Revelation the Mystics Journey Part VI
By Rev. Christine 11/23/03

Today I’m completing the series on the Book of Revelation as the Mystic’s Journey. This has been a long journey rising forth in consciousness. The last two visions of Babylon the Great and The New Heaven and the New Earth take us to our new consciousness in Christ. Success has been assured, the rising out of our material beliefs to living as a spiritual being in a spiritual world.

We started out on our spiritual journey by practicing laws of right behavior, living good human values based on the Ten Commandments. This for sure is necessary to do no harm to another. Many live by the letter of the law out of fear of punishment, and give out punishment the same way with no truth or compassion. Others live by the law because they know its right, and makes their life better and feel superior to others. But these are no better for laying riches in heaven, because it still is not in the spirit of the law.

Knowing the law, following the law, falls short from understanding the truth behind the law and willingly live the by the spirit of the law. This was the message to the Churches. We must first become obedient to spiritual law before greater truths and power are revealed.

The next step on our journey is to work through out shadow side, our inner nature which houses all kinds of demons, dragons, and such. We are shown the power this lower nature has over our lives. It is the bottomless pit where the dragon rises up speaking falsely about conditions, the world, and ourselves. Its law is based in the world of matter, desire, and ego (power and control). We venture out to control the world – to do battle and subdue its raging worldly effects of bondage, suffering and death.

But the dragon keeps coming back to do battle. We eventually learn that the battle isn’t out there, but is within us. So we work on our personality, being a nicer person, doing good for others. We work on healing our inner child so that we can be free from recreating this pain in our lives. We do our spiritual practices of meditation and prayer to bring peace of mind. We even use prayer or healing energy for others. Still believing if we ask, God will fix or give to us. Yet, underneath, all this we are still desiring to change the outer effect with our mind not by force but by manipulation.

If I think right, say this word or prayer just right God will take care of our problem or give us riches or that new car. We are still being governed by the law of matter.

Trying to use spiritual practices to manipulate matter will appear to work for a while, give satisfaction and wealth, and may even give a temporary sense of peace. But, eventually the dragon comes back to do more battle. This is our adversary to teach us well.

Moving past the law of mind is the hardest hurdle to get over. This is where the dark night of the soul sets in. Please don’t think that this is bad, that any of these steps is bad, for they are all necessary – they are the building blocks that lead us back to the Garden of Eden.

We start with no power, a victim so to speak, a slave to circumstance. Then we find if we live by rules of conduct that our lives do get easier – at least we may live longer if we don’t offend or steal from our neighbor. Getting past our desires is a hard hurdle for they are filled with addictions and false beliefs. All along believing they have power over us. Until we begin to understand the truth about power and about ourselves.

We begin to awaken to our spiritual nature, and we have a choice in how we will use this new found power. This is the first temptation or tests that we must go through. You see the trick here is do we use it for our own purposes or do we allow it to use us for its higher purposes. The Kundalini energy is set free, and begins its work in our lives. If we have chosen to use for self purposes, greed, control then we shall also reap the effects we have caused upon others at even a greater power or strength it shall come back and do its destruction in our lives. There is no getting away from the ill we do upon others, unless we awaken, repent, which is to raise our vision, forgive and do no more. As Jesus said so often, you are forgiven, you are healed and go sin no more. Do not go out and create this again.

We eventually learn to do no harm intentionally to others, but then we must learn to even take charge of our inner thoughts. As Jesus said, its not what goes in your mouth that defiles you, but what comes out. Even if you think it, you have already done it in spirit. Wow, this is a hard charge, a big battle with our dragon, to learn how to take dominion of our inner thoughts, desires, feelings and emotions.

The mark of the beast is in the forehead or right hand; by our thoughts and actions we are known. We may appear to do the right thing, but where is the heart. Have we really served from the heart of compassion?

We shall know spiritual man by the radiance of love that surrounds him, that goes before him, walks amongst us humbly. And without thought God’s work is done – seeming miracles for the rich or poor, regardless of stature, race, even to the least of them.

We thought we were on the right track; doing good work, helping others, faithfully praying and meditating, selflessly God. But, then one day our prayers don’t seem to work anymore. There is a sense of abandonment. Our tools of the trade so to speak, no longer have any meaning for us. We may even feel lost and angry. But, the dragon has reappeared for a last bidding for we have been in fornication with Babylon. Unknowingly, we were still living in Babylon – the world of matter. In our spiritual search, dedication to practices we have crossed the bridge to where all mental laws no longer have power or effect, or we discover that all we are doing is playing in the mental playground of effect.

This is the dark night of the soul, some have claimed that there are three; emotional, mental, physical. The darkest is the mental, and this is the one we hear about the most. We must give up our using of mental thoughts to manipulate the world around us. We must give up using spiritual law to manipulate the world around us – a matter of fact it doesn’t work – you can’t use spiritual law to manipulate – and that is the challenge.

And when we succeed, Babylon falls. We are no longer bound by physical or mental laws, we are no longer bound by our desire nature and our fears. We have truly become free.

We have awakened to the spiritual realm, and spirit lives and moves and has its beingness as us – as our very self. There is just the one self of God doing its bidding in, through, and as us – we are a pure receptacle for spirit. In becoming the master, we have become a willing servant to do thy will.

In this higher vision or state of consciousness, The New Jerusalem can be seen. It is I, my holy temple of consciousness has been made new, my spiritual body is built and is strong and gloriously bright.

The veil of illusion is lifted, and I can truly see the spiritual world that God has created in all its glory. Every soul is radiant, whole and perfect. There is nothing to fix or manipulate, no truth to use – it already is – thy will is done in earth as it is in heaven.

We come to know, as Jesus did, that we are in this world of effect, but not of it – we are no longer bound by the law of matter or physics, or cause and effect, or any law of observation – we live by the law of Spirit and Grace.

We awaken to the Garden of Eden, and like Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz, we never truly left it – it was all but a dream of separation. The dream crumbles into nothingness, not even a faint memory. And, when we awake, we find that we are safe at home.

In Rev. 21:7, we read, "He that over comes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Like in the parable of the Prodigal Son, who left his Father’s house, to explore life, when he returned was given a new robe, shoes, ring, and a great feast. All the honors of being his Father’s son for he returned wiser and his soul so much richer for the experience.

As I said earlier, each stage is necessary, there is no bad, regardless of the appearance or how long our journey takes. There is only a higher good that comes out of any experience, and that good is what eventually leads us to know the truth that sets us all free.