The suffering of the ape, the unfortunate task of the tempter (Ape of God, 3)

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest? (Mark Twain’s Autobiography)

 Man thinks the devil deliberately perseveres in his work and his attitude toward God. And yet that's only partly true. If the seducer and tempter meets a person who is a match for him, than this will evoke his rage, but somewhere deep inside him, an unconscious and deeply-felt hope will come up. For this resilient steadfast person brings the devil closer to salvation *.

For even in the devil, there is some harmlessness and innocence, there where God has put Its seed. Yes inside the devil as well, in what spiritual life God hasn’t done this? Are devils not also former angels, spiritual beings, and are they not also created by God? Aren’t they just derailed and got lost in their own desires and ideas about life? Hasn’t the devil become unwillingly the seducer of man, and will he have any work when man has been developed so far that he has grown above the devil's work? What will the devil have to do than to wonder what he is doing, what he is and what he is up to in an emptied hell?

What else does he have to do than wondering for what he lives when all his goals are solved on the planet that has become life and light?

The devil is blessed when this episode has come. For he can then choose for the long way back to the Father-Mother's House and take his rightful place between the angels or hold stubbornly to his inheritance and he will be destroyed than. And never in the cosmos will be heard from him again.

My blessings to you all

 
* The sorrows of Satan, Marie Corelli

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The tempter of man (The ape of God, 2)

Whether Lucifer has fallen, or devils are fallen angels and whether the devil tries to chop God is really not what it's all about. It's about this.
Man learns to know the contradictions of life, man finds his way in matter, man lets his free will work around in the dark corners of existence. In short, the negative is the other side of the good, evil is the backside of the good, the ugly is on earth inextricably united with the beauty, and man seeks his way, and God gives him space.

And the devil has his role in this. The role of deliverer of possibilities, the role of tester of man, the role of examiner or man will succeed in his test. The role of challenger, the ungrateful task of seducer. Doesn’t the examiner test the beginning driver during the driving exam? Does he not investigate whether one is capable of independent driving?

This is how the devil works, the tester, the judge, the confronter, the challenger, but there is more. And that's what the devil finds okay, for he really fits in the big plan.

The devil has also the task of seducing. And that's where man stumbles across in his image of the devil. Seducing is wrong, does the devil not try to bring man to the wrong path, to deduce man from God, to bring him away from the right path, to resist God?

Yes, that’s what the devil is doing, hindering God, but what's wrong with that? God is not a sissy, and Its work is the divine work on all planets and the work is proceeding according to the plan.

The devil brings man to the wrong path, and man becomes wise by all the shame.

The devil makes man do evil deeds, and this man experiences the grief and the pain and the wrath of detours to God. But what will these people become major helpers of God after all!
The devil lets the innocent man derail, the fundamentalist kill, let’s rape the innocent girl, torture the victim, pollute nature. In short, the ugly, the dirty and the evil become flesh on earth.

And God, who knows that the devil is doing this, let his ape do his thing, but never for long, never forever, never for nothing, never pointless.

For do know that evil is not there for the sake of evil, but for the sake of the good.

Thus, in crime salvation is included, in destruction is liberation included, in the negative is the positive included, in the temporal is the eternal included, and in evil the good.

It can not be otherwise.
Man beholds the moment of destruction and complains and doubts and draws false conclusions about what he experiences and what the devil does to him.

But God sees the perspective, and the usefulness and meaning of this all.

And the devil, the ape of God knows this all too well, knows that he is only temporarily ape of God, that he is only temporarily tempting, that he is only temporarily examining. And the devil knows that God knows it's all good.
The devil is blessed.

My blessings to you all

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How it all started? (The ape of God,1)

The evil in the world can be viewed in thousands of ways, now then in My way.
The ape of God, the devil, Satan, Lucifer, whatever you call him, really exists.
It is even one of the devil's works that parts of mankind no longer believe in God, and no longer believe in the devil at all.
And We in the spiritual world behold  this with great mercy. It generates in this way so many detours to God.

The devil exists, and he affects you all, and you are not aware of him.

Oh, knowingly, because unknowingly one still recognizes the tree in its fruits. Man will not be very happy under influence of the devil. One does not become very happy by following him.
Why does the devil exist, how did it all happen and will human life not be possible without such an abomination? Did God deliberately create the devil?

Here the story.

The spiritual world only knew angels created by God.
And the earth only knew death and destruction as long as it served the evolution. Is a lion evil when he kills for living? Is an earthquake destroying thousands of lives not just an episode in the development of the planet?
And the free will of man is also an item in this story. How will God not cherish this free will? God wants spiritual beings, no robots.

The cocktail of these three happenings is in every creation in the cosmos predictably explosive and always interesting .

God lets creatures evolve from clay, who will  become potentially new gods. And man with his free will has to try out this all. So with falling and rising, by harm and shame, and by losing himself completely in all that’s interesting.

This same cocktail will lead in the spiritual world into a new power, a new greatness, a new influence, a temporary creation of all that God is not: darkness, misfortune, limitation, sadness and despair. On earth, hell is the detached inner self of man and around him the world of crime and war as in a derailed society. And in the spiritual world as a temporary place of opposition and destruction.

Thus, Lucifer, the light bearer, temporarily fallen angel, becomes thus the opponent of God.
May the devil be blessed for this burden.

My blessings to you all

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ONE step towards Us and W’ll take ten steps towards you

When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. ~Morihei Ueshiba

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I love too.

This is an Easter message, this is a message of hope.
And it is really the real truth.
When man directs to the universe, when the attention of man is focused on the universe, the universe will do everything that is possible to lift this man up to the power and strength and hope and eternity of the universe.

And if God's name is pronounced thoughtfully, God responds immediately, unconditionally and lovingly. Do it and feel it, it can not miss feeling it.

Morihei Ueshiba is blessed.

My blessings to you all

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Meditating means listening to God or the cosmos

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Diana Robinson

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It is not entirely correct.

Aren’t you regularly listening while you pray? And as many of you.
And God has a lot of experience with men who meditate and are at the same time very much attaining or wanting  or desiring something, that is not much of listening.

But Diana Robinson has a point to be considered.

If man talks with God or the cosmos, let Us include the humanists, the agnostics, the Zen Buddhists in this story, then there is the simple question to every man: are you sending or receiving?
Are you asking and talking and hoping, or have you become quiet and are you listening? For a man can, and this is the case in a normal conversation between two people, only really listen when he has become quiet and when he is really willing to be open, then it really has become  listening. And then everything will be possible, one could just be able to hear the voice of God or the voice of silence.
Diana Robinson is blessed.
 
My blessings to you all

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The creature consoles the Creator

My God, though all religions may be what they are, so before Easter I would like like to go the Catholic way. I came across this sentence which Mother Mary is saying against Jesus her son just before he is facing his torture and his death:

“Because we know that our obedience comforts the eternal father. Oh! For me in particular what that thought is! I, a creature, have been granted, to console my creator!”*

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My son, how could I not comment on this, the great subject for God Who has mankind under Its care? This is the fascination of every Spark of God Who is working day and night for the spiritual development of Its earthly creature. I will love to go into this.

You console Me when you

• think of Me
• your heart opens up to the suffering of a fellow man
• lighten a person's life by your affection and jokes
• become silent at the beauty of a flower
• acknowledge My power and strength, when you think about life
• you nourish and cherish and protect your beautiful body from decay and addiction
• read in a conversation with someone between the lines of his words and suspect the hidden suffering and secret vulnerability
• forsake your ego
• you feed your personality by letting Me on the throne of your inner self
• behold My will and laws of more importance than the world with its allurements

In short, if you diligently listen to Me and obeys Me.
You are blessed for bringing the world in memory of this phrase.

My blessings to you all

 
*MariaValtorta, The Poem of the Man-God, Vol 5 p. 232

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Searching for the very God within

"The world is filled with hungry souls who famish in the very presence of the bread of life; men die searching for the very God who lives within them."*

I would like to ask You, isn’t this really just a dramatic text? So terrible, that men the core of their existence, Your Self, are looking for far away in the cosmos or even are denying You? Don’t You find this terribly?

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I will.

Rest assured, my son, do not worry. God does not find this terribly, even though the situation is actually absurd.

There walks man on earth and thinks that God is far away in the cosmos and that God cares  insufficiently about him. Or this man experiences that God seems to be far away and thinks he is really very alone in this big bad world.

There walks man on earth and thinks everything is just emerged from a Big Bang, thinks everything will end at the physical death and thinks God does not exist. In the meantime God keeps him alive with his will and strength and power and energy.

Yet God does not think this is terrible, and I'll tell you why.

For everything is a time.

The man who seeks God far away in the universe and does not know that God is in him and that God waits for him to talk to, as close as a friend, this man is just on the path of human evolution, time will come naturally to experience God within. Indeed, this time is now arriving.

And the man who is denying God fits in a time when human society and the human being himself must be detached from the strangling and suffocating bonds of many forms of religion. This is only temporary, this time will pass.

For the future mankind the inner God will be a living reality.

And both types of man in this present will still have plenty of time after death to experience the inner god. And will experience what the good Jesus preached two thousand years ago, that man can engage with a very close God as a child with his father or mother. And now with the Spark of God in his own heart.

My blessings to you all
 

*Teachings of Jesus, the Urantiabook  p. 1766

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