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April 15, 1999
Peter: Also today, no questions of multiversal significance or of urgent
importance were asked by anyone. Neither do I have anything to ask of
that nature. However, for a few days now, I have had something on my
mind that is of concern to me personally. Because, in its true sense, this
concern is not personal but purely spiritual, I would like to bring it to
Your kind attention, if I may. But before I do that, let me ask if You have
anything to offer this very foggy early morning.
The Lord Jesus Christ: It is really very foggy, Peter. And although fog
of this nature is very common in coastal California at this time of the
year, your state of mind, presently, in some ways, reflects this fogginess.
It relates to your concerns which, in essence, to some degree, cloud your
perception of the issue which has been on your mind. But before going
into that, I do have something to contribute this morning. And since you
are so kind to give Me the opportunity to talk first, I’ll take advantage of
that and will do so. Thank you for your offer.
This morning I have some good news and, from the standpoint of the
situation in the negative state’s domain and in human life on planet
Zero, some bad news. The good news for the positive state is that we are
seeing some positive movements in the clan of the pseudo-creators who
belong to their far right branch. As you know, that branch has always
been on the extreme side of scientific-mindedness and a very aggressive
approach for the resolution of any problems they have been
encountering. Because of this scientific-mindedness, their nature has
been emotionally cold, detached and ‘objective,’ without any personal
warmth, compassion, love, modesty and humbleness. In their attitude
they have always been somewhat arrogant, grandiose, aggressive, proud
of their accomplishments and inconsiderate of others. Because of this
type of nature, these particular pseudo-creators lost any sense, and even
any experience, about what it is to truly love and to be truly loved. If you
take into consideration that the basic premise of their lifestyle derived
from rejection of the principles of love, goodness, positive works,
compassion and empathy, then it is obvious that any aspects of these
principles, rooted in the nature of femininity, would be alien to them, and
they wouldn’t know how to express them or how to experience them.
After the split, nothing remained in their experiential mode that would
contain any traits of these principles. As you know, this was the only way
they could be if they wanted to activate the negative state and its
pseudo-life.
This situation is still reflected in some human languages, the vocabulary
of which does not contain the word ‘love’ in its true sense as
conceptualized and understood by everyone in the positive state. Instead,
in those languages there are many substitutes for the word ‘love’ and
what it really signifies for them. However, My Divine Providence
provided that the major human languages contain the word ‘love,’
although its meaning doesn’t always match what it means and signifies
in its true sense and how it is perceived, understood, conceptualized and
manifested in the life of the positive state.
The discussed-here branch of the pseudo-creators was put in charge of
finding effective substitutes for love and all its principles. If such
substitutes were impossible to find and establish, then, in that case, they
would have to come up with the interpretation of what love really means
and how it should be manifested, felt and expressed in such a way that
the conceptualization of their understanding of love would have nothing
in common with what true love means and really is. So, in essence, in the
negative state, and in the majority of human life, the concept of love, and
how it is understood and expressed, very often does not have anything in
common with true love. We can call it pseudo-love. The problem that the
pseudo-creators faced during their effort to invent and activate the
negative state was that, in order to succeed in their effort, they needed to
come up with something that would have enough resemblance to true
love and yet, that would have nothing of the nature of that love. The
reason for such a need is in the fact that any life at all can be invented
and established only on the principles of love. Love is the very foundation
of any life. It is its essence, as wisdom is its substance. So, in order to
establish life of the negative state, some kind of fake substitute of true
love needed to be invented and put into motion. This was the most
formidable task and it took many millennia to come up with something
like that. It would be impossible for you to understand even remotely
how all this was accomplished by the pseudo-creators.
In scientifically analyzing the concept of love and what it contains and
how it is expressed and directed, the pseudo-creators came up with
something that had never been in existence before that time and that no
one had ever experienced in their personal life. If true love was founded
on sharing with others, on utmost consideration for others; if it was
directed from within to without and always, first, to others; if the
meaning of love was in giving, receiving, reciprocating and wanting good,
delight, pleasure and happiness for all, and in all similar factors and
characteristics, then, in that case, an opposite direction of that love
needed to be taken in such a manner that this love would be directed
only to oneself, from without to within oneself, and to anything that can
serve one’s own selfish well-being, without any consideration for others.
If genuine and true love is unconditional, because it is its nature to be
that way, then in the pseudo-love of the negative state, the way it was
invented and established by the original pseudo-creators, this love was
turned into being only conditional. By placing conditions to their love,
pseudo-love actually, they effectively nullified any positive meaning of
the true and genuine love. And yet, because they had to begin with the
original concept of love, they were able to convince the pseudo-life of the
negative state, which was being established, that it is truly and deeply
loved. Here is the mystery of the life-making process. In order for
anything to be and to exist, no matter in what form, shape, state,
condition, or whatever, you need to convince it that it is being loved.
Otherwise, no possibility would exist to sustain such life. Simply stated,
anything alive needs to be loved. If it is not loved, it cannot be effective
and successful in its own being and existence and thus, it can’t continue
in its own life.
This is how the scientific pseudo-creators were able to accomplish their
goal. They proved to the newly established pseudo-life of the negative
state that they loved it. By loving it, by cherishing it, by taking care of it,
they succeeded in making it functional in all its numerous aspects. And
because any life is a matter of internals, in order to love the negative
state, it was necessary to internalize and individualize it, making it the
very core of their unique individualities. The logic of this setup is in the
fact that, if you make the pseudo-life of the negative state your own
internals, that is to say, if you make the negative state the essence and
substance of your spirit and soul, by which they will live and function, in
order to sustain it within yourself, you have to direct all that love to
yourself and no one else. This is how the concept of self-love, in all its
negative aspects, came to its adverse fruition. And this is how life of the
negative state is maintained and how it flourishes and multiplies.
The extension of this self-love, the life of the negative state, is love to this
world or the externals only. The fundamental principle of self-love is to
have everything only for oneself. Because of this principle, everything
has to serve one’s own needs only, without any regard for anyone or
anything. In order to fully satisfy this principle, and in order to exclude
anyone from the sphere of sharing anyone or anything, the substantial
portion of that self-love is the need for power and control. If I love only
myself, then everyone and everything out there has to love me, respect
me, serve me, provide for me and worship me. They are here only for me
and I am here only for myself. I will love them only if I have total control
and power over them. Therefore, I will love them solely for my own self
and not for their selves. This is how conditional love came into its
adverse fruition, becoming love to this world. This form of pseudo-love is
founded on the premise that anything out there is my extension and
process, the purpose of which is to serve me and to be under my control
and power. If nothing were to exist out there, I would not be able to fulfill
my self-loving needs for control, power and domination. After all, over
whom or what could I have power, control and domination if nothing
would exist out there? This is how love to this world or the externals was
established.
Now, with these two factors in hand — self-love and love to this world —
the pseudo-creators were able to subterfuge the newly established
lifestyle of the negative state and all its inhabitants into believing that,
first of all, they are being loved, and secondly, that their life is the only
possible life that has any meaning, purpose and reality. And to give any
semblance that it is a real love, they invented the concept of ‘marriage’
which gave them some idea of sharing. But look under what conditions
such pseudo-unions are established. They are based on self-
exclusiveness, possessiveness, enslavement, mutual dependency, a
closed-in loop, jealousy, and similar negative characteristics which feed
on nothing and no one else but one’s self-love and love to this world,
perpetuating them ad infinitum. With such characteristics, the life of the
negative state continues to stand on firm ground.
At the present time however, under the influence of the studied
consequences, results and outcomes of this pseudo-life, it is becoming
clear to the pseudo-creators, including also their far right branch, that
such life is a self-feeding loop that leads nowhere. And not only does it
lead nowhere, but it produces exactly the opposite of what the pseudo-
creators wanted to prove and accomplish. Whereas the two other factions
or branches of the pseudo-creators realized this fact some time ago, and
because of that they decided to enter the special division of the New
School for the purpose of their conversion to the positive state, the third
branch only now is beginning to realize the futility of their effort and
experimentation. Because of that, we are seeing the very first members
of that clan coming to our side and entering the New School for the
purpose of their conversion to the positive state. This is the good news for
the positive state which we were talking about at the beginning of this
Dialog.
As a result and consequence of their wise decision, Lyudmila
encountered, for the first time, a pseudo-creator from that clan who was
assigned to her in order to learn what true love is all about and how it
relates to the principle of femininity. Because the issue here is love,
goodness, sharing and positive works for the sake of principle, without
any other negative selfish connotation, and because they are the nature
of femininity, those pseudo-creators from the mentioned far-right branch,
will be assigned to you, My ladies, who are connected to My New
Revelation. Besides the other pseudo-creators, these have a very special
and strong need to learn about love, sharing, giving, kindness,
compassion and empathy, that is to say, about femininity and all its
attributes, characteristics and manifestations. Only you, ladies, can and
may provide them with this experience. In encountering this particular
pseudo-creator, Lyudmila rightly noticed the striking difference between
him and others assigned to her from the two other branches. This
pseudo-creator had an air of arrogance, roughness, sturdiness,
detachment and coldness about him. But, as he is interacting with
Lyudmila, he is learning fast the new ways of relating which are offered
to him by her. And this is the way that all others from that branch will
be coming to you for the same purpose. Because this is a learning process
for all the pseudo-creators, and not only for this particular branch,
whoever of you is and will be involved with them, is and will, obviously,
be an integral part of the faculty that runs the mentioned special division
of the New School. This is a very noble and vitally important assignment
for all of you who agreed to participate in this process.
So, this is the good news. From the position of the negative state it is, of
course, the bad news. The other aspects of the bad news for humans and
all others in the negative state are that, as more and more pseudo-
creators are converting to the positive state by the means of the New
School, the renegades and all their minions are becoming more and more
unmanageable, more and more evil, ruthless and determined to keep
hold on their control, power and dominion. As a result of their negative
and evil effort, life on this planet will become more complicated, chaotic,
unbearable, evil, negative, unpredictable and intolerable. These are all
signs that the negative state is in the final phase of winning on your
planet. Of course, looking on this bad news from the perspective of the
positive state, for everyone in it, it is good news, because it accelerates
the time when the negative state, with all its atrocities and
abominations, will be eternally eliminated and the life of the positive
state, in its fullness and completeness, will come to its most desirable
fruition. And this is all, Peter, that I wanted to contribute for your
information today. You may now formulate your concerns. I know what
they are and how they came about but it would be a good idea if you were
to state them in your own words.
Peter: Thank You very much for Your contribution and enlightenment.
And I truly appreciate that You bear with my foolish concerns. As You
know so well, my concerns are regarding the literal sense of the Bible,
and especially with Your own literal statements as recorded in the four
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), as well as in the Apocalypse. I
am very well aware that in all books of Your New Revelation, much was
said and explained about the reasons why such negative language was
utilized and why it was necessary to talk the way You did. However, it
seems to me that I have not been entirely successful in getting rid of the
feelings that something is wrong about the way I understand and convey
things to others and to myself about them. As you know, I was raised in a
very conservative, evangelical Baptist environment. In that environment
I was fed with mother’s milk, so-to-speak, that whatever was written in
the Bible, in its very literal sense, has an eternal, unchangeable and
immutable validity, and anyone who says anything contrary to this fact
commits unpardonable sin and deserves eternal punishment in the
lowest of the lowest Hells. Two problems with this situation exist: One,
as You know, in my foolish youth, I was preaching exactly the same
things throughout the Baptist churches in the region where I was born.
So, I am guilty of the same spiritual crime. Second, and the most
important one: Anything that is conveyed to us in Your New Revelation
is in total and complete contradiction to everything, or almost
everything, that is contained in the Christian Bible, or in any other so-
called holy books. If I were a follower of Islam, their fanatics would
probably put out a contract for a million dollars on my life as they did to
the author of Satanic Verses. Of course, Christian fanatics would
probably do the same to me as they do with doctors who perform
abortions. I am surprised that no one has yet assassinated me. Any
comments about these concerns of mine? Not that I am afraid to be
assassinated. I wouldn’t be the first one or probably the last, but I am
more afraid when coming to the spiritual world, that I will face this
awful dilemma of being in the position of eternal punishment for
everything that I have done and for what I have so far transmitted in
Your Name. Whew, this was a long sentence. Please forgive me.
The Lord Jesus Christ: I forgive you gladly. I perfectly understand
your predicament and position, Peter. As you recall, during last night’s
sleep you had very troubling and disturbing dreams, in which you found
yourself constantly hiding from and avoiding some vague, non-
identifiable dangers. You couldn’t put your finger on what it was that you
were hiding from and avoiding. Those dreams reflected your anxieties
and fears about this issue. Yes, much was said and revealed in My New
Revelation about why it was necessary for Me to talk, and for My
disciples to write, the way it was recorded in the Bible and the way it
was done at that time. For the peace of your mind, let us reiterate certain
aspects of this anxiety-provoking ‘why.’
Consider the quality, the state, the nature and the condition of that time
as compared to this time and to various times, not only in the history of
humanity on planet Zero, and not only in the history of the entire Zone of
Displacement, but also in the history of the entire positive state, as well
as, most importantly, in the history of My Own function, manifestation
and creative efforts. Let us assume for a moment that whatever was
written in the Bible and in the other so-called holy books, has absolute,
eternal, immutable, unchangeable and non-modifiable validity beyond
and above which nothing more could or may be experienced or explained
or revealed. If this situation were to be true, then what would happen?
Everyone, everywhere and everywhen would be locked-in forever to stay
in the same condition, state, situation and process as they were at the
time of such statements and revelations. No progress, no development,
no changes and no nothing could ever be possible or feasible. (I am aware
that English grammar doesn’t tolerate two negatives, in this case, ‘no
nothing.’ But I want to leave it as it is for emphasis). However, as you
know, nothing is the same as it was at that time, or as it was at
Swedenborg’s time, or any other times, or as it is at the very present
time, or as it will be in the future time.
If you take into consideration the nature of each particular time, you can
function, you can talk about and reveal things only from the position of
the nature and requirements of each particular time. During My
incarnation on planet Zero, the situation was such in the entire being
and existence and pseudo-being and pseudo-existence, that, under their
current spiritual development and progression, or regression in the
negative state, respectively, existing at that time, no other mode of
conveyance of spiritual or any other ideas was not only not available but
was not conceivable or needed. No one would understand any other
language. It is not necessary to go into any other aspects of these issues
because they were extensively discussed on several occasions in previous
portions of My New Revelation. Here, I would only like to again and
again emphasize that, due to the human nature, and the nature of
everyone in the negative state, everything has a tendency to be perceived
in a stagnant, immutable and unchangeable state. Don’t forget please,
that all those words were said by Me at that time, as recorded by My
disciples. If I say something, humans perceive it as something that has
an eternal validity because I am eternally the same and unchangeable.
Therefore, My Words must have the same meaning and they cannot ever
be changed in the same way as I am unable to change in My Nature or
unable to change My Mind. As you see from this example, the problem
here is not in what I said at that time, but how My Nature is being
conceptualized, understood and portrayed.
The totally false and distorted perception, understanding and acceptance
of My Nature, or Who I truly Am, leads to the distortions, falsification,
misunderstanding and misinterpretation of everything I said, or revealed
or what was said and revealed in My Name. The obvious contradiction of
this situation is that, if God-Me is considered to be the only Creator who
gives impetus to any progress, evolution, revolution, changes, or
whatever, then how, ever, can such things happen if I Myself never
change or progress in an absolute sense? Does it make any sense to
consider things otherwise? Think about it, Peter, and you will see the
beautiful logic in the need to always come up with something new,
leaving behind everything that was new and proper at that time, or at
each particular time, but which is now old and worn out, because it
served its purpose and fulfilled its needs but which would be totally
improper, regressive and destructive at each new and different time. I’ll
let you go now so that you can meditate on this. Have a nice day and
meditation during the rest of this day.
Peter: Thank You very much for all that You conveyed to us and for
Your understanding.
Source: DIALOGUES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST PART 1.