The first is for man to look for a teacher who can show him the way. This teacher must be alive to be able to lead man in the right direction.
The second is for man to be linked up to the Holy Spirit and this can only be done by the Living Godman whom God has appointed to lead those who are ready back home to God.
The third is for man to study and record his dreams for in his dreams are the secret of the knowledge of both man and God. For if man discovers the secret of the microcosm, man, the secret of God, the Macro is easily deciphered.
The state of God Consciousness is beyond the scope of this article. But suffice to mention that the awareness or consciousness of the God state is beyond the language of man and will continue to remain so. For it is in the experience of this state that man can totally realize his relationship with God Almighty. All the attributes of God lying latent in Soul, a spark of God is fully realized and man becomes the ultimate channel for God.
The human being who achieves this state has realized his spiritual destiny. For the purpose of the whole spiritual education of man in the lower worlds is for man to develop these attributes of omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. In order words, man would evolve and unfold as a spiritual being and be all powerful (loving), all knowing and all present. When man has unfolded to this level, man becomes the Living Godman and has the sole responsibility of leading other souls back home to God. This Being also has the responsibility of coaching other souls to also become self realized and eventually, God Realized.
This is the difference between being a ‘man of God’ and being the Godman.
The fellow who calls himself the ‘man of God’ is a man of book knowledge a man of words. He is the one who would be searching for the knowledge of God from ‘Holy Books’. What he fails to understand is the fact that what he reads and studies in ‘Holy Books’ are merely recordings of the activities of individuals who have had their own experience with God at the level of consciousness described earlier.
Reading of other peoples experience with God can never make an individual have the experience of God.
Therefore any individual who calls himself a ‘man of God’ without having an experience with the Holy Spirit of God is a ‘spiritual joker’. He can continue to deceive some ignorant children of God for some time but he can never deceive the Holy Spirit, the Voice of God.
On the other hand, the Godman has the experience of God directly without any intermediary. He is a living embodiment of spiritual virtues and values. As the Way Shower, he has the special ability to link any interested individual with the Holy Spirit and guide such individual to the heavens of God while still alive. This is a special activity that would make the individual lose his fear of death. The fear of death is mainly the reason why most individuals seek refuge in different religions without any experience with the Holy Spirit.
The levels of consciousness lets an individual realize his relationship with God at his own level of understanding. Each individual’s level of understanding is unique and cannot be forced on another. This is also the reason why no individual can force his religion on another person no matter how much he tries. It is only the experience and obstacles encountered by the individual that would let him take a decision on his relationship with God within the ambits of his present religion.
This is the meaning of that statement ‘Obey God or suffer!’
This is why it has been written severally in this column that every problem or situation has a spiritual history. In other words, there is a reason behind every problem faced by any HU-man being. The purpose of these problems is to enable man to know that the solution to any of man’s problem resides with God Almighty.
But man must first have this realization by himself!
The spiritual destiny of each soul in form is to become a God realized being and eventually become a Coworker with God. But for man to achieve this feat, he has to pass through the crucible of purification and learn his catechism while residing in the lower worlds of God. Through the process of reincarnation, man is given the opportunity to learn and relearn his spiritual destiny and achieve his spiritual purpose of attending this spiritual school on earth.
But man should not remain despondent and think that the challenge is insurmountable. Man can overcome his shortcomings by taking the following steps;
‘Man know thyself!’ The first step is for man to know that he is a spiritual being. Man should know that he is Soul that has no beginning and no end. Soul is eternal and indestructible but is created from the fabric of God. How can man know himself if he cannot see himself as Soul?. One of the ways he can see this is through his dreams where he has the freedom to move around within the lower worlds of God.
Secondly, man should evaluate his religion and decide if he is benefiting spiritually or socially. The individual who really desires God must strive to move from one level of awareness to another. If the individual is having problems that are beyond him that is a sure reason for the individual to reappraise himself and his religion and seek the one that can assist him to have a spiritual perspective to his problems.
Thirdly, man must know that there should not be any intermediary between man and God. For any individual that has chosen an intermediary between himself and God has inadvertently created a big obstacle between himself and his Creator.
Yes, all souls are created equal but in the hu-man consciousness we are not equal because of the spiritual baggage each of us carry. This is what is responsible for all our individual problems in life.
TOWARDS SPIRITUAL FREEDOM
By Tuborki Dauyemie
