Soul Talk

[DavidS]

Hello All –

One of the 'new' 'horizons' which I mentioned were 'beckoning' to me, is a 'course' (of my own design/choosing) which I was 'invited' to 'facilitate' in the 'peer' organized and run Ongoing Learning 'program' (mostly constituted by 'post-retirement adults' like me, I imagine), following a 'discussion group' format, at the local Community College this coming semester. The whole thing came about as a result of a 'chance' hiking-trail encounter and conversation I had with a lady who turned out to be one of the 'movers and shakers' of the (local branch of the) program.

It will probably come as no surprise to those of you who've found my previous posts engaging that the course focus/title I came up with was Cultivation of the Soul.

In 'preparation' for the happening, I began taking out and reading books from the local Library to become more familiar with what's 'out there', in terms of perspectives on and beliefs about 'the Soul', so I could be more readily conversant with folks from a wide range of backgrounds, which I expect will be the case there.

The book I am now reading is Emmanuel's book III, subtitled What Is an Angel Doing Here?, by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton, which is a 'compilation' of material from 'channeled' sessions. I thought that some here might find excerpts from it interesting as and (potentially) stimulating.

Though, as mentioned, my 'horizon'-focus is such that I probably won't be personally 'engaging' in further conversational 'repartee' here, at least not while my creative energies are so focused, I invite comments, including presentations of 'alternate'- as well as 'counter'-perspectives, by anyone moved to contribute to the 'enrichment' of this thread.

The following pieces (I will post them in 'bite'-sized sections) are from Chapter 2 of the book, which is titled What Is an Angel doing Here? It presents a 'soul'-based perspective, which amounts to a kind of thee·osophy in itself – I offer it as a 'hypothesis' worthy of consideration, if for no other reason than the kaleidoscopic 'fun' of doing so, making no 'claim' as to the 'real' truth of the matter(s). Strikes me that it may be equally well 'regarded' as being anything from a 'mere' 'figmental' creation of a "channeler's" 'crazy' image·in·ation to a 'meaningful' 'communication' from some 'knowing' 'angelic' 'other'. Or as The material in 'larger' print, I think, are bits and pieces of the "author's" (many) statements, spliced into material which for the most part follows a Q&A format. Be aware that the nature of 'excerpts' is that they are 'out' of 'context' – I refer you to the book itself for the 'complete' 'story'. That said, strap on your seatbelt and put on your flyin' goggles - here we go!

2: What Is an Angel Doing Here?

<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>Love comes to find Itself,
and then calls forth bodies to wear.

Q: If we were Angels in the Oneness, why would we choose to leave it to come to a place like planet Earth?

Remember you are gods,
and as such you are curious and adventuresome.
When You are in Oneness,
You touch that Love constantly
with gratitude, joy, and bliss,
but then you wondered,
as is your unique nature,
how it might be possible to know Love
outside that eternal perfection.
This creative curiosity brought you
into the journey of the human adventure.

Is there any other was to go beyond Love
except into the fabricated mirage that Love is not,
that perfection is not,
that God is not,
in fact, that You, in the essence of your being,
are not?
So you created this small pocket of illusion
where love seems not to be,
and you entered it, Angels all, to explore.

There is no journey more holy.
There is nothing more courageous
than your willingness to be present
in this world in the name of Love Itself.
There is no one wiser than You, in your Divinity,
wrapped within the embrace
of your humanness.

"Strange journey," your minds are saying.
"Didn’t we take a big risk in leaving?"

Angels do not believe in risk.
You wanted to worship All-That-Is,
to serve Love however it can be served.
Is that not a noble purpose?

You are humorous Angels.
An Angel removed,
who walks with careful, pious tread,
would not begin to consider
donning the rough-and-tumble suit
of humanity.

You who have walked a human life
and have come to a moment of realization
of the perfection of Love within yourselves
know what an enlightening experience it is,
as though an entirely new universe
has opened up. It is the remembering of Home.

You have all labored to create
a plane of consciousness that has chosen
to leave the Oneness—not in rebellion,
not in punishment,
but in worship.

You are called by the Love
that exists within that illusion
to bring the Light of your truth
into the forgetting self.
The moment of birth
is the giving of that gift.

You are the creator
creating with every breath.
You are the wellspring
of All-That-Is.

Mind asks, "If we can create anything,
why couldn't we come up
with something better than this?"

Although this may not have been
your most explainable creation,
your purpose is a worthy one.
You are all here,
not only for that existential purpose,
but because now you are woven
into the fabric of your human world.
You have been here so many times.
You have worshipped. You have suffered.
You have died. You have laughed.
You have given birth. You have mourned.
you have a deep familiarity
with those with whom you walk.
When they cry out of Love,
can you turn away?

In order to bring Light into the darkness,
you too must enter into that darkness.
One does not come to the doorway
of an obscure cave ad illuminate it
merely by standing outside.
One enters the depths and, in that moment
of courage and supreme Love,
transforms the darkness
forever back into Light.

You shine your absolute presence
wherever forgetting casts its pall–
a simple task
yet vast and magical.

Q: It all seems so difficult.

Your human life is a journey.
It is not a prison sentence.
It does not imply
that you did something wrong in heaven
and were told to go out and learn a few things
before you returned repentant.
Your life is a gift to the planet.
Love called and perfect Love always responds.
You said yes.

Even in your humanness,
shielded from awareness of your angelhood
by the mask of your mortal personality,
You are still that divine and perfect Love
that You have always been
and will always be.

When You leave the Oneness,
You forge a bridge connecting you
to the family of your choice.
You accept all the family "givens"
and hold them almost sacred.
You grow so accustomed to them
that you fail even to offer challenge.
Why, you almost believe you were
born with those chains around your wrists
and ankles.

As the Angel,
there is nothing beyond Your reach,
but when you are human and very young,
that bridge between you and your family
becomes a necessary lifeline to your existence.

Then comes a time
when the noble longing of the heart
begins to flower,
where the wisdom of who You truly are
begins to emerge.
You recall your dream and thereby give it form.
this challenges every fiber
of that familial makeshift span.
Thus you are freed to become a conscious part
of the lighted bridge
between human and spirit.</span>

(More 'munchies' to come - David :) )

[rich]

David,

The forum seems to be at a standstill now. Many of the formerly active posters here, are not posting anymore, including myself.
I keep myself busy anyway. Being you are going to teach about souls and angels, maybe you can use some of the ideas spoken in the following "E" I received today. Wish you well in your latest ventures. To teach a topic like you are going to teach, takes being Imaginative, which you certainly are.

The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...

Noah was a drunk

Abraham was too old

Isaac was a daydreamer

Jacob was a liar

Leah was ugly

Joseph was abused

Moses had a stuttering problem

Gideon was afraid

Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer

Rahab was a prostitute

Jeremiah and Timothy were too young

David had an affair and was a murderer

Elijah was suicidal

Isaiah preached naked

Jonah ran from God

Naomi was a widow

Job went bankrupt

John the Baptist ate bugs

Peter denied Christ

The Disciples fell asleep while praying

Martha worried about everything

Mary Magdalene was, well you know

The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once

Zaccheus was too small :beatup:

Paul was too religious

Timothy had an ulcer...AND

Lazarus was dead! :finished:


...no more excuses now.

God can use you to your full potential.

Besides you aren't the message, you are just the messenger.


Share this with a friend or two...


:rofl: :delicious:

P.S. Thomas added many more smileys. They should attract more posters. :thumbsup:

[DavidS]

Hi rich, thanks for the wishes, and the 'implications' in the email 'commentary'. The new smilies are indeed tres cool.

Here's the continuation of Ch. 2 (from Emmanuel's Book III). Enjoy. David :)

Q: Is there anything that I, as an Angel, can do about
the massive suffering I see around me every day?

A great deal.
The first thing an Angel can do,
having remembered who he or she is,
is to address the circumstances
of human experience without
holding the hand of fear.
Have you any idea how frightened you are
most of your lives?
you bury it so well
that most of you do not even perceive it
as fear anymore.
It has become habitual behavior.

Do you remember
how it was before you knew that you
were supposed to be afraid?
Afraid of what?
anything. everything.
Afraid to fall, afraid to lose,
afraid to die, afraid to care,
afraid to believe.

You have to live your way through your lives.
You cannot simply think them.
If you are to hesitate
at the door of mind's approval,
you will remain sitting in despair.
If you are willing to walk forth
where your heart calls,
you will find yourselves, moment by moment,
changing the consciousness of your world.
This is not an exaggeration.
This is who You are.

Your heart breaks because someone is in pain.
Your caring is the voice of God,
whether it is spoken audibly
or given tangibly or felt within your heart.
Therein lies the power in the universe.

The doubting mind
would say, "Just give me a little sign
that my caring has helped.
Let me get a letter from Cambodia or Africa
that tells me someone
felt the touch of my hand."

There are many who,
if they knew to whom to address such a missive,
would send it.
They do not have the words
or the postal facility
to tell you that they felt a moment of Grace
and wondered from whence it came.
Perhaps they turned
to thank a stranger on the street.
Perhaps they prayed with gratitude
to an unseen God.
It does not matter how it manifested.
Your love has touched them.

Q: Why is life so complicated?
People have so many worries.
My brother was laid off
and his entire life seems to be unraveling.

What is an Angel doing on the bread line?
The Angel is tasting the flavors of fear.
When a human being becomes aware
that he has come to do exactly that,
he will begin to recognize
that not only does fear stand in the bread line,
but a whole group of Angels
as standing there as well.

When that particular Angel
comes to such a realization,
he will begin to look around and see
with new eyes those who were labeled
by the mind as destitute, ne'er-do-well,
disadvantaged, or endangered.
He will see them all
as courageous Beings of Light
who have chosen to come together
at that moment and stand in the illusory line
in the name of illusory want.
The moment such realization dawns,
the Angel has become wealthy.

There is no danger.
How could there be an endangered Angel?
Are there people who are trembling
at what they perceive is the ruin
of their lives?
Many.
They have come to a point
where they must question the meaning of Self.
Who am I?
Who are these people?
What illusion brought us together?
What is to be learned here?
What is the truth of this?

There is noting more enlightening to do
than to look for the truth
in life's daily happenings.
Pay heed now,
for life will swiftly change.

Nothing remains
more than a moment.
Then, since the nature of creation
is to create,
another unique moment apears.

Here are some questions for your introspection.

Consult the wisdom
that rests beneath your mind's tyranny.
If, right now, you were absolutely sure
that you really are an Angel,
that you are eternal,
that you come from perfect Love
and will return to perfect Love,
what would you do with your life?

Are there any particular goals
you would pursue without the need
to be reasonable?

From which demands
would you release yourself?

What "history" would you forgive?

What judgments, dear one,
would you stop directing at yourself
and your world?

What is keeping you
from living your life as an Angel
right now?

Q: You once said, Emmanuel,
that there are nights when we go forth
from our dreams and become Angels to others.
Could you tell is more about this?

Having accepted as a possibility
that you are not just your human body,
then it becomes reasonable
that when your body goes to sleep
and the intellect blessedly quiets down,
there is no need for you to remain
within the physical form.
Bodies adhere to the pull of gravity.
Love does not,
and Angels do not require sleep.

Sometimes your angelhood lifts in sleep,
traveling around the planet
to answer the call of Love.
you become visible,
indeed recognizable at times,
as a firmly embodied human being
in some other part of the world.
If your heart aches
at the picture of a starving child,
then that night there is a very good chance
that you will go and be the peace,
the comfort, perhaps even the vehicle Home
for that child.
Do not sleep disguise the truth
of who You are.

<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>Your light reminds others
of their Light.

Q: Is there any way we can remember
these trips out of the body?

To remember where you have gone
and what you have done, as you awaken
and before you are fully in your body,
let yourself write upon a piece of paper
or speak softly into a recording device
what it is you hope
you did the past night.

I use the word "hope" deliberately.
It is a soft word.
It opens the heart and goes beyond the mind.
If you can listen to what you hope
you accomplished the night before,
in a very short time
the memory will come.

There are no words
in the languages of your countries
to honor the wondrous gift that you bring.
You are not aliens to this planet,
though it is not your home.
You are the creators of it
and You are the Light of it.
Notice I did not say you are rescuers.
No one needs rescue,
but everybody requires Love.

Q : How do we know when we are doing our work
on the planet?

The forces of Light are gathering
in those who have come to hear and to see
and to remember. Throughout your day,
ask yourselves, "what would an Angel do now?"
When you awaken in the morning ask,
"Why is an Angel here?"
If there were no purpose for your presence,
You, the Angel
would have remained at Home.

Remember that where You are,
perfect Love is.
Do not seek for linear definition.
simply ask, "What is an Angel doing here?"
If you align that question with Love
you will hear exquisite responses.</span>

(more to come)

[DavidS]

(Ch 2. of Emmanuel's Book III continued)

Q: What is it like for you
when we ask you questions, Emmanuel,
and what is your work with us?

I enjoy your questions immensely,
because we come to the subtleties.
"Ah," I say, "now I remember the pleasure
of my humanness!"
When one digs deeply enough
into one's own life, one begins to discover
these frozen pieces of infinite knowing.

I hear your longings
and I celebrate your questioning,
for you bring me to the very center
of my purpose.
Every question is a doorway.
Some are wide and others narrow.
Some can admit only a tiny crack of light,
yet it is the beginning
of the opening of the door
and so we hail it with much love.

The moment that forgetting begins to question,
then forgetting will never be so dense again.
When you, in illusion, turn to ask,
"What else is there?"
then you are removing the illusion.
What remains is eternity, perfect Love,
Beings of Light, Angels, your true Selves,
however it is you wish to express it.

"There must be something more
than this" is the voice of Love.

Let me suggest that you take back the power
which you all-too-willingly
accord the spirit guide.
We walk with you in Love,
but not with a bag full of tricks.
If you want to know something, try this:

Sit quietly and tell yourself,
"I grant myself permission
to know what I know,
to see what I see,
to hear what I hear."

If you can frame a question,
you already know the answer.

You in your form and we in ours
are moving to the same call of Love.
There is really nothing magical
about the means by which the world of spirit
and the world of human experience
mesh together. It is one
of the most ordinary and
yet unrecognized happenings.

I come to speak to you,
not of what I know, but of what You know,
not of who I am, but of who You are.
I come to the planet to assist at the birth
of your total and complete memory
as much as each human being will allow me.
I come to challenge you to your greatness
and your faith.
Let is explore together
not from the terror of forgetting,
but for the joy of remembering.

Your presence on this planet
is absolutely essential.
Not one of you is here by mistake.
There is Divine intent here.
You will ultimately transform the
Earthly illusion,
which you yourselves created,
back into Oneness.

<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>When the final soul
has satisfied its curiosity
and its noble purpose,
not only your planet,
but all creatures that exist
under the heavens will,
with a glorious blaze of Light,
return Home.

Will there, then, be nothing in the skies?
Will there be no sun, no stars, no planets?
Not unless you decide to create some more,
which undoubtedly you will.</span>

:scatter:

(end of Ch. 2)

[DavidS]

Some additional snippets from Emmanuels Book III which I found 'inspirationally' stimulating and thought may also be so for others, like me, inclined to view/ex·peer·ience things in such 'terms' of 'reference' (I realize many regard elements of what follows as 'sacrilege' and 'blasphemy').

From Ch. 5: Some Categories of Confusion:
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Q: I understand from other enlightened beings
that part of why we are here is for self-purification.
Is this true?

If you are using the term "self-purification"
in place of "self-love," perhaps you are right.
The Angel does not come for purification,
but human beings cannot find the Angel
if they believe they are not worthy
of angelhood.
until you can completely acknowledge who your are
and honor yourselves,
your cannot believe what I am saying to you.
you will continue to think
that there is something to be dusted and polished,
something that needs to be atoned for,
and on and on.

You do not come
from perfect Love to be purified.
As a human being, you forget
ad as you forget
you become increasingly dense,
more aligned with matter than with truth.
As you begin to lighten the density of matter
and throw off the weights of illusion,
then one might possibly speak of purification.
One could also say, as I have done,
that you are here for remembering.
trust that.

View yourself as a cake just mixed
and newly put into the oven.
You do not poke and prod the cake
to see how it is coming along.
Once the ingredients are stirred in
and the correct temperature is applied,
then one must leave the rest
to the inevitable organic process.
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Q: Has there been any improvement
in the level of consciousness
in our world in this century?

There is a movement to Oneness.
Can you believe that?
When you see countries proclaiming themselves
separate nations again, you say,
"But where is the Oneness there?"
It will come.

The vents of the last fifty years
have brought about an astounding evolution.
People are waking up, some more slowly than others.
you no longer believe
that you can live in isolation.
You no longer assume that only the gifted
and talented can rule the world.
You no longer think
(though this is fading very slowly)
that might makes right.

There is a growing cognizance
that it is unacceptable
when someone is in pain,
when someone is alone,
when someone is starving
or has no place to sleep.
Child abuse can now be discussed.
Alcoholism and drug addiction
are being treated caringly and openly.
Look to see what has come to pass.

Look at your own lives.
Notice what is taking place
in every part of the world.
There is disruption because there is change.
Freedom is dawning.
With the dawning of this freedom comes
disharmony and economic stress.

Now, what shall we do with this world?
Your look around and you hear of wondrous things
that cause you great enthusiasm,
and in the next moment
you hear of some terrible, unforgivable action
that causes untold suffering.
your see homes of delightful beauty and luxury
and in the next minute you turn
and find someone sleeping on the street.
You leave a restaurant
where you had a sumptuous meal,
and you notice hungry children walking by you.
What does one do in a world of such duality?

The mind staggers.
It bombards you with suggestions.
"Mind your own business. That has
nothing to do with you."
"Let's run and hide before
they take something form us."
Or it might say, "The only thing to do
is to give away everything you own
and then perhaps some people will spend a night
or two in greater comfort."
"Let us march on government.
Let us raise the roof with our indignation
so that they (whoever 'they' may be
at the moment) will come to see,
understand, and do something about it."

You are all loving beings.
You perceive the pain and suffering
and you wonder, "What can I do?
I can’t even do anything about my own."

When you choose fear and aversion
in a world of duality,
you add to the darkness of your planet.
When you choose Love,
your entire planet is lighter.
This affects everyone.
Your costumes may represent separation,
but your hearts do not.
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Q: What can the role of members of the media be?

Communication has come a long way
since the first grunt became a sound
that could repeat itself
with more or less the same meaning.
If you believe what eyes are taught to reveal,
you see nothing
but the fragmented human experience.
If you were to perceive the world
through the lens of the heart, however,
there would never be a sight, sound,
smell, or taste that would seem
other than All-That-Is.

Interpretation
through the usual channels of communication
has severed each one of you
from the wisdom and glory,
not of your past, but of your eternal present.
I do not want to imply
that the written or spoken word is the enemy.
If such communication
can come from the fullness
of an open and loving heart,
there is the possibility of communicating,
not differences, but sameness;
not separation, but Oneness;
not fear, but Love.
This message cannot move through
the editorial equipment
of those who are afraid.

In every moment of human experience
there is a gem of Love.
Even when fear is present
there is always and ever
the groundwork of truth.
There is nothing upon the planet
that does not hold the greater Design.
Knowing this,
perhaps you will deem it appropriate
to shift you focus
from the embattled human world
to the remembering of what is really there.
==========

Some of the great teachers who have been
in human form have taught their followers how
to pray. Is there a new way to pray today?

There is.
Your have been taught to pray
to a greater reality outside the self.
By that very act of projecting your Love
and longing outside your self.
you delay the moment of self-remembering.

Prayer is comforting.
It fills the act of loneliness.
That is valuable and sometimes necessary
when fear is so convincing
that you truly believe that you are alone.

Prayer is not supplication.
Supplication removes you form the God within.
True prayer is the communication
with a deeper remembering [my underscore] inside the self.
The new way to pray would be to love.
Until your love yourselves absolutely,
you cannot remember who You really are.
Once you come into the memory of who You are,
prayer becomes a discussion
between comrades in spirit.

If there be an supplication in your prayer,
let it be that the Beings of Light around you
help you release yourself
from the limiting
historic definition.
Ask to be as present as possible
in this moment of eternity.
You are not only in eternity.
You are eternity.
You are not only with God.
You are God.
============

Q: Why is the Bible so often used
as the absolute and only world of God?

Let me take you back in history a bit.
Spirit has spoken to your world
thousands of times.
How could it not, for your world of illusion
is held in the loving hands of eternal Truth?
When those brilliant moments come,
humanity (and fear) says,
"Let us take this moment of inspiration
and let us be sure that no one forgets it."

It seems and act of Love
when man builds monuments
to make sure the truth is honored.
Yet if one can truly hear the voices of inspiration,
one must also know that such voices
will never vanish.
The connection in Love's name
holds through eternity.
Those special moments that the Bible
seeks to bring forth, therefore,
have been written, for the most part,
in the name of fear.

Remember that fear also knows
the vocabulary of Love.
Fear believed that the Being of Light
would not be remembered
and therefore His Memorial had to be frozen
into the written word.
The human mind answers,
"Well, Emmanuel, people do foregt."

They do.
People also die and yet the wisdom remains.
Christ was crucified
yet He still walks the Earth.
The truth of that life,
championed and celebrated, lives forever.
If there were no texts of any faith,
do you believe that humanity
would forget God?
===========

Is truth so particular
that there is only one gate to heaven?
There are no gates.
Heaven is inside you.
You are not even the gatekeeper.
============

[DavidS]

From Ch. 7: Unlocking the Door):

To love yourselves is the final hurdle,
the definitive frontier of humanity.

Illusion delights
in embellishing it own importance.
"I must earn the right to enlightenment,"
you say, "by doing ten thousand prostrations,
by sitting for long periods of time
in great discomfort,
by fasting until I am almost dead,
by devoting at least seven lives
to the unselfish service of the poor.
Then perhaps . . ."

You recognize
the falsity of this and you rebel.
Then you scold yourselves for resisting.
"I'll never be enlightened," you lament,
"because I really don't want to live
on air and water."

Then someone whom you cannot even see
with physical eyes tells you, "No. No.
All your have to do is fall in love
with yourselves and dare to trust
in your own profound goodness,
and along the way you should allow in every joy,
every celebration, every moment of delight.
You will find that to be the shortest distance
between your current illusion and Home."
I offer you this challenge.

Some of you fear
that when you die
there will be an awesome tribunal
sitting in judgment upon you.
The truth of the matter is
that the first thing you see
when you leave your bodies if Light,
the first thing you hear is laughter,
and the first thing you feel
is Love.

Fall in love with yourselves.
It is the next step upon your journey,
in fact it is the only remaining step.
Self-love demands
that you close forever the ledgers of your life
and that you move unencumbered
into the realization of your dreams
and your visions.

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>First you must revere yourselves
and from that enlightened viewpoint,
all circumstances in life
dance before you as opportunity.

There will never be anything new
said upon your planet.
There is no new message, no new key.
Indeed, there is no new viewpoint
and certainly there are no new promises.
The truth was given centuries ago
and has been repeated
ever since in different vocabularies
by different agents.

There comes a time in a human life
when what has been heard over and over,
suddenly, for some unknown reason,
stands before you
as undeniable and blessed reality.
So truth must be repeated
as often as there is someone to listen.

The moment you are fully present
in your self-love,
you will recognize wisdom
where it has always been.
In the meantime,
the spirits in your company
will continue their task of reminding you
until the moment comes when you
touch that memory within yourselves.

You did not choose to become human
to then escape you lives.
You came to live them,
and live them you will.
Some of you may choose
to remain distanced.
You have all felt the pain of such distancing
after moments of love,
of glory, when you feel alienated
from the feast of life, still hungry
and perhaps more empty than before
the feast began.
"Will I never be satisfied?" you wonder.
"Will I always seek another love, another God,
another healing, religion, path,
a new salvation?"

Never forget
that you carry your own laboratory
of salvation within you.

Q: What are some other ways to help us remember?

Bring one question into each day:
"Where is love here?"

Spend each day looking for Truth.
It will come in many forms:
a child's smile, the feel of rain on your hand,
the opening of a flower.
Keep vigilant.

Read the holy books of all religions.
You will find truth.
Distorted?
Of course, humanity wrote it down,
but it is there.

Practice meditation.
The world of fragmentation
cannot move to Oneness,
but Oneness can move
in the world of fragmentation
without departing from Itself.
Meditation becomes a means
by which you can sever your allegiance
with the active mind
and regain connection and devotion
to the Self.

Remind yourselves as often as possible
each day that you are Angels.

When you discover
that you have forgotten your angelhood,
let that be a moment of rejoicing.
Your noticing transforms the illusion again.
For that instant you are free.

Q: Is there some way for mind to be an ally?

The mind, in its fundamental nature, is an ally.
Mind is simply the cap you have chosen to wear
and it will serve whatever intention
you consciously make.
It is most willing to join the heart,
but first you must be willing to disengage
from your contract with fear.

You cannot walk mindless.
Not only would you bump into things,
you would fail the purpose
for which you have come.
Mind has untapped capacities
to remind you of the gift of wonder
that You are,
once you have instructed it to do so.
But your instructions must come from Love,
or they will, no matter
how sweetly they are worded,
turn against the truth.

Mind, having been skillfully designed,
find itself a thing of pride.
"Am I not excellent and many times clear?"

Yes, mind,
you are, and you are essential
to the journey of the human being
and by extension for the journey of the Angel.
The Angel cannot shrink itself to mind's size,
but can utilize the mind,
saying, "Mind if a fine tool,
and it is truly becoming to the human costume.
Even though I am much more than mind,
I can employ it in my service."
Your decision to Love
automatically invites mind's support.</span>
============

[DavidS]

More snippets from Ch. 7:

Q: What can we look for the help us
fall in love with ourselves?

As long as you are not present in your lives
here and now, you will indeed continue to search
for some holy grail outside of the Self.
You will never find it.

There is no greater wisdom
than your own heart.
That can be a disturbing thought
if you have lost faith in your heart.
It can seem like a pronouncement
that if you cannot remember
that you are an Angel,
you will be forever entombed
in human dissatisfaction.

I would encourage you all
to hold what I say as absolute truth.
Love is the only reality.
All the rest is just so much traffic noise.
You all come together from time to time
to remind each other of that,
to remember that you are safe,
that you are on a holy journey,
and that what you hope is true is,
in fact, the truth.
Self-love is your passage through.

I suggest that you look
past your imagined historic defects.
There is gravity pulling you down, dear ones,
why would you not stumble from time to time?
Consider this ... you come from angelhood,
so you are not used to standing
upon very heavy feet.

If you rely on the outer world
to verify your existence,
you will never find yourselves,
for you are looking through your own
warped concepts into distorted mirrors.
Ask yourselves these questions:
"Do I love myself
when someone is shouting angrily at me?
Do I love myself
when I have disappointed others?
Do I love myself
when I feel I have failed?
What makes me stop loving myself?"

Let me remind you,
Love is not something to be earned.
It cannot be judged,
meted out, of taken away.
Love is something that you are.

In the miracle of perfect Love that You are,
there is no duality. There is no "other."
There is only you and your compassion,
your Divine intent.
Such a Love cannot be understood in the mind,
because mind lives in the world of illusion.
You do not.

Without your loving presence, the
Divine Plan is incomplete.

Do not hover on the threshold
to look around with fear-filled eye.
You cannot bargain.
you cannot hope for any guarantee.
you can only unlock the door
that keeps you imprisoned and leap into Love.

How does one unlock the door
to one's habitual premises of reality?
Begin with this:

Let your imagination
conjure up the locker door.
It can take any design you prefer,
any color or shape.

Sit for a moment with the intent
to go beyond that door.

How do you approach this door?
Running? Walking? On tiptoe?
What are you feeling?

How ill you open it?

Will you use a key? An ax?
Do you call a locksmith?
A blacksmith?
Will you just knock?

Become aware of how you
go about unlocking the imaginary door
It will be revealing.

If you can find wherein your "no" is present,
then the "yes" can be freed.
That will fling open the door
to wondrous adventure.

* * * * *

Q: Is the best way to experience the Angel in us
to be content with the human?

Absolutely.
There is no contentment in avoidance of life.
To say yes to life does not mean that you
laud he painful or embrace the darkness.
your yes brings You, the Being of Light,
into the center of you, the human.
When the Light
is brought into the darkened room,
there is no room for darkness.
....

* * * * *

Q: When we remember who we are,
will our lives suddenly change?

Yes and no.
Outer circumstance, made of denser stuff,
requires more time to shift direction,
but inner experience
of that same circumstance
can alter immediately and never return
to what it was before.

Yet, this becomes subtle.
As beings of Light who have chosen again
to come into human form,
your task is to honor the voice that called you.
That voice was not fear.
It was Love.
So to allow things to be is, perhaps,
the greatest act of faith
that human beings can offer themselves.
One does not have to look far
to touch a place of anguish
or disappointment or suffering
in your personal or global world.
It demands a leap of faith to bear witness
to such things and not rush to change them.

* * * * *

[DavidS]

Strikes me that the 'act' of typing up this stuff and 'subliminally' (since my 'conscious mind' is 'busy' with the 'typing') 'registering' the 'meaning(s)' conveyed by the words may be as 'magically' 'effect·ual' (on 'me', or the 'field' of 'my' 'consciousness') as repeating any 'affirmation' or 'mantra'. I wonder what it 'says' that 'I' wouldn't have the 'motivation' to 'do' 'this' if it was 'just' for 'myself', though.
---------------

Q: How do vibrant color and soft texture
translate on your plane?

You all find it comfortable and necessary
to trust the sensing devices of your bodies.
If you did not have feelings in your fingers,
would you know texture?
Would you know color
without your ocular equipment?

As you see color, you perceive is energetic quality
and the eyes report "I see blue."
But that is a translation.
What you are experiencing
is an energetic effect upon the retina of the eye.

Do you find a colorless realm here at Home?
indeed you do not.
you come to colors that sing
without the necessity of pigmentation.
You find textures
without the need for solid manifestation.
There is not much more I can tell you,
because there is no vocabulary available
between us to convey what I experience.
The nearest thing might be the feel
of a warm breeze upon your body.
A breeze refuses to be frozen.
Or perhaps the song of a bird.
You receive the notes fleetingly,
but before they can be given substance
they are gone.

* * * * *

Q: Well, how does Earth compare to home?

Your world is a world of symbols,
a world of labels,
a world of hope made manifest.
Look at yourselves.
Do your physical bodies represent the Angel?
Perhaps in moments of great Love.
Certainly just before you were born
there was the vibrancy of spirit entering into form.
Shortly after birth, however,
you begin to say, "This is who I am."
In that statement,
you congeal yourselves into illusion.
Language is not friend to greater truth,
for the understanding of word—
semantics itself—is part of the freezing process.

I promise you, when you begin to truly see,
you will greet Angels everywhere,
and this will remind you of Home.
You will note with compassion
the pain and the struggle,
the nobility of purpose,
the golden intent of the human being.
That same golden intent, that nobility,
is much like Home as well.

* * * * *

If we incarnate to do certain work
and also have free choice,
can you talk about the dance between action and control,
take-charge and let-go?

Must you be consciously surrendered
to the will of the soul?
It might make it easier for you,
but that does not mean
that if you are not surrendered
you will not accomplish the purpose
for which you have come.
You come to do specific things,
but there is no demand that they be done
in specific ways.
The soul leaves to the human personality
the inventive wanderings into illusion.

To bring Light into the darkness,
you must go there yourself.
The human being may seem to stumble and fall,
but the soul is doing its work.
There is no perfect balance
between surrender and striving.
There is no way you can derail the train
upon which you ride.
You can choose a more comfortable caoch,
perhaps, but the train
is bound to reach its destination.

"Then why do I bother with all this striving?"
you might ask yourselves.

Because that is who you are.
you will wander in unknowing,
and at the very nadir of failure,
when you blame yourself the most,
if you can remember your angelhood,
you will have the joy of realizing that you have,
in fact, succeeded.
In whatever manner the human personality
experiences a life, the soul will do its work.
So it is the human personality
that faces the moment of choice.
The soul has already made its selection.

You cannot fail.
How do you wish to travel the way?
Would you like to dance it?
Crawl it? Enjoy? Suffer? Laugh or weep?
Do you want to remain in the grasp of illusion
or turn to the heart and let it lead
you out to Light?
Whatever mode you choose,
you must know that there is nothing
that can stop you.

A soul is too vast a perfect wisdom
to lose its way.[/size.]

And some tidbits from Ch 8: Angelic Conceptions and Misconceptions:

[size=5]An Angel will appear
in whatever manner
you need to see it.

Q: When I was a little girl,
my mother told me that I had a guardian Angel
watching over me.
Is there and Angel that is particularly for me?

There is indeed
an Angel that is absolutely
and particularly for you.
Each person has one of those dear Beings,
perhaps several.
In various moments of crisis
or of vast importance in your life,
when the turning point
must be met in the name of the soul's intent,
there is more than one Angel
gathered around you.

Yes, you walk with an Angel.
That is a comfort to a child.
To the mature adult I would say,
"You never left the Oneness."
There are not only many Angels with you,
but eternity is with you.
You are wrapped in perfect Love.
One cannot be so vast
in speaking to a small child.
The child is asking one thing.
"Is there any other being
who is with me like the me I still remember?"
The child really wants to know,
"Is the truth of me still alive?"
The answer is yes.

There is, however, an even greater reality.
Eternal Love, the perfection of All-That-Is,
is alive and waiting within you.
The boundaries that seem to separate you
from your guardian Angel
are the boundaries of illusion.

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Oneness abides completely
and uninterrupted
within the world of separation.
It is only that the eyes are taught
to see differences and "otherness"
rather than to soften to perceive the One.

* * * * *</span>

This next bit was located just following a Q&A in which Emmanuel answers that there is no such thang as a 'dark' Angel (meaning a 'malevolent' one):

Q: But are there forces that would like us not to remember?

Fear.
That is about as forceful as illusion can get.
Yet not one of you is a victim of fear.
fear is a choice, an automatic response.
It is an addiction, a rabbit's foot
you believe will keep you safe.
You think if you are afraid,
then you will always be alert and aware
and beyond all danger.

Is fear a force beyond the self?
no, but fear itself can seem to expand
as though it were a giant.
Humanity has placed at fear's doorstep
many symbols, the devil being one.
There is no darkness outside of your own belief.
How can Light be lost?

Darkness lives only within the world of illusion.
Will science discover that?
To a great extent is already has.
Scientists will soon report,

"At the end of our most powerful instruments
of perception, all we see is Light."

* * * * *

Q: There are some teachings that suggest
that there is a parallel evolution between
the angelic kingdom and the human kingdom.
Is that accurate, and, if so, how does that fit
with the Angel within ourselves
in the human kingdom?

Parallel evolution is not part of my experience
or what I teach.
There is a belief that the world of spirit
somehow must function
as the human world does.

Creation does not require evolution.
Its nature is constant unfoldment.

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>you are an Angel
as well as a struggling human,
but you are not
a struggling Angel.

* * * * *

Q: Is God a sentient being?

When You are walking around in human form,
You are.

* * * * *

Q: Is sex sometimes a way to find the angelic?
in the writings about Angels,
there is concern about their gender.
Also, so we keep our maleness or our femaleness as Angels?

The vehicle of sexual expression
is often clouded by the enormous amount
of illusion you carry into moments of intimacy.
The human race is taught first to hide its angelhood
and then in moments of sexual union,
when the heart is longing to touch Oneness
through the body, fear steps i and threatens,
"You'd better no be discovered here!"
Seldom, then, is sexuality ever a means
by which Divine union is touched,
although it certainly holds that capability.

The moment of childbirth, as well,
could be the sun bursting through the clouds
of remembering if one were allowed to give birth
in the confidence that it was the choice
of three souls—mother, father, child—
and that having a child
is the ultimate act of creation for a human being.
it need not be paid for by disharmony, pain,
and postpartum depression.
There is nothing on your human planet
that if allowed its full nature
will not reflect the light of God.
There is nothing on your planet that
when viewed without the lenses of opinion
and judgment (which are historic
in each one of you) will not stand before you
as perfect Love. Nothing.

As long as you wear a physical body,
gender is absolutely essential.
When you are not wearing one, it is no longer needed.
The gender necessity comes
because you are encased
in a seemingly sold physical form,
and sexuality is a practical means
by which you can reach one another,
a vehicle of Love, a means by which hearts
can touch through the density of human form.
Once you are denuded of your bodies,
you become one with all things.
Is that not what sexual union is seeking, Oneness?
If there is no barrier to Oneness,
there is no need for a vehicle to overcome it.

Do not mourn the fact
hat you will leave behind the pleasure of sexuality
when you come Home.
They are but dim representatives
of the awaiting bliss.

* * * * *

Q: How do we relate to Angels?

With a great deal of joy.
There comes a time on the path up the mountain
when one begins to meet Angels
more and more frequently.
They start out seeming to be
just ordinary people, then suddenly
one realizes that these ordinary people
are quite extraordinary.
When you become acquainted
with their extraordinary qualities,
you begin to perceive that these qualities
hold a great deal of spirit.

As you continue up the mountain
you find human beings who seem to be more spirit
than human and then you begin to notice
that there are spirits who make only the most
cursory effort at being human.
Perhaps they are members of SOAR
(Society of Angels Remembering)</span>
(LOL!)

[DavidS]

Ding-Dong-Dang! The 'brilliant' (bold 'strokes'?) 'clarity' of Emmanuel's word-art-picture 'vision' keeps on blowing my mind-foot's 'sock' off! :D

From Ch. 11:

The center of creation can be likened
to a massive ball of infinite possibility.

When you stand in the center of your human life,
you hold the profound position
of absolute authority.
There is nothing you do not know.
There is nothing unavailable to you.
With every breathe you take you move
to the cutting edge of creation,
for nothing stretches out before you
save infinite possibility.
You are travelers without boundaries.

Mind insists that there is history.
You imagine your lives stretched behind you
and before you as though there were a path
already set down for you to walk upon.
There is no path.
The soul's wisdom knows its way.
In your exquisite wisdom You,
as Angel in the costume of this time,
expand All-There-Is into the void with each breath.
facts are not facts at all.
you probably even think you are the same person
you were a few hours ago.

"Well," you say, "I look the same. I feel the same."

That is the costume.
Physically manifested reality clings to old form
more stubbornly than does the inner consciousness
which can create galaxies in a breath.
Who you were a moment ago is not who you are now,
because you have experienced more
and you have an expanded understanding.
If you would allow yourselves to live
with the concept that nothing
need remain permanently fixed,
you would save yourself a great deal of pain
and disappointment.
At the same time, you would give your dreams
freedom to move, your lives freedom to change,
and your wisdom freedom to speak.
One of the reasons that you are so unreceptive
to the truth of who You really are
is that you deny its ever-changing reality.

Let me describe for you the greater dimension
of which you are inevitably and eternally a part.
We are here to break the combination of the safe
wherein are kept the treasures
that go beyond knowing.

Spreading outward
from the edge of the consciousness of the Earth
there seems to be a canopy of stars.
Just to titillate your imagination a bit,
let me tell you that beyond the seeming
endless vault of your heavens,
there is another entirely different reality.
I speak of the fabric,
the texture of it, the design, the purpose.
One cannot begin to translate with precision
the nonphysical into physical terms
that would satisfy your habitual perspective.
But what of that?
Let us leave caution aside and plunge ahead.

If I were to grant you the magical wish
to be led beyond the human fold,
what do you suppose would be the call
that you would hear?

Schooled in the teachings,
you would reply, "Why, Love, of course."

Yes, indeed, but what would that Love sound like?
Beyond physical ears, what is sound?
Beyond physical sight, what is vision?
Beyond physical emotion, what is Love?
These are questions that have seduced poet
and confounded philosopher
from the beginning of time.
So I begin not with apology,
but with recognition that there is no hope for clarity,
only for the beginnings of wonder.

Hold a piece of dust in your hand
and give it absolute permission
to become its true nature.
you will find that you are holding Light,
crystals of consciousness that know everything
yet are unrecognized in the world.

If I were to describe a shimmering, brilliant,
dancing pathway beckoning to you
in the name of joy, it would come close,
yet it certainly would not be an exact description
of the nature of things.

How does one explain infinite opportunity
within the essence? The vibration of eternal hope?
The vision of perfect and ever-compassionate Love?

Imagine the most brilliant light
that you have ever seen
and it is but minimum wattage
compared to what is ever present
around the periphery of human awareness.
Yet you look into space and you see blackness.
Your scientists nod sagely and explain, "Well,
there are no particles there to reflect the sun."
It seems empty, a vacuum, but of course it is not.
I do not accuse the scientific world of bumbling,
but only of limiting themselves to the faith
they place in their instruments
and by the reverence
they offer their deductive minds.

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>What is magic
but the label the human mind
has offered to the truths you have forgotten?

At the center
of all you see as physically manifested reality,
there is one spark of eternal and
ever-brilliant Truth.
It dwells not only in the core of the Earth
and surrounding all the planets
that are visible and known,
but blazes within each cell, within each molecule
of the corporeal dimensions.
Every thought holds that same eternal
and indescribable brilliance.

Step free of the illusion of limitation.
You are not your bodies.
you are Ideas—
brilliant , shining, living thoughts of the Angel,
having become manifest only in the dusting,
for the essence remains always true
to its own nature.

What more does the heart need to know?

Let me offer you some "Angel" practice.

Start by sitting quietly for a few minutes
and observe the rhythm of your own breathing.

Imagine yourself standing at the edge of the void,
with infinite possibility awaiting you.
With every breath you take,
you virtually create yourself anew.
With your every exhalation, all that is in you dies.

The instant when you release your breath
is the most important moment of your life.
At your exhalation you can, if you are willing,
release yourself from history and fly unencumbered.
Then as you breathe in, you are free once more
to create in the name of Love.

With each breath you take, the doors open.
Each breathe is an opportunity to touch Oneness.
And so you enter into dialogue between Angel
and human.

At times you will feel there is no reality
but the physical one.
Then in a breath or two,
you will find waiting for you the vastness
that honors both human and Divine.
The God you thought of as distant
will take up residence in your heart.
The heaven that you were taught is far away
will rest at your fingertips.

* * * * *</span>

Whew! And, for a break in pace:

Q: Speak to me on reading clouds, crystals,
and talking to trees.

Anything on you planet that opens your heart
speaks to you.
Anything that speaks to you, you speak to.

The world is filled with symbols.
Every symbols represents, in its essence,
the Love you thought you left behind
when you came to planet Earth.
One might almost say that these delightful things
you have mentioned
are simply pieces of You.

When you read clouds or when trees speak to you,
that is not so strange if you recognize
that every conversation
you have in your lifetime, held in truth,
is conversation with Yourself.

I do not say that the make you feel lonely—
to the contrary.
The Self I speak of is that vast Self
that you seek every minute as long as you
are walking upon the planet. It is that dear Self
you hope to see in the eyes of another,
the Self that whispers in the rustling trees
and sparkles in the crystal.
It is the Self that sings from the mountaintops
and echoes in the valley, glows in the rainbow,
sighs in the cadence of a spring rain,
and it is the Self that opens your heart.
If these things were not who [I[You[/I] really are
would they bring you such joy?

* * * * *

Q: Are there any animals forms
what were almost created to live on planet Earth
but then were not?

Take one or two or three of your favorites,
blend them together,
stir them up in your imagination,
and see what comes out—an elephant
with the loving eyes of a does,
a crocodile that sings like a bird?
You can take all the pieces of Love
and bring them together
but you must also conclude, "No,
though this one creature may be formed
out of all the Love that I can imagine,
it cannot really serve in this way.
It would be a hopeless, entangled contradiction."

Love comes in Oneness and then must separate.
It become not the singing crocodile,
but a reptile and a bird.
In fragmentation it becomes more rather than less,
because then it can know the nature
of both birdhood and corocodiledom.

When you all come into Oneness,
you separate first into man or woman.
That seems a decisive separation,
though I assure you it is not.
you take different nationalities,
different shapes, capacities, talents,
different dreams, different hopes.
You look at each other and you say,
"I don’t see the Oneness here. All I see is difference."

Yet how else could perfect Love forge for Itself
an adventure that would honor every bit of Itself—
each small exploration, every wandering
down some unknown path—
if it did not let Itself become the many?
The journey moves then from many to few,
and from few back to One.

On the way, are there singing crocodiles?
There will be, but perhaps not
that human beings can hear,
for the ears of humanity are coarse
and only hear what they expect.
Ask the Angel, "What do you hear
within the stem of a leaf?"
It will tell you, "Music."
"And what do you hear beyond
the croaking of frogs?" "A symphony."

* * * * *

[DavidS]

Q: Emmanuel, are self-identity and Oneness the same thing?
Can they be in conflict?

It depends on what you mean by "self."
If you speak of the greater Self in Oneness,
there is no difference.
If you speak of the self who wants to understand this,
then you move to separation
and a variance in identity.

Remember that eternity is alive.
It is not some whispered hope or anemic dream.
Eternity in a breath could create a thousand worlds
and people it with a million replicas
and nuances of what is here.
The essence of You and All-That-Is is One.

* * * * *

Q: If we understand a hologram,
can we understand ourselves better?
Is the universe a hologram?

You live in a holographic universe,
but it is much vaster than that.
Where does the universe get its design?
What goes beyond what seems to be?
What is the essence of life itself,
all of it, the volcanic matter,
the breath of your bodies,
the rhythmic function of your internal organs,
the crystal, the river, consciousness exploding
to become every manifestation?
That is the holographic reference.
But what is consciousness? You must go beyond.

The truth you long for cannot be sought.
In the act of seeking you deny it
because You are already what you seek.

When I say fall in love with yourselves,
I do not refer to the tiny human personality only,
that that is a beginning.
I do not mean the human being in confusion
or even falling in love with your falling in love.
It is just the first step of the way out of the mist.

There is no end to consciousness
and therefore there can be no receptacle
within which it can be placed for understanding.
Nothing can hold endlessness.
Is that not a joy and at the same time
does it not perturb that part of you which believes
that your only safety is in understanding?
The mind comes to the edge of its capacity
and become terrified.
It demands, "Tell me something else, Emmanuel!
Give me one more suggestion.
I'll do it. Just tell me."

What could I say? "all right, mind,
dissolve yourself. Be willing not to exist?"
Can you do that? Of course not.
That is not the nature of mind
any more than it's the nature
of a physically manifested body
to rush to its own death.
These restrictions keep you closeted
where your soul wishes you to be,
but they are not who You are.

Comfort poor mind. It trembles.
:tremble:
* * * * *

...Live your lives in expanded curiosity,
wondering "what if?" Censor nothing.
Mystery is mystery because it cannot be understood.
So follow the mystery.
It will bring clearing vision.

On finding your way:

The doors of life are mismarked.
The ones that say "EXIT" are really entrances.
And the ones marked "ENTRANCE"
are really exists.
There are doors that are labeled
"morning," "evening," "afternoon,"
"childhood," "puberty," "maturity,"
"old age," "death."
Some say "education,"
others "understanding."
Some are marked "idiocy," others "breakdown."
They all seem to have a label
that would appear to indicate what to expect
when you open that door.
None of it is true.

You follow road signs
believing that you know where you are going.
In fact, you do not know and that is not insulting.
It is freeing. "Well," you say,
"I'm getting into my car in a little while and I know
where I'm going." Do you?
You may know the road you are following
but do you know where you are going?
Do you know who your are?
Do you really believe you have a destination
on planet earth?
The only purpose of your existence is to be.

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>In moments of brilliance,
when you know you are noting but Love,
mind declares, "I've come to my destination!"
No, you have not.
Love is not a destination.
It is a river.</span>

[DavidS]

To anyone who found herself or himself 'turned on' by any of the above, I recommend reading the whole book, which includes more 'facets' in terms of perspective (making misinterpretation based on misperception less likely) and also touches on vital topics (Death & Dying, Loss of Loved ones, etc. for instance) which the selected excerpts don't even mention. For now though, better put on yer flyin' goggles, 'cuz here comes the Grand Finalé! :o


12: ...and the Word Was Yes

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Spirit and human come together only
through the doorway marked Yes...

Q: The Bible reads "In the beginning was the Word..."
What was that Word?

The Word was yes.
When one is creating, the word is always yes.
When you, the human being, are present in the moment
the Angel is there.
There is no more powerful yes
upon your planet that that.

Each one of you,
in your angelhood, has brought the yes.
No matter how troubled the human being may be,
nor how despicable he is considered,
there is always a moment of yes in that life.
Yes is the nature of the heart.

Each moment of yes that comes upon the planet
is that miracle of transformation
that brings the entire planet and all things upon it
that much closer to the time of Homecoming.

Q: If we are perfect to begin with,
why did we put ourselves through life's disturbing
experiences? Did we say yes to all that?

The difficulty is that when one is locked in illusion,
one cannot imagine why
one would choose such a path.
When you are in Oneness, You see the world
of human endeavor as a blessed opportunity,
a most holy task what will allow you
to bring the loveliness, the grace,
the perfection of who You are
into the world of imperfection.

You look with Love
upon your planet from the Oneness,
and you declare, "I will go back. I will. I will.
I know I will forget and feel pain and fear,
but I will bring the truth of God within, the Angel.
I will walk the Earth again and again
until all those who are planetary Angels
transform the very nature of Earth experience
by the presence of their remembered Love."

In order to do this,
you yourself must wander for a time in the illusion,
believing every bit of it—almost.
It was in order to remember
that you went through life's disturbing experiences.
You have no idea of the miracle of the yes
that has brought you to this point of understanding.

You entered the darkness to believe in it
but not enough to extinguish the flame
of your Divine purpose.

your yes in the center of no
is a leap of faith in the heart of doubt.

By your remembering,
the Light begins to emerge, the darkness dissipates,
and the wonder of who You are illuminates the world.
Yes replaces every no that you have ever uttered.
All is touched in this moment by the flame
that you have honored secretly, courageously,
and now consciously in your life.
If the Angel had not been willing to enter
into forgetting, the Angel could not bring the gift
that is born of that struggle.
You are about the business of transformation,
all of you.

Q: What happens when we say yes to love
with another human being who later leaves us?

Once you have loved,
that bonding is there and will remain cohesive.
you will forever be at one.
I know for some of you
this does not seem desirable.
You are angry. You feel victimized
by the incapacity of another human being
to honor the love
that you believe you brought to him or her.

Times change.
People take different roads.
You shake your head sadly. "Well, that wasn't Love.
It didn’t last forever."

Indeed, sometimes it lasts only for a week or so.
Every time you say yes, I want you to know
that what you are saying yes to is perfect Love.
It may seem that perfect Love
cannot last upon your planet,
but that is as much illusion as anything else.

If you will put all disappointment aside
for a moment and just feel your heart,
you will see that the Love
what called you together is still there.
It does not mean that you have to live together.
you need only remember it.
In the remembering, I promise you,
miracles will happen.
All the wound, all the unfinished business,
will just fade away.

Why do I speak so often of humanness and Love?
Because that is the purpose of your journey,
the confusions of your life,
the wanderings of your mind,
and the sorrows of your heart.
You come in the name of perfect Love
and you spend your lives
attempting to honor that Love.
Along the way you find chagrin,
pain, regrets, lack of success.
You wonder, "What is it all about?"

Whatever your predicament may be,
yes will not solve it. It will dissolve it.
Yes is not obedience or acquiescence.
It is an embrace.

Q: How can I say yes at times when all I feel is fear?

Whenever you feel fear, say yes to it
and move as quickly as you can
to be present in that moment.
Do not try to understand or argue with it.
Your acceptance is the catalyst to freedom.

Q: What is it like when we remember?

When an Angel remembers within human form,
that Angel does not judge
or dismiss the human suffering
that has allowed that moment of Grace.
The Angel in you honors the human being.
It does not supplant it.

Be present in your suffering.
Do not try to avoid it. </span>[this meaningfully converges with what Dots' said in a relatively recent post, I think]
When you are not present,
illusion is given the chance to build
enormous storm clouds of terror.
Say yes to whatever is there before you.
See what happens to the terror
when you jump into the middle of it.
Find out what happens to pain when you accept it.

You are Angels of eternal mercy,
absolute Love, and everlasting presence.
you are one hundred percent human
at the same time
that you are one hundred percent Divine.
The blending of the two is the joy of your journey
and the blessedness of your gift.
You come into you world
ultimately to accept every piece of it.
The only doorway through which the Angel can enter
is through the doorway of yes.

There is a greatness in each one of you.
As you let that greatness emerge,
it graces the world.
Do not resists transformation
in the name of loyalty of pain.

When you have full memory of your own Divinity,
everything in your life becomes a blessing.
The suffering is seen for what it really is—
the next twirl in the dance.

The Angel resists nothing.

(a bit more to come)

[DavidS]

To anyone who found herself or himself 'turned on' by any of the above, I recommend reading the whole book, which includes more 'facets' in terms of perspective (making misinterpretation based on misperception less likely) and also touches on vital topics (Death & Dying, Loss of Loved ones, etc. for instance) which the selected excerpts don't even mention. For now though, better put on yer flyin' goggles, 'cuz here comes the Grand Finalé! :o


12: ...and the Word Was Yes

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Spirit and human come together only
through the doorway marked Yes...

Q: The Bible reads "In the beginning was the Word..."
What was that Word?

The Word was yes.
When one is creating, the word is always yes.
When you, the human being, are present in the moment
the Angel is there.
There is no more powerful yes
upon your planet that that.

Each one of you,
in your angelhood, has brought the yes.
No matter how troubled the human being may be,
nor how despicable he is considered,
there is always a moment of yes in that life.
Yes is the nature of the heart.

Each moment of yes that comes upon the planet
is that miracle of transformation
that brings the entire planet and all things upon it
that much closer to the time of Homecoming.

Q: If we are perfect to begin with,
why did we put ourselves through life's disturbing
experiences? Did we say yes to all that?

The difficulty is that when one is locked in illusion,
one cannot imagine why
one would choose such a path.
When you are in Oneness, You see the world
of human endeavor as a blessed opportunity,
a most holy task what will allow you
to bring the loveliness, the grace,
the perfection of who You are
into the world of imperfection.

You look with Love
upon your planet from the Oneness,
and you declare, "I will go back. I will. I will.
I know I will forget and feel pain and fear,
but I will bring the truth of God within, the Angel.
I will walk the Earth again and again
until all those who are planetary Angels
transform the very nature of Earth experience
by the presence of their remembered Love."

In order to do this,
you yourself must wander for a time in the illusion,
believing every bit of it—almost.
It was in order to remember
that you went through life's disturbing experiences.
You have no idea of the miracle of the yes
that has brought you to this point of understanding.

You entered the darkness to believe in it
but not enough to extinguish the flame
of your Divine purpose.

your yes in the center of no
is a leap of faith in the heart of doubt.

By your remembering,
the Light begins to emerge, the darkness dissipates,
and the wonder of who You are illuminates the world.
Yes replaces every no that you have ever uttered.
All is touched in this moment by the flame
that you have honored secretly, courageously,
and now consciously in your life.
If the Angel had not been willing to enter
into forgetting, the Angel could not bring the gift
that is born of that struggle.
You are about the business of transformation,
all of you.

Q: What happens when we say yes to love
with another human being who later leaves us?

Once you have loved,
that bonding is there and will remain cohesive.
you will forever be at one.
I know for some of you
this does not seem desirable.
You are angry. You feel victimized
by the incapacity of another human being
to honor the love
that you believe you brought to him or her.

Times change.
People take different roads.
You shake your head sadly. "Well, that wasn't Love.
It didn’t last forever."

Indeed, sometimes it lasts only for a week or so.
Every time you say yes, I want you to know
that what you are saying yes to is perfect Love.
It may seem that perfect Love
cannot last upon your planet,
but that is as much illusion as anything else.

If you will put all disappointment aside
for a moment and just feel your heart,
you will see that the Love
what called you together is still there.
It does not mean that you have to live together.
you need only remember it.
In the remembering, I promise you,
miracles will happen.
All the wound, all the unfinished business,
will just fade away.

Why do I speak so often of humanness and Love?
Because that is the purpose of your journey,
the confusions of your life,
the wanderings of your mind,
and the sorrows of your heart.
You come in the name of perfect Love
and you spend your lives
attempting to honor that Love.
Along the way you find chagrin,
pain, regrets, lack of success.
You wonder, "What is it all about?"

Whatever your predicament may be,
yes will not solve it. It will dissolve it.
Yes is not obedience or acquiescence.
It is an embrace.

Q: How can I say yes at times when all I feel is fear?

Whenever you feel fear, say yes to it
and move as quickly as you can
to be present in that moment.
Do not try to understand or argue with it.
Your acceptance is the catalyst to freedom.

Q: What is it like when we remember?

When an Angel remembers within human form,
that Angel does not judge
or dismiss the human suffering
that has allowed that moment of Grace.
The Angel in you honors the human being.
It does not supplant it.

Be present in your suffering.
Do not try to avoid it. </span>[this meaningfully converges with what Dots' said in a relatively recent post, I think]
When you are not present,
illusion is given the chance to build
enormous storm clouds of terror.
Say yes to whatever is there before you.
See what happens to the terror
when you jump into the middle of it.
Find out what happens to pain when you accept it.

You are Angels of eternal mercy,
absolute Love, and everlasting presence.
you are one hundred percent human
at the same time
that you are one hundred percent Divine.
The blending of the two is the joy of your journey
and the blessedness of your gift.
You come into you world
ultimately to accept every piece of it.
The only doorway through which the Angel can enter
is through the doorway of yes.

There is a greatness in each one of you.
As you let that greatness emerge,
it graces the world.
Do not resists transformation
in the name of loyalty of pain.

When you have full memory of your own Divinity,
everything in your life becomes a blessing.
The suffering is seen for what it really is—
the next twirl in the dance.

The Angel resists nothing.

(a bit more to come)

[DavidS]

Ooops ... I got a 'server error' message the first time I tried the preceding post, so I back-arrowed and posted it again. The 'Edit' button is not available to me for some reason, so there it stands in duplicate. This, here, is the 'end' of the series. :gone:

Q: What is my next step?

Your soul is going to do what it must.
There is nothing that you can devise
to minimize, to distract, or to divert
you from your path.

As you go forward, step by step, inch my inch,
struggle by struggle, or resistance by resistance,
however you choose to move
in the direction of your call,
you will find that once you say yes
to any given moment, it will all become
very familiar to you.

You are looking for the next step?
Let you soul guide you.
You will move with whatever golden intent
rests within you to fulfill Love's call
as it reaches you.
In whatever vocabulary it comes,
you know it and follow.

There is no way
to live your life.
There is only the step-by-step adventure
with no knowable distant plan.
When on is saying yes,
it does not matter
upon what the foot rests
at a step's completion.
Wherever it is,
it will be the perfect place
to say yes again.

Here is a practice
to help you familiarize yourselves
with the gifts of this flowing
and transcendent word.

Sit in your inner silence for a time
and breathe the word yes
in and out of your heart.
Allow the mind to soften its hold.

As you allow yourselves
to experience physically breathing
into the next moment of yes,
you will find your chest filling,
softening all the no's
you ever learned to say.

Let the knowings of comfort,
of truth, of Love come to you,
and receive them as your own.

Let yes become your mantra,
your magical key,
your silent friend.

Q: Can I will myself to say yes?

You can will yourself to say anything,
but you cannot will yourself
to believe in it.
The first time you said non,
you didn’t believe it either,
nor the second,
nor the third.
It was just behavior.
With repetition, it became a habit and, finally,
it comes to the point of self-identification.
So go ahead and will yourself to say yes.

mind will tell you, "But I don't believe it."

Reassure mind, "It's all right, just say it again."

Mind will balk. "What are you doing? I don't even
know what the word means here."

You peacefully answer, "Yes."

This depth of acceptance has to be a conscious,
sometimes forced decision in the beginning.
you are going against the habits of a lifetime.
you are not aware of those times
when you close your heart and say no
only because it is such a highly developed skill
at this point that it has become something
you do without thinking. Yes requires practice.
It is all a choice.

Let me tell you something encouraging.
For every yes you say,
there is much more
than one no that is canceled.
One might consider it
as though one day of yeas
cancels out three years of nays,
just as one moment of Love
can erase forever
all the hate one has held in one's heart.

In the beginning your yes requires will.
It demands courage.
The yes may last as long as it takes you to say
that three-letter word and then it will vanish.
Say it again.
Find yourself a talisman to remind you.
Some of you have those unfortunate watches
that sound the hour.
Utilize even that. "Aha, the bell of awakening.
I will say yes now."

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Mind wonders,
"How do I know what I am saying yes to?" <_<

You don't,
and so begins
the adventure.

* * * * *</span>

Then there's a tail-page:

And so I bid you
Godspeed.

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>This is your journey.
You have come
to sew up the tattered fabric
of human misconception,
to believe no longer
in the fragmented separation
of self from Self.

You are ready to bring
the you and the You together
to allow what it is that your soul,
in its profound and eternal wisdom,
has chosen.

Never disdain your humanness
but embrace it in the Angel wings
that are your own.</span>

[sahyo]

This is your journey.
You have come
to sew up the tattered fabric
of human misconception,

"sew up" imagined "misconception"?

You are ready to bring
the you and the You together

"bring" "together" imagined 'apart'?

Never disdain your humanness
but embrace it in the Angel wings
that are your own.

when ceases imagining

"your own"?

[DavidS]

Originally posted by asheera@Jan 25 2004, 04:20 PM
"sew up" imagined "misconception"?

"bring" "together" imagined 'apart'?

when ceases imagining

"your own"?
I could be wrong of course, but It strikes me as being a logical deduction that you would have to use the tool (faculty?, power?) of your 'own' 'imagination' in order to understand and be conversant with what others (in this case, Emmanuel) are referencing when they speak as they do, asheera - IF you 'personally' wanted to be so 'understanding' and 'conversant', instead of just regarding and relating to their word-art-pictures as gobbledegook, that is.

[rich]

Wonder what is going to happen next on forum, if anything? :huh:

However, am not holding my breath. :knockout:

If folks do not want to post on this forum, anymore, that is your decision. :duh:

Will wait and see. :cry: :ph34r: