(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) And this is the most important point of all. It IS a "way home" because, at the eternal moment when those that return to the Light return, those that hold the idea of Nonbeing, or darkness ALSO return. In an eternally instantaneous unification/dispersement Act that Was, Is and always Will BE, the energies of Darkness and Light fall into their respective roles Eternally. When you realize that it is NEVER GOING TO END, that NEITHER PATH will take you to "Heaven" and "Eternal Bliss," or Oblivion or any of the illusions perpetrated upon mankind, it then becomes simply a matter of preference. And that preference is only an inclination. It literally has the weight of a feather.
[Comment - What proves or demonstrates that: "NEITHER PATH will take you to 'HEAVEN' and 'Eternal Bliss'"? What proves that it is never going to end? How does one know that it is never going to end?
There is a difference between not having heaven and eternal bliss as one's motivation, intention, or niyat and claiming that such realities don't exist. STO is not about the ontology or metaphysics of human or spiritual potential. STO is about the sincerity of one's niyat or intention.
STO is preferable to STS because only through STO can one be as open as one's capacity permits to the Truth which exists. Moreover, only through maximizing one's potential for STO can one hope to be free by being what one is, essentially and uniquely.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) And that, my friend, is the choice that I faced. The possibility of Service to Others in a realm composed of matter which is, by its nature, Service to Self, under the control of higher density beings who are oriented by to Service to Self. That's where we are. That is what IS in this realm.
And, by understanding that EITHER choice ultimately leads "back to God," since there really is no "back to God" since, in real terms, there is no separation from God, we find that we have an UNWEIGHTED CHOICE.
[Comment - 3rd density being is, not by its nature, Service to Self. 3rd density being has the potential of choosing between Service to Others and Serivce to Self, and if this were not so, then, moving to 4th density would be meaningless as far as acquiring STO capabilities is concerned.
STO is not a capcity which is added as we go along. STO, as well as STS, are dimensions of human potential which are with each of us from the very beginning. We do not evolve STO capabilities, but, rather, we have the challenge of struggling to develop (or not) such capabilities which already are present within us.
Moreover, while one might agree that not only do all choices lead "back to God" but, as well, that we have never left being immersed in the Divine Presence, the matter of one's "return" to Divinity does make a difference. Among others, Ibn al-‘Arabi (may God be pleased with him) indicates that the manner in which one returns to Divinity is of greatest importance.
There is the return of 'felicity' and the return of 'wretchedness’. There is the return of 'knowledge' and the return of 'ignorance’. There is the return of realization and the return of unrealized potential. There is the return of STO and the return of STS. There is the return of having done justice to Creation and the return of not having done justice and given everything its due. There is the return of having succeeded, to one degree or another, in the purpose of life, and there is the return of having failed in this purpose.
The two ways of return may be to the same Source, to the same God. But, the respective ways of return are not equivalent, and no one should suppose that one way is just as good as the other, and, therefore, that it makes no difference how one returns.
Life has a preferred direction. There is a 'handedness' to Being. It is not a scalar, ambidextrous phenomenon.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) That's it. The whole banana. That's the choice. Either way, nothing is going to come to an end with "Union with God" because the instant there is Union with the One, it all starts over again. That's what is. Our choice is to actualize what is IN us. To choose our orientation/polarity and begin to discover how to amplify it.
[Comment - Although things may start over again in another cycle of time for another set of beings, from the perspective of the Sufi masters, nothing is ever repeated and all manifestations are unique in character because the depths of the Hidden Treasure are infinite. Among other things, this means that Being does not repeat what has gone before, so, wherever it is that one spiritually travels, one goes where one has never been before because the tajalli (Divine disclosures or manifestations) are constantly changing. Even when things appear to be the same, phenomena are giving expression to self-similar, rather than self-same, manifesations.
Moreover, there are such stations as baqa (spiritual subsistence of the individual Self within the Oneness of Being) and fana ( the beauty and majesty of the Divine Presence renders everything else, including one's sense of self, invisible - as if non-existent). Although there may be exceptions - and God knows best in this respect - to the general principle, once the station of baqa has been reached, there is no starting over again - although there may be further spiritual advancement which is possible.
There is a point to choosing and learning, and this point is to struggle to become who we are, in essence, so that we may be fully free to worship Divinity through our essential, unique, spiritual capacity. In fact, being free in the foregoing, essential manner is, actually, the highest form of worship, for, in such a condition, we are precisely as God gave us the capacity to be and, as such, we are giving manifest expression to a portion of the Hidden Treasure which God prefers, even as Divinity Loves all that is manifested.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) In the simplest of terms, Service to others is a CREATIVE impulse. It is to find delight and satisfaction in variety and change.
[Comment - If one does STO in order to find delight and satisfaction in variety and change, then, one’s motivation is something other than STO. Indeed, STO, under such circumstances, merely becomes a means to serving oneself.
The creative impulse which is being served in STO is not our (human) delight and satisfaction, but that of Divinity in witnessing the Hidden Treasure being manifested through the eyes of the ‘other’ in a fully realized form. This is the gift of the fully Self-realized human being - to be aware of one’s union with God even as one is given individuality to choose to manifest one’s spiritual essence in a unique fashion. This is the station of baqa.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) One of the problems we face is the fact that, very often the desire of human beings at this 3rd level of density to experience Light and Love and Truth and Beauty; to be One, in a harmony of similar goals and objectives of peace and tranquillity, kindness, devotion, respect and concord, is manipulated by those beings who live in fear of losing self, twisted and distorted to mean a contraction into sameness rather than harmonious variety.
In human terms, this "fear of losing self" and need to "become One" is not always expressed by overt domination, subjugation. It is often expressed by the dynamic of absorption of other consciousness into a single ideal, narrowly defined by human terms of "love and light." Very often the ideals of Love and Light are twisted to mean the DENYING the Free Will of others to make their own choices.
In fact, the idea that "evil/darkness" is a rebellion, a fault, a thing to be done away with, is the "twist" in all the teachings of history that have laid the groundwork for domination and absorption by the forces of Service to Self. In terms of monotheism, this idea of "saving the world" has manifested the fruits of the many slaughters that have been instituted in the name of Unity, and Love. Because of this perceived need to "fix" or "change" or "transform" other people or situations, those whose inner inclination is actually STO are induced to damp their own STO frequency.
[Comment - One cannot do away with the way in which Being is structured. There is goodness, and there is evil. There is light, and there is darkness. There is knowledge, and there is ignorance. There is guidance and there is misguidance. There is truth and there is falsehood. There is justice and there is injustice. There is love, and there is enmity.
Indeed, there are an infinite set of opposites contained within the nature of Being. And, there is nothing which any of us can do to change such facts.
However, notwithstanding the foregoing, every single human being has a duty of care to distinguish among the aforementioned possibilities and to choose the first member of a given pair, rather than the second member of that pairing of opposites. Nevertheless, this task cannot be forced upon us by others because it is inherent in the very nature of being, and this is why there is a Quranic injunction which indicates that there can be no compulsion in matters of Deen - that is, the way to Truth.
Anyone who seeks to use tactics of domination and absorption to force people to observe such a duty of care is violating one of the basic principles of Being. But, this violation is a reflection of a person's failure to understand the structure of the universe and not because there is no duty to recognize that: (1) there a difference between, say, knowledge and ignorance, and, as well, (2) there is a preferred choice to be made among pairs of opposites in terms of what the Divine Himma (Aspiration) is for human beings.
One cannot save the world. One can struggle to realize one's own essential, spiritual potential and identity, and in working toward the latter, one is contributing a great deal to helping to establish the sort of environment in which everyone can be exposed to, at least, the opportunity to struggle to save herself or himself - free from oppression and coercion.
The very act of distinguishing between STS and STO means that one is generating a set of opposites in which one facet is being extolled and held out as desirable, while the other is being disparaged as loathsome. One does not have to take up the politics of domination just because one recognizes such a distinction.
In fact, precisely because one makes or is led to make the foregoing sort of distinction (i.e., between STO and STS), one comes to understand, God willing, that part of the STS modality of being is to try to get everyone to believe and feel and act as one does, whereas STO is oriented toward helping individuals stop seeking domination over others. However, the latter is struggled toward through discussion, civility, exploration, rigorous self-examination, and other non-coercive means and means which are not hierarchical, or rooted in a class of middle-men clerics, and so on.
Evil does serve a purpose because it is the manure in which one has the opportunity to grow STO flowers. One cannot understand STO until one has some appreciation of what the nature of STO being is. It is through the tension created by these two attractor poles of human possibility, that the spiritual journey takes place. Part of STO is to understand that everyone has a unique contribution to make as individual manifestations of the Hidden Treasure and, therefore, it actually is a rebellion against the Divine Himma to seek to make everyone think, feel, be, act, and understand like everyone else.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) The work of developing Free Will is to stop believing lies. At the same time, the only way to really learn this is to "try on" the lies until the external evidence mounts so high that one is forced to the ultimate choice of Choosing to continue in the lie in the face of the evidence that it is a lie, or to choose to see only the truth.
And so, the choice comes, you are face to face with what you truly ARE, in the blackness of the abyss, and you choose. I saw that, in terms of any action I might take in this reality, I had NO Free Will EXCEPT in terms of my RESPONSE. I could CHOOSE HOW I RESPONDED. I could choose my Frequency.
[Comment - Free will does not have to be developed. We have such a capacity, full-blown, right from the beginning.
What develops, God willing, is the quality of the choices of alignment which are made via free will. Learning to distinguish between lies and the truth is part of the process of development concerning the quality of our choices. Learning to act in accordance with what we know to be lies and the truth is a further development in the quality of the choices we make.
Nonetheless, no matter how we choose, the capacity to choose has been with us from the beginning. Such a capacity is what it is, and it cannot be improved upon, evolved or developed. Rather, we apply that capacity constructively or problematically.
Furthermore, we cannot choose except in terms of the manner in which Divinity permits us to choose. There is a mysterious dance which takes place between individual intention and Divine Himma (Aspiration), and what Himma permits is not always a reflection of how we choose or intend. Human beings are granted barakah or Grace which assists us to move in the direction of STO even as we are steeped in, and have inclinations toward, STS.
Moreover, the life experiences which Divinity sends into out lives are the combination of jalali (the Divine qualities of majesty, grandeur, transcendence, independence, rigor, judgment, etc.) and jamali (the Divine qualities of beauty, compassion, love, kindness, forgiveness, etc.) properties which afford us the best opportunity - both short and long term - of seeing the wisdom of STO and seeking to make choices which align ourselves with such forces. Laura didn’t reach her point of no return on her own, she was brought to that point, and, then, she was helped to go in one direction rather than another according to the nature of her intention - for, as the Hadith indicates, Divinity interacts with us according to our opinion of Divinity.
There is a difference however between saying: on the one hand, we make Divinity in our own image, and, on the other hand, human beings are made in the image of God. Many people confuse the two and suppose that because God will interact with us according to our opinion of Divinity that therefore the 'face' which Divinity puts forward as a result of our opinion of Divinity is the 'Face' that we have a God-given duty of care to pursue.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) That was it. In my case the thought came: "I will offer myself as one who has CHOSEN to BE this light, love, truth and beauty. By BEing it, I am GIVING it to God. I will strive for as long as I am present on this Godforsaken planet, as long as I am separated from my Source, drifting in the darkness, to BE as much of love and truth beauty as I can manage to manifest. I no longer cared whether that made me a prime piece of meat for the Lizzies; I didn't care if they were going to eat me tomorrow - or even if they ate everybody I loved and the whole Universe ended in a Bang and I was blotted out of existence for eternity! I figured that for whatever it was worth, which may have been absolutely nothing, when it was all over and the stars all blinked out, there was going to be that one little memory in the Physical Universe's brain; the memory that one person RESPONDED with Love to the right of the Universe to BE exactly as it IS, even if what it IS is nothing but a dark, devouring mouth that consumes its creatures as soon as they are created, including me. My response to SEEING was to sound the tone of Love Beauty and Truth so that it would have existence IN me.
[Comment - Why should it be important to sound this tone and, not, as well, the tone of the other Divine Names and Attributes? Love, Beauty, and Truth are only three of the Names of Divinity - what about the 96 other Names? Do we not have a duty of care with respect to those names as well?
Is the foregoing 'seeing' and 'sounding', Laura’s wish or God’s wish? Is this the best way for her to realize her essential capacity and identity, or is it a veil in which she is seeking something other than what the Divine Himma wanted for her?
Why should this be a God-forsaken planet when it provides us with the opportunity to realize and participate in the Hidden Treasure? And, why should all of this be of absolutely no worth? Did not God say that this world, human beings, and jinn have not been created in jest, and that it is not a game, and there is a purpose to it all?
If Laura can be willing to put people in jail as an act of pure STO (and she has, at certain points, indicated that such acts do not violate the Prime Directive to not interfere with the choices people make), then, why isn’t it possible to interact with others in ways that may interfere, affect, influence, undermine, misinform, or alter the intentionality of another human being? Why write anything? Is this not an attempt to help someone seek and do something other than what currently exists?
Maybe, one should just leave people to serve as food for ‘others’? How is her talking, and writing, and entering into relationships with others not instances of trying to alter the way things are? Which is more important - letting people choose wrongly, or trying to find ways of STO which, while not coercive, punitive, judgmental, intrusive, and violent, nevertheless, assist others to seek to wake up to the illusion which we call life?
At times, Laura sounds like someone from Star Trek in which non-interference with civilizations is the Prime Directive. What makes her believe that this is what God wishes or wants? Why must it be preserved above all other values and principles?
Is God’s permitting of free will a matter of Divinity's unconditional love for free will, or merely the shot across the bow which marks the beginning of the spiritual journey. Unless God gives beings the capacity to rebel and to veil the truth, then, the ‘game’ is not a serious one, and the challenge is not real and rigorous - that is, the test is not a true one, and God wishes to see who is serious about the answer given in pre-eternity to the question, ‘Am I not your Lord?’]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) It is impossible to be a True STO being in an STS world.
[Comment - Why should one accept the foregoing statement as true? The Prophets were truly STO, and so were the awliya (friends of Divinity) - the real awliya of God and not just those who were called saints by this or that institution. I think it is premature of Laura to judge the character and potential of Being according to her understanding of her own situation or on the basis of what she believes the Cassiopaeans told her concerning such matters.]
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) For me, it was such a pity, such a sadness that, once I penetrated the Illusion, I found nothing but Darkness. I could see that real Truth and Beauty just simply could not be found in our reality once one began to peel away the layers of lies and deception and illusion.
[Comment - As is evidenced both through their lives, as well as their writings, the great saints like Ibn al’Arabi (may God be pleased with him) saw the Truth and Beauty of the Divine Presence in everything which they did. They did not see anything without seeing Divinity in and through that thing.
It is a great truth and beauty to be brought to a position where one can discern, to some extent, between truth and falsehood. It is a great Truth and Beauty to be brought to the point of wanting to aspire toward a STO life style and to avoid a STS lifestyle. It is a great Truth and Beauty to want to do justice to everything according to what it is due. It is a great Truth and Beauty to want to seek knowledge and leave ignorance and wishful thinking behind. It is a great Truth and Beauty to not want one’s life ruled by deceit, lies, and illusion. It is a great Truth and Beauty to not wish to serve the agendas of STS beings. It is a great Truth and Beauty to seek to love, to seek Divinity, to seek wisdom, to see the Beauty in human existence and the possibilities of human existence.
Being is not an onion - falsehood is. When one peels away the layers of deception, eventually, one will come to the center of lies, which is nothing at all. When one peels away the layers of Truth, one finds only deeper Truths about oneself and one’s relationship to Being.]
(From the New Testament) Jesus answered [the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well], If you had only known and had recognized God's gift... you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water. ...Whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty anymore. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up continually within him unto eternal life. ...A time will come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in true reality; for the Father is seeking just such people as these... God is a Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth. [John 4:10-24, exc., Amplified, Zondervan]
[Comment - If one reads through the List of Divine Names, one understands, God willing, that God, in Essence is NOT a spirit, although this or that created manifestation may give expression to the spirit of Being in one modality or another. Divinity is beyond the realm of the spirit - this is part of what is meant by ideas such as independence, transcendence, and beyond all similarities with anything in Creation.
However, there is a spirit inherent in the Divine Himma (Aspiration) which brought forth the Hidden Treasure that is part of what should be worshiped. The dimension of human potential which is referred to as 'spirit' needs to merge horizons with the spirit or raison d'etre of the Divine Himma. This process of merging horizons may be the significance of what is meant by worhiping Divinity in spirit and truth.]
(From the New Testament) Jesus said:
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword." For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law; and a man's foes will be they of his own household. He who loves and takes more pleasure in father or mother than in Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves and takes more pleasure in son or daughter than in Me is not worthy of me; And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever finds his [lower] life will lose the [higher] life and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find [the higher life]." [Matt. 10: 35-39, Amplified, Zondervan]
[Comment - Similar words can be found in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) - namely, that one should love Divinity and the Prophet more than one's families. However, the two (that is: on the one hand, loving Divinity and the Prophet, while, on the other hand, loving parents, spouse, and family) are not mutually exclusive. Rather, in placing Divinity and the Prophetic locus of manifestation first, then, God willing, one comes to love all of creation better.]
(From the Nexus Seven) The Nexus Seven write in Top Secret/Demon:
"The notions or Service-to-Self and Service-to-Others in popular use in channeled Ufology today are outrageous, but apt simplifications of the real intricacies of the matter. As the definitions change of exactly what 'self' encompasses these notions map across a wide variety of different orientations, and it is appropriate to introduce the dialectic, the triad pattern that is really involved beyond the dualistic notion. Although merely extending the differentiating metaphor into three classes is hardly as far as it can be taken."
(From Laura Knight-Jadczyk) In this remark, The Nexus Seven make it clear that they are falling under the influence of the "damping effect" of the STS deceptions. There is no clearer understanding of the reality of Creation than to grasp the concept of Being vs. Nonbeing. That's the bottom line.
[Comment - The relationship between Being and Non-being is one thing, and inisisting that the theology of the Cassiopaeans must be accepted as necessarily following from the Being/Non-being distinction is quite another issue. Furthermore, to say that any interpretation or understanding which differs from that of Laura and company automatically qualifies it as being an expression of the presence of 4th density STS beings who are seeking to keep human beings asleep - and this is irrespective of whether the Nexus Seven is right or wrong with respect to what they are saying - seems problematic, controlling, doctrinaire, and authoritarian.
In effect, Laura and company seem to be saying that only they have the courage to fess up to the depressing state of ontology and the manner in which almost everything on this plane of existence is controlled by 4th density STS beings ... that only they have the courage and honesty to stare into the abyss of life - everyone else who doesn’t agree with them are, apparently, being manipulated by the Lizzies and still caught up in deceit and lies. It is possible to disagree with various facets of what Laura says without necessarily being caught up in the lies of the Lizzies - assuming, of cours, that the Cassiopaean paradigm is even correct with respect to the existence and nature of the Lizzies.]
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