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Beloved and Holy friends, you cannot be in the Kingdom and in the world. For either you must choose one and deny the other, or choose the other and deny the one. And yet when you choose the Kingdom wholly, you will awaken and find yourself right where you are. And that which you see will be transformed and you will see neither hardship, nor fear, nor lack, nor friendship lost, nor birth, nor death. For all that you will see will, in Truth, be the Kingdom of Heaven.
For the Kingdom does not exist in a certain place nor a certain time. But the Kingdom is that in which all worldly things arise and pass away. And if you would know the Kingdom, you must first know yourself. Not as you have dreamed yourself to be and much less as the world has taught you to believe you are. But you must come to see with new eyes and to feel with a new heart. What then, would those new eyes show you? Everything that is diametrically opposed to what you have believed yourself to be.
For though I have taught you many times that you are spirit yet do many of you continue to believe that you are constrained by the body. And indeed, that you are the body with all of its attendant preferences, likes and dislikes, fears and aversions. And yet I say this unto you and listen well: All bodies that have ever been and ever could possibly be, arise in you.
Are you willing to see with these eyes? It will transform the whole of your experience, and it is the fear of this that keeps you from the Kingdom. For to see with new eyes is to release your past. To see with new eyes is to deny the world and every thought born within it. To see with new eyes is to behold yourself as the only begotten Son of God.
You have been taught to seek the Father where you will never find Him. Many of you have been taught to run around seeking your higher Self, as if your higher Self could be somehow different than another's. But I say this unto you: All that I am, the Father has made me to be. And all that I am, is what you have sought for so long. And all that I am, is but your own self. I am the Self of yourself. I am your highest Self. Therefore, when you come to know who you are and to love the whole of your own being unconditionally, then you will know who I am. For you will abide as I am.
And a very interesting thing will happen along the way, for you will learn to look with eyes that see naught but yourself. And you will know that you already abide within all creative forms, and you will know that you are Light. And that in you there is not a trace of darkness. In you is the power to do all things. So, what are you waiting for?
And with that, we, indeed, would leave you for now. Yet we go nowhere, for you already abide where we are.
Be you, therefore, at peace, beloved friends. Amen.
~Jeshua
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