by Phillel
As an American citizen, I am very well informed on issues that affect our local, state and federal governments. I freely exercise my right to vote, and I have done so in virtually every election for over fifty years. As it turns out, given our two-party system, during the course of my adult life I have voted about half the time for Democrats, half the time for Republicans, and even at times for Independents.
Character is important in a candidate; personalities, not so much. Being human, all candidates have flaws, a mixture of good and bad qualities. But in any given election — local, state or federal — I typically have voted for the candidate who espouses policies that I believe would promote the betterment of our society. My fervent prayer is that the United States, through its elected officials and citizens, will fulfill its true spiritual role and pattern as the New JerUSAlem.
Every citizen has a freewill right to vote, or not. I never criticize anyone’s freewill choice.
I never divulge publicly whom I vote for, as that would not be appropriate within the context of my spiritual work at Mark-Age. As directed by Mark and Yolanda from the very beginning, as well as by channeled guidelines from the spiritual Hierarchy, Mark-Age does not officially promote any one party or candidate. Also, it is not legally appropriate for us to do so as a nonprofit religious-educational organization. Our sole goal is to promote the Second Coming program, the return of Sananda/Jesus to lead the I Am Nation, and the eventual spiritualization of all Earth governments.
However any election turns out, I am honor-bound to work spiritually with the high Selves of all elected officials; that they may be inspired, as Lincoln said, by the “better angels of their natures” to govern with love and wisdom. Every elected official is a child of God who may be reached through his or her I Am Self. That is how the Hierarchy works with each of us. So may the evolution of Earth be advanced into the New Age.
For further insight, I invite you to review some of the Hierarchy’s channeled guidelines in my blog post from 2012, entitled “Spiritualize Earth Governments.”
Also, in Volume 2 of our booklet Mark-Age Broadcasts, published in 1968, here is one pertinent exchange during a media interview with Mark and Yolanda:
Question: What influence would you say the celestial powers have on our political elections?
Answer: The Hierarchal Board has no particular interest in our elections or other phases of government, other than to impress continually on man that he should go within and seek the spiritual answers to such participation. They are not especially concerned with any one form of government on Earth, so long as proper opportunity is provided for man’s spiritual evolvement and freedom of choice.
Nor are they usually interested in which individuals win elections. There are those who come to Earth to participate in governmental matters, sometimes to fulfill an important soul mission or a special mission for mankind at a crucial time. In such instances special attention is given to aiding him or her. But in general there is no favoritism or selection made by those on higher realms concerning leaders chosen by the voters.
Supplementary Reading:
Spiritualize Earth Governments
Photo: Phillel, 2007, Mark-Age Archives.
True workers of light do not employ the denouncement method of indiscriminate attack against persons, organizations or concepts. Never will anyone see or hear any such attack by a master.
There are many constructive criticisms, pointings-out of error thinking, actions and methods. This analysis is a sample of such. But in Christlike manner of correction, we state the spiritual principle involved and throw the light on the less-than-perfect manifestation of it in an individual, in an organization or in an idea.
It has been said many times in many ways that peace must begin with the individual. There is a well-known inspired song that beautifully expresses this: “Let There Be Peace on Earth; Let It Begin with Me.” So, the first step toward the use of pronouncement is to eliminate the error in one’s own thinking. For truly is the War of Armageddon now being waged. But it is a mental war, with the battleground being in the thoughts of men.
Should it seem strange that we speak of the cleansing of Christ consciousness, let me remind you that until the very last moment the son of God who was Jesus, and is only one son, as you are, had been helped, reminded and torn by these same doubts and needs when he too had to bring about the final demonstration and culmination of his entire soul mission, nearly two thousand years ago, upon the Earth. That we who knew him then, worked with him then, stood by him then, even ourselves doubted and wondered why he had to be taken through that is proof enough unto you that such is required of you, and shall be many times, before the end of this time cycle.
You are required to use the blueprint set forth by him who is Sananda, but who lived many lives in order to fulfill that mission as Prince of this planet. Yours is, as the chorus in that orchestra, to bring it about consciously, simultaneously and in unison. While he is the solo part and the primary factor and instrument in God’s plan for Earth, you are the backup team, the orchestration that shall repeat the theme and bring it to its beautiful and wonderful climax that God has decreed and seen fit for this place and this time and this solar logos. . . .
Many of you were with us in those days of the time when Jesus walked his last years upon the Earth planet in that particular form and frequency. Many of us are on the etheric and continue to fulfill that same demonstration and part in the role he has been assigned and has accepted. Many others are now upon the Earth and remember this . . . and see it occurring in the demonstrations of their lives today. . . .
For until that approach has been reached and desired in the minds of men, the hearts of men cannot be opened. For it is definitely the mind that accepts and the heart that produces it. You have been told that the mind represents the male aspect within you and the heart represents the female aspect within you, or positive and negative polarities. Therefore, let the positive polarity, which is the Father in you, bring forth the seed of this idea and let it be nourished by the negative polarity, or the Mother-heart self, and come forth into manifestation. Let burst forth the son of man. Let God be born on Earth as a whole unit: mankind Christed and brought forth in these Latter Days as a worthy Son of God, the body of Christ.
However, it is in the cleansing stage when all of this, in certain aspect, has to be reviewed. . . . The facts must go through the consciousness of mankind in order for him to separate that which is good and that which is error. As each man, and as the race as a whole, reviews these various acts and experiences from the beginning unto the present time, he must learn to judge each act; for this is the Christ judgment. Man must raise himself up into his Christ being and say: “This is of good and this is of error; this I will promote, and this I will eliminate and return unto the void from which it came.” This must be done by each soul in the evolutionary process, and especially in these Latter Days.
Let me put it in a very simple Earth plane term by saying that you have amongst your schoolchildren places of a very high achievement that you introduce them to in order that they be excited or stimulated by the future possibilities of that growth. You take them into museums and into places of worship and into places of execution, or of government, where they may see the workings of these higher methods and of these higher plans that they may understand them. But as each soul walks through or participates in any place or touches any other soul, he leaves something of himself there; just as a bee touching a flower is carrying pollen from one to another. It attaches itself. He leaves a vibration of his own upon the flower he wishes to impregnate, and he takes with him something of the flower to the next place upon which he alights.
You may not take the history of one race, of one religion, of one nation and separate it from the history of all other nations, religions and civilizations. It is not possible. Nor can you separate the history of this planet from the history of this solar system. . . . The history of this solar system is but a mystery and an unknown quantity to the average person and to the majority of those who are upon the planet; though it will be brought forth by those who come from other spheres, other places, other dimensions and other planets, in due time during the Latter Days. . . . This is essential to your understanding and evolution. For you must see your interrelationship with the other planets in the solar system and your interrelationship and intertwining of dimensions with those who evolve and who have incarnation and expression through other spheres and planes of action.
“A main purpose of the Hierarchy’s program for this Latter-Day period is to give you the standards, the qualifications, the requirements, the needs, the spiritual laws in effect for this planet, for all mankind upon it, and for all the other kingdoms which reside on the planet. These teachings and guidelines are given so you will judge fairly and discern clearly where you are and what you must do in order to help lift all men into spiritual consciousness for the coming of the fourth dimensional frequency vibration. . . .
First and foremost I ask only that the Christ Self of the other person reveal to my Christ Self, Nada, what the truth is in the matter and how to correct any error. Often what seems weak actually is strong; what seems wrong really has been the righting of a wrong; what seems to be a violation or an aggression actually is retribution for a past action, perhaps even worse than what is presently inflicted. God always is good and merciful.
In reviewing our evolutionary history we can see the thread of golden Christ consciousness that the light workers have woven on Earth from the beginning till now. Between 206 million and 26 million years ago the Elder race, or golden giants, were expressing in fourth dimensional, light-body consciousness. They enjoyed interdimensional and interplanetary travel, past-life recall, and other light-body talents. I Am Self expression or natural, spiritual way of living was embedded in the very fabric of the Earth.
What did Jesus do? He healed the sick; raised the dead; walked on water; commanded the elements; recalled and projected (was transfigured by) past incarnations; teleported; materialized and dematerialized, and more. He demonstrated love of God and love of one another to its fullest. He triumphed through death of the mortal to resurrected life in Christ consciousness.
On June 25, 1968, Sananda channeled this key to anchoring the light body: “The I Am consciousness is in effect wherever men will give it that place of honor in their experience and in their lives. This spiritual know-how and realization then become the actual fact of existence. That form that develops from these thoughts and desires and dedications builds up in and around the focal point a pivotal function through the conscious and physical body.
But where you are given functions and responsibilities you cannot shirk them. So, it is to you now that we turn and say: this is the hour; the time has come for all that you have learned, and all the experience that you have accepted as being good, to come forth and to manifest its achievements. What and how these works will be given for you to perform are not outlined in advance, nor can they ever be. For the situation that arises gives the need, and it also brings forth the power. What you must do is to be aware of all situations that require change and cleansing upon the Earth and in yourselves for the moment.
So, each one who has been aware consciously of this program and of this plan to uplift all men upon the planet into spiritual consciousness must go to work about our Father’s business immediately. It is up to you to tune in to your own individual Christ Self to find where and how this can be accomplished. We are not outlining your function. That is not our job, any more than it will be your job to go forth upon the planet and say to this individual and to that one: this you must do in order to become a more perfect individual, to demonstrate your Sonship in the God consciousness.
Now all men everywhere have been given this information. We must have a multiple demonstration of this same principle in order for it to grow and to expand. For nothing in Spirit is static; all things forever are being expanded. Your own consciousness, for one, is being expanded. Therefore, Spirit’s good is expanded unto all Its creations, and multiplied over and over again. There is no end to creation or to God’s power and love. This, of course, you understand in generalities and in parable. But now will you execute this very simple proclamation and bring it into manifested form? For it is not enough for God the Father to give the idea; but God the Mother must bring it forth and God the Son must live it. This is your function and your purpose. That which is of Good, God, is good for all, not just a few.
Let us see these greater or expanded works begin. Let us know that we are one in the Christ body and have each other to support one another. Let us know that we all are sons of God and that each one has the same ability to receive and to demonstrate the powers that any other one has done. This is the heritage which I have left. This is my gift unto men of Earth. But I cannot return and say that I will open the gift and use the gift if you are not willing to take it yourselves.
However, those who have brought forth ideas or concepts that were of a spiritual nature, that were derived from the mental aspects or mind concepts rooted in and received from the spiritual nature of the universe, have left indelible marks upon the race consciousness, and upon the pattern of racial structure, in its everlasting growth and evolvement process. If this be the case, and the proof already is there, then why not heed the example that is set forth via this? Why continue to waste time and energy by doing things backwards and upside down and inside out? If this is the pattern that has been set down and is obvious to any thinking individual, then why continue to stir up the situation by putting forth only physical energies or combining physical energies with some proper feeling that does not resolve itself in the essential mental activity and consciousness that go behind it?
Think negative things about it and you add further problems and weight and troubles to the situation that exists perhaps thousands of miles from you. Think positive, constructive, loving and bountiful thoughts about it and you begin to sway and to change and to rebalance the scale as it is analyzing that which is going on those thousands of miles away from you. Add to those thoughts the proper feeling, the feeling of love, the feeling of upliftment, the feeling of union, the feeling of peace, the feeling of enjoyment, the feeling of good, and the thoughts have that much more energy to work with in that situation. If then you are guided and put in the position where certain actions on your part are required in that situation, though it be thousands of miles away, you know that you have given it the proper thought, the right emotions; therefore, the actions in themselves must be correct for that situation in which you become involved.
We are the spiritual government, you might call it, of this hierarchal plan. A spiritual government is that which is governed by Spirit and governs for Spirit. So be assured, when we use this terminology, that it has this definition in your thoughts predominantly. Those of us who are guiding and guarding you to become part of that spiritual government are concerned that you understand that everyone is part and can be part and participate in the hierarchal system of Spirit’s plan for man.
So, what does all this lead us to conclude? These rapid and oftentimes jarring changes have caused us here at headquarters to renew our deep and abiding spiritual commitment to I Am thinking, speaking and acting. This is our key to survival — spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically — in these horrendous Latter Days.
If you were incarnated, where were you when this happened, and what were you doing? Think back. Do you remember exactly how you responded? What were your first thoughts and emotions? How quickly did you respond with the proper spiritual treatment? Were you too stunned to react spiritually, or did you immediately start sending out thoughts of protection, balance, understanding, love, compassion and peace?
Next, let’s expand our thoughts to others, whether our family, friends, work associates or others. Are we sensitive to their needs? Are we a positive force in their lives, helping them to secure their own commitments to spiritual demonstration? Or, are we so caught up in our own world that we haven’t taken that extra bit of effort to find out how our neighbor is doing?
When it comes to personal dilemmas, impasses, conflicts, imperfections, diseases of the mind, body or soul where the individual is involved or trapped, he or she at times neglects to understand and to apply this mandatory principle of Let go and let God.
Unless the person has worked on this conscientiously and without results for years in meditation and dream analysis, we invariably insist that he or she receive the guidance and the information directly from within. If our higher Selves reveal that an objective confirmation is in order through our I Am intunements, then we cooperate; otherwise we appeal silently to the I Am within the other person to break through the barrier to the subconscious or the conscious aspects of mind.
spiritual teachings and demonstrations to the people of Israel. Evidence had been brought against Jesus, but he had remained silent. Finally, in exasperation, Caiaphas demanded Jesus’ oath by the living God: “Are you the Christ, the Son of God?”