{"id":7762,"date":"2006-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/7762-the-door-and-the-way"},"modified":"2018-04-16T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:18:49","slug":"the-door-and-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/7762-the-door-and-the-way","title":{"rendered":"The Door and the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ArticleSomeone once asked me the difference between the Soul and the Christ. The Soul is an individualized form of God, entirely of the spiritual dimension, and it can also take a psychic-material form, whereby Spirit takes on a physical body. There’s a crossover, like Alice going through the Looking Glass. In other words, there’s another world, and that world is easy to forget. In fact, part of what happens is that you forget where you came from (Spirit), and then you may look around, wonder where the entry was, and feel really lost, not knowing where you are and wanting to get out but not knowing how to. That’s the veil, the translation. The Christ stands in as the door, and whoever asks, whoever seeks, cannot be denied.<\/p>\n

That is the key: to ask, to seek the kingdom. Part of it would be to know, “I come from somewhere and this isn’t it.” The “stupidity” may say, “This is my place. I love it here, and I’m going to stay here forever. That’s my goal: immortality.”<\/p>\n

I say, “Well, you’re \u2018stupid\u2019 because that\u2019s not the reality of who you are. You\u2019re not going to do that. You\u2019re off. You\u2019re not meant to stay here forever. This is a temporal existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a lost aspect, so the Christ becomes the entry. The Christ is known as the door, or the gate, and stands in. You may think that sounds like the Traveler, which stands in between the negative world and the spiritual world. Yes. One is like the door, and one is the way that goes to God.<\/p>\n

How does that translate? It\u2019s still the way even in the psychic-material, and it comes as an energy field, if you want to look at it like that, like a path. There\u2019s the path, the way, and the Christ stands as that one who tells us, \u201cHere\u2019s how to get on the path. Right here. Come here. Follow this, and you\u2019ll be on the way. I am the Light. I am the truth. I am the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Traveler is an extension, if you will. It may sound like the same thing, and it\u2019s really not important to distinguish. When you understand, then you realize the Christ is the Light of the world. So it has an application as the logos of this planet. But what about the worlds to come? That becomes the Traveler, which is the wayshower, the all in the all, that which is required to reconnect, to realize our true self. That realization is when you say, \u201cI am a Soul and not really this body. I\u2019m in the body, but I\u2019m not the body.\u201d So you start discerning that \u201cI\u2019m first of the Spirit.\u201d That is a Christ realization. There\u2019s no separation in it, so if someone says they don\u2019t know the difference that\u2019s okay. It\u2019s not something to worry about. In fact, there\u2019s no need to find a difference because then you\u2019re looking for separation. I wouldn\u2019t do that. When you get it, you get it. You\u2019ll see that, functionally, there\u2019s a difference, a stepping down, so that the Christ is holding for the entire world, holding the door open. And in a way, it\u2019s stuck there.<\/p>\n

You may think that\u2019s a strange way to relate to the Christ, as stuck, and I say that someone has to take that position to hold the door open, to hold the Light, and to allow that Light to go to all consciousnesses as soon as they ask for it.<\/p>\n

Then it\u2019s like, \u201cNow I\u2019m at the door. How\u2019d I get here?\u201d You woke up. You\u2019ve always been at the door. When you turned away, you didn\u2019t see it, but you never really went anywhere. It was always at hand. The kingdom is at hand. So, that\u2019s part of the great message of the Christ: \u201cHey, silly, you don\u2019t have to go anywhere. It\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n

You may say, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t here until you were here,\u201d and the Christ says, \u201cI\u2019ve always been here. I\u2019ve been in your heart. I\u2019ve been in your consciousness, so the physical appearance is less than the one that\u2019s inside. The kingdom is inside. The Master is inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

When you see an emissary of the Soul and you say, \u201cI don\u2019t know their name,\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t know where they\u2019re from; I just know they\u2019re a good guy, or a good gal,\u201d that\u2019s right. That\u2019s what is important to know. It\u2019s not so much, \u201cWho are you? What are you?\u201d They don\u2019t necessarily tell you that, but usually it\u2019s in a state so you just know it. You may not know how you knew; you just knew, or you just heard them. You may hear them say their name or just realize who they are in a way that is clear for you.<\/p>\n

The important thing is your inner knowing of the presence of Spirit, the presence of the emissaries of the Soul, the presence of the Traveler as a wayshower of the Soul, the presence of the Christ as a way that is the Light in this world and the door into the Soul. They always come in on the loving that is always the way, so look for the loving, and you\u2019ll find the way to the joy and peace that is God.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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