What to tell a beginner?
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 11:49 am
So I'm almost to the 18-month mark since I found Divine Love. And as most of you who do the circles regularly know, I am still far short of where I'd like to be in terms of feeling Divine Love, soul perception, etc. And those of you who are/were doing Bill's Tuesday class and Catherine and Susan's Thursday class know that I really wish that what I'm learning there had been available to me a year ago.
First things first, I find the 3-week "great experiment" (here and here) to be very misleading. If three weeks of praying the Perfect Prayer did it for you, I'm VERY envious!
I don't know the percentages, whether I'm an outlier or representative of more people than you might think, but it seems like there are plenty of messages that support that the acquisition of Divine Love is a slow process.
And sort of related, I was a bit surprised by this from Peter's recent message:
So unless that's what's coming later this year (i.e., Earth changes so severe that our morale is low and our minds befuddled by events that we're as desperate as the Apostles apparently were), we can't count on a Pentecost-like inflowing of Divine Love. And thus, we need to do it the 'old-fashioned' way. But I think that it needs to be more than just asking for Divine Love. I mean clearly, that's fine as it goes, but I don't really think it's the whole story. Or at least, there are other things that are helpful (necessary?) too.
And I know that that's contained in the thousands of messages and pages and books etc, but it seems to me there must be a way to distill this down into something more actionable without having to get lost in information overload?
I've been noodling through what I would tell a beginner knowing what I know now. But it's going into a separate message, because the forum is telling me I have too many URLs in the original post.
First things first, I find the 3-week "great experiment" (here and here) to be very misleading. If three weeks of praying the Perfect Prayer did it for you, I'm VERY envious!
I don't know the percentages, whether I'm an outlier or representative of more people than you might think, but it seems like there are plenty of messages that support that the acquisition of Divine Love is a slow process.
And sort of related, I was a bit surprised by this from Peter's recent message:
Pretty telling IMO that the actual Apostles who spent three years with Jesus, saw him resurrect, and then spent a month with him before he ascended, would have "dispersed and gone about our usual material business with our heads down and our hearts broken" without the blast of Divine Love they received on Pentecost.Without this Great Gift that God gave to each one of us who gathered together, it would be unlikely that we would carry on the work of the Master, for, our morale was so low and our mind so befuddled by the events that had been before this time of gathering, that we would have dispersed and gone about our usual material business with our heads down and our hearts broken.
So unless that's what's coming later this year (i.e., Earth changes so severe that our morale is low and our minds befuddled by events that we're as desperate as the Apostles apparently were), we can't count on a Pentecost-like inflowing of Divine Love. And thus, we need to do it the 'old-fashioned' way. But I think that it needs to be more than just asking for Divine Love. I mean clearly, that's fine as it goes, but I don't really think it's the whole story. Or at least, there are other things that are helpful (necessary?) too.
And I know that that's contained in the thousands of messages and pages and books etc, but it seems to me there must be a way to distill this down into something more actionable without having to get lost in information overload?
I've been noodling through what I would tell a beginner knowing what I know now. But it's going into a separate message, because the forum is telling me I have too many URLs in the original post.