To read aloud
SEVENTY FIRST DIALOGUE
April 23, 1999
Peter: For a few days now something has been coming into my mind
related to Your first major temptation by the forces of the negative state
during Your incarnation on planet Zero, as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11,
Luke 4:1-13, and which is also mentioned briefly, in passing, in Mark
1:12-13. Does it mean that You would like to address this particular
issue, and if it does, what is the relevance of that event to the presently
ongoing shift and to our personal lives, if any? Or is there anything else
that You would like to bring to our attention before going into this
particular issue?
The Lord Jesus Christ: Well, as you know, Peter, nothing is by
coincidence. If that particular event has been on your mind, and if it has
not been leaving you despite the fact that you tried to get rid of it, then,
obviously, there is a need to discuss it. Don’t forget what one of the
important and major functions of these Dialogs is. As you remember from
one of the recent Dialogs, the process of elimination of the negative state
and human life in its negative aspects, is the process of making things
right because, once upon a time, they were made very wrong. An integral
component of this process is dialoging about the meaning, proper
understanding and correct interpretation of some events recorded in the
Gospels related directly to My life on planet Zero. As you know, the
majority of those events, the way they have been understood and
interpreted by Biblical scholars, does not reflect the true reality of their
meaning. Their understanding and interpretation is either distorted or
totally incorrect. For that reason, it is necessary to bring into proper light
their meaning and why they happened the way they did. The integral
part of these Dialogs is to do just that. And this is the relevance of the
discussed issue to this time and to your life. The nature of the ongoing
shift requires that everything about Me and everything else, no matter
what and where, is put into proper context, meaning and perspective.
You cannot very well begin the elimination of the negative state with
improperly understood concepts and events related to such important
spiritual issues as recorded in the Bible, for example. Otherwise, it
wouldn’t be its elimination but its confirmation and continuation.
However, before proceeding to this issue, which is on your mind, Peter,
let Me briefly talk about something else. It relates to the tragedy that
happened in one of Colorado’s high schools. As you remember from one of
the most recent Dialogs (Dialog 68), we were talking there about the good
news and the bad news. The bad news related to the situation in the
negative state and on planet Zero. It was indicated there that things will
be becoming worse and worse for everyone who is in the negative state on
the side of the negative state. Such unspeakable and never-heard-of-a-
few-decades-before events are nothing more than a reflection of the
negative state’s pseudo-winning on planet Zero. As you remember, Peter,
a few years back, after you finished recording the Corollaries..., you
were informed by Me that humans proper were/are no longer being born
on planet Zero. Whoever is born here comes only from the negative state.
Later on, you were also informed by Me that those humans on planet
Zero, who showed obvious inclination toward and support for the
negative state, were transmogrified into becoming full-fledged agents of
the negative state. At that time, it was not proper yet to reveal, that this
process of transmogrification was performed on all those children and
newborn infants of the human-proper stock, whose genetic code showed
an overwhelming predisposition toward the negative state. So, even
before they became fully functional adults, they were already
transmogrified into agents of the negative state.
As you remember, the renegades have been imitating the activities of the
pseudo-creators and, because of that, they proceeded to do with some
humans and many children and infants their own brand of
transmogrification. As a result of their pseudo-effort in this respect, some
very demonic, cruel, inconsiderate, emotionally void and empty,
irresponsible and violent children and teenagers appeared who are able,
in your view, without any hesitation, to commit unspeakable and horrid
crimes. This is the reason why, as of recently, you have been hearing
about 11 year old children, and even younger, who murdered their
parents or committed similar deeds that no one could understand or
explain. The Colorado event is the result of this type of
transmogrification. So, don’t be surprised if you hear more and more of
similar, or even worse events of this nature. They are all one of the many
aspects of the process of the pseudo-winning of the negative state on
planet Zero.
Recently, you have been informed by Me that the negative state’s pseudo-
winning is in its final phase. It was also pointed out to you that in this
final phase its nature would be showing its most ugly, putrid, despicable,
horrid and abominable face. If you look at the nature of the crimes that
are being committed around you, you can see that this particular face is
being exposed. So, again, don’t be surprised if you are about to hear more
of these events happening on planet Zero in all kinds of unexpected ways.
On the other hand, those humans and children who did not show a
preference for the negative state, at that time, were put into a position of
becoming agents of the positive state. And although the majority of them
are not directly connected to My New Revelation, or don’t have any ideas
that My New Revelation even exists at all and is available to all,
nevertheless, they are influenced by it covertly in such a manner so as to
support the positive lifestyle in their own private lives. Unfortunately,
the number of these types of humans in comparison with the numbers of
the transmogrified ones, is small. Fortunately, from the position of the
positive state, the quality prevails over the quantity. So, don’t despair.
And this is all that I wanted to comment about this morning. You can go
ahead, Peter, and formulate what has been on your mind these few days.
Peter: The issue in question is your temptation by Satan or the devil in
the wilderness. Which text in the Gospels do You prefer to interpret,
Matthew’s or Luke’s?
The Lord Jesus Christ: Let us take up Luke’s version. In this
particular version the sequence of events is somewhat different than in
Matthew’s. Here, we’ll begin with the first verse and proceed with the
interpretation of each subsequent verse.
Verses 1-2: ‘Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from
the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted
for forty days (in Matthew ‘for forty days and forty nights’) by the devil.
And in those days he ate nothing, and afterward, when they ended, he
was hungry.’ A situation is being described in this verse which sets up a
condition for the first encounter with the ruling body of the pseudo-
creators and for the first direct experience of the nature of the negative
state. To be filled with the Holy Spirit signifies to be empowered by all
necessary means for the successful outcome of this first encounter. To be
led by the Spirit into the wilderness means to be transported into the
very heart of the negative state. The condition of the wilderness reflects
the true nature of the negative state void of anything positive and good.
No true and genuine life can be found in the wilderness. The only things
that may be found in it are wild, unruly, poisonous, hurtful, harmful and
useless things. In other words, it is a pseudo-life. Being tempted for forty
days means being in the state of a complete and total withdrawal from
anything which is of the nature of the positive state. ‘Forty days’ in this
connotation doesn’t mean time but complete lack of anything good and
positive. ‘Forty nights,’ on the other hand, denotes to be only in
everything evil and false; that is to say, to be in the state of a direct
experience of all aspects of all evils and falsities of the negative state.
‘And in those days he ate nothing’ signifies that I refused to take into
Myself and internalize anything which is of the nature of the negative
state. In other words, nothing of evils, nothing of falsities, nothing of
distortions, nothing of perversions and nothing poisonous, contained in
the life of the negative state, was accepted by Me. ‘And afterward, when
they ended, he was hungry’ represents the state of total depletion and
separation from anything good, from anything true and from anything
positive in general. Remember please, only in the state of complete
separation from the positive state, and from My Original Divine Nature,
could I have been tempted by the devil, in this case, by the leaders of the
pseudo-creators. Being in this state, after a while, I became hungry for
anything good, true and positive.
It was in this state that I was approached by the devil, as described in
verse 3: ‘And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command
this stone to become bread.”’ ‘The devil’ in this connotation means all
summarized evils of the negative state. From that position, from the
position of all evils, the temptation was being directed at Me. ‘If You are
the Son of God’ means that the forces of the negative state were/are
incapable of accepting the fact that I made My Divine Human, which in
this connotation means ‘Son of God.’ They need external proofs that it is
so. But because their demand to prove it is based on the nature of the
negative state, and only from the position of the negative state, it cannot
be accomplished from that position. To ‘command this stone to become
bread’ denotes to acknowledge and to accept the pseudo-fact that all
falsities (stone) of the negative state are good and positive (bread).
Verse 4: ‘But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”’ My answer came from the
position of the positive state and My Absolute Good (Jesus), denoting
that the entire life, and any life at all, is possible only by unceasing
emanation of My Absolute Life (by every word of God), into all life and
that, in itself, by itself and from itself (bread alone), any life at all is
incapable of sustaining itself otherwise.
Verses 5-7: ‘Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed
Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil
said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this
has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if
You worship before me, all will be Yours.”’ A situation is being described
here during which I was introduced experientially to all pseudo-
dimensions of the Zone of Displacement and all their respective worlds in
a multilevel and multidimensional mode, apart from time and space, and
during which past, present and future were merged, giving Me an
opportunity to observe and to experience all aspects of pseudo-life of the
negative state in their totality. From that position, I was offered a
complete control and authority over all, provided that I would agree to
their conditions of becoming one of them, relinquishing My Divinity and
My being a true God.
Verse 8: ‘And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan!
(in Matthew: ‘Away with you, Satan!) For it is written, ‘You shall worship
the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”’ Notice please, that in
the second round I was using the word ‘Satan’ in order to emphasize from
what direction I was now being tempted. As you know, ‘Satan’ denotes all
falsities of the negative state in their summary and completeness. Thus,
I was presented with all available falsities with which the negative state
was leading its assault on Me as on the Only Absolute Truth. That
nothing of such falsities could enter into Me or even be considered by Me
is signified here by the words ‘Get behind me, Satan!’ or ‘away with you,
Satan!’ Any admission of anything of this nature into My Absolute
Nature would mean the end of the positive state and, subsequently, of
anyone and anything. This is what the leaders of the negative state were
hoping to accomplish. If I were to yield to them in this respect even in the
slightest and minutest degree, they would accomplish their goal in
destroying the positive state and its true life. Of course, they didn’t
realize that if something like that were ever to happen, they themselves
would cease to be and exist in their own pseudo-being and pseudo-
existence. Therefore, I responded with the words that ‘you shall worship
the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’
First of all, these words are very important in the sense that it was for
the very first time during My Presence on planet Zero that I clearly
stated and confirmed that I was the true and the only God. Otherwise, I
could not say ‘worship the Lord your God.’ Secondly, this also signifies
the fact, that I was/am the only Lord of everything and everyone and
that the claim of the devil and Satan — the evils and falsities of the
negative state — that the entirety of the negative state with all its
worlds and dimensions is under the control, domination and power of the
rulers of the negative state, is an illusion permitted by Me for the time
being and only until the time when I Personally will take over that
power, control and domination. And thirdly, I indicated clearly that the
only reality of any life could be found in worshiping Me and in serving
only My cause. Therefore, if anyone were to relinquish or reject this fact,
one would deprive oneself of the true life. This was a very clear
indication that the negative state did not possess any true life within its
domain and sphere. Up to that point, it falsely assumed that it had such
life.
Here the situation is being described which indicates that it was
permitted for the members of the negative state to think that they had
true life comparable with and in opposition to the true life of the positive
state. Such an assumption on the part of the members of the negative
state was necessary to have, in order to give them a chance to establish
themselves in their own brand of pseudo-lifestyle. If such permission
were not to be granted to them, they could not succeed in providing the
necessary learning to all about the falsity, illusion and unreality of such
life. However, My entrance into their pseudo-life heralded a new
beginning. At that time, I was setting up the first milestone and
condition for the future elimination of the negative state and its pseudo-
life. The very first step in this effort, was to bring to their attention that
their life is not really a true life, but it is only a perversion, distortion,
mutilation, falsification and ultimately an illusion of the true life; and
that without the life of the positive state no one could survive for a
fraction of a second in the pseudo-life of the negative state. Thus, in this
sense, for the first time I brought to their attention what the true nature
of the negative state was. At the same time, I gave them a new option on
life and how to get out of their pseudo-life by stating that, ‘You shall
worship the Lord your God, — ME — and Him — ME — you shall serve.’
Only in doing that, can one find true life. No other ways exist to establish
oneself in one’s own life.
Verses 9-11: ‘Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle
of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself
down from here. For it is written:
’He shall give His angels charge over You,
To keep You,’
and,
‘In their hands they shall bear You up,
Lest You dash Your foot against a stone.’”’ (Psalm 91:11-12)
To bring Me to Jerusalem signifies to place Me in the midst of the
embodiment of pseudo-spirituality, rooted in externalization and taking
everything literally (Jerusalem). To be set on the pinnacle of the temple
means to be on the top of the falsified worship or, in this case, worshiping
the leaders of the negative state, who proclaimed themselves to be gods.
The temple was such a place of worship. In view of the negative state, if I
was the true Son of God, then admitting to Myself that only
externalization and taking everything literally about all spiritual factors
has any true sense and reality, would mean that only the negative state
has true life and true reality. After all, I chose to come down from the
positive state into the negative state and by that factor I gave preference
to the life in the negative state, rejecting the life of the positive state. If
that were to be the case, then, by accepting such falsities as truths, I
would become negative and evil, and because of that, coming down into
the negative state, in no way would hurt Me. Not only would it not hurt
Me, but I would bring down all inhabitants of the positive state into the
negative state where they would continue to serve Me in accordance with
the pseudo-spiritual principles of the negative state. This is what the
pseudo-creators wanted to accomplish at that time. My response to this
temptation was clear:
Verse 12: ‘And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You
shall not tempt the Lord your God’ (Deuteronomy 6:16). Once again, for
the second time, the indication was that I was the true God. Otherwise, I
could not say, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ To tempt Me, or
your God, signifies to reject Me and not trust Me to do what is needed to
be done and how it is needed to be done. It also means not admitting or
doubting that I am the Only One God Indivisible and the only Source and
Originator of the true life and the only Creator of My Creation. Such
doubts may and can become causative factors for the activation of the
negative state. This is the reason why everyone was warned not to tempt
the Lord your God. To tempt the Lord your God, in the spiritual sense of
these words, denotes a dangerous desire on the part of someone, who is
tempting Me, to become such a god himself/herself. To desire that leads
straight forward into the establishment of the pseudo-life of the negative
state. Thus, in My case, by refusing to follow the demand of the devil to
throw Myself down, I refused the entirety of the negative state and all
aspects of its pseudo-life. By that fact, I clearly refused to acknowledge
the reality of the pseudo-being and pseudo-existence. At the same time, I
established the second most important condition under which everyone
could come out of the negative state — “do not tempt Me and accept the
Absolute Reality of Who I Am and what My True Nature Is.” By
accepting that, together with the first condition outlined above, you will
free yourself from the illusions of the pseudo-life of the negative state.
On this note and with this understanding the negative state left Me
alone for the time being, as depicted in verse 13.
Verse 13: ‘Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed
from Him until an opportune time.’ As you see from the content of this
verse, there were many other temptations to which I was subjected at
that time. The reason why they were not included in the above quoted
text, or in Matthew’s text, was that they were of such a nature that they
could not be described or understood in any human language or
expression. Also, as you see from this text, the indication was that My
temptations by the negative state were only the beginning and that there
would be many more opportune times for these types of temptations to
take place — which they did. As you know, the last temptation that I was
subjected to was the temptation on the cross. During that time, My
Divine was in the most remote position from My human which would
allow Me the experience of human death or the death of the human
physical body. It was at that time that, paradoxically speaking, the
negative state placed itself in a position of total defeat. The forces of the
negative state assumed that by killing My human physical body, they
had Me and that I was defeated. Just the opposite was true. By doing
that, they made it possible for Me to enter their domain from the least-
expected position, but the only position which would enable such an
entrance to happen — the human position. As you remember, they
assumed that if I was the True Son of God, such a thing as human death
could never happen to Me. Therefore, in their boastful spiritual
arrogance, they entirely missed My need to undergo such a process.
On the other hand, if I were not to die physically on the cross, but remain
alive, the negative state could never be eliminated and, in some ways, it
would ultimately win its case in a permanent, and not only in a
temporary, fashion. This was the paradox of that situation. For the forces
of the negative state My physical death was their alleged winning over
Me, while the opposite was true — it was their total defeat.
Talking about the cross and the symbolism which it represents, brings us
to the question which was raised by Edmund Heine, Jr., our architect,
and as reiterated by Lyudmila Savelieva. What was the significance or
symbolism of the cross? The reason why I had to die on the cross was
extensively explained in Update 9 in the Corollaries... . It would be
unnecessary redundancy to repeat it here. The question is about the
meaning or symbolism of the cross.
The word ‘cross’ has many meanings. First of all, it is a mechanical
construct used in ancient times for execution of criminals. This type of
execution was widely spread during the Roman Empire’s rule. In this
sense, the cross has a purely negative connotation. It symbolizes crossing
over someone or nixing one’s life or making one’s life unbearable,
torturous and full of suffering and misery. Thus, in this sense, the cross
also symbolizes the nature of the negative state which, by crossing over
the positive state, killed its impact and influence on anyone who resides
in the negative state, and by that factor, it made the negative state
nothing but a life of death, misery, suffering, pain, torture, discomfort,
nastiness, burden, and all other adverse states and conditions,
unthinkable in the life of the positive state. The cross is an embodiment
of such pseudo-life. My dying on the cross symbolizes My dying from and
for the negative state and from and for the negative aspects of human
life. In a deeper spiritual meaning, because the cross represents the
entirety of the despicable nature of the negative state, My dying on the
cross symbolizes taking upon Myself all consequences, results and
outcomes of the activated negative state for the purpose of its final
elimination. Do you remember what was said about it in one of the
previous Dialogs? In order to conquer and, subsequently, to eliminate the
negative state, you have to include its content into yourself first. That is
to say, in order to deal with the negative state effectively and
successfully, you have to enter its very center, or its very pseudo-within,
and from that position, by taking upon yourself all its results, you are
able to accomplish your goal. To repeat it again: You cannot do it from
outside of the negative state. And this is what one of the true
significances of the cross was.
Another meaning of this word is to cross something, or being on a
crossroad or bearing your cross patiently. In the first instance, to cross
something means to end anything old, previously functional and alive,
and to begin something new and different. Being on the crossroad means
to face an important decision of your life. It also indicates the need to
make choices which will determine the outcome of your further
development. In all these meanings, the cross is always symbolizing the
ending of something, or dying of something and the beginning of the new
and different of something.
To bear your cross patiently symbolizes your agreement to enter the
negative state and its human life, and taking upon yourself a difficult
and almost impossible task of surviving in it without succumbing to its
temptations.
As you know, Christians adopted the symbolism of the cross in all their
religious rituals. If you take into consideration a totally negative
connotation of the symbolism of the cross, which indicates nothing but
misery and suffering, then their preoccupation with it denotes
reaffirmation of the rule that the negative state has over them. The
Catholic church is particularly preoccupied with this aspect of My life on
plant Zero, making the depiction of My life in such a manner that it
emphasizes its defeating aspects. After all, if you concentrate only on
misery and suffering, or in My case, on the passion of the cross, which
was the most painful and negative experience, you concentrate on the
negative state only and how it rules or has ruled your life. In that case,
you disregard any positive connotation that your life has and that its
ultimate outcome is your winning over the negative state. So, because of
this kind of significance of the term ‘cross,’ you are advised not to be
taken in by anything it symbolizes and represents. To do that means that
you are functioning from the position of the negative state. As My true
representatives, you are to function only from the position of the positive
state. That position does not include any sense of suffering, misery, pain
and similar negative characteristics with which the life of humans and
the creatures of the negative state are imbued.
Peter: Thank You very much for this elaborate explanation and
elaboration. Is there anything else that You would like to talk about
today?
The Lord Jesus Christ: There is one brief comment about Dan’s
concerns over the word ‘titration’ used in the Fourth Dialog. That word is
included and defined in any regular Webster College Dictionary. In our
case, the word ‘titration,’ in the connotation of the mentioned Fourth
Dialog, signifies redistribution or measuring out of a certain amount of
the available energy, or whatever, in order to adjust it to the level of the
needs and ability to absorb and to utilize it in accordance with the
unique individual and personal characteristics of each sentient entity. It
is not necessary to make any amendment to that text because every
reader should be in a position of active and independent exploring,
searching, pondering and figuring out by themselves what it means.
Spiritually, it is not always proper to regurgitate food for people and feed
them into their mouths as the case is with infants. They are not infants.
Sometimes, to make things too easy for people is to make them too
dependent on someone else’s explanation, preventing them from doing
the exploratory work on their own. It can take away or suffocate
incentives to proceed on their own in figuring out the meaning of such
words from the context of any such statements in which these words are
being used. We cannot support the establishment of a situation which
would foster such dependencies. In that case, they would be in danger of
being under the influence of the negative state. I can assure you, Peter
and Dan, that the use of such ‘unusual’ words on My behalf has a deeper
meaning and significance. Even if it is sometimes difficult to understand
their proper meaning, they are used with a well-intended purpose. I am
humbly advising you to get used to this necessity. And this is all that I
had to tell you today. We can finish for now. I wish you all a very
pleasant time.
Peter: Thank You so much for all this input and for being patient with
our human limitations.
Source: DIALOGUES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST PART 1.
