Prophecy and Free Will

 

"A powerful change of heart, especially when it is experienced by many, can alter all former predictions. When I walked on the Earth two thousand years ago, the existing conditions were such that a great cataclysm could reasonably be predicted to happen within the following five hundred years. However, that did not occur."

 

He smiled and radiated pleasure, and a few minutes passed before He continued. "Why do you think it didn't happen?"

 

Instantly, His broad smile was reflected upon my own countenance, as a sense of elation enhanced my inner certainty. "Because a whole lot of hearts changed after you were here!"

 

He smiled. "There was a time, two to five hundred years after that when there should have been another great cataclysm. Again, it did not happen. As long as hearts are changing, external predictions are subject to continual revision.

"The major forces which invest in prophecy are the forces of structure. Structure requires predictable momentum. Structure invests in prophecy in order to hold itself in place and to keep from being changed. Such prophecy can range from probability analysis, to yearly planning, all the way to long-range investments. You see, prophecy is not merely an esoteric perception. It is also a reality-based observation and a bridge to predictable living. The art and science of prophecy can be abused, however, if it focuses upon emotional and spiritual content designed to penetrate the heart and solicit the heart's support for matters that are only temporal. Structure invests heavily in keeping the hearts of men from changing so that prophecies will not be undone. The heart is your true source of prophecy, for it commands the point where the internal and the external are one. It is a far more accurate diagnostic tool than anything the external can provide. All you have to do is enter your heart in order to know your future. The Sacred Heart and its seven layers of higher intelligence will tell you everything you need to know about how your life is unfolding."

 

I hesitated for a moment before asking my next question. My sense of reservation disappeared, however, when the corners of His mouth curled a bit and His eyes beckoned me to speak. "If prophecy is simply a reflection of temporal possibilities which can fade or crumble behind the greater power of the Heart's truth, then could you reveal to me the continuing validity of the Book of Revelations?"

 

"The Book of Revelations is a great deal more than a book of prophecy. It is a timeless revelation about the soul's fulfillment in its return to the Father, along with the perilous demise of all that is false as that alternate potential falls away in the light of truth. This book is not subject to the normal pitfalls of prophecy because it does not center its meanings around the temporal probabilities of life, nor is that the intent of its message. This sacred document has been greatly misunderstood to be an unfolding drama of external events. Certainly a profound transmutation of the human soul would be impossible without correlations and manifestations within outer forms of reality. Therefore. some physical phenomena will accompany the drama, especially considering that the very elements which fall to dust will be the structures of worldly dominance.

"Man cannot realize his sonship with the Father until first he has released all that was created through unconsciousness and disconnection. False identities, false meanings, and unworthy structures will fall away as the soul is empowered to manifest its true covenant. This is a glorious event to be approached in love rather than fear. Many hearts are changing today before the moment of critical mass and as hearts change toward love, so too will external consequences be reduced. What is to unfold is crucial and inevitable to the destiny of man. No one is exempt. However, there is a choice in how one receives the unfoldment. Those who approach it with love will find it the ultimate bridge to fulfillment."

 

There is a great deal of concern among many people today about impending cataclysmic events foretold by prophecy. It is rather amazing to think that in His presence, when I could have asked so much, my attention was never directed toward the ominous or to the thought of possible disaster. As He completed the above-mentioned thought, however, I made the one and only inquiry in all our conversations about the possibility of impending catastrophe. His answer was firm, positive, and contained no fear.

 

"The structures which dominate the lives of man today were all created in a state of disconnection and unconsciousness. The powerful momentum of these structures carries with it the seed of continuing oppression. In order to survive, such creations must suppress the soul of man and perpetuate his enslavement to them. As the time of man's fulfillment arrives, there will be a simultaneous collapse and retaliation of that which wishes to survive against the good of man. This exposure will, nevertheless, assist in the elevation of man's consciousness and bring about a new era of brotherhood on Earth where structures are reestablished from a state of consciousness and connection with Divine Order."

 

I then inquired, "Will there be great suffering?"

 

"Suffering is never the will of the Father, although none will be exempt from the experience. Many will feel little suffering except for the compassion extended to those who do experience pain and sorrow. At the other extreme there will be many others who are so attached to that which must fall that there will be no reprieve from their agony. Even this is a blessing, that lives full of anguish may bleed the venom and thereby have a chance to heal. How the event is experienced will be due in large part to individual choice, and also to the accumulated necessity of fulfilling choices made long ago. Regardless of how each individual receives the impact of change, it remains enduringly true that all mankind will be blessed with the results of that human transfiguration."

 

Until the day that such a complete transformation of human potential arrives, there are many bridges which may convey our lives to higher levels of consciousness and ability. According to the Master, it is imperative that we seek always for higher ground because, "A problem can never be solved at the level of its creation and existence. Every problem has to be solved from at least one level of awareness or ability above it. One of the greatest mistakes mankind is making in regard to life's problems is to address them on the level which caused them to occur and supports their persistence. This leads only to struggle, fighting, and perpetual frustration.

 

"To solve a problem it is first necessary to view it from a higher level. This is especially easy to observe in the area of physical healing. A physician or any medical facility can only arrest an illness, keep it from progressing, or reduce infection, thus providing conditions in which healing may occur. The actuality of healing is always a miracle that happens on a higher level through the restoration of wholeness. No matter what the problem, healing always comes from a higher level."

 

From Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts

 

First of all, as a race, in the context of normal usage, you have considered yourselves as apart from the rest of nature and consciousness.

 

Your own survival as a species was your main concern. You considered other species only in the light of their use to you. You did not have any true conception of the great sacredness of all consciousness, nor of your relationship within it. You were losing your grasp of that great truth.

 

In the present circumstances you are carrying that idea forward--of racial survival regardless of the consequences, the idea of changing the environment to suit your own purposes; and this has led you to a disregard of spiritual truths.

 

In physical reality, therefore, you are seeing the results. Now those personalities who are returning are doing so for various reasons. Some of them are drawn to physical life again because of these attitudes. They are those who in the past, in your terms, strove for physical existence without consideration for the rights of other species. They are driven to return because of their own desires.

 

The race must learn the value of the individual man. The race is also learning its dependence upon other species, and beginning to comprehend its part in the whole framework in physical reality.

 

Now: Some individuals are being reborn at this time simply to help you understand. They are forcing the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time to change your ways. You are working on two main problems, but both involve the sacredness of the individual, and the individual's relationship with others and with all physically oriented consciousness.

 

The problem of war will sooner or later teach you that when you kill another man, basically you will end up killing yourself. The over-population problem will teach you that if you do not have a loving concern for the environment in which you dwell, it will no longer sustain you--you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds or the flowers, or the grain or the animals. You will not be worthy of them, and they will be destroying you.

 

You have set up the problem for yourselves within the framework of your reference. You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart. You will not destroy consciousness. You will not annihilate the consciousness of even one leaf, but in your context, if the problem were not solved, these would fade from your experience.

 

The crisis is a kind of therapy, however. It is a teaching method that you have set up for yourselves because you need it. And you need it now, before your race embarks upon journeys to other physical realities. You must learn your lessons now in your own backyard before you travel to other worlds. So you have brought this upon yourself for that purpose and you will learn. (End session at 11.55 P.M.)

 

Conspiracy of Well-Being from Abraham through Ester Hicks

 

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:11:11 -0800 (PST)

Subject: [AbeQuotes] Conspiracy Of Well-Being

 

Every feeling of victim, every feeling of paranoia, every feeling of vulnerability that has been projected from the beginning of man's experience here on this planet is running like a river. And every now and again someone will tap into that stream and speak it as truth -- and what they are speaking is their truth. What they are speaking is what they are finding vibrational harmony with. What they are speaking is an option that is certainly available to all of you.

 

Most of you are not aware of what the vibrations that you are offering are attracting back to you. So, if you mean well, if you want well, but you are not getting well, and you don't understand because nobody's explained to you the correlation between what you are thinking and feeling and what you are getting -- that's a breeding ground for paranoia. Because then you say, "Well, I'm certainly not doing it to myself. Somebody else must be doing it to me." And as it shows up everywhere you go, it must be somebody really, really good, somebody who has spies and networks and satellites. "How could I keep having these same negative experiences everywhere I go? I know I'm not doing it to me. So somebody else must be doing it. And if they're this good, they must be really good. It must be government or other galaxies. It's a huge conspiracy."

 

And we say, It's a self-perpetuated conspiracy. It's you hooking into victimhood or into vulnerability and holding yourself apart from Well-being, and then blaming somebody else because the Well-being doesn't come to you. Law of Attraction says Well-being can't come to you when you're so aware that you are standing over here where you don't want to be. So you blame your plight on your mother or on the government or on some evil conspiracy, and we say, All you need to do is just relax and lighten up and let your Energy raise, and Well-being will come back to you. And then, who do you give that credit to?

 

When Well-being happens, why aren't there any 'giant conspiracies of Well-being' out there? You never hear it, do you? "The government has secret things that are happening that are making things go well for me. Traffic lights are turning green and friends are calling me and dollars are flowing. There's a conspiracy of health in our neighborhood. I look around and almost everyone I see is up and alive and well. Children are smiling and going to school. The traffic, for the most part, is going very well. Only a fraction of our traffic ever goes wrong. A conspiracy, it's a conspiracy!"

 

-- Abe -- Dallas, TX, 3/13/99

 

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Leading Edge of All That Is Abraham through Ester Hicks

 

Indianapolis, IN  5/11/02

 

Abraham: Everything that you are living is adding unto that which we are all about, you see. And so when you sit before us and you offer your appreciation of that which we are, we cannot begin to express in words the appreciation that we feel for your place in this motion forward.

 

Because after all, you are out here on the leading edge of thought. You are the ones exposing yourself to the intricacies of the new possibilities. You are the ones giving birth to the thought taking it beyond that which it has been before.

 

And all benefit by your allowing yourself to have that experience. Whether you allow yourself to catch up with the energy and have the benefit in the moment of it or not, the Universe's expansion is because of your leading edge stance, you see.

 

Our work is not about that leading edge stance because we know that has to be. That is a given. We cannot cease to be and we cannot cease to move forward.

 

In other words, this expansion of the Universe is happening continually. There is no way of stopping it. But our part with you is, as we talk to you along the way and you now relax more and more and allow yourself the "in the moment" alignment with this energy, now things really move along in a very satisfying way.

 

And there is nothing more satisfying for us than to feel your satisfaction. Because in your satisfaction, you allow us fully to flow through you and it reflects back. In other words, it's like the completion of the cycle, never ending cycle.

 

It just keeps starting all over again. Something new to think about, something new to not understand, something new to understand. And the satisfaction of bringing it into alignment is what we are all about.

 

We and you are wise enough to know that we will never get it done. And so, it sort of makes you wanna stop and savor more moments, doesn't it? Nothing to race toward because nothing is incomplete.

 

In other words, nothing is incomplete in the sense that it is flawed in any way. Everything is incomplete in the sense that it will constantly be amended.

 

And so, time for everyone to focus in their NOW looking more for the nuggets of excitement and anticipation.

 

Looking for more things to praise and more things to feel stimulation about.

 

More things to analyze and more things to ponder. And more things to conclude and more things to feel satisfaction over.

 

And more things to appreciate and more things to love.

And more things to enjoy and more things to savor.

And more things to anticipate and more things to explore.

 

And more things to not understand and more things to then understand.

And more things to feel satisfaction about and more things to adore.

And more things to find positive aspects of and more things to appreciate.

 

And more things to love and more things to savor.

And more things to ponder and more things to contemplate.

Are we repeating ourselves?

 

Guest: Umm hmm. (laughter)

 

Abraham: More things to continue to use as our reason for feeling good in this moment. For that is life, yes. Whether you catch a fish or not. (laughter)

 

Guest: I appreciate your great sense of humor, too.

 

Abraham: Yes indeed. (applause) There is not something that you're supposed to do. You can feel the power of that which you have the ability to do. AND YOU'RE WANTING TO FIND SOME WAY OF CHANNELING IT.

 

And the primary thing that we've been wanting all of you here today, to hear today, is that there are not more virtuous things than others.

 

In other words, everything that you're setting your attention to is worthy of source energy flowing to it. You've just got to decide what it is. Life is really supposed to be good.

 

And you are adored by Source Energy. You cannot get it wrong. And even though there are plenty of things that you think you have done wrong, there is nothing that Source Energy acknowledges as having been wrong doing by you.

 

You are pure positive energy here in the physical body, out here on the leading edge of thought doing a very good job. And Source Energy is extremely pleased to interact with you in all ways. There is GREAT LOVE here for you. We are complete.