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MESSAGE TWELVE
ON DIFFERENT EROASES IN THE HISTORY OF THE SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITY
April 8, 1982 in Martinique
The following messages have been received today from the Most High.
It is necessary to realize and to understand that in the process of the
history of mankind’s spiritual development and/or regression on planet
Earth there have been in existence different ideological, doctrinal,
philosophical, metaphysical and conceptual approaches and
requirements regarding the matters of faith, religion, life, mysticism and
similar matters in accordance with the state, condition and process of
spirituality of the different human eras. Different eras required different
spiritual approaches. Therefore, it would be an error to analogize and
generalize from any of them.
In general terms, one could conceive such development and/or
regression in several major steps that very often comprise long historical
eras lasting sometimes for thousands or even millions of years in human
natural terms.
The most initial era, the first, true and genuine mankind in the form
of androgynous people which lasted for approximately twenty thousand
years, represented the fullness of true spirituality. This state can be
characterized by a unique and unrepeatable unity, oneness and harmony
of volitional, rational, intellectual, logical, philosophical, intuitive,
emotional, mystical, esoterical, exoterical, scientific, empirical and all
other spiritual, mental and physical conceptualizations, understandings
and practices of all matters of faith, religion and spirituality. As
mentioned above, in this era no contradictions among various areas
existed.
As spiritual recession began, the shift in this conceptualization,
understanding and practice started to occur.
The next era in mankind’s history, the era of splitting human beings
into two forms — feminine and masculine — began a gradual emphasis
on an external-rational, logical, scientific, empirical, exoterical and
intellectual approach toward matters of faith, religion and spirituality.
The volitional, intuitive, esoterical, mystical, emotional, etc., approach
began to be somewhat underestimated and considered less valid. This
era lasted for several millions of years and ended in the complete
devastation of spirituality and destruction of all approaches. This is the
era of the so-called Fall. The Fall is characterized in general terms by the
perversion of all principles of faith, religion and spirituality in such a
manner that emphasis is put entirely on external, outward sensorial
inputs and outputs with conclusions drawn from externally observable
phenomena and knowledges which have no connection to anything
internal — either purely rational, intellectual, logical, etc., or purely
volitional, intuitive, mystical, etc. This era, the era of the Fall, continued
also for several millions of years and ended with the fabrication of a cave
man, pseudo-humans and the establishment of the negative state in the
spiritual world in the form of Hell. No scientific proof exists for anything
and anybody that existed before this era due to the fact that all traces of
the previous people have been very thoroughly and carefully obliterated
and destroyed by the so-called pseudo-creators. Only some obscure
rumors remained. There are some indirect indications of that era, the era
before the beginning of pseudo-mankind, in the Bible and in
Swedenborg’s concepts. The pseudo-creators sometimes are referred to as
Nephilims, Rephaims, Anakims, etc.
The Post-Fall Era, or the first era in the history of the
pseudo-mankind, is an era of total spiritual ignorance that lacks any
logic, reasoning, rationality, volition, intuitivism, mysticism, faith, etc.
Instead ignorance produces superstitions, fears, unresolvable mysteries,
magic, blind obedience to the external authorities and/or to deities that
are anthropomorphized, naturalized and idolized in external manners.
No concept of free will or free choice enters their mind or is even
conceivable. This is the era of slavery and gross prejudices and biases. It
lasts for several thousand years and ends with the so-called flood.
The post-flood era is characterized by the concept of faith and
obedience from faith. It begins with an historical figure — Abraham. In
this era, one does something because one believes it is right. One does
not know and does not reason as to whether it is right or not; one simply
believes it is right.
The next step in spiritual conceptualization begins with the history of
Israel and Moses’ Law. Here one can see an attempt to return to the
matter of faith by a path of love to God and to one’s neighbor. But this
path can be achieved at this point in mankind’s history by external
means only — external sacrifices and performance of certain external
rituals, ceremonies, prescriptions and total obedience to them as
reflected in the Law promulgated by Moses. No knowledge of symbolical
and correspondential meanings of all these requirements is possible or
available to them.
This era ends with complete profanation of all external requirements
for the spiritual conceptualization and, thus, endangers mankind and the
universe with complete destruction. The problem is that, when people
pervert and profane even the external means of spirituality, all
conjunction and contact with spirituality, from where life flows into the
externals, is lost. Given enough time, this would lead to eternal spiritual
death. Such a situation requires a direct involvement of the Most High.
At this point, the Most High incarnates on planet Earth in the physical
form of Jesus Christ in order to prevent an occurrence of eternal death of
planet Earth’s people and to put an end to the dominion of the
pseudo-creators over the fate of Earth.
Jesus Christ’s era also means a return from external
conceptualization of spirituality to the internals where true spirituality
resides. Therefore, He abolishes all external rituals, sacrifices and
ceremonies and proclaims that God is a Spirit and that the true
worshipper of God worships Him in spirit and in truth. Emphasis is put
on the knowledge of truth which leads one to spiritual freedom. Jesus
Christ also establishes the principle that the greatest law of all is the law
of love, compassion, forgiveness, mercy and understanding. This is the
law that constitutes the true faith and spiritual conceptualization.
Now, for the first time since the history of pseudo-mankind, one is
shown a clear way as to how spirituality should be conceptualized — by
integration and unification of the rational, logical, intellectual mode
(knowledge of truth, exploration of truth, etc.), with the volitional,
intuitive, esoterical, mystical mode (love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness,
etc.). All these concepts, subsumed under the terms of “spirit”, “truth”,
“understanding”, “love”, “compassion”, “freedom”, etc., are reformulated,
restarted, updated and modified by Jesus Christ and are put into
permanent possession of the human treasury of knowledges.
Establishment of this situation assures to eternity that there always will
be a connection and conjunction between the natural and spiritual
worlds by means of such concepts and their spiritual representations, no
matter to what extent people might try to destroy, falsify, pervert or
twist them. Thus, once again, spiritual freedom is reestablished.
But mankind was not quite ready, for various spiritual reasons, to
accept the type of integration brought and established by Jesus Christ.
In order that the knowledge revealed by Jesus Christ would not be
spiritually profaned by people, it was necessary to put limitations,
restrictions and prohibitions on the exploration, understanding and
conceptualization of spirituality by means of logic, reasoning processes,
rationality, intellect and scientifics. Instead, the reign of blind faith in
and obedience to these principles was instituted for many centuries. This
era is characterized by obscurity, mysteries of faith, mumbo-jumbo of
pseudo-metaphysics, etc., conceivable only to and by the select
individuals who dictated and prescribed the type of spiritual thinking
and behavior the rest must have.
The one-sided emphasis on such a requirement became a life
philosophy of the so-called Dark Ages. This period continued until
Swedenborg’s time. From that time until now, mankind has been going
through a transitional period. It is conceptualized by the statement in
Swedenborg’s “True Christian Religion” that now it is permitted to enter
into the mysteries of faith by means of reason, rationality, logic and
intellect.
However, even this great statement indicates, by the word
“permitted”, that it is a dangerous venture to do so and one should be
cautious and suspicious of such an endeavor. This tendency, still to
underestimate somewhat the rational, intellectual, logical part of the
conceptualization of spirituality, is typical of the transitional period —
retention of some traits of the old, acquirement of some traits of the new
with some possible distortions in between. The only way that can and
will lead mankind to the reestablishment of the initial conceptualization
of the new spirituality is an integration, unification, harmonization and
oneness of all approaches by all aspects of the human mind without
exception on an equal basis without any prohibitions, limitations,
restrictions, denial, preferences or exclusivity of one aspect or approach
over another.
This is the reason why the present revelation and messages are
acquired by the combination of logic, reason, rationality, intellect, etc.,
and by transmitting concepts, ideas, thoughts, intuitions, feelings and all
other volitional, intellectual and emotional components of the human
mind. This is a purely rational-volitional-emotive-intuitive-mystical
approach. Such an approach is a sign of the beginning of the new era in
spiritual thinking and acting.
This is the end of today’s message.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
