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What a difficult assignment Jesus gave us when he asked us to love our enemies.
People who have done such horrific deeds? Who wanted to cull the herd in an undiscriminating act of omnicide?
Yes.
I’ve seen the terrible things they’ve done and those terrible things must stop. But, as Michael has asked of us, rehabilitation not retribution needs to be our aim, unless we want to continue the endless back-and-forth retribution cycle we’re at present mired in. (1)
I’m doing this because you did that – someone has to break the cycle.
Loving the cabal – and I’m as hard at work at this as you are – seems to become easier when we do two things.
The first is separating the behavior from the person. One can love the person and disapprove of the behavior.
But if we want to probe further, most objectionable behavior has a vasana (or core issue) behind it.
We see how difficult it is for us to master our own vasanas. How many relationships have we been through? How many work situations? How many times have we (OK, I) made a major fool of ourselves (myself) at parties?
So if we’ve failed many times, how can we blame our “enemies”?
I know so well that if I were to look into their childhood, I’d find abuse. Abuse is abuse. It wounds the soul. And it impedes development. Some people have never grown up, such is their hurt. In what way are they different from me? You?
The second thing we can do is visualizing the person as the brilliant Light – or the being of love – that they are underneath it all.
This is something I actually do know. (2) I do know who we are deep, deep down. I’ve stood in the presence of the Self and known myself as purity and innocence. If that’s what I am, it’s what you – and they – are as well.
So there’s no excuse for me to be unable to love my enemy, knowing that underneath it all we’re all purity and innocence.
And I know from another lifetime the utter futility of war. We’re still vulnerable to ridicule so that’s all I’ll say about that but tens of thousands of people died in one battle – and the war dragged on.
I know my “enemy” is a brilliant Light at their center, way below the vasanas, tucked away in the seat of the soul, the bottom of our hearts. (3)
What? Am I just lazy? I must be because I love a good challenge. And loving one’s enemy is definitely a challenge.
Footnotes
(1) Archangel Michael: Now there will be indictments and there will be justice, fairness, but the key to creating Nova Earth is not about punishment and retribution.
Steve: Right. But it is about protection, is it not? The public need to be protected against mass murderers and Dick Cheney and the people at the CIA are mass murderers. They kill kids in schools. They kill in open business areas. They explode bombs. They down airliners. We need to be protected from them, don’t we?
AAM: Be very discerning in your judgments and in your condemnations of others. If you continue – and I don’t mean you; I mean the collective – if the pattern of imprisonment continues, of shackling, rather than re-education or redirection, then that is the paradigm that will continue upon this planet. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, March 28, 2019.)
(2) After the 1987 vision of the total journey of an individual soul from God to God, I said to myself that I now know one thing in life: That the purpose of life is enlightenment.
See “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/.
(3) Yes, it’s actually there. It’s a big open secret. No matter how many times people say it, people don’t seem to realize that it’s actually a true description: The Self is to be found in the deepest part of the heart, where it shines like the noonday Sun.
In the spiritual heart, not the heart chakra, closed off to us by the hridayam or heart aperture. Two digits to the right of the breastbone.