To read aloud
NINETY SEVENTH DIALOGUE
August 25, 1999
Peter: For a few days now I have been thinking about the issue of
temptation as related to us, Your representatives, and whether there are
some hidden or more subtle ways to be tempted by the forces of the
negative state than by the obvious ones. The way I see it, the problem
with the possible hidden forms of temptation is that we would not be able
to see them as such or we would simply overlook them or consider them
harmless. Is there anything to my concerns in this respect? I also have
another question but before going into it or before answering my present
concerns, I would gladly yield to You to talk first about anything You feel
needs to be brought to our attention at this time.
The Lord Jesus Christ: Thank you, Peter, for your kind offer. The only
thing I would like to briefly touch upon is the striking difference in
attitude, behavior and the way My representatives with whom you met
in Europe, Peter, accept, relate to and practice My New Revelation as
compared with those in this country; and upon the possibility that some
of them in this country might feel hurt by such a comparison because
within themselves they don’t feel that way or perceive themselves that
way. Your comparison in this respect doesn’t denote sweeping
generalizations applicable to all who read and practice My New
Revelation in this country. It is obvious that amongst them there are
vast differences and many levels of relatedness to, acceptance and
practice of anything contained in all sources of My New Revelation.
The issue here is not judging anyone, or demanding anything from
anyone because, after all, whatever attitude and lifestyle one prefers to
have or exhibit, it only means that it is the way such a person should be
by his/her own free will and choice. So, it is not as if we are imposing
anything on anyone. The only thing that needs to be concentrated upon
— and this is only a humble suggestion — is careful examination of
priorities of anyone’s everyday life. What are the preferences that one
has? To what extent is one in control of one’s life? Who or what is the
ruling force in one’s behavior, attitude and lifestyle in general? What is it
that one considers to be the most important thing in one’s life? To what
degree are the true Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and all their
exquisite attributes, contained in and an integral part of all decision-
making processes of one’s everyday life? Are the principles of My New
Revelation the most cherished and most desirable factors of one’s life,
being on the top of the mentioned priorities? Is there a congruence and
balance between intellectual, rational, logical and by reason of
acceptance of those principles and the emotive, intuitive, behavioral and
relational factors of one’s everyday life? In other words, what is the
degree of agreement between your head and your heart — symbolically
speaking? Is the content of My New Revelation in all its sources
considered to be only a nice and beautiful decoration or construct that
pleases one’s external intellectual thirst or curiosity or is it a matter of
life and everyday living? What are the motivational and intentional
factors that establish one’s need to be involved with My New Revelation
in the first place?
These are very important questions that everyone connected to My New
Revelation, no matter where and to what degree, needs to carefully
explore and consider. Why is it so? Why is this emphasis on the need to
reevaluate where each and every one of you is in this respect at the
present time? And why is it that we are bringing to your attention the
factor of striking differences between how you, Peter, experienced My
people during your visit in Europe and how you experienced My people in
this country — at least up to the point of your departure to Europe?
As you know, nothing is by coincidence. Certain things, at certain times
need to be brought to everyone’s attention in order to insure the right
direction by which the spiritual development of everyone is proceeding,
bringing it in congruence with the nature of the new phase which is in
the process of its establishment within the ongoing shift.
As you remember, you were told several times in the preceding Dialogs
that you have entered very dangerous times, which require from you very
serious efforts of adjustment and changes in all aspects of your internal
life and consequently in your external life as well. The forces of the
negative state have established full control on this planet. Their all-out
effort is toward elimination of anything positive and good or of all
remnants of the positive and good contained in humans. Because of this
effort, they will make all kinds of attempts to target you — My
representatives, in order to sway you to their side so that you would be
supporting their cause and not My cause and the cause of My New
Revelation. Because of the tremendous degree of protection and
insulation that you have from Me, they are incapable of hurting or
harming or destroying you in any manner and way. In some way you can
say that it would not be profitable or desirable for them, especially for
the renegades, to kill you or eliminate you or to make you impotent in
your activities, as to tempt you to succumb to their cause. They would
like nothing better than to reconvert you to the negative state because if
they were to succeed in this respect, it would give them such a boost and
so much positive and good energies that it would reinforce all their
positions and they would become much more powerful and effective in all
their undertakings. Should anything of that nature happen, it would
extend the pseudo-life of the negative state indefinitely, or at least, for a
long period of time.
Now, this is the major reason, why the forces of the negative state, at
this junction of their functioning, are making and will be making an all-
out effort to corrupt you, to tempt you and to convince you by all possible
means about the virtue and goodness of their cause. For that reason, in a
subtle and almost imperceptible way, the forces of the negative state will
exert influence on your mind and your preferences, as well as on
seemingly unimportant things and negligible details of your everyday
living so that they can get you in such a way that you would not even
know about your falling into their traps. In this case, you would have all
kinds of plausible justifications why you are the way you are or behave
the way you behave or relate the way you relate. And not only that, but
in that case, there would be a tendency to seek inappropriate
confirmation and justification of your attitude or whatever it will be, by
the principles of My New Revelation. You would think and feel that all
aspects of your life, your attitude, behavior, relationships and actions are
in agreement with the principles of My New Revelation while, in reality,
they would be in total opposition to them. The blindness on your part in
such a case would become complete.
This is a serious trap. And this is a serious warning to all of you. To
repeat again: The current situation on your planet and in the pseudo-
worlds of the negative state, to which you have proximity and connection,
is very serious, volatile, dangerous and unstable. For that reason, what
used to be harmless, acceptable and tolerable is no longer so.
Unfortunately, in most instances, there is a tendency to continue in
considering them harmless, acceptable and tolerable. Don’t ever forget
about the progressive and, in the negative state, regressive mode of
spiritual and/or pseudo-spiritual development. This means, and we are
repeating this numerously, nothing is the same today, and I can assure
you that nothing will be the same tomorrow. This is the reason why you
were advised to continuously explore and examine your lifestyle, your
priorities and preferences in order to discover what it is in your life and
attitude that needs to be transcended or entirely eliminated. By doing
that, you would bring yourself into alignment with constantly happening
changes and the progressive mode of the spiritual life.
Your energies, which you continuously discharge by your daily activities
and seeming inactivities (during sleep and rest), are very much needed
for the cause of the positive state, that is to say, for My cause. However,
the same energies are desperately desired by the negative state likewise.
So, you will be, and some of you already are, experiencing tremendous
pull and tension in this respect as the efforts by the negative state to
utilize your energies for its cause are being tremendously applied by all
available means. Under these conditions, your attitude, your
relationships with each other, your mutual support, help, interactions,
cohesiveness, combinations of your specific and unique energies from
your own level; your mutual love and respect; your mutual acceptance of
the way each and every one of you is; your care for each other; your
tolerance of each other; your understanding of each other; your openness;
your devotion to My cause and My New Revelation; your mutual
socialization for the purpose of combining, amplifying, multiplying and
conveying your unique and specific energies to the positive state or to the
Great Alliance, as well as for the purpose of mutual encouragement,
verification, checks and strengthening of your positions, your roles and
your standing in My cause, all these things are extremely important
under the presently existing conditions in all worlds and pseudo-worlds
and on your planet.
For this reason, it is no longer appropriate to isolate yourself from each
other or to avoid each other, as the situation has been in some cases until
now, because by continuing in that mode, you are inadvertently
supporting the cause of the negative state by not combining your unique
and specific energies with the unique and specific energies of My other
representatives.
However, this requirement can be true only and only under one
condition: The purpose, the motivational and intentional factors for such
meetings have to be only and only for the above mentioned reasons and
for nothing else. Such meetings shouldn’t be taking place for idle talks
about nothing, or about your pets, or things that have no obvious
meaning and significance. In that case, meetings of that nature would
serve the cause of the negative state and would have no positive
meaning. Just the opposite: They would contribute to discord, which you
have been occasionally experiencing in the near past, and to the
exhibition of your ego states which would widely open the doors to
temptation by the negative state to enter you.
And this discourse brings us directly to answering your question, Peter,
about the possibility of some more hidden or subtle temptations and
influences by the negative state on you. As you remember, you were
warned that the renegades will be seeking all kinds of means by which
they could influence you, impede you and utilize your energies for their
cause. It is not necessary to repeat here the obvious modes of
temptations by the negative state which were outlined to you in one of
the previous Dialogs. In the Eighty Fifth Dialog we mentioned how your
domestic pets could be utilized to rob you of your energies and sidetrack
you from your proper functioning during which your energies are needed
somewhere else. In the Eighty Second Dialog we indicated to you how
sexuality could be used for this adverse purpose, and how tempting it
would be for you to get sexually involved with someone who is not related
in any way to My New Revelation.
At this time I would like to bring to your attention another possible form
of temptation which is not as obvious as others. In fact, it looks and feels
very harmless and it would never occur to you that it could be just the
opposite: It could pollute, contaminate and confuse your mind and lead
you astray from the Truth of My New Revelation. As you know, in the
last few years, a plethora of all kinds of pseudo-spiritual books and
writings appeared in your bookstores. Among them are books which
became bestsellers and which are read by millions of humans. Although
we have already touched upon this subject previously, it is very timely to
reiterate it again, because there is a tendency on your part to
conveniently forget about it. Don’t forget that the negative state very
much tries to influence your memory so that you wouldn’t remember too
much about warnings which were given to you in this and any other
respects.
Whereas in the past, up to this point, to the point of the currently
ongoing shift, reading of such books could have been considered
harmless; at the present time, these types of pseudo-spiritual books and
writings, have become a potent tool in the hands of the forces of the
negative state to tempt you by their content and what they convey to
humans. As you noticed, Peter, some of My representatives in Europe
and possibly in this country are curious about the content of such books
and are eagerly reading them without realizing the tremendous danger
that they are exposing themselves to by such reading. The fascination
may come about by finding some statements in those books which are in
seeming agreement with that which is contained in My New Revelation.
And this is a dangerous trap. Some of you have forgotten what we said
about this situation previously. It was said that the negative state will
include in its pseudo-spiritual books some ideas of The New Revelation
or some seeming truths which sound as truths in order to catch the
reader in accepting the rest of the falsities.
What you have to understand in this respect, is that any correct or
truthful ideas, if they are wrapped in distortions and falsities, because
they are approached from the position of the negative state and not from
the position of the positive state, become useless and ineffectual in their
impact or influence on anyone’s mind and life. The combination of right
ideas with the wrong ones, from the position of the negative state,
contaminates the rightness of the right ideas making them the property
of the negative state. Then the negative state utilizes them for
confirmation and support of its own wrong, distorted and false ideas. Do
you remember the symbolism of the barrel of brimstone and the honey? If
you put a spoonful of honey into a barrel of brimstone, the brimstone
absorbs the honey, stripping it of all its positive and useful properties.
The honey will no longer be honey but, for all practical purposes, it will
become an integral part of the brimstone, thus, supporting the properties
of the brimstone. On the other hand, if you put a spoonful of brimstone
into a barrel of honey, the brimstone spoils all properties of honey so that
the honey could no longer be used for any good purpose.
This analogy shows you clearly to what the combination of some positive
and right ideas with total distortions and falsities leads. So, during your
reading of such pseudo-spiritual books, if you begin to admire how many
good and positive ideas they contain, by the factor of their absorption by
the distortions and outright falsities, you are supporting the negative
state. And not only that, and this is very important, in the process of
reading such books, all your unique and specific energies, as you were
admiring and accepting those so-called right ideas, are being transmitted
to and utilized by the negative state instead of going to the cause of the
positive state and the Great Alliance. At the same time, by this factor,
you opened the doors widely to the negative state to tempt you. Don’t
forget one important thing: By reading such books, in the process of their
reading, you wasted very precious time which could have gone to the
cause of the positive state. All that time went to the benefit of the
negative state. In that case, the negative state got you and you can
expect, if you continue in such activities, that your life will be influenced
not by Me but by the negative state and the renegades in particular.
The problem with this situation is that, under the influence of the
negative state, you will begin to justify and rationalize your needs and
desires to read such pseudo-spiritual books and to consider their value
for your own spiritual progression. In that case, I can assure you that you
will not go along the line of spiritual progression but along the line of
spiritual regression.
Now, all these things are very important warnings in order to let you
know how volatile and dangerous the current situation is. You have been
warned about this situation previously but, nevertheless, for your own
good, it was necessary to repeat this warning in an even stronger degree
than ever before. It is for your own protection and safety. Of course, as
always, by your own free will and choice, you may disregard this warning
and continue in any way you wish in this, or any other respect.
This warning doesn’t at all mean that you are prohibited from reading
any books. You can read anything you wish. However, always consider
the spiritual ramifications of such readings and how you are being
influenced by the content of the books read. To be informed about
something and to admire and accept that something, are totally different
things. Remember that!
Another problem and/or temptation which can occur in the lives of My
representatives in this respect is through their spouses who are not
readers and followers of My New Revelation. You were surprised, Peter,
by how many couples in Europe whose spouses not only don’t read and
accept My New Revelation but, in all their fanatical zeal, are almost
violently against it. Some other spouses, who are not for or against it, but
maintain some kind of neutrality, are reading everything else but My
New Revelation. The possible subtle and imperceptible influence of such
spouses on the readers, followers and practitioners of My New Revelation
— My representatives, could be very much present.
At this point in time, when the negative state is in the position in which
it is — a very dangerous and volatile position — it could very effectively
use your non-reading and non-accepting spouses to undermine your
works that you do in My services. It is conceivable that in order to keep
some degree of external peace and harmony, there could be a tendency to
compromise or to yield in many ways to one’s spouse’s demands or
impositions. Or, in order to please one’s spouse, you would go places, or
do things, or read his/her books or do some other things with your spouse
which would be spiritually dangerous for you and which would easily
sidetrack you from the path of your spiritual progression and thus, from
being My representatives. In that case, all your energies, which are
needed for the positive state, would go into support of the negative state’s
causes.
Another form of possible temptation, that some of you may face, came
about not so long ago. It relates to the appearance of, and presently
widely used, Internet. As you know, the Internet became one of the major
sources of all kinds of useful, useless and, in some cases, totally
dangerous information. Presently, the negative state can and may utilize
this tool for entrapment of My representatives. If you spend many hours
a day exploring the Web, so-to-speak, and if you read all kinds of
information which it contains, and if your purpose of being on the Web is
nothing else but useless intellectual curiosity and a time-killer; or
endlessly, hour-by-hour, playing games on it or on your computer in
general; or if it is for the purpose of avoidance of everyday pseudo-reality
of your individual life, or boredom; then you have wasted your energies
in the services of the negative state. Instead of devoting your time to My
New Revelation, or to finding and establishing better ways to practice all
its principles in your own individualized and personalized lives, or on
some other more useful activities, you have wasted your precious
energies for hours and hours on doing something which has ultimately
little meaning and significance. So much time, so much energies were
devoted to something which has no relevance to the needs of the positive
state and to the needs of your own spiritual growth and progression. In
this case your unique and specific energies were depleted with very little
left of them to be utilized in the services of the proper and positive cause.
And this is exactly what the forces of the negative state are after. If they
cannot utilize your unique and specific energies for their own adverse
purposes and needs, at least they can trap you into wasting your energies
somewhere or on something else instead of on the positive state so that
very little or almost none would remain that could be utilized in My
services and for the Great Alliance. Do you see the many possibilities
how the negative state could utilize so seemingly harmless and, in some
instances, even useful tools such as the Internet could be? The
sophistication of the negative state in this respect and the many ways it
can trap you into wasting your precious unique and specific energies on
something which would make it impossible for you to give them to the
proper causes, is very much advanced and potent.
Of course, this statement does not mean at all that you should avoid
going online on the Internet. What it means however, is that, before
going online, have a very clear outline and understanding of the purpose
with which you want to do that so that you go straight to the area of your
particular interest or information-gathering without wasting your time
on useless browsing — this way or that way or without reading all kinds
of junk with which the Internet is so abundantly infested.
As you see from these examples, there are two ways by which the
negative state can and may rob you of your precious unique and specific
energies. One way, which is the most preferable and desirable for the
forces of the negative state, is to utilize them in their own services or for
their own purpose. The immense significance and usefulness of your
energies, the energies of My representatives, in their own cause could
have a tremendous compounding and reinforcing effect and a most
beneficial result on their position. You have no idea whatsoever what it
means for the negative state to have your energies — the energies of My
representatives. Bear in mind please, your energies are very unique and
very different from all others who are not My representatives. In the
negative state they are valued as the most precious, most valuable, most
desirable life-giving and life-supporting commodities which are
desperately needed for the maintenance of their own pseudo-life. By the
means of your energies, their pseudo-reality becomes more real to them
than otherwise would be the case and they could continue in their
negative efforts much more effectively and successfully with your
energies than with anyone else’s. Such is the quality and nature of your
energies. This is the reason why the negative state, in its present
condition, will be after your energies so much. And this is the reason why
so much warning is extended to you in these Dialogs so that you take
heed and recognize the dangers you are facing in this respect.
The other way of the negative state’s interference with conveyance of
your energies to our cause is less preferable and desirable by its forces
but, if nothing else would be available to them then it could be utilized
also because it would serve their purpose indirectly. If the forces of the
negative state could succeed in redirecting your energies to something
else which would be neither positive nor negative, in that case, it would
be also welcomed by them because it would considerably weaken the
position of the positive state on this planet as manifested in the lives of
My representatives. In this case, your energies would be going neither to
the positive state nor to the negative state, respectively. They would be
totally uselessly wasted.
As you see from these facts, your responsibilities as My representatives
on planet Zero are great. And the importance of your roles and positions
is incalculable and immense. Up to this point you have not known what
you have and who you are and how important your energies are for all
concerned. It is time that you know this, recognize this and accept this.
Again, remember that!
Of course, recognizing and accepting the importance of your roles,
positions and the qualities of your unique and specific energies puts a
tremendous burden of responsibility on your shoulders. Also, presently, it
exposes you to the greatest possible degree of temptations by the
negative state by all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious means, ways
and tools so that you could be swayed, if possible at all, to the cause of
the renegades or, at least, if nothing else, to no one else’s cause.
These are some important warnings for these times and situations. Of
course, there are many other possibilities that could be utilized by the
negative state to tempt you and to sidetrack you from your being My
representatives than just the ones mentioned above. Most of them
however, could be very much specific to your own individualized and
personalized life and to your own unique position, role and connection to
other dimensions that you have. These types of possibilities need to be
discovered by the process of your own self-exploration, self-examination
and intuition and by asking Me to help you in this process. To repeat
again: It is always a good policy to turn yourself to Me and ask Me about
what would be, in your particular case, proper or improper for you to do,
or how to behave, how to relate, what to read or not read, what to have or
not have, etc. By doing that, you will never go wrong.
As you see, Peter, and all who read these words, this Dialog was entirely
devoted to some very timely and practical issues which need to be taken
into consideration by all readers. Temptations could come in many
subtle, imperceptible, hidden, secretive and disguised ways. The most
favorite ways by which the negative state likes to induce them are under
the umbrella of their being beneficial, positive, useful and good.
Remember that!
Although from the position of the positive state you live in the world of
illusions, appearances, and non-reality, from the position of your human
nature, everything is very much real and tangible. So are or will be all
your temptations. In order to give the readers time to ponder about the
content of this Dialog, I would suggest to finish it for today and resume
our dialoging some other time. In the meantime, have a very nice day,
Peter.
Peter: Thank You very much for this timely and very current reminder.
Source: DIALOGUES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST PART 1.
