The
spiritual path should make you more free, not less free
A message from Arcturus. This dictation was delivered during the Shangra-la
Peace conference near Stockholm, Sweden, October 1, 2006.
I AM the Elohim of the Seventh Ray. Arcturus is my name. I come to congratulate
you with a work well done and a victory won. And as a prize for your
work, for your coming together in oneness, I have decided to add a certain
multiplication factor to all of the new Mother Mary rosaries that are
given on this continent of Europe or by people who have an affiliation
with Europe even though they might be living elsewhere.
Thus, these
rosaries given from this point forward, and including the ones given
throughout this conference, will be multiplied by me, by a factor that
I will not disclose, but which is significant. This is done because
I too see what El Morya, Saint Germain, Jesus and the Buddha have explained,
that there is a change that needs to take place in Europe and that it
is close and therefore can be helped by an extraordinary momentum of
the violet flame of freedom that I indeed am.
True freedom in beyond duality
Thus, I come to give you a little discourse on the true meaning of freedom.
Truly, as the Buddha has explained, there is a point where you attain
the oneness with God’s absolute reality. You take the concept
of right beyond the level where right has to be in opposition to wrong.
And so it is with every God quality, every flame of God, that it can
be taken beyond duality. And so, my beloved, when you look at the situation
on this planet, you will see that so far freedom has always been defined
in opposition to, in comparison to, slavery, imprisonment, limitations.
Yet there is a freedom, a level of freedom, that is beyond duality and
thus has no opposite. It is not defined in relation to anti-freedom.
And this, of course, is true freedom. For you know that there is nothing
that can take away that freedom, nothing that can oppose it, nothing
whatsoever that can bring it into question.
And my beloved, it should not be difficult for you to see that this
is the freedom that all of us in the Ascended Host want you to attain.
And we want you to attain it while you are still in embodiment. Because
when you do so, you then become the open door, whereby the Flame of
Freedom and the entire momentum of freedom of all the masters, angels
or Elohim who serve on the Seventh Ray of Freedom can pour through you
and thereby consume those energies and forces and ideas of anti-freedom
that have enslaved humankind for so long. And have indeed enslaved the
entire planet, dragging Mother Earth into the dirt of living in a state
of limitation and lack of freedom that is so far beyond God the Father’s
original vision for God the Mother’s manifestation in the matter
universe that it is indeed amazing that human beings can continue to
accept these limitations without realizing, acknowledging, accepting
that there is a better way, without crying out, “There must be
more to life than this?”
Freedom in Europe
Ah my beloved, you do indeed see a continent where many nations have
reached a very high level of material comfortability that could be the
foundation for material freedom, but is not because people have become
so entrapped by the pleasures of this world, by the pressures of this
world to perform, to do more, to always be in a hurry, to be here, there
and everywhere at the same time, so there is never any time or attention
left over to sit down and just Be.
Think about how people’s attention is constantly pulled in all
directions, pulling them away from themselves, pulling them away from
focusing their attention on the heart. Ah my beloved, if you cannot
connect to the Flame of Freedom in your heart, how can you be truly
free? Even if you have political freedom, even if you have all the money
you could possibly need, so that you can do virtually anything in the
material world. If you do not have a connection in your heart to the
spiritual flame of freedom, how can you be free? Thus, you see people
who from a worldly perspective have great worldly freedom, yet they
are not free. They are some of the most enslaved people on this planet,
for even though they have great abundance they are so afraid of losing
it that they do not have a moment of peace where they can sense the
inner freedom.
Truly, we desire all people to overcome this but we especially desire
the most spiritual people to overcome those pressures in your own mind
or those pressures from your environment that are pulling you away from
the centeredness of the heart that is the true key to freedom. So my
beloved, I admonish you to look in the mirror, take stock of your own
life and your own spiritual path. Has the spiritual path become another
trap that takes away your freedom, your inner peace? Has it become a
burden? Has it become a race where you run constantly with your tongue
hanging out of your mouth, feeling so exhausted, so stressed-out that
you have not obtained this, that you have not done that, that you always
feel like you are coming from behind?
My beloved, it is indeed good to have a goal but it is not good if that
goal becomes a cause for stress, if you feel so burdened by not having
attained your goal that you cannot enjoy the journey towards the goal,
or if you feel that you must work harder to obtain that goal and thereby
do not have the inner peace that is the key to attaining the true goal
of spiritual enlightenment. Jesus said it well, “What shall it
profit a man if he attains the whole world but loses his soul.”
What shall it profit you if you do this or do that on the spiritual
path yet lose your inner peace, your inner freedom?
We have seen this in several organizations we have sponsored directly
and in many other churches or spiritual organizations. Where people
become so focused on the outer path of doing this or doing that, that
instead of gradually becoming more and more free, they actually become
more and more imprisoned because they turn the spiritual path into a
race against the clock or against dark forces or against this or against
that. Or they turn it into a race of comparing themselves to other people,
feeling that if they are doing this or that outer thing, then they must
be more spiritual than others.
Yet in the process of doing all these outer things, they become so stressed
out and burdened that they can barely bear the strain. And so comes
the temptation of the ego to judge based on appearances and say that,
“If other people are not doing for the ascended masters as I am
doing, if they are not as burdened or are suffering as much as I am
suffering, then they are not truly making progress on the path. They
are not truly helping the ascended masters. They are not truly as spiritual
as I am.”
The key to fulfilling your spiritual mission
Yet my beloved, as the Buddha so clearly explained and as anyone who
studies the life of the Buddha can see, the key to his spiritual mission
was to attain inner peace. And I must tell you that no one –
no one – can fulfill their spiritual mission without attaining
the inner peace that comes from non-attachment, the non-attachment that
leads to true freedom, a freedom that is not defined in relation to
anti-freedom but is truly free, free of all sense of having to do this
or having to do that based on a human standard or a human evaluation.
So my beloved, look in the mirror and evaluate. Is my path giving me
stress that takes me away from inner freedom or am I truly moving closer
to freedom? And if you see that you are becoming burdened, then be not
afraid to step back and change your approach and your actions. For my
beloved, certainly in order to escape the mass consciousness you need
a certain steadfastness. You need to plow through and continue to do
the right thing until you break through and manifest results. Nevertheless,
this should not be interpreted to mean that you have to keep doing the
same thing for the rest of your life if it takes you away from inner
peace.
There is certainly a point where one should step back and say, “Is
it time to do something different? Is it time to change my approach?”
And those who are not willing to do that but think they have to continue
to do what they decided one or two or five or ten years ago, they are
the ones who are actually refusing to exercise Christ discernment, to
follow their inner direction. And then how can they ever attain freedom,
if they are not willing to follow the inner direction that is the only
key to being free.
For you see, my beloved, the intellect, the outer mind, can never give
you freedom. For the outer mind and the intellect can only operate in
the level of duality. And in the level of duality freedom is defined
in opposition to anti-freedom and thus freedom can be obtained only
by forcing back the anti-freedom. And that means that even though you
can establish a certain freedom, you must constantly push back the anti-freedom.
But the freedom that we desire you to have is the freedom of rising
above that level of duality, where you think you have to push against
an opposing force. Where you transcend the level of opposing forces
and you are truly free in the eternal, timeless sense that does not
depend on time and space. Because even though you still maintain a physical
body, you are not limited to time and space. You know you are more.
And you know that all these appearances are only temporary projections
on the screen of life.
This, my beloved, is true freedom. It is the freedom of the seventh
ray. And indeed the seventh ray is in polarity with the first ray. Which
is why I will now withdraw and allow the chohan of the first ray to
give you further teachings on freedom.
NOTE: This
dictation was immediately followed by El
Morya.
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