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Let us take a few moments to explore the distinction between Transcendence and Transformation. There are certainly some similarities, at least on the surface, and yet the essence of these two actions or intentions, although they might seem the same, can produce different results.
We come to a point, even though we are someone identified with an individual consciousness, that we also begin to know that we are a part of all things, and this awareness of connectedness with all creation becomes the basis of the distinction between Transcendence and Transformation.
As an individual, it is quite understandable that you might seek to get away from or go beyond human experiences that might produce pain or discomfort. It is also quite reasonable that as you choose to go beyond these painful experiences that you also desire produce joy or bliss for yourself. But you see what happens here is that we become overly attached to this joyful state we have created and become somewhat wrapped up in our own little cocoon a blissfulness. The questions then come up “What happens to love; what happens to compassion; what happens to human understanding?”
Transformation is much more of a commitment to raise the vibration of that which we perceive in lower form so that higher forms may be reached by all beings. I do not lose or escape from natural human emotions that might be part of my relationship to you and you're perceived difficulties, but instead of either getting overly wrapped up in them in a personal way or pretending they are not there, I can begin to choose to see you differently. I can choose to see you beyond your pain, beyond your difficulty. To use the books wording, “I Know Who You Are.”
There is a similarity in these two energies because in some ways when I am involved with transformation I am involved with the process of raising up, of going beyond my limited perception and yet my purpose and intention is not to get away from or ignore the feelings or components of negativity, but you hold them in love so that my perception of the thing as well as the thing itself can move to a higher vibration and be transformed.
We might create or equate the idea of transcendence with “getting high,” and we have all sorts of methods for achieving that goal. What we do not realize is that we create a whole other set of values attempting to keep this process of getting high continually moving and another whole set of values or information to avoid bringing us down. We then become either overtly or very subtly attached to both the method and the means and lose much of our focus on what it is that my soul decided to do here in the first place.
The way Ram Dass put it was is that “There is a tremendous difference between getting high and getting free. (NOtice we do not say, I am high; we say I am free!) In the spiritual Realm as reflected by Mahayana Buddhism, there can be no freedom unless everyone is free.
It is my love and compassion for you, whether it is spoken or demonstrated out loud or within, that also opens the door for your personal transformation. Even though, at the depths of our being, separateness and everything that flows from it-- anger, fear, discord-- is essentially an illusion does not mean we should ignore it. My compassion for you as well as for myself is charged with the realization that you and I are caught within an illusion.(and this is an aspect of my chosen learning). Paradoxically, when I realize I am in an illusion is when I can release it. I can also release my image or my perception of you as being trapped and raise the vibration of my vision to know you was a Divine Child of God. The mystic Gurdjieff stated, “You have to realize you are in prison before you can get out.”
Transformation in some ways is the realization of a Truth that has already existed.
Much of tonight's lesson consisted of reminders and practical information of taking responsibility for our creations and while doing so realizing that we have the power to transform those creations. We approach this knowing as individuals and yet we are also encouraged to be aware that we also create from a racial or group consciousness. This awareness can be a double-edged sword because if we are living in our personality self it feels as if we are taking on the burden of an entire society and we, along with a very few others, seem to be the only ones who are who are holding our candle up and we wonder, through our individual consciousness, how can I possibly in change or transform all this overwhelming inertia that I feel from all of these other individuals or institutions that I am a part of.
Those are all excellent questions and challenges while living in separate identities and personality consciousness. However, we are continually encouraged to recognize and realize that is not Who We Are.
In the realm of Spirit, in the realm of alignment with your true or Divine self, there is no comparison of numbers; there is no reality that says “more is better.” The Divine states emphatically that when you are living in alignment with this higher vibration consciousness that all creation is affected and all creation is transformed.
“When a culture realizes itself as liberating, everything that exists within the culture may understand liberation. ” This is the awareness of Divine consciousness.
This is the separate personality:
“But each culture on this plane is still informed by the action of fear, as was prescribed for it. If you believe that your safety as a country is predicated upon the weakness of every other country, you are operating in fear and will seek to suppress the liberation of every other country. “But we don’t like what they do, we don’t believe as they believe, and we must be right, we have to be right, to support the identity that we collectively agree to.”
When we are living in this limited consciousness, Transformation seems impossible.
A country of love; a country where we legitimately care about one another.
I often wonder what it would be like if the platform of a political party read something like this:
Blessed are the peacemakers...
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice…
Here is a good example of our work. The small self or the separate personality would look upon statements like the above as being impossible. “War and injustice are inevitable” it would say, and would offer up all sorts of examples to prove that.
How easy it is to fall into that sense of this “inevitable” negativity and be overpowered by the weight of it all.
We explored some practical issues around our idealization of the military. We are not here to ignore or deny the heroic efforts of many, however, on the deepest level, you might see the many battles and wars are there for the sole reason to make us feel safe, and it as we have heard and seen so often, the only real safety lies within. As long as my safety is dependent upon externals, there will never be enough; there will always be in need for a bigger bomb or a or a bigger Army.
We are not even suggesting getting into arguments or debates about those who believe differently than we do, however, there are ways and means that we are working with today that helped to allow us to not only be at peace and also bring peace to those around us even if they might not realize it.
In the book we often State “I know who I am I know what I am I know how I serve I am here I am here I am I am free I am free I am free.” We can also repeat that to ourselves and for those whom we are with-- I Know Who You Are, etc.
We have also been gifted by that wonderful form of Hawaiian healing with the simple mantra spoken out loud when we are by ourselves or to quietly ourselves when we are with others, “I love you I'm so sorry please forgive me thank you.” (If you are not familiar with this practice, visit this web site--it will fill you in.
“The claim “you are free, you are free, you are free” may be said to anyone—underline the word anyone—and it will“still be true at the expression level of the True Self because the True Self cannot be incarcerated, is not hidden in a cave, and the recognition of it that you may bring to anyone else will support their realization of their inherent freedom.”
“On this day I choose to realize myself in a collective field of love. The collective field of love exists beyond any illusions of fear or separation that my small self might endow it with. And this collective field is connected to a larger field that I understand as my community, and then my country. As I align that the being that I am is in support of the whole, I can claim the liberation of the country I live in, and, in fact, the whole civilization of the world as in liberation. And here are the words I will use: You are free. You are free. You are free.”
It is important to know that we are still speaking of transformation here. Because of that we are not denying the basic human needs for shelter or food or sustenance that might still exist. I believe that is what Jesus meant when he said “the poor you always have with you.” I do not have to see you as poor, I do not even have to see you in need, but I can see it as being helpful both to you and to me if I were to share with you this extra loaf of bread I have.
“We are speaking of liberation on a high level, and the knowing of the True Self in its full expression, which cannot align to the violence or fear-based choices that have been made throughout history to define a culture, or a country, or a community, or perhaps even a family.”
This last section can become a little intellectual and even somewhat mysterious, but I think it is there to satisfy some of our natural human curiosity. This person of Melchizedek, shows up a couple of times in the Bible; once in what is called the Old Testament later in one of the Epistles of Paul. I'm going to share with you a reference from a book that is called The Secret History of the World. And even know this might produce more questions than answers it might help to satisfy some of our natural curiosity.
AFTER HIS STAY IN EGYPT ABRAHAM moved westwards, towards the region we know today as Palestine. He had to arm and train his servants to rescue his brother who had been captured by local bandits. Following a fierce and bloody fight, he was walking through a valley (which today’s biblical scholars identify with the Kidron Valley), when he met a strange individual called Melchizedek. As with Enoch, there is just a brief mention of Melchizedek in the Bible but an accompanying sense of the numinous and of something important left unsaid. Genesis 14: 18-20: ‘And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him and said “Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.” This sense of the numinous is reinforced by a mysterious passage in the New Testament, Hebrews 6.20-7.17: ‘Jesus was made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom Abraham also gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation King of righteousness and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually … Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For he testifieth Thou art a priest forever under the order of Melchizedek.’
Booth, Mark. The Secret History of the World . The Overlook Press. Kindle Edition.
“The understanding of the what that we are has been an issue here. Are we divine beings, ascended masters? Are we Melchizedek? Are we the Christ? The way you would delineate the who that we are in most ways would seek to conform to what you want us to be. Are we your angels? Are we your Guides? In truth, we are the True Self, the highest self that may be known in manifestation. As we were once in form, and most of us were, we learned the lessons of this plane and we assumed ourselves, as a result of these lessons, in a higher octave to support the evolution of humanity. The Melchizedek tribe or priesthood, if you wish, is sequential. We are always present on this plane in this work. We have agreed to it and we do this for our own benefit as well.
Our realization of this plane in manifestation of the Kingdom or Christ consciousness as available to all and present as what you are has been our calling, our instruction, our reason for being in this encounter for as long as there has been time. There have been civilizations existing on this planet “The understanding of the what that we are has been an issue here. Are we divine beings, ascended masters? Are we Melchizedek? Are we the Christ? The way you would delineate the who that we are in most ways would seek to conform to what you want us to be. Are we your angels? Are we your Guides? In truth, we are the True Self, the highest self that may be known in manifestation. As we were once in form, and most of us were, we learned the lessons of this plane and we assumed ourselves, as a result of these lessons, in a higher octave to support the evolution of humanity. The Melchizedek tribe or priesthood, if you wish, is sequential. We are always present on this plane in this work. We have agreed to it and we do this for our own benefit as well.
Our realization of this plane in manifestation of the Kingdom or Christ consciousness as available to all and present as what you are has been our calling, our instruction, our reason for being in this encounter for as long as there has been time. There have been civilizations existing on this planet prior to what you know. We were there and participatory to them. Many of the teachings of our times “were sacrificed, or lost in the sands of time, in the ruins of things that will never be found again. But the consciousness that we hold is still present. The frequency that we hold has been emboldened in many ways by the transition of this plane that you live in. And the echo of our teaching throughout the decades, throughout the centuries or millennium, is as present now, but may be heard by those of you who are willing to say, “Yes, it will be so.”
In Love and Gratitude
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