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October 16, 1999
Peter: Personally, I don’t have any questions this morning. However,
yesterday, later in the afternoon, I received a question from Michael
Maldonado about the nature of ‘desire’ as it relates to Your
representatives on planet Zero and how it compares with desire in the
positive state. What triggers it, etc.? Of course, as always, before
answering this question, if it is appropriate to answer it at all, perhaps
You would like to talk about something else first.
The Lord Jesus Christ: Thank you, Peter, for asking Me to talk first.
Yes, I do have something on My mind which I would like to bring to your
attention this morning as well as to the attention of all readers. As far as
Michael’s question is concerned, although some aspects of it have a
purely individual and personal nature, nevertheless, certain issues,
related to its nature and content, have multiversal implication. However,
before going into discussing the issue of ‘desire,’ something else needs to
be considered.
As you know, a few days ago, you learned about the fact that the
population on planet Zero reached the six billion mark. At the present
time you have on your planet six billion inhabitants. In some sense, this
is a milestone in the history of your planet. Of course, being what this
planet is, and being what it represents in the totality-of-it-all, this
milestone has an utterly and entirely negative connotation. There is
nothing positive about this ‘accomplishment.’ Notice, please, no matter
how many inhabitants die or are taken out of your planet at one time or
another, even during the recently devastating disasters that so often
have stricken your planet, and will be striking more and more, despite
that, your population is still growing and growing. The birth rate on your
planet as a whole still exceeds the death rate many times over. In some
way you may consider this phenomenon as an ominous sign for the
future destiny of planet Zero.
SIf you carefully analyze the nature of the six billion inhabitants, you will
have to come to the unpleasant conclusion that the vast majority of them
are either representatives of the negative state in general or of the
renegades in particular, or humans, transmogrified into such
representatives. So, what is the situation with the presence of My
representatives on this planet? For your information, in a non-
quantitative sense, there are up to seven thousand people on your
planet who are of positive origin or who became positive by conversion to
the positive state. Of this number, the vast majority are My
representatives in a covert manner. They are not overtly connected to My
New Revelation or have the knowledge that they are My representatives.
A very few of this number are My overt representatives because they are
connected, or will be connected to My New Revelation. These people are
scattered around the Globe in such a manner so as to occupy spiritually
very important positions which maintain connection to the positive state
on this planet and thus, enable the function and life of all living on it.
The way you have to understand this statement about important
positions, occupied by them, is not in a political, social, scientific,
economic, industrial or in any other similar sense. We are talking here
about spiritually important positions. It could mean that someone who
is in the lowest or the least significant position socially, politically,
economically or in any other similar way, occupies, at the same time, a
spiritual position which could be or is the most strategic and the most
needed one.
In fact, these most strategic and most spiritually important positions are
very much disguised from anyone in the negative state, including, very
often, from those who occupy them. This non-awareness or disguise is
needed for security reasons. If the forces of the negative state and the
renegades were to know specifically who it is and where he/she is
situated in these spiritually important positions, they would make an all-
out effort to destroy or at least, to undermine anyone who is in this
strategic and crucial position. Little do they know about the fact that if
they were to succeed in their destructive effort, they would also destroy
their ability to function and to exert their dominant influence on those
six billions minus seven thousand.
The corresponding meaning of the number seven in this respect signifies
the total number of representatives of My positive state who are needed
in order to fulfill My purpose and My Grand Plan of salvation of all in the
negative state and on planet Zero by whatever needed and most
desirable means. On the other hand, the corresponding meaning of the
number six in the presently occurring connotation has a hallmark of
being at the point of fulfillment of its purpose for which human life on
planet Zero was allowed to be established. To use biblical terms, this
number has an apocalyptic connotation. Prepare yourself for many
unexpected and devastating things to be happening in the near and far
future. As a matter of fact, as you know from recent events, such things
have already been happening in an accelerated manner.
In this unfavorable situation, no matter how devastating and tragic it
will be or will seem to you to be, as long as you are in a continuous
awareness and contact with Me within you, you will be fully protected
and shielded from anything disastrous happening to you. Now and then
you will experience all kinds of aches and pains or unpleasant mental
and/or physical symptoms, which could be irritating and somewhat
complicating your everyday function; nevertheless, in no way will they be
life-threatening or able to impede or undermine your work for Me in your
function of being My true representatives. In fact, these kinds of
conditions will function as decoys which will be able to sidetrack the
attention of the forces of the negative state from you so that they will let
you alone to stew, in their opinion, in your own ‘misery.’ Under these
conditions, no matter what will be happening, no matter how tragic and
devastating it will be or could be, your duty and responsibility at all
times will be to continue in your current positions, and to behave, act,
relate, share and do everything in such a manner as My true
representatives would and should in accordance with all spiritual
principles as revealed and described in all three sources of My New
Revelation. By doing that, and by striving to live in accordance with
those principles, you will be successfully shielded from any harm of any
consequences of such disastrous events.
The second point that I wanted to bring to your attention is something
which is related to your tendencies to be preoccupied with past events. A
few days ago, you, Peter, received a request to deal with one of such past
events related to a certain person who, in everyone’s view (who knew
that person), abandoned My New Revelation and as a result, severed any
and all connections and/or interactions with all of you or the majority of
you.
There is a considerable spiritual danger in dwelling on that, or any
similar events of the past. Something of that nature happened many
years ago. If anyone continues to dwell on or to be preoccupied with one’s
past, or with one’s past relationships, which are no longer occurring at
the present time, that one is exposing himself/herself to the danger of
being under the influence of the negative state/renegades. Whatever
happened in that past, if you are continuously preoccupied with it means
that you cling to your past, that you are addicted to your past, that you
are being dependent on your past and that you are attached to that past.
In that case, your past inadvertently and negatively influences your
present and will do so in your future. However, the major danger of this
situation is in the fact that it robs your precious and vital life force
energies on something that no longer has any meaning and significance
from the position of the present time or the future time. It is only within
your own subjective mind that such events still hold meaning and
significance. I can assure you that if that were to be the case, any such
events or, in this case, any such relationships, would still continue or
would be in place. But because they are no longer so, it means that their
purpose and usefulness had been exhausted a long time ago and they
would serve no positive, beneficial, useful or desirable purpose at the
present time. And not only that, but they would be damaging and
disastrous to your spiritual, mental and physical well-being.
The problem with these kinds of preoccupations is that, by being and
doing so, you are depleting yourself of important spiritual energies which
are needed somewhere else and not on your preoccupation with,
dependence on and attachments to anything or anyone from your past. If
someone or something is gone from your life, no matter how close,
significant, loving, useful and productive any such relationship was at
that time or seemed to be at that time, that someone or something would
not be in the same position at the present in regards to you or anyone
else who was involved in that situation. Therefore, it is very important
that you let go of everything of this nature from your past. I can assure
you that the renegades want nothing more from you than to be
preoccupied with, to cling to, be attached to and be dependent on your
past. That way all your energies serve their very purpose because all
their hope to succeed in their counterproductive endeavor rests in their
past. They live from and function by the past. On the other hand,
everyone in the positive state lives and functions in the present with
their eyes on the future, leaving behind everything which has been
happening in the past. The motto of the sentient entities in the positive
state is: The past is gone, the past has no place in the present or the
future. To drag anything of the past into the present or future, means to
impede or make it impossible to progress in any significant degree. How
can any proper spiritual progression, betterment, growth and better
productivity of everyone take place, if you were to continue to dwell, be
dependent on and be attached to your past or on someone or something
from your past who/which is no longer with you at the present or in the
future?
It is time that all of you learn to dispense with your past in such a
manner so as to be thankful and grateful for whatever lessons were
provided for your learning by any such past occurrences or your past
relationships, and to move on, by leaving all of them behind. To be bitter,
resentful, disappointed, hurt or miserable about something or someone
from your past relationships, means that within yourself you have not
succeeded in resolving your past. In that case, you are advised to
examine yourself in order to find out, what it is in you that keeps you in
your past, or keeps you clinging, being attached to or being dependent on
your past relationships so that you can get rid of it permanently.
It is a different story if anyone from your past, who abandoned such a
relationship with you, by her/his own free will and choice, would decide
to return to you by the factor of the realization that she/he might have
been sidetracked from My New Revelation and because of that he/she
abandoned any relationship with you or with any of My current
representatives. Such a realization would signify that a new level of
awareness was established within that person and that she/he is now
ready to resume a relationship with you on an entirely different level and
foundation than the case had been before. Even in cases like that,
nothing of the nature of the past relationship which you had would be
renewed or would come into life. Any attempt for its renewal on the same
level and foundation as it had been in the past would end up in a much
worse outcome than it was at the time of the breaking away from that
past relationship. And not only that, but it would be totally and
completely regressive. Due to the fact that the regressive mode is a sign
of dominance of the negative state — only the negative state is in a
continuous regressive mode of its pseudo-life — by returning to the
previous mode of your relationship, you would effectively trap yourself in
the negative state, becoming inadvertently negative. In that case, you
would have lost your status of being My representative and you would be
transmogrified into a representative of the negative state. And I know
you don’t want that to happen.
Because you are My representatives, and because by that factor you are
in the positive state, your lifestyle is to reflect the lifestyle of the positive
state. That lifestyle is never regressive but always progressive. Your
situation and position on planet Zero, under the presently existing
conditions, which are dire, is precarious. You are being watched very
carefully by all. The renegades are trying their worst to find anything in
your life or in you that could effectively sidetrack you from your mission,
role and position. Remember please, they desperately need your energies.
One of their possible modes of stealing your energies is to keep you
preoccupied with and being dependent on your past by all means
available to them. Don’t fall into this trap. You may ask Me, if you wish,
to personally help you to put everything in your past behind you which
exhausted its usefulness and served its purpose. If someone is not in your
life at the present time, but that one was in your life in the past, it most
certainly means that the relationship you had with that person, truly
exhausted its usefulness and served its purpose.
Moreover, any of your relationships, or whatever you have, are based on
the relativity of your nature. It is a relationship of one relative being to
another relative being. Therefore, it doesn’t have absolute validity. This
is very true if you take into consideration an important spiritual fact:
Any relationship which is built on any other foundation but on Me, from
Me, with Me and by Me, does not have any chance of continuing for a
long period of time. Only from the position of the Absolute, which is My
position, may you build a relationship which could have a continuous
usefulness and benefit. Thus, being relative, you cannot build such a
continuous relationship from your own position. What does it mean? If
you lost your relationship with anyone, it only means that you or the
other person or both of you built your relationships not on Me, from Me,
with Me, by Me and of Me, but from yourself or from your relative
condition. In that case, don’t expect such a relationship to last too long or
to have inexhaustible usefulness and benefit.
The problem with the human mind is that it was originally structured by
its fabricators in such a way so as to be historically and perspectively
anchored in its past, deriving any meaning of life from what happened to
it from the time of its birth to its most recent past. This dependency
factor on past events was purposely engrained in human nature in order
to keep humans in spiritual stagnation. Because the truth of the matter
of the positive life and its creative effort depends on a continuous growth,
progression and betterment, in order to activate the negative state and
fabricate a typical human life, it was necessary to recede from this
method of life course. As long as you are progressing, growing and
becoming better and better during each of your tours of duty in various
situations, conditions and life establishments, you are becoming more
and more positive or, to use better words, you are becoming more and
more as and like I am in your relative condition. Under these conditions,
no possibility exists for activation of the negative state. Therefore, it was
necessary to establish a dependency factor on your past history from the
moment of your birth so that your preoccupation with, clinging to,
depending on and being attached to anything which happened in your
personal past would effectively block you from the positive state’s mode
of life. This way, you are effectively prevented from leading a progressive
mode of life.
However, you have to distinguish between two factors in this respect. It
is one thing to cling to, be dependent on and be attached to your past in
such a way that your past is constantly being on your mind, influencing
your spiritual, mental, social or whatever function, behavior or attitude
and preventing you from the needed spiritual growth, progression and
betterment; and it is a totally different thing when you are in need of
assessing anything that happened in your past so that you could learn
your lessons from it, and that you could recognize why anything that
happened to you had to happen that way and what the ramifications
were of any such events for your own spiritual standing and your
lifestyle in general. It is very prudent to undertake such assessment and
analysis in order to determine how those events can be interpreted from
the current position of your life as seen behind the scene and not on or at
it. So, as you see, assessment and analysis are one thing, and clinging to,
being dependent on or being attached to your past is an entirely different
thing. The proper assessment and analysis leads to liberation and
freedom from the negative influences of your past so that everything that
happened in your past is put to rest and the chapter is closed. And this is
the way it is supposed to be. On the other hand, clinging to, being
dependent on and being attached to your past leads to torturous
problems and uncertainties about anything that was going on during
that time. And not only that, but it interferes with your normal, healthy,
productive, creative and constructive functioning at the present time. It
poisons your mind, your behavior, and your self-relatedness and
relatedness to others. It has no meaning and no purpose other than to
keep you in the clutches of the negative state.
Also, don’t forget the many-times-repeated fact that anything in your life,
all your relationships or whatever you had, were either by prior
agreement with Me before your incarnation on planet Zero or were
permitted by Me to happen exactly the way they happened. In happening
that way, they served their purpose and fulfilled their needs. So, in the
process of the assessment and analysis of your past events, you need to
take this factor into consideration and approach it from the position of
recognition that the events of your past gave you a great opportunity to
learn something important and spiritually significant which would
prevent you from falling into any further traps set up by the negative
state and which would enable you to let go of everything which is no
longer useful or beneficial. That way, instead of being constantly
preoccupied with those events, you may be able to derive very much
needed use and benefit from them and, at the same time, you may
become free from their negative influence on your present and future life.
So, whenever you are assessing and analyzing your past events, you are
advised to look upon them in the light of understanding what purpose,
use and benefit they served and how they contributed to your spiritual
growth, progression and betterment and whether, as a result of them,
you were able to become a better human being, more loving, wise, kind,
tolerant, respectful, appreciative, understanding, accepting,
compassionate, empathetic, merciful, forgiving and more and more
yourself in the true essence and substance of your true ‘I am.’ At the
same time you are to recognize the fact that because such events fulfilled
their chosen purpose in your life in making you this better being, they
are no longer needed for you to be preoccupied with. Any further
preoccupation with them would only reverse the process of becoming this
better being. Thus, instead of progressing along the line of the just
mentioned positive attributes, you might become just the opposite of
them. Think about it, and you will see the wisdom of this warning.
Another point to this issue relates to you personally, Peter. Because you
are in the role of the transmitter of My New Revelation, there is a
tendency in some readers to involve you in their personal problems or in
the problems that you might have shared with them in the past. Such a
tendency on their part is being utilized by the negative state to divert
you from your work in My services. In your case, you had resolved those
problems a long time ago. By bringing them to your attention at this
time, a time in which they no longer have any meaning, use or benefit for
you, these people, without being consciously aware, and in some cases,
might be consciously aware (which would be spiritually a very dangerous
situation for them in the case of a conscious attempt to do so), are
contributing to the negative state’s cause by distracting you and your
energies which are needed somewhere and for something else.
Therefore, we would like to ask every reader of these Dialogs, to restrain
themselves, if possible, from bringing their personal problems and the
problems of their past to your attention, Peter, and from asking you to
petition Me on their behalf for helping them with the understanding of
the reasons for their problems and events of their past and for the way to
resolve them and get rid of them. It is neither your duty nor your
assignment to do so. You are no longer a psychologist or a
psychotherapist (a head shrink!) as you used to be in the past. That past
is gone for good and forever from your life. It is the responsibility of every
individual to bring their problems and their past to My personal
attention and to ask Me, by whatever mode of communication available
to them, to help them gain insight and understanding for the reasons of
everything that was happening in their past and to help them resolve
them, to get rid of them, put them to rest or behind them where they
belong and close that chapter in their lives. I don’t mind being a
Psychologist or a Psychotherapist. It is no longer Peter’s role. And this is
true even in those cases in which Peter participated or was present
during the occurrence of such events. However, you may, if you wish,
share your problems and the way you resolved them with Peter or
anyone else of your choice. It is an entirely different thing to share them
than from wanting someone else to resolve your past problems on your
behalf. And this all I wanted to talk about today.
Peter: Thank You very much for this meaningful and timely
contribution. Would You like now to address Michael’s question?
The Lord Jesus Christ: Yes, Peter, briefly and concisely. The issue of
desires, whatever they may be, has, in most instances, a purely
personalized and individualized connotation. The quality, the content
and the purpose of any desire have a different meaning and significance
from one individual to another. They can be very positive or they can be
very negative, depending on the motivational and intentional factors that
are behind any desires. However, there is one important aspect as far as
the genesis of desire is concerned which has a multiversal significance.
We’ll address only this aspect and no others. The others are the
responsibility of every individual to determine what function and
purpose they serve in his/her life. The origin or genesis of desire stems
from My Absolute Nature. What is My Nature in this respect? It is to
unconditionally share what I am and what I have with everyone in being
and existence. My Absolute Desire was to create such beings or sentient
entities exactly for that purpose — to share Myself with them and what
My Absolute Nature contains. Because I created them from Me, by Me, of
Me and by Myself, every sentient entity, by that very factor, contains the
same attributes that I have with the only difference, as you know, that in
them they are relative and in Me they are Absolute. Because of this
structure of all sentient entities, they likewise contain within themselves
constant desires to share what they have, who they are, what their
nature is, as well as all the products of their creative, productive and
useful efforts and endeavors. The reason for this desire is in the fact that
if every sentient entity is inherently and infinitely unique, different and
individual, and if it contains within itself the inherently and infinitely
unique, different and individual element or particle endowed on it by Me,
then, in that case, such a desire to share itself with others fulfills the
requirement of My desire to share Myself with all in an absolute sense.
What you have to understand in this case is that I cannot share Myself
in an absolute sense with any relative sentient entity. Such a sharing
would kill that entity. However, because I created infinite numbers of
sentient entities, endowing them with My various elements and
particles, through all of them, by them and with them, as they share
themselves with all others, during which sharing I am constantly
present, all aspects of My Absolute Nature, as they are redistributed
through all sentient entities, are being shared with all. This mode of
sharing fulfills My greatest desire to share everything that I have and
that I am with everyone. This desire is reflected in all sentient entities to
be with each other, to have each other’s company and to share not only
themselves but all the products of their creative endeavors (art, music,
etc.). This is the way things are in the positive state. And this is the way
things are reflected, or should be reflected, in the lives of My
representatives. Your desire to be with each other, and to share yourself
and your products, whatever they may be, with each other, derives from
this setup. This is the reason why, when you have little chance to be in
the company of My representatives, you feel sad and you desire to be
with them and to share with them everything that you have, what you
produce and how you are. And this is the right way to be or desire to be.
Even creatures in the negative state and humans have a multitude of
desires which stem from the original pseudo-endowment by their
fabricators. Their desires are, of course, in most instances, of negative
nature: to be materially rich, to have power, to be in a controlling
position, to rule, to be superior in comparison with others and have
similar, all negative desires. This was established in opposition to the
way desires are structured in the positive state. And this is all that needs
to be said about this topic. At this point, Peter, I would recommend to
finish it for today and to take a few days break, if needed and desirable.
Peter: Thank You very much for this explanation. It makes perfect sense
to me. I’ll take Your advice and do what You suggested, unless of course,
some questions of multiversal significance will come my way.
Source: DIALOGUES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST PART 2.