____________________________________________________________ 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: February, 2004 _________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: - First word - Two concepts that we need to understand - The sweet flavor of repent - 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 Dearly Beloved: Time seems to fly for all of us that inhabit this our beloved blue planet called Earth; and although the days continue to have 24 hours, the terrible news that reach our ears day after day, and the inhuman happenings around us minute after minute, leads us to conclude that it is not time that is passing by more quickly, but rather it is man who has accelerated his pace towards destruction of the world which he has created. This fact gives us the feeling that the end of the absurd struggle between darkness and light is coming near, as well as the fulfillment of the prophecies that talk about the definite liberation of the human gender, the arrival of that glorious day in which we will see a "new sky and a new earth", that redemption which will arrive when the beast that inhabits within each one of us dies, when man calms his thirst for pain, desolation, and death, which were caused by pride, lack of faith and lack of love of one for another. Those of us which in the furor of the intimate battles have ascertained by looking upward, and the urge to caress the spiritual cloud, lifting for instants the feet from the dust of the ground, know that the path of regeneration is not an easy one, that the struggle is hard and constant, and that those battles are not won in the first try; we know that the beast is still alive, that it is still present in each one of us frequently, but its defeat is near by. The joy to accomplish the defeat of the negative part within ourselves day by day is invaluable, and the fruit of true repentance and amendment can not be compared to any of the common pleasures that the world may have to offer. ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  -Two concepts that we need to understand Regeneration begins by recognizing faults, by confronting our own "demons", and with a genuine purpose of not falling again. But, to be able to accomplish this true exercise of truth, we must understand that, as there are may be beautiful feelings which ennoble and elevate the spirit as a reflection of the divine essence which exists within us, there are also other feelings which were not created by our Father, but by our free will, which because they are low and deceiving, degrade and disturb the spirit. One of these feelings is shame, which we should not confuse with modesty. Shame is a feeling of disturbance for a fault committed, it denigrates the spirit, makes him feel unworthy, and causes him to want to hide its fault; instead of recognizing it, it converts into a barrier which impedes the spirit from getting close to his Father. To the contrary, modesty is that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance, giving the spirit the necessary humbleness to recognize his fault and confront it.. In the same manner, we should never confuse repentance with remorse because, while repentance illuminates and elevates the spirit inspiring the purpose to amend and not make the same mistake again, remorse converts itself into a judge, which if it is not used as a means of contrition, and of a useful pain which cleanses us from within and guides us to recognize the fault committed, it merely converts itself into a feeling which abates and darkens the spirit, uneasiness for a censorable act, a heavy burden which we hide between shame and oblivion, which will lead us to make the same mistake over again, making us feel more and more unworthy of divine forgiveness. "The Father is perfect justice, He is love, and has never created a place to punish His children because He does not punish, it is you who dictate the sentence. He is all forgiveness, no matter how serious the fault may be. And by forgiving you, He allows that you hear the voice of the conscience so that repentance and repair of the fault take place." Where could our ashamed spirit hide for its errors, when God is eternally within us as we are within Him? It was the ignorance of this wonderful truth that made man lose the faculty to communicate with our Father from Spirit to spirit, since remorse and shame for the first fault committed made us go apart from His side. But the love of our Father is infinite, and He created new forms of communication through the elements, sending us His prophets, giving us His example and teaching through Jesus and arriving in this Third Era surrounded by His angels in Spirit and in truth as He had promised, to show us the return path to our real home, and help us recover the place that corresponds to us as His true worthy children. "The centuries have passed and men, knowing more about the Divine justice, still have not been able to understand the truth, and many times they have become confused, believing that if they have sinned greatly on Earth, inexorably they will have to present themselves before the tribunal of God, to receive an eternal punishment; to which I ask you: What purpose of repentance and compliance with My Law would emerge from the one who, beforehand, considers himself lost? What hope would lodge within the one who departs from this world, knowing that the faults of his spirit will be eternal?" "If anyone believes that the sinners are not worthy that I should come to save them, truly I say to you, that he does not know Me. I do not want death for any of My children, and once again I am disposed to be sacrificed to save them and take them to a true life. Understand that it is not possible for a being to exist, who, having been created for a definite purpose, succeeds in changing the will of the Creator. And you were created to elevate yourselves up to Me along the path of truth. That road is the one which men have lost with their materialism, and that is the one I have come to outline for you again". "If God would not concede to the sinner the opportunity to repair the error, to repent, to purify by himself, He would not be perfect as God or as judge" We should start by knowing that the love of our Father does not have limits, that there is no fault that our spirit may have that it may not be worthy of divine forgiveness; to think to the contrary would be equivalent to believing that the weight of our errors would be greater than the love of our Celestial Father which is impossible; as such, in order to eradicate the bitter taste of shame and remorse from us, we need precisely of the antidote which is love, because due to that infinite gift, we can come to recognize our faults and the desire to repair them. "Hell is in incarnated and disincarnated, in dwellers of this world and in the spiritual valley; hell is the symbol of the great grief, of terrible remorse, of desperation, of pain and bitterness of those who have greatly sinned and of whose consequences will be liberated through the evolution of their spirits towards love". "This is the language that I listen to, the one that I understand, a language without words, the one with the truth and sincerity". ____________________________________________________________ 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 sweet flavor of repent "I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just who need no repentance". Luke 15:7 There is no sweeter taste than having accomplished the task, reaching the goal, that which leaves in our spirit victory in the battle, or defeating temptation, that flavor which remains in our being when we have accomplished through a deep meditation the recognition of our faults before the light of the conscience, without fears, without remorse or shame; that taste which repent has, can be reached only through love. "The true balsam, people, the one that heals all maladies, pours from love". "Love with the spirit; love with the heart and with the mind, and you will have sufficient power to heal not only the sicknesses of the body or to comfort the small human miseries, but you will know how to resolve the spiritual mysteries, the great anguish of the spirit, his confusion, and remorse". "That balsam resolves the great trials, turns on the light, calms the sorrow, and melts the chains that oppress". Let us remember, for example, that beautiful lesson which the Divine Master has given us through the parable of the prodigal son, (Luke 15:11-32); he who left the paternal house, went to the city to squander his inheritance amongst prostitutes and bad friends, forgetting about everything that he abandoned beside his father. Hunger, loss of his things, loneliness, made him stop in his path to meditate on his acts, but it was the longing for the paternal love, longing for his hugs which made the son recognize his faults and desire to return to his true home. He knew that it would be useless to try to erase his past burying it in indifference and forgetfulness, and it was in that recognition of what was forgotten, that the desire to repair errors was born within him, even if he felt unworthy to be near his father. What he still did not understand was that the love of his father was so great, and his ability to forgive so infinite, that from the date of his departure He would go to seek him half way to the road, because knowing his son, the father knew that some day he would return. That, in a few words, is our history; and the same as in the parable, it will be the longing of the paternal love, the lack of spiritual nourishment, the waste of our inheritance which are the gifts that we have abandoned on the road, and the recognition of our absence of love towards our brethren, which will make us return to Him in search of the lost love. "It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found". Luke 15:32 "Remember the parable of the prodigal son, you who carry a great weight of a great fault, and think that before anything I am love and forgiveness. You must take into account that you are destined to arrive to My side perfected, free of fault, clean; and if today you are within the possibility to mold your hearts and make great spiritual works, you must take advantage of these times and make your days of exile brief". "There should never exist amongst you the idea of divine punishment, because God is eternally waiting for the awakening of the son before his conscience, that repent be within the sinner, that the repair of the fault is carried out, so that he could arrive, like the prodigal son in the parable, to receive the best caress from his Father" "I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said: "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and You forgave the iniquity of My sin". Psalm 32:5 If we want to find light in a beautiful example of repentance and amendment, we can analyze the one occurred during the Second Era, of that woman called Mary Magdalene; she, who having sinned seriously, moved by the love of the Divine Master, placed light in her interior, and exchanged a full life of sin for an eternity in spirituality and for love of her brethren. "Do not fear, as Magdalene did not fear when, drawing close to Me, she divested herself of the heavy burden of sins, without caring who looked at her, who heard her or judged her. She was at peace because she knew she was no longer a woman stained by sin, but rather a sinner purified by repentance". "Imitate her in her repentance and in her love". Whomever understands this truth would not want to miss out on the sweet taste of repentance, that flavor which is translated into peace, love and good will. Is it not better an instant of pain upon the recognition of fault, an instant of purification before the light of the conscience, than a whole life of shame and remorse for not wanting to recognize the error? "You should pursue three virtues: repentance, forgiveness, and love. If, in your being, these sentiments and these virtues do not glow, how can you pretend to reach the light of My Kingdom for your spirit? How can you expect to enjoy the delights that are reserved for those who know how to elevate themselves to attain them?" If we are able to find within us these three virtues, we shall be entering the road to restitution of that which because of justice, we should repair, but if we do it with love, the chalice that we would have to drink as a result of our errors would sweeten and shorten the length of the trial. "If many times I permit you to drain the same cup that you gave to your brethren, it is because there are some who, only in this way, realize the wrong they caused and by experiencing the same ordeal which they caused to others, they will become aware of the pain they provoked; this will give light to their spirit and bring understanding, repentance, and therefore, fulfillment of My Law". "But if you wish to avoid going through pain or draining the cup of bitterness, you can succeed in resolving your debt with repentance, with good deeds, with all that your conscience dictates you must do. In that way, you will settle an account of love, you will restore an honor, a life, or the peace, health, happiness, or the bread that you may have taken from your fellowmen". ____________________________________________________________ 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: The struggle is continuous, in it there is no pause or time out, sometimes we win, sometimes we lose and have to try again, until we defeat the enemy within; until we find in our interior that light which will lead us to wish that we had never hurt anyone, never had broken the law, or had done anything to take us to the painful road of remorse. To be able conquer repentance and regeneration, our Father has told us that we need our best weapons, and these are: Love, vigilance and charity, our shield should be prayer and our mantle should be mercy. Let us depart for a moment the mirage of our false grandeur, which leads us to believe that we don't need Divine forgiveness nor recognition of our faults to taste the flavor of peace. Let's make use of the humbleness that will lead us to recognize our true limits, and in that manner, by recognizing ourselves as little, clumsy and imperfect, we will start our beginning to greatness. I leave you until the next newsletter, inviting you to reflect upon a wise advice that the angels of the Lord have given us in this Third Era, in which they tell us: "It is always preferable to be the wounded one, than one who wounds, it is preferable to be the one who dies than the one who kills, it is preferable to be the one who is offended then the one who offends, it is preferable to dry the tears than to make them well up". Your Brother in the Lord The Little Worker All quotes belong to: The Book of True Life, Third Testament, The Protectors, The Forerunner. *** PAST ISSUES AT: http://144000.net/newsletter/ ***