"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves:
be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
Matthew 10:16
The new age, being born out of the ashes of the old dying before us today, is one of real power, which is spiritual power. It is the power of creation, of new life born out of love which is the highest potential of humankind and is the ultimate spiritual power. It is the power of the dove.
Real power is gentle, humble, loving, open and allowing. Real power does not have to assert its will against another. It doesn't need to persuade or prove its point, coerce another to do anything, be anything other than who or what it is. Real power, as real love, celebrates the other for who or what it is, whether or not it is alike or different.
A cat doesn't try to make a dog a cat. It purrs alongside the dog admiring its fine coat. But, why do people attempt to make other people be like them, different than who they already are? Why are huge ugly egos out there attempting to make people believe as those egos believe? Our beauty as a world, as a human being, is in our diversity.
Wise people, those empowered and loving ones who can only look at history's bloody tragic past with tears in their eyes and sorrow in their hearts for what has been, have learned this hard lesson. We are all different, yet all the same as children of the One God, and we are a people wearing a multi-colored coat, made for us by our beloved creator.
As we awaken to what is really happening out there on Earth today, we would be blind fools to not see that things are out of control and clearly not as our benevolent, life-giving creator intended. It makes no sense and sensibility is one of the gifts given to us at our creation. We were born with an innate sense of order and creativity. We know instinctively to listen to our hearts, to do and be what is loving, kind, giving and creative. Evidence of this is in all the world's cultures, mores, taboos and social decorum.
As the crisis of world domination spirals insanely closer to self-destruction, where is our hope? Where is the solution, the antidote to this hatred and insanity? Throughout centuries, nations have clashed against each other, asserting the right-ness of each one's position, each claiming to be on God's right side. And, so we've come to today - the world's future hangs on the cliff as we continue to make these same claims. Each religion thinks it's right, yet in its assertion that it is "the one true faith" and we all know they all claim that, we are showing our falseness, our blindness to what is really real.
I've said previously that the Q'uran doesn't need defending, nor does the Gospel or any other revealed religion. What our sacred scriptures ask of us is to listen to what God is saying to us in them. God is gathering us together - as a hen would gather her chicks - as a mother cat would gather her kittens. God is showing us where our real power lies.
A Muslim and a Christian could agree on this, as could a Hindi and a Buddhist, or a Hopi and a Catholic. Nature, which is the environment in which we were born, is also a reflection of God's nature. We are united, connected, to God and to each other by our shared nature. Earthly power has been a lower vibrational means of leveraging survival. As a kind of power over, material evolution reflects a Darwinian means of survival of the fittest, and as that idea is true on a material level of nature, it is also true on a spiritual level, the highest vibrational level of life, albeit unseen for us in three-dimension, yet real nonetheless. Those who are the most detached from ego, materiality, selfishness and greed, are the most fit spiritually and therefore will survive the shifting ages. Those who are most surrendered to God, the most filled with God's love, humility, honesty, gentleness, and intentional love, are the most fit spiritually and will inherit the kingdom of God, on Earth.
A few weeks ago, I was joking with a friend about the possibility that the solar flares would knock out the power on the west coast. My friend joked back, "I don't have anything to worry about. I have an underground bunker and a year's worth of water and food supplies."
I laughed, knowing that my friend didn't, nor did I. It was in that moment that I knew that if anything catastrophic ever happened, I was completely unprepared to protect the children, cats, myself and everyone else. Yet, I also knew that with God's presence in my life, and the love of God that I have shared with everyone, we might make it. I don't know how we would make it, but it wouldn't be because of an underground bunker. It would be because God's love is more powerful than anything that could happen to us.
The promised new age, the one that will emerge after this dark age has descended out of existence, when the lower powers of control and manipulation have wiped itself out, all that will survive will be the strongest ones spiritually, those made powerful by love. The courage of those strongest ones, the highest, most powerful skill sets of those wiser, higher vibrational ones is their only hope. The greatest power is the power of love, but it is a love too few humans really embrace and live by. It is a strong, confident, creative spiritual power. It is the power to "move mountains" with a single thought. It is the power to love an enemy, to kiss a leper, to walk on water, to resurrect the dead, to relinquish our will on any given situation and open the door for the Spirit or wisdom of God to enter any situation and effect the healing, the help, the hope, the breath of life so long awaited.
True power is the power of the dove. It is the power of God alive and active in an open-hearted, God-surrendered human being. Images of the pure-hearted-spirited dove are woven into our ancient memory. When Noah opened the ark after the flood to check the safety of the newly washed world, he sent out a dove. The spirit of God descended onto Jesus at his baptism in the Jordan as a dove. This idea is central to all the world's religions, those uninfected by the anti-christ's fear and debasing soul-sabotage.
The new age will be an elevated period of human experience on the earth in which we live love, create with that very substance of God's divine power, and surrender our fears, our ego-based manipulative effort to control through force and fear, threats of death and poverty and lack, when our only arsenal is wisdom and love, received from God through our honest surrender spiritually, whole-heartedly to God's own love for us.
I can imagine such a new world. I can see us loving each other, cooperatively birthing a greater freedom of soul, midwifing together this new world. I long for it, I live for it, and wait patiently for us to wake up to it, now, right now, today as we let go of the hold the anti-christ has on the world.
In this very moment, we can wake up. In the blink of an eye, we can surrender our fear, our guilt, our addictions and loosen the grip the anti-christ has on us, individually and collectively.
Each one of us must seek our own salvation and that salvation is found in our choice to be free and followers of our own hearts where God is heard and experienced. It is in love that we are found and it is in love that we find God. That love is our power and that love is anything but controlling. It is allowing, freeing and hopeful that we will chose that road less traveled, that path out of the dark into the beauty of real life and real power.
Remember nothing is what it seems. Don't be deceived by an attractive package. Be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. We must be wise to the dark manipulations of those would-be godly, holy ones who seek to usurp the power of the dove for the heavy powers of the beast. Be wise and then be gentle. Your gentleness will be the clue that you are being wise. Only the wise are courageous and gentle. The fool is cruel and cold, ruthless, cowardly and fearful.
As you enter into this new age, born today in your mind and imagination, you will receive the sword of love - of gentleness and warmth and compassion and creative hope - and you will become a most precious soldier for peace, for love and for the birthing of the new age. Then, your reward will be life.
When this old age has dimmed, you will live. You will live in love and by love. Once you learn the language of love, you will live in this new age. If you don't or can't learn the language of love because the beast has hold of your soul through its cunning control, you won't see or live in the new age. It is a spiritual age and you can make that choice. Choose God, choose love, choose oneness and acceptance and allowing of others to be who they are. I love you. Choose the higher path. It is the path to life. The other is the path to destruction and death.
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