In fact, this excerpt is a great example of how concepts of law, duty, and responsibility go hand in hand not simply with our social constructs but also with our personal conduct and thinking. To see each we meet as literally the Creator is to make much of our hand-wringing about what is just and proper totally obsolete. Even the Ayatollah (what a timely mention) gets Creator status! And up and down the chain of consciousness, we direct love and acceptance to each link. The cadence of phenomena we apprehend in our daily lives simply unfolds the recipients of that love; it is not stuff happening to us so much as opportunities provided to invest a bit more meaningfully in our co-Creatorship.
And in this session we link up this Law of Love with the “dropping of seeds” metaphor. It all goes together so perfectly: to move orthogonally through the yellow ray matrix of law, custom, and normative values to “make a hole” for love to get through. This is how service interacts with the mundane matters of our lives to provide opportunties for the ingress of a higher vibration, but not through some fancy, esoteric maneuver.
At some point, when we start looking at our lives and the phenomena we encounter this way, we begin to let material, yellow ray life simply run itself. We become more and more capable of playing chords across our 7-note system of centers as Q’uo relates instead of just chasing the lessons of the lower centers. Life becomes a creative piece of art, a portrait of love rendered by the Creator down through the logoic chain to the social memory complex that each interaction like this either affirms or degrades.
]]>If you cannot deal with a person because of his differences from you, intellectually, morally, spiritually or simply by appearance or way of speaking, then you have not drawn from your meditation the deeper understanding that all men are the same. That they are all on a path towards the Creator. Some are going at a fast rate of speed, some at a slow rate of speed. Some seem to be taking a vacation from the journey to the Creator or even taking side trips in which they are getting farther away from the love of the Creator. But, my friends, if you take the long view you must realize that it does not matter because if you have eternity in which to develop each soul, and if you understand the inevitability of the progress or, shall we say, the eventual progress of each soul, then you know that each person is either progressing along a spiritual path now or that he will do so in the future. It is this portion of the personality of each being that you meet that must be of importance to you in your dealings with him.
If you are unable to tolerate a person, as understandable as it may be, you must still continue to meditate until you can see that person as the Creator, for that is the law of love. You have upon your planet many who do not understand nor wish to seek the law of love, and it is indeed hard to imagine being able to love some of these people. We would name, for instance, Adolf Hitler, whom it would be difficult to see as a child of the Creator. Yet, my friends, this man is a child of the Creator and this soul, although he has a long, long journey, will in the end become a spiritualized and seeking being. Other political figures of your time, such as the entity this instrument calls the Ayatollah of Iran, seem to be totally lost in totally foolish and shameful acts. But we say to you, my friends, you must see each person as part of the Creator. It is only in doing this that you free yourself to have a right relationship with each person that you meet. These are extreme examples, of course, but in your daily life you meet so many whom you could inspire because of the joy in your heart and your acceptance of them without judgment. They would then wish to know what you had that made you different, my friends. And you would have dropped a seed of love; whether it fall on stony ground or on fertile soil, your service would have been accomplished.
Thus we say to you, know the law of love and understand that it supersedes the laws of mankind. And if you can apply the law of love in any situation, do not hesitate to relax your grip upon the laws of men. For more important than your understanding of the wrongness of others’ actions, or even your own, is the understanding that forgiveness is the divine act. And it is within your own heart, through the grace and power of love, that you may forgive yourself and others when you find yourself or the people in error.
How much you people desire to be of service to each other! We appreciate that, my friends, for we wish to be of service to you also. But we are aware that we can only do just so much, and then we must relax and let our thoughts drift towards the golden love and light of the infinite Creator. What we can give you, we do! If we can give you an inspiration, if we can give you a piece of joy from the feelings that we give you in meditation with us, if we can encourage you to meditate in any form whatsoever on a daily basis, we are very pleased. This is what we are here to do. If we fail, we simply wait until we can try again. And we hope that you can develop that kind of patience and understanding of your fellow man.
Life, you see my friends, is truly a humorous condition. If you could look at your life as though it were an old time silent movie with all of the gestures exaggerated and subtitles under each episode, you would then be able to see your life’s dream in its true form. It is a movie on your particular screen for your particular understanding and entertainment. You can be an actor, totally lost in the drama of your existence, or you can also be in the audience watching the drama, understanding what there is to understand in each situation and finding the comedy and the laughter that is inherent in the ridiculous assumption that a soul could take on a heavy chemical body and move about and find the importance of things like money, possessions, homes and all of the trappings of your society, when the only important things are love, compassion and service to others. Can you not find the humor of your own thoughts? When you find your mind too much with your worldly goods and ideas, step back, my friends, and watch the action as though it were on a movie screen, have a good laugh and feel refreshed in the knowledge that you are beginning to truly understand the nature of your existence on planet Earth.
After a brief remark on the power of faith and love, they dive into this address to matters of ethics and law. They anticipate Ra’s view on the double-edged sword of legal codes:
It is a necessary balance to the intention of law, which is to protect, that the result would encompass an equal distortion towards imprisonment. Therefore, we may say that your supposition is correct. This is not to denigrate those who, in green- and blue-ray energies, sought to free a peaceable people from the bonds of chaos but only to point out the inevitable consequences of codification of response which does not recognize the uniqueness of each and every situation within your experience.
- Ra via Rueckert: April 5, 1982 (83.14)
Those of Latuii expand on this by invoking Jesus’s frequent and brazen abrogation of Jewish law so many times in the Gospels. Love overrides rigid legal codes, because love speaks to a deeper level of that person’s nature, and at that level only love and Creator-to-Creator contact can really deal with any situation.
We, as always, are amazed at the serious attempt of your peoples to live by the laws of ethical rightness as you know them. My friends, we would speak to you about these laws for they are sometimes harmful. It has been written in your holy works that when the teacher known as Jesus was asked why his disciples sat to eat without washing their hands, as was the custom among the people of that time, for religious purposes, the teacher answered, “It is not what goes into the mouth of any man that defiles him, but rather those things which come out of the mouth of men.” And we would reacquaint you, my friends, with this thought for it is very important in your understanding of the law of the Creator. Yes, my friends, there is a law and that law is love.
Mankind has created many systems of ethical considerations, so that man may live with man without warfare. And this is, of course, to the good of the people. For it is not comforting to know that you might at any time be killed for no reason at all, or dragged before a firing squad, or imprisoned, or the other difficulties facing one who lives in a society which has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous government. Thus, to the extent that these laws of man, legal and ethical, preserve the common peace and aid the spiritual development of each human being, these laws are to the good. But when they are interpreted literally and rigidly and do not allow for compassion, understanding and the redemption of love then these laws are harmful to the spiritual development of the individual.
How many of your peoples, my friend, have been subjected in their childhood to a long list of things about which they must feel guilty if they not do? These laws cover everything from what one must put on one’s body to be well clothed to how one must keep one’s dwelling place, how one must speak, who one must speak to, and how one must judge others according to their appearance. All of these ideas of mankind are erroneous, in that the appearance of man, the habits of man, and all of those things which go with a cultural upbringing are merely window dressing for that which is deep within the heart of each man, and that is that spark of love which is the divine Thought which created him.
- Latuii via Rueckert: September 6, 1979
Latuii then takes this in a different direction—so different that I’ll save further comment to tomorrow’s post. But as somebody who looks askance at the value of law sometimes and the way it seems to entrench power and personality-shaping forces, both Ra and Latuii’s words give me food for thought. If I have love, I have no need for this puzzle, do I?
]]>So if we’re ready and prepared, then it’s just a matter of paying attention and letting the Creator’s love flow through us. In the proper mindset, as I read this, it’s not really our love at all anyway. We don’t have the resources to love adqueate to the need; we are simply asked to step out of the way. Once we are sharing that love, we can apply our talents and unique gifts to the situation through that connection to heart.
Think long and hard, however, about Hatonn’s claim that “you cannot be a loving person by yourself.” We can be personalities and serve reliably, but only by staying in contact with the Creator. Otherwise we’re taking our chances! So meditate and get yourself into the best frame of mind for a wild world of service waiting for you.
]]>We ask you, my friends, to be so seated in your hearts that you can do those things which become before you to do in the name of the Creator and in the voice of love. In this vibration were you all made; and this you share, not only with those of your planet but with all sentient beings throughout the universe, in all galaxies of your universe, and in the many universes that fill the dimensions of the great creation. We are all one, my brothers and sisters.
There will come before you things to do. You each have your own talents. They are each different and unique. You cannot be anyone but yourself. Yet, in your own way, you can be one who shows love. There are an infinity of ways to show love. It is your own judgment that will help you to know what your opportunities are, what you can and cannot do. But when you see an opportunity, my friends, turn it not down, but go forward. You will feel in your heart that which is right, and only can know the feelings of your heart.
We ask only one thing. Instead of becoming bitter as the lessons of life hurt you and pain you, physically, emotionally, and mentally—remain open to the healing power of love, which is best done, as we have always said to you, my friends, through daily meditation. It does not matter what type of meditation that you use—you may pray; you may read scripture or other holy works and contemplate the truth of what you read; you may sit in silence in passive meditation; you may engage in magical rituals, such as your so-called holy communion, and by that imagery find peace. But however, my friends, that you can become close to the one original Thought that created all of us, to the one Creator that is love, that is what you should do daily; for you cannot be a loving person by yourself.
Humanity is very limited in its ability to love, for they have not, through the centuries as a planetary consciousness, spent a great deal of time in concentrating upon love but rather in concentrating upon other things, such as the acquisition of goods, the acquisition of geographical territories, the acquisition of peoples, and the disruption of human life in order to gain these goals. Thus, your planetary consciousness does not have love as its strongest suit.
To get into contact with the infinite source of love that may be compared to the star body that is your sun, you must meditate and find within yourself that small part of yourself, which is your real self, and which is part of the original Thought of love.
Once you have found this, you can always deal with situations in such a way as to never betray that within you which is your best. However, my friends, if you fail, do not reproach yourself but go on and try again, for it is expected of a student of life that he will not be perfect in all of his examinations. Thus, encourage yourselves to seek again and yet again the peace of the presence of love.
Many are the laws of love which you have discovered, and for that we congratulate you. But we tell you that you have only scratched the surface of your own consciousness. We tell you that there is a vast geography beneath the surface of your knowledge of yourself, and in this area of yourself lies an understanding that goes beyond comfort, beyond the physical body, beyond the physical life that you know. How can you seek less, my friends, even for one day?
We do not ask you to lose your sense of humor, to deny yourself any comfort that you may find pleasant. We ask only that you see the place of these things and the importance of these things relative to the real business of your lives: finding and sharing the truth that is within you.
And then what should happen but that the instrument should doubt this perfection! At the very moment Hatonn mentions the business of life, regret at a life lived less than perfectly comes to the fore. It’s a very human thing, I think: the spirit complex makes the ideal thinkable in a way that it’s so seldom liveable.
Hatonn picks up on this directly and addresses it in such a concise and targeted manner that I really want to hone in on it. It all has to do with a sense of proportion; that the same perfection they describe earlier in our physical environment is baked into the conveyance of service. One gets a sense of the kairos of service here, how it’s a matter of the proper timing of the service and not just the love behind it.
When we bring this rhythm into our hearts, we shall have no more doubts about the meaning of service because it will no longer be ours in the first place. And that takes a lot of the pressure off!
]]>We find within this instrument regret that she has, during this day, failed to be of perfect service to one of her own species. And we say to you in this regard, yes, you must share what you know, but if you cannot share what you know you must not regret your lack. For if what you know is incomprehensible, then to attempt again and again to share it is, as it says in your holy works, to throw pearls before swine. They cannot understand; they will only sicken on such a diet. Thus, allow yourself only to desire to know the Creator in yourself and others. But if the moment has not come for you to be able to demonstrate a teaching, then, my friends, it simply has not come. You were not sent out into the world to change those who were not ready. You must only see in them the possibility that exists for them to, at any time, as you call it, to become aware of that which you may know; thus, never shutting your heart against another, you may bide your time, as you say, and plant those seeds of information, those thoughts of love, when they are asked for, not before.
The important thing, my friends, is to remain untouched by success or failure in contact with others. You do not know in a true sense what your manifestation may have been to another, for that is not in your saying within another’s experience. You know only what you feel, and that you have as much control over as you do over yourself as a whole. Therefore, let you heart be glad, let your tongue be honest, and let your thoughts dwell upon the Creator. More than that you cannot do. Less than that you should not do.
Near the beginning of the session, those of Hatonn proclaim the divine heritage of each mind/body/spirit complex that hides behind the Law of Confusion. And then they hit the nail on the head when addressing what each of us really want to know, each of us who walk this path: how do we make use of this heritage?
Could you but strip away the layers and layers of concept and illusion that furnish your mind, you would find that the original Thought in which you are molded is that of love made conscious of itself. Each of you, my friends, is love.
How can this be a practical piece of knowledge? How can you use this in your life? That is why we are in your skies at this time. That is why we are attempting to speak through instruments such as this one, to those people of your planet who are hungry for some words that make sense amidst so many words that do not.
Those seeking are constantly trying to balance between the phenomenal, mundane world and the faithful belief in this reality behind the edifice of that world. That which needs doing in a given moment cannot be anticipated and is best channeled by a self whose parts are well integrated through meditation. So really, as a personality and not as an instrument of the Creator, our only task is to meditate. It’s the key to recognizing the path of transformation, not simply in the grand scheme but in the moment-by-moment face of the illusion.
Only with that kind of awareness engendered by familiarizing ourselves with our deeper nature can we exhibit the skill, the insight, the gentleness, guilelessness, and detachment from outcome needed to plant a seed in another that can grow into their path of seeking, their glimpse of self as Creator. This isn’t something shouted from the mountaintop or shoved in people’s faces; it’s demonstrated subtly, transmitted as raw love, as an example that inspires the other to take the chance of inquiry into themselves. Our collective redemption and salvation relies on each individual’s turn within so that, in turning without, we bring whole selves to bear.
]]>Through meditation on a daily basis the people of your planet—even though they are in the midst of incredible turmoil of one kind of another—can gradually erode and remove the illusion of that turmoil and discover that which is calm, peaceful and yet ever moving; that which is the fountain of love within each being.
We do not promise you great power, although some souls have been known to find great power through simple meditation. We do not promise great riches, although we can promise you that those who are aware of the moment receive what they need in that moment. We cannot promise you peace of mind, though you will constantly go back into the world. You cannot stay in meditation, unless you wish to stop learning. Coming from meditation with your heart full of love, it is then time to meet the world on its own terms, but with a smile on your lips in the face of that which may make you upset were you not centered in the awareness of yourself in this present moment, safe in a harbor of love that extends throughout the universe.
So many people you meet, my friends—and we are aware of this—are polarized, shall we say, in a negative way. This is not their fault. In their own minds they are trying as hard as they can. In their own minds they are not attempting to be negative, for the most part. They are victims of their own conditioning. And yet, when you meet them you must deal with them, whether they be in stores or in cars or among your friends when they are having a bad day. Even you yourself may be met by you the observer with some horror as you say to yourself, “Can that be me? Can I be this upset, this angry?” Let the part of you that has been found in meditation, that part which is infinite in love, be the self that meets that situation. Find the humor that is hiding in the situation. See the love that is hiding in the person, and make available to that person for the first time the seed of an idea—the idea that it might be possible that there is something that he does not know that he may want to know, that it might change him to know.
We do not say to speak, to testify—as some of your religions call it. No, my friends, you are sent into the world—as it is written in one of your holy works—as sowers to sow a seed here and a seed there. Many will fall where they will not grow. But the seeds of love are the most valuable and precious seeds in your universe. The Creator has sown them all about you; the beauty of the trees breathes with love, the wild life, the flowers, and all of your beautiful grasses, herbs and foods cherish humanity, make it possible for it to live and send it love. The very skies give you wind and rain and sunshine so that you may live and grow your crops and enjoy your existence. This much the Creator can do. Beyond that, you are the Creator, and it is the look in your eye or the touch of your hand or the way you can give love in an unlovely situation that produces the future crop of love in those about you.
And so we say to you, my friends, go into meditation in whatever fashion you may wish. Consciously ask to know the truth. If we have not told you the truth, then find yours, for we tell you only what we know, and we are imperfect. But in all good faith, we ask you to seek for yourself. And then, after you have sought in your daily life, seek then to know the moment—–each simple, discrete moment. It will not come again—your chance to be a creature who is a child of love in that moment will not come again—so we ask you to remember from moment to moment what you have learned in the silence.
Imagine this point those of Hatonn are making—that though there are many parts of our lives that have little spiritual utility, it is our identification with those parts that lies at the root of the pain and confusion—explained coldly by those of Ra (perhaps in these answers). It doesn’t hit the same, does it? Ra can tell you which way to go, but they do not dwell much on why you’ve gone the wrong way, what it feels like to be in the ditch along the path. This is part of my extreme interest in the early channeled material: researching how a circle brings something like the Ra contact into manifestation. They did it slowly and blindly, not realizing at all to what they were opening their circle.
Anyway, enjoy this passage dealing with the nature of transient experience. It doesn’t just sort experience into “transient” and “non-transient” buckets: Hatonn treats these transient experiences with respect since they always hold the promise of exposing our biases and showing precisely what is illusory in the illusion. This is our ticket to recognizing deeper and deeper concepts of our core desire that, when consicously cooperated with, really accelerates our evolution.
]]>We share our thoughts with you, insubstantial though they may be, one life speaking to another, one brother speaking to another, for are our lives not like clouds as they cross the moon, visible only for a brief time, before and after lost in the darkness of the eternal heavens? Yet, we are now here, you and we, and it is with deep appreciation that we join our thoughts to yours in this transient moment.
Yes, my friends, your lives are very transient, and yet your spirit is indomitable. There is [nothing] that you cannot seek, nothing that you cannot will to know, if it be done honestly and courageously and without selfishness. And so even though your brief life may sometimes seem to be relatively meaningless, your activities mundane, your thinking confused, we say to you that if you can each day find some moments to meditate, to center your will upon the desire to know the love of the Creator, that wish for the original Thought will be unto you as a beacon, guiding your spirit far into the stormy seas of night when you have crossed the moon and there is no light.
We are sorry that we have had to delay our speaking to you this evening, but there was a desire in one of those present that we not speak. And this, 1 my friends, is a perfect example of that which we deal with now: the transience of experience. There is a saying in one of your holy books, “All flesh is grass.” We are not being mournful. We are attempting to be emphatic about the direct and important knowledge that you must have that you yourself are not your bodies, your pains and pleasures, or your experiences, but are instead a vibration which is temporarily and transiently housed in a chemical body. That vibration has certain characteristics which show forth to a greater or smaller amount in the physical amount in the physical body. Each characteristic shows forth as the degree of loving kindness of your nature, the degree of generosity, of compassion, of kindliness, that you have within your character. It may show forth in your ability to help people by healing, by the preparation of food, by working with your hands, by singing, or by telling stories, or by raising the young who are entrusted to your care that they, too, may know the Creator as do you. These biases come through from your vibratory personality into the physical illusion.
However, you must not take this illusion any more seriously than you would take the passing of a cloud across the moon on a stormy night, such as this one. You know that there will be other clouds and other nights, other sequences of activities. These are unimportant. Your only important effort should be placed in centering yourself in the knowledge of the original Thought of the Creator, which is that of infinite love expressed in light. This light has formed all of His creatures: the planet in which you live, the skies which surround us in different vibrations. All things are light.
As you begin to have this ability to be detached from the transient experience and to be rooted in the knowledge of the original Thought, your power as a personality will develop, so that those circumstances which may seem to you to be inharmonious will of themselves become more harmonious, for your attitude will become such that nothing can disturb you.
If we ask ourselves honestly what we have desired today, the n we must reckon with the answer, and often I think it’s that which we fear most. The magic occurs in that very response of the self, one that we are often shocked by, even though it’s our own response. In doing so, we let our natural, honest response to that reflection—be it one of shock and disapproval or one of attraction and wonder—impel us further down through these layers in an attempt to know ourselves. The alternative is to look away and distract ourselves, which is always a minor stalling tactic in a cosmic telos.
]]>We ask you tonight, my friends, about treasure. We are aware that the treasure that is in your heart is sometimes buried. It has been written in your holy works, “Where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also.” And yet we say to you, my friends, that your heart may contain any treasure which you desire. Thus, the question of treasure is far more the question of your buried desire.
We wish to speak with you only for a very short time this evening, but we wish very much, very much to encourage you to desire, with the greatest intensity possible, that which you wish to desire. Have you desired? Have you desired, this day, well, my friends? Have you had small desires easily satisfied? Have you glanced up into the lovely imperium arches of your heavens during this day and sought and dreamt and hoped—those desires which make men into beings who are claiming their birthright? That is what lies between you and the birthright of love and light—which you brought into this illusion—your inability to remember to desire it. That is all that separates you from infinite love, infinite light, and the power of a consciousness which these understandings can coordinate and enable. What have you desired today, my friends? We ask you in the name of the Creator.
This excerpt serves as a fine example: do we consent to being created and thrown into all this illusion? Picking up on the point about fairness that choicelessness brings to mind, Latuii shows about as much exasperation as I’ve ever seen a contact present. They didn’t make the rules, buddy.
To sober up a bit, logically predestination/choicelessness makes far more sense in a Creation in which nothing can really “happen,” let alone be “chosen,” at all. It is often in simply returning concepts to the stark simplicity of oneness that we are able to properly consider them, and in that light there is no such thing as “the created.” Indeed, this links up information our circle received from those of Auxhall this summer, and I’m glad for the confirmation as it seemed a bit unmoored at the time.
We are not created or generated; we are a focus of the Creator, transmitted down through the logoic chain to the level/density of awareness we happen to occupy. And yet, since we’re the Creator, it is impossible to expunge all sense of subjective title to the object of our reality. So I feel like choice in the illusion is like this distortion of our absolute agency as the Creator.
In other words, this sense of free will is precisely what being a Creator is like at this level of distortion in the all-self. Which level of distortion? That’s easy: the one you entertain as you read this. As Ra said, it’s not actually a necessary distortion; it’s chosen as an alternative to choicelessness.
As a final observation, this:
You do not have a choice; none of us do. Yet you have infinite choice in the amount of time it takes you and the way in which you wish to articulate your creator-ness.
sounds a lot like the introduction to A Course in Miracles:
This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.
It’s because I studied ACIM that the paradox of free will never bothered me that much. Infinity allows for sufficient time for the proverbial monkey to write Shakespeare. So our experience in incarnation can be understood as ways we lengthen or contract the inevitability of reunification so as to gain or lose confusion. In fact, that’s also a way to understand polarity (see the end of this Hatonn transcript), but now I’m just digressing. Let’s get back to the main event:
]]>Questioner: Yes, I have a question. Several weeks ago, in response to one of my questions, you said that we or mankind was seeded on this planet, and yet we had nothing to say about that—we had no choice in the matter. Why was that so?
Latuii: What can I tell you, my brother? None of us have a choice; we are all the Creator. The condition of creation exists; it will exist infinitely. We are in a position in one of the infinite universes of the infinite creation, not due to chance, but due to the cycles with which you have become involved as you pass through the many universes of the Father’s creation. You begin in darkness, if beginning is a possibility; of this we are not sure. We are sure, however, that like travelers your eye is caught by a pretty color, and off you go into an illusion that is that color of being. And so you have been attracted to this illusion and ultimately to this incarnation.
You are the Creator. You do not have a choice; none of us do. Yet you have infinite choice in the amount of time it takes you and the way in which you wish to articulate your creator-ness. Thus, the paradox which is the necessity of spiritual truth is satisfied. You have no free will, and you have complete free will. You have been seeded by your choice. There is no mysterious and possibly questionable moral gardener who has seeded Earth. The gardeners are you yourselves—not trapped in time and space but delighted, instead, by the color of this creation.
Does this answer your question?
Questioner: Partially. Paradoxes are a puzzle to me. Do I understand you to say that we had no choice in being created, yet we had a choice in coming here?
Latuii: That is not precisely correct. You were not created. You are the Creator. You are a portion of all that there is. You are a portion of no time and no space. Consequently, you are not a created being. You are Creator and creation. With that concept under control, we may say to the second part of your question that you do have that portion correctly understood.
Paradoxes, of which you spoke earlier, are an absolute necessity if one is to advance spiritually. If you are not facing a paradox at this time, then you are not trying. Thus, you must at all times be involved in a puzzle. We hope only that the puzzle is worthwhile, that you are pressing ahead from paradox to paradox so that you begin to live what you cannot understand; this, you understand.
This point can be extended. Latuii says it can be helpful to know of a past experience that is informing the current lesson, but notice the sense in which is is helpful: to alert the seeker to the lesson, not to put a past costume on and reprise the role that already played out and got us to this incarnation. Of course, this is usually something requiring forgiveness, and we have ample opportunities to practice this even outside our programmed curriculum.
Just a funny side note: my wife has done a past life regression before with a group at an L/L Research event and found it very interesting. She did, however, notice how many people in the group were centurions, or emperors, or great people of the past. I can tell you precisely how honored she was to be in such exceptionally august company! Isn’t it funny how when we look to our past identities, we often stress the most superficial and transient aspects—and yet, is that the driver of the incarnations?
]]>Questioner: I have a question. Is it helpful for us to be aware of other lives and other incarnations from the standpoint of spiritual development? If so, how do we do this?
Latuii: This is a difficult question for us to answer, because we do not know what triggers the spiritual development of any being. It is usually not at all valuable, as his being spiritually, to know his past incarnations. Normally, what is powerful to the individual is to be in the presence of someone who is happy, who has something that the searcher does not have, who suggests something that the seeker might not know. This is why we speak through these instruments—–to attempt to inspire, stretch curiosity, cause you to arouse your own instinct for progress.
Unfortunately, it has become a fad among your people to discover who they were in past lives. If you have a specific personality conflict with another being, it is sometimes helpful—not in the spiritual realm but in the realm of human relationships—to go back to the previous experience and discover what it is that you are reaping in this incarnation as a result of actions in the past, However, if you can learn the art of forgiveness, you do not need to know what it was that somebody did to somebody else. If you can ask forgiveness with all your heart and forgive with all your heart, you have broken the laws of karma. Thus, you have no need of knowledge of an esoteric or occult type.
Unfortunately, this type of information has often been misused, due to the rule we were explaining earlier that knowledge implies responsibility. Thus, if you know what your lesson is and still refrain from learning it, your lesson becomes harder and harder until, as a matter of survival, you must learn it. To make it easy upon yourself, explore the possibilities of love in this incarnation, in this moment, at this time, with these people, in this environment, in this illusion, before you begin working with previous lifetimes. For it is in this life that you have the opportunity, at this moment, to take conscious control of your destiny and to speed yourself on your journey toward the light which you now invoke in this meeting.
There’s also an interesting hint about generating experience that sounds a lot like the moment Ra describes in which a mind/body/spirit complex begins programming its own catalyst and no longer needs random catalyst offered. Now that’s an pre-incarnative activity, certainly, but it makes sense that connecting with one’s core identity allows for that programming to be reaffirmed if a seeker consciously pursues learning and growth rather than receiving it as a by-product of a mundane life. This isn’t very novel, but I find it quite interesting that those of Latuii mentions how helpful this can be to the world situation.
At times like this, when the flames leap higher and higher and the fire spreads, it is a dang useful clue to be reminded that, no, even though the imbalance is reflected out there in the world, its true source is within us. We can do work to bring peace within and thereby that sympathetic vibration contributes to the overall attitude. It is a far, far more serious and important responsibility that dwarfs those we have as citizens of a country.
]]>As we look at the vibration of your world at this time, we are sure that you are aware that we are seeing a darkening of the vibration, due to an increase in negative emotion felt among your peoples toward each other and even toward themselves.
It has sometimes been said that ignorance is bliss; this is a saying among your peoples. And when you are dealing with a spiritual journey, this is very true; for knowledge carries with it a great responsibility. That which is known and not practiced reflects itself upon the knower, so that he must again know that which he has already learned. This is the price of knowledge, my friends-—that you practice what you know.
You need several ingredients in order to be able to do this well. In meditation you can deepen several of these ingredients. The first and most important is confidence—the kind of confidence that comes from knowing who you are. Have you ever, my friends, in meditation felt all the parts of yourself finally come into alignment with your highest goals and your deepest beliefs? By centering yourself in meditation, by finding that within you which vibrates in love and seeks the light of the Creator, you can find a quietness and a peacefulness that you can then use in the somewhat hectic and chaotic world that you find about you.
It is true that not all of your problems are large. You do not have to decide the fate of nations, but your vibration on an individual basis is as important, as vital, and as necessary to the salvation of your planetary consciousness as is the vibration of kings and heads of state. You do not move armies with your commands but can you command yourself? My friends, this is perhaps the hardest thing to do of all the tasks that you have been given in this experience. So many things occur which cause you to lose yourself; and instead, you act in a way which you yourself would not approve of, were you in control, were you conscious of your behavior.
As you come out of meditation, then, this confidence that you have gathered therein becomes your armor, …and it is as though you are wearing a cloak of light through which no negative vibration may pass. Thus, you do not need to react to irritating, angry and other negative statements from others. Circumstances cannot penetrate the confident one who moves in power. This confidence is, indeed, the most important benefit which you receive from meditation.
There are others, and you may find them as you proceed along the path of seeking. You may find yourself deepening as a person, becoming more able to understand the problems of others and finding that you are an ear, which is requested many times by others, for they sense in you a deep understanding. In this way you are of service to your brothers and sisters. You may find the gift of laughter, which is not easy to come by in a daily life which can be so easily filled with difficulties. As your character grows deeper and your knowledge more centered, you begin to see the divine comedy of your existence—–the delightful balance of lessons and experience. You cease looking for happiness, and you become divinely happy, whatever your circumstances may be. In short, my friends, you slowly become a generator of your own experience rather than the recipient of other people’s experiences of the world view, which is so often negative. In this way only can you aid your planet at this rather dark hour.