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BROADCASTERS OF LIGHT, here is a special topic which is important to us not only for this broadcast but which we should give much attention to for a long time to come. It is a most important one, in that it cannot be accomplished for any individual or for the race of man in particular just in one broadcast, or for a short period of time.
It is time for us to concentrate on sending forth the light into the dark passages of man’s conscious, subconscious thoughts and memories, to free him from bondage to those thoughts which are restricting him and which no longer should impede him in his progress back to the light.
Each one of us has gone through this at one time or another; and perhaps some of you still are going through it, if not consciously, at least subconsciously. This is the idea that many concepts which man has now, or has had in this lifetime or past lifetimes on the Earth, are holding him back from recognizing the fact that he is indeed a son of God, that he has this spiritual heritage, these powers and talents, and that he can and should express them.
So, let’s just think this through briefly, without any particular preconceived ideas, because it is a topic that is so voluminous in scope and in the number of ideas that we could work on that we’ll have to leave much of this up to you individually to embellish on this broadcast later as you think about it in your meditations. For you know many specific instances and experiences of your own and in many others, particularly to some group that you might belong to, where you would be aware of them, whereas others would not be.
The theme of this broadcast is that there are many ideas which still are restricting man, that are error in nature or that are outdated, that are superstitious, that in some way are holding him back from becoming that which he truly is. Since they apply not only to the present time but to the past in this lifetime and in prior lifetimes, it is a vast field that requires a great deal of observation and contemplation by the individual person, if he or she is to analyze them and to discard those that are no longer correct.
For example, there are concepts of religion — the religion of man, of course — the ideas that a man has used to interpret these spiritual teachings given to him, or that he has inherent within himself that his own high Self is trying to give him at any time throughout his various incarnations on and about the Earth plane.
These may become so steeped in his subconscious that they could restrict him for many lifetimes to come. For example, in the soul intunements through Nada-Yolanda, she has read for a sizable number of people that they were nuns or priests in prior lifetimes. Sometimes the dedication, the devotion, the belief in those religious teachings and in that method of service was so strong that they came back for one, two or three lifetimes after that, perhaps even in succession, and went immediately back into that same concept.
Or, we’re familiar with the ideas of those in some of the Far Eastern countries, where they believe in karma and that you have to keep on coming back to Earth until you eventually get off that level of karma, or that routine, that wheel of karma as they call it. Many of them, no doubt, have been coming back for many, many lifetimes without any significant change, because the idea of being relegated to that wheel of karma is so embedded in their subconscious that they just can’t seem to get away from it.
Again, on the religious theme, let’s consider the fact that a few years ago the Roman Catholic faith [in the Second Vatican Council, 1962–65] decided to modernize their services and some of their teachings and concepts, such as the idea of holding mass in the language of a given nation rather than in Latin; or in no longer having to give up meat on Fridays.
Yet, there still is a very strong resistance to this modernization or this freeing from a restrictive bonding thought in the minds of many conservative Catholics; particularly those who have not been wont to think through their religion and to come up with some of these ideas for themselves, to examine the merits of them, to the extent that they still object strongly to having had to give up those former restrictions and they can’t see that it is right.
Dissolve Restrictive Bonds
Any concept of this nature is very limiting indeed; and, as mentioned already, as these thoughts and concepts are built into our consciousness and stored in our memory storehouse, the subconscious, they really act as a barrier to us in this and in other lifetimes.
So, what we are looking to do now is to cut out those thoughts, not just in ourselves but in other people; and to direct or to ask Spirit to work through us directly to them and through the mass consciousness — and in this case, through the mass subconscious, which holds the records of the race of man on this planet and its astral planes — so that these error ideas or these outmoded ideas, which no longer serve individuals or the nation or the race of man, can be dissolved so that man is free from them.
In other words, by our being aware of bonds, of restrictions, we can ask that they be cut. We ourselves literally can see them being dissolved, so that even those who are not aware of the fact that they are being held in bondage by them, will be free from them. In a sense, it’s as though you were freeing the blind person, or the person who was not physically, mentally or emotionally capable of freeing himself or herself. In the Christ level of consciousness, you have that right to ask that your brother or sister, all of mankind on and about the Earth, be helped in that way.
As you came up through your own spiritual awakening in this lifetime, perhaps some of you had such thoughts. I can recall well the thought I had as I delved into basic metaphysics back in 1955 and 1956. As I studied some of the basic realities of religion, of spiritual teachings of applied metaphysics as taught by Unity School of Christianity, Science of Mind, Divine Science, Thomas Troward, Emily Hopkins, and so forth, I understood that there were indeed error concepts that I had believed in simply because this was the way I was brought up in my religious beliefs.
So, when it came time for me to see that these were the new thoughts I should believe in, that I am indeed a spiritual son of God with these powers and talents, and that thereby I was rejecting the bonds of the formal Protestant religion to which I belonged at that time, I determined to go ahead with it.
Then, at a certain point in my study of basic metaphysics, there began to crowd in my mind this thought: “Now you’ve gone too far. Now you really are eternally damned and will have to spend eternity in hell because you have dared to believe that you are a son of God and that you can do the things that Jesus said others would do, indeed must do (the things he did, and greater things). How dare you feel that you can use the powers of God to accomplish things like healing, and that you have a stature in reality far beyond what you can see.”
I had to accept that fact; and believe me, it was a literal hell for a period of weeks or months. Very emphatically I had to state: “Alright, supposing this is true. I cannot go back to the old error ideas I had, because I no longer believe in them; I don’t feel that they are right. Therefore, I will go on and use the truth in situations.” By holding to that, I was able to fight through it.
Project to Mass Consciousness
In this Latter-Day period, we do not have time for all people to go through this analysis themselves. But there are many thoughts, legends, superstitions of all kinds that are holding them in bondage. So, let us project the following thoughts to the masses of mankind:
You do not need to be held in bondage any longer by thoughts that are wrong. We call upon the Christ Self in you to free you, consciously and subconsciously, from those restrictive thoughts so that you may rise into spiritual awareness and may begin to develop in that spiritual consciousness as a son of God.
Step forth, man of Earth. We ask, through the grace of God, that you be free from all of these error or outdated, restrictive thoughts that have been hampering your spiritual freedom for such a long period of time. Let us work at this. Man of Earth, as this does occur, do not fear to drop those error or outmoded concepts. Let them be dispersed from your consciousness. Be willing to stand up and say, “Thank God, I am free. I do not have to be held in bondage by them anymore.”
Now, this is not to say that all of these concepts, all of these thought forms that we want to see cleared out of the mass consciousness, ones that have been restricting man, are all in error; for this is not necessarily true at all. It is just that in many cases we no longer need them. Perhaps they have served a purpose in one lifetime; or for one part of mankind, or for one race, one nation, one religion, whatever it might be. But we must be able, willing, perceptive and sensible enough to go forward, to look at what is truth.
Unfortunately, there are many who hold to the fact that everything that man has to know is in the Holy Bible. Which Holy Bible? Which nation? Which race? Which time? Which translation? Are all of the scientific marvels, everything else that we need, in such a Holy Bible or scriptures? No, of course not. So, we must be able to say: “This must be examined; this no longer is applicable.” Or, “I can see that it is in error or that I do not need it any further, or the race does not need it any further; let’s dissolve it.”
Therefore, let us also direct these thoughts at groups, religions, nations, ethnic groups, and at the concepts of races, so that we can see all people are one in God. Yes, we have been a hodgepodge of many things. We have incarnated on Earth in different races, religions and nations, all with their own ideas and concepts. What a tremendous hocus-pocus hodgepodge is still holding us in restriction to some extent; perhaps is holding back our spiritual consciousness.
So, let us work at seeing ourselves, and all the race of man on or about the Earth, free from any thought, idea or practice which no longer is applicable to our spiritual growth, and particularly to the race of man’s spiritual awakening, development, manifestation, and demonstration of our spiritual talents. Man of Earth, be free. In that freedom, see and be the Christ in action now.
Revised from Mark-Age Meditations audio broadcast #60B, released in September 1974.
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Photos: (1) El Morya/Mark, 1960, Mark-Age Archives. Colorized courtesy of Hartmut Jager. (2) El Morya/Mark, 1961, Mark-Age Archives.