One
of the most important understandings of the entire Spiritual Path
is the understanding that Earth is a Planetary Mystery School,
and that every single thing that happens in life is a Spiritual
Test.
Planet
Earth is a Spiritual School to teach Souls to become "Integrated
Ascended Masters and/or God Realized Beings."
Every
single thing that happens in life is a teaching, lesson, challenge,
and opportunity to grow. Most people do not realize, or they forget
that each and every moment of our lives, we are being Spiritually
Tested. Every thought we think is a Spiritual Test. As Edgar Cayce
said, "Thoughts are things." The Course in Miracles states
in the lesson book, "There are no neutral thoughts."
What
this means is that every thought that enters your mind from within
or without is of GOD or is of the negative ego. Every thought
that you think stems from the Christ / Buddha Consciousness or
lower self consciousness. Every thought you think stems from oneness
or separation. Every thought you think stems from Love or fear.
All day long, even when we think, we sleep, and dream, thoughts
are coming to us from within and without. Every single moment
of life is a Spiritual Test to think only GOD Thoughts.
The
same is true, my beloved readers, with every feeling and emotion
you create. This is a Spiritual test. Your feelings and emotions
are caused by your attitude, perception, interpretation, and belief
system. This is an indisputable fact and law of the Universe.
We each cause our reality by how we think. If we think with our
Melchizedek / Christ / Buddha Mind, we will create only Spiritualized,
positive feelings and emotions. If we think with our negative
ego/fear based/lower self mind, we will create negative feelings
and emotions. Every moment, even when you are by yourself, is
a Spiritual Test to see if you can keep your emotional body in
a God Consciousness and positive state, at all times. Every word
you speak, every moment of your life is a Spiritual Test. Are
your words coming from the negative ego or are they coming from
the Heart of GOD?
What
is the mental motivation of your words? Are they Sourced from
the selfish, self-centered negative ego, or were they motivated
from true God Consciousness? What is the feeling tone of every
word? Is there any attack energy, anger, or criticism, or do they
carry the feeling tone of unconditional love and nonjudgementalness.
Every moment of your life that you speak is a Spiritual Test.
My
beloved readers, every action you take no matter how small or
infinitesimal is a Spiritual Test. Is that action coming from
and motivated by GOD and God Consciousness, or by negative ego
and separative/fear based consciousness? Is that action adding
to your Spiritual Path or decreasing it? Is that action a waste
of time or a good and balanced use of your energy? My beloved
readers, every use of your energy, no matter how small and infinitesimal
is a Spiritual Test. Is your energy helping self and others, or
hurting self and others? Is the use of your energy adding to your
Light Body or decreasing it? Are you wasting energy or are you
using every particle of your energy for a greater Spiritual purpose,
for Love, for balance in a larger perspective and for healing
self and others?
Every
moment of your life is a Spiritual Test to see if your can use
your energy to only serve GOD and not to serve the negative ego,
fear, the lower self, lower self desire, the carnal self, separative
thinking, and victim consciousness. My beloved readers, in every
situation of life there is an appropriate response or an inappropriate
response. Every moment of life is a Spiritual test to learn to
respond appropriately from the way GOD would have you respond.
Who gives us the guidance on how to respond? This guidance comes
from our Higher Self, our Mighty I Am Presence, the Holy Spirit,
and our own Melchizedek / Christ / Buddha ideals that we have
taken on consciously and programmed into our subconscious mind.
Every moment of life is a Spiritual test to see if we can respond
in a balanced manner instead of an imbalanced manner.
Every
interaction with another person is a Spiritual Test to see if
we can remain in unconditional love, forgiveness, nonjudgementalness,
patience, service, oneness, and egolessness at all times. Every
interaction with an animal, plant, or mineral is a Spiritual test
to stay in harmony with GOD with His three lower kingdoms. Now,
my beloved readers, what happens if we do not always pass these
Spiritual Tests every moment? The answer is nothing in the sense
that everything is forgiven and everything always remains in unconditional
love.
Mistakes
are positive not negative, and every mistake can be turned into
a positive if you gain the golden nugget of wisdom from that mistake.
GOD always forgives and it is just necessary for each person to
forgive themselves. I will add here however, that every moment
of life is a Spiritual Test and Spiritual Opportunity to realize
GOD or not realize GOD. When you think a negative thought you
lose your realization of GOD on the mental plane in that moment.
When you allow yourself to feel a negative emotion, you lose your
realization of GOD in that moment on the emotional plane. When
you behave inappropriately you lose your realization of GOD in
that moment on the physical plane.
Now
it is important to understand that it is impossible to never make
a mistake. It also cannot be emphasized more emphatically that
mistakes are positive and part of the learning process. So the
Spiritual Path for everyone is up the mountain five steps, and
down four, up three down two, up three down one. I will say however,
the more overall integrated Spiritual Mastery you gain, the less
mistakes you will make and the quicker will be your Spiritual
progress. The nice thing about GOD is that He always welcomes
His Sons and Daughters home like the Prodigal Son, no matter what
they have done in past lives, or this life, as long as they are
willing to change their ways. One does not have to be perfect
to evolve.
If you truly want to realize GOD however, at the highest level,
then you must be unbelievably "joyously vigilant" over what you
are causing and creating on every level I have mentioned in this
chapter. Every time you allow yourself to slip and give into the
negative ego or lower self there is no judgement from GOD, however,
you will have lost your opportunity to realize GOD in that moment.
You all know how much better it feels to realize GOD every moment
on all these levels. You also know how terrible it feels to be
out of harmony with GOD and out of harmony with Love.
It
is also important to understand that the continual positive choices
on your part to continually realize GOD on all levels will build
your Love quotient, Light quotient, and Power quotient. It will
also speed up your Initiation and Ascension Process. It will also
cleanse your karma. Every right choice speeds up your Path to
total God Realization and is creating and cementing good habits
into the subconscious mind. It is also helping the planet and
helping your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters, for all minds are
one. It also helps your Brothers and Sisters in an outer sense
by demonstrating Melchizedek / Christ / Buddha consciousness at
all times.
If you are truly responding appropriately at all times then your
entire life will be a selfless path of service as well. You will
not need to be selfish that often because you are whole and complete
within self and are one with GOD in your realization in each and
every moment. Hence every bit of energy on every level of your
being can go to loving and serving others. Once God Realization
is achieved on a Spiritual, psychological, and physical Earthly
level, one's only purpose to be on Earth is to serve. In saying
this one needs to stay balanced and integrated and to enjoy one's
life. With this context, one's total joy in life is to serve,
because "true pleasure is serving GOD." Never forget your Brothers
and Sisters are incarnations of God as well, even if they do not
realize it.
True
Spiritual Testing does not take place just when things are going
well. True Spiritual Testing of an individual takes place when
emergencies, crisis, stress, and attacks occur. Anyone can pass
Spiritual Tests living in a cave or never leaving your house.
The true test of a Spiritual Master is to get involved with Earth
life and relationships with people of all kinds. This is where
the true testing occurs. Can you stay out of your negative ego
and remain in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness when raising children?
Can you stay out of your negative ego and in the Christ / Buddha
Consciousness in a romantic relationship? Can you stay out of
your negative ego and in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness with
family members, extended family, parents and in-laws? Can you
stay out of your negative ego and in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness
with your boss, business partners, business associates, and/or
employees?
Can
you stay out of your negative ego and in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness
with fellow Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Teachers, Lightworkers,
Spiritual competitors for clients or students in your field or
profession? Can you stay out of your negative ego and in the Christ
/ Buddha Consciousness when people attack you, get angry at you,
or judge you fairly or unfairly? Can you stay out of your negative
ego and in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness if someone slanders
you publically or professionally? Can you stay out of your negative
ego and in the Christ / Buddha Cconsciousness if someone steals
a large sum of money from you? Can you stay out of your negative
ego and in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness if your spouse or
relationship partner doesn't want to make love and/or have sex?
Can you stay out of your negative ego and remain in the Christ
/ Buddha consciousness if your spouse or relationship partner
is in a bad mood and emotionally off-centered and is taking it
out on you? Can you stay out of your negative ego and in the Christ
/ Buddha Consciousness if you or others around you are making
tons of mistakes regardless if they are large or small?
Can
you stay out of your negative ego and in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness
watching the news, watching opinionated politicians and/or reporters,
or reading the newspaper? Can you remain in the Christ / Buddha
Consciousness when physically sick or during extended chronic
health lessons? Can you stay in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness
when someone you are close to passes on to the Spirit world?
Can
you remain in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness during a traffic
accident or when getting a ticket? Can you remain in the Christ
/ Buddha Consciousness during a messy divorce or fight with your
partner? Can you remain in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness and
out of the negative ego when someone is holding a grudge against
you? Can you remain in the Christ / Buddha Consciousness and out
of your negative ego when everything is taken away in your life
like Job in the Bible? Can you retain this Christ / Buddha Consciousness
during a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, hurricane,
tornadoes, flood, or fire? Can you retain your Christ / Buddha
Consciousness and stay out of your negative ego if you lost all
your money, had a divorce, your physical health broke down, and
you lost your job? My beloved readers, these are the true Spiritual
Tests.
Can
you live in the "marketplace" and be fully involved in Earthly
life and relationships of all kinds, and keep your Spiritual Mastery
and balance? This is the true test of a full-fledged Ascended
Master and God Realized being! It must be understood that 100
percent perfection is not required to pass these tests. Some of
these would be extraordinarily difficult. Mistakes are positive
and we do not want to practice any kind of negative ego perfectionism
that expects us to be perfect at all times and never make mistakes.
This is impossible and unrealistic.
The
main purpose for this exercise is to just be clear as to what
the ideal is, and to strive for it. Going through an exercise
like this can be a preparation for maintaining the proper attitude
and perspective when lessons like these come. This is a blueprint
in a sense for the potential Spiritual lessons and tests people
on Earth often face. My Beloved Readers, I highly recommend setting
your attitude and perspective now, almost like programming your
conscious and subconscious computer so you will not be knocked
off balance when these things do happen, and you are mentally
and emotionally prepared to respond from your Christ / Buddha
mind to the best of your ability.
Again,
perfection is not required. You can actually achieve Ascension
by balancing only 50 percent of your karma.
The
key point however, is the more you can learn these lessons, the
more you can realize GOD psychologically in that moment. So Earth
is a school to practice. There is no such thing as death and we
are allowed to come back as many times as we need to learn all
these lessons and other ones on the Spiritual Path. My suggestion
however, is to take advantage of this incarnation and aim as high
as you can on a Spiritual, Psychological, and Physical / Earthly
Level to realize GOD on all levels. By doing this we not only
help ourselves, but by doing so we are helping others as well.
Now, my beloved readers, there is one more series of "Spiritual
Tests" that are the most severe of all, and where most lightworkers
and initiates "miss the mark and do not pass." The Spiritual Tests
I speak of here are when a person or lightworker moves into a
position of Leadership and/or Spiritual Leadership over others.
What I am speaking of here is when a person has become a Master
of some degree and has become successful in an inner and outer
sense. They have lots of clients and students. They may have become
very financially successful and also may have become very famous.
They may hold positions Spiritually, or in the world, of great
Spiritual Leadership. They may have very large followings. They
may be in positions of great worldly and Spiritual power over
others. They may give extremely large workshops, seminars, classes,
and may be on television, radio, be authors, and in newspapers
and magazines.
My
beloved readers, I think you get the picture. It is now, that
the true Spiritual Testing begins. If you or others have made
it through the first two lists, now the real Spiritual Testing
begins. Does the power the person now has, go to their head? How
do they treat others? How do they treat those not in their league?
How do they treat their employees? How do they treat people who
call them on the phone? How do they deal with other Spiritual
Leaders? Do they let the fame go to their head? What is their
true motivations for doing what they are doing? Do they put GOD
before money? Do they put GOD before fame? Do they put GOD before
power? Do they have sex with all their students? How do they react
when criticized? Do they practice what they preach once they are
off the stage and out of the limelight? How do they react if someone
tries to take away their position of power, fame, or money? Are
they the exact same person they were before they were graced with
this power, fame and wealth?
Are
they on a path of true Christ / Buddha Consciousness or has self-aggrandizement
taken over? Has their channel remained clear or has it been corrupted
by negative ego? Have they truly retained their GOD purity and
egolessness or have false GODs and symbolic idol worship of negative
ego attributes taken over? How do they treat their students or
disciples? Is their true motivation to fully empower their students
or is it always to retain their position of authority? Do they
truly put everything on "The Altar of GOD?"
Have
they allowed their channel or teachings to become clouded by personal
selfish agendas? Do they have Spiritual ambition or negative ego
ambition? Is the focus of their work about themselves or about
GOD and the Masters? Do they co-create with other Spiritual Teachers
and Leaders, or are they islands unto themselves? Are their books,
channelings, and teachings focused on telling you how great they
are, or really on selfless service?
Are
their teachings continuing to be balanced on a Spiritual, psychological,
and physical Earthly level, or has the negative ego begun to fragment
and create lack of balanced integration in the teachings? Do they
continue to maintain Mastery over their mind, emotions, behavior,
lower self desire, inner child, subconscious mind, sexual energy,
and energy in general or have they let down their standard, now
that they have achieved their Ascension, Seven Levels of Initiation
and have climbed to the top of this particular Planetary Mountain?
My
beloved readers, these are the true tests of the Spiritual Path.
Most people have a hard time passing the second list in this chapter.
Many Spiritual Leaders reach this third level or list before they
have mastered the second list. Even those who have mastered the
second list, in my Spiritual observation, do not pass the third
one. The Bible speaks of the Spiritual Path being "a straight
and narrow path." In my Spiritual observation as a Spiritual Leader,
Spiritual Teacher, and Spiritual Psychologist, most do not meet
this high mark and high calling. The usual cause is that they
are more developed in their Spiritual Body than they are in their
Psychological Body. Lack of proper mastery and integration of
the psychological level will always ultimately corrupt the Spiritual
Level.
You
cannot live on the second floor of a building when the first floor
is falling apart or has become corrupted. My beloved readers,
in all humbleness and without absolutely no judgement in my heart,
I cannot tell you how many Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Teachers,
Spiritual Channels, Spiritual Scientists, and Spiritual Friends
that I have seen fall from grace and become corrupted. It is mind
boggling! It is why the inner plane Ascended Masters have asked
me to focus so much work on the concept of "Integrated Ascension."
Spiritual Leaders, Channels, Spiritual Teachers, and lightworkers
are achieving their Ascension and Seven Levels of Initiation,
but are not integrated. When the true Spiritual Tests come in
lists two and three they are not able to pass them. The most amazing
thing is that even though they are falling from grace, and corruption
of the negative ego is happening on a massive scale, and they
are even tumbling down the mountain Spiritually because of this
corruption of the negative ego, they do not have the slightest
awareness that they have fallen. This is the extraordinary dellusionary
nature of the mind and the negative ego. They are in a negative
hypnosis and realize it not.
The
main cause of this is not because they are bad people, for there
is no such thing. They just have not received the proper psychospiritual
training, before moving into such positions of Spiritual Leadership
and power. I have said this over and over again and I will say
it again. The world does not need more channels, it needs more
trained Spiritual Counselors and Teachers who can train large
numbers of people around the world how to master their mind, emotions,
body, and behavior, and most of all master the negative ego thought
system and replace it with the Christ / Buddha thought system.
If this lesson is not learned all Spiritual practices will ultimately
become corrupted.
This
statement is not meant as a judgement but just as a simple statement
of truth. The negative ego has infiltrated and contaminated religion.
It also is to a great extent infiltrating and contaminating the
New Age Movement. Lightworkers must be aware of this and have
great Spiritual discernment within self and in regards to others.
In conclusion, be Spiritually discerning as to the Spiritual Leaders,
Spiritual Teachers, Channels, Authors, Healers, and Spiritual
Scientists you work with. There are good ones out there. Make
sure they are meeting the "High Calling and True Mark" of a true
Spiritual Master. The lesson is not to be judgemental, but it
is to be Spiritually discerning. This is a Spiritual quality that
needs to be much more developed in lightworkers. In final conclusion
my beloved readers, strive for the highest level you can of "Integrated
Spiritual Mastery and GOD Purity." It is indeed a rare quality
in this world. This chapter is meant to give you the "Divine Blueprint"
and roadmap of the Spiritual Tests you will face and need to pass
to truly become an "Integrated God Realized Being."
Be
forewarned that the negative ego thought system is incredibly
tricky, slippery, and seductive. It is going to take a 100 percent
effort on your part, and you are going to have to claim and cultivate
an enormous amount of "Joyous Vigilance and True GOD Purity" to
pass all of these Spiritual Tests. Half the battle is having the
Blueprint and knowing what the Spiritual Tests are. My Beloved
Readers, the rest is up to you. Do not settle for false Gods and
idol worship of such paltry gifts such as power, fame, money,
and sex.
If
certain things come to you, so be it, and thank GOD for it, but
do not make a false God out of these things. GOD has given you
the understanding and abilities to master and learn these lessons.
All that is required of you is great Spiritual focus and dedication.
This chapter has been written to make you aware of the Spiritual
Tests that are present in your life and that may be coming. This
chapter has also been written to "Spiritually Challenge" you in
this moment, to dedicate your life and every ounce of your energy
on every level of your being, to become the "Highest and Most
Pure Integrated God Realized Being" you can, in service of GOD
on all levels, every moment of your life!
This,
my beloved readers, is the "Noble Calling and Mission we have
all Incarnated to Fulfill!"
Dr.
Joshua David Stone
