____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  *** The Little Worker *** ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  Published by CDT - The Committee for the Diffusion of The Third Testament Issue of August, 2004 _________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: - First word - Our destiny - Evil is not anyone's mission or destiny - Last word ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  First Word: From the beginning of human history, man has had the curiosity to know about his future, about the things that await him, about what is to come. That is how from the oldest cultures up to date we find practices and sciences of fortune telling that go from the Babylonian Oracles to the parapsychology, from the I Ching to the occultism, passing by haruspicy which is the reading of the internal parts of animals, or trying to read the future through the singing and flight of birds, the reading of turtle shells, of tea or coffee, crystals, hands, tarot cards, and many others, which lead us to one of the most popular ways of inductive divination: Astrology. In that same fashion, many philosophical and religious currents have surged that have tried to explain through their theories the destiny of the spirit, theories that range from those adopted by the different Christian currents that accept only that the final destiny of an individual is predetermined by the unalterable law of God, without this implying the negation of free will, or by other theories of great severity such as the one proposed by Augustine of Hippo or by John Calvin, who in his theory of double predestination suggested that not all men were created in equal conditions, and for the same reason, for some the eternal life was ordered beforehand, while for others, there was no other alternative than eternal condemnation. These and many other proposals were launched by different theologists, some more liberal than others, up to reaching the proposal made by the Swiss theologist Karl Barth in the 20th century, who claimed that God's will as revealed in Jesus Christ, converts everyone as chosen ones through Him, that is to say, we all have salvation promised. The main theme of our little newsletter this month, will not be to analyze those theories or philosophies that have been exposed by man's uneasiness throughout history, nor will our objective be to judge which are closer or farther from the truth; our objective is to analyze, meditate and to try to comprehend through the divine teachings given to humanity in this Third Era, which is the true destiny of the spirit, and which is the way to reach it. ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - Our Destiny Before anything, it is important to elevate our minds and spirits to be able to find all the light within the divine teachings; it is necessary to see beyond the letters, beyond words, it is vital to penetrate in the essence and not to take things literally. To accomplish this, it is vital to accept God as infinite, thus understanding that the proofs of love that He gives us are not limited, reaching the point of He becoming similar to us to give us, through His sacrifice and example in Jesus, the greatest proof of love that we could conceive; that will be the first step to make us see that the love of the Father is linked to our destiny, because in His love which is infinite, all His children are equal, we are all worthy of salvation, regardless of how right or wrong one may have been; there will be as many opportunities as may be necessary to reach that light that will allow us to elevate ourselves beyond our weakness and lack of spirituality, in order to take us nearer to our destiny which is perfection. Because destiny is not just a path, it is the point of arrival. "Humanity: I have never wanted for you to be lost. It is unjust that you should have that concept of Me, that you would think I had created beings that would irremissibly have to be lost, that I would have marked that course to the children of God. Understand that another is your destiny, it is to live eternally and not just a few, but all, because all of you are My children". "If I descended to the world becoming man, it was to show you in the examples of that sacrifice the accomplishment of the mission marked by My divinity". " I say on to you that such blood was spilled to trace the path of restitution to all My children, and if one would not have reached that benefit, for that only one child I would become man once again and would give My blood to save him". Analyzing these phrases of profound wisdom and love, we can understand that no one will be lost, that the destiny of all spirits is the same, but also that through them we should comprehend that it is not as such the blood of Jesus which saves us, because if that was the case, evil and pain would have parted from us a long time ago; what saves us, what leads us to our destiny is to learn and put into practice the example of Christ, His sacrifice, His total commitment, His fight against adversity, His strength to defeat temptation constantly, His humbleness, His capacity for compassion for all, His authority over darkness, His proofs of infinite love; that is what saves us, what redeems us, that is the significance of the Divine Master's words: "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me". "Now I can say to you, that it was not that moment when My blood was shed upon the cross that set the hour of human redemption." "If such an affirmation were true, why, in spite of the sacrifice that has already been consummated, do men still continue sinning and also suffering?" "My blood remained here, in the present world, alive, fresh, outlining with the bloody trail of My passion, the footpath of your restitution which will lead you to conquer the dwelling your Father has promised you". Enough of thinking in fatalism, enough of believing that we are the product of a divine whim, or puppets mover by a monumental puppeteer! We are spirits made to the image and likeness of an infinite and omnipotent Father, beings in whose interiors have been placed all the faculties, virtues and necessary gifts to escalate towards that destiny which awaits us in the Divine bosom. We are spirits gifted with free will which allows us to decide, learn, make mistakes and to reflect, and if this was not enough, we have been given a conscience, that divine voice which is like a beacon which guides us all in the storm to arrive to that destiny through our own merit, our own free will. Many are the paths that we have created to reach the road, but there is only a true one: That road is the divine Law, that is our destiny. "Do not be fatalists, assuring yourself in the belief that your destiny is what God placed directly along your pathway; and that if you suffer it is because it was written, and if you rejoice it was also because it was written". "I have convinced you that what you sow is what you shall reap. However, listen carefully, because there shall be times when you will gather the harvest immediately, and on other occasions, you will come in a new existence to reap and harvest your seed. Analyze this which I have just said to you and you will do away with many bad judgments regarding My justice, and many confusions". How difficult it is for many to recognize the love of God in their destiny when things do not go the way they want, when misfortune and tests knock on their door; when desolation takes prisoner multitudes around the plant, they claim their injustice towards them and make Him responsible for all the negative things that happen to humanity, without having the humbleness to recognize that all we reap, the good as well as the bad, is simply the fruit of what we have sowed. "Why have many of you fear that your destiny was written by Me with tests, pains, punishments or misfortunes? How can you conceive that He who loves us with perfection would furnish you with a path of thistles? In truth I tell you that the hazardous road and seeded with vicissitudes, is the one that you take through your own free will, believing that in it are pleasures, liberty, happiness, without understanding that it is precisely in the road that is destined for you and which you part from, in which true peace, security, strength and health, well being and abundance are found". "This road that in My doctrine I come to offer you, is the one destined to your spirit since your formation, so that, coming through it, you are able to find what you yearn for". "When something goes wrong in your life, be assured that it is your own doing, but then you ask yourselves: Why does God permit it? Will He not suffer for our sins? Will He not weep, seeing us cry? What would it take for Him to spare us from these mistakes?" "I say to you, that as long as you do not love, God will be for you something you will be unable to understand, because the magnanimity of your Creator is above your comprehension". "Be strong, great, and wise; learn to love. When you love, you will not have the infantile tendency to want to analyze God, for then, you will see Him and feel Him, and that will be enough for you". The destiny for all is one and the same, and it is eternal and universal, and that destiny is God; that is why the destiny of all spirits is linked to Good, even when many people do not want to recognize it. "You can not run away from your destiny, you can not deny the mission or gifts that the Father has bestowed you, because in you are the gifts and destiny, and can you run away from yourselves? Nobody can apart from himself, therefore, meditate: This spiritual destiny is the most beautiful phase of your existence, it is the highest and most noble mission of many which the Lord has confided in you, and in it is the grace, joy and the greatest satisfaction which the Father has created for you". "This material life is not your glory, nor is it your native land, it is just a transitory and fleeting step; although in it there is much to taste and experiment, take from this life a more spiritualized form. If you know that from the beginning you have been destined to arrive to the Father's bosom, who could run away from his own destiny? Who could stop being a son of God? Who can renounce to his own conscience?" Nobody has said that it is easy to reach that destiny, because destiny is linked to the tests, to restitution and the missions that we must accomplish; it is linked to the elevation of the spirit, to its perfectionism, to its regeneration; but we have never been alone to accomplish our task, we have never lacked example, advise or guidance; our Father has always placed in our path beings to help us. "Destiny has the compassion which God has put in it; the destiny of men is filled with the Divine goodness". "Many times you cannot find that goodness for you do not know how to seek it". "If within the destiny marked by Me for each spirit, you devise a difficult and bitter course, I try to soften it, but never to increase its bitterness". "In the world men need one another; no one is extra and no one is missing. All lives are necessary, one to each other, for the complement and harmony of their existence". "In this world, each one of you is situated, by the wisdom of God, in his place and near whom he should be. To each man is assigned the circle where he should dwell, in which there are incarnated and disincarnated spirits with whom he must coexist". "Thus, each in his way, all of you are encountering those who will teach you the love which will elevate you; others will receive sorrow which will purify you. Some will cause you to suffer because you need it thus, while others give you their love to compensate for your bitterness, but all have a message for you, a teaching which you should understand and profit from". "Seek in each of your brethren the good side that he presents, in order to learn from him, as well as his bad side so that you will help him to elevate himself and, in that manner, proceed along the pathway, helping one another". "Each human being is a lesson, a hope of love or lack of love, which will finally give you its pleasant or bitter truth; in that way, you will proceed from lesson to lesson, sometimes learning and sometimes teaching, because you must also deliver to your fellowmen the message which you have brought to Earth". "Why have you neglected your fellowmen whom destiny has placed along your path? You have closed the door of your heart, unaware of the lesson which they brought to you". "How many times you have cast aside the very one who brought a message of peace and hope for your spirit, and then you complain when you yourselves have filled your cup of bitterness". "Man has a time to do his work and another to answer for what he did; this last time is the one in which you live, for that reason, everyone suffers and weeps. In the same way that you have a time to sow and another to reap, God also has one which he granted you to comply with His Law, and another to manifest His justice". "These are times of justice in which you must meditate over your destiny, so that through meditation and spirituality, you will listen to the voice of the conscience, which does not confuse nor deceive, but guides you along the path of peace". What will happen when we conquer such destiny? What will happen to the spirit when he accomplishes redemption through his merits to arrive to the bosom of the Father? Will we lose our free will? Will the activity and learning process end for the spirit? If we believe as such, we are making an error; we should not see our destiny as the final point of a long road, but as a constant that will take us nearer to perfection; our destiny was begun to be written at the same instant as we sprouted from the Divine bosom; all the acts in our existence form part of that destiny that never ends. Why? Because of a simple reason: Our destiny is to be more alike our Father and Creator, and that is an endless task. "The destiny of the children of Nature is in the earth, there it begins and there it ends; on the other hand, the destiny of the spirit began with Me and will never end, because when he rises above the terrestrial life, when he goes far beyond the mansions of perfectioning, he will go from one mansion to another, discovering new worlds of wisdom, rejoicing and living more". "Travel the pathway step by step, enjoy life on Earth, but always look toward Heaven; think that you are living the eternal life from the very moment that you have begun your journey, and that each trial that you experience brings you closer to Me, and each stage makes the time of your return shorter". ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - Evil is not anyone's mission or destiny Have you ever heard someone say that because a specific person, due to his errors or the damage that he could have caused to others, such person was destined or had a mission to do evil? I have often heard that type of comment frequently and that is why I would like to touch on that subject for a moment. Nobody has a mission to do evil; no being created by our Father is destined as such. If God allows evil, it is not because He has created beings specifically for that, or because He is pleased with our pain and misfortune, but because in His infinite wisdom, in His unending love for us, our Father makes use of the evil that we create, of our darkness and of the errors that we commit to give us lessons which sooner or later will teach us, and will give us the necessary strength to overcome ourselves and become stronger in the struggle. Even without knowing it, those that do evil are being allies of Good, instruments of divine justice, because for our Father waste does not exist, even from the deepest darkness He takes light. Our destiny is not to suffer, to endure pain or darkness, but as long as we don't understand this as such, our Father will continue to use the pain that we create to continue to teach us through it. "Ever since the first disobedient one appeared before My Law, how much misery and how much darkness he has left in his wake! Since then, evil exists like an invisible force. I permitted that force to exist only to submit you to a test, and it is through yourselves that I want to exterminate it". "Thus, in this era, I allow darkness to reach your hearts to temper you. Because it is not darkness or evil that use God, it is I that uses them for you to discover all that treasure that you carry, sometimes hidden by your passions and others by the veil of your ignorance". Here is one of the clearest examples that the Divine Master has left us so that we could comprehend how our Father sprouts light from darkness, so that we understand that evil can never win or defeat Good, and so that we meditate that it is up to each one of us to determine whether we want to build our path with or without love, according to his own free will.; but above all, to understand that sooner or later, those lessons that we are living will take us to the free decision to construct our destiny with acts of true love. "There is he who tells Me:- Master, if You know everything, if even before beings are created, You know them, did You know that in this era Judas was going to hand you over?- Ah, rude understandings that you arrive even in these times to formulate such questions! I who know everything, is why I chose him, because I knew that that man could not behave in any other manner, and it was indispensable that I make use of each of my disciples' imperfections to give a lesson". "That disciple who betrayed his Master is a symbol, an open book that exists in each human conscience, so that you could understand its significance and listen to its teachings". "Know that in every man inhabits a Judas. Yes, disciples, because in your case the matter is the Judas of the spirit; the matter is what opposes itself for the light of spirituality to shine, what stalks the spirit to make him fall into materialism, in low passions". "But not because it may be your matter that borders you towards abyss, will you condemn it, no, because you need it for your development, and you will defeat it with your spirituality as I defeated Judas with My love". "You do not have the right to damn or judge he who is your brother, he who in an instant of bewilderment faulted to the love and fidelity which he owed his Master. If you blame him for My death, why do you not bless him if you know that My blood was spilled for the salvation of all men? It would be better for you to pray so that any of you do not fall into temptation, because the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees still exists in the world". "Do you believe that that disciple would have come destined by God to betray his Master? No, people, it was not necessary that anybody would hand me over, the time had come, the persecutors stalked my footsteps, the scaffold awaited me". "That male, the same as all the others who followed Me, was also chosen to sow the seed of love, he weakened in the decisive moment by turning his back to whom he loved so much, to be beside those who wanted the Master's life; only because he proved that Jesus was not king of the earth, but of an unknown world and the heart of the disciple still dreamed with the richness of this world". "How great was Judas repent when he heard in his conscience when he heard one by one the phrases that he learned from Jesus, how large was his pain to think for what he was called for, and what his work was!" " I tell you all of this so that if any of you betray me in this era, you would not have the excuse of saying that perhaps you were destined for this". "Nobody was destined to betray; you have all been called to be redeemed with love" ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  -Last word Dearly beloved: Let me share with you a small lesson of my material life which has led me to meditate about destiny and to better understand it: When I was a child, the same as many children of my age, I was disorderly and dirty; all my things were always thrown in the "large closet", as my mother called the floor, where I left everything: clothing, toys, books, etc. On many occasions, some with patience and others with less, mother would repeat that it was easier to be orderly than not, because when you are, you always know where to find what you are looking for; instead, when you are not, everything is converted into chaos, and besides, sooner or later you have to fix your disorder and put it in its place, which would take you much more time and problems than would it would have taken otherwise. Those were the rules. That is how it should have been, and the consequence of not doing it would be to lose what I most loved which was the freedom to do whatever I would have wanted to do. As time passed, I realized that mother was correct because in my disorder I lost many things that for me were important: homework, books, my favorite toys, the sweater which I liked so much, my liberty as a restitution of my being rebellious... at the end, all those losses made me reflect in my mother's words, and one day I decided to become orderly, and Oh surprise! everything was easier from that moment, even in my head, the thoughts became clearer, time seemed to render more, in summary everything was better and yielded me rewards. . To me, to understand our responsibility with destiny, it is more or less as such, it is something from which we can't run away, something which we should all comply with and which will bring happiness, peace and blessings. Why not start to assume it as of now? Why accumulate the "dirty laundry" if we have to wash it anyhow? I know that it may be a material comparison, but it has served me well; I hope that it helps you also. May the peace of the Lord be with you. Your brother in the Lord The Little Worker All quotes belong to: The Third Testament, The Protectors, The Forerunner. ************************************************************* Visit our forum at http://www.144000.net/lighthouse/ ************************************************************* Join as an spiritual volunteer to the Spiritual Corps of Workers http://www.144000.net/cuerpo/ ************************************************************* PASS THE WORD: If you find this humble newsletter interesting enough, feel free to copy it and send it to your friends, family and colleagues... and why not? Start your own mailing list! **** PAST ISSUES AT http://144000.net/newsletter/ **** UNSUBSCRIBE (instant!): http://144000.net/remove.htm