On Mastery and Marriage
18 August 2005
Comments from Angela
This is a beautiful reading that throws new light on what is available
to us, spiritually, in times of difficulty, disappointment or distress.
There is further confirmation that how we show up to life is just how
life (as well as our angelic guidance) will show up to us as well as
some new insight on how to work with earth energy. Above all, this
reading gives three clear and useful pointers on working within a
difficult marriage as well as working towards mastery. The other areas
that are covered are:
• Life shows us the dedication that we show towards it
• Attracting angelic presence
• Allowing ourselves to be held
• The purpose of peace and human being-ness
• The honour of being human
• The assistance of spirit
• Walking our lives as if we are spiritual masters
• Light in times of darkness
• What is mastery?
• Partnership with the earth
• Working with crystals
• Water and crystals
• Working within a difficult marriage
• Discrimination vs discernment
• How to move in a new direction
• Abuse and power
• Keeping the peace vs speaking the truth
Peacefulness is the purpose of being alive. That is to suggest to you,
on this very blessed day (we are saying that it is a particularly
significant day for you), that being in physical form with all of its
variety of challenges and difficulties, is all about the creation of
peace or peacefulness.
Life Shows us the Dedication That We Show Towards It
We are so dedicated to you in this. How could we be any other way when you display such quality of dedication yourself? Here we are honoring and loving you for that. We are showing you the beauty of your dedication. It is so clear that it rings out like a particular chime of a bell, right through the universe. All of you who display dedication in this way to your own selves and your own evolution, will naturally be rewarded or gifted with the same amount of attention paid to you from life itself. So, what we are suggesting to you is that there is a very strong focus on you, on your particular energy stream, at this moment from the Universe. It is of course the truth that all of us are watching over all of you at all times, even though the accuracy of that language is not really right. Yet we will, for this time, consider it that we are watching over you. Yet there are times when, we can put it to you this way, a particular light or shine, or sound as we have said to you, becomes very attractive. It attracts to towards it much love, much attention - love and attention is the same thing, no matter what kind of attention. It attracts to it at certain moments an increased vibration, there is an increased magnetism and this is just so with you at this time.
Attracting Angelic Presence
You are profoundly bright at the moment. You are, if we could show it you to this way, like a 500 watt bulb that is shining amongst others bulbs that are shining at 60 watts. That is how we get to see you from this perspective. Naturally one’s eyes are going to be drawn first, or one’s attention is going to be drawn first to the brighter bulb, it is not possible to look at a sea of bulbs and not be attracted to the brightest. So it is just what we are saying to you now, you have at your disposal the greatest forces of the universe. You are able to work these into your life far more than you have known. It is as if, may we put it to you this way, it is as if you have at your feet, 5000 angels of high strength bowing there waiting for orders. It is almost like that. It is only a result or your own brightness, as we have said. It is not that we select which human beings we have more devotion to at any point. We do not have any such inclination to choose. It is your own shine that brings us more or less into your personal space. And at this moment you are surrounded by some forces of great strength. It is almost as if they are totally lifting you from one space to the next. You need not even take a single physical step yourself, in that sense, we are holding you fully.
Allowing Ourselves to be Held
Yet many times what we experience when human beings are being so
strongly held at any point in their life, is that they are trying to
clamber down and walk themselves! They are actually trying to step out
of the space of being held by the cosmic realm and they are trying to do
it on their own. Trying to climb out of the cot so to speak and walk on
their own even though that is far more difficult. You have such
experiences with your own child, where sometimes it would be far easier
for her to be taken care of by another and yet she insists on doing it
herself. Such is it also with you.
We have a deep understanding of the root cause of this kind of action or
behaviour. We have an understanding that you are willful; it is part of
being human. You take upon you will, free will. It is not the case in
many other realms of existence. Yet humanity is known across the
universe for its willfulness and we honour that in entirety. Yet we
suggest to you that if sometimes you feel like you are being drifted
along somewhere with the stream, allow it. It is not always the case
that you need to step out of the flow of things to trudge on by
yourself. Do you understand what we are suggesting? You are allowed to
be carried. It is not an indication of irresponsibility or weakness, the
fact that you are being carried places and you are not walking
definitely and directionally yourself. It is not a sign of weakness. On
the contrary, we have suggested to you that the only reason you are
pulling towards you such magnificent angelic energy is because your
light at this moment is exceptionally bright. If it were not so, we
would not have available the strength to carry you around for some time.
So we are asking you, if you will allow it in certain moments, simply to
be carried. To allow yourself, so to speak to fall asleep in our arms,
fall asleep in the arms of life. Knowing, as your small child does, that
you will be totally safe when you wake up. That when you wake up there
will be a meal for you, there will be a clean change of clothing, there
will be someone to love you. Just the same as your daughter knows when
she falls asleep herself. Knowing clearly that the world is totally
right. She will not fall asleep unless she was sure of that.
We are suggesting to you that in some moments, if you can allow it for
your dear self, simply rest in the arms of life. It is not the same as
being irresponsible. It is not possible for you any longer to be
irresponsible. There is no going back on that now. So there is no need,
dear child, to ever be concerned about that aspect. Sometimes it is even
very responsible to allow yourself to be fully carried. Do you
understand? You will quite naturally, if you allow for this, begin to
draw it to you on a physical plane. If you allow a total drifting to
sleep in the arms of life, in other words a release of worry or even
your own walking on a higher level, you will bring towards you wonderful
physical support. It is always so, what you allow in the metaphysical
plane, you will quite easily attract to you on a physical plane. There
is possibly some time delay between the two, simply because the energy
on your planet is of that kind of density. Yet it will always come. What
you allow for yourself to experience in your inner world you will very
soon experience from your outer circumstances. So we are suggesting also
that this will be the trigger for you to bring into your physical,
concrete everyday life, greater amounts of support, which is required.
Do you see that?
The Purpose of Peace and Human Being-Ness
We are wondrously at your side at the moment, as we have said. We are doing it, in other words, with wonder. We are in wonder at your beauty and your self-growth in the midst of the storms. Our ability to be at peace is not even as developed as yours. We have suggested to you at the start of this reading that the purpose of being alive is peacefulness, in one sense. There are possibly many, many thousands purposes of being alive yet we are suggesting to you that one of them is to recreate your essential experience of self, to recreate it as totally peaceful, regardless of external influence. It is one of the great challenges of being human. We are suggesting to you with great adoration at this time that your relationship, understanding and mastery of peace is greater than ours. We do not have at our disposal external circumstances of any kind that are separate from ourselves, not even an illusion of being separate from ourselves. We do not have that opportunity here. Therefore we do not have the opportunity to create peace, as it already exists in continuum here. Your possibilities on earth are far greater than that. You have the possibility to master a kind, a quality, a depth, of peace that is beyond what you are able to do in spiritual form. In other words, the qualities and skills of God that you can have the chance to master on earth can allow you to be, as a spiritual being, more developed than you were before choosing the earth experience. Many times humanity understands it in the reverse way: that it is when you are in spirit form that you are really being grand and that when you are on earth, it is your time of being weak. Do you see that? It is many times how all of you react to yourself as humans. "I'm only human" you suggest to yourselves. Yet we are asking for you possibly to shift your awareness, your consciousness of human life. Understanding, as we have already honoured you for, that your relationships with the aspects of God which you have chosen to challenge yourself on in this life (and one of these as we have already told you, in your case, is peacefulness), may be far more profoundly developed during the experience of earth time than during what you might call spirit time, when you are not physical.
The Honour of Being Human
Allow yourself, therefore, to take great honour, even pride in just the experience of life on earth. Just exposing yourself to external conditions that seem as if they are not part of you. Just that, which is the premise of life on earth, allows a greater development of God consciousness or God energy than before. So we are loving you in this way. Smoothing over your hurts. It is as if we are, with our hands around you at this point, smoothing out the kinks. Like taking a piece of beautiful silk and running your hand over it lovingly because it is such beautiful material. Running your hand over it and smoothing out anything that is a little bit out of place, so that the material is totally soft and smooth. That is what we are doing with you while you sit here. Simply easing out some of the knots, if we could put it that way.
The Assistance of Spirit
Our bright light, the one that is being pulled towards your bright
light, can assist you in manners far greater than what you request at
this point. In other words, what we are suggesting to you is that you
may make far greater or grander requests at this point where you are
right now. You may make far grander requests for co-creating with your
spirit assistance than ever before. You have at your disposal masters.
It is not that we are here to manipulate or fix your physical
circumstances. We are not serving you like that. Yet we are here to take
your experience of your physical circumstances into realms of being that
few humans have had the chance to inhabit. We will say that again. While
we are not at your service in the form of being able, or even desiring,
to manipulate, fix or control your physical circumstances, we are
greatly able with you at this moment to shift your experience in those
circumstances to a realm - or even a physical place of existence - that
few human beings are able to reside in yet.
Such is the power of assistance available to you at this moment. We are
suggesting to you, therefore, to use it wisely. To know - and you may
picture this in whichever way is useful to you - that at this moment you
are walking surrounded by masterful guidance. Light of an exceptionally
bright nature is following you around simply, as we have said, by
magnetic pull coming from your own shining. It is possible while in this
state to make magnificent forays or travels into new awareness of self.
We are suggesting that you acknowledge the masters that are with you at
this time, at the very least their energy that is strongly attracted and
attached to you. We are suggesting you acknowledge it, even picture it
if you like, you may give it a name and a face if it suits you, we have
no problem with that. Acknowledge it in the first place and begin to do
what you would imagine the masters would do. You have it available to
you now to incorporate that kind of energy into your own energy. We are
aware of the esoteric nature of our discussion of this day, in
particular as you have requested some essentially practical work, yet we
are unable to give you practical suggestions without explaining to you
what you have available at this time. We were dying to tell you that!
Dying to tell you the kind of light that is pulled towards you at this
time. So that you may love it. So you may love being that way,
surrounded by so much love. That is the first thing we suggest is the
acknowledgement of it. Already that increases the pull and the presence.
Walking our Lives as if we are Spiritual Masters
The second suggestion we are making in terms of working with the particular guidance available to you now, is to start walking the earth, walking your life, as if you were a spiritual master. You are indeed one such being yet your life on earth does not reflect it. It is the case with all of you here. However at this point in time - and thank you also to your child for the profound beauty she holds inside you, which is also part of what is pulling to you such grand beings of light, they are finding you and her irresistible - what you may decide to do with their presence is to begin to bring them in to the way you walk in your life. So you may take each step as a master.
Light in Times of Darkness
You are given this magnificent time of light, which is yours regardless
of the circumstances of your life. May we tell you at this moment, many
beings on your planet have experienced this moment of light while in
prison. It is not perhaps what you might expect. People expect that when
you are held by such deep light, you need to be surrounded by nature and
loving people and organic food. We are saying to you we are with you
regardless of the circumstances of your life and, indeed, in the history
of humanity usually this kind of light around a single being has come at
exactly the moment of their most challenge. Some of your greatest
leaders have been held by us in this way that you are now while they
were imprisoned. While the circumstances of their life were at their
most limited, and trying and deprived, they found themselves so blessed
in a halo the way you are now. It is as if you are held deeply in a
wrapping of light, masterful light. So we are saying to you, you find
yourself magnificently blessed despite the existence of the world around
you as it is now.
You are far more than the circumstances of your life. Your light is
expanding so far into the universe that you have called to your side
grand beings. How many times should we say this? You are at a point of
magnificence. The outer experiences of your life – in just the same way
as those of you who have done this within prison - fade away. At least
their effect on you fades away when you can know with awareness that you
are in a portal of light. It is not the case for the duration of human
life. You cannot exist in this kind of light for very long, your body
will not cope yet. You are becoming more and more used to holding such
high quality of energy yet at this stage you will not sustain it for
more than perhaps some months. And that is very long. Your specie is not
yet at the point of physical existence in the physical selves that you
can maintain such surrounding of energy for very long. We are simply
suggesting to you, you are in a totally beautiful state. One with
tremendous power to forever change the way you place yourself in the
world.
What is Mastery?
We are suggesting to you once again to walk back into your life as a
master. Simply hold that awareness with you. It will not increase your
arrogance. Masters are not arrogant. It will not take you out of your
life. The masters that have lived on earth have lived amongst the poor,
they have lived in amongst squalor and, as we have said, in prison. It
is not that they are removed from life. No, you can be more fully in the
gritty details of your life yet with greater effect and with miraculous
ability. That is the third quality of masterhood.
We have said that it is a state of non-arrogance, we have said it is a
state of full involvement, and we are thirdly suggesting it is a state
of miracle. There is no other way to say it. The masters are all adept
at working with physical circumstances, to create what was not there
before or to remove what was, whatever is the need. You are primed to
begin working on the miraculous. It is not so much a manipulation of
matter that is important. Important miracles are not the ones recorded
as such. Turning water into wine is the least of the work that the
master of the Christ did here. He would not consider it one of his
greatest miracles. However, shifting the consciousness of the children
he would consider one of his greatest miracles. The wine was an
incidental. But the ability - and it is miraculous – to love a child so
that their consciousness shifts within one life is a miracle. That is
just one example; you are by no means confined to working miracles with
your children. You are broadly able to influence the world, by no means
simply through the two children. Yet we are just suggesting that the
miraculous is not always evident in physical matter. It is often
consciousness shift or even environmental shift.
Partnership With the Earth
We have some words for you on environment. We have a great need at this moment in the development of the planet to develop people’s awareness and sensitivity to the earth. It is for too long now that you all have existed on the planet understanding it as a dead thing that you all simply walk [upon]. There is a requirement for those of you who are seeking to take this existence, this existence of humanity, into the light to become far more in touch with the qualities of the earth. She is calling. She is calling for partnership. Partnership, that is all. Not to be saved. She has no need to be saved, the earth, she is such a being of magnificence that you could not save her or ruin her. Yet she is calling for partnership with those of you who are being masterful. So we are suggesting to you through the very means you have alighted upon, in the form of crystal or mineral work, we are suggesting to you to continue to forge a partnership with the earth.
Working with Crystals
Consider it rather in that way, than considering [that there is] some
kind of magic in the crystal. Instead, consider that you are developing
a partnership with the beautiful energy or entity of earth through using
her crystals. Her crystals are her gifs. So understand it that way -
that through the gifts, her stones, you are developing a beautiful
partnership with mother earth. A partnership that serves her and serves
the humans. So if you can hold that understanding in terms of your
attraction to this particular form of healing, if you can understand it
in that sense as a developing partnership, then you will be effective
and you will also not be clinging to the crystals.
You do not require a particular kind of thing to have a relationship
with mother earth. It is not that if your crystals were taken away from
you or destroyed tomorrow it would limit your ability to partner with
her. So we are suggesting that while you use them with love and freely
and well, we are also reminding you that you are not in any way needing
of them. Yet take some forward steps in this regard, increasing evermore
your trust in your own knowledge of mother earth. You will do very well
to take any steps available to you to cement your partnership with the
energy of mother earth. All masters have done that, and you, as we have
said, are working within the energy of master at this moment, very
profoundly. Use the assistance that is currently available to you; use
it to inspire your work with your crystals. There is a lot more to
discover about crystalline energy than is currently understood on the
plant. There are great and far more uses for crystalline energy than you
are currently knowing and putting into effect on earth. So we ask you to
trust this base you are in at the moment, this base of mastery and begin
to bring the assistance that is around you, intuitively into what you do
with your understanding of the crystalline force.
Water and Crystals
You will find also that it is very useful to bring water into your work with crystals. They are so dependant on each other, crystalline energy and water. They are very, very symmetrical. It is almost just the same as a marriage. Let us put it this way: the one is soft and the other hard, at least in certain forms. In other forms, the one is hard and the other soft. But they have a great love of each other. [There is] great balance between them, the crystalline force and the particular molecular energy of water. So that is the one suggestion we will give, to begin experimenting with your healing in this regards: experiment with water also. You might find some very interesting results.
Working Within a Difficult Marriage
Our gift to you regarding your marriage at this moment is threefold. We have, in other words, three specific cards for you to select. In a moment we will ask you to place them face down on the table. Thank you. Please turn the one in the centre. It is the central one. The card is Beauty. Our firm, or straight or central or pivotal – the strong line down the middle - suggestion to you regarding your experiences within your own intimate relationship at this moment have to do very much with discrimination.
Discrimination vs. Discernment
We will work more with you on this notion further down the line. Yet, we
are asking you to become acutely aware of the discriminatory work or
energy that has existed in you and in your consciousness. Discrimination
is nothing more evil than simply a consciousness of separation. To
discriminate between two things in the very essential understanding of
it, is to presume they are separate things. One cannot dissociate unless
one holds the two or three things as different or separate from each
other. Yet it is a profound learning, this understanding of
discrimination, because it is such an obvious experience of earthly
life. It is so obvious to all of you that you are not he same as what
you sit upon or what you eat or the person you sleep next to. That is
what you are faced with in physical reality all the time. So the test,
one of the supreme tests - and that is also why you have chosen this
particular country to exist in for some years - is to work so well
within an understanding of union that discrimination is no longer
possible. That you do not separate yourself from any one thing.
However, what is perfectly acceptable on this earth and in truth the
only way you can live well, is to place yourself in environments that
assist you in growing. You are totally entitled to be discerning. It is
not that just because you see all things are one in essence that you
need to not put into practice your ability to choose. No. So we are
suggesting to you to become acutely aware of any discrimination
tendencies you have in all spheres, including within your marriage.
Marriage is one of the greatest ways to play out the understanding of
discrimination, or judgment, or separation. Yet, is not only there that
you will find yourself discriminating or putting some things above
others in terms of that. So we suggest beginning seeking out those parts
of your life, simply seeing them and releasing them and then you will
find once you have done that, a surge of strength to take decisive
steps.
How to Move in a New Direction
We will explain it to you this way: while you are yet in a place or in
any position in your life where you are yet unconscious, you will not
have the means to move clearly in a new direction. We will say that
again: if you are finding yourself in any spot, any position, job, any
relationship, any place in your life, while you yet are holding things
away from your awareness about that place, you will find it difficult,
if not impossible, to take new steps within it. Only when you become
supremely conscious, supremely aware of who and how you are within that
situation will you have magnificent strength at your disposal to shift
it. Either to shift yourself away from it or to shift the experience so
that what was unconscious in you before is no longer needed to be
continually pointed out to you. Do you see what we are suggesting?
So it is for you at this moment the highest calling to become supremely
conscious within your marriage. Once it is so that you are bringing into
your awareness all the parts of you that are unconscious, or that you
are not aware of within the situation of your marriage, to the surface
and you are seeing yourself clearly reflected there, then you will find
shift. For then it is so that the situation has served you. Once you
have seen or become fully aware of everything there is to be seen in
terms of yourself and your essence there, then the energy to shift will
become available. Which direction the shift will take place in is a
decision occurring at a later stage. It is not in any way available to
tell you how you will take a step forward once things are fully aware or
conscious for you. It is a choice that is made universally. In other
words it is not simply your conscious mind that will choose a new
direction, it is something that will be colluded with by many, many
other energies or inputs. So it is not known in advance. It is like you
do not know when you call a board meeting how everybody will vote
towards a certain decision. You do not know how each one will vote in
advance, so we cannot suggest that.
Yet we can suggest that the supreme way to be within that space is to
use it to become totally self-aware. Self-aware is not the same as
self-judging, understand. Yet there are still unconscious patterns. One
of them is discrimination as we have pointed out to you. There are still
unconscious patterns, some of them good. Please understand we are not
only suggesting that what you will find when you become self aware, is
only that which you wish to change. No, we are simply calling for a
supreme level of self-awareness as is befitting any master. So that what
becomes available for you when things are not unconscious, is
magnificent support, strength coming from a seemingly unknown place.
Indeed the strength is already within you but it is wrapped up or held
down by what is unconscious. Once you release all the unconscious
patterns to your awareness, your entire being is free. You have energy
to shift anything you wish to shift but not while you are yet sleeping.
So that is the pivotal suggestion we will make regarding your marriage.
Abuse and Power
The card of the left of that, the one on your left is a very sweet, sweet card. Please turn it now. Thank you. Yes, we have spoken to you of this before, not so – of Power. We have suggested to you that power is a very crucial part of the dynamic or contract between the two of you. It is as we have suggested before, it is a sense of powerlessness that is associated with the behaviour of your husband at certain times. And, on the other hand, we have described you as tremendously powerful, particularly at this moment. It is very difficult for one who experiences himself as powerless to be around one that he experiences as powerful. Most of the abusive relationships in life are a result of that dynamic: one having an experience of powerlessness and sensing real power in the other. Why do you think so many slave drivers were the way they were with their slaves? There was, in those tribes that were slaves, an inner power. A power that was clear for all to see. And the one who thought he did not have it needed to use force to become forcefully more powerful than the one who he saw had power. It is part of what plays itself out within your space at this moment, the relationship with power between each of you. What is to be taken as a next step or a behavioural modification, if we could put it that way, is to take all actions that empower him. All that you can do, on even tiny details of your life, to empower him will be useful. More than that, there is not much to say.
Keeping the Peace vs. Speaking the Truth
The card on the right is our final suggestion to you regarding your
situation at this time and it pertains only to you. The previous two
have been indications of joint agreements if we could put it this way.
The one on the right is solely applicable to you. Please turn it. Thank
you. The card is Being Honest With Yourself. Yes, indeed already we have
called for you to use the situation to bring up all unconscious patterns
you are currently holding. That is one of the profound ways we are
suggesting increased honesty with yourself. The other notion that we
wish to bring or push across to you regarding your marriage by drawing
this card is an element of self-reliance. We are questioning you here or
pushing you here in the following way: we are asking you where it is
that you are taking low position or putting yourself lowly in relation
to your home, or to your husband or even to your child. Where is it that
you are pretending that they are better or stronger? What we are seeing
with you is that in order to sometimes keep the peace you are pretending
that they are right in situations when deeply you know they are not. Do
you see this? This is something we are calling you to correct. It is not
more important to make the environment still, than to be truthful. It is
not more important to still or smooth over the environment than to be
truthful. You are not serving yourself or them by pretending they are
right or accurate in a certain situation when deeply your sense is that
they are not. It is no use handing over your own power to them.
Empowering another is very different from giving them your own. So we
are suggesting a differentiation in that way. Is that okay? Our love is
so around you that for these moments, we do not choose to speak.
Thank you.
This reading has been slightly edited by Angela to facilitate easy
reading and understanding.
© Angela Deutschmann
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