've only been nudging, not nagging you to receive this message. Yes, it's for the book.

This is a time for rejoicing! The polar extremes in what you call "human nature" have been reached. By universal law, nothing is static for a nanosecond, and the momentum has started to return Earth to the state of balance wherein the extremes will be reconciled. This does not mean perfection, that sublime state that exists only within Creator, as your planet will continue to be a learning placement for souls. But the violence, starvation, disease, cruelty-all the devastation caused to Earth and all her life forms by the will of the darkness-will continue to lessen until all are planetary history, and this is to happen quickly.

Earth will be restored to her former paradise self as she is rising into higher vibrations-this is assured! The critical question still is:Will you accompany her? And the answer still is, you will if you have enough light to physically survive in those higher vibrations. The choice is yours-that's good news, and there doesn't have to be any bad news unless you consider that absorbing enough light for your personal ascension isn't automatic. You have some work to do.

Too many of you still don't see what is so essential-it's going to take some doing on your part to straighten out the mess your world is in. Yes, other civilizations all over "space" are in this with you-you wouldn't be alive there if they weren't-but it is not their world, it is YOURS. They can't just pull the strings they know would swiftly return my beloved Gaia to health and rouse all the sleepyheads into remembering who they really are. That isn't their responsibility. It isn't even their prerogative. However benevolent and powerful those light civilizations are, they can only help you-they cannot do it all. This is the law of the universe, not an arbitrary cut-off line.

Moreover, what you do affects the entire universe. You are putting out energy with every idea or action, and the motives behind those carry an intensity that most of you don't understand. Energy is neutral in this-it acts only in accordance with what you attach to it, and that is determined by your motives and intentions. So not only do you have the choice to uplift your home planet or not, you have the choice to do the same for the universe.

Regardless of your individual choices, Earth is going back into the higher vibrations where she was created and she would love to have all of you go along, but that decision isn't hers-it's YOURS! She has her free will and you have yours-it's that simple.

Free will is Creator's gift to all souls. Some have misused this gift, foremost to the detriment of their own soul evolution, but with fallout to billions of other souls to whom the few are denying the exercise of that same gift. I'm not overlooking the fact that karmic experiencing is part of what is happening. It is in the many, many cases where this is not what is happening that the situation is being corrected in this unprecedented era throughout the universe.

Even though this universe is my domain, I'm bound to honor Creator's laws, and usurping or denying the free will of others is against one of those laws. So it's my responsibility to get this situation back on track and I can't do it without help. Maybe I'd better elucidate a bit here or I'll make myself look like a wimp, which I'm not.

I have explained that I am each of my parts regardless of their station spiritually, and as parts of me, each is loved equally regardless of free will choices, even when those choices are against their own spiritual evolvement because they're interfering with the free will of others. Your religions have defined what "sins" are. Not correctly, though. The ONLY "sin" is interfering with the growth of a soul, whether it is one's own soul or others' souls. Furthermore, "sin" is simply an error. It's not what some religious dogmas have judged as evil or as a wrongdoing that can be atoned by performing a prescribed ritual-and certainly not by a sentence of death!

If you didn't make errors, you wouldn't be on Earth-you'd be somewhere among the angels or highly spiritually evolved civilizations.

Earth is your school ground-it's one of many, even some you know but don't remember-and it's a good one. The idea is to learn from what you perceive as errors so you can avoid more of the kinds of decisions and actions that are harmful to your soul's growth and often to others' as well. You were given a conscience so you can know when you are aligned with your soul-level contract and when you are straying from it. But a conscience, like anything else that is ignored time and time and time again, goes away or atrophies from lack of use.

Along with learning from the karmic circumstances you chose for bringing balance to your souls' experiencing, you are just as free to make choices that aren't in your soul-level agreements and thus not in your best interests. I cannot impinge upon your individual choices-nor would I want to! I just wish you would use your free will wisely. I can't take sides in a great conflict, either, because even though I am all of you, I am foremost EACH of you. I am as strong as the strongest and as weak as the weakest. As the amalgamation of all my independent yet inseparable parts, I cannot act to change or exclude even one. Balance is what all souls are aiming for because within balance is the spiritual strength of reconciled polarity-that's another of Creator's laws-and I am only as strong as my parts that have achieved this status. So you see, all of my children collectively determine my strength.

There, Suzy, that should take care of explaining why I need help, and now I shall get on with what I have been leading up to. I requested you to state right up front in the last book that these books are not political forums. That still is so, but I cannot ignore this topic of politics because that is what has been running your world-mostly running it into the ground!-almost from the beginning. Not necessarily by that name, but by that ideology, where the strongest rule over the masses. That can be done wisely, benevolently, with the strong uplifting the weaker to the benefit of all. But instead, what I see is greater and greater political oppression to the detriment of all. The politics that controls all countries, all peoples, all economies and resources of your planet homeland has been instrumental in bringing your world to the devastated state it's in.

In no country on Earth are people free. For millennia the dark souls of civilizations beyond your planet have been influencing their willing Earth brothers and sisters in leadership positions to deceive and intimidate the rest of the people. Regardless of who holds national leadership roles, they rule by the dictates of those forces that are unknown to the people and perhaps even to the rulers. The influence of those dark alien puppeteers has resulted in all declarations of war and all decisions regarding economies and resources of the world. Their secondary aim is increasing the control and wealth of Earth's leaders, whose greed for power makes them eager puppets, thus today you have a world with unprecedented concentration of vast riches, impoverished nations, willful environmental destruction and corruption oozing out of corporate connections with governments.

The ultimate aim of the puppeteers is annihilation of your planet, and even though that will not happen, for beneficial changes to come, first there must be a change in the character of your world's leaders. Voices must be raised with demands for leaders of spiritual integrity-that kind of character is exemplified, not merely proclaimed. I don't mean that no leaders ever have been strong in virtues or that no voices ever have been raised in protest of injustice and inequities-indeed there have been those individuals. Many of those brave souls suffered or died for that, and much of their good works has been undone by succeeding generations who blindly followed self-serving leaders.

Now, the collective will of the people is rising in opposition to this continuing. Lies are being exposed, more lies are coming and those will be exposed, too. Oppressive governments in all nations will change. Although plans are afoot for this peaceful revolution through a joint effort between your civilization and many of your space family, that does not absolve any of you whose desire is a finer, brighter world from the responsibility of helping to create it. You all chose to be where you are at this time precisely so you could do exactly that! Actually, some of you embodied in other lifetimes as the greatest leaders of Earth and beyond, and you are back to take on similar inspirational and constructive roles now.

I'm not being contradictory here. Yes, wonderful changes are coming as Earth is rising. But that is with or without you! If you want to go along, you need your own light!

It is on three levels that you must act so that honorable governing bodies will be achieved. The first level is spiritual, and I'll tell you what spiritual is NOT: It is not membership in any of the multitude of your religions. It is not the self-righteousness that is evident in great abundance. It is not escaping into a head-in-the-sand prayer life. It is not believing that neither good nor evil exists because those are only judgments. It is not accepting that everything is in divine order and will run its course without your participation. It is not refraining from seeing what is going on in your world because you've been told it all is an illusion. I am not saying that there is no truth in any of those; I am saying that spirituality is not inherent in any.

The spiritual level on which you will change your leaders from being ruled themselves to people worthy of being leaders-true leaders with spiritual integrity-is within your hearts. That's your usual depiction of where love resides, is it not? Actually, the sensation of love is a province of the soul, but it has strong physical effects at the heart that instantly spread throughout your entirety to uplift your spirit, mind and body.

Love starts with self, with living so that loving self is as natural as breathing. Only then can you give and receive love. Love is contagious, unlimited, omnipresent. It is what changes bleakness of spirit into fullness of spirit, illness into health, lack into prosperity. It is the absence of love that breeds all the woes of your world, and it is filling the void that will cure the woes.

This is not asking you to love what brings misery and deprivation and harm! It is asking you to simply feel love so you can send forth that energy-it will seek its way to the void.

The second level is mental-deeply thinking to discern what is truth and what isn't instead of buying into what candidates say. The catch is, what information is truthful and what is not? What sources can be trusted? You have been deceived for eons by a few souls in one generation after another after another who intend to retain the control over you, so access to the truth is not easily come by. How can I put this so it is not a series of Don'ts? Always I prefer to be positive in statements, and I've already compromised that by my explaining what being spiritual isn't.

Very well, Suzy, I know how to proceed. Think of what you want in your world. If that is peace and harmony and cooperation. that's where to focus your thoughts. What will bring that to the world? Think of what will: Respect and dignity for all races and faiths and genders; help wherever help is needed; equitable sharing of Earth's vast riches; cures of all diseases; education, fulfilling work and comfortable homes; honesty, kindness, compassion, fairness, sharing, justness, forgiveness.

Think of all those qualities and circumstances and let your heart and conscience guide you to the candidates you most closely identify with them. The words of campaign promises are worthless without a candidate's heart and soul in them. Let your heart and soul, not just your eyes and ears, lead you to the one person who embodies the love and light to uplift your world.

The third level is action. If you want to have a leader whom you trust, work toward that end. Publicly and financially support the person you want, but if that isn't possible, then put forth your intention through the power of your energy focused on that person actually being in office. I cannot emphasize too strongly the power of energy sent out with attachments of intent! You can be sure that the current people in power will be amassing the strength of their supporters' energy, because those supporters get the trickle-down largesse in exchange. You who want love, peace and harmony will receive those incomparably greater victories in exchange for the energy you issue forth to create them.

Because that grand and beautiful country called America is pivotal in determining what happens all over the planet, its 2004 presidential election is of international concern. The three levels of involvement I have just delineated apply to all people in the world as pertaining to this election. Discernment of information and energy are without national boundaries or distance limitations, so a South African or Brazilian or Chinese or Egyptian has the same power of focusing intent as any USA citizen.

That country may appear to be the haven for democracy, but that is a farce of the highest order. You may believe that legal and honest processes are observed in "democratic" elections, but it has been many, many decades since the last of those. There haven't been any honest elections anywhere else on Earth, either, but it's just not as obvious that there haven't been any in the United States, where the citizens have been duped for such a long time into believing their voices and votes count.

The men and women in the federal government are not ruling that country "with freedom and justice for all." Those are hollow words, just as the two-party system is meaningless insofar as giving voters a choice-the dark forces have influence that knows no party boundaries. Government officials who have acted in accordance with their sense of honesty and right-ness have been disposed of by one means or another. Those who are not killed are threatened with it or they are ridiculed into non-credibility or are forced into oblivion insofar as any influence. That is what has been passing as the "democratic system of government" in America.

Only with an honest voting process can the people's choices be given their true value, and you citizens of USA don't have that. Your votes are denied, ignored or manipulated to serve the interests of the "power elite," one term used to denote the few most powerful people on Earth who are controlling everything to serve themselves. If you want to have an honest election for a change, work toward that end. Investigate the voter eligibility rolls and balloting mechanisms, the people who handle the ballots, the corporation that counts them and releases the totals to the networks for announcing. I tell you, there is deception and corruption up and down the line, and curing that ill has to precede the next presidential election.

Do I endorse a candidate? No, not by name, and telling you my choice isn't what this is about. I'm ALL of the candidates, remember, and I'm not about to tell you which is YOUR choice. It's your free will decision that counts, but first you need to get an honest balloting system in place, which is NOT the case now, or your vote won't be worth a fig.

That's it, Suzy. What do you think of that for a nonpolitical message?

S: I like it because I see my choice for president fitting in there exactly. I hoped you'd name him even though I didn't really expect that. But would you comment on him, please?

GOD: He's the one with the most light.

S: Isn't that the same as he would be the best president?

GOD: It's more. He would be in the position to lead the reforms your whole world needs and he is the one who can do that. Let's talk about something else.

S: How do you feel about the President Bush part of you?

GOD: Oh, my. I saw that coming, of course, and I'm not side-stepping your question, little Suzy, but my reply isn't going to satisfy you: As a part of me and I of him, he is loved by me without reservation, just as are all of my other myriad soul parts.

S: I think that is side-stepping my question.

GOD: That is the only answer I can give. Is there another issue you'd like to talk about? I'm asking even though I know your mind is blank-well, other than a bit of annoyance.

S: I'm sorry. Would you like to talk about something else?

GOD: Sure-anything else! It's nice to see you smiling again!

S: OK, how about NESARA? [National Economic Security and Reformation Act.]

GOD: My dear, I can't do any better than what Matthew has told you. Please insert that here, and then let's call it a day.

NOTE: This conversation above is taken from the fourth Matthew Book, Voices of the Universe, that will be published in December. To find out more about Suzy Ward's 3 existing books, written in telepathic communication with her deceased son Matthew as well as several other spiritual entities, go at http://www.matthewbooks.com - Details will also be posted there as to how and when you may order the forthcoming book Voices of the Universe.

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