I’m reviewing my readings with Michael and find myself wafted along by the inspiring things he’s saying. May I flow with it?
In 2011, Michael commented:
“Yes, we know that this is a time when all the shenanigans are being put out to play. But our code word is victory and it is not victory over anything. It is victory with.
“It is the bringing of peace on Earth, because that is the prelude; that is the promise. It is the promise that has been made throughout the universe, but it is also the promise that has been made to the universal Mother. And that peace will prevail.” (1)
I’m reminded of what another individual told us about victory:
“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be,” Winston Churchill declared, in a very different context. (2)
But ours is not a victory over an external oppressor. Ours is a victory over our own lower nature; what I call our “vasanas” or core issues. What one could call our egoic mind.
That’s why Michael could call it a “victory with.” All others who emerge victorious from letting go of our unfinished business share the victory with us.
This victory that we have before us is one of an elevation of the spirit through purification. What is purification?
The Buddha is said to have advised us to do only wholesome actions, refrain from unwholesome actions, and purify the mind. Cleansing or purification – washing away the soil we’ve collected – is part of all spiritual traditions that I’m aware of. (3)
When we release our old baggage or unfinished business, our gunnysack full of resentments, we become lighter; we en-light-en ourselves. We become more present, less defensive, and more balanced.
We raise our vibration and contribute that lightness to the collective consciousness as well – I suspect, in what Matthew Ward calls “streamers.”
Decades ago I had a temper. I no longer do. This is the result of years and years of “sourcing” my vasanas.
Kathleen used to describe herself as “fervent.” She now describes herself as “balanced.” This again is the result of years and years of getting to the root of her issues and upsets. This is what I mean by “purification.”
Peace in the world is the result of more and more people coming to peace with themselves. As within, so without. The work is for each of us to come to a place of peace with our history, our injuries, our losses, our rejections, whatever is still raw in our lives.
When will we know we’ve done the job? As far as I’m aware, when we reach a place of feeling balanced, when we can remain calm and equanimous no matter what’s happening inside or outside of ourselves. Remember the Arcturians saying we needed to be masters of every thought and feeling? That’s balance.
Now let me play a little here and expand the horizon.
We’ve gone as far as we could. We’ve polished the mirror till it sparkles. We’ve restored ourselves to our original innocence and purity – no original sin here.
This is the moment Bernadette Roberts refers to when she says: “At a certain point, when we have done all we can [to bring about an abiding union with the divine], the divine steps in and takes over.” (4)
Takes over? And where are we headed? I’ll leave that to Bayazid of Bistun to suggest in ecstacy: “I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, ‘O thou I!'” (5)
SELF-Realization.
This is not victory over, except our own lower natures. This is a victory with all others who’ve risen above the egoic mind.
Footnotes
(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 18, 2011.
(2) At httpss://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_toil,_tears,_and_sweat
(3) Vipassana meditation takes as its sole purpose the purification of the mind through observing sensation on the body. The achievement of balance, a mind at rest, is the result of this form of purification.
Zen also strives for a quiet mind purified by meditation. The Buddhist emphasis on sila is an emphasis on cleansing the mind. Hinduism offers many roads to purification – seva, bhakti, meditation.
(4) Bernadette Roberts, “The Path to No-Self” in Stephan Bodian, ed. Timeless Visions, Healing Voices. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991, 131.
(5) Bayazid of Bistun in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.