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One of the worst forms of aggressive mental suggestion is condemnation. When this hits you as someone’s sharp criticism of you, you can very easily, by the intimidation and because of its intensity, say to yourself, “Well, maybe I am slothful or lazy or incompetent or this, that, and the next thing.” And as soon as you say, “Well, maybe it’s true,” then you enter into cooperation with the other person’s mind and you start condemning yourself. | One of the worst forms of aggressive mental suggestion is condemnation. When this hits you as someone’s sharp criticism of you, you can very easily, by the intimidation and because of its intensity, say to yourself, “Well, maybe I am slothful or lazy or incompetent or this, that, and the next thing.” And as soon as you say, “Well, maybe it’s true,” then you enter into cooperation with the other person’s mind and you start condemning yourself. | ||
Most people walk around with a fixed matrix of the things they condemn themselves for. Let’s say we condemn ourselves for always being late, or for eating a little sugar when there is no honey available, and we make a big to do about this terrible sin we commit every so often. You hold that as a matrix, the force amplifies it, you believe you’re that sinner. The situation comes around again: there’s no honey, so you put a cube of sugar in your coffee, and you say, “Well, you know, that’s the way I am.” You do it because you fulfill the matrix you’ve had upon yourself. | Most people walk around with a fixed matrix of the things they condemn themselves for. Let’s say we condemn ourselves for always being late, or for eating a little sugar when there is no honey available, and we make a big to-do about this terrible sin we commit every so often. You hold that as a matrix, the force amplifies it, you believe you’re that sinner. The situation comes around again: there’s no honey, so you put a cube of sugar in your coffee, and you say, “Well, you know, that’s the way I am.” You do it because you fulfill the matrix you’ve had upon yourself. | ||
I don’t think it’s a terrible sin to do that. People shouldn’t be engaged in such a petty attitude about life. But that is the kind of thing we do condemn ourselves for, which is ridiculous. [[Jesus Christ]] himself said, “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out.”<ref>Matt. 15:11; Mark 7:18–20.</ref> And Jesus was very concerned that we not condemn ourselves concerning the food we eat. | I don’t think it’s a terrible sin to do that. People shouldn’t be engaged in such a petty attitude about life. But that is the kind of thing we do condemn ourselves for, which is ridiculous. [[Jesus Christ]] himself said, “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out.”<ref>Matt. 15:11; Mark 7:18–20.</ref> And Jesus was very concerned that we not condemn ourselves concerning the food we eat. | ||
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== A message from El Morya == | == A message from El Morya == | ||
Elizabeth Clare Prophet once shared a personal experience with aggressive mental suggestion and self-condemnation: | |||
<blockquote>One of the most memorable pieces of instruction that I ever received from [[El Morya]] was when I was walking with [[Mark Prophet]] when we lived in [[La Tourelle]]. I asked Mark about the thing that was concerning me most at that time, which was why was I tired. It felt like I had to fight low blood pressure and I had to fight fatigue in my body on a daily basis.</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>The answer that Morya gave me through Mark at that time was that it was entirely the result of self-condemnation. I was with such determination exposing my own faults and my own shortcomings to be sure that I would remember them and to be sure that I would work at overcoming them and to be sure that I did not become puffed up with pride, that I was actually putting a curse of black magic on my own self, on my own four lower bodies, so I didn’t have the strength to perform my service.</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>This was an amazing moment because it turned my world around. I took this teaching very much to heart and I began affirming the reality that I AM and becoming far less the accuser and the condemner of myself—like the accusers and the condemners of [[Mary Magdalene]]. That change in consciousness has been my salvation. Because in the moment of acceptance of what the fundamentalists and the newspaper reporters and all my critics might say about me, it would be like opening a valve and I would get that entire momentum of hatred into my world, and I couldn’t survive.</blockquote> | |||
=== A perspective from the heart === | |||
I | <blockquote>One thing I refuse to do is to condemn myself. One thing I always do is correct myself. If I feel that I have done something that I could do better, I correct it and I go on. I correct it like I would take an eraser and erase a wrong addition on a blackboard. If it says, “Two and two equals five,” I just erase the five and put in a four, and I go on. I’m too busy doing God’s work to decide that I’m going to whip myself in the process and go through this whole long thing that we put ourselves through.</blockquote> | ||
By having this perspective, I know what the force is projecting my way. I can read it, and I know what they would like me to tie into. And I refuse to do it, that’s all. Their projection just bumps into my [[tube of light]] and goes away. | <blockquote>I don’t think I’m perfect, but I think God is perfect where I am, and he’s the important one. And I think that that God in me and my attunement with that God is always alert to guard against the human consciousness becoming a channel for anything less than Christ-perfection. So not condemning yourself doesn’t make you footloose and fancy-free—thinking that you’ll never sin again and if you do it doesn’t matter. That’s not the point at all. It’s a certain point of perspective from the heart.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>By having this perspective, I know what the force is projecting my way. I can read it, and I know what they would like me to tie into. And I refuse to do it, that’s all. Their projection just bumps into my [[tube of light]] and goes away.<ref>Elizabeth Clare Prophet, June 1, 1982.</ref></blockquote> | |||
== The shield of the archangels == | == The shield of the archangels == | ||