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MESSAGE SEVEN
ABOUT LIFE AND ITS MEANING.
MORE ABOUT SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL INTERACTION
March 31, 1982
The following messages have been received today from the Lord.
It is important to realize what constitutes life. What is Life? Religious
people correctly claim that God, Jesus Christ, the Most High, or
whatever name they use, is life. But these names without the knowledge
of what they signify are useless in establishing a proper definition and
understanding of life. For that reason, it will be useful today to elaborate
somewhat on the concept of life.
Life can only be defined and apprehended by spiritual principles and
categories. These basic spiritual principles and categories in a general
sense are Love and Wisdom. In the broader sense, life can be subsumed
under concepts which are known as femininity and masculinity and
everything they represent, and in what they describe and mean.
In these terms, life can be defined as a continuous exchange,
unification, integration, individuation, emanation and transmission of
these principles, categories, and all their derivatives, from eternity to
eternity, with all the consequences of such an activity.
It would be erroneous to assume that these principles and categories
are empty notions or abstract ideas which have no tangibility. As a
matter of fact, they are the only concrete, tangible, factual and actual
reality in being and existence. They are the true essence, substance,
state, process, content and form which is called life. Life without them is
not discernible and/or conceivable. In their pure condition, without a
beginning or an end, they constitute the total true consciousness and
awareness. They are the true content and form in the absolute sense of
what humans call God, the Most High, etc. Therefore the Most High is
the Producer, Sustainer, Maintainer, Unifier, Emanator of Life from
Himself/Herself in the absolute sense, because the Most High constitutes
all these principles and categories in the Absolute State and Absolute
Process. He/She is the very principle and category in itself and by itself.
No other source of life exists. Thus the Most High is truly Life in
Himself/Herself.
On the other hand, sentient entities are receptacles, vessels and
containers of this life in a relative state and process, as Swedenborg so
profoundly and brilliantly pointed out.
Therefore, from the standpoint of sentient entities, their lives can be
defined as a state and process of reception, perception, containment,
assimilation, differentiation, individuation, experience and transmission
of all of the abovementioned spiritual principles and categories in a
unique and unrepeatable content and form for the purpose of reciprocity,
sharing and mutual benefit for all Creation. Creation was, is, and will be
to eternity for this purpose.
Since this life is emanated and transmitted into sentient entities and
to humans from and by the Most High, the Most High is the only possible
life in everyone. Since the reception, perception, containment,
assimillation, differentiation, individuation, experience and transmission
of this life is from and by the Most High, the Most High contains within
Herself/Himself, all the possible infinite varieties and infinite numbers of
uniquenesses in being and existence from eternity to eternity. Thus, in
this sense, the Most High is absolutely a Unique Being and Entity. No
one else was, is or will be from eternity to eternity life and as the Most
High.
The possibility of existence and being of unique and unrepeatable
individuals stems entirely from the Absolute Uniqueness of the Most
High. Therefore nothing in Creation can or may be repetitious. In this
uniqueness is anchored the very principle of life and living. Life can only
sustain itself by its uniqueness and unrepeatability. There is no true life
outside of such a condition.
There are several other points which need to be considered in respect
to the above statements:
1. The reception, perception, etc., of true life is possible only from the
Most High. The Most High directly endows life into its recipients. Any
other ways, modes or methods of producing, sending, receiving,
containing or transmitting life is only by indirect endowment. This
signifies that whatever is is only because the Most High Is. One can take
from that “Is” and produce something that may and can imitate life. But
even this imitation of life is only possible because the Most High Is. No
imitation is possible without that which is being imitated. This is why it
is called life by indirect endowment of the Most High.
2. The pseudo-creators, being originally and in their initial content
and form the direct endowment of life from and by the Most High, were
able to use this principle for the purpose of starting the negative state.
Thus, the negative state starts in the very moment when production,
transmission and reception of life occurs by any other means than by
direct endowment from and by the Most High. Such a methodology
produces a nonspiritual life which is then considered a true life. Hence,
the origination of all non-spiritual principles and categories which lead
toward the establishment of evil in the form of Hell and all other
miseries in existence.
3. The direct endowment of life from the Most High contains within
itself spiritual and practical consequences which can be discerned,
among many other things, by such states and processes as delight,
pleasure, joy, happiness, fun, freedom, well-being, sharing, exchange,
reciprocity, mutual benefit and all other positive values of life. There is
always a desire that everyone share in these exquisite felicities which
constitute the experience of true life. No other meanings or expectations
are imposed or wanted by and from true life.
4. All other ways of living (by stolen principles of life as described in
“Fundamentals of Human Spirituality”) cannot produce in themselves
such pure states and processes as mentioned in point No. 3. They imitate
them. But imitations are not true realities. This is the reason why people
produced by the indirect or stolen endowment from and by the Most High
(through the pseudo-creators’ effort to destroy spirituality) cannot truly
perceive, understand and experience these pure states and processes in
their original content and form. Thus, their so-called joy, happiness,
delight, pleasure, etc., are very shallow, superficial, transient, and
illusive and are soon replaced with disappointment, depression, sadness,
anxiety, worry, restlessness, hopelessness, bewilderment, confusion and
many other similar miseries.
5. Inherent in the other-than-by-direct endowment from and by the
Most High ways of producing, receiving and transmitting life, there is a
constantly nagging, underlying feeling of guilt that permeates and
penetrates everything without exclusion. This is an immanent principle
of the Universal Order from the Most High. It denotes that whatever is
stolen must bear the consequences of such an act. The consequence is
that one does not feel one ever deserved to be alive. But since one is
nevertheless alive, by the principle of the indirect endowment from and
by the Most High (one is only because the Most High Is), one has no
choice but to feel constant existential guilt. Guilt cannot produce
anything joyful, happy, delightful and truly productive. Guilt is,
therefore, a direct result of the negative state of evil and is
counter-productive, destructive, consumes precious life energy to sustain
itself, and is devoid of any true meaning and sense — contrary to some
people’s belief (existentialists). Thus, guilt can produce only misery.
There is no guilt in life which comes by direct endowment from and by
the Most High. To think the contrary means to think from the negative
state, that is, from Hell.
6. As, long as people continue to come to the planet Earth by the
indirect endowment from and by the Most High (as fabricated by the
pseudo-creators), that is, by the animalistic way, they will always live in
guilt and constant misery. In order to reestablish the true principles of
life on this planet, it is first necessary to revert to the original way people
came to this Earth — by the direct endowment from and by the Most
High by spiritual principles (as briefly described in “Fundamentals of
Human Spirituality”). In order for this to happen, it is first necessary to
eliminate the typical human era that resulted from the perverted method
of infusion of pseudo-life in pseudo-humans by the pseudo-creators in the
first place. Only then can guilt and all resulting miseries be wiped out
from the human mind and behavior.
7. In the state and process of life (pseudo-life) that was produced by
stealing, no true and genuine exchange, unification, individuation and
sharing of principles of masculinity with principles of femininity and
vice-versa is possible. The only things that can be exchanged are guilt,
misery, unhappiness and many pretensions that are believed to be
genuine and true feelings and relationships. This is a very tenuous and
illusory base upon which to build human relationships. As the history of
humans on Earth testifies vividly, such relationships can result in
devastating consequences. Whatever results in such devastating
consequences is not from true life. True life always results in creativity
and in eternally productive, constructive and useful endeavors which
produce such states and processes, among other things, as mentioned in
point number 3.
8. In order to eliminate the typical human era, which is a perpetuator
of the negative states of guilt and misery, it is necessary for people on
Earth to come to the realization, recognition and acceptance of the fact
that no one on this planet has any true life in himself/herself, and that
he/she lives by the stolen principles of life as executed by the
pseudo-creators. People on Earth must also realize that they volunteered
from their free will and by their free choice to undergo this experience as
a part of an experiment and demonstration to find out how and what it is
like to be without direct endowment by and from the Most High. The
recognition, realization and acceptance of this fact, together with an
admission of the voluntary status of one’s participation in this
experiment, is the very important first step toward the eventual
elimination of the typical human era on planet Earth. It is also, among
other things, an opening of the door to the true spiritual principles of life
which will lead people toward the discovery of the original, proper, right
and spiritual way of bringing newly-born people into this particular
world.
9. It is necessary to realize again that, since the time when the
negative state came into existence and pseudo-life took hold on this
planet and in the Hells, all efforts of the spiritual principles of life and of
the Most High have been geared toward returning everything alive into
its original state and process of true life. Therefore, whatever has been
happening since the commencement of the negative state here on Earth
and in the spiritual world has been happening and is being permitted to
happen for one purpose and use: reestablishment, return and institution
of true life and all spiritual principles and categories that constitute life
on this planet and in the spiritual worlds of humans from Earth. No
matter how painful, horrid, devastating and miserable these events and
happenings have been in the interim, they served, serve and will serve
the ultimate purpose of true life. They show, among other things, what
true life is not. Being the opposite of true life, the pseudo-life leads to the
full realization and learning of what true life is all about. The style of
pseudo-life of people on this Earth is a living example of this fact.
This is the end of this message.
An additional message from the Most High:
This is to clarify some statements about human sexuality as it exists
presently on planet Earth.
As mentioned previously, sexuality can be properly understood only
from and by spiritual principles. Its spiritual purpose was never meant
for the physical procreation of the human species, as people think. In the
higher, mystical sense, it was meant as a physical manifestation of a
state and a process of exchanging and sharing of all the principles of
masculinity with all the principles of femininity, and vice-versa, for the
purpose of mutual benefit, delight, pleasure, expression of universal love,
and for fun, and in true marital relationships, most importantly, for
unification, integration and individuation.
This meaning of sexuality was lost and, in fact, has been erased from
humans’ minds by the pseudo-creators. Instead, they instituted the use
of sex for the sole purpose of procreation, deleting from it the truly
important spiritual principles mentioned above. They instilled guilt into
people for having sexual desires for purposes other than for procreation
and for having sex with partners other than their spouses. People
became ashamed of their sexual desires, which were viewed as burning,
consuming flames of filthy passion and lust. Of course, this is the exact
consequence of sexuality if it is considered and accepted as animalistic
without any spirituality.
In this connotation, no true sexuality exists nor can exist in humans
as long as the typical human era continues on Earth. To return to true
sexuality and its proper meaning and practice, it is first necessary to
eliminate the human era which is the result of the negative state.
However, bear in mind, it would be a spiritual abomination to assume
that people even now are not permitted to engage in sexual intercourse
for purposes other than procreation, be it with marital partners or other
sexual partners, while married or single. It is not so. Everyone may enter
such relationships if the desire stems from the proper motivation and
good intent: for sharing, mutual benefit, pleasure, delight, and fun, for
enhancement and enrichment of one’s life, and primarily for knowing
oneself, others and the Lord better. There is nothing adulterous or
negative in such an attitude and motivation. The opposite is true: it is a
sign of maturity, true spirituality and the presence of the Lord.
Now, as you know, human sexual organs were restructured by the
pseudo-creators in such a manner as to enable conception of the human
fetus by non-spiritual means (as mammalian animals). This is a side
effect of the existing negative state. As long as the negative state exists,
this physical form of conception will continue.
In order to avoid a population explosion which could result from such
free sexual exchange as mentioned above, it was permitted that physical
means of birth control (i.e. various chemicals in the form of pills, various
mechanical devices, etc.) come into existence. Under the present
non-spiritual condition on planet Earth, the idea of birth control stems,
essentially, from true spiritual principles. For the first time, it led toward
the realization that sex can be used not only for procreation, but also for
other purposes (such as pleasure, fun, delight and similar positive, but
also negative, purposes).
However, as mentioned in the first message today, inherent in the
negative state is the feeling of guilt in being alive. This applies
manifoldly to sexuality as a most tangible, intimate and intensified sense
of being alive (reflected in physical orgasm). Therefore, the use of birth
control devices triggers this inherent guilt which, in turn, triggers
dangerous side effects that these devices have. Thus, the vicious cycle of
perpetual self-punishment is established.
Another problem is that, although the idea of birth control under this
condition stems from the proper spiritual influx, its realization occurred
in the typical external, medical, pseudoscientific way. Instead of using
the available internal device of their Inner Mind, people turned to the
medical, non-spiritual means. Hence, another source of problems, misery
and guilt occurs.
People truly forgot that they have within them an Inner Mind which
contains within itself an excellent means for birth control. They may and
can be in charge of their fertility at any time they wish. Unfortunately,
instead of being dependent on their own inner resources, they rely on
external means which are unreliable, dangerous and frequently
ineffective. This is the result of their non-spiritual condition. They are so
habituated to the external means that all other available ways, more
congruent with spiritual principles, are completely disregarded. They do
not believe in them or they laugh at them. Well, as you know, if you do
not use it, you will lose it. That is exactly what happened to humans.
As you know, there is a diagnostic category in human medical terms
called infertility. It is not an uncommon occurrence in both females and
males. By and large this condition is caused by the so-called mental or
psychological processes (although, in fact, they are spiritual). Something
in a person’s unconscious mind causes this state to occur. In most
instances, and with few exceptions, there are no physical or organic
reasons for this state. All physical or typical medical means to correct
this situation are usually futile. However, as you know, through such
methods as hypnosis, especially spiritual hypnosis, bio-feedback,
meditations, and similar mind control modalities, this condition may, can
be and is corrected permanently.
Now, if people can use their mind for making themselves fertile
again, they may and can use the same mind for birth control. They have
the ability to suggest effectively to themselves to be fertile only when
they choose to be, in accordance with their desire and need to be this or
that way. This method of birth control is spiritually proper, right, and
should be taught, learned and utilized on a widespread basis.
However, a note of warning and caution is in order here. The spiritual
method of birth control through the power of the Inner Mind from the
Lord will work properly only if such an endeavor is undertaken with good
and positive intent, free of guilt and/or free of ulterior motivations. To
use it any other way may compound evil, guilt, suffering and misery.
Therefore, one must first establish within oneself the right spiritual
attitudes toward sexuality and life in general before one may and can
apply this method in one’s life effectively in the process of sexual
intercourse or for some other legitimate reasons.
There is a transcending understanding of this concept of sexuality
which is not discernible as long as one is in the natural state and degree.
Also, the modes of sexual intercourse in the spiritual world are different
from the one known to humans of planet Earth. If proper and needed,
some of these modes will be elaborated upon at the right time suitable for
that purpose.
One more important thing. In order to assume the role of sexuality as
indicated here, one must be free from guilt and misconceptions about it
first. It is advisable not to engage in sexual intercourse with anyone
unless one frees oneself from all misconceptions and guilts imposed by
false religious doctrines, social and pseudo-marital demands and
expectations. Otherwise one will suffer unnecessarily. However, it does
not mean that one will be considered a sinner, an adulteror or a
fornicator should this happen, unless, of course, one engaged oneself in
intercourse for the purpose of hurting, using, abusing, misusing and/or
for purely selfish reasons and ulterior motivation. Therefore, it is
spiritually advisable that one always search oneself in order to establish
what kind of motivation, attitude, need and stance one has about
sexuality, and that one ask the Most High in one’s prayers, meditations
or self-hypnosis (or whatever it is called by humans of Earth) to show
one, enlighten one, and to advise one as to the most beneficial, useful,
proper and right way for all concerned insofar as sexual intercourse and
all other matters of life are concerned.
There is no other practical way to show and to acquire knowledge for
properly practicing human sexuality. It is always between the Lord and
the one who asks the Lord about it. One can never generalize in this
matter.
Therefore, avoid at all costs judging anyone in any respect, but
especially in respect to the ways they practice and approach their
sexuality. If you abide by these rules you will not be judged either.
This is all for today.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
