CONFRONTATION WITH THE PAST
The road taken after Atlantis was not easy one for the Atlantean souls. Living among the Earth people, and under the energetic burden of Atlantis, were painful experiences for these souls. It became a path of self-discovery, but also a path to true teaching. It was a confrontation with the past.
As mentioned above, the structures and ideas that the Atlanteans had created lived on in the Earth people after the fall of Atlantis. They had internalized these concepts: the ideas of hierarchy and class, and the subjugation of nature; the idea of an upward spirituality and the neglecting of the lower chakras.
They turned out to be structures that the former Atlanteans, both because of their natural arrogance and because of their growing heart consciousness, could not bear at all. Ironically, it was they who clashed most with the hierarchical ideas and social structures they had once created. They became the rebels, the outsiders, the revolutionaries – and also the witches burned at the stake.
Psychologically, however, a very valuable development took place: they began to identify with Earth people; they saw their warmth, their humanity, their love for their children. And they saw what the system was doing to them. For the first time, real love and understanding arose between them, something that had been lacking in the days of Atlantis. The first step toward true teaching had been taken.
FROM ATLANTEAN TO LIGHTWORKER
The fundamental mistake Atlanteans made was that they wanted to make people aware of their divinity by imposing external authority upon them. That did not work; the people started to believe only in a (divine) authority outside themselves.
Only when they started living among the Earth people, and often became victims themselves, did they start to make contact with the earthly reality from within and change things from the inside out. It was only then that many fulfilled their spiritual mission. By staying true to themselves, despite persecution, despite being burned at the stake, they showed the people something. Namely, that there is an inner power, an inner authority and divinity that cannot be subdued by outer power. In doing so, they showed what spirituality really means. Their inner light showed itself in their powerlessness: an inner light that is free from authority.
Victimization took on meaning.
Thus Atlanteans became the teachers they always wanted to be, they became lightworkers. The Age of Enlightenment began. Humanity began to free itself from its mental shackles.
To consciously complete the transition from Atlantean to lightworker, three steps are required.
1) Letting go of victim thinking
Victim thinking implies that there is a perpetrator. Those perpetrators are of course the current rulers. Dark, sometimes extraterrestrial conspiracies are often suspected behind those rulers. In a sense, that is correct, only the plot is the energy of the past, of Atlantis. The Atlanteans themselves are the conspiracy they are fighting against. The culprit is not in the outside world, but is inside themselves.
The transition from Atlantean to Christ consciousness can be made by lovingly embracing the Atlantean within yourself from Earth consciousness, pointing the Atlantean to the power and harmonious beauty of nature. Look at the Atlantean in yourself and say, “Look at the wisdom of an Indian tribe, the intuitive connection to nature. Feel that the light is in everything, even in every stone. Feel what unity means, that really everything belongs to that unity, including the lower chakras, as well as sexuality and emotionality. Feel nature, feel the love of the Earth.”
2) Letting go of superiority thinking
By recognizing and embracing the Atlantean in yourself from the wisdom you have now acquired after all those incarnations, we dismantle the ideas that the Atlanteans brought to Earth and from which the Earth still suffers today: the superiority mindset; thinking you know how to do it for others.
Every human being has a soul and at a deep level every human being follows their path. You can never know for someone else how that path runs, and which experiences, sometimes difficult, someone seeks out and what their reasons are. If someone needs advice on their way, they will ask for it. Many people who call themselves spiritual masters are essentially pulling others away from their soul path. A good teacher instills confidence in his or her students in their own inner authority and makes themselves superfluous as quickly as possible. As long as you are not All, as long as you are not the One, you can never fully understand the choices and the path of another.
3) Transcending inner duality
We have been both perpetrator and victim. We can come to a loving synthesis of both when we understand that duality is not something of the outside world, but of our own inner world. Both perpetrator and victim are within us. In the end, the victim is not a victim of an external perpetrator, but of a perpetrator within us. After a long journey of many centuries, the perpetrator energy found its way back to us. We transcend that inner duality by lovingly looking at the perpetrator within us. He started with the best of intentions: to spread his light and knowledge. At the same time, that is the beginning of the error: the belief that others cannot find the way on their own; that they are lost without you, because you know better and see the right way.
This is how the helper became the perpetrator, and eventually that perpetrator energy comes back to you. Almost all structures that lightworkers collide with in this world, rigid ecclesiastical and secular authorities, organizations that exploit the Earth, etc., were created by themselves at some point in a now forgotten past. The way to dismantle those organizations is not to go to war against them, but to remove their breeding ground by lovingly forgiving and integrating the perpetrator in yourself. This is what we call Christ consciousness.
CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS
Christ consciousness is unity consciousness. It is the recognition that the same divine origin is present in all living things. Christ consciousness involves an unconditional love for everything – and everything really means everything. So not: you can only reach the higher if you push something away, if you suppress the earthly and say “no” to the earthly part. Love your enemies; love everything that you think does not belong, because it does belong.
In a deeper sense, Christ consciousness is born of the marriage between Atlanteans and Earth people. The Atlanteans had the cosmic attunement, the Earth souls the attunement to the Earth and nature. Love, and the integration of both attunements, arise from an equal meeting of both; the equal appreciation of the earthly and the cosmic. Seeing the incredible richness of the outer world with its beautiful nature and recognition of the inner divinity: appreciation for the big and the small.
It is the combination of the belief in the divine in man (Atlantean) and the belief in the equality of all people (Earthly). The spirituality that comes from this is the recognition of the divine in everything: a true unity consciousness.
The birth of Christ consciousness has also ultimately been the deeper esoteric mission of the Atlanteans. They came to Earth with the intention of helping the Earth, protecting it from hostile forces and enlightening the people here. But deep down, they also knew that they themselves had something to learn on Earth: emotional warmth, connection with the Earth and nature, living in the now—and that this was the path to Christ consciousness.
The Secret of Christ Consciousness
We make a distinction between the inner and outer worlds, but for Christ consciousness there is no such distinction. The outer world is a reflection of our inner world, love in our inner world leads to harmony in the outer world. Inner struggle creates duality in the outer world.
That inner world is not limited to the present: once we integrate the past and become inwardly free from it, it radiates out to all lives we have ever experienced on Earth. By lovingly integrating the perpetrator in us, the Atlantean in us, we dismantle the power structures from an ancient past.
The secret of Christ consciousness is that it is not just something of the now, it is a loving consciousness that flows through all our incarnations bringing healing. A loving wave that touches all facets of us wherever they are in time and space. It lifts all history into a different consciousness.
LASTLY
We have come a long way. We first lived as superior rulers to the Earth people, and we saddled them with ideas and structures that still hinder them today. Then we started living among them and started fighting against those structures; against the power structures, the upper classes, against the imposed hierarchical spirituality that condemned sexuality and suppressed the earthly. Now it is about embracing Christ consciousness, letting both forces come together and feeling that we find the oneness in that. Christ consciousness is born of the marriage of the earthly and the cosmic. It arises from transcending the inner duality, that of both perpetrator and victim.
Christ consciousness is born when we let go of the inner struggle; it is born of the realization that everything in us belongs and longs for love. It is born when we give love to everything within ourselves; it is born from the harmony that then arises.
It is a healing consciousness that spreads its light not only in the present, but to every moment we lived and breathed here.
It is love that transcends time and space.
© Gerrit Gielen
Edited by Frank Tehan
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