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MESSAGE TWENTY-SIX
ON THE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF A NEGATIVE STATE. ON THE INAPPROPRIATENESS OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING OF CERTAIN LIFE EVENTS
April 26, 1982
The following messages have been received today from the Most High.
Two issues will be considered today.
First, in “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality” it is mentioned that
the negative state is a local and not a universal occurrence, confined and
limited to this Solar System only and specifically to planet Earth (not
counting the Hells in the spiritual world of humans from Earth).
This statement must be understood in the following manner.
On planet Earth the negative state and its consequences exist in an
activated, dominant and Earthly-life pervasive manner. There is nothing
here that is not contaminated in one way or another by the negative
state. Planet Earth and all people on it have been assigned to the
negative state for this specific purpose, as pointed out in “Fundamentals
of Human Spirituality”.
On the other hand, everywhere else in Creation, the negative state
does not exist in the state and process of activation, domination and
pervasion. Instead, it exists in the state and process of suspension,
potentiality, harnessing, dormancy, restriction and subserviency to a
good and positive purpose. It is like a caged animal which is docile and
well under control without any danger of striking out and hurting
anyone.
The reason there is a need for the awareness of the negative state all
over Creation is because the opposite of goodness and truth must be
constantly present everywhere in order to preserve the freedom and
independency of all sentient entities. Without a reminder of the
possibility of negative existence, no opposite choice would exist. That
would violate a fundamental principle of any sentient life’s existence and
being — the principle of choice to reject or accept the Most High and the
positive state. How else could one choose something which is different
from the positive state?
Now in order that all Creation might have a concrete knowledge of all
the consequences of choosing the negative state, planet Earth and its
people were designated for the demonstration of such consequences. As
pointed out in “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality” all Creation
continuously benefits from the negative experiences of the people on
Earth. Therefore, it is not necessary for the negative state and process to
be activated and to be in a dominant condition elsewhere in Creation.
The benefit of such an experience is available, of course, through all
modes of being and existence and is captured also in the discrete and
simultaneous levels of synchronicity of time and space. For that reason,
it is available for learning everywhere and at all times in Creation
from eternity to eternity without exclusion. Thus people in different
cycles of time, both in the absolute past and in the absolute future, and of
course in the present (from the view point of linear time-space
continuum) in all levels, dimensions, degrees, steps, states and
conditions, by virtue of this principle, are able to benefit from the
experiences of consequences of the activated negative state and process
on planet Earth. (For a better understanding of the concept of
discreteness of time see the message of April 20, 1982.)
The other important reason why the negative state is present in the
form of potentiality everywhere in Creation, although never activated, is
because of the nature and structure of the universe and sentient entities.
The lack of anything negative can be conceived only in an absolute
state, condition and process of positive. In other words, only the Absolute
positive State and Process can be entirely free from anything negative.
The meaning and content of the words “absolute positive” denote that
nothing of the negative may or can exist in it. Otherwise it would no
longer be completely absolute and positive. But “absolute positive” also
denotes that it cannot be created or originated, for it must always be and
exist without any time and space, but also in time and space apart from
it; otherwise it would no longer be absolute. Therefore such an absolute
positive state must be uncreated. Only the Most High is and can be in
such a condition, state and process. For that reason only the Most High
is the One Who Is Absolutely Positive and, therefore, without anything
negative within Himself/ Herself.
On the other hand, all else in Creation is created and originated from
the Absolute. By virtue of this fact, all else created and originated cannot
be absolute but only relative to that absolute. The nature of being only
relative includes in itself the potentiality of having an experience which
is different from the absolute positive; hence, the possibility of the
negative state’s existence. Whatever is not from the positive, is not
positive and therefore, is negative. Lack of something, no matter what it
is gives an impetus for starting something that will compensate for that
lack. In this case, lack of the experience of being in an absolute state,
condition and process gives one an opportunity to start an opposing trend
to such a lack. Hence there arise questions on the level of matter, “What
is it like to be without spirituality”, or “What would happen if life could
be explained from any other source but the Most High who is in an
Absolute Positive?” The consequences of such questions were describe
extensively in “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality”.
However, because this situation originated in the relative state, in
temporality of the Creation’s continuum, it does not have and cannot
have an eternal continuation. Only that which originated in the absolute
condition, state and process has and must have an eternal continuation
because it carries within itself all attributes of the Absolute in a relative
condition. The negative state does not have such an origination. It is a
side effect, a consequence of something which is in itself originated. It is
originated in an originated state. Therefore, although created sentient
entities must have eternal continuation by the choice to be relative to the
absolute (see Principle No. 7 of the spiritual homogeneity revealed on
April 3-4, 1982), it does not mean that their various productions must
also have eternal continuation. After all, the negative state was and is
produced from the relativistic condition. It can never originate in the
Absolute Positive. Therefore, it cannot continue to eternity in its
activated and dominant form. Its eternal continuation is possible only as
a potentiality because of what was said above — as a choice and as a
result of lacking the experience of being in an absolute condition.
Because of the temporary nature of the active and dominant mode of
the negative state’s existence, its current manifestation on planet Earth
must end at some time. The point is that the negative state in its active
and dominant mode of existence is not in its natural, normal and right
condition. Its natural, normal and right condition is to be dormant,
suspended and subservient to the positive condition. The reason is that it
is conceivable only by virtue of the positive’s existence. It cannot exist in
itself and by itself as the positive does. It can exist only off the positive’s
existence and energies. Whatever exists in itself and by itself, is always
active, dominant and truly real. Therefore, it is normal, natural and
right. Whatever exists off something, is always suspended, dormant and
subservient to that off which it exists. For that reason, its activation will
always be unnatural, abnormal, artificial, forced and imposed, having no
eternal future in itself and by itself. Its existence is maintained by the
stolen principle of life only.
Because of these factors, the activated negative state is in the process
of constant reversion to its initial, normal and natural condition —
deactivation, dormancy, suspension and subserviency. This is the
condition of the negative state as it exists in the rest of Creation. In the
Hells and on planet Earth the situation is different because here it is
forcefully activated and maintained in an active and dominant mode by
the will and intent of those who, for the time being, identified themselves
with the ideas of an active engagement in the production of evil deeds.
The moment they stop the production of such ideas, the negative state
reverts itself naturally to its original and rightful condition.
Now this unnatural situation with the negative state causes
continuous troubles, problems and miseries for those who keep it in an
activated and dominant mode. The reward for activation of the negative
state is only that which is the natural consequence of the negative state
— misery, troubles, problems, guilt, anxiety, insanity, foolishness,
unconscious processes, ignorance, and many other similar things, the list
of which is endless.
For that reason, people on planet Earth, at one point in time, will
revert to their original, normal, healthy, natural and right condition
which they had before the Fall — suspension, dormancy and
subserviency of the negative state in their lives. The negative state will
revert to its controlled status where it belongs, and there it will be
controlled, harnessed, dominated and tamed, serving the common good of
all.
The Second Note
Once the negative state becomes activated and dominant, its
influences, structures and demands on those who put it in an active and
dominant mode leads them to a certain style of life. The description of
such a lifestyle was given in “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality”.
Under the influence of the dominant negative state, people develop a
tendency to expect certain things in certain ways. All their definitions of
concepts and expectations of how life should be lived or should appear
are saturated, penetrated and determined by the pseudo-principles of the
negative state. In the process of time people habituate to their ill-defined
concepts and style of life and it becomes a part of their genes and
heritage. At one point, they lose all perspective of the possibility of a
content, style of life and mode of living other than that determined by the
negative state. They, in fact, do not want to know anything better. They
become dangerously comfortable with such a situation.
So they define life in certain terms and expect life to be lived in
certain ways which determine (falsely, of course) how a happy, content,
productive, satisfying and fulfilling life should be and is. These
expectations, then, are projected to anything and anyone. They develop
very definite criteria of a happy, productive, healthy, normal, satisfying
and fulfilling life. Whatever deviates from such criteria is considered to
be unhealthy, abnormal, pathological, unnatural, insane and need of
treatment, change or entire elimination.
When people face someone or something that does not adhere to or
meet their expectations of normality, healthiness, etc., they do
everything in their power to change this situation and to force that one to
be like them. They think that such an individual, who differs from their
standards and expectations, must be unhappy, miserable, dissatisfied
and ill.
In many instances, if people cannot, for some reason or another,
succeed in bringing such a person to their standards and norms of living,
they feel badly, guilty and/or a failure. Very often they blame themselves
for other people’s problems or the ways other people function.
Inherent in the activated dominant negative state is a condition of
continuous guilt, accusation, blaming of wrongdoings, false sense of
responsibility for other people’s choices, and similar things. Now, in most
instances, people are totally identified with these miserable conditions.
They think these conditions are a necessary part of a normal life. So they
continuously reinforce and wallow in their feelings of guilt, blame,
projection, introjection, false sense of responsibility for others, and in
self-accusation for other people’s deviations from what they consider to
be normal, happy and healthy.
Most people lost the knowledge and realization (after all, the negative
state is a state of ignorance and unconscious processes) that no one can
and may be responsible for anyone’s life and choices; all who come to this
Earth choose by their free will for some very important spiritual reasons,
known only to their Inner Mind and their Creator, to be and to live life
here in a certain way that may diametrically oppose accepted standards,
norms and concepts of normality, healthiness and happiness. Therefore,
to try to force upon such people changes in accordance with established
standards, norms and expectations may be a gross violation of their
choices and the right to be the way they have chosen by their free will.
A good example of such a situation is the choice to be born mentally
retarded, autistic, with birth defects, with a proneness to develop a fatal
and terminal illness, or similar conditions. Now, parents or guardians of
such people feel badly and guilty about these kinds of situation, very
often blaming themselves or others for such miserable (in their view)
conditions of children and adults. For that reason, they make all efforts
to reverse the situation to their own standards, norms and expectations
of life and living, without realizing that by doing so they may be
destroying an important opportunity for those people and for all Creation
to fulfill their special and important spiritual experience and mission
they have on this Earth by being the way they are. From their
experiences, no matter how painful they seem to be at the time to them
and to others who are not in a similar condition, a very important
universal learning occurs which is invaluable and the lack of which could
have incalculably devastating consequences.
Other problems with similar backgrounds affect people who are
somewhat different from others, but still within the reach of the so-called
reality of everyday living, as defined by commonly accepted standards,
norms and expectations of the majority. However, they feel very badly
about their condition and force themselves, very often under the pressure
of inherent environmental expectations (not necessarily verbalized or
required by anyone else), to seek out corrections of their conditions
despite the fact that, for some important spiritual reasons, they have
chosen to be in that condition during their life span on planet Earth.
Because of that choice, no matter how hard they try to change or to
adhere to the accepted standards and norms of living happy and healthy
lives, they will usually fail or become more ill and unhappy.
This is one of the major reasons why, in so many instances,
therapeutic intervention by psychotherapists and physicians are either of
limited success or a total failure. The percentage of such failures by
human statistics is very high. This creates a very disappointing,
disillusioning and depressing situation for both the patient and the
therapist.
From the spiritual standpoint, the only feasible mode of treatment of
such conditions is in exploration, examination and inquiry into one’s
Inner Mind, and with spiritual advisors and the Most High (who is in the
Inner Mind) for reasons, causes and needs for such experiences and/or
lifestyle or problems, conditions, etc. One may ask the following or
similar questions. Why was such a choice made? What kinds of lessons
are being learned for the personal benefit of the individual and for the
universal benefit of all from such conditions? Has the lesson been learned
and the use of such a condition been derived? Is it time to correct or
rectify this situation? Is the present situation favorable for a change?
Would such a change be beneficial, useful and proper from the
standpoint of the original choice which brought one to this Earth? If yes,
what would be the best possible way to remove these problems and to
restructure one’s style of life? What kind of a fresh choice is necessary in
order to fulfill one’s purpose of being on this Earth? What are the best
possible, the most effective and the most constructive ways for
fulfillment of this purpose? What is the most congruent lifestyle leading
to content, happiness and satisfaction for this particular person? If one
gets answers that it is proper and right to do something about this
situation, one proceeds under the guidance of the person’s Inner Mind
with treatment, always verifying with the Inner Mind that these
procedures are right and proper and building safeguards against
interference from standards which are outwardly accepted and identified
with and norms and modes of living which are imposed on one by
common beliefs as to how one should live.
This is the most effective, humane, individually oriented, original and
creative method of assisting people discover their true life and purpose
because it utilizes the fundamental spiritual principles of life and living.
In cases where one deals with those who are afflicted by retardation,
autism, birth defects and/or terminal illness, where there is no direct,
front access for them to contact their Inner Mind, one may proceed in
contacting the Inner Mind of those who feel responsible for them or their
parents and one may request that the Inner Mind and one’s spiritual
advisors contact the Inner Mind and spiritual advisors of the afflicted
people and pose the above questions. Should the answer be negative
(which in many instances it is) then one may ask the parents’ or others’
involved Inner Mind and their spiritual advisors if it would be proper
and right for them to accept this fact, to adjust to it, to stop blaming
themselves and feeling guilty or to stop blaming God and/or others, and
to discover why they, the parents, etc., chose in synchronicity with their
child, or whatever the case may be, to be the transmitters and tools for
their child to come to this world in a defective or afflicted state. What is
the lesson in it for them? What kind of a purpose does it serve? Has the
lesson been learned? Is it time to remove all of these related problems? Is
it time to proceed to something else? If so, to what and how? And so on.
This is the way a true spiritual treatment should proceed. It never
violates any principles of choices, freedom, independency or a need to be
that way or this way. It never generalizes.
Any other treatment approach is non-spiritual and, from the
standpoint of eternal values and one’s chosen position in the hierarchy of
the spiritual organization at this particular time, is futile and very often
dangerous. The danger of such treatment is frequently not discernible to
anyone as long as one is on Earth in the physical body. One even may
feel cured, happy and satisfied. However, when one enters the spiritual
world the situation could be, for a while, entirely different.
In view of the above-presented facts, one is strongly advised to
disassociate oneself as much as possible from the accepted, outward,
external standards and norms of life and social expectations as defined
by Earth’s dominating negative state. The best possible way to
accomplish this is by daily dialogues with one’s Inner Mind and the Most
High in conjunction with all one’s spiritual advisors in order to
determine these issues properly, correctly and wisely for oneself and for
one’s relationships with others, the Lord, life and all Creation.
In doing so, one is following the spiritual principles of life and living
and one is a truly spiritual person. No other way can lead to real lasting
success.
This is all for today.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
