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Apostle Paul article6
Change Your Focus--Change Your Habit article11
The Meaning of Trust article16 article21 Everything Is A Mirror Of Me The people who come into my world are there for one reason only, to show me who I am. This means the traits of their character resemble my own. True love is when I can face myself as seen in front of me in another individual and feel the love of Source for them no matter what trait they are exhibiting rather than hating or fearing such traits. By doing so, I am able to love all aspects of myself. I may not choose to give expression to these traits I have (that I see in them) but I won't fear or hate them because I accept and honor them as part of who I am. This seems preposterous when I consider the perspective of religion, which teaches how to judge by discerning between good and evil and to hate and avoid the evil, but what this perspective causes people to do is to avoid the aspects of themselves they don't like. Instead, they're encouraged to deny themselves, and this causes people to do whatever they can to avoid the things they fear about themselves. For example, if a neighborhood starts to "go down" because a lot of "undesirables" have moved in, people will tend to move out, choosing to go to a "safer" neighborhood instead. However, the truth is, all they've done is run away from an opportunity to love and honor the part of themselves that these "undesirables" presented them. Instead, they've chosen to love only the parts of themselves they like. They surround themselves with a neighborhood where everyone looks and feels the same as them. Now they are safe and free to go out knowing they don't have to worry about their space being invaded. Not! This is an illusion. They can only run so far. Sooner or later due to circumstances beyond their control, they will find themselves surrounded by the very thing they feared the most. Why is this? It is because the reason we're on the planet is to get intimate with all of life, which means with ourselves. The Source in each person will continually work to give opportunity for people to learn to love themselves by putting their own traits in their face via another person. If we can love this person without judging them, we can love ourselves without judgment. However, this is very challenging because it's not what we've been taught to do. Religion taught us that Source is a harsh judge who will not tolerate evil. For this reason we feel justified in acting out this same judgmental role towards others. However, this version of Source was created by people who were so afraid of the aspects of themselves they saw in others that they desperately tried to control these people by creating laws that made everyone obey them or suffer the consequences, which was usually death. They told the people they were only showing them how Source is. They placed themselves in the position of an illusory Source they concocted in their minds to serve their own needs to avoid having to love themselves, and began judging and condemning all those around them who wouldn't obey their rules and this, they said, was the will of this illusory Source. Do you get what's happening here? It was their will to avoid true love at all costs. Better to annihilate traits in others that are really their own traits than to have to admit this truth and learn to accept themselves through accepting the other. Jesus taught what true love was because he loved all aspects of himself. Instead of running away from his enemies, he loved them but they only saw the traits of themselves they didn't like in him and chose to get rid of this mirror (Jesus). They couldn't take the truth. Jesus willingly surrendered his own life when his fellow human beings came for him. Humans couldn't understand how anyone could possibly love like that so they decided he must have been more than just human, that he must've been Source. They placed him on a pedestal and worshipped him and then justified doing what they thought he did, which was to judge. Indeed, Jesus was Source but so is everyone else. This message threatened the authority in his day so they killed him. Later, in the fourth century, the rulers recognized an opportunity to exploit the Christians by using their own beliefs against them. This is why Constantine decided to claim he was Christian. He realized there were so many Christians that he could better serve his desire to control them if he took on the appearance of having joined them to win their trust. Once he had done this, he proceeded to execute anyone who refused to see things his way, which he claimed was Source's way. People had no choice but to obey since he was their emperor. They bought into his lies. The pope made a pact with Constantine to gain the authority over all the people. In other words, since the pope and the king were in cahoots, and both claimed to be Christian, they had all the tools they needed to exert total control through power. No one was free to say or do anything that went against the "Christian" laws that the pope and ruler had agreed upon. This set a precedent that to a large extent has been followed ever since. You may think that today things aren't like that anymore because you think you are free to choose for yourself. It appears that leaders no longer have the authority to enforce their rules. Indeed, this appears to make us free but this too is an illusion because we continue to buy into the same religious teachings that gave the early rulers all the authority. Today things are less apparent but all actions are still being done in the will of Source according to today's version, which isn't much different from the old Source. This means that governments simply reflect everyone's desire to remove the world of all undesirables. Why? For the same reason as Constantine had. He couldn't tolerate his own traits, which he saw mirrored in the people. He preferred to kill them rather than to learn to love himself by loving his people. This is the same situation today. Humans are still attempting to control their environment so they don't have to face any aspect of themselves they don't like. What's happening today is that the authority of the pope/king has been given over to the people. Now the people have the freedom to stand in the judgment seat by condemning the actions of others. By doing this they are actually judging and condemning themselves. They hate the traits they have when they see them in others. They hate themselves and are in hell because of this. After one undesirable is removed, another will always appear, guaranteed. Why? Because this is the work of Source—within all of us, who is honoring each person's desire to get intimate with ourselves (Source). Hitler represented on a massive scale the desire each person has to control. The gas chambers were an external manifestation of the internal desire of humans to be free of anyone who they can't tolerate. Humans judge and condemn such people (themselves) rather than to love them (themselves). This is why war, poverty and disease continue on the planet. It's not that Source is choosing for people to suffer. Rather, it's that humans are choosing these things because an a deep level we desperately want to know how to live true love and the only way to learn is by having circumstances presented to us that appear to be totally unlovable. When faced with such opportunities, the question is, can we still love even now? If so, you have crossed over into the world of Source's true love, a world where hate and judgment doesn't exist, where Source honors all with compassion. Humans are capable of choosing this love but don't believe it. They think Source is a judge who hates sin so instead of choosing the true love of Source, they choose to give their version of Source's love, which is to judge and condemn the sin. This makes them feel good because they believe they're doing the will of their Source but this is an illusion and that's why suffering continues on the planet. This will only change when people begin to choose true love. When humans learn to love the most seemingly unlovable person on the planet, the terrorist or what have you, these individuals will begin to change. When you pass your own love test, you no longer need to continue giving yourself the same test. This is the way of it and it is the solution to world peace. People will always have the ability to fight, maim and kill, they just won't choose it as an option when they have accepted, honored and loved the traits within themselves, as seen in their fellow Source mates. The ones who carry out these acts do so as a response to a call within humanity for a greater love. They give of themselves so humans can choose again to love. They are Source disguised in the form of a so called enemy. Only when humans wake up to this reality will they begin to grasp the incredible simplicity of it all. Life really is so simple. All we have to do is take time to get to know the real being that we are by getting quiet and listening to our heartbeat. In time that beating heart begins to morph into inspiration, which will 100% of the time guide us into opportunities to expand our love. The more we expand, the more the entire planet benefits. Humans everywhere begin to "remember" that they are loving beings and suddenly the life of judgment they've been living makes no more sense. While this can cause a dilemma, it is a healthy one because it is the beginning of a shift that will inevitably occur within them and ultimately, within all on the planet. This is the direction we are all headed. It's called the "New Energy" and it is the beginning of the cosmic spring...
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