Joel: We
refer to Archangel Michael, of course, as the source and the ultimate goal of
creating a world of community, harmony and equality. But basically THE LIFE MASTERY PROGRAM is designed to help people deal with the issues of their lives.
Two Marys: For that is where one must begin. They
must begin to take full responsibility for their life, and then develop mastery
of their love for themselves so that they can become a meaningful contributor
to the collective. For it is truly in that contribution to the collective that
your essence becomes realized. Is that not true for you, beloved Joel, when you
are in the contribution of self with your students? That is when you are
resonating with your divine soul plan. That contribution is where the private
self has disappeared, has it not?
So as we address this question, how does
one stay in contribution to the collective, we acknowledge this is an aspect of
self-love. When you love yourself completely your relationship with yourself is
a contribution. In your current times, you speak about it as taking care of yourself,
being good to yourself and positive self-talk. Indeed, these are congruent with
contributing to oneself. To fulfill and ascend, one must be in contribution to
oneself, one must be in contribution to others, and one must be in contribution
to the divine cosmic plan. This is the fulfillment of Ascension. It is in three
parts.
Contribution to self, indeed, is the
fundamental teaching of The Life Mastery Program. How to become a master in
contributing to self such that the self expands in consciousness beyond that
private self and has a desire, indeed a longing, to contribute to others. For
it is only in authentic self-love that one can truly give in contribution to
others.
This is discussed in everything from
Archangel Michael’s teachings to every great spiritual writing and sacred
teaching. If one is giving to get, one is still stuck in the private self, and
one is in lack and limitation and is not in surrender to self-love. When one is
surrendered in self-love, the giving and the getting are all the same. There is no distinction. It is all beingness.
It is all blissful.
J: Thank you for that wonderful teaching.
Are we ready to move onto the next lesson?
M: We wish to discuss again the purpose
of discipline, which is, of course, to contribute to one’s freedom. To do that
one has to address the human conundrum: this is the thing I long for the most;
yet, this is the thing I resist the most.
In order for us to effectively address
discipline, we have to invite the student to investigate their own relationship
with freedom/Ascension, to delve into and explore, what are my resistances?
What are my fears? If Ascension and freedom mean immortality, what nonsense
have I sold myself through the cultural mythology regarding mortality,
suffering, sacrifice, freedom and bliss?
So every student must ferret out what are
the ways that I, consciously or not, actively resist the thing that I desire
the most? So the discipline is to stay disciplined in the inquiry. If you were
baking a loaf of bread—we will use an analogy here—what are the ingredients
that would belong in Ascension? The most obvious ones, besides discipline, are
self-love and forgiveness:
To forgive oneself for resisting what one
longs for with all their heart.
To forgive oneself for buying into the
collective unconscious, the hypnotic, destructive pull of the cultural norm.
To forgive oneself for worshipping their
mind as the absolute end all, thus cutting themselves off from supreme
intelligence in the heart.
To forgive oneself for thinking that the
cosmic collective consciousness did not matter.
To forgive oneself for thinking there
were not other beings and places, interconnected, all relying on cooperation
To forgive oneself for thinking they did
not deserve love.
To forgive oneself for thinking their God
had a light switch that would be turned on or turned off regarding God’s love
for them. When I’m good God loves me. When I’m not good, I am not loved.
So to truly love oneself, one needs to be
in a constant state of forgiveness. Indeed, our lives on this planet, as the
Two Marys, became powerful experiences in forgiveness. Forgiveness was the way
of being that got us through—self-love, self-forgiveness. Whenever there was
conflict within our group, the only acceptable response was to love and
forgive—and forgive as fast as possible.
