You too shall do this and even greater. [John 14:12].
That message from the Christ set up something such that whatever you’re witnessing that the Lord is doing, then your calling is to come into what that is and even greater. There’s a marker in that so we could realize, “Where I’m at, I need some guidance here. I need a reference point.”
As has been talked about long-ago, the primary reference point is inside. So that’s the first place to realize, “Who and what is the Lord?” The Lord is inside. But there’s also the part that can be outside. It’s not limited so it can never manifest into the world or into the flesh or into the reflection that’s there.
“Greater is he within you than he that is in the world” [1 John 4:4]. That’s another important reference point. Don’t get caught up such that your view is limited to the one in the world, for example, “What I’m seeing in the world is great-er than what I see inwardly, and so I sacrifice, or disconnect from the inner experience.” That would be kind of a cardinal misstep of sorts.
There’s a state in which you can know beyond your senses. So it’s something unheard. It’s unseen. It’s relatively-speaking unknown, like, “I’m not conscious, but I still know it.” There’s a presence, even though the markings are invisible, inaudible, and unknowable to the perception. It’s still there. That’s part of the quality of what it is. It’s not dependent on our senses. It’s not really dependent on anything.
One of the things that’s important to do is suspend things like belief so that you’re not locking into what your mind or feelings would tell you. That’s something that could become a great limitation. You might be getting some-thing that’s really interesting, fascinating, and amazing on those levels. Yet if you put an equal sign by it, as in a mathematical equation, you’d realize it’s still an illusion. You can be misled by what you think and feel. At the same time, it can seem to be quite amazing, like an amazing thought, like no thought you’ve ever had.
That’s where the negative power often works. It works in what would fascinate you, what would grab your attention away from what is positive. Like, “That’s really wonderful! That’s the most wonderful thing that could ever be!” How do you know? You haven’t seen anything yet, why are you declaring this as the most wonderful thing? You may be worshipping something here in the physical world instead of keeping yourself open to what is greater inside.
There are a lot of ways that the transmission of Spirit comes across, where we need to suspend whatever it is we’re experiencing. Yet it can be the Lord making itself known to you in a vision, what you hear or see, or through your other senses. The qualifications for what is of the Spirit are that it always works through truth, and it always works through love. So if you can put those two together and ask: Is it true? Is it love? and you get, “Yes,” I’d say you’re close. You’re close enough even if you consciously still don’t know for sure.
Could you fool yourself by saying it’s true when it’s not? And saying it’s love when it’s not? Sure.
But you’re going to find out shortly. If you’re concluding something’s true, something’s is love, and it’s not, then it’s going to come up short. You’re going to be disillusioned, but it’s in your favor to be disillusioned. So it’s worth going after. If it’s loving, but it makes no sense, then there’s no substance in it, and then that’s probably some kind of fantasy love, and it’s likely to disappear shortly.
Whatever’s spinning you emotionally is temporary, so it won’t last. So if it’s an emotional love, that’s short term. The mental love is also short term but may be longer. Then there’s the kind like unrequited love that often works through the unconscious. Like, “I know I’m looking for love, but I don’t know what it is. And I search for it, and I try to join up with it, and then it doesn’t really happen, so it’s not really it but I’ve got to keep going, because I’m not satisfied. I’m not complete until I find this love, this great love.” That could go on for a long time. Often people are in a search for the great love, not really knowing what that is.
God’s mystery is that the love is you. You’re going to find yourself. You’re going to find that God and you are one and the same. Even when it’s in the flesh, it’s still in some way there. It’s just not all there. So you need to transcend. You need to be open to what’s greater in you that is still being consciously discovered.
To Greater Loving
According to Scripture, Jesus said, “He that is greatest among you shall be your servant” [Matthew 23:11].
John-Roger referred to service as the highest consciousness on the planet. So if you looked at those two – who’s the greatest servant and what is the highest consciousness of service – then you’re going towards how you could be more loving.
It’s important to understand that your first love is within yourself, which kind of sounds self-enamored or like we’re joining up with Narcissus. But it’s the great Self, the Self that’s in all people and all things. The great Self that’s God. The service to that One who is in all of the creation and is within you.
So how do you serve all things? That would be another way of saying, “How do I love for the highest good of all concerned?” Often what shows up is to love whatever is in front of you. It may be as simple as, “I don’t like red pens. They’re too loud, and you know they try to dominate all the other colors, and they’re obnoxious, and I just don’t like red.” Yet that red pen is part of the creation.
Often what we’re seeking is right in us or next to us. So that’s the place for the greater love – right here, right now in some way. One of the places to look is what or where you tend to try to ignore, avoid, deny, cancel out, eliminate, or negate the love.
When you say, “That’s no good, that’s not lovable, that’s not worthy, that’s not worth my time,” often that’s an indication that you’re being led to love more in some way. One of the simplest ways is what I would call, “Setting it free.” That would translate so whatever it is, you have no demand upon it. You release any sense that it should be different from the way it is. Try that on for size for a day and see how far you get. Like, “Today I’m going to go out, and I will not view anything as not being exactly perfect as it is. I will view it all as exactly perfect as it is. And I will in no way struggle or resist anything today.” See how far you get.
I have found it’s not possible in the area of the mind or the emotions. Those fields, by their nature, contract, reduce and conceptualize. They can’t help it. They’re not, in a way, designed to be unlimited. They’re designed to be limited, confined and to define things with a viewpoint that’s not the viewing point of all things.
It takes great wisdom and great dedication to stay open such that you’re just looking neutrally. That would be a great key – to look at someone as they are regardless of what they are doing, even if they’re snarling at you so their fangs are showing, their claws are protruding, and they’re attempting to attack you. You can still look at them as a kind of phenomenon, a condition that’s being revealed to you. In the revealing, your choice can be to stay free from them.
When something’s coming at you that stimulates your fear, so you’re very aware of your fear, that may not be the easiest circumstance to find love. It can be very challenging. So often what we’re brought to is what we fear and we are asked, “Can we love it?” Not necessarily do you hear this challenge verbally. But in the purpose of the condition or circumstance, it’s asking you that question. Can you stay open? Can you stay neutral towards what is revealing your fear or negative reaction?
When someone calls you a name or in some way puts forth what you would consider a threat or something less than positive, can you stay open so that it’s not personal? Can you just see it as something working itself out in God’s creation? That often takes a strong willingness to pull that off, to really stay in your loving so that if something hits at you, you don’t hit back. Can you do that? Can you absorb the hit so it doesn’t return out into the world? That’s a high consciousness. That’s being of service.
You can just say, “Yes, I can.” You can claim this ability that comes directly from God into all of Its creation as unconditional loving. This is your divine nature. This is your true nature in your highest consciousness.
If the sins of your father and your mother come to you, even all of them – so every single one of them is put to you, even stays with you – you can bring them to the love of God within you such that they are no more. They have no more negativity and are only the pure, whole love of God for all of Its creation. Deep within you is only love in your oneness with God. “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him” [1 John 4:16].
If you can do that, it’s very beautiful in terms of how it makes a contribution to you, to all others, and to the planet. It’s a silent ministry – what-ever comes to you, you bring it to the love in you, and that’s it. Nothing else is necessary. You don’t have to under-stand it. There’s no need to find out, “Why did you say that to me? Why did you do that?” You just love it.
Some people determine there has to be some sort of trial. And the trial is, “Is this worthy of my love? Or is it worthy of my fight or my condemnation?” I don’t find much value in that practice. There’s a far superior practice of choosing to love regardless of what “it is.” My view is there’s a lot to do in the area of loving. It’s really very simple although not necessarily easy or seemingly even possible.
For example, we could look at a rug and find something about how we each look upon it that is different. We don’t agree about the rug. We each express a different point-of-view. It’s a perspective with variation. Our differences are not a reason to stop loving one another.
There may be a lot of variation in how we see things. We each can love anyway and even love our different views. There’s a lot of freedom in that approach. That’s the consciousness of the Soul. It’s one of the ways you know soul — everything is in freedom. There’s nothing that’s captive to anything else. God’s not in the busi-ness of trapping us and making captives.
God’s in the business of expansion and liberating. So if you get in that business yourself, where you essentially set everyone and everything free, then you have no holds on anything, no demands. That’s a very uplifting conscious-ness. That’s a consciousness of forgiving and loving service to all. And it’s the greatest challenge I have experienced in this world.
Loving It All Including You
In the level of the Soul and the Spirit, there’s no hierarchy of value that one polarity is of higher or superior value to the other polarity. As we go into Spirit, it comes into an equality. So polarity has no meaning in the Spirit. It’s all one. It’s all integrated. This is good to know as a reference point because then as we look into the mechanistic, dualistic world, we eventually realize there’s kind of an altercation that happens, a positioning that’s not real. However, thank God, it’s temporary.
A real good reference point about that is, “I’m going to return to the integrity of who I am spiritually. But temporarily I will be in this polarized position, this manifest position of how my life circumstances articulate and specify. I’m working through all of my experiences for what’s up in my learning, growing and whatever are for my gains and upliftment.”
Now if we take the value and the wisdom of what’s here for us, we can all realize we’ll just love who we are and who we are with. It doesn’t matter the condition-ality of any of it. So whatever we could consider about the characteristics of a man or a woman or any form of relation-ship, there is an arbitrariness about each and every condition. Like whatever came out of the deck of cards that was dealt to us, it’s always just circumstantial. And every condition in this world other than change is temporary.
When we get the view from the Spirit, we see, “Love it all.” That would be a way to solve any circumstance. The practicality of that means as you love it all, you’re included. If you’re loving another, it’s because you’re loving yourself first, not as a stopping point, but as from where this love sources and begins to come forth. It begins in the depth of being that is who we are before we realize it as a thought or feeling.
If we don’t know loving within, then how can we be loving with somebody else? So we need to come into the loving within in order to experience loving with someone else. In order to experience the love of another, I need to be in the love of who I am to know that love. The love of who I am recognizes the love of who you are coming to the love of who I am. And it keeps bridging across.
If you’re looking at how much you haven’t loved yourself, that may hurt. That’s all right. That awareness puts you in a position to adjust. Whatever you’ve used as the reasons, those were arbitrary, like whatever came out of the deck – you’re a blond, you’re a brunette, you’re five-seven, or you’re this shape or this color. All those circumstances don’t translate to, “Therefore, I love myself.” They just translate to, “What do I love? I love this characteristic and this characteristic. I have this history. I have this involvement. I made these choices. I have these results, and I choose to love them.”
It’s very important to get your love for yourself resonant as a love of God so it’s the foundation of who you are for all of the creation. Loving becomes the source for how you express yourself and how you involve yourself. What’s also amazing is loving heals whatever needs healing.
When you resonate in the love of who you are, it’s vibrating and it’s in the foundation of how you express yourself. You go forth in love as your true nature or you don’t go forth. When it’s in that level of resonating, then it has a way of healing all your relationships, all down the line, right through your existence. What that means is all of the things that need healing are going to be healed here and now in the way you relate to yourself and then to others with your love. What’s also beautiful is your loving is not actually dependent on other people or conditions at all. Loving is truly your nature.
God is in control, which is really good, be-cause God always has our best interests in mind. As we understand this control, we can then understand how God’s Will is done as the loving of all. So with that understanding, then we choose to be loving of all.
We are here to heal and balance ourselves with whatever has happened in our life throughout our existence. We heal by being in acceptance, loving and forgive-ness. As we can do this with ourself, we can do this with others. Complete healing is forgiveness of all things. Healing comes from the willingness to forgive.
Impeccably You
When you’re true to who you are, there’s an impeccability that comes through. It registers as a kind of clarity or cleanliness. You are someone who is true and clear. So how would you come into this impeccability?
Part of it is how you regard and identify yourself. Of course, it would be wonderful in some way if we could just sign on as, “I’m loving, true, and impeccable,” and just because we sign on, we are thus so. However, it’s one thing to profess, but it’s another thing to be a living demonstration.
It takes tremendous dedication and courage to uphold impeccability. You’ll find out about your commitment and courage because in the world impeccability isn’t necessarily sanctified and honored. When someone has this impeccability and sense of honor, then their life has a way of holding it up. There is a kind of reliability with that person – that when they speak, they give their word to be the truth. And if their word does not hold up in the truth, then there’s a real good reason that still honors the truth. It’s like God spoke instead and moved what is involved in a new direction that upholds God’s impeccability. One of the limitations that God puts in place is what we can handle. That’s completely in our favor.
God registers as the highest consciousness, the consciousness of the highest good. The omniscience allows for the knowing. The omnipotence is the ability to do what needs to be done. God has the power, the knowledge, the authority, to keep the highest good in place for all the creation. By employing the highest good, then the limited mind can be suspended and released. And what it often looks like is, “I don’t know how it’s going to work out. I just know I want the highest good and have the willingness to do whatever that requires.” When you can register that you want the highest good then you may need to ask to release any limitations that are no longer serving the highest good.
Appeal to the authority of God and ask God to act as your co-creator. Trust and surrender to the Christ Beloved within you as you. And remember, you will be tested from the inside out. But the Lord is within you, as you, loving you always and forever more.
Baruch Bashan
