I’ve said before that some of what Archangel Michael and the Divine Mother have told me stands contemporary enlightenment theories on their heads.
Here’s one example. Our return to the One is thought to involve a loss of identity. We cease to be and there is then only the One. That’s the theory. St. Paul is one source of this way of thinking:
“And when all things [all worldly desires] shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son [the Self, the Christ, the individuated spark] also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all [i.e., reunited].” (1)
I took that God may be all in all to mean that the individuated Self ceased to exist.
Not so, says the Mother. After reuniting with the One, we re-emerge and begin again.
It came up in a discussion of the emanations – incarnated celestials and masters.
Divine Mother: [The] emanations … are very specifically placed in what you would think of as universal or global roles, and they are positioned to do the work that the specific archangel or master has chosen to do, decided to do, committed to do — for me — throughout eternity, or until such time as they return. In which case they will begin again, regardless. (2)
“In which case they will begin again, regardless.” Whoa down. What happened to the surrender of the Self until the One became All in all?
This information was entirely new to me. Michael also stated it:
Archangel Michael: And when you go home, and you can reunite in the heart of One … you go back out into the universe as a brilliant spark of pure light!
So you come, you return, you gain not only understanding, wisdom, knowledge – what you can think of as spiritual regeneration – and then, in concert with many, including your guides and guardian angels and, many times, whoever you are going to be working with – for example, myself or Archangel Raphael – you emerge again. (3)
And here is Mike Quinsey as well!
“In the scheme of things you periodically return to the Godhead, only to be sent out again for further experience.” (4)
All my life I’ve been oriented towards exploring the frontiers of knowledge so I was not shocked to see my theoretical fundamentals shredded. But a fundamentalist might be having a serious case of ulcers by now.
Here’s another example of shredding contemporary theories. In order to return to God, it has been assumed that we must pass through many orders in many kingdoms before uniting again with the One.
Rumi epitomizes that view here:
“I died as mineral and became a plant.
I died as plant and rose to animal.
I died as animal and I was man. …
Yet once more I shall die as man,
to soar With angels blest;
but even from angelhood
I must pass on:
all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind e’er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist!
For Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, ‘
To Him we shall return.'” (5)
No, says Michael. We can become angels if we wish but we don’t have to, to return to the One.
(To be concluded in Part 2, tomorrow.)
Footnotes
(1) St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:28.
(2) “The Divine Mother: Each and Every One of You Carries Divine Might,” June 17, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/into-the-golden-age-of-gaia/the-golden-age-of-gaia/the-divine-mother-each-and-every-one-of-you-carries-divine-might/
(3) Archangel Michael, An Hour with an Angel, March 26, 2012, at http://the2012scenario.com/2012/03/archangels-michael-and-gabriel-on-the-angelic-realm-hour-with-an-angel-transcript-march-26-2012/.
(4) Mike Quinsey’s Higher Self, Feb. 14, 2020.
(5) Rumi in Anne Fremantle and Christopher. In Love with Love. 100 of the Greatest Mystical Poems. New York, etc.: Paulist Press, 1978, 58.