TEMPTATIONS

 

 

God gave man free will.  Among all His creations, it is only man who was given this special attribute to choose to do one's action, good or evil.  God, in other words, endowed man the ability to follow his conscience or not to obey its dictates.  He can refuse.

 

Because of free will, God put a record system in his soul.  If he disobeys his conscience, a black spot appears on his soul.  If ever he commits ill thought, word, or deed, then it is duly recorded in his soul.  But if afterwards, man asks forgiveness from God directly or through the priest as in the case of the Catholics, the black spot is erased.  Only scars remain.  His soul is pure white again.

 

What is this conscience?  Psychologists refer to it as the superego of man.  It is the collective judgment of society of what is right and wrong.  God, now and then, through his representatives like the priests, clarify what is right and wrong. Sometimes, God directly clarifies as when He gave Moses the Ten Commandments.  Before the fall of man, the conscience was non-existent.  Adam and Eve were innocent.  For Adam and Eve, God gave a single test which if they passed God would have allowed them to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life and they would have lived forever without sin.  No disease would have conquered men afterwards as disease is a form of punishment for one's sins.  Their vibrations would always have been positive and no negative vibrations of germs could overcome them.  The fruit of the Tree of Life would have strengthened them, cleansed their blood, and most especially regenerated their cells so that they would have been forever young.

 

But they failed the brief simple test.  When they ate the onions, both of them were sexually aroused.  A compartment of the brain was activated due to this sexual arousal.  They were too overpowered by the newly discovered sex urge to notice the birth of their conscience.  Somehow, they had to have release and fulfillment of their urges.  They had intercourse.  Afterwards, they felt guilt.  They realized what God meant when He prohibited them from eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  They realized that after the discovery of unauthorized sexual pleasure, a little voice in their mind was born to tell them if what they have done or intended to do was right or wrong.

 

The birth of one's conscience is actually the effect of original sin.  And, thenceforth, whenever a man or woman for the first time gets sexually aroused, this conscience is set in motion.  Superego has been handed down from generation to generation.  Every man or woman has to struggle to follow this conscience. Their action will have to be on the good side of judgment of their conscience.  Otherwise, immediately black spots are recorded in the soul.

 

How do you remove the black spots?   Something has to be exchanged for something.  Before the coming of Christ, when one asks for forgiveness God forgave but the black spots in the soul remained.  It was necessary for Jesus Christ to come down to Earth to earn the right for mankind so that when man asks forgiveness from God the black spots are immediately erased.  Jesus Christ had to prove to God the Father that as man spiritual perfection is possible and not all is lost.

 

While on Earth, Jesus Christ went around, toured the known world at the time, and perfected his Awareness by studying and learning all the knowledge  available at that time.  He applied the wisdom He learned for the good of mankind, for curing and convincing them to repent and mend their ways.  He showed his Love for his neighbor by preaching the gospel.   So, He was not content in merely possessing all the wisdom on Earth.  He could have controlled the world.  He could have lived forever on Earth without having to return, having discovered as man the means to prolong life.  He could as shown by the fact that he could read thoughts, predict events, walk over water, do instant travel, and cure the sick instantly, and bring back the dead by ordering its subconscious to live again.  He used these powers given to man not for a selfish end but to save mankind.

 

Salvation of mankind means that when man says to God he is sorry the black spots in man are erased.  No one can enter the Kingdom of God with black spots.  And as an exchange for this right of salvation, Jesus Christ has to give up all the powers He earned on Earth as man.  He gave them up by deciding to die on the cross.  At Gethsemany, he was tormented with this decision: to give up or not to give up these powers in exchange for the right of man to remove the black spots.  Are men worthy of being forgiven?  His chosen disciples including even St. Peter deserted him.  Is man worthy of salvation?   Jesus' Love for men triumphed in the end.  He could have easily escaped as He could do instant travel.  He could have fooled them as he could make a duplicate of himself which could not die.  But he gave up these powers in exchange for the salvation of man.  Man cannot automatically be saved as this is against the concept of free will.  For man to be saved he has to say sorry for his sins and be forgiven.  But better still if he does not commit sin at all.  If he always followed the dictates of his conscience.

 

The conscience also serves as the reception of the messages from the left and right spirits.  The left spirit assigned to you by God to test you whether you have attained a certain spiritual level is the giver of these temptations.  The left spirit called the devil, in compliance with God's command to tempt man, devises ways and means of enticing and tripping you to go against your conscience.  It might be hard for him to convince you to commit an evil act, but he actually succeeds when he instigates your subconscious to act not so much in deed but in entertaining evil and carnal thoughts.  When asleep, especially when you are drunk, the left spirit whispers erotic remembrances.  And you have erotic dreams. Therefore, he succeeds in convincing you to disobey your conscience.  But the epitome of success of the left spirit is when he succeeds in convincing the individual to commit suicide.

 

Under extreme temptation, what should one do?  Pray.  Pray to God for the strength to overcome temptation. Pray the "Lord's Prayer."  Pray the "Apostle's Creed," the "I Believe ...".   The best way of overcoming temptation is not to give in to it (as a cynic said) but to pray.  Prayer is like the coming of reinforcement when one is engaged in battle. Prayer is like refueling when one has traveled far.  Prayer is like drinking water when one has jogged for an hour or two.

 

God is fair.  What the left spirit does is counter-balanced by the right spirit.  At your right is your Guardian Angel, or his representative, guarding you 24 hours a day.  Whatever message you have for God, he instantly dispatches.  Your Guardian Angel prods you to do good, to have always right thoughts, right words, and right deeds.  He warns you whenever he sees that the left spirit is succeeding in his job of tempting man to entertain evil thoughts, to speak evil words, or commit evil deeds.  But the more you indulge in ill thoughts, words, and deeds, the less chances you have of hearing your Guardian Angel for these ill thoughts, words, and deeds once committed produce black spots in the soul that bar the messages of your Guardian Angel.  On the other hand, the black spots facilitate the temptations of the devil.  That is why when one steals, the devil can easily tempt him to kill.

 

As a precaution, therefore, it is advisable to have a devotion to your Guardian Angel as he is the nearest spirit whose role is to help you advance in the spiritual ladder of evolution.  Say one "Our Father” as an offering to your Guardian Angel every morning at sunrise, and he will be your special friend.  He will be always around to warn you of impending danger.  But because of free will, the final decision to do good or bad is always yours.

 

To recapitulate, with the first sexual arousal of Adam and Eve conscience was born and every human being descended from Adam inherited conscience.  Conscience is the knowledge of good and evil.  As hindsight, Adam and Eve would not have sinned if only they passed the test.  But an evil spirit entered the serpent which was eating the onion and tempted Eve to eat also. Adam and Eve succumbed to temptation.

 

The left spirit was created by God to tempt man to disobey his conscience whereas the right spirit was created to lead man to the path of spiritual perfection.  Temptation, in a way, therefore, comes from God, for Him to find out if  you are ready to be promoted.

 

Before the coming of Christ, once a person sinned black spots remained in his aura even if he repented.  When Jesus Christ came, He acquired all the powers possible for man and perfected His Will Power through prayers and fasting.  He perfected His Wisdom by accumulating all the knowledge of that time traveling to India, Tibet --- where he learned to cure, Burma, China, Persia, Egypt --- where he underwent and passed the seven tests of the Essenes Brotherhood for Christhood.  Here, Jesus Christ showed man how to overcome temptation.  He used his acquired Will Power and Wisdom to show his Love for man.  At Gethsemany, where the temptation was great, he prayed and prayed.  His decision was firm and irrevocable.  He exchanged the powers he acquired for the right of mankind to have erased the black spots due to one's disobedience to his conscience.  He could only give up these powers by dying.  Hence, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ had to happen for the salvation of man.

 

But Christ promised to come back.  He would recover the powers of Riches, Intelligence, and Everlasting Earth Life lost by Maria to the left spirits.  This was Christ's original mission.  This He will accomplish soon when Christ is born again at about the end of the 20^th century if people are already prepared for these gifts, or postponed again to the middle of 21st century if the people are not fully prepared.  That is why the Holy Spirits are busy inspiring people, especially Filipinos to turn to the Lord.  Look at the proliferation of Charismatics and other religious movements

 

Christ will recover these powers which Satan and his minions are successfully using in enticing men to his kingdom on Earth.  So many are led astray from the right spiritual path just to get rich quick.  Man is uselessly combating death by prolonging life through his medicines.   Success is very far.

 

With the next coming of Chris, these powers of Riches, Happiness, and Everlasting Life on Earth will be available to those who are worthy and who attain a certain level of spiritual perfection.

 

In Gethsemany, in deep meditation, Jesus Christ realized that it was futile for him to recover these gifts at the time.  For one thing, the left spirits refused to surrender them and apologize to God directly.   He could have taken them by force then, but the people at the time were not ready.

 

They were only prepared for the simple power of forgiveness of sins.  They were just ready for the act of saying sorry and being forgiven.  That is why even the spirits of the dead go to Church to hear the voice of God through the priest and ask for forgiveness.  But it is only through this Earth where spiritual evolution is accelerated, where it comes in leaps and bounds.

 

With the next coming of Christ and the recovery of the three gifts, the Garden of Eden will be multiplied.  But not all will be admitted.  Only those who have successfully perfected his Will Power, Awareness, and Love for men will be allowed to enter.  There man can communicate directly to God for God then will be in his heart.