How do we approach God?

Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk — you try too hard, friend — drop to your knees and listen, he'll hear you better that way (Terri Guillemets)

Would You like to comment on this? 

Perhaps you can do the kick off? 

Oh, of course.

Well, I'm good at that, to show off to reach You, and pull out all the stops in my attempts to hear You. And because of this, of course, I block everything, force the communication and do not hear You or hear You badly. I know God, I know. And probably every human being does.  Is it not?

Almost every human being does that. An endless trying and forcing and getting also a lot of bells and whistles out of the closet because man thinks that God needs it to be able to communicate. And everything hinders communication except this: kneeling and listening.

Kneeling stands for doing nothing and trying nothing and wanting nothing but waiting and putting the ego aside. 

And listening stands for not asking, not wanting to enforce and not demanding.  

Blessed the man who does not, and even more so if he does. 

My blessings to you all

No 494

God is very close

"Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience ... to find God and attempt communion with him."  (Uriantiabook. Paper 5, § 0 page 62) 

Would You like to comment on this? 

 

Is there one topic more important than this, my son, so I'm happy to do so. 

 

Every religion is a detour.

Every guru or vicar or iman is a detour.

Every spiritual book is a detour.

Every faith is a detour.

Every house of worship or temple is a detour.

 

The direct way is reaching God in the inner self.

And God waits for this direct communication and settles for the final moment after the detours of man. And until that moment, God settles for the necessary tools on man's path from ape to spirit, from matter to the spiritual world, from searching for God outside himself to finding God in one's own inner self.

And you for yourself, My son, goes to churches and places of worship, and talks to your fellow man about faith, and uses things to get closer to God, such as candles and statues and incense and other sacred means, but they’re not necessary. I'm waiting for you inside you and I want to communicate with you, but you still need the petty human means, and I accept that and I understand that, but they're not necessary. When is the moment when you for always settle for the shortest and most direct path, namely for the realization that I am in your inner self and that I am waiting there for you.

In the meantime, be blessed in all your efforts. 

 

My blessings to you all

No 493 

 

The difficulties of life and counting blessings

Me and many others find that there are a lot of problems in the world nowadays: Corona, terror attacks, an economic crisis, an uncertain future, refugees you name it. But now I'm reading a book that plays out in the Middle Ages. The cruelty, the ignorance, the prejudices, the poverty, the diseases, it really is many times worse than nowadays. Well, except for the environmental crisis, that's a thing.

Is it true, My God, that the worries of life are really less than in early days?

My son, you live in heaven compared to the Middle Ages. So it would be nice if you put the difficulties into perspective a little bit, if you counted your blessings more, if you were better armed against what is going on now. Over the past five centuries, life has become infinitely better for the majority of people. Not only physically, materially and in terms of health, but also in terms of education, freedoms and righteousness, you almost all live in heaven, compared to the hell of the Middle Ages. Count your blessings and do not fear of trouble. Your ancestors really had a tougher life. I'm not saying you're spoiled, but I'm saying you're very blessed these days. Rejoice more about that.   

My blessings to you all

No 492

Every choice and every action contribute to your spiritual home

The pursuit of the ideal—the striving to be Godlike—is a continuous effort before death and after. The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life.

Treatise103 section 5 (page 1134)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   My God, may I ask You. I was thinking about life and realized we actually choose all day long, for the small or the big, for the healthy or the unhealthy, for the good or the bad, for the loveless or the loving. And actually so to speak everything is really important and has big consequences. And at the same time, there should be no stress and tension and pressure and a sacred must, because then we become rigid fundamentalists. And then I also came across this quote from the Urantia book, which confirms that everything is really very important.  How do we reconcile all this?

Would You like to  comment on this? 

 It's a paradox, My son, and I like to comment on this. Especially since nowadays more than before people have come to believe that everything must be possible, so to speak the sacred individualism while at the same time everything has consequences, as We know.  How do you reconcile that all, and what is Our perspective from the spiritual world?  Here it  comes

First of all Our perspective because that determines your perspective, in the end. 

We view everything with great love, great patience and a lot of compassion. It is true that everything has permanently great consequences, and that you must always suffer the consequences of your actions, sooner or later. Even if you do so in the deepest secret, hidden in your own home, or in your inner self.  

But the consequences are just, the laws of God are simple and the hints of God to do the right endlessly and the patience of God as you goof, in a thousand times and endlessly.  So in a way, namely Our way, everything is fine, even if it's not fine. This sentence is very important, My son, 

everything is fine, even if it is not fine.

Because the consequences, the corrections, the perspectives and the correct course of action are already embedded in the failure to act properly. Unconditionally and accurately.   

And now your perspective.

So everything you do always has great consequences, because there is no sparrow falling off the roof and God will know of it. Everything you do is extremely important. It is literally a permanent building of your spiritual home. You are contributing constantly to your spiritual dwelling with all your thoughts, all your feelings and all your actions.

And if you come to realize that you can create a ruin, but also a spiritual palace, why contribute even longer to a ruin? What is the point of destroying life by your own actions, making life ugly, planning your own future suffering. Why would you still do so? 

I like to mention the remark of a married woman who mused about possible infidelity because she ran into a nice other man. She spoke the winged words: "When I consider what an anguish I call over my loved ones and myself when I go into this possible infidelity, I recline and realize that I am not in favour of it and do not want to do so”.  

And that would be a nice approach for all of you, if you deal with this paradox. Do you want to accept the consequences of your pernicious actions for the environment and for yourself? And if that's what you want and you are doing the pernicious thing, then it's fine as well. Not immediately, but it'll be fine later on, after some suffering. And that’s an euphemism.

My blessings to you all

No 491

Loneliness can induce purification

My friend Merel also has a line up to the spiritual world and heard on a good day, when she was musing about her life and her being alone so often: "Loneliness can lead to purification". Would You like to comment on this? 

That's what I like to do. 

She has been alone a lot during that period and that can be hard to come by, because man is not made to be alone. But her My God whispered to her this sentence and that was also a comfort to her.  

 

For how can man come to himself, to his heart, to God when there are crowds all day long and people and sounds outside distracting from what’s happening in the inner world?

How can the sound of silence, the gentle hints of the inner self, the inner-ish voice of God be perceived otherwise than in solitude?

Didn't you for the first time in the same way only hear me in a big moment of desolation? 

Man can find God in the other, but really accomplish the subtle communication with God only well in being alone.  This contact with God is one of the aspects of purification. The other aspects are subject for another blog. 

Merel is blessed. 

 

My blessings to you all

No 490 

God, who comes to rest in man (W.H. Auden)

 I read a poem by W.H. Auden, "At Schrafft"'and this part struck me:

 

Having finished the Blue-plate Special

And reached the coffee stage,

…A somewhat shapeless figure

of indeterminate age

… our globular furore,

…Which of the seven heavens

Was responsible her smile

Wouldn’t be sure but attested

…That, whoever it was, a god

Worth kneeling-to for a while

Had tabernacled and rested

At the end of that blog (check blog label W.H. Auden) you said; 

God, Who comes to rest in man. This is worth a separate blog, My son.

You then responded to this poem by Auden, Would You like to comment on this now?  

That's what I like to do. Commenting the sentence “God who comes to rest in man”. 

 

God works on the evolution of planets, plant species, animal species and of the intelligent being, man, who becomes the crowning glory of creation. A being who finally consciously and passionately will kneel before God and then recognizes what God has accomplished.  

 

God who waits so many years for this moment, and labours, and tries, and gives, and hopes, and beckons, and bestows and loves and searches for man.  

 

And then there is that man, however void and unsightly, who kneels before God and focuses on God and recognizes God and only then lives in truth at that beautiful and scarce moment.  

 

And then God visits this man.

And God can then rest in a certain way in the sanctuary of man.

And God gets recognition of Its work and knows that it has been accomplished, and that is so together with man. Everything is so accomplished, everything that has been sought for has been achieved. For a moment there is the Kingdom of God on earth. For a moment, creation has come to its senses. For a moment, God can rest and enjoy. Yes in the temple of man, built by man, reached by man, desired by man, and visited by God.

That's where God can rest.  

My blessings to you all

No 489

Mother Nature's spectacular sacrifice

My God, I want to ask You.

Again about Mother Nature, about what is happening on earth now. 

It is utterly terrible and hopeless what is happening in nature, at the hands of mankind. I don't even have the appetite to mention it because it's been mentioned so many times in all sorts of blogs. But I mean, of course, the total pollution and destruction and the massively propagating destructive mankind. I'm sorry I've been a bit of a misanthrope lately. My burning question now is, "How does Mother Nature stand as a spiritual greatness in the face of all this. 

I know your question stems from feeling sorry for Mother Nature. Don't have that, my good son, because then you make Her small and human and victimized, and she's not. But I like to answer your question. 

She is a wonderful force and of great power, Mother Nature. She is a Spirit of incredible beauty and strength, and one of the main powers on earth. This age-old wise and patient spirit that works longer than you realize on the growth and flowering of nature on this lonely planet, knows of it all. And she's not surprised, she's patient. She sacrifices herself these last five hundred years and the centuries to come, and undergoes mankind and her works. She is in this all not a victim, but willingly and deliberately participating in the demise of her current rich state. She sacrifices herself because, while she cooperates with joy, she knows about the phase after. Now there is the phase of a mass birth of new spiritual beings who, as evolutionary monkeys, in Her bosom, may acquire eternity. It's an act of pure love. And She serves God and the planned harvest of billions of new evolutionary beings. That's one aspect of her decisiveness. Know, My son, that She is doing all this out of pure love for God and Its darling, man.

But there's more. Although She sacrifices Herself, seeing thousands of plant and animal species lost on earth for which She has worked for millions of years. And She is witnessing one of the greatest pollutions in the history of the earth.  But know that this is not the first Total Pollution. There have been devastating pollutions before, and not caused by mankind, and the evolution of the earth has already caused a great deal with heat waves, tidal waves or volcanic eruptions. This is the normal price of evolution on a planet.

But there is another side to the story that fits 100% into the "self-interest" of Mother Nature. This sacrifice now, this act of love, is always grandiosely rewarded by God. And Mother Nature knows this. She will create out of destruction a new nature, of such incredible beauty, you cannot realize that. This new nature will be accompanied by an explosion of new plant and animal species, literally at a higher level of energy than the current species. The species will be more refined, eat each other less and radiate more spiritual beauty. And so these new species themselves with Mother Nature will come closer to the paradise state of the spiritual world. For in the end, the Earth must become a planet of Light and Love with the highest energetic radiance possible on an evolutionary planet.

Perhaps I should give examples of  more “sophisticated” species? And know that I do so with the utmost love and respect without judgment of any kind about any species. Think of a palm tree compared to a beech tree.

Think of a grass compared to a rose.  

Think of a Tyrannosaurus Rex compared to a hummingbird.

Think of a path compared to a bird of paradise.

Think of a hyena compared to a fallow deer.

In other words, Mother Nature will use this total destruction as an instrument in her spiritual development towards a perfect world of Life in which no one or nothing will be eaten by each other. That is the state of a planet of Light and Love.  And in the meantime, she is looking forward to all her physical creations, the past and the present and the future. In Her eyes this all is a timeless and total explosion of life and love, in the name of God. 

My blessings to you all

No 488