TOPICS: Power elite misuses religion – true and false spirituality – finding truth within yourself – Mohammed was not free of ego – idolatry of Mohammed – moderate Muslims must speak out against fundamentalism – people must say that enough is enough – some Muslims are among the most rigid people on the planet –
Question: Were the ascended masters wrong when they inspired Mohammed, because from the beginning the spiritual message was transformed into a political message. So why did they not know that and do something about it from the beginning?
Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels: (July 14, 2007)
Who says we did not know about it? We know very well that any teaching we give to humankind has the potential to be misused. We might even say that any teaching that can be misused will be misused, although I am not completely a pessimist.
Nevertheless, we know very well that when we bring forth a new teaching, there is a high likelihood that it will be misused by the power elite, as you see in both Christianity and Islam. Yet the only option we would have to avoid this was to never bring forth any teaching. And so you see, again, we get into the consciousness that you cannot be so afraid of making a mistake that you do not dare to do anything. Which is what we have said over and over again for those on the path of Christhood.
You must learn from every situation. And so the way we look at it is simply that when we give a new philosophy, we give another opportunity to humankind to learn the lesson of what it takes to have true spirituality as opposed to false spirituality.
You see, the problem with any religion is that there are too many people who are yet unwilling to take responsibility for themselves. And therefore, they want a religion – a religious leadership, a religious prophet – to tell them what to believe and how to live their lives. Saint Germain talked about the need for Christ discernment. Well, Christ discernment means that you do not look to an external authority to tell you what to believe or to tell you what is true. You are willing to seek the inner discernment, the inner recognition of what is true, and then take a stand for that truth that you see within, even though you will often have to go against the outer authority.
It is a continual problem for the ascended masters that while we long to bring forth new teachings, we do not necessarily have those who are fully prepared to be the instruments for that teaching. And so in many cases we have had to make use of people who were less than perfect, meaning they were not made perfect in love and had not attained non-attachment to particular beliefs or agendas, for they had not yet conquered their psychology or their ego. And this obviously – for those who have eyes to see – was the case for Mohammed.
And only those who are blinded by idolatry – the same kind of idolatry that many Christians are blinded by when they look at me – will think that Mohammed was the perfect human being. Did not Mohammed do everything he could to prevent people from idolizing him? And have not the Muslims idolized him anyway? Even though they will not allow the making of physical pictures of his image, they still have created a mental and emotional idolatry of him.
Yet the reality is that Mohammed was a product of his time. And in the beginning years, he brought forth a more pure teaching than in the later years, when he had become too involved in the dualistic power struggle because of the opposition that he faced to his mission. Thus, he engaged in a certain consciousness of resentment and revenge against those who opposed him and his mission. And that colored the later teachings that he received.
This is, again, something that moderate Muslims who are open-minded will be able to see—if they are willing to look beyond the fundamentalist approach that the Koran has to be the infallible word of God,the exact same approach that you find among the fundamentalists of the Christian religion.
As I have explained in my ego discourses about black-and-white thinking, people who are trapped in black-and-white thinking can only see conflict, can only create conflict. And thus, it is up to those who have gone beyond both black-and-white and gray thinking to realize that they are the ones who must bring balance and moderation to their own religion and to the world at large.
So until you have a critical mass of moderate Muslims who are willing to speak out – and thereby incur the wrath of their own brethren in the Muslim faith who are still trapped in the radical approach to Islam – well unless that happens, we will not see a major breakthrough until we have slid even further down into the black hole of violence. Where they finally get to a point where the violence driven by religion has become so outrageous that people will finally stand up and say, “Enough is enough.”
Look at the recent developments in Pakistan, where you have the radical clerics that are rebelling and yet there are not enough people who are willing to stand up and say, “We do not want this in our nation. We want a more moderate and balanced approach.”
And so you see the inevitability of a confrontation, which could be avoided if there were enough moderate people who would stand up and demand a change. This of course would mean a very drastic change in the approach to religion. And in the case of Pakistan, an overturning of a militant government that was not elected by the people.
So again, the question is: Are people ready and willing for the change that it would take to break the pattern of violence? And I must say that in the Muslim world you find pockets of people who are the most rigid that you find anywhere on this planet, and who want to keep doing things the way they have been done for thousands of years, even though the world obviously – and inevitably – has moved beyond the old ways.
Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels