104. Forgiveness

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CIV

Forgiveness

The Power of the Office of Mercy

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

You know what to do by now!

2. How can I forgive someone when I don’t feel like it?

If you can’t forgive somebody for a violation against you or someone that you identify with or a principle that you hold precious, then there is a small part of that person that you can forgive. Begin there. The rest will follow with practice.

It is important to note that when we are in an unforgiving state, the focus is on ourselves or our clan as victims rather than on the transgressor as a fallible human being. Perhaps this is the next step—to change the state of consciousness from being a casualty to being a spirit of noble power. If you are the more adult party, then you can cut the more childish party a little slack as you understand their learning process.

Hopefully, you can always forgive someone for not being perfect. None of us are. As the old joke goes, the only person who was perfect got crucified because of it. We are always learning and we all make boo boos. The more capable we are of understanding and empathy, the more able we are to extend forgiveness to the unforgiven.

3. Why would I want to express forgiveness?

This is the crucial step to any healing, whether it is physical healing, emotional healing, or global healing. It is a transformative Astral energy, that makes red energy into something useful and constructive. If you want to heal your own life or your own body, you must pardon the assaults upon you that have festered in you and given rise to misfortune and illness.

What is the karmic backlash for not excusing the mistakes (however nasty they may seem) of others? Three times three, the power of your energy returns to you. In other words, when you most need forgiveness and understanding, you will experience what it feels like to have it withheld from you. To prevent this suffering upon your person, understand that everyone is doing their best with the knowledge that they have. Let that be enough for you.

When we are tired or overburdened in our daily activities, it is easy to take offense at small snipes and micro-malices. We never said that it would be effortless to be successful at forgiveness. It takes constant vigilance, faithful work, and relentless forgiveness of yourself to gain skill and strength at this virtue.

Astrally, forgiveness is a swiftly moving stream of misty energy. It has lavender, rose, gold, white, and Christ blue swirling together. The stream moves from the pardoner to the transgressor and has a redemptive effect. It creates beauty and healing in the Astral Bodies of both parties.

4. Is there a step-by-step process that we can use to do this?

Yes.

1) Thank God for your new improved attitude. 99.99% of your negative feelings are hormonal. Allow Divine Intervention to take care of this for you so that your logical mind can have a chance.

2) Realize that to deny forgiveness is to spread darkness. Indignation is the opposite of forgiveness. It is a combination of anger, malice, poison arrows, festering red energy, and black energy. This is sent to the perceived violator and creates harm. It also is contagious to the people around you.

3) Remember that all attacks are karmic and self-generated. If you are the target or someone else is, remember that each of us is encased in our own little karmic worlds. The victims of war equally so to the victims of a funny-bone banging. Each of us is paying off our negative debts as our Guardian Angels decide is appropriate. These tragedies and oopsies do not deserve additional negative input. They deserve our empathy, our sorrow, our help, and our prayers.

4) Forgive everyone for being imperfect. It is a peculiarity of the immature spirit to expect everyone else to behave perfectly except oneself. Be a mature spirit. Realize that everyone is doing the best that they have the capacity to do. Allow us to be developing souls with room to grow. Say, “I forgive you for not being perfect, and I forgive myself, too.” This is the start of enlightenment on an advanced journey.

5) Let go of the situation. Releasing can be a challenge, so this may take more than one repetition. You may say something like “I release all emotional investment in the outcome of this situation.” and “I surrender this situation to Divine Wisdom.” or “I trust in the rightness of God’s plan for me and for others.” If there is a person who continually can be a trial to you, consider putting physical distance between you or finding ways to avoid contact. Say, “Go your own way with my blessing and good will. God blesses you beyond your happiest dreams. May you now express the Divine Idea in your mind, body, and affairs.”

6) Give thanks for the opportunity to learn. This episode taught you something about yourself, did it not? Expressing gratitude for the knowledge brings blessings into your life.

5. What will the coming Age of Forgiveness bring to us?

The process will begin that we will come to know the power of the forgiving act. Also, the transaction will augment personal power for the parties involved. This will make our spiritual journey shorter and easier to traverse, if we adopt the new way. The Spirit of Mercy will have a greater influence in the world, and we will have more opportunities to pay off negative karma than we have now.

6. Exercise: Doing It

Sometimes, when we get all hot under the collar about something that might not affect us personally, it is an indication that there are repressed hostilities that need to be cleaned from the subconscious mind. Let us address this at a single-incident level. You may continue to work on this at your own pace later.

Pick a person who has wronged you. It doesn’t matter whether or not you have already forgiven this one, you can do it again and find new levels of expression. The fact that this incident still crosses your mind shows that it still needs work.

•Visualize a tiny representation of yourself and the transgressor standing on your lap and facing each other.

•Have your self walk into the body of the other person, so that you are in phase with each other. Note how it feels. Are you comfortable in the skin? Where does it hurt or chafe?

•Say, “As God has blessed me, so does God bless him/her, and as God has blessed her/him, so does God bless me.

•Envelope your phased beings with layers of lavender, rose, blue, white, and gold.

•Say, “Wisdom, peace, and mercy. The blessings of Light to us all.”

•Step out of phase and visualize the two little beings facing each other with new strength, maturity, wisdom, and good will.

•Say, “Enlightenment without suffering for us all. In Divine Mind, so may it be done in perfect and miraculous ways.”