How do you gain perfection so you can enter ‘The Kingdom’?
Nov 18, 2013 10:19:17 GMT 10
Post by James on Nov 18, 2013 10:19:17 GMT 10
How do you gain perfection so you can enter ‘The Kingdom’?
What does perfection mean to you?
And how do you know when you are prefect?
A post on Before It's News said in his post some days ago:
If you’re not perfect, how do you intend on gaining perfection, for only perfection is good enough for The Kingdom. Only unspotted perfect bridal gowns are allowed at the wedding feast. If you’re imperfect i.e. with a blemished bridal gown how will you enter?
So I want to try and answer him. How do I intend gaining perfection so I can enter The Kingdom. I accept - I know - I am imperfect, and I don’t like being as I am, so how am I setting about trying to fix myself, this being the whole basis of my spiritual path, because I want to try and live the Universal Father’s mandate as expressed below in these two quotes from The Urantia Book.
(637.1) 56:0.1 Paper 56 Universal Unity
The perfect and imperfect are truly interrelated, and therefore may the finite evolutionary creature ascend to Paradise in obedience to the Universal Father’s mandate: “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.”
(1574.8) 140:5.15 Paper 140 The Ordination of the Twelve
And then Jesus went on to instruct his followers in the realization of the chief purpose of all human struggling — perfection — even divine attainment. Always he admonished them: “Be you perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
And from one of the Padgett Messages I posted on BIN a couple of weeks ago, Jesus says:
The only way in which the soul may become an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres, is by its obtaining of the Divine Love and thereby become a partaker of the Divine nature of the Father; and this can be accomplished only by the inflowing of the Divine Love, by means of the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the instrumentality used by God to carry this Love to the souls of men.
What are called moral deeds and good thoughts will not cause this inflowing of the Divine Love because these things are necessary steps towards the purification of the soul in its natural love; and (yet) no matter how pure this love may become, yet it is not the Divine Love or any portion of it.
Good thoughts and deeds, though, may help to turn the aspirations of the soul to these higher conditions, and open up its perceptions to a degree that may lead to prayer and faith, and, therefore, in addition to their work of purifying the natural love may prove to be of great value in assisting men towards the development of the soul so that the Divine Love may enter into it. But to depend on good thoughts and moral deeds and a life pure from sin to give man the right to an entrance into the Celestial Kingdom, is a great mistake.
I know that many men believe that the performance of church duties, and the observation of the requirements of the church as to baptism and the sacraments, etc., will be sufficient to enable them to get into the Kingdom; but I tell you that they are all wrong, and their disappointment will be very great when they come into the spirit world.
So I want to be as perfect as God is, I want to heal all that’s wrong within me; I want to live true to my soul. I want to be at-one with my Heavenly Father as Jesus says through partaking of the Divine Love; by longing to the Father for His Love, which I do whenever I feel like doing it. And by receiving the Divine Love I understand from what Jesus says in the Padgett Messages that my natural love soul will become divine, just as God’s Soul is Divine. So in that divinity, I will attain perfection. And that takes care of my soul.
However I’ve also come to understand that I have to actively bring to light all my imperfection and untruth so I can see why I am of it, how it came to be from my early life, what my parents did to me to turn myself against my true self, making me false and untrue. My natural love is imperfect, and so I have to make it perfect so the Divine Love can then act upon it. And this process I call doing my ‘healing’. And I use my feelings to guide me in it.
So this is how I am trying to perfect my natural love, which the Divine Love can then transform into becoming divine; which then will allow me entry into the Celestial Kingdom - ‘The Kingdom’.
When I feel bad in any way, instead of trying to deny such bad feelings like I’ve been trained to do, I stop and try to fully acknowledge I am feeling bad. Then I try and express my bad feelings to my partner. And as I’m speaking about how bad I feel, I long for the truth of such feelings - I want to see why, REALLY WHY, I am feeling bad.
And the truth comes when I have fully expressed all how bad I feel, which usually also involves myself going back into myself when I was young and seeing what happened in my relationship with my parents that caused me to feel bad.
So I am using my feelings in my current relationship to help me go back to the same feelings I had during my forming years so I can see what happened in my relationship with my parents and early carers. And as I uncover the truth of what went wrong in my relationship with my parents, so I understand why I am imperfect, how they caused me to become imperfect, as I believe I was perfect at the moment before my conception, becoming imperfect the moment I was conceived into my parents imperfection.
And over the years in doing my ‘feeling-healing’, I’ve come to see how I took on all my parents imperfection. It’s been very confronting and difficult to do as I also learnt from them how to deny so many of my bad feelings and so how to lie to myself, telling myself I felt good when in fact the truth was, I felt bad.
And as the truth of my untruth has come to light, slowly I’ve changed, slowly I’ve become truer in my relationship with myself, my partner, with nature and with God. This being what I feel is my ‘road to perfection’, the healing of my natural love imperfection.
So as I said, my overall spiritual intention is to perfect my natural love through my healing, and then divine my soul by transforming that natural love into being divine like God, by longing directly to the Father for His Divine Love. And I believe that by the time I have fully healed my imperfection I will have attained a Celestial level of truth and received enough Divine Love in my soul to qualify entry into the Celestial Heavens - The Kingdom of God.
So my road to perfection has nothing do to with following any dogma, it’s simply about sorting myself out in the dynamics of every day life through my feelings - in my relationships, all whilst I am longing to be at-one with my Heavenly Father and longing for His Divine Love. All because I want to be perfect, just like His is.
So, what is ‘your way’ - how are you seeking perfection, and what do you understand perfection to be?
What does perfection mean to you?
And how do you know when you are prefect?
A post on Before It's News said in his post some days ago:
If you’re not perfect, how do you intend on gaining perfection, for only perfection is good enough for The Kingdom. Only unspotted perfect bridal gowns are allowed at the wedding feast. If you’re imperfect i.e. with a blemished bridal gown how will you enter?
So I want to try and answer him. How do I intend gaining perfection so I can enter The Kingdom. I accept - I know - I am imperfect, and I don’t like being as I am, so how am I setting about trying to fix myself, this being the whole basis of my spiritual path, because I want to try and live the Universal Father’s mandate as expressed below in these two quotes from The Urantia Book.
(637.1) 56:0.1 Paper 56 Universal Unity
The perfect and imperfect are truly interrelated, and therefore may the finite evolutionary creature ascend to Paradise in obedience to the Universal Father’s mandate: “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.”
(1574.8) 140:5.15 Paper 140 The Ordination of the Twelve
And then Jesus went on to instruct his followers in the realization of the chief purpose of all human struggling — perfection — even divine attainment. Always he admonished them: “Be you perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
And from one of the Padgett Messages I posted on BIN a couple of weeks ago, Jesus says:
The only way in which the soul may become an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres, is by its obtaining of the Divine Love and thereby become a partaker of the Divine nature of the Father; and this can be accomplished only by the inflowing of the Divine Love, by means of the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the instrumentality used by God to carry this Love to the souls of men.
What are called moral deeds and good thoughts will not cause this inflowing of the Divine Love because these things are necessary steps towards the purification of the soul in its natural love; and (yet) no matter how pure this love may become, yet it is not the Divine Love or any portion of it.
Good thoughts and deeds, though, may help to turn the aspirations of the soul to these higher conditions, and open up its perceptions to a degree that may lead to prayer and faith, and, therefore, in addition to their work of purifying the natural love may prove to be of great value in assisting men towards the development of the soul so that the Divine Love may enter into it. But to depend on good thoughts and moral deeds and a life pure from sin to give man the right to an entrance into the Celestial Kingdom, is a great mistake.
I know that many men believe that the performance of church duties, and the observation of the requirements of the church as to baptism and the sacraments, etc., will be sufficient to enable them to get into the Kingdom; but I tell you that they are all wrong, and their disappointment will be very great when they come into the spirit world.
So I want to be as perfect as God is, I want to heal all that’s wrong within me; I want to live true to my soul. I want to be at-one with my Heavenly Father as Jesus says through partaking of the Divine Love; by longing to the Father for His Love, which I do whenever I feel like doing it. And by receiving the Divine Love I understand from what Jesus says in the Padgett Messages that my natural love soul will become divine, just as God’s Soul is Divine. So in that divinity, I will attain perfection. And that takes care of my soul.
However I’ve also come to understand that I have to actively bring to light all my imperfection and untruth so I can see why I am of it, how it came to be from my early life, what my parents did to me to turn myself against my true self, making me false and untrue. My natural love is imperfect, and so I have to make it perfect so the Divine Love can then act upon it. And this process I call doing my ‘healing’. And I use my feelings to guide me in it.
So this is how I am trying to perfect my natural love, which the Divine Love can then transform into becoming divine; which then will allow me entry into the Celestial Kingdom - ‘The Kingdom’.
When I feel bad in any way, instead of trying to deny such bad feelings like I’ve been trained to do, I stop and try to fully acknowledge I am feeling bad. Then I try and express my bad feelings to my partner. And as I’m speaking about how bad I feel, I long for the truth of such feelings - I want to see why, REALLY WHY, I am feeling bad.
And the truth comes when I have fully expressed all how bad I feel, which usually also involves myself going back into myself when I was young and seeing what happened in my relationship with my parents that caused me to feel bad.
So I am using my feelings in my current relationship to help me go back to the same feelings I had during my forming years so I can see what happened in my relationship with my parents and early carers. And as I uncover the truth of what went wrong in my relationship with my parents, so I understand why I am imperfect, how they caused me to become imperfect, as I believe I was perfect at the moment before my conception, becoming imperfect the moment I was conceived into my parents imperfection.
And over the years in doing my ‘feeling-healing’, I’ve come to see how I took on all my parents imperfection. It’s been very confronting and difficult to do as I also learnt from them how to deny so many of my bad feelings and so how to lie to myself, telling myself I felt good when in fact the truth was, I felt bad.
And as the truth of my untruth has come to light, slowly I’ve changed, slowly I’ve become truer in my relationship with myself, my partner, with nature and with God. This being what I feel is my ‘road to perfection’, the healing of my natural love imperfection.
So as I said, my overall spiritual intention is to perfect my natural love through my healing, and then divine my soul by transforming that natural love into being divine like God, by longing directly to the Father for His Divine Love. And I believe that by the time I have fully healed my imperfection I will have attained a Celestial level of truth and received enough Divine Love in my soul to qualify entry into the Celestial Heavens - The Kingdom of God.
So my road to perfection has nothing do to with following any dogma, it’s simply about sorting myself out in the dynamics of every day life through my feelings - in my relationships, all whilst I am longing to be at-one with my Heavenly Father and longing for His Divine Love. All because I want to be perfect, just like His is.
So, what is ‘your way’ - how are you seeking perfection, and what do you understand perfection to be?