You too shall do this and even greater. [John 14:12].
That message from the Christ set up something such that whatever youāre witnessing that the Lord is doing, then your calling is to come into what that is and even greater. Thereās a marker in that so we could realize, āWhere Iām at, I need some guidance here. I need a reference point.ā
As has been talked about long-ago, the primary reference point is inside. So thatās the first place to realize, āWho and what is the Lord?ā The Lord is inside. But thereās also the part that can be outside. Itās not limited so it can never manifest into the world or into the flesh or into the reflection thatās there.
āGreater is he within you than he that is in the worldā [1 John 4:4]. Thatās another important reference point. Donāt get caught up such that your view is limited to the one in the world, for example, āWhat Iām seeing in the world is great-er than what I see inwardly, and so I sacrifice, or disconnect from the inner experience.ā That would be kind of a cardinal misstep of sorts.
Thereās a state in which you can know beyond your senses. So itās something unheard. Itās unseen. Itās relatively-speaking unknown, like, āIām not conscious, but I still know it.ā Thereās a presence, even though the markings are invisible, inaudible, and unknowable to the perception. Itās still there. Thatās part of the quality of what it is. Itās not dependent on our senses. Itās not really dependent on anything.
One of the things thatās important to do is suspend things like belief so that youāre not locking into what your mind or feelings would tell you. Thatās something that could become a great limitation. You might be getting some-thing thatās really interesting, fascinating, and amazing on those levels. Yet if you put an equal sign by it, as in a mathematical equation, youād realize itās 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 youāve ever had.
Thatās where the negative power often works. It works in what would fascinate you, what would grab your attention away from what is positive. Like, āThatās really wonderful! Thatās the most wonderful thing that could ever be!ā How do you know? You havenāt 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 weāre 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, āYes,ā Iād say youāre close. Youāre close enough even if you consciously still don’t know for sure.
Could you fool yourself by saying itās true when itās not? And saying itās love when itās not? Sure.
But youāre going to find out shortly. If youāre concluding somethingās true, somethingās is love, and itās not, then itās going to come up short. Youāre going to be disillusioned, but itās in your favor to be disillusioned. So itās worth going after. If itās loving, but it makes no sense, then thereās no substance in it, and then thatās probably some kind of fantasy love, and itās likely to disappear shortly.
Whateverās spinning you emotionally is temporary, so it wonāt last. So if itās an emotional love, thatās short term. The mental love is also short term but may be longer. Then thereās the kind like unrequited love that often works through the unconscious. Like, āI know Iām looking for love, but I donāt know what it is. And I search for it, and I try to join up with it, and then it doesnāt really happen, so itās not really it but Iāve got to keep going, because Iām not satisfied. Iām not complete until I find this love, this great love.ā That could go on for a long time. Often people are in a search for the great love, not really knowing what that is.
Godās mystery is that the love is you. Youāre going to find yourself. Youāre going to find that God and you are one and the same. Even when itās in the flesh, itās still in some way there. Itās just not all there. So you need to transcend. You need to be open to whatās greater in you that is still being consciously discovered.
To Greater Loving
According to Scripture, Jesus said, āHe that is greatest among you shall be your servantā [Matthew 23:11].
John-Roger referred to service as the highest consciousness on the planet. So if you looked at those two – whoās the greatest servant and what is the highest consciousness of service – then youāre going towards how you could be more loving.
Itās important to understand that your first love is within yourself, which kind of sounds self-enamored or like weāre joining up with Narcissus. But itās the great Self, the Self thatās in all people and all things. The great Self thatās 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, āHow do I love for the highest good of all concerned?ā Often what shows up is to love whatever is in front of you. It may be as simple as, āI donāt like red pens. Theyāre too loud, and you know they try to dominate all the other colors, and theyāre obnoxious, and I just donāt like red.ā Yet that red pen is part of the creation.
Often what weāre seeking is right in us or next to us. So thatās 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, āThatās no good, thatās not lovable, thatās not worthy, thatās not worth my time,ā often thatās an indication that youāre being led to love more in some way. One of the simplest ways is what I would call, āSetting it free.ā 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, āToday Iām 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.ā See how far you get.
I have found itās not possible in the area of the mind or the emotions. Those fields, by their nature, contract, reduce and conceptualize. They canāt help it. Theyāre not, in a way, designed to be unlimited. Theyāre designed to be limited, confined and to define things with a viewpoint thatās not the viewing point of all things.
It takes great wisdom and great dedication to stay open such that youāre just looking neutrally. That would be a great key – to look at someone as they are regardless of what they are doing, even if theyāre snarling at you so their fangs are showing, their claws are protruding, and theyāre attempting to attack you. You can still look at them as a kind of phenomenon, a condition thatās being revealed to you. In the revealing, your choice can be to stay free from them.
When somethingās coming at you that stimulates your fear, so youāre very aware of your fear, that may not be the easiest circumstance to find love. It can be very challenging. So often what weāre brought to is what we fear and we are asked, āCan we love it?ā Not necessarily do you hear this challenge verbally. But in the purpose of the condition or circumstance, itās 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 itās not personal? Can you just see it as something working itself out in Godās 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 donāt hit back. Can you do that? Can you absorb the hit so it doesnāt return out into the world? Thatās a high consciousness. Thatās being of service.
You can just say, āYes, I can.ā 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. āGod is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in himā [1 John 4:16].
If you can do that, itās very beautiful in terms of how it makes a contribution to you, to all others, and to the planet. Itās a silent ministry – what-ever comes to you, you bring it to the love in you, and thatās it. Nothing else is necessary. You donāt have to under-stand it. Thereās no need to find out, āWhy did you say that to me? Why did you do that?ā You just love it.
Some people determine there has to be some sort of trial. And the trial is, āIs this worthy of my love? Or is it worthy of my fight or my condemnation?ā I donāt find much value in that practice. Thereās a far superior practice of choosing to love regardless of what āit is.ā My view is thereās a lot to do in the area of loving. Itās 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 donāt agree about the rug. We each express a different point-of-view. Itās 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. Thereās a lot of freedom in that approach. Thatās the consciousness of the Soul. Itās one of the ways you know soul — everything is in freedom. Thereās nothing thatās captive to anything else. Godās not in the busi-ness of trapping us and making captives.
Godās 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. Thatās a very uplifting conscious-ness. Thatās a consciousness of forgiving and loving service to all. And itās the greatest challenge I have experienced in this world.
Loving It All Including You
In the level of the Soul and the Spirit, thereās 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. Itās all one. Itās all integrated. This is good to know as a reference point because then as we look into the mechanistic, dualistic world, we eventually realize thereās kind of an altercation that happens, a positioning thatās not real. However, thank God, itās temporary.
A real good reference point about that is, āIām 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. Iām working through all of my experiences for whatās up in my learning, growing and whatever are for my gains and upliftment.ā
Now if we take the value and the wisdom of whatās here for us, we can all realize weāll just love who we are and who we are with. It doesnāt 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, itās always just circumstantial. And every condition in this world other than change is temporary.
When we get the view from the Spirit, we see, āLove it all.ā That would be a way to solve any circumstance. The practicality of that means as you love it all, youāre included. If youāre loving another, itās because youāre 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 donāt 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 youāre looking at how much you havenāt loved yourself, that may hurt. Thatās all right. That awareness puts you in a position to adjust. Whatever youāve used as the reasons, those were arbitrary, like whatever came out of the deck – youāre a blond, youāre a brunette, youāre five-seven, or youāre this shape or this color. All those circumstances donāt translate to, āTherefore, I love myself.ā They just translate to, āWhat 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.ā
Itās very important to get your love for yourself resonant as a love of God so itās 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. Whatās also amazing is loving heals whatever needs healing.
When you resonate in the love of who you are, itās vibrating and itās in the foundation of how you express yourself. You go forth in love as your true nature or you donāt go forth. When itās 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. Whatās 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 Godās 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 youāre true to who you are, thereās 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, āIām loving, true, and impeccable,ā and just because we sign on, we are thus so. However, itās one thing to profess, but itās another thing to be a living demonstration.
It takes tremendous dedication and courage to uphold impeccability. Youāll find out about your commitment and courage because in the world impeccability isnāt 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 thereās a real good reason that still honors the truth. Itās like God spoke instead and moved what is involved in a new direction that upholds Godās impeccability. One of the limitations that God puts in place is what we can handle. Thatās 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, āI donāt know how itās going to work out. I just know I want the highest good and have the willingness to do whatever that requires.ā 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