To Know God is not an Easy Matter, Until One Becomes a Knower of One’s Self

by Steve Beckow

Posted on February 13, 2024

Ibn Arabi: “To know God is not an easy matter, until one becomes a knower of one’s self.” (1)

Al-Ghazzali: “He who knows himself knows God.”  (2)

The illusory, apparently-individuated entity known as the “Self” is like a Babushka doll.

Whatever its original form might have been, that’s the largest of the dolls. And we in Fourth Dimensionality are the smallest.

But, I believe, they’re nested inside of each other in a non-physical way which I couldn’t possibly describe or understand.

We’re out here in the cold and rain and the door into the locked warmth of the interior of the Babushka Doll has this sign over it: “The Heart.”

We want back in to the light and warmth. Who’s got the key to this door?

Well, of course, the Divine Mother does. And, along with her, our archangel does, and our Higher Self, all agents of the Mother’s Will. (3)

We look back and we see that we approached the door by Awareness Avenue. Others are beginning to congregate now, also wet and cold, some coming from Service Avenue; others from down Wisdom Street. All wanting in at the door.

***

Let me spin the metaphor a little longer.

I can only talk about Awareness Avenue.

We cannot become a knower of God until we become a knower of the self.  It could not possibly be that God is everything and not us. Since everything is God, if we know ourselves as deeply as is possible, we should eventually know God. God is the residuum, the default, behind all appearances.

Moreover, we now know that things are provided for us along the way, to make things easier or speed our journey. Channeled messages, spiritual experiences, mentors, books falling off shelves, suggestions whispered in our ears. (4)

We’re not being asked to do something exotic – climb a mountain or cross a river. We’re asked to know, most deeply, the very thing we carry around with us night and day and use for everything – our very own self.

Example: Since our feelings don’t last, they cannot be what we’re looking for (God).  But our divine states don’t flee as quickly. They bear looking into as a stairstep to God.

And, yes, at some point we have to stop looking. It’s only brush-clearing. If we keep on past its point of usefulness, we busy the very thing we’re looking for: The “I” that’s looking is the “I” we’re looking for!

Crazy-making!

***

If something is not divine, or God, it will disappear when the truth of it is known. An upset will disappear when the truth of it is known. A headache or other pain may lift when its true message is known. (Maybe not. I’m not a doctor.)

The opposite is also true: I for instance am fond of using the phrase “a pain in the butt.” I now have a slipped lower disc which is causing … you got it … a pain in the butt. No accidents.

Or if you prefer the path of love to address an upset, love it and it will release its grip and gradually pass away: This too shall pass. Resist it and it will hold onto you forever: What we resist persists. (5)

***

Using the truth as our machete, we clear away the brush of our misconceptions, revealing the Truth that is and was already there. Well, that’s my preferred route, as a writer.

At Xenia, gazing upon the Self, I felt my own native purity and innocence (I can feel it now).  We labor under the memory of countless lifetimes of errors and mistakes, which burden us like Morley’s chain. (6)

But free of that burden through, as Kathleen points out, the forgiveness of everything, we are as pure and innocent as her granddaughter Amelia.

Just here. Without a care in the world. Just love and curiosity.

Can you imagine that that’s you? Because, deep down, it is.

Raising the ways of the self to awareness causes them to lift, if they’re held in place by anything other than love – such as jealousy, strategizing, fear, etc. Underneath them, we’re all just like Amelia.

Only love persists eternally. And that same love, in ways that are beyond my understanding, turns out to be the essence of who we are, now liberated from the endless desiring of the ephemeral self.

Footnotes

(1) Muhyideen Ibn Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel. trans. Ismail Hakki Bursevi. Sherborne: Beshara, n.d., 3.

(2) Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness. trans. Claud Field. Lahore: ASHRAF, 1971; c1964, 19.

(3) See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-4.pdf

(4) See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-5.pdf

(5) Werner Erhard.

(6) Morley was Scrooge’s deceased business partner, now dragging around the chain of his misdeeds and heartlessness while on Earth.

Steve Beckow

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What are Some Obsolete Belief Systems?

What are Some Obsolete Belief Systems?

by Steve Beckow

Posted on July 23, 2023

 

Ain’t going back there.

The Arcturian Group: “Many long accepted beliefs are changing or even disappearing through the presence of the increasingly intense high frequency energy now pouring to earth. These energies are exposing the underlying error of much that has long been accepted as truth and reality.

“Those who have lived lives dependent upon one particular belief system panic when it begins to crumble as they have nothing with which to replace it. You are seeing the result of this in the actions of so many now attempting to re-create and force obsolete traditions and their belief systems on everyone else, even if by force.” (1)

What are some of these obsolete belief systems?

(1) That wealth brings happiness

Wealth allows us to buy things. And, when we buy some things, like a Mazzerati or a château in the south of France, we think the purchase has brought us joy, happiness, contentment, etc.

Andrew Cohen has pointed out that it isn’t the purchase itself that has brought us joy, but the cessation of desire that the purchase has brought – the space thus created – that has allowed our native joy to surface. (2)

We called the attainment of space a transformational moment in the Seventies. It was the brief attainment of a higher-dimensional state of peace and joy.

There’s nothing material that I’m aware of that can bring on a divine state directly; I wish there were.

Yet at the same time, these states are to be found on the other side of the portal that the spiritual heart is, free for the asking and taking.

(2) That only what we can see, hear, taste, and touch is real.

Michael, Mother, Legions of Light, back in the closet. We’re not ready for you yet.

Eleven other dimensions of existence are closed to us when we come from the paradigm of empirical materialism. The soul that we are, in this body for a spell, does not exist in this paradigm. God does not. Reincarnation doesn’t. Etc. etc. What’s left?

Warring nations, condemned to chasing a steadily-shrinking resource base, the elite prospering and the masses falling by the wayside, by design.

Empirical materialism is too small to fit the actual circumstances of life.  It doesn’t allow us to explain any of the spiritual mysteries. In fact it obscures the answers. It condemns us to division and conflict, all the time being totally unnecessary.

(3) That the wealth of the few will trickle down to the masses.

Associated with President Ronald Reagan but around well before him, this theory says that money made by the elite will trickle down to the masses.  This assertion has been shown to have no merit. The elite simply amassed more and more wealth and practised vigilance and security to see that none was lost.

No crumbs were seen to fall from the tables of the wealthy. But the theory contributed to kicking the can of financial reformation down the road another decade or two.

(4) That rugged individualism will always brings success.

This notion may or may not be true in the best of all possible worlds, but, in a world that’s as far under Illuminati control as ours is (or was), individual effort, no matter how rugged, may not be the ultimate decider of success. Influence plus compliance may be, as helped along, we now see, by a honey trap, pedophilia, and blackmail.

(5) That human evolution is red in tooth and claw; only the fittest survive.

This application of Darwinian evolution to human society, which historians have dubbed “social Darwinism,” holds that life is a struggle for existence in which only the fittest survive; the weakest go to the wall.

This paradigm was used as justification for the European powers to colonize weaker nations in Africa and Asia. The world’s leading democracies of the time saw “civilizing” the world as “the white man’s burden.” (3)

The possible net impact of these beliefs is that all of us are competing for scarce resources in a struggle for existence. There’s no hope for help from God or anyone else invisible. They don’t exist.

There’s no use in opposing the wealth-gathering activities of the wealthy. They’re the fittest (obviously) and crumbs of wealth may/could/might spill from their table.

Such are the social controls envisioned or put in place that it ceases to be what you do and becomes who you know that determines survival and success. Rugged individualism may be for naught, as has been the case for probably millennia.

Finally, chasing experiences and possessions unto itself will not bring one happiness. Asking for it and searching for it in the heart until we find it definitely will.

When the Ring of Fire/Wave of Love hits, as I anticipate it doing, all of this will be crystal clear, obvious. (4)

After that, we’ll say: What else you got? This is great, but we want the whole package.

A man found a treasure buried in a field (his heart opened). He buried it again (the experience ended) and went away. He sold all he had (rid himself of all other desires) and bought that field (ascended).

The Ring of Fire will reveal to us the treasure buried in the field of our hearts.

Footnotes

(1) “The Arcturian Group through Marilyn Raffaele, July 23, 2023,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/07/23/the-arcturian-group-through-marilyn-raffaele-july-23-2023/

(2) Andrew pointed out that our society is hypnotized with wanting. When we want intensely, we’ll do anything to satisfy it. When we have the object of our wanting, our wanting ceases and we experience peace.

We say, “Now that I have my dream car, I feel peace.” In reality we experience peace because we ceased wanting.  See Andrew Cohen, The Promise of Perfection. Lenox: Moksha Press, 1998.

I’m aware of Andrew’s fall from grace and think he has addressed it.

(3) See:

• “From the Watchtowers of Patriotism,” Journal of Canadian Studies, Aug. 1974.  First page only: https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jcs.9.3.3
• Stephen Mark Beckow, A Majestic Story of Orderly Progress: English-Canadian Novelists on Canadian Society, 1896-1900. MA thesis, Carleton University, 1969.
• “Keeping British Columbia White”: Anti-Orientalism in the West, 1858-1949. National Museum of Man/National Film Board, 1974.
  

(4) See Ring of fire/Wave of Love at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ring-of-Fire-Wave-of-Love-R7.pdf and The Event: A Planetary Heart Opening for Gaia at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Planetary-Heart-Opening.pdf

Steve Beckow

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