The Gifts of Forgiveness

Ran Kalif4 min read
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My dear ones,

When we are asked, and even required, by our tribe to act in a way that is not aligned with our compass, on the basis of incomplete and even misleading information, we feel uneasy and confused.

It seems the virus of confusion has become highly contagious in the kingdom of this era, and it is the real epidemic that is spreading.

We are loved, and we stand in the presence of our God always, with every breath.

When you know that you are always loved, you will always turn the other cheek, because taking revenge perpetuates fear, parting and separation. By not striking back, you love an aspect of yourself that until now was unloved. This mends it back together in consciousness, and you become more whole, more unified, and therefore closer to your return home.

When you forgive another, you see that these are the unloved aspects of yourself, projected outward from you. Forgive that being, simply in the sense of not judging him or her in the first place.

The original information about the true meaning of forgiveness was removed from the scriptures as early as the fourth century CE and hidden away in the cellars of the Vatican, and it was in fact partly revealed again only with the discovery of the Qumran scrolls and the Nag Hammadi scrolls in the 1940s.

Even though several generations have passed since then, most people have never heard of it and naturally don't know what these texts contain.

You are not a witness to sin who forgives sin.

You will grow tremendously just by accepting yourself with unconditional love, observing, and asking yourself: “Could this aspect be part of me without my realizing it?”

And if you are honest, you will also courageously find that aspect in your consciousness, even though your personality, in its great pride, has buried it deep in the cellars of the Vatican as well. It was brought to your awareness through the actions of another person who seems separate from you, whom you observe and whose deeds and words you witness. It is truly a gift to be able to love and forgive this aspect of yourself, because at a deeper level of understanding this is not about the other but about an aspect of you.

When you witness this behavior knowing that it is not another separate entity but an aspect of your own mind, shown to you for healing and for raising awareness, then you have been transformed and risen in vibration one more step on the way to wonder.

This is forgiveness, and therefore a reintegration of the self, and that is why the practice of forgiveness is so important. It is also why it is so important not to be violent or cruel in your actions, because you are attacking yourself. When we attack ourselves, we feel terrible in that place of judgment, because we reinforce separateness, and the more focused energy we give it, the more pain we feel.

This is what you feel when you judge and attack someone. You feel that terrible sickness, the dread creeping inside; that is the addictive chemistry of adrenaline. A real drug lab, made in you.

When you don't understand the principle of creation, you think you feel terrible because others were cruel, because they attacked you. But in fact you feel terrible because you are engaging in cruelty: malicious speech, violent behavior or judgment. And when you do that, you worship the idea of separation even more and move further away from what you call the divine, or oneness.

And you suffer.

Deep inside, you feel the separation from your true essence. Your compass signals through pain, and that is how you know you have moved away from the divine within you.

This is called the second level of consciousness: learning through a social consciousness of suffering and pain.

If you have no an authentic tradition and writings to go with it to support your oneness with the divine within you, then this oneness seems foreign and crazy to your changing ego. That is the fickle ego that sustains you only out of a need for survival.

Over the years, the teachings were carefully re-edited and thereby destroyed, and only the tiniest pieces were allowed through the filtering system of the patriarchy, the oligarchy and every aspect of power and influence that has been in play ever since.

Given the belief system most of us live by, that we are separate and alone, this kind of forgiveness and pardon doesn't seem to make sense. But even if you are not spiritually developed enough and are trapped in these beliefs, you can still understand your true power.

When you understand that everything you did came from fear, and when you learn how the mind works, then forgiveness and pardon truly begin to make sense. You recognize the purpose and are now able to integrate other aspects of these teachings into your life, and that is also what will change it.

Your life.

You cannot evolve here as an awakened being who is also afraid and locked in a world of matter without an education in consciousness; it is impossible. That is why it is so important for us to understand the principles of creation. Only when you truly understand how deeply lost you are in the illusion can you begin to climb the ladder. If you approach it in a multifaceted way, through training your thoughts and mental discipline, changing your focus and with it changing your body, while understanding the energies within it and around it, then you will be able to practice these teachings with understanding and empowerment.

But if you do these things from a place of fear, out of a feeling that some vengeful god will punish you, then you are powerless in that act. There is no love behind it, and so it simply doesn't work.

Forgiveness strengthens your belief in oneness and your connection to the Source. The more you act in line with these new beliefs, the more deeply rooted they will be in your mind. As you are now, you have many false beliefs and wrong teachings planted in your consciousness. This was done to you deliberately, and it is not really directed at you personally; it is a multigenerational planetary agenda.

You have an inner world and a social face.

The social face is what you have been conditioned to present, and all your fears are hidden. That is why life can seem like an endless struggle with faceless demons. So many times you feel you can't share who you really are. You feel you can't share the dread and the loneliness inside you. You cling desperately to others to ease this pain for yourself, and so you also enter unhealthy relationships.

You can't have a healthy relationship until you know what is going on with yourself, until you understand the principles at play here, and that your partner's behavior is simply there to show you something about yourself that needs to change. As long as we attack our partners judgmentally for behavior we think is wrong, the relationship cannot last.

It won't survive, and it certainly won't thrive.

In our society we all witness people so deeply caught up in the illusion that they attack and destroy one another out of ignorance and the belief that this will bring them what they want. They don't understand that it will bring them the exact opposite.

Radiant health, peace, love, joy and abundance are experiences you will receive when you apply this knowledge, and if you feel you are going to lose something, know that whatever you lose, you no longer want in your life anyway. You will need to upgrade your priorities and update the way you look at the world.

Few do this out of a longing to evolve. The overwhelming majority don't reach this place of seeking salvation unless they are truly disappointed with and despairing over what they have: a great deal of suffering and pain.

The readiness and longing for change that come out of brokenness are proof that life is meant for much more than this.

See yourself, right now and always, by the highest standard you can aspire to. Every day, close your eyes, breathe deeply and turn inward. Sit in the center of your heart, sense the stillness and sweetness of that space, and say with intention and devotion:

Within me

a perfect form.

This is the divine form.

Now I am all that I

want to be. I see every

day my beautiful being until I

breathe it into being. I am a child of God,

all my needs and desires are fulfilled now and forever.

And so it is.

To days of self-love, oneness and forgiveness.

❤️ Ran

Illustration: the late Maya Cohen

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