The prequel

An overview on how we arrived here

THE PREQUEL

How we arrived here

Below is essentially the story of the Fall, the Plan of Creation and the Plan of Salvation. These things happened prior to the creation of time. So the best way for us to understand these events is in the form of a story. Read or listen to the full story in Holy Moly.

To understand HOW WE ARRIVED HERE, we must understand:

Creation
Divine qualities
The Bearer of Light
The Fall
The Plan of Salvation
Positive to negative
Influence of dark and light

God is love. So God must create, so love will have something to love.

Creation

As human beings, we really have no ability to comprehend God. Thinking of God as “a ball of fire emanating a brilliance of light” is better than thinking of God as a “man in the sky”. (Bones, Chapter 14: Exposing the mistaken image we have about God)

As so most spiritual teachings agree, love is the one power in the universe. So we could say: God is love.

- As such, God must create, so love will have something to love.

- God’s first created being was Christ, who we can call the Son of God.

- Christ went on to create all the rest of the spiritual beings, who we can call angels.

- - Many nations of angels came into being, each led by an angel-in-charge. In the Spirit World, to lead others is to be responsible for their care and direction.

- - Note, everything that exists on Earth is a replica of what exists, with greater glory, in the Spirit World. This includes the hierarchical organization of things.

Each spiritual being, or angel, that Christ created is a double, comprised of both a masculine and a feminine half.

- The two principles of masculinity and femininity represent two creative qualities, respectively: “Make it happen” and “let it happen”. To create anything, both of these qualities must always be present. (The Pull, Chapter 7: The spiritual symbolism and significance of sexuality)

- People in the Western half of this world have historically primarily seen the masculine face of God, the active half. In the East, people have primarily seen the feminine face of God, the receptive half. This explains some of the differences between Western and Eastern cultures in the areas of spirituality and religion. (Holy Moly, Chapter 7: God and creation)

Like God, we each have free will. This gives us a fundamental likeness to God.

Divine Qualities

Each spiritual being aligns more strongly with one of the three main essences of Courage, Love and Wisdom. When in harmony, these three qualities support one another. When they are out of balance, we experience conflict and disharmony. (Bones, Chapter 7: Love, Power and Serenity in divinity or in distortion)

- Using our divine gifts in a way that goes against God’s will is what creates pain and destruction.
- We are each responsible, then, for making choices that align with God’s will. We can do this because we all have free will.

- - Having free will gives us a fundamental likeness to God. And God’s desire is that we must always retain our free will. So then one day, when we finish learning the lessons of duality, we can once again reunite with God. Without free will, we would remain separate from God forever. (Holy Moly, Chapter 1: The good Lord willing)

- We can also create experiences for ourselves that temporarily cost us our free will. Such loss of freedom is always a result of our own choices.

- It was—and still is—God’s will that we should become happy and peaceful once again, by aligning our will with God’s will.
  - To do this, we must learn to trust God.
  - We learn to trust God by learning to trust our own Higher Self. For our Higher Self, at our core, is the essence of God.
  - This is why Christ taught that “heaven is within.”

Our curiosity led us to explore the opposite side of all-things-great-and-good.

The Bearer of Light

The first being created by Christ was Lucifer, a name that means "bearer of light." Lucifer was a great leader and somewhat like a brother to Christ.

Eventually, Lucifer became jealous of Christ.

Slowly and gradually, Lucifer began to convince many other angelic beings that perhaps he, Lucifer, would make a better king.

- God saw what was happening. But God gave all angels free will, and God was clear in requesting we honor Christ as our King.

- Lucifer was incredibly charismatic and while many angels did stay true to Christ, many others did not.

- If we are here as humans, we did not.
When Lucifer asked God to make him King, he showed disobedience toward God.
Read more about this version of the story in What's hiding beneath our stories?
- To be fair, we are highly curious beings. This led us to explore the opposite side of all-things-great-and-good. Our own curiosity contributed heavily to the Fall.

Due to our disobedience, God set into motion what is known as the Fall.

The Fall

At that point, God set into motion what the Spirit World calls the Fall.
- All the spiritual beings (now humans) who went against God's will fell from heaven into dark spheres where Lucifer was ruler.

All the beings who fell became fragmented and split.
- Like everything else that happened, the split was not perfect.

- We were also separated from the ones we love. They continue to long for our return.

- As Christ's created children, he never stopped caring for each of us.

In the course of the Fall, we covered our beautiful light, or Higher Self, with layers of Lower Self.
- The Lower Self holds the opposite of everything good, and is always based on untruth.

Lucifer was now our ruler, and he reigns through hate, cruelty, spite and destructiveness—the opposite of love.

In the dark realms, some of us experienced extreme cold, others tormenting hot, others intense filth, and on and on.
- Our version of hell reflected our own inner distortions.
- Our suffering today continues to reflect the nature of our Lower Self.

We were in hell for a very long time, trapped under the ruthless domination of Lucifer. (Holy Moly, Chapter 8: Fall of the Angels)

- Our return from darkness will be as slow and gradual as our fall from the divine realm.
The Fall was not a one-time event in history.
- We continue to fall every time we choose darkness over light, destructiveness over beauty, untruth over truth.

Our longing to return home to God set the Plan of Salvation into motion.

The Plan of Salvation

After a very long time in darkness, there came a glimmer of light on the horizon.

- This light came from our collective longing to return home to God.

- The longing of the fallen brothers and sisters combined with the longing of those who remained true to Christ, and this set the Plan of Salvation into motion.

- Note, until all brothers and sisters return to God, there are no more angels coming into being. And our brothers and sisters in heaven have put their own ascension toward perfection on hold as they work tirelessly on behalf of the Plan of Salvation.

- While God originated the Plan, the main architect and leader of the Plan of Salvation was—and is— Christ.

Christ designed the Plan and polished it down to the very last detail. It provided a way for fallen angels to learn and make different choices: to choose to align with the will of God, or in other words, to align with the good. (Living on the good side of life)

- The parable of the prodigal son speaks of the passage Christ went through.

- The Plan called for the creation of a galaxy in which a planet exists where fragmented spiritual beings— comprised of both a good Higher Self and a Lower Self—could live. Here, we can do the work needed to heal ourselves by transforming our dark negativity back to the light.
  - This sphere of duality is a perfect match for fallen angels working their way back home. (Holy Moly, Chapter 9: The Plan of Salvation)

During the Fall, all positive qualities were twisted, or distorted, into a negative version. These are our faults.

Positive to Negative

In the Spirit World, positive qualities exist and they go on forever. They harmonize with other positive qualities and remain in balance. (Gems, Chapter 5: Finding balance within instead of relying on outer rules)

- During the Fall, all positive qualities became twisted into a negative version.

- - Both positivity and negativity create self-perpetuating circles. (Bones, Chapter 16: How pleasure gets twisted into self-perpetuating cycles of pain)

- - Whereas positive qualities and actions can go on endlessly, negativity creates effects that destroy harmony.

- - Negativity then always lead to conflict and crisis during which a destructive creation collapses. In this way, all negativity serves the good in the long run, as something constructive can then be rebuilt from the ashes. (Pearls, Chapter 15: What’s the real spiritual meaning of crisis? and Playing the long game.)

- Faults then—which are made up of fear, pride and self-will—need to be transformed back to their original positive form.

- - Just as our self-created fall from the positive to the negative was slow and gradual, so must be our journey out of our self-created struggles.

- - Similarly, the creation of Earth happened slowly and gradually. (Gems, Chapter 1: The evolutionary process and why we can’t stop it)

- - God’s world is well-organized and orderly. (Pearls, Chapter 11: Bringing ourselves to order, inside and out)

Christ has sent emissaries to lead us and teach us to make better choices.

Influence of Dark and Light

Earth grew from the longings emanating from spirits in the world of darkness, as well as from spirits in God’s world of light. Hence beings from both worlds have always had access to Earth.

- Since the beginning, humans would have fared no better on Earth than in hell if Christ hadn’t sent emissaries to lead us and teach us to make better choices.

- - Throughout history, many highly evolved spiritual leaders come to Earth to help us.

- - Because the forces of good far outweigh the forces of evil, it may seem that there are more “bad” than “good” influences. But this has been carefully balanced by the Spirit World.

- Over the millennia, numerous people on Earth have developed the ability to channel the voices of divine spirits, who have provided us with valuable instructions.
  - Without these enlightened messages, we would not have known which way to turn.

- - Such a technique was used for the transmission of these Pathwork teachings.

- - It was through a channeled message that we were told that Jesus’ mother was a pure spirit, meaning she had not been part of the Fall. For Jesus could not have been born to a spirit being who was disloyal and still working to purify themselves by overcoming their faults and other distortions.

- Since the dawn of life on Earth, Lucifer has sent his henchmen to tempt and torment us, hoping to entice us to continue to follow the base instincts coming from our Lower Self.

- - Since Lucifer had been cast out of God’s world, he had complete authority over all the dark spheres. And since Lucifer had free will, he chose to rule through domination.
    - Lucifer did not abide by God’s laws of fairness.

- - This meant that Lucifer could tempt and torment people as much as he wanted.
    - Until, that is, he could not.
    - Learn more about who we should thank for our rescue in Holy Moly.
    - Get the summary in Part Two: The rescue