Feb.1, 2016

PJ 09

CHAPTER 8

REC. #1 SANANDA

THU., NOV. 2, 1989 6:00 A.M. YEAR 3, DAY 078

 

THU., NOV. 2, 1989

 

Good morning. Such a wondrous day it is and we are thankful for another time span in which to do our work. Sananda present with warm greetings.

Note, please, the major earthquakes off Japan and Portugal of yesterday. Further, note the three major accidents aboard your naval vessels of yesterday--so be it.

POWER AND CONTROL

 

The drive most noted in evil persons is characterized by unsubmitted will. All ones who are mentally healthy submit themselves one way or another to “something” higher than themselves, be it God or truth or love or some other ideal. They look beyond into truth instead of just “the way I want it to be”. In other words, what is needed by that “other” “beloved one” becomes priority rather than the total selfishness of self-desires and self-gratification. In yet other words, healthy individuals submit themselves to the demands of their own con­science. Not so the evil ones, for in the conflict between their guilt and their will, it is the guilt that must go and the will that must win. Evil people are extraordinarily willful, determined to always have their own way and have a most remarkable power in the manner in which they attempt to control oth­ers.

 

You ones go about the decision of evolution against creation and cannot come to balance for man is so obviously strong-willed in choices and desires control beyond reason. Your scenarios never change--you never learn by that which goes before in the history lessons.

 

You tempt yourselves into acceptance that the problem of evil lies in the will itself. Perhaps the evil are born so inherently strong-willed that it is impossible for them ever to submit their will. And yet, a characteristic of all “great” people is that they are extremely strong-willed--whether their greatness be for good or for evil. I, Jesus, as you called me, was unbending and strong-willed; ah, but so was one named Hitler--could it be the difference in “willingness” and “willfulness”? Mine willfulness was that of our Father’s--Mr. Hitler’s was that of his own.

 

It also becomes evident, doesn’t it, that the one whose will is of his own is threatened greatly by goodness? It therefore leads to the need of destruction of the goodness or that one which represents such. Thus murder is born. It is better, of course, if the evil one can cause the one of goodness to acquiesce in total submission and give through total abandonment of goodness into the hands of the evil.

 

I think your psychiatrists might label this type of behavior of self-demand, narcissism. It is not strong enough a term for evil so let us call evil a disease of cancerous, or malignant, narcissism. Your church authorities have generally considered pride first among the “sins”. “Pride goeth before the fall”, and so it is. Pride is actually the same as cancerous narcissism, but I want you to realize I can also speak your “hidden” languages.

 

Somehow within the minds, from onset of Adam and Eve in your mythology, there has been envy and pride. Cain felt somehow less than Abel in God’s eyes so he proceeded to solve the problem in the typical fashion--murder him. The same happened, dear brothers, when God required Christ and Satan to each present a plan for dealing with the infant human race. Satan’s plan was simple, of the sort that most business and military leaders of today would choose. God had armies of angels at his command; just assign an angel with punitive power to each human, and He would have no trouble keeping them in line. Christ’s plan was radically different and more imaginative and biophilic: Let them have free will and go their own way, however, let me live and die with, and as, one of them, both as an example of how to live and of how much You care for them. Of course you will assume that God must have chosen the Christ plan as being the more creative. Of course Satan rebelled at the choice. The rest of the story is clear. WAS IT SIMPLY POOR CHOICE ON MY PART? CAN GOODNESS ULTIMATELY WIN OVER EVIL? WELL, ULTIMATELY IT HAS ALWAYS ENDED IN NEAR ANNIHILATION OF THE SPECIES--AND SO IT WILL AGAIN. THE ENERGY UNBALANCE BECOMES SO DESTRUCTIVE THAT THE GAME MUST BE BROUGHT TO A HALT TO KEEP FROM IMPACTING THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE. OH, YOU DON’T LIKE THAT WHICH IS BEGINNING TO SEEP INTO THY VISION?

 

While man has rewritten his guidebooks to proclaim the soul goes “somewhere” or “nowhere” or “anywhere”, the words mean naught to the soul--it just goes on and on and on experiencing and growing.

 

COULD IT BE?

 

COULD IT BE, DEAR ONES, THAT GOOD GETS BETTER AND EVIL GETS EVEN MORE EVIL UNTIL ULTIMATELY BOTH HAVE MATURED TO A POINT OF PERFECTION IN THE EXTREMES? COULD IT BE THAT BOTH ARE COMING AGAIN UPON YOUR WONDROUS PLACE FOR THE MAJOR CONFRONTATION? COULD IT BE THAT YOU ARE NOW REQUIRED TO MAKE SOME FINAL CHOICES FOR THAT CONFRONTATION IS AT HAND? I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU PREFER TO THINK THAT THERE IS A SIMPLE LITTLE NEGOTIATION AND ALL IS LAID TO REST. NAY, IT SHALL BE MAJOR NEGOTIATION AND CONFRONTATION AND ULTIMATELY GOD AND THE CREATION (NATURE) SHALL INTERVENE.

 

It can be noted upon your place that evil generally “runs” in families. Would that not be logical? If parents are cruel and unloving, however, or the childhood otherwise traumatic, then the child will need his own “pride” to preserve as a fortress, against the vicissitudes of an intolerable life. It is the same with the genesis of human evil. Even in architecture, the builders of your medieval cathedrals placed upon their buttresses the figures of gargoyles--themselves symbols of evil--in order to ward off the spirits of greater evil. Thus children may become evil in order to defend themselves against the onslaughts of parents and elders who are more evil.

 

The facts are, that some of you are very good and some of you are very evil, and most of you are somewhere in between. Now, as individuals you can move yourselves one way or another along the continuum. Unfortunately, it works out to be much like the rich getting richer and the poor getting ever poorer--it seems most evident that the good get better and the bad get worse.

 

Your capacity to choose changes constantly with your practice of life. The longer you continue to make the wrong decisions, the more your heart hardens; the more often you make the right decision, the more your heart softens--or comes alive.

 

Each step in life which increases your self-confidence, your integrity, your courage, your conviction, also increases your capacity to choose the desirable alternative, until eventually it becomes more difficult for you to choose the undesirable rather than the desirable action. On the other side, each act of surrender and cowardice weakens you, opens the path for more acts of sur­render, and eventually freedom is lost. Between the extreme when you can no longer do a wrong act and the extreme when you have lost your freedom to right action, there are innumerable degrees of freedom of choice. In the practice of life the degree of freedom to choose is different at any given moment. If the degree of freedom to choose the good is great, it needs less effort to choose the good. If it is small, it takes a great effort, help from others, and favorable circumstances indeed.

 

Most people fail in the wondrous art of living not because they are inherently “bad” or so without will that they cannot lead a better life; they fail because they do not wake-up and see when they stand at a fork in the road and have to decide. They are not aware when life asks them a question, and when they still have alternative answers. Then with each step along the wrong road it becomes increasingly difficult for them to admit that they are on the wrong road, often only because they have to admit that they must go back to the first wrong turn, and must accept the fact that they have wasted energy and time.

 

Therefore, you might conclude that human evil is a process whereby evil choices require ultimately becoming evil. Ah, but this underestimates the very power of the “will” itself. Ones continually make evil choices (such as becoming blood affiliates with Satanic churches) for no apparent reason at all except through pure desire to exert freedom of his or her will. They know exactly what they are doing. They know what is supposed to be the right action but refuse to be bound to notions of morality or even to their own conscience. In other words, if they do the good thing, it would be simply because it is the good thing. If they do the bad thing, however, it is solely because of desiring to do so. The choice is usually to do the bad thing, because it is a freedom of choice to so do.

 

EXERCISING FREEDOM OF CHOICE

 

Sometimes only the agony of free choice remains to an individual--only the will remains.

 

When you are right “up against it” the unknowns outweigh the knowns and just as with a crucifixion staring you in your human face, you become all but helpless in the terror. This is because those terrors are engraved upon the soul memory forever for each act becomes a portion of memory and the total fear of the unknown. Death of a body comes most hard in most instances and always most outrageously at the hands of evil

 

Once steeped in evil--”possessed” is the literal word--the casting off of that energy is all but physically and mentally death producing. Evil consumes and “takes over”, the light of goodness requires the freedom of will and choice--always remember the difference and you will understand which is assisting you in your choices. When faced with the ultimate rejection of the evil, all manner of attacks come upon the mind and physical frame and the demon itself becomes king of the hill.

 

At a time such as this the mind will relinquish all logic attached to mental il­lusions about psychological motivations, behavioral stimulations, rationales, mentalistic hedges, situational ethics, social loyalties and communal shibbo­leths--all these large named states of mental being go where they belong--into the waste heap. For in the end all you have remaining is your “will”. All that re­mains is your choice of free will. How many free will choices will you make before you make the ultimate one? How many have you already made? I speak of choices without outside stimuli or background in memory; without any push from acquired tastes and persuasions--without any impetus from a desire to live or die--for at some point you will actually be indifferent to both. At some point in this journey you will be as the mouse who sits equidistant from his favorite cheeses and yet starves to death because he cannot decide which way to go.

 

Ah, but the paradox, on the one hand, free will is a reality and you can be free to choose without “shibboleths” for criterion of a distinctive grouping--or accepted common ideas; or, on the other hand, you cannot choose “freedom” itself. There end up being only two states of being: submission to God and goodness or the refusal to submit to anything beyond one’s own will--which refusal automatically enslaves one to the forces of evil. You must ultimately be­long either to God or the devil.

 

Every square inch and every split second in the universe is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan--there is no neutral ground even for you fence-sitters and middle-of-the-road standers--ultimately there must be a choice. You can assume that the only true state of freedom is to stand exactly halfway between God and the devil, uncommitted either to goodness or to utter selfishness--but that freedom shall be torn apart for it is intolerable and in fact, the choice is already made by the inaction toward either.

 

RECOGNIZING THE DIS-EASE

 

Realize, please, that in accepting a situation as existing and the ability to label that situation gives some amount of power over it. So far “evil” as a state of being is unnamed in your lexicons--you “feel” certain emotions and instinctive “feelings” in the presence of the energy--revulsion, dread and unease. However, the emotional range is too large to actually categorize by explicit guidelines, just as is goodness.

 

You cannot, however, even begin to deal with a disease until you identify it. The help or treatment of an illness begins with its very diagnosis. But what of evil? Can it ever be defined as “illness”? The people labeled evil are rarely crazy or mad. They are not babbling, drooling or demented in a defined sense.

 

At this point I wish to interrupt this thought to allow you to ponder something. Very often when an extremely evil person is taken away from his setting of evil doing--let us say, arrested and cast into prison, there is often an extreme change to God. This is by no means “always” but is especially evident in young Satanists who are caught in the emotional “high” of a moment. Why do you believe this to be so? Because the devil energy is through with them--they have outlived their usefulness and contribution ability. GOD NEVER TURNS AWAY NO MATTER HOW LATE THE HOUR NOR THE ACTIONS BEFORE THE RETURN TO GRACE. Further, removed from the constant bombardment of the hypnotic “spell” of the evil lords and the company of the band of hoodlums--reality returns vision and perspective. Evil must feed on itself to survive--remove the food source and the entity can return to a sem­blance of order and balance.

 

THERE IS SOMETHING YOU WHO WOULD CAST BLAME, MUST KNOW. THE CHOICES TOWARD EVIL ARE WILLINGLY MADE REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND FURTHER, NOTHING WHICH IS COMMITTED IN A STATE OF HYPNOTIC TRANCE IS BEYOND THE CAPABILITY OF THAT INDIVIDUAL IN A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THIS IS ABSOLUTE!

 

Well, it is obvious that you cannot place a medical diagnosis upon evil--for then you would need diagnose good as a disease. You have quite a gathering of humanity upon earth at this time and you can look at a few outstanding potentials.

 

There are a sufficient number of people in all cultures and at all times who have achieved in their full adulthood a kind of gracefulness of existence so that you can generally say of them: “They have become truly ‘human’.” By that description it would indicate that their lives actually touch on the divine. You can study those people and examine their characteristics and find that they are wise, aware, enjoy life with fervor, yet face and accept death; they not only work productively but creatively, and they obviously love their fellow human beings, whom they lead with a benignity of both intent and result.

 

You will observe, however, that most people are so crippled in body and spirit that they cannot possibly ever attain such a lofty condition even through their best efforts without massive therapeutic assistance. Among these latter crip­pled legions--the mass of suffering humanity--the evil reside, the most pitiable of all humanity. Man will require that their own bodies become infirm that the choices seem to be taken from their own control--however, it is equally as obvi­ous that the very act of such is having made “the choice”. Ones victimize themselves and, of course, it is mostly at a level beyond that which the consciousness understands. These results can be traced back to causative factors within the individual’s experience, let us example; a person has an at­tack of asthma every time they feel ignored, stressed, isolated or uncared for. Are they victims? They are victimized by self; their motives, failures, and choices are deeply and intimately involved in the creation of their injuries and diseases. Although ones who have these psychosomatic illness all have a degree of responsibility for their condition, you still consider them ill. But evil fits no such category so it is difficult to classify it as an illness--for it fits both the category of cause and effect.

 

Evil in an individual can almost always be traced to some extent to his or her childhood circumstances, the sins of the parents and the nature of their heredity. Yet evil is always a choice one has made--indeed a whole series of choices. We do not speak here of “justification of choices”; we simply must recognize “choice” involvement.

 

Well, if you can “diagnose” evil it must indicate illness or disease which is any defect in the structure of your bodies or personalities that prevents you from fulfilling your potential as a human being. BUT, OFTEN EVIL ONES DO FULFILL THEIR POTENTIAL IN A MOST HORRENDOUS MANNER.

 

Further, there is no medical cure for evil. To cure evil requires a final choice to turn from evil into goodness. It is however necessary that the phenomenon be looked at most carefully for if evil is indeed an illness, it should then become a research project like any other disease. But it actually only requires a choice of action and no amount of forcing of “treatment” will change an iota of the status of the so-called patient, any more than all the forcing of evil upon a truly good person will change his intent. Well, both evil and goodness can be labeled as diseases--the ultimate diseases for it is in the state of one or the other that a man will pass from one dimension into that of another and will further decide where the entity is destined to function in that “other” dimension. Ah, yes, it is most confusing and yet most cut and dried (I believe is your suitable statement). Ones will either move into the ultimate separation from God or to oneness with God--or a zillion choices of in-between experiences at differing levels of soul growth. It will ultimately be, however, individual choice--meanwhile the higher energies are drawing up sides and you, friend, will make your choice! So be it and selah.

 

Let us leave this writing as the session has been quite long enough for the ab­sorbing. We shall continue after a break.

 

I move to stand-by that you might summon me when you are prepared to continue.

 

I AM SANANDA OF GOD

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