

For anyone interested in what the tenor of discussion was like in early to mid-twentieth century, this collection is quite representative of its leading edge – British Spiritualists and one of their leading sources, Maurice Barbanell’s “Silver Birch.”

This article is only one element of the book. You’ll find the whole Silver Birch database attached to the downloadable book.

It’s designed as a searchable database. Import it into a word-processing program or turn it into an online, searchable database. Imagine if you had a downloadable, searchable database of Matthew Ward….. Hmmmm….


Download Silver Birch on the New World here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Silver-Birch-on-the-New-World.pdf


From “Silver Birch’s New World,”  January 31, 2019, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/01/31/silver-birchs-new-world/


You are now in the midst of the crisis. As always happens before there is a birth, there is much pain. The birth of the new order means much pain. Even when the new order comes, there will be growing pains.

But there has been planted in your world a seed that will grow and the efforts of those in high places to destroy the seed will fail. It was said, a long time ago, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” That is going to happen.

There will be many big changes. There will be break-ups and there will be many upheavals. There will be what you think is darkness and difficulty. You will say, “Things are worse.” But, all the time, there is behind it all a power which is making for the progress of the world.

There are many of us who have been allowed by those who are higher and above us to see your world as it will be one day. That conception we try to transmit to those who are receptive, to inspire them to go on with their work. The pictures I have seen make your present world more ugly than it is. I see what it could be like – and what it must be like. It is only a question of time.

One day, there will arise a new race that will recognize that all politics, religion, science and knowledge are part of one thing. (1) Then pain, sorrow, fear, mourning and unhappiness will be banished and your world will be a place of smiles and happy laughter. …

You have tried to build a world where, when one man has something, instead of using it to help the others, he tries to keep it for himself, with the result that in time he makes a system that must collapse because its foundations are wrong.

When you have people who develop their gifts, which all come from the Great Spirit, and use them for the benefit of all the others, then there will be built a system founded on that which is eternal. (2)

You are witnessing the birth of a new order and all around you are the signs that the old world, founded on selfishness, materialism, greed, avarice and cruelty, is dying. You who call yourselves Spiritualists are the custodians of a great truth, for you are the sentries guarding the outposts, helping to forge the new era.

Think of yourselves as soldiers of the Great Spirit, fighting the greatest fight of all, for you are helping to vanquish all the forces that belong to the darkness of man’s ignorance and brought war, misery, chaos and bankruptcy to your world.

You are helping to shape a new world in which all the children of the Great Spirit will share to fulfil the richness of the bounty He has freely given. (3)

I do not care by what name you call the dawn of the new world, but it is the world of the Great Spirit coming into fulfillment, accompanied by His power, and the service of all faithful hearts who seek but to bring new joy, new life, new happiness into the world of matter, so that there shall cease coming into our world the wrecks of yours. (4)

We strive always to reveal the religious significance of spiritual truth for, when your world understands its spiritual import, there will be a revolution mightier than all the revolutions of war and blood.

It will be a revolution of the soul and, all over the world, people will claim what is their due – the right to enjoy to the full the liberties of the spirit. Away will go every restriction which has put fetters on them. (5)

The tide of victory rolls on. The old order dies, giving place to the new. The new world is coming. But do not think that, because of this victory, there will be no more dark places. There will still be much shedding of tears. There will be many aching hearts. There is great sacrifice to be made. (6)

But after the storms and the wind have blown through the world there always comes the new life of the spring. When the snow lies on the ground and all looks very bleak, you are not able to see the freshness of the spring. But it comes.

And gradually, as the great sun of life moves through the heavens of the Great Spirit, so the majesty of life comes to its fullest. Throughout the whole world of matter there is a great cloud of discontent. There will come the spring of dreams and the summer of fulfilment. …

It will come quickly or slowly as the children of the Great Spirit exercise their free will. (7)

Like many others, I have come nearer to the earth vibrations to help push forward that great new world which waits just round the corner. I come to teach you the laws of the Great Spirit and to show you how, if you live according to them, the bounty of the Great Spirit can be poured into your hearts and minds. (8)

The New World is born, born in agony of birth, with a baptism of tears and misery and sadness. But the New World is here. Its rays are beginning to pierce the fog of your world. But even in this New World all will not have been achieved. There will be plenty to remedy, to improve, to strengthen. There will still be weakness to be overcome, there will still be troubles to be eradicated.

But there will be a new basis for life. Much of the needless misery, much of the needless deprivation, much of the needless starvation and sadness will have gone. The basis of life will be changed, for gradually selfishness will be overthrown and service will reign in its place.

The New World will come more quickly or more slowly, as more of you help us or hinder us in our efforts to co-operate with you. You will not get more than you deserve or less than you deserve, for so perfect is natural law in its expression that its scales are always evenly balanced. They are weighted down neither on one side nor the other.

I tell you of conditions that are operating and, as they continue to operate, what will be changed. Do not forget that you will reap in your world the harvest of countless generations of labour wrought by many pioneers, idealists and reformers, who made sacrifices to advance the lot of mankind. (9)

We are striving always to teach the children of matter how to be free and how to bask in the sunlight of spiritual truth, how to cast off the serfdom of creedal slavery. That is not an easy task, for once the trappings of religion have mastered you, it takes a long time for spiritual truth to penetrate that thick wall of superstition.

We strive always to reveal the religious significance of spiritual truth, for when your world understands its spiritual import there will be a revolution mightier than all the revolutions of war and blood.

It will be a revolution of the soul and, all over the world, people will claim what is their due – the right to enjoy to the full the liberties of the spirit. Away will go every restriction which has put fetters on them.

Our allegiance is not to a Creed, not to a Book, not to a Church, but to the Great Spirit of life and to His eternal natural laws.

A great power of the spirit will descend into your world of matter. In all its countries a mighty force of the spirit will be felt, for there is a great work to be done to counteract the selfishness and the ignorance of your world. In time it will conquer, but, in the process, there will be much travail.

Plenty of workers have come to take their stand at your side. There are those who are known to you, those who are bound to you with ties of blood and others who are attracted to serve you out of the love that they bear for you. When you think of those whose names you know, try to realise the countless host of the unknown, who serve without any desire to be known or recognised but who give their power to be used.

The world will not be converted in a blinding flash like Saul on the road to Damascus. Gradually, the light of spiritual truths will break through, as more people become aware of the great knowledge and more instruments are available for the power of the Great White Spirit to use. You must remember that the things of the / spirit require careful nurture and progress. Sudden conversions would not be enduring, and our work is intended to be permanent.

Each soul that becomes an instrument for the Great Spirit, each soul that moves out of darkness into the light, out of ignorance into knowledge, out of superstition into truth, is helping to advance the world, for each one of these is a nail that is driven into the coffin of the world’s materialism. (10)


Download Silver Birch on the New World here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Silver-Birch-on-the-New-World.pdf


Footnotes

(1) Could that be the new species the Mother is creating, which she describes here:

Divine Mother: Do you think, feel, know it is inappropriate of me to birth a new species of humans? … Because that is exactly what I am doing. And it’s exactly what I’m doing by opening the Thirteenth Octave. (Divine Mother in Linda Dillon, Thirteenth Octave Intensive Class, Oct. 24, 2020.)

Ivo of Vega called it “homo universalis”:

Ivo: Yes. This is an extinction event. On planet Earth, only certain types of DNA will evolve or ascend. Other types of DNA will not. Homo Sapiens is slated for extinction. Homo Universalis will prevail. (“Ivo of Vega: The Nature of Negativity,” through Sharon Stewart, February 22, 2021. at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=317874.)

(2) Silver Birch, Teachings of Silver Birch. Wisdom from the World Beyond. Ed. A.W. Austen. London: Spiritualist Press, 1962; c1938, 42-3. [Hereafter TSB.]

Silver Birch, Philosophy of Silver Birch. London: Spiritualist Press, 1975; c1969, 27.

Silver Birch’s medium, Maurice Barbanell

(3) Silver Birch, Silver Birch’s Teachings. Located at http:/www.angelfire.com/ok/SilverBirch/Tcon.html, n.p.  [Hereafter SBT.]

(4) Silver Birch, TSB, 44.

(5) Ibid., 26.

(6) Ibid., 38.

(7) Silver Birch, Silver Birch Anthology. Ed. Wm. Naylor. London: Spiritualist Press, 1974; c1955, 51. [Hereafter SBA.]

(8) Silver Birch, Philosophy of Silver Birch. London: Spiritualist Press, 1975; c1969, 27.

(9) Silver Birch, SBT, n.p.

(10) Silver Birch, SBA, 39-41.


Steve Beckow