Peace on earth requires peace within.
September 25, 1982
God is with you, as we are with you and God is with us. All of us are united in spirit. God and we, your guides, and each of you as individuals, are one at this time. It is difficult to recognize fully what a spiritual union means, what it entails in terms of your lives and in your understanding of God, Jesus, guides and others who form the basis for religious teachings.
Spiritual union cannot be defined in an academic forum through the application of particular guideposts or measurements. Spiritual union, the unity of all creativity, all that has been created, all thought, all activity, exists in a realm or on a plane beyond measurement. Because it cannot be measured, it is difficult for you to perceive that God wishes you to understand something of the union of spiritual life. All that has been created is actually one, but not all that has been created contains a soul. On Earth only humans are possessed of a soul, and yet, even on our side, there is all that is present in your form of life, all that is animate and inanimate. The spiritual unity, this union of which we speak, refers to the common bond which we, your guides, and you share with God.
A scientist may be able to describe particles of light energy, but despite such description, light, in terms of its effect on life, is continuous. You do not perceive the light which surrounds you to be made up of many small particles. You can easily measure its intensity, but you cannot fully describe its limits. You cannot take a chunk of light and remove it, placing it in another container, as you can water. Despite your inability to separate it without changing it, you are still aware of its presence and its reality. When light is focused through a prism, it is broken into smaller components which help one to understand the nature of light, but despite the ability to divide into components, the light around you is experienced in its completeness.
Spiritual union with God, which you and we together share, is much like light. There is no way for you to remove a portion of spiritual contact between you and us and place it in some other container or context, for you cannot separate love from its completeness. You cannot remove a portion of the love one feels for one’s child and examine it and say, “This is really what love is,” for love is a continuous relationship. There is a flow of sorts to love. Spiritual union is a union of love, and just as your love cannot be separated and examined, so spiritual union with God is incapable of direct examination.
So often God’s love is described as God’s light. When we say that you are surrounded by God’s light, we refer, as you know, to the strength of God’s spiritual presence. That is God’s union with us. It is all-encompassing. You do not love children when they are home and then retract it when they are elsewhere. The love you feel has no boundaries. It has no finite border. It cannot be defined in terms of location, and therefore it cannot be removed in part. It is that same relationship which binds you to God and God to you. It binds us to God and to you and binds God to us. It is a continuous bond. It is totally complete. It is intense and strong but incapable of real identification.
You may recognize with relative ease the love of another person. You may also say that you recognize the love of God. More often when you say that, you are recognizing a belief in the love of God. It is another matter to experience that love, but the love is there nevertheless. There may be times in your lives when one event brings the spiritual union of God to you in a personal way, and that event is worth holding on to and remembering, but we too have a union with you.
We say that our communions with each of you through conscience, through such gatherings as you now have, are offered through our love for you and our loving willingness to do as God wills. But it is difficult for you to really sense the love, that spiritual bond, between us. We are not intermediaries. We do not step in from the outside trying to push God’s word into your souls. It is not that kind of relationship. Your guides are as close to you in this spiritual union, this relationship of love, as is God to you. We do not have God’s power, but in our way we are an immediate reflection of God’s love. The union, therefore, between God and those of us on our side and you is complete and continuous.
If there were a way possible for you to view this triangular relationship, you would find that there are no identifiable points in this flow of spiritual union. It would be a continuous, solid seam, a strong light, an uninterrupted chain. Though the molecules in the air are varied, you do not see their different shapes, for the air that you breathe is essentially colorless. It is essentially the same if you were to compare the location you are now in with a location a matter of feet away. The air is the same. Each of you then is fully identifiable and fully a part of that spiritual force which is God.
Often we say that you all have a spark of the divine, but considered visually, there are not millions and millions of sparks. It is only one light, and therefore each spark is not separate from another for that light is continuous. Because spiritual light is so continuous, each of you is totally united. There is no significant difference between individuals. Life can only be seen as a union of light, as a union of spiritual energy. You are not merely one another’s brother or sister—you really are the same. Whatever differences there are are of no importance. Those differences may be physical or emotional or attitude differences or any other description, but such descriptions are meaningless for you are all the same in terms of your spiritual union.
It is important, therefore, in your daily lives to recognize that sameness, to recognize that uninterruptible flow of spiritual energy, of light. It is indicative of your commonality. You are one in spirit just as we are, but by that we mean we are one with God, that God is of us and we are God. Try in your lives to diminish your attention on the differences that you observe between people. Jealousy and strife are the result of focusing on those differences. You cannot be jealous of another whom you recognize to be not only the same as you but actually to be you. You cannot be jealous of yourself, and therefore, logically, you cannot be jealous of another when you recognize that total union.
Peace on earth comes only through peace within. Peace within is only achieved when one recognizes the absolute unity of all spiritual creation. This may seem difficult in part to understand and nearly impossible to apply, but it is absolutely fundamental to achieving a strong vision of God and enabling your souls to broaden sufficiently to embrace all spiritual creation. God created you equally with all others. Our lives are merely an extension of yours and we are joined by that extension, but we and you both emanated from God and we are therefore inexorably joined to God and bound to one another.
It is important that you reflect on the implications of that which God has given you at this time, for you will find within such reflection the answers to many concerns which you face in your daily lives. God is with each of you through that union as you are permanently tied to God.
We pray for you because we are a part of you and you are a part of us. When we pray, we pray for you to God, for it is from God that all of us have come. Our prayers travel through that spiritual union in all directions, and this power spreads outward as a light beacon.
Rejoice that you can glimpse, however dimly, into the light of God, recognizing its illumination of your lives and the lives of others for whom you pray! We are indeed one. We are truly each united permanently, continuously. Let your lives reflect that union in whatever way you can.
And now we bless you with the glory of God’s light and in the joy of God’s union.
Amen.