“We would like to speak to you
about working on the self. Each person has his own scale of worth, his
own
Jacob’s ladder that he climbs rung after rung, however there are paths
in
common which are also unavoidable; it is these unavoidable paths that
we would
like to teach you about. Perhaps we do this at times in an awkward way,
seeing
the difficulty our channel has at finding words for certain concepts,
but
overall we always succeed in one way or another in getting our message
across.
Of course, the ideal would be to unite the consciousness
of your
physical body and the consciousness of the Divine being within you but
there
are many pitfalls along the way; your mind can also succeed in fooling
you,
even when you call upon the presence of the Light and Love; it can
throw you
off track by simply instilling doubt within you and by telling you ‘you
can say
what you want but it will not matter’.
We are speaking about working on yourself because we
would like
you to know yourself well, because it is only when you know
yourself that
you can really advance.
To know yourself, you must listen to yourself thinking,
speaking and reacting to every circumstance, to every external event and this is
very difficult because thoughts flash, words are thoughtless, feelings
are
possessive, and emotions fragile. That is true mastery or self-control.
Self-control, of course, cannot be conceived without
constant
awareness. Self-control also includes control of the physical body,
control of
the consciousness of this physical body. Always remember the
considerable
importance of this machine of total perfection that is your physical
body. Your
Body of Light, your Divine Being, your Presence, no matter what you
call him,
has great power for transformation but your physical body has great
power
for achievement. It is what allows you to experiment.
Your Being of Light does not allow you to experiment life
in
this world; he helps you, he assists you, but he does not intervene in
the
experience. If you call upon his help, he will give it to you insofar
as this
does not prevent the experience or experimentation from being
accomplished, because
it is only through experience that you can understand, evolve, and grow.
Once a large number of
experiences have been lived by the human consciousness, by the
personality, by
the soul, there will be an intervention of the Divine Self, of the
Being of
Light, or the Presence that is within you. As long as certain
experiences have
not been lived by your human being, by your human consciousness, your
Being of
Light will be watching and waiting.
If you speak about the Being of Light to someone who is
not at
all awakened, he will not even know what you are trying to tell him.
You
understand now what it means but ten years ago you did not have the
same
comprehension.
We would like you to understand that evolution takes
place in
steps. You can never make someone understand something he is not ready
to
conceive. Of course, he will have his references, he will advance
according to
his own scale of values but if he does not have the consciousness to
recognize
the truth with a capital T, that which you have perceived or that you
are
beginning to see, this truth will pass him by without affecting him,
without
him being aware of it, just like some truths pass you by without you
being able
to discern them.
You are beginning this great work of awakening but you
are not
completely awakened. Once you are awakened you will no longer ask
yourself
any questions, you will know, nothing and no one will be able to
hold you
back, you will know with accuracy all that you still do not know or
that you
only sense. You will have a vision of life that is completely different
from
the one you have right now. Remember that you have a totally limited
vision of
life, even of your experiences.
We have often said, but you have not really become aware
of it,
that life in matter is the worst of illusions. However, when you live
experiences in matter, often very difficult, you are not under the
impression
of living an illusion, you are sometimes under the impression of living
a
nightmare. When we tell you that life in matter is an illusion it is
because
you do not yet have the consciousness of what life really is with a
capital L,
life in its immense splendor, Life as you will live it once you have
been
stripped of the yoke of your heavy experiences.
Little by little, with words from our channel that are
sometimes
awkward, we nevertheless succeed in bringing you towards another
consciousness
of your existence and of life. We speak of life in its entirety, of
Life in the
Universe, of Life from the Source.
The more you observe your thoughts and your words, the
more you will become aware of your emotions, and of your feelings, the
sooner
you will have a real notion of true life. Of course, your
consciousness opens more every day, but within this consciousness there
are
still large hindrances, large self-questionings, immense doubts. Even
the most
advanced being still has doubts, doubts are a part of the incarnation
of a physical
body, doubts are constantly emitted by the human personality, by the
human ego
because that is its function.
The ego spurs you relentlessly to seek, to transcend, to
advance. This takes place at the level of the unconscious, and is
therefore a
precious tool. Even if it overflows into your life, the more you
discover
its reality, the more you will understand its usefulness.
We are speaking to you about the ego today in a different
way
because it is the timing to do so; it is in fact a key to evolution.
Once you
have understood what your ego creates and what the Divine Being within
you
creates, you can pull the consciousness of the personality and the
consciousness of the ego more and more towards unity. At that time, the
ego’s
role will cease, it will no longer need to act as a spur, it will
itself tend
towards unity, and its role will come to an end little by little; of
its own
freewill and with Love it will dissolve into unity.
What we are telling you is important, it gives a
different
coloring to what you think about the ego and your personality, as all
is useful
in terms of the evolving plan. If it were not thus, you would not be,
in this
incarnation, burdened with this heavy program with an ego and a
frustrating
personality, hindering you in the awakening of your consciousness.
Hindrances
are sometimes extremely useful to advancement; they spur and force you
to
constantly go beyond obstacles, but in order to overcome them, you must
be
conscious of them.
You have become aware of the important obstacle that is
your ego
(your personality) with all that this entails; now you are going to
overcome it
and once that is done, you will realize to what extent this obstacle
was
precious to your advancement.
You, people of the West, function with this intellect,
this ego
that is very powerful. Certain peoples, who have not cut themselves off
from
their Source nor from their terrestrial Mother, any more than from the
beings of
the invisible worlds or from Father Sun, do not have this ego because
they do
not need it and because they function completely differently in their
consciousness and in their experimentation. We are not going to say
that one is
better than the other. If you have chosen to incarnate into a western
civilization, it is because you have a need to learn from it and to
live its
laws, its constraints, and also its joys. If you did not have that to
learn or
to live, you would have been incarnated in the deepest jungle into a
group of
people who live close to, and are very close to nature and who are
living
something completely different.
Each experience, no matter what level it is, from the
bottom of
the scale to the top of the scale, is an extraordinary experience that
the soul
longs to live…”
They are telling me:
“You must understand that all the
experiences on Earth, from the smallest event to the most terrible
things, make
up a part of the great evolving plan. There is your personal evolving
plan and
there is a general evolving plan.
However, as soon as you become aware
of it, you must work as often as possible on the knowledge of this
transformation. You must send out these energies that are so powerful
within
you, i.e. to awaken that powerful Being more each day, that Being of
Light that
dwells in you, and let he do his work. You must awaken him and allow
him to
express himself; he has the power of all the powers. He can accomplish
every day,
miracle upon miracle, and at a certain stage of your evolution, he lets
things
happen for your greatest happiness or what you could call in some
circumstances, you greatest misfortune.
What is happiness? What is
misfortune? It is simply the view of the intellect, a view from the
human
consciousness.
Whenever
an unkind thought is emitted towards
another person, the first thing to do is to immediately send much Light
and
Love to that thought, reformulate it in your mind and watch it
dissolve. The
energies of Light and Love are going to completely annihilate and
destroy the
energy of your thought.
Thought
propels itself at great speed. If you have
had an unkind thought about someone, after having done the work on the
thought,
you must do a work of Love on the person, speak to his inner self and
ask him
to help you annihilate any eventual effects of your thought. Send him
all the
Divine Love within you.
You,
therefore, destroy the thought that was
emitted by you and you also destroy its effect by sending all the
Divine Love
upon the person concerned and by asking for assistance from his own
Divine
presence.
Whenever you emit thoughts of
fear or negative thoughts in general, do the same, always send Light. The
more you send Light onto your thoughts, the more you will see this
Light
manifesting itself, materializing itself, you will see something like a beam coming out of yourself.
Everything
can be transformed through Light and
Christic Love or through Light and Universal Love.
Remember that thoughts of Love
and Light, of Universal Love or Christic Love have considerable power
over you
and those who surround you. It is the greatest power that is at your
disposal
and you do not use it as you should. This power is given to you by the
Being of
Light that you are; however he has to be present in your physical
being, in your
being of matter, in your human consciousness.
To listen to yourself thinking,
to observe yourself living, to be vigilant concerning your emotions and
feelings, is very important because that will prevent you from emitting
thoughts that are more or less somber, more or less unfriendly or
destabilizing. It is part of an important work, of continuous
self-control, of
mastery.
Besides, instead of talking about
working on oneself, the word mastery or self-control would be much more appropriate.
The word work is painful in the
concept that you have of work, the word mastery is very valuable
because mastery
is approaching the master and each one of
you has the desire to attain or approach the master in you, not an
outer
master, but your own inner master.”