St. John of the Cross. Uhhh, not this lifetime for me
If I were totally focused on reunion with God, I’d be abstinent.
But Archangel Michael actually wants me to eat, drink, and be merry, as far as an urban monk can and does go.
Archangel Michael: You did not come to live as a guru in a western or eastern manner….
Part of your [mission] and part of our recommendation to you is to play, to laugh, to enjoy, to be physical, so that you are anchored in the physical reality – because you are here to be a transition point and to be able to show people how to do both.
If you were completely involved in your full awakening, you in very great likelihood would not be forming a platform with me. You would be off somewhere in an ashram meditating.
So that is what we have meant. Ground yourself. Be human and love the experience of being in form.
SB OK. Boy. Eat, drink and be merry!
AAM It is difficult, no?
SB Yes, it is difficult. (1)
It’s also important to my mission that I peek into every corner and stay with the group, as he says here:
Archangel Michael: There is much to be said for Everyman, and that is part of the role you play. Yes, you are a pillar. You are an anchor. You’re [a monitor] but you’re also playing the role of Everyman – with curiosity, with exploration, with insight. So our desire is not to separate you from the collective. (2)
So, for all these reasons and more, abstinence is off the table. That leaves moderation. Some teachers have said it isn’t necessary to take a vow of charity or chastity. I actually don’t believe it is, myself. But that’s speaking from the vantage point of 77 years in the midst of an Ascension. Not your normal lifetime.
For me moderation means stopping and moving away from anything that I feel is lowering my vibration by irritating, frustrating, or disgusting me.
As for hankering after enlightenment, all of us here hale from the angelic realm. As such everyone, outside the body, is fully enlightened. You partake of Source energy. (3)
I’d say a lot of my behavior earlier on was careless and thoughtless. While I wasn’t crazy, I wasn’t moderate either. There must be a way of shortening up the time of experimentation and exploration. (Note to self: Find a way.)
Nowadays it’s completely different. Nowadays I’m drawn to what Linda Dillon calls “the blessings and virtues.” I don’t know exactly why she chose those terms. I’m going to give my own meaning to them and I apologize if it departs.
The blessings are the divine qualities themselves – joy, happiness, bliss, ecstasy, etc. They are truly blessings, as I’m sure you’ll agree after the Ring of Fire or planetary heart opening. (5)
The virtues are the qualities and skills of the individual – courage, moral strength, valor, generosity, etc.
Do these gradually mature and assert themselves in the individual? Maybe they do. I just wish they’d have matured in me a lot sooner.
So I presume we’re all of us here to laugh, play, and thoroughly enjoy ourselves in the new dimension of life that is gradually and then suddenly emerging. Gaia and the Mother originally created Earth as a playground for her angels.
After Covid, we may have forgotten how to play. The world has gotten so very dark so very recently. And yet we know that the Alliance is standing ready to intervene when the public demands it.
In regards to current affairs, it really is darkest just before dawn.
Footnotes
(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 6, 2013. (Herefater AAM.)
(2) AAM, Nov. 11, 2015.
(3) Divine Mother: Let me be clear. There is not one being – human, starseed, hybrid or earthkeeper – that is not one of my Angelic Beings. … You are my Angels, birthed from my being – birthed not only from my womb, but from my heart. (“The Mother’s Clarion Call to All of Humanity!” April 20, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/04/20/the-mothers-clarion-call-to-all-of-humanity/.)
Archangel Michael: Where we are [is] the space in between the spaces. … We come from Source.
Steve: Right. Wow! … All angels?
AAM: Yes, it is bigger than you think. …
We are being fueled by the infinite Source, the eternal Source. And so are you. (“Archangel Michael on the Angelic Kingdom,” June 13, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/06/13/archangel-michael-on-the-angelic-kingdom/.)
For more in the subject, see An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-13.pdf
(4) See The Ring of Fire: A Planetary Heart Opening for Gaia at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Ring-of-Fire-Planetary-Heart-Opening-6.pdf