Sunday, May 29, 2005, 4:46 PM PST

     At the end of this lifetime the soul will be brought before the Great Karmic Board for a review. The soul has gone through such a review at the end of every lifetime. Conservatively speaking, the souls embodied on this planet today, have had many hundreds of lifetimes. Not a few, not a dozen, not several dozen, not a hundred, but several hundred. So this review process is well known. The soul has much experience in this respect.

     Now, there is a point of clarity in the Christ Mind which the members of the Great Karmic Board share with the soul during the review of each previous lifetime. The soul will see the landscape of the current life juxtaposed to the landscape of all past lives, the limitation, suffering, and pain, associated with them all, and all of this earthly travail, as one variegated whole, is further juxtaposed to the glory of the divine estate to which the soul is called, if only it can extricate itself from the cycles of reincarnation.

     It is true that God our Father has done everything possible to make life in the physical octave as comfortable for us as possible. But, notwithstanding these elements of mercy which we find in large abundance all around us, the state of consciousness that is associated with the human condition here, is always a state of severe limitation, when compared to the freedom of the divine estate for which the soul was first created. When seen from the perspective of the Christ Mind, which the soul is given to experience during this review process, it is abundantly clear, that every physical incarnation is like living inside of an oil drum on a white sandy beach next to the aquamarine ocean in the south pacific. I hope you get my point. The soul sees these oil drums (each incarnation) strewn along this vast beach of paradise, and there is clearly nothing at all inside of that oil drum that is in the least bit appealing, when you can see what is outside. And so, there is a great thirst in the divine soul to find its way out of those containers of limitation. Every soul, without exception would choose to sit in that chair if it could only find its way out of those oil drums.

     And so, while the soul is in this state of clarity, with the capacity to see and analyze the inside of each of the oil drums, the soul searches desperately, within the context of each drum, for the path and the door that would have led the soul to freedom. The path and the doorway to freedom are always present on earth, yet the soul will be entrenched in circumstances at some distance from it. The soul will incarnate into each of those oil drums with the challenge before it, to search for the path to freedom. And so, finding that path to freedom is the goal of every incarnation. When the soul has entrenched itself in circumstances that are at a great distance from the path, for these it will take many many lifetimes to move its location and position closer to the path. Though, in many cases, the soul increases this distance during a particular lifetime, and when the life is over, it finds to its dismay, that it has made no progress at all towards the goal of soul freedom.

     During the review process, all of this is very clear. The distance between the soul, and the path to freedom, can be measured in discrete units at any particular point in time. Looking back into each previous incarnation, and the entire stream of life of which the incarnation is composed, the soul can see, at any point in time, how many steps away it is from the path to freedom. It can see, at this point, it was only 1,000 steps away. Or over there, is it just 800 steps away. Or perhaps at a very auspicious point, it was only 100 steps away. And there are certainly points where the soul, if by chance stumbled by the path, it was right on the doorstep, yet it did not recognize it for what it was, did not step through that door, but rather, the soul stepped away, and put another 10,000 steps between itself, and that path. Those realizations are really painful, I assure you. And there is quite a reservoir of such pain in the subconscious of many souls.

     The review process can be, and is, very dramatic and traumatic: on the one hand, having the memory of the goal clearly restored, being given this inner experience of having all of its inner spiritual sensitivities flung in the direction of that promise of freedom, huge aspirations, like unto the greatest and deepest rivers of desire, all flowing towards the hope of victory, the deepest yearnings, even those of the most incomprehensible cosmic dimension, yes, the very threads of the native identity brought to life, all cast, like a million cosmic fishing lines in the direction of that precious goal, and yet, seeing with equal clarity exactly how and why it has failed to find that precious path time and time again.

     Now, it is also true that in any given incarnation, the number of access points to the path are limited. Maybe there is only one on the entire planet during a particular time, and the chances of finding it are slim. To find that one access point, would take a nearly Herculean effort. Sometimes there are more, making it slightly easier, but it was never easy, in as much as the presence of the path would be quickly destroyed by the fallen angels if the access points were widely known.

     This is certainly one of the things that has complicated matters. The fallen angels are opposed to anyone finding the path to freedom. And in the past, they have wielded the power of governments, the tyrannies and dictatorships they have established to control the people. They have used the power of government to destroy the path to freedom every time it has appeared.

     In this respect, most major religions when first established, were actually the anchor points for the path to freedom. But the fallen angels infiltrated into the leadership positions of these religions and redefined the doctrine to eliminate any possibility that the followers could find their way to freedom by following that religion. The Heavenly Hosts sent their emissaries into embodiment to try to turn back these distortions, so that a particular religion could serve the purpose of soul freedom as it was first intended. But the fallen angels, again in leadership positions, have always either killed off anyone who was outspoken in this regard, or excommunicated them, discrediting their views among the church community to which they belonged. Because of this, the number of access points to the path of soul liberation has been severely limited over the very long stretch of history.

     For the longest time, the real path to soul freedom had to be established outside the official religions, and in secret. If the leaders of the state religions found out about them, they would wield the power of the state to destroy them. So, again, the path to soul freedom, as long as the fallen angels controlled the levers of government power, was very limited.

     From this we can see, that the goal of soul freedom itself, for the great majority had to be downsized, in a manner of speaking, in as much as there was little possibility of a great number of people finding it. Goals for particular incarnations, for particular souls, were more intermediate in their ends. In other words, souls embodied to advance the cause of liberty first and foremost, rather than the goal of soul freedom itself. The idea was to work for the establishment of governments where the principle of freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, would be guaranteed. And in this way, the opportunity would be provided to establish the path to soul freedom in a more open manner, in as much as the fallen angels could not control the levers of government power for the purpose of destroying anything that had the odor of soul freedom about it.

     And so, this is what we have in the United States of America today. Here is where freedom of religion, speech, and press, was finally established on this planet, which opened up the opportunity for the Ascended Masters to establish their organizations and to set forth the Teaching that describes the path to soul freedom. And because of this, access points to the path of soul liberation have been multiplied into the exponential, what with the presence of Ascended Master books in the book stores around the nation, and the world, the presence of the Messenger on cable t.v. at least, and with the ability of anyone with a personal computer to access the Teaching over the Internet.

     I wonder how many people have seen Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld share the night time satellite photo of North Korea juxtaposed to South Korea. Have you see that? He likes to show that off to underscore how backward and uncivilized the forces of Communism (the fallen angels) have made North Korea, as compared to the prosperity which Democracy and the free enterprise system have brought to South Korea. The photo makes this quite clear. At night, there are no lights on in North Korea. The cities and the country side are absolutely dark. South Korea, on the other hand, the cities are vast expanses of illumination. I wonder if I can find a copy of that .... Yes, from a search of the Internet, I see that this is a popular topic of discussion. Here is one representative image.

     On this Memorial Day, this is how we properly evaluate the sacrifice that souls have made for the victory of freedom in the United States of America, and elsewhere. Clearly, a blow struck for the victory of freedom, is a blow struck for the victory of soul liberation. There is no higher calling than to give one's life for the freedom of the people, that will allow the path to soul liberation itself to be openly, and safely, established in their very midst.

     And so, the opportunity that people have to find the path to soul liberation, it is absolutely unprecedented at this point in history. If a soul passes out of this incarnation without finding the path, they will be kicking themselves in the rear end for the next few hundred thousands years. The Ascended Masters have told us that they cannot guarantee how long this situation will last. They have said that there is no guarantee that during the soul's next incarnation, they will find this same proliferation of opportunity before them.

     One of the things that weighs down the buoyancy of heavenly hopes in this respect, is the karma that America is bringing down upon herself in the killing of over 40 million unborn children so far, and counting. The Masters have said that this karma related to this travesty will fall upon America. It is only a matter of when and how it will fall. And in this regard, whether this karma can be made to fall incrementally over time, i.e. with some amount of mercy and mitigation, or whether it will fall in one big landslide, no one can tell, because it depends on the choices that people will make, and no one can predict the choices that people will make.

     The latest situation in the U.S. Senate, where the forces of soul freedom where on the very verge of clearing the way for the seating of pro-life judges to the United States Supreme Court, is a case in point. The stage was set to withdraw the right to filibuster judicial appointments from the hands of the pro-abortion militants. If this had been done, pro-life judges nominated by President George W. Bush would have been guaranteed an up and down vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate, making it nearly certain that whoever Bush nominated for the high court would be confirmed. This was a mitigation factor placed on the table of divine justice by the pro-life forces. If they had prevailed, opening up the possibility that a pro-life judge, or more than one, could replace a pro-abortion judge on the high court, this would have been a development that would have worked towards the mitigation of the karmic landslide. Where no possibility exists now that Roe v. Wade can be overturned, all of sudden, that possibility would have opened up. And thus, when the people take action to reverse the karma making situation, God will stay the descent of karma, or mitigate its descent. Up to the very last minute, it looked like a real possibility that the Republicans would finally strike a real blow for the victory of the pro-life cause. It really looked like they could bring about an end to the use of the filibuster in relationship to judicial appointments. But at the last minute, the spirit of betrayal animated the minds of some Republicans. They were persuaded to betray the cause, by entering into an agreement with some "moderate" Democrats to vote down any attempt to change the rules. Who would have predicted that? No one. And so, where a mitigation factor was on the table of divine justice in one moment, it is taken off the table in the next moment. And therefore, this goes to underscore the point, that whether the descent of this abortion related karma can be mitigated, or whether it will fall in one great landslide, no one can predict.

     I have written elsewhere that the sacrifice America is making in bringing freedom to the millions of people of Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed this equation to be somewhat mitigated for the time being. (See: The Real, Honest-to-God Reason We are in Iraq Today - And Why the Forces of Darkness are Not Happy About It.) If America were to withdraw before the actuality of freedom is anchored there, that mitigation factor would be removed, and the full brunt of the karma might fall quickly, even in the form of a detonation of nuclear device by terrorists in New York City at least (other cities worst case), which would throw a huge wrench into the American economy, and thus alter the balance of power across the entire planet. Freedom itself, even in America, hangs by a thread, because of this karmic equation.

     The brightness of the opportunity for the liberation of souls, it is before the people now. The Teaching is available, the path is made known. And so I would say to the people of this planet, that now is the acceptable time to step forward boldly, and seize hold of the very key to your victory. It is right here in the Teachings of the Ascended Masters. And moreover, I would say that now is the time to come to an unprecedented level of appreciation for the shear magnitude of the opportunity that is before you at this very moment.

     And on a more parochial note, I would say shame to the highest degree upon all those who would spend their days corrupting the path, or leading people away from this path, now that it has been anchored. There is a hall of shame in heaven. You can be sure of that. The names of Linda Worobec, David Lewis, Marsha Covington, Kim and Lorraine Michaels, Monroe and Carolyn Shearer are the most recent additions to it.

     May you pass every test.

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