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BY FESTUS UNUIGBE:\"Adam\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Satan called a worldwide convention of Phantoms and Demons.
\nIn his opening address he said:
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t keep humans from going to their fellowships and religions.
\nWe can\u2019t keep them from reading the their scriptures and learning the truth
\nWe can\u2019t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Creator
\nOnce they gain that connection with the Creator, our power over them is broken.
\nSo let them go to their religions: let them have heir coveted dish dinners,
\nBUT steal their time, so they don\u2019t have time to develop a relationship with their Lord\u2026\u201d
\n\u201cThis is what I want you to do\u201d said the devil.
\n\u201cDistract them from gaining hold of their saviour and maintaining their vital connection throughout their day!\u201d
\nHow shall we do this? His minions shouted.
\nLet them build temples, churches and mosques, but they must not find true worship of God.
\nLet them sing, shout and dance:
\nChange their hymns of praise to pop, rock \u2018n\u2019roll.
\nInduce them to babble in strange tongues and let them believe their sins are forgiven once they petition their Creator.
\nRaise men and empower them. Suffuse them with material well-being and followership so that they spread over the earth.
\nHeaven must remain far from men. Never must they recall the long long (lost) memory of heavenly melody.
\nKeep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent the innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,\u201d he answered.
\n\u201cTempt them to spend, spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow.
\nPersuade their wives to work for long hours and the husbands to 6-7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. (Double income)
\nKeep them from spending time with their children.
\nAs their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work
\nOver-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice
\nEntice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive.
\nTo keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their homes and see to it that every store and every restaurant in the world plays secular music constantly.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION.
\nWhich teacher worth his salt would pride himself in setting the most difficult examination questions without thoroughly preparing his students for the ordeal ahead and giving them a chance to succeed?
\nWhich principal of a school can be so callous as to rejoice at the mass failure of his students, year in year out?
\nWhich head of state will keep his laws secret and yet mount a vigorous search for any transgressor so that he can be liquidated immediately?
\nLadies and gentlemen, if we as human beings find such practices unacceptable; how can we adduce such to the Godhead, who is perfection Himself? The embodiment of Love, of unquestionable justice and eternal goodness. No. There is a Divine ordinance that ensures what is best for His creatures and gives us the best chance to succeed. He has hewn into creation His perfect laws and lays upon no one more than he has incurred for himself.
\nBefore we go deeper into these issues let us start from the creation of man.
\n3. CREATION OF MAN.
\nAt the fiat \u201cLet there be Light,\u201d Creation came into being and worlds and universes evolved. General belief states that God created man in His own image. Really? Are these caricatures which populate the world, fight each other ceaselessly, exploit each other and indulge in acts of murder, arson, and terrorism; be in the image of God?
\nNo! Those who were created in His image are also perfect. They did not have to descend to these lower regions but serve Him eternally in His luminous kingdom.
\nAt the summit of the original creation however, there remained residues that could not take on form in the radiant vicinity of God. Out of love new worlds were created far from our spiritual home in paradise so that those residues, the unconscious spirit germs could develop, mature into full consciousness and able one day to return home.
\nThese cooler regions is the world of matter to which our earth belongs, and the unconscious spirit germs, are you and I, that left our home long ago.
\n2. THE ORIGIN OF EVIL.
\nBut we were not left alone. An archangel no less was sent to the world of matter to illuminate the intellect, so that man can progress from being a cave dweller and gatherer of fruits to one who lives in a house and practice organized agriculture, even with irrigation.
\nBefore we begin the fashionable Lucifer bashing, which is an excuse for all human failings let us ask a few salient questions.
\n– Where did evil come from?
\n– Where did Lucifer come from?
\nLucifer we know was an archangel coming from the Divine realm where there is no evil, could not have brought evil into this world. As to where evil come from? It is from man alone. It is he, who through the misuse of his free will that brought about evil.
\n3. THE FALL OF MAN
\nAT THE BEGINNING
\nAt the early stages of man\u2019s sojourn on earth, the human beings were: -simple, natural, willingly bowed to the Laws of God; and gratefully accepted every help from the luminous regions.
\n1. ENTER LUCIFER.
\nHowever, the fallen Archangel failed to carry out his mission in accordance with the creative will of God the Father but, through a volition which came to him, while working in matter, chose ways other than those ordained by the creative will.
\n3.3 Principle of Temptation. Instead he set up the principle of temptation.
\n\u201cThis principle of temptation is identical with the setting of snares which cause creatures who are not sufficiently strong within themselves to quickly stumble and fall, and become lost.\u201d Only a few become stronger and alert and blossom forth powerfully towards the spiritual heights\u201d.(Mystery of Lucifer Pp446)
\nLucifer is the origin and the starting point of the wrong principle.
\nThis principle knows of no Goodness, no compassion.
\nIt is wanting in the love of God the Father.
\nLucifer refuses to wait with kindness for man gradually to mature and become strong, he refuses to be the loving gardener that he should be, caring for, supporting and tending the plants entrusted to him. With him the \u201cwolf\u201d literally \u201ccome to mind the sheep. His goal is the destruction of all that is weak and he works relentlessly towards this end.
\nHe is also contemptuous of the baseness and meanness which these victims show in working out his principle for it is only men, who turn it into the loathsome villainy which is so evident. Through this they only incense Lucifer the more to regard them as creatures who deserve nothing but destruction not love and care! To achieve this, not a little is contributed by the principle of \u201cletting oneself go\u201d.
\nBoth principles work together with temptation preceding, letting oneself go. The combination of both, for instance in sexual behaviour can only lead to a Sodom and Gomorrah from which only the most abject terror could bring to an end. (Pp448: The Mystery of Lucifer)
\n3.4 THE FALL OF MAN.<\/p>\n

Early Stages.1.
\nMan became conscious of his own personality-not with humility but with \u2013 calculating arrogant cleverness of the intellect.
\nStage.2
\nThrough men\u2019s failure-
\n– links with the luminous realms were loosened
\n– Men shut themselves out of their real home – Paradise.
\n– The further he distanced himself from God the, more desperately he relied on his intellect for all his decisions instead of the spirit.<\/p>\n

Stage.3
\nThe intuitive perception was replaced by imagination itself a product of intellect and feeling.
\n– sense of beauty replaced by craving for pomp and vanity
\n(compare our mother\u2019s dressing with what ladies wear now.)
\nStage.4
\nFinally men became slaves of their instrument the distorted intellect.
\nThis resulted in:
\n– Fraud
\n– Deception
\n– Slavery and force
\n– Sensuality and lust
\n– Discontent
\n– Envy
\n– Hatred
\n– All sorts of aggressive behaviour resulting in murder.
\n– And a shortened life span.<\/p>\n

STAGE.5
\nThe most grievous of all was the lure of the Tempter
\n\u201c And ye shall be as God\u201d Gen.3:5
\nThis is borne out by man\u2019s boundless presumption and arrogant self-glorification to regard himself as Divine.
\n– the advances of science
\n– sending a man to the moon
\n– test-tube babies
\n– and now cloning
\nhave further bolstered this arrogance.
\n3.5 THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT. Gen. 3: 4-6
\nThe account of the serpent tempting the woman to eat out of the tree of knowledge
\n– \u201cand ye shall not surely die but ye shall be as God\u201d
\nand the giving to man to eat , is really an allegorical rendering of a spiritual happening. In any case the temptation cannot take place in Paradise (impossible. .since no darkness is possible there) but on earth.
\nThe offering and taking of the apple refer to the woman becoming aware of the effect of her beauty on men and her intentional exploitation of this in the notorious dictum \u201c\u201d you use what you have to get what you want.\u201d\u201d
\nThe man in his frenzy to attract and retain the attention of women responded by accumulating earthly treasures. To do this he had to use the intellect which became sharper and sharper until after millennia it became over cultivated. The passing on of this anomaly through reproduction gave rise to the HEREDITARY SIN so serious is this problem that by the third month of pregnancy the brain outgrows all organs of the body.
\nThe result is that today man is borne with a overdeveloped forebrain (the seat of the intellect) to the detriment of the hind-brain (the seat of the intuition). This leaves the child with a tendency but not a compulsion to all that is Material.
\nYes! It is true that Lucifer played the role of tempter in this equation, but he could not compel us to do his bidding. For this He found a willing accomplice in women who was made aware of the effect of her beauty on men and its intentional exploitation.
\nTHUS CAME ABOUT THE FALL OF MAN.
\n4. THE ENEMY TODAY.
\nLucifer? Not anymore. For even now, as we speak Lucifer is bound. We only have to contend with his minions, his agents and the inward struggle with ourselves. No, the enemy is not a black man with horns. Indeed it never fails to amuse me when I see posters with hideous pictures of the Devil, anytime they launch \u201cOPERATION PERISH THE DEVIL.\u201d
\nFrom the Grail Message we now know that it is impossible for any human spirit to fight a battle against Lucifer himself for the simple reason that, owing to the difference in the nature of their species, it cannot penetrate to him. The human species can only come in contact with those who have fallen through the wrong principle\u2026\u201d these are the\u2026.
\nAGENTS OF LUCIFER
\nToday where do you find his agents?
\n\u2022 Spiritual highway men who with the Bible in one hand and a glib tongue on the other, seduce men with an easy blood of Jesus anti dote to all our sins.
\n\u2022 The intellectuals, who dismiss anything that cannot be dissected and weighed by the intellect. Thus limiting their perceptive capacity only to the earthly, the field of the intellect, making spiritual development impossible. These are the modern day Pharisees, who distort noble values and subject everything to the material.
\n\u2022 The materialists with the single minded pursuit of money and accumulation of earthly treasures. This was what led to the over cultivation of the intellect in the first place, which is the tool required for such pursuits.
\n\u2022 The quack scientists who compounded the so-called designer drugs – ecstasy, crack, ice etc. Some of which are so potent that they become addictive, after only one trial.
\n\u2022 The cult of celebrities. The pop star who through music induces the youth to acts of violence and promiscuity \u2013 rap music and violence..(example of forms seen when playing Fuji music.) It would be careless to discountenance their influence for they have huge followings.
\n– Justin Bieber -50m
\n– Lady Gaga -44.8m
\n– Rihana – 41.8m
\n\u2022 The fashionistas- who stipulate improper dressing for women– off shoulder, mini, micro mini, body clinging materials, that lives little to the imagination…RED CARPET
\n– Kim Kardashian-20m- famous for being famous.
\n\u2022 The authors of bad literature.
\n\u2022 The purveyors of pornographic films. \u2013 Thanks to the internet.
\n\u2022 The psychologist that advocates that in order to be rid of a vice one should let oneself go, enjoy the vice excessively in the false belief that one will get fed up with it. This plays right into the hands of Lucifer who knows that the converse is the case as the subject becomes a slave to the vice.
\n– A slippery slope from which many cannot climb uphill.
\n5. THE BATTLE FIELD.
\nNo longer in GOLGOTHA or in the catacombs of Rome. It is now fought in the families, amongst friends, offices, countries, in the innermost recesses of our minds. In matters great and small the battle between the Light and Darkness goes on. In addressing this topic of today\u2019s discourse, we need to look closely at the ways of the Darkness.
\nTHE WAYS OF THE DARKNESS
\nHow does the Darkness operate?
\nHardly comes out directly. But in a subtle manner making us feel it was our idea.
\n(\u201cThus Satan entered into Judas that he might betray Jesus.\u201d)
\nThe Darkness affects human beings by passing his experience and suggestions to men through acting on the intellect \u2013 through thoughts. E.g sent out a thought – tools would be made out of iron.
\nStrategy
\nHe lured men away from the original goal of life -\u2013 the spiritual development by suggesting wrong ideas like
\n– the intellect is more important than the spirit
\n– the intellect has to rule over all things in life
\n– the intellect is the only one to decide all things.
\n– Effective because the binding takes place before the spirit is fully developed-like sack tied at the top.
\nThus Lucifer bound men to matter and disconnected them from spiritual help.
\n6.3 Lucifer + swarms of loyal servants.
\nLucifer though, outside world of matter has loyal servants incarnated as men and spread wrong ideas. There are the ones that incarnate and cause havoc on earth. E.g. Suicide bombers.
\nLucifer and his helpers hurt people in a way that they are not aware of it. In a cunning and inconspicuous way they lure, insinuate, and through inspiration, men make the decision. Since his free will lies with man and cannot be isolated even by them.
\n6.4 ACTION.
\nIn our weak moments when we have difficulties, darkness . approaches offering short-cuts.
\n– Plants thoughts of doubts in our minds
\n– The Way of darkness seek to destroy
\n– Today these influences come from:
\nThe Power centres of – Envy, greed, bitterness, lust, hatred, vanity.
\nCling to the magnetic field of a human soul where there is homogeneity.
\n6.5. Other tools
\nSpiritual ignorance: Lucifer seeks to maintain this by making the path of truth bringers and Light envoys very difficult. Every truth bringer and even the Son of God had to overcome the distraction from the Darkness.
\n6.6. SUBTERFUGE
\nWhy hide?
\nHe acts in an indirect, deceitful, inconspicuous and hidden ways. This is why it is not so easy to recognize him. In any case even when one tries, attention is immediately directed towards some other direction, away from him, from his discovery and dismiss it as a chance event.
\nWhere did he strike from in the time of Christ? At a time when even an armed robber recognized Christ, in spite of his agony. Lucifer through – Caiaphas \u2013 the high Priest. The highest Ecclesiastical authority of the Jews and from amongst His closest associates-the Disciples!
\nWhy hide? When one does not recognize an enemy, one cannot fight or defeat it.<\/p>\n

7. THE WORKAHOLIC
\nExcessive occupation in the work place, the mad desire to accumulate earthly treasures, are some of the diversions of the darkness, leaving no time for spiritual things.
\n8. Spreading stress and giving rise to fear.(needlessly harassed )
\n9.. Doubts:
\nThrough the inducing of uncertainty, creates doubts in men\u2019s minds especially when confronted with a new teaching, which brings the truth. If this does not happen, the darkness will induce him to doubt the person who brought the new truth.
\ne.g the Pentecost. When the disciples were wrongly accused of being drunk in the morning. (give details)
\n10. Diversion and attack of good people
\nIt is a distorted idea that evil attacks only evil people or people with bad karma, since the earth has descended to the regions of darkness, the converse is the case. The darkness attacks only those who resist it. Lucifer is efficient. He has no time for those who belong to Him. Evil does not fight with its homogeneous type. It fights with the inhomogeneous, with the Good. Therefore the BEST PEOPLE, experience the biggest problems.
\nA dark spirit does not influence a spiritually mature man, who will refute it. But through diverting him from his mission by various kinds of suffering and enticements.
\n(Zinedine Zidane. World cup 2006.)
\nHowever, through the fight and suffering the spirit of man awakens and grows stronger more quickly.
\n(- search for earthly power- Mahatma Gandhi)
\n11. INDUCTION OF DESPAIR
\nMany people cannot understand the chaos caused by dark spirit.
\nThese people become victims voluntarily when reproaching God for his injustice:
\n– He did not help them in the way they envisaged.- \u201c\u201cthe why me\u201d syndrome \u201c which really is an accusation against God and a questioning of Divine Justice.
\n. This is the ultimate goal of the darkness. To lead one to
\n\u2022 wavering
\n\u2022 fall
\n\u2022 mistrust
\n\u2022 adaptation to the opinion of the majority
\n\u2022 and finally to surrender to the dark influence for \u201cdeliverance\u201d
\nThey become an easy to pray to \u201cprophets\u201d and itinerant medicine men.
\nTHE LIMITS OF LUCIFER.
\nSince the will of the Almighty Father is also firmly anchored in material creation, the evil principles of Lucifer can only operate within the primordial laws of God. As these Laws guarantee the free will, of man, Lucifer can only incite and lure but cannot force men to act.
\nFurthermore, since man stands more firmly in Material Creation than he does, therefore with much greater security and power than any influence from Lucifer, it is a 10 fold shame if he permits himself to be enticed by this power which is relatively weaker than his!
\nTo show you how the darkness has upped his game, consider the following scenario that made waves on the internet a few years ago:
\nSATAN\u2019S MEETING.<\/p>\n

Satan called a worldwide convention of Phantoms and Demons.
\nIn his opening address he said:
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t keep humans from going to their fellowships and religions.
\nWe can\u2019t keep them from reading the their scriptures and learning the truth
\nWe can\u2019t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Creator
\nOnce they gain that connection with the Creator, our power over them is broken.
\nSo let them go to their religions: let them have heir coveted dish dinners,
\nBUT steal their time, so they don\u2019t have time to develop a relationship with their Lord\u2026\u201d
\n\u201cThis is what I want you to do\u201d said the devil.
\n\u201cDistract them from gaining hold of their saviour and maintaining their vital connection throughout their day!\u201d
\nHow shall we do this? His minions shouted.
\nLet them build temples, churches and mosques, but they must not find true worship of God.
\nLet them sing, shout and dance:
\nChange their hymns of praise to pop, rock \u2018n\u2019roll.
\nInduce them to babble in strange tongues and let them believe their sins are forgiven once they petition their Creator.
\nRaise men and empower them. Suffuse them with material well-being and followership so that they spread over the earth.
\nHeaven must remain far from men. Never must they recall the long long (lost) memory of heavenly melody.
\nKeep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent the innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,\u201d he answered.
\n\u201cTempt them to spend, spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow.
\nPersuade their wives to work for long hours and the husbands to 6-7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. (Double income)
\nKeep them from spending time with their children.
\nAs their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work
\nOver-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice
\nEntice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive.
\nTo keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their homes and see to it that every store and every restaurant in the world plays secular music constantly.<\/p>\n

\"Grail<\/a>
\nU.S children spend 7hrs 38mins\/day on the media
\n– by the time the average American child is 15 he would have watched the violent destruction of more than 35,000 human beings
\n– as well as 200,000 other brutal acts of violence
\n– between the 7th and 12th grades, the average American teenager will listen to 11,000hours of rock music, more than twice the time they spend at school
\n– – because rock music encourages violent behavior, crime rate has increased amongst young people by 10,000%
\n– Today in the U.S- violent crime is committed every 25 seconds
\n– Every 9 seconds a home is burgled
\n– Every 25mins. Someone is murdered )
\nThis will jam their minds and break that union with higher realms
\nFill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers
\nPound their minds with news 24 hrs a day.
\nInvade their driving moments with billboards
\nFlood their mail boxes with junk mail, mail order catalogues, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotions offering free products, free services and false hopes.
\nKeep skinny beautiful models on the magazines and TVs so that their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what is important, and they will become dissatisfied with their wives.
\nKeep the wives too tired to love their husbands
\nGive them headaches too!
\nIf they don\u2019t give their husbands the attention they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.
\nThat will fragment their families quickly!
\nGive them Santa Claus and fireworks to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas.
\nGive them an Easter bunny so they won\u2019t talk about His resurrection and the true essence of Easter
\nEven in their recreations let them be excessive\u2026(.performance enhancing drugs
\nHave them return from their recreations exhausted
\nKeep them too busy to go into Nature and reflect on God\u2019s Creation.
\nSend them instead to the amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies.
\nKeep them busy, busy, busy!
\nAnd when they meet for their spiritual fellowships, involve them in gossips, prattles and small talks so that they will have troubled consciences.
\nCrowd their lives with so many good causes so that they will have no time to seek help from His Power.
\nSoon they will be working in their own strengths, sacrificing their health and families for the good of the cause.
\nThey\u2019ll live the fast lanes, make fast plans, make fast money, drive fast cars, eat fast foods, and fast through life. \u201c
\n\u201c It will wok!\u201d
\n\u201cIt will work!\u201d
\nIt was quite a plan!
\nThe agents went eagerly to their assignments causing humans everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.
\nHaving no time to tell others about the simple truths of life.
\nNow we are getting a better idea about why mankind still fails!
\n9. THE HELP.
\nBut man was not thrown to the dogs so to speak. Each time a people arrived at a decisive turning point, they were sent a strong helper who would deepen their spiritual recognitions and bear witness of God. Right from the beginning this help was available. But let us hurry through the last ……years when the pyramids of Giza were built to the last 3000 years where the last chapter of humanity\u2019s evolution towards maturity began.
\nWhy the pyramids? Why the SPHINX before it
\nWe start with Moses, 1300 B.C through whom the Jews the chosen race received the 10 commandments of God hewn onto stone tablets. In spite of the unforgettable experiences that led to the flight from Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, the Jews were sent help for them to stay the course. Thus we had
\nThe PROPHETS:
\n– Elijah- 830 B.C
\n– – Isaiah -720 B.C
\n– Jeremiah -630 B.C
\nCONCURRENT INCARNATIONS:
\nIn preparation for the judgment helping messengers were incarnated on earth practically at the same time. Each in his own way and according to the maturity of the people. Thus we had
\nLao-Tse in China-600 B.C
\nBuddha in India- 550B.C
\nZoroaster in Persia -600 B.C
\nIn each case mankind quickly succumbed to the intellect and declined.
\nChina, soon falls under the sway of the intellect with the teaching of Con-Fu-Tse 1552, from which China has never recovered.
\nIndia- Buddha\u2019s teaching re interpreted into a formless Nirvana and passive resignation
\nPERSIA – on the other hand was occupied by the creation of a powerful kingdom. Which still continues today in their dogged desire to develop their nuclear weapon.
\nJESUS CHRIST
\nThe more mankind progressed in time, the worse the situation became. Finally the moment inevitably came when men were no longer in a position to absorb messages from the beyond.
\n\u201c In order to have a reliable witness on earth, God resorted to an emergency measure and put into effect a rescue mission by severing and incarnating a part of Himself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. This arrested the precipitate decline of man. Had there still been men on earth or even just one single man, who could have received and passed on the truth, Christ\u2019s coming would not have been necessary.\u201d
\nHowever in spite of:
\n– The mighty radiation power of Jesus,
\n– His untiring devotion
\n– His exemplary life
\n– The seed of life and of love and justice refused to grow in the parched hearts of men.
\n– Even His disciples sometimes misunderstood him to the extent that he had to exclaim:
\n– \u201cAre ye without understanding also..\u201d
\n– \u201cDo ye not perceive…\u201d
\n\u201cClear and far-sighted, the Son of God recognised that His enormous sacrifice had almost been in been in vain. He thought of the of the future of men and reflected on another possibility of salvation. Thus He proclaimed Him who at the end of the day will be sent forth to confirm the truth.
\n– \u201c…which is to come\u201d
\n– \u201cAnd when the Son of man cometh\u201d John 16. 7-8
\n– \u201cNevertheless I tell you the truth, it is expedient for me that I go away for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. But If I depart I will send Him to you.]
\nAnd when He is come, He would reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment\u201d
\n\u201c I have many things to say to you , but you cannot bear them now. How be it when He the Spirit of truth is come He will guide you into all Truth…….
\nHe even gave us signs as to how we shall recognise Him.
\n\u201c…..He shall glorify me for He shall receive of mine and show it show it to you\u201d. John 16: 12-15.
\n\u201c But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name, shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you\u201d John 14: 20. So every true believer should look for these signs.
\n10. STRATEGIC ERROR
\nThere is now a wide spread strategic error where the \u201cessence of the Divine Message receded into the background in the face of the present cult of the Bringer of Truth, which Christ never intended.
\n* The great error was to place the same value on Christ\u2019s earth life as on His mission.
\nThus His family relationships and all the earthly events received greater attention than the real purpose of His coming, which was to bring enlightenment to mankind.
\nIt was the bringing of this Truth which necessitated Christ\u2019s coming to the earth. Instead of concentrating on His Message and living accordingly, earthly religion, created a personal cult as the principal foundation which forced them to make the suffering of Christ mean something entirely different from what it really was!
\nThus the urge developed to anchor the mission of the Son of God mainly on His life on earth. This was a wrong step to take as Christ Himself, more than once, clearly and sharply rejected the personal attitude taken toward Him, and pointed always to the Father, whose Will He fulfilled, and in Whose Power He stood and acted.\u201d E.g the Lord\u2019s Prayer……..\u201dOur Father who art in Heaven\u201d\u201d
\nWHY DID HE COME?
\n\u201cIt was only through Christ\u2019s message that the gates to Paradise were unlocked for mature human spirits. The ability to understand the way there did not exist until then. This Message was meant for earth-men as well as for those already departed, as is every Divine Message and every WORD of Luminous Truth\u2026\u201d
\n(The Grail Message: \u201c\u201dFather forgive them for they know not what they do\u201d\u201d)
\nHad He not come, darkness would have swept over the Earth and there will be no one worthy to be saved at the time of the Final Judgement.
\nLet us therefore as an exception focus on the teachings of Christ today as we celebrate the EASTER festival.
\n11. VARIOUS HELPS FROM ON HIGH.
\nNo part of the Earth and no race were left out of this Divine Ordinance. Even the Village Medicine-man in Africa, the Priestess who was gifted with the knowledge of herbs, all had a role to play,
\nIn the normal course of development, our Fore-fathers could see the Substantiate beings who led them into
\n– Understanding of nature, medicinal herbs etc
\n– The planting season
\n– Even led them to new settlements etc.
\nThey saw these beings and in their innocence (I wouldn\u2019t say ignorance) began to worship them. They were at this stage when the Missionaries came with their concept of the One, Invisible God. This indeed was right, but they (missionaries) had lost contact with these Elemental Beings, and regarded even concepts of gods and goddesses of Ancient Rome and Greece as myths and legends, and overthrew all our beliefs as paganism and imposed their concepts of Christianity. This quantum leap, without due regard to natural development, has brought about the mental confusion and lack of earnestness in the native population. The result of which is now evident in us.
\nIn those days in the villages, you could leave your wares by the roadside unattended. People would take what they wanted and drop the correct coins there and go away. No one can try this today!
\n12. WHY DOES MANKIND STILL FAIL?
\nThe key word here is \u201cSTILL\u201d From the foregoing it is clear that right from the beginning man was never left alone. teachers, prophets, even the Son of God came but men did not listen.
\nNext we come to the why? Is it stupidity? Lack of knowledge?
\nNo! It is a combination of several factors listed hereunder in no specific order:
\n– Failure to recognise the agents of darkness
\n– spiritual indolence born out of physical comfort
\n– morbid sensuality
\n– overdevelopment of the intellect
\n– arrogance
\n– subjecting the spirit to the intellect – a classic example of the tail wagging the dog
\n– Conceit
\n13. SOLUTION.
\nAs we can see the causes are myriad, but there is no compelling cause that cannot be overcome if man genuinely works at it. Remember we are creatures of God. He gave us all we need. In us lies the spiritual core which by its very nature will always seek the light. All we have to do is to free it and like a cork under water it soars upwards.
\nIn spite of our abysmal failure the hand of God is still stretched forth today:
\n– In the new knowledge available to mankind. The Grail Message.
\n– In the rush of events of severe psychic shocks which should awaken any one still inwardly awake to ponder why all this is happening.
\nFor only by force can mankind be saved. Spiritual warriors are sweeping the Earth and striking down those who will not bend to the will of God.
\nWe are in the age of the Holy Spirit when all will perish that i s not genuine or willed by God.
\nYes we are in the final judgment which will eventually lead to the establishment of the long awaited MILLENIUM- The kingdom of God on earth.
\nTake care that in the sifting and winnowing you are not found to be unworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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