Motah Chronicles

Channeled via Nada-Yolanda

WALK YOU AMONGST MY SHEEP and tell me what you find: hunger, ambivalence, confusion. Terrible are the situations which beset a people of these conditions. They seem neither to go left or right, but to stand still in their agonies. Yet we who are etherically bound in consciousness and activity see not all these things in great detail, but only the drifting and the impassiveness of such. That is your function and your purpose for being in the Earth now: to lift their eyes unto the hills from whence comes the shepherd of their salvation.

These are not merely poetic phrases, but, in essence, truth; positive and factual. These are the events upon us in the present time. Always it has been the few in Earth embodiment who can straddle or climb up into the hills while they remain or keep grounded in the home of the valley. Indeed is this a valley of the shadow of death, for those who are in the valley of the Earth today are troubled by the shadow of death. Their death is a death in consciousness and in will, a strangling shadow of death that keeps them in fear and anger. They see not, at the left or the right, the mountains which reach up into heavenly spheres of succor and peace and goodness.

Our purpose would be defeated, to bring the hills down into the valley; for then there would be no hill to climb. It is in the climbing that we have the strength and know that the lowly areas of conscious mind and subconscious fears are without permanent reality. Only by their striving and struggling, a few who are embodied in the valley, but who brave the climb up the hill into the etheric realms and wish to raise the sheep into finer fields and clearer waters, know these things and believe them and work upon them. It is thus to these that we turn and have our hope and keep our vigil. You are amongst those who are to feed my sheep.

Feed My Sheep

Bring them onto the path, literally, that they may find their way to this salvation. It will not be easy, nor has it ever been easy. But these sheep must know the heights as well as the depths. A people which have chosen to go down into the valley of the shadow of death must not lose sight that they have gone down from whence they had originated. They were not born of that consciousness originally. They were born of the height in spiritual consciousness. Of their own volition they wandered for experience into these valleys, and now they have forgotten the way back. You who have chosen this work and this mission must not forget, as they have, that the valley is temporary and that the good of life is in the mountains above their consciousness, in the sky.

It is the danger that all who descend into the mortal are faced with. And we, who are here beckoning to you, try to call and to keep you in clear and dedicated spiritual form. We are the ones to whom you must travel; not we travel to you, into the valley of mortal embodiment. It is ever thus that you who have taken upon yourselves this physical mission and body must of necessity have the dual works: to be amongst those who are in the depths of this depressed state; and to be with us, in consciousness and choice of will, above that depressed state. We see this as one of the hardest parts of the mission, and not the easiest. So, we give every advantage and send forth every encouragement that is possible.

It is not easy, as we know; for most of us who are here in this level of work have descended at one time or another, as you yourselves have in past experiences or in other places, in the long evolvement toward perfecting ourselves. But this is the way and the utilization of the powers, and so it cannot be demonstrated outwardly in any other form. Your dualness comprises of spiritual consciousness and mortal actions; and the wedding of the two, that makes each mortal action a spiritually grounded affair. It is, as said, a most difficult balance to maintain. For the pull and the pressures that are in the valley are greater at times than the knowledge and the desire of the hills above, whence cometh your strength and the peace which you all seek.

We speak thus in parable that you may apply every condition that is suitable, and find that it has merit in this. If, on the other hand, we would speak of specific situations, your mortal minds tend to say that it applies only to that condition and cannot be applied to the next. So, it causes work upon your own part to apply basic truth principles in specific mortal problems. The problems themselves change daily, do they not? The principle is steadfast and must be unchangeable. This calls for the spiritual strength; with the eyes upward, knowing that this truth is there, while being pulled and pummeled and hurt on many occasions by the affairs of men in the depths of these valleys where they struggle and destroy themselves and each other.

Sustain Light, Love, Life

Destruction is not always a physical act of violence. Destructive thoughts are as terrible, and as meaningless in the long run, as any physical form of that. It is because of this factor that you who know the idea and the thoughts of spiritual succor that remain steadfastly and formidably in the higher spheres or the hills can assist those who use these meaningless ventures. The thoughts that you are able to sustain of light and love and life, which are eternal, are as real and must become as real as the two feet planted in the mud of the valley below. This must be your demonstration and your faith. Therefore, as you demonstrate these thoughts and make them acts, so you are demonstrating in principle that thought and faith of higher things are real enough to those who have not seen or yet believed what you have seen and what you have come to believe.

Our communications with you, through mental telepathic and other means of vision and clairsentient, clairvoyant, clairaudient channels, can become the beacon for their rise as well as your own. This reality in the sense of their own unreality of life upon the planet in mortal embodiment eventually must be the light which commands the attention and brings about the desire for growth upward. It is by your belief and understanding that those who are able to, guide and guard the progress; that the others, who have not the experience that you are entitled to and enjoy, can find some way out of their situation. You then will represent what we represent to you now: a mountain peak in the midst of a low, depressed area.

Our strength and fortitude have brought you thus far and have given you some sense of future achievements. But what of the sheep in the mud below who have not this to look forward to? They are as the blind ones burying their heads even deeper into the pits. Thus you must arouse them and open those eyes. Shall it be easy, and shall you receive only compliments and praise? Have we, from you, at all times received these things? Or have we heard your complaints and frustrations and doubts and angers, even those who have been in better condition to see proof of our constant surveillance over the situation and the faithfulness of our acts and protection? So, it is not for these things that we have come, any more than it is for these things that you have descended into those valleys to herd the sheep, to guide them to the path and to nudge them upward on the climb.

Be in Both Worlds

Our single vision is that those who are in Earth embodiment will see and will know, in full faith and consciousness, what it is to be part of both worlds. For the shepherd can travel the path easily, knowing the way. He comes from his mountain home down into the valley where the sheep may have gathered. He can leave them there and return to his home, or even look upward while in the valley, knowing the comfort and remembering well that fire of life that is within the hearth and home ahead. However, the sheep are not of this memory. It is to awaken them and to train them to search for that which is theirs, just to take and to command; as we have sent the message and keep the vigil for you at all times.

It would not do for all of us to leave this state and to descend in the effort to raise mankind, any more than in any village would all travel to the same point in the fields without remaining behind a few to prepare the feast upon the return and to keep the home fires burning. First and foremost, it is necessary for those who have wandered out as shepherds to know both areas of experience. It is their demonstration of this and their ability to keep the group together in its venturing out and in its return back. Secondly, it is for the strengthening of the individual, who has taken upon himself this experience, to know and to believe that which he has had awakened within himself. So, those who wish that the masters and the teachers of other planes would come and participate in their jobs and in their missions, leaving them no job and no mission thereby, are mistaken in their desires.

This does not mean that there are not communication and exchange and it does not mean that there are not occasional assisting hands to help over the roughest parts of the climb, for this always has been Spirit’s way and always will be Spirit’s way. But when you call for this help you must recognize and you must condition it by the fact that it is only partly and temporarily there for you. By doing so, you undertake an obligation to those who answer this call and you open karmic debts. For that which you have received at any time you also must give back sometime. The implications here are vast: for man has a tendency only to think of the present life and the single incarnation, without realizing that his soul is eternal and his spirit finds many means of expressing and of exchanging.

You should not be overly cautious, however, about your needs, for we all are here to assist one another. Only by the act that you demonstrate, of calling for assistance and receiving it, are you able to teach those who know not of this assistance; that they too should call and utilize whatever aids are there, in Spirit’s grace, to give them the needed encouragement and help. Thus you in your place are serving both the higher and the lower manifestations. By calling and using the assistance offered and available, you give those in higher spheres opportunities to do the work and to come into the Earth plane. Also, you are teaching those of the Earth plane to look beyond themselves in higher expressions for a way upward and onward, that their depression may be lessened and that their unhappiness is without eternal damnation.

Teach & Demonstrate

It is this dual function which you, as the balancing rod, can achieve for Spirit. You teach and you demonstrate the faith within that God is good. You teach and you demonstrate that there are hope and love, and assistants elsewhere in the universe who can come and befriend mankind in his troubled hours. By this demonstration you lift them and use us. Then all is in proper order and exchange. Then all is according to Spirit’s plan.

We must be sure not to allow our striplings to feel that only through the assistance of other forms of life can they be raised; for the symbology and parables used here are to bring about a conscious awareness that there are several methods by which the same Spirit does work. Those who are in the valley consciousness have come down from the mountain area of evolvement, and it is this to which they must return, as you already recognize. They must recognize in themselves and imitate that which you already are expressing to them and experiencing within yourselves: God consciousness is within. It is represented here by that climb to the highest peaks. Their mortal expressions are the valleys, into which they have become so enmeshed that the mountains around them are not seen by turning their heads to the left or to the right.

We do not expect, nor desire, that each one thinks only of those agents of Spirit who reside in those higher peaks. We wish rather that the high peaks are the desired destiny; for they represent the rise in consciousness and the change from one form into another, and the hope ahead. That these high peaks are populated by those of us who guard and man them are secondary achievements and considerations, not the primary ones. This fact also must be ever uppermost in your own endeavors. We cannot teach and demonstrate that responsibility can be shifted from one shepherd to another.

For the time will come when you, as shepherds unto these sheep, also must remove yourselves and go elsewhere. If the sheep are not strengthened to travel the path from valley to mountain, and back to valley again if necessary, then we have not accomplished that which all of us have set out to do. We have been among the sheep ourselves, in prior times, and learned the way down and the way back. Some of us have descended into the valley once more, while others of us remain in the higher state. This act has been performed many times by different players in different eras, and is now only one last and final curtain call.

One Family in Sonship

The life we offer is one that must be maintained by all who are of the one body or creation of God: His Son. For in this body of Sonship we are as one; some older, some younger, with the older ones guiding the younger ones. That too is part of the parable given here. For those who have remained on the home front are preparing the feast for those who have wandered off into our Father’s kingdom into the lower depths, into the valley of the shadow of death. We who have remained at home have known no death; for those who have wandered into that which is called death and have returned to the Father’s mansion have come to understand and to realize that there never was any death. For God’s eternal Son is just that: eternal; merely changing form and wandering in His great kingdom or universe.

Let us then be as one family. Those who have wandered off need those to go after them and to bring them back; while those who are here in the bosom of the family, home and hearth can make the homecoming, that moment of joy and reunion, a pleasant one. None are eternally lost, for not one of us would let another be so. Always the Spirit of our Father-Mother God finds ways and means to bring about a return. Let us be concerned with the situation we have here now; and work as best we can, one with the other. We know the way is not easy and simple, for we have been that way and know the path quite well. But were it the intention for us to be where you are, we would; and were it the intention for you to be where we are, so it would be.

In the meantime, we can exchange and aid one another according to the will of God and for the highest interests of both situations. Let us then be content. Let us then know that peace of who we are, where we are and what we have to do. It has been given, and is being given, and shall continue to be given again and again until this achievement is completed. I am, ever and always, your servant, your brother, your friend and your guide, Jesus the Christ.

— Sananda/Jesus; July 14, 1966

Supplementary Reading:

Begin the Greater Works

Work with Mind Powers

Sananda’s Disciples & Helpmates

Photos: (1) Master Jesus of Nazareth, artist unknown. (2) Jesus the Good Shepherd, artist unknown. (3) Sananda/Jesus, Mark-Age Archives. (4) Christ at Emmaus by Walter Rane.