Sept. 16, 2015

Chapter 2, Part 2

2/7/98 #2 ESU "JESUS" SANANDA

Esu returned in Radiance. I ask, scribe, that you keep your Light shield about you for the topic we are about to discuss is one which, of its very nature, attracts the Anti-Christ. It is al­right, for I will not allow that one to TOUCH YOU, for therein lies the true danger.

Let us begin utilizing material already written, but I do not wish you distracted as to source, so it will go unnamed. Just quote the portions as I direct, please.

[QUOTING:]

Lucifer was a magnificent being, a brilliant personality; he stood next to the Most High Fathers of the constellations in the direct line of universe authority. Notwithstanding Lucifer's transgression, subordinate intelligences refrained from showing him disrespect and disdain prior to Michael's bestowal. Even the archangel Michael, at the time of Moses' resurrection, "did not bring against him an accusing judgment but simply said, 'the Judge rebuke you' ." Judgment in such matters belongs to the Ancients of Days, the rulers of the superuniverse.

Lucifer is now the fallen and deposed. Self-contemplation is most disastrous, even to the exalted personalities of the celestial world. Of Lucifer it was said: "Your heart was lifted up be­cause of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness." Your olden prophet saw this sad estate when he wrote: "How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cast down, you who dared to con­fuse the worlds!"

Very little was heard of Lucifer on Earth owing to the fact that he assigned his first lieutenant, Satan, to advocate his cause on your planet. Satan was a member of the same primary group; he entered fully into the Lucifer insurrection.

The dragon eventually became the symbolic representation of all these evil personages. Upon the triumph of Michael, "Gabriel came down and bound the dragon (all the rebel leaders) for an age." Of the Jerusem seraphic rebels it is written: "And the angels who kept not their first estate but left their own habi­tation, he has reserved in sure chains of darkness to the judg­ment of the great day."

There were no peculiar or special conditions which suggested or favored rebellion. It is our belief that the idea took origin and form in Lucifer's mind, and that he might have instigated such a rebellion no matter where he might have been stationed. Lucifer first announced his plans to Satan, but it required sev­eral months to corrupt the mind of his able and brilliant associ­ate. However, when once converted to the rebel theories, he became a bold and earnest advocate of "self-assertion and lib­erty".

No one ever suggested rebellion to Lucifer. The idea of self-assertion in opposition to the will of Michael and to the plans of the Universal Father, as they represented in Michael, had its origin in his own mind. His relations with the Creator Son had been intimate and always cordial. At no time prior to the exal­tation of his own mind did Lucifer openly express dissatisfaction about the universe administration. Notwithstanding his silence, for more than one hundred years of standard time there was not peace in Lucifer's mind.

Throughout this period Lucifer became increasingly critical of the entire plan of universe administration but always pro­fessed wholehearted loyalty. His first outspoken disloyalty was manifested on the occasion of a visit of Gabriel to Jerusem just a few days before the open proclamation of the Lucifer.

It is very difficult to point out the exact cause or causes which finally culminated in the Lucifer rebellion. We are cer­tain of only one thing, and that is: Whatever these first begin­nings were, they had their origin in Lucifer's mind. There must have been a pride of self that nourished itself to the point of self-deception, so that Lucifer for a time really persuaded himself that his contemplation of rebellion was actually for the good of the system, if not of the universe. By the time his plans had de­veloped to the point of disillusionment, no doubt he had gone too far for his original and mischief-making pride to permit him to stop. At some point in this experience he became insincere, and evil evolved into deliberate and willful sin. That this hap­pened is proved by the subsequent conduct of this brilliant exec­utive.

[JUMPING AHEAD, STILL QUOTING:]

Evolutionary man finds it difficult to fully comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity.

Of all the perplexing problems growing out of the Lucifer re­bellion, none has occasioned more difficulty than the failure of immature evolutionary mortals to distinguish between true and false liberty.

True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolu­tionary progress. False liberty is the subtle deception of the er­ror of time and the evil of space. Enduring liberty is predicated on the reality of justice---intelligence, maturity, fraternity, and equity.

Liberty is a self-destroying technique of cosmic existence when its motivation is unintelligent, unconditioned, and uncon­trolled. True liberty is progressively related to reality and is ever regardful of social equity, cosmic fairness, universe frater­nity, and divine obligations.

Liberty is suicidal when divorced from material justice, in­tellectual fairness, social forbearance, moral duty, and spiritual values. Liberty is noexistent apart from cosmic reality, and all personality reality is proportional to its divinity relationships.

Unbridled self-will and unregulated self-expression equal unmitigated selfishness, the acme of ungodliness. Liberty with­out the associated and ever-increasing conquest of self is a fig­ment of egoistic mortal imagination. Self-motivated liberty is a conceptual illusion, a cruel deception. License masquerading in the garments of liberty is the forerunner of abject bondage.

True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false lib­erty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attain­ment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.

Eve wisdom is divine and safe only when it is cosmic in scope and spiritual in motivation.

There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrigh­teousness. Only true and genuine liberty is compatible with the reign of love and the ministry of mercy.

How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to de­prive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates.

Evolutionary man may have to contend for his material liber­ties with tyrants and oppressors on a world of sin and iniquity or during the early times of a primitive evolving sphere... War is the heritage of early evolutionary man, but on worlds of normal advancing civilization physical combat as a technique of adjust­ing racial misunderstandings has long since fallen into disrepute.

Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father's will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential per­fection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.

Lucifer's folly was the attempt to do the non-do-able, to short-circuit time in an experimental universe. Lucifer's crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature's personal partici­pation--freewill participation--in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collec­tively. In so doing this onetime Sovereign of your system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly athwart the eternal purpose of God's will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures. The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice--a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these be­ings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experien­tial wisdom....

In short, what God had given men and angels Lucifer would have taken away from them, that is, the divine privilege of par­ticipating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system.

No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.

The moral will creatures of the evolutionary worlds are always bothered with the unthinking question as to why the all-wise Creators permit evil and sin. They fail to com­prehend that both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free. The free will of evolving man or exquisite angel is not a mere philosophic concept, a symbolic ideal. Man's ability to choose good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed lib­erty--not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty.

Although conscious and wholehearted identification with evil (sin) is the equivalent of nonexistence (annihilation), there must always intervene between the time of such personal identifica­tion with sin and the execution of the penalty--the automatic re­sult of such a willful embrace of evil--a period of time of suffi­cient length to allow for such an adjudication of such an individ­ual's universe status as will prove entirely satisfactory to all re­lated universe personalities; and which will be so fair and just as to win the approval of the sinner himself.

But if this universe rebel against the reality of truth and goodness refuses to approve the verdict, and if the guilty one knows in his heart the justice of his condemnation but refuses to make such confession, then must the execution of sentence be delayed in accordance with the discretion of the Ancients of Days? And the Ancients of Days refuse to annihilate any being until all moral values and all spiritual realities are extinct, both in the evildoer and in all related supporters and possible sympa­thizers.

The very fact that an evil-doing creature can actually choose to do wrong--commit sin--establishes the fact of free-wiliness and fully justifies any length delay in the execution of justice provided the extended mercy might conduce to repentance and rehabilitation.

Most of the liberties which Lucifer sought he already had; others he was to receive in the future. All these precious en­dowments were lost by giving way to impatience and yielding to a desire to possess what one craves now and to possess it in de­fiance of all obligation to respect the rights and liberties of all other beings composing the universe of universes. Ethical obli­gations are innate, divine, and universal.

There are many reasons known to us why the Supreme Rulers did not immediately destroy or intern the leaders of the Lucifer rebellion. There are no doubt still other and possibly better reasons unknown to us. There mercy features of this de­lay in the execution of justice were extended personally by Michael.

Supreme justice can act instantly when not restrained by di­vine mercy. But the ministry of mercy to the children of time and space always provides for this time lag, this saving interval between seedtime and harvest. If the seed sowing is good, this interval provides for the testing and upbuilding of character; if the seed sowing is evil, this merciful delay provides time for re­pentance and rectification. This time, delay in the adjudication and execution of evildoers is inherent in the mercy ministry of the seven superuniverses. This restraint of justice by mercy proves that God is love, and that such a God of love dominates the universes and in mercy controls the fate and judgment of all his creatures.

The mercy delays of time are by the mandate of the free will of the Creators. There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose.

But these mercy delays are not interminable. Notwithstand­ing the long delay in adjudicating the Lucifer rebellion, there is­sued the mandate of the Ancients of Days directing that Satan be henceforth confined to the prison world with Lucifer. This ends the ability of Satan to pay further visits to any of the fallen worlds. Justice in a mercy-dominated universe may be slow, but is it certain.

[END QUOTING]

Yes, I am here, scribe. Peace. Indeed, the Anti-Christ is alive and well on planet Earth. It is my hope that you, reading this, find understanding in the message just quoted.

I wish to move, now, to another passage, this time from a man who lived truth--his name is Dr. Paul Brunton, and the book I wish to quote from is called The Spiritual Crisis Of Man. We will turn to Chapter 8, titled "The Evil In Our Time". Note please that this was written in 1953. You've come a long way since then--a long way, indeed.

[QUOTING:]

The events of recent decades provide nothing more or less than a visible commentary on the messages it was the privilege of inspired prophets like Jesus (Esu), Krishna, and Buddha to deliver. The unprecedented times through which we live merely prove by terrible facts that such men preached by opened lips. They prove that the religious unfaith and materialistic trend of a whole generation, the hard skepticism which has degraded their values and dragged down their instincts, afford too insecure a basis for human living.

Materialism--by which is meant here not merely the openly confessed and crudely obvious doctrine which goes under this name, but also its unconscious and disguised forms--has been the bane of our time. The total impression of all the forms it has taken--and they are to be found in the scientific, political, edu­cational, literary, artistic, ecclesiastic and legal spheres also--is a ghastly one. The end of it all is the terrifying figures and the typhoon destructiveness of the atom bomb. It is the natural con­sequence of belief in the final supremacy of intellectual thinking when pushed to its logical extreme and unbalanced by spiritual intuition. In war, human evil always appears in its worst form and its effects in their most widespread form. With the discov­ery of the atom bomb the pathway leading to a large part of civ­ilization's utter self-destruction is now wide open. Nothing in history is comparable to this terrible situation.

It is not enough to understand the tragic, as well as historic, significance of these world-shaking events. We must also un­derstand their underlying religious, metaphysical, and philo­sophical significance. And, as mentioned earlier, this cannot be done adequately unless we let the light of doctrines like the in­evitability of spiritual evolution and the factuality of the law of recompense shine down upon them. For without them, it is too taxing to explain why society today is as it is. The psychologi­cal situation which has been created by the crisis and the war and which expresses itself in the tragic physical situation, can be adequately understood only by the light of these and other re­lated truths. Mankind's own wrong thoughts and emotions, bad passions and deeds, must share the responsibility. Its civiliza­tion has indeed received the rewards of a short-sighted selfish­ness for it has been so many of the material things it strove to obtain, as well as the ideals it strove to realize, crumble away in its hands.

Most people assume that good alone has the right to be active on Earth. Therefore the presence of so much that is evil per­plexes their minds. It seems that such evil is too abundant and too continuous to fit smoothly into a divinely ordered scheme. The crime and violence of recent times, the horror and shock of recent history, have pushed this question of evil into the thinking of many persons who formerly ignored it. A generation which has heard wicked propaganda, witnessed wicked atrocities and watched unscrupulous moves towards world domination would be very soft-brained if it does not conclude that some malignant influence is at work in human affairs and that some malignant forces are manifesting their disturbing activities in its midst. The existence--no less than the power--of evil has forced itself so plainly and so savagely and so insistently on their notice in recent times that those who, at the bidding of extravagantly opti­mistic theories, previously shut their eyes to it, have perforce had to open them and recognize it. Such a belated and bewil­dered act is painful.

The materialistic view of evil regarded it as a by-product of physical environments and temporary circumstances, to be set right by the mere setting right of those physical things. But the type of evil which is so prevalent in our own times, glorifies brutality for its own sake, justified oppression for the oppres­sor's sake, pedestals greed, ridicules religion and derides con­science, as much for the pleasure it gets from these activities as for the rewards. The men who practice it love it as intensely as saints love God. It can no longer be reasonably maintained, as the dialective and rationalist materialists have hitherto main­tained, that external circumstances are alone sufficient to ac­count of the unpleasant character of such noxious creatures. On the contrary, it is evident that the wrong of human conduct arises because evil is a real element in human beings, indepen­dent of human environment and circumstance. It is deplorable but it is also unfortunately true that this element asserts itself more easily and more frequently than the good. The historical perversity of human nature, its constant inclination to do wrong, too often discourages the philanthropist.

That humanity should be allowed to fall into its horrible depths seems to show a lack of goodness in the divine Idea of the world. Men are not to be blamed for questioning the divine goodness and doubting the divine wisdom. They often ask themselves the question: Why does the Higher Power (which they call God and is in scientific actuality the World-Mind) which is so universally regarded as beneficent, even permit these evils and horrors to threaten humanity? But they ought also to ask themselves the further question whether the World-Idea could have completely fulfilled its lofty purpose for hu­manity without permitting such experiences? If it seeks to bring every human entity to full moral, intellectual and spiritual self-consciousness, the range of experiences within which the entity would have to be free to travel, would have to be sufficiently wide, and consequently sufficiently contrasting, to achieve this goal. To have limited this range to the non-evil, to have re­stricted the kinds of experience only to what we know as the good, would have rendered impossible the full achievement of human self-consciousness. That, after all, is a matter not only of morality but also of knowledge. There is indeed no other way than the existing one in which humanity could have found all the conditions necessary for the development of all its facul­ties. The mere fact that the World-Mind suffers evil to exist shows that it has a temporary, an inevitable, or else a utilitarian place in the economy of things.

No mode of conscious life could have been devised which provided unalloyed happiness and unmixed goodness at the same time that it provided the varied experiences and diverse states necessary to develop the knowledge, intelligence, character and spirituality of the human being. Although some facets of this development could have been obtained by a one-sided monotonous experience, yielding only the pleasurable enjoyment of life, important parts of the psyche would then necessarily have been left untouched by it. Only by providing a course of changing experiences which took a wider, more varied route and also included the opposites of suffering and evil, could the full complete evolution of man have been achieved. The memory of the past darkness of ignorance heightens his appreciation of the present light of knowledge. The vivid contrast between the two conditions makes him much more conscious of the meaning and value of the higher one. Without the experiences of both to complement each other, he could not distinguish good from evil, bliss from misery, reality from appearance and truth from falsity. How, without conditions productive of sacrifice and self-denial, for instance, could the spiritual widening of his con­sciousness be obtained? Good becomes significant to him only as it stands in contrast to evil, which is indeed the Not-good. The consciousness of sound as sound always needs to be accom­panied by the consciousness of its opposite and differentiating number, silence. There could have been no manifestation of a universe without this play of opposites running completely through it. As soon as the One became Two, it began. Hence birth and death appear everywhere in the universe, pleasure and pain in man!

Heracleitus of Ephesus shrewdly commented that Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might perish from among gods and men," that he did not see he was really praying for the destruction of the universe and that if his prayer was answered all things would have to pass away. Every biological scientist who has peered beneath the surface of things knows, what every metaphysician should know, that the world-process is in­escapably an interplay and inter-struggle of the creative and de­structive forces. The cosmos could not be continually alive if it were not also continually dying. The struggle of these opposing forces is an eternal movement which is reflected in the birth of majestic stars and death of minute cells. Only a static motion­less universe could have avoided it. If man were not to be a mechanical robot, he had to be free in his will, within the limits imposed by his nature and by the universal purpose. He had to be given the power to choose. And if he were left free to choose good, he had necessarily to be left free to choose evil. That he would act wrongly, would clash with his fellow men, and would even match his foolishness against God's wisdom was foreknown from the very beginning, was indeed inevitable from the fact that he began his conscious life in ignorance and desire. Through experience he would eventually learn to act rightly and this dark phase in his career would disappear. Only by the ex­periment with evil could the value of good be adequately real­ized.

God has given man enough freedom to work out his own destiny and since there is both good and evil mixed into his nature, when the evil becomes great in volume and massive in strength it inevitably leads to consequences such as those which menace him today. Yet this cannot be a sole and sufficient ex­planation of his present situation. Since his freedom of will cannot operate within a vacuum there must be other forces at work within his environment modifying it, influencing it, and even ultimately directing it. There must be some sort of rough pattern in the universe within which his own activities must eventually fit. Unless we find some glimmering of this pattern we shall not be able to understand sufficiently why so many millions of apparently good decent people should be exposed to distress and affliction resulting from the evil activities of other men. Nay, why even civilization itself should be so darkly threatened by such activities.

That man's own free will has created so much of the evils and misery in the world, is obvious. That with his own moral improvement this deplorable situation would itself improve is equally obvious. But the situation itself could not have arisen except by the permission and within the conception of the World-Mind. Where is there more than partial freedom for a man when, at the very beginning, he is forced to accept and given no chance to select a certain race, a certain country, a particular family, a particular economic status, a condition of health or ill-health and an abundance or lack of energy, intellect, will and intuition? Thus, much of the course and something of the end of his life is dictated by Nature, fate or God. No human entity can determine its own course with complete freedom. No human entity can deviate from the cosmic plan with complete independence. The freedom of all human entities is limited, as their power is dependent. Man has never possessed, does not now possess and never can possess absolute free will. Above his own fluctuating will there is the inexorable cosmic will. All his individual development is but part of, and controlled by, the evolutionary plan for the cosmos itself. It has not been left to his internal whim or external chance what the outcome of that development shall be.

If the whole cosmos is an emanation of the Divine Mind which, although mysteriously transcendent, is also significantly immanent, there can be no force and no entity within it that is not fundamentally rooted in the beneficence, the wisdom and the serenity of divinity. It may have its origins obscured, it may appear, think and act evilly, but it can do so only by the permis­sion and consent of God. Therefore, it is not only man's igno­rant and wrongful use of his free will that accounts for human evil and human suffering but also the cosmic Idea itself. And this is something outside his control and beyond the operation of his will. The wrongs and pain that shadow his existence were sanctioned and included in the method of his inner development.

This is God's world; it could not be anyone else's. It must ultimately be an expression of God's wisdom. Therefore if we find in it things and people, events and sights which offend us because they are diabolic rather than godlike, the reaction of in­stinctive repugnance is human enough but the shortcoming is in our faculty of vision, the unpleasantness is in our limitation of the understanding, and can be nowhere else. Everywhere there are signs that the divine power is working in the midst of us. We would do better to complain at the presence of our own blindness than at the absence of God's activity. What we see in the world's present state and past history depends on what we are in ourselves. If we are morally crooked, we shall regard most of the people we meet as being so too. If we can find no deeper meaning in our own nature, no higher purpose in our own lives, we shall see none in the world outside. The discov­ery of a divine self in our own heart will be a pointing finger to the presence of a divine mind behind the whole universe to which we belong.

[END QUOTING]

Thank you. I will let that message stand on its own merit. It was truly insightful, particularly given the time period in which it was written.

The Anti-Christ is coming into FULL MATURITY ON YOUR PLANET. IT SOUNDS ALMOST TRITE TO SAY THAT GOD TOO HAS A PLAN 2000.

AH--BUT TRUST THAT IT IS NOT TRITE BUT RATHER IT IS SO. THE PLAN IS MAGNIFICENT AND ONLY GOD­ATON KNOWS THE WHOLE OF HIS PLAN.

THE SERPENTS ON YOUR PLACE HAVE YOUR WORLD IN A VICE-GRIP, BUT THEY SHALL DESTROY THEM­SELVES.

I ASK THAT YOU GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO THESE LAST WRITINGS. THEY ARE WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION.

THERE IS MUCH THAT I WISH TO QUOTE AND MUCH THAT I WISH TO COMMENT ON, BUT FOR NOW I HAD BETTER BRING THIS WRITING TO END BEFORE MY SCRIBE FALLS TO SLEEP AT THE WHEEL.

I AM SANANDA.

I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.

ATON, THE ONE LIGHT--ALL GLORY BELONGS TO HIM!

BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR EXPERIENCE UPON THAT PLACE, AND MAY YOUR CHOICES BE WISE IN THESE FINAL DAYS.

Salu.